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In an unusual strategy for a trade school specializing in fast-track 32-week career training, Chicago’s Computer Systems Institute (CSI) this month is introducing an updated business career curriculum with new entrepreneurial and marketing coursework at its Chicago Loop, Skokie, Gurnee and Elgin campuses. The program enhancements include a suite of services designed to help get students’ business brainstorms off the ground, including:

• Business plan writing
• Training on different ways to fund a business
• Search engine optimization (SEO) and other sales/marketing instruction

The curriculum prepares students for certifications in Google AdWords, Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word, with CSI picking up the tab for certification exams.

Other unusual program features include free tablets that will be provided to each student in lieu of textbooks. Course materials will be loaded onto the tablets, and CSI has adopted best practices for tablet use in university classes that include encouragement of interaction and collaboration among students.

The changes in the school’s business career program were inspired by a growing be-your-own-boss movement across the country that has been fueled in part by the highly publicized success of young technology entrepreneurs. National surveys have shown that 72% of Americans of all ages – and 54% of those 18 to 34 – want to start their own business. Half of CSI students share that ambition, according to a poll taken at the school last year.

To support these aspirations, CSI recalibrated its business curriculum to cover key issues such as strategic business planning, funding, marketing, brand management and basic business law alongside traditional coursework such as computer skills, customer service and office management.

“Until now, our business career program has focused on preparing students for entry-level business jobs, but the need in the market is changing. In today’s economic climate, many people are adopting a new motto: if you can’t get a job, create one,” said Ella Zibitsker, founder and CEO of Computer Systems Institute. “Our mission in adjusting our program is to provide the training to help our students make that happen.”

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CSI offers postsecondary career programs in information technology, healthcare and business designed to be completed in less than one year, as well as English-as-a-Second-Language programs serving students from around the world. Founded in 1989, the school is accredited by the North Central Association, licensed by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), authorized by IBHE's Division of Private Business and Vocational Schools to offer certificate-level programs, and approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs to accept the GI bill. It is also a Microsoft IT Academy and Prometric Testing Center. CSI has four Chicago-area campuses in the Chicago Loop, Skokie, Gurnee and Elgin. For more information, visit www.csinow.edu.

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Draft Spotlight - Day 18: Chance Warmack

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We spotlight the Alabama OG, who had a team-high 37 pancake blocks in 2012

The 2013 NFL Draft Spotlight series continues, as we preview one pro prospect per day, right up until the start of the draft, April 25-27. However, none of the reports in this series are indicative of who the Kansas City Chiefs plan to draft, with any of their currently-owned eight picks.

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Chance Warmack was made to play football. He earned playing time at guard for Alabama during his freshman year (2009) and started all 13 games at left guard the very-next season. Warmack's power and athleticism helped the Tide when back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012.

"I just think that Chance has unique skill set and he's got really good size," Alabama head coach Nick Saban told the Associated Press.

"He's very powerful, he's athletic, he's got good feet, he can pass block and he can get moving in the run game. I think people that have his kind of balance and body control and the kind of athleticism that he has at his size are rare commodities. Everybody knows that those guys play 12, 14, 15 years. I think Chance has a chance to have that kind of career."

Warmack performed for NFL scouts, general managers and coaches during the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine.

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40-yard dash (5.49 sec)
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What else should you know about Chance's 2012 stats?

• Unanimous First Team All-American
• Allowed 3.5 sacks in 287-pass attempts
• Team-best 37 pancake blocks
• Committed two penalties in 732 snaps
• 39-career starts at left guard
• Missed seven assignments in 728 snaps this season (99.0 percent)

"Adding Warmack simply provides an immediate upgrade on the interior of your offensive line," according to Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN NFL Draft analyst.

"One of the more dominating run blockers to enter the draft in years, Warmack is what I'd call a "no excuses" addition to your team. If your running back isn't better running behind Warmack, it might be time for a new back. Warmack makes a difference."

"Due to his lack of height, Warmack may lack the position versatility of his more recognizable linemates Barrett Jones and D.J. Fluker, but he is further along in his development than Fluker and, frankly, makes more eye-popping blocks than Jones. Size means that he'll be relegated strictly to interior blocking in the NFL," according to's Rob Rang.

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Spiders, a black cat and couple of witches invaded the Pueblo Pediatric Therapy Center Friday afternoon for a special Halloween treat.

The guests were part of the center’s Halloween extravaganza for special needs children and their families.

“Every year we try to do a party for our clients and this year, we decided to bring back the Halloween party,” said Kathy Schleifer, who operates the center at 201 Lamkin.

“This is an opportunity for our clients to have fun and socialize.”

The center is a pediatric occupational therapy clinic for children from birth through young adults. More than half the clients have been diagnosed with autism and the majority have sensory issues, according to Schleifer.

On Friday, the children put aside their disabilities to participate in a ring toss, searching for spiders, bobbing for donuts and listening to a spooky story.

Dominic Serra, 9, dressed as a sailor, eagerly took in the activities, his favorite event being bobbing for a donut.

“I don’t know if I can do this without using my hands,” Dominic said as he knelt down before a powdered donut suspended from a string.

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Seven-year-old Draeken Ewing, dressed as dog, said his favorite part of the party was the candy dog bones he used to decorate a Halloween cookie.

“I’m Zeus and I like parties,” said Draeken, referring to the star of the children’s movie “The Dog Who Saved Christmas.”

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[G]Looking at a crowded stre[Em]et
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He made his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2005 with Urban Legend, a show that was nominated for the main Perrier award. The following year he won the Chortle award for best breakthrough act.

He embarked on his first solo tour of the UK in September 2008, a month after hosting the topical Channel 4 show Tonightly

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It ain’t so much what he says, but the way that he says it, in a Manchester brogue which sounds, inescapably, so much like a sedate version of Peter Kay. But it’s not just the accent; it’s the joshing attitude and the rich but economic use of language that also works in his favour. Although he says things many of us will have thought, he does so articulately and with an inherent, and irresistible, light wit.

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    The "Windows Evolution" - how Windows evolved from Aloe Vera

    The "Windows Evolution" is scientist Mr Bubusoo's exciting new book on, as its name suggests, the evolution of MS Windows.
    But, in the context of this book, evolution does not have the ordinary sense of the word, it is meant to be the evolution as described by Mr Darwin - which is a kind of magic that changes you from one thing to another, in order to solve your survival problems, whatever they may be, but you have to wait 1 or 2 million years for it, if you are still around. Though, up till now, we're still left wondering why we have to become fond of playing poker, have to be able to appreciate music, read poetry, run much slower than animals -- in order to survive ? :confused:

    Anyway, the author has come up with new evidences (including fossils) to show that MS Windows was not programmed or designed by anybody, but rather it was evolved , just as fishes had evolved into apes (at least that's what Mr Darwin had believed). Mr Bubusoo also argued that there is no such thing as programmer and it is merely delusion.
    Mr Bubusoo has successfully tracked down Windows' whole evolution path - Vista was evolved out of Windows XP, XP out of Windows 2000, Windows 2000 out of Windows 98, and so on, until it came to the first version.

    But you may wonder how did the first version of Windows come about ?
    The author has again successfully answered this question by proving that it evolved out of some extremely ancient, primitive firmwares, so ancient and primitive that it is quicker to count your fingers than to wait for answers from them. Those firmwares were evolved from some hardwares. Ultimately, all these things have as their common ancestor, strangely, Aloe Vera - believe it or not.
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Michelle Williams Gets Support From Gladys Knight Amid Jokes

Michelle Williams recently received some encouragement from legendary singer Gladys Knight following some social media scrutiny.

Williams, the 33-year-old former Destiny's child member, became a trending topic on the social media network when people created the phrase "#poormichelle." With the hashtag came a plethora of people who pointed out moments when group members Beyonce Knowles and Kelly Rowland seemed to treat Williams in an inferior manner.

While Rowland and Knowles have previously called Williams their "sister," the latter seemed to rise above the scrutiny. Knight, the legendary veteran singer, took to her own Twitter account to honor Williams with kind words.

"2words: Michelle Williams. A beautiful, talented, & resilient woman," Knight tweeted. "@RealMichelleW When hate tears down, God sends love to rebuild! #Knight."

When Williams caught wind of the comments, she seemed excited.

"You NEVER know who's watching!! Was not expecting this," Williams tweeted. "I love you @msgladysknight!!"

After a number of people uploaded images of Williams and her former group members in different scenarios with the intention of joking about the singer, she took the jokes in stride.

"#PoorMichelle that's not what my accountant said," the Christian singer tweeted. "Y'all be blessed now."

She followed up by writing "for every action, there's a graceful reaction."

In a recent interview with The Huffington Post, Williams spoke about advising her 25-year-old self about being ok with not fitting in.

"It's OK to be yourself. It's OK to be odd. It's OK to not fit in," Williams told the publication. "If there is something different about you, embrace that."

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"My album is titled 'Journey To Freedom,' and one of the things I want to get free from is -- and I'm getting better at it -- the opinions of other people," Williams told The Huffington Post. "You want people to like your music, you want people to like what you said in the interview, you want people to like everything. You don't want them to have negative or bad opinions of you."


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A Somali-based Islamist group with ties to al-Qaida has mocked monetary rewards being offered by the U.S. government in exchange for information that will lead to the top leaders of the al-Qaida affiliate al-Shabab.

Fuad Muhammad Kalaf of the Shabab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia was responsible for making the sarcastic comments in which the militant said that information regarding President Barack Obama was worth camels, while information regarding Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be worth chickens.

"Whoever reveals the hideout of the idiot Obama will be rewarded with 10 camels, and whoever reveals the hideout of the old woman Hillary Clinton will be rewarded 10 chickens and 10 roosters," Khalaf said after Friday prayers, according to SITE Intelligence Group.

SITE Intelligence Group monitors militant organizations and released the news on Saturday, which followed a Thursday U.S. State Department announcement that an award of $5 million each was being offered for the whereabouts of Khalaf and three of his associates.

The State Department also offered a $7 million award for information regarding al-Shabab founder Ahmed aw-Mohamed. Al-Shabab has been considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government since 2008.

The comments came as the assistant secretary of state for African affairs Johnnie Carson visited Somalia's capital of Mogadishu over the weekend. Carson became the first top U.S. official to visit the country in two decades and when asked by reporters at a news conference about the statements Carson called them "absurd."

"The question is so absurd it does not deserve a response," the U.S. official said.

Carson was in Mogadishu to discuss progress made against the militant group, which controls much of Somalia's territory and blocked the deliverance of humanitarian aid to the country during last summer's devastating famine.


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Premium performance lighting solutions provider, Chroma-Q, are pleased to announce their sponsorship of several British racing drivers in the high-profile BTCC and Lotus motor racing Championships.

Chroma-Q® are a Premium Sponsor of promising UK racing driver, Jack Goff, in the 2014 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season.

Jack showed great promise in his debut season last year, including being second fastest for most of the race day at Silverstone and achieving a well-earned 2nd place podium finish in the final round at Brands Hatch, after a climactic battle for position with outgoing BTCC champion Gordon Shedden.

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GALVESTON - Real estate heir Robert Durst, known for beating a Galveston murder charge a decade ago and a pattern of erratic behavior, is scheduled to be arraigned in a Harris County court next week for allegedly urinating on a cash register and candy display at a Houston pharmacy.

Durst, 71, appeared in court Wednesday to post $5,000 bail on a charge of criminal mischief. He is accused of ruining 108 candy bars, valued at $150.96, on Sunday afternoon at a CVS pharmacy at 6011 Kirby Drive, according to an affidavit by a Houston police officer. His arraignment is scheduled for July 30.

If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to six months in jail and fined up to $2,000.

The affidavit said that Durst purchased a prescription and afterward "exposed his genitals and urinated on the register and candy bars." The store manager recognized Durst, who lives a few blocks away in the posh Robinhood Towers, as a regular customer.

Durst "did not seem agitated or argue with the clerk," the affidavit said. "He casually walked out of the business after he was done urinating."

Chip Lewis, Durst's attorney, was not immediately available for comment Thursday.

Lewis said earlier this week that he had phoned police to assure them that there was no need to make an arrest and that he would "make sure (Durst) presented himself to answer the charges."

Durst was never arrested and remained free until he appeared to post bail.

Video footage aired by KHOU-TV showed an elderly man in a short-sleeve shirt with what appeared to be a long scar on his head shuffling down the street outside a court building Wednesday and not answering a reporter's questions.

Durst was acquitted in 2003 of shooting an elderly neighbor, chopping up the body and stuffing the parts in plastic bags before dumping them in Galveston Bay. Durst claimed self-defense.


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In Victoria on a recent Saturday afternoon, the candidate for the U.S. Senate had the crowd on its feet, the shouts and applause washing over the meeting room like waves on the nearby Gulf. As he wrapped up his 15-minute jeremiad warning of the havoc his opponent would wreak on the Lone Star State and, as he began making his way to the back of the room, shaking hands and posing for photos along the way, an older woman in a red pantsuit sought to recapture the crowd's attention.

"This campaign costs money," she shouted into the microphone several times, but only those within a few feet of her were listening. One of them eventually doffed his straw hat, which became a makeshift collection basket for a statewide campaign tossing nickels and dimes at an opponent awash in money and nationwide ardor.

The Victoria experience represents the Paul Sadler campaign in miniature. Little-known statewide and underfunded, the lawyer and former state representative from Henderson is a capable campaigner, an experienced lawmaker and a credible candidate for a party desperately in need of new faces and arresting ideas.

Not returning his calls

Sadler's problem, of course, is that his GOP opponent, tea party darling Ted Cruz, has been all but anointed the successor to retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas. Cruz has money, star power and the overwhelming advantage of being a Republican in the most fervid of red states. In last month's Senate runoffs, 1.1 million Texas Republicans cast a ballot, compared to 235,000 Democrats.

Sadler survived a Democratic primary scare from an opponent with no political experience whatsoever. Records show that he raised about $140,000 before the primary, while Cruz gathered in about $8.8 million from across the country, which he used to vanquish early favorite Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.

"About $50,000 came in right after the primary, but I can't even get the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to return my calls," Sadler said. In his travels around the state, he's asking 1 million Texans to donate $10 each to his campaign, so he can be competitive with a candidate who is, in Sadler's words, "the most anti-American, anti-Texan candidate for the United States Senate we have seen in the history of this state."

Sadler said he is skipping the Democratic National Convention, although he supports the ticket. He will use that time, he said, to introduce himself to Texas voters.

Like Cruz, trial lawyer Sadler is an effective debater. The two have agreed to at least one debate this fall, possibly more.

Sadler's campaign stump speech has gotten stronger and more succinct in the weeks and months since he announced his candidacy last January. He also has gotten more negative, urging Cruz to go back to Canada where he was born and questioning whether he's a true Hispanic. Cruz, who is Cuban-American, was born in Calgary, in western Canada, but grew up in Houston.

The Cruz campaign declined to comment.

Sadler, who served as president of the Austin-based Wind Coalition before launching his Senate campaign, also insists that independent voters and moderate Republicans, including office holders past and present, are taking a look at his candidacy because of their concerns about Cruz and his "fringe" ideas.

"They say, 'We're going to be there on Election Day. We know him (Cruz), and he's not what we need,'" Sadler said. "All I can say publicly is that there's a movement afoot here. People know the tea party doesn't reflect them. They know the divisive nature of the tea party doesn't reflect all of Texas."

Victoria resident Jim Busby, 64, a process operator for a local chemical plant, said after Sadler's speech that he came to the forum knowing his name but little else. "I know he's got an extremely uphill battle," he said. "I know a lot about Cruz, and he scares me to death."

Sadler's problem, in addition to money, is that his political accomplishments are more than a decade old. He had to remind listeners that he was co-sponsor in the Texas Legislature of the Ratliff-Sadler Act, a comprehensive rewrite of the Texas Education Code in 1995.

"That Sadler guy happens to be me," he explained in his East Texas twang. "One of those guys (former state Sen. Bill Ratliff) happens to be a Republican. It was passed at a time when you had a Democratic House by a small majority, a Republican Senate and you had a Republican governor and a Democratic lieutenant governor and a Democratic speaker. It was as bipartisan as you can be."

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Ratliff, an East Texas Republican and former lieutenant governor who retired from the Senate in 2004, called Sadler "extremely smart. He could manage the House floor as well as anybody I've seen. You don't work as a trial advocate without developing a lot of those skills."

A moderate who served as chair of the House Public Education Committee, Sadler was on Texas Monthly's "10 Best" list in four of the six sessions he served.

Sadler, 57, is trying to use his legislative experience against Cruz, who at 42 has never held elective office.

"I am tried, I am tested, I am a known quantity," he told his Victoria audience. "What the Republican Party has asked you to do is to take someone who is untried, untested and unknown. We have no idea what this young man will do with the responsibilities of a United States senator, but you know exactly who I am."


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Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini does not believe that the impending arrival of Pep Guardiola to succeed him will overshadow the club’s four-pronged quest for silverware this season.

Tuesday’s 2-1 win at Sunderland gave Pellegrini a 65th Premier League victory in 100 games, a ratio bettered only by former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, who won 73 of his first 100 English top-flight matches.

The Chilean’s record eclipses that of Alex Ferguson over his first 100 games in the English top tier and is better than both predecessor Roberto Mancini and Liverpool’s Rafael Benitez.

But it will not prevent him being replaced at the end of the season by Guardiola, and that announcement made on Monday dominated his post-match press conference after a win that kept City three points behind Premier League leaders Leicester City, who they host on Saturday.

Pellegrini’s defence under pressure from the press was as impressive as England goalkeeper Joe Hart’s had been in preserving City’s lead at the Stadium of Light.

Refuting the suggestion that Guardiola’s appointment might be a distraction for City, who remain in contention for league, Champions League, League Cup and FA Cup honours, he said: “The announcement was not on my mind – only having a good season ahead of the next game against Leicester.

“I want to do well in all competitions and all I was focused on was getting the three points. We are all thinking about this season rather than the next.

“I think that we are living in a very good season and if we can finish it very strongly, then it will be special.

“It will be difficult with each game as it goes along, but that’s what I’m focused on. I’m not thinking about myself right now. I want to talk about the team and the club, not me.”

A 16th-minute goal from Sergio Aguero and a superb display in City’s goal by Hart proved to be the difference between the two sides.

But Pellegrini, whose name was sung by the travelling fans, was at pains to point out that it had been a collective effort and that City’s players had shown they have steel to their game, as well as silk.

“This game against Sunderland was a very difficult game and I’m very happy about the result,” he said.

“The most important thing for the team was to come here and win this game and show we can defend very well if we need to.

“We’re known as an attacking team, but we showed we can defend, too. Sergio Aguero and Joe Hart had good games for us, but the whole team worked hard.

“I thought against Sunderland we showed we can play in a different way and in a way that’s needed to win such difficult games.”

City’s performance answered the question of how they would react to the Guardiola announcement, and the battling nature of their win bodes well for the run-in.

When Guardiola was announced as Bayern Munich manager in January 2013, Jupp Heynckes’s side went on to win the treble. Pellegrini may yet leave this summer as City’s most successful ever manager.

For Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce, survival itself is the only benchmark of success and it was no consolation to him that his side had outplayed a team who could end up as Premier League champions.

“I think it’s the most disappointed I’ve been since I’ve been at the club because we deserved so much more,” said Allardyce, whose side remain second-bottom, four points from safety.

“Some of the games we’ve lost we haven’t really deserved anything, so this makes it so much more disappointing to us.

“To play as well as we did against City and get nothing, I’m gutted.”— AFP

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Stars of the music world turned out in force for the funeral of one of the most successful record producers, Mickie Most.

They joined Most's wife Christina, daughters Nathalie and Crystalle and son Calvin for a service at Golders Green crematorium in north London.

Most, real name Michael Peter Hayes died from cancer at home in Totteridge, north London on May 30 at the age of 64. Mourners at the service included Lulu, Donovan, Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits and Kim Wilde - all artists Most had worked with and moulded.

Singers Chrissie Hynde and Paul Young, football agent Eric Hall and other names from the world of showbiz were also at the funeral, at which a series of songs in some way connected to Most were played.

These included the massive hit House of the Rising Sun for North-East legends The Animals and I'm Into Something Good by Herman's Hermits.

Most's close friends and music associates Deke Arlon and Nicky Chinn gave moving tributes to Most along with several other of his close friends.

Speaking afterwards, Lulu called Most "a great producer, a great hit-maker and a great man".

"I had so many hits with Mickie I can't remember, I've such a lot to be grateful for.

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Wipro on Friday reported growth in US dollar terms in its IT services revenue for the quarter ended June 30, citing strong demand for its services. The company's margins in the IT services business also improved.

Wipro's competitors, Infosys Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services, have also reported an uptick in revenue for the quarter, but this is still far lower than the revenue growth rates before the recession, according to analysts.

The global outsourcing market is not yet bouncing back as economic uncertainty continues to weigh on corporations around the world, outsourcing consultancy firm Technology Partners International (TPI) said earlier this week.

Wipro, which is India's third largest outsourcer, said that its IT services revenue in US dollar terms was $1.2 billion, up by 16.6 per cent from the same quarter last year. Revenue growth in rupee terms was slightly lower at 14 per cent, reflecting currency fluctuations, including a declining Euro.

The company's operating margin rose to 24.5 per cent for the quarter, up from 22.2 per cent in the same quarter last year, while its gross margin barely changed to 32.35 per cent this year compared with 32.29 percent last year. Wipro has a diversified business that also includes consumer care, and it does not break out its profits by business segment.

The company has forecast that revenue from its IT Services business will be close to $1.3 billion for the quarter ending September 30, 2010. This would compare to a little over $1 billion during the same quarter a year ago.

The company's results for the quarter are in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

The TPI Index, which measures commercial outsourcing contracts worldwide valued at $25 million or more, recorded total contract value (TCV) of $18.1 billion in the second quarter of 2010, down about 13 per cent both sequentially and year-on-year.

Indian companies are showing revenue growth because they have been expanding business from existing customers, and most of their new deals are smaller than $25 million, said Siddharth Pai, a partner at TPI, on Friday.

Wipro added 4,854 staff in its IT services business in the quarter ended June 30, taking the total number of employees working on IT services to 112,925 employees as of June 30, 2010. It added 22 new clients in the quarter.

During the quarter, Wipro took over the ownership and management of Citibank's datacentre in Meerbusch, a suburb of Dusseldorf. As part of the deal, Citibank will lease back office and data center space from Wipro for at least 30 months, while Wipro will provide Citibank with facilities management and physical infrastructure management services during the period.

Wipro plans to offer similar infrastructure management solutions from this center to other clients in Europe and other parts of the world. Europe accounted for 25.4 per cent of its revenue in the quarter, second to the U.S. which contributed 57.3 per cent.


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Free digital certificate project opens doors for public beta

Let's Encrypt provides free SSL/TLS certificates in an effort to better secure the Internet

Let's Encrypt, the project offering free digital certificates for websites, is now issuing them more broadly with the launch of a public beta on Thursday.

The beta label will eventually be dropped as the software they've developed is refined, wrote Josh Aas, executive director of the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), which runs Let's Encrypt.

"Automation is a cornerstone of our strategy, and we need to make sure that the client works smoothly and reliably on a wide range of platforms," he wrote.

Digital certificates use the SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) protocols to encrypt traffic exchanged between a user and a service, adding a higher level of privacy and security.

Obtaining and installing digital certificates can be expensive and difficult, which is why they are still not uniformly used across websites.

Let's Encrypt has tried to make the installation process free and less painful. It has developed an extensible client that fetches fresh certificates from the Let's Encrypt Certification Authority (CA) and configures web servers to use them.

So far, the client will only run on Unix-like OSes that have Python 2.6 or 2.7, according to release notes on GitHub. Eventually, support for Python 3.0 will be added.

The project also plans to refine other aspects of dealing with certificates, such as automatic renewals when certs expire, and support more servers such as Nginx.

Let's Encrypt has the potential to help a lot of organizations running websites that don't use SSL/TLS. Digital certificates can be quite expensive: It's not unusual for a single, average EV (extended validation) SSL certificate to cost between US$600 and $800.

Critics have long contended that the cost of digital certificates has been too high. Also, security problems at several CAs have undermined confidence, since a security breach at one of these can have immediate, wide-ranging effects on large numbers of Internet users.

In 2011, a hacker breached the Dutch CA DigiNotar and issued hundreds of unauthorized certificates, including one for That rogue certificate appeared to have been used in an attack targeting Iranian users.

Despite the occasional breaches and mistakes by CAs, it's generally recommended that websites use encryption because it can stop more common attacks, such as snooping on someone's unencrypted traffic flowing through a public Wi-Fi access point.

It's also a defense against government surveillance programs, like the vast data collection operations by Western intelligence agencies that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden exposed.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of Let's Encrypt's backers, wrote that the public beta marks progress toward a more fully encrypted Web.

"A huge percentage of the world's daily Internet usage currently takes place over unecrypted HTTP, exposing people to illegal surveillance and injection of unwanted ads, malware, and tracking headers into the websites they visit," wrote Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, the EFF's senior staff technologist.

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Sony hackers turn to terror tactics, threaten movie theaters

The hackers who attacked Sony Pictures have apparently moved on to a new tactic: attempting to spread fear among the general public.

In a message on Tuesday, the hackers allude to attacks on movie theaters showing “The Interview.”

Due to open Dec. 25, the movie is a comedy about celebrity TV interviewers sent to North Korea on a secret mission to kill leader Kim Jong Un. It has some speculating that North Korean hackers were behind the attack on Sony.

“We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places ‘The Interview’ be shown, including the premiere, how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to,” the message said.

Whoever wrote the email doesn’t appear to know that the premiere of the movie already happened, last week in Los Angeles, without incident.

“The world will be full of fear. Remember the 11th of September 2001,” it said. “We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. (If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)”

The threat, whether credible or not, grabbed the attention of some media outlets.

Variety screamed “Sony Hackers Threaten 9/11 Attack on Movie Theaters That Screen ‘The Interview’,” The Daily Beast said, “Sony Hackers Issue 9/11 Warning” and The Verge turned the threat toward moviegoers rather than theaters and reported, “Sony hackers threaten terror attacks against people who see The Interview in theaters.”

The message was reportedly accompanied by what appears to be a new leak of documents, this time related to Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Entertainment.

Hackers had previously promised they would release a “Christmas gift” and said the latest documents were the first part of that data dump.

It’s been almost three weeks since Sony Pictures was attacked and gigabytes of emails, corporate secrets and other documents were stolen from the company.

The FBI is investigating the case but so far has made no statement on the probe. The latest threats will add urgency to the hunt for those responsible and likely lead to additional charges to anyone who is eventually caught.

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Citrus College and the First Christian Church Fine Arts Academy are joining forces to present the annual Empty Bowls Benefit, an energetic and appetizing community gathering that seeks to raise funds and awareness to fight hunger throughout Glendora.

The first part of the Empty Bowls project took place on Super Bowl Sunday, when 45 Citrus College students gathered in the college’s ceramics studio to create over 1,000 ceramic bowls.  The second part of the project is the benefit event, in which Glendora restaurants donate soup to fill the bowls.  Guests purchase the bowls of soup for $15 apiece.

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Visit the First Christian Church on Friday, March 11 anytime between 5 and 9 p.m.  For more information, contact Mike Hillman at (626) 914-8661.


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In Buenos Aires, thousands of informal workers are ready to take on the task of improving the city's trash woes, if only the government would let them.

Call it "grassroots recycling" for the developing world: Every evening, thousands of people sift through the residential trash of Buenos Aires, filling sacks and carts with paper, bottles, and anything else that might be sold or reused. They do it because they have few other options for work, and the raw materials they find in the garbage allow them to scrape together a living. But these cartoneros, as they're called, might also be the key to managing the city's pressing waste management problem.

Despite passing an ambitious "zero waste" law in 2004, Buenos Aires has been slow to meet its targets for landfill diversion. Up until very recently, the city had been responsible for sending more than 90 percent of its 6,000 metric tons of waste per day to landfills. In April, the municipal government announced it had improved that number by 29 percent, though environmental groups have already criticized the city's methods. And local landfills are bursting at the seams as it is.

Where waste disposal experts agree is that efficient recycling could help Buenos Aires in a big way. Yet the city's informal cartonero system has yet to be taken seriously as a public works program or receive the municipal support it needs to help it achieve that efficiency.

Fifty-five-year-old Gustavo Ibañez began in the industry as most cartoneros did, in the lead-up to Argentina's 2001-2002 economic, political and social crisis, which saw national unemployment levels top 22 percent. The printing press where Ibañez worked closed that year, leaving him searching for ways to make a living. Over the past decade, these unemployed people sifting through garbage have grown into an ad-hoc city-wide movement with over 4,000 "urban recoverers" now affiliated with twelve cooperatives. Although they were initially opposed by trash collection companies and discriminated against by the residents whose trash they sorted, they have fought for, and received, increased recognition as a legitimate work-force. Today, they are the closest thing the city has to a municipal recycling system.

Ibañez is now the president of the Cooperativa Recuperadores Urbanos del Oeste, which has about 700 cartonero members who gather about 35 metric tons of recyclables per day. He watches proudly as his members bring in their loads one evening at the end of their shift. Their sacks are taken by truck to a brand new recycling center, also run by a cooperative, to be aggregated and sold. The cartoneros now wear uniforms provided by the government, receive a minimum stipend as well as limited social security benefits, and cooperatives prohibit children from working alongside their parents. Ibañez estimates that each cartonero might earn between 1,000 and 4,000 Argentine pesos (that's about $195-$770) per month, but the number fluctuates depending on what they find and prices for specific materials.

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Urban policy critics here have noted that the system treats recycling more like a social relief program. In exchange for running the city’s recycling system, recoverers receive only a stipend and the meager profits from what they sell. If you factor in the savings they bring the city through landfill diversion, there's a strong case to be made that they're actually making the city money.

"This could be much improved," says Ibañez. If residents separated their recyclables, he estimates the cartonero collection rate could be quadrupled. Plus, his workers wouldn't be forced to root through trash bags, bumping into dirty diapers and broken glassware. Sidewalks would be cleaner too, as trash bag content wouldn't be sorted on sidewalks. While the city’s website ostensibly encourages concerned citizens to separate recyclables at home and take them out to their streets’ cartoneros, there is no comprehensive education effort or system for neighbors to liaise with their local cooperative. Nor are there answers for buildings with central trash collection. Recycling only really exists as activism for Buenos Aires residents.

International experience points towards the success of more comprehensive efforts, albeit on a smaller scale. The city of Londrina in Brazil has succeeded in recycling 23 percent of the 309 tons of waste it produces each day. Those 90 tons of recyclables are gathered by “catadores,” as they are called there. In addition to receiving municipal logistical support, the catadores spearheaded a door-to-door education initiative, explaining how to separate recyclables and developing a collection schedule with residents. Other cities in Brazil and Bogotá in Colombia are also experimenting with similar systems.

With Buenos Aires's main landfill expected to top off this year, and suburban mayors (and their constituents) refusing to permit new ones, the city government can no longer afford to drag its feet. If they're not already considering fully formalizing the cartoneros, they should be.

Top image: A garbage collector sorts out recyclables items to be sold in Buenos Aires' financial district (Reuters file photo).

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Before the Longest Night of the Year

I woke up yesterday to my son touching my arm.

"Will you come and lay down by me?" he asked. The sky was dark and I checked my clock. Early.

Sometimes the earliest mornings are the greatest gifts to an anxious soul. So I took advantage.

"Yes, let me grab my journal and I'll write."

It had been nine months since I had written last. I tried to write everything down I find significant in my life right now. And then I thumbed through the last few years of my life.

2013: I feel a strange loneliness

A strange loneliness indeed. I was born with it and it followed me around like a childhood dog. And here I am, still well-acquainted with this feeling. Comes and goes. I take note of its presence and absence. I'm sure this blog is full of posts about this sentiment, this friend (I guess?) I've carried with me forever.

There is no cure for this--it is what it is. It is me. I think maybe, some of us thinkers think through tunnels so deep that there are few who can understand (at least that's what we think)(I suspect we're just not advanced enough in language to communicate this experience). It's strange to be in those places, and it's lonely. Strange and lonely.

And the loss of light on the earth doesn't help.

But because Anson gave me the gift of an early morning, and after he was settled back down, I took it outside to a still, ashy pre-dawn. I slipped into the hot tub and kept my eye on the white mountains just east of me. In a few moments the top of Cascade Mountain flashed a pinky-orange and clouds moved in trails towards the Wasatch Back. Light from the top of Slate Canyon appeared and the sky turned into a melted pastel Popsicle-yellows, pinks, blues. The pines on Y Mountain appeared like black statues standing watch over the the sunrise. The fir tree to the south filtered in a warm light, past the steel grass and into the hot water where I sat.

It is a reprieve for the strange loneliness.

And I was grateful for it.

Monday, December 12, 2016

To Erin on Turning Five

Your face when we surprised you on your fifth birthday party will remain in my mental storage for a very long time. You asked for a party with all your friends but we told you because you have that fate (as some humans do) of being born on a rotating holiday (Thanksgiving) we weren't able to do a party this year. "Thanksgiving will be your party this year Squish." It was too easy. Except the part where your face would go long and sad. It was only bearable because secretly dad was scouring pinterest for party games and making TOP SECRET birthday invitations.

I may have been the parent, dressed in pink for your honor, dancing with ten little girls to Katy Perry remixes during Freeze Dance but you should know Dad did a lot of the work. I arranged for Emily, Olivia and Maggie to come and help. They did the nail salon and the candy necklaces. (Grandma woke up super early to stealthily collect a heap of candy with holes at the store!) And of course we had to have the face painter come--you live for a great spray of art on your face. This one was remarkable, transformed you into a blue fairy with jewels and flowers. It could've stayed on your face for days except, well, Thanksgiving dinner the next day required a decorum of sorts.

Your birth and its anniversaries have a curious effect on me, Erin. With every year added to your personal resume, I become more aware of life. By that I mean I feel a sense of awakening--deeper as you grow. It can be both freeing and painful. Freeing because I can peel off layers of shame and expectation that I have heaped upon me in my life. Painful because it can also feel remarkably exposing, raw and lonely. I wish I could explain this better, but maybe you'll read this one day and not need any further explanation, you'll just know how I felt.

And if not, that's ok.

I do want to say something absolute. It's this: you came to earth for a reason...because we wanted you. Your Dad and I wanted to love you. I remember feeling so ornery and tired and I took a pregnancy test in the blueish green bathroom upstairs and when it confirmed that I was pregnant I was so thrilled, I felt buzzy. I took the stick downstairs and tossed at Dad who was sitting crossed legged on the floor with Ever and Anson. He said something like, "Well, there it is."

You'll probably find thousands of reasons why you are alive. Hundreds and thousands of reasons. And they can all be true if you want them to be. If they make you feel strong and purposeful, please gather them up. Have a huge, colorful collection of reasons why you are here, but please don't for get the very first reason: because we wanted you.

Maybe someday you'll also be 39 and you'll be awaking up and fumbling and looking around for clues and searching in science and consciousness and faith to tell you why you are here. And maybe you'll read this and realize the answer is far more simple than you thought.

And the truth is: you're even better than I could've imagined. I am so glad you came.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Just Before I Vote

It would be really weird if, in twenty years or so, my posterity reads my blog and wonders why in the world I didn't write one post about this election.

So here it is.

In about an hour Chup and I are going to take our Erin and Iris to the Rec Center so we can vote early. Voting early is on my list of life hacks.

This is the first time Utah is considered a "swing state" although it's not really. It will go GOP whether that's Trump or Evan McMullin. Even still, we've had flirting from the DNC and that feels good. And weird. And exciting.

Because of this election I got to chat with Scott Simon on NPR and talk to NYC Mag's The Cut about being a Mormon feminist and being a Hillary supporter.

Oh yes, that's right, I'm with her.

Being with her in a state that has an unwritten pledge to hate all things Hillary Clinton means that you are in jeopardy of losing your social status in certain circles. I have sort of approached everything with a "burn in all to the ground" attitude. Sexism does that to me. Maybe it's my approaching 40th birthday and lifelong frustration with patriarchy, but this election has made me pretty bold.

I know she's a flawed candidate. I can see how people don't trust her. I get that she's not likeable (in the way you want women to be likeable). But her fight feels so personal to me. She's had to fight like hell and she's still standing--and that's important to me because I've never seen it done before. And I need to see it done. What will we gain from a nation full of women who fight and stay strong and don't give up until their voices are heard from the very, very top? We don't know. But I am willing to bet it's going to be radical, transformative and ultimately healing.

She understands women's health (in all its complications and strata) and children's justice, and cares about taking care of the earth. Those are my three things-women's bodies (all women, all consent, all bodily autonomy, all mental wellness, all body acceptance, but especially women who are marginalized, silenced, unseen and unprotected), children's access to resources (but especially children who don't have resources), and the earth.

Of course there are more, but everything pretty much boils down to those three things.

It's been lonely. I have a few dear friends, and a few family members here in Utah who I have been able to reach out to when things have gotten rough. Many times Mormonism has mingled with the political and that brings on a tidal wave of frustration for me. The sexism has been awful. The sexual assault stories have been hard to read (but important) because they reach for memories I've tried to leave behind.

It's time to look at our sexism, America. Time to stop defending patriarchal practices. Time to usher in the season of equality. Time to examine the racism and ableism we were all baptized in from generations before us.

I am going to vote for Hillary today,  but I am not ignorant of what that means. It means it's about to get messy in America. On top of the racial tensions burning already, we're about to add gallons of misogyny. And if we don't come out better and on top of all this, then maybe we really aren't the special country we always believed we were.

But I am a believer. I believe. And I am going to vote like a believer today.

And then I am going to get to work.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

School Lunch

In my determination to write more (and subsequently stay sane) I have joined author Ann Dee Ellis in a memoir writing group. 3 days a week she gives prompts and then for 8 minutes we write. Please feel free to join in! Here's my eight minute attempt today:
Christopher and I have this deal for the mornings: I make the breakfast, he makes the kid's school lunches. I guess you could say that's the MO of our marriage--trades and negotiations. For instance, last night I wanted a back rub so I traded one-for-one. I got a ten minute back rub and gave Christopher a ten minute back rub. You might think this paragraph gets saucy at this point, but instead I'll disappoint you by saying it was not a fair deal. In a marriage where one partner consistently does things far better than the other, I have found sadly, that my few winning strengths includes a good back rub.

I give a better back rub.

This does not benefit me much.

At first when we struck this breakfast/school lunch deal I was a bit disappointed in myself for not campaigning harder for the school lunch duty. I can cook, in fact, I am not a bad cook, but hot griddles and gooey messes are not always kind. For instance, I have never made an egg I was proud of. But I have found a bit of creative pursuit in my morning breakfast adventure. Yesterday I made cheese and herb biscuits with a side of scrambled eggs (like yellow lumps of coddled dairy, but still edible) and it was a big hit with the second grader.

Are these essays the reasons why people keep unsubscribing to my blog?

(Just 4 people have unsubscribed since I started writing again, but I'm sensitive that way.)

In the afternoons when the kids come home I always make a first responder's effort to dig into their backpacks for traces of their day. An art project, a wadded flier about a pumpkin maze, a trinket or rock usually, homework, books and their lunch box. I spill the contents of their lunch box out on the kitchen counter every day and examine the evidence. Sandwiches are sometimes intact, untouched. Grapes are missing one or two off their vines. The treats bags are always vacant except that one time CK proudly admitted his homemade brownie. And then I feel a wave of frustration. Why aren't these kids eating their lunches? What kind of trade deals are going down on the floor of the school's kitchen cafeteria? Are my children, (oh please say no) asking other kids if they can have their lunch stuffs?

We let them dictate what they want in their lunches. We ask for details. So the uneaten portions of their meals are perhaps more of a mental mystery than a one of sensitive palate.

After I comb through the evidence I report my findings to CK. And then I don't worry about it after that because I have breakfast to make the next morning.

I was never really great at solving mysteries. Or making eggs.

But you should feel the way my can thumbs penetrate the base of the neck in circular motions.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Your Most Important Hair Moment

In my determination to write more (and subsequently stay sane) I have joined author Ann Dee Ellis in a memoir writing group. 3 days a week she gives prompts and then for 8 minutes we write. Please feel free to join in! Here's my eight minute attempt today:

Perhaps this very day was my most important hair moment. I don't know. Time will tell.

I was cleaning up the den, throwing away bygone masterpieces from the art table and stacking books which will be unstacked by sunset. In the middle this work Erin came to me with a comb and scissors in her hands.

"Cut my bangs right now please," she demanded as her brown wispy bangs blew and tickled her eyelids.

I knew it was time for a trim, but I was going to get to that...when I could...

"I can't stand them anymore. And make them super short."

Erin and I have gone the rounds with her bangs for most of her hairful life. There was a couple years when she was hairless--a Kendrick baby trait I came to know intimately through the years. She has a long forehead--the perfect size and shape for a display of bangs. (I spend a lot of time wishing I had what I gave my children.)

But here we were.

"Could you give me a second? I'm just..." I tried to divert.

"No. Now." She had actually gotten so tired of her bangs that she interrupted a playdate and came home from a friends house while they were pretending princesses. Now here she stood in a puffy pink dress, a tiara and some bedazzled flip flops making a royal demand.

And yes, I am so grateful she knows to ask and not do the cutting herself. But that's because she's picky and likes to have things done correctly.

So I picked up the comb and the scissors and I started cutting those bangs. The bangs I've cut for years. Like gardener to his dahlias I have cared and grown those bangs, pruning and shaping year-after-year. Only today she insisted they go short. Short. Short!

Parenthood is nothing but walking the tiny line between having the final say and letting them decide for themselves.

So I cut them short. Short. Short. Partly because I want her to feel she has ownership when it comes to making choices for her body. But also because I don't want looks to be a battle between us. Ever.

When we were done she ran to the mirror and declared victory. I was happy for her. But also, anxious because will she now be the kid with weird bangs? I mean, I've given up on trying to dress her, she's very into a certain Herdman Child chic and I have played it up like it was her vibe is cool with me. But these bangs? Man, I don't know.

And then when it was time to go to preschool a few hours later, I remembered it was picture day. Right? Picture day! On this very day! So we dressed her in a cute little flowered dress, and matching shoes and I took her hair into the loving embrace of my straightener. And those short bangs did all the talking.

But she was so happy. When we dropped her off at preschool she strutted inside like she wasn't pretending to be a princess anymore, she was a princess. A princess who was about to sit for a portrait...that will likely hang in our house for awhile...that she will fondly look at for the rest of her life. And out of my head came images of school pictures-- those awful perms, awkward ponytails, bangs gone bad, and a lifetime of blaming my mother for clearly not caring for me at some of my most important hair moments in history. (Editors note: she tried, I honestly have impossible hair and no genetic skills for hair craft. As this blog has documented.)

I drove away with this letter in my head.

Dear Erin,

I sincerely love everything about you. In many ways I wish I were more like you. You're smart and funny. You have energy I envy. I love your style and particular-ness about all areas of your life. I wish I were as particular as you. Today you asked me to cut your bangs super short. So we took off the blue tiara you were wearing and a shiny sticker you had put on your luscious forehead, and we cut those bangs as short as you requested. And then you went to preschool picture day and had your picture taken with your class. In case you are reading this sometime in the future, please know you were super happy with those bangs. And I was happy for you.

I'll always be happy for you.


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Foundations is where we find a little something out about select artists’ personal favourite albums – those records that are so ingrained into their musical psyche that they can’t not qualify as influential, whatever their style.

Here, we’ve spoken to celebrated German house duo Booka Shade, aka Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier. The pair’s new LP ‘Eve’ is out now on Embassy One – look out for a review on these very pages very soon.

Their choices include some fairly recent releases – but when a record leaves an immediate impression, it’s sure to be a quality collection.

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Yello – ‘You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess’ (1983)

Walter: Yello’s Dieter Meier and Boris Blank had great influence on the way we like to hear electronic music – the combination of very synthetic parts and then again live played instruments. They are masters in creating suspense between the sounds, which actually sold synthetic music more to us than the pure electronica of Kraftwerk – as great as these folks are, of course! When I heard ‘Great Mission’, visiting the jungles of Manaus once in my life became an idée fixe.

Yello explored the then-new concept of ‘extended maxi versions’ to a new extreme, which made collecting the 12”s great fun. In those days, coming from a rather wealthy family background (Swiss banker!) really helped, because they could afford the mother of all samplers, the CMI Fairlight: XXX synth pornography for tech nerds like us at that time.

We had the privilege to meet Meier and Blank in their studio in Zurich when we worked with them on ‘Divine’, a song from our 2010 album ‘More!’. It was an entertaining afternoon with Dieter telling anecdotes and Boris explaining synthesizers. We keep meeting every now and then ever since.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Push The Sky Away’ (2013)

Arno: ‘Jubilee Street’ is probably the song that’s impressed me most in the last couple of years. I listened to it 30-40 times in a row each day, for weeks.

Why? I’m not even sure. The production is good but not out of this world. The change of BPM after the first part of the song is a nice trick. I guess it must be the way the band plays together and the way Nick Cave sings and recites his lyrics. It touches me very deeply.

Perhaps the song also struck me because it came out during the time we recorded our new album ‘Eve’. We rented a residential recording studio outside of Manchester, called Eve, equipped with the strangest and rarest instruments you can imagine. During those recordings Walter and I felt like a band again, a feeling which got lost for some time because we have separate music studios since Walter built a house outside of Berlin.

‘Jubilee Street’ will always be connected with the positive feeling of recording the ‘Eve’ album.

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Depeche Mode – ‘Violator’ (1990)

Arno: We’ve mentioned it many times before: we are Depeche Mode fans. Always have been, since 1982, and always will be. No other band has contributed to the soundtrack of our youth more than these folks.

In 1983, when I first saw them at a live show in a small town in southern Germany – 1,000 people, max – there was no indication that 30 years later they would fill Olympic stadiums. There was no indication they would even exist 30 years later.

I could pick any of their albums and highlight specific sounds or songs, but during the phase of ‘Violator’ they were simply out of this world. Everything – production, songwriting, the live show, the artwork – was at the absolute peak and still felt very natural.

François Kevorkian did an incredible job mixing the album – if the crisp sound of ‘World In My Eyes’ reminds you of Kraftwerk, yes, he mixed ‘Electric Café’, too. And this is producer Flood’s second breakthrough, after producing U2’s ‘The Joshua Tree’. In short, ‘Violator’ is a perfect album. We’ve already had the privilege twice to open for Depeche Mode, at concerts in Berlin and Tel Aviv.

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Arcade Fire – ‘Neon Bible’ (2007)

Walter: Everything’s already been said about this amazing band. For me, though, the outstanding song is ‘No Cars Go’, and it was a big inspiration for us. But the organ intro of ‘Intervention’ is also a genius piece of music. There are too many great moments on this album to mention them all.

Arcade Fire is the only band for us to come close to the feeling that Depeche Mode gave us in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. They have these huge anthems, but on the other side they’ve these very intense, fragile and intimate moments in their body of work. Every tone they play or sing comes from the heart; every word is pure poetry and gives you real emotional moments.

Their recent single ‘Reflektor’ is one of their best songs so far. David Bowie as a guest, production by James Murphy, the ground-breaking video made by Anton Corbijn, and an amazing song – what else can you ask for?

We’ve never seen them live, but that’s definitely on our list for 2014.

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Jon Hopkins – ‘Immunity’ (2013)

Walter: Jon Hopkins is not unknown in the electronic music world – he’s been involved in productions by Brian Eno, Coldplay and David Holmes, and produced a few outstanding solo albums to date. But his best work so far, and the album that made him known to a wider audience, is ‘Immunity’: a set of amazing soundscapes, grooves and atmospheres, where melodies are the centre of this masterpiece.

The album’s sound is somewhere between early James Holden, minimal techno, a bit of Burial, and ambient music. Hopkins’ great sense for tasteful electronic music meant that he was a constant inspiration for our new album, ‘Eve’. Our song ‘Kalimera’, in particular, is inspired by his great journeys into sound. ‘Immunity’ is already a classic.

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‘Eve’ is out now, and you’ll get plenty more information on its makers by visiting their official website, here

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