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Contact: Jill Stockton jbstockton@unr.edu 775-784-4783 University of Nevada, Reno
'Robert Laxalt: Story of a Storyteller' sheds light into the less illuminated corners of Laxalt's personal and career sagas
The Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, University Libraries Special Collections and the University's Center for Basque Studies recently released Warren Lerude's book Robert Laxalt: Story of a Storyteller.
In this new biography, Lerude, professor emeritus of journalism, focuses on Laxalt's development as a writer, especially through his formative days as a journalist in Reno and Carson City, and on to Laxalt the family man, teacher, publisher and much more.
Lerude said, "The odyssey of this book began with an idea from my long-time friend and colleague Bruce Bledsoe. Bruce brought it to my attention that of the 17 books Laxalt wrote, none of them were biographical in nature. With a little nudging from Joyce, Bob's wife of 52 years, and their daughters Monique, an attorney and novelist, and Kristin, a physician, I decided to take on the project."
Robert Laxalt, whose journalism, creative nonfiction and fiction made him a national and international literary figure, is the most acclaimed writer from the state of Nevada in modern times. His 1957 classic, Sweet Promised Land, not only brought to life the immigrant experience of the Basques who had come to the United States as sheepherders, it also served as an exemplary story for all immigrants to the United States.
Laxalt, who died in 2001 at 77 years old, left a legacy of evidence about his writing life in the Special Collections and University Archives Department at the Knowledge Center. Special Collections is home to 26.5 cubic feet of Laxalt's papers spread throughout 33 rectangular boxes.
"So much of what Laxalt was known for is contained in our collection," Jacquelyn Sundstrand, manuscripts and archives librarian for the Special Collections Department, said. "Warren reviewed numerous drafts of Laxalt's various novels, manuscripts, correspondence and more to help bring his professional history to life."
The book is published by the Center for Basque Studies, which publishes high-quality books in English on Basque-related topics. The Laxalt biography is the inaugural book in a new series, Basque Originals, which presents lively, entertaining and informative books on a variety of subjects relating to Basques around the world and the experience of being Basque.
"Robert Laxalt is a father figure for many Basque-related initiatives," Dan Montero, publications editor for the Center for Basque Studies, said. "He was a key person who helped create the Basque Studies program and the Basque library at the University,, served as the first director of the University of Nevada Press and was an extremely important writer in the Basque community. As a result, it is no surprise he was largely responsible for the creation of the Basque identity in the United States."
"There is no one better suited to tell the story of a great storyteller than someone who fits that description himself," Joe Crowley, president emeritus of the University of Nevada, Reno, said. "Warren has given us a remarkable chronicle of the life of Nevada legend Robert Laxalt. It is a book that is thoroughly researched, crisply written and honest to a fault. This is a biography about a man, Bob Laxalt, who richly deserves one. It will surely stand the test of time."
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About Warren Lerude:
Warren Lerude is a professor emeritus of the University of Nevada, Reno's Reynolds School of Journalism and a longtime Reno newspaper editor and publisher. In 1977, he led a team of journalists to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He is the co-author of the best-seller American Commander in Spain: Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and author of the text of another best-seller Robert Cameron's Above Tahoe and Reno. He was a professor of media law, management and professional internships for 32 years at the journalism school.
About Special Collections:
The Special Collections and University Archives Department houses, preserves and provides access to unique, specialized and historically significant resources to support research, teaching and learning at the University of Nevada, Reno. Members of the public are welcome to use the collections.
About the Center for Basque Studies:
The Center for Basque Studies is an international study center dedicated to research into and publishing on Basque topics. In addition to our research mission, the center provides basic Basque language instruction, gives undergraduate and graduate classes on many Basque topics, hosts international scholars and conferences, promotes research, offers a doctorate program and an undergraduate minor, and publishes a wide variety of books.
To purchase the book: http://basquebooks.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/robert-laxalt-the-story-of-a-storyteller
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Lerude pens biography on Robert Laxalt
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Contact: Jill Stockton jbstockton@unr.edu 775-784-4783 University of Nevada, Reno
'Robert Laxalt: Story of a Storyteller' sheds light into the less illuminated corners of Laxalt's personal and career sagas
The Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, University Libraries Special Collections and the University's Center for Basque Studies recently released Warren Lerude's book Robert Laxalt: Story of a Storyteller.
In this new biography, Lerude, professor emeritus of journalism, focuses on Laxalt's development as a writer, especially through his formative days as a journalist in Reno and Carson City, and on to Laxalt the family man, teacher, publisher and much more.
Lerude said, "The odyssey of this book began with an idea from my long-time friend and colleague Bruce Bledsoe. Bruce brought it to my attention that of the 17 books Laxalt wrote, none of them were biographical in nature. With a little nudging from Joyce, Bob's wife of 52 years, and their daughters Monique, an attorney and novelist, and Kristin, a physician, I decided to take on the project."
Robert Laxalt, whose journalism, creative nonfiction and fiction made him a national and international literary figure, is the most acclaimed writer from the state of Nevada in modern times. His 1957 classic, Sweet Promised Land, not only brought to life the immigrant experience of the Basques who had come to the United States as sheepherders, it also served as an exemplary story for all immigrants to the United States.
Laxalt, who died in 2001 at 77 years old, left a legacy of evidence about his writing life in the Special Collections and University Archives Department at the Knowledge Center. Special Collections is home to 26.5 cubic feet of Laxalt's papers spread throughout 33 rectangular boxes.
"So much of what Laxalt was known for is contained in our collection," Jacquelyn Sundstrand, manuscripts and archives librarian for the Special Collections Department, said. "Warren reviewed numerous drafts of Laxalt's various novels, manuscripts, correspondence and more to help bring his professional history to life."
The book is published by the Center for Basque Studies, which publishes high-quality books in English on Basque-related topics. The Laxalt biography is the inaugural book in a new series, Basque Originals, which presents lively, entertaining and informative books on a variety of subjects relating to Basques around the world and the experience of being Basque.
"Robert Laxalt is a father figure for many Basque-related initiatives," Dan Montero, publications editor for the Center for Basque Studies, said. "He was a key person who helped create the Basque Studies program and the Basque library at the University,, served as the first director of the University of Nevada Press and was an extremely important writer in the Basque community. As a result, it is no surprise he was largely responsible for the creation of the Basque identity in the United States."
"There is no one better suited to tell the story of a great storyteller than someone who fits that description himself," Joe Crowley, president emeritus of the University of Nevada, Reno, said. "Warren has given us a remarkable chronicle of the life of Nevada legend Robert Laxalt. It is a book that is thoroughly researched, crisply written and honest to a fault. This is a biography about a man, Bob Laxalt, who richly deserves one. It will surely stand the test of time."
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About Warren Lerude:
Warren Lerude is a professor emeritus of the University of Nevada, Reno's Reynolds School of Journalism and a longtime Reno newspaper editor and publisher. In 1977, he led a team of journalists to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He is the co-author of the best-seller American Commander in Spain: Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and author of the text of another best-seller Robert Cameron's Above Tahoe and Reno. He was a professor of media law, management and professional internships for 32 years at the journalism school.
About Special Collections:
The Special Collections and University Archives Department houses, preserves and provides access to unique, specialized and historically significant resources to support research, teaching and learning at the University of Nevada, Reno. Members of the public are welcome to use the collections.
About the Center for Basque Studies:
The Center for Basque Studies is an international study center dedicated to research into and publishing on Basque topics. In addition to our research mission, the center provides basic Basque language instruction, gives undergraduate and graduate classes on many Basque topics, hosts international scholars and conferences, promotes research, offers a doctorate program and an undergraduate minor, and publishes a wide variety of books.
To purchase the book: http://basquebooks.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/robert-laxalt-the-story-of-a-storyteller
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LONDON (AP) — Growing optimism over the global economy is likely to lead to a marked pick-up in the number of mergers and acquisitions over the coming months, a survey of executives found Monday.
In its half-yearly report into the M&A sector, consulting firm Ernst & Young said it expects both the volume and size of deals to improve over the coming year, with 35 percent of companies surveyed likely to pursue acquisitions compared with just 25 percent a year ago. The more favorable backdrop is attributed to growing optimism among executives.
"All of this is underpinned by growing confidence in a global economy on sounder footing — improving economic conditions in mature economies and more stabilization in the major emerging markets," said Pip McCrostie, Ernst & Young's global head of M&A.
Over the past few months, the sense of caution over the global economy has abated, particularly in Europe, where many countries have emerged, or are about to emerge, from recession. Fears of a Chinese slowdown have eased, while the U.S. is still expected to post solid growth rates despite the recent budget stalemate that brought the world's largest economy to the brink of default.
The survey found that 65 percent of executives expect the global economy to improve over the coming year, up from just 22 percent a year ago.
One encouraging aspect of the survey is that companies are expected to use more debt and equity to finance deals as opposed to relying on cash. That suggests executives are more willing to take on risk.
Since the financial crisis that started in 2007-8 and the ensuing recession, many companies around the world pulled back on risky investments and sought to rebuild their finances. That involved paying down debts and rebuilding their cash positions. Potentially risky undertakings such as M&A fell out of vogue and deal volumes and values slid sharply.
"Companies have weathered a prolonged period of uncertainty during which time they strengthened their balance sheets," said McCrostie. "Having warehoused cash for a number of years and with ready access to credit, leading corporates are in a strong financial position to do deals — they now have more confidence to pull the trigger."
The survey comes amid signs of a pick-up in the M&A market, which could be a boon to stock markets as well as the many advisers and facilitors involved in such deals.
The most notable recent deal was Vodafone's sale of its 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless to Verizon, for $130 billion, which should be completed next year. And only last week, San Francisco-based pharmaceutical wholesaler McKesson announced an agreed takeover of Celesio in a deal that values the German company at $8.3 billion.
Ernst & Young found that the top 5 destinations for would-be deal-makers are China, India, Brazil, the U.S. and Canada. Sectors expected to see the highest level of deals are life sciences, oil & gas, automotive, consumer products, automotive and technology.
The survey was based on interviews with 1,600 senior executives from large companies around the world and across industry sectors.
Montreal (AFP) - Suncor Energy said it would invest some $13.5 billion in an oil sands project in Canada along with joint venture co-owners Total E&P Canada Ltd. and Teck Resources Limited.
The Fort Hills project in Alberta is slated to produce oil as early as the fourth quarter of 2017 and achieve 90 percent of its planned production capacity of 180,000 barrels per day within a year, Suncor said in a statement.
"The Fort Hills project is one of the best undeveloped oil sands mining assets in the Athabasca region ... and will generate significant economic value for Suncor, Alberta and Canada," said Steve Williams, the company's president and chief executive officer.
Suncor holds 40.8 percent interest in the Fort Hills Energy LP, while Total E&P Canada holds 39.2 percent and Teck Resources Limited 20 percent.
The three voted unanimously to proceed with the project, according to the Suncor statement, which said the "go-forward capital investment" was estimated at about $13.5 billion.
Suncor is the developer and operator of the project, according to the statement.
Located north of Fort McMurray, the project's so-called mine life is expected to exceed 50 years.
In this Tuesday Oct. 20, 2013 photo, an electric power station is seen near the coastal city of Hadera. When Israel's military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country will face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyberattack could one day bring the nation to a standstill. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
In this Tuesday Oct. 20, 2013 photo, an electric power station is seen near the coastal city of Hadera. When Israel's military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country will face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyberattack could one day bring the nation to a standstill. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
In this Tuesday Oct. 20, 2013 photo, Israel's Electric Corp vice president, Yasha Hain, second left, and Ofir Hason, watch a cyber team work at the 'CyberGym' school in the coastal city of Hadera. When Israel's military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country will face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyberattack could one day bring the nation to a standstill. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
In this Tuesday Oct. 20, 2013 photo, Israelis work on computers at the 'CyberGym' school in the coastal city of Hadera. When Israel's military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country will face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyber attack could one day bring the nation to a standstill. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
In this Tuesday Oct. 20, 2013 photo, Israel's electric corp vice president, Yasha Hain, works on a computer at the 'CyberGym' school in the coastal city of Hadera. When Israel's military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country will face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyber attack could one day bring the nation to a standstill. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
In this Tuesday Oct. 20, 2013 photo, an Israeli works on a computer at the 'CyberGym' school in the coastal city of Hadera. When Israel's military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country will face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyber attack could one day bring the nation to a standstill. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
HADERA, Israel (AP) — When Israel's military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country might face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyberattack could one day bring the nation to a standstill.
Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was not speaking empty words. Exactly one month before his address, a major artery in Israel's national road network in the northern city of Haifa was shut down because of a cyberattack, cybersecurity experts tell The Associated Press, knocking key operations out of commission two days in a row and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.
One expert, speaking on condition of anonymity because the breach of security was a classified matter, said a Trojan horse attack targeted the security camera system in the Carmel Tunnels toll road on Sept. 8. A Trojan horse is a malicious computer program that users unknowingly install that can give hackers complete control over their systems.
The attack caused an immediate 20-minute lockdown of the roadway. The next day, the expert said, it shut down the roadway again during morning rush hour. It remained shut for eight hours, causing massive congestion.
The expert said investigators believe the attack was the work of unknown, sophisticated hackers, similar to the Anonymous hacking group that led attacks on Israeli websites in April. He said investigators determined it was not sophisticated enough to be the work of an enemy government like Iran.
The expert said Israel's National Cyber Bureau, a two-year-old classified body that reports to the prime minister, was aware of the incident. The bureau declined comment, while Carmelton, the company that oversees the toll road, denied being hacked, blaming only a "communication glitch" for the mishap.
While Israel is a frequent target of hackers, the tunnel is the most high-profile landmark known to have been attacked. It is a major thoroughfare for Israel's third-largest city, and the city is looking to turn the tunnel into a public shelter in case of emergency, highlighting its importance.
The incident is exactly the type of scenario that Gantz described in his recent address. He said Israel's future battles might begin with "a cyberattack on websites which provide daily services to the citizens of Israel. Traffic lights could stop working, the banks could be shut down," he said.
There have been cases of traffic tampering before. In 2005, the United States outlawed the unauthorized use of traffic override devices installed in many police cars and ambulances after unscrupulous drivers started using them to turn lights from red to green. In 2008, two Los Angeles traffic engineers pleaded guilty to breaking into the city's signal system and deliberately snarling traffic as part of a labor dispute.
Oren David, a manager at international security firm RSA's anti-fraud unit, said that although he didn't have information about the tunnel incident, this kind of attack "is the hallmark of a new era."
"Most of these systems are automated, especially as far as security is concerned. They're automated and they're remotely controlled, either over the Internet or otherwise, so they're vulnerable to cyberattack," he said. Israel, he added, is "among the top-targeted countries."
In June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran and its proxies Hezbollah and Hamas have targeted Israel's "essential systems," including its water system, electric grid, trains and banks.
"Every sphere of civilian economic life, let's not even talk about our security, is a potential or actual cyberattack target," Netanyahu said at the time.
Israeli government websites receive hundreds and sometimes thousands of cyberattacks each day, said Ofir Ben Avi, head of the government's website division.
During Israel's military offensive on the Gaza Strip last year, tens of millions of website attacks took place, from denial of service attacks, which cripple websites by overloading them with traffic, to more sophisticated attempts to steal passwords, Ben Avi said.
Under constant threat, Israel has emerged as a world leader in cybersecurity, with murky military units developing much of the technology. Last year, the military formed its first cyberdefense unit.
Israeli cybersecurity experts say Iran and other hostile entities have successfully hacked into Israeli servers this year, and that Israel has quietly permitted those attacks to occur in order to track the hackers and feed them false intelligence.
Israel is also widely believed to have launched its own sophisticated computer attacks on its enemies, including the Stuxnet worm that caused significant damage to Iran's nuclear program.
Bracing for serious attacks on Israeli civilian infrastructure, Israel's national electric company launched a training program this month to teach engineers and power plant supervisors how to detect system infiltrations.
The Israel Electric Corp. says its servers register about 6,000 unique computer attacks every second.
"Big organizations and even countries are preparing for D-Day," said Yasha Hain, a senior executive vice president at the company. "We decided to prepare ourselves to be first in line."
The training program is run jointly with CyberGym, a cyberdefense company founded by ex-Israeli intelligence operatives that consults for Israeli oil, gas, transportation and financial companies.
On a manicured campus of eucalyptus trees across from a power plant in Israel's north, groups are divided into teams in a role-playing game of hackers and power plant engineers.
The "hackers," code-named the Red Team, sit in a dimly lit room decorated with cartoon villains on the walls. Darth Vader hovers over binary code. Kermit the Frog flashes his middle finger.
In another room, a miniature model of a power station overflows with water and the boiler's thermometer shoots up as the role-playing hackers run a "Kill All" code. The exercise teaches employees how to detect a possible cyberattack even if their computer systems don't register it.
About 25 middle-aged employees attended the first day of training last week. The course will eventually train thousands of workers, the electric company said.
CyberGym co-founder Ofir Hason declined to comment on the toll road shutdown, but said the company has seen a number of cyberattacks on infrastructures in recent years.
The country is especially susceptible because Israel has no electricity-sharing agreements with neighboring states, and all of the country's essential infrastructure depends on the company for power.
"We're an isolated island," he said.
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Associated Press writer Raphael Satter in London contributed to this report.
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When was the last time we loved HP for making a piece of hardware that wasn't just a notebook? Too long, it seems.
The company that once made the best laser printers (and calculators and scientific equipment) may have found something new to sink its teeth into: 3D printing.
Her comments hinted at how 3D printing could be made far less time-consuming: "To print a bottle can take eight to 10 hours. That's all very interesting, but it is like watching ice melt."
Given the venue, many of her comments were clearly aimed at businesses rather than individuals. But having a company the size of HP sink its teeth into a technology problem like 3D printing is a way to all but guarantee it'll become a commodity technology.
HP produced a 3D printer back in 2010 under the Designjet brand, a label HP normally uses for their wide-format printers and plotters. But with its $17,000 pricetag, it was clearly aimed at the corporate and high-end industrial market. It didn't stand to make much of a splash with the same crowd that could pick up a MakerBot Replicator 2 for $2,199.
But $2,199 is still a lot of money. A big part of what could further drive down the cost of 3D printing wouldn't just be cheaper printers, but a larger ecosystem of support for them. Color printing has gone from a costly luxury to something casually available to the end user, in big part thanks to a whole subindustry that provides the inks.
HP could follow a similar route and supply not just the printers, but create a whole ecosystem to support them and further drive down costs. That would include the raw materials, the designs (especially those that require licensing), and so on. It's not something that HP could do casually, but it would show a commitment to driving down prices across the ecosystem.
There's little question HP is entering a market that may already be dominated from the bottom up, though. The sheer number of 3D printing devices that are crowdfunded is proof of that: the QU-BD One Up, the Helix, and the Asterid. But there's always room for competition: MakerBot, one of the few household names in the space, was recently purchased by another 3D printer maker, Stratasys, for some $403 million in stock.
If HP decides to make this a major commitment, it'll be a pleasant surprise to those who still want to associate that venerable company with its hands-on high-tech roots. The company's recent line of good-to-great Ultrabooks (the Folio, the Revolve) was one step in that direction, and showed HP still has the engineering chops to make great hardware. Now let's see what else it can make.
For the whys and whos of Detroit's Sense of Place in rock history, World Cafe host David Dye talks with Motor City music icon Wayne Kramer. In the 1960s, Kramer co-founded the MC5, the loud, passionate, radical rock band that served as the foundation of much of the Detroit rock that came later.
In this session, Kramer provides insight into how the economic woes of the city — and the consequent rise in crime — affected the music scene. He also describes the scene at the Grande Ballroom when shouts of "Kick out the jams!" led to the MC5's best-known song.
The rock veteran also takes some time to discuss his charity Jail Guitar Doors USA, which he founded with musician Billy Bragg to provide instruments for incarcerated musicians.
NEW YORK (AP) — Selected transcripts and audio of Richard Nixon's Oval Office conversations will be published in book form next August, the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation from the presidency.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Tuesday that "The Nixon Tapes" will feature the first transcriptions of Nixon and his aides discussing subjects ranging from Vietnam to Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign.
The country first learned that the tapes existed during Senate hearings in 1973 that looked into the growing Watergate scandal, which eventually led to Nixon's departure. The last of some 4,000 hours of conversations was finally made public this year.
"The Nixon Tapes" will be edited and annotated by historian Douglas Brinkley, who helped compile a book of Ronald Reagan's diaries, and Luke Nichter, whose website www.nixontapes.org features digital recordings of Nixon's conversations.
By now you've no doubt read that Windows 8.1 is a must-have upgrade for Windows 8 customers, but barely rates a second glance for entrenched Windows 7 or XP users. Sometime in the next few days -- after the servers go through their obligatory meltdown and Microsoft crows about a million or two downloads of dubious pedigree -- you'll likely install it, if you have a Windows 8 machine or VM. Just use the Windows Store app.
If you're smart, you'll immediately go in and make the changes necessary to defang the new version: use local accounts; turn off SmartSearch; turn off Automatic Update; rebuild your libraries if need be; set to boot to desktop; disable the Metro hot corners on the desktop; install apps that will keep you out of Metro Hell (VLC media player, one of the PDF viewers, IrfanView); and install a third-party Start menu replacement.
That's all pretty much standard. I'll post a wrap-up slideshow shortly, and if you have suggestions for other primary Windows 8.1 remediation techniques, please add them to the comments below.
With the Band-Aid that is Windows 8.1 out of the way, a follow-on question immediately arises: Now what? Or as Mary Jo Foley over on ZDNet put it, What comes next after Windows 8.1?
Foley quotes unnamed sources as saying there will be an update to Windows 8.1 in about six months, to coincide with the release of the next version of Windows Phone. Paul Thurrott quotes a single source inside Microsoft and claims "where Windows Phone 8 has 33 percent 'API unity' with Windows RT, Windows Phone 8.1 will hit 77 percent." I think it likely that the Windows 8.2 update will modify the WinRT API specifically so it more closely matches the Windows Phone RT API. If Terry Myerson's truly concerned about the future of Windows (and every indication I have to date says resoundingly that he is), I'd be willing to bet he won't change much at all about Windows 8 that affects users; my guess is that we're looking at a change in plumbing.
If we're lucky, the change in plumbing will be sufficient to allow simple Windows Phone RT apps to run on Windows RT, and thus on the Metro side of Windows 8 -- a quandary I discussed at length 18 months ago: "That may be a long-term goal. Right now, it's nothing but a cruel joke."
The incompatibility problem arose, quite simply, because of Steve Sinofsky's steadfast determination to grow Windows "down" from the desktop, to tablets, then to the phone. With his phone background, Myerson's precisely the right guy to turn it around, to build the API "up" from the phone. If Foley and Thurrot's sources are correct, that's exactly what's going to happen.
PARIS (AP) — A new exhibit on fashion photographerErwin Blumenfeld, which showcases his dark and experimental side, positions him as one of the greatest and most undervalued photographers of the 20th century.
Blumenfeld made his name with snaps that graced the covers of fashion magazines such as "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar" from the 1930s to the 1950s.
But the exhibit at Paris' Jeu de Paume, which opens Oct. 15, shows this to be only one of the many faces of the German Jew who fled Nazi Europe and whose most acclaimed pieces sought to dehumanize Adolf Hitler.
The exhibit of some 300 works also puts together black and white photos that used influential experimental techniques with infra-red and frames in the negative, as well as several sections of abstract female nudes.
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