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Many types of accidents can be devastating. If you were injured on the job or in an accident caused by someone else, you may be able to obtain compensation. The Schaumburg and Wheaton personal injury lawyers at Therman Law Offices represent Illinois residents in lawsuits for damages, as well as workers' compensation claims. We have over 35 years of combined experience, and we can develop a strategy that considers your specific needs and circumstances, whether you were injured in a car accident, an elevator accident, or a slip and fall.
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Pedestrians are particularly vulnerable to catastrophic injury or a wrongful death. They do not have any physical buffer between their body and the force of a collision. A personal injury lawyer in Schaumburg or Wheaton can help you sue for injuries that you suffer as a result of a car accident. If you carry auto insurance, that insurance may give you coverage in case you are involved in a hit and run. When a driver kills a pedestrian, their family may be able to sue for specific types of damages.
When you visit an apartment building or business, you rely on the property owner to keep the elevators in safe operating condition. Sometimes victims are unexpectedly injured because of elevators. They may malfunction due to heavy usage and lack of maintenance. If you were injured in an elevator accident, a Chicago elevator injury lawyer may be able to recover damages through a premises liability claim. Property owners are supposed to keep their property reasonably safe, and this duty includes providing regular inspections and maintenance of elevators. In some cases, it may be possible to hold liable a company that installs or repairs an elevator.
If you are injured as a result of a dangerous property condition on a property that you are visiting, you may be able to recover damages. The Illinois Premises Liability Act provides that property owners owe visitors a duty of reasonable care under the circumstances, regarding the state of the premises or acts committed on the property. The duty of reasonable care does not include a duty to warn of obvious dangers. Likewise, a property owner is not expected to provide warnings for dangers that are already known to the visitor or that could reasonably be expected to be discovered. Your Schaumburg or Wheaton personal injury lawyer will need to show that a property owner knew or should have known about the dangerous condition.
When you put a loved one in a nursing home, you trust that they will be competently treated. Unfortunately, nursing home abuse is common, and it may involve negligent care, improper restraints, pressure sores, or falls. Of all of the states, Illinois has had the largest number of nursing home abuse incidents overall. Nursing homes in Illinois are licensed and regulated, and they are inspected by private and public agencies. Both federal and state laws govern them. If you or a loved one has been subjected to nursing home abuse or neglect, you may be able to recover damages.
Workers' compensation laws are designed to give employees financial assistance in case they cannot work because of on-the-job injuries or illnesses. This financial assistance is paid in the form of benefits that are provided without regard to fault. You can get workers' compensation even if your own carelessness caused you to be injured on the job. Employees may be entitled to benefits such as medical expenses and temporary total disability, temporary partial disability, permanent partial disability, or permanent total disability. Vocational rehabilitation and death benefits may also be available.
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Q: wvdial NO CARRIER error I've been trying to connect Huawei E3131 to my Raspberry pi.
So far I've installed ppp, usb_modeswitch and wvdial. Here is my wvdial.conf partially generated by wvdialconf and partially changed by myself:
[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/modem
Username = { }
Password = { }
Baud = 9600
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0
Init3 = ATX3
Carrier Check = no
Stupid Mode = 1
Modem Type = Analog Modem
ISDN = 0
Phone = *+88690xxxxxxx#
New PPPD = yes

In the end the output I get looks like that:
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0
OK
--> Sending: ATX3
ATX3
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*+88690xxxxxxx#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*+88690xxxxxxx#
NO CARRIER
--> No Carrier!  Trying again.
--> Sending: ATDT*+88690xxxxxxx#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*+88690xxxxxxx#
NO CARRIER
--> No Carrier!  Trying again.

The simcard in the dongle is from Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) if that is any help.

A: Ok, apparently you don't need to change the basic *99# to your phone number. So the final config file looks like
[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/modem
Username = { }
Password = { }
Baud = 9600
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0
Init3 = ATX3
Carrier Check = no
Stupid Mode = 1
Modem Type = Analog Modem
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99#
New PPPD = yes

run it with sudo for creation of ppp and everything works fine. Also you may run wvdialconf to generate the config file with suitable commands. However parameteres are not affected by it, except Baud. Hope someone will find it useful.

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Blast in Philippines kills at least two
December 31, 2018 vietnamplus Leave a Comment
The scene of the recent explosion in the Philippines (Photo: sunstar.com.ph) Hanoi (VNA) – At least two people were killed while 21 others were injured when an explosion occurred on December 31 afternoon, near the entrance of a mall in Cotabato city in southern Philippines, Xinhua news agency reported. The Chinese news agency cited Philippine military and police authorities as saying that an improvised explosive device exploded around 1:59 pm local time in front of a major mall, as hundreds of people were shopping for the New Year's Eve. Cotabato city police said an unidentified man dropped a wrapped box in the area shortly before the blast. Wounded victims were rushed to the nearest hospital while bomb disposal team quickly arrived at the scene. The Philippine army is looking into the incident as well as trying to identify the kind of explosive device which was used in the case. Initial investigation results showed that it has similar design with ones frequently-used … [Read more...] about Blast in Philippines kills at least two
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Permanent gov't members discuss socio-economic performance Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the event Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a meeting of permanent government members in Hanoi on August 28 to discuss the recent socio-economic performance, State budget, and public investment. Participants listened to a 2018 report on socio-economic performance and State budget, as well as a socio-economic development plan and State budget estimate for 2019. In light of the past achievements, all 12 targets for 2018 are expected to be met. They gave opinions on the mid-term report on socio-economic development and State budget, a public investment plan for 2016-2020, and the national finance-budget plan for 2019-2021. Concluding the meeting, the PM asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, and the Government Office to acquire suggestions and refine reports to submit to the government at the upcoming monthly meeting. He … [Read more...] about Government News 29/8
Digital transformation imperative for Viet Nam and its neighbours "Digital transformation or lose?" is a key message raised during the second-day of the Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Viet Nam, and Thailand (CLMVT) Forum 2018, held in Bangkok from August 16 to 17. The session features senior policy makers and representatives from some of the most remarkable tech startups and successful SMEs from CLMVT and non-CLMVT countries who share their experiences on how to successfully integrate new technologies into their businesses and production networks. Digital transformation is an inevitable trend that start-ups and small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) in the CLMVT region have to embrace sooner rather than later to remain in the race, said Oudet Souvannavong, President of Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "If business are not linked to technology, they will definitely lose," Souvannavong said, adding that digital transformation is the key for business to move … [Read more...] about BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF 21/8
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Van explosion kills 10 at checkpoint in Philippine south: army
July 30, 2018 vnexpress Leave a Comment
By Reuters &nbspJuly 31, 2018 | 09:49 am GMT+7 Philippine National Police Special Action Force personnel man a checkpoint in Marawi city, as government troops continue their assault against insurgents from the Maute group, in Philippines June 10, 2017. Photo by Reuters A soldier, five militiamen and four civilians, including a mother and her child, were killed. Others were wounded but the exact number of casualties remained unclear. An explosion inside a van killed at least 10 people at a military checkpoint in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday, in what officials said may have been a bombing by militants with ties to the Islamic State group. The blast occurred moments after troops stopped the vehicle and spoke to the driver, according to an official on the island of Basilan and a military incident report. Basilan is a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group, which is notorious for kidnapping and banditry, and home of the former "emir" of Islamic State in … [Read more...] about Van explosion kills 10 at checkpoint in Philippine south: army
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Pentagon uninvites China from major US military exercise
May 23, 2018 vnexpress Leave a Comment
The Pentagon on Wednesday uninvited China from a major U.S.-hosted naval drill in response to what it sees as Beijing's militarization of islands in the South China Sea, which is known as the East Sea in Vietnam, a decision China called unconstructive. "As an initial response to China's continued militarization of the South China Sea we have disinvited the PLA Navy from the 2018 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise," said Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Logan, a Pentagon spokesman. PLA is the English-language acronym of China's military, the People's Liberation Army. Logan did not specify what else the U.S. government might do to respond but stressed there was "strong evidence" that China had deployed anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missile systems and electronic jammers to contested features in the Spratly Islands. "We find that a very unconstructive move," the Chinese government's top diplomat, State Councilor Wang … [Read more...] about Pentagon uninvites China from major US military exercise
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Canonical head and chief architect of Ubuntu Linux Mark Shuttleworth late Tuesday told developers. "So many people have so many different opinions," he says. "That's not to say you can't get good t.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is still in the development stages, but it has some problems connecting with iOS7 devices because it uses an outdated library. This problem has been fixed with a patch by a developer.
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One of the biggest surprises with the Librem 5, however, is that it'll come with the option to ship with Ubuntu Touch. Ubuntu Touch is the mobile-friendly version of the popular Linux-based operating.
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SaaS 1000
Itai Sadan on Finding a Great Product-Market Fit
SaaS Founders / By Siobhan Quinn
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Over a decade ago, Duda co-founders Itai Sadan and Amir Glatt were in a garage in Mountain View, California, when the idea to create a mobile website builder—called Duda Mobile, at the time—came to them.
Through the creation of Duda Mobile, Sadan and Glatt capitalized on the issue of desktop-first websites lacking an adequate mobile-friendly experience. At the time, "all the user had to do was insert the URL of the desktop site and click submit, and [Duda Mobile] would automatically reformat that [website] for a mobile device," Sadan explains.
As time went on, the proliferation of devices and screens meant that "it became pretty apparent that small businesses didn't want to build a website for every single device. They just wanted to build it once and [have it] run everywhere," Sadan describes.
So, Sadan and Glatt expanded their solution from being mobile-only to supporting all screens. Responsive web design was the new trend, "and we needed to jump on that bandwagon," Sadan asserts.
From Duda Mobile to Duda
Around this time, they cut off the "mobile" in their name because they were no longer just a mobile website builder—despite that being their origin. "We were now a responsive website builder," Sadan explains.
As they were launching this solution to build responsive websites across both desktop and mobile, Sadan shares that they evaluated their user base and discovered roughly 50% of their users were still small businesses. However, "the other 50% were these web professionals, digital marketing agencies, web designers, freelancers, marketers—people who were servicing small businesses," he elaborates. It was this half of their user base that they noticed was growing exponentially.
"With the DNA and the culture of the company, I felt like we understood them better," Sadan shares. They felt that these users were underserved with many of the existing website-building solutions, and they decided they wanted to tap into this blue-ocean market.
In 2015 Duda made the strategic decision to primarily focus on this portion of their customer base and devote themselves to building an efficient solution for web professionals, agencies, and SaaS companies that serve small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). The company helps its core user base deliver striking white-label websites at scale with its easy-to-use low-to-no-code technology.
Now, roughly six years later, there are 17,000 agencies using Duda and almost one million active websites on the platform. The monumental pivot has also seen Duda breaking ground in the area of user-experience optimization, as it is currently the highest scoring website builder for Google's Core Web Vitals, beating out other well-known solutions and making it easy for their agency and SaaS customers to perform and rank high on Google search results.
Why He's Passionate About Duda
Although Duda capitalized on the glaring issue that was mobile website inefficiency, Sadan explains that there was more beyond creating a software solution that made him passionate about developing Duda.
With prior experiences working for large companies, Sadan found that working with small businesses and agencies was a new experience that he enjoyed. "It's fun to work with smaller companies," Sadan explains. "They know their business inside-out. Every decision is important for them, and it's great to have that type of engagement and fast decision cycles."
Sadan also loves when customers share their appreciation for Duda and how much it has improved their website experience. What's more, employees who have joined Duda find fulfillment in working for a company whose customers genuinely love the product.
With a love for design and creativity, Sadan was naturally drawn to the website-building industry. Additionally, the constant change in this space means it's crucial to be at the cutting edge of what's happening in this world, which is something that Sadan has always found a passion in.
How E-Commerce is Influencing Websites
Sadan asserts that websites are constantly changing, and this last year was no different. With COVID-19 pushing everybody into the online world more than ever before, Sadan says they witnessed a monumental rise in demand.
"Many small businesses didn't have websites or didn't rely on websites," he explains, and Duda was ready to help them develop a seamless, responsive site in no time.
On the other end of the spectrum, businesses that already had websites had to acknowledge the necessity of maintaining their site. Even if their site begged to be redesigned and modernized, Sadan insists that focusing on how to make their site more transactional—such as enabling e-commerce and selling products on their website—took top priority.
"We saw about a 265% year-over-year increase in the amount of e-commerce stores created," Sadan explains, so it's evident that the demand for transactional websites has grown significantly and continues to expand.
In fact, Sadan shared that Duda recently made an acquisition in this space. Within the last few months, they acquired a Canadian e-commerce platform known as Snipcart. "They have a really strong team with a great product that they built, and we're in the process of integrating that into our platform," he says.
With the integration of Snipcart, users of Duda will be provided with a smooth experience for selling products online.
Sadan says there has also been a transformation in the kind of online stores we see. Instead of just the typical one-time purchase of a physical product that is shipped directly to your doorstep, an increasing number of businesses have begun selling content, subscriptions and other digital products online.
"There's a lot of evolution that is happening in that space, especially as physical stores have closed," Sadan explains. Many of these business owners whose doors have closed are entrepreneurs trying to figure out what will be their next big thing.
"Everybody's adapting to a world where you'd better be online first, and there's a lot of opportunity there," he states.
His Advice on Scaling Your Business
When it comes to scaling your SaaS business, Sadan says the first step is ensuring you have a great product-market fit. "I think that's the basis of succeeding and growing with any type of business—you need to ensure that you're really building a product that customers need, and hopefully there's a big enough market out there that wants your product," he says.
When competitors come into the picture and trends start to arise, your product-market fit can make or break your business. When mobile devices first started gaining popularity, "we were right there, and we had an excellent product-market fit," Sadan states, which pushed them to stay on the cutting edge.
Similarly, when they noticed the responsive web design trend—where companies wanted one website that was functional across all platforms—they shifted their product to fit what the market needed and what consumers were looking for.
Aside from your product-market fit, Sadan says it's essential to deeply understand "who your customers are, what their pain points are and how you're solving these pain points." Additionally, identifying potential new customer segments to appeal to—like Duda did when they entered the SaaS space— ensures your product is constantly expanding in its relevance and utility.
Scaling your product can also mean ruling out some customers you maybe thought were valuable, "but over time you understand that their willingness to pay or their perceived value of your product has diminished," Sadan shares.
In these cases, it's vital to zero in on the other segments in your customer base that are growing much faster—just as Duda did when they shifted their focus to web professionals because that portion of their customer base was rapidly expanding.
So if you're looking to grow your business, there is inspiration to be found in Duda's story. If you have an excellent product-market fit, a product that solves your customers' pain points and a willingness to pivot as trends and new customer bases arise, you are well on your way.
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Many people love iPhones. Yet, you have to figure out some things before you get an iPhone. Which carrier is best? What apps will make your life easier? Are the expensive models really worth your money? To get the answers to these questions, keep reading.
Have you ever wanted to quickly navigate to the top of a page? Instead of trying to scroll back up, click on the status bar that's at the top of the screen. In most of the iPhone apps (including Safari, mail, and your contacts) this will quickly bring you back to the top of whatever page you're on.
Hopefully, you have a better understanding of how to use your iPhone since that you have read this article. Remember what you have learned so you can get the most from your current iPhone or what you should be looking for in your next purchase.


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The Overdue Decision to Cut America's Losses in Syria
Buried under further Russia-related allegations(this time about Attorney General Sessions), as most developments tend to be these days in Washington, was the announcement that the United States was ending support for Syrian rebels fighting against the Assad regime. Preexisting critics of the Trump Administration, as well as long time advocates of neoconservatism or confrontation with Iran were quick to assail the decision and even to make efforts to tie it to some desire to appease Moscow, though the absence of Senator John McCain for medical treatment robbed them of perhaps their strongest voice. Ultimately, however, the decision called a halt to a policy that was if not failing, pointless. Senator Albert Gore Sr., father of the former Vice President, once asked regarding the Vietnam War "What do we get if we win?". In a single sentence, he highlighted the flaws of a military strategy that had no clear political objective. It is a lesson of history, taught not just in Vietnam, but in Germany's war against the Soviet Union, that without a viable political objective it is impossible to set achievable or meaningful military ones. In their place surface illusionary ones, arbitrary tactical benchmarks whose achievement it is hoped will lead to something useful coming up.
The fatal flaw of American, and for that matter Western policy in Syria, is that it has lacked any political objective, and thereby rendered the achievement of any military objective pointless. At various points Barack Obama has declared the removal of the regime of Bashir Al-Assad to be the objective, and nominally it remains so, but when forced to find an attractive alternative, he struggled. ISIS, of course cannot be allowed to win, and many of the rebel groups hold links to Al Qaeda or other extremists. The most stable, the Kurds, are not an option due to the hostility of Turkey, and they have been in de facto alliance with Assad for the better part of the last two years, meaning the US is cooperating with the Kurds who in turn are working with the Syrian army against ISIS. Western hopes have nominally rested on so-called "moderate rebels" but six years has revealed little evidence that such groups exist, much less that they are anywhere near significant enough to possibly govern after Assad's fall. US support, such that it is, basically amounts to providing weapons and support to various phantom organizations which spring in and out of existence, perhaps in the hope of preventing an Assad victory, though even there the weapons have been insufficient. Furthermore, it is unclear at this point whether that is even desirable when the continuation of the Civil War, and the consequent refugee flow into Europe, is the major destabilizing element of the Syrian conflict.
Donald Trump ran for President raising these questions and advocating fighting one war at a time in Syria, implicitly endorsing accepting an Assad victory. He did so successfully against some of the loudest proponents of intervention, Senator Marco Rubio in the primary, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the general election, both of whom suffered from their inability to somehow add an achievable or desirable objective to their pontificating about the need for American action. The story after taking office has been more mixed. Undermined by the departure of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, the greatest voice screaming about the futility of current policy in Syria during the Obama Administration, and worried by the sure to follow charges that any acceptance of Assad would look like appeasement of Russia, the Trump administration has pursued multiple tracks. Several months ago, outraged by photos of victims of chemical attacks supposedly launched by Assad's forces, the President ordered military strikes on Syrian airbases. But he stopped short of a definitive restatement of US policy goals.
The surprise then has been not that the conclusion of cutting off aid to the Syrian rebels was reached, but that it took this long. The policy served no point, and it was largely domestic American politics and the personal stubbornness of the bipartisan foreign policy apparatus which kept it going. Ousting Assad with "moderate rebels" especially once the Russians and Iranians entered on the other side, became a mark of pride for the CIA and Obama national security team, and to abandon it meant conceding defeat to their personal rivals. Hence their fury aimed at Trump. It is worth noting that their criticisms almost entirely focus on his potential motives and not on a any sort of defense of the policy, of which there is next to none.
It also highlighted the major flaw of the Obama Administration's approach to national security. That flaw was not that the policy was too left-wing or too-right wing, too appeasing or too hard-line, it was all of those things in all measures depending on the year, adversary, and issue., The common thread was that Obama, a product of a post-1980s academic culture stressing expertise and a cult of meritocracy, outsourced virtually his entire policy to experts. In awe of expertise, Obama was intimidated by generals who surrounded himself with and allowed them to all but write US defense policy without much intervention. He failed to exclude the skepticism years of experience had ingrained in Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld or even Robert Gates, after whose departure the CIA and academics brought into the State Department by John Kerry ran US policy on lines of fanatic conventional wisdom when they weren't pursuing bureaucratic self-interest. The entire crisis over the Ukraine and Crimea should never have broken out. The EU had no interest in Ukrainian accession, the US none in bringing Ukraine into NATO. US Diplomats and propagandists managed to persuade the Ukrainians that both were on offer if only they ousted their President and the result was to land the US in an unending low-level conflict with no objective, and from which it could win nothing. Syrian policy, driven by Samantha Power's moral outrage over Assad's brutality, Obama's personal hostility to Putin, and the desire of US agencies to fight a proxy war against their Iranian and Russian counterparts was an equally strategically bankrupt policy.
That Trump ran on abandoning this indulgence, not that he seemed friendly to Russia, drove the almost uniform hostility to him among national security professionals. That many of these changes could be spun as being friendly to Russia was only an added bonus to their campaign. The fact that they are facing pushback on their ability to set policy for awed civilians whose only international experience was IR seminars at liberal arts colleges and a year abroad now that those 30-somethings are actually trying to tell them what to do is driving the unprecedented campaign of leaks.
Does any of this mean there is no Russia component to Syria? Of course not. There was an American component to the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. But that did not mean it was not a wise idea. But the fact that the US would see it as a victory did not change the fact that it already was a Soviet defeat, and would only become a more costly one the longer it continued. The opposition to the change in policy here is less about fears of consequence, or the fact that the Russians might see it as a success(as Trump promised it anyway, and the aid was having a minimal impact on the ground against their allies) and more about the precedent it sets for Trump to set it. And that is the biggest change we are seeing.


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Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi
Last week I wrote about our large-scale plan to use new technology we're building to inject sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. Today I'm pleased to announce a step in that direction: working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, effective immediately there's a pilot release of the Wolfram Language—as well as Mathematica—that will soon be bundled as part of the standard system software for every Raspberry Pi computer.
In effect, this is a technology preview: it's an early, unfinished, glimpse of the Wolfram Language. Quite soon the Wolfram Language is going to start showing up in lots of places, notably on the web and in the cloud. But I'm excited that the timing has worked out so that we're able to give the Raspberry Pi community—with its emphasis on education and invention—the very first chance to put the Wolfram Language into action.
I'm a great believer in the importance of programming as a central component of education. And I'm excited that with the Wolfram Language I think we finally have a powerful programming language worthy of the next generation. We've got a language that's not mostly concerned with the details of computers, but is instead about being able to understand and create things on the basis of huge amounts of built-in computational ability and knowledge.
It's tremendously satisfying—and educational. Writing a tiny program, perhaps not even a line long, and already having something really interesting happen. And then being able to scale up larger and larger. Making use of all the powerful programming paradigms that are built into the Wolfram Language.
And with Raspberry Pi there's something else too: immediately being able to interact with the outside world. Being able to take pure code, and connect it to sensors and devices that do things.
I think it's pretty amazing that we're now at the point where all the knowledge and computation in the Wolfram Language can run in a $25 computer. And I think that it's the beginning of something very important. Because it means that going forward it's going to be technically possible to embed the Wolfram Language in pretty much any new machine or system. In effect immediately injecting high-level intelligence and capabilities.
I've waited a long time for this. Back in 1988 when Mathematica was first released, it could only just fit in a high-end Mac of the time, but not yet a PC. A decade later—even though it had grown a lot—it could run well on pretty much any newly sold personal computer. But embedded computers were a different story—where one expected that only specially compiled simple code could run.
But I knew that one day what would become the Wolfram Language would be able to run in its complete form on an embedded computer. And now it's clear that finally that day has come: with the Raspberry Pi, we've passed the threshold for being able to run the Wolfram Language on an embedded computer anywhere.
To be clear, the Raspberry Pi is perhaps 10 to 20 times slower at running the Wolfram Language than a typical current-model laptop (and sometimes even slower when it's lacking architecture-specific internal libraries). But for many things, the speed of the Raspberry Pi is just fine. And for example, my old test of computing 1989^1989 that used to take many seconds on the computers that existed when Mathematica was young now runs in an immeasurably short time on the Raspberry Pi.
From a software engineering point of view, what's being bundled with the Raspberry Pi is a pilot version of our new Wolfram Engine. Then there are two applications on the Pi powered by this engine. The first is a command-line version of the Wolfram Language. And the second is Mathematica with its notebook user interface, providing in effect a rich document-based way of interacting with the Wolfram Language.
The command-line Wolfram Language is quite zippy on the Raspberry Pi. The full notebook interface to Mathematica—requiring as it does the whole X Window stack—can be a trifle sluggish by modern standards (and we had to switch a few things off by default, like our new Predictive Interface, because they just slowed things down too much). But it's still spectacular: the first time Mathematica has been able to run at all on anything like a $25 computer.
And it's the whole system. Nothing is left out. All 5000+ Wolfram Language functions. All capabilities of Mathematica and its notebook interface.
For me, one of the most striking things about having all this on the Raspberry Pi is how it encourages me to try a new style of real-world-connected computing. For a start, it's easy to connect devices to a Pi. And a Pi is small and cheap enough that I can put it almost anywhere. And if I start a Wolfram Language program on it, it's reliable enough that I can expect it to pretty much go on running forever—analyzing and uploading sensor data, controlling an autonomous system, analyzing and routing traffic, or whatever.
Building in as much automation as possible has been a longstanding principle of mine for the Wolfram Language. And when it comes to external devices, this means consistently curating properties of devices, and then setting up general symbolic functions for interacting with them.
Here's how one would take this whole technology stack and use it to switch on LEDs by setting voltages on GPIO pins:
And here's some image analysis on a selfie taken by a RaspiCam:
Something we're releasing alongside the Raspberry Pi bundle is a Remote Development Kit, that allows one to develop code and maintain a notebook interface on a standard laptop or other computer, while seamlessly executing code on a networked remote Raspberry Pi. The current RDK connects to a copy of Mathematica (such as Mathematica Student Edition) running on any Mac, PC or Linux machine; soon there will be other options, for example on the web.
Within the Wolfram Language there's actually a whole emerging structure for symbolically representing remote running language instances—and for collecting results, dispatching commands, doing computations in parallel, and so on. We're also going to have WolframLink (derived from the MathLink protocol that we've used for nearly 25 years), that'll let one exchange code, data or anything else in a very flexible way.
I'm very excited to see what kinds of things people invent with the Wolfram Language on the Raspberry Pi—and I look forward to reading about some of them in the Wolfram+Raspberry Pi section on Wolfram Community, as well as on the Raspberry Pi Foundation website.
In the next few months, it's all going to get more and more interesting. What we're releasing today on the Raspberry Pi is just the first pilot for the Wolfram Language. There'll be many updates, particularly as we approach the first production release of the language.
As with Wolfram|Alpha on the web, the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on the Raspberry Pi are going to be free for anyone to use for personal purposes. (There's also going to be a licensing mechanism for commercial uses, other Linux ARM systems, and so on.)
As a footnote to history, I might mention that the Raspberry Pi is only the second computer ever on which Mathematica has been bundled for free use. (Not counting, of course, all the computers at universities with site licenses, etc.) The first was Steve Jobs's NeXT computer in 1988.
I still regularly run into people today who tell me how important Mathematica on the NeXT was for them. Not to mention the gaggle of NeXT computers that were bought by CERN for physicists to run Mathematica—but ended up being diverted to invent the web.
What will be done with the millions of instances of the Wolfram Language that are bundled on Raspberry Pi computers around the world? Maybe some amazing and incredibly important invention will be made with them. Maybe some kid somewhere will be inspired, and will go on to change the world.
But one thing is clear: with the Wolfram Language on Raspberry Pi we've got a new path for learning programming—and connecting it to the real world—that a great many people are going to be able to benefit from. And I am very pleased to have been able to do my part to make this happen.
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alfanick
Elated today, not only for the rest of the world, who will soon have these computable resources in their hands, perhaps eventually more ubiquitously then Google; but also for S.W., who has been building up to this, for many years.
An exciting time, to live in.
DCWhatthe
Good job, Wolfram Research team. It may be a small step in your large-scale plan, but it truly offers the inspiration to launch a new generation into the world of computer-based math.
The Mathematica/Pi announcement is great ! ' Way to get the technology into the hands and minds of kids !! Applause [Infinity, Volume->11]
I still have my B&W NeXT Cube running Mathematica, thanks for rebundling it with yet another revolutionary computer.
Great! Good Idea!
I completely agree with your point of view.
M.Pierno
Excellent move!
Andrew Moylan
You nailed it Wolfram \m/
longcao
Raspi – The NeXT big thing.
NasirJumani
This is great! A big 'Thanks
to you and team.
Shijor Shamsudeen
Amazing. Just yesterday we had decided to buy a bunch of Pis for our small, rural New Zealand primary school…and now this! Location is truly no longer a barrier. Our stronger students, who are waltzing through CodeAcademy and Project Euler will love this!
Donald Chandler
This is a really amazing step…
Fantastic News!!!! I cannot wait to build a Wolfram device with a Pi.
Robin Franke
Very remarkable! Admirable! The Wolfram Language can have a profound impact in research and education in Mathematics. Projects like Theorema 2.0 can leverage the Wolfram Language creations to foster a new paradigm of research and collaboration, in which smart formats like CDFs can substitute old journal formats, for instance, and mathematical content can be accessible efficiently through the Internet!
Deeply interested in how an increasing network of mathematicians, scientists and engineers can leverage these new powers to create a global (computational!) knowledge bases of definitions, proved theorems, models and algorithms, in a way that scales the outcome of the efforts of professionals, and uses the Internet and machine learning capabilities to engineer coordinated discovery and create meaningful professional connections.
Deeply interested also in how these portable computational knowledge can have a profound impact in creating educational content, or program chips, etc!
David Mateos-Núñez
Impressed with this, thanks.
Chris F Carroll
Ummm… this has already been created. It's called SKYNET! Can't wait!
This will change dramatically all industrial automation systems. Up to now they were quite primitive. But with that approach it will easily be possible to develop automation system with a high degree of intelligence.
With that, industry will not only make major advances but also save major amounts of money, because industrial production processes can get optimised, so that less resources are needed, maintenance can be done early enough, so that stillstands can get avoided and the production machines can be designed much safer. And that will save many lives.
Claus Martin
I just installed it on my Raspberry Pi…it looks great! Thanks Mr. Wolfram!
Congrats on a truly awesome accomplishment. I agree that the benefits will greatly outweigh the cost in time the efforts of the company's teams over the years, from the first days of the standalone kernel to now. What a tool set!
A former version 2 user.
Bill Kiele
can't wait. better get a Raspberry now.
MapThread[Happiness,{All,At Mathematica}], great work!
Superb idea, and most generous! Now all I need to do is find the time to take advantage of it on my Pi
Steven Kelly
Thank you, this really opens up some amazing possibilities.
I was looking for this. My plan is to develop intelligent module for control systems. Initially, I planned to use Smaltalk, but avaibility of many functions in Mathematica changed my mind.
Feliks Gazinski
I was so mad that Texas Tech's Mechanical Engineering department makes you take a Matlab class and then the professors expect you to learn Mathmatica nearly over night. I dropped a class because of that idiotic notion. Just wasn't worth my time to learn another programming language (that is locked to my Mac might I add) to pass a class that I could go take down the road cheaper without the need for either Mathmatica or Matlab. Maybe I'll look into picking Mathmatica up a bit more now…


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Ben Gordon Net Worth: A British American Professional Basketball Player
By Gilbert E. On Dec 25, 2022
Ben Gordon Net Worth: Ben Gordon has a net worth of $20 million as a British-American professional basketball player. Gordon grew up in Mount Vernon and went to Mount Vernon High School before going on to become one of UConn's best players. Gordon was a three-year starter at the University of Connecticut before joining the NBA, where he led the Huskies to the NCAA Championship in 2004.
He spent 11 years in the NBA as a shooting guard after being drafted third overall by the Bulls, Pistons, Bobcats, and Magic. Gordon is the Chicago Bulls' second-leading career three-point shooter, trailing only Kirk Hinrich. Gordon recently made headlines when he was arrested and detained at LaGuardia Airport on October 11, 2022, for allegedly hitting his 10-year-old son.
Ben Gordon Early Life
Benjamin Ashenafi Gordon was born to Jamaican parents on April 4, 1983, in London, England. His parents had moved to the United States shortly after his birth, and so he was raised in Mount Vernon, New York.
Gordon played basketball in high school and led the Mount Vernon Knights to New York State public and federation championships. He was an All-Star (state) player and was listed among the top 40 prospects in the country. Several universities, including Seton Hall University in New Jersey, were interested in recruiting him.
Ben Gordon's Net Worth
Ben Gordon's net worth is estimated to be $20 million in 2022. His basketball days provided the majority of his earnings. Brands, partnerships, and promotions account for more than 20% of Gordon's total income. He averaged 14.9 points per game in his 11-year NBA career while playing for the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Bobcats, and Orlando Magic. Gordon was named the NBA's Best Sixth Man in 2005 after scoring over 11,000 points and earning over 84 million dollars in contracts.
Ben Gordon College Career
Gordon attended the University of Connecticut, where he played for the UConn Huskies and finished second in scoring. Gordon hit the game-winning 3-pointer in the Big East Tournament for the Huskies. In his sophomore year, he broke all records and was named Second Team All-Big East. Gordon received excellent grades in both his junior and senior years. With 81 points, he once set a Big East Tournament record.
In the NCAA Tournament, he won the Most Outstanding Player Award at the Phoenix Regional. His 127-point performance helped his team win the NCAA Championship. He also represented the United States in the Pan American Games in 2003.
Ben Gordon Professional Career
The UConn athlete joined the league after leading the Huskies to the NCAA championship in 2004. The Chicago Bulls selected Gordon third overall in the 2004 NBA draught. Gordon was named NBA Rookie of the Year and NBA Sixth Man of the Year in his rookie season. He was the first rookie in NBA history to be named Sixth Man of the Year.
Gordon played for the Bulls for five years. The Bulls had never won 30 games in a regular season since Jordan's retirement. They won 47 games in his first season. The Bulls made the playoffs for the first time since GM Jerry Klause brought the team to an end in 1998.
Gordon then signed with the Detroit Pistons, where he spent three seasons. He suffered an ankle injury in Detroit that necessitated surgery. His athletic ability was reduced as a result of the injury, and his downward spiral began. Because of his dual citizenship, Gordon was eligible to play for Great Britain.
He wanted to play in the 2012 Olympic Games for the United Kingdom, but he was traded from the Detroit Pistons to the Charlotte Bobcats. He was a member of the Great Britain EuroBasket 2017 team and played in the qualifying games. His injuries began to mount and ultimately ended his NBA career. Gordon was traded several times but had no impact on any of the teams. He also represented his country in EuroBasket qualifying in 2017. Gordon averaged 14.9 points per game during his career.
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Success in today's Internet of Things (IoT) marketplace requires unique combinations of hardware, software and security delivered in a timely manner to solve complex technical requirements. Now entrepreneurs and creators can expect to have a new solution that leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help speed the development process through a new product being developed by Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT), a leading global technology solutions provider, and Octonion, an Intelligent Edge IoT software provider.
The two companies are creating a category of IoT solutions called "Meta-Sensing" that combines hardware and software that will allow engineers at any level to develop and deploy IoT solutions built with AI in as little as six to eight months. The first Meta-Sensing product, SmartEdge Agile, that will be built by Avnet and powered by the STM32 from ST Microelectronics, is an IoT device integrated with Octonion's Brainium AI software to enable AI and security at the edge. Avnet and Octonion will preview the new solution via product demonstrations this week at electronica in Hall C5, Stand 101.
"Today, the majority of industrial companies planning to launch an IoT project are in the prototype phase, with each project usually taking 18 to 24 months. To help reduce time to market and related costs, developers are turning to AI technologies, but require new approaches to be successful," said Lou Lutostanski, global vice president of IoT for Avnet. "Together, Avnet and Octonion are creating an industry-leading Meta-Sensing IoT solution that will quickly and cost efficiently allow customers to take their IoT project from idea to design, and prototype to production. It's a perfect example of Avnet's unique product development ecosystem in action."
"We're very thrilled to work with Avnet who recognizes our AI software expertise and offerings," said Cédric Mangaud, CEO of Octonion. "We'll be able to support customers across different verticals with our pre-industrialized Brainium platform, which has already been proven effective in the sports industry. I'm confident that this new Meta-Sensing approach in the market will help developers and enterprises alike speed up the deployment time of their IoT projects at a reduced cost."
This comprehensive end-to-end solution is another example of how Avnet takes the complexity out of IoT for customers by providing devices that are smart, connected and trusted.
Join Avnet EMEA with its business units Avnet Silica, EBV Elektronik and Avnet Abacus; and Farnell element14, at the electronica Trade Fair in Munich, Germany, November 13-16, in Hall C5, Stand 101, where the SmartEdge Agile and Brainium solution demos and use cases will be on display.
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Circular RNA THBS1 promotes proliferation and apoptosis of non-small cell lung cancer cells by sponging miR-129-5p and regulating SOX4 expression.
Huan Chen Guocheng Wu Guozhen Chen Wei Wang Fangfang Ruan
J BUON 2020 Jul-Aug;25(4):1721-1727
Department of Respiration, the PLA Navy Anqing Hospital, Anqing, China.
Purpose: To investigate the influence of circular ribonucleic acid thrombospondin-1 (circTHBS1) on the proliferation and apoptosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells by sponging miR-129-5p and regulating the expression of SRY-box transcription factor 4 (SOX4).
Methods: Carcinoma and para-carcinoma specimens were collected from 40 NSCLC patients, and 25 pairs of specimens were obtained from patients with metastatic and non-metastatic NSCLC. After NSCLC cells were cultured, the proliferation was detected via cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8) and 5-Ethynyl-2'- deoxyuridine (EdU) assays, and the cell cycle and apoptosis rate were analyzed through flow cytometry. Finally, the action targets of circTHBS1 were determined using dual-luciferase reporter gene assay, and Western blotting assay was applied to measure the changes in protein levels.
Results: The expression of circTHBS1 was markedly higher in NSCLC patients than that in control group, and it was increased in patients with metastatic NSCLC compared with that in patients with non-metastatic NSCLC. Moreover, the proliferative ability of the cells was weakened notably after transfection with small interfering (Si)-CircTHBS1, but it was enhanced remarkably after transfection with CircTHBS1-overexpression vector (OE). There were complementary sites in circTHBS1 for the 3'-UTR of miR-129-5p, and the fluorescence intensity of wild-type circTHBS1 declined evidently after interacting with miR-129-5p. Besides, there was a putative binding site between miR-129-5p and SOX4, and SOX4 expression was decreased obviously after overexpressing miR-129-5p but increased following overexpression of circTHBS1.
Conclusions: CircTHBS1 promotes the proliferation and inhibits the apoptosis of NSCLC cells through targeting miR-129-5p and regulating SOX4 expression.
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Neuroprotective Effect of HOTAIR Silencing on Isoflurane-Induced Cognitive Dysfunction via Sponging microRNA-129-5p and Inhibiting Neuroinflammation.
Ying Wang Shanshan Zhao Guohua Li Dawei Wang Yanwu Jin
Neuroimmunomodulation 2022 Jan 13:1-11. Epub 2022 Jan 13.
Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Hospital of Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Introduction: This article purposed to detect the function of the HOTAIR and HOTAIR/microRNA-129-5p (miR-129-5p) axis on the isoflurane (ISO)-injured cells and rat, and propounded a novel perspective in exploring the molecular pathogenesis of ISO damage.
Methods: The expression of HOTAIR and miR-129-5p was tested by quantitative real-time PCR. The viable cells were identified using MMT, and the apoptotic cells were provided by flow cytometry. Read More
circRNA-0002109 promotes glioma malignant progression via modulating the miR-129-5P/EMP2 axis.
Haibin Xia Boyang Liu Nanxiang Shen Jinhua Xue Siyu Chen Hongbo Guo Xiaozhong Zhou
Mol Ther Nucleic Acids 2022 Mar 19;27:1-15. Epub 2021 Nov 19.
Trauma Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, China.
Glioma is a common intracranial malignant tumor with high mortality and high recurrence rate. In recent years, increasing evidence has demonstrated that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets for many tumors. However, the role of circRNAs in glioma remains unclear. Read More
A miR-129-5P/ARID3A Negative Feedback Loop Modulates Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Progression and Immune Evasion Through Regulating the PD-1/PD-L1 Checkpoint.
Weili Zheng Guilan Lai Qiaochu Lin Mohammed Awal Issah Haiying Fu Jianzhen Shen
Front Cell Dev Biol 2021 27;9:735855. Epub 2021 Oct 27.
Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory on Hematology, Fujian Medical Center of Hematology, Fujian Institute of Hematology, Clinical Research Center for Hematological Malignancies of Fujian Province, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China.
The activated B cell (ABC) and germinal center B cell (GCB) subtypes of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) have different gene expression profiles and clinical outcomes, and miRNAs have been reported to play important roles in tumorigenesis, progression, and metastasis. This study aimed to explore the differentially expressed miRNAs and target genes in the two main subtypes of DLBCL. Hub miRNAs were identified by constructing a regulatory network, and experiments and peripheral blood samples of DLBCL were used to explore the functions and mechanisms of differential miRNAs and mRNAs. Read More
Activation of FGD5-AS1 Promotes Progression of Cervical Cancer through Regulating BST2 to Inhibit Macrophage M1 Polarization.
Guokun Liu Xuan Du Li Xiao Qing Zeng QianLing Liu
J Immunol Res 2021 15;2021:5857214. Epub 2021 Oct 15.
Department of Clinical Laboratory, Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China.
Accumulating evidence has elucidated the biological function of lncRNAs in various tumors. FGD5 antisense RNA 1 (FGD5-AS1) is identified as a significant tumor regulator in malignancies. Up to now, the detailed function of FGD5-AS1 in cervical cancer and its underlying molecular mechanisms remain uninvestigated. Read More
Clinical Value and Role of miR-129-5p in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
Yuan Wang Yujia Feng Han Zhang Qinghui Niu Kun Liang Cheng Bian Hong Li
Horm Metab Res 2021 Oct 15;53(10):692-698. Epub 2021 Sep 15.
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital,Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
This study was to evaluate the expression of miR-129-5p in non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) patients and its clinical value and explore its regulatory effect on insulin resistance (IR). A total of 117 NAFLD patients and 110 healthy controls were included. The levels of miR-129-5p were detected by qRT-PCR. Read More


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Cristina Chipriano, LCSW-S
Cristina M. Chipriano is the former Director of Spanish Programs and Outreach at Bo's Place, Bereavement Center, Houston, TX. She joined Bo's Place in January 2015 and directs their community education and outreach to the Hispanic/Latino community and oversees their Spanish-language programs. Cristina has a B.S. in Human Development and Family Science from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.S.W. from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work.
Grief is like the ocean, right? And, so, in the beginning, the waves are crashing over and over and over again, and it's ... the- the bereaved themselves are just trying to gasp for air. And as time kinda goes on, the waves settle, but the waves are still coming. The waves are still coming, they're just not as frequent as it was in the beginning.
And then, there comes a point in their journey where you can start anticipating when the next grief wave is gonna come. So, you know w- ... to hold your breath. You know that this, too, will pass, and that it's gonna be some more time between that wave, um, and the next one. So, I use that analogy quite a bit with families in trying to explain to them what, um ... how the intensity of what they're feeling, it's still gonna be there. The waves still ... the waves still hurt to be crashed over, ... but the frequency between the waves, kind of spares out with time.
There are no two people who will live the same grief journey. Um, there are multiple different factors that impact what that journey's going to look like. ... let's say the same person in their life has died. Let's say, for example, it was the death of a mother, right? And, so, myself and someone else has experienced the death of a mother. The idea that we both will experience the same journey is false, because we both had a unique relationship to our moms, right? But we also have our own personalities, and we bring in our own loss history, we bring in our own coping skills, we bring in our own lives to our journey. And, so, all of that impacts the journey, itself.
Now, within a family, when you have, like, say, they experienced the death of a child, right? Every person in that family's gonna experience a very different type of journey. 'Cause you have mom, and mom's relationship to that child is unique to that parent. And then, the other parent, you have that unique relationship to the child. And then, if the child had siblings, right? The sibling relationship is really different than a parental relationship. Then, no two people are alike, But there is an ability to feel validated in your experience, to be able to say, "I, too, have felt angry. I, too, have felt sad. I, too, feel numbed." Um, and that ability to validate and normalize the experience for somebody else gives just the reassurance that, "Oh- okay, I'm not the only one."
Let's say it's a sole parent who's experienced the death of their co-parent, and they have a child to raise now, right? So, it's, who's gonna take the child to school? Who is going to now do the chores that the other person was responsible for? So, who's gonna either cut the grass or pay the landscapers? Who's gonna pick up dinner? Who's gonna ... going to pack lunches? Those small routines to the really big ones, like, can I still afford this house, right? I don't believe we understand, um, the ramifications of what that means. You have to also understand that the person's also grieving, right? They're also in this state of shock, and fear, and sadness, and anger. So, you're expecting people to make really life-altering decisions, sometimes, in the state of just chaos.
In regards to offering support and how to hold space for somebody and not bring in our own history, our own "baggage," um, I'm reminded of something that I learned when I was in graduate school, an acronym, WAIT. "Why am I talking?"
So, am I talking and am I sharing because I feel that this person nee- like, needs that validation and needs that support and that normalization? Or am I talking or sharing because I am uncomfortable with what's being shared and feel that I need to fill the space? Um, there's comfort, um, and growth in silence and just being able to sit with someone without having to use our words.
"I've heard many people say, 'I don't wanna make the bereaved even more sad than they are by reminding them of the person's name.' I one-hundred-percent guarantee they're gonna be sad whether or not you say the person's name. People aren't gonna make the bereaved sadder. On the contrary, there's the feeling of, 'Wow, my person's being remembered by somebody else.'" Christina Chipriano
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Лазурная — деревня в Конаковском районе Тверской области России. Входит в состав городского поселения посёлок Новозавидовский.

История
В 1965 году Указом Президиума ВС РСФСР деревня Лягушино переименована в Лазурная.

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Gregory Laski
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Teaching Awards and Honors
I teach and write about democracy, race, and citizenship in American literature and culture, concerns that I consider inextricable from my past and present experiences in public service. Currently, I am a civilian associate professor in the Department of English and Fine Arts at the United States Air Force Academy, where I am also the co-founder of the American Studies minor. During the 2017-18 academic year, I piloted a community-engaged writing course in my role as a visiting faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. My scholarly and pedagogical interests were formed through my work as a teacher for and later director of Summerbridge Pittsburgh, a nonprofit program dedicated to achieving equality in education.
My book, Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery (Oxford University Press), won the American Literature Association's Pauline E. Hopkins Society Scholarship Award. Reading the post-Reconstruction writings of American authors and activists as political theory in narrative form, the book recovers one of the bleakest periods in the nation's racial history as a vibrant site for expanding our sense of what democracy can make possible. Beyond this study, I have published articles and essays on the humanities, citizenship, teaching and learning, American and African American literature, and film in such journals as Callaloo, African American Review, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and Pedagogy. In addition to co-editing a volume of keywords for American democracy, I am currently researching an intellectual history of race and revenge after the Civil War. An essay-length portion of this latter book project was published in American Literature in December 2019 and was honored with two national prizes: the 1921 Prize, awarded by the American Literature Society, and the Norman Foerster Prize, given to the best essay published annually in American Literature. This work has also been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Newberry Library Longterm Fellowship. For more on my research, click here.
As a teacher, I urge my students to consider the ways the questions we study illuminate the problems confronting our world. I have taught a range of courses at all levels of the curriculum, from introductions to literary study and first-year composition, to surveys of American literature, to interdisciplinary seminars on topics such as democracy and social justice, the afterlife of racial slavery, and marriage as social theory. Across more than a decade of teaching, I have been recognized for my work in the classroom on multiple occasions, receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2008) and the Teaching Excellence Award (2010) while a graduate student instructor at Northwestern. At the Air Force Academy, I received the Outstanding Instructor Award (2013) for my work in the introductory literature course for sophomore cadets. In 2014, I was named Outstanding Academy Educator and was nominated for Colorado Professor the Year. For my philosophy of teaching, click here. Information about past, present, and future courses is here.
My experience in the nonprofit sector informs my commitment to program building and administration. From 2014-17, I directed the Academy's core literature course. In this role, I oversaw matters of curriculum, assessment, and instructor development for a class taken annually by nearly one thousand students. I have since held the positions of Associate Head for Faculty Development and Curriculum, and Director of the American Studies program.
I received my BA in English and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame and my MA and PhD in English from Northwestern University, where I was awarded the Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation in 2012.
My CV is available here.
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Maine's Small Businesses Trapped Between Susan Collins and Janet Mills
by Nathan Bernard | Apr 28, 2020
Linda Homer, proprietor of Downeast Pilates, in Southwest Harbor, protesting Sen. Susan Collins' support of Trump's tax cuts last year. photo/courtesy Homer
On Monday morning, the second round of funding for the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was made available for small businesses unable to secure a loan when the program went live on April 3, then ran out of funds less than two weeks later. Co-authored by Maine Sen. Susan Collins, the PPP has been a scandalous disaster from the start: poorly resourced, severely limited in availability and oversight, and prone to abuse on a massive scale, as evidence continues to show wealthy companies are soaking up millions intended for struggling mom-and-pops.
As Mainer reported earlier this month, business owners forced to close or severely limit operations to help contain the spread of COVID-19 worried they would not be able to bring their full staff back to work within eight weeks of receiving a PPP loan (the end of June, for those lucky enough to get in on the first round). Businesses that spend at least 75 percent of the loan money on payroll, and maintain staffing and pay levels during that two-month period, will have their loan entirely forgiven. Otherwise, it becomes a major debt that small-time proprietors must shoulder while trying to climb out of a deep financial hole.
This problem with the PPP's rules gotten a lot of attention, thanks in large part to Mainers like Joe Walsh, owner of Green Clean Maine, who explained this predicament to numerous local and national news outlets in interviews this month. And some lawmakers were listening.
In an April 16 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, who represents southern and midcoast Maine, urged that the eight-week deadline be extended "by at least five months," in order to give business owners more time to hire back staff and thus meet the requirements for loan forgiveness.
This extension, "for which there also appears to be bipartisan consensus," Pingree wrote, "is particularly important in states like Maine with seasonal industries like restaurants and hospitality businesses that are heavily dependent on summer customers, and with agricultural sectors that are beginning to plant now and would be normally increasing their labor over the next month."
But when the latest round of PPP money was approved last week, the program was essentially unchanged. Collins managed to convince Treasury officials to tweak the PPP formula by which certain businesses calculate their payroll expenses, enabling farmers and other seasonal operators to take out larger loans, but the eight-week deadline to rehire everyone remained intact.
Making matters worse, on Tuesday afternoon Maine Gov. Janet Mill announced that restaurants, fitness centers and retail shops may be able to reopen, under new public health guidelines, no sooner than June 1. Bars and tattoo parlors and other "personal service" businesses may be able to open beginning in July.
Mills' plan also extended an order requiring anyone entering Maine from another state to self-quarantine for 14 days, which means any business that heavily relies on tourism — and Maine has more of these than most states — is doomed, since most visitors spend far less than two weeks in Vacationland. Her timeline forecasts that this restriction might be eased in early September, which is traditionally the end of Maine's tourist season, but no estimated date has been set.
Under the best-case scenario, shuttered restaurants and stores that received PPP loans earlier this month may only have to pay back half of their loan, assuming they rehire nearly all their staff and pay them to work for four weeks in June. Those who get a loan during this second round of funding will have only a few weeks in July to gear up to full speed in order to have any portion of their debt forgiven.
"Keeping your employees, rehiring, that's not working," said Linda Homer, who closed her Pilates studio in Southwest Harbor in mid March. She cited another glitch in the PPP rules Collins wrote: laid-off workers receive more in combined state and federal unemployment benefits than they stand to earn if they go back on their employer's payroll to help the boss meet the loan-forgiveness requirements. "I know people that just want unemployment instead, but now are tied to their employers, which puts them in a bad position," said Homer. The PPP is "not helping anyone, it's tearing us apart."
As a sole proprietor, Homer was unable to even apply for a PPP loan until April 10, a week after the first round started. The funding dried up a few days after she was eligible to submit her paperwork.
Mary Allen Lindemann, co-founder and owner of Coffee By Design, which operates cafes in Portland and Freeport as well as a booming wholesale business, has also been flummoxed by the eight-week PPP restriction.
"How do I ask 48 full-time people to come back (the number we are required to [re-employ]) within eight weeks, now seven and counting, when a stay at home order is in place and other restrictions will continue so we are not able to grow the business to support the payroll after," Lindemann wrote this evening on Facebook. "How do I compete with what is now a lucrative unemployment package?"
To Mills' credit, she's made it clear that her orders restricting commerce and travel are based on public health data and the recommendations of epidemiological experts. It's unclear why Collins structured the PPP the way she did, why she refuses to make the improvements her constituents are requesting, and why she didn't foresee the many problems the program has caused.
For example, among the largest group of recipients of PPP loans in Maine were law firms. "I never expected law firms to be applying," Collins told a right-wing talk-radio host in Maine last week. She said the fact those firms have taken a huge share of Maine's PPP funds "bothers me terribly," but apparently not enough to prod her to prevent that from happening again in this round. (Collins' office did not respond to Mainer's request for comment on any changes to the PPP that she advocated.)
"I don't believe that we will get anything, unless it's in the bank," Homer said. "There are just too many loopholes, especially for sole proprietors. We have just been left behind. That much is clear."
In an April 26 article, the Maine Sunday Telegram reported that one global economic-forecasting firm, Oxford Economics, predicts that Maine will take a bigger financial hit than any other state, in part because of its "high percentage of small businesses … and dependence on tourism and retail activity."
"So much of Maine is small business," Homer observed. "And we're collapsing."
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Chaos Walking è un film del 2021 diretto da Doug Liman.

La pellicola, con protagonisti Daisy Ridley e Tom Holland e ambientata in un futuro distopico, è l'adattamento cinematografico del romanzo del 2008 Chaos - La fuga (The Knife of Never Letting Go), primo capitolo della trilogia Chaos Walking, scritta da Patrick Ness, co-autore della sceneggiatura del film.

Trama
Nel 2257 d.C. i coloni maschi del pianeta Nuovo Mondo sono affetti da una condizione chiamata Rumore, il quale manifesta in modo visivo e uditivo i pensieri che una persona sta provando. I coloni furono coinvolti in un'aspra guerra civile con la specie umanoide nativa del posto chiamata Spackle, una guerra che apparentemente uccise tutte le donne colone mentre metà degli uomini sopravvisse.

Todd Hewitt, un ragazzo che non riesce a controllare il proprio Rumore, vive a Prentisstown con i suoi padri adottivi, Ben Moore e Cillian Boyd, insieme ad altri residenti tra cui il predicatore Aaron, il sindaco della città David Prentiss e suo figlio Davy. Prentiss ha imparato a controllare il suo Rumore, rendendo i suoi pensieri difficili da vedere e sentire. Un'astronave che ha perso il contatto con la Prima Colonia si avvicina al Nuovo Mondo e una nave da ricognizione viene inviata per indagare, ma si schianta. Un giorno, mentre Todd sta lavorando, insegue quello che sembra un ladro dei loro rifornimenti, giungendo così al luogo dove l'astronave è precipitata.

Todd torna in città e, nonostante cerchi di zittire i suoi pensieri, gli altri uomini vengono a sapere della navicella; si dirigono sulla scena dell'incidente per indagare e rubare alcune parti della nave, ma non trovano sopravvissuti. Mentre Todd è solo incontra la giovane Viola Eade, unica sopravvissuta alla collisione, e rimane scioccato in quanto non ha mai visto una ragazza prima, scoprendo anche di non riuscire a sentire i suoi pensieri. Gli uomini di Prentisstown catturano Viola e la portano dal malvagio e corrotto sindaco per interrogarla e spiegarle cos'è accaduto sul pianeta. Davy viene lasciato a sorvegliare temporaneamente la ragazza ma, maneggiando uno dei suoi dispositivi tecnologici, crea abbastanza caos da permetterle per errore di fuggire.

Viola scopre dal Rumore di Prentiss che l'uomo intende lasciarla contattare l'astronave madre della sua colonia, intercettare lo sbarco e uccidere i membri dell'equipaggio mentre sono immersi nel sonno criogenico per rubare varie parti dell'astronave. La ragazza si nasconde nel fienile della famiglia di Todd e viene trovata da quest'ultimo. Ben riferisce al figliastro che deve portare Viola ad un altro insediamento chiamato Farbranch, dove sarà al sicuro.

Prentiss e i suoi uomini arrivano alla fattoria, chiedendo di Viola ritenendola una spia. La ragazza scappa su una motocicletta seguita da Todd su un cavallo, mentre Davy uccide Cillian e Ben è costretto ad unirsi a Prentiss. Todd raggiunge Viola e partono insieme verso Farbranch con Machee, il cane di Todd. Durante il viaggio Viola rivela di provenire da una grande nave coloniale che trasporta oltre 4.000 passeggeri e che i suoi genitori sono morti durante il viaggio di 64 anni dalla Terra al Nuovo Mondo. Quando incontrano uno Spackle, Todd cerca di ucciderlo per difendersi, ma Viola lo ferma in quanto la creatura non sembra pericolosa. Giungono poi all'insediamento, abitato da uomini, donne e bambini, alcuni dei quali sono ostili a Todd perché proviene da Prentisstown.

Todd scopre un diario appartenente a sua madre, che non può decifrare in quanto è analfabeta; Viola glielo legge e i due vengono così a sapere che le donne di Prentisstown non sono state uccise dagli alieni nativi, ma da Prentiss e dagli altri uomini della città: questi ultimi infatti erano impazziti con il Rumore, non riuscendo a sapere quello che pensavano le donne. Todd si infuria, capendo che tutto quello che gli è stato raccontato era una bugia. Prentiss e i suoi uomini giungono sul posto per recuperare Viola, usando Ben come mezzo per convincere Todd. L'uomo si schiera con il figliastro, usando il suo Rumore per creare un'illusione e trarre in inganno Prentiss mentre Todd e Viola scappano. I due ragazzi sono inseguiti anche da Aaron, il quale è follemente convinto che Viola vada uccisa ritenendo che l'assenza di Rumore sia indice della mancanza di un'anima; dopo che l'uomo fallisce nel raggiungerli, uccide Manchee facendo aumentare la rabbia di Todd.

Il giorno successivo, Viola e Todd arrivano ai resti della prima nave di coloni. Entrano e cercano di inviare un segnale all'astronave madre ma, essendo l'antenna danneggiata, Todd cerca di ripararla. Prentiss giunge con i suoi uomini e minaccia di morte Ben, costringendo Todd ad arrendersi. Aaron raggiunge Viola e cerca di ucciderla, ma lei lo brucia vivo con uno dei suoi dispositivi. Prentiss spara a Ben, che prima di morire consegna di nascosto al figliastro un pugnale; il sindaco poi affronta Todd, ingannandolo con le sue illusioni, finché il ragazzo reagisce riuscendo a manipolare il proprio Rumore per far apparire sua madre e le altre donne uccise da Prentiss, le quali aggrediscono verbalmente Prentiss; l'uomo viene poi attaccato e apparentemente ucciso da Viola. L'astronave madre appare in cielo, portando Davy e i restanti uomini di Prentiss alla fuga.

Qualche giorno dopo, Todd si risveglia nell'astronave madre guarito dalle sue ferite e viene accolto da Viola, che lo porta a incontrarsi con gli altri coloni.

Produzione
Il film ha avuto una produzione travagliata.

Nell'ottobre 2011 la LionsGate acquista i diritti della trilogia letteraria Chaos Walking.

Regia
Inizialmente per la regia viene considerato Robert Zemeckis ma il 10 giugno 2016 viene scelto Doug Liman.

Sceneggiatura
La prima sceneggiatura del film è stata scritta nel 2016 da Charlie Kaufman, e successivamente viene revisionata da Jamie Linden, Lindsey Beer, Gary Spinelli, John Lee Hancock, Christopher Ford e lo stesso Patrick Ness.

Nel settembre 2020, Ness e Ford ottengono gli accrediti finali sulla sceneggiatura.

Riprese
Le riprese del film, iniziate il 7 agosto 2017 a Montréal e proseguite in Scozia e Islanda, sono terminate nel novembre 2017.

Nell'aprile 2018, dopo i primi test screening negativi, la produzione ha fissato delle riprese aggiuntive tra la fine del 2018 e l'inizio del 2019; a causa degli impegni sui set, di Star Wars: L'ascesa di Skywalker per Daisy Ridley e Spider-Man: Far from Home per Tom Holland, le riprese aggiuntive vengono effettuate ad Atlanta nel maggio 2019, e vengono dirette da Fede Álvarez.

Il budget del film è stato di 100 milioni di dollari, dei quali 15 spesi per le riprese aggiuntive.

Promozione
Il primo teaser trailer del film è stato diffuso, in esclusiva da IGN, il 17 novembre 2020, mentre il trailer esteso il 19 novembre seguente.

Distribuzione
Il film, inizialmente fissato al 1º marzo 2019, poi per il 22 gennaio 2021, è stato distribuito nelle sale cinematografiche statunitensi a partire dal 5 marzo 2021, mentre in Italia e in altri Paesi dall'8 giugno su Prime Video.

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