H said he loved us by Tommaso Tanini from Tipi Bookshop on Vimeo.
Following three years of travels and investigations in Germany, Tommaso Tanini's H. said he loved us draws on the story of Honecker's German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the German Ministry for State Security (STASI) to explore the feelings of oppression and dread caused by living in a state of constant suspicion and diffidence. Mingling documentary research and literary references within a fictional narrative framework, his personal photographic study is an allegory of authoritarianism and espionage.
Loosely inspired by Italian anti-Fascist writer, Corrado Alvaro's 1938 novel, Man Is Strong, a ferocious critique of totalitarianism and its abuse of paranoia and instilled fear to control the masses, the images of H. said he Loved us are immersed in a world devoid of names and references. Their timeless and placeless nature, their sinister quietness, reveal, instead, subtle and psychological qualities that invoke contemplation.
Anonymous corners and small details of urban landscape become enigmatic monuments that echo the feelings of the people Tanini encountered during his research. From this austere scenario emerge the stories of Baldur H., Ulrike P. and Helmut W., all victims of the STASI, reported by people they trusted and, most likely, loved. Presented as a patchwork of collected documents, autobiographical notes, archival images and portraits, they acquire a new fragmented spirit, becoming loose and interactive accounts.
Far from imposing any unilateral vision, H. said he Loved us is a mosaic of traces and suggestions woven together to warn us about the cyclical and evil nature of any form of totalitarianism.


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the tale of the lost soul of Nell Glass.
if it grabs you, it will never let go.
I warn you, reach out, devour you she will.
with the man she so loved and with him laid.
and so gleefully Nellie will ravage.
his loving so thrilling, she did relent.
her only hunger was him, relentness.
Take me days, take me nights, ravage me whole.
Sell her soul she did for eternity.
in return for enhanced masculinity.
Nicely told Phyllis, and I've never liked the name Nellie, now I know why. Lol Well done and great to have you back. I've been having internet problems too. Keeps dropping out all the time and I'm about to ring them. Been a customer for 10 years and they just can't get it right it seems. Take care.
Thank you, Tony. I don't know why I chose the name Nellie – I never liked it either. Lol. It is good to be back. Internet problems are so frustrating and it is rather upsetting how much we depend on it. I am grateful to have other skills, like beading and crochet, to keep me sane and productive. Also, having your books always within reach is comforting and a pleasure. Take care.
Nice job Phyllis. Oh, there always seem to be some who are willing to sell their souls.
Thanks, John. This story is a slightly different version of one my Dad made up when I was about 9. Glad you enjoyed it.
Nice piece Phyllis, I would be also curious to read your Dad's version as well.
Thank you, Kurt, I appreciate it. I will see if I can remember how Dad told it. I do know his was a little more mild than mine and had more description on the characters.


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REVIEW: Gone Girl
The gender politic has never been so fun or fierce to observe as it manifests in "Gone Girl," David Fincher's wickedly delectable adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel. His eye for detail and intuition for the dark impulses that drive human behavior is a fitting, if not immediately obvious, match for her understanding of the roles available for men and women to assume or subvert in society today.
Together, they perform quite an incisive autopsy of the modern marriage which is every bit as confrontational as it is challenging. The devilish duo might only be topped ingenuity by Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike), the crazy couple they breathe into cinematic existence. In their own distinct ways, they will lie, manipulate, and forge as necessary to get what they want out of the other.
Games that couples play have traditionally been a rich territory to mine for drama, but perhaps only "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" has dared to look this deep into the dark heart of nuptial discontent. With their marriage plainly turned acrid, Nick finds himself at the center of suspicion when his wife mysteriously and rather suspiciously disappears. The fact that Amy's parents turned her life into inspiration for a best-selling children's book series brings in a mob of overeager television personalities – led by a not-so-thinly veiled Nancy Grace surrogate (Missy Pyle) – going for his jugular. It's a trial by media, held in a writer's room rather than a jury's deliberation room.
Fincher does slightly overplay his hand in the first act of the film, all too clearly elucidating the unspoken implications and bringing to the forefront Flynn's undertones of regional differences between Nick's midwest community and Amy's elite northeast upbringing. Through Patrick Fugit's assisting police officer on the case, whose face Fincher often cuts to after a plot development, the intended feelings for the audience get telegraphed a little too obviously.
Tags: Ben Affleck, Carrie Coon, David Fincher, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Kim Dickens, Missy Pyle, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Fugit, Rosamund Pike, Tyler Perry
REVIEW: At Any Price
If a movie makes you feel anger, it has to be effective on some level. The ability to generate some kind of feeling in the viewer means the movie is communicating something right.
In the case of "At Any Price," it's easy to get angry because Ramin Bahrani's script, co-written with Hallie Newton, is a well-plotted story that takes a look at flawed people on their worst behavior. Though the film takes place in the American heartland, far away from the excesses of Wall Street, thematic similarities to films like "Margin Call" and "Arbitrage" make for a shocking testament to how just how pervasive a strain of reckless greed is running through our country.
Dennis Quaid's Dean Ripple may deal with seeds rather than financial derivatives, but the ethical dilemmas he's faced with at the farm differ remarkably little from the ones that must be dealt with at the stock market. Dean can cheat and get ahead of his competitors, who seem to be beating him at every turn, or play an honest game for better or for worse. He ultimately drags his son Henry into his moral mire, though not without plenty of Midwestern soap opera-style family conflict.
Bahrani's allegory is quite clever, but it's a bit overloaded and overwrought. It never ceases to amaze me how subtlety always seems in such scant quantities in film, and Bahrani's heavy-handed direction manages to essentially cancel out the nuances of the script. "At Any Price" did manage to make me feel emotionally empty as justice remains miscarried, but at what cost? For Bahrani, that pit in my stomach came at the expense of the story's quiet power. B- /
Tags: At Any Price, Clancy Brown, Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, Kim Dickens, Ramin Bahrani, Zac Efron

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Blomstermaleriet står på grænsen mellem stilleben og landskabsmaleriet. Som blomstermaleri og frugtmaleri glider det over i "Frokostbillederne", Nature Morte-genren, men har også sit naturlige tilknytningspunkt til landskabsbilledet, af hvis ramme blomsterverdenen har løsnet sig som en værdifuld malerisk detalje.

Som dekorativt led kan blomstermaleri føres tilbage til kunstens fjerne tider. Ligesom de ægyptiske søjler med lotuskapitælerne og de græske søjleordener med volutternes tilbagerullede flige i stiliserede former gav udtryk for plantens organiske liv, således voksede det også snart ud som rent malerisk led i oldtidens udsmykningskunst; derimod var det kun enkeltvis, således hos den græske maler Pausias, at blomstermaleri optrådte som selvstændig kunstgren. I Middelalderen var blomstermaleri naturligt henvist til det samme tilbagetrukne uselvstændige liv. Det var Renæssancen, der bragte det frem i første plan. Nederlandene, hvis kunst med vågent øje fulgte naturens fænomener, og hvis havekunst kælede for yppige plantevarieteter, blev dets naturlige voksested. Allerede miniaturemalerne ved det burgundiske hof havde strøet udmærket malede blomster ind i håndskrifternes arabesk-rammer, og fra v. Eyck'ernes altomfattende kunst skød også blomstermaleri omsider frem. Til dets første dyrkere hører Jan Brueghel den ældre, kaldet "Blomster-Brueghel", og Daniel Seghers. En rig udvikling, særlig i koloristisk henseende, modtog blomstermaleri ved de Heem'erne: Cornelis de Heem og Jan Davidszoon de Heem samt fra elevkredsen, hvis dygtigste repræsentanter var Pieter de Ring, Jacob van Walscapelle, den minutiøse Abraham Mignon og den af Ludvig XIV højt skattede Maria van Oosterwijk. Blomsterbilledet var blevet husven i de hollandske borgeres huse, ligesom det også, malet af dygtige malere, havde fundet vej til deres skilte, og ved dette fortrolighedsforhold, båret oppe af befolkningens økonomiske interesser, kunne det skaffe sine dyrkere fuldt op at gøre og endnu stå i fuldt flor ind i 18. århundrede, Jan van Huysum, hvis overordentlig omhyggelig udførte kunst har sin baggrund i tidens tulipanliebhaveri; Rachel Ruysch. Blomstermaleri måtte derimod under den italienske renæssance underordne sig som pynt Sandro Botticellis Primavera med videre eller tjene rent dekorative formål.

Fra midten af det 18. århundrede trivedes blomstermaleri hist og her, som i Lyon, hvor det støttede den derværende silkeindustri og gav den kunstindustriel rang, maleren Simon Saint-Jean. På Den kongelige Porcelainsfabrik kappedes blomstermaler Christian Leonhard Klein med Johan Laurentz Jensen; men først fra midten af 19. århundrede blomstrede det. I Danmark fik blomstermaleri gode vækstvilkår hos Jens Juel og ved den eckersbergske skole, P.C. Skovgaards og J.Th. Lundbyes interesse for den enkelte planteform. C.D. Fritzsch maler sine pompøse buketter; blandt den ældre generation endvidere Johan Laurentz Jensen og hans talrige elever. William Hammer, Carl Vilhelm Balsgaard, Johannes Ludvig Camradt, Hermania Neergaard og den kun halvt danske Theude Grønland. Otto Diderich Ottesens fine pensel kæler med aldrig svigtende omhu både for havens – og i modsætning til tidligere dansk kunst – også den fri naturs blomsterverden, ligesom senere fx Anthonore Christensen. Endelig kan videre eksempelvis anføres: Oluf August Hermansen, Emma Thomsen, Emma Løffler, Johan Friderich Bergsøe, Arnold Winther, Augusta Dohlmann og Nicoline Tuxen tilfører blomstermaleri moderne tekniks virkningsfuldere kolorit. Blomstermaleri har i den sidste tid dygtige repræsentanter i Harald Holm, Anna Syberg, Carl Frydensberg, Ludvig Find, G.F. Clement, Olga Meisner-Jensen med mange flere. Norge har i 19. århundrede haft en fremragende blomstermaler i Frants Diderik Bøe.

Se også
 Arkitekturmaleri
 Dyremaleri
 Genremaleri
 Historiemaleri
 Landskabsmaleri
 Marinemaleri
 Portrætmaleri
 Slagmaleri
 Stilleben
 Vedutmaleri
 Maleriets historie

Kilde

Eksterne henvisninger

Maleri
Salmonsens
Maleri

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Taking a Look Back:
10 Lab Highlights from 2022
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Of course, we did so much more than 10 things during the past year, but to capture all the highlights here—including the Lab's groundbreaking research—would send you into a forever scroll. So we've whittled the list down to the top 10 things we did during the past year that helped advance the collective understanding of the digital economy.
To keep up with the Lab and our work, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and sign up for email updates about future events.
1 / Essay
Erik Brynjolfsson warns of falling into 'The Turing Trap'
In his far-reaching essay, Erik Brynjolfsson warns of the dangers of focusing AI development on systems that surpass human capabilities rather than systems that augment humans.
In Janurary, Lab Director Erik Brynjolfsson released "The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence," in which he warns that "an excessive focus on developing and deploying human-like artificial intelligence can lead us into a trap." The essay was later published in the spring issue of Daedalus, "AI & Society" (see #3 on our list) and served as the basis for our spring workshop.
The Turing Trap: A conversation with Erik Brynjolfsson on the promise and peril of human-like AI
Economists Pin More Blame on Tech for Rising Inequality
AI Shouldn't Compete With Workers—It Should Supercharge Them
How to Solve AI's Inequality Problem
2 / Collaboration
A redesigned, more rigorous jobs report
The Lab collaborated with the ADP Research Institute to launch the reimagined ADP National Employment Report and ADP Pay Insights Report.
The ADP National Employment Report and ADP Pay Insights Report are based on anonymized and aggregated payroll data from more than 25 million US employees across 500,000 companies.
In May of 2022, the ADP Research Institute paused its monthly ADP® National Employment Report in order to refine its methodology and design. Part of that evolution was teaming up with our data scientists to add new perspective and rigor to the report. The newly designed report, which launched in August, uses fine-grained, high-frequency data on jobs and wages to deliver a richer and more useful analysis of the labor market.
ADP National Employment Report
ADP Pay Insights Report
A Key Barometer of the US Job Market Returns With Some Improvements
3 / Publications
A comprehensive collection of views about AI and society
The spring issue of Daedalus featured several contributions by leaders and advisors from the Lab and Stanford HAI.
Eric Schmidt and James Manyika discuss the spring issue of Daedalus at our spring workshop.
In the spring issue of Daedalus—from the Academy of Arts and Sciences—experts explored various angles of artificial intelligence, including its effects on labor and the economy, its role in law and governance, and what it says about us as humans. The issue, which was edited by James Manyika, featured several contributors from the Lab and Stanford HAI community.
Searching for Computer Vision North Stars
– Fei-Fei Li (Affiliated Faculty) and Ranjay Krishna
Automation, Augmentation, Value Creation & the Distribution of Income & Wealth
– Michael Spence (Advisory Group)
Automation, AI & Work
– Laura D'Andrea Tyson (Digital Fellow) and John Zysman
Socializing Data
– Diane Coyle (Advisory Group)
AI, Great Power Competition & National Security
– Eric Schmidt (Advisory Group)
The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence
0 Erik Brynjolfsson (Lab Director)
4 / Report
Exploring the future of work in California
What's the current state of the California labor market—and what might it look like in the next 100 years? Our researchers delved deep into these questions as part of the California 100 initiative.
The Future of Work in California project examined 27 occupations from nine different regions across the state.
As part of the California 100 initiative, researchers at the Lab and SIEPR examined where the Golden State has been, where it's at, and where it's headed when it comes to possible scenarios and policy alternatives for the future. The large-scale report, The Future of Work in California, examines several facets of the California labor market, including its polarized workforce and the erosion of its middle class.
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Future of Work in California website
Stanford Digital Economy Lab and SIEPR to evaluate the future of work in California
California 100 website
5 / Fall conference
Building the New Economy: Data as Capital
Our fall conference reminded us that as humans continue to develop new technologies, we also must reimagine how society is organized so that data serves all communities.
Stanford visiting scholar Sandy Pentland delivers the keynote address at our fall conference.
As humans continue to develop brilliant new applications of emerging technologies, such as web3, we need to reimagine how our society is organized so that data serves all communities. The speakers and panelists who participated in "Building the New Economy: Data as Capital," a special Stanford Digital Economy Lab event as part of Stanford Digital Assets Week, explored the feasibility and implications of human-centered web3.
Recap of Building the New Economy: Data as Capital
Playlist: Building the New Economy: Data as Capital
6 / Spring workshop
Avoiding the Turing Trap
Our first-ever in-person event brought together researchers and experts to explore the dangers of incentivizing automation more than augmentation.
Nela Richardson, chief economist of ADP, delivers the keynote at our spring workshop.
What will the workplace look like in 20 years with the rise of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies? Our daylong workshop, Avoiding the Turing Trap, featured interactive panel discussions and presentations by Lab-affiliated researchers showcasing their recent work. Erik Brynjolfsson opened the event by framing the opportunities and challenges of human-like AI. Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP, closed the day with her keynote address, "AI's People Problem."
Recap: Avoiding the Turing Trap
7 / Fall workshop
Decentralized Society: Digitization, Democracy, and Civil Discourse
The one-day event examined the challenges of web2 technologies and explored how web3 technologies might solve them.
In October, the Lab brought together leaders from industry, civil society, and academia to discuss the promise and peril of decentralized digital architecture for our political and economic systems. In the workshop, Decentralized Society: Digitization, Democracy, and Civil Discourse, panelists explored key questions such as new governance strategies, privacy paradigms, business models, and content moderation systems.
Recap: Decentralized Society | Digitization, Democracy, and Civil Discourse
8 / Research
Who's helping you get your next job?
A new study suggests that your weak connections on LinkedIn could help you land a new job.
The report, A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties, suggests that your weaker connections on LinkedIn may help you get new job prospects more than your strong ones.
While networking on digital platforms can lead to new job opportunities, a study published earlier this year, A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties, suggests that the specific types of connections job-seekers make online matter in terms of their ability to secure new positions. The project, which was conducted by Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford), Sinan Aral (MIT), Iavor Bojinov (Harvard), and two LinkedIn employees and recent Stanford and MIT Ph.D. graduates Karthik Rajkumar and Guillaume Saint-Jacques, involved more than 20 million LinkedIn members, who made 2 billion new ties and created 600,000 new jobs over a five-year period.
A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
9 / Seminar Series
From robots in China to fake news to the future of the metaverse
The Lab weclomed researchers and experts to share their insights about topics and issues that matter to them—and to the future of the digital economy.
Marshall Van Alstyne, professor at Boston University and a Stanford digital fellow, joined us in April to talk about platforms and the fake news problem.
Throughout the year, the Lab welcomed researchers and experts from all over the world to share their work and insights to a larger, broader audience. You can watch (or re-watch) every one of our Seminar Series talks from the past year on our website and on our YouTube channel.
Recap: Our 2022 Seminar Series
10 / Competition
Emerging Technology Policy Writing Competition
The inaugural competition called upon Stanford students to come up with policy solutions that leverage emerging technologies that could enhance the future of work.
The Emerging Technology Policy Writing Compeition awarded a total of $10,000 in prizes to students with the most innovative policy solutions.
The Lab, in collaboration with Stanford HAI and SIEPR, put out a call for student submissions during the summer for innovative policy analysis and solutions that leverage emerging technologies to create jobs. The Emerging Technology Policy Writing Competition awarded a total of $10,000 in prizes to three winning entries. The first place prize went to to Aniket Baksy and Avi Gupta for their policy suggestion, "Expanding AI Adoption is an Opportunity for Job Creation."
View winners and competition details
And this also happened…
We welcomed several new faces this year to the Lab, including our first-ever visiting scholar, Sandy Pentland. Among those who also joined us in 2022 include Ruyu Chen, Gabriel Unger, Megan Deason, Andrew Wang, Anthony Weng, David Autor, Angela Chen, Christina Langer, and Ruhani Walia. Visit the team section of our site to view everyone who contributes to the Lab.
In June, Lab affiliated faculty member Susan Athey joined the Department of Justice as chief economist of the antitrust division.
Our research teams published or co-published several papers and journal articles, including the working paper, "How Many Americans Work Remotely?" View all of our research and publications.
We launched The DigDig, our bi-monthly digest of stories—some obscure—making headlines in the digital economy. Sign up to receive The DigDig in your inbox..
In Review: Seminar Series 2022
From robots in China to free speech on digital platforms to the future of the metaverse, our 2022 Seminar Series featured experts discussing topics focused on AI and the digital economy.
All Stanford Digital Economy Lab seminars are free, virtual, and open to the public.You can view recordings of most past events on our YouTube channel or by visiting the links of past events below.
Robert Seamans | Robots at Work in China
Guy Aridor | Drivers of Digital Attention: Evidence from a Social Media Experiment
Daniel Rock | Work2Vec: Measuring the Latent Structure of the Labor Market
Steven Pinker | Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Imke Reimers | The Digital Challenge to Public Libraries
Seminar Series with Hima Lakkaraju
Seminar Series with Stuart Russell
Marshall Van Alstyne | Free Speech, Platforms & the Fake News Problem
Seminar Series with Anastassia Fedyk
Seminar Series with Sandy Pentland
Christina Langer | The Value of Skills: New Evidence from Apprenticeship Plans
Max Tegmark | Extracting Machine-Learned Knowledge
Herman Narula | The True Origin of the Metaverse and How It Will Change Our World
Bindu Reddy | AI-Assisted Data Science
Avi Goldfarb | Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Yan Leng | Learning Network Structures from Behavioral Data
A Stanford Digital Assets Week event
Fall 2022 Conference
Photography by Christine Baker
Web3 presents new digital means of production and an opportunity to rebalance the relationships between all stakeholders of the economy. As humans continue to develop brilliant new applications of emerging technologies, we need to reimagine the ways our society is organized so that data serves all communities.
The speakers and panelists who participated in "Building the New Economy: Data as Capital," a special Stanford Digital Economy Lab event as part of Stanford Digital Assets Week, examined the feasibility and implications of human-centered web3, including:
— the role of collective citizen organizations in managing the way data is controlled
— more resilient and inclusive systems that spread financial and health benefits more widely
— the possibilities we unlock when systems are interoperable so that knowledge, trade, and interaction can flow across company and national boundaries.
The agenda featured three panel discussions and a keynote by Stanford Digital Economy Lab fellow Sandy Pentland. Keep scrolling to view videos of the panels and the keynote address.
Building the New Economy: What We Need and How to Get There
Sandy Pentland, MIT; Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Sandy Pentland delivers his keynote address at Building the New Economy: Data as Capital.
Sandy Pentland (MIT, Stanford Digital Economy Lab) opened the day by examining the current state of web3 and providing a brief overview of what companies and policymakers must do to help it grow so that the technology benefits everyone in society. Video also includes a welcome by Christie Ko and an introduction by Erik Brynjolfsson. (Keynote begins at 13:55).
The Human Perspective: New Types of Engagement
Lucy Bernholz, Digital Civil Society Lab
Delicia Hand, Consumer Reports
Melissa Valentine, Stanford University
Sheila Warren, Crypto Council for Innovation
Sheila Warren, Delicia Hand, and Lucy Bernholz participate in the first panel discussion of the day.
As digital businesses replace traditional physical businesses and civic systems, we must grapple with the implications of the amount of data, and resulting power, held by a small number of actors. As in the past, citizen organizations may be central in helping balance economic and social power (much like trade unions and cooperative banking institutions formed as a response to the forces of industrialization and consumer banking). This panel discussion explored how community organizations can wield data cooperatives, shared data, and distributed tokenized funding mechanisms to form a system based on collective rights and accountability.
Resilient Systems: Making Society Work Better
Jennifer King, Stanford University
Brie Linkenhoker, Worldview Studio
Joshua Tan, Metagovernance Project; Digital Civil Society Lab
Brie Linkenhoker, Joshua Tan, and Jennifer King discuss how web3 and other new technologies can make society work better.
New distributed, technology-enabled organizations may offer a path toward more resilient, transparent, inclusive, agile, and proactive systems, and a better future, particularly in places where existing institutions are either weak or underserved. In this panel discussion, we explore how new architectures could provide significant upgrades to — or enable wholly new — systems of currency and finance, taxation, and privacy.
Data and AI: A New Ecology
Dazza Greenwood, MIT Media Lab
Jeff Hancock, Stanford Social Media Lab
Sean McDonald, Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab
Jeff Hancock, Dazza Greenwood, Sean McDonald, and Sandy Pentland talk about building a more beneficial data infrastructure.
To support a world with billions of data owners, producers, and consumers, governed by digital data and AI, we need to build infrastructure that enables interoperability across company and national boundaries. This infrastructure will determine the future of finance and money, civic engagement, and factors that contribute to human flourishing. This panel discussion explores the opportunities and challenges of designing ecosystems of trusted data and AI that provide safe, secure, and human-centered services for everyone.
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Erik Brynjolfsson shares final thoughts of the day.
Stanford Digital Economy Lab Director Erik Brynjolfsson closed the day with a few words about the future of data and decentralization.
and moderators
Lucy Bernholz
Director, Digital Civil Society Lab
Lucy Bernholz is a senior research scholar at Stanford University's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and director of the Digital Civil Society Lab. She has been a visiting scholar at The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, the Hybrid Reality Institute, and the New America Foundation.
She is the author of numerous articles and books, including the annual Blueprint Series on Philanthropy and the Social Economy, the 2010 publication Disrupting Philanthropy, and her 2004 book Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution. She is a co-editor of Philanthropy in Democratic Societies (2016, Chicago University Press) and of the forthcoming volume Digital Technology and Democratic Theory. She writes extensively on philanthropy, technology, and policy on her award-winning blog, philanthropy2173.com.
Benholz studied history and has a B.A. from Yale University, where she played field hockey and captained the lacrosse team, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Erik Brynjolfsson
Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Erik Brynjolfsson is one of the foremost experts on the digital economy in the world. Erik Brynjolfsson's research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, digital commerce, and intangible assets. A best-selling author, he writes and speaks to global audiences about these topics.
Erik is the director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), He also serves as the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), professor by courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Department of Economics, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Dazza Greenwood
Lecturer and Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
Dazza Greenwood, a lecturer and research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, conducts research projects on big data, identity federation and trust frameworks with 2013/2014 academic year research focus on defining and developing "Computational Legal Science" as a sub-discipline of computational social science. Dazza leads the CIVICS.com consultancy, providing solutions at the intersection of business, law and technology for the innovation economy. Dazza also serves as the vice chair of the Plenary for the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG of NSTIC), which is developing a framework for federated identity and privacy at the international level.
Dazza has consulted with fortune 100 companies, including the insurance industry and financial services sector, architecting the creation of trust frameworks. Federally, Dazza has testified several times on eCommerce before the US House and US Senate and has consulted to NASA as an online identity expert, GSA as a multilateral rules drafting expert, Homeland Security as a multistate federal governance expert and many other agencies and departments. Dazza is a member of the Steward's Council of the Identity Commons and heads it's Forum on Law of Identity and Personal Data. Dazza also co-founded the eCitizen Foundation, which focused on creating citizen-centered online identity and personal data sharing projects and solutions.
Jeff Hancock
Founding Director, Stanford Social Media Lab
Jeff Hancock is founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab and is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Professor Hancock and his group work on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media. The team specializes in using computational linguistics and experiments to understand how the words we use can reveal psychological and social dynamics, such as deception and trust, emotional dynamics, intimacy and relationships, and social support. Recently Professor Hancock has begun work on understanding the mental models people have about algorithms in social media, as well as working on the ethical issues associated with computational social science.
Professor Hancock is well-known for his research on how people use deception with technology, from sending texts and emails to detecting fake online reviews. His TED Talk on deception has been seen over 1 million times and he's been featured as a guest on "CBS This Morning" for his expertise on social media. His research has been published in over 80 journal articles and conference proceedings and has been supported by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense. His work on lying and technology has been frequently featured in the popular press, including the New York Times, CNN, NPR, CBS, and the BBC.
Delicia Hand
Director, Financial Fairness Advocacy, Consumer Reports
Delicia Hand is the Director of Financial Fairness Advocacy at Consumer Reports.
She helps lead CR's advocacy for a fair and just marketplace in which people's financial well-being is supported through safe, transparent and innovative products and services, both in the burgeoning digital finance space as well as in traditional credit, lending and auto insurance.
Before joining CR, Delicia served for ten years at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Most recently, she was the Deputy Associate Director and Acting Associate Director for the CFPB's Consumer Education & External Affairs Division. In that role, she helped to lead and shape the Bureau's efforts to include diverse perspectives in its policymaking, elevate its financial inclusion agenda, and ensure that the voice and experience of consumers were more integrated in the Bureau's policy making.
Prior to the CFPB, Delicia was the Legislative Director at the National Association of Consumer Advocates, where she led its legislative and regulatory consumer protection agenda. She served as Director of Organizational Initiatives & General Counsel at the Center for Community Change and Center for Community Change Campaign.
Delicia also served as Senior Counsel/Legislative Director in the office of U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes. Working on Capitol Hill, she wrote and helped advance and pass the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Act as part of the Higher Education Reauthorization package in 2007. Before the Hill, she was a Skadden Fellow, leading a number of economic development initiatives to help immigrants living and working in northern Virginia.
Delicia holds a law degree from American University in Washington, D.C., a master's in political studies from Cambridge University, U.K., and a bachelor's in sociology and politics from St. Peter's College in New Jersey.
Jennifer King
Non-Residential Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford University
Dr. Jennifer King is the Privacy and Data Policy Fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. An information scientist by training, Dr. King is a recognized expert and scholar in information privacy. Sitting at the intersection of human-computer interaction, law, and the social sciences, her research examines the public's understanding and expectations of online privacy as well as the policy implications of emerging technologies. Most recently, her research explored alternatives to notice and consent (with the World Economic Forum), the impact of California's new privacy laws, and dark patterns. Her past work includes projects focusing on social media, genetic privacy, mobile application platforms, the Internet of Things (IoT), and digital surveillance. Her scholarship has been recognized for its impact on policymaking by the Future of Privacy Forum, and she has been an invited speaker before the Federal Trade Commission at several Commission workshops. She has been featured in numerous publications and outlets, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Wired, Recode, National Public Radio, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNET, Vox, Consumer Reports, NBC News, MIT Technology Review, among others.
Dr. King completed her doctorate in Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. Prior to joining HAI, Dr. King was the Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law school from 2018 to 2020. Before coming to Stanford, she was a co-director of the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy, a graduate student-led research center at UC Berkeley, and was a privacy researcher at the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at Berkeley Law. She was a member of the California State Advisory Board on Mobile Privacy Policies and the California State RFID Advisory Board. She received her Master's in Information Management and Systems also from the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information, and her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to entering academia she worked in security and in product management for several Internet companies, most notably Yahoo!.
Alissa Kleinnijenhuis
Research Scholar, Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research
Research Associate, Institute for New Economic Thinking
Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis has been a research scholar at the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford University and a research associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at the Oxford Martin School of the University of Oxford. Alissa is a co-PI of a Market Ecology & Financial Stability Grant, supervising four PhD students, and co-founder of the Environmental Stress Testing and Scenarios Program (ESTS), both at the University of Oxford. She taught a novel course at Stanford University in fall 2021 on Climate Finance.
Kleinnijenhuis' research examines how finance can advance the public good, focusing on how the financial sector can be leveraged as a first-order driver of a climate change solution. In particular, her research in area of climate finance examines how financial incentives can be aligned with limiting climate risks and financing the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Her research is all about making the triangular sectors of finance – the public, private and academic sector – work for the green transition. Her second area of expertise concerns financial stability, financial crises, financial stress testing, and financial regulation. Her two focal areas of research – climate finance and financial stability – are linked by their emphasis on addressing externalities emerging from climate change and too-big-to-fail financial institutions.
Dr. Kleinnijenhuis holds a BS from Utrecht University in Economics and Mathematics (cum laude), a MSc in Mathematics and Finance from the Imperial College London, and a DPhil (PhD) in Mathematical and Computational Finance from the University of Oxford. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Golub Centre for Finance and Policy (GCFP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been a visiting scholar at Yale University and the University of California Santa Barbara, and has conducted research at Morgan Stanley and Allianz Global Investors.
Christie Ko
Executive Director. Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Prior to joining Stanford, Christie Ko was associate director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Christie also served as the head of Member Services for the MIT Energy Initiative, where she worked closely with corporations, foundations, and individuals to support research, symposia, events, and educational programs. During her time at MITEI, she also ramped up a multi-disciplinary Energy Studies Minor and piloted an internship program.
Christie received a BA in literature from Boston University and an MS in writing and cultural politics from the University of Edinburgh.
Brie Linkenhoker
Founder, Worldview Studio
Brie is the founder of Worldview Studio. Previously she led Worldview Stanford, which pioneered interdisciplinary, multimedia learning experiences at Stanford University, and led strategy and scenario projects with Global Business Network (GBN) and Monitor. She holds a PhD in neuroscience, an MA in international policy studies (both from Stanford University), and a BA in psychology (Transylvania University).
Practitioner Fellow, Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford PACS
Sean Martin McDonald was a non-resident fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS, focusing on the use of civic trusts to build public interest digital governance. Sean is the CEO of FrontlineSMS, an award-winning, social impact, open-source messaging company. FrontlineSMS' messaging software is used by thousands of organizations to improve the lives of millions of people in more than 200 countries. Under Sean's leadership, FrontlineSMS spun out several successful organizations, built a non-profit consultancy, and a self-sustaining open software social enterprise.
Sean has worked at the intersection of law, technology, and public interest governance for his entire career. Prior to Frontline, he worked in international development, the US Senate, and public interest international law. He is on the board of directors of the Center for Internet & Society and the Environmental Peacebuilding Institute. Sean is an advisor to DoSomething.org, Digital Democracy, ECPAT-USA, and TechChange.
Sean is a researcher on the law and use of data in the public interest. He's the author of Ebola: A Big Data Disaster and a number of other articles focused on equity, law, and technology.
Sandy Pentland
Director, MIT Human Dynamics Laboratory
Director, MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program
Visiting Scholar, Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Alex `Sandy' Pentland directs MIT's Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, co-leads the World Economic Forum Big Data and Personal Data initiatives, and is a founding member of the Advisory Boards for Nissan, Motorola Mobility, Telefonica, and a variety of start-up firms. He has previously helped create and direct MIT's Media Laboratory, the Media Lab Asia laboratories at the Indian Institutes of Technology, and Strong Hospital's Center for Future Health.
In 2012 Forbes named Sandy one of the `seven most powerful data scientists in the world', along with Google founders and the CTO of the United States, and in 2013 he won the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review. He is among the most-cited computational scientists in the world, and a pioneer in computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His research has been featured in Nature, Science, and Harvard Business Review, as well as being the focus of TV features on BBC World, Discover and Science channels. His most recent book is `Honest Signals,' published by MIT Press.
Over the years Sandy has advised more than 50 PhD students. Almost half are now tenured faculty at leading institutions, with another one-quarter leading industry research groups and a final quarter founders of their own companies.
Sandy's research group and entrepreneurship program have spun off more than 30 companies to date, three of which are publicly listed and several that serve millions of poor in Africa and South Asia. Recent spin-offs have been featured in publications such as the Economist and the New York Times, as well as winning a variety of prizes from international development organizations.
Joshua Tan
Executive Director, Metagovernance Project
Doctoral Student, University of Oxford
Joshua Tan is the executive director of the Metagovernance Project. He is also a practitioner fellow at Stanford's Digital Civil Society Lab and a doctoral student in computer science at Oxford. Previously, Joshua completed his master's in pure math at the Courant Institute at NYU, where his research involved applications of geometry and topology to artificial intelligence.
For his thesis, Joshua has been exploring different ways of applying category theory and sheaf theory to computational learning theory. He also conducts more applied research on collective intelligence and the governance of online communities. His interests include category theory, computational learning theory, sheaf theory, robotics, collective intelligence, and art history.
Melissa Valentine
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Melissa Valentine is an Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Management Science and Engineering Department, and co-director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO).
Valentine's research examines how new technologies change work and organizations. She conducts in-depth observational studies to develop new understanding about these changes. Valentine has received several best paper awards for research and has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award. She holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, a master's degree from NYU, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Sheila Warren
Chief Executive Officer, Crypto Council for Innovation
Sheila Warren is the chief executive officer for Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI), a global alliance formed to demonstrate the transformational promise of crypto and educate policymakers, regulators, and people around the globe.
Sheila leads a group of the most influential crypto industry leaders in the world representing Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Block, Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbit Capital, and Paradigm. Prior to joining CCI, Sheila served as the World Economic Forum's deputy global head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, head of Data, Blockchain, and Digital Assets, and a member of its executive committee. She founded the blockchain and digital assets team at the Forum, and her pioneering policy work has helped shape the data and technology spaces to be more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable.
Sheila began her career as a Wall Street attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP before turning to philanthropy and civic technology. She was a senior executive and general counsel at TechSoup. She also designed and launched NGOsource, a groundbreaking service focused on international grantmaking. Sheila is the co-host of "Money Reimagined", CoinDesk's popular podcast and serves on the board of directors of various nonprofit and social justice organizations. She graduated with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
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by Angela Chen
Stanford Digital Economy Lab Fall 2022 Conference
The one-day event examined the challenges of web2 technologies and explored how web3 technologies could address them
Digitization has changed our economic, social, and political infrastructure irrevocably, centralizing and codifying our knowledge and challenging our institutions and norms. It has also given rise to misinformation, disinformation, polarization, and a succession of other challenges to civil society. With the recent drive toward decentralization, social media, interest and affinity groups, communities, news media, and other institutions and platforms face various challenges and opportunities enabled by AI, web3, and emerging technologies.
On October 7, 2022, the Stanford Digital Economy Lab brought together leaders from industry, civil society, and academia for Decentralized Society: Digitization, Democracy, and Civil Discourse, an event to discuss the promise and peril of decentralized digital architecture for our political and economic systems.
During the event, speakers addressed a question often debated by academics and civil society alike: "What is it about web2 technology that poses a challenge to democracy, and how can emerging technologies protect it?" Current web2 technology promotes great velocity, virality, and volume of information transfer, exacerbated by anonymity and echo chambers. The strength and reach of social media platforms have turned private companies into de-facto regulators, and consequently, has given them more influence than governments over democratic participation and free speech.
Decentralized platforms may address some of these challenges and return more control to the hands of users over their data, the information they consume, and how they choose to participate in democratic institutions. However, these platforms require society to address a series of questions:
– Who will own the data — individuals, companies, or another party?
– If data becomes an asset class, what does it mean for your personal life, society, and the economy?
– Who will build the core protocols, and how will they be built?
– How do we maintain the benefits of network effects in a decentralized system?
– How will people be incentivized to adopt web3?
– Who will govern web3 and how can we strike a balance between regulation and innovation?
– What can we do now to protect democracy and privacy as the new infrastructure is being built?
The event was the first of two fall gatherings focused on decentralized digital architecture, in which the Lab explores the impact of AI and digital infrastructure on society by examining key questions, such as governance strategies, privacy paradigms, business models, and content moderation systems.
Curious to learn more? Register for Building the New Economy: Data as Capital, which will take place on November 17, 2022, from 10:00 am to 5;00 pm PT at Stanford University. Part of Stanford Digital Assets Week, this special event will examine the feasibility and implications of human-centered web3, including the role of collective citizen organizations in managing the way data is controlled. Participants will also explore resilient and inclusive systems that spread financial and health benefits and the possibilities we unlock when systems are interoperable so that knowledge, trade, and interaction can flow across company and national boundaries.
"When knowledge is codified and digitized, it becomes alienable and potentially centralized. In turn, centralizing essential assets centralizes bargaining power. Concentration of economic power begets concentration of political power."
Information Assets, Technology, and Organization, 1994. Brynjolfsson and Ng, 2022


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Natural materials and textures are currently on-trend and if incorporated well can lift a dull space. They are easy to work with and blend beautifully with any given colour pallet.
There is an abundance of natural materials at our finger tips, so we have put together a list of 5 of our favourite.
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Although natural light is classified as an element of design we had to include it in the list.
It is the simplest element that can make a huge difference to your space. Letting natural light flow through your home will open the space, create a feeling of warmth and an illusion of a larger area.
Although natural materials have many benefits it is important to choose materials that are practical and durable. Man-made materials are typically more durable than natural components.
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Although Jarrah requires more maintenance, it is a popular flooring choice with many of our clients and has many benefits. Concrete flooring will last a lifetime, it is easy to maintain and usually costs less than Jarrah. Concrete flooring has a neutral grey tone and blends well with any colour pallet.
Take a look at one of our Perth Renovations that has combined the two materials perfectly. Its clean crisp white walls, natural jarrah floors and unified downlights throughout creates a perfect balance of sophistication with practicality.
The client's love for natural materials has been incorporated throughout the kitchen, by revamping the existing jarrah floors and adding a marble feature to the splash back and island bench.
With its sleek minimalist look and key statement features, this kitchen is definitely the central entertaining hub of the home.
The white Ceasarstone bench top is a modern marvel that mimics the appearance of natural materials. It is fundamental that a kitchen work bench is not just an added element of design but also durable.
We created the illusion of a larger kitchen by paying attention to detail and using high-quality storage solutions that maximise available space. Natural light streams in through the long narrow window above the sink, while carefully positioned downlights were installed for proper illumination at night. The balance of natural and ambient lighting creates an airy and open atmosphere.
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As there is no middle man at Kre8 Constructions, we provide a personal touch to all projects we undertake. With a member of the Kre8 Constructions team managing each project, pressure is taken off clients. Clients always deal with the same person throughout the duration of their project, which results in immense customer satisfaction and efficiency.


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In teaching economics I develop fun, engaging sessions that equip my students with the skills and understanding necessary to achieve the absolute best. Each of my sessions is adapted to meet what my students want to work on and/or are struggling with. I develop independent students and I do this by developing their understanding process before outcome, then challenging them further.


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Jail escapees both nabbed in hometowns
TOM GIAMBRONI
Michael W. Hover Jr.
LISBON –The two escapees from the Columbiana County Jail didn't get very far, with both arrested Tuesday in the same towns where they live.
Anthony R. Wagoner, 38, of 741 Cadmus St., East Liverpool, was taken into custody about 8:15 a.m. at a home at 726 Cadmus St., while Michael W. Hover Jr., 28, Third Street, Salem, was found about 12:30 p.m. at a home on Olive Street, Salem, about 12:30 p.m..
Wagoner and Hover, along with Michael Conzett, escaped from the minimum-security wing of the county at 11:30 p.m. Sunday by breaking a window in the shower area and tearing out the metal cover. Once outside, they used a device to cut through the security fence and crawl out. Hover and Wagoner ran down the hill to County Home Road and left in a passing vehicle. Conzett apparently changed his mind and returned to the jail.
East Liverpool Police Chief John Lane said his department received a tip early Tuesday morning Wagoner was at the Cadmus Street home and that he was making threats and might have a gun. Lane and his officers, with help from the Liverpool and St. Clair townships' police departments and sheriff's deputies, arrived about 6:45 a.m to take up positions around the house.
A woman and man left the house on their own, leaving only Wagoner inside. Lane went to the front door and told Wagoner to surrender or they were going to send in the St. Clair Township's police dog, Axel. After the third warning, Axel was sent in. Wagoner ran out the back door and was chased for two blocks before being captured. In the process he was shot twice with stun guns. No firearm was found.
Like East Liverpool, Salem police received a tip at 12:20 p.m. that Hover was at the Olive Street address. Police surrounded the house and approached the back door, which was open. They could see Hover sitting on a chair in the kitchen and he surrendered without incident.
"He was soaking wet and scratched up. It looked like he had a really long night,," Salem Police Chief J.T. Panezott of Hover.
Police are investigating whether Hover was involved in the theft of a vehicle early Tuesday morning. Police received a tip about Hover at 3:27 a.m. and were on the their way to Fair Avenue when they came across a stolen vehicle fleeing east on Pershing Street. Police ended the pursuit when the vehicle began speeding through business parking lots.
The vehicle later crashed on U.S. Route 62 at the border of Perry and Goshen townships. The driver fled on foot and efforts to locate the person using the police dog were unsuccessful.
Wagoner, Hover and Conzett are all facing possible felony escape charges.
Stone said the jail staff conducted a further search of the facility and found diagonal cutting pliers in one of the inmate tooms, along with tobacco. All jail tools were accounted for, leading the sheriff to conclude the cutting pliers were somehow smuggled into the facility.
"My assumption is they were left outside the fence (for the inmates to retrieve) and they brought them back inside, maybe to use later," he said.
Stone pointed out the misdemeanor wing, which houses non-violent low level offenders, once served as a county nursing home before its conversion in the 1990s, making it less than an ideal facility to incarcerate inmates.
"This was never built to be a jail … They've had issues there as long as I've been here," he said.
The last escape at the county jail occurred in August 2008 and in the maximum security wing, when four inmates made their way to the roof and jumped off. The jail is currently run by GEO Group, a private company hired by county commissioners. A new company, Correctional Solutions Group, is scheduled to take over operations July 1.
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The Truth by Jane Lark ~ a book exclusive to my blog part two
The sailors immediately began climbing the rigging, like spiders climbing across webs all over the ship. The sails unfurled in a whoosh of canvas as she watched her father standing on the dock, speaking with an official from the port.
Her mother's hand gripped Emerald's and drew her to the rail out of the way as more sailors ran across the deck, hauling ropes or tying them off. Emerald's heart thumped hard in her chest. Shouts passed across the ship, orders and confirmation as Mr Farrow, the captain and his lieutenant moved to the upper-deck where the giant steering wheel loomed.
The steady sound of the winding mechanism hauling up the chain which held the anchor, trembled through the air.
They were really going, leaving India. Forever.
She looked at her father again and gripped the rail which ran at waist-height the length of the deck. He was still talking with the port-official. She drank in the sight of her father, his portly figure and his dear face, trying to cut it so deep into her memory the image would never be lost. Then she lifted her gaze to Calcutta to the high wall surrounding the colony and the brightly painted roofs within, the bulbous pointed towers in reds, yellows and blues. She soaked the sight up, all of it, and the sounds, the smells of sea, salt and spices which infused the warm air.
"Ladies, may I show you to your cabin?" It was Mr Bishop, the quartermaster.
Emerald glanced back at him, as her mother did. She saw Mr Farrow watching from the upper-deck. He wished them stowed away like his cargo, like tea, tobacco or silk.
"No, thank you, Mr Bishop, not yet," Emerald's mother answered. "We would rather say goodbye to India." Having refused, Emerald's mother looked back at the dock. A breeze caught the fine silk of her ochre coloured shawl, whipping at its fringe and a loose strand of her pale blonde hair; her beauty defied years. Emerald had always admired it, along with her mother's strength of character. Emerald wished to be like her and not disappoint her, and yet the longing for more than a subservient marriage to her English cousin was undeniable.
Her mother looked sideways and smiled, offering Emerald reassurance – the comfort Emerald silently longed for, though it did not go deep enough. Emerald had longed for a reprieve. She wished to come back.
She said nothing, as she had not done before. There was always a weariness in her mother's eyes these days, that said she was too tired and worn down by life to face challenge or arguments from a contrary, stubborn daughter. Emerald hugged her mother, instead, briefly, it was suddenly clear to her that leaving India was hard for her mother too.
They turned back to the rail together, one hand gripping each others' but as Emerald moved she noticed Mr Farrow once more, on the upper-deck, holding the rail and looking down at them. He smiled, or rather lifted his lips. It was an acknowledgement, nothing more. She had never seen him smile genuinely, or laugh, or show any sign of natural emotion. She looked away, at the dock. Her father had ceased speaking and was watching them. He lifted his hand. Her mother's fingers squeezed Emerald's and they both raised their other hands in answer, her father's handkerchief gripped in Emerald's.
The sound of the winding anchor stopped and the rigging above creaked as the sails caught the wind. There were smaller steamboats linked to the ship by ropes to pilot them out of port. The ship began to pull away, water swishing about the hull, shallow waves slapping at the ship as the tide pulled out and took the ship with it. Emerald lifted her hand higher. As the ship turned, she turned in an opposing movement to keep sight of her father. Her mother did too, her fingers gripping Emerald's tighter, both of them waving more keenly. Emerald fluttered his handkerchief like a flag so he would clearly see. He was smiling. Emerald let go of her mother's hand and pressed a kiss to her fingertips, then blew it to him. He caught it in a fist as he'd done when she was a child, then pressed it to his cheek, before sending her one in return. It may be the last thing they ever shared.
"Papa! I love you!" she shouted, knowing as the ship slipped through the water he could not hear, they were already too far out of reach, but she did not lower her hand she kept waving, as did her mother. Her father stood there, unmoving, his hand in the air, shrinking and shrinking until he became no more than a dot, but she still saw the moment his arm descended and knew with a dreadful certainty, it was the end–the end of happiness. She was leaving her life behind.
Richard looked at Mark who stood beside the women on the quarterdeck below. Mark nodded back. Richard had been watching Catherine and her daughter from the vantage point of the poop-deck. He gripped the rail more firmly and wondered what this journey would bring. Ill-luck probably with the women on board; women always brought bad luck. Mark had been asked to steer them into their cabin out of the way as they sailed. But Richard had seen Catherine refuse and her daughter's tears. When Mark had looked up querying their refusal, Richard had agreed to let them stay. He could see their parting was painful, though, he'd no idea what that pain felt like.
He was embarking on a journey to be reunited with his family. The two images could not be more starkly opposing.
She was leaving her father's love behind–he was returning to his father's hatred.
The inverse parallel amused him.
While he watched, Mark coughed to gain the ladies' attention and Mrs Martin looked back at the quartermaster. Her daughter's eyes remained on the distant dock, though she could not possibly see anything clearly, bar the grey line of the harbour wall and the coloured roofs of the town behind, they were already too far out.
Richard breathed out heavily. The Governor's daughter had an intensely feminine, fragile, appearance. She was in profile to him, had been most of the time, and he'd been absorbed in the delicacy of her features. The girl was a beauty. He'd already given one signal for his crew to keep their eyes averted but it was going to be hard for them not to look. Locks of pale blonde hair had slipped loose when her bonnet had been knocked off and tumbled down her back, to hang by its ribbons, and now those strands of hair brushed her neck as the wind played with them. It was an artistic beauty, not sexual, not to his usual taste. Richard thought of June, the mistress he had left behind in Calcutta this morning, dark haired and voluptuous. That was his taste; a woman who knew how to handle and entertain a man, a woman who he did not feel he might break. Yet the fact he was even thinking of sex as he looked at Miss Martin named his thoughts as a lie, there must be something more than outer beauty that attracted him.
She was not as he'd thought previously, though, not a pretty, shallow, shell of beauty. He had only needed to look into her eyes to know there was an intelligent vibrant woman within. She'd been rumoured wild in her childhood, and it was still there, albeit tamed. It was there when you scratched her lady-like surface. Spirit oozed from the girl and his men could see it too. Her delicate figure and perfect beauty may imply serenity and fragility. But the glimmer in her eyes, the way she moved, the passion in her gaze, the words for her father and the look, which even now she cast back to the dock, spoke of a determination and fire beneath. Every man aboard his ship would willingly have the girl in bed, he did not doubt it, and he was not immune.
However he did not think the feeling was mutual. When the girl's mother passed on Mark's words, Miss Martin's gaze snapped up to look at Richard. It said, she did not like being ordered out of the way. And, if he judged her look correctly, nor did she like him.
His lips lifted in a slight acknowledgement and he nodded as he'd done before when she'd glanced up and like before she looked away. He did not. He watched Mr Bishop herd her and her mother, like sheep or geese, across the quarterdeck and into their cabin underneath where he stood. It was the largest, usually the captain's cabin and when he came onboard, Richard's. The whole damned ship was disturbed by their presence.
As the women disappeared he looked up at the men hanging in the rigging. Their eyes had been on the women too. "Look to your tasks!" he yelled up at them, casting his gaze across them all and then glaring at those on deck. They looked away and increased their pace. He'd have to reinforce his order with his senior crew over dinner. He did not want his men ogling the women all day, lack of concentration was dangerous–a loose sail or a slack knot could kill, if a sail swung back or a rope flew free.
He watched the activity for a while longer and listened to the familiar sounds as the ship cut through the waves and the wind whipped at the sails. He loved the sea–loved the exhilaration of mastering the forces of wind and water. His first three years in business he'd spent on his first vessel; establishing trade routes, shipping any cargo for profit, carving his niche as an alternative to the East India Company; fighting the elements and never knowing if he'd win. It was the thrill of winning he loved; the elation of sailing a cargo into port having brought it through vicious storms and traversed hundreds of miles of sea. His heart thumped at the thought of facing a storm again. Better that than what awaited him in England.
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The end of Harriette Wilson's tale, not told by her… Where does the life of a courtesan end?
After writing her memoirs, Harriette had the writing bug, and also an awful lot of unsaid information about people who did not want her to tell it. She wrote a play called Bought In and Bought Out to explore in a comedy how some of her former lovers had bought out of her memoirs with certain stipulations…
In 1828 she and the man she called her husband at the time, Mr Rochfort, moved back to London permanently, she purchased a fourteen year lease on a town house on the corner of Trevor Square, and began writing novels. Clara Gazul and Paris Lions and London Tigers
In 1829 though she once again hit the press, as her maid accused her of having pulled away a chair so she fell on the floor, and then refused to feed her anything but bread and water, Harriette was arrested and taken to court Bell's Life in London, ran an article on her appearance. She was described as old, ugly and grey haired. And at this court case Rochfort stated that Harriette was not strictly his wife.
In this year Harriette is known to also have begun testing the water in London, as far as possible new courtesan style relationships. She approached an author sixteen years her junior, and he kept her letters. But she is older, and times had changed, and the young author had no interest, other than to be flattered enough to keep the letters. But he marked them stating that he never met her.
In 1830, Harriette wrote a letter stating that in order for Mr Rochfort to obtain his inheritance from his estranged mother, he would need to be single, as his mother disapproved of Harriette and so she had decided to separate from him. Rochfort hired rooms in Berkeley Square.
In December 1831 however Rochfort began another affair. He fell in love with another man's wife and moved in with her. It was another swift kick to poor Harriette's ego. At first she still wrote to others as though she was his wife, but in 1832 she stopped mentioning him, and simply pretended he'd never existed, and then began using her real surname Debuchet. She had continued to write to Lord Ponsonby through the years since she published her memoirs, though he never replied. In 1832 the letters to him became even more regular, and were filled with outpourings of the pain she suffered following his desertion of her in favour of her younger sister. At this point she lived at 69 Vauxhall Bridge Road and Lord Ponsonby and his friends wrote to one another using terms such as 'Obscene harpy' 'vile woman' 'wretched individual' to describe Harriette.
While Harriette spent the next two years falling into being nothing but regretted history, Rochfort used the connections he had made through her to begin walking in the world of the men who had passed her around among them, he began working for the Duke of Wellington.
In 1834 Harriette moved back to Knightsbridge and tried her hand at playing the bawd and bringing younger woman into favour as prostitutes among the men of the 'first nobility.' Of course these men no longer trusted her and so the attempt did not succeed. She even wrote a letter to Lord Ponsonby offering him one of the girls, but the letter was as much a message reminiscing on her past with him.
The next we here of Harriette is in 1840, when her life finally took a turn for the good. She was baptised into the Catholic Church, as Mary Magdalen, and began to preach of her conversion, dedicating all her energy and keen mind to her faith. There is one letter to the young author she had tried to seduce some years before saying her commitment to God meant she was no longer available for 'love' … 'when I was a sinner and a good looking one' …
Harried lived in a cottage then, tending a cottage garden and devoted now to only her faith. She died on the 10th March 1845 two weeks after her 59th birthday. In her final letters, she asked that the Duke of Leinster and Frederick Lamb pay her medical bills, and that Brougham, Leinster and Lord Worcester, now the Duke of Beaufort pay for her burial. Brougham wrote to Beaufort from Parliament.
My dear Duke,
Our old acquaintance, Mme De Bochet (Harriette Wilson) died the week before last and left a note to say she hoped two or three of her former acquaintance would give the few pounds (fifteen) required to bury her – she having had an estimate price in with all the particulars of the church and struck off what was merely ornamental – which has reduced it as above. Duke of Leinster has given a little and I think as she also named you and me, we ought to contribute our might.
A few days later Brougham wrote again, and asked for a little more saying that she had left additional debts for medical care, which her brother, a piano turner could not afford.
Harriette's funeral took place at Chelsea Catholic Chapel and her death certificate recorded her as Harreitte De Bochet a 'woman of independent means'.
It's not known where she was buried.
So that is goodbye to Harriette and her colourful life. I shall miss her. But perhaps one day we may discover even more of the truth. After Harriette and her publisher Stockdale had died Sophie Stockdale, the publisher's wife, is known to have tried to begin a new blackmail campaign.
Pardon the liberty I take in writing to your Lordship.
In looking over my late husband's papers I find that the MSS of Harriette Wilson is quite perfect, and more than appeared in print, for there are all those who withheld their names only merely crossed out with the pen. In offering the MSS to your Lordship, I was recollecting the circumstances of the late Lord Spencer's undoubtedly a true history of our times, and there are also the numerous letters of who shall be in print and who shall not, for in years to come who would suppose that the greatest men of any age appear in the MSS.
I am not like Junius, I cannot afford to commit my MSS to the flames.
Sophie Stockdale…
One day then, perhaps, this original manuscript may be discovered…
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Discussion in 'The Temple of Elemental Evil' started by Heinous_Hat, Apr 30, 2015.
Still, if you buy a game you don't expect to have files (other than ones connected with localisation) that are not present in any other version of the game. Maybe if a more tech savvy modder from Poland came onto the scene, this would have been made public sooner.
Would you be able to tell me what my error message in the first post in this thread is saying? I can't install the editor to the empty folder as directed.
I downloaded the patch and followed instructions. I'm getting this error and I have no idea what it says, it won't install. Panic!
In case anyone else is having this problem it reads.
-The root folder does not contain any files to update."
Thanks, I must have had case sensitive or something.
I'm surprised we found something so welcome and unexpected this late! It ain't every day that a decade-old game (or thereabouts) gets an official new tool added to its toolbelt!
Ronald Rinnwrathi (the Cleric I voiced in Co8) would be proud!
It has been brought to my attention that the links to the Polish ToEE patch 2 that contained the WorldEd and V2Brute applications is no longer available. Just purely so we have these programs available to us in the future, I have zipped the files up and will happily host them on my Onedrive and share the link here.
EDIT: I've also uploaded the files to ModDb to keep them safe for future modders.
No problem, we have a vested interest in keeping these tools available for future modders, Thanks to @OgreBattle for discovering that the Polish patch had been removed in the first instance, I just uploaded the files I had previously installed to an accessible location.
It's also available on sorcerers.net, under toee's resources page.
https://sorcerers.net/community/resources/worlded.79/ Huh, well how in the world is anyone ever going to find that there... it's not even named as ToEE Patch 2 Polish version or anything even remotely similar... and even then, it was only uploaded there in April of this year. In any case, it's done, it's visible on ModDB.com I'm happy.
That was all from the mass upload Tal and I did to repopulate/modernize ToEE/Co8 stuff at SP when we switched servers two years ago.


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Appstax JavaScript SDK
======================

This is the official SDK for [Appstax](http://appstax.com). Please read the [JavaScript Guide](https://appstax.com/docs/JavaScript-SDK-Guide) to get up and running.

Installing
----------

[Download the latest release](https://github.com/appstax/appstax-js/releases/latest) and include appstax.js in your app.

Or, if you are using bower.io or npm to manage your javascript packages:

```bash
> bower install appstax --save
```

```bash
> npm install appstax --save
```

Example usage
-------------

```javascript
appstax.init("your-app-key");

var contact = appstax.object("contacts");
contact.name = "John Appleseed";
contact.email = "john@appleseed.com";
contact.save();
```

See the [JavaScript Guide](https://appstax.com/docs/JavaScript-SDK-Guide) for more info on how to set up your app and data model.

Building from source
--------------------

### Building the appstax.js bundle

Prerequisites:

- Install node/npm via [nodejs.org](http://nodejs.org/download/) or a package manager like [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/)
- Install gulp with `npm install -g gulp`

How to build:

	> npm install
	> gulp bundle

The bundle will be availble in ./build/appstax.js

### Running the examples

In addition to `gulp` you also need `bower`:

	> npm install -g bower

First you build the appstax.js bundle as described above, then you go to the examples folder and build/run:

	> cd examples/notes
	> npm install
	> bower update
	> gulp serve

... and point your browser to http://localhost:9000/

### Running the tests

    > npm test

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Adam Lambert Had a Cameo in 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - NOVEMBER 08: Adam Lambert attends the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's 3rd Annual Patron of the Artists Awards at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on November 8, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for SAG-AFTRA Foundation)
Alexis Zarycki	January 12th, 2019
One of the most memorable cameos from Bohemian Rhapsody was Mike Myers as EMI executive Ray Foster, but did you know Adam Lambert, who fronts Queen on tour, also had a cameo in the smash biopic?
The singer shared the film still below to his Twitter today with the caption, "Who is he?!"
Who is he!? ???????? #BohemianRhapsodyMovie is available for digital download on 1/22! pic.twitter.com/RXVOvhv2qu
— ADAM LAMBERT (@adamlambert) January 11, 2019
For those that have somehow not seen Bohemian Rhapsody yet, Lambert plays an unnamed trucker Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) hooks up with as a truck stop while on tour. In fact, on the film's IMDb page, Lambert's role is noted as uncredited, so no wonder it took this long to figure out he was in the movie in the first place.
Bohemian Rhapsody is set for digital release on January 22, while 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD releases are slated for February 12. All formats are currently available for pre-order at Amazon.
Alexis Zarycki is your average girl with the hopes of leaving an everlasting impact on the world. Follow her on Instagram @official_lexpaige
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Before a student agrees to take out a student loan...they should be made completely aware of the trap and travesty that they are possibly about to agree to.
There should be legal counsel on site at the universities and colleges, that provide thorough and accurate warnings of the perils of signing your life away to student loan agreements.
They should warn students of the astronomical interest rates, the inability to declare bankruptcy and negotiate some forgiveness when clearly it is a debt that is not humanly bearable for the average student.
It is inhumane and unfair, to say the very, very, least. Student loans are an unbearable burden. It is important that EVERY prospective borrower, should be made FULLY aware of, beforehand.


This Silver Titanium Samsung Galaxy S7 is unlocked, allowing you to use the service of different cellular carriers as you so choose. Its quad-core processor allows for quick access to information. The phone also comes with a 5.1-inch touchscreen and a digital camera with a resolution of 12 MP so that you'll easily be able to read text messages or snap photos.


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Disney World reopens Epcot and Hollywood Studios
Julie Tremaine, Special to CNN
Updated 7:27 PM EDT, Wed July 15, 2020
Monorail with Spaceship Earth (geosphere) in background, Epcot, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida USA
Blaine Harrington III/The Image Bank Unreleased/Getty Images
Editor's Note: Julie Tremaine is visiting Epcot today for CNN Travel. You can read updates of her visit throughout the day here. Tremaine was one of the first visitors to the Magic Kingdom on Saturday. She's an award-winning travel and food writer. Read her work at Travel-Sip-Repeat.com.
Orange County, Florida CNN —
Despite concerns over Florida's alarmingly high coronavirus numbers, the next stage of Walt Disney World's phased reopening is here.
Today, Disney's Epcot park and Hollywood Studios opened their doors to guests for the first time since they closed on March 15. (Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom opened on July 11.)
The reopening of Epcot and Hollywood Studios also comes at a busy time for the global entertainment giant: Disneyland Paris in France opened earlier today while Disneyland Hong Kong closed just shy of a month after reopening because of a surge of Covid-19 cases there.
Disneyland Paris reopens with new Covid-19 measures
Back in the US, the Florida Department of Health reported another 10,181 cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total of cases reported throughout the pandemic to at least 301,810, according to new numbers released by the Florida Department of Health.
A total of 19,334 people are hospitalized across the state, and an additional 132 deaths – the most deaths in one day in the state – were reported on Tuesday,
Despite the worrisome numbers, Disney maintains that its newly enhanced safety protocols – such as hand sanitizer, mandatory masks and social distancing – are sufficient protection to keep cast members (its term for employees) and guests safe in the resort's hotels and theme parks.
Disney CEO wants you back in the parks, mask and all
03:25 - Source: CNN Business
"The world is a different place, but we feel really prepared to operate in this new environment that we're in," Disney chairman of Parks, Experiences and Products Josh D'Amaro told CNN Business on July 11.
At the opening of the Magic Kingdom on July 11, images of long lines at Guest Services – where park attendees sort out any ticket issues before entering the park – circulated on social media as proof that Disney was not enforcing social distancing protocols.
haven't even made it in the gate yet and my heart is pounding out of my chest.
just had to squeeze past a lane of opposite traffic while there's this densely packed line for guest services.
this is unacceptable — and I haven't even made it into the park yet. pic.twitter.com/GTzsAjRlD2
— 🍓✨carlye wisel (@carlyewisel) July 11, 2020
A tweet from theme park journalist Carlye Wisel read:
"haven't even made it in the gate yet and my heart is pounding out of my chest. just had to squeeze past a lane of opposite traffic while there's this densely packed line for guest services. this is unacceptable — and I haven't even made it into the park yet."
That lesson is one Disney learned the hard way.
What's happening at Epcot
Today, at the international entrance to Epcot at the back of the park, there was a cast member managing social distancing in the temperature check line.
The line stretched nearly all the way back to the closest hotel, Disney's Beach Club Resort, but it moved quickly and there were no discernible issues with elevated temperatures from waiting in the sun to get checked when CNN Travel was in line.
"This will be the longest line of the day, I promise," said the cast member monitoring social distancing.
Epcot closed in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. CNN Travel is inside the park today, reopening day.
Alex Menendez/Getty Images
At the gates to Epcot, long lines for temperature checks were the only delay.
Touchless bag screening and tickets decreased interpersonal contact and had no wait at all around the 11 a.m. opening, at least at the international gate.
'Welcome back!'
Inside the gate, cast members holding flags from the international showcase were waving and greeting guests. "Welcome back!" one said. "Drink lots of water. Eat all the foods."
Besides modified entry and and an unusually enthusiastic welcome, the scene looks largely the same as it did before Epcot closed in March.
The main difference: all of the photos in front of the park's iconic dome are of people wearing masks. (Disney said its photographers won't shoot anyone not wearing a mask.)
At the dome
To get into Mouse Gear, Epcot's main gift shop, there was a line of about 15 socially distanced groups.
Julie Tremaine
The park is under major construction, as part of the renovation Disney announced at its 2019 D23 Conference. Almost all of Future World is blocked off by construction barriers.
The central plaza just after Epcot's iconic dome is completely blocked off from foot traffic. To get into Mouse Gear, Epcot's main gift shop, there was a line of about 15 socially distanced groups at 12:30 p.m.
One thing that's not under construction: the Epcot dome itself.
That dome houses Spaceship Earth, one of the original rides that opened in 1982 at the debut of Epcot. A refresh of that ride was scheduled for this year – it was supposed to shut down in May – but those plans are on indefinite hold because of the pandemic.
The original ride is still operational, but because of new safety protocols, the interactive touch screen displays people use after the ride is over aren't available now.
Food and the World Showcase
The Epcot International Food & Wine Festival coincides with reopening day. Some 20 pop-up food kiosks are scattered throughout the World Showcase, including locations from Brazil (above), Hawaii, China and Morocco.
Not everything in Epcot is open yet.
In the World Showcase, many of the restaurants are still closed. The Italy Pavilion and the Mexico Pavilion have operational restaurants, but in the France Pavilion, all of the restaurants and bakeries are closed.
Knowing not all of the epicurean offerings would be in place, Disney accelerated the start of the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, one of the resort's signature events.
Normally, the festival happens in the fall, but this year, it launched on the park's opening day as well. Twenty different pop-up food kiosks are scattered throughout the World Showcase, from locations as far ranging as Hawaii, China, Morocco and Brazil.
7 takeaways from Disney World's July reopening
One major difference to the reopened Epcot: The international program is currently suspended.
Normally, the people working in each of the international pavilions in the World Showcase are from that country (or in the case of Africa, continent). With the pandemic travel restrictions, Disney had to suspend the program. Most of the people working in the pavilions are American.
However, there are a few exceptions. Some of the cast members in France are French; they chose to stay in Florida rather than return home.
"Why would we want to leave?" one said. "The weather is beautiful in Orlando. We have nothing to complain about here."
The mask situation
Before Epcot opened, some critics speculated that mask wearing would be a problem in the park. In the World Showcase, people are encouraged to stroll with a beverage in hand and to graze between different walk-up food areas.
But in CNN Travel's observation, people have been largely adhering to Disney's mask policy. Tables and benches are set at socially distant spots, and people are using them to eat, then put their masks back on to walk to the next area.
In times of higher attendance, unmasked people walking and eating would likely be more of an issue, but on opening day with its low attendance, it's been easy to stay safely away from others while you have your mask off to eat or drink.
A park in transition
Even before the pandemic forced the closure of Epcot, this was a park in transition.
The changes Disney announced at the D23 conference promised a park that honored its retro futuristic heritage but also updated the experience with more exciting rides from Disney hits such as "Ratatouille" and "Guardians of the Galaxy."
Most of the construction was shut down during the pandemic. Currently, there are no updates on when the rides will open.
Originally, Remy's Ratatouille Adventure was slated to open this summer. As Florida's coronavirus numbers continue to fluctuate and people continue to visit (or choose not to visit) the parks, we will see what the rest of this year holds for Epcot and the rest of the Disney empire.


Susan Jackson has worked in the field of addiction for 25 years. She received her Bachelors of Science in Behavioral Science and her Masters of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of La Verne. She began her career working for the City of Chino as a gang interventionist and domestic violence counselor. While at Chino, she began working with substance abusing adolescents and their families. This experience, working with the addictive family system, led to her working at San Antonio Community Hospital on the Chemical Dependency Unit as the family counsel.
Susan worked 8 years on the Chemical Dependency unit for Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center and was promoted to Program Manager for the children and adolescent mental health and chemical dependency program for the last 5 years, a total of 13 years at Loma Linda. Recently Susan joined His House and New Creation as the Clinical Director. Working with the addicted family system is her passion. She is the proud mother of five wonderful children and five amazing grandchildren.