As you probably know if you've read my blog consistenly, I'm a big wireless freak. Love me some no wires.
Been thinking of unusual ways to make money with the new WiMax standard coming out. In case you don't live and breathe wireless news like yours truly, WiMax is a new standard of delivering wireless information. It's kind of like WiFi, but the distances are going to be much greater. Up to 20 or 30 miles from the transmission point, without line-of-sight.
So here's my idea. With the price of data storage coming down, it wouldn't take much to setup a room of hard drives and hook them all to wireless routers and then use the WiMax spectrum to provide data backup service to area businesses and even individuals. Other than the hard drives, the biggest cost of data backup services is the huge bandwidth they have to maintain. If you eliminate the cost of a T-3 or whatever connection you have to maintain your service, that savings can be passed on to your customers and thereby GET more customers. You could offer 20 GB of back up storage for $5 a month, easily. (At that rate, you'd get business so quick, it'd make your head spin.) With 250 GB hard drives going for $200, you could sell out the space on that one drive for $60 a month. The only overhead is electricity, hardware costs (hard drives, wireless routers and antenna) and the rent on space. Your customer would have to pay for their WiMax access point. At first, this might be a couple hundred dollars but that will come down quickly. Still, there would be plenty of people who would jump at $5 a month backup service, even with the up front one time hardware cost.
Here's another idea. Sell one to one backup services. In other words, you provide the central place to hook people up with one another. A guy calls up and says, "Yeah, I want to participate. Another guy calls up and says the same thing. You match them up and setup their systems so they talk to one another. Guy #1 hosts Guy #2's back up hard drive. It's plugged into the corner somewhere. He never touches it. Guy #2's back up hard drive is hosted over at Guy #1's house. Again, it's in a corner somewhere not being touched. They purchase their own hard drive and WiMax equipment and you just install it and make sure it works.
Admittedly, that option is stretching the realm of possibility, but it's an idea. That way, they each have back up and neither has to pay a monthly fee. Just the up front costs associated with buying the hard drive and wireless gear and having it all installed and configured by you.
When Guy #1's house burns down, Guy #2 simply makes sure he gets his stuff backed up again somewhere because his backup is gone (toasted.) But Guy #1's back up is at Guy #2's house, so he's good to go. He just gets another computer setup and restores everything via his WiMax connection.
Of course, the first backup idea above has some nifty add-on possibilities. You can start selling internet access to your customers if you feel so inclined, over the WiMax connection. Of course, then you'd have to get a backbone connection to the internet, but at least you'd have a built-in customer base to start with.


– INDIA, Pune – Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT), a global software developer, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Tom Kendra to its board of directors.
Tom recently retired from Dell's Software group where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Systems Management business. Dell Systems Management focuses on integration, innovation and ease of use, and delivers products and solutions in the areas of Data Protection, Endpoint Systems Management, Performance Monitoring, Windows Server Management, and BYOD.
Prior to Dell, Tom served as Executive Vice President of Enterprise Products at CA Technologies (formerly CA, Inc.) where he also held the positions of Executive Vice President of Enterprise Products & Solutions Business Line, Senior Vice President of Strategy & Business Development, and General Manager of Project & Portfolio Management.
Before that, Tom served as Group President of Security and Data Management Group of Symantec Corporation, where he also held several other sales and services leadership positions. Tom joined Symantec after a 26-year career at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), where he served as Vice President of Worldwide Server Sales, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Vice President of Software for the Western United States, among other leadership positions.
Tom served as a Director of Pareto Networks, Inc., as a Member of Advisory Board of Avangate B.V and as a Director of RightNow Technologies Inc. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington.


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About Terry Heick
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What Are You Going To Do To Inspire Students?
by Terry Heick
June 17, 2014 - Updated on December 29, 2020
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I got an interesting email recently from an organization that, among other things, is chiefly concerned with the idea of inspiration in education.
The theory is that education–as a system–may not be as broken as we fear; we've just failed to inspire students and teachers.
At first glance I disagreed, thinking that inspiration was more an effect than a cause. But the more I thought about it, the more I wasn't sure. It is clear that it (inspiration) is mostly absent in schools. Past that, who knows? We could do a look like/sound like/feel like chart for inspiration to test for its attributes, but we know it when we see it. It can sometimes look like enthusiasm or joy.
It can be marked by creativity, innovation, or curiosity. Student-centeredness is also a part of it. (You're not going to see a teacher-dominated classroom full of inspired students; the teacher's enthusiasm is only useful as an initial catalyst.) And so I wondered further, on down the line from parents to the students to the teachers, trying to pinpoint where the breakdown in inspiration is.
See also Examples Of Student-Centered Teaching
Why don't students come to school inspired to learn?
Is it the content? Is it all really that bad? Is it the testing, or do educators hate this part more than the students? Is it the lack of authenticity of the work we ask them to do? This has to matter. Artificial work that is by definition 'academic' and alien to the lives they live—that has to have an effect, right?
Maybe they're spoiled? Unaware of the opportunity they have in front of them. Entitled. Coddled by over-protective helicopter parents, or left home alone by busy parents working two jobs to pay for a house full of expensive junk that they really don't need.
And is technology accelerating the disconnect? Is it rotting their brains the way television did ours 25 years ago while intensifying the apathy by making it social and viral? Of course, the 'answer' (as if there's one) can't be pinned down, so we focus more on the stuff we can change: curriculum, assessment, and instruction.
That makes sense as a self-defense mechanism, but none of this gets at the missing inspiration. Learning is the iterative and personal act of becoming a human being through painful, joyful, and complex personal growth. A literal awakening that happens in your classroom because of your teaching and your content that you've designed. That's pretty incredible.
But if acquiring knowledge and skills–improving what you know and can do–isn't inspirational, something is missing. There is always going to be a generational gap marked by teenage rebellion and arrogant disdain for anything the adults say, but if students literally—en masse—aren't inspired to learn, why aren't more of us concerned?
And why are our responses so comparatively impotent? Lecture them? Play a sensationalized YouTube video that shows them their future is now? Dangle really cool carrot sticks?
This has been an issue in education for so long that you may have already told yourself that inspiration isn't your job. That passion, curiosity, and a sense of urgency are prerequisites for school. That these are the kinds of things that students have or they don't.
Parents blame the teachers, teachers (quietly) point back home while the students shift restlessly in their seats, pop their gum, and play on their phones with cracked screens.
You already give so much of yourself. You work diligently daily to manage dozens of unique personalities a day in pursuit of a common goal—a goal that you nor the students nor their families nor the administrators in your school had anything to do with.
But it's your job and you do it anyway. What gets monitored gets done, and inspiring students doesn't get monitored. Or assessed. And there are no standards for inspiration, and nothing can happen without standards. *cough*
Still, the question persists no matter how much you turn up your nose: What are you going to do to inspire students? Frequently you're asked to assuage divergent objectives; you're pulled in so many different directions, and you make it work anyway, somehow. But inspiring students—unless you're a first or second-year teacher full of (na?ve?) enthusiasm—that just doesn't last. A cool lesson or project, maybe.
Or you can be a popular, funny, and engaging teacher.
But truly inspiring students every day, through the deadening trudge of a school year? Who can do that?
How does a teacher consistently model curiosity?
Design learning through play?
Promote passion and agency in learning?
Help students see their own social memberships in pursuit of self-knowledge?
Model purpose and curiosity?
And what happens if you don't? What does the school year look/sound/feel like without inspired teaching and learning? What are the long-term consequences of literally pushing students through the learning process?
At best–you see bright and compliant students that can play the game. Inspiration isn't easy. It could be that you're not cut out for teaching.
You assumed students came with it, or that learning could happen without it, but they don't, and you've ignored the elephant in the room that while their personalities are vibrant and extraordinary, their learning experiences are anything but.
But if you were going to try a different tact, where would you start? What would you do? What have you done in the past that showed promise? Where does inspiration happen in the real world, and what can you learn from it?
As a matter of love, profession, science, and craft, how are you going to inspire your students?
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As a member of the FIRST In Michigan district, Team 66 ranked 67 having earned 177 points.
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Bette and the Rev. Charles Prestwood pose for a family photo in 1965 with their daughters, (from left) Karen, Beverly, Donna and Theresa (in her mother's lap).
A jumble of images surrounds me as I think about the 1964 Civil Rights Act. I see the signs in the big department stores in Birmingham designating water fountains and restrooms for the use of "White" and "Colored." Riding to my high school through a residential area peopled by black residents, I knew these high schoolers rode buses and streetcars past my neighborhood to the school meant exclusively for them. I never had a childhood friend whose skin was dark; all my playmates bore a lighter skin color.
I visualize the dividing markers on buses and streetcars, assigning the front to whites and the rear to blacks. The relative size of the two sections changed as the white section became more crowded to allow seating for more whites. But the section for blacks never grew larger as their riders crowded on. There could be empty seats up front, but riders overflowed into the aisles in the back.
An assassin's bullet disrupted the progress toward passing the Civil Rights bill proposed in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy. It fell to President Lyndon Johnson to wrestle the legislation through Congress.
Many white Southern business operators argued that the government had no right to tell them who they had to serve in their restaurants or hotels. Public swimming pools were closed in cities over the South rather than allow black children to swim with white children. Public parks were abandoned.
Today, I see people socializing, based not on skin color, but because they enjoy one another's company and have common interests. I am able to go to restaurants with any person because of friendship, not outer appearances. Whereas I had no playmates my age who were black, my 11-year-old granddaughter Zoe tells me that three of her best friends have dark skins. It's wonderful to go to her school and see students, teachers and administrators of all races.
Even though churches were not included in the Act, I believe working and playing together during the week made worshipping together more desirable. I rejoice that, at last, local United Methodist churches are multi-colored, with members joining together in respect of our differences and recognition of our commonalities. It brings tears to my eyes when I observe the changes from likeness to variety in our churches. I thank God for those who have sacrificed to make it so.
In 1964, while her husband, Charles, was a pastor to churches in the Alabama-West Florida Conference, Bette Prestwood was a wife and mother to four daughters. She was part of an informal network encouraging parents to accept peacefully the orders for Mobile, Ala., to integrate its school system. She also urged members of the Women's Society for Christian Service (predecessor to United Methodist Women) to cooperate with school authorities for a peaceful school opening. When the Civil Rights Bill was introduced in 1963, she found churches and congregants divided with some ambivalent; others rabidly opposed; and others, highly supportive. At the same time the Prestwoods worked to garner support for the act, they heard of churches where illustrations of African Americans were cut out of Sunday school literature.


I need some advice here. I thought I would ask just the Weight Watchers enthusiasts but really I'd love to have everyone weigh in...so to speak.
Keep in mind that my regular weigh-in day is Monday. I had a bad day on Monday and I didn't record my weight. Abusing the privileges of the online only membership? Why yes I am!
Today I did a cheater weigh-in and I HIT THE GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 125 baby. Long. Time. Coming.
Do I record this now since I didn't record anything on Monday (127, btw, couldn't fricking face it)? Or do I have to carefully maintain this until next Monday before I record it? Seems like the latter is more honest and smart and safe. But man, I'm so freaking happy to see that number I want to tell the whole fracking world.
Hey, look at that, I just did.
Go ahead, record it. Even if it ends up that you only hit 125 for the seconds you were on the scale, there probably are some grudgingly recorded Monday weights that only lasted equally as long. It all balances out.
Another way to think about it: SAT scores. Those test scores only need to be achieved once in order to impact the entire college admission process.
Wow, great news! You are going to blow away in the wind if you lose any more weight!
I agree with the poster above, it definitely counts.
Yes of course it counts.
When you see those numbers... you see those numbers.
125. One buck and a quarter.
You are getting cheaper by the pound. (tongue cheek).
I don't know what to suggest, but CONGRATS!!
It counts TODAY. Good work at getting to your goal. Congrats, Kizz.
Post it. Just because it didn't happen on Monday doesn't mean it doesn't count.
Odd man out here. I say post it next week 'cause dem are da rules. At any rate, you hit your mark and that is super awesome!!! Way to go!
So far I haven't been able to bring myself to record anything or to weigh myself again. I'm a 'fraidy cat.


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Past Winners - 2021
KELLY BUCHANAN
Senior Vice President: New Payment Platforms Integration
EMEA Winner 2021
Kelly Buchanan is a Senior Vice President, M&A Integration Executive at Mastercard responsible for orchestrating the development and execution of acquisitions to meet strategic and financial objectives. Within her time at Mastercard, she has held several positions across Operations & Technology, Customer Delivery and Mergers & Acquisitions within the US, UK and AP. With a passion for tackling complex programs of work and leading from strategy to execution, she has a wide breath of business experience coupled with strong leadership capabilities building, driving and motivating teams. As a WEF Young Global Leader, she is passionate about how technology can be used as a force for good. With an emphasis on early STEM education, her passion projects focus on ensuring young girls get exposure to technology and we cultivate their passion for it and the opportunities it creates. She is a Trustee and Board member for iamtheCODE with a goal to enable 1 million girls to code by 2030.
CHRYSSI CHORAFA
StarLiX
EMEA 2021 Winner
Chryssi's mission is to help create a financially inclusive, resilient and sustainable financial system. She covers a breadth of professional experience ranging from regulation, risk management, treasury, and payments. Chryssi implemented treasury and risk analytics systems for blue-chip companies across EMEA. She is a thought leader in the payment sector and Founder of StarLiX, an innovative compliance tokenised payment system for PIs to enable cross-border payments to developing countries. She is also the COO of Kalgera, a FinTech early-stage company (top 30 tech firms in UK TechRound 2020) focusing on financial vulnerability. Chryssi holds an honours BEng in Civil Engineering, two MSc in Financial Mathematics (University of Warwick) and Tech Entrepreneurship (UCL). She has undertaken qualifications in Investment Advice (FCA), Risk Management (PRMIA), ML (Mindstream AI), Blockchain (UCL CBT), and Entrepreneurship (MIT). She is an Industry Associate at UCL CBT, and a Lecturer at LIBF.
VICTORIA CLELAND
Distinguished Payments Professional Award
Victoria Cleland is the Executive Director for Banking, Payments and Innovation. She leads the teams responsible for: • the operation and strategic development of the Bank's payment system services, (which settles around £685 billion of sterling payments and securities transactions each day) • the Bank's wholesale and retail banking operations, including the provision of emergency liquidity assistance • the Bank's Fintech Hub Victoria is the chair of the CPMI Task Force on Cross Border Payments. Victoria has held several senior positions in a range of areas at the Bank of England. Most recently, as Chief Cashier, she was responsible for banknotes (from design to distribution) and led our work on digital currencies. Her previous roles also included overseeing payment and settlement systems. Victoria is the executive sponsor of our staff disAbility Network and Bicycle Users Group and is a Board Member of the Business Disability Forum.
VIVI GALANI
General Manager, Global Network Partnerships EME
A American Express
Advocate for Women Award
Vivi is the VP General Manager Global Network Partnerships EMEA. Joined AXP in 2005. Worked in sales enablement and business development at 4 management levels and 2 Business Units. She is a graduate of the Leadership Program of United Technologies – Pratt & Whitney, where she worked in the USA/France, selling jet engines and services.Vivi's Ambition is having options, exceling in what she decides to do and having fun while doing it. While her professional ambition has evolved, core to Vivi has always remained making an impact on family, friends, team, and community.Vivi earned: • MSc in Finance from London Business School • MBA from Purdue University, USA • MSc in Information Systems from London School of Economics and is an Electronics Engineer. She is a Member of 2 AXP Boards, sits on the Executive Women EMEA Committee, speaks Greek, English, French, and basic German and Spanish. Lives with husband and 17-yr old son. Vivi loves deciphering language structures, tennis and dining.
IOANA MANESCU
Senior Product Manager, FX and Global Payments
Being an immigrant into the UK from Romania at the age of 10, Ioana is the first generation in her family to attend university, a decision which was met with disagreement due to the pressure to start earning as soon as she finished school. Overcoming this with the help of a scholarship and financial support, she finished university with a First Class degree in International Relations from the Top 10 UK university, Loughborough University. On top of this, while at university, she completed a year in industry, with 12 months in Brussels in a Junior Policy Adviser role for the Confederation of British Industry, CBI. Following her studies, she secured a role on the American Express Strategy Graduate Scheme, in which she excelled and was among the few to be promoted, and onto a selective internal client-facing consulting team. As you will know by now, Ioana doesn't like standing still and is always looking for ways to develop and is excited to see what lies ahead in her career in payments!
KARISHMA PANDA
Manager, FS Consulting
Originally from Mumbai (India), Karishma came to the UK in September 2011 to pursue her MSc in Strategic Marketing at Cranfield University. She returned to India in 2012 to kickstart her payments career with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) followed by KPMG India (from January 2014) working on payments projects in Asia and the Middle East. She relocated back to the UK in September 2015 as an Advisor in Strategy & Effectiveness within CIO advisory practice at KPMG UK. Karishma joined PwC UK in June 2018 and is one of the key Payments specialists in our FS Consulting Practice. Breadth of her work includes leading engagements on Payments Innovation, Product Strategy, Business Transformation and Cost Optimisation. She is passionate about creating innovative methodologies and business models to reduce operating costs and identify new revenue streams to reinvest the savings. She has co-authored payments Thought Leadership focussing on the UK and global markets (see LinkedIn)
STACEY RYLANDS
Vice President Acquisition, GMS
Australia Winner 2021
Stacey Rylands is a senior executive with proven business and team management credentials across Asia Pacific. She has extensive experience in building high performing sales teams across diverse markets, strategy development and transformation, talent development and global knowledge of emerging and mature markets.
Stacey joined American Express in September 2019 as VP Acquisition A/NZ for American Express Global Merchant Services. Stacey is responsible for the merchant coverage strategy, onboarding of new merchants, several direct sales channels as well as third party acquiring partnerships.
Prior to American Express, Stacey was Head of Sales for PayPal Australia ( 2017-2019) where she led a team of senior sales professionals focused on creating new revenue streams for PayPal Australia across a number of diverse industries.
ROHINI JOSHI
Enterprise Architect and Head of Architecture for APAC
ASEAN 2021 Winner
As an Enterprise Architect and Head of Architecture for APAC, Rohini is responsible for driving technology road maps and architecture for diverse and highly wired markets in APAC regions. Rohini has over 16 years of experience in the Payments industry and has been instrumental in owning and driving solutions working with key business and technology groups to engineer end-to-end processes and systems for new and existing clients. Rohini has a strong understanding of how technology relates to business, market, and industry, and can apply this knowledge to support the needs of our clients' critical systems and projects.
SHAUNA ARCHIBALD
Head of Client Delivery
Canada 2021 Award Winner
Shauna Archibald is Head of Client Delivery for Chase Merchant Services Canada. Her experience in the payments industry spans over 20 years having served on the merchant acquiring and card issuing sides of the industry. She champions diversity and inclusion at JPMorgan Chase Canada in her roles as Executive Sponsor of Women On The Move and Co-Chair of the Black Organization for Leadership Development. Shauna is a Certied ScrumMaster® and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto.
DARIA HILL
AVP Corporate Communications & Sponsorship
Daria Hill is Associate Vice President, Corporate Communications & Sponsorships for Interac Corp. She is a strategic leader, responsible for all communications, including public relations, crisis and issues management, government relations, and internal and executive communications. She also leads the organization's corporate sponsorships program and corporate social responsibility mandate.
Prior to Interac, Daria worked for TD where she managed Corporate and Public Affairs and acted as Chief Spokesperson. Before joining TD, Daria was part of Canada Post's launch of e-Commerce solutions. With more than fteen years of experience in industries such as payments, consumer health, and technology & data, Daria Hill is a proven communications leader in the payments industry.
Mary Kay Bowman
SVP, Global Product
United States Winner 2021
Terra Wallace
VP, NA Education and Engagement
Community Impact Award
Change Agent Award
Terra Wallace is the Vice President of Sales Education & Engagement for U.S. Bank/Elavon. In thi sFortune 500 Company, she executes strategic learning and culture initiatives that help drive company revenue. She also serves as the President of the Atlanta Chapter African American Business Resource Group. In this role, Terra focuses her leadership efforts on driving programs that amplify black voices by creating targeted initiatives to support black employees, black communities and black businesses.
Laura Miller
President, J.P. Morgan Merchant Services
Advocate for Women
Laura Miller leads the J.P. Morgan segment of Merchant Services, the global payment acceptance and merchant acquiring business of JPMorgan Chase and a leading provider of payment, fraud management and data security solutions. As J.P. Morgan Merchant Services President, Laura oversees merchant acquiring and payment processing for U.S.-based companies. She has more than 20 years of nancial services experience and previously led the Small Business Segment of Merchant Services, leading at eam that worked directly with business owners as well as through 5,300 Chase branches. Before coming to Merchant Services, Laura was President of Chase Ink, the rm's small business credit card.Laura is also co-chairwoman for the Northeast Region of JP MC's Market Leadership Team and is a well-known advocate for Diversity & Inclusion at JPMC and a strong supporter of business owners and the entrepreneur community.
Angelica Alam
Global Head of Clearing
As the Head of Global Client Engagement for J.P. Morgan's Liink team, Angelica brings 11 years of experience across business development, strategy and sales. The team is responsible for building and launching the rm's rst live Blockchain service, Liink by J.P. Morgan, formerly the Interbank Information Network. She previously worked as a North America Product Sales Consultant specializing in cross-border payments at Citigroup. Prior to Citigroup, she spent over 5 years working across strategy, business development, and digital marketing, sales and distribution across Viacom's largest brands: MTV, VH1, CMT, and Logo. Angelica is an active nonprot leader, volunteer and motivator -dedicated to developing young people and fostering gender equality, diversity, equity and inclusion. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California - Riverside and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia – Darden School of Business.
Melissa Jankowski
SVP, Division Executive, Debit, Credit, ATM and Software
Educator Award
Melissa attended the University of North Florida and graduated with a BBA in Management and received an MBA with a concentration in Human Resource Management from Keller Graduate School of Management. She has been happily married for 24 years and has two children, Andrew and Ainsley. Melissa is also an active volunteer at her local high school where she has volunteered her time with theatre program and provides assistance with the DECA program in 'judging' DECA regional events as well as assists the Career, Technical, and agriculture education (CTAE) program with cover letter,resume and interview skills annually. In addition, she volunteers for the Associate of Graduates organization to assist in supporting parents of Cadet Candidates at the US Air Force Academy Preparatory School. Over the past 6 months she has been an integral part of the school's ability to adjust to COVID restrictions while managing the wellbeing of the both the staff, leadership and the Cadet Candidates.
Lynne Baldwin
President & Co-Founder
BHMI
Lynne J. Baldwin is President and co-founder of BHMI. She has been in the payments industry for over40 years. Before starting the company, she was VP, Chief Product Manager and a board member at Applied Communications, Inc. (now ACI Worldwide).Her earliest efforts were in creating software for finnancial banking systems as well as engineering and managing large financial software development projects. She has been instrumental in the creation of innovative payment applications, including the Concourse Financial Software Suite. Lynne is a previous member of the computer science faculties at the University of Nebraska at Omahaand the University of Texas at Austin where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and a Ph.D.in Computer Sciences, respectively. She has served on the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Information Science & Technology Advisory Committee for over 20 years, and is currently Vice President of the board of directors for Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, Inc.
Michelle Conklin
Managing Director, Receivables and Disbursement Operations Executive
Michelle Conklin joined J.P. Morgan in 2004 and is now a Managing Director, serving as the Head of Receivables Operations, which offers core cash receivables services to corporate and commercial clients, as well as select processing services for the US Federal Government.In her current role, Michelle is responsible for over 4,000 employees operating in 16 locations around the world who process 160M items and deposit $800B annually. In addition, Michelle is a member of the JPMorgan Chase Chicago Executive Committee, the executive sponsor for the Illinois chapter of the Sage Administrative Professionals BRG and is passionate about driving inclusive hiring efforts through active engagement with programs such as 2nd chances, Autism @ Work and BeST.Michelle has a bachelor's degree in Consumer and Textile Marketing from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
SASHA KRISTIC
Mastercard Canada
As President of Mastercard Canada, Sasha Krstic is responsible for all aspects of the company's Canadian operations & leads the regional strategy to continue growing Mastercard's brand & business in Canada.
Sasha has held leadership roles in key regions across the globe at Mastercard. Most recently, she was EVP Services for Asia-Pacic. From 2016-2018, she led the Nordics & Baltics, overseeing & responsible for growing 8 diverse markets.
Sasha began her Mastercard career in Canada & brought her global perspective home in 2019. During her 11 years in Toronto, she served as SVP & Group Head, Global Products & Solutions, overseeing the development of innovative products & services to benet consumers, merchants & business partners and SVP & Group Head, Issuer Relationship Management, working closely with FIs across Canada, deepening relationships & strategically growing Mastercard's market position.
She has a B.A. in Native Studies from University of Alberta & an International MBA from the Schulich School of Business.
MEGAN JONES
Megan is a seasoned leader in the Canadian payment industry. Over the past two decades she has made signicant contributions in the business as an innovative leader and role model. She has worked in numerous development and executive leadership roles throughout her career, including positions at American Express Canada, JP Morgan Chase, and TD Bank.
Megan has a proven track record for results, delivering on revenue generating initiatives like new partnerships, credit card programs and products, as well as sponsoring organizations driving leadership for women and equitable employment.
Megan has a passion for her community and contributes her time to worthy organizations like United Way and Weekend to End Women's Cancers. Within the scope of Canadian Tire, she continues to champion education, recruitment, and diversity through her Executive Sponsorship of employee resource groups and by setting a high professional standard for her team. Megan is the embodiment of innovation, mentorship, and inclusivity at CTFS
MICHELLE BRICK
Senior Director, Enterprise Payments, Digital RTR Integration
Payment Thought Leader Award
Michelle is responsible for leading and integrating business strategy and requirements across RBC for the digital, real-time suite of payment capabilities, including the real-time rail. Michelle works with Payments Canada, Interac, the industry and the RBC program team to ensure effective implementation of program initiatives.
With over 20 years of experience in the nancial services industry, Michelle has held various leadership positions in Digital, Payments & Trade, Product and Operations support and Banks, Brokers & Exchanges. Through these roles she has acquired both depth and breadth of experience in payments, clearing and settlement as well as industry organizations that will position her well in her new role. Prior to her current role, Michelle led a team in delivering several key initiatives to improve the security, usability and features available in RBC's commercial online banking and le transmission services platforms.
Michelle has a Master's degree in Public Administration from Western University.
CHAMELI NARAINE
Symcor
Social Impact Award
Chameli Naraine is a versatile and inuential change agent with a passion for engineering the best for her clients, employees, and stakeholders. Her bold leadership style is embodied by her statement: "Follow rules to the extent you can, but also defy rules when they become a barrier to your progress."
Ms. Naraine holds an economics degree from Wilfred Laurier University. She founded the Naraine Global Fund, a philanthropic organization centered on improving the health and education of women around the world.
Ms. Naraine joined Symcor in 2008 and was appointed President & CEO three years later, responsible for the strategic direction of Symcor's operations. She has actively structured a company wide transformation to support an aggressive growth agenda, all the while building a values-based, resultsoriented culture.
Ms. Naraine's unique approach has resulted in an organization with increased agility and dexterity, while upholding the service level excellence it is known for.
MANOJ DUGAR
Managing Director and Head of Wholesale Payments for ASEAN
Manoj Dugar is Managing Director and Head of Wholesale Payments for ASEAN based in Singapore. He is responsible for Treasury Services, Trade Finance and Merchant Services across Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. He leads the efforts to deliver market leading solutions, ensuring resiliency and robustness in product offering, service model and control environment. He plays an instrumental role in driving the strategy on ecommerce, Fintech and transformative technologies. Prior to this, Manoj was APAC Head of Core Cash Management and lead the rm's product development strategy for Receivables, Payables, FX and Channel offerings across the region, ensuring corporate and nancial institution clients bene t from an integrated approach across the Corporate & Investment Bank. During his 23 year career, Manoj has held various roles in transaction and corporate banking across product management, sales, relationship management and operations.
RASMEGH SRISETHI
DeeMoney
Rasmegh is the Managing Director of SawasdeeShop and co-founder of DeeMoney, Thailand's largest and fastest-growing cross-border payments company. Prior to pivoting into the payments and ntech space, SawasdeeShop was a market leader in the VOIP telecoms space, servicing over 2 million expat, migrant, and enterprise customers with affordable voice solutions.
In 2014, Rasmegh recognized that the telecoms space was a sunset business with OTT players such as WhatsApp, FaceBook messenger disrupting the space. In 2015, Rasmegh, along with Sawasdeeshop's CEO Aswin Phlaphongphanich, kicked off discussions for the required licenses with the Bank of Thailand. At that time, the space was not open to non-banks. It took two years of tenacity and perseverance to push through – SawasdeeShop was nally awarded the relevant licenses for international remittances and payments in 2017.
Megha is a big believer in using technology to make a socially meaningful difference. Hence, building bridges for nancial inclusion for the underserved is a goal that gets her up every morning.
As a Thai-Indian, Rasmegh is a strong proponent of multiculturalism, generational and gender diversity in the workplace. In addition to being actively involved in the daily operations of her tech businesses, she is a passionate student of positive-psychology frameworks and learning about driving motivation to realize the potential, which she then implements with her employees. A mother of 3, she highly enjoys navigating the challenging terrain of being an entrepreneur alongside raising a teen, tween, and toddler.
CHRISTINE TAN
Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacic–Financial Institutions Group for Wholesale Payments
Christine Tan (Jang) is Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacic–Financial Institutions Group for Wholesale Payments. She is responsible for banks, broker-dealers and non-bank FI portfolios across the region, providing strategic advice and capturing opportunities to grow the FIG franchise with both existing and new clients. Prior to this position, Christine was Head of Treasury Services, ASEAN, and was responsible for embedding the end-to-end Treasury Services model in every market across Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam—ensuring resiliency and robustness in product offering, service model and control environment. She was also the Head of multinational corporates (MNCs) for Asia Pacic for ve years and has a wealth of MNC experience in the region across multiple key markets. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Christine worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citi.
JULIENNE LOH
Executive Vice President of Enterprise Partnerships for Asia Pacific
Julienne Loh is Executive Vice President of Enterprise Partnerships for Asia Pacific. In this role, she drives partnerships across new industries with a focus on growing Mastercard's global cities, travel and tourism, trade and business development initiatives across the region.
Prior to this, she held various leadership roles in Core Products and Global Products & Solutions, including leading the consumer credit portfolio in Asia where she saw the launches of key affluent programs including Asia Pacific;s affluent women consumer program. She was also the Country Manager for Singapore, where she led all aspects of Mastercard's business in the country, including building alliances with non-financial institutions and government agencies. She and her team were instrumental in launching the rst open loop transit prepaid program in 2009.
Julienne has been with Mastercard since 2005, with over 20 years of professional experience in business, marketing and financial sectors in Singapore. A member of the Women's Leadership Network at Mastercard, she also serves as vice-chairperson in Junior Achievement Singapore, the world's largest non-prot organization dedicated to promoting nancial literacy in young people.
Julienne holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore and MA in Marketing Management from the University of Westminster, UK.
YANG YANG ZHANG
Xendit Philippines
Yang Yang Zhang is the Managing Director of Xendit Philippines. She was born in China and moved with her parents to the United States when she was a kid. Thus, she had more keen awareness of her circumstances and being out of her comfort zone most of the time.
She started to code as early as 5 years old. Growing up as a programming obsessed person, Yang Yang earned her bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge majoring in Computer Science. Prior to joining Xendit, she was the co-founder and Chief of strategy of a crypto currency trading platform in the Philippines where she discovered the opportunities of the Philippines' financial infrastructure.
Her life and career experiences have motivated her to build up her career and realize her dream in the Philippines: to build a brand new digital payments infrastructure for Filipinos through Xendit Philippines
Co-Founder & Head of Technology
Mydoh by RBC Ventures
Megha is the co-founder and Head of Technology at Mydoh by RBC Ventures where she leads a high performing team of software engineers to solve exciting and complex problems in the world of ntech and payments. In this role, Megha denes Mydoh's technical roadmap, manages stakeholder relationships, and provides technical direction and expertise. Prior to joining RBC, Megha has worked at TD Bank as an micro services architect, building a public API platform to support Open Banking. She has also worked as a developer in the start-up ecosystem for companies such as the DMZ at Ryerson, Sensibill, Magnet Today, and Crowdbabble. Megha is passionate about payments technology, technical systems design, diversity in recruitment, and effective team building. Megha is a graduate of Ryerson University and holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering.
JENNIFER TURNER
Vice President, Head of Large Markets & Supplier Payments
Distinguished Payments Professional Awards
Jennifer Turner, BA, LLA, is a highly credentialed banker with over 25 years financial experience working with the Public Sector, Multinational and Australian Corporates in the area of Cash Management, Working Capital Trade Finance and Structured Finance.
Jennifer was appointed Head of Large Markets & Supplier Payments with American Express in Global Commercial Services in January 2020. She manages the B2B payments performance for SME and Large customers collaborating with both Merchant and Issuer to drive customer outcomes in a competitive payments landscape.
Jennifer has held positions of Managing Director of Global Transactional Banking, Global Head of Trade Finance Sales with both International and Domestic banks.
Jennifer graduated from the University of Sydney and the University of New England and holds degrees in Laws and Arts respectively, majoring in Contract Law.
Jennifer continues to hold positions on Executive Councils for Diversity and Inclusion and is an advocate for equal opportunity.
NEENA BLACK
Director Virtual, Cross Border & Supplier Payments Products APAC
Neena is a payments leader, specialising in Product Management and Development. She is the Director of Virtual, Cross Border and Supplier Payments Products for American Express, leading this complex portfolio of products for the APAC region. Beyond this, Neena delivers new product and capabilities to market and is accountable for driving portfolio growth and expanding market share.
Neena has 15 years' experience in the payments industry, starting her career in technology infrastructure, moving into operations, and ultimately moving to New York and London to pursue Product strategy roles. Neena has been a Product Director for over ten years, leading geographically dispersed teams to drive business growth. Neena is an empathetic leader who is deeply passionate about employeedevelopment.
Neena's holds various qualifications from UTS, Macquarie University, Harvard and MIT Sloan. She is also a founding board member of a domestic violence shelter, raising ~$100k per annum.
ANNE A'SPECULO
Director, Customer Solutions
Anne has a growth mindset, uses high levels of creativity and applies disciplined principlesto identify improvement and achieve business outcomes by harnessing new technology and maximising products and capability to provide client value.
Her core strength is creating a customer centric, high performance sales and relationship culture and deep knowledge across multiple segments and industries. This is nurtured by coaching, developing and empowering teams to trust their decision making. Resulting in the acquisition of market share, growing existing customer base whilst deepening and broadening relationships. Uses strong interpersonal skills to swiftly build lasting relationships.
Utilising vast experience across transactional banking at both global and local banks, Anne has a talent for thinking outside the square, relationship building, client advocacy, continuous improvement and implementing change. Able to demonstrate the benefits of a diverse and rich skill-set across Sales, Account/Product/Relationship Management, Service, Systems and Implementation. Thrives on challenges, organisational change and motivates and energises others.
NADIA CATCHATURYAN
Manager, Open Banking & Data Strategy
American Express Australia
Thought Leader Award
Nadia brings 11 years specialised payments expertise to her role as Manager -Open Banking and Data Strategy, spanning issuing, acquiring and network. She's currently leading the development and execution of American Express Australia's open banking and real time payments strategies, applying her deep business development, commercial, product and project experience. As a payments consultant for over 5 years, Nadia collaborated with global payments players including Mastercard, Square, PayPal, Braintree, JCB, Ingenico, Verifone and First Data, to develop and deploy payments network infrastructure and solutions such as EMV contact and contactless, mobile, transit, 3D Secure and tokenisation. With an early background in youth development and leadership and having faced her own challenges in forging a path as a woman in business, Nadia remains passionate about fostering diversity, equity and inclusion within her sphere of influence, and supporting a new generation of women in payments.


Synopsis : Obesity significantly increases risk of death tied to sleeping pills nearly doubling the rate of mortality even among those prescribed 18 or fewer pills in a year.
Obesity Raises Death Risk Tied To Sleeping Pills - New Findings Delivered At American Heart Association Meeting Also Show Heightened Risk In Men And Young Adults.
Sleeping Pills - Sleeping pills help when stress, travel or other disruptions keep you awake. Benzodiazepines are the most well-known and most frequently-prescribed hypnotic medications, although their use in recent years is being increasingly replaced by newer non-benzodiazepine hypnotic drugs and the hormone melatonin.
"Obesity emerged as a marker of increased vulnerability," said Robert Langer, M.D., M.P.H., at the annual American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention | Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2012 Scientific Sessions in San Diego.
"The associations between sleeping pills and increased mortality were present, and relatively stronger, even in people aged 18 to 54," said Dr. Langer, a family physician and epidemiologist with the Jackson Hole Center for Preventive Medicine in Jackson, Wyo.
"Obese patients appear particularly vulnerable, perhaps through interaction with sleep apnea," said study co-author Daniel Kripke, M.D., a psychiatrist with Scripps Clinic's Viterbi Family Sleep Center in San Diego.
Friday's findings were the latest to emerge from a Scripps Clinic-led study of almost 40,000 patients, which was initially published in late February in the open-access online journal BMJ Open.
"It is important to note that our results are based on observational data, so even though we did everything we could to ensure their validity, it's still possible that other factors explain the associations," said co-author Lawrence E. Kline, D.O., who is medical director of the Viterbi Family Sleep Center. "We hope our work will spur additional research in this area using information from other populations."
Funding for the study came from the Scripps Health Foundation and other philanthropic sources.
The research should prompt physicians to consider alternatives to hypnotic medications, Dr. Kline said.
Clinicians at the Viterbi Family Sleep Center focus on cognitive therapy that teaches patients to better understand the nature of sleep. For example, some people suffering from insomnia might require less than the eight hours of sleep commonly recommended for each night.
Patients also can benefit from practicing good sleeping habits and relaxation, as well as taking advantage of the body's natural clock, which is driven by the rising and setting of the sun, Dr. Kline said. "Understanding how to use the circadian rhythm is a very powerful tool that doesn't require a prescription," he said.
When insomnia results from emotional problems such as depression, doctors should treat the psychological disorder rather than prescribe sleeping pills that could prove to be harmful, Dr. Kripke said.


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Q: How to correctly simulate a create/update time span operation on dynamics CRM in a Parallel.foreach I need to simulate the time that it takes to make a create/update operations to CRM without actually create/update records inside the CRM.
I was looking for a library or some advise on how to do it efficiently.
Stopwatch stopwatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
logger.Info("Started creation of {0} registers", bulkQueries.Count);

Parallel.ForEach(bulkQueries, element =>
{
    if (element.Key)
    {
       service.Update(element.Value);
    }
    else
    {
        service.Create(element.Value);
    }
});
stopwatch.Stop();
logger.Info("Done creating. Total time: {1} secondi", stopwatch.Elapsed.TotalSeconds);

What I expect is to have a time that could be very close to the time that an actual update/create take, and report it in the log.
I know that each operation could take different time one from each other, but I don't need a perfect fake copy of the time each operation take, just an average time.

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England boss Gareth Southgate 'will sit down with FA bosses in January'
Gareth Southgate 'will sit down with the FA in early January for a detailed World Cup debrief' to decide his England future… with bosses hoping a relaxed Christmas with family will persuade him to carry on
By Adam Shergold for MailOnline
The Football Association 'will meet with Gareth Southgate in January' to see if the England manager wants to carry on in his role.
A 'comprehensive debrief' of England's run to the World Cup quarter-final will be held with the FA hoping a Christmas and New Year spent relaxing with family will convince Southgate to carry on.
Southgate, 52, has been in the job since 2016 and has a contract until the 2024 European Championship but is considering his future after England's heart-breaking exit to France.
Gareth Southgate will meet with FA bosses in early January for a 'World Cup debrief' and decide whether to remain on in his job
Southgate consoles Harry Kane after his agonising penalty miss against France last weekend
The Times report that the FA plan to meet with Southgate in early January and hope his 'energy' levels will be replenished enough to continue as England boss.
As Sportsmail has reported, the FA will need a fairly quick answer from Southgate with the Euro 2024 qualification campaign starting in late March.
The Three Lions face a tricky opener away to Italy in Naples and then play Ukraine at home, with any successor to Southgate ideally needing to be in place by then.
In the aftermath of England's loss to France last Saturday, in which Harry Kane missed a late penalty, Southgate said he would take time to consider his future in the job.
England boss Gareth Southgate will be asked to make a quick decision on his future by the FA
The Qatar World Cup was the third major tournament Southgate has led England in, following a run to the 2018 World Cup semi-finals and the Euro 2020 final.
Although losing to France in the last eight represents a regression on the last two tournaments, the manner of England's performance offered encouragement.
However, the manner of the defeat will certainly be emotionally draining for Southgate and his players.
Some England supporters had turned on Southgate following poor performances in their UEFA Nations League campaign this year, which led to the embarrassment of relegation from the top-tier of the competition and no wins from six games.
England lost 2-1 to France in last Saturday's quarter-final having performed well in the game
The World Cup performances have restored pride, however, as England prepare to embark on another tournament cycle with home and away qualifiers next year against Italy, Ukraine, Malta and North Macedonia.
Southgate waited four months to recommit himself after the Euro 2020 final defeat to Italy last year and signed a two-year contract extension last November.
But time will be of the essence this time around with Southgate conscious of not leaving the FA in the lurch just two months before the beginning of European Championship qualifying.
The FA have no succession plans in place and a shortage of credible English candidates, with Eddie Howe and Graham Potter (pictured) committed to Newcastle and Chelsea respectively
The two leading English candidates to replace Southgate should he step down are Graham Potter and Eddie Howe, but they are in work at Chelsea and Newcastle United respectively.
The FA are open to foreign candidates with Mauricio Pochettino and Thomas Tuchel two names in the frame.
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Cody and I got to kick off the week with a little staff retreat at this nice Bed and Breakfast near Newton. It was a great time spent together praying and planning. I *love* that God has us at Willow Creek with some great people who are passionate about serving God, sharing Christ, and loving others.
We came home to these little lovey boys and sweet sister! I can't believe how much I miss them even when we're just away for 24 hours! I can never get enough of these cuddly sleeping pictures! Notice the Barbie pillow, too! They love it when Cloe lets them "borrow" her pillow! I'm not sure how I got blessed with these sweet children, but it's a pretty awesome, humbling responsibility! I love being a mom!
Yesterday, the weather was just *perfect* for a new soup-in-the-crock pot recipe!
Before serving, add the sour cream. Cook noodles according to package directions.
Serve the stew over the noodles.
This is *S*P*I*C*Y*! Our kids usually eat what we eat--no problem, but this was a little too spicy for them. They enjoyed peanut butter and jelly! That's a real treat when you go to a peanut free school!
Looks like tomorrow is going to be another day perfected suited for soup!
Looks yummy! Looking forward to all your winter soup recipes!
We have been hearing some excellent sermons lately! I loved how Pastor Mike's sermon on idols was such a good prelude to this past Sunday's sermon on enjoying, loving, and glorifying God in everything...the Creator....not the creation. Good stuff!


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Pete Swanson: Interview
"If you want to take what I do seriously, go ahead… If you think it's a waste of time, that's fine. You're not getting in my way or hurting my feelings."
The reemergence of beats in experimental music isn't a new thing at this point, but it remains an interesting development. On one hand, "noise" suggests the absence of musical qualities or perhaps even opposition; however, that many noise artists have since moved on to new forms of musical creation — techno, pop, etc. — suggests that the noise "genre," as it were, had reached a point of rigidity. The (re-)introduction of elements such as pop structures and/or the immediacy of a drum kick, then, may represent the collapse of "noise" as its own contrarian meta-narrative; more succinctly, many noise artists just got really fucking bored with the whole thing.
Although beats aren't unheard of for Pete Swanson, with all sorts of rhythmic clatter surfacing throughout the depths of Yellow Swans' discography, the recent emphasis on the percussive physicality of his music has come to the fore since Man With Potential and the more recent Pro Style EP. Punk Authority — out March 12 on Software Recording Co. — is Swanson's newest solo outing, and it's his most brutish assault on the intersection between noise and dance music yet, asserting itself with huge physicality as beyond-redlined bass oscillations singe through your consciousness and take control of the limbs, crushing every last ounce of crackling pressure under the immense weight of burning speakers melting through the dancefloor.
So how's it going? How's the year starting off for you?
2013 started out pretty well. I found out that I passed the NCLEX and am now a Registered Nurse. I played my first show in Portland in two years to a room full of old friends and then ran off for a string of 13 shows in 17 days around Europe. Now I'm back in school, and I started giving talk therapy to my first psychiatric patient. It's already been a pretty big year.
You've mentioned that your time for music has become limited since pursuing graduate studies. What are you studying? Do your academic interests cross over into your music at all?
I'm getting a master's degree in psychiatric nursing at Columbia University. I always had social work jobs when I was doing Yellow Swans, so this is a logical extension of that work. There are some loose connections between music and work. The most overt association is that I grew up in a punk subculture and wanted work that was more socially engaged than working food service when I was 20 or so. I was compelled to make a living doing something meaningful despite my not having a college degree.
I'm basically at the point where if I can't play on the floor, I won't play. Monitors won't cut it and I hate the energy of playing on a stage. When I've done it in the last few months, I've come away feeling like my set was neutered.
So "Punk Authority" — that's a title that can be read in quite a few ways. What kind of punk authority are we talking about here? Punks as cops? Radical law? An oxymoron joke à la "jumbo shrimp"? You haven't been making your way through the entire Police Academy series, have you?
All of the above. I generally get my titles from pretty inane conversation, and then grow to appreciate their complexity over time. Initially it was related to punks policing themselves, and emulating oppressive systems that they are overtly opposed to. But it is an oxymoronic joke… and I am an ex-punk who is fascinated with the legal system and has some desire to engage with it directly. It's basically as stupid or as serious as you want it to be, which suits the music. If you want to take what I do seriously, go ahead. If you think it's fun, cool. If you think it's a waste of time, that's fine. You're not getting in my way or hurting my feelings.
Pro Style made more overt gestures to dance music both in presentation (the amazing 12-inch sleeve) as well as in musical content. Part of that comes through on Punk Authority, but there's now more of a physical immediacy, a huge presence of sound, as if the pressure of the room was condensed and turned into part of the music itself. This physicality is especially loud and distorted on Punk Authority, like Psychic Secession levels of distortion — what brought on this aggression?
I'm glad you picked up on the overt engagement with dance music culture onPro Style. It was intentional, but at that time, most of my work was actually sounding more like the VIP mix of "Pro Style" as well as the Punk Authoritytracks. All of the Punk Authority music was recorded preparing for live shows from June through November, 2012. The intensity and "pressure" are characteristics that I want to be conveyed in my live show. I want things to feel pretty physical and unhinged in the live context, and this sound reflects that. When I get a decent PA, I really can peel off some faces.
The level of intensity comes from my going out to shows and being disappointed in the delivery of experimental music. I swear I go to more seated concerts than anything. Other shows I go to are almost all A/V presentation style, with people playing laptops. I hate that. That's what the default live thing has become, and I think it's often a total cop-out. The physicality and intensity of the sound and performance are a result of my trying to play shows that I would want to see.
In recent years, there's been an especially noticeable shift from several noise/experimental/punk/etc. artists — people that didn't necessarily begin in the dance/electronic world — toward a more movement-oriented, techno sort of music. And while Yellow Swans had their moments with this kind of thing, in recent years not only has more attention been paid to it on your end, but there also has been the surfacing of artists like Ital and Container, to name a few. Do you have any thoughts about this?
While much is being made about "noise guys gone techno," there have also been noticeable moves of noise guys toward pop music or quieter improv or composition work. Basically, noise became a boring, rigid subgenre for a lot of artists who came to noise initially because of its apparent inclusiveness. Because of that, you end up with Vatican Shadow, [C.] Spencer Yeh's pop album, and the Lescalleet/Lambkin records. These are records that break the rules of noise and push that artist's work into some nebulous area where the work has to be taken on its own merit.
When I introduced beats to my work, there really wasn't a big hubbub about rhythm in noise, and I only found out about the work that Dom and Ren were doing after my record came out about a year after I recorded the album. Apparently the connection had to be made. I have the impression that "EDM," in its move to US stadium raves and entrenchment in more orthodox approaches, needed a little more filth and gutter injected into its culture. Otherwise we wouldn't have this interest from that world or artists like Andy Stott coming out of that world to create incredibly filthy sounds. It was just time for some really trashed beats to enter into the larger discourse.
You've mentioned before that your creative process includes a lot of improvisation and self-recording, scrapping the majority of what you come across, and working with the best moments. When performing live, are you trying to recreate those moments? As in, do you play tracks fromPunk Authority live, or are you just working within a particular setup or sound that's comparable?
There's no way the live thing could NOT be improvised to some degree. I use primitive gear and have no way to recreate album tracks since everything happens in real-time and relies on some level of chance occurrence. I'm not trying to emulate specific moments, but rather trying to present a specific energy and have a consistent degree of impact. I currently use source sounds from my mixer that are basically the sounds used in "Life Ends at 30," but things never work out the same way even on a remote level. I've had people see me play off the same synth patch for several shows and they all seem to think the sets are wildly different each night.
There's no rhyme or reason to who I'm playing with right now, and I really like that. When Yellow Swans would tour, we'd just play with noise bands every night, which got a little tiresome… I would rather occupy a more nebulous artistic space than be in some subgenre showcase every evening.
Since the increased emphasis upon the more rhythmic qualities of your music, have you noticed any sort of shifts in the shows you play? As in, different audiences, or venue setups? Has this posed any sort of new challenges for you?
I just did my first solo EU/UK tour last month and each show was drastically different from the last. There's no rhyme or reason to who I'm playing with right now, and I really like that. When Yellow Swans would tour, we'd just play with noise bands every night, which got a little tiresome. Now I'll play a museum with "serious" musicians one night, a huge techno rager the next, some folk-drone thing the next. I don't think any context is better or worse for my music to be presented in. I would rather occupy a more nebulous artistic space than be in some subgenre showcase every evening.
There have been challenges. I basically require on my rider that I have an obscenely loud PA system, a table to set up on that I can use the entire evening and be able to play on the floor, in front of the PA. I often have to fight to be able to play as loud as I would like and to be able to play on the floor. I'm basically at the point where if I can't play on the floor, I won't play. Monitors won't cut it and I hate the energy of playing on a stage. When I've done it in the last few months, I've come away feeling like my set was neutered. The last thing I want is for my shows to have the potential for impact compromised. There's just no point in me playing if I can't present my work in the best light possible.
I did have a lot of requests to play MUCH longer than I normally play on this tour, which was pretty flattering, but I really can't play for 5 hours… Sorry guys…
I'm curious if you follow or have any sort of awareness of chiptune. I hear what could be buried echoes of it in "C.O.P."
I know absolutely nothing about the whole chiptune scene. I don't use any bit-crusher effects if that's what you're getting at… I just use oscillators. They're very basic sounds.
I have the impression that "EDM," in its move to U.S. stadium raves and entrenchment in more orthodox approaches, needed a little more filth and gutter injected into its culture.
You've also been keeping busy with a few collaborations. There's Vent from Sarin Smoke, and now more recently the Beer Damage album with Brian Sullivan. How new are these recordings?
Tom and I recorded most of the Sarin Smoke material about a year ago, and then spent a few months editing it. We've got plans for another recording inspired by some things we did at a show last fall. Tom's out of town for a while, so hopefully we'll get a chance to record when he gets back.
Beer Damage is an ongoing project, and we actually have another LP pretty close to being done. It's far more minimal and strange than the last one. I think we finished this first Beer Damage LP around the same time as the Sarin Smoke tracks, but we had a harder time finding a home for it since the music is pretty out there. I'm pretty happy with self-releasing really small numbers of Beer Damage, as we seem to be moving pretty quickly with the project with pretty diverse results. I'm hoping that our next record, In Your Faceland, will be out in the summer.
Having collaborated with Gabriel Mindel Saloman in Yellow Swans for many years, and then going solo for a few years, how does collaborating with other partners feel now? And does it give you an excuse to try working with different instruments? (Thinking of Sarin Smoke here — those guitars!).
I have different gear I use and I play different roles in each collaboration. I've played with Tom and Brian both for years and I've been able to develop a playing style with each of them that has lead each of those collaborative projects to have very distinct identities. I don't generally play with people that I can't develop an individual approach with. It just isn't interesting for me to play with any random old person right now…
There are one or two collaborations I might get into this year, one of which may be an ongoing project if everything goes well. We'll see.
Have you got anything else planned for the year?
No records beyond releasing Punk Authority and maybe this next Beer Damage LP are done just yet. I have the hopes of recording for an EP and to at least start working on an album. I've been learning how to use Ableton by doing some remixes and that's been interesting. I might do a few more of those and mess around with that a bit more. I am also playing a handful of festivals: Festival NRML, Mission Creek Festival, Donau, Dudingen, Obey, and Bunker at 285 Kent on March 15.
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Nevertheless, all but a few are of low intensity and are not felt. Parts of the city are also vulnerable to tsunamis ; harbor areas were damaged by waves from Aleutian Islands earthquake in , Valdivia earthquake in , Alaska earthquake in , Chile earthquake in and Japan earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster in The city is divided into over 80 districts and neighborhoods,  some of which were incorporated cities that merged with Los Angeles.
The city's street patterns generally follows a grid plan , with uniform block lengths and occasional roads that cut across blocks. However, this is complicated by rugged terrain, which has necessitated having different grids for each of the valleys that Los Angeles covers.
Drivers in Los Angeles suffer from one of the worst rush hour periods in the world, according to an annual traffic index by navigation system maker, TomTom. LA drivers spend an additional 92 hours in traffic each year. Los Angeles is often characterized by the presence of low-rise buildings. The few skyscrapers that are built outside of those areas often stand out above the rest of the surrounding landscape. Most construction is done in separate units, rather than wall-to-wall. That being said, Downtown Los Angeles itself has many buildings over 30 stories, with fourteen over 50 stories, and two over 70 stories.
Also, Los Angeles is increasingly becoming a city of apartments rather than single family dwellings, especially in the dense inner city and Westside neighborhoods. Los Angeles has a Mediterranean climate Köppen climate classification Csb on the coast, Csa inland , and receives just enough annual precipitation to avoid Köppen's BSh semi-arid climate classification. The Los Angeles area is also subject to phenomena typical of a microclimate , causing extreme variations in temperature in close physical proximity to each other.
This involves overcast or foggy skies in the morning which yield to sun by early afternoon. Downtown Los Angeles averages Summer days are usually rainless.
Rarely, an incursion of moist air from the south or east can bring brief thunderstorms in late summer, especially to the mountains. The coast gets slightly less rainfall, while the inland and mountain areas get considerably more. Years of average rainfall are rare. A series of rainy days can bring floods to the lowlands and mudslides to the hills, especially after wildfires have denuded the slopes. The greatest snowfall recorded in downtown Los Angeles was 2.
The Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley are susceptible to atmospheric inversion , which holds in the exhausts from road vehicles, airplanes, locomotives, shipping, manufacturing, and other sources. The smog season lasts from approximately May to October.
Issues of air quality in Los Angeles and other major cities led to the passage of early national environmental legislation, including the Clean Air Act. When the act was passed, California was unable to create a State Implementation Plan that would enable it to meet the new air quality standards, largely because of the level of pollution in Los Angeles generated by older vehicles. Smog is expected to continue to drop in the coming years because of aggressive steps to reduce it, which include electric and hybrid cars, improvements in mass transit , and other measures.
The number of Stage 1 smog alerts in Los Angeles has declined from over per year in the s to almost zero in the new millennium. Los Angeles is also home to the nation's largest urban oil field. There are more than active oil wells located within 1, feet of homes, churches, schools and hospitals in the city, a situation about which the EPA has voiced serious concerns.
The age distribution was , people For every females, there were For every females age 18 and over, there were There were 1,, housing units—up from 1,, during —  —at an average density of 2, The homeowner vacancy rate was 2. According to the Census, the racial makeup of Los Angeles included: Los Angeles is home to people from more than countries speaking different identified languages. Non-Hispanic whites were Mexican ancestry make up the largest ethnic group of Hispanics at The Hispanic population has a long established Mexican-American and Central American community and is spread well-nigh throughout the entire city of Los Angeles and its metropolitan area.
Furthermore, a vast majority of residents in neighborhoods in eastern South Los Angeles towards Downey are of Hispanic origin. The largest Asian ethnic groups are Filipinos 3. Chinese people, which make up 1. Chinatown and Thaitown are also home to many Thais and Cambodians , which make up 0.
The Japanese comprise 0. Vietnamese make up 0. Indians make up 0. The Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to a large population of Armenians and Iranians , many of whom live in enclaves like Little Armenia and Tehrangeles. African Americans have been the predominant ethnic group in South Los Angeles , which has emerged as the largest African American community in the western United States since the s.
In , the Census Bureau reported the city's population as There are numerous Catholic churches and parishes throughout Los Angeles. With , Jews in the metropolitan area , in city proper , the region has the second largest population of Jews in the United States. Many varieties of Judaism are represented in the area, including Reform , Conservative , Orthodox , and Reconstructionist.
The Breed Street Shul in East Los Angeles , built in , was the largest synagogue west of Chicago in its early decades; it is no longer a sacred space and is being converted to a museum and community center.
For many years, the church convened at Angelus Temple , which, when built, was one of the largest churches in the country.
Los Angeles has had a rich and influential Protestant tradition. The first Protestant service in Los Angeles was a Methodist meeting held in a private home in and the oldest Protestant church still operating, First Congregational Church , was founded in Dedicated in , it was the first LDS temple built in California and it was the largest in the world when completed.
The Hollywood region of Los Angeles also has several significant headquarters, churches, and the Celebrity Center of Scientology. Immigrants from Asia for example, have formed a number of significant Buddhist congregations making the city home to the greatest variety of Buddhists in the world.
The first Buddhist joss house was founded in the city in The economy of Los Angeles is driven by international trade, entertainment television, motion pictures, video games, music recording, and production , aerospace, technology, petroleum, fashion, apparel, and tourism.
Two of the six major film studios, Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox , are located within the city limits,  their locations being part of the so-called " Thirty-Mile Zone " of entertainment headquarters in Southern California.
Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the western United States. As of [update] , Los Angeles is home to three Fortune companies: Los Angeles is often billed as the "Creative Capital of the World", because one in every six of its residents works in a creative industry  and there are more artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians living and working in Los Angeles than any other city at any time in history.
The city's Hollywood neighborhood has become recognized as the center of the motion picture industry and the Los Angeles area is also associated as being the center of the television industry.
The city is home to the major film studios as well as major record labels. Los Angeles plays host to the annual Academy Awards , the Primetime Emmy Awards , the Grammy Awards as well as many other entertainment industry awards shows. The performing arts play a major role in Los Angeles's cultural identity. According to the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, "there are more than 1, annual theatrical productions and 21 openings every week.
There are museums and art galleries in Los Angeles County. A significant number of art galleries are located on Gallery Row , and tens of thousands attend the monthly Downtown Art Walk there. The city of Los Angeles and its metropolitan area are the home of eleven top level professional sports teams. Both left the city in , with the Rams moving to St. Louis , and the Raiders moving back to their original home of Oakland. After 21 seasons in St. A new stadium will be built in Inglewood, California for the team by the season.
Los Angeles has twice hosted the Summer Olympic Games: Los Angeles is a charter city as opposed to a general law city. The current charter was adopted on June 8, and has been amended many times since then. The current mayor is Eric Garcetti. There are 15 city council districts. The Charter of the City of Los Angeles ratified by voters in created a system of advisory neighborhood councils that would represent the diversity of stakeholders, defined as those who live, work or own property in the neighborhood.
The neighborhood councils are relatively autonomous and spontaneous in that they identify their own boundaries, establish their own bylaws, and elect their own officers. There are currently about 90 neighborhood councils. Residents of Los Angeles elect supervisors for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th supervisorial districts. Los Angeles experienced a significant decline in crime in the s and late s and reached a year low in with homicides.
Police speculate that the drop resulted from a number of factors, including young people spending more time online. The Dragna crime family and the Cohen crime family dominated organized crime in the city during the Prohibition era  and reached its peak during the s and s with the battle of Sunset Strip as part of the American Mafia , but has gradually declined since then with the rise of various black and Hispanic gangs in the late s and early s.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department , the city is home to 45, gang members, organized into gangs. This has led to the city being referred to as the "Gang Capital of America". There are three public universities located within the city limits: The community college system consists of nine campuses governed by the trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District:. There are numerous additional colleges and universities outside the city limits in the Greater Los Angeles area, including the Claremont Colleges consortium, which includes the most selective liberal arts colleges in the U.
Los Angeles Unified School District serves almost all of the city of Los Angeles, as well as several surrounding communities, with a student population around , LAUSD has become known for its underfunded, overcrowded and poorly maintained campuses, although its Magnet schools help compete with local private schools.
The Los Angeles Public Library system operates 72 public libraries in the city. The Los Angeles metro area is the second-largest broadcast designated market area in the U. All four major broadcast television networks, plus major Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision , also own and operate stations that both serve the Los Angeles market and serve as each network's West Coast flagship station: The major daily English-language newspaper in the area is the Los Angeles Times.
The Korea Times is the city's major daily Korean language paper while The World Journal is the city and county's major Chinese newspaper. In addition to the major papers, numerous local periodicals serve immigrant communities in their native languages, including Armenian, English, Korean, Persian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and Arabic.
Many cities adjacent to Los Angeles also have their own daily newspapers whose coverage and availability overlaps into certain Los Angeles neighborhoods. The city and the rest of the Los Angeles metropolitan area are served by an extensive network of freeways and highways. The Texas Transportation Institute , which publishes an annual Urban Mobility Report, ranked Los Angeles road traffic as the most congested in the United States in as measured by annual delay per traveler.
Los Angeles's mean travel time for work commutes in was The LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority LA County Metro and other agencies operate an extensive system of bus lines, as well as subway and light rail lines across Los Angeles County, with a combined monthly ridership measured in individual boardings of The majority of this The subway and light rail combined average the remaining roughly 8.
The city's subway system is the ninth busiest in the United States and its light rail system is the country's busiest. The Metro Orange and Silver lines are bus rapid transit lines with stops and frequency similar to those of light rail. As of [update] , the total number of light rail stations is The city is also central to the commuter rail system Metrolink , which links Los Angeles to all neighboring counties as well as many suburbs.
The main rail station in the city is Union Station just north of Downtown. It adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach. There are also smaller, non-industrial harbors along Los Angeles's coastline. The port includes four bridges: As home to Hollywood and its entertainment industry, numerous singers, actors, celebrities and other entertainers live in various districts of Los Angeles. Los Angeles has 25 sister cities ,  listed chronologically by year joined:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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In , the television show Extra based in nearby Glendale found itself running so many reports on the legal problems of local celebrities that it spun them off into a separate show, Celebrity Justice. Federal cases are appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , which hears them at its branch building in Pasadena. The court of last resort for federal cases is the U. Supreme Court in Washington, D.
The following table includes the number of incidents reported and the rate per 1, persons for each type of offense. Crime in reported by the sheriff's office or police . Los Angeles County is commonly associated with the entertainment and digital media industry; all six major film studios— Paramount Pictures , 21st Century Fox , Sony , Warner Bros.
Numerous other major industries also define the economy of Los Angeles County, including international trade supported by the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach , music recording and production, aerospace and defense, fashion, and professional services such as law, medicine, engineering and design services, financial services and more.
High-tech sector employment within Los Angeles County is , workers,  and manufacturing employment within Los Angeles County is , workers. The Los Angeles County Office of Education provides a supporting role for school districts in the area. There are a number of private schools in the county, most notably those operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese. The county's most visited park is Griffith Park , owned by the city of Los Angeles.
Venice Beach is a popular attraction where its Muscle Beach used to find throngs of tourists admiring "hardbodies". Today, it is more arts-centered. Santa Monica's pier is a well known tourist spot, famous for its ferris wheel and bumper car rides, which were featured in the introductory segment of the television sitcom Three's Company. Further north in Pacific Palisades one finds the beaches used in the television series Baywatch.
In the mountain, canyon, and desert areas one may find Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park , where many old Westerns were filmed.
Mount Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains is open for the public to view astronomical stars from its telescope, now computer-assisted. Many county residents find relaxation in water skiing and swimming at Castaic Lake Recreation Area — the county's largest park by area — as well as enjoying natural surroundings and starry nights at Saddleback Butte State Park in the eastern Antelope Valley — California State Parks' largest in area within the county.
The California Poppy Reserve is located in the western Antelope Valley and shows off the State's flower in great quantity on its rolling hills every spring. The following general aviation airports also are located in Los Angeles County:. Air Force operates three airports in Los Angeles County:. Los Angeles is a major freight-railroad transportation center, largely due to the large volumes of freight moving in and out of the county's sea port facilities.
The ports are connected to the downtown rail yards and to the main lines of Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe headed east via a grade-separated, freight rail corridor known as the Alameda Corridor.
Light rail, subway heavy rail , and long-distance bus service are all provided by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Metro. Together they handle over a quarter of all container traffic entering the United States, making the complex the largest and most important port in the country, and the third-largest port in the world by shipping volume. The Port of Los Angeles is the largest cruise ship center on the West Coast , handling more than 1 million passengers annually. The Port of Long Beach is home to the Sea Launch program, which uses a floating launch platform to insert payloads into orbits that would be difficult to attain from existing land-based launch sites.
Ferries link the Catalina Island city of Avalon to the mainland. There are 88 incorporated cities in Los Angeles County. According to the Estimate, the most populous are: The population ranking of the following table is based on the census of Los Angeles County. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the equivalent of counties in Louisiana, see List of parishes in Louisiana. Charter County in California , United States.
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The geologic instability has produced numerous faults , which cause approximately 10, earthquakes annually in Southern California, though most of them are too small to be felt.
The Hollywood region of Los Angeles also has several significant headquarters, churches, and the Celebrity Center of Scientology. Despite being boycotted by 14 Communist countries , the Olympics became more financially successful than any previous,  and the second Olympics to turn a profit until then—the other, according to an analysis of contemporary newspaper reports, being the Summer Olympics, also held in Los Angeles.