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 Indiana University
The Problem of Designing for Subcultures

Abstract: Members of subcultures speak about and act with pervasive technologies in service to their distinct traditions. I will describe how outwardly subcultures maintain a unified front, yet inwardly are rich sites for compromise and confrontation over technology. I will highlight findings from work we have done with subcultures and, in particular, my own fieldwork with Irish traditional musicians. I will close by describing new design opportunities for technologies that acknowledge the remarkable solidarity and discord of subcultures.
Bio: Norman Makoto Su is an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests lie in human–computer interaction (HCI) and computer–supported cooperative work (CSCW). His Authentic User Experience (AUX) lab characterizes the relationship of technology with subcultures and designs systems to support their notion of authenticity. He received his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine and a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Information and Library Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has done internships at IBM, The Aerospace Corporation, and PARC.
If you would like to give or suggest a talk, presentation, workshop, etc., send an email to BBL student co-coordinators Joohee Choi (jchoi27@umd.edu) or Pavithra Ramasamy (pavithra.ramasamy94@gmail.com). In the email, briefly describe the topic and preferred dates.
Visualization by Demonstration
Abstract: A commonly used interaction paradigm in most visualization tools is manual view specification. Tools implementing manual view specification often require users to manually specify visual properties through GUI operations on collections of visual properties and data attributes that are presented visually on control panels. To interact with tools implementing manual view specification users need to understand the potentially complex system parameters being controlled. Additionally, in such tools, users need to constantly shift their attention from the visual features of interest when interacting.
In this talk, I present an alternative interaction paradigm for visualization construction and data exploration called visualization by demonstration. This paradigm advocates for a different process of visualization construction. I will also discuss the trade-offs between these interaction paradigms based on the data collected from an empirical study. I will then discuss applications of the "by demonstration'" paradigm in other areas in data visualization.
Bio: Bahador Saket is a third-year Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, where he works with Dr. Alex Endert. His current research focuses on the design of interaction techniques for visualization construction and visual data exploration. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Bahador worked at different research labs including Microsoft Research, CNS Research Center, and NUS-HCI Lab. He has published over 12 peer-reviewed articles in the leading journals and conferences in the field of human-computer interaction and data visualization such as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Computer Graphics Forum, CSCW, UIST, and MobileHCI.
Elissa Redmiles
Dancing Pigs or Security? Measuring the Rationality of End-User Security Behavior
Abstract: Accurately modeling human decision-making in security is critical to think about when, why, and how to recommend that users adopt certain secure behaviors. We used behavioral economics experiments to model the rationality of end-user security decision-making in a realistic online experimental system simulating a bank account. We ask participants to make a financially impactful security choice, in the face of transparent risks of account compromise and benefits offered by an optional security behavior (two-factor authentication). We find that more than 50% of our participants made rational (e.g., utility optimal) decisions, and we find that participants are more likely to behave rationally in the face of higher risk. Additionally, we confirm that users are boundedly rational: they make decisions based on some risks and context, but not others, and we can model their behavior well as a function of these factors. Finally, we show that a "one-size-fits-all" emphasis on security can lead to market losses, but that adoption by a subset of users with higher risks or lower costs can lead to market gains.
Bio: Elissa Redmiles is a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland in Computer Science. Her research focuses on using computational and social science methodologies to understand and improve users' privacy and security learning processes, behavior, and perceptions. She is the recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a National Science Defense and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, and a Facebook Fellowship. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Elissa held Marketing Management and Software Engineering roles at IBM and was a Data Science for Social Good Fellow at the University of Chicago.
Building Student Self-Awareness of Learning to Enhance Diversity in the Sciences
Abstract: Many students are being left out of pursuing further studies in science because the current system of science education values students who learn via completion in an isolated, rather than collaborative way (Tobias, 1990). The stereotype of students who excel in science tend to be the ones who can conform to the institutional structure where the teacher is the sole source of knowledge (Friere, 2000). Through the idea of "Education as the Practice of Freedom" (hooks, 1994), the presentation will explain investigations that explore tangible ways to break down that stereotype. This research begins with the assumption that if teachers taught the ways science operates as a discipline, then students gain more power to construct their own scientific knowledge because they understand the "rules" of knowledge validation (Duschl, 1990). Learning how scientific knowledge is constructed and being self-aware of one's own learning in science can help level the playing field so that students can do inquiry well (NRC, 1996; AAAS, 1993) and the science classroom will be a more inclusive, positive environment rather than relying on isolated competition for teaching. In this presentation, I will present an overview of research I have done over the past 10 years that focuses on helping students to become self-aware of their learning in science and how scientific knowledge is constructed. The work involves 8th grade students, undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. The studies include constructs such as self-efficacy, motivation, metacognition, self-regulated learning, and visualization. Findings of the studies are synthesized into self-awareness priorities and how those constructs will ultimately impact social justice by providing more opportunities to see alternative perspectives and learn the "rules" of knowledge validation in science. As a result, students develop a sense of agency and an identity where anything is possible because they can learn independently in any situation.
Bio: Erin E. Peters-Burton is the Donna R. and David E. Sterling Endowed Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. She has a B.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois, a M.Ed. in Educational Psychology and Social Foundations of Education from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. from George Mason University (VA) in Educational Psychology and Educational Research Methods. She has taught middle school and high school science and mathematics for 15 years prior to her academic work and was a National Board Certified Teacher in Early Adolescence Science. She has published in science education, teacher education, educational psychology, marine biology, geology education, history and philosophy of science, technology, educational leadership, and learning disability journals. Her book, Thinking Like Scientists: Using Metacognitive Prompts to Develop Nature of Science Knowledge, and her edited book, The STEM Road Map: A Framework for Integrated STEM Education have led to the curriculum series books from the National Science Teacher Association entitled, STEM Road Map for Elementary School, STEM Road Map for Middle School, and STEM Road Map for High School. In 2016 she was awarded the Association of Science Teacher Educators Outstanding Science Teacher of the Year in recognition of her work with the professional development of secondary science teachers.
The Problem of Designing for Subcultures
Abstract: Members of subcultures speak about and act with pervasive technologies in service to their distinct traditions. I will describe how outwardly subcultures maintain a unified front, yet inwardly are rich sites for compromise and confrontation over technology. I will highlight findings from work we have done with subcultures and, in particular, my own fieldwork with Irish traditional musicians. I will close by describing new design opportunities for technologies that acknowledge the remarkable solidarity and discord of subcultures.
Bio: Norman Makoto Su is an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests lie in human–computer interaction (HCI) and computer–supported cooperative work (CSCW). His Authentic User Experience (AUX) lab characterizes the relationship of technology with subcultures and designs systems to support their notion of authenticity. He received his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine and a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Information and Library Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has done internships at IBM, The Aerospace Corporation, and PARC.
Using Data and Technology to Save Endangered Species.
Clemens Klokmose
Aarhus University, Denmark
Wei Bai
Understanding User Tradeoffs for Search in Encrypted Communication
Abstract: End-to-end message encryption is the only way to achieve absolute message privacy. However, searching over end-to-end encrypted messages is complicated. Several popular instant messaging tools (e.g., WhatsApp, iMessage) circumvent this inconvenience by storing the search index locally on the devices. Another approach, called searchable encryption, allows users to search encrypted messages without storing the search index locally. These approaches have inherent tradeoffs between usability and security properties, yet little is known about how general users value these tradeoffs, especially in the context of email rather than instant messaging. In this paper, we systematize these tradeoffs in order to identify key feature differences. We use these differences as the basis for a choice-based conjoint analysis experiment focused on email (n=160), in which participants make a series of choices between email services with competing features. The results allow us to quantify the relative importance of each feature. We find that users indicate high relative importance for increasing privacy and minimizing local storage requirements. While privacy is more important overall, local storage is more important than adding additional marginal privacy after an initial improvement. These results suggest that local indexing, which provides more privacy, may often be appropriate for encrypted email, but that searchable encryption, which limits local storage, may also hold promise for some users.
Bio: Wei Bai is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, advised by Prof. Michelle L. Mazurek. His research interests include network security and privacy with an emphasis on human factors, and his dissertation is about user perceptions of and attitudes toward encrypted communication. He obtained his MS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland. Contact him at wbai@umd.edu.
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Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday triumph
Reposting this in honor of the 75th anniversary of Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial. It's hard to believe that I wrote that Boston Globe editorial 25 years ago.
Regular readers of this blog know that the legacy of singer Marian Anderson looms large in my consciousness. My mother held her up as a hero. My sister was named for her. My father, a contemporary, was apparently smitten with her.
One of the first assignments as an editorial writer for the Boston Globe was to write a piece in honor of the 50th anniversary of Anderson's concert on the Lincoln Memorial, Easter Sunday 1939.
In that first Globe editorial, published on April 9, 1989, I wrote:
"Fifty years ago today, Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before 75,000 awed spectators and offered up her brilliant operatic contralto.
The concert was a triumph in an era of legal and customary segregation. Anderson, by then an accomplished performer in the US, Europe and South America, had hoped to perform at Washington's Constitution Hall. The Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her perform there because she was black. Amid protests from musicians and public figures, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR, and with her help, the show went on at the Lincoln Memorial.
Since then, Anderson has been a symbol of pride and achievement. Introducing her at the Lincoln Memorial that Easter Sunday in 1939, Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes said: "Genius knows no color line. She has endowed Marian Anderson with such a voice as lifts any individual above his fellows as a matter of exulted pride to any race."
Unbeknownst to me then, my father had written about that concert in 1939:
"'Whereas only about four thousand persons usually listen to her concert, seventy-five thousand persons in a visible audience and millions in an invisible audience heard Marian Anderson sing her program of triumph on Easter Sunday afternoon in the Lincoln Memorial Park within striking distance of the Capitol's dome.
Miss Anderson's unusually large audience was swept to her on the wings of bigotry and racial intolerance. Since a couple of nations in Europe seem to vie with each other in acts of racial persecution, it seems to be Uncle Sam's serious ambition today to be on the right side of the pale – a sort of see-how-good-I-am attitude.
America's escutcheon is well blotched with racial intolerance, discrimination and persecution. Up to now it's the Negro who is borne the brunt, if not all, of this form of treatment. Lynching, ruthless lynchings, the Scottsboro Boys are inerasable marks. Scoldings, however, from within and jeers without are gradually bringing about actual efforts to earn herself a cleaner slate.
The old Devils of the American Revolution ran true to the Old America and cried 'color' to Miss Anderson. . . . But seeking no ally with Nazism and Fascism, official America loaned Miss Anderson the Lincoln Memorial Park and facilities for a worldwide audience. "
Coincidentally, Anderson died on April 8, 1993, almost exactly 54 years to the day after her triumphant concert. In another Globe editorial, I wrote that to my mother Anderson "represented a triumph over segregation and a counterweight to Aunt Jemima images."
"As a youngster, Anderson was denied admission to a Philadelphia music school because she was black. She was given the keys to Atlantic City, but was not allowed to stay in a hotel there. When she sang in segregated concert halls, she demanded that seats be allotted to black ticket buyers in every section of the auditorium. . . Anderson often referred to herself with modest detachment. But for several generations of black women in America such modesty is unnecessary. Marian Anderson's name and her memory are synonymous with the magnificence of her voice."
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Asia: An eyewitness report from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgizia
October 2, 2002 senan Kazakhstan
In the Central Asia republics, national and local power as remained in the hands of the former party elite, and with the exception of Kyrgizia, the president is the former communist party [former ruling party] first secretary. Once the USSR broke up, these people ditched the idea of socialism very quickly and instead of "proletarian internationalism" turned to "national ideology".
An eyewitness report from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgizia.
Kazakhstan and the other former Soviet republics of Central Asia suffer widespread poverty, economic and social backwardness and the rule of authoritarian reactionary regimes. The working people of this region have to contend with tribal and ethnic divisions and the rule of clan based cliques. The pro-capitalist, highly centralised ruling parties continue many aspects of Stalinist rule, including a hideous 'cult of the personality' around the very powerful presidents of the republics.
These unbearable conditions have led, in some areas, to the rise of oppositional political Islamic forces, in the absence of a mass socialist alternative.
Recently, a CWI correspondent from Moscow, Mark, was able to visit Kazakhstan and parts of Central Asia. In Kazakhstan he went to the cities of Uralsk, Tapaz (Zhambul), Almata and Karaganda, where he spoke at meetings of CWI members and supporters, and also to members of the communist party and human rights organisations.
Following this successful tour, Mark made short visits to Tashkent and Samarkand in Uzbekistan, and Bishkek in Kyrgizia.
Below, Mark provides a fascinating report for CWI online, outlining the major political, economic and social aspects of life in these former Central Asian Soviet republics.
CWI, 1 October 2002
Authoritarian presidential rule
In Kazakhstan, for example, this took the form of attempts to exclude Russian speakers from the state structures and a national campaign to train up a so-called "national cadre". It should however be said that in these republics, state nationalism and the anti-Russian campaign did not go as far as in the Baltic states. For example the new law on citizenship is not openly discriminatory (in Latvia, Russia speakers have a different type of passport!). The explosions of ethnic unrest that occurred in the region at the end of the Eighties and beginning of the Nineties were quashed by the state. There has been large emigration of Russians from the region largely because of economic hardship and pessimism about the future. In some of the republics there have been appeals to the Russians to stay and in Kirgizia and Tadzhikistan, Russian is an official language
The multinational character of these states, added to the clan and tribal traditions, the weakness of political parties, poverty and the threat of Islamic fundamentalism all help to determine the political system. Officially they are Presidential Republics, however, the president is not only head of state and of his party but is "Father of the nation". The president is not only the guarantor of the constitution, he writes it and acts as judge-arbiter on its interpretation. He is presented as the highest authority on questions of justice, culture and history. The institution of president, which still leans on forms of local rule used in soviet and pre-soviet times, according to the ruling elite, should be in place of a civilian society of the "western type". Since the end of Perestroika, they have used the slogan "no left or right" to try and control public opinion.
Each of these leaders publishes 'historical' and 'cultural' works. Kazakhstan's President Nazarbayev is presented as the foremost theoretician of the idea of "Eurasia" and is still publishing historical research. In Uzbekistan you can see quotes from President Karimov on almost every street corner. The cult of the president has been developed further in Turkmenistan. In this situation, any political activity either by right wing liberals or by the Left is seen as a threat to stability and decisively quashed. The states are trying to fence themselves off from the outside world, and limit freedom of information about the internal situation.
Maybe the most hermetic of these states is Turkmenistan. This is the only country that has a visa regime even for the other CIS states. Uzbekistan is probably next. It has strict passport and customs controls for foreigners, both on the border and within the country. Ironically one of the factors strengthening this isolation is the introduction, a year ago, of the Latin alphabet – now all street signs and posters are in Uzbek with English letters, making them even more difficult to understand.
Nevertheless, it should be said that wherever I went, Russian is still widely used. The older urban population speak Russian freely, the younger generation, even though the number of Russian schools and colleges has sharply declined, are still fairly competent in speaking the language. Not once in my trip of 7500 kilometers did I meet with any discrimination because of language.
As far as the economy is concerned, the Central Asian states rely on the export of raw materials and the exploitation of natural resources, which are abundant. Some, for example, Kazakhstan, have attempted to make themselves attractive to foreign monopolies, others, such as Uzbekistan, have kept these resources in state hands. The national currencies have all suffered severe devaluation in the past ten years, the Uzbek Sum more than others. Corruption at all levels of the state is flourishing throughout the region.
Kazakhstan, it seems, is being used as a test bed for all the measures dreamed up by global neo-liberalism. The pension age has been raised, pension payments 'reformed', housing rents cut and a large part of housing services privatised, often to foreign monopolies, The new labour law severely restricts trade union rights. The lack of an organised opposition and the splits between left forces combined with the extreme distances between population centres has allowed the government to push this measures through very quickly.
Kazakhstan is undoubtedly the most important of the states from the geo political point of view and because of its wealth of natural resources. President Nazarbayev presents himself not only as the regional leader but also as a world leader.
The flow of petrodollars from the opening of the new oil and gas fields has to some degree strengthened the position of the ruling elite. The building of the new Kazakh capital in Astana, which Nazarbayev hopes will become one of the biggest cities in Asia (it has some competition to this title!) is part of this illusion.
At the same time, as a result of the wave of privatisations, a new generation of "businessmen" and politicians has appeared. They are well educated, speak several languages and pushy. This is leading to a generation conflict between the older nomenclature elite, headed by the Nazarbayev clan, and this new younger Kazakhstan capitalist class. This has led to the creation of the new liberal opposition, called 'Kazakhstan's Democratic Choice'. These 'young Turks', as they are called, are no longer satisfied to take second place in the state. They are demanding reform of the political system, and of course, as part of that a redistribution of privatised property. This conflict has led to a political crisis. The court actions against the leaders of the opposition show that Nazarbayev intends to be harsh in this struggle (one of the opposition leaders has been imprisoned for 7 years).
Judging from the press, Nazarbayev has so far not been moved by the criticism of his regime by the human rights organisations or even by warnings by the leaders of some of the Western powers. If he is ever threatened with economic sanctions he thinks he can turn to China.
The appearance of a pro-capitalist opposition has not had a uniform effect across the population. A part of the intelligentsia, including the Kazkah intelligentsia, welcomes the new formation. For example, both within and without Kazakhstan there are websites and discussion clubs promoting the opinions of the young Turks. But what is interesting is that quite often these discussions are devoted to discussing why "the Kazakhstan people is so indifferent to the opposition". I took part in one of these discussions in Almata.
One of Nazarbayev's priorities is the "resurrection of the national idea". There are many publications of a historical and pseudo-historical nature openly pushing nationalism. One of the more absurd examples of this is an article I read which tried to argued that in earlier times the Kazakhs were an important seafaring nation and that the word "equator" comes from the Kazakh phrase "eki bator" meaning "two giants". I don't know now whether the author was joking or not.
Nazarbayev proudly comments that in the last few years the number of ethnic Khazaks has reached 50% (this of course is due mainly to Russians leaving the republic). But, of course, this is not a simple picture. Economic difficulties and the imbalances between the regions are increasing and there are tensions appearing between the Kazakh populations in the South, Central and West regions. These tensions often have deep historical roots going back centuries. Added to this is the fact that the main big cities – Almata, Karaganda and Uralsk – will remain Russian speaking. Even in South Kazakhstan, which has the most compact Kazakh population, far from all native Kazakhs have sufficient professional skills or even language skills to replace the better educated Russian speaking population in industry, in the service sector or in the schools.
Uzbekistan has a population of 25 million, 75% of whom are Uzbeks. At present it is viewed as a 'model' of political and economic stability. At least this is how it was recently described by one of the best-known Russian liberal democrats, Alexander Yakovlev. He did not seem to notice the authoritarian nature of the regime, in which only pro-presidential political parties are allowed to operate or that there is an official censor for the mass media.
Yakovlev argues that one of the main pluses of the regime is that it refuses to allow a legal communist party to operate and has avoided the conflicts within parliament that have afflicted Russia. In the past few years, a number of commentators have explained this stability as due to the social policy of Karimov, aimed at provided a basic support for ordinary citizens irrespective of their nationality. It is true that there has been no "shock therapy" in Uzbekistan. Heavy industry, in particular, such as the coal sector, remains in state hands. The external debt, in particular to international organisations is relatively low. There is also a low level of foreign ownership. In the first years after independence the regime even attempted to maintain stable subsidised prices on key products, but this attempt eventually collapsed and prices are now on the same level as in Kazakhstan.
But there are of course economic problems in Uzbekistan. Four years ago the government decided not to make the Sum currency convertible. As a result, it is possible to obtain hard currency only at a rate set by the state, much higher than the market rate. Housing costs are spiralling and already consume a large part of weekly incomes. While there I had a discussion with people staying in the same hotel as I was in. They commented, "President Karimov promises a lot but delivers little. Wages for a street trader in Samarkand are 7-8000 sum a month (about 7 to 10 euro!!) which is hardly enough for food, whilst housing and transport costs are spiraling. People have to work on two or three jobs to survive or go and work in Russia." Of course you cannot judge everything by one conversation but these comments are significant; and this discussion took place in the relatively well off Samarkand and not in the Fergana Valley where unemployment is running at more than 50%, or in Karakalpaki, where the ecological situation is catastrophic.
Another problem that has even attracted the attention of the President is the huge and growing corruption of the state bureaucracy. Notwithstanding the limits on privatisation, even by 1993 64% small and 8% medium and large-scale enterprises had been privatised. These figures have undoubtedly grown. In such a situation, it is not surprising there is a currency black market.
From time to time, a particularly blatant case of corruption is uncovered. In his campaign against bureaucracy, Karimov says that he will rely on the younger layer of managers, who are better educated and less tied to the clans and ethnic groups. But, of course, there is no guarantee that once these younger layers get the taste of power they will not be corrupted. It seems to me that this raises the perspective of an Uzbek version of Kazakhstan's pro-Democratic Choice.
Tadzhikistan has a population of 6.5 million, of which 75% are Tadzhik. According to some analysts Tadzhikistan in the last years has experienced "the reconstruction of feudal society in the industrial epoch". The artificial separation of the Central Asian ethnic groups in the Twenties and Thirties meant that the Tadzhik nation was unable to become fully consolidated. Clan and tribal relations in many ways dominated national consciousness, even up to the last years of the USSR. Thus, the collapse of the USSR and the degeneration of central political power in Dushanbe, combined with the economic crisis, led to a civil war between clans, in which Islamic fundamentalism played a part. It is significant that the communist party in the country now has some influence. In an opinion poll at the time of the last presidential election in 1999, to the question 'which party best represents your interests', the replies were 28,5% for the communist party, and 3.5% for the Party of Islamic Resurrection of Tadzhikistan.
To the question, 'in which type of society would you rather live', the answers were: 42% for a 'democratic' society, 35% said they wanted a 'communist' society, 5% for an Islamic society and 2% for a capitalist society.
In 2002, according to official statistics, 450,000 residents of Tadzhikistan left to work in Russia, although unofficially the figure is twice this.
Kirgizia
Kirgizia has a population of 5 million (Kirgizis 55%, Uzbeks 13% and Russians 15%).
This was one of the first countries of the ex-USSR in Central Asia to begin the neo-liberal 'reform' process, which was undertaken with the full participation and under the control of Western consultants. Now the economy is officially recognised as a "market".
On my visit, I got the impression that all the street traders from the region come to Bishkek to do business with suppliers, as prices are significantly cheaper in Kirgizia. There are a number of joint enterprises with China and Turkey, mainly in light industry. Bishkek, at least to me, seemed a Russian city, going by the advertisements and street signs. A law has been passed recognising Russian as a state language and also preventing the dismantling of Soviet-era statues (in Kazakhstan the question of whether to dismantle Lenin statues provokes big debates). There is a massive statue of Lenin in the centre of Bishkek, near the president's residency.
The calm in society a visitor first encounters is deceiving. Once out of Bishkek the situation is very different. Despite the attempts of President Akayev local power is still in the hands of the former party bosses. They maintain their control through their clan, tribal and village ties. Many are in direct opposition to the President. At local level, the local authorities, at the very least, are closely entwined with shady businessmen. It is not clear to me how far up that corruption spreads. But, in response, Akayev, following the example of his neighbours, has sharply increased presidential powers, although he met with some opposition from parliament. He used repression against his opponents. In the Aksiiskii region, during an anti-president march, the police shot into the crowd. One opposition leader, Felix Kuliev, has been sentenced to ten years in jail. According to analysts, the existence of devolved local power, the disunity of the opposition, and the lack of an alternative candidate for president has left an apparently miraculous 'balance and stability' in society. However this year it appears the opposition may be beginning to consolidate its forces.
Sensing this, Akayev seems to be preparing some compromises. Nevertheless the opposition seems determined to go to the end demanding his resignation. They are planning a march this autumn in Bishkek calling for Akayev's resignation.
It is, as yet, difficult to say which faction will win in this struggle. What is clear that the opposition press's dissatisfaction with affairs reflects the unhappiness of Western investors and of the financial barons in the regions. Some commentators are saying that if the president is defeated it will represent the revenge of the old party/clan nomenclature. This political cataclysm is developing against the background of a rise of activities by radical Islamic groups in the south of the country.
As far as Islam in Central Asia is concerned a few words should be said. The ruling elite in these 'post-communist' states did not seize power just to then hand it over to the Islamic fundamentalists. That is why the growth in Islamic fundamentalism in the region, due to the deepening economic crisis and lack of a mass socialist opposition, is meeting with sharp opposition from the ruling regimes. In response, the Islamic groups in Kirgizia and Uzbekistan have declared Jihad on the regimes and have attempted to turn words into deeds. In 1999 there were a number of terrorist acts in Tashkent. Later there were incursions by an armed group (from where they came it is not clear) into Kirgizia and heaving fighting took place. Even now there is the threat in the Fergana Valley, and the mountainous regions around it, of the declaration of an 'independent' Islamic state. This helps explain why all of the states of the region supported US actions in Afghanistan. The destruction of the Taliban regime produced a clear sigh of relief for the Central Asian regimes. Nevertheless the police and internal troops of the region are instructed to keep a close watch on Islamic activists: they search suspected persons and seize literature, video and audio materials.
Building socialism in Central Asia
The CWI in Kazakhstan has in under a decade earned a wide reputation as a fighting socialist organisation. It has grown to a number of cities and towns across the vast expanse of the country. In May of this year, the CWI made another important step forward with a very successful national Kazakhstan conference
I was privileged to attend that conference, along with another CWI member from Moscow and a visitor representing the CWI.
Conference decided to increase the very successful work with youth. The age of the majority of participants to the conference was no more than 25. Some of the delegates have been working with the CWI for some time and some are new. Some of the youth have been active in the Komsomol and communist party, as part of a rank and file left opposition. Many have experienced real struggle and consequently repression from the regime. Other youth that have joined the CWI in Kazakhstan are former anarchists who have come from the unofficial student groups and even rock music groups. During my tour of Uralsk, Taraz, Almata and Karaganda I met with a large part of these youth activists of the CWI. They are all without doubt energetic and fired with huge enthusiasm to build socialism in very trying circumstances.
From the contacts the CWI has already made with activists in other Central Asian countries there is no reason why we cannot start to build a socialist opposition throughout the region.
If the best of the Left movements and communist movements can work with the new generation of radical youth it will be possible to create new powerful socialist parties in one country after another.
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Posted by Ashley Trice | Oct 15, 2021 | Sports, The Score | 0 |
The Alabama High School Athletic Association volleyball postseason begins this week with area tournaments throughout the state. Locally, there are several tournaments planned as teams look to advance to the next stage of the state tournament.
The top two teams from each area tournament will advance to their respective regional tournament. Area tournaments can be played from Oct. 11 through Oct. 16. Teams in the Lagniappe coverage area will advance to the South Regional tournament, slated Oct. 20-22 at the Multiplex at Cramton Bowl in Montgomery.
The top two teams from each classification in the regionals will advance to the state tournament, which will be played Oct. 26-28 at CrossPlex and Harris Arena in Birmingham.
Here is a look at the dates and schedules of area volleyball tournaments for teams in the Lagniappe coverage area:
CLASS 1A, AREA 1 at Bayshore Christian: Oct. 14: 5 p.m.: McIntosh vs. Fruitdale; 6:30 p.m.: Title match (McIntosh-Fruitdale winner vs. Bayshore Christian).
CLASS 2A, AREA 1 at Orange Beach: Oct. 14: 4:30 p.m.: Washington County vs. J.U. Blacksher; 6 p.m.: Title match (Washington County-Blacksher winner vs. Orange Beach).
CLASS 3A, AREA 1 at St. Luke's: Oct. 12: 3:30 p.m.: Mobile Christian vs. Cottage Hill Christian; 4:30 p.m.: St. Luke's vs. Chickasaw; 5:30 p.m.: Title match (MC-Cottage Hill winner vs. St. Luke's-Chickasaw winner).
CLASS 4A, AREA 1 at St. Michael: Oct. 16: 9 a.m.: St. Michael vs. Vigor; 10 a.m.: W.S. Neal vs. Escambia County; 11 a.m.: Title match (St. Michael-Vigor winner vs. Neal-Escambia County winner).
CLASS 5A, AREA 1 at Bayside Academy: Oct. 13: 5 p.m.: Elberta vs. B.C. Rain; 6 p.m.: Title match (Elberta-Rain winner vs. Bayside Academy).
CLASS 5A, AREA 2 at UMS-Wright: Oct. 13: 4:30 p.m.: Satsuma vs. LeFlore; 6 p.m.: Title match (Satsuma-LeFlore winner vs. UMS-Wright).
CLASS 6A, AREA 1 at Saraland: Oct. 13: 2 p.m.: Blount vs. Citronelle; 3:30 p.m.: Saraland vs. Blount-Citronelle winner; 5 p.m.: St. Paul's vs. Faith Academy; 6:30 p.m.: Title match.
CLASS 6A, AREA 2 at Spanish Fort: Oct. 13: 1 p.m.: Spanish Fort vs. Robertsdale; 2:30 p.m.: Gulf Shores vs. Baldwin County; 4 p.m.: Title match (Spanish Fort-Robertsdale winner vs. Gulf Shores-Baldwin County winner).
CLASS 7A, AREA 1 at Mary G. Montgomery: Oct. 14: 1 p.m.: Theodore vs. Davidson; 3 p.m.: MGM vs. Theodore-Davidson winner; 5 p.m.: Baker vs. Alma Bryant; 7 p.m.: Title match.
CLASS 7A, AREA 2 at McGill-Toolen: Oct. 14: 2:30 p.m.: Murphy vs. Foley; 4 p.m.: McGill-Toolen vs. Murphy-Foley winner; 5:30 p.m.: Fairhope vs. Daphne; 7 p.m.: Title match.
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Ashley Trice is the editor and publisher of Lagniappe Weekly, which she co-founded with fellow publisher Rob Holbert in July 2002. Lagniappe has steadily grown from a 5,000 circulation biweekly into the 30,000 weekly newspaper it is today. Originally from Jackson, Alabama, she graduated cum laude from the University of South Alabama in 2000 with a BA in communications and did some post graduate work at the University of Texas. She was in the 2011 class of Mobile Bay Monthly's 40 Under 40. She is the recipient of the 2003 Award for Excellence in In-Depth Reporting by the Mobile Press Club and for Humorous Commentary by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2010 and 2018. In 2015, she won a national writing award presented by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for "Best Column." She won the Alabama Press Association Award for Best Editorial Column in 2017, Best Humor Column in 2018 and Best Editorial Column in 2019. She is married to Frank Trice and they live in Midtown with their children Anders and Ellen, their dog Remy and a fish named Taylor Swift.
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Even as President Lyndon Johnson declined to take regulatory steps to protect veteran black teachers who were losing their jobs as a result of Brown v. Board, he aggressively pursued a strategy personally familiar to him from his own year of teaching in Cotulla, Texas, and one that has been resurrected today by the growing organization Teach for America: recruiting elite young college students to teach for a short time in poor children's classrooms. One of Johnson's favorite Great Society programs, for which he mustered considerable political energy to pass through Congress and then reauthorize, was the National Teacher Corps, established in 1965 as part of the Higher Education Act. It was based in part on a program founded two years earlier by a Washington, D.C., schoolteacher named Joan Wofford.
In 1962 Wofford, a graduate of Bryn Mawr and Yale, was teaching at Newton High School in the Boston suburbs, one of the nation's most affluent and progressive public schools. Inspired by President Kennedy's call to public service, she became determined to find work in an inner-city neighborhood. When her husband won a judicial clerkship, the young couple moved to Washington, D.C., and Wofford was hired as the second-ever white teacher at Cardozo High School, in the working-class black neighborhood of Columbia Heights. The school's principal, Bennetta Washington, was married to the city's future mayor, Walter Washington, and was a politically connected reformer willing to take a chance on a young white woman.
Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C., where, in partnership with Howard University, the project that would yield the National Teacher Corps program was born. Then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy personally gave educator Joan Wofford a from the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, and the Cardozo Project in Urban Teaching launched in the fall of 1963.
Wofford admits that at the time she was arrogant, even "blind." When she studied organizational development later in her career, she realized that if you want to change an institutional culture, you can't ignore the managers and employees who are enforcing the rules— you have to cooperate with them and get their feedback. If she had done so at Cardozo, she might have heard that for generations, strict discipline had been considered a hallmark of high-quality teaching in the black community, in order to prepare children for a prejudiced world in which they would rarely enjoy the benefit of the doubt. Yet Wofford's brashness effectively shifted the national debate about public school teaching.
National surveys showed that half of all teachers working in low-income schools hoped to transfer to middle-class settings. What if, Wofford wondered, inner-city teaching could become a coveted, glamorous job, even for the most privileged young adults? This idea had come to Wofford as she read a letter from her brother-in-law, Harris Wofford, a Kennedy adviser who was then working for the Peace Corps in Africa. Many Peace Corps members were assigned to teach in African schools and had developed a passion for the work, Harris wrote. Yet they wouldn't be able to continue teaching when they returned to the States, because they had not studied at education schools or earned teacher certifications, as state laws required.
Wofford rushed to write back to her brother-in-law. On lightweight blue airmail paper she sketched a plan for how much good Peace Corps veterans could do at schools like Cardozo. She never mailed the letter, which became, instead, a program proposal. She envisioned a special group of young teachers recruited from the Peace Corps or competitive colleges. They would be mentored by "master teachers"—people like Wofford, who also came from elite backgrounds but had already demonstrated success in the classroom. In their first year at Cardozo, the "intern" teachers would lead only two lessons per day. They would spend the rest of their time observing the master teacher, observing one another, and sharing feedback with colleagues within the program. After school, interns would take a class in urban sociology to learn about the challenges poor children faced, and they would work to develop new, culturally relevant curriculum materials that would renew children's excitement about learning. Through a partnership with Howard University, the recruits would earn a master's degree in teaching, thus circumventing the traditional role of education schools and their "Mickey Mouse courses," in Wofford's words. This vision echoed that of former Harvard president James Bryant Conant, who published the widely discussed The Education of American Teachers that same year, 1963. Conant warned that the nation's growing ranks of high school dropouts would become "social dynamite," unemployed and prone to crime. He saw higher-quality teaching as the best way to keep low-income kids in school, and he called for deemphasizing undergraduate education courses for future teachers in favor of classes in the liberal arts coupled with "practice teaching" in real classrooms.
A teacher schools students in first aid at Banneker Junior High School in Washington, D.C. When the National Teacher Corps's white student teachers arrived at urban schools, their access to greater resources than those available to veteran teachers engendered resentment.
Wofford left the program after two years, frustrated that the school district banned her from teaching while she was pregnant—a common practice across the country, soon after abolished. But her work had taken root: In 1965, Senate Democrats Ted Kennedy and Gaylord Nelson began drafting legislation based on replicating the Cardozo Project and another similar effort, the Milwaukee Intern Program, nationally. They envisioned a National Teacher Corps that would give elite young people an opportunity to enter and then transform the teaching profession, without having to proceed through teachers colleges or education degrees, which were seen in the media and on Capitol Hill as intellectually stagnant. As the historian Bethany Rogers has noted, this vision of recruiting "better people" into teaching explicitly denigrated the wisdom of those teachers already working in high-poverty schools. The assumption was that the existing teachers, many of whom were older black women, could offer little insight into how to educate poor children.
In November 1965, Senator Edward Kennedy won passage of the Higher Education Act, which created the National Teacher Corps as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty.
[T]eachers [must] get out of their fortresses and into the neighborhoods. They must work with students in non-authoritarian settings. They must get to know people in the community. These things must be done, if for no other reason . . . than to improve the quality of instruction. Simply stated, effective teaching is intimately related to how well a teacher knows who his charges are and the nature of their surroundings. If he doesn't, his perceptions will continue to be shaped by TV, newspaper, social science formulas, and fear— not by first-hand experience. And by experience I don't mean bus tours through the slums, hurried walks up and down streets, or unannounced welfare-like visits. No instant urban sociology. I mean the tough business of getting to know people who live in the area. Let the community teach the teacher.
For middle-class white recruits like David, who lived just a few blocks from Cardozo High, the experience offered a powerful education in American inequality. The high school was perched on a hill, which offered students a breathtaking view of the U.S. Capitol Building, three miles south. David was shocked to learn most neighborhood kids had never been there—just as Jacob Riis, sixty years earlier, had lamented the Lower East Side ragamuffins who never visited Central Park.
Teacher Corps recruit Jane David was on the job at Cardozo High School on April 5, 1968—the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.—when a voice rang out in the hallway: "Fourteenth Street is on fire!" This aerial photo shows fire-gutted buildings, some still smouldering, along a block on H Street between 12th and 13th Streets in the northeast section of Washington, D.C. on that day. Rioting broke out in reaction to King's murder in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4.
Cardozo and Teacher Corps interns were also expected to participate in community service outside the classroom. Evaluations of Teacher Corps sites around the country showed that because teaching itself was so time-consuming, many interns ended up giving their community responsibilities short shrift. Some interns, however, took the community service element of the program quite seriously. Beverly Glenn, a black Cardozo Project recruit who had grown up middle-class in Baltimore, joined the Concerned Citizens of Central Cardozo, a group working to improve conditions inside housing projects. With a few other intern teachers, Glenn organized a summer program for preschool children living in one particularly blighted development, Clifton Terrace.
Candid photo of President Lyndon B Johnson after signing the bill that funded the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Glenn and her roommate, another intern teacher, even volunteered to take custody of a student who was being sexually abused by her stepfather. Glenn was just twenty-one years old at the time, four years older than her foster daughter. Those years at Cardozo were "emotionally exhausting and physically exhausting," Glenn said. But despite her dramatic experiences outside school, what she valued most about the program was the pedagogical training she received. She would recall it often later in her career, as a teacher in Boston, a graduate student at Harvard, and then a nationally recognized education policy expert and dean of the School of Education at Howard University. "We had a lot of adventures in Teacher Corps, but mainly we learned how to teach," Glenn said. "We learned a lot about child development and psychology, about curriculum development and what it means to write a lesson plan, about what it means to individualize for students and how you do evaluation to know what kids have learned." Those practical matters were not always part of the curriculum at traditional teachers colleges, which tended to emphasize theory over practice, and—until recently—paid little attention to how to measure children's learning outcomes.
It is difficult to judge the Teacher Corps' success in today's terms; during the 1960s and 1970s, standardized achievement tests were not in wide use as measures of student learning or teacher effectiveness. Sociologist Ronald Corwin published the definitive evaluation of the program in 1973. Teacher Corps sites had hired three thousand interns who worked in twenty-seven states and Puerto Rico, including in cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles; in the rural Black Belt; and on Indian reservations. Fifty-five percent of recruits came from upper-middle-class homes, compared to only about a quarter of experienced teachers. Corwin found that recruits did bring the high expectations for students that reformers like Joan Wofford had hoped for. Corps interns were more likely than veteran teachers to believe poor students could graduate from high school, and less likely to indicate that "poor home backgrounds" prevented children from learning. Interns cited education as the most effective antipoverty tool, while veterans believed job training, a guaranteed income, and marketable skills were more valuable. The vast majority of Corps recruits did not become career teachers, but many did pursue jobs in educational administration or policy.
Joan Wofford, founder of the Cardozo Project, today.
Except for the hippie insinuation, much of the controversy regarding the Teacher Corps sounds a lot like the debate about today's Teach for America, which was founded, like the Cardozo Project, by an idealist who sought to provide a shortcut into the profession. Teach for America's mission is to help lead "an educational revolution" in America's poor communities. President Johnson— who revered educators and understood their work perhaps better than any other president in the nation's history—had much the same aim. His Great Society agenda, from the Teacher Corps to Title I to Head Start, did make a mark. Federal funds flowed like never before to high-poverty schools. Ambitious young people were encouraged to teach in low-income schools, via the missionary teacher model first promoted by Catharine Beecher.
But true to Anna Julia Cooper's and Zora Neale Hurston's warnings, the Johnson administration's aggressive push toward school integration in the South often came at the expense of veteran black teachers. And due to the complicity of the courts and Department of Justice, de facto segregated schooling endured in most northern cities. By 1968 the limits of the Great Society education agenda were clear. Parents and activists who were committed to educational equality for poor children were disappointed and sometimes angry. The world of urban public education would soon explode in racial animus, much of it targeted toward teachers and their unions.


MOORESVILLE, N.C. – While Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick might be best known for his success in NASCAR, stock cars aren't the only form of racing where he has made an impact.
That's why on Wednesday afternoon, Hendrick was honored by the North Carolina Drag Racing Hall of Fame with the Jeff Byrd Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes those who have made significant contributions to the state's rich drag racing history.
Hendrick's passion for drag racing started at the age of 14, driving a self-built 1931 Chevrolet – a car he still owns today – to victory at North Carolina's Roxboro Dragway during a popular 1964 Easter weekend meet.
From 1984 to 1993, Hendrick sponsored David Reher and Buddy Morrison's famous Reher-Morrison drag racing operation, which included Lee Shepherd's IHRA and NHRA Pro Stock championships in 1984. Hendrick Motorsports engine builder Randy Dorton also worked closely with Reher-Morrison on engine development and technology, including innovations that were adapted for NASCAR competition.
Today, Hendrick maintains his connection to drag racing through the preservation of historical cars. His collection includes two of the early 1970s "Snake and The Mongoose" match race Funny Cars of Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen; the IHRA and NHRA Pro Stock champion 1981 Reher-Morrison Chevrolet Camaro; Dave Strickler's popular 1968 "Old Reliable" Chevrolet Camaro; Prudhomme's 2009 Top Fuel dragster; Jerry Gwynn's legendary fuel altered; and Darrell Gwynn's early alcohol and Top Fuel dragsters that each won NHRA national events.
"I just want to thank everybody for remembering the great sport of drag racing and for acknowledging what the sport means to the state," Hendrick said.


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The Greater Manchester Strategy
There is a new plan for Greater Manchester. It's our Greater Manchester Strategy, called Our People, Our Place. It has been written by all 10 councils, the Mayor, the NHS, transport, the police and the fire service, with help from businesses, voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations, and members of the public.
The plan explains our ambitions for the future of our city-region and the 2.8 million of us who live in the towns, cities, communities and neighbourhoods that make up Greater Manchester. It covers health, wellbeing, work and jobs, housing, transport, skills, training and economic growth.
We believe when we look at these things together we can make real changes.
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A blast wall is a barrier designed to protect vulnerable buildings or other structures and the people inside them from the effects of a nearby explosion, whether caused by industrial accident, military action or terrorism.

Effectiveness
Research by Cranfield University Defence Academy, building on earlier work, has shown that blast walls have the following properties:
 A non-deforming upright wall will significantly reduce the peak blast overpressure and impulse in an area between 4 and 6 wall heights behind it
 Similar protection occurs at greater distances behind the wall, but to a diminishing extent
 Blast walls perform best if the explosion is relatively close to the front of the wall
 "Canopied" walls (with a top section overhanging the front face) show some improved blast protection over plane walls
 A 90-degree canopy is more effective than a 45-degree one
 Walls containing sand or water work well, and cause little damage if they fail
 A wall has to stay intact long enough to "interact" with the blast in order to have any effect

Types

Permanent blast walls can be made from pre-cast reinforced concrete, or steel sheeting. Various types of moveable blast wall have been manufactured. These include the Bremer wall concrete barriers used in Iraq and Afghanistan by US Armed Forces, and the HESCO bastions, wire mesh containers filled with sand or soil, which are used by British Armed Forces.

See also
Blast shelter
Shockwave
Revetment (aircraft)

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Fortification (architectural elements)
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Time on Target: The Sound of Freedom
By Karl Johnson Nov. 29, 2011
Chances are, if you read Battleland, you've seen pictures or videos of paratroopers jumping out of the back of an aircraft. But have you ever considered the small miracle it takes to arrive at that particular point in space at that exact planned time? In combat, there is little to no room for error when it comes to making it to a drop-zone, and it takes very skilled training to not only get it right, but to be consistent.
Even in the most realistic training scenario, it's hard to duplicate the stress of real world combat. It is possible, however, to get close. Try swapping out that austere drop-zone, and replacing it with a stadium filled with tens of thousands of sports fans and television crews. I had the pleasure of training this way two weeks ago over Soldier Field in Chicago Ill. Just like planned, the stars aligned so the jetwash roared over the crowd of excited Bears fans at the completion of the National Anthem — and trust me, if we were off with our timing, someone would have noticed. Check out the video above — my C-17 shows up about a minute into the clip.
As with a real combat scenario, we needed a good plan going into the event, while preparing to adapt and overcome any issues encountered along the way. Something as small as the singer holding a single note for too long could have changed the Time On Target (TOT) and thrown the whole thing off. Thus, proper coordination ahead of time was key between the aircrew and the stadium.
The TOT was decided down to the second, days in advance, and from there the rest of the day was built backwards. Using advanced flight planning software, we built our track for ingress and egress over the stadium, fixed a point in space to orbit away from the field, and filed a flight plan to and from home station.
At first the day of the flyover felt like the start to any other day of flying. The day-of planning was uneventful, the preflight went as advertised, and before I knew it we were in the air and on our way to the Windy City. While the fans were undoubtedly tailgating outside of the stadium, I can guarantee not a single one of them was thinking about the flyover crew as we frantically scribbled numbers on notepads, crunched away at calculators, and programmed excel spreadsheets — all in the name of recalculating and validating that perfect moment.
When we were close enough to make radio contact with our ground controller, we verified to make sure everything was still on schedule, which is was. My crew made our last few speed and timing corrections, and headed toward the stadium. I've heard of other flyovers where the pilot's wife would sing along with the national anthem over the radio, or transmit the raw sound coming from the speaker to enhance the pilot's situational awareness. In our case, all we could hear was the roar of the crowd, and nothing discernible coming from The Star-Spangled Banner as we passed overhead the stadium.
With the stadium in our jetwash, we began our climb, and pointed the jet to our planned destination airfield nearby, all the while hoping for the best. Over the radio we heard a broken "You guys did great!" from our ground controller, but it was hard to tell exactly how well it went from our perspective. After landing and shutting down, the Chicago Bears had a rental car waiting for us. We arrived at the stadium just at the end of the first half, and the city of Chicago treated us like rock stars. They even let us on to the field to watch the remainder of the game!
After the game we got to the jet, accomplished some more training on our return leg to home station, and finally called it a night. It wasn't until I was sitting at my computer back at home at around 230am that I was able to see the payoff for the week's hard work. I hate to brag, but I say we nailed it!


When Dr. J. C. Bose, living in India in the 19th & 20th centuries, studied the life force (prana) of nature -- he discovered a brain, heart and nervous system in plants; the rejuvenative abilities of metals, and the electro-magnetics of crystals under pressure. He worked extensively with the electricity in crystals, and in doing so invented the very earliest radio. He discovered that when you put pressure on crystals it produces a piezo-electric charge and immediately forms an interwoven magnetic field. He began measuring this with his instruments and found that all elements were functioning as living bodies . . . animals, plants and minerals.
This was also the first scientific proof of the aura, and it was not limited to humans or even animals. He worked beyond the edge of every accepted scientific belief system, here he found a rich, fertile realm for developing seeds of hope and thoughts of tremendous inspiration. He discovered that when he was surrounded by charged electromagnetic fields (auras) -- inspired thoughts occurred far more often. When he treated plants with positive thought; when he allowed metals in his instruments to have periods of rest; when he relaxed with family and friends -- these were the moments that were most productive -- most boundless -- secrets most discoverable. For the first time, science was proving what yogis had known for thousands of years . . . it was no longer "wu-wu" . . . it was measurable. This work proved that respect, love, understanding and compassion are amongst the attitudes that measurably nourish life.
Our prayer is that you allow yourself to have time each and every day to wander out beyond the realms of common human belief; allow your thoughts to freely travel where no thought of yours has ever gone before; surround yourself by respecting and admiring everything around you for what it is . . . set up a field of highly charged electro-magnetics and live and play at its center. At first you will be like the a swimmer and stay close to the edge of the "pool," but this will change as you become more skilled . . . let it happen . . . give yourself boundless freedom in your ocean of life.


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Holden Cuts Sponsorship For Collingwood In Favour Of Women's Team
Way to go Holden! - by Jessica Bosco
Following the drama that surrounded Eddie Maguire's 'joke' about drowning sports journalist Caroline Wilson on Triple M radio back in June, Holden has decided to halve sponsorship of his Collingwood Football team.
And if the fact that they are pulling the money doesn't send a powerful enough message, then where they have chosen to relocate the funds surely will.
Holden's managing director Mark Bernhard released a statement confirming that they will redirect more than half of the original deal towards Collingwood's new women's AFL team as well as the club's community programs which work to promote diversity.
The easy thing to do would be to walk away from Collingwood, the hard road is to stick together and work side-by-side to champion diversity and continue to drive meaningful change.
That is what we have decided to do; we sponsor Collingwood, not an individual.
Industries like automotive and sporting codes like the AFL are often viewed as 'blokey' and behind the times when it comes to social issues.
We now have a chance to take a stronger leadership position. Large organisations such as Holden and Collingwood have an important role to play in reinforcing the values of diversity, equality and inclusion. We can be a stronger force working together.
Myself, and the entire Holden team, remain firm in categorically rejecting the comments made by Mr McGuire.
This was a difficult decision and I sought counsel from friends, family and colleagues. Ultimately, however, our partnership is with Collingwood and the club has a strong record of championing diversity and inclusion.
We want to continue to work together because this partnership is about more than just footy.
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Wu Yi tea is the brand name for a type of tea known as "oolong" tea. Oolong tea is considered a brown tea and encompasses the benefits of green and black tea. One of the main benefits of drinking Wu Yi tea is weight loss, but the tea has many other benefits.
Wu-Yi tea contains polyphenol, which helps to remove free radicals and enhances the functions of enzymes. Stress, the sun, food additives and environmental pollution can increase the production of free radicals in our body, which cause damage to you skin. By drinking oolong tea, you can expect to delay the appearance of wrinkles, dark spots and other signs of aging. Oolong tea can also help manage eczema.
Oolong tea can boost the immune system. While the tea is rich in antioxidants, the root of the tea plant is rich in the amino acid theanine,which has been show to nourish the brain and stimulate the immune system. Polyphenols also have been shown to have an inhibitory effect on bacterial infections.
Food Navigator.com states that "long-term consumption of black, green or oolong tea can help strengthen bones." Researchers from National Cheng Kung University Hospital reported an average of 2 cups per day showed a marked improvement in bone density. If you would like this effect from your tea, then start drinking consistently--it takes six years to show significant effect over non-tea drinkers.
The most well-konwn benefit of oolong tea is that it aids in weight loss. "Polyphenol in oolong tea is effective in controlling obesity." Consistent intake of oolong tea aids in raising and maintaining metabolism, and activates the enzyme responsible for breaking up triglycerides.
Scientists claim, "Wuyi Oolong tea is the strongest fat burner in the world."
Scientists now confirm what Chinese culture has claimed for a long time. Chinese culture has used various teas for a variety of health benefits for generations. Now an old Chinese secret for weight loss and health has hit the USA by storm. Celebrities like Oprah, Rachael Ray and Kevin Trudeau reveal that they use Wuyi oolong tea to keep that unwanted fat off and have used it with great success.
Not only is Wuyi oolong tea the strongest fat burner on the planet, it also has a large number of other weight loss and health benefits. It is a very strong appetite suppressant, boosts energy levels and metabolism, helps regulate insulin levels to help keep your body from storing fat when you eat carbohydrates, helps reverse the aging process by fighting free radicals, anti-carcinogenic properties reduce the risk of cancer, assists in managing high cholesterol levels, lowers blood pressure, inhibits the abnormal formation of blood clots, aids in food digestion which aids in absorption of vitamins and minerals for better health and weight loss, boosts your immune system along with promoting healthy teeth and skin.
Oolong and Wulong tea are the same tea. Oolong is the English pronunciation and Wulong is the Chinese pronunciation. Wuyi Oolong tea is oolong tea grown on Wuyi Mountain in the Fujian Province on main land China. It must be from Wuyi Mountain to be Wuyi Oolong tea. Wuyi Mountain is the birth place of oolong tea. It's unique soil and climate grows the finest oolong tea in the world with the best weight loss and health benefits. While many oolong teas are great and have these benefits, Wuyi Oolong has always been considered to give much better weight loss results.
i wanted to know how to make this tea. i have packets of this tea but dont know the procedure to make it.


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Gentrification has pervaded several areas of Jerusalem in recent years, contributing to a rise in property prices and the growing popularity of specific areas. One of these areas is Arnona. After a trek from the upscale Baka to working class Talpiot, the pendulum swings once more toward the upscale as one enters the serene neighborhood of Arnona. While its remoteness from the German Colony makes Arnona less sought after than Baka, buyers have begun to see it as a more economical alternative. Before Arnona became the genteel suburb it is today, it was one of the earliest neighborhoods in modern Jerusalem-and on the front lines of the War of Independence in 1948. The neighborhood of Arnona was founded in 1931 on land purchased by the Keren HaEzra company.
The neighborhood was designed by Bauhaus architect Richard Kaufman, who also designed Rechavia, Beit Hakerem, and Bayit Vegan. During Israel's War of Independence in 1948, Jews living in Arnona fled the area as the neighborhood was occupied by Jordanian and Egyptian troops. When a ceasefire agreement was reached with Jordan in 1949, the cease-fire line was at the eastern border of Arnona. The neighborhood was only to regain its original borders nearly two decades later, following the 1967 Six Day War. In recent years, building projects have raised property values in Arnona. Now the southern suburb of Jerusalem is occupied by prosperous families, religious and secular alike. Overseas buyers looking to escape the inflating property prices of the German Colony and Katamon have been setting their sights on this somewhat more affordable neighborhood. Attractive buildings and verdant greenery also contribute toward making Arnona a pleasant alternative.
A high point in the city, Arnona commands a view of the Dead Sea and the Judean Desert. It is also home to a branch of the United States Consulate which provides consular services to US citizens.
Arnona Map
Kore Hadorot St
Near Arnona
Sovoo Electronic Bike Tours
Menachem Begin Heritage Center
Jerusalem Azrieli Mall
The Tower of David Museum
Ramat Rachel Kibbutz Hotel
Little House In Bakah
Fabulous 3 BDR for 6 in Old Katamon
Grand Cafe
Sushi Rechavia
Colony Events House


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HomePaul L. Foster School of MedicineDepartment of RadiologyBody Imaging FellowshipDepartment of Radiology
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Humera M. Chaudhary, M.D.
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The Body Imaging Fellowship is a Texas Medical Board-approved one-year fellowship offering advanced training in cross sectional imaging of the body with a focus on CT and MRI. Fellows are responsible for interpreting and protocoling a high volume of CT and MRI studies generated by a level 1 trauma center emergency room, inpatient hospital and multiple subspecialty outpatient clinics. Fellows will be exposed to a wide spectrum of pathologies, including complex trauma and oncology cases.
The primary training site for the fellowship program is the University Medical Center of El Paso which is staffed by the radiology department of TTUHSC El Paso. Most imaging studies are generated on-site with a 3T- Siemens magnet and multiple state-of-the-art multi-detector CT scanners. Studies are also performed on a 1.5T-Siemans magnet and CT scanner located at an off-site outpatient clinic. Up-to date imaging techniques and cutting-edge technology are utilized and incorporated into all imaging protocols.
The fellowship is divided into 13, four-week blocks. A typical rotation schedule includes nine blocks of CT/MR, one block of US, one block of elective/research and four weeks of vacations. Five conference days are also available to fellows along with an educational stipend.
There are multiple mandatory and optional multidisciplinary conferences, opportunities for formal and informal teaching of medical students and residents and opportunities for clinical research. Fellows are encouraged and supported to present their research at scientific meetings.
For full curriculum please visit: Radiology Residency Curriculum
Application Material
USMLE scores step 1,2, and 3
ABR certification or eligibility for certification
Three letters of recommendation on official departmental letter head
Applicants must be eligible to obtain a Physician-in-Training Permit in the state of Texas
IMG applicants are welcome to apply but may required additional documentations. Please contact us directly for more information.
To be eligible for this fellowship, applicants must successfully complete an ACGME radiology residency in a US or Canadian program.


On 16 April, I will be tuning in via Skype to participate as a presenter in the Where to? Steps Towards the Future of Walking Arts Symposium hosted by Falmouth University in the UK.
My talk Where to: Finding Ghosts to Look both Ways will focus on the augmented reality walking projects and recent collaborative work with developer Aruna Sankaranarayanan to create an open source platform for AR walks.
At the "Where to?" symposium I will present some documentation of my walking projects that have incorporated Augmented Reality technology to explore the city/site in different ways. So far a number of projects have been undertaken in collaboration with local historians, researchers and software developers. These walks have happened in a range of places – Dunedin, Auckland, Copenhagen, Kochi. The overarching title for these walking works is "Finding Ghosts" as I often use historical images of sites to reveal layers of the past.
"Look Both Ways" is another historic walk where I am collaborating with a developer in Bangalore to create a history walk there.
In addition to these projects, I am also hoping to secure funding to work with an Indigenous community in Victoria, Australia, to create interactive walking tours for education and eco-tourism purposes.
As an artist, I seek to create engaging and innovative works that explore ideas of place and traversing the landscape, whether urban, rural or remote. In the forthcoming project Look Both Ways, the intention is also to customise open source AR tools to enable a broader engagement across platforms and hardware.
The Look both Ways project explores augmented reality technologies as a means to develop interactive guided walks. Look both ways is a collaboration between artist Tracey Benson and developer Aruna Sankaranarayanan, and the intention is to jointly create an AR application that is open and accessible to a broad range of users.
An international symposium of manifestos, interventions and future visions of the diverse aesthetic forms, sensibilities, regional particularities and politics of walking art practices.
The politics of walking (art).
In partnership with Cornwall Film Festival, the event will feature a screening of the walking related film Of This Parish created by Liminal. In the evening, we will go the route with Bram Thomas Arnold's exhibition Walking Home at the Fish Factory in Falmouth.
What are the sensibilities and dynamics in art theory that are promoting walking's popularity?
How do these relate to wider cultural sensibilities and structures of feeling?
How are ideas of placed encounters with walking globally circulated and reproduced?
How are mobile and located technologies promoting new platforms and audiences for walking art practices?
How does the act of walking take possession of landscape and/or articulate the identity of the walker with the place (and vice versa)?
How can we challenge ourselves as walkers in a passive landscape/backdrop: How do the animate and inanimate act upon one another?
How does the act of walking connect places?
How is regional identity communicated or marketed (nationally and internationally) through the appeal of walking?
Who is marginalized or left behind?
Who is walking? Who isn't walking?
Are the resistances of walking over-stated?
How does walking mobilise political action?
Once I have finalised my presentation I will publish it on slideshare and share the link via my blog.


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1965 Nastro d'Argento for the score of "A fistful of dollars"
1969 Spoleto Cinema Award
1970 Nastro d'Argento for the score of "Love Cyrcle"
1971 Nastro d'Argento Award for the score of "Sacco e Vanzetti"
1972 Cork Film International award for the score of "La Califfa"
1979 Academy Award nominee for the score of "Days of heaven"
1985 Nastro d'Argento and BAFTA awards for the score of "Once upon a time in America"
1986 Academy Award nominee, BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for the score of "The Mission"
1988 Nastro d'Argento, BAFTA, Grammy Award and Academy Award nominee for the score of "The Untouchables" ; David di Donatello for the score of "Gli occhiali d'oro"
1989 David di Donatello for the score of "Cinema Paradiso"; Ninth Annual Ace Winner for the score of "Il giorno prima"; Prado d'Oro Lifetime Achievement award – Locarno film festival
1990 BAFTA and Prix Fondation Sacem of the Cannes Film Festival and David di Donatello for the score of "Cinema Paradiso"
1991 David di Donatello for the score of "Stanno tutti bene"; the English musicologist Philip Tagg proposed Morricone for an Honorary Degree at the university of Goeteborg.
1992 Morricone was promoted a member of the Commissione della Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti di Roma. The Academy nominated him for the music of "Bugsy". He received the Grolla d'oro Lifetime Achievement award in Saint Vincent. The French ministry of Culture Jack Lang gave him the title of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
1993 David di Donatello and Efebo d'Argento for the music of "Jonas che visse nella balena"
1994 Morricone was the first non-American composer to receive the Lifetime Achievement award by the Society for Preservation of Film Music; The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publisher awarded him with the Golden Soundtrack.
1995 on proposal of the President of the Italian Cabinet, the President of the Italian Republic gave him the title of Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. Morricone received the Leone d'Oro Lifetime Achievement award at the 52nd Venice Film Festival.
1996 Morricone became Academician of Santa Cecilia
1999 European Film Award, Berlin
2000 on proposal of the Ministry of culture, the President of the Republic gave him the diploma and the Medaglia di Prima Classe di Benemerito dell'Arte e della Cultura. The university of Cagliari gave him a Honorary Degree.
2001 Golden Globe from the foreign press in Italy. Morricone was nominated honorary member of the "Claustro Universitario des las Artes" of Alcala (Madrid)
2002 Morricone received an Honorary Degree from the Seconda Università di Roma.
2003 Morricone received the Golden prize by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as ambassador of the Italian culture in the world.
2007 Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Award was given "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the Art of Film Music".
2008 Bruce Springsteen won the Grammy Award as best rock instrumental performer for Once Upon a Time in the West, from the album We all Love Ennio Morricone.
2009 The soundtrack from the film "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" has been included in this year's list of inductees of the Grammy Hall of Fame.
2010 was awarded with the Polar Music Prize
In the recording field, Morricone has received 27 Golden Records, 6 Platinum Records, 3 Golden Plates and the "Critica discografica" award for the music of the film "Il Prato"


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I had a friend that was dealing with the diagnosis of diabetes. Her physician advised her that weight loss would really help her manage the disease. I told her that if she wanted to. I would join in and we could lose weigh together. We knew that Ideal Weigh to B was a great program for diabetics and for those looking to lose weight. I went to my physician and got the okay to start. I attended the Educational Seminar put on by Breanna (the Registered Nurse that runs the clinic) and learned that was is the transformation plan I needed!
"I'm proud that I committed to my Amazing Transformation because I am healthy and happy with the "new me!""
The food is great, the plan is easy and friendly. The coaching was the best part, Renee was excellent.
I feel great. I have maintained my weight for over a year!