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Changing Hearts and Brains: SOF Must Prepare Now for Neurowarfare
The weaponization of neurotechnology – neurowarfare – poses unique challenges in a strategic environment that emphasizes competition between major powers. As powers compete for influence against one another, neuroweapons that directly target the brain to sway an adversaries' actions are likely to be employed with increasing frequency. No longer should we conceptualize the human mind as a target for psychological influence through communication operations over long periods of time; neurotechnology paves the way for influence via physical brain modification to achieve almost immediate psychological shifts. Special Operations Forces (SOF) are uniquely positioned to confront the complex and dynamic threats neurowarfare poses but is currently under-prepared to take up the challenge. In line with USSOCOM's 2020 'Innovation for Future Threats' priority, the present article aims to fill this gap by providing actionable recommendations: (1) immediately implement neurowarfare training across the SOF enterprise; (2) invest in research on (a) cognitive degradation caused by neuroweapons, and (b) neuroweapons detection, disruption, and targeting; and (3) develop doctrine on neurowarfare. Ultimately, SOCOM needs to take a proactive stance by developing 'neuro SOF professionals' equipped to navigate this new battlespace.
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The Special Operations Research Topics 2022 publication highlights a wide range of topics collaboratively developed and prioritized by experts throughout the Special Operations Forces (SOF) community. The topics in these pages are intended to guide research projects for Joint Professional Military Education students, JSOU faculty and students, and others writing about special operations during this academic year. This research will provide a better understanding of complex issues and opportunities for growth, and contribute to the evolution of the way SOF leaders think.
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Irregular Warfare Podcast: Back to the Future - Resetting Special Operations Forces for Great Power Competition
An interview with Michèle Flournoy, former USD-P, and Admiral (Ret.) Eric Olson, former USSOCOM commander
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The Honorable Michèle Flournoy is the cofounder and managing partner of WestExec Advisors. She previously served as the under secretary of defense for policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012, where she played a key role in formulating US strategy and policies that impacted SOF. Michèle is also the cofounder, and served as the chief executive officer, of the Center for a New American Security, a DC-based think tank.
Retired Admiral Eric Thor Olson was the eighth commander of United States Special Operations Command. Eric is a highly decorated Navy SEAL officer, having been awarded both a Silver Star and a Bronze Star for Valor, and was the first Navy SEAL appointed to the ranks of three-star and four-star admiral. At the time of his retirement, he was the longest-serving SEAL in the military.
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A roundup of stories related to the special operations community of interest
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-International SOF in action (Canada, UK, Denmark)
-Counter threat finance applied to GPC
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-Updates and analysis on ongoing conflicts
-Upcoming events
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-AFSOC's recent Emerald Warrior Exercise
-Training between Indian and US SOF
-SOF/CIA operational cooperation
-PRC and Russian information warfare
-Various global hotspots
-Plus upcoming events
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A conversation with Col. Brian Rauen and Capt. Barrett Martin from 10th Special Forces Group and Dr. Ryan Burke of Project 6633
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"The US Army's Special Forces groups are largely oriented toward specific regions, and 10th Group has a particular focus on Europe—which means they have a natural organizational interest in the Arctic region. Last year, Capt. Martin led a team that went to the high northern latitudes in Europe to train alongside Norwegian and Swedish forces. He shares some of what his team learned during that experience, and Col. Rauen talks about why the Arctic is an area of growing importance for 10th Group. They also discuss some of the especially unique challenges posed to special operations forces working in such an extreme environment.
10th Group and Project 6633 have also partnered to host an essay contest, inviting submissions that address the question of how American special operations forces can compete with near-peer adversaries in the polar regions. If you're interested in entering the contest, you can find more details here."
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Special Operations News Update – Monday, March 29, 2021
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JSOU Quick Look: Cyber Fundamentals for SOF
Publication: https://jsou.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=60465000
"Cyberspace operations extend the reach, agility, pace and effectiveness of SOF when fully integrated into doc-trine, training, planning and execution. For example, foreign internal defense requires cyber-enabled opera-tion off the grid and detection of adversary activity to enable partner response. In contrast, unconventional warfare needs ways for resistance movements to make its own equipment and that can happen with cyber-en-abled 3-D printing.All SOF core activities can be cyber enabled. However, for each core activity SOF needs different cyber-enabled capabilities to secure these benefits."
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"Birds Fly. Men Drink." The Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society
My novel Silver Wings, Iron Cross sprang from a lifelong interest in World War II. I grew up hearing my grandfather's stories from his service with the legendary Eighth Air Force. Without a doubt, he provided the primary inspiration that led me to fly in the military and eventually to write this novel. But I benefitted from other mentors along the way, as well. They include a fellow journalist I met back in the 1980s, when I was a brand-new reporter.
At the time, I worked for WDNC Radio in Durham, NC. Back then, radio stations actually covered local news, and I reported on city and state government, hurricanes, wildfires, and pretty much anything else that impacted North Carolina. WDNC was part of the Herald Sun Corporation. And in an office down the hall from the radio station, Ed Hodges typed—yes, typed—beautifully written pieces for the Durham Morning Herald. Among other assignments, Ed covered the White House, and he wrote a much-loved column titled "Folks Around Here."
Though two generations older than me and vastly more experienced, Ed treated me as a friend and colleague, and he encouraged and coached me as a writer and journalist. Along the way, he mentioned that he'd served as a military pilot in World War II. I wanted to hear details, but under the pressure of daily deadlines, both of us had more urgent priorities.
Then, in December of 1986, we decided to go cover the same feature story: the annual meeting of the Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society. It was a gathering of pilots and aviation enthusiasts that began every December 16, near Kitty Hawk. Their stated goal: party through the night to mark the anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight on December 17, 1903. Or, as the members said with wry grins, the Wright Brothers' first alleged flight. This was before the internet. Back then, if you made a preposterous claim, everybody knew you were kidding or you were a crackpot. The motto of these wiseasses was Birds Fly, Men Drink. In truth, they'd done plenty of flying, some quite heroically.
The company loaned Ed and me a van for the trip from Durham down to the North Carolina coast. I drove while Ed regaled me with stories of flying "over the hump"—over the Himalayas—to carry supplies from India to Chinese forces battling the Japanese. It was the largest airlift of World War II. By November of 1945, the operation had delivered more than 650,000 tons of war materiel. In C-46s and other aircraft, Ed and his colleagues pulled off a feat that would be challenging even now, with modern C-130s and C-17s. Harsh weather and jagged terrain made for perilous flying. Pilots said an "aluminum trail" marked the crash sites of lost aircraft.
If memory serves, a hotel in Nag's Head became the base of operations for the Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society. I listened to those guys tell anecdotes from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and I thought I was among demigods. Chuck Yeager flew in on the 17th. He piloted a Piper Cheyenne 400LS turboprop to establish a speed record for that class of aircraft on a flight from Edwards Air Force Base, California, to Kitty Hawk.
At the time, I had not yet taken the controls of an aircraft. But Ed and his drinking buddies helped inspire me to fly and to serve in the military.
I don't remember what I wrote about the all-night party. I don't remember what Ed wrote. It's a wonder either of us could write anything the next day.
All the way back to Durham, Ed and I talked flying. I told him I wanted to learn to fly and perhaps join the Air Force. He was delighted, but he warned me, "If you fly enough, a lot happens to you." As a gifted writer, Ed knew the power of understatement. And with a twenty-year Air National Guard career behind me now, I can attest to the truth of his words.
During the drives to and from the coast, however, Ed, in his modesty, left out important details. He didn't tell me he'd completed fifty missions. He didn't tell me he'd earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Bronze Star. I learned that part years later, when, with great sadness, I read his obituary.
I would love to talk flying with Ed again, and let him critique some of my copy. But, as pilots say, he has flown West to serve a higher command. I just hope that in Ed's present duty station, they provide current intel briefings. Maybe this kind, brave, and talented man knows his influence still carries on.
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dbcorey on May 18, 2020 at 11:37 am
Great piece. Your pic is a nice shot of you.
Thomas W. Young on May 18, 2020 at 12:57 pm
Thanks, DB. I appreciate that.
Judy Haley on March 20, 2021 at 4:02 pm
Very touching and very impressive. I remembering reading this before and loved it then as well as now. This man truly kicked ass. Glad you had such great inspiration.
Thomas W. Young on March 21, 2021 at 7:54 am
Thanks, Judy. Yes, Ed was a helluva guy.
Ken Essex on December 9, 2021 at 10:06 pm
Thank you, Tom. My brother, Paul, was an early member of the Society. He was an Editor at the Raleigh News and Observer, and after that was a campaign manager for Jim Hunt. He was a great lover of the Outer Banks, and always believed that the Wright brothers could not have flown at Kitty Hawk. In his own way, Ed Hodges believed that too. Don't we all?
Tom Young on December 10, 2021 at 6:57 am
Thanks for your note, Ken. Great to hear from you. And a salute to your brother for his work with the News and Observer and for Jim Hunt. I always loved that newspaper. Best wishes to you for a terrific 2022.

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what do think about this>promote Boycott Israel is it radical activism? & is it helps peace process or not?
Posted by Lemuel Melamed on January 30, 2010 at 3:01pm in Israel and Palestine
last night i got mail from radical
Subject: Video Boycot Israel Flashmob in Dutch supermarket
Freeze Flashmob to promote Boycot Israel in Dutch supermarket
The video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoLuicl3UF0
It was a busy Thursday night on the 28th of January in the big supermarket Albert Heijn in Utrecht (Holland). A group of Dutch activists surprised the management with a Freeze Flashmob in the middle of the shop.
Well, they were not really surprised that something happened, obviously they had been told that something was about to happen, cause the police was outside the supermarket and the shop attendents were definitely expecting something. But WHAT, they didnt really know.
At the sound of a whistle the whole group of activists took an Israeli product and FROOZE, staring at the products in disbelieve that Albert Heijn still sells Israeli products!
Other people in the supermarket were quite confused and noticed the green t-shirts saying : Dont buy Israeli apartheid.
The sound of a second whistle started the group to take all Israeli products in their carts and while whistling a song they all moved to the exit where the products were piled up and left with a strong message: We do not want Israeli products in OUR supermarkets. We cant do business as usual with Israel as long as it commits war crimes and doesnt comply with international law.
As our camera women were seriously disturbed by the supermarket security and the management, it was not easy to capture the Flashmob as we had wanted, but here is the result:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoLuicl3UF0
Please forward this message to as many of your contacts, show the video on Facebook and Twitter
(For Twitter you can use http://bit.ly/bGt1Jk)
The more we spread the word about the Boycot Divestment and Sanctions Campaign the better.
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what do think about this?
Permalink Reply by Ohad Bracha on January 30, 2010 at 9:32pm
are you boycotting Israeli products? or products from the occupied territories?
if you are boycotting Israeli products I will fight you not only that I think you are doing wrong I see you as my enemy
, if you boycotting products from the occupied territories I can join.
the fact that all that is happening in a country that cooperated with the Nazis and have a long long history of colonialism and racism that still going on today is pure hypocrisy any way you look at it.
if you ask me.
don't test us Israelis, don't push us to the corner , we will fight back and we will win because in the over all terms of things as long as you are an hypocrite we are right and you are wrong .
Permalink Reply by Richard Gill on January 31, 2010 at 9:45am
Dear Ohad,
"the fact that all that is happening in a country that cooperated with the Nazis and have a long long history of colonialism and racism that still going on today is pure hypocrisy any way you look at it" is quite an insult to Dutch people!
Rotterdam was bombed flat. The country was occupied by the Nazi's. Many people fought against the occupation. Many people lost their lives trying to shelter Jews. Some people collaborated. Most people tried to survive somehow.
Every major European country has a long history of colonialism. Racism is everywhere.
The young people who demonstrate in a supermarket against Israel are the same people who fight against racism and against the fascist movement of the politician Geert Wilders.
The Netherlands used to be consistently and deeply pro Israel. This has completely changed in the last 10, 20 years. People feel sick about the continuing injustice and violence.
Richard I am glad you got insulted
Maybe be you should re- read some of the comments you regularly leave on this site about the Israeli people.
No nation is perfect and Holland is one of these non perfect nation , Israel is one too and Palestine.
Israel is doing a lot of wrong stuff but so does its neighbors and the EU and Russia and the US and basically any nation.
the public opinion in the world changed BC Israel made mistakes but also BC of the a billion dollar industry of Arab propaganda , mostly noticeable in european countries today.
There is a miss used of the Holocaust by the right wing in Israel and the US , but may be you want to also look on the industry around the Nakaba .
there is a lot of hypocrisy and that hypocrisy helps keeping the conflict
there is a solution acceptable by most Israelis and most palestinians this solution also have an international consensus .
but the Israeli palestinian conflict has nothing to do with the hypocrisy I am talking about. that hypocrisy is much bigger then the conflict
Permalink Reply by Richard Gill on February 1, 2010 at 9:52pm
Dear Ohad, One can respect a person without respecting their opinions. I know and love many Israeli's. I am deeply ashamed of the bad things in the histories of my mother country Britain and my adopted country Holland; I am very proud of the great achievements which have come from those countries. I do have strong opinions about politics and about religion. I don't have opinions about "the Israeli people". I don't intend to insult anyone, except for war-mongers and rabble-rousers and biggots. I absolutely agree that there is a lot of hypocracy and that hypocracy feeds the conflict. I agree that there is a lot of propaganda, on both sides. There is also a lot of ignorance, and a lot of fear, and that feeds the conflict too. Tell me please, what is the solution acceptable to most Israeli's and most Palestinians, which also has an international consensus. Yours, Richard.
Permalink Reply by Ohad Bracha on February 1, 2010 at 11:43pm
Hi Richard the solution is the mainstream solution in Israel today ,
the Israeli people and Palestinian people voted time after time in favor of this solution ,
co existing of both Israel and Palestine by:
A. stopping the Israeli occupation on the west bank.
B. creating a Palestinian state base on the pre 6 days war borders in gaza and the west bank
the UN voted for that solution time after time as well , usually the only opposition is the US and Israel BC both countries think that this decision should be made in negotiations with the Palestinian people . and the result should be the end of the conflict .
As an Israeli I think that a UN decision is good enough by it self , Israel could withdraw to the pre 1967 borders with out negotiations and without a united Palestinian Gov. or a Palestinian partner .
Obviously negotiations are better .
Permalink Reply by Richard Gill on February 2, 2010 at 4:56am
Thanks Ohad, I would drink to that with you, A and B seem to me (and I think to many Dutch and British people too) to be exactly what ought to be done. And Israel could make a first move by taking step A. There would be incredibly strong international support for Israel after step A happened. The next move would be B. Why do young Dutch people get upset and demonstrate in my local supermarket about Israeli products? Because of A. Personally I don't think they are responding to multi-million arab funded pro-Palestinian propaganda. They are sick of seeing the Israel government giving way to extremist (settler) elements intent on colonisation of the entire West Bank. People here hate islamic extremism as much as anyone else. People perceive the continuing injustice in Palestine as being a major fuel to young muslims all over the world to turn to jihad (which led to the disgusting murder of a beloved Dutch writer and film-maker on the streets of Amsterdam). The apparent US support of this injustice makes this so incendiary.
Permalink Reply by Ohad Bracha on February 2, 2010 at 6:26am
see this is where you are wrong the "European kids " as you call them have no right to judge me.
these kids in Europe today three generation after WW2 are completely free, they are part of the European union and have no guilt or enemies.
me on the other end, three generations after WW2 l lost any rights my family had in Europe and I am fighting to build a place for my self and for my family.
this conflict is complicated and you got to remember that Israel is a young country.
after 1967 Israel won a war that showed the Arab neighbors that Israel is here to stay. the argument turned form the survival of Israel to ending the occupation.
you need to remember that Israel always accepted the two states solution. the Occupations and the argument of the right wing in Israel was possible only BC Arab leaders time after time promise to destroy Israel and wipe it off the map.
By the way this specific email came for an Arab sure not from young europeans at the super market.
the occupation is wrong yes , it will end soon , and these 40 years will be forgotten in Israels history . surly if the european kids can forget their history we will be fine
Permalink Reply by Lemuel Melamed on February 2, 2010 at 12:01pm
כל הכבוד אוהד
אתה מוזמן לשלוח את תגובתך ל
majdbeltaji@gmail.com
Ramallah / Palestine זה מייל של אותה בחורה שמפזרת את דיברי נאצה האלה
Permalink Reply by Lemuel Melamed on February 2, 2010 at 1:01pm
i am against boycott! believe that by developing economy of both sides we can improve the situation and brake froth towards peace talks.
the e-mail that i got is opposite to what i think as rational peacemaker!
we need to blockade inciters & radicals & fashists & ant- Semites like Majd Beltaji >they increase hate between Palestinians and Israeli's.
Lemuel Melamed
Permalink Reply by Manal Anna on January 30, 2010 at 10:19pm
Hi Lemuel,
It is interesting for me to know what do you think about the email you got on boycotting israeli products.
Permalink Reply by Lemuel Melamed on February 2, 2010 at 11:55am
i really think that is a good example of things that increasing hatred between Israeli's and Palestinians.
the biggest problem in my opinion that the people remain silent and dont respond to this incite.
Permalink Reply by Stewart Mills on January 30, 2010 at 10:35pm
This is a very difficult issue that raises a lot of tension and anger.
There is indeed a growing movement of people who feel led by their conscience to support the boycott campaign.
Confusion and difference occurs between whether the campaign should be directed just at the settler products or at Israel as a whole.
Palestinians as a consequence of the occupation have been boycotted for decades.
Boycott's have been successful over the centuries for various forms of social and political change whether it is boycotting English tea (aka the Boston Tea Party), boycotting the slave trade, boycotting segregated buses (Montgomery bus boycott), the boycot of Apartheid South Africa or the boycotting multinationals who have been involved in exploitation, human rights abuses or environmental eg Shell, Nestle, Reebok.
One cannot assume they know the motivations of those who choose to boycott (for example those shown in the youtube clip). To call them anti-semitic because of their nationality is racist. To be legitimately called anti-semitic you need to have facts about the person. To jump to the conclusion that someone is anti-semitic because they are involved in a boycott of Israeli-settler products or of Israel is lazy reasoning.
People's motivations for being involved in boycotts are broad. In the main the leaders of the boycott movement are humanitarians who see the harm that is occurring from the occupation/control of Gaza and the West Bank is greater than the harm caused by those Israelis who will be affected by the boycott. This is a risk they are willing to make.
The challenge is for the leaders of such a boycott to clearly show the average Jewish-Israeli citizen that the boycott is not against them or Jewish people, but is against the occupation. Naomi Klein calls the boycott a tactic, it is not a fundamentalist position.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_action
Omar Karmi, Boycott of Israeli settlers' products picks up speed, 6 January 2010
The manager of a Ramallah branch of the supermarket chain Bravo, he said his store had not stocked any goods that originated in settlements for more than a year, and even then it was only one item, a chocolate syrup….
http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/618
Cairo Decalration, 1 January 2010
http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=5269
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party


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Flight of the Goose
November 7, 2012 May 19, 2015 adminHindu In School
by Anushree Bhattacharjee
Flying high, at speeds of over 150 kilometers per hour, crossing the Himalayas in one single tireless flight! Flapping strongly and honking over the highest mountain range in the world! No, this is not a story about Superman. This is about a "Superbird", the Bar-headed Goose ( Anser indicus ), one of the highest flying birds in the world. In India, the Bar-headed Goose is found to breed near lakes in the cold desert region of Ladakh. In the rest of the country, the bird is a winter migrant, spreading as far south as Kanyakumari.
A beautiful pale grey goose, easily distinguished from other species of geese by the characteristic black bars on its head that gives the species its name, the Bar-headed Goose hardly looks the part of a super-athlete. However, researchers found Bar-headed Geese tagged with GPS transmitters had completed migration journeys of up to 8000 kilometers in approximately two months, which involved crossing the world's tallest mountain ranges, the Himalayas twice! Although the birds made frequent stops during their journey, they seemed to be crossing the Himalayas in one continuous stretch of approximately eight hours of flight. A similar physical exertion with no time for acclimatization would simply kill a human.
Most birds make use of good tailwinds for take-offs and depend on thermal updrafts for soaring and gliding. The Bar-headed Goose is a rare exception relying only on vigorous flapping of its wings. It chooses to ignore the day-time tailwinds making its sharp ascents at night or during early morning hours when the air is relatively calm. Researchers believe the cooler and denser air may be allowing the birds to generate a stronger lift-off while also helping regulate body heat.
Expert adaptation
The Bar-headed Goose's wing area is slightly larger than other geese of its size. It has a large heart that can beat extremely fast. The haemoglobin in its blood is able to accommodate higher amounts of oxygen, which allows it to breathe more efficiently as it flies over high altitudes. Bigger and stronger lungs and a dense network of blood capillaries which surround the flight muscles help the bird to sustain better oxygen flow throughout its body. The geese have more red blood cells and more capillaries in their body while their flight muscles have more mitochondria – energy producing structures present inside the cells.The Bar-headed Goose also has the ability to hyperventilate (breathe excessively hard and fast) without any physiological ramifications, thus increasing the amount of oxygen entering the blood stream. The strong flapping of wings generates body heat which is retained in the down feathers and helps prevent ice from building up on the wings.
It is believed that a better understanding of the physiology of this species may help develop drugs for people with respiratory diseases.
This article appeared in the Hindu in School on 7 November 2012.
Photo credit: Kalyan Varma
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As an Internet industry executive, trend spotting is my business. Last year, I unwittingly became part of a new trend. I became a portfolio careerist.
I didn't invent the term "portfolio career," but I now understand it firsthand. Similar to the way investment portfolios are treated, more and more successful 30-somethings, on the rise in their Internet/digital-focused careers, are starting to treat those careers like portfolios of options. Diversification is key.
As 2012 came to a close, an amicable job departure allowed me to spend the first half of 2013 away from traditional work, corporate America, job hunting, and the like. I was able to travel extensively (eight countries, three continents, 20 cities) and to meet with a vast array of people.
The new attitude focused my thinking, opened new horizons, and attracted like-minded people to want to work with me. In practice, this meant helping people I respected, offering advice to startups I admired, and generally trying to do good in the world by applying my skills more broadly than I had previously been able to do. Some of these relationships offered monetary remuneration and some didn't. But all were interesting, fruitful, and worthwhile.
Over the course of some 100 meetings with an array of colleagues, mentors, friends, and peers, I heard a vast majority say that they had either already left their jobs or were about to leave their jobs. Almost all had already lined up one or more side-projects, side-startups, and side-social-good initiatives to pursue. Very few, if any, planned to return to a traditional, full-time position.
I realized I wanted my work to mirror the emerging trend of the "portfolio career"; I wanted to step off the career trajectory and redefine how I approach work and life. Here's how I now organize my work: One gig pays most of the bills; one or another gig pays other bills; at night, I'm developing an early-stage startup and helping a friend with his or her startup (for some equity); and, in between, I'm volunteering at one or more nonprofits that I'm passionate about. Of course, this lifestyle isn't for everyone, and I'm grateful to have a supportive wife and no school debt to burden me. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, I don't need to worry about employers handling my health care.
This trend is possible, and it is fueled by several other trends: The economy is slowly recovering and creating more opportunity; younger entrepreneurs understand that the promises awarded to earlier generations won't come to fruition without hard, unconventional work patterns (such as rejecting the idea of staying in one place for decades); the fear of being laid off prevents many people from depending on one job; companies don't "do favors" (one needs to fight for and negotiate raises and cannot assume to be rewarded for routine work), and the old quip "the employer I know is better than the one I don't" no longer resonates. In the fast-paced and ever-changing Internet space, most people change jobs every 12 to 24 months anyway, preventing or eliminating most of the benefits of traditional work (options vesting, retirement programs accumulating, climbing the ladder, etc.).
The digital revolution has democratized a myriad of tools, allowing for better collaboration, quicker turnaround, and easier access to resources, education, and talent. Those of us comfortable with this revolution live and share more and more of our lives online, often blending our personal, professional, and private lives. We've seen enough scandals to know that "secrets" are anachronistic, and we understand the importance of authenticity, personal branding, and marketing savvy. All of this makes the old paradigm of holding one job over the course of one's career — separate from the rest of one's life — a model heading toward extinction.
My friends and colleagues are learning to diversify, stay engaged on multiple fronts, and nimbly jump from endeavor to endeavor as needed. Now, we can work on what we love even if it's not our primary source of revenue in the short term. This isn't just a monetary strategy, but one that promises a greater degree of satisfaction.
This trend has its downsides, of course. It calls for a certain flexibility and personal discipline that isn't meant for everyone. And, whether working as in-house or as outsourced talent, portfolio careerists can often still find themselves facing the same problems they hoped to avoid — such as out of touch, risk-averse decision makers, annoying corporate processes, and more.
This basic tension can cause deep unsettlement, which is why many people stick to traditional career trajectories. I hope that as company executives warm to this trend, they will be able to harness the talents of their workers without driving them away. For example, some companies are supporting the concept of sidepreneurship (employees having side projects) instead of seeing such projects as distractions.
Over the next several years, I expect the portfolio career trend to drive new tools, services, and policies to support this fundamental shift in career and life planning.
Jacob Shwirtz spent over two years, until January 2013, as the Director of Social Viewing for Viacom Media Networks, where he served as internal expert on social media, blending strategy, business development, and product management to maximize the company's response to emerging trends. He was included in Multichannel News' 2012 list of "Top Ten Social Media Mavens." Previously, as co-founder of the boutique agency Definitely Something, Shwirtz built dozens of digital communities for MTV/VH1 shows. He co-founded TweetBookz, a service for Twitter-users that creates high quality coffee table books of tweets. He tweets @Shwirtz.


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A minimum of 120 semester credit hours (SCH): 45 hours must be advanced, and fulfillment of degree requirements as specified in the "Requirements for Graduation" section of this catalog.
Semester Credit Hours
[University Core Curriculum]
Select 42 SCH as outlined in the suggested plans and as specified in the "Requirements for Graduation" 42
Life & Physical Science Lab
Select 1 SCH compatible with a Life & Physical Science course 1
Select 6 SCH from the same foreign language 6
Select 36 SCH including: 36
SPAN 3305
Spanish Academic Writing
Intro to Literature in Spanish
The Spanish American Novel
Cervantes & Don Quijote
History of Spanish Language
Senior Seminar
18 SCH selected from any other 3000-4000 SPAN courses
A minimum of 18 SCH from one discipline at least 12 of which must be at the 3000-4000 level. See Appendix C. Instead of a minor, students may complete 18 SCH of electives, 12 SCH of which must be at the 3000-4000 level, from any discipline, except the major field, outside the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Students who do not elect to have a minor curriculum may use up to 9 hours of the resulting general electives in their major curriculum. 18
General Elective
Select 17 SCH, at least 12 of which must be at the 3000-4000 level, from any discipline, except the major field, outside the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Students who do not elect to have a minor may use up to 9 hours of the resulting general electives in their major curriculum. 17
Total Semester Credit Hours 120
6 SCH in coursework from a foreign language (may not be in English or Spanish).
Following is a suggested four-year degree plan. Students are encouraged to see their advisor each semester for help with program decisions and enrollment; responsible for reviewing the Program of Study Requirements, meeting all course prerequisites, and writing intensive course (WIN) requirements for graduation. See Academic Regulations-Undergraduate online.
ENGL 1301 English Composition I 3
HIST 1301 The US to 1877 3
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Foreign Language 1 3
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HIST 1302 The US Since 1877 3
UNIV 1302 Signature Course 3
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PSCI 2305 American National Government 3
SPAN 2350 Intro to the Hispanic World 3
Creative Arts 3
Life & Physical Science 3
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SPAN 3305 Spanish Academic Writing 3
SPAN 3310 Intro to Literature in Spanish 3
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Advanced General Elective 2 3
Advanced Minor/General Elective 3
SPAN 4303 The Spanish American Novel 3
SPAN 4312 History of Spanish Language 3
SPAN 4308 Cervantes & Don Quijote 3
SPAN 4399 Senior Seminar 3
Select 17 SCH, at least 12 of which must be at the 3000-4000 level, from any discipline, except the major field, outside the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Advanced Spanish electives, select 12 SCH at the 3000-4000 level.
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Actual degree plans may vary depending on the availability of courses in a given semester.
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Effectiveness of face masks used to protect Beijing residents against particulate air pollution
John W Cherrie1,2,
Andrew Apsley1,
Hilary Cowie1,
Susanne Steinle1,
William Mueller1,
Chun Lin3,
Claire J Horwell4,
Anne Sleeuwenhoek1,
Miranda Loh1
1Institute of Occupational Medicine, Centre for Human Exposure Science, Edinburgh, UK
2Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
3School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
4Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University, Durham, UK
Correspondence to Dr Miranda Loh, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Centre for Human Exposure Science, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK; miranda.loh{at}iom-world.org
Objectives Many residents in Beijing use disposable face masks in an attempt to protect their health from high particulate matter (PM) concentrations. Retail masks may be certified to local or international standards, but their real-life performance may not confer the exposure reduction potential that is marketed. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a range of face masks that are commercially available in China.
Methods Nine masks claiming protection against fine PM (PM2.5) were purchased from consumer outlets in Beijing. The masks' filtration efficiency was tested by drawing airborne diesel exhaust through a section of the material and measuring the PM2.5 and black carbon (BC) concentrations upstream and downstream of the filtering medium. Four masks were selected for testing on volunteers. Volunteers were exposed to diesel exhaust inside an experimental chamber while performing sedentary tasks and active tasks. BC concentrations were continuously monitored inside and outside the mask.
Results The mean per cent penetration for each mask material ranged from 0.26% to 29%, depending on the flow rate and mask material. In the volunteer tests, the average total inward leakage (TIL) of BC ranged from 3% to 68% in the sedentary tests and from 7% to 66% in the active tests. Only one mask type tested showed an average TIL of less than 10%, under both test conditions.
Conclusions Many commercially available face masks may not provide adequate protection, primarily due to poor facial fit. Our results indicate that further attention should be given to mask design and providing evidence-based guidance to consumers.
exposure assessment
diesel fumes
pm10-pm2.5-ultrafine
This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Contributors JWC conceived the current study and, with ML, supervised the work and wrote the manuscript. Study concept and design were based on prior proposals conceived by CJH and JWC. AA carried out the experiments. HC and ML helped develop the current study design and contributed to the data interpretation. ML also cosupervised the work. SS and AS assisted with the experimentation. WM carried out the data analysis. CL assisted with the study in Beijing, translated materials into English and contributed to the data interpretation. All authors contributed to drafting the manuscript and have read and approved the final text.
Funding This project was funded by NERC/MRC grant NE/N007182/1 from the Newton Fund. The filtration and volunteer chambers were developed for this study and for Horwell's Health Interventions in Volcanic Eruption crises (HIVE) project, funded under the Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme by DfID and the Wellcome Trust.
Competing interests The Institute of Occupational Medicine undertakes a wide range of commercial testing related to occupational and environmental health, some of which has been for respirator manufacturers.
Patient consent Obtained.
Ethics approval Ethical approval for the volunteer tests was obtained from Heriot Watt University, School of Life Sciences Ethics Committee (Reference 2015-165). All participants provided informed consent. They were able to withdraw from the study at any time, without having to give a reason.
Data sharing statement There are no unpublished data from this article that this applies to.
© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


We have just started evaluating Alfresco for our Document Management system.
Like other organisations we have already stored our main business objects i.e. Property/Assets in our RDBMS which are being managed by other application. If we are to use Alfresco to store documents aganist each property/asset, then I haven't yet been able to figure out how to link/index the incoming documents for a particular business task against the corresponding business object/asset!!
And what we expect be able to do is on uploading documents under each business task (as above), to index them against the corresponding property which is our main business object.
how do we do that? Any examples on this? tutorial, video, …..
It sounds like you have an external system that maintains reference data that you would like to link to objects that reside in your repository. There are several ways you could do this.
A simple approach would be to extend Alfresco's content model with your own custom type, then add a property to that type which could be used as a reference to your other business objects. Maybe that reference is a URL or maybe it is a unique ID of some sort. In the simplest case, that field is edited manually by someone to establish the link.
To do this, you only need to know how to create your custom content model and then expose it to the user interface. Here is a tutorial on custom content models that includes Explorer UI configuration. This page talks about using the form service to configure the Share UI.
Obviously, this could be improved, but it gets a little more complex. For example, maybe you want a dropdown list to include values you look up from an external system. One way to do that is to use a custom constraint that you add to your content model that uses Java code to perform the lookup. Or, maybe you need a more elaborate UI to let users search your external systems for those references from within the Alfresco user interface. You could write Share customizations to do that.
Hopefully this gives you some ideas and gets you pointed in the right direction. If I am off track from what you are trying to do, please clarify and I'll take another stab at it.


Thanks to a bill signed by Governor Ralph Northam signed a law last week, it will be legal come July to sell snakehead fish, an invasive species that is spreading fast in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Legislation swam through the General Assembly this year despite concerns by some that commercializing the Asian invader would encourage people to stock it in Virginia waterways. The hope is that legalizing sales will encourage more anglers to catch the piscine predator, thus slowing its growth in numbers and the threat it poses to good ol' Virginia fish.
The hard part, I expect, will be persuading customers to eat a fish named snakehead. Restaurateurs have a real branding challenge.
They will serve fried "snakehead bites" with a remoulade dip.
"Malicious, yet delicious" is how a good friend of Rocky Denson describes the freshwater predator, which will eat just about anything.
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I find the entire conundrum of invasive species versus threatened and endangered species – thought provoking.
Over 500, 1000, 10,000, 100,000 years – the dynamic ebb and flow of changes to habitat and in turn the existing species adapted to it and new ones moving in… makes one at least think a bit about things like snakeheads which are clearly an introduced invasive as opposed to one that gradually extended it's range but at the same time something called natural progression and evolution are also in play.
The snakehead may well outcompete some existing species and may render them no longer viable but other species will, over time, adapt to the snakehead .. I'm skeptical of the idea that such things end up in "mono-cultures" myself – especially if the "out years" are measured in thousands of years rather than decades.
If you think about it – horses ARE an "introduced" species in North ..and South America! I am informed thought that is the species turns out to be a "good" one that it's not proper to call it an "invasive" … So some day.. perhaps a hundred years from now Snakeheads will become the new Lunker Bass!!
Largemouth bass are an invasive species in the Potomac River but they've become quite the attraction. The snakehead population has plateaued and is declining slightly in some areas. The real issue is the blue catfish.
Never caught one so far…if I do, I guess I'll eat it.
They are delicious. While you're at it, eat some fried blue catfish too. The Blue Cat, intentionally introduced as a non-native fish by Richmond's finest, are choking out the other fish in places like the James River where they now account for 50 – 75% of the fish biomass. An invasive apex predator that grows to 100lbs. Who could have guessed that would cause problems?
I'm waiting for a long parade of snake puns to dissipate before thinking seriously about how to list this new protein source on any local restaurant menu.
It worked for the Patagonian Toothfish (aka Chilean Sea Bass). I like the Potomac Pike.


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Jordan Belfort: How He Became the Wolf of Wall Street
Born in 1962, Jordan Belfort is a Bronx native who has made quite a name for himself in the world of trading. Growing up, Belfort started making money at a young age. Together with one of his childhood friends, Belfort sold Italian ice to people along a local beach.
NEW YORK – DEC 17: Jordan Belfort attends the premiere of "The Wolf Of Wall Street" at the Ziegfeld Theater on December 17, 2013 in New York City.
That summer he and his friend sold $20,000 worth of Italian ice treats. Later in his 20's, Belfort started a door-to-door meat selling business. He sold 5,000 pounds of meat in the first week of operation. But those feats are nothing compared to the millions of dollars he made trading penny stocks.
How Belfort Made His Millions
In 1989, Belfort started the securities firm Stratton Oakmont that was a division of Stratton Securities. Here, Belfort would begin developing his skills as a penny stock trader and began promoting penny stocks to other investors. But things began to take a turn for the worst when Stratton Oakmont started operating the firm as a boiler room.
During the boiler room days, Belfort would promote penny stocks through intensive marketing which drove up the price of these stocks. Then, Belfort would instruct his team of investors to dump the stock making him millions of dollars over time.
At their highest point, Stratton Oakmont employed 1,000 traders who were responsible for issuing stocks that totaled over 1 billion dollars.
These fraudulent actions cost investors millions of dollars, and this quickly got the attention of the authorities. Belfort's pump and dump days were over with when Financial Industry Regulatory Authority permanently shut down his firm in 1996.
Belfort was charged with securities fraud in addition to money laundering, which sent Belfort to prison, but as you will learn below, he did not spend much time there.
Belfort Goes to Prison
After being found guilty of securities fraud and money laundering, Belfort was taken to Taft Correctional Institution to begin a four-year prison term. But after working out a plea deal with the FBI for his cooperation, he got released after serving 22 months.
Part of the plea deal ordered Belfort to pay back 110 million dollars to investors whom he defrauded during his pump and dump operations. This would require Belfort to pay 50% of his future income back to investors.
But later after a few court hearings, a judge ruled against the 50% and ordered Belfort to pay a set amount of $10,000 a month. Belfort agreed to this amount and appeared to be happy with this ruling.
The Wolf of Wall Street Makes a Come Back
After his time in prison, Belfort turned over a new leaf and wrote two books; The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street.
The Wolf of Wall Street was made into a movie and received rave reviews from many movie reviewers.
Now Belfort is a public speaker who travels around the country speaking at various venues, and he often talks about his days in the boiler and the mistakes he made in this past.
Surely Belfort has learned his lesson and he appears to be leading a happy and productive life today.
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Life is full of patterns. A consideration of that fact can help you acquire a better understanding of stock charts and what to expect. Traders who have a keen eye on patterns have a competitive edge over others as it will allow them to recognize high probability setups before the masses do. Continuation Patterns Definition […]
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For some, the issue of trading stocks is puzzling. You could be asking, "How do investors make money with stocks? What can I do to join this lucrative business?" Well, this article will help answer these questions as it aims to reveal vital concepts and insights of how to make money in stocks. How to […]
So I'm guessing you haven't heard of the scam he was pulling in Australia in 2015 until recently… Always a wolf.


Bristol businesses and council are trying to take away the limited number of spots in Bristol city where rough sleepers can bed down for the night.
The welcome mat and flowers which were placed where a set of anti homeless spikes were removed. See SWNS story SWMAT; Bristolians are fighting anti-homeless sentiments with acts of kindness after controversial spikes were removed from a shopping centre. IT was a place for people to shelter through the cold winter nights, but last week The Galleries installed six silver bollards on Union Street aimed at deterring rough sleepers. Bosses removed the spikes after a public outcry, and now one kind resident had gone one further and extended the hand of friendship to the homeless population. A cat-themed door mat with the word, "welcome", was last night laid in the doorway between the recently closed-down Head record store, and 71 Queens clothing store, where the spikes used to be.


Chai is a partner in Harneys' restructuring and insolvency group in Hong Kong and leads the restructuring practice in Asia.
Chai specialises in cross-border restructurings, insolvency and workouts of distressed companies. He advises leading international and regional accountancy practices, onshore law firms, financial institutions, insolvency office holders, official and unofficial creditors' committees, private equity sponsors, hedge funds, debtor-in-possession loan providers, directors, trustees, shareholders and corporate debtors. He has worked extensively on assignments throughout Asia, including in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
Recently, Chai has played an instrumental role in a number of global restructurings concerning offshore entities including Mongolian Mining Corporation, the Pacific Andes group of companies, Global A&T Electronics Ltd (GATE), Z-Obee Holdings Ltd, China Lumena New Materials Corp, Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd, the LDK Solar group of companies, Birmingham City Football Club, China Shanshui Cement Group Limited, Greens Holdings Limited, Titan Resources Management Limited (part of the Titan Petrochemicals Group), Dalian Rightway Real Estate Development Co Ltd and Suntech Power Holdings Co, Ltd.
Prior to joining Harneys, Chai was a senior associate at a global law firm in Singapore and London. Chai is recommended as a leading lawyer by Legal 500, which calls him 'very personable and pragmatic' and an 'up-and-coming partner'.


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'We're not over it': France seek ultimate redemption
Patrice Evra (left) and Paul Pggba and their French teammates are through to the World Cup final.
11th Jul 2018 12:34 PM
FRANCE coach Didier Deschamps urged his side to seize their chance of redemption in the World Cup final after admitting he has still not got over the pain of defeat in the Euro 2016 final.
Samuel Umtiti headed the only goal in a 1-0 semi-final win over Belgium in Saint Petersburg on Wednesday (AEST), consigning the Red Devils 'golden generation' to another bitter defeat.
France's own supremely talented young squad will now aim to make amends for defeat on home soil to Portugal two years ago in Sunday's showpiece against England or Croatia.
"Finals have to be won because we have still not got over the one we lost two years ago," said Deschamps.
"It is something exceptional. I am very happy for my players. They are young but they have character, a (winning) mentality."
In a World Cup replete with set-piece goals, a corner again proved decisive when Umtiti timed his run perfectly to meet Antoine Griezmann's delivery six minutes into the second half.
"The difference sadly is a set play in a very close and tight game," lamented Belgium boss Roberto Martinez.
"If you are going to have to lose such a match, which is bearable, it is the manner in which our players lost, pushing for everything, trying everything until the final whistle."
France head coach Didier Deschamp speaking to the media in Russia.
Apart from being the match winner, Umtiti's partnership with Raphael Varane in central defence continues to flourish, and when called upon, captain
made important saves at key moments.
At the other end of the field, teenager Kylian Mbappe was France's biggest threat, but it was another off night for Olivier Giroud as the focal point of Deschamps's attack.
Giroud has not scored in eight games and is yet to even have a shot on target in Russia.
"I'm not missing too much," insisted Giroud.
"I would have liked to help the team, make the breakthrough tonight.
"That was not the case but, once again, I am confident in my chances to score in the final and help bring back the World Cup. I really hope to do it in the final."
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OLC Memos Incoming
By The Daily Dish
The ACLU has just posted them; you can download them here. Here's the president's full statement:
The Department of Justice will today release certain memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel between 2002 and 2005 as part of an ongoing court case. These memos speak to techniques that were used in the interrogation of terrorism suspects during that period, and their release is required by the rule of law.
My judgment on the content of these memos is a matter of record. In one of my very first acts as President, I prohibited the use of these interrogation techniques by the United States because they undermine our moral authority and do not make us safer. Enlisting our values in the protection of our people makes us stronger and more secure. A democracy as resilient as ours must reject the false choice between our security and our ideals, and that is why these methods of interrogation are already a thing of the past. But that is not what compelled the release of these legal documents today.
While I believe strongly in transparency and accountability, I also believe that in a dangerous world, the United States must sometimes carry out intelligence operations and protect information that is classified for purposes of national security. I have already fought for that principle in court and will do so again in the future.
However, after consulting with the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, and others, I believe that exceptional circumstances surround these memos and require their release. First, the interrogation techniques described in these memos have already been widely reported. Second, the previous Administration publicly acknowledged portions of the program - and some of the practices - associated with these memos. Third, I have already ended the techniques described in the memos through an Executive Order.
Therefore, withholding these memos would only serve to deny facts that have been in the public domain for some time. This could contribute to an inaccurate accounting of the past, and fuel erroneous and inflammatory assumptions about actions taken by the United States. In releasing these memos, it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution.
The men and women of our intelligence community serve courageously on the front lines of a dangerous world. Their accomplishments are unsung and their names unknown, but because of their sacrifices, every single American is safer. We must protect their identities as vigilantly as they protect our security, and we must provide them with the confidence that they can do their jobs. Going forward, it is my strong belief that the United States has a solemn duty to vigorously maintain the classified nature of certain activities and information related to national security.
This is an extraordinarily important responsibility of the presidency, and it is one that I will carry out assertively irrespective of any political concern. Consequently, the exceptional circumstances surrounding these memos should not be viewed as an erosion of the strong legal basis for maintaining the classified nature of secret activities. I will always do whatever is necessary to protect the national security of the United States. This is a time for reflection, not retribution. I respect the strong views and emotions that these issues evoke. We have been through a dark and painful chapter in our history.
But at a time of great challenges and disturbing disunity, nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past. Our national greatness is embedded in America's ability to right its course in concert with our core values, and to move forward with confidence. That is why we must resist the forces that divide us, and instead come together on behalf of our common future. The United States is a nation of laws. My Administration will always act in accordance with those laws, and with an unshakeable commitment to our ideals. That is why we have released these memos, and that is why we have taken steps to ensure that the actions described within them never take place again.


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Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan dr. (Paterson, New Jersey, 1951. október 3. –) amerikai, geológus, űrhajósnő. Az első amerikai nő, aki űrsétát tett.

Életpálya
1973-ban a University of California (Santa Cruz) keretében geológiából kapott oklevelet. 1978-ban a Dalhousie Egyetem Halifax (Új-Skócia, Kanada) keretében geológiából doktorált (Ph.D.) A haditengerészet oceanográfiai tisztje, kapitány.

1978. január 16-tól a Lyndon B. Johnson Űrközpontban részesült űrhajóskiképzésben. 1992-ben elnöke (vezető kutató) a Nemzeti Óceán- és Légköri Hivatalnál (NOAA). Szabadidejében motoros és vitorlázó repülőgépeket vezet. Három űrszolgálata alatt összesen 22 napot, 4 órát és 49 percet (533 óra) töltött a világűrben. Egy alkalommal végzett űrsétát (kutatás, szerelés), ahol 3 óra 29 percet töltött az űrrepülőgépen kívül. Az első amerikai nő, aki űrsétát végzett. Űrhajós pályafutását 1993 júniusában fejezte be. 1996-tól 2006-ig Columbus Center of Science and Industry (COSI), Ohio. 2004-ben George W. Bush elnök Nemzeti Tudományos Tanácsának tagja. 2005-ben nyugállományba vonult, de továbbra is tudományos tanácsadó. 2011-től Barack Obama adminisztrációjában kereskedelmi miniszter helyettese (ügyvezető-helyettese a Nemzeti Óceán-és Légköri Intézetnek).

Űrrepülések
 STS–41–G, Challenger űrrepülőgép 6. repülésének küldetésfelelőse. Egy műholdat állítottak pályairányba. Filmre vették a teljes szolgálatot, amiből dokumentumfilm készült. Társ kutató a Shuttle Imaging Radar-B (SIR–B) kísérletben. Első űrszolgálata alatt összesen  napot,  órát,  percet és  másodpercet (197 óra) töltött a világűrben. Űrsétája alatt megállapították, hogy az űrrepülőgépet menet közben is fel lehet tölteni üzemanyaggal.  kilométert ( mérföldet) repült,  alkalommal kerülte meg a Földet.
 STS–61–J küldetés küldetésfelelőse lett volna. A Challenger-katasztrófa miatt törölték a programot.
 STS–31, a Discovery űrrepülőgép 10. repülésének küldetésfelelőse. A Hubble űrtávcsővet vitték magasabb pályára.  Második űrszolgálata alatt összesen 5 napot, 1 órát és 16 percet (121 óra) töltött a világűrben.  kilométert ( mérföldet) repült, 80 kerülte meg a Földet.
 STS–45, az Atlantis űrrepülőgép 11. repülésének küldetésfelelőse. Az ASTRO–1 obszervatóriumot helyezték pályára.  Hét ország, mintegy 200 tudósa által összeállított programot végeztek. Harmadik űrszolgálata alatt összesen 8 napot, 22 órát és 9 percet (214 óra) töltött a világűrben.  kilométert ( mérföldet) repült, 143 kerülte meg a Földet.

Kitüntetések
 2004-ben bekerült a Hall of Fame Astronaut emlékhelyre.

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Canon Formation, Canon Revision
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Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer (1653)
Dear Students, we have already this semester discussed canon and canonicity with respect to the critical writings of T. S. Eliot. By "canon," we mean at least two things:
1) the established and understood (though not necessarily written) set of rules whereby a given work of art can be recognized as valid and great, or the set of standards according to which an artist might produced a work of art which aspires to greatness.
2) the set of individual works (explicitly enumerated or otherwise) which have been accepted and set forth as exemplifying artistic greatness, and which function as standards against which all new works can be judged.
Canons, where they have been established, generally function to create a sense of collective identity, to draw together and maintain groups whose members are united by a common appreciation and respect for a body of works they view as authoritative. Most of the literature you read in high school – or are reading in college Humanities courses – will be have been taken from out of the established canon of great European and American literature – generally collected and presented in the form of anthologies. For many years, the Norton History of English, or American, Literature – currently edited by preeminent Shakespeare scholar and Harvard professor Steven Greenblatt – have been considered definitive. (In opposition to this, the modern Sciences, though they do have their own body of canonical writings, tend rather to be taught though textbooks – something about which you'll hear me speak later.) But where there are group norms there are bound to arise disputes over what constitutes the norm and how one conforms to it properly, and where this is inclusion there is bound also to be exclusion. Since canons first began to appear, there have been disputes over what they do and ought to contain.
Today is no exception with regard to canon debates. Over the last decades, and particularly since the 1980s, a great debate has arisen in American universities regarding what taught ought to be taught to students (CLICK). As this country becomes increasingly diversified, and increasingly aware of its social diversity, many scholars have complained that the English literary canon canon is either too restrictive, insufficiently relevant, or entirely obsolete. Consequently, various efforts have arisen either to expand, revise or destroy the canon. In an effort to address these issues, the Norton company has in recent years begun to issue a series of "alternative" or supplementary anthologies, each representing a group of writers whose identities, interests and styles were thought grossly underrepresented in the dominant canon, which was composed predominantly of white males. These new volumes, though received well for the most part, have no emerged without controversy, and much of what is taught in Literature departments in colleges today involves not only the books contained in these modern canons but also the fiery debates surrounding their production.
Recently, I heard on the radio a broadcast featuring Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans, general editor of the most recent addition to the Norton family of literary anthologies – The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature.
The Accents of Latino Literature
NPR – On Point – Monday, September 13, 2010
Stavans, in his remarks, discussed the diverse group of cultures and historical periods from which he drew the texts he found representative of Latino literature. As in all prior cases of canon expansion and revision, Stavans will have made choices that will choice various parties either to rejoice or protest. This is almost inevitable, and these reactions are worthy of investigation and discussion. For now what should matter to us however, is the simply fact that standards do change, however gradually or rapidly, and that to remain culturally relevant ourselves we must be aware of these changes – both past and present.
What are your experiences with canons and canonicity? Has your education thus far taken the form of an inculcation into canonical literature, or has your education avoided the canon? If you have received such an education, do you feel that process represented an initiation into great culture, or rather a form of ideological indoctrination, or simply a waste of your time? Does your awareness of the literary canon, however recently acquired offer you comfort or distress?
I welcome and encourage all thoughtful responses.
Sonia Delaunay – "By 1939 the center of abstract painting had shifted to London."
Eliot and Experimental Psychology


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City Life Org – Indoor Food Production System to Advance Urban Farming in Harlem
New York Power Authority Joins Harlem Grown and EPRI in Collaborative Demonstration to Educate Local Youth about Urban Farming, Sustainability and Nutrition
Food Container Harvest to Make Vegetables Available Year-Round to Local Community Members
Project Research Study to Inform Climate Actions, Evaluate Energy and Environmental Impacts, and Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced an indoor farming pilot project in Harlem that will increase the year-round availability of fresh fruits and vegetables for local underserved families and further national research about optimal indoor growing conditions and crop production. Part of a multi-state demonstration funded by the New York Power Authority and led by energy R&D institute EPRI, the large shipping container outside a New York City Housing Authority building will help communities grow produce throughout the year, develop healthy habits and learn about sustainability and environmental issues. Harlem Grown, a local nonprofit, will manage the food production and support distribution to the community. The project will also investigate how to increase yields and manage resources, while reducing associated greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption. The project helps advance the goals of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, which requires New York to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent before 2030 and by no less than 85 percent by 2050.
"With year-round indoor farming, our communities will have the opportunity to grow fresh, healthy produce locally to help build a more sustainable New York," Governor Hochul said. "I'm proud to announce this hydroponic garden in Harlem, which will provide healthy food to local families and help educate the next generation of urban farmers. As we learn more about the environmental and energy impacts of urban crop production, New York is taking another nation-leading step in advancing our clean energy and greenhouse gas reduction goals."
The New York Power Authority and project organizers celebrated the project's launch today and viewed the new system in Harlem – a hydroponic greenhouse that grows produce in a soil-less environment. As part of a national collaborative research effort headed by the non-profit EPRI, the Harlem farming project will help increase learnings about the environmental, energy, and community impacts of indoor agriculture. These learnings will help inform a broader understanding of the sustainability of local, indoor crop production, including energy and water consumption. Findings will also help increase community engagement, provide educational opportunities on technology and agriculture, stimulate local job creation and expand local crop availability.
New York Power Authority's Environmental Justice team, which is funding the $250,000 program with New York Power Authority's Research, Technology Development and Innovation program, managed placement of the 40-foot shipping container branded "Planting fruits and vegetables. Growing healthy communities." The outdoor weatherproof container is in an open lot off 140th Street next to the P.S. 139 Senior Center, which is currently being converted to an outdoor garden and meeting place.
New York Power Authority's Interim President and CEO Justin E. Driscoll said, "The New York Power Authority is proud to be an active supporter and partner in providing locally grown healthy resources to the communities around our facilities. Educating young people while improving industry practices and producing healthy crops is a win win. As a utility, the smart use of energy is always top of mind and we want to understand how indoor food production will impact the state's grid and electric usage while also providing a reliable year-round food source for local families."
State Senator Cordell Cleare said, "I am proud to support the enterprising work of Governor Hochul and Harlem Grown who have an innovative, educational, environmentally-conscious and replicable model that can teach our youth invaluable skills and lessons—as well as supply families with locally grown produce. It is my sincere hope that these type of local projectsflourish in conjunction with other necessary investments in our community such as truly affordable housing."
The Harlem project will operate a modified and heavily insulated shipping container as a controlled environment space that uses electric technologies to grow fresh, local vegetables year-round. In addition to improving local access to fresh produce, indoor agriculture has shown to reduce shipping costs and reduce or eliminate the use of fossil fuels within crop production. Indoor agriculture may also reduce or eliminate the need for pesticides, and greatly reduce water consumption for certain crops.
Produce will be grown and distributed by Harlem Grown, a natural partner in this project, as it operates four central farms, two hydroponic greenhouses and six partner gardens that provide more than 5,000 pounds of food distributed free to the Harlem community each year. In addition, the organization seeks to impact the entire community through mentorship and partnerships. It offers free nutrition education programming on its farms for children and adults, where community members learn to plant, nurture, and harvest all of the fruits and vegetables. It also runs a mobile teaching kitchen to bring food education and cooking classes to nearby Harlem schools, housing developments, and community organizations.
Founder and CEO of Harlem Grown Tony Hillery said, "We are honored and excited to be part of this revolutionary project in urban farming alongside New York Power Authority, EPRI and New York City Housing Authority. Harlem Grown exists for the community, and this indoor food production system gives us more opportunity to work with all age groups — from our young people to our seniors in the neighborhood. Our space for farming is limited in the city so we need to be innovative and forward thinking about ways to provide fresh, locally-grown food year round. This project is about more than farming; this is about food and environmental sustainability and food justice."
Beyond examining farming practices, this project will also evaluate how indoor food production could impact the state's electrical and utility grid. Monitoring the use of electricity and water, technology innovations, and sustainability considerations will help determine how indoor food production facilities and energy providers can best work together.
Director of Sustainability and Ecosystem Stewardship at EPRI Morgan Scott said,"Controlled environment agriculture is a promising area of research where communities and energy partners may help build more sustainable agriculture methods that locally benefit the communities they serve. We look forward to expanding our collaboration with New York Power Authority in Harlem and for the greater New York community."
Harlem joins the more than a dozen controlled environment farms that EPRI is studying nationwide, including a similar pilot project launched in 2020 to serve the metro Buffalo area. To date, the Buffalo farm has provided more than 1,200 pounds of kale which has been distributed to local families as part of FeedMore WNY's nutrition programming.
The New York Power Authority's Environmental Justice team offers educational programs about clean, renewable energy and sustainability, and provides resources to meet the needs of underserved and under-resourced communities located near NYPA's power assets. NYPA operates small clean power plants at six sites in New York City. The team will conduct science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, programming and organize community events with Harlem Grown youth.
Vice President of Environmental Justice Lisa Payne Wansley said, "New York Power Authority works to improve the lives of members of the local communities where we operate by providing programs and resources they wouldn't otherwise have. Indoor food production is a growing industry and the learnings from this national demonstration could have a major impact on disadvantaged communities across the U.S. Sustainability and green technology have the potential to increase year-round access to fresh local produce, reduce water and pesticide use, and boost food security for many of our neighbors in need."
New York State's Nation-Leading Climate Plan
New York State's nation-leading climate agenda is the most aggressive climate and clean energy initiative in the nation, calling for an orderly and just transition to clean energy that creates jobs and continues fostering a green economy as New York State recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Enshrined into law through the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, New York is on a path to achieve its mandated goal of a zero-emission electricity sector by 2040, including 70 percent renewable energy generation by 2030, and to reach economy wide carbon neutrality. It builds on New York's unprecedented investments to ramp-up clean energy including over $35 billion in 120 large-scale renewable and transmission projects across the state, $6.8 billion to reduce buildings emissions, $1.8 billion to scale up solar, more than $1 billion for clean transportation initiatives, and over $1.6 billion in NY Green Bank commitments. Combined, these investments are supporting nearly 158,000 jobs in New York's clean energy sector in 2020, a 2,100 percent growth in the distributed solar sector since 2011 and a commitment to develop 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2035. Under the Climate Act, New York will build on this progress and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 85 percent from 1990 levels by 2050, while ensuring that at least 35 percent with a goal of 40 percent of the benefits of clean energy investments are directed to disadvantaged communities, and advance progress towards the state's 2025 energy efficiency target of reducing on-site energy consumption by 185 trillion BTUs of end-use energy savings.
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Even those systems that do promise a workable solution are typically limited to simple headland manoeuvres – for example; enabling a tractor or harvester to complete a 'pass', turn in a generously-proportioned arc and start the next 'pass'.
Fendt reasons that this is not always practical. The company says that some jobs require a tighter or different type of turn.
A spokesperson explained: "All available systems for automatic turning currently execute the manoeuvre when moving forward and are, therefore, ideal for drawn [trailed] implements.
"Our new Variotronic Turn Assistant now also offers a reverse turn in two different versions – the Y-turn and the K-turn. These two turn types, with a direction change, have a number of advantages in practice.
According to Fendt, the driver enters all relevant parameters on the operator's terminal – including the required turn type and the headland size. The system works in conjunction with 'headland management'.
Fendt says that the Y-turn is common. On entering the headland, the sequence starts automatically. The machine brakes and reverses; reversing is done automatically via cruise control. The machine then runs "seamlessly" back into the next 'pass'.
The K-turn is a "special type" of reverse turn; it's better suited to turning on slopes (enabling a tractor with a rear-mounted implement to climb while reversing, for example).
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019 – The Hinterland Electrification Company Inc. (HECI) in collaboration with the Government Electrical Inspectorate (GEI) are two agencies under the purview of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure. The HECI and GEI are currently conducting Electrical certification training across Guyana within the hinterland regions.
Over the weekend the team conducted training in Kwakwani where thirty-four (34) practicing electricians participated in the training. After the training session a total of thirty-two (32) participants wrote the final assessment and seven (7) were successful. The seven (7) successful participants were then given an opportunity to apply for a contractor's license.
The team will be facilitating training throughout the months of March through June to Lethem, Mahdia, Port Kaituma and Mabaruma. The HECI and GEI invites all practicing electricians within the aforementioned areas to take full advantage of the free training that is being offered by the Ministry's qualified personnel.
This training is geared at equipping hinterland practicing electricians who may have performed electrical installation for years, but lack the necessary academics or those who may have attended a technical institution, but, however, may not have acquired the requisite years of experience to qualify for a license. Additionally, the team seeks to bring those persons up to standard and to educate them on the theoretical aspects of electrical installation.
The Ministry wishes to extend congratulations to those who would have successfully completed the training held in Kwakwani. We also implore all practicing electricians in the aforementioned communities to get involve when the team visits your area.