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Secret Sharer
The Ideal Houston Scavenger Hunt Can Be Found In This Book
Secret Houston: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure details all sorts of obscure Houston lore.
By Chris Gray October 28, 2019 Published in the November 2019 issue of Houstonia
Image: Courtesy Reedy Press
To discover Houston's essence, where does one even start? Such a task might be impossible, or more impossible, if not for William Dylan Powell's handsomely illustrated new book Secret Houston: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure (Reedy Press).
Its 200-plus pages detail all sorts of obscure Houston lore: the derelict WWII-era ammo dump near the Ship Channel; the ancient burial site under a Grand Parkway bridge; and idiosyncratic local shops like Bubba's Texas Burger Shack and the Wilde Collection. Everything that makes this city unique, in other words, and yet so difficult to explain to the rest of the world. In Houston, reckons Powell, "there's no clear brand or expectation of what the city is like."
Not that our fuzzy brand ever stopped anyone from moving here. "One reason I think these books are great is there's such a transient population," says Powell, himself a transplant of some 20 years whose dad worked for Schlumberger.
"There are people from all over the world here, all over the country; they're just trying to figure out what it's all about," he adds. "It's sort of nebulous, because a lot of people love it here, but it takes a while to explain why. You just have to be here for a while. Warts and all, you just have to kind of explore it. But a lot of people love it here—I love it here."
Secret Houston came together over about six months, as Powell consulted with friends, historians, archaeologists, and other longtime Houstonians; newspaper articles and other archival material were likewise essential. His truck didn't get towed once while he was location-scouting, Powell says, though there were some narrow escapes. "This book's kind of like a scavenger hunt," says Powell, "and I felt like I was the luckiest first person to go on that scavenger hunt."
To be fair, some places here are fairly well-known local institutions: Marfreless, Last Concert Cafe, Irma's Original (try the "secret" lemonade). There's a little overlap from Powell's previous book, 100 Things to Do in Houston Before You Die, which he describes as more on the order of "go to the zoo and feed a giraffe a leaf of lettuce."
This book, though, veers more toward information that—never mind newcomers—even lifelong Houstonians might find amusing or useful. Did you know that, seen from a certain angle, the upper reaches of Williams Tower resemble a sitting cat? Or that Jackson Street BBQ near Minute Maid Park issues a $50 food voucher to offset the cost of parking there during Astros games?
Says Powell, who also writes mysteries, "I didn't just want it to be, like, Depressing Secrets from Houston's Past, you know?"
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OLA-Story
An Organic Approach to Learning Language
SPANISH STUDENTS LEAVE ENGLISH AT THE DOOR
When Students walk into Ashley Uyaguari's middle school Spanish classes, they know to leave their English at the door. To warm up, they form a circle and review recent vocabulary. Either the teacher or a student volunteer will say a vocabulary word, act it out, and the class will repeat it.
This is then followed by a series of activities that move quickly: movement breaks, vocabulary repetition, pair or small group conversations, class conversa- tions, introduction of new vocabulary as it comes up, or a longer activity or game.
"In my class we typically end with a short writing prompt that students write about in their notebooks," says Uyaguari, who is known to students as Profe Ashley.
"We always make this interactive and students share out what they've written and respond to each other's writing. We always end back in a circle and close in a positive way," she says. "All of this happens with- out breaking from Spanish."
Uyaguari says she can tell you "about the ingredients that make up a class, but the order that we do them in is very organic." She allows for students to bring up topics that can change the direction of the class. The emphasis is on fluency of speaking and understanding Spanish rather than covering specific topics.
This approach to teaching language is called Organic Language Acquisition (OLA), and Uyaguari first learned about it at a workshop last March, led by Darcy Rogers, the founder of OLA. Uyaguari later met with Rogers to figure out how she could implement OLA in her class- room at IACS.
Rogers founded OLA as an alternative approach to traditional language instruc- tion. "To develop language proficiency we must go beyond the textbooks and the worksheets to an atmosphere where students are authentically engaged in lan- guage acquisition and hands-on interactive activities. A kinesthetic, communicative, immersion classroom will take students to higher levels of proficiency through a natural progression and strong sense of community," Rogers says. OLA is intended to simulate how people organically and naturally acquire a language.
"It feels more like my experience of learning Spanish with native speakers, when I didn't have the option of using any English," says Uyaguari. Unlike a tradi- tional language classroom, where there is an emphasis on explicitly teaching grammar, students work on higher proficiency of being able to use the language. "I think that only speaking in Spanish is letting me know what it truly feels like to be connected and inside of a Spanish speaking country," says Nathan Landis, a seventh grade student.
Emily Lyons, also a seventh grader, believes that the OLA classroom has changed her perception of herself as a Spanish speaker. "This year I have learned more Spanish than in past years because of the immersion classroom. It makes sense. In Spanish class, we should talk in Span- ish—the more, the better. Of course there are frustrations. You often don't know a phrase, but you can build off of what you understand and take risks. I now think of myself as a Spanish speaker as opposed to a Spanish student," she says.
Becca Kearns, an eighth grader, agrees: "You're thrown into an environment where you are forced to speak Spanish, and that's a really good way to learn. If we are put into a country that speaks a differ- ent language, we aren't going to be able to ask what we want to say in English, so the class is really similar to that. It prepares us for the real world, while being fun at the same time!" According to Uyaguari, the main goals of an OLA classroom are to have students speaking 100% in Spanish, to not be afraid of a Spanish environment, to take risks and make mistakes, to be able to infer meaning, and to participate and be a part of the class community.
OLA aligns closely with Innovation Academy's project-based learning approach. "We are learning by doing. Instead of learning about Spanish, we are interacting in Spanish and learning through communicating in Spanish. It's as if we were actually in a different country where only Spanish is spoken. This, to me, is the best project possible!" says Uyaguari.
Innovation Academy's Outcomes (Self-Direction, Effective Communica- tion, Problem Solving, and Community Membership) are the focus of the class, rather than the aspects of language like verbs, conjugation, and adjectives. For example, Effective Communication includes expectations such as "You speak with emotion, actions and/or drawings to help effectively communicate in Spanish" and "You remain in the Spanish-speaking mode." Problem-Solving includes the goals "You describe ideas/things when you don't know the specific word" and "You ask questions in Spanish when you don't understand."
The OLA classroom has been popular with students. Many have said that they really appreciate and enjoy the approach because it creates an active and hands-on environment. Students never sit behind desks—there aren't even any in the class- room—and are expected to participate through movement and speaking. "I'm always excited for the next Spanish class because it's much more fun learning with a bunch of hands-on activities, rather than sitting down and listening," says Anna Shi, a seventh grader.
Uyaguari began using the OLA method during fourth quarter last year, and the whole middle school implemented it this year after attending two workshops in August. Uyaguari says the collaboration in the middle school Spanish department, which also includes Rhonda Hawthorne and Stel Schmalz, has pushed their OLA work forward. "We are continuing to work on professional development in this area," says Uyaguari. "I traveled to Oregon for a working retreat with about 15 OLA teachers from around the country. There are online meetings with other teachers using OLA. I help host one on Wednesday nights." In November, she attended the American Council for Teachers of Foreign Language conference in Philadelphia. "IACS has been very supportive of profes- sional development," she says.
High school teacher Tom Hinkle uses OLA in a Spanish elective class he teaches, and the high school Spanish teachers headed to an OLA workshop in November.
"For me, the biggest benefit of the OLA method is that all students are speaking during class. There is no opportunity for students to hide when they are all speaking together in a group—everyone is held accountable. It also helps students gain confidence in their speaking abilities, which is usually the last area of language comprehension to develop," says Ben Ein- sidler, a high school Spanish teacher.
Uyaguari has already seen the benefits of this new approach with her students. Math teachers have commented that students have begun speaking in Spanish at recess, excited to show and explain to other teachers what they are learning. Additionally, says Uyaguari, she's seen an increased ability for her students to express themselves in Spanish, higher stu- dent engagement, and a lot more Spanish being spoken in the classroom. "Personally, I've noticed my students finding more success in class. My relationships with students have also improved," she says. It can be a challenge to get students to take risks when learning a new language, but OLA creates an environment where mistakes are a celebrated part of the learning process. "When my teacher started OLA I learned that mistakes were good. I learned how to get my point across, as well as to try to understand things I didn't know. OLA gave me more confidence to speak and take chances," says Becca McKiel, a seventh grader.
Aria Zegdoun, a seventh grader, agrees: "Instead of keeping quiet and writing the correct form for Spanish words, I spoke up. I spoke the actual language and I made thousands of mistakes, but I realized there is nothing to be ashamed about that and it is good to make mistakes, especially when you want to get your point across. I never spoke so much Spanish and worked on pronunciation until last quarter. It was almost like a life changing experience. I can go anywhere and speak a little Span- ish. I may not be fluent yet and speak fast, but when I do, I will be so proud. I am already proud that I made mistakes."

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Ktarians, Humans, Hybrids,
USS Voyager personnel
Starfleet personnel (24th century)
Starfleet operations personnel
Naomi Wildman
Multiple realities
(covers information from several alternate timelines)
Human/Ktarian hybrid
Captain's assistant
2372; replaced by duplicate
Greskrendtregk
Samantha Wildman
One daughter, Sabrina
Scarlett Pomers
Brooke Stephens (young Naomi)
Vanessa Branch (future Naomi)
Emily Leibovitch (baby Naomi)
Naomi Wildman was the mixed-species daughter of Ensign Samantha Wildman, a Human, and Greskrendtregk, a Ktarian. She was born, and lived, on the USS Voyager while it was lost in the Delta Quadrant.
1 Life on Voyager
2 Future adulthood
3 Personal relationships
3.1 Family
3.1.1 Samantha Wildman
3.1.2 Greskrendtregk
3.2 Friendships
3.2.1 Neelix
3.2.2 Seven of Nine
3.2.3 Borg children
3.2.4 Voyager crew
4 Memorable quotes
5.4 Apocrypha
5.5 External links
Life on Voyager
Naomi Wildman as she appeared to Tuvok in 2371
In an alternate 2371, when Kes returned to Voyager in 2376 and time traveled, the Tuvok in the past saw Naomi exiting a turbolift. Since there were no children on board at that time, he was puzzled over Naomi's existence. He told Captain Janeway, who in turn spoke to The Doctor and confirmed that Ensign Wildman was indeed pregnant. (VOY: "Fury")
Naomi Wildman was born aboard the USS Voyager to Ensign Samantha Wildman in 2372 on stardate 49548.7. She was the first of two children born aboard the Federation starship, the other being Miral Paris. During her birth, Voyager was duplicated by a spatial scission phenomenon. Because of this, both tried to stabilize their rapidly-draining antimatter supply with a series of proton bursts, leaving one of the ships badly damaged. When sickbay lost power, Naomi died on this ship due to hemocythemia, a correctable condition caused by a fetal transport. The completely healthy baby from the undamaged ship was brought on board by that ship's Harry Kim, as the one from the damaged ship was blown into space during a hull breach, before the undamaged ship self-destructed to stop a Vidiian attack. (VOY: "Deadlock")
This episode marks the birth and death of the "original" Naomi Wildman, who is replaced by a duplicate.
Early in her life, the Kazon captured Voyager and stranded the crew on a primitive planet. Naomi, because she was born in space, became ill and almost died. After Commander Chakotay rescued a young girl belonging to a native tribe inhabiting the planet, she was saved by the leader of the tribe using herbs and roots. (VOY: "Basics, Part II")
Naomi Wildman in 2374
Due to her Ktarian heritage, Naomi grew astoundingly quickly in her early childhood: in 2374, she grew five centimeters in only three weeks. (VOY: "Mortal Coil")
Naomi and Seven in 2375
In early 2375, Naomi was apprehensive about Seven of Nine's Borg nature, and consequently avoided her. Neelix attempted to convince Naomi that "the Borg lady" would not harm her. Naomi expressed a desire to "pull her weight" on board Voyager by becoming the Captain's Assistant on the bridge. She demonstrated intelligence and scientific aptitude, as well as an understanding of ship's systems, including the ability to encrypt the holodeck controls. (VOY: "Once Upon a Time")
Subsequently Naomi began secretly studying Seven, deciding that the Borg pursuit of perfection would help her achieve her goal of working on the bridge. Seven caught her at it. Hearing the explanation, Seven declared that Naomi's neocortex was too immature, but it was a worthy ambition. During an incident in which Seven took on the personality of a young girl, the two spent about an hour playing games. During this time Naomi explained that she hoped to rise through the ranks and eventually become Captain of Voyager, with Captain's Assistant the first step in her career. Naomi drew a picture for Seven while she was being treated for the condition. After Seven recovered, she decided to help Naomi with her studies on the Delta Quadrant, and asked Naomi to help her develop her social skills by teaching her the rules of the game her little girl personality had played with Naomi. (VOY: "Infinite Regress")
Later that year, the two deepened their friendship following Voyager's encounter with a telepathic pitcher plant, when they were the only two people immune to its telepathic influence due to their relative indifference to returning to Earth. (The Doctor was also immune, given his holographic nature, but he was initially deactivated.) After the ship entered the organism, Seven and Naomi were the only two people still conscious for a while, Naomi asking to stay with Seven as she investigated what had happened. (VOY: "Bliss") Eventually, Naomi and Seven became such close friends as to say that they considered each other family. (VOY: "Survival Instinct")
Later that year, Naomi helped persuade Captain Janeway to launch a rescue effort to save Seven, who had been recaptured by the Borg, as well as being present when Janeway realized that the Borg had been communicating with Seven of Nine prior to her departing with the Collective. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")
Neelix was Naomi's godfather, and used to tuck her in bed at nights. (VOY: "Mortal Coil") He also cared for her while her mother was on away missions. In 2375, her mother was aboard the Delta Flyer when it was caught in an ion storm and crash landed. Neelix looked after Naomi while the search operation took place, and was prepared for the possibility that he would become her guardian should her mother not be found. He played with her on the holodeck and helped comfort her when she found out the truth about her mother. Eventually, she and her mother were reunited. (VOY: "Once Upon a Time")
Some of her duties as Captain's Assistant would include greeting new crew members. Naomi found Ensign Marla Gilmore in the mess hall and offered her services in providing replicator rations or a tour of the lower decks. Gilmore thanked her and said she would keep her offer in mind, later expressing surprise at the fact that Voyager had been able to provide a child with a stable upbringing despite their unconventional situation. (VOY: "Equinox")
Naomi was also educated by some of the crew, such as Neelix (astronomy), Seven of Nine (geometry), Icheb (genetics), The Doctor (biology and botany), and Commander Chakotay (paleontology). (VOY: "Once Upon a Time", "Blink of an Eye", "Memorial", "Shattered", "Homestead")
Naomi was hesitant around holocameras during her annual physical, and The Doctor had to constantly ask her to hold still. He allowed her to photograph him to show that no harm would be done, and she mocked his constant nits about holding still. (VOY: "Latent Image")
After his ordeal with the shuttle Alice, Tom Paris received a hand-drawn get-well card from Naomi while he recuperated in sickbay. The card featured crayon drawings of Paris and B'Elanna Torres. Torres was impressed with the likeness of Paris, but she said Naomi "didn't quite capture her eyes." (VOY: "Alice")
A glitch in the secondary systems caused by Seven upgrading the computer core caused the communications net to malfunction, redirecting different comm channels to the wrong people. While trying to reach the bridge, Commander Chakotay received a number of comm calls, including "Computer, locate Naomi Wildman." The voice clearly belonged to her mother, Samantha Wildman, who sounded quite annoyed with having to make the inquiry, as if it was a regular occurrence. (VOY: "One Small Step")
Naomi was concerned about Seven when she tried to assimilate Voyager's database. Seven tried to make sense of more than she could process, and she questioned Naomi about her father's heritage and asked if she sided with Chakotay or the captain. Naomi grew worried, but in the end she forgave Seven and they played kadis-kot. (VOY: "The Voyager Conspiracy")
When the Vaadwaur children came on board, they called Neelix names in Naomi's presence. Naomi took offense and refused to play with them. When Neelix questioned her about it and found out what had happened, he said that she didn't have to play with them anymore. (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth")
Naomi Wildman with a model of her father's homeworld
Naomi also befriended the Borg children who were taken on board in late 2376. (VOY: "Ashes to Ashes", "Child's Play") At one point, the Borg twins, Azan and Rebi, wanted to clone Naomi as a part of the first Annual Voyager Science Fair, but were eventually persuaded to use potatoes instead. Naomi's own science project was a holographic model of her father's homeworld, Ktaris, which depicted weather patterns. (VOY: "Child's Play")
After Neelix returned from an away mission to Tarakis, Naomi went to visit him in the mess hall. She informed him of her school project, but Neelix was apprehensive and did not appear to be listening. Naomi offered to help Neelix, so that perhaps Neelix could have time to help her. In the process of seeing what Neelix was making, Naomi burned her hand slightly. This caused Neelix to panic over her, and when three crewmen entered, he shouted at Naomi to get down behind him. A security breach was declared, but after several minutes, Chakotay was able to reason with Neelix. He then freed the frightened and confused Naomi. (VOY: "Memorial")
In addition, Naomi enjoyed telling stories to the children. Mezoti claimed that Naomi had said that a monster lived on deck 12, section 42. Neelix said he would have to have a talk with Naomi. In addition, Mezoti said Naomi told her that Neelix always exaggerated. (VOY: "The Haunting of Deck Twelve")
While investigating an assault on Crewman Tabor, Tom Paris, and Harry Kim were able to reconstruct a photon-displacement silhouette of the attacker. The computer was able to isolate general parameters of the attacker, as between 170 and 190 centimeters in height, weighing about 75 kilograms. After Paris noted that described half the members of the crew, Kim joked, "At least we can rule out Naomi Wildman." (VOY: "Repression")
In 2378, Naomi helped host a First Contact Day celebration. She learned that Neelix had discovered more of his people, and asked Neelix to introduce her to Dexa and Brax. She and Brax went to play a holoprogram, and were later seen playing kadis-kot. Naomi was upset that Neelix would leave Voyager to begin a new life with a colony of Talaxians, but understood his need to be with his people and start a family. (VOY: "Homestead")
Future adulthood
Naomi Wildman of 2394
In an alternate 2394, Naomi was an adult and served as a Lieutenant aboard Voyager, along with Icheb. Wildman helped the Chakotay of 2377, and the Janeway of 2371 comprehend their predicament. She and Icheb used advanced instruments that were developed in the Astrometrics lab to help them chart the ship and develop a plan to restore time to normal. She later helped fight the Kazon and Seska of 2373 in engineering, which had reverted to the time period when the Kazon had taken control of the ship, before the timelines were eventually restored. (VOY: "Shattered")
In another timeline, in an alternate 2404, Naomi had a daughter named Sabrina. The two of them attended the ten-year reunion of Voyager's return, which hadn't returned to the Alpha Quadrant until 2394, at Admiral Janeway's apartment. (VOY: "Endgame")
Naomi and her mother in 2375
Samantha gave birth to Naomi in 2372. (VOY: "Deadlock") When the Delta Flyer crashed in 2375, she was injured and was more worried about Naomi than herself. Her final goodbye message was to her daughter, but the two were reunited later. She and Naomi enjoyed going to the holodeck together, especially to play The Adventures of Flotter. (VOY: "Once Upon a Time")
Greskrendtregk was Naomi's father. He worked on Deep Space 9. Since he was not on Voyager when it was thrown into the Delta Quadrant, he was unaware that he had a daughter.
Neelix was Naomi's godfather, as well as her friend. He often took care of Naomi, especially when her mother was on an away mission. (VOY: "Once Upon a Time") He and Naomi enjoyed playing kadis-kot together. (VOY: "Homestead")
Although Naomi was originally very hesitant about Seven's Borg nature, the two eventually became very close friends. (VOY: "Bliss") They would play kadis-kot or go to lunch together. (VOY: "The Voyager Conspiracy", "Survival Instinct") Naomi occasionally stayed with her when her mother and Neelix were occupied, and was able to successfully employ a number of manipulative techniques on Seven. (VOY: "Dark Frontier") Sometimes she even imitated Borg behavior (e.g. memorizing Borg species designations), to the annoyance of both her mother and Seven. Naomi thought of Seven as family, and vice versa. (VOY: "Survival Instinct") Naomi saw Seven as a role model for a future career in Starfleet as Seven was incredibly efficient at her job. Seven tutored her in various subjects related to helping around the ship.
Borg children
Naomi befriended the ex-Borg children Icheb, Azan, Rebi, and Mezoti who were rescued by Voyager in 2376. Naomi tried to play a game of kadis-kot with them shortly after they were brought on board, but the game ended when Azan and Rebi were caught cheating and Icheb refused to play. (VOY: "Ashes to Ashes")
Voyager crew
As the first child born aboard Voyager, Naomi's friends were initially limited to the adults serving on the ship. She made the most of the opportunity and befriended several officers on board.
"And, splash! He'll sink like a log."
"But, Flotter... logs float."
"(Scoffs) Details, details."
- Flotter and Naomi, arguing about how to catch the tree monster
"Try to hold still, please."
"Are you making fun of me?"
"No..."
- Naomi and The Doctor, as the latter allows Naomi to photograph him
"Redecorating isn't work."
"Aesthetics are irrelevant. I am modifying this alcove to function as a cortical processing subunit."
"That was my next guess."
- Naomi and Seven of Nine
"Hmm... there!"
"Excellent. You recognized the complementary base pair."
"Actually, I just found two pieces that fit together."
"You're missing the point."
"I thought the point was to finish the puzzle."
"And learn something about genetics."
"If you really want to help, find me a green piece that looks like Tuvok's ear!"
- Naomi and Icheb, assembling a genetics puzzle
"And once, there was a transporter accident. Neelix and Commander Tuvok got combined... to make a completely different person!"
"Really?"
"You don't think I could make up a story like that, do you?"
- Naomi and Brax
VOY:
"Deadlock" (Season 2)
"Basics, Part II" (Season 3)
"Mortal Coil" (Season 4)
"Once Upon a Time" (Season 5)
"Infinite Regress"
"Latent Image"
"Bliss"
"Dark Frontier"
"Equinox"
"Survival Instinct" (Season 6)
"Dragon's Teeth"
"The Voyager Conspiracy"
"Blink of an Eye"
"Memorial"
"Ashes to Ashes"
"Child's Play"
"Fury"
"Shattered" (Season 7)
"Homestead"
"Macrocosm" (Season 3)
"Thirty Days" (Season 5)
"Alice" (Season 6)
"One Small Step"
"The Haunting of Deck Twelve"
"Repression" (Season 7)
"Lineage"
"Endgame"
Naomi Wildman was portrayed by Emily Leibovitch (as a baby), Brooke Stephens (as a young child), Scarlett Pomers (regularly), and Vanessa Branch (adult).
Naomi Wildman was named by Brannon Braga. He took her first name from a woman he was dating at the time. (Information from Larry Nemecek)
As with other child characters in Star Trek, Naomi Wildman appears to age rather quickly. She is seen at age two in 2374 appearing to look about six years old, and then later seen from 2375-2378 (at age three to six) to look about ten years old. However, unlike other such characters, an on-screen explanation was provided. (Her Ktarian heritage caused her to age more rapidly than a purebred Human.)
The horns Naomi Wildman possesses have not been seen on any full Ktarian.
Naomi is the character to reoccur the most in Star Trek: Voyager after the regular background performers.
Naomi plays an indirectly prominent role in the String Theory trilogy, when a Nacene attempted to infiltrate the crew by posing as Janeway's sister and altering the crew's memories to believe she had been present since the beginning; due to her being slightly "out-of-phase" with the rest of the crew because she originated from the duplicate ship in "Deadlock", Naomi – along with Harry Kim – could perceive the Nacene for what she really was, although she was briefly rendered unconscious when the Nacene attempted to escape detection.
In the novel Full Circle, The Doctor told Seven of Nine that Naomi Wildman had been accepted to enter Starfleet Academy in 2382. Seven had already asked Cadet Icheb, the closest thing to an older brother Naomi had, to monitor her progress. In The Eternal Tide, Naomi mentions that she is feeling the strain of her course while already a plebe, having pulled three of the academy's toughest instructors. She considered leaving, but Icheb talked her into waiting a few more weeks, at least. Naomi thought leaving the Academy would displease her parents, although enrolling in a French culinary institution would have her godfather Neelix' blessing.
In the game Star Trek Online, set in 2409, Naomi is a full fledged Starfleet officer, holding the rank of Commander and is the commanding officer of Deep Space K7, a Federation space station located in the Klingon/Federation Neutral Zone and on the front lines of the war. The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway also states she holds that posting in her foreword to the book.
Naomi Wildman at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
Naomi Wildman at Wikipedia
Naomi Wildman at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Naomi Wildman at The Star Trek Online Wiki
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Lady Gaga At Super Bowl LI: Should Anyone Expect Pop Stars To Lead The Resistance? : The Record Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime performance was possibly progressive, definitely patriotic and ultimately open-ended. Gaga played to the masses, and left the messages mixed.
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"Waiting 4 it," one Lady Gaga fan wrote on her Facebook wall before the Super Bowl halftime show last night. "Gaga, say some s***." The multiplatinum pop rabble-rouser's reputation as an advocate for LGBTQ rights, feminism and general freakery left her with a certain burden of proof as she took on America's biggest annual slice of family entertainment. Would she speak out about the need to preserve civil rights as a new administration already establishing a spotty record on that front reshapes the presidency?
When she took the stage, it seemed for a moment that she would. But roughly fifteen minutes later, after a brief rendition of two songs associated with patriotism, a medley of hits and a pyrotechnics-filled stage show that managed to make unexpected (though somehow deeply appropriate) connections between Rupaul's Drag Race and Top Gun, Lady Gaga left Super Bowl viewers to draw their own conclusions.
Gaga did not denounce President Trump's immigration ban, nor even urge him to stay the course on Obama's policies regarding LGBTQ federal workers. Instead, she dazzled with acrobatic dancing and a medley adhering to her generalized "passion for inclusion." She performed her queer anthem "Born This Way"; but she also debuted her new ad campaign for Tiffany, one of First Lady Melania Trump's favorite stores, and had her friend Tony Bennett, whose collaborative hand guided her beyond her core audience of out-there club kids, introduce her. Gaga's possibly progressive, definitely patriotic, ultimately open-ended statement left America with something new to debate: What can we expect from mainstream stars — whose modus operandi is uniting disparate audiences via the shared lexicon of the Top 40 — during an era typified by cultural divisions so deep they seem insurpassable? Should speaking in code be counted as political in an age when many are shouting their resistance in the streets?
Gaga's way of bridging gaps, expressed through her halftime show as it has been throughout her career, is to assume that the contradictions she contains within herself also exist among her listeners. As she explicitly says in the interview contained within her Tiffany advertisement, she believes in empowerment over rebellion; her entire vision relies on an optimistic belief that self-love and communal pride can defeat hate. Her most often cited lyric might be the line in "Born This Way" that celebrates "gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life." But it's important to remember that song's first line, which asserts that gay men and people who love God are morally equivalent: "It doesn't matter if you love him or capital H-I-M." Gaga's insistence that queer and religious folk can get along reflects her own identity. She's a practicing Catholic and a gender-nonconforming bisexual; an advocate for rape victims who's used the imagery of assault in her videos; an arena rock star who remains devoted to disco. She stands for both the glamorous and the marginalized and doesn't worry too much that the material wealth at the heart of what glamour represents may come at the expense of the excluded poor.
In her insistence on embracing contradictions, Gaga is hardly alone among pop icons, including previous Superbowl performers from Prince to Madonna to, yes, Beyoncé. These figures distill the cacophony of society's most anxious and meaningful arguments — about sex, religion, race and national identity — into choruses that help us live with ourselves and sometimes even make symbolic peace among strangers in their audience. (Madonna's career-making performance of "Like a Virgin" in a wedding dress is a prime historical example.) Gaga's can-do showbiz brio is her defining weapon. She believes, and makes us believe, that stage-generated stardust is a healing substance. "Don't be a drag, just be a queen," she instructed America Sunday, standing a stage that looked like a battleship. "Hi, Dad, hi Mom," she said, interrupting herself, reminding viewers that outside the show she's an ordinary American, and that ordinary Americans can be belly-baring liberationists in weird leotards. She wasn't out to shock, but to normalize.
That radical messages can be mixed up with highly conventional ones is also the point of the pair of songs Gaga used to launch her performance. She generated much talk by belting out a portion of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land," a ballad of small-d democracy that's been a grade school staple since not long after Guthrie wrote it in 1940. As John Shaw notes in his book on the two anthems, that song was actually a response to the other one Gaga excerpted, Irving Berlin's 1938 secular hymn "God Bless America," which Guthrie found excessively corny. Guthrie's song included some radical lines about social inequity, not sung by Gaga; did she mean to telegraph them, many pundits wondered? The fact is, few people knew those socialist-leaning verses until 1997, when an archival recording of Guthrie singing them was uncovered by a Smithsonian archivist. Though known to some on the American Left, the protest aspect of "This Land is Your Land" remained buried just under the surface of its earthy and beautiful celebration of the country as a landscape where people toil and travel. It is the quintessential coded message, a radical call disguised as a children's pageant favorite.
The same is true, in a way, for "God Bless America." Jody Rosen has called Berlin's lung-buster "an anthem for a changing world," one that comforted Americans at a time when totalitarian regimes threatened the Western world order. It is also a masterpiece from a Jewish composer known for crafting secular (or at least, interfaith) musical solutions to America's habitual slide into pseudo-generic Christian viewpoint; he also wrote "White Christmas," the original carol for those who don't want to focus on Jesus in the manger. Berlin's best-known songs fulfilled patriotic and religious imperatives without declaring patriotism or religiosity mandatory. Blending these two songs, and throwing in the line from the Pledge of Allegiance that insists on "liberty and justice for all," she provided an object lesson in how celebrities might speak between, and re-energize, familiar rhetorical lines.
Gaga's efforts, however, were only half-successful, partly because the mixed messages just kept coming. Were the drones that lit up the sky above the NRG Stadium pro-military, or a dystopic warning of warfare to come? Should we focus on the costume that looked like it was adorned with safety pins, a recently designated sign of alliance with LGBTQ causes, or the one that transformed macho football safety pads into a crop top? Was her choice to hug an apparently non-white fan in the crowd an anti-racist statement? The debates continue to rage, but the mainstream press, perhaps cautious about fake interpretations as well as fake news, opted to mostly declare her choices non-controversial. On social media, some declared the performance defiantly queer, but Marco Rubio and Ivanka Trump also praised it.
2017 is shaping up to be a watershed year for public protest, including many musical expressions of dissent. On the progressive side, the strongest of these messages are coming from within communities of resistance, as they always have. Voices lifted in the moment of protest, sometimes individual but often communal, resonate through history. They may belong to famous individuals, but it's not in the nature of the pop that Lady Gaga has made her métier to cultivate them.
To cite one overly invoked example, Bob Dylan singing "Only a Pawn in their Game" with Joan Baez at the 1963 March on Washington was era-defining for many who witnessed it; but the Freedom Singers standing next to him, activists who had often been arrested after singing their songs during Southern protests, provided the example he followed. Dylan simply made it accessible, through his charisma, his whiteness, his channeling voice. Pop stars do this: Almost always, they're not cultural leaders but distillers, making the mood of a historical moment legible to a larger audience. During the Obama era artists felt empowered by both that administration's high pop-cultural IQ and its embrace of post-hip-hop era music in particular; with MC's in the White House and Aretha Franklin acknowledged as a founding mother in multiple ways, stars felt safe exploring their own connections to the legacies of the civil rights movement and the counterculture. Beyoncé's much-vaunted courage in speaking out was at least partially enabled by the embrace of the Obamas. She fulfilled the promise laid before her by the status quo.
The mood has fundamentally shifted since Trump entered the Oval Office. He's expressed hostility toward Hollywood and the musical establishment, turning his apparent inability to secure top musical talent for the inauguration into a chance to decry the supposed elitism of monied culture-makers. In such an environment, popular artists tend to tone down their messages, make them vague and, as Gaga did, disguise them within the fireworks of spectacular performances. This was true in the 1950s, when McCarthyism threatened radicals in Hollywood; it was also true in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan's rise was paralleled by the emergence of a yuppie culture that was aggressively superficial and pleasure-seeking. Dissent and aggressive responses to it will certainly thrive in coming times, but don't expect open expressions of it from the likes of Lady Gaga. It's more likely that the stars who even recently seemed like culture heroes to the left will become more like stealth agents, keeping fans guessing in ways that demand they refine their own stances and, ultimately, make their own clearer statements.


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Dwight Walton and Davon Kelly combined for 47 points as the Florida Tech captured a key Sunshine State Conference victory, 88-81, over the Eckerd Tritons at the McArthur Center Wednesday night. FIT, ranked 11th in NCAA Division II, pulled away from the Tritons with a 17-8 spurt early in the second half that gave the Panthers an 11-point advantage that Eckerd couldn't overcome.
Eckerd fell behind by 10 points in the first half before forging a 36-36 tie with 2:27 left. The teams traded baskets until Kelly, who scored 23 points, made two free throws with 47 seconds left that gave the Panthers a 42-40 halftime edge.
FIT stretched that advantage to 81-67 behind the inside scoring of Astley Smith (14 points) and three-point goals by Kelly and Chris Rose, before Eckerd made a late surge to close within seven points.
Walton scored 24 points and gathered in 12 rebounds to outduel Perry, who scored 22 points and grabbed 12 rebounds despite the Panthers double-teaming defense.
"They certainly outplayed us in every department," said Eckerd coach Jim Harley. "They've added an outside game to their already strong inside game. We had a very poor teamwork game."
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In a first of its kind report, the HFS RPA Services Top 10 report examines the role service providers are playing in the evolving RPA market. We assessed and rated the RPA services capabilities of 29 service providers across a defined series of innovation, execution, and voice of the customer criteria. The report highlights the overall ratings for all 29 participants and the top five leaders for each sub-category.
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A first-of-its-kind comprehensive study of 29 RPA service providers: The HFS Research RPA Services Top 10 report is a first of its kind study where we rated 29 service providers across elements of service execution, innovation, and voice of the customer.No single type of services firm stood out as the de facto leader for RPA services: Our resultant Top 10 leaders are a mixed bag of consultants, global system integrators, and RPA services pure play firms—all supporting customers across the RPA Service Value Chain. The broad roles of the services players reflect a growing but still nascent market with limited talent resources and services firms jockeying to secure their role as the service provider of choice as enterprises scale RPA.
The overall Top 10 leaders are EY, Capgemini, KPMG, TCS, Accenture, IBM, Deloitte, Symphony Ventures, Cognizant, and Infosys. These firms exhibited a strong mix of service execution excellence, applied innovation and vision, and verified customer satisfaction to rise to the top of our RPA services study.
Being adept at provision of AI-focused services does not make a provider an RPA expert: RPA and the various building blocks of AI are different technologies requiring distinct skills. Many services firms who fared well in our AI Services Blueprint have not necessarily cultivated deep capabilities in RPA. While they complement one another in the intelligent automation context of our Triple A Trifecta, it is critical to ensure your provider has actual RPA chops.
Trained RPA talent is growing, but experience is thin: The average number of trained RPA resources across the 29 providers in our study is 1,160, with the median at 675 and total resource base at 32,474. However, HFS estimates that at least 80% of these have less than two years of direct RPA experience.
Enterprise satisfaction with RPA services is squarely mediocre: Customers have spoken! The average satisfaction score for our study was 77% out of 100%, with many firms that usually achieve high satisfaction scores receiving lower than typical ratings from both their hand-picked references and HFS' survey-based ratings. We believe part of the causality lies in enterprise frustration with time to benefits. Transformation takes time. While many small RPA initiatives at a single process or function level can be quickly implemented and proven to show benefits, broader scaling and movement to a hybrid digital and human workforce takes time. The market hype, often from RPA software vendors, continues with its mantra of "RPA is quick and easy," thus continuing to obscure the reality that RPA and broader intelligent automation is not a quick-hit lever but part of broader scaled digital transformation.
Change management and governance capabilities are lacking:Service providers' ability to provide change management capabilities and assist with setting up and ensuring solid ongoing governance were the lowest rated execution criteria, reflected as an element of depth and breadth of RPA capabilities. Enterprises and service providers alike need to implement these capabilities as ongoing elements of their automation strategies and not just pay them lip service.
High satisfaction is tied to focused RPA engagements: The providers that scored well in the voice of the customer metric generally had a very focused approach to how they are offering and delivering RPA—as part of optimizing business processes as with BPO firms or as their sole focus as with the RPA services pure plays. As one enterprise executive put it "the focused approach helps us achieve targeted benefits and then move on without the pressure and expectation of a visible center of excellence and loads of expenditure on licenses." This belies the lack of scaled RPA initiatives.
The biggest gap in RPA services capabilities is in post-implementation: Service providers have built strong depth of capabilities in RPA planning and implementation services. They are less experienced at supporting clients after go-live for management, operations and optimization services. As enterprises continue to scale RPA and broader intelligent automation, HFS expects clear needs to emerge in line with supporting in-house implementations versus managed services.
Service providers' greatest contribution to the RPA market is their IP: While RPA technology skills are valuable, the various frameworks, accelerators, libraries and enabling tools that are being developed by the service provider community to facilitate RPA adoption are their greatest contribution. Much of this IP has been focused on process automation identification and feasibility studies, quantifying potential ROI, and fast tracking implementations. This is now shifting to enablement of RPA extension (RPA+cognitive or AI elements), building industry and domain-specific accelerators, and vendor neutral (and multi-tool) management platforms for integrated human and digital workforces.
The prevailing approach to RPA software by services firms is best-of-breed agnostic: All 29 service providers included in our study refer to themselves as RPA software agnostic. This list includes the seven firms that have developed their own RPA software. These firms will generally defer to client choice or existing investments in other tools, but do position their own tools as powerful greenfield options.
Of the "big three" RPA software products, service providers have the most experience with UiPath: All service providers in our study have built their RPA services capabilities around some variation of the RPA software big three of Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, and UiPath. UiPath ranks as the RPA software product that service providers have the most experience with, followed by Blue Prism and then AA.
Beyond the big three, Pega, Nice, WorkFusion, and Softomotive rose to the top: Service providers have complemented their big three RPA focus with various other firms. Many global service providers already have Pega or Nice practices based on their broader platform capabilities, and RPA is an add-on. This has helped propel Pega and Nice into the fourth and fifth slots, respectively, for depth of use by service providers. WorkFusion was noted as a viable option for BFSI clients, and Softomotive was noted as cost-effective.


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As Wisconsin's 2008 legislative session winds down, it is vital that Senate Bill 529 (mentored hunting) be heard in the State Senate so that the Assembly will have time to consider the bill tomorrow, Wednesday, March 12.
Sponsored by State Senator Robert Wirch (D-22), SB529 would establish a mentored hunting program in the Badger State. This legislation is similar to last year's mentored hunting bill in that it would provide first-time hunters a "try before you buy" opportunity to get the full experience of hunting before committing to a hunter education course. SB529 would require a new hunter to be accompanied by a licensed hunter who is at least 18 years of age, who is always within arms reach and only one firearm will be allowed between the two of them. This bill will also lower the hunting age in Wisconsin from 12 to 10 for individuals participating in the mentored hunting program.
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Migration numbers plummet for imperiled shorebird on N.J.'s Delaware Bayshore
Jon Hurdle, NJ Spotlight
A pair of red knots in the foreground and two horseshoe crabs at Cooks Beach, Cape May County on Monday, May 18, 2020. (Jon Hurdle)
This story originally appeared on NJ Spotlight.
At the mouth of a creek near Pierces Point, an isolated beach community on the New Jersey side of the Delaware Bay, Larry Niles spotted only two red knots on Monday morning, in the same place that he saw some 17,000 of the shorebirds during their spring migration a year ago.
It was a snapshot of a dramatic decline in the number of knots that have stopped off on the bay beaches so far during this year's migration, a change that has no precedent in the 24 years that Niles, a wildlife biologist, has been monitoring the annual visits of thousands of knots and other shorebirds.
Nearly all the birds have stayed away from the bay this year because of a shortage of horseshoe crab eggs that fuel them for the completion of their long-distance migration from South America to breeding grounds in Arctic Canada. And the crabs are largely absent because unusually cool weather has kept the ocean temperature below what it needs to be for the crabs to spawn.
The lack of food on the Delaware Bay side of New Jersey has so far driven about 7,000 migrating knots to sites on the state's Atlantic coast where they are feeding on "mussel spat," a food source that isn't as energy-rich as crab eggs, and so won't do as good a job of fueling the birds for the rest of their grueling migration, Niles said.
In 'ecological lockdown'
"Now, after a week of very few spawning crabs and virtually no red knots, we must see this year as truly different than all the others," Niles wrote in an email to supporters on Monday. "And not because of the deadly COVID-19 virus. Cool weather, tropical storms and God knows what else seems to put the entire stopover in a sort of ecological lockdown. We don't know what is next for birds and crabs."
Horseshoes crabs are pictured at Delaware Bay in 2019.
By Monday, only about 150 red knots had been spotted on a section of the Bayshore between Reeds Beach and Pierces Point that usually hosts thousands of the birds and other species in May.
Niles blamed low air temperatures keeping the water at or below 59 degrees, the threshold for spawning. In most years, the water temperature rises to that level by early May, but this year that didn't happen, and the weather forecast for the rest of May, with high air temperatures remaining in the 50s and 60s, suggests that's not going to change.
In 2017, cool weather in mid-May shut down the crab spawn, making it hard for the birds to put on weight, but a late warming produced a surge in eggs, improving prospects for the rest of the migration.
But it's hard to be optimistic about this year because of the weather forecast and Tropical Storm Arthur — the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, whose easterly winds are pushing cold Atlantic waters toward the shore, lowering the air temperature, and hindering the departure of the few migrants that are ready to resume their northward journeys, Niles said.
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Shorebird count much different from other years
His efforts have been further hampered by the need to follow social-distancing requirements in the COVID-19 pandemic for his seven assistants. That has meant cancelling the participation in this year's shorebird count of dozens of volunteers who are normally drawn from all over the world to witness a great natural spectacle, and contribute to the survival of the red knot and other shorebird species, including ruddy turnstones and semipalmated sandpipers. And it means that the few remaining members of the team wear masks and strictly observe distancing measures to stop the spread of the disease.
Horseshoe crab eggs (USFWS)
Because of the pandemic, Niles nearly canceled the event for the first time in almost a quarter-century but decided to hold it with the appropriate health precautions because he didn't want to interrupt 23 years of data from one of the world's most important shorebird migration sites.
"Information from the Delaware Bay is absolutely essential because it's the one place where you have so many species and so many individuals coming through," said Eric Stiles, president of New Jersey Audubon. "If you miss the field season, you could miss a huge uptick or a huge downturn."
The cool weather wouldn't be so much of a problem if it hadn't been for the "senseless slaughter" of horseshoe crabs during the 1990s and early 2000s for commercial fishery bait and for bleeding by the biomedical industry, Stiles said. Although New Jersey has now banned the crab harvest, helping the bird population, it's still allowed by other Mid-Atlantic states, and unknown numbers are taken for bleeding, preventing a recovery in the crab population.
Efforts to stop the biomedical industry from taking crabs recently suffered a setback when the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), a body that sets professional health-based standards for the pharmaceutical industry, unexpectedly delayed action on a proposal to endorse the use of a synthetic alternative to the crab blood, which it uses in a test for bacterial contamination in pharmaceuticals.
Synthetic alternative to crab blood for COVID-19 vaccine
Advocates for a switch to the synthetic substance say it could be used to test any vaccine that is discovered for COVID-19 in much greater quantities than the material that uses crab blood, while cutting the demand for crabs.
Shorebirds massed last May at Reeds Beach, Cape May County to gorge on horseshoe crab eggs before resuming their migration to breeding grounds in Arctic Canada. (Jon Hurdle)
The effective absence of the red knot from the bay beaches so far this year renews concern about the survival of a species that the federal government listed as threatened in 2014. Since hitting a low of around 17,000 in the early 2000s, its numbers have stabilized at about 45,000, but they are still below the level that would allow the species to survive shocks like extreme weather or the new development of wintering or migration sites.
Some red knots, which weigh less than 5 ounces, migrate about 10,000 miles from southern Argentina to Canada — one of the longest migrations in the avian world — losing a significant amount of their body weight by the time they reach the Delaware Bay.
Without the crab eggs that allow depleted birds to regain weight during their brief stopover, they may be unable to complete their migration, may head north from the bay but die en route, or may fail to breed successfully, naturalists say.
"This week will be decisive," Niles said. "If it (the weather) doesn't turn around by the end of the week, then it will be difficult for the birds to make the weight needed for migration."
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Horseshoe crabs breed along North America's eastern coast, from Maine to Mexico. And every year, tens of thousands of them hook up on the beaches of Delaware and New Jersey.
With bird populations at stake, naturalists renew calls to halt horseshoe crab harvest in Delaware Bay
Conservation groups led by New Jersey Audubon are renewing their efforts to persuade the other bay states — Delaware, Maryland and Virginia — to ban the crab harvest.


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How have Americans remembered the Civil War - what it meant, what it accomplished, and what it failed to accomplish? How did Americans reimagine the United States as a nation after the war? Who belonged in the national community and who would be excluded? In 1865, the peace treaty was signed at Appomattox and the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery, but the battle over memory and national identity had just begun. The questions that the Civil War addressed - and failed to address - continue to affect our lives today. We will focus on how Americans negotiated issues of cultural memory and national identity through a close analysis of historical texts, novels, poems, films, paintings, cartoons, photographs, and music. Our interpretations will foreground the particular themes of race and nationhood, freedom and citizenship, and changing notions of individual and collective identity. Our assumption in this course is that history is not available to us as a set of events - fixed, past, and more »
How have Americans remembered the Civil War - what it meant, what it accomplished, and what it failed to accomplish? How did Americans reimagine the United States as a nation after the war? Who belonged in the national community and who would be excluded? In 1865, the peace treaty was signed at Appomattox and the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery, but the battle over memory and national identity had just begun. The questions that the Civil War addressed - and failed to address - continue to affect our lives today. We will focus on how Americans negotiated issues of cultural memory and national identity through a close analysis of historical texts, novels, poems, films, paintings, cartoons, photographs, and music. Our interpretations will foreground the particular themes of race and nationhood, freedom and citizenship, and changing notions of individual and collective identity. Our assumption in this course is that history is not available to us as a set of events - fixed, past, and unchanging. Rather, history is known through each generation's interpretations of those events, and these interpretations are shaped by each generation's lived experience. What stories get told? Whose stories? And in what ways? The stories we choose to tell about the past can shape not only our understanding of the present, but also the kind of future we imagine and strive to realize.
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
THINK 43: What is Love?
Is love a spiritual or a bodily phenomenon? Is the concept of love timeless or ever changing? How does thinking about love lead us to ask other important philosophical and social questions? In this course we will examine the classical roots, medieval developments, and contemporary permutations of Western ideas of romantic love. With an eye to thinking about representations of love in our own culture, we consider some of the foundational love books of the Western tradition. From Plato's Symposium to Chester Brown's graphic novel Paying For It, we ask the fundamental question of whether and how we might distinguish between spiritual and physical desire. We consider how medieval and contemporary writers dealt with the relation of love to sex, power, money, marriage, and gender. We discuss these works of the past, for example the illicit love in the courtly romance Tristan, in tandem with representations of clandestine love from the present day, such as the portrayal of same-sex love in Brokeback Mountain.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Gounalis, N. (PI) ; Harrison, R. (PI) ; Rials, E. (PI)
THINK 43 | 4 units | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 30404 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | LEC | Students enrolled: 42 / 60
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon, Wed 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at 260-113 with Harrison, R. (PI)
Instructors: Harrison, R. (PI)
THINK 43 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 30606 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | DIS | Students enrolled: 11 / 15
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon, Wed 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM at 200-202 with Gounalis, N. (PI)
Instructors: Gounalis, N. (PI)
THINK 43 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 30607 | Section 03 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | DIS | Students enrolled: 7
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon, Wed 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM at 200-202 with Gounalis, N. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM at 50-52H with Rials, E. (PI)
Instructors: Rials, E. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM at Encina West 106 with Rials, E. (PI)
THINK 44: Belief
Why do people believe in God? What does it mean for people to experience the supernatural? How do we understand belief in God? How do people convey experiences that are by definition extra-ordinary to others? In this course we ask the big (and unanswerable) question why people believe in God. Some scholars argue that belief results from direct experience, such as visions or moments of transcendence, that testify to God's existence. Others suggest that belief in the supernatural is better explained by the way the human mind has evolved or people's experience of the social world. In this class, we will pair medieval literature on Christian mysticism and magic with readings from modern psychology and anthropology. We will look at the dominant answers provided by each discipline. For example, belief might result from our sensory experience of the world, or it might have developed as part of our cognitive apparatus in response to fear. Our aim is to show how different disciplines can work together to cast light on a basic question of human existence.
Last offered: Winter 2017 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
THINK 49: Stories Everywhere
Do we perceive the world through stories? Are we made of stories? Can we make sense of the world without narrative? The telling of stories is not just a form of entertainment but an essential human activity that moves and persuades us, compelling us to action and reflection. In this course, we will probe how moral, cognitive and historical forces give stories their power. You will be introduced to the basic theory and art of storytelling, enabling you to understand and master the fundamentals of narrative structure, plot, and character. This will allow you to practice producing your own stories through both interpretative and creative writing assignments. The class will also give students the chance to participate in various story-making activities and work with the Stanford Storytelling Project, San Francisco StoryCorps, School of the Arts and the Stanford Innocence Project to create assignments that would be useful to both private and nonprofit organizations.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Instructors: Burks, M. (PI) ; Hara, K. (PI) ; Johnson, A. (PI) ... more instructors for THINK 49 »
Instructors: Burks, M. (PI) ; Hara, K. (PI) ; Johnson, A. (PI) ; Laurence, A. (PI) ; Parker, A. (PI) ; Vermeule, B. (PI)
THINK 49 | 4 units | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | Class # 18777 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | LEC | Students enrolled: 118 / 120
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon, Wed 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 200-002 with Johnson, A. (PI); Vermeule, B. (PI)
Instructors: Johnson, A. (PI); Vermeule, B. (PI)
THINK 49 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | Class # 18778 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | DIS | Students enrolled: 13 / 15
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM at 160-315 with Hara, K. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Wed 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM at Encina Center 464 with Hara, K. (PI)
Instructors: Hara, K. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon, Wed 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM at 460-334 with Burks, M. (PI)
Instructors: Burks, M. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM at Sweet403 with Parker, A. (PI)
Instructors: Parker, A. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM at 260-012 with Laurence, A. (PI)
Instructors: Laurence, A. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at Sweet403 with Parker, A. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at 200-105 with Laurence, A. (PI)
THINK 53: Food Talks: The Language of Food
In this course, we examine how the ways we talk about food offers us a window into history, psychology, culture and economics. We ask students to think critically about language and taste as well as explore the hidden meanings and influence of the language that surrounds us. Students will analyze the language of food through menus, recipes, Yelp reviews, TV food shows, as well as the history and etymology of food words. Some of our examples will be drawn from East Asian food and culture in addition to, and as a point of contrast with, foods and cultures that may be more familiar to students.
Last offered: Spring 2017 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
THINK 55: Understanding China through Film
How did China move from an imperial and colonized country to an independent modern nation? How did the Chinese people transform its tradition, create new ways of life and values, and move toward modernity? What can the films tell us about the most significant events in modern Chinese culture and history?nWe will learn about major social and cultural transformations in modern Chinese through film. We will analyze films as a window on the ongoing narrative of a people making history and responding to a changing circumstances of revolution, reform, political movements, and modernization. Students will study film images as an art that is intertwined with ordinary people, their lived experiences, cultural habit, moral values, and political consciousness. The course will highlight four major periods: the May Fourth New Culture (1919-1930), the socialist era, the Cultural Revolution, and the reform era of globalization since the 1980s. We will learn to be sensitive to film as a visual and dramatic medium that brings to life Chinese history and culture. Mandatory screenings will be held on Wednesdays 6:30pm-9pm.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Gounalis, N. (PI) ; Martin, N. (PI) ; Tang, J. (PI) ; Wang, B. (PI)
THINK 55 | 4 units | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II | Class # 19074 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | LEC | Students enrolled: 25
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at 200-030 with Wang, B. (PI)
Instructors: Wang, B. (PI)
THINK 55 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II | Class # 19075 (CANCELLED) | Section 02 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | DIS
THINK 55 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II | Class # 19076 | Section 03 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | DIS | Students enrolled: 9 / 15
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM at 50-52E with Martin, N. (PI)
Instructors: Martin, N. (PI)
THINK 55 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II | Class # 19077 | Section 04 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | DIS | Students enrolled: 6
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM at Thornt209 with Gounalis, N. (PI)
THINK 55 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II | Class # 19114 | Section 05 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | DIS | Students enrolled: 10 / 15
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Wed, Fri 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at 160-325 with Tang, J. (PI)
Instructors: Tang, J. (PI)
THINK 57: Progress: Pro and Contra
Where and when did we start believing in human progress? Does progress imply that history has a particular direction or end-goal?nMuch of our everyday thinking about politics, society, and history depends on some implicit or explicit concept of progress. Have we reached a point where we need to replace the idea of progress with that of sustainability? These are some of the questions this course will raise as it looks at how ideas of progress inform western thinking about science, history, evolution, and politics. It will engage with thinkers who argued in favor of the idea of progress as well as thinkers who attacked its presumptions. Reading and critically evaluating philosophical, scientific, and literary texts, we will investigate the different consequences of our residual belief in progress, as well as the consequences of our possible abandonment of that belief.
Last offered: Spring 2018 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II
THINK 59: Worlds of Sound: Learning to Listen
We live in a world of sound. In ways that we do not always see, our social practices and machines lead us to understand certain sounds as signal and filter out others as noise. Drawing on thinking from linguistics, musicology, science and technology studies, and literature, this class challenges freshmen to become aware of their own listening practices and to learn how to listen actively and critically. We ask students to think about how listening can give them knowledge about themselves; how it relates to memory and identity; and how it is like or unlike reading. We will then introduce issues related to listening and technology: how technology influences the perception of sound; the perceived lack of fit between noise and an individual's perception of it. Finally, we will address varies cultures of musical listening, the classical Western tradition, South Asian musical traditions, and the listening experiences of immigrant and minority communities.
Instructors: Hadlock, H. (PI) ; Kelman, A. (PI) ; Loggins, A. (PI) ... more instructors for THINK 59 »
Instructors: Hadlock, H. (PI) ; Kelman, A. (PI) ; Loggins, A. (PI) ; Paige, K. (PI) ; Safran, G. (PI)
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Mon, Wed 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at Campbell Recital Hall 126 with Hadlock, H. (PI); Kelman, A. (PI); Safran, G. (PI)
Instructors: Hadlock, H. (PI); Kelman, A. (PI); Safran, G. (PI)
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Mon, Wed 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM at 110-114 with Paige, K. (PI)
Instructors: Paige, K. (PI)
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Mon, Wed 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM at 110-114 with Paige, K. (PI)
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at Sweet403 with Loggins, A. (PI)
Instructors: Loggins, A. (PI)
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Tue, Thu 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM at Sweet403 with Loggins, A. (PI)
THINK 60: American Enemies
It would seem that an enemy should be easy to identify, but this course proposes that this involves deliberation, choice, and an assessment of consequences. We will explore modern American experiences in defining enemies, here defined as mortal threats to the state and the national collective. We will focus on ideas, thinking and assumptions rather than historical chronology. Who are enemies? How are they defined and by whom? How are enemies characterized and perceived? The narrative content of the course would be a historical study of the American engagement with enemies from 1942 to 1990. We will begin with the war or terror, return to consider the experience of the Japanese enemy of World War II, and then come up through the years of the Cold War and beyond.
Instructors: Chang, G. (PI) ; Greenburg, J. (PI) ; Martin, N. (PI) ; Tang, J. (PI)
THINK 60 | 4 units | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 19256 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | LEC | Students enrolled: 59 / 110
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at School of Education 128 with Chang, G. (PI)
Instructors: Chang, G. (PI)
09/13/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM at 160-322 with Greenburg, J. (PI); Martin, N. (PI)
Instructors: Greenburg, J. (PI); Martin, N. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM at 200-201 with Martin, N. (PI); Tang, J. (PI)
Instructors: Martin, N. (PI); Tang, J. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM at 200-219 with Greenburg, J. (PI)
Instructors: Greenburg, J. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM at Econ 106 with Greenburg, J. (PI)
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Wed, Fri 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at Sweet403 with Tang, J. (PI)
THINK 60 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 30605 | Section 07 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | DIS | Students enrolled: 9 / 15
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Wed, Fri 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM at Sweet403 with Tang, J. (PI)
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Small business taxes, how to reduce them, especially in your Child Care.
Quick Start For Your Small Business Taxes.
Your time spent learning about small business taxes and deductions for your Child Care Business could save you a lot of money. I have created a great list to try and help you be prepared for taking advantage of saving some small business tax tips.
Purchase a receipt book that has makes duplicates. When you receive payments from your daycare parents, give them a receipt and you have the copy for your year end total.
You'll want to plan your daycare accounting methods because your records MUST be thorough. My husband devised a program for me on our computer with an Excel spread sheet that will total all of my expenses as well as my child care payments from parents. This could be an option for you if you are familiar with that program (or know someone that is) or you could purchase tax preparation software. Another choice is to do your accounting by hand. If you like the hands on approach to book keeping, this is an excellent choice for you. It is more time consuming but gets the job done.
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If you get hacked, should the government hack back? Recent efforts have been made to fight the use of illegal botnets, but many privacy advocates are concerned that these policies will excessively expand government hacking powers and impede legitimate security research. Evan is joined by Drew Mitnick, policy counsel for Access Now, to discuss the proposals. Can government fight illegal botnets without harming privacy? Should government need your permission to hack on your behalf?


simply put, I need to install kernel-tools-libs-4.4.5-300.fc23.i686 I have kernel-tools-libs-4.4.6-300.fc23.i686currently. I tried downgrading ( dnf downgrade <packagename> ) but it didn't work. I cannot find a correct rpm file that will install exactly what I need.
Have a look at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ , search for a package and click on the "koji" link on the left. You'll find all recent builds for this package there.
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The End of Perpetual Growth Economics
Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009
Conventional economics, based on the assumption of perpetual growth, won't help us understand how to save the planet. What will? Here's what Gus Speth, John Ehrenfeld and Peter G. Brown are saying.
Sponsors: Nature Network, the CUNY Program in Earth & Environmental Sciences and HORIZON International
John Ehrenfeld, author of Sustainability by Design, Yale University Press, 2008
Executive Director, International .Society for Industrial Ecology, and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Senior Research Scholar; Retired from MIT Center for Technology, Policy & Industrial Development.
Peter G. Brown et al, authors of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2009 Professor, McGill University School of Environment
James Gustave Speth, author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World, asserts we are winning battles and losing the war. The state of global nature is far worse than we're telling the public, and it's time we told the whole truth. Climate change is an imminent threat, but so is the state of the oceans, soil, fresh water, toxics in air and water and biodiversity. Reducing global consumption is essential—particularly in America --and that is likely to leave Americans happier.
Ehrenfeld and Brown carry this argument further. Economics must be based on the limits to the sources of life provided by nature, fundamentally the sun. The developed world is dangerously drawing down the planet's life sources, threatening other species and depriving a large portion of humans of their essential needs. Economists assume that perpetual growth is essential. That must change. Continued growth in consumption is impossible.
That change in the thinking of the public and economists is not happening.
Ehrenfeld emphasizes that complexity defies models and the analysis of a single discipline, calling for multi-discipline analysis and synthesis followed by broad public participation in ecology/economy decisions—always working at the margins with constant monitoring. Non-scientists should insert their values having been told the assumptions of scientists. He offers examples of how to keep public attention on reducing consumption, living within nature's means.
Brown argues that the economic order cannot offer satisfactory answers to five simple questions about the economy: What is it for? How does it work? How big should it be? What is fair? and, How should it be governed? In answering these questions he lays the foundation for a different economic order respectful of the earth and the whole commonwealth of life with which we share heritage and destiny. He argues that it is now necessary to take direct actions if we are to turn away from the present disastrous course.
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 11 am - 1 pm
Location: CUNY Graduate School , Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Street
Registration: Bill Shore 914-922-1542 or bshore@kohudres.kendal.org
NYU Startup School
[Virtual] Funding Your R&D: VC, Federal Grants, and More — This session will be led by Alexia Akbay (CAS '17), CEO of Symbrosia. With a background in green chemistry, Alexia's prior research focused on petroleum-based consumer products, medical marijuana, and blockchain-enabled carbon accounting.
U Michigan: Peter M. Wege Lecture
[Virtual] The School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan 18th Peter M. Wege Lecture — A Conversation with Naomi Klein