(April 23, 2018) -- Leveraging best practices from research-intensive universities across the country, the newly-created UTSA Office of the Vice President for Research, Economic Development and Knowledge Enterprise (VPREDKE), has created its first Research External Advisory Council (REAC). The group, comprised of accomplished professionals in their fields – industry, military, nonprofit, cybersecurity, biosciences, and research institutions, both locally and nationally – met on Friday, April 20 on campus to kick off an exploration of UTSA's research enterprise, find new avenues to expand research funding and partnerships, and raise our profile beyond the region.
The VPREDKE executive team will present the structure and activities of the offices that comprise the new division: Michelle Stevenson, Research Integrity; Beth Manning, Research Operations and Finance; Jaclyn Shaw, Research Support; Christine Burke, Commercialization and Innovation; and Robert McKinley, Institute for Economic Development (IED). Key research strategic initiatives, such as the National Security Collaboration Center, NRUF and Carnegie Classification, will be discussed and the day will conclude with campus and research laboratory tours.
"We carefully selected council members who could not only assess our research enterprise objectively, but who could also bring new approaches beyond the academic perspective we possess. The REAC will evaluate our programs and output, and in the coming year, advise us on ways to best expand our research, relationships and funding dollars, particularly as we align our operations with the Institute of Economic Development, given our new structure. Collectively, we will define the knowledge enterprise at UTSA and how best to engage to benefit our students, faculty, staff and partners," explained Bernard Arulanandam, Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor in Biosciences and interim vice president for research, economic development and knowledge enterprise.
UTSA's total research expenditures increased from US $56.8 million in FY 2016 to US $68.1 million in FY 2017, an increase of 19.9 percent. The university's restricted research expenditures grew from US $36.4 million in FY 2016 to US $40.1 million in FY 2017. UTSA is ranked among the top four universities in the nation under 50 years old, according to Times Higher Education.
Learn more about UTSA Research.


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February 22, 2015 | General News
We Have Nothing Against Buhari, Says Borno CAN
Source: thewillnigeria.com
BEVERLY HILLS, February 22, (THEWILL) – The Borno State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Sunday declared that it had nothing against the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari.
It also denied the allegation of victimisation of Christians who are sympathetic to the APC flagbearer, saying the allegation was not only false but "baseless, fictitious and unfounded."
A statement titled, Response To The Wild Threat of Allegations of Threat to Christians in the State" issued by the Borno CAN chairman, Rev ( Dr.) Titus Pona, said: "The attention of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Borno state chapter has been drawn to a publication making the rounds in several of our national dailies and other social media alleging that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan bribed Pastors in the Nation with the sum of seven Million Naira and that this money was channeled through the National CAN's Office, for Pastor's to help campaign for his re-election in the next polls scheduled for March 28, 2015.
" It further alleged that each of the State chairmen of CAN received three million Naira for same purpose to campaign for PDP against APC."
Quoting the allegation credited to one Pastor Musa Ali Kallamu Dikwa further, Pona said: "They are threatening Christians in Borno state that they will deal with anyone anybody who refused to vote for Jonathan. And that the CAN officials are now campaigning that if Buhari emerges as President, he will Islamise Nigeria, and that Osinbajo collected money from Islamic world and that the same Osinbajo will resign soon after Buhari wins to give way for Tinubu to emerge Vice President."
According to Pona : "Ordinarily, we would have ignored such wild allegation but for the specific mention of Borno state in the write-up. Such allegation can easily mislead well meaning persons and perhaps vulnerable members of the public.
"Pastor Musa Kallamu Ali Dikwa has been a charlatan for quite sometime. A recent convert from Islam to Christianity and we thank God for that , however he was not properly discipled. He took advantage of that to deceive several people especially to get the sympathy of Southern Christians. He is well known for that.
"We are therefore not surprised that he agreed to be a willing tool to be used to cause disaffection among the general populace. His claims to have been an associate pastor with EYN Farm Centre in Maiduguri is also untrue. Available records reveal that he was never a part of the staff of EYN.
"For the records, CAN Borno State chapter has no knowledge of such wild allegation and did not collect any three million naira
" As a body, the Christian Association of Nigeria is non-partisan and we encourage everyone to belong to a party of his or her choice since we have Christians in all parties.
"Pastor Kallamu is not living in Maiduguri. For some years now while in Maiduguri he was the leader of a Mission Organisation known as KANURI GOSPEL MISSION, we do not know when he became the Executive Director of a non-existent Voice of Northern Christian Movement; maybe for such a propaganda.
"We urge the public to be wary of such characters in the likes of Pastor Musa Ali Kallamu. We urge well meaning Christians to pray for him pleading for God's mercies on his behalf."

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today i thought i had ruined my frida painting (read her bio here). it was a scary few moments.
i should have left the studio well before i made the mistake, as i was making mistakes left and right it seems, including spilling almost a half bottle of high flow acrylics. it was one of golden brands small bottles, but that stuff is worth it's weight in gold, so i used a brush and mopped it up and got most of it back into the bottle. not wasting that stuff, no way, no how!
but, what i want to show is the before the mistake photo and the after the mistake photo.
first, i have to tell you that i thought it was a goner, thats how much a difference my oops made! i was trying to darken some areas of her face, and just made a yellow mess of it all. thats when the bottle tipped over and i had to clean that up, and it had dried too much on her face by the time i was done. instead of freaking out too much, though i was freaking, i decided to mix up some more color and have another go at the skin, putting on another layer of color to rectify the yellow.
i need to fix her right cheek facing us, as it's a little too dark, but by the time i got this far fixed, i was pretty much done with the day. i wanted out of the studio before anything else happened!
sweet hubby bought an acrylic artist magazine at the flea market on sunday and i was able to get some ideas about fixing the shading in her eyes. i'm thrilled with how they have come out so far!
just a few little fixes now, and she will be complete.


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How to use Whatsapp on your PC.
Whatsapp is intended to be used on a mobile device and not on a PC however there is a work around to get it up and running on your desktop or laptop.
Since whatsapp was intended for a mobile device you would need a mobile player or emulator installed on your PC first.
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Victor Alexandre Puiseux
Born: 16 April 1820 in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, France
Died: 9 September 1883 in Frontenay, Jura, France
Victor Puiseux's parents were Louis Victor Puiseux (1783-1858) and Louise Neveux (1792-1835). Louis Victor Puiseux was born in Paris on 23 June 1783 and became a tax collector. Let us explain what this job entailed. In France at this time there were indirect taxes on leather, tallow, starch, gold and silver items, and iron items. Louis Victor was an accountant whose job was to collect the taxes on these goods. He married Louise Neveux at Thiancourt on 12 May 1813. Louise, the daughter of Jean-Nicolas Neveux, a doctor in Pont-à-Mousson who had died in the 1790s, and Thérèse Husson, was born on 6 February 1792. Louis-Victor and Louise had three children, François Léon Puiseux born on 8 April 1814 in Jumilhac, Aquitaine, Victor Alexandre Puiseux the subject of this biography, and a daughter born in 1832 who died within a year. François Léon Puiseux studied at the colleges of Pont-à-Mousson, Metz and Henri IV in Paris, and entered the École normale in Paris in 1834. He became an historian and a professor at the Lycée in Caen.
The Puiseux family moved to Longwy in Lorraine when Victor was only three years old, his father Louis-Victor being posted there to collect taxes. When Victor was four years old his mother tried to teach him to read but at first he refused to learn. His mother read him only the first half of various stories so that he had to learn to read to discover the way the plot ended. After some time when he continued to refuse to learn, saying he preferred to imagine the end, suddenly his attitude changed and he quickly learnt. From this time on was enthusiastic about learning. In 1826 Louis Victor Puiseux was posted to Pont-à-Mousson and his son Victor was brought up in that region of France. He attended the Collège de Pont-à-Mousson and while he was there his brother, who had completed his schooling in Paris and had just been accepted for admission to the École Normale, persuaded Victor also to complete his schooling in Paris.
In 1834 Victor went to Paris and became a boarder at the Collège Rollin. This college was founded as the collège Sainte-Barbe in 1821 and renamed the Collège Rollin in 1830; it is now the Collège-Lycée Jacques-Decour on the Avenue Trudaine. At the Collège Rollin, Puiseux attended lecture courses by Charles Sturm on special mathematics. He worked very hard, his only recreation being long walks that he loved. He was also visited frequently by his brother who was by this time studying at the École Normale. While he was in Paris, he received news that his mother had died. She died on 17 February 1835, a few days after her 43rd birthday, from a chest infection. Puiseux's father asked his widowed sister-in-law Elizabeth if she would keep house for him and she agreed. They married two years later.
Shortly after his mother's death Puiseux decided to stop boarding at the Collège Rollin but to continue studying there as an external student. He took a small room on the Rue Saint-Jacques. In 1836 Puiseux sat the Concours général, the most prestigious academic competition for high school students in France. He received the First Prize in physics in this competition and the Second Prize in mathematics. He was ranked fourth in the entrance examinations for the Naval College but turned down the offer of a place and sat the entrance examinations for the École Normale Supérieure. He performed outstandingly in these examinations but, being only 16 years old, he was not allowed to enter the École so had to spend another year in Paris. At this stage he was on his own in Paris since his brother had completed his studies and left the city.
In the autumn of 1837, he was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure, ranked as the top student in the entrance examinations. He became friends with the moral philosopher Ernest Bersot (1816-1880) who had entered the École in 1836. He also became friends with the mathematicians Charles Briot, who entered the École in 1838, and with Jean-Claude Bouquet who entered the École in 1839. Although passionately interested in science, Puiseux also spent much time in philosophical and religious discussions with his fellow students. William Fox writes [4]:-
While a student at the normal school he took part in the religious discussions of the day, displaying strong convictions and a keen intelligence. He seconded the efforts of his friend and comrade in the school, Pierre Olivaint, founding with him a Society of St Vincent de Paul among the students and devoting a large part of his vacations to works of charity. His kindness, his charity, and above all his simple, unaffected modesty overshadowed even his talents.
We note that Pierre Olivaint (1816-1871) entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1836 where he studied history. He later entered the Jesuit order.
In 1840 Puiseux was placed first in his final examination at the École Normale Supérieure and spent another year studying in Paris. He took advantage of it to complete his mathematical training advised by world class mathematicians. He was asked at the same time to lecture to pupils of the École Normale Supérieure who had been his fellow students a few months earlier. They, for the most part, were older that him. He showed admirable qualities as a teacher at this time, displaying the talents he was to develop later in teaching courses at the Sorbonne. His thesis, Sur l'invariabilité des grands axes des orbites des planètes, thèse d'astronomie présentée à la Faculté des sciences de Paris, le 21 août 1841 Ⓣ, was on celestial mechanics and the stability of the solar system. In it he investigated questions which had been examined earlier by Laplace, Lagrange and Poisson. On 21 August 1841 he defended his thesis and was awarded his doctorate.
From 1841 until 1845 Puiseux taught at the Collège Royal in Rennes. He had lots of free time and spent much of it walking in the countryside, enjoying nature but also thinking deeply about mathematics and mathematical astronomy. He appears to have been very sociable when in company but also enjoyed spending much time on his own. He remained at Rennes until 1845 when he was appointed professor of mathematics in the newly created Faculty of Science in Besançon. Another scientist appointed at the same time was the chemist Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville (1818-1881) and Puiseux quickly became friends with his colleague Deville. It was at this time that he developed a passion for climbing, spending the summer vacations in the Alps mountaineering without a guide. During this period Puiseux published a series of more than ten papers in Liouville's Journal. He wrote on geometry, where he discovered new properties of evolutes and involutes and, mechanics where he studied the conical pendulum, the tautochrone and similar topics.
On 2 October 1849 he married Laure Louise Fébronie Jannet at Versailles. Laure had been born at Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais on 29 April 1830, the daughter of Jean-Louis François Jannet (1795-1861), head of the Lycée of Versailles, and Sophie Fébronie Joseph Wallon (1811-1892). Victor and Laure Puiseux had six children: Paul Louis Puiseux (born 18 February 1851, died aged 14 on 6 January 1866); Louise Marie Laure Puiseux (born 28 December 1852, died aged 21 on 11 May 1874); Marie Fébronie Puiseux (born 20 July 1853, died aged 18 on 31 March 1872); Pierre Henri Puiseux (born 20 July 1855, became a mathematicians and astronomer with a biography in this archive, died 28 September 1928); André Victor Puiseux (born 11 September 1857, died aged 3 weeks later on 1 October 1857); and André Paul Puiseux (born 22 November 1858, died in 1931). We note that Puiseux's wife Laure died on 2 December 1858, aged 28, as a result of child birth. At this time the family lived at 64 rue de l'Ouest. Sophie Jannet, Laure's mother, became a widow in 1861 and, having no other family, she helped out looking after Puiseux and his children.
Puiseux was appointed to the École Normale Supérieure as an assistant lecturer in differential calculus in 1849, replacing Jean-Marie Duhamel. He worked at the École Normale Supérieure during the years 1849 to 1855 and again between 1862 and 1868. His task consisted of supplementing the lectures of the professors, such as Duhamel, Liouville, and Cauchy, set exercises for students, correct them, explained them, and show where the ideas lead. He, with the other assistant lecturers, was also responsible for the entrance examinations at the École. At the same time, of course, he had to carry out his own researches. Writing about his time teaching at the École Normale, Felix Tisserand writes [7]:-
All admired the elegance, the clarity, the rigour, and the sobriety of his lectures. A difficult proof made by him on the blackboard was presented with such naturalness and simplicity that the good students wondered if they could not have found it themselves.
Jules Tannery was one of Puiseux's students at the École Normale. He describes being in Puiseux's lectures in [6]:-
His physical appearance was strange: a brush of red hair, dishevelled around the large forehead of a thinker, blue eyes extraordinarily sharp and brilliant ..., his appearance a little stooped, a certain embarrassment of his own person, an intimidating modesty; a voice a little shrill with a mellow lustre. He required respect from all: everyone always spoke to him with deference, did anyone ever dare to think otherwise of him? ... His patience and politeness were admirable. At that time, the pupils sometimes responded with absurdities when they were questioned about something they understood wrongly: Puiseux contented himself with saying in a very gentle tone: "I do not know if I have heard correctly, or if I am wrong, but it seems to me that what you have said is not entirely accurate."
In 1850 he published his thesis Sur l'invariabilité des grands axes des orbites des planètes Ⓣ, written ten years before. Also in 1850 he published, in the Journal de mathématiques pures et appliquées, the paper Recherches sur les fonctions algébriques Ⓣ and, in the following year in the same journal, Nouvelles recherches sur les fonctions algébriques Ⓣ.
In 1853-54 he was acted as a substitute for Jacques Binet in astronomy at the Collège de France. From 1855 to 1859 he worked at the Paris Observatory where he was director of the Bureau des calculs. He replaced Cauchy, who was ill, giving the lecture course on celestial mechanics at the Faculty of Science in Paris in 1856-57. In 1857 he was appointed professor of mathematical astronomy at the Faculty of Science, having earlier taught courses there for Le Verrier after he succeeded to Cauchy's position. He also taught at the Sorbonne where he substituted for Charles Sturm and for Le Verrier. From 1868 to 1872 Puiseux held a post at the Bureau de Longitudes.
In the 1860s every summer Puiseux took his five children on vacation to the French mountains where they all enjoyed very long walks. Some years they went to the Alps, some years to the Pyrenees. While on these holidays, Puiseux would write to Sophie Jannet, Laure's mother, and these letters show how grateful he was for her support for his family. Paul Puiseux died of typhoid fever in January 1866 while the family were living at 64 Rue de l'Ouest. Jules Tannery writes in [6] about Puiseux's reaction to the tragic death of his son:-
His conscience was excessive; it was said that, struck by the singularly cruel mourning, he had come to the École, at the usual hour, in spite of everything, to fulfil what he regarded as his duty, and he had to turn away to hide his tears. Those who saw the tears of this man always in control of himself, so hard on himself, have retained this memory full of anguish.
Soon after, the family moved to 81 Boulevard Saint-Michel, where Sophie Jannet also took an apartment. She died at the age of 93 in 1874. In 1867, now with four children, Puiseux went for the summer holiday to Switzerland, to the small village of Engelberg, in the Bernese Alps. In 1870, without André, they took their holiday in the Pyrenees and on their return in September they stopped at Lectoure, where Augustin Boutan (1820-1900), professor of physics and Headmaster of the Lycée Saint-Louis where Pierre and André were studying, had a holiday home. The French army had suffered defeats in the Franco-Prussian war and Prussian troops were approaching. Puiseux returned to Paris with his two daughters, leaving Pierre with the wife of Augustin Boutan in Lectoure. However, Paris came under siege by the Prussians on 19 September 1870 and conditions became very difficult. Puiseux, despite being 50 years old, was given a role in defending the city. His daughters suffered greatly during the siege and conditions continued to be very difficult after the armistice at the end of January 1871. Puiseux's daughter Marie became ill during the Paris siege and died from tuberculosis in March 1872. Around this time his other daughter Louise also became ill. She died in May 1874.
Puiseux had attended courses by Cauchy early in his career and he soon became interested in research in the topics Cauchy was studying. He further developed Cauchy's work on functions of a complex variable, being the first to distinguish poles, essential points and branch points. He examined series expansions and looked at series with fractional powers. Although his work in this area was exceptionally good it became rather redundant after Riemann introduced the concept of a Riemann surface.
Laplace's theory of the Moon, presented in 1787, had been shown to be inadequate by Adams in 1853. Puiseux contributed to the problem of the acceleration of the mean motion of the Moon with his major paper Sur les principales integalites du mouvement de la lune Ⓣ (1864). René Taton writes [1]:-
After extensive calculations, Puiseux established in 1870 that the secular displacement of the ecliptic had no significant influence on the acceleration. Although a purely negative conclusion, Puiseux's finding led to a better delimitation of the problem, which was investigated by G Hill in 1877.
Victor's son, Pierre Puiseux also studied the motion of the moon. He went on to become professor of astronomy at the University of Paris. More details of the Puiseux family can be found in our biography of Pierre Puiseux.
Victor Puiseux also worked on elliptic functions and studied computational methods which were used to reduce astronomical data. He was elected to the mathematics section of the Academy of Sciences in 1871 where he succeeded Gabriel Lamé. Joseph Bertrand says of his election [2]:-
The election was due to his merit, but its unanimity, to his character.
We have already noted that Puiseux was a keen mountaineer but we should record that he was the first to scale an Alpine peak which is now named after him. He continued climbing, often with his sons, until 1879 when he realised that he was no longer able to keep up. As a last wish he requested that no discourse should be held over his body. His profound faith helped him to bear with resignation the death of his mother when he was only 14 years old, his devoted wife when she was 28 years old, and of four of his six children who all died before the age of 21. During the winter of 1882-83 he struggled to lecture because of his health, having to take a break for a while. He went to Nice to stay with his son André who was a deputy astronomer there. He returned to Paris, then left for Frontenay in August, staying with the family of his son Pierre's wife. He died there in the following month.
Bertrand writes [3]:-
Without meddling with anything, he meditated on everything. His mind resembled one of those powerful machines which, without straining or restraining itself, silently triumphed over any obstacle.
List of References (7 books/articles)
A Poster of Victor Puiseux
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
The Catholic Encyclopedia
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Law n' Disorder: Confessions Of A Former Bastard Cop
Posted By: Mark Taylor June 11, 2020
Understand: Police officers are part of the state monopoly on violence and all police training reinforces this monopoly as a cornerstone of police work, a source of honor and pride.
By Officer A. Cab
Medium (6/6/20)
I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.
This essay has been kicking around in my head for years now and I've never felt confident enough to write it. It's a time in my life I'm ashamed of. It's a time that I hurt people and, through inaction, allowed others to be hurt. It's a time that I acted as a violent agent of capitalism and white supremacy. Under the guise of public safety, I personally ruined people's lives but in so doing, made the public no safer… so did the family members and close friends of mine who also bore the badge alongside me.
But enough is enough.
The reforms aren't working. Incrementalism isn't happening. Unarmed Black, indigenous, and people of color are being killed by cops in the streets and the police are savagely attacking the people protesting these murders.
Using the incremental mechanisms of the status quo will never reform the police because the status quo relies on police violence to exist. Capitalism requies a permanent underclass to exploint cheap labor and it requires the cops to bring that underclass to heel.
American policing is a thick blue tumor strangling the life from our communities and if you don't believe it when the poor and the marginalized say it, if you don't believe it when you see cops across the country shooting journalists with less-lethal bullets and caustic chemicals, maybe you'll believe it when you hear it straight from the pig's mouth.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS
As someone who went through the training, hiring, and socialization of a career in law enforcement, I wanted to give a first-hand account of why I believe police officers are the way they are. Not to excuse their behavior, but to explain it and to indict the structures that perpetuate it.
I believe that if everyone understood how we're trained and brought up in the profession, it would inform the demands our communities should be making of a new way of community safety. If I tell you how we were made, I hope it will empower you to unmake us.
One of the other reasons I've struggled to write this essay is that I don't want to center the conversation on myself and my big salty boo-hoo feelings about my bad choices. It's a toxic white impulse to see atrocities and think "How can I make this about me?" So, I hope you'll take me at my word that this account isn't meant to highlight me, but rather the hundred thousand of me in every city in the country. It's about the structure that made me (that I chose to pollute myself with) and it's my meager contribution to the cause of radical justice.
YES, ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS
I was a police officer in a major metropolitan area in California with a predominantly poor, non-white population (with a large proportion of first-generation immigrants). One night during briefing, our watch commander told us that the city council had requested a new zero tolerance policy. Against murderers, drug dealers, or child predators?
No, against homeless people collecting cans from recycling bins.
See, the city had some kickback deal with the waste management company where waste management got paid by the government for our expected tonnage of recycling. When homeless people "stole" that recycling from the waste management company, they were putting that cheaper contract in peril. So, we were to arrest as many recyclers as we could find.
Even for me, this was a stupid policy and I promptly blew Sarge off. But a few hours later, Sarge called me over to assist him. He was detaining a 70 year old immigrant who spoke no English, who he'd seen picking a coke can out of a trash bin. He ordered me to arrest her for stealing trash. I said, "Sarge, c'mon, she's an old lady." He said, "I don't give a shit. Hook her up, that's an order." And… I did. She cried the entire way to the station and all through the booking process. I couldn't even comfort her because I didn't speak Spanish. I felt disgusting but I was ordered to make this arrest and I wasn't willing to lose my job for her.
If you're tempted to feel sympathy for me, don't. I used to happily hassle the homeless under other circumstances. I researched obscure penal codes so I could arrest people in homeless encampments for lesser known crimes like "remaining too close to railroad property" (369i of the California Penal Code). I used to call it "planting warrant seeds" since I knew they wouldn't make their court dates and we could arrest them again and again for warrant violations.
We used to have informal contests for who could cite or arrest someone for the weirdest law. DUI on a bicycle, non-regulation number of brooms on your tow truck (27700(a)(1) of the California Vehicle Code)… shit like that. For me, police work was a logic puzzle for arresting people, regardless of their actual threat to the community. As ashamed as I am to admit it, it needs to be said: stripping people of their freedom felt like a game to me for many years.
I know what you're going to ask: did I ever plant drugs? Did I ever plant a gun on someone? Did I ever make a false arrest or file a false report? Believe it or not, the answer is no. Cheating was no fun, I liked to get my stats the "legitimate" way. But I knew officers who kept a little baggie of whatever or maybe a pocket knife that was a little too big in their war bags (yeah, we called our dufflebags "war bags"…). Did I ever tell anybody about it? No I did not. Did I ever confess my suspicions when cocaine suddenly showed up in a gang member's jacket? No I did not.
In fact, let me tell you about an extremely formative experience: in my police academy class, we had a clique of around six trainees who routinely bullied and harassed other students: intentionally scuffing another trainee's shoes to get them in trouble during inspection, sexually harassing female trainees, cracking racist jokes, and so on. Every quarter, we were to write anonymous evaluations of our squadmates. I wrote scathing accounts of their behavior, thinking I was helping keep bad apples out of law enforcement and believing I would be protected. Instead, the academy staff read my complaints to them out loud and outed me to them and never punished them, causing me to get harassed for the rest of my academy class. That's how I learned that even police leadership hates rats. That's why no one is "changing things from the inside." They can't, the structure won't allow it.
And that's the point of what I'm telling you. Whether you were my sergeant, legally harassing an old woman, me, legally harassing our residents, my fellow trainees bullying the rest of us, or "the bad apples" illegally harassing "shitbags", we were all in it together. I knew cops that pulled women over to flirt with them. I knew cops who would pepper spray sleeping bags so that homeless people would have to throw them away. I knew cops that intentionally provoked anger in suspects so they could claim they were assaulted. I was particularly good at winding people up verbally until they lashed out so I could fight them. Nobody spoke out. Nobody stood up. Nobody betrayed the code.
None of us protected the people (you) from bad cops.
This is why "All cops are bastards." Even your uncle, even your cousin, even your mom, even your brother, even your best friend, even your spouse, even me. Because even if they wouldn't Do The Thing themselves, they will almost never rat out another officer who Does The Thing, much less stop it from happening.
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I could write an entire book of the awful things I've done, seen done, and heard others bragging about doing. But, to me, the bigger question is "How did it get this way?". While I was a police officer in a city 30 miles from where I lived, many of my fellow officers were from the community and treated their neighbors just as badly as I did. While every cop's individual biases come into play, it's the profession itself that is toxic, and it starts from day 1 of training. …
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Lal Salam ( "Red salute") is a salute, greeting, or code word used by communists in South Asia. The word lal means "red" in Hindustani; salam means "peace" in Arabic.

In popular culture
 Lal Salam (1990 film) is a film based in 1990 India in the Malayalam language. It is based on the lives of three actual communists in Kerala, South India: Mohanlal as Varghese Vaidyan, Murali as T. V. Thomas, and Smt K. R. Gowri Amma.
 Lal Salaam (2002 film), a Bollywood musical action drama film

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Digital Transformation Powered by People-Driven Change
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By Andy Beth Miller
The way Patrick Foelck, Head of Strategy and Transformation Global Procurement at F. Hoffman-La Roche, describes it, his passion for procurement was not necessarily a love at first sight kind of thing. But, it does appear that it was destined to become the stuff of fairy tales: a true, committed, and ever-evolving love.
Once upon a time, after spending 13 years as a veteran consultant, Foelck was wooed to the procurement arena after consulting and leading Roche in what he calls their "procurement transformation." Now, as he fulfills his role as Roche's Head of Strategy and Transformation, Foelck has a dream.
"I am keen to move procurement out of procurement," he says with a light laugh. I smile at his clever play on words, while also leaning in, intrigued to know what he will say next.
Then, as Foelck unravels his seeming riddle, I instantly realize that this concept of his is much more than a dream. It is a goal.
What makes me say this? Far beyond a nice sounding concept or exciting flight of fancy, Foelck follows his ideation with a distinct vision. Also following? Action points and next steps.
That's right. Foelck has a vision with feet. Allow me (via Foelck's expert insight) to explain. But first, we have to go back to the beginning. When Foelck was first starting out, he quickly realized that procurement was a function that was grossly underrated in terms of what it could do and the impact it can deliver. He backs up this assertion explaining, "They speak to all the business functions; they have a relationship with all the suppliers. All of the money technically goes through either procurement systems or processes, or is managed by procurement to some extent."
Hence, the influencing power of procurement cannot be denied. That is, if we do it right. And how would "doing it right" look in real life procurement? This is the portion of the interview where Foelck gets right to the crux of his vision: Moving procurement out of procurement via digital transformation, with a twist. The twist comes as this transformation is "a people-driven change," using Foelck's exact words, and also requires us to broaden our perspective of procurement.
"If we continue as a profession to keeping solely doing the things that we have been good at in the past — sourcing, negotiating, purely buying — we will become redundant very, very soon.
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Foelck is a proponent of shifting the focus to spending smarter rather than simply spending less, redefining the bottom line to include the bigger picture. This greater procurement perspective focuses on value-adding solutions that account for successfully addressing business needs, while managing key facets like speed to market, cost, compliance, risk and sustainability. According to Foelck, procurement is the only entity in an ideal position to be right there to enact all of the great things that can be done in these realms in the most efficient and wise way possible. Such astute and intuitive work simply cannot be accomplished without people who are constantly innovating and executing creative solutions and ideas for best outcomes.
Seeing this opportunity for innovation in procurement versus it being relegated solely to purchasing, Foelck parlayed his passion for the subject into his work, since which he has spent the past 10 years focusing much of his professional energies on delivering procurement restructuring and transformation programs, his main focus being the pharma industry.
This fascinating background brings us to today, where Foelck is divulging details about the exciting new endeavor that he and Roche are embarking upon, introducing revolutionary digital transformation, all of which will be fueled by people and aided by technology and data. Regarding the pigeonholing of procurement into the realm of mere purchasing, Foelck bemoans the plight with a harsh reality: "Procurement does it to itself. We are coming from a background where they say, 'Hey we need to buy X. Secure this for us, negotiate the price, and ensure the quality, then get out of our way.' So, we are coming from a sole focus on the measure of our success being how much savings we have generated." Over time, according to Foelck, the more this ideology was allowed to persist, purchasing became seen as procurement's only purpose.
Foelck then shares a cautionary insight regarding the future, should we allow this to continue: "If we continue as a profession to keeping solely doing the things that we have been good at in the past — sourcing, negotiating, purely buying — we will become redundant very, very soon." But Foelck seeks to change all of this and reposition procurement.
As this procurement expert explains to me how his company is taking steps to enact procurement change via digital transformation, he is clearly fired up about the possibilities that their unique approach opens up for this vital niche. Foelck first shares about how he is determined to realize the promises that digital transformation is making. According to Foelck, the bar is set quite high, as "digital transformation is promising the world." He then poses the question: "Digital transformation has promised to revolutionize everything, but has it yet?" The unuttered answer is clearly no. Or at least not much.
Again, Foelck seeks to change all of that, sharing how, "In the past, with procurement technology accelerating and many companies investing in [it], everyone thought that this was going to be the biggest thing on earth." In their minds, Foelck surmises, "They were thinking, 'We have the data! We'll automate everything! Everything will be fantastic, and procurement will finally have the opportunity to move on to do many other great things because we get out of the manual, repetitive tasks, and downstream activities and administrative burdens etc. because data and technology is so wonderful and will take all that away."
"I am keen to move procurement out of procurement.
Fast forward to today, and clearly, expectations were greater than what has yet been achieved. Why? Foelck explains: "We believed big software solutions can do everything and that significant customization will help us to address all our needs, but this hasn't really worked." There are several reasons for this, the biggest of which is the incompatibility that arises from such "one size fits all, big and heavily customized end-to-end solutions that— on paper— can do everything" mindsets versus a portfolio of more tailored solutions.
Enter Foelck's current work with Roche. "Our Operating Model is enabled by our Digital Strategy, which involves complementing core procurement technology with digital assets," Foelck explains. "When I think about digital and how it should apply to procurement, it's an ecosystem. The base, the core stuff, the must-haves are covered with cloud based procurement technology. But I need to be mindful of how I can complement this with the other huge breadth of opportunities I have now at my disposal (e.g. RPA, AI, Startups, BPO), because not all core problems can be handled by simply digitizing or using technology."
Enter people and innovation. "That sort of agility and consciousness is often overlooked, and people think technology is a solution. To me, technology is never a solution, but is rather an enabler. Also, as much as end-to-end integration sounds perfect, sometimes it just doesn't work."
Adopting this model, with this specific base, will enable Foelck to self-service many of the things that procurement does today. Specifically, according to him, it will "generate efficiencies in terms of sourcing, enable the business to buy in a more self-service manner, and free up capacity to do much more value adding and strategic procurement activities."
Using his niche of the pharma industry as an example, he shares, "In pharma, we very much focus on speed and patient impact. The faster we get something to market, the more patients we can impact and ultimately cure, which is our purpose." He then reveals how this vital need for speed shifts the focus. "As a company, we are focusing on speed in order to impact and cure more people. So, from a procurement perspective, it becomes not so much about only saving money, but more about spending money wisely."
He adds, "The driver to get this thing right is to think differently." This includes opening the door for automation and answering the age-old question: "How can I make this super easy for people to buy and equally easy for procurement to operate?" Essentially, Foelck focuses on "making procurement faster and for the business to buy 'better.'"
"If I finally get out of the pigeon-holed view of procurement as only for purchasing mentality, we can finally move to many other things," he says, the excitement of a bright future for procurement evident in his voice. Roche and Foelck are adopting out of the box thinking in order to "get there," among which include an inventive three-pronged, progressive approach, starting with brainstorming a plethora of procurement ideas via outlets like a procurement hackathon, a leadership forum, a procurement summit, and more. Foelck calls this stage Roche's "Ideation" stage. The company then takes those ideas and sends them to an "Incubation" stage, ruminating on real-world ways that they can work. The final "scaling" stage is where actual pilots and experiments are conducted based on the results of these ruminations.
"To me, technology is never a solution, but is rather an enabler.
Clearly, it is an exciting day to be in the procurement arena, with digital transformation daily evolving and people being placed at the forefront fueling that forward motion. And as we trudge forward following the ascent of technology, with fearless leaders like Foelck navigating as we climb, we'll not die upon this mountain.
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Fast and Furious: Hobbs & Shaw Spinoff Set for July 26, 2019
by GregHarmon
If you think the Fast and Furious franchise is running on empty, just remember Universal promises to deliver two more installments, a spinoff, and a cash grabbing live-action arena show. So why are we not excited?
Unfortunately, the Fast and Furious saga continues to dominate headlines perhaps more appropriately suited for your typical supermarket tabloid. Or if SEO is your thing, just Google "Fast and Furious 9" and check out the first page search results....
Legit or shall I say boring news first - Just this week, Universal pushed back the release date for "Fast and Furious 9" originally slated for April 19, 2019 to April 10, 2020. As many speculated including myself, the move rested squarely on Universal's decision to release Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's "Luke Hobbs" and Jason Statham's "Deckard Shaw"Untitled Fast and Furious spin-off now scheduled for July 26, 2019.
Bold decision considering the spinoff will go toe-to-toe with James Cameron's "Terminator 2" Sequel, and will trail The Lion King (July 19) by one week and Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick (July 12) two weeks earlier. The Fast and Furious spinoff will feature Johnson and Statham reprising their roles as special agent Hobbs and reluctant #family ally and criminal [Han killer] Deckard Shaw, who team up on an undisclosed mission. Why and for whom? One can only hope it's under the command of Kurt Russell's Mr. Nobody. Though a director has not been attached, I am pleased to see none other than Shane Black pop up on the list of possible candidates!
But if you're puzzled by Universal's decision to elevate the "Hobbs/Shaw spinoff" for July 2019, let's look at the numbers; Universal's decision might have less to do with Dom's hashtag #Family brand and more to do with Dwayne Johnson's box office draw. It's no secret The Rock injected some much needed life into the series with Hobbs' introduction in 2011's Fast Five - arguably the franchise's pinnacle film. With Johnson starring in four of the eight films, the numbers don't lie - those four films co-starring Johnson account for a little over $4.1 billion of the franchise's $5.1 billion TOTAL gross.
Is it the brand, The Rock? Or both?
Those were the days ... Hard work forever pays ... Now I see you in a better place
Time for 'Fast and Furious After Dark' talk....
Clearly Universal is hedging their bet on both but don't tell that to Tyrese Gibson. Gibson was first introduced to the series as "Roman Pierce" in 2003's 2 Fast 2 Furious. It wasn't until after the recently settled Diesel/Johnson feud that Gibson took to social media taking issue over Johnson's decision to move ahead with the Hobbs/Shaw spinoff. And now that Universal has set a firm date, they have essentially prioritized what's next for series writer, Chris Morgan. But if there's an ounce of good news here, it's that Universal has removed The Bride of Frankenstein altogether from its 2019 release schedule, freeing up Morgan for both the spinoff and the 9th installment. Bad news if you were invested in seeing Universal's dark universe take off.
Meanwhile, Gibson's social media has gone full-tilt, calling The Rock a "clown" and accusing him of taking over #family brand. Perhaps more noteworthy is news that both he and series co-star "Tej" Chris Ludacris Bridges were offered their own spin-off, which they ultimately turned down in favor of #family.
If you are one of the few reading this, it's probable you'll want to check out Gibson's posts below. At the very least, you'll be entertained. The now deleted posts come courtesy of theshaderoom.
Are you team #Family? #TheRock? Or #DGAF?
IG - September 10: "If you move forward with that #Hobbs Movie you will have purposely ignored the heart to heart moment we had in my sprinter," Gibson wrote. "I don't wanna hear from you until you remember what we talked about. I'm on your timeline cause you're not responding to my text messages – #FastFamily is just that a family…….. We don't fly solo."
Anger meter: pointing towards low-med levels.
IG - September 12: "I have never and will never have a problem with this major movie star he's my brother," wrote Gibson, who didn't help his case by admitting he didn't like Baywatch. "I'm simply trying to reach him cause he won't call me back about this solo #HobbsMovie I want you to shoot it just not right now cause the #Fast9 release date has already been announced and we can't let our loyal fans #FastFamily or our loyal fast and furious FANS down on any level from pushing the date…….. Didn't you see how HUGE #Fast8 was? It's because we announced and KEPT our release date bro.""Once you hit me back I will delete every post," which might mean that he has finally received a response from Johnson. But yet to be deleted from Gibson's Instagram feed is a picture of him and Johnson with the caption, "I don't do email bruh. You got my cell same San Diego # hit me."
Anger meter: Baywatch mention indicates med-high levels
IG - October 4: #PSA Congratulations to@TheRock and your brother in law aka 7 bucks producing partner@hhgarcia41 for making the fast and the furious franchise about YOU – And like you, DJ even if they call I will not be deleting this post – Gn folks see you in 2020 April #FastFamily right? Nah….. it's about #TeamDewayne #3yrs will it be worth the wait? #NoShaw just Hobbs will this be another #BayWatch? Guys guys just relax I'm just a passionate film critic
Anger meter: seems like he's on the cusp of dialing back to low
IG - October 5: Diversity, love, multi ethnic worldwide multi generational, United Nations, One Race, Fast Family...... Until Dewayne showed up I guess this whole time he had a problem cause he wasn't the ONLY ONE on the movie poster........... I guess dreams do come true congratulations to@hhgarcia41 and@therock you guys are just amazing you really broke up the #FastFamily I tried to warn you guys... You thought I was hating...... I was simply fighting to keep the family together what makes us great is when you see us all TOGETHER we don't fly solo..... #MyLastPost today..... I got 3 years of venting on this clown - They offered but YOU didn't have to agree with a solo #HobbsMovie #OriginalFastFamily we salute you and stand on your shoulders #VinDiesel #PaulWalker #RobCohen #RomanTej were offered a spin off we TURNED IT DOWN!!!
Anger meter: Full-tilt angry - HIGH
IG - October 5: tyrese#Repost #SwipeLeft -@VinDiesel - Never confuse determination with desperation..... What's understood don't have to be explained...... 44 million just got the memo.... Although it appears to be.... I've never been in this alone........ #PerceptionVsReality #FastFamily like I said we don't fly solo. President Obama's integrity teachings is of a man who makes everyone feel like they MATTER.....
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Taika Waititi to write and direct 'THOR 4'; Chris Hemsworth expected to return
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Plenty of good news to celebrate despite seeing Akira kicked to the curb — Taiki Waititi is back! And he's brought the God of Thunder with him for the fourth installment of Marvel Studios' THOR!
Warner Bros. 'Just Mercy' will hit theaters right in time for Awards consideration
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Will Michael B. Jordan land his second unofficial Oscar nom? (I'm pretending Fruitvale Station was his first) — In a not-so-surprising move, Warner Bros has given Destin Cretton's upcoming civil rights drama a vote of confidence by moving its theatrical release for Awards consideration.
'A Quiet Place 2' begins production
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Motions in sign language: "A Quiet Place 2" has begun filming — We may not have the official title for the sequel to Paramount's $370 million dollar surprise hit, but that's not going to stop us from celebrating the official start of production on John Krasinski's "A Quiet Place 2"!
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Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines which is holding inquiry hearings at the New York City Bar Association. National inquiry hearings have commenced to investigate the responsibility of Shell, BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ENI, ExxonMobil, Glencore, OMV, Repsol, Sasol, Suncor, Total, RWE and 33 other companies for human rights violations resulting from climate change. The Commission has said that it is holding the inquiry hearing in New York City in order to give these multinational oil, gas, coal, and cement companies an opportunity to present their perspective. To date, these companies have only tried to stop the inquiry from happening.


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