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• Librarian Leaves University Of New Hampshire $4 Million (Which He Saved, Working As A Librarian)

  09-09-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Morin’s financial adviser, Edward Mullen, said the library worker was able to accumulate so much wealth because he never spent any money. Mullen started working with Morin in the early 1970s, and said by the 2000s he had saved quite a bit of cash in his checking and savings accounts. There was almost $1 million in his retirement account alone.
  
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• The image of Christ in the age of Erasmus

  09-09-2016 23:00
  Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was one of the most politically and theologically influential and internationally famous intellectuals of the Reformation period. A native of Rotterdam, his early fluency in Latin was the gate through which he found humanism. Ordained to the priesthood in 1492, his appointment as the secretary to the Bishop of Cambrai absolved him from the standard restrictions of religious life and allowed him to pursue higher studies at the universities of Paris, Leuven and Turin
  
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• Turkish Court Acquits Pianist Fasil Say On Blasphemy Charges

  09-09-2016 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Istanbul court ruling ends the long-running legal saga which began in October 2012 when Say went on trial on charges “insulting religious beliefs” in a series of Twitter posts. In a hugely convoluted process, the Turkish classical star was initially handed a 10-month jail sentence in 2013 before a retrial was ordered the same year in which he received an identical sentence.
  
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• Sally Gall at Julie Saul Gallery, New York

  09-09-2016 22:27 via artnews.com
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• Seven Stars Remember Their Mid-Dance Disasters

  09-09-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Darcey Bussell was very friendly with the floor in rehearsals. Kevin Clifton’s Thriller-style tango tanked on live TV. And Thomas Whitehead got trapped in his ballerina’s underwear.” (And that ballerina was – uh-oh – Sylvie Guillem.)
  
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• Light fantastic: minimalism thrives in New York's Hamptons

  09-09-2016 21:41
  
  Set against the seaside charm (and ostentatious wealth), works previously seen as cold and sparse take on a new, warmer complexionIn the idyllic and also more than slightly insane seaside town of East Hampton, New York, just a mile away from waves crashing on to sandy shores and a rustic windmill that has turned in ocean air since 1806, austere arrangements of lines and grids serve an atmosphere of a markedly different kind. Tubes of bright fluorescent light shine in alternately inviting and est
  
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• Comcast Says FCC’s New Proposal For Set-top Boxes Is Illegal

  09-09-2016 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Chairman’s new proposal… violates the Communications Act and exceeds the FCC’s authority,” Comcast claimed in a statement provided to Multichannel News and other outlets.
  
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• I’m A Deaf Actor, And I Don’t Want It To Define The Roles I Play

  09-09-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Genevieve Barr: “It’s an incredibly limiting way to live and to work. And because I have a disability that I cannot hide (or fully disguise), that means I stay firmly in the bracket of ‘deaf actor’, rather than ‘actor’. In the rigidity of the casting process, that can mean fewer than 10 auditions per year. … I can lip-read and hear with the use of hearing aids. Not as clearly as you, mind, but unlike you, I can crank up the volume.If my back is turned a
  
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• “I’m Done With Going To The Theatre To Watch Movies”

  09-09-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As a baby boomer, I find that my days of settling in to a short subject, cartoon and B movie with a box of popcorn and some candy are way over. I want to focus on a well-made movie in silence. Instead, I have to endure a reserved seat where I am stuck, typically around people chomping on their popcorn, fidgeting with candy wrappers, talking and checking the latest text on their cellphones.”
  
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• She Was So Much More Than The Topless Cellist: Getting Reacquainted With Charlotte Moorman

  09-09-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For all her work with the likes of John Cage, Yoko Ono, and Nam June Paik, it was as booker, presenter and grand impresaria that she made her considerable mark on 20th-century art – especially with New York’s Avant Garde Festival (1963-80). “[She] invented the festival, produced it and coaxed city officials who didn’t know performance art from police procedurals into endorsing it.”
  
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• Paul Klee and the Kaiser’s flying aces

  09-09-2016 19:36
  
  Visitors to the Met Breuers new show, Humour and Fantasy: the Berggruen Paul Klee Collection (until 31 December) can read an interview with the artists son Felix, which has been reprinted for the New York show. Felix recalls his fathers narrow escape from being sent to the front to serve in the Kaisers army during the First World War. His mother pulled strings and the artist-conscript ended up in a flying school near Augsburg becoming indispensable to a paymaster who couldnt coun
  
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• Remember That Sweet Story About 2 Museum Directors On Opposite Coasts Falling In Love? Here’s More

  09-09-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The original story in the NYT detailed the love story. Here’s more background: Anne Radice was for a time head of the NEA. She was “criticized for appearing to save the NEA but effectively neutering it—for doing what her predecessor had been fired for not doing when he stood up for art on First Amendment grounds. In quick succession, Radice followed words with actions.”
  
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• Brian Wildsmith obituary

  09-09-2016 19:15
  
  Illustrator of children’s picture books whose vivid use of colour became his trademarkBrian Wildsmith, who has died aged 86, was the award-winning illustrator of more than 80 children’s picture books, whose explosive use of colour made them immediately recognisable to young readers all over the world.Together with Quentin Blake and John Burningham, he influenced a generation of illustrators and publishers in the 1960s, when opportunities for better colour reproduction were growing. C
  
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• Nicholas Serota: even he was shocked by the success of Tate Modern

  09-09-2016 19:12
  
  He took a fusty institution and made it a world-beater. But with the Brexit vote and ongoing protests about sponsorship, whoever takes over will have a monumentally tough task aheadThere has only ever really been one director of Tate, and that has been Serota. Sat facing him at a recent dinner, I was asked by a European collector how it was that I had been seated opposite God. Before Serota, there was only the Tate at Millbank. No Tate Modern nor St Ives. Tate Liverpool opened just as he joined
  
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• Off to the Races! New York’s Fall Season Begins With a Slew of Chelsea Openings

  09-09-2016 19:10 via artnews.com
  The Thursday after Labor Day is traditionally the start of the art world’s school year, with the mega-galleries unveiling their primo shows to collectors who have finally come home from Southampton or Ibiza or wherever. The big openings usually get … Read More
  
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• Why You Don’t Want A Hot Nice Cup Of Coffee: The Rules Of Adjective Order That English-Speakers Don’t Know They Know

  09-09-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adjective-order restrictions, as they’re called, happen in plenty of languages. But the ones in English – with the mnemonic acronym OSASCOMP – drive English-language learners nuts, even as native speakers follow the rules unconsciously.
  
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• Brian Eno Denies Permission For Israeli Dance Company To Use His Music

  09-09-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Eno, a prominent supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign aimed at Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, wrote to the dance company last month to deny them permission to use his music. Eno is also one of 1,200 artists who have signed the Artists’ Pledge for Palestine, refusing funding from or cultural contacts with Israel’s government.”
  
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• If ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Premiered Today Instead Of 45 Years Ago, Would It Be Less Controversial Or More?

  09-09-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Producer Richard Jordan: “In 2016, we consider public opinions, attitudes and tolerance to be much broader. We even mock the once-absurd and prudish reactions and attitudes of past generations. … [But] I question whether the reaction towards it would actually be more extreme … today. Would it even make it to the stage at all?”
  
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• Earn your master’s degree in Arts and Culture – online or evenings at DU

  09-09-2016 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ready to advance your career in arts management? Consider deepening your knowledge through the Arts Development and Program Management at the University of Denver’s University College.
  Consider deepening your knowledge through the Arts Development and Program Management at the University of Denver’s University College.
  Created for professionals in the arts and culture field, this program provides best practices for funding, marketing, and planning events. Build your leadership knowle
  
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• Canada's Music Cities: Montreal's underground music, art and party scene – video

  09-09-2016 17:41
  
  Montreal has a rich musical heritage, with a scene that spans the jazz of Oscar Peterson to indie acts Arcade Fire and Grimes. DJ and travel writer Woody Anderson drops into Little Burgundy with local band Milk and Bone, takes a cycle tour round Boulevard Saint Laurent and The Mile End with local guides Spade & Palacio, and hooks up with warehouse party scene supremo Seb Cowan of Arbutus records Continue reading...
  
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• Artist-In-Residence On a Container Ship Stranded At Sea

  09-09-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The residency took an more decisive turn towards the strange this past week when the Hanjin Shipping Company, the world’s seventh-largest container line, filed for bankruptcy on August 31, leaving the current artist-in-residence, Rebecca Moss, and the crew on the Hanjin Geneva stranded off the coast of Japan.”
  
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• Meet the underwater artist inspired by a near-death experience

  09-09-2016 17:09
  
  It took a rogue wave crashing over him for Peter Matthews to realise his calling – now he makes all his work while bobbing about on – or under – the ocean, with only the seals for company and rockpools to store his wet and wild work‘When I have fears that I may cease to be,” as the old poem goes, “before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain ... then on the shore / Of the wide world I stand alone, and think / Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.” The
  
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• 1,200-Year-Old Mosque Destroyed By Saudi Airstrike In Yemen

  09-09-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ninth-century mosque of the Prophet Shuaibi in the Bani Matar area of Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen, was destroyed by an air strike on 25 August. … The mosque, located on the Arabian Peninsula’s highest mountain, the Shu-aib Mountain, was known for the wooden carvings on its ceiling, according to UNESCO …, and was a holy place for pilgrims to the nearby tomb of the Prophet Shu-aib’.”
  
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• 60-Foot Kenny Scharf Mural Stolen For Second Time (But Now There’s Video)

  09-09-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A 60-foot-long mural by street artist Kenny Scharf [titled NEVERENDINGOGO] has been stolen from the East River Esplanade in Harlem for the second time – but at least this time the heist was captured on camera.”
  
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• Transcendental Expressionist: Jack Kroll on the Art of Richard Pousette-Dart, in 1961

  09-09-2016 16:21 via artnews.com
  With Pace Gallery having opened a centennial exhibition of Richard Pousette-Dart’s work earlier this week in New York, we turn back to the April 1961 issue of ARTnews, in which Jack Kroll wrote about why the artist’s paintings had been … Read More
  
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• F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Last Unpublished Stories Will See Print Next Year

  09-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The collection, due to be published in April 2017 by Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner, is mainly drawn from stories written in the mid and late 1930s. It ranges from work that Fitzgerald was unable to sell because its ‘subject matter or style departed from what editors expected of [the author] in the 1930s’, Scribner said, to writing that he submitted to magazines, and which was accepted for publication but never printed.”
  
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• American Dance Institute Rebrands Itself As Lumberyard (Lumberyard?)

  09-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After closing its dance school in order to focus on developing and presenting new choreography and moving from metro D.C. to New York, the organization is preparing to open a four-building performance and residency center – called Lumberyard (hence the new name) – in Catskill, New York in 2018.
  
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• Comfy Chairs, Legroom, Lockers, And Glamour: A Wish List For The Revamp Of The New York Philharmonic’s Hall

  09-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Cooper: “Of course they need to fix the acoustics. … But what about the little things that can make all the difference when it comes to creating a concert hall that people will fall in love with? The things that might not rise to the top of the to-do list when planning a mega-project that is expected to begin in 2019 and cost on the order of a half-billion dollars? As a frequent concertgoer, I have a few modest proposals.”
  
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• Nick Serota, Martin Roth and Tracey's bed – the week in art

  09-09-2016 15:00
  
  There’s a changing of art’s top guard (if not sheets), while Mark Zuckerberg runs into censorship issues and London is set ablaze – all in your weekly art dispatchTracey Emin and William Blake
  Two British mavericks meet as Tracey Emin’s works, including My Bed, are mixed with those of the visionary romantic artist and poet who wrote The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
  • Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, 16 September to September 2017. Continue reading...
  
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• As Audience Numbers Rise, Donations To Arts Orgs Drop, Says Study

  09-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A new study of arts and cultural nonprofit organizations from the University of Missouri suggests that there is no evidence that donors are influenced by high attendance numbers; in fact, it may be just the opposite, since higher attendance is linked to higher earned revenue.”
  
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• Why Banks Like Wells Fargo (And Politicians, Too) Keep Slamming The Arts

  09-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Wells Fargo’s misbegotten ad campaign was merely the latest salvo in the ongoing disparagement of the arts and humanities as academic concentrations and career destinations, a refrain that is almost always paired with cheers for ostensibly more lucrative fields. … And it reflects a particular American tendency: to place the blame for massive social problems on the individual.”
  
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• Morning Links: Bruce Nauman Edition

  09-09-2016 14:38 via artnews.com
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• The Lady Chablis, Scene-Stealer In ‘Midnight In The Garden Of God And Evil,’ Dead At 59

  09-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Author John Berendt’s nonfiction account of life in Savannah was a pop-culture phenomenon of the 1990s and featured Lady Chablis as a sassy, blunt-spoken character who exposed some of the city’s dirty laundry. [She] insisted on playing herself in the 1997 movie directed by Clint Eastwood … and was featured in Time magazine and appeared on Today, Oprah and Good Morning America.”
  
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• ‘An Open Invitation To Commit Suicide’ – The Winner Of The 2016 Carbuncle Cup

  09-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Lincoln Plaza housing tower in east London by BUJ Architects has been awarded the Carbuncle Cup 2016 [for Britain’s worst new building of the year] by architecture website BD. … Architect and critic Ike Ijeh, who was one of the competition judges, has called the building a ‘putrid pugilistic horror show that should never have been built’.”
  
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• Performing Arts Orgs Say UK’s Tax Relief Program Has Made A Huge Difference

  09-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Producers have hailed the government’s theatre tax relief as ‘game changing’ and ‘essential’ two years after it was introduced. Both commercial and subsidised producers have praised the scheme, with claims it had allowed companies to stage and commission more shows, and create ‘more ambitious’ work.”
  
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• BBC2 Television To Change Saturday Night Schedule To Arts Programming

  09-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The channel said from autumn it would replace the jumble of repeats normally shown at that time with programmes dedicated to arts and culture. Patrick Holland, the editor of BBC2, said arts were central to the channel’s mission. ‘I want BBC2 to be the most creative channel on TV,’ he said.”
  
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• Okay, Okay, Critics, You Can Have Your +1 Tickets, Says Britain’s National Theatre

  09-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a letter to critics, the venue said that a policy it had been planning to introduce from August this year, giving reviewers just a single seat to its shows on press night and the option to buy another for £20, has been dropped.” (The critics were no happy to read this.)
  
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• Nicolas Deshayes's cast-iron sculptures find beauty in the repulsive

  09-09-2016 13:00
  
  By exploring relationships between humanity and materials, the young artist is creating ripples in the ThamesThese cast-iron sculptures by the young artist Nicolas Deshayes are oddly beautiful. They cling to the gallery wall like the rococo ribbons and twirling flora that encrusted 18th-century ceilings. They ripple, like the Thames water they’re named after. Related: Artist of the week 133: Nicolas DeshayesContinue reading...
  
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• Three to see: London Design Biennale

  09-09-2016 11:42
  
  The inaugural London Design Biennale opened this week at Somerset House (until 27 September), with installations, prototypes, virtual reality renderings and designs from 37 countries on show. These range from Pakistan and Portugal to Saudi Arabia and Tunisiathe ambitious system of national representation brings to mind the Venice Biennale. Each exhibit examines the theme of Utopia by Design, encompassing issues such as sustainability, migration and pollution. The principal sponsor is Jaguar.
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• Kamel Mennour is latest European dealer to open space in London, defying Brexit fears

  09-09-2016 10:51
  
  The Parisian contemporary art dealer Kamel Mennour is opening a small London gallery at 51 Brook Street next to Claridges Hotel in Mayfair.
   
  The first show, devoted to the Moroccan-born artist Latifa Echakhch, begins on 4 October (until 12 November). Echakhchs work will also be presented in a solo display on Mennours stand at Frieze.
   
  Mennour is the fourth European art dealer to invest in a new or expanded outpost in the British capital in recent months, despite the countrys vote to
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.08.16

  09-09-2016 10:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Changemaker conference
  I’m flying today — so happy to say this! — to DePauw University, where I’ll take part in … [the] 21CMPosium. …  I’ve spoken many times about change in classical music, but this is the first time I’ve had an audience of changemakers. … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-09-08Brubeck Trio: Two “Indianas” Explained
  Drummer, Rifftides reader and close listener Tarik Townsend expands h
  
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• Political art that packs a punch installed in San Francisco’s Presidio park

  09-09-2016 05:37
  
  A good deal of contemporary art doesnt carry nearly as much political weight as it thinks, its purported critique proving too weak to detect or too oblique to decipher. But several works in Home Land Securitythe group show opening this weekend in San Franciscos Presidio that was organised by Cheryl Haines of For-Site following her Ai Weiwei show on Alcatrazavoid that trap by focusing less on faceless socioeconomic or religious forces and more on the individuals who are impacted. These works als
  
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• Executive Director/Chief Development Officer – The Rocky Mountain Performing Arts Center

  09-09-2016 01:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Rocky Mountain Performing Arts Center (RMPAC) invites applications for Executive Director/Chief Development Officer.
  RMPAC is one of the biggest economic development and urban redesign projects for the Estes Park community in over a hundred years. The innovative plans include a commercial wing called Performance Plaza housing a boutique hotel, dining, and atrium, all connecting to a state-of-the-art 751-seat performing facility in the heart of downtown.
  The initial focus of the Executive Dir
  
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• Chief Marketing Officer – Barbershop Harmony Society

  09-09-2016 01:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) seeks a Chief Marketing Officer to oversee global and internal marketing initiatives for a vibrant 78-year-old fraternal organization of 22,000 passionate singers in the United States and Canada. Under the new leadership of CEO Marty Monson, today’s BHS is a high energy, quickly evolving organization whose budget has grown by 21 percent in the last three years. This is an entrepreneurial but collegial and collaborative environment. The BHS is focused on
  
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• Vice President of Communications for West Coast Art Studio

  09-09-2016 01:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  A major West Coast artist is looking for a creative and collaborative communications leader for his busy studio.
  Are you an entrepreneurial, creative and collaborative communications expert who is looking to make a real impact in the world of contemporary art?
  A major West Coast art studio has a rare opening for an innovative communications leader.
  This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with an internationally acclaimed artist and his studio to solidify its legacy by enhancing the arti
  
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• It’s Official: Fort Worth Symphony Musicians Are On Strike

  09-09-2016 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The musicians officially went on strike at 12:30 p.m. Thursday and symphony management subsequently canceled this weekend’s upcoming concerts … The strike, which was authorized by union members on Tuesday evening, comes one day after symphony management issued its ‘last, best and final offer,’ in contract talks. The offer was characterized by union leadership as the same proposal that musicians voted to reject on Sunday evening.”
  
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• FCC Says You Can Get Rid Of Your Cable Box

  09-09-2016 00:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Federal Communications Commission has a plan to make cable companies provide apps that could be used on devices made by tech companies like maybe Roku or Apple. It says Americans spend billions each year renting boxes and believes there is a better way.”
  
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• Humans Versus The Algorithms

  09-09-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Yes, everything on the Internet is a mix of the human and inhuman. Automated algorithms play a very big role in some services, like, say, the Google Search Engine. But humans play a role in these services too. Humans whitelist and blacklist sites on the Google Search Engine. They make what you might think of as manual decisions, in part because today’s algorithms are so flawed. What’s more—and this is just stating what should be obvious—humans write the algorithms.
  
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