At 65, the traditional age of retirement when it's time to start taking it easy, Social Security finds itself in the midst of the presidential campaign debate.
Texas Gov. George W. Bush favors allowing workers to divert an unspecified percentage of Social Security payroll taxes into an individual account that they could invest in the stock market.
Vice President Al Gore has countered with a type of 401(k) account outside the Social Security program in which the government would provide a generous match to low- and middle-income workers.
Although economists and pension experts find favor with aspects of both, they are widely critical of the two plans.
The plans lack vital details and rely on a continued strong economy. And both candidates dodge Social Security's long-term financial problem of the baby boomers' retirement, experts said. By 2015, the trust fund will be paying out more than it collects in payroll taxes. By 2037, the system is expected to be insolvent.
"They don't care about the next generation. They care about the next election," said Lawrence Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University.
Some say the solution requires hard choices such as higher taxes, lower benefits or a hike in the retirement age, none of which is politically popular.
Indeed, the candidates' plans are geared to attract core voters, although some come out better than others.
Bush calls for a bipartisan commission to reform Social Security in a way that wouldn't cut benefits for current retirees or near retirees, wouldn't raise payroll taxes and would preserve disability and survivor benefits. The individual accounts, he said, would be voluntary and could be passed onto heirs.
The lack of specifics leaves experts looking at other privatization proposals for clues on how the Bush plan might work. Many assume it would allow 2 percentage points of the 12.4 percent Social Security payroll tax to be routed into individual accounts. Workers likely would invest in funds with a mix of stocks and bonds.
For the plan to work, experts said, guaranteed benefits would have to be cut, although the assumption is that market returns in the accounts would more than make up the difference.
Those likely to benefit are medium- to higher-income workers with steady employment, which means their accounts would grow and compound over many years, said Stephen Kellison, a senior vice president for American General Retirement Services in Houston and a former Republican public trustee for Social Security. It also favors those more savvy about investing.
The individual accounts may turn out to be less lucrative, at least initially, to those with lower incomes, who might see their returns eaten up by administrative and management fees, said Ron Gebhardtsbauer, a senior pension fellow at the American Academy of Actuaries in Washington. "Until you have a bigger pile of money for 10 or 15 years, your money will go down instead of going up," he said.
There are risks, some warn. What happens if the country undergoes another decade like the 1970s? From January 1973 through September 1974, the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 42.6 percent, according to Ibbotson Associates Inc. in Chicago. It took the broad index another 21 months to get back to the point before its long slide.
Would taxpayers have to bail out those near retirement whose accounts suddenly shrink? "Unless politics has changed a lot in 30 years, why not? They vote," said Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
However, Sylvester Schieber, with the benefits consulting firm of Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Bethesda, said the market risks to older workers is exaggerated because they tend to be conservative investors.
Some experts favor Gore's stock market alternative, Retirement Savings Plus, because it wouldn't draw money away from Social Security but would be in addition to it. Others like that it would encourage saving.
The plan recognizes "the truth that low- and middle-income families save almost nothing for retirement today. And for those not in an employer-sponsored retirement plan, they often end up with nothing except Social Security benefits and the value of their house," said Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute in Washington.
Under the Gore plan, the federal government would match, on a sliding scale, workers' contributions to privately managed accounts that could be invested in broad-based funds of stocks, bonds and government securities.
Couples making below $30,000 would get $3 for every $1 they contribute; couples earning $30,000 to $60,000 would get a dollar-for-dollar match; and those with incomes of $60,000 to $100,000 would get $1 for every $3 they put in.
The income limits would be cut in half for single workers. The accounts would be limited to $2,000 annually per person.
The winners here would be low- and middle-income households, more probably the latter, who have extra dollars to salt away and get the match, experts said.
Some predict the plan wouldn't attract many of the poor it targets.
"It's not so much incentives as it is a matter of income. They lack the money in which to invest," said Michael Tanner, a Social Security expert at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, which favors privatization.
Another concern is that the plan would allow workers to withdraw the money in their account to pay for college, a first home or catastrophic health care. "That's nice, but ... you may not have it for retirement," said Marilyn Moon, a former Democratic public trustee for Social Security now at the Urban Institute.
Of course, winners under both proposals would be investment firms and companies that comprise the investment choices in the plans, experts said. Not all investment firms, however, would be eager to handle millions of tiny, high-maintenance accounts, Gebhardtsbauer said.
"The plan that will eventually emerge will not look like what's being talked about today," said Walter Cadette, a senior scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute.
Still, the climate is ripe for talk about privatizing Social Security because the country is in its longest economic expansion ever and many investors have never experienced a bear market. Confidence in the market has grown as faith in Social Security has fallen.
But support for privatization may also be fleeting.
"All of this talk about privatization will collapse as soon as the stock market collapses," Cadette said. "And that's coming."


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The annual conference of the BIM Expert Board (czBIM) is unceasingly close. Also book your seat at the BIM DAY 2018 International Conference. This year's speakers will feature a wide range of experts from home and abroad. Take a journey to digitize the construction industry with us!
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ACM suggests additional measures for level playing field in regional railway tender processes
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has identified what risks exist for disrupting the level playing field in regional railway tender processes. ACM did so at the request of the State Secretary of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW).
Henk Don, Member of the Board of ACM, explains: 'Our study shows that the current control measures are largely sufficient in order to counter the risks. With regard to several points, we see opportunities to tighten the measures or to complement them.'
For this study, ACM assessed ten risks that had been flagged by the market. Out of those ten, ACM identified three risks with the ability to have a relatively large effect on the level playing field in regional tender processes. Even though the necessary control measures to counter these risks are already in place, ACM does see opportunities to tighten these existing control measures, and to implement several additional control measures.
These three risks are loss-making bids, relevant data not being available to all market participants, and limited availability of rolling stock to new entrants.
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The State Secretary of Infrastructure and Water Management had asked ACM to look at 'all facets that are important for a level playing field in regional tender processes, like passenger revenues or benefits, yielded from operating the main railway network and rolling stock, that have ripple effects for the region.' A specific request was to look at the risks that have occurred in the context of a level playing field, and those that can occur but that have not or not yet occurred. ACM was also asked to indicate to what extent the control measures that have already been implemented, like ex-ante regulation of services and facilities, sufficiently counter the risks.
ACM sees a risk if not all providers have equal access to relevant data (data of passengers and otherwise). That data is required, for example, for calculating the capacity that is needed for transporting passengers, and for revenue projections. According to ACM, it is important that, in regional tender processes, the data of the 'OV-chipkaart' (the national contactless smart card for public transport in the Netherlands) is available to all providers. To that end, more detailed regulations can be drawn up within the existing legal framework.
ACM also sees risks of loss-making bids by providers that have a dominant position and that also have an incentive to exclude a competitor from a tender process. Currently, ACM is only able to take action after the fact, under the Dutch Competition Act, for example, by imposing a fine if a loss-making bid has been made. In addition, ACM proposes a number of additional control measures to reduce the risks of loss-making bids further. For example, the Dutch State, as the sole shareholder of Dutch Railways NS, could, for all bids in regional tender processes, assess whether NS's expected return is sufficiently high. Currently, the Dutch State only makes such assessments in the case of investments of over 100 million euros.
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Tiger Trails Invite (2 Miles)
Set the 2-Mile Time Trial record for 8th grade girls in 2014 with a time of 11:50 over a distance of 2.00 miles.
Set the Belvidere Central Invite (High School Course) record for 8th grade girls in 2014 with a time of 11:58 over a distance of 2.00 miles.
Set the Marmion/Rosary Invite record for 7th grade girls in 2013 with a time of 12:41 over a distance of 2.00 miles.
Set the New Lenox Preseason Cross Country Challenge record for 8th grade girls in 2014 with a time of 12:25 over a distance of 2.00 miles.
Set the Red/White Run @ Silver Springs record for 7th grade girls in 2013 with a time of 12:30 over a distance of 2.00 miles.
Set the Tiger Trails Invite (1.5 Miles) record for 7th grade girls in 2013 with a time of 9:14 over a distance of 1.50 miles.
Set the Troy Invite record for 8th grade girls in 2014 with a time of 12:07 over a distance of 2.00 miles.
Won the 2013 IESA All-State (25th Place) award in 2013.
Won the All-Conference (6th Place) award in 2014.
Won the All-Sectional (2nd Place) award in 2014.
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Vauthiermont (deutsch früher Waltersberg) ist eine französische Gemeinde im Département Territoire de Belfort in der Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Geographie
Vauthiermont liegt auf 392 m, etwa 14 Kilometer ostnordöstlich der Stadt Belfort (Luftlinie). Das Dorf erstreckt sich in der Burgundischen Pforte, auf dem Plateau im Vorland der Vogesen, auf einer Anhöhe zwischen den Talmulden von Ruisseau de Saint-Nicolas im Westen und Traubach im Osten.

Die Fläche des  km² großen Gemeindegebiets umfasst einen Abschnitt der nur schwach reliefierten Landschaft im Bereich der Burgundischen Pforte (Trouée de Belfort). Der Hauptteil des Gebietes wird von einem Plateau eingenommen, das durchschnittlich auf 380 m liegt. Es ist überwiegend mit Acker- und Wiesland bedeckt, zeigt aber auch einige Waldflächen. Westlich des Dorfes befindet sich das Quellgebiet der Loutre. Weiter im Westen reicht der Gemeindeboden bis in die Talebene des Ruisseau de Saint-Nicolas, der  für die Entwässerung des Gebietes nach Süden über die Bourbeuse zur Allaine sorgt. Nach Osten steigt das Gelände leicht an zum mehrheitlich bewaldeten Plateau des Haut-Bois, auf dem mit 412 m die höchste Erhebung von Vauthiermont erreicht wird. Dieses Plateau bildet die Wasserscheide zwischen den Einzugsgebieten von Rhone (im Westen) und Rhein (im Osten).

Nachbargemeinden von Vauthiermont sind Angeot im Norden, Bellemagny und Saint-Cosme im Osten, Reppe und Fontaine im Süden sowie Larivière im Westen.

Geschichte
Die älteste erhaltene Erwähnung von Vauthiermont, unter dem Namen Walthenberg, steht in einer Urkunde des Klosters Murbach von 796. Im 14. Jahrhundert gehörte Vauthiermont zur Herrschaft Rougemont-le-Château, doch 1363 kamen die Rechte über das Dorf an eine Adelsfamilie von Angeot. Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts gelangte Vauthiermont unter die Oberhoheit der Habsburger. Während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges wurde das Dorf stark in Mitleidenschaft gezogen. Zusammen mit dem Sundgau kam Vauthiermont mit dem Westfälischen Frieden 1648 an die französische Krone. Seit 1793 gehörte das Dorf zum Département Haut-Rhin, verblieb jedoch 1871 als Teil des Territoire de Belfort im Gegensatz zum restlichen Elsass bei Frankreich. Als Grenzort hatte Vauthiermont von 1871 bis 1918 die Funktion einer Zollstation zwischen Frankreich und dem Deutschen Reich inne. Seit 1997 war Vauthiermont zunächst mit 12 anderen Gemeinden zum Gemeindeverband Communauté de communes du Tilleul zusammengeschlossen, der 2017 in der Communauté d'agglomération Grand Belfort aufging.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
Die Kirche Saint-Antoine wurde im Dezember 1770 geweiht und 1845 vergrößert. Sie besitzt eindrucksvolle Glasmalereien. Gegenüber der Kirche steht die 1842 erbaute Mairie-École (Gemeinde- und Schulhaus) aus rotem Vogesensandstein in der typischen Architektur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der alte Ortskern ist geprägt durch Fachwerkhäuser aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert im charakteristischen Sundgauer Stil.

Bevölkerung

Mit  Einwohnern () gehört Vauthiermont zu den kleinen Gemeinden des Départements Territoire de Belfort. Nachdem die Einwohnerzahl in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts deutlich abgenommen hatte (1891 wurden noch 313 Personen gezählt), wurde seit Beginn der 1970er Jahre wieder ein kontinuierliches Bevölkerungswachstum verzeichnet.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur
Vauthiermont war bis weit ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein ein vorwiegend durch die Landwirtschaft (Ackerbau, Obstbau und Viehzucht) und die Forstwirtschaft geprägtes Dorf. Daneben gibt es heute einige Betriebe des lokalen Kleingewerbes. Mittlerweile hat sich das Dorf zu einer Wohngemeinde gewandelt. Viele Erwerbstätige sind auch Wegpendler, die in den Agglomerationen Belfort und Mülhausen ihrer Arbeit nachgehen.

Die Ortschaft liegt abseits der größeren Straßenverbindungen an einer Departementsstraße, die von Fontaine nach Bellemagny führt. Der nächste Anschluss an die Autoroute A 36, welche das Gemeindegebiet durchquert, befindet sich in einer Entfernung von ungefähr fünf Kilometern. Weitere Straßenverbindungen bestehen mit Angeot, Reppe und Bréchaumont.

Literatur
 Le Patrimoine des Communes du Territoire de Belfort. Flohic Editions, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-037-X, S. 161.

Weblinks

 Private Website über Vauthiermont (französisch)

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As one of Hip Hop's more innovative lyricists, it would be safe to think that Brooklyn rapper Mos Def has a wide variety of musical influences. In a recent video conversation, Mos revealed to Frolab that DOOM (formerly MF DOOM) is one of these artists, as well as gives his stance on a DOOM/Lil Wayne battle, the significance of Madvillainy, and why DOOM's music is similar to De La Soul.
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A logo design is the most powerful tool for a designer when promoting a brand. Shapes, color and design of a logo design create a psychological process in the minds of the viewers. The shapes in a logo attribute different emotions, thoughts and perceptions that resonate with the brains of the customers.
The design is not meant to be just designed, rather it is to make people feel the design and associate themselves with it. The selection of colors and shapes in a logo design provoke the desired emotion and responses out of the people.
Bringing out the emotions of the viewers for design is not easy for which professional logo designers are perfectly aware of and use shapes in their design work according to demographics, culture and social preferences.
How We View Logo Shapes?
Shapes are of great importance for a logo design. We remember designs that are distinctive and stays memorable. What makes a great logo design is the efforts and creative mind of logo designers who create a meaningful shape that people remember. Moreover, it is much more than simply recognizing the shape; it is about actually conveying the right message to the viewers.
The Mercedes' Tri-Star represents the company's dominance over land, sea and air. So, a logo design has an embedded message for its users in just a simple tri star shape.
Why Use Square Logo Design?
Rectangular or square logo design denotes a sense of stability, trust, and balance.
What Straight Lines Logo Designs Tell Us?
Brands use short, precise and straight lines logo shapes to impart efficiency, professionalism, and strength. The brands are making money with their designs, getting themselves memorized with their branding and hitting high.
Why Is Circle The Most Convenient Shape For A Logo Design?
The circle is the most convenient and common shape in a logo design. It shows a natural sense of unity, perfection, wholeness and completion. Overlapping circles or rings give a sense of harmony, friendliness and stability and being used in famous logo design like Master Card, AT&T and others.
Have a look at the Google Play Store logo design. The rounded triangular corners in the logo design of Google Play Store shows off a friendly and a nice look whereas the single triangle corner portrays a moving forward symbol and a "play" sign. The overall logo design of Google Play reflects the creativity of the logo designer who made up a simple shape say a lot of meaningful messages.
In total, the shape of a logo design plays a significant part in communicating the idea behind the design to the target people. What is important to understand is the correct use of shape while making a logo design which is beyond the skills of an ordinary man than a professional logo designer. Take it a step further and have a great visual story to tell with your logo design.


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For the fourth episode of "In Other Words", we welcome Thomas Krens, the former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and Eric Shiner, senior vice president of Contemporary art at Sotheby's and former director of The Andy Warhol Museum.
Together with host Charlotte Burns, senior editor at AAP, they will be discussing globalization and its discontents. The conversation covers the politics of culture in the Middle East, the internationalization of museums, Krens' latest project and much more.
Thomas Krens was born in New York City and graduated from Williams College in 1969 with degrees in political science and economics. After obtaining a master's degree in studio art from SUNY Albany in 1971, he returned to Williams to teach in both art studio and art history in the graduate and undergraduate programs. He taught at Williams for 17 years, and was appointed director of the Williams College Museum of Art in 1980. In 1984 he also received an MBA from Yale University.
In 1986, Krens conceived of converting a recently closed factory plant in North Adams, MA—28 buildings across more than 1,000,000 sq ft—into a contemporary art museum. The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), opened in 1999.
In the mid 1980s while still at Williams, Krens was a strategic planning consultant for the Brooklyn Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. In 1988 he was appointed Director and Chief Artistic Officer of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, a position he held for 20 years.
During his two decades at the Guggenheim, Krens drove a period of significant expansion: completing the renovation of the Frank Lloyd Wright building and the Gwathmey Siegel expansion in New York; more than doubling the size of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice; designing with Frank Gehry and opening the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; creating additional branches in Berlin (the Deutsche Guggenheim) and Las Vegas (the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas and the Guggenheim Las Vegas). He was the mastermind behind other satellite projects that have yet to be realized, such as the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
During his tenure as Chief Artistic Officer at the Guggenheim, he organized and produced close to 300 exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museums worldwide, including major retrospectives of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Morris, Jenny Holzer, and James Rosenquist among others; large historical surveys such as "Africa: The Art of a Continent," "China: 5,000 Years," and "Brazil: Body & Soul;" design exhibitions such "The Art of the Motorcycle" and "Giorgio Armani;" and architectural retrospectives of Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Since leaving the Guggenheim, Krens has been working on museum projects in China. In 2013-2014 he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at Williams College and is currently teaching at the School of Organization and Management at Yale University.
Eric Shiner is senior vice president of contemporary art at Sotheby's. Prior to this, Shiner was the director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh from 2010 to 2016, and was the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Warhol from 2008 to 2010. A leading scholar on Andy Warhol and Asian contemporary art, Shiner lived and worked in Japan for a total of six years and was assistant curator on the inaugural Yokohama Triennale in 2001. Shiner has curated dozens of contemporary art exhibitions in cities around the globe and was the team leader on The Warhol Museum's major Warhol retrospective that traveled to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo between 2012 and 2014. Notable exhibitions include Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei in 2015/16, Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After in 2012 and Armory Focus: USA at the Armory Show in 2013.


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Galápagos Islands Have More Than 10 Times More Alien Marine Species Than Once Thought
Until recently, scientists knew of about five marine species that had been introduced to the Galápagos Islands from elsewhere.
A new study, authored by Williams-Mystic Director Emeritus James T. Carlton and collaborators from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and the Charles Darwin Research Center, reveals that there are more than ten times that many nonnative marine species on the islands. The authors also say that there may be many more nonnative marine species yet to be discovered.
All told, the project documents a staggering 53 species of introduced marine animals in the Galápagos.
"This is the greatest reported increase in the recognition of alien species for any tropical marine region in the world," Carlton said.
The majority of the introduced species are sea squirts, marine worms and moss animals (bryozoans). Some of the most concerning discoveries include the bryozoan Amathia verticillata — known for fouling pipes and fishing gear and killing seagrasses — and the date mussel Leiosolenus aristatus, which researchers have already seen boring into Galápagos corals.
Many of the species the study identified are newly discovered. Seventeen of the 53 species identified, though, were previously thought to be native to the islands.
"This increase in alien species is a stunning discovery, especially since only a small fraction of the Galápagos Islands was examined in this initial study," said Greg Ruiz, a co-author and marine biologist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
The islands are already among the world's largest marine protected areas, with some of the world's most stringent biosecurity programs. Yet the study's authors observed that most, if not all, of the introduced species likely arrived aboard ships coming from tropical areas around the world.
Carlton and his coauthors also believe that many of these species may have arrived recently. The built environment, they argue, could have played a significant role. Though vessels have been arriving in the Galápagos since the sixteenth century, it wasn't until the second half of the twentieth century that the islands had extensive shoreline structures. These structures, such as wharves, docks, pilings, and buoys, may have provided an ideal environment for arriving organisms to colonize.
"This discovery resets how we think about what's natural in the ocean around the Galápagos, and what the impacts may be on these high-value conservation areas," Carlton said. For a protected area like the Galápagos — places long valued as "windows into [a] former world" — this news is especially troubling.
Much work, the authors observed, remains to be done in the Galápagos. The group gathered data from a range of field sites, beginning in 2015, but nearly all of these field surveys were restricted to one kind of habitat (harbor biofouling).
Their work also has implications for marine protected areas and other important conservation areas worldwide.
"Our study demonstrates," the authors concluded, "that tropical marine invasions deserve significant attention, not only in a biogeographical, historical, and ecological context, but also from a management perspective."
In other words: When it comes to conservation, interdisciplinary collaboration is more important than ever.
The study, "Assessing marine bioinvasions in the Galápagos Islands: implications for conservation biology and marine protected areas," can be accessed online here: http://www.aquaticinvasions.net/2019/AI_2019-G_Carlton_etal.pdf
In addition to Carlton, coauthors of the paper included Inti Keith, of the Charles Darwin Research Station, Gregory Ruiz, of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
Author williamsmysticPosted on March 28, 2019 March 29, 2019 Categories Faculty Research, NewsTags biofouling, bioinvasions, environment, galapagos, marine bioinvasions, marine protected areas, sercLeave a comment on Galápagos Islands Have More Than 10 Times More Alien Marine Species Than Once Thought
Drive Comes From Within: How Experiential Learning Deeply Affected Rob Leary (F'81)
"When you meet someone from another Williams-Mystic class it is like they already understand where you are coming from and the passion you exude."
One conversation changes everything about undergrad: It's a story that links many Williams-Mystic alumni. It's also the story of Rob Leary (F'81), who first learned about the program from an alumnus.
"He talked about it so passionately and enthusiastically," Rob said. "He made it sound like the best experience he had ever had and I was so intrigued."
At the time, Rob was a sophomore studying political science at Union College in upstate New York. He was wondering what to do next in his college experience.
After speaking to the Union College Williams-Mystic alumnus, Rob was interested in the program but was not entirely sold on applying. While Rob was trying to make his decision, Dr. Ben Labaree, founding director of Williams-Mystic, came to Union College and led a compelling discussion about what Williams-Mystic could offer undergraduate students.
After listening intently to Ben Labaree, Rob chose to apply to the program and eventually went to Mystic for an interview. Upon visiting Mystic, he knew the program was the place for him.
"I visited Mystic Seaport Museum as a young child and connecting with it in this new way was exciting for me," Rob said.
Rob said he had a wonderful time with his classmates.
"I was in a fantastic class. Everyone was so close. We did our sailing on Westward [a now-retired Sea Education Association sailing school vessel] in the North Atlantic and visited Nova Scotia," Rob said. "Back in Mystic, we stayed close to one another and we sailed small sailboats."
While in Mystic, Rob and his classmates also visited the U.S. Naval War College, the Coast Guard Academy, and a number of other sites across southern New England. Rob wrote his marine policy paper on the Coast Guard's role in the war on drugs.
Rob's classmates came from more than 10 different colleges. He enjoyed being in charge of his studies and making meals with his friends.
"I think we all felt a little bit of healthy competitiveness because we wanted to do well academically as well as have a lot of fun," Rob said.
Williams-Mystic deepened Rob's passion for law and policy. He was interested in admiralty law and planned to build his career in that field. Indeed, Rob attended Fordham Law School after finishing his undergraduate degree. He went on to practice law at White & Case in New York City and Saudi Arabia.
While practicing law, though, Rob realized he also had a passion for finance. He participated in the finance training program of J.P. Morgan & Co., subsequently working for American International Group (AIG). Eventually, Rob became the CEO of three entities in succession: ING Investment Management, TIAA Global Asset Management, and Nuveen. In March 2017, he was named CEO of The Olayan Group; he now leads its global operations from Athens, Greece.
Throughout his career, Rob continued to stay connected with Williams-Mystic. He served on the Williams-Mystic alumni council in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1999, he became the first Williams-Mystic alumnus to join the Mystic Seaport Museum Board of Trustees.
As a Board member for many years, Rob worked to form connections among the program, its alumni, Williams College, and the Mystic Seaport Museum. He recruited other Williams-Mystic alumni to join the Board, including Rob Rohn (F'81) and Steve Campbell (S'87). With the help of Williams College and Mystic Seaport Museum, funding was secured to build the James T. Carlton Marine Science Center (CMSC). Opened in 2007, the CMSC contains 8,000 square feet of lab and classroom space and continues to serve as a study space, a science classroom, and a lab for research conducted by Williams-Mystic students and faculty.
During our conversation, I could hear in Rob's voice the admiration he has for Williams-Mystic.
"I had a deep and abiding love for the sea before the program, and I came to understand that the sea impacts art, literature, policy, and everything else. It also had a spiritual impact on me," Rob said. "I have brought that perspective into my personal and professional life."
Rob has met other Williams-Mystic alumni who have become close friends of his, including Williams-Mystic's moot court appellate judge, Derek Langhauser (F'82). Derek was instrumental in Rob and others becoming members of the Mystic Seaport Museum Board of Trustees.
"When you meet someone from another Williams-Mystic class it is like they already understand where you are coming from and the passion you exude," Rob said. "I am a big believer in the experiential learning we had at Williams-Mystic: Being out there doing things that were hands-on and experiencing them with people who were involved in the things you were learning about."
Rob believes he is most purposeful when he focuses on the environment and education. It's a purpose he found thanks to Williams-Mystic.
"I felt so passionately about the program. And when you feel that, it is a guide for you to use to follow through on the things you are driven towards and passionate about," Rob said. "The drive comes from within, comes from your heart, comes from your soul."
*Information on Rob's career came from Rob himself and an article from The Olayan Group.
Author daudraPosted on November 8, 2018 March 11, 2019 Categories Alumni StoriesTags AIG, CEO, education, environment, ING, Nuveen, olayan group, TIAA, Union College, williams college, Williams-MysticLeave a comment on Drive Comes From Within: How Experiential Learning Deeply Affected Rob Leary (F'81)
On F'18's First Day Aboard the Corwith Cramer, an Exciting Journey Awaits — and Lots of Mud
It's day eight of our semester, and we're embarking on a ten-day sailing voyage in the Gulf of Maine: an opportunity to experience life out of sight of land, and to learn about the ocean by living on it.
At anchor, Menemsha Bight, Martha's Vineyard
It's our second day aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer — and the eighth day of our Fall 2018 semester. Last Monday, our 17 students — representing 19 majors, 13 colleges and universities, and 12 US states — had just arrived on campus. Today, they're embarking on a ten-day voyage in the Gulf of Maine: An opportunity to experience life out of sight of land, to work as part of the crew of a sailing ship, and to learn about the Atlantic firsthand, in the lab and on the deck.
We — the F'18 class, oceanographer Lisa Gilbert (S'96), historian Alicia Maggard, and lab manager Laurie Warren (S'89) — left Mystic on Sunday morning. We boarded the Cramer in bustling Woods Hole just before lunch.
After a brief orientation from the ship's professional crew, we cast off our dock lines and headed for our overnight anchorage in quiet Menemsha Bight, Martha's Vineyard.
We plan to be sailing through the night for most of our 10 days aboard Corwith Cramer, taking turns sailing the ship, running science operations, and sleeping. Three groups, or watches, take responsibility for the ship for four or six hours at the time, under the direction of professional crew members acting as watch officers.
At anchor on Sunday, we continued orientation and safety training until sunset. Then, the stewards delighted us with a hearty meal of spaghetti, salad, and garlic bread. Soon after, we tucked into our bunks for a rare, full night of sleep at anchor.
This morning, we continued our training. We learned to furl sails on the bowsprit and practiced deploying scientific gear. C Watch even brought back a sample of the seafloor: some black, Menemsha mud, a quahog, and dozens of slipper limpets. It was our first glimpse into the world we're passing through and over — a world we're just beginning to discover.
Oceanographer Lisa Gilbert (S'96) digs into sediment samples with students Alejandro Flores Monge (Williams College '21) and Dionna Jenkins (Smith College '20).
TRACK OUR PROGRESS!
You can follow the Cramer's journey at this link: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:426493/mmsi:366724450/imo:8617445/vessel:CORWITH_CRAMER
Please note: The information on the location of the vessel is not always updated regularly. If you notice the vessel staying in the same location for extended periods of time, it simply means the website has not updated recently.
Author williamsmysticPosted on September 4, 2018 September 7, 2018 Categories Field Seminars, Offshore Field SeminarTags atlantic, corwith cramer, environment, experiential learning, gulf of maine, marine ecology, marine science, oceanography, offshore, sail training, science, seaLeave a comment on On F'18's First Day Aboard the Corwith Cramer, an Exciting Journey Awaits — and Lots of Mud
Literature and Crowley: Two Words That Sum Up Williams-Mystic For Byers Kadow (S'18)
When S'18 alumnus Byers Kadow sat down at his computer to search for maritime studies programs, Williams-Mystic was just another tab in his browser.
Now Byers, an English major with an environmental studies minor entering his senior year at Suffolk University, believes Williams-Mystic is an undergraduate experience like no other.
"It provided an insight into areas of study that many traditional colleges do not offer. Being able to study maritime disciplines both in the classroom and the field was a phenomenal experience," Byers said.
As Byers's classmate, I can attest to his love for literature, history, and coffee. His favorite parts of the program included all three:
"Walking through Mystic Seaport to my Literature of the Sea and Maritime History classes with my coffee in hand. Standing on the deck outside the Thompson Building waiting for the classroom door to be unlocked was nice because it provided opportunities to peer out onto the river in all types of weather," Byers said. "Whether fog covered the surface or rain inundated it to the edge of the dock, it was always a pleasant few minutes each day."
Literature of the Sea was an especially important class for Byers.
"The novels we read [especially Moby-Dick, The Seawolf, and Tales of the Fish Patrol] covered lifestyles and geographic regions many people do not read or care about in today's day and age. By reading these novels, we can catch a glimpse at what it might have been like [then].
"By taking this course, we were able to apply the characters' experiences to our own since we had the opportunity to hit the open sea. For example, how many people receive the opportunity to read Moby-Dick on a former whaling ship, the last of its kind? Not many. Likewise, reading The Tempest in my bunk late at night, rolling in the swells and hearing the crashing waves against the hull all at the same time was a unique experience. Mary K also brings great enthusiasm to the class, which can make or break the classroom vibes."
Byers has a number of memories that stand out to him from his time in Mystic:
"My early morning walks to the YMCA, time aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer, playing ultimate frisbee out front of Carlton, sitting on the Johnston house porch eating lunch, our chantey concert, reading Moby-Dick on the Charles Morgan, scrolling through countless research papers for Marine Policy or Maritime History in the hopes of finding a useful section."
Louisiana, a field seminar favorite among many, gave Byers a number of first-time experiences — including "eating Cajun food, touring the French Quarter, eating beignets at Café Du Monde, riding the Natchez steamboat, conversing with local fishermen, and seeing Port Fourchon in action."
Williams-Mystic also gave Byers insight into the maritime industry that would have been hard for him to obtain in a traditional college setting.
"Through this program, I was fortunate enough to receive an internship with Crowley Maritime. As I type this, I am sitting with the Corporate Security team at the Jacksonville headquarters. By delving into the world of security and investigations, I plan on pursuing a Master's degree in Homeland Security or a related field next year," Byers said.
The position Byers was assigned to at Crowley was on the corporate security and crisis management team.
"I was part of the team that controlled the security for Crowley warehouses in Jacksonville and two different ports," Byers said. "We were also responsible for making sure that guards were doing what they were supposed to and that security cameras were operating."
Byers' team could log into computers and make sure the cameras were running and could log into cameras in Puerto Rico and Miami. This team also handled overweight shipping container searches. If one came in overweight, customs and border protection used dogs to make sure there was not any external contraband before doing a more invasive search.
Byers' favorite part of his internship happened on his second to last day in Jacksonville.
"I was able to go aboard one of Crowley's new ships, El Coqui (the name comes from a frog native to Puerto Rico), and eat lunch with some of the crew members. I also got to help a few of the crew members put guards on the lines tying the ship to the dock," Byers said. "Walking around on a ship of that magnitude was awesome. El Coqui runs on liquefied natural gas (LNG), a new standard. End of the year, another ship, Taino, named for a tribe native to Puerto Rico, will come online to join El Coqui. For the first half of the internship, there was an anxiety about the ship getting there and it was cool when the ship finally arrived."
Byers got another opportunity to be aboard ships.
"I got the opportunity to go on one of the Crowley tugs that pulls barges down to Puerto Rico and back. I got a brief tour and then walked around the inside of the empty barge," Byers said. "Since Crowley now has ConRo ships being put into service, these barges will either be sold off or used for other purposes. A paint crew was painting over the Crowley logo and name on the barge since they had sold it and didn't want their name painted on the side for liability reasons."
Byers said it would be hard to find someone who does not like working for Crowley because of how invested they are in employee safety and wellbeing. Byers appreciates Williams-Mystic for facilitating this experience for him.
As a result of both experiences, Byers hopes to work in counter-terrorism and intelligence.
"I would like to work in the maritime industry as it is such a dynamic and important industry to global commerce and the overall functioning of society. Working in the maritime industry, I would hope to see new areas of the world from both conventional and unconventional perspectives."
Author daudraPosted on August 31, 2018 March 11, 2019 Categories Alumni StoriesTags crowley maritime, environment, literature of the sea, maritime industry1 Comment on Literature and Crowley: Two Words That Sum Up Williams-Mystic For Byers Kadow (S'18)
Summer Research in Mystic: European Shore Crabs, Comb Jellyfish and Geochemistry, Oh My.
Each summer, a few students from previous Williams-Mystic classes, or from Williams College, live in Mystic while conducting scientific research. This summer, those individuals were Shelby Hoogland (Bryn Mawr College '19), Cristina Mancilla (Williams College '20), and Caroline Hung (Williams College '19). Here is what they have to say about their research:
Shelby (S'18)
Shelby wrote this for a Bryn Mawr College publication.
When I first moved back to Mystic, Connecticut, I had a preconceived notion of what my summer was going to look like after having spent the past semester with the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program. My best friend from the program was going to be my roommate, I would be living in a student house, and would be working with the same professors from the semester.
I've traveled with these professors across the country — from sailing offshore in the Caribbean Sea aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer to hearing how climate change is affecting the lives and the history of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians in Southern Louisiana. If you know nothing about Williams-Mystic, know that the 30 other people you get thrown together with, students and faculty alike, become your family for a semester. I already had a few important connections: with Dr. Tim Pusack, my former marine ecology professor and current research mentor; with Dr. Rachel Scudder, my former oceanography professor; and with another current research mentor. These connections helped make me more confident that this would be the summer where I grow into my new position in life as a field ecologist and as a research scientist.
Invasive species pose one of the largest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Additionally, a group of invasive organisms can alter an ecosystem's characteristics and local populations of native species. These alterations can directly impact local economies, negatively affecting industries such as tourism or commercial fishing.
C. maenas is an introduced crab species originally from coastal Europe that was potentially brought over in the fouling or bored into a wooden ship in the 1800s. The area that I have been studying is Avery Point, Connecticut on the University of Connecticut – Avery Point's campus. Although there are many different crabs found in this rocky intertidal ecosystem, the shoreline is dominated by C. maenas. It can be assumed that it is outcompeting native populations of crabs and other invasive species of crabs. In the lab, I am subjecting the crabs to temperatures between 12˚C and 31˚C to mimic the rising temperatures that will be present during the coming years due to climate change. I am measuring their daily feeding rates as a direct measure of their response to the temperature stress.
My research has brought me to some really cool places. How often can someone say that they get to go to the beach for their job? More importantly, it has taught me the importance of studying climate change. And it has given me insight into how little we currently know about how climate change might affect vital ecosystems. Looking forward to the future, the uncertainty is high as to what our climate will be like. Additionally, we don't exactly know how it is going to influence local economies. Funding climate change research is important so that we can better prepare our communities in the face of future disasters.
Cristina (S'18)
I researched trends in population growth and movement of Mnemiopsis leidyi, a comb jellyfish, throughout the Mystic River Estuary and the Long Island Sound. Another component of my research was to figure out a way to keep comb jellyfish alive in the laboratory in order to study them in a controlled setting. This was the most difficult part of the research. M. leidyi are notoriously difficult to maintain in a lab, but I needed to come up with a method to keep them alive long enough to complete an experiment. After much trial and error and with the help of other researchers, I was glad to finally have kept the comb jellyfish alive for a sustained period of time. The work that I did over the summer will hopefully make studying M. leidyi in the laboratory an option for future Williams-Mystic students. I wish to continue this project by studying the effect of increasing temperature on the reinfection rate of M. leidyi by a sea anemone larvae.
Caroline (Williams College Student)
The summer of 2018 was Caroline's third summer researching with Associate Professor of Geosciences and Marine Science Lisa Gilbert (S'96).
What I researched:
There are two projects I've been working on in my 10-week time with Lisa this summer. I spend most of my time working on my thesis, which is using geochemistry and petrology to find out the origins of the volcanic and alteration setting of the Chrystalls Beach Metabasalt Formation. We spent three weeks at the beginning of summer at our field site on Taieri Beach in South Island, New Zealand. Right now, we are focusing on analyzing the samples and starting to discuss the results. This effort will continue into my senior year. The other project is trying to finish my manuscript on marsh erosion — a project Lisa and I have worked on the past two summers at a local marsh in Barn Island. We hope to submit the manuscript by the end of August.
I learn so much working with Lisa. It's finally a chance to apply what I learn in geosciences classes in the field and research. Fieldwork and learning the scientific research process are like courses of them own. I have just started to become a so-called "hard-rock" geoscientist, meaning I now focus on subjects such as tectonics, volcanoes, geophysics, and structural geology, as opposed to "soft-rock" geology, which primarily focuses on fossils, oceanography, geomorphology.
Being out in the field in New Zealand was a challenge every day. I had to learn a lot of field mapping and measuring techniques right on the spot. Lisa was super supportive even when it took me an entire field day to learn how to measure strike and dip (the technical and accepted way to measure the orientation of rocks). But research allows me to build firm foundations on my science knowledge and to really tie what I learn in the classroom and from scientific research together.
I also learned that I want to keep doing what I do in the summers after graduation. Thus, I'm applying to graduate schools in earth sciences!
It takes a lot to focus on the same project knowing that you will continue to work on it the following year. Sometimes, people work in the same area for the rest of their lives! I try to mix up my days and weeks focusing on individual aspects of the project one at a time; I'll read papers in the morning and play with data in the afternoon, or go to the field in the morning and do lab work and prep in the afternoon. Often, I still find myself staring at the computer because I couldn't understand the numbers or try to troubleshoot with software or math. I just try to stay positive and know that at some point I will work through my problems. That is when research becomes very satisfying — when you figure out the answer to a problem that you've spent days working on.
Favorite part:
Fish and chips after field work at a roadside shack in New Zealand. Also, Lisa gives me a lot of autonomy in my work. From how I want to schedule my work day and the research questions I ask, to how I want to answer them. But she is very good at guiding me and giving me hints and critiques that I always look back on and am so thankful for! One of the greatest inspiration and fulfillment for why I want to keep working in Geosciences is the layout of this work that Lisa has got me started on. She always leads me in a good direction — I honestly don't know where my life will be right now without stumbling into her lab the first summer after freshman year!
Author daudraPosted on August 7, 2018 March 11, 2019 Categories Life in Mystic, Student ResearchTags earth science, environment, environmental science, geosciences, life, marine ecology, primary research, research, Student Research, summer, undergraduate researchLeave a comment on Summer Research in Mystic: European Shore Crabs, Comb Jellyfish and Geochemistry, Oh My.
One Story at a Time: Audra DeLaney (S'18) on Being a Williams-Mystic Student and Intern
Hi, I'm Audra. I am a born-and-raised Ohioan with a passion for handwritten letters and philanthropic initiatives. Currently, I am a rising senior at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio studying public relations and political science and hope to work in public affairs somewhere on the East Coast. It has been an honor and a privilege to write blog posts about the lives and experiences of numerous Williams-Mystic alumni over the last seven months.
I am an alumna of the spring 2018 Williams-Mystic class. In March 2017, I mentioned to an economics professor about how I had space in my junior year to do a study away/study aboard program and I wasn't sure how I wanted to fill that time. She told me about Williams-Mystic and the rest is history.
Once I was accepted, I had almost a year to wait until it was my turn to be a student in the program. I read every blog, looked at every Facebook post, and watched every youtube video I could find to learn more about Williams-Mystic. I grew up going to Lake Erie every summer, so I knew a little bit about boats, enjoyed science, and was intrigued by policy pertaining to the ocean. I thought I would do okay.
I thought my Williams-Mystic experience would be purely academic. I would learn some pretty amazing facts in some pretty amazing places and head back to Ohio feeling accomplished.
Williams-Mystic was a challenge-filled, transformative, and emotional semester for me. As far as academics are concerned, I was pushed to my limits and completed work I am very proud of, but there is more to this program than hours spent working on projects and papers.
Going forward, I will remember my oceanography professor telling me it was okay to get seasick on the ship. I will remember standing over the leeward rail and my ecology professor telling me to be kinder to myself when I was, in fact, seasick and frustrated that I couldn't help my shipmates complete our tasks. I will remember walking to the second floor of Labaree House to talk to my policy professor for the first time and being too excited about the fact that her door was covered with postcards. I will remember my literature professor's passion for Herman Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick. I will remember walking with my history professor through the Redwood Forest talking about the state of our country and how we could make it better. I will remember all the times my shipmates made me laugh, gave me a hug, or overcame a challenge with flying colors. I will remember jumping in the Pacific Ocean in March, singing at the top of my lungs in a car full of people I care so much about, learning from individuals facing unimaginable challenges, and seeing how a group of human beings can truly just be people, together.
Williams-Mystic was 17-weeks of being vulnerable and intentional. You only have so much time to get everything done, so you have to be smart about how you spend your time. I spent my time calling stakeholders about a controversial lock and dam project in Illinois, researching women, the sea, and the Cult of True Womanhood in the Victorian Era, kayaking for a science project centered around runoff in the Mystic River Estuary, and examining the different ways an author's experiences affected how that person wrote about oceans and coasts. I also spent my time making as many memories as possible with my shipmates and working as a social media intern.
Interning for Williams-Mystic during the semester and this summer has deepened my appreciation for the program. I have been able to work on projects that matter to me and hopefully will help the program continue to positively affect the lives of undergraduate students. As well, I cannot begin to describe how awesome it has been to learn the stories of so many dynamic, driven, passionate, and kind fellow alumni. Every single person I have interviewed has given me a new perspective on how Williams-Mystic can change a student's life and/or perspective, which has been crucial in explaining the program to prospective students.
In closing, I would like to thank all of the alumni, faculty, and staff who have supported me, listened to me, challenged me, and trusted me since January. I would also like to thank each and every one of my shipmates. I am so thankful for all the times we spent eating White Cheddar Cheetos and talking about topics that matter to each of us. I will always be thankful for the semester I took a break from studying the media to study the oceans and coasts of the United States.
Here is my advice to prospective students: jump in with both feet. Like everything else in life, you will get out of Williams-Mystic what you put into it. Hug your shipmates, go talk to your faculty members, and take time to pause and reflect on your walk (more like a timed sprint) through the program.
Author daudraPosted on August 7, 2018 March 11, 2019 Categories Alumni StoriesTags alumni, environment, intern, learning, nonprofit, policy, public relations, stories, student and intern, travel, Williams-MysticLeave a comment on One Story at a Time: Audra DeLaney (S'18) on Being a Williams-Mystic Student and Intern
Nicole Singer (F'08) On Finding a Program filled to the Brim with Rigorous Research and Site-Specific Experiences
This post was written by S'96 alumna and Associate Professor of Geosciences and Marine Science, Lisa Gilbert.
Williams-Mystic Fall 2008
Swarthmore College '10: Studio Art major, Education minor
Williams-Mystic Skill: "Shipsmithing with a dose of chanteys after smithing was over. They only overlapped by half an hour, so when smithing was done, I'd step outside and listen for Don or Marc's voices to go join them. They were always easy to find."
"After high school and college, I had begun to be frustrated by the ways in which academics can lose sight of the real world beyond the ivory tower. I was delighted to find a program that immersed us not only in rigorous research and readings, but also exposed us to source materials, site-specific experiences, fieldwork, and direct and relevant applications of our studies to the current maritime world."
Nicole is an Art Teacher at Fort River Elementary School in Amherst, MA.
"I teach 4 to 12-year-olds about art! Actually, it's way more than that. I'm teaching everything from fine motor development to materials safety to art techniques to visual thinking to socio-emotional development. It's a huge undertaking, and hugely rewarding, both for me and the students. I like that it's a varied job – I get to do a lot of different kinds of art with a lot of different students of many different ages, levels, and journeys of artistic development. Plus I get to collaborate with other teachers to create interdisciplinary curricula, which is my favorite way to teach."
Between then and now:
After Williams-Mystic, Nicole was an Environmental Educator on the Sloop Clearwater and Deckhand aboard the Schooner Mystic Whaler. She was Ceramics Instructor at Buck's Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp and a teaching intern at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She completed an M.A. in Teaching and Art Education at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston.
"I quickly found a sailing job after college and pursued marine environmental education for a bit before starting my land-based career as an art teacher. I loved it all, and I'm glad to have a well-rounded variety of teaching experiences both on land and on the water. Surf and turf training, I call it.
"My time in the chanteys class at Williams-Mystic was also the launching pad for my musical pursuits. I've performed up and down the east coast, and I now organize several festivals including Youth Traditional Song Weekend. Mystic Seaport is a hub of excellent maritime music scholarship and performance, and I've been enjoying staying a part of that community of researchers and singers in the years beyond Williams-Mystic."
Interdisciplinary learning:
"Williams-Mystic proved to me what I'd already suspected about interdisciplinary immersive learning – that it is, hands-down, the best way to show students the depth of a topic, and the importance of the connections between that topic or discipline with other disciplines that relate to it. Everything in our world is connected to other things, and it is essential for students to develop an understanding of the world as being an interconnected place.
"Plus, Williams-Mystic is an excellent model for faculty collaboration, and I try to carry some of those positive ways of interacting, collaborating, and working towards common goals into my relationships with my colleagues where I teach now."
How did WM change your worldview?
"I was really floored not only by what I was learning about the maritime world but also by how it was being taught. The content and the pedagogy of the program gave me an awareness and appreciation for the world's waters as well as an excellent model for some of the best teaching and learning practices around. As a scholar of the sea and an educator in many subjects, this was an eye-opener and enormously important for me."
Author daudraPosted on August 1, 2018 August 7, 2018 Categories Alumni StoriesTags art, chantey singing, education, environment, research, sea, teacher, travelLeave a comment on Nicole Singer (F'08) On Finding a Program filled to the Brim with Rigorous Research and Site-Specific Experiences


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Playing PC Games On Your Raspberry Pi
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by Jamie Dickson and Benjy Boxer
Tl;dr We recently released Parsec for the Raspberry Pi, allowing you to play PC games on the Pi streamed from your own gaming PC or a cloud machine at 1080p / 60 FPS. Check out the demo video below, sign up for our product here if you want to try it out, or join our community discussion on Discord.
Last autumn we released Parsec, a standalone cloud gaming system that can be used to play games remotely, either on your own PC or in the cloud via AWS. Today we're proud to announce that we're adding support for the Raspberry Pi.
The dream of the thin client — one that could be good enough not just for basic computing tasks, but even highly demanding tasks such as gaming — has long eluded us. A few decades ago, when computers were much scarcer, this used to be the default way of interacting with a computer via Teletype or the like. Since you couldn't really do much with the machine, these types of thin clients could pretty much do anything you could do locally, albeit with added latency.
But as technology progressed, the incredible experiences a computer could create locally greatly outpaced our ability to deliver these experiences remotely. We moved from a world of text based terminals to GUIs and real-time rendered 3D video, and with those things dramatically more data to ship around. In the golden days of Windows, we didn't even try — you would go to the store and buy one or more physical installation disks, then install and run the software on your PC. All processing was done locally, and all data generated by the applications was also stored locally.
Then the internet happened. The web introduced a hybrid model where some of the processing still happened locally, but most of the processing happened remotely on a server. Essentially, perform the heavy lifting on a server somewhere, and deliver a lightweight interface to the user via HTML and javascript. At the same time, this allowed the application's data to be stored remotely, freeing the user from a single PC. This model has mostly dominated application delivery for the past twenty years, with a bit of a regression since the dawn of the mobile era bringing us back to shipping binaries around.
But something is changing, and rather than state the conclusion, I'll pose a question: If internet latency were low enough, bandwidth were high enough, and video processing were fast enough, could it be possible to do away with your local interface entirely and simply make a remote interface your "daily driver?" We believe the answer is "yes", and that the necessary components are coming together to make the thin client a reality in today's world. And to us, nothing exemplifies this concept better than playing PC games delivered via a cloud machine on a Raspberry Pi.
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1RDGlRpQlzRxL
How We Made It Work
The core technology is explained in detail here, but we've done a lot to make the Raspberry Pi application as low latency as possible.
While many of us think of a the humble Raspberry Pi as a standard linux machine, under the hood it has a lot more in common with your cell phone than it does with your desktop PC. For graphics, the Pi uses a GPU called the "VideoCore IV". This little Broadcom invention allows us to interact with it via a standard that has been dubbed OpenMax. Now, for what it is, OpenMax gets the job done, but the documentation seems a bit thin at best. There is a lot of hunting through header files and old forum posts to figure out exactly how these functions work.
Being of a graphical nature, our initial thought was to make Parsec work in X Windows. Getting the basics working wasn't bad, but we had one glaring flaw to deal with: the mouse cursor was behind the video. Now, OpenMax cooperates fairly well with the other standards in place on the Pi, and the particular issue we were having here was the interaction between OpenMax's video_render layer and the fact that X's mouse cursor was rendered along with all of its other GUI elements on the same layer. The solution to this was to just scrap X11 entirely.
Using Dispmanx, the Pi gives us a nice way to render video without the use of a graphical user environment. Fortunately, Parsec counts on a well-made library named SDL2 to handle most of the input. This gives us a nice cross-platform way to support the huge number of input variations that exist system to system. In this case, as of SDL2.0.5 some enterprising soul has written a preliminary native implementation of mouse handling for the Raspberry Pi. Getting this going using the integrated SDL hint to change the window's layer got video and a mouse cursor pretty quickly, but that's where the going got a bit rough.
The SDL2 mouse functions were a good start, but using the cursor as dynamically as Parsec does, a few cracks started to appear in the mouse functionality. Switching between relative and absolute mode caused the cursor to jump around. The "hot" point in the cursor was incorrect, eg the I-Beam was selecting with the upper left corner. Like any red-blooded American, we did what was necessary: we threw together a fix for the SDL code. You can take a look at a few of the changes we made to SDL here. Beyond that, there was more subtle tweaking to HDMI frequencies and things of that nature to make Parsec what it is, but those were the big rocks on our way to getting the little $35 Pi to a place where you could play Overwatch on it.
What Is A Raspberry Pi?
For the uninitiated, The Raspberry Pi Foundation released their first low powered, inexpensive computer in 2012 with the admirable goal to "put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world, so they are capable of understanding and shaping our increasingly digital world, able to solve the problems that matter to them, and equipped for the jobs of the future." These devices range in price from $5 to $35 for the Raspberry Pi 3. Despite the very low price tag, they pack a powerful punch. Over 10 million Raspberry Pi had been sold by September 2016, and the projects that people are building on the hardware range from simple hobby projects to sophisticated robots.
The Raspberry Pi 3 was a great candidate for us to build an application that can connect to your gaming PC or one in the cloud. Although it only has a quad core ARM chip, it has a high quality H.264 video decoder, Bluetooth support for peripherals, and an HDMI port.
What's Making This Possible Today?
Compression algorithms and dedicated hardware for video encoding and decoding are now standard on every device manufactured since 2012. The good news is that this is getting even better with the introduction of the H.265 codec in 2015. By 2020, we'll all have an H.265 hardware decoder and access to more bandwidth for higher quality, lower latency video streams.
http://s3securitysystems.com/h-265-the-arrival-of-video-compressions-future/
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The Golden Kamuy is dedicated to the Japanese veteran Saichi Sugimoto, who began mining after returning from the Russo-Japanese War in the early 20th century. He teamed up with an Ainu girl named Asirpa to find the Ainu gold, which many speculated about. This animation is based on the manga of the same name written and illustrated by Satoru Noda.
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Once you are labeled a failure, that's a hard moniker to overcome. It's not a question of whether others view you as such, but it's that you view yourself that way. Today in Oklahoma, we labeled 7,970 third grade students as failures based on their performance on one test. It's a true travesty that 7,970 eight- and nine-year-olds will forever remember "not being good enough" in the third grade. They should have third grade memories of playing on the playground, their friends and all the neat new things they learned this year, not memories of the year testing sucked the fun out of school.
If you don't think they know or haven't been paying attention, then you obviously haven't heard the conversations on the playgrounds, in the classrooms and at home. They know exactly what is at stake. For eight- and nine-year-olds at this time of year, the big question is, "Will I get to go to fourth grade?" For nearly, 8,000 students the answer is no – because of what you did on one test, on one day.
Each of those 7,970 students has a face and name – and a broken heart. It will be their parents and teachers who will have to tell them face-to-face tonight that their best wasn't good enough. I wish Superintendent Baressi and some of our state legislators were the ones who had to see the looks of total devastation, the tears and then have to figure out how to build them back up to repair damage done.
Yes, it's personal for me. I have a third grade grandson who missed passing the test by 10 points – 10 meaningless points. Those 10 missing points fail to tell about how hard he's worked this year or how far he's come since last year. Those 10 points don't tell about the hours of homework he's done, the special tutoring his parents have paid for, the hours and hours of hard work his teachers have devoted to helping him. Those 10 points don't tell about the anxiety he's felt since he found out he couldn't go to fourth grade unless he passed the test – anxiety that fed on itself until it outweighed the confidence he needed for those 10 meaningless points. The missing 10 points do label him as "not good enough" to go on to fourth grade, they can possibly destroy his self-confidence and increase the anxiety he already feels. No child deserves that when they tried their best.
Well, from me to my grandson: Those meaningless 10 points do not define who you or the other 7,969 students are. You all did not fail the system, the system - and the legislature - failed you. You are a bright, young boy with a lifetime of opportunities ahead of you. You have parents, family and teachers who think you are a super kid and love you exactly the way you are. You are good at so many things that aren't on a test. You are responsible, honest, a fantastic friend, a hard worker and above all an A #1 person. You are so very much more than a test score.


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Woke Season 2: Hulu Renewed The Comedy Satire For Second Run, Keith Knight Discussed Future Plot
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Rejoice, Hulu's comedy-drama fans as your favorite inanimate objects are back to give you some chills in Woke Season 2. The first season debuted on September 9, 2020, and gained immense success as it talks about some sensitive topics like racism and Keef Knight's everyday struggle with microaggressions. He tried so hard to maintain his relationships and career as a Black man. And, the popularity of the show made the streamer to renew it as early as possible. However, when Woke Season 2 would go on production is still unclear.
Woke, created by Marshall Todd and Keith Knight, is a comedy series on Hulu. The series inspired by award-winning artist Keith Knight and his real-life story. It follows Keef Knight, a black cartoonist and creator of Toast & Butter who is on the edge of his success. But, he didn't brag about his success though he prides himself, yet he keeps it light as much as possible to stay away from any kind of controversy. However, after racially judged by aggressive policemen, he discovers that he can hear lifeless objects' words. Now, he tries so hard to deal with his everyday life.
Woke Season 2: Streamer Renewed The Comedy Series
Yesterday, on November 17, Hulu announced the renewal of Woke Season 2. The steamer ordered eight-fresh episodes of the series. The show is a live-action with some animated elements that speak with Keef. The first season of the show has earned 74% positive response on Rotten Tomatoes from the viewers and 60 on Metacritic by the critics as well. It gained mix-response as many critics believed that Woke's first season failed to portray racism in America. However, within a couple of weeks, the streamer has greenlit the show.
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Last month, at New York Comic Con virtual panel, the Woke creator Keith Knight sounded hopeful for the second season. He said: "It would be wonderful" if they get the chance to portray other stuff in Woke Season 2. However, the creator hasn't said anything after the streamer renewed the show. Well, we could consider it as he's currently surprised as the show received a mixed response.
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In the first season finale, the title "Blue Lies Matter," in which a profiler Wyatt (Link Baker) suing Keef for slandering of character. However, the San Francisco police department arranged a face-to-face meeting at a bar where both men could sit and calmly discuss that topic.
But, Keef soon realized that it's PR and tries to put everything aside and move on. He also learned that the officer isn't genuine at all; he was there because his superiors ordered him to discuss. However, Keef started flicking drops of beer on Wyatt while naming several cases where cops go rogue. It finally leads Keef to jail.
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Italy is an absolutely gorgeous country bursting with famous cities and landmarks. I still have a lot of the country to see, ten regions to be exact. That means ten regions where I still need to taste gelato. Incase you didn't know I am a self-diagnosed gelato addict and amarena flavour is my weakness.
Whether you are a gelato addict or not, I believe everyone needs to visit Italy at least once. The problem is that Italy is not known as a cheap place to travel. However, there are ways to travel Italy on a budget. I have personally always done Italy on a budget and it's not too difficult if you know what to do. So I have compiled my best tips on how to travel Italy on a budget for all you lovely people.
Travel at the start or the end of the month to take advantage of free museum entries on the first or last Sunday of the month. If you do research you will find that many of the big museums, like the Uffizi in Florence or the Vatican museums in Rome have free entry on either the first or last Sunday of the month. But be warned the free entry attracts bigger crowds than normal, so be ready to fight your way through the crowds.
Book high-speed trains in advance.
Unlike other countries Italy has a very good railway system, which is actually cheap. You have two companies to choose from when travelling within Italy, trenitalia or Italo, which you choose depends on your destination. Well, and of course price too.
First of all is Trenitalia the national railway company. They have regional trains, which are cheap and run regularly. For example, Florence to Pisa takes 50 minutes to an hour depending on the train and it costs €8.10 one way.
Top tip: remember when travelling with regional trains you need to stamp your ticket before getting on the train. You will see green and white machines on the walls or pillars with trenitalia written on them. Pop your ticket in it to be stamped, otherwise you could get a fine.
Trenitalia also have high-speed and long distance trains between the big cities, such as Milan to Venice, Venice to Florence etc. The earlier you book these trains the cheaper your ticket is. My friend once got a ticket from Perugia to Milan for €9 and it is almost a 6 hour train ride, which is a fantastic price! However, the cheap tickets sell out fast so the price increases closer to the departure date, so the key is to book ASAP.
The other train company is Italo, which is private run. They only do high-speed long distance trains, so if you are travelling regionally you need to use Trenitalia. Their trains are nicer and more comfortable than Trenitalia's, plus you get free Wi-Fi onboard. Like Trenitalia, the earlier you book the cheaper the ticket. For example Florence to Venice starts from €19 one way and Florence to Rome starts from €23.
Use blablacar as a cheaper form of travel. Incase you don't know what blablacar is, it is a long distance ridesharing service. The site lets drivers with empty seats connect with people travelling in the same direction. It is often a lot cheaper to get a seat in a blablacar than getting the train or the bus. It can also be a great cultural/language exchange and you might just bag yourself a free tour guide for your next stop. At the very least you will probably get given tips on what to see/do and where to eat.
Explore your accommodation options beyond hostels and hotels, and look at Airbnb too. Airbnb is becoming a more and more popular option, especially for those travelling in a group. It is a great alternative to hostels and hotels as you can really feel at home and get to live like a local. If you haven't got an Airbnb account use my referral link and you will get £14 off your first booking, plus I will earn credit too.
So, if you are planning a trip to Italy take my tips into consideration and save yourself some euros that could be better spent on tasting every flavour of gelato.
Do you have any other tips for travelling Italy on a budget?


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Buffalo Sabres at Colorado Avalanche Box Score — October 25, 2008
Arena: Pepsi Center
09:18 BUF Daniel Paille (1) Toni Lydman, Clarke MacArthur
13:36 COL Jordan Leopold (2) Milan Hejduk, Ryan Smyth
1 COL Milan Hejduk successful attempt versus Ryan Miller
2 BUF Ales Kotalik successful attempt versus Peter Budaj
3 COL Joe Sakic unsuccessful attempt versus Ryan Miller
4 BUF Drew Stafford unsuccessful attempt versus Peter Budaj
5 COL Wojtek Wolski successful attempt versus Ryan Miller
6 BUF Derek Roy successful attempt versus Peter Budaj
7 COL Marek Svatos unsuccessful attempt versus Ryan Miller
8 BUF Thomas Vanek unsuccessful attempt versus Peter Budaj
9 COL Ryan Smyth successful attempt versus Ryan Miller
10 BUF Clarke MacArthur unsuccessful attempt versus Peter Budaj
03:02 COL Ian Laperriere Roughing 2 min
03:02 BUF Andrew Peters Roughing 2 min
05:38 BUF Clarke MacArthur Holding 2 min
00:45 BUF Andrej Sekera Holding 2 min
16:26 COL John-Michael Liles Slashing 2 min
Matt Ellis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 9 4:50
Patrick Kaleta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 7:21
Ales Kotalik 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.0 25 17:43
Clarke MacArthur 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 28 17:36
Adam Mair 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.0 22 14:43
Teppo Numminen 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.0 36 22:17
Nathan Paetsch 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 25 15:58
Daniel Paille 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 50.0 27 18:02
Andrew Peters 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 4:26
Derek Roy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 25:45
Andrej Sekera 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 38 30:44
Jaroslav Spacek 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 38 28:22
Drew Stafford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 17:08
Henrik Tallinder 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 6:19
Thomas Vanek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.0 26 21:17
Ryan Miller 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65:00
Ryan Miller O 1 29 28 .966 0 0 65:00
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Tyler Arnason 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 18 12:52
Brett Clark 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 28 24:31
Adam Foote 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 27 20:07
Ben Guite 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 7:17
Scott Hannan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 30 24:29
Milan Hejduk 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.0 28 20:39
David Jones 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 21 15:10
Ian Laperriere 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 14 9:43
Jordan Leopold 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 50.0 21 15:54
John-Michael Liles 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 30 23:37
Cody McLeod 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 9 6:41
Joe Sakic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 28 24:45
Ruslan Salei 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 23 19:01
Ryan Smyth 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 26 19:23
Paul Stastny 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.0 28 21:32
Marek Svatos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 17 11:29
Darcy Tucker 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.0 26 23:01
Wojtek Wolski 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 21 15:49
Peter Budaj 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65:00
Peter Budaj W 1 30 29 .967 0 0 65:00
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Подга́ле (; также Подгалье) — историко-географическая область в южной Польше, расположенная на границе со Словакией в северных отрогах Татр в бассейнах рек Бялы-Дунаец и Чарны-Дунаец, а также в бассейне верхнего течения реки Дунаец.

Подгале находится в пределах Малопольского воеводства. На территории Подгале расположены такие города, как Новы-Тарг (исторический центр Подгале, называемый местными жителями просто «город») и Закопане, а также сёла, в их числе Чарны-Дунаец, Бялы-Дунаец, Бялка-Татшаньска, Буковина-Татшаньска и другие. Население представляет собой одну из субэтнических групп гуралей — подгалян.

Название региона Подгале появилось в середине XIX века, вначале оно относилось только к северным склонам Татр, но затем стало распространяться на земли, лежащие севернее, в начале XX века в Подгалье включали уже окрестности Новы-Тарга. Регион разделяется на несколько частей, Скалистое Подгале на юге, Среднее Подгале в равнинном районе Новы-Тарга, Восточное Подгале по левобережью Дунайца к востоку от Новы-Тарга и Нижнее Подгале в окрестностях Рабки.

Подгале осваивалось поляками с XI века, переселение шло с севера на юг из бассейнов реки Рабы и нижнего Дунайца.

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Cooper Chandler gave up two earned runs over seven innings, Reese Alexiades homered and Pepperdine beat visiting Gonzaga 4-2 in the first of a three-game West Coast Conference at Eddy D. Field Stadium in Malibu, California, on Friday.
Alexiades' two-run homer, his first of the season, put the Waves up 4-1 in the fourth inning.
The Zags (8-10, 2-2) loaded the bases with one out in the sixth. Troy Johnston's single plated a run to trim the deficit, but Mason Marenco grounded into a double play, ending the rally.
Mason Wells (0-1) went the distance for the Zags, allowing four earned runs on four hits, walking four and striking out one.
Chandler (2-1) gave up six hits and a walk with one strikeout for the Waves (11-7, 3-1). Christian Stoutland struck out two in two innings for the save.
(22) UC Irvine 4, Washington State 1: Andre Pallante tossed seven shutout innings and the Anteaters (13-4) beat the Cougars (6-14) in the first of a three-game nonconference series in Irvine, California.
Pallante (4-1) allowed two hits and two walks with five strikeouts. Mike Peabody went 2 for 4 with a three-run double in the third inning for UC Irvine.
Kyle Manzardo smacked an RBI double in the ninth for the Cougs' lone run.
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LifePoint Health donates $2,000.00 to local suicide prevention group
ELKO, Nevada – Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital (NNRH) recently donated $2,000.00 to Zero Suicide Elko County, a non-profit community group working to decrease the number of deaths by suicide throughout the region. The donation was made in honor of the 20th anniversary of the founding of LifePoint Health, the nationwide health system of which NNRH is a part.
"LifePoint asked our hospital leadership team to identify a local organization that reflects our mission of making communities healthier," said Steve Simpson, chief executive officer (CEO) of NNRH. He explained that LifePoint has committed to donating $2,000.00 to a non-profit organization in each of the 89 communities that it serves.
"We are very pleased to see these funds going to Zero Suicide Elko County," Simpson continued. "This group is working to raise awareness, coordinate resources and ultimately prevent deaths by suicide in our community. As a hospital, it is an honor to support them in these efforts."
David Dill, president and CEO of LifePoint Health said that the company was thrilled to observe its 20th anniversary by contributing to local non-profits.
"We are celebrating a 20-year legacy of making communities healthier with our employees, physicians, board members and volunteers across the nation," Dill stated. "We are proud of how far we have come in the last two decades and are excited to continue to collaborate with the talented team at NNRH to advance our mission in the years ahead."
LifePoint was founded in 1999 as LifePoint Hospitals with 23 community hospitals in nine states. The company changed its name to LifePoint Health in 2015 as a reflection of its evolution from a hospital operator to a healthcare leader providing a range of services. Today, LifePoint has 89 hospital campuses, 45+ post-acute service providers and 50+ outpatient facilities across 30 states.
Hospital staff present the donation to attendees at a meeting of Zero Suicide Elko County last week.
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