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The MS Data Science program at ITU will provide a comprehensive introduction to data science procedures; build theoretical and conceptual foundations of key data science tasks such as classification, association rule mining and clustering; discuss analysis and implementation of algorithms; and introduce emerging state-of-the-art research areas such as recommender systems, privacy preserving data mining, big data and business analytics. Emphasis will be placed on the design and application of efficient and scalable algorithms. The students will get hands on experience through the implementation of algorithms and use of software in assignments and the course project.
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IRELAND IS IN a strong position to convince television channels based in the United Kingdom to relocate here after Brexit.
The BAI and IDA Ireland been meeting with a number of groups in the UK over the last year to talk about the regulatory process here.
"They're still exploring and they're exploring a number of different countries, not just ourselves," he explained.
The main competitors include the Netherlands, which is already host to Netflix's, and Germany which has a number of production bases.
Ireland has a lot to offer too, O'Keeffe said.
"One company has said to us we're in competition with three others for where they will go.
Some of these companies have already visited Ireland to meet with the BAI.
A&E Networks, which has channels like the History Channel have expressed interest in Ireland.
O'Keeffe said US channels tend not to go directly to the BAI, instead they go to consultant groups which act as a go-between.
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FTC Settles U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor Complaints Against Twelve Companies
by Caitlin Alexandra Johnston, Daren Orzechowski | White & Case LLP
On January 21, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced agreements ("Settlements") with twelve companies to settle the FTC's claims that each of the companies had falsely represented that they were in compliance with the U.S.-E.U. and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks ("Safe Harbor Program").1 Among the twelve settling companies are Level 3 Communications, LLC, one of the world's largest internet service providers; Apperian, Inc., a provider of mobile applications for businesses; and PDB Sports, Ltd., the limited partnership that owns the Denver Broncos.2 Participation in the Safe Harbor Program offers a streamlined means for U.S. companies to receive personal data in the U.S. from the E.U. or Switzerland in compliance with foreign data privacy laws.3 The Settlements appear to demonstrate increased interest on the part of the FTC in enforcing Safe Harbor Program requirements, which may be aimed at convincing the European Commission that the Safe Harbor Program is still viable.4 As a result, companies that have elected to participate in the Safe Harbor Program should conduct periodic internal reviews of their compliance and consider setting up internal controls to ensure that such compliance is maintained.
Participation in the Safe Harbor Program is entirely voluntary and is initiated by a company's self-certification of compliance with the Safe Harbor "Privacy Principles."5 The Privacy Principles include notice, choice, onward transfers, access, security, data integrity, and enforcement. The company must also state in a published privacy policy that it complies with the Privacy Principles, and continued participation requires annual updating or reaffirmation of the self-certification letter.6
The Settlements resolve allegations that each of the twelve companies represented in its privacy policies that it was compliant with the Safe Harbor Program, despite having allowed its participation to lapse through failure to recertify.7 The FTC characterized these representations as deceptive practices that violated Section 5 of the FTC Act.8 The Settlements enjoin the companies from misrepresenting their compliance with any governmental or self-regulatory data privacy program for twenty years and impose detailed record-keeping requirements for five years, including maintenance of records for all advertisements or other statements containing representations of privacy program participation and all materials relied upon in preparing such representations.9 If the companies violate the Settlements, the FTC is empowered to assess up to $11,000 per day in monetary penalties.10 The Settlements make clear that companies that have self-certified in the past should ensure that they have properly recertified, or if not, that they have removed any representation of Safe Harbor Program compliance from their privacy policies.
In addition, the Settlements evidence a renewed focus at the FTC on Safe Harbor Program enforcement, arguably in response to recent European Commission criticism that the Safe Harbor Program, as enforced, does not sufficiently protect the privacy rights of E.U. citizens.11 The European Commission has released thirteen recommendations to improve the Safe Harbor Program, calling on U.S. authorities to propose remedies by mid-2014, and may suspend or modify the Safe Harbor Program if it remains unsatisfied.12 Responding to these developments, FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez stated in a recent address that the FTC "will continue to make Safe Harbor a top enforcement priority" and that more Safe Harbor Program matters are "in the enforcement pipeline."13
While it is unclear what else the FTC may have planned, pressure on the FTC to enforce the Safe Harbor Program undoubtedly means pressure on companies to properly ensure compliance. The Settlements address misrepresentations regarding participation in the Safe Harbor Program, but the FTC has also, in the past, brought claims addressing substantive violations of Safe Harbor Program requirements against companies including Myspace.14 Thus, companies should take the time now to review their compliance with the Safe Harbor Program and institute controls designed to ensure not only that compliance is maintained, but that company policies and procedures relating to transfers of personal data follow the best practices of companies operating in the E.U.
[1] - Press Release, FTC, FTC Settles with Twelve Companies Falsely Claiming to Comply with International Safe Harbor Privacy Framework (Jan. 21, 2014), available at http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/01/ftc-settles-twelve-companies-falsely-claiming-comply (hereinafter, "Press Release").
[2] - Id. The FTC noted in the Press Release that the settling companies "represent a cross-section of industries" and handle a variety of different types of consumer information, including health and employment information.
[3] - See Export.gov, Welcome to the U.S.-EU & U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks, available at http://export.gov/safeharbor/index.asp
[4] - See Viviane Reding, Vice-President, European Commission, "Mass Surveillance is Unacceptable – U.S. Action to Restore Trust is Needed Now," Address before the European Parliament Civil Liberties Committee Hearing on Data Protection and U.S. Surveillance (Dec. 9, 2013), available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-1048_en.htm (hereinafter "Reding Address").
[5] - Export.gov, U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Overview, available at http://export.gov/safeharbor/eu/eg_main_018476.asp
[6] - Id.
[7] - See, e.g., Level 3 Communications, LLC, Case No. 142-3028 (F.T.C.) (complaint), available at http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/140121level3cmpt.pdf; Apperian, Inc., Case No. 142-3017 (F.T.C.) (complaint), available at http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/140121apperiancmpt.pdf; PDB Sports, Ltd., Case No. 142-3025 (F.T.C.) (complaint), available at http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/140121denverbroncoscmpt.pdf
[8] - See 15 U.S.C. § 45(a)(1) (prohibiting unfair or deceptive practices in or affecting commerce).
[9] - See Level 3 Communications, LLC, Case No. 142-3028 (F.T.C. Jan. 21, 2014) (agreement containing consent order), available at
http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/140121level3agree.pdf.
[10] - See id. See also Export.gov, Safe Harbor Enforcement Overview, available at http://export.gov/safeharbor/eu/eg_main_018481.asp
[11] - See Reding Address.
[12] - See Press Release, European Union, Restoring Trust in EU-US Data Flows – Frequently Asked Questions (Nov. 27, 2013), available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-1059_en.htm
[13] - Edith Ramirez, Chairwoman, FTC, "Protecting Consumers and Competition in a New Era of Transatlantic Trade," Keynote Address before the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, Oct. 29, 2013, available at http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_statements/protecting-consumers-competition-new-era-transatlantic-trade/131029tacdremarks.pdf
[14] - Privacy Enforcement and Safe Harbor: Comments of FTC Staff to European Commission Review of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework, Nov. 12, 2013, available at http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_statements/privacy-enforcement-safe-harbor-comments-ftc-staff-european-commission-review-u.s.eu-safe-harbor-framework/131112europeancommissionsafeharbor.pdf

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By using the ring in conjunction with a thumb, the device can reduce the need for on-screen menus, enabling users to control on-screen elements and their properties remotely without touching the screen. For example, brushing the ring with a thumb can perform a scroll function, and a double tap of the ring can perform a double click — whether the finger is in contact with the touch screen or not.

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Q: Azure Firewall across multiple regions? I have a question on Azure firewall. We have servers in azure Indian region behind azure firewall. We are now deploying servers also in azure Europe region. Do I need to deploy Azure firewall in Europe or I can use the one from India?

A: They are separate vnets in differents regions, so yes you would. It is hard to suggest a solution without knowing your objective though.
If they were in the same region, you could have setup multiple vnets and connected them via peering and then setup routes to push all connecting vnets to the core one which the firewall is setup on so all their traffic is routed via it (like a hub-and-spoke model). Peering is supported region to region, but I would not suggest that, due to inconsistencies in the service, not to mention the latency.
Although, do think about whether you really need a firewall. I secure/connect environments by simply creating solid NSG's and utilising the AzureVPN to create IPsec tunnels.
Many ways to achieve the same result, just depends on your environments complexities. Use this article for further information https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall/firewall-faq

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Football club employee awarded £290,000 payout in tribunal case
Welfare officer won unfair dismissal and sex discrimination tribunal against owner who reportedly said football 'is no place for women'
Leeds United Football Club has been ordered to pay former employee Lucy Ward around £290,000 following her victory in an unfair dismissal and sex discrimination tribunal.
Ward, the club's education and welfare officer, claimed she was sacked because she was the partner of former head coach Neil Redfearn. He was placed on gardening leave on 3 July 2015, the same day she was suspended.
The club argued that she was dismissed after exceeding her annual leave entitlement by travelling to Canada to work for the BBC at the 2015 Women's World Cup.
Ward told the panel at the tribunal that, during a meeting between Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino and the ladies' team's manager, Cellino said that football "is no place for women. They should be in the bedroom or the beauticians'".
It was also reported that Cellino dismissed Ward as he believed she and her partner "came as a pair". Employment judge Stephen Keevash ruled in her favour in April, saying the club had taken a 'sexist' view and the reasons for her dismissal were a 'sham'.
The judgement, announced by Ward's legal team FrontRow Legal, said the club had been ordered to pay around £190,000 in compensation and damages, as well as the cost of her legal fees, which were estimated to be in the region of £100,000.
In response to the judgement, Ward said: "I am delighted that my case has now concluded with a judgment that is reflective of the losses suffered.
"As I have stated previously, this has been an extremely difficult period in my life and I am pleased that I can now try and put the matter behind me."
The statement from FrontRow also revealed that the football club had arranged for Cellino and club secretary Stuart Hayton to have equality training.
Paragraph 49 of the Reserved Judgement read: "The Tribunal recognised that because of the amendment to section 124(3) of the 2010 Act it was not appropriate to make any recommendation about equality training. However, it is encouraged to note that the Respondent had arranged for all of its senior staff, including Mr Cellino and Mr Hayton, to undertake such training on 13 July 2016 as part of the Football League initiative."
Earlier this year, Leeds' assistant manager Nigel Gibbs was awarded damages in the High Court after the club removed him from first team duties.
Gibbs claimed his employer had demoted him and that this was a fundamental breach of his employment contract.
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6ix9ine Admits to Domestic Violence in Plea Deal
6ix9ine is making some shocking confessions about his past.
During a final pre-trial hearing in his racketeering case, the rapper admitted to years of domestic violence. According to Complex, a section of his plea deal agreement with the feds listed a number of crimes that he committed, including an admission of domestic violence from 2011 to 2018.
Per the judge's ruling, any accusations of domestic violence against 6ix9ine will not be permitted to be brought up when he testifies. It is likely the rapper will take the stand on Tuesday, Sept. 17, but it depends on the jury selection process and other factors.
Accusations of domestic violence against 6ix9ine first surfaced earlier this year in a Daily Beast article that featured testimony from Sara Molina, the rapper's ex-girlfriend and the mother of his daughter. Molina accused Tekashi of forcing her to have sex and beating her over a period of seven years, which corresponds with 6ix9ine's own admission.
"My face was so swollen," said Molina. "It was so bad. I could barely open my eyes."
Last week, Tekashi's former manager and high-ranking member of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, Kifano "Shotti" Jordan, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection with a number of crimes committed alongside 6ix9ine and other members of the Nine Trey Bloods.
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It was late summer 2015 when I first came in contact with Paul's work. My life was throwing me in the depths of the dark night of the soul. It felt like the walls of the world were crashing down on me wanting my death, my defeat. I found Paul online and The Book Of Mastery was soon in my hands. It felt like a breath of sanity, like a letter from Home. Capital H.
I was going through so much in my life, and that book had the exact answers I needed in the moment. It was like a breath of fresh air when I was suffocating. It gave me strength when I was at my lowest, filled with fear and panic. That book, together with weekly live streams, helped me through great turbulence, allowing me to feel, remember, and live my truth.
When there came a word about The Book Of Truth coming out next, there was no question I was going to get it. It felt like a drug, like a hit of Home with every sentence from the Guides. Every hit infused with power, simplicity and Divine clarity.
Come May 2017, when I was asked to write a review of this book, I was ecstatic. Not only did I get to read the book I have been waiting for so long, but I also had another wave of turbulence in my life, and my mind craved answers. It was one of those points when your Soul is standing right in front of you and is showing you all your power, but claiming that power felt like giving up everything else. It was terrifying. I was ready for this book.
Looking for answers, I opened the book, but got something else entirely.
Late May 2017, my Soul search brought me to Kiev – my home town. Across the ocean from my family, kids, work, my life as I knew it all through the dark night of the soul. The Book Of Truth in my purse. I was there for only a week, and on the last day me and my best friend of 18 years decided to go to the Kundalini Yoga class that was all about women's confidence. I desperately needed that at that time of fast change and uncertainty, so there was no question- we were going. I have never tried any kind of Yoga before, but intended to do so for a very long time ( 2 years now that I own this amazing turquoise Yoga mat – never used). I had no idea what to expect from a group transformation class like that, as I was never on the receiving end of it. I was always the one hosting, the one facilitating transformations and aha moments for others after I achieved mine in my own solitude.
We had a lecture / conversation part. And then we started breathing. Assuming this specific pose, the count for 11 minutes began. I did not expect these 11 minutes to be so life-changing.
At first it was really painful, uncomfortable. This stiff feeling was moving around to different parts of my body, yet I was still breathing along with the group. Then I felt waves of emotions come up: at first I was smiling ( not really me, though, it felt as if my Higher Self was smiling, observing me allowing all this energy in), then tears of surrender followed, then bubbly joy, as if someone was spreading champagne all through my blood stream.
Such power, such unbelievable power, as though all universe was in my body. As If I was so much bigger than this physical world, as if I could do anything, because I was GOD. The ultimate I AM. I felt so much in my body, or so much of myself in my body, like never before. Not only that, I felt this amazing female presence inside my body, as if another woman entered. Incredibly loving, powerful, with a very unique energy signature. I think it was anpther part of me I never encountered before. I was stunned. All this accompanied by intense physical vibration of my whole body. From the base, through the spine, pushing pain and discomfort out, up to my heart, up my throat to my eyebrows. It was all vibrating with what felt like electricity current.
I sat up straight for the first time in a very long time. I felt the power go through my spine up and to all the corners of my body. I felt GOD in my body.
You might be wondering why am I telling you all of this. Here is why. When I picked up The Book Of Truth I was seeking answers. But what I got instead was an experience. Just like what I have just described. A remembrance of GOD within. The illumination of my own power, that once you feel it, can not be unfelt.
The pages of this book are so saturated with these power bombs, truth bombs, that the highlighter barely leaves anything untouched. When I read The Book Of Truth, I read and re-read so many sentences as they give me the feeling of God in body, just like that kundalini yoga experience. They speak to your core, to the depth of you, you might have forgotten exists. This is a book I never want to finish, as this remembering feels so good, so special, so empowering.
At this moment of my path it is no longer about the knowing, the understanding, the making sense. It is, instead, about the FEELING and BEING. And The Book Of Truth helps you achieve just that. The Divine Creator in body.
Thank you, Paul and The Guides.


Ask yourself this question: What are the vital few ideas and actions that really make a difference with customers and clients?
After reflection, it seems there are thousands of tiny things that all make a necessary and positive contribution, but just five areas that are make or break.
You can teach a person to do a better job of faking a service attitude, but why not just start out with people who actually care about your customers.
They cost the same amount (unless you're paying so little that McDonalds is stealing your best reps), but the caring person will actually go the extra mile and solve problems for clients when it counts.
Anyone can provide great service when everything is going well, but you need the big league empaths to share the love when the customer is scared and angry, all the systems are down, and the management team is out on the links wooing the next client.
One very large retail store in New York City had signs posted by all their cash registers: If any employee is particularly discourteous, please let us know. Normal discourtesy they don't care about, but that particularly discourteous clerk was going to be toast.
There are many variants on this value chain idea but the simplest formulations still work. Happy employees create happy customers, which creates happy shareholders; in that priority order. Break any link in this chain, reverse the order, and the entire focus on quality falls apart.
These are not just words, they have to be supported by the budgeting process, by the actions of senior leaders, and by the company's investment priorities. If you tack up the value chain banners and then cut your service staff to make the quarterly numbers, you've just wiped out the last five years of happy talk about quality.
We did a study of employees processing claims manually versus employees processing claims with an automated system. It wasn't the greatest automated system in the world, in fact it was ugly and rudimentary.
The error rate for the manual solution was 74% higher than the automated system. People are blessed and cursed with highly flexible short-term memories. So flexible that they forget tasks they haven't completed and remember, as complete, tasks they haven't even started. Automated systems just have memory, no flexibility, no forgetting, and no daydreaming.
Modern CRM systems can raise the bar on service quality so high that no one can compete effectively without them. Client expectations are raised beyond the performance capabilities of legacy implementations.
The commercial insurance brokerage industry relies primarily on on-the-job training. That is a euphemism for no training. Their error rates typically require 30-50% of their transactional activity to be corrected and their files have enormous gaps in both accuracy and completeness.
By contrast the financial service industry invests 5-10 weeks of classroom training in each front line employee and then assigns a coach to each employee for another one to six months. Their error rates are usually under 5% and their files are highly automated, and predominately, both accurate and complete.
On-the-job training has a fatal flaw: the trainers themselves don't know what they're doing or they don't know how to teach. They're happy to teach, but they might as well be teaching juggling or macramé to the employees; at least the going out of business sale might be more entertaining.
Everyone thinks of leadership involvement as the Chairman or CEO wandering into the service center twice a year and pretending to answer calls. Senior involvement and symbolic support for quality initiatives is certainly important.
The real leadership involvement has to start with the supervisors. Very few companies invest in their supervisors. Often the supervisors are experienced front line representatives selected for their first and last promotion in the company.
The reality is that these supervisors are accomplishing one of the most difficult development transitions in the organization; from individual expert to team leader. Those 10-25 people who are now in their charge will succeed or fail with the customers based on how well they are led by someone who is often leading for the first time in their career. Having highly technical supervisors in place who are also accomplished coaches and leaders is a make or break for world class quality.
Focusing on getting these five areas right will establish a solid foundation for the delivery of an extraordinary customer experience; and afford you the time needed to take up the other thousand tasks that complete the picture.
Steven Grant is a former customer service executive from American Express with over 25 years devoted in Fortune 500 companies analyzing, improving and delivering on enhanced customer experiences.


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Elton John announces last North American dates on his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour"
Elton John has announced the final dates of his North American Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour, added to his previously announced stadium dates. John posted on Instagram: "I am loving every minute of these shows and I can't wait to see you on the last dates of my Farewell Yellow Brick Road The Final Tour Tickets go on sale on April 6. Join the Rocket Club for an exclusive presale from April 1. Full info at EltonJohn.com #eltonfarewelltour
Elton will launch the upcoming leg at North American stadiums this summer. The newly announced shows will include concerts in East Rutherford, NJ, Foxborough, MA, Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC, and Phoenix, AZ, along with a third show added at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA. and stops in Santa Clara, CA, San Diego, CA, and Tacoma, WA. Elton shared: "This year will see my grand finale in North America, playing stadiums all around the country, with the most spectacular production I've ever had. Thank you for sharing this journey with me. I cherish these memories we're making together. It has been nothing short of incredible and I look forward to seeing you very soon one last time, on my Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour."
General tickets go on sale on April 6; join the 'Rocket Club' for an exclusive presale from April 1. For more details and information, head to EltonJohn.com.
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It's like a moral panic on steroids. Adding to the "reckoning" already under way since the 2016 election (see Related links below) is the news yesterday of a new, high-profile coalition of some of social media's creators and backers and Common Sense Media. The steroids part is the funding ($7 million from individuals, the Omidyar Network and Common Sense Media), the PR ($50 million in donated media from non-social media giants Comcast and DirecTV), lobbying at state and federal levels, and the coming ad campaign in 55,000 U.S. public schools.
The concerns aren't new. Scholars have been documenting the moral panic for more than a decade. To name just a few examples, David Finkelhor, the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, even coined the term "juvenoia" in 2011 and wrote a paper about online safety's "three alarmist assumptions" in 2014 (see this); another, Justine Cassell, focused in 2008 on the gender aspect of the panic; and more recently, many scholars pushed back against a colleague fueling fears of the smartphone's impacts (in an Atlantic Monthly cover story headlined "Are Smartphones Destroying a Generation?") by confusing causation and correlation and ignoring "multiple factors underlying social change," as one internationally known researcher, Sonia Livingstone, put it.
Reality checks are fine. It's good to stop and reflect. But this is not that. This is a new very sophisticated, well-funded appeal to our worst fears, focused on only one among many factors underlying the social change we're now experiencing, the one in the palm of our hands. Of course it's understandable that the new campaign's creators are so focused on technology because that has been the focus of their careers. But this is our media now – we can't put the genie back in the bottle. So what should we do?
First: I'm not going to deconstruct the messaging of this campaign here. I'll say two things about it, then suggest one possible response that I feel would be helpful to our children. The two things are: it's good to be aware of what the early social media founders say about behavioral engineering because that awareness will help us avoid being "engineered." On the other hand, also be aware of lobbying efforts based on fear and aimed at laws restricting our children's media use. Knowledge empowers; generalized restrictions disempower both us and our children.
Second: Stop and zoom into your own experience with young media users, then zoom way out with me. If you're a parent or work with kids, engage with them. Focus on their own media interests, not headlines about them, with honest curiosity and a light touch. Two media professors have informed my thinking on that: USC's Henry Jenkins advising parents to have their kids' backs rather than look over their shoulders and University of Bournemouth's Stephen Heppell illustrating the best way to mentor our young videogamers: turning videogaming into experiential learning.
Our children ground us. Yes we guide them, of course, but also they, their interests and their media uses need to guide us, our thinking and policy making. If we forget that, we leave ourselves out of their media experiences. We miss out on so much. And we delete our children's agency and hand our authority and guidance over to technology (filtering, monitoring) and other people's policies (rules, laws). This is not good for their long-term wellbeing.
So instead of getting swamped by a new wave of moral panic, avoid jumping on this rocket-propelled surfboard and consider a satellite-type view now, so many years into the new media era.
What we could be seeing from this zoomed out position is an opportunity for genuine experiential learning, something we and our children cannot benefit from if we don't take time as a society for what educators call "reflective observation," which includes paying attention to the growing bodies of digital-media and youth-online-risk research worldwide. Without this reflection, it's just experience; we haven't turned it into learning. It runs away with us rather than becoming a tool for growth, moving forward and co-creating meaningful lives and helpful policies.
For wholly practical reasons – our need to understand their media use and their need for agency, voice and competency – our children must be in this discussion. Does the just-announced coalition get direct input from tech users under 18 and from researchers who do as part of their methodologies (e.g., "In their own words" and It's Complicated)? Are the members consciously honoring young tech users' rights of participation in this discussion and in balance with their rights of protection and provision – as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?
So while we're being urged to manage our social media, let's manage the social media backlash too. It's not all bad, but it will be bad if we let it manage us. This newest phase of it is not focused only on kids, of course, but they're named as beneficiaries. And they are media's early adopters, key stakeholders and future leaders of this networked world. They know the genie's not going back in the bottle. It's our job to help them see he's not in charge – they are. Remember that, when the genie pops out of the bottle, he usually says, "Your wish is my command." Let's help our children exercise their powers for good online as well as offline. This may be a setback for social media, but we just mustn't let it be a setback for the agency and rights of young media users.
Indicators of the social media reckoning, from a thoughtful keynote last July by Pew Research's Lee Rainie to apps' "behavioral engineering," suggestions that smartphones "destroyed a generation," news of Facebook's changing newsfeed, the many efforts to defeat "fake news" (such as Harvard's Shorenstein Center's), and the growing number of great parenting books about mentoring young media users (two great examples: The Art of Screen Time and Screenwise).
The clearest and most authoritative explanation of tech-related "addiction" ("problematic interactive media use," or PIMU) I've seen is from Michael Rich, MD, at Harvard Medical School.
"The Return of the Techno-Moral Panic" in the New York Times last Dec.
Block, monitor, control/regulate: For 15+ years, these have been the dominant messages to parents about tech and media. They suggest that children's digital well-being comes entirely from forces external to them – and that control and surveillance are what keep people safe. Young people's agency, values, and intelligence have not been acknowledged. So in 2013 I suggested that we balance external with internal "safety tools" (resilience, empathy, respect for self and others, ethics, social skills, media literacy and digital literacy). These safeguards may not be all that we need to avert behavioral engineering, but if we had spent the past decade and a half teaching the skills that empower us rather than dependence on external protections, we and our children would be in a stronger, less fearful place right now.
If there's lobbying to be done, lobby to get a curriculum like Living Online Lab into U.S. education which gives students context for the media they're using. It's the only one I know of, and it teaches students about how the Internet got started, big data, algorithms, identity, privacy, digital rights, etc., etc.
Thanks for this article. Working with the parents of teens and having gone through this myself with my own, open dialogue with these soon to be adults about our own values and why they are important to us. Digital/social media is not going away and finding ways for it to fit into our lives while still having a sense of connection with family and friends seems to be the ultimate goal here. How can those of us who did not grow up with this remove our bias to embrace "what is" and set some boundaries around it's use to have healthy, meaningful lives?
Thank you for commenting, Evala. I agree – and wonder how it could ever be fair to our children to leave their views and experiences out of policies we make (ostensibly) for them.


A continuation of my thread for elacc in Competition #5.
First of all, here is a link to the original thread for elacc, a game that I am currently programming. You can go there to get the game description and original progress in case you're interested. However, I will explain here that, due to the large size of the game, I'm carrying the development of it into this competition as well. To be perfectly honest (and rather realistic), I don't actually expect to complete this game, nor did I really ever. That being said, I do want to make something playable that's larger than my other games and includes an AI that's reasonably … Not dumb? And that actually is rather ambitious, haha!
Thinking Ahead:* Spend time before the start of the competition planning your game.
Seeing the Matrix:* Share your source code with the people in the competition via GitHub, BitBucket, or a simple download.
I'm Sorry, Dave. I'm Afraid I Can't Do That.* Add an AI enemy, opponent, or component to your game. It doesn't have to be any good.
Looking forward to it, Marcus! It will be cool to have somebody working on a game that was in development last time around. I look forward to seeing your AI!
Hey, everyone! I was pretty busy last week, hence my absence, but today I was able to sit down for a while and do some work on my game.
First of all, I didn't really do anything last weekend. I spent a good chunk of time doing odd bits of animation, but none of that made it past the Blender phase and into a texture atlas, so I really didn't have anything to show. Today, though, I was able to finish up animating the player's left arm (because I'm drawing every character in multiple pieces and never got to the arm in the last competition) and also made several animations for swapping weapons, as opposed to the gun being held just magically changing to a new one. Then, I put them all into texture atlases, loaded them into C#, and began implementation! I've now got everything in and working, the weapon swapping looks really good (in my opinion), and it's nice to have the player finally with both arms … but I do have one problem. Without going into details, suffice it to say that I'm going to have to remake a lot of texture atlases. Oh well.
Anyways, I didn't see anyone in the chatroom today, but I hope the day went well for you all. Maybe I'll see some of you around tomorrow. Later!
Hello again - I've got some progress to tell you all about!
There is of course the continual process of making random things work better or transition smoother, but aside from that, I've done a couple big things. The first was to implement the ability for the enemy characters to die, and the second was to add the passive ability for the player to be able to deflect bullets (remember that there's going to be a "magic" type of fighting style in addition to just guns). The first feature is important because it's just such a basic thing to have, but the second was kind of a big deal to add because it required pulling out all the code for the player's left arm and making it relatively independent, as well as beginning to create the ability for it to perform actions on its own, which will play a larger part later in development that I hope to reach. It was also just a lot harder than I expected, haha!
I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to work on next, but it may be either the beginnings of a HUD, so I can create a basic "Go to A, go to B" sort of mission and get a victory condition, or improving the AI character's intelligence. Right now it's an extremely basic "patrol this route, and hey, if you see the player, shoot at him and follow him around" sort of thing, and I'd like to make it … Uh, less dumb, haha!
Well, another week has gone by. Just to give a quick update, I haven't done all that much, but I have begun work on improving the battle AI. Back in Competition #2, when I was working on Final Saber, I decided that the best way to coordinate my AI characters during combat was to create a new class that would just watch them all and be able to make decisions about which one does what. Well, I figured that this might still be a good idea, so I'm trying to do it again.
The problem is, this stuff is hard, so I think I'm going to have to do what I did during the last competition when I came to pathfinding, which is to just chip away at it and probably not have much to say for a while. So yeah, that's where I'm at.
I know that the competition ended last weekend, but I'm only now getting around to publishing a demo of where I'm at, so apologies about that! The good news, though, is that I do have a new demo for you all now. The new one is elacc v0.0.3 (and you may want to keep reading before trying it out).
Really, the only thing worth mentioning that I've done since the last update is to continue work on improving the AI, but it still hasn't made it to the point yet where I can put it in control of the characters, so there's no visible difference from what it was like a couple weeks ago (although I did throw a few more characters into the world).
- Much better performance (although for some reason there will be big lag spikes periodically about half of the times the program is run, so if it's lagging a lot, try closing it and running it again. No idea why this is happening).
- The player character now has an animation for switching weapons and also for deflecting some bullets from both an aiming and standing position.
- The AI characters can now die and the program will close if the player runs out of health.
- Guns will get less accurate the longer they're fired for without stopping, up to a certain point.
If anyone forgets the controls, it's WASD to move, the right mouse button to aim, and the left mouse button to shoot if aiming. The mouse wheel switches weapons (the sniper rifle is selected by scrolling up, and the assault rifle by scrolling down).
A little bit of a slow competition for me, but there is still some good progress represented here and I maintain my hopes of continuing to further develop this. If you have any feedback, let me know, but otherwise I'll see you all later!


I lead a global team at Google and travel extensively. When I speak about my work, the questions I get are often about the efforts we make to bring more women into engineering and how I maintain my work/life balance with two young children. These are very important questions, but I'm acutely aware that they reflect a certain amount of privilege when it comes to issues of women's equality. Despite the incredible advances women have made in the last century, many around the world are still struggling to provide for their families and keep them safe amidst violence and instability.
For the past several years I've been part of a sponsorship program administered by Women for Women International, an organization dedicated to helping women survivors of war rebuild their lives. Every time I receive a letter from a woman I sponsor, each of whom is determined to improve her life despite the terrible odds she faces, I'm reminded of why it's so important that we all—women and men alike—recognize the challenges women continue to face around the world.
That's why I'm so excited to celebrate the centenary of International Women's Day on March 8, 2011. This year Google is collaborating with Women for Women International on their "Join me on the Bridge" campaign. Originally conceived of by women from Rwanda and Congo as a sign of solidarity between women in two conflict-ridden countries, last year's campaign brought together thousands of women and men at more than 100 bridge events on four continents.
This year we're making it simple for you, your friends, your classmates and your colleagues to participate in bridge events on International Women's Day by offering new online resources.
As a second-generation Indian who has grown up in the United States, I've developed a taste for great home-cooked Indian food, but not a knack for how to make it. Somehow my cooking efforts result in foods that taste over-spiced yet bland at the same time. My parents follow the art of cooking by intuition, where the right amount of each spice is measured out by gut feel, but that's never worked very well for me. As a math geek and computer engineer, I prefer to work with concrete numbers and instructions, including when cooking, so today I'm very happy about a new feature that helps me find recipes online: Recipe View.
Recipe View lets you narrow your search results to show only recipes, and helps you choose the right recipe amongst the search results by showing clearly marked ratings, ingredients and pictures. To get to Recipe View, click on the "Recipes" link in the left-hand panel when searching for a recipe. You can search for specific recipes like [chocolate chip cookies], or more open-ended topics—like [strawberry] to find recipes that feature strawberries, or even a holiday or event, like [cinco de mayo]. In fact, you can try searching for all kinds of things and still find interesting results: a favorite chef like [ina garten], something very specific like [spicy vegetarian curry with coconut and tofu] or even something obscure like [strange salad].
Recipe View is based on data from rich snippets markup, which we first introduced at Searchology in 2009. If you're a recipe publisher, you can add markup to your webpages so that your content can appear with this improved presentation in regular Google results as well as in Recipe View. Recipe View is part of our ongoing efforts to enrich the search experience using structured data, and this release is an exciting technical milestone for our team since it's first time we've built a brand new set of search tools based off of rich snippets data.
Recipe View is rolling out now in the U.S. and Japan, and we'll be adding more countries in the future. We look forward to making further improvements and building more views so you can "slice and dice" your results for other types of searches as well. Bon appetit!
The Google Apps collaboration tools have steadily and swiftly improved over the last couple years, and many companies have found that Google Docs and Google Sites are faster, simpler and more powerful than traditional software for the majority of common tasks, especially tasks where people need to work efficiently together. Today, we're launching two new initiatives to help more people experience the productivity benefits of web-powered collaboration.
First, Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office is now available worldwide. This plugin for Microsoft Office is available to anyone with a Google Account, and brings multi-person collaboration to the Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications that you may still need from time to time. The plugin syncs your work through Google's cloud, so everyone can contribute to the same version of a file at the same time. Learning the benefits of web-powered collaboration will help more people make a faster transition to 100% web collaboration tools.
We're also introducing the 90-Day Appsperience program, a way for companies that currently use cumbersome legacy systems to see how web-powered tools help their teams work together more effectively. A nominal fee covers 90-day access to Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Cloud Connect and more, as well as assistance from Google experts to help coworkers quickly become more productive together. And companies trying Google Apps can use the new collaboration dashboard in the Google Apps control panel to assess the value of our tools. The dashboard provides data on how people are using Apps to collaborate more efficiently without the hassles of document versions, check-in/check-out or attachments.
If you're curious how your company could become more agile, efficient and innovative with better tools for teams to work together, read more about these updates on the Google Enterprise Blog.
It's not just the Android team that is exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy. In recent years, advertising technology has had its own "Big Bang": a rapid onset of incredible growth and expansion in the display advertising universe.
Display advertising is one of our big focus areas. Better display advertising helps to fund the websites and content we all use and read, provides useful and engaging commercial information, and helps large and small advertisers to reach new customers, increase sales and grow their businesses.
The Theory of Relativity: The distinction between different advertising technologies (like ad networks and demand side platforms) is blurring. Each of these technologies provides similar ways to achieve your marketing goals, depending on how you want to manage your campaign.
Fusion Theory: There's a few different ways to deliver ads to people. Each on their own is powerful, but combining these different ways unlocks the best results.
The Law of Perpetual Motion: New technology is driving rapid change in display advertising—which is constantly improving marketers' creative palettes and the way that ads are bought and sold. Embracing new media and technology provides a key way for marketers to differentiate and grow their businesses in a new universe.The expansion in the advertising industry is leading towards a future with a better advertising universe for everyone—where people see more relevant, useful ads, publishers get better returns to fund their content and marketers can run more effective campaigns.
Journalism is changing fast. And as news businesses experiment with new ways of creating and delivering journalism in the digital age, Google is keen to play its part on the technology side. Over the last year, we've been partnering with publishers around the world to develop technological solutions—including, most recently, One Pass—to find new and engaging ways of presenting stories online and to generate greater revenues.
As well as our focus on technological experimentation, we're also investing at the grassroots level. Last October we announced that we would be giving $5 million in grants to non-profit organisations working on developing new approaches to journalism. At that time, we allocated around 40% of the total fund to the Knight Foundation in the U.S.
Today, we awarded a $2.7 million grant to the International Press Institute, based in Vienna, which will be used to sponsor the IPI News Innovation Contest. The contest seeks to find and fund breakthrough ideas that will have a lasting impact on the future of digital news in communities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Grants will be awarded to both non-profit and for-profit organisations working on digital journalism initiatives, including open-source and mobile technology projects created by or for journalists and distributed in the public interest. From today until June 1, the IPI will invite proposals from around the region for projects devoted to online innovation in journalism, new economic models for news and training in digital reporting.
The IPI has a long tradition of working on innovation in journalism, freedom of expression and other important issues. We're sure they'll be able to find and advance some great digital journalism projects over the next couple of years—and we encourage anyone with innovative ideas, large or small, to apply for a grant from the IPI. In the meantime, we'll continue to work with the news industry to help develop new projects, products and experiments that make it possible for journalism to thrive online.
This is the latest post in our series profiling entrepreneurial Googlers working on products across the company and around the world. Here, you'll get a behind-the-scenes look at how one Googler built an entire R&D team around voice technology that has gone on to power products like YouTube transcriptions and Voice Search. – Ed.
When I first interviewed at Google during the summer of 2004, mobile was just making its way onto the company's radar. My passion was speech technology, the field in which I'd already worked for 20 years. After 10 years of speech research at SRI, followed by 10 years helping build Nuance Communications, the company I co-founded in 1994, I was ready for a new challenge. I felt that mobile was an area ripe for innovation, with a need for speech technology, and destined to be a key platform for delivery of services.
During my interview, I shared my desire to pursue the mobile space and mentioned that if Google didn't have any big plans for mobile, then I probably wouldn't be a good fit for the company. Well, I got the job, and I started soon after, without a team or even a defined role. In classic Google fashion, I was encouraged to explore the company, learn about what various teams were working on and figure out what was needed.
After a few months, I presented an idea to senior management to build a telephone-based spoken interface to local search. Although there was a diversity of opinion at the meeting about what applications made the most sense for Google, all agreed that I should start to build a team focused on speech technology. With help from a couple of Google colleagues who also had speech backgrounds, I began recruiting, and within a few months people were busily building our own speech recognition system.
Six years later, I'm excited by how far we've come and, in turn, how our long-term goals have expanded. When I started, I had to sell other teams on the value of speech technology to Google's mission. Now, I'm constantly approached by other teams with ideas and needs for speech. The biggest challenge is scaling our effort to meet the opportunities. We've advanced from GOOG-411, our first speech-driven service, to Voice Search, Voice Input, Voice Actions, a Voice API for Android developers, automatic captioning of YouTube videos, automatic transcription of voicemail for Google Voice and speech-to-speech translation, amongst others. In the past year alone, we've ported our technology to more than 20 languages.
Speech technology requires an enormous amount of data to feed our statistical models and lots of computing power to train our systems—and Google is the ideal place to pursue such technical approaches. With large amounts of data, computing power and an infrastructure focused on supporting large-scale services, we're encouraged to launch quickly and iterate based on real-time feedback.
I've been exploring speech technology for nearly three decades, yet I see huge potential for further innovation. We envision a comprehensive interface for voice and text communication that defies all barriers of modality and language and makes information truly universally accessible. And it's here at Google that I think we have the best chance to make this future a reality.
Update 9:39 PM: Changed title of post to clarify that speech technology is not only used on mobile phones but also for transcription tasks like YouTube captioning and voicemail transcription. -Ed.
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label "Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. – Ed.
This Friday update includes improvements to the Gmail mobile web app and Google Docs interfaces, a feature long-sought-after by many Google Voice fans, a powerful account security improvement and stories from several of the companies and government agencies that have recently moved to Google Apps.
Keeping what's most important front and center is especially helpful on the smaller screen of your mobile device, so we were happy to release Priority Inbox in the Gmail mobile web app. If your phone's browser supports HTML5, you'll see the familiar Priority Inbox sections and message importance markers when you visit gmail.com.
The documents list in Google Docs got a visual makeover and tune-up on Monday. We added a helpful set of filters to quickly narrow down search results, a right-side preview panel to show details about a selected file and the ability to view uploaded media like photos and videos. What we previously called "Folders" are now called "Collections," and we're making the whole interface snappier to save you time.
Last month, we updated Google Voice in response to one of our top user requests: the ability to port existing phone numbers to Google Voice. If you have a beloved phone number that you want to keep as your primary digits, but want Google Voice to ring multiple phones when someone calls, Number Porting might be for you. There's a $20 charge for Number Porting, and your wireless carrier may charge an early termination fee, so we recommend that you check with your carrier before porting. For more details, check the Google Voice Help Center.
Now everyone can help keep their account safer with 2-Step Verification, which we released to Google Apps business customers last year. This advanced security feature works by requiring you to sign in with something you know (your password) plus something you have (a code from your mobile phone). 2-Step Verification helps ensure that the person trying to access your account is the real you.
Organizations using Google Apps often get up and running in under an hour, but we wanted the setup experience to be even faster and easier. Last week we added a new Google Apps setup wizard to the administrative control panel, which gives guided help for creating user accounts, migrating existing mail to Gmail, routing user email to Gmail and more.
Recently we've seen a surge in new public sector customers—including the Administrative Conference of the United States, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and the City of Rochester Hills. These organizations are not only saving taxpayer dollars with Google Apps, but also boosting the productivity of their ranks.
More than 50,000 businesses have also started using Google Apps in the last three weeks. Pithy Little Wine Co., DeyFischer Consulting, Manna on Main Street and Hunter Douglas are just a few of the businesses we've profiled recently who are are going 100% web.
I hope these product updates and customer stories help you and your organization get even more from Google Apps. For more details and the latest news, check out the Google Apps Blog.


Distribusi contains articles and observations in the area of political economy.
Political economy is defined by John Médaille as a 'humane science firmly embedded in human institutions'. We cannot divorce economics from human relations.
Many people are now actively looking for economic alternatives that are not grounded in either state-led centralised techniques or in competition between disconnected individuals. This can be seen in the worldwide 'occupy' movement where people are actively exploring ideas like 'localism' as a way of empowering local communities, build civil society, and establish local enterprises to create opportunity.
Distribusi is informed by the political idea, 'distributism'. Even though it sounds a little like a health condition, it is a little-known philosophy grounded in Catholic social thinking. However, you don't need to be Catholic or other kind of Christian, or even religious, to be inspired by this philosophy that aims at creating a more equitable society based on a more just distribution of ownership. It's not just about more people owning their own home; it's also about having 'jobs of our own' (a phrase coined by Race Matthews in his book of the same name). Greater worker ownership of socially focussed business is a key part of the distributist idea.
All kinds of people are inspired by distributism, and this blog welcomes respectful dialogue within and outside of this movement. Here are some helpful observations from the Moral Mindfield blog about distributism and the 'occupy' movement. Another, more technical introduction can be found here (by John Medaille).


JBS Haldane arrived at his number of 150 new human genetic mutations in each generation after studying men with haemophilia. He speculated that there was a 1 in 50,000 incidence of mutations causing haemophilia in the gene affected. That maps out to a mutation rate of 1 in 25 million nucleotides across the genome. Other studies have looked at the mutation rates of other genes and scientists have also compared human and chimp DNA to try and come up with a number.
The actual mutation rate is closer to 1 mutation in 15-30 million nucleotides, which is the equivalent of 100-200 new mutations in a genome.
An international team of scientists came up with this figure by comparing thousands of nucleotides from the same region of the Y chromosome from two Chinese men who were separated by 13 generations. They shared a common ancestor who was born in 1805.
The two men were members of a family that had lived in the same Chinese village for centuries. Researchers were able to look at genetic mutations and the rate that these mutations occurred by focusing on a section of the Y chromosome. The Y chromosome was studied because it passes from father to son relatively unscathed, and so the mutation rate is low.
The two men are distantly related and scientists compared 10,149,085 letters of the genetic code. Of those, 10,149,073 were identical. There were only 12 differences in the DNA studied. In other words, the Y chromosomes were virtually identical. Of the 12 differences, four were found to be true genetic mutations. By relating this number to the size of the genome, and knowing the length of the Y chromosome that was sequenced, plus the number of generations separating the two men, scientists were able to calculate the mutation rate.
Calculating the number of genetic mutations in humans is not just a number crunching exercise, as it should have real benefit for medicine and for evolutionary studies. For example whilst most mutations are harmless, new genetic mutations can cause cancer and other serious diseases and knowing the exact mutation rate may help with ways of reducing it. The research may also throw up clues as to how mutation rates vary within someone's genome, and between genomes of individuals.
Genetic mutations are the source of human variation and mutation rates provide a molecular clock for studying evolutionary timescale. A finer calibration of this clock may help to provide deeper insights into human evolution.


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Armor's Director of Partner Marketing, Lara Pryor, Named One of CRN's 2017 Women of the Channel
DALLAS – June 8, 2017 – Armor, The First Totally Secure Cloud Company™, announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Lara Pryor, director of partner marketing, to its prestigious 2017 Women of the Channel list. The executives who comprise this annual list span the IT channel, representing vendors, distributors, solution providers and other organizations that figure prominently in the channel ecosystem. Each is recognized for her outstanding leadership, vision and unique role in driving channel growth and innovation.
CRN editors select the Women of the Channel honorees based on their professional accomplishments, demonstrated expertise and ongoing dedication to the IT channel.
Lara serves an integral role in Armor's Guardian Partner Program and its corresponding marketing initiatives. She created a GTM strategy between Armor and Alliance Partners, including Microsoft, AWS, VMware & Trend Micro, and developed content to recruit 60+ Armor Guardian Partners. Lara also oversees the development of partner onboarding and enablement processes as well as educational content delivery.
"These extraordinary executives support every aspect of the channel ecosystem, from technical innovation to marketing to business development, working tirelessly to keep the channel moving into the future," said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company "They are creating and elevating channel partner programs, developing fresh go-to-market strategies, strengthening the channel's network of partnerships and building creative new IT solutions, among many other contributions. We congratulate all the 2017 Women of the Channel on their stellar accomplishments and look forward to their future success."
The 2017 Women of the Channel list is featured in the June issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.CRN.com/wotc.
"Our channel program is a significant growth opportunity for Armor and Lara's contributions have been invaluable to its maturation," said Dan Mannion, Armor. "Her professionalism and commitment to the success of our partners, and the program as a whole reflect her passion to excel while striving to make everyone around her better. Being included in this prestigious list is a very deserving honor, and we couldn't be more proud to have her as part of the Armor family."
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New interactive map by CUNY helps organizations with the upcoming population census.
Cities and counties across the country are racing to prepare residents for the 2020 census. One of the most helpful preparation tools has been using a data map to track which neighborhoods will likely be difficult to count based on past census information.
The Hard to Count 2020 Census Map, created by the City University of New York's Mapping Service, is an interactive online map that shows local areas that are considered "hard to count communities"—neighborhoods where census participation rates are the lowest. This number is mainly based on the self-response mail-in rates to the census, which is considered the most accurate reflection of census participation.
The map was mainly designed as a census outreach resource for local agencies, but it is open and free to use by the public. Anyone can find out how their neighborhood performed in the past census using the map; simply zoom in any area in the U.S. based on the area tract, local address, legislative or congressional district, and ZIP code.
For example, the map shows that in tract 0287.00 in Kings County, NY, where Bushwick Daily is based, the census self-response rate was only 64.6 percent. That response rate is from a population total of 2,781 people living in 1,180 households in the area.
Other pertinent information is broken down by the map as well. The map reflects that 31.3 percent of households in this Bushwick tract had either no home internet subscription or dial up-only.
This 2020 census will be the first census participants can fill out the survey online, so internet access would make a big difference in accessibility for certain neighborhoods. To that end, the map also includes information on public libraries where internet access is available.
Screenshot of CUNY's Hard to Count 2020 Cencus map.
Some neighborhoods in Brooklyn have the lowest census response rates in the country, and this disparity is clearly reflected in the Hard to Count map. If we pan out to view the larger Brooklyn borough, the map shows that 80 percent of the borough's population lives in hard to count census tracts, and just over 21 percent of Brooklyn's households have poor internet access.
The map currently reflects data from the 2010 census, but will be updated as soon as the U.S. Census Bureau begins to release the number of census responses that they receive in April 2020. One of the biggest challenges that the mapping initiative faces is the different scope of needs that each particular community might have and making that information as easy to use as possible.
"The map is nationwide in scope. So there might be local information that we don't have that some local groups will find beneficial in one place but not in another place. So we had to try to balance that," CUNY Mapping Service Director Steven Romaleski said during a phone call with Bushwick Daily.
Local organizations under the New York Counts 2020 Coalition have already started using the CUNY map, including the Brooklyn Complete Count Committee, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Brooklyn Community Foundation. Romalewski stresses the importance of having local groups involved in any census participation outreach to the communities.
The city has already caught on to this important tidbit so they will also be working with community-based organizations in New York City's upcoming census campaign.
The Hard to Count map also provides summaries of the most vulnerable demographics that are at-risk for being undercounted, including people of color, low-income populations, people with limited English proficiency, and people living in multi-family housing.
According to Romalewski, the response from local agencies for the 2020 census has been a lot different compared to the previous census.
Local bodies have apparently become proactive rather than reactive regarding census preparations. Earlier this week, the State Legislature proposed $20 million in funds to be used for 2020 Census preparations.


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Utahns air concerns about revised Olympia Hills development
By Ashley Imlay, KSL | Updated - Mar 13th, 2019 @ 10:45pm | Posted - Mar 13th, 2019 @ 10:14pm
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10PM: Utahns air concerns about revised Olympia Hills development
Sean Moody, KSL TV
HERRIMAN — Residents apprehensive about a high-density community in southwest Salt Lake County jammed into a school gym Wednesday evening to learn more about the project and air their concerns with developers.
"Traffic is a huge concern, water is a huge concern, schooling is a huge concern, just infrastructure in general. We don't have the infrastructure, there's no east-west connections anywhere, and adding potentially 25,000 people to this is just totally irresponsible. It's scary," said Haley Hill, of Herriman.
The proposed Olympia Hills project, which went down last year amid public backlash, has arisen in a revised form.
Former Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams vetoed the project last June after the County Council approved a zone change for the 930-acre development on the unincorporated land west of Herriman.
Initially proposed for nine housing units per acre, developers have reduced that to just under seven. Instead of 8,800 housing units, it would now be around 6,500, including single-family homes, apartments and condominiums, developer Doug Young has said.
Dozens of residents showed up during Wednesday's open house at Bastian Elementary School to say they're not happy about the revised proposal, many to express concerns about the potential impacts on traffic, taxes, safety and the environment.
Tim Marshall said he attended the event to hear what the developers had to say.
"It seems like they're doing some due diligence," Marshall acknowledge of the event. "I'm definitely for development, just smart, responsible development." But he said he takes issue with the idea suggested by developers that the community will be "vehicle-optional."
"I just don't see that actually coming to fruition. Scooters are nice, but we live in Utah. It's five months out of the year you're not riding scooters, right? And to assume that everybody's going to live and work in a 1.47 square mile radius is naive," Marshall said.
Cory Shupe of Blu Planning answers questions from residents of Herriman and Riverton on the proposed Olympia Hills development during a public meeting at Bastian Elementary School in Herriman on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (Photo: Scott G Winterton, KSL)
Emily Johnson and others question Ryan Button of Olympia Hills as residents of Herriman and Riverton express their feelings on the proposed Olympia Hills development during a public meeting at Bastian Elementary School in Herriman on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (Photo: Scott G Winterton, KSL)
He said he wasn't surprised when Young returned with a revised proposal, but that many residents expected the new proposal to include a lower density.
Annalyn Hayes said she believes the development is "putting the cart before the horse."
"Their ideal of the community would be great, but their ideal isn't practical, I don't feel, for the Utah culture. We're not the San Francisco type that love our public transit," she said.
Lacy Croft, of Riverton, also said he sees the developers' vision as unrealistic.
"I think Mr. Young, the developer, is dreaming when he says it's a live, work, play (community), and cars are optional. How much of the entertainment world is it gonna duplicate out there, like Hale Theater, and other places of entertainment that people go to? They're going to need a car. There's gonna be massive amounts of cars," Croft said.
During the open house, residents were able to ask several developers and engineers those questions. Posters on easels around the gym displayed plans for water and other elements of the proposed project. There were also index cards where people could write their feedback for the developers.
Controversial Olympia Hills project near Herriman back on drawing board
A controversial high-density community proposed in southwest Salt Lake County that went down amid public backlash last summer has re-emerged with a new design.
"We're hoping that the residents will come and look at what we're proposing in the community out here and give us suggestions and ideas of how they feel like that we can improve the community. That's really our goal for tonight," Young told the Deseret News before the event.
"I think that we've become more focused on the direction that we need to go. I think that we've fine-tuned a lot of the aspects of the community, and I think we are better equipped to respond to the residents here," he explained.
Like many who attended to ask questions, Jon and Jennifer Jessop also said they're concerned about infrastructure and crime.
"It's just everything that's going to come with it. I mean, I don't know how they can expect to have that large of a growth and not be prepared for what's gonna happen. And I highly doubt that the developer lives out here. So they don't deal with the frustrations that we have already in place. So it's easy for them to come and put something in that they don't have to deal with the aftermath," Jennifer Jessop said.
"Nobody here is against development, but there needs to be some sort of responsibility," Jon Jessop said, adding that there weren't many people at the open house to answer their questions.
Residents of Herriman and Riverton arrive for an open house about the proposed Olympia Hills development at Bastian Elementary School in Herriman on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (Photo: Scott G Winterton, KSL)
After the event, Croft said his questions weren't resolved and he hadn't seen much to support the suggestion that new development could attract tech giants to the area.
"I heard a lot of 'hope' from the developers. We hope, we assume, and no definite commitments from large companies like Facebook, Google, Adobe, that sort of thing. I think they're still in dreamland."
The developers will hold another open house on Thursday at Golden Fields Elementary School, 10252 S. Split Rock Drive, in South Jordan at 6 p.m.
Utah lawmaker pushing bill requiring cities to zone affordable housing if they want state dollars
Ashley Imlay


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Loma Linda specialist team travels to aid Nepal
By Courtney Haas - May 7, 2015
Time has passed and the news coverage is beginning to slow, but the reality is that Nepal is still in need of help after a huge earthquake on April 25.
Located 15 kilometers east of Kathmandu, in Banepa, Nepal, Scheer Memorial Hospital, an Adventist Health International site, received minimal structural damage and is still active. After the quake, Scheer responded by increasing its capacity to 130 beds. Now servicing the needs of 84 patients, of whom 41 are earthquake victims, the hospital administrator says they are attempting to have patients transferred to Scheer because they are capable of caring for more patients in this time of crisis.
"Our hospital is fully functional," Dale Mole, hospital CEO, reported. "We sustained some minor damage but nothing that would really impair our capabilities or capacity."
While the reports from the hospital are continuously positive, there is a growing need for orthopedic and trauma surgeons to care for the increasing volume of victims with crush injuries after the earthquake.
To help meet this need, Loma Linda University Health deployed an orthopedic surgical team on May 6 to travel to Scheer Memorial Hospital. The team is small, consisting of two orthopedic surgeons, an orthopedic resident, an anesthesiologist, a surgery scrub tech and a logistics and support person. Once the team arrives at the hospital, it will be easier to receive frequent and accurate updates, which will serve to guide future relief efforts.
"I think that having an American team from Loma Linda might increase referrals and transfers to Scheer," Mole said.
Until a sense of what is needed is clearly defined, funds are the primary source of aid being solicited through Adventist Health International, which is based in Loma Linda. These funds go to support the operation of the hospital and the patients it serves in the Banepa region of Nepal.
Adventist Health International and Loma Linda University Health's Global Health Institute are working together in this collaboration and once needs are identified, appropriate medical equipment and supplies will be procured to enable the hospital teams to care for the many injured patients in the surrounding areas.
Though far away, this hospital and the community it serves are in need of your support. Every small donation can make a huge impact in the lives of those in Nepal. Keep visiting ahiglobal.org for up-to-day stories DONATE today.
Photos credit: Charles Graves, is a Loma Linda University medical student that was finishing his rotation at Scheer Memorial Hospital. Here are a few of his photos from Kathmandu, taken the day of the earthquake.


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12/1/2004 Suppose mana produced by Boseiju is spent on a spell and an effect creates a copy of that spell. The copy can be countered, even though the original can't.


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Curated by Ximena Caminos
Friday, November 3, 6 PM – 11 PM
Faena Art Center Buenos Aires
Aimeé Painé 1169
Faena Buenos Aires, Argentina
Faena Art Center Buenos Aires is pleased to present Cuerpo Lunfardo, an evening of works-in-process and new experiments by Cecilia Bengolea, Jimena Croceri, and Amalia Pica, three Argentine artists working with gestures, rituals and, music and dance. These artists working in video and performance have been invited to occupy the space of the Sala Molinos at the Faena Art Center to explore new collaborations and experiment with the creation of new works over the course of one entire day.
"Artistic exchange and fostering of creativity have always been central to our vision. This exhibition exemplifies our mission by catalyzing experimentation within and across artistic disciplines while contribute to the launch of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires, where Argentinian art produced locally and internationally will be celebrated.". – Alan Faena
Embodied knowledge is translated in our rituals, within each of our gestures, to communicate ideas and experiences and generate connection. These movements become our 'corporeal slang' and they communicate more immediately our lived experiences— each gesture an abbreviated narrative. The choice to work with three women in performance was a conscious one— a way to give space to the female body at a time when it more under fire than ever— at a time when we can no longer stand idly by while we witness the gross gender inequality that affects us all in every industry and every field. These three women, while not explicitly addressing issues of the gendered female body, utilize their bodies and the bodies of others to create new patterns and generate new language for the transmission of ideas and creation of dialogue.
"Presence, time, physicality and duration reoccur as organizing principles in all that we do. We are proud that Art Basel Cities has come to Buenos Aires and excited to participate and contribute as a space for the making of performances with a focus on artistic process and practices", said Ximena Caminos, Chair and Artistic Director of FAENA ART.
Amalia Pica places her practices directly at the point or intersection where communication becomes hazy. She explicitly addresses the miscommunications and transfers of knowledge that may or may not take place through the use of visual and performing arts. For the Faena Art Center Buenos Aires, her work presents a close-up loop of hurrying ants that are counted and marked automatically, robotically— their work is anonymous, their bodies are numbered, and yet the score to which they move is dramatic and enigmatic. Consisting of two musical pieces composed by Rigo Quesada, the sounds are those of the traditional bandoneon along with cello and marimba that slowly disintegrate and detach from each other. The first part is the soundtrack of the video while the second is performed live by a trio consisting of Rigo, Martín Casado and Lucas Argomedo. As the trio continues to perform live, they loop with score of the soundtrack, making the music increasingly disjointed and removed from the digital bodies that are projected in the video.
Utilizing a similar format that consists of video and performance, Cecilia Bengolea proposes an interpolation of her dancing body via the re-mediation of her recorded presence. The video of her body is edited with footage that she shot this past month during a research trip to Jamaica, where she was collaborating with local dancers and choreographers in a mash up of Jamaican dancehall, soca, ballet and contemporary dance techniques. Live in the space, her work takes on yet another layer as El Traidor y Los Pibes, the famous cumbia villera band, play a series of their hits. This concert, party-like atmosphere, belies a deeper questioning of the changes and continuities between contemporary, popular and folkloric sound and movement practices across the Americas. Bengolea's work reflects a profound conversation between European, African and Indigenous cultural influences in the Americas and the ways in which popular forms influence contemporary art and vice versa.
Jimena Croceri's work probes soft spot between gesture, ritual and performance. Her work is subtle in its explorations of quotidian behavior that approximates the artistic process as well as the cultural processes that become almost mundane. Utlizing both man-made materials and naturally occurring elements like water and earth, Croceri creates a new language of gestures – small moments that explore the capacity for the human body to tell stories and create new forms of knowledge. Through her subtle actions she creates durational and hypnotic rituals that become new methods for drawing and sonic composition. She spills water on the floor and it becomes the parameter for a new kind of action drawing, while at the same time performers engage in a monotonous walk as they carry and break breaks which echo and create a new rhythm that fills the space.
Cuerpo Lunfardo is a one-night-only experiment, a space and time for new collaborations and works-in-process. The space is open for one day only—none of the artists were provided with time to rehearse in the space—and all that transpires is part of the process of creation as well as the "finished product." The presence of the public allows these collaborative processes to take on new dimensions and expand our vocabulary for communication. Cuerpo Lunfardo is the slanging of the performers' bodies and the communal, shared social body at one precise moment in one space for one night only.
Cecilia Bengolea
New commission by Store X the Vinyl Factory, 2018
Featuring special presentation by El Traidor y Los Pibes
Musicians: Ariel Salinas, Héctor Avalos (Perico), Sebastián Monzón (5puntos), Enrique Benitez (Punga), Enrique Vargas (Finito), and Antonio Veliz (Tuty).
Jimena Croceri
El color del río, 2017
Los sonidos estaban antes que las palabras, 2017
Queja para silla, 2017
Performers: Mara Caffarone, Federico Cantini, Florencia Carrizo, Jimena Croceri, Dana Ferrari, Miguel Garutti, Denise Groesman, Fara Korsunsky, Lucas Lagomarsino, Triana Leborans, Juan Gabriel Minio, Maximiliano Murad, Rita Pauls, Gianluca Zonzini.
Amalia Pica and Rafael Ortega
Music for 429 megaponera, 2017
Video loop, 2:17 minutes, synchronous and asynchronous audio tracks.
Musicians: Rigo Quesada (bandoneon), Martín Casado (marimba), and Lucas Argomedo (cello).
Cecilia Bengolea (b. 1979, Buenos Aires) was trained as a jazz and urban dancer and studied Eugenio Barba's ancestral dances, also known as anthropological dances. In 2008, she co-founded the Vlovajob Pru dance company with François Chaignaud. Bengolea's choreography has been featured in the Gwangju Biennial in Seoul, Korea, Sadler's Wells in London and The Kitchen in New York, ICA in London, among others. 2015, Bengolea produced the video RhythmAssPoetry, commissioned by the Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, in collaboration with British artist Jeremy Deller. Also along with Deller, Bengolea presented in Jamaica her second lm, Bombom's Dream, a project commissioned by Hayward Gallery, London and the 32nd São Paulo Biennial.
Jimena Croceri (b.1981, Cutral Có, Argentina) multidisciplinary practice revolves around the use of the body and the way that it is able to mediate objects and space. Croceri allows her body to perform and interact with materials thus affecting how they are perceived. Croceri studied for her graduate degree in Visual Arts at the Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte and took part during the 2013 Artists' Program at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She recently received the travel scholarship from the Oxenford collection with destination Amazonas. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Amalia Pica's (b. 1978 in Neuquén, Argentina) work explores the problem of communication by setting everyday objects alongside obsolete technologies such as shutter telegraphs, slide projectors, and 16 mm film. Aware that her ideas can never survive the process of realization entirely intact, Pica revels in their inevitable mutation and creates new systems of discourse that brim with fractured syntax, encrypted semantics, and gleeful semiotics. Pica has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She has participated in the group exhibitions the Venice Biennale (2011, 2015), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2012); Adventures of the Black Square, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (both 2015). She lives and works in London


This is the abstract for a grant proposal for the following study following the NFL Concussion Grant Guidelines.
Concussions are an issue in many sports at both the amateur and professional level. In 2015, 43.5% of athletes across all age groups and sexes that sustained a concussion returned to sport too soon1. In the past, patients with a concussion were told to restrict physical and cognitive activities until they are asymptomatic2. Recently, research about concussion recovery has shown that a rest period beyond 1-2 days' post-concussion can be more detrimental to recovery than beneficial3.
The Buffalo Concussion Treadmill Test (BCTT) has been used to study the effects of exercise on individuals with post-concussion syndrome3. However, little research using the BCTT or other methods has examined the effect of exercise on recovery from acute concussions. The BCTT is the only method currently available to assess concussion severity, determine exercise tolerance, and predict when an athlete may safely return to play3.
In addition to human studies, animal models have researched the effect of voluntary exercise on markers of brain health and recovery. These include cerebral blood flow (CBF)3 blood levels of CO23, adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH)4, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)4,5. When a concussion occurs, blood levels of these hormones decrease, a severe issue in the brain healing process.
This study will examine NCAA Division II varsity and club sport athletes in the acute stages of concussion recovery at a university in the Midwestern United States. Levels of CO2, ACTH, and BDNF in the blood will be measured, as will CBF. The BCTT will initially be used to identify exercise tolerance and to develop an individualized exercise recovery protocol. Athletes will follow up before returning to contact practice to do the BCTT protocol again to evaluate if they have recovered. The goal of this study is to determine if voluntary exercise is more effective than resting for returning athletes to play during the acute stages of a concussion.
Dundore, Tyler, "The Benefits of Exercise for Individuals with Concussion Grant Proposal" (2018). Honors Projects. 685.