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Jim Bailey is the Global Managing Director for Accenture Mobility, responsible for advancing Accenture's global mobility strategy and capabilities. The Accenture Mobility agenda stretches across both traditional enterprise mobility and mobile application development and testing to emerging areas in the Internet of Things (IoT).
Jim joined Accenture in 1988, and over his career has served in a variety of leadership positions across our Operating Groups, from Financial Services to Communications Media & Technology and Products. Most recently, Jim was a client group lead (Banking-South; Payments & Services) and a Diamond client account lead for six years in Financial Services North America. He has served some of Accenture's largest clients across multiple industries, including communications, capital markets, banking and payments, consumer goods and retail.
Jim holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Princeton University. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children.

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Singer Kellie Pickler made a splash earlier this year by appearing on the cover of Maxim in support of the U.S. troops. Now she's showing her support for an important cause in a very different way.
Kellie's longtime close friend Summer Holt Miller was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. So to show solidarity–and to raise awareness for the cause–Kellie and Summer shaved their heads. Their new look was revealed today (Sept. 6) on Good Morning America.
A video of the TV segment showing Kellie and Summer getting their blonde hair shaved off was posted today on Kellie's Facebook page.
"Cancer does not discriminate," Pickler said in a statement that was also posted on her Facebook page. Miller, who is only 35 years old, echoed the sentiment, saying that "if this compels even one person to change their mentality toward waiting until the age of 40 for their mammogram, then it will be worth it."
Miller, the statement continues, "had always been super cautious with her self-examinations, but had she not been diligent with her doctor and requested a mammogram, the tumor detected in its early stage could have turned fatal. Miller recently underwent a double mastectomy and will begin chemotherapy this Thursday."
As Kellie told her Twitter followers, the experience was "life changing."
It's been a great life-changing day.
— kellie pickler (@kelliepickler) September 5, 2012
Read more about Summer's story.
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XY Planning Network, the platform launched in early April by Michael Kitces and Alan Moore, announced Monday its list of "core" technology partners that will be available to current and new members of the platform, which is dedicated to helping young planners build a fee-only business targeting Gen X and Gen Y clients.
Kitces and Moore said that they chose the tech partners — which offer everything from social media archiving solutions to customer relationship management — by getting feedback from the platform's 30 founding members.
Key technology solutions that will be integrated directly into the XYPN membership fee, and provided at no additional cost to advisor members, include:
PaySimple — payment processor for automatic monthly debits and credit card processing;
Wealthbox CRM — client relationship management software;
Precise FP — data gathering and data entry automation;
Guide Financial — cash flow and debt management planning and asset and liability tracking
RegEd Powered By Arkovi — social media archiving services
Additional technology software that will be offered to members at a "compelling discounted rate" with monthly pricing include:
Blueleaf — Performance reporting and account aggregation
MoneyGuidePro — Financial planning software.
"Good technology is a crucial part of launching an advisory firm in today's environment. Yet most advisors starting a firm often struggle with the dozens of CRM, financial planning, performance reporting, and other software packages they need to test to make good technology decisions," said Moore, founder of Serenity Financial Consulting, in a statement. "Our goal is to streamline that process for advisors by offering a turnkey platform of core technology solutions, at an extremely appealing price, so advisors can get their firm up and running in a matter of weeks instead of months."
Kitces added that most advisor platforms "try to support their advisors with what turns out to be an overwhelming number of vendors and choices, due to all the different business models, different clientele and different needs." With the XY Network, "we are taking a laser-like focus on how to support younger advisors building a younger clientele with a unique business model that can serve them effectively, which allows us to identify exclusive technology partners that provide the best solution for the needs of our members."


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Samsung has already rolled out the Android 4.1.2 update for the international variant of the Galaxy S III. Sadly, most of the carrier locked variant of Galaxy S III in the US has not yet received this update. Sprint was the first carrier to roll out this update. Now, Verizon Wireless has finally joined the bandwagon. The big red carrier has recently posted the complete changelog and it reveals a number of enhancements and bug fixes. Check out the complete changelog below.
- Keyboard Predictive Text feature has been improved
- User can take pictures while on a call
- Manual refresh button has been added to lock screen stock ticker
- Email syncing has been improved
- Bluetooth performance has been improved
- VZ Navigator and Amazon have been added to stub applications
Sadly, this update does not bring the Samsung's much-awaited Premium Suite to the Verizon's Galaxy S III. The Premium Suite includes Smart Stay, Multi-Window multi-tasking, updated gallery app, Pop-Up Play, Direct Call and Page Buddy which was first seen in the Galaxy Note 2, followed by the international variant of Galaxy S III. To learn more, head over to this page.


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There's a longstanding belief that natural personal care products aren't nearly as effective as conventional brands. And if you've ever had a bad experience with natural deodorant, you might be inclined to agree. But don't be fooled. There are plenty of earth-friendly self-care products that perform just as effectively (if not better) than their drugstore counterparts. Take Herban Cowboy. This healthy, natural grooming line will keep you looking (and smelling) your best—and all without the worry that your personal care routine is negatively impacting the planet. With botanical-based formulas and recyclable packaging, the brand continues to prove that living close to the earth can be a very good look. Here's what you should know about this forward-thinking line.
The History of Herban Cowboy
Founded by Luke and Lisa Vukmer in 2000, Herban Cowboy had meager beginnings. The company was launched with just a few thousand dollars and "headquartered" in a log cabin with no internet. But the Vukmers were determined to create healthy, cruelty-free grooming products that were just as effective as conventional product lines. After years of countless hours of hard work (that even involved hand-filling their own product bottles), the duo developed a collection of formulas primed to change the personal care industry for the better.
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Herban Cowboy is committed to offering personal care products that are both healthy and have minimal environmental impact. The brand believes that small changes in one's everyday routine can have a long-term dramatic benefit to both a person's health and the environment. That's why every Herban Cowboy product is formulated using vegan ingredients and packaged in recyclable materials.
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Herban Cowboy products smell great and are just as effective as the personal care products you find at the drugstore, but there's one crucial difference: The brand puts skin health and the health of the planet above all else, from formulation to production. Here are just some of the innovative benefits you can expect with every Herban Cowboy product:
- Formulated with natural, botanical-based ingredients like rosemary, sage, and lavender
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Refresh your self-care routine with these brand favorites.
Maximum Protection Deodorant Stick Dusk Scent
Let's face it: Some natural deodorants stink. But this odor-fighting stick is different. Not only does it provide maximum protection against body odor, but it uses skin-healthy ingredients like aloe leaf juice, rosemary extract, and rice starch.
Women's Maximum Protection Deodorant Blossom Scent
This rugged brand isn't just for men. Cowgirls can get in on the action and enjoy maximum odor protection with this long-lasting, aluminum-free blend of aloe, sage, rosemary, zinc, and mineral salts.
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Keep breakouts in check throughout the day with these handy, travel-friendly DIY face wipes, made of organic dried rose petals, witch hazel, aloe vera gel, tea tree essential oil, and cotton rounds.
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If rough skin is becoming a daily concern, you're in luck. Say goodbye to dry, itchy, parched skin, and irritation with these helpful hydrating tips for staying smooth all season long.
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This truly awesome video has the answers to that question. It imagines a trip down a desert highway at speeds approaching light, and then shows all the weird and wonderful optical effects the theory of special relativity says we'd experience.
This video is the work of Antony Searle and Craig Savage, physicists at the Australian National University, as part of their Seeing Relativity project. They used to supercomputers to simulate what the world would look like if the speed of light was slowed down to just a meter per second, at which point we'd see relativistic effects as part of our everyday life.
All the major relativistic effects are covered in the video. First, objects will become distorted, as things appear to move further and further away even as we approach them, and objects to the side become twisted out of their normal shape. Then the Doppler effect kicks in, morphing the colors around us so that nearby objects are blue and faraway ones are red. And that's still only the beginning of the full relativistic weirdness on display here.
There's a lot more to explore about all this at the project webpage. You can check this paper detailing how they created the simulation, and also download the complete, 17-minute video for your relativistic viewing pleasure.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — She was the self-described "new sheriff in town," and Bev Perdue promised, a thousand years ago in 2008, to change the way North Carolina did business. As a woman and a Democrat, she embodied the quantum electoral shift that was occurring across the nation, one powered by the nascent Obama coalition. The nation's first African-American president had just edged out a stunning win in this Southern state, and Gov.-elect Perdue had ridden the surge, along with Sen.-elect Kay Hagan. With its diversifying electorate, its thriving cities, and both legislative chambers and the Governor's Mansion in Democratic hands, the state seemed on the verge of a new, more progressive — and, yes, if you want go there — bluer era.
Cut to: The new sheriff's being run out of town on a rail, along with the Democrats running the General Assembly. The state is once again subject to single-party hegemony, but it looks a lot different. Now the only progressives who can be claim to be doing anything meaningful in the state capital are the ones who jammed it in protest every Monday this summer as they watched conservative legislators dismantle as much of their legacy as fast as possible.
The Republicans, too, are out to reshape the way the state does business, but in a much more radical way. They have the keys to the entire kingdom: They own a supermajority in the Legislature and have a compliant ally in Gov. Pat McCrory, Perdue's Republican successor. As such, they essentially govern unchecked and unopposed, exerting their will on everything from taxes to abortion to voting rights to the social safety net to more arcane matters like denying the city of Raleigh the use of state land for a public park.
In this new climate, Barack Obama didn't win the state the second time around; he lost to Mitt Romney by 2 points. And Hagan's reelection next year is in deep jeopardy. "We're pushing legislation we've always dreamed about," says Claude Pope, the chairman of the state Republican Party. North Carolina didn't just step back from its once-imminent purple-to-blue transformation. It now glows scarlet-fever red.
Conservatives nationwide have watched the state with envy — and liberals with horror — as their bedrock ideological principles have alchemized from shopworn cable-news talking points to tangible policy. It's as if the House of Representatives were allowed to run the country, a prospect that must make Eric Cantor gaze at the moon like a dreamy child. The North Carolina Legislature has been cheered by The Wall Street Journal and derided by The New York Times. Pope was so incensed by a Times editorial titled "The Decline of North Carolina" that he fired back an open letter to the paper. ("When you're a Southern boy," he says, "you hear your whole life how stupid you are, how backwards you are.")
The driver of all of it, Republicans say, has been the state's economy, which has remained stubbornly resistant to the lurching national economic recovery. At 8.9 percent, North Carolina's unemployment rate ranks fourth in the nation, right up there with luckless states like Rhode Island and Nevada, neither of which has anything like North Carolina's crown-jewel universities, booming New South cities like Charlotte and Raleigh, or famous Research Triangle Park. This, the GOP thinks, is reason to slash personal and corporate taxes, cut the budget, and ease regulations — all in an effort to make the state more conducive to business, an economic-development strategy that may come at the expense of thriving urban areas like Raleigh. It's an "experiment that has real significance for the rest of the country," says Brent Lane, an economist at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). "They've made an ideologically true bet on free enterprise," he continued. "They've really rolled the dice."
But conservatives being who they are, they didn't leave it at that. The moment, long-awaited, had to be seized by the throat. So they passed a restrictive abortion law that will force most of the clinics in the state to shut down and a measure that will require voters to produce IDs, which is almost certain to disproportionately affect minority voters. They loosened gun laws to allow concealed weapons in bars and restaurants; gutted unemployment benefits; slashed teacher pay; and rejected the Medicaid expansion available through Obama's health care initiative. That, combined with a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage passed by voters last year, has economic-development officials in major cities like Raleigh rattled.
They worry the state's political environment has turned so toxic that, despite all the incentives, businesses won't want to relocate there, that recent transplants to the state will leave, and that college graduates will follow them. At the same time, deep tax cuts could leave North Carolina unable to invest down the road in education, public safety, and infrastructure if (very optimistic) revenue projections don't pan out. "It's hard to get people to understand the impact of what they're doing is going to be," says Nancy McFarlane, the alarmed mayor of Raleigh.
Republicans like Pope dismiss complaints like hers as liberal carping, a hangover from Democrats losing power in a state they ruled — albeit in old-school, business-friendly moderation — for more than a century. "Imagine if you were in power for 140 years and you found yourself out of that power," Pope says. "They don't know how to be the minority."
Pope's attitude is common among North Carolina conservatives: They don't want to hear it. And given their numbers in the Legislature, they don't have to — at least until the pendulum swings again. That may not happen for a while. Several progressives I spoke to here shrugged off the suggestion that a political civil war was raging within the state. "In a war," one said, "both sides are evenly matched." This was a massacre.
The Blitzkrieg
Raleigh is a low-slung, verdant, tree-canopied place that feels more like a tranquil hamlet than a bustling city on the move. The square across the street from the city hall can be virtually empty at the height of afternoon. But blocks away, on gentrifying Wilmington Street, brew pubs with draft beers like Green Flash Hop Odyssey can be found next to Lebanese restaurants serving kibbeh nayyeh. Spurred by the burgeoning tech industry, young residents are moving downtown and bringing the totems of 21st-century hipsterdom with them: bikes, festivals, farmers' markets.
Peruse just about any of those quality-of-life surveys in business magazines, and you'll find the region ranked near the top. Besides the tech industry and a growing entrepreneurial culture (app design is big), the area has three major universities, strong public schools, affordable housing, an abundance of green space, and Research Triangle Park, the longtime template for public-private partnerships that drew multinationals to North Carolina and spurred much of the region's growth. Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill attract converts from both the East and West coasts who, naturally, import their ethos along with them.
The three cities are the face of a changing state. Wake County, where Raleigh sits, is the state's second-most populous, and it supported Obama over Romney by 10 percentage points last year. To much of the local citizenry, the state Legislature in the center of town is now something like a foreign embassy. In turn, many of the conservatives from rural enclaves across the state view Raleigh and the Triangle at large as a bubble — an island of prosperity in a struggling state and an incubator for Democratic voters.
It may not come as a surprise, then, that some local officials, such as McFarlane, feel targeted by the Legislature — that the GOP is busily working to undermine the basic tenets that fuel cosmopolitan success in the interest of benefiting the state's other regions. They worry that cuts to public education, both at the university and K-12 levels, will make it harder to draw and keep young families and to recruit large employers looking for a skilled workforce. That conservative stances on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage will alienate the young programmers and designers who are the lifeblood of the tech sector. That the hostility to targeted tax incentives and public investment will drive away high-end industries. (Gov. McCrory's budget, for example, slashed funding for the state's Biotech Center, which assists start-ups in that industry, by almost one-third.)
Raleigh officials note with irony that, during the same summer the state banned gay marriage, the regional airport finally secured its first nonstop flight to San Francisco — something the tech community had been clamoring for. "There's a disconnect," says Mary Ann Baldwin, who sits on Raleigh's City Council and has played a large role in recruiting tech firms, such as Citrix. "The GOP believes they are creating an environment that supports job creation. That model doesn't work anymore."
To McFarlane and Baldwin, it can come down to something as simple as a park. During Perdue's administration, the state had signed off on a deal to transfer 325 acres it owned (an abandoned mental hospital sits there now) to the city of Raleigh for use as a world-class civic green space. When the Republicans took control of the Legislature, they passed a law undoing the lease deal. "The kids we are attracting, this is the kind of thing they want to see," McFarlane says of the park plan.
Allan Freyer, a regional economist who works for the left-leaning North Carolina Justice Center, characterizes the divide this way. "Clearly, cultural issues matter," he says over lunch at Sitti, the Lebanese restaurant on Wilmington. "The quality-of-life variable — they don't get it."
What's playing out in Raleigh mirrors a nationwide debate between liberal and conservative economists and urbanists: What really matters when it comes to economic development? And, in a larger sense, what is the future of metropolitan areas?
Is it the Triangle approach, which calls for deep investments in education and infrastructure; tax incentives for high-end industries; development of an urban core (with, for example, dog parks, bike lanes, light rail) for young professionals; and "creatives" like the ones streaming into Raleigh, accompanied — to be sure — by a progressive view on social issues? Or is it the GOP philosophy, which seeks to lower regulatory hurdles for businesses, keep more money in the hands of taxpayers, and introduce the free market to education? (In the latter case, that would mean private-school vouchers and more charter schools to compete with, and potentially even cripple, the existing system.) As for culture, bike lanes and dog parks be damned. People like their cars — and they care more about finding affordable housing in suburbs and exurbs close to their jobs than inhabiting an urban playground. In that GOP view, social issues don't enter the economic equation at all.
"Part of it is getting government out of the way," says Brian Balfour, policy director for Civitis, a conservative advocacy group based in Raleigh. Before the flip at the Statehouse, Balfour was resigned to being an unwanted guest at the party. Now he relishes Civitis's new role as a partner to the policymakers. "Taxes are the largest barrier to growth," he says — echoing a Republican argument during last year's presidential campaign.
But, as both sides pointed out then, the research is all over the map. "Pick a study," concedes Lane, the UNC economist. Still, while local experts like Freyer worry that GOP policies create only low-wage jobs in the service sector, not the kind of high-end jobs that states covet, Lane says that might not be such a bad idea. "What we need are living-wage, low-skill jobs," he says. The Triangle's success, he argues, doesn't spill over to the rest of North Carolina — and the Legislature is trying encourage job creation in other parts (where most residents live), even if it comes at the expense of places such as Raleigh. Ten-thousand tech jobs, Lane says, can't replace 100,000 jobs lost as the state's manufacturing base continues to erode. Lured by state marketers' sales pitch, which makes North Carolina sound like a land of plenty, too many people are streaming into the state without employment lined up. "Our goals," he drawls, "don't fill our holes."
Thom Tillis, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, rejects the notion that the Assembly's aggressive stance on social issues could impede economic development, arguing that North Carolina is a Southern state vying for business against Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia. "We've got to focus on states that are truly our competition," Tillis says. (The last thing liberal Raleighites want is to be more like South Carolina or Tennessee.) "All of them have those policies for years. It doesn't seem to be hurting their ability to compete," he says. "That's more of a red herring."
Others aren't so sure. Brad Wilson, the CEO of BlueCross/Blue Shield of North Carolina, told a corporate forum in August that the Legislature was tarnishing the state's image. "Broadly speaking and all things considered, it has not been helpful to the North Carolina brand nationally," said Wilson, according to The News & Observer of Raleigh. "Anything that tarnishes the brand, by definition, has the potential of eroding the state's economic development story."
At the same forum, Colin Powell, the former secretary of State, made news for ripping the state's voter-ID law. "These kinds of actions do not build on the base. It just turns people away," he warned.
How Far Is Too Far?
Yevonne Brannon blinks in the summer sunshine. We're sitting outside a Burger King down the road from the farmers' market. "I was there the day the governor came out with cookies," she says.
That was July 31, the height of the protests over the Legislature's agenda, when McCrory walked out of his mansion, crossed the street, and greeted a handful of abortion-rights protesters with a plate of cookies. The national media quickly seized on the moment as a crystalline image of the gulf between the state's warring camps. The protesters thought McCrory was being condescending. The governor says he was just being friendly. (His office declined an interview request for this article.)
A former Wake County commissioner, Brannon has been a liberal activist in Raleigh for decades, and this day, she's wearing a T-shirt with an honest-to-goodness peace emblem on the front. Her hatchback sports a bumper sticker that reads: I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M STILL PROTESTING THIS CRAP. She calls the weekly demonstrations at the Capitol, which became known as Moral Mondays, "the only source of hope and solidarity" in the current political climate. "It's everything Republicans hate about the Triangle," she laughs, but she calls McCrory's cookie moment "a gift." The incident catalyzed the opposition, she says, and shone an even brighter light on the Legislature's actions. "I believe the public's catching on. I think the public will turn on them. I think they already are."
Beyond the back and forth over economic policy, the true argument raging in Raleigh and elsewhere in the state is whether Republicans will pay a political price for running roughshod, or whether they can continue to govern with impunity for the foreseeable future. Changing the Legislature's makeup won't be easy. The tea-party wave in 2010, which gave Republicans control of both chambers of the General Assembly, allowed the GOP to redraw congressional and state districts to help ensure they stay in power. The state Democratic Party remains tainted by a sexual-harassment scandal that helped eject Perdue from office. Perdue's former campaign finance director was also indicted and eventually pleaded guilty in a campaign-finance probe.
The first test will be whether Hagan, elected with the help of Obama voters, can keep her Senate seat next year, when turnout will be lower, older, whiter, and redder. Her campaign plans to make the Legislature's agenda a central issue, especially since Tillis intends to run against her. The state Senate president, Phil Berger, was said to be mulling a run, too. "It's going to be a big liability for either one of them," says Ben Ray, a spokesman for the state Democratic Party. "This will stick to these guys. They will own it." (Berger announced Monday that he will not run.)
Tillis, who doubts his record will hinder him, concedes that Hagan will use it "to try and get some traction in the state." And while the Legislature seems secure, McCrory may have reason to worry. The state is still about evenly divided, and some centrists believe the governor, a former mayor of Charlotte, has strayed too far from his mandate. A recent poll by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling showed his approval rating dropping to 35 percent. In a show of independence, McCrory recently picked a fight with the Legislature over two high-profile bills that he vetoed; but to show how little power he has, the Republicans returned to Raleigh in a special session to override them.
If Republicans have one truly vulnerable spot, it may lie in education spending. The Legislature approved a voucher program that will help route families to private schools. It also froze teacher pay for K-12 and eliminated a bonus for teachers who obtain advanced degrees. That's what most worries business leaders — even those sympathetic to the GOP platform. "We did not get here with that philosophy," says Bob Geolas, the chief executive officer of the Research Triangle Park Foundation, which oversees the sprawling research campus northwest of Raleigh that is home to such companies as IBM, Cisco, and GlaxoSmithKline. "It's a fundamental mistake for the state to back away from that commitment."
Tillis seems to understand that. He says that when the General Assembly reconvenes next year, it will reconsider education funding and teacher pay (just in time for the midterm elections). Lane, the UNC economist, predicts a course correction. "I think they will regret some of the decisions they're making now," he says, adding that the negative publicity has obviously damaged the state. "It's terrible," he says. "Of course it matters."
Pope, the GOP chairman, disagrees. "Who is it that says our brand has been tarnished?" he asks, defiantly. "It's the Democrats who are critical. They're trying to make it a brand issue when it's a power issue."
He is right about that. Republicans have it — they have all of it. The old adage about power is that you use it or you lose it. But that isn't always true in politics. As Obama and his allies found out in 2010 with his health care plan, and as the GOP may discover here in time: Sometimes, you use it and you lose it.
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The infrared explorers
Scientists have caught a valuable glimpse of the infrared sky with telescopes such as ESA's pioneering ISO, but now they want more.
They are eagerly awaiting the launch of the first 'space giant', ESA's Herschel space observatory.
We have only been able to send infrared telescopes into orbit around the Earth since the early 1980s. The first of these satellites, the US/Dutch/British IRAS satellite detected about 350 000 infrared sources, increasing the number of catalogued astronomical sources by about 70%.
This was followed by ESA's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) which was at the time the most sensitive infrared satellite ever launched. ISO operated until 1998 and made particularly important studies of the dusty regions of the Universe. It revealed very cool objects and processes that become visible only in the infrared, and that had never been seen before by astronomers.
One of the important areas of study in the infrared is the observation of very distant objects, objects that existed when the Universe was much younger than it is now. This is a largely unexplored field, mainly because the size of the mirrors used in infrared space telescopes has so far been limited.
ISO had a 60-centimetre mirror, and NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), recently launched, has an 85-centimetre mirror. Astronomers expect Herschel's 3.5-metre mirror to revolutionise the field.
Due for launch around 2007, Herschel will be the largest space telescope of its kind and marks the beginning of a new generation of 'space giants'.
The huge mirror is being built by Astrium and it is an important technological challenge for space engineers: it must be as light as possible, but also strong enough to withstand the stresses of the launch. Made from silicon carbide, it will weigh only 200 kilograms (the whole spacecraft itself will weigh about 3.3 tons).
No other infrared space telescope will have reached as far back in distance and time as Herschel. Astronomers hope to be able to study the first population of galaxies and stars in the Universe, which remain invisible to non-infrared telescopes because of the dust hiding them.


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The Khan Academy is most known for its collection of videos, so before I go any further, let me show you a little bit of a montage.
SK: We now have on the order of 2,200 videos covering everything from basic arithmetic all the way to vector calculus and some of the stuff you saw there. We have a million students a month using the site, watching on the order of 100 to 200,000 videos a day. But what we're going to talk about in this is how we're going to the next level. But before I do that, I want to talk a little bit about really just how I got started. And some of you all might know, about five years ago I was an analyst at a hedge fund, and I was in Boston, and I was tutoring my cousins in New Orleans, remotely. And I started putting the first YouTube videos up really just as a kind of nice-to-have, just a supplement for my cousins — something that might give them a refresher or something.
And as soon as I put those first YouTube videos up, something interesting happened — actually a bunch of interesting things happened. The first was the feedback from my cousins. They told me that they preferred me on YouTube than in person. (Laughter) And once you get over the backhanded nature of that, there was actually something very profound there. They were saying that they preferred the automated version of their cousin to their cousin. At first, it's very unintuitive, but when you actually think about it from their point of view, it makes a ton of sense. You have this situation where now they can pause and repeat their cousin, without feeling like they're wasting my time. If they have to review something that they should have learned a couple of weeks ago, or maybe a couple of years ago, they don't have to be embarrassed and ask their cousin. They can just watch those videos. If they're bored, they can go ahead. They can watch it at their own time, at their own pace. And probably the least appreciated aspect of this is the notion that the very first time, the very first time that you're trying to get your brain around a new concept, the very last thing you need is another human being saying, "Do you understand this?" And that's what was happening with the interaction with my cousins before, and now they can just do it in the intimacy of their own room.
The other thing that happened is — I put them on YouTube just — I saw no reason to make it private, so I let other people watch it, and then people started stumbling on it, and I started getting some comments and some letters and all sorts of feedback from random people from around the world. And these are just a few. This is actually from one of the original calculus videos. And someone wrote just on YouTube — it was a YouTube comment: "First time I smiled doing a derivative." (Laughter) And let's pause here. This person did a derivative and then they smiled. And then in a response to that same comment — this is on the thread. You can go on YouTube and look at these comments — someone else wrote: "Same thing here. I actually got a natural high and a good mood for the entire day. Since I remember seeing all of this matrix text in class, and here I'm all like, 'I know kung fu.'"
And we get a lot of feedback all along those lines. This clearly was helping people. But then, as the viewership kept growing and kept growing, I started getting letters from people, and it was starting to become clear that it was actually more than just a nice-to-have. This is just an excerpt from one of those letters. "My 12 year-old son has autism and has had a terrible time with math. We have tried everything, viewed everything, bought everything. We stumbled on your video on decimals and it got through. Then we went on to the dreaded fractions. Again, he got it. We could not believe it. He is so excited." And so you can imagine, here I was an analyst at a hedge fund. It was very strange for me to do something of social value.
But I was excited, so I kept going. And then a few other things started to dawn on me. That, not only would it help my cousins right now, or these people who are sending letters, but that this content will never go old, that it could help their kids or their grandkids. If Isaac Newton had done YouTube videos on calculus, I wouldn't have to. Assuming he was good. We don't know.
The other thing that happened — and even at this point, I said, "Okay, maybe it's a good supplement. It's good for motivated students. It's good for maybe home schoolers." But I didn't think it would be something that would somehow penetrate the classroom. But then I started getting letters from teachers. And the teachers would write, saying, "We've used your videos to flip the classroom. You've given the lectures, so now what we do … " — and this could happen in every classroom in America tomorrow — " … what I do is I assign the lectures for homework, and what used to be homework, I now have the students doing in the classroom."
And I want to pause here for a second, because there's a couple of interesting things. One, when those teachers are doing that, there's the obvious benefit — the benefit that now their students can enjoy the videos in the way that my cousins did. They can pause, repeat at their own pace, at their own time. But the more interesting thing is — and this is the unintuitive thing when you talk about technology in the classroom — by removing the one-size-fits-all lecture from the classroom and letting students have a self-paced lecture at home, and then when you go to the classroom, letting them do work, having the teacher walk around, having the peers actually be able to interact with each other, these teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom. They took a fundamentally dehumanizing experience — 30 kids with their fingers on their lips, not allowed to interact with each other. A teacher, no matter how good, has to give this one-size-fits-all lecture to 30 students — blank faces, slightly antagonistic — and now it's a human experience. Now they're actually interacting with each other.
So once the Khan Academy — I quit my job and we turned into a real organization — we're a not-for-profit — the question is, how do we take this to the next level? How do we take what those teachers are doing to their natural conclusion? And so what I'm showing you over here, these are actual exercises that I started writing for my cousins. The ones I started were much more primitive. This is a more competent version of it. But the paradigm here is, we'll generate as many questions as you need until you get that concept, until you get 10 in a row. And the Khan Academy videos are there. You get hints, the actual steps for that problem, if you don't know how to do it. But the paradigm here, it seems like a very simple thing: 10 in a row, you move on. But it's fundamentally different than what's happening in classrooms right now.
In a traditional classroom, you have a couple of homework, homework, lecture, homework, lecture, and then you have a snapshot exam. And that exam, whether you get a 70 percent, an 80 percent, a 90 percent or a 95 percent, the class moves on to the next topic. And even that 95 percent student, what was the five percent they didn't know? Maybe they didn't know what happens when you raise something to the zero power. And then you go build on that in the next concept. That's analogous to imagine learning to ride a bicycle, and maybe I give you a lecture ahead of time, and I give you that bicycle for two weeks. And then I come back after two weeks, and I say, "Well, let's see. You're having trouble taking left turns. You can't quite stop. You're an 80 percent bicyclist." So I put a big C stamp on your forehead and then I say, "Here's a unicycle." But as ridiculous as that sounds, that's exactly what's happening in our classrooms right now. And the idea is you fast forward and good students start failing algebra all of a sudden and start failing calculus all of a sudden, despite being smart, despite having good teachers, and it's usually because they have these Swiss cheese gaps that kept building throughout their foundation. So our model is learn math the way you'd learn anything, like the way you would learn a bicycle. Stay on that bicycle. Fall off that bicycle. Do it as long as necessary until you have mastery. The traditional model, it penalizes you for experimentation and failure, but it does not expect mastery. We encourage you to experiment. We encourage you to failure. But we do expect mastery.
This is just another one of the modules. This is trigonometry. This is shifting and reflecting functions. And they all fit together. We have about 90 of these right now. And you can go to the site right now. It's all free. Not trying to sell anything. But the general idea is that they all fit into this knowledge map. That top node right there, that's literally single digit addition. It's like one plus one is equal to two. And the paradigm is, once you get 10 in a row on that, it keeps forwarding you to more and more advanced modules. So if you keep further down the knowledge map, we're getting into more advanced arithmetic. Further down, you start getting into pre-algebra and early algebra. Further down, you start getting into algebra one, algebra two, a little bit of precalculus. And the idea is, from this we can actually teach everything — well, everything that can be taught in this type of a framework. So you can imagine — and this is what we are working on — is from this knowledge map you have logic, you have computer programming, you have grammar, you have genetics, all based off of that core of, if you know this and that, now you're ready for this next concept. Now that can work well for an individual learner, and I encourage, one, for you to do it with your kids, but I also encourage everyone in the audience to do it yourself. It'll change what happens at the dinner table.
But what we want to do is to use the natural conclusion of the flipping of the classroom that those early teachers had emailed me about. And so what I'm showing you here, this is actually data from a pilot in the Los Altos school district, where they took two fifth grade classes and two seventh grade classes and completely gutted their old math curriculum. These kids aren't using textbooks, they're not getting one-size-fits-all lectures. They're doing Khan Academy, they're doing that software, for roughly half of their math class. And I want to make it clear, we don't view this as the complete math education. What it does is — and this is what's happening in Los Altos — it frees up time. This is the blocking and tackling, making sure you know how to move through a system of equations, and it frees up time for the simulations, for the games, for the mechanics, for the robot building, for the estimating how high that hill is based on its shadow.
And so the paradigm is the teacher walks in every day, every kid works at their own pace — and this is actually a live dashboard from Los Altos school district — and they look at this dashboard. Every row is a student. Every column is one of those concepts. Green means the student's already proficient. Blue means they're working on it — no need to worry. Red means they're stuck. And what the teacher does is literally just say, "Let me intervene on the red kids." Or even better, "Let me get one of the green kids who are already proficient in that concept to be the first line of attack and actually tutor their peer."
Now I come from a very data-centric reality, so we don't want that teacher to even go and intervene and have to ask the kid awkward questions: "Oh, what do you not understand?" or "What do you do understand?" and all of the rest. So our paradigm is to really arm the teachers with as much data as possible — really data that, in almost any other field, is expected, if you're in finance or marketing or manufacturing — and so the teachers can actually diagnose what's wrong with the students so they can make their interaction as productive as possible. So now the teachers know exactly what the students have been up to, how long they have been spending every day, what videos have they been watching, when did they pause the videos, what did they stop watching, what exercises are they using, what have they been focused on? The outer circle shows what exercises they were focused on. The inner circle shows the videos they're focused on. And the data gets pretty granular so you can see the exact problems that the student got right or wrong. Red is wrong, blue is right. The leftmost question is the first question that the student attempted. They watched the video right over there. And then you can see, eventually, they were able to get 10 in a row. It's almost like you can see them learning over those last 10 problems. They also got faster. The height is how long it took them.
So when you talk about self-paced learning, it makes sense for everyone — in education-speak, differentiated learning — but it's kind of crazy when you see it in a classroom. Because every time we've done this, in every classroom we've done, over and over again, if you go five days into it, there's a group of kids who've raced ahead and there's a group of kids who are a little bit slower. And in a traditional model, if you did a snapshot assessment, you say, "These are the gifted kids, these are the slow kids. Maybe they should be tracked differently. Maybe we should put them in different classes." But when you let every student work at their own pace — and we see it over and over and over again — you see students who took a little bit [of] extra time on one concept or the other, but once they get through that concept, they just race ahead. And so the same kids that you thought were slow six weeks ago, you now would think are gifted. And we're seeing it over and over and over again. And it makes you really wonder how much all of the labels maybe a lot of us have benefited from were really just due to a coincidence of time.
Now as valuable as something like this is in a district like Los Altos, our goal is to use technology to humanize, not just in Los Altos, but on a global scale, what's happening in education. And actually, that kind of brings an interesting point. A lot of the effort in humanizing the classroom is focused on student-to-teacher ratios. In our mind, the relevant metric is student-to-valuable-human-time-with-the-teacher ratio. So in a traditional model, most of the teacher's time is spent doing lectures and grading and whatnot. Maybe five percent of their time is actually sitting next to students and actually working with them. Now 100 percent of their time is. So once again, using technology, not just flipping the classroom, you're humanizing the classroom, I'd argue, by a factor of five or 10.
And as valuable as that is in Los Altos, imagine what that does to the adult learner who's embarrassed to go back and learn stuff that they should have before, before going back to college. Imagine what it does to a street kid in Calcutta who has to help his family during the day, and that's the reason why he or she can't go to school. Now they can spend two hours a day and remediate, or get up to speed and not feel embarrassed about what they do or don't know. Now imagine what happens where — we talked about the peers teaching each other inside of a classroom. But this is all one system. There's no reason why you can't have that peer-to-peer tutoring beyond that one classroom. Imagine what happens if that student in Calcutta all of a sudden can tutor your son, or your son can tutor that kid in Calcutta? And I think what you'll see emerging is this notion of a global one-world classroom. And that's essentially what we're trying to build.
Thank you.
Bill Gates: I've seen some things you're doing in the system that have to do with motivation and feedback — energy points, merit badges. Tell me what you're thinking there.
SK: Oh yeah. No, we have an awesome team working on it. And I have to make it clear, it's not just me anymore. I'm still doing all the videos, but we have a rockstar team doing the software. Yeah, we've put a bunch of game mechanics in there where you get these badges, we're going to start having leader boards by area, and you get points. It's actually been pretty interesting. Just the wording of the badging or how many points you get for doing something, we see on a system-wide basis, like tens of thousands of fifth graders or sixth graders going one direction or another, depending what badge you give them.
BG: And the collaboration you're doing with Los Altos, how did that come about?
SK: Los Altos, it was kind of crazy. Once again, I didn't expect it to be used in classrooms. Someone from their board came and said, "What would you do if you had carte blanche in a classroom?" And I said, "Well, I would just, every student work at their own pace on something like this and we'd give a dashboard." And they said, "Oh, this is kind of radical. We have to think about it." And me and the rest of the team were like, "They're never going to want to do this." But literally the next day they were like, "Can you start in two weeks?"
BG: So fifth grade math is where that's going on right now?
SK: It's two fifth grade classes and two seventh grade classes. And they're doing it at the district level. I think what they're excited about is they can now follow these kids. It's not an only-in-school thing. We've even, on Christmas, we saw some of the kids were doing it. And we can track everything. So they can actually track them as they go through the entire district. Through the summers, as they go from one teacher to the next, you have this continuity of data that even at the district level they can see.
BG: So some of those views we saw were for the teacher to go in and track actually what's going on with those kids. So you're getting feedback on those teacher views to see what they think they mean?
SK: Oh yeah. Most of those were specs by the teachers. We made some of those for students so they could see their data, but we have a very tight design loop with the teachers themselves. And they're literally saying, "Hey, this is nice, but … " Like that focus graph, a lot of the teachers said, "I have a feeling that a lot of the kids are jumping around and not focusing on one topic." So we made that focus diagram. So it's all been teacher-driven. It's been pretty crazy.
BG: Is this ready for prime time? Do you think a lot of classes next school year should try this thing out?
SK: Yeah, it's ready. We've got a million people on the site already, so we can handle a few more. No, no reason why it really can't happen in every classroom in America tomorrow.
BG: And the vision of the tutoring thing. The idea there is, if I'm confused about a topic, somehow right in the user interface I'd find people who are volunteering, maybe see their reputation, and I could schedule and connect up with those people?
SK: Absolutely. And this is something that I recommend everyone in this audience to do. Those dashboards the teachers have, you can go log in right now and you can essentially become a coach for your kids, or nephews, or cousins, or maybe some kids at the Boys and Girls Club. And yeah, you can start becoming a mentor, a tutor, really immediately. But yeah, it's all there.
BG: Well, it's amazing. I think you just got a glimpse of the future of education. Thank you.
SK: Thank you.
Ah, brilliant. In summary, "humanize the classroom."


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A Calendar of Events letting you know what, where and when is happening throughout the Chopin Year:
- Events: concerts, exhibitions, shows and many others
- Reports
- Interviews
- Kordegarda CHOPIN 2010
During December 14 – 31, Kordegarda Chopin 2010 in Warsaw presents exhibition of Chopin collages by Hanna Bakuła titled "Fryderyk Chopin – genialny dandys" (en. "Fryderyk Chopin – Genius Dandy"). Works create a poetic cycle presenting Chopin's history made of funny and surprising stories.
Hanna Bakuła's works employ the collage technique. The pictures feature Chopin, his relatives and friends, women, contemporary musicians, nature and cities he visited. Associations are full of humor and reflections. Hanna Bakuła in an unforeseeable way manipulates with reproductions, pictures, portraits of Chopin and people from his entourage. She tells her stories about Chopin – a man and a genius. The exhibition presents also short essays about the works for those unacquainted with the theme.
It all started in winter at the Chopin concert, in the Warsaw Philharmonic. The idea of collage was born during the concert. All of the sudden I realized that I have loved Fryderyk Chopin since I was a small girl, not only as a composer, but also as a great personality, a funny guy, talented writer and a dandy. I have read many books about him, even a very thick volume of his fabulous letters. I started to collect portrait pictures of this composer, people from his entourage, beloved women, Polish and Paris landscapes, reproductions of paintings from his times and even pieces of wallpaper and details reminding this great genius. Hand-made paper from Duszniki constitutes the background. The exhibition features collage pictures, compositions made of many varied elements – Hanna Bakuła explains.
Hanna Bakuła – painter and writer. She graduated from the Paintings Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She is the prize winner at the Slavic Art Festival in New York. She received distinction of "The New York Times" for the costumes and scene design for the off-Broadway spectacles. As a painter she concentrates on portraits: she uses pastel and she focuses on famous women. As a writer she published 15 books: two bestsellers: "Jak stracić przyjaciół" (en. "How to Lose Your Friends") and "Jak zyskać przyjaciół" (en. "How to Make Friends"). Among others she wrote reminiscences from the friendship with Agnieszka Osiecka: "Ostatni Bal – listy do Agnieszki Osieckiej" (en. "The Last Ball – Letters to Agnieszka Osiecka"), stories from New York "Tajski masaż" (en. "Thai Massage") or the cult novel "Hazardzistka" (en. "The Lady Gambler") about artists from the Gierek's times. She is a journalist and a columnist – she wrote for Uroda, Playboy, Dziennik Łódzki. At present she writes for the website Kobieta.wp.pl. She established the Hanna Bakuła Foundation ; in 1999 the famous "Klub Kobiet" (en. "Women's Club") related to the Foundation was set up. The Foundation's aim is to bring aid to children from children's homes in Kielce and in Gołotczyzna. Hanna Bakuła is a soft-feminist – she supports women and their activities. She is an unusual person of broad horizons and intense, aristocratic sensitivity. On her business card there are words "controversial person", and people see her as such.
From November 30 to December 12, 2010, Kordegarda Chopin 2010 presents an exhibition of Chopin posters focusing the relation of Fryderyk Chopin and Warsaw. The exhibition features chosen works submitted to the competition of the Galeria Plakatu AMS with the motto: "Fryderyk! Come Back to Warsaw!".
The competition has been organised by the AMS company and the Capital City of Warsaw.
The challenge of the 9th edition of the Galeria Plakatu AMS competition was to design a poster which would help to bring to the Polish collective awareness the relation between Chopin and Warsaw. The competition featured people with graphic design skills - employees of the advertisement agencies, students and teachers. The winners were chosen form among 355 posters.
The exhibition at Kordegarda Chopin 2010 features 12 chosen posters. The first prize was awarded to Piotr Karski for his work "Chopin LIVE in Warsaw". Four distinctions were given to posters by Piotr Micherewicz, Jerzy Tchórzewski, Nikodem Pręgowski and Piotr Węcławik. Apart from the prize-winning posters, the exhibition showcases also works by Anna Filipczak, Piotr Górnikiewicz, Anna Kaźmierak, Mira Kostyła, Marek Okrassa, Ewa Pawluczuk, Michał Sęk. Chosen posters present the relation between Fryderyk Chopin and the city of his young years - Warsaw in a very original and varied manner. Moreover, the exhibition constitutes an interesting insight into the way young artists perceive one of the most outstanding Polish composers.
More information about the competition: www.ams.com.pl/odpowiedzialnosc_galeria_9_edycja.html
The media patronage of Kordegarda Chopin 2010: website chopin2010.pl.
Kordegarda Chopin 2010 presents exhibition of paintings by Alojzy Balcerzak entitled My Mazovia for Fryderyk Chopin (pl. Moje Mazowsze dla Fryderyka Chopina). The exhibition is open from October 20 to November 21, 2010. It features Mazovian landscapes constituting homage to Fryderyk Chopin.
The artist, whose workshop is strongly linked to landscapes, started his Chopin cycle in 2007. Paintings in this cycle are still being produced, and every consecutive exhibition is changed and updated. In Kordegarda Chopin 2010 visitors can see 10 oil paintings, chosen from the whole cycle of about 40 paintings.
"Having usurped comparison to Maestro's works I have to say that when I am painting in the open air I can touch Chopin's music. I can hear the sounds as if the music roamed the fields, meadows, forests. There is the saying that painting is closest to music. Every artist works as he desires and does what fascinates him most. I feel that my landscapes are close to Żelazowa Wola. Every year I am more and more certain about this fact" says Alojzy Balcerzak.
The exhibition "My Mazovia for Fryderyk Chopin" is open to visitors in Kordegarda Chopin 2010 from October 20 to November 21, 2010, from Tuesday to Sunday 11.00 – 19.00. Admission is free. So far the cycle "My Mazovia for Fryderyk Chopin" has been presented in: Museum of Secession (pl. Muzeum Secesji) in Płock, at the inauguration of the Chopin Year, in the Municipal Gallery in Płońsk, in the Castle in Gostynin, in J.Piłsudski Museum in Gąbin, in the seat of "Mazowsze" Tadeusz Sygietyński State Folk Song and Dance Ensemble in Karolin in Otrębusy, in the National Museum of Modern Art in Kiszyniów (Moldova), in Odessa in the National Museum (former Potocki Palace) and in Moscow in the M. Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture.
The portal www.chopin2010.pl is the media patron for the exhibition in Kordegarda Chopin 2010.
Alojzy Balcerzak was born on the 1st of November, 1930, in a village Zdwórz in the Mazovia region. During 1951-1959, he studied at the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the ateliers of professors Stanisław Czajkowski and Kazimierz Tomorowicz. In 1954, he moved to the atellier of illustration and books conducted by professor Marcin Szancer at the Department of Graphic. Professor Marcin Szancer was his diploma tutor. Alojzy Balcerzak graduated in 1957. At the same time he continued additional workshop specialisation in xylography and linocut at professor Wacław Waskowski's atelier. During 1962-1967, he managed the Salon Debiutów at the University of Warsaw. Starting from 1984, for two years he was the Director of the Capital Office of Artistic Exhibitions (pl. Stołeczne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych). Since 1998, he delivers lectures in the drawing and painting ateliers at the Department of Graphic at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw.
The artist is the initiator and curator of many exhibitions and open air events integrating the artistic milieu, especially of those engaged in painting landscapes. In June 1991, the exhibition "Polish landscape" (pl. "Krajobraz polski") inaugurated the activity of village gallery at the Zdworskie Lake in Koszelówka (gmina Łąck next to Płock) where Alojzy Balcerzak still remains the coordinator of the artistic programme. Together with other engaged people he set up an Association for Supporting the Koszelówka Gallery which supports the gallery in various ways.
His artistic works are full of strong relationship with nature, they are ordered in their structure and composition. Apart from painting, Alojzy Balcerzak produces artistic and applied graphic. The artist presented his works at several dozens all-Poland and international exhibitions and at presentations of Polish art abroad. His works are found in museums in the country and in private collections in Poland and abroad.
From September 14th to October 10th, Kordegarda Chopin 2010 is presenting a unique artistic project called "Painting Music: Two Ways" by Bogusław Lustyk. The artist has created a painting cycle inspired by the music of Fryderyk Chopin. The exhibition comes together with a competition for the best music improvisation on Bogusław Lustyk's paintings.
The starting point of the project was the artist's assumption that two seemingly different disciplines like music and painting are based on the same elements.
"How to paint the sounds? Facing my blank canvas I am like a composer looking at the clean score sheet, trying to grasp his inspiration and translate into magical symbols. Like him, I see the music of colors, the silky subtlety of tones, the strength of musical cords, and the smoothness of melodic line. Painting, I try to create my own music of the image... Music which could inspire a virtuoso to find his own interpretation," Bogusław Lustyk describes his project.
"Painting Music: Two Ways" is an attempt to transcribe musical works into visual arts. The exhibition showcases the "two ways" that the artist has taken in this endeavour: the structural approach, mirroring musical accents and taking its starting point from the reprint of Chopin's Sonata in B-flat major, and the emotional perspective exploring the emotions triggered by the musical compositions of Naseer Shamma. The exhibition encompasses 18 paintings executed in mixed technique. Each painting is an autonomous work of art and an integral part of a well thought out whole.
The exhibition comes together with a competition for the best musical interpretation of Bogusław Lustyk's painting works. For two weeks, from September 21st to October 1st, you may come to Kordegarda Chopin 2010 and play your own interpretation of any of the paintings or a set of them on the piano or any other instrument which you bring. The performances will be recorded and later evaluated by a jury. The winner will receive Bogusław Lustyk's painting as prize. Everybody is welcome to join in!
Bogusław Lustyk was born in 1940. He graduated with honours from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, having studied under the direction of Professor Józef Mroszczak (poster) and Professor Jerzy Tchórzewski (painting). In his work, Mr Lustyk focuses on painting, graphic design, installations and ceramic sculptures. He has won more than 20 awards in different art competitions, has had more than 30 individual exhibitions and took part in 60 collective shows in Poland, the USA, France, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Australia. He shares his life and artistic activity between the USA and Poland.
From August 24th to September 12th, Kordegarda Chopin 2010 is presenting the multimedia project Chopin: Stories by Tomasz Kwiatkowski. The exhibition features photographs of well-known public figures and their reflections on Fryderyk Chopin.
Tomasz Kwiatkowski has photographed renowned figures in the world of culture and academia, asking them for their reflections on Fryderyk Chopin. These contributions have been recorded and are exhibited alongside the portraits of their authors. The project features Grażyna Barszczewska, Andrzej Jacek Blikle, Maciej Buszewicz, Krzysztof Maria Byrski, Jarosław Chołodecki, Edyta Duda-Olechowska, Dariusz Dziekanowski, Wojciech Fibak, Julia Hartwig, Justyna Kabała, Eugeniusz Kabatc, Paweł Kowalski, Mateusz Kwiatkowski, Przemysław Lechowski, Joanna Maklakiewicz, Daniel del Rosal Garcia, Tomek Sikora, Jakub Słomkowski, Joanna Stańko, Wiesław Uchański and Zdzisław Wardejn.
"Fryderyk Chopin is a permanent fixture in Polish culture. Each of us has something to say about him, even if it is merely 'I don't listen to Chopin'. His music, just as a meeting with another human being, is grounded in emotions. In my project, the meeting of the recipient and the portrait is also an opportunity to learn about the portrayed person's views on the famous Polish composer. Chopin:Stories is my attempt to better convey the emotions present when we meet with other people and with music," says Kwatkowski.
The exhibition is open for viewing at Kordegarda Chopin 2010 from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. All the contributions are available both in Polish and English. Admission free.
The exhibition was co-produced by the Culture Centre of Warsaw's district of Śródmieście. The media patron is the official website of the Chopin Year www.chopin2010.pl.
Tomasz Kwiatkowski is a photographer and social activist. He chairs the the Smolna Street Residents' Association (Stowarzyszenie Mieszkańców Ulicy Smolnej) and owns the advertising agency Kwiatkowscy. As chairman of the Association, each year he brings to life many events, such as the Smolna Street Festival, the Synthesis of Arts Festival, and this year's special project celebrating the Chopin Year, the Longest Birthday, which featured 171 hours of non-stop piano playing.
From August 3rd to 22nd, Kordegarda Chopin 2010 is presenting the exhibition Chopin. Weiss. Fin de siècle, encompassing a series of drawings made by Wojciech Weiss in preparation for his 1899 portrait of the composer, which then became the basis for Chopin iconography in the art of the Young Poland period.
The exhibition Chopin. Weiss. Fin de siècle centres around a series of drawings made by Wojciech Weiss in preparation for his 1899 portrait of the composer, showcased among the artist's other works of the same period, which capture the musicality of colour and form. The exhibition also features a film etude documenting the history of the portrait's making, as well as other portraits of the composer created in the Young Poland period, which were the source of inspiration for Weiss.
The interest in Chopin echoing widely in the fin de siècle art, literature and opinion journalism, was connected with the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. In the Young Poland period, Chopin was a symbolic presence for the nation seeking to ascertain its identity. However, Weiss's portrait emerged not solely from the overall climate of the day, but was also rooted the musical sensitivity the painter, who was educated at the Galician Music Society Conservatory in Lviv and would often play Chopin himself. The oil painting depicting Chopin unfortunately has gone missing and the drawings presented as part of the Chopin. Weiss. Fin de siècle centres remain its only evidence. The admission to the exhibition is free. The media patron is www.chopin2010.pl.
Wojciech Weiss (1875 – 1950) was an acclaimed painter and graphic designer; first a student, then professor and rector of Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts and a leading representative of Young Poland art. His painting reflects the decadent mood of the time and foretells expressionist tendencies. After 1905 his art began gravitating towards colourism, undergoing specific colour transformations in the so-called white period (ca. 1904 – 1912), to become infused with vibrant colours in the subsequent phase of his artistic activity. He mainly painted landscapes and nudes, which revealed close associations with Cezanne and Renoir, as well as large-scale compositions frequently intriguing with covert symbolism. Weiss's art fundamentally influenced the Colourists, many of whom were his students. His paintings are widely represented in the collections of the National Museums in Kraków, Poznań and Warsaw.
From June 15th up until the end of July 2010 Kordegarda Chopin 2010 will be presenting a photography exhibition "Chopin. The composer's moods captured in Tomek Sikora's photographic images". Apart from pictures, the exhibition also features the film "Fryderyk Chopin" with cinematography by Tomek Sikora and Chopin's music performed by Katarzyna Kraszewska.
Tomek Sikora's photographs showcase a nostalgic side of Poland, just as Fryderyk Chopin might have been remembering it when away from his native country. Similarly to Chopin, Sikora also has experienced emigration. His photographs reflect that experience presenting an image of Poland that borders on reality and the imagined world, as seen in the mind's eye only.
"It is in 1982 when I find myself leaving the Homeland, this time knowing full well that I may never have a chance to return, that I realise that Chopin's music was suffused with nostalgia (…). Before leaving his beloved country halfway through his life, Fryderyk Chopin travelled extensively around Poland. He was observing nature's wonders, people in peasant huts, womenfolk singing while laboring in the fields or hanging laundry. Not only did this inspire the sensitive composer, but also created an image of the birthplace, of youthful frolics and all those carefree moments so keenly harked back to in adult life beset by responsibilities and disappointments of adulthood. These images, sweet and vibrant, occupy the imagination with increasing force, often emerging under the guise of fragmentary events, inchoate images, almost unidentifiable, and yet yearned for…" (Tomek Sikora, foreword to the album "Chopin. The composer's moods captured in Tomek Sikora's photographic images")
Tomek Sikora was born in 1948 and is one of Poland's leading advertising and creative photographer. He claimed many awards for his creativity in photography and was twice recognised as the best advertising photographer in Australia, where he resided for many years. His career started in Paris, where he worked with the Kodak studio. Having come back to Poland, he worked for 9 years as photo reporter with the Perspektywy magazine. In 1979 he completed two major photography projects "Album" and "Alice in Wonderland", exhibited at Centre Pompidou in Paris at the biennale of young artists. In 1982 he set up an advertising photography atelier in Melbourne. Since 1986 he has been travelling around the world, since 1996 sharing his time between Poland and Australia. He publishes and exhibits in many countries around the globe.
The exhibition "Chopin. The composer's moods captured in Tomek Sikora's photographic images" will be running at Kordegarda Chopin 2010 from June 15th to July 31st, 2010. Admission free.
Kordegarda will also be selling Tomek Sikoras album "Chopin. The composer's moods captured in Tomek Sikora's photographic images".
From June 11th to 13th, 2010, Kordegarda Chopin 2010 is presenting Iwo Zaniewski's painting "Nokturn" (Nocturne) drawing inspiration from the atmospheric music of Fryderyk Chopin.
Znaniewski's paintings are representative pieces adopting a special approach to composition. Any change to the formal arrangement would break down the structural coherency and unbalance the composition. The key to the paintings' reception are their visual attributes.
Every day from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. during the time the painting is exhibited you may listen to Polish and foreign pianist play Chopin at Kordegarda. Each of the concerts features nocturnes – the project's central theme.
June 11th
3 p.m. – Katarzyna Hajduk (Poland)
4 p.m. – Yasuhiro Natsume (Japan)
5 p.m. – Aleksandra Soboń (Poland)
7 p.m. – Rihwa Cho (Japan)
June 12th
3 p.m. – Anna Hajduk (Poland)
4 p.m. – Piotr Podemski (Poland)
5 p.m. – Yasuhiro Natsume (Japan)
6 p.m. – Krzysztof Moskalewicz (Poland)
7 p.m. – PAWEŁ WAKARECY (Poland)
Poland's representative at the 16th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw
June 13th
3 p.m. – Yuka Susono (Japan)
4 p.m. – Su Yeon Son (Korea)
5 p.m. – Przemysław Lechowski (Poland)
6 p.m. – Joanna Maklakiewicz (Poland)
7 p.m. – MICHAŁ JACEK KOZŁOWSKI (Poland)
Iwo Zaniewski is a painter, photographer, screen writer and film director. He is artistic director with advertising agency Przybora. Zaniewski. Ltd. (PZL). In 1976 – 1981 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Up until mid-1980s, the main focus of his work was painting, then he also embraced advertising and photography. His exhibitions and awards received include: The Grand Prix of the Joan Miro Foundation – Barcelona 1984, Art Basel – Basel 1985, SARP Gallery – Warsaw 1989, Inny Świat Gallery – Kraków 1990, National Museum in Kraków, Czartoryski Museum (individual retrospective under the auspices of Poland's Culture Minister) – Kraków 2005, National Geographic Photography Competition ( 1st Prize) – Warsaw 2005, Today Art Museum – Beijing 2008, International Art Fair Shanghai – 2008, Wison Art Center – Shanghai 2008, Levant Gallery – Shanghai 2008, Sunshine Museum Beijing – Beijing 2008, CANART– Institute of Contemporary Art – Shanghai 2008.
The project NOCTURNES. IWO ZNIEWSKI AND PIANISTS is held in collaboration with the advertising agency PZL and the Smolna Street Residents' Association (Stowarzyszenie Mieszkańców Ulicy Smolnej).
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From June 1st to 6th, Kordegarda Chopin 2010 will be displaying the poster promoting Warsaw City Hall's project reaching out to baby Varsovians born in the Chopin Year.
To mark the Chopin Year, every baby born in 2010 to parents of whom at least one is domiciled in Warsaw receives a pair of rompers adorned with the famous quote from Cyprian Kamil Norwid on Chopin: "Born a Varsovian, a Pole in his heart, and in his talent a citizen of the world" in the front and a fragment of Mazurka Op. 68 No. 2 with the composer's autograph in the back. The rompers come with a letter from Warsaw's mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz. Already around 7 thousand newborn Varsovians received the special souvenir in the first quarter of the year.
The project aims to raise awareness about the composer's links with Poland's capital. Chopin spent half of his lifetime in Warsaw, studying at the city's top schools together with the elite of the time. It was in Warsaw where his talent was developing and where he was advancing his musical skills.
Photographic exhibition by Dominik Skurzak at Kordegarda Chopin 2010
Starting from March 31st to April 25th 2010, Kordegarda Chopin 2010 presents a photographic exhibition by Dominik Skurzak "Chopin's Guests – Warsaw 2010".
The 21 large-format photographs featuring pianists while performing have been made in the first two months of the Chopin Year. They picture such luminaries as Evgeny Kissin, Kevin Kenner, Daniel Barenboim, Lang Lang, Yundi, Murray Perahia, Piotr Paleczny, Rafał Blechacz and Leszek Możdżer.
The images are mostly back and white and are the photographer's tribute to the art of music. For 10 years now, Dominik Skurzak has been focusing on picturing classical music performances. A musician by education, with all the subtlety, he manages to find the best moment to set off the shutter. As a result, his shots are not only about capturing attractive images but rendering the emotion coming to life on stage at a particular moment and reflected on the artist's face. The pictures exhibited at Kordegarda tell a fascinting story of these emotions.
"Chopin's Guests" by Dominik Skurzak is a second in a series of exhibitions held at Kordegarda and marking the Chopin Year. Kordegarda is open for visitors from Tuesday to Saturday at 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Dominik Skurzak
The author has been twice the official photographer of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2000 and 2005. A musician by education (Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Instrumental Department), he has been taking and publishing his photographs since 1997. In 1998 he became a photo journalist with the English language weekly The Warsaw Voice, where he has also been running the culture section since 1999. He has also cooperated with Reuters, and published at a range of newspapers and magazines, such as Poland's leading dailies Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza, Die Welt, Haaretz, Fakt, or Japan's Chopin Piano Music Magazine. He has also worked for many major companies and institutions: Orlen, Siemens, PKO S.A., BRE Bank, Ernst and Young, PGNiG, Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fryderyk Chopin Institute and Fryderyk Chopin Society in Warsaw, Polish Red Cross, Warsaw Stock Exchange. Mr Skurzak is also a studio photographer, which brought about a number of album covers for well-known Polish artists – Grupa MoCarta, Kabaret Ani Mru Mru, or Kabaret Moralnego Niepokoju.
The artists exhibits in Poland and internationally.
Photographs of Żelazowa Wola and its surrounding areas: 1970–1993.
Edward Hartwig was born on 6 September 1909 in Moscow and died on 28 October 2003 in Warsaw.
Recognised as one of the best-known Polish photographers in the world, he focused his work on the themes of landscape, portrait, nude, architecture, and theatre. Successful both at home and abroad, he exhibited all around the globe and claimed numerous prizes and awards in art photography.
Mr Hartwig made his debut in the late 1920s in Lublin, Poland. He went on to study at Professor Rudolf Kopitz's studio in Vienna in the second half of the 1930s. After the end of the Second World War he settled in Warsaw. He co-founded the Association of Polish Art Photographers and was member of many Polish and international photographic societies and organizations.


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MONTREAL — Josh Gorges says a team's penalty-killing shouldn't be measured by its percentage at the end of the season.
"It's about when the opportunity comes with the game on the line, does your penalty-killing unit get the job done," Gorges said. "And we had to do that tonight. We stepped up and killed it for the last 56 seconds or whatever it was."
The Canadiens preserved a 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins Saturday night at the Bell Centre as Gorges, Andrei Markov, Tomas Plekanec and Travis Moen combined to negate a 6-on-4 advantage.
Lars Eller became entangled with Zdeno Chara and was called for holding with 56.4 seconds showing on the clock. It was a penalty, but after the hulking Chara fell to the ice, Eller couldn't resist bringing up Boston coach Claude Julien's comments earlier this season about the Canadiens' embellishing penalty calls.
"I must be really strong," said Eller, who gives away seven inches and 46 pounds to Chara. "Can we say the E-word? But I shouldn't have put myself in that position."
The Canadiens received some help in killing the penalty because the Bruins were reluctant to shoot the puck and let time run out without taking a shot.
Some of that was due to the Canadiens' pressure on the puck. A renewed aggressiveness has transformed the Montreal penalty-killing unit from one of the worst in the league to one of the best. The Canadiens haven't allowed a power-play goal in their last five games and have killed 18 of 19 penalties over the last eight games.
"It's something we had to address," said Gorges. "I think the addition of Jeff (Halpern) has helped out and we've tried to simplify our approach. We stress the importance of individual details, being hard on pucks and battling. We've done that as of late."
The win gave the Canadiens a 3-1 edge in the season series against the Bruins and Gorges said this was the Canadiens' best game against the Bruins.
"It's a good hockey team and they're not going to do down lightly," he said. "But we held our ground and we stayed strong. We played a full 60 minutes tonight and we haven't done that before."
The victory was even more impressive because Alexei Emelin left the game with a knee injury midway through the first period and the Canadiens played with five defencemen.
"It's almost easier," said Gorges. "You just go out and play. You don't have time to think about how tired you are. It's get a quick breather, grab some water and get get back out there. We did a good job of keeping it simple. We didn't overextend ourselves and take that extra 10 or 15 seconds. We had short shifts and kept ourselves fresh."
Emelin was injured when he lined up a hard-charging Milan Lucic for a check along the boards. This was a question of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object and the irresistible force winning. Emelin needed help to leave the ice and the Canadiens called up Nathan Beaulieu from the American Hockey League's Hamilton Bulldogs on Sunday to replace him in the lineup.
"We all know he's a big hitter and he's really strong on his skates," Lucic said. "When you've got two guys like that going at each other with a lot of speed, sometimes things like that are going to happen.
Carey Price picked up his first win of the season against Boston as he stopped 26 pucks. The one that got away was Daniel Paille's deflection of Johnny Boychuk's point shot at 7:10 of the second after the Canadiens had taken a 2-0 lead.
"It hit something, and I lost sight of it, and it found a corner," said Price. "It was that kind of night. The goals were playoff goals, lucky goals. We got two lucky ones and they got one."
Alex Galchenyuk, who ended a 13-game drought Thursday against Winnipeg, got the first of the lucky goals at 6:49 of the first period.
"I tried to put it in off the defenceman (Matt Bartkowski) but I missed and he put it in himself," said Galchenyuk. "It was a lucky goal, but I'll take it."
There was an element of luck in Michael Ryder's game-winner as he deflected P.K. Subban's shot from the point for a power-play goal at the 57-second mark of the second period. The Bruins have the best penalty-killing record in the league with a success rate of 90.2 per cent, but that brings us back to killing penalties at the right time.
Boston has allowed only 12 power-play goals, but the Canadiens have scored four of those, including Ryder's winning goal Saturday and Markov's game-tying goal in Montreal's 6-5 shootout win on March 27.
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:00 pm
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I was wondering if somebody of the breatharians here drink some alcohol? and if so, do you need just a tiny bit to feel that your getting drunk?
Just wondering since its hard when your out and socializing in the beginning.
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I remember, back in 2001 when I was living without food, I did a simple experiment. It was so interesting to me to know, how wine would affect my body, that I decided to drink a whole bottle 0.75 l of wine 16%.
It was in the evening, around 8. I drank it within 15 minutes or so (which normally I never do). And I was waiting for an effect -- almost nothing. Just a few minutes lasting weak dizziness and nothing else happened.
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Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:01 am
Post subject: Re: experience with wine
JMW wrote:
I drank it within 15 minutes or so (which normally I never do). And I was waiting for an effect -- almost nothing. Just a few minutes lasting weak dizziness and nothing else happened.
I don't care for alcohol. But I've noticed this kind of effect in general when consuming anything. The cleaner the body is, the quicker it eliminates stuff when you consume it. It seems that detox happens much quicker, and it doesn't last nearly as long as when one is more toxic.
I don't particularly care for testing alcohol. But if my theory is correct, then a breatharian should get drunk much faster, but the drunkenness would last for an extremely short period of time. Someone who is very toxic would take much longer before they start to feel drunk (because the body would absorb the alcohol more slowly), but the drunkenness would last for a lot longer (because the body would take longer to eliminate the alcohol from the blood)
There seems to be a direct correlation between when one begins to feel detox symptoms after consuming something and the duration of those symptoms.
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thanx to both. That makes alot of sense
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Draginvry wrote:
The cleaner the body is, the quicker it eliminates stuff when you consume it. It seems that detox happens much quicker, and it doesn't last nearly as long as when one is more toxic.
I quited alcohol long time before I knew about breatharianism/fasting. But I still somethimes eat psilocybin mushrooms (O-phosphoryl-4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine) and it has some sort of amphetamine like substance in it. Anyway since I started fasting and eating fruits I feel that the hangover isn't so big deal anymore. Before I used to be soo exhausted the day after.
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on an alcohol related note, I read that alcohol is detrimental to your spiritual development. However, whenever I get drunk I have very spiritual and uplifting thoughts, which are amplified by the intoxication.
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The same happened to me when I used to smoke marijuana. I would have very spiritual experiences. Now, though, I completely do not need any chemical substance for that. Drugs and alcohol just don't do anything for me anymore other than lower my vibration, which I really don't want to do. It is my understanding that the chemical substance of choice strips away fears that block us from having spiritual experiences. Fear binds us to ego, which is the source of separation consciousness. As one raises his or her consciousness (this usually happens pretty naturally if it is one's intention to grow spiritually), fear naturally dissolves and no outside substance is needed for it's removal. Just my experience...
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On the subject of substance use, my experience is that any amplification of a transcendental experience through or from a substance, binds to the emotions, emotional intelligence, or emotional awareness; and as such, can also cause a stumbling block, as it solidifies certain feelings and impressions, and so binds to the ego.
It appears to me, that there is a lot more out there spiritually, deeper levels, of wisdom and love, which in some ways is quite unconnected to any high feelings. And in that sense, developing an even attitude to deep and exhilirating feelings, is ultimately more useful, in relation to all the other stuff we have to learn. Being able to handle higher vibrations in a controlled manner is the key. Not that I've managed that or anything!
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I tried alcohol for the first time in 2010, and I was 26. It was 5% content and I had a few drinks and did not notice anything hardly. I have more of a trouble with the sugar these days so the problem with drinking for me would be more the sugar than the alcohol. Thankfully that is one drug I will never be a slave to. Makes sense a person in a more pure state would detox faster, though I never heard that before, it does make sense. The liver is an amazing organ, especially when we take care of it, and not abuse the same stuff over and over, like I have with chocolate.
I agree with what Diana said that has also been true for me. Drugs block out the negativity of the ego and allow us to experience the love of the spirit. As we transcend and let go our our negativity by choosing the good among other means, we raise our consciousness, and feel great constantly, and don't need drugs, nothing can drag us down, this is the start of true self mastery. We can face anyone and any situation and it's all good.
Also to add, nobody is addicted to drugs. That's a misunderstanding. I know many will disagree and say no but there's a physiological component. Well, still mind is far more powerful than matter, and we are only subject to what is held in mind, ultimately. Body follows mind, not the other way around. People are addicted to feelings, and use drug to try and get back to certain feelings cause it's the only way most know how.
One day in May of 2007 I make a raw cacao smoothie in my Vita-Mix blender with some agave nectar and celtic sea salt and vanilla. It was very good, I remember it quite vividly. I've made thousands of them. But this was the first. I'd had chocolate before, but not RAW chocolate, uncooked. So I made this drink, and started drinking, and in a few short minutes felt the negativity lift off me like it was never there. I felt such an energy I could not stop laughing for no reason for a good twenty minutes or more, and I was trying to drive at the same time which was very difficult as I was experiencing ecstasy. Hence the addiction was formed, an addiction that lasted many years, from that one experience. It was the ONLY way at the time I knew to try to get back "there" to that happy place. People get addicted to feeling high, not drugs. Drugs don't get you high, they just block the lows (of the ego) so you feel the highs (of the spirit, which is love).
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