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Beck & Polliltzer's global SHEQ team came together last week to examine in detail the alignment of all SHEQ programmes to a global consistency. This focussed particularly on ISO 45001 group wide implementation following the successful accreditation of Beck & Pollitzer Poland, internal & external audit programmes, setting and reviewing of KPI's and looking at SHEQ within Project Uno which is Beck & Pollitzer's new global operating system.
In attendance were (from left to right): Andre Cabral – France, Barry Thompson – UK, Kevin Nolan – Group, Angela Rambish – USA, Csaba Csitko – CEEA"


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Enjoy these two great new stills from The Maze Runner movie featuring Dylan O'Brien as Thomas. Other stars of the movie include: Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. The Maze Runner film is based on the young adult novel written by James Dashner and will be in theaters starting September 19th.
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My iPhone 6S had a cracked screen, so after three years, I decided it was time to buy a new phone.
Screen: apparently it has an OLED, which is apparently good, I don't know. It seems the same as my 6S. The screen is bigger, but it doesn't really make much of a difference. People seem to think having the screen to edge to edge matters, but the amount of space feels the same, because of this fucking thing:
I don't see why I'd want an edge-to-edge screen, so the notch doesn't bother me. It's basically the same black space that was always at the top of the phones, but with the time and battery pushed up. I hate the fact that there's now no way to see battery percentage, which is part of Apple's continuing resistance to admitting that battery life and longevity is their weakest spot.*
Processor things: It's faster, I guess. One of the best things Apple has done was make iOS12 work really well on older phones. In general, the one thing I've had against Android is how fragmented it is, and iOS12 shows the value of having software made for specific hardware. I don't really see that much of a difference from the 6S.
Camera: the camera is really good. Since the 4S, I've switched almost entirely to taking photos on my phone when traveling. The good enough-ness outweighs having to carry a proper SLR, and this camera is fabulous, even though the automatic HDR is overzealous and HDR is for boring people who think the actual world isn't saturated and contrasty enough.
I don't get the point of the second telephoto lens, outside of collecting depth information. Even at the base 2x zoom, photos look like they were zoomed with garbage digital zoom from an early 2000s camera.
The depth adjustments and bokeh are fun, but really shallow. As someone who can appreciate a good prime SLR lens, I think bokeh is 1) a trade off for getting the most natural light possible and 2) boring as fuck. A good portrait is a good portrait, but I'd still rather have background. Bokeh is just the way shitty photographers say "I can't compose anything but the subject, so I'll just blur it out."
Battery life: it's okay. It's about the same as my 6S, which has 94% battery health. If you asked me, I'd say my 6S had a battery problem, but since this is brand new, I think shit battery life is the new normal. It takes forever to charge, though.
Overall: I don't care about the lack of a headphone jack, because the AirPods are the best product Apple has released in years. I largely bought this phone because my experience with the AirPods has been so good that I thought "Apple hasn't completely shit the bed when they design products."
At $1277 (with tax and $50 case, a necessity, because I can't grip it with more than my ring finger when typing one handed), this phone is stupidly overpriced. I paid $1800 for a maxed out MacBook Air 5 years ago that still runs Photoshop and FileMaker like a boss. These phones are stupidly overpriced for what they offer and people should not be buying them.
Back when carrier contracts were a thing, I alternated between buying iPhones on and off-contract, owning a 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 6, and 6S. That's 6/7 phones in 7 years, and I took it for granted that you buy a new phone every year. I don't know what the fuck Apple is thinking with $1000+ phones, but I kept my last one for 3 years and I'll keep this for 3-4, essentially dropping the price to $400 a year, because a $1200 phone is fucking stupid.
The value proposition has also gotten a lot lower. Back when I was upgrading religiously, every new phone made the previous one unbearable. The mid-cycle S phones weren't hugely better, but they were refined enough to be worth the cost. The fully new phones were fantastic (especially the 4, which was so beautiful. The X/XS's best trait it that it's the first one since to truly look great). Now, with the top model, three years after my last phone, I can honestly say I could go back to my old phone tomorrow and not feel like I've lost anything. I don't really regret buying it, since my last phone was near the end of its product life, but, Jesus, these phones are overpriced. I've yet to find anything that makes me think "yeah, this was definitely worth $500 more than the last phone I bought off-contract."
Remember the brouhaha about the price of the original iPhone and how Apple dropped prices a few months later? Yeah. Don't buy these phones and don't encourage this bullshit.
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Timberwolves first-round pick Justin Patton breaks bone in foot
The positive Timberwolves off-season took a step backwards Wednesday (AEDT) as 2017 first-round pick Justin Patton underwent successful surgery to repair a broken fifth metatarsal in his left foot.
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The 7-foot Creighton product, who is expected to see time behind Karl Anthony-Towns this upcoming season, suffered the injury during a recent workout and will be sidelined indefinitely until healed, possibly until the start of preseason.
The Wolves acquired the draft rights to Patton (selected 16th overall), along with Jimmy Butler, from the Bulls in exchange for Zach LaVine, Kris Dunn and the draft rights to Lauri Markkanen, the 7th overall selection in this year's draft.
Patton played in 35 games last year, averaging 12.9 points and 6.2 rebounds en route to earning Big East Freshman of the Year honors. Patton led the Big East and ranked second nationally with a field goal percentage of 67.6 percent, which stands as the highest field goal percentage of any freshman from a major conference in NCAA history.


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- Monday, Jan. 16, 2017
Twenty-two entries are on the Best of Show Nominees Shortlist for the 2016 Mobius Awards. They include multiple nominations for four agencies, Here Design, London; JDO Brand & Design, Tunbridge Wells, UK; BETC, Paris, and SapientNitro agencies in Miami, Fla., and Bengaluru, India.
The Best of Show winners will be announced Jan. 25.
Following is a list of nominees, by medium:
Branded Identity
"Alaska Airlines Rebrand" by Hornall Anderson, Seattle, Washington, for Alaska Airlines
"JDO Launches New Shepherd Corporate Identity" by JDO Brand & Design, Tunbridge Wells, UK, for Shepherd Neame, Faversham, UK
"Curiocity: In Pursuit of London" from Here Design, London, for Particular Books, London
"Herbarium," also from Here Design, for Thames & Hudson, London
"Tom Clancy's The Division – Yesterday Trailer" by Unit Image, Paris, for Ubisoft, Montreuil, France
"Shockwave" from Quad Productions/Quad Group, Paris, for Road Circulation Security Delegation, Paris
"You're Alive. Do you remember?" by Heimat, Berlin, for Hornbach, Bornheim, Germany
"The Mechanic" by BETC, Paris, for Reckitt Benckiser, France
"SAVE THE FOOD: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Strawberry" created by SapientNitro, Miami, Fla., for Natural Resources Defense Council, New York City
BMCE Bank of Africa "Let's Dream of a New World" from Dounia Productions, Casablanca, Morocco, for BCME Bank, Casablanca
Digital – Online
"The Viral Experiment" created as an experiment by The Woolshed Company, Melbourne, Australia
"Instabilia" by VML, Sydney, Australia, for the National Rugby League, Australia
"Fuelled by Love" from SapientNitro, Bengaluru, India, for British Airways, Gurgaon, India
"The Stations – Response Pack" from Arthur Steen Horne Adamson, Cheltenham, UK, for same company in partnership with Home for Good, London
"Cinema to go" by BETC, Paris, for Air France
Package Design
"JDO Launches Beau Nash for the dandy within" by and for JDO Brand & Design, Tunbridge Wells, UK
"KOI" from BULLET Inc., Tokyo, for Imayotsukasa Sake Brewery Co. Ltd., Niigata, Japan
"Blue Bunny" from Pearlfisher, New York City, for Wells Enterprises, Le Mars, Iowa, USA
"Burger King Halloween Packaging" by Turner Duckworth, London, for Burger King, Miami
"Buck Wild" by Davis, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, for WildRoots Foods LLC, Seattle, Wash.
"Hate Going Twice" Campaign from Leo Burnett Germany, Frankfurt, for Fiat Professional, Germany
"Voxpax" Campaign by Havas Paris, Puteaux, France, for Laboratoires Lehning, Sainte Barbe, France
This was the 46th annual competition. Entrants from 22 countries were selected for 69 awards, including 29 First Place Mobius Award Golden Statuettes, 35 Second Place Certificates for Outstanding Creativity, and five Student Awards. For a full list of winners, visit www.mobiusawards.com
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Create Impact with a Unique Ethical Engagement Ring
The craziest part of graduation isn?t finding my life?s direction or figuring out how to make my freelance writing business works. It?s scrolling down my Facebook feed and seeing all of my friends in hidden-camera proposal pictures. All those pictures are precious, but some of them have dark backstories. It?s (usually) got nothing to do with the couple… and everything to do with the ring.
The beautiful diamonds that make the ring ? and the proposal pictures ? don't always come from the best places. In the worst cases, paramilitary factions own mines that use slave labor to mine precious stones to fund illicit goals. Although world leaders have stepped forward to fight the blood diamond trade, diamond mines also have a massive ecological and environmental impact.
Which means… you don?t just want an engagement ring. You want a unique ethical engagement ring. There are ways to avoid companies that aren't transparent about their diamond sources or the mine's environmental impact. Here are three options:
- Buy from companies that offer ethically sourced diamonds
- Consider a lab-created diamond
- Forgo the diamond (not the ring)
Good Jewelers Despise Blood Diamonds
Many jewelers hate blood diamonds enough to be transparent about their sources of your unique ethical engagement ring. Vrai & Oro was founded in 2014 and is committed to ethically sourcing diamonds. Vrai & Oro is also committed to lower prices.
Their website outlines the steps they take to lower the typical markup that customers traditionally pay. Vrai & Oro jewelry is made in downtown LA, so they save import costs and know the exact source of their diamonds. Buying from them gives you transparency, ethical sourcing, and potentially lower prices than a traditional jeweler.
Today, the blood diamond trade is far less of a problem than it was even in the 2000s. In 2003, the UN ratified a piece of legislation called the Kimberly Process. The Kimberly Process requires jewelers to certify that their diamonds are conflict-free and have that certification ready and available. It also includes a monitoring process to ensure that any certified company maintains those ethical sourcing standards. Blood diamonds aren?t gone, but world leaders have taken steps towards ending the blood diamond trade and we must remain vigilant to ensure it remains that way.
Related: 4 Ways to Make Good Money with Good Companies
Diamonds can be Lab-Grown
Ethical diamond sourcing isn?t just about importing from mines across the world. Diamonds can be grown in labs.
A diamond in a mine is formed when?carbon is pressurized and heated in extreme conditions. A modern lab can simulate those same conditions in more accessible settings. So, instead of taking hundreds, thousands, or millions of years to form, synthetic diamonds only take a few weeks or months, depending on the lab. That?s one less giant hole in the ground and far less mining equipment puffing greenhouse gas into the air.
Do Amore is a startup in Houston whose synthetic diamond sales make up about "30% of their gemstone sales." The founder, Krish Himmatramka, said in an interview with the Houston Chronicle that the synthetics are "just as good [as natural diamonds…] and more cost-effective."? In addition, this company also uses some money from each sale to provide water for communities in developing countries.
Check your local jeweler and see whether they offer synthetic diamonds. A ?synthetic? diamond may not sound like the unique ethical engagement ring of your dreams, but many synthetics are similar in quality to real diamonds and don?t have the negative environmental impact that a real one does.
Related: 4 Ways to Make Real Money with Sustainable Investing
And the Radical Subhead ? Do you need a Diamond?
Alright, hear me out. This won't be the option for everyone. But you must face the harsh reality that diamond rings can be uncomfortable. I know three moms who don?t wear their diamond rings anymore because they interfere with the small joys of parenthood – like hugging their children.
If you?re a practical couple, then you can get an engraved band instead of a scratchy diamond ring. It?s completely up to you. If you want the diamond for your unique ethical engagement ring, there are some great options out there. But if you don?t need the diamond, your decision just became is a lot simpler… and potentially more creative.
A Dash of Realism
You?re not a bad person for buying a diamond ring. This is not that type of article. Think of these other options as ways that make your purchase matter to people beyond you and your beloved. The more we bring these types of stories to light, the fewer blood diamonds we'll have in circulation. Plus, buying lab-grown diamonds will decrease the environmental impact that the diamond industry has on the environment. Or forgo the diamond altogether for a more comfortable and creative option that holds even more meaning.
A diamond engagement ring is an expensive purchase, but while you?re putting so much effort into finding the unique ethical engagement ring of your dreams, you can make a real difference with your choice.
Photo by?Jeremy BishopTags: blood diamonds, clean & green, conscious capitalism, conscious companies, credit, diamond ring, diamond sourcing, engagement ring, green companies, over spending, socially responsible companies, spend, spending


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Gabriel Craig is a metalsmith, writer, and craft activist living and working in Detroit, Michigan. www.gabrielcraigmetalsmith.com
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Exhibition in Motion: Objects Performed took place at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington on the evening of May 28, 2011, in conjunction with the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) conference. Objects Performed was a marked shift in the format of SNAG's annual exhibition in motion, from a runway fashion show to an extemporaneous dance performance. The 40 minute performance was curated by Venetia Dale and Tia Kramer, choreographed by Amelia Reeber and featured the work of 25 artists and ten professional dancers.
Inherent in both dance and performance art is a thematic relationship with the body, a theme also shared by jewelry. Despite this relationship, performance has been conspicuously under-exploited and under-explored as a strategy for contemporary jewelry. (There are, of course, notable exceptions: the work of Yuka Oyama comes readily to mind.) The importance of Objects Performed lies in its institutional endorsement by SNAG and its location at the Bellevue Arts Museum, a museum with a national reputation for excellence in art, craft and design. This endorsement does not in itself make the work a success, but it signifies that performance has come into the view of mainstream contemporary jewelry. Objects Performed stands as a landmark of performance's arrival upon a national jewelry stage.
While the use of performance was a milestone for the field, Objects Performed was marred by serious logistical failures. The foyer of the Bellevue Arts Museum was chosen as the venue for the performance, which by the start of the performance was clearly folly. Crammed with over 450 audience members, the space was simply not adequate for the number of attendees, most of whom were forced to stand at floor level, resulting in a largely disenfranchised and uninterested audience who did not have line-of-sight to the performance. The ability to physically view a performance must be seen in any context as nothing less than crucial, although admittedly, this failure did not affect the artistic merit of the performance.
The number of people and entities that came together to realize the work made Objects Performed necessarily experimental. In the performance, the choreographic vision of Amelia Reeber could be felt most strongly, especially in the decisions to make the performance improvisational and to only allow the dancers to see the objects for the first time at the performance itself. From the outset – with the cartoonish boinging sound of springs and suspenseful horror strings – the musical soundscape played a central role in governing the movement of the performers. The tempo, tone, timbre and emotive quality of the sound became an under-billed yet crucial third pillar of the work along with the dancers and objects. The soundscape had clear stylistic divisions, marked by silence for several moments. Each time the music stopped and returned it announced a new act and direction in the work.
The performance could be characterized by its repeating themes. First among these were the crisply executed gestures by a focal dancer that slowly built through the ensemble until as many as eight dancers echoed the original movement. Often, there were two or three distinct groups interacting with separate objects creating a call and response within and among the groups. Some of the most successful moments of the performance took place as two performers negotiated an object as if trying to figure out its proper mode of use. It was the natural history museum vignette of man making fire, inventing the wheel or tying stick to stone. It was primal, intuitive and powerful. The clues embedded in the objects themselves facilitated their performative use but the conclusions were reached only with attention and contemplation.
The action built slowly towards the audience from the back of the stage onto the floor and eventually right on top of the first row. Once the space was fully explored, multiple focal points developed, making for a disjunctive visual experience that was only heightened by the musical score.
Each dancer moved with a determined seriousness of purpose. The objects were used in a slow, methodical and contemplative manner. In contrast to the banal intuitive experimentation, comedic gestures punctuated the performance proving the creativity of the dancers through their improvised use of the objects. Most memorably, Rachel Timmons's Growth One was adored before being abashedly defiled and Joe Casey Doyle's Curling Collar was dropped from a second-story portal. The dancers returned to several objects multiple times including Chelsea Culp's Reason Where it Comes From and Jessica Pizana's Encased, while other objects including Auburn High School Collaborative's Inclusion and Kristi Sword's Chain Pen enjoyed long periods of use within the work. Still other objects were used only briefly or else ignored entirely, proving that certain objects are more conducive for performance than others.
The decidedly and unapologetically intuitive performance was a stark contrast to many of the tightly crafted objects used by the dancers. This created a palpable anxiety along with the discord of the musicscape. The most palpable source of tension, however, was the subservience of the objects to the dancers. While the music and objects gave structure to the performance, the dancers were undoubtedly the foci. Within the scheme of the performance the intentions of the object makers were all but erased, the objects becoming mere props. This was activated most spectacularly by the dancers' violation of the objects. Objects were thrown, twisted, torn, shaken, stretched and knotted. The dancers' level of removal from the fabrication of the objects allowed them to explore the objects to a degree that jewelers would never dare go – of course, to the horror of some in the audience. But this was boundary-breaking; it was experimentation at its most appreciable. Only performers detached from the dogma of the art object could have pushed the limits of an object quite literally to breaking point. For the viewer, only the intention of the dancer and the emotive quality of the music remained visceral. The object became an abstract conduit. For an audience composed largely of makers and jewelry enthusiasts this was a difficult aspect of the performance to process. For autonomous jewelry objects – each with their own story, and their own intention and ego – the performative structure of the work resulted in a marginalization of each object's potency.
Craft media, including jewelry, with its history of marginalization certainly does not like to be suppressed by any other artistic mode, even if it is an invited partner. However, this was the reality of this particular collaboration. The decision by the curators and choreographer to present an extemporaneous work meant that the objects would only receive passing consideration, rather than careful and intentional reverence. Ultimately, the decision to place the dancers's intention at the center of the work presented a proposition to the insider audience; to consider their work as capable of being supplemental, rather than an artistic end in and of itself. Even if a distasteful proposition to some, it is notable for its divergence from the party line.
Supplementality is but one strategy and perhaps a future work in this vein could be more equitable. Objects Performed asked the question, what can performance offer to jewelry, without seriously entertaining the opposite question, what jewelry has to offer performance? In future, by commissioning makers to create works that challenge performers and are built to withstand strenuous use, the objects could take on a more equitable role in the performance. Also, set choreography, or else makers helping to shape the choreographer's vision early on, could also help create a more unbiased collaboration.
For a medium and a field that is desperately seeking strategies to project itself into the future, Exhibition in Motion: Objects Performed was a compelling proposition. It was a credible effort that opened new avenues for exploration and therein lies the true achievement of the work. One can only hope that there will be future works to follow this one and that lessons will be learned from this event's shortcomings and logistical failures.


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We left Melbourne very late Tuesday night, dinner was served on the plane despite it being around 1am. I'm still confused as to how long the flight went for due to time zone differences. I vaguely slept on the plane, but really just tossed and turned a lot due to uncomfortable and screaming babies. I feel really sorry for people travelling with babies, even if at the time I mainly feel annoyed. They then woke us up for breakfast, despite the fact it still seemed to be the middle of the night, turning on the plane lights, then we hit turbulence, so breakfast was delayed. Not sure why they feed you at odd hours, it would have made sense to wait longer I think.
Landed in Kuala Lumpur airport, we had a stop over of about five hours. We found a café with free wifi and killed about an hour there, we had a look at the shops of which there were many, a whole shopping mall, but they were boring unless you like fashion, make up, perfume and other boring things. There was a jungle in the middle of the airport that pretty damn cool, as was the train between terminals, trains are always cool. The Malaysian noodles for breakfast were also good.
The flight to Cambodia from KL was a short one. The airport at Siem Reap is a small new airport. We landed and had to walk from the plane across the tarmac to the airport. This gave us our first impression of Cambodia, which was hot, with lovely tropical plants, also jet engines are very loud. Cambodian customs and visa checking was very efficient and quick. We were met outside the airport by our driver, provided by Sojourn, yes my name was on a sign!
We got into his car and he had an esky in the front, offering us beer, soft drink and water. His name was Mr How and he was our driver for the next few days. His English is quite good; he owns his own car making him fairly rich by Cambodian standards and freelances for Sojourn. He gave a bit of a spiel about Cambodia and Siem Reap and we got to look out the windows of our air-conditioned car and make some more first impressions. Roads vary from sealed and good to unpaved and full of potholes. Everything is very dusty. Motorbikes and pushbikes outnumber tuk-tuks and tuk-tuks outnumber cars by a lot. They drive on the wrong side of the road, but really they drive on whatever side of the road has less potholes and less traffic. Traffic moved fairly slowly, about 20kph on average, which given the mix of bikes, tuk-tuks, cars and motorbikes is probably the safest option. Helmets are optional and not many people use them. Motorcycle leathers are non-existent.
Our resort is called Sojourn. This is a fairly luxurious resort and in the medium high end of the price range for accommodation. But still pretty cheap by Australian standards. It is about 15 minutes drive outside of Siem Reap – or $3 by tuk-tuk. We picked it because they have an ethical business model, pay real wages, and work closely with a local village providing training, employment and capacity building. They also make sure they only support tours and organisations that are ethical and non scammy business models.
We arrive at the resort to be greeted with glasses of fresh lime juice (lime, sugar syrup and water) and a snack that is a crepe stuffed with palm sugar and coconut. We were given information about the resort and about the tour package we had booked – which involved a bunch of planned activities. We were also given information about how to be an ethical tourist. Things like don't visit orphanages, children are not entertainment – some orphanages make the children work and perform for money, Also – don't give child beggars money. Education is free in Cambodia, but if the kid is begging in the temple, they aren't in school and parents will make them beg for money rather than going to school.
The resort is very swish. Its small, only about 12 cabins. There is a salt water pool in the middle. And every service is easily accessible.
Our Swish Cabin
We got to unpack and relax with our drinks and a swim.
The swamp in the village over the road from the resort, we didn't swim here, but the Cambodian children were, photo provided for contrast.
Then our driver picked us up and it was off to Angkor Wat to see the sunset. We picked up a multi-day temple pass and were driven to the edge of the Angkor Wat moat. The driver then set us up with some picnic snacks and a bottle of white wine. The sun sets behind you and you watch the colours change over the towers and walls of Angkor Wat. It is a stunning site.
It was part of the package, and maybe I am peasant, or too egalitarian, but it felt really odd to have someone doing everything for us. The driver wouldn't let us carry the picnic basket, he opened our doors… just made me feel a bit uncomfortable. I know it was his job, but the idea that its expected doesn't sit well with me.
One of the snacks was some kind of shellfish on skewers. Kids were wandering up and down with large bags collecting empty plastic bottles and cans from tourists, so we gave them the skewers. Technically they were not begging. There was a group of three of them, so they grabbed all the skewers very quickly, then the oldest one started yelling, I started to worry we were about to have a fight. She got all the kids to give her all the skewers but then she shared them out evenly, despite there being an odd number. The skewers disappeared very quickly and the kids ran off fairly quickly when our driver approached to see what was going on.
Our driver then took us to a shop selling authentic Cambodian made silk. There are places selling cheap silk everywhere – but most is not real silk, you can feel the difference. So I brought a few pieces, before returning to the resort.
You look at the markets and after the hundreth stall selling the same cheap 'silk' scarves you really wonder if there is a market to support that many people selling the same product. The pleas of come in and look, please buy, please buy sound desparate and its hard to deal with. The poverty in Cambodia I found really hard to deal with. The contrast between the rich tourists and everyone else was heart breaking.


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African & African Am Studies (AFAM)
Course serves as an introduction to the geographical roots and cultural heritages of the peoples of African ancestry. It will help students to begin to explore and understand the diverse lifestyles, experiences as well as the dispersion, opportunities, challenges and concerns of peoples of African ancestry in the U.S. multicultural setting. Fulfills diversity in the U.S. and social science requirements (1998). Sociocultural engagement and social/ behavioral science requirements (2019).
May also be offered at 250, 350 and 450 levels.
Examines major themes such as the African heritage, slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, migrations, labor, criminal justice, black nationalism, the Civil Rights Movement and current issues. Fulfills humanities and diversity in the U.S. requirements (2019. Arts/humanities and sociocultural engagement requirements (2019).
May also be offered at 360 and 460 levels.
May also be offered at the 390 level.


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IBM plans to discontinue its line of Windows-based network-attached storage (NAS) devices in order to focus on higher-end products, including an upcoming file server that will run Linux, sources said.
The sources said IBM had told them it planned to announce this month that it would stop making its TotalStorage NAS 100 and NAS 200 filers that were designed for departmental, workgroup and low-end corporate applications. The boxes offer storage capacities of 480GB and 7TB, respectively.
According to the sources, IBM will continue to sell its NAS Gateway 300 system, which connects servers and PCs on IP networks to storage-area networks (SAN) that are based on Fibre Channel technology. In addition, the company plans to offer a Linux-based NAS device, most likely by late this year.
IBM officials declined to comment, describing the information about its plans as "speculation."
A spokesman for Microsoft., which develops the Windows Powered NAS software used by IBM and other storage vendors in their Windows-based devices, also wouldn't comment in detail.
"IBM's plans are IBM's," the spokesman said. "But we have a wide range of OEMs that continue to expand [its NAS offerings]."
IBM announced the NAS 200 in June 2001 and added the lower-cost NAS 100 last July as part of a plan to compete on a wider basis with rivals such as EMC and Hewlett-Packard.
IDC analyst, John McArthur, said IBM made the right decision by pulling out of the low-end NAS space, noting that while it was a high-volume business, it generated relatively low revenues.
"IBM wants to own the data centre - the midrange and high-end market. They're not trying to capture the low-end, high-volume market," he said.
"This is no blow to Microsoft," he said.
Gartner analyst, Pushan Rinnen, an analyst at Gartner, said sales of IBM's low-end NAS line hadn't really taken off. NAS 100 sales totaled US$3.4 million last year, only 3 per cent of the entry-level NAS market, according to Gartner's figures.
"The volume is not high enough [for IBM] to be a strategic player," Rinnen said.
The NAS 200 and the NAS Gateway 300 had done better, she said, adding that the NAS-to-SAN gateway device was third behind products from EMC and HP in its market niche last year. But Rinnen said IBM placed sixth in the overall NAS business during 2002, with about $US40 million in sales and a 3 per cent market share.
Until now, the top storage vendors have been steadily falling in line with Microsoft and rolling out products based on Windows-powered NAS.
EMC in May gave up its standing as the last major h"¾ÀÚ¾À ùÀ¬¾Àcing plans to use the Microsoft technology in a new line of low-end NAS devices based on the hardware from its Clariion CX midrange disk arrays.
As for whether IBM was planning on building a high-end NAS device based on Linux, McArthur declined to comment.
But he did say that "it is reasonable to expect IBM will continue to invest in technology that will allow them to capture the midrange and high-end opportunities. And Linux is not the only option at the high end."


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What Is a Binary File
Binary File is a file on the computer that stores information. But the information stored in these files is stored in a certain code on the computer. The data on these files is stored in the form of binary data i.e. only 0s and 1s. Binary File is also sometimes referred as a file which is not directly readable by the human as most of the characters in the file do not translate to viewable text characters.
It shows special format to represent the data except showing the letters, numbers or punctuations. The user only sees miscellaneous characters that resembles like English (or any other language) characters but are not. The information contained by these files is formatted that is understood by only certain applications or processors.
These files are executable files. It means that it will do something or perform any action is the user executes it. These file must be running on the appropriate software or processor before humans can read them. For e.g. – Only the word processing programs can handle the formatting information in a word document.
Some of the examples of binary files include spreadsheets, compiled programs, image files, executable files and many more. For e.g. – In case of compiling Java programs, the compiled java program which the user gets is a binary file while the source code is a text file.
Binary files typically contain bytes that are intended to be interpreted as something other than text characters. Some binary files contain headers, blocks of metadata used by a computer program to interpret the data in the file. For e.g. – A JPG file can contain multiple images, and headers are used to identify and describe each block of image data. If a binary file does not contain any headers, it may be called a flat binary file.
To send binary files through e-mail or any other system that do not allow all data values, they are translated into a plain text representation. Two files that are binary compatible will have the same pattern of zeros and ones in the data portion of the file. The file header in both the cases may differ.
Some software companies produce applications for Windows or the Macintosh that are binary compatible, which means that a file produced in a Windows environment is interchangeable with a file produced on a Macintosh. This avoids many of the conversion problems caused by importing and exporting data.


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