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Umlindelo wa Makholwa, a collaboration with independent curator Kabelo Malatsie and Cambridge University lecturer Dr Joel Cabrita, whose research is on the history of Christianity in Southern Africa, is not a series of images about religion, although it is born of religion. The body of work, shot from 1997 to this year... |
Born and raised in Driefontein in Mpumalanga, Mlangeni graduated from the Market Photo Workshop (founded by David Goldblatt who died recently) in 2004. Mlangeni’s career has seen him realising solo projects and group exhibitions, including Kholwa: The Longing of Belonging, which showed at the Museum of Archeology and A... |
Umlindelo wa Makholwa is a reincarnation of this exhibition, with Mlangeni again collaborating with Cabrita. The photographer’s other notable exhibitions include Heartbreaker at artSPACE in Auckland, New Zealand (in 2016), and About Whose Land Have I Lit on Now? at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin (in 2018). |
Mlangeni’s way of approaching photography allows him to move away from the perfect and pristine, the unspoilt and the immaculate, to the world of shadow, blur, overexposure and interesting angles. Sometimes, his images are interesting because of their everydayness and banality. He prods at the uncomfortable and require... |
Umlindelo wa Makholwa is large, both in its scope and quantity of photographs, and yet it remains intimate. The intimacy of the images is further elevated by Mlangeni’s choice of titles for the works, such as Khensani, Sarah, Ntombi and Phindile (2017), uGogo ka Mzwandile, KwaMaseko eShabalala Driefontein (2017), Lungi... |
Part of the success of the show is that the message is not obvious and resists easy labelling. Is it a document of the spread and reach of the Zionist Church community in Southern Africa? Is it an archive? Is it journalistic? |
In this way, Mlangeni immerses himself in this community, both as an insider and an outsider, both a messenger and an intermediary, allowing us to see the community through his eyes — a sympathetic, and empathetic invitation to see through his lens. |
The show is also filled with beautiful moments of fragility. We see a portrait of the late Sweetmama Mathebula taken in 2007, in whichshe stares intently into the lens, her face as powerful and alluring as the textured wall behind her, whichcomplements the image. Some images are flat and show only what needs to be show... |
In Isiprofetho (2008), a woman walks away from the beach towards trees. The image is textured, foretelling and expressive. A purposeful production of what is to be seen. |
In some cases, (such as in In Time, A Morning after Umlindelo, 2016, and KwaMaseko e Shabalala, 2017), the merciless character of light leaves us with sharp images; contorted, deformed but their interior exposed and fully beautiful. |
True to his photographic style, Mlangeni uses black-and-white photography in Umlindelo wa Makholwa to explore his religious journey. He embraces darkness and illumination. By photographing his community, he is implicated, rendering the work as part performance and part personal essay. |
Through this series, he continues to explore notions of belonging and longing, identification and objectification, and separation and inclusion through memory and time. |
More than anything, these images leave us in waiting, while inviting us in both new and old worlds. |
As part of the Apps For Children With Special Needs iPads in Fifty States initiative, Artgig Studio has now discounted the Shake-a-Phrase iOS app by 50 percent as of today up until Sunday the 2nd of October and is to donate half of the sale proceeds to A4CWSN for this worthy cause. |
The Shake-a-Phrase app for the iPhone and Apple iPad is a storytelling educational application that combines hilariously generated sentences with physical device shaking in a game for children of eight and up. |
The Shake-a-Phrase application actively engages kids in building vocabulary and reading as they play and the “Quiz Me” game strengthens their understanding of speech, and there is a Story Starter mode that gets the user to set up silly scenarios and encourages your child to imagine what happens next. |
The Shake-a-Phrase iOS app delivers 5 content flavours that customise learning, starter, monster, fairytale, animal and a new sports theme including dictionary, while the vocabulary lists features in excess of 2000 words that have been compiled by parents and teachers. |
With the Shake-a-Phrase app you can discover the meanings of unfamiliar words, create your own writing projects, share language arts fun with friends and save the most hilarious sentences to your Faves Library. |
Thus as of today you can pick up the Shake-a-Phrase app from iTunes and at 50 percent discount at a cost of just $0.99 rather than the usual $1.99. |
Google shocked the storage world by offering cloud storage for 1¢/GB/month 6 months ago. But if Google can make a profit at 1¢, why can't enterprises buy for the same price? One company says they can. How? |
There's no magic behind Google's 1¢ pricing: buy in high volumes; use high-capacity disks; automate management; and store objects, not files. Now a company called Cloudian says they can do the same for the enterprise. |
Of course they use commodity servers and high (4TB) capacity disks in 24TB and 48TB servers. That's enables low hardware costs. |
Cloudian also supports Amazon's S3 interface and offers a single pane of glass to manage all Cloudian hardware. Monitoring, fault detection, alerting, on-the-fly provisioning, billing, QoS and administration are standard. |
And, of course, Cloudian stores objects, not files. Think of objects as smart files: the file metadata is stored in the object instead of in a file system, so there is no file system bottleneck. This makes it easy to use objects in a scale-out cluster, which further reduces costs. |
Another advantage: data chunks can be farmed out freely, so that if a disk fails, the lost chunks can be recreated from dozens of disks at very high speeds. That's a great way to reduce vulnerability to correlated failures. |
Cloudian also support inline compression and configurable erasure cosing. The former reduces storage costs by shrinking objects, while the latter gives granular control of redundancy overhead. |
Making enterprise object storage competitive with Google is no small win. Which means IT pros can choose a private cloud - with the added performance and security benefits that entails - for the cost of Amazon or Google. |
A couple of caveats though. Cloudian's pricing assumes expected street prices, a not unreasonable 20 percent compression ratio and the use of slower erasure coding instead of costly replication. Nothing unusual, but your mileage may vary. |
Cloudian's pricing should also light a fire under server vendors to match them. That will benefit all storage consumers, while also reminding the cloud vendors that competition is coming from all sides. |
Comments welcome, as always. How do you handle objects where you work? |
The move came as the U.S. and Russia avoided any direct conflict in Syria following airstrikes by Western nations on Saturday morning. |
But, the sell-off in bonds left some investors feeling nervous that it could spell trouble for the U.S. economy. |
The two-year Treasury yield hit its highest level in nearly a decade Monday morning, leaving investors questioning what this could signal for America's economy in the longer term. |
The short-term Treasury yield rose to 2.386 percent on Monday morning — the highest level on record since August of 2008. Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury yield also rose to a three-week high at 2.86 percent. Yields move inversely to bond prices. |
The move came as the U.S. and Russia avoided any direct conflict in Syria following airstrikes by Western nations on Saturday morning. But, the sell-off in bonds left some investors feeling nervous that it could spell trouble for the U.S. economy. Every time the short-term yield comes closer to the 10-year — in what ma... |
A flattening of the yield curve has preceded financial crises in the past, including the dotcom bust and the financial crisis of 2008. However, some market experts believe that this is no longer the best way to assess risk of a recession. Saker Nusseibeh, chief executive at Hermes Investment Management, told CNBC's "Sq... |
"We should expect a steepening of the yield curve. We do not see any indications of the U.S. economy entering anything like a possible recession," he said. |
A steepening of the yield curve traditionally means that market players expect higher inflation and thus higher interest rates from the U.S. central bank. It also indicates an expectation of a stronger economy. |
"What we do see is clear indication of a stronger-than-anticipated U.S. economy … And possibly a sharper steepening than people thought might happen," Nusseibeh added. |
In late March, revised data showed a growth rate of 2.9 percent in the last quarter of 2017 for the U.S. The U.S. unemployment rate is currently at a 17-year low. |
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said in February that the bank would prevent the economy from overheating by raising rates at a gradual pace. Markets are expecting at least three rate hikes in 2018, with the next one taking place at the June meeting. |
Software giant launches unified communications products in Malaysia, hoping to get a head-start on its competitors with partners Nortel and HP. |
KUALA LUMPUR--The battle for the nascent unified communications market in Malaysia looks set to heat up with key players Microsoft, Nortel and Hewlett-Packard (HP) cementing their partnership in the local market. |
Microsoft launched its unified communications products here today and unveiled its vision, technology road map and partnership plans to about 450 Malaysian business leaders and IT decision makers. |
Microsoft's Malaysian unit plans to leverage on the new business alliances with Nortel and HP to get a head-start in the unified communications market. |
Nortel has a technology roadmap and plans to build software applications to enhance Microsoft's Office Communications Server as part of its joint partnership with Redmond, while HP has announced a new services portfolio integrating voice, fax, e-mail, voice-mail, video/data/audio conferencing, collaboration, wireless a... |
Speaking at the launch, Nortel Asia's Kirsten Gilbertson, who is leader of the Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA) between Nortel and Microsoft, said: "The alliance is enabling enterprises across the region to integrate communications and business processes simply and effectively, while providing investment protec... |
Unified communications is a term for the integration of disparate communications systems and media, desktop computers, applications and mobility. This includes the integration of voice, e-mail, instant messaging, desktop and business applications, Internet Protocol (IP)-PBX, voice over IP (VoIP), presence, voice-mail, ... |
At the launch, Microsoft trumpeted a major win for its unified communications business in Malaysia. Western Digital, one of world's leading hard disk manufacturers, has adopted the Microsoft platform at its Malaysian facility. The storage manufacturer is also considering extending the software to its facilities in the ... |
Tee Lay Kern, a senior principal engineer at Western Digital, said: "The partnership between Microsoft and Western Digital reflects (our) belief in Microsoft's technologies in meeting the demands of the ever-changing enterprise communications landscape, streamlining communications and making it easier to collaborate an... |
Gartner, in its latest Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications, 2007 research report, identified Microsoft and Nortel, as well as Alcatel-Lucent, as leaders in the market. Leaders are those vendors that sell "comprehensive and integrated" unified communications, said the report which also listed Cisco, IBM and Avaya ... |
Gartner said unified communications will only enter an early mainstream adoption phase globally in 2008, and estimates that by 2010, 40 percent of companies will complete the convergence of their entire voice and data networks onto a single network, while 80 percent of companies will integrate voice or messaging commun... |
According to IDC, the current market size for worldwide unified communications is approximately US$4.8 billion, and by 2011, this number is expected to increase to US$14.5 billion. |
Gartner's report attributed the slow adoption to multiple technical and organizational issues including new technologies not being fully understood, products lacking functionality, deployment complexity, and enterprises wanting to preserve their large investments in existing communication infrastructures. Organizations... |
Despite Microsoft's "comprehensive" portfolio, the report issued a cautionary note. "The telephony functionality in OCS and in Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging is new to the market...telephony and other live communication functionalities, such as video, frequently take several years to mature to the desired level... |
The report also said "overly optimistic" marketing materials from Microsoft sometimes underestimate the challenges and difficulties involved in making live communication functions, such as video and VoIP, reliable and of high quality. |
A video shows the man giving an emphatic thumbs up after being rescued. |
Murphy could be replaced at Portman Road by another Irish striker. |
But the former Newcastle star seems to be in good spirits and has already been on social media to shed light on the situation. |
Newcastle United continued to show signs of fight in their relegation battle after coming back to draw 2-2 draw against the Reds. |
Rafa Benitez was back at his old club as the Magpies looked to pull themselves out of the relegation zone. |
The Ireland striker scored his 11th goal of the season as Southampton eased to victory. |
The 19-year-old Newcastle Falcons man starts at fullback against Italy tomorrow. |
James Ryan paved the way for an intense second half, but he wasn’t short of help. |
Three first half goals set the Londoners on their way to a 5-1 victory against strugglers Newcastle. |
Man United took on Newcastle, as Louis van Gaal’s side sought to improve upon their recent indifferent form. |
Tom Cleverley’s header at the death was enough to earn Everton a 1-0 win over Newcastle at St James’ Park. |
We were at St. James’ Park to see if these teams could serve up another thriller. |
It’s off to teach younger horses how to be cops for Bud. |
Jurors were told the “cold and detached” former student held a grudge against the college after he was thrown off a course. |
We went minute-by-minute as Manchester United went out to maintain their 100% start to the season. |
He appeared before Newcastle Crown Court where he was sentenced to serve 11 years in prison. |
Liam Lyburd was arrested with a ‘kill bag’ full of bombs and ammunition. |
Police believe there is a possibility he may be in Northern Ireland. |
Nigel Pearson is still ruffling feathers. |
The 67-year-old was left with a broken collarbone in the wake of the attack. An appeal later raised over £300,000. |
The incidents occurred in the 1970s and 1980s when Talbot was working as a teacher. |
The BT Sport pundit is on duty for today’s early kick-off between Hull and Newcastle. |
The Newcastle midfielder seems set to leave the North-East sooner rather than later. |
There’s always something special about the 3rd Round. |
Pardew to come a cropper on his Palace debut plus more tips that could earn you a few quid. |
The 53 year-old will be in the dugout for the London side’s FA Cup clash against Dover on Sunday. |
It has been going around the airport that because Steve Fossett is missing and the search is getting national media attention, the Civil Air Patrol and National Guard are putting in extra effort because their target is a celebrity. It’s been said that they wouldn’t put in the same effort for some regular Joe or Jill wh... |
We were here in October 1997 when a floatplane containing four Carson City residents failed to arrive at its destination. The Civil Air Patrol spent 10 days searching before finding the crash site in Alpine County. That search cost the lives of two of the patrol’s fliers and an aircraft. |
The key to that search was that people knew the floatplane’s destination and therefore had a more limited search area. |
The Fossett search is complicated by the lack of destination or flight plan. The only clue searchers have to go on is that he flew south. |
According to the Civil Air Patrol’s 2006 report to Congress, members of the Nevada wing flew a total of 1,718 hours searching for people. That translates into 71 solid days of flying. |
We agree with the statement that the real difference in the search for Fossett from others we’ve covered is the national media attention. |
That attention may actually help find Fossett if the folks using the Internet come up with something. |
And that’s the real difference. Because, when that regular Joe or Jill goes missing, the Civil Air Patrol will be there to look for them. We doubt the same will be true for the national media or the Internet searchers. |
• This editorial appeared in The Record-Courier. |
Those traders not living in a cave by now that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been having a rough go of things lately. Shares of the largest U.S. company by market value are off almost five percent in the past week and have tumbled 6.8 percent in the past month. |
Even with the recent weakness in Apple and what appear to be moves to dead money status by large-cap technology names such as Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), the tech sector has generally treated investors well this year. That much is evident by the performance of some marquee technology ETFs, includ... |
Year-to-date, QQQ, which is home to a 17 percent allocation to Apple, has jumped 18.5 percent. In a new research note, S&P Capital IQ highlighted QQQ and a pair of other tech ETFs. The research firm rates the $30.88 billion QQQ Overweight. |
Other top holdings in QQQ, which is also known as the Nasdaq 100 tracking ETF, include Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). Earlier this week, NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ:NDAQ) announced Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) will be joining the Nasdaq 100, meaning shares of the social media giant will also joi... |
S&P Capital IQ also has an Overweight rating on the Technology Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLK), which the research firm called the "most pure" of the three ETFs highlighted in the note. What that means is XLK is the most heavily allocated to pure-play technology names of the three ETFs S&P evaluated. |
XLK, which is the least expensive tech ETF in terms of annual fees (just 0.18 percent), has gained 13.5 percent this year. The $8.99 billion ETFs devotes nearly 18 percent of its weight to Apple. Among XLK's top-10 holdings are six Dow components, including International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft, AT... |
S&P Capital IQ has a Marketweight rating on the iShares Morningstar Large Growth Index Fund (NYSE:JKE). Like QQQ, JKE is not a pure play tech fund, but it is heavily allocated to names from that sector. JKE devotes nearly 37 percent of its weight to technology issues and six of its top-10 holdings are tech stocks. |
That includes Apple at over 13 percent of JKE's weight. Combined, Apple, IBM, Google, Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) and Amazon represent more than 31 percent of JKE's weight. The $447 million ETF has gained 16.1 percent this year. |
For more on technology ETFs, click here. |
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