In the fourth installment of the Economy League's Exchange to Change series, Allison Kelsey examines how the regions we've visited have fostered diversity and inclusion – and how our trip to Toronto helped shape immigrant supports in Greater Philadelphia.
Learning about how other regions have fostered diversity and inclusion has been a big part of each of the Economy League's Leadership Exchanges – especially our visits to other metros.
After the first Leadership Exchange to Chicago in 2005, the group came back eager to address a short list of regional priorities, including boosting minority entrepreneurship in Greater Philadelphia, leading to the subsequent release of an Economy League report on building minority businesses to scale.
A portion of the agenda for our second Exchange trip to Atlanta was spent learning about the "Atlanta Way," that region's evolving approach to civic and political leadership. The term was coined during the early 20th century during a period when African-Americans in Atlanta gained limited autonomy and power in exchange for supporting white leaders. By the 1970s, it described a division of power prevalent throughout the region: political clout to blacks, business leadership to whites. When we asked about the Atlanta Way during our September 2008 visit, the consensus was that while diversity and inclusion were more evident than ever, ultimate say on key regional issues, such as Atlanta's Olympic bid, remained concentrated among area business leaders who were largely white.
We continued our exploration of diversity and inclusion on the 2010 learning visit to the Bay Area. In a region with high-rent cities like San Francisco and San Jose bumping up against communities facing significant challenges such as Oakland and Richmond, equity and inclusive growth were a major focus. We heard about how regional leaders considered achieving greater equity around housing, transportation, and access to good jobs critical to not only achieving social justice, but in fostering more sustainable communities.
The 2012 Exchange to Toronto – where half the city's population is foreign-born – added another dimension to the diversity and inclusion discussion: immigration. "Newcomers" is the intentionally open-armed term that Canadian leaders and policymakers have chosen to identify immigrants. Even with this more accepting and egalitarian language, leaders in Toronto described to our delegation the challenges that they face integrating foreign-born professionals into the economy.
Toronto ended up developing an innovative approach to engaging skilled foreign-born workers that subsequently has been adopted by the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians in our region. The Toronto Regional Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) was established in 2003 to connect immigrant professionals to employment – not just any jobs, but jobs that would use their highest and best skills and education. A suite of training, education, and job placement services were offered – plus one more: mentoring. It's this last item that the Welcoming Center, a nonprofit with similar aims to TRIEC, recognized was missing from its offerings and chose to replicate following the Toronto visit.
Returning to Philadelphia from the Toronto Exchange, Welcoming Center President & CEO Peter Gonzales and his team applied for grants to ramp up their employment services to skilled immigrants and to add in a mentoring component. Two years later, they hired staff for the initiative and in January 2015 launched the Immigrant Professionals Program to work with individuals with a college degree from outside the US. The Welcoming Center launched a six-month healthcare mentoring pilot program with Immigrant Professionals Program participants as well as other clients. If they can attract follow-up support, the plan is to recruit mentors for more newcomers in more fields of endeavor. For the mentors, it's also a valuable volunteer opportunity to enhance their leadership and coaching competencies and develop their cross-cultural skills.
As Gonzales explains it, although we think of mentors as guiding inexperienced new workers, mentors to Philadelphia's immigrants can help them learn how to operate in an American work environment – that fuzzy area called "cultural competence" -- as well as navigate opportunities in their particular field.
One early mentoring success story for the program involved a Philadelphia-area non-practicing MD and a foreign-trained physician. For the foreign-trained doctor, attaining licensure in the US was possible but would not earn him family-sustaining wages for several years. His mentor, however, could advise him about the kinds of work that would respect and use his medical expertise without having to retrain here to see patients.


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Sounds like a terrible idea to me!!!
I work in the public schools, and both of Holland and Eden have been involved with early intervention, and I have never heard of not being able to visit the classroom because of "privacy laws." In fact, I have visited the hearing impaired preschool already, and have been invited to visit the ECDD classroom as well. I truly don't believe they can prohibit you from observing in the classroom in a public school setting that your child is a candidate for.
I would NEVER EVER place my child in a program that I had not researched, seen, observed, and critiqued thoroughly. I would also have to have access to "drop in" for a visit at any time.
Also, just my opinion, but 24 hours a week for a baby his age is TOO MUCH unless you have no other options. I think the circus sounds like a better idea! Spotsy sounds more reasonable as well.
Sounds like you are doing a good job at weighing your options and questioning everything:) Thanks for the comment on my blog. Noah is adorable and I look forward to reading about his CI!


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U.S. Poverty Weekly Update April 23, 2013
No one who works full-time should be living in poverty. . . . In the Silicon Valley of brainpower, might a few of our creative thinkers find a way to narrow the gap between rich and poor to create a more livable and sustainable economy for us all?
— RESULTS San Jose volunteer Georgia Platts in an April 18 letter to the editor in the San Jose Mercury News
New and Urgent in This Week's Update (Two-Ten-Twenty Actions)
Got Two Minutes? Call Schedulers about Meetings and Town Halls during Next Week's Recess
Got Ten Minutes? Would You Participate in Friends & Family For ONE WEEK to Help RESULTS?
Got Twenty Minutes? Keep Pushing Congress to Protect Tax Credits for Working Families (April Action)
Only One Week Left to Get the Discounted Conference Registration Rate — Register Today!
Help Build Support for New Early Learning Investments
Delayed Farm Bill Hearings Give Us More Time to Generate Support for SNAP
RESULTS Outreach — Help Us Expand into New Areas
Both the House and Senate will be on recess next week. With many questions yet unanswered about the future of the social safety net, we need to remain vigilant. Hearings on the Farm Bill and SNAP are coming, the tax committees are discussion the EITC and Child Tax Credit, and early childhood programs such as Head Start are hearing calls for expansion in the midst of program closures from sequestration. All this reminds us that these recesses provide an important opportunity to weigh in with policy-makers about protecting programs that lift and keep people out of poverty.
TAKE ACTION: Take two minutes to call your local or DC schedulers to find out if you can schedule a last minute face-to-face meeting with your representatives and senators. This is a great excuse to follow up on your previous meeting requests or to submit them asap. Use our January Action for tips on scheduling a meeting and our January Laser Talk for follow up calls to schedulers.
In addition to sit-down meetings, ask the schedulers if your members of Congress are holding any town halls or public meetings next week. You can also check their congressional websites to see if they have any events listed there. You can find DC scheduler names, local contact information, and website links on our Elected Officials page. If you plan to attend a town hall, see our updated Sample Town Hall Questions.
If you plan to attend an event, please contact the RESULTS U.S. Poverty staff for help in preparing you.
Thank you to those of you who are already participating in this month's Friends & Family Fundraising Campaign. Just this past weekend, you helped us pass the $10,000 mark. Congratulations! It is only through your efforts that we reached this milestone.
However, this is only about 30 percent of our overall campaign goal of $35,000. We still need your help to finish these last eight days strong! If we had 20 people doing just a little for one week, we could get close to our goal and maybe even over the top. It's not that hard; below are instructions to get you started in just a few short clicks. And remember, it is your stories and connection to RESULTS that makes our grassroots fundraising a success. Sharing why you do this work and why you give to RESULTS helps others do the same. You could also link giving to one of our campaigns, such as asking folks to donate $30, which is roughly the average weekly SNAP benefit for one person, or telling people you will donate $1 for every $7 raised to reflect the return on investment early childhood programs create.
Help us finish this year's Friends & Family Campaign with a flourish!
TAKE ACTION: Take ten minutes to set up a Friends & Family web page to help support the work of RESULTS financially. Here's all you need to do:
Go to Friends & Family Fundraising Page
Click on the blue "Volunteers: Register Here" link
Fill out the information (be careful to spell your name correctly)
Click on "View your page here" and customize it by clicking "Edit Campaign" in the "services" box on the left
Log out, click on Donate, click on your own name to get your site URL in non-edit mode
Share your site through e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter!
Please contact Cindy Levin ([email protected]) if you have any questions. Thank you for all you do for RESULTS and for people living in poverty!
Last week, members of the Senate Finance Committee met to discuss how tax reform impacts families and children. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC) were important parts of that discussion. While the discussion did not get into details about specific proposals, the credits did come up with several senators speaking in defense of these important poverty-reduction tools. You can read about some of the options presented on the Senate Finance Committee website. Thank you to everyone who called senators last week urging them to weigh in with Senate Finance members about the EITC and CTC.
Building on that support, we've learned that Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) will be introducing a bill soon that protects and expands the EITC and CTC. We will have more details about the bill once it is introduced. In the meantime, our friends at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) have drafted new papers to help in your advocacy around these tax credits for working families. First, their new report "The Earned Income Tax Credit and Refundable Child Tax Credit in Rural America" highlights the importance of the EITC and CTC to people living in rural America. For advocates living in states with large rural areas, this information could be very persuasive with lawmakers. On a broader note, CBPP also released papers on how to better understand where our federal tax dollars come from and where they go.
We just learned today that Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-MT) will not seek re-election in 2014. How this will affect the tax reform effort remains to be seen. In this final week of April, let's make sure lawmakers hear in a loud and clear voice that their constituents strongly support the EITC and CTC.
TAKE ACTION: Take twenty minutes to take the April Action about protecting the EITC and CTC. Write letters to senators and representatives urging them to talk to Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and House Ways and Means Chair Dave Camp (R-MI-4) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI-9) about protecting and strengthening the EITC and CTC. Specifically, urge them to:
Make the 2009 EITC and CTC improvements permanent.
Reject any tax reform proposals that would cut eligibility or benefits for the EITC and CTC
The April Action and National Community Tax Coalition's tax credit 13 for '13 has all the information you need to make a powerful case.
Also, if you contacted senate aides about last week's Senate Finance hearing, follow up with them to see if they did indeed talk to their colleagues on the committee. Be sure to thank those who did and remind the aides to keep pushing tax leaders to protect the EITC and CTC. You can find the name of your senate tax aides on our Elected Officials page. If you would like help or coaching with making these calls or writing your letters, please contact the RESULTS U.S. Poverty staff for assistance.
You can learn more about tax credits for working families the recording of our April 2013 national conference call and the PowerPoint slides (pdf) from the call. You can find both on the RESULTS Conference Call page.
Last week, we announced that the Early Bird Registration fee of only $165 for the RESULTS International Conference had been extended to April 30. My, how time flies! We are now only one week away from the deadline. Don't get caught on May 1 having forgotten to register at the lower rate. This year's conference promises to be a wonderful experience (see the updated agenda), so take a few minutes and…
REGISTER TODAY for the RESULTS International Conference!
We want REAL Changers! The conference is not only a great opportunity for our existing volunteers to meet, learn, and act, it's a great way to introduce RESULTS and anti-poverty advocacy to a whole new generation. We want more young people at this year's conference and we have just the thing to help make it easier for them to come. If you or someone you know are 18–27 years old, be sure to apply for the conference REAL Change Scholarship. This scholarship provides the opportunity for young RESULTS activists and potential new activists to attend the conference for a fraction of the cost. If you're one of these young leaders, it's a deal you don't want to pass up. You can find more information about the REAL Change Program on the RESULTS website. Download and submit your application today! The deadline to apply is May 15.
Finally, we have started making awards from the Karen McQuillan Fund for this year's conference. The KMF provides financial support for those who would otherwise be unable to participate in the conference due to costs. Unfortunately, because of a limited amount in the Fund, we cannot assist many worthy applicants. If you are able, please consider making a donation to the KMF to help others share in the conference experience. If you plan to come to the conference, you can donate to the KMF on the conference registration form. You can also donate online to RESULTS Educational Fund and in the Additional Notes section at the bottom of the form, put "Karen McQuillan Fund". Thank you for your support.
Don't forget! REGISTER TODAY for this year's conference!
In last week's update, we highlighted President Obama's new initiative to expand early childhood education in America. His proposal would build on the exiting early childhood infrastructure, including Head Start, Early Head Start, and the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) to expand services to all low- and moderate-income children. The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) is urging people to show their thanks to President Obama for his proposal by sending thank you e-mails to him. Their hope is to deliver thousands of letters that will hopefully be used in an upcoming public event with the president. Be sure to send your thank you note.
Also, to build momentum for new investments in early learning, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is circulating a Dear Colleague letter (attached and below) to support investments in early childhood, including Head Start, Early Head Start and the CCDBG. The deadline for the letter is this Thursday, April 25.
Finally, Ready Nation, a coalition of businesses and business leaders who value and support early education, is urging business leaders to sign onto a letter to President Obama in support of strong early childhood investments. All this is welcomed news for early learning advocates, who are still facing program closures, cutbacks, and layoffs due to sequestration. Show your support for educating America's children today.
TAKE ACTION: Tell your members of Congress to protect Head Start and child care funding and invest more resources in early learning. Specifically, you can do the following:
Call your senate offices and urge your senators to join Sen. Franken's Early Childhood Dear Colleague letter.
Send the president a thank you note for putting children first using the NWLC e-mail alert.
Amplify your message using online e-mail alert members of Congress about the importance of Head Start and child care to low-income families.
We also encourage you to listen to April national conference call to hear Roxanne Reddington-Wilde share about her experience working for community action in Boston and the impact sequestration has had on her and her agency.
Last week, we noted that the Senate Agriculture Committee was planning to start "marking up" (debating and editing) a new Farm Bill as soon as this week. As you know, one of the largest components of the Farm Bill is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps). We just learned that the Senate hearing has been postponed. No new date is set, although Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) has said she would like to mark up a bill before Memorial Day. Meanwhile, the House has scheduled the markup of their Farm Bill for May 15. What this means is that you have more time to urge your representatives and senators to demonstrate their public support for SNAP. In the House, it means urging members to cosponsor House Resolution 90, which currently has 103 cosponsors. H.Res. 90 urges the House to reject any cuts to SNAP. In the Senate, it means urging senators to sign onto Sen. Gillibrand's "Dear Colleague" letter, which calls for full-funding for SNAP. As of April 19, it had 26 cosponsors.
In addition, President Obama's FY 2014 budget released a few weeks ago restores SNAP funding lost in 2010 and postpones a scheduled cut in SNAP benefits beginning this November. We applaud the president's effort at protecting hungry families in America.
TAKE ACTION: Call your representative and both senators urging them to sign onto H.Res. 90 and the "Dear Colleague" letter respectively. You can also use House SNAP e-mail alert and our Senate SNAP e-mail alert to send your messages. When contacting your congressional offices, or in meetings you have with them, be sure to use local data from your state's SNAP fact sheet (from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities).
RESULTS staff and volunteers are working hard to magnify our collective voice by engaging new RESULTS volunteers and starting new RESULTS groups. As you well know, the key to successful endeavors are the relationships between the people doing the work. It is through relationships that we build support for our work in Congress. It is through relationships that we generate media for the end of poverty. And it is through relationships that we expand our network. People are more likely to get involved with this work if they are referred by someone they know, namely you. Reaching out to people you know asking them to learn more about RESULTS is creating political will as much as any lobby meeting or local editorial.
Help us continue to make a difference in the world by reaching out to people you know. It could be as simple as inviting them to an upcoming RESULTS Introductory Call. These bi-monthly 30–45 minute calls are great for learning more about RESULTS and how to get involved. The next call is this Friday, April 26 at 1:00 pm ET. Urge people you know to register for this or another upcoming intro call at www.tinyurl.com/RESULTSMeetandGreet/.
Another way to help is contacting people you know in specific areas to attend an upcoming RESULTS event. Here are events and areas where we are currently working:
MAINE. RESULTS Bangor outreach meeting, THIS Sunday, April 28, 2:00–4:00 pm ET at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 120 Park St in Bangor. Share the RESULTS Bangor Event Facebook page. For more details, contact Jenny Martin at (413) 774-1707, [email protected].
BOSTON. RESULTS Boston outreach, Thursday, May 9, 6:30–8:30 pm ET at the Weymouth Public Library, Tufts Branch, 46 Broad St, Weymouth, MA. Share the RESULTS Boston Event Facebook page. For more details, contact Jenny Martin at (413) 774-1707, [email protected].
TENNESSEE. RESULTS Memphis outreach meeting, tentatively set for May 7. We are also working on starting a group in Nashville. If you know people in Tennessee, please contact Myrdin Thompson at (502) 295-1315, [email protected].
ORANGE COUNTY, CA. RESULTS Orange County outreach meeting, Thursday, June 6, 7:00–9:00 pm PT. For more details, please contact Jos Linn at (515) 288-3622, [email protected].
NEW YORK CITY. Jos Linn is in the early stages of starting a new U.S. Poverty group in New York City. He has a planning meeting to kick off this effort next Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 pm ET. For more details, please contact Jos at (515) 288-3622, [email protected].
Attend the RESULTS Texas Regional Conference. RESULTS Texas groups will be holding a regional conference on Saturday, May 11, 9:30 am–5:00 pm CT. It is being held at the Coronada Hills Club House, 1801 Coronada Hills in Austin, TX. To RSVP or to get more details, please contact Kathleen Duncan at [email protected].
Upcoming Congressional Recesses: House and Senate: April 29–May 3, May 27–31. Request face-to-face meetings.
Friday, April 26: RESULTS Introductory Call, 1:00 pm ET. Register for this or another Intro Call at www.tinyurl.com/RESULTSMeetandGreet/.
Sunday, April 28: RESULTS Bangor outreach meeting, 2:00–4:00 pm ET. Unitarian Universalist Church, 120 Park St, Bangor ME. Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/523709807667501. Contact Jenny Martin at [email protected] for more information.
Tuesday, April 30: Last day to get Early Bird Registration discount for the 2013 RESULTS International Conference. Register today!
Tuesday, May 7: RESULTS Memphis (TN) outreach meeting (tentative). For more details, contact Myrdin Thompson at (502) 295-1315[email protected].
Thursday, May 9: RESULTS Boston outreach meeting, 6:30–8:30 pm ET, Weymouth Public Library, Tufts Branch, 46 Broad St, Weymouth, MA. Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/507478945980252. Contact Jenny Martin at [email protected] for more information.
Saturday, May 11: RESULTS U.S. Poverty National Conference Call, 12:30 pm ET. Listen to previous conference calls online.
Thursday, June 6: RESULTS Orange County (CA) outreach meeting. For more details, contact Jos Linn at (515) 288-3622, [email protected].
Saturday, July 20 – Tuesday, July 23: 2013 RESULTS International Conference, Washington, DC. Register today!
Main Office: (p) (202) 783-7100, (f) (202) 466-1397, 1730 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036. If mailing a donation to our DC office, please address the envelope to the attention of Cynthia Stancil.
Meredith Dodson, Director of U.S. Poverty Campaigns, (202) 783-7100 x116, [email protected]
Jos Linn, Senior Associate, U.S. Poverty Campaigns, (515) 288-3622, [email protected]
Jenny Martin, U.S. Poverty Grassroots Organizer, New England, (413) 774-1707, [email protected]
The RESULTS U.S. Poverty Update is sent out every Tuesday via e-mail to RESULTS volunteers and allies all over the country. The purpose of these updates is to inform and activate RESULTS activists to take action on our U.S. poverty campaigns.

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Battleground Baltimore: Madness from Marilyn Mosby's Office
In this week's roundup of Baltimore news we talk about the latest controversy coming out of the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office, the vetoed predatory renter's bill, and Baltimore stands with Palestine
by Lisa Snowden and Brandon Soderberg May 21, 2021 May 22, 2021
Image first shared by Justine Barron.
Marilyn Mosby's Middle Finger to Keith Davis—and Baltimore
Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby lied this week, by way of the State's Attorney's official Twitter account, and that's a big deal. Mosby was caught on video Wednesday putting her middle finger up at a resident who spotted her at downtown Baltimore restaurant Sandlot and yelled "Free Keith Davis Jr." The video was quickly shared on social media. In response to a tweet from Davis' wife, Kelly, someone from the SAO's office tweeted out: "This is clearly a thumb guys – enough already. Let's move on."
The problem was that it was not just a thumb, as reporter Justine Barron pointed out via high-quality screenshots of the video—it was a middle finger.
Kelly, along with other supporters of Keith's cause, have long argued that Mosby's pursuit of Davis is personal, not professional. Sinced 2016, Mosby has been trying to convict Davis for the murder of a Baltimore security guard named Kevin Jones. However, the case is a complicated one. Davis was shot by police in June 2015, and near his unconscious body was a gun, which police later claimed Davis used to shoot Jones. Davis' first trial resulted in a hung jury, as did his third trial. The second trial ended in a guilty verdict—and the State's Attorney's office tweeted "victory" afterward—but Davis was granted another trial because the background of one of the prosecution's key witnesses was not fully disclosed to the jury. In 2019, during his fourth trial, Davis was found guilty again, but that conviction was overturned just last week, and now it's up to Mosby to take him to trial again or drop the charges.
Mosby is one of the city's most visible and highest-ranking officials, and her position means that she weighs in on life-or-death matters involving the mostly Black and Brown residents moving through Baltimore's criminal justice pipeline. It's imperative that someone in her position be a person who can be trusted to keep their word. That she was able to lie so easily about something so easy to disprove raises the question: what else has she been dishonest about? And if Mosby was willing to use the State's Attorney's Office's social media account, which is supposed to be used to educate the public, to further her own agenda, what other public-facing entities is she willing to utilize to her personal advantage?
As we have written about before, Marilyn Mosby and her husband, Council President Nick Mosby, are already intertwined in an ugly and unaddressed conflict of interest. They are a married couple that both hold executive-level offices in Baltimore City: Marilyn at the SAO and Nick as president of the Baltimore City Council. Nick is the head of a body that approves the budget for Marilyn's department. The two are also the subject of an ongoing federal investigation into their financial matters. Neither Mosby has indicated that they would step back from operating in their normal capacities in any way, and no other city officials have indicated that they should. Mosby's lie makes all of this much worse.
Security Deposit Insurance Vetoed by Mayor
Tenants' rights advocates had to wait until the very last minute to learn that Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott had decided to veto the so-called "security insurance" bill which was approved by Baltimore City Council last month. The deadline was Monday, May 17 at 5 p.m., and that's when Scott made his announcement and published his letter about the veto to Council President Nick Mosby, who, along with Councilperson Sharon Middleton, sponsored the bill, and, as recent reporting revealed, worked closely with Rhino.
"I simply cannot ignore the significant concerns over the security deposit insurance option in the legislation. This provision could potentially hurt the very people this bill seeks to help. In this case, the benefits of an installment plan for security deposits do not outweigh the potential costs of the security deposit insurance provision to already vulnerable residents," Scott said in a statement.
According to multiple people Battleground Baltimore spoke to, Scott's decision was not only announced at the last minute, but whether or not he would veto the bill was still being weighed within his office on the evening of Sunday, May 16. Earlier that day, Baltimore Brew released a damning story based on emails received via a public information request which showed, as the Brew said, that Rhino's "involvement in the months that followed was significant, as Bill 21-0022 was discussed, amended, and finally approved by the Council."
The bill, which was presented as a way of helping renters pay for their security deposit, was really a surety bond that often ensnares renters in fees and further limits their ability to challenge landlords in rent court.
In response to the veto, Nick Mosby released a statement which ridiculously described the veto of the "security insurance" bill as "modern day redlining," and claimed, "this is what structural racism looks like in practice: Government's role turns paternalistic when it comes to poor Black people." Battleground Baltimore's Lisa Snowden-McCray characterized the statement as Mosby "weaponiz[ing] identity politics."
The Brew's article also shows that Mosby lied when he claimed on local public radio affiliate WYPR that he "had no relationship with Rhino," the company that would profit from this bill if it went into law and has introduced similar bills in other cities. "The correspondence shows [a Rhino lobbyist] worked closely with a legislative staffer for City Council President Nick Mosby."
Battleground Baltimore reached out to Mosby's office the day of his WYPR comments and twice over the past week and received no responses.
The victory here is for Baltimore's perpetually mistreated renters, but it also illustrates the effect that grassroots organizing and alternative media can have on fraught neoliberal policies that, in the past, Baltimore City has been comfortable rubber-stamping.
Baltimore Renters United (BRU), one of the primary groups organizing against this bill, praised Scott's decision to veto it.
"If this [bill] had passed into law, it would have harmed real people, including members of our coalition and those of the nearly 50 organizations, representing a huge swathe of Baltimore City, who signed on to our letter urging a veto from Mayor Scott," BRU said in a statement. "The bill's passage would have harmed the very people its supporters purport to want to protect, and instead would have enriched New York-based venture capitalists at our expense. We do need real solutions for tenants, but what this bill offered was exploitation. We also want to be clear that a groundswell of solidarity around this bill, from every part of the city we love, will not stop. We will continue to build with our supporters in our ongoing fight for housing justice in Baltimore City, and we hope that the Baltimore City Council will be willing to work with us to protect the right to fair and equitable housing in the future."
While the City Council could override Scott's veto, that does not seem likely.
Baltimore Stands With Palestine
Last week in Battleground Baltimore, we discussed "connecting the deep history of racism, segregation, and brutal, boundary-enforcing police in Baltimore to the decades of Israeli occupation in Palestine," best represented in chants heard during 2015's uprising: "From Baltimore to Palestine, Occupation is Not a Crime."
At the Baltimore Stands With Palestine rally and march on Tuesday, May 18, more than 200 people gathered at Baltimore's City Hall, and many of the event's speakers discussed those connections more deeply. Dana Abushanab, described how a friend told her when she moved to Baltimore, "the streets of Baltimore are like the streets of Palestine."
"When I talk about the youth here in Baltimore City it's hard not to get choked up because the reality for us Palestinians is that we don't get to see our babies, we don't get to see our young people as a fundamental condition of Zionism, of being a people who live in exile," Abushanab said. "When I look at the Black youth in Baltimore City, I see Palestine too, I see young Palestinian people and I don't think they understand … how much it means to me to be able to work alongside the grassroots community here."
Then Abushanab led the crowd in a chant of, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."
Zainab Chaudry, the Maryland Outreach Director for the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), addressed the United States' role in supporting Israel and President Joe Biden's administration approving $735 million in arms sales to Israel.
"Enough is enough. We are heartbroken by the news that has been coming out of Palestine over the last two weeks but not only over the last two weeks but over the last 54 years of military occupation and the last 73 years of ethnic cleansing that has been happening to Palestine," Chaudry said. "This is a genocide that is happening with our tax dollars. We are here today to call on the Biden administration and our elected officials that we don't need Eid celebrations brothers and sisters, we don't need Iftars, we need our government officials to stop funding the dropping of bombs on our brothers and sisters in Palestine."
Since Tuesday's event, Biden has announced what he has characterized as "a mutual, unconditional ceasefire," though many have noted the limits of that, which does not address a potential peace process, Palestinian self-determination, or Israel's war crimes over the past two weeks.
Another speaker at Tuesday's rally was Rabbi Ariana Katz, of Hinenu, the "Baltimore Justice Shtiebl" that provided Battleground Baltimore with a powerful statement last week. Katz continued speaking for Jews who comprehend the realities of Israeli occupation for Palestinians.
"I speak on behalf of a strong and present and growing movement of Jewish people who say the liberation of the Palestinian people is urgent and necessary and a long overdue reality," Katz said. "Liberation is not only possible but it is on its way. When we look around us here in Baltimore or when we direct our attention to Palestine it feels hard to imagine, but it is our solemn duty. This does not mean acting as if life and death are out of our hands. To believe liberation is possible, to feel it just around the corner is to get ready for it."
NAACP Baltimore President Kobi Little also spoke.
"I'm here today because I'm a global citizen. I'm here today because I'm a child of revolution. I'm here today because I know the struggle of Black people, I know the struggle of African people, I know the struggle of Indigenous people—I know the struggle for justice," Little said. "I believe in self-defense, but self-defense is not annexation. Self-defense is not occupation. Self-defense is not genocide. Self-defense is not expansion into other people's land."
The crowd, which had grown closer to 300, then briefly marched through Baltimore, waving Palestinian flags, as chants of "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," "Gaza, Gaza don't you cry, Palestine will never die," and and "Allahu Akbar" bounced off of buildings downtown, including the hulking, brutalist Baltimore Police Department headquarters.
Among those at the rally was Iranian, Baltimore-based visual artist Taha Heydari, who spoke with Battleground Baltimore about why he attended.
"I didn't think about why I attended, I just went. It's just so embedded in my upbringing. I was born and raised in Iran. It was always on TV, Palestine and Israel. So I've always been conscious. That's my personal relationship to it," Heydari said. "Also I remember my dad holding me and running to shelters while Tehran was bombarded by Iraqi bombs. So I feel that I'm familiar with what's happening in Palestine—it's deep in my subconscious. And also, I'm familiar with oppression growing up in Iran, being watched, being controlled. The gaze of the state is always there. I can recognize that gaze when I feel it."
For Heydari, a painter whose work often incorporates and explores politically charged, historical images, he was also thinking of how Palestine is represented and covered in the press.
"When I see Israel and Palestine, I think about how I've never been there. But I'm left with images, I'm bombarded with images of Israel and Palestine," Heydari said. "So I question the representation, the platform, the tools and media. So my work investigates these through painting."
Heydari noted the connections between the occupation of Palestine and activists occupying the lawn in front of City Hall on Tuesday, and back in 2015, protesting police brutality.
"Standing in front of the City Hall building—that has a history," Heydari said. "That area has been occupied before, for Freddie Gray, for George Floyd."
On Saturday, May 21 at 5 p.m., there will be a Resistance Until Liberation rally in front of City Hall to "demand that Baltimore City reject all ties to the Zionist state and to show that from Baltimore to Palestine, the fight for liberation continues."
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Griffith Pioneer Park is a large open air Museum located in Griffith NSW and tells the proud story of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. This historic 40 building precinct is located on Scenic Hill and is a must-see on visiting Griffith.
The Museum was established 50 years ago by volunteers who had the foresight and passion to capture some of the local history before it was forgotten or demolished. An extensive collection and resulting exhibitions are showcased in impressive spaces thoughtfully created to complement the collections.
School and after-school groups are also catered for with special packages available that include lunch and hands-on participation. There is also a function room that can be hired for various corporate needs.
After exploring the Museum it is just a short drive to Hermit's Cave and Lookout overlooking Griffith's lovely rural skyline.


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Reality Mining at Cogito
Posted by Jared Lorince on Oct 31, 2012 in Gamification | 0 comments
Cogito Health is a young technology startup based in Charlestown, MA developing tools for real-time monitoring of customer engagement. Though their way of operationalizing engagement differs in marked ways from the game-centric way we usually approach the term here at Motivate.Play, I was curious to learn more about what they're working on, and how it might connect to the interests of our readers. Thanks to a personal connection (an alumnus of my lab at IU is on staff at Cogito), I was able to get an interview with the company's CEO and founder, Joshua Feast. Here's what he had to say.
Joshua Feast: When you say engagement, what do you think of? What does it mean to you?
Jared Lorince: That's actually the first question I had for you. It depends on context, right? When we talk about engagement on our blog and in the related research, we talk about players being engaged in the game, getting into the flow state, being totally engrossed in gameplay. That's how we talk about it, but I'm assuming you guys are operationalizing it a little differently?
JF: That's true. We often talk about engagement in the sense of the relationship between a customer and an organization. We tend to provide tools for organizations to manage their customers better, to work with their customers more successfully. It's similar in the sense of involvment, ...it may be involvement in a specific conversation, but it may also be involvemnet in healthcare self-management, and partaking in activities and things like that. That's one way we think about it. But I think it's somewhat similar to being engrossed, though perhaps in a longer timeframe. The only other way we think about engagmeent, which is slightly more unusual...is really trying to think about what someone is likely to do next. If someone is highly engaged, they're more likely to follow through with particular actions. So for example, if you're talking about medication adherence, if you have someone who is highly engaged, they're more likely to stay on their medications and things like that. It's a present involvmemnt in a future propensity to take part in an action.
JL: So is it a question of what signals are going to preidct that they're going to continue to take their medication, or to stay on the phone, or whatever the context? Or do you actually think about ways of enhancing the experience...again going back to questions of gamification, of how to make the experience more fun or enjoyable?
JF: We're very much focused on how we can improve the interaction between two human beings in a coversation. So that's very much what we try to do. We tend to work more on the organization side. E.g. providing real-time response (probably where the link to games is most obvious) to somebody on the phone to help them understand how they're being perceived when they speak, but also picking up on cues about the party they're talking with, about whether that person is on board with what they're saying, or distracted, or not interested. So you can maybe pull a conversation back if you're potentially losing somebody. So that's a huge part of what we try and do. And it becomes interesting when you compare to games, because a lot of the design problem in that is similar to some of the design problems in creating heads up displays.
JL: This gets a two particualr questions I had, the first being specifically what kind of signals you''re looking at. Obviously on a phone call you only have auditory signals, but what else do you use?. Related to that, what kind of feedback are you giving the agent? How does it work? What kind of interface is it? How real-time is real-time?
JF: Real-time is during the conversation as you're speaking. It will tell you, for example, if the conversation is unbalanced (one party speaking too much or too little), whether you are speaking fludily or not, whether you're speakign in a flat manner or dynamic manner. And also whether you're getting reactions from the other person, which relates to their mimicry behavior, you're mimicry behavior...how much they're paying attention, things like that. Typically we're focused on how people are speaking, and giving that information back to the agent so they can essentially have better understanding of social signals.
JL: So you're analyzing their vocal patters...has your approach been a black-box machine learning approach, or grounded in theory with expected correlates of engagment?
JF: Good point. Blunt force machine learning doesn't get you very far in this context; you have to come at it with theory. A lot of the signals we're looking for are based on evolutionary biology. Essentially we're tyring to get at substrate of what we call honest signalling, and that's basically a communication substrate that we evolved pre-language...Another major part of it is how fluid and how consistent someone can control their speaking because that indicates mastery of a topic or confidence. When someone is pausing and stuttureting, it means they're tired or distracted, or something of that nature. So those are the major patterns that are important. And they're pretty well-known in the evolutionary biology circles and, we generally try to pick them up and visualize them so people during a covnersation can be aware of that stuff even when they're not necesarrily paying attention. Often you're very much focusing on content and not paying attention to the social underpinnings of the conversation.
JL: So is everything these pre-language signals, or do you do any sort of voice-recognition or lexical analysis? Like looking for certain trigger words?
JF: We tend not to do that because it's so context specific. There can be some advantaghes to pick out some sort of tone based on word choice, but we haven't found it to be that practical and useful yet. But it's an avenue of exploration and we have some partners that work with us on that kind of thing. We're audio only and have a collaboration with USC where we're workign on combining audio with visual cues, to work with teleconference. How can you augment the social signalling by looking at movmeent and expressions, etc.?
JL: Now that is something you can do with your phone app, right? I was reading you also offer phone software. Does that leverage other signals?
JF: We're kinda doing two sorts of thinking. One is modeling and predicting human behavior over short time periods, over a 10-30 minutes conversation. The other thing is looking at longer time periods, over weeks. To look at that kind of time period we've been developing a platform that someone can, if they choose, download onto their smartphone, and what that will do is provide contuinuous monitoring of activity and sociability, and mood and various other things, all picked up throgh contnuous monitoring of smartphone sensors. There are really two different platforms. I can see them converging at some point, but for the moment they're really two different platforms.
JL: And are these available for iPhone and android, or..?
JF: Smartphone is running on Android right now, but it's not available to the general public.
JL: That was actually my next question. I can see this being an interesting platform. You can immediately think of other applications of this biofeedback. The focus now is on health behavior, but I imagine there are other domains, too.
JF: I think there are many broad applications, and in time I think they'll all be addressed, but we must start somewhere. We're starting with problems that we think are really important to solve: distress, but also engagement with organizations. But I'd love to see the platforms broadly adopted, and I don't think it will take us too long to get to that point.
JL: At this point then I can see that your two main customer groups seem to be health initiatives - so people who are monitoring people to make sure they're taking their medication or simialr - and your other main group looks to be customer service, call center type places.
JF: I think that's fair. From an industry perspective there are two customers, the governemnt, where we're mainly working with recently returned soldiers with psychological distress. And the other group is really enterprise. You can think of that as customer service, customer engagement, and that's really helping them have more successful interactions.
JL: And with the busineses it's almost always in the context of a customer service call center?
JF: On the enterprise side it can either be a call center type environment, or else a teleconference environment, depending on the type of interaction. But call center is by far the most common kind of deployment model.
JL: The two main domains that would be cool to take these to, beyond where you are, would be games - as a playtesting tool, actually haveing a good metric of if [the player] is enjoying [the game], modulating game difficulty, etc. - and education, as a tool in the classroom. Is this something you have thought about?
JF: We've explored the adaptive games the least, but it's an interesting idea. On the eudcation side, we don't have any specific projects, but we've met with the Gates foundation a handful of times, as they're sponsoring a lot of work in this area. We're interested, but nothing is happening right now.
JL: we've hit on most of the big questions, but maybe you can tell me a bit more about "reality mining technology" - can you talk briefly about what this is and how your company fits in?
JF: the central concept is to use technology to observe behavior, and then make inferences based on behavior rather than just using self report and survey question. With sensors...we can really use that information to create a better world. Sandy Pentland [Cogito co-founder] is one of the most powerful data scientists in the world. A number of the conceptual frameworks that we've leveraged at cogito came from his group.
JL: Would you differntiate what you call reality mining from the "quantified self" movement? And if so, how?
JF: I think the quantified self is more about an individual understanding his behavior, and I think it's not necesarily behavior; it's anything that can be quantified. But when I think about reality mining, it can be groups of people and how they move and react, on more of a macro scale. I also think the sets of information tend to be almost exlusively behaviorally focused. For example, a physiological measure like skin conductance is not something we focus on.
So there you have it. If you're interested in learning more about Cogito, be sure to check out their website, and for more information on reality mining, take a look at the MIT Media Lab's page on the topic.
Reality Mining at Cogito by Jared Lorince, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.


Thank you to all the people who visited our booth at the JEC WORLD 2019 in Paris, showing us a huge interest in our robotic solution SandRob for sanding and surface finishing.
We would like to thank also who attended the "DALLARA Automobili" Case Study presentation at the Composite Exchange FORUM. The video of the speech will be available soon.


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Review: Nolan Ryan documentary, 'Facing Nolan,' in theaters one-night only
Utopia, 2022.
He was the greatest power pitcher of his - or arguably any - era. Now, for one night-only, a documentary about the life and legacy of Hall-of-Famer, Nolan Ryan, can be seen on the big screen.
"Facing Nolan" is a compelling, loving film that tells the story of one of the best and most intimidating pitchers baseball has ever seen. It's a must-see for any baseball fan, and even for the casual fan, it's a deeply rewarding biography centered on ambition, family, faith and love...about a young man who made the American Dream his reality.
In theaters for one-night only, Tuesday, May 24th (check local theaters here), you can catch "Facing Nolan." Like his 108-mile-per-hour fastball (according to legend), don't let this one blow past you.
Review: 'Jockey' a rough ride a times, kept steady by a commanding Clifton Collins Jr.
Sony Pictures Classics, 2022.
In horse-racing terms, jockey Jackson Silva (Clifton Collins Jr.) has rounded the far turn of his career and is in the home-stretch. But as anyone in the sport will tell you, it's all about how you finish the race that counts.
The drama "Jockey" is a showcase for the long-time character actor Clifton Collins Jr., who shows here that he has what it takes to carry a film all on his own. There are a few stumbles narratively, but Clifton keeps his head down and finishes this one in stride.
Review: 'King Richard' shows that Will Smith is still Hollywood royalty
Warner Bros. Pictures, 2021.
The best and most unbelievable stories are often true. That is definitely the case when it comes to Richard Williams, a man who wrote out an 85-page plan detailing how not one, but two of his young daughters would take the world by storm and become the two greatest tennis champions the world has ever seen. That's a bit far-fetched, but what makes it miraculous is that he wrote this plan years before they were ever born.
His story is the story of his two daughters, Venus and Serena Williams, who did go on to become two of the greatest tennis champs and athletes ever produced. They weren't the first female African-American all-stars (look up Ora Washington, Althea Gibson or Zina Garrison), but they did open up the door for an entire generation of young girls as they absolutely dominated their sport for nearly two decades.
"King Richard" is funny, touching and inspiring. It has the make-up of a traditional underdog sports film (an over-saturated genre to be sure), yet it doesn't feel like any of the others that have come before it. It's all held together with what will surely be an award-worthy turn by Will Smith, who after a few misfires ("Bad Boys For Life," "Gemini Man," "Bright") fires on all cylinders as the man behind-the-scenes in the life of two iconic Americans.
Review: '12 Mighty Orphans' fumbles in trying not to become just another underdog sports movie
If you've seen one underdog team sports film, you've seen them all, but that doesn't stop Hollywood from churning out another two or three per year ad nauseam. Welcome "12 Mighty Orphans" to the mix, a period football film that does nothing to further the genre, but one that might satisfy those who find themselves suckers for this brand of melodrama.
Review: 'Embattled' fails to land any punches
IFC Films, 2020.
Most sports dramas follow the same clichéd patterns, with rousing action sequences interspersed with bits of drama, featuring a man with the heart of a champion for us to root for. "Embattled" can't even balance the genre clichés properly. The problems start with the script, but they expand to cover the choppy, ineffective MMA fight sequences and the either overcooked or under-served characters at its center.
Review: 'You Cannot Kill David Arquette' the documentary you didn't know you needed to see
Super LTD, 2020.
Most people know David Arquette as an actor. He's most recognizable as the lovable Deputy Dewey Riley from the "Scream" movie franchise, and back in the 90s, was thought of as one of Hollywood's best and brightest young up-and-coming actors. He graced the cover of Vanity Fair in 1996 alongside contemporaries like Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Tim Roth and Matthew McConaughey.
The explosion that was supposed to be a promising acting career never quite happened. Instead, David Arquette became the WCW Heavyweight Wrestling Champion of the World.
And if that seems far-fetched, just get a load of the appropriately-named new doc, "You Cannot Kill David Arquette."
Review: In 'The Way Back,' the rebound is just as important as taking the shot
Ben Affleck has never been better than he is in "The Way Back," playing a character that hits a bit close to home for the actor who has recently opened up about his struggles with alcoholism.
Review: 'Maiden' a powerful documentary about perseverance
"Maiden" tells the story of sailing pioneer Tracy Edwards, the first Captain of an all-female yachting crew to enter the prestigious Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
Review: In 'The Art of Self-Defense,' a karate kid tries to become a man
Bleeker Street Media, 2019.
Jesse Eisenberg is perfectly cast as a victim who desperately wants to flip-the-script, in this cleverly-penned examination of toxic masculinity.
Movie review: 'Concussion', NFL negligence comes to a head
Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes, Rated PG-13
Starring: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw David Morse, Stephen Moyer, Luke Wilson
Directed by Peter Landesman (Parkland)
By now, even non-sports fans have most likely heard about the "scandal" dealing with the NFL and concussions. What seems like common sense - that football players who suffer continual blows to the head over the course of several years end up with life-threatening head trauma over time - has only recently been acknowledged by the National Football League. Much like the big tobacco companies denying the existence of ill-affects related to their product, so has the NFL turned a blind eye to the consequences of theirs. Concussion (opening today) is the story of the doctor who helped bring this issue to the fore-front, and who forced the NFL to take action towards protecting their own.


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Publications Post Magazine 2022 January/February 2022 Sony's Crystal LED: Purpose built for virtual production
Kevin O'Connor
Issue: January/February 2022
Sony's Crystal LED: Purpose built for virtual production
As cinematographers and studios demand a flexible, realistic and timely way to transport viewers to imagined or remote destinations, especially with the restrictions presented by the pandemic, virtual production is quickly becoming the hottest alternative to on-location shooting. Instead of using blue- or greenscreen technology, which adds characters or locations in post, storytellers are turning to virtual production as a cost-effective and accommodating solution for creating virtual environments that can be interacted with on-set, captured in-camera and finished in realtime.
At Sony, product managers are testing how digital cinema cameras, such as the original Venice and the Venice 2, can be optimally paired with the Crystal LED wall to create cinematic images more easily while decreasing the work in post. Our engineers are currently testing, among other things, color calibration tools, which provide a consistent color pipeline for virtual production workflow embracing Venice and Crystal LED.
As a creative entertainment company with a hand in electronics, movies and gaming, as well as a stake in some of the most influential providers of rendering and visualization toolsets, Sony is in a unique position to leverage the latest innovations and develop products that work together to optimize workflows. With technology that spans across the production, distribution and viewing chain, Sony's holistic capabilities and potential are hard to match.
The company's high-performance Crystal LED display and original Venice digital cinema camera can be used to facilitate a dynamic virtual production environment that leverages the same wide color gamut. In fact, the B-series Crystal LED display is purpose-built for virtual production environments, developed in close collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment and the filmmaking community. Sony also works alongside thought leaders, like Epic Games, on virtual production solutions, supporting Epic's Unreal Engine and In-Camera Visual Effects (ICVFX) toolset to help bring the virtual world into the real world.
Recently, Sony worked with Epic Games to test the performance of our original Venice camera in comparison to competitor cameras and walls, including our new Crystal LED wall. The tests compared a variety of aspects and challenges that productions face, including skin tones, color calibration, moire and more. The test findings and analysis will help to improve the virtual production user experience and workflow.
At Sony, we're focused on continuing to test and intensify our work with leaders in the virtual production realm to create solutions that are easy to use and establish a streamlined workflow, while addressing common challenges. To help achieve this, we recently launched a group, which I manage, dedicated to new areas of business, including virtual production, which builds on our commitment to the community and our customer base. Together we can help identify and establish new standards for the industry and serve as a trusted resource and expert in this evolving space.
As the industry embraces this new workflow, Sony is prepared to enable creators with intuitive, high-quality tools to enhance their storytelling and minimize the costs associated with traveling to different locations — all while providing new and engaging levels of reality.
Kevin O'Connor is the Head of New Media Sales and Business Development for Sony Electronics (pro.sony).
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I just participated in the Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival.
This film was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research and the Ras Al Khaima Fine Arts Festival.
Aminah is a dialog between a poet, a critic, and an emirate. It is an experimental biography of poet Ahmad al Assam who has lived his entire life in Ras Al Khaimah. Ride along with Ahmad al Assam as he shares the intimate spaces around Ras Al Khaimah that have inspired his discourse on family, loss, love, and country. The environment, culture, and people are the catalysts for his poems that depict a greater narrative on the inevitable, change. The poet shares his stories in verse and prose. View Ras Al Khaimah from the sky, hear the words that are echoed in the sea, and feel the passion of critic, Dr. Haitham Yehia Al-Khawajah, who refused to give up on the importance of poetry to Ras Al Khaimah and to the region.
For more information about the festival: http://rakfinearts.ae/index/en/
For short instagram video about the premiere opening: https://www.instagram.com/p/BubI3SwAZ9_/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
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My husband has been trying to teach the family tennis. I LOVE tennis - and I'm looking forward to a day when we can practice it more often. It's such a fun sport.
And we're definitely a swimming family. Such a fun summer activity.
Monday - Pepper talks about the C.A.R.E factor needed in your first chapter.
Tuesday - Sherrinda's up with another fantastic post about the writing life.
Wednesday - Mary continues her series on Why Writers Should Read: Discussion Questions.
Friday - Krista brings us The Question of Quality Feedback.
SO excited for Mary! And this week sounds great.
Yay Mary! Can't wait to visit your new blog!
We've done the tennis thing. My honey played in high school and has tried teaching us a few times. The trouble is that he works outside, and with the heat and humidity here in the summer, he never wants to go back out once he's home from work.
I'm looking forward to visiting with everyone on my new website/blog. Good grief, some people are late bloomers.


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OPINION: Why Twitter's potential filtered feed should worry you
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Twitter is turning into Facebook.
That's the gist of CFO Anthony Noto's announcement at the Citi Global Technology Conference last Wednesday. In addition to adding a group chat feature, the social network plans to adopt a new filtering algorithm that would arrange user feeds according to perceived relevance instead of the traditional reverse chronological order. The idea is that timely tweets will no longer get buried by noise, allowing for a more efficient, less chaotic experience.
Okay, you're thinking, so what's the big deal? Social media platforms and websites make changes all the time. More often than not, these changes are greeted by an initial torrent of gratuitous outrage before everyone gets used to it and calms down. But this latest development isn't just a minor design tweak. If implemented, it will completely transform the way information is transmitted and consumed on the site.
Since I grudgingly signed up for my own account a couple years ago, Twitter has become my uncontested favorite form of social media – or at least the one on which I most enjoy wasting time. Not only does it provide instant, 24/7 news updates, but it also allows me to follow baseball games in real-time, eavesdrop on celebrity conversations and watch as people disintegrate into hysteria after the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Far from detracting from my experience, the rapid-fire mayhem is precisely what I love about Twitter. There's something bizarrely comforting about half-formed ideas and non sequiturs, stream-of-consciousness rambling riddled with arbitrary all-caps and punctuation.
Of course, this isn't just about my personal preferences. Not only would filtered feeds rob Twitter of its characteristic spontaneity and us of the opportunity to see half a dozen people make the exact same joke at the same time (one of life's little random joys), but it could also have significant social implications. Rarely have the differences between Twitter and Facebook been more apparent than during the Ferguson protests and ensuing tumult in August earlier this year. Whereas Twitter was flooded with photos and live updates from journalists and other individuals at the scene (not to mention numerous comments from outsiders expressing outrage, disbelief, and support), by most accounts, the event was virtually nonexistent on Facebook. This isn't because Facebook users are necessarily less caring or attentive than those on Twitter; it's because Facebook employs an algorithm that prioritizes posts based on users' past activity. Although (ideally) the filter allows for a more personalized experience, it also reduces Facebook's usefulness as a source of breaking news, since users are less likely to encounter information that doesn't directly pertain to their previously established interests.
Algorithms represent just one of the many ways in which the media is able to control the news cycle and thereby, whether deliberately or not, perpetuate existing inequalities. Certain people and issues inevitably dominate the headlines, while others remain wallowing in obscurity. As much as people deride Twitter for its clutter, it serves as arguably the best online outlet for groups such as women and racial minorities whose voices are frequently marginalized or outright ignored by the mainstream press. If it implements a Facebook-like filter, there's a distinct possibility that future events like Ferguson and countless other serious issues will go unnoticed. As extreme as it sounds, this counts as a form of censorship.
Even as it is, the Internet tends to act as an echo chamber. Social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook enable users to choose who they want to follow and, as a result, what they want to see. For the most part, this approach succeeds in making social media a more enjoyable and efficient experience, but at the same time, it limits people's exposure to new ideas and points of view. It's one thing to want to eliminate the misogynistic, racist and otherwise hateful trolls who routinely spew bile across comment boards and online forums; it's quite another to not want any sort of conflict ever. The beauty of the Internet is that it's filled with so many different people with so many different opinions and perspectives. The more you try to restrict your access to those other opinions and perspectives, to only engage with people you agree with and ideas you're familiar with, the more you're wasting this vast resource. It's hard to have a conversation, least of all a productive one, when all the participants are huddled in their private corners, too busy regurgitating what they already know to contribute anything remotely original or insightful.
Needless to say, there are plenty of jerks and useless things on the Internet, but I am fully capable of figuring out what to care about myself. I don't need a computer to tell me.
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Q: Book suggestions alongside Adventures in Stochastic Processes by Resnick I am currently taking a SP course following Resnick's book. Are there any other books with exercises (and possibly solutions) I could also look at?

A: There exists a vast literature on the topic of stochastic processes; without further information on your interests and your level it is therefore hard to recommend any books.
However, if you are looking for a book with a solution manual, I can recommend Brownian Motion - An Introduction to Stochastic Processes by René Schilling and Lothar Partzsch. As the title suggests, the book focusses on Brownian motion and stochastic integration with respect to Brownian motion.
A broader variety of topics is discussed in Continuous Martingales and Brownian Motion by Daniel Revuz and Marc Yor; in particular they give an introduction to Markov and Feller processes, martingale theory and stochastic integration with respect to (continuous) martingales.

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Tenet Movie Review: A Complex But Well-Crafted Spy Thriller
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I'm sure by now most of you have had the chance to catch Christopher Nolan's latest mind-bending movie, Tenet. The film came out digitally last week, and I can't tell you how happy I was to finally watch this movie with subtitles ( trust me, it made all the difference).
However, if you still haven't seen Tenet (and don't mind spoilers), then allow me to bring you up to speed.
Tenet follows the story of a secret agent called "The Protagonist," who embarks on a dangerous, time-bending mission to prevent the start of World War III. However, rather than the standard danger of a Nuclear holocaust, he discovers that this time, the world faces global annihilation.
Now, like some of Nolan's best movies, Tenet has gained infamy for being a bit complex and confusing to follow. The entire film revolves around the concept of time inversion, which is the theoretical ability to reverse an object's (or a person's) entropy, granting them the ability to move backward in time. And so, from an inverted person's perspective, the entire world moves backward while they move forward. While from a regular person's perspective, an inverted person moves backward while the regular person moves forward.
Are you still there? Yes? Great.
Throughout Tenet, characters use this concept to either go back to cause certain events in the past or gain crucial information.
However, despite its mind-breaking use of Time inversion, at its core, Tenet is actually an amazing Spy thriller. And the film reflects this not only within its plot and but also with its characters.
Welcome To The Covert World (Spoilers)
One thing I loved about Tenet is how the movie immediately plunges you into its clandestine world. From the very beginning, the film subtly shows us how this shadow world operates and teaches us its rules.
I really enjoyed seeing "The Protagonist"(John David Washington) using key phrases within his sentences to identify allies on the field. And I thought it was clever of the movie to use The Protagonist, as a code name for its main character while referring to the bad guys as Antagonists.
While these concepts are by no means new to the Spy genre, the way Tenet executes them is flawless. And it does so while giving us some of the best movie conversations I've ever heard.
Speaking of The Protagonist,
When we first meet him, he and his team attempt to extract an exposed agent during an Opera house siege. However, during the operation, The Protagonist is saved by a mysterious person using an inverted bullet.
This is the first time we see time inversion in action in the movie. And we later learn that the mystery person was actually the protagonist's ever capable partner, Neil (Robert Pattinson).
The Protagonist (Credit: WB Pictures)
Unfortunately, the Opera operation goes south, and The Protagonist is captured and tortured for information. But rather than give up his team, he decides to end his life with a suicide pill.
However, The Protagonist wakes up to find that the pill was a test by the Tenet organization to see if he was willing to give his life for the mission. And after passing their test with flying colors, the organization drafts him into their secret war.
Tenet's True Story: A Covert War Between The Present and The Future (Spoilers)
Essentially, Tenet is a cold war between The Present and The Future.
According to the movie, at some point in the future, the consequences of global warming become too extreme for humans to bear. And because of this, the people of this timeline face certain extinction.
After exhausting all other options, the humans of this future come up with a plan to use a special bomb called "The Algorithm" to wipe out the world in the present day. Believing that by doing this, they could destroy the cause of their misery and create an alternate timeline where global warming doesn't ravage the world.
However, the scientist who created the algorithm (and discovered time-inversion) believed that destroying the present also meant to destroy the future. And so, she split the algorithm into nine parts and sent them to the past.
This story is the basis of Tenet's plot, as the Tenet organization exists to ensure that the algorithm is never assembled. And that it continues its journey further into the past.
However, an arms dealer named Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh) teams up with the humans in the future to track down all nine pieces of the Algorithm and resemble them. And over the course of the movie, the Protagonist and his allies try to stop Sator from acquiring these pieces and sending them to the future.
Andrei Sator (Credit: WB Pictures)
But since the humans in the future have access to all past records and frequently use this information to warn Sator of future events, The Tenet team have to accomplish this mission while keeping their names and activities out of the public records.
So in a sentence, Tenet is a movie about a secret Team secretly trying to stop a secret war.
As you can probably tell from the review, I really enjoyed Tenet. While the film is long and complex, it's also one of the best spy thrillers I've seen to date. And if given the attention it demands, the movie will reward you with a fantastic story laced with amazing performances.
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A Conversation With the Award-Winning Rikki Endsley
Robin "Roblimo" Miller
She won an award last month at OSCON, which means she really and truly is "the award-winning Rikki Endsley."
The FOSS Force Video Interview
Rikki Endsley is modest enough that calling her "the award-winning Rikki Endsley" makes her blush. But it's true. In May, 2016, she won an O'Reilly Open Source Award because she has "demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software." (Those are O'Reilly's words, not ours.)
Rikki started writing for SysAdmin Magazine back when it was all about Unix, because Linux hadn't yet become a big deal. Her LinkedIn profile tells you what she's been up to since then, up to her present-day position as a community manager and editor for the Red Hat-sponsored OpenSource.com website, a popular site that, Rikki claims, is operated without any help whatsoever from Red Hat marketing or PR people. It's a good site, too, at least in part because of Rikki's exceptional leadership.
Robin "Roblimo" Miller is a freelance writer and former editor-in-chief at Open Source Technology Group, the company that owned SourceForge, freshmeat, Linux.com, NewsForge, ThinkGeek and Slashdot, and until recently served as a video editor at Slashdot. Now he's mostly retired, but still works part-time as an editorial consultant for Grid Dynamics, and (obviously) writes for FOSS Force.


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Dr Awais Yaqub is a Pakistani doctor and an MSF deputy medical coordinator in Pakistan. He is currently working in Charsadda, one of the districts hardest hit by the floods.
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Army soldiers use a boat to evacuate a family through a main road in Nowshera, located in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. 31st July 2010. REUTERS/Adrees Latif, courtesy of www.alertnet.org.
What is the situation like today in Charsadda district?
Many houses in the district were flooded by water and half of the town of Charsadda itself was flooded. Many people sought refuge on rooftops of buildings surrounded with water. Those strong enough swam to dry land, where they could do nothing but wait for the rest of their families, women and children and old people, to be rescued. Fortunately, over the last two days rains have stopped in this district and in several places, the water has receded significantly.
Does this make things better in terms of access?
Definitely, it has allowed us to reach more people in remote locations. But the flood-affected area is so vast… The population of the district is estimated at approximately one million. We are very far from having a complete picture of the needs people have.
What are the priorities?
According to our assessments in the district, what people need most is drinking water, food, and medical care. Thousands are homeless or have sought refuge in empty buildings or schools. They don't have clean water. They don't have anything to drink, and there is little to eat. It's muddy everywhere, so unhygienic conditions are also a major issue.
What work are your teams doing?
Water is the first thing we're working on. We are improving water quality. Where it is possible, we are bringing safe water to people by truck. Water and sanitation teams are working hard to chlorinate contaminated water points. In Charsadda district, we are also using 21 smaller vehicles, loaded with water, to get to harder to reach places, where often no one has been yet. Yesterday we distributed 30,000 litres in the district. We are also preparing a distribution of hygiene kits (buckets, soaps, towels, toothbrushes, etc.) and other basic items such as blankets, mattresses, jerrycans, plastic sheets, bed-nets and kitchen utensils. Our third priority is medical care. So we have organised two medical teams. Twice a week they are visiting six locations where medical needs are high.
What kind of medical problems are they seeing?
There are a lot of skin infections and respiratory infections. Diarrhoea is also increasing. They are also caring for patients suffering from chronic diseases, such as diabetics, who may have lost vital drugs during the flooding. In medical centres, we have seen a lot of physical trauma. For instance people who were swept away during the floods or wounded when their house was damaged. I came across a woman with lacerated wounds on her arm. She had a dressing but said it was so painful she wanted us to look at it. We examined the wound during the consultation and changed the dressing.
Is there a risk of cholera outbreak?
We are in an area endemic for cholera. Now is the peak season, between July and November, so the risk of disease is very high. Most of the city water supplies have been damaged or mixed with floodwater and sewage. People who are on the ground don't have access to safe water because wells have been contaminated and hygiene conditions are very bad. It may soon lead to be a big health problem.
Are people desperate or panicking?
You can really see the frustration. Aid is coming, but the scale of the disaster is such that it is clearly not enough, especially in terms of drinking water. We are working hard to provide as much as we can but we are the only organisation doing this in Charsadda and the scale of the problem is so big... We have decided to assess the mental health situation here, as many people are still in a state of shock. They are still scared of water coming back, of new floods taking them by surprise. They still fear for their lives.
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Strong-Named Assemblies
A strong name consists of the assembly's identity—its simple text name, version number, and culture information (if provided)—plus a public key and a digital signature. It is generated from an assembly file (the file that contains the assembly manifest, which in turn contains the names and hashes of all the files that make up the assembly), using the corresponding private key. Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and other development tools provided in the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) can assign strong names to an assembly. Assemblies with the same strong name are expected to be identical.
You can ensure that a name is globally unique by signing an assembly with a strong name. In particular, strong names satisfy the following requirements:
Strong names guarantee name uniqueness by relying on unique key pairs. No one can generate the same assembly name that you can, because an assembly generated with one private key has a different name than an assembly generated with another private key.
Strong names protect the version lineage of an assembly. A strong name can ensure that no one can produce a subsequent version of your assembly. Users can be sure that a version of the assembly they are loading comes from the same publisher that created the version the application was built with.
Strong names provide a strong integrity check. Passing the .NET Framework security checks guarantees that the contents of the assembly have not been changed since it was built. Note, however, that strong names in and of themselves do not imply a level of trust like that provided, for example, by a digital signature and supporting certificate.
When you reference a strong-named assembly, you expect to get certain benefits, such as versioning and naming protection. If the strong-named assembly then references an assembly with a simple name, which does not have these benefits, you lose the benefits you would derive from using a strong-named assembly and revert to DLL conflicts. Therefore, strong-named assemblies can only reference other strong-named assemblies.
How to: Sign an Assembly with a Strong Name
Global Assembly Cache


Lumbini, the holy birth place of Lord Buddha and a famous pilgrimage for millions of Buddhists all over the world, is situated about 295 km west of Kathmandu. It lies below the Churia range on the western bank of Telar river in Rupandehi district of Lumbini zone in Nepal. The site is a large garden with a grove of pipal trees and many temples and shrines. Strolling around the sacred garden will give you a feeling of being free from the veil of Maya. This heavenly pleasure will inspire you to take a spiritual journey.


BREDA– A women veterans forum will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. on March 25 at the American Legion in Breda. Denise Rohan, national commander of the American Legion, will attend. Rohan's slogan for this year is "Family First." All veterans and their families are encouraged to attend, whether or not they are members of the American Legion. A meet and greet with Rohan will be held from 3 to 5 p.m.
Lunch of pork tenderloin sandwiches and chips will be available for a freewill donation.
For questions, contact Ed Rohner at 712-830-9658.


This week I Started drawing the symbols necessary for the ballerina animation, to create the basic poses and possibly the in-betweens as well.
I studied trapeze footage, gathered screenshots of trapeze footage and then combined the screenshots from 2 separate pieces of footage and combined them to make my sequence. I used them for reference as I drew up the thumbnails and layout of the trapeze animation. Although I have decided to remover the ladder platform from the background.
I also drew up symbols for trapeze artists and began animating the trapeze artists, I am almost finished blocking it out then it will just be a matter of adding inbetweens.
I wrote my specialisation report, around 10200 words. I didn't quite finish the editing this week though.
Worked a bit more on the water splash.
Drew up storyboards for my cross-discipline project. There are duplicates of some, as there are some final choices to be made and also I made different pieces for some so they can be animated in the animatic.


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