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Matthew Ellis
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Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Chair in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs
BA, Williams College. MPhil, University of Oxford. MA, PhD., Princeton University. Dr. Ellis specializes in the social, intellectual, and cultural history of the modern Middle East. His first book, Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya (Stanford University Press, 2018), examines lived experiences of territoriality in the Eastern Sahara in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the role these experiences played in facilitating the emergence of Egypt and Libya as modern, bordered political spaces. His broader intellectual and teaching interests include: the politics and culture of nationalism; modernity and identity formation in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East; cities and imagined urbanism; nostalgia and the politics of collective memory; popular culture; British, French, and Italian imperialism and decolonization; and the history of mass media and propaganda. Dr. Ellis has published articles in The International Journal of Middle East Studies and History Compass and contributed a chapter to The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). He has received several fellowships supporting his research, including grants from Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Research Center in Egypt. Most recently, he was the recipient of the Paul Mellon/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies, awarded by the American Academy in Rome for the 2020-21 academic year. Dr. Ellis is currently at work on two research projects. The first is a study of Italian imperial citizenship in Libya, with a particular focus on the ways the colonial government responded to the challenge of Libyan mobility as tens if not hundreds of thousands of Libyans fled Italian rule and took refuge in neighboring countries such as Tunisia and Egypt. The second aims to provide an intellectual genealogy of American mass media and propaganda in the middle decades of the 20th century, paying special attention to how social scientists conceived the relationship between mass persuasion and nation-building in the era of decolonization. SLC, 2012–
Undergraduate Courses 2022-2023
Palestine/Israel and the Politics of History
Open, Seminar—Fall
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to major topics and debates in the historiography of Palestine/Israel from the mid-19th century to the present. The course has two broad goals: first, to delineate significant trends and transformations that defined the political, economic, cultural, intellectual, and social history of that contested land in the modern period; and second, to explore the evolution of—and fraught political debates surrounding—varying interpretations of this history. Themes to be covered include: Ottoman Palestine in the 19th and early 20th centuries; Jewish modernity and the origins and trajectory of Zionism as an ideology and political movement; the emergence and development of Palestinian national identity and nationalism; British colonial rule and the Mandate system; the historiography of partition and its consequences; the construction of Israeli national culture and identity after 1948; the politics of memory among Israelis and Palestinians; regional war and diplomacy; the role of the United States and the global ramifications of struggle in Palestine/Israel; and various aspects of state and society within Israel, with a special focus on the diversity of its ethnic and religious composition. It bears saying that this is not a course about the "Arab-Israeli conflict" or even primarily about "conflict," as such; rather, this course provides an integrative approach to Palestinian and Israeli history—emphasizing the construction and articulation of multiple visions for forging collective identity within Palestine/Israel, as well as strategies for establishing and asserting control over it. To this end, we will pay particular attention in this course to cultural sources—especially literature and film—as a way to capture the complexity of voices and identities that claim this land as their own.
Propaganda and Mass Communications in Modern History
Intermediate, Large seminar—Spring
Prerequisite: one year of college-level course work in history and the social sciences
This seminar provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the phenomenon of propaganda and mass communications within modern society. How does propaganda "work"? How should we characterize the individuals and institutions that shape and disseminate it? What are the specific languages and visual symbols that propagandists have typically used to persuade and communicate with mass audiences? How have both "democratic" and "authoritarian" societies sought to generate consent? And how, in turn, have individuals and social groups drawn the line between what is truth and what is propaganda? Although the manipulation of information for political ends has been intrinsic to human societies across history, this course focuses on the so-called "axial age of propaganda," beginning with World War I, which saw the emergence of tightly organized, large-scale, government-sponsored propaganda efforts across Europe and the United States. This course will utilize a variety of case studies to explore the symbolic content of specific kinds of propaganda and the institutional milieux that produce it, paying attention to propaganda that seeks both to overthrow social structures and to maintain them. We will place special emphasis on the interwar period, when—amid the onset of totalitarian regimes in Europe—the very nature of "public opinion" and mass society were hotly debated by intellectuals and interpretive experts. The course will also closely investigate the emergence of mass communications "experts" during World War II and trace their role in shaping social-science research throughout the Cold War. Finally, the course will consider the ubiquity of propaganda in contemporary society, focusing on the role of image-making professionals working in the spheres of political campaigning, advertising, and public relations.
The Emergence of the Modern Middle East
Open, Seminar—Year
This course provides a broad introduction to the political, social, cultural, and intellectual history of the Middle East from the late 18th century to the present. After a brief conceptual overview, the course draws upon a wide array of primary and secondary sources to illuminate the manifold transformations and processes that have contributed over time to shaping what has meant to be "modern" in this remarkably diverse and dynamic region. Particular attention will be paid to the following themes: the question of modernization and reform within the Ottoman and Qajar empires; the experience of different forms of European imperialism in the Middle East; the integration of the Middle East into the world economy; World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire; state-building in both colonial and postcolonial contexts; transformations in religious thought; changing family norms and gender roles and the genesis of Middle Eastern women's movements; nationalism; class politics, social movements, and revolution; Zionism and the Israel-Palestine conflict; post-World War II geopolitics and the Cold War in the Middle East; Nasserism and pan-Arabism; the role of US power in the Middle East; the origins and spread of political Islam; the political economy of oil; globalization and neoliberalism; and the impact of various new cultural forms and media on the formation of identities across the region.
After Colonialism: Development, Modernization, and National Culture in the Middle East During the 'Long 1950s'
Intermediate, Seminar—Fall
The 1950s were a transformative decade in Middle Eastern history. On the one hand, it was a heady period of national liberation. Egypt, under Gamal 'Abd al-Nasser and the Free Officers, shook off the last vestiges of British imperial influence and led the rapidly decolonizing Arab world in calling for the region's complete political and economic independence from the West. Israel, for its part, flexed new muscles as a fledgling independent state and strove doggedly to fortify both the bounds and bonds of the nation. On the other hand, the 1950s witnessed the emergence of a new mode of state-society relations across the Middle East, predicated on a firm ideological commitment to government-led modernization. This course will provide a close examination of the dynamics of postcolonial nation-building and modernization in the Middle East during that pivotal decade by focusing on the interplay of politics and culture—particularly in Egypt, Israel, and Turkey, each of which pursued strikingly parallel paths of modernization and national development in the 1950s with profound consequences for the future of the region. Special attention will be given to cultural production (cinema, music, literature, radio, popular newspapers, and magazines) as a critical lens for understanding how the contours of modern citizenship and national belonging were similarly negotiated and contested throughout the decade.
Decolonization and the End of Empire
Open, Large seminar—Spring
Among the most salient features of the new international order that was ushered in by the end of World War II and the creation of the United Nations in 1945 was the emergence of an unprecedented global wave of decolonization that would last for roughly three decades. As many leaders of the international community consigned the "age of empire" to the dustbin of history, the world witnessed, in rapid succession, the dissolution of European overseas imperial configurations and the consequent formation of myriad new nation states across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. This seminar provides an in-depth historical inquiry into the global phenomenon of decolonization in the post-World War II era. The course will adopt a comparative and transnational lens, exploring—through a wide range of both secondary and primary sources—the complex historical processes that attended decolonization in the British, French, Italian, Dutch, and Portuguese imperial domains. Particular attention will be paid to the following questions: Why did European imperialism end when it did, and how did the politics of anti-colonial nationalism vary across the different empires? How did nationalist movements and local elites negotiate the end of imperial rule, and what challenges did they face in their attempts to build postcolonial societies? What role did international organizations such as the United Nations play in constructing the new decolonized world order? How did the Cold War impact decolonization? How did decolonization work within nascent frameworks in post-World War II international law, particularly concerning the legal status of postcolonial national citizens as well as migrants? And finally, to what extent has decolonization led to a truly "decolonized" world order? Or, to what extent have older imperial discourses, ideologies, and cultural prejudices persisted into the era of postcolonial independence and self-determination? Conference work for this seminar will take the form of small-group work: Each group will undertake research relating to the experience of decolonization in a different European imperial context (British, French, Italian, Dutch, or Portuguese).
Open, Large seminar—Fall
This course provides a broad historical and theoretical inquiry into the phenomenon of nationalism—one of the most enduring ideological constructs of modern society. Indeed, the organization of the globe into a world of bordered territorial nation states—each encapsulating a unique social identity—is such a taken-for-granted feature of contemporary geopolitics that it is easy to forget that nations did not exist for most of human history and that nationalism dates back only to around the 1700s. And yet, despite many predictions of its imminent demise at different moments in history—Albert Einstein quipped famously that nationalism was an "infantile disease" that humanity would eventually outgrow—nationalism remains perhaps as powerful an ideological force as ever in the United States, as elsewhere. This course will examine a range of foundational questions about the emergence of nations and nationalism in world history: What is a nation, and how has national identity been cultivated, defined, and debated in different contexts? Why did nationalism emerge when it did? Who does nationalism benefit, and how do different social groups compete for control over national identity and ideology? How and why did nationalism become such a vital feature of anticolonial political movements beginning in the late-19th century? Is nationalism fundamentally a negative force—violent and exclusionary—or is it necessary for forging cohesive social bonds among diverse and far-flung populations? The course will begin with the emergence of nations and nationalism in Western Europe but will then move on to explore its evolution and ensuing spread to all parts of the globe, exploring a number of case studies along the way. The course will conclude with a brief survey of the state of nationalist politics today, with a particular emphasis on Brexit and white nationalism in the United States.
Popular Culture in the Modern Middle East
How can we characterize the relationship between culture and modernity in the Middle East? Is there even (or has there ever been) such a thing as "popular culture" in such a multilayered and diverse region? This intermediate seminar examines the cultural history of the Middle East from roughly the late 18th century to the present, taking culture as a crucial lens through which to view broader political and social transformations in the region. Along the way, we will also examine some theoretical and comparative scholarship on the formation and interpretation of cultures on various levels—as well as the constitution of mass society and media—and consider their relevance to the historiography of the modern Middle East. Topics to be covered include: coffeehouses and local neighborhood life; poetry, oral tradition, and storytelling; nationalism and the fraught formation of national cultures; the impact of colonialism on Arab, Ottoman, and Persian cultural identities; diglossia and the tension between formal and colloquial Arabic cultural production; literacy, print media, and the issue of reading publics; popular cinema and cultural intimacy; celebrity; radio, television, and the rise of transnational pan-Arab culture; social networking and new media; music videos; and the role of art and culture in the "Arab Spring."
The Middle East and the Politics of Collective Memory: Between Trauma and Nostalgia
Sophomore and Above, Seminar—Fall
What is the relationship between history and memory? How are historical events interpreted and rendered socially meaningful? How is public knowledge about the past shaped and propagated? How and why—and in what contexts—do particular ways of seeing and remembering the past become attached to various political projects? In recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in the unique role and power of memory in public life and have sought to understand the innumerable ways that collective memory has been constructed, experienced, used, abused, debated, and reshaped. In this course, we will explore these themes and questions by reading deeply into the rich literature on historical memory within the field of modern Middle Eastern history. Particular attention will be paid to the following topics: the role of memory in the construction of Palestinian and Israeli national identity; debates over national remembering, forgetting, and reconstruction following the Lebanese Civil War; Middle Eastern diaspora formation and exilic identity (for instance, after the Iranian Revolution of 1979); the myth of a "golden age" of Arab nationalism; Turkish nostalgia for the Ottoman imperial past; war, conflict, and trauma; Islamism and salafi interpretations of Islamic history; and the role of museums, holidays, and other commemoration practices in the construction of the national past across the region. Throughout the course, we will attend to the complex interplay between individual and collective memory (and "countermemory"), particularly as this has played out in several formulations of Middle Eastern nationalism.
Women and Gender in the Middle East
Open, Seminar—Spring
Debates over the status of Middle Eastern women have been at the center of political struggles for centuries—as well as at the heart of prevailing Western media narratives about the region—and continue to be flash points for controversy in the present day. This course will explore the origins and evolution of these debates, taking a historical and thematic approach to the lived experience of women in various Middle Eastern societies at key moments in the region's history. Topics to be covered include: the status of women in the Qur'an and Islamic law; the Ottoman imperial harem; patriarchy and neopatriarchy; the rise of the women's press in the Middle East; women, nationalism, and citizenship; the emergence of various forms of women's activism and political participation; the changing nature of the Middle Eastern family; the politics of veiling; Orientalist discourse and the gendered politics of colonialism and postcolonialism; women's performance and female celebrity; archetypes of femininity and masculinity; and women's autobiography and fiction in the Middle East. Throughout, we will interrogate the politics of gender, the political and social forces that circumscribe Middle Eastern women's lives, and the individuals who claim authority to speak for women. The course will also briefly examine gender and sexuality as categories for historical analysis in the modern Middle East.
'In an Antique Land': An Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies
This course is designed as a broad overview of the cultures, religions, history, and politics of the region typically referred to as the "Middle East"—one of the most complex and least well-understood areas in the world today. Rather than viewing the Middle East as a unified whole—and in sharp contrast to prevailing Western media images of the Middle East as hyperpoliticized, overly ideological, or inherently violent—the course adopts a multilayered, bottom-up approach in order to emphasize the region's fundamental underlying social and cultural diversity. Topics to be covered in this course include: the origins and spread of Islam and "Islamicate" civilization; an overview of the region's major ethnic and linguistic groups, including Arabs, Turks, Persians, Kurds, among others; the evolution of Middle Eastern empires and their political structures and institutions; the varied geographies of the Middle East (ranging from empty deserts to storied metropolises); the dynamic impact of key forces of modernity (such as capitalism, globalization, and nationalism) across the region; gender and the status of women and the family in the Middle East; and the consequences of various 20th-century wars and conflicts (ethnic, sectarian, revolutionary) for Middle Eastern history and politics.
Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya
Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I. Adopting a view from the margins―illuminating the little-known history of the Egyptian-Libyan borderland―the book challenges prevailing notions of how Egypt and Libya were constituted as modern territorial nation-states.
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Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I. Adopting a view from the margins ― illuminating the little-known history of the Egyptian-Libyan borderland ― the book challenges prevailing notions of how Egypt and Libya were constituted as modern territorial nation-states. Publication date: March 20, 2018. Learn more


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On what could've been a potentially historic Sunday June 28.2015 on the PGA Tour in reference to a Canadian breaking through in the winners circle again, and this time not any Canadian but a Canuck who hails from a province who's pastures only allow golf four months in a calendar year, that being Graem Delaet. Delaet, who's birth place is a community that before his rampant success on golf's biggest stage claim to fame was being the home of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey Red Wings of Weyburn, Saskatchewan. Btw, Weyburn I'm sure has many more noteworthy accomplishments than being the home an above average junior A hockey organization, but the hockey guy is coming out in me.
Delaet's penchant in his young golfing career is being somebody that unfortunately can't get past this aura of putting together one stinker of a round in a four round consummation. He's that talented, he's Bubba Watson long, has the demeanor of a laid back but savvy Corey Pavin. but somewhere along the line he is missing that pre 2009 Tiger Woods killer instinct(on the course, not with the ladies as I'm led to believe he's a happily married man). I harken back to his debut season on the tour of 2010 when he chased down the anomaly also known as Anthony Kim. There's no doubt that after watching that Sunday clinic albeit in a losing effort the average Canadian golf fan including myself thought to ourselves that come year 2015 that Graem Delaet would have multiple trophies and a dreamer may of even foreseen a Major Championship with his name engraved with the past and present greats. It just hasn't materialized that way, but why you ask? I revert back to that point I made about him not having that "killer instinct" in his repertoire. I am of the what some consider a baseless theory that once you win in golf, you'll be able to package that ability to a multitude of wins. This theory also comprehends to other sports as evidenced by the 2015 Chicago Blackhawks who have now won for the third time in six years. Back in 2010, which happened to be the Blackhawks first triumph, team leader and Captain Serious himself Jonathan Toews who was only 22 at that time but got a taste of what winning the Stanley Cup symbolized and felt like and sure enough he's been able to lead the Hawks to two more since. I appreciate this is an isolated example of phenomenal athletes meshing together to form something great whilst realizing that golf is a game of individual contractors so feeding off teammates is simply not an option but the brass tacks are that Delaet has been knocking on the door more then Sheldon Cooper does in an entire season of the "Big Bang Theory" that sometime very soon he'll have Penny finally answer the door. The game is definitely there, it's a matter of making a few more puts and stop blowing up with one of his aforementioned bad rounds.
I tend to ramble on, so let's finally get to the why, why and what does Delaet need to do to reach this sports pinnacle? Watching what Bubba Watson does to win such tournaments as this weekend's Travellers Championship not withstanding his two Masters titles, I feel like Delaet can take a few pages out of this playbook to enhance potential solution. Let's call them the "Bubba Rules"
1) Constantly berate and scream at your caddie(How about no, I suggest Graem takes after Bubba's golfing ability, and not mimick his personality because he has the tendency to come off as a complete jackass, one of the tour's all time poor sports ranking right up there with Rory Sabbatini).
2) Work the Golf Ball! -Bubba is known as being one of the most creative players pertaining to his ability to work his golf back, left, right, left right, weaving draws and fades consistently as the hole sees fit. Delaets a bomber off the tee as is Bubba but just because you can hit the golf ball 600 yards doesn't necessarily mean you have to every hole. On a 350 yard par four with water lurking to the right, the potential is there to drive the green but Graem, take out a 4 iron, push it up there 230-240 and have a comfortable wedge onto the green; This will allow more birdeable opportunities.
3)Perfecting the putter-Everybody lauds Watson for his driving ability, but what Bubba doesn't get nearly enough credit for is his work on the greens. The way he reads puts for being is Brad Faxon like, who as a post-cursor to this article was awfully impressed by his golf analysis on last week's US Open golf coverage. You can't score if you can't put and Graem should sit down and watch the tapes of Watson on the greens because he led a few statistical categories around the greens at the Travellers.
4)Fire under your belly-Bubba is a jackass, said it once already but have to repeat a second time to paint a clearer picture. As bad as this for Bubba's PR, conversely it's that same jack-assery that burns his competitive desires because when Bubba's upset, television cameras will vividly hear exactly how he is feeling. When he misses a makeable four foot putter, he may pull a Happy Gilmore and throw it in the lake. Watching Graem who understandably has more of a laid back demeanour. but I need to see some hurt and frustration on the course to get his emotions flowing. It's ok to be agitated at times because golf can be a very frustrating game because as it's essence, it's a game of perfection as you are never truly satisfied. I recall listening to an interview with Vijay Singh years back after he fired a away a respectable 65, and he told who I believe was Peter Kostis that he was kicking himself for missing two very makeable putts earlier in the round. Being content with your game is the demise for lot of golfers, it's time for Graem to get out of this losing funk and show some determination and care.
Graem Delaet came close, but in the end coming close is just about the same accomplishment of finishing T-47 for golfers who are in the upper echelon. I think Graem has tournament titles calling him in the very near future, that's what I think but it's time for Graem to have this same belief.
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Why We Can't Always Stop What We've Started
By Jane Farrell
When we try to make a last-minute decision to stop a body movement, perhaps to keep ourselves from stepping on what we just realized was ice, we can't always do it — and Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists have figured out why.
The researchers found that stopping a planned behavior requires extremely fast choreography between several distinct areas of the brain. If we change our mind about taking that step even a few milliseconds after the original "go" message has been sent to our muscles, we simply can't stop our feet.
"We have to process all of these pieces of information quickly," said senior author Susan Courtney, a professor of psychological and brain sciences. "The question is: When we do succeed, how do we do that? What needs to happen in order for us to stop in time?"
These findings, published in the journal Neuron, map the neural basis for inhibiting movement. They help explain what's going wrong in the brain when people fall more as they age and when addicts can't stop binge behavior.
Scientists had believed only one brain region was active when people changed plans. But the findings of Courtney's team suggest it takes a lightning-fast interaction between two areas in the prefrontal cortex and another in the pre-motor cortex to stop, reverse or otherwise change a plan already in progress.
There is even another brain area, Courtney says, that continues to process what we should have done if we are unable to stop. She jokingly calls it the "oops" area.
In addition to all three areas of the brain communicating successfully, the key to being able to stop, the researchers found, is timing.
For example, imagine you're driving and approaching an intersection when you see a stop sign. You decide to speed though anyway. But just after you send that decision to the part of the brain that will move your foot to hit the gas, you notice a police car and change your mind.
"Which plan is going to win?" said first author Kitty Z. Xu, a former Johns Hopkins graduate student who is now a researcher at Pinterest. "The sooner you see the police car after deciding to go through the light, the better your chance of being able to move your foot to the break instead."
And by soon, Xu means milliseconds.
If you attempt to change your mind after 100 milliseconds or less, you most likely can. If it takes you 200 milliseconds or more — that's less than a quarter of a second — you're still going through with the original plan. That's because the original signal is already on its way to the muscles by then — past the point of no return.
"If you're already executing the plan when you see the police car," Xu said, "you're going to go through."
The team devised a near-identical computer task for human and non-human subjects. While having their brain activity monitored, both the people and one monkey saw one of two shapes on the screen – one shape meant that blue means stop and yellow means go, the other shape meant the opposite. A black circle would then appear and participants would try to move their eyes to look at it quickly. But then a blue or yellow dot might appear, after varying lengths of time, and subjects would have to stop or continue their planned eye movement.
The researchers observed what happened across the full brain with the human results, while electrodes implanted in the monkey's brain measured single cells. Having strong, converging results at both the macro and micro levels provided a more holistic view of how the prefrontal cortex and the pre-motor cortex communicate with each other to stop, Xu said.
When these brain areas don't properly communicate, or don't interact fast enough, that's when we run into trouble, Courtney says.
"We know people with damage to these parts of the brain have trouble changing plans or inhibiting actions," she said. "We know as we age, our brain slows down and it takes us longer to find words or to try to make these split-second plan changes. It could be part of the reason why old people fall."
Knowing more about how the brain can stop an intended activity could also be revealing for those dealing with addictions, Courtney said.
"We think there are similar processes in 'should I do this' and 'can I turn off that thought about the drink,'" Courtney said. "The sooner I can turn off the plan to drink, the less likely I'll carry out the plan. It's very relevant."
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Q: WCF Trace and Performance I just wonder is there is sensible explanaition to such an issue:

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*I have turned on trace on WCF Console host. When I analyze that trace, I can see that individual activities duration is maximum 4 seconds

*On client application I have made simple duration mesurement (before and after call to WCF service). Here results are much bigger (up to 20seconds).

I wonder what is happening in 20-4 seconds? Maybe time traced by host in only time of processing user code, and the rest of time is spent on encoding/decoding messages?
Test is performed in LAN.
Thanks Pawel
P.S. My first thought was that durations on client & server would be comparable.

A: Does one call from the client trigger several individual activities on the server (4x5=20)
Other thing to check is that you are logging in the correct place.
Are you using any streaming or async that could cause this?
Even if you had a routing problem that set it to the internet and back you would not expect that large difference.


James Robison: Are We Going to Rip Amazing Grace from Hymnal Because John Newton Was a Slave Trader?
We've made many mistakes; we have failed throughout history, but Father to go back and root up and tear down every memory, even of those who failed but perhaps were moved to positive change. Are we going to rip Amazing Grace out of every hymnbook because John Newton was a slave trader? Are we gonna go back and attack Wilberforce because he was a member of a parliament in Great Britain that once encouraged and supported slavery? Are we gonna refuse to recognize what you did in spite of our wrong when your grace moved us to respond to your wisdom and apply it? As it has happened in our country, help us to move away from the horrors of the past and the wickedness of things that were in place far too long. And thank you for the corrections that have come and stand against all hatred, all racial tension and division. Even the sectarian, and political and partisan divide. God would you move us together to be a family.
He then prays for Christians to unite and not use the Bible as a "club." Finally, he asks his audience to trust God for a miracle.
What Does His Prayer Have to Do with Charlottesville?
While Robison didn't mention the Charlottesville protests, his words certainly point to that context. His prayer is unusual in that he seems to make a case to God that there is a problem with rooting up symbols from the past. The symbol at issue in Charlottesville was the statue of Robert E. Lee. Although Robison didn't defend the Lee statue directly, it seems reasonable to think he was referring to efforts to remove the statue.
The problem is that none of what Robison prayed relates directly to the Lee statue in Charlottesville. John Newton was a slave trader but did change his mind late in life and supported Wilberforce's effort to end the slave trade. Wilberforce and the British parliament is an even further stretch for a comparable situation. Wilberforce helped bring the slave trade to an end in Britain. Despite the Lost Cause myths surrounding Lee, he wasn't a figure who should be honored with a tribute. In any case, Lee wasn't a hero and didn't end up on the right side. Perhaps, Robison has been a victim of bad history.
According to Robert Morris, the pastor at Gateway, Robison has Donald Trump's personal cell phone number and takes his calls "two or three times per week." Perhaps Trump's stance on this issue has been informed by Robison and those who think like him. If so, I hope someone close to Robison can educate him about Lee and the pain those Confederate symbols cause to many African-Americans.
As for me, I continue to believe Christians should get behind the movement to remove Confederate statues and tributes from the public square and place them in museums or other locations where the evils of slavery and racism are described.


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Rare Indian Grey Wolf Killed In Bangladesh After First Sighting In Decades
DHAKA, Jul 16 (AFP): The first Indian grey wolf to be seen in Bangladesh in eight decades has been beaten to death by farmers after preying on their livestock, wildlife experts said Sunday.
The grey wolf was last seen in Bangladesh in 1949, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Locals in a town near the Sundarbans — the world's biggest mangrove forest that straddles India and Bangladesh — captured and killed the wolf because it had attacked their livestock.
"With the images we confirmed that the animal is an Indian grey wolf," Y.V Jhala of the Wildlife Institute of India told AFP.
There are still about 3,000 of the animals in India, some in captivity, but they disappeared from their habitat in north and northwest Bangladesh in the 1940s, he said.
Anwarul Islam, a zoologist at Dhaka University, collected DNA samples from the animal as his team looks for signs of more Indian grey wolves in the region.
"It's sad it was beaten to death. We need to conduct further investigations to find whether it travelled in a pack," said Islam.
The wolf was killed in early June but was only identified when photos of its corpse were sent to experts.
A host of animals — including the striped hyena, swamp deer and black buck — have disappeared from Bangladesh in recent decades.
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CTY SONY OPEN - 15 JANUARY 2015- The iconic Waialae Country Club palm trees were silhouetted against hazy vog-ridden skies during the first round of the Sony Open on Thursday. Honolulu Star-Advertiser photo by Cindy Ellen Russell
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Paul Casey had gone a decade between appearances at Waialae Country Club, and his last wasn't terribly memorable.
Webb Simpson has been a far more frequent visitor, but arrived this year working a major change into his game.
Both made themselves comfortable on a calm and hazy Thursday morning while tearing through the course with twin rounds of 8-under-par 62 to take the first-round lead in the Sony Open in Hawaii.
"I had no idea what to expect today, so I'm over the moon with that," Casey said after just his third round at Waialae.
Simpson, playing his first PGA Tour event with a conventional putter, started on No. 10, three groups behind Casey. He took just 12 strokes with the new putter over his last 11 holes, catching Casey with eight birdies over that stretch.
The front nine at Waialae, considered the tougher side of the course, was especially welcoming on Thursday in yielding a 28 to Simpson and a 29 to Camillo Villegas, who ended the morning a shot behind the leaders at 63.
Of those who went out in the afternoon, only Robert Streb made a serious run at the leaders, matching Villegas at 7 under in the first full-field event of 2015.
Rory Sabbatini finished another stroke back followed by a pack of six at 5 under.
Streb, the early leader in the FedEx Cup standings, was at even par before playing a five-hole stretch from No. 8 through 12 at 6 under, highlighted by an eagle on No. 9. He will try to take advantage of an early tee time Friday.
Casey teed off at No. 10 at 7:20 a.m. in his first appearance at Waialae since missing the cut in 2005. He opened in the Middle East nearly every year since and had been sidetracked by injuries along the way.
He landed his drive in the fairway on just five holes in his return to Waialae, but hit 15 greens in regulation and needed just 25 putts to get through his round.
"The key really was the irons predominantly were pin high, gave myself sort of a lot of 9- to 12-foot putts and I holed a lot of putts," Casey said. "I can't explain it, just felt very, very comfortable with the putter considering I have not done a massive amount of practice, and it's nice to see them going in the middle."
Simpson's 28 tied the lowest score on Waialae's front nine since 1983, matching Toshinori Muto's run in the second round of the 2012 Sony Open.
Simpson, the 2012 U.S. Open champion, had used a belly putter since the fall of 2004 when he played for Wake Forest. He made the change to a conventional putter a year ahead of the mandated switch with anchored putters banned starting in January 2016.
He swung his Odyssey White Hot just 23 times in what he called "one of the best putting rounds I've ever had," finishing with a 3-foot birdie on the par-5 ninth.
"I've been putting well with it, but it's easy to putt well at your home course playing with your buddies," Simpson said. "So today there was a lot of pressure and didn't sleep that great last night, but had a good morning, talked to my wife and good warm-up, and it was big to see a few putts go in early."
Of course, a solid ball striking day tends to ease some pressure off the putter.
"Made a few long putts, hit a couple in there close, but I drove it really well," said Simpson, who hit 10 of 14 fairways. "When you drive it well you have a lot of wedges and 9-irons and 8-irons and the pins weren't too terribly difficult today."
Villegas said he wasn't aware just how well he was playing until he got to 14 and realized he'd shot 29 on the front. He leveled off with just one more birdie on the back, missing an 11-footer on No. 18 before tapping in for par.
"Obviously we're used to having more wind here, but the golf course is in great shape," Villegas said. "It's still on the firm side … greens are fast and you've got to hit good shots. Are you going to see a little better scores because of the lack of wind? Yes. But is it easy out there? No."
Streb arrived at Waialae with four top-10 finishes in six starts this season, including his first career win at the McGladrey Classic in October.
He tied for eighth at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions last week on Maui and was even par through seven holes. He birdied the eighth then hit a 6-iron from 189 yards away on the ninth fairway. His shot threatened the pin before stopping 3 feet away to set up an eagle.
"I was just hoping it would get close," Streb said. "If it goes in it's always a huge bonus but I was hoping I had the right distance."
Defending champion Jimmy Walker ended the afternoon as part of an 11-player logjam at 4 under.
"I hit a lot of good putts that didn't go in, but that's good," Walker said. "You guys see that, you shoot 4 under and you think, 'wow it could have been a lot more.' So that means there's a lot out there left, and we'll go get it the next three days."
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I'm excited to talk about my latest project that just went live a couple weeks ago: Centwise. Centwise is a Windows Phone 7 & 8 app client for a service that I use regularly, Splitwise.
Splitwise is a web app that lets you manage IOUs and bill splitting. I use it day-to-day during outings with friends but mainly I use it to keep track of bills and household expenses between me, my fiancee, and our roommate. It's a great tool and they provide native apps for iOS and Android. When I started Centwise, they didn't have a WP app and I figured as an avid user of the service, my first app could be a Splitwise client.
I really want to thank the Splitwise team (Jon & Ryan!) for helping me out, answering questions, and for mentioning Centwise on their blog.
I bought a HTC 8X when it was announced on Verizon day one. I knew I wanted to leave my old Droid Incredible in the dust and move on to greener pastures. Being a Microsoft stack guy, I figured Windows Phone would be good not only because I like the interface and experience but also because I could make some apps for the platform.
In the past, I've worked with WPF and XAML before, so learning the ins and outs of the pared-down Silverlight for Windows Phone wasn't too terrible but there were certainly roadblocks. I've tried to bookmark every article or post I came across that helped me out, which I'll share at the end. Coming from a primarily web-based focus to a native XAML/C# platform was certainly jarring and there were times I slammed my hands on the keyboard exclaiming, "THIS WOULD BE WAY EASIER IN CSS AND HTML!" Like making a transparent button, for example.
I hope to go more in detail with certain issues as well as share some tips and tricks I learned along my journey to building my first app. There can be a lot of crazy things you wouldn't know XAML can do if you didn't spend time deconstructing bigger open-source libraries (which I highly recommend, I often kept Phone Toolkit open alongside my own app to see how they built controls).
All apps have a beginning. Mine began on paper using the excellent paper templates provided by Michael Bach.
Here are the paper sketches I made that helped me form the screens for the app. I spent most of my time sketching the more complex pages, the ones that needed to do or show a lot of stuff but where I wanted to keep it as simple as possible.
I've found it helpful to do these types of sketches to help me visualize the UI. It also helps me see immediately whether or not my idea makes sense.
From there, I could start working on the XAML and the screens to put my ideas into the app. However, as you'll soon see, my first ideas usually weren't the best.
User specifies "Create an IOU"
This was pretty straightforward... after all, there are only 3 steps. But that was one step too many. It also ended up complicating my code quite a bit due to managing the back stack (i.e. what happens when a user cancels or hits 'Back').
That's just one example of a change I had made that was different from my first implementation.
If you take a look at the second set of sketches, you can see I drastically changed how the IOU (and other) screens were laid out.
Instead of a button, I created a CalculatorTextBox that combines a calculator and amount textbox into one.
Moved the currency button to the appbar menu items because it's not something a user will typically use often.
That's been true with everything I've ever had the pleasure to work on. Easy is hard.
I didn't have any formal beta testers, mainly because the Windows Phone Dev Center didn't let me (sigh), but that didn't stop me from showing it to friends and family to have them test it out.
The core implementation of the app is pretty simple... it's all the extra work I had to put in to make the app simple that wasn't easy. Not only was it my first time trying to learn Windows Phone development, I also have a tendency to spend a lot of time on little things.
If the user adds an expense type in the context of a group, then the picker shows the people in that group first.
I use this people picker anywhere I need to, including when creating a group. By reusing the same experience, the user never has to learn a new way of picking people.
There's just a ton of little things like that throughout the app that the user probably won't ever notice but I hope surfaces in the form of, "Hey, this is easy to use!". I didn't want the app to get in the way of the user doing whatever they needed to do.
Let me break it down for you: I am insane.
You can forgive me if I plan to take it a bit slower with updates. I was hoping to finish in time for the Next App Star challenge but unfortunately even spending countless hours during the week, the app just wasn't in a good state in time for that deadline.
I hope to go into more technical detail around some of the things I did with my app at a later point. I was really excited to learn how to build a Windows Phone app and am very pleased with the result. I didn't build it expecting to make thousands of dollars; I'll be lucky (and happy) if I break $500 but making it a paid-for app motivates me as a single developer to keep the app up-to-date and full of useful features. I have personal projects and open projects that eat up time that I need to make sure I can support each one of them.
As far as what I have planned, you can keep tabs on CentwiseApp.com or follow Centwise on Twitter or Facebook. I hope to do a UI refresh soon and I have about 20+ enhancements to incrementally add. I already released the 1.1 update that added several new features, so that's a good start!
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Krabloonik buyers winning trust of animal activists
Snowmass | December 2, 2014
Jill Beathard
Snowmass Sun
Gina and Danny Phillips, Krabloonik's directors of operations, are in negotiations to purchase the dog-sledding and restaurant business from owner Dan MacEachen. Voices for the Krabloonik Dogs, a group advocating for better care of the animals, says that the couple has made some positive changes.
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The Krabloonik dog-sledding operation may soon have new owners, leading animal-rights activists to believe that the sled dogs are in good hands.
Danny and Gina Phillips came on board a year ago after owning their own dog-sledding business in Sandpoint, Idaho, for 10 years. They were named directors of operations in May, and in September, they signed an agreement with owner and founder Dan MacEachen to purchase the business. Now they are waiting on the town of Snowmass Village to reassign its lease on the property.
The council will hear the change-of-ownership proposal during the regular council meeting Dec. 1. The town plans to include the proposal in its council packet, which will be released Nov. 27 at http://www.tosv.com.
MacEachen has entrusted the Phillipses with full control of Krabloonik's management. The Phillipses have implemented many changes that members of the organization Voices for the Krabloonik Dogs have been advocating for over the years, instilling confidence in the group that standards are rising at Krabloonik.
"I think they've done a great job," said Voices member Bill Fabrocini. "Danny and Gina have a good interest in what's best for the dogs."
The changes made include enhancing a summer exercise schedule that MacEachen started, an organized adoption program and a spay/neuter program sponsored by the nonprofit Friends of the Aspen Animal Shelter. Dogs that are available for adoption now reside in their own section of the kennel where the public can visit them, and they aren't tethered to their houses during the day like the other animals.
All of the dogs now have shavings in their houses to provide insulation and are given snacks during the day and massages when they return from a sled tour. Every animal is tagged, and veterinary records are matched to the identification, something the kennel was asked to correct before the Phillipses arrived.
The Phillipses say they're "joining forces" with Voices. The organization has helped deliver adopted dogs to their new homes, taking some as far as Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Voices is helping the couple determine how they can reduce the amount of time the dogs have to be on their tethers.
Despite their confidence in Danny and Gina, Fabrocini and other members of Voices are hesitant to throw their full support behind the business because MacEachen still holds the note. MacEachen was charged with eight counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty in December 2013, and he is scheduled to stand trial in May.
"I definitely think they're more open to raising the standard of care," said Voices member Leigh Vogel. "It doesn't negate that Dan MacEachen is still the owner. There's a fear factor."
Fabrocini said it has never been Voices' goal to put Krabloonik out of business, but the members don't have faith in MacEachen, who they allege is abusive and neglectful.
"We just don't think Dan MacEachen will raise the standard of care," Fabrocini said.
Through a land swap with MacEachen several years ago, the town acquired the Krabloonik parcel and agreed to lease it to him for $10 a year. Now, the Phillipses are waiting for the Town Council to reassign the lease to them.
The Phillipses say they need to complete the transfer and the purchase so that they can obtain their liquor license, liability insurance and kennel licensing for the season.
"We're totally in a stop with everything until the town approves this," Danny Phillips said.
Mayor Markey Butler recently said she would discuss rescheduling the item with the town manager and her fellow council members. However, it isn't clear yet whether that will happen or what meeting it would be scheduled for.
Once that discussion happens, though, Butler wants to add some requirements to the lease regarding the animals' care. A branch of the state Department of Agriculture monitors small-scale dog breeders such as Krabloonik, but Butler thinks the town could do more.
"Having gone through many surveys with the state of Colorado in health care, they look for minimum standards to be met and not best practices," said Butler, who works in the health care industry. "I would want the theme to be best practices."
Fabrocini called that an "excellent idea."
"It should be everything that we talked about in the past," such as rules regarding euthanasia, breeding and identification, he said.
"Danny and Gina probably don't need those things," he added, but he said that having rules on the record in case the couple ever sells Krabloonik as well as grounds for enforcement will be helpful.
"There's been so much negativity," Danny Phillips said. "The negativity affects the dogs. We need positive things out there in the community. It's all about the dogs."
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FRONTERA: People Persons Helping People
Ches Williams
Frontera Strategies
Mobile medical diagnostic testing company
60 employees, founded in 2001
Frontera is a mobile medical diagnostic testing company and was founded in 2001 by Ches Williams, Nate Nelson, and Richard Baker. They worked at the same startup fifteen years ago, and when the dotcom bubble burst, they were forced to figure out what to do next.
At the time, neither partner had any experience in the healthcare industry and didn't even get regular doctor's checkups. But they were intrigued with the space and had encouragement to pursue their business idea. Getting investors, in Ches' own words, was "comical" without any founder healthcare expertise, so they boot-strapped the business. They were able to get a small business loan, and the equipment manufacturer gave them favorable terms to start acquiring machines and diagnostic equipment. Today, Ches is happy to report that many of their first clients are still with them, and as Frontera's business has grown, so has that of their clients.
We dug more deeply into Frontera's growth and how their culture has evolved over the years. Ches often proclaims that he's no expert, but he shares a bunch of fundamental (and pretty damn good) best practices on how to improve company culture at work.
We're All in it Together
Looking back to 2011, Frontera went through tough times due to cuts from health insurance policies. During that period, they guarded information from others in the company. An epiphany happened at a low point when the founders needed everyone's help to turn the company around. Ches and his partnters decided to open up a new era of transparency and shared financial data with key employees who had previously been in the dark about profitability and couldn't even guess the company's revenue size. They embraced the Rockefeller Habits company-wide, created quantifiable goals, and opened communications. Everyone got on board after this, and it became a turning point in the culture.
Integrate HR Earlier and with a Higher Purpose
Frontera hired their internal HR when they reached forty employees. Looking back, Ches wishes he'd hired an HR consultant much earlier on a fractional or retainer basis. Initially, Ches's partner did the HR, and he did not like doing it. But it wasn't any of the partners' core competencies, either. If they had brought someone in who knew what they were doing much earlier, they all would have experienced less pain going forward.
Hiring a full-time HR specialist brought a new, now integral energy to the on-boarding process for new employees. Frontera used to start new employees on Monday, the busiest day of the week, when managers were the most distracted. On top of that, new hires were relegated to a corner to fill out paperwork, then just lurked around until someone finally had time to focus on them.
Ches took an excerpt from a Jack Daly presentation:
Daly: "Show of hands, how many people have had a party for your employee on their last day of work?"
(Everyone in the audience raises their hand.)
Daly: "You're all idiots!"
Daly drives home the point that most company cultures do not invest in the on-boarding process as much as they should.
Ches and his partners decided to change Frontera's on-boarding process, and the moment they did, the employees loved it. From day one, a new hire starts to understand the company's history, vision, mission, values, and how the company makes money.
Now, newcomers have a welcome sign on the board with their name on it. On the first day of work, their coworkers have a party to show the employee that they're excited to have them on the team.
I like Jack Daly's question and have been guilty of this at NetConversions and BuddyTV. But now I see how important it is to make a first impression on new hires. Now I'm actively looking to upgrade our new hire integration process, especially their first week to focus on vision, mission, and values right away.
— David Niu
Recognizing What Motivates People
Ches acknowledges that they can always do better at understanding what motivates people. When a manager comes from a sales background, it's easy to assume that other people are also motivated by extra money. But Ches and his partners learned that some people want more recognition, others would like more time off, and some will strive a little harder to be rewarded with a trip. Ches aspires to create a compensation plan to help everyone achieve their goals, whatever they may be, and understanding the motivating factors is the first step.
Trophies for Winners
Every year, Frontera awards a "Heisman" award to an employee that goes the extra mile and embodies their culture. The idea behind this award: if everyone was like this prize-winner, Frontera would have an A+ culture. The award is a three-night stay with their spouse at a resort that Ches himself vacationed at many years ago. The experience at this resort left such a memorable impression that he still talks fondly about it today. He wants Frontera to have a similar positive impact on their own customers—he wants clients to talk about what a wonderful experience they had with the company's services.
You Got Caught!
Ches and his partners also know the power of daily recognition. His partner Richard started the "You-got-caught!" initiative that empowers employees to recognize their peers for good deeds each day. Many Frontera employees are field based, so the executive team rarely got to see them do phenomenal things. Employees feel great about recognizing a peer, and the peer loves being recognized. The initiative quickly gained popularity and effectively reinforces core values and purposes.
Take it Outside
In addition to daily recognition, Ches explains that company events are important unifying activities, especially because their employees are spread out over a large geographic area. "Frontera's Amazing Chase" was an urban race they personally created along with a hired event planner. It brought employees from different locations together in spirit. Everyone in the company knew that they were doing the same things as other employees in different areas, which built camaraderie and created a meaningful shared experience, which is vital to a positive company culture.
Frontera partnered with a company personality test called Culture Index (CI), which improves manager and partner communication with employees. Publishing the profiles company-wide promotes understanding amongst the staff. Ches now knows that he has to slow down when talking to someone in his office who is very detail-oriented, or use different listening skills with someone more introverted. The test results also assist in the hiring process. By better determining who will thrive in certain roles, top performers can be hired and nurtured more effectively.
For a guy who keeps saying he's not an expert in HR and company culture, he sure has a lot of great ideas. Ches acknowledges that with so many new culture initiatives coming down the pipe—Rockefeller Habits, You-Got-Caught, Culture Index, and a few more—Frontera risks overloading employees. People might just throw up their hands and say, "I don't get all this stuff!" So Ches intends to patiently see these things through and to let change happen over time.
He says, "The train has left the station and we're going down this path. It's up to us to help them believe it, but not everyone wants to be along for the journey, and that's OK."
Maybe the key is to admit we're not perfect so that we'll always keep striving to do better.
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WORKING IN: Paddling their Own Canoe to Success
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DYNAMITE: Evolves and Ignites
New Zealand in the Rear View Mirror
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BODY BOLSTER: Healthy Business
WEDDING LIST CO: I Dos and Business Don'ts
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PUREPROFILE: Clever Culture
THE NILE: The River Delivers
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CHEEKY FOOD GROUP: Cooking Up Fun
GOFUNDRAISE: Inspirational Innovation
Australia: Looking Back Down Under
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ASIA EVOLUTION: Evolving Management Styles from Midwest to Far East
Closing a Chapter with an Open Mind
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Remembering Vietnam
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AGNÉS B. DÉLICES: Finding the Sweet Spot
REDWOLF AIRSOFT: A Marksman in Business
We'll See You Again, China!
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Back in the USA
APEX FACILITY RESOURCES: Swooping in to Help
CHAMELEON TECHNOLOGIES: Showing True Colors
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WETPAINT: A Fresh Approach
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On Thursday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy invited government officials, technical experts in academia, heads of industrial research labs and business leaders to attend the "Artificial Intelligence for American Industry" summit. Big River Steel's chief executive officer Dave Stickler was in attendance as part of the discussions on how industries are adopting AI technologies to benefit their customers, workers and shareholders.
A common theme throughout the summit was how AI and related technologies are creating new types of jobs and demand for new technical skills across industries, a point that particularly resonated with Stickler as he reflected on the team at Big River.
Big River has partnered with Noodle.ai and EFT Analytics to introduce machine learning throughout it's steel mill in Osceola, Arkansas. Big River's steelmaking technology was primarily supplied by SMS group and was designed to produce niche steels including advanced high strength steels (AHSS) for the automotive and transportation industries as well as electrical steels. Predicting energy consumption and optimizing scheduling are two areas where machine learning models are positively impacting Big River.
Real-world examples such as Big River's were common throughout the meetings, proving AI and machine learning are transforming every industry. The ability to share and learn from others who are in the forefront of these technologies was a key takeaway for Stickler.
More information on the Artificial Intelligence for American Industry Summit can be found here.
Big River Steel has built the world's first Flex Mill™, a steel mini mill focused on the production of a wide product spectrum, including advanced automotive steels and electrical steels. Since operations began in 2016, Big River has provided steel products to over 180 customers in the automotive, energy, construction and agricultural industries. And that's just the beginning. At Big River, there's no talk of the status quo. True innovation is rebellious.
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the Ontario International Airport Authority broke ground today on a hangar that will house Raytheon's flying testbed platform.
U.S. Rep. Ken Calvert (CA-42), a lifelong resident of Riverside County, commended Raytheon's arrival in the Inland Empire.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world's leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, announced today that Bob Gourley, CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former Director of Intelligence (J2) at the Department of Defense's cyber defense organization, JTF-CND, has been confirmed as a speaker for the fifth annual CSA Federal Summit (Washington, DC, May 15), where he will provide the closing keynote address.
His presentation—"Learn the Threat to Beat the Threat: An updated threat brief by a pioneer in cyber threat intelligence"—will cover how the most resourced threat actors include nation states that want to penetrate systems to prepare for or support conflict or to extract valuable data. Attendees will learn how to reduce their risk of becoming collateral damage in cyberwar and improve their chances of protecting their data by staying up to date on threat tactics, techniques and methods.
Gourley is the founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Crucial Point LLC, a technology research and advisory firm, where he provides CTO services and due diligence consulting. He is the publisher of CTOvision.com and ThreatBrief.com and is the author of The Cyber Threat. He started his career as a naval intelligence officer, which included operational tours in Europe and Asia. He went on to become the first Director of Intelligence (J2) at the Department of Defense's cyber defense organization, JTF-CND, where he pioneered concepts of cyber-threat intelligence. Following retirement from the Navy, he was an executive with TRW and Northrop Grumman, before returning to government service as the CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
He was named one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the globe by Infoworld. Additionally, he was selected for AFCEAs award for meritorious service to the intelligence community, and was named by the Washingtonian as one of DC's "Tech Titans." The blog he founded and publishes, CTOvision, is now ranked among the top 50 federal technology blogs.
The event is expected to draw more than 250 information security professionals from civilian and defense agencies, as well as innovators in cloud security, to share case studies, lessons learned, and new technologies that support secure implementation of cloud computing to support agency missions.


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Asus, the smartphone manufacturer from Taiwan, just announced its latest flagship smartphone named as the Asus Zenfone 5Z. The Asus Zenfone 5Z is the premium smartphone in the Zenfone 5 series which is the latest Asus Zenfone series. As far as the Asus Zenfone 5Z's design is concerned, the smartphone comes with a notch in the middle of the display same as the iPhone X.
Looking at the specifications of the Asus Zenfone 5Z, the device comes with a 6.20-inch display with a resolution of 1080 pixels by 2246 pixels and an aspect ratio of 19:9 due to the notch. Also, the device is powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor and comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. Interestingly, the memory of Asus Zenfone 5Z can be expanded up to 2TB.
Asus Zenfone 5Z also packs a dual camera setup on the back where the primary camera is a 12MP one. On the front is an 8MP camera for front-facing videos and selfies. The device comes with a 3300 mAh non-removable battery and is powered by Android Oreo.
Asus has launched the latest Zenfone series smartphone which has been named as the Asus Zenfone 5Z. The Zenfone 5Z from Asus is launched under the flagship Zenfone 5 series of 2018.
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VCU is leaving the Colonial Athletic Association for the tournament-rich Atlantic 10, according to report from CBS Sports. The VCU Rams join the Butler Bulldogs as the newest members of the conference.
The A10 has received multiple bids to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last five years. The CAA has had just four at-large bids to the tournament since 2000, which proved to be deciding factors for VCU and Butler. Butler has made two Final Four appearances, in 2010 and 2011, and VCU made the Final Four in 2011.
The two additions offset the loss of Temple and Charlotte. Temple went to the Big East and Charlotte joined Conference USA.
The Duquesne Dukes finished the 2011-2012 season with a 16-15 record, earning the ninth seed in the A10 tournament. They lost in the first round to Massachusetts.
For more Duquesne coverage, visit SB Nation's team page for the Dukes. To keep up with all of the recent conference realignment, check out SB Nation's NCAA hoops hub.


Today was very special, spent with someone I greatly admire. Sir David Attenborough was filming with us in the Vivarium. It was such a pleasure to share time with him and show him our amphibian collection. The footage will feature in an hour-long BBC special focusing entirely on frogs and their conservation.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff who have also been involved, including my invaluable assistant Adam, and also members of our visitors services team for all their support. Here is a moment away from camera where Sir David shows his excitement in seeing our collection.
Amazing Andrew! Can't wait to see the documentary. Well done!
Well done to Andrew and Adam. Thanks for sharing this video clip of David Attenborough interacting with the Splendid Tree Frog. Looking forward to seeing the documentary!
The MACINT students (conference interpreting) had a talk by Andrew last week and we all loved the frogs! Very interesting and interactive and really brought the topic to ´life,´ and dealt with people speaking in 5 languages!


Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest reflected on the changes made by the Finance Ministry in 2018, as well as those on the horizon, during a Leadership Symposium hosted by the Public Treasury Department for Accounting Heads and Finance and Accounting Officers.
"I am thinking of Fiscal Responsibility Legislation, in particular. The Fiscal Responsibly Act, 2018, is a great metaphor for the changes because it stands for a new era of transparency, accountability, inclusivity, stability and forward planning," DPM Turnquest said January 11 event held at the British Colonial Hilton.
He noted that passing a new law does not automatically transform everything, but it sets the standard, and obligates the shifting of the culture.
The DPM added that these initiatives have only scratched the surface of what is possible in terms of better governance.
He said on the horizon, the Public Financial Management legislation is underway, which will replace and modernize the Financial Administration and Audit Act, more clearly defining the roles and responsibility of finance officers, and introducing criminal penalties for financial misconduct.
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Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis will travel to Brussels, Belgium, today to hold bilateral talks with high-ranking officials of the European Commission. The Prime Minister will be promoting recent initiatives by the government in the financial services sector.
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