Introducing the Selectors for the BA Phase of Graduate Photography Online 2016: we talk to Angela Glienicke, Picture Editor at Greenpeace.
My role as picture editor at Greenpeace UK involves various tasks; I commission and brief photographers for Greenpeace campaigns, edit and distribute photos as well as write blogs for our website. I also conduct external picture research and look after our photographic equipment. As part of the photo and video team I work closely with other departments like fundraising or mobilization.
After graduating from university I started training and working at photo press agency 'action press' in Hamburg, Germany. I moved to Rex Features in London, where I stayed for a couple of years. I have always been interested in environmental issues, journalism and working in the field of photo journalism.
For a campaigning organisation like ours it is always very important to have strong images that tell a story, whether it is by bearing witness to environmental issues or by documenting direct action. The biggest challenge is to create something interesting out of a boring set up, so a photographer who uses their creativity and imagination and manages to shoot an inspiring, unusual image of someone just holding up a banner is the type of artist we are looking for. If you are able to create a photograph that catches people's attention with very little props to work with, then you will probably do well in a spectacular environment like the Arctic.
"If you are able to create a photograph that catches people's attention with very little props to work with, then you will probably do well in a spectacular environment like the Arctic.
Many of our photographers come from a press photography background, because the documentation of our activities has a fast turn around. Past examples of creative story telling as well as the ability to send those images to us promptly are vital.
You need to have a real passion and interest in the work of the organisation you are working for and be creative whilst following the brief. You also need to be a good team player. It is important to keep up to date with technological developments and maybe also have some skills in video shooting and editing as in some situations you might get asked to do both.
Do you foresee any significant developments in the role of photography in relation to your field of work?
The use of drone footage and photos enables us to document the extent of environmental disasters, like the massive forest fires in Indonesia. New ways of communicating our campaigns are exploring the use of 360° photography and working with multimedia slideshows.


As I began to navigate a new world of "enviros" I was introduced to world of Natural Gas Infrastructure, or NGI, and began to discover the impact it was having on communities across the state of Maryland. As a healthcare provider, I feel strongly that it is my duty to empower people to advocate for their health. It is because of this passion that the team at MdEHN and I worked together to develop the NGI Citizen Science Project.
This project has given me the opportunity to travel across the beautiful state of Maryland, sharing the power of citizen science tools with communities grappling with NGI. In November 2017, I spent two crisp days exploring Garrett County with Community of Communities members Annie Bristow and Linda Herdering. During that trip I shared two amazing home cooked meals with Annie and Linda's families, and was able to present for 15 minutes to the commissioners of the Garrett County Board of Health on the project. I gave a brief overview of two tools developed by MdEHN partners, the FracTracker App and the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project's Health Registry. I fielded questions from community members and health department employees. At the end of the meeting, I asked the commissioners to add links to both tools to the health department's recently updated website, to make them more accessible to community members.
In December, I traveled to Calvert County to give another set of presentation. During this meeting, I spent two hours educating the community and answering questions related to these amazing tools. This group was extremely excited and engaged throughout the entire presentation and discussion. Prior to the presentation many participants downloaded the app and I was able to guide them as they began to familiarize themselves with these tools.
While the content presented to both communities was the same, the response and feedback were distinctly different. The citizens of Garrett County have lived with NGI for decades. They are used to the sounds, sights, and smells associated with this infrastructure.
As such, Garrett County is focused on pressuring industry to share their information and plans in an honest and transparent way. These are challenges that are specific to Garrett County and Accident, Maryland. At first, the participants were concerned as to how these tools could be helpful to this community. I shared the struggles occurring in Calvert County, and expanded on the importance of collecting data from different communities at differing stages of their battle with NGI.
In future presentations of this type I will be thoughtful about the relative value of cloud based data collection to differing communities, as rural Marylanders may face unique and important barriers such as access to the internet.
My presentation to the Calvert Citizens for a Healthy Community (CCHC) was an entirely different experience. I had two full hours to share these tools with the community in an intimate and casual environment. The community members are actively fighting a compressor station at Cove Point, and they are deeply engaged and resistant to NGI. Upon making my presentation, they were excited to have new tools to utilize in their fight against NGI. It was heartwarming to be able to support this community in their journey.
Just this week, I received an email a week after the Calvert County presentation updating me on how things were going. This community is enthusiastic about these tools and has already begun to use FracTracker to document incidents in their town.
Annie and Linda continue to work with the Garrett County health department, and our next step is to follow up with them about making the website additions. Keep in mind, these presentations are given primarily to audiences with no exposure to FracTracker or the Health Registry.
It is my hope that these presentations will continue to empower citizens and have an exponential impact on communities throughout Maryland. I have plans to give additional presentations in Prince George's County in January and February and can't wait to learn even more from these communities over the next few months.
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If you could sum up A Pelican at Blandings in three words, what would they be?
Have you listened to any of Martin Jarvis???s other performances before? How does this one compare?
A splendid book, beautifully read by Martin Jarvis; relaxing, delightful, clever, and light-hearted.
Would you listen to A Pelican at Blandings again? Why?
Yes, the language is wonderful and the reading brings out all the humor.
What was one of the most memorable moments of A Pelican at Blandings?
Have you listened to any of Martin Jarvis's other performances before? How does this one compare?
Many moments moved to laughter.
I wouldn't change anything, as Wodehouse remixes all his standard characters and plot devices for another humorous romp.
Would you be willing to try another book from P. G. Wodehouse? Why or why not?
I am looking forward to other Wodehouse books read by Martin Jarvis.
What does Martin Jarvis bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
He brings a cadence to the dialogue and a brisk breezy pace which set a proper tone.
Entertaining enough, but the plots and characters don't dovetail so tightly as they do in most Wodehouse stories.
This is another good Wodehouse story. Some readers might get tired of Wodehouse's use of the same plot devices over an over, and this would be a fair criticism. There is very often a case of mistaken identity and someone trying to steal something in order to avoid some embarrassment. And yet the characters are always good, there is always a decent amount of Wodehouse's dry wit, and a good human touch. Martin Jarvis is a great reader who adds a special dramatic touch to the characters and events. So all in all, great entertainment value. And this is, after all, what Wodehouse is generally about.
Very well narrated. Enjoyable light hearted fun.
I felt the narrator gave a perfect rendering of all the characters. Gally Clarence and Aunt Connie especially! Recommended.
Brilliant storytelling by Martin Jarvis. The story has the clever younger brother of Lord Emsworth, Galahad orchestrating the action. It is a lovely change from the usual Jeeves and Wooster. All ends happily ever after as you would expect but a jolly romp on the way. Absolutely excellent.


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Kiosk is a pioneering Iranian rock band founded by Arash Sobhani in Tehran in 2003. After censorship and restriction by Iranian authorities, its musicians immigrated to the U.S. and Canada. The band has since toured throughout the world and released eight albums. Kiosk is known for its satirical lyrics, which provide a socio-political commentary of life in Iran, as well as its blend of several music styles, from Iranian folk to gypsy jazz to rock. Kiosk's music has been described by BBC World as ``songs that speak to a generation``.
Ajam
Ajam is a London based band that formed in early 2010. Ajam's music tries to bring the epic and soulful spirit of the native music of Iran to a new generation. The band's repertoire comprises of original pieces that are set to a post-modern soundscape of traditional, rural and tribal instruments fused with urban and rock beats and bass lines and production sensibilities. Ajam's performance style is inspired by different elements of Iranian 'people's' music such as street and market place performances, music related to traditional sports and competitions, religious passion-plays and ritualistic performances and recitals.
Abjeez
Abjee is Persian slang for sister and that's just what they are ``The Abjeez``, the sisters Melody & Safoura Safavi.
Although they started writing songs in the late 90s they didn't form their band until 2005.
The intention of their work has always been to be an inspiring alternative force in the Persian pop music/culture.
After a few successful years of touring in Europe, Canada & U.S.A. the sisters decided to re-shape the band in order to be able to explore new artistic ventures. Safoura perused her studies in Performance art and Sound-design at Stockholm University of the Arts and the Abjeez are now back again with their newly released third album ``Paa Sho`` (Stand Up) that was partly recorded in Costa Rica and Stockholm 2016. Currently the sisters based in Stockholm and New York have just completed their 7 cities North American Tour and are preparing for upcoming productions and events in 2018.
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Aida Shahghasemi is a Minneapolis based vocalist and musician. She studied Psychology and Anthropology at University of Minnesota with a focus on the restrictions of the voices of female vocalists in Iran, where she was born and raised until the age of thirteen. She received her Masters degree from New York University in Art and Public Policy, exploring her interests in the intersection of art and socio-political movements. She has worked with different New York and Minnesota based social justice art organizations and has served as an assistant director at Hamline University's Making Waves Social Justice Theatre Troupe. She is a recipient of 2017 McKnight music fellowship.
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Karmandan, in Farsi, translates to blue-collar office workers. The songs are written and produced by Erwin Khachikian, an Iran/Armenian raised in America. Performed in Farsi, English, and Armenian, Karmandan's song subject-matter reflects modern life issues and concerns; from the pressures of plastic surgery for a media-accepted look, to making an attempt to understand others' differences to respect one another for a better place for all to live.
The band has performed and appeared on nationally acclaimed networks such as BBC numerous times, and they have performed sold out shows and festivals both in and outside of the USA. Since the official release of their debut album, their unique stage look and videos have grabbed the attention of many.
Erwin Khachikian activities in the music scene go beyond touring, recording, managing, booking and promoting. Years of experience in the field, has give him the awareness and the right contacts to manage projects in entirety with creative branding and execution.
King Raam
Raam is an Iranian/Canadian musician. He started his musical career as the singer/songwriter/founder of Hypernova, a post-punk band in New York, which was born in the undergrounds of Tehran in the early 2000's. After some modest success with Hypernova, he decided to pursue a solo career under the name of ``King Raam.`` After several years of adventures between Toronto, New York, London, Los Angeles and Tehran, Raam has moved back to Vancouver to begin the next chapter of his life.
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the arc from West to East. In his hands, the setar, an Eastern cousin
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from Iranian form nor the emulation of Western genres, but arrival at the
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Signify has unveiled its facilities to 3D print light shades and fittings (luminaires) in the Netherlands and plans to establish 3D printing factories in the US, India and Indonesia. This highly flexible, more sustainable form of manufacturing uses a 100% recyclable polycarbonate material, which allows luminaires to be tailored to customer's exact needs and recycled at the end of their life, supporting a circular economy.
Fashion and food retailer, Marks and Spencer (M&S), has announced it is in the first phase of rolling out thousands of 3D printed luminaires across stores in the UK by the end of 2020. It joins other major customers including Albert Heijn, SAS, Total and Praxis.
Signify's investment in 3D printing further illustrates the company's commitment to better serving its customers while reducing their, and its own, carbon footprint. A typical manufactured luminaire (excluding electronics and optics) has a 47% lower carbon footprint than a conventionally manufactured metal luminaire. Nearly every component may be reused or recycled, supporting the concept of a circular economy.
Olivia Qiu, Chief Innovation Officer at Signify, said: "We are the first lighting manufacturer to produce 3D printed luminaires on an industrial scale, reinforcing our position at the forefront of lighting and sustainable innovation. Printing luminaires provides a more flexible, fast and more environmentally friendly way to manufacture. We can create new, or customise existing designs, that fulfil customer needs quickly without huge investments and long development cycles.
"Customers can have their ideas brought to life in a matter of days rather than months and printing requires less energy. Our 3D printed luminaires have a lower carbon footprint than traditionally built metal luminaires. They weigh less, which enables us to reduce the carbon emissions in shipping by 35%. By keeping production close to urban areas, we reduce the footprint even further. And of course, LED lighting is more energy efficient than conventional lighting."
Signify already has a 3D printing facility at Maarheeze in the Netherlands. It aims to have up to 500 3D printers of different sizes with the ability to create luminaires up to 60cm height and width. In January 2020, new Signify 3D printing facilities will be operational in Burlington, Massachusetts, US, serving both professional and consumer markets. Additional facilities in Noida, India and Jakarta, Indonesia will follow quickly after. LED lights will be integrated into the luminaires at all these sites.
M&S is in the process of installing thousands of 3D printed LED luminaires from Signify in stores in the UK, including London, Manchester, Belfast as well as Dublin and Cork in Ireland. The project is part of a big renovation to improve store performance and generate significant energy savings. In the stores, different types of luminaires are being replaced by 3D printed LED versions.
These bespoke products are sized to fit perfectly into the existing fittings ensuring the continued use of current ceiling tiles. The rollout is part of M&S's commitment to use more sustainable technologies in its stores.
Oliver Knowles, Research & Development Manager within the Property Group at M&S, added: "We've been working hard to create a greener, low carbon M&S for a number of years and were proud to become the first major retailer to be carbon neutral back in 2012. 3D printing has been around for a while, but these luminaires are the first real retail lighting application we've seen that improves the sustainability of our stores and are extremely complementary to our sustainability strategy.
"The potential for these fittings is enormous, both from an energy and cost-efficiency perspective. They are printed on demand to fit perfectly without need for adjustment or cutting into our ceilings. We can also return them to have them recycled and new designs printed, enabling us to be current and topical. M&S is leading the way as the first major UK retailer to take this step."
Albert Heijn, the Dutch supermarket chain, started using bespoke decorative pendants to enhance the atmosphere in its fresh food sections in over 100 stores in the Netherlands in 2017. Luminaires were printed in the style of fruit. In the meantime, other designs were deployed in multiple stores, in sections such as frozen food and coffee areas. The supermarket is able to refresh the designs by simply returning the shades to Signify which shreds them and prints new designs.
Signify also announced the rollout across Europe of an online service to enable consumers to tailor decorative luminaires. Included in the range is a customisable Philips LED table lamp made from 24 recycled CDs.
In 2018, 79% of Signify's sales comprised sustainable revenues. The company is committed to be carbon neutral in 2020 and was recently named Industry Leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the third year in a row.
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Q: Copy/pasting layer's label style only between layers using QGIS GUI Is it possible in the QGIS GUI to copy/paste a layer's label style properties only between layers?
In QGIS (2.18.1, win7), while it is possible to copy a layer's entire style (symbology + label style properties) and then paste it to another layer (assuming geometry type is the same), it doesn't seem possible to only copy the layer's label style properties to then paste it to another layer (whether of the same geometry type or irrespective thereof).
According to my shortcut configurations, copying and pasting an entire style between layers is achieved by the very simple and handy: SHIFT-C --- SHIFT-V
Is there currently, or a way to configure, a function (that could similarly be turned into a QGIS GUI shortcut) to just copy/paste a layers' label style properties only (or conversely only the layers symbol style)?

A: This functionality (and so much more like it) has now been implemented in QGIS 3.4.
For the basic instructions see:
http://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/3.4-LTR/#partial-qml-export-import
(though this is from the temporary change-log)
Just right hand click on a layer in the layers panel, go down to "Styles", then "Copy Style", choose which part of the layer you want to copy, then right hand click on the one you want to paste it to, click "Styles", "Paste Style", and click the ones you want to paste.

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As I was writing a ceremony for a couple, I asked myself, "What is Love?" This is what came through… I use this poem for a lot of my ceremonies.
When one needs the holding.
And encounter the eternal embrace.
Because you both know that you are there for each other with an open, willing heart.
Posted on March 23, 2019 by Naomi Fay.
Every night before I sleep, I reflect and say a prayer with the intention to bring in a wisdom that I need to hold. This night I felt a stirring in my heart and I took the pen to paper. I felt this Presence, this Essence and asked who was with me, who wants to bring a message. It was Lord Buddha. I asked what is the theme, I heard in my inner voice - Joy, laughter.
I am a reed, or rather an empty straw as I describe to young people in how to connect with the Divine. As this empty straw, I allow love, guidance, bliss, inspiration to flow through me in order to hold the wisdom of the ages. Off I went into the connection of the Divine accessing my imagination - the Lord Buddha. Call it my imagination, a channeled message or something else. No matter, it was Divinely inspired, and here is the message.... If it resonates, hold it in your heart of hearts and spread it onto everything you touch, you feel, you experience.
It is with much delight to address the seekers of humanity. If you are a seeker you have many questions. Many questions lead to more questions and questions lead eventually to a discovery. The discovery is what brings joy to a heart that has been waiting for the answers, but then after the answers you get more questions. A continuous cycle of questions and answers.
So it seems a bit boring to live a life soley on asking questions and getting answers. What is between the questions and the answers? It is the space of joy which is in between the lines of sentences, in between spoken words of the voice that is unspoken but felt.
This space of joy is available all the time. We tend to skip over the joy in the race between questions and answers - again a boring fate.
So, to have more joy, go in between the spaces of Everything and riggle your way through like a worm - never to miss a space because you are sensing and feeling in between the spaces of time. The spaces in between time is the bliss that enlightenment promises.
How many are patient enough to seek in between the spaces, the crevices, the hidden caverns of your heart? Go into the hidden cavern and release the bats! and be reborn into JOY! Be reborn into life, love and laughter!
How often do you laugh? Study your day and seek joy. Where are the joy moments in your day? We have far too little of these joy moments, far too little laughter. Start to laugh and you will lighten up to be the person that is filled with joy, the highest vibration of love.
Love in joy. Joy in love. Together and in between.
Choose laughter and see what unfolds as you witness a new life you have wanted to witness.
Surrender now your struggles and bring yourself to play. Imagine, play, discover, wonder, and feel Joy.
Much better then questions and answers.
Posted on May 15, 2014 by Naomi Fay.
that you cannot find within.
it is only found within.
Posted on December 5, 2013 by Naomi Fay.


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I know I still owe pictures on my African trip, but first I'm going to insert below what I have been working on most recently, which is a short talk on the importance of innovation to the US economy. I welcome comments and brickbats.
In the new National Security Strategy articulated this year by the Obama administration, prosperity is identified as the second of four US national interests. Specifically, the US seeks a strong, innovative, and growing US economy. In my comments today, I want to focus on that second adjective—innovative. I want to discuss the issue of innovation as it relates to economic security, although I guess I would rather use the term economic prosperity. I chose the topic of Innovation because it's a "thing", a dynamic, that really appeals to me intellectually and psychically. Despite 32 years in the Intelligence Community, I've come to realize that my cognitive orientation is essentially a progressive one. I am much more interested in what can be than in what is.
I'm sure that many of you share my sense that we're living in one of those periodic spurts of progress and innovation that punctuate human history on a fairly regular basis. I'm not prepared to argue that this spurt is unprecedented, although personally I'm inclined to believe the impact of the changes we're seeing now will have particularly profound—dare I say it—unprecedented consequences. For my purposes, it is enough that technological and process-based changes and improvements are bunching up right now in volume and chunkiness rivaling beach traffic approaching the eastbound Bay Bridge on a Friday afternoon.
So how important is it—to our economic-slash-national security for the US to be an important driver of this Innovation Caravan? To answer that question adequately, I indented four additional questions.
How important is Innovation to the overall economic health of the US?
Where does the US currently stand in the world's innovation index and how are we vectoring?
How do our likely peer competitors compare to the US in their innovation potential?
What is contributing to the conditions described in the answers to Questions 2 and 3? What are the causes and correlates?
I've tried to take the approach of the so-called objective intelligence analyst in answering these questions. So I'm not going to try to persuade you of my beliefs necessarily, but rather just lay out what I think is known and not known about this topic. When I do have a personal view I will label it clearly as such. I don't expect you all to agree with me, I don't want you to agree with me, although I hope you will find my approach and conclusions credible.
Before proceeding to answer the questions, let me spend a little time providing you with some definitions of Innovation. The World Bank, in a recent report on agricultural innovation, had a definition I liked, which I've paraphrased slightly for efficiency.
Innovation is neither science nor technology but the application of knowledge of all types to achieve desired social and economic outcomes. Specifically, innovators master and implement the design and production of goods and services that are new to them and/or their societies.
People speak of many different types of Innovation. The taxonomy of Innovation is usually presented in the form of paired concepts that are in opposition to each other. So, for example, people speak of fundamental innovation, which is often technology-based and leads to new industries, as opposed to social innovation, which refers to changes in the way people behave. These changes in societal behavior, for example most people adapting to cell phones or GPS systems, are often essential to harvesting the advantages of fundamental innovations.
Process vs. Product Innovation: The experts generally agree that product innovation often creates jobs; although my question would be does it lead to a net increase in jobs? After all, new products usually displace the individuals working on the old products. Process innovation, however, usually eliminates jobs as few innovators seek to increase labor costs through process improvement.
Then there are several twin-headed taxonomies that strike me as generally describing similar qualities—the extent of change.
Is the Innovation Revolutionary or Evolutionary? This usually is assessed in terms of outcome.
Radical vs. Incremental Innovation. This usually distinguishes ease of adaptation.
Continuous vs. Discontinuous. This distinguishes those innovations that trigger mass extinctions from those that don't.
A final taxonomy pair distinguishes fundamental innovation, this time from applied innovation. In this case fundamental innovation involves science and engineering leading to a new "AHA" moment. Whereas applied innovations take these "AHA" moments and turn them into something utilitarian and in some respects pedestrian.
So with that out of the way, let's return to the four questions I set out to answer.
How important is innovation to the overall health of the US economy?
Although some of the subsequent questions have less clear or authoritative answers, here the facts appear to be without controversy. Everyone agrees that innovation has accounted for most US economic prosperity in the post WWII period. The Department of Commerce notes for example that technology innovation is linked to 75% of US economic growth since WWII.
Perhaps less appreciated—or less appreciated in any case by me until I started to do the research for this talk—is the unique role that venture capital and the modern private equity firm had in fueling post WWII US economic growth. It is generally agreed that the venture capital industry really began in the US in 1946. You had private investment before then—the Transcontinental Railroad was a startup—but the investors were rich individuals acting on their own. (A trend by the way that we appear to be returning to as the amounts required by startups decline precipitously as a result of web services and cloud computing, but that's another talk.) Venture capital firms in the post WWII environment began by investing in the new businesses started by returning veterans. This was a uniquely American concept at the onset, but Europe caught up by the 1990s.
Venture capital reached its highest percentage of GDP in the mid-1990s at just about 1%, but the cascading effects of venture capital are more significant. The National Venture Capital Association estimated in 2003 that ventured-backed companies were then providing more than 9% of all US employment.
But we don't have to take the lobbying group's word for it. The OECD estimates that in the US firms less than 5 years old have accounted for almost all of the new jobs created in the US economy in the last 25 years. Put another way, established companies have essentially created no net new jobs during that same period. The Kaufman Foundation in a very recent study based on a new set of data from the government called Business Dynamic Statistics analyzes that firms more than a year old actually have destroyed net more than a million jobs since 1977.
Although I couldn't locate a breakdown of exactly how these new jobs link to innovation, I think it is safe to assume that the many of the new firms every year are based on some type of innovation, whether it is fundamental, applied, or social.
So there's no arguing, I think, that the capacity for innovation has been the primary catalyst of US economic growth. (And indeed capitalism essentially is built on innovation and the concept of creative destruction.) But my research suggests to me that, going forward, innovation will be even more critical to US economic prosperity. And that's because our particular economic circumstances today imply that innovation not only will need to contribute all US economic growth but will have the additional burden of compensating for anti-growth dynamics currently infecting the US economy.
The mature nature of the US population. Although there is considerable difference of opinion among academics as to how population growth affects economic growth, particularly for underdeveloped and developing economies, most agree that the declining and aging populations of Western Europe and Japan necessarily cut into economic demand. The US economy is not there, largely because of the positive impact of immigration, but we're also no longer going to benefit from the economic boost that was provided by the consumption patterns of the baby boomer generation.
So having established that innovation is critical to the future of the US economy, let's turn to Question #2.
2. How are we doing in terms of innovation—specifically, given the focus on national security, relative to other countries?
A report compiled by the Boston Consulting Group and the National Association of Manufacturers. Like most of these studies it measures innovation inputs and outputs and has the US ranked 8th in the world.
A second report by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Cisco, has the US as 4th.
A third report by Insead, the Paris-based economic school, still ranks the US as first in the world in innovation, God bless them. But I did not use it because I wasn't able to readily locate the details on the internet. Both of the reports cited below were published in the last couple of years.
What these tables tell me is that the methodology for these studies isn't very exact or agreed upon. Although most people agree on what are innovation inputs (skilled work force, education, R&D expenditures, etc.) innovation outputs are another matter. For example, the number of patents, a popular metric, is criticized by others who argue patents only indicate inventions and societal concepts of intellectual property, not innovation.
I don't know about you, but I can't quite work up a lather of concern because Iceland or Switzerland is considered more innovative than the US. I can say without doubt or equivocation that neither country will become threats to US national security. On the other hand, I believe these studies underestimate where China is—the Status Quo always underestimates the new kid on the block because the Status Quo owns the yardsticks. That said, however, I share the view of many commentators who think China's status as a holder of US debt will be a strategic problem for the US long before China's innovation capacity. It should matter in the long term, of course, but by then China will be dealing with its own structural problems, such as the graying of their labor force.
There is, however, no doubt that the US capacity for innovation has declined in relative and absolute terms over let's say the last 20 years or so. Our standing on these inexact charts has consistently declined. Other evidence points to a less vibrant American economy. For example, according to Deloitte's Center for the Edge, the rate of return of US assets has declined by 75% since 1965.
We've already begun to touch upon the Third Question.
How do our likely peer competitors compare to the US in terms of their Innovation potential?
We've already discussed China's innovation performance and my instinct that the methods of measurement discount China's progress. Other potential national security concerns for the US, such as Russia, are essentially non issues, according to these studies, when it comes to economic innovation. Obviously Russia, given its strong performance on pure scientific research, retains the potential for military innovations but its economy, which is dwarfed by China's in any case, is increasingly based on exploitation of natural resources and is not poised for strong growth or innovation.
Let me quote directly from the Goldman Sachs report, which can be found on their website.
Our baseline projections, underpinned by demographics, a process of capital accumulation and a process of productivity catchup, envisage that the BRICs, as an aggregate, will overtake the US by 2018. In terms of the size of the economy, by 2020 Brazil will be larger than Italy. India and Russia will be individually larger than Spain, Canada, or Italy. By 2020 we expect the BRICs to account for a third of the global economy and contribute about 49% of global GDP growth.
So back to China and the EU. While many of the most innovative countries are in the EU, it is still hard to imagine the circumstances by which the EU becomes a peer competitor for the US, which returns us to China. Although China, in the EIU survey, is projected to rise to 50th in the Innovation Index by 2013, its low ranking is deceptive. China has risen 9 places in just 5 years, a rate faster than the EIU anticipated. In a separate study of Innovation in BRIC economies published last year in the journal Research Technology Management, it was noted that in 1995 the patent count, duly caveated by my earlier discussion, of China was the same as Brazil's. Now it is 7 times that of Brazil.
John Seely Brown and John Hagel, at the 2006 Davos conference, asserted that China is now the world leader in management innovation. I'm not clear as to the basis for their claim, but I do believe, as I've mentioned before, that the methodologies used to rate innovation by country are based, unavoidably, on how the West has done it and thus have a tendency not to appreciate how countries such as China, Brazil, and India might be doing things differently.
In theory, China's success (or any other country's) at innovation need not pose a problem for the US. But it can affect US economic capacity if US-based multinationals choose to divert more of their R&D efforts to China, which is graduating scientists and engineers at an incredible rate. The US, as we have discussed, is lagging badly on STEM education. If Chinese and Indian graduates stop wanting to work and live in the US, our innovation potential suffers. (By some estimates, Indian immigrants lead up to a third of the startups in Silicon Valley.) Finally, the economic advantage of innovation, that surplus income, goes to those who do it first and well. The more countries that have the skilled workforce and modern economic base for innovation, the harder it will be for the US to be first to the pole.
Let me be clear here. I'm not suggesting any malice or nefarious intent on the part of any other nation. These trends have impact regardless of the policies of specific governments. It's really just a matter of physics and arithmetic.
Why is the US losing momentum in economic innovation? The literature presented several compelling reasons. We've already discussed one, the US is falling behind in STEM education. Given the size of China and India's population, we will never be able to match them numerically, but at the rate we're going, the US will simply be overwhelmed.
A second related issue is a current workforce that needs new training and skills.
A third reason is the inadequate US federal and state government support for an innovation-friendly environment. We lag many other parts of the world. I'm not necessarily advocating increased federal R&D spending, which I suspect is not the answer. But today the US, for example, ranks 17th among OECD countries in the generosity of its tax credits for R&D. France is four times more generous than the US, according to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. This is not good.
A fourth factor points to the short term perspective of too many US companies and their outdated-slash-myopic management/leadership concepts. Steve Denning, a leadership consultant, notes that the management principles of most US companies are scalable bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is of course the natural predator of innovation. As a personal observation too many US companies seem to have become quite innovative in inventing ways to use fees to bolster their bottom lines rather than seeking to innovate a new product or process.
Finally, I also believe but have no sources or citations for support that the US, as a society and culture and economy, suffers from having transitioned into a Status Quo mentality. When I listen to the public debate, which I try to avoid, I hear altogether too much about preserving what we have or returning to core values. Having been a student of dozens of countries over the last 30 years, I believe I can detect the difference in the vocabulary and body language of a nation looking forward versus that of a nation looking to preserve what it has.
So let me share some concluding personal opinions that I think you may find negative or positive, depending upon your perspective.
Innovation is our economic strong suit but it will not solve all of the US economic problems. It can create many jobs, but my hunch is we are undergoing a significant transition in labor markets and the nature of jobs. It will not cure our debt problem.
As we transition from the knowledge economy, already OLD HAT, to the Creative economy, we are shifting away from economic concepts that can be captured in nationalistic or mercantilistic terms. (The Chinese, by the way, issue statements and doctrine that suggests they don't quite believe this.) National boundaries are not only irrelevant to knowledge and creativity, they are actually counterproductive. Innovation is becoming more collaborative. So what do the terms economic and national security mean then?
In my opinion, we are focusing on security and spending on military matters out of proportion to our economic capability and economic potential. (By the way the experts tell us that our spending on health is similarly out of whack.) Paul Kennedy in his seminal book the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, written during the 80s I believe, argued that such disproportionate spending is an indicator of a declining great power. There is presumably an optimum balance between wealth creation and military strength. Are we there yet?
The conditions I've described are not a platform for continued US "dominance" of the world. We don't want to talk about it, but the US economy will not support single, great power dominance once our economy represents only about 10% of the world economy, vice the 50% it represented after WWII.
I always want to tell young people just starting their careers that their greatest challenge will be to help the US make the adjustment from great power status to a more complex but I believe still quite comfortable relationship with many peers. Our choice is clear: we can either not talk about reality and continue patterns of deficit spending that will only hasten a messy denouement or we can begin to make the intelligent choices today that will ensure we remain the most influential society in the world even as we relinquish the only superpower status.
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Great post. Innovation is crucial for not only companies, but individuals as well. We all need to start thinking like entrepreneurs whether we plan on starting/owning a business or not–our future quality of life depends on it. Just wrote about a similar topic: The new currency: Imagination – Why artists will rule the future Check it out… http://www.dontgetburnedblog.com Keep up the good work.
Look at history over the past 300 years instead of the past 30 and it appears we may be not at the beginning of a multidecade innovation cycle but rather at the end of a multicentry cycle. Start a time traveler in 1700 and move forward in 50 year chunks. Our mythical traveler will find little if any serious technological progress between 1700 and 1750. They will begin to notice some progress between 1750 and 1800, albeit primarily within military technology. Arriving in 1850 they would encounter a fundamentally new means of communication (the telegraph), two new modes of transportation (steamships and railroads) as well as multiple changes in manufacturing driven by advanced use of waterposer and mechanization. Jumping to 1900, they would find the industrial revolution in full force, rail lines reaching most of North America and Europe, widespread use of natural gas, internal plumbing in almost all urban areas, early application of electricity, the first automobiles and serious discussion of human flight possibilities. Leaving 1900 for 1950, they would find most of the technology encountered in earlier visits fully integrated in everyday life throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Japan and urbanized regions in the rest of the world. They would notice this jump, unlike their previous ones, had propelled them to an economy so different from what had existed 50 years prior as to be nearly unrecognizable. The telephone would have replaced the telegraph as the dominent form of longdistance communication, automobiles would be capable of long sustained journeys at high speeds and trans oceanic airtravel was beginning to be commercialized. Our time traveler might remark that whereas a skilled laborer or midlevel business manager from 1700 would likely have been able to market their services competitively in each of their previous stops, they would be reduced to unskilled manual labor in 1950. But how much has really changed during their last leap foraward? Adding 10 years and bringing them to 2010, our visitor from the past will certainly see progress in communication and information technology; but are these changes any more revolutionary than what occured between 1900 and 1950? Transportation is certainly not much faster. Cell phones and mobile broadband may provide the user mobility; but what actually is on the other end? An executive in 2010 communicates across the globe in seconds. In 1950 it took minutes; but in 1900 it was generally prohibatively expensive when it was possible at all. Manufacturing and agricultural productivity have increased substantially but not with the explosiveness that characterized the early growth of the steel and auto industry. A skilled machinist or midlevel manager transplanted from 1950 would certainly need time to adjust but they would not be as much of a fish out of water as if they had made the trip form 1900 to 1950. It would be the social changes that would startle them the most.
I look around and see the pace of innovation slowing across the globe. It appears, and is, rapid in absolute terms but not as a percentage of the status quo. I believe the trend can be described as follows. Give the staus quo in 1700 a value of 1000, 1750 = 1100 (10% growth), 1800 = 1375 (25% growth), 1850 = 2062.5 (50%), 1900 = 4125 (100%), 1950 = 20625 (500%), 2010 = 41250 (the largest absolute increase but still only 100% compared to 500% between 1900 and 1950). I beleive one of the major, if not dominant, problems challanging modern public policy makers is that humankind has evolved an economy based on rapid growth driven by dynamic innovation; which we can no longer sustain. Economics describes the phenomenon of diminishing returns on investment and we are seeing them across the globe. I am not sure how exactly society can or should respond; but we need to figure it out quickly.


Three days after the violent derecho storm front moved across much of the eastern United States killing at least 15 people, hundreds of thousands still remain without power. Complicating matters, many of these stricken areas remain under extreme heat advisories, and more severe weather is possible.
Residents of Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C. have been hit particularly hard, and estimates are that some will not see their power restored until the end of the week.
A perfect example of why FEMA, the HHS, Ready.gov, and a host of other agencies continually preach personal preparedness.
Those affected by this storm that have extra food, water, provisions for emergency lighting, a first aid kit, an emergency weather radio, and a family emergency plan are undoubtedly dealing with the aftermath far better than those who were less prepared.
As many are now finding, coping with the damage and misery that comes after the storm has passed can be more demanding than dealing with the initial storm.
This is a dangerous time, during which additional deaths and injuries may occur. So today, a review of some safety information for after the storm passes.
Perhaps not something that people in the storm afflicted area will be reading today, but hopefully of use for those who may be hit tomorrow, or next month, by the next bout of severe weather.
The Peachtree City, Georgia NOAA weather page has some useful information on after-storm cleanup, including dealing with repair contractors.
For more information, visit the Centers for Disease and Prevention. They have a wealth of information about what to do in the aftermath of all sorts of events - like tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, and many more.
The use of generators, and improvised cooking or heating indoors, often results in (preventable) Carbon Monoxide poisonings. Each year hundreds of Americans are killed, and thousands affected, by CO poisoning.
Food safety after a power outage is another concern after the storm, something I covered back in 2010 in USDA: Food Safety When The Power Goes Out.
The USDA also maintains a large repository of food safety information available to be read online, or downloaded as a pdf.
While it may seem as if the danger has passed once the clouds part, and the sun comes out, the truth is quite the opposite.
Now is a good time to follow these links and print out the information you may need - before the next big storm hits.


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Impatient With Desire by Gabrielle Burton
Impatient With Desire: A Novel (subtitled The Lost Journal of Tamsen Donner) by Gabrielle Burton is a historical fiction novel that recreates the story of the final days of the infamous Donner party (known chiefly for cannibalism after a failed attempt in 1847 to go west to California by wagon train) through the diary entries, lists, and remembrances of Tamsen Donner, the doomed wife of the elected party leader, George Donner.
For the most part, The Donner Party has been a footnote in the history that I grew up learning, tittered at because of the ignominious destiny befalling the would be pioneers. Human cannibalism has a way of stopping deep speculation into its mystique, preventing us from looking beyond the taboo nature of the act to the desperate circumstances that drive the ultimate final step of consuming the corpse of another human being.
Burton chose to present the story in non-linear fashion, beginning as the party is already stranded in the mountains and fearful of their fate. This was jarring for me initially, and it was hard to get past the jumpiness of the narrative which boasted a large cast of characters, similar names (a fair amount of those making the journey were related) lists accounting for the dead and seemingly nonsensical fragments of diaries, remembrances and unfinished letters.
I had to go back a lot to see who was being discussed at any given time. I wondered if it was an effective approach to take based on the confusion it caused, but as the story progresses and the lay of the land is established, it became easier to read. I appreciate really getting a sense of what Tamsen's life was like, and how the new horrors and difficulties of her journey sparked memories of either better times or the precipitating incident which forced particular choices among the group. Impatient With Desire chiefly examines the way people come together and come apart in extreme situations. Handmaiden to death and despair were festering resentment, misplaced opportunity, selfishness, greed but also love, steadfastness and loyalty. I was touched by the decisions and sacrifices that some made for others, the efforts to sustain civilized ways in brutal surroundings and how mothers aimed to protect and then choose among their children for survival.
Burton has done painstaking research into Tamsen and the Donner party and even though Tamsen's diary was never found, Burton does an excellent job of amalgamating the available records and facts into an extremely plausible construction of Tamsen's last few month with her family. There isn't one thing that failed and put them all in the situation that they found themselves in, but many things – trusting the wrong information, choosing to travel with the elderly and many small children (slowed them down considerable), and attempting a trail that had yet to be fully vetted were carefully considered amongst the group. What they chose proved to be unlucky. Tamsen' journal as presented by Burton wove these elements into a compelling novel. Recommended.
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Analyze the ideas and elements behind the Watergate Scandal and the chain of events which led to Gerald Ford's presidency.
Evaluate the role of the global economy on the 1970s energy crisis and its impact on the Ford and Carter presidencies.
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Surviving Genocide – Or Personal Tragedy:
SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL
The San Diego premiere of "Extraordinary Chambers"
By PAT LAUNER
http://sdjewishjournal.com/site/5142/surviving-genocide-%e2%80%94-or-personal-tragedy/
What do you get when you mix together one Jew, two half-Jews, one Muslim and three Asians? "Extraordinary Chambers."
The play, which premiered at the Geffen Playhouse in 2011, won the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play and was hailed by the L.A. Examiner as "brilliantly written… keenly intelligent and delicately emotional."
Playwright David Wiener was inspired by a family trip to Cambodia, and still steeped in the painful process he and his wife had gone through in trying to conceive a child.
"The foreign political backdrop allowed me to write about myself," Wiener confesses. "But the real reason I wrote the play was the man I met on my trip who had first-hand experiences – as every Cambodian does – with the reign of terror of the Khmer Rouge."
More than two million people, a significant portion of the population, perished from 1975-1979, either by execution, disease or starvation .
"Everyone is just one degree removed from someone who was killed or someone who did the killing," Wiener reports. "The malignant regime affected every aspect of society, including clothing worn – only black was acceptable; the elimination of music, holidays, birthdays, even the most basic familial bonds. Children were seen to belong to the State or the Revolution.
"I had a sense that I came a long way to visit, meet the people, sample the food, and I truly had no idea where I was or what had come before. I named my character after Sopoan , the wonderful Buddhist man who opened my eyes."
About the time that Wiener was visiting, the trials were taking place, called The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. The ongoing process has to be implemented with high-priced international cooperation — in a country where the average worker earns less than fifty cents a day — because the entire legal profession was eliminated: lawyers, judges, professors, doctors – all the intelligentsia were destroyed by the Khmer Rouge. But an attempt is being made to bring to justice those accused of genocide and crimes against humanity.
"It's not as simple as it sounds," says Wiener. "The questions are: Who's responsible? Certainly the leader Pol Pot. But ordinary people were implicated, too, forced by the extremity of their conditions to do horrific things."
One Genocide is Like Another
It all sounds very familiar to Jews: genocide based on the assumed superiority of one group and the attempt to "treat other people, perceived 'outsiders,' as though they're no longer human," as Wiener puts in. In his play, there's mention of the Nazis, and an oblique reference to a doctor reminiscent of Josef Mengele, the monster of Auschwitz.
"Since I'm half-Jewish," says Wiener, referring to his Jewish father and Catholic mother, "and I identify with my Jewish roots, I wanted to draw that parallel, invoke that echo.
"But my play is not about genocide. It's not political. It's not even really about Cambodia per se. It's about Americans going to Cambodia, and how they interface with the world. How they are — or aren't — changed by that experience.
"Ultimately, the play is about what people do when they're pushed to a place of extremity. There's this American couple in a troubled marriage, who are still reeling from the loss of a child. I wanted their loss to serve as a lens to look at the inconceivable; their major personal tragedy as a way of helping us relate to this incredible level of death and destruction."
The husband, Carter, is in Cambodia to set up a contract for telecommunication centers. His depressed wife Mara reluctantly comes along. They are hosted by another couple, the dealmaker Dr. Heng , and his younger, enigmatic wife, Rom Chang. The doctor, and possibly his wife, appear to be deeply implicated in the Khmer Rouge exterminations. Running interference between the two couples is Sopoan , the guide and driver, who presents painful monologues about his torture and the loss of his wife during the massacres.
In the meantime, Rom Chang has arranged for Mara to meet a beautiful, green-eyed orphan boy. Mara desperately wants him; Carter, who has his own slippery morality, wants no part of Heng , his wife or the baby.
"The couples are, in some ways, mirror reflections of each other. Both are either trying to run away from their past, or replace it," says director Seema Sueko, co-founder and executive artistic director of Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company, a small but potent local company that's presenting the San Diego premiere of Wiener's play.
"I'm drawn to the idea of exorcising the past," says Sueko, who was born and raised Muslim in Hawaii (the name of her theater means 'story' in Hawaiian). "Certainly, the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia are trying to exorcise the nation's past. But all the characters are exorcising their own personal pasts.
"As I experience this play," Sueko continues, "I'm constantly wondering what I would do if I were in their place. Would I survive a genocide ? How? I hope the audience wonders this, too.
"I'm also intrigued by the motivation of love. In the play, love motivates the characters to survive, to protect, to compromise, to become complicit. What are the boundaries of our love for another human being?"
"You can say 'Never Again' as much as you want," says playwright Wiener, "but these horrific things just keep happening. This play invites people to examine the horrible things we do to each other – sometimes in the name of love."
When Wiener, now 40, was in grad school, he wrote a play about his relationship to Judaism. It was called "Far de Toite ," Yiddish for "For the Dead."
"It was the first 'grownup' play I wrote, a kind of 'Who Am I?' work, with a lot of Yiddish thrown in. [He'd taken many Jewish-themed courses at Duke University, including Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah]. I always loved the Talmudic tradition of questioning — even if it's the word of God. Interpretation matters. That means something to me.
"And I've always felt a connection to the people who brought my name across the ocean – from Russia and Poland. I was always fascinated by World War II. Some threads of my family died in the camps. So when I was creating the character of Mara, I wanted her to have to make a moral choice – and to make that as difficult as possible. So making her half-Jewish implicates her, makes her a little more responsible for her choice. As a Jew, she can't claim not to know better."
Casting the role of Mara was "extremely difficult" for award-winning director Sueko. "We needed to find an actor who can go from wearing her grief to displaying an aggressive enthusiasm when she finds the boy in the orphanage. We also wanted someone who has an ironic sense of humor. That was Ms. Erika Beth Phillips."
From Amy to Erika
Phillips was born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she lived until junior high school, when her Reform Jewish family moved northward to New Rochelle. Their new next-door neighbors were Carl and Elsie Samuelson, founder/owners of the famed Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center, an upstate New York camp that embraced starry-eyed kids and spawned many bona fide stars.
"I had done some theater in school, but it wasn't a passion for me," says Phillips. "I went to their camp from age 12-15, not because I was some Broadway baby, but because they were our neighbors! While I was there, I performed in cabaret shows they toured all over the Catskills. Besides the biggies – the Nevele and Grossinger's — I remember one very clearly, an orthodox hotel called Zucker's La Vista. There were no men in the audience, because they couldn't watch girls dance. All the women were in wigs; it was such another world to me. We had to re-choreograph the whole show, so the boys were never touching the girls."
Most of her time at Stagedoor , she remembers being backgrounded : "the third girl on the left" in the big musicals. Still, it was "an incredible experience," and she still maintains many of the friends and contacts made there. "My fire was lit there," she says, and it has continued to burn for theater ever since.
Having two psychotherapist parents (her father is a psychiatrist; her mother, who died of cancer five years ago, was a psychologist) "made me thoughtful about behavior, and introspective," she confesses. It also made her reluctant to discuss her dreams with them, once she entered puberty! But, she says, "I started thinking very young about people's motivations, and that's very helpful in acting."
Her father's parents, originally named Phillipovsky , immigrated from Poland and Latvia, via England. Her maternal grandparents were "secular, but culturally very Jewish." Her indomitable 94 year-old Grandma Bea (Beatrice Shore, "creator of the 'Wonder Woman' bathing suit of the 1970s that put me through college") lives with her and her husband in Escondido, adjacent to another house, inhabited by her father and brother, a Sanskrit scholar. When her mother got sick, the far-flung family reunited. And they all just stayed.
"I was a real scholarly kid," Phillips reports of her educational years, "and was very disappointed that I didn't get into Harvard, Yale or Brown. I chose Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, which had been my 'safe' school.' It had everything I was looking for: a great theater department, a vibrant, diverse student body known for its eclectic, left-wing thinking."
After graduation, she went off to England "as an adventure," obtaining a 6-month work visa through BUNAC, the British University of North America Club. Working as an actor, she stayed for seven years. She met her English husband, James Pillar, on a three-month British tour of a children's play ("he was a King, and I was a Queen who turned into a chicken"). When it came time to join the Actors Equity union, she changed her name from Amy to Erika, because there was already another Amy Phillips.
A stint in New York followed, with lots of new Off and Off Off Broadway work. Since she moved to San Diego in 2004, she's performed at several theaters, and played the lead in the Lamb's Players production of "South Pacific" (she's an artistic associate with the company). She and her husband are teaching artists at the La Jolla Playhouse (James directs the summer conservatory there; Erika is also a teaching artist at The Old Globe).
This will be her third show with the award-winning Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company, which was founded in 2004 and has been recognized by The American Theatre Wing with a 2011 National Theatre Grant; honored by the California State Assembly, the NAACP and the Anti-Discrimination Committee (Artistic and Cultural Achievement Award); was named the inaugural resident theater company at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2008; and has been acknowledged by the Broadway Green Alliance as an influential resource in the 'Greening the theater industry' movement. The company is dedicated to "uncovering stories within different communities… [ and ] recognizing the power of personal narrative to affect change in society."
"I'm a big fan of Mo`olelo — and Seema," Phillips says of the influential actor/writer/director/producer, named Consensus Organizer of the Year, who's in the midst of a year-long Theatre Communications Group Leadership grant, serving in residence at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C.
Erika and Mara and Judaism and "Extraordinary Chambers"
"When I first read the script," Phillips says of "Extraordinary Chambers," I fell in love with the play. I was incredibly moved. I felt connected instantly to the part and the character. I see Mara as a grieving, intellectual, artistic, frustrated woman in a marriage under stress.
"Although her individual circumstances are miles away from my own, I really tap into her situation and her acerbic wit. She's wonderfully witty, smart, talented and French-speaking – it makes absolute sense that she's Jewish! All her positive qualities are inherent in the Jewish culture. But I think the fact that she's half-Jewish puts her in some way in a persecuted category.
"When I grew up in New York, I never felt like Jews were a minority. But it feels different in San Diego. I'd never hide being Jewish, but I don't say it as casually as I did in New York. The first time I ever experienced any anti-Semitism was when I was 28, during a year of repertory at Stage One in Louisville, Kentucky. It was at a Wendy's, where a guy who was trying to pick me up mentioned 'Jews knowing how to handle money.' I've experienced a little bit of that kind of thing in San Diego, too. When I was cast as a Jewish woman in "Brownie Points" at Lamb's Players Theatre last year, a play about racism and anti-Semitism, I felt like I was 'coming out.'
Her character's only half-Jewish in "Extraordinary Chambers."
"It's one of those plays that asks provocative questions: What is the meaning of survival and how far does one go to survive? That's certainly something Jews can relate to. On a more personal level, the play asks: How do you – and your marriage — survive the loss of a child? And also, most important: What is right and wrong, and is the difference always clear? What is moral and what's not? What's a 'bad person'? Can that be circumstantial?"
Wiener built two big revelations into his play which, he's proud to report, elicit gasps at every performance. He notes that, as he's grown older and traveled more, and had a child (his son Leonard, named for his Jewish grandfather, is now 3), he's changed his mind about the reason to write a play (after years in New York, he's currently living in Los Angeles, a writer on the AMC-TV show, "The Killing").
"There's something about theater that makes it so personal," says Wiener, "a live, communal experience that people share in a darkened room. I used to think that art came from a personal place, from unresolved issues. Now I believe theater's real power is to engender empathy. And that's my goal in 'Extraordinary Chambers.'"
The Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company production of "EXTRAORDINARY CHAMBERS" runs June 6-30 at the 10th Avenue Theatre downtown. There are free pre- or post-show talks on June 9, 20 and 27.
Performances are Wednesday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm. Tickets are $15-$40 . 619-342-7395 ; www.moolelo.net


While I was so grateful for my first job out of law school; it did not suit me at all. During the short time I spent at my old firm I learned a lot about what I wanted out of my career, and who I was professionally. As many of you know, the job market is still poor, and when you live in a very saturated market like I do the job search process can become infuriating quickly. I began looking for a new job with focused attack back in January after I realized that my current job really wasn't for me. I left for a variety of reasons but mainly, I left because I did not find the area of law interesting or stimulating, and a large chunk of my heart yearned to find a position where I could somehow give back to the people of my City. I knew way before I entered law school that if I didn't find a job where I felt like I was contributing in some positive way to the lives of others I just would never be satisfied with my job. Money can never fill that void for me.
Over the course of the last few months at my last job I realized the extent of my unhappiness. I had to do something. I leaned on God a lot to get me through the uncertainty, the waiting, the scrutinizing of new jobs, and the countless rejections. God always filled me with hope, and I trusted that things would work out. I stumbled on the posting for my new job back in March. Luckily, I had previously interned in the location alongside someone who had the very position that was posted. Thus, I knew the position very well, and I really enjoyed the work. Plus, my co-workers as an intern were all really great. The position would also allow me to make some kind of positive impact on others. All in all, I knew the position would be such a better fit for me. This day in age, you have to utilize connections. I heard it over and over in law school, but I didn't quite understand the importance of having a friend or acquaintance on the inside to help you. The sweet woman, and now friend of mine, that I worked alongside two years ago as an intern still worked at the same location and so I told her I would be applying and would love to have her support if she felt I was worthy. Without a moments hesitation, she offered to fight for me. I was so humbled that she thought so highly of the work product I produced there.
The process was long. Specifically, it was a month from my very first interview to the extension of an offer. I also had to go through a drug test, a TB skin test, a criminal background check and several other administrative tasks. I second guessed myself a lot even though I knew I had a really great chance beings that everyone I had worked with as an intern still worked there and thought highly of me and the work I produced. Finally, a week ago today, I got a call from the head of HR with an extension of an offer. Elation does not even adequately describe the sheer joy I felt when the call came through. I had had a month to think about the position, to talk to others, and to talk with my husband. This was it.
There's something awesome about going back to an entity where you've worked as an intern. It means that I already know the people, and I already know what the work will be like. In other words, unlike a lot of people, I get to walk into my new job with eyes wide open and with a familiarity that not many get to have. I'm extremely excited about this opportunity, and I know for sure it is a much better fit for me.
In other news, I have a wonderful week between jobs, which will be spent spring cleaning our home and taking a mini-vacation this weekend. I know, I'm such a nerd on the spring cleaning thing, but I never have time to really deep clean. I'm excited about this prospect. There are other changes that are pending in our lives, which I will be announcing sometime soon! If there's one thing I'm good at, it's adapting as gracefully as possible to change. I'm a serious planner at heart, but I can also embrace change with little difficulty. It's what makes life so exciting! Stay tuned.
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