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Memorial HS teacher battling brain cancer swims to help others
By Charles Miller
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Adam Schoen is a well-known 12th grade English teacher at Memorial High School.
In 2018, Schoen was diagnosed with brain cancer and was forced to miss the entire school year.
"It was a lonely existence," said Schoen. "Being isolated at home, until my wife got home from work, was very different."
The school teacher also had to go through rehab to regain strength on the right side of his body. He couldn't sit-up following his brain surgery, and he eventually had to re-learn how to walk.
Thankfully, Schoen has recovered and has returned to teaching at Memorial High School.
"Mr. Schoen is a great person," says Daniel, one of his students. "I really appreciate him and want well-being for him."
In April, Schoen will be giving back to others who are in the situation he was in last year.
While he can't return to more high impact sports, he has taken to swimming, and he'll be participating in Swim Across America, a half mile race in Lake Houston.
He's swimming to raise money for MD Anderson Cancer Center.
You can learn more about Schoen's swim and Swim Across America at swimacrossamerica.org.
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Utrecht Basis
Long-Term Project
2007–ONGOING
BAK engages regularly with educational programs of multiple academic institutions in the Netherlands and outside. Furthermore, BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova and other team members lecture extensively at academies and universities in the Netherlands and all over the world.
BAK also organizes and hosts a variety of educational programs, allowing a broad public to engage with contemporary issues. Through such educational programs, BAK proposes research and education as a collective, common practice.
Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art as Politics
The Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art as Politics is a collaborative and intensive learning week in Bratislava from 9–13 September 2019, organized in partnership with Open Studio/ Studio IN – Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, APART Collective in Bratislava, and initiated by Kristína Országhová.
4-18 July 2019
Futures Without…
HKU MA Fine Art Graduation Show with daily performances
From 4–18 July 2019, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst hosts the HKU MA Fine Art Graduation Show Futures Without... This transdisciplinary graduation show features video, spatial installations, sound and visual experiences, drawings, objects and photographs. It also hosts a vivid program of daily performances.
7 March 2019, 15.30-16.00
Modeling a World Otherwise, and Living It as If It Were Possible
keynote lecture by Maria Hlavajova at the GRACE Conference 2019
Keynote lecture by Maria Hlavajova, General and Artistic Director of BAK, during the GRACE Conference 2019, titled Gender and Cultures of In/Equality in Europe: visions, poetics, strategies.
Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
The Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum is a collaborative and intensive learning week in Bratislava from 18‑21 September 2018, organized in partnership with BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Open Studio/ Studio IN – Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, APART Collective in Bratislava, and initiated by Kristína Országhová.
Education Program, Exhibition
24 June–09 July 2017
ABiotic Factors
From 24 June to 9 July 2017, BAK hosts the MaHKU graduation exhibition ABiotic Factors. Departing from nature-culture, this year's MaHKU graduation project takes the urban environment as a site of mutual interactions between both living and non-living agents.
The Southern Summer School
The Southern Summer School is a collective project that brings together art practitioners and cultural workers based in South Africa, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It begins from the acknowledgment that the colonial involvement of the Dutch and the British empire in South Africa is not only a historical fact that may be consigned to the past, but that coloniality continues to operate in the present.
Creative Time Summit DC: Occupy the Future
Lecture by Maria Hlavajova during the Creative Time Summit, an international conference on art and social change.
Panel Discussion, Performance
24 June 2016, 15.00
Panel discussion with curator Markus Miessen
Panel discussion with curator Markus Miessen, followed by a performance program.
Caulfield, Cauliflower, and other Vegetables (A Possible Dialectics On The Politics Of Misunderstanding)
MaHKU graduation exhibition of 2016, curated by Markus Miessen.
After Europe
On the opening night of Jonas Staal's exhibition After Europe, Maria Hlavajova, artistic director of BAK, will join a panel discussion with Quim Arrufat, Angela Dimitrakaki, and Despina Koutsoumpa.
Debate, Presentation
3 June 2016, 14.00
Un(fore)seen Cultures: Mapping the Urban Contemporary in Hong Kong and the Netherlands
Presentations and debate stemming from an exchange between Utrecht University and Hong Kong University,
Global Art Challenges 2016
Keynote lecture by Maria Hlavajova as part of a panel on "Art-as-Intervention-in-Reality: "Ecology of Knowledges" and Institutional Practices".
Tentoonbazen
Temporary exhibition by pupils of the Oosterlicht College. In two exhibition projects, they focus on questions of identity, migration, and the Dutch relationship to asylum seekers and refugee shelters.
Synapse I: Rethinking Institutions
Contribution by Maria Hlavajova to a panel in the context of OMONOIA, the Athens Biennale 2015-2017.
Thinking Out Loud: Practices of Art in the Era of the Disenchanted
On 24 March 2015, BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova presents a talk titled Thinking Out Loud: Practices of Art in the Era of the Disenchanted, in which she thinks through the research projects FORMER WEST and Future Vocabularies, to reflect on the question what the prospective itineraries might be through which we can point towards what we once used to call the "future"?
Book Launch, Conversation
Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe
On 23 March 2015, BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova engages in a conversation with Rael Artel and Katarzyna Kosmala, on the occassion of the publication of the latter's new edited collection Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe.
Art in the Face of Class Recompositions
In the lecture series Curating… Lectures from the exhibition maker's practice, organized by the Museum for Contemporary Art, Basel and the Academy of Art and Design, Basel, BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova discusses Art in the Face of Class Recompositions.
Learning & Unlearning
Maria Hlavajova chairs the Learning & Unlearning session of Artist Organisations International.
On the present Zeitgeist and the position of the artist
Maria Hlavajova speaks about the current Zeitgeist and the position of the artist within the framework of the Honger naar radicaliteit. Dood aan de nuance project at De Theaterschool, Amsterdam.
Reflections on the role of the artist in society
Maria Hlavajova lectures at the The bitter sweet legacy of communism in Romania. Reflections (I): Dan Perjovschi public program at the Royal Academy, The Hague.
ON MEDIATION/2: Theory and Curatorial Practices in the Global Art
BAK's artistic director Maria Hlavajova gives a talk in Barcelona on 10 December 2014, as a part of the second On Mediation training seminar, organized by the Art, Globalization, Interculturality (AGI) research group of the Department of Art History, University of Barcelona, Barcelona.
Constructing Other Worlds
BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova gives a talk in Bucharest on 30 October 2014 as a part of the Evening classes series of conferences, screenings, presentations, and discussions, organized by the Salonul de Proiecte curatorial programme.
Learning, Screening
4 September 2014, 19.00
Learning Place: Screening and Discussion
On 4 September 2014 at 19.00 hrs, BAK's site of education and talent development, Learning Place (LP), marks the beginning of a new semester with a public screening of two works realized by recent LP graduates from MaHKU, Utrecht and MAR/KABK, The Hague.
Critical Theory Beyond Negativity: the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation
The intensive course Critical Theory Beyond Negativity: the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation explores critical theory in the tradition of Continental philosophy, with special reference to the works of philosophers Gilles Deleuze, Luce Irigaray, Henri Bergson, and Rosi Braidotti.
Why Biennial?
Keynote by Maria Hlavajova at the International Biennial Association conference, Berlin. Beginning with a diagnosis of the conflict zone that is the world today, Maria Hlavajova's keynote lecture Why Biennial? addresses the urgent need to reevaluate how we think about the biennial.
BAK at NY Art Book Fair
BAK participates in the NY Art Book Fair, New York, 5–7 November 2010.
The Political and Social Responsibilities of Public Art Institutions
Lectures and guided tour at MUHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen.
Curating (Beyond) Exhibitions: Critical Curatorial Practices and Contemporary Society
When is Feminism in Curating?
Lecture and seminar.
What is Critical about Critical Curatorial Practices
Lecture and studio visits at Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Enschede.
Introduction to the project Citizens and Subjects
Lecture and studio visit Aernout Mik.
Introduction to the project Former West
Lecture with Charles Esche and seminar.
1989 on: Examples of Curatorial Practices and Landmark Exhibitions
10 February–31 March 2009
Master course organized by Utrecht University and BAK. The course, structured as a series of lectures and seminars, explores the dynamic field of curating vis-ŕ-vis the challenges that artistic and intellectual practices are presented with by contemporary society, and takes the year 1989—which marks the end of the Cold War—as a starting point from which to explore the practice of curating.
What is the subject at hand?
Introduction to Curating (Beyond) Exhibitions.
BAK Summer School
BAK Public Studies
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
Future Vocabularies
Former West
New World Academy
Research in Residence
Call the Witness
Postsecularism
Citizens and Subjects
Concerning "Knowledge Production" (Practices in Contemporary Art)
Who if not we…? 7 episodes on (ex)changing Europe
Concerning War
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Dr. Julian Davies is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington where he co-directs the Center for Adoption Medicine and works at the longest running FAS clinic in the courntry. His interest in foster care and adoption began in Russia, where he started a summer arts and clown camp for Russian orphans. He now has a pediatric practice where 2/3 of his patients were fostered or adopted. Dr. Davies also created an award-winning online resource for pediatrics and adoption adoptmed.org.


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Vector plans on turning EVs into mobile power sources
Vector is looking to drive new innovation in the rapidly expanding electric vehicle sector by not only providing charging solutions but also turning them into power sources.
Andre Botha, Vector chief networks officer says, "We see the potential for EVs to become mobile energy sources and a key part in making our network smarter and more resilient."
The latest data from the Ministry of Transport shows there are now about 4,900 light EVs on the road up from almost 2,000 a year ago.
While the numbers are pushing higher, Botha said the cars aren't putting pressure on the grid as their contribution to demand is small but "we are developing smart solutions" to ensure that doesn't happen.
The government is aiming to double the number of electric vehicles in New Zealand every year to reach approximately 64,000 by 2021.
Among other things, Vector is closely monitoring existing public charging stations to get data on usage patterns and wants in order to build flexible customer-focused networks that are accommodative to this disruptive technology.
Vector has been on expanding its reach outside its dominant regulated electricity and gas distribution which faces smaller returns, branching out into telecommunications, smart meters, battery storage, solar and home ventilation.
Vector now has 18 rapid charging stations, plus another nine standard chargers.
EV users do not currently have to pay to use them.
A car takes an average 15-to-25 minutes at a rapid charger and six-to-eight hours at a standard charger.
Botha continues, "Between July 2016 and June 2017, these chargers have seen over 22,700 rapid electric vehicle charging sessions, delivering 180.6MWh of electricity to EV users.
"That's more than 195,641 kilograms of CO2e emissions saved compared with using a petrol-powered vehicle."
While different electricity retailers are offering night rate specials to avoid congestion in peak hours, Vector is going one step further and implementing a so-called Vehicle-to-Grid technology.
The vehicle charges overnight and then its stored power can be used as a cheaper power source during peak hour consumption and as a way to power homes during outages.
A second-generation Nissan Leaf with a 20 kWh battery could power the average household for 10 hours on a full charge.
Given most cars are parked for the majority of the time people could charge up their car batteries overnight with cheaper energy and then use them as power boosts when needed, or in the morning and evenings when energy costs more.
Also on the innovation front, Vector is looking at how EVs could improve the resilience of the network as the impact of climate change makes extreme weather like storms or droughts more common.
Vector is investigating end-of-life uses for EVs when batteries are no longer effective at powering the vehicle.
One idea is to group ex-EV batteries into mobile power supply units which could replace generators as temporary power sources.
Vector penalised $3.5 million for excessive levels of power outages
NZ urgently needs to get the Privacy Bill right for everyone's sake, says InternetNZ
Vector the AI-powered home robot to land in NZ from October
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Timezone New Zealand set to launch new arcade game called Halo: Fireteam Raven
Sky TV set to launch new pop up channel called GINX Esports TV
Vector New Zealand EV


What is the number of numbers that are divisible by both 2 and 3 from 400 to 700 ?
We will discuss the counting rules down later as and when the need arises.
In order for a number to be divisible by both 2 and 3, it is enough if the number is divisible by just 6, because the L.C.M. (least common multiple) of 2 and 3 is 6.
For example, consider number 4: though it is divisible by 2, it is not divisible by 3.
(Can you tell me what is the test of divisibility?
4 is divisible by 2 because the remainder left after dividing 4 by 2 is 0.
Therefore, 4 is divisible by 2 as nothing is left on dividing it by 2.
4 is not divisible by 3 because the remainder left after dividing 4 by 3 is 1, i.e. not 0. That means after dividing 4 by 3, something is left, something remains.
Next, consider 9; this is divisible by 3 but not by 2.
So, how do we find out a number which is divisible by both 2 and 3. Simple, find out the least common multiple of 2 and 3 first and then search for numbers which are divisible by this LCM of 2 and 3.
Now, what is the LCM of 2 and 3?
It is the product of 2 and 3 i.e. 2 × 3 = 6.
Therefore, the multiples of 6 such as 12, 18, 24 and infinite others will be divisible by both 2 and 3.
So, to find the number of numbers divisible by both 2 and 3 from 400 to 700, inclusive, we have to find how many numbers in the given range are divisible by 6, i.e. the LCM of 2 and 3.
Now, read carefully for a wonderful method to find the number of multiples of 6 from 400 to 700, inclusive.
First find what quotient is obtained on dividing 400 by 6.
Again, find the quotient obtained on dividing 700 by 6.
It is 116, with a remainder 4.
Now, to find with a breeze how many numbers are multiples of 6 from 400 to 700, inclusive, just subtract the quotients to find the difference of the quotients obtained above.
And the difference of the quotients is 116 – 66 = 50.
Lo! You have the answer.
50 is the number of numbers that are multiples of 6 from 400 to 700, inclusive and therefore of both 2 and 3.
What? Is that so easy? Yes.
Is it applicable for any other range say, 300 to 600 inclusive too, besides the given range.
the method is really the same, but with some refinement to adapt to different ranges.
Oh! Is that so? Then, is the method more complex for a different range?
No, no, my dear friend!
The method is still the same and as easy as learnt by you above.
Though the discussion is lengthy and confusing, but it's worth learning. Again, after the exact reason is explained for bringing slight alteration to adapt the method to various ranges, I will present a simple short-cut that will bring fresh lease of life to your learning.
Here goes the explanation of the modification in the method to suit for various ranges based on counting rules.
To go ahead, let us consider the range 300 to 600, inclusive.
Now, what is the number of multiples of 6 in the above range?
Following the above method, let us find out first the quotients obtained on dividing 300 and 600 by 6.
600 divided by 6 gives quotient 100 and 300 divided by 6 gives quotient 50.
Applying the above method, we find the difference in the quotients: 100 and 50 which is 50 i.e. 100 – 50 = 50.
So, is 50 the number of numbers divisible by 6 from 300 to 600, inclusive?
50 + 1 = 51.
What? +1? But why is that?
And if yes, then why not in the range from 400 to 700?
Yes, yes my friend, its 50 + 1 and not simply the difference of the quotients 50.
In the range 300 to 600, inclusive, both 300 and 600 are divisible by 6.
It's that the remainder has to be 0.
When 600 and 300 are divided by 6, then both the dividends leave remainders 0 and so they are divisible by both 6.
But the difference of the quotients 100 and 50 (obtained on dividing 600 and 300 respectively by 6) is 50.
But this difference 50 does not include one of the two between 100 (therefore the multiple 600 as a consequence) or 50 (therefore the multiple 300 as a consequence).
How many integers are there from 1 to 100, inclusive.
Is it 100 or the difference 100 – 1 = 99?
100 and 1 = 99, does not include both 1 and 100.
But you must count the number of integers from 1 to 100, inclusive as 100 based on the word: INCLUSIVE.
The world inclusive signifies counting integers between 1 and 100 and also the first and the last, i.e. 1 and 100.
But difference 99 (100 – 1) will not do this, i.e. will not include both 1 and 100.
One of the two between 100 and 1 gets excluded by the difference 99.
Since the exact meaning of the expression "from 1 to 100, inclusive" is inclusion of both 1 and 100, therefore a '1' is added to the difference 99 to include back whichever of 1 and 100 is excluded by the difference 99.
Difference 99 + 1 (for inclusive counting).
100 – 50 = 50 + 1 = 51.
Now, the reason of adding 1 to the difference of the quotients 50 must have dawned on you.
Because the difference of the quotients 50 will not include both 50 and 100 (and therefore respectively the dividends 300 and 600), therefore a 1 is added to this difference of the quotients.
Because both 300 and 600 are exactly divisible by 6 (as the remainders left on dividing them both by 6 is 0), so both 300 and 600 must needs be included.
But 50, the difference of the quotients 100 and 50 will exclude one of them and hence an '1' is added to 50.
Look at the difference of the quotients 66 and 116.
i.e. 116 – 66 = 50.
So, do we add 1 to this difference of the quotients: 50.
116 and 66 are quotients obtained when 696 and 396 are divided by 6 and since 396 does not lie in the range 400 to 700, so it need not be included for our purpose. But, 116 will need to be included as it is the quotient obtained on dividing 696 by 6 and since 696 lies in the range 400 to 700, so it should be included.
That is, of the two quotients 66 and 116, we need to include one and exclude the other.
Therefore, the number of multiples of 6 from 400 to 700, inclusive is 50 only.
From 300 to 600, inclusive how many numbers are divisible by 6?
From 400 to 700, inclusive how many numbers are divisible by 6?
From 300 to 700, inclusive how many numbers are divisible by 6?
From 400 to 600, inclusive how many numbers are divisible by 6?
So, my dear friend, did you notice when all 1 was added to the difference of the quotients.
Whenever the the first number in the above four ranges is divisible by 6, then 1 must be added to the difference of the quotients.
And this method will work to find how many numbers are divisible by two factors in various ranges such as 400 to 700 and so on.


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Transportation advocates are hopeful that with a new governor in Illinois, the effort to establish passenger train service between the Quad Cities and Chicago, as well as service between Rockford and Chicago, will regain momentum. Amtrak is interested in operating the route.
In Moline, Ill., there is a new train station in the same building as a new hotel and just-opened stores.
All that's needed is the train.
The Quad Cities have wanted a passenger train to and from Chicago since the Rock Island Rocket stopped service to the community of Mississippi River towns in the 1970s. Legislators began planning a new line a decade ago, but the project has been frozen a few times since, most recently during the Illinois budget impasse.
Rockford wants a train too — the old Black Hawk train from Chicago through Rockford to Dubuque, Iowa, stopped running in 1981. Plans for a new Black Hawk also were put on hold.
But with the election of Democrat J.B. Pritzker as governor, and with strong local support, hopes are rising for the eventual revival of both routes.
Funding for both projects came out of the 2009 capital bill — the last one seen in the state. The state appropriated $150 million for Amtrak expansion for both the Quad Cities route and service to Dubuque via Rockford, along with money for rail upgrades for the existing line between Chicago and St. Louis, said Rick Harnish, executive director of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association.
Plans for the Black Hawk line were limited to Rockford first, with the idea of pushing onto Dubuque later.
In 2011, the Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $177.3 million grant to the Illinois Department of Transportation to complete planning, environmental review, design and construction of the Quad Cities line, with the intent of having two passenger rail service round trips daily.
But in 2015, "a few projects were put on pause," IDOT spokesman Guy Tridgell said. These included plans for both new rail routes.
Harnish said it was harder to get service started on the Quad Cities line than anticipated.
The Quad Cities route would run along BNSF tracks to the small village of Wyanet in Bureau County, at which point the rail switches to a different owner, the Iowa Interstate Railroad, which carries freight.
Illinois resumed planning and engineering work on the Quad Cities line in late 2016 and resumed talks with the Iowa Interstate late last year, Tridgell said. Negotiations on the Black Hawk route with Union Pacific have not resumed, he said.
About $25 million in improvements to BNSF's Eola Yard in Aurora were finished within the past year, Tridgell said. These were needed to accommodate extra trains that would be using the yard once the Chicago-Moline service begins.
Amtrak passenger service already runs along the line from Chicago to Quincy. Federal Railroad Administration spokeswoman Desiree French said improvements on the BNSF line are already helping Amtrak's California Zephyr and Southwest Chief long-distance services.
The state and the railroad administration are negotiating with the Iowa Interstate about upgrades needed for passenger service along the single-track line from Wyanet to Moline. These include installation of positive train control, a federally mandated system designed to automatically stop a train to avoid danger if an engineer fails to do it. There also needs to be a connection between the BNSF and Iowa lines.
A representative from Iowa Interstate Railroad was not available for comment.
There was concern that the federal grant would expire, but IDOT has worked out extensions, Tridgell said. He could not give a timeline for when the Moline line could happen.
Though there has been no recent financial help for the Rockford line, voters in Winnebago and Boone counties overwhelmingly approved an advisory referendum supporting it in the Nov. 6 election.
Amtrak is interested in operating both the Rockford and the Quad Cities routes, when and if they happen, spokesman Marc Magliari said. He noted that studies of both routes have shown them to have high potential for passengers.
Meanwhile, traffic is growing on the route from Chicago to St. Louis, which shows the demand for passenger trains in the state. With ongoing improvements along the route, including track upgrades for higher speeds and new stations and locomotives, passenger volume has grown to 719, 634 in the most recent fiscal year, up 12 percent from 2010, Magliari said.
Getting more state money, and in turn more federal money, for routes to the Quad Cities and Rockford will not be easy. It will first require a new state capital bill. A spokeswoman for Pritzker said the incoming governor is committed to "working across the aisle" to get a capital plan that will leverage as much federal money as possible. Lawmakers say they expect it will happen next year.
But there will be a lot of competition for that money from other infrastructure needs, especially roads, water systems and transit agencies.
Moline's Forsythe remains optimistic. He said a train would connect the Quad Cities with the Chicago area and will be a great help to students from Western Illinois University's Quad Cities campus and Augustana and St. Ambrose colleges.
"We're just being patient," he said.
Last week's song was about driving for a living, to towns like Tucson and Tucumcari. The song is "Willin'," first performed by Little Feat. Richard Messersmith, of Winnetka, was first with the right answer.
This week's song tells of a toll operator who mistook one kind of pig for another. What's the song? The first person to email or tweet me the answer gets a Tribune bookmark, and glory. I'll tweet the answer at noon Monday.


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Freedom and the humanities - Social consciousness and freedom
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The interview series Reflections on Freedom continues. A look at the humanities in collaboration with ISI, USI Institute of Italian Studies. Vincenzo Matera, a lecturer at USI Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society and full professor at Università degli Studi di Milano, explores the theme of social consciousness in relation to freedom.
To answer the very complex question of what social consciousness is and what relationship it has with freedom, I would like to recall what a famous anthropologist, Marc Augé, wrote in a book dedicated to a wide-ranging exploration of the meaning of our social existence: "All human groups have cosmologies, representations of the universe, the world and society that offer their members points of reference to know their place, to know what is possible and impossible, what is permitted and forbidden. These reference points may be materially inscribed in space (e.g. in the form of statues, shrines or characteristic natural places), imprinted on the everyday utensils and tools, or sometimes on flesh, for example, in the form of scarification. Myths develop cosmologies, and rituals put them into action: individual lives are essentially ordered on the model thus drawn. The stronger the adherence to this model, the less freedom is present, while the more sense is present; individuals have no desire to do anything other than what is imposed or permitted upon them: they know what they must do, and even better know what they must not do. Their world is without freedom but imbued with meaning" (Marc Augé, 2004, Why We Live, Meltemi, p. 11).
Augé's words outline a somewhat surprising relationship between 'social consciousness' (a sense of belonging to a community) and 'freedom': the more our choices are 'forced' (think of expressions such as "I had no choice", "I had to do it" etc.) the more they are loaded with meaning. A classic theoretical model of cultural anthropology operates here, which places in the foreground to understand the importance of individual lives - it is no coincidence that the book from which I took the quote is entitled Why We Live - humanity's immediate need to give (and give itself) a 'stable, ordered directional' order. How is such an arrangement achieved? By constructing reference systems (models, arbitrary, because historical) in relation to which people's lives are arranged. Adhering to the model that our society proposes to us (or imposes on us) means for most people obtaining an existence endowed with meaning, recognised, appreciated, and therefore gratifying. Is this how 'happiness' is achieved? Probably not, but, as has been said, happiness is not of this world. In such a framework, to add a further cue, we can recall that, as a rule, moments of exaltation in a person's life coincide with moments of 'breaking' of the standard order, extraordinary moments in which one comes out of a routine and perhaps even feels 'free, at last!'. But these are short-lived moments, destined to a return to the social ranks, or else, should the subversive drive persist in an individual even beyond the festive, celebratory, orgiastic period that every human community has always foreseen and granted to its members, he or she would inevitably be condemned to an existence on the outskirts, isolated, placed outside the perimeter of the community. In short, between freedom and social meaning, there is a complex, ambiguous, conflictual relationship. We can add here a reference to the well-known reflection of Eric Fromm. He, in Escape from Freedom, argues that the crisis of the autonomy of the individual (which drew its foundations from a solid ethical father-son relationship) provokes a flight towards the model of collective authority embodied by the dictator and towards a form of "masochistic subordination" (the submission to the leader typical of every fascist, totalitarian ideology). Fromm writes that in this way, the individual: "(...) gains a certain security by being united with millions of others who share these feelings (E. Fromm, Fuga dalla libertà, Edizioni di Comunità Milan, 1963, p. 127)".
Moreover, one of the most relevant contributions of the Frankfurt School is the critique of mass society, the advent of which appears to its exponents as a disaster for the individual.
Mass society does not reduce inequalities; on the contrary, it extends the mechanisms of domination from the labour sphere (the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalist) to every moment of individuals' everyday life (including leisure time). Even individual freedom then reveals itself to be a fiction in modern democratic societies: our freedom of choice increases on the surface, but in reality, we all remain at the mercy of tools such as the mass media (and with the so-called new media, our dependence only increases, think of how much we cannot do without our smartphones), advertising, and consumption, which show themselves to be instruments of coercion.
Even the culture industry, which corresponds to one of those cosmologies that tell us how we should be and live, as indicated by Marc Augé, organises moments of leisure, entertainment, and cultural activities, which are aimed at achieving an almost total uniformity of individuals, thus wiping out individuality.
Conscience manipulation has the purpose of inducing specific consumption and, in doing so, also maintains the given order, eliminating any capacity, even interior, for rebellion among individuals. Herbert Marcuse, in his very famous book The One-Dimensional Man (1964), reiterates this reflection: the one-dimensional man is the man who is a member of mass societies, deprived of his criticism, totally entrapped in the system, indeed, even complicit in the reproduction of the system itself. Advanced industrial society, Marcuse states, with a specific predictive capacity, through technology, invades and destroys that 'private space' in which man, though still formed by and in society, can (could) maintain autonomy. It no longer happens once industrial mass production takes over. The result is a complete identification of humans with society.
It is said that a person's freedom ends where another man's freedom begins: is this true?
Again, following an important hint by Umberto Eco, I start the reflection by placing myself "on the shoulders of a giant" to see further. The giant, in this case, is a scholar and pupil of Claude Lévi-Strauss, a French anthropologist who has carried on the master's teaching in a very significant way. Françoise Heritier states:
"To make a society habitable, it was necessary to legislate and regulate several drives specific to the human condition. The two drives best controlled, enclosed in various bodies of law, are, on the one hand, that which affects the life and physical safety of others, and on the other, that which affects the property of others: houses, fields, animals, objects, various possessions acquired legally in various ways (another defined so precisely that these limiting rules do not protect, as is well known, any human)" [in Dissolvere la gerarchia, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2004, p. 200].
Heritier's first words seem, all things considered, to confirm the statement recalled in his question, attributable to M. L. King and part of common sense on the subject of freedom: for a society to be habitable and not become an endless hotbed of conflict, abuse, aggression, it is necessary to regulate, to set limits, to indicate boundaries to protect human life itself and also the property (legally recognised as such) of each individual. After all, 'thou shalt not kill' and 'thou shalt not steal' have ancient roots and are a fundamental part of that pact with God that would put people in the privileged condition of being freed from all forms of sin. God does not impose the commandments to subjugate, but, on the contrary, the tables of the law are understood, in the religious vision, as the foundation of our freedom in the direction of eternal salvation. And here, I would like to add another fundamental reference: "To greater strength, and a better nature, you are free" (Purgatory, Canto XVI)".
The "liberi soggiacete" of which Dante speaks to us - without going into complex interpretations of a much-discussed verse of the Divine Comedy - in my opinion, partly returns to the idea that "the conscience is determined by one' social existence" and more generally in the belief that individuals are in any case "dominated" by the social and cultural structures within which they are embedded. If we were to start from the fact that we are conscious animals, capable of acting based on a plan to achieve certain ends and go so far as to agree with the famous passage in The Capital in which Marx expresses this concept through the comparison between the worst architect and the best bee, we would find ourselves faced with a constant problem for anthropologists, as well as linguists, but even before that for a multitude of philosophers and theologians: Explaining the human capacity to act, precisely based on an idea, a project, a conscience, or by way of free will, whatever, subject to the constraints that all social living imposes. However, it is an imposition that dictates our freedom according to a partly oxymoronic mechanism.
Here we find again what is described in the passage quoted above by Marc Augé: the more a society rigorously dictates the conduct to which we must adhere, our place in the world, the more we feel 'certain' of the meaning of our actions and certain of our identity. But all this certainty comes at a price in terms of the loss of the capacity for critical thinking, which is the true matrix of our freedom.
The loss of the capacity for critical thinking has dire consequences. We then come to the second part of Françoise Heritier's words, in which she refers to that 'other' with respect to whom my freedom must be limited: not just any human being, but very well defined according to precise 'cultural' and 'identity' criteria. Respect for the other and recognition of the freedom of others ends (or diminishes, at best) when the boundaries of 'us', of the group to which we belong and in which we recognise ourselves, are crossed. This clarification is as essential as it is dramatic: it allows us to recognise that 'freedom' - as a notion such as human rights - is a historical product, a derivation, we might say, of the specific social sense proper to each social configuration. Actions detrimental to the freedom of others, and also to the human rights of others, which are forbidden and punished when committed against members of my group, appear entirely legitimate and are sometimes even encouraged when directed outwards. The 'thou shalt not kill' mentioned above has historically been fulfilled in a 'thou shalt not kill others of your group, others like you. This leads us to reflect on 'boundaries': being human means "conforming to human nature", "endowed with humanity"; humanity means "togetherness of all men" and "benevolence towards one's neighbour'; there is a link between belonging to the same species and perceiving someone else as "human", between the sphere of the human and the sphere of "empathic understanding": the other "thinks, feels, suffers just like us".
However, in most societies, this link is not very obvious - and there is no need to go too far in space or too far back in time - that very often aggressive behaviour, strongly repressed against members of one's group, becomes entirely legitimate when directed against 'outsiders'. Double standards appear to be a feature of all societies. What is the 'double standard' based on? Perhaps on the failure to perceive the suffering of others? It does not seem so because the human - other animal relationship does not derive from a perceptual error, but because humans (some humans, the vast majority let us say) believe they have the right to behave as they do. This, by logical extension, also seems to apply to relationships within the human species itself. That is to say, although those who inflict suffering on other human beings cannot be unaware of their suffering and pain, why should that matter? Those beings are so different from me, from us, they are, indeed, 'enemies' and as such, or rather, to be made such, they must be pushed out of the boundaries of humanity. The power of ideas can make - in fact, makes - the very boundaries of humans precarious and revocable. So it is not always true that my freedom ends where the freedom of others begins, just as not all 'humans' have this full recognition in terms of rights. There are still today, in the perception of modern Western democratic societies, first-class victims and second-class victims, first-class refugees and second-class refugees... first-class freedom and second-class freedom. I do not think it is necessary to make concrete cases.
How is it important to talk about freedom and social responsibility, and what is the right way to make these two aspects "work together"?
It is challenging to find a balance between (individual?) freedom and social responsibility because we have to start by recognising that balance does not exist in nature. Still, neither exists in societies, both of which are traversed by hierarchical relationships. It may be interesting to start a debate, to delimit the field and give some examples. For example, the terrorist attack of 7 January 2015 on the editorial office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in response to the publication of cartoons satirising Islam. This case - to which many more could be added - is indicative of the tension that inevitably arises between languages, forms of expression, worldviews and values that conflict in an increasingly interconnected world in which the freedom to make one's voice heard (even if offensive) is amplified beyond measure. In such a problematic context, many are fighting for the assertion of the right to freedom of expression, considered one of the pillars of Western culture. A country's freedom of expression, they say, is the test of any democracy. 'It must be total to be so,' argued a well-known philosopher like Giulio Giorello. According to this perspective, avoiding satire out of fear of reactions would mean going backwards in terms of values, whereas it would be important to reaffirm that the right to freedom of expression is one of the great achievements of Western history. Another phenomenon that challenges the principle of free speech is hate speech. The common point between satire and hate speech is the undoubted performative value of both. 'Saying' is equivalent in both cases (and many others) to 'doing'. An order, a request, praise or an insult generates consequences. Speech in these cases is a form of action: hateful and racist expressions are in themselves acts of violence. Therefore, if censorship is undesirable, total impunity of speech is no less so. Starting from this assumption, we can attempt to rethink the boundaries (the limitations to freedom) of our communicative codes, starting precisely from the concept of responsibility in relation to the consequences of our words. Freedom of satire will then appear to us as not unlimited, just as freedom of the press is not unlimited, since both imply ethical and political responsibilities. The myth of 'free expression' hides the fact that some are freer to express themselves than others and have greater access to the tools with which to do so and that in real life, we are dealing not with abstract principles but with complex issues of context.
Freedom of expression should therefore be balanced by responsibility for one's speech, by awareness of its possible effects. Indeed, freedom of expression is an inalienable value; it is accompanied by an awareness of the power of our words and the responsibility that comes with it. As I said above, this means nurturing critical and conscious thinking, our main instrument of freedom.
Freedom and the humanities - The reader's freedom and the ethics of literature
Freedom and the humanities - Nation, homeland, and freedom in the 1900s
Freedom and the humanities - Extending the "we-feeling"
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When the oceans became acidic
Colossal volcanic eruptions some 250 million years ago have long been linked to the widespread global extinction known as the "Great Dying", a 60,000-year period that saw 90 percent of all sea creatures and more than two-thirds of all plants and animals on land die off. But new research has for the first time identified the specific cause of the carnage to identify when the oceans became acidic.
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TED Talk: Rob Dunbar – The threat of ocean acidification
According to The Smithsonian, "Scientists formerly didn't worry about this process because they always assumed that rivers carried enough dissolved chemicals from rocks to the ocean to keep the ocean's pH stable. However, while the chemistry is predictable, the details of the biological impacts are not. Although scientists have been tracking ocean pH for more than 30 years, biological studies really only started in 2003, when the rapid shift caught their attention and the term 'ocean acidification' was first coined. What we do know is that things are going to look different, and we can't predict in any detail how they will look. Some organisms will survive or even thrive under the more acidic conditions while others will struggle to adapt, and may even go extinct."
As is the case with many aspects of human-caused climate change, the dangers, if they are in fact inevitable, could be enormous, but are still poorly understood. The future effects are only speculative at best, as adaptation can only be speculative as well.
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F&C Commercial Property Trust Ltd (LON:FCPT – Get Rating) crossed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Wednesday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 121.20 ($1.48) and traded as high as GBX 121.80 ($1.49). F&C Commercial Property Trust shares last traded at GBX 121.20 ($1.48), with a volume of 802,696 shares changing hands.
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To herald spring, the Three Points cooks gathered in Kate's D.C. kitchen for our first joint supper club feast. The menu was inspired by Nowruz, the Persian New Year celebration that takes place on the Spring Equinox, March 20 this year. Guests were greeted with a glass of Molly's home-brewed mead, candles were lit, and we sat down to enjoy a multi-course meal with paired wines: Over dessert, one diner, Chef Alison burst out with, "I love life!" We couldn't ask for more.
Khoresh Fesenjan, slow-cooked chicken stew thickened with walnuts and pomegrante, a centerpiece of festive meals.
Herb-Stuffed Fish, whole red snapper made quite the presentation, stuffed with parsley, cilantro, scallions, raisins and pecans (in place of the walnuts called for in the original recipe) and baked in saffron water. Barberries, a difficult-to-find Persian ingredient, were left out here.
Click through each item for the recipe. The full photo gallery is here.
This feast looks incredible… and it looks like you all had the best time dining like shahs. It is quite a cuisine, isn't it? FYI the have barberries in WF in Union Square in the odd dried fruit display… in a hanging plastic bag with paper top… they are most like cranberries in that they are sour but very tasty… used in renaissance food in England as well.
I can't wait to try that cherry ice cream!


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State Supe Releases Annual Report
By adreher
State superintendent Dr. Carey Wright released http://www.mdek12.org/docs/mississippi-board-of-education-library/mde_superintendent_report_16_printer.pdf?sfvrsn=2">her annual report today, which includes how and where school districts spend their state, federal and local dollars. Data included in that report show that school districts use state funds to operate at least half of their budgets on average, while local and federal funding make up the rest of a district's budget.
In total, 67 percent of all funds (federal, state and local) go toward instructional costs, while a little over 10 percent of that funding goes toward general and school administrative costs. School districts also spend a large chunk of their money on support costs for maintenance and building costs, tech support and transportation, http://www.mdek12.org/docs/mississippi-board-of-education-library/4-charts-federal-state-and-local-sources-revenue-and-expenditures.pdf?sfvrsn=2">the report shows.
The average expenditure per pupil in the 2015-2016 school year was $9,704, Wright's report shows. The average teacher salary was $44,416.
"The report provides evidence that the education reforms and legislative initiatives that have been implemented throughout our state are working," said Wright said in a press release. "Mississippi students are benefiting from the state's investment in public education."
The report also highlights several grants Mississippi received, including a $6.6 million grant for MDE to improve their data system with a focus on evaluation and early learning.
Read the full http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2016/may/11/right-leadership-jfp-interview-dr-carey-wright/">JFP interview with Carey Wright and see http://www.mdek12.org/MBE/R2017.


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IBC 2010: Anton/Bauer Intros Power Solutions for Canon DSLR Cams, Receives Two ISO Certifications
Monday, September 13, 2010 - 4:34 pm
Anton/Bauer will introduce new Gold Mount and ElipZ power solutions for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and EOS 7D Digital SLR cameras at IBC 2010 (Stand 11.F60).
Addressing the rising demands of cinematographers adopting Digital SLR camera movie making, Anton/Bauer (a brand of The Vitec Group) is offering new power solutions for the EOS 7D and EOS 5D cameras. These new power solutions will run monitors, lights, transmitters and other accessories not possible with a standard OEM battery.
"We are always looking to develop reliable products that address the ever changing needs of today's film industry," says Michael Accardi, president, Anton/Bauer. "The biggest trend in cinematography is using Digital SLR's to capture movies. Anton/Bauer's new solutions for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and EOS 7D give filmmakers using Digital SLR's more options to power all of the equipment they use on a shoot."
Utilizing the Logic Series batteries, the Gold Mount solution has the ability to mount to most third party support rigs, such as Red-Rock Micro, Zacuto and Cinevate, and offers a much needed counter balance to the rig. It can be configured in a pouch pack which is worn on a belt when handheld production is necessary. The ElipZ solution is based on the ElipZ battery system and provides the user the ability to power the camera and ElightZ or EledZ, an appealing option among the event photographer crowd. This can also be adapted to both a shoulder mount or pouch pack configuration.
Anton/Bauer Awarded Certifications in ISO 9001 AND ISO 14001
Anton/Bauer also announced at IBC 2010 (Stand 11.F60) that it has been awarded two coveted certifications from the International Organization for Standardization: the ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems standard and the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems standard. The awards certify all aspects of Anton/Bauer's business, with specific procedures set in place to evaluate and improve the company's key processes.
The ISO is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards and its stringent criteria are recognized worldwide. Its ISO 9001 requirements are among the strictest of the approximately 13,000 standards established by the organization and serve as a model for quality assurance in all facets of Anton/Bauer's business, including design, development, production, installation, and servicing with no exclusions. ISO 14001 addresses the identification and control of environmental impact of activities, products or services, the improvement of environmental performance and the implementation of a systematic approach to setting environmental objectives and targets.
Instead of applying separately to both standards, Anton/Bauer chose to embark upon the arduous certification process for both standards at one time. This is an unusual and demanding procedure, and their simultaneous granting is an impressive achievement.
"At Anton/Bauer we believe that a successful company is always moving forward, always seeking new ways to benefit its customers and improve the way it does business," says Michael Sobbell, quality assurance manager at Anton/Bauer. "That's why we decided to pursue these ISO certifications. We're dedicated to satisfying our existing customers, and even our suppliers, who themselves have very high standards. These certifications signify that Anton/Bauer has implemented an integrative management system that complies with the ISO standards, and it defines us as a company focused on excellence in management policies, operational processes and continuous quality improvement."
The award of both ISO certifications comes after the completion of an exacting audit, conducted by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board certified registrar, American Systems Registrar, to determine if the company conformed to the established standards.
"We had to examine, analyze, and document every aspect of our business, making various process improvements and establishing the required controls and metrics that ISO-compliance demanded," says Sobbell. "It was a huge undertaking, but we've already reaped the rewards, as it has altered our approach to the way we do business. Our company is more streamlined, efficient and effective which, in the end, benefits our customers."
This distinction gives Anton/Bauer an edge in its own marketplace as well as an opening into others. "In addition to our current OEMs, many entities in other markets, such as the military and medical industries, now require ISO certification," says Sobbell. "Because these are global standards, the ISO accreditation is recognized by those industries as well. Having implemented these standards opens the door to further certification as we expand into additional markets."
According to Michael Accardi, company president, the dual certifications are a milestone for Anton/Bauer. "We're incredibly excited about what it means for our future as a company," he says, "and we're incredibly proud of our entire staff for achieving this tremendous honor. We're perfectly poised to lead our industry into the future."


We've had at least two clients call us in the last few days saying they've had a cold call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft support.
The cold caller claims that they have something wrong with their PC and want to connect their computer to resolve the problems.
Generally all that happens at this point is the cold caller installs fake software on the PC that steals data, reports fake issues and causes more problems than it cures. They then try and talk you into an annual maintenance contract and try to persuade you to hand over your credit card details.
This scam seems to have been going for quite sometime now and the scammers are generally relying on your Fear Uncertainty or Doubt to gain access to your computer. If you do get a call of this sort the advice has to be to to end the call as soon as possible and if you are worried about the security on your PC have it checked out by a reputable professional locally.
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PharmMD Welcomes Jason Rose as Chief Executive Officer
Mar 05, 2018 Mark
Press Release (ePRNews.com) - BRENTWOOD, Tenn. - Mar 05, 2018 - PharmMD, a leading medication adherence technology solutions company, announced today that Jason Rose has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member of its board of directors. Rose will build upon the company's leading data-driven technologies while expanding upon its value-based care initiatives.
PharmMD's Chairman, Frank Coliano, stated, "After a thorough and thoughtful search process, we are thrilled to have Jason join us as CEO and a member of our board. Jason brings a stellar leadership reputation, a wealth of healthcare technology experience, and a lifelong passion for innovation – all of which are critical components in the evolution of our company."
"We could not have arrived at this point in our business without the careful guidance and leadership from Bob Yeager," states Coliano. "Since January of 2013, Bob has been both an inspiration and catalyst for growth which is why we are grateful that he will remain on the Board of Directors."
I'm grateful that my father's mission to change the industry from a 'get sick' to a 'get well' business will continue under the direction of Jason.
Stuart McWhorter
Co-Founder and Chairman, Clayton Associates
According to Yeager, "The board, including myself, has always had a strong focus on succession planning. We initiated the formal CEO succession process many months ago, searching to find the best leader for our employees, customers, partners and shareholders. We all agree that person is Jason. I'm equally pleased to continue my support of this incredible company into the future."
"I'm grateful that my father's mission to change the industry from a 'get sick' to a 'get well' business will continue under the direction of Jason," stated Board Member Stuart McWhorter, son of the late Clayton McWhorter, founder of PharmMD. "We were incredibly fortunate to have Bob guide the company for the past 5 years and thankful that Jason will continue to advance PharmMD into the future."
Rose joins PharmMD with nearly twenty-five years of healthcare technology experience with extensive background leading, innovating and scaling healthcare solutions, including several high growth companies. As former Chief Strategic Development Officer and Executive Vice President at Inovalon, he led the development, launch and an expansion of the company's product and technology presence in the healthcare marketplace. Rose also worked previously at companies such as Inspiris, Ardent Health Services, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and Cerner.
"I'm extremely excited to join the PharmMD team," said Rose. "PharmMD combines data-driven medication adherence solutions, a strong client base, amazingly talented people and demonstrated healthcare outcomes that drive value. I look forward to working with this great team, having a lot of fun, and leading PharmMD through its next exciting phase."
PharmMD is a leading healthcare technology company providing data-driven medication adherence platform solutions that deliver value-based care outcomes. PharmMD partners with health plans, providers and other risk-bearing entities seeking to improve patient and employee healthcare through better medication adherence. Founded by healthcare and pharmaceutical innovators, PharmMD's outcomes-driven solutions bolster initiatives in quality improvement and related regulatory compliance through better medication adherence. For more information, please visit www.pharmmd.com.
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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany -- The first planeload of American servicemembers returning to Germany from Africa touched down Tuesday after the German government approved a U.S. Army-run Ebola monitoring facility on its soil.
"We are grateful to Germany for its assistance in confronting this global health concern," said Navy Capt. Greg Hicks, a spokesman for U.S. European Command.
The monitoring site is located on the Army's Smith Barracks in Baumholder, about 20 miles north of Ramstein Air Base. An Air Force C-17 carrying 54 passengers touched down at Ramstein on Tuesday morning, according to the base's 86th Airlift Wing. It's not known if all passengers were U.S. troops, and officials have not said if all 54 were taken to Baumholder.
Most of the preparations for the monitoring complex were finished more than a week ago.
Personnel who returned to Germany following their mission in Africa will be confined to the facility for 21 days and be under medical observation for signs of Ebola infection. The monitoring complex is surrounded by a fence that officials said is meant to keep people from accidentally wandering in as much as it is to keep monitored personnel isolated.
Personnel -- who were medically screened before leaving Africa and upon landing in Germany -- will be tested twice daily for symptoms of Ebola over the three weeks they're in seclusion.
Troops who show any Ebloa-like symptoms before arriving in Baumholder, even if it's not confirmed they have the disease, will not be sent to the monitoring facility. They will be treated elsewhere.
Officials said it is extremely unlikely that any servicemember sent to Baumholder will contract Ebola as troops sent there will be of "no-known risk" for infection.
The 21-days of monitoring "is an added precaution to guarantee the clean bill of health of all servicemembers before they reintegrate into their workplaces and communities," Hicks said. "These measures will also safeguard the health of German citizens in the Baumholder community."
Baumholder residents who spoke with Stars and Stripes about the monitoring site were largely ambivalent about its presence and don't believe it poses a risk to the local community.
"We're not happy to have it, but we have it," said Axel Häntsch, who owns Portofino, an Italian restaurant less than a mile from the main gate of Smith Barracks.
His only issue is that "we run a home delivery, too, and the guys in the quarantine" won't be able to take advantage of that.
"Otherwise, it's no big problem," Häntsch said.
German residents of Baumholder knew about the monitoring site even before it was announced by the Defense Department on Nov. 7. It was mostly Germans who work for the Army who prepared the facility and told family and friends about it, residents said. Work on the facility started about a week before the DOD announcement, Army officials said.
Peter Goettel, owner of the Stadtkrug restaurant about a 10-minute walk from Smith Barracks, said he's fine with the facility, but the lack of official information from the Army or German government was frustrating.
"We're not in the States. This is German property," Goettel said. "They have to talk to us. That's my thing."
The monitoring facility includes four barracks buildings, a medical clinic and a temporary chow hall inside the fence, and a headquarters building outside the perimeter. The Army has outfitted each of the barracks with a full suite of entertainment options including workout equipment, wireless Internet access, game consoles, books, pool and foosball tables and other items.
Army officials said one of the biggest challenges of going through monitoring won't be Ebola, but keeping boredom at bay during three weeks in isolation.
Stars and Stripes reporter Jennifer H. Svan contributed to this report.


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Kennard: 'Concerned' About Radio
Kennard: 'Concerned' About Radio
Former FCC Chairman Bill Kennard says it's time to "revisit" radio group ownership limits, that he's "quite concerned" about the consolidation of stations since the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
On LPFM, Kennard says the FCC believes it can license about 250 to 300 such stations initially. He also says recruiting engineers remains a problem for the commission and wishes new Chairman Michael Powell good luck with this and other issues.
Kennard spoke Tuesday on "Public Interest," produced at Washington's WAMU-FM
and syndicated nationally on NPR-member stations.


Some questions to get you started this Sunday!
What do you recognise in the room?
What is unusual about it?
Do you like it? Why/why not?
Who do you imagine lives there?
Ham the pig, Mr Potato Head, and Slinky, which is a toy dog with a stretchy middle, belong to a boy called Ben. Ben likes space rockets. That's why there are space rockets on the wallpaper. Ben has got a slide down from his bunk bed which Slinky is putting his middle on. Ham the pig is showing his tummy!
It is like a playground. It has Ham, Slinky and Mr Potato Head. The bed is covered with rockets. There is a slide in the park. There is a circle with a red star on it.
Maybe Andy is coming? I think Ham has to put his money back. I like that slide – I want that slide! Mr Potato Head looks as if he is trapped in the corner. They look as if they are waiting for something to happen.
I recognise the toys from Toy Story, Slinky, Mr Potato Head and Ham – but in Toy Story they weren't so shiny. The unusual thing is that Andy didn't have a bunkbed. I really like the room because it's so tidy. I think Andy from Toy Story lives in the room although I'd like it to be me. I would change the stairs for the bunk bed and make it in a normal bed and maybe put some pink decorations in there and dolls on the bed.
It has loads of rockets and planets so it must be Andy's room.
I think they should change the wallpaper to space rangers on Jupiter and Venus.
I recognise Ham the pig, Mr Potato and Slinky the spring dog.
I like it but I like my shark and turtle room best.
In this room there is a slide which coils and looks fun.
Mr Potatoe Head is hiding with Ham the Pig.
I see stairs and a bridge that Mr Potato Head wants to go up but it is too high.
Andy has built the slide out of slinky.
Ham and Mr potato head are there. Having a slide inside a room is a bit unusual. I really like this room because it has stairs on one side and a slide on the other. I think Andy lives in this room. I would change the room by taking out the stairs and replacing it with a ladder.
Slinky is a slide and I like it. The staircase is made of dominos. Mr Potato head is scared of the sun and that's why he is under the bed. The money is out of Ham's tummy. I can see a cowboy picture on the wall.
Mr Potato head looks really funny in his bowler hat and moustache. I imagine that Andy from Toy Story lives here. The unusual thing is that nearly everything is made out of toys. If the stairs are made from dominoes and the slide from slinky, would it all be big enough for Andy to fit in? I have a ladder up to my bed but I would really like a slide to come down on.
I can see Slinky and Mr potato head in the picture. It has a unusual slide at the end of what looks like a bed ? Or is it a slide ?. Yes i do like it, it looks like it could be a camp or a hide-away that i could play in with my friends. I think woody from toy story lives in this room. I like the picture so i wouldn"t change anything.


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Q: Matplotlib italic font cannot be applied to numbers in the legend? Recently I found out that the italic font is not applied to numbers in my legend. Here is the code:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

a = [1,2,3,4,5]
b = [1,3,5,7,9]
c = [1,2,4,6,8]
x = [1,2,3,4,5]
label = ['ABC123',r'it_$\it{ABC123}$', r'bf_$\bf{ABC123}$']
plt.plot(x,a, label = label[0])
plt.plot(x,b, label = label[1])
plt.plot(x,c,label = label[2])
plt.legend()
plt.show()

output figure
As you can see, the number 123 is not italicized, but if I try with bold font, it worked. Is there something I am missing here?

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Dated: Feb. 22, 2011
By Jim Michaels
By now most Windows users are probably familiar with the notion of user accounts and how all users on a PC can have their own individual settings, documents, and other features. In Windows Vista, Microsoft simplified the user account types down to just two, and locked them down to make the system more secure. Windows 7 takes this approach a step further and makes it easier to configure how user accounts behave and are protected. And thanks to features such as User Account Control, Parental Controls, and Windows Live Family Safety, Windows 7 is not only more secure than previous Windows versions, but also easier to configure from a user account perspective. This tutorial describes these features and explains how they can be put to the best possible use.
Note: Windows 7 user accounts include a variety of obvious functionality that is not covered here explicitly because this book focuses on secrets, those features that are brand-new to Windows 7 and/or are so well hidden you'd never normally know about them. So, yes, you can add cute pictures to your user account; add, change, and remove passwords; and even change your account type, but you can do much more than that. This tutorial looks at the new and improved functionality that makes user accounts so much better in Windows 7 than they were in Windows XP and Vista.
Understanding User Accounts
Starting with Windows XP, Microsoft began to push PC-based user accounts to consumers. That's because XP, unlike previous consumer-oriented Windows versions (such as Windows 95, 98, and Me), was based on the enterprise-class Windows NT code base. NT originally was developed in the early 1990s as a mission-critical competitor to business operating systems such as UNIX. Previously, consumer Windows products such as Windows 95 and Windows Me were based on legacy MS-DOS code and provided only the barest possible support for discrete and secure user accounts. That's because those systems were originally designed for single users only.
Eventually, however, Microsoft began moving the two products together. Windows XP, released in 2001, was the first mainstream NT-based Windows version, and this product marked the end of the DOS-based Windows line. Windows Vista, like Windows XP, was based on the NT code base, which means that Microsoft marketed separate versions of Vista to both individuals and businesses. Additionally, Vista retained—and even enhanced—the paradigm of all users having their own user account for accessing the PC. As an updated version of Windows Vista, Windows 7 offers an evolution of the user account capabilities from its predecessor. That said, some of the changes dramatically alter the experience of using and protecting user accounts. Therefore, it's worth discussing how user accounts have changed in Windows 7 compared to both Windows XP and Vista.
First, however, a short review may be in order. When you installed or configured Windows XP for the first time, you were prompted to provide a password for the special administrator account and then create one or more user accounts. Administrator is what's called a built-in account type. The administrator account is traditionally reserved for system housekeeping tasks and it has full control of the system. Theoretically, individual user accounts—that is, accounts used by actual people—are supposed to have less control over the system for security reasons. In Windows XP, that theory was literally a theory. Every user account you created during XP's post-setup routine was an administrator-level account, and virtually every single Windows application ever written until fairly recently assumed that every user has administrative privileges. This resulted in an ugly chicken-or-egg situation that has caused several years of unrelenting security vulnerabilities because malicious code running on a Windows system runs using the privilege level of the logged-on user. If the user is an administrator, so is the malicious code.
In Windows Vista, everything changed. Yes, you can still create user accounts, and hopefully, you create accounts with strong and secure passwords. (Microsoft still doesn't require this is in Windows 7, for some reason.) And you would still log on to the system to access applications, the Internet, and other services, just as you did in Windows XP. But in Windows Vista, user accounts—even those that were graced with administrative privileges— no longer had complete control over the system, at least not by default. Microsoft, finally, was starting to batten down the virtual hatches and make Windows more secure. Although there were (and still are) ways to counteract these preventive measures, the result was a more secure operating system than previous Windows versions, one that hackers have found and will continue to find more difficult to penetrate.
Microsoft's approach to user account security in Windows Vista was hugely successful. According to the software giant, Vista users experienced 60 percent fewer malware infections than did XP users. Windows 7 continues using the infrastructure Microsoft created for Vista while adding a few changes at the requests of its customers. The following sections look at what has changed.
Creating the Initial User Account
When you install Windows 7 for the first time or turn on a new computer that has Windows 7 preinstalled from a PC maker, you will eventually run into the so-called out-of-box experience (OOBE), sometimes called the Day One Experience, whereby Windows 7 prompts you for a few pertinent bits of information before presenting you with the Windows desktop for the first time—information used to create your initial administrative account. While this account is technically granted administrative privileges, remember that this privilege isn't as all-powerful as it was in XP. You'll see why in just a moment.
Understanding Account Types
Windows 7, like Windows Vista, but unlike XP, supports just two account types:
Administrator: This is (almost) exactly what it sounds like, and is basically the same as the administrator account type in Windows XP. Administrators have complete control of the system and can make any configuration changes they want, though the method for doing so has changed somewhat since XP.
Standard User: A standard user can use most application software and many Windows services. Standard users, however, are prevented from accessing features that could harm the system. For example, standard users cannot install most applications, change the system time, or access certain Control Panel applets. Naturally, there are ways around these limitations, discussed in a bit.
Microsoft would like most people to run under a standard user account; and although this would indeed be marginally safer than using an administrator account, we don't recommend it, assuming that you log on to your account with a password. That's because Microsoft has actually locked down the administrator account in Windows 7, making it safer to use than ever before. More important, perhaps, you'll ultimately find an administrator account to be less annoying than a standard user account, even given some of the changes Microsoft has made in this release. To find out why that's so, you need to examine an important security feature in Windows 7: User Account Control.
User Account Control
No Windows feature has proven as controversial and misunderstood as User Account Control, or UAC. When it debuted in Windows Vista, tech pundits screamed far and wide about this reviled feature, spreading mistruths and misunderstandings and generally raising a lot of ruckus about nothing. If these pundits had just calmed down long enough to actually use User Account Control for longer than a single afternoon, they'd have discovered something very simple: it's not really that annoying, and it does in fact increase the security of the system. Indeed, we would argue that User Account Control is one of the few features that really differentiate modern Windows versions from the increasingly crusty XP, because there's no way to add this kind of functionality to XP, even through third-party add-on software. User Account Control is effective, and as ongoing security assessments have proven, it really does work.
Great, but what is it exactly? In order to make the operating system more secure, Microsoft has architected Windows so that all of the tasks you can perform in the system are divided into two groups, those that require administrative privileges and those that don't. This required a lot of thought and a lot of engineering work, naturally, because the company had to weigh the ramifications of each potential action and then code the system accordingly.
The first iteration of UAC was implemented in Windows Vista with what Microsoft thought to be a decent technical compromise. In response to overwhelming user feedback surrounding the frequency of prompts, however, Microsoft modified UAC in Windows 7 to make it "less noisy" (that is, less annoying) by default. They did this by implementing a pair of "Notify me only when. . ." options, letting users perform common configuration tasks, prompting only when something out of the ordinary is done (for example, changing important configuration settings). The result is that UAC in Windows 7 is more configurable and less irritating than it was in Vista. But it's even more controversial, because it's not clear that it's as secure as it used to be.
How UAC Works
Every user, whether configured as a standard user or an administrator, can perform any of the tasks in Windows 7 that do not require administrator privileges, just as they did in Windows XP. (The problem with XP, from a security standpoint, of course, is that all tasks were denoted as not requiring administrative privileges.) You can launch applications, change time zone and power-management settings, add a printer, run Windows Update, and perform other similar tasks. However, when you attempt to run a task that does require administrative privileges, the system will force you to provide appropriate credentials in order to continue. The experiences vary a bit depending on the account type. Predictably, those who log on with administrator-class accounts experience a less annoying interruption.
Standard users receive a User Account Control credentials dialog. This dialog requires you to enter the password for an administrator account that is already configured on the system. Consider why this is useful. If you have configured your children with standard user accounts (as, frankly, you should if you're going to allow them to share your PC), then they can let you know when they run into this dialog, giving you the option to allow or deny the task they are attempting to complete.
Administrators receive a simpler dialog, called the User Account Control consent dialog. Because these users are already configured as administrators, they do not have to provide administrator credentials. Instead they can simply click Yes to keep going.
The presentation of these User Account Control dialogs can be quite jarring if you're not familiar with the feature or if you've just recently switched to Windows 7 from XP. (Vista users are very well accustomed to this effect.) If you attempt to complete an administrative task, the screen will flash, the background will darken, and the credentials or consent dialog will appear somewhere onscreen. Most important, the dialogs are modal: you can't continue doing anything else until you have dealt with these dialogs one way or the other.
There's also a third type of User Account Control dialog that sometimes appears regardless of which type of user account you have configured. This dialog appears whenever you attempt to install an application that has not been digitally signed or validated by its creator. These types of applications are quite common, so you're likely to see the dialog fairly frequently, especially when you're initially configuring a new PC. Over time, these prompts will occur less and less because you won't be regularly installing applications anymore.
By design, this dialog is more colorful and "in your face" than the other User Account Control dialogs. Microsoft wants to ensure that you really think about it before continuing. Rule of thumb: you're going to see this one a lot, but if you just downloaded an installer from a place you trust, it's probably okay to go ahead and install it.
The behavior of User Account Control has led some to describe this feature as needlessly annoying and a contributing factor to the (perceived) demise of Windows Vista. In reality, however, Windows Vista wasn't the first operating system to use this type of security feature: Mac OS X and Linux, for example, have utilized a UAC-type user interface for years now. (You can see Mac OS X's version of UAC—which debuted way back in 2001.)
And unlike with other operating systems, User Account Control actually becomes less annoying over time. That's because most UAC dialogs pop up when you first get Windows 7. This is when you'll be futzing around with settings and installing applications the most; and these two actions, of course, are the very actions that most frequently trigger User Account Control. The moral here is simple: after your new PC is up and running, User Account Control will rear its ugly head less and less frequently. In fact, after a week or so, User Account Control will be mostly a thing of the past. You'll forget it was ever there.
How UAC Has Changed in Windows 7
User Account Control debuted in Windows Vista to a resounding thud, for both users and reviewers. And that's too bad, because as we've noted again and again, UAC is both effective and far less annoying than many realize. But Microsoft is a customer-centric company, and when people complain, they actually listen. And sometimes, when the stars align just right, they do something about it.
In the case of UAC, this action took a number of forms. At a general level, Microsoft has dramatically reduced the number of tasks that require UAC elevation prompts. So the overall experience should be less annoying, assuming you're used to how UAC works in Windows Vista. And Microsoft has even given users a graphical interface, logically called User Account Control settings, for adjusting how UAC behaves.
You access User Account Control settings from the Action Center; there's a link in the side pane titled User Account Control settings that will trigger the UI. Or, simply type user account control in Start Menu Search.
User Account Control settings couldn't be easier: there's a simple slider control with four settings, which one might think of as "really annoying," "annoying," "less annoying," and "Windows XP." (Homeland security might consider a similar scale.)
More formally, these settings are as follows:
Always Notify: At this most heightened level, UAC will prompt you anytime a software install or configuration change is detected, or whenever the user makes changes to Windows settings.just like Windows Vista.
Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer: This is indeed the default setting. Here, UAC will prompt you anytime a software install or configuration change is detected. But it will not prompt when the user makes changes to Windows settings. Initial setup tasks like setting the clock, updating device drivers, and formatting partitions can now be performed speedily without having to confirm each time.
Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer: This setting is almost identical to the previous setting, but with one important difference: UAC does not invoke the secure desktop during prompts. This has a few ramifications. First, UAC will be less annoying (though no less frequent) than with the default setting, because you won't see that jarring flash that occurs when the secure desktop is invoked. The screen will not go dark, and the UAC prompt will not be modal, meaning you can do other things instead of addressing the prompt immediately. (On the flip side, you can also easily lose track of the UAC prompt because it will just be one of many potential windows on screen and won't appear prominently or appear special in any way.) Finally, it will be slightly less secure: the secure desktop feature ensures that malicious software applications cannot spoof the UAC dialog.
Never notify: In this least secure setting and least recommended setting, UAC will not warn you when software is installed or changed, or when the user makes changes to Windows settings.
So, with all these options, I know you're eagerly awaiting our expert opinion on what it is you should do. And that's maybe the easiest advice we've ever given: you should do nothing. In fact, you should never even visit this UI. Just leave UAC alone and let it do its thing. UAC is there for a reason and, as noted earlier, it gets less annoying over time anyway. There is absolutely no reason to change how UAC works.
Marie Claire Ged's Comment
10 Sat Sep 2011
Thank you Marie :) I am glad that our effort save you :) lol
Chris Ward's Comment
...sorry, my last post should read 'how many Windows User Accounts can there be on one PC?'
23 Sat Jul 2011
To be honest, I've never heard anyone ask this. But it is something to think about. I've seen a Windows XP system with over 200+ users. So, it could be unlimited as far as I can tell or a minimum of 256 accounts.
This is not an official information, just my two cents.
A nice article. There is one thing missing though - exactly how many Windows can there be on one PC?
well chris. I used windows 7 , windows xp and windows vista on same machine in the same hard drive using three partitions for them. if you installed more than one os in your machine. you get a start boot option which window to run.
Victor Meye's Comment
Nice article, it really helped me get a better understanding of windows7, i can't wait until windows8 is in stores
14 Thu Jul 2011
thank you victor
chinni's Comment
its good
28 Tue Jun 2011
Thanks Chinni.
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09 Wed Mar 2011
theodori's Comment
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