Selon l'éditeur du site d'information économique Quartz, cité dans le rapport, il vaudrait mieux "chercher à rassembler des outils qui permettent de créer des Snow Falls tous les jours". Sont cités en exemple les quizz de Buzzfeed, format récurrent très viral quitte à devenir trop systématique.
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USA Today introduced a new version of its website Saturday, one day after it debuted a new design in print. My overall impression: The new site does not feel like a newspaper website, it feels like a news website. It also feels a bit like an iPad app, with a horizontal experience and visual emphasis. A click feels like a finger swipe. Gannett/USA Today Director of Product Design Bill Thornton said in a tweet, "We think the key is to make the experience more app-like and have fewer hard page refreshes." Still, the site feels like USA Today because it's anchored by images and color. Here are five reasons the reinvention works for me.
The Boston Globe flipped the switch today on its accessible, progressive enhancement and responsive-design based subscription news site. As front-end development leads on the project (with Ethan Marcotte at our side), we're very honored to have been involved.
A day or so ago, the small design studio I run, Mark Boulton Design, was announced as the redesign partner for the redesign of drupal.org. Together with the outstandingly talented Leisa Reichelt and Carolyn Wood, the team at Mark Boulton Design are thrilled to part of this project. More details on the studio site.
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The set of all partitions of a set can be partially ordered by refinement. A partition ... is a refinement of partition ... if every subset inside ... fits inside a subset of ... . For example, ... is a refinement of ... ; but ... is not because the subset ... is itself not contained in either subset of ... . This Demonstration shows the lattice formed by all the sets of partitions of a given set ordered by refinement.


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Eduard Feireisl received the Neuron Award for Contribution to Science 2015
Professor Eduard Feireisl received the prestigious Neuron Award for Contribution to Science awarded on 1st December 2015 by the Neuron Foundation for Support of Science. He is a worldwide renown specialist in mathematical theory of fluid dynamics whose expertise has been credited by the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant MATHEF. We are proud that after Miroslav Fiedler and Ivo Babuška this is already the third Neuron Award for a researcher who is or used to be member of the Institute of Mathematics CAS.
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Prof. Miroslav Fiedler passed away
With a deep sorrow we inform that Professor Miroslav Fiedler, researcher emeritus in the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and Honorary Member of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists passed away peacefully at his home in the morning of 20th November 2015.
Below is a link to the Memorial page with contributions of friends and colleagues. Further contributions are welcome. They should be sent to the address mathinst@math.cas.cz.
Funeral card
7th European Congress of Mathematics, Berlin, July 18-22, 2016
The quadrennial top scientific event of the European Mathematical Society is organized by the German Mathematical Society (DMV), the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM), the Research Center Matheon, the Einstein Center ECMath and the Berlin Mathematical School (BMS). For further information about the programme, registration, grants and many accompanying activities visit the congress web site.
The 12th Eduard Čech Lecture: Camillo De Lellis, Universität Zürich
Regularity and singularity of area-minimizing surfaces
Monday, 14 December 2015 at 10:30 a.m., in the main lecture hall of the Institute of Mathematics CAS
For abstract see the flyer below. The distinguished Eduard Čech Lectures held to commemorate one of the most eminent Czech mathematicians and founder of the Institute are directed to a general mathematical audience.
Invitation to the Čech Lecture
Slides of the lecture
Fluids under Pressure
The multidisciplinary summer school devoted to graduate students, young scientists, and other interested specialists will consist of series of invited lectures on various aspects of problems related to pressure and its role in mathematical analysis and numerical simulation of various types of flows.
Date: 29th August to 2nd September 2016
Venue: Institute of Mathematics CAS in Prague
Organizers: Tomáš Bodnár (Czech Technical University in Prague), Giovanni Paolo Galdi (University of Pittsburgh), Šárka Nečasová (Institute of Mathematics CAS in Prague).
Special lecture: Monday 29th August, 4:10pm - 5:00pm, Prof. Ernest Roetman: AN ENGINEERING MATHEMATICIAN - a presentation about his works at Boeing - the Military Airplane Division.
Further details and registration: http://www.prague-sum.com/.
EVEQ 2016 - Intenational Summer School on Evolution Equations
Date: July 11 - 15, 2016
Place: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Malostranské náměstí 25, Prague
Lectures will be given by: Bernard Dacorogna (EPFL, Switzerland), Anne-Laure Dalibard (École Normale Supérieur, France), Igor Kukavica (USC Dornsife, USA), Franck Merle (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France), Gigliola Staffilani (MIT, USA) and Andrew Stuart (University of Warwick, Great Britain).
Organizers: Eduard Feireisl, Pavel Krejčí, Ondřej Kreml (all IM CAS), Josef Málek, Miroslav Bulíček (both Charles University in Prague), Rudolf Kinc (AMCA Agency)
Otto Wichterle Award for young researchers awarded to Ondřej Kreml
President of the Academy of Sciences Prof. Jiří Drahoš awarded the Otto Wichterle Award for young researchers to Dr. Ondřej Kreml, member of the Department of Evolution Differential Equations. The award has been established in 2002 to encourage and support young promising researchers in institutes of the Academy of Sciences. It is connected with a financial premium in the subsequent three years. Ondřej Kreml is one of 21 young researches in the Academy awarded the Award this year.
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Program on Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics
The activity aims to bring together researchers from algebra, geometry and physics that are working on related and interlinked problems albeit so far in their own respective languages.
Date: January 1 – March 31, 2016
Place: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
Organizers: Michael Batanin (Macquarie University), Christian Blohmann (MPIM), Ralph Kaufmann (Purdue), Martin Markl (IM CAS, Prague)
Mathematics and Computer Science in Practice: Potential and Reality
Institute of Information Theory and Automation CAS, Institute of Computer Science CAS and Institute of Mathematics CAS organize an interdisciplinary workshop with the aim to discuss about the productive power of mathematics in real world applications. Experts from economically active companies, universities, and specialized research institutions will share their positive and negative experience about how mathematics has been, can be, ought to be, and should not be used to enhance social and economic progress in the 21th century. Special attention will be paid to examples of good and bad practice in applied mathematics.
The workshop will be held on 9–11 December 2015 at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation CAS in Prague.
125 years of the Czech Academies of Sciences (and Arts)
On Friday, 23rd January, 125 years had passed since the foundation of the Czech Academy of Emperor Franz Josef I for Sciences, Literature and Art (ČAVU), the predecessor of today's the Czech Academy of Sciences. This significant jubilee will be commemorated by the Czech Academy of Sciences with several ceremonial events, exhibitions and lectures throughout 2015 - see the attached schedule of events (in Czech).
Dny otevřených dveří v Matematickém ústavu AV ČR | Open Houses in the Institute of Mathematics CAS
Tradiční Dny otevřených dveří v Matematickém ústavu AV ČR jsou součástí Týdne vědy a techniky Akademie věd ČR, nejrozsáhlejšího vědeckého festivalu v České republice pořádaného Akademií věd ČR ve spolupráci s dalšími institucemi ve dnech 1.–15. listopadu 2015. Široká veřejnost a především studenti středních škol mají možnost nahlédnout do pracoven, laboratoří a knihoven a poznat, jak se dělá věda. Badatelé z výzkumných pracovišť AV ČR připravují širokou nabídku exkurzí, přednášek, výstav a diskusních večerů, ve kterých představují své výzkumné projekty, předvádějí nejmodernější vědecké přístroje a experimenty a přibližují návštěvníkům nejnovější trendy v oblasti vědy. V Matematickém ústavu AV ČR se Dny otevřených dveří uskuteční na pražském pracovišti ve dnech 4.–6. listopadu 2015, v brněnské pobočce 11. listopadu 2015.
Traditional Open Houses in the Institute of Mathematics CAS will be held as part of the Week of Science and Technology, the most extensive scientific festival in the Czech Republic, organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with other institutions from 1st to 15th November 2015. The scientists from the research workplaces of the Academy of Sciences prepare a wide offer of lectures, presentations, panel discussions, seminars, excursions, exhibitions and discussion evenings, in which they present their research projects, the most modern scientific apparatuses and outline for the attendees the latest trends in the areas of science in the Czech Republic and the world. The Prague departments in the Institute of Mathematics will be open to public from 4th to 6th November 2015, the Brno branch on 11th November 2015.
Nabídka přednášek v MÚ AV ČR | Lectures offered in the Institute of Mathematics
Aktuální program přednášek | Actual list of lectures
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Conference Applications of Mathematics 2015
In honor of the birthday anniversaries of Ivo Babuška (90), Milan Práger (85), and Emil Vitásek (85)
Wednesday, 18 November 2015 to Saturday, 21 November 2015 in the main lecture hall of the Institute of Mathematics CAS
Professors Ivo Babuška, Milan Práger, and Emil Vitásek are renowned experts in numerical analysis and computational methods. Their fruitful scientific careers started in Prague, in the Institute of Mathematics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (now Czech Academy of Sciences). They collaborated there on various projects including the computational analysis of the construction technology for the gravitational Orlík Dam on the Vltava River in Bohemia (1956-1959). In 1966 they published their joint book entitled Numerical Processes in Differential Equations, one of the first books concerned with round-off errors and numerical stability.
Ivo Babuška left Czechoslovakia in 1968 and works in the U.S.A.
It is an honor for the Institute of Mathematics to host a conference on the occasion of their birthdays.
Postdoctoral position in the Logic and Randomness in Computational Complexity
A one year postdoctoral position is available within the framework of the European Research Council Advanced Grant Feasibility, logic and randomness in computational complexity (FEALORA) under the direction of Prof. Pavel Pudlák, starting on 1st December 2015.
EQUADIFF 2015, Lyon
The Equadiff conferences are a series of international meetings devoted to the field of differential equations in the broadest sense.
On July 6–10, 2015, hosted by Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 at the heart of the second largest urban area of France, Equadiff 2015 continues the tradition of the Equadiff series.
Mathematical Thermodynamics of Complex Fluids, CIME courses
International Mathematical Summer School coordinated by E. Rocca (Università di Milano and WIAS Berlin) and E. Feireisl (IM CAS Praha).
Courses given by: J. Ball (Oxford), C. M. Dafermos (Brown University), E. Feireisl (IM CAS Praha), F. Otto (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig).
Date: June 29 – July 3, 2015
Place: Cetraro, Italy
Postdoctoral position in the Mathematical Thermodynamics of Fluids
A three-year postdoctoral position is available within the framework of the European Research Council Advanced Grant Mathematical Thermodynamics of Fluids (MATHEF) under the direction of Prof. Eduard Feireisl, starting on 1st May 2015.
Postdoctoral position within the Academic Human Resource Programme
A two-year postdoctoral position within the Academic Human Resource Programme of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic is available in one of the research teams in the Institute of Mathematics in Prague or in Brno, starting on 1st July 2015.

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In my 37 years of pastoral ministry I have probably presided at about 300 weddings. That's a lot. Sometimes it feels like too many. Too much of a good thing can be too much. Unfortunately, familiarity can breed contempt. Or if not contempt, this familiarity with weddings has at times bred a certain degree of cynicism in me.
The love we fall into may be what initiates our relationship and inspires us to take the leap of commitment in marriage or friendship. But the love that sustains any relationship is the love we choose. Another name for it is covenant love: A conscious choice to seek the other's best and trust that the other is seeking your best. When two people daily choose to love in this way, they grow into a deeper kind of love as they come to appreciate the gift that God has given them in the other. They realize that this is a gift they will never stop unwrapping, for the depths of the mystery of the other are unfathomable and there will always be more to discover.
God's love makes us lovely. It is a love that grows us in our ability to love others. It is the love that both builds up our self-esteem and equips us with the energy to extend ourselves for the sake of the other. It delivers us into a place that cupid's arrows cannot. For it does not mesmerize with passion as much as it calls forth gratitude for a gift that we cannot help but give away. It is thus, as St. Paul says, the love that "never ends, (1 Cor. 13:8)," for the Source of this love will never stop loving us and therefore never stop growing that love in us.


SCOTLAND'S landowners are supporting the Scottish Natural Heritage 'Big 5' with a campaign of their own to highlight some of the beautiful species to be found on Scotland's rural estates.
Forming part of the 2013 Year of Natural Scotland celebrations, the Magnificent 7 – seven natural beauties of rural Scotland – is a new initiative led by Scottish Land & Estates inviting visitors to view flora and fauna visible in spectacular abundance on country estates from Ayrshire to Aberdeen. The first beauty to feature as part of the Magnificent 7 is the daffodil, and following close behind will be rhododendrons, bluebells, strawberries, heather, flying fish (salmon) and the 'famous reds' – squirrels and stags.
"SNH launched the 'Big 5' vote on Tuesday, inviting the public to vote for their favourite Scottish species. As well as supporting this excellent initiative, our Magnificent 7 will encourage people to get out and experience some of the other natural beauties Scotland's rural estates have to offer in abundance. Of course we are hopeful the snow hitting most of Scotland clears pretty soon to allow the Magnificent 7 to look their best!
"Visitors will be invited to take advantage of special 2-for-1 offers, giveaways and competitions at estates near them over the Spring and summer months. We are starting off with daffodils which are perfect for spring and will form stunning yellow carpets across many of Scotland's rural estates very soon.
"As well as local media we will be rolling the campaign out across Facebook and Twitter. Those interested in the Magnificent 7 can keep up with what's happening at Scottish Land & Estates on Twitter (@ScotLandEstates #magnificent7). They can also visit our website to find out more or 'like' our Facebook page".
Estates across Scotland will be taking part including Mount Stuart Estate on Bute, Hopetoun House near Edinburgh, Craufurdland Estate in Ayrshire and Bowhill House in the Scottish Borders amongst a host of others.


Tests performed on Floyd Landis's initial urine sample showed that some of the testosterone in Landis's body came from an external source and was not naturally produced by his own system, according to a person at the International Cycling Union with knowledge of the results.
That finding contradicts what Landis has claimed in his defense since the disclosure last week that he tested positive for an elevated ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone after his decisive performance in Stage 17 of the Tour de France. Landis won that stage in the Alps and improbably climbed to third place over all after he had struggled and plunged to 11th place the day before. He went on to claim the Tour title.
But the French national antidoping laboratory in Châtenay-Malabry performed a carbon isotope ratio test on the first of Landis's two urine samples provided after Stage 17 of the Tour de France, said the person, who works in the cycling union's antidoping department. That test was done after Landis's ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone was found to be more than twice the allowed under World Anti-Doping Agency rules, the person said. The rules limit the ratio to four to one. The normal range is between one to one and two to one.
Landis's personal doctor, Dr. Brent Kay, of Temecula, Calif., said the initial result was a false positive. He did, however, acknowledge that the test found a ratio of 11 to 1 in Landis's system. He and Landis are seeking an explanation for that high level.
The carbon isotope test examines the testosterone and determines if it is natural or synthetic. The test found that Landis had synthetic testosterone in his body, the person said.
Landis, who is in New York after canceling or postponing several talk show appearances, could not be reached for comment this evening.
The urine sample Landis provided after Stage 17 was divided into an A and a B sample. Landis received the test results of the A sample last Wednesday, and he had five business days to request an analysis of the B sample. Confirmation of the A sample result is needed for any doping violation to occur. If the B sample comes up negative, the case is dropped.
Michael Henson, who is Landis's spokesman, said Landis had sent a signed request today around 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time — about 6:30 p.m. Paris time — to the French lab to seek the analysis of his B sample.
Jose Maria Buxeda, one of Landis's two Spanish lawyers, told The Associated Press that he had also sent a fax to the cycling union this afternoon to request that the B sample analysis go forward.
But Pat McQuaid, the president of the cycling union, said this evening that the organization had never received that request. He said the cycling union had contacted the French lab at 5 p.m. Paris time and that Landis's request had not yet been received.
McQuaid said the cycling union then asked the lab to analyze Landis's B sample, which he said was allowed under the organization's rules, so the test could be concluded before the lab closed for a two-week vacation this Friday. If the tests cannot be finished before then, the results may not come until late August or early September, he said.
The lab agreed to conduct the tests from Thursday through Saturday, McQuaid said. That means that Landis's fate might be known by the weekend.
If the carbon isotope test again comes back positive, however, Landis will face a two-year suspension from the sport. He also will be stripped of his Tour de France title.
Dr. Gary I. Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency and a professor at New York University School of Medicine, said Landis would have several options if his B sample shows the presence of exogenous testosterone.


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HKBU Symphony Orchestra Annual Gala Concert features human-machine collaborative performance
The Hong Kong Baptist University Symphony Orchestra (HKBU Symphony Orchestra) held its Annual Gala Concert this evening (14 July) in the Hong Kong City Hall. Apart from showcasing HKBU student musicians' outstanding artistic talent, this year's Concert featured the integration of technological elements, and it presented the first human-machine collaborative performance of its kind in the world together with an AI virtual choir, AI virtual dancers and an AI media artist.
Dubbed "A Lovers' Reunion", the Concert was an accredited event celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It attracted about 800 people, including Mr Kevin Yeung Yun-hung, Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, and other officials of the HKSAR Government; members of the Legislative Council; representatives from foreign consulates in Hong Kong; movers and shakers in the arts and culture as well as science and technology; and friends of HKBU from different sectors.
Dr Clement Chen, Chairman of the Council and the Court, Professor Alexander Wai, President and Vice-Chancellor, Council and Court members, and senior management members of HKBU also experienced the innovative performance which showcased human creativity alongside artificial intelligence together with the University's staff members and students as well as the general public.
Dr Clement Chen (left), Professor Alexander Wai (right), Mr Kevin Yeung Yun-hung (centre) and about 800 guests attend the HKBU Symphony Orchestra Annual Gala Concert.
Professor Guo Yike who leads the research project entitled "Building Platform Technologies for Symbiotic Creativity in Hong Kong".
Professor Johnny M Poon introduces the ballet performance featuring AI virtual dancers, accompanied live by the HKBU Symphony Orchestra.
Ballet performance by AI virtual dancers accompanied live by the HKBU Symphony Orchestra.
The HKBU Symphony Orchestra and an AI virtual choir perform a newly arranged choral-orchestral version of the song Pearl of the Orient, with an accompanying cross-media visual narrative based on the lyrics and music created by an AI media artist.
Professor Johnny M Poon puts on sensors to conduct the performance of the Symphony Orchestra and the AI virtual choir.
At the Concert, the HKBU Symphony Orchestra shared the stage with an AI virtual choir to perform a newly arranged choral-orchestral version of the song Pearl of the Orient. Based on the data collected from human singing and speaking, the machine learnt how humans sing, enabling it to express emotions artistically in accordance with the music.
An AI media artist also learnt from the lyrics of the song. Due to the nature of its training, it can associate the underlying meaning of the lyrics with an appreciation of the beauty of Hong Kong, and it used this information to create a cross-media visual narrative which portrayed its aesthetic imagination of the song. As a result, the audience experienced an immersive cross-media performance, and it marked the first time in the world that an AI choir had combined with a machine-generated visual storyteller to perform interactively with a conductor and an orchestra.
Another highlight of the Concert was a ballet performance featuring AI virtual dancers in Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, accompanied live by the HKBU Symphony Orchestra. The AI's ballet movements were inspired by a newly discovered species of box jellyfish in Hong Kong. In collaboration with professional dancers from the Hong Kong Dance Company, the machine has been trained to identify patterns in natural scenery, and it used these patterns to choreograph the ballet. The generated dance was performed by virtual dancers in a natural and artistic way based on the machine's own understanding of the music.
The AI technologies featured in this performance were developed by a team of researchers from HKBU's Augmented Creativity Lab, which is led by Professor Guo Yike, Vice-President (Research and Development) of HKBU. He is also the project leader of a research project entitled "Building Platform Technologies for Symbiotic Creativity in Hong Kong", and it was awarded HK$52.84 million in research funding by the Theme-based Research Scheme (11th round) under the Research Grants Council (RGC) for a period of five years. Professor Johnny M Poon, the deputy project coordinator, is the Founding Dean of HKBU's School of Creative Arts and also the music director and conductor of the HKBU Symphony Orchestra and the Collegium Musicum Hong Kong. The AI-powered performance is one of the most significant milestones of the supporting project.
The Concert also shone a spotlight on the artistic prowess of HKBU's student musicians during the performances of Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28; Borne's Fantaisie brillante sur 'Carmen'; and Lauryn Kurniawan's Rasa for string quartet and gamelan.
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It was win or go home for the Cavs in their matchup against the Western Sierra Collegiate Academy Wolves on Feb. 15. Unfortunately, the girls will be going home after losing, 0-1.
The loss puts the Cavs out of the playoffs while Western Sierra moves on, as the game was a tiebreaker between the two teams.
Not having many players has been a problem for the Cavs. The girls had only 11 players this game, meaning they had no substitutions.
The game was slow-paced, with both teams getting few shots on goal.
The Wolves finally broke the tie in the second half and held onto the lead for the win.
LaComb said the Cavs' game plan was to play defense to compensate for the Wolves' aggressive players.
"We played mostly defense because they had really good offensive players," LaComb said.
Senior Avi Bhullar, one of six seniors on the team, said that her favorite game of the girls' season was their senior night and their second matchup against the Wolves on Jan. 30.
The Cavs finished the season with a 7-4 record overall, 5-4 in league.


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Effects of naltrexone are influenced by childhood adversity during negative emotional processing in addiction recovery
Naltrexone is an opioid receptor antagonist used in the management of alcohol dependence. Although the endogenous opioid system has been implicated in emotion regulation, the effects of mu-opioid receptor blockade on brain systems underlying negative emotional processing are not clear in addiction. Individuals meeting criteria for alcohol dependence alone (n = 18, alcohol) and in combination with cocaine and/or opioid dependence (n = 21, alcohol/drugs) and healthy individuals without a history of alcohol or drug dependence (n = 21) were recruited.
THC reduces the anticipatory nucleus accumbens response to reward in subjects with a nicotine addiction
Recent evidence has implicated the endocannabinoid (eCB) system in nicotine addiction. The eCB system also has an important role in reward mechanisms, and nicotine addiction has been associated with aberrant reward processing. Motivated by this evidence, we tested the hypothesis that eCB modulation of reward processing is altered in subjects with a nicotine addiction (NAD). For this purpose, we compared reward-related activity in NAD with healthy controls (HC) in a pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study using D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) administration to challenge the eCB system.
The brain, obesity and addiction
Obesity is among the greatest challenges facing healthcare systems with 20% of the world's population afflicted. Great controversy exists whether obesity can be regarded as an addictive disorder or not. Recently the Yale Food Addiction Scale questionnaire has been developed as a tool to identify individuals with traits of addiction towards food.
Clinical Potential of an Enzymebased Novel Therapy for Cocaine Overdose
It is a grand challenge to develop a truly effective medication for treatment of cocaine overdose. The current available, practical emergence treatment for cocaine overdose includes administration of a benzodiazepine anticonvulsant agent (e.g. diazepam) and/or physical cooling with an aim to relieve the symptoms. The inherent difficulties of antagonizing physiological effects of drugs in the central nervous system have led to exploring protein-based pharmacokinetic approaches using biologics like vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and enzymes.
Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex in addiction: neuroimaging findings and clinical implications
Abstract | The loss of control over drug intake that occurs in addiction was initially believed to result from disruption of subcortical reward circuits. However, imaging studies in addictive behaviours have identified a key involvement of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) both through its regulation of limbic reward regions and its involvement in higher-order executive function (for example, self-control, salience attribution and awareness). This Review focuses on functional neuroimaging studies conducted in the past decade that have expanded our understanding of the involvement of the PFC in drug addiction. Disruption of the PFC in addiction underlies not only compulsive drug taking but also accounts for the disadvantageous behaviours that are associated with addiction and the erosion of free will.
Food addiction and obesity
The concept of addiction is loaded with connotations and is often used for its political as much as its medical utility. The scientific case for 'food addiction' as a clinical phenotype currently rests on its association with generic diagnostic criteria for substance-related disorders being applied to everyday foods and eating-related problems. This has fused the concept of obesity with addiction regardless of whether it fits the definition.
The Development and Maintenance of Drug Addiction
What is the defining property of addiction? We dust off a several-decades-long debate about the relative importance of two forms of reinforcement—positive reinforcement, subjectively linked to drug-induced euphoria, and negative reinforcement, subjectively linked to the alleviation of pain—both of which figure importantly in addiction theory; each of these forms has dominated addiction theory in its time. We agree that addiction begins with the formation of habits through positive reinforcement and that drug-opposite physiological responses often establish the conditions for negative reinforcement to come into play at a time when tolerance, in the form of increasing reward thresholds, appears to develop into positive reinforcement.
Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Drug addiction represents a major social problem where addicts and alcoholics continue to seek and take drugs despite adverse social, personal, emotional, and legal consequences. A number of pharmacological compounds have been tested in human addicts with the goal of reducing the level or frequency of intake, but these pharmacotherapies have often been of only moderate efficacy or act in a sub-population of humans. Thus, there is a tremendous need for new therapeutic interventions to treat addiction.
Brain Stimulation in Addiction
Localized stimulation of the human brain to treat neuropsychiatric disorders has been in place for over 20 years. Although these methods have been used to a greater extent for mood and movement disorders, recent work has explored brain stimulation methods as potential treatments for addiction. The rationale behind stimulation therapy in addiction involves reestablishing normal brain function in target regions in an effort to dampen addictive behaviors. In this review, we present the rationale and studies investigating brain stimulation in addiction, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation, and deep brain stimulation.


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Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca Actor, Dead at 74
Posted 8:29 am, May 3, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
The family of Peter Mayhew announced Thursday that the actor died Tuesday at the age of 74.
Mayhew played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, episode three of the prequels and the new trilogy, and consulted on "The Last Jedi" to teach his successor.
"He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca, and it showed in every frame of the films, from his knock-kneed running, firing his bowcaster from the hip, his bright blue eyes, down to each subtle movement of his head and mouth," his family said in a statement. "But to him, the Star Wars family meant so much more than a role in a film."
The family of Peter Mayhew, with deep love and sadness, regrets to share the news that Peter has passed away. He left us the evening of April 30, 2019 with his family by his side in his North Texas home. pic.twitter.com/YZ5VLyuK0u
— Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars) May 2, 2019
He is survived by his wife Angie and his three children. Angie will take the helm of the Peter Mayhew Foundation.
A memorial service will be held for family and friends on June 29, and a memorial will be set up for fans in early December in Los Angeles.
In lieu of gifts and flowers, his family asks that well-wishers donate to his foundation so they can continue his efforts to help the community. You can donate here.
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Dubois Bibliography
Du Bois, W. E. B. (23 February 1868–27 August 1963), African-American activist, historian, and sociologist, was born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Silvina Burghardt, a domestic worker, and Alfred Du Bois, a barber and itinerant laborer. In later life Du Bois made a close study of his family origins, weaving them rhetorically and conceptually—if not always accurately—into almost everything he wrote. Born in Haiti and descended from Bahamian mulatto slaves, Alfred Du Bois enlisted during the Civil War as a private in a New York regiment of the Union army but appears to have deserted shortly afterward. He also deserted the family less than two years after his son's birth, leaving him to be reared by his mother and the extended Burghardt kin. Long resident in New England, the Burghardts descended from a freedman of Dutch slave origin who had fought briefly in the American Revolution. Under the care of his mother and her relatives, young Will Du Bois spent his entire childhood in that small western Massachusetts town, where probably fewer than two-score of the 4,000 inhabitants were African American. He received a classical, college preparatory education in Great Barrington's racially integrated high school, from whence, in June 1884, he became the first African-American graduate. A precocious youth, Du Bois not only excelled in his high school studies but contributed numerous articles to two regional newspapers, the Springfield Republican and the black-owned New York Globe, then edited by T. Thomas Fortune.
In high school Du Bois came under the influence of and received mentorship from the principal, Frank Hosmer, who encouraged his extensive reading and solicited scholarship aid from local worthies that enabled Du Bois to enroll at Fisk University in September 1885, six months after his mother's death. One of the best of the southern colleges for newly freed slaves founded after the Civil War, Fisk offered a continuation of his classical education and the strong influence of teachers who were heirs to New England and Western Reserve (Ohio) abolitionism. It also offered the northern-reared Du Bois an introduction to southern American racism and African-American culture. His later writings and thought were strongly marked, for example, by his experiences teaching school in the hills of eastern Tennessee during the summers of 1886 and 1887.
In 1888 Du Bois enrolled at Harvard as a junior. He received a B.A. cum laude, in 1890, an M.A. in 1891, and a Ph.D. in 1895. Du Bois was strongly influenced by the new historical work of German-trained Albert Bushnell Hart and the philosophical lectures of William James, both of whom became friends and professional mentors. Other intellectual influences came with his studies and travels between 1892 and 1894 in Germany, where he was enrolled at the Friedrich-Wilhelm III Universität (then commonly referred to as the University of Berlin but renamed the Humboldt University after World War II). Because of the expiration of the Slater Fund fellowship that supported his stay in Germany, Du Bois could not meet the residency requirements that would have enabled him formally to stand for the degree in economics, despite his completion of the required doctoral thesis (on the history of southern U.S. agriculture) during his tenure. Returning to the United States in the summer of 1894, Du Bois taught classics and modern languages for two years at Wilberforce University in Ohio. While there, he met Nina Gomer, a student at the college, whom he married in 1896 at her home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The couple had two children. By the end of his first year at Wilberforce, Du Bois had completed his Harvard doctoral thesis, "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870," which was published in 1896 as the inaugural volume of the Harvard Historical Studies series.
Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1946.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-42528).
Social Studies of African American Life
Although he had written his Berlin thesis in economic history, received his Harvard doctorate in history, and taught languages and literature at Wilberforce, Du Bois made some of his most important early intellectual contributions to the emerging field of sociology. In 1896 he was invited by the University of Pennsylvania to conduct a study of the seventh ward in Philadelphia. There, after an estimated 835 hours of door-to-door interviews in 2,500 households, Du Bois completed the monumental study, The Philadelphia Negro (1899). The Philadelphia study was both highly empirical and hortatory, a combination that prefigured much of the politically engaged scholarship that Du Bois pursued in the years that followed and that reflected the two main strands of his intellectual engagement during this formative period: the scientific study of the so-called Negro Problem and the appropriate political responses to it. While completing his fieldwork in Philadelphia, Du Bois delivered to the Academy of Political and Social Science in November 1896 an address, "The Study of the Negro Problem," methodological manifesto on the purposes and appropriate methods for scholarly examination of the condition of black people. In March 1897, addressing the newly founded American Negro Academy in Washington, D.C., he outlined for his black intellectual colleagues, in "The Conservation of the Races," both a historical sociology and theory of race as a concept and a call to action in defense of African-American culture and identity. During the following July and August he undertook for the U.S. Bureau of Labor the first of several studies of southern African-American households, which was published as a bureau bulletin the following year under the title The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia: A Social Study. During that same summer, Atlantic Monthly published the essay "The Strivings of the Negro People," a slightly revised version of which later opened The Souls of Black Folk (1903).
Together these works frame Du Bois's evolving conceptualization of, methodological approach to, and political values and commitments regarding the problem of race in America. His conceptions were historical and global, his methodology empirical and intuitive, his values and commitments involving both mobilization of an elite vanguard to address the issues of racism and the conscious cultivation of the values to be drawn from African-American folk culture.
After the completion of the Philadelphia study in December 1897, Du Bois began the first of two long tenures at Atlanta University, where he taught sociology and directed empirical studies—modeled loosely on his Philadelphia and Farmville work—of the social and economic conditions and cultural and institutional lives of southern African Americans. During this first tenure at Atlanta he also wrote two more books, The Souls of Black Folk, a collection of poignant essays on race, labor, and culture, and John Brown (1909), an impassioned interpretation of the life and martyrdom of the militant abolitionist. He also edited two short-lived magazines, Moon (1905–1906) and Horizon (1907–1910), which represented his earliest efforts to establish journals of intellectual and political opinion for a black readership.
With the publication of Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois emerged as the most prominent spokesperson for the opposition to Booker T. Washington's policy of political conservatism and racial accommodation. Ironically, Du Bois had kept a prudent distance from Washington's opponents and had made few overt statements in opposition to the so-called Wizard of Tuskegee. In fact, his career had involved a number of near-misses whereby he himself might have ended up teaching at Tuskegee. Having applied to Washington for a job shortly after returning from Berlin, he had to decline Tuskegee's superior monetary offer because he had already accepted a position at Wilberforce. On a number of other occasions Washington—sometimes prodded by Albert Bushnell Hart—sought to recruit Du Bois to join him at Tuskegee, a courtship he continued at least until the summer of 1903, when Du Bois taught summer school at Tuskegee. Early in his career, moreover, Du Bois's views bore a superficial similarity to Washington's. In fact, he had praised Washington's 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, which proposed to southern white elites a compromise wherein blacks would forswear political and civil rights in exchange for economic opportunities. Like many elite blacks at the time, Du Bois was not averse to some form of franchise restriction, so long as it was based on educational qualifications and applied equally to white and black. Du Bois had been charged with overseeing the African American Council's efforts to encourage black economic enterprise and worked with Washington's partisans in that effort. By his own account his overt rupture with Washington was sparked by the growing evidence of a conspiracy, emanating from Tuskegee, to dictate speech and opinion in all of black America and to crush any opposition to Washington's leadership. After the collapse of efforts to compromise their differences through a series of meetings in 1904, Du Bois joined William Monroe Trotter and other Washington opponents to form the Niagara Movement, an organization militantly advocating full civil and political rights for African Americans.
Establishment of the NAACP (1910)
Although it enjoyed some success in articulating an alternative vision of how black Americans should respond to the growing segregation and racial violence of the early twentieth century, the Niagara Movement was fatally hampered by lack of funds and the overt and covert opposition of Washington and his allies. Indeed, the vision and program of the movement were fully realized only with the founding of a new biracial organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The NAACP grew out of the agitation and a 1909 conference called to protest the deteriorating status of and escalating violence against black Americans. Racial rioting in August 1908 in Springfield, Illinois, the home of Abraham Lincoln, sparked widespread protest among blacks and liberal whites appalled at the apparent spread of southern violence and lynch law into northern cities. Although its officers made some initial efforts to maintain a détente with Booker T. Washington, the NAACP represented a clear opposition to his policy of accommodation and political quietism. It launched legal suits, legislative lobbying, and propaganda campaigns that embodied uncompromising, militant attacks on lynching, Jim Crow, and disfranchisement. In 1910 Du Bois left Atlanta to join the NAACP as an officer, its only black board member, and to edit its monthly magazine, the Crisis.
As editor of the Crisis Du Bois finally established the journal of opinion that had so long eluded him, one that could serve as a platform from which to reach a larger audience among African Americans and one that united the multiple strands of his life's work. In its monthly issues he rallied black support for NAACP policies and programs and excoriated white opposition to equal rights. But he also opened the journal to discussions of diverse subjects related to race relations and black cultural and social life, from black religion to new poetic works. The journal's cover displayed a rich visual imagery embodying the sheer diversity and breadth of the black presence in America. Thus the journal constituted, simultaneously, a forum for multiple expressions of and the coherent representation and enactment of black intellectual and cultural life. A mirror for and to black America, it inspired a black intelligentsia and its public.
From his vantage as an officer of the NAACP, Du Bois also furthered another compelling intellectual and political interest, Pan-Africanism. He had attended the first conference on the global condition of peoples of African descent in London in 1900. Six other gatherings followed between 1911 and 1945, including the First Universal Races Congress in London in 1911, and Pan-African congresses held in Paris in 1919; London, Brussels, and Paris in 1921; London and Lisbon in 1923; New York City in 1927; and in Manchester, England, in 1945. Each conference focused in some fashion on the fate of African colonies in the postwar world, but the political agendas of the earliest meetings were often compromised by the ideological and political entanglements of the elite delegates chosen to represent the African colonies. Jamaican black nationalist Marcus Garvey enjoyed greater success in mobilizing a mass base for his version of Pan-Africanism and posed a substantial ideological and political challenge to Du Bois. Deeply suspicious of Garvey's extravagance and flamboyance, Du Bois condemned his scheme to collect funds from African Americans to establish a shipping line that would aid their "return" to Africa, his militant advocacy of racial separatism, and his seeming alliance with the Ku Klux Klan. Although he played no role in the efforts to have Garvey jailed and eventually deported for mail fraud, Du Bois was not sorry to see him go. (In 1945, however, Du Bois joined Garvey's widow, Amy Jacques Garvey, and George Padmore to sponsor the Manchester Pan-African conference that demanded African independence.)
The rupture in world history that was World War I and the vast social and political transformations of the decade that followed were reflected in Du Bois's thought and program in other ways as well. During the war he had written "Close Ranks," a controversial editorial in the Crisis (July 1918), which urged African Americans to set aside their grievances for the moment and concentrate their energies on the war effort. In fact, Du Bois and the NAACP fought for officer training and equal treatment for black troops throughout the war, led a silent protest march down Fifth Avenue in 1917 against racism, and in 1919 launched an investigation into charges of discrimination against black troops in Europe. Meanwhile, the unprecedented scope and brutality of the war itself stimulated changes in Du Bois's evolving analyses of racial issues and phenomena. Darkwater: Voices within the Veil (1920) reflects many of these themes, including the role of African colonization and the fundamental role of the international recruitment and subjugation of labor in causing the war and in shaping its aftermath. His visit to Liberia in 1923 and the Soviet Union in 1926, his subsequent study of Marxism, his growing awareness of Freud, and the challenges posed by the Great Depression all brought him to question the NAACP's largely legalistic and propagandistic approach to fighting racism. In the early 1930s Du Bois opened the pages of the Crisis to wide-ranging discussions of the utility of Marxian thought and of racially-based economic cooperatives and other institutions in the fight against race prejudice. This led to increasing antagonism between him and his colleagues at the NAACP, especially executive director Walter White, and to his resignation in June 1934.
Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
Du Bois accepted an appointment as chair of the sociology department at Atlanta University, where he had already been teaching as a visiting professor during the winter of 1934. There he founded and edited a new scholarly journal, Phylon, from 1940 to 1944. There, too, he published his most important historical work, Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880 (1935), and Dusk of Dawn: An Essay toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940), his most engaging and poignant autobiographical essay since Souls of Black Folk. During this period Du Bois continued to be an active lecturer and an interlocutor with young scholars and activists; he also deepened his studies of Marxism and traveled abroad. He sought unsuccessfully to enlist the aid of the Phelps-Stokes Fund in launching his long-dreamed-of project to prepare an encyclopedia of black peoples in Africa and the diaspora. By 1944, however, Du Bois had lost an invaluable supporter and friend with the death of John Hope, the president of Atlanta University, leaving him vulnerable to dismissal following sharp disagreements with Hope's successor.
Far from acceding to a peaceful retirement, however, in 1944 Du Bois (now seventy-six years old) accepted an invitation to return to the NAACP to serve in the newly created post of director of special research. Although the organization was still under the staff direction of Du Bois's former antagonist, Walter White, the 1930s depression and World War II had induced some modifications in the programs and tactics of the NAACP, perhaps in response to challenges raised by Du Bois and other younger critics. It had begun to address the problems of labor as well as legal discrimination, and even the court strategy was becoming much more aggressive and economically targeted. In hiring Du Bois, the board appears to have anticipated that other shifts in its approach would be necessary in the coming postwar era. Clearly it was Du Bois's understanding that his return portended continued study of and agitation around the implications of the coming postwar settlement as it might affect black peoples in Africa and the diaspora, and that claims for the representation of African and African-American interests in that settlement were to be pressed. He represented the NAACP in 1945 as a consultant to the U.S. delegation at the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco. In 1947 he prepared and presented to that organization An Appeal to the World, a 94-page, militant protest against American racism as an international violation of human rights. During this period and in support of these activities he wrote two more books, Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (1945) and The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History (1947), each of which addressed some aspect of European and American responsibilities for justice in the colonial world.
As ever, Du Bois learned from and was responsive to the events and developments of his time. Conflicts with the U.S. delegation to the United Nations (which included Eleanor Roosevelt, who was also a member of the NAACP board) and disillusionment with the evolving role of America as a postwar world power reinforced his growing radicalism and refusal to be confined to a safe domestic agenda. He became a supporter of the leftist Southern Negro Youth Congress at a time of rising hysteria about Communism and the onset of the Cold War. In 1948 he was an active supporter of the Progressive party and Henry Wallace's presidential bid. All of this put him at odds with Walter White and the NAACP board, who were drawn increasingly into collusion with the Harry S. Truman administration and into fierce opposition to any leftist associations. In 1948, after an inconclusive argument over assigning responsibility for a leak to the New York Times of a Du Bois memorandum critical of the organization and its policies, he was forced out of the NAACP for a second time.
The Council on African Affairs
After leaving the NAACP, Du Bois joined the Council on African Affairs, where he chaired the Africa Aid Committee and was active in supporting the early struggle of the African National Congress of South Africa against apartheid. The council had been organized in London in the late 1930s by Max Yergan and Paul Robeson to push decolonization and to educate the general public about that issue. In the postwar period it, too, became tainted by charges of Communist domination and lost many former supporters (including Yergan and Ralph Bunche); it dissolved altogether in 1955. Having linked the causes of decolonialization and antiracism to the fate of peace in a nuclear-armed world, Du Bois helped organize the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in March 1949, was active in organizing its meetings in Paris and Mexico City later that year, and attended its Moscow conference that August. Subsequently this group founded the Peace Information Center in 1950, and Du Bois was chosen to chair its Advisory Council. The center endorsed and promoted the Stockholm Peace Appeal, which called for banning atomic weapons, declaring their use a crime against humanity and demanding international controls. During this year Du Bois, who actively opposed the Korean War and Truman's foreign policy more generally, accepted the nomination of New York's Progressive party to run for the U.S. Senate on the platform "Peace and Civil Rights." Although he lost, his vote total ran considerably ahead of the other candidates on the Progressive ticket.
During the campaign, on 25 August 1950, the officers of the Peace Information Center were directed to register as "agents of a foreign principal" under terms of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938. Their distribution of the Stockholm Appeal, alleged to be a Soviet-inspired manifesto, was the grounds for these charges, although the so-called foreign principal was never specifically identified in the subsequent indictment. Although the center disbanded on 12 October 1950, indictments against its officers, including Du Bois, were handed down on 9 February 1951. Du Bois's lawyers won a crucial postponement of the trial until the following 18 November 1951, by which time national and international opposition to the trial had been mobilized. Given the good fortune of a weak case and a fair judge, Du Bois and his colleagues were acquitted. Meanwhile, following the death of his wife Nina in July 1950, Du Bois married Shirley Graham, the daughter of an old friend, in 1951. Although the union bore no children, David, Shirley's son from an earlier marriage, took Du Bois's surname.
After the trial, Du Bois continued to be active in the American Peace Crusade and received the International Peace Prize from the World Council of Peace in 1953. With Shirley, a militant leftist activist in her own right, he was drawn more deeply into leftist and Communist party intellectual and social circles during the 1950s. He was an unrepentant supporter of and apologist for Josef Stalin, arguing that though Stalin's methods might have been cruel, they were necessitated by unprincipled and implacable opposition from the West and by U.S. efforts to undermine the regime. He was also convinced that American news reports about Stalin and the Soviet bloc were unreliable at best and sheer propaganda or falsehoods at worst. His views do not appear to have been altered by the Soviets' own exposure and condemnation of Stalin after 1956.
From February 1952 to 1958 both W. E. B. and Shirley were denied passports to travel abroad. Thus he could not accept the many invitations to speak abroad or participate in international affairs, including most notably the 1957 independence celebrations of Ghana, the first of the newly independent African nations. When these restrictions were lifted in 1958, the couple traveled to the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China. While in Moscow, Du Bois was warmly received by Nikita Khrushchev, whom he strongly urged to promote the study of African civilization in Russia, a proposal that eventually led to the establishment in 1962 of the Institute for the Study of Africa. While there, he also received the Lenin Peace Prize.
Decision to Move to Ghana
But continued Cold War tensions and their potential impact on his ability to travel and remain active in the future led Du Bois to look favorably on an invitation in May 1961 from Kwame Nkrumah and the Ghana Academy of Sciences to move to Ghana and undertake direction of the preparation of an "Encyclopedia Africana," a project much like one he had long contemplated. Indeed, his passport had been rescinded again after his return from China (travel to that country was barred at the time), and it was only restored after intense lobbying by the Ghanaian government. Before leaving the United States for Ghana on 7 October 1961, Du Bois officially joined the American Communist party, declaring in his 1 October 1961 letter of application that it and socialism were the only viable hope for black liberation and world peace. His desire to travel and work freely also prompted his decision two years later to become a citizen of Ghana.
In some sense these actions brought full circle some of the key issues that had animated Du Bois's life. Having organized his life's work around the comprehensive, empirically grounded study of what had once been called the Negro Problem, he ended his years laboring on an interdisciplinary and global publication that might have been the culmination and symbol of that ambition: to document the experience and historical contributions of African peoples in the world. Having witnessed the formal détente among European powers by which the African continent was colonized in the late nineteenth century, he lived to taste the fruits of the struggle to decolonize it in the late twentieth century and to become a citizen of the first new African nation. Having posed at the end of the nineteenth century the problem of black identity in the diaspora, he appeared to resolve the question in his own life by returning to Africa. Undoubtedly the most important modern African-American intellectual, Du Bois virtually invented modern African-American letters and gave form to the consciousness animating the work of practically all other modern African-American intellectuals to follow. He authored seventeen books, including five novels; founded and edited four different journals; and pursued two full-time careers: scholar and political organizer. But more than that, he reshaped how the experience of America and African America could be thought; he made us know both the complexity of who black Americans have been and are, and why it matters; and he left Americans—black and white—a legacy of intellectual tools, a language with which they might analyze their present and imagine a future.
From late 1961 to 1963 Du Bois lived a full life in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, working on the encyclopedia, taking long drives in the afternoon, and entertaining its political elite and the small colony of African Americans during the evenings at the comfortable home the government had provided him. Du Bois died the day before his American compatriots assembled for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was a conjuncture more than rich with historical symbolism. It was the beginning of the end of the era of segregation that had shaped so much of Du Bois's life, but it was also the beginning of a new era when "the Negro Problem" could not be confined to separable terrains of the political, economic, domestic, or international, or to simple solutions such as integration or separatism, rights or consciousness. The life and work of Du Bois had anticipated and pointed toward this necessary synthesis of diverse terrains and solutions. On 29 August 1963 Du Bois was interred in a state funeral outside Castle Osu, formerly a holding pen for the slave cargoes bound for America.
Sociologist, Activist, Author (23-Feb-1868 — 27-Aug-1963)
SUBJECT OF BOOKS
Derrick P. Alridge. The Educational Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History. New York: Teachers College Press. . 189pp.
William L. Andrews (editor). Critical Essays on W. E. B. Du Bois. Boston: G. K. Hall. . 255pp.
Herbert Apthecker (editor). The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois: Volume I, Selections, 1877-1934. University of Massachusetts Press. . 507pp.
Herbert Apthecker (editor). The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois: Volume 2, Selections, 1934 - 1944.. University of Massachusetts Press. . 419pp.
Herbert Apthecker (editor). The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois: Volume 3, Selections, 1877-1934. University of Massachusetts Press. . 510pp.
Herbert Aptheker. Annotated Bibliography of the Published Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois. Millwood, NY: Kraus-Thomson. . 626pp.
Murali Balaji. The Professor and the Pupil: The Politics and Friendship of W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson. New York: Nation Books. . 512pp.
Harold Bloom. W. E. B. Du Bois. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publ.. . 271pp.
Edward J. Blum. W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet. University of Pennsylvania Press. . 273pp.
W. E. B. Du Bois. In Battle for Peace: The Story of My 83rd Birthday. New York: Masses & Mainstream. . 198pp.
W. E. B. Du Bois. The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life From the Last Decade of its First Century. New York: International Publishers. . 448pp.
Francis L. Broderick. W. E. B. Du Bois: Negro Leader in a Time of Crisis. Stanford University Press. . 259pp.
Keith E. Byerman. Seizing the Word: History, Art, and Self in the Work of W. E. B. Du Bois. University of Georgia Press. . 243pp.
James L. Conyers, Jr. (editor). Reevaluting the Pan-Africanism of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey: Escapist Fantasy or Relevant Reality. Edwin Mellen Press. . 300pp.
Stanley Crouch. Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk: Thoughts on the Groundbreaking Classic Work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers. . 256pp.
Chester Fontenot (editor). W. E. B. Du Bois and Race: Essays Celebrating the Centennial Publication of the Souls of Black Folk. Mercer University Press. . 198pp.
Mary Keller and Chester J Fontenot. Re-cognizing [sic] W. E. B. Du Bois in the Twenty-First Century. Mercer University Press. . 254pp.
Gerald Horne. Black and Red: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963. State University of New York Press. . 457pp.
Gerald Horne. Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois. New York University Press. . 363pp. Biography of W. E. B. Du Bois' second wife.
Brian Johnson. W. E. B. Du Bois: Toward Agnosticism, 1868-1934. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. . 141pp.
Amy Helene Kirschke. Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory. Indiana University Press. . 284pp.
Richard Kostelanetz. Politics in the African-American Novel: James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. . 200pp.
Julius Lester. The Seventh Son: The Thought and Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Random House. . 576pp.
David L. Lewis. W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. New York: Henry Holt & Co.. . 715pp.
David L. Lewis. W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963. New York: Henry Holt & Company. . 715pp.
David L. Lewis. W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt and Co.. . 893pp.
Rayford W. Logan. W. E. B. Du Bois: A Profile. New York: Hill and Wang. . 324pp.
Manning Marable. W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat. Boston: Twayne. . 285pp.
Henry Lee Moon. The Emerging Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois: Essays and Editorials from The Crisis. New York: Simon and Schuster. . 440pp.
Jacqueline M. Moore. Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources. . 194pp.
Wilson Jeremiah Moses. Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey. Cambridge University Press. . 326pp.
Paul G. Partington. W. E. B. Du Bois: A Bibliography of His Published Writings. Whittier, CA: (self-published). . 202pp. Contains 2377 items.
Reiland Rabaka. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. . 277pp.
Adolph L. Reed. W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line. Oxford University Press. . 296pp.
Elliott O. Rudsick. W. E. B. Du Bois: Propagandist of the Negro Protest. University of Pennsylvania Press. . 390pp. Alternate title, W. E. B. Du Bois: A Study in Minority Group Leadership
Michael B. Katz and Thomas J. Sugrue (editor). W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy. University of Pennsylvania Press. . 288pp.
William M. Tuttle. W. E. B. Du Bois. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. . 186pp.
Susan Kay Gillman and Alys Eve Weinbaum. Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois. University of Minnesota Press. . 432pp.
Meyer Weinberg (editor). The World of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Quotation Sourcebook. Greenwood Press. . 282pp.
David L Lewis and Deborah Willis. A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African-American Portraits of Progress. New York: Amistad. . 208pp.
Raymond Wolters. Du Bois and his Rivals. University of Missouri Press. . 311pp.
Edward J Blum and Jason R Young. The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois: New Essays and Reflections. Mercer University Press. . 281pp.
Gerald Horne and Mary Young. W. E. B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press. . 250pp.
Shamoon Zamir. The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois. Cambridge University Press. . 192pp.
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Smith's Burying Ground was established in 1814 when John Smith (born 1742), Revolutionary War veteran, died and was buried here. John Smith and four of his sons and their families made the six week, six-hundred-mile journey from New Jersey with ox teams the previous year. John Clouse (1758-1822), Dutch immigrant and Revolutionary War veteran, is also buried here.
The D.A.R. biography reads: "When a boy he ran away from home and stole passage on a ship to America where he was sold for his passage. When the Revolution broke out, he was offered his freedom if he would serve in the army." John Clouse moved his family from western Maryland to Fairfield County about 1805 and to Plain Township in 1814. Also buried here is Julia Landon, sister-in-law of Noble Landon who was a co-founder of New Albany in 1837.
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Robert Sanders is program manager and supervisory counselor at the South Suburban Housing Center in Homewood.
In the last couple of years, South Suburban Housing Center's distressed mortgage assistance program has helped 23 Southland homeowners avoid foreclosure, according to the group.
Among them is 69-year-old Riverdale resident Linda, who didn't want her last name revealed. When her income dropped after she retired, she fell eight months behind on her nearly $1,400 monthly mortgage, she said.
"I had applied for a modification and got turned down," she said. She was in foreclosure when she approached the center for help.
"My back was against the wall," she said.
The center provided her with a $15,000 grant to get caught up and financial counseling.
She has since been able to refinance and lower her monthly mortgage payment to a manageable $980 a month.
The program is designed for the most distressed homeowners in the south suburbs, said Robert Sanders, program manager and supervisory counselor at the center's Homewood office.
A homeowner will need to have explored other alternatives such as a modification or repayment plan and have been turned down, he said.
A homeowner also must have just one property, and the past due payments have to be related to their first mortgage, property taxes or association fees.
"They have to have a verifiable hardship that is due to no fault of their own, such as a reduction in income or termination from employment," or they have become disabled, Sanders said.
Funding for the program comes from a $1.42 million settlement the center received several years ago from Wells Fargo. The complaint alleged discrimination by the lender in the maintenance of bank-owned foreclosed homes in African-American and Hispanic communities.
Homeowners in need of assistance from the program must schedule an appointment with the center and go through an intake process to determine if they are eligible. Sanders said if homeowners aren't eligible for this program, there may be other options for help. He advises those who are behind on their mortgage or at risk of falling behind to contact housing counseling agencies that are certified by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for assistance.
"It's better to have the conversation sooner rather than later," he said.
That advice also can apply to homeowners who aren't at risk of foreclosure but owe more than their homes are worth.
The federal Home Affordable Refinance Program known as HARP is set to expire at the end of the year.
The program, which was established in 2009, enables borrowers with little or no equity who are current on their mortgages and who have loans owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac to refinance into lower interest rates that can save them money on their monthly payments.
To be eligible, the mortgage must have originated on or before May 31, 2009, and borrowers must owe at least 80 percent of what the house is worth. In other words, the loan to value ratio must be 80 percent or greater. Homeowners must have no 30-day plus late payments in the last six months and no more than one in the past year.
Significant changes were made in the program since it was introduced, including the elimination of a ceiling on the loan to value ratio for borrowers refinancing into a fixed-rate mortgage. Property appraisal requirements have been waived in certain circumstances, and certain fees borrowers previously faced for selecting shorter loan terms under the program were eliminated, according to HARP.gov.
To find out if Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac owns or guarantees a mortgage, homeowners can visit HARP.gov. The site also lists some HARP lenders. Borrowers also can contact their lender for such information, said Ana Garcia, senior home lending advisor with Chase Bank in Berwyn. She said eligible homeowners can reap significant savings through lower rates and shorter terms.
She noted she has seen a pickup in HARP inquiries since October as the deadline to apply nears.
Chase has helped 80,000 Illinois homeowners refinance through HARP and 1.2 million nationwide, according to bank spokesman Brian Hanover.
As of October, since HARP's inception, nearly 3.5 million homeowners refinanced with lenders through HARP nationally, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Consumers considering HARP solicitation offers should be cautious. Valid offers won't require an upfront fee for services, notes the agency. If consumers are concerned that an offer may not be legitimate, they should contact their lenders before responding to third party companies that advertise themselves as mortgage experts or foreclosure specialists, advises the agency.


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Atlanta United Midfielder Miguel Almirón Voted MLS Player of the Month presented by EA SPORTS™
NEW YORK (Thursday, May 3, 2018) – Atlanta United midfielder Miguel Almirón was voted the MLS Player of the Month presented by EA SPORTS™ by members of the media for the month of April of the 2018 MLS season.
The 24-year-old Designated Player tallied a league-leading five goals to go along with two assists, propelling Atlanta United to an undefeated 3-0-1 April record. This season Almirón is tied for first in MLS with six goals and his four assists are tied for fourth-most in 2018. Atlanta currently maintains a seven-game unbeaten streak and sits second in the Eastern Conference with 19 points (6-1-1 overall record).
Almirón began the month with an assist (Watch Assist) and a pair of penalty kick goals (Watch Goal) in Atlanta's 5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Football Club on April 7 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Watch Goal). The Paraguay National Team midfielder followed that performance with an assist on Chris McCann's goal in a 2-2 draw with New York City FC on April 15 (Watch Assist).
Named 2017 MLS Newcomer of the Year, the midfielder continued a strong run of play with a penalty kick goal in Atlanta's 2-0 victory over the LA Galaxy at StubHub Center on April 21 (Watch Goal). Almirón rounded out the month with his second multi-goal performance of the season in a 4-1 victory over the Montreal Impact on April 28 at home. A penalty kick goal in the 70th minute served as the equalizer (Watch Goal), while Almirón's 83rd-minute score put the match out of reach for Atlanta (Watch Goal).
Atlanta United return to action on Saturday, May 5 to face the Chicago Fire at Toyota Park (8:30 p.m. ET, TSN1 / TSN3 / TSN4 / TSN5 / ESPN+).
MLS Player of the Month presented by EA SPORTS™ is voted upon by a panel of select national media members in a process conducted by MLS Communications.
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Major e-commerce retailers start the race in Asia. JD.com Inc in China is in talks with Thailand's Central Group to launch an e-commerce joint venture in Thailand with a planned total investment of $500 million. Meanwhile Alibaba and Amazon are trying to increase competition while suggesting new services.
JD.com deal will help China's second largest e-commerce retailer to expand its overseas business in Southeast Asia where rivals Alibaba Group Holding and Amazon have just presented a quick delivery service in Singapore.
It is known that JD.com plans to enter the Thai market later this year and use Thailand as a hub to service other countries in the region such as Vietnam and Malaysia, JD.com chief executive Richard Liu told Reuters in June.
The joint venture with Central Group, owned by the billionaire Chirathivat family, Thailand's third-richest, will focus on e-commerce and finance sectors. The deal has yet to be finalized as the companies are unable to agree on ownership terms, two sources said. While asked JD.com declined to comment on the joint venture and Central Group did not respond to requests for comment.
The joint venture will be another attempt by Central Group to penetrate the country's fast-growing e-commerce market, after it purchased the Thai arm of online fashion retailer Zalora last year.
Thailand's e-commerce market, valued at $900 million, is expected to grow 29 per cent over the next 10 years, according to a report from Google and Temasek published in 2016.
The same report estimated that the e-commerce market in Southeast Asia, a region of around 600 million, will soar 16-fold to $88 billion by 2025.
For JD.com, the investment in Thailand would come after it ended talks last month to invest in Indonesian online retailer Tokopedia, which instead raised $1.1 billion from a group of investors including Alibaba, reported Reuters.
In plans – broaden sales channels
JD.com Inc on Thursday said it has reached a deal to sell goods through the popular browser, search engine and app store of Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd, as China's second-biggest e-commerce firm seeks new ways to attract users.
JD said it will share data with Qihoo 360 in a similar way to partnerships with Tencent Holding Ltd, Baidu Inc and news feed app Toutiao, as it broadens sales channels to overcome the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
However Unlike its bigger rival, JD chose to compete in a different way. It has invested heavily in storage and logistics leaving it struggling for profitability, adding importance to original means of winning customers.
JD became partners with social media giant Tencent three years ago and revealed that success of the partnership in draw them to do mre deals like that, for example, with search engine provider Baidu earlier this month.
Accelerating revenue growth has pushed its shares up 66 per cent this year. On a quarterly basis, 25 to 35 per cent of new users come from its Tencent partnership, JD said this month – a number that rises to about 50 per cent during the annual "Singles' Day" sale.
JD said the latest deal will see goods from its e-commerce site advertised on Qihoo apps, and allow users to make purchases without leaving the apps. The arrangement is similar to previous deals where users can purchase goods through Tencent's WeChat app and Baidu's search, forum and mapping apps.
One app for everything
Because of specific audience in China, app makers and analysts have been forced to orientate to less but multifunctional apps.
"Chinese users do not really like to go to different apps. They like to stay in one place to do everything," said Paul Yan, JD's digital advertising and marketing specialist.
Unlike Western counterparts such as Facebook Inc's WhatsApp, the online provider WeChat has its own ecosystem of internal mini-apps, including online shopping, taxi booking and payment system that is almost universally accepted in Chinese cities.
"Western users are accustomed going to different sites for different services," Yan said. "Chinese users, they pick one place they trust and they want to do everything there."
It is announced that over a third of WeChat users were active for over four hours a day in 2016, Tencent data showed, while Toutiao said the average user spent 76 minutes in its app. By comparison, Facebook has said its users spend 50 minutes on its site and Messenger.
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Like pyukumuku at the prerelease I actually used a dragonair as well(not dragonite). Dragons wish the only thing dragonair is good for is an amazing attack. With something to make dragonair not so delicate you can be attaching a lot of energy. Find your professors letters super rods and get as many energy in your hand as possible than use dragons wish and attach them all to any pokemon of your choosing. With vikavolt you can attach an extreme amount of your energy. If dragonair gets knocked out it does not matter you set up massively and that is what matters. Knocking out dragonair after a single or two dragons wishes will unleash a flood of power from your bench. M mewtwo would sweep anything. You could use dragonair to turn the game around literally. This is a card that if used right could be a massive threat for any team.
Or you could knockout the Dratini before it becomes a Dragonair. Dragonair is bad.
Could work. I like your deck concepts.
Also whats with people pointing out obvious counters? Every setup can be destroyed with the right check so why try to immediately name a counter to discourage this. This player has an idea and wanted to know others thoughts on the matter.
It's pretty clear we all have an understanding of the meta so when ideas come up like this, instead of saying x beats y, or x card does that, why not contribute to the idea? This isn't the yugioh community right?
Honestly, do i think the card will see a lot of play? No.
Do i think a deck can be made with this card? Definitely.
Does a deck like this with the right engine become popular?
Holy s****, this thing is broken can't believe I skimmed over it, building a deck on it right now, turbo dark is great again guys, shush I'm building a wall, what is this madness, wtf is going on, [c] to play every card in your hand, gimmi 4 shaymin and a kingdra-EX, y r smashanslash n' jirachi13 hating on this, idk?
How do you A) plan on getting it out without dieting, and B) keep it alive?


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Using Data Visualization in the Energy Futures Lab
By Nancy CruzJanuary 5, 2016Latest News
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Stay tuned for the official launch of the Energy System Visualization site in mid-January!
I'm Steve Williams and I am an Information Designer for the Energy Futures Lab. I'm working on how the EFL uses data – how we can use existing data for decision making, how we can visualize and make sense of the data we have, and how we can develop new data and insights into Alberta's energy system.
There is a significant amount of information about the Alberta energy system online, in databases, in academic journals, on government websites and on corporate pages. Despite efforts to collect data on everything from oils sands extraction rates to air quality measurements, more data doesn't necessarily lead to better decisions. Decision makers, whether they be in policy or business, need strong and objective analyses to underpin conversations about such a complex, interconnected subject like energy transition.
So what do we mean when we talk about visualizing data? Data visualization can be everything from simple charts and graphs, to infographics (illustrating numbers in a highly visual format) to system maps (showing the relationship between parts of a system), simulations and interactive games that let us test future choices and directions.
So why is the Energy Futures Lab so interested in looking at data in these ways? Here are our top 3 reasons:
Visualizations give Fellows the ability to test theories and rapidly prototype ideas. Our energy system is big and complex. Testing new ideas and innovations in the "real world" can take a long time and be very expensive. Simulating different ideas and scenarios with data can help narrow in on promising policy or technical innovations.
Simulations can expose assumptions and instead allow conversations informed by objective data. We all are susceptible to confirmation bias (retaining information that confirms our beliefs and ignoring opposing views). Sometimes, we need to be reminded of alternative views. Visualizing let's us see the bigger picture and make decisions that go beyond a single element.
No single number or chart exists in a vacuum – they tell a story, they are part of a narrative. Understanding the stories the data tells us, and how that relates to narratives of energy in Alberta, gives us insight into potential innovation areas or market opportunities.
While there is a massive amount of data out there, it is fragmented and disconnected which makes it hard to see the whole system. No one seems to have an overall view of how the Alberta energy system works as a whole. We need to take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding, measuring and balancing the economic, environmental, technical and policy components of our energy system.
There is a great benefit to bringing this information together in one place – organized, categorized and linked. That's where the upcoming Energy System Visualization site comes in!
We are bringing together 40 different visual representations of the Alberta energy system and categorizing this data by energy source type, level of interactivity and more. We'll be following up with new data sets and visualizations and analysis each month.
The Energy System Visualization site will give both our Energy Futures Lab Fellows and Canadians alike the knowledge they need to make informed contributions to the energy system transition. Stay tuned for the official launch of the Energy System Visualization site in mid-January!
Steve Williams is a technology strategist designing and facilitating participant-driven public engagement events with over 20 years experience in the software industry


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"Overall, we had a great stay in this hotel."
Its a modern Hotel with nice staff, good rooms and a great breakfast. This Hotel is located a little bit out of the city center but this isn't so bad, because the next metro station is located only approx. 8- 10min by foot.
This hotel suited me as it was close to a function I was attending and was good value for money. It is a 10 minute walk to the nearest metro and close to a Tesco store but that is about it. The Breakfast was limited,lukewarm and the same every day. There was a good choice of cereals, fruit and bread but no toaster.
This hotel should not be rated 4 star, no mini bar and no concierge service to help with luggage. Beds are very lousy and pillows are even worst. No slippers available in the room. It's approximitly 20 min walk distance to the nearest metro station and it's located between old and empty buildings. We stayed for 3 nights and the day before we checked out they didn't even put toliate paper.
Overall, we had a great stay in this hotel. Its very new, tastefully furnished and the staff were all very helpful. Highly recommended.
It was a comfortable stay and value for money. It is near a shopping center and train station.
Hotel ist vom Preis Leistung ein sehr gutes Hotel. Einzig was fehlte war ein kleiner Kühlschrank mit Getränken. Im Zimmer. Ein Warmwasserkocher mit Instandkaffee und Tee war vorhanden. Zimmer sauber und ruhig gelegen. In ca. 200 Meter ein 24 Stunden Tesco Supermarkt. Das Frühstücksbüffet ist Spitzenklasse und mehr als übrig. Selbst für mich als Sportler der auf strenge Diät achtet war vieles da!!! Hotel absolut zu empfehlen und werde es wieder buchen wenn ich in Budapest bin.
Das Personal war zu jeder Zeit überaus freundlich und hilfsbereit. Das Essen war sagenhaft schmackhaft und eine opulente Auswahl. Und all das in einer hervorragenden Lage. Exzellent für Geschäftsreisen!
En bit ifrån city, men med 10 min gångväg till Metron och därefter åka tunnelbanan i ca 10 min så är man inne i city. Helt ok. Ca 25-30 min med taxi från flygplatsen-ca 8000-8500 HUF enkel resa.