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For a variety of reasons, I have decided to stop blogging here and move over to karikingdent.com. I will leave Precept Camden open and all past blog posts will remain accessible as well as all recorded classes on the Listen Here page. However, all Key Word Symbol Sheets – plus a lot of new ones! – will move over to karikingdent.com. I hope you will follow me over at karikingdent.com!
Trip to the Holy Land
Have you ever been to Israel? I have always wanted to go and must admit that I was pretty jealous of everyone I knew that was able to go. Every person I've ever known who has made a trip to the Holy Land has come back saying it is life changing. They say that you will never read the Bible in the same way again. I thought this trip-of-a-lifetime would always be just out of my financial reach and probably would never happen. However, a few years ago it happened! I went to Israel! And I must tell you, that everyone was right. It is, indeed, life changing and you will not view the Scriptures – or really the world – in the same way again.
David and BJ Lawson of Hope and Help International are leading a tour to Israel and you are invited! The Lawsons are seasoned teachers of the Word and have led tours to the Holy Land with Precept Ministries International and now with Hope and Help International. The Scriptures will literally come to life as you sit among the backdrop of history while receiving biblical teaching on site.
Don't let this opportunity pass you by. Don't say, "I can't afford it!" Start saving (and praying) now! Forget Disney World and all those other vacations that will have no lasting impact on your life. Take the vacation of a lifetime and go to Israel with the Lawsons! For more information, click here.
Sweet Water
There's a familiar story in the Bible about Jesus' encounter with a woman who was living a lifestyle of sin until the day she met the Giver of Life. It is called "The Woman at the Well" and its beauty is not diminished by its familiarity.
Jesus, weary, hungry and thirsty from his journey and waiting for His disciples while they presumably had gone to find food, sat down by a well where women came every day to draw water. But this was the hottest part of the day and no women came to draw water during this time. Except for one. She was an outcast on every level: a Samaritan with whom Jews did not associate, a five time divorcee who was living with a man who was not her husband, and not least of all, a woman. She is astonished when this Jewish man asks her for a drink of water. That request opens the door to a conversation that literally changes her life. She comes to realize that this man is not just a man – He is the promised Messiah, the Savior of the world – and He offered her living water that would forever satisfy her spiritual thirst.
Water. It is the elixir of life and no less important and hard to come by in 2016 than it was 2,000 years ago when Jesus was sitting beside that well. Oh sure, in the US of A we simply turn the tap and out it flows. But it isn't that easy in other parts of the world.
That's where Water4 comes in. Founded in 2008 by Richard and Terri Greenly, they are committed to "eradicating the world water crisis." This video called Sweet Water explains it so much more clearly than I. Please watch it. In a nutshell, the Greenly's friend Steve Stewart invented a hand pump and a drilling technique that can be done manually without expensive, hard to repair parts like well pumps. (In Africa alone there are over 200,000 BROKEN well pumps!)
Water4 is not just interested in quenching physical thirst either. They are empowering local communities by providing clean water which leads to good health, local jobs, and opportunities to share about Jesus and His living water that truly and permanently satisfies the deepest spiritual thirst. Check out their website at water4.org and see how you can get involved. One way is to give a well to a village without one. (Some women spend 6+ hours per day just getting water.) The website has information on many ways you can help.
The next time you turn on the tap and fill a glass with fresh clean water, remember those who don't have that luxury. Visit water4.org and see how you can make a difference in the world water crisis.
Meaningful not material gifts
Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? Or have you barely begun? Most people on your list are probably just like the people on my list: they really don't need anything. We give them gifts because we love them and it's just what we do during this time of year. So we end up buying things like sweaters to put in already-full closets, video games for kids who should be playing outside in the fresh air and sunshine, and boxes of Christmas cookies and candies for people who already have too much to eat. We rarely give gifts that will endure until next Christmas much less gifts with eternal value.
But what if we decided to do it differently this year? What if we decided to truly honor the season of the Savior with a gift of hope to a persecuted believer? Open Doors has compiled a Gifts of Hope Catalog to help you choose gifts that not only encourage Christians suffering for their faith but also give real help and hope to those who share our faith but not our freedom.
For $58 you can provide job training for women to help them support their families. For only $5 you can provide biblical resources in digital media format to help train and disciple a believer. $1565 will sustain a whole family for a year. These are just a few of the gifts available in the Gifts of Hope Catalog. Click here to view the entire catalog.
Don't let this Christmas be another year of giving meaningless gifts that do little to honor the greatest gift of all – Jesus the Messiah! Purchase with purpose this Christmas and give the gift of hope to persecuted Christians around the world.
Evil did not win.
One year ago today an unspeakable tragedy occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Twenty children and six adults were killed in what is known as the second deadliest mass shooting in the history of our country. One of those victims was Emilie Parker (pictured above). On December 14, 2012, it seemed that evil triumphed with each blast of the shooter's gun. However, Emilie's mother declares that evil did NOT win that day. Click here to watch a short video chronicling her story of grief and hope. I know that it will give you hope as well.
Take time today to pray for all of the people whose lives are forever changed because of that day.
Festival of Lights
This year Hanukkah begins the evening of November 27 and ends the evening of December 5. Also called Chanukkah or the Festival of Lights, it is a Jewish holiday which not only celebrates a extraordinary victory of a small group of brave and vastly outnumbered Jews over the mighty Syrian-Greek army, but it also commemorates a miracle that took place in the Temple after the battle. When the Jews took back possession of the Temple from their foes in the 2nd century B.C., they wanted to light the candelabrum that was supposed to burn continually in the Temple. However, there was only enough properly consecrated oil to burn for one day. They lit the candles anyway, and that one day supply of oil miraculously burned for eight days until more oil could be prepared.
A fascinating fact about Hanukkah 2013 is that it begins the evening of our Thanksgiving Day which is November 27 this year. This hasn't happened since 1888, and some say it won't happen again until the year 79,811!
You can find more information about the history and celebration of this special Jewish holiday at the very informative website www.chabad.org.
For some beautiful and useful Hanukkah printables from The Toymaker, click here.
Key Word Symbol: "Caesar"
Why I wear barbwire.
Today is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. All over the world people are praying for Christians who are suffering for their faith in Jesus Christ. In honor of this day, I am re-posting this which was originally posted on September 21, 2012. Won't you pray with us?
Did you know that 70% of the world's population lives in countries with heavy restrictions on religion? Did you know that more than one hundred million Christians worldwide are currently suffering interrogations, arrest, and even death for their faith in Jesus Christ? All of this happens on a daily basis around the world while Christians in the West enjoy relative peace, security, and freedom.
First Corinthians Chapter 12 compares the church, the body of Christ, to a physical body with each member having a different function. Verse 26 says that if one member suffers, then all the members suffer with it. Open Doors is a ministry dedicated to serving persecuted Christians worldwide and they would like to invite you to share the wonderful privilege of standing in solidarity with our brothers and sisters who share our faith but not our freedom.
Please visit onewiththem.com and order a barbwire wristband today. Then be prepared to share with others who ask why you are wearing barbwire.
On behalf of suffering saints all over the world, THANK YOU.
Key Word Symbol: "appointed"
Stand Up Pencil Case
I have decided that I need several of these Kokuyo NeoCritz Transformer Pencil Cases from JetPens. (Also available from Amazon by clicking here.)Not only do they hold your writing instruments, but as their name indicates, they transform into something else – a standing pencil holder! I'd like to have different colors to hold the different kinds of marking tools that I use when doing inductive Bible study. I think I'll get the orange one to hold my favorite pens, the green one for my favorite colored pencils, and the yellow one for the new markers I got on my trip to Japan this past summer.
Which one(s) do you think you need?


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Scoring Serious Results Through Gamification
Social and mobile technologies are enabling employers to take their wellness efforts to the next level.
By Steve Boese
It's no secret that, in the last few years, employee benefits have risen to -- or near -- the top of most HR leaders' lists of priorities. Costs to organizations for employee medical coverage continue to climb, with double-digit premium increases seemingly the norm. And recent developments and uncertainty arising from the Affordable Care Act have only ratcheted up the pressure, increased executive attention to the issues and heightened the challenge that organizations are facing. Like it or not, you, as an HR leader, and your organization are probably going to spend even more time on benefits for the rest of 2013 and certainly in 2014 as the effects of the PPACA become clearer and unwind.
But in a time of uncertainty, with many benefits consultants and experts advising a "wait-and-see-what- happens" strategy, there are at least some elements or components of the complex formulas for employee benefits and healthcare costs that are not uncertain. For instance, our population -- likely reflected in your workforce - struggles with high rates of obesity and chronic but often preventable medical conditions. Often (raising my hand as an admitted culprit on this one), we don't get nearly enough exercise as we should. Sure, the ACA might be a confusing jumble of new rules and requirements, and we don't really know what it will mean to our organizations yet, but for most of us, we can be pretty confident about a few things in this morass.
Chiefly, we know that, if the majority of our employees just did a little bit more to try and improve their health, and if a few less of them smoked, or if a few more of them bicycled to work instead of driving or did other things to get more physically active than they currently are, good things would result. Employee absenteeism would be reduced, medical costs would decrease, and people would just generally feel better and be more productive. But just because it seems kind of obvious and simple, that doesn't mean it's easy - both for HR leaders trying to get a handle on soaring costs and for individuals struggling to find the time, motivation and energy to live even just a little bit healthier.
Not surprisingly then, in the modern age of the smartphone, social networking and big data, new technologies are being designed to try and help organizations meet these needs. This is certainly true in the employee health and wellness space. In the last few years, a number of wellness technologieshave emerged to try and help both the organization and the employee in this simple, yet difficult challenge -- to do things (and avoid doing other things), with the goal of getting healthier.
Recently, I talked with one of these solution providers, Virgin HeathMiles (yes, part of the famous Richard Branson empire), about the role of technology not only in driving behavior change, but also in increasing employee connection and engagement. Virgin HealthMiles offers organizations tools to conduct companywide fitness and wellness challenges, a portal that enables information sharing and gives employees the ability to track their progress, an ability to earn and redeem rewards for achieving goals, integration with "traditional" benefits providers (important for reasons we will cover shortly) and -- also necessary for the smartphone age -- access from any device an employee has at any time.
But for all the technology, and much of it is pretty powerful and cool, the "stickiest" part of a solution such as Virgin HealthMiles' might be the social component -- the element that makes someone who might not feel up to exercising or climbing the stairs at the office that day feel like they are not alone in their struggle. The solution is built for intra- and even inter-company contests. In fact, when I spoke with executives at Virgin they told me a fascinating story about how two clients, Timberland and Maidenform, went up against each other in a fitness challenge.
As anyone who has tried to adhere to some kind of diet or start a new exercise program can attest, having a partner or a friend with you is a powerful incentive and motivator. If I don't get up and do my two-mile walk today, not only am I letting myself down, I am letting my colleagues, my teammates and my friends down. And that feels pretty bad.
But past all of that -- and all of the "feel-good" elements that are certainly at play here -- the case for platforms such as Virgin HealthMiles' are likely to resonate with the chief financial officer as much as they do with the director of benefits. One Virgin HealthMiles client I spoke to, a mid-size manufacturer of high-tech equipment, attributed its 2013/2012 year-over-year medical-coverage-rate hold (which is pretty unusual in this climate) almost entirely to the wellness and fitness programs it had implemented in 2012, supported by Virgin technology.
The wellness platform helped this company not only incent and encourage more healthy activities and behaviors, it also allowed it to transmit this data to its insurance carrier responsible for the actual medical coverage. The ability to "prove" the success of the programs, combined with a series of contests and challenges that really motivated employees, resulted in the rate hold for 2013, something that the benefits manager I spoke with said was unprecedented in her 10 years in the organization.
Fitness and wellness have, in many ways, been turned into smartphone-powered games, but for some smart organizations, these games are producing pretty serious results.
Steve Boese is a co-chair of HRE's HR Technology ® Conference and a technology editor for LRP Publications. He also writes an HR blog and hosts the HR Happy Hour Show, a radio program and podcast. He can be emailed at email@example.com.

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SHUAA Capital returns to Profitability
SHUAA Capital, the region's leading financial services institution, today reported a profit of AED 19.5 million for the first quarter ended 31 March 2010, a significant improvement compared to a loss of AED 202.2 million in Q1 2009.
All fee business units were profitable during the quarter. Asset Management saw a profit of AED 8.3 million, while Brokerage recorded a profit of AED 1.5 million, Private Equity AED 2.3 million, Investment Banking AED 0.5 million and Finance AED 7.1 million. The firm reduced its general and administrative expenses by AED 9.5 million from AED 73.1 million in the first quarter of 2009 to AED 63.6 million in the first quarter of 2010.
SHUAA recovered AED 37.7 million from its legacy portfolio during this quarter. In addition, the company managed to reduce assets and liabilities by over AED 200 million during the first quarter of 2010 as compared to the corresponding period of last year. Fee income during the quarter of AED 27.9 million is in line with Q1 2009 which confirms stability within the fee businesses.
Mr. Majid Saif Al Ghurair, Chairman of SHUAA Capital, said: "This positive set of results demonstrates that the decisive steps we took to stabilize and recalibrate SHUAA at the end of 2009 have helped us emerge stronger from the downturn and we have made significant progress on the road to recovery. We have already begun to see the benefits of implementing a clear strategy focused on fee generating businesses, the de-risking of our Proprietary Investment Book and investment in people through the strengthening of our management team."
Mr. Sameer Al Ansari, Chief Executive Officer of SHUAA Capital said: "Despite challenging market conditions, we were able to post a profitable quarter. The new SHUAA is resilient, focused and well positioned to benefit from an ongoing market recovery and we expect to see further benefits of the new strategy over the course of 2010. SHUAA remains one of the strongest financial institutions in the region and we are confident of the prospects for our market leading businesses."
Asset Management saw a profit of AED 8.3 million in Q1 2010 as compared to a loss of AED 11.2 million in Q1 2009.
The Brokerage division continued to consolidate its market position in the UAE. Its profits reached AED 1.5 million in Q1 2010 as compared to a profit of AED 1.2 million in the same period last year.
Investment Banking recorded a profit of AED 0.5 million compared to a loss of AED 5.2 million in the same period last year. The investment banking team continues to develop deeper relationships with clients and client prospects in Equity Capital Markets. The team's ability to continue to win non-IPO mandates has been extremely encouraging and has helped the division emerge as a broader based business.
SHUAA Partners generated a profit of AED 2.3 million compared to a net profit of AED 7.8 million in the same period last year. The division continues to manage its existing portfolio with a view to securing more exits and returning capital to the Limited Partners.
Gulf Finance has enjoyed a very strong start to 2010, with accelerated momentum in diversifying the business mix and strong performance in arrears management. During Q1 2010, the business generated a profit of AED 7.1 million compared to a profit of AED 9.1 million in the same period last year.


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It was time to change
I am 17. My whole life i have wanted to be that person that was so huge, i was feared. When i was 13 i got gynocamastia.. that is a condition when calcium you get going through puberty under the nipple does not go away. It was hell. Being that age i was just entering high school. i lifted 2 years straight thinking i could make it go away and it only got worse. Insurance approved it as a necessary surgery to get the build ups removed. i cried the day i learned my biggest burden would be removed (literally). since that day i have made it a personal goal to show all the people that poked fun at me that i would be something great. This year i got serious about it. Arnold Schwarzeneggers book pushed me. I want to have the ideal body. I am on my way. i dropped 40 pounds this year partially do to the fact i wrestled 215 this year. my current weight is 207 pounds. I love the fact that i am in a forum filled with real BIG guys for inspiration. I know i will need it.
(i will post my before and after pics to really get my point across)
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government on Thursday instructed the board of state oil firm Rosneft (ROSN.MM) to approve the purchase of a 50.1 percent stake in smaller oil firm Bashneft (BANE.MM) for a price not higher than 330 billion roubles ($5.3 billion).
The purchase should be approved by Oct. 15, the government instruction said.
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What really is code signing?
At a high level, code signing allows you to generate a digital signature for the application binary and then provides a mechanism to carry the signature right to the end user. When the end user invokes the application, the digital signature is verified by the user and the user is able to make an informed decision whether the executable must be executed on his/her machine. Code signing uses digital signatures to provide identity and integrity for the code of software applications. It is important to understand that code signing merely asserts the identity of the software publisher and confirms that the software has not changed since it was signed. Code signing does not make a judgement of the quality of the software or its performance.
How does code signing work?
Let us now try and see how code signing works – Let us first understand the different entities involved in the code signing and verification process. The Software publisher obtains a code-signing certificate from the CA and uses the private key corresponding to the certificate to sign the code. The digital signature obtained is either embedded in the code or sent separately from the code (more on this later.) The software consumer who is typically the end user verifies the digital signature on the code before using the software. If the digital signature is verified successfully and the user trusts the signer of the software, he or she may go ahead and use the software. On the other hand, if the digital signature is not verifiable or the user does not trust the signer then he or she may choose to stop the application in its tracks. The bottom line is that code signing offers application designers a robust method of attaching their identity with the code that they write thereby providing greater user accountability and assurance.
What are some of the code signing technologies?
Microsoft offers two technology options for code signing – these are Authenticode and Strong Names.
Authenticode identifies the software publisher and confirms that the software has not changed since the signature was generated on it. It uses digital certificates as opposed to strong names which uses public keys. Therefore, authenticode allows software users to verify the identity of the software publisher up to a trusted root certificate or up to any certificate that the user trusts. Authenticode does not alter the executable portion of the application. Instead it supports embedded signatures wherein the digital signature is embedded in the non-execution portion of the executable. Examples where embedded signatures are used are in File Download box, the UAC prompt in Vista and the Windows loader. Authenticode also supports detached signatures in which signed catalog files are used to store the hashes of all files that require to be signed. The principal advantage of using detached signatures is when the file format does not support embedded signatures. Another advantage is performance as you have to sign (and verify) a group of files only once if you use detached signatures since the catalog files can reference several files at the same time. Authenticode is more prolific in terms of the number of the file formats that it supports viz. PE (.dll, exe, sys, ocx), Cabinet files and Windows installer files (.msi and .msp)
Strong Names
Strong name signing is used exclusively with .NET assemblies. Although digital signatures are used to generate strong names, it is important to understand that strong naming does not use digital certificate, instead it uses and supports public keys only. This means that it is not really possible to establish a chain of trust for the public key; and therefore there is no way to bind the identity of the software publisher to the private key being used to sign the assembly. Since strong names do not support digital certificates, they do not support expiration or revocation of key material either. This means that extra precautions must be taken by the software publisher to keep the private key private and to securely distribute the publisher's public key to those assemblies that reference the signed assembly. In order to tide over these limitations, it is recommended that strong names be used along with authenticode, where possible.
What are the best practices for code signing?
Having now discussed the various options available for code signing let us now take a look at the best practices for code signing.
The first one is that you should use code-signing where you can. Code signing puts your product (and your organization) in the league of those organizations who are ready to run the extra mile in reassuring their customers about the reliability of their software. Code signing also tends to create a strong brand recall in the mind of your users when they are using their software. Its like having the About box of your software automatically pop up everytime the user runs your software!
We move on to the second one. Microsoft recommends that commercial software publishers use a different code-signing infrastructure to test sign pre-lease builds of their software. As part of this infrastructure, test publisher certificates must chain to completely different certificates than the root certificate this is used to sign the publicly released version of the software. Also it is much more efficient to use test signing rather than use signing for daily use during development. This helps in the configuration management space too as the using test certificates for signing ensure that pre-release code is not accidentally released to the public.
This point particularly applies to code that will be released to the public. As mentioned earlier, the keys used to generate and verify the signature on code are confidential items and therefore unless if the provided keys are not strongly authenticated, they must not be used for automatic code signing.
Strong naming does not use digital certificates and therefore does not support revocation and expiration. It is therefore imperative that the keys used for strong naming be protected in a failsafe manner.
To take care of the strong name shortcoming mentioned in the previous point, it is always a good idea to couple strong name signatures with authenticode signatures.
What are some of the tools for code signing?
Having seen some of the best practices when using strong naming let us now see some tools that you can use for code signing.
MakeCat – This tool creates an unsigned catalog file that contains the hashes of a specialised set of files and their associated attributes. This allows an organization to sign a single file – the catalog – instead of signing numerous individual files. This tool relies on a catalog definition file (.cdf) that the user must create which contains the list of files to be cataloged and their attributes. The tool scans this file, verifies the attributes, adds the attributes to the catalog files and hashes and stores the hash values in the catalog file.
SignTool – This is a command line tool that signs, verifies and timestamps all formats supported by Authenticode. This tool is a well-endowed tool in that it can sign and verify signatures, check if certificates are revoked and also wheter a signing certificate is valid for a specific policy.
Strong Name Tool (sn.exe) – This tool is used to sign .NET assemblies. It also allows for key management, signature generate and signature verificateion and supports strong name test signing , delay signing and release signing.
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The nation's tax code is so complex that taxpayers spend nearly $200 billion a year on the work required to comply with requirements, the government's taxpayer advocate said in a report released Wednesday.
The report also said the Internal Revenue Service should do more to help financially strapped taxpayers meet their obligations, an issue addressed by the IRS on Tuesday.
Lawmakers have been talking about simplifying tax laws for years, yet the tax code has grown to 3.7 million words, Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson wrote in her report. In the past eight years, changes to the tax code have been made at a rate of more than one a day.
"There is a real economic cost of complying with the tax code," Olson said in an interview.
The tax code is likely to get even more complex in the coming weeks as Congress considers an economic stimulus package that is expected to include about $300 billion in tax cuts, including breaks for individuals and businesses.
The National Taxpayer Advocate, who works independently within the IRS, is required by Congress to report annually on at least 20 of the most serious problems facing taxpayers.
Olson wrote that the IRS should do more to work with delinquent taxpayers before resorting to seizing their assets for unpaid taxes. Enforcement data show that collection alternatives, such as payment plans, can be more effective than asset seizures in collecting back taxes, the report said.
On Tuesday, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said tax agents are being given new authority to work with victims of the nation's economic woes who are struggling to pay their bills. Agents will be able to waive late penalties, negotiate new payment plans and postpone asset seizures for delinquent taxpayers who are financially strapped, but make a good-faith effort to settle their tax debts.
"The IRS wants to go the extra mile for taxpayers," Shulman said in a statement issued Wednesday. "We need to balance our responsibility to enforce the law with the economic realities facing many Americans today."
On The Net:
IRS: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0 ,,id202260,00.html?portlet6
(This version CORRECTS paragraph 3 to 'changes to the code were made at the rate of more than one a day,' instead of 'the code has grown by more than a word a day.')


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From: "Bernie Moore-Knowles" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] McClellan - Jim
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:06:50 -0700
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Hi Jim
Not sure if anyone has answered this for you or not - I was gone this
afternoon working - but, this is McClellan with his first wife - which was
also named Nancy. They were married 40 years in 1900, she died in 1904 and
then McClellan then marries Nancy Humberd.
Did that make sense?
Bernie Moore-Knowles
Phoenix, Arizona - Papa'aloa, Hawai'i
"I have Indian blood in me. I have just enough White blood for you to
question my honesty." ........Will Rogers
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PLOUGH MONDAY PLAYERS CALL [Tollerton, Notts.]
Nottingham Guardian, 8th Jan.1949, No.28886, p.5 h
Report of a performance of Plough Monday play by the team from Tollerton, Notts. The account is based around the experience of Ernie Burton, who remembered seeing the play being performed when a child in Edwalton "over 50 years ago." Two or three text fragments are quoted, and the characters were; Tom Fool, Recruiting Sergeant, Farm Man/Farmer's Man, Dame Jane, Lady Bright and Gay, Doctor and Thrasher Blade. The itinerary included Hall Farm, Tollerton, Normanton, Knicker Hill, Cotgrave, Keyworth and Plumtree. All the actors are named. Ernie is quoted as saying, "In the old days it was the custom to take a plough and threaten to plough a furrow across the lawn if no reward was forthcoming."
Locations: Tollerton, Notts. (SK6134); Normanton, Notts. (SK6232); Knicker Hill, Notts. (SK6231); Cotgrave, Notts. (SK6435); Keyworth, Notts. (SK6130); Plumtree, Notts. (SK6133); Edwalton, Notts. (SK5935) Years: Perf. 1949; Perf. before 1899 Subjects: Play; Malicious Ploughing; Plough Monday; Itinerary; Text Fragments; Tom Fool; Recruiting Sergeant; Farm Man; Farmer's Man; Dame Jane; Lady Bright and Gay; Doctor; Thrasher Blade; Cast List People: Ernie Burton (Perf.); George Ayto (Perf.); Joe Sewards (Perf.); Percy Morris (Perf.); Fred Hutchinson (Perf.); Fred Swanborough (Perf.); Archie Stubbs (Perf.) Archives: Ref.: TD00125; Notts. County Library, County Folklore Box


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Andrew Ripp plus Elenowen
Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 8:00 PM CST
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To call Andrew Ripp a singer/songwriter is to leave something deep out of the equation. It's true. He sings. And when he sings, something catches in your chest and you wonder why your heart is reacting to what is coming in your ears. It's true. He's a songwriter. He intricately weaves words into stories that have somehow aged and ripened and are sweet to ingest.
But there is more. Maybe it has to do with the rock-infused tones that are ever present. Maybe it is more soulful than pop, or maybe it is more pop than soul? Or is it rock with some soul and a hint of pop with the songwriting of a well-lived life? Whatever you call it, Andrew has it.
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Andrew began this musical journey with simply a voice, a guitar, and an awkward fifteen-year-old view of the world. As he grew and matured, so did his music. Moving out to Los Angeles in 2003, doors soon opened for Ripp to record and work with rock producer Bob Marlette and write for pop star Ryan Cabrera.
It's called 'chemistry', an elusive quality that can be part history, part mystery and all intangible until the moment that you feel it. It's a meant-to-be melding of the emotional and creative that can happen between songwriters, performers, best friends or life partners. For Josh and Nicole Johnson – the duo Elenowen – that connection is all of the above and much more. And on their self-titled EP, the chemistry they share is as rare – and real – as it gets.
More and more, Elenowen are discovering that the truth of what they do is bringing them new fans nationwide. "I think audiences respond to our honesty," says Josh. "When we perform these songs, people get the feeling they know who we are, because that's what we're putting out there. We are the heart behind our music." For Nicole, the journey both starts and grows in a place of instinctive sharing. "When it's 3 AM and I have an idea for a song," she explains, "my best friend/music partner/husband can grab his guitar and the idea takes off. The songs that come out of those moments are part me, part him, and all us. When we formed Elenowen, I realized that I'm no longer a singer in the shadows. I'm now a half of something that means so much not only to us, but to other people as well."


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On-sale date from Comic Reader #173.
Cover intended for the never published Weird Mystery Tales (DC, 1972 series) #25. Cover printed in the limited distribution Cancelled Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1978 series) #2.
Introductory page.
Originally intended for the unpublished Weird Mystery Tales (DC, 1972 series) #25 (October-November 1978).
Letters of comment from readers Ronnie Anderson, Greg Thomson, Janice Simon, Brad Johnson, David O'Donnald, and Bobby Starr.


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BevNET IBQ Magazine Announces Fall 2007 Issue
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In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century.
Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.
The 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein's classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns's Baseball.
The book is published by Cornell University Press.
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I liked how he showed the various arguments as to where baseball came from.
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Before taking their long-standing spat outside in front of a six-figure crowd at the Big House, the Maple Leafs and Red Wings have a none-too-small indoor game that's huge in its own way.
The injury-riddled Wings and the wayward Leafs meet Saturday night at the Air Canada Centre, neither playing up to the level of 'Classic' to which their New Year's Day match in Ann Arbor, Mich., has been billed.
Both clubs had worrisome losing streaks up to their shootout victories on Thursday and have shared the often unwanted attention of HBO's 24/7 cameras swirling about the past couple of weeks. The build-up to the Winter Classic is quickly usurping the four games still on Toronto's schedule, so Saturday serves as an appetizer.


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Just a warning to not go on the Easyway to Stop Smoking course. The full money back guarentee is a complete and total lie.
I've just applied for a refund after followng the terms and conditions and was refused by the Director, John Dicey. Don't wate your money!
Written on: 05/01/2010
I found this review not helpful because...i had a great experience at Allen Carr's London clinic. Stopped no problem - never looked back.
Written on: 12/06/2012
To the poster on 12/06/2012 who attended the one day seminar. I am so sorry that the 1st session didn't seem to gel for you (and that you seemed not to enjoy the session). Allen Carr's Easyway To Stop Smoking Clinics provide free of charge back up sessions. It would be great if you could attend one of those.
Having said that - if you have decided that it is not for you - it'll be great for you to get free even if it isn't with us - so good luck with that.
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Written on: 12/06/2012
To the first poster who claimed that the money back guarantee is a "complete and total lie" and that their refund request was declined in spite of the fact that they adhered to the terms and conditions - YOU KNOW that this is simply a lie.
I am John Dicey, an Allen Carr's Easyway Therapist and Director and I am happy to stand by my statement publicly and on the record. If you are willing to stand by your statement publicly and on the record - please do post your real full name here. Of course you won't do that because your claim is entirely bogus.
Allen Carr's Easyway To Stop Smoking Clinic's Money Back Guarantee is extremely simple. All we ask is that clients are prepared to attend up to three sessions in three months without cancelling, postponing, failing to attend, or arriving more than 15 minutes late for any appointments which they have booked. If a client does that and fails to stop smoking then their fee is refunded in full. We are the only organisation of our type to offer this kind of guarantee.
I have no idea whether the poster genuinely ever was a client at one of our clinics but I can be 100% certain that his story is entirely untrue. Valid refund claims are never, ever declined (in fact we always try our best to be more than fair).
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I didn't find this review helpful either because I had a great experience at the London clinic and would have happily paid triple the fee they asked for the seminar. Don't let this persons negative review put you off from achieving freedom from cigarettes!
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Sephardi Jews Lack Screening Programs for Their Genetic Diseases
Since screening for Tay-Sachs disease began close to 40 years ago, Ashkenazic Jews have dominated the scene when it comes to Jewish genetic disorders.
When he and his wife went to take blood tests in preparation for starting a family in 2003, he discovered that the screening included a panel of tests for Ashkenazic Jewish genetic disorders. But Belinfante is Sephardic.
"We told them at the time that we were not Ashkenazi, but they told us they don't do testing for Sephardic diseases, just for Ashkenazi ones," recalled Belinfante, who traces his ancestry to the Iberian Peninsula via the Balkans, Holland and England. "So they went ahead and did the Ashkenazi tests anyway."
With a note of bemusement, Belinfante, who is the librarian and archivist at the New York-based American Sephardi Federation, added, "Surprisingly enough, they found we did not have any of the Ashkenazi Jewish diseases."
Since screening for Tay-Sachs disease began close to 40 years ago, Ashkenazic Jews have dominated the scene when it comes to Jewish genetic disorders. Having been reproductively isolated for centuries - and having grown from just a handful of founders into a population of millions in a relatively short span of time - Ashkenazic Jews are a relatively homogeneous group that has inherited a host of rare genetic disorders and has proved to be a rich source of information for geneticists.
But what about the others in the Jewish community? What about Sephardic Jews? Are they also susceptible to a unique group of genetic disorders rarely shared by other groups? Does a Sephardic couple planning on having children also need to be screened for certain diseases?
"There is no disease that you can call a Sephardic genetic disease," said Rabbi Elie Abadie, who is a physician and director of the Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies at Yeshiva University. Why this would be so and what this means - as is so often the case with genetics - has as much to do with history as with biology.
"Non-Ashkenazi Jews are collectively much more diverse than Ashkenazi Jews," explained Aviva Ben-Ur, a professor in the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who authored the new book "Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History" (NYU Press).
The term "Sephardic" itself often tends to obscure this diversity. At its root, the word refers to Jews who can trace their origins back to the Iberian Peninsula, but it is often used as a catchall label for any Jew who is simply not Ashkenazic. Although even many non-Ashkenazic Jews themselves may employ the label, it glosses over a diversity of communities stretching from the Balkans, to North Africa, to the Arab world, to the Caucasus and beyond. The genetic picture is not far behind.
"You can't say 'Sephardic genetic diseases,' because most of the disorders are specific to the community of birth," said Dr. Joël Zlotogora, a professor of human genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an expert in the field of Jewish population genetics. "Moroccan Jews are different from Tunisian Jews and so on. For non-Ashkenazi Jews you have to look by country of birth."
In Israel today, where non-Ashkenazic Jews represent a much larger proportion of the Jewish population than they do in North America, the medical establishment is very attuned to this reality. When an Israeli Jew comes for genetic screening, if the individual is not Ashkenazic, he or she is tested for the disorders known to exist among the Jews within his or her country of origin or the country of origin of the individual?s parents or grandparents and great-grandparents.
Several years ago, Israel?s Ministry of Health put up a Web site dedicated to genetics that publishes a list of disorders. A quick review of the list reveals the distinctions and distinctiveness of which Zlotogora speaks. Separate lists exist for Ashkenazic Jews, as well as for Algerian, Libyan, Tunisian, Moroccan, Iraqi, Iranian, Syrian, Yemenite, Kurdish, Bukharan, Georgian, Indian, Ethiopian, Caucasian and Karaite Jews.
There are a small number of disorders listed that are shared across several communities, in particular among Jews from North Africa. These diseases, explained Zlotogora, became common because they conferred some advantage to a person who is just a carrier ? i.e. has one mutated and one healthy gene - for the disease but does not get sick. Beta-thalassemia and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD), both blood disorders that can cause certain types of anemia, are prime examples. Being a carrier for one of these diseases provides some protection against malaria.
Like their Ashkenazic counterparts, non-Ashkenazic communities developed unique sets of genetic disorders because they were isolated reproductively from the populations around them. But they were also, for the most part, isolated geographically and thus reproductively, from each other. The acceptance of marriage between relatives, even between first cousins, also contributed to the spread of some genetic mutations, as it did in the Ashkenazic world.
According to a 2001 survey by the World Sephardi Federation, non-Ashkenazic Jews account for approximately 26 percent of world Jewry. In Israel today, they are about half of the Jewish population. Their sizable presence since Israel's founding has led to a growth in the study, understanding and awareness of the genetic disorders affecting their communities. "With time we have more and more disordersamong non-Ashkenazim that we are able to test for," Zlotogora said.
Statistics on the number of non-Ashkenazic Jews in the United States are more difficult to come by. Those that do exist, explained Ben-Ur, "are not based on any kind of systematic survey." The World Sephardi Federation survey estimates that only 4.5% of American and Canadian Jews are not Ashkenazic. But some have claimed that this estimate may be too low.
Most of America's non-Ashkenazic Jews arrived over the past half-century from the Middle East and Central Asia. "Because they make up a very small percentage of American Jewry, much more attention is paid to Ashkenazi Jews in all areas of society," said Abadie, who is also the founding rabbi at Congregation Edmond J. Safra in New York. This, he said, includes the area of genetic disorders.
It was just last month that the United States got its first genetic-disease screening program tailored to a specific non-Ashkenazic Jewish community. In mid-July, the Medical Genetics Institute at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles began a population-based program to screen Iranian Jews for four genetic disorders that occur with relative frequency in that community.
Beyond the program at Cedars-Sinai, however, someone trying to find information in the United States on genetic disorders for specific non-Ashkenazic communities would be a bit hard-pressed.
The American Sephardi Federation puts out a list of four diseases under the title "Sephardic Recessive Disorders," and several Jewish genetic screening centers around the country list the same four disorders on their Web sites. These four diseases - beta-thalassemia; G6PD; familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), which causes recurrent fevers and rashes; and glycogen storage disease type III (GSD III), a severe metabolic disorder ? are shared across several non-Ashkenazic communities in the Mediterranean basin and North Africa.
Yet they, too, are "erroneously called Sephardic genetic diseases," said Abadie, because "they are diseases that manifest themselves in Sephardic Jews also." Beta-thalassemia, G6PD and FMF are found among many populations in North Africa and the Mediterranean. And GSD III is present in other North African groups, as well.
Dr. Harry Ostrer, director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University Medical Center and a leading scholar of Jewish genetics, called this list "incomplete."
"There is a noticeable gap in the availability of testing for Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi Jews" in the United States, said Ostrer, who in 2007 initiated a mapping of the Jewish genome akin to the Human Genome Project called the Jewish HapMap Project. ?We?re going to have to come to grips with it pretty soon."
When a non-Ashkenazic Jew comes to NYU's genetics unit for screening, the staff devises a panel based on the person's community of origin. But for some conditions it is simply not possible to find an American lab equipped to conduct the necessary test, Ostrer noted.
An informal survey by the Forward of Jewish genetic screening centers found that although many provide counseling for the four disorders commonly listed as "Sephardic," they cannot perform the tests themselves.
"We help them, but we can't do the testing for the Sephardic diseases through the Victor Center," said Faye Shapiro, a genetic counselor at the Victor Center for Jewish Genetic Diseases at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. The Victor Centers, of which there are three ? in Philadelphia, Miami and Boston - offer screening for Jewish genetic disorders at substantially reduced rates. Their lab, however, doesn?t test for non-Ashkenazic diseases, so such tests must be sent out to commercial labs at full cost.
Shapiro went on to explain that, whereas many Ashkenazic diseases are life-threatening or very debilitating, both FMF and G6PD - so common across populations that most American hospitals screen newborns for it - can be made livable with the proper treatment and precautions. In the United States, tests for thalassemia, a disease that can become quite severe as it progresses, are also readily available, given the disease?s presence among all Mediterranean populations. GSD III is very severe, but it is extremely rare in the United States, she added.
The relative lack of attention paid to recessive disorders among non-Ashkenazic communities in the United States may be due, in part, to attitudes within the communities themselves. "They like to be private about their lives. They like to be anonymous," Abadie commented. Abadie, who is part of the Syrian community, said that when leaders of his community were asked to participate in the Jewish HapMap Project, they declined. He added that reluctance about testing remains strong, because uncovering a carrier may stigmatize a family. "The Sephardic community is close-knit and families know each very other well," and therefore, he added, the communities feel they know which families are carriers for certain diseases.
Ostrer, however, said that scientists would take issue with this reasoning, because since carriers do not get the disease, "you can't rely on family history. That?s the whole point of screening."
In speaking with Syrian, Iranian, Bukharan and other non-Ashkenazic Jewish groups for the HapMap project, Ostrer said that he and his colleagues found there to be "considerable interest" in screening.
"I think we need to be doing it," he concluded, adding that he hopes to begin offering tailored programs soon. "We treat them as very distinct communities. I hope that others will do so in the future as well."
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IT vs. OT: Bridging the divide
Twilight of OT?
Individuals working in OT also need a different kind of motivation or they may feel they are stuck in a career dead end. IT skills can be applied in all sorts of industries so an engineer may move from banking to retailing with relative ease. Such is not the case for people coming from OT. "If engineers spend time learning the operations of a particular company or industrial sector, they might be making themselves better in their current job, but not making themselves more marketable or competitive outside of a particular industry," Conway says. "It's almost a negative incentive. The better they are in their current jobs in a specific sector, the more responsibility they're going to get, the more demands that can be put on them in that role, but it's so specific and such a niche, that it doesn't help them if they want to look at a job in the banking industry for example. It is important to ensure personnel development goals are aligned and incentives are in place to train personnel for a role and retain those individuals."
The idea of IT moving into the plant may also be a defensive one that is driven more by necessity than any particular strategic objective. "It is actually easier to train the OT expert and controls engineers on IT and IP-based technology and management of those assets than vice versa," says Chet Namboodri, managing director of global manufacturing industry sales for Cisco. "The issue is that the controls engineering breed is a bit of a dying one. There's less of that experience resource available now throughout the world, both in developed economies and more broadly. That said, there are examples of organizations that have been successful in following the convergence approach, and leveraging what they want out of a converged network. The real transformational business value is by using that inherent integration to get at use cases that drive efficiencies or even outside revenues.
The positive side of convergence
While the discussion so far may seem somewhat negative, as Namboodri observes, there are many positive aspects of IT moving more into a manufacturing environment beyond simply filling a staffing gap. "There is value in converging IT and OT from a networking standpoint," he suggests. "Both IT and OT have a very strong role to play in that integration and the subsequent management of those networks. To highlight one as more important than the other is a disservice to both. There are some technical concerns over things like determinism in motion control, but those are resolving themselves. Those are less of a problem with technology and network convergence than what is really at the heart of making a successful transition into IP-based industrial networks, which is the cultural convergence that needs to take place.
"A number of companies have even gone the next step and organizationally converged manufacturing IT and controls engineering functions under one roof. They recognize that this network, even at the device level, enables visualization with remote access. It enables collaboration between their production experts and operations personnel, maintenance personnel, technicians, and so on, that are on-site through a secure architecture. That's what they're starting to leverage systematically. Instead of sending their experts to another plant on a plane to troubleshoot a problem, they're able to do that with the visualization since a lot of that is seeing what's happening. They also get data and diagnostic feeds of what's going on so they can troubleshoot with the people on the plant floor to get an operation back up and running much faster. The trust has been built around the value of IT."
Both can have seats at the table
Time is not necessarily on the side of traditional OT functions, but given the slow pace of technology change in most manufacturing environments, the devices and networking techniques unique to process plants and manufacturing floors will be around for a long time. Nonetheless, more and more of those networking functions are going to be replaced by IP-based technologies. For the foreseeable future, both will be necessary, although it may be harder to figure out where the fences are.
"The IT/OT line is blurring," notes Jason Montroy, client relationship manager for Maverick Technologies. "You need engineers that know about both sides. It's going to remain compartmentalized, at least for a while, to where you're going to have an IT resource that knows a little bit about automation, and you'll have an automation resource that knows a little about IT. Those engineers that have skills outside their core competencies will be very highly valued. One positive thing that we're seeing right now, as we go into opportunities that involve DCS migrations, you're getting an IT person at the table early in the project. This is very important, because IT is providing the ecosystem that the control system will reside in. Bringing them into the game early on is very beneficial."
The challenge going forward will be to get the right people into the right positions, even when highly qualified individuals will be harder to find. Companies will have to be more creative, and that in itself could be the biggest challenge to established practices and existing company cultures. IT is coming, and when it's all done, your networks and information management may be vastly different than they are today.
Peter Welander is a content manager for Control Engineering, firstname.lastname@example.com
Key concepts:
- IT is pushing into more areas that were traditionally separated from OT.
- Expansion of IP-based technologies will displace more industrial protocols.
- Convergence of IT and OT is growing, and moving into new environments.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
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BLOUNT COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) – Alabama State Troopers report that a single-vehicle accident resulted in the death of 20-year-old Melissa Gilbert from Remlap. It happened on Airport Road, two miles south of Altoona at 1:15 a.m Saturday.
Gilbert was killed when the vehicle she was in left the roadway and overturned. She was a passenger; the condition of the driver is unknown at this time. The accident is still under investigation.
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Pathetic playacting! Athletic Bilbao's Ander Herrera tries to con referee during Basque derby
The San Mames, El Catherdal, bade farewell to the Basque derby with a defeat for its host Athletic Bilbao.
There was an air of inevitability to the defeat in a season that has seen Bielsa's Bilbao in perpetual crisis mode virtually from the off.
Athletic's 3-1 defeat at the hands of their rivals Real Sociedad could be perhaps best summed up by this pathetic piece of playacting by Athletic's young midfielder Ander Herrera.
After receiving a light brush to the face from Markel Bergara (and giving the same effete brush back in return), Herrera collapsed to the ground clutching his nose as if it had been busted open.
Looking around in vain hope for attention from the referee a la Busquets, he quickly saw sense and got quickly back to his feet before the ref could cotton on to his playacting.
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Solar Eclipse Will be Visible in Montana This Weekend
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Albanian artist Anri Sala has been announced as winner of the ABSOLUT ART AWARD 2011. The video artist deals with themes of history and memory, using inventive narrative structures to question the realities of modernity.
Full press release after the jump.
Since the early 1980's, ABSOLUT VODKA has been a proud patron of the arts. Two years ago, ABSOLUT instituted the ABSOLUT ART AWARD to reinforce its long-term commitment to creativity. After giving the award to Keren Cytter in 2009 and Rirkrit Tiravanija in 2010, the third annual ABSOLUT ART AWARD goes to Albanian-born video artist Anri Sala. Chairman of the ABSOLUT ART AWARD jury, Christine Macel, Chief Curator at Centre Pompidou, will award Anri Sala with the €30,000 prize during a ceremony in Stockholm on September 16.
The jury's citation reads: "Anri Sala's work offers a unique way of looking at the world that combines reflection on history, memories, and consciousness of the instant, with an absolute awareness of presence and disappearance. He possesses a special talent for precise and subtle displays, and a unique ability to conceive installations and architectural proposals including sound, image, sculpture, film and live performances."
Born in Albania in 1974, Anri Sala belongs to the last generation of artists that emerged under the country's repressive regime. The fall of communism and exposure to Western cultures changed Sala's philosophy of life almost overnight, and his early work very much reflects the juxtaposition of East-European history and the post-modern age. Over the past decade, Anri Sala has gained international attention for his video work and he is considered one of Europe's most interesting cinematic storytellers. Slowly and with attention to detail, Sala explores the relationship between light, sound and music to replace language as the most important means of creating captivating narratives. He dissects the interface of documentary and fiction, and raises interesting questions about memory and modernity.
Anri Sala's works have been included in numerous biennales including those in Berlin, Moscow, São Paolo, Sydney and Venice. He has had major solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Wien, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami among others. This autumn, new exhibitions are scheduled at the Serpentine Gallery in London as well as Centre Pompidou, Festival d'Automne and Club Marbeuf in Paris.
"Our collaboration with the arts started with ABSOLUT WARHOL. Since then we have collaborated with hundreds of cutting-edge artists; Keith Haring, Louise Bourgeois, David Shrigley and Damien Hirst to name a few. The ABSOLUT ART AWARD reinforces our long-term commitment to creativity. It is also our way of giving something back to the art world," says Anna Malmhake, Vice President of Global Marketing at the Absolut Company. "We are proud to present Anri Sala with the ABSOLUT ART AWARD 2011. He is one of today's most fascinating artists."
Christine Macel, Chief Curator at Centre Pompidou, chairs the ABSOLUT ART AWARD jury. In addition, the 2011 jury consists of last year's winner Rirkrit Tiravanija, Thomas Nordanstad, filmmaker and curator, Anna Malmhake, Vice President Global Marketing, The Absolut Company and Göran Lundqvist, Chairman of the board at Spritmuseum. Anri Sala will be part of next year's jury.
The Absolut Company has the worldwide responsibility for the production and marketing of ABSOLUT VODKA and Level Vodka. ABSOLUT VODKA is the world's fourth largest premium spirits brand, and it is sold in 126 markets. Every bottle of ABSOLUT VODKA is produced in Åhus in southern Sweden. The head office is located in Stockholm, Sweden. Since July, 2008, The Absolut Company is a part of Pernod Ricard, which holds one of the most prestigious brand portfolios in the sector.
Anri Sala – selected works
Le Clash (2010)
From the interior of a bricked-up building, a once influential rock and punk venue, comes the famous riff of a song. Slowly turning the handle of a barrel organ, two musicians stroll past the abandoned concert hall. When the distinct melodies conjoin, a sense of shifting reality occurs, highlighting two differing recollections of the punk song.
Why the Lion Roars (2009)
A composition of feature films that communicate through temperature. Each of the fifty-seven selected films represents specifically defined degrees; from minus 11°C to 45°C. A thermometer measures the temperature outside the projection space and simultaneously edits the film program, which changes in correspondence to the actual outdoor temperature.
Long Sorrow (2005)
The film shows the New-York jazz saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc, suspended from the facade of a building in a suburb of Berlin, named "Lange Jammer" by its inhabitants. The work is transcending limitations and stimulates the extension of imagination by showing the interplay between the internal and external, the familiar and the unknown.
Intervista (1998)
A film portraying Anri Sala's mother based on a mute interview and two fragments of film. The interview was made thirty-five years ago when Sala's mother was an activist in the Albanian Youth Communist Union. Sala found the film by accident in a box when moving out of an apartment. The key is in the silent movement of the mother's lips. With help from a school for the deaf and mute, the mother's voice is reinterpreted, and Sala's mother is faced with the words she pronounced at the time.
About the ABSOLUT ART AWARD
The ABSOLUT ART AWARD was instituted in 2009 to celebrate the company's 30 years of creative collaborations. The annual prize is given to an international artist who explores creativity through the integration of art forms. Christine Macel, Chief Curator at Centre Pompidou, has chaired the ABSOLUT ART AWARD jury since 2010, following Daniel Birnbaum, Director at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, who chaired the 2009 jury. The winners of the ABSOLUT ART AWARD are Keren Cytter (2009), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2010) and Anri Sala (2011).
About the ABSOLUT ART COLLECTION
For 30 years, ABSOLUT VODKA has collaborated with the creative world, and today the ABSOLUT ART COLLECTION comprises more than 800 works from artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Jean-Michael Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Sylvie Fleury, David Shrigley and Linn Fernström. The collection is now owned by Spritmuseum. It will have its permanent home at the new museum venue, which opens in Stockholm in 2012.


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