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Selena Gomez upcoming movies. The Fundamentals of Caring and In Dubious Battle

In Dubious Battle. With Selena Gomez

No doubt, 2016 will be a busy year for Selena Gomez. Two films are going to be released starring Selena: The Fundamentals of Caring and In Dubious Battle. Also, she works in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. Today, a little about them.

The Fundamentals of Caring is an upcoming American drama film directed and written by Rob Burnett. It’s based on the novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison, and stars Paul Rudd, Selena Gomez, and Craig Roberts. Filming began on January 22, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia, and will have its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival as the Closing Night Film.

The plot focuses on a man who changes his perspective on life due to his experience in a class about care-giving.

“Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: Nothing is indestructible.”

The Fundamentals of Caring. With Selena Gomez

In Dubious Battle is an upcoming drama film directed by James Franco. It’s based on the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. It stars Nat Wolff, Josh Hutcherson, Selena Gomez, Analeigh Tipton, Bryan Cranston, Ed Harris, Robert Duvall as well as James Franco.

Principal photography began on March 19, 2015, in Atlanta. Production on the film ended in April 2015. It’s schedule to be released in 2016.

The film focuses on the labor movement for fruit workers in California during the 1930s.

Furthermore, Selena Gomez will work in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising by Nicholas Stoller. The film is scheduled for a May 20, 2016 release.

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you.

Top TV Shows Toady, December 18: Unforgettable, Z Nation, MasterChef Junior

Well, Christmas is almost here but we will have to wait until next week. Maybe, we can enjoy these three great shows tonight. First one is Unforgettable. We love it and we really recommend it. Don’t miss it. Today’s episode: All In. Season 4. Episode 5. 8:00 pm. A&E.

Our second recommendation is for Z Nation. Today’s episode: All Good Things Must Come to an End. Season 2. Episode 15. 10:00 pm. Syfy.

And our last choice is funny and tasty.  MasterChef Junior. Today: Blind Ambition. Season 4. Episode 7. 8:00 pm. FOX.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Thanks for coming and have a very nice day, dear friends.

Video: Unforgettable – Season 4 – Trailer

Famous Birthdays Today, December 18: Brad Pitt, Bridgit Mendler, Sia, Christina Aguilera, Ashley Benson

Yes, he-s famous, very famous and his wife is a celeb too. We are talking about Brad Pitt. He was born in Shawnee, OK in 1963. Of course, as everybody knows, he-s an actor and, he-s our Top, he-s our Top1 Famous Birthdays Today, December 18 and, from Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, Brad Pitt!

Famous Birthdays TOday, December 18: Brad Pitt. Source: flickr. Author: DoD News Features

In Missouri, where I come from, we don’t talk about what we do – we just do it. If we talk about it, it’s seen as bragging. Brad Pitt

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what’s more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on. Brad Pitt

Famous Birthdays Today, December 18: Bridgit Mendler, Carson, California on May 11, 2013 – Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com

And well, she is pretty and great, she is Bridgit Mendler and we wish all the best for her too. Happy birthday, Bridgit Mendler!

In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I’m wearing – it’s a great way to dress up a plain outfit! Bridgit Mendler

There’s a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don’t have to push back as much as they would in real life. Bridgit Mendler

More famous birthdays today, December 18: Sia, pop singer born in Adelaide, Australia in 1975; Christina Aguilera, singer born in NYC; and Ashley Benson, actress who played the role as Abigail Deveraux on Days of Our Lives.

Happy birthday to all of them. We know today is also the birthday of Stalin but… we forgot it. Sorry. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Video: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Discuss Marriage, New Film, Cancer Fight | TODAY

San Francisco Exhibitions. Of Echo Systems at Altman Siegel opening January 7

Image: Shannon Ebner, Ash Wednesday

Altman Siegel is pleased to present Of Echo Systems, an exhibition of sculptures, prints and video by artists Shannon Ebner, K.r.m. Mooney and Will Rogan. The three-person exhibition presents artworks that are conceived and developed in consideration of the artist’s environment. The varied surroundings these artists reflect include private and public sites as well as physical, biological and immaterial spaces. Tracking the nature of numerous complex systems, all three artists advance a new materialist approach—one suggesting that the nature of all systems can be more fully understood through an entanglement and relationship to other entities and compositions. These artists ask the question where and how does culture separate from nature and where do we locate the body—as well as consciousness and subjecthood—within this ever-shifting domain.

Shannon Ebner’s photographs, videos, artist’s books and installations imagine the world as a printed surface. Incorporating found elements of text or letters alongside images and objects, the artist points towards the collective and interchangeable qualities of the built environment’s language, conflating seeing with reading. With A SELF, Ebner translates a series of graphic spreads from her recently published book Auto Body Collision into a life-size screen print incorporating found auto body shop terminology with her own insertions of writing. Exemplifying this in-between state is Ebner’s piece An Unrested Image. The video shows an animated photograph of a rotating, post-op FTM torso in which the body is moving so rapidly that it becomes both a seeing eye and a flexible surface.

K.r.m. Mooney’s sculptures, comprised of various metal alloys and organic compounds, are compositions that lure the viewer with their intricate fusion of cast and found materials. Treating space as a primary material, Mooney aligns each sculptural form to the architecture of the gallery in an ongoing process of reorienting the body of the viewer. Possessing a background in jewelry making, Mooney considers how these materials might connect to the body in addition to how they synthesize with one another. The artist is interested in these temporal dynamics that emerge between viewer and artwork, and the response of this relationship to a given environment.

Will Rogan’s clock sculptures are modeled from wood collected from the artist’s past and present homes. They are fused together with remnants of other found objects, coalescing into meditations of balance and time. His kinetic compositions suggest alternative methods of tracking time, challenging our understanding of the present, past and future. These works do not reinforce accepted units employed to quantify time, rather they offer a new consideration of how and when we construct chronology, asking the viewer to consider how these objects materialize the immaterial nature of time.

Shannon Ebner (b. 1971) lives and works in Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions include the ICA, Miami; MoMA P.S.1, New York; Hammer Museum/ LAXART, Los Angeles and the Fondazione Memmo, Rome. Group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, New York; MoMA, New York; the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art; the 54th Venice Biennale; the Highline, New York and the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia.  Ebner was recently commissioned by the Hillman Photography Initiative and Carnegie Museum of Art to create her new artist book Auto Body Collision. K.r.m. Mooney (b. 1990) lives and works in Oakland, California.  Solo exhibitions include the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Bad Reputation, Los Angeles; n/a, Oakland; Important Projects, Oakland and Pied-à-terre, Ottsville, Pennsylvania. Two-person exhibitions include Hester, New York and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Will Rogan (b. 1975) lives and works in Sausalito, California.  Solo exhibitions include the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley; San Francisco Museum of Art; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp. Group exhibitions include the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; the Shanghai Biennial; the Oakland Art Museum and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Of Echo Systems

Shannon Ebner, K.r.m. Mooney, Will Rogan

 

January 7 – February 20, 2016

Opening reception January 7, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Cybersecurity, digitisation and agility: 2016’s key tech concerns for law firms

David Chapman, Zylpha

Cybersecurity, agility and digitisation of the courts will be the top IT concerns for law firms in 2016.

Converge Technology Specialists (Converge TS), the country’s only dedicated Cloud computing provider for law firms and Zylpha the UK’s leading legal systems innovator, spoke to a range of clients who collectively predict that:

•Agility will become increasingly important as location becomes less important. Clients are demanding that law firms are able to provide them with access to legal services anytime, anywhere. As firms seek to boost profits and meet client demands, more will move to agile working to enable them to work at client sites, work from remote locations at times to suit clients and also to optimise fee-earners’ downtime when travelling or out of the office. “Many clients don’t particularly need to see their lawyer very often, and remote accessibility is becoming as important as a physical presence,” says Andy Reilly, IT Director at Genus Law.

Stacey Parkin, Operations Manager at Poole Alcock agrees: “We introduced hot-desking and remote working to streamline staff costs and offer employees greater flexibility about how and where they work. Clients have seen a difference, as staff now have better access to emails and case management systems, which are accessible from mobile devices.”

Matthew Claughton, Managing Director of criminal defence firm Olliers, sees the cuts to Legal Aid opening up opportunities for criminal defence firms who can “stay ahead of the game and find new and innovative ways of working. Working remotely, in an agile manner, with a single back office is an exciting way of delivering the service.”

•Increased digitisation and the growth of online services. Firms expect to see further improvements in processes and accessibility to case management files with more systems becoming electronic and digital in 2016. Again client expectation will drive this efficiency as they demand access to services outside of regular working hours, whether for a case update, to view documents, or to be able to work remotely themselves.

The government’s £700m investment in the Autumn Statement in November will modernise the courts and justice system. Law firms will need to ensure they have the right technology in place to be able to operate in the new world, although questions remain about whether it is the courts or firms who will be ‘catching up’ in the brave new world.

The South London Legal Partnership has this year successfully launched digital court hearings with the elimination of paper bundles in the West London Family Court. “We have been able to pilot an easy to use solution that everyone is behind and which doesn’t require vast amounts of technology or training to get it to work smoothly,” says its Legal Practice Manager Paul Phelan. Seventy cases have so far been heard and the pilot is now being shared with other local authorities so that they can adopt digital courtrooms.

David Aird IT Director at DAC Beachcroft says a challenge in 2016 will be balancing how to be ‘always on’ with clients. Andy Reilly from Genus Law agreed, saying: “For everything other than legal services, our clients are used to being serviced over the internet, and so we are looking to products to help this transition.” Other firms echoed this, predicting that the next generation of solicitors will demand change within their organisations as their careers progress and as popular technology advances further outside the workplace.

•Firms re-examine risk as cybersecurity takes centre stage. Securing data and systems from cybercrime will be a major issue for law firms in 2016. High profile cybercrimes in 2015 highlighted that no business is safe. Law firms hold a huge amount of client data and they are obliged to protect this by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) and the Information Commissioner’s Office. As the SRA continues to flag various scams, firms must tighten up security or face fines and loss of reputation. Having a good disaster recovery plan in place will be key to protecting data and securing systems but it will also provide a competitive advantage. Poole Alcock has prioritised this and says: “Panels are asking for evidence of disaster recovery in place. We have this and it’s a proven advantage over competitors.”

•Technology linked to ROI with IT becoming a ‘proactive function’. Continuous innovation will be demanded but only where there is demonstrable return on investment (ROI). Robert Hastie, Finance Director at Total Conveyancing Services, says: “Any ICT solution must bring benefit to the business as a whole and deliver more streamlined and speedier process but without reducing the quality of work and the service we deliver…technology has to evolve with your business.”

Firms also see IT becoming a proactive function, which will be integrated across legal teams and other service delivery functions. Paul Harker, Head of IT at Anthony Collins, says: “More firms will be trying to be lean and adopt formal processes to achieve this, further driving greater efficiencies and differentiating themselves from competition.”

Zylpha’s Head of Marketing David Chapman says: “2016 could herald a marked departure in the status quo of IT. As firms begin to grasp the opportunities afforded to them by getting IT right anddigitising processes a new window may be opened to greater efficiency, opportunity and profitability.”

Converge TS’s Technical Director Andrew Taylor says: “2016 will be a definitive year for law firm technology. The move to agility will be spurned by client demands, improvements to IT security will be far greater as firms seek to offer enhanced data security to win more contracts, and the move to ‘IT as a service’ will signal a change in the future IT team with many viewing it as an operational cost rather than capital expenditure. ‘Paying per user’ could become a more cost effective way of running technology as firms look to scale it up or down in line with business strategy and objectives.”

A joint report called ‘Legal Landscape 2016’ which looks at the issues affecting law firms’ IT and case management experience, will be published in January 2016.

Lewisham-Based Business Owners Win Prestigious KPI Award

Peter and Tina Allton

Peter and Tina Allton are owners of Lewisham based Circle Podiatry, which is the UK’s only multi award-winning private podiatry brand. They are also the founders of Undefeeted a Surrey based not-for-profit organisation, which has led to them receiving the top award from the Key Person of Influence programme, run by Entrevo UK.

Key Person of Influence is a nine month leadership and business development programme that has, so far, helped more than 1000 entrepreneurs across the globe develop their businesses.

The award rounds off a successful year for Circle Podiatry, which saw the launch of its not-or-profit organisation Undefeeted and its subsequent victory at the FSB Surrey Awards, winning Best Not-For-Profit organisation of the year.

The KPI award recognises such feats as the launch of Peter’s book ‘Undefeeted by Diabetes’, which is the spearhead of the Undefeeted campaign, drawing on the author’s 27 years’ experience as a podiatrist fixing feet and his personal journey with diabetes. The book focuses on helping people with diabetes live in what Peter Allton calls the ‘diabetic sweet spot’ – the safest possible position for them. The ‘sweet spot’ refers to a combination of knowledge of what can go wrong, awareness of their personal risk and taking appropriate and timely action that helps them to live full and healthy lives.

Undefeeted has a global remit to educate diabetes sufferers of the damage that the disease can do to the feet. It works to raise awareness at all levels: individuals, families, communities, national and international health organisations and governments.

Peter Allton said, “Tina and I are ecstatic to have won this award, and will use it as a platform to spread our message to more individuals and organisations.”

As well as raising awareness of diabetes-related complications, Undefeeted is developing a network of practitioners who offer free diabetic foot assessments for those living with diabetes. Peter Allton explains: “Not many people realise how diabetes can affect their feet and this is a big factor in causing the 1.5 million amputations that happen per year. In fact, it is widely accepted that 1.3 million could be avoided. The majority of people with diabetes don’t have an annual check-up by a podiatrist and most of them are unaware if they are at low, moderate or high risk of having a serious foot problem.

“Annual diabetic foot assessments are a valuable source of education, and are also important to the early identification of issues that could potentially lead to the loss of a limb.

“The Undefeeted network of podiatrists aims to ensure that no-one with diabetes goes without annual foot checks. By asking private healthcare professionals to pledge a certain amount of time to seeing diabetes sufferers each month, we are also supporting the NHS, which is extremely stretched.”

Having qualified as a podiatrist in 1988, Peter Allton has 27 years of experience and has treated over 200,000 feet.

His life changed five years ago when he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, and soon became aware of how difficult the condition is to manage. When their 11-year-old daughter Jasmine was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, Peter and Tina soon became aware that there is little in the way of publicly available advice for diabetes sufferers.

Peter explains: “Jasmine was lucky because I am a qualified podiatrist, but there are many people who are not receiving the right information on how diabetes can affect the lower limbs and what can be done to manage the risk.

“This is why I wrote the book ‘Undefeeted by Diabetes’ and why Tina and I are using it to start a global campaign to cut down the number of people losing lower limbs to the disease.”

The organisation is partnered by JDRF UK and LBG Medical.

Tina Allton, co-founder of Undefeeted, said, “We realised that with Peter being a podiatrist with diabetes and having a diabetic daughter, we were in a unique position to make a global difference. We are probably the only family in this position in the whole world.

“With numbers of diabetes sufferers rising around the world and healthcare services such as the NHS extremely stretched, Undefeeted will help by giving people the tools to take ownership of an aspect of their health.”

Peter and Tina Allton are also the Clinical Director and Practice Manager at Circle Podiatry since 2001. It has two branches – one in Lewisham, South London and one in Oxted, Surrey. Circle Podiatry is the UK’s only multi-award winning private podiatry brand.

Links:

Undefeeted: http://www.undefeeted.org/

Circle Podiatry: http://www.circlepodiatry.co.uk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/beundefeeted

JDRF UK: https://www.jdrf.org.uk/

LBG Medical: http://www.lbgmedical.com

Key Person of Influence: http://www.keypersonofinfluence.com

Entrevo: http://www.entrevo.com

Top TV Shows Today, December 17: The Big Bang Theory, Haven, Elementary

Well, less than 10 days for Christmas and we have three great television shows today, December 17. Our first recommendation is for the sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Today’s episode is titled The Opening Night Excitation. Season 9. Episode 11. 8:00 pm. CBS.

I love this series based on Stephen King’s novel. Haven. Today’s episode: Now. Season 5. Episode 25. 10:00 pm. Syfy.

And our last choice is for another series from the CBS, Elementary. Today: The Cost of Doing Business. Season 4. Episode 6. 10:00 pm. CBS.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Video: The Big Bang Theory – The Opening Night Excitation (Preview)

Famous Birthdays Today, December 17: Pope Francis, Manny Pacquiao, Sarah Paulson, Milla Jovovich, Steven Frayne

Well, I’m not a religious man but, well, I like this pope because our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, December 17 is for Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. From Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special day. Congratulations and happy birthday, Pope Francis.

Famous Birthdays Today, December 17: 2014 Pastoral Visit of Pope Francis to Korea Closing Mass for Asian Youth Day August 17, 2014 Haemi Castle, Seosan-si, Chungcheongnam-do. Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Photographer name)

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace. Pope Francis

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. Pope Francis

Famous Birthdays Today, December 17: Nat Wolff at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012. Source: flickr. Author: Tabercil

And today is also the birthday of the actor Nat Wolff, who starred on the music comedy series The Naked Brothers Band from 2007 to 2009. All the best of luck for him too. Happy birthday, Nat Wolff!

More famous birthdays today, December 17: Manny Pacquiao, boxer born in Kibawe, Philippines in 1978; Sarah Paulson, actress who appears on the series American Horror Story, born in Tampa, Florida in 1974; the beautiful actress and model Milla Jovovich; and the magician Steven Frayne.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Video: Pope Francis addresses Joint Session of Congress – FULL SPEECH (C-SPAN)

A masterwork of Oceanic art has been added to the collection at the Toledo Museum of Art

Saibai Island, Torres Strait (Northern Islands, Australia), Mask, 1870, wood, human hair, shell, seedpod, fiber, pigment, melo shell and coix seeds, Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 2015

Todelo, Ohio. A masterwork of Oceanic art has been added to the collection at the Toledo Museum of Art. Purchased at Christie’s in Paris on Dec. 3, 2015, the mask is one of four known distinguished examples from Saibai Island in the Torres Straits and has been heralded by scholars as the most notable. The Saibai Island Masks are among the rarest and most spectacular works of art created by the artists of the Torres Straits.

The earliest written record of a Saibai Island mask was in 1606 when Spanish explorer Don Diego de Prado y Tovar wrote of a turtle shell example while on exploration voyage with Luís Vaz de Torres, for whom the region is named.

Masks in this style are called “mawa,” meaning “face,” and are believed to represent mythical heroes whose appearances signal important events and rites of passage. The “mawa” ceremony was held to celebrate the ripening of fruits and other crops around the month of September. The masks were carved from wood and distinct because they do not have sight apertures for the wearer, meaning that they were likely worn on the top of the head by a dancer wearing a costume of coconut leaves. They could also have been used as a kind of architectural ornament. There are only three other examples in this style, two in the Australian Museum in Sydney and one in Barbier Mueller Museum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Brian Kennedy, president, director and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art, commented that “This is an extraordinary, spectacular example of the sculptural tradition of mask making in the Torres Strait Islands. We have rarely seen such a striking and memorable mask. We are thrilled to have acquired an object of such rarity which expands the global range of the Toledo Museum of Art’s celebrated art collections.”

This example, from the Jolika Collection, demonstrates the powerful proportions used in Torres Strait Islander art. It is revered as the best and most remarkable example of an extremely rare body of Torres Strait art. The mask measures almost three times the size of a human face and the trapezoidal shape combined with shell eyes glowing against the dark brown wood create a haunting expression and make this one of the most memorable among masks from the South Seas.

Wooden masks in the Torres Straits are particular to the Western island of Saibai, unlike the more typical turtle shell masks of the South Seas. This is attributed to the proximity of Saibai Island to the sculptural wood tradition of New Guinea.

About the artists of the Torres Straits

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have the oldest continuous culture in the world, with a legacy of tens of thousands of years. Their art is often referred to as the oldest in human history.

What began as rock carving and body painting evolved to ritual and ceremonial objects carved from wood to modern art forms today such as ceramics and glassware.

The story behind individual works of indigenous art is often a direct tie to a sacred ceremony, historical traditions and geographic landscape. Works of art show the cultural diversity among communities, differences in language and what material resources were available for making objects.

What do Selena Gomez and Niall Horan think about love?

Selena Gomez and Niall Horan. Photo: Instagram

It was a surprise but it seems that Selena Gomez and Niall Horan’s relationship goes on. Now, Selena has wanted to accompany Niall to Factor X farewell party. A very emotional moment! And they left together Edition London hotel where the after party was held. Are they just friends? What are they looking for?

Time ago, Selena said: “I want someone who can make me laugh and just be normal and understand my lifestyle and how I wanna live it.” Then, maybe she has found this person in Niall.

“I’m the most carefree, happy person you’ll meet.” Niall Horan.

What do you think? Have Selena and Niall a wonderful future? Tell us your opinion now!

Selena Gomez and Niall Horan. Photo: Twitter

Our quotes of the day are dedicated to Selena and Niall. Two great artists with a promising future that they can live together or separately. Nobody knows because they are still very young.

“I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don’t think that was love. I think as I’m getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I’ll experience it. At the moment, I don’t know, exactly, if I’ve been in love.” Selena Gomez.

Thus, Selena has grown and her experience has increased. Is time to choose a serious couple? And how about Niall? Is he ready? Is he understanding the complicate world of young girls?

“I think there’s so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing – and they don’t. Perfect people don’t exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.” Niall Horan.

(Twitter: @selenagomez / Instagram: @selenagomez) and Niall Horan (Twitter: @NiallOfficial / Instagram:@niallhoran).

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you!