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The Path Before Us, with Matthew Lee Anderson By Matthew Lee Anderson I offer counsel and help in discerning the path Christians should take at the border between the church and the world--which includes everything from biblical exegesis to reflections on Trollope. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja6t062fnq%2BcmrKiusOeqaynng%3D%3D

Servus! The Austrian expressionist painter Max Oppenheimer, whose work has been almost forgotten, is currently the subject of a major retrospective at Vienna’s Leopold Museum. The nature of his life, which took him to Berlin, Prague, Geneva, and Zurich in search of work and forced him into exile in New York after the Nazi annexation of Austria in March 1938, led to his collection being scattered across continents. Because he was a Jewish artist and a modernist, his work was also branded ‘degenerate’ by Nazi authorities, confiscated, and destroyed.

Leave a comment MUNCIE — Mayor Dan Ridenour will speak about the upcoming public auction of the Muncie Mall during his Community Update on Tuesday, spokesperson Michele Owen said. The mayor’s weekly updates are live-streamed on the city’s Facebook page every Tuesday and Friday around 8:30 a.m. It apparently won’t be bad news, such as an announcement that the mall will be closing. In fact, Shareen Wagley, the mayor’s executive assistant, called it “great news.

Hello there, Noam here.  Today I share an article I published this month with the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) on Lebanon's refined petroleum imports for power generation as the country battles multiple crises. But before I get to that, I would like to share with you a personal experience with a power generator I learned how to operate at a young age.    I used to struggle with the smell of mazut (referring to diesel) on my hands.

McDonald’s, as you know, has just about erased all traces of the architectural era in which Grimace and his McDonaldland friends thrived — the early 1970s into the early 2000s. And those characters were retired from its marketing long ago, when selling fast food to kids so overtly became dangerous, so much so that Gen Z has only a passing familiarity with Grimace and the gang. But that’s changing. In recent years, the Golden Arches has been selectively tapping its ample vault of nostalgic iconography.

Editor’s Note: We’re back, baby! I’ve been gone due to vacation and immediately coming back and getting sick with the worst sinus infection I’ve ever had. Nevertheless, we soldier on. I decided to return with a light article. Those of you who know me well know that I discuss writing this article every year. I’m finally getting around to it. I hope you guys enjoy it. It’s almost October 3rd, the nationally recognized Mean Girls day.

I started mapping the Media ecosystem over three years ago. I think people think it’s been longer. To be honest, it feels like it has. Maybe that’s because I’ve updated my map more than 60 times over the last three years. I made my first Map for the courses I teach at NYU and Fordham University. Then Deadline published it, and things kind of blew up from there. To celebrate three years of Media Maps, I just dropped this new map, a cross-section of the original, designed to show the economics and audiences at the heart of the ecosystem.

There are only two kinds of social apps—media apps and messaging apps. For each form of expression, there is exactly one social media app that defines that medium. They monopolize and get really big. Messaging apps are used for all kinds of purposes and heavily overlap. They don’t monopolize but can get just as big. The key difference is this...social media apps are about broadcast—share with the world your thought, image, or video.

Daniil Medvedev defeated Holger Rune 7/5 7/5 in the final of the Rome Masters 1000 on Sunday to clinch his first clay title and sixth Masters 1000 title overall. The win also bumps the Russian up to number 2 in the seedings for Roland Garros, pushing Djokovic to the third seed spot, in a move that could place Alcaraz and Djokovic in the same half of the draw (announced Thursday at 2 pm Paris time).