Sebastian Thrun – the project lead – giving a presentation about self driving cars in 2011 and showing a few of them in action here (it lasts 4 mins, 14 seconds).
A video that Google produced with a twist near the end here (3 mins 1 second long).
And the video of the new exploratory design announced this week here (2 mins 53 seconds).
My brain diverted another way to most. Have you ever seen and experienced Uber? You open an app on your Smartphone, which identifies where you are located. You tell it where you'd like to travel to, and it will tell you (a) how long a wait until a taxi will arrive to collect you and (b) the fixed cost of the journey. If you accept both, your taxi is scheduled, collects you, drops you off and the charge made to your credit card. Done! The system is set so that both driver and passenger rate their experience, so that good service from both ends of the transaction is maintained.
It's probably well known that most cars purchased are tremendously under utilised and taking up valuable parking space in Cities all over the world. There are separate innovations where drivers can clock on and off at any time they wish, and obviously less resources available results in the pricing rising – to encourage more Uber drivers back online to service the demand. There are also periods of exceptional demand where Uber will jack the prices right up – transparently to all – to ensure there are the right number of drivers available to service the very busy customer demand periods (like rush hours).
Uber have stirred controversy in the Taxi industry because anyone (with lack of bad references) can be a Uber driver, and part time working is a personal choice. Those who work full time, as self employed drivers, often get much higher pay than most routine licensed Taxi drivers; in New York, reckoned to be north of $90,000/year gross and (after car finance and depreciation costs) around $60,000/year. Drivers who operate part time can use the income to offset the cost of their cars, partly or completely, if that is their choice.
The bit that caught my imagination was what would happen if a City (or a private company) bought a fleet of these Google cars and hooked them into Uber. After use, they go to their next collection point or back to a well researched cache – ready for the best possible service to the next likely passenger. Or to the Petrol Station to be refueled (and I hope a manufacturer recall doesn't end up with fleets of them working back to their factory, all at once!).
I guess in the early days, there will be idiots on the road who'll try to psych them out, but once an integral piece of local life, I think a Google/Uber combination would be tremendous. Not least, as yet another glowing example that paying for a shared resource is much cheaper than the inefficiencies inherent in expensive, rarely used Capital assets.
CapEx is the past, OpEx is the future.


With over a decade of professional writing and editing experience, I can craft a message that reinforces who you are and explains what you do. You can fight through the noise and let the world know you've arrived. Your content is how you communicate with the public. I'll create content for you that connects with people, gets your message across, and achieves results.


If you ask your average citizen to name famous women in STEM fields, you'll be lucky if they can identify more than one. Despite the fact that a large number of women have accomplished amazing things in science, technology, engineering, and math, Marie Curie still dominates the conversation as the one female scientist we can recall. Well, it's 2015, and it's time to change that conversation. We can, of course, do that by learning about real leading ladies of science (like Mary Sherman Morgan and Hedy Lamarr), but we can also do it by bringing more girls into STEM fields every day. To help with that, here are 7 young adult novels, ranging from contemporary to historical to hard sci-fi, starring smart girls who change the world by dropping hot STEM knowledge.
This 1950s-set story is about a girl who eschews her parents' traditional, small-town American values in favor of something more—namely, going to college and studying mathematics. Anna is a math genius, not a particularly desired trait for a woman at the time, and must constantly struggle to fulfill her potential. Her romantic interests coexist happily with her desire to learn—in fact, her relationship with Mike allows her to dream of more. This is a fascinating story that serves as a stark reminder of a time when girls weren't invited to push against expectations and follow their dreams.
Farrah (aka Digit) might be your average math whiz, but she's embarrassed by her brilliance and does something about it: she pretends to be "regular" so that she can fit in with the popular crowd. Unfortunately for her (but fortunately for everyone else), her plans go awry when she cracks a terrorist group's code and gets involved with the FBI. Now she's on the run from the ecoterrorists with a super hot young FBI agent, who's obviously impressed with Digit's mad math skills, because who wouldn't be? Digit is smart and witty and awesome, and anyone who has ever struggled with their identity will relate to her. Digit's story reads like a high-speed chase with exciting math problems and code cracking and FBI romance. Basically, it's the YA version of TV show Numbers.
As the grandniece of world-famous forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (aka Bones), it's really not surprising Tory is one smart lady. When she relocates to South Carolina to live with her father—himself a research scientist—she spends her time exploring a research island with her self-described nerd friends. But soon they're exposed to an experimental virus, endowing them with wolf-like pack attributes and enhanced physical and mental powers. But it's not all about the superpowers: there's lots of cool science, research, and tech, which the teens use to investigate a murder mystery and a uncover a scientific conspiracy.
Josie is basically a physics boss, who examines the hypothesis that objects can exist in more than one space at the same time for her AP physics project. But her personal life is crashing down around her: after an unexplained event in which she briefly lost track of time at 3:59 p.m., she starts having dreams at the same time every night—3:59—about her mirror image doppelgänger, a girl named Jo whose life is everything she wants. Jo is popular, with happy parents and loving boyfriend. Josie jumps at the chance to change places with Jo, but discovers her life isn't nearly as perfect as she thought. Trapped in a dimension full of terrifying creatures and scary asylums. Josie must team up up with other teens to find a way back to her own dimension.
This historical-medical thriller set in 1906 shows that girls have always wanted to study science—they just haven't always been given a chance. Prudence is a scientist fascinated by the way the human body works, and she doesn't care that no one wants her to be. She's stuck at a finishing school for girls, until luck lands her a position in a lab. There she helps Mr. Soper investigate a suspected carrier of typhoid, in an effort to uncover what causes death and how a disease spreads. Full of early forensic science and the struggle for women's rights, this is a fascinating look at the clash between popular opinion and rational science.
I'm a total sucker for an amazing hacker, which is exactly what we have in this thriller about a girl named Wicket Tate. She can basically hack her way into anything, but she's got a messed-up family life—even if she has found herself and her sister a stable foster family, the police are still after her drug-dealing father, whose partner is after Wick to work for him. When her childhood friend commits suicide and her diary winds up in Wick's hands with a note reading "Find me," Wick stumbles into a mystery concerning the safety of her sister. With no other options, Wick puts her hacking skills to the test in this fun and creepy mystery.
In a dystopian future, only those chosen for The Testing can hope to attend the University, which Cia is desperate to do. She's super smart, so of course she gets chosen—just like her father before her, who seems to remember the traumatic experience only in his nightmares. The tests are a cruel process, including a life-threatening wilderness trek final. In order to survive, Cia relies on her wits and her mechanical abilities. Girl has skills in engineering, and she constantly proves her worth. The story expertly combines an incredibly competent teen girl with dystopian thrills and a touch of romance.


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Burna Boy Knocks Down Overexcited Fan Who Didn't Disobeyed His Warning (VIDEO)
Burna Boy, a Grammy winner, shoved down an overexcited fan who didn't listen his initial warning, according to a video footage circulating on social media.
Recall that during his concert, Burna Boy spent some time to address fans who are likely to become overly excited and, as a result, climb on stage to make embarrassing scenes.
Burna Boy, who took a brief break from his performance to make his case, said that he "usually fits enter" anyone who gets on his stage since he doesn't know what they're up to.
READ ALSO: Burna Boy Warns Fans To Refrain From Jumping On Stage
He also urged everyone to keep their composure and good manners, no matter how star-struck they may be.
Despite this warning, a fan jumped on Odogwu's stage during a performance, receiving an unwelcome push that pushed him back into the crowd.

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Paul van Dyk will be extending his Vonyc Sessions World Tour with a stop off in Malta, heading to Gianpula in Rabat on Saturday 4th February.
A Grammy award-winner, Paul van Dyk is a true superstar thanks to the millions of sales that his trance productions have accrued over years of musical endeavours. One of the big hitters in the trance game, van Dyk is an EDM legend who'll have no trouble pulling and then entertaining a massive crowd as he takes to the decks in Rabat. Back and fully fit after an injury-induced touring hiatus, Paul will take his audience through different planes as he races through euphoric synth lines, earworm hooks and rattling percussion. Now in his third decade as a producer, Paul is up there with the most globally respected dance musicians in the world, and has been decorated with awards from many of the most respected institutions in dance music.
His party place of choice will be Gianpula Village, one of Malta's foremost dance destinations. Designed to offer a complete party location, the venue has a huge main room and several offshoot clubs, including beer gardens and open-air spaces. With great attention and care placed on designing each and every element of the Gianpula complex, the scene is set for Paul van Dyk to make his trip to Malta the highlight of his 2017 tour.


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El tresor de Ziwiyeh és un aplec d'objectes elaborats en or, argent i ivori, que inclou també algunes peces del Loristan; fou descobert a la riba sud del llac Urmia a Ziwiyeh, província del Kurdistan, Iran, al 1947.

Procedència
Els objectes inclosos en el tresor aporten un enllaç entre les cultures de l'altiplà iranià i les formes d'art escita o nòmada conegudes com a "estil animal". "Els motius escites adoptats per Urartu són responsables de la decoració del gran tresor de Quios que aparegué a la riba meridional del llac Urmia," afirmà Leonard Woolley.

Estil
El tresor conté objectes en quatre estils: assiri, escita, protoaquemènida, i peces nadiues de la província. Data de cap al 700 ae; aquesta col·lecció d'objectes il·lustra la situació de l'altiplà iranià com a encreuament de camins culturals —entre aquests la ruta de la seda— que fusionà cultures diferents en formar l'art iranià primerenc. Els objectes s'han relacionat també amb troballes a Teppe Hasanlu i Marlyk.

Localització actual
Alguns exemplars del tresor de Ziwiye estan dispersos en col·leccions públiques i privades, com ara al Museu Metropolità d'Art de Nova York, al Louvre a París i al Museu Britànic a Londres.

Controvèrsia
L'arqueòleg Oscar White Muscarella ha qüestionat la troballa del tresor (com ha fet amb el més antic tresor de l'Oxus), tot dient que cap dels objectes s'excavà sota condicions arqueològiques, sinó que passaren directament a mans de comerciants. Conclou que "no hi ha fonts objectives d'informació que acrediten que cap d'aquests objectes es trobara a Ziwiyeh, tot i que és probable que alguns d'ells sí", i que els objectes manquen de valor històric o arqueològic com a grup", tot i que molts són genuïns i "exquisides obres d'art". En un treball posterior, Muscarella denuncia diversos objectes "Ziwiyeh" com a falsificacions modernes.

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Bibliografia

Escultures del Museu del Louvre
Col·leccions del Metropolitan Museum of Art
Imperi Aquemènida
Escites
Objectes arqueològics

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Have you made Apple and Honey Scones with Sweet Cinnamon Topping?
2. Combine flour, wheat germ, baking powder, spices, baking soda and salt. Cut in margarine until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add combined apple, milk and honey, mixing just until dry ingredients are moistened.
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Coface South Africa's role as a trade credit insurer dictates constant research into changes in the economic climate that could pose a risk to the industries in which its clients trade. These indicators paint a picture of how the market is reacting to various pressures and how the business climate is changing.
One of the most important indicators is Coface South Africa's payment experience its clients have with their buyers. This is most evident in the debt collection service Coface South Africa conducts for its clients.
The attitude debtors have towards paying their outstanding balances is indicative of market conditions under which companies are currently operating.
Coface South Africa, the world's second largets credit insurer, says before July 2008, overdue debtors approached by Coface for payment on behalf of its clients were generally co-operative and made an effort to work with the credit insurer in making payment.
In 2009, Coface South Africa saw an alarming trend developing in which debtors were unable to pay debt due to the large amounts owing and a lack of cash available. "Debtors often suggested that the solution to their bad debt problem was liquidation because they were unable to see where the money would come from," says Garth de Klerk, CEO Coface South Africa.
In 2010 Coface South Africa has seen a change again. Debtors are honouring their debts but are doing so in smaller payments over a longer period of time.
"The most positive element of the current debt collection trend is that debtors are now able to commit to payment because they have cash available. This indicates a recovery in the trading conditions many companies find themselves in. While cash is still tight, the willingness to pay debt is an indication of better liquidity," says de Klerk.
Another area Coface South Africa carefully monitors is the behaviour of corporate and private consumers. "From a macro-economic perspective, two of the most potent trade catalysts are the lending rate and inflation. These indicators speak directly to the availability of cash in terms of access to credit and the debt repayment burden both at a corporate and individual consumer level," says de Klerk.
GDP growth rate and the Business Confidence Index are measurements Coface South Africa uses to determine the effect the market catalysts are having on real trade in terms of growth.
De Klerk says what is clear from these indices is that the growth catalysts such as lending rates and inflation have drastically improved since the business climate changed negatively in 2008. What is also evident is that there is a lag in the reaction of the market to these growth stimulators.
Coface South Africa has witnessed a similar scenario in business growth. The projections clients are making for year-on-year turnover is a slow recovery in 2010. Most clients projected flat turnover growth expectations from 2009 to 2010.
To-date turnover predictions for 2011 have remained flat with minimal growth predictions. Trade credit transaction projections for the 3rd quarter of 2010 were lower than expected. This reiterates the flat growth scenario because the 3rd quarter is usually a high credit trade month as companies gear up for the festive season in December.
The mixed bag of indicators for 2010 are indicative of a recovery year. Of importance is the continuation of these low turnover projection into 2011 which Coface South Africa believes will remain relatively flat as companies concentrate on productivity gains, cash flow management, careful growth and market realignment.
Coface South Africa is confident that while growth indicators may not be as resilient as initially hoped, 2011 will provide organisations with a more stable year from which to grow.


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Fish Tank (review)
Tue Mar 09 2010, 03:58pm | 2 comments
Cinema is rife with portraits of angry young people. What makes this one so compulsively watchable is that here it is not the typical boy but a teenage girl who is so full of rage and so ready to lash out at everyone around her… and not without good reason, too. Some viewers may be turned off by the raw fury of 15-year-old Mia (newcomer Katie Jarvis), but they're probably the ones who need to see this marvelously disturbing film most: for the reminder that life doesn't have to be Precious-awful for a girl for growing up for it to be a nightmare, that mere ordinary adolescence can be brutal enough. Mia is just about enduring life in dreary council housing in working-class, industrial Dagenham, Essex, a remote eastern suburb of London, but things get infinitely worse and intriguingly more interesting when her hard-partying mother, Joanne (Kierston Wareing), brings home a new boyfriend, the evilly charming Connor (Michael Fassbender: Inglourious Basterds). Writer-director Andrea Arnold — who made the riveting Red Road a few years back — meanders through the confusion that Mia doesn't even understand she's experiencing and the naivete she doesn't realize is being stripped away from her as she learns how to cope with the simultaneous attraction and repulsion she feels for Connor, as she struggles to assert herself the only way she knows how, through the dancing she's not very good at. There is nothing but unrefined authenticity on display here, in yet another astonishing example of the new British cinematic realism, as we watch the train wreck of Mia's mother, who can hardly have been older than Mia now when the teen was born, and wonder whether Mia herself is heading in that sad direction, or if she will find another way for herself. (available in the U.S. on IFC on Demand)
MPAA: not rated
2010 theatrical releases | arthouse | coming of age | drama | girls/women | reviews | teen
Andrea Arnold | Fish Tank | IFC on Demand | Katie Jarvis | Kierston Wareing | London | Michael Fassbender | Precious | Precious Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire | Red Road


The concept of knowledge management (KM) became formalized in the early 1990's. It captures an approach combining multiple disciplines to optimize the development, capture, sharing, and employing organizational knowledge. Since then numerous government agencies, institutions, and companies have allocated resources to enhance their respective knowledge management practices. In fact, there are several communities promoting KM practices and certification such as the Knowledge Management Institute.
KM is employed by the federal government and the Department of Defense and private industry across a wide spectrum of activities. On a more practical level it is an organization's deliberate approach to establish effective staff processes to achieve and maintain the shared understanding to support decision making. In addition, KM can assist organizations minimize "lost knowledge" through attrition of personnel with highly unique skills and help reduce duplication of knowledge across functional areas.
As projects have become more complex, integrated, and information intensive knowledge has become a critical resource to stay on schedule. Standing up a joint venture project team adds to complexity of a project with a need to quickly form a cohesive team that operates and functions as smooth as possible. In addition, each company brings its own distinct culture to the project which creates the opportunity for immediate friction and can add to the fog of project execution. Therefore, it is important to plan and organize how the people, processes and tools will interact, before award. Below I have included a few steps outlining an approach to apply KM on a large scale joint venture project.
Organizational Structure – What organization structure will support efficient prosecution of the project and support client relationships as well connectivity with each Joint Venture partners' home organization.
Map and analyze core processes – Frequently Joint Venture teams are comprised of personnel with different backgrounds, levels of experience, and are unfamiliar to each other.
Document processes for repeatability – New staff will rotate on and off the project, create an environment that supports rapid integration of new personnel as the project changes.
The establishment of mutually agreed upon processes and implementation of how the joint venture will stand-up, operate, and close down will increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the new organization. For some projects the establishment of the joint venture entails the generation of up to $1 billion of revenue over a three to four year time frame, more than some companies will see for years. The small amount of time and money in comparison should be evidence of how worthwhile a little forward planning can be.
This entry was posted in Federal Compliance, Federal Contracting, Knowledge Management, Project Partnering, Uncategorized and tagged Battle Rhythm, Decision Making, Decision Support, Information Environment, Information Exchange, Knowledge Management, People, Process Map, Processes by Carl Gouaux. Bookmark the permalink.


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Happy Friday! Just wanted to show all of you what has been inspiring me this week. I love to get ideas from Instagram and Pinterest, and I will be posting an inspiration post every week to show you guys what caught my eye during the week. Check out the links below to shop if you like what you see.


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PAMBANSANG KAMAO MANNY PACQUIAO TO PLAY A WORLD WAR II HERO IN 'FREEDOM FIGHTERS', A PHILIPPINE-HOLLYWOOD CO-PRODUCTION
MANNY PACQUIAO with producer FRANCIS LARA HO
SEN. MANNY PACQUIAO is going back to acting. He will play local hero Col. Macario Peralta Jr., leader of the Philippine Guerrilla resistance on Panay Island during World War II, in the Hollywood-Philippines global feature film entitled "Freedom Fighters."
An incredible true story of courage, faith and hope in the face of unspeakable Japanese cruelty, the film will be produced by Inspire Studios, Inc., in association with a major US studio and is slated for 2020.
Producer/financier Francis Lara Ho, CEO of Inspire Studios, says: "'Freedom Fighters' will be a global, Hollywood studio-level release. We are currently meeting with leading Hollywood and Philippine studios, financiers and distributors, as well as A-List directors and actors to bring this amazing, inspirational story to the global audience.
Having the charismatic and well loved Sen. Manny Pacquiao join us by playing Col. Peralta is an exciting step in putting together a cast of top level actors for this movie. Manny is an international hero and admired by people from all over the world, so stepping into this role is a natural for him."
Ho, founder of Inspire Studios which will hold offices both in the US and the Philippines, has great vision for the company. "We want to impact humanity by creating world-class movies of hope, heroism and honor from stories based on true-to-life event; movies that go beyond mere entertainment and that showcase positive, human virtues… movies that inspire and inspire us to look beyond ourselves, and help us dream to be greater and encourage us to pursue something bigger than life itself!" he says.
"Freedom Fighters" is based on the memoirs of Louise Spencer, an American who was one of the residents of Hopevale, a community of patriots in Panay Island during WWII that played a great role in a most crucial time in Philippine history.
After the Japanese sneak attack invasion of the Philippines in WWII, staged to coincide with the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of American doctors, nurses, missionaries and miners in Panay Island chose to stay hidden behind enemy lines to continue to help the local people and the Guerrilla resistance, led by Col. Peralta.
They built a community deep in the jungle called Hopevale and survived there for almost two years under constant threat of torture and execution if captured. They were supported by loyal, brave Filipinos who put their lives and the lives of their families on the line to help them survive and hold back the Japanese, allowing the triumphant Gen. MacArthur to return later.
Pacquiao will be busy playing hero next year as he has also been tapped to play Gen. Miguel Malvar in another movie. For more information about Inspire Studios, pls visit their website at www.theinspirestudios.com
PAMBANSANG KAMAO MANNY PACQUIAO TO PLAY A WORLD WAR II HERO IN 'FREEDOM FIGHTERS', A PHILIPPINE-HOLLYWOOD CO-PRODUCTION Reviewed by mario on 5:57 PM Rating: 5


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'Pirates' pleases on many levels
When you think of opera, do you think long Italian arias, little dialogue and few laughs? While that often may be the case, Thursday night's performance of "The Pirates of Penzance" at the Lied Center was a pleasant exception.
By Chelsea O'Neal
April 10, 2004 midnight
'Brass' gives solid performance
From its elegant entrance to the tune of "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" to its soulful jazz encore of "Echoes of Harlem," Canadian Brass offered an evening of delightful music and good humor Saturday at the Lied Center.
February 9, 2004 midnight
Area venues to rock in 2004
Live music takes center stage during holidays
It's 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31, your glass is topped off with champagne while you're intoxicated and tone-deaf companions prepare to offer you their slovenly rendition of "Auld Lang Syne." Sound familiar?
December 26, 2003 midnight
Review: 'Kansas Nutcracker' a must-see
On opening night of the Lawrence Arts Center's production of "A Kansas Nutcracker," the cast took its final bows to a standing ovation -- a much-deserved standing ovation. Directed by Ric Averill and Deb Bettinger, the musical ballet is topnotch from start to finish.
Cuban artist reflects on intersection of Communism, faith
In 1994, amid economic turmoil and public uprising, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro removed exit restrictions for people wanting to flee the Communist country. Thousands upon thousands of refugees took to the rough waters separating the island from the United States in search of better conditions.
'A Kansas Nutcracker' ready for stage
Clara and her visions reawaken for second year of prairie-tinged performance
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, creatures were stirring, even grasshoppers and a mouse. Visions of Delaware Indians, abolitionists and border ruffians will be dancing through the prairie on Thursday when the Lawrence Arts Center opens "A Kansas Nutcracker" to celebrate the holiday season.
December 7, 2003 midnight
Review: Acting keeps 'Lulu' alive
Despite a few technical downfalls, Kansas University's production of "Lulu" at the Inge Theatre is worth the price of admission. The five-act play by Frank Wedekind tells the story of the title character. Abused and prostituted by her father, Lulu wanders through life using her sexuality as a means to control and discard both men and women alike until meeting an untimely demise at the hands of a notorious serial killer.
Arthur Dodge and the Horsefeathers blaze a new trail
If you mix ginger ale with bourbon and bitters you will get a cocktail known as horsefeathers.
Festival of Trees to benefit children
Celestial Iron Works is featured artist
Folks searching for a unique alternative to the traditional tannenbaum can find one at the annual Festival of Trees.
November 30, 2003 midnight
Community theater out to prove 'It's a Wonderful Life' after all
Bells will be ringing, children will be singing and an angel will get its wings. It's the time of year for people to revisit the classic holiday film "It's a Wonderful Life."
Songwriter Catie Curtis finds strength in grass-roots approach
In today's media-fueled music industry, not all successful musicians are going to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. They are not going to release a song that will be a fixture on Top-40 radio and audiences won't see them on TRL. Though this is one way for performers to become visible, some are happy NOT to be part of the machine.
E.M.U. Theatre to bring Poe's works to the stage -- finally
It has been more than a year in the making, but at last E.M.U. Theatre is ready to bring "And Much of Madness" to stage.
Deb Girnius becomes Wizard of Oslo
She isn't in Kansas anymore. She is now somewhere across the Atlantic.


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Doxing gods
Posted by: Josh Marsfelder 3 years, 8 months ago
So I need to get something off my chest right off the bat. The entire teaser and first act of this episode manifestly do not need to exist. They're nothing more than horrid, stock Male gaze-y Damsel in Distress capture/escape/chase science fiction bullshit. Obviously, the writers wanted that precious "conflict and drama" and, because they're science fiction writers, they think the best way to do that is to abduct a pretty, doe-eyed young woman who pleads for mercy while helplessly immobilized by the Standard Female Grab Area and then lead the macho military men on a chase through corridors on a starbase as they spout protocol at one another.
I'll bet you can guess how I feel that Jadzia Dax is the character who gets the treatment in question. But what makes it even worse is that this actually doesn't make any real dramatic sense! Think about it: How much more dramatic would it had been if, rather than deciding to indulge their Buck Rogers fantasies, the writers actually let us know this was going to be a courtroom drama from the start. Imagine if in the teaser the Klaestronians approach Dax in the corridor, validate her identity, and than flatly state "Jadzia Dax, you are hereby under arrest on suspicion of treason against the Klaestronian people and the first degree murder of General Aredlon Tandro, my father". Tandro, Jr. slaps handcuffs on Jadzia, we pan up to a shot of her stoic and unmoved expression, and then fade right to black and cue credits.
Casting doubt on characters like Kira, Quark and Odo is one thing. Quark is set up to be a shady dude right from the start, from her first appearance Kira's loyalty to us is in question (though if you'll notice, that seems to have all be resolved as of this episode: Kira is one of Commader Sisko's staunchest allies all throughout the investigation. Uh oh, the crew seems to be getting along! Guess it's time to cancel the show then!) and before we got to know him better we could imagine Odo being the kind of person who might take his dedication to justice a bit too far. But Dax? The wise woman of DS9? I mean hell, if you're looking to shock the audience and get them to distrust the characters (I mean, I personally don't think that's a great idea, but this team sure seems to think so) I can't think of a blindside bigger than accusing Dax of all people of murder. High treason...OK, maybe. But murder? That's a twist worthy of a teaser.
The rest of the story has its ups and downs and has a lot of fruitful material to discuss, and is obviously one that's quite important to me, but that whole first sequence absolutely mars the episode and singlehandedly consigns it to the rubbish portion of this season it otherwise could have marked the end of. Furthermore, in the words of Kira Nerys (or at least the words she was thinking and would have said had this show not needed to be censored and cleaned up for pre-watershed audiences) it really pisses me off. I don't know which of this story's two writers was responsible for this, but whoever it was they ought to be ashamed of themselves. We've gotten to the point where this team's fetishization of outmoded and sexist narrative tropes isn't just reflecting badly on them, it's actively working to make the finished products materially worse than they should have been. And not just by my standards: By 1993 standards this would have been seen as unacceptable.
It's things like this, especially coming so soon after Jadzia's tragic absence from "Birthright, Part I", that conspire to hold her back out of the gate more than she really needed. Thankfully it's never going to be as bad for her as it's all too often been for Deanna Troi and Beverly Crusher, but it'll still be another year before this team will be able to completely strike a comfortable balance in writing for her as a character while keeping all her symbolism intact. And by then it'll be just about too late.
"Dax" is definitely the strongest of this run of troublingly mediocre stories though, and in spite of all that does actually manage something truly special with the title character. This is I'm sure in no small part due to the fact it marks D.C. Fontana's return to Star Trek after five years, though also sadly her final script for it (not her final contribution to Star Trek, I should add, but her final filmed teleplay). For the sake of my sanity and motivation, I'll make the quite possibly unjustified presumption that Fontana was *not* the one responsible for that train wreck of an opening act, even knowing that Peter Alan Fields is capable of some pretty masterful stuff himself on a good day: He helped give us "Half a Life", a good deal of "The Inner Light" and, coming up, "Progress", "Duet", "The Circle", "Necessary Evil" and "Crossover". On the other hand, he's also responsible for "Cost of Living", so there's that.
And yet it still doesn't feel like Fontana's doing anyway: Her touch is present and very noticeable all throughout the rest of "Dax". Apparently she was brought in because the team wanted a vetted sci-fi author to handle a story that was intended to be very heavy on exposition and world-building. Which it is, and that's actually one of the other problems with it: This episode is basically "The Measure of a Man" for Jadzia Dax instead of Data (to the point I misremembered the scene where Kira questions Sisko at his request as Kira being coerced into prosecuting the case like Will Riker was), but while the earlier story had a lot of hauntingly gripping scenes deftly and profoundly exploring slavery, the self and personal identity theory to make up for its legally questionable plot, "Dax" doesn't have that luxury.
Everything from the trial framing device itself to various bits of dialog all throughout feels ever-so-slightly stilted and unnatural, as if it's been forced to service the episode's numerous infodumps about Dax's backstory and Trill culture instead of the other way around. Which it kinda is. People say things that don't really sound like what we'd expect their character to say because most of them sound like questions the writers are assuming the audience has about the setting and the plot, so they get said just to get addressed. This is like Trill Biology and Culture: The F.A.Q. But credit where credit is due, Fontana is an old hand at this, her having been there when this style of genre fiction writing was in vogue, and while it's not her personal style she acquits herself well to it.
All of the players, including the regulars, never lose their voice in spite of the stifling sci-fi weight hoisted onto them, and for a lot of them this is their best outing to date. The succession of witness testimonials at the climax as Sisko, Kira and Bashir in turn take the stand is absolutely gut wrenching as you can read on their faces and in the tone of their voices that they all know they're running out of time and options as they look imploringly to Dax to help them help her. And naturally, it's Sisko and Dax themselves who shine the brightest: Ben is an open sore of emotion and raw passion, while Jadzia remains almost irrationally calm and placid. But that doesn't mean she doesn't feel: This is Terry Farrell's first real showcase since "Emissary", a test of her physical acting she excels at. Everything she does here from her reaction at hearing the name Tandro to the way she starts to choke up when talking about Curzon's ring is simply masterpiece work.
And whenever the two of them are together, sparks fly. Fontana finally drops all the show's pretense-If you don't see in her writing or Avery Brooks and Terry Farrell's acting a portrayal of a relationship that has gone well beyond friendship into something more deeply and uniquely meaningful, you're pretty much willfully trying to ignore it. As Ben tries to prove Jadzia and Curzon are different people, he's also trying to come to terms with that reality himself. In his testimony, he admits to the court, to us and to himself that while Curzon was his mentor and biggest inspiration, he doesn't know how he feels about Jadzia yet. Or at least he's not sure he's ready to admit it.
He's overwhelmingly protective of Jadzia, almost endearingly so, and one assumes he might not have taken quite the same tone had Curzon still been alive to defend himself for a lot of different reasons. Dax herself must be flattered at the overture and touched by his loyalty, but she probably also sees in him a reflection of the excess youthful exuberance exhibited by Julian. Their entire subplot here is about reexamining and coming to terms with what they both mean to each other. The scene where Ben breaks down at Jadzia's feet as she gently caresses his cheek and assures him he's done all he can and there's nothing she expects from him just melts me. It shows the scope of their feelings in their purest, rawest form and even doubles as foreshadowing to the eventual plot twist. Any sense of duty or honour indeed. This isn't what a mentor consoling a protégé looks like. This goes beyond friendship, and it's no simple basal romance either: What Ben Sisko and Jadzia Dax share is something altogether grander than both.
This episode is an interesting one to give to D.C. Fontana on other levels too. She's always been known for her imperiously powerful matriarch characters, for pretty obvious reasons, and "Dax" has four of them. First there's Kira, who, though she's a supporting character this week, Fontana clearly took a liking to and had her proudly show off her confidence, competence and swagger whenever she got the chance. Then there's the frankly amazing arbiter Els Renora whose wonderfully sardonic attitude gives us many of the story's memorable lines (hell, they're some of the season's most memorable lines). You have to wonder if the by this point assuredly crotchety Fontana, bitter after decades of putting up with Star Trek's shenanigans, saw Renora as a kind of author avatar, particularly when she tells off the testy Sisko and Ilon Tandro like a pair of hormonal teenage boys, One can imagine her expressing similar sentiments to herself speeding away from the Paramount production lot never to return, possibly muttering something to the extent of "I'm too old for this shit".
And then of course Enina Tandro, who really has the bulk of the emotional and dramatic weight here. She represents a different side of age and experience, and her story arc is a genuinely moving Star Trek: The Next Generation kind of attitude about aging and time. The defining moment for her is when Odo reveals that her son is about to condemn Jadzia Dax, an innocent young woman, by wrapping her up in the thirty year old dirty laundry of people who are all too dead to care. Enina knows the younger generations should not be made to answer for the crimes of their elders and that they must be allowed to live their own lives, a moment that interestingly hearkens back in more than one way to "Half a Life". Her farewell to Jadzia in the denouement, one of the all-time greatest scenes in the history of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine can thus be read at a somewhat superficially metatextual level about Fontana's own farewell to Star Trek, placing it in the hands of the person she sees as most deserving of inheriting the mantle.
There's an aspect of truth to this, as Fontana has herself stated Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is her personal favourite Star Trek. But there's way more to the scene than just that. Because Jadzia is of course the fourth lady of power in this story, even though perplexingly this episode isn't really about her. But that's sort of fitting: Jadzia is the ultimate Star Trek character because she's the ultimate supporting character. She's going to work best when the show doesn't force her to bear her own interiority, but rather uses her to elicit certain reactions from the people around her. This episode isn't about Jadzia Dax (even diegetically, as Tandro, Jr.'s argument she and Curzon are the same person is plainly nonsense and he's just using that to justify satiating his bloodlust), it's about what other people think Jadzia Dax is and why she's important to them. Benjamin is very openly grappling with this, and while Julian and Nerys don't have quite as powerfully personal a stake in the matter as he does, they're still clearly affected. And Tandro, Jr. and his lackeys can't even see Jadzia as her own person.
(That scene with Enina and Odo reminds me: I'm spending so much time talking about Sisko, Dax and the female characters I'm almost forgetting to mention how utterly brilliantly Fontana writes Odo! He almost steals the show and to me this is the moment where he finally comes into his own as a character. There's the curt, yet admirable dogmatism in his fierce loyalty to justice which in this case prevents him from entirely dismissing Ilon Tandro's claim outright, but his scene with Enina is one of the absolute highlights of the whole piece. He's a full-on 24th century Columbo, standing well back, both in terms of narrative and visually in terms of blocking, asking polite, though leading, questions until he eventually gets at the truth he needs. And furthermore, inspiring her to take the action she must take to allow the healing to begin. A shape shifter goes where needs to and takes the form he has to to get his job done.)
Jadzia then must be a fascinating figure for D.C. Fontana: So many of her matriarch characters have been just that; older mother figures. And there's a bit of that here, what with Enina's plot, some of Renora's lines and even the fact Jadzia seems to take a subtly mothering and nurturing tone with Ben on occasion. The only time she's really had the chance to work with an actual younger female lead is in "The Enterprise Incident" when she tried to turn Joan Linville's Romulan Commader into one. But, as Renora points out, Jadzia is both 200 years her senior and about the same age as her great granddaughter. Here, Fontana gets the chance to synthesize both of her favourite (or at least familiar) character archetypes, and it's intriguing that it's in a character who spends most of the episode deliberately in the background. Amusingly enough, the staff writers seem to think Jadzia's dual nature is a source for sweet, juicy inner conflict given some of the things they've written about this story, as if Jadzia is somehow in a state of permanent identity crisis, constantly struggling to come to terms with who she is.
But that's clearly ridiculous. Jadzia Dax is straightforwardly and obviously both young and wise. She's her own person, but she carries the experience of many other people with her. There are parts of her that are as much Curzon as they are her own: Her sense of honour and loyalty and the love she has for people like Ben and Enina. Just like we all do, she tries to take the best parts of her forbears while casting aside their vices and negative energy. The eternal now, where we revisit our memories to help make us better people now. There's no conflict, because she's absolutely at peace with who and what she is. She couldn't be joined if she wasn't. That's sort of the entire point of this episode, isn't it?
Live, Jadzia Dax.
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Froborr 3 years, 8 months ago
So, one of the commenters (Rachel2302) on Mark Watches just infodumped her responses to the next two weeks of episodes, including the first three episodes of Deep Space Nine. It's really interesting to see what someone who never watched any Star Trek until recently, and knew *nothing* about DS9 going in, thinks of the characters after three episodes, so I'm just going to quote her here:
"I don't have anything much to say about the first three specific episodes, but rather that I'm enjoying the set-up immensely, I LOVE that Commander Sisco is someone who was directly impacted by Locutus of Borg, I'm thrilled O'Brien made the leap over to DS9 and that Keiko will be starting a school! I think I really like Captain Kira, and Dax is AWESOME and Bashir is kind of cringey and creepy and gross and Odo is intriguing. Strong beginning to the show."
The awesomeness of Dax and Kira really are the two things that shine most brightly in the early show. "This frontier is my home" is the moment at which I fell in love with the show way back when, but it's Dax that was always the most intriguing character. There's a serenity to her and a power, but at the same time youth and joy. She's an old, wise, powerful person in a young person's body, and yet her performance is about as polar opposite to Matt Smith's Doctor as you can get. But that's recognizably what they're both doing!
Also this is the first episode to flirt with the idea of using Dax to explore the LGBT spectrum, which of course will come back. They never quite did enough with it, and the weird, gross choice to make the Mirror Universe the Land of Depraved Bisexual Dominatrices makes it pretty clear that their motivations in doing so were the basest and most prurient, but here at least the notion crackles with potential!
Josh Marsfelder 3 years, 8 months ago
"The awesomeness of Dax and Kira really are the two things that shine most brightly in the early show."
Seconded. It was Dax and Kira who finally drew me over to the DS9 side and they were the first characters from the show who hooked me in the same way the TNG crew did. Commander Sisko came shortly thereafter, but I have to save my personal story of falling in love with DS9 for a later date.
"Also this is the first episode to flirt with the idea of using Dax to explore the LGBT spectrum, which of course will come back. They never quite did enough with it, and the weird, gross choice to make the Mirror Universe the Land of Depraved Bisexual Dominatrices makes it pretty clear that their motivations in doing so were the basest and most prurient, but here at least the notion crackles with potential!"
I will say I do think "Crossover" was excellent and Intendant Kira makes perfect sense for Mirror Kira's character, but *only* Mirror Kira's character. I'll get to that when the time comes, of course. And once we get to the next show I will make a defense of "Rejoined" (a lot of what makes it good is actually Avery Brooks' direction). But I think the stronger argument for homophobia and erasure, unintentional or otherwise, is actually the paranoid and frantic ship sinking of the obvious Garak/Bashir plotline and then what happens to Dominion Cycle Odo. Which is a shame, as it's so wonderfully easy to do a fantastically queer redemptive reading of everything going on here at this point.
Jadzia Dax is obviously pansexual in every incarnation. Terry Farrell even says as much herself.
K. Jones 3 years, 8 months ago
Of course when you get to be a man, and a woman, and having had that long of a lifespan, I imagine the blatant obviousness of sexual fluidity becomes old news. Probably after the second or third host. (Though in a culture that grew around that strange symbiosis, even non-Trill host Trillians must be incredibly open-minded. I mean it's a permanent mind-meld!)
The chase was gratuitous. I'm not especially defensive of Bashir's character flaws, but I think the reason I like him more than a lot of people is because I can see a lot of myself in him. I was a young, talented type who also couldn't quite balance enthusiasm with prudence or keeping my mouth shut or saying awkward things or even figuring out how to balance sexual attraction with just making friends with someone. And of course for him, Jadzia represents somebody with basically ultimate sexual experience. Catnip for the immature and testosterone-addled. (Of course he might even be dealing with a eugenically augmented libido. Think of that!) Anyway, that aside, his loyalty got a nice showing, which is at least an important beat for him this early in the run, as he really, really threw a hay-maker at Tandro. (Not for the first time I guess I'll suggest that it's always funny to see him do something awkward and get chumped a little, because the designer human revelation will make an ex post facto joke out of all his early awkwardness. Like, no way was this guy faking it!)
But his eagerness is not a deal-breaker for Dax (who has herself been a young man four times!), nor would it be, and it shouldn't be for us, either. And frankly, the same is true for Sisko. She was an old man not that long ago and he was just a raw cadet. It's one thing to get romantic casually and not have to deal with a two-generational relationship constantly changing, another entirely to take someone you see as a protege (from a male point of view) and then for that to change. I think Dax, being the end of a run of 8 hosts, wouldn't even go near that. Again, it's about how others perceive her, not so much about how she perceives others.
I was mildly disturbed watching this only because for the first time in my life I'm older than Dax, and presumably Bashir here. Very uncool, but it gave this watch a spin that had never been there on previous viewings. Kira was utterly hilarious putting her curmudgeonliness to good use - her friendship with Dax in those first handful of episodes was so obvious, natural, and important that they took it for granted that they didn't need to show it to us. (Ignoring the fact that Dax is the second non-Bajoran to have that orb experience, and the other person first into the Celestial Temple with the Emissary.) Odo as Colombo was pitch-perfect, as was too Odo's beat where he forces Quark to give up the space for the hearing, which indicated a desire for justice but also showed even he isn't immune to a desire to see Dax get a fair shake. Then again, those assholes did cause a commotion on his Station.
Even mediocre DS9, getting its early bearings, is proving to be something special. And Dax's stoicism is fun, too. Every time one of these 'past comes back' scenarios comes her way, she reacts to it completely differently. But you know what Dax would say. Learn to embrace the contradictions.
elvwood 3 years, 8 months ago
I was also struck by the eleventh Doctor parallels (and contrasts) this episode, including the way that the story is as much, or more, about how her friends see her and interact with her; she is the still centre around which the story flows. That's very Smith era Who. Well, except for the stillness.
It's certainly Dax's serenity, her confidence in who she is, that draws me in, and Farrell does a grand job of showing her successfully - but barely - maintaining that despite being able to see where it leads.
Yes, the opening section's awful. It somehow doesn't tarnish the rest for me. It also doesn't matter that the defense of Dax is obvious from the first conversation between Odo and Enina, because it is so much about the people rather than the mystery. Renora's a delight!
I would say that first Kira, then Dax, and then O'Brien, are the ones who hold my attention most at present. Well, as people; the Odo/Quark pairing is a fun dynamic, but it's based on their plot roles. We haven't really got to see either of them properly yet, despite the odd glimpse here and there.
Having said that, I found Ben Sisko fascinating in this one. The restraint with which he loses his temper is almost a dark mirror of Dax's calm passion for life; both sound almost paradoxical, yet make sense when you see them on screen.
Anything else? Oh, yes: I didn't even notice the "Trill biology 101" aspects, because I was more interested in the people talking at the time! That's the way to do it.
All in all, it's a hit for me despite the crap at the start.
Sisko losing his temper always feels more believable to me than Picard. Granted, it's pretty rare for the stoic Picard to even do so, but there's some obvious examples that wind up being pretty jarring. This isn't even to imply that there's any kind of seething undercurrent to Sisko at all times that makes him believably a guy who gets mad. Rather it makes him feel less cloistered about his emotions, more in touch with both the good and the bad, even at a younger age. And that's pretty well representative of the difference in the real world correlaries as you transition from the stoic generations of the early 20th Century to the latter-half, post-sixties generations.
I'm eager to think of what a Star Trek that treats those people as the Previous Generation and stars a crew of latter day Gen Xers and lots of Millennials might bring, just from an emotional awareness level. Anyway, it's certainly interesting to be on a show/in a setting where the leading man is now a member of the younger Riker-aged Next Generation. Picard might not be 'too much older', having one foot in both worlds (and stepping lively into the Next one) but that much still sort of sets him apart from his young friends.
Daru 3 years, 7 months ago
Yep once we get past the opening part, there is so much you mention that I love too about Jadzia. I think she is an amazing character played by an amazing actor whom sadly are both at times (later on?) less well served than they could be. But the pansexual nature of her being and the unique quality of relationship growing with Sisko has always been an inspiration for me.
Oh I remember arbiter Els Renora - what a wonderful role!


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Terry Miesle's scratchbuilt Chandra X-Ray Observatory .
Scratchbuilt Chandra X-Ray Observatory
I have always been fascinated by astronomy. Similarly, I have been drawn to satellites as a blend of utilitarian form-following-function and dazzling shapes and colors. They are built in sterile, dust-free rooms, then released into one of the harshest environments imaginable. They are our eyes and ears in space, and make unique subjects for models.
The Chandra observatory is named for noted astronomer and mathematician Chandrasekar, whose calculations predicted black holes, one of the primary targets of x-ray observations. It is one of three x-ray observatories to be released within the next several years. X-Rays do not penetrate our atmosphere, so all observations must be made in orbit. A space-based telescope will certainly provide new insights to the makeup of our universe.
^ Side and rear views of the completed model.
When I saw the coverage of NASA's Chandra satellite observatory launch I decided to build a model of it for an upcoming model contest. The Real Space category is one of the least populated categories at shows, and usually has the typical assortment of Space Shuttles and Lunar Landers. As nice as these are, they are getting old. With only 3 weeks 'till the show, I set out to give people something to talk about.
My research was carried out almost exclusively on the web, though a timely issue of Science arrived at my door about halfway through the building process. Most of the following can be accessed through www.spacer.com if you search for Chandra links. References are listed at the end of this article.
I decided to build the main shapes from foam. This would be covered in foil, so it didn't matter what it looked like to start with. I printed images from the web, carefully measured and laid the basic shapes out with graph paper. These shapes I cut from green flower-arrangement foam.
The two major shapes of the satellite's body are a cone and an octagon (which tapers to a cone), I needed help with circular shapes. I employed plastic jars to provide the correct circular shapes, either cutting a section from the jar (with a bandsaw) or using the lid. These plastic rings were glued in place with epoxy. The octagonal portion was cut to place, and the appropriate sized jar lid was used to indent a circle where it would be placed later. Then I cut away material and hollowed out the space inside, which I would need for the next step.
I knew the foam would not support the rods for the solar panels or support base. I pushed styrene tubes into the foam, and placed epoxy on the inside to anchor the tubes for the ages. These tubes had an interior diameter which would just fit either the support rod or solar panels.
All the foam surfaces would be covered with aluminum foil. This works well if you use a very thin foil. The satellite is foil covered for insulation, most of which is loose and wrinkled. I coated the foam with 15-minute epoxy and wrapped the foil around each surface. Portions of foil were cut to specifically to cover the unusually shaped surfaces. The end of Chandra contains some conventional cameras and instrumentation. This area was built out of styrene stock, covered with foil, and the windows painted gloss black.
The cone and octagonal body were built to fit very snugly, allowing most construction to continue in several sub-assemblies.
On the front end I used a jar lid. I cut a circle in the top, to accept a series of concentric rings (magnetic lenses) glued to radial strips of styrene. These rings are gaskets I found in the local Ace Hardware plumbing section. This front section was covered in foil, and the ring section was painted TMM Chrome Silver then glued behind the hole.
The protective lid on the satellite was cut from thin styrene, and another gasket (the one used as a template for the hole in the telescope opening) was glued to this lid. I used a strip of styrene to emulate the hinge assembly, and painted that TMM Gunmetal.
A frame of plastic-coated wire (Evergreen) was built to accept the solar panels. I used graph paper to help me get exact shapes (this was done for the radial ring supports, too). I superglued two sections of wire together, then added the bracing wire. The solar panels are Evergreen ¼" tile-patterned styrene sheet superglued onto the wire frames. They are two-sided. I covered these in Ultra Bright Chrome Bare-Metal Foil, then airbrushed them with Tamiya Clear Blue Acrylic paint. The wire frame received TMM Gold paint. The entire assembly was then coated with Future Acrylic polish.
After the cone had been attached to the front body, and half of a 35mm film canister had been glued behind the telescope lens I added the color to the foil. I used Tamiya Clear Yellow paint tinted with Tamiya Clear Red to obtain a gold hue. This was brushed on the foil in the appropriate areas.
The lens front was placed in position, and little detail bits were glued here and there to mimic panels and items on the satellite. My goal was not to absolutely replicate every detail, but to show the major items and hint at added details. These items were painted with TMM Gunmetal and TMM Aluminum Enamels. Finally, the model was mounted onto acrylic rod stuck into one of the epoxied styrene tubes, and the solar panels were placed in their respective tubes. This idea paid off, the parts have not moved since – though they can be readily removed or repositioned.
This project was a lot of fun, very fast and a good dose of creativity. Most of my projects tend to be kitbuilding or kitbashing, pure scratchbuilding isn't something I do often. The satellite model is big, shiny, and draws a lot of attention. The Chandra observatory has already provided surprising results, when pointed to what had been thought to be a point source for its first calibration, the object turned out to have a jet of gas nearly half the size of our own galaxy. I'll look forward to following Chandra's activities now that I have something of a personal connection…
http://chandra.nasa.gov/chandra.html
http://chandra.harvard.edu/
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Dr. Christopher Lee is a nationally recognized advocate, author, speaker, and leader in the fields of learning disabilities and adaptive technology. In this Q&A, Dr. Lee shares his personal story.
What was it like for you to grow up with learning disabilities?
I was diagnosed in the second grade back in the 70s and back then it was called minimal brain damage. I really had no idea nor did my parents know what to do. I struggled in school like other kids similar to me and I ended up repeating second grade. During that time my parents pulled me out of my school and put me in another public school system but basically it was a school for people with all types of disabilities.
I rode the short bus that would pick up in front of my house and I struggled with self-esteem issues because I really felt like I was stupid. Nothing seemed to sink in and my language- based struggles affected me in pretty much every area. In second grade, my speech started acting up. I have a slight speech impediment and it makes me sound like I'm from the north or some other place.
My learning disability followed me almost like a shadow. The teachers said I was doing a good job but nothing seemed to stick and I just had really low self-esteem. It wasn't until the fifth grade that I got involved in swimming and for the first time I could see positives and I felt good about myself. Things started changing in school a little bit, too. I got tutored a lot. I was able to take some regular education courses. My parents felt like that was the best thing for me and I was able to get into the University of Georgia.
Starting college was a really challenging time for me. I had a tutor but I couldn't pass my English class, that's English 101. First quarter, second quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter I failed. If it wasn't for some very supportive people &mdash my teacher at that time and a faculty member who really believed in me and told me to go get tested at the learning disability center at the University of Georgia — I would have been basically kicked out of school.
So I got evaluated again. I had been evaluated back in second grade, and I went through all the special education programs throughout my K-12 experience but here I was again and they told me I had a learning disability and I said, "come on guys I know that." But at that time, I went on to really learn how I learned. I learned I was kinesthetic, I learned that I was a tactile learner. I learned all different types of strategies. I didn't do amazingly well because I was catching up.
But I ended up graduating and actually feeling pretty good about myself through that process. And learning that I wasn't stupid and I did start to believe in myself. I learned a lot of tricks that allowed me to continue eventually my graduate work as well as my transition to the work world.
Can you briefly say what your learning disabilities are or were?
I'm diagnosed with typical language-based learning disabilities such as dyslexia. I basically had trouble with all the things you can do with language and that includes spelling, handwriting, dysgraphia — all aspects of it.
I also had issues with memory. My working memory was pretty good but short and long term memory I struggled with and so it was critical that I found ways that I could anchor my new learning, so it would stick.
So reading and writing were both very hard for you at first?
Yeah, reading and writing. I was at the University of Georgia reading at a fourth grade level and it wasn't until almost I graduated that my reading level spiked and I managed to increase it quite a bit. Back then I was using books on tape, a four-track tape recorder that I got from the Library of Congress.
We had volunteers at the learning disability center who would actually read my textbooks out loud and then I would use the four-track tape recorder to follow along. So hearing it and seeing it with that kind of multi-sensory approach made all the difference for me. I was able to retain information a lot better. It wasn't perfect, but I was able to get through my exams and pass them pretty well.
So it was only really in college that you were able to absorb text and be more successful in school?
Yeah, I don't know how I got through K-12, I mean I really don't other than just incredibly determined parents, a lot of study and tutoring and frankly I loved swimming and I wanted to swim for the University of Georgia. I wanted to get there really badly and that was the ticket for me. I swam back and forth and I got out my frustration and my anxiety.
I got to the point where I started to do well in swimming and it boosted my confidence in school and I was no longer in special education, I think that made a big difference too. I'm sad to say that, but I think it really did.
Did you wind up being a varsity swimmer in high school and college?
Yeah, I swam for a very difficult program in Jacksonville, Florida, at a private school that brought in swimmers all over from the world. So I had a high level of competition in high school and that made a big difference. We learned about physical education. We learned about all kinds of things that kind of transferred into the classroom and that made a big difference for me.
I finished up four years of college and I became co-captain of the University of Georgia swim team. It wasn't because I was the fastest swimmer, it was because I was probably one of the hardest workers and that was something I was really proud of.
How did you get into the disability field professionally?
I studied communications in college, and the reason that was so helpful is that in my last year in college I wrote a book called Faking It. It was one of the first books that was written from a consumer standpoint, the person with the learning disability. I was angry, frustrated with my teachers, with my parents, with everyone. And writing that book was a really therapeutic process for me. The book was co-written by Rosemary Jackson, my tutor. She was my ghost writer.
When the book was published it put me on a speaking tour and I was able to travel around and talk to parents and talk to teachers and talk to administrators and most important students with disabilities. And I was bitten. That was it, that's all I needed, that's what I loved doing, even though it was hard at first because I was sharing my own story.
For a lot of people with learning disabilities, that's the last thing they want other people to know about. But the book put me out there. I met a lot of people, I learned a lot and I also started learning more about technology. I knew that assistive technology could make a big difference in my life and I knew it could help other students too. So I started getting involved with assistive technology work. Eventually I moved on to graduate school and got a degree in social psychology with an emphasis on assistive technology.
And the frustrating part about my graduate work was that I found that the textbooks were still not in a digitally-accessible format. So I became an advocate and I started to focus on legislation around why publishers were not providing accessible textbooks.
I started working with publishers to ensure that their textbooks could be accessible but we still have a long way to go with that. I started a program called AMAC — the Alternative Media Access Center — at the University of Georgia and eventually it moved to Georgia Tech, the Georgia Institute of Technology. At AMAC, we worked to convert hard copy textbooks — or digital textbooks that weren't accessible — into accessible textbooks.
That project took off and when I left AMAC we were serving over 2,500 institutions across the U.S. and Canada with a variety of services, not just for learning disabilities and digital textbooks but also services for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, individuals who are blind and so on.
What led you to speak out and write a book at a time when there was very little first-person material out there and there was a lot of stigma? Why did you decide to go public?
At first, it was therapeutic and I think it started off that way. I never really expected it to be published. During that same time I was asked to speak on panels at the University of Georgia, along with with other students with learning disabilities. And I found that the panels started giving me the advocacy skills and the communication skills to speak out, to understand my own disability, and to promote the idea that students needed to be served better.
Were you worried that people might look down on you or that it might hurt you professionally? Did you have doubts about going so public?
Oh yes, and I still do. It doesn't go away. It's diminished a lot because my books are out there and my speaking. But I swam with 40 individuals at the University of Georgia. Twenty women and twenty men on the team and the last thing I ever wanted them to know about me was the amount of tutoring I was getting. I logged 100 hours of being tutored one quarter, and I didn't want them to know about it.
And so even when I started speaking, it was something that I had to learn to deal with. And on the job when I transitioned out of college, one of my first jobs was Enterprise Rent-A-Car and I was the only one there that actually had a diploma. We had to take the driver's license and take the contract and we had to fill them all out.
And I promise you those contracts went everywhere, I would get the addresses wrong. I lasted six months in that job and I think if I would have been more honest and told them about my learning disabilities and that I needed accommodations then maybe I would have lasted longer. But when I left the University of Georgia and got that first job, I also left this incredible support team of tutors and computer labs and technology and all that. I went out to the real world thinking oh my gosh, now my learning disability is going to go away and it did not.


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Thailand's Wildlife Crime Task Force arrested a Malagasy national attempting to smuggle 218 critically endangered Radiated and Ploughshare tortoises from Madagascar into Bangkok last night. This arrest comes just 12 days after the arrest of a Pakistani man smuggling an astonishing 1,140 endangered star tortoises into Thailand in his luggage, and is the sixth arrest of a wildlife smuggler in seven weeks, according to the Thailand-based NGO Freeland. This work may appear commendable, but there is a big problem.


You may want to transfer your IRA from one bank, mutual fund or brokerage firm to another bank, mutual fund or brokerage firm, or to a Self-Directed IRA.
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Recipient December Burgess, a Digital Communications and Media (DCM) student, will spend 10 days immersed in the world of broadcast and journalism at some of the top newsrooms in the country.
Troy Reeb, a 1988 Broadcast Journalism alumnus and 2003 Distinguished Alumni recipient, is Corus Entertainment's Senior Vice President, News, Radio and Station Operations. Reeb appreciated Burgess' open mindedness, her enthusiasm for learning and her writing style.
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To apply for the internship, Burgess wrote a news story that uncovered multiple cases of cyberbullying and the prevalence of it happening across Canada. She realized it was a compelling story more people had to hear, and she hopes it will bring attention to the fact people are not getting punished for harassing others online.
Kris Hodgson, interim chair of the School of Media and Design, echoes this sentiment. "The Troy Reeb Internship is an amazing opportunity for students in the Digital Communications and Media program. The opportunity to spend time with one of Canada's top broadcasters will be an invaluable opportunity for December."
Burgess is from Moose Jaw, Sask. She has always loved writing and saw Lethbridge College's DCM program as a natural fit after graduating from high school. The program offers opportunities across multiple platforms, including print, online, radio, television and 360-degree storytelling.
Burgess is the 13th Lethbridge College student to take advantage of this unique internship opportunity. Past winners include Global Edmonton's Quinn Ohler, Dan Grummett of CTV Edmonton and CTV Winnipeg's Gabrielle Marchand.
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