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A new Certificate Authority, Let's Encrypt, is here and begin offering free DV SSL Certificates.
Let's Encrypt is a new non-profit Certificate Authority (CA) sponsored and founded by industry advocates; such as, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, and the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Let's Encrypt will be launching very soon and will be offering free SSL certificates.
Of course we are strong supporters of universal encryption and hope that Let's Encrypt will lower barriers for websites that can't afford existing SSL options. However, we do not think Let's Encrypt should be a viable option for commercial use of any kind, you should continue to buy from established Certificate Authorities (CAs) such as Symantec, Comodo, GeoTrust, RapidSSL and Thawte. Especially since the pricing for basic encryption/Domain Validated (DV) certificates are available for extremely low and affordable rates and still carry a strong brand name recognized by most web users. Also, Let's Encrypt will not be able to provide a few major types of SSL certificate solutions, like Extended Validation (EV) or multi-domain certificates and we definitely don't think that a free certificate solves a user's most pressing problem when browsing on the web: Authentication.
Let's Encrypt Will Have Major Limitations
Unfortunately, Let's Encrypt will have some very notable limitations due to their limited funding and infrastructure. Because they will only be offering free certificates, they will only be able to provide automated, basic encryption only/Domain Validated (DV) SSL certificates with no other frills that typically come with SSL certificates.
These limited certificates only confirm the ownership of your domain, and don't involve any vetting of your business information (which typically takes a validation expert's time and effort to manually verify) or any additional features found in basic certificates, like a site seal or a warranty. In general, businesses that want to offer their potential customers an additional layer of safety & security like activating all SSL indicators in browser or from promoting authentication should opt for OV or EV certificates from trusted 3rd party security companies/commercial CAs such as Symantec and Comodo.
EV certificates (like the one we use on our website) are the only kind that activate the Green Address Bar, the most prominent SSL indicator in the world, which proudly displays your business name and location next to your URL in web browsers in green. Green means go in all languages and for all ages!
Many of the largest companies in the world use EV SSL certificates because they are better equipped to communicate trust and security to the general website visitors. Twitter, Apple, and PayPal, for example, all use EV SSL to ensure users have absolutely no doubt they are on the official and intended website. Banks almost exclusively use EV SSL because EV certificates are less vulnerable to unauthorized issuance and phishing attacks. The green bar cannot be duplicated by a hacker at all.
Also, Let's Encrypt won't have support for Wildcard SSL certificates at launch. Wildcard certificates allow you to protect subdomains of your choice, indicated by the use of an "*" (giving you the option to extend SSL security to the location of the asterisk, such as "*.domain.com" or "*.employeeportal.domain.com"). These certificates are incredibly versatile and an efficient option for management reasons. For some websites, they can actually be the only option if they need to have immediate SSL security on new subdomains.
We believe these are major limitations which will exclude a notable number of users and use-cases from even trying out the certificate.
Years of Experience Taught us That Users Need More than a Free Certificate
We have worked with hundreds of thousands of customers and if our experience has taught us anything, it's that SSL can be confusing, and many people need help. Knowing what type of certificate you need and how you will get it successfully working on your network are the most common and most serious questions our customers and partners have. Anyone who works with SSL knows it's about much more than just making a purchase. These complex security solutions need hand holding, therefore are not a type of product that can just be sold and never spoken of again. People need help with validation, installation, site seals, Always on SSL implementation, random industry updates & compliance, etc. even if it is just with a basic DV certificate.
Every customer of ours gets 24 x 7 access to our customer support to help with any part of the SSL process. For example, when the Heartbleed bug was discovered, our team of SSL experts was answering questions non-stop from website owners and administrators worried about what to do next. When the industry announced the SHA-2 migration, we had thousands of calls from confused users who did not know if they would be affected.
Due to the nature of Let's Encrypt, they won't have staff on hand to help you get your first SSL certificate installed, or have a 24 x 7 hotline the next time a critical bug is discovered. Community support will be available, but we don't think this will be the best option for professionals and business owners who need to quickly get their site configured and working, and move on to the job they really care about which involves making money. If an issue with the magnitude of Heartbleed occurred and your business was relying on a free certificate issued by Let's Encrypt and you need help navigating the process to resolve the issue, you might be in some serious trouble all in an attempt to save $20-$50 at the onset…it's just not worth the risk.
We have found that what our customer's need most isn't a free certificate, but help and guidance on how to ensure their SSL configuration is working properly and is adequately secure. Most businesses view time as the most precious commodity, so they are more than willing to pay for a security product that is backed with 24/7 support and quick solutions, rather than simply getting a free product that requires countless hours of manual intervention. Web security in nothing to cut corners on in this day and age, it needs to be left to industry experts and security companies with specialized & optimized security protocols, processes & procedures.
We also strongly believe in the reputation of the existing CAs. Numerous studies have shown that globally recognized CAs like Symantec, Comodo, GeoTrust, and Thawte reassure millions of people using the web every day. Case studies have shown that using a "Site Seal" (an interactive badge showing your website's use of SSL and choice of CA) from a trusted CA can improve customer trust and conversion rates, especially the Norton® Secure Seal, which comes with all Symantec branded certificates and it the most-recognized trust mark on the web.
Let's Encrypt's one-size-fits-all approach isn't perfect. A personal blog has different needs than a corporate homepage. At GMHosting Hub, we believe there is a perfect solution for everyone: personal attention and attentive support behind globally recognized brands.
As SSL encryption becomes more prevalent, websites and online businesses looking to stand out will need to do more. We hope that the green padlock, an indicator that SSL is being used on a website, will become ubiquitous across the web.
Those looking to differentiate themselves should look to do more and get an EV certificate which activates the more prominent Green Address Bar, proudly displaying your companies legally registered name and country. The rigors of the EV process doesn't just get you a fancy display in your browser – it also makes replicating your certificate extremely harder (a hacker may just more likely target a site with let's say a free basic certificate?), which can keep your website and reputation safer.
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The artichoke
With a tender heart
Dressed up like a warrior,
Standing at attention, it built
A small helmet
Under its scales
It remained
By its side
The crazy vegetables
Their tendrills and leaf-crowns,
Throbbing bulbs,
In the sub-soil
The carrot
With its red mustaches
Was sleeping,
The grapevine
Hung out to dry its branches
Through which the wine will rise,
The cabbage
Dedicated itself
To trying on skirts,
The oregano
To perfuming the world,
And the sweet
There in the garden,
Dressed like a warrior,
Like a proud
And one day
Side by side
In big wicker baskets
Walking through the market
To realize their dream
The artichoke army
In formation.
Never was it so military
Like on parade.
The men
In their white shirts
Among the vegetables
The Marshals
Of the artichokes
Lines in close order
Command voices,
And the bang
Of a falling box.
With her basket
She chooses
An artichoke,
She's not afraid of it.
She examines it, she observes it
Up against the light like it was an egg,
She buys it,
She mixes it up
In her handbag
With a pair of shoes
With a cabbage head and a
Of vinegar
She enters the kitchen
And submerges it in a pot.
Thus ends
In peace
This career
Of the armed vegetable
Which is called an artichoke,
Scale by scale,
We strip off
The delicacy
And eat
The peaceful mush
Of its green heart.
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One family made sure their military father would be there for the holidays, combining them all into one weekend full of fun!
Al Clendennin was set to deploy for "around 100 days," and would miss Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and his birthday. Luckily, the man's brilliant children made sure he didn't miss out the holiday seasons.
15-year-old Olivia Clendennin and her siblings transformed the family home into a haunted dwelling for Halloween…three months early. The kids filled the place with decorations and candy while their father enjoyed a surprise massage.
"He got home and of course we were playing 'This is Halloween' from 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.' We were all wearing costumes that we threw together that day … and it actually felt like Halloween," the high school sophomore recalled. "My dad also threw on a costume; so did my mom. My grandparents also came over, and we have this tradition where we watch a scary movie."
After a screening of "The Conjuring 2," it was time to give thanks. Wouldn't you know it, the famility celebrated with a full feast.
"It was a traditional Thanksgiving; all the normal stuff. We even got olives because my dad loves those," the teen explained.
Finally, the last month of the year was upon them. After dad went out for a coffee, the kids planned to celebrate his December 22nd birthday. They presented Al with a new laptop, a thoughtful way to keep in touch while overseas. And since the family forgot to buy candles, sparklers were in order!
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Next up: Santa's favorite holiday. The house was fully decorated with a miniature Christmas tree and gleaming lights.
"We got up," Olivia said, "and my mom made our traditional Christmas breakfast — waffles, bacon, French toast."
Paying homage to the snow filled season, the kids played Andy Williams' holiday classic "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year." To the Clendennin family, it definitely was.
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Single-Payer Health Care No Panacea for Maryland
October 11, 2001
Health care for the uninsured has become a major issue in many states and now Maryland is examining ways to achieve universal coverage. The system could include expanding Medicaid (the federal-state health care program for low income families) or creating an insurance pool to cover the uninsured. However, some reform advocates would go much further and reshape the entire health care system. They suggest a multi-payer system requiring employers to either offer health insurance or pay into a government-created system for the uninsured. Others advocate a single-payer, government-financed system that would replace private health insurance and cover all Marylanders.
Applying its State Tax Analysis Modeling Program to Maryland, the Beacon Hill Institute found that all four approaches would incur major costs. Their analysts examined how each method of implementing universal health care would affect employment, payroll, tax revenues and the capital stock. (see figure)
- A single-payer system would be the most expensive resulting in the loss of 117,531 jobs and a loss of $4.8 billion in wage income in 2002.
- The job loss would be equivalent to an increase in Maryland's unemployment rate of 4.7 percentage points.
- By contrast, an expansion of Medicaid to cover the uninsured would cost 30,618 jobs and a loss of $1.2 billion in wage income -- causing the equivalent of a 1.2-percentage-point increase in the state unemployment rate.
- All four health care systems would require the state to raise additional tax revenues, say researchers, ranging from $565 million for the multi-payer system to nearly $12 billion for the single-payer system in 2002.
To fund the single-payer system the state would have to raise the average effective personal income tax rate by 233 percent, from the projected 2002 effective rate of 5.01 percent to 16.69 percent.
Source: David G. Tuerck, "Universal Health Care and the Maryland Economy: An Econometric Analysis Using the Maryland State Tax Analysis Modeling Program," September 2001, Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research, Suffolk University, 8 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. 02108, (617) 573-8750.
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, Deut 30:19. Those choices are ours today, we can follow Christ and Live or reject him and die.
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May Stevens
This biographical article is written like a résumé. (December 2013)
|May Stevens
|May Stevens
June 9, 1924
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
|Massachusetts College of Art
Art Students League of New York
Académie Julian
Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College
|Known for
Drawings and prints
Books and manuscripts
|Notable work
|Freedom Riders (1963)
Big Daddy series (1968-76)
Artemesia Gentileschi series (1974-79)
History Paintings series (1974-81)
Ordinary/Extraordinary series (1976-91)
SoHo Women Artists (1978)
Sea of Words series (1990)
Rivers and Other Bodies of Water series (2001)
|Feminist art
May Stevens (born June 9, 1924) is an American feminist artist, political activist, educator, and writer.[1] Major works include: Freedom Riders (1963), "Big Daddy" series (1968–1976), Ordinary/Extraordinary (1976), and SoHo Women Artists (1978). In 1977, she was one of the featured artists discussed in a seminar given by Jacqueline Moss at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The seminar was titled "The Women's Movement: Iconography, Esthetics".[2]
Stevens was born to working-class parents, Alice Dick Stevens and Ralph Stanley Stevens, in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Quincy.[3] Stevens had one brother, Stacey Dick Stevens who died of pneumonia at the age of fifteen.[4]
May Stevens studied at the Massachusetts College of Art, the Art Students League and the Academie Julian in Paris. She began her first major painting series in 1963, Freedom Riders (with catalogue essay by Martin Luther King, Jr.) before moving to New York in 1967, where she lived and maintained studios with her husband, Rudolf Baranik, until 1997. During this time, she taught at the School of Visual Arts (1961–96). Other well-known painting series include Big Daddy (1967–76); Artemesia Gentileschi (1974–79); History Paintings (1974–81); Ordinary Extraordinary / Rosa Luxemburg and Alice Stevens (1976-91); Sea of Words (begun in 1990); and Rivers and Other Bodies of Water, (begun in 2001). Stevens helped found the magazine Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, published from 1977 to 1992.
Stevens' has exhibited widely throughout her life. She moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1998 and in 1999, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, had a major retrospective of her work, entitled Images of Women Near and Far 1983-1997, the museum's first exhibition for a living female artist. Her solo exhibition in 2006 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art traveled to Springfield Museum of Art, MO and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Stevens' work is in numerous museum collections, including the British Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Cleveland Museum; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Academy of Design, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Stevens is the recipient of numerous awards including the College Art Association Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement as an artist, poet, social activist, and teacher (2001), 10 MacDowell Colony residencies, Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, Bunting Fellowship (1990), Guggenheim Fellowship in painting (1986), National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in painting (1983), Andy Warhol Foundation Award (2001).[5][6][7][8][9]
Selected exhibitions[edit]
- 1951 Salon D'Autumne, Paris, France
- 1951 Salon De Jeunes Peintres, Paris, France
- 1957 May Stevens, ACA Gallery, New York, NY
- 1963 Freedom Riders: Paintings by May Stevens, Roko Gallery, New York, NY
- 1971 The Permanent Collection: Women Artists, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
- 1973 Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- 1977 Consciousness and Content, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- 1980 Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
- 1982 Art Couples 1: May Stevens and Rudolf Baranik, P.S. 1, New York, NY
- 1983 Portraits on a Human Scale, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- 1984 Tradition and Conflict, 1963-1973, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
- 1985 Ordinary/Extraordinary, A Summation 1977-84 Boston University Art Gallery, MA (traveling exhibition)
- 1988 Committed to Print, 1960 to Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- 1988 One Plus or Minus One, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
- 1989 Mothers of Invention, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York, NY (traveling exhibition)
- 1995–98 Sniper's Nest: Art That Has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
- 1999 May Stevens: Images of Women Near and Far, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- 2001 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA Rivers and Other Bodies of Water, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY (begun in 2000)
- 2002 Personal and Political: Women Artists of the Eighties, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
- 2002 In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
- 2003 Deep River, new paintings and works on paper, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
- 2005 New Works, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
- 2005-6 The Water Remembers: Paintings and Works on Paper from 1990-2004 Started at the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO and traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts (June – September 2005) and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (October 2005 – January 2006).
- 2006 How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970-1975, Mabel Smith Douglas Library, Rutgers (traveling exhibition)
- 2006 Women, Words, and Water: Works on Paper by May Stevens, Rutgers University
- 2007 ashes rock snow water: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
- 2008 May Stevens: Big Daddy, Paintings and works on paper, 1968-1976 Mary Ryan Gallery, NY
- 2010 May Stevens: Crossing Time, I.D.E.A. Space at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
- 2011 One Plus or Minus One, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
- 2012 May Stevens: The Big Daddy Series, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
- 2013 May Stevens: Political Pop at ADAA: The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Selected public collections[edit]
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
- British Museum, London, UK
- Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
- Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, OH
- Harvard University Art Museums/ Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
- Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
- Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- National Academy of Design, NY
- National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
- New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
- New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
- Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
- Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
- University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, NY
- Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
- Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Selected awards[edit]
- 1958 New England Annual Landscape Prize
- 1968–69 National Institute of Arts and Letters Child Hassam Purchase Award
- 1971 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
- 1978 LINE Association Grant for Artist' Books
- 1983 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting
- 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting
- 1988–89 Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe College
- 1990 WCA Honor Award for Lifetime Achievement
- 1997 Massachusetts College of Art Alumna of the Year
- 2001 Andy Warhol Foundation Award
- 2001 College Art Association Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement "as an artist, poet, social activist and teacher"
- 2004 Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design
Selected bibliography[edit]
- Alloway, Lawrence. May Stevens. Catalog for Big Daddy Series. New York: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1973.
- Braff, Phyllis. "The Feminine Image in Its Many Facets in the 20th Century." New York Times, April 6, 1997.
- Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art and Society. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
- Glueck, Grace. "May Stevens 'Rivers and Other Bodies of Water'". New York Times. June 1, 2001.
- Gouma-Peterson, Thalia and Patricia Mathews. "The Feminist Critique of Art History." Art Bulletin, September 1987.
- Hills, Patricia, ed. May Stevens. Ordinary/Extraordinary: A Summation, 1977-1984. Essays by Donald Kuspit, Lucy Lippard, Moira Roth, Lisa Tickner. Boston: Boston University Art Gallery, 1984.
- Hills, Patricia and Phyllis Rose. May Stevens Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, 2005.
- Johnson, Ken. "May Stevens." New York Times, November 21, 1997
- King, Martin Luther. Preface in Freedom Riders [exhibition catalogue]. Roko Gallery, New York, NY, 1963
- Lippard, Lucy R. From the Center. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1976.
- Lippard. "Caring: Five Political Artists." Studio International [London, England], March 1977.
- Lippard. "In Sight, Out of Mind." Z Magazine, May 1988.
- Lippard. "The Politics of Art Criticism." Maine Times, August 4, 1989.
- Mathews, Patricia. "A Dialogue of Silence: May Stevens' Ordinary/Extraordinary, 1977-1986." Art Criticism 3, no. 2, Summer 1987.
- Mathews. "Feminist Art Criticism. "Art Criticism, vol. 5, no. 2, 1989.
- "May Stevens" The New Yorker. February 17 & 24, 2003.
- Murdoch, Robert. "May Steven." ARTnews. October 1999.
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I was never brave like you Sirius he says, eyes shining softly in the dim light, and Sirius knows-in a sickening jolt of horror- that he's losing his baby brother.
You were the strong one, the defiant one. Sirius steps forward in horror, blue-grey eyes pleading, begging. And I was the obedient one, the favored.
They had grown up together, Sirius chafing at the restrictions that were placed on him as the heir, and Regulus accepting it all quietly, absorbing it all as his grey-silver eyes watched the drama around him. Sirius had always been the leader, Regulus the follower. The courageous [to the point of stupidity] knight and the loyal [but smart enough to save his own skin] pawn. That was the way that it had always been.
You won't change, will you? Regulus had asked, right before Sirius had gone to Hogwarts, you'll stay in touch and nothing will change, right? And Sirius had laughed at him and his childish fears and ruffled his hair and promised. Promised that he wouldn't change, that nothing would ever come between them.
They were brothers, weren't they? He had sworn it in blood drawn from his thumb, a boy's oath, with no magic in it.
And then he had gone to Hogwarts and the Hat had put him in Gryffindor. The minute he had arrived in the common room, Sirius had been delighted, gazing around at the warm, homey colors that decorated everything in the Tower. 'It's so different than the Manor', he had thought suddenly. It was warm and cheery and filed with laughter.
And then the weeks had flown by and James had become his friend and they had picked up Remus and Peter not long after and they had spent the days down by the lake, lazing underneath the open blue sky with books and laughter. Or on the Quidditch field, racing against time with the world narrowed down to seven balls, two bats, and thirteen other blurs in the biting air, eyes watering slightly from the speed.
Sirius had quite forgotten about his sibling until he had received a slightly tearstained letter from his little brother, demanding to know why Sirius hadn't written to him immediately after his sorting and why Sirius hadn't owled him the whole, entire year.
Sirius was horrified, of course, and he had immediately turned to rush off to the dorms to write a whole long letter that would have explained everything to his baby brother, but then Snivellus had poked his big fat greasy nose into places where it hadn't belonged and it had all snowballed from there.
In the fray and the resulting detentions, Sirius forgot about his brother's letter, carefully tucked into the depths of his robes in an inside pocket.
Regulus hadn't written again, and by the time Sirius had remembered about the letter, the Hogwart's House Elves had cleaned his robes and the note had vanished. He couldn't even remember what it said, and so he decided that he'd put off the writing home a bit more. After all, another day wouldn't hurt anyone, would it? Regulus, he figured, would have to deal with it. Sirius was in Hogwarts now, not in the Manor with its echoing halls and stiff, formal, coldly beautiful elegance. He had things to do, places to be, people to see, pranks to pull with his fellow Marauders, classes to study for-life in general was calling to him, and for one of the first times in his life, Sirius Black felt free.
Of course, ignoring his brother had consequences later on.
Regulus refused to see Sirius the entire summer, rebuffing any friendly advances and leaving his brother to the mercy of the older Blacks. Sirius had been chastised again and again and criticized for everything that he did. He had been compared to his younger brother [perfect perfect Regulus, doesn't do anything wrong. A good Black, a credit to us. Why can't you be more like Regulus Sirius? If you keep up this nonsense of consorting with the Light Side, we won't be held accountable for what we do. 'Not that you ever are he'd muttered rebelliously to himself] until he was sick and tired of his family and their insane expectations of blind obedience.
He couldn't wait to go back to Hogwarts. Sirius fell asleep dreaming of the common room in Gryffindor Tower.
And when it came time for Reggie's sorting two years after Sirius's own and the Hat place him in Slytherin, icegrey eyes had shown no flicker of emotion as the boy they belonged to strode over to the table. Another boy, two tables down from him stared after him worriedly.
After the Sorting was over and the Feast was over, Sirius had hurried out to meet his brother, ignoring the calls of the prefect and his friends to follow them! Where're you going Siri?
What was that all about? he'd hissed. Livid.
What was what all about? Regulus had replied coolly. Sirius was in too much shock to care.
You didn't even say hi to me on the train! The older had exclaimed, slightly hurt.
And you didn't write me the entire bloody year. We're even.
Reggie'd had a point there. Sirius had backed down then, slipped away to rejoin his friends, and Regulus had hurried off to catch up with his Housemates.
And the brothers had drifted apart, Sirius ignoring his brother, except when they were planning pranks when the boy would decide if Regulus should be immune to it or not, depending on his mood.
Regulus had originally been preoccupied with his coursework, and then his brother had ignored him so he had given the elder the cold shoulder in return, getting pranked for his troubles.
The year passed with much left unsaid and stewing between the two brothers.
And during the summer, Regulus had summoned his elder brother to a Black meeting in the blue room, where his mother had given Sirius an envelope, which his brother opened to an invitation written in childish calligraphy on heavy creamy parchment.
And when the Matriarch had forbidden the heir to go to James's house, Sirius ran away, leaving Regulus to deal with the fallout. He had come back in the middle of the night, a week later.
Regulus had known that his sibling was back. So had his parents, and Sirius was cursed soundly for daring to leave without permission, in order to consort with a blood-traitor!
The young man didn't know what angered his parents more, that he had left without their explicit permission, or that he had left to meet up with James. He didn't really care.
Either way, Sirius had steadfastly ignored and avoided his brother's eyes, dark with anguish. Sirius had ducked his head and hurried past his sibling [former sibling, a evil voice hissed in his mind, you're disowned now, remember?] and tried to forget the way that Regulus held himself-slightly hunched with his down, as though he were afraid of something.
Sirius, very determinedly, didn't think of what might have caused his younger brother to act like that.
They didn't speak for the rest of Regulus' third year. Sirius didn't congratulate his brother for making straight O's on his report card. Regulus didn't congratulate his brother for getting 8 Outstanding O.. Neither inquired as to how they could contact their sibling over the summer. Or the rest of the year. Or any time whatsoever, really.
They had drifted apart even further, the merest memories fluttering between them, fragile as a butterfly.
Then in Regulus's fifth year, and Sirius's last, the boy had confronted his elder in a deserted hallway. He'd accused the older boy of breaking his promise.
Sirius didn't remember, and that was the last straw on their already badly frayed relationship. Regulus ranted. He yelled and screamed and bellowed and thoroughly cut his brother down to size until he was staring at his feet in shame.
And then Regulus had started to smile softly and sadly and cry gently and his voice had stopped yelling and was now but a whisper.
You broke your promise Brother he'd murmured.
Things change, Sirius had countered, confused. People change.
And Regulus had snorted, suddenly bitter. People change. He'd mocked, in a sing-song voice like a child. Bullshit Sirius! Utter BULLSHIT! His eyes had turned angry, tears drying up like dew in the sun, his words becoming poisonous. You were always like this, weren't you? He'd asked. You promised, Sirius. You swore in blood that we wouldn't change.
And Sirius had hung his head ashamed and chastised and feeling very small until a voice inside of him had prodded him enough to make him angry. And then it was Sirius's turn to yell and rant and rail against his sibling. He'd accused Regulus of consorting with the Dark Lord, of being a traitor, of being a horrible sibling, of putting too much stock in his boyhood words.
Weak is what you are, brother. He'd sneered, falling back on the ancient, formal style of courtly manners as a shield against his hurt. You don't stand up for what is right.
I bet you wanted me to be disowned.
And then Sirius had gone too far and he knew it and Regulus knew it.
You want it to be that way? Regulus had stalked away, ice-blue eyes freezing over. Fine.
That summer he joined the Dark lord.
That summer he had a skullandsnake tattooed onto his forearm and pledged his loyalty to Him and had been praised by his parents and had been instantly elevated to a position of power in the hierarchy of Slytherin alumni.
Sirius was Horrified and Outraged and Betrayed at Regulus [little Reggie Little Reggie, he was, Reggie, what happened to us?] and then Sirius had been disowned again [made the front page of the Daily Prophet it did], this time legally and in the Ministry logs, and Regulus named the heir-officially- and it had snowballed again.
Sirius ran away from home and went to live with his best friend, until he got a house [a small, empty looking flat that Sirius absolutely adored because it had room for every single piece of crap that he owned, including some old muggle contraption that he'd picked up because it 'looked cool', much to Remus' disapproval] all of his own, and moved there instead.
Regulus stayed in Black Manor and learned archaic curses and rituals that involved blood and pain, and the occasional virgin.
Years later, Sirius had become occupied with fighting Voldemort and spending time with James [who was working up the nerve to pop the question to Lily-who woulda thought it after seeing how much the girl had loathed him in their childhood] and Remus.
Sirius rather liked the quiet Marauder-which he was pretty sure his parents would not agree with and if they hadn't already blasted him off of the Black Tapestry he would have definitely been cut and burned out of it.
The two brothers hadn't made contact in years.
Years of stiff silence with an ever-widening gap between them.
And to think, but a few years ago, they couldn't have gone a day without contact.
Years of solitude.
Tension was building up between the brothers, even if they didn't know it themselves. Regulus wanted to do something to his brother, hopefully something that would hurt him and shock the sense back into his older sibling, while Sirius wanted to shake his little brother and scream furiously in his face that Voldemort was not the fucking answer, damnit, so why was he doing this to himself?
And then they had met in the alley and all their simmering feelings were given a vent and Sirius had spat curses at the young man across from him, blue-grey eyes burning as the man [not Reggie anymore, Black] took it without flinching.
Regulus looked at his brother calmly, wanting nothing more than to shake his sibling until his neck snapped, so furious were his emotions.
They roiled in him, had been stewing quietly in the back of his mind, popping up at the worst times [he had been cursed more than once by Voldemort because the memory of his brother had distracted him at precisely the wrong moment] and were now held in check by an ice-cold mind.
Then Black had asked Sirius: who, exactly are you?
And that had hurt Sirius. Hurt more than anything that he could have possibly said. Regulus smirked, satisfied outwardly, as he railed against the machinations and politics and pureblood laws that forced him to do this to his own flesh-and-blood inwardly.
His older brother's [because Sirius would always be Regulus's big brother, no matter what his parents decreed] aristocratic face was still in an agonized expression of sheer hurt.
A stiff nod from his regal features, and Regulus Black turned on his heel and apparated, the purposefully loud crack! echoing through the suddenly still alley.
Sirius was suddenly thrown back through the years, back to when the both of them were in Hogwarts and they had had another fight like this. That one had been fixed after a few months. This, this had been festering for a couple of bloody years.
Part of him wanted to hurl garbage at the grimy wall and fry the air with his blistering words. Part of him wanted to go off without making a scene, find a spot, and quietly break down in a corner. Another part wanted to find his estranged relative and beg his forgiveness. And yet another part of him wanted to die. Wanted to take his wand and press it to his throat and whisper the tangle of Latin syllables that would expel a precise jet of razor-sharp light into his jugular.
That would surely be better than having to deal with the piercing throb of agony in his chest. Nothingness sounded really good to Sirius right then, tempting him with oblivion. But he couldn't even take his wand out of his pocket, he was so damaged by his ex-brother's words.
James had found Sirius in the alley, frozen, blue-grey eyes fixed on the spot where Regulus Black had stood, hours before.
Where were you mate? He'd asked. We've been looking everywhere… and then Sirius had slowly shaken his head and left in a daze.
He'd lost his baby brother.
And there was nothing that he could do about it.
Far away, Regulus Black cried into his arms, hating himself, the expression on his brother's face embedded in his mind.
Author's Note:
Alright, I officially published this on April 30th. This was originally (if you looked at my profile) going to be titled 'Toujours Pur', which is the Black Family Motto. The summary was originally going to be ' Toujours Pur. . .Sorry brother.'
This was beta'd by CheshireKitKat, formerly known as Harlequin9573. Thanks!
As usual, all reviews are welcome, and I try to respond! Traitorous is not dead yet-I'm currently working on the next chapter, but I just wanted to get this up. The next fic up will either be a One Piece plot bunny that might be expanded-eventually- or the 20 Truths fic I've been working on, Gaara-centric.


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The Internet of Things to the Rescue to Feed a Hungry Planet
If you believed the experts who predicted the demise of fossil fuels as peak energy enthusiasts warned the world it would run out of oil in- pick the decade, the 70's, 80's, the year 2000. Experts are at it again in portraying a world unable to feed its inhabitants in- pick the year. In both instances, they overlook the ability of the world to innovate, and in the case of food and population growth neglect the most powerful innovation yet- the Internet. What follows is an engrossing look at how the nascent Internet of Things will impact this potential problem.
The prospect for The Internet of Things (TOT) is not so sanguine in view of the potential for harm with digital innovation. A glimpse of the looming problems can be seen in the recent hack of Fiat Chrysler vehicles
So it was at a two-day workshop in Silicon Valley last week hosted by the National Science Foundation that a few dozen academics grappled with both the problems and potential for TOT. While key elements of their agenda focused on bread-and-butter issues such as security and privacy, some time was spent exploring how TOT could affect a genuine bread-and-butter issue- namely food and the growing need for more of it to feed the growing population of the planet.
With this problem at the forefront, Lance Donny, founder of an agricultural technology start-up, OnFarm Systems , and raised on a family farm in Fresno ,CA gave a wide-ranging talk that laid out the history of farming and presented the case for its data-driven future. Inexpensive sensors, cloud computing and intelligent software, he suggested, hold the potential to transform agriculture and help feed the world's growing population. He spoke of a world where inexpensive sensors, cloud computing, and intelligent software having the potential to make agriculture more productive amid a historical trip through the history of farming over the centuries. The third stage, calling it Ag 3.0, he suggests is just getting started and, if he is correct, will dampen dire predictions for starvation.
This stage involves exploiting data from many sources- sensors on farm equipment and plants, satellite imaging and weather tracking and water and fertilizer monitoring devices- all which will revolutionize farming. He foresees a demise of heavy machinery and big farms. "It's a totally different world than walking out on the farmland and kicking the dirt and making a decision based on intuition," he said. He forecasts higher crop yields but also greater transparency for the ever wary consumer keen to know where their food came from and what chemicals were involved in the process. "Data is the only way that can be done," Donny said.
These developments come none too soon as the world's global population by 2050 is expected to reach 9 billion up from some 7 billion today. And the population growth, likely to crave more grain-intensive foods like meat, will put an even greater strain on the food supply. Thus the grain-yield per acre is going to have to increase significantly- from 1.5 tons per acre to 2.5 tons per acre- a daunting task for small farm plots which, say, in Africa average about two acres in size, precluding quantity of scale production.
Even in places like the US, whose average farm is 465 acres, farmers are making sizable investments to position themselves for data-driven farming. The equipment manufacturer, John Deere, is adding data-control capabilities to its tractors and fertilizer king, Monsanto, made a splash with the billion dollar purchase of a weather data-analysis company. The trend has caught the attention of Venture capitalists, too, who view Donny's work with enthusiasm. In the first half of this year, venture investments in so-called agtech start-ups reached $2 billion in 226 deals according to crowd-funding platform, AgFunder. This amount almost matched the total investments for all of 2014.
So with data replacing diesels, and with the prospects of innovative digital technology not likely to stop, there appears to be a glimmer of hope on the horizon for a growing world.


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Many scholars believe that the framers of the Constitution intended Congress to be the preeminent branch of government. Indeed, no other legislature in the world approaches its power. Yet most Americans have only a murky idea of how it works. In The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than 30 years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill - pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. No mere civics lesson, this eye-opening book provides an insider's perspective on Congress, matched with a professional historian's analytical insight.
After a swift survey of the creation of Congress by the constitutional convention, he begins to unscrew the nuts and pull out the bolts. What is it like to campaign for congress? To attract large donors? To enter either house with no seniority? He answers these questions and more, explaining committee assignments (and committee work), the role of staffers and lobbyists, floor proceedings, parliamentary rules, and coalition building. Ritchie explores the great effort put into constituent service - as representatives and senators respond to requests from groups and individuals - as well as media relations and news coverage. He also explores how the grand concepts we all know from civics class - checks and balances, advise and consent, congressional oversight - work in practice, in an age of strong presidents and a muscular Senate minority (no matter which party is in that position).
In this sparkling addition to Oxford's Very Short Introduction series, Donald Ritchie moves beyond the cynicism and the platitudes to provide a gem of a portrait of how Congress really works.
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On-track attendance and handle have been strong for the Claiming Crown, but the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, partners in Claiming Crown Ltd., would like to see an increase in nominations and a jump in simulcast handle on the races.Last year, the Mid-Atlantic Cooperative, a group of more than 20 Thoroughbred and Standardbred tracks, refused to pay the 4% fee to take the Claiming Crown, so none of the tracks in the region offered wagering on the event.
Claiming Crown organizers hope a series of preview days at racetracks around the country generate more interest in the $550,000 series of races set for Aug. 4 at Canterbury Park in Minnesota.Last year, Philadelphia Park and its horsemen held a preview day in June that produced three winners in the Claiming Crown championship at Canterbury in early August. This year, more tracks are expected to schedule preview races, the winners of which automatically earn a berth in their respective Claiming Crown events.This year, six races will be held -- the $150,000 Jewel (for horses that have started for a claiming price of $25,000 or less), the $125,000 Emerald ($20,000 or less), $100,000 Rapid Transit ($16,000 or less), the $75,000 Glass Slipper ($12,500 or less), the $50,000 Express ($7,500 or less), and the $50,000 Iron Horse ($5,000 or less). Last year, there were seven events."The added race diluted the purses, which will be the same as last year," said Nat Wess, the director of live racing operations at Canterbury who has been active in the Claiming Crown since its first running in 1999. The race that was scrapped was an event for fillies and mares on the grass.In key changes this year, a horse must have started only once, instead of twice, in a claiming event since July 31, 2000. Also, the high weight for the stakes with starter allowance conditions has been dropped to 124 pounds.Regular nominations close May 1 at $100 per horse, or June 15 at $500 per horse. Open nominations -- a horse need not be specified until June 15 -- close May 1 at $250 per horse. Supplemental nominations close July 17 at 5% of the given purse. Pre-entries will be taken July 20, and entries on Aug. 1.Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Texas have been mentioned as possible locations for preview days. Lone Star Park president Corey Johnsen said the Grand Prairie, Texas, track intends to host a preview day, "and hopefully someday will be in the running to host the event."The Claiming Crown must be held at Canterbury its first three years, and six of its first 10 years. Philadelphia Park horsemen have expressed a strong interest in hosting the event in 2002.


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I made this 6″ cake, four layers, each filled with lemon buttercream and lemon curd as a dessert for a winter lunch. I love the look of the bottle brush trees, giving the cake a sweet vintage feel. An easy-to-decorate cake, this was a pleasure for the last cake of 2016.
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This cake makes me laugh. It kind of turns your senses upside down! You've just had a turkey dinner with all the fixings, and then dessert is served and guess what? It's a spice cake that looks like turkey dinner with all the fixings! All over again.
I made the turkey slices by slicing a block of fondant and painting the edges with a food colouring/vodka glaze. Carrots and peas are fondant shaped appropriately. Cranberry sauce is a spoonful of cherry jam. Mashed potatoes are a big glop of buttercream (urp!) with a square of yellow buttercream as a butter pat.
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The Embedded Linux GPU Mess & How It Can Be Fixed
Earlier this week Qualcomm released an open-source 2D/3D kernel driver for their Snapdragon SoC that's found within the Nexus One, Dell Streak, and many other mobile phones. However, it was just the kernel driver that leveraged their own driver design and no open-source user-space driver, which leads to a dirty mess. David Airlie, the DRM maintainer within the Linux kernel, will not accept open-source kernel drivers that is only used by a closed-source component and as such there's been a lengthy mailing list discussion over the past few days.
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The Chief Knowledge Officer has a key role!
Abstract: The subject of intellectual capital has been discussed by many organizations, and defined by some. Yet very few individuals understand intellectual capital, and almost no one has been able, formally at least, to put a value on it. That's why knowledge management (KM)–how an organization makes use of its intellectual capital–is one of the greatest challenges facing senior managers today. Job titles such as chief knowledge officer (CKO) and chief learning officer (CLO) have been appearing in annual reports and career ads with increasing frequency. Moreover, these pioneering individuals have been given the unenviable task of channelling an organization's knowledge into initiatives that are expected to become a source of competitive advantage.
This article provides senior managers with a comprehensive overview of knowledge management. It also describes how a chief knowledge officer can leverage his or her company's intellectual capital. The article consists of three sections: a summary of the latest statistics on knowledge management; an outline of the CKO's main responsibilities; and a description of the challenges that senior managers face in implementing and sustaining an effective knowledge management program. The latter includes a 10-step guide that will enable managers to meet those challenges.
Nick Bontis: The Rising Star of the Chief Knowledge Officer. Ivey Business Journal, March / April 2002.
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Rachelle Quimby was born in Akron, Ohio. Growing up she lived all over the Northeast and Midwest. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Hotel Administration in 1975. While at Cornell University, she participated in a one semester internship in San Francisco at the Hotel St. Francis. She moved to San Francisco after graduation to work again for the Hotel St. Francis. Two years later she enrolled in a graduate program and in 1979 earned an M.B.A. in Finance from San Francisco State University. Her work experience included hotels and finance companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. She left the business world in 1991. Seven years later she started to work again. This time it was for Burt's Bees, Inc. where she worked until the company was sold in 2003.
Rachelle has traveled to many countries. Her most memorable travel was two years spent living in Central and South America with just the contents of a large duffel bag. This "living with less" lifestyle resonated with her and upon returning to the US, she continued to live a simple life. Almost 20 years later, she continues to find her environmental passion rooted in simplicity.
Her most meaningful outdoor experience was a 4,002 mile bicycle adventure in 2000 covering all of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia.Her favorite pastimes include pilates, volunteering at a thrift shop in Marin County, bhakti yoga, reading, attending the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Symphony, and the San Francisco Ballet.
She currently lives in San Francisco just a short walk from the spectacular Golden Gate National Recreation Area. For Rachelle it is gift to serve on the Board of Directors of the Quimby Family Foundation with its mission to advance wilderness values and to increase access to the arts in Maine.
Welcome to the Quimby Family Foundation! The foundation was formed in 2004 by Roxanne Quimby - an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and philanthropist with the vision to advance wilderness values and to increase access to the arts throughout Maine. In 2005, we began accepting proposals and awarding grants to Maine based nonprofits focused on the arts and the environment. In 2014, a decade after the foundation was created, we added Healthy Living as an additional funding priority, and in early 2016 we entered a planning period with the goal of refining our mission and grant making strategy. The Board of Directors is composed of Quimby family members spanning two generations and we recently added an Advisory Board with extended family and community members.
It is a great privilege for our family to be engaged in this work and to learn from visionary leaders across the state of Maine. We are inspired and encouraged by organizations that are working tirelessly to protect the health of the natural environment and its inhabitants. Our family considers the work of the foundation as one of our greatest opportunities and responsibilities and we look forward to working with visionary organizations for years to come!
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Auburn golfers rally for coach, advance to NCAAs
Sometimes emotions in sports transcend the sports themselves. It is during those times — moments when the indomitable human spirit shines — that we remember why we play the games.
Last week was one of those times.
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Women's college golf doesn't get a lot of coverage, especially before the NCAA finals, which start next week at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens. Most of the regional events designed to whittle down the final field to 24 teams were contested in relative obscurity while the eyes of the golf world focused on Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia at The Players Championship.
But the best story in the game wasn't found at TPC Sawgrass. In fact, it wasn't even televised. The story that went beyond the game was found in a quiet corner of Auburn, Ala., where the Lady Tigers — the home team, ranked No. 42 in the nation — hoped to defy the odds and advance to the finals, not for themselves, but for their leader.
Earlier in the week, Kim Evans, the 54-year-old head women's golf coach, received word from doctors at the University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital that she has ovarian cancer.
The team took the news hard but vowed to rally. Then the rest of the Auburn family stepped in. Student Assistant Coach Danielle Downey took over the team, but she also made homemade chicken soup and delivered it to the ailing Evans, who underwent surgery and was bedridden throughout most of the week.
Former Auburn All American and LPGA Tour player Diana Ramage dropped everything and went to her alma mater to assist Downey however she could.
As news of Evans' condition trickled out, support poured in.
"Coach Evans has been such an influential person in my life," former LPGA Tour player and SEC Champion Maru Martinez said on Monday. Martinez was one of the first Venezuelans to compete in Division I women's golf, a benchmark she said was due to the kindness of her coach.
"She offered me the opportunity to be a part of the Auburn family and I will always be grateful for that," Martinez said. "As a coach she nurtured us and at the same time she challenged us to be better on and off the golf course. She taught us to always strive for excellence and also to be disciplined and have fun while we were at it. She is an amazing woman who has touched the heart of all her pupils."
That was evident Saturday when emotions spilled out as Auburn fought to play on. Paraguay's Diana Fernandez broke down in inconsolable sobs after shooting a final-round 76 and embracing Evans behind the 18th green.
Junior Martz Sanz shot 7-under in the final two rounds to carry the Tigers. When her final birdie putt fell, she gave a huge fist pump and gave a cathartic yell.
The team gathered near the scoreboard and their concerns turned to jubilation as they realized that they had done it. Auburn finished 8th, earning the final spot from the East Regional. They will, indeed, play in Athens in the NCAA Tournament finals.
Then the tears flowed.
Even those who were half-a-world away felt warm, wet pools in their eyes.
"We are all really sad to hear about what's happening but Coach Evans is a true fighter," Martinez said. "If there is anybody in this world that can come out of this on the right side, it is her."
As for Evans, she is walking slowly and carefully in both literal and figurative ways. Her ginger steps and long naps during the regional tournament spoke to her illness. But the smile and hugs that came afterward spoke to her spirit.
"I'm looking forward to the opportunity to be able to coach with different priorities," she said afterward. "With different goals in mind."


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Wine B(l)uffs 2016
A full house crowd of alumni from all areas of the University helped to make the event a success. With opportunities to sample good wines, detect which of the expert 'bluffers' was not being completely honest, and meet and greet fellow alumni, what's not to like?
Alumni returning to Cambridge for the Alumni Festival descended on the Cybercafe in September for the "Call my Bluff" wine tasting, whose popularity has spread rapidly after its first appearance last year.
Two of last year's panelists returned to the table, Head of Department and Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, John Pyle and materials chemist Dr Silvia Vignolini. Theoretical and computational chemist Dr Lucy Colwell made up the trio, promising to do her best to fill the mischievous shoes of former Head of Department Professor Daan Frenkel, who participated last year.
For each round the three chemistry experts (not necessarily in wine tasting!) described the wine samples being enjoyed by the audience. The audience teams then had to determine who was bluffing, and who was telling the truth. The simple but effective format offered opportunities for humorous banter, mixed with information about the panelists' research and the world-class work being done in the department.
Each panel member used their own special way of assessing the wines: Silvia produced an app with a probe that looked suspiciously like a cotton swab on string taped to the back of her smartphone. She claimed it was a low-cost photonic sensor based on cellulose, with the advantage of being renewable and biocompatible (see Silvia's actual research about low-cost photonic sensors). John used a "periodic table of wines" reference book, asserting that the grapes in a glass of wine constituted one of your five a day, which was a very popular opinion. Lucy took a 'big data' approach (see Lucy's recent research), simply running etailed wine notes through an algorithm, which returned the "correct" grape variety.
The panel and other academic staff mingled with alumni during the interval, giving further opportunity to discuss both chemistry and wine.
The team calling themselves Bibendum won the drinking tasting competition, finishing three points ahead of their nearest rivals Grapes of Wrath. Next year will surely be a battle (Kir) royal. All wines were purchased from Cambridge Wine Merchants on King's Parade.
Many thanks to the academics who sponsored the wine:
• Round 1: Professor Chris Hunter, Vilacetinho Vinho Verde, Portugal 2015
• Round 2: Professor David Klenerman, Ma'd Dry Furmint, Tokaji, Hungary 2014
• Round 3: Professor Oren Scherman, Domaine les Yeuses Classic Merlot IGP, Pays d'Oc 2014
• Round 4: Department of Chemistry, Beerenauslese Umathum, Austria
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o Guess the grape (white): Professor Shankar Balasubramanian, Pinot Gris, Escarpment Over the Edge, Martinborough 2014
o Guess the grape (red): Professor Robert Glen, Cabernet Franc, Saumur Rouge, Langlois-Chateau 2012
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Where he was born the future. You can watch Silicon Valley (The American Experience) online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2013.
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Runtime: 82 minutes
82-minute film (full movie) directed by Randall MacLowry.
The original audio of Silicon Valley (The American Experience) has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2013.
Screenplay written by Michelle Ferrari and Randall MacLowry.
Jon Else.
This film was produced and / or financed by Spark Media and WGBH.
Composed by John Kusiak and Andrew Willis.
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Picture courtesy of Nicole Santiago. Pictured from left is Nicole Santiago, Lindsay Alexis Smith, Katharina Livia, Jamie Lee, Victoria Cordova and Esmeralda Villalobos.
DiPiazza will host "A Night of Estrogen," an all women show of which the proceeds will go toward the WomenShelter of Long Beach (WSLB). Several local solo musicians, comedians, poets and dancers will take the stage in empowering harmony on Friday, April 3 at 8:00PM.
Nicole Santiago, a local musician, came up with the idea with a group of local musicians after an open mic night. Inspired by Women's History Month, at first, the show was planned to simply showcase an all woman lineup of talented local artists and musicians, but the more Santiago spoke to the community about it, the more she realized that donating to a woman's organization, specifically WSLB, would be ideal.
Santiago explained, "I am a local musician, but used to consider myself a 'closeted' musician. I only felt comfortable performing indoors, with all the windows and doors shut and no one around. Now, with the inspiration I've received from so many other female artists, I have begun performing and sharing my personal songs with those willing to listen."
She continued, "I find it very empowering to be on stage with so many talented women, and feel that we can all come together to strengthen one another by doing what we love."
A Night of Estrogen will feature more than sixteen female performers will be sharing the stage and their talents, starting at 8:00PM with live art by Esmeralda Villalobos, Jamie Ang Lee, Kelsie Parker and Tracy Negrete, followed with comedy by Heather Hooks and Victoria Cordova, known for Funny or Die. At 9:00PM, singer and songwriter Kris Doron will kickoff the music portion of the evening, followed by Queen Califia, poetry by Shy but Flyy, King Kang, Freeze, Lindsay Alexis Smith, Nicole Santiago, Jesi DePalo and lastly a dance performance by Maha and Co. at midnight.
Tickets are $10 per person at the door, parking is free.
DiPiazza's is located at 5205 E. Pacific Coast Hwy.