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David Dragonfly
The Artforms of David Dragonfly
April - August 2021
David Dragonfly, Blackfeet/Assiniboine Artist
David Dragonfly, an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, uses his art to share the culture and history of the Blackfeet Indian people. As an accomplished artist, he specializes in various artforms, such as linocut, ledger and collagraph paintings, and three-dimensional art including hide and woodwork. These different media allow him to express his creativity by capturing the vibrant colors and designs that radiate from his interpretations of life among the Blackfeet people.
Although Mr. Dragonfly has Assiniboine family roots, he was raised on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana. He attended the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he learned to make jewelry and carve stone. Afterwards, Mr. Dragonfly enrolled at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1988.
Inspired by his diverse Native cultural background, Mr. Dragonfly began painting and drawing at a very young age. Throughout his life as an artist, he developed an interest in the pictographic form of art. This type of art is a historic form of Native American expression used by many Plains Indian tribes. His time spent with University of Montana art professors Mr. Don Bunse and Mr. Jim Todd have inspired him further.
Mr. Dragonfly has participated in various exhibitions throughout his art career. He was the featured artist at the Northern Plains Tribal Art Show in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and participated in the Colorado Indian Market in Denver, Colorado, the Heard Museum Indian Fair in Phoenix, Arizona, the Helena Indian Market in Helena, Montana, and the Great Falls Native American Art Show in Great Falls, Montana.
This exhibit presents an exemplary portrayal of Mr. Dragonfly's art style which is strongly influenced by his Blackfeet and Assiniboine cultural roots and the beautiful landscapes of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. His visually appealing artwork and imagery are reminiscent of Plains Indian pictographic art found in Montana and neighboring Canada. It is a style with very clean lines and broad, strong colors.
The artwork featured in the exhibition may be purchased by contacting David Dragonfly at davidjohndragonfly@gmail.com.
Untitled Collage
Linocut on Ledger Paper 20" x 15"
© 2020 David Dragonfly
This collage is a mixed media piece, which includes ledger and linocut art. It consists of several old documents that are assembled and painted with different designs, images and scenes. Mr. Dragonfly is deeply connected to this artwork because it includes a photograph of his great-grandfather Yellow Owl of the Blackfeet Tribe. The photograph was placed in the center of the composition because it demonstrates the importance of historical family roots to the artist.
Blackfeet Homeland
Linocut 23" x 30"
This linocut piece represents the life of the historical Blackfeet Indian people. The Blackfeet were Plains Indians who utilized the tipi for lodging and migrated from the flat plain during buffalo hunts to the base of the mountains for shelter in the winter. This print depicts the Rocky Mountains in the background, a place that the Blackfeet roamed and hunted for hundreds of years. This linocut also displays horses, which were an essential part of the world of the Amskapii-Pikunii, the Southern Blackfeet.
White Quiver
Smoked Deer Hide Painting 40" x 40"
This hide painting portrays a Blackfeet warrior by the name of White Quiver. White Quiver was the most clever horse thief of the Blackfoot Confederacy. White Quiver was known for stealing up to 50 horses from the Crow Indian Tribe of Montana in the late 1880's. This painting depicts his exploits and encounters during his horse thieving days.
Shoots First
Linocut 7.5" x 9.5"
Seeker of Visions
Linocut, 23" x 29.75
Mr. Dragonfly created this linocut as a depiction of spiritual life among the Blackfeet. Spirituality was a significant and important part of the everyday life of the Blackfeet Indian people. The bear was often looked to for guidance in times of concern or hardship. Animals play a very important role in the lives of Native American people and the bear is often sought in prayers and visions. This piece shows the Blackfeet with the ceremonial pipe and pipe bag, which is a main item used in spiritual ceremonies. Mr. Dragonfly is portraying the Grizzly Bear as the protector and guide to the spirit world in this linocut.
Grizzly Bear Medicine
Linocut 9.5" x 7.5"
Mr. Dragonfly titled this linocut art piece Grizzly Bear Medicine. The portrayal represents and depicts the strength and cunning of the grizzly bear. The grizzly bear is one of the most respected animals on the Great Plains because of the noble status that it holds in the wild. It travels over many types of terrain and often in other wild animals' territory, moving along with confidence. It seldom shows weakness but rather perseverance because of its need for survival. That natural tendency of survival and strength is why the grizzly bear is revered and respected by the Plains Indian people.
Dragonflys'
Linocut 5" x 7"
Mr. Dragonfly carved this image of two dragonflies out of a linoleum block. The dragonflies in this piece represent dreams for eternal life and life experiences. Dragonfly is the ancestral name of Mr. Dragonfly's family, which was his father's last name. Native American people are connected to their natural surroundings, including other living things. Oftentimes names were given to Native Americans based on an event or special life circumstance that included these animate or inanimate objects. These names are an important part of the lineage and family history and are given honor out of respect for the ancestors of the past.
Mounted Hunter
Elk Hide hand drum 14 1/2" x 2 1/2"
This hand drum painting is a depiction of a Blackfeet hunter and warrior. Blackfeet horses were very well-trained and knew exactly when to be quiet and still. The hunter is drawing his powerful bow to strike his prey. The Blackfeet were often called the warriors of the Plains and were widely known as skilled hunters and fierce adversaries.
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Tipi Horse Ledger
Ledger 11 3/4" x 9"
Horse Travel
Ledger 13 1/2" x 7 1/2"
Ledger 8 3/4" x 11 1/8"
Ledger check 8 3/16" x 4"
High Plains Warriors
Collagraph Painting 33.5" x 24.5"
This collagraph painting depicts a Blackfeet hunting party on the lookout for game, such as deer, elk or buffalo. Hunting game was an essential part of the daily lives of Plains Indian people. Wild game not only offered meat for food but also provided hides to be used as clothing, containers, blankets and shelter. The bones of animals were also utilized as weapons, utensils and tools. This hunt is portrayed to take place in the Rocky Mountains, which at one time was part of Blackfeet Indian territory but is now Glacier National Park.
Ledger 20" x 16"
This ledger art piece is entitled "Tanning Hides". The 1893 ledger is from Virginia City, Montana, which was a famous gold mining town with a rich history. The painting depicts a Blackfeet woman painting a parfleche design on a hide. Parfleche painting was a skill that Native American women performed. The parfleche was painted with geometric or pictographic type designs when the hide was still staked into the ground. Many designs painted, beaded or drawn by Native American people represented daily life or events of individuals, families and/or the tribal community. Therefore, the painter had the knowledge of the designs and stories that were drawn and painted on the hide itself.
Warrior and Red Horse
1902 Ledger 8.25" x 7"
The Warrior and Red Horse drawing represents the warrior riding into the wind with his masked horse. The warrior shield is represented by a thunderbird. The thunderbird is significant to the Blackfeet because when the thunder first appears in spring the Thunderbird medicine bundle is opened. The warrior's shirt depicts tadpoles, which represent the life of renewal in the springtime.
Family Arriving by Train
Stealing the Enemy's Horses
Linocut 15 3/4" x 11 1/2"
Stealing the enemy's horses was a favorite past time of the Plains Indian people. After Plains Indians were introduced to the horse, it quickly became a prized possession. During these times, war between tribes over territory and resources was very intense. Acquiring the horse made these war times even more intense. Plains Indian tribes would steal the horses of their enemies, accumulating more and more, which made them more powerful. The stealing of horses was also a way of humiliating the enemy. This linocut portrays that daily event of Plains Indian people.
Traditional Dancer
Ledger 5.5" x 8.25"
This artwork is a ledger depicting a Blackfeet Traditional dancer. The Blackfeet traditional dancers are held in high regard among the Blackfeet, due to the traditional dancer's representation of the historical days of the Tribe. The traditional dancer's regalia is always adorned with many eagle feathers because the bird is associated with important aspects of Blackfeet spiritual life. This traditional dancer is dancing into the hearts of people, dancing for prosperity.
Buffalo Hunters Ensuring Camp Survival
Wood burning 43" x 10"
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The Umbrella
Ledger 6 3/8" x 9 1/4"
Horse Thief
Collagraph Painting
Stabs to the Heart
Linocut 7" x 9"
Montana Map Collage
Ledger 14" x 11"
Buffalo Effigy Club
Mixed media 27 1/2" x 5"
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The Action Thread Part Two
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HBD Penélope Cruz! Thanks for all you do to fight AIDS with us. 👊
Thank you so much to our incredible runners.
You worked hard, you prepared, you arrived and you conquered this year's London Marathon!
You were amazing. We couldn't do what we do without you. Thank you for running to create change!
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You have worked so hard preparing for today.
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Meet the best female cacao farmer in Ivory Coast
April 29 2019 | By: SADOF ALEXANDER
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All photography credited to Sam Vox. Original story provided by Cargill.
As a young girl, Christine Amea Manzan would follow her father into his cacao field every day. After losing her mother, it was up to her father to raise her. She grew up in a rural area of Abengourou, Côte d'Ivoire, always wanting to stay alongside her father and his crops.
When she turned six, her father sent her away to school. Years later, as a teenager, she was again sent away – this time to learn sewing, a "proper skill" for a woman to have. The whole time, the memory of her father and the cacao plants never left her mind.
"I stayed there for two years," she says, "then I came back to my father."
She marched into her village, found her father in the fields, and insisted that she become a farmer alongside him.
"I told him I was suffering. My mother was not there, and the day that he was no longer alive, no one else would take care of me."
Land rights help equality flourish
For Christine, like many women, access to land isn't just about having a job. It's about having a secure future.
In sub-Saharan Africa, women make up almost half of all agricultural labor, but they only make up 15% of land owners. Secured land rights can boost a woman's economic security and give her more control at home. On top of that, women with secure land rights earn more in their lifetimes.
Women aren't the only ones to benefit from earning more. Investing in gender equality, including equal access to land rights, improves everyone's lives. When women are economically empowered, their entire communities are better able to combat poverty. This means that gender equality can increase economic growth, which helps break the cycle of poverty for future generations.
Growing her community
Christine's story shows the immense power of land rights. It's been over three decades since she told her father that she wanted to be a farmer. On that day, he gave her a plot of land, and said she could become a farmer if she could successfully tend the small plot.
Growing crops in that plot was the first of many successes. Now, at 64 years old, she's recognized as the highest-producing female cacao farmer in the country. She's currently working to increase cacao production for a local cooperative, which Cargill supports.
She's also on a mission to help women in her community follow the same path she did. The education she received from her father helped her carve her own path, and now she's sharing those lessons.
"My first objective today is to tell other women that they can live off cacao, to tell other women that they can benefit, and encourage women to produce cacao."
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Our 2019 Youth Ambassadors are fired up and ready to go
15 April 2019 1:51PM UTC | By: ROBYN DETORO
Every spring we look forward to something exciting: meeting our brand new cohort of ONE Youth Ambassadors! 2019 marks the 7th year we've run our YA programme and we're thrilled to have 300+ enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers working with us to keep fighting extreme poverty this year.
To kick the year off, our volunteers gathered in Paris, Dublin, Rome, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels and London and hit the ground running. They're already hearing back from their country leaders, speaking with their local media outlets, attending events and meeting with their representatives to fight for foreign aid and equality everywhere.
Keep reading below to find out what the incredible #ONEYouth19 have already accomplished!
40 Italian YAs met in Rome to join ONE in doing all we can to raise awareness about the injustice of extreme poverty. After a full day of training and team building activities, this fantastic group went out to meet Italian policy makers under the Italian sun and the beauty of the city — yes, the Colosseum still never ceases to amaze us! They had the chance to have a fruitful discussion with the Prime Minister's diplomatic advisor and G7 Sherpa, Piero Benassi, delivered 300+ postcards on the Multiannual Financial Framework campaign and talked about all they want the government to achieve in 2019. And guess what? The Prime Minister himself responded to our YAs with a very inspiring letter. This will push our YAs to pursue their fight against extreme poverty with even stronger determination, knowing that the Italian government is listening!
Team Germany welcomed our YAs for three exciting days in Berlin. To start, our 50 change-makers had the honour to receive the State Secretary of the Finance Ministry, Bettina Hagedorn. The following day, we met with the Foreign Minister, Heiko Mass, and discussed the global fight against extreme poverty. All in all, these were three days full of motivation, learning, sharing and mutual support in the fight against poverty. Our YA Nina summarised our mission best: "Convince political leaders: Africa's challenges are Europe's challenges."
This year we welcomed 57 YAs — representing more than 24 different nationalities — to Brussels for an exciting and engaging launch! We also kicked off our ONE Vote 2019 campaign with stimulating discussions with MEPs Judith Sargentini, Arne Lietz and Linda McAvan on the importance of development aid, the EU's commitments and future priorities. They also gave our YAs insider tips on how to successfully advocate politicians. Finally, the YAs were successful in their aim to have the MEPs sign our ONE Vote pledge, starting the campaign off on the right foot!
Team France welcomed 50 new YAs to Paris and got to meet an amazing, diverse group of people that are determined to make their voices heard. This year, our YAs are high-schoolers, college students, professors and computer scientists, to name a few. Plus they hail from Europe, Africa, and South America! At the launch, they learned all about the upcoming EU elections and our ONE Vote campaign, as well as the G7 Summit and Global Fund replenishment, both happening in France this year. Fully prepared and ready to rock, they had their first advocacy meeting with a MEP candidate from the Green Party who even gave them the opportunity to go to their headquarters where they could gather 10 signatures in total! The YAs in France also met with their 2019 godmother, Deborah François, a Belgian actress who signed our open letter in 2018 and 2019. They had a very open discussion around gender equality issues and how she could support them throughout the year.
Our new Dutch YAs kicked off the year by getting the first ONE Vote pledge signer: MEP Kati Piri! They also hit the streets to collect signatures for our Open Letter to World Leaders, and enthusiastically brainstormed about other actions that they will take this year. There were many training sessions and fun team-building exercises which made the launch a wonderful start to the year!
More than 50 Youth Ambassadors from across the UK joined us in London to launch our programme. Day 1 included campaigns training and a 'how-to' session from Francis Dearnley that gave our YAs the inside track on how to hold a successful meeting with your MP. The day ended with a meeting with MPs across varying political parties: Bim Afolami, the new DFID PPS, Dame Eleanor Laing, Deputy Speaker of the House, Dr. Paul Williams, a medic who previously worked in Uganda, and Mhairi Black, the youngest person to be elected to UK Parliament. On day 2, our YAs tried out their campaigning skills by gathering petition signatures for our Global Fund petition on the streets of London before rounding off the day with media and Twitter sessions.
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Amazing 2 days with @ONEinIreland, training & meeting other youth ambassadors. Met some great people. Looking forward to the rest of the year! #ONEyouth19
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Our launch in Ireland — with just over 30 Youth Ambassadors — kicked off with an intense day of campaigns training! On the second day, our YAs were treated to a host of fantastic guest speakers. Craig Dwyer, a social media specialist, spoke about his work on the Yes Equality campaign and Laura Harmon from the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) shared her brilliant insights into how we can all help achieve gender equality. Senator Neale Richmond gave an enlightening look at how YAs can influence EU politics in the upcoming elections. Finally, Minister Katherine Zappone accepted a card filled with messages from ONE members showing their support for Ireland's early (and 50% increased!) pledge to the Global Fund.
You don't have to be a Youth Ambassador to get involved! Become a ONE Member by signing up here.
Sri Lanka Bans Face Coverings After Easter Bombings
Human rights groups worry the move will fuel tension and ostracize the Muslim community.
Why Global Citizens Should Care
Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies is key to sustainable development. To fight extreme poverty, we must protect marginalized groups like Muslims in Sri Lanka. You can join us and take action on this issue here.
The Sri Lankan government has banned face coverings in response to the Easter Sunday suicide bombings at three churches and three hotels that killed over 250 people.
President Maithripala Sirisena announced the emergency law, which is effective immediately, on Monday, according to the BBC.
The law is intended to help authorities identify the attackers responsible for the Easter bombings, according to Reuters. However, some see the regulation as a direct attack on Sri Lanka's Muslim minority, which makes up nearly 10% of the population in the Buddhist-majority country.
The radical Islamic group, the Islamic State, has claimed responsibility for the bombing, which targeted churches, hotels, and other sites in an apparent attack on Christians celebrating the religious holiday Easter. Officials have warned that the group behind the April 21 suicide bombings was planning more attacks.
Authorities have arrested 150 people in association with the attacks, but are still looking for around 140 other followers of the Islamic State, according to the BBC.
"This was a devastating attack and huge blow for Sri Lanka that is only just recovering from decades of violence," South Asia Director at the organization Human Rights Watch, Meenakshi Ganguly told Global Citizen via email.
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Sri Lanka's Muslim community fears a prolonged ban on face coverings could fuel religious tensions that emerged during the armed conflict between the government and the country's Tamil separatist group, from 1983 to 2009. The conflict initially started over ethnic tension between the country's Sinhalese, the mostly Buddhist group, originally from northern India, who make up the majority of Sri Lanka's population, and the Tamils, who are mostly Christian and Hindu.
"While the government should take immediate steps to identify and arrest the perpetrators, assist the victims, and prevent further attacks, what it should not do is adopt policies that violate human rights or drive rifts between communities," Ganguly said.
Although the government didn't explicitly ban burqas and niqabs –– garments some Muslim women wear, which cover their faces –– Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe issued a statement saying that he requested regulations to ban the burqa.
Read More: 3 Ways You Can Help the Victims of the Sri Lanka Bombings
According to Reuters, Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, expressed concern that Muslim women in Sri Lanka who choose to cover up in the observance of their religion, will not be able to leave home if they can't wear their face veils. This could stop them from going to school, working, and participating in society indefinitely.
"Knee-jerk responses like this will be seen by many Muslims to be collective punishment for the contemptible actions of a violent group," Ganguly continued.
People also took to social media to question Sri Lanka's new law, and how it infringes on women's rights.
Mairi Ord@MairiOrd
So sad to hear Sri Lanka has banned face covering, this is a step that directly targets women's rights to religious expression! How many of the terrorists were wearing veils compared with those carrying rucksacks ? No one is calling for a rucksack ban! pic.twitter.com/EBpKxDlBtj
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Advocate@AdvocateRotimi
Again, Sri Lanka also has taken an inconsiderate, unacceptable, and unethical step as they ban the use of face veils in the country. This is unjustifiable as its violation of women's right to practice their #religion.
4:32 PM - Apr 29, 2019
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Sri Lanka isn't the first to mandate a controversial ban on face coverings. In 2018, France became the first country in Western Europe to officially forbid burqas in public citing security concerns.
A week after the Easter bombings, Sunday church services were canceled across Sri Lanka as a precaution. The country also blocked social media platforms following the attack to prevent violence by stopping the spread of hatred and misinformation stoking religious tensions.
Human rights groups hope the Sri Lankan government will consider other alternatives to ensure safety.
"The political leadership should show its commitment to provide security in a rights-respecting manner," Ganguly urged.
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Sea Turtle Populations Soared by 980% After Legal Protections: Report
"We should celebrate the act's track record of reducing harms."
The Endangered Species Act has a strong track record of protecting endangered animals, a core tenet of both Global Goal 14 and 15. As marine habitats around the world deteriorate due to climate change and other factors, the ESA can help to reverse the decline of various species. You can join us in taking action on this issue here.
When animal habitats are protected, animals tend to thrive.
That's the simple yet groundbreaking conclusion of a new report analyzing the effect of the United States' Endangered Species Act (ESA) on marine animals, published in the academic journal PLOS One.
A team of researchers looked at 31 marine populations and found that the populations of 78% of marine mammals and 75% of sea turtles rebounded after receiving protections under the law.
The median sea turtle population increased by 980% following the regulations established by the ESA, and the median increase for mammals was 115%.
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The authors of the report think that this promising data could help to protect the ESA at a time when the Trump administration is looking to roll back animal protections.
"The Endangered Species Act not only saved whales, sea turtles, sea otters, and manatees from extinction, it dramatically increased their population numbers, putting them solidly on the road to full recovery," Shaye Wolf, a Center for Biological Diversity scientist and coauthor of the study, said in a press release. "We should celebrate the act's track record of reducing harms from water pollution, overfishing, beach habitat destruction, and killing."
The ESA was passed in 1973 and created a mechanism for protecting animals that were in danger of going extinct. When an animal receives protection under this act, its habitat is shielded from most human activities and rehabilitation measures are often taken. For example, if a turtle receives protection, then fishing, tourism, waste disposal, and other activities could be prohibited from a certain area, and conservationists may work to restore the turtles' sources of food.
Read More: 5 Marine Animals Will Go Extinct If We Don't Act Now
The report published in PLOS One shows how the act has played a role in saving numerous animals from the brink of extinction.
Hawaiian humpback whales, for example, went from a population of 800 in 1979 to 10,000 in 2015. The species recovered so substantially that it was removed from the ESA in 2016.
"The humpback whales migrating along the West Coast are a success story everyone can appreciate," said Abel Valdivia, a coauthor of the study and scientist with the conservation group Rare, in the press release. "We can clearly save endangered species if we make the effort, provide the needed funds and have strong laws like the Endangered Species Act to guide the work."
Reported nests of the North Atlantic green sea turtle along Florida's coastline had plunged to 464 by 1989. After the animal received protection through the ESA, nests jumped to 39,000 in 2016.
Image: Mark Sullivan for NOAA
Read More: 5 Coral Reefs That Are Dying Around the World
The plight of marine creatures has come into alarming focus in recent years.
As climate change intensifies, the world's oceans are absorbing the bulk of the excess heat produced by greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, causing water temperatures to rise to levels that cook species, including coral, alive.
Warming waters are also rearranging the distribution of sea animals in often disastrous ways. For example, a massive blob of warm water traveled to the coast of California, bringing sea urchins that ravaged ancient kelp foreststhat formed the backbone of local ecosystems.
Read More: Every Marine Animal Studied in This Report Contained Microplastics
The oceans are also absorbing excess carbon in the atmosphere, which alters the water's pH level, making it more acidic. As a result, coral reefs are dying en masse around the world and cretaceous creatures are losing their shells.
Furthermore, the oceans have become filled with plastic particles that cause immense harm to the marine animals, and industrial waste that creates dead zones.
To make matters worse, overfishing threatens to destroy various fish species, and companies are shooting seismic guns that sound like bombs exploding into the oceans to search for oil fields, disrupting the web of sound that many marine animals rely upon to survive.
The ESA has been able to reverse the decline of many marine creatures and it could be used to slow down some of the hazards facing the world's oceans.
"Humans often destroy marine ecosystems," Wolf said, "but our study shows that with strong laws and careful stewardship, we can also restore them, causing wildlife numbers to surge."
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Gayle Smith on fighting the good fight with Phoebe Robinson
If it seems like everyone you know is obsessed with podcasts, it's probably because, well, they are. In 2018, Variety reported that Apple podcasts had more than 500,000 active podcast series available for download from their vast library!
Gayle Smith (left), Phoebe Robinson (centre) and Javier Muñoz (right) in New York City.
That's why we're particularly excited to be diving into the world of podcasting this week. Our CEO, Gayle Smith, is this week's special guest on this special (RED) and ONE episode of Phoebe Robinson's hit podcast Sooo Many White Guys, alongside actor, activist & (RED) Ambassador, Javier Muñoz!
On this episode, Phoebe, Javier Muñoz, and Gayle Smith Fight the Good Fight!, Gayle shares how she got to where she is today, how she became involved in HIV/AIDS work and how she's getting s**t done. Phoebe and Javier, both (RED)ambassadors, also talk about their work in combatting HIV/AIDS.
Looking for more podcast recommendations? Check out our top-picks right here!
🎙LISTEN UP: The newest episode of Phoebe Robinson's Sooo Many White Guys podcast features (RED) ambassador Javier Muñoz & ONECEO and President, Gayle Smith. They're talking all things HIV/AIDS & more: https://apple.co/2GRfsKa
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El cambio climático está teniendo un gran efecto de depresión en la economía global
Se sienten de manera desigual.
Por qué es importante para los Global Citizens
Los efectos del cambio climático se están sintiendo de manera desigual en todo el mundo, y los países menos responsables de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero a menudo enfrentan las consecuencias más brutales. Las Naciones Unidas urgen a los países a cumplir el acuerdo climático de París para evitar mayores daños ambientales. Puedes unirte a nosotros para tomar medidas sobre temas relacionados aquí.
La brecha entre los países más ricos y los más pobres ha ido disminuyendo de manera constante durante las últimas décadas, pero esa brecha se habría cerrado en un 25% adicional si el cambio climático no hubiera creado una resistencia económica masiva, según un nuevo estudio publicado en la ciencia Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Los estudios anteriores sobre las consecuencias económicas del cambio climático se han centrado en los efectos previstos años después, o han calculado los costos asociados con los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos. Pero este estudio analiza cómo los aumentos de temperatura ya han reducido la producción económica.
Y la mayor parte de este efecto lo sienten los países más pobres del mundo.
"Muchos de los países que se ven más afectados también tienen un PBI per cápita bajo, y han contribuido relativamente poco a las emisiones históricas de gases de efecto invernadero", le dijo Noah Diffenbaugh a Global Citizen, el autor principal del estudio y científico del clima en la Universidad de Stanford.
"Hay una asimetría entre los países que emitieron la mayor fracción de las emisiones históricas de gases de efecto invernadero y los países más vulnerables al cambio climático", agregó.
Garanticemos que todas las comunidades puedan soportar desastres climáticos
Los investigadores analizaron los datos económicos agregados entre 1961 y 2010 y los compararon con los cambios de temperatura durante este período. Encontraron que los aumentos de temperatura asociados con el calentamiento global causaron marcadas disminuciones en la actividad económica.
Estos efectos han sido más pronunciados en los países alrededor del Ecuador, donde el cambio climático ha causado olas de calor letales, ha desatado tormentas intensas y ha hecho que las sequías extremas se vuelvan más probables.
El Producto Interno Bruto (PBI) de la India sería un 30% adicional más alto, por ejemplo, si las temperaturas no aumentaran debido a la acumulación de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en la atmósfera, según indica el informe. Ese tipo de resistencia es equivalente a la Gran Depresión en Estados Unidos, señalan los autores.
Si bien la India ha logrado grandes avances en la reducción de la pobreza, más de 70 millones de personas viven con menos de $1.90 por día, casi la mitad de la población practica la defecación al aire libre y 240 millones de personas no tienen acceso a la electricidad.
Sin los efectos del cambio climático, el país habría probablemente progresado más en la reducción de estas inequidades, sugiere el nuevo estudio.
Diffenbaugh dijo que el aumento de las temperaturas reduce la producción económica de varias maneras.
A medida que aumenta la temperatura, los trabajadores se vuelven menos productivos, disminuye su funcionamiento cognitivo, aumentan los conflictos interpersonales y disminuyen los rendimientos de los cultivos básicos.
En los últimos años, las devastadoras olas de calor casi han detenido las actividades económicas al aire libre en países tan diversos como Pakistán o Japón.
Diffenbaugh dijo que hay múltiples beneficios en la transición a las energías renovables para las economías pobres y ricas.
Primero, reemplazar los combustibles fósiles por energía renovable hace que se liberen menos emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero a la atmósfera, lo que a su vez reduce los costos asociados con el cambio climático de desastres naturales, olas de calor, etc.
Segundo, millones de personas aún carecen de acceso a la electricidad en todo el mundo. La energía renovable es una forma barata y efectiva de conectarlos a la economía global, que puede aumentar considerablemente el PBI per cápita.
"La desigualdad económica es un desafío persistente a nivel mundial y ha habido un progreso sustancial en las últimas décadas en términos de sacar a la gente de la pobreza extrema y reducir la brecha económica entre los países más ricos y más pobres del mundo", dijo Diffenbaugh. "Pero todavía hay una población muy grande que sigue careciendo de electricidad, sigue careciendo de agua potable, sigue dependiendo de la biomasa para cocinar, lo que tiene enormes impactos en la salud, por lo que, a pesar del progreso, la desigualdad económica mundial es un gran desafío".
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Indonesia Could Be the First Country to Move Its Capital Because of Climate Change
The government plans to spend $33 billion on the move.
Megacities around the world are being forced to contend with rising sea levels, extreme storms, and sinking infrastructure. By 2100, billions of people could be displaced by climate change unless governments meaningfully address the environmental crisis. You can join us by taking action on this issue here.
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday that the government is preparing to spend $33 billion to move its capital city because rising levels threaten to submerge Jakarta, the Financial Times reports.
It would be the first time that a country moved its capital because of climate change.
The city, home to 10 million people, has been sinking into the the ocean twice as fast as the global average of coastal megacities, according to the BBC. By 2050, 95% of North Jakarta is expected to be underwater.
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Already, the city is facing increasingly severe flooding and coastal erosion. The advance of sea levels is compounded by the city's overdevelopment and mismanagement of groundwater supplies. As the city depletes groundwater supplies, roads and infrastructure are sinking into the ground in a phenomenon known as subsidence, BBC reports.
Instead of improving the city's resilience to climate change, developers throughout Jakarta are building new properties in areas highly vulnerable to sea level rise and extreme storms.
The city is also dangerously overcrowded, with traffic jams costing the national economy $6.8 billion annually, NPR notes.
All of these factors have spurred the government to look for an alternative home base.
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Joko Widodo, popularly known throughout the country as Jokowi, told pressthat three cities are in the running for the relocation, but before the plan can be approved, major preparations have to be made, including building appropriate infrastructure and raising the funds to enable the transition.
Jokowi also said that the move has been discussed for years now, indicating that government officials have long known that rising sea levels would make Jakarta unsuitable as a capital city.
Indonesia is ranked by HSBC as the 30th most vulnerable country to climate change, but the report also said that it has the ability to effectively adapt by investing in sustainable infrastructure and reforestation.
Residents in Jakarta worry that the relocation will merely shift the environmental degradation of the capital elsewhere.
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"I hope the city will develop and the education will become as good as in Jakarta," a high school student told the BBC. "But all the land and forest that's empty space now will be used. Kalimantan [the Indonesian portion of Borneo] is the lungs of the world, and I am worried we will lose the forest we have left."
Jakarta's relocation is a stark reminder of the urgency of climate change. For decades, governments have failed to meaningfully address the environmental crisis caused by greenhouse gas emissions pumped into the atmosphere.
Now the consequences of that inaction are being felt around the world — and by the end of the century, more than 2 billion people could be displaced by rising sea levels.
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At the New Tafo Government Hospital in Ghana's Eastern Region, community health nurse Gladys Dede Tetteh has run out of yellow fever vaccines. There is a long line of anxious mothers fanning themselves and their babies as they wait on benches.
An order has been placed for more vaccines which would usually take two hours on a good day (sometimes more) for it to be delivered by road from the central medical stores.
But 21 minutes later, a drone did the job—dropping off a parachuted box containing vaccines from a height of about 80 meters to a small lawn quadrangle inside the hospital as a group of journalists watch on. The drone doesn't stop as it makes a delivery and returns to base. A junior nurse picked the box up and the vaccination for newborns is back on. Tafo hospital is the first in Ghana signed up to the government's new medical drone delivery program which hopes to use unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver medical products to hard to reach communities in a timely manner.
A child at New Tafo Hospital being given a yellow fever vaccine shot after a drone delivery
The Ghana Health Service is working with Zipline, the drone company best known for starting blood delivery services in Rwanda. Ghana's health policymakers hope faster drop-offs will improve its health outcomes including reducing its maternal and infant mortality rates. According to the World Health Organization, "severe bleeding during delivery or after childbirth is the commonest cause of maternal mortality and contributes to around 34% of maternal deaths in Africa." The timely access to safe blood could save many lives.
The medical drone program was officially launched on Wednesday Apr. 24 by Ghana's vice president Mahamudu Bawumia, who first made the announcement a year ago. The launch at Zipline's Omenako center in Ghana (70 kilometers north of the capital, Accra) is the first of four centers it hopes to complete by the end of 2019.
The drones will be able to travel to 500 health facilities within an 80-kilometer-range from the Omenako center which is stocked with emergency medicines, vaccines, blood and blood products. The delivery program is also hoped will help reduce the incidence of wastage of medical products, a result of overstocking at hospitals.
The company is targeting the "last mile delivery" challenge which many logistics operators face in African cities and rural area where road networks are either underdeveloped or poorly maintained. Zipline is describing the Ghana operation as the world's largest drone delivery service.
A map of Ghana showing Zipline's four operation centers
Ghana will become the base for training future Zipline flight operators as it hopes to expand to more countries in the coming years. There have been expressions of interest in a similar service from officials in Senegal and some states in Nigeria.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Zipline, a for-profit company, was founded in 2014 and started operations in Rwanda in 2016 delivering blood and blood products during emergencies. It began delivering more health products including routine vaccines this year.
Zipline claims it would be able to cover 2,000 health facilities that serve 12 million Ghanaians (of a population of just under 30 million)—from small community clinics and vaccination centers to larger general hospitals like Tafo – when all its four local centers become operational.
The company has been contracted by the government of Ghana to make 600 deliveries a day (150 deliveries from each center) for four years and they will be paid per successful delivery. It would cost Ghana $12.5 million during the period.
Critics have argued the government should have rather spent the money on more important and simpler things the health sector really needs such as the critical shortage of hospital beds, gloves, consistent supply of water and the improvement of hospital buildings.
And yet the challenge for Ghana and indeed many other African governments is the cost and potential speed of using drone delivery to supplement or aid health services is significantly more effective in the short to medium term when compared with the required scale of investment and time for both logistics and healthcare infrastructure.
This is why for nurses like Gladys Tetteh, the use of drones are very much a case of what's not to like? "It makes us work faster and the mothers will not stay too long here trying to vaccinate their children."
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These health workers are fighting TB one community at a time
19 March 2019 4:23PM UTC | By: ROBYN DETORO
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Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one infectious killer in the world, but around 36% of people with TB still go undiagnosed every year. To help step up the fight against TB, countries — like Ethiopia — are adopting community health worker programs.
At Mekelle Health Sciences College in Ethiopia, a class for health extension workers strengthens their skills as providers of services in their villages.
Ethiopia's National Health Extension Program was founded in 2004 with funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. At the time, there was a critical shortage of health services, with a ratio of one health worker per 40,000 citizens. The extension program was introduced to help bridge the gap between rural communities and health care by training health extension workers (HEWs) to provide services at a community level.
By 2016, 38,000 HEWs — the majority of whom are women — were providing health services to 15,000 villages across Ethiopia.
Health Workers in Action
Every day, HEWs — trained for a full year in basic health delivery — trek through Ethiopian communities, knocking on doors to speak with local residents and check on their health. They are trained to conduct basic health tests for preventable diseases like TB, maintain family health records, provide treatment for diseases and encourage communities to use contraceptives and get vaccinated.
Health extension worker Workalem talks to villagers during one her frequent visits to this rural community.
Workalem Haile, a HEW in Southern Ethiopia's Chama Hembecho village, manages the local health centre which provides care to over 2,200 families. She tests patients for disease and provides long-term care and support as her patients go through treatment.
Workalem visits a husband and wife who are both HIV-positive and explains proper use of antiretroviral treatment.
Abinet was one of Workalem's patients. "At the beginning, I thought it was just a common cold but I had a very serious cough. I couldn't sleep late at night," he said. His condition did not improve with traditional medicines, so, with help, he made his way to the local clinic where he was tested for TB. After Abinet's results came back positive and he was prescribed the proper medication, Workalem visited him regularly over the next 6 months to support him with his treatment. Abinet says, "My health has improved because of Workalem's help. I would like to thank her very much."
By 2016, over 95% of Ethiopia's population had access to primary health care resources within 10 kilometres. Now, communities are better educated about how to limit the spread of communicable and preventable diseases, like TB, and have better access to treatment. Plus, health issues are addressed earlier and communities have better access to effective long-term care. Life expectancy in Ethiopia has increased to 64 years, jumping by 10 years since the program's launch in 2004.
Sister Eden, another Ethiopian HEW, regularly visits 50-year-old tuberculosis patient Desta in her home to oversee the final months of her TB care.
Excitingly, the introduction of the program didn't just improve people's health. The HEW program shifted gender roles and cultural norms in Ethiopia by creating a wealth of new opportunities for women to enter the workforce. "In a country where unemployment is still high, finding fulfilling work can be life changing. The health extension worker program has transformed the lives of thousands of workers who have become breadwinners for their families," said Dr. Kesetebirhan Admasu, Ethiopia's former minister of health.
To make sure the Global Fund can continue its critical work, like funding Ethiopia's National Health Extension Program, it will be hosting its sixth replenishment conference in October. They're asking world leaders and private investors to come together and help save 16 million lives over the next 3 years by investing a minimum of US$14 billion.
This is the bold ambition the world needs to get us on track to stop the spread of diseases like tuberculosis — and it's why we're calling on world leaders to #StepUpTheFight by fully financing the Global Fund.
Add your name now to tell world leaders they must back this bold initiative this year.
Music Generation Laois to present an exciting line-up at the 3rd annual 'Music at the Malt House'
Music Generation Laois will host its third weekend concert series in the magnificent surrounds of the restored Malt House, on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th May 2019. The series brings together a stellar line-up of international, award-winning musicians and performers to play alongside Music Generation Laois' own young musicians.
Highlights on Friday include two of Ireland's foremost harp players Michael Rooney and Zoë Conway and acclaimed composer John McIntyre, who will play alongside the Music Generation Laois Senior Harp Ensemble and the Music Generation Laois Trad Orchestra and Senior Trad Group.
Headline acts on Saturday include Chris Stout (fiddle) and Catriona McKay (harp) who won the 'best duo' award at the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and are long-term collaborators and mentors of the Music Generation Laois young musicians. The Music Generation Laois Junior Trad Group with Ernestine Healy, the Senior Harp Ensemble and the Music Generation Laois Trad Orchestra will all be performing on the night.
Saturday also sees the Irish premiere of Body Percussion accompanied by the full Music Generation Laois Trad Orchestra, as well as the launch of Stradbally's Tommy Fitzharris and Donal McCague's new album 'The Bank of Turf.'
Ahead of the weekend's concert series, Music Generation Laois Coordinator Rosa Flannery said: 'In its third year, we are really excited and grateful to be back in this exquisite venue - thanks to Glen Bradshaw who allows us to take over his beautiful Malt House each year for this event. Support in the community like this has enabled Music Generation Laois to reach over 3,000 young people, who otherwise may not have access to instruments or music lessons. The Music at The Malt House is a small taster of what we do, as well as a superb evening's entertainment for all the family.'
Tickets are €5 and can be booked by phone on 0578663355 or online at www.dunamaise.ie
This lyrical series kicks off Music Generation Laois' packed summer programme of events and festivals for 2019. For more information see musicgenerationlaois.ie
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Today, in Belarus, I visited a 'Home of Hope' - a home where a couple within a community foster 10 children to give them a normal home life outside of the orphanage. These children and families have nothing but the absolute basics to get them through their days yet the love, care, and happiness within these homes is infectious.
When I was fortunate enough to become part of the Rose of Tralee family last year, many people said it will open many doors of opportunity for you. This is very true. I have had the most amazing opportunities and met the most incredible people along the way but becoming part of the Chernobyl Children International family has been the biggest and most life changing highlight and I feel privileged to finish my year as the Roscommon Rose in Belarus with these amazing children and families. I know this is the beginning of a much bigger adventure for me. ❤
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A landmark malaria vaccine has been rolled out in Malawi
26 April 2019 5:57PM UTC | By: KATIE RYAN
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Lusitana, a 5-month-old baby from Malawi, has become the first person in the world to receive the new malaria vaccine as part of her routine immunisations!
Malaria is a tropical disease transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. Nearly half of the world's population is at risk of malaria, so a simple mosquito bite can have deadly consequences for millions of people around the world.
Thirty years in the making, this malaria vaccine prevents 4 in 10 malaria cases and can be given to children up to 2 years of age. The start of the vaccination program in Malawi is a major step forward in improving child health and saving lives from a disease that currently kills a child every 2 minutes. The vaccine will be rolled out in Ghana and Kenya in the coming weeks.
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, explains, "Malaria is a constant threat in the African communities where this vaccine will be given. The poorest children suffer the most and are at highest risk of death. We know the power of vaccines to prevent killer diseases and reach children, including those who may not have immediate access to the doctors, nurses and health facilities they need to save them when severe illness comes."
Malaria is still a crisis
While this is a major milestone in the fight against malaria, there is still a long way to go to eliminate malaria for good.
Global malaria death rates have dropped 60% since 2000, but today malaria is back on the rise. The 10 highest burden African countries saw 3.5 million more malaria cases in 2017 than the year before. In total, there were over 200 million cases of malaria last year and the preventable disease killed almost half a million people. Children under the age of 5 accounted for two-thirds of all malaria deaths.
Control measures such as insecticide sprays, insecticide-treated bed nets and antimalarial drugs have successfully reduced malaria cases and deaths. But resistance to medicines and insecticide and drug resistance is a growing threat as these interventions continue to be scaled up.
That's why this pilot program is so exciting and should be seen as a model for public-private partnership for health. It was born through a collaborative effort amongst the World Health Organization, the countries' health ministries, the vaccine developer, and other partners. It was financed through a remarkable level of collaboration and coordination amongst Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Unitaid.
The Global Fund provides nearly 60% of all international financing for malaria, and has invested in malaria control programs in more than 100 countries.
In October, the Global Fund will host their Sixth Replenishment. They're asking world leaders and private investors to come together and help save 16 million livesbetween 2021 and 2023 by meeting their replenishment goal of US$14 billion. This investment is the bold ambition the world needs to get us on track to stop the spread of these diseases.
To continue funding lifesaving programs like this one, we need world leaders to #StepUpTheFight by fully financing the Global Fund.
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In this second part of the 2 part series about syncing Pro Tools systems, we go over syncing the systems over a network connection. This does have the advantage of needing 2 interfaces with Midi I/O, but does require a bit more setup and a single network cable or for longer distances, you can connect the systems into a common hub or switch.
Syncing 2 Pro Tools Systems via Midi Cable.
Syncing 2 Pro Tools systems is an easy way to gain processing power. The most common use for this would be to host VI's on a slave system and then stream them into the master system. In this video, I show how to connect the 2 systems with just a midi cable. There are a few other hurdles to overcome in order to get both systems in sync and deal with latency.
TRASHER Update Including macOS Support
Avid released Pro Tools 2018.1, with quite a few new features added. I decided to update TRASHER in order catch all the new settings and files. For many reasons, I ultimately decided to rewrite the entire application and go for macOS while I was at it.. I made some other changes internally such as backing up Plug-in Settings for instance is now "smarter". It will cycle through the folder recursively (folder by folder, file by file) and compare names. If a file name matches in an existing folder during a backup or restore, it will replace the file. Otherwise no files are at risk of being lost through a folder dump for example. Anything and everything being replaced or trashed is sent to the recycle bin, so it is recoverable.
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One of the major love/hate relationships with Pro Tools (and many plugin devs) is the Ilok. Without the Ilok, Pro Tools will not run period. There has never been a machine authorization option like some plugin devs use that can relieve some of the stress.
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Eventide Release Elevate By Newfangled Audio – Watch The Detailed Video Walkthrough
Elevate is a multi-band limiter, human-ear EQ, and powerful audio maximizer that increases the loudness of your mix while maintaining or improving the musicality. It uses intelligent, adaptive technology that responds in real time to your music; creating not only the loudest, but the best sounding master.
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1080p Dual-link DVI LED Resolution
4K DVI Local unit Response time
AV switch Emulation Local access RGB
Blocking access Equalization Matrix switch S-Video
Boot Ethernet Multi-head Scan Rate
Bus expansion Firewire Multi-mode SDI
Cascading Firmware Multi-platform Single-link DVI
CAT5 Flash memory Multi-user Single-mode
CATx Frame rate Multiviewer Single-user
Combo HDMI Non-blocking
access Skew
Compensation HD OSD Station
Component video HD-baseT PiP Sync
Composite video Hot-key Pixel TOSLINK
Console Keyboard mode Platform Transmitter
CPU KVM POC Typematic rate
Daisy chaining KVM extender POE UHD
DDC KVM-IP Port USB
Digital signage KVM sharing PS/2 User
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amplifier (DA) KVM workstation Rack drawer Video splitter
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1080p is an acronym for digital video with 1080 lines of vertical resolution. The "p" stands for progressive and means each line is successively displayed on the screen, as is the normal case for display monitors. 1080i (interlaced) is used for television and has every other line displayed on the screen. 1080i is intended to be a compression technique to fit more channels for transmission, but at a lower quality.
See UHD.
AV switch
An audio-video (AV) switch is a matrix switch which has multiple inputs and outputs. The audio and video are typically switched as a pair from one of the input sources to one or more output destinations. Usually any input can be connected to any output.
Blocking access
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The start-up sequence of a computer.
Bus expansion
A method of expanding KVM switches with dedicated ports for interconnection. The bus output of one switch is connected to the bus input of the next switch in the chain. Each switch has a dedicated input bus port and output bus port. Bus expansion avoids using computer and user ports for interconnecting switches.
A method of interconnecting KVM switches by connecting a computer port to a user port on a secondary switch, also called daisy-chaining.
Category 5 (CAT5) is an unshielded twisted pair cable that interconnects using RJ45 plugs and jacks. Category 5 refers to the characteristics of the cable and its suitability for carrying data at particular data rates and distances. CAT5 cable consists of four twisted pairs of copper wire. Its main usage was started by being a cheap and effective method to interconnect Ethernet networks. Later due to its popularity and wide deployment, it was used to extend video and KVM signals. Sometimes CAT5 refers to the group of all 4 pair cables with or without shield that include later higher performance variations of CAT5e, CAT6, and CAT7 cable.
An acronym grouping together all the different types of twisted pair cables known as CAT5, CAT5e, CAT6, and CAT7 cables, either shielded or unshielded.
Acronym for combined connector, and also call combo-free, this term applies to products with an integrated connector that has video, keyboard-mouse, and possibly other signals on it. You need a proprietary cable to connect it to computers.
See Equalization.
Analog video that is separated into three separate signals to increase the quality. This system, utilizing three coax cables colored red, green, and blue, is used in consumer video as an improvement over S-video. The signals consist of luminance (Y) and the color difference signals PR (R-Y), and PB (B-Y). This system is still present mostly in set-top boxes and older video players and has largely been replaced by HDMI.
Analog video that combines all color and timing information into a single signal intended to be broadcast or to be run over coax cabling. This video format was used for television for over 50 years but has been widely replaced with digital video such as HDMI. It still remains for security cameras, but this is also being replaced typically with IP cameras which provide higher resolutions and more features. The composite video can be converted with baluns to run over twisted pair cabling instead of coax. It also can be converted to VGA or DVI to make it usable with video and KVM extenders and switches.
See KVM workstation.
Central processing unit (CPU) is another name for the part of a computer that executes the program instructions. Rose uses the term as a convenient short acronym for computer. Some products, such as KVM switches, use this term to label a computer port.
Daisy chaining
A method of interconnecting KVM switches by connecting a computer port to a user port on a secondary switch. Also called cascading.
DDC (display data channel) is a protocol between a computer's video output and a display monitor to negotiate the resolution of the signal to be displayed. This was originally introduced on VGA as part of a "plug-and-play" initiative so that video from the computer to be displayed on the monitor would always be of optimal quality and no user adjustments would be necessary. DDC is also used on DVI, HDMI, and display port. DDC includes a standard known as EDID, which stands for Extended Display Identification Data. EDID describes the content of the data that is exchanged in the DDC protocol. The most commonly implemented revisions of DDC are DDC2B and E-DDC.
A form of electronic display in which advertising, information, or other data is shown on display panels in public places. Digital signs are usually LCD, LED, Plasma, or projected images. These displays have become pervasive and are present in transportation, entertainment, shopping, sports, commercial, and other venues.
DisplayPort is a digital display interface standard developed by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It was intended to be a more open competing standard to HDMI, perhaps complementing, perhaps replacing. It's main claim to fame over HDMI are a royalty-free standard, higher resolution (for a time), and a much different protocol consisting of data packets making it more flexible.
Distribution amplifier (DA)
A distribution amplifier also known as a video splitter is a device that accepts a single video input signal and copies it to multiple outputs. VGA (Analog) splitters may provide some boost or equalization functions to improve the signal quality over distance. DVI/HDMI splitters may also provide some equalization or re-clocking functions to increase the distance the signal may travel.
Dual access
See Local access.
Dual-head
See Multi-head.
Dual-link DVI
The DVI interface is available in two varieties: single-link and dual-link. Dual-link refers to the higher resolution variety usually maxing out at 2560×1600 at 60Hz or 3840×2400 at 24Hz. The video data is transmitted in one direction on seven differential pairs • one clock and six data signals usually at a maximum data rate of 1.65 Gbps. Since dual-link has twice as many data signals as single-link, it can transmit twice as much video. Dual-link DVI also can transmit more than 24 bits/pixel whereas DVI single-link is constrained to 24 bits/pixel. There are some specialized variations of dual-link, which can transmit at 2560×2048, typically used for grayscale medical displays. To get still higher resolutions, multiple dual-link DVI links have been used for medical, military, cinematic, or other professional applications. Also see Single-link DVI.
DVI (Digital Video Interface) is the digital successor to analog VGA and the father of HDMI. DVI can include VGA analog signals in which case is called DVI-I (I stands for integrated). It is called DVI-D when only the DVI is present without VGA. Also see Single-link DVI and Dual-link DVI for more information.
Emulation is the intelligence in a KVM Switch or KVM cable that mimics the connection between the computer and the keyboard/mouse. The computer will continue to sense a mouse and keyboard, even though the user may have switched to a different CPU. This logic is also present on the user side where the keyboard and mouse appear to be always connected to a computer. Emulation is a key feature that allows smooth switching between computers. It is also used to intercept keyboard signals in order to execute commands typed by the user.
The electronic attenuation or amplification of different frequency components of a signal. The most popular usage of the term is for audio balancing, in order to make the sound more realistic in a space such as a car, living room, or auditorium. In the context of Rose products, it is used for the video signal. Equalization of a VGA signal is done to allow for the effects of transport over a CATx cable. Equalization of digital video, such as DVI or HDMI, is done to allow the signal to be transported at a longer distance. Also called compensation.
A standard transmission protocol for transporting data. Originally, Ethernet speed was 10 Mbps and run over thick coax and then thin coax, both of them are now obsolete. It has come to be run over fiber optic and twisted pair cable, which is the most common usage now. It increased over time in data rates by factors of 10 to 100 Mbps, then 1 GBps, and now 10 Gbps. It goes even faster at 100 Gbps and higher in carrier and telecom applications. Ethernet is used in Rose products in KVM-IP products and some Crystal View extenders. Most Rose KVM switches and extenders do not use Ethernet on the twisted pair cable, but use a proprietary electrical and data protocol completely incompatible with Ethernet.
FireWire is a method of transferring information between digital devices, especially audio and video equipment. Also known as IEEE 1394, FireWire can achieve speeds up to 800 Mbps. Up to 63 devices can be connected to a Firewire bus. Embraced by Sony and Apple for video and storage, it became less important with the introduction of USB 3.0.
The computer program that is responsible for running a product. In the case of Rose products, this core program gives the products all of its features and functionality. This program is usually stored in flash memory, which is changeable in order to add features or to fix problems in its operation.
Provides a way to change or upgrade product functionality by sending data to change its internal program or firmware. Many Rose products have flash memory, which allows continuous firmware upgrades through a simple procedure of connecting the product to a serial port, USB port, or network on a computer and uploading a file.
Frame rate is the frequency (rate) at which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames. Frame rate is expressed in frames per second (FPS) also known as Hertz (Hz). Before LCD displays, analog CRT monitors were commonly used with a display rate of 60Hz, originating from television standards. This display rate caused some flicker and higher refresh rates such as 75Hz were used. Today LCD displays don't have this flicker problem and 60Hz has become the norm. For gaming applications there may be increased frame rates to provide more fluid motion.
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the digital video successor to DVI. It uses a similar video transmission system, a different connector, includes audio, and eliminates the option of having VGA signals. Over time, it has become faster with more features and is now the most popular video interface in the world.
HD stands for high defintion. When referring to televsion HDTV is a display format for digital TV transmissions that implements increased resolution over the previous SDTV (standard definition television) format. HDTV is implemented with 720 or 1080 lines of vertical resolution. Newer technology has added 4K and 8K resolutions which are often referred to as Ultra HD.
HD-baseT
A transmission method for sending video and other signals primarily over CATx., but also over fiber. A product implementing this technology uses a chipset at each end manufactured by Valens. The maximum length over CATx is 100m. The latest chipset allow a resolution of 4K at 30Hz, but 4K at 60Hz is available with the use of a lightweight compression.
Hot-key
A hot-key is a sequence of special keys that perform a command on a KVM switch or similar product. The key-sequence is chosen to be one that does not normally occur with normal typing. The command sequence starts with an attention key(s), which is sometimes programmable, followed by other keys which specify the command, such as switching to a port or opening an OSD menu. The KVM switch or other product intercepts the keys and performs the action specified by the command without sending the keys to the computer.
Keyboard mode
Largely obsolete now, keyboard mode refers to different code sets of a PS/2 keyboard. It can operate in Mode 1, Mode 2, or Mode 3. Mode 2 is used by the majority of PCs. Mode 1, used by IBM, has fallen into disuse. Mode 3 is common for UNIX workstations. PS/2 modes still remain in legacy installations, but have mostly been supplanted by USB.
The initials used to reference a keyboard, video, and mouse. It may refer to the physical KVM devices or to the corresponding ports on a computer or a switch. This should not be confused with Kernel-based-Virtual-Machine, which is software deployed on a single host, making it appear to be multiple physically separate computers each with its own resources.
A product that allow you to increase the distance between a KVM station and a CPU or switch. Extenders consist of a transmitter and receiver unit. They convert the KVM signals to travel over coax, CAT5 twisted pair, fiber optic cable, network, or wireless.
KVM-IP
KVM-IP (Keyboard-video-mouse via Internet-Protocol) technology is a system for remotely controlling a computer over the Internet. You install a KVM-IP device or switch at the computer. Then you use an application to access that computer remotely. In the case or Rose products, the application is based on VNC (virtual network computing) and can be run as a standalone application or through a browser. KVM-IP varies from other remote technology in that there is dedicated hardware to convert the computer's signals to IP. This means that you can reboot the computer and access its BIOS. It also means that it is totally unobtrusive and requires no drivers on the computer being accessed. The video compression used is intended to transmit only changes between frames and is more suited for accessing desktops rather than moving video. The dedicated hardware also performs encryption in order to secure the connection.
KVM sharing
Access to a single computer by more than one user. The sharing can be controlled by keyboard command or a by a pre-set timer which controls who has access. Many Rose switches with multiple KVM ports support this feature such as UltraMatrix, Xtensys, Orion, and MultiStation.
An electronic switching device, single-user or multi-user, that switches the keyboard, video and mouse signals from one or more users to multiple CPU's/servers. Switching is accomplished through front panel switches, external serial command, keyboard commands, OSD menus, or external push-button switches. KVM switch cabling structure can be coax, CATx, or fiber. User access can also be over IP using either an external KVM-IP product or a built-in IP port on the KVM switch. A KVM switch allows hardware or BIOS level control over a connected CPU.
KVM workstation
The grouping of keyboard, video, and mouse devices that the user operates is referred to collectively as a KVM workstation. Also called user console, console, KVM console, user station, KVM station, or some similar combination of terms.
A LAN (Local Area Network) is an interconnecting communication system to allow computers and devices to transfer data among themselves. Ethernet has become the dominant standard and twisted pair CATx has become the most common transport cabling. TCP/IP is the most common protocol.
Liquid crystal displays (LCD) are the most popular type of display technology, first appearing in watches and calculators and later display monitors and televisions. The fundamental core of an LCD is due to the properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers, so that an electrical charge controls how much light passes through them. LCD monitors also require a backlight, an RGB color filter, and control electronics. The backlight is either from a CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) or from LEDs. There are several variations of LCD panels such as twisted nematic (TN), and in-plane switching (IPS)
Light emitting diodes (LED) give off light when an electric current passes through them. There first use were panel indicators and in watches and calculators. The technology has spread to be used in diverse lighting applications such as home lighting, traffic lights, large signs, and streetlights. OLED (organic LED) technology is now appearing in monitor and cell phone displays and wearable and fashion products.
Local unit
On an extender, local refers to the unit attached to the video or data source. It is also known as transmitter. The other side at the destination is known as the remote or receiver.
A feature in an extender that splits the signal at its source, so it can be accessed there as well as at the remote location. The local access (also called dual access) port may include a keyboard mouse port for operation of the computer as opposed to viewing it only. If the computer has a USB interface, then the inclusion of a dual access USB port on the extender is typically unnecessary, since most computers allow connection of multiple input devices. In the case of a computer with a PS/2 port, a dual access PS/2 port is desirable in order to be able to control the computer directly at its location.
Matrix switch
A switch that has multiple inputs and outputs. In the case of a KVM matrix switch, there are multiple user-ports and multiple computer-ports. Each user is able to connect to each attached computer. Multiple users can also connect simultaneously to the same computer.
Multi-head
When a computer has multiple video outputs, then each video came to be called a head, hence dual-head refers to a computer with two video outputs. It is not limited to two, but may be three or four, but sometimes as many as six. The reason to have more monitors is to increase the amount of information that you can get simultaneously from a computer. It is popular in business, broadcast, industrial, gaming, and many other applications. There are extenders and switches to handle the extra video channels. In the case of KVM switches and extenders only one keyboard/mouse/USB device port is switched or extended.
A type of optical fiber where light can propagate by bouncing off the sides of the glass fiber in multiple ways as opposed to single-mode where light propagates down the center of the glass fiber. Multi-mode cable originally was made with a core fiber size of 62.5 microns (OM1). Today it is mostly available as 50 micron (OM2, OM3, and OM4) with improved bandwidth and distance capabilities. OM3 is the most commonly deployed fiber cable today. Also see Single-mode.
Refers to a product that will support more than one single type of computer, such as, PC, Sun, Apple, UNIX, or Linux. The distinction may be either in the computer hardware or in the operating system used. The various platforms may have different video formats and keyboard and mouse interfaces. Multi-platform switches can convert these differences so that a common KVM workstation can be used. This term has become somewhat obsolete by the standardization and unification of digital video into DVI and keyboard/mouse into USB.
Refers to a product that allows more than one user to access one or more computers. Examples of Rose products are the UltraMatrix, Xtensys, Orion, and MultiStation switches.
Multiviewer
A product that allows one to view several video or computer sources simultaneously on a single display. Using multiviewers, helps save space, money, and energy by allowing users to install fewer displays while still monitoring and controlling multiple sources.
Non-blocking access
This feature of matrix switches allows any source port to connect to any destination port without restriction. Sometimes blocking is implemented for cost or security purposes to the overall switching system.
An on-screen display (OSD) is a video image which is overlaid on top of any displayed video for information or control purposes. In the case of a KVM switch, the OSD allows configuration, status, and control of the switch with keyboard or mouse. You can interact with the OSD via the keyboard or mouse. The OSD can also display the name of the port you are currently switched to.
Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode is a feature of some television receivers, LCD displays, and computer monitors. One program (channel) is displayed on the full TV screen at the same time as one or more other programs are displayed in inset windows. Sound is usually from the main program only. PiP can also be implemented with a Multiviewer.
Short for "picture element," the smallest unit of data on a display screen. Typically, a pixel is a group of red, green, and blue colors that are combined to form any color. Most of the time the amount of pixels corresponds to the maximum display resolution of a LCD display monitor such as 1920×1080. Newer high-density displays, such as Retina displays in phones and tablets, may have more pixels than the display resolution to give a crisper and more detailed appearance.
See Multi-platform.
Abbreviation for "Power over Cable", a proprietary feature that supplies power to remote devices over the extender CATx link cable. This feature was inspired by the use of power over Ethernet (POE). Some extenders allow the power to be supplied from either end, i.e. the transmitter or receiver.
Abbreviation for "Power over Ethernet", a standard that supplies power to remote devices over the CATx Ethernet cable. This become popular with the proliferation of IP cameras which greatly simplifies installation by eliminating the need to bring power over a separate cable.
A physical connector on a product to which a cable or another device can be connected.
The keyboard and mouse standard by IBM that once was the industry standard present on almost all PCs and became used on UNIX workstations as well. It was most commonly implemented as a 6 pin mini-din connector but was first introduced as a 5 pin DIN connector on the AT computer. It is now only present on older legacy equipment and has been replaced with USB.
Quad-head
Rack drawer
A rack-mounted sliding drawer that fits into a computer equipment rack and provides user access (monitor, keyboard, mouse, audio, USB) to connected devices. The rack drawer can be connected directly to a single CPU, or connected to a KVM switch for access to multiple CPU's.
Normally refers to one unit of the pair of devices comprising a KVM extender. The receiver unit, also called remote, is the unit to which the user connects various peripheral devices (monitor, keyboard, mouse, audio, USB) which are being extended.
Remote unit
Normally refers to one unit of the pair of devices comprising a KVM extender. The remote unit, also called receiver, is the unit to which the user connects various peripheral devices (monitor, keyboard, mouse, audio, USB) which are being extended.
The resolution is the number of pixels that can be displayed horizontally and vertically on a video display, be it a monitor, television, tablet, laptop, phone, or other device. At this time the most common desktop display rate is 1920×1080; however, 4K monitors have come down in price and now a 3840x2160 resolution is not uncommon. Also see Frame rate and Pixel.
With an LCD monitor, this is the measurement of how fast an individual pixel can change from one state to another. Usually the faster the response time, the more fluid is motion.
Short for red, green, blue, the three colors that are combined to create a broad array of colors on a screen
Short for separate video, S-Video is an improvement over composite video by separating the color and luminance signals into separate channels. It is no longer sent over single coax in this form, but is connected with cables having 4-pin mini-din connectors.
Scan Rate
The scan rate is the time interval in a KVM switch where it automatically switches to the next sequential port. The value is programmable and scanning may be enabled or disabled.
Serial digital interface (SDI) is a digital video interface used for television and broadcast-grade video intended to be transported over 75 ohm coax cabling. The original use was for standard definition video (SMPTE 259M) at a nominal rate of 270 Mbps. The standard evolved into higher performance formats such as HD-SDI (SMPTE 292M at 1.485 Gbps) and 3G-SDI (SMTPE 424M at 2.97 Gbps).
Single-link DVI
The DVI interface is available in two varieties: single-link and dual-link. Single-link refers to the lower resolution variety with a maximum resolution of 1920×1200. The video data is transmitted in one direction on four differential pairs of one clock and three data signals at a maximum data rate of 1.65 Gbps. Also see Dual-link DVI.
An optical fiber where the light propagates down the center of the fiber with minimal interaction on the sides of the fiber as opposed to multi-mode where light propagates off the sides of the fiber. Single-mode fiber is specified for its distance capabilities. It is used for long distance runs as much as 100km. The cost of single-mode electronics is higher than multi-mode though the fiber prices themselves are not very different.
Single-user
A KVM switch with only one point of KVM access to all computers attached. Also see Matrix switch and Multi-user.
Skew refers to the difference in distance of the individual pairs in a CATx cable. In the case of analog VGA extenders, this affects the simultaneous arrival of individual red, green, and blue signals and causes the resultant video colors to be misaligned. The problem is intensified by higher frequencies and longer distances. The presence of a skew compensation circuit, which delays the signals to arrive all at the same time, will fix this problem.
The timing signals that produce a video display. For display monitors there are commonly three types of sync: separate horizontal and vertical sync, composite sync, and sync on green.
A fiber optic connection interface for the transfer of digital audio signals.
One of the two components of an extender. The transmitter, also known as the local unit, connects to a computer or other output device and sends the signals to the receiver unit. Also see Receiver.
Typematic rate
The rate at which keys repeat when they are pressed and held down.
UHD stands for ultra high definition and includes 4K and 8K pixel width. 4K most commonly has a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels at either a 30Hz or 60Hz frame rate. 8K has a resolution of 7680×4320 pixels. There are other variants most commonly 4096×2160 used by digital cinema and various frame rates such as 24Hz.
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that has become the most popular interface for connecting peripherals to computers. It has widely replaced the PS/2 keyboard-mouse interface and has gone on to be used for storage and general connectivity. The interface is a point-to-point interface that consists of a host (computer) and a device (peripheral). Rose still uses emulation for USB keyboard, mouse, and other HID (human interface devices). Higher speed USB 2.0 devices, however use transparent USB, such that switching the USB requires re-enumeration of the interface as if it had been physically re-connected. Newer technology has brought faster data rates with USB 3.0/USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5Ghz) and USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10Ghz).
One who operates a KVM workstation.
VGA (Video Graphics Array) is the analog video interface on PCs that has been used for decades. When it first came out 16-color and 640×480 resolution was the big deal. Eventually it supported much higher resolutions, but has pretty much been replaced by digital video such as DVI, HDMI, and display port. Due to its long running use as a standard, it still has a large deployment and Rose has many types of extenders, switches, and converters that support VGA.
Devices that allow a single video input to be connected to multiple outputs. These devices may have some amplification in them and allow extended distance, especially when using CATx cable.
A video wall consists of several displays ganged together to form a larger display. Typically, one video is enlarged and shown on the video wall, but sometimes various images are individually displayed for entertainment purposes. A video wall controller accepts the input video(s) and controls the display outputs.
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a sotware program which allows control of the computer's desktop console over the network. It consists of two parts, a server and a client. The server software is run at the host that is desired to be acessed remotely. The client runs at the user's computer to view and control the host. Rose KVM-IP products replace the server software with hardware to make the host available even while it boots up. also see KVM-IP.