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The preceding discussion about the uraken or backfist has made me think about the related issue of where backfists occur in karate kata and what techniques are often substituted.
In fact only one technique is regularly interchanged with the uraken - the age ura zuki or rising inverted punch. How this technique functions and where it is "exchanged" for the uraken in kata, are very interesting questions.
What is an age ura zuki?
In Japanese an inverted punch is called "ura zuki". This is commonly performed as a low, short-range, horizontal punch, which stops just after your elbow clears your ribcage.
1. First, the chambered punch clears the ribs (ura zuki).
2. Second, the punch extends into a mid-range vertical fist punch (tate ken zuki).
3. Third, the punch corkscrews over into the fully extended, palm down punch (choku zuki).
The ura zuki can also be turned into an uppercut (eg. in the kata seiyunchin) however the punch remains strictly for close-range use.
The age ura zuki is unusual in that the ura zuki is extended, palm up, into the mid-range.
At first glance this might seem somewhat daft as it contradicts the natural tendency to turn over as you extend your arm - the principle underpinning the corkscrew punch. However there is a good reason for not turning over the hand and this relates to your target and the possible approaches to that target.
(b) you can execute a rising inverted strike (age ura zuki).
The problem with the vertical fist punch is two-fold. First, whenever you angle a vertical fist punch upwards you run the risk of contacting your target with your smaller, weaker knuckles (as dicussed in my article Punching: alignment and conditioning). As I mention in that article, some arts such as wing chun turn this to their advantage, however I think it is still a risky proposition.
The second problem with the vertical fist is that it presents a wider surface area. This means that it is not always possible to access a narrow region such as the throat.
As I discuss in the video below, targeting the chin with an age ura zuki produces some rather unexpected and, for your opponent, possibly catastrophic results.
While most people think of targeting the chin from below (with an uppercut) or from the side (with a cross punch), a direct frontal attack is not really contemplated. Possibly this is because we are all aware that the chin is a hard target, and struck straight from the front leaves your opponent's head with "nowhere to go".
First, your opponent's chin is pushed backwards, as expected. What happens next is however more interesting.
When you push the chin out of alignment with its vertical axis, you break the structural integrity of the body. As I demonstrate in the video, once the head is off the vertical axis, your opponent's ability to resist a force is severely compromised. And this is the "secret" of the age ura zuki: your initial blow will force the head out of alignment - then cause the neck to whiplash backwards with virtually no protection from muscular resistance. Simultaneously, your knuckles target the soft and sensitive under-side of your opponent's chin.
Accordingly, the age ura zuki, if it lands correctly, manages to exploit your opponent's lines of least resistance. It not only attacks the underside of the neck, but it does so at a far more forceful and damaging angle than the uppercut (which runs out of steam soon after it passes the chin mark). Simultaneously (and more importantly) the force of your blow effects a whiplash of your opponent's neck, with potentially significant damage to the brainstem.
Both the ura zuki and uraken present an inverted fist shape, however their similarity does not end there. Certainly if you use your uraken the way I have discussed in my article "Uraken: karate's greatest folly?" you will be striking with the same knuckles - the 2 big ones.
Accordingly I am not surprised that the uraken and age ura zuki are often interchanged in kata.
The first, and most obvious, example of such an interchange occurs in the kata naihanchi/naifunchin/tekki. There is a sequence of hand movements in that kata (the same sequence that sometimes features the haiwan nagashi uke) where some schools effect an uraken, while others (including my lineage and that of shorin master Kazumasa Yokoyama - pictured, left) effect an age ura zuki. Which is correct? Arguably they both are. It is possible that the kata designers always intended that the techniques be interchanged, depending on what you wanted to practise at a particular time.
The seiyruto uke is like a palm heel block, however the actual deflection is effected using the corner of your palm heel in a circular motion, outwards and downwards.
This movement appears in 2 kata, seiyunchin and kururunfa. In the latter it is used as a set-up to an age ura zuki (at least my lineage). In the former it is used as a set-up to an uraken (again, in my lineage). Some schools reverse this, while others use the same technique (eg. an age ura zuki) in both kata.
Once again, I suspect that there is no "right or wrong": whether you choose to do an uraken or age ura zuki depends on what you choose to practise.
The age ura zuki is a linear attack, angled upward.
The uraken uch is a circular downward attack. The knuckles might come to rest on the same spot, but the approach is very different.
While it might seem counter-intuitive, the age ura zuki is a deceptively powerful mid-range technique. In order to work, your attacking arm must be low enough to effect an upward angled thrust into the throat or chin.
If your arm is not low enough for an age ura zuki, you can instead effect an uraken with a downwards, circling action.
In other words, your hand position will determine whether the age ura zuki or the uraken is appropriate in the particular circumstances.
Either can be used in kata. In my case, I have been taught to use the uraken in saifa and seiyunchin, and the age ura zuki in naifunchin and kururunfa. What is your preference?
I'm surprised you didn't talk more about the tactical advantage of an upward rising centre-line strike - it's difficult to block and somewhat difficult to see. It's a sneaky, fast, and relatively easy technique to do. It's also relatively easy to juice up ... all you've got to do is rise up to the strike and you're hitting the opponent with lots of support from the legs. The rise is of course only if you intend to hit (or solely hit) with a rising inverted punch!
As for the corkscrew motion of the normal punch, the corkscrewing path allows the palm to ultimately face downward. This palm down allows you to sink your COG into your front foot, tense up your body and apply the power of the drop into your striking hand.
Good job. SOmebody should pay you for this.
And you're surprised I didn't talk more... !
Good points Colin - I don't have to say anything about tactics now!
I also like the comment about the corkscrew punch and its relationship to the COG.
As to being paid... I wish!
Dan if you wrote a book on Goju ryu I'd buy it immediately even if it costed fourty bucks! You can be sure I'll pick up that Jodo/jojutsu book, that's something i've been wanting to learn about for a while.
Great article by the way (lol). I seem to find that ox block in southern kung fu styles quite a bit, especially wing chun. In fact by the way your structure (barrel chested, pelvis tilted) looked I thought you were doing WC for a second!
WHich brings me to a question...The sanchin dachi, white crane sam jian stance, and wing chun triangle stances seem to be similar...are they?
Thanks for your kind words and support Joshua.
Yes, sanchin, saam chien, san zhan and the triangle stance of wing chun are all related. Yong chun baihe (white crane) and wing chun clearly have a common ancestor - they even have the same creation myth.
As to white crane's saam chien / san zhan and sanchin, they are directly related too. See my article http://dandjurdjevic.blogspot.com/2008/05/naming-of-sanchin.html.
What is even more interesting is the possible nexus to the san ti posture in xingyi (see the above article).
That's been very educational as always. Speaking of a book you may right one day, I suggest title "What is NOT karate" because I believe that's a subject many martial artists do not understand. This story on ura zuki and its difference from uppercut in boxing is an excellent example.
As far as ura zuki is concerned I find it makes my arm turn in somewhat unnatural way (unlike uppercut). This may be a negative feature of this punch since in the heat of fight your body will always be more inclined towards executing natural moves.
I'm going to do an article in the future on what Bruce Lee called "natural unnaturalness" or "unnatural naturalness". Basically we can't just do what is "natural" otherwise we would all be experts without any training. In the end there is an element of "unnaturalness" to all natural technique if it is to be functional - or some "naturalness" to artificial technique!
What might initially seem "unnatural" about age ura zuki is ultimately not an issue, in my experience. I find it a very natural, easy movement.
I am writing a book on karate - but somehow finishing these sorts of projects is always a problem for my easily distracted mind!
Excellent to hear that you are writing a book. Don't forget to inform us when you publish it.
However, it looks like your student is being a bit too cooperative. Was he actually resisting? I bring this up after having read your article about the qi, and, since the logic for this one was somewhat hard to understand from just the text, it just looked a little superficial. The video seemed to almost show two movements to the punch to create the two movements of the head. Not to be picky, but since the video was so integral to your argument, I don't want you to come to wrong conclusions because I always find your other articles to be very inspiring. I hope you get my point. Jeez, no matter how many times I edit this post it seems aggressive almost.
"However, it looks like your student is being a bit too cooperative. Was he actually resisting?"
Yes, he was resisting - not with total resistance, but he was resisting appropriately to the level of force I was applying. In other words, it was the technique that forced his head back, not his acquiescence. I could have pushed harder and he could have resisted more, but the neck is quite delicate and one should be careful to avoid injury.
"The video seemed to almost show two movements to the punch to create the two movements of the head."
No, it is one move - ie. a punch. It is the head that does 2 "actions" - the chin pushes in and the head then falls back.
"Jeez, no matter how many times I edit this post it seems aggressive almost."
Your comments are valid and I don't find them aggressive.
All I can say is, try the technique yourself. Just be aware that the move is potentially injurious - hence I'm not doing it hard and fast, nor is my student resisting maximally. However trying it out should give you a fair indication that it works.
You can resist an upward force on your chin, but once the alignment is broken (chin is pushed in) the ability to resist an upward force is noticeably impaired. Try it!
Thank you for taking my comment so graciously. I know at least one grandmaster who would be greatly offended by anyone who would question his words. I am glad to see that you truly do conduct yourself as a martial artist.
Good thing I'm not a grandmaster then!
I apologize if my last message wasn't quite clear. By calling the technique "unnatural" I referred to the fact that muscles on the arm are not aligned as a man would naturally do i.e. in the way of least resistance, which results in that tension one can feel when the arm is extended with top of the fist looking downward. I agree that practice can make one used to this type of motion, but I wonder if one would actually "remember" to use such a technique in the heat of fight. I'll be free to say that even in your demonstrations posted on this site it's hard to find ura zuki (except in this article of course) as a follow up after blocks or so. Again, this is not to say that this technique itself is either impossible or ineffective but we should be aware of it shortcomings when thinking about accepting it into our armory.
As far as your intention to write about natural and unnatural in martial arts, I'm certainly looking forward to reading it. It's something I've been trying to learn more about for a long time.
I appreciate your argument Edward, but my response is the same: what seems "natural" to a person who has not extensively practised age ura zuki and one who has are 2 different things. And what one reflexively does (as opposed to "remembers") will also be different. I find I utilise age ura zuki in free sparring a whole lot. It feels no different to me than any other technique - nor do I feel any particular tension.
Again - it is a question of what you're used to. That's the best answer I can give!
However, it looks like your student is being a bit too cooperative. Was he actually resisting?
A punch typically has a lot of power front and back just due to the body's anatomical structure. Most punches should be done with some relaxedness, acceleration and then with an instantaneous lockdown of muscles which Dan describes as a deceleration point.
In terms of left and right, and up and down resistance however, the extended arm has relatively little power. I can literally swipe a punch out of the way with finger power. Was this the resistance you were asking about?
I don't often see instructors who are both verbose AND who make sense.


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Premier trimestre

  : le président américain Donald Trump signe un décret interdisant l'entrée sur le territoire américain aux ressortissants irakiens, iraniens, soudanais, libyens, somaliens et yéménites pendant 90 jours, et indéfiniment aux ressortissants syriens.

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Troisième trimestre

Quatrième trimestre

  : le président américain Donald Trump reconnaît Jérusalem comme capitale d'Israël, décision saluée par les Israéliens mais critiquée par les autres pays du Proche-Orient.

: une commission anti-corruption présidée par le prince héritier Mohammed ben Salmane Al Saoud déclenche une purge massive de la classe dirigeante.

Les Émirats arabes unis (EAU) sont un État fédéral regroupant sept émirats mitoyens, Abou Dabi, Ajman, Charjah, Doubaï, Foudjaïrah, Ras el-Khaïmah et Oumm al-Qaïwaïn.

 8 novembre : ouverture du Louvre Abou Dhabi avec une couverture multilingue de l'événement sur les cinq continents par RFI.

: Élection présidentielle iranienne de 2017.
  : le président américain Donald Trump prononce un discours contestant l'accord international de 2013 sur le nucléaire iranien.

9 mai : la société de l'audiovisuel public en Israël est dissoute brutalement par Benyamin Nétanyahou, entraînant départs et licenciements.

: Référendum constitutionnel turc de 2017.

: début de la Bataille de Sanaa (2017) opposant les Houthis à leur ancien allié, l'ex-président Ali Abdallah Saleh.
  : Ali Abdallah Saleh est tué dans des circonstances obscures.

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 2017 par pays en Afrique
 2017 par pays en Amérique, 2017 aux États-Unis
 2017 par pays en Asie, 2017 en Chine
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If you own a bar and do not have ample insurance, you may be worried about what would happen if a fight ever broke out. Without the right type of insurance, you may find yourself paying out-of-pocket for medical bills, lost income, pain and suffering, and various legal costs and settlements. Fortunately, liquor liability insurance and similar policies are available to keep your business protected from such expenses. They can also give you peace of mind that you will not suffer the financial consequences of uncontrollable events. For more information about any of the insurance types mentioned or for help applying for bar insurance, contact a bar insurance broker today.
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Business|Financial
Specialty Fashion Group cuts expectations with guidance
October 18, 20172 mins read
Speciality Fashion Group (SFG) CEO Gary Perlstein believes its "too early" to say whether weak trading in the first quarter will carry through to a lacklustre Christmas period after the company slashed its earnings guidance on Wednesday.
SFG has advised the market that that it expects first half earnings before interest, tax, amortisation and depreciation (EBITDA) to be between $14 – 17 million, around half that of last year, amid a continuation of the "difficult trading conditions" that led to its $8.39 million loss in FY17.
The company has been struggling with increasing promotional intensity and a subdued consumer environment as late, with gains at City Chic and Rivers in FY17 being offset by declining comparable store sales at its core apparel brands.
Perlstein, who said at the company's full-year result in August that Christmas trading would be vital for the FY18 prospects of its troubled brands, is unsure whether conditions will abate enough to deliver growth over the crucial period.
"You could say that the trend will continue and that the general softness will make it difficult, or that pent-up demand from consumers not having spent as much as one would have thought [might] come back strong – it's too early to call," Perlstein told Inside Retail.
Perlstein confirmed that the core brands continue to trade poorly, driving the most recent trading update, but that he remains "optimistic" about his omnichannel plan for the company and the progress of City Chic and Rivers.
"We're very focused on improvement and are confident in our strategy," Perlstein said. "We're optimistic about the business despite it having a difficult run."
Perlstein laid out a revitalisation plan for its core brands at the full-year that's combining investment in online with an aggressive store consolidation plan and a move away from aggressive discounting to preserve margins.
SFG is slated to bring its total store network below 1000 across FY18, which could involve the closure of more than 44 stores depending on landlord negotiations.
Perlstein said today that those negotiations had been successful and consolidation plans were being accelerated as a result.
"We've made good headway, it's obvious that the sector needs recalibration and I think everyone understands that," Perlstein said.
SFG isn't the only retailer undertaking negotiations with landlords to consolidate its store portfolio, with others including Premier Investments, Billabong International and Myer all indicating plans to enter negotiations of their own in recent months
"[Landlords] are looking at their numbers and seeing it for themselves…it's that obvious," Perlstein said.
He also indicated that the launch of a new ecommerce platform would drive further progress in digital as the business moves past the trading disruption caused by the updates.
SFG's share price sank 12 per cent to 22 cents in the hours after the announcement, bringing its total decline since January to more than 50 per cent.
earningsfashionSpecialty Fashion Group
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Bertus "Ben" Stom (13 October 1886 – 18 August 1965) was a Dutch footballer who earned 9 caps for the Dutch national side between 1905 and 1908.

References

External links
 Player profile at VoetbalStats.nl

1886 births
1965 deaths
Dutch footballers
Netherlands international footballers
Sportspeople from Apeldoorn

Association footballers not categorized by position
Footballers from Gelderland


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Links 22/2/2011: More Reviews of Debian GNU/Linux 6.0, PC-BSD 8.2 is Released
Posted in News Roundup at 2:36 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Clip of the Day
A 3G-capable, Linux powered computer…in your car's dashboard?
I might have found the right answer in the Navisurfer II. It is a full-blown Linux-based computer, with touchscreen monitor and 3G HSDPA modem all built in. Oh, and as the name implies, it also has a built-in GPS receiver with the Navit navigation system.
My kind of rewards card.
Though I probably don't need another credit card, this one's a little different. Instead of racking up points for me, my new MasterCard sends a portion of each and every purchase I make directly to The Linux Fund — supporting projects…
What's Happening in the Class Action Against Sony About Removing OtherOS? – Updated
I thought you'd be interested to know what's been happening in the litigation against Sony filed by customers upset that Sony took away the OtherOS capability on their PlayStation3′s. Sony Computer Entertainment America, or SCEA, filed a motion to dismiss [PDF] the lawsuit.
20 New User Misconceptions about Linux
The misconception that one OS acts just like another makes me crazy. It's like me going from a Toyota Prius to a sixteen wheeler "big rig" and expecting it to handle exactly the same.
The fact of the matter is that the Linux desktop has no singular way of presenting itself. That's the power behind Linux on the desktop. It can be customized for different needs and distributions, while relying on a variety of desktop and software packages to make it work a certain way.
Windows, on the other hand, has a "here it is" approach that works well enough for its intended audience.
Dell (finally) peddling Canonical UEC clouds
After nearly a year of futzing around, Dell and Canonical are tag-teaming to sell and support a mix of Dell servers and Canonical's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud hypervisors and management tools to customers who want to build private or public clouds that are clones of Amazon's EC2 service.
Back in March 2010, when Dell took a bunch of its servers that were custom-designed for hyperscale data centers by its Data Center Solutions unit and mainstreamed them as the PowerEdge-C servers, it said that its cloud strategy involved selling half-rack and full-rack configurations running Joyent's cloud management tools, and added that it was partnering with a bunch of third parties to stand up hardware/software combinations on those machines.
5 of the Best Free Linux Port Scanners
A port scanner is a utility which probes a server or host to verify if the virtual ports of a system are open or closed. Ports allow different applications on the same computer to share network resources simultaneously.
Top 5 Image Viewers for Ubuntu/Kubuntu
This article overviews five image viewers available for Ubuntu and also includes at the end a list of another five ones which either are no longer maintained or are based on older libraries (KDE3 for example).
Instructionals/Technical
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Squeeze (LAMP)
Some cool quick Linux command line tricks
Nagios Installation On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Quick Look at Exaile & Installation in Ubuntu and Debian
How to Sync Firefox Add-ons, Bookmarks, Preferences, History
Instant Vintage Photo Effects with the FIL Script for GIMP
You can emulate different vintage photo effects in GIMP, but usually this is a rather laborious and time-consuming process that requires some editing chops. Fortunately, the Film Imitation Lab (FIL) script lets you turn plain snaps into eye-popping vintage photos with a minimum of effort.
Xfce 4.8 Desktop Environment
Although often classed as light-weight, Xfce qualifies as a medium weight amongst the Linux front ends. It's heavier than, say, LXDE or Window Maker but it uses less resources than KDE or Gnome. However, it is a desktop environment rather than simply a window manager, and as such, it comes with a set of associated utilities.
Actually obtaining and installing Xfce 4.8 proved to be a bit of an adventure in itself. At the time of writing, the Xfce devs haven't released any binaries, instead leaving this to the distributions themselves and other third parties. When I looked, all I could find was an Ubuntu 10.10 PPA that was 64 bit only. Compiling from source is daunting as it involves downloading and unpacking a collection of tar files and then building them in a special order. In the end, I installed a beta of Zenwalk, an Xfce orientated distribution. Take into account that I am therefore not basing my observations on plain, stock Xfce 4.8.
5 Best Linux Distribution With No Proprietary Components
Linux is a free and open source operating system. However, Linux (and other open source operating system) can use and load device drivers without publicly available source code. These are vendor-compiled binary drivers without any source code and known as Binary Blobs.
Xange 2011.02 (formerly Vixta)
Announcement and release notes for Wary Puppy 5.1
20/02/2011 — SMS version 1.5.6 Released!
Superb Mini Server version 1.5.6 released (Linux kernel 2.6.35.11)
Debian 6: First Impressions
Did Debian have a contest to redesign its graphics and it wasn't made public? Did a third grader win that contest? Oh, the hallowed Debian developers must have had a fashion faux pas moment when deciding on a new look because this one makes me think it was designed for children or by children. It's a good thing that once you've installed the operating system, you can change that horrid desktop background to something less kitchy. Other than the graphical goofs, Debian 6 is Debian and that's a good thing.
Introducing Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
But how does their 6.0 release measure up? My first reaction to Debian's latest was one of disappointment. The graphical installer feels like it's about ten years behind the other big-name distributions, the issue with the package manager giving up when it couldn't find the installation DVD struck me as something which shouldn't have made it through testing. Most of my first day was a series of these sorts of little issues which I'd expect from beta software, not from a distro that had been in feature freeze for months. And that's why this review is appearing two weeks after the official release, because after such a poor start I wanted to give the distro a chance to win me over. After a few days Debian's virtues did shine through. For instance, the project's implementation of GNOME is very light, putting the usually heavy desktop environment about on par with the mid-weight Xfce. The system is fast and responsive, boot times are quick and the presented software is stable without being terribly out of date. Apart from the early quirks with the package managers, adding and removing software went smoothly.
Debian 6: Have your Debian and eat your Ubuntu too
For the rest of us, the Debian of 2011 makes a nice, stable alternative to Ubuntu, even if it does perhaps lack a little of the shine that has endeared Ubuntu to the masses.
Canonical/Ubuntu
Is Ubuntu playing with fire?
And I went back into my past entries and found a couple of reviews of previous Ubuntu alpha releases that … actually were functional, and Ubuntu Natty at this point in time running a desktop window manager (is that what it is?), Unity, that is untried, barely tested and not terribly functional does not bode well for a release in under three months time.
Xoom to Ship Without Flash
We've just gotten word from AndroidCentral that the Moto Xoom won't be shipping with Flash 10.1 preinstalled.
Crawling in Open Source, Part 1
Generally speaking, crawlers are used to find and bring in the content that interests you. Often the reason is that you want to make that information searchable by indexing it. The use case and context for crawling can vary greatly depending on the task at hand. For example the most popular web search engines, like Google and Yahoo, deploy a web crawler that primarily finds content that is publicly available via the web. The main challenge for such a generic web crawler is obviously scalability. The crawler architecture needs to be efficient because the amount of content to crawl is enormous and growing all the time at ever increasing speeds. Another example, of a completely different kind of use case, is a price comparison site where users are presented with products and their price information from various online shops.
A secretary's problem
A colleague had sent her the file, but apparently this colleague was using a different version of Microsoft Office. When she tried to open the file, an important table was missing in the document.
I told her that I hadn't used Microsoft software in more than a decade, but she insisted that I have a look at her file.
So I opened her file in Abiword, without a problem, and to her surprise the table appeared exactly in the right place of the document. Consequently, she urged me to give her a copy of Abiword, which I gladly did.
Best Practices in Open Source Foundation Governance – Part I
For some time now, I have been meaning to write a series of blog posts setting forth my views on best practices in forming and governing open source foundations. Why? Because despite the increasing reliance of just about every part of our modern world (government, finance, defense, and so on) on open source software (OSS) and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), there has been very little written on the subject.
That means that neither a community nor a corporation has much to refer to in creating the kind of governance structure most likely to ensure that the intentions of the founders are carried out, that the rights of contributors are respected, and that the code upon which end users will rely is properly maintained into the future.
Raleigh, NC—the world's first open source city
I started pondering what qualities would define an open source city a few months ago when my friend Tom Rabon mentioned it to me one day. I was curious how the city I live in, Raleigh, NC, could attract other open source companies and be the world's hub for open source and a leader in open government. How could Raleigh be the open source capital of the world, similar to what Silicon Valley is to technology and Paris is to romance?
I think the answer can be found in both the government and the people. First, our government has to be willing to embrace the open source way of doing things. They need to be transparent in their handling of business and foster citizen participation. Citizens need to be willing to participate and contribute their time and knowledge. Both need to embrace rapid prototyping to explore new ideas and innovative solutions.
Oracle/Java/LibreOffice
LibreOffice the last word in open source software
LibreOffice Pips OpenOffice.org To The Post: Review
In the open-source movement, the forking of a project is often a contentious matter, and can lead to the demise or mothballing of the applications that spawn from the original software. In many ways, it's a "nuclear option" as developers choose their allegiances and take their skills with them. Often, the result is the loss of momentum as well as mindshare for all the spawned projects. But it's not an inevitable one: the January release of LibreOffice 3.3 shows that sometimes forking can lead to a positive outcome.
An Open Letter to the Libre Office Design Team
Another item to address with respect to the application itself are the fonts. This is a good chance to introduce non-Linux users to some of the great fonts that are out there. I think that Libre Office should use the Liberation Fonts for its default values.
Oracle looks for love at Java DevJam
The Java* track at FOSDEM 2011 started off on the right foot by dealing with the state of the OpenJDK head on – both politically and technically – with a talk from Oracle's Mark Reinhold. There were quite a few speakers at Java DevJam and lots of Java tech over the two days, but this talk was needed to start to clear the air, hindsight suggests.
3 Reasons why Linux is the platform for education?
Connecting Engineering Colleges via FOSSy Students
In just 2 days students from total 31 Colleges came forward to show that they have FOSS presence in their colleges and listed their name.
PC-BSD 8.2 [Released]
VirtualBox 4.0.4 is released! PPA Debian and Ubuntu
Oracle released VirtualBox 4.0.4, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.0. that come to improves stability and fixes regressions.
Openness/Sharing
Open Hardware
Multi-Core, Multi-OS Scaling Performance
In this article we are looking at how Linux, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD scale across multiple cores. Benchmarked are CentOS 5.5, Fedora 14, PC-BSD/FreeBSD 8.1, and OpenIndiana b148 as we see how the performance differs when running on one, two, three, four, and six cores, plus when Intel Hyper Threading is enabled.
To do this comparison the Intel Core i7 970 "Gulftown" processor was used, which boasts six physical cores plus Hyper Threading. With the ASRock X58 SuperComputer motherboard, from the BIOS the number of enabled cores can be adjusted as well as toggling Hyper Threading. CentOS, Fedora, PC-BSD, and OpenIndiana were tested in their stock OS configurations, aside from building GCC 4.5.1 on each of these operating systems to have a similar compiler across platforms.
Dear Green Activists, will you please start to take file formats seriously?
Shortly after its release, I explained why the .WWF file format isn't a really green and smart idea.
DNA Structure Animation in HTML5
If you don't know what HTML5 is or how crucial it is to the whole future of the Internet ecosystem, you need to check out our previous article featuring 15 incredible HTML5 demos showcasing prowess of HTML5 over Adobe Flash. Here is another nice and interesting HTML5 experiment that generates a DNA structure on the fly.
A step closer to Skynet? Pentagon wants fighting robots to talk to each other
Over at the Department of Defense, they've got lots of robots. Most of them aren't scary and glamorous like the lethal Drones you read about all the time. Perhaps the most useful land-based bot is the Tanglefoot, a short, roving critter that sneaks up on Improvised Explosive Devices, then graciously allows itself to be blown up for its trouble. Then there's the Autonomous Platform Demonstrator (APD) a nimble, 9.3-ton, unmanned ground vehicle that can turn on a dime and accelerate to a top speed of 50mph.
Driver accused of updating Facebook in fatal crash
According to the Chicago Tribune, a wrongful death lawsuit filed Monday alleges that a woman was driving and updating her Facebook status when she hit a 70-year-old man who had stepped out of his car. CNET hasn't yet been able to get a copy of the lawsuit, but we have confirmed its existence with the Cook County Circuit Court and double-checked party information.
I-Team: Dead Officer Signed Red Light Citations
The WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team has learned that Baltimore police and transportation officials are trying to correct a problem with about 2,000 red light camera citations that may bear the signature of a police officer who is dead.
The I-Team learned that the citations were issued over the past few months.
Police Cameras and Crime
If you want to be on TV, don't go to Los Angeles or New York. Come to Chicago, where your wish is certain to be fulfilled. In fact, you couldn't avoid it if you wanted to, thanks to the nation's most extensive network of police surveillance cameras. Anytime you walk out your door, you may find an audience.
This is one of Mayor Richard M. Daley's proudest achievements, but the estimated 10,000 devices now in operation are not enough for him. He once expressed his intention to keep adding cameras until there is one "on every street corner in Chicago."
When cameras are used, common-sense restrictions should apply. The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois recommends that police show probable cause that someone has committed a crime before they use facial-recognition software or conduct nonstop video tracking of an individual. Another proposal is to delete images after seven days unless there is reason to think they document a crime.
Free Two-Factor Authentication For Your Linux Server
They also provide API's (SDK's) in PHP and Perl, as well as Ruby and Java, which means it is very compatible with your Linux server.
Defence/Police/Aggression
US fires 118 drone bombs, kills only two most wanted terrorists
According to independent estimates a total of 118 CIA drone attacks on Pakistan killed only two terrorists on the US 'most-wanted' list.
The CIA spent over $1 million per drone attack. The high cost and high number of attacks proved quite fruitless given the result – two highly sought terrorists killed.
The NYT's journalistic obedience
In other words, the NYT knew about Davis' work for the CIA (and Blackwater) but concealed it because the U.S. Government told it to. Now that The Guardian and other foreign papers reported it, the U.S. Government gave permission to the NYT to report this, so now that they have government license, they do so — only after it's already been reported by other newspapers which don't take orders from the U.S. Government.
It's one thing for a newspaper to withhold information because they believe its disclosure would endanger lives. But here, the U.S. Government has spent weeks making public statements that were misleading in the extreme — Obama's calling Davis "our diplomat in Pakistan" — while the NYT deliberately concealed facts undermining those government claims because government officials told them to do so. That's called being an active enabler of government propaganda. While working for the CIA doesn't preclude holding "diplomatic immunity," it's certainly relevant to the dispute between the two countries and the picture being painted by Obama officials. Moreover, since there is no declared war in Pakistan, this incident — as the NYT puts it today — "inadvertently pulled back the curtain on a web of covert American operations inside Pakistan, part of a secret war run by the C.I.A. " That alone makes Davis' work not just newsworthy, but crucial.
Worse still, the NYT has repeatedly disseminated U.S. Government claims — and even offered its own misleading descriptions –without bothering to include these highly relevant facts. See, for instance, its February 12 report ("The State Department has repeatedly said that he is protected by diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention and must be released immediately"); this February 8 article (referring to "the mystery about what Mr. Davis was doing with this inventory of gadgets"; noting "the Pakistani press, dwelling on the items in Mr. Davis's possession and his various identity cards, has been filled with speculation about his specific duties, which American officials would not discuss"; and claiming: "Mr. Davis's jobs have been loosely defined by American officials as 'security' or 'technical,' though his duties were known only to his immediate superiors"); and this February 15 report (passing on the demands of Obama and Sen. John Kerry for Davis' release as a "diplomat" without mentioning his CIA work). They're inserting into their stories misleading government claims, and condescendingly summarizing Pakistani "speculation" about Davis' work, all while knowing the truth but not reporting it.
US Caught in The Big Lie: ThisCantBeHappening! was Correct in Exposing Raymond Davis as a Spy
So desperate has been the US effort to get the US government killer Raymond Davis sprung from police custody in Lahore, Pakistan following his execution-style slaughter of two Pakistani intelligence operatives in broad daylight in a crowded commercial area, that the government trotted out President Obama to declare that Pakistan was violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by holding "our diplomat," whom he insisted had only been defending himself, and should in any case be entitled to absolute immunity.
Now both the Guardian newspaper in the UK over the weekend, and the Associated Press today are reporting that sources in both the Pakistani and American governments are confirming that Davis works for the CIA. The AP is even reporting that he is a "CIA security contractor," which is something less and a little more amorphous than a CIA employee, and that means he has no claim on diplomatic immunity whatever, and that raises the added question of who he actually is and who he actually works for. But more on that later.
US, UK Meddling in Cairo
In an outrageously ill-timed visit, British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Cairo to meet with the new military ruler, General Tantawi – the defense minister and head of the ruling military council – on a mission to sell arms.
Yes, Cameron actually flew to Cairo to see if Egypt's armed forces, sans a president, might be willing to buy weapons from the UK.
Libyan soldiers reportedly burned alive
Video has been posted on YouTube of what CNN is told are six badly burned bodies of Libyan soldiers in open body bags.
Report: military aircraft are firing at protestors in Libya
Reuters, on the violent crackdown against anti-government demonstrators in Libya: "Military aircraft fired live ammunition at crowds of anti-government protesters in Tripoli, Al Jazeera television said on Monday."
Libya warplanes bombing Tripoli: resident
Libyan warplanes were bombing indiscriminately across Tripoli on Monday, a resident of the Libyan capital told al Jazeera television in a live broadcast.
Friends Don't Let Friends Violate International Law
What do you do when your friend is blind drunk, slurring, staggering and boisterous as they fumble for their car keys? Do you cheer them on, slap them on their back and hand them another shot of whiskey? Of course not, no matter how much they may protest. And when it comes to America's friendship with Israel, what is true for the ethics of bars holds true for international politics as well.
Israel is America's obnoxious drunk friend. And for over half a century, America has been Israel's bartender and enabler: each year dumping billions of dollars in military aid that is used to oppress Palestinians, handing out bribe money to Arab tyrants in exchange for the suppression of their people's outrage and, most importantly, protecting Israel from the UN Security Council despite repeated, flagrant violations of international law. On Friday, America did it again by vetoing a Security Council resolution that would have declared Israel's settlements illegal… all other members of the council, longstanding friends of Israel included, had voted in favor of the reprimand.
The Pentagon Papers Donald Rumsfeld Doesn't Want You to See
More power to him! Except Rumsfeld, of course, only posted the information that he wanted to flow freely. The other stuff—like his callous attempts to keep John Walker Lindh from getting speedy trial, his effort to whitewash the Pentagon's detainee policy, and the friendly op-eds he tried to plant in newspapers—he left out. Luckily, we were able to get a hold of some of the papers from his days as defense secretary that Rumsfeld reviewed and deliberately withheld from the archive.
"I don't really care what happens to Walker at this stage." Here is Rumsfeld in January 2002 arguing that John Walker Lindh, an American citizen who had been wounded in battle and captured in Afghanistan three months before, should be sent to Guantanamo Bay instead of handed over to the Justice Department for a civilian trial—even though the military had concluded he couldn't provide any more intelligence and wanted to get rid of him. "[T]he military doesn't want him anymore," Rumsfeld wrote. "We could put him in Guantanamo Bay until we are absolutely sure we are not going to get anymore information about him or from him." A few hours later, in another memo, Rumsfeld acknowledged that Lindh should eventually go to the Justice Department, but said he still wanted to hold on to him a little longer and couldn't understand why everyone wanted Lindh to get a speedy trial: "I am curious to know what the rush is."
Yemen security forces shoot dead protester
Yemeni riot police shot dead a protester and injured five others when they opened fire on a march of thousands of demonstrators in the capital Sanaa today.
Algeria's long haul towards liberty
Some 2,000 demonstrators again challenged the ban on protests in Algiers on Saturday. "On a marre de ce pouvoir" (we have had enough of this government!), they cried. An older man in the crowd told me, "What we want is a change of the system not a change in the system."
Libyan protesters risk 'suicide' by army hands
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is confronting the most serious challenge to his 42-year rule as leader of Libya by unleashing his army on unarmed protesters.
Unlike the rulers of neighbouring Egypt, Gaddafi has refused to countenance the politics of disobedience, despite growing international condemnation, and the death toll of demonstrators nearing 100.
The Genie is out of the Bottle
But now it has spread all over the Arab world. To Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen. Jordan, Libya, even Morocco. And to non-Arab, non-Sunni Iran, too.
Afghanistan is being stifled by military operations
Five years after Britain deployed forces to Helmand province in Afghanistan it is becoming clear that British and US policies in the country are not helping but setting back development prospects.
Although more children now go to school and health services have improved, it is remarkable how little Afghanistan has progressed, given that it is the world's most aid-dependent country, with 90% of its budget financed by donors. One in five children die before the age of five and one in eight women die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
Obama, Egypt and Iran
Yesterday, 15 Feb, Baraqqi said: ' My hope and expectation is that we're going to continue to see the people of Iran have the courage to be able to express their yearning for greater freedoms and a more representative government, understanding that America cannot ultimately dictate what happens inside of Iran any more than it could inside of Egypt … What's been different is the Iranian government's response, which is to shoot people and beat people and arrest people … Each country is different, each country has its own traditions, and America can't dictate what happens in these societies ' [1]
I live in Iran and I can see how Iranians feel anger at Obama. I feel anger too, and now I should try to control my own anger.
Environment/Energy/Wildlife
You're so wrong about salmon, Mr Salmond
First minister Alex Salmond crowed that the Scottish fish-farming industry may need to double salmon production to satisfy Chinese demand. The announcement a few days later that China was halting the import of Norwegian farmed salmon (China's retaliation, according to the Norwegian press, for the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo) lays Scottish government open to the charge that it is in effect supporting repression.
What does the Arab world do when its water runs out?
Poverty, repression, decades of injustice and mass unemployment have all been cited as causes of the political convulsions in the Middle East and north Africa these last weeks. But a less recognised reason for the turmoil in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and now Iran has been rising food prices, directly linked to a growing regional water crisis.
Spare Capacity Theory
Of course, "everyone knows" that OPEC is sitting on lots of oil. However, as has been discussed here, at The Oil Drum, and elsewhere it remains decidedly unclear whether Saudi Arabia can indeed turn on extra taps at will. But the problems for world supply of oil do not merely end with production capacity. Even if OPEC is indeed sitting on 1-3 mbpd of spare capacity, it's not clear for how long they can both increase production, and export that production to the world. Not only has Saudi Arabia's production not increased in the past five years, but, Saudi is increasingly using its own oil for its own population. The result? Flat, to declining exports of oil from Saudi Arabia.
The Looming Assault on UW-Madison
This story about Scott Walker and Biddy Martin's efforts to dismantle the University of Wisconsin-Madison. To complete the corporatization of the public's university is an important piece of what is happening both in Madison and nationwide. This story must be told before it is too late to save the university that belongs to the people of Wisconsin, and while democratic momentum is still on our side at the University, in Madison, and in the state of Wisconsin. Although seemingly specific to the UW, this is a case study about the future of public college education nationwide.
Wisconsin Fight: It's Not About the Budget
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, in a February 20, 2011 appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, exposed Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's disingenuousness in linking restrictions on collective bargaining to a need to cut the state's budget. Wisconsin's unionized workers have declared they are ready to start contributing to their pensions and health care to help resolve the state's budget problems, Granholm pointed out
Yes, Wisconsin's Public Employees are Undercompensated
Even though the fight in Wisconsin is not really about the budget — a crisis manufactured by Governor Walker's tax cuts and funny numbers — and not about government employees refusing to make sacrifices (for weeks they have said they will agree to concessions), the scapegoating of public servants as the 21st century's welfare queens is particularly unfair given that they are compensated less than public sector employees.
Wisconsin Surprise: Walker Bill Likely Handing State Assets To Walker-Supporter Koch Industries
And just who is the likely recipient of no-bid state sales of publicly-owned heating, cooling and power facilities? That would most likely be companies controlled by the brothers David and Charles Koch, owners of Koch Industries, and big financial supporters of Governor Scott Walker. The Koch brothers have also funded groups that are attempting to create a crisis atmosphere over the state's budget, leading up to the attempt to pass this bill that could result in the low-cost transfer of state assets to their company.
There are many questions raised by the connections between Governor Walker and the Koch brothers and their company and this emergency "Budget Repair" bill. The likely handing of state assets to the Koch brothers at a low price raises even more.
Stay-at-home PayPal crook used stolen funds to buy gold bullion
Richard Kirk, 22, and from the Sherwood area of Nottingham, raided the PayPal accounts of 303 eBay users, transferring the money to accounts under his control. He used the stolen funds to buy a variety of goods, including laptops and bars of gold bullion.
PR/AstroTurf/Lobbying
Post- Citizens United, Crushing Workplace Democracy Can Crush American Democracy
The only countervailing force on the left came from the public employee union American Federation of State, County, and Municipal, Employees (AFSCME), who spent $87.5 million in 2010, a relatively small number when compared to the numerous and coordinated corporate-funded interest groups on the right. As we wrote before last November's election, unlike the right-wing groups funded by a small number of large, secret donations, "the vast majority of labor union funding comes from member dues, which are applied towards advocacy for member interests … when an ad ends with "brought to you by AFSCME," viewers know what is motivating the message — the interests of the union and its employees. … In contrast, the innocuously-named conservative groups give no indication whatsoever about what is motivating the advertisement."
Who Is Writing the AP's Headlines on the Protests — the GOP?
The AP's headlines overall emphasize heavily the GOP's point of view, although some of the stories are fairer than others. Three of the stories in this time frame involving the Wisconsin or national budget, however, feature only the GOP's talking points, while none feature only union or Democratic talking points. So who is writing the AP's headlines these days, and why are the AP's editors putting stories on the wire for papers across the country that quote talking points interviews by only one political party in some instances, as with the Ryan and Palin pieces? Especially with online services like Yahoo's, listing only the AP stories as the entry point for readers, the AP's headlines need to be better and in this case not look like they were written by one political party or to favor one side. (The AP, unlike CMD, does not acknowledge having a point of view regarding unions or the corporate agenda as part of its coverage.)
Kochs Behind Wisconsin Union-Busting Effort
Koch-funded groups like Americans for Prosperity, the Reason Foundation and Competitive Enterprise Institute have all been openly hostile toward public sector unions. For those who still doubt that what is happening in Wisconsin is part of a coordinated, national attack on unions, on February 18, the executive director of the Wisconsin Public Workers Union sent a message to Governor Walker's office saying the union agreed to the cuts in pensions and benefits Walker seeks in his "budget repair" bill. The governor's response? No, not good enough. He is still holding out for nothing less than an end to collective bargaining rights for public unions. Why are the Koch brothers so keen on Wisconsin?
Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions
The Americans for Prosperity group, a Tea Party group that is a Koch Brothers front, has put up a website and petition called www.standwithwalker.com. The website attacks all collective bargaining – not just for public employees' unions. Americans for Prosperity is also organizing a rally tomorrow in Wisconsin to support Gov. Walker.
French journalist convicted on racism charge over drug dealer comment
The controversial French journalist Éric Zemmour has been found guilty of incitement to racial hatred after telling a TV chatshow that drug dealers were mostly "blacks and Arabs".
The Paris trial sparked a fierce debate over freedom of speech and the extent of France's racism problem, which is poisoning the republican ideal that all citizens are equal regardless of colour.
Zemmour, a well-known media commentator and columnist for Le Figaro, prides himself on his outspoken defiance of what he deems political correct, woolly liberals.
Javelin Marketing Seeks to Suppress Criticism of Its "Insurance Leads" Sales
A company called "Javelin Marketing," which in turn operates a business called "Prospect Match" that generates and sells insurance leads, recently tried to suppress criticism of its business practices on several pages of Insurance Forums web site by threatening to sue the host of the forum. Trying to get around the forum's section 230 immunity, Javelin's lawyer, a self-proclaimed Internet law specialist named Richard Newman, included claims for "false advertising" and "trade libel" under section 43(a) of the Lanham Act. Newman compounded his error by threatening to sue for copyright infringement if the operator of Insurance Forums posted his demand letter. That demand letter is posted here.
Parent, Evanston school officials spar over YouTube video
District 65 claims racially tinged clip from board meeting violates copyright rules
WTF: YouTube Musician Evan Emory Faces 20 Years in Prison for Clever Editing
So let's back up. What's this all about? The 21-year-old Emory posted a video of himself on YouTube singing a sexually explicit song to elementary school students. Before you take the side of law enforcement, it's not as raunchy and inappropriate as it sounds. The video was only edited to make it appear as if young children were in the classroom, even though they weren't. Emory posted two disclaimers on the video that elementary school students were not exposed to the explicit lyrics.
If Emory is charged with the count of manufacturing child sexual abusive material he is facing, he could spend 20 years in prison for what he says was just a joke. Muskegon County Prosecutor Tony Tague said Michigan law 'provides penalty' for those who actually manufacture child sexual abusive material 'but also has a provision for those who make it appear that the children were actually abused.'
Wisconsin, Trailblazer for American Workers' Rights
In 1959, Wisconsin became the first state in the union to guarantee collective bargaining rights for public employees by enacting a law that protects municipal workers from being fired or otherwise discriminated against for engaging in union-related activities. That law was further strengthened in 1963 to give either the union or the employer the right to call in a "fact finder" to help resolve bargaining disputes. In 1965, Wisconsin's state employees won a limited right to bargain collectively, and those rights were further broadened over the next six years.
Big Brother Watch statement on the 2011 census
"This census is a monumental waste of time and money. A large number of the questions duplicate data already held by the authorities on databases such as the electoral register, school records, tax returns and GP information.
"It also makes the entirely hollow but nevertheless bullying threat of fines of £1,000 for non-compliance.
"Back in 2001, 3 million people refused to comply. Given that there were fewer than 100 prosecutions for not filling the census in, it's clear that non-compliance comes pretty much entirely without repercussions.
"Last time, 390,000 people declared their religion as Jedi. There's no reason to think people will take the census any more seriously this year".
The Five Senators Who Refuse To Say If They Anonymously Killed The Whistleblower Bill
* David Vitter
* Jeff Sessions
* James Risch
* Mitch McConnell
* Jon Kyl
Should Employers Be Allowed to Ask for Your Facebook Login?
The American Civil Liberties Union has taken up the cause of a Maryland man who was forced to cough up his Facebook password during a job interview with the Department of Corrections in that state.
According to an ACLU letter sent to the Maryland Department of Corrections, the organization requires that new applicants and those applying for recertifications give the government "their social media account usernames and personal passwords for use in employee background checks."
NJ Cop to Parents: Steal Facebook Passwords From Your Kids
If you are a parent of a teenager, ask yourself a simple question. Would you allow your son or daughter to lock you out of his or her bedroom? Even though you own the house, your teen's door is always closed . . .and you never get to come in.
Internet/Net Neutrality/UBB
Internet 'kill switch' bill revised, still angers civil rights activists
Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Tom Calpers (D-DE) introduce a revised version of their cybersecurity bill this week, entitled the "Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act," which they say prohibits any possibility of an Internet 'kill switch" — they swear.
Like the original bill, which was introduced last month, this version is intended to establish an office within the Executive branch that will handle the "coordination" of governmental responses to a "catastrophic" cyber attack against the United States infrastructure, according to a statement by Sen. Collins.
Fictional trademarks: protectable?
"Duff Beer" is the trademark for the beer favored by "Homer Simpson." Just as "Homer" is a fictional character, "Duff Beer" is a fictional trademark. But does that mean that "Duff Beer" isn't protectable – that anyone may use the mark for anything? Fordham law student Benjamin Arrow tackles this question in Real-Life Protection for Fictional Trademarks in the latest issue of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. By the way, the "Duff Beer" question is not hypothetical. "Duff Beer" was used, without authorization, by a brewery in Australia; and Twentieth Century Fox did sue, successfully.
ReDigi Says They'll Sell Your Used MP3′s Legally
Startup ReDigi will be opening "the world's first online marketplace to legally recycle, buy and sell, used digital music files" this summer. On the ReDigi Marketplace, music "owners" can "manage their music libraries by selling their unwanted digital music, or purchasing the music they do want, at drastically discounted prices".
VLC: A slight misunderstanding…
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AAUP threatens University of Illinois Censure Over Salaita Controversy
by Tara García Mathewson
Education Dive
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/22495/aaup-threatens-university-of-illinois-censure
A disapproving report by the American Association of University Professors lays the foundation for a censure vote against the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for its abrupt withdrawal of Steven Salaita's appointment last summer.
The AAUP report argues Salaita's case — which came to a head after he tweeted anti-Israel comments and the university rescinded its job offer — hampers academic freedom, Inside Higher Ed reports.
With Salaita's own lawsuit against the university still pending, the censure vote could be the biggest consequence to date for the university.
Salaita was offered a tenured position in the university's American Indian Studies program last summer, and he signed the offer letter before Chancellor Phyllis Wise told him his hire didn't get approval from the university's board of trustees. The case has tarnished the reputation of the university and drawn criticism from the broader academic community, always sensitive to issues of academic freedom. Scholars have refused to speak on campus and internal search committees have reportedly had a harder time attracting faculty. While plenty of onlookers agree with the university's decision and its right to make it, the AAUP's impending censure will further raise the profile of the university's critics.
Related Topics: American Association of University Professors, Steven Salaita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free mef mailing list


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Alberto Salleo
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNovel materials and processing techniques for large-area and flexible electronic/photonic devices. Polymeric materials for electronics, bioelectronics, and biosensors. Electrochemical devices for neuromorphic computing. Defects and structure/property studies of polymeric semiconductors, nano-structured and amorphous materials in thin films. Advanced characterization techniques for soft matter.
239 McCullough Building
asalleo@stanford.edu
Web page:
http://mse.stanford.edu/faculty/salleo.html
Nancy Sandoval
Executive Assistant, Precourt Institute for Energy
BioNancy is the executive assistant to Sally Benson, Director of both the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP). She supports her in all facets of her day-to-day working and administrative roles.
Nancy started at Stanford University in 2003 with the inception of GCEP and is known as "GCEP Employee #1." Before joining Stanford, she worked for many years as an administrative assistant at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park. She has a daughter and a son who are both graduates of Stanford University.
473 Via Ortega, Room 326
sandoval@stanford.edu
Krishna Saraswat
Rickey/Nielsen Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNew and innovative materials, structures, and process technology of semiconductor devices, interconnects for nanoelectronics and solar cells.
Allen 326 x
saraswat@stanford.edu
Richard Sassoon
Executive Director, SEA, Precourt Institute for Energy
BioRichard E. Sassoon is the Executive Director of the Strategic Energy Alliance under the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford. Prior to this role, he was the Managing Director of the Global Climate and Energy Project (GECP) at Stanford since November 2003. Dr. Sassoon has over 30 years of research and management experience in the fields of physical and analytical chemistry, as well as energy sciences.
Prior to joining Stanford, Dr. Sassoon was Senior Scientist and Assistant Vice President at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he led systems integration efforts for nanotechnology applications. For many years, he was a contractor to the Department of Energy supporting the strategic planning and management of its environmental programs, and its hydrogen and renewable energy activities.
Dr. Sassoon spent over a decade conducting research into photochemical solar energy conversion and storage systems, performing computer modeling of the catalytic processes involved in hydrogen production, and investigating technologies for cleanup of nuclear waste.
Dr. Sassoon received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Leeds University in the UK, and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He conducted his post-doctoral activities at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Sassoon has authored over 20 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, has received several awards including the Gabriel Stein award for outstanding research during his Ph.D. studies.
473 Via Ortega Rm 317
Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Env And Energy Bldg -
rsassoon@stanford.edu
Alicia Seiger
Managing Director, Sustainable Finance Initiative, Precourt Institute for Energy
Current Role at StanfordLecturer, Stanford Law School; Deputy Director Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance; Managing Director, Precourt Institute Sustainable Finance Initiative.
aseiger@stanford.edu
Debbie Senesky
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
BioDebbie G. Senesky is an Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and by courtesy, the Electrical Engineering Department. In addition, she is the Principal Investigator of the EXtreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory (XLab). Her research interests include the development of nanomaterials for extreme harsh environments, high-temperature electronics, and robust instrumentation for Venus exploration. In the past, she has held positions at GE Sensing (formerly known as NovaSensor), GE Global Research Center, and Hewlett Packard. She received the B.S. degree (2001) in mechanical engineering from the University of Southern California. She received the M.S. degree (2004) and Ph.D. degree (2007) in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Senesky recently chaired the 2018 Women in Aerospace Symposium (WIA2018) at Stanford University. She has served on the technical program committee of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEEE IEDM), International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems (Transducers), and International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S). She is currently the co-editor of three technical journals: IEEE Electron Device Letters, Sensors, and Micromachines. In addition, she currently serves on the board of directors of the non-profit organization Scientific Adventures for Girls. In recognition of her research, she received the Emerging Leader Abie Award from AnitaB.org in 2018, Early Faculty Career Award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 2012, Gabilan Faculty Fellowship Award in 2012, and Sloan Ph.D. Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.
Prof. Senesky's career path and research has been featured on the People Behind the Science podcast, the Future of Everything radio show, Space.com, and NPR's Tell Me More program. More information about Prof. Senesky can be found at https://xlab.stanford.edu and on Instagram (@astrodebs).
dsenesky@stanford.edu
http://xlab.stanford.edu
Gireesh Shrimali
Social Science Research Scholar
BioGireesh Shrimali is a Precourt Scholar at the Sustainable Finance Initiative at Stanford University. He is also a visiting scholar at the Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as well as at the Center for Climate Finance and Investment at Imperial College. Previously, he was the Director of Climate Policy Initiative's India Program, and a Research Fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University. He has taught at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterrey as well as the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
His current research focus is on renewable energy finance and policy; in general, on the catalytic role of finance in getting to the 2C climate target; and, in particular, on pathways for provision of low-cost, long-term capital for clean energy transition. His work has also included topics such as analysis of India's renewable policies; the impact of federal and state policy on the development and deployment of renewable energy in the U.S.; and business models for off-grid energy in developing countries.
He holds a PhD from Stanford University, an MS from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. Prior to his academic/research career, he has over nine years of industry experience designing high-speed networking and computing systems.
gireesh@stanford.edu
Olav Solgaard
Professor of Electrical Engineering
BioThe Solgaard group focus on design and fabrication of nano-photonics and micro-optical systems. We combine photonic crystals, optical meta-materials, silicon photonics, and MEMS, to create efficient and reliable systems for communication, sensing, imaging, and optical manipulation.
348 Via Pueblo Mall
Spilker #315
solgaard@stanford.edu
Andrew Spakowitz
Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Materials Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTheory and computation of biological processes and complex materials
Clark Center, Room S295
ajspakow@stanford.edu
Alfred M. Spormann
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, of Chemical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMetabolism of anaerobic microbes in diseases, bioenergy, and bioremediation
James H. Clark Center for
Biomedical Engineering and Sciences
spormann@stanford.edu


Having read the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Yann Martel, I was eagerly anticipating the film's release when it was announced. Directed by the notorious Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain), the movie is already deemed a 'visual masterpiece' and highly tipped to win a few Oscars at the upcoming awards season.
Piscine Patel (Pi for short) grew up in a zoo in India and at a young age is introduced to Hinduism. Curious about other religions, Pi soon finds God in the form of Christ and Allah... but when he truly experiences God is on his epic journey of survival on board a boat with a Bengal Tiger (called Richard Parker) in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Pi's father decides to sell the zoo and move to Canada to make a better life for Pi and his brother Ravi, so taking the animals with them and aboard a Japanese freight ship they go; Pi leaving his first love behind. During a tropical storm, the ship is wrecked and Pi is the sole survivor of the wreck, in a lifeboat with an injured zebra.
After rescuing a mother chimpanzee as well as Richard Parker, a hyena emerges from below the canvas of the boat and Pi finds himself experiencing the realities of the food chain. Amidst this strange predicament, Pi is eager to survive and through determination, strong will and a bit of faith, he discovers how to share a boat with a Bengal Tiger, all the while experiencing the beauty, the amazingness and the treasures of the ocean.
The introduction to the movie was visually spectacular, showing the colourful and bright India and an array of animals, which were delightful to watch- capturing our attention right from the start. With a rather long build up to when Pi actually gets on the boat, the movie follows the layout of the book pretty accurately both in terms of plot, depth and detail. For those who haven't read the book, this background may seem a bit of a bore and you're eager to see the action, but it definitely builds up the character of Pi, essential to reaping the rewards of the movie to the full extent.
The mood of the movie is directly related to the stunning visuals, which is perhaps a strong point for the film. Darkness descends as the boat wrecks and there is a strong sense of loss, despair and loneliness. This can also be seen in the motion of the sea, as Pi experiences so many delights but also trials.
One of my favourite scenes has to be the luminescent jellyfish and the giant whale leaping across the lifeboat (slightly ruined by this scene being shown in the trailer) but nonetheless magical. I also loved the changing colours of the water and the dynamics of light and reflection.
I also particularly like the symbolism and certain iconic scenes in the film, an example being the one which reinacts the cover for the book, featuring Pi lying on the tarpaulin with sea creatures beneath the water. These subtle references add depth to the movie which will please those that have read the book.
However, one of the negative aspects would be the lack of a real climax, which the book also lacks but is made up for by the shocking ending; here I am not so forgiving. To the regular cinema goer, the movie just seems to end and lacks any sort of real satisfaction- so I definitely recommend reading the book first.
With regards to 3D or no 3D, the film was made as a visual spectacle so to not see it in 3D would be an abomination. That said, only a few scenes were really three dimensional and the rest of the visual delights would be just as enjoyable in 2D.
The rather unknown cast worked well for the movie, shifting the focus from the actors to the meaning, the message and the visuals. Tobey Maguire was initially cast but removed due to his relative fame, potentially overshadowing the main actor.
Suraj Sharma was likeable to watch although was not as gripping as Irrfan Khan, who despite his short screen time, managed to pull a hat full of emotion, humour and mystery.
'Life of Pi' tells of a wonderful story of survival, faith and self discovery but gets a Hollywood visual treatment which makes it an absolute visual delight. Readers of the book enjoy it the most but there is still a huge amount to satisfy those that have not.
One of the most hyped movies this Christmas (alongside The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) due to the epic trailer (even if it is slightly misleading), this is definitely a must see movie even if just for the visuals and artistry.
Expect this to win the best visual effects Oscar at the minimum.
On a side not, this movie is rated at a PG, but I felt it contains scenes where it might be upsetting for a child (involving the tiger and other animals *wink wink*) and it evokes strong feelings of loss and tragedy.


Thank you to Jacobson Glass Studio for being a GOLD annual sponsor of West Bay Rotary events, including the annual Chili Challenge.
Accomplished glassblower, David Jacobson has been honing his craft for over 26 years. Trained in the Venetian Style of glassblowing, which incorporates elegant shapes, rich colors and masterful techniques, David creates brightly colored functional objects as well as one-of-a-kind sculptures. His work can be found in major collections, galleries, and shops around the country. David offers classes and private instruction at his beautiful home studio in Montville, Maine.


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SyntaxNetTransitionState::SyntaxNetTransitionState(
    std::unique_ptr<ParserState> parser_state, SyntaxNetSentence *sentence)
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  score_ = 0;
  current_beam_index_ = -1;
  parent_beam_index_ = 0;
  step_for_token_.resize(sentence->sentence()->token_size(), -1);
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  parent_step_for_token_.resize(sentence->sentence()->token_size(), -1);
}

void SyntaxNetTransitionState::Init(const TransitionState &parent) {
  score_ = parent.GetScore();
  parent_beam_index_ = parent.GetBeamIndex();
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std::unique_ptr<SyntaxNetTransitionState> SyntaxNetTransitionState::Clone()
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  std::unique_ptr<ParserState> cloned_state(parser_state_->Clone());
  std::unique_ptr<SyntaxNetTransitionState> new_state(
      new SyntaxNetTransitionState(std::move(cloned_state), sentence_));

  // Copy relevant data members and set non-copied ones to flag values.
  new_state->score_ = score_;
  new_state->current_beam_index_ = current_beam_index_;
  new_state->parent_beam_index_ = parent_beam_index_;
  new_state->step_for_token_ = step_for_token_;
  new_state->parent_step_for_token_ = parent_step_for_token_;
  new_state->parent_for_token_ = parent_for_token_;

  // Copy trace if it exists.
  if (trace_) {
    new_state->trace_.reset(new ComponentTrace(*trace_));
  }

  return new_state;
}

const int SyntaxNetTransitionState::ParentBeamIndex() const {
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}

const int SyntaxNetTransitionState::GetBeamIndex() const {
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}

void SyntaxNetTransitionState::SetBeamIndex(const int index) {
  current_beam_index_ = index;
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const float SyntaxNetTransitionState::GetScore() const { return score_; }

void SyntaxNetTransitionState::SetScore(const float score) { score_ = score; }

string SyntaxNetTransitionState::HTMLRepresentation() const {
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  for (int i = parser_state_->StackSize() - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
    const int word_idx = parser_state_->Stack(i);
    if (word_idx >= 0) {
      tensorflow::strings::StrAppend(
          &html, parser_state_->GetToken(word_idx).word(), " ");
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  }
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  const int word_idx = parser_state_->Input(0);
  if (word_idx >= 0) {
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        &html, parser_state_->GetToken(word_idx).word(), " ");
  }

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}

}  // namespace dragnn
}  // namespace syntaxnet

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