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Shari Flaming Center for the Arts Built Debt Free Tabor College announces that the Shari Flaming Center for the Arts, which was dedicated and opened in early December, will be completed debt free. "With the combination of end of year gifts and the ongoing fulfilment of donor commitments, we are pleased to say that the building will have no outstanding debt," said Jules Glanzer, president of Tabor College. Glanzer announced at the dedication ceremony the need for $150,000 in additional funds to complete the Shari Flaming Center for the Arts debt free. "The board of directors gave the blessing for this project with the goal of completing the construction debt free," Glanzer said. "Our donors met every challenge we gave them. They have given of their hearts and in many cases, they have given sacrificially. We are humbled by the love our donors have shown to Tabor and our students through their gifts, and we can't thank them enough." Glanzer is especially pleased that the last effort of the campaign, called the Grand Finale, exceeded expectations. "We asked 1,000 people to give $1,000 to raise the final million dollars needed to be debt free," Glanzer said. "We were overwhelmed with the response. The Grand Finale included 1,142 people for a total of $1,208,729 in contributions."
Ron Braun, vice president of advancement, and the team of fundraisers at Tabor have been working for six years to complete the project. "This is a very exciting time on campus," Braun said. "Some of our alumni and supporters have been waiting more than 50 years to have an auditorium and dedicated performance space on campus. This is truly a dream come true." Community support for the building has been apparent based on attendance at opening events. More than 800 people attended the dedication ceremony on Dec. 9. The Tabor College Oratorio and Alumni Chorus and Community Orchestra performed Handel's "Messiah" for 1,100 guests the next day. Both events were streamed online to audiences around the country. The new building will host arts events for the public including student and guest performances. Beginning in the spring semester, the campus community will gather in the auditorium for weekly chapel. The center includes a "We Proudly Serve" coffee shop, opened Jan. 4, which offers Starbucks coffee and specialty drinks. The first guest performance in the Richert Auditorium was the Winter Classics Concert by Newton Mid-Kansas Symphony Orchestra on Jan. 28.
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Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), 8 June 1977.
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Article 6 -- Penal prosecutions
1. This Article applies to the prosecution and punishment of criminal offences related to the armed conflict.
2. No sentence shall be passed and no penalty shall be executed on a person found guilty of an offence except pursuant to a conviction pronounced by a court offering the essential guarantees of independence and impartiality. In particular:
(a) the procedure shall provide for an accused to be informed without delay of the particulars of the offence alleged against him and shall afford the accused before and during his trial all necessary rights and means of defence;
(b) no one shall be convicted of an offence except on the basis of individual penal responsibility;
(c) no one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence, under the law, at the time when it was committed; nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than that which was applicable at the time when the criminal offence was committed; if, after the commission of the offence, provision is made by law for the imposition of a lighter penalty, the offender shall benefit thereby;
(d) anyone charged with an offence is presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law;
(e) anyone charged with an offence shall have the right to be tried in his presence;
(f) no one shall be compelled to testify against himself or to confess guilt.
3. A convicted person shall be advised on conviction of his judicial and other remedies and of the time-limits within which they may be exercised.
4. The death penalty shall not be pronounced on persons who were under the age of eighteen years at the time of the offence and shall not be carried out on pregnant women or mothers of young children.
5. At the end of hostilities, the authorities in power shall endeavour to grant the broadest
possible amnesty to persons who have participated in the armed conflict, or those deprived of their liberty for reasons related to the armed conflict, whether they are interned or detained.
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The Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL or Tibial Collateral Ligament) is one of the four major ligaments of the Knee. It is on the medial (inner) side of the Knee Joint in humans.
It is a broad, flat, membranous band, situated on the medial side of the Knee Joint. It is attached above to the medial epicondyle of femur and below to the medial condyle of tibia and medial surface of its body. It resists forces that would push the Knee medially (inwards), which would otherwise produce valgus deformity.
The ligament is divided into superficial and deep parts.
Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) Injuries are usually caused by contact on the outside of the Knee and are accompanied by sharp pain inside the Knee. Being fairly large and vascular the Medial Collateral Ligament has an excellent ability to heal. It is however important to recognize & treat acute medial complex laxity as early as possible. NSAID and the long hinged Knee brace are very helpful in the early physiotherapy and walking with full weight-bearing is allowed.
This is an incomplete tear of the MCL. The tendon is still in continuity, and the symptoms are usually minimal. Patients usually complain of pain with pressure on the MCL, and may be able to return to their sport very quickly. Most athletes miss 1-2 weeks of play.
Tear Grade II injuries are also considered incomplete tears or Medial Collateral Ligament Injuries. These patients may complain of instability when attempting to cut or pivot. The pain and swelling is more significant, and usually a period of 3-4 weeks of rest is necessary.
A grade III injury is a complete tear of the MCL. Patients have significant knee joint pain and swelling, and often have difficulty bending the Knee. Instability or giving out is a common finding with grade III MCL Tears. A Knee brace or a Knee immobilizer is usually needed for comfort, and healing may take 10-12 weeks.
Symptoms depend on the severity of the Medial Collateral Ligament Injury and are classified according to the extent of the injury. MCL injuries are classified as grade 1, grade 2 or grade 3. knee joint pain.
The clinical diagnosis is confirmed with an MRI scan of the affected Knee.
Grade I: Rest, ice compression and elevation are very important. Short-term use of crutches may be indicated, with weight-bearing as tolerated.
Grade II: A short-hinged brace that blocks 20° to 30° of terminal extension but allows full flexion should be used. Knee closed chain exercises for strengthening of Knee muscles are indicated.
Grade III: The patient initially should be non–weight-bearing (NWB) on the affected lower extremity. A hinged braced should be used with gradual progression to full weight-bearing (FWB) over 4 weeks. Grade III injuries may require 8-12 weeks to heal.
Any type of Knee Ligament Injury to the Medial Collateral Ligament should be treated with early range of motion (ROM) and strengthening of the musculature that stabilizes the Knee Joint.
1) Complete MCL Tear coexisting with other ligament injuries.
2) MCL Tears that have healed with residual laxity (looseness), causing persistent instability of the Knee.
The surgery for MCL is an open surgery.
Primary end-to-end repair is possible if the MCL Reconstruction Surgery is done less than 3 weeks after injury. MCL surgery is done via an open incision on the inner portion of the Knee. If the operation is done in the acute setting (< 3 weeks after injury), primary repair of the torn ligament is possible. Bony avulsions of the ligament are fixed to the bone by suture anchor.
In cases of chronic MCL laxity and instability, MCL Reconstruction Surgery is often necessary. Hence, a new MCL is prepared from an autograft tissue. The new ligament is then placed over the top of the old MCL and secured to femur and tibia with fixation devices.


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Taylor Swift brutally addresses critics in Netflix documentary trailer
Swift's boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn, also appears to be seen in one shot, suggesting the documentary might shed light on their famously private relationship
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Taylor opens up about the criticism she has received over the years (Image: Netflix)
Taylor Swift says she wants to be "on the right side of history" in the trailer for her highly anticipated Netflix documentary Miss Americana.
The two-minute teaser sees the pop star, 30, talking about reclaiming her public image, as news reports criticising her for having "model friends" and for being "too skinny" flash across the screen.
She says: "Throughout my whole career, label executives would say: 'A nice girl doesn't force their opinions on people. A nice girl smiles and waves and says thank you'.
"I became the person everyone wanted me to be. Nobody physically saw me for a year - and I thought that was what they wanted."
She adds: "I had to deconstruct a complete belief system. Toss it out and reject it.
"I feel really good about not feeling muzzled anymore, and it was my own doing."
Taylor Swift's own Netflix documentary is coming to screens later this month (Image: Netflix)
The video gives fans a glimpse of Swift collaborating with Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie on Me!
It also suggests Swift will open up further on her political beliefs, after she recently broke years of silence to back the Democrats.
Swift's boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn, also appears to be seen in one shot, suggesting the documentary might shed light on their famously private relationship.
The project comes during her high-profile feud with talent manager Scooter Braun and her former record label.
The documentary, directed by Lana Wilson, will have its world premiere on January 23 at the Sundance Film Festival.


As discussed earlier in the section on 'Measurement of economic activity', economic growth is measured by movements in the value of real GDP (or the chain volume measure of GDP). Figures are released quarterly and quoted in absolute (dollar) terms and percentage increase terms from one quarter (or year) to the next. For example, the latest annual economic growth rate reported by the ABS to the year end (Sep) 2012 was 3.1% in seasonally adjusted terms. This means that the total real value of production (excluding the effects of inflation) in Australia over the three months July, August and September of 2013 of $387.0.5B was 2.3% higher than the value of production for the same three months one year earlier ($378.3B).


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As we strategized about our new business model, one of our clients, friends and industry peers was also reevaluating the future trajectory of their company. In a casual discussion one day about our companies, a great idea came about that couldn't have been a more perfect solution for both companies . . . or come at a more perfect time.
Enter Wally West, and his company Wally West Music. There's really not enough web space to list all of Wally's accomplishments and accolades. A classically trained musician at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Wally is a Professor of Jazz Studies at UNC Charlotte. He is also the Co-Founder/Leader of the Piedmont Triad Jazz Orchestra. Wally is also visible on the Motown, Summit, EMI, Rockhouse and New Moon record labels as a recording artist. Wally West has performed all across the United States, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, touring, recording, and performing with such diverse, popular acts as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Bob Hope, Joe Williams, Lou Rawls, Michael Feinstein, Marvin Hamlisch, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Spinners, The O'Jays, an so many more.
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Afzali, Mehdi (2009) Türkiye'de Açık Erişim, Kurumsal Arşivler ve Akademik Kütüphaneler (Open access and Institutional Repositoriesin Turkish Academic Libraries). Ph.D.Thesis, University of Hacettepe – Department of Information Management (Turkey).
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Celebrating the Hardworking History of English Ceramics
Gladstone Pottery in the first half of the 20th century
Pottery and ceramics are enjoying a revival in England. It's early days, and it's patchy, but there are some gloriously green shoots of renewal, investment, and public support. A visit to the Staffordshire Potteries opens up the history of this important industry and demonstrates why it thoroughly deserves a resurgence. And this year is the ideal time to visit, as they are marking 40 years since the last giant bottle oven was fired…
Gladstone Pottery Museum is a place of thriving ingenuity and hope. Sitting in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent's cultural heritage zone in Longton, the museum offers both an authentic glimpse into Britain's industrial past as well as a beacon for the future of this recently-beleagured craft, in all its many forms and functions.
Gladstone Pottery Museum
Step into Gladstone's courtyards and maze of original workshops, and you enter a world of rich artistic and Victorian industrial achievement, where their output ranged from the highly-patterned Arts & Crafts tiles of William Morris to elaborate sanitaryware and everyday housewares.
One of the courtyard areas inside the museum.
Concocting colors for clay
Casting at Gladstone Pottery
Clay molds in every shape and size
Traditional patterns on display in the tile gallery
There's even a new language to learn – and a 'Bottle Oven Dictionary' to help you. You'll come away talking about saggars (the fireclay boxes made to protect the pottery they held during firing), the saggar maker's bottom knocker (the guy who flattened a lump of clay for the base of each saggar) and clammins (the bricked-up entrances to the huge ovens to allow each firing).
In August and September 2018, as the first event of Longton's new Heritage Action Zone, Gladstone Pottery Museum is leading local landmarks in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the last bottle oven firing, with a wide variety of events and workshops.
At the industry's peak, more than 2,000 of these bulbous brick ovens dominated the skyline of Stoke, their furnaces belching out fire, ashes, and smoke. Today, just 29 remain and most are either on, or within a five-minute stroll of, the Gladstone site. (The latest repair bills for these amazing towers topped £250,000, so they need more than love to keep them standing.)
Husband and wife, Paul and Kathy Niblett, met inside a bottle oven at Gladstone Pottery and are part of the team organizing the anniversary event. Said Paul: "It's 40 years since young enthusiasts of Gladstone organized a small group of retired potters to demonstrate what coal-firing bottle ovens were all about. Sadly, the potters are no longer with us, but their legacy of skill and knowledge survives. For those of us involved with the 1978 last firing, we felt it was time to celebrate this legacy, before we, too, have passed on."
But don't be fooled into imagining a romantic glossing-over of the harsh realities of everyday life for former Potteries workers: the staff and volunteers peddle no nostalgic illusions. The North Staffordshire ceramic boom that began in the 17th century – when they discovered that ground flint added to local clay produced creamware – made the factory owners rich while they kept their workers, often women on piecework, on low wages and their families lived in poverty, amid life-limiting pollution.
Hundreds of companies produced decorative or functional items, from tea services to toilets, and the Staffordshire Potteries swelled to encompass six towns – Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton, and Longton – that now comprise the city of Stoke-on-Trent.
Potteries-born novelist and local hero, Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), conjured up this graphic image: "… it was squalid ugliness on a scale so vast and overpowering that it became sublime. Great furnaces gleamed red in the twilight, and their fires were reflected in horrible black canals; processions of heavy vapour drifted in all directions across the sky, over what acres of mean and miserable brown architecture! The air was alive with the most extraordinary, weird, gigantic sounds."
Amid these inferno-like scenes, exquisite and desirable ceramic creations emerged, creating world-famous brands like Spode, Burleigh, Doulton, Minton, and Wedgwood. Later renowned twentieth-century ceramic designers training or working in Stoke include Clarice Cliff (1899-1972) and Susie Cooper (1902-1995).
The industry has suffered a demise over the last 30 years, partly due to cheaper manufacturing in the Far East, but today there are signs of change. Labor costs are rising in China, and British products are sought after in the luxury market. Factories have begun to recruit and to re-route some production back to England. Some are even running at capacity: they fire seven days a week and profits are up.
There are smaller newcomers too, many with teams who have their roots in Stoke. Emma Bridgewater, who started out in the mid-Eighties and bought the Victorian Eastwood Works from Wedgwood in 1996, produces all her cream-colored earthenware in the city. And Reiko Kaneko, a Japanese-British designer, moved to Stoke from London to be near the Longton company that makes her fine bone china wares and to draw on the expertise of the city's mold and pattern-makers. Tourists can visit these and other working potteries and gallery shops.
Back at Gladstone Pottery Museum, you can chat and enjoy practical lessons with some of the team who work in the old buildings, producing goods for sale in the shop and using time-tested techniques for casting, painting glazes and throwing. Like Carol Everall, born in Stoke, trained in Coalport (in nearby Shropshire) and now expert decorator in the only remaining flower painting workshop in the city: "Grandad was a saggar placer, mum was a painter for Spode and other family members are still working in the industry too. It's wonderful to promote my family industry and heritage, especially now that we're enjoying something of a revival."
Master decorator Carol Everall
Memories of the giant bottle ovens are helping to rekindle new prosperity for Staffordshire and English potters. However, the Potteries historic sites and trails are remarkably uncrowded. So, if history, art, and crafts are on your vacation tick-list, beat the crowds and put this on your schedule in the next 12 months.
Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 1PQ, UK
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Horse rider safety campaign launched on Oxfordshire's roads
Image - Horse safety sign
Drivers are being encouraged to stay alert for horse riders using the county's roads, in a joint safety campaign from Oxfordshire County Council's Fire and Rescue Service, and the British Horse Society (BHS).
'Pass slow and wide' warning signs (see image and watch ITV Meridian's news bulletin) will be positioned at hotspots used regularly by equestrians, where there is a record of reported incidents involving horse riders and road traffic. The signs will be erected on either a temporary basis for major equestrian events, or on a more permanent basis. They are already in place at:
Wootton village (at the junction with Old Boars Hill Road, near Middle Farm Livery)
Sibford Ferris (Main Street), near Banbury
and on Lovegrove's Lane, near Checkendon Equestrian Centre (six miles west of Henley)
Andy Ford, Road Safety Education Team Manager, Oxfordshire County Council's Fire and Rescue Service, said: "This safety initiative is about protecting everyone on our roads; drivers and horse riders. I encourage anyone who owns a vehicle to think about the devastating consequences if they ploughed into a horse, or if by passing at speed they frightened the animal; the rider injured or killed as a result. These signs will help you think."
Statistics released by the British Horse Society (BHS), in March, revealed road incidents involving horses and vehicles remain a problem in the South of England, with 117 incidents reported to the equine charity during 2020-2021. Overall, incidents in the South of England decreased by just 9 per cent compared to the previous year, despite lockdown reducing road traffic levels.
The BHS has collated statistics to understand the rate of incidents involving horses on UK roads. Of the 1,010 reported, 80 per cent occurred due to vehicles passing by too closely. The charity has launched a new free safety app, Horse i, which allows riders to report incidents.
The National BHS campaign Dead Slow was launched earlier this year to help better educate drivers on how to safely pass horses. The campaign consists of four key behavioural change messages for drivers if they see a horse:
Slow down to a maximum of 15mph
Be patient – 'I will not sound my horn or rev my engine'
Pass the horse wide and slow, (if safe to do so) at least a car's width if possible
Drive slowly away
Alan Hiscox, Director of Safety at the British Horse Society, said: "We are very pleased to be working with Oxfordshire County Council's Fire and Rescue Service to take steps to improve road safety for horses and riders across the county. We hope these signs will make a difference for equestrians in the area."
Andy Ford, Road Safety Education Team Manager, Oxfordshire County Council's Fire and Rescue Service, said: "Our road safety campaigns already remind drivers that numerous dangers and obstacles could be lurking around the next bend, from a horse and rider, to a cyclist, tractor, or a broken-down vehicle. Anyone behind the wheel should be asking themselves, am I driving appropriately for the road conditions, the weather, and my visibility based on how far I can see ahead?"
Horse owners can also play their part by ensuring they are wearing appropriate safety clothing and high-visibility equipment to help draw attention to their presence.
The new BHS safety app Horse i is available to download for free from the Apple store and Google Play. Equestrians who do not use smart phones can record incidents via the online form on the BHS website.
Residents can request 'pass slow and wide' warning signs through their local parish council or by emailing tim.shickle@oxfordshire.gov.uk at Oxfordshire County Council.
National statistics 2020-2021
1,010 road incidents involving horses have been reported to the British Horse Society
Of these, 46 horses have died and 118 have been injured
130 people have been injured because of road incidents
80 per cent of incidents occurred because a vehicle passed by too closely to the horse
41 per cent of incidents occurred because a vehicle passed by too quickly
43 per cent of riders were victims to road rage or abuse
The British Horse Society
As the largest equine charity in the UK, the British Horse Society is dedicated to education, equine welfare, protecting and increasing access to bridleways and places to ride and carriage-drive off-road, and safety for horse and riders. The Society's thriving and active community of staff and volunteers is committed to improving the lives of horses everywhere.
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HomeNewsIn The MediaMDI Biolab Grant Adds to Model Animal Roster
MDI Biolab Grant Adds to Model Animal Roster
By Sarah Hinckley
Mount Desert Islander · February 6, 2020
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Aric Rogers, Ph.D.
Anti-aging: the worms that may help us live longer, healthier lives
MDI Biological Laboratory researching 'stress gene'
Cellular & Anti-aging Biology
BAR HARBOR — The MDI Biological Laboratory has received a $75,000 donation grant from The Cotswold Foundation that will add the African turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) to its growing roster of animal models, thus strengthening the institution's longstanding tradition of engaging in comparative research to gain an understanding of the mechanisms involved in aging and regeneration.
The study of therapies and interventions to expand healthy human lifespan has been limited by a lack of animal models: traditional vertebrate models such as the mouse live too long to get rapid results, while the most popular model, a roundworm called C.elegans that lives for only three weeks, is rungs away from humans on the evolutionary ladder.
In recent years, however, scientists have developed the African turquoise killifish as a model to bridge this gap. Its short lifespan of only four to six months offers rapid insight into the effectiveness of anti-aging interventions, while its biological traits, including vertebrate-specific genes and organs and a complex immune system, are directly relevant to the study of human aging.
"The African turquoise killifish is the shortest-lived vertebrate to be bred in captivity," said MDI Biological Laboratory faculty member Aric Rogers. "Using it as a model we will be able to rapidly identify and test the genes, gene pathways and environmental manipulations governing aging and longevity, which in turn could lead to new therapies to extend healthy human lifespan."
The new model's ability to regenerate means it can also be used as a platform to study how regenerative ability declines with age, thus allowing the institution to build on its new research focus on the interface between aging and regeneration.
"We are deeply grateful to The Cotswold Foundation for its support of our initiative to become a leader in the unexplored scientific territory at the interface of aging and regeneration," said Biological Laboratory president Hermann Haller. "Because it is a vertebrate, the African turquoise killifish will open doors to new insights into why aging occurs in humans."
Aging, Regenerative Biology


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Q: No suitable constructor found for type - Jackson ObjectMapper This is my code to convert a Map to POJO:
public static <T> T createTObject(Class<T> clazz, Map<String,Object> toConvert){
    final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    T obj = null;
    try {
        obj = mapper.convertValue(toConvert, clazz);
    } catch (JsonSyntaxException e) {
        throw new MungoException("Cannot create object because JSON string is malformed");
    } catch(Exception e) {
        throw new MungoException("Some other error occurred when trying to deserialize JSON string. Check if POJO field names match with the Map keys.");
    }
    return obj;
}

The problem is when I run the JUnit test for this methods it throws this error:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No suitable constructor found for type [simple type, class com.mungoae.MungoTest$Greeting]: can not instantiate from JSON object (need to add/enable type information?)
 at [Source: N/A; line: -1, column: -1]

Anyone can advise me on a fix for this error?
Update:
This is the test that throws this error:
@Test
public void testMapDBObjectToPOJO(){
    Map<String,Object> map = new HashMap<String,Object>();
    map.put("greeting", "Hello world!");
    map.put("_id", "51cc93ad23187afa8e0a4433");
    Greeting greeting = Mapper.createTObject(Greeting.class, map);
    assertNotNull(greeting);
    assertEquals("Hello world!", greeting.getGreeting());
}

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Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. #11 – Review
by Minhquan Nguyen — Posted in DC Comics on Jul 19, 2012
By: Matt Kindt (story), Alberto Ponticelli (pencils), Wayne Faucher (inks), Jose Villarrubia (colors)
The Story: Now you know why S.H.A.D.E. doesn't advertise its retirement package.
The Review: I just got my copy of the first volume of Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. and it reminded me of all the things I loved about Jeff Lemire's take on the series: the zany action, the B-movie plot elements, and the understated (but not underplayed) character work, which included Lemire's special take on Frank himself. I got a bit of flak in my criticism of Kindt's version of the man-made monster last month, so a bit of comparative analysis is warranted here.
What I loved most about the Lemire Frankenstein was not just his dedication to rooting out evil the old-fashioned way (read: with big swords), but also his sense of compassion and old-timey manners. We know how unaffected and sympathetic he can be to those he becomes close to, be it his comrades or his wife, even estranged as they are. This Frank made peace with his identity long ago, which gives him intense conviction in most everything he does.
The current Frank riddled with angst, self-loathing, and extreme aloofness—I can live without. Maybe had I read this version from the start, I could get to like him, but as the situation stands, the transition from Lemire to Kindt feels like too fast a gear-shift for me. I confess I find it very hard to accept a creative change which actually strips a character of his complexity and reduces him to a type, and Frank has just become the emotionless bruiser type.
Also, if I manifest an unusually bitter dislike for Kindt's takeover of this title, it has a lot to do with his disregard of previous continuity. Such a thing is a hazard of the variable nature of comics, and hardly worth calling attention to, but it does wreak havoc when it comes to niche series. You can make every kind of variation you want to with chocolate ice-cream and people will still love it because it's chocolate ice-cream. But the offbeat folks who enjoy rum raisin probably have a lower tolerance for change to their pet flavor.
Ultimately, the one thing which turns off Kind's conception of the series for me gets summed up in Frank's description of himself as a plodding "beast." Now we all know that isn't true, but what I find disagreeable about that moment is I don't think Frank believes that either. His words and actions up to date indicate that he views himself as an arm of righteousness, someone worthy enough to wield the blade of archangels as he metes out justice. So to have him dwell on his composition of "the cadavers of murders, psychopaths, rabid dogs," just seems wrong to me.
Well, at least there's always Ponticelli. He still draws Frank and the rest of S.H.A.D.E. like few others can, working both the cartoonish nature of the series with the utter seriousness with which the story plays out. With Faucher on board, Ponticelli's details have only grown more intricate, without losing their playful charm. If you look at the city landscape within Leviathan, it has a kind of delicacy that would not have been there at the beginning of this series.
Conclusion: As a benefit of the doubt, I'll give this issue a higher grade than how I really feel about it, but admit that my personal attachment to the title this used to be obliges me to Drop it.
Some Musings: – Nina and Frank. Hoo boy. That's going to be a troubled relationship down the line, I'm expecting.


IGB! IGB! IGB! I love Indie Gift Box. I can't wait until subscriptions become available for them (fingers crossed, this year!) because I have acute anxiety each box release day. I don't want to be dawdling the day they sell out within the first hour! Indie Gift Box usually has a central theme each month and the items inside are curated to go together. I'm always really impressed with how well they find just the right gifts to fit the theme perfectly.
This month's theme is The Librarian. It was said to be full of romantic and literary-themed handmade products and that made me really excited!
Eeeeee!! Another new feature for IGB is a card detailing each item inside.
This was the first thing that caught my eye because I really like the color I got. It's more yellow than the picture would have you believe. I don't wear glasses but my sunglasses are notorious for getting extremely scratched and dirty so this will definitely be kept on hand in case of smudge emergency.
Ilana Leah makes these beautiful bracelets by hand from Czech glass and silver plated accents. They're really really pretty and the pictures don't do them justice. They're great for stacking and they look really good together - I'm wearing them right now! I'm really happy with the colors I got.
Honestly, I don't really ever wear any perfumes but as soon as I opened Dead Writers, I think I fell in love! With black tea, vetiver, vanilla, clove and heliotrope to name a few, this scent boasts being able to send you to the dark corners of a library leafing through old books - which sounds fantastic to me! Sweet Tea Apothecary makes historically inspired perfumes, which I think is really great. Most of their other scents sound like they'd be very nice as well. I also received Lenore which has Moroccan rose, oak moss, clove and dragon's blood but overall has a much too flowery scent for me. I think it might give me a headache if I smell it too much (my mother and I have that in common).
I like these a lot! They're very cute. I definitely expected some sort of cameo jewelry when I read about the theme of this box. There just had to be something. I'm glad there was! One Ugly Unicorn makes SO many different styles and designs of earrings it's insane. "Making things that aren't ugly at all!"
This is very cute. I'll either use it as a bookmark or just hang it up like a little sign. Either way, I like it! I love the font too. Written For You makes a lot of greeting cards and prints and you can even get your own sayings or messages customized. It even came with a 10% off coupon!
I believe this is the item that the first 50 people to order got for free? It's not listed on the card detailing all the items so I can only assume it's a bonus gift! Either way, I like it! I don't normally get too deep into literary magazines because it gets me into a huge loop of sooo many words written about sooo many words and it's just endless criticism and opinion. BUT this has me intrigued and I think I'll give it a shot. I don't know much about Virginia Woolf and this is inspired by her, starting with the title, which eludes to her speech, "Professions for Women" given at the National Society for Women's Service in 1931. This book is full of short stories and poems that I think will be really fun to read!
Well. Once again, I'm very pleased with Indie Gift Box. They've done it again! They continue to top themselves each month. I was really surprised to receive so many items in this month's box, nevermind the fact that they all fit so well into the Librarian theme. I just love seeing what they put together.
Indie Gift Box is $25.00 plus $5.50 shipping. This month I received almost $55.00 worth! That's extremely good value especially since all the items are so skillfully crafted and curated! Very impressed!
If you'd like to give Indie Gift Box a try, head over to www.indiegiftbox.com to get one! Each month, usually around the 1st of the month, they release about 100 boxes and they usually go pretty quickly. Usually, there are several shipping days throughout the month so your box will ship within 5 days of when you order.


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on the struggle for an independent Catalonia
The following is an important recent article by Esther Vivas. The issues are complex ones and so I have also added my own comments as an extended section to the bottom of this post.
When will we see tanks in Barcelona?
"Independent Catalonia? Over my dead body and those of many other soldiers". It was with these words that on August 31, retired infantry lieutenant-colonel Francisco Alaman Castro referred to the possibility of an independent Catalonia. And he added: "We will not make it easy. Although the lion seems to be sleeping, they have no interest in provoking it too much, because it has already given enough proof of its ferocity over the centuries. These plebs are not up to much, if we know how to confront them".
In the current verbiage that some politicians have adopted, these statements are not the only ones that we might call "undemocratic", "putschist" and "anti-system". After the demonstration on September 11, [1] the UPyD spokesperson [2], Rosa Díez, called on the government to suspend the autonomy of Catalonia if the region used money from central government aid "to finance its secession". Not to be outdone, the MEP (representing the Popular Party, in power in Madrid) and vice-president of the European Parliament , Alejo Vidal Quadras, requested that a brigadier-general, preferably from the Civil Guard, take charge of the "Mossos de Esquadra" [3] to curb the independence process.
The El Mundo newspaper, in its editorial of September 27, demanded from the government "a penal response to the challenge launched by Artur Mas" who has called for a referendum on self-determination in Catalonia. El Mundo urged the government to amend the Criminal Code to "punish by imprisonment any call for an illegal referendum". And for good measure, the extremist "Reconversion", platform, whose leaders are Alejo Vidal Quadras and José Antonio Ortega Lara, demanded that if such a referendum were to be held the government place Catalonia under tutelage, on the basis of articles 161.2 and 155.1 and 2 of the Constitution.
And that's not all. The Spanish Military Association (AME), composed of former members of the army, has threatened Catalan president Artur Mas with a Council of War and has warned those who promote "the breaking-up of Spain" that they will have to answer before a military court on charges of "high treason". Nothing more than that! It speaks volumes about the present situation when a conservative politician such as Artur Mas, enmeshed to the marrow of his bones with the powers of finance, especially with the La Caixa and Aberti banks, who is leader of a party as un-subversive as the CiU [4] elicits such reactions. What will happen then when it comes to someone on the left, who is opposed to the interests of the employers and is a sincere defender of the right to self-determination?
In the light of the above, I ask myself a question. If all of this was happening, for example, in a Latin American country, how would it be characterized? The BBC has published a long report that makes the link between the threats to Catalonia and the "pact of silence" introduced during the Transition [5]. And this is quite right. The Amnesty Law of 1977 guarantees immunity to those who committed crimes against humanity under the Franco regime and during the Civil War. These individuals are still there, and today they are raising their heads again, without any restraint.
At a time where the Hispanic Titanic is taking in water on all sides, with a crisis which worsens each day and scaffolding that is creaking everywhere, it is the true nature of the regime that is revealing itself. And so are the limits of a transition that has been so beatified that it has prevented people from seeing the reality for decades. All of a sudden, the mask of "democrat" has fallen from their faces. Crises have at least the advantage of clarifying things.
According to them, democracy is a good thing as long as it does not go beyond a certain framework. As a result, all those who disturb things, whether it is these "hooligan" Catalan independentists or these "dangerous" 25S activists, must be quickly silenced. Broadcast television images of police charges? What a scandal! People will become indignant and will demonstrate even more. Solution: limit the right to demonstrate and the right to be informed and the business is settled. The president of the Popular Party group in the European Parliament, Jaime Mayor Oreja, and the Delegate of the Madrid government Cristina Cifuentes have understood this well.
The current crisis is not only an economic and social crisis, but really an unprecedented regime crisis that calls into question the state model that came out of the Transition, its "pacts of silence" and the very shaky democratic system that we have today.
In the middle of this mess, we must support all democratic demands that come up against the monarchical corset of the Transition, starting with the right of the Catalan people to decide its own future. Who is afraid of such a referendum in Catalonia? Those who are not willing to accept its result. We should not, however, let the Spanish chauvinist fury against Mas make us take such a politician – whose only achievement in government is to have reduced social rights and taxes for the rich – for a herald of democracy and freedom. On the contrary, we, Catalans, will have a better life when we get rid of Mas, his squire Felip Puig and their team.
Infantry lieutenant-colonel Francisco Alaman Castro said that "the current situation resembles that of 1936". That is quite a declaration of intent. Today, as then, our democracy, our rights and our future are threatened. What is at stake is important. When will we see tanks in the streets of Barcelona? It would not be the first time. But there is one thing I am sure of: the people will not remain silent. The most important thing will be not to make any mistake about who the enemy is, and while we fight against the badly recycled Francoists, we should remember that the interests of the majority of the Catalan people have very little to do with those of the Messiah Artur Mas.
*Esther Vivas is a member of the Centre for Studies on Social Movements (CEMS) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She recently published, with Josep Maria Antentas, "Planeta indignado. Ocupando el futuro" (Ed. Sequitur). She is also a member of the editorial board of Viento Sur. Article published in Publico.es, October 4, 2012.
+info: http://esthervivas.com/english
[1] on September 11, 2012, at the call of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), constituted on March 10, 2012 in Barcelona by 269 Catalan municipalities, nearly two million people marched for the right to self-determination and independence.
[2] Unión Progreso y Democracia (Union, progress and democracy) is a political party of the radical populist Right, founded in 2007, which defends an uncompromising Spanish nationalism.
[3] Catalan police, responsible to the Generalitat (regional government).
[4] Convergència i Unió (Convergence and Union) is a federation of centre-right Catalan political parties.
[5] Transitional period between the death of General Franco in 1975 and the adoption of the new Constitution establishing a "parliamentary monarchy' in 1978.
I would like to thank Esther Vivas for allowing me to reproduce this article.
Some words of caution:
The situation Esther Vivas describes is obviously a very troubling one and I fully appreciate that recent history makes the political situation in Spain more complex than in other luckier regions of our continent – Franco having died in 1975, and thus fascism in Spain lasting well within living memory. However, and in view of what is currently happening across Europe and the rest of the world, I feel it is important to also consider the issue of Catalan independence within a more global context.
The break-up of states into micro-states is a process that has long served as a means for maintaining imperialist control over colonised regions. This strategy is often called Balkanisation, although in general only by its opponents.
"Balkanization", as defined by Merriam-Webster meaning "to break up (as a region or group) into smaller and often hostile units" that was, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, "coined at the end of World War I to describe the ethnic and political fragmentation that followed the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in the Balkans".
Balkanisation has also been a favoured strategy for maintaining and expanding US global hegemony that is perhaps most strongly advocated by Zbigniew Brzezinski. His most detailed and notorious public statement of such geostrategic methods can be found in his 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard:
"Geopolitics has moved from the regional to the global dimension, with preponderance over the entire Eurasian continent serving as the central basis for global primacy." [p. 39]
"… To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together." [p. 40]
In other words, here is the oldest strategy of them all: divide and conquer. Breaking nation states into smaller micro-states which is a US policy that we now see being used in attempts to weaken larger powers such as Pakistan turning them into more easily controlled "vassals" – to use Brzezinski's inflammatory language.
In Europe the situation appears different in that, on the face of it, smaller states have gradually been welded together to build a more powerful super-state, namely the European Union. But what is this confederation of nations? Certainly it is very different in make-up from a large nation state like the United States of America. In the case of the EU, the federal administration being almost entirely in the hands of unelected and increasingly unaccountable bureaucrats. In other words, real democracy in Europe extends only as far as the national borders of its constituent states, and beyond these we have technocracy. It follows then, that if the nation states of Europe are made smaller and less influential, then the non-democratic, centralised power of the EU will automatically be increased.
Here is an interesting analysis I found in an article on the World Socialist Web Site posted November 2011 but very pertinent with regards to issues facing us now:
The advocates of a united Europe under the auspices of the EU have often drawn a comparison with the US. But the United States of America is the product of two revolutions—the War of Independence in the 18th century and the Civil War in the 19th century. Both were driven by progressive ideals that inspired millions of people—popular sovereignty and the abolition of slavery.
The EU project, in contrast, never had a higher aim than the free circulation of commodities and capital. It started as a Coal and Steel Community and arrived at its apogee with the single market and the common currency. Its lack of popular support became obvious in 2005, when the French and Dutch electorates rejected the draft European constitution because of its right-wing, neo-liberal orientation.
The international financial crisis has exposed the incompatibility of the EU and the basic interests of its inhabitants for everyone to see. The European Union does not allow for democratic and progressive alternatives. The choice between the euro and a national currency, between the EU and national sovereignty, is a choice between reactionary alternatives—the direct dictatorship of finance capital or its indirect dictatorship by means of the balkanization of the continent.
The real alternative is between a capitalist and a socialist Europe. The present crisis poses the stark alternatives of social revolution or a descent into war, depression and dictatorship.
Without breaking the iron grip of the financial markets, expropriating the banks, corporate conglomerates and private fortunes and placing them at the service of society as a whole, there is no solution. The dividing line in Europe is not between Greeks and Germans, Portuguese and French or Irish and British, it is between the working class that is forced to pay for the crisis and the financial aristocracy that continues to enrich itself, along with its henchmen in the EU, the national governments and all of the establishment parties.1
Whilst very much sympathetic to the wishes of historically oppressed populations in regions like Catalonia that seek greater political independence, I feel that secessionism at this time might nevertheless make a grave situation, still worse again. Weakening instead of strengthening the influence of the ordinary people, and thus leaping out of the national frying pan only to land up in the globalist (i.e., neo-imperialist) fire.
1 From an article entitled "The unravelling of the European Union", written by Peter Schwarz, posted on the World Socialist Web Site on November 14, 2011. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/pers-n14.shtml
Filed under analysis & opinion, Esther Vivas, Spain
Tagged as "The Grand Chessboard", 25S, Balkanisation, Catalonia, European Union, Federico Franco, Zbigniew Brzezinski
25S: the salvaging of democracy
Spanish state. 25S: the salvaging of democracy
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid on Tuesday September 25, 2012 to protest against the sequestration of popular sovereignty by the banks and "markets". Repression was once again brutal, leaving dozens of people wounded, and there were numerous arrests.
In this article, Esther Vivas reviews the motivations for this mobilisation and the causes of an ever more brutal police repression.
"They call it democracy but this isn't one" was the cry repeated in the squares and on the demonstrations. And as time went by, this slogan took on still more meaning. The stigmatisation and repression against those who struggle in the street for their rights has only intensified in recent times. The worse the crisis gets, the more popular support broadens for those who protest and the more the brutal repression increase. The thirst for liberty is being smothered along with the current "democracy".
Recent days provide a good illustration of this. On Saturday, September 15, 2012, when activists were detained during the demonstration against austerity in Madrid, what was their crime? Carrying a placard with the slogan: "25S: Encircle Parliament". The next day, two wagon loads of police carried out identity checks on dozens of people in the park at Retiro. The motive? Participating in a preparatory meeting for the said action. Five days later, several of these activists were charged with offences to the highest institutions of the nation and they could be jailed for up to one year.
What were the objectives of the "25S: Encircle Parliament" action? Its appeal expresses them clearly: "Next September 25, we will encircle Parliament to save it from a kidnapping which has transformed this institution into a superfluous body. A kidnapping of popular sovereignty carried out by the Troika and the financial markets and executed with the consent and collaboration of the majority of the political parties". What will be the form of this action? Its organisers have said and said again: "non-violent". What kind of fear is it that dictates all these police measures? Fear of violence, or of freedom of expression?
As I said a few months ago at a social centre: "When those at the bottom move, those at the top tremble". That is the truth. Fear has begun to change sides, even if only partially. The repressive measures, like those we have mentioned, show the fear of those who exert power. The fear that the people rise up, organise, express themselves freely against injustice. The fear of a handful faced with the multitude.
Coup d'état?
The criminalisation of "25S: Encircle Parliament" practically began a month ago when the government representative in Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, characterised this initiative as a "disguised coup d'état". The former minister and PSOE deputy José Martínez de Olmos compared the action to the attempted neo-Francoist coup by Tejero in 1981: "Occupying Parliament from the inside as Tejero did or from the outside as some wish on September 25 has the same goal: the sequestration of sovereignty". Words repeated yesterday by the PP secretary general, Dolores de Cospedal.
Coup d'état? The only putschists here are the financial powers who overthrow governments as they wish and replace them by their trusted henchmen. In Italy they have sidelined Silvio Berlusconi in favour of Mario Monti, a former consultant for the Goldman Sachs bank. In Greece, they have replaced Giorgios Papandreou with Lucas Papadémos, ex-vice president of the European Central Bank. Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos is a former employee of Lehman Brothers. As the journalist Robert Fisk puts it: "The banks and the ratings agencies have become the dictators of the West". And when the "markets" come in by the door, democracy goes out the window.
It is difficult to believe today that Parliament "represents the popular will". A good number of ministers and deputies come from private enterprises, others return there as soon as their political careers end. The companies reward them generously for services rendered. Do you remember Eduardo Zaplana? First Minister of Employment, then consultant to Telefonica. Elena Salgado? Vice minister of the Economy, she became a consultant for Abertis. Not to mention Rodrigo Rato, former Economy minister, then director of the International Monetary Fund and finally president of Bankia. His adventures as head of the bank have cost us dear. Without forgetting former prime ministers Felipe Gonzalez and José Maria Aznar, the first becoming a consultant for Gas Natural and the second working for Endesa, News Corporation, Barrick Gold, Doheny Global Group and so on. So it goes.
More democracy
But democracy is, precisely, what the movement of the indignant is demanding, a real democracy in the service of the people and incompatible with the sequestration of politics by the business world or with the Spanish centralism which denies the right of people to self-determination. Paradoxically, it is the protestors who have been deemed to be "anti-democrats". Anti-democrats for symbolically "besieging" the Catalan parliament on June 15, 2011, during the budget debates which involved austerity measures which had not appeared in any electoral manifesto. Anti-democrats for organising meetings in the squares and stimulating public debate. Anti-democrats for occupying empty housing and putting it to social use. Anti-democrats, definitively, for combating unjust laws and practices.
And when there is more democracy in the street, there is more repression. Fines of 133,000 Euros are demanded by the Ministry of the Interior against 446 activists of 15M in Madrid; 6,000 Euros against 250 students involved in the "Valencia Spring"; hundreds of Euros against activists in Galicia, to mention only a few examples. Along with that, more than a hundred arrests in Catalonia since the general strike on May 29 and a modification of the Criminal Code to criminalise the new forms of protest.
The other face of austerity is the politics of fear and repression. Not so much a social state, as a penal state. Democracy is not on the side of those who claim to exercise it, but rather on the side of those who fight for it. History is full of examples of this, and "25S" will be one of them.
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On Wednesday [Sept 26th], Democracy Now! also reported on the 25S "Occupy Congress" protests which they say led to at least 60 people being injured after police in riot gear had charged against demonstrators with batons and fired rubber bullets.
They spoke with independent journalist Maria Carrion who told them:
Well, as you, as your viewers and listeners have been able to see, it's a very serious situation here in Spain. This is just the latest of many, many protests that we have been having here in Spain, in the last year, especially, and there will be many more coming. People have lost faith in government. People have lost faith in the main institutions. And we are facing 27 billion euros in social spending cuts.
Every week, the government unveils a series of new measures that affect primarily education and health and salaries and the welfare of Spanish people. And as we saw at the top of the hour, Greece is really an example of what's coming our way, and that's why I think people are so enraged and so worried, because they see that none of the measures imposed on Greece on in Portugal or in Ireland are having any sort of effect on the economy, on people's welfare, on employment. And so, I think people are saying we do not want to head in that same direction.
Well, the PP, the conservative government in power, even before the protests took place, they were already equating them to the 1981 coup d'état here, the military coup d'état that tried to return Spain to a dictatorship. And they, you know, posted 1,400 police in riot gear and even sharpshooters around Congress. So, the disposition—disposition was already there to criminalize protesters. And now what has happened is that those who have been arrested are being charged with crimes against the nation for trying to, what they say, occupy Parliament while in session, which is a crime. They—the, you know, protesters always said, "We're not occupying. We're just surrounding Parliament." But in any case, they are being charged with crimes against the nation, and they will go before a judge, a justice, at Spain's National Court, which is the court that's reserved for trying high crimes such as terrorism.
Click here to watch the report or read a full transcript at the Democracy Now! website.
Filed under austerity measures, campaigns & events, Esther Vivas, Greece, police state, Spain
Tagged as 15M movement, 25S, Encircle Parliament, Goldman Sachs, los indignados, Lucas Papadémos, Mario Monti, Occupy movement


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The main aspect is to favor UI/UX.
Indeed, the targeted audience is about 60 years old and expect a very high-level of simplicity "à la Apple".
I never used SharePoint in the past.
In the 2016 version, is it possible to fully customize the front-end? By fully, I mean really every item and every part.


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Is it possible to add taxonomy tags to Users?
I don't know that I've ever seen that in the system. Might be able to in the database directly.
What I need to do is create a taxonomy that is multi-level like Division, Department, Group and then tag users (Employees) with any of those items, including multiple items.
It would be convenient to do this at the User Profile level. The List profile property type permits only one selection, and not multiple levels. I could use a profile property that is "Tags" what works off of a taxonomy.
the most suitable option might be creating a custom profile property type with multiple levels.
Yes, that would seem to be the best approach. Now I'll have to decide if the client can justify doing that.
(Without me looking) Can you point me to resources on creating custom profile properties?


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Malcolm X's Roxbury Home; Back Bay Fire; Cambridge Jail Mtg.
By Tom Acitelli@tomacitelli Feb 21, 2012, 6:48am EST
1) A deal was reached between a nephew of Malcolm X and the preservation group Historic Boston to turn his childhood home on Dale Street in Roxbury into housing for students in African-American studies or related fields. "'We need to find a real estate solution,' said Kathy Kottaridis, executive director of Historic Boston. 'This will not be a museum. We want to honor the role Malcolm X played in American society and the role this house played in his life.'" [Globe]
2) A blaze at 271 Newbury Street in Back Bay did $1 million damage: "No one was injured in the blaze, which broke out in the swanky seven-story building at the corner of Dartmouth Street and Newbury Street shortly before 12:30 a.m. [Monday]..." Firefighters blame a towel too close to a coffeemaker. [Herald]
3) Those accused Chinatown slumlords that so earned Mayor Menino's ire? They live in luxury in Southboro "in splendor in a 17-room, 9,465-square-foot mansion on five acres of land with a fountain, lawn sculptures and a separate entrance to the house marked 'Service and Delivery.'" Their ex-tenants were shifted during the weekend to public housing. [Herald]
4) The city went ahead and shuttered the Dorchester bar where seven people, including a bouncer, were stabbed early Saturday morning, never mind the hearing: "City officials have ordered the closing of Ups N' Downs, where six other people also suffered stab wounds Saturday at about 2 a.m., pending a hearing Wednesday before the Boston Licensing Board." [Globe]
5) Plans were announced for five of the seven developers vying to recreate the old Sullivan Courthouse and jail to meet with the public. "Prospective buyers of the Sullivan Courthouse will be on hand to discuss their plans for the East Cambridge building. Each developer will be given approximately 15 minutes to give an overview of what they are proposing and there will be a Q&A afterward." [Chronicle]
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Meet the man building an AI that mimics our neocortex – and could kill off neural networks
Palm founder Jeff Hawkins on his life's work
By Jack Clark in San Francisco 29 Mar 2014 at 02:17
How it works: Six easy pieces and the one true algorithm
Hawkins' work has "popularized the hypothesis that much of intelligence might be due to one learning algorithm," said Google's Professor Ng.
Part of why Hawkins' approach is so controversial is that rather than assembling a set of advanced software components for specific computing functions and lashing them together via ever more complex collections of software, Hawkins has dedicated his research to figuring out an implementation of a single, fundamental biological structure.
Neocortex ... Columns of neurons
that form our grey matter
This approach stems from an observation that our brain doesn't appear to come preloaded with any specific instructions or routines, but rather is an architecture that is able to take in, process, and store an endless stream of information and develop higher-order understandings out of that.
The manifestation of Hawkins' approach is the Cortical Learning Algorithm, or CLA.
"People used to think the neocortex was divided into sensory regions and motor regions," he said. "We know now that is not true – the whole neocortex is sensory and motor."
Ultimately, the CLA will be a single system that involves both sensory processing and motor control – brain functions that Hawkins believes must be fused together to create the possibility of consciousness. For now, most work has been done on the sensory layer, though he has recently made some breakthroughs on the motor integration as well.
To build his Cortical Learning Algorithm system, Hawkins said, he has developed six principles that define a cortical-like processor. These traits are "online learning from streaming data", "hierarchy of memory regions", "sequence memory", "sparse distributed representations", "all regions are sensory and motor", and "attention".
These principles are based on his own study of the work being done by neuroscientists around the world.
Now, Hawkins says, Numenta is on the verge of a breakthrough that could see the small company birth a framework for building intelligent machines. And unlike the hysteria that greeted AI in the 1970s and 1980s as the defense industry pumped money into AI, this time may not be a false dawn.
"I am thrilled at the progress we're making," he told El Reg during a sunny afternoon at Numenta's whiteboard-crammed offices in Redwood City, California. "It's accelerating. These things are compounding, and it feels like these things are all coming together very rapidly."
The approach Numenta has been developing is producing better and better results, he said, and the CLA is gaining broader capabilities. In the past months, Hawkins has gone through a period of fecund creativity, and has solved one of the main problems that have bedeviled his system – temporal pooling, or (to put it very simply) the grouping together of coincidences to understand a pattern of input from the world. He sees 2014 as a critical year for the company.
He is confident that he has bet correctly – but it's been a hard road to get here.
That long, hard road
Hawkins' interest in the brain dates back to his childhood, as does his frustration with how it is studied.
Growing up, Hawkins spent time with his father in an old shipyard on the north shore of Long Island, inventing all manner of boats with his father, an inventor with the enthusiasm for creativity of a Dr Seuss character. In high school, the young Hawkins developed an interest in biophysics and, as he recounts in his book On Intelligence, tried to find out more about the brain at a local library.
"My search for a satisfying brain book turned up empty. I came to realize that no one had any idea how the brain actually worked. There weren't even any bad or unproven theories; there simply were none," he wrote.
This realization sparked a lifelong passion to try to understand the grand, intricate system that makes people who they are, and to eventually model the brain and create machines built in the same manner.
Hawkins graduated from Cornell in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering. After a stint at Intel, he applied to MIT to study artificial intelligence, but had his application rejected because he wanted to understand how brains work, rather than build artificial intelligence. After this he worked at laptop startup GRiD Systems, but during this time he couldn't get his curiosity about the brain and intelligent machines out of his head – so he did a correspondence course in physiology and ultimately applied to and was accepted in the biophysics program at the University of California, Berkeley.
When Hawkins started at Berkeley in 1986, his ambition to study a theory of the brain collided with the university administration, which disagreed with his direction of study. Though Berkeley was not able to give him a course of study, Hawkins spent almost two years ensconced in the school's many libraries reading as much of the literature available on neuroscience as possible.
This deep immersion in neuroscience became the lens through which Hawkins viewed the world, with his later business accomplishments – Palm, Handspring – all leading to valuable insights on how the brain works and why the brain behaves as it does.
The way Hawkins recounts his past makes it seem as if the creation of a billion-dollar business in Palm, and arguably the prototype of the modern smartphone in Handspring, was a footnote along his journey to understand the brain.
This makes more sense when viewed against what he did in 2002, when he founded the Redwood Neuroscience Institute (now a part of the University of California at Berkeley and an epicenter of cutting-edge neuroscience research in its own right), and in 2005 founded Numenta with Palm/Handspring collaborator Donna Dubinsky and cofounder Dileep George.
These decades gave Hawkins the business acumen, money, and perspective needed to make a go at crafting his foundation for machine intelligence.
His media-savvy, confident approach appears to have stirred up some ill feeling among other academics who point out, correctly, that Hawkins hasn't published widely, nor has he invented many ideas on his own.
Numenta has also had troubles, partly due to Hawkins' idiosyncratic view on how the brain works.
In 2010, for example, Numenta cofounder Dileep George left to found his own company, Vicarious, to pick some of the more low-hanging fruit in the promising field of AI. From what we understand, this amicable separation stemmed from a difference of opinion between George and Hawkins, as George tended towards a more mathematical approach, and Hawkins to a more biological one.
Hawkins has also come in for a bit of a drubbing from the intelligentsia, with NYU psychology professor Gary Marcus dismissing Numenta's approach in a New Yorker article headlined Steamrolled by Big Data.
Other academics El Reg interviewed for this article did not want to be quoted, as they felt Hawkins' lack of peer-reviewed papers combined with his entrepreneurial persona reduced the credibility of his entire approach.
Hawkins brushes off these criticisms and believes they come down to a difference of opinion between him and the AI intelligentsia.
"These are complex biological systems that were not designed by mathematical principles [that are] very difficult to formalize completely," he told us.
"This reminds me a bit of the beginning of the computer era," he said. "If you go back to the 1930s and early 1940s, when people first started thinking about computers they were really interested in whether an algorithm would complete, and they were looking for mathematical completeness, a mathematical proof. If you today build a computer, no one sits around saying 'let's look at the mathematical formalism of this computer.' It reminds me a little about that. We still have people saying 'You don't have enough math here!' There's some people that just don't like that."
Hawkins' confidence stems from the way Numenta has built its technology, which far from merely taking inspiration from the brain – as many other startups claim to do – is actively built as a digital implementation of everything Hawkins has learned about how the dense, napkin-sized sheet of cells that is our neocortex works.
"I know of no other cortical theories or models that incorporate any of the following: active dendrites, differences between proximal and distal dendrites, synapse growth and decay, potential synapses, dendrite growth, depolarization as a mode of prediction, mini-columns, multiple types of inhibition and their corresponding inhibitory neurons, etcetera. The new temporal pooling mechanism we are working on requires metabotropic receptors in the locations they are, and are not, found. Again, I don't know of any theories that have been reduced to practice that incorporate any, let alone all of these concepts," he wrote in a post to the discussion mailing list for NuPic, an open source implementation of Numenta's CLA, in February.
Next page: Google and Microsoft's code for deep learning is the new shallow learning
Google emits Network Intelligence Center to help untangle misconfigured cloud networks
Connectivity tests check config but do *not* actually test connectivity
Prez Trump orders Uncle Sam to step up AI efforts – we all know the White House knows a lot about artificial intelligence
Ah, wait, the other kind of artificial
Artificial Intelligence: You know it isn't real, yeah?
Something for the Weekend, Sir? It's not big and it's not clever. Well, not clever, anyway
2001 fiction set to be science fact? NASA boffin mulls artificial intelligence to watch over the lunar Gateway
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
IBM Watson Health cuts back Drug Discovery 'artificial intelligence' after lackluster sales
And seemingly uses machine learning to explain why it's kinda not but kinda is
£250m fund for NHS artificial intelligence laboratory slammed as tech for tech's sake
Just you wait, Matthew Hancock! Just you wait!
Artificial intelligence is good for at least one thing – making hardware important again
Red Hat Summit Latest compute craze turns the tide on system trends
Forget ripping off brains for AI. Butterflies and worms could lead us to self-repairing intelligent robots, says prof
'It's clear that intelligent behavior doesn't always require a brain'


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