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Success at Apache: All My Roads Led to Apache
by Pat Ferrel
I became involved with Apache in 2011. After several years in startups where, as CTO, I felt too removed from building things. Looking for a change, I was keenly aware that the most interesting thing about the startups was our early use of Machine Learning techniques and I wanted to see if building ML solutions, for companies new to the field might not be more satisfying. I started by spending nearly a year in researching the type of applications we had needed in the startups: Natural Language Processing (NLP), text analysis, clustering, and classification. In those days Apache Mahout http://mahout.apache.org/ had several good solutions that were designed for Big Data and approachable by an individual. These ideas seem fairly commonplace now but were in early days only 6 years ago.
Given a great platform to experiment with, I built a web site to advertise expertise in ML but also to showcase many examples from my experiments, including a topic-oriented content site based on clustered and classified text that used NLP to add entities to text. I blogged about things I had learned and techniques that produce results.
Then I got the first contact about a project and it was from a completely unexpected direction: recommenders. Fortunately Apache Mahout then had the state-of-the-art OSS suite of recommenders so I took the consulting job. The company had rolled their own recommender and was selling it as a service but it was old and they wanted to investigate replacing it.
Welcome to Big Data
The nature of recommenders means you deal with huge amounts of data because you have to track several million people's actions over years. We had data from a large online retailer and were tasked with using this data to beat the in-house recommender. Specifically they wanted to see if they could improve performance (better results and faster compute times) and get something easier to maintain.
The first job of a good consultant is to define the problem and outline a path to resolution that fits with the company's competencies. To me this meant looking at the current system and the expertise of the people working on it. We had Data Scientists and Java Software Developers who knew what it was like to deal with Big Data. They had a highly performant method for gathering data and were quite good at running Apache Hadoop-based analytics. This was seldom the case back then but happily allowed me to look at less turnkey applications and assume the use of important Apache tools.
We agreed on a plan and the basic building blocks including a method for comparing results. I did the research and proposed several candidates for the tests including the Apache Mahout recommenders. It was pretty easy to rank the recommender engines we had and do some exploration of parameter tuning and choices to get our best "challenger" results. The nice thing is that we beat the old threadbare in-house recommender by a significant amount (12%). The winner was the Apache Mahout Cooccurrence Recommender using the Log-Likelihood Ratio as the core cooccurrence metric. This even though we had tested against several Matrix Factorization recommenders, including Mahout's.
We need something new
Up till this time I was only a user of Apache projects (discounting a few minor code contributions) but what I found in all recommenders we studied is a fundamental problem that is still mostly unsolved today. We had data from a retailer that included user "buys" but also 100 times more user "views". None of the recommenders could deal with this multimodal data. I consulted the authors and maintainers of the Mahout recommenders and several others we had targeted. We got some suggestions added them to our own ideas and set out to test them. For various reasons, that are beyond the scope of this post, none of the easy solutions helped and actually produced worse results so I had fulfilled the contract and left with a feeling of unfinished business.
One of the mentors of Apache Mahout, Ted Dunning, had suggested a new idea during this time. There was something about it that seemed very intriguing. He had proposed a way to use one type of user behavior to predict another. This was an aha moment for me because it codified intuition. I remember the first time he wrote in email on the Mahout user mailing list the equation that crystallized it all. I began to imagine the implications; all sorts of new data that could be useful, not just "views" but contextual data like location, and enrichment data like tag or category preferences. These all seem to obviously have a bearing on recommendations but now we had a beautiful simple equation to test the intuition.
Becoming a Committer
I set out to hack the Mahout Cooccurrence Recommender to become a Correlated Cross-Occurrence (CCO) recommender. But without some way of testing the algorithm and code we couldn't be sure it was worth including in Mahout. The datasets publicly available at the time did not have the kind of data we needed (there had been no direct use for it until then) so I scraped the film review site rottentomatoes.com to collect "fresh" and "rotten" reviews of movies. This gave us two different behaviors with very different meanings. Naively you might think, weight one positive and the other negative and so did I but that produced worse results than ignoring the "dislikes". However when I ran cross-validation tests comparing the Mahout Cooccurrence Recommender using likes only, to CCO using both user actions, we got some quite interesting results. The question was: do "dislikes" predict "likes" and when I got 20% lift in predictive precision we could conclude that they do. Not only was intuition right but the new algorithm could tease out the data to make use of it.
The hack was accepted into Mahout Examples and I was invited to become a committer. Then the world changed.
Apache Spark and Mahout-Samsara
When I became a committer Mahout was written on Apache Hadoop MapReduce in Java (as was my hack). But it had also become obvious to most Mahout committers that the future was with much more performant engines like Apache Spark. Committers Dmitriy Lyubimov and Sebastian Schelter had been working on a Spark version of Mahout. In an instant of project time virtually all committers saw this as the future of Mahout, if also a major pivot.
In retrospect I'm not sure I've ever seen an Apache project change so much in so little time. Today Mahout is deprecating lots of old Hadoop MapReduce code as it falls from use and the new Mahout is truly new. The Mahout subtitle Samsara, references the cycle of life, death, and rebirth in the Hindu tradition. Mahout started as algorithms written specifically for MapReduce, now Mahout-Samsara is a linear algebra DSL in Scala used to roll-your-own algorithms but with most interesting algorithms in very simple DSL-based implementations. Mahout eventually took this transformation even further to include other compute engines like Apache Flink and is now running on GPUs. But I get ahead of things...
Those were exciting times and though I helped with the DSL I remained fixed on implementing CCO, which was first included in Mahout 0.10.0 in October 2014.
PredictionIO
Now we have the CCO algorithm implemented on modern compute engines but several other problems remained in order to actually deploy a recommender. This is because CCO creates a model that needs to be deployed on a special type of server that computes similarity in real time. In Machine Learning terms this is a K-Nearest Neighbors engine, known in concrete terms as Lucene, or it's scalable server derivatives like Solr and Elasticsearch. A turnkey recommender also requires a highly performant massively scalable DB, like HBase. Putting these together we could get a nearly turnkey recommendation server that made use of multimodal real time user behavior. But I didn't see a candidate for all these in Apache and so looked elsewhere. This required an integration project, not Mahout, which integrated with other services but provided none of its own.
I found a project that included everything I needed and was Apache licensed but was run by a small startup called PredictionIO. They had a Machine Learning Server that was a framework for Templates that could implement a wide range of Algorithms. The Server also included nice high-level integrations with Elasticsearch (Lucene server), Spark, and HBase. In May of 2015 I had the first running CCO Server build on Mahout and a whole list of other Apache projects.
Back to Apache
PredictionIO was at the right place to get swept up in a major move to embrace ML/AI by Salesforce Inc. who bought them as part of the Einstein initiative. Since PIO was Apache licensed OSS it was still available and so was the Template I was calling the Universal Recommender. But there was a question now about the future of PIO; what would Salesforce do with it? The old team, that I had worked closely with, wanted to see the project move forward in OSS and Salesforce seemed to agree, but large corporations often have a mixed record in promoting their own OSS projects. In this case Salesforce decided to remove the question by submitting PredictionIO to the Apache Incubator.
The old team was joined by people like me from outside Salesforce to create a project that follows the Apache Way and is free of corporate dominance. I am a committer to PredictionIO, which has three releases under Apache Incubator vigilance and the Universal Recommender is now at v0.6.0, the most popular of PredictionIO Template Algorithms.
With the 3rd release of PIO from Apache we are now in the process of graduation to an Apache Top-Level Project, hatched by the Apache Incubator. I fully expect that we'll be celebrating soon.
My journey began with a specific problem to solve. Each step to produce the solution has led back to Apache in one way or another, through mentors, collaboration, use of, and commitment to several projects. But I now have my mature scalable, performant, state-of-the-art nearly turnkey Universal Recommender. Now we can ingest and get improvements from many types of behavior, enrichment data, and context--using it in real time to serve recommendations subject to robust business rules. My small consulting company ActionML actionml.com now has a powerful tool to solve real problems and we make a living (at least partly) by helping people deploy and tune it for their data.
This is a story of someone single mindedly following a goal over several years. There are many ways to do this in the Software Development world, but not all OSS projects are open to bringing people in. The Apache Software Foundation most certainly is and openly recruits as diverse a group of committers and members as possible. If you want to make a difference and influence the course of an OSS project Apache is a good place to look. Start by getting involved with a project of interest, make contributions, get involved in discussions. If the match is good you'll be invited in as a committer and move on from there. I think of Apache as a do-ocracy, if you do something of value it goes a long way towards being invited in.
Slides describing the CCO Algorithm: https://www.slideshare.net/pferrel/unified-recommender-39986309
IBM DevWorks Post on "Making one thing Predict Another": https://developer.ibm.com/dwblog/2017/mahout-spark-correlated-cross-occurences/
Apache Mahout CCO Implementation: http://mahout.apache.org/users/algorithms/intro-cooccurrence-spark.html
Apache PredictionIO: http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org/
The Universal Recommender Template: http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org/gallery/template-gallery/
Professional Support for the Universal Recommender: http://actionml.com/universal-recommender
"Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". 1) Project Independence https://s.apache.org/CE0V 2) All Carrot and No Stick https://s.apache.org/ykoG 3) Asynchronous Decision Making https://s.apache.org/PMvk 4) Rule of the Makers https://s.apache.org/yFgQ 5) JFDI --the unconditional love of contributors https://s.apache.org/4pjM 6) Meritocracy and Me https://s.apache.org/tQQh 7) Learning to Build a Stronger Community https://s.apache.org/x9Be 8) Meritocracy. https://s.apache.org/DiEo 9) Lowering Barriers to Open Innovation https://s.apache.org/dAlg
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Culture and media appointments process 'shambolic', MP says
Julian Knight
Julian Knight said he and fellow committee members had been made a fool of (UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor) (PA Media)
"Serious questions" need to be answered about the "shambolic" way the Government is appointing people to national cultural and media bodies, ministers have been told.
Conservative MP Julian Knight who chairs the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee, said that he and fellow committee members had been "made a fool of" over the past year.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4's PM, the committee chair made clear he was unhappy about the way the Government's preferred new head of the Charity Commission was selected.
Martin Thomas was announced as the Government's preferred candidate for commission chairman earlier this month and was expected to take up the post after Christmas.
Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre had been the reported favourite for the new head of Ofcom (Stefan Rousseau/PA) (PA Archive)
However, on December 17 it was announced that Mr Thomas had resigned following four allegations of inappropriate behaviour in a previous position.
Mr Knight told the BBC: "I feel like we have been made a fool of on the DCMS select committee because we took it on good faith they had done the proper processes in the department and they haven't."
The MP said the Government had used a "scout's honour system" when hiring Mr Thomas rather than a proper referencing process.
He added: "There are serious questions to be asked about DCMS and the way in which it is going about appointments, not just the Charity Commission but others as well within its remit."
I think that what we have seen over the last year has been shambolic in terms of public appointments within DCMS
Julian Knight MP
The MP cited the appointment of a new chair of the media regulator Ofcom, adding: "We have already gone through a process there where the candidates were found not to be suitable, and therefore the Government then decided to start the process again and didn't do what was normal in the private sector, which is to say that previous candidates who have not met the requirements need not apply.
"That was seen very clearly as a green light to the appointment of Paul Dacre "
Mr Knight said DCMS needed "a much sharper focus on the correct processes".
He added: "Certainly from my experience, I think that what we have seen over the last year has been shambolic in terms of public appointments within DCMS."
In a statement explaining why he was stepping aside, Mr Thomas said he had made "an error of judgment on a technical omission during the application process" and did not "wilfully mislead anyone at any time".
One of the allegations of inappropriate behaviour involved Mr Thomas sending a picture in a Victoria's Secret lingerie store to a colleague "in error", while working for a women's charity.
He said he had meant to send the picture to the charity's CEO following discussions about a proposed donation from the lingerie firm.
A spokesperson for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: "All due process was followed in the search for a chair.
"We will now take steps to appoint a new Charity Commission chair and will provide an update in due course."
Formerly working in the insurance and financial services sector, Mr Thomas also chaired NHS Resolution and a number of charities.
He had said that the commission should not get involved in arguments about "woke" or "anti-woke" politics.
Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre had been the reported favourite for the new head of Ofcom, but made it clear he had quit the race in a letter to The Times.
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'Hypocrisy': spirits low in the wine aisles of Westminster. Passersby at supermarkets near Downing Street not amused by Whitehall's lockdown party culture
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There are not many prime ministerial careers that do not, eventually, end in failure. Fewer still recover from the kind of self-inflicted wounds Boris Johnson has given himself.
Nine dead and more injured as train speeding at 40mph crashes in Bengal
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Prof. Dr. Salvador Soto Faraco
The event took place on May 27th, 2021.
The Official Story
I graduated in Psychology (1994) and completed a PhD in Cognitive Science and Language (1999) at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. I published work on lexical access, and on auditory perception. After the PhD, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford University (UK) and at the University of British Columbia (Canada), where I became a fellow of the Killam Family Trust. In my postdoc I worked mostly on human perception and attention in multisensory environments, and published a variety of papers on the Attentional Blink and Cross-modal Motion Capture. By 2002 I returned to Spain under a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, to establish a laboratory in Universitat de Barcelona as an independent researcher. In 2005 I became ICREA Research Professor and established the Multisensory Research Group at the Parc Científic de Barcelona first, and then moved to Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2009. During these initial years I concentrated on the study of the effects of attention in multisensory integration in a variety of domains. In 2010 I received an individual Starting Grant from the ERC which helped me consolidate this research program, and expand to neuroimaging methodologies. Currently, my group works on basic and applied research projects across a wider set of domains, from decision making to memory, as well as our multisensory work. The support for our research comes mostly from public agencies (MINECO, AGAUR) including European regional development funds (FEDER), and some private funding agencies (La Caixa, BBVA, BIAL). ICREA has kindly supported my position since 2005. Now I combine research and teaching as one of the group leaders at the Center for Brain and Cognition, in Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
His Unofficial Story
I ended up enrolling in psychology as a vital compromise, though I was more motivated by journalism or history. Since I knew computer programming when very few people did, I could obtain university internships in research groups. I finished in 1994, but did not consider a PhD as an option because my grades were too mediocre for funding. However, in 1995 I was unexpectedly offered an opportunity. At the beginning I was confused regarding what my PhD would be about, so I pursued several unconnected lines of research. During those early days, it was strongly suggested to me that I travel and visit other labs. This turned out to be excellent advice. I visited the LSCP in Paris, the Georgetown University Medical School, and the Experimental Psychology Department in Oxford. During these visits I was incredibly lucky to meet some amazingly clever and altruistic people who found the time and patience to discuss my research and point me to interesting questions, problems, and connections. I was both tremendously inspired and intimidated by them. The subject of my PhD, when I finally closed in on one, ended up being a niche question, of interest to me and about four more people in the world. In consequence, my early conference presentations, and later my first papers, were mostly received with polite indifference. Yet, in 1998, one of my visits took me to Charles Spence and his then-under-construction Crossmodal Research Laboratory. That was another stroke of good luck, because it was fairly straight forward to incorporate a multisensory twist to my ongoing research, and made me more visible. Though I considered my options in the real world after finishing the PhD in 1999, I soon realised I was not attractive for the job market, nor it for me. So I quietly receded into academia again with nothing but hope. I tend to forget the fact that during my postdoc years, from 1999 to 2002 in the UK and Canada, I was almost permanently looking for a job and living off of credit. This would have been overly too stressing had it not been a very intellectually fulfilling time. Lessening the stress even more, I was lucky my partner at the time was willing and able to join me in Canada. When I returned to Europe, I was terrified I would be not competitive for jobs, or worse, that I would end up in a job that would bury me in teaching and administration for the rest of my days. Therefore, as the responsible adult that I had become, I evaded the problem by embarking on yet another insecure research position, instead of signing a job contract for a lectureship. Destiny rewarded my foolishness when in 2005 ICREA decided to fund me to work permanently as a researcher in Catalan institutions. My position does not make it mandatory to teach or work in administration, though I have ended up doing quite a bit of both over the years. Currently, I am a fallen Psychologist working in a Computer Science department, leading what is arguably the best research group in the world.
Prof. Dr. Yee Lee Shing
The event took place on March 25th, 2021.
Yee Lee Shing studied psychology in the United States. In 2008, she moved to Germany to conduct her doctoral thesis on "Dynamics of Episodic Memory Across the Lifespan" at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB) Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She continued to work at the MPIB as a postdoctoral researcher and was awarded a Minerva research group leader position in 2012. In 2015, Yee Lee left Germany to work as a lecturer at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Three years later she accepted her current position in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Yee Lee is now Professor of Developmental Psychology at Goethe Universität Frankfurt, directing the Lifespan Cognitive and Brain Development (LISCO) lab. Further, she is a member of the IDeA research center of the DIPF (Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education). Since 2018 Yee Lee holds an ERC starting grant for her project on "Predictive Memory Systems Across the Lifespan".
Her Unofficial Story
Yee Lee grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in a family of Chinese descendent. Her parents wanted her to study business or economics–preferably in Australia. Yee Lee decided to move to the United States to study psychology. Thanks to two young female faculty members that supervised her as a research intern, she was able to gather first-hand experiences of research in developmental psychology at the University of Nebraska. For her masters she decided to study educational psychology. This decision turned out to be a blessing in disguise: Yee Lee realized that it was not educational psychology she was interested in but developmental psychology. She thus took the offer to do her PhD at the Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPIB under the supervision of Ulman Lindenberger and Shu-Chen Li. After finishing her PhD, Ulman Lindenberger offered Yee Lee to stay at the MPIB as a research group leader. During these years she supervised three outstanding doctoral students, which all were awarded with an Otto Hahn Medal for their dissertation projects.
Knowing that the MPI position would end and after the birth of her second child, Yee Lee and her family moved to Stirling where she started working as a lecturer in psychology. In her first year, she worked on many grant applications, which all didn't get funded. Looking back, however, it was precisely in this time that she was able to gather the insights and discussions she needed to develop her research idea for an ERC starting grant (which was then funded in 2018).
As the Brexit made the situation in the UK rather unpredictable, Yee Lee was happy to accept the offer from Frankfurt (to which she almost decided to not apply!) even though this meant that she and her family would have to move again. Having escaped (most) of the Brexit struggles, a pandemic might not have been what Yee Lee expected to influence her working life back in Germany. Nevertheless, being in Frankfurt for 3 years now, she has managed to expand her new group and research projects to Frankfurt and beyond.
Being a professor now, her favorite part in academia still is working out new research designs and diving into the data of her experiments–preferably with inspired colleagues and students on her side.
My Biggest Mistakes
In 2011, I was offered a W2 professorship in Magdeburg at the German center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. I declined this offer. Back then, I did not want to leave Berlin and did not really know the differences that come along with working at a university or working at a research institute. Today, I see things in a different perspective: Being a university professor, I have to simultaneously manage teaching, faculty duties, and research. All in all, it can be quite overwhelming at times.
My motivation for telling this story here
Obviously, academia is full of failures and doubts. Nevertheless, I want people to remember that being a scientist is a great job! Failures and rejections will come for sure, but they are not about you as a person or you as a researcher. They are about your papers and proposals. Try always to remember what you like about research and what brings fun into your work!
Prof. Dr. Christoph Harms
The event took place on January 28th, 2021.
Christoph Harms studied human medicine in Berlin. His medical doctoral thesis dealt with endogenous neuroprotective systems under the supervision of Prof. Heide Hörtnagl at the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was awarded summa cum laude and the Humboldt Prize Berlin in 2003. This was followed by a research period at the Department of Neurology (Director Prof. Dr. K.-M. Einhäupl) in the Department of Experimental Neurology (Director Prof. Dr. U. Dirnagl and Supervision Prof. Dr. M. Endres) and from 2004-2005 a postdoc at the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine Berlin under the supervision of Prof. R. Harsdorf in an experimental cardiology research group. In 2006, he was appointed as a research instructor of the Lichtenberg Junior Research Group of Prof. M. Endres at the Neuroscience Research Centre of the Charité in Mitte (Director Prof. D. Schmitz) and at the end of 2008, he was appointed as assistant professor 'Cell Cycle and Stroke' at the Centre for Stroke Research Berlin (Director Prof. U. Dirnagl). In 2012, the junior professorship 'Molecular Stroke Research' was approved. In 2015, Christoph Harms followed the call for a permanent W2 professorship at the Centre for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and in 2018 this was taken over by the faculty as a permanent professorship.
Christoph Harms grew up as the youngest child with two older siblings in a family of musicians in a village in the western part of Germany. From the recorder at the age of three to the violin at five to the cello at 9 and piano at 12, as well as in orchestral and chamber music ensembles, singing in various choirs and on stage at the Landestheater Detmold and in ensembles at the Musikgymnasium in Detmold also dominated the period from 1984-88 (participation in a musical production and seven operas as a child soloist). Christoph Harms received cello lessons from Prof. Güdel at the Detmold Academy of Music and Prof. Haesler in Hanover, among others, and singing lessons from General Director of Music Edwin Scholz at the Detmold Theatre. Although an artistic career seemed preordained, Christoph Harms became interested in supervising youth camps and decided at the age of 15 to study medicine with the aim of becoming a child and youth psychiatrist. This decision was probably more of a rebellion, because Christoph stood out at school, apart from in the musical field, more for his stubbornness and argumentativeness than for his good performance and willingness to learn. His salvation came in the form of an entrance test for studying human medicine (Medizinertest) in the twelfth grade, which gave him a free choice of university place even before his Abitur. After doing his civilian service in a home for the elderly and in a day-care centre for chronically mentally ill adults, he studied medicine at the Charité in Berlin. After completing his physics examination, Christoph looked for a doctoral thesis that would tie him down as little as possible and got stuck in pharmacology. Intensive experimental work followed from 1997 to 2001 with three research semesters and a fascination for the realisation of new ideas. Initially, the focus was on endogenous neuroprotection against models of stroke in cell culture, followed later by the cell cycle and regeneration capacity of postmitotic cells, which also led to a postdoc in a cardiology research group with postmitotic heart cells. Although he succeeded in bringing differentiated neurons into division capability, the results were disappointing in that the electrophysiological profile was more reminiscent of glial cells. In 2012, Christoph Harms left the field of cell cycle control and renamed the research group Molecular Stroke Research. Due to the crisis in translational research, endogenous neuroprotection was also no longer a brand to use. The focus of the working group slowly shifted to imaging techniques in stroke (KFO) and the role of local inflammation and the microbiome in the plasticity of neuronal networks and vessels (SFB-TR43) including brain collaterals. Today's focus is on brain resilience in stroke in addition to inflammation, stimulation of network plasticity (TRR295) and the role of intra- and intercellular communication as well as endomembrane systems and protein transport in neurons, glia and the vasculature in mouse and rat stroke models.
Many — here are just a few:
At the 2003 Nobel Laureate Conference in Lindau, Prof. Torsten Wiesel (Nobel Prize for Medicine 1981) advised me to abandon the idea of cell division of differentiated neurons in favour of a postdoc in a large laboratory abroad. Unfortunately, I was too taken with my idea for that and too offended that he didn't think it was viable. He just replied to me: 'The project is great, but you can also do a postdoc in a great lab abroad'. I did not get his point.
Prof. Wieland B. Hutter (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden) provoked me in 2006: 'If you get the motor neuron of a giraffe to divide - then I believe you!' That could have been food for thought for me.
However, it was even more stupid not to publish the data then. I did not even submit it.
I believe to this day that it was not my talent that made my career possible, but that any success can be explained by chance, luck and my ability to communicate.
One of my mentors once told me that he kept dreaming of failing his A-levels - that reassured me a lot at the time that other people also have a great sense of insecurity and can still make a difference in their field.
My basic tension and vigilance has never subsided, even as a tenured professor. There always remains an uncertainty and fear as to whether the next proposal or paper will be accepted or whether staff positions can be extended. That is probably normal. Reporting on this can perhaps help to overcome weaknesses and one's own limitations and fears in people from the audience.


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"And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he Him up in his arms, and blessed God and said, 'Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word: For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of Thy people Israel.' And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, 'Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.'"
In an inconceivable, unbelievable way, God fulfilled His promise.
At 2:00 PM we'll rehearse our passage x2.
At 5:00 PM we'll rehearse our passage yet again and it will carry us into the evening hours.
Simeon had a heart that beat with eternity.
Simeon had a mind that was in tune with the divinity.
Simeon had ears that rang with expectancy.
Simeon waited in hope; then moved with urgency.
Simeon held the Christ and experienced eternity.
Simeon's expectancy was met to the full in the holding of salvation.
The joyful fulfillment of the Godhead wrapped in swaddling clothes appears in the flesh and fills the arms of an aged and waiting man.
What must Simeon have felt, my soul wonders?
The infant face of purity and supremacy that will one day rule the nations peered into the eyes of Simeon.
The snuggled warmth of eternity nestling into aged and fleshly arms and resting against Simeon's beating chest.
The little Christ and the aged man Simeon.
The holy One with the fleshly one.
The sinless One with the sinful one.
The Promised One for the waiting one.
It's really too inconceivable for words.
We back away quietly, respecting the personalness of an aged man's intimate encounter with the Almighty, and our own longing intensifies for Christ's return.
Do we understand God's desire to display the divinity in expressive and personal ways to our humanity?
Do we understand that in "waiting expectantly" we shall be met with "fulfilled exceeding certainty?"
Of soul, mind, and body?
For the moment when everything on earth will fade away and Christ will lead us into that far-away place that seems almost out of reach most days ... called eternity.
Simeon's experience speaks to me of depth and intimacy and the Father's desire to give good and beautiful long-term gifts to His children.
I breathe Him in and He breathes back on me.
My heart beats with eternity.
My mind is in tune with the divinity.
My ears ring with expectancy.
I wait in hope and am moved with an urgency.
We wait for the joyful eruption of promise fulfilled in Christ's return.
He shall keep His word.
Thou has assured us through the providence and promise of Thy word that Thy return shall surely come.
So shall all behold the return of Thy Son on that day appointed by Thee.
Thou wilt not appear as a babe but as a thunderous, majestic, and mighty Christ prevailing over all and above all on this earth.
Thou shalt rule with an irod rod ... and take Thine own up into Thy glory and Thy presence shall eternally secure all souls in waiting.
For the enraptured soul that secures itself to Thy sure and certain word; that soul shall not be disappointed.
Let special and tangible appointment of graces be extended on the soul searching intently after Thee and waiting expectantly for Thee.
Let intimacy of soul be more fully experienced and let wrongful ties on earth be suddenly broken.
Help us to wait with an expectancy.


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Q: Materials about S-matrix and S-matrix theory What is the best book or paper to learn about analytical structures of S-matrix and S-matrix theory?
I already know books as The Analytic S-matrix by RJ Eden, PV Landshoff, DI Olive, JC P and Quantum Field Theory by S. Weinberg.

A: I found chapters in books on regge theory as:

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*(P. D. B. Collins) An Introduction to Regge Theory.

*(Geoffrey F. Chew) S-Matrix Theory of Strong Interactions.

*(S. C. Frautschi) Regge Poles and S-Matrix Theory.

*(V. N. Gribov) The Theory of Complex Angular Momenta.

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Q: Accessing fragment method from async task First off, is this a good practice, accessing a fragment's method from an asynchronous task?
I have an async task which generates a list of LatLng which is use in my fragment to draw a polyline. However, if i try to use a getter method to get the list.
    public List<LatLng> getList() {
    return this.list;
}

I get nullpointerexceptions so i have to perform this inside the fragment,
while(list == null) { // FIXME delay because of this
    list = getRoute.getList();
}

Which defeats the purpose of having a background task.
Is there a way I can call the method from within the async task's post execute method?
    @Override
protected void onPostExecute(OTPResponseUI otpResponse) {
            Fragment.fragmentsMethod(getList());
            mDialog.dismiss();
    }

This way i can correctly show the process dialog and not leave the user hanging while it loads the list.
UPDATE
I tried invoking a callback like this but the callback function in my fragment is not executed.
UPDATE2
Ok i just passed the fragment instance to the async task to be able to call the fragment method. As per your advice:

Create the list object in your custom AsyncTask class, and then return it back to the Fragment in the postExecute() method. You can do this by directly calling a method on the Fragment instance (that you'll get either via the constructor. It works, thanks!

A: You have a few options:
Define your own custom AsyncTask class and pass the List that you want filled into either its constructor:
class MyAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void,Void,Void> {
    private List<LatLng> mTheList;

    public MyAsyncTask(List<LatLng> theList) {
        mTheList = theList;
    }

    // fill the list in doInBackground()

    ...
}

// in your fragment

MyAsyncTask task = new MyAsyncTask(theList);
task.execute();

OR you can pass it as a parameter to the execute() method:
class MyAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<List<LatLng>,Void,Void> {
    public Void doInBackgroun(List<LatLng>...args {
        List<LatLng> theList = args[0];
        // fill the list
    }
}

Note that you can also pass the Fragment instance to the execute() method in the same way and then call the getList() method on that instance (I don't like this option).
A better option would be:
Create the list object in your custom AsyncTask class, and then return it back to the Fragment in the postExecute() method. You can do this by directly calling a method on the Fragment instance (that you'll get either via the constructor or as an argument to the execute() method) that accepts the list as a parameter. But, another (cleaner) way is to define an interface within your custom AsyncTask class for a callback method that accepts the filled list as an argument. Then your Fragment can implement this callback interface, add itself to the task as a "listener", and have the task call that inteface method, passing the filled list as an agrument inside the task's postExecute() method.


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I bought the iPhone 6 plus, 128 GB, in slate gray. It wasn't a tough choice for me because I lost my iPad two months ago and this is going to be the replacement. I am counting on the additional length to be just right for reading newspapers, magazines, and books.
I'm actually quite excited because I have been squinting for too long. I'm not going to get the new iPhone for a few weeks because we ordered it from our local Verizon store. Eliot woke up at 3am on Saturday morning to buy the unit for me but the Apple site was down even though they said that was when they would be open for business. He tried getting into the site for an hour and then was just too exhausted to stay up any little longer.
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11:00pm and the Apple store was packed. I needed a new cord so we ventured inside. It's still a wonderment to me.
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I started to notice that more people were mumbling a few years ago. It never occurred to me that my hearing abilities were changing. I'm still not totally convinced that it's me, but okay I will give in a little bit.
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Below is a video demonstration.
Tonight there wasn't a cab in sight. I was pacing on the sidewalk as Eliot started descending down the steps. He got half way down when all of a sudden a young woman on top of the steps started screaming "Stop that guy he has my iPhone. Stop him please." Then like a flash of lightening some kid with an iPhone in his mouth goes flying down the steps. Eliot chases after him and prevents the guy from entering the platform by shoving him to the floor.
Eliot trails the guy up the steps and one clobber later the guy drops the iPhone from his mouth on to the floor. The owner grabs her phone and starts screaming for joy. The women opened the gap to let the thief free. He turned out to be a kid and no one wanted to detain him.
Click on the Mashable story here written by Chris Taylor to learn more. It is quite fascinating.


Going bowling with friends! I'm a terrible bowler; my all-time high score is 80. Despite my whack skills, I always have such a blast whenever I hit the lanes. Plus, the snack-stand goodies are awesome. Light beer and nachos? Yes, please! I'll also be debuting my new hairdo at the bowling alley. I can't wait to hear what my pals have to say about it. Thanks for helping me decide, gals!
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British soldier killed by IED in Syria in first UK troop death in fight against Isil
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jamie Jarrord, left, thanks Manbij Military Council commander Muhammed Abu Adeel during a visit to a small outpost near the town of Manbij Credit: AP
Josie Ensor, Middle East Correspondent
30 March 2018 • 5:02pm
Josie Ensor
Penny Mordaunt
A British special forces soldier has been killed by an improvised explosive device in Syria, in the first death of a serving UK troop in the fight against the Islamic State.
An American was also killed by the roadside bomb in the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Thursday, which also wounded four members of the local council.
The unnamed British soldier was embedded with US special forces overseeing a clean-up operation in Manbij, which was controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) until it was taken by allied Kurdish and Arab forces in the summer of 2016.
The city, close to the border with Turkey, earned the nickname "Little London" because of the large numbers of British Isil fighters stationed in the city during the days of the "caliphate".
A Ministry Of Defence spokesperson said: "It is with regret that we must confirm that a member of the UK Armed Forces was killed by an improvised explosive device in Syria yesterday.
"The individual was embedded with US forces on a counter-Daesh operation when the incident occurred. "The family has been notified and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.
The 'Beatles' of terror
Since 2014 the coalition has provided weapons, training and other support to Kurdish and Arab forces fighting Isil jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
While Isil has largely been cleared from northern Syria, sleeper cells are known to operate and have carried out a number of insurgent attacks in recent months.
Special forces units are known to be on the ground in Syria, securing areas retaken from Isil, but officials have refused to comment on their activities.
Manbij is currently under threat of attack from Turkey, which stormed the nearby northern Syrian town of Afrin after an offensive against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG) militia.
Ankara has repeatedly threatened to push its operations farther east to Manbij, which could lead to a direct confrontation between the two Nato allies.
The attack in Manbij happened late Thursday - the day US President Donald Trump said he would pull out forces "very soon".
It came after Donald Trump caught his officials off guard by saying that America would be "out" of Syria "very soon" during a speech on infrastructure.
Operation Shader | Britain's war against Islamic State
The US president dropped the hint while speaking in Ohio on Thursday night in an address intended to drum up support for more infrastructure spending.
He said: "We're knocking the hell out of Isis. We'll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now."
Mr Trump added: "We got to get back to our country where we belong, where we want to be."
The comments contrast with James Mattis, the US defence secretary, and Rex Tillerson, the former secretary of state, who have said the US needs to remain engaged.
It reflects Mr Trump's shifting stance on foreign intervention. He called for US troops to pull out of Afghanistan during the election campaign but has since deployed thousands more soldiers.
This latest incident brings the number of US personnel killed in action during the operation against Isil to 14.
Addressing the House of Commons on Thursday, Penny Mordaunt, International Development Secretary, confirmed that the UK will remain member of international coalition to "prevent Daesh remerging elsewhere."
"Our work is not yet done, Daesh still holds pockets of territory in Syria," she added. "With its loss of territory, it will still pose a threat as an insurgency, they will continue to try to direct and inspire terror attacks around the world."


It was announced a few months back that Marvel Comics was cancelling their Fantastic Four comic books. Not only that, but word came that Marvel sent out directives to all their creators to not use any of the characters in their own comics and it looked like Marvel was burying the First Family of Marvel Comics and trying to erase them from memory.
The prevailing theory is that Marvel wanted to get people to forget about The Fantastic Four so that, when Fox released their Fantastic Four movie in 2015, it would hurt the movie. Marvel wanted to deal with Fox a couple of years back to use characters like Silver Surfer and Galactus in exchange for letting Fox keep Daredevil. Fox refused and Marvel got Daredevil back.
Next year, Daredevil will return in a Marvel Netflix series, but it seems that Marvel is holding a grudge. Why else would they cancel The Fantastic Four ahead of the Fox movie release?
Disney is Marvel's parent company and Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn was asked about this and said that it was an independent decision by Marvel and he doesn't know anything about it. He then trailed off by saying "I mean, honestly, we don't even…" From the sound of that, it sounds like they either (a) don't care about The Fantastic Four at Disney or (b) don't care about the comics.
The word from Fox Chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos is that the comic book was cancelled because it was not a huge seller. He said that he didn't know what played into the decision, but that he knows it wasn't a big seller. However, it still makes no sense because a Fantastic Four movie, if successful, would jack up the sales of the comics. Cancelling the book now will mean Marvel will get nothing if the movie hits it big.
Gianopulos said that the Fantastic Four movie is awesome and the characters are established so the cancellation of the comic shouldn't matter at all for Fox. Whether or not this is even true remains to be seen. With the Fantastic Four casting controversies, the change in the origin and the recent major change to Doctor Doom, there is a lot to worry about.
Regardless, Marvel Comics cancelling The Fantastic Four at this time has to mean more than just low sales. It still smells like Marvel is sour at Fox and wants to hurt the movie, or at the least, hurt its box office and get it back in their control.
Fantastic Four is scheduled to be released on August 7, 2015.


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Subject: Social Issues
Person: Leo Suryadinata
Books / Monographs (8)
Trends in Southeast Asia (1)
Leo Suryadinata is Visiting Senior Fellow at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore and Professor (Adj.) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
The Ethnic Chinese in the ASEAN States: Bibliographical Essays
Leo Suryadinata, author
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Code: BM92
Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches
Code: BM146
The Ethnic Chinese Issue and National Integration in Indonesia
Code: TRS2
Indonesia's Population: Ethnicity and Religion in a Changing Political Landscape
Leo Suryadinata, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Aris Ananta, authors
Ethnic Relations and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia: The Case of the Ethnic Chinese
Leo Suryadinata, editor
Publisher: ISEAS / NIAS
Understanding the Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia
Ethnic Chinese in Contemporary Indonesia
Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches (4th edition)
The Rise of China and the Chinese Overseas: A Study of Beijing's Changing Policy in Southeast Asia and Beyond


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British and Canadian Governments Accidentally Exposed Passwords and Security Plans to the Entire Internet
Yael Grauer
August 16 2018, 5:13 p.m.
By misconfiguring pages on Trello, a popular project management website, the governments of the United Kingdom and Canada exposed to the entire internet details of software bugs and security plans, as well as passwords for servers, official internet domains, conference calls, and an event-planning system.
The U.K. government also exposed a small quantity of code for running a government website, as well as a limited number of emails. All told, between the two governments, a total of 50 Trello pages, known on the site as "boards," were published on the open web and indexed by Google.
The computer researcher who found the sensitive material, Kushagra Pathak, had disclosed just this past April a wide swath of additional private data exposed to the public on Trello, which is widely used by software developers, among others. That earlier disclosure revealed how, on dozens of public Trello boards run by various organizations and individuals, the information available included email and social media credentials, as well as specific information on unfixed bugs and security vulnerabilities. Pathak even found an NGO sharing login details to a donor management software database, which in turn contained, he said, personally identifiable information and financial records on donors. In both the April and new security research, the sensitive data on Trello was tracked down starting with a simple Google query.
The data exposures underscore how easy it has become to improperly leak sensitive data in the era of cloud computing. More broadly, they show how the use and development of software has become a complex endeavor, involving a wide range of independent online systems, and how this complexity itself represents a security risk, encouraging users and developers to take shortcuts intended to cut through the morass. Tools like Trello can help master the tangle of development in a safe and constructive way, but can also be misused.
He hopes to draw attention to what he believes is a major issue: the proliferation of sensitive information on public Trello boards. It is incredibly easy to search for such boards on Google.
In his new research, Pathak first discovered 25 public Trello boards belonging to different U.K. government departments. These included login credentials to a U.K. government account on a domain registrar, emails that had been pasted onto the boards, a link to a snippet of backend code of a government site, and information on bugs, albeit not bugs disclosing security issues. Also included were boards with conference call details and access codes, login information for a server administration tool known as CPanel, a discussion of how to prevent personal information from being exposed to Google's web analytics platform, and details about an earlier incident in which such information was exposed to the platform. Pathak reported this through the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre, which identified the boards and removed most of them within two or three days.
Shortly thereafter, Pathak found 25 Canadian government boards that had even more sensitive information, such as remote file access, or FTP, credentials, and login details for the Eventbrite event-planning platform. Other boards included a link to an Excel file about managing control of web applications, discussion of additional security testing in the aftermath of a recent security incident, links to a Google folder with research documents, a security working group's board with tasks related to audits and security testing, and a bug discussion. Pathak reported these to the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre, which also took prompt action to remove the boards, most of which were down within a week.
Pathak began researching computer science and hacking when he was young, eventually teaching himself to program. He hopes to draw attention to what he believes is a major issue: the proliferation of sensitive information on public Trello boards. It is incredibly easy to search such boards on Google; one could recently find and search within them, for example, using the search modifier like "inurl:https://trello.com/b/," which restricts Google to finding only results whose address begins with that text. Trello cards can be searched with the modifier "inurl:https://trello.com/c/" — this yields thousands (if not millions) of results, and many contain sensitive information.
Pathak said that in many cases, it can be very difficult to identify the organization to which a board belongs. "I literally spent hours finding the contact details of organizations to which a board belonged so I could report them," he told me.
Trello co-founder Michael Pryor provided a written statement highlighting the company's privacy safeguards.
"Trello boards are set to private by default and must be manually changed to public by the user," the statement read. "We strive to make sure public boards are being created intentionally and have built in safeguards to confirm the intention of a user before they make a board publicly visible. Additionally, visibility settings are displayed persistently on the top of every board."
In a Medium comment, Pathak said that he has seen many organizations using public Trello boards to share useful information that they want to be listed in the search results, so there are good reasons to expose some boards. But he also said it's possible that some boards are made public due to sheer laziness: it's slightly easier to make a board public and share the URL internally than it is to add people to a Trello team of authorized viewers.
It's true, as Pryor stated, that Trello's boards are set to private by default and that when a user sets a board to public, the visibility setting and what it entails (including search engine indexing) is clearly explained. But Pathak had three additional suggestions to these built-in safeguards: Trello could highlight the visibility in red if a board is set to public; it could show a pop-up notice to users when they create or change board visibility to public in order to let them know that this can be viewed by anyone with the link and is indexed by search engines; and it could add to the Trello interface that automatically checks to try and detect if a user has posted a username or password to a public board.
Informed of Pathak's suggestions, Pryor said that Trello is looking at other similar cloud apps and how they balance users' quite often safe decision to share a set of information publicly with the desire to protect against inappropriate sharing of sensitive data. In the meantime, security researchers who find additional boards with sensitive information can send them to [email protected], and Trello will get in contact with the owner and close them down if needed, according to Pryor.
U.K.'s Government Digital Service, which declined to comment for publication, provided its staff with internal communication guidance to make sure it is using online tools such as Trello appropriately; the guidance states that no personal or sensitive data should be published on Trello. The service also has an Information Assurance Team to guide staff on the appropriate use of online tools.
A written statement provided by a spokesperson for the government of Canada said, "The Government of Canada recognizes that open access to modern digital tools is essential to transforming how public servants work and serve Canadians. … Departments and agencies of the Government of Canada must also apply adequate security controls to protect their users, information, and assets. This includes ensuring that their users are appropriately educated about their obligation to safeguard information and assets and to never use external web services and tools for communicating or storing sensitive information unless the service is approved by the appropriate security and technical authorities. Government of Canada employees are being reminded of their obligation never to communicate or store sensitive information on Trello boards or any other unauthorized digital tool or service."
Yael Grauer[email protected]yaelwrites.com@yaelwrites


We come across different types of relationships in our lifetime and connect on different levels. With each one we connect, our emotions and expectations differ. More often than not, we miss the fine blur and mess up our lives. However understanding the limitations each relationship entails, we can save ourselves from losing the dearest ones of our lives.
Here are the basic types of relationships we experience in our lifetime grouped into dominant patterns.
Acquaintances are the ones who may just pass our way or sometimes continue to be with us for some time. Dealing with acquaintances does not demand much. There is always some space between the two. Things are very simple and easy without much expectation.
This is one such person with whom we love to spend some time with. There, of course, are expectations; a lot of expectations but often has its own way to excuses. The connection level is deep and with a lot of emotional investment. However, over time, it can diminish.
This person never can judge us. They raise above all their significant other's expectation levels or many a times expectation does not come on their way. Sharing a strong chemistry, it needs nothing much to nurture. Rather it is already an overgrown relationship, which can never have an end. It is that one, who comes to our mind when we are in our toughest times. True friends are treasures.
A partner is a companion with whom we share a bond largely. The bond shared differs as its very definition changes from person to person. Some refer to a person with who they are associated closely with sharing a responsibility, be it at work or at home.
When a connection with a person is on many levels, he/she is a soul mate. The connection encompasses all the emotions. One seeks a friend, a lover, a companion, a partner, a guide, a philosopher in a soul mate. There is a strong bond between the two with a deep and natural affinity, love, and intimacy.
These are the ones with whom we connect by blood. This is one such relationship that is difficult to explain and it is beyond anybody's imagination. It always comes with a big package of expectations and hence the most stressful relationship.
Two individuals share a lifetime bond. Even if they separate on their paths and are no longer in touch, the bond they shared is intact. They can lapse on to the same comfort with each other as they were years ago. It needs no communication or commitment to keep it going, rather a strong bond keeps the two together.
In over daily lives, while on our go, we often tend to forget the limitation and cross the fine line. Obsession and possessiveness come on our ways. Giving in to the temptations, we impose and try to control our significant other. The result, our beautiful bond shared is at stake.
Apart from all the above types of relationships, there is yet another special bond. It is not between any two of the people, rather it is with one own self. It is a fantasy world where only one involves. Considering their significant other in their dream world, tuning them as per their requirement, giving the delicate bond a meaning, one is on a path of self-development.
For any relationship to survive, it has to be looked after with care and nurtured.


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Education and Extremisms
Rethinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World, 1st Edition
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Education and Extremisms addresses one of the most pressing questions facing societies today: how is education to respond to the challenge of extremism? It argues that the implementation of new teaching techniques, curricular reforms or top-down changes to education policy alone cannot solve the problem of extremism in educational establishments across the world. Instead, the authors of this thought-provoking volume argue that there is a need for those concerned with radicalisation to reconsider the relationship between instrumentalist ideologies shaping education and the multiple forms of extremisms that exist.
Beginning with a detailed discussion of the complicated and contested nature of different forms of extremism, including extremism of both a religious and secular nature, the authors show that common assumptions in contemporary discourses on education and extremism are problematic. Chapters in the book provide a careful selection of pertinent and topical case studies, policy analysis and insightful critique of extremist discourses. Taken together, the chapters in the book make a powerful case for re-engaging with liberal education in order to foster values of individual and social enrichment, intellectual freedom, criticality, open-mindedness, flexibility and reflection as antidotes to extremist ideologies. Recognising recent criticisms of liberalism and liberal education, the authors argue for a new understanding of liberal education that is suitable for multicultural societies in a rapidly globalising world.
This book is essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in religion, citizenship education, liberalism, secularism, counter-terrorism, social policy, Muslim education, youth studies and extremism. It is also relevant to teacher educators, teachers and policymakers.
"This book brings clarity and criticality to a complex and vitally important question: how can education prepare educators, school children and university students to live as revitalised active citizens? A strong team of thinkers and practitioners contextualise their proposals for action within a national and international framework. They challenge existing state ideologies and insist upon the capacities of education to teach us how to understand that pervasive truths may be provisional, that good education explains but may not resolve dissonant views and that tolerance must be active and critical. I recommend this book very warmly for its conceptual analyses and practical solutions to the labour of being critical, liberal and democratic."
Alison Scott-Baumann, Centre of Islamic Studies SOAS
Introduction (Farid Panjwani, Lynn Revell, Reza Gholami and Mike Diboll)
Section 1. State Policies and Educational Practices
1. Challenging Extremism and Promoting Cohesion: National Policies and Local Implementation (Joyce Miller)
2. Education, Freedom of Belief and Countering Terrorism: The Minefield between UK Policy and School Implementation (Angela Quartermaine)
3. Education and Disengagement: Extremism and the Perception of Muslim Students (Tania Saeed)
4. Street Children, Integrated Education and Violence in Northern Nigeria (Chidi Ezegwu, Adewole O. Adedokun and Chioma Ezegwu)
5. Misplaced Utopia: Education and Extremism - the Case of Pakistan (Farid Panjwani and Zulfiqar Khimani)
Section 2. Perspectives on Extremism
6. Challenging the Legitimacy of Extremism: Critique through Education in the Work of Khaled Abou El Fadl (Angus M. Slater)
7. Teaching Early Muslim History: Facilitating Criticality through a Source-based Approach (Philip Wood)
8. 'Mine Own Familiar Friend…' Education and Extremism, within Historic Culture (John A. White)
9. Gender Equality in Education, Context and Criticality: Student Teacher Engagements in Three Northern Nigerian States (Elaine Unterhalter, Chidi Ezegwu, Adewole O. Adedokun, Mulika Lamido Dodo and Wadata Dangaladim)
10. The Balanced Nation: Addressing the Challenges of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism in the Classroom (Justin Crawford, Julia Ebner and Usama Hasan)
11. Multiple Ontologies of Extremism: ISISes in Education, a Case Study (Mike Diboll)
Section 3. Reconceptualising Liberal Education and Criticality
12. Negotiating Difference in Educatoin: Extremism, Political Agency and an Ethics of Care (Sarah V. Marsden)
13. Resilience and Soft Power: an Analysis of UK Government and International Guidelines and Resources to Address Radicalisation and Extremism in Education. (Lynn Revell)
14. Promoting Tolerance to Schools in a Time of Extremism (Robert A. Bowie)
15. Nurturing Critical Thinking across Self-Other Dichotomies (Daryoush Mohammad Poor)
16. Cosmopolitanism as Transformative Experience: Towards a New Social Ethic (Reza Gholami)
Epilogue (Mike Diboll, Lynn Revell, Reza Gholami and Farid Panjwani)
Farid Panjwani is a Senior Lecturer and founding Director at the Centre for Research and Evaluation in Muslim Education (CREME) at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.
Lynn Revell is Reader in Religion and Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
Reza Gholami is Lecturer in Sociology of Education in the School of Social Science and Public Policy at Keele University, UK.
Mike Diboll is Honorary Research Associate at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.
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