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County approves $560 million in spending for 2014
The Dane County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved an operating budget of just under $510 million and a capital budget of slightly more than $51 million, increasing property taxes by about three percent or $20.71 on an average Madison home, valued at $230,831.
"The County Board has adopted a budget that embraces the future – increasing sustainability and decreasing racial disparities," said County Board Chair John Hendrick upon passage of the budget. "We will continue addressing homelessness, promoting public safety and cleaning up our lakes and streams. And once again the county board finished its work in one session – this year exactly three hours."
The $509,623,195 operating budget includes funds to combat racial disparities; pay a living wage to human services workers; operate a day shelter for the homeless and provide services until such shelter is open; increase sustainable practices in County operations; implement water quality projects; and many other initiatives.
The $51,593,950 capital budget includes $8 million to plan and begin to implement recommendations of a consultant studying the needs of the Dane County Jail.
The $8 million appropriation was subject of some debate, as Supervisor Tim Kiefer moved to delete the funding.
"This $8 million is merely a down payment on what will be a $120 million project," Kiefer said, quoting a cost estimate to build an entirely new jail in downtown Madison. "We approved hundreds of thousands of dollars for a consultant to study jail alternatives. I supported that. But that report has not been submitted yet. I don't understand why tonight we are in this headlong rush to spend $8 million without the information we need to make this decision."
The consultants' report is due in December.
But others noted that the appropriation is for planning, and does not assume a new jail needs to be built.
"We're not voting for $120 million. We're not voting to build a new jail. We're voting on $8 million," said Vice Chair Carousel Andrea Bayrd. "This is an amendment for remodeling and planning. This isn't a rush. This isn't an emergency. This is a conversation that's been happening for years."
Others pointed out the budget language includes strict restrictions on how the money could be spent, requiring approval of not only relevant committees but the entire County Board for any expenditure.
"That's unprecedented. We don't do that. But we did it this time," said Supervisor Paul Rusk.
Sheriff Dave Mahoney said the money is needed to address serious safety and health issues for both inmates and jail staff.
"It's easy to think about them as inmates, but they are members of our community," Mahoney said. "Every one of them is going back into our community. We have a moral and ethical responsibility to treat them fairly."
"When someone comes in in a manic state, a danger to themselves or to others, they are not housed in a medical bed or cared for by mental health professionals," Mahoney added. "They are housed in an administrative discipline cell. A segregation cell, uniformed in a paper gown on a concrete slab next to a metal toilet. For what crime? For being mentally ill."
The motion to defund the jail planning and renovation failed by a 26-9 vote. Supervisor Al Matano moved to reduce the amount to $2 million, but that motion also failed on a 22-13 vote.
County Executive Joe Parisi will sign the budget in a ceremony at noon on Wednesday.


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Q: xstring functions in section/paragraph headers In the following example,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring}
\newcommand\foo[1]{\StrSubstitute{#1}{love}{hate}}

\begin{document}
 \section*{\foo{I love Mondays}}
\end{document}

if I remove the * from \section* the code stops compiling.

*

*What is the trick that makes \section* work ok with \StrSubstitute but not \section?

*Is there a workaround to include the command \foo in a \section header too?

A: Remember, section headings are also used for the table of contents, thus expanded and written to the .toc file. Use \protect to prevent the early expansion of \foo:
\section{\protect\foo{I love Mondays}}

Alternatively use the optional argument to fix it:
\section[]{\foo{I love Mondays}}

Have a look at Fragile and Robust commands for explanation.
You can define the command to be robust, avoiding such problems from the beginning:
\DeclareRobustCommand\foo[1]{\StrSubstitute{#1}{love}{hate}}

A: it is a moving argument:
  \section{\protect\foo{I love Mondays}}

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After a lifetime of travel, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his last journey in June 2011. Under a cloudy, grey English sky, his bier was carried out of the church at Dumbleton, in the Cotswolds, towards the waiting grave cut.
It was in some ways almost a military funeral: the coffin was shrouded in a union flag, a military piper sounded "The Flowers of the Forest", and the wooden coffin was slowly lowered by six grey-haired veterans in uniform. Then the last post was played by a bugler in a bearskin.
Yet the readings that had preceded the burial came from a very different, more literary world. One was from the apocryphal Book of James, describing a moment when time stands still; another was an arcane passage from The Garden of Cyrus by the Restoration mystic Sir Thomas Browne: "But the Quincunx of Heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five ports of knowledge."
In death, as in life, Leigh Fermor was a master of bringing together different worlds that one would normally have imagined to be opposed, if not incompatible. A one-man compendium of contradictions, Paddy (as he was known to everyone) was a genuine war hero. He abducted the German commandant of Crete, and in the movie of the exploit, Ill Met By Moonlight, Paddy was played by Dirk Bogarde. Yet this man of action, with the speech patterns, polished brogues and perfect manners of a prewar British major, was also one of the great masters of English prose.
Paddy was equally at home with both high and low living. His masterpiece, A Time of Gifts, the first volume of a trilogy, tells of his walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in the last days of prewar Europe, "like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar", as he moved from dosshouses to Danubian ducal fortresses: "There is much to recommend moving straight from straw to a four-poster," he wrote, "and then back again."
On the wet afternoon of 9 December 1933, the year Hitler came to power, as "a thousand glistening umbrellas were tilted over a thousand bowler hats", Paddy left London, boarding a Dutch steamer at Irongate wharf. His rucksack contained pencils, notebooks, The Oxford Book of English Verse and a volume of Horace. He would not see Britain again until January 1937, when he returned "for better or for worse, utterly changed by my travels".
"I thought I'd keep a diary and turn it into a book," he told me when I went to stay with him at his house at Kardamyli, in the Peloponnese, a year before he died. "Except I am still writing that book more than 70 years later. It broadened my mind, taught me history, literature and languages. It opened everything up: the world, civilisation and Europe. It gave me a capacity for solitude and a sense of purpose. It taught me to read and to look at things. I didn't go to university; I went travelling instead."
On and off, for nearly 70 years, between other projects, Paddy worked on the trilogy. The first volume, A Time of Gifts, was finally published in 1977. For many of us, his descriptions of walking through midwinter Germany in the 1930s have the status of sacred texts: "Sometimes the landscapes move further back in time," he writes in the unforgettable Winterreise chapter. "Pictures from illuminated manuscripts take shape; they become scenes which old breviaries and Books of Hours enclosed in the O of Orate, fratres. The snow falls; it is Carolingian weather."
The second volume of the trilogy, Between the Woods and the Water, followed nine years after the first. There then followed 25 years with no sign of volume three, the book that should have taken us to the gates of Byzantium. This was what his brilliant biographer, Artemis Cooper, has called Paddy's "ice age": the writer, once capable of great waterfalls of words, seemed suddenly frozen, blocked, unable to produce a page of writing that he did not later tear up in despair. There was a thin volume of letters written from a trip to the Andes, and a correspondence with the last of the Mitfords, Deborah Devonshire, but little of any substance after the 80s.
So it seemed on that June day, as we buried him, as if Paddy had left the great trilogy incomplete. Yet there were a few hints: on my last visit, he had talked enthusiastically of finally learning to type at the age of 93 – previously he had laboriously written everything longhand; and there, sitting on a low table when he showed me his study, lay an 8in-high pile of manuscript, some of it ring bound and some in folders, on which was scribbled, in red felt-tip pen: Vol 3.
Then last summer, at the Hay festival, in conversation with Leigh Fermor's great successor Robert Macfarlane, Cooper announced that the long-awaited volume three was ready for the press, and would be published as The Broken Road. For 18 months, she and Paddy's literary executor, Colin Thubron, had quietly worked away editing the different drafts of the Paddy's unfinished work. Most derived from an early manuscript that pre-dated A Time of Gifts by a decade, entitled A Youthful Journey, or Parallax, which had started out as a commission from an American travel magazine on the joys of walking.
Paddy was meant to have delivered 4,000 words. Holed up on the island of Euboea in 1963, he instead found words flowing at such a rate that by the end of the summer he had written 60,000. These, characteristically, he then abandoned and threw into a bottom drawer.
The other major source for The Broken Road was the last surviving volume of Paddy's original travel jottings, known as The Green Diary. The book had been preserved by Paddy's prewar lover Balasha Cantacuzène, and was included in the small suitcase she was allowed to pack when thrown out of her estates by communist commissars at the end of the second world war. When the iron curtain began to lift, in 1965, Paddy went to visit her, and she handed over to him the only surviving original record of the journey. These jottings, dating from when he was barely 20 years old, form the concluding section of the book, and take us from Constantinople to Mount Athos.
Given how the shortcomings of this book so tormented Paddy's last decades, few of us thought it likely that it would contain any material to equal its great predecessors. The wonderful surprise is that, while the book is certainly uneven, and contains some jottings and lists that are little more than raw, unworked data, overall it is every bit as masterly as Between the Woods and the Water, while some passages – such as his marvellous account of a love affair in the old Bulgarian city of Plovdiv – are the match for some of the great passages of A Time of Gifts.
All the old enthusiasms are there: the love of language and languages, the long historical and literary digressions, the perfect recollection of a lost, Ruritanian prewar and mostly pre-industrial world. Here, too, is the same exquisite prose and the marvellous images: dead trees are "bleached white by the sun like the dismembered bones of prehistoric beasts"; the onion domes of a Russian church are "covered with a glittering and fish-like reticulation of green and gold scales"; a drunken dance by soldiers at a Bulgarian inn is "a tangle of abandoned sabres; their spurred boots were crossing and stamping with the rest, grinding the fragments of glass to smaller fragments as the dance revolved."
There are differences between this and the other volumes of the trilogy. There is more honesty about the highs of Paddy's love life and the lows of his depressions. There is less restraint about his prejudices: Turks are sadistic ruffians; Bulgars are mean-minded crooks; the Greeks, however, are heroic and romantic rustics.
There is also a greater contrast between the youthful enthusiasm of the young footsore walker and the melancholy reflections of the older man writing at home in his study. Yet by any standards, this is a major work. It confirms that Leigh Fermor was, along with Robert Byron, the greatest travel writer of his generation, and this final volume assures the place of the trilogy as one of the masterpieces of the genre, indeed one of the masterworks of postwar English non-fiction.
• William Dalrymple is the author, most recently, of Return of a King (Bloomsbury), which has been longlisted for this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.


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Fast-Emerging No's and Low's
A. Elizabeth Sloan
Although Americans continue to focus on positive eating, i.e., selecting foods with desirable attributes like vitamins or phytochemicals, avoiding foods with dietary negatives appears to be back in vogue. The number of shoppers choosing foods for what they don't contain has jumped back to levels reminiscent of the late 1990s, according to HealthFocus' 2005 Trends Report, creating a new generation of "no" and "low" demands.
• Sugar Specificity. While fat, calories, and sugar still top the list of dietary negatives, consumers have recently focused on avoiding artificial and more specific forms of fat (see Food Technology, May 2005, p. 17) and now sugar. More than one-third (39%) of mothers have decreased sugar usage since 2002, 30% high-fructose corn syrup, 15% artificial sweeteners, 12% NutraSweet, 11% Sweet'n Low, 11% honey, and 9% saccharin, according to HealthFocus. The Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) reports that 18% of households use only natural sugars/honey. Shugr™, a 99.5%-natural sweetener made from the naturally occurring sugars erythritol, maltodextrin, and tagatose, is an exciting market entry.
• Sodium Savvy. With 104 million Americans afflicted with hypertension/prehypertension and the incidence tripling in kids/teens over the past decade, it is not surprising that the sodium issue is exploding. HealthFocus reports that 36% of shoppers and 31% of mothers are trying to reduce their salt/sodium intake and 32% of shoppers always/usually maintain a low-sodium diet. With the American Academy of Pediatrics and National Institutes of Health (NIH) setting new blood pressure standards for children and recommending that pediatricians monitor blood pressure from age 3 on, the concern will quickly grow. Stouffers' Lean Cuisine has taken a leadership role by educating customers about sodium on the package back.
• Allergen-Free. With media attention to the January 1, 2006, deadline for labeling eight major food allergens—milk, egg, peanut, tree nut, fish, shellfish, wheat, and soy—on food packages and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology reporting that more than 11 million Americans—or one in 25—suffer from one or more food allergies, specific-allergen-free foods, as well as faux products such as Sun Gold's SunButter™ Natural sunflower-based peanut butter alternative, are coming on strong.
HealthFocus reports that 18% of food shoppers are very/extremely concerned about food allergies. The Food Marketing Institute's 2004 Shopping for Health study found that 15% of shoppers' households had a member with a food allergy. Gen X shoppers were most likely to be on a special diet for food allergies, more than double any other group.
Milk tops the list of consumers' self reported food allergies (19%), followed by shellfish (16%), tree nuts (16%), peanut (15%), wheat (14%), egg (8%), soy (6%), and fish (6%), according to a SupermarketGuru.com Quick Poll. Ians Natural Foods' latest allergen-free Fish Sticks have no wheat, gluten, dairy, eggs, nuts, or soy, while Nana's Cookie Co.'s all-natural-ingredient Cookie Bars are made without eggs, dairy, or refined sugar.
According to Packaged Facts' U.S. Market for Food Allergy Products report, a growing number of consumers are also avoiding products with corn, aspartame, BHA and BHT, FD&C Yellow dye, MSG, and sulfites.
• Lactose-Free. Lactose intolerance is conservatively estimated by NIH to affect 30–50 million Americans, including up to 50% of all Hispanic-Americans, 75% of African-Americans, and 90% of Asian-Americans. This has enormous long-term potential as the trends to "sensitive tummies," healthy aging, and ethnic population shifts combine. ACNeilsen LabelTrends reports that in the year ending 3/9/05 sales of lactose-free foods grew 5.4% and volume of lactose-free breakfast cakes/sweet rolls increased by 129% and of frozen rolls/biscuits79%. Meyenberg's Goat Milk and Butter are among the many naturally lactose-free products gaining popularity.
• Gluten-Free. Awareness of celiac disease—intolerance to gluten from wheat, rye, and barley—is increasing rapidly and may affect as many as one in 133 Americans, according to the University of Maryland's Center for Celiac Research. Trendsetting Whole Foods Market opened a gluten-free bake house last fall, offering 28 gluten-free breads, cookies, pizzas, and pies. Café Bonjour's Rice Penne, Van's Wheat Free waffle line, and Gluten-free Pantry's line of bakery and bread mixes and skillet meals such as Stroganoff and Pasta Fagioli are pioneering the gluten-free market.
• Antibiotics/Hormone-Free. The desire to avoid meats, poultry, fish and other products raised with antibiotics or hormones is at an all-time high. According to NMI, 55% of consumers feel that it is important for their store to have dairy, meat, and poultry products free of antibiotics, 52% free of hormones. HealthFocus reports that 41% of mothers are very/extremely concerned about antibiotics/hormones. Murray's Fresh Antibiotic Free Chicken Sausage and Pacific Foods' new ready to eat all-natural stews with hormone- and antibiotic-free meats/poultry are only a sign of things to come.
by A. Elizabeth Sloan,
President, Sloan Trends, Inc., Escondido,Calif.
Food Safety and Defense
Obesity and Weight Management

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Subscriber Burn
Every YouTube user's homepage is a feed of recent videos from channels they subscribe to. They are put in order of the channels they watch most frequently. If a user skips over too many new videos from the same channel, that channel will begin to fall down the feed, and eventually disappear.
If your YouTube account is verified, you can upload 1000 Videos on YouTube Per Day. There is no limit to how many videos you can upload to YouTube.
There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. If you get an error saying "Upload limit reached" when trying to upload a video, try again in 24 hours. Limits may vary by region or channel history.
In short: the best growth strategy to grow fast is to upload daily. If that is not possible (like in my case), once a week. For this article I did multiple experiments on my channels over a few months: taking a breaks, uploading more and starting a new channel.
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Scheduling videos helps with the planning of a social media content calendar. It's a good way to make sure you don't forget to share the quality content you've created—on a regular basis. And scheduling ensures you're publishing those videos at a time that is optimal for your audience.
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What does Goldilocks have to do with video games? Well, she knew things had to be "just right." She could probably help us find the right video game difficulty.
Some games are too hard. You know the signs. You ripped out clumps of your golden locks and smashed your controller against a wall. I'm talking about unfair cheap shots, like a never-ending torrent of grenades in a shooter. The enemy pelts you with potato mashers before you can take two steps forward. That's unfair because you can't win at all.
Too hard is different from challenging: a challenging game tests your skills in a fair way. That means you die because you made a mistake, and to improve, you need a better strategy. So instead of walking into the wave of grenades, walk around them. There's nothing wrong with a fair challenge that requires some skill to solve.
However, an unfair and difficult game is like a red hot bowl of porridge. It seems like fun at first, but it leaves you burning with anger as you consume more of it. There might also be some steam involved. Though, in the case of the game, it will probably come out of your ears.
So we don't want to be angry. Let's see what else is on the table.
Ah, yes, this game looks nice and easy. But your average seasoned gamer might fall asleep behind the controller when they play an easy game. They're hard-boiled and have been around the block. They find themselves reaching level five hundred in the first hour only to snore as loud as a leaf blower. The same game might be so easy that it even offends newbies who want some challenge.
The easy game is like the frosty bowl of porridge: it's dull and lacks any flavour. We need to look again.
Ah, we've found the right game. This game achieves the golden mean: it's a balance between too hard and too easy. It's just right. It teaches you how to play, without being too easy, and it's challenging but fair.
I'm also happy when a game has several difficulty modes. An easy mode can help new gamers. Then more people discover the art and joy of video games for the first time. For example, adults who want to learn video games might want to jump into the shallow end with wings. In addition, hard modes allow everyone to boast about their impossible victory. And the "normal" setting strikes that just right balance.
Looks like the bears caught me playing their video games. Time to run!


Looks like I may have a weekend free as part of a work trip to Washington in April. It seems Shenandoah National Park could be my best option. I'm thinking drive from Washington Friday evening, activate short hike summits off Skyline drive Saturday and Sunday, drive back to Washington Sunday evening.
I'd appreciate itinerary tips from those with local knowledge to get the best SOTA weekend I can! Is Shenandoah the best option from Washington for a weekend? Should I drive Skyline as planned? Or is there an amazing hike that I should dedicate my time to that maybe takes in fewer summits with less driving? Where should I stay? I am pretty flexible, and will happily stay in a hut or a fancy hotel.
Dickey Hill, N Marshall, Compton Peak, and Hogback can all be easily done in a single day from points along Skyline Drive.
Stony Man and Hawksbill are also easiey to nab, as are Hazeltop, the Pinnacle, and Flattop.
My favorite peaks in the park are Knob Mountain, which is a lovely hike, but it'll take you most of a day to get that one. Robertson is also great, but is also a longer hike.
PS: I'd consider a joint activation with you if you'd like a hiking partner, and if the timing works out.
Let me know if you're interested. Look up my email on QRZ.com if you'd like to.
Thanks for the tips Nate. Just been checking out your blogs for some of the peaks too, a fabulous reference! Got me thinking I might perhaps do one day of the easy to nab ones from Skyline drive, and then one day dedicated to a longer hike for Knob Mountain or Robertson. I may well take you up on the kind offer of a hiking partner, be great to have company with local knowledge and distinctly more SOTA experience than me!
You could probably fit in Dickies on the way out the park also… if you start your day early'ish.
There are a few easily accessible AT shelters that can be used for a simple overnight stay.
Thanks Richard. Ticks I'm used to. Snakes is a different matter. As are the bears!
Booked to be there the weekend of 13th and 14th April. Staying in the Skyland hotel which looks to be in the middle of Skyline drive. Now for the summit planning. For a start W4V/SH-002 (Stony man) looks to be walkable from the hotel.
From the Skyland hotel you could easily walk to both Stony Man and then (further South) Hawksbill using the AT mostly.
On the tick front, please be very aware… everyone knows about Lyme Disease… personally I'd be more concerned about the other 11 nasty diseases a tick bite can convey, and the old thinking about just wait 24hrs a look for a rash and it takes >4hrs to xfer is all a load of hogwash per the latest intel.
I doubt you see either… but you never know… Last time I was down there I saw a bob cat!
Nate - in case you see this here. I'd like to take you up on your offer of a joint activation if it works out. I couldn't see your e-mail on QRZ.com and have tried a PM here instead but haven't heard back.
Still on for this weekend. Myself and M0PCB will be activating the peaks people have recommended off Skyline drive Saturday and Sunday. With maybe a cheeky one Friday evening if I get there in time. SSB for me, but MOPCB may well be on CW. Will get alerts up nearer the time and self spot if signal permits.
I think you will be there before the worst of tick season, but the usual precautions (spray your shoes and lower pants legs with DEET, tuck your pants into your socks) will help if needed.
We saw only one rattlesnake the entire time. It was stretched out across the Skyline Drive early in the morning, probably trying to get some residual heat from the road. We used a hiking stick to gently shoo it off the road and away from the risk of being run over. The Appalachian Trail in the park runs along rocky ridgeline, which presents two attractions for rattlesnakes: they may shelter in cracks and openings in the rock; and on sunny days they may sun themselves for warmth atop the rocks. Watch where you put your hands and feet when you set up your gear. You should be fine.
There are LOTS of black bears in the park, and we had sightings along the trail several times. We were there in the autumn, when they voraciously seek acorns as part of their effort to fatten up for the winter hibernation, so I don't know what your springtime experience will be. I attended a lecture on bear behavior given by a park ranger, and he said they try to avoid contact with humans if they can avoid it. He also advised that the one thing that best warns them off is the sound of a human voice singing - apparently they can hear that further away than the bells so many people wear on their packs. As a result, during our hikes I went through my entire (and extensive) repertoire of 1960's rock and roll songs. We saw a pair of bears disappearing down the trail as we came over a ridge once, and another sighting of bear heads popping up from the vegetation about 20 meters off the trail, but none approached us. Your experience may vary, especially if your singing voice is more pleasant than mine.
Weather permitting you can expect to enjoy lovely hiking and gorgeous views of the valleys on either side of the park. Enjoy!
Too true. When the bears discover hearing protection we will need new ways to discourage them.
Bears… Snakes…, Humans… That means Larson!
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Thanks everyone for the tips above, all spot on and very useful.
Had a great weekend activating with Ian M0PCB / AD5XI. Shenandoah National Park is one of my new favourite places! Saw lots of deer, but no bears unfortunately. (Guidance suggests they are wary of humans and any sighting much more likely to be an amazing wildlife encounter rather than life threatening when following advice above). Had sunshine, mist, mizzle, torrential rain and thunder and lightning over the weekend. Made me feel quite at home as a Brit!
Got up there early and tried Dicky Hill Friday afternoon, but couldn't get any contacts before it started raining and I needed to leave to make dinner.
Saturday bagged Stony Man, Hawksbill and Hazeltop. View below is from Stony Man and other picture is on Hazeltop. Sunday got The Pinnacle and Hogsback. Got to the top of North Marshall but the thunder and lightning followed by proper rain meant we headed straight back down. Could've got more with a less relaxed pace and quicker activations. Took us both quite a bit of work to get the 4 on each summit on HF, me on SSB and AD5XI on CW. Mostly 20m and 40m. Thanks to all the chasers! One guy I had a contact with who wasn't even a chaser got an account on Sota Watch and worked out how to spot to help me out!
Definitely worth a visit if you get chance. Hopefully I'll be back one day. Can also recommend Pave Mint Bar and Grill in Front Royal for BBQ and a beer if you are ever over that way.


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Vito Acconci's artwork and architecture are based on social interactions between people and the blurring of public and private space. His utopian, biomorphic designs aim to approximate the complexity of living organisms. After initially devoting himself to poetry and writing, he began to produce visual work in 1969, most of which incorporated subversive social comment. In the mid 1980s, he began creating experimental architecture, design and public sculpture, and in 1988 he founded Acconci Studio, an architectural practice with public commissions around the world.
Dana Albany, Tara Mechani (Hayes Valley)
Dana Albany produces and fabricates large-scale sculptures, museum exhibits and interactive installations of enterprising vision. Originating from a collage of recycled materials, Albany's work reclaims and reimagines our scraps and discarded objects into a reconciliation of the detritus of human life. As a long-time Burning Man creator, Albany has created and installed twelve large-scale installations in Black Rock City, Nevada. She has created and exhibited for the de Young Museum, the Exploratorium, the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Arts Commission, SOMAR Gallery and San Francisco International Airport.
Aphidoidea, The Seed (Castro)
Aphidoidea [Ahh-fi-doe-idea] is a multi-disciplinary art, design, and architecture collective. Led by formally trained architects Jesus Eduardo Magaña, Paulina Bouyer-Magana, Jackie Muñoz, and Andrew Hernandez, the collective creates site-specific art installations that engage the user and enhance the built environment. Their art is a product of the exploration of site, concept, materials, and interactivity, and has evolved from site-specific installations, to include user response and spectator interaction. Their installations employ a variety of materials, ranging from ephemeral to the permanent, and technology based to analogue application.
Shimon Attie and Vale Bruck, Spiral of Gratitude (Mission Bay)
For two decades, Shimon Attie has made art that reflects on the relationship between place, memory and identity. He is particularly concerned with issues of loss, communal trauma and the potential for regeneration. Earlier works used contemporary media to re-animate architectural and public sites with images of their lost histories, exploring how histories of marginalized and forgotten communities may be visually introduced into the physical landscape of the present. In more recent years, Attie has created a number of multiple-channel immersive HD video installations, including a commission by the BBC and Arts Council of Wales to create a 5-channel video installation on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, when the village became 'famous' after having lost nearly all of its children in a manmade avalanche that buried the elementary school. Vale Bruck is a large-scale art installationist and artisan woodworker based out of Eastern Pennsylvania, who has worked on and directed major projects all over the world. Over the course of 4 years, he collaborated with Shimon Attie to concept and subsequently create Spiral of Gratitude.
Nayland Blake, Constellation (Civic Center)
Nayland Blake is one of the most intellectually and aesthetically agile contemporary artists, producing work of incisive clarity as a curator, artist, writer, and teacher since the 1980s. Interracial desire, same-sex love, and racial and sexual bigotry are recurrent themes in Blake's sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, which reflect his preoccupation with his own racial and sexual identities. He participated in the 1991 Whitney Biennial and the 1993 Venice Biennale, and since 1993, has exhibited his work at Matthew Marks Gallery (NYC/Los Angeles). Most recently, San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presented his one-man exhibition Free!Love!Tool!Box! Blake was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2012; he currently chairs the International Photography Center-Bard MFA program and lives and works in Brooklyn.
Jim Campbell, Ocean Mirror with Fragments (Inner Sunset) and Day for Night (Embarcadero)
Exploring the line between representation and abstraction, Jim Campbell plumbs the human ability to interpret information and "fill in the gaps" necessary to create a complete idea. His exploration of the distinction between the analogue world and its digital representation metaphorically parallels the difference between poetic understanding versus the mathematics of data. While Campbell's works typically use flat grids of evenly spaced LEDs, he has recently begun to "pull apart" two-dimensional imagery, presenting it in a three-dimensional format. A recent outdoor installation, Scattered Light, in New York's Madison Square Park, and a commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Exploded Views (4 Films), exemplify this new direction.
James Carpenter, Four Sculptural Light Reflectors* (SFO)
James Carpenter began exhibiting light-based art works while developing new glass materials at Corning Glass Works from 1972 through 1982. Since establishing James Carpenter Design Associates in 1978, he has been integrating a synthesis of light into building structures. The studio is a collaborative environment, encouraging an exchange of ideas between architects, material and structural engineers, environmental engineers, and fabricators. Carpenter studied with glass sculptor Dale Chihuly, and is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, the American Institute of Architects Honor Award, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Olafur Eliasson, Seeing Spheres (Mission Bay)
Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) grew up in Iceland and Denmark. In 1995, he founded Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, which today includes craftsmen, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, cooks, programmers, art historians and specialized technicians. Since the mid-1990s, Eliasson has realized numerous major exhibitions and projects around the world. Eliasson's projects in public space include Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (2007), designed with Kjetil Thorsen for London's Kensington Gardens; The New York City Waterfalls (2008); and Ice Watch, for which Eliasson and geologist Minik Rosing transported massive blocks of glacial ice from Greenland to Copenhagen (2014), Paris (2015), and London (2018) to raise awareness of climate change. In 2012, Eliasson founded the social business Little Sun, and in 2014, he and architect Sebastian Behmann founded Studio Other Spaces, an office for art and architecture.
Spencer Finch, Orion (SFO)
Light and its color are ultimately the subjects that fascinate Finch and those that he returns to again and again—along with the perceptual, physiological, psychological, and linguistic workings that influence how we experience them. Like many artists and thinkers who have inspired him and who turn up in his work—scientists, artists, poets, and philosophers, including Monet, Turner, Newton, Dickinson, Goethe, and Wittgenstein—Finch is continuously celebrating, and grappling with, the beauty and enigmas of light and color. His mix of science and poetry is fitting for a subject that is equally tied to science and art."
Dan Flavin, "monument" for V. Tatlin and untitled (in honor of Leo...) (SFMOMA)
Dan Flavin created light installations (or "situations" as he preferred to call them) utilizing fluorescent light tubing that became icons of Minimalism. After a brief stint at seminary and meteorological training in the military, the artist pursued his studies in the late 1950s at Columbia University and the New School. Flavin began incorporating electric lights into his works in the early 1960s with his breakthrough Icons series. Having hit upon his chosen medium, he abandoned painting altogether, focusing on light works for the remainder of his career. Like the work of his fellow Minimalists, Flavin's art is clean, industrially produced, and serially repeating. Working with prefabricated rather than handcrafted materials allowed him to focus on the light itself and the way in which it transformed, or "sculpted" the exhibition space. His wall- and floor-mounted site-specific fixtures, composed of intersecting and parallel lines of light in conventional colors, flood spaces with their glow. By basing his work as much in radiated light as in the bulbs themselves, Flavin set the stage for much of the experience-oriented installation work that continues today.
Charles Gadeken, Entwined (Golden Gate Park)
Inspired by the objects, structures and processes in the world around us, Charles' art depicts natural objects in fantastic ways and realizes the potential for serendipity in everyday life. Often incorporating and developing technology for various effects — LEDs, flame, hydraulics, and electricity — to increase the visual and physical impact of his work, he seeks to instill a sense of play into the environment.
Cliff Garten, Ethereal Bodies* (Potrero) & Monarch (Mission Bay)
Artist Cliff Garten's artistic approach toward civic sculpture explores the expressive potential of infrastructure. He has completed more than fifty sculptures throughout the U.S. and Canada in collaboration with significant architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering projects. By connecting people to places through sculptural material, social history, and ecology, his civic sculptures locate the latent potential within a public space. While sought after for creating evocative and nuanced site-specific sculptures within the civic realm, Garten also maintains an independent studio practice creating small-scale sculptures and works on paper.
Lisa Gemmiti, San Francisco at Night: Model Art Map (Yerba Buena)
Lisa Gemmiti has dedicated her career to the production and use of physical scale models for a wide variety of purposes serving many industries. Since 1999, Lisa and her Gemmiti Model Art team have contributed to the production of hundreds of design, study and presentation models. Her work has been delivered to 20 different countries and spans the heights of Mount Everest to the intricacies of a single strand of DNA. Lisa has taught Advanced Model Making at Academy of Art University, consulted with industrial design students at California College of the Arts on their thesis projects, and has been a regular presenter to architecture students at Stanford University.
Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn, Language of the Birds* (North Beach) & Caruso's Dream (Central Market)
A multi-disciplinary artist of infinite sculptural jest, Brian Goggin has left his mark on the West Coast with his whimsical and vibrant layering of found objects and chaos-provoking sculptures. He first attracted national attention in 1997 with Defenestration — an NEA-funded, site-specific sculptural mural on a dilapidated building in San Francisco that became an unofficial San Francisco landmark. He has also recently created Speechless for the Lafayette Public Library, CA; Samson for the Sacramento International Airport; Traffic of Ideas for the Seattle Arts Commission, and Herd Morality for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Dorka Keehn is an award-winning public artist and San Francisco Arts Commissioner experienced at managing complex percent-for-art and other art programs that often require the participation of multiple parties with diverse agendas. She works with both established and emerging artists, providing artist support and interface throughout the entire process including design, engineering, public review, permitting and installation. Dorka led the fundraising effort for The Bay Lights by Leo Villareal and sits on the board of ArtCare and the advisory boards of the Black Rock Art Foundation and The Crucible.
Johanna Grawunder, Coding (SFO Airport)
Johanna Grawunder works on a broad range of projects, from large-scale public lighting and color installations, architectural interventions and interiors, to limited-edition furniture and light collections. Recent projects include a new light art collection for Carpenters Workshop Gallery and the exhibition "Alone Together" for Assab One in Milan.Trained as an architect, she was drawn to the medium of light early on and has tried to incorporate architectural principles and scale, non-precious building materials and high technology light research into her designs. Her work is included in many museum's permanent collections, including the High Museum Atlanta, LACMA, CNAP, SFMOMA, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Art Institute Chicago, Denver Art Museum and Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris.
Haddad | Drugan, Bayview Rise (Bayview, Pier 92)
Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan are an artist team whose work is about phenomenology and perception. Their site-specific artwork engages with its context and forms a continuously transforming medium of exchange between systems, ideas, and interventions. The art is often activated by natural phenomena like light and water, and when possible incorporates alternative energy sources and other sustainable practices. Their work has received awards from various agencies including Americans for the Arts, and has been published in Sculpture, Landscape Architecture, Land Forum, Landscape Journal and Arcade.
Jenny Holzer, White Light (SoMa/Yerba Buena)
For more than forty years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Her medium—whether formulated as a T-shirt, a plaque, or an LED sign—is writing, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters and continuing through her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has combatted ignorance and violence with humor, kindness, and courage. Holzer received the Leone d'Oro at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award in 1996, and the Barnard Medal of Distinction in 2011.
HYBYCOZO: Yelena Filipchuk & Serge Beaulieu, Illuminavia (South Beach)
While it seemed in 2014 that most people in the Bay Area were moving toward more digital pursuits, Yelena Filipchuk and Serge Beaulieu felt compelled to switch gears from their tech jobs to make real world objects. Before creating HYBYCOZO, Yelena was at Google and YouTube, where she facilitated partnerships and worked with musicians and artists to enforce their copyright and assure they got paid for their videos to the platform. Serge Beaulieu is a veteran industrial designer, graphic artist and maker. Having spent a decade at numerous design studios, including Yves Behar's Fuseproject, he put aside tech work and industrial design to explore art and sculpture, and the duo haven't looked back. The first of their HYBYCOZO installations debuted at Burning Man 2014, with additional installations at the Islamic Arts Festival in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, San Francisco's Exploratorium and Treasure Island Festival.
Illuminate, Hope Will Never Be Silent (Castro)
Illuminate rallies large groups of people together to create impossible works of public art that, through awe, free humanity's better nature. The highly aspirational mission of changing humanity's future for the better via public art is a reflection of the nonprofit art organization's core beliefs. Illuminate founder Ben Davis is also the visionary behind The Bay Lights, asking in September 2010, "What if the Bay Bridge were a canvas of light?" Two-and-a-half years later, after teaming with internationally renowned artist Leo Villareal, a vast and passionate community came together to fully permit, design, install, fund and celebrate the March 5, 2013 grand lighting of a two-year public installation of the iconic LED light sculpture. ILLUMINATE successfully led the effort to permanently install The Bay Lights, gifted to the State of California on January 30, 2016.
Ned Kahn, Wind Portal* (SFO)
The planet's complex, random perturbations become manifested visually, tactilely and acoustically in Ned Kahn's work. Happening across his work can be a stupefying experience, since typically invisible or unobservable forces are felt as immediate natural effects, and are only later discovered to be artificially constructed. At times, he re-creates environmental conditions in controlled settings, and at other times, he lets nature animate his art. In replicating the forms and forces of nature, his environmental artworks elicit mythic and contemporary associations with elegant simplicity.
Joseph Kosuth, W.F.T. (Civic Center)
Joseph Kosuth typically works in an architectural context. His work can be found in significant historic buildings around the world, including the Louvre in Paris. When conceiving of W.F.T (San Francisco), the artist considered the role the Auditorium has played in San Francisco's history, from its inauguration in 1915 as part of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition to hosting psychedelic rock concerts in the 1960s to the present. The etymological origins of the words provide meaningful and coincidental associations with recent landmark public policy such as the legalization of gay marriage. According to Kosuth, "The essence of this building and the historic plaza of which it is part is what I have tried to address in this public artwork. The basis of this project is language itself. It is a work that is both a reflection on its own construction as well as on the history and culture of its own location."
Dave Lane, Lamp of the Covenant (Yerba Buena)
Considered a visionary artist, Dave Lane is also a highly literate engineer who works for the California Department of Water Resources, maintaining the structural integrity of levees that protect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta's 98 islands. His artwork consists of monumental steel sculptures accompanied by detailed, text-laced diagrams, drawings and dioramas that, together, lay out a worldview that includes not only imaginary creation myths, but also a host of epistemological, philosophical and religious musings that question, at every turn, the artist's conclusions and the perceptual/sensory apparatus that enabled them. His creations are in the tradition of found sculpture, and explore the vast, human-dwarfing world out beyond the buildings and banalities we erect to protect ourselves from what's always looming over us — the immensity of time, the endlessness of space, the great outdoors on a literally cosmic scale.
Daniel Libeskind, Yud and PaRDeS, (Yerba Buena)
An international figure in architecture and urban design, Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings. Informed by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, literature, and poetry, he aims to create architecture that is resonant, unique and sustainable. In 1989, Studio Libeskind won the international competition to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin. A series of influential museum commissions followed, including the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester; Denver Art Museum; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Danish Jewish Museum; Royal Ontario Museum; and the Military History Museum, Dresden. In 2003, Studio Libeskind won another historic competition — to create a master plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
MADLAB, Lumina (Yerba Buena)
Founded in 2003 by Petia Morozov and Jose Alcala, MADLAB is an award-winning, internationally published architecture firm noted for its research and innovative design services. The firm's disciplinary core is comprised of architecture, industrial design and urban design, with professional and research influences from the fields of landscape, ecology, art, cognitive sciences, engineering and urban theory. MADLAB's current work includes innovative installations, interventions and ground-breaking works, creating interactive environments that sit between the worlds of architecture, site-specific installation art, and media design.
Merge Conceptual Design, Sky* (SFO)
Comprised of the artist team Franka Diehnelt and Claudia Reisenberger, Merge was founded in 2003 to create site-specific work generated by a research-based narrative approach. Artwork is informed by the space and the stories each individual site generates. Chosen narratives guide each installation to the appropriate medium, scale and placement of the piece, while all pieces strive to invite interaction and an engaging viewer experience. Merge draws on a shared background in architecture and art collaborations, to bring a rich technical background and a unique design sensibility to all projects in Europe and America.
Anna Valentina Murch, Archipelago* (Potrero)
Born in Scotland and raised in London, artist Anna Murch graduated from the University of Leicester with an art degree, and earned a postgraduate degrees at the Royal College of Art in London and the Architectural Association in London, where she did experimental work with light and kinetic projection onto structures. She moved to the Bay Area in 1976 and had a live-work studio at Project Artaud. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkeley and Mills College, where she became tenured. Long interested in the sounds of water and wind and in the way light reflects, Murch was working on six large public commissions with her husband, environmental artist Doug Hollis, when she died of cancer in March 2014.
Ivan Navarro, THE LADDER (Sun or Moon) (Mid Market)
Ivan Navarro (born in 1972 in Santiago, under the Pinochet dictatorship), uses light as his raw material, turning common objects into electric sculptures and transforming spaces by means of visual interplay. Echoing the minimalist works of Dan Flavin, Navarro's light sculptures subvert the cool detachment of florescent bulbs with their arrangement into recognizable objects. His work is certainly playful, but is also haunted by questions of power, control, and imprisonment. The act of usurping the minimalist aesthetic is an ever-present undercurrent, becoming the pretext for understated political and social criticism. He represented Chile in the 2009 Venice Biennale and one of his earliest shows was at Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco. Navarro's work has garnered international attention, participating in numerous renowned exhibitions across the globe, including at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Navarro is represented by Galerie Templon in Paris, Hyundai Gallery in Seoul, and Luciana Brito Galeria in Sao Paulo. He has lived and worked in New York since 1997.
Matthew Passmore, Handsignals* (Mission)
A conceptual artist, curator, teacher, and public space advocate operating in a global context, Matthew Passmore is best known as the original founder of the Rebar Art & Design Studio. In 2014, he formed MoreLab, a new creative endeavor focused specifically on public art projects, museum exhibitions and innovative public spaces. Recently completed projects include Urbanauts, an 18-month artist fellowship at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, exhibitions at Make It Louder Beijing, the 2012 Istanbul Design Biennial, and Kaleidoscape, a three-year social sculpture project at the Berkeley Art Museum. Passmore regularly speaks nationally and internationally.
Jim Sanborn, Anima (Mission Bay)
Best known for creating the encrypted sculpture Kryptos at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Jim Sanborn has been building science-based installations for many years. With the help of a retired CIA cryptographer, the artist spent four months devising the Kryptos codes, which he embedded in the curved copper panels of the sculpture – and they have yet to be completely solved. Themes in his work have included, "making the invisible visible," with many sculptures focusing on topics such as the Earth's magnetic fields, the Coriolis effect, secret messages, and mysteries of atomic reactions.The texts he chooses for public projects are heavily researched, and works such as Anima were designed to exude their information slowly, and encourage collaboration among cultures to fully decipher.
Karina Smigla-Bobinski, Kaleidoscope (Embarcadero)
Karina Smigla-Bobinski lives and works as a freelance artist in Munich. She studied art and visual communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland and Munich, Germany. She works as intermedia artist with analogue and digital media and moves between science, intuition, expression and cognition. She produces and collaborates on a range of projects, including kinetic sculptures, interactive installations, and art interventions, featuring mixed reality objects, multimedia physical theatre performances and online projects. Karina's works contain the method of their making. They are direct art, which foregrounds the material, movement through time and impact on results. Her works has been shown in 45 countries on 5 continents at festivals, galleries and museums.
Keith Sonnier, Ceiling Flood* (SFO)
A conceptual artist and sculptor who was an influential part of the Process Art Movement, Keith Sonnier radically reinvented sculpture in the late 1960s. Employing unusual materials never before used, Sonnier, along with his contemporaries Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, Eva Hesse, Richard Serra and Barry LeVa, called all previous conceptions of sculpture into question. In 1968, the artist began working with neon, which quickly became a defining element of his work. The linear quality of neon allows Sonnier to draw in space with light and color, while the diffuseness of the light enables his work to interact on various architectural planes.
Eric Staller, Spirogyrate* (SFO)
Well known for his Urban UFO's such as Volkswagen Lightmobile, a 1967 Beetle covered with 1659 computerized light bulbs, Eric Staller is an early practitioner of performance art, light painting and the creation of art cars. In the 1970s, he took to the streets of New York at night to choreograph his long-exposure photography, creating sweeping arcs and tunnels of light by running with sparklers attached to a broomstick—the result is blazing, astonishingly uniform grooves of light piercing the still and darkened streets. An artist-in-residence for 12 years in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, he has created numerous public art installations, including Magic Garden at Twin 21 Plaza, Osaka, Japan.
Hank Willis Thomas, LOVE OVER RULES (Yerba Buena)
New York-based conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas works primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, and is included in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. His collaborative projects include Question Bridge: Black Males, In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth), and For Freedoms, the first artist-run super PAC. Thomas received a BFA in Photography and Africana studies from New York University and a MFA/MA in Photography and Visual Criticism from the California College of Arts.
James Turrell, Three Gems (Golden Gate Park) & Skygarden (Central Market)
For over half a century, James Turrell has worked directly with light and space to create artworks that engage viewers with the limits and wonder of human perception. Turrell often cites the Parable of Plato's Cave to introduce the notion that we are living in a reality of our own creation, subject to our human sensory limitations as well as contextual and cultural norms. This is evident in Turrell's over eighty Skyspaces, chambers with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky. The simple act of witnessing the sky from within a Turrell Skyspace, notably at dawn and dusk, reveals how we internally create the colors we see and thus, our perceived reality.
Leo Villareal, The Bay Lights (Embarcadero) and Buckyball (Exploratorium)
Leo Villareal is known internationally for his light sculptures and site-specific architectural works. His art is part of the permanent collections of prestigious museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Kagawa, Japan. Major site-specific works include Multiverse in the National Gallery of Art's Concourse in Washington D.C. and Hive for the Bleecker Lafayette Street subway station in Manhattan. He is one of the nine leading contemporary artists invited to participate in the current exhibition "Wonder" at Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. through May 8, 2016. Villareal is also one of three artists commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission to create public artwork in conjunction with the Moscone Expansion Project.
George Zisiadis, Grace Light (Nob Hill)
George Zisiadis is a Berkeley, CA-based artist and designer. Zisiadis' artwork is driven by Sherrie Rabinowitz's idea that artists must create at the same scale which society has the capacity to destroy. A lifelong love of the commons, instilled from growing up in New York City, led Zisiadis to focus on large-scale, site-specific public installations, striving to create spaces of both communal and individual transcendence. Zisiadis' work is conceptually driven, with each project involving different media and cross-disciplinary teams. Gabriel Gold is a San Francisco, CA based music composer, multi-media artist and environmental advocate. A 2019 Artist in Residence at San Francisco's revered Grace Cathedral, Gold has also been a featured artist with MEDIATE Art Group's 2015 Soundwave Biennial. His works have been shown at renowned institutions throughout the world, including the de Young Museum, the California Academy of Sciences, SÍM Gallery (Iceland), and Nordic House (Faroe Islands), with his most recent exhibition, "View Above, Voice Within", a collaborative work with Finnish visual artist Lasse Lecklin, inspired by the glaciers of Iceland, opening at the Turku Kunsthalle (Finland) in February 2019.
* San Francisco's Civic Art Collection encompasses more than 4,000 objects, including historic monuments, murals, paintings, sculptures, installations and other media. The San Francisco Arts Commission oversees this rich and diverse collection, which helps distinguishes the city as an important cultural destination. To learn more visit www.sfartscommission.org.


There have been 2.3 million records breached at colleges since 2008.
There's a March Madness bracket out there that might cause nightmares for campus technologists everywhere. It ranks higher education's worst security breaches, and a related report says things probably will get worse.
So while fans from VCU, Butler, Kentucky, and U-Conn celebrate a shot at the national title this weekend, IT officials from Ohio State University (OSU), Georgia's Valdosta State University, Buena Vista University in Iowa, and the University of North Florida will see their school's security blunders recognized as the worst in higher education in 2010.
On the strength of an October database breach that exposed personal information of 750,000 students, faculty, and alums, OSU won the 2010 Higher Education Data Breach Madness.
The Data Breach Madness bracket, which began with campuses sporting the 64 worst data losses of last year, was released this week by Application Security, Inc., a database security company based in New York.
Runner-up Valdosta had 170,000 university records illegally accessed, Buena Vista had 93,000, and North Florida racked up 52,853 compromised records. The personally identifiable information stockpiled on campus servers includes names, addresses, credit card numbers, financial information, Social Security numbers, and healthcare records of employees, students, and their parents.


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Movies Getting Remakes On Disney+ Include Four Classic & Beloved Films
By Morgan Brinlee
As the debut of Disney's streaming service — Disney+ — draws near, the entertainment company has revealed plans to continue its recent trend of remaking classic films. But the four movies getting remakes on Disney+ include one beloved holiday classic that many fans don't necessarily want to see get the reboot treatment.
According to CNN, Disney CEO Bob Iger recently told investors the company planned to "reimagine" the 1990 holiday classic Home Alone along with a handful of other past releases for the company's soon-to-launch streaming service, Disney+. Among the additional titles set to be remade for Disney+ are Night at the Museum, Cheaper by the Dozen, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Good Morning America reported.
"We are also focused on leveraging Fox's vast library of great titles to further enrich the content mix on our... platforms — for example, reimagining Home Alone, Night at the Museum, Cheaper by the Dozen and Diary of a Wimpy Kid for a new generation on Disney+," CNN reported Iger told investors in a conference call Tuesday.
While neither Home Alone nor any of the other films set to be reimagined by Disney are original Disney titles, they were acquired by the media and entertainment company following its acquisition of 21st Century Fox in March. The $71.3 billion purchase deal, which left Disney with a slew of hit movies and TV shows including Aliens and The Simpsons, was reported to be "one of the biggest media mergers ever" by Vox.
According to the BBC, Iger did not elaborate on details such as a cast or timeframe when revealing plans to "reimagine" Home Alone. The 1990 film originally starred Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an 8-year-old boy who accidentally gets left behind when his family flies to Paris for Christmas. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern star as the "Wet Bandits", two burglars who attempt to break into the McCallister house, forcing Kevin to take creative measures to defend it. Over the years, the film has become something of a holiday classic, airing repeatedly on television throughout the holiday season.
Although Culkin recently said he hoped the recent remake of Space Jam "kicks off a whole slew of 80s/90s sport movie remakes," it's unclear if he'd embrace — or want to star in — a "reimagining" of the film that launched his career. The actor was recently spotted filming what looked to be a Christmas scene on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, according to Page Six, further fueling speculation about his potential involvement in a Home Alone remake.
It also remains unclear if Disney's "reimagining" would see the plot of the original film altered. According to the BBC, Disney has said only that it hopes its reimagined Home Alone has the "same standards and the same creative discipline" as the original film had. On Twitter, however, a number of Home Alone fans reacted to the news with calls for Disney to leave the popular film alone.
"Home Alone is a classic. Just leave it alone," one Twitter user wrote. "Disney really has the audacity to reboot home alone and night at the museum???" another user asked.
Disney's streaming service is set to launch in the United States in November and become the exclusive home to Disney and Pixar animations, as well as the Marvel and Star Wars franchises. According to CNN, Disney+ will feature both movies and TV shows for a monthly price of $6.99.


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The Club Manager runs the day to day affairs of the club and answers to the General Committee, which consists of a President, Treasurer, Captain, Vice President, Immediate Past President and six Committee Members. The Committee Members serve for a two year term.
There are a number of Sub Committees including Finance & Administration, House, Angling & Sports (fishing), Pool, Darts and Juniors.


This course offers students a basic understanding of the science of Psychology. Some of the topics of study include behavioral disorders, sleep patterns, memory, and sensory impulses. The human mind is an incredible, multifaceted element of the human body. This is a wonderful course for those looking to pursue careers not only in psychology, but in teaching, business, and any occupation that requires interpersonal relationships.


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You can get instance the class from the enclosing class with the method getDeclaredClasses(), and then modify the contructor and instantiate the object:
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Bottom Line: Allow God to remove sin from your life so you are able to run the faith race uninhibited.
Bottom Line: As you run the race of faith, don't give up, don't grow weary, and don't lose heart.
Bottom Line: Fix your eyes on Jesus and realize that as you follow him, he's always with you.


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Home » Investor News » A 7.6% Dividend Play for the 2021 Value Bull Market
A 7.6% Dividend Play for the 2021 Value Bull Market
Posted by Charles Sizemore | Dec 2, 2020 | Investing
November was an interesting month. Some stocks that have struggled the most in 2020 finally had their day in the sun. Battered value stocks showed signs of life for the first time in months.
As a case in point, consider British American Tobacco PLC (NYSE: BTI), the stodgiest of value stocks.
BTI was up 11% in November. But even after that move, the shares are still down by nearly a quarter from their pre-COVID-19 highs. British American owns the Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Newport and Camel brands, among others.
It seems that a cigarette stock is something that many investors would prefer not to own during a respiratory virus pandemic. Smoking kills nearly half a million Americans each year, doubling the deaths from COVID-19 so far. And you might think that 2020 would be enough to make a smoker think twice before lighting up.
Yet, perhaps ironically, cigarette sales have enjoyed a slight comeback in 2020. Or at least the rate of decline has slowed. Cigarette sales fall 3% to 4% every year, and last year the trend accelerated. Sales declined by a noteworthy 7% in 2019. But through the midpoint of 2020, industry sales were on pace to be down only 2% to 3%.
Perhaps it's stress or a lack of anything else to do while sitting at home, but Big Tobacco is shaping up to have a good year.
Tobacco stocks are strong dividend payers. BTI stock yields 7.6%. As was typical of European companies, BTI's semi-annual dividend used to be variable and dependent on profits for the year. But in 2018, the company adopted a regular quarterly payout more in line with American norms. And BTI has raised its dividend every year since.
Tobacco stocks have high yields for two prominent reasons:
The industry isn't growing, so there is little need for major capital spending.
Federal guidelines restrict marketing.
So, with effectively nothing else to spend the cash on, tobacco companies have more available to pay out as dividends.
But beyond this, tobacco is the quintessential consumer staple. It's a basic product that gets used and replaced quickly. It helps that it's also addictive.
Today, let's take a look at British American Tobacco using our Green Zone Ratings model. We already know it's a high-yielding dividend machine. Let's see how it stacks up on other metrics.
British American Tobacco Stock Rating
At first glance, BTI is the definition of average with an overall score of 50 out of 100.
British American Tobacco's Green Zone Rating on December 1, 2020.
Stocks in this neutral zone are expected to move in line with the stock market averages over the following 12 months. Let's dig into the individual metrics to see what may drive the stock higher.
Value — British American Tobacco stock rates exceptionally high on value with a score of 88. Only 12% of the stocks in our universe are cheaper. The past decade has been tough for value stocks. Investors have targeted growth stocks, and the pandemic only accelerated this. But, as the world slowly gets back to normal in 2021, there's a good chance that value stocks take the lead, at least for a little while.
Volatility — In the world of investing, volatility is bad in most cases. Slow and steady wins the race. And BTI certainly fits the bill on that count. The stock rates as an 82 on volatility. While BTI's product may very well give you a heart attack, owning the stock will not.
Quality — BTI rates respectably high in quality at 60. In our system, quality is measured by various factors tied mostly to profitability and debt management. BTI is a healthy company and has the financial strength to survive for decades in a truly brutal competitive environment.
Growth — From here, it drops off. BTI rates a 37 on growth. That meets expectations. British American operates in a world where falling volumes are the norm and where growth is accomplished through price hikes.
Momentum — British American also rates rather low on momentum with a rating of 34. Growth stocks have dominated the momentum trade in recent years. BTI is showing signs of life, but the stock hasn't had much in the way of sustained momentum for years.
Size — And finally, we get to size. BTI is a large, established company with a size rating of 5. We can't expect to get a small-cap bounce here.
So, what's the final verdict?
Bottom Line: With an overall rating of 50, we shouldn't expect major gains here.
But it's important to see how the rating is calculated, and BTI rates high in value and volatility. If the bull market in growth stocks finally breaks in 2021, BTI might end up performing better than its middling overall rating would suggest. And even if it doesn't, investors are being paid nearly 8% to wait. That's not too shabby.
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My site Seth Godin :: Free Prize Inside offers a free copy of my bestselling mini-e-book, "Really Bad Powerpoint" to anyone who buys a copy of my new book.
This may shock you, but a large number of people are downloading the ebook without keeping their end of the bargain. Of course, I expected there would be a fair amount of leakage, but there's quite a lot.
This is especially sad because all the proceeds from the sale of the ebook on Amazon go to charity. The optimist in me believes that people who download it without buying are going ahead and making their own donation.
But that's not what astonishes me.
What astonishes me is that several of the folks who took a copy then had the chutzpah to email me with with follow up questions about the book! (see above).


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Addiction Support group has incorporated Jiu-Jitsu into their routine. Local recovery community organization Amare has partnered with Alton Family Martial Arts & Fitness to bring Madison County another pathway to recovery from drug and alcohol addiction by developing the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Recovery Support Group advantage news reports.
"I am excited to be partnering with Amare because I get to share my love of jiu-jitsu with others," Stacey said.
"Teaching is one thing I love and watching people become more complete versions of themselves, both externally and internally, only adds to that passion," Wahle said.
He is currently a purple belt in bjj.
Honor, discipline, and respect are guiding principles found in training Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which are similar to principles found in 12-step recovery support groups according to them. Marburger credits Brazilian jiu-jitsu with changing his life, both professionally and personally, and holds a purple belt under Kyle Watson.
The fundamentals of BJJ, along with the actual physical activities, can provide you with the mental and physical strength needed to overcome substance abuse problems when coupled with some of the traditional addiction treatment options.


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Sachin Tendulkar, a journalist's awkward question and social media's reductionism
By Mayur Didolkar
New Delhi, First Published Feb 23, 2019, 10:52 PM IST
Making a celebrity speak on a volatile issue, and then condemning him or her for an opinion that goes against the popular sentiment of the times is not kosher. Here's how people's anger with Sachin Tendulkar following his answer to a journalist's question on Pulwama terror attack and the BCCI's decision to not make Team India play Pakistan at the ICC World Cup 2019 is wrong on many counts.
Last week, in a Twitter conversation, I had pointed out that many of us feel we should listen to Bollywood superstars when they choose to voice their concerns over 'intolerance', but also feel they have a right to remain silent on acts of religious terrorism like Pulwama. While celebrities should be allowed to maintain silence on volatile issues, the same needs to be applied consistently. In less than a week, this issue merits further examination as the debate over whether to play cricket with Pakistan in an international tournament has heated up.
Valid point . However needs to be applied consistently. Can't ask public to heed khan/shah etc when they speak of intolerance and give a pass to the same fraternity on an issue they wish to stay out.
— mayurwrites (@freentglty) February 16, 2019
A television channel called upon Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar to take a stand, and subsequently criticised the guarded, balanced reaction given by both retired greats of Indian cricket where they essentially said that they would abide by whatever decision the government takes. Predictably, there was a furore on social media.
There are two issues at hand here. First, if boycotting all cricket engagements with Pakistan including — and up to — pulling out of the World Cup, or conceding the match against Pakistan, is an effective protest against Pakistan's continued sponsorship of terrorism, as well as, if doing so is in India's best interests. Second, of course, is this growing tendency in a part of the mainstream as well as social media of all political hues to call upon famous people to express opinions on potentially volatile issues and then, based upon their response, making it into a referendum on their character. Both require serious discussion while keeping our understandably inflamed passions in check.
On the first issue, as IOC's recent action suggests, India may have a long fight ahead if the aim is to make Pakistan a pariah internationally. United as the world might be in its opposition to terrorism, there is no other country joining India in the boycott. Let's remember, when 66 countries including the US had boycotted the Moscow Summer Olympics to protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, India was one of the countries not to join the boycott. The only reason to bring that up is to point out that in high-prestige international sporting events, often countries not wholly unsympathetic to your cause might not join your protest. On the other hand, in 1974, when India forfeited their tie against South Africa in the Davis Cup final, it didn't do much beyond making a statement and handing the cup to the rival team without hitting a ball. Given a similar situation, if India allows Pakistan to win through a forfeit, are we sure we are achieving anything other than making an emotional statement? The fact that India's grievance against Pakistan is far more immediate and serious than the aforementioned examples does not mean that the efficacy of the countermeasures should not weigh on the policymaker's minds.
In the given circumstances, discouraging individual nations from having bilateral events with Pakistan and creating conditions for individual players to be eligible for the money-spinner IPL might be a more effective tactic to isolate Pakistan over a longer period. The large following and resultant big money that playing in India automatically brings are powerful levers. However, these levers need to be used in a calibrated rather than a knee-jerk manner. Equally, any policy on this subject must cover all sports the two countries might play against each other, and not just the most popular one.
And that means Tendulkar, Gavaskar and Kapil are right when they say they will abide by what the government decides. Taking a decision about not engaging with a county requires consideration of multiple economic, diplomatic and political aspects. Clearly, such decision-making is beyond the scope of retired cricket players. At the same time, because of their outstanding achievements on the cricket field, the words of these three men count. Even today. Every great power brings great responsibility. The circumspect responses by these three gentlemen have essentially given the stakeholders, primarily the government and the BCCI, some room to manoeuvre as well as the time to make decisions. What some journalists want is to take that room and time away in exchange of TRPs for their respective channels, and enforce their writ on the government using the shoulders of cricketing greats to fire from.
As the debate on social media keeps on getting more polarised — and as the mainstream media keeps abandoning even the pretence of being neutral — celebrities not being given the option to stay out of a debate is becoming more and more commonplace. In the aftermath of Donald Trump's stunning victory in the 2016 elections, singing superstar Taylor Swift was accused of being an 'envoy of Trump's values' just because she did not join the protesting artistes. This is the real tragedy of the post-truth social media age: those who speak about social issues selectively, in spite of being inconsistent, are likelier to get support from their partisan base, while people like Swift in 2017 (since then she has been a more vocal supporter of the Democrats, which must have assuaged the critic's fears somewhat). Tendulkar, who chooses to remain consistently silent on issues outside his wheelhouse, gets thrown under the bus! Sadly, this conflation of silence with complicity is no longer the sole domain of the Left.
This is problematic for many reasons. First of all, by making politics the ultimate test of purity, we are making it the fulcrum of everyone's lives, whether they want it or not. We are essentially reducing the whole experience of one human life to a set of political beliefs. Secondly, by automatically calling all disagreements as evidence of moral rot, we are taking the nuance out of the debate, thereby opening doors for the fringe on either side as the moderates are intimidated into silence. This is the ultimate "with us or against us" era where achievers are being arm-twisted into taking a stand.
The greatest moral problem, however, has to do with the respective positions that the journalist and the celebrity are assigned in this debate. That the journalist, a newsman whose contributions to the country range from the debatable to the non-existent, feels he is entitled to question the purity of the celebrity, a man who transcended his sports to become an icon, not just for athletic excellence, but for the very aspirational India, tells we are rapidly sliding down a slippery slope that makes no demands of the judges except their ability to build a following and whip up frenzied passions. This is the society where the social justice warriors get to sit in the moral arbiter's chair through no virtue other than their self-proclaimed moral superiority and the achievers are subjected to random tests of purity. If there is a better way to incentivise entitlement, while punishing achievement and enterprise, let's know about it.
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By Armen Hareyan G+ Jan 9 2021 - 11:17pm
NHTSA has decided not to open an investigation into Tesla because the regulator concluded that Tesla's unexpected acceleration problem is caused by user error. The manufacturer thus avoids a risk of massive recall of vehicles.
After reviewing data from Tesla, the ODI and the NHTSA failed to find any evidence that would support a probe into Tesla that would support sudden acceleration claims.
The NHTSA wrote:
"After reviewing the available data, ODI has not identified evidence that would support opening a defect investigation into SUA in the subject vehicles. In every instance in which event data was available for review by ODI, the evidence shows that SUA crashes in the complaints cited by the petitioner have been caused by pedal misapplication. There is no evidence of any fault in the accelerator pedal assemblies, motor control systems, or brake systems that has contributed to any of the cited incidents. There is no evidence of a design factor contributing to increased likelihood of pedal misapplication. The theory provided of a potential electronic cause of SUA in the subject vehicles is based upon inaccurate assumptions about system design and log data."
Since 2018, the American agency has received and examined a total of 246 complaints, 203 of which follow from any accident. At the heart of the problem, a phenomenon of sudden sudden acceleration. The investigation office concluded that there were no faults on the vehicle and that the problem was "improper use of the pedal"
This decision will consolidate Tesla in its position. In a first petition, the builder denied the existence of a problem and qualified the petition as an attempt to recover money following the misadventures of a few owners. A little later, Tesla published: "We are investigating every incident reported by drivers in the event of an unexpected acceleration, and in each case, the data collected shows that the vehicle behaved as expected."
Tesla had already anticipated, in the design of the cars, safety measures to avoid potential acceleration problems. In fact, the pedal has two different position sensors and if the system detects the slightest anomaly, the engine will shut off automatically. This means concretely that to have a sudden acceleration unwanted by the driver, the 2 sensors must be faulty, in the same way and at the same time.
While the initiator of the petition had asked NHTSA to recall the Model S, X and 3 at the slightest problem, the agency concludes: "There is no evidence of a defect in the assembly of the accelerator pedal, the engine control system or the braking system which could be the source of the incidents ".
A big relief for Tesla, right after the Model Y was released in China, even though the company seemed genuinely confident about the outcome.
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So it looks like we're going to get our first glimpse of the iWatch (or at least some kind of Apple wearable computer) on September 9th. However, it's also looking more and more like we're going to be in for a long wait before we'll actually have a chance to buy the device. Digitimes' sources now say that the iWatch "is still under engineering verification testing (EVT) stage and has to still go through production verification testing (PVT)," which means there's almost no chance that the device will release before the end of the year.
What's more, Digitimes' sources say that Apple could still change the design of the device in between the EVT and PVT stages, which means that what we see at Apple's big event next week isn't guaranteed to be the final version of the device.
Unlike the iPhone 6, which has practically been leaked to death at this point, the iWatch is still shrouded in almost total mystery. We still haven't seen any leaked images of the device yet and it likely won't go into mass production until later this year. In fact, we still don't know whether what Apple plans to show off on September 9th will be an actual smartwatch like the Moto 360 or a Nike FuelBand-style fitness band.