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March of the Penguin: Ars looks back at 20 years of Linux
The Linux kernel was first revealed to the world on August 25, 1991. Twenty …
Ryan Paul - Aug 25, 2011 6:25 pm UTC
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with 77 posters participating, including story author
The Linux kernel was originally created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer science student, and first announced to the world on August 25, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. At the time, Torvalds described his work as a "hobby" and contended that it would not be "big and professional" like the GNU project.
But the Linux kernel turned out to be one of the most significant pieces of open source software ever developed. Over the past two decades, it has grown from a humble hobby project into a global phenomenon that runs on everything from low-cost e-book readers to a majority of the world's supercomputers. Here's how it grew.
From Freax to Linux
While it's easy now to take the name "Linux" for granted, Torvalds had modestly rejected the idea of naming the new kernel after himself, instead calling it Freax. The name "Linux" was selected by Ari Lemmke, an employee at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) who created the folder in which the original Linux source code was hosted on the Finnish University and Research Network (FUNET) FTP server. Lemmke reportedly disliked the name "Freax" and thought that "Linux" sounded more appealing.
From the Linux Foundation's Linux History Gallery
The original 0.01 release of Linux could not actually run. Torvalds published the source code—despite its technical shortcomings—for the benefit of Lemmke, who had expressed interest after the initial announcement. Not until the 0.02 release on October 5, 1991 could the OS function.
The earliest versions of the Linux kernel source code were published under licensing terms that made the software free to use and to redistribute for non-commercial purposes. The code was transitioned to GNU's General Public License in 1992 following the release of version 0.12, and the Linux kernel is still distributed under that license today.
The UNIX landscape at the birth of Linux
Other prominent UNIX clones were already under development at the time of Linux's birth, including some that were distributed in source code form for the benefit of academics and hobbyists.
The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), originally derived from Bell Labs UNIX code, gradually emerged as a distinct UNIX variant during the late 1980s. Most of the proprietary UNIX code had been purged by the time that the non-functional BSD Networking Release 2 (Net/2) was published in 1991, one month before Torvalds announced his kernel project. Developer William Jolitz released a functional 386-compatible port the following year.
Although BSD had significant potential and a strong developer base, the project was crippled out of the starting gate due to a lawsuit brought by AT&T's Unix System Laboratories subsidiary, which held the rights to the proprietary System V UNIX operating system. AT&T had some questions about whether code encumbered by USL's intellectual property rights had truly been purged from BSD in its entirety. Such concerns stifled BSD adoption until the lawsuit was settled in 1994 under terms that cleared away the cloud of uncertainty.
Richard Stallman, the idealistic founder of the Free Software movement, launched the GNU project in 1983 with the goal of building a UNIX clone under a Free Software license. The GNU project was originally going to adopt MIT's TRIX kernel in 1986, but later decided to build on top of the Mach microkernel, which was being developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
At the start of 1991, GNU was waiting for CMU to determine if it could release Mach under a suitable software license. The actual development of GNU's Hurd kernel on top of Mach didn't seriously begin until late in 1991. Hurd development never gained significant momentum and consequently hasn't seen much adoption. Hurd is still under active development, however, and will soon be supported in an official Debian port.
MINIX also played a major role in early Linux history. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam professor Andrew Tanenbaum created the MINIX kernel and released the source code in 1987 through textbook publisher Prentice Hall, which sold copies to students and researchers for $69. MINIX was built with a microkernel architecture that reflected what the academic community then regarded as the best practices of operating system design.
Tanenbaum had created MINIX and an accompanying textbook to teach operating system design, so he had no interest in evolving the code into a production-quality platform. As he explained in a 2004 essay about the history of MINIX, he wanted to keep the code as svelte and comprehensible as possible for the benefit of his students. He turned down requests to extend the code with various features that would have increased its complexity and diminished its expository pedagogical value.
GNU and MINIX both played an essential part in Linux's creation. The earliest versions of Linux were bootstrapped on MINIX and drew inspiration from the MINIX kernel. Early Linux users also depended heavily on GNU's tools and its C compiler—as many still do today.
"Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you need a shell, compilers, a library etc. These are separate parts and may be under a stricter (or even looser) copyright. Most of the tools used with linux are GNU software and are under the GNU copyleft," Torvalds wrote in the original Linux 0.01 release notes. "The linux kernel has been made under minix, and it was my original idea to make it binary compatible with minix. That was dropped, as the differences got bigger, but the system still resembles minix a great deal."
The Torvalds and Tanenbaum debate
Although Linux and MINIX had much in common at the start, including a similar filesystem layout, significant technical differences between the two kernels would later become the subject of a running debate between Torvalds and Tanenbaum.
The Linux kernel has a "monolithic" architecture, whereas Tanenbaum's MINIX was designed as a modular microkernel. In a 1992 statement, Tanenbaum declared that the Linux kernel was "obsolete" from the start and that building a monolithic kernel was a "giant step back" from the state of the art and "a truly poor idea." Tanenbaum went on to suggest that people who wanted a modern free operating system would be better off waiting for GNU to deliver a microkernel rather than using Linux.
Torvalds responded sharply to the criticism and defended his design decisions. Although he acknowledged the theoretical benefits of microkernel design, he argued that Linux was a better real-world kernel than MINIX due a number of pragmatic technical advantages in areas like threading and multitasking. He thought GNU might eventually produce a superior alternative, but he continued pressing forward with Linux because there was clearly demand for an immediate solution.
"I've got more excuses than you have, and linux still beats the pants off minix in almost all areas," Torvalds wrote in response to Tanenbaum. "From a theoretical (and aesthetical) standpoint linux loses. If the GNU kernel had been ready last spring, I'd not have bothered to even start my project: the fact is that it wasn't and still isn't. Linux wins heavily on points of being available now."
Linux arrived at a crucial time in computing history, offering the right blend of useful characteristics. Torvalds was willing to collaborate with others and add features that users wanted, the code was a clean-room implementation without any legacy intellectual property encumbrances, and it was being driven at a good pace with a focus on pragmatic considerations. These advantages allowed Linux to attract interest during its formative years.
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Ryan Paul Ryan is an Ars editor emeritus in the field of open source, and and still contributes regularly. He manages developer relations at Montage Studio.
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John Coxon released the 2013 Trans Atlantic Fan Fund voting statistics in Taffline #6 [PDF file].
Coxon says 58 votes were cast in North America and 60 votes in Europe, and 3 more from the rest of the world — the latter reported in the North America column so it would not become too easy to deduce who they voted for. All voters' names are listed in Taffline #6. Voter donations totaled $533.23 in North America and £349.68 in Europe.
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Jeez, who was the wet blanket who voted to hold over funds? What sort of better candidates do you expect to appear?
We're still trying to guess that one. Nic has a theory and I have another.


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13 posts from April 2019
Notre-Dame de Paris: What Can Philanthropy Learn?
Like most people who have lived or spent time in Paris, I experienced a deep sadness that quickly turned to tears, anger, and confusion as the news flashed across social media that the great cathedral of Notre-Dame was burning. The blow to French identity, and the sense of loss for all of us who hold Paris dear, was and is profound.
Within days, my despair had given way to faint hope as I read news stories detailing pledges of more than €900 million from some of France's wealthiest families toward the reconstruction of the cathedral. But that hope soon gave way to feelings of guilt. Just weeks ago, Cyclone Idai smashed into southeastern Africa, leaving more than a thousand people dead and thousands more missing in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. It was a disaster of epic proportions that went largely unreported in the Western media and generated little in the way of disaster recovery funding. While I felt frustration at the contrast between the philanthropic response to the two events, I probably wasn't as angry as I should have been. The fact I felt conflicted about what philanthropy could and was willing to do to save Notre-Dame versus the enormous challenge of mitigating human suffering and building peaceful societies, not just in Africa but around the world, has been haunting me ever since. And the juxtaposition of the two responses underscores a complex societal problem.
People's engagement with issues tends to be driven by their values and passions. Giving is shaped by the many different and connected parts of human psychology, and Notre-Dame was a classic example of giving driven by emotion (and, in the case of certain French billionaires, a healthy dose of ego). The fire was a blow to a collective French identity rooted in a distant, romanticized past, and the immediate outpouring of support for restoring the cathedral to its former glory was a way to stand in solidarity with that past and make oneself feel good in the bargain.
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Taxes, Inequality, and the Public Good
Can wealthy Americans use philanthropy to fend off Democratic proposals for progressive, much-needed tax reform? That certainly seems to be what tech billionaire Michael Dell had in mind on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos a few months ago. Confronted with the idea that the United States should adopt a 70 percent marginal tax rate on annual incomes of over $10 million — something it last saw in the 1960s under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations — Dell said he would be "much more comfortable" giving back to society through his private foundation "than giving…to the government." Other superrich donors have expressed similar feelings, with some actually having the chutzpah to equate the civic obligation of paying taxes with charity.
It's evident to anyone paying attention that private philanthropy can never replace the almost three trillion in budget cuts included in the Trump administration's 2020 budget or the trillions in deficits that the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act is likely to create over the next decade.
Trump, Michael Dell, and other members of the 1 percent club — who now control as much wealth as the bottom 95 percent of Americans — are going to need a better argument if they hope to convince the large majority (70 percent) of registered voters who believe that the superrich should be paying higher marginal rates.
And the very rich will need more than a preference for philanthropy over taxes to convince the 61 percent of Americans who favor a "wealth tax" of 2 percent on those with more than $50 million in assets and 1 percent on top of that for those with more than $1 billion. To the consternation of Dell, the 25th richest man in the world, an even larger percentage of Americans believe that government should pursue policies designed to reduce the huge and growing wealth gap in America — policies that go beyond just raising tax revenue.
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5 Questions for...Jane Wales, Co-Founder/CEO, Global Philanthropy Forum
As she was nearing the end of her fourth five-year term heading up the World Affairs Councils, Jane Wales decided it was time to let someone else run the show — an effort that includes organizing the annual Global Philanthropy Forum, which she co-founded in 2001 and which has evolved into a platform where philanthropic practitioners can share their knowledge and learnings with social investors, donors, and funders in other sectors.
PND caught up with Wales, who continues to serve as vice president and executive director of the Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation at the Aspen Institute, during the recently concluded eighteenth annual Global Philanthropy Forum conference and spoke with her about the challenges confronting liberal democracy in an era of rising populism, the alarming decline in the public's trust of institutions, and her hopes for the philanthropic sector going forward.
Philanthropy News Digest: You and your colleagues chose to organize this year's Global Philanthropy Forum conference around the theme "Reclaiming Democracy." Why?
Jane Wales: We're seeing a concerning trend of liberal democracies around the world shifting to illiberalism. These are places in which the vote remains sacrosanct — where citizens have the right to vote — but the protection of individual civil liberties is not. We see this is happening in the Philippines, in Turkey, in Poland and Hungary, South Africa, Venezuela, Brazil, and the United States. And you can't say it's all due to a cultural shift or particular event. Clearly, there are underlying trends affecting us all. The question then becomes: How do you push back on those trends? What is the role of philanthropy in building social capital and citizen agency? And what are the most important ingredients of a successful democracy? The theme of the conference is about identifying a big problem, but it's a problem for which civil society has solutions.
PND: What are those solutions?
JW: The underlying trends being discussed here have to do with the confluence of the information revolution and globalization, as well as the major demographic changes we're seeing in many countries. Conference attendees are looking at each of these powerful trends and trying to figure out what are the upsides, what are the downsides, and how can we mitigate the danger they pose?
When it comes to the information revolution, we're looking at the role of digital media and social media in sowing division. When it comes to globalization, the upside is that it has lifted millions of people out of poverty and created great wealth — and a considerable amount of that wealth has been directed to the public good. But globalization has also created a situation in which the standard of living for the middle class in many countries is declining, and that has contributed to divisions — not just along political and economic lines, but also along educational lines, because the opportunities and outcomes for college graduates and high school graduates are significantly different. Inequity results.
In terms of demographic change, the most powerful concerns are mass migration in the face of deadly conflict or natural disasters on the one hand and normal immigration flows on the other. That begs the question not only of what needs to be done to prevent crises but also what is needed to forge a comprehensive immigration policy that the majority of Americans and other publics will support. We also need to think through what can and should be done to help newly arrived people integrate into the society that will be their new home. Nonprofits are already doing exceptional work in this area.
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From 'Tribal' Knowledge to Technology: How Data Can Supercharge Your Nonprofit
Team members at nonprofit organizations often feel a special kinship. Everyone strives to deliver on the organization's mission and is passionate about the same thing — having a positive impact on people's lives and within their communities. In effect, the nonprofit you work for is like a "tribe" — a group of people bound together by a shared interest, a shared vocabulary, and specialized knowledge.
Many nonprofits rely on their staff's collective experience and "tribal knowledge" — undocumented information that is unavailable to those outside the organization — to keep things running smoothly. While both are invaluable, operating in such a manner tends to create gaps in actionable information. And it leaves the organization vulnerable to losing critical institutional knowledge when long-serving staff members retire or move on professionally.
What's a nonprofit to do?
Simply put, nonprofits need to be more efficient when capturing organizational knowledge, leveraging the experience of staff, and translating staff insights into action. How?
With software and historical data.
Filling Critical Gaps With Data
Better support for participants. Historical data can provide nonprofits with valuable insights that intuition or gut instinct alone cannot. Let's say a fifth-grade student in an afterschool tutoring program is scoring at a seventh-grade reading level. Intuition tells you the student needs to be challenged. But data can show you:
which strategies have worked for similar students in the past
which K-12 accelerated reading programs best fit the needs of the student
how to quantitatively measure the success of your strategies
Data gathered from digital tools can help the organization answer the above questions and create a program for the student that both stimulates and challenges her. And just as importantly, it will enable the organization to provide customized support for all participants in the program — all the time.
Putting hours back in the day. You probably work in the social sector because you have a keen desire to help others. Spending hours each day on administrative work (like data entry) can undermine that desire, while wasting valuable time on tasks that could (and should) be automated only adds to your stress. You may feel pressure to "make up" that time, but rushing through routine data-entry tasks can lead to mistakes that might have been avoided if you weren't so pressed for time.
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Weekend Link Roundup (April 20-21, 2019)
And...we're back with our weekly roundup of noteworthy items from and about the social sector. For more links to great content, follow us on Twitter at @pndblog....
In a post on the Ford Foundation's Equals Change blog, the foundation's Noorain Khan and Catherine Townshend update readers on the foundation's disability inclusion journey.
On the GrantSpace blog, Julieta Mendez, director of programs at Candid, explains how the organization's DEI programs are supporting the social sector.
"Seven years after the state passed a law that required Maine's high schools to award diplomas on the basis of demonstrated 'proficiency' in eight key areas, and nine months after the legislature repealed that mandate, the debate over proficiency-based diplomas continues to divide districts, teachers and families...even as the concept spreads to other schools and states." Kelly Field reports for the Hechinger Report.
A proposed Trump administration rule to allow employers to fund individual, tax-preferred accounts for employees rather than cover them under employer-sponsored group plans could shift individuals from employee-sponsored plans to state-regulated individual markets and end up destabilizing those markets. Georgetown University professors JoAnn Volk and Kevin Lucia dig into the details on the Commonwealth Fund's To The Point blog.
Charity Navigator, in partnership with Feedback Labs, Candid, GlobalGiving, Listen for Good, Acumen, the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Bridges Fund Management, Development Gateway, and Keystone Accountability, has announced the release of version 1.0 of the Principles of Constituent Feedback, an effort to begin collecting and publishing the reflections of nonprofits on their feedback practice before #GivingTuesday 2019.
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5 Questions for Rolf Huber, Managing Director, Siemens Stiftung
In March, Siemens Stiftung, a nonprofit foundation created by Siemens AG, the German multinational conglomerate, established WE!Hub Victoria Ltd, a social enterprise based in Kisumu, Kenya, to bring innovative solutions related to drinking water and energy supplies to communities on the shores of Lake Victoria. Branded as WeTu ("ours" in Swahili), the initiative also plans to bring electric vehicles to rural Africa for the first time.
Recently, the folks at Sympra, a Stuttgart-based consulting firm, spoke with Rolf Huber, managing director of Siemens Stiftung, about the project.
Sympra: Why did Siemens Stiftung establish WeTu?
Rolf Huber: We strongly believe in a business approach to social and environmental problems: self-sustaining, environmentally-friendly business models can be used to meet sustainability goals and achieve social development in rural Africa. This is why WeTu is a social enterprise with clear goals pertaining to social, economic, and ecological outcomes. The business model is based on technology solutions that have been specifically developed for rural Africa.
In our experience, self-sustaining and financially independent solutions are possible when the ideas contributed by local communities are matched with regional and international networks and knowledge. Through our Impact Hub network, we've set up several entrepreneurial centers in African cities. And we were actively involved in We!Hub, the previous version of this project on Lake Victoria, meaning we know the region, the communities, and the potential business models quite well.
Sympra: How would you describe the situation on the ground?
RH: It's a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, we see enormous potential. There are many, highly-motivated young people who want to improve their quality of life. They want to seize opportunities and they have a real entrepreneurial spirit.
But on the other hand, there is 20 percent youth unemployment in the region — toxically frustrating for such a young society. Beyond that, access to basic goods is not always guaranteed. The drinking water situation is also dire. Many people continue to drink contaminated water straight from Lake Victoria. Pollution threatens the livelihoods of local communities that depend on income derived from fishing in the lake. There is poor infrastructure in rural areas: streets are bad, if they exist at all, which create challenges for transporting goods like food or drinking water. These are significant hurdles when it comes to development.
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Addressing Drug Addiction: A Major Opportunity for Private Philanthropy
Drug overdoses kill more people in the United States than guns or car accidents and are the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, seventy-two thousand people in the United States died from drug overdoses in 2017, compared to sixty-four thousand in 2016.
Despite this growing substance-abuse epidemic, private philanthropy has been barely visible when it comes to addressing the crisis and supporting new approaches to addiction treatment based on scientific research. This is especially surprising given that substance abuse is having such a broad impact among individuals and families of means.
While the University of Indiana Lilly Family School of Philanthropy's recently issued Philanthropy Outlook projects that individual charitable giving will increase 2.1 percent in 2019 and 3.4 percent in 2020, there is no reason to believe that a meaningful portion of these dollars will be directed to addiction treatment and research. At the same time, many foundations have made the strategic decision to focus on the "upstream" social and economic factors that lead to addiction.
The reality is that drug addiction has become the deadliest public health crisis in recent U.S. history, and the funding gap that exists between the problem and solutions to address the problem will not be closed without significant private funding.
Why Private Sector Giving?
It's imperative that the private sector become a major contributor to solutions aimed at addressing the substance abuse epidemic. The reasons are varied, but key among them is that healthcare policy too often discriminates against those with addiction issues, while insurance companies have been reluctant to provide coverage for people who are addicted. Moreover, many federal and state agencies are focused on an "arrest and incarcerate" approach and often ignore the root causes of addiction such as family history, child abuse, and so on.
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What's New at Candid (April 2019)
As Foundation Center and GuideStar enter their third month as a single organization, staff are forging ahead with the work of integrating workflows, sharing ideas, and developing solutions. It's exciting! And like many other nonprofits at this time of year, we're out and about at conferences and events and knee-deep in projects scheduled to launch later this year.
Here are some of the highlights from March:
In partnership with Sustain Arts and See Chicago Dance, we published a new report, Mapping the Dance Landscape in Chicagoland. The Chicago region is a hub for arts and culture and boasts a thriving dance community, and the report can be used to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges facing dancers, dance organizations, and the field as a whole.
On CF Insights, our annual Columbus Survey is now open. The U.S. community foundation data collected by the survey provides a snapshot of the field and can be used to inform the financial and operational decisions made by community foundation staff. You can learn more about last year's survey results here — and be sure to check back for the results of this year's survey later this spring.
Glasspockets reached a milestone when the Walton Family Foundation became the one hundredth foundation to commit to sharing its transparency self-assessment profile on the Glasspockets website. Janet Camarena and her team also debuted new Transparency Levels (Core, Advanced, & Champion) designed in partnership with active Glasspockets foundations and sponsored by, yes, the Walton Family Foundation.
As the 2020 U.S. presidential election begins to take shape, we continue to track how foundations are supporting implementation, research, reform, and or/mobilization efforts related to campaigns, elections, and voting on our Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy. According to Candid data, more than $555 million has been granted by 845 funders in support of campaigns, elections, and voting since 2011. Of that total, $136 million has taken the form of general/unrestricted support, while $69.2 million has targeted racial and ethnic minorities.
To date in 2019, we've recorded over 5,000 registrations for our webinars and self-paced elearning courses and have handled more than 18,000 questions through our knowledge base.
We completed custom data searches for the DeVos Institute of Arts Management, Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania, Humboldt University of Berlin, Philanthropy Ohio, the Philanthropy Roundtable, and the Walton Family Foundation.
"Torch: Behind a Business Intelligence Platform for Philanthropy and the Social Sector," Philip Rojc, Inside Philanthropy
"Tech Titans' Philanthropy Puts Oceans Front and Center," Mareesa Nicosi, Penta
"When Eagles Hatch: Native Americans in Philanthropy and Native Youth Activism," Julia Travers, Inside Philanthropy
New study on philanthropy's role in producing safe, healthy and just societies, Alliance magazine
We're partnering with the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy (SIP) to incorporate its content as part of our core training offerings. SIP is a fundraising management education program for nonprofit professionals based out of National University, and its content will allow Candid to exponentially increase the number of courses related to individual giving we are able to offer. The partnership also will support SIP content training for Candid staff and Funding Information Network partners and will enable us to adapt SIP content for in-person delivery as well as through our self-paced eLearning platform.
It's conference season! Candid staff will be attending these upcoming events:
2019 CASE/AADO Conference on Diverse Philanthropy and Leadership, April 15-17, Indianapolis, IN
Data Days, April 15, Cleveland, OH
Jamaica Association Meeting, Driving Philanthropy for the Future: Creating the Networks We Need, April 24-26, Jamaica
Council on Foundations Annual Conference ("Leading Together,") April 29-May 1, Miami, FL
ECDC Refugee Resettlement Conference, May 1-2, Alexandria, VA
United Way Community Leadership and Impact Conference, May 1-3, Toronto, Canada
Arc of Innovation conference, May 2, Chicago, IL
IRE Watchdog Workshop, May 4, New York, NY
Center for Effective Philanthropy Annual Conference, May 7-9, Minneapolis, MN
PEFG Annual Meeting, May 7-9, Washington, DC
New York State Network for Youth Success Annual Conference, May 10-11, Saratoga Springs, NY
Mid-Atlantic Grants Conference, May 20, Atlantic City, NJ
Good Tech Fest, May 21-24, Chicago, IL
European Foundation Centre's Annual General Assembly and Conference, May 21-24, Paris, France
CASE Annual Conference for Corporate and Foundation Relations Officers, May 22-24, Washington, DC
A total of 231,299 new grants added to Foundation Maps in March, of which 2,665 were made to 1,920 organizations outside the U.S.
Foundation Directory Online continues to support everything needed in a fundraising tool. Now you can build more robust prospect lists and see how much funders are giving based on your mission.
Candid's webinar participants continue to gain practical skills and report an increase in confidence after taking one of our webinars. In a recent survey, 88 percent reported that they had gained a specific skill, tool, or strategy that enabled them to advance their work, while 95 percent said they expected to apply what they had learned in the webinar within the year.
Twenty-two participants from Northeast Ohio participated in a three-day Proposal Writing Boot Camp. Check out all 2019 boot camp dates here.
The Funding Information Network now boasts thirteen training partners. FINs are locations around the country where you can access Candid resources for free and take a scheduled class. Learn more about the Funding Information Network program here.
New data sharing partners: Barr Family Foundation, Better Way Foundation, Callison Foundation, District of Columbia Bar Foundation, Hamer D. & Phyllis C. Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust, and Victorian Women's Benevolent Trust. Tell your story through data so we can communicate philanthropy's contribution to making a better world — learn more about our eReporting program.
New customers: Purposeful is using our data and APIs, the Barr Foundation is using our Premier API, and a UK site called Social Bite is licensing our data to help with their cause (homelessness). We also added North Carolina State, George Washington University, and the University of Richmond to our roster of Library services clients.
New posts on the GuideStar blog, including one on best practices for requesting corporate funding, one on what organizations need to know about managing leadership transitions, and one on the launch of 2019 GuideStar Seals of Transparency.
New posts on WASHfunders.org, including a piece questioning whether selling water and sanitation services to people in poverty is equitable and a post on market shaping opportunities in Africa.
New posts on PhilanTopic, including "7 Things One Family Foundation Is Doing to End Poverty," "5 Tips to Make the Most Out of Your Donor Data," and "3 Ways to Educate Donors About Movement Building." (And don't forget to check out the most popular posts on PhilanTopic in March here.)
New posts on GrantSpace, including one on how DEI work supports the social sector and one on using storytelling to get more grants.
New posts on Glasspockets, including an announcement about Glasspockets' new transparency levels, a conversation with the Walton Family Foundation, and an interview with the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation.
New posts on GrantCraft, including one on reflective practices that can help #ShiftThePower in philanthropy and one on creating impact at scale through partnerships.
We added 110 new resources to IssueLab in March, including The Gender Disadvantage: Why Inequity Persists, Environmental Funding by European Foundations: Volume 4 and a report on the potential role of CDFIs in newly designated Opportunity Zones.
If you found this update helpful, feel free to share it or shoot us an email. I'll be back next month with another update.
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The Importance of Donor Data and How to Use It Effectively
Fundraising professionals don't need to be told that donors are more likely to support an organization if they feel they understand the work the organization does and that you, the fundraiser, value their investment in that work.
The key question, then, is: How can I effectively communicate with and develop relationships with donors that improve the odds of my organization retaining and even growing their support? And it follows that one of the biggest challenges nonprofits face in strengthening their donor relationships is not being able to seeand understand their donor data.
Given everything you do as a fundraising professional for your organization, the prospect of adding more data gathering and analytics to your tasks surely is concerning. Unfortunately, it isn't a task you can afford to ignore. Indeed, the success of your nonprofit depends on your ability to engage with donor data.
The good news? There's no reason to feel overwhelmed by yet another item on your to-do list. Donor data can be managed and used efficiently — you just have to have a little knowledge and the right tools.
Donor data encompasses several different areas and, when used effectively, can accomplish a lot. But first, you need to ask yourself some basic questions:
Why should I bother to collect donor data?
What kind of data should I track and collect?
How do I keep the data organized?
What can I do with the data?
Why should I collect donor data?
A big part of your job as a nonprofit development professional is cultivate prospective donors and maintain relationships with existing donors. You organize fundraising campaigns and look for opportunities for your nonprofit to engage with the community to raise awareness of your cause.
Every donor interaction or community engagement results in new data. Collecting and analyzing that data allows you to:
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'Future-Fit' Philanthropy: Why Philanthropic Organizations Will Need Foresight to Leave a Lasting Legacy of Change
To be considered transformational, any philanthropic organization should aim for lasting impacts that go beyond their immediate beneficiaries. Yet, in the face of what the UK's Ministry of Defense recently characterized as "unprecedented acceleration in the speed of change, driving ever more complex interactions between [diverse] trends," the longer-term future of philanthropy, and the success of individual programs, are at risk as never before.
Philanthropy is already trying to deliver on a hugely ambitious vision of a better future. Taking the Sustainable Development Goals as one marker, this includes, within just over a decade, ending poverty, ending hunger, and delivering universal healthcare. Progress is struggling to match aspirations: the UN has found that globally, hunger is on the rise again and malaria rates are up due to antimicrobial resistance.
With the accelerating pace of change, new trends are set to bring huge opportunities — and threats — often both at once. Two examples: new technologies in the field of synthetic biology, and the fourth Industrial Revolution. Other trends — climate change, demographic shifts, democratic rollback — may be familiar, but their pace, trajectory, and impact remain radically uncertain.
The trends of the coming ten to twenty years have the potential to reverse hard-won progress, distort the outcomes of interventions, radically change the geography and distribution of need, and outpace the philanthropy business model altogether.
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Candid Deepens Commitment to Communities
In February 2019, Foundation Center and GuideStar joined forces to become Candid. Read our press release for more context on why we made this move.
Bringing Candid's vision to life means we'll need to take a transformative approach to delivering our programs and services to nonprofits — on the ground and online. Some of Candid's many core assets include the resources that you have come to rely on from Foundation Center: our virtual and in-person trainings; Foundation Directory Online (FDO), our signature database for finding funding; Grantspace.org, our one-stop online portal for nonprofit professionals; and our Funding Information Network (FIN), which comprises of 400+ mission-aligned partners in the U.S. and across the globe providing on-the-ground support to strengthen their communities.
As Candid, we'll deepen our investment in these existing services. We'll double-down on our efforts to share the most up-to-date information on what it takes to build impact-ready, sustainable organizations. And as the world's largest source of information on nonprofit organizations, we'll be able to deliver to you the most up-to-date data and intelligence you need.
Through our network of FIN partners, we'll ensure that our services are available, far and wide. In all locations outside of our New York headquarters, we'll be making a shift from operating our own libraries to focusing on enhanced offerings for libraries and other community-based organizations through our FIN program. Pairing the focus on the FIN with direct delivery of trainings by our team via pop-up programs across our existing key markets — and regionally — will further enable us to deepen and widen accessibility to our resources to communities, small and large. Read on for more details.
What does this mean for Candid's library resource centers in the U.S.?
By the end of 2019, we will move our Atlanta and Cleveland teams into a shared space with partner organizations. We will combine our GuideStar and Foundation Center offices in San Francisco/Oakland and Washington, D.C. (Foundation Center staff will move into GuideStar locations in these cities). We will no longer provide in-person library services at these locations. Rather than asking you to come to us for in-person training or access to our fundraising tools, our team will be coming to a neighborhood near you: we've already scheduled pop-up visits and trainings at local FINs or other convenient places around the country and look forward to seeing you there.
Our public space in New York will continue to operate in its current form (still providing library services and trainings) and will eventually take on more of an incubator/laboratory role, enabling us to test new training programs, tweak, and systematize them so that we can deliver new content to the field. We'll also begin experimenting with local programming close to Williamsburg, Virginia, where a large contingency of Candid team members are based.
Note that Candid will continue providing direct online reference services at grantspace.org, and we'll further build out our eBooks collection, ensuring anytime, anywhere access to our online collection of information resources.
How will Candid's training programs change?
Short-term: They won't. Our team will continue delivering services and trainings to meet the needs of our community. We are committed to delivering all the great in-person programs that we're known for — from cohort learning circles to Proposal Writing Boot Camps, to larger annual convenings. The only difference is that we will host many of these programs out in the community rather than in our own offices.
Long-term: Candid's programs will only get better. Combining Foundation Center's rich data and research skills with the robust services provided by GuideStar will lead to an expanded — and more diverse — portfolio of offerings to you. 2019 will be a year of strategizing and planning for a future where we can better serve the community we care about most: you.
Who can you contact if you have more questions?
Please don't hesitate to reach out to any of our team members with questions or ideas:
Candid West (San Francisco): Michele Ragland Dilworth
Candid Northeast (New York + Washington, D.C.): Kim Buckner Patton
Candid South (Atlanta): Maria Azuri
Candid Midwest (Cleveland): Teleangé Thomas
We are thrilled for the opportunity this new operating model presents Candid; one in which we can more deliberately activate our time and talent to build the capacity of communities large and small, while we continue to deepen our programmatic impact in the cities where our staff are based. As always, you can connect with me directly to brainstorm on how we can serve you better.
Zohra Zori is vice president for social sector outreach at Candid.
Learn more about what Candid can offer you today
Learn more about GrantSpace's live and on-demand trainings
Learn more about the Funding Information Network
Learn more about our eBooks lending program
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[Review] 'Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count'
Back in 2016, Bill Gates, in the context of his partnership with the Heifer Foundation to donate 100,000 chickens to people around the world living on $2 a day, blogged about how raising egg-laying fowl can be a smart, cost-effective antidote to extreme poverty. As Phil Buchanan tells it in Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count, the idea, however well-intentioned, attracted scorn from some quarters, including Bolivia, where the offer was declined — after it was pointed out that the country already produces some 197 million chickens a year. The episode is a pointed reminder that being an effective philanthropist isn't as easy as it might seem.
And Buchanan ought to know; as the founding CEO of the Cambridge-based Center for Effective Philanthropy for the past seventeen years, he has worked closely with more than three hundred foundations and scores of individual givers, exploring the landscape of American giving, distilling lessons learned (both successes and failures), and highlighting what works and what doesn't. (Spoiler alert: there's no single answer as to how to give "right," but few are better positioned than Buchanan to frame the question.) In this slim volume, he lays out a framework that can help anyone engaged in philanthropy to be more thoughtful, open-minded, and willing to learn, adapt, and keep trying.
As Buchanan sees it, anyone can be an effective philanthropist, and there is no one best practice to that end, other than to be as engaged as one can be. While much of the advice he shares is better suited for the well-heeled donor or the program officer at an established foundation (those with the time and resources to think through larger issues, consider options, and evaluate methods for learning from their giving), the panhandler's dictum applies: you don't need to be a Rockefeller to help a fella, and you don't need to be a tech billionaire to carve out a smart, sustainable path for your own giving. Certainly, to give is better than not to give, and if all you have the time to do is to write a check, do that. But if you want to effect lasting change — to move the needle, as it were — then you need to dig in and think long-term.
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Most Popular PhilanTopic Posts (March 2019)
It's April 1 and you're no fool — which is why you'll want to settle in with a glass of your favorite beverage and check out some of the posts PhilanTopic readers couldn't get enough of in March. We'll be back with new material in a day or two. Enjoy!
Board Diversity: Moving From Awareness to Action (Molly Brennan)
How Philanthropy Can Catalyze Private Investment in Opportunity Zones (Rhett Buttle, Tammy Halevy, and Jane Campbell)
12 Tips for Filling Out/Submitting Online Applications (Allison Shirk)
Five Elements for Success in Capacity Building (Carla Taylor, Lori Bartczak)
What Is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Thinking? (Steven Miller)
New Tax on 'Excess' Executive Compensation Poses Challenge for Tax-Exempt Organizations (Bruce L. Wolff)
Why Evaluations Are Worth Reading – or Not (Rebekah Levin)
4 Steps for Fostering Innovation (Kris Putnam-Walkerly)
Current Trends in Philanthropy: The Big Picture (Larry McGill)
5 Questions for...James Cadogan, Vice President of Criminal Justice, Arnold Ventures (Kyoko Uchida)
Interested in contributing to PND or PhilanTopic? We'd love to hear from you. Drop us a note at mfn@foundationcenter.org.
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Senior JC Schoonmaker has led the Lakers throughout the year and gave North Tahoe their best finish of the regional meet, completing the 5,000-meter course on Friday, Oct. 27, with a time of 17 minutes, 41 seconds for second overall.
The North Tahoe Lakers cross-country team swept the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association Class 2A/1A Northern Regional Championships on Friday, Oct. 27, at Shadow Mountain Park in Sparks, Nev.
The Lakers boys' topped three other teams to capture first place, with four runners finishing in the top 10 out of a field of 39, while the girls' finished with six athletes in the top eight to capture the team championship.
Senior JC Schoonmaker gave the school its best finish of the meet, completing the 5,000-meter course with a time of 17 minutes, 41 seconds for second overall.
Junior Alex Whitman was next for the Lakers with at time of 18:27 for seventh place. Freshman Etienne Bordes was next in eighth place with a time of 18:41. Junior Riley Hacker then crossed the line with a time of 19:17 for ninth place.
The Lady Lakers would put together a dominant showing at the to capture first-place overall against two other squads.
Junior Josii Johnson came in next for the Lakers with a time of 22:39 for third place. Freshman Kili Lehmkuhl was next in fourth place with a time of 22:40. Junior Jillian Ferre then crossed the line in sixth with a time of 23:10. Junior Ella Carr was next at 23:43 for seventh place, followed by freshman Alani Powell in eighth place with a time of 23:50. Junior Elan Lindsey was the Lakers final competitor, finishing 17th with a time of 26:45. The girls and boys' performances qualified the team for next week's state championship meet.
Freshman Niklas Pietzke paced the Incline boys with a time of 18:18 for fifth place and was Incline's only runner to qualify for the state meet.
The state championship meet will take place Saturday, Nov. 4 at Shadow Mountain Park.


The large bison meandered down the road. We didn't have much choice but to wait patiently until he moved off the edge of the pavement. No matter. We weren't rushed on this trip through Yellowstone – our annual Mother's Day weekend through the Park. Then Mom noticed it. Oh!
This was the second tail-less bison we'd seen that day. Only a smooth stub protruded from the point where there is usually a meaty tail with a lengthy whisk reaching to the animals' hocks. This animal just had an insignificant knob.
"What do you think?" Mom mused. What was the cause of this aberration?
A unique magic exists in Yellowstone Park in May. Life is abundant and full of beginnings. The first flowers dot the meadows while bird song floats through every glen and glade as the migrants return and claim their territory. On a lake still wrapped in ice, we watched an eared grebe floating on the only stretch of open water, his great black crown rising over a tawny flare of ear tufts. Sparks of brilliant white on distant hills marked herds of antelope, and a small group of bighorn sheep grazed peacefully near our lunch stop.
May is when bison calves romp through bright green spring grass, every sight and scent a new discovery. We were gifted with the sight of a bison who had just given birth repeatedly charging a persistent raven looking to grab the afterbirth, even as the red calf wobbled in circles, trying to get a suckle of milk.
We almost asked a ranger about this tail-less bison phenomenon, but he was occupied with bear-jam control. We came up with our own hypotheses: genetics, a manx bison strain; disease, don't think so; wolves, well probably, but how? Not until later – after a lengthy search with the key words "bison missing tails" – did the internet provide an answer.
Apparently, wolves can and do bite the tails off hapless bison calves. Furthermore, wolves can castrate bison – leaving them to grow to full size, minus a few parts. Thus, the tail-less bison.
Yellowstone Park is an exceptional place, a haven where people can glimpse a bit of the incredible world that lies beyond the realm of our human society. Yes, there is an element of the Wildlife Zoo in Yellowstone, and I worry that tourists view it as a Disneyland, where it's all for our entertainment (it was, after all, created in 1872 as a "pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people."). Yet, people from across the globe visit Yellowstone, and many must come away with a new appreciation for the wildlife, the flora, the land itself. That appreciation may translate into a desire to contribute towards responsible stewardship of such places, as the chance to see a hint of the complex life interwoven into a magnificent landscape – to witness such things as a bison mother beating off a raven – opens up new ways of thinking, new perspectives. It also provides a new understanding of some of what goes on in that vibrant, wild community.
Such as the fact that there are bison without tails, and wolves who sometimes get only a tidbit of a meal when they are looking for more.


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Игорь Анатольевич Орлов (род. 17 августа 1964, Дебальцево, Донецкая область, Украинская ССР, СССР) — российский государственный и политический деятель. Генеральный директор ПАО «Судостроительный завод «Северная верфь» с июня 2020 года.

Губернатор Архангельской области с 3 февраля 2012 года по 2 апреля 2020 года (временно исполняющий обязанности губернатора Архангельской области с 13 января по 3 февраля 2012 и с 22 мая по 24 сентября 2015). Член Президиума Регионального политического совета Архангельской области партии «Единая Россия».

Биография
Игорь Орлов родился в 1964 году в Дебальцево Украинской ССР. Там же учился в поселковой средней школе. Отец возглавлял в Дебальцеве транспортный отдел горкома партии, затем — транспортный цех Углегорской ГРЭС.

В 1987 году окончил Ленинградский институт авиационного приборостроения (ныне — ГУАП) с диплом по специальности «электрооборудование летательных аппаратов» и диплом о квалификации «инженер-электромеханик».

В 1987 был принят на один из крупнейших военных заводов, специализирующийся на судоремонте и судостроении — машиностроительное предприятие «Звёздочка» в городе Северодвинске. Вначале работал электромонтёром по ремонту электрооборудования.

С 1988 по 1991 — инженер-технолог, начальник сектора проектно-технологического бюро «Онега» в том же Северодвинске. В 1991 году стал начальником отдела — главным технологом.

С 1994 года по 2008 год работал в ФГУП «Центр судоремонта "Звездочка"». Сначала был начальником отдела автоматизированной системы управления производством (ОАСУП). В 1997 назначен заместителем генерального директора, начальником отдела. С 2003 — заместитель генерального директора, начальник управления по экономике, развитию, ценообразованию и финансам. С 2004 — заместитель генерального директора по экономике и внешнеэкономической деятельности.

В 2008 году переехал в Калининград, где был назначен заместителем генерального директора, и. о. генерального директора, а чуть позже и генеральным директором ОАО «Прибалтийский судостроительный завод "Янтарь"». Работал на предприятии до 30 июня 2011 года

С 10 августа 2011 года — первый заместитель исполнительного директора по производству автосборочного предприятия ООО «Автотор Холдинг» в Калининграде. Также он являлся председателем калининградского отделения общественной организации «Союз машиностроителей России».

Губернатор Архангельской области
13 января 2012 года президент РФ Дмитрий Медведев принял отставку с поста губернатора Архангельской области Ильи Михальчука, а временно исполняющим обязанности губернатора назначил Игоря Орлова. Издание «Деловой Петербург» отмечало, что назначение Орлова стало неожиданным.

Вскоре, 31 января, президент Медведев предложил Архангельскому областному Собранию депутатов наделить Игоря Орлова полномочиями губернатора. 3 февраля депутаты утвердили Орлова в должности губернатора Архангельской области на 5 лет.

Полномочия Орлова истекали в феврале 2017 года, однако уже в мае 2015 Орлов досрочно подал в отставку и при этом попросил у президента Путина разрешения баллотироваться вновь (в иных случаях закон это запрещает). Путин разрешение дал и назначил Орлова врио губернатора до вступления в должность избранного на выборах. 13 сентября 2015 года состоялись выборы губернатора Архангельской области, в которых Орлов с результатом 53,25 % голосов одержал победу в первом туре. Инаугурация состоялась 24 сентября 2015 года.

С 25 октября 2014 по 7 апреля 2015 — член президиума Государственного совета Российской Федерации.

В ноябре 2015 года поддержал введение системы «Платон», а протесты дальнобойщиков против введения системы назвал «безмозглостью».

8 июля 2019 года издание РБК опубликовало новость, что губернатор Архангельской области Игорь Орлов в рамках очередной ротации кадров может быть отправлен в отставку. Сам Орлов эту информацию опроверг. 12 ноября 2019 года в ходе партийной конференции областного отделения партии «Единая Россия» Игорь Орлов заявил о готовности принять участие в выборах губернатора Архангельской области в 2020 году, несмотря на довольно шаткие позиции в различных соцопросах и рейтингах. Более того, Орлов заявил, что рассчитывает одержать победу на губернаторских выборах в первом туре. Лидер архангельского областного отделения КПРФ Александр Новиков намерение Орлова баллотироваться при таком отрицательном рейтинге «отчаянным решением».

2 апреля 2020 года подал в отставку. На его место в качестве ВРИО губернатора был назначен ушедший с поста главы Ненецкого автономного округа Александр Цыбульский. По словам Орлова, решение об отставке он принял по результатам «больших социологических исследований, которые провели ряд профессиональных компаний».

Критика

В 2018 году Игорь Орлов поддержал строительство Экотехнопарка, по сути незаконного мусорного полигона на станции Шиес. На реализацию проекта до 10 млрд рублей планируется выделить из бюджета Москвы. СМИ и ряд общественников утверждают, что своими действиями Орлов создал в Архангельской области и соседней Республике Коми опасную ситуацию.

5 апреля 2019 на встрече с профсоюзными лидерами Северодвинска назвал своих критиков «всякая шелупонь» и заявил, что он «не дурак отказываться от миллиардов». Это вызвало встречный шквал критики и требования уйти в отставку.

7 апреля 2019 год в Архангельске прошла многотысячная несанкционированная демонстрация против полигона в Шиесе, за принятие закона о запрете ввоза мусора из других регионов и за отставку Игоря Орлова. Протестующие заняли пр. Троицкий от Морского речного вокзала до пл. Ленина. Сотрудники МВД пытались препятствовать шествию, встав в несколько линий поперек шествия, линии были снесены демонстрантами. Ходит мнение о намеренном саботаже приказа препятствовать демонстрантам: сотрудники МВД вели себя неагрессивно, улыбались и даже высказывали солидарность демонстрантам, когда те проходили оцепление. После перегруппировки на пл. Ленина, Росгвардия и МВД отказалась применять насилие в отношении демонстрантов. С трибуны протеста организаторы шествия объявили бессрочную акцию протеста ЭкоБессрочка, расставив палатки в центре площади. Одним из символов протеста стал транспарант с надписью «за шелупонь ответишь».

На ЭкоБессрочке с 7:00 до 22:00 прибывало не менее 30 активистов ежедневно. Позднее время нахождения протестующих на площади постепенно сокращалось. После отставки Игоря Орлова ЭкоБессрочка на площади Ленина фактически прекратилась с 7 апреля 2020 года. Символом ЭкоБессрочки стали светоотражающие жилеты и флаг МО Урдома. В короткие апрельские светодни жилеты получили особую популярность. Некоторые блогеры сравнивали ЭкоБессрочку с Жёлтыми Жилетами во Франции, однако активисты опровергают довод, поскольку изначально протест носил локальный характер и не связан с зарубежными представительствами оппозиционных движений. Движение выступило на категорично патриотических к краю позициях.

7 июня 2019 года рядом с Администрацией города над пр. Воскресенский на проводах появилось линчеванное чучело с надписью «Я продал Север», похожее на Игоря Орлова. Для снятия чучела была перекрыта дорожная часть проспекта и привлечены сотрудники МЧС. 20 июня 2019 года после прямой линии с Владимиром Путиным, активисты назначили народный сход на пл. Ленина, чтобы выразить мнение по поводу ответа Путина на вопрос о незаконной стройке полигона в Шиесе. На народный сход участники ЭкоБессрочки принести деревянный туалет, отсылая к частым фразам Игоря Орлова о нежелании «повеситься в туалете» из-за низкого рейтинга.

Незадолго до прямой линии, на праздновании Дня России демонстранты посетили митинг-концерт, где выступал Игорь Орлов с поздравлением, в процессе которого речь Игоря Орлова была засвистана людьми в жилетах. Что, однако, не сопровождалось насилием со стороны демонстрантов. Игорь Орлов подошел к демонстрантам для фото. Протестные сообщества назвали такое фото полезным, поскольку с начала застройки Шиеса, активистов Шиеса, прозванных «защитниками Севера», региональные СМИ пытались выставить экстремистами и маргиналами, однако фото с губернатором показало, что суждения об агрессивности активистов ошибочны. Игорь Орлов на странице в соцсетях прокомментировал фото как свою склонность к диалогу с демонстрантами.

В ноябре 2019 года активисты Шиеса, выступающие против строительства мусорного полигона в Архангельской области, организовали бессрочную акцию протеста на Пушкинской площади в Москве.

Дальнейшая деятельность
С июня 2020 года —  генерального директора, затем — генеральный директор ПАО «Судостроительный завод «Северная верфь».

Награды

 2015 Медаль МЧС России «За предупреждение пожаров»
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Увлечения — спорт, театр, благотворительная деятельность. С детства и до сих пор играет в футбол. Участвует в товарищеских матчах, играет за команду регионального правительства.

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Does adult acne ever go away? It started at age 24 and I am now 44 years old. What causes it?
Welcome back. That's great you are on the way to see a specialist about this.
I've attached a link that might be helpful in the meantime.
Thanks for sharing your story. Some of the causes of adult acne can be cause by hormones, cosmetics, stress, and an increase of resistant bacteria. Some women experience this during their Menstrual also. Depending how severe it is, some can be treated with topical cream or oral medication.
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Democrat Joe Biden says he will send an amnesty deal for "over 11 million" illegal aliens to the United States Senate in his first 100 days in office.
During an interview with NBC News's Lester Holt, Biden reiterated his plan to give amnesty to the roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. Biden said of his agenda:...
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I would have a really hard time saying whether she had a nose job or not, but the voice of the people claims that notorious Lady Gaga just came out of hiding with a minor plastic amelioration.
It's cool….but somehow you can just tell that she's technically a drag queen…..maybe it's the shoes….quite possibly the yellow hair.
Nevertheless she should not be discriminated against because of that….we should judge her because all that shiny is just uuuugly unless you're hanging from a string in the middle of a dance floor.
It's not a drag queen. I wouldn't care if she is. She's entertaining but she doesn't entertain me.
Yes, she had a nose and some more things. The real Lady Gaga was a nice looking girl before she invented this entertainer.
Lady Gaga is a drag queen's dream.
I bet there are a tonnes of gay men out there impersonating her big time.
As for the dress and the hair it is very her, and she looks like a limited addition Christmas Barbie.
She's not a bad singer at all it's all just a tad too much for me….
She's entertaining but she doesn't entertain me.


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The political economy of computing
Hamid Ekbia, Bonnie Nardi
Is there a relationship between computing and economy? Most of us, if asked, will answer this question in the affirmative, thinking probably of such things as jobs lost to automation, big money made with technological innovations, and smartphone apps that enable novel business transactions, communication, and entertainment. These are all good examples of the relationship, but they are merely small spots on the body of a huge elephant that we can call the political economy of computing. Computing and political economy are much more intertwined than current discourse in HCI admits.
Our contention is not that HCI researchers and practitioners are unaware of the relationship between economy and technology; rather, that this does not typically figure in any deep way into our theories, practices, and designs. We in HCI face the reality of the larger economic system and its impact on our daily life and work, but we do not incorporate these understandings into our research and practice to the extent that we perhaps should. Researchers tend to focus on the cultural aspects of technology at the expense of the more material and economic facets. The recent turn to materiality might provide a useful opening in this regard, but its horizon needs to expand beyond the physical to thoroughgoing materiality. Practitioners, with their institutional ties to corporations, might feel constrained, directly and indirectly, in how far they can engage with issues of political economy. In this manner, the impositions and intrusions of the economic system in our sociotechnical arrangements are underemphasized. Due to the scant attention it receives, the elephant of the political economy turns into a topic not discussed. To improve this situation, we need to take the measure of the elephant.
Key Concepts of Political Economy
A good starting point would be to lay out the basic concepts of political economy so that we are informed enough to tackle the issues. Here we identify four such foundational elements: value, class, labor, and social control. These elements are all implicated in digital technology in one way or another.
Value: The creation of wealth. Value has to do with the production of wealth. Wealth creation is a constant requirement in our economy, and it's the basis upon which all capitalist activity rests—its bottom line, so to speak. To persist, contemporary capitalism must average 3 percent annual growth—a challenging and aggressive demand [1]. The notion of capital has been reified in most people's minds as money or as a tangible asset. David Harvey reminds us, however, that "capital is not a thing but a process in which money is perpetually in search of more money" [1]. One need only listen to capitalists themselves to understand this. In 2013, for example, Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to equip five billion people with Internet access—an astounding ambition to turn nearly everyone on earth old enough to manage a digital device into a customer of digital services. Zuckerberg's aspirations are but one example of capital's appetite and drive for growth. Eternally saddled with the need to grow, capitalism constantly scrambles to move forward. While the specific means by which wealth is created change over time, capitalism's non-negotiable demand for growth sparks a dynamic that affords processes of innovation the capacity to generate not only useful goods and services, but also system-wide instability and crises like those witnessed repeatedly in the past century, the most recent of which occurred in 2008.
In the past few decades, computing has been a major vehicle of innovation in capitalist economies, as well as a key source of wealth creation. A large portion of the economy's growth in the past decade, for instance, belongs to IT-related sectors and culture industries such as social media, advertising, and video games. The intense media and academic focus on exciting, innovative cultural activities such as content production on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter tends to divert our collective attention from less glamorous but crucial matters of, for example, declining investment in physical and social infrastructures—roads, bridges, hospitals, public libraries, and community housing. In today's world, such issues are inseparable from computing. Can we address them in HCI? The hashtag for CHI 2016 is #chiforgood—an expression of commitment to human well-being that should, in our view, more deeply consider computing and its relationship to the shaping power of the economy.
Class: A persistent reality. Class, to some people, has to do with lifestyle and taste or with social status and respect, while to others it relates to social conflict and political power; to still others, class is irrelevant. This latter view is often based on a neoliberal ideology that seeks to redraw social boundaries around notions other than class. We argue that class not only remains relevant to our understanding of contemporary social life but is also central to HCI theory and practice. Although class structure in current capitalist societies is different from that of previous centuries, classes have not disappeared. The shift in the mid-20th century from industrial to corporate capitalism, for instance, led to changes in the ownership and control of assets as former plutocrats such as the Carnegies, Rockefellers, and other heads of family-owned corporations hired managers with MBAs to run their businesses. This separation gave rise to highly paid and powerful executives of major corporations who do not own the means of production but attain enormous wealth and power through their jobs—a trend that, along with inherited assets, has concentrated wealth in fewer and fewer hands [2].
The emergence of this powerful group has changed class structure in capitalist economies, but these changes do not alter the fact that a certain social class maintains ownership and control of the means of production of goods and services (plants, factories, industrial farms, buildings, machinery). For this reason, it can hire those who do not have that kind of ownership [3]. Similarly, the shift in the past few decades toward a so-called information economy brought forth the role of knowledge workers—those involved in the collection, processing, and management of data and information. This circumstance did not, again, alter the fact that a certain class owns and controls the means of production, whether the context is finance, media, engineering, scientific information, or artistic and literary creation. The new capitalist class, iconically embodied in the owners of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and media conglomerates such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, is as real as the Rockefellers and Carnegies of old industrial capitalism.
The invisible and/or meagerly rewarded contribution of humans to many computational systems is an increasingly common labor relation.
In HCI, class has been erased as a concept. For example, the selection of representative user groups indicates that we collect demographic data on age, gender, ethnicity, and so forth—but not on class. We would scarcely know how to define the different classes that might be relevant because we have avoided thinking about them. System designs often benefit, de facto, the members of privileged socioeconomic classes. The fact that class is not explicitly incorporated into the design process does not eliminate this reality; it just hides it. Take the ubiquitous smartphone, and the huge number of apps that run on it. The majority are built to help people find good restaurants but not good jobs, connect with old high school classmates but not with the disenfranchised members of their community, organize flash mobs but not labor and trade unions, search for cute pet videos but not endangered species in their area, and so forth. The point is not that current apps are not important, rather that the balance has tilted too much in one direction. The fact that we operate within a capitalist economy explains these preferences but does not justify them. While designers and technologists might not have a lot of leeway in reshaping the broader socioeconomic environment, they should not close their eyes to the realities of a class-based society.
Labor: Rewarded and unrewarded. Capitalism depends on wage labor to create wealth. The arrangements by which work is regulated, however, are pliable, such that capitalism has the ability to respond to changing conditions and to impose new demands or seek new opportunities when, for example, the supply of the right kinds of labor falters or can be enhanced. The invisible and/or meagerly rewarded contribution of humans to many computational systems is an increasingly common labor relation, and takes different shapes, from the taxing and repetitive microtasks of Mechanical Turk, to user training and behavior regulation in video games, to the generation of content at sites such as Amazon.com and content issuing from the actions of users of social media, search engines, and other Web outlets [4].
Celebratory accounts of participatory culture, peer production, and the like valorize labor relations in which enterprises extract free or low-cost labor for their own benefit. Such accounts are perhaps too narrowly pointed at the short-term affective rewards of the labor on which peer production depends. Taking a wider, longer view, these economic arrangements reveal a trend toward diminishing returns on a person's own labor. Peer production also reduces returns to labor by displacing labor that was formerly paid, such as that of members of the creative class who have watched their worth decline through content delivered for free. While we may believe that peer production is a positive force in society, a political-economy perspective asks us to also consider wider impacts on social class and economic security, because these will inevitably be important to all of us in the future as the cumulative effects of new labor relations are felt [5].
Social control: Commitment and coercion. All societies ensure that people behave according to plans and expectations. Foucault revealed the post-medieval disciplinary society as a series of spatial enclosures (prisons, schools, hospitals, factories) with episodic examinations and certifications. Contemporary society adds a new layer of continuous control. The dispersal of small, ubiquitous moments of control is implemented through digital technologies, subtly affecting individuals through techniques of isolation. Although technologies such as the Internet are used for emancipatory purposes, they have also turned into instruments of surveillance, control, and coercion. Many technologies provide effective control and surveillance mechanisms for the organizations that employ or provide services to us. In the past, the loyal employee of a big bureaucracy was fully owned and controlled eight hours a day through hierarchical mechanisms but was unsupervised after the workday. The employee of today's organizations is typically subject to less bureaucratic control (although bureaucratic control is far from dead) but is unofficially controlled and monitored on an ongoing 24/7 basis. Thanks to digital technologies, what is lost to reduced bureaucratic control is more than rebalanced in capital's favor by continuous access and surveillance.
While coercions like these are the cause of considerable consternation, the commitment of citizens of industrial societies to digital technology is unmistakable. Such commitment has a rational basis in that technology provides unprecedented capacity for information and communication. Yet technology also visibly isolates us. Public spaces, for example, are markedly altered. The everyday spectacle of people ensconced in their own worlds, earbuds in place, making eye contact only with their smartphones is scarcely remarked on. Yet it is a pattern unique to our place and era, and a relatively new pattern at that. One need only go to other cultures with less commitment to incessant use of technology (or spend time with the elderly) to be reminded that our commitments seem natural but are in fact outcomes of complex processes at work in the political economies of industrial societies. These are commitments we do not yet grasp and that require study.
Application to HCI
How can we incorporate concepts of political economy into HCI thinking and practice? We suggest the following as potential first steps:
Economically informed design. A promising development in HCI has focused on value-sensitive design, highlighting values such as privacy, trust, and informed consent [6]. These values are important from an ethical perspective, but there are economic values that need to be incorporated into our thinking about systems too. Along with their cultural, informative, and entertainment value, computer technologies are business tools that generate great economic value. HCI thinking cannot remain indifferent to this question: What economic value is generated by our ideas and systems?
Class-conscious design. The economic value generated is not equitably distributed. It often favors a select group of actors, often at the expense of others. The growing income gap of the past few decades, deriving in part from computer innovations, is a vivid illustration of this fact. In designing systems, we should ask: Who benefits most, and who is economically left behind by our designs?
Labor-friendly design. Technologies reconfigure the division of labor between machines and humans but also, through that, among humans. Keeping in mind the principle that the ultimate goal of technology is to improve human welfare, we should ask: What division of labor is created by our designs? Does this division of labor make life (work, family, health, education, entertainment) better for people?
These questions indicate the need for metrics and analyses not yet part of current HCI research and practice. The aim of this article has been to suggest that we might begin to work toward their development, shedding light on the elephant in the HCI room.
1. Harvey, D. The Enigma of Capital. Oxford Univ. Press, 2007.
2. Piketty, T. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Belknap Press, 2014.
3. Marx, K. Capital. Penguin Classics, London, 1867/1990.
4. Ekbia, H. and Nardi, B. Heteromation and its (dis)contents: The invisible division of labor between humans and machines. First Monday. June 2014.
5. Ekbia, H. and Nardi, B. Heteromation and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism. (In press).
6. Friedman, B. Value-sensitive design. Interactions 3, 6 (1996), 16–20.
Hamid Ekbia is an associate professor of informatics, cognitive science, and international studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he directs the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction (www.cromi.org). His key interests are in political economy of computing and theory of mediation. He works on games for health in his spare time. hekbia@indiana.edu
Bonnie Nardi is a professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. She is interested in social theory, political economy, collapse informatics, and a few fun things like video games. nardi@uci.edu
Copyright held by authors. Publication rights licensed to ACM.
http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/november-december-2015/the-political-economy-of-computing


Lord Mandelson and Jeff Stelling have been made honorary freemen of Hartlepool.
Lord Mandelson, the Secretary of State for Business, was awarded the honour for his services to the town during his 12 years as Hartlepool's MP.
Soccer Saturday anchorman Jeff Stelling, who is also the host of Channel 4's Countdown show, was born in the town and is an ardent fan of Hartlepool United.
Each spoke of the honour they felt in being made freemen, at a ceremony in Hartlepool Civic Centre attended by the town's mayor and local dignitaries.
The title is the highest honour that a council can bestow.
Lord Mandelson's former agent Councillor Steve Wallace, who supported the proposal to make him a freeman, said: ''The fact that a middle class, Oxford educated, carpetbagging, Londoner - and those are his good points - became accepted as an honorary Hartlepudlian has astonished many opponents.
''But it never surprised me, because over 12 years I saw him meet tens of thousands of local people on doorsteps, on visits and in his surgery.
''The secret of his popularity was not to have a secret. He would turn up and be uncompromisingly Peter Mandelson; slightly cool, slightly aloof and stand offish, but always honest and upfront.
Lord Mandelson said: ''When I was elected the MP for Hartlepool for the second time I said there are good days in politics and there are bad days in politics and I knew both those sorts of days.
''Today is without and doubt at all one of the best days in politics I have ever had.
''It's a great honour to be made an honorary freeman of the town though I'm slightly sorry to hear that the... freedom to drive my sheep through the streets of Hartlepool is somewhat exaggerated and people would be somewhat surprised if I was to do so now.
He thanked the people of Hartlepool for having ''stretched their arms around him in welcome''.
Jeff Stelling said: ''This is special to me not just because I'm from Hartlepool but also because of how proud my Dad would have been if he was here today.
''He was Hartlepool through and through - born in the town, steel worker, strong trades unionist, labour voter, man of morals, man of principles.
''He knew what was right, he knew what was wrong and he tried to instil that into his family.
The men were among six people to be honoured for their services to the town.
Also made freemen were Wendy McLoughlin, who founded Hartlepool Families First, a community organisation dedicated to the care of disabled children, Isobel Wilson, who founded the Pansies Breast Cancer Support Group in 1996.
Former Mayors of Hartlepool Harry Clouth and Doug Ferriday were made honorary Aldermen.


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Business-new,
Campeche,
Eight oil firms to bid in Mexico Trion tender
By Yucatan Times on September 2, 2016
Sonda de campeche oil well in the Gulf of Mexico (Photo: CNN)
The list of participants rose to eight from six after the CNH allowed companies more time to prepare the documents and payments necessary to take part in the bidding.
At least eight large oil companies will participate in Mexico's tender to partner with state oil company Pemex to develop the deep-water Trion field in the Gulf of Mexico, two sources from the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) said.
Mexican subsidiaries of BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron Corp., Inpex Corp., Total Exxon, Shell and Mitsubishi Corp. will bid on Dec. 5 to be part of the Joint Operating Agreement with Pemex, the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.
Pemex will own about 45 percent of the consortium formed for exploration and production in Trion, located in the Perdido area in the Gulf near the U.S. border.
One more company could qualify for the tender in the next few days, one of the people said.
The contract will be awarded the same day that the government will auction potentially lucrative exploration and production contracts for 10 other blocks.
Source: www.eluniversal.com.mx


raised voices, and sudden mood changes occur more often with girls?
boys. Get used to it.
sending you a message about who she really is.
maintain connection with the relationship?
mostly want to invite love from their peers.
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Hi everyone. These seem to be some interesting ideas that Diane has posted here. My daughter, 11, still likes spending time with me, but she is also becoming more interested in spending more time with her friends from school. I wonder how this affects the girl's values as they are influencing each other. She still needs time with me, but I have sufficient leverage with her about cancelling play-dates that it is very useful for getting her to meet goals like tidying her room or finishing a school project quickly.
One of the earlier articles mentioned counting up to three to let the child know they needed to comply to your request. I have always counted down from five with my kids. When I am at my wit's end and I find that my voice is raised and I'm serious that I want a job done, I quietly count, "five", I look withdrawn, stunned or disgusted that it has come to this, "four", I look and listen for proof of compliance, "three",….Pretty soon they get moving and do as they were bid. I get over my disappointment of having to count as I got compliance and we all get on with things relatively smoothly.
Another thing that works for me, is that I speak very softly and explain that it is very important to do this now, so that we can go out, or whatever our ultimate goal is.
Other times I'll mention that having a room tidied, clothes hung up, grass cut, dishwasher unloaded or whatever, is a prerequisite to seeing friends, using a computer, phone, TV or other toy. This works well. I mess up regularly and let the play come before the work. That does not often work!! These things still seem to work as the kids get older, so that is great. I just have to ask for work before play!
I have tried the time out too. Even at age 12 or so, the child can still feel ostracized and naughty, so that tends to achieve compliance. Usually with my son, counting gets his attention. He knows that I can remove privileges if he does not comply. My counting is what I turn to when I'm serious and not happy. It's usually my last resort. He knows this and complies.
One of my issues is bedtimes. I am not good at getting the kids to comply and I'm not good at delivering consequences for this. We often have reasons as a family to be up late. It is our "together time". I'm working at trying to have that together time earlier in the day.
A second issue is how not to have to listen to whining about bumps and scrapes and friends. I only want to hear the important stuff. I'd rather share my attention in more positive ways. I want to help with the major scrapes, but a little one my daughter can take care of herself. I listen so that I don't miss out on the big issues, but it is draining. Why can't they just ask for attention in more positive ways?! What do you try to share with girls this age, so that they learn to be better company?
It is good for my kids to know that their friends face consequences too as they do not want to face the same ones. This encourages them to all be "good" or "compliant" together. I like this!
Good luck to everyone else who is having these issues too. Keep writing and keep us thinking Dianne!


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