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Wasn't the Mahatma Correct?
"The future of India lies in the villages" - Mahatma Gandhi.
Mahatma was very clear in his thoughts when he spoke on the rural development and economics. He strongly advocated the idea of making the villages self sufficient and reliant. The empowered villages, according to him would become the building blocks of modern India. Like one of those Whatsapp messages that we read, APJ Kalam and Mahatma Gandhi are like Lord Krishna, everybody likes them, but, no body follows them.
India, after independence in many possible senses neglected the rural parts. At least did we plan our cities well? No. Poor sanitation, bad water supply system, backward waste management techniques, low safety, high cost transport are common features of many Indian cities. Does that mean India has become Naa Ghar ka, Naa Ghat ka types? In a way yes.
Is it true that rural India lacks potential? According to 2011 census, 83.3cr Indian population dwells in more than 6,40,867 villages. We are in an age which refer to people as Human Resource and Human Capital. If people of a country are really a resource, rural India which has such massive population cannot be without potential. At present, low literacy, connectivity, poverty, low per capita income may be the features of rural India but it wouldn't be the case for a long time is the feeling one gets when he reads about Akodara village of Gujarat.
Akodara is the first digital village of India it is in the Sabarkantha district of North Gujarat. ICICI bank under 'Digital Village' program launched the digitalization of the village. The village has 220 families and a population close to 1500 people. While cotton, castor and wheat are produced by the villagers, they are also engaged in cattle rearing. The village is also proud of its own animal hostel.
The digitalization of the village started on the 15th Jan 2015 and it stands completed now. When big cities of India stood in queues after demonetization, when trade and commerce came to a standstill and when GDP of the country is expected to slip below 7% and go as low as 6.5%, Akodara had peaceful and normal life. Thanks to digitalization.
From shops to cooperative societies the transactions are cashless at Akodara. The village has its own Website and a Facebook page. Skill development for girls, smart schools, school management software, school curriculum, agriculture produce price are all available online. It is a comprehensive digitization program that has taken place in Akodara village. The internet facility is extended by a Wi Fi tower set up by ICICI bank.
Arisal is a village in Maharashtra and it is at the verge of becoming a digitized village. Vijaya bank has adopted Chandagalu village of Karnataka on 29th April 2016 to make it a digital village. Panchayats in Maharashtra and Tamilnadu too are going digital.
Is the wave of change and modernization blowing from the rural India? It appears to be so. The rural India's growth seems to catch up with urban India, in the years to come, India would shine in the world economy. Rural India has huge potential. The harvest has just seem to have begun. Mahatma was correct… "The future of India lies in its villages."
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Front Porch Launches Humanly Possible
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A Groundbreaking Strategic Approach to Caused‐based Innovation and Greater Collaboration
Burbank, Calif. Jan. 29, 2014 – In today's aging society, organizations must evolve to successfully meet the world's dramatically emerging needs. Front Porch, a not‐for‐profit 'human serving' organization featuring innovative communities and programs that meet the changing needs of individuals as they age, today announced Humanly Possible®, its groundbreaking new strategic approach to "innovation with a cause" and greater collaboration.
Front Porch's central mission is about meeting needs with excellence and Humanly Possible underscores a culture aimed at doing everything humanly possible to creatively meet emerging needs now and in the future. This bold and transformative commitment is an authentic expression of Front Porch's passion to create new opportunities and forge new directions. It will become an organization‐ wide focus for disruptive innovation, strategic development and partnership.
"We're facing a sea change around us," said Kari Olson, chief innovation and technology officer for Front Porch and president of the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing. "We see changes in marketplaces, competition and regulations; these come together to create an imperative for us to transform and embrace possibilities through innovation. We are truly dedicated to investing the time, energy and resources to help Front Porch address this cultural tipping point. Through Humanly PossibleSM, we will enhance the organization's capacity to identify, understand and deliver solutions for meeting unarticulated, emerging and future needs."
The world's aging society (as proportions of people 60 and older are rapidly outnumbering those 15 and younger) presents real‐world challenges that can't be ignored. Dynamic disruptive forces are weighing in from all directions and these issues will impact people of all ages. Front Porch is ready to embrace these challenges.
"Humanly Possible is a crucible where the right chemistry of the creative spirit of people is blended with the compelling needs of the aging to achieve transformational results," said Larry Minnix, president and CEO of LeadingAge. "Humanly Possible gives us hope for the future of our field, the people we serve and work with, and the communities in which we live."
Humanly Possible is a rallying call for Front Porch to build upon its legacy, and significantly expand its work collaborating and forming innovative partnerships with other non‐profits, for‐profits and academia in the larger community to advance and develop new approaches, methodologies and technology applications that go beyond the traditional walls of Front Porch communities to meet community‐determined needs for people of all ages.
"As a not‐for‐profit 'human serving' organization going new places, Front Porch must continue to innovate so we can help others thrive," said Front Porch CEO Gary Wheeler. "At Front Porch, we see the potential of human possibility every day with the remarkable people we are honored to serve, and through the compassion and resourcefulness of our team members. We see the shifts that define how people want to live their lives. So while we have celebrated many great accomplishments, we can't sit still. Humanly PossibleSM is about every mind, every discipline and every level of our organization working together on what's possible, what's achievable and what's next."
Front Porch created its award‐winning Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing (CIW) which works with a variety of partners to find new models of care and service for underserved members of the community. For example, the Model eHealth Community for Aging (MeHCA) project (formed by the CIW) uses broadband‐enabled technology to support needs and improve access to care for low‐ income older adults at affordable housing communities, community health clinics and other anchor institutions in Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood.
As a lead‐up to the Humanly Possible kick‐off, Front Porch enrolled select members of its leadership team in the groundbreaking Innovator's Accelerator program in October 2013, becoming the first non‐ profit to do so. Joining a prestigious group of top Fortune 500 companies whose employees have participated, Front Porch leaders took part in the executive training course with 70 additional staff members enrolling in the program throughout 2014.
In support of Humanly Possible Front Porch is investing system‐wide in its team members, business processes and strategy through educational programs, executive training and peer‐to‐peer training focused around innovation. Team members will be encouraged to be creative with the support and tools necessary to initiate innovation to improve the lives of those they currently serve, and to create opportunities for the future.
A process to identify needs, generate ideas, evaluate, support and potentially scale those ideas is in place. All ideas, successful or not, will be celebrated. This approach empowers Front Porch to creatively meet needs to help the organization grow, become more efficient, and sustain its leadership position.
Since Front Porch was established in 1999, it has received numerous accolades and national awards for innovation in meeting the needs of older adults. The non‐profit has also extended its care and service to those outside the older adult community through its work in areas such as affordable housing, memory care, technology, art and community outreach, and management services. Originally formed from three experienced non‐profits coming together as one, Front Porch has its roots in partnership and innovation, helping other non‐profits succeed as well as partnering with the private sector to incubate technology solutions to help people live well.
Editor's Note: Kari Olson is available for an in‐depth discussion about Humanly Possible and how "innovation with a cause" and greater collaboration can meet some of the most pressing needs that our society is facing today.
Front Porch is a not‐for‐profit support system for a family of companies that serve individuals and families through full‐service retirement, active adult communities, affordable housing communities through CARING Housing Ministries and related management and development services. Front Porch active adult and full‐service retirement communities offer a full range of options from independent living to continuing care, including memory support. Specialized programs like the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing, Front Porch Gallery and affiliated Centers for Spirituality and Aging support the Front Porch belief in understanding and meeting needs so that residents can live life their way. With innovative communities and programs that meet the changing needs of people as they age, Front Porch represents a leading‐edge approach to wellness in aging. Front Porch is comprised of 11 full‐ service retirement communities in California and two adult living communities: one in Louisiana and one in Florida. Front Porch also serves individuals and families through more than 20 affordable housing communities managed by Front Porch's affiliate, CARING Housing Ministries. Front Porch, based in Burbank, Calif. and founded in 1999, is a not‐for‐profit organization that gives back to its residents and the communities it serves. More information is available at www.frontporch.net.
For more information contact: Mike Martinez, Senior Communications Director, communications@frontporch.net (818) 254-4248

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Sheldon Adelson shows his true colors at wrongful dismissal hearing of Steven Jacobs
Thu, May 14th, 2015 3:59:07 pm
Sheldon Adelson recently testified at a hearing for Steven Jacobs, the former CEO of the Las Vegas Sands casino in Macau. Adelson made some eye-popping comments in an eye-opening case.
A hearing that should have taken place over four years ago is now being held at the Cook County district court in Nevada. What on paper should have been a fairly mundane wrongful dismissal case has turned into quite the spectacle, after Sheldon Adelson was called to testify. Steven Jacobs, the former CEO of the Las Vegas Sands casino in Macau, is suing The Sands for wrongful dismissal and for sullying his reputation, saying he was let go because he wouldn't follow the practice of catering to Chinese organized crime groups and also for refusing to allow the ongoing practice of influence peddling. The purpose of the hearing relates to jurisdiction in determining whether the full trial should be litigated in Nevada where the company's head office is located or in China.
Jacobs was hired by The Sands in 2009 to run the Macau operations, but was let go by the company in July of 2010. The Sands informed him he was let go for due cause in that he violated numerous parts of his contract, but Jacobs contends he was not fired for rightful reasons and thus filed a wrongful dismissal case against the Sands at the Cook County district court in October of 2010. The case was never heard until now as the Sands was successful in having the hearing delayed on numerous occasions. They tried to have evidence gathered from Jacobs tossed out and apparently they also wanted to ensure that Adelson wouldn't have to testify. In their defense The Sands released a letter in 2010 claiming Jacobs was fired for due cause including the following:
- He disagreed with Adelson on growth for the casino.
- He sold Las Vegas Sands stock without informing those in charge, as was required under his contract.
- He negotiated "arrangements" for Sands China and Venetian Macau without discussing it with the boards of those casinos.
- He was secretly working with Caesars for development sites, which The Sands claim exceeded his authority.
- He failed to obtain proper authorization before signing an agreement with Playboy.
- He traveled to Toronto three times to meet with Four Seasons officials without authorization.
- He negotiated agreements with Cirque du Soleil without authorization.
- He failed to agree on The Sands board meeting agendas, as he was required to do.
In his testimony on the stand Adelson said that Jacobs was fired for "35 transgressions".
Jacobs, on the other hand, claims that the reason the Sands really fired him was that he refused to play ball on illegal and immoral activities.
"He purposely tried to kill the company."
The first reason Jacobs claims he was let go was that he tried to stop gang members from infiltrating the casino. Jacobs said that he noticed that the Macau Sands was using Cheung Chi Tai, to run "junkets" for high rollers from Hong Kong and China, but he was very skeptical of the operation, saying that they were not profitable and he was concerned about Cheung's ties to organized crime. The practice involves "junket" operators bringing in high rollers from Hong Kong and mainland China to special VIP rooms at Macau casinos and the junket operator runs the room and receives up to 10% of the client losses. While not illegal, it is pretty much understood that the junket organizers are often connected to organized crime groups. Adelson claimed that Cheung was mostly a gambler and a minor player in the Macau operation, but Cheung's dealings with the company were highlighted in a 2007 filing on The Hong Kong stock exchange indicating it was significant. As for knowing about Cheung's background, Adelson seemed to suggest on the stand that he was unaware of it. However, Cheung was named as the head of the Wo Hop To triad gang in a 1992 U.S. Senate report and was being monitored by both the FBI and the Hong Kong Police for an attempt to have a dealer killed that Cheung said was cheating the casino. The company's relationship with Cheung, however, only ended after a Reuters report highlighting a study conducted by the University of California Berkley Investigative Reporting Program outlined Cheung's gang activities. There were concerns it could have some negative implications on The Sands operation, not to mention that the government in China warned the company to cut down on organized crime links. While Jacobs claimed that the junkets were unprofitable, Adelson stated on the stand that he believed Jacobs wanted to cut them to purposely ruin the company.
"He wanted to throw out 50%, 60% of the income by throwing out the junkets," Adelson said. "This was insanity. He purposely tried to kill the company."
It's uncertain whether The Sands in Macau still uses these junkets.
The second reason Jacobs claims he was fired is that he had Leonel Alves, a Macau legislator, investigated by internal lawyers and, after receiving their report, told him his services were no longer required. According to reports and documents submitted at the trial, Jacobs received an invoice for $700,000 from Alves, who was listed by the company as their consultant and lawyer, and unsure what exactly Alves did, he had company lawyers do some investigation into his position. The company's lawyers determined that Alves had 2 duties.
First, he represented The Sands in meetings, including applying pressure to Chinese officials. His other job was to smooth over situations where Adelson irritated Chinese officials with his coarse manners. The internal lawyers told Adelson and Jacobs that the compensation was way above the normal for such services. Plus, they were concerned his activities may violate U.S. bribery laws. Alves was also featured in a 2012 Wall Street Journal article, where the paper said that a University of California Berkley Investigative program acquired emails from Alves in 2009 proposing that the company pay USD$300 million to "someone high-ranking in Beijing" in a backdoor deal to help The Sands win local government approval to sell luxury flats in an apartment hotel in Cotai and to settle a lawsuit involving a Taiwanese businessman (Marshall Hao) who was suing The Sands for terminating a deal for a joint bid they made for a Macau gaming concession. According to reports, Alves used Ng Lap Seng, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee to be an intermediary and courier to the Chinese government. Alves has since denied those claims. After firing Jacobs, Adelson called Macau and demanded he be rehired. In Jacobs' testimony he said that, while expressing concern that the payments could be seen by U.S. regulators as influence peddling, Adelson stated that he controlled the regulators, not the other way around, according to Jacobs' lawsuit. Jacobs also contended that Adelson constantly told him that he's the boss and just to do what he says, if he wants to keep his job. When asked on the stand why he believed the company lawyers agreed to look into Alves background and why they suggested he be let go, Adelson stated that he understood that Jacobs had studied hypnotism and he believed Jacobs had hypnotised the lawyer into looking into Alves. The comment apparently was met with laughs from the gallery.
The third reason Jacobs stated as to why he believes he was fired is that he tried to stop prostitution at the casinos. Jacobs contends that when he was hired in 2009 he launched "operation clean sweep" which was aimed at ridding the casino floors of loan sharks and prostitutes. Apparently Sands management told Jacobs to leave it alone because "the prostitution strategy was working well" and that Adelson knew of it and approved of it. Company lawyers have denied the claims saying that Adelson has always opposed prostitution.
The information is certainly damning to The Sands and both the DoJ and SEC are in attendance at the trial to see if charges should be brought against The Sands. Aside from what was laid out in court there have been reports that The Sands has been involved in activities which could be deemed money laundering. The Sands already paid the U.S. government $47 million in 2013 to settle a money laundering suit involving a Mexican drug cartel, but the accusations involving Chinese gamblers and organized crime leaders is much more serious. Some reports claim that lawyers wanted the suit settled out of court long ago, but that Adelson said that he was not willing to settle. Apparently getting his pound of flesh from someone he views as disloyal and incompetent is more important than having The Sands' name dragged through the mud.
But Adelson also has not helped the company's cause by constantly stating things on the witness stand that had many ears perked. Aside from the hypnotist comment Adelson claimed, "This Jacobs never became important until he squealed like a pig to the government authorities and made up stories." Of course, this is the type of language one would expect to hear from a Mafia leader, not a billionaire businessman.
Adelson also raised some eyebrows with comments he made after being asked if he'd heard of Ng Lap Seng.
"There's a lot of Ngs in Macau. It's not as common as Kim or Park in Korea, but there's a lot of Ngs."
Adelson also contradicted his own executives in his testimony, had long arguments with Jacob's lawyer and at one point argued with the judge (Elizabeth Gonzalez), prompting the judge to reply "Sir, you don't get to argue with me."
There's no doubt that at some point Adelson will wish he just settled the suit but the testimony is out there now for everyone to see and no doubt much more damning evidence will be laid out in a full trial. And if it is proven that The Sands was indeed involved in influence peddling, racketeering and cavorting with known criminals, The Sands could lose its license. It was for a similar reason that MGM had to relinquish its New Jersey license after they were told to cut ties with Pansy Ho, daughter of Stanley Ho, who authorities claim has connections to organized crime.
I reached out to several gaming lawyers for comment but only one responded and said he really didn't want to comment on the case as it was ongoing. He did, however, state that in his opinion the full trial should take place in Nevada since The Sands is an American company, Jacobs was hired in the U.S. and that the only way to ensure a fair trial was on U.S. soil.
OSGA will keep readers informed on any other developments in this case.


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An EUV Spectrometer For Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Author(s): S. Chakrabarti; D. M. Cotton; M. Lampton; O. H. W. Siegmund; R. Link; G. R. Gladstone
We describe a sounding rocket experiment to investigate mechanisms governing the interactions between two of the fundamental components of the solar-terrestrial system: the solar ionizing radiation and the Earth's upper atmosphere. The experiment was designed to characterize the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) emissions resulting from these interactions in terms of physical parameters so that EUV remote sensing can be gainfully employed as a quantitative diagnostic of the terrestrial atmosphere and plasma environment. Although several EUV observations of the Earth's airglow have been made, these measurements have never been complemented with simultaneous measurements of the solar EUV flux, thereby making the interpretations somewhat ambiguous. The payload consisted of (1) a high resolution (-1.5 Å) spectrometer to measure the EUV emissions (980-1360 A) of the Earth's dayglow, (2) a moderate resolution (-10 Å) EUV spectrometer (250-1450 Å), to measure the solar irradiation responsible for the photoelectron production, and (3) a hydrogen Lyman Alpha photometer to monitor the solar irradiance and geocoronal emissions. The experiment was con-ducted from a four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket launched from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia, on September 30, 1988.
Date Published: 27 November 1989
Proc. SPIE 1159, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy and Atomic Physics, (27 November 1989); doi: 10.1117/12.962602
S. Chakrabarti, University of California (United States)
D. M. Cotton, University of California (United States)
M. Lampton, University of California (United States)
O. H. W. Siegmund, University of California (United States)
R. Link, University of California (United States)
G. R. Gladstone, University of California (United States)
EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy and Atomic Physics
Charles J. Hailey; Oswald H. W. Siegmund, Editor(s)


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Large International Study Reveals Spectrum of COVID-19 Brain Complications
Central nervous system disorders are important complications in COVID-19, affecting more than one in 100 hospitalized patients.
Researchers looked at almost 40,000 cases of hospitalized COVID-19 positive patients from seven U.S. and four western European university hospitals.
There were 442 acute neuroimaging findings that were most likely associated with the viral infection, the most common being ischemic stroke.
CHICAGO — The largest multi-institutional international study to date on brain complications of COVID-19 has found that approximately one in 100 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 will likely develop complications of the central nervous system. These can include stroke, hemorrhage, and other potentially fatal complications. The study is being presented tomorrow at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Scott H. Faro, M.D., FASFNR
"Much has been written about the overall pulmonary problems related to COVID-19, but we do not often talk about the other organs that can be affected," said study lead author Scott H. Faro, M.D., FASFNR, professor of radiology and neurology and director of the Division of Neuroradiology/Head & Neck Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. "Our study shows that central nervous system complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in this devastating pandemic."
Dr. Faro initiated the study after discovering that existing literature on central nervous system complications in hospitalized COVID-19 infected patients was based on a relatively small number of cases.
To derive a more complete picture, he and his colleagues analyzed nearly 40,000 cases of hospitalized COVID-19 positive patients from seven U.S. and four western European university hospitals. The patients had been admitted between September 2019 and June 2020. Their average age was 66 years old, and there were twice as many men as women.
The most common cause of admission was confusion and altered mental status, followed by fever. Many of the patients had comorbidities like hypertension, cardiac disease and diabetes.
There were 442 acute neuroimaging findings that were most likely associated with the viral infection. The overall incidence of central nervous system complications in this large patient group was 1.2%.
"Of all the inpatients who had imaging such as MRI or a CT scan of brain, the exam was positive approximately 10% of the time," Dr. Faro said. "The incidence of 1.2% means that a little more than one in 100 patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 are going to have a brain problem of some sort."
The most common complication was ischemic stroke, with an incidence of 6.2%, followed by intracranial hemorrhage (3.72%) and encephalitis (0.47%), an inflammation of the brain.
The researchers also discovered a small percentage of unusual findings, such as acute disseminating encephalomyelitis, an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, a syndrome that mimics many of the symptoms of a stroke.
"It is important to know an accurate incidence of all the major central nervous system complications," Dr. Faro said. "There should probably be a low threshold to order brain imaging for patients with COVID-19."
Co-authors are Arichena Manmatharayan, M.B.B.S., Benjamin Leiby, Ph.D., Neelu Jain, M.D., Feroze B. Mohamed, Ph.D., Kiran S. Talekar, M.D., Amish Doshi, M.D., M.B.B.S., Ivan Jambor, M.D., Ph.D., Chang Sanders, M.D., Mark Finkelstein, M.D., Stephane Kremer, M.D., Ph.D., Francois Lercy, M.D., Brenden Lindgren, D.O., Nathalia M. Figueidero, M.D., Varun Sethi, M.D., Simonetta Gerevini, M.D., Angela Napolitano, M.D., Rajan Jain, M.D., Siddhanth Dogra, B.S., Jay Pillai, M.D., Dan Ryan, M.D., Rolf Jager, FRCR, Francesco Carletti, M.D., Ph.D., Asim Mian, M.D., Artem Kaliev, Priya Anand, M.D., Courtney Takahashi, M.D., AK Murat, M.D., Rivka Colen, M.D., and Francesca Pizzini, M.D., Ph.D.
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iglobes 2023 social sciences seminar series
The sessions will take place on Wednesdays from 1 – 2pm at the University of Arizona, Marshall Building 845 N Park Avenue, 5th floor Room 531.
SESSION 1: february 1, 2023
COMMONING FOR WATER SECURITY IN THE ALPS (FRANCE). REVEALING PLURALISM WITHIN THE COMMONS
Alpine regions, known as the "water tower of Europe", are particularly affected by climate change (Hock et al. 2019): as water scarcity episodes become more frequent, water use conflicts emerge in specific places and times. This illustrates the need to find solutions that are not only corrective and punctual to sustainably articulate water resources and uses.
The objective of this research is to question the capacity of common management (Ostrom 1990), and more specifically of commoning (Linebaugh 2008), for the definition of "securing water paths" i.e. sustainable and adaptive scenarios articulating water-related uses, resources and infrastructures in the Vercors High Plateaux Nature Reserve (French Alps), a 17,000 ha protected area, where landscapes have been shaped to a large extent by age-old pastoralist activity (e.g. opening up of landscapes). By referring to a "social-ecological economics of water" (Buchs et al. 2020) and to mixed analytical-deliberative methods (Allain and Salliou, 2022), we developed a collaborative research to reveal pluralism within the common. Qualitative and quantitative data collection is coupled with the Q methodology (Grimsrud et al. 2020). Three visions of the common expressed by water users are then translated into scenarios.
Arnaud Buchs is an Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies, Grenoble Applied Economy Lab, University Grenoble Alpes. His research articulates an approach at the crossroads of ecological economics and institutional economics and is based on several research fields (Spain, Morocco, Switzerland, Australia, French Alps). He focuses on the analysis of change, diversity and complexity of institutions that govern water resources and their uses. He has developed a comprehensive approach to water scarcity and, since 2020, has initiated research on the common management of water resources in the French Alps. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Développement durable & territoires [Sustainability & territories] and co-director of the master's program Transition écologiques [Ecological transitions].
SESSION 2: february 15, 2023
LIVING LANDSCAPES: SENSORY APPROACHES TO RALATIONALITY IN SICILIAN OLIVICULTURE
This talk presents the case of Sicilian oliviculture to unsettle a landscape, and a people, too often considered timeless and unchanging. In a context of historically entrenched economic underdevelopment and environmental ruination exacerbated by climate change, centering life and liveliness troubles a simplistic focus on impossibility and apocalypse.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork with olive growers and olive oil producers in Sicily, Italy, I offer the concept of "living landscapes" to conversations about multispecies relationality and, in Anna Tsing's words, "the possibilities of life in capitalist ruins" (2015). Sicilian oliviculturalists refer to olive oil as alive (l'olio è vivo) and to "living the land" (vivere la terra). In the current moment, what does it mean to be alive, to live a place, and for a landscape to be living?
I situate a discussion of these questions in a broader discussion of care and multispecies relationality in economically precarious and environmentally ruinous contexts. I include a methodological discussion of sensory anthropology as I used it, and how relationality is embodied and sensed through place and through interactions with specific plants, landscapes, and people. In so doing I maintain attention on the local impacts of global systems of economic and political power.
Amanda Hilton is a Research Scientist at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the University of Arizona. She is an applied environmental anthropologist and political ecologist who works in Sicily, Italy and the US Southwest and Southeast. Her research addresses processes of human-environment interaction and relationality through place-making, focusing on agricultural practices and other livelihood strategies. She is interested in how people and socioecological systems are positioned within and respond to global political economic forces, and with what effects.
SESSION 3: march 1, 2023
GIANT TELESCOPES ON POST-COLONIAL TERRITORIES: A HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY AS FIELD SCIENCE (HAWAI'I, CHILE, CANARY ISLANDS)
From the 1950s, various transnational groups spearheaded efforts to build new giant telescopes because of recent developments in research and instrumentation. The decade saw the development of a new subfield per se of astronomy, the science of "site selection", around the figure of Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, based at the University of Arizona from 1960. One particularity of the science of site selection was that it was no longer constrained by geography: for the first time, astronomers agreed that the planet was the limit.
At the beginning of the 1960s, drawing on a specific set of instruments, protocols and objectives, Kuiper and his colleagues "discovered" the two best sites in the world for optical astronomy: Hawai'i's volcano Mauna Kea, and the peaks of Chile's Atacama desert. At the same time, the Spaniard Francisco Sánchez Martínez identified what would be recognized as the third best site, Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma, Canary Islands. To this day, all major optical telescope projects are still sited on one of these three locations.
The main premise of my work is that cutting-edge astronomical observation is made possible not only by the exceptional quality of a site, but also by a complex and mostly invisible social infrastructure which brings together labor, the economy and post-colonial politics. Through a material history of science and an intersectional sociology of labor, this talk will describe the regimes of land tenure and the social division of work that allowed these instruments of big science to thrive in post-colonial settings. In particular, it will study the frequent controversies surrounding new telescope projects on all three of the sites, which reached a recent climax with the 2019 standoff on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, about the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project.
Pascal Marichalar is a sociologist and historian of science and labor, based at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France. On his current research theme, he published an article in The Journal of Pacific History (2021) and another in History and Anthropology (2021). He previously studied issues of industrial disease and working-class history, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (2017). His last book is Qui a tué les verriers de Givors? Une enquête de sciences sociales (Paris, La Découverte, 2017).
session 4: march 15, 2023
WHITE MIDDLE-CLASS LADIES? CATEGORIES, SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND WOMEN'S SUBJECTIVITIES (DAVIS, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA)
How do people negotiate the intensification of identity discourses at the turn of the 2020s, in a North American context of heightened political fractures and economic inequalities?
Drawing on a seventeen months' PhD fieldwork, this presentation is built on recurring stereotypes and figures of excess [Cohen, 1998] heard during the ethnography ("old white lady", "white suburban middle-class moms"). These stereotypes are conducive to contextualizing the research while situating its location amidst regional variations (rural California vs the coastline, Northern California vs Southern California, California vs the rest of the US).
After tracking the historical genealogies of such stereotypes and, more broadly, of the notion "whiteness", this paper will delve into the ways in which they are used in situation today. The aim is to enlighten new social divisions around education, in order to then outline the profile of the "10%'s elite" [Piketty, 2019].
Marie Melody Vidal is a PhD student in Anthropology at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris (EHESS), in the Center for North American Studies. She is also part of the Contributing Editors Program of the Society for Cultural Anthropology.
SESSION 5: APRIL 5, 2023
DISEASE, MEMORY, AND OPPOSITION IN EASTERN ARABIA
As communities tried to make sense of COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021, media outlets around the world reached for illustrative examples of past pandemics. In Qatif, a city on Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf coast, memories of a 1970 quarantine surfaced in local media as the pandemic unfolded. This presentation investigates why COVID-19 prompted public remembering of a state-imposed cholera quarantine in Qatif in 1970 by reconstructing formative assemblages of disease and popular politics in postwar Arabia.
Laura Frances Goffman is an Assistant Professor at the School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies at the University of Arizona. She is a historian of health in the modern Middle East. Her research focuses on the intersections of public health, empire, state building, and social change in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. She is committed to bringing the Gulf region into discussions of world history, especially narratives of how migration, gender, citizenship, and state formation intersect with the movement of disease.
SESSION 6: April 19, 2023
WHEN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IS WHATEVER YOU WANT: A CASE STUDY OF THE COLLISION OF INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE AND ENVIRONMENTALISM IN A CALIFORNIA CITY
The environmental justice frame (EJF) is a key feature of successful grassroots mobilization against the uneven distribution of environmental problems. At the same time, it is increasingly significant to academics, governments, industries, and NGO's who are promoting various versions of "just transitions," often using infrastructure projects that should usher in a more sustainable, and supposedly socially minded, future in the context of climate change. Through an ethnographic case study of desalination (producing potable seawater) in California, this talk problematizes both popular and academic manifestations of the EJF. Findings indicate community groups and non-governmental organizations make normative environmental justice arguments about the high costs of desalination, community disruption, and industrial burden.
By contrast, organized labor and public sector actors align with the private sector to promote desalination, using a competing series of arguments about local independence, regional responsibility, and employment. Disentangling these discourses and position-takings, the talk describes how claims in favor of desalination are a part of what this paper calls a cooptation of the environmental justice frame. As such, the talk will begin a discussion regarding the extent to which this phenomenon may have wide reaching consequences for climate politics (e.g., energy sector debates), because it occurs in an increasingly relevant context, specifically the public-private partnership infrastructure financing models used for large scale climate adaptive projects. Linking to recent discussions about the Green New Deal's techno-optimism, eco-apartheid, and the return of high modernism, the analysis presented observes how infrastructure initiatives can ultimately facilitate community division in favor of a class bias for luxury commodities. Interpreting this socio-ecological problem through a political economic lens, this research calls scholars, activists, and decision-makers to attend to how environmental (in)justice politics can take on surprising meanings amid the expansion of financial capitalism.
Brian O'Neill is a Research Scholar at the College of Global Futures, School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. His research and teaching draw primarily on engagements with environmental sociology, political ecology, and political economy. The underlying question throughout his empirical work is: what is the nature of the recent, intense interest in "green" practices invoked by climate adaptation strategies? His research has appeared in such publications as Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, International Sociology, the Journal of World-Systems Research, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and VertigO: La revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement.
session 7: May 3, 2023
SOCIAL NORMS AND COMMUNITY ENFORCEMENT OF COOPERATION
Social norms are a powerful tool in influencing prosocial and pro-environmental behavior. They represent informal rules of behavior in groups and societies that lead individuals to behave in a certain manner due to peer pressure. Social norms have a normative component, which represents the appropriate social behavior of the reference group, and a descriptive component, which represents the effective behavior of the reference group. Despite the numerous articles about social norms and their implementation, our knowledge of the various mechanisms and dynamics associated with them is still incomplete. We conducted a laboratory experiment to empirically measure the evolution of social norms and cooperative behavior over time in different frameworks. We implemented different treatments by varying the composition of the groups, giving unequal types to the participants. We also incorporated a communication mechanism that reduces uncertainties and improves participants' coordination. Our experimentation allows us to answer three questions. First, we looked at how social norms of cooperation change over time as a function of inequality and communication. We found an immediate negative impact of the inequality on the social norm, while the communication supports the norms over time. Then, we studied how inequality and communication affect the relationship between social norms and cooperation. We found that inequality changes the way in which the components of the social norm are used in the cooperative decision process. Lastly, we examined how social norms can predict cooperative behavior. Here, we were able to predict 75% of the behavior in each treatment with a model that integrates the costs of not respecting the perceived social norms. The predictive ability of the model for all treatments highlights the fact that communication mechanisms can be summarized as a change in perceived social norms. Finally, our model allowed us to simulate the effect of implementing norm-nudges by revealing the local social norm, which supports the idea that social norms could be an equilibrium selection mechanism in a multi-equilibrium framework.
Boris Wieczorek is a PhD student at the Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory at Grenoble Alpes University. He is a Behavioral and Experimental Economist with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and is currently in a his final year working on the relationship between social norms and heterogeneities to address climate change issues. He studied how social norms evolve and explain prosocial and pro-environmental behaviors over time in different environments, through online and laboratory experiments. This year, he is at the University of Arizona as a visiting scholar, applying his work in the field by implementing Norms-Nudge to reduce water consumption in Arizona's drought area.
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Eight years of Obama's "Happy Holiday" message is finally over.
After eight years of Obama trying to erase Christmas form the holiday map, the Trump family is reversing course and bringing the Christmas spirit back to the White House.
First Lady Melania Trump is not only decorating the White House with amazing ornaments and Christmas trees, but she is even showcasing a nativity scene. Liberal looney heads are sure to explode in outrage.
Melania Trump released a video of the White House decorations.
The Trump family also released their official Christmas Card, signed by Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and Barron Trump.
The card reads: "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year".


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I went to see the movie in 2016 and left a bit disappointed. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. I didn't feel a huge connection to the characters and, excusing the pun, the magic of the old films just wasn't there.
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Well, after this movie I can safely say this franchise is down the toilet and really should have ended after Deathly Hallows.
I know this review may irk and annoy some huge 'Potterheads' and fans out there, and I can respect your opinion entirely, but I am genuinely writing this review as a massive Harry Potter fan who loves this world, so hear me out before lighting the torches and getting the pitchforks. This movie is very bad and almost a bit of a slap in the face to not only the fans but to the history and world of Harry Potter itself (or as it's trying to market now as 'Wizarding World').
It truly is an enigma as to why these movies don't work as strongly as the predecessors, especially seeing as J.K. Rowling is so heavily involved in the writing and producing. The movies almost feel like a fan-fiction than developing the world, adding unnecessary characters and retcons to have things more interconnected seems poorly written and thought out. And the reason why Dumbledore and Grindelwald can't even fight is unneeded when they already had a perfectly understandable reason in the book.
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Charlotte Motor Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway open campgrounds to Florence evacuees
Author: WCNC Staff, WXIA Staff
Published: 1:42 PM EDT September 11, 2018
Updated: 1:51 PM EDT September 11, 2018
Charlotte Motor Speedway and the Atlanta Motor Speedway will open their campgrounds for evacuees heading inland from Hurricane Florence.
With severe weather in the forecast for other southeastern states, accommodations will be available as long as possible prior to potential landfall. Evacuees will have access to bathhouse facilities on speedway property.
CHARLOTTE MOTOR SPEEDWAY INFORMATION:
"While the Charlotte area is not completely out of the region that could face the effects of Hurricane Florence, for many of our neighbors to the east it is a safer alternative or a good stopping point as they seek shelter elsewhere," said Greg Walter, executive vice president of Charlotte Motor Speedway. "We look forward to welcoming anyone who needs a place to stop and to showing them the hospitality they deserve as we ride out this storm together.
Evacuees are asked to check in at the Camping World Racing Resort office at the Rock City campground, which can be accessed at the entrance to zMAX Dragway, starting as early as Tuesday at noon. After-hour arrivals should call the speedway's Guest Services department at 704-507-5612.
ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY INFORMATION
Last year, the speedway opened their sites free of charge to evacuees of Hurricane Irma. Now, they're doing the same thing for Florence evacuees.
The campgrounds are equipped to handle thousands of campers during their annual NASCAR weekend, they said in a release. Once again, the campground will be free of charge for dry RV and tent campers in the Legends Campground. For full hookup sites, it will cost $20 a night.
Located adjacent to the campgrounds, the speedway will open The Rinnai Shower camper bath house that will allow evacuees free access to hot showers and restrooms during their stay.
ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY LEGENDS CAMPGROUND
Those interested in RV or tent camping for free, enter the Legends campground at Entrance "E" off GA Highway 19/41. The campground is on the right.
From I-75 and GA Highway 20, campers should see signs to AMS and follow Lower Woolsey road to Entrance "H" and the Speedway Credential Building. Make a right into the speedway's property and then another immediate right onto Richard Petty Boulevard. Follow Richard Petty Boulevard and turn left into Entrance "G." The Legends campground will be on the right.
MORE INFO: Atlanta Motor Speedway opens campground to Hurricane Florence evacuees


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CWD Real Estate sees silver lining in aftermath of violent protests
Ehren Wynder
Volunteers clean up at the CWD building, 50 Louis St. NW. Courtesy CWD Real Estate
CWD Real Estate, which owns 18 buildings in downtown Grand Rapids, saw the silver lining in the aftermath of Saturday night's riot.
Sam Cummings, managing partner with CWD, said he was "mad as hell" Saturday night and Sunday morning, but witnessing the community outreach and cleanup afterward restored his faith in West Michigan.
"That is not who we are, and that was confirmed by talking to some folks on the police force," Cummings said. "Who we were was (Sunday)."
The city of Grand Rapids is under curfew following Saturday's violent protests downtown.
Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss on Sunday signed a proclamation declaring a state of civil emergency and enacted a curfew in the city of Grand Rapids for the next 48 hours.
"Our city and our partners have taken numerous actions to respond to and protect against this threat," Bliss said. "We implore our residents and visitors to abide by this curfew so we can restore order and protect our residents."
The curfew started at 7 p.m. Sunday until 5 a.m. Monday, and it will be enacted for one more night, from 7 p.m. Monday to 5 a.m. Tuesday. It prevents community members from walking, running, loitering, standing or motoring upon any alley, street, highway, public property or vacant premises within the city of Grand Rapids. Community members may travel to and from work during the curfew.
The curfew followed Saturday's night of violent protests and civil unrest downtown that resulted in substantial property damage and threats of harm to community members and public safety officers. Those acts followed a peaceful protest that started at Rosa Parks Circle earlier Saturday, where city officials estimated more than 4,000 people participated.
Similar protests, both violent and peaceful, have broken out across the country in response to the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25.
Cummings said by noon Sunday, except for the boarding where storefront windows had been broken, one wouldn't be able to tell the violence ever took place. Local contractors told CWD they were mobilized early Sunday morning, people from all around West Michigan showed up with brooms, detergents, garbage cans and other supplies to take part in the cleanup, and even restaurants were on the ground passing out free food to volunteers.
At press time, CWD was just beginning to calculate the property damage, but Cummings said many local contractors offered to volunteer their work free of charge. It will take some time to fully restore all of the storefronts downtown because they all have custom-sized glass, Cummings said.
"What you may see is pieces of storefronts being restored first so businesses still have some visibility," he said. "We're staying in our lane and trying to get the business open and viable as quickly as we possibly can."
Cummings emphasized while what happened Saturday night was not unique to Grand Rapids, the Grand Rapids community exhibited a unique resilience.
"The peaceful gatherings are a justified, honorable and rightful thing to have occur," Cummings said. "Those things should be protected, but when they escalate to damaging small businesses — we got guys who have had their entire inventory wiped out — when they escalate to damaging other people's property or their employees, it's not acceptable."
During a media briefing Sunday, city officials provided a recap of Saturday night's events:
No injuries to community members or sworn officers
No loss of life
Seven arrests
100 businesses impacted
Seven vehicle fires
Three structure fires
Several dumpster/trash fires
Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Payne said he appreciated the overwhelming community support shown to his officers over the past 24 hours.
"Public safety is our top priority, and we are committed to keeping everyone safe at all times — especially under challenging circumstances," he said. "I want to assure the community that we are using all of our tools to identify the perpetrators responsible for last night's violence, put their faces out in public in the coming days and ask for the community's help to identify them.
"What happened last night was totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated," City Manager Mark Washington said. "Our law enforcement officers will use every means of appropriate force to prevent another night of unrest."
Washington addressed concerns alleging the Grand Rapids Police Department did not do enough to stop the violence and did not make more arrests.
"Our police headquarters was under attack last night," he said. "Protesters were trying to rush in and disrupt our command center. Our officers and partner agencies were focused on public safety and keeping protesters from impacting those operations.
"I am proud of our police department's response to the events that transpired (Saturday night), and I am grateful for their efforts to prevent injuries or loss of life, and they did this in a professional and respectful manner."
Anyone with information about the criminal acts that took place Saturday are asked to contact the Grand Rapids Police Department at (616) 456-3400 or Silent Observer at 774-2345 or silentobserver.org.
Some of the businesses/buildings that were damaged include:
Madcap Coffee
Parsley Mediterranean Bar & Grille
Sundance Grill and Bar
Cinco de Mayo Mexican Grill & Bar
Kilwins
Biggby
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Grand Rapids Public Library main branch
Kendall College of Art & Design
MeXo
The Dog Pit
Big O' Cafe
Vault of Midnight
Michigan First Credit Union
One Trick Pony Grill & Taproom
Grand Rapids Children's Museum
Sweet Yo's
Angel's Thai Cafe
Gina's Boutique
Kent County Building
Kent County Courthouse
GRPD headquarters
Trellis (Herman Miller dealer showroom)
Family & Pediatric Eye Care
Business Journal reporter Rachel Watson contributed to this story.
Eric Payne
CWD Real Estate
Sam Cummings
Mark Washington
Mayor Rosalynn Bliss
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"I'm a bridge guy, not a wall guy," billionaire businessman Sam Zell told attendees at Nareit REITweek 2018 Investor Conference on Wednesday, June 6.
He was responding to a question from Nareit CEO Steven A. Wechsler about immigration.
Zell, the son of Polish immigrants who grew up in Chicago, said that even though immigration has become a "distraction" in the U.S., this country was built on immigration and cultural assimilation.
He added that his company had built CBX, a bridge between Chula Vista, California, and the Tijuana International Airport in Mexico, in which some two million people pay to cross a year.
One of President Donald Trump's key desires is to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico as a way, he believes, to reduce illegal immigration at the United States' southern border with Mexico.
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Poland to build its first e-car plant next year
(PAP) mr/jch/md December 15, 2020
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The Polish government has chosen Jaworzno, in the southern industrial region of Silesia, as the site for the country's first electric vehicle factory.
Construction on the plant will begin next year, and by the autumn of 2024 the first vehicles produced by ElectroMobility Poland, a state-owned company, should be rolling off the production line, the firm said in a press release.
The Jaworzno plant will be located in the Katowice Special Economic Zone where the automotive sector accounts for 60 percent of investments.
The official green light for the plant came after an agreement was signed on Tuesday by Michal Kurtyka, the climate and environment minister, representatives of ElectroMobility Poland (EMP) and Silesia province officials, according to the EMP press release.
"The investment is an important element of the plan for Silesia and allows us to develop an innovative industry that creates permanent jobs in the region," Kurtyka said.
He added that the project, due to its strategic importance, would receive the support of the government.
"A state that thinks ahead is able to perceive market 'momentum' and define strategic areas that will enable the country's economic development," said the minister.
EMP CEO Piotr Zaremba, quoted in the company's press release, said that production of the Polish made e-car models under the brand name Izera would be launched in 2024. He added that thanks to the investment, 15,000 new jobs would be created.
In late July, EMP unveiled two e-car prototypes in hatchback and SUV versions.
ElectroMobility Poland was established by four Polish energy companies - Enea, Energa, PGE and Tauron - in which the Polish government holds dominant or considerable stakes.
Tags: Poland, Silesia, electric cars, E-Car, Jaworzno, Factory, ElectroMobility Poland, plant, Michal Kurtyka
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