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Closing GTMO with Chris Anders of the ACLU
"Right now, the number of detainees left at Guantanamo is 61. At its height, that number was almost 800. When President Obama took office, the number was 242."
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In the past 14 years, close to 800 prisoners have beenhoused at Guantanamo Bay (also known as GTMO). Currently, 61 prisoners remain in custody. President Obama has vowed to close the detention center. A discussion with Chris Anders of the ACLU. Visit the ACLU on the web, on Facebook or follow on Twitter
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Traynham: In the past 14 years, close to 800 prisoners have been housed at Guantanamo Bay. Currently, 61 prisoners remain in custody. Hello, everyone, and welcome to "Comcast Newsmakers." I'm Robert Traynham, and joining me is Chris Anders. He's the Deputy Director of the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union, or the ACLU. Chris, welcome to the program.
Anders: Thank you for having me.
Traynham: I think we should put some context to this. This was -- or this is a prison that is in Cuba, in the Guantanamo Bay part of Cuba. After 9/11, the then Bush administration started to get detainees or prisoners from Afghanistan and from the Middle East and place them into this facility. During the 2008 presidential race, then-Senator Obama pledged that he would close it during his first term. And obviously we're now towards the end of his second term. He has still vowed to close that prison. Was that an accurate --
Anders: It is, yeah.
Traynham: And so having said that, why are you here, and why do you want to talk about closing Guantanamo Bay?
Anders: So, we're now more than 15 years past when Guantanamo opened. And one of the commitments that President Obama made during his campaign and actually on his second day in office was to close the Guantanamo prison and end indefinite detention without charge or trial. And here we are in --
Traynham: Seven years into his presidency.
Anders: Yeah, exactly. And we're a lot closer in terms of the numbers of prisoners is far below where it was when he took office. But there's still some challenges if he's gonna accomplish that goal by January 20th, when the new president takes office.
Traynham: Chris, there are a lot of supporters of Guantanamo Bay that would say, "Well, where do these people go? There has to be -- We're not technically at war. These individuals are high-value targets. If, in fact, we just release them, there's a very good chance that they would come back and do us more harm. But we need to keep them somewhere. So, where do we do that at?"
Anders: Okay, so, we can actually talk about real numbers here. So, right now, the number of detainees left at Guantanamo is 61. At its height, that number was almost 800. When President Obama took office, the number was 242. So, we're now down to 61 detainees -- actually $5 million per prisoner per year to keep them there -- but 61 detainees. Of those, 20 every national-security agency has said they can be cleared to be transferred overseas, right?
Traynham: Where would they go if they were transferred overseas?
Anders: So, for the most part, these are people that are safely transferred and resettled or repatriated either back to their home country -- you know, places like Australia, Canada, lots of other places -- or they're resettled, which means that, for one reason or another, they can't go back to their home country, a lot of times because they'd be tortured if they were sent back to their home country or their home country is too chaotic to manage them. So, these are people who the United States finds other countries that will continue to monitor them, will resettle them in their country. So, a lot of those are European countries. Saudi Arabia recently took a group of detainees who had been cleared for transfer. Latin American countries, lots of different countries around the world have stepped up and said that they'll take some of the detainees.
Traynham: I remember very vividly, as we just mentioned, then-Senator Obama stating that he wanted to close Guantanamo Bay as soon as possible. As we just talked about, seven years later, it's still open. Why do you think it has been so politically and maybe even from a military standpoint so difficult to close?
Anders: So, I mean, it's -- Here's the thing. When President Obama first ran for office, he ran against John McCain. John McCain and President Obama, like President Bush, who started it, like Condoleezza Rice, who was the Secretary of State, Secretary of State and general Colin Powell -- there were people from both parties who said, "Guantanamo has to close, that it's a danger to the United States to keep this open. It becomes a recruiting tool around the world for terrorists and people who look to do harm to the United States. And it does harm to our own values. It's a place that -- No one should be proud that the United States opened up Guantanamo." Now, there are some people at Guantanamo who can and should be charged with a crime and have been in front of the military commissions. Those people should be moved into regular federal criminal courts and put on trial there. But if, after 15 years, the United States can't figure out how to charge someone with a crime, it's time to say that there's no reason for them to be in prison.
Traynham: You know, Chris, what's gonna be really interesting to see in the literally days and weeks that we have left in the Obama administration is whether or not Guantanamo Bay will close under this presidency. Chris Anders, thank you very much for joining us. We really appreciate it. And thank you for joining us for this edition of "Comcast Newsmakers." I'm Robert Traynham. Have a great day. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye.
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Election and Census: 2020 Civic Participation
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According to the Pew Research Center, the black voter turnout rate dropped below 60% in 2016.
Melanie Campbell of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation shares how her organization is working to increase civic engagement in black America, from the voting booth to participation in Census 2020.
https://comcastnewsmakers.com/Videos/2020/1/31/Election-and-Census-2020-Civic-Participation
Maximizing Voter Turnout in the Presidential Election
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Despite predictions for record voter turnout in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges for voters in the upcoming presidential election.
David Thornburgh, President and CEO of the Committee of Seventy, discusses barriers that exist and how states and counties can maximize voter turnout.
https://comcastnewsmakers.com/Videos/2020/10/1/Maximizing-Voter-Turnout-in-the-Presidential-Election
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Despite COVID-19 concerns, record voter turnout is expected in the 2020 presidential election.
Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, discusses "Election Protection," a multilingual resource providing support to American voters as they prepare to cast their ballots.
https://comcastnewsmakers.com/Videos/2020/10/14/Multilingual-Resource-for-American-Voters
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Since 1964, more than 70 women of color have been elected to the U.S. Congress. Today, black female representation in political office does not reflect their makeup in American society.
Glynda Carr of Higher Heights for America explains how her organization is mobilizing black women into politics, creating an environment where they feel empowered to run, win and lead across all elected offices.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Artists Selected for Exhibition "40 under 40: Craft Futures" Opening in 2012 at Its Renwick Gallery
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has selected the 40 artists who will be featured in its upcoming exhibition "40 under 40: Craft Futures" that will be on view at its Renwick Gallery from July 20, 2012, through Feb. 3, 2013. Nicholas R. Bell, curator at the museum's Renwick Gallery, selected the artists and is organizing the exhibition.
All of the artists in "40 under 40" were born since 1972, the year the museum's contemporary craft and decorative arts program was established at its, branch museum, the Renwick Gallery. The exhibition investigates evolving notions of craft within traditional media such as ceramics and metalwork, as well as in fields as varied as sculpture, industrial design, installation art, fashion design, sustainable manufacturing and mathematics. The range of disciplines represented illustrates new avenues for the handmade in contemporary culture.
"40 under 40: Craft Futures" is presented in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Renwick Gallery. The museum intends to acquire artworks by every artist in the exhibition for the permanent collection, to mark the anniversary. The exhibition will tour nationally after it closes in Washington, D.C.
"When the Renwick Gallery opened in 1972, it introduced a new generation of artists to the American public," said Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "I am excited that we are poised now to introduce to the museum's community these 40 young artists who will inspire a new generation of craft enthusiasts and collectors."
The 40 artists selected to be featured in the exhibition are: Vivian Beer, Melanie Bilenker, Jeffrey Clancy, Dave Cole, Cristina Córdova, Gabriel Craig, Jennifer Crupi, Erik Demaine, Joshua DeMonte, Brian Dettmer, Nick Dong, Joseph Foster Ellis, Jeff Garner, Theaster Gates, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Jenny Hart, Sergey Jivetin, Lauren Kalman, Lara Knutson, Stephanie Liner, Marc Maiorana, Sebastian Martorana, Christy Matson, Cat Mazza, Daniel Michalik, Matt Moulthrop, Christy Oates, Olek, Andy Paiko, Mia Pearlman, Lacey Jane Roberts, Laurel Roth, Shawn Smith, Jen Stark, Matthew Szösz, Uhuru (Jason Horvath and William Hilgendorf), Jamin Uticone, Anna Von Mertens, Stacey Lee Webber and Bohyun Yoon.
"What ultimately unifies these artists, who originate from every region of the United States and five countries, are commonly held philosophies of craft's role as a positive force in contemporary life," said Bell.
Information about each artist is available through links on the exhibition page on the museum's website. The public can join the conversation about the exhibition on Twitter by following @americanart and using #Renwick40.
A catalog is forthcoming. It will be written by Bell with contributions by Bernard L. Herman, the George B. Tindall Professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Michael Prokopow, associate professor, faculty of liberal studies at Ontario College of Art and Design; and Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor of art history at the University of California, Irvine.
Fleur Bresler, the Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation Endowment and the James Renwick Alliance generously support "40 under 40: Craft Futures."
About the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum celebrates the vision and creativity of Americans with works of art in all media spanning more than three centuries. The museum's branch for craft and decorative arts, the Renwick Gallery, is located on Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street N.W. It is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., except Dec. 25. Admission is free. Metrorail station: Farragut North (Red line) and Farragut West (Blue and Orange lines). Follow the museum on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, ArtBabble, iTunes and YouTube. Museum information (recorded): (202) 633-7970. Smithsonian Information: (202) 633-1000; (202) 633-5285 (TTY). Website: americanart.si.edu.
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'Forever Marilyn' statue to return to Palm Springs
Julie Makinen Melissa Daniels Sam Metz
Palm Springs Desert Sun
"Forever Marilyn," the popular 26-foot-tall statue of actress Marilyn Monroe that was on display in downtown Palm Springs from 2012 to 2014, will return to the city permanently, Mayor Robert Moon and Councilman J.R. Roberts said Wednesday.
The city has not officially announced Marilyn's return and has not finalized details on when it expects the statue back and where it may go, but Roberts said both a new downtown park and Town and Country Center were options.
"Marilyn has become somewhat of an icon for Palm Springs and some love her and some not so much, but at the end of the day she's become part of our brand," Roberts said.
"And she was discovered here poolside in Palm Springs," he added, referring to a legend that she was first scouted by a talent agent in 1949 at Charles Farrell's Racquet Club compound.
The statue, created by Seward Johnson, first came to Palm Springs as part of a loan arranged by the Sculpture Foundation, an organization the artist founded to promote public art and sculpture. In 2014, the 16.5-ton stainless steel and aluminum sculpture that depicts the screen legend from a scene in the 1955 film "The Seven Year Itch," was shipped to New Jersey for a retrospective on the artist's work. It was later exhibited in Connecticut and the Australian city of Bendigo.
Since "Forever Marilyn" left, PS Resorts, a nonprofit group that aims to boost tourism in Palm Springs, has been working to bring the Instagrammable icon back to downtown.
Mayor Moon confirmed PS Resorts' involvement in the statue's return, but even though the organization has led the charge advocating for the return of 'Forever Marilyn,' its chairman Aftab Dada declined to comment on the statue potentially returning.
City Manager David Ready couldn't confirm exact details about the statue's cost, but said it was estimated to be more than $1 million. Moon said the city is "not putting any funds" into the acquisition of the statue.
Moon said he knew the idea to locate the state in the center of Town and Country would be controversial.
"Some people are going to love it and some people are going to hate it," he said in his State of the City Speech, noting the statue would be several feet higher than the Town and Country roofline.
Those opposed to the idea, should "complain to Aftab," Moon said, referring to Dada, the PS Resorts chairman.
Since the statue left Palm Springs, various plans have been discussed to bring it back and install it at a temporary location; one proposal would have seen the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians host it at the tribe's casino at Calle Encilia and Andreas Road. That plan never came to fruition.
Another plan is to locate the returning Marilyn in a new downtown park envisioned for a plot across from the Palm Springs Art Museum. The park has been in the works for years but has yet to come to fruition.
The idea of locating 'Forever Marilyn' in Town and Country Center could spark a battle between the statue's proponents and preservationists, who've asked the city restrict the renovation plans Grit Development has proposed for the historic site.
The derelict Town and Country Center, a midcentury shopping complex downtown, is owned by Grit.
Grit, the developer behind the Rowan hotel and related properties in the new Palm Springs downtown, was formerly known as Wessman Holdings and run by John Wessman. Wessman handed the reins to his son in law, Michael Braun, and the company changed its name after the veteran Palm Springs developer became embroiled in an alleged corruption scheme with former Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet.
The corruption allegations, which are still pending, cast a pall over Grit's other development projects in the city. This summer, the city and Grit reached a deal under which Grit would give Palm Springs land worth more than $30 million in exchange for the city giving up its rights to potentially claw back incentives granted to Grit for the downtown development.
Preservationists had lobbied the city to demand Braun hand over Town and Country during the negotiations, but ultimately the property was not included in the settlement.
At Wednesday's state of the City, Moon said that Braun agreed to restore Town and Country to "the way it was" without controversial modifications.
Moon said Braun has promised the Town and Country renovations would be done by Fall 2021. "Let's hold him to it," he said.
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Russia backs India's bid to become permanent member of UNSC
Pawan Atri
India has consistently advocated reforms in the United Nations, with one of its key demands to be given a permanent seat in the organization's Security Council.
Russia has come out in support of India's bid to become one of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) – the all-powerful global body which is responsible for taking key decisions about maintaining peace and security in the world.
At present, it comprises the United States, France, Russia, China, and Great Britain.
During his speech at the UNGA, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov called for wider representation of Asian, African, and Latin American countries in the Security Council, making particular mention of New Delhi and Brazil.
"We see an opportunity to make the Security Council more democratic by having representation from African, Asian and Latin American countries. India and Brazil, in particular, are major international players and should be included as permanent members of the council," Lavrov said in his address to the 77th United Nations General Assembly.
Earlier, in a joint statement, India and 31 other nations urged the UN to expand both the permanent and non-permanent membership of the UNSC.
Besides, New Delhi said that reforms in the UN were necessary to make it more effective and representative.
At another meeting in which foreign ministers from India, Japan, Germany, and Brazil took part, reforms of the Security Council were discussed at length.
The four nations together are known as the G4 and after the meeting they released a joint statement, saying that "today's conflicts around the globe and the interconnected global challenges have brought to the fore the urgency to carry out reforms in the Security Council as well as expand the membership of other decision-making groups so that they are more representative of the interests of the developing nations."
At present, India is a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
New Delhi's two-year term on the Council ends on 31 December this year.
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Cultural cue: Low-key 'Go Tejano Day' rodeo spat misses mark on Houston Latinos.
Via Houston Chronicle
It's hard to escape the paradox of protests earlier this month over the lack of Tejano music at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo's "Go Tejano Day" and this week's commemoration of Tejano queen Selena Quintanilla Perez's death 20 years ago. When Selena was shot and killed by her fan club president on March 31, 1995, the Tejano music genre, which is closely related to norteño music that's popular in northern Mexico and Texas, was approaching its zenith. At 23, the photogenic and effortlessly charming Selena was the genre's face and a bridge to the next generation of Latino music lovers, especially Mexican-Americans but not exclusively so.
Responding to complaints, rodeo officials defended the lack of Tejano music acts on "Go Tejano Day," noting that the event's intent is more about celebrating Texas culture. Giving the day the Spanish form of the word "Texan" is the organization's nod of recognition to the region's sizeable Latino population, not just fans of Tejano music. They have a stronger argument to stand on, but may not realize it, just as many in Houston likely don't see or appreciate what's in our midst.
The Houston area's large Latino community (nearly 2 million strong in Harris County) is incredibly diverse - it truly is a snapshot of the nation's Hispanic population. Mexican-Americans and immigrants of Mexican origin make up the majority of Latinos in Houston, but many others such as Salvadorans, Venezuelans and Puerto Ricans are deeply rooted here, too. Their diversity is reflected in the rich and broad range of music they support, just as they support so much of the city and region with their contributions to labor, commerce and culture. It's not for nothing that "Go Tejano Day" attendance continues to break records. Indeed, the size of the city's Latino population is second only to Los Angeles. Notably, Forbes.com contributors Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox recently described Houston as the nation's fourth-best city presenting opportunities to Latinos.
And, let's face it: The rodeo is in business to raise money for scholarships. So it's hard to fault organizers for choosing Spanish-language music acts that will draw the kinds of crowds that "Go Tejano Day" typically brings. The low-key protests put organizers on notice that all their customers aren't happy. Fair enough.
In the meantime, we'll remember with fondness when Selena shouted out to fans who flocked to the Astrodome to see her perform for the 1995 "Go Tejano Day": "How're you doing, Houston, Texas?" Today, she might hear the inflections of Colombians or Ecuadorans in the audience sounding this reflection: "¡Estamos bien!"
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Nice article, and you write well.
I feel you missed out on developing the "Cultural cue" topic. At most it is understated, and I feel cheated out of a good analysis.
What music was played? Is the error the use of the "tejano" label for a small slice of hispanic music in Texas? Do Tejano Day aficionados prefer Bachata? Are other rodeo practices changing?
I feel that this could have been a much more enriching article, besides taking so many words to say that Texas hispanics didn't care about the musical dispute.
Note: I apologize for any and all typos... I am writing this on the run. (de carrera)
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Obamacare Enrollment 2015: Study Shows 1 in 4 Latinos Have Not Heard of the Affordable Care Act Health Care Exchanges March 29, 2015 By Selena Hill Despite the Obama Administration's outreach effort to inform and enroll Latinos in health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA,) a new survey shows that 1 in 4 Latinos still have not heard of President Barack Obama's signature health care law. The groundbreaking study, titled The Latino National Health and Immigration Survey, was sponsored and designed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico and implemented by Latino Decisions. In the survey, which was conducted from Jan. 29, 2015, to March 12, 2015, researchers found that...
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Is there a way to use servlet filter without web.xml ?
Please let me know if you want more info on this.
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I found no answers for this in existing questions !
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September 27, 2016 - From the September, 2016 issue
Grid 2.0: Santa Monica Funded to Plan a Neighborhood-Scale Microgrid
Garrett Wong
Shannon Parry
City Yards
California Energy Commission
Electric Program Investment Charge
In August 2016, the California Energy Commission awarded the City of Santa Monica a $1.5 million grant to plan and design a microgrid in Santa Monica that would incorporate renewable energy, energy storage, and EV charging. The CEC's goal: to accelerate the deployment of advanced energy communities. The funding was also to help local governments work with private sector and academic partners to create a replicable model for other jurisdictions. TPR interviewed City of Santa Monica's Sustainability Analyst Garrett Wong and Deputy Sustainability Officer Shannon Parry—the leads for the City Yards Project—about their working vision for how best to accelerate the development of an advanced energy, neighborhood scale, microgrid project.
"An advanced energy community is one that maximizes renewable energy and energy efficiency, and does so at scale. It looks at the neighborhood as the building block." -Garrett Wong
The City of Santa Monica has been awarded a Phase One grant by the California Energy Commission to plan, design, and permit a small, localized energy grid. What is the CEC hoping to jumpstart?
Garrett Wong: The Energy Commission is trying to deliver on the state's ambitious targets around renewables and energy efficiency. They're trying to create on-the-ground impacts—not just at the utility scale, but also at the local level. But they're also very aware of how local energy resources are impacting the traditional grid, which is not prepared for the influx of new distributed generators and new, dynamic load.
They're asking: What is the grid of the future? What does Grid 2.0 look like when we're no longer just receiving energy, but also generating, storing, and demanding it at various times? How can we have more control to provide more balance, as well as maximize renewables? The concept of the grant is "Accelerating the Development of Advanced Energy Communities." An advanced energy community is one that maximizes renewable energy and energy efficiency, and does so at scale.It's not just a solar rooftop; it might be a solar parking lot that serves multiple buildings. It could be a geothermal district energy system. It looks at the neighborhood as the building block, rather than seeing just the building as a closed system.
Southern California Edison currently services the City of Santa Monica. What led the city to bid for this challenge grant from the CEC?
Garrett Wong: We have some pretty ambitious goals and targets ourselves at the city. We have a Sustainable City Plan and a Climate Action Plan, both aimed at reducing energy use in the community, reducing greenhouse gases, increasing renewables, and increasing electric vehicles.
We want to demonstrate that Santa Monica has a stake in building and owning energy infrastructure. At the moment, that isn't necessarily our bread and butter—but that's changing. Grid 2.0 is something that cities should embrace; it can deliver a lot of benefits.
That's what inspired us to take this challenge on—to show our other departments, divisions, and decision-makers the benefits that doing something of this magnitude can have for the city and the community. If we want to see transformative change, we have to do something transformative.We sat down with some other staff people and looked at areas where there were opportunities for reconstruction and rehabilitation, and where the city has leverage and control. That's how we identified our municipal yard area, which is known as the City Yards. It's located in an industrial/arts district, on a landfill, adjacent to a mobile home community, and there's a lot of industrial activity in the area. We're preparing to redesign and redevelop it as a facility of the future—a critical, community-facing facility. All of that meshes well with what an advanced energy system could provide: renewable energy resources, local energy storage, resilience, EV charging, and good stewardship in terms of energy demand.
Shannon Parry: I think it's important to situate this project within three overarching frameworks that the city's operating under. The first is the Sustainable City Plan. We have had the plan since 1994, and it sets what we call "aggressive but achievable" targets for sustainable communities. The second is Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting. We actively analyze our greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of those emissions on our coastal environment, as well as community resiliency. And finally, Carbon Neutrality. We're looking at innovations to become a carbon-neutral community.
These pieces together show our history of leadership, our understanding of the whole-systems approach needed to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to plan for the impacts of previous emissions, and our innovation. We have two decades of history of looking at things that haven't been done, or aren't done often, or aren't done by cities of our size—and figuring out how we can demonstrate that they can be done, they can be situated, they can be executed, they can be financed, and they can work. We want this project to demonstrate that this type of innovation is feasible, and that the time to deploy distributed technologies in urban environments is now.
How is Santa Monica intending to implement and leverage this CEC planning grant?
Garrett Wong: One of the benefits of this project is that there are already funds committed to redeveloping the industrial site. That provides us with a lot of momentum. There's also a team of very well known construction and design firms leading this project: Hathaway Dinwiddie is the primary contractor, Miller Hull is the architect, and Buro Happold is the engineer. They're a very forward-thinking team, and this was a no-brainer for them.
We are going to be providing a higher level of analysis, looking at building energy loads for the whole campus as well as looking at some of the city-owned adjacent sites. One, the Bergamot Arts Center, is available for redevelopment by a private developer. Another is the mobile home park I mentioned. We'd like to see this microgrid extend beyond the City Yards and integrate with other private, non-city structures and providing other benefits to the community. We're implementing this by aligning with the planning and design that's already happening around the City Yards, as well as potentially bringing in other assets for additional energy generation, storage, or electric vehicle charging, which we would need to integrate both physically and virtually. We're also negotiating with our private developer about affording some space to do onsite energy generation and storage, and being an active participant in the microgrid.
What are the deliverables that the Energy Commission expects from the planning grant?
Garrett Wong: There are three big pieces. One is essentially getting past the red tape on the part of the utility in terms of integrating this kind of resource into the grid. Most microgrids that are online right now in the United States are single-user, so it's pretty easy to own or manage the assets. Ours is looking to be multi-user, so that puts the city in a different position than what anyone else has done. We're working with Edison to figure out the legal and regulatory pieces, and the transmission of energy. It will be an interesting issue for us to get through.
The second piece will be ensuring that we are also lining up our own financing to build out the project, regardless of whether or not it gets grant funded. We should be preparing to build this either way. The third piece is getting the project to "buildability"—getting it pretty much shovel-ready, to the point where all we need is that extra support from the Energy Commission to move forward by the time they roll out their second funding cycle.
Surely increased use of EVs and greater resiliency are being planned for by the City. How is the latter reflected in your microgrid planning?
Garrett Wong: We see electric vehicles as being new assets that can help provide the facilities with greater energy resilience.
Edison is operating an aging grid, and the kind of resources that we're trying to integrate will continue to put strain on the grid. Energy storage can help fix that problem by allowing us able to control those assets—to be more self-sufficient and to be less affected by them.
We think about electric vehicles in that same way—basically just as a mobile battery. That creates a new asset out of something that doesn't traditionally participate in demand response. We could utilize electric vehicles to provide extra power when necessary, either into a building or into the grid.
Share the challenges inherent in any move by the City from the traditional grid to a more advanced, neighborhood scale, integrated grid?
Garrett Wong: Actually, I think the planning process is where we're going to have a lot of challenges. There are a lot of considerations in this project that aren't present in typical construction projects.
The City Yards itself is unique. It's a very confined space. There are a lot of programs onsite that have to maintain operation even during construction. It's partially over a landfill where there is subsidence occurring. It's also adjacent to a community park and a residential community, which needs to maintain some level of aesthetic and noise abatement.
All those are constraints that already exist. But add to that an additional layer: the fact that we're considering integrating other assets that aren't owned by the city.
There is also a likelihood of failure for electronics that rely on wireless communications. We'll need to make sure that there is redundancy—that our own microgrid is not going to be the only thing that we have to rely on at the end of the day. Ultimately, it will come down to the technical know-how that we're going to retain on staff to troubleshoot even the smallest of glitches as they happen.
Shannon Parry: I think Garrett has identified two key points that our success will depend on. One is the execution of the technology. We need to make sure that we are able to design, build, and operate over time a microgrid that delivers on its projections.
The second piece is the community integration, or the community execution. As we share the possibilities for distributed generations with our community, we need to make sure that the microgrid is aesthetically pleasing, that it's appropriate for the other uses in its proximity, and that we coordinate with our community partners—commercial, residential, private developers.
The two wings of a successful flight will be community execution and technology execution. It's not that we're worried about either as much as that we're really mindful, at every step, that we have to deliver on both.
A city staff report on the advanced the City's energy district reads: "There is a need for the grid to evolve into a decentralized system that allows for local generation, building to grid or vehicle-to-grid electricity flow, and grid independence." Explain why it is important that planning anticipate a decentralized grid evolving?
Garrett Wong: It comes down to individual choice and control.
As a community that wants to achieve sustainability goals, we have to have an active role in our own destiny when it comes to energy. If we're in a space where we only get what the utility provides us, or what they're willing to rebate us for according to whatever programs they roll out, we're not going to get everything that we want.
We've seen the solar movement provide energy independence and cost-savings to people. Those are the kinds of benefits that we want to have for more than just one building, but for a campus of buildings or a neighborhood of residents and businesses. We want to provide them with choice, control, and reasonable costs, so they won't be locked into whatever the monopoly utility says is available to them.
Is it fair to assume that 50 years ago, the alternative for a city the size of Santa Monica would have been to form it's own municipal utility. Are you now suggesting the future requires an alternative to a centralized grid—a Grid 2.0? What's the difference, in terms of benefits, between Santa Monica seceding from SCE to create a municipal utility, and investing in community scale micro grids?
Garrett Wong: To be clear, we are in the process of a greater effort that's happening in the County of Los Angeles to look at what's known as "community choice aggregation," which would effectively establish a municipal utility that involves Santa Monica. That's something that we are actively supporting right now.
The microgrid is something we can do with our physical assets to provide more control at the neighborhood scale.
In my mind, that's the baby step toward something more robust, like the community choice aggregation model. We're doing this at the neighborhood level, but being part of a CCA would allow us to do it at a much higher level, as well as to incentivize, procure, and install much more substantial energy resources that could be located within our communities.
Perhaps of greatest value to other jurisdictions that are not yet as bold as Santa Monica, could you elaborate on the Climate Action Adaptation Plan that the City is beginning to rewrite? What will that rewrite likely include, and perhaps inspire other cities to emulate?
Shannon Parry: I hope, first and foremost, what it will inspire other cities to do is to establish greenhouse gas emission reduction targets that include specific reductions by a set date in time; to methodically develop a plan that analyzes their greenhouse gas emissions; and then to develop a strategy to reduce those emissions, through both program execution and policy development.
Santa Monica started tracking our greenhouse gas emissions in the mid-1990s, and established a target to reduce our communitywide greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent below 1990 levels by 2015. We developed our 15x15 Climate Action Plan, which was essentially an action-oriented checklist of programs and policies that could be executed to achieve those reductions. Our office just recently went to Council to share that we have indeed reduced our emissions, not only 15 percent below 1990 levels, but 20 percent below 1990 levels.
That demonstrates the power of setting clear goals and systematically working toward them. It can often seem overwhelming, but establishing an overarching goal gives a community a framework under which to direct their effort.
The next focus in our climate action planning will be carbon neutrality. Our goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner is the framework that allows us to try distinct innovations like this microgrid, investments in electric vehicles, bikeshare, and other programs.
The City Manager of Santa Monica, Rick Cole, formerly Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles and Mayor of Pasadena, increasingly emphasizes the value of data-driven governance. We're all familiar with goal-setting, press releases, and MOUs, and that a number of cities now have set stretch energy targets. How is the public supposed to sift through all the rhetoric about these goals and appreciate when there really is an executable plan versus when there's just robust rhetoric masking a commitment to the status quo?
Shannon Parry: I think that's one of the things that set Santa Monica apart.
We're remarkably fortunate that Rick has come here at this point in his career. He brings a lot of knowledge and information on aggressive policy-development and goal-setting, as well as a real affinity for innovation and performance management. Fortunately, that is also a culture that has existed in Santa Monica for the better part of two decades.
We've been reporting annually or biannually on our Sustainable City Plan indicators for a decade. We set it up as an opportunity for our councilmembers, for our division and department heads, for community members, for Business Improvement Districts, for our Chamber of Commerce, and for many other community partners to have access to data on our progress. And we think it's just as valuable to report on the places that are challenges, and the places where we're not moving toward our goals, as it is to report on our successes.
We've cultivated a culture of data communication. Under our current city manager's leadership, we're investing more, not only in performance management, but also in open data, and in tying data to decision-making throughout the organization. Folks invested in our community and in our climate action can see for themselves the places where we're succeeding, and the places where we're challenged.


Now that Ralph and I have decided to grow our own vegetables, we are constantly seeking the advise of experienced farmers. To date, we have not received the same advise twice. Farmers are unique. They have their own way of doing things that often resembles the way their fathers did things. Whenever we question why things are done a certain way, the response is often, 'well, that's the way my Dad did it".
My Dad is a natural farmer but, because he is my Dad, I argue with most of his suggestions. I don't argue in an aggressive way. It's more of a gentle life long banter. It makes the journey lively!
Our vegetable garden is limping along. The spot that we chose to use had not been farmed in fifty years leaving the soil under nourished. It's a little like trying to grow food in cement! We would have been better off to plant nothing but potatoes and let the potatoes work their magic on our less than fertile soil.
My buttercup squash plants have turned out to be zucchini. I assume the practical joke of an employee from my favorite nursery. I am the proud grower of twelve zucchini plants…grrr. I thought that the crows had eaten all of my beans so I replanted. The newly planted beans are up as well as the original planting. Apparently patience is not one of my virtues. Everything looks puny to me in comparison with the gorgeous vegetables that I saw at the Kingston Farmers Market, this past weekend.
I love the idea of supporting people who provide us with the opportunity to eat locally. The prices are a little higher than what you would pay in a supermarket but come spend a couple of hours with me weeding my little garden – you will happily cough up a few extra pennies for superb, just picked food.
I found fresh eggs, pork, leaf lettuce, spring onions, new potatoes, two field grown lilies and a big 'dark prince' delphinium. Ralph bought a sign post for the end of our driveway made by a local woodworker.
Every farmer that we spoke to invited us to come to their farms where they would have more time to chat with us. It was their day to be selling not trying to teach a couple of novice vegetable growers how to put in a vegetable patch.
None the less, I am loving my vegetable garden. I know with the guidance of my Dad, Ralph's willingness to do the heavy lifting and my faith and perseverance, some day, I too will be turning out happy veggies.
To date I have produced five zucchini.
The last time that Ralph and I were in Tuscany, we had the most amazing salad of nothing more than perfectly dressed zucchini topped with shaved pecorino. Give this simple salad a go – it is delicious! Make sure your zucchini are young so no longer than six inches.
Divide between 4 plates and top with shaved pecorino to taste.
If you can't find small zucchini, call me because I will have a ton!
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Next to re-covering a leathercloth case, nickel plating was a new activity to gain experience on.
Older machines mostly don't have chrome, but nickel plating for the shiny parts. (Chrome plating became viable industrially I believe around '26.) Some of the fittings and screws of the 101 were a bit rusty, some of the screws more than a bit. To bring back some shine to these parts also, they were re-plated.
This electrolyte was mixed from kitchen ingredients; vinegar, salt and sugar. For nickel an old coin was found, a battery for the electricity.
Measure what is the smallest amount of liquid that can be used to fill the chosen container. The smallest amount that enables the parts to be submerged to be plated. In this case a plastic take-away container with a lid was used. A lid is good to have, to be able to close the electro-plating bath for storage.
It helps to have heated the vinegar a bit to around 50 degree C, the salt and sugar dissolves easier then.
Regular vinegar, without any 'taste' elements if possible. You only want the acidity and no complex molecules or organic stuff in there to complicate the reactions in the mixture. The salt helps making it conductive to electricity, plain kitchen salt (NaCl).
But then the sugar. Why add sugar. Did some head-scratching with a chemistry colleague about why sugar would be good to include, but it probably makes sense. The sugar does not electrolyze, does not take part in the reactions. The sugar does however go into solution, so adds to the saturation of the electrolyte. This means that less of the nickel-salts need to be put into the solution before the plating at the cathode starts. It makes the plating channel more efficient.
So far, the mixture is still safe; it probably tastes very bad, but is not unhealthy as such. Note that as soon as you start plating with the electrodes in the mixture, you are creating chemical waste. This will contain metal salts and will need to be disposed of safely through the chemical waste disposal route of the local municipality. This is another reason to use the smallest amount of electrolyte that will do the job.
For the electricity, used a battery. A voltage of between 3 and 5 volts should be fine on this scale. Also tried a 9V battery, but that was too much. Too high a current (battery overheats due to internal resistance) and too rough a plating (porous).
Using alligator clips, the coin is attached to the '+' of the battery and a to-be-plated part to the '-' of the battery. For the nickel-supplying electrode an old coin was used. Actual nickel coins are not as common as they were, but this old 'gulden' is actually made almost completely of nickel. Of course the coin (or other nickel metal part you use) will partly dissolve and not survive.
It's a good idea to do this in a well ventilated area. Not only because of the chemical waste being created in the electro-plating bath (unhealthy stuff), also because hydrogen and oxygen will be created at the electrodes.
As soon as the electric circuit is closed, bubbles appear at the electrodes and soon a green haze will form around the positive electrode. That is the nickel salts in the solution. First the electrolyte mixture needs to be sufficiently filled with nickel salts for these to reach the negative electrode, but then the nickel is deposited on the to be plated parts. With a saturated mixture, it now takes between 10 seconds and a minute to properly nickel-plate a small part. Move around or stir (wooden spoon) a bit to get all surfaces treated. Being able to put a lid on it, the whole electro-lating setup can be put away for a couple of days in between use. Having it all on a tray made sense, as well as some tissue to dry and clean the parts as they come out of the bath.
Probably obvious to the experts in this field, but brass or copper parts are really best for plating. The parts do need to be completely clean. That means that also new, brass screws need to be polished to remove 'patina' and any remaining oil or grease from the manufacturing process. Brasso and a soft cloth. Brass rings, the left two already nickel-plated.
One of the newly nickel plated rings mounted in the new, replacement record storage tray in the lid.
Having now seen the difference between plain steel and copper (brass) for plating, perhaps a first step of copper plating a part makes sense. For the next project perhaps.
Thank you for this useful information! I'm going to try doing the copper - and nickel-plating treatment on some test parts.
Will be curious how using copper first works! May try on some recalcitrant screws myself also (but means concocting another small bath of hazardous waste...).
Impressive. I'd heard of people trying to re-blue parts but home plating like this shows bucketfuls of initiative! Well done.


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Microsoft Malta supports Gozo Innovation Hub
Elly Yates-Roberts
By Elly Yates-Roberts on 12 August 2019
Microsoft Malta is supporting a new governmental project in Gozo, called The Gozo Innovation Hub. The programme aims to encourage start-ups and IT firms to relocate to and operate from the Mediterranean island.
The Gozo Innovation Hub is piloted by Malta Industrial Parks and supported by the Ministry for Gozo, Malta Enterprise and the Malta College of Arts, Science & Technology. One of the companies using it is J2 Software, a Gozitan business and a Microsoft accredited partner that will be base itself at the Gozo Innovation Hub to give Microsoft's products a presence on the island.
"Together with Microsoft, we will be developing a centre of excellence and creating quality jobs for Gozitans to bring more sustainability to Gozo," said Brian Darmanin, managing director of J2 Software. "Sustainability is crucial and today, we have the technology and the tools to achieve sustainability in how we live, work and travel. We have never been more proud to be a Microsoft partner. It is an opportunity for us to push for true change in Gozo."
Microsoft Malta will work with J2 Software and other international partners to work on in artificial intelligence projects in transport, healthcare, education and culture.
"All this is part of Microsoft's CityNext project, a global initiative through which we help cities around the world become more competitive, sustainable and prosperous," said Evangelos Christafidis, Central and Eastern Europe government lead at Microsoft. "With our partners, Microsoft is working with cities to engage their citizens, empower city employees, optimise city operations and infrastructure, and transform to accelerate innovation and opportunity. We are proud to be part of this project, a leap for Gozo and its people."
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Q: V-I Tester (aka ASA or Octopus or curve tracer) I want to build a simple V-I tester and based on this article (or this) I did this easy circuit:

R1 = 560Ω
R2 = 100Ω
R3 = 1kΩ
where R1 and R2 is a voltage divider to set the \$V_{(DUT+V_{R_3})}=1VAC\$ and R3 limit the current in the Device Under Test.
I used this transformer, with 6.3V, 10 VA output (is dual, but I use only one output).
My question:

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*If I change the voltage divider resistors to \$R_1=56Ω\$ and \$R_2= 10Ω\$ (especially), isn't better? With 10Ω I will reduce the output impedance of the circuit that feed the DUT,  thus I don't load the source because it is in parallel to the \$R_3+R_{DUT}\ge1000Ω\$ and then \$R_3+R_{DUT}\gg R_1\$, isn't?
BTW the current I draw is \$I =\frac{6.3}{66} \approx 100mA\$ and the output power is at the "safe" value of:  \$6.3V\cdot100mA = 0.63VA\$

*With this voltage divider I have a voltage less than 1VAC across the DUT. The article says that I can test also Diode, Zener, etc. How is possible with this small voltage?

A: Here is what you can do, with a little effort ...
This is for BJT-type NPN. Here, R4 is stepped 100 k -> 1000 k.
See the "visual" change of "beta" ...

@Circuit fantasist ... and all those interested :-) ...
Here is a simulation to explain the choice of "voltage" and "resistor" to see the full curve of a DUT with "negative" resistance (NB: Voltage vs current, as with UJT device) ...
NB: the part of the "unstable zone" can't be seen if the 2 conditions (voltage, resistance) of "loading" are not met.


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Tuesday 09/10/19 – Kevin Miller Show
Kevin Miller Published: September 10, 2019
Today's guests: 6 a.m. - Former congressman Bob Barr with an op ed on gun control. Congressman Barr tells Kevin Miller his prediction of what happens with the new Congress. The congressman tells Kevin Miller about his time working in the Central Intelligence Agency. : 6:35 a.m. - Fox News Radio's Simon Owen with a follow up on the cancelled meeting between President Trump and Afghanistan leaders ; 7 a.m. - Longtime Boise financial planner and radio talk show host Dave Petso with his weekly market outlook. Kevin Miller and Dave Petso debate whether the market is heading towards the bear or will remain a bull. Kevin Miller takes calls from listeners wondering about the future of Idaho based Micron Technologies.; 8:10 a.m. - Self-made billionaire, Tilman Fertitta promotes his new book, "Shut Up and Listen!: Hard Business Truths That Will Help You Succeed" . Tillman tells Kevin Miller how much he loves the state of Idaho. He reveals that he has visited Boise several times.Kevin Miller looks at the new black hole that has scientists going crazy. Kevin Miller says there is a rather large black hole at the center of our galaxy that seems to be really hungry. According to scientists, it's consuming an "unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust." One of the co-senior authors of the research said: "We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole." The big question here that researchers are asking is whether the black hole is entering a new phase or have they seen the fireworks from a few unusual blobs of gas falling in. Kevin Miller asks, what do you think? What's the most mesmerizing thing about black holes to you? ; 8:35 a.m. - Fox News' Jon Decker reports live from the White House.
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The MP is confident that bilateral relations will go from strength to strength and foresees significant results in the long term
The fourth edition of the Programme, hosted by the Spain-India Council Foundation in June 2015, brought four Indian MPs to Spain to learn about the country's socio-economic situation. The Council Foundation, as part of its active communications policy, is publishing monthly interviews with those participants.
Vivek Gupta is a Member of Indian Parliament representing All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) for Kolkata (West Bengal). He is part of the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, represents Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Indian Parliament) before the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) and is a member of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. He is also the Chairman of Group Sanmarg PVT, owner of Sanmarg, the leading Hindu journal in the West of the country.
- What was the image you had of Spain before taking part in the Leaders Programme? How has this image changed after the visit?
I knew Spain as one of Europe's most important countries. I imagined the country mainly as a tourist hub because of traditions such as gastronomy, soccer and local festivals, but I had no knowledge of how technologically advanced the Spanish economy is, or of the innovation that has taken place in the past few years. The Indian Leaders Programme has been a hugely educational experience for me and has given me the chance to learn about Spain as an exporting country and about the internationalisation of its businesses and pioneering technology. I also didn't know about its presence in India. I was surprised to learn, for example, that Spanish technology is used at Delhi Airport in a great number of areas. This fact is not duly recognised.
- Which strategies would help build an image of Spain beyond the usual clichés?
Firstly, it should be noted that Spanish companies have a significant presence in India, where they are doing outstanding work and contributing to the economies of the two countries on several levels. Taking it from there, I would suggest certain strategies, such as the need to bet on India as a whole, as the focus tends to be largely on Delhi and Mumbai. More exchanges between the country's civil societies is also needed, through tourism and international mobility of students. I also think it's essential to organise events and activities to promote aspects such as Spanish gastronomy, arts and soccer. Those exchanges generate knowledge and interest and help make the message go viral. People will want to visit Spain and, as a result, cultural interest will turn into an interest to invest. Finally, I would suggest that a Government Trade official visit India, specifically cities such as Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai, to make contact with local Chambers of Commerce and work on a better approach to this process.
- Throughout the Programme you've emphasised the importance of education. How does this impact bilateral relations?
In the event that took place at Caixa Fórum I realised that many Indians come to Spain to study, mainly at business schools, which are among the best in the world. We also looked at some issues that they tend to encounter. It is important to work both ways. On the one hand, more grants need to be offered, to ease the burden of studying abroad. On the other hand, we need to get more information to students through festivals and academic and job fairs showcasing potential opportunities. I wish there were more opportunities for talented, entrepreneurial individuals, and I think India is known the world over for both.
- Which measures should be prioritised to strengthen Spain-India relations?
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By Jen Hubley Luckwaldt, PayScale.com Whether you like it or not, if you're a working person, you have a personal brand. Figuring out what that brand is and communicating it effectively to potential employers are some of the most important things you can do to make your job hunt a success.
Whether you like it or not, if you're a working person, you have a personal brand. Figuring out what that brand is and communicating it effectively to potential employers are some of the most important things you can do to make your job hunt a success.
This is another way of saying, "know who you are and what's important to you." It doesn't matter, in terms of your potential for success, whether you value money or saving the earth. Being clear on what you want most will help you to clarify your message.
"Knowing what your audience wants from you is important to maintaining a relevant professional presence," Huhman writes. "For instance, a professional who's branded themselves as an expert on the economy might confuse their audience if they suddenly start sending out tweets about pop culture." In other words, save your opinions on Dancing With the Stars for another Twitter feed, one that isn't associated with your professional brand.
Like a shark, successful personal branders are always moving forward. You don't need to go to grad school to keep absorbing knowledge. Just keep your eyes and ears open and remember that everything is a learning opportunity.
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ISFA-COLUMBIA Workshop program
Monday June 27, 2016
Welcome coffee
Welcome address: José Blanchet (Columbia) & Stéphane Loisel (Lyon)
Nicole El Karoui & Stéphane Loisel (Paris 6 & ISFA)
Short presentation of LoLitA project & associated big data challenges
Nicholas Tatonetti (Columbia University)
Birth Month Affects Lifetime Disease Risk: A Phenome-Wide Method
Edouard Debonneuil (Lyon)
Cancer Baseline and other big data approaches to extend life
Alexander Zhavoronkov & Evgeny Putin (In Silico)
Applications of deep learning in biomedicine, part 1
Lunch break & discussions
Julien Velcin (Lyon)
Structuring temporal sparse data with application to opinion mining
Xavier Milhaud (Lyon)
Tree-based censored regression with applications to insurance
Refreshment Break
Research discussions with DAMI chair team (chairs C. Robert & F. Planchet)
-Presentation of the research chair Data Analytics and Models in Insurance
-Presentation of a research project by Christian Robert
-Feedback on Cardif Kaggle competition by Lam Dang (Cardif)
-Discussions
Research discussions with LoLitA team (chairs N. El Karoui, S. Loisel & O. Lopez)
JingChen Liu (Columbia University)
Latent and Network Models with Applications to Finance
Karthyek Murthy (Columbia)
Distributional robustness and Regularisation in machine learning: Two sides of the same coin
Christophe Geissler (BNP Paribas Cardif chair)
SRI investment: applying a supervised learning algorithm to environmental, social and governance historical scores
José Blanchet (Columbia)
On Robust Risk Analysis
Nabil Kazi-Tani (Lyon)
Overreacting random walks tend to become amnesic
Ceremony in honour of E.J. Gumbel
- Emil J. Gumbel - An Extreme Statistician by Matthias Scherer (Munich)
- Additional remarks by Officials from Lyon
- Official renaming of Lecture Hall G3 after the name of Gumbel
Nicholas TATONETTI
An individual's birth month has a significant impact on the diseases they develop during their lifetime. Previous studies reveal relationships between birth month and several diseases including atherothrombosis, asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and myopia, leaving most diseases completely unexplored. This retrospective population study systematically explores the relationship between seasonal affects at birth and lifetime disease risk for 1688 conditions. We developed a hypothesis-free method that minimizes publication and disease selection biases by systematically investigating disease-birth month patterns across all conditions. Our dataset includes 1 749 400 individuals with records at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center born between 1900 and 2000 inclusive. We modeled associations between birth month and 1688 diseases using logistic regression. Significance was tested using a chi-squared test with multiplicity correction. We found 55 diseases that were significantly dependent on birth month. Of these 19 were previously reported in the literature (P < .001), 20 were for conditions with close relationships to those reported, and 16 were previously unreported. We found distinct incidence patterns across disease categories. Lifetime disease risk is affected by birth month. Seasonally dependent early developmental mechanisms may play a role in increasing lifetime risk of disease.
Edouard DEBONNEUIL
The era of big data brings an unprecedented promise for human health and longevity: we will be able to learn from the individual lives of billions of people, to better know what is good and bad and to pilot our health much more effectively. Here, such a feedback loop is already presented with agregated data about 4 billion persons -- a project called "Baseline", on which more than 200 persons have joined forces in the last 6 months -- and approaches with large-scale individual data are introduced.
Applications of deep learning in biomedicine
Alexander ZHAVORONKOV & Evgeny PUTIN
The availability of big data coupled with advances in highly-parallel high-performance computing led to a renaissance in artificial neural networks resulting in trained algorithms surpassing human performance in image and voice recognition, autonomous driving and many other tasks. While the adoption of deep learning in biomedicine has been reasonably slow, it is reasonable to expect major advances in personalized medicine, pharmaceutical R&D and other areas of healthcare. Here we present new results in developing aging biomarkers using blood biochemistry (www.Aging.AI) and transcriptomic data and demonstrate the applications of deep learning to drug discovery and drug repurposing using large data sets of transcriptional response data. We also discuss recent advances in deep learning and possible applications to actuarial science.
Feedback on Kaggle competition launched by BNP Paribas Cardif on claim process optimization
Lam DANG
BNP Paribas Cardif launched its first challenge on Kaggle from Feb to April 2016. The goal was to predict, early in the current claim process, the claims that BNP Paribas Cardif has appetite to accept much quicker, thus generating customer satisfaction.
The challenge was a success in term of participation (2926 teams), and solutions provided by top 3 winners.
In this presentation, Sébastien Conort (BNP Paribas Cardif's Chief Data Scientist) will talk about what was learned from winner's solutions.
JingChen LIU
One of the main tasks of statistical models is to characterize the dependence structures of multi-dimensional distributions. Latent variable model takes advantage of the fact that the dependence of a high dimensional random vector is often induced by just a few latent (unobserved) factors. In this talk, we present several problems regarding latent variable models. When the dimension grows higher and the dependence structure becomes more complicated, it is hardly possible to find a low dimensional parametric latent variable model that fits well. We further enrich the model by including a network structure on top of the latent structure. Thus, the main variation of the random vector remains governed by latent variables and the network captures the remainder dependence.
Julien VELCIN
All the messages posted on the social media reflect only partially user's opinions. To gather those traces disseminated throughout the Web, evolutionary clustering techniques look eminently promising. In this talk, I will present two possible probabilistic models that address this issue. Our proposals extend the classic multinomial mixture for dealing with the temporal dimensions so that we can capture opinions over time. I will illustrate the two models with recent experiments performed within the ImagiWeb project that aims at studying the image (representation) of entities populating the social Web. I will more specifically use the image of two French politicians during the last presidential elections as a case study.
Xavier MILHAUD
In this paper, we propose a regression tree procedure to estimate the conditional distribution of a variable which is not directly observed due to censoring. The model that we consider is motivated by applications in insurance, including the analysis of guarantees that involve durations, and claim reserving. We derive consistency results for our procedure, and for the selection of an optimal subtree using a pruning strategy. These theoretical results are supported by a simulation study, and an application to insurance datasets.
Karthyek MURTHY
Finding the best fit given available data is a common theme encountered in various problems in machine learning. When the number of samples available for training is smaller than the ambient dimension of the problem, usual empirical risk minimisation may not be enough. We introduce RWPI (Robust Wasserstein Profile Based Inference), a novel machine learning methodology that is aimed at enhancing out-of-sample performance in such settings. RWPI exploits the relationship between a suitably defined distributionally robust optimization problem and the Wasserstein profile function. On one hand, a judicious choice of the distributional uncertainty can be used to build a wide range of regularisation procedures (we recover generalized Lasso, support vector machines and regularised logistic regression) as particular cases, and introduce new families. On the other hand, an asymptotic analysis of the Wasserstein profile function allows to optimally select the regularisation parameter. We shall discuss this optimality in the context of a popular regularised linear regression algorithm called generalized Lasso.
Christophe GEISSLER
Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) relies on the inclusion of non-financial criteria, mainly environmental (E), social (S) and governance-related (G) scores attributed to corporations by specialized agencies. These scores are used to build a variety of quasi-static investment strategies like best-in-class or sector exclusion. The question of whether these strategies are associated with a positive or negative performance bias remains mostly opened.
We present here an attempt to apply supervised learning to a large set of co-variables comprising various derivations of initial score time series, in order to link future returns with observable variables. User requirements impose the traceability of the predictors, as well as their eligibility with respect to ESG fundamentals. An overview of the predictors provided by this approach, as well as the simulation of their systematic implementation is presented.
José BLANCHET
We consider the problem of maximizing an expectation over all probability measures which are within a given Wasserstein distance of a target measure. This problem is solved explicitly for a large class of expectations of interest in great generality and we show that the solution has a natural practical interpretations in terms of stress testing. Moreover, when the underlying distribution is supported in R^{d} we show a weak limit for the asymptotic distribution of the empirical version of the problem. The limit laws are non-conventional and qualitative differences arise depending on the value of d (d=1, d=2, and d=3 give rise to three different mathematical developments). These results provide the foundation for a data-driven approach at robust stress testing. This talk is based on joint work with K. Murthy and Y. Kang.
Nabil KAZI-TANI
We are interested in a discrete random walk on integers that take the steps (1, +1) and (1, −1) with equal probability, when it is not equal to 0. When it reaches the state 0, the behavior of the walk depends on wether it touched the x-axis coming from a positive or a negative excursion. The excursions of this walk do not form an i.i.d. sequence. We will give an explicit expression for the one dimensional distribution of this walk. As a by-product, we obtain a new simple combinatorial interpretation of k-fold convolutions of Catalan numbers.
We can for instance model an overreaction phenomenon at 0, meaning that the walk has a high probability to cross the x-axis when it reaches it. In that particular case, we will prove that in a financial model in discrete time where returns satisfy a symmetric overreaction property at 0, derivative prices are the same than in the model without overreaction.
We will also discuss the continuous time limit of such discrete random walks and explain how they are linked with the skew Brownian motion.
This is a joint work with Dylan Possamaï (Paris Dauphine University).
Emil J. Gumbel - An Extreme Statistician
Important methods in quantitative risk management and actuarial science – particularly in the areas of extreme value theory and multivariate statistics – were developed and popularised by Emil J. Gumbel. The Gumbel distribution and the Gumbel copula bear witness to this. To mark his 125th birthday – he was born on 18th July 1891 in Munich – we are providing an insight into his mathematical legacy and taking a closer look at his life as an academic, publicist, witness to history and pacifist. In addition to his mathematical work, he published several books on politics and countless newspaper articles on political murders, the justice system and nationalist secret societies in the Weimar Republic. This cost him his post at the University of Heidelberg in 1932 and saw him included on the first list of people whose citizenship was revoked under the Third Reich in 1933. He emigrated to France in 1932, but had to flee to the USA in 1940 to escape the occupying German forces. He died on 10th September 1966 in New York.
Academics : 50€
Others : 100€
Speakers shortbios
About Emil Gumbel
Ceremony in honour of Emil Julius Gumbel, famous statistician and former at ISFA and Columbia University ...
https://isfa.univ-lyon1.fr/recherche/seminaires-et-congres/isfa-columbia-workshop-program


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package org.apache.camel.component.minio.integration;

import io.minio.MinioClient;
import org.apache.camel.BindToRegistry;
import org.apache.camel.EndpointInject;
import org.apache.camel.ProducerTemplate;
import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
import org.apache.camel.component.minio.MinioConstants;
import org.apache.camel.component.minio.MinioOperations;
import org.apache.camel.component.mock.MockEndpoint;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class MinioDeleteBucketOperationTest extends MinioTestContainerSupport {

    @BindToRegistry("minioClient")
    MinioClient client = MinioClient.builder()
            .endpoint("http://" + service.host(), service.port(), false)
            .credentials(service.accessKey(), service.secretKey())
            .build();

    @EndpointInject
    private ProducerTemplate template;

    @EndpointInject("mock:result")
    private MockEndpoint result;

    @Test
    void sendIn() throws Exception {
        result.expectedMessageCount(1);

        template.send("direct:listBuckets",
                exchange -> exchange.getIn().setHeader(MinioConstants.MINIO_OPERATION, MinioOperations.listBuckets));

        template.send("direct:deleteBucket", exchange -> {
            exchange.getIn().setHeader(MinioConstants.BUCKET_NAME, "mycamel2");
            exchange.getIn().setHeader(MinioConstants.MINIO_OPERATION, MinioOperations.deleteBucket);
        });

        assertMockEndpointsSatisfied();
    }

    @Override
    protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() {
        return new RouteBuilder() {
            @Override
            public void configure() {
                String minioEndpoint = "minio://mycamel2?autoCreateBucket=true";

                from("direct:listBuckets").to(minioEndpoint);

                from("direct:deleteBucket").to(minioEndpoint).to("mock:result");

            }
        };
    }
}

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