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Pagans in the Media
The Media Witch's Look Back at 2007: Part One, TV
Witch Cinema 23: The Number 23
Witch Cinema 24: The Golden Compass: Magic, Daemons and Polar Bears!
Witch Cinema 21: The Wicker Man, 2006... What a Waste!
Witch Cinema 22: DVDs for Giving and Gazing
Witch Cinema 20: Come Over to the Dark Side…
Witch Cinema 19
Witch Cinema 17 - 2003 Wrap-Up
Return of the King - Peg's Review
Buffy: Season Finale 2002
Witch Cinema: Richard Harris
The Mists of Avalon: Peg's Review
The Mists of Avalon: A Preview
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Peg's Review
The Fellowship of the Ring - Peg's Review
Le Bijou Sorci?re! - 6/4/01 WHITE
Blair Witch - The WitchVox Review
Solstice Cinema: or, What to Watch on Chilly Nights of Winter
Blair Witch - Interview with Joe Berlinger
Blair Witch II - Peg's Trip to the Webfest
Blair Witch II - How Peg Became Involved
Blair Witch Project - a pre-review
Blair Witch Project - an Interview with the Directors
Blair Witch Project - Movie REVIEW
Judging Amy -- A WitchVox Review
Judging Amy -- Comments Pg 1
Discovering Witchcraft II - The Farrars and Gavin Bone
BWP Comments 1
Practical Magic: Curses and Hauntings and Love Spells, Oh My!
Charmed - Initial Thoughts
48 HOURS: *Not* Burning the Midnight Oil Doing Homework...
X-Files Epidode that Infuriated Witches (02/08/98)
The Clearwater - Madonna Shrine
World's Largest Cauldron comes to Salem Mass
Discovering Witchcraft I - The Farrars and Gavin Bone
Politics - CELLUCCI Slams Witches!!!
Xena, Warrior Princess
The Crucible (Peg's Review)
Witch City (The saga of Salem)
X-Files Epidode that Infuriated Witches
Sonys The Craft
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Author: Wren
Posted: February 2nd. 1997
The Witches' Voice's Official Statement on the Movie "The Craft"
Dear Witches,
Several members of the Witches' Voice went to see the Sony movie over the weekend of May 4th and 5th. We were all in agreement on one thing - we had "mixed feelings" about the film . There were several quite amusing parts in the first half and more than a few disturbing acts in the second. It was quite tempting to want to post a review rather than an actual statement of position, as several people have posted that they "liked" the movie and saw it as mere entertainment. Upon reflection, it was decided to measure the impact of the movie using the mission statement of the Voice as a guide.
Although the makers of "The Craft" and Sony Pictures have been quite vocal concerning their employment of Pat Devin (whom we certainly do not hold responsible for the end results of this film, nor do we question her credentials or intentions) as a Witch "consultant", the Voice considers this no more than a form of "tokenism" to lend credibility to an otherwise inaccurate portrayal of Witches. It would certainly not be clear to the general viewing public which parts of the film show actual practices of the Religion and which are Hollywood fabrications. Hiding behind the shroud of "showing actual rituals of Witchcraft", the media in fact is exploiting the term "Witch" for the sole purpose of increasing profits and has refused to use the opportunity to correct an injustice against the religious community of Witchcraft.
There was a real "turning point" in the middle of the movie. When Sarah goes to the shop owner for help and the audience sees, at last, what lies behind the curtain, THIS is the chance to show the real practices of the Craft - how Witches cope with issues in their lives under the Laws of Witchcraft and the laws of the United States. THIS is the place in which to demonstrate the effects of the "Three-fold Law " and the value of the "Rede". And THIS is the opportunity not taken. The door to knowledge again was slammed shut. The choice was made to exploit the negative stereotype under which we continue to be burdened. The remaining half of the story deals with revenge and destruction. To be content that "at least SOME of what the film portrayed is accurate" is to be satisfied with "at least SOME of what Witches are shown to do is not blatantly evil". Anything that is not a whole truth is a partial lie.
By linking the terms "Witches" and "Witchcraft" with murder, mayhem and destructive acts, there is a great potential danger. That danger could create encouragement for a resurgence of public mistrust and suspicion of the contemporary religious belief system known as Witchcraft or Wicca. This unfortunate linkage of Witchcraft and evil may impact the lives of thousands of Witches across the nation. We are not a "fringe" group to be made light of or ignored. Witches hold positions of responsibility in government and business. All Witches conduct themselves in a way that upholds the laws and ethical codes of the land. We are educated and intelligent people. We are NOT the "weirdos".
"In order to bring the ways of Light and Love and Life to the peoples of the Earth, our secrets are slowly becoming secrets no more; and it is good that this is so- for the age of shadow and secrecy is passing. Yet the sharing of our ways needs always to be guided by wisdom and by love. Let our rites and our mysteries be kept sacred. Let no one defile our worship or our heritage. For the defilement of our ways is loss of honor, both for self and for the Craft".
Walk in Light and Love,
Wren Walker
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Vernon W. Cisney
vcisney@gettysburg.edu
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VISIT PROFESSOR CISNEY'S WEBPAGE
PhD Purdue University, 2012
MA University of Memphis, 2006
BA Eastern Illinois University, 2004
AA Lake Land College, 2000
19th through 21st Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Film and Literature, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Popular Culture
Professor Vern Cisney's research is focused on 19th through 21st century Continental philosophy (with a focus on Derrida and Deleuze), Philosophy of Film and Literature, and Philosophy of Religion. Thematically, his interests include questions of difference and identity, the nature and meaning of philosophical thinking, and the intersections of ontology, agency, and aesthetics.
Jewish Thought and the Enlightenment
Kant and 19th Century European Philosophy
Philosophy of Film
Philosophical Ideas in Literature
Early Modern European Philosophy
Goethe, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Mann
Spinoza and Kierkegaard
Deleuze/Badiou
Heidegger/Derrida
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Dostoevsky
Plato, Personhood, & Popcorn: Big Ideas on the Big Screen
Ancient Greek & Roman Philosophy
Medieval and Renaissance European Philosophy
Recent Research:
Bo oks
Selfhood and the Other: David Foster Wallace and the Infinite, proposal in progress, Edinburgh.
Literature After Deleuze, proposal in progress, Bloomsbury.
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative, Edinburgh, 2018.
Between Foucault and Derrida, co-edited with Aryal, Morar, and Penfield, Edinburgh, 2016.
The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, co-edited with Beever, Northwestern, 2016.
Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, co-edited with Nicolae Morar, University of Chicago, 2015.
Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, Edinburgh, 2014.
Papers, Articles, and Book Chapters
"Time and the Power of the False in Deleuze," Eastern American Philosophical Association, 2020.
"The Gifts of Death: Visions of Sacrifice in the Worlds of Terrence Malick," in A Critical Companion to Terrence Malick, ed. Sikora (forthcoming, Lexington).
"In G.O.D. We Trust: The Desert of the Religious in The Broom of the System," in David Foster Wallace and Religion: Essays on Faith and Fiction, ed. McGowan and Brick, (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).
"Metaphor, Metamorphosis, and Meaning: 'All the Possibilities of Language' in Difference and Repetition," in Deleuze and Guattari Studies (forthcoming, 2020).
"The Writer is a Sorcerer: Literature and the Becomings of A Thousand Plateaus," in Deleuze and Guattari Studies (forthcoming, 2020).


Join Chad Perkins for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating 3D text, part of Element 3D Essential Training (2013).
So far we've been looking at 3D objects that come with Element, but now we're going to look at creating 3D objects from scratch in Element; truly one of Element's greatest benefits. Now, what we're going to look at in this movie is the ability to create 3D text from scratch, which is absolutely incredible. Now, the text we're going to be creating isn't going to look quite this great, but towards the end of this training series, I'm going to show you how to add all the polish that I added here; all the shadows, and everything else that makes this look great.
And we'll talk about how to do that later, but as you can see, this is really high-quality. This is only 50%. If I zoom in, we can't really see everything, but you see the shallow depth of field, you see the bevels, and the lighting on the bevels. It just looks incredible, and it renders remarkably fast as well. So let's get to the 3D Text Start composition, and let's go head and create some new text. I'll choose the Horizontal Type Tool, I'll just go head and click, and because this is so magical, I'm just going to create the word MAGICAL. I'm going to choose the Selection tool, and move this into the center of the frame, and I'll go over to my Character panel here, and scale this up.
Of course, you don't have to have this font. It doesn't really matter. Whatever font you want to use will work fine for this trick. Actually, I'll make this a little bit bigger, just so we can see what we're doing here. Even a little bit too big for this composition, but just so you can see what's going on. Now, I've already added the Element 3D Effect for you on the Element 3D layer, and what we need to do, before we click the Scene Setup button, is we need to go to Custom Layers, Custom Text and Masks, and in a Path Layer 1, we need to choose the Text we just created, which is the MAGICAL text in my case.
Now, once we've done that, we really don't need this text layer on, so I'm just going to turn off its visibility, but as long as loaded into Element here in the Custom Layer section, we're good to go. So I'm going to go head and click Scene Setup, and nothing will be different; it will be blank. That's totally fine. Don't worry. Just go ahead and click the Extrude button. Click Extrude, and it will automatically look in the Custom Layers area for the layers to make 3D, and there you have it.
Click and drag, and now we have full three-dimensional text right here inside of Element. It's just that easy, and it renders just that quickly, which is really remarkable. Later in this chapter, we'll also talk about Bevel settings. I'm going to use my scroll wheel, and zoom a little bit closer, so we can see its edges. By default, it creates a nice smooth edge, but you might want a rougher edge, or a bevel on that, and the Element 3D allows you to do that as well. And of course, we're not really talking about materials yet, but you can go over here down at the Material and Bevel Browser, go over to Presets, and we can click on some of the materials that come with Element 3D.
And we can drag and drop -- let's say, for example, Glass. We'll drag and drop Glass on this, and now we have this beautiful, glassy MAGICAL 3D text, which is really cool. Go and click OK, and then there it is in our scene, and we can select this camera, or better yet, choose the Unified Camera Tool, and click around. We could zoom in with that right-mouse button, and we have 3D text in our scene from scratch, and this renders faster, and looks better than any other solution I've ever seen for After Effects, which is absolutely incredible.


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CFT Compassion Formulation
Within CFT, two methods are commonly used for understanding a client's difficulties. The threat-focused formulation takes a longitudinal approach, and links historical difficulties to current fears and safety strategies. This type of CFT formulation is designed to help clients to understand how their personal history has sensitized their threat system, to elaborate safety strategies used to manage these fears, and to explore unintended consequences of these strategies. A crucial final step is to explore the impact these unintended consequences have upon self-to-self relationships: CFT understands that particular types of relationships (e.g. self-critical, harsh, punishing) can create vicious cycle's whereby current fears and threats are magnified. This CFT Compassion Formulation worksheet is designed to help clients and therapists come to a compassion-informed and de-shaming understanding of their life and experiences. The language and prompts within this document have been chosen quite deliberately so that it is understandable by clients.
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Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is a form of psychological therapy developed by Paul Gilbert for people struggling with mental health problems characterized by shame, self-attack, and self-blame. It was developed for clients who might respond to CBT interventions with "I know it but I don't feel it", commonly termed 'head-heart lag' (Lee, 2004; Stott, 2007). Situated within the family of cognitive and behavioral psychotherapies, Compassion Focused Therapy has been described as one of the 'third wave' therapies, alongside Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Some of its philosophical roots differ from other CBT therapies. Like DBT and ACT, it incorporates ideas from Buddhist philosophy. CFT is also built upon foundations of evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology, attachment, and neuroscience.
CFT defines compassion as "a sensitivity to the suffering of self and others (and the causes of that suffering) with a deep commitment to relieve it, prevent it from returning, and promote wellbeing." (Dale-Hewitt & Irons, 2015). There are two important components to this definition:
Sensitivity to suffering. To respond compassionately, first you must be sensitive enough to detect suffering to which compassion is an appropriate response.
A motivation to relieve it. Compassion can be thought of as a 'mind set' or an intention in which one is motivated to relieve suffering.
Within CFT, two methods are commonly used for understanding a client's difficulties, described in detail in Dale-Hewitt & Irons (2015). One of the most common approaches is the 'three systems' conceptualization which illustrates an individual's 'threat', 'drive', and 'soothing-affiliative' systems, and describes difficulties in terms of the function and relative balance of these systems. In some ways this can be considered a cross-sectional type formulation since it easily facilitates description of moment-by-moment shifts in an individual's internal state. A historical discussion of the 'training' and sensitization of an individual's three systems can bring a longitudinal understanding, but this formulation is often used in a here-and-now sense.
Another type of case conceptualization in CFT is a threat-focused formulation. This method takes a longitudinal approach, and links historical difficulties to current fears and safety strategies. This type of CFT formulation is designed to help clients to understand how their personal history has sensitized (or 'trained') their threat system (i.e. what they have learned to fear). It is also used to elaborate safety strategies used to manage these fears, and to explore unintended consequences of these strategies. A crucial final step is to explore the impact these unintended consequences have upon self-to-self relationships: CFT understands that particular types of relationships (e.g. self-critical, harsh, punishing) can create vicious cycle's whereby current fears and threats are magnified. Published examples of this formulation can be seen in Gilbert & Procter (2006), Gilbert (2007: elaboration and instructions published on the Compassionate Mind website), Dale-Hewitt & Irons (2015: Formulation In Action) and Experiencing CFT From the Inside Out (2018).
This CFT Compassion Formulation worksheet is designed to help clients and therapists come to a compassion-informed and de-shaming understanding of their life and experiences. The language and prompts within this document have been chosen quite deliberately so that it is understandable by clients. Nevertheless, clinicians are advised to familiarize themselves thoroughly with CFT approach.
"One way of trying to understand what has happened to you, and how it has affected you, is to write them. I wonder if we could explore some of your experiences, fears, and coping strategies see what kind of pattern they follow?"
Historical influences. Start by exploring key experiences and emotional memories. Dale-Hewitt & Irons (2015) note that "CFT conceptualizes emotion in terms of three basic systems [threat, drive, and affiliative-soothing], and thus, when assessing historical influences, we are keen to look out for the type of experiences that might have sensitized these, and try to understand how these systems have 'learned', developed, and express themselves". As well as gathering information, discussion of historical influences is an opportunity for the therapist to bring a compassionate understanding to the client's experiences. It can be helpful to review their experiences in the light of fundamental CFT concepts (e.g. tricky brains, flow of life, old brain new brain loops, three systems). The questions below are guides, but you can draw on information you have gathered during the assessment.
Can you tell me about some of your most important experiences that have affected you or shaped your life?
Growing up, what were your relationships like with your parents / siblings / wider family / friends?
Have you had any experiences in your life of feeling like you didn't matter (e.g. in your family, at work, intimate relationships)?
Can you tell me about any experiences you had of feeling threatened, rejected, criticized, or blamed (e.g. bullying, not fitting in at school or work, being hurt)?
Fears & threats. Our fears & threats are sensitized by our early experiences. CFT understands that many of our fears and threats "involve archetypal concerns linked to rejection, abandonment, isolation, shame, and harm" (Gilbert, 2010). An interesting component of the CFT formulation is that a distinction is drawn between external and internal threats. External threats are concerns about what other people might think of us, feel about us, or do to us (e.g. think we are bad, be disgusted by us, reject us, harm us). Internal threats are concerns about: how we think of ourselves (e.g. I'm unworthy), our emotions (e.g. I can't cope, If I get angry I'll lose control), memories (e.g. concern about what our unwanted memories mean), or concerns about feeling lonely or disconnected from others. Questions to explore fears and threats might include:
What do you fear that others think of you?
What do you fear that other people might do to you?
Living in this world, what are you afraid of?
What do you think other people would think of you if they really knew what had happened to you?
What are your concerns about yourself?
What are your fears about yourself? (e.g. I'm worthless, I'm not good enough)
Are there any emotions, memories, or experiences you have that you struggle with?
Safety strategies. We all actively try to cope with the world around us, and try to manage our own internal experiences. CFT understands that:
These strategies are intended to regulate our threat system. They are attempts to 'keep safe'. Strategies might differ according to whether we are trying to manage internal or external threats.
We have evolved (pre-programmed) ways of responding to perceived threats (e.g. freeze, appease, fight or flight).
We also have temperamental ways of responding (e.g. some people are more prone to approach, others to avoid).
The strategies we use are shaped by our experiences and may have become habitual (e.g. learned helplessness – people who have experienced a lot of attack may have 'learned' not to speak up; appeasing – some people may have learned to appease in order to manage threats from others).
Strategies might be learned during childhood or adolescence and become reinforced over time (e.g. "It's understandable that you learned to behave that way – in the context that behavior developed it made a lot of sense. Now you're not in that situation we can see whether it's still a strategy that is helping you").
Questions to explore safety strategies might include:
What do you do to cope when your fears are triggered (e.g. avoid, seek reassurance, become defensive)?
What do you do when you're face to face with your fears?
What do you do to protect yourself from the world, and other people?
What do you do to protect yourself from your own thoughts, feelings, and memories?
Unintended consequences. Safety strategies are an attempt to keep oneself safe. All actions have consequences, and this section of the formulation is designed to help clients reflect on the unintended consequences of their actions. The language of of 'unintended consequences' is intentionally de-shaming. It is helpful to encourage clients to reflect widely upon the effects of their safety strategies on their lives, relationships, confidence, and feelings. Clients can be helped to distinguish between external and internal effects. Helpful questions to explore unintended consequences include:
The intended consequences of acting in that way are for you to feel safe, but are there any undesirable consequences?
What happens you do that?
What's the impact of acting in that way on your relationships / how you feel / your life?
What's the downside of acting in that way?
My relationship with myself. A critical concept in CFT is the 'three circles' model of emotional regulation systems. These are threat-protection, drive, and affiliative-soothing. If an individual's affiliative-soothing system is underdeveloped for any reason they are likely to have a limited repertoire of strategies for managing their emotions: in the absence of a well-developed soothing system one's relationship with oneself is more likely to be harsh or critical. In order to be able to feel different people need to be able to access different mindsets/systems. Therefore, an important goal of compassionate mind training is to build an individual's capacity for affiliative thoughts, feelings, motivations, and behaviors. A key characteristic of the CFT compassion formulation is the focus on the self-to-self relationship. In the absence of a well-developed soothing system, unintended consequences of safety strategies are often met with harsh self-criticism which further exacerbates one's key fears and threats. It is helpful to explore this in detail with clients.
What kinds of things do you say to yourself?
What tone of voice are these things said in?
Does this tone remind you of anyone?
What is your motivation of speaking to yourself in that way? Does it have that effect (e.g. to get things done, not be lazy)?
Where did you learn to speak to yourself like that?
Would you speak to someone else like that?
How does it make you feel when you speak to yourself like that?
Next steps. Clients are helped to develop a compassionate understanding of their history, fears, actions, and consequences. Next steps within CFT can include:
Exploring what compassion is and why it is needed.
Dispelling myths about compassion.
Exploring fears and blocks to compassion.
Compassionate mind training exercises.
Dale-Hewitt, V., & Irons, C. (2015). Compassion Focused Therapy. In D. L. Dawson, N. G. Moghaddam (Eds) Formulation in Action, 161.
Gilbert, P. (2009). The compassionate mind: a new approach to the challenges of life. London: Constable & Robinson.
Gilbert, P., & Procter, S. (2006). Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self‐criticism: Overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 13(6), 353-379.
Lee, D. A. (2004). The perfect nurturer. In Compassion: Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy, 326.
Stott, R. (2007). When head and heart do not agree: a theoretical and clinical analysis of rational-emotional dissociation (RED) in cognitive therapy. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 21(1), 37-50.


This course is an intermediate level course in child psychology. It is intended to build greater understanding of the interface between child psychology and medicine, with a focus on how illness can affect development in children. The impact of acute and chronic illness on children transcends their physical health and this course is aimed at teaching students about distinct neuropsychological, emotional, interpersonal and daily living issues that emerge for children who become ill.


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Reading & Writing: if you hum a few bars…
Odd confession of the day – when I am at a loss for words, I sit and type, "In 1814, we took a little trip along with Col. Jackson on the mighty Mississipp…. We took a little bacon, we took a little beans and we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans…" Yep, the Battle of New Orleans is my inspiration song. It depends on how much my brain needs shaking loose as to how many verses get transcribed. Impressively, I can also type all nine verses of El Paso, but that's only for extreme writer's block!
Lyrics are such a part of my conversation that I've landed in hot water in a classroom because I began a discussion of Progressive politics, quoting "everything's up to date in Kansas City, they've gone about as far as they can go" from Oklahoma. Imagine everyone using weighty tomes, and even more strained historical theory to make the simple point that as society became more urbanized the dynamic between Tönnies' gemeinschaft and gesellschaft was exacerbated as the population became more mobile. Will Parker was everyman, facing a new world.
As an aside, I do realize that Tönnies can be derivative, that Max Weber – and his strain for consistency, or hell even Simmel's concept of 'being and becoming' could be thrown in to make the discussion deeper – and yes, talking about Max Weber is more or less my catnip – and I could go on a tangent about his brilliant mind and how his theories can be applied to nearly any subject…. however.
Making my point, I argued that popular culture might not tell the unvarnished, fully footnoted version of history. Yet, it's relevant. I think, in essence, it functions (not Parsons-like) to make people aware of a cultural meme and it gives the analyst of an "age" insight into the values of that age. For example, in the Johnny Horton classic, Jim Bridger, Horton previews the re-analysis of the Native Americans in historical conversations, "He spoke with General Custer and said listen Yellow Hair. The Sioux are the great nation so treat 'em fair and square. Sit in on their war councils, don't laugh away their pride. But Custer didn't listen at Little Big Horn Custer died."
Songs have served as gateways for as long as I can remember – and when I was trying to learn history as a kid, music fleshed the world of an era. I remember learning songs on the piano in order to make a story about WWII… Lili Marlene and her street lamp, those white cliffs of Dover and that lonely apple tree. The songs anchored a history and enriched its resonance. From "the world turned upside down," in the American revolution to Brendan James in the Gulf —
history in 16 bars:
King Tut (Steve Martin) — now if you didn't know he was a boy king, that animals of the Nile were in the tomb — and perhaps that he gave his life for tourism — the incomparable Steve Martin taught you a valuable lesson in ancient Egypt — if the "wild & crazy" Steve isn't your schtick — check out his bluegrass version with the Steep Canyon Rangers.
Pompeii (Bastille) — other than several references to lava clouds, the song has almost as much to do with history as the band's name reflects the French revolution (lead singer's birthday is 7/14)…
Brave Wolfe (Mark O'Connor & Wynton Marsalis) — I get so delighted when I come across a French & Indian War reference — so pivotal and so neglected. This lovely piece talks about the fall of Montcalm & Wolfe on the plains of Abraham in the battle of Quebec — so on my list of places I long to see!
Me & Paul Revere (Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers) — retelling of the mad dash from the point of view of Revere's horse — not a common viewpoint, but more historically accurate than you may imagine!
Johnny has Gone for a Soldier (Mark O'Connor & James Taylor) — love this English folk song, and there are myriad versions. O'Connor & Taylor recorded this one for the PBS series, Liberty and it is longing, heartfelt, and makes you all shivery…
Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton) — as a kid, there's a line a about "opening up our squirrel guns & really gave 'em … well, …" that just delighted us…
The Erie Canal (Laurie Berkner) — throw a mule named Sal, and you'll hit a version somewhere of this traditional favorite — kid's singer, Laurie Berkner has an awesome straightforward rendition, with lots of rhythm and humor. Springsteen's is a little earnest.
Johnny Reb (Johnny Horton) — I am so restraining myself — there could be ten Horton songs — this one is very "lost Cause," and tells something about the '50s — nice touch though with Lincoln & Dixie…
El Paso (Marty Robbins) — westward expansion, the porous divider that was/is the Rio Grande, and amazingly hot Felina.
Jim Bridger (Johnny Horton) — I went through a mountain man obsession as a little girl — Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, my parents were fans of Grizzly Adams…
John Henry (Pete Seeger) — another multi thousands of covers song, yet there is something perfect and timeless about Seeger's retelling of America's industrialization..
Casey Jones (Warren Zevon) — once you build the railroads, you have people who live on the rails… and and heroic drivers of those powerful engines. The Dead recorded both the traditional folk song, and another written by Jerry & Robert Hunter ('69). Zevon's cover of the latter is spot on.
North to Alaska (Johnny Horton) — shhh… how many of you went and checked out books about the Yukon Gold Rush because of this song? Ok, it may have just been me, but it is so cool — and that leads to stories about Balto, diphtheria and the origins of the Iditarod… great turn of the century manifest destiny stuff!
The Boll Weevil (the Weavers) — before Progressive ideology was taking root in the more urban areas, the devastation of large swathes of agricultural acreage sets the stage for a more Populist world view — the two are both essentially reformist in nature, with populism being less theoretical and more concerned about basic societal needs…. look at the origins of someone like Huey Long versus the more academic William Jennings Bryan — and you can get all that from "a little black bug, that comes from Mexico they say…"
This Land is your Land (Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings) — utterly subversive, deliciously adoring — one of the most truly American songs ever created. Woody Guthrie is an American icon, and this cover illustrates the timelessness and the universality of his work!
Tom Joad part 2 (Woody Guthrie) — I love Talking Dust Bowl Blues, but this one quotes Steinbeck, and tells the story of preacher Casey & the greatest "least of these" line in literature!
Sink the Bismark (Johnny Horton) — OK, this is the last — tells the story of the sub versus destroyer battle in the North Atlantic — you know you totally get "Lend-Lease" after listening
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot) — the 1975 tragedy and the subsequent hit song captured the imagination of the entire world… Shipping on the Great Lakes became interesting suddenly….
Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes (Paul Simon & Ladysmith Black Mambazo) — would Apartheid have been as universally condemned, as resolutely sanctioned without the popularity of Graceland? Would people have known its horrors so widely?
Change is Gonna Come (Beverly Knight) — the Civil Rights movement encapsulated in 5 verses — she is a worthy successor to such greats as Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin — gorgeous, throaty voice!
We Didn't Start the Fire (Billy Joel) — survey of 20th century American history — once I made the girls look up the references…. and its Billy Joel!
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.–> Rudyard Kipling
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2 thoughts on "Reading & Writing: if you hum a few bars…"
Ed Benson says:
"Springsteen's is a little earnest…" kinda goes without saying.
historythruthelookingglass says:
True — for the longest time, I couldn't watch him sing. He just looked like every single, (don't get me wrong) wonderful phrase was bringing him enormous pain — I got over it, and he seems a little mellower now
How are you doing — it has been forever?
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Matthew Wolff is an American graphic designer known for his work designing sports logos and jerseys, particularly for association football teams. He is also a co-founder of Vermont Green FC, an amateur soccer team in Burlington, Vermont.

Biography
Wolff was born in 1990 in New York City but raised in Minneapolis and London. He attended St. Paul Academy and Summit School in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He then matriculated to Skidmore College, where he played as a forward on the school's NCAA Division III soccer team. He graduated from Skidmore in 2012 with a degree in management and business. He then went on to study graphic design at Parsons School of Design.

After graduating from Parsons, he began work as a graphic designer for Upper 90 Soccer, a soccer equipment retailer in New York City. He then took a job as the lead art director for New York City FC. He created the new club's crest logo as well as their jerseys, billboards, and other marketing materials. He then went on to work for Nike, Inc. as a graphic designer in their global football apparel department. At Nike, he designed the 2018 FIFA World Cup kits for the national association football teams of Nigeria and France. The Nigeria kits were quickly sold out and broke pre-order records, and they were nominated for a Beazley Design of the Year award. He also designed the crest for Los Angeles FC.

In 2021, Wolff co-founded Vermont Green FC, an amateur team based in Burlington, Vermont playing in USL League Two. He also designed the team's crest and branding, which was unveiled in February 2022. The team places an emphasis on environmental activism, and Wolff says he has been working with manufacturers to make the team's jerseys out of recycled and sustainable materials.

In 2022, Wolff designed the logos and uniforms for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball. Wolff grew up a fan of the team.

Designs

Below is a list of some of the teams Wolff has designed crests for:
 Brookhattan FC
 Central Coast United FC
 Charleston Battery
 Chicago Fire FC
 Green Bay Voyageurs FC
 One Knoxville SC
 Los Angeles FC
 Racing Louisville FC
 Louisville City FC
 Minneapolis City SC
 NJ/NY Gotham FC
 New York City FC (with Rafael Esquer and Milo Kowalski)
 Union Omaha
 Oakland County FC
 Oakland Roots SC
 San Diego Wave FC (with Jeremy Nelson)
 FC Tulsa
 Vermont Green FC
 Victoria Highlanders FC
 Virginia Beach City FC

References

External links

Artists from New York City
Artists from Minneapolis
Skidmore Thoroughbreds men's soccer players
Parsons School of Design alumni
Nike, Inc. people
New York City FC non-playing staff
American graphic designers
1990 births

Living people

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package org.apache.fineract.portfolio.loanaccount.rescheduleloan.domain;

import java.math.BigDecimal;

import org.apache.fineract.organisation.monetary.domain.Money;
import org.apache.fineract.portfolio.loanaccount.loanschedule.data.LoanSchedulePeriodData;
import org.joda.time.LocalDate;

public final class LoanRescheduleModelRepaymentPeriod implements LoanRescheduleModalPeriod {

    private int periodNumber;
    private int oldPeriodNumber;
    private LocalDate fromDate;
    private LocalDate dueDate;
    private Money principalDue;
    private Money outstandingLoanBalance;
    private Money interestDue;
    private Money feeChargesDue;
    private Money penaltyChargesDue;
    private Money totalDue;
    private boolean isNew;

    public LoanRescheduleModelRepaymentPeriod(final int periodNumber, final int oldPeriodNumber, LocalDate fromDate,
            final LocalDate dueDate, final Money principalDue, final Money outstandingLoanBalance, final Money interestDue,
            final Money feeChargesDue, final Money penaltyChargesDue, final Money totalDue, final boolean isNew) {
        this.periodNumber = periodNumber;
        this.oldPeriodNumber = oldPeriodNumber;
        this.fromDate = fromDate;
        this.dueDate = dueDate;
        this.principalDue = principalDue;
        this.outstandingLoanBalance = outstandingLoanBalance;
        this.interestDue = interestDue;
        this.feeChargesDue = feeChargesDue;
        this.penaltyChargesDue = penaltyChargesDue;
        this.totalDue = totalDue;
        this.isNew = isNew;
    }

    public static LoanRescheduleModelRepaymentPeriod instance(final int periodNumber, final int oldPeriodNumber, LocalDate fromDate,
            final LocalDate dueDate, final Money principalDue, final Money outstandingLoanBalance, final Money interestDue,
            final Money feeChargesDue, final Money penaltyChargesDue, final Money totalDue, final boolean isNew) {

        return new LoanRescheduleModelRepaymentPeriod(periodNumber, oldPeriodNumber, fromDate, dueDate, principalDue,
                outstandingLoanBalance, interestDue, feeChargesDue, penaltyChargesDue, totalDue, isNew);
    }

    @Override
    public LoanSchedulePeriodData toData() {
        return LoanSchedulePeriodData.repaymentOnlyPeriod(this.periodNumber, this.fromDate, this.dueDate, this.principalDue.getAmount(),
                this.outstandingLoanBalance.getAmount(), this.interestDue.getAmount(), this.feeChargesDue.getAmount(),
                this.penaltyChargesDue.getAmount(), this.totalDue.getAmount(), this.principalDue.plus(this.interestDue).getAmount());
    }

    @Override
    public Integer periodNumber() {
        return this.periodNumber;
    }

    @Override
    public Integer oldPeriodNumber() {
        return this.oldPeriodNumber;
    }

    @Override
    public LocalDate periodFromDate() {
        return this.fromDate;
    }

    @Override
    public LocalDate periodDueDate() {
        return this.dueDate;
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal principalDue() {
        BigDecimal value = null;

        if (this.principalDue != null) {
            value = this.principalDue.getAmount();
        }

        return value;
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal interestDue() {
        BigDecimal value = null;

        if (this.interestDue != null) {
            value = this.interestDue.getAmount();
        }

        return value;
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal feeChargesDue() {
        BigDecimal value = null;

        if (this.feeChargesDue != null) {
            value = this.feeChargesDue.getAmount();
        }

        return value;
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal penaltyChargesDue() {
        BigDecimal value = null;

        if (this.penaltyChargesDue != null) {
            value = this.penaltyChargesDue.getAmount();
        }

        return value;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isNew() {
        return isNew;
    }

    public void updatePeriodNumber(Integer periodNumber) {
        this.periodNumber = periodNumber;
    }

    public void updateOldPeriodNumber(Integer oldPeriodNumber) {
        this.oldPeriodNumber = oldPeriodNumber;
    }

    public void updatePeriodFromDate(LocalDate periodFromDate) {
        this.fromDate = periodFromDate;
    }

    public void updatePeriodDueDate(LocalDate periodDueDate) {
        this.dueDate = periodDueDate;
    }

    public void updatePrincipalDue(Money principalDue) {
        this.principalDue = principalDue;
    }

    public void updateInterestDue(Money interestDue) {
        this.interestDue = interestDue;
    }

    public void updateFeeChargesDue(Money feeChargesDue) {
        this.feeChargesDue = feeChargesDue;
    }

    public void updatePenaltyChargesDue(Money penaltyChargesDue) {
        this.penaltyChargesDue = penaltyChargesDue;
    }

    public void updateOutstandingLoanBalance(Money outstandingLoanBalance) {
        this.outstandingLoanBalance = outstandingLoanBalance;
    }

    public void updateTotalDue(Money totalDue) {
        this.totalDue = totalDue;
    }

    public void updateIsNew(boolean isNew) {
        this.isNew = isNew;
    }
}

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The latest ARmadgeddon post is an article by Bill Hopkins. I just saw it on my way out for lunch with one of Gartner's competitors – who had already been discussing the article to see if it suggests any opportunities for them.
Hopkins seems to feel that the role of analyst firms is to meet clients' needs. On the vendor side, AR is a major stakeholder. Gartner wants to build deeper relationships with other parts of the business. As a result, it's felt to be selling over the heads of key stakeholders, including AR, in order to conect to these new customers. However, the process can annoy those key stakeholders who feel that Gartner is trying to get behind them, and to map the whole environment of influence inside the firm which affects spending on Gartner's services. This an important discussion for the AR community, and it's a shame that neither ARmadgeddon nor Bill's site are open for comments (which seems to be a change of policy for ARmadgeddon).
Over lunch today, my companions outlined general support for Bill's view, but with some caveats.
They have found that very few vendors centralise their buying from analysts in AR. Some, such as Oracle, have found that effective. However, their feeling was that the percentage of buyers centralising analyst purchasing in AR is closer to 0% than to 70%. Almost everywhere, AR is an important influencer. At some firms (especially the mid-market, where most of Bill's clients are) AR, PR, business intelligence and other communcations functions often sit under the same VP of marketing, who is often the buyer of analysts' services. They have found that AR is rarely the central buyer.
Mapping the network of influence inside a firm will often annoy AR, especially if analyst relations managers tend to pay a gatekeeping role. However, every analyst firms needs to do this to some extent, regardless of the AR managers' preferences. Often, the analyst firm's account manager will be able to understand better than the AR manager what needs to be done to help the AR manager to get corporate buy-in for services the AR manager would like the firm to buy.
Even where the AR manager or some other central buy is the purchaser, often not they are not the primary beneficiary of the contact with the analyst firm. Sometimes, they are simply aggregating purchases funded from other units of the business. In that context, the analyst firm needs to be able to sell to the business unit where each purchasing decision is made, and not just to the single signers of the purchase order.
These seem reasonable comments, and one of my own occurred to me: Bill seems wise in concluding it's a great idea for AR managers to develop a common mechanism to feed back to analysts. Some groups do exist (such as the IIAR, its German equal DARA and SPAR) and the relationships between those groups get steadily warmer. That's a major change in the environment from a few years ago, when Bill's firm would have ruled out such a development as a quango. The time is right for us to worth together to give the AR community a voice.


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Lubbock Outdoor Gathering Restrictions Begin Sunday
Chad Hasty Published: October 30, 2020
Lubbock's Trauma Service area is still above 15% COVID hospitalization rate which means Lubbock has begun to "roll-back" it's reopening due to Governor Greg Abbott's Executive Order.
Restaurants and other businesses that have operated at 75% occupancy will now have to operate at 50% capacity and bars will have to close. But there is also another part of the Governor's Executive Order that kicks in on Sunday.
As part of Governor Greg Abbott's Executive Order (GA-32), Lubbock will have to restrict outdoor gatherings to 10 people unless the Mayor of Lubbock says it's okay. But even this doesn't impact many outdoor gatherings. According to a press release from the City of Lubbock, sporting events, school events, Texas Tech, and more not impacted.
The following outdoor activities/events are exempted from this order, thus not prohibited:
youth camps, including daytime and overnight camps
youth and adult recreational sporting events/programs
any public or private schools, and any public or private institutions of higher education
drive-in concerts, movies, or similar events
The order also only applies to the City not the County. So there will be no restrictions on Texas Tech Football, or even any last minute political rallies that take place outside the city limits.
Officials with the City of Lubbock, Lubbock County, and State of Texas continue to urge citizens to act responsible by wearing face coverings, washing hands, socially distancing, and not going out if you are sick.
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World's largest opinion survey on climate change: Majority call for wide-ranging action
New York - The results of the Peoples' Climate Vote, the world's biggest ever survey of public opinion on climate change are published today. Covering 50 countries with over half of the world's population, the survey includes over half a million people under the age of 18, a key constituency on climate change that is typically unable to vote yet in regular elections.
Detailed results broken down by age, gender, and education level will be shared with governments around the world by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which organized the innovative poll with the University of Oxford. In many participating countries, it is the first time that large-scale polling of public opinion has ever been conducted on the topic of climate change. 2021 is a pivotal year for countries' climate action commitments, with a key round of negotiations set to take place at the UN Climate Summit in November in Glasgow, UK.
In the survey, respondents were asked if climate change was a global emergency and whether they supported eighteen key climate policies across six action areas: economy, energy, transport, food & farms, nature and protecting people.
Results show that people often want broad climate policies beyond the current state of play. For example, in eight of the ten survey countries with the highest emissions from the power sector, majorities backed more renewable energy. In four out of the five countries with the highest emissions from land-use change and enough data on policy preferences, there was majority support for conserving forests and land. Nine out of ten of the countries with the most urbanized populations backed more use of clean electric cars and buses, or bicycles.
UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner said: "The results of the survey clearly illustrate that urgent climate action has broad support amongst people around the globe, across nationalities, age, gender and education level. But more than that, the poll reveals how people want their policymakers to tackle the crisis. From climate-friendly farming to protecting nature and investing in a green recovery from COVID-19, the survey brings the voice of the people to the forefront of the climate debate. It signals ways in which countries can move forward with public support as we work together to tackle this enormous challenge."
The innovative survey was distributed across mobile gaming networks in order to include hard-to-reach audiences in traditional polling, like youth under the age of 18. Polling experts at the University of Oxford weighted the huge sample to make it representative of the age, gender, and education population profiles of the countries in the survey, resulting in small margins of error of +/- 2%.
Policies had wide-ranging support, with the most popular being conserving forests and land (54% public support), more solar, wind and renewable power (53%), adopting climate-friendly farming techniques (52%) and investing more in green businesses and jobs (50%).
Prof. Stephen Fisher, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, said: "The survey - the biggest ever survey of public opinion on climate change - has shown us that mobile gaming networks can not only reach a lot of people, they can engage different kinds of people in a diverse group of countries. The Peoples' Climate Vote has delivered a treasure trove of data on public opinion that we've never seen before. Recognition of the climate emergency is much more widespread than previously thought. We've also found that most people clearly want a strong and wide-raging policy response."
The survey shows a direct link between a person's level of education and their desire for climate action. There was very high recognition of the climate emergency among those who had attended university or college in all countries, from lower-income countries such as Bhutan (82%) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (82%), to wealthy countries like France (87%) and Japan (82%).
The percentage of a population estimated to support a particular policy does not indicate that those who did not are against the same policy, since not endorsing a policy could also be due to indifference to it. The country results present what people think who are physically in a particular country. They are not representative of what nationals of a particular country think. So for example, they are representative not of what French people think, but of people in France.
UNDP is the leading United Nations organization fighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality, and climate change. Working with our broad network of experts and partners in 170 countries, we help nations to build integrated, lasting solutions for people and planet.
Learn more at undp.org or follow @UNDP
Related Climate Change Articles from Brightsurf:
Are climate scientists being too cautious when linking extreme weather to climate change?
Climate science has focused on avoiding false alarms when linking extreme events to climate change.
Mysterious climate change
New research findings underline the crucial role that sea ice throughout the Southern Ocean played for atmospheric CO2 in times of rapid climate change in the past.
Mapping the path of climate change
Predicting a major transition, such as climate change, is extremely difficult, but the probabilistic framework developed by the authors is the first step in identifying the path between a shift in two environmental states.
Small change for climate change: Time to increase research funding to save the world
A new study shows that there is a huge disproportion in the level of funding for social science research into the greatest challenge in combating global warming -- how to get individuals and societies to overcome ingrained human habits to make the changes necessary to mitigate climate change.
Sub-national 'climate clubs' could offer key to combating climate change
'Climate clubs' offering membership for sub-national states, in addition to just countries, could speed up progress towards a globally harmonized climate change policy, which in turn offers a way to achieve stronger climate policies in all countries.
Review of Chinese atmospheric science research over the past 70 years: Climate and climate change
Over the past 70 years since the foundation of the People's Republic of China, Chinese scientists have made great contributions to various fields in the research of atmospheric sciences, which attracted worldwide attention.
A CERN for climate change
In a Perspective article appearing in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Tim Palmer (Oxford University), and Bjorn Stevens (Max Planck Society), critically reflect on the present state of Earth system modelling.
Fairy-wrens change breeding habits to cope with climate change
Warmer temperatures linked to climate change are having a big impact on the breeding habits of one of Australia's most recognisable bird species, according to researchers at The Australian National University (ANU).
Believing in climate change doesn't mean you are preparing for climate change, study finds
Notre Dame researchers found that although coastal homeowners may perceive a worsening of climate change-related hazards, these attitudes are largely unrelated to a homeowner's expectations of actual home damage.
Older forests resist change -- climate change, that is
Older forests in eastern North America are less vulnerable to climate change than younger forests, particularly for carbon storage, timber production, and biodiversity, new research finds.
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February – April 2018 Feb – Apr 2018
COLLOQUIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES AND INFORMATICS – Metrorail and Metrobus, Data Sources and Information Needs – Eichler @ Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
COLLOQUIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES AND INFORMATICS
Michael Eichler
Strategic Planning Advisor
Metro Office of Planning
Metrorail and Metrobus, Data Sources and Information Needs
Monday, February 12, 4:30-5:45
Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Abstract: Modernization of nearly all the technology that underlies the provision of rail and bus transit service over the past 30 years has resulted in a vast amount of data that until recently has been more or less neglected. Meanwhile, challenges that face rail and bus transit systems continue to mount, from maintaining a state of good repair to capturing and keeping riders in the age of Uber/Lyft and bike share. The key to providing safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable transit service into the next century lies in the hands of data scientists and policy analysts. This talk will review the different data-generating technologies and the types of data they create, followed by an exploration of the pressing issues faced by transit agencies and the questions begging for answers.
Bio: Michael currently serves as Strategic Planning Advisor at WMATA in the Office of Planning's Applied Planning Intelligence unit, where he focuses on transforming data into information to help inform policy and planning decisions. He currently focuses on fare policy, crowding, GTFS data and online tools, and customer-focused performance metrics. Before joining WMATA in 2010, he worked for Oracle Corporation, an IT start-up, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. He holds a BS in Systems Analysis and Engineering from The George Washington University, and masters in City and Regional Planning and Transportation Engineering from UC Berkeley.
Categories: Colloquium on CSI Seminar
COLLOQUIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES AND INFORMATICS – The Journey and Stories of a Data Science Entrepreneur – Mallon and Koefoot @ Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Sean Mallon, Associate Vice President
Eric Koefoot
Founder and CEO of PublicRelay
The Journey and Stories of a Data Science Entrepreneur
This session will feature conversation between Sean Mallon, Mason's AVP for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Eric Koefoot, founder and CEO of PublicRelay, a venture-backed data analytics and media intelligence startup based in McLean, VA. During the discussion we will explore a wide range of topics, ranging from what inspired the initial business idea, to customer discovery, to product development challenges, to fundraising, to customer acquisition strategies, and much more. This will be a highly interactive seminar and participants are encouraged to come with questions and personal experiences to share.
Sean Mallon, Associate Vice President, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Office of the Provost. Photo by Ron Aira/Creative Services/George Mason University
Sean Mallon Bio: Sean Mallon is Mason's Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Before joining Mason in 2016, Sean spent many years as an entrepreneur and early-stage technology investor. Sean hold a Bachelor's in History from Princeton and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Eric Koefoot Bio: Formerly the CEO of U.S. News Ventures, CEO at Five Star Alliance, CFO and later VP Global Sales at Washington Post Digital, Eric is the founder and CEO of PublicRelay and brings substantial media experience and understanding. Eric holds a Bachelor's in Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the Sloan School at MIT.
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE – Introduction to R for computational and data science – Tian @ Center for Social Complexity Suite 3rd Floor, Research Hall, Fairfax Campus
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE FRIDAY SEMINAR
Qing Tian, Assistant Professor
Computational and Data Sciences
Introduction to R for Computational and Data Science
Friday, February 23, 3:00 p.m.
Center for Social Complexity Suite
3rd Floor, Research Hall
ABSTRACT: R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It has gained substantially increased popularity in recent years. In addition to classical statistical analysis functionalities, it includes a wide range of packages with capabilities of data mining and machine learning, text analysis, spatial statistics, and social network analysis etc. This seminar will focus mostly on a suite of R packages that are designed to facilitate data (including social networks) visualization. These visualization functions are useful for exploratory analysis of real world data as well as output data from simulations.
Categories: CSS Friday Seminars Seminar
COLLOQUIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES AND INFORMATICS – A Network Theory of Inter-Firm Labor Flows – Lopez @ Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Eduardo Lopez, Assistant Professor
Department of Computational and Data Sciences
A Network Theory of Inter-Firm Labor Flows
Monday, March 5, 4:30-5:45
Abstract: Using detailed administrative microdata for two countries, we build a modeling framework that yields new explanations for the origin of firm sizes, the firm contributions to unemployment, and the job-to-job mobility of workers between firms. Firms are organized as nodes in networks where connections represent low mobility barriers for workers. These labor flow networks are determined empirically, and serve as the substrate in which workers transition between jobs. We show that highly skewed firm size distributions are a direct consequence of the connectivity of firms. Further, our model permits the reconceptualization of unemployment as a local phenomenon, induced by individual firms, leading to the notion of firm-specific unemployment, which is also highly skewed. In coupling the study of job mobility and firm dynamics the model provides a new analytical tool for industrial organization and may make it possible to synthesize more targeted policies managing job mobility.
COLLOQUIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES AND INFORMATICS – Using data science and materials simulations to control the corkscrew magnetism of MnAu₂. – Glasbrenner @ Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
James Glasbrenner, Assistant Professor
Using data science and materials simulations to control the corkscrew magnetism of MnAu₂
Monday, March 19, 4:30-5:45
Materials occupy a foundational role in our society, from the silicon-based chips in our smartphones to the metals used to manufacture automobiles and construct buildings. The sheer variety in materials properties enables this wide range of use, and studying the atoms that bond together to form solids reveals the microscopic origin behind these properties. Remarkably, many properties can be traced to the behavior of and interaction between electrons, and computational simulations such as density functional theory calculations are used to study the features and macroscopic effects of this electronic structure. This computational approach can be further enhanced through recent advances in data science, which provide powerful tools and methods for analyzing and modeling data and for handling and storing large datasets.
In this talk, I will: 1) introduce the basic concepts of computational materials science and density functional theory in an accessible manner, and 2) present calculations on the material MnAu₂ where I use density functional theory and modeling to analyze its magnetic properties. The MnAu₂ structure is layered and its magnetic ground state forms a noncollinear corkscrew that rotates approximately 50° between neighboring manganese layers. Using the results of my calculations, I will explain the electronic origin of this corkscrew state and how to control its angle using external pressure and chemical substitution. In addition to discussing the electron physics, I will place a particular emphasis on the connection between data science and how modeling was used to analyze and interpret the density functional theory calculations. This will include a new, critical reexamination of my model fitting procedure using cross-validation and feature selection techniques, which will formally test the underlying assumptions I made in the original study.
Compututational Social Science Seminar – The Creation of the Office of Naval Research's Data & Analytics Lab – Zelnio @ Center for Social Complexity Suite 3rd Floor, Research Hall, Fairfax Campus
Ryan Zelnio, Ph.D.
Chief Analytics Officer
The Creation of the Office of Naval Research's Data & Analytics Lab
Friday, March 23, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Research Hall, 3rd Floor
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the United States Navy and Marine Corps. It administers the Naval Research Enterprise (NRE) investment portfolio of $2B annually in Naval relevant science and technologies (S&T) ranging from basic research to technology prototyping. This portfolio covers over 3000 grant and contract awards annually over a large variety of technologies. In FY2017 alone, the basic and applied research portfolio (which is less than 50% of its budget) funded 4,411 scientific articles, 2,732 conference papers, 343 theses, 204 books & book chapters and 88 patents. However, while this portfolio is large, it is a drop in the bucket within the global research & development (R&D) enterprise. In an attempt to understand this vast amount of data being produced both within the NRE and globally, ONR recently stood up the Data & Analytics Lab. Its mission is to support strategic decision making at the Office of Naval Research with in-depth analysis of the NRE portfolio to enhance mission effectiveness for U.S. Naval Forces. This new lab is led by Mr. Matt Poe and includes Dr. Ryan Zelnio (2013 GMU SPP grad) serving as the Chief Analytics Officer and LCDR Nick Benes serving as the Chief Data Officer. This lab seeks to harness ONR's investments in social network analysis, machine learning, natural language processing, data visualization, supervised and unsupervised clustering, and many other data science tools to support decision processes across the NRE. Their talk will cover the range of challenges facing their lab as they stand up their effort and discuss the broader move within the federal government to better apply the tools of data science to understand the complexity of the R&D enterprise. They will also discuss future partnering and internship opportunities.
COLLOQUIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES AND INFORMATICS – TBA – Kröger @ Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Dr. Peer Kröger, Professor
Chair of Database Systems and Data Mining
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE SEMINAR-Introduction to The Economics ARK (Algorithmic Repository and toolKit)-Carroll @ Center for Social Complexity Suite, 3rd Floor, Research Hall
By Christopher Carroll and Jacquelyn Kazil
Christopher Carroll, Professor
Title: Introduction to The Economics ARK (Algorithmic Repository and toolKit)
The Econ-ARK/HARK toolkit is a modular and extensible open source toolkit for solving, simulating, and estimating heterogeneous-agent (HA) models in economics and the social sciences. Although the value of models of this kind has been clear both to academics and to policymakers for a long time, the code for implementing such models has so far been handcrafted and idiosyncratic. As a result, it may take years of human capital development for a new researcher to become proficient enough in these methods to contribute to the literature. The seminar will describe how the Heterogeneous Agents Resources and toolKit (HARK) eases this burden by providing a robust framework in which canonical examples of such models are solved. The toolkit provides object-oriented tools for representing heterogeneous agents, solution methods for solving or characterizing their dynamic choice problems, and a framework for representing the environment in which agents interact. The aim of the toolkit is to become the go-to resource for heterogeneous agent modelers, by providing a well-designed, well-documented, and powerful platform in which they can develop their own work in a robust and replicable manner.
I am a professor of economics at JHU and co-chair of the National Bureau of Economic Research's working group on the Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Consumption Behavior. Originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, I received my A.B. in Economics from Harvard University in 1986 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. After graduating from M.I.T., I worked at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC, where I prepared forecasts for consumer expenditure. I moved to Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and also spent 1997-98 working at the Council of Economic Advisors in Washington, where I analyzed Social Security reform proposals, tax and pension policy, and bankruptcy reform. Aside from my current work at Hopkins and the NBER, I am also an associate editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics,(ReStat) the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, (JBES) and the Berkeley Electronic Journal of Macroeconomics (BEJM).
My research has primarily focused on consumption and saving behavior, with an emphasis on reconciling the empirical evidence from both microeconomic and macroeconomic sources with theoretical models. (In addition to articles in economic journals, I've authored Encyclopedia Britannica articles on consumption related topics.) My most recent research has focused on the dynamics of expectations formation, particularly on how expectations reflect households' learning from each other and from experts. This focus flows from a career-long interest in consumer sentiment and its determinants.
Jacquelyn Kazil
CSS PhD Student
Title: Mesa, Agent-based modeling library in Python 3
Python has grown significantly in the scientific community, but there is no tool or reusable framework to do agent-based modeling (ABM) in Python. While there are well-established frameworks in other languages, the lack of one in the Python language is at odds with the growth of Python in the scientific community. As a result, we created an ABM framework called Mesa in Python 3 with sustained contributions. Mesa is built to be modular, so the backend server, the frontend visualization and tooling, the batch runner, and the data collector are each separate components that can be upgraded independently from each other. In addition to this, Mesa is extensible and meant to be decoupled from domain specific add-ons. This empowers the community to develop features and add-ons independent of the core Mesa library. In this talk, Jackie will set the stage for her Ph.D by providing an overview Mesa's past, present, and proposed future, along with how that fits in the ABM ecosystem of other tooling.
COLLOQUIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES AND INFORMATICS – Data Management Expert Discussion Seminar: Learning-based Cost Management for Cloud Databases – Dr. Olga Papaemmanouil @ Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Olga Papaemmanouil, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University
Data Management Expert Discussion Seminar:
Learning-based Cost Management for Cloud Databases
Monday, April 16, 4:30-5:45
Cloud computing has become one of the most active areas of computer science research, in large part because it allows computing to behave like a general utility that is always available on demand. While existing cloud infrastructures and services reduce significantly the application development time, significant effort is still required by cloud data management applications to manage their monetary cost, for often this cost depends on a number of decisions including but not limited to performance goals, resource provisioning and workload allocation. These tasks depend on the application-specific workload characteristics and performance objectives and today their implementation burden is left on application developers.
We argue for a substantial shift away from human-crafted solutions and towards leveraging machine learning algorithms to address the above challenges. These algorithms can be trained on application-specific properties and customized performance goals to automatically learn how to provision resources as well as schedule the execution of incoming query workloads with low cost. Towards this vision, we have developed WiSeDB, a learning-based cost management service for cloud-deployed data management applications. In this talk, I will discuss how WiSeDB leverages (a) supervised learning to automatically learn cost-effective models for guiding query placement, scheduling, and resource provisioning decisions for batch processing, and (b) reinforcement learning to offer low cost online processing solutions, while being adaptive to resource availability and decoupled from notoriously inaccurate performance prediction models.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Papaemmanouil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University. Her research interest lies in the area of data management with a recent focus on cloud databases, data exploration, query optimization and query performance prediction. She received her undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Informatics at the University of Patras, Greece in 1999. In 2001, she received her Sc.M. in Information Systems at the University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece. She then joined the Computer Science Department at Brown University, where she completed her Ph.D in Computer Science at Brown University in 2008. She is the recipient of an NSF Career Award (2013) and a Paris Kanellakis Fellowship from Brown University (2002)
Categories: Colloquium on CSI
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE SEMINAR – A Proof of Concept: An Agent-Based Model of Colorism within an Organizational Context (Local Policing) – Henry Smart, III @ Center for Social Complexity Suite 3rd Floor, Research Hall, Fairfax Campus
Henry Smart, III, PhD candidate
A Proof of Concept: An Agent-Based Model of Colorism
within an Organizational Context (Local Policing)
Friday, April 20, 3:00 p.m.
Colorism is the allocation of privilege and disadvantage based on skin color, with a prejudice for lighter skin. This project uses agent-based modeling (computational simulation) to explore the potential effects of colorism on local policing. I argue that colorism might help to explain some of the racial disparities in the United States' criminal justice system. I use simulated scenarios to explore the plausibility of this notion in the form of two questions: 1) How might colorism function within an organization; and 2) What might occur when managers apply the typical dilemmatic responses to detected colorism? The simulated world consists of three citizen-groups (lights, mediums, and darks), five policy responses to detected colorism, and two policing behaviors (fair and biased). Using NetLogo, one hundred simulations were conducted for each policy response and analyzed using one-way ANOVA and pairwise comparison of means. When the tenets of colorism were applied to an organizational setting, only some of the tenets held true. For instance, those in the middle of the skin color spectrum experienced higher rates incarceration when aggressive steps were taken to counter colorism, which ran counter to the expectations of the thought experiment. The study identified an opportunity to expand the description of colorism to help describe the plight of those in the middle of the skin color spectrum. The major contributions from this work include a conceptual model that describes the relationship between the distinct levels of colorism and it progresses the notion of interactive colorism. The study also produced conditional statements that can be converted into hypotheses for future experiments.


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Economic study repaid from eight years' income tax
200-year-old Court of Audit carries out audits with and for school children
Each person studying economics at university costs the government about €73,000. The students themselves pay a further €12,000. The income tax paid by a woman who goes to work immediately after completing her study will repay the government's outlay in eight years. She will earn back the costs paid by herself and her parents within four years.
A secondary vocational course costs a student about €3,000 and the government about €48,000 (for basic vocational education at level 1 or 2). The income tax paid by a boy who starts work immediately after completing the course will repay the government's contribution in 15 years. He will earn back his own costs within a year.
These are two of the findings of the Student Audit published on 5 June 2014. The Court of Audit calculated the pay-back time of pre-higher education, senior general secondary education and pre-vocational secondary education.


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I'm trying to post mainform and the action method looks like this
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Everytime each object (Child1, Child2 etc.) are null. I'm posting form via AJAX as follows:
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Am i missing something? Is there any other way i can process data? I can not have multiple submits on partial views that's the constraint here.
Any suggestions please.

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