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Modern Negro Art	By Baker, Marissa H.
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Modern Negro Art by James A. Porter (1905–1970) is a ground-breaking historical study of African American art from slavery to the early 20th century. The first major text of its kind following Alain Locke's The New Negro (1925), it was the main source of information on African American artists until comparable historical surveys were published in the 1970s. The book presents an overview of artists' biographies with analysis of the style and subject matter of their work. The chapter "The New Negro Movement" lays out Porter's main argument against Locke's well-established racialist position. Locke advocated for the development of a "Negro art' that would counter negative stereotypes and present a more appealing image of the New Negro to American society. Countering Locke, Porter argued that seeking to "exploit the 'racial concept'" limited the potential expression of African American artists. Instead he advocated for a treatment of African American art as already integral to the history of American art. Rejecting Locke's emphasis on an African ancestral heritage, Porter demonstrated the historical development of African American art in North America from slavery to the early 20th century. His research and thorough attention to overlooked African American artists remain the book's most vital contributions to the field of art history, and accounts for the book's continuing impact.
Baker, Marissa H. "Modern Negro Art	." The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. : Taylor and Francis, 2016. Date Accessed 17 Jul. 2019 https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/modern-negro-art. doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM863-1
Baker, M.(2016). Modern Negro Art	. In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. : Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 17 Jul. 2019, from https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/modern-negro-art. doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM863-1
Baker, M. 2016, 'Modern Negro Art	' in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Taylor and Francis, viewed 17 July 2019, <https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/modern-negro-art>. doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM863-1
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Q: Traffic drop after HTTPS Magento we have a Magento store, that we switched to https. Now 2 weeks after, we got a drop about 30%... What could be the cause?
I followed every step that was recommended.
I requested a reindex via search console and put a redirect into .htaccess.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Did i missed out something? Our site: https://www.richhome.de/
Many Thanks
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I put in this lines into my htaccess:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE]

and also set System > Configuration > Web > url_options > "Auto-redirect to Base URL = No"
Now it redirects properly...
The question is will the Traffic recover?

A: It seems that you have both https://richhome.de/ and https://www.richhome.de/ configured. So the drop in traffic could be a result of your tracking only one of these two domains.
Anyway it's not nice to have two domains delivering the same content. Google for example treats this as Duplicate content which is not good.
To do this you have to alter your apache2 config:
In your apache2 virtual host config for port 443 (which you didn't post) define only Servername richhome.de and remove the ServerAlias www.richhome.de:
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName richhome.de
    ServerAdmin root@localhost
    # ServerAlias www.richhome.de

    # …
</VirtualHost>

Then add another <VirtualHost *:443> to redirect the www-domain to your main domain:
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName www.richhome.de
    Redirect permanent / https://richhome.de/
    SSLEngine On
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/richhome.de.crt
    # …
</VirtualHost>

You have to add the same SSL directives as the ones that letsencrypt added to the VirtualHost file for 'richhome.de'.
Before restarting apache do a config check
apachectl configtest

If you get the output Syntax OK then restart the webserver:
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Every request for https://www.richhome.de/ should now be redcirected to https://richhome.de/ making tracking easier and avoiding duplicate content.

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Willie Jewell's Opens Fifth Store in Augusta, Georgia
Willie Jewell's Old School Bar-B-Q, the fast-casual spinoff from the 67-year veteran Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q concept, is poised for expansion. Willie Jewell's will be opening its newest location in Augusta, Georgia, on February 2. This will be the fifth location in the growing concept, which will now have restaurants in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. In addition, multiunit deals have been signed with groups for the Atlanta, Georgia, and Manchester, New Hampshire, markets.
Willie Jewell's Old School Bar-B-Q was created by Joe Adeeb and Josh Martino, CEO and president, respectively, of Bono's and Willie Jewell's. The fast-casual concept has a smaller footprint and a less expensive check average, but will still smoke all of its barbecue the old-fashioned way—the low and slow method that has made Bono's a Jacksonville favorite since 1949 and now Willie Jewell's since 2009. Adeeb and Martino were looking for an opportunity to enter the rapidly growing fast-casual market as well as a less expensive franchise package for potential franchisees and area developers.
It turns out that Willie Jewell Daniels was a real person and someone that made a big impact in Adeeb's life. Adeeb's grandfather rescued Daniels from the streets of Jacksonville when she was only a teen. She went to work in their family restaurant and quickly proved that she could cook almost anything. Adeeb attributes ninety-five percent of his cooking knowledge to Willie Jewell and says, "Not only was Willie Jewell an incredible cook, she was an incredible person." He cherishes the things that she taught him about cooking, but more importantly the things she taught him about life.
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The Web.com Tour takes to The Ohio State University's Scarlet Course this week with the Nationwide Children's Championship. The course has previously been home to OSU alumni and golf greats such as the Golden Bear, Tom Weiskopf and John Cook – but this week, 131 PGA TOUR hopefuls will take to the Jack Nicklaus-redesigned layout hoping to secure their Tour cards at the third of four Web.com Tour Finals events.
You can watch the Nationwide Children's Championship on the Golf Channel Thursday through Saturday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. ET, and on Sunday from 7-9 p.m. ET.
Defending champion Ben Kohles is one of three former Nationwide Children's champions in the field this week vying for their share of the $1 million purse. With the Finals at its halfway point, the picture for PGA TOUR cards—and priority ranking—begins to take shape. The bulk of the field is made up of players in the top 75 on the Web.com Tour money list, and Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup standings. The top 25 on the Web.com money list are assured PGA Tour cards for the 2013-14 season, while the other players are fighting for 25 additional cards through earnings in the Finals.
The Scarlet course, ranked No. 4 in Links Magazine's list of the Top 25 College Golf Courses and also included in Golf Digest's 2013-14 list of the Top Ohio Courses, was designed by the late Dr. Alister MacKenzie, the legendary golf course architect. The Scarlet was completed in 1938—four years after MacKenzie's passing—by his design protegees. At the time, only a handful of universities had golf facilities and most of those were eastern schools, allowing Ohio State to quickly become synonymous with collegiate golf.
Nicklaus concentrated on restoring the course to the way MacKenzie originally intended it to play. The bunkers were redesigned to appear more like the classic MacKenzie designs at his numerous other courses—but became appropriately labeled "Nickenzie" bunkers. The course was also lengthened to play more than 7,400 yards and the par was changed to 71. The driving range was also enlarged and a short-game practice area was built for both of the varsity golf teams, as well as another one for the members of the club.
This week's Nationwide Children's Championship benefits the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, with proceeds earmarked for pediatric cancer research and treatment. Nationwide Children's Hospital is also supported by the Memorial Tournament, the Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation, and the Nicklaus family.
Nationwide Children's Hospital has been caring for sick and injured children and adolescents for more than 120 years. Today, the hospital is America's fourth-largest and busiest pediatric hospital and research center serving patients from all 50 states, and 21 foreign countries. Nationwide Children's offers services in every pediatric specialty with a staff of more than 8,500 physicians, scientists and support staff ensuring the best possible care. Last year's event raised $625,000.


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SDXC to Provide Up to 2 Terabytes of Storage
by Jennifer Johnson — Thursday, January 08, 2009, 07:24 PM EDT
SDXC SIGNALS NEW GENERATION OF REMOVABLE MEMORY WITH UP TO 2 TERABYTES OF STORAGE
SDXC Memory Cards Provide Consumers with Massive Storage, Incredible Speed in Familiar, De Facto Standard
LAS VEGAS – CES Booth South 3 #31277 – Jan. 7, 2009 – The next-generation SDXC (eXtended Capacity) memory card specification, announced today at the 2009 International CES, dramatically improves consumers' digital lifestyles by providing the portable storage and speed needed to store weeks of high-definition video, years of photo collections and months of music to mobile phones, cameras and camcorders, and other consumer electronic devices. The new SDXC specification provides up to 2 terabytes storage capacity and accelerates SD interface read/write speeds to 104 megabytes per second this year, with a road map to 300 megabytes per second.
The SDXC specification, developed by the SD Association, leapfrogs memory card interface speeds while retaining the world-leading SD interface. Specifications for the open standard will be released in the first quarter of 2009. SDHC, Embedded SD and SDIO specifications will also benefit from the new SD interface speeds.
"SDXC combines a higher capacity roadmap with faster transfer speeds as a means to exploit NAND flash memory technology as a compelling choice for portable memory storage and interoperability," said Joseph Unsworth, research director, NAND Flash Semiconductors, at Gartner. "With industry support, SDXC presents manufacturers with the opportunity to kindle consumer demand for more advanced handset features and functionality in consumer electronics behind the ubiquitous SD interface."
Turning mobile phones into media centers
SDXC allows users to enjoy more from their mobile phones. Larger capacity and faster transfer speeds allow for expanded entertainment and data storage. At its maximum 2TB capacity, an SDXC memory card will store an estimated 100 HD movies, 480 hours of HD recording or 136,000 fine-mode photos.
"With SDXC, consumers can quickly download higher quality content to their phones, including games, video and music – giving consumers a richer media and content experience," said James Taylor, president of the SD Association. "The SD interface already has proven itself valuable in mobile phones. Now, SDXC memory card capabilities will spur further handset sophistication and boost consumer content demand."
Shooting pictures at the speed of life
SDXC is also the first memory card specification to provide 2TB storage without hindering the high-speed performance necessary for high-end photography. It will provide maximum speeds even when the SDXC specification achieves its maximum 2TB storage capacity.
The first SDXC cards manufactured are likely to provide 64GB storage, doubling the 32GB maximum in SDHC memory cards. Even at early capacity levels, the SDXC card will improve user experience in products like cameras and camcorders.
"SDXC is a large-capacity card that can store more than 4,000 RAW images, which is the uncompressed mode professionals use. That capacity, combined with the exFAT file system, increases movie recording time and reduces starting time to improve photo capturing opportunities," said Shigeto Kanda, general manager at Canon. "Improvements in interface speed allow further increases in continuous shooting speed and higher resolution movie recordings. As a memory card well suited to small-sized user-friendly digital cameras, the SDXC specification will help consumers realize the full potential of our cameras."
SDXC will enable camcorders to provide longer, professional level HD video recording with a small form factor.
The SDXC specification uses Microsoft's exFAT file system to support its large capacity and interoperability in a broad range of PCs, consumer electronics and mobile phones. The exFAT system was designed for increased compatibility with flash media, from portability of data to interoperability with multiple platforms and devices on removable media.
"The SD Association is committed to answering and anticipating consumer demand for easy-to-use memory card storage that is interoperable in any device with a matching SD slot," Taylor said. "The SDXC card gives consumers a new, yet familiar, high performance card that will be used in hundreds of manufacturers' device offerings."
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Clinton, Romney Campaign Heads Join To Protect Future Elections From Cyberattacks
July 19, 2017 by Mindy Fischer	No Comments
Clearly the Trump administration has no intention of protecting our elections from more cyber attacks. So the Clinton and Romney campaign chiefs are taking matters into their own hands. Putting country over party…what a novel concept.
The manager of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, Robby Mook, and the manager of Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, Matt Rhoades, are joining together to find ways to protect American elections from future cyberattacks.
On Tuesday, the Harvard Kennedy School announced that Rhoades and Mook will co-lead the Defending Digital Democracy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
CNN reports,
"The initiative will focus on developing "concrete solutions" to address the threat of hacks on political organizations and election infrastructure. It will seek to develop and share best strategies with organizations involved in the electoral sphere. The announcement marks the first major effort to explicitly organize regarding the growing concern over election-related cybersecurity threats."
"Eric Rosenbach, co-director of the Belfer Center and former chief of staff to former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, will join Mook and Rhoades and serve as director of the project. Defending Digital Democracy has recruited two top election lawyers on the Democratic and Republican side to help steer the effort. The initiative has brought on additional experts with backgrounds in technology, national security and cybersecurity to serve on a senior advisory group. Facebook's chief security officer and Google's director of information security and privacy are among the members joining the group."
About the project, Matt Rhoads made an important point that seems to be lost on Trump and most of the Republicans in Congress. He said,
"Cyberattacks on campaigns and elections are a threat to our democracy and affect people of all political stripes. Foreign actors could target any political party at any time, and that means we all need to work together to address these vulnerabilities."
Robby Mook added,
"Many foreign countries, and even terrorist organizations, exploit digital technology to advance their agendas and influence public narratives abroad."
In a time when our country is so deeply divided, it is refreshing to see a true bipartisan effort to address a serious threat to this nation and democracy itself.
Trump seems determined to protect Russia. And clearly, he has no intention of holding them accountable for hacking our 2016 election. He has absolutely no problems with the Russian attack because they helped him win. And for Trump, it's not about protecting this nation or the ideals we were founded upon. It's only about a personal win for him. Our country may be destroyed in the process. But,as long as he benefits personally, he couldn't care less.
The Russians were successful in their cyber attack against us last year. And one thing is for sure, they will do it again. So will other countries now that it's clear our president is cool with it.
Fortunately, Americans are starting to bypass Trump and his loyal suckers in Congress to work on this problem themselves. And we are starting to see some real patriots coming together in a bipartisan way, rejecting the tribalism that Trump promotes.
Mook said their new project "will find practical solutions to help both parties and civic institutions that are critical to our elections better secure themselves and become more resilient to attacks."
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Sussex Express Article - January 2013
By Carol Walton
This month's picture shows the old Police Station in Dacre Road which was demolished around 1970 when the road was changed to the new one-way system. The first Police Sergeant was a Robert Renville who joined the police force at the age of 21 and became sergeant at Newhaven in the 1880's. Sergeant Renville retired on a pension of £100 per annum.
A building of character which was demolished to make way for a concrete multi-storey car park!
This page was added by Carol Walton on 16/06/2014.
I worked as a GPO telephonist in the local exchange and one my jobs was to test the telephone lines to the police station at 8am each morning and the duty police officer used to say"give me a few minutes duck before you test the fire telephone" It was in the next room to the one that held the police line. It took a few minutes to get there. This was in the middle to late 1960's and the exchange was a manual exchange and only the operators had dials to their switchboards. What would the younger generation do to day.
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How William Shatner's famed 'Wrath of Khan' cry became an instant 'Star Trek' legend
"KHAAAN!" is the cry that shook Earth and space.
William Shatner's Admiral Kirk unleashed the bellow at his rival Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán) in 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, a moment so profound it earned an instant spot in Star Trek history and popular culture.
Kirk's over-the-top shout-out put an exclamation point (or four) on Star Trek's second film, sending the nascent film franchise into warp drive.
Fathom Events is bringing a 35th anniversary Wrath of Khan director's cut to theaters on Sept. 10 and 13. Prepare for an onslaught of "Khaaan!" imitations and puns, which amuses Shatner.
He insists that his vocal outburst was just another day at the office.
"Who thinks of those things when you're making a film? Imagine thinking, 'I'm going to say the name 'Khan,' and years from now people will be talking about it,' " says Shatner, 86. "You'd barely make it through a whisper. It would make you awfully self-conscious."
History has shown that "Khaaan!" still resonates.
"As Shatner himself said, that cry is the most 'I-Khanic' moment in Star Trek history," says Scott Mantz, film critic for Access Hollywood, who interviews Shatner for a pre-movie segment. "If Wrath of Khan is the Citizen Kane of Star Trek movies, then when Shatner yells 'Khaaan!' is the equivalent of Orson Welles whispering 'Rosebud.' "
The cry caps off the epic standoff between Kirk and Khan, with Khan taunting Kirk before he cripples the Enterprise, leaving Kirk stranded alive on a barren moon, "marooned for all eternity."
Kirk, who is actually pretending his ship is disabled to lure Khan into a trap, roars in apparent frustration.
"He's an alpha male bellowing his alpha male cry, like I have seen elk do," says Shatner.
Director Nicholas Meyer says he wrote the line himself "in caps with four exclamation points."
"It's a bit of a cheat," Meyer says. "Kirk has to make Khan believe that this round, and it appears to be a final round, has gone to Khan. He has to act like he is a man who is totally screwed."
Shatner doesn't recall more than a couple of "Khaaan!" takes.
"I hate to open up that Khan of worms, It was actually a Khan-undrum on how to play it," says Shatner. He pulled the rage, amplified by Meyer's temple-throbbing close-up, from being "totally immersed in the emotion. You cannot fake that. People would recognize it."
The shout was a hit and Wrath of Khan a box office success, allowing for a future that now spans 13 films. In 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness, featuring a new generation Star Trek cast, Zachary Quinto's Spock paid tribute, yelling "Khan!" when Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) appears to die at the hands of young Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch).
"As I fan, I cringed. I couldn't believe they went there," says Mantz. "They cannot re-create that moment of Wrath of Khan magic."
Shatner will only say this about that Into Darkness utterance: "(Quinto) gives a great impression of screaming 'Khan.' "
Other tributes have been more successful, including an operatic stop-motion animation version seen on Robot Chicken (part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim late-night programming) with a dramatic Italian cry that Meyer admires.
The original bellower refuses to comment on the parodies.
"I Khan-not do that," says Shatner. "They are not worthy of consideration, really. Especially by me."


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Family members and friends may be better judges of early Alzheimer's disease than standard memory tests, a new study reports. The results could help doctors diagnose suspected Alzheimer's at an earlier stage, when treatment may be more effective and families can better prepare for the changes to come.
Survey results were then correlated with so-called biomarkers, like brain changes on brain scans or blood tests results, that are generally regarded as predictors of Alzheimer's. The survey proved more accurate than standard word and memory tests like the mini-mental state exam, which doctors perform in their offices to look for early signs of Alzheimer's.
Close friends and relatives know loved ones well and see them on a regular basis, so it is not surprising that they can pick up subtle changes in thinking or behavior over time. Traditional memory tests, in contrast, provide just a snapshot of a person's mental state while they are sitting in the doctor's office.
In addition, those with early Alzheimer's often lack insight into their own thinking problems, so asking them about these problems is often not accurate.
If you suspect a family member or friend is having trouble with thinking and memory, bring it to the attention of their doctor. Alzheimer's is just one of many causes of failing memory. And in some cases, such as medication side effects, memory loss may be reversible.
Source: Washington University School of Medicine. Galvin JE, Fagan AM, Holtzman DM, Mintun MA, Morris JC. "Relationship of dementia screening tests with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease". Brain, online Sept. 10, 2010.


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The Nativity of Mary Celebrated at the Church of St. Anne
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AN ANCIENT TRADITION. For centuries, September 8 has been celebrated as the day when the home of Sts. Joachim and Anna gets filled with the faithful. In fact, tradition places the feast of the Nativity of Mary, celebrated in Jerusalem at the church of St. Anne, where the apocryphal gospels say the Virgin's parents lived. For the Custody of the Holy Land, the celebration of the Nativity of Mary is an inevitable recurrence that has always been maintained over the years, even when Christian worship was not allowed there. Constructed by the Crusaders, the church had survived successive eras because the conqueror of Jerusalem, Saladin, used it as a curonian school of the Shafi'i school. "Even when the Basilica was in the hands of Muslims and was not a place of worship, the friars went through a small window and prayed the liturgy while hiding under the altar, where today's current crypt is located," explained Stephen Milovitch, who came together with other friars of the Custody to celebrate the feast. Based on the excavations carried out in the area, it also appears that there were several pools for ritual washing, including the Probatica (also called Betzata, Bethesda or Bethsaida), where the Gospel tale of the healing of a paralytic took place (John 5: 2-18).
ST. ANNE AND FRANCE. From the St. Savior's Monastery, with the Kawas leading the procession, the Franciscans arrived at the church of St. Anne just before 9 a.m., in time to enter the procession along with the religious from the local congregation. The order of the Missionaries of Africa has been guarding the place since the second half of the nineteenth century, when the Emperor of France, Napoleon III, received the restitution of the building for the Christians in exchange for the aid given to the Sultan during the Crimean War (1854-56).
The Church and the monastery are thus a protected area for France today and therefore the mass was celebrated in French. The Missionary Fathers of Africa , also known as White Fathers, because of their habit, sat among the people and on the altar, along with the French community from Jerusalem, as well as with Franciscan friars, pilgrims and locals.
The Consul General of France, Pierre Cochard, who as usual attends many liturgies connected to France, was in the front row. The readings and the Gospel of Jesus' genealogy were proclaimed in French.
THE MASS AND JOY. Fr. Stephane Milovitch presided over the mass while the homily was given by Fr. Teofilo. "The birth of Mary is a sign that God has prepared salvation for us. The birth of Mary is a sign that God loves us. We ask God to help us grow in peace and in love," said the Franciscan. Finally, there was a refreshment to conclude the celebration with a moment of fraternal communion.
One of the White Fathers, Trèsor, explained how special this solemnity is: "I am a seminarian and I come from Congo. Today's feast is truly a great celebration for us Missionaries of Africa." Fr. Giò, the head of the religious community, explained that "the two important feasts for the church of St. Anne are today and that of December 8." The Father of the Missionaries of Africa, who is from Switzerland, also explained something about the community: "Our congregation here is composed of 20 people, including 10 priests and 10 seminarians. Among those who are consecrated, 15 different African nationalities are represented. "Celebrating Mary's Nativity here is not like doing so in Rome or somewhere else. We are in a holy place, and for that reason, being here today is something that strikes me and excites me," said Fr. Giò.
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Q: Switching from pure mathematics (e.g. geometry) to more applied areas (e.g imaging) after Ph.D., as postdoc and chance of getting such a postdoc? Before I start my question, I should probably mention that this question might not be the right question to ask here, but I tried academiabeta, and stackoverflow, but without getting any to-the-point responses. I also noticed that there were some questions of similar interest asked here, but mine is little different and more subject/situation-specific. Also I am afraid my question might be a little too long, pardon my slightly unnecessary detail!
Here is my situation: I am a pure mathematician finishing Ph.D., working in Riemann surfaces, Teichmueller theory and differential geometry (with published papers in decent journals), having backgrounds in these topics and some PDE and topology and have some introductory knowledge about programming. I have been wanting to switch to little more applied areas (described below) because: 1) I believe getting posts and grants are slightly easier in there, 2) my postdoc hunting in pure mathematics have resulted in vein (despite getting shortlisted twice in Europe). I wanted to switch later anyway but reason 2) is forcing me to think of it now.
By applied areas, I meant areas like medical imaging, computer vision or even theoretical biology (there are interesting works of Prof. Robert Penner on moduli spaces and protein folding, for example), where they use Riemann surface and differential geometry a lot, and I want to work in more theoretical problems, but would also like to learn more computational techniques (although secondary).
Without further ado, here is my question:
Since I have not published any single papers in those applied areas, or haven't had any formal training in them, what are my chances of getting a postdoc in these areas, being a pure mathematician all my life so far? If any of you have done so before, or are working in these applied areas, I would very much appreciate if you inform me! By informal communication with some people (who are Ph.D. students) working in these areas, I was informed that my backgrounds are good, but one or two professors I have contacted already mentioned that they want somebody with actual research experience in say imaging, which I do not have. So, I am not sure where I stand compared to other applicants. Your responses and honest opinion (even though not in my favor) will be highly appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance!

A: There is a newish emerging area, `applied algebraic topology'. It includes Topological Data Analysis (see work by Gunnar Carlsson and others).  There is also new work again in Applied Algebraic Topology looking at Configuration spaces and probablity theory. Look for research assistant jobs at Post Doc level on specific topics in applied geometry and topology.
There is also an ESF programme (http://acat.lix.polytechnique.fr/) that gives some idea of what may be available. Some of this would provide a half way house between where you are and where you want to be!  Good Luck.  (Soon there is s summer school in Slovenia on these areas. Look at the program schedule and you may get some ideas on who to contact to see what they think, whetehr there are any positions coming up, short visits are a good way to start if they have money for such and seem interested. I think there is quite a good chance and all of this area is growing fast so it could be very interesting to get into it at the moment. (The topic of big data is even hitting the newspapers, and that forms part of this.)

A: I work in image processing. I work in an oil analysis laboratory. (Its kind of like a pathology for trucks and heavy machinery if you can imagine that). We test oil samples to detect engine trouble.
I've never done a Phd or even honours. I studied a dual degree in Math/IT. You'd probably be better at it than me!
I'm currently working on a project to detect bubbles in oil using image processing. The purpose is to automate lab processes.
The funny thing is, getting this job was kind of an accident. When I applied for the job, the job add just said that they were looking for a pascal programmer. I think they never even hoped to find someone with a math background (let alone image processing).
If you've got a phd and published papers, you're probably already plenty capable! The hard part now is finding the opportunities.
Yes there will be some learning curve in learning programming but I think you will pick this up pretty quickly.
If I were in your position and no other opportunities come up, I'd be looking to get an entry level programmer job in something like laboratory software. This may not entail math at first but provide an opportunity for you to move into that.
The previous job I worked in was insurance software, it had no maths at all.


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Optimization of English Communication Skill of second semester students of English Literature program is one of important learning progress to be achieved. They have been endorsed to be better since they had English conversation class in first semester. Along with English conversation class in first semester, students also learned other competences of English skill such as grammar, writing, listening, and writing subjects. However, applying grammatical feature of English into speaking activity was still a great difficulty for those who took English conversation class in second semester. Most of the students were still difficult to construct their ideas into proper simple English composition utterances. Based on this problem, this research was focused on Optimization of students' English communication skill and their English grammatical competence by applying Role-Play technique in English conversation class of second semester students. This research has revealed that Role-play Technique improves significantly toward students' understanding of Grammatical used in English speaking activity contextually. It was reflected in research field observation and measurement in answering two research questions; how extent Role-pay technique optimized students' English speaking skill and their English grammatical competence and the Factors. It is concluded that Role-play Technique contributes significantly in optimized students' understanding in applying English grammatical competence into English Speaking Skill contextually.
English communication skill is important for students of English Departement in Faculty of Humaniora, Bung Hatta University. Because in the advanced semester, studen's learning activities will be emphasized on analyzing of literary works of English such as Prose, Drama, and Poetry. The early stage for the provision to the advanced semester, they have to adapt four skill of English communication very well such as; speaking, writing, reading, and listening. Nevertheless, acquiring English speaking skill seemed not easy for second semester students of 2017. Based on classroom speaking observation, it was found that the general problem was their basic knowledge about English such inadequate of vocabulary, deficient knowledge about grammatical feature of English, and misspelled while they spoke.
Observing classroom English speaking activity was found that limitation on English vocabulary background knowledge was the crusial problem. This limitedness affected students' activity in English speaking such as they had difficulties in distinguishing some words as a Verb or as a modal auxilary that made them difficult to talk because they did not know the appropriate words to deliver message and sometime they mixed it as they liked based on ideas.
Murtiana says in her research that having a great amount of vocabulary background knowledge is one of the foundamental elements to make students enable to use English more confidently and succesfully as their oral language skill (5). From her opinion, it can be concluded that being able in English speaking must be required with a great amount of vocabulary background knowledge; so that, the learners can speak fluently with good self confident. Unfortunately, classroom observation of speaking activity was shown that there were great adversity of students in stringging the words into English oral Utterances grammatically. Consequently, most of their utterances were incompleted forms. On the other hand, students also had problem in pronouncing. They faced some difficulty to indentify phonemic aspect of English words pronunciation. For this reason, it was quite difficult to identify the ideas of their speaking messages. These problem were happened because they did not get used with target language such as in speaking activity.
In addition, students also dealed with psychology difficulties while they helt up their English speaking activity in the class. Based on classroom speaking activity observation, they worried and and felt embarrassed whenever they had mistake or an error because of the tendency of English speaking pratice. Otherwise, the aspects of transaction of the conversation between students was not good. They did a lot of long term of shifting or silent; because, they were not familiar with the function of the words based on grammatical feature of English while conducting spontaneous English speaking performance in the class.
Due the problems of English speaking skill above, classroom English speaking technique used by the lecturer could not give any headway toward students' problem in English speaking. The activity of English converastion just concerned on given conversation through reading aloud and asked students to practice the conversation in pair. This technique seemed to be interesting for the students but it could not give any leverage toward the issue of student's oral skill significantly. Another technique implemented in English conversation was question and answer by doing discussion section about the main idea of the dialogue. As a result, it could not provide the learners wide opportunity of excercise in producing systematic verbal utterances to convey meaning into target foreign language such as English. Otherwise, Pallawa in his research suggests that classroom learning English activity has to involve the learner into the complex process of target language in using the forms and rules of English oral interaction between students; so that, the interaction between students provides the activity of negotiation meaning, decoding, and comprehension (7).
From the techniques of teaching speaking above, it can be assumed that students' English speaking activity just concerned to textual speaking activity. Students just learnt about pronoucing the dialogues and figure out the messeges of the dialogues. Wahyuni says that to make students enable to speak of target language, they have to get involve directly to that language interaction through peer and group works. As a result, students are brought to self exercise in using the language in their own way (9). For these reasons, teaching technique has a great role in providing students wide opportunity to get involve actively in target language interaction; consequently, self exercising of language used can be conducted communicatively.
Improving students' speaking skill, the participant of oral foreign language need convenient teaching technique with speaking problem that had been faced by the second semester students of English Literature Program at Faculty of humaniora in Bung Hatta University. Nunan has proposed that one of the techniques that can be assumed to be able to give enhancement through implementing of Role Play technique. Because Role Play technique emphasizes on the importance of providing foerign language learners of opportunities to acquire language through communication by introducing the learners about range of function and structure and the areas of vocabulary that possibly used in daily conversation of target language and it could enlarge the ability of speaking in any situation (6).
According to Wahyuni in her research, she says that to solve the problem of English speaking skill, students need to be required with an effective teaching technique that assist students to enhance their ability in using target language. Beside that, teaching technique also facilitates foreign language learner to utilize target language become their language skill in speaking activity (9). In short, to promote students to enhance their English speaking skill, teaching technique has to assist students and facilitate them to utilize English speaking become their oral language skill.
As a result of implementation of role play technique to teach English speaking skill was providing students to exploration of dialy activity in their oral communication activity. Through role play, it could activate their background knowledge and delivered it into their own situational conversation of role play so that they could have good contextual understanding about the aspect of linguistic features of target language such as grammar, vocabulary used, fluency, and natural interaction in speaking.
According to Harmer, role play technique has the distinct advantages for students to improve their English speaking skill (2). Applying role play can motivate them to get involve in spontanous collague oral language interaction of English that provokes their self confidence better to talk their own background information. In addition, role play broadens the word of classroom speaking activity that allows students to exercise wider range of language feature spontanously.
• To what extent can role play technique enhance English speaking skill and grammatical competence of second semester students of English Literature Program at Faculty of Humaniora of Bung Hatta University.
The research was a classroom action research (CAR) that concerned on improving student's speaking skill and grammatical competence of English through role play technique where the researcher was involved in practical activity as a lecturer. The participant of this research was the second semester students of English Literature Program in Faculty of Humaniora of Bung Hatta University. There were actually 36 students in that class. The intsruments used in this research were observation sheets, speaking rubric, interview, and field note. The study was conducted on three cycles where each cycle was orginized with plan, action, observation, and reflection.
The objective of this research was to study to which extent can role play improve students' English speaking skill and the factors are involved in improving students' English speaking skill through role play technique. So that, the researcher carried out research finding explanation with data analysis that were accumulated through data collection by using research instruments in order to determine students' activities, their learning achievement, and to explore students' response about the processes of classroom English speaking activity through role play technique.
The Percentage of Students' Initial-Test Speaking Components Score.
In conclusion, there were unsufficient of speaking skill; because the percentage of the level was around the lower rank of the speaking rubric. It was between level 1 until level 3 in generally where the utterances of students were in difficult level; because, they had unappropriate productive of spoken English. Mostly, they did frequent errors about the major pattern of the dialogue. Moreover, they were difficult to the delivery the dialogue because of unsufficient vocabulary. As a result, the dialogues were diffuse and difficult for understanding. Therefore, there must be further action implemented to improve the students' speaking ability to overcame students' speaking problem.
Role play technique for improving teaching and learning speaking gives significant contribution toward students' English speaking skill. This technique improves the aspect of English speaking skill of learners. Role play technique brings the learners in practicing structures and fuctions of target language into their background experiences and knowledge. As a result, role play technique for Speaking skill provides the foreign learners to the domain of personal use of language that had been presented in the early stage of teaching formally. Consequently, role play technique trains English foreign learners in improving the ability of fluency in oral communication.
The percentage of Students' Speaking Components Score of Cycle 1.
From table 2, it can be seen that the distribution of students' speaking components was on the level 2,3, and 4 toward students' speaking components (accent, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension). Based on these rating scales level, students still faced some problem which made their speaking interaction caused occasional misunderstanding and interfered the turn taking of conversation.
The first cycle did not have significant improvement on the students' speaking ability. Students' achievement in overally was better than at the initial test. This condition rose up after giving treatment in three types of role play. This progressive was effected by the ideas of role play materials were close to their real condition. This conditions were measured from the clarity of ideas of the dialogue and the topic. However, there were the weaknesses of students' speaking components which were needed to be revised for next cycles.
In cycle two, the researcher concerned on the phenomenon in the first cycle where the students still had some problem for their speaking skill. Most of the students still had uncertain understanding in implementing the features of sentences and the components of speaking. It was found constant errors of major pattern of the dialogue that could prefent the turn taking of speech while performing. A long with grammatical error of basic pattern of speech, most of the students also had problem of words choice of verb alteration that was inaccurate with the idea of the dialogue and grammar. As a consequently, They restrained the burden while they want to talk in English spoken. These burdens came from unsifficient in linguistic knowledge such part of speech, pronounciation, unsufficient of vocabulary.
The researcher improvised role play technique with another form role play. He prepared disordered guided role play technique. Speaking activity was not begun with situational role play only, but he also gave disordered of the dialogues for students' excercise. The aim was to take students into guided linguistic understanding such as part of speech.
the Precentage of Students' Speaking Components Score of Cycle 2.
From the table above, the level of speaking components were more concerned at level 4. At this level, the decrese of each components of speaking did not interfere clearlyness of utterances in their conversation. The dialogues were still unclear to be listened to; because they did some errors for grammatical features, mispronunciation, and limited vocabularies.
From reflection above, it can be concluded that classroom speaking activity did not give significant progress yet. Form the data analysis of second cycle, it was indicated that most of the students still had a problem of speaking skill with foreign accent. Beside, the problem was also described on grammar error showing imperfect control of some patterns of the dialogue. Afterward, the composition of sentence item of the dialogues were contained unappropriate words choice with the topic and the message of role play. The last problem was hesitant in uttering the dialogue.
Concerning on students' problem in cycle 2, most of the students had difficulties toward their speaking skill. It was reflected on the indicators description of speaking rubric at the test of cycle two. From the data analysis, it indicated that most of the students had still produced foreign accent and mispronunciation. In addition, grammar errors were detected while they had been performing their role play in the class. For these reasons, most of the students were still oppressed by self confident to speak; because, they still dialed with uncertain understanding about basic knowledge of English such as English part of speech, pronunciation, and vocabulary. As a result, their accent was still awkward and led to occasional misunderstanding, and the fluency of role play conversation between students was not smooth.
Based on students' problem description above, the researcher needed to conduct the research to third cycle in order to prevent the weaknesses of students' speaking skill based on students' speaking skill evaluation and assesment. The activities were still the same pattern by applying three types of role play such as disordered guided role play, fill in the blank guided role play, and situational role play. Teaching and learning through role play activity in cycle three was conducted onto four meeting and it was going to be devided into plan, action, observation, and reflection.
After conducting four meeting of cycle 3, the testing session was helt up at meeting five of cycle 3. Students were directed to perform situational role play. Students were given situational problem as discussion object of their conversation. From the test activity, it was found that the avarage of students' speaking skill was had good score where they can reach 22 as their higher score. To overview students' speaking development more specifically, it could be seen from the table below. The table describes about the development of the components of speaking skill.
The Percentage of Students' Speaking Components Score of Cycle 3.
From table 3 above, it reflected the significant of role play technique for improving English spoken skill. 39 % of students had better understanding about grammar. About 13 students could reach level 5 of speaking rubric for grammar skill. Grammar skill at level 5 indicated that students already had better understanding about structure and function of simple form part of speech in oral communication of English. in role play activity, they already understand about the alteration of verb.
Students' vocabulary background knowledge at thirth cycle was better better than before. 60 % percent of the students were at level 5. At this level, 18 students already had variety of vocabulary and espression in their dialogues that related to the topic. For fluency and comprehension aspects, 67% of students could reach level 4 and level 5. At this condition, 20 students already had smooth speech to express the ideas clearly and logiscally. Automatically, every utterances of role play dialogues could be understood well; however, occasional repetition of the dialogues was required sometime.
From table 4 above, students' speaking skill was consentrated on score 5 of speaking rubric. The condition of students' speaking achievement was much better. From the description of speaking rubric described that the ability to deliver ideas and messages through oral activity was in the appropriate phase for dialy communication activity. Role play technique helped students to comprehen the aspect oral communication skill such as grammar, vaoculary, fluency, accent, and the ability to comprehen the idea and message.
As reflected on classroom English spoken activities, students' English spoken skill of second semester at English Literature Program at Faculty of Humaniora of Bung Hatta University has improved. This improvement was caused by the implementation of role play technique in every cycles of the research. In particularly, this teaching speaking technique gave good contribution toward the components of English speaking skill. The progresses of students' speaking skill from pre-test and the test of each cycles as the following.
the percentage of Students' Speaking Components Score of Each Tes.
the percentage of average score of speaking of Each test.
It can be concluded that the greater extent of role play technique can improve students' English spoken skill. It can be seen from the result of quantitative data analyzing above at every cycle. The degree of extent was rose up in every cycle. Specifically, it can viewed from initial test and the test of three cycles. From those tests, role play technique bring to a certain extent of the aspects of foreign learners' English spoken such as pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and the ability to comprehen the speech.
Role play as classroom speaking activity can improve students' English speaking skill. Based on data of the research wich conducted in second semester student of English Literature Program at Faculty of Humaniora of Bugn Hatta university, the researcher formulated the factors of students' English speaking skill improvement through role play technique.
Firstly, communicative activity of role play influences the improvement of students' understanding about grammatical feature. They learn the sentence pattern by explanation dan example given contextually. Memorizing of the dialogues was not the object of English speaking activity; but students' utterances were in the right pattern of simple form.
Futhermore, communicative activity of role play also influences the fluency of student when they had role play performance. It made them easier to convei the idea into the dialogue; eventhough, they prefered to express it in simple form of sentence pattern. Automatically, the utterances of dialogues were clear enaough to be understood by speaking partner of the students and the researcher himself.
Another factor of role play technique in improving students' English speaking skill is the role in the conversation. This factor have significant contribution toward the progress of improving students' English speaking skill. It leads English speaking learners into theoretical and contextual understanding of language features of English. For theoretical understanding, the role in the conversation of role play technique brings foreign language learner into practicing linguistic to set a proper part of specch based on the role they are going to play. Automatically, it also helps them to be accurate in using grammar variation and vocabulary properly.
The benefit of setting in role play is the active phase of learning and offers an opprotunity for students to make personal use of language in a certain situation and place. In preparing their role play dialogue, they have to imagine where the setting is took place. As a result, they are also provided with the task of using exact utterances.
In conclusion, role play technique for teaching English spoken skill toward foreign language learner can give significant improvement. English spoken skill improvement is stimulated by some factors of role play toward the aspects of English spoken skill of college students at second semester in English Literature of Bung Hatta University. Communicative activity factors contributes the aspect grammatical features and the speech fluency because it based on realife activity. The role in conversation factor brings English spoken learners to understand usage and use of grammar, vocabulary knowledge, the ability of speech comprehension. The last is the setting of role play factor. It provides the foreign learner to improvise their enthusiastic to talk in group discussion and performance.
The implementation of role play technique in second semester of English speaking class of English Literature Program at Faculty of Humaniora of Bugn Hatta University that registered 2017 gives an effort in improving students' English speaking skill. Role play technique improves students' achievement of pronouncing, grammatical features, contextual vocabularies used in simple expression of the dialogues, fluency and comprehensible of the students. The improvement can be seen in the mean score of students' speaking activity. The mean score was increased from 14,93 to 17,57 at the initial test to cycle one. Then, in cycle one to cycle two, the mean score was getting better from 17,57 to 20,87. After cycle two to cycle three, the mean score of students was rose up from 20,87 to 22.
The factors are communicative activity, role in the conversation, and the setting of role play. For communicative activity of role play technique, the students are provided with contextual English speaking activity that closed to their background experiences and knowledges. As a result, the aspect of communicative activity has improved students' English speaking skill. Just like Maley says that role play is the active phase of learning and offers an opportunity for students to make personal use of language (3). Indeed, the ability to communicate of English can not be adapted if learning English spoken activity is not concerned on giving wide opportunity to explore the use of language; otherwise, role play technique brings learners to improvise the used of language.
The next factor in improving students' English speaking skill through role play technique is the role in the conversation. It stimulates the learners from passive become active to talk in familiar situation and problem with personal discourse of the students. As a result, it influences speaking fluency of students; because they have alredy known the idea or message of the dialogue. Brown says that role play technique provides the English-speaking learners some rehearsal time so that students can map out what they are going to say (1). It can be assumed that role play technique provides English Spoken learner to get used in utterancing the ideas through proper expression based on the role in the conversation and increase their fluency in English spoken interaction.
Based on research finding, Role in the conversation of role play technique also helps the learners to be more adaptable with language features and lexical items of English. Through the role in the conversationas, it brings the students to the necessity of acquiring certain structurs in English speaking activity and have their understanding the usage and use of English. Just like Maley says that role play lends itself to almost every type: structures, lexis, functions, intonation pattern, and so on (3). It clears that applying role play activity for speaking English is correlated with developing linguistic aspect of communication. It is also proved by Amelis at her research in 2006 toward Economic class of language centre at State Islamic University of Sultan Kasim Riau. From her research finding, role play technique gives significant improvement toward students' low speaking skill and improvises their English spoken skill through role play technique.
Understanding the role in their conversation, they have wide range of time for group work practicing of speech accent of English while they perform role play dialogue in pair. It is correlated with Murcia and Goodwin opinion; they say that role play is the proper media for practicing pronunciation which are fully contextualized, including gestures and body language, and provide a mutitude of opportunities for practicing natural speech (4). It reflected in research field where the learners had to understand the message from the dialogues and analyzed the intonation of the speech and gesture. Moreover, role play performance brought them to natural speech activity.
Through understanding the setting of role play, the students are provided with the practicing of structures and functions that presented by the teacher in early stage of the lesson or the course. Harmer says that by broadening the world of the classroom to include the world outside, they ellow students to use a much wider range of language (2).
In conclusion, role play technique orientation is to take language learners to contextual communication activity as well as adapatation of languistic aspect. The factors of students' speaking improvement through role play increases learners' knowledge about linguistic aspect of English for speaking skill of second semester students of English Literature Program at Faculty of Humaniora of Bung Hatta University that registered 2017 academic years. This research finding is also supported by Rosmaliwarni finding that role play technique was more effective than information gap activity for students' speaking skill (8). role play technique give significant effect toward students' motivation and interest to speak English.
Based on research finding, the implementation of role play technique in speaking class improves students' English speaking skill. The primary finding of the research is the extent of students' English speaking skill improvement through role play technique. Another primary finding of the research is the factors of students' English speaking skill imrpovement through role play technique. The factors are communicative activity, the role in conversation, and the setting of role play. Those factors improve students' understanding about grammatical used, to enrich their vocabulary background knowledge, their pronounciation skill; so that, it also improves students' selve confidence and interactive skill in speaking English.
Research finding implies that role play technique is capable to improve students' speaking English skill. The strength of role play technique in improving students' English speaking skill are communicative activity between students and their background experience, and students' understanding about the role in conversation and the setting of role play. In addition, Weir says that the technique (role-play) can be valid in both face and content terms for a wide variety of situations and the experience of the examination (10).
The weakness of role play technique is if the role in conversation and the setting of role play is not related with students' background knowledge. The activity of speaking will not be communicatively and it will lead the students into textual speaking activity. Students can not explore their own understanding in english speaking activity.
• It's suggested to English lecturer who has the problem in teaching speaking to apply role play technique in improving students' speaking skill.
• It's suggested to English speaking teacher to get a good knowledge about implementation of role play technique.
• It's suggested to other researcher to conduct other communicative teaching technique to improve students' English speaking skill.
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Way Back When... 1893
Published 4:55 pm EDT, Thursday, August 4, 2016
The clubhouse of the Country Club of New Canaan can be seen here in 1907.
Photo: Contributed Photo / Hearst Connecticut Media
It all started when summer residents of the Oenoke Ridge felt the need for a club that would offer a convenient and pleasant resort for its members.
According to the New Canaan Messenger of 1893, those feelings led to the formation of the Oenoke Field Club, located on the Bliss Estate just north of the present Presbyterian Church. The club promoted the interests of lawn tennis and other outdoor sports.
August 1893 was the club's opening gala, with over 100 guests on the invite list. With just enough room to build two or three golf holes and some tennis courts, the club soon outgrew its limited space and in 1897, moved to what is now known as Country Club Road.
The 208 acres St. John Farm, the home of the late Squire Richards, was rented and eventually purchased and became the site of the club and the farmhouse and original clubhouse. Improvements were made to the original farmhouse; a men's locker room was added and a huge fireplace, capable of holding six foot length logs, was located in the large living room. The fireplace is believed to be buried inside an existing support wall located in the kitchen. The property and improvements to the clubhouse cost over $5,000.
The original nine holes were laid out by Willie Park Jr. during his first visit to the United States in the summer of 1895. The work on the original four holes was performed by the club members and commenced in early June and by the 4th of July 1897 the four holes were ready for play. The full nine holes measuring 2,677 yards were open by 1900. The second nine was designed by Walter Travis in the early 1920s, but were only partially completed when cost overages forced the club to abandon the project. The project was eventually completed in 1947 based largely on the original Travis design with additional holes designed by Alfred Tull after the club purchased additional land where holes 5, 14 and 15 are today.
The club continued to grow in popularity and membership and eventually changed its name to The Country Club of New Canaan.
The year the Oenoke Field Club was established. It later changed its name to the Country Club of New Canaan.


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Film program founder says industry still largely overlooks queer people of color
By Kate Selig | Bay City News Foundation | January 12, 2021
For more than 20 years, Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project has been working to increase equity and diversity on screen. "There's been no other organization that's lasted this long that serves queer and trans people of color in the world," founder Madeleine Lim said. (Photo courtesy of QWOCMAP)
Madeleine Lim launched the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project in 2000 to address the lack of queer women of color among filmmakers. Now, as the project enters its 21st year, Lim says the industry still has a long way to go to create films that are representative.
"In order for mainstream films to move the needle toward equity and justice, it's really important that people-of-color filmmakers and people-of-color film organizations are leading the effort," Lim said.
QWOCMAP, a San Francisco nonprofit, creates, exhibits and distributes films that authentically reflect the lives of queer women of color and gender non-binary, gender nonconforming and transgender people of color.
Lim's documentary Jewelle, about the pioneering activist and writer Jewelle Gomez, is in the final stages of production. (Photo courtesy qwocmap.org)
Lim said the inspiration to start QWOCMAP came after she completed a film that was featured on the international film festival circuit. Despite attending festivals centered around people of color or LGBTQ-plus people, she was among only a handful of queer women-of-color filmmakers.
"If we're not making films about our own lives and our own communities, then who will?" she asked herself at the time.
She returned to San Francisco and applied for a grant from the California Arts Council to conduct free filmmaking workshops for the queer woman of color community, marking the start of QWOCMAP's annual filmmaker training program.
QWOCMAP has since expanded beyond a one-woman operation to include multiple staff. The project hosts free filmmaking workshops in underserved regions across the U.S. and internationally, an annual Queer Woman of Color Film Festival, and a distribution program that links such films to international audiences.
Over 450 films have been created through the filmmaker training program, and over 500 films have been presented at the film festival, according to Lim. Films distributed by QWOCMAP have screened across the world, including at indigenous film festivals in New Zealand.
While today there are more films on streaming platforms like Hulu and Netflix about LGBTQ-plus people, many do not feature people of color or transgender people, she said.
"Twenty years later, audiences are still hungry for images of ourselves," she said.
Over the past two decades, the project has survived major financial shocks like the dot-com bubble and the 2008 recession. Lim said racism, sexism and homophobia also have impacted funding. QWOCMAP's organizational budget recently hit half a million dollars, a major milestone.
"There's been no other organization that's lasted this long that serves queer and trans people of color in the world," Lim said proudly.
One of her goals for the future is to keep QWOCMAP's budget stable, especially as the pandemic has jeopardized the budgets of San Francisco city agencies that fund the project.
The pandemic also led QWOCMAP to cancel its 2020 filmmaker training program and move its film festival online. Lim noted that there is a silver lining to both changes. The filmmaker training program cancellation gave the QWOCMAP team time to redesign the curriculum and move parts of the training online in case the program has to be run virtually in the future.
And the online film festival allowed over 1,000 households from across the world to tune in for each screening.
While the 2021 film festival will also be held online, Lim is hopeful that the filmmaker training can be held in-person in the fall. "That's the optimistic plan," she said.
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Q: How to avoid opening multiple chrome windows for running multiple URLs using Selenium WebDriverJS How do I fix this code to not have multiple instances of my browser running when am trying to parse multiple urls? Ideally I want just one browser opening and running multiple urls in it. Any help is appreciated !
I have tried instantiating the driver outside the foreach loop but it only print results for the last url then.
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A: Using async / await you can run promises one after the other in a for loop.
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From the Archive: Danny Meyer and Paula Scher
Danny Meyer is the CEO of the Union Square Hospitality Group and the founder of Shake Shack. Paula Scher, a partner in Pentagram, designed of the graphic identity for Shake Shack.
Shake Shack has more than 100 restaurants, but it was conceived as a one-off: a tribute to the roadside burger joint, in the middle of a Manhattan park.
Would Scher have taken a different approach if she knew it would become a chain? She would have, she says —
and that would have been too bad. Because it would have forced me to do something that would not, probably, have been as unique or unexpected.
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