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Our "Great Break" contest winner: The House They Built
It was an early autumnal morning the day Randolph decided Three Trees had to go. A Saturday, Juliette was volunteering at Langone Medical Center in Manhattan. He didn't know how she did it, returning to the same floor week after week to work with Sebastian's "friends," each kid as bedridden as Seba had been, some with multi-colored wires splayed from their skulls and concealed, barely, with gauzy wraps, thin and soft. It was akin, Randolph thought, to returning to the scene of a crime. How could she smile and bring coffee and donuts and garden lilies to the same doctors who had failed their son? It was mind-boggling.
Randolph stood naked in his study, coffee mug in hand. No denying he had lost weight. His hipbones jutted out at painful angles. His pallor was a greasy yellow similar to a waxed stringbean. He looked like a waxed stringbean, gaunt and thin, irregularly hunched. His sister had been brave enough to speak up when Juliette had kept silent. Juliette rarely touched him now. The space between their sleeping bodies edged ever wider.
"Randy, it's been a year," his sister had said, nudging the bread basket toward him. "C'mon, eat." They were at that god-awful Italian restaurant on the south side of Brooklyn's Gowanus. Randolph dutifully pushed a piece of the sourdough roll back and forth inside his mouth until he could swallow the mass whole. It seemed he could trace its trajectory down his esophagus and then farther, deep inside his bowels, where it then sat unmovable for days. Never mind the gnocchi.
Randolph slung on a pair of cargo pants and a faded T-shirt. He walked to the window. Outside, the trees' leaves were beginning to thin out and droop. The beech leaves shimmered like slivers of parchment paper. The skinny tree Randolph didn't know the name of, the one perched on an outcropping of shale at the far end of the property, burned a surreal shade of pink. Through the exposed patches of sky, Randolph made out the stark geometric lines of the power cables that criss-crossed the horizon.
There was no avoiding it: Three Trees was dead center. Standing, the tree house was the focal point of Randolph's sight line. His worktable was positioned in the corner of the study, so whenever he leaned back in his chair, he caught a glimpse of it. That panoptical feature was originally by design: Randolph could watch Seba from a distance, the little boy never suspecting his father's keen eye. It was amazing, Randolph thought, that he had looked at the tree house every day for years and hadn't seen it clearly until today. He felt as if he were waking from a long, heavy sleep, the dream matter still clouding his sense of logic.
Looking at it now, Three Trees appeared to Randolph as a wooden ship impossibly flung into the sky, forever moored in a thicket of tangled branches. He tried to ignore the hand-drawn flag that hung from its front end – the bow as it were. Seba had done the lettering himself – "Three Trees" scrawled in a child's uncertain hand – and Juliette had cut and sewn the weather-proof fabric. Seba had coined the name in the literal sense: The tree house was stilted upon the intersection of a single red oak tree that morphed into three distinct sub-sections. Randolph and Juliette preferred to apply a more poetic meaning: They were three who had become one.
When they had purchased the Westchester home, a fixer-upper whose real value lay in its undisturbed acre-and-a-half of forested land, Cal, Randolph's father, showed up two months later. The tree house had been Cal's idea. It came to him, he said, on the airplane while flying over Colorado. He had been thinking of a trip he had taken there years earlier when he had slept in a tree house nested high in the Rocky Mountains. At dawn's first light, he had had a bird's eye view of a herd of deer as they woke, one by one, from a meadow dotted through with wildflowers and tall switchgrass. It was as if the herd had materialized from the morning fog, their sleek forms taking shape against a hazy silhouette of golden light.
"Every boy needs a tree house, same as he needs a dog," Cal had said, definitively, as if arguing the point. He had thrown his carry-on luggage in the back of the Subaru like a man 20 years his junior.
"I didn't have a tree house," Randolph had pointed out.
"No, but you had a dog … and we'll build this one together."
Juliette, in her good-natured, enthusiastic way, had chanted, "Tree house, tree house, tree house!" from the back seat.
"Why does a tree need a house?" Seba had asked.
"Everyone needs a place to hang their hat," Cal had said, "even trees," and laughed along with Juliette.
Seba, looking out the window, imagined a forest of trees dressed in top hats and long-waisted dinner jackets.
Randolph worked his way through the house and to the outdoor shed. He contemplated phoning his father to confess what he was about to do. Then he thought the better of it. Cal would see the demolition as an act of betrayal, not toward the memory of Sebastian or to Juliette, but to him. Randolph knew that Cal thought the tree house redeemed every failure he had made as a father and that it doubly qualified him as a bona fide good grandfather. When the lumberyard had delivered the railroad tie that he and Cal had sunk into cement as a supporting leg, Randolph had carried one end of the heavy piece of wood and his father had taken the other. They hoisted the rail onto their shoulders and silently traversed the uneven, rocky pathway with a muscled grace Randolph understood was genetic but had no idea he actually possessed. It was the closest he had felt to his father in years.
But Three Trees was no more. It was a shell, just a bunch of sticks propped together and nailed into shape.
The ground, soft underfoot, was still damp from the previous night's rain. Randolph's boots sunk into the clay-colored soil. Sunlight pierced through the cloud coverage. Twenty years a New Yorker, and Randolph still hadn't gotten used to the East Coast humidity. He preferred a dry heat. The humidity contracted everything. Even now, standing outside, Randolph felt that the corners of the world were collapsing in on him. He would soon be pinned to the ground or, worse, stubbed into the soil, a tree root recoiling into itself underground. Randolph sighed and, trying to ward off claustrophobia, vigorously shook his head. Barkley, their dog, pawed at the screen door, scratching to get outside. The Basset cocked his head and stared at Randolph with sad, mucusy eyes, his long ears sweeping the kitchen tile, but Randolph still said, "No."
Randolph followed the stone path to the shed. He unhinged its doors and a cascade of crickets leapt from its darkness. Inside, the shed was cool and bore a heavy, earthy smell. Randolph grabbed the hammer and crowbar, pausing to note Sebastian's collection of acorns that lined a shelf on the far wall. They had been a revelation for the boy. He had used their caps to dig miniature-sized holes around the property. He had buried handfuls whole, willing families of oak trees into existence. The acorns were soldiers and bombs both, used for fighting unpredictable, roaming foes imaginary and real, squirrels especially. Randolph pocketed an acorn and, as he did, Seba's voice surfaced from the darkness. It was always the same: "I want to go home."
"Go to sleep, Seba," Randolph said aloud. It was a trick Randolph's therapist had taught him. Seba's voice disappeared, and Randolph instantly felt as if he had scolded his son for something he hadn't done. "I'm sorry," he said, waiting, but Seba's voice didn't return. "I'm sorry," he said again, but this time with more force.
Randolph planned to break down the tree house the same way he and Cal had built it: board by board. He grabbed the hammer and crowbar. They felt like weapons in his hands, blunt instruments wielded to do blunt, unspeakable things. He left the shed door open behind him. The crickets quickly returned to its shadows, the vibrato hum of their legs building to a low chorus that pricked Randolph's ears.
Randolph climbed the ladder to the tree house. He clasped each ladder rung with a fierceness that took him by surprise. He hadn't felt so determined since Seba's final prognosis. He was confident then to the point of being cocky – of course he would find the best medical treatment and doctors, of course money was no object, of course he understood the risks implicit in surgery. He had signed the waiver without reading it. The surgeon later told him that he had not, in his 30 years of practice, met an individual who had ever read the fine print as if this detail somehow exonerated both parties for the botched experiment, Seba's body curled and wilted, no longer that of a spirited 7-year-old boy.
The tree house was taller than Randolph had remembered. He ran his palm along the tree trunk itself, half expecting to feel a heartbeart. The leaves hadn't yet fallen from the massive oak. There existed above him a canopy of green visible from the uncovered half of the tree house platform. The tips of the leaves looked as if dipped in bronze. It wouldn't take much, he realized, to break apart the house. Demolition was a 45-minute job. Building the thing had taken three months of planning and fixing, readjusting. He wanted the demolition to be done by the time Juliette came home from the hospital. He promised himself, once the tree house was down, he would return to her. He would be better. He would eat again, real food. He would cook. Filet mignon. Red wine. Salmon in butter sauce.
The first plank fell to the ground with a heavy, creaking sound, startling what Randolph assumed were raccoons in the bramble adjacent to the tree house. The second plank gave way as easily as the first. There was the rustling again of animal movement. He saw what appeared to be the wisp of a tail, large and black, as it surfaced the undergrowth nearby and then quickly disappeared. Randolph pried the nails off the roof until he could easily lift the plywood with both hands. With one strong, swift movement, he hefted the roof upwards and then let it fall. It slid from its angled perch and collapsed into a heap below, the wood scissoring. Randolph exhaled. The plume of his breath brushed against his chest like a feather falling from the sky.
The bramble shook as if alive. A turkey vulture, its wings massive and inky black, showed itself. It took to the sky and circled high above Randolph before swooping back down, a dark shadow descending. It had in its mouth some kind of small animal, the exposed meat quivering and glistening in the August sun. The carrion landed high in one of the branches where Randolph stood. In the distance, Randolph saw Barkley through the window of his study. The dog, raised on its hind legs, barked and howled in the empty home. Randolph withdrew the acorn from his pocket and took aim at the bird's blood-red skull. He threw it and was amazed to find that he hit his target. The bird took flight, soaring on an air current unknown to Randolph and toward the blue expanse of the Hudson River.
Randolph threw the hammer and crowbar to the ground. Somewhere in the distance, a deer rose and turned its head but Randolph didn't see it, and all he heard was the quiet rumble of the approaching Subaru as it rounded the steep curve in the road that led home.
Signe Bergstrom lives in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, with her son and fiancé. She is currently at work on Watershed, a collection of short stories.
Read our interview with Bergstrom on the inspiration and craft behind "The House They Built."
Read our other winners:
Second place: "Fragile" by Anthony Howcroft
Third place: "A Two-Penny Opera" by Marie Smysor Watson
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For designers and creatives, Christmas is not just a season for giving and a moment to spend time with loved ones but also a great opportunity for possible design projects for the holidays.
So today, we're giving you a nice collection of 25 free fonts just perfect for those Christmas-themed designs you might be working on.
Check them out below and bookmark this page for your future reference. Enjoy everyone!
NOTE: Please take time to read the terms and usage of each featured font in their respective download pages. Some of them are free to use both for personal and commercial while some are for personal use only.
Which of the fonts is your most favorite? Tell us your thoughts as well as your suggestions by commenting below.
UPDATE: This post was originally published on November 30, 2012 by Kerby Rosanes.


I know, I failed at posting Random Monthly Pictures. Sometimes I take a lot of pictures in one month, but sometimes just one or two. I believe in enjoying a moment and not ruining it with taking a picture, but it's so nice to look back what I was doing. For December I had a lot of pictures, so I decided to post some of them. December has been a good month. I went to Seiersberg again and finally to Ikea, I bought a drawer that I wanted for some time. And, of course, it was a festive season, I decorated my Christmas tree and I got to open my chocolate advent calendars. Everything was so festive with lights and other decorations. Also some pictures are from the beautiful frosty mornings we had in December.
I just wanted to mention that in January and at the start of February there probably won't be many posts on my blog. I have exams to study for and endless project list to do. I finish one project and then tree new come. I will try to finish my 2016 Makeup Favourites, since I already have it prepared. But for the 2016 Skincare and others, I will need more time, because the pictures didn't turn out well.


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Die Regierung Iveta Radičová war die Regierung der Slowakei von 8. Juli 2010 bis 4. April 2012 unter Ministerpräsidentin Iveta Radičová. Sie löste die seit dem Juli 2006 regierende Regierung Fico ab. Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Slowakei wurde eine Regierung von einer Frau geführt. Nach dem Bruch der Koalition war Radičová ab 11. Oktober 2011 nur noch kommissarisch im Amt.

Entwicklung
Die Regierungskoalition entstand nach den regulären Parlamentswahlen am 12. Juni 2010 und wurde von den bürgerlichen Parteien SDKÚ-DS, Sloboda a Solidarita, KDH und Most–Híd gebildet. Obwohl die bisher regierende sozialdemokratische Partei deutlich Stimmen hinzugewinnen konnte und aus den Wahlen als mit Abstand stärkste Kraft hervorgegangen war, war sie aufgrund der deutlichen Verluste ihrer kleineren nationalistischen Koalitionspartner von der SNS und der HZDS nicht in der Lage, eine regierungsfähige Koalition zu bilden, so dass sie in die Opposition ging. Die neue Regierung erhielt am 10. August 2010 mit allen 79 Stimmen der Regierungskoalition (von insgesamt 145 abgegebenen) das Vertrauen des slowakischen Parlamentes. Die innerkoalitionären Differenzen zur Erweiterung des europäischen EFSF-"Rettungsschirmes" führten am 11. Oktober 2011 zur Vertrauensfrage Radičovás im Nationalrat in Bratislava, die negativ beantwortet wurde und zum Sturz der Regierung führte. Damit war die Regierung Iveta Radičová bis zum 4. April 2012 nur mehr kommissarisch im Amt.

Koalitionsparteien

Zusammensetzung
Mitglieder der Regierung Iveta Radičová war:

Quellen

Siehe auch
 Regierungen der Slowakischen Republik

Weblinks
 Mitglieder der Regierung auf der offiziellen Regierungsseite.

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ESPN Films: The Counterfeiter documents the once wildly successful autograph forger, Greg Marino.1)ESPN Films: The Counterfeiter. www.espn.com During the time of the 1998 Home Run Race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, Marino was buying real estate and Ferrari's. How'd he get the money to afford such nice things? Simple, forge signatures on sports memorabilia for profit. Marino signed hundreds of thousands of autographs from The Beatles to dead Presidents to some of the hobby's most notable figures including Mickey Mantle, Ty Cobb, and Babe Ruth. The list goes on and on and the money came in hand over fist. Life was good.
The FBI got ahold of the case and spent a good amount of time investigating the forgery outfit. Verbal confirmation of fraud from wiretap recordings would eventually be the nail in the coffin. This forgery ring was one of the most notable in all of the hobby and the investigation would cleverly be called, Operation Bullpen . Over the course of Marino's operating years, he forged hundreds of thousands of autographs with a combined value well into the 7 figures.
After the sting happened in October of 1999, Marino and other offenders in the outfit did jail time. As a result, the operation was terminated and a number of reputable authentication companies entered the market. The cat was out of the bag so to speak. The result was a more educated market. Thing is, Marino's outfit was responsible for a large number of fakes that entered the market. And these weren't just any old fake turds, these were incredibly good forgeries. The worry is that, because they are so good, authenticity identification is made that much more challenging.
Watch the video to learn about how incredible this outfit was at producing signatures of unbelievable accuracy. It's an interesting look at the unscrupulous side of the sports memorabilia industry.


The yearly BA2 presentations on a selection of keywords and icons from different anglophone regions will be held on Tuesday 16 December from 2 to 4 pm in the English Linguistics seminar.
This year's corpus presentations are all based on data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, compiled by Mark Davies, and investigate recent and ongoing changes in American English from 1990 to the present day. The conference takes place on Tuesday 16 December from 4.10 to 5.40 pm in the English Linguistics seminar.
See (some of) you soon at any or all of these events!


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Sometimes Young Artists Write to Me. Sometimes I Reply. Sometimes I Am Woman.
Christmas Island Frigatebird
Young artists, particularly Asian-American ones, occasional write to me for career advice. And I typically ignore them because I don't have time to be a life coach! I'm busy thinking about other things, like war and famine and Channing Tatum! But I eventually cave in and write back because I start to feel guilty for not being a humanitarian. You see, I personally know people who actually go to homeless shelters and feed the hungry. Seriously! And I've told them, "I'd like to go with you guys to the homeless shelter one day...and drop you off and pick you up when you're done!"
However, I'd like to demonstrate that I have at least some humanitarian tendencies by publicly sharing one of those young-artist e-mails and my response to her—because this exchange is pretty representative of the online conversations I have and this post can act as a handy preemptive reply to future e-mails and this would be like killing a dozen Christmas Island Frigatebirds with one stone. (Forgive the environmentally inappropriate simile.) (Please Note: This is likely the first use of phrase "environmentally inappropriate simile" in recorded history.)
So, I'd like to share with you an e-mail from a young woman. In her message, she makes reference to a character in my play, The Theory of Everything. The character, Lana, is trying to avoid facing her parents by wandering around Las Vegas aimlessly after being kicked out of law school because of poor grades, leaving her saddled with debt and dumped by her unsupportive boyfriend.
To understand the young woman's e-mail fully, it might be helpful to read a key monologue that Lana delivers to the audience in Act Two:
When I was eight-years-old, I read somewhere about a particular tribe in Africa. The moment a woman in the tribe decides to have a child, she meditates until the very unique song of the child somehow comes to her in her mind. She then teaches that song to the man who will be the father of the child. When they have sex to conceive the child, part of that time is spent singing the child's song. And when the woman is pregnant, she teaches the song to everyone else in the village, and this song remains with the child throughout his or her life. When the child is hurt, when the child does something great, when the child goes through a rite of passage, when the child is on his or her deathbed, the child is sung this song.
At eight, I thought: "Cool! I should have my own song!"
And the song that I chose for myself was Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman."
Of course my parents rolled their eyes when I declared this, but, in the end, they had to admit that this song of power and pride was fitting for me because, at such a young age, I appeared to be a lot smarter than my brother, I already had a couple of chess tournament trophies on my bookshelf, I was in special "gifted and talented" classes at school, and I had already written a paper deconstructing the sociopolitical, Marxist undertones in Dr. Suess' The Cat in the Hat.
But "I Am Woman" is a song that becomes increasingly harder to live up to as you grow older. Because people begin to expect things of you. They expect grandiose goals, big achievements, huge success. They expect you to be strong. They expect you to be invincible. They expect that you can do anything.
Then, when you don't live up to people's ridiculous Helen-Reddy-expectations of you, you begin to worry: "Oh, my God, maybe my song isn't 'I Am Woman.' Maybe it's Beck's 'Loser.' Or AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell.' Or anything by Meat Loaf."
And I get to thinking that maybe I don't have a song. Never did. And it's uncomfortable and scary in all that silence.
So, naturally, my next thought is: "Well...maybe Meat Loaf isn't so bad after all."
Here, then, is the e-mail from that young woman. I've redacted certain sections of her e-mail to help mask her identity, as well as edited it for clarity:
I'm a twenty-year-old Asian American college student.... My college put on a play reading of The Theory of Everything last fall and I played Lana. Never before have I related to a character as much as I did to Lana! Her struggles were my struggles: [how] her Asian heritage pushed her to excel, the pressure she put on herself to meet her parents and boyfriend's expectations, the inability to find passion in her studies, feeling completely lost after the future she thought she [was] going to have became an illusion, and then [being] tossed back to square one...in debt. Good news is that I'm not in that much debt yet, but the rest describes my situation right now pretty well. (Except for the boyfriend part.... I still need to get one before I can get dumped). This semester I was accepted to [REDACTED] school with the condition that I keep up my spring semester grades. I've been working since high school to get into [REDACTED] school, so keeping up spring grades should be a piece of cake compared to the labor I put in for more than two years. Yet I felt no motivation at all to leap over this final hurdle. Instead I just felt depressed, extremely worn out, and have no desire to study any further. I couldn't find any interest in what I was studying while others were ecstatic to finish off strong and start [REDACTED] courses next fall. As you can imagine, spring grades weren't so hot. I'm scared that a rejection letter is coming. I find myself thinking about Lana a lot. I wonder how she's doing. What would she be doing now? Pursuing another career that she's passionate about? Or working a desk job to pay off her debt? Is she happy? Depressed? Regretful? Did she ever find the greatness she felt she was destined for? If not, did she cope? And how? Was she able to find a path that made her happy, even if it's not the greatness she imagined? Could she look back at her failure now and laugh? Do you think Lana's doing well, Prince?
And this was my reply to her:
Interesting questions you pose. I think, with the luxury of hindsight, Lana realized, no matter how much she feared getting kicked out of law school, there was a very real part of her that manipulated circumstances so that exact thing would eventually happen. It's as if she put on a good show—for her family, her boyfriend, her friends—but her authentic self (that part of her that is untouched by the opinions of others) wouldn't allow her to go on any longer. Her time in law school, however, did serve its purpose—she needed to "buy time" before she grew into a strong sense of herself. Many people do that, buy time. The same way you can't skip from kindergarten to college, you can't go from the life you're trapped in to the life you're meant to live within the snap of a finger. It takes time. It takes detours. Honor the time. Honor the detours. But eventually they will no longer serve you. There's a great quote from Gerald G. May's The Awakened Heart:
"The natural human spirit is irrepressibly radical; it wants the unattainable, yearns for the impractical, is willing to risk the improper. But as we conform ourselves to the practicalities and proprieties of efficiency, we restrict the space between desire and control; we confine our intention to an ever-decreasing range of possibilities. The choices we make—and therefore the way we feel about ourselves—are determined less by what we long for and more by what is controllable and acceptable to the world around us. After enough of this, we lose our passion. We forget who we are."
I think Lana eventually remembered who she was. Subconsciously at first; consciously later. And that's what we're all moving towards. Increased consciousness.
So there. A dozen Christmas Island Frigatebirds dead.
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Cosmology from Cosmic Shear with DES Science Verification Data
Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Amara, A., Annis, J., Armstrong, R., Bacon, D., Banerji, M., Bauer, A. H., Baxter, E., others,
arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05552, 2015 (techreport)
ei Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Amara, A., Annis, J., Armstrong, R., Bacon, D., Banerji, M., Bauer, A. H., Baxter, E., others, Cosmology from Cosmic Shear with DES Science Verification Data arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05552, 2015 (techreport)
The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogs
Jarvis, M., Sheldon, E., Zuntz, J., Kacprzak, T., Bridle, S. L., Amara, A., Armstrong, R., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bonnett, C., others,
ei Jarvis, M., Sheldon, E., Zuntz, J., Kacprzak, T., Bridle, S. L., Amara, A., Armstrong, R., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bonnett, C., others, The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogs arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05603, 2015 (techreport)
Puppet Flow
(7), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, October 2013 (techreport)
We introduce Puppet Flow (PF), a layered model describing the optical flow of a person in a video sequence. We consider video frames composed by two layers: a foreground layer corresponding to a person, and background. We model the background as an affine flow field. The foreground layer, being a moving person, requires reasoning about the articulated nature of the human body. We thus represent the foreground layer with the Deformable Structures model (DS), a parametrized 2D part-based human body representation. We call the motion field defined through articulated motion and deformation of the DS model, a Puppet Flow. By exploiting the DS representation, Puppet Flow is a parametrized optical flow field, where parameters are the person's pose, gender and body shape.
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ps Zuffi, S., Black, M. J. Puppet Flow (7), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, October 2013 (techreport)
Learning and Optimization with Submodular Functions
Sankaran, B., Ghazvininejad, M., He, X., Kale, D., Cohen, L.
ArXiv, May 2013 (techreport)
In many naturally occurring optimization problems one needs to ensure that the definition of the optimization problem lends itself to solutions that are tractable to compute. In cases where exact solutions cannot be computed tractably, it is beneficial to have strong guarantees on the tractable approximate solutions. In order operate under these criterion most optimization problems are cast under the umbrella of convexity or submodularity. In this report we will study design and optimization over a common class of functions called submodular functions. Set functions, and specifically submodular set functions, characterize a wide variety of naturally occurring optimization problems, and the property of submodularity of set functions has deep theoretical consequences with wide ranging applications. Informally, the property of submodularity of set functions concerns the intuitive principle of diminishing returns. This property states that adding an element to a smaller set has more value than adding it to a larger set. Common examples of submodular monotone functions are entropies, concave functions of cardinality, and matroid rank functions; non-monotone examples include graph cuts, network flows, and mutual information. In this paper we will review the formal definition of submodularity; the optimization of submodular functions, both maximization and minimization; and finally discuss some applications in relation to learning and reasoning using submodular functions.
am Sankaran, B., Ghazvininejad, M., He, X., Kale, D., Cohen, L. Learning and Optimization with Submodular Functions ArXiv, May 2013 (techreport)
(CS-10-03), Brown University, Department of Computer Science, January 2013 (techreport)
ps Sun, D., Roth, S., Black, M. J. A Quantitative Analysis of Current Practices in Optical Flow Estimation and the Principles Behind Them (CS-10-03), Brown University, Department of Computer Science, January 2013 (techreport)
Animating Samples from Gaussian Distributions
(8), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, 2013 (techreport)
ei pn Hennig, P. Animating Samples from Gaussian Distributions (8), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, 2013 (techreport)
Maximizing Kepler science return per telemetered pixel: Detailed models of the focal plane in the two-wheel era
Hogg, D. W., Angus, R., Barclay, T., Dawson, R., Fergus, R., Foreman-Mackey, D., Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Lang, D., Montet, B. T., Schiminovich, D., Schölkopf, B.
arXiv:1309.0653, 2013 (techreport)
ei Hogg, D. W., Angus, R., Barclay, T., Dawson, R., Fergus, R., Foreman-Mackey, D., Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Lang, D., Montet, B. T., Schiminovich, D., Schölkopf, B. Maximizing Kepler science return per telemetered pixel: Detailed models of the focal plane in the two-wheel era arXiv:1309.0653, 2013 (techreport)
Maximizing Kepler science return per telemetered pixel: Searching the habitable zones of the brightest stars
Montet, B. T., Angus, R., Barclay, T., Dawson, R., Fergus, R., Foreman-Mackey, D., Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Hogg, D. W., Lang, D., Schiminovich, D., Schölkopf, B.
ei Montet, B. T., Angus, R., Barclay, T., Dawson, R., Fergus, R., Foreman-Mackey, D., Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Hogg, D. W., Lang, D., Schiminovich, D., Schölkopf, B. Maximizing Kepler science return per telemetered pixel: Searching the habitable zones of the brightest stars arXiv:1309.0654, 2013 (techreport)
Learning with Transformation Invariant Kernels
Walder, C., Chapelle, O.
(165), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2007 (techreport)
Abstract. This paper considers kernels invariant to translation, rotation and dilation. We show that no non-trivial positive definite (p.d.) kernels exist which are radial and dilation invariant, only conditionally positive definite (c.p.d.) ones. Accordingly, we discuss the c.p.d. case and provide some novel analysis, including an elementary derivation of a c.p.d. representer theorem. On the practical side, we give a support vector machine (s.v.m.) algorithm for arbitrary c.p.d. kernels. For the thin-plate kernel this leads to a classifier with only one parameter (the amount of regularisation), which we demonstrate to be as effective as an s.v.m. with the Gaussian kernel, even though the Gaussian involves a second parameter (the length scale).
ei Walder, C., Chapelle, O. Learning with Transformation Invariant Kernels (165), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2007 (techreport)
Scalable Semidefinite Programming using Convex Perturbations
Kulis, B., Sra, S., Jegelka, S.
(TR-07-47), University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, September 2007 (techreport)
Several important machine learning problems can be modeled and solved via semidefinite programs. Often, researchers invoke off-the-shelf software for the associated optimization, which can be inappropriate for many applications due to computational and storage requirements. In this paper, we introduce the use of convex perturbations for semidefinite programs (SDPs). Using a particular perturbation function, we arrive at an algorithm for SDPs that has several advantages over existing techniques: a) it is simple, requiring only a few lines of MATLAB, b) it is a first-order method which makes it scalable, c) it can easily exploit the structure of a particular SDP to gain efficiency (e.g., when the constraint matrices are low-rank). We demonstrate on several machine learning applications that the proposed algorithm is effective in finding fast approximations to large-scale SDPs.
ei Kulis, B., Sra, S., Jegelka, S. Scalable Semidefinite Programming using Convex Perturbations (TR-07-47), University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, September 2007 (techreport)
Sparse Multiscale Gaussian Process Regression
Walder, C., Kim, K., Schölkopf, B.
(162), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2007 (techreport)
Most existing sparse Gaussian process (g.p.) models seek computational advantages by basing their computations on a set of m basis functions that are the covariance function of the g.p. with one of its two inputs fixed. We generalise this for the case of Gaussian covariance function, by basing our computations on m Gaussian basis functions with arbitrary diagonal covariance matrices (or length scales). For a fixed number of basis functions and any given criteria, this additional flexibility permits approximations no worse and typically better than was previously possible. Although we focus on g.p. regression, the central idea is applicable to all kernel based algorithms, such as the support vector machine. We perform gradient based optimisation of the marginal likelihood, which costs O(m2n) time where n is the number of data points, and compare the method to various other sparse g.p. methods. Our approach outperforms the other methods, particularly for the case of very few basis functions, i.e. a very high sparsity ratio.
ei Walder, C., Kim, K., Schölkopf, B. Sparse Multiscale Gaussian Process Regression (162), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2007 (techreport)
Efficient Subwindow Search for Object Localization
Blaschko, M., Hofmann, T., Lampert, C.
Recent years have seen huge advances in object recognition from images. Recognition rates beyond 95% are the rule rather than the exception on many datasets. However, most state-of-the-art methods can only decide if an object is present or not. They are not able to provide information on the object location or extent within in the image. We report on a simple yet powerful scheme that extends many existing recognition methods to also perform localization of object bounding boxes. This is achieved by maximizing the classification score over all possible subrectangles in the image. Despite the impression that this would be computationally intractable, we show that in many situations efficient algorithms exist which solve a generalized maximum subrectangle problem. We show how our method is applicable to a variety object detection frameworks and demonstrate its performance by applying it to the popular bag of visual words model, achieving competitive results on the PASCAL VOC 2006 dataset.
ei Blaschko, M., Hofmann, T., Lampert, C. Efficient Subwindow Search for Object Localization (164), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2007 (techreport)
Cluster Identification in Nearest-Neighbor Graphs
Maier, M., Hein, M., von Luxburg, U.
(163), Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2007 (techreport)
Assume we are given a sample of points from some underlying distribution which contains several distinct clusters. Our goal is to construct a neighborhood graph on the sample points such that clusters are ``identified'': that is, the subgraph induced by points from the same cluster is connected, while subgraphs corresponding to different clusters are not connected to each other. We derive bounds on the probability that cluster identification is successful, and use them to predict ``optimal'' values of k for the mutual and symmetric k-nearest-neighbor graphs. We point out different properties of the mutual and symmetric nearest-neighbor graphs related to the cluster identification problem.
ei Maier, M., Hein, M., von Luxburg, U. Cluster Identification in Nearest-Neighbor Graphs (163), Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2007 (techreport)
Dirichlet Mixtures of Bayesian Linear Gaussian State-Space Models: a Variational Approach
Chiappa, S., Barber, D.
(161), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, March 2007 (techreport)
We describe two related models to cluster multidimensional time-series under the assumption of an underlying linear Gaussian dynamical process. In the first model, times-series are assigned to the same cluster when they show global similarity in their dynamics, while in the second model times-series are assigned to the same cluster when they show simultaneous similarity. Both models are based on Dirichlet Mixtures of Bayesian Linear Gaussian State-Space Models in order to (semi) automatically determine an appropriate number of components in the mixture, and to additionally bias the components to a parsimonious parameterization. The resulting models are formally intractable and to deal with this we describe a deterministic approximation based on a novel implementation of Variational Bayes.
ei Chiappa, S., Barber, D. Dirichlet Mixtures of Bayesian Linear Gaussian State-Space Models: a Variational Approach (161), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, March 2007 (techreport)
Automatic 3D Face Reconstruction from Single Images or Video
Breuer, P., Kim, K., Kienzle, W., Blanz, V., Schölkopf, B.
(160), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, February 2007 (techreport)
This paper presents a fully automated algorithm for reconstructing a textured 3D model of a face from a single photograph or a raw video stream. The algorithm is based on a combination of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and a Morphable Model of 3D faces. After SVM face detection, individual facial features are detected using a novel regression-and classification-based approach, and probabilistically plausible configurations of features are selected to produce a list of candidates for several facial feature positions. In the next step, the configurations of feature points are evaluated using a novel criterion that is based on a Morphable Model and a combination of linear projections. Finally, the feature points initialize a model-fitting procedure of the Morphable Model. The result is a high-resolution 3D surface model.
ei Breuer, P., Kim, K., Kienzle, W., Blanz, V., Schölkopf, B. Automatic 3D Face Reconstruction from Single Images or Video (160), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, February 2007 (techreport)
Minimal Logical Constraint Covering Sets
Sinz, F., Schölkopf, B.
(155), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, December 2006 (techreport)
We propose a general framework for computing minimal set covers under class of certain logical constraints. The underlying idea is to transform the problem into a mathematical programm under linear constraints. In this sense it can be seen as a natural extension of the vector quantization algorithm proposed by Tipping and Schoelkopf. We show which class of logical constraints can be cast and relaxed into linear constraints and give an algorithm for the transformation.
ei Sinz, F., Schölkopf, B. Minimal Logical Constraint Covering Sets (155), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, December 2006 (techreport)
New Methods for the P300 Visual Speller
Biessmann, F.
(1), (Editors: Hill, J. ), Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, November 2006 (techreport)
ei Biessmann, F. New Methods for the P300 Visual Speller (1), (Editors: Hill, J. ), Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, November 2006 (techreport)
Geometric Analysis of Hilbert Schmidt Independence criterion based ICA contrast function
Shen, H., Jegelka, S., Gretton, A.
(PA006080), National ICT Australia, Canberra, Australia, October 2006 (techreport)
ei Shen, H., Jegelka, S., Gretton, A. Geometric Analysis of Hilbert Schmidt Independence criterion based ICA contrast function (PA006080), National ICT Australia, Canberra, Australia, October 2006 (techreport)
A tutorial on spectral clustering
von Luxburg, U.
(149), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, August 2006 (techreport)
In recent years, spectral clustering has become one of the most popular modern clustering algorithms. It is simple to implement, can be solved efficiently by standard linear algebra software, and very often outperforms traditional clustering algorithms such as the k-means algorithm. Nevertheless, on the first glance spectral clustering looks a bit mysterious, and it is not obvious to see why it works at all and what it really does. This article is a tutorial introduction to spectral clustering. We describe different graph Laplacians and their basic properties, present the most common spectral clustering algorithms, and derive those algorithms from scratch by several different approaches. Advantages and disadvantages of the different spectral clustering algorithms are discussed.
ei von Luxburg, U. A tutorial on spectral clustering (149), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, August 2006 (techreport)
Towards the Inference of Graphs on Ordered Vertexes
Zien, A., Raetsch, G., Ong, C.
We propose novel methods for machine learning of structured output spaces. Specifically, we consider outputs which are graphs with vertices that have a natural order. We consider the usual adjacency matrix representation of graphs, as well as two other representations for such a graph: (a) decomposing the graph into a set of paths, (b) converting the graph into a single sequence of nodes with labeled edges. For each of the three representations, we propose an encoding and decoding scheme. We also propose an evaluation measure for comparing two graphs.
ei Zien, A., Raetsch, G., Ong, C. Towards the Inference of Graphs on Ordered Vertexes (150), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, August 2006 (techreport)
An Automated Combination of Sequence Motif Kernels for Predicting Protein Subcellular Localization
Zien, A., Ong, C.
(146), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, April 2006 (techreport)
Protein subcellular localization is a crucial ingredient to many important inferences about cellular processes, including prediction of protein function and protein interactions. While many predictive computational tools have been proposed, they tend to have complicated architectures and require many design decisions from the developer. We propose an elegant and fully automated approach to building a prediction system for protein subcellular localization. We propose a new class of protein sequence kernels which considers all motifs including motifs with gaps. This class of kernels allows the inclusion of pairwise amino acid distances into their computation. We further propose a multiclass support vector machine method which directly solves protein subcellular localization without resorting to the common approach of splitting the problem into several binary classification problems. To automatically search over families of possible amino acid motifs, we generalize our method to optimize over multiple kernels at the same time. We compare our automated approach to four other predictors on three different datasets.
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ei Zien, A., Ong, C. An Automated Combination of Sequence Motif Kernels for Predicting Protein Subcellular Localization (146), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, April 2006 (techreport)
Training a Support Vector Machine in the Primal
Chapelle, O.
(147), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, April 2006, The version in the "Large Scale Kernel Machines" book is more up to date. (techreport)
Most literature on Support Vector Machines (SVMs) concentrate on the dual optimization problem. In this paper, we would like to point out that the primal problem can also be solved efficiently, both for linear and non-linear SVMs, and there is no reason for ignoring it. Moreover, from the primal point of view, new families of algorithms for large scale SVM training can be investigated.
ei Chapelle, O. Training a Support Vector Machine in the Primal (147), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, April 2006, The version in the "Large Scale Kernel Machines" book is more up to date. (techreport)
Cross-Validation Optimization for Structured Hessian Kernel Methods
Seeger, M., Chapelle, O.
Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, February 2006 (techreport)
We address the problem of learning hyperparameters in kernel methods for which the Hessian of the objective is structured. We propose an approximation to the cross-validation log likelihood whose gradient can be computed analytically, solving the hyperparameter learning problem efficiently through nonlinear optimization. Crucially, our learning method is based entirely on matrix-vector multiplication primitives with the kernel matrices and their derivatives, allowing straightforward specialization to new kernels or to large datasets. When applied to the problem of multi-way classification, our method scales linearly in the number of classes and gives rise to state-of-the-art results on a remote imaging task.
ei Seeger, M., Chapelle, O. Cross-Validation Optimization for Structured Hessian Kernel Methods Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, February 2006 (techreport)


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This entry was posted in death, love, pessimism-optimism, wonder.
What makes this era in history so much worse than the sixties, indeed so much worse than any other era in history, is that history itself is abruptly coming to a close. What? Oh yes! The miraculous Holocene, the freakishly stable geological epoch that has made human life possible in the first place, is in rapid transition to something wildly different and inhospitable. Yet the entire human race goes about its business more or less in denial of the onrushing catastrophe. I don't mean that if you ask people directly whether climate change is real they will all deny it, nor do I mean that some governments aren't trying to implement—far too late, as it happens—policies to circumvent it. What I mean is that within ten minutes of agreeing that of course climate change is real, look at the science, people go right back to living their lives exactly as though it were not real. Practically speaking, in other words, we are all climate change deniers. Scientists and activists tirelessly remind us that we must immediately stop using fossil fuels, immediately stop eating beef, immediately stop using plastics, or else face certain extinction. And by immediately, they mean right now. Which means of course that we face certain extinction, because, let's face it, we—all 7.5 billion of us—are not going to do any of those things, certainly not immediately. So we flip an inner switch, darken that part of our minds, and resume talking about politics or culture or religion. We simply ignore the fact that the geological stage on which history is enacted is disintegrating right out from under us. This is what I find so depressing and enervating about our times. To me, it feels more and more like a crippling, world-wide neurosis, one for which there is no cure. Well, what's the alternative, mass hysteria? No, that won't do either. In fact, all pessimists should just pipe down. Sorry I brought it up. Mum's the word.
I need to get my facts straight or at least not run off at the mouth so breathlessly that I get them grossly wrong. Homo sapiens, as everyone knows or can easily find out, showed up some 300,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Epoch, also know as the last Ice Age. The Holocene is the almost twelve-thousand-year-old, post-Ice Age period of warm and stable conditions that corresponds to the rise of civilization. So my characterizing the Holocene as the epoch that "made human life possible in the first place" is patently wrong. However, one can say that the species has thrived during the Holocene in a way that it might not otherwise have done during heavy glaciation. Indeed, it was during this short period of relative warmth that historical humanity came into being and eventually arrived at its present impasse. It's the climax of history, the staggering impact of industrial civilization on the environment, that is now bringing the Holocene to a rapid close, producing in its place conditions of extreme heat and humidity that will unravel civilization and ultimately prove fatal to the species.
There, that says it a little better. My previous bleat merely expresses my bewilderment about how to psychologically adapt to these uncanny facts. Maybe what I'm called "denial" in my previous comment is just the admirable human capacity to keep on keeping on despite our knowledge of the inevitable. Maybe "We're not dead yet" is all that remains to us of hope, that and perhaps the capacity to keep ourselves to short views (to return to an earlier discussion).


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Q: DLL cannot use address in executable I'm writing a console application in 64bit NASM, and everything was fine until I moved part of my executable into a DLL I created.
This is my first experiment with DLL's at an assembly level.
I cannot pass an address of a string in my .exe's data section...
The function fails when I do. But, if I make a .data section in my dll, define the string, and pass it in RCX to SetConsoleTitleA it runs like a charm.
Am I not passing the correct address, or is the DLL unable to get into the data section of my EXE?
What would be a "elegant" solution to this?
Let me know if you'd like me to pastebin the code.
EDIT:
DLL http://pastebin.com/jpdsihsC
EXE http://pastebin.com/KbMTh9Xa
--ignore inc.mac, it's for forward dev

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The cardiologists of the Providence Medical Group of physicians practice under the name Providence Heart. They have offices located throughout the Midlands so that the surrounding communities can have access to the quality, compassionate cardiovascular care for which Providence Health is known. Here is a list of our locations.


Check out the time lapse video of my neighborhood below.
Now I've heard some people say that when they read the blog, they don't see a lot of personal things about me. This was done purposely. I created this site to keep everyone entertained, and to give you a place to go for dope music and raw unadulterated entertainment. But today I'm trying something new. Below are pics of my Miami Beach neighborhood so you can see where I gain most of my inspiration from. Here's a great balcony view on a sunny South Florida.
Don't label me corny lol, but home is where the heart is…and I'm a 'home-body'.
Being at home is like living in paradise. It has always been a dream of mine to live on the beach.
C'mon…take a walk with me…let me show you what I'm talking about….
This is how is looks when I wake up in the morning. I try to catch the sunrise. But waking up that early, lately has been a challenge for me.
I look out into the ocean everyday and realize how my life, my dreams, and my aspirations are boundless and limitless.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you…the tip of South Beach (South of Fifth).
I'm walking up the hill now, so I can take some shots of the front yard.
I'm at the top of the hill. That building you see in front of you in a condo on the bordering, Fisher Island.
Here's a closer look of Fisher Island.
Sometimes I sit on this hill and write in my personal journal. This is my view, aka the front yard.
I should take vacations more often. If you work hard, you should relax hard.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the life I lead and it is exciting interviewing famous musicians and traveling across the word covering music festivals (I'll be covering San Francisco's Outside Lands Music Festival in August). But I'm a plain home body. I like to be at home, simple.


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When thinking about comforter sets, back support pillows and also bed coverlets, simply consider simply just how much time and in addition particularly how simple it's going to be to match your have to make up your bed. Comforters with each other with quilts gain from the advantage of being remarkably easy to quickly simply bring up and toss every thing in position. Bedspreads of course genuinely need simply take a lot longer to be made up appropriately each and every day. That's the reason why bedspreads do simply wonderful in a really further bed room precisely since the bed does not need to be developed up on typical basis.
Likewise make sure to comparison shop when looking online for bedding. Although you may believe that one seller's price is an excellent buy, chances are exceptional that someone else online supplier might provide an even lower price. Luxury discount rate bedding sets are not that hard to find, but you need to make sure that web sites do not attempt to pass off their overpriced inferior products as good quality low-cost items.
Your teenager's room has to be a location that echoes his personality and individual design while being a comfortable sanctuary for him to unwind in. For this, it is very important to think about inputs from your teenager before you embellish his/her individual space. Bedding is a vital part of the decorating process, so you will need to thoroughly pick the product, design and color to complement the overall design of the room.
Duvets or down comforters are determined by their tog ratings. By basic, a greater tog score means much better insulation. Some countries make use of low tog-duvets throughout fall and high tog-duvets in the winter season. As an outcome, duvet manufacturers started selling incorporated sets of duvets with various tog ratings. For example an integrated set may consist of a duvet with 4.5 tog score and another duvet with 9.5 tog score. This is specifically beneficial so the customer does not need to go looking for duvets whenever a brand-new period comes around.
Try taking a look at discount designer bedding for your house. There are a variety of various places you might be able to find it. When you see words discount, it does not indicate that the product is made from inferior products. In many cases, the bedding is of a very good quality and has been decreased in price due to the fact that the pattern or color might longer be readily available or is being changed. This makes them genuinely affordable.
Luxurious wool comforters, such as Euphoria Organic Wool Comforters, are also useful along selection comforters for people today with allergies. This comforter is lightweight, warm, and extravagant like decline, without the need of the allergy possibility. The Euphoria Comforter is manufactured from lamb wool and normally repels mud mites. It truly is readily offered in the Allergy Customers Golf club.
Someone else thing that will be present to make the set full are pillowcases. They need to be implied for not only the bed pillows but include likewise those of throw and neck pillows. Though it is not very vital, you can decide to match contents of the regular bed pillow.
The fill power suggests how fluffy the down comforter will be. A fill power of 500 or even more is thought about high quality material and suggests that the clusters of the down are huge and strong. A high fill power will feel like you are laying on a big fluffy cloud.
As winter draws better, many couples face the eternal issue of when winter duvets need to be drawn out. Generally, men tend to feel warmer in bed and choose thinner duvets, where as ladies can in some cases feel cold and desire much thicker duvets. Developing a trouble for couples who share the same bed!
A brand-new comforter may be constructed of numerous different sort of fabrics. Among the better products is Egyptian cotton. You will not see it in more economical bedding. Boxed stitching is someone else good quality. It keeps the filling from moving. There are several factor to think about when buying quality comforters. The greater the thread matter, the better the cover. Find a power fill of 500 or better. The best filling is down. Nevertheless, alternative down is good for individuals with allergies. Examine for boxed stitching and Egyptian cotton, likewise.
If you are interested by down duvets and want to know a bit more, do not hesitate to search their website or additionally get in touch with a friendly member of the group. They are constantly waiting to advise and lead you on any of their spectacular items.


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Shark Tank's Daymond John talks evolution of FUBU, importance of small Black businesses
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The coronavirus pandemic devastated both large and small businesses. In March 2020, stock prices plummeted for seemingly stable companies, and small businesses were forced to close their doors for what was supposedly two weeks. While it affected us all, a year later, Black businesses are still feeling the heavy impact.
According to a report by the New York Federal Reserve, Black-owned businesses were more than twice as likely to shutter as their white counterparts. Nearly half of Black small businesses had been wiped out by the end of April 2020 as the pandemic ravaged minority communities disproportionately. Shark Tank's Daymond John partnered with Chase for Business on a virtual summit that was a blend of inspiration and networking. The businessman spoke with theGrio regarding the event, his advice for Black businesses, corporations, and consumers, as well as the evolution of FUBU.
John shares he partnered with Chase for Business because "they wanted to educate small businesses, minority businesses, Black businesses, and businesses of color about how to be successful, some of the barriers, the potholes to avoid, as well as all the help they have now." The firm recently announced a $30 billion commitment to advancing racial equity.
According to an Associated Press analysis of the low-interest government loans, many minority business owners struggled more in comparison to their White counterparts to find banks and lenders that would accept their application. The analysis further revealed that White business owners were able to get loans earlier in the process, while minority business owners didn't have loans accepted until the last few weeks of the program.
"Game Changer Conversations" on Black Entrepreneurs Day will feature Daymond John in one-on-one conversations with numerous Black business leaders and cultural icons. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)
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Still, John encourages Black business owners to keep trying and to seek other funding in addition to the PPP. He shares the story of a young entrepreneur he invested in via Shark Tank. "After I invested in him, he went off and raised another half a million dollars going to pitch competitions. He never stopped. That's what Black business and any business owner should do. Especially now," he explains.
However, it's not just up to the business owners, there is a responsibility on corporations, consumers, and communities. John encourages corporate execs to take two specific actions: lead internal discussions with their employees and pay attention to where you source talent.
"Ask them [employees] what programs or what things they feel should be done internally so that as you come up with programs and things you want to do externally, it comes from within," he says. Additionally, when looking for talent in your organization, source from HBCUs and smaller universities, in addition to top 10 schools.
Neglecting to have a diverse group of employees only hurts the company. In the late '90s, The Gap ran an ad starring LL Cool J. John shares, "The Gap spent $30 million airing a FUBU ad basically because he said for us by us on the low…in a Gap commercial. Now, if The Gap had people who looked like LL or looked like me, that mistake would have never happened. But they didn't have anybody in there to pull their coattails to what was happening. So it's not only the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do."
"For us by us" has grown from an idea in John's basement with friends to a $300 million+ brand and has evolved into a movement. It's a recognizable slogan by all and used amongst many groups. John explains, "It became popular due to our success and due to the movement it became an easy word to just throw out there. People understand it. People say, 'This is the for us by us of my community,' or 'This is the for us by us of products,' and I'm proud of it."
John credits the small businesses and entrepreneurs that helped propel the company to what it is today. John reveals, "Big stores that would say crazy things to me like 'Well there are four African-American males on the hangtag and they look like a gang so we don't want shoot outs and shoplifting in our stores.'"
Daymond John attends the Tribeca Talks Panel: 10 Years Of "Shark Tank" during the 2018 Tribeca TV Festival at Spring Studios on September 23, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
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He sarcastically adds, "Not that I have ever seen anybody get into a shootout because you got the last pair of 32s on the rack." Instead, of focusing on big-box retailers, they went to small businesses. He reminisces, "You were looking for something new, that entrepreneur told you everything and told you the whole history on FUBU. They also reported back to us when we didn't do something or made something too weird. They were like, 'Hey that doesn't work.' They became our biggest ambassadors."
It was the small businesses and their growth that served as a case study for large retailers, convincing them to carry the brand they previously ignored.
Small Black-owned businesses shuttering their doors doesn't only affect our economy, it decimates our communities. John points out that "minority small business owners [are] not just business owners, their mentors in the community." He expatiates, "they also bring other people up in the community. These people are the first step in other people finding success [that] may not have those resources."
John first learned about entrepreneurship at 10 years old from working in a candy shop an African American veteran had owned for 20 years. He recollects, "That man knew the fundamentals of business. He knew about inflation, he knew about competition, changes in technology. He taught that stuff to me to end up being a guy on Shark Tank named Daymond John who hopefully will inspire other young kids."
With a spending power surpassing $1 trillion a year, it's imperative that Black consumers speak with their dollars. Buy Black isn't something that only happens in February—it's a year-long and lifelong commitment to keeping the Black dollar in the Black community. Share Black brands on your personal platforms and also with your non-Black friends. Be an ambassador for your favorite Black brands and help market and advertise for these entrepreneurs.
Quoting Jay-Z's song "Entrepreneur," John says, "For every one Gucci, support two FUBUs. If you wanna really support, support each other." For Black businesses and people he emphasizes the importance of not giving up. "Whether you're an intrapreneur or entrepreneur—take the shot. I just believe you just keep trying. You just keep taking that shot, and sooner or later, people will see the value of who you are."
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Skolelederens linealer, plexiglas og vægtskåle - Om at være skoleleder i et eksistensfilosofisk, væredygtighedsperspektiv
Kirsten Osbæck Mogensen
4. semester, Master i Læreprocesser (MLP) (Efter- og videreuddannelse) (Masteruddannelse)
This Master Thesis is linked to the Master program in Learning Processes, Management and Psychology of Organization, Aalborg University. The master thesis is an existential-philosophical study of being a school leader.
The main question is:
What is it like to be a school leader at the moment? And how can it be connected to existential horizons of understanding that might nourish the human sustainability of the school leader?
The scientific theoretical approach is a phenomenological hermeneutic approach, applied in a way which is close to the fourth paradigm of science. This is characterized by an open, wondering, conversation-based approach to knowledge and cognition. Finn Thorbjørn Hansen gives inspiration to the selected methodology that in contrast to the descriptive nature of classical phenomenology, emphasizes the value of the researcher's dialogical, co-interpretative and resonant relationship with the subject matter (Hansen, 2015). Furthermore, the thesis can be seen as a methodological example of a research approach that seeks to allow knowledge to emerge through a wondering, narrative style in which a personal first-person voice is given space rather than aiming for objective and distanced research communication.
The thesis is empirically based on interviews with three Danish school principals. In these interviews the school leaders are asked questions about "the why" of being a school leader? what is difficult about being a leader? and how does the leader deal with challenges?
This empirical data is brought into a "dialog" with the existentialists philosophers and phenomenologists, Søren Kierkegaard and Viktor Frankl, in a conversation about purpose, values, meaning, freedom, sense of being and Martin Heidegger's thoughts of being "thrown" into world. Hartmut Rosa joins the discussion with perspectives on the nature of society today, alienation, acceleration and the absence of resonance due to societal efforts to control and manage everything. Lotte Lüscher's perspectives on the paradoxes of personal leadership are also brought in as a perspective on the leader as being stretched between himself and the outside world, stretched between power and powerlessness, aloneness and connectedness. Related to this, the thesis concludes that school leader's making sense of being a school leader is stretched between relating ethically to what is good for the child and then the politics that the school leader is "thrown" into and has to manage. The school leaders are aware that this sense making is an ongoing process, and the inner dialog about this stretchedness is part of being school leader.
Through the dialog between the school leaders and the philosophical theory of existence, the aim is to understand, discuss and connect to 'being-ability' – the sustainability of human being and being-in-world. The UN Sustainable Development Goals describe action goals for how to make our planet and society sustainable. The Danish Center for Sustainability (2021) (da. Center for Væredygtighed) argues that goals for the human part of sustainability should be added. The inside element of sustainability is about human being and becoming. It is more than mental health, identity, motivation or life skills. It is an existential way of being in the world. The concept blends philosophy, education, existential becoming, ethics, self-awareness, and well-being.
As a contribution to the emerging concept of sustainability, the attempt has been to bring classical (and recent) philosophy of existence into the theoretical conceptualisation and interpretive horizon of the concept of sustainability.
The conclusion is that school leaders' experiences and understandings of themselves as school leaders can be related to philosophy of existence. The derived hypothesis is that the philosophy of existence of Kierkegaard, Rosa, Frankl and Lütscher could contribute to an increased language for the stretchedness experienced by school leaders. As well as providing renewed nourishment for the sustainability of school leader through increased focus on facilitating existential philosophical conversations between school leaders and integrate this in leadership learning, training, development activities and leadership support.
These conclusions are close to the conclusion of the Norwegian study (Aas, Andersen, & Vennebo, 2020). It says: Leadership learning programmes should focus on how the programmes can contribute to helping the school leaders to understand and construct their leadership roles and grow their leadership identities.
Specialiseringsretning
Ledelses- og Organisationspsykologi (LOOP)
skoleledelse, eksistensfilosofi, væredygtighed
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Today, dozens of field service organizations and field service vendors gather in sunny Palm Springs, CA for Field Service USA, an event designed to provide service and support executives with best practice strategies, education, and inspiration to help them achieve their goals for 2014 and beyond. As a part of this great event, we starting thinking about field service organizations, and the challenges they face on a daily basis.
In 2014, the field service organization is full of potential, but also wrought with competitive, financial and technological challenges that often keep them from meeting their potential. In order to keep customers satisfied, they must differentiate from their competition, usually by embracing consumer technology as quickly as their customers do. But when faced with a never ending list of new trends, as well as a list of KPIs and company goals, all while trying to increase revenue, what should key decision makers within field service organizations do? How do they pick what will work best for them?
How do field service organizations pick which trends will work for their business? How do they keep on top of the changing demands of their customers? Business intelligence, industry analysts, and continual education.
Organization should use the BI from all of their implemented software solutions to help them gauge customer expectations, guide R&D developments, and tweak their operations for better efficiency. They should use the guidance and invaluable research provided by industry analysts to help them to understand their changing customer base as well as the changing market. And they should continually educate, with training on new technologies, customer service, and on the products themselves to understand the world both inside and outside their organization.
You are telling us things we already know, you may be thinking. So what's the point? The point it; ServicePower gets it. Did you know that we specifically employ people with a field service background? We seek to understand the field service organization at all levels, not just from a field service management perspective. We understand the challenges you face, issues with budget, compliance, consumer trends, SLAs and more. We don't just want to deliver you a field service management solution and be done with it, we want to give you the lasting support you need to be successful, in 2014, and in the future. We want to provide you with a strong product that gives you the business insight you need, bridge the gap between you and the industry analysts by providing you with their research and more, and facilitate an ongoing education process for you.
Meet us at Field Service this week and let us show you that we aren't just selling you an FSM solution, we understand your needs at the core.