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A reminder of what life and art are all about. Thats how Martin Scorsese describes the filmmaking partnership between Kents Michael Powell and Hungarian migr Emeric Pressburger arguably Britains greatest ever filmmaking partnership. Nominally Powell directed and Pressburger wrote (under the collective banner of The Archers) but their collaboration blurred standard distinctions forming a singularity of voice that remains magic. As the BFI launches a major retrospective, here is a primer for their unique brand of cinematic alchemy.

P&P films are ambitious on every count; narratively, emotionally, cinematically and intellectually. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp charts the lifelong friendship of a British army office and his Prussian counterpart (perhaps a thinly veiled version of Powell and Pressburger themselves). A Matter Of Life and Death tells the story of a RAF pilot on trial for his life in the afterlife (the escalator to heaven is iconic). Black Narcissus is built around a community of nuns in the Himalayas aroused by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Typically, these works are marked by wit, experimentation and maximum audacity.

P&P could also work in a smaller register. Shot in shimmering black and white, A Canterbury Tale relocates Chaucer from the 14th century to World War II Britain. I Know Where Im Going is an intoxicatingly imaginative story of mysticism and romance on a small Scottish island. Gone to Earth, the pairs only foray into Hollywood, concerns a Shropshire girl with a deep affinity to nature. Few filmmakers know how to harness the power and poetry of landscapes like P&P.

P&P worked with the best actors in Britain and beyond. David Niven, Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Wendy Hiller, Jennifer Jones all did career-best work with them.

No-one has put dance on film to more entrancing effect than P&P. The Red Shoes, the story of a ballerina caught between a young composer and a monstrous svengali, is graced with a 17-minute ballet sequence that toggles between wonder and terror. Three years later, P&P pushed dance on film even further, with Tales of Hoffman, a sumptuous adaptation of Jacques Offenbach.

P&Ps films are filled with fantastic handcrafted flourishes that lift the film out of the ordinary. In A Matter of Life and Death, rather than use a fade in from black, Powell simply breathed on the lens to create dream-like transition to a beach scene. On Black Narcissus, the backdrop for the Himalayas were black and white photographs blown up and then enhanced by pastel chalks to create stunning, stylised vistas.

P&P were masters of Technicolor, a motion picture colour process that, especially in P&Ps hands. delivered ultra-vibrant hues. Perhaps its most amazing use comes in Black Narcissus when Kathleen Byrons disturbed Sister Ruth opens a door and is seen sporting bright red lipstick. Indelible. The image, not the lipstick.

P&P speak subtly but directly to the emotions and nowhere is this more to the fore than in the beginning of A Matter of Life and Death. Its May 2, 1945. A Lancaster bomber is limping over the channel and RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) is the only one left alive onboard and bereft of a parachute. He starts talking to June (Kim Hunter), an American radio operator, and the exchange that follows is heart-breaking and spirit-affirming all at once (Youre life, June, and Im leaving you!). Contemporary critics dismissed it as saccharine, but from this vantage point its as moving as movies get.

To truly understand P&P is to know their genius was only made possible by a raft of key collaborators. Names to drop include cinematographers Erwin Hillier, Christopher Challis and Jack Cardiff; art directors Hein Heckroth and Alfred Junge; and composer Brian Easdale. Shoot the works, Powell told his crew. And, boy, did they.

It would be easy to dismiss P&Ps visions of airmen and nurses as depicting a stiff-upper-lipped Britain that never existed, but their worldview is more nuanced than that. Their wartime output The Spy in Black, 49th Parallel, Contraband, Blimp, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, A Canterbury Tale imbues standard anti-Nazi propaganda with complexity, compassion and a gentle humanism.

The influence of P&P is everywhere, informing filmmakers as diverse as Gene Kelly, Spike Lee, Joanna Hogg, Wes Anderson and Greta Gerwig, who cites their work as big influence on the fantasy feel of Barbie. But their inspiration is perhaps most clearly detected in the work of super-stan Martin Scorsese, from the reds of Mean Streets, the changing frame rates of Raging Bulls fight scenes (pilfered from The Red Shoes), and the refined aesthetic of The Age Of Innocence. But dont wait to see their brilliance through another filmmakers lens. See it unfiltered at the BFI this autumn.

Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger runs October 16-December 31 at BFI Southbank

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The California State University, Sacramento Center for Practical and Professional Ethics and Cosumnes River College Honors Program collaborated in hosting a two-day symposium on Monday and Tuesday that debated the ethics of artificial intelligence. The first day of the 18th annual collaborative symposium took place on the Sac State campus with roughly 200 people in attendance. CRC Philosophy Professor Richard Schubert partnered with Sac State Philosophy Professor and Director of the Center for Practical and Professional Ethics Kyle Swan to organize this series of the symposium.

A panel discussed the possibility of creating technology with consciousness indistinguishable from human beings. The panel also discussed the harms and benefits that AI could have. The first concept was presented by the Associate Professor of Philosophy Michael Pelczar from the National University of Singapore. You hear a lot of conversation about the dangers that AI potentially poses to human beings, Pelczar said. You have the risk of AI harming humans. You also hear a good talk about the risks of humans using AI to harm one another. What you dont hear very much talked about is the risk of human harming AI. Sac State Professor of Philosophy Matt McCormick discussed the reality in living with highly advanced technology that could be considered conscious or sentient. He said AI could soon have legal rights and be looked at as a citizen, which could bring a moral singularity, collapsing the infrastructure of our civilizations economy and culture. The moral singularity is a crisis where the evolved human equilibria of moral rights and obligations is inundated by the machines, McCormick said. Twenty-two-year-old Sac State history major Drew Harris said that AI was an interesting topic to talk about at the symposium. He said he was interested in the effect AI has on our morality and the ramifications or questions to consider as the technology develops. Psychology and political science major Gabriela McMorris, 19, who is also in the CRC Honors Program, said she has participated in a few symposiums and she came to understand AI as best as she could. Its always a good experience to hear from academic professionals, its a great opportunity. You get to see it live, McMorris said. Dr. Edwin Fagin, a CRC economics professor, said industries of science and technology will decode AI just like they did for DNA and it will become common knowledge. Were just beginning to explore it, chart it and track it, Fagin said. The second day of the symposium took place in the Winn Center at CRC with roughly 90 people in attendance on Tuesday, featuring Program Director of Academic and Student Programs at George Mason University Rosolino Candela. Candela said his main topic of discussion was AIs place in the market for allocating resources efficiently. Candela said economic markets are imperfect and a process called economic calculation is necessary for maintaining them, as those calculations cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence. Candela said it is difficult to determine genuine choice in AI because people know subjectively what they want. He said preferences would be given to an AI instead of demonstrated and interpreted by people. A panel discussion between the three keynote speakers, Honors Student Personnel Assistant Sopuruchukwu Nwachukwu, Sac State Associate Dean for Budget and Assessment, College of Arts & Letters Christina M. Bellon and Sac State Lecturer Kevin Vandergiff ended the presentation, discussing the ethics of AI within higher education. I think there was a general freak out about two years ago with the release of Chat GPT, Bellon said. Those of you who follow AI were aware that something was being developed and then the good developers of Chat GPT said, Lets just throw it out there for everyone to use. What could possibly go wrong? and everyone had visions of Terminator and how it could take control, but the primary concern seemed to be around student cheating. Bellon said it is not only student cheating that could be a problem, but also faculty members cheating or taking shortcuts. Bellon said AI is currently being used in education systems as a tool that improves assisted technology. It has the promise to improve currently utilized assisted technologies for disabled students, disabled faculty and disabled staff to better perform their jobs and promote their own success, Bellon said. Bellon said if the inequities already existing in the academic world are not attended to, they will be exacerbated if AI is expected to be a tool in education. AI is not transparent. Chat GPT doesnt cite its sources. So, I cant cite the sources that Chat GPT used, Bellon said. Bettina Le, a biology major, 18, said she learned a lot more about AI, but she is still skeptical. You still have to use it in a smart way. Its definitely not something you should play around with. It could be really beneficial if used correctly, Le said. The panel discussion on ethics in education ended the presentation and symposium with a Q&A session. I think with all AI and similar tools, it depends how we use it and what purpose were using it for, Bellon said.

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Assembling Genshin Impact Arkhium Stock is a key part of exploring Fontaines hidden corners. Using it to forge Arkhium Lumenite is the only way to enter one of the Liffey regions secret areas, where youll find a Hydroculus, some valuable treasure, and some of the Fontaine achievements as well.

Getting to that point involves figuring out how to work the Arkhium forge, and its a bit of a process.

The only way to get Arkhium Stock is by assembling seven pieces of Mysterious Ore. Some chunks are locked behind world quests, though you can find others in certain parts of the Liffey region. Our Genshin Impact Mysterious Ore locations guide explains where to find them all.

Your Mysterious Ore automatically turns into Arkhium Stock once you collect all seven pieces of it. The next step is transforming it into Arkhium Lumenite and the Forging Press.

Finding the Forging Press is not an easy task unless you know where to look. The road there starts in the chamber with the Millennial Pearl Seahorse boss, which you need to fight for your Neuvillette build. Skirt around the arenas right side, and dive into the water. The tunnel spits you out in a large room with a Waypoint in front of you and a Meka on your left. Fight it or ignore it, and keep moving forward.

At the end of the large tunnel is another pool. Dive in, and follow it until you reach the next room. This route eventually spits you out in a large round area with another Meka, one on wheels with a flaming Pyro buzzsaw. Defeat it, activate the mechanism, and enter the next room. This is where youll find the Forging Press.

Place the Arkhium Stock in the forges center. Now you need to turn the gas off. Travel around the rooms lower portions, and use the valve handles to shot the gas off like you did in Road to the Singularity. Return to the forge controls, and begin the forging process.

Wait until a Pyro shield forms around the Arkhium Stock, and then activate the press. Repeat this action several times until a group of Pyro Slimes appear and overheat the system. Defeat the slimes, and then activate the cooling mechanism.

The cooling system is really just a fancy way of saying flood the room. Break the rocks with blue veins in them under the Hydroculus location on the eastern side of the room to flood the chamber. The rocks are unbreakable before reaching this point of the process, so you cant speed anything along by trying to shatter them sooner.

Use the press a few more times. Youll then get a notice that water has entered the system.

Remove the Red Meanies from the drainage vents around the room to siphon off the excess water, and finish the press process. The room will flood completely, and in the center, youll find your Arkhium Stock transformed into Arkhium Lumenite.

Your shiny new Arkhium Lumenite is a key that unlocks a hidden chamber in the Liffey Regions eastern side. Travel to the mountain waypoint southeast of the lake, and glide to the west. Drop down this hole.

Use your Lumenite on the device to open the door, and head inside to collect a Plume of Death from the Golden Troupe set, a Hydroculus, and two Luxurious Chests.

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Finding all the Genshin Impact Mysterious Ore locations takes you around Fontaines Liffey region, into the depths, and through some of the areas world quests. You can find most of these without even progressing in Fontaine's Archon quests, though one is at the end of a very long world quest.

We've listed htem as we found them, but you can grab the Mysterious Ore in any order. Once you're done, the Ore will turn into Arkhium Stock automatically.

This one is the easiest to grab. You can start from the southwestern Statue of the Seven, travel east, and stop at the arena with the Experimental Field Generator. Climb the northern wall you can get by without alerting the boss and grab the Ore. Its just sitting there in the open.

The Hilichurl camp with a giant robot in the middle is home to another easily-obtained Ore. Climb the arm, or use the nearby bubble traversal to reach it without climbing.

While youre in the area, travel northwest to the lab ruins. Use the bubbles to reach the highest water cube, the one with the waypoint, and dive into it. Grab one of the jellyfish. Use it to break this rock formation with the blur cracks. Underneath is another Mysterious Ore

Heres one you probably wouldnt know existed otherwise. Travel to the Liffey regions western waterfall, near the Fatui camp where you can pick up a few Lumitoile for your Neuvillette build. Dive into the deeper water, and follow the tunnel to its end. Make sure to pick up one of the jellyfish, as youll need it for the upcoming battle.

You eventually reach an open chamber with a massive cyst inside. This cyst poisons the water around it, and youll take damage every second while youre in the room. Use the sparkling clusters of fish to restore your health, and use your jellyfish attack on the cysts glowing nodules.

These start releasing enemies, which you should deal with in the same way. Eventually, popping nodules and defeating enemies reduces the cysts health until it explodes and leaves behind a chunk of Mysterious Ore.

Travel to the lake east of the Experimental Field Generator, and dive down at the easternmost point. The Treacherous Light of the Depths quest triggers at the bottom of the tunnel, and youll find the Mysterious Ore once you finish up underwater.

Heat to the waypoint at Liffeys central beach another Lumitoile hotspot and follow the road north. Take a right, and enter the cave to trigger the Road to the Singularity quest. Youll find another Mysterious Ore once you finish.

Grabbing the last Mysterious Ore takes a lot of time and some effort. Its tucked away at the bottom of the fortress, and while you can reach the area at any point, the spot where the Ore lies is at the end of the Unfinished Comedy quest.

If you're wondering what to do next, check out our Genshin Impact Arkhium Stock guide.

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Digital Marketing Coordinator

Company: Innovations in Wallcoverings Inc.

Duration: Full-time

Date Posted: 10/10/23

Category: Sales & Marketing

Location: New York

Salary: 50-100k

Innovations is looking for a Digital Marketing Coordinator to join our Marketing Department to assist in the development and execution of marketing plans for our website, social media, and email campaigns. We are looking for a creative individual with a background in the design industry preferred. The position is based in our head office in Soho and reports to the Marketing Manager.

Website Manage all content for the website Work on implementing new website features and design with web developer Update and maintain website imagery and product content Add new products to the website Maintain and update client installations for website Update and add press coverage, catalogs, videos, news, etc to website as needed Monthly report and review of website analytics Keep marketing database up to date

Social Media Management of accounts for all social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and LinkedIn) Community management for all platforms Coordinate schedules and posting of content across all platforms Ensure consistent brand imagery and message is maintained across all platforms Grow and develop following and engagement Source client installation photos posted to social media for our use Report analytics

Email/Newsletters Create and send out weekly product newsletters and other emails (company news, invitations, etc) using Mailchimp Update and maintain email database Monthly report and review of website analytics

Tradeshows Help plan and execute regional tradeshows including BDNY and smaller regional shows Assist on site as needed with local tradeshow booth installation

Photoshoots Help plan and execute seasonal collection photoshoot Take photography of product swatches as needed Take photography for social media of projects, products, etc as needed Scan and format product swatches Work on creating image renders

Hybrid Schedule, 3-4 days in office per week 3+ Years of Professional Experience in Digital Marketing, Design Industry experience preferred Bachelors Degree Excellent communication skills (written and oral) and attention to detail Strong creative skills, written and visual Excellent organization and time management skills Team player, willing to help out with any task on our small team Experience or knowledge of the interiors, design, or luxury goods industries Must be comfortable working with: -Social Media Management Platforms -Mailchimp -Microsoft Office Suite -Adobe Creative Suite -Website Content/Database Management

For over 45 years, Innovations has been committed to forward-thinking design and creating wallcoverings that transform interiors. As pioneers in the industry, we introduced many firsts by experimenting with new materials and design techniques. From our inspired products to our highly regarded service, we are dedicated to elevating the shopping experience every step of the way.

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