The materials company's inaugural designer collaboration is a success.
Materials suppliers have long sponsored workshops in the interest of raising awareness about their vendors' offerings, but Baars & Bloemhoff's "Transitions" was noteworthy both as the Dutch company's first designer collaboration and a strong showing from six of Holland's most promising young studios. Conversely, although many designers — including all of the participants in "Transitions" — exhibited at multiple venues during Dutch Design Week, many of these products and projects had been around for months if not years (which is not surprising, considering the glut of opportunities, brands, and studios in Eindhoven).
Samples of the materials. Studio photography by RAW COLOR, courtesy Baars & Bloemhoff; exhibition photography by the author.
Beyond the product library, Baars & Bloemhoff also works directly with trades to realize designers' vision; working with furniture and product designers was a logical step. And since the Utrecht-based counts Eindhoven's Broeinest as one of their five permanent sales centers, Dutch Design Week was the perfect opportunity to showcase the projects.
Staged in a corner of the ground floor of the community studio/co-working space, the exhibition was demarcated by the strikingly disparate freestanding cupboards in opposite corners. Commissioning projects is an easy way of ingratiating yourself to designers, but van der Meer mentions that the projects also serve as prototypes for production as well. In fact, the "Otto" table by OS ? OOS will soon be available through Please Wait to Be Seated, and at least one of the others has attracted interest.
The name of the piece refers to the structure of an aircraft sans engines.
Thanks to the lightweight Decospan oak veneer, "Airframe 01" weighs just 18.5kg.
The Eindhoven-based studio drew on architecture for inspiration.
The Color MDF resembles homogenous materials such as stone and concrete.
One of the legs is an axis around which the two-tiered tables can rotate.
Baars & Bloemhoff provided veneers from Italian brand Alpi.
The maquettes along one wall are a nice touch; see all of them below.
The structures are designed to look both lightweight and sturdy.
Homapal metal laminate is just 1mm thick.
Inspired by crates, the external ribs offer structural and aesthetic reinforcement.
The solid surface material HI-MACS is typically used in industrial applications.


In 2018 Hydratec's revenue rose by € 39 million to € 208 million. Agri & Food Systems in particular achieved substantial growth – the division's revenue rose by 45% of which 30% was organic. Plastic Components achieved growth of 8.8% of which 4.7% was organic.
Operating profit amounted to EUR 12.4 million (+49%) excluding one-off items. Including one-off items Hydratec closed the year with operating profit of € 8.9 million (2017: € 8.3 million). Net result was influenced by a tax gain and due to this the net result attributable to shareholders amounted to € 8.5 million (2017: € 7.1 million). Earnings per share rose to € 6.63.
The 2018 Annual Report will be published on Thursday 4 April 2019.
During the Annual General Meeting on 29 May 2019 a dividend of € 2.70 per share will be proposed to the shareholders. This is in-line with the policy of paying-out at least 40% of the net result to shareholders (excluding one-time income) and equates to an increase of 20% compared to the previous year (€ 2.25).
Agri & Food's order intake in 2018 was encouraging and means the order book is well filled. For Plastic Components it would appear that the revenue within Food and Health will continue rising. Developments within the Automotive market are more uncertain. As always, the demand for our products will be affected by macro-economic developments, such as volatile foreign currency exchange rates and trading restrictions. Partly for this reason we consider it still too early to express an opinion regarding the expected results for 2019.


Once again, the State Fair of Texas has released this year's listing of the Big Tex Choice Award Finalists, and, as always, the recipes are designed to amaze.
Eight new contenders battle each year to get a Big Tex statuette and a place alongside notable fried foods at the State Fair of Texas, running Sept. 27 - Oct. 20, 2013 at Fair Park in Dallas.
Previous Big Tex winners include Deep Fried Jambalaya, Deep-Fried Bubblegum, and Buffalo Chicken in a Flapjack.
Awesome Deep Fried Nutella® – Cream cheese and Nutella® are whipped and spread over flaky Phyllo dough sheets, rolled up and deep-fried. Served with a drizzle of honey and shaved almonds.
Deep Fried Cuban Roll – A filling of slow-cooked pork shoulder, chopped ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and secret sauce is spread onto a slice of Swiss cheese, rolled up in pastry dough and deep-fried. Roll is served with a side of majo sauce for dipping.
Fernie's Deep Fried King Ranch Casserole – This stick-to-your-ribs TEXAS-SHAPED creation is melted cheese, salty, spicy goodness that is dipped in a zesty southwestern egg wash and coated in panko bread crumbs. Deep-fried golden brown and crunchy on the outside, steamy and creamy on the inside! Served with a side of red, white and blue tortilla chips and your choice of our homemade "salsafied" sour cream or cheesy queso. Each one proudly flying the flag of the Lone Star State and deep-fried in the Heart of Texas!
Fried Thanksgiving Dinner – Mama's homemade stuffing and diced roasted turkey are rolled in a ball. Next it's dipped in southern cream corn and rolled in seasoned corn meal — all fried to a crispy golden brown and served with old-fashioned giblet brown gravy. The zesty orange cranberry sauce fills your dipping needs and results in a complete Thanksgiving dinner, FRIED!
Golden Fried Millionaire Pie – Sweetened, fluffy cream cheese filling is loaded with golden pineapple and Texas pecans, then wrapped in a flaky pie crust and fried to a golden brown. Topped with whipped cream, toasted coconut and candied pecans.
Spinach Dip Bites – Creamy and delicious spinach-artichoke dip bites are coated with crispy tortilla chips and flash-fried until golden brown. Bites are served with salsa for an additional kick.
Southern Style Chicken-Fried Meatloaf – Homemade meatloaf slices are coated in an authentic Texas chicken-fried breading and deep fried golden brown. Served with garlic mashed potatoes, Texas cream gravy and a ketchup/brown sugar glaze for dipping.
Texas Fried Fireball – Pimiento cheese, pickles, cayenne pepper and bacon are rolled into a ball, dipped in buttermilk, covered with a jalapeno-infused batter and deep-fried. Served with chipotle ranch for dipping.
The winner will be announced on Labor Day, Sept. 2.


The Sami people have worked in and around Töfsingdalen for a long time.
Until the 20th century there was a Sami settlement with about 40 people who lived in Sami huts by Lake Töfsingen just north of the national park. Nowadays the national park is part of the reindeer grazing land of the Idre Sami group engaged in reindeer husbandry.
Töfsingdalen National Park is 16 square kilometres in size and was formed in 1930, making it one of the first national parks created in Sweden. Its selection is said to have happened quickly. In the 1920s employees of what was to become the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency stood at the top of Storvätteshogna mountain and gazed over the Töfsingdalen valley. From there they drew the boundaries of the future national park directly on a map.


Perhaps they will conclude to stay in Europe—perhaps half way there, like the unfortunate stag who tried to cross a deep chasm in two jumps.
A Jackal in pursuit of a Deer was about to seize it, when an earthquake opened a broad and deep chasm between him and his prey.
"This," he said, "is a pernicious interference with the laws of Nature. I refuse to recognize any such irregularity." So he resumed the chase, endeavoring to cross the abyss by two leaps.
From this point the bridge has proceeded in a fashion suggesting the movements of a man trying to leap across a chasm in two jumps. The first move of the builders has been to construct the first half of their span—308 feet in length—and to follow this step by throwing the second half across the remainder of the distance from the end of the portion already completed.
It would be financially foolish to permit said hero to be messed up so that he wouldn't photograph nicely by jumping a chasm in two jumps, or going down the third and last time in rescue scene in the raging (tank) sea, or anything like that.
In 1933 David Lloyd George published a version of the saying in his memoirs as mentioned previously.
LLOYD GEORGE: — Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
"You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps," said World War I-era British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. And you can't cross it in a series of little steps either.
As quoted in Design for Power: The Struggle for the World (1941) by Frederick Lewis Schuman, p. 200; This is the earliest citation yet found for this or similar statements which have been attributed to David Lloyd George, as well as to Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill, Vaclav Havel, Jeffrey Sachs, Rashi Fein, Walter Bagehot and Philip Noel-Baker. It has been described as a Greek, African, Chinese, Russian and American proverb, and as "an old Chassidic injunction".
In conclusion, the implausible notion of crossing a chasm in two jumps has been used as a simile or metaphor for many years. Examples begin by the 1870s. David Lloyd George presented a cautionary maxim of this type in his 1933 memoirs, and he often receives credit.
Image Notes: Leap photographed by H. H. Bennett. Public domain photograph taken and published in 1886 from Wikimedia Commons which acknowledged the Wisconsin Historical Society. David Lloyd George image from U.S. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons.


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I love when readers tweet me questions about solo travel (You did know you could do that right)? (@worldinfourdays). Reader's questions always take me down memory lane and remind me of all the fears I had when I first started solo travel.
When a reader asked me "How do you handle eating alone"? I was actually shocked that I had never thought to talk about this. Eating alone has never been an issue for me but I realize for others, it can be very intimidating.
I have eaten alone, gone to the movies alone, I've even gone to a concert alone but for some, solo travel is the first time they have ever done ANYTHING alone. Hopefully, these tips will address your fears and give you one less thing to worry about.
I'm not much of a drinker, but when I'm traveling alone and want some company during dinner I always sit at the bar. For one, bartenders are used to entertaining people. If you are sober and able to actually hold a decent conversation, most bartenders will welcome the distraction from those that aren't. Keep the conversation fun and upbeat. People like talking about themselves so break the ice by asking them a few questions about themselves like, what do they like to do for fun, how do they like the city, what are a few of their favorite places they suggest you visit.
When I travel I always make a point to pack a good book and a few magazines. I look at eating alone as the perfect time to get in some reading. I have been known to sit outside of a café for hours enjoying a meal with a good book. I used to think that reading in public made you less approachable but I've found that to not be the case. Several times I have had people strike up conversations about the book I'm reading. Or, if it's a travel book they usually ask where I'm from and the conversation goes from there.
I love family style seating. This is often found in family type restaurants. It involves seating guests at long tables so that no one eats alone. You might be paired with other single people dining alone, or a family. Introduce yourself, let them know you are dining alone and enjoy the conversation. People are usually very responsive to travelers and love conversations about what you plan on seeing in their city as well as offering advice.
When I'm eating alone and don't really want to talk to anyone one of the best ways to entertain yourself is by people watching. I can people watch for hours, it makes me stop and think about others for a moment. What's going on in their life, how is their day going etc. You can learn a lot from people just but watching them.
Eating alone makes you highly approachable and sometimes all it takes is making eye contact and offering a smile and most people will strike up a conversation. When people discover you are eating alone many will offer to have you join them. Another option for those that just can't stand the thought of eating alone, ask the wait staff if anyone else is dinning solo and ask to be seated next to them. Offer a smile when seated and then ask if you can join them. Most people will say yes. If all else fails and you still end up alone, strike up a conversation with the wait staff. Make sure they are not super busy and be sure to offer a nice tip at the end of your meal.


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The government made it obligatory in 2016 to affix the revenue stamps on tobacco products and alcoholic drinks. Since then the stamps have been introduced successfully on cigarette packets and on bottles for wines and spirits.
Putting stamps on beer cans and bottles is much more challenging, according to the Association of Drinks Producers and Importers (ABIBA), which warns that, if the measure goes ahead, taxes raised from beer could collapse from the current eight billion meticais (about 132 million US dollars) a year to five billion meticais. That would be an annual loss to the exchequer of more than 49 million USD.
The chairperson for the beers secttion of ABIBA, Neyde Pires, said at Wednesday's media briefing that sticking fiscal stamps to the cans and bottles will place a heavy technical burden on beer producers. Furthermore, the process of adding fiscal stamps is an additional cost for beer producers, a cost which will be passed on to consumers, who might react by buying less beer. If less beer is sold, the breweries will inevitably lay off some of their workers.
ABIBA is in favour of fiscal stamps on wines and spirits, since this is the sector which used to be dominated by contraband. With the introduction of the fiscal stamp, it has become easy to spot smuggled wines and spirits.
However, the beer consumed in Mozambique is mostly produced inside the country by one company, CDM (Beers of Mozambique). It is estimated that only about five per cent of the beer drunk in Mozambique is contraband. CDM is one of the country's largest taxpayers, and nobody has ever accused it of tax evasion.


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ICMS tax can still be charged in 2022, Alexandre de Moraes votes
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The difference in the rate (difal) of ICMS in operations involving goods intended for a non-tax-paying final consumer located in another country may be charged regularly in 2022. This is the opinion of the rapporteur, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, Federal Supreme Court (STF)), in the vote presented this Friday (23/9) in the judgment of three actions that discuss the collection of the difference. The processes are ADI 7066, 7070 and 7078.
Difal is regulated by Supplementary Law 190/22, published on 1/5/22. Since then, states and taxpayers have disagreed on the start of its effects, either in 2022 or 2023. In his vote, Moraes concluded that LC 190/22 did not introduce or increase a tax and therefore nonagesimal and annual precedents should not be respected. Therefore, the collection can be carried out already in 2022.
The states, however, are analyzing whether, if the rapporteur's position prevails, the difference can be charged from March 2 or April 1, 2022. This is because Moraes understood with his vote that the provision according to which the new definitions are the taxpayer, the place and time of initiation difal events can take effect from the first working day to the third month after the availability of the difal portal. This is article 24-A, fourth paragraph, of the Kandir Law (LC 87/96), included in LC 190/2022.
This provision raises another practical question. The Difal portal was established on December 29, 2021 based on Agreement 235/21, published on the same date. The problem is that this agreement only entered into force on January 1, 2022. Therefore, some states, such as Santa Catarina, understand that the date of establishment of the portal, which is still in December, must be taken into account, due to which the difal can be charged as from March 2, 2022 (because March 1 was not helpful). Other analyses, especially those of taxpayers, defend the date of April 1 for the start of collection. The topic will probably be the subject of a proposal for clarification in the STF.
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The ICMS differential at issue in the lawsuits is levied on transactions involving goods destined for end consumers who do not pay tax in another state. In this type of billing, as in electronic commerce, the supplier of the good or service is responsible for collecting the entire tax and passing on the ICMS tax to the country of the final consumer – that is, the difference between the country's internal rate of origin and the interstate rate.
The possibility of charging this difference was introduced into the Constitution by Constitutional Amendment (EC) 87/15, and later regulated by the Confaz Convention 93/15. However, in 2021, the STF declared the clauses of this contract unconstitutional and decided that from January 1, 2022, the case will be regulated by a supplementary law, which was implemented through LC 190/22.
The problem is that the supplementary law was only published on January 5, 2022. Since its release, a debate has started about the start of the norm's effect, whether in 2022 or 2023, considering the constitutional principles of nonagesimal antecedencies. and annually.
Due to non-statutory primacy, states are prohibited from collecting taxes before 90 days have elapsed from the date of publication of the law that introduced or increased them. Due to annual precedence, this collection cannot be implemented in the same financial year as the law introducing or increasing taxes is published.
Arguments of the rapporteur
Regarding the prior notices, Moraes understood that LC 190/22 does not establish or increase the tax and therefore does not have to respect the nonagesimal and annual prior notices to take effect. For Moraes, the complementary law did not change the tax burden borne by taxpayers, the incidence hypothesis or the basis for calculating the ICMS. He just changed the destination of the revenue from the collection, in order to transfer part of the revenue to the country of destination of the goods. With this, the rapporteur rejected the request of the Brazilian Association of Machinery and Equipment Industry (Abimaq), for which the difal can be charged only from 2023.
Following the same agreement, Moraes accepted the request of the states of Ceará and Alagoas to declare unconstitutional the part of Article 3 of LC 190/22 which expressly refers to Article 150, paragraph III, subparagraph c. Constitution. This constitutional provision provides for the respect of non-precedential priority and also defines that the provisions of paragraph b. This, in turn, deals with annual precedence.
For Moraes, when debating the matter, the House of Representatives and the Federal Senate started from the "false" premise that the collection of difals in operations involving non-ICMS taxpayers would constitute a tax increase.
Finally, in order to recognize the constitutionality of the provision that foresees the deadline for the entry into force of the new definitions of difal, from the availability of the difal portal, the reporter stated that, although this rule is characterized as an obstacle to the immediate start of the collection of difal, it is a legitimate use of the legislator's freedom, "which established a reasonable period of time to enable the taxpayer to adapt technologically".
Thus in practice Moraes rejected ADI 7066 authored by Abimaq; partly from ADI 7070, from Alagoas; and from ADI 7078, from Ceará.
For lawyers, Moraes' voice contradicts the STF's own understanding
For attorney Saul Tourinho Leal, partner at Ayres Britto, Moraes' voice contradicts the understanding of the STF in the joint ruling ADI 5469 and RE 128019 of 2021. In this ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot charge the ICMS in the absence of a complementary law which regulates that issue. At that time, the judges concluded that EC 87/15, by introducing a difal, created a new legal-tax relationship and that therefore there should be regulation by a complementary law.
In the National Congress, says Tourinho Leal, the parliamentarians concluded that the complementary law must respect the priorities. In addition, opinions such as that of the State Attorney's Office (AGU) were concluded by applying the principle of annual priority to Supplementary Law 190/2022. Alternatively, to observe at least the novena, in accordance with the choice of the legislator, an option that Moraes considers unconstitutional.
"For us, there is no basis that indicates that Article 3. LC 192/22 [que define a observância de dispositivo constitucional referente às anterioridades] violate the Constitution. The commandment is clear: it defines the observance of both nonagesimal and general (annual) primacy. The legislator considered it necessary to protect the taxpayer. Because of this, Moraes understands that Congress has abused its prerogative or that it cannot improve the rights of taxpayers," says Tourinho Leal, who gave oral arguments on behalf of Abimaq in ADI 7066.
For Thiago Motta, a partner at Castro Barros Advogados, Moraes' vote is clearly against constitutional orders that, as a guarantee for taxpayers, prevent states from demanding an increase in ICMS in the same financial year in which the law introduced it. According to the lawyer's understanding, LC 190/22, according to the decision of the STF, fulfilled the role of introducing ICMS tax payment. He also complains that the reporter declares unconstitutional precisely the part of the provision that expressly defined the respect of priorities, in this case Article 3 ZK 190/22. In his opinion, this provision should serve to protect the interests of taxpayers. "A blow to taxpayers and, above all, to the Constitution of the Republic", criticizes Motta.
So far, the rapporteur has been the only one to vote. The deadline for voting is next Friday (September 30) until 11:59 p.m. Until then, the minister can ask for an opinion or emphasis. In the latter case, the trial will be transferred to a physical plenary session, and the counting of votes will start again.
Cristiane Bonfanti – Reporter of JOTA in Brasilia. It covers the tax area. He worked in the editorial offices of Correio Braziliense, O Globo and Valor Econômico. He graduated in journalism at UniCeub University, specialized in political science at UnB University and completed an MBA in planning, budgeting and public management at FGV. Study law at UniCeuba.
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In 1866, the land comprising the current Berkeley campus was purchased by the private College of California. Because it lacked sufficient funds to operate, it eventually merged with the state-run Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College to form the University of California, the first full-curriculum public university in the state.
The original name University of California was frequently shortened to California or Cal. Berkeley is a large, primarily residential research university with a majority of enrollments in undergraduate programs but also offers a comprehensive doctoral graduate program.The university has been accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission since 1949. The university is one of only two UC campuses operating on a semester calendar, (the other is UC Merced). Berkeley offers 106 Bachelor's degrees, 88 Master's degrees, 97 research-focused doctoral programs, and 31 professionally focused graduate degrees.
Berkeley's 130-plus academic departments and programs are organized into 14 colleges and schools in addition to UC Berkeley Extension. "Colleges" are both undergraduate and graduate, while "Schools" are generally graduate only, though some offer undergraduate majors, minors, or courses.
The four-year, full-time undergraduate program has a focus on the arts and sciences with a high level of co-existence in undergraduate and graduate programs. Freshman admission is selective but there are high levels of transfer-in. Requirements for undergraduate degrees come from four sources: the University of California system, the Berkeley campus, the college or school, and the department. These requirements include an entry-level writing requirement before enrollment (typically fulfilled by minimum scores on standardized admissions exams such as the SAT or ACT), completing coursework on "American History and Institutions" before or after enrollment by taking an introductory class, passing an "American Cultures Breadth" class at Berkeley, as well as requirements for reading and composition and specific requirements declared by the department and school. Three-hour final examinations are required in most undergraduate classes and take place over a week following the last day of instruction in mid-December for the Fall semester and in mid-May for the Spring semester. Academic grades are reported on a five-letter scale (A,B,C,D,F) with grade points being modified by three-tenths of point for pluses and minuses. Requirements for academic honors are specified by individual schools and colleges, scholarly prizes are typically awarded by departments, and students are elected to honor societies based on these organizations' criteria.
Berkeley has a "comprehensive" graduate program with high coexistence with the programs offered to undergraduates, but no medical school. The university offers graduate degrees in Master's of Art, Master's of Science, Master's of Fine Art, and PhDs in addition to professional degrees such as the Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration. Admission to graduate programs is decentralized; applicants apply directly to the department or degree program. Most graduate students are supported by fellowships, teach assistantships, or research assistantships.
Berkeley is a research university with a "very high" level of research activity. There are 1,582 full-time and 500 part-time faculty members dispersed among more than 130 academic departments and more than 80 interdisciplinary research units.
Berkeley's 32 libraries tie together to make the fourth largest academic library in the United States. The libraries together cover over 12 acres (4.9 ha) of land and form one of the largest library complexes in the world. Doe Library serves as the library system's reference, periodical, and administrative center, while most of the main collections are housed in the subterranean Gardner Main Stacks and Moffitt Undergraduate Library.
It is considered by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as one of six university brands that lead in world reputation rankings in 2015 and is ranked third on the U.S. News' 2015 Best Global Universities rankings conducted in the U.S. and nearly 50 other countries. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) also ranks the University of California, Berkeley, fourth in the world overall, and first among public universities. The university is also well known for producing a high number of entrepreneurs.
The Berkeley campus encompasses approximately 1,232 acres (499 ha), though the "central campus" occupies only the low-lying western 178 acres (72 ha) of this area. Of the remaining acres, approximately 200 acres (81 ha) are occupied by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; other facilities above the main campus include the Lawrence Hall of Science and several research units, notably the Space Sciences Laboratory, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, an undeveloped 800-acre (320 ha) ecological preserve, the University of California Botanical Garden and a recreation center in Strawberry Canyon. Outside of the Bay Area, the University owns various research laboratories and research forests in both northern and southern Sierra Nevada.
Two committees and the Office of Sustainability and Energy at UC Berkeley work formally to implement sustainability initiatives on campus. The university encourages green purchasing when possible including installing energy-efficient technologies around campus such as steam trap systems and economizers.
The University of California is governed by a 26-member Board of Regents, 18 of which are appointed by the Governor of California to 12-year terms, 7 serving as ex officio members, a single student regent and a non-voting student regent-designate. The position of Chancellor was created in 1952 to lead individual campuses.
UC Berkeley receives funding from a variety of sources, including federal and state authorities, and private donors. With the exception of government contracts, public money is proportioned to UC Berkeley and the other 9 universities of the University of California system through the UC Office of the President.
Students and prospective students of UC Berkeley are eligible for a variety of public and private financial aid. Most financial aid inquiries are processed through the UC Berkeley Financial Aid and Scholarships Office. Some graduate schools, such as the Haas School of Business and UC Berkeley School of Law have their own financial aid offices.
The official university mascot is Oski the Bear, who debuted in 1941.The University of California Marching Band, which has served the university since 1891, performs at every home football game and at select road games as well. The UC Rally Committee, formed in 1901, is the official guardian of California's Spirit and Traditions. Wearing their traditional blue and gold rugbies, Rally Committee members can be seen at all major sporting and spirit events.
Students at UC Berkeley live in a variety of housing that cater to personal and academic preferences and styles. The university offers two years of guaranteed housing for entering freshmen, and one year for entering transfer students. The immediately surrounding community offers apartments, Greek (fraternity and sorority) housing and cooperative housing, twenty of which are houses that are members of the Berkeley Student Cooperative. Students of UC Berkeley, as well as students of other universities and colleges in the area, have the option of living in one of the twenty cooperative houses of the Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC), formerly the University Students' Cooperative Association (USCA), and member of the national cooperative federation, NASCO.
The Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) is the student government organization that controls funding for student groups and organizes on-campus student events. It is considered one of the most autonomous student governments at any public university in the U.S. The ASUC's Student Union Program, Entertainment, and Recreation Board (SUPERB) is a student-run, non-profit branch dedicated to providing entertainment for the campus and community. Founded in 1964, SUPERB's programming includes the Friday Film Series, free Noon Concerts on Lower Sproul Plaza, Comedy Competitions, Poker Tournaments, free Sneak Previews of upcoming movies, and more. UC Berkeley's student-run online television station, CalTV, was formed in 2005 and broadcasts online. It is run by students with a variety of backgrounds and majors. UC Berkeley's independent student-run newspaper is The Daily Californian. Berkeley also features an assortment of student-run magazines, most notably Caliber Magazine.
The athletic teams at UC Berkeley are known as the California Golden Bears (often shortened to "Cal Bears" or just "Cal") and are primarily members of the NCAA Division IPacific-12 Conference (Pac-12). Cal is also a member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in several sports not sponsored by the Pac-12 and the America East Conferencein women's field hockey.
26 alumni and 27 past and present full-time faculty are counted among the 72 Nobel laureates associated with the university.
To know more about the University of California, Barkley, please visit: http://www.berkeley.edu/
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According to our database1, Carlo Vercellis authored at least 29 papers between 1984 and 2018.
Public Mood-Driven Asset Allocation: the Importance of Financial Sentiment in Portfolio Management.
Discovering Bayesian Market Views for Intelligent Asset Allocation.
Concatenating or Averaging? Hybrid Sentences Representations for Sentiment Analysis.
Linear versus nonlinear dimensionality reduction for banks' credit rating prediction.
A comparative study of nonlinear manifold learning methods for cancer microarray data classification.
Landmark Selection for Isometric Feature Mapping Based on Mixed-Integer Optimization.
Dimensionality Reduction via Isomap with Lock-Step and Elastic Measures for Time Series Gene Expression Classification.
An effective double-bounded tree-connected Isomap algorithm for microarray data classification.
Regularization through fuzzy discrete SVM with applications to customer ranking.
Kernel ridge regression for out-of-sample mapping in supervised manifold learning.
Combining discrete SVM and fixed cardinality warping distances for multivariate time series classification.
Time Series Gene Expression Data Classification via L1-norm Temporal SVM.
Multicategory classification via discrete support vector machines.
Accurately learning from few examples with a polyhedral classifier.
Evaluating Membership Functions for Fuzzy Discrete SVM.
Softening the Margin in Discrete SVM.
Predicting HIV Protease-Cleavable Peptides by Discrete Support Vector Machines.
Bayesian Stopping Rules for Greedy Randomized Procedures.
Discrete support vector decision trees via tabu search.
Synchronized Development of Production, Inventory, and Distribution Schedules.
Multi-plant production planning in capacitated self-configuring two-stage serial systems.
A Class of Generalized Greedy Algorithms for the Multi-Knapsack Problem.
A Probabilistic Analysis of the Multiknapsack Value Function.
Efficient On-Line Algorithms for the Knapsack Problem (Extended Abstract).
A probabilistic analysis of the set covering problem.
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A New Documentary Seeks the Spirit of Hannah Arendt, But Can't Get Past Cliché
By Jonathon Sturgeon
Let's be honest, it's not a proud moment when the ideas and disputations of Hannah Arendt resurface with force. A debunker of myths, a scissor to ideology, an exilic thinker, her work comes alive — as what William James would call a "live option" or "live hypothesis" — in moments of political opportunism marked by rampant cliché and scapegoating. I don't need to tell you that now is one of those moments.
What would Arendt make of the banality of Donald Trump? Of the ideological ways and means of his followers? Or America's present disposition toward refugees and migrants? She wrote diligently on all of these subjects (banality, refugees, migrants), even if her writing, due to its almost immediate impact and influence, was quickly transformed into the sort of cliché she worked to undermine. Despite her work on revolution, Marxism, Socratic philosophy, the law — and, perhaps most importantly, on statelessness, the status of refugees, and the idea of human rights — she's too often (and curiously) confined to her controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. This is to say her spirit is sometimes trapped in a bottle.
Judging by its title, one would hope that a new documentary, Ada Ushpiz's Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt, would seek to unleash Arendt on the world, to let her out of the bottle, precisely at a moment when her thought is badly needed. (It's hard to think of a 20th century philosopher — or any philosopher — who is more readymade for our current predicament.) Or, short of that, it could equate "spirit" with "life" and relay Arendt's biography: her father's early death, her romantic and academic affair with Martin Heidegger, her exile in Paris, her American citizenship. At least it does the second of these things.
The film opens with a dark sign, a chopped-up quote/paraphrase of Eichmann in Jerusalem, lines that consider the infamous: "the banality of evil." It goes without saying that the question of evil's banality (which bleeds together with arguments about the explainability of Nazism) is an important one. But whether this debate (and if the film does anything, it's to show that Arendt's ideas on certain questions, including Eichmann's anti-Semitism, her representation of the Judenrat, her statements on Heidegger's complicity with Nazism, are at least a matter of debate) can be done justice in a documentary is perhaps an overwhelming question. (Just ask Claude Lanzmann or Alain Resnais.) "We're simply not equipped to deal on a human and political level with a guilt that is beyond crime and an innocence that is beyond goodness or virtue," Arendt wrote to her teacher Karl Jaspers before changing her mind, an act which required writing a book and not a two-hour, PBS-style documentary.
The film's sense of disproportion struck me during a moment of documentary footage of a man dying by firing squad, one that seemed curiously detached from the chatter of the talking heads, which here include a number of former students, friends, and opponents. (And also Judith Butler, whose commentary seems appropriately exasperated.) As Arendt states herself in the film, she left Germany fairly early, and her experience was more one of exile and its vicissitudes. Eichmann and totalitarianism were a fascination.
Still, the film works when Arendt is able to speak in her own voice, whether by letter or in television clips. For a woman who is too often seen as a commentator on banality who fell in love with banal men, Arendt is often putting them in their place. She chides Karl Jaspers for pretending there is a German spirit outside of its language; she likewise chafes against the work of Max Weber, who forebodingly said he would "deal with the devil" to make Germany great again. Hearing such words, how can one not think of that human bumper sticker Donald Trump, with his bid to "make America great" through The Art of the Deal?
Vita Activa is also strong when it cites Arendt on matters of ideological rigidity, which is appropriate, since its title references this aspect of her work. No friend to dead language or "superficiality," Arendt instead favored the intellectual limberness of critical thinking (and not what often passes for it). If thinking can be dangerous, she says in the film, "non-thinking is even more dangerous." Along these lines, the non-thought of, say, Trump's infomercial refrains, reveals itself — it's hard not to think of Trump when Arendt says of Eichmann: "He is an intelligent person who has that dumbness."
But if we're going to capture "the spirit" of Arendt, as I said above, it seems odd to restrict it to questions of evil, especially in the midst of an historic refugee crisis. In a number of recent books, Arendt's importance on this subject is clear. From Ayten Gündogdu's Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants:
Contemporary manifestations of rightlessness demand an Arendtian critical inquiry that grapples with the perplexities of human rights… Arendt's account points to the need for a critical inquiry that carefully examines the perplexities in existing human rights institutions, laws, norms, and practices to understand the contemporary problems and struggles of asylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants.
Should the US take in refugees? Of course. Why are there so many? What is the crisis' root cause? These are more difficult concerns, Arendt would say, questions that require thought-in-motion, the debunking of clichés — vita activa. She wouldn't want us debating the banality of evil in perpetuity.


After years of rumors and speculation Google + is shutting down. Data breaches, API bugs and overall low time on site usage have all contributed to the shutdown and after yet another data breach they have accelerated the shutdown timeline.
Design a logo to use on your website, business cards or social media and start building your brand identity. We'll walk you through how to use the free online Canva.com software to create beautiful designs to make a lasting impression on your audience.
Designers block? Feeling amateur in your creativity? Need something specific for your business brand, but don't have the budget for a graphic designer? Luckily for all business owners and designers alike, there's Canva.com!
First, let's really get down to the basics. A brand style guide is a compilation of the images, fonts, colors and details that collectively make up your brand. Yes, it is important to use the same shade of blue from your logo on your website, business card, and ads, etc.
This is the second time I've designed a website for Tulsa Town Hall and loved the opportunity to give their site a refresh.


From power of attorney to wills and trusts — here's how to prepare for end-of-life care and estate taxes.
Like any other strategies for the future — college savings, insurance or retirement accounts — estate planning is a critical part of life planning. Estate plans are made up of many parts, including wills and trusts, as well as any additional documents or information that will help beneficiaries carry out the requests of the benefactor.
In case you need assistance down the road, make sure your needs are met by understanding the steps to plan your finances — and taking those steps while you're healthy and of sound mind. The following estate planning checklist will help you kick-start building a solid estate plan.
Read: How Much Money Do I Need to Retire?
A power of attorney allows you to name someone you trust to make financial and legal decisions for you if you are unable to do so yourself. For instance, if you want your spouse to have power of attorney, you can legally designate him to have decision-making ability.
Without a power of attorney, your spouse will have limited authority over the property you own together. If you don't have a power of attorney, your family members will have to go to court to have someone appointed to manage your finances, according to John Sweeney, executive vice president of retirement and investing strategies at Fidelity Investments.
A durable power of attorney, or healthcare power of attorney, lets you name someone to make medical decisions and adjustments to your end-of-life care plan for you if you're unable to make them yourself. Depending on the state you live in, there might be limitations on who you can designate as your healthcare agent. You might not be allowed to appoint your doctor, for example.
As you figure out your power of attorney and durable power of attorney, consider consulting an elder law attorney who can help you figure out details how to fund a nursing home or what to do if you've outlived your retirement funds. Such an attorney can help you navigate elder law, which is specifically designed to address the needs of senior citizens.
Your living will outlines the medical care you would want if you become unable to make your own healthcare decisions. For example, you can specify whether you would want to be kept alive on life support, and for how long.
Even after you make a will, be sure to check with your state to find out if the living will and healthcare power of attorney is combined into a single advance healthcare directive document.
Writing a will is your first step to ensuring that your wishes are carried out. In a will, you can specify who should receive your assets and who will be your children's guardian. Be aware, though, that a will won't direct where all your property and money goes.
For example, money in retirement and pension plans or proceeds from life insurance policies go to the beneficiaries you've named for those accounts. You also can't use your will to leave property you hold in joint tenancy or property you've transferred to a living trust.
The key benefit of a trust is that it allows you to transfer property to your heirs without the probate process, which can be lengthy, expensive and public. If you have just a will, any property that's only in your name at your time of death will go through probate court to be distributed. But you transfer your assets to a living trust before your death, those assets can go directly to your family.
According to Sweeney, a trust is also beneficial if you want to specify when and how your heirs will receive assets, especially if your children are minors when you die. For example, a trust can allow you to dole out assets to heirs over a period of time or in one lump sum.
"You can take care of more what-ifs with a trust than with a will," said Danielle Mayoras, an estate-planning attorney and co-author of "Trial & Heirs." For a trust to be effective, however, you have to go through the process of actually transferring your assets to it, which can take a lot of time and paperwork. You'll need to weigh the pros and cons to decide whether a trust is right for you, Mayoras said.
You shouldn't include your final funeral and burial wishes in your will because wills often aren't opened and read until weeks after death. You need to specify in a separate document what sort of memorial service you want and whether you want to be buried or cremated.
Be sure that your friends and family are aware of your wishes, and give them copies of this document or tell them where to find it. Also, if you have a deed to a cemetery plot, make sure your family knows where it is, Sweeney said.
Create a list of your financial accounts, insurance policies and the contact information for any professionals you work with, such as attorneys, accountants, brokers and financial planners. You also need to make copies of your estate planning documents, mortgage or deed to your house, and titles to cars and other property.
Keep your list and documents in a secure place — such as in a home safe or safety deposit box — and let family members know where they can access your information if something happens to you. "It doesn't do anyone good if they can't find your documents," said Mayoras.
Choosing a beneficiary for your pet is an important decision and one you'll want to discuss with the person you feel is the best fit. If you don't want your pet to go to a no-kill shelter or facility, it's a good idea to choose back-up beneficiaries in case the first choice is unable to take on the responsibility when the time comes.
If you're confident that the person you choose will love and care for your pet as you do, then you might not need a detailed trust. However, if you want to have more control over the care of your pet and how the money you leave for that care is spent, then a detailed trust could be a smart move. A trust allows you to spell out your wishes in detail, from what kind of food your pet gets to the type of healthcare it receives.
In today's digital world, you also have to figure out what will happen, after you've died, to your digital music library and social media profiles for websites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The answer for what to do with your social media accounts and digital assets isn't black and white. Because of various laws, like the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, it might be illegal to use your mom's password, for example, to log into her email to retrieve bills or other important data.
Creating a comprehensive estate plan is a major undertaking and one that most people are happy to finish. But an estate plan isn't something you work on once and never look at again. As circumstances and laws around estate taxes and other issues change, it's important to review your plan at least once each year to ensure your plans will still work.
A significant example of how updated laws can affect your plan is the federal estate-tax exemption changes. The federal estate-tax exemption is the legally allowed amount that can be bequeathed to non-spousal beneficiaries; in 2015 that amount jumped to $5.4 million, more than three times what was previously allowed in 2005.
Here are five ways to make sure your retirement plans are good to go.


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Did Stouffers Stove Top Stuffing Exist?
Was Stouffers Stove Top Stuffing a Stouffers product?
When and where did Stove Top Stuffing have its start, and by whom?
Stouffer's Stove Top Stuffing has been around since…whenever that was?
Does Kraft make Stove Top Stuffing now?
How did stouffers become so out of hand?
What country produces stouffers?
How much is Stouffer's worth?
What happened to stouffers restaurants?
Nestlé acquired Stouffer's in what year?
Who owns Stouffer's trademark?
There was no replacement for Stouffer's Stovetop Stuffing. Nothing of the kind ever existed.
Ruth Miriam Siems, a home economist who passed away on November 13th, 2005, was the brains behind the invention of Stove Top Stuffing. She grew up in Evansville, Indiana, and currently works at General Foods Corporation, where she developed the recipe for stuffing (now Kraft Foods Inc.)
In March 1973, Stove Top Stuffing, which had been developing since March 1972, was given the green light to go on the market.
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At this point, she had worked for General Foods for more than 30 years. Kraft Foods currently owns Stove Top stuffing, which sells 60 million boxes a year and comes in various flavors.
For over a century before Nestle USA bought it, Stouffer was a family business (via GoodNes). Apart from its frozen food division, Stouffer's has grown through time to include a variety of dining establishments and a hotel.
Swiss giant Nestle S.A bought Stouffer Corporation in 1973 from Litton Industries. Nestle's success in the frozen food market has been spectacular. The development of the frozen food segment necessitated the opening of a new production factory in Gaffney, South Carolina, in 1980.
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Stephen R Stouffer will have a net worth of at least 8.19 million dollars by the time he dies on September 16th, 2020. Mr. Stouffer has sold more than 3,208 shares of Tyson Foods stock for more than $3,875,794 during the previous eight years, totaling more than $4,313,822.
Some of Stouffer's restaurants are still open under the Select Restaurants name, despite the company's departure from the food service industry altogether. A freed-up corporation could now concentrate completely on Nestlé's food goods, which it still does today.
Frozen food manufacturer Stouffer Corporation was purchased by Nestle for $36.5 billion in 1992 and included Stouffer Hotels as part of the transaction in 1973.
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For a firm as massive as Nestle, the acquisition of STOUFFER'S was a no-brainer. In the 1990s, STOUFFER'S had 68 restaurants and 40 big resorts and hotels carrying its brand before selling them in 1992 to focus on frozen food.
It's no secret that STOUFFER'S is always tweaking its menu to better serve its expanding consumer base.


The Media promised us again and again that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election! Her shocking loss left Democrats and the mainstream media in a state of grief, and the rest of us are forced to sit around and watch them go through the stages. We've seen the denial, we've seen the anger, and now- with new calls to impeach President Trump- we're seeing the bargaining.
But the Democrats' impeachment calls for impeachment are simply fan fiction. There is no evidence to impeach President Trump of any high crimes or misdemeanors. Impeachment calls, treason allegations, and the rest of the leftist meltdown are simply more anti-Trump fantasy.


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Meet the subversive startup that's fighting mass surveillance with t-shirts
By Luke Dormehl	 August 28, 2019 1:00PM PST
If you've ever watched a runway fashion show, you could be forgiven for feeling confused. This is the fashion world satirized by Zoolander and Sacha Baron Cohen's character Brüno; where wearability and even sartorial attractiveness is deprioritized in favor of crazy designs and artistic boundary pushing. Kate Rose's clothing line Adversarial Fashion is as confusing as anything you'll find on any catwalk in the world. The only difference: it's not you that it's designed to confuse. It's the machines.
Adversarial Fashion's big hook is creating apparel that's adorned with designs intended to disrupt surveillance systems. If you've ever strained to read a tagline on someone's t-shirt, only to realize it was kinda stupid and you were wasting your time, this same idea is used by Adversarial. Except instead of wasting your time, it's designed to waste the time and computational firepower of automated license plate readers.
The creative force behind Adversarial (its name is based on the A.I.-befuddling term "adversarial examples") is a computer security professional and amateur fabric maker named Kate Rose. Not too long ago, Rose was having a conversation with Dave Maass, senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They were discussing the rise of automatic number-plate recognition technology, which has been widely adopted in the U.S. at city, county, state and federal levels.
The American psychologist Abraham Maslow once pointed out that to a person who has only a hammer, there's a tendency for everything to look like a nail.
This spy tech is meant to track people's whereabouts by not only recognizing license plates, but also linking this with specific GPS locations. As a person drives around and is captured by multiple cameras, automatic number-plate recognition systems provide a constantly-updated means of monitoring their approximate (or even specific) location. Only according to Maass, it doesn't work all that well.
The spark of an idea was born.
Creating her designs
"He happened to mention that when they were analyzing data from plate readers, it became clear that the data was not very accurate," Rose told Digital Trends. "It was pulling in data from misclassified things like billboards and picket fences. There was just a whole lot of junk in there. I thought that, if the specificity on the technology was really that low, maybe I could find a way to create a fabric that could purposely cause similar confusion."
Rose went away and began carrying out some experiments. "I managed to figure out what the least amount of information that the camera can take in that would still make it believe it was looking at a license plate," she said. Bringing together her interest in fashion and computer security systems, she began toying around; creating designs intended to befuddle the most diligent of machines.
The Adversarial Fashion t-shirt as seen by an automated license plate reader.
The American psychologist Abraham Maslow once pointed out that to a person who has only a hammer, there's a tendency for everything to look like a nail. Well, to an A.I. that's trained to view the world in terms only of potential license plates, it turns out that they don't need all that much coaxing to make a mistake.
"It's kinda fun to play around with it," Rose continued. "You can see what looks cool from a fashion perspective, in terms of something that someone would want to wear." Once her designs were completed, Rose set to work making them first into fabrics, and then those fabrics into clothes. To date, she has created a number of Adversarial Fashion items, ranging from shirts and hoodies to jackets, skirts and dresses. These are available for purchase on her website, ranging in price from around $25 to $55, depending on the item.
Broadening the conversation
But is this actually causing disruption or is this more of a political statement in the protest fashion vein of, say, a "F*** Donald Trump" t-shirt?
"Part of this is just about teaching people how the technology works and improve their understanding about part of the surveillance state," she said. "But it does really work. Even if it's just one person wearing one of these, and it causes these cameras to ingest 10 to 50 plates which are total garbage, that's doing something. This is still information that has to be stored and analyzed, all of which costs money. It makes the system slightly less useful. I would love to think of ways that this could be adopted by whole communities who say that they don't want to be compliant with these systems."
Rose thinks that clothing items such as this can play a key role in the fight back against mass surveillance.
Ultimately, Rose views what she is doing as helping to prompt a conversation. As she points out, the use of mass surveillance technologies are still widely unknown to many people. Their invisibility is a feature that, well, makes them unnoticed by many. On the surface, at least.
"For example, where I live in Southern California there are malls that you can park in, which tells you where your car is parked when you put your ticket in the [parking ticket] machine," she continued. "The first time I saw that I thought, 'Oh my gosh, that's so convenient.' But it turns out that the mall has a license plate reader trained on every single parking spot. The data from that vendor who runs the parking lot then gets packaged up and sold to ICE. There's nothing in your field of vision when you pull up that says by entering this area you are agreeing that your data can be used [in this way]."
There are compelling arguments on both sides when it comes to the use of certain controversial surveillance technologies, such as facial recognition. But for these to be debated, they must first be understood. Adversarial Fashion does its part by literally democratizing the tools it's working with; turning a niche bug in A.I. recognition systems into something that anyone can, quite literally, try on for size.
Designer Kate Rose models one of her Adversarial Fashion dresses. Photo: Kate Rose
"You don't have to be a computer science or cybersecurity expert to use it," she said. You can just buy a shirt. It's very intuitive … It's something you can physically hold in your hands. It lets you understand how these systems work. I'm not an expert who has been working on computer vision fabrics for 10 years. I'm someone with some basic functional skills and a little bit of curiosity. This is my method of how I taught myself how these systems work."
Fashion that fights the power
One challenge, of course, is that technology continues to march on. There is no guarantee that a design that's able to fool today's image recognition algorithms will work with next year's, next month's, or, heck, tomorrow's.
"The systems that are used for artificially identifying any kind of image get better every day," Rose acknowledged. "The computer vision field is making constant advances. I know that my shirts may not work in a couple of years. I've seen old projects from other anti-surveillance artists which don't work any more."
In this way, it's not necessarily any different from other politically-motivated fashion. Your "Impeach George W. Bush" hoodie is no longer so relevant in 2019, even if the broad message might remain the same.
But, hey, Kate Rose isn't slowing down. Finding out about A.I. algorithms designed to identify humans within images (and potentially even certain types of movement), she's now interested in creating blocky designs that, when worn on the body, can help break up the human form. One thing is for sure: Rose thinks that clothing items such as this can play a key role in the fight back against mass surveillance.
"I think one of the biggest problems we have with anti-surveillance fashion is that what is non-obvious to a computer is very obvious to people," she said. "When you have anti-facial recognition makeup, it's a very bold statement. You'd need to be a brave person to wear it. But with fashion you get a little bit more of a leeway. It's not that unusual to see someone wearing a really bold print or something experimental-looking."
It's not going to solve the problem by itself, but it could help play a role in educating people. And maybe even causing a few headaches along the way.
"I feel it's important to push back in any small way I can, even if I'm just one person," Rose said.
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Summary of "Transforming Conflict Through Insight"
by Cheryl A. Picard and Kenneth R. Melchin.
This Book Summary was written by Alessandra Cuccia, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR), George Mason University, in September 2012.
Citation: Cheryl A. Picard and Kenneth R. Melchin. Transforming Conflict Through Insight. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2008.
Transforming Conflict Through Insight is an intuitive guide into the world of conflict resolution, focusing on Bernard Lonergan's philosophy of Insight Theory. Cheryl Picard and Kenneth Melchin focus on the roles of learning, feelings and values when confronting a conflict narrative. The overarching idea is learning not just "from" conflict, but "in" conflict as well. The authors' goal is to turn destructive, violent conflict into a constructive learning experience. The main obstacle to resolving conflict that is presented in this book is the parties' feeling of threat. The authors' hope is to navigate beyond this feeling with the help of insights.
Chapter 1 focuses on the different ways in which society deals with conflicts and understanding how resolving conflicts can change us. Picard and Melchin give an outline of three "Snapshots", which seem to be overarching themes that are further broken down into two ways in which conflicts are resolved within society. The first "Snapshot" is called Everyday Conflict. Within this "Snapshot" the authors' compare the roles of adjudication and mediation. The authors' stress the differences in adjudication and mediation, such as the formal, authoritative, win-lose side of adjudication and the consensual, impartial, facilitating side of mediation. Both of these tools involve the learning and settling of certain conflicts, but both in different ways.
The second "Snapshot" is labeled Conflict and Justice. This section compares two types of justice: retributive and restorative. The main difference the authors' see between retributive justice and restorative justice is the role of the state's interference in the justice process. In regards to retributive justice, the state is deducing justice on the behalf of society as a whole, while in restorative justice society is playing a larger role in deciding the fate of the perpetrator.
The final "Snapshot" is Conflict and Democracy. The two main views the authors compare are centered around Thomas Hobbes' notions of inevitable conflict in democracy and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's idea that conflicts are resolved in democracies. Instead of the state working on society's behalf, as in Hobbes' view, Rousseau believes that the role of the state in democracy is simply to make sure everyone in society has the chance to participate in resolving the conflict.
The authors strongly suggest the benefits of greater citizen participation in public life. They also highlight a few reasons for a growing interest in conflict: international affairs, environmental factors, multiculturalism and postmodernism. The authors also point out that human beings develop "meaning perspectives" which can in turn serve as interpretative lenses for different events that occur in our lives. However, the art of learning can change these "meaning perspectives" that we have and therefore change the way we interpret these events, thus leading to insights.
At the end of Chapter ne the authors introduce Jack Mezirow's Learning Theory and relate it to Jürgen Habermas' idea of emancipatory interest while keeping in mind William Rehg's awareness to the personal knowledge of insight. Picard and Melchin also introduce the main overarching theory being used in the text, which is Bernard Lonergan's Insight Theory.
Chapter 2: Studying Conflict: Where Have We Arrived and Why Think About Insight?
Chapter 2 explores the evolution of the field of conflict resolution. The authors start their timeline around the 1970's and 80's with the emergence of conflict resolution as an independent field of study. They focus particularly on the work of Kenneth Boulding, and Dean Tjosvold as early leaders in the field. They also draw on the works of Karl Marx, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lewis Coser and Morton Deutsch, all of whom addressed the idea of conflict being a positive experience that could be used in a productive manner.
The authors present an overview of theories within the field of conflict resolution. The discussion of Game Theory focuses on John von Neuman and Oskar Morgenstern's prisoners dilemma and the consequences of these types of studies. The second, more practical theory introduced was the Interest-based Theory, with the example of William Ury and Roger Fisher's Getting to Yes. John Burton's Human Needs Theory follows with the suggestion of intractability. The last theory the authors mention is Communication Theory, largely indicative of George Herbert Mead's "role taking".
The end of Chapter 2 looks at the use of mediation and the three models of mediation that arise from these theories: interest based, transformative and narrative mediation. The fourth model is Insight Mediation, which is based on, what the authors call, the "transformative moment in learning".
Picard and Melchin introduce Lonergan's Insight Theory through a family conflict. Within Chapter 3, the authors focus on Lonergan's idea of "reflective practice" which is a shift from not understanding to an insight of understanding. The four operations that Lonergan outlines are experience, understanding, verification and decision. These operations are the points at which an insight, or "a-ha" moment, moves in between not understanding and understanding. The authors stress, in this chapter, the importance of curiosity in learning. Without curiosity there can be no questions, and without questions there can be no insights. The two types of insights are described as direct and inverse. Direct insights are about gaining understanding through asking questions, while inverse insights refer to discovering that we are asking the wrong questions. Another important note in Chapter 3 is the fact that insights can be wrong. This is where the verification operation plays a critical role.
Verification does not seem to be a new insight, instead it is taking an existing insight and confirming that it is true or realizing it is false. There is a difference between common-sense verification and technical verification. At the end of Chapter 3 the authors introduce four levels in which we relate to values: experience values, understanding values, verifying values and decision or acting on values. The reversal of these levels is what the authors call the "cycle of innovation".
Chapter 4 explores what the authors call "the magic of mediation", which is closely linked with insights. In 2002, the Insight Model of Mediation was created in response to both the Transformative and Narrative Approaches. The mediators at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada used Insight Mediation to explore what differing parties care about and how they see their cares/interests "threatened" by other parties. The authors briefly describe the 5 Steps of Insight Mediation: 1. Attend to the process 2. Broaden understanding 3. Deepen insights 4. Explore possibilities and 5. Make decisions. These steps address threats linked to previous encounters, existing behaviors and expectations of the future.
There are four principles of Insight Mediation that the authors offer. The first principle addresses the social nature of persons: the idea that human beings are proponents of meanings and this shapes the way we view the world around us. The second principle is that peoples' actions are not purely out of self-interest. This is explained through the idea that values are noticed through feelings. The third principle looks at the way values, cares and threats work in conflicts. The fourth and final principle refers to understanding that values can change how we experience conflict.
The authors also spotlight the role of feelings and their relation to values, cares and threats inside the value narrative. This involves a "strategy of linking" which adds insight to the cares and threats that parties hold of one another. The authors propose that conflicts occur and are important because something significant needs awareness brought to it. The goal of Insight Mediation is not about finding solutions, but rather using questioning to summon curiosity. Some of the main concepts the authors touch on are responsive intentionality, deepening and finishing.
This chapter also addresses what to do when expected threats are valid and gives some examples of how Insight mediators "de-link" conflicts. De-linking is a shift of the parties' view of others from "certainty to uncertainty". This "shift" is a key component in the process of learning. The end of the chapter delves more deeply into the strategy of verification. It stresses the importance of verifying one's insights and how verification comes to play in the process of learning.
The last chapter focuses on two case studies through the lens of insight mediation. The first case study is a story of a gas station employee who was robbed. The robber, Charles, was caught and sentenced to jail time, however Elizabeth, the employee, did not feel as if she had obtained any sort of justice or closure with her perpetrator. In fact, the justice system all but ignored her victimization. The authors outline how this scenario was resolved with insight, because Elizabeth sought out her perpetrator and was on a "quest" for answers, even though she did not have many specific questions. The authors explore not only Elizabeth's trauma, but dig deeper into Charles' life and past experiences.
The second case study was about a man named Allan who was a repeat offender. Instead of continuing the cycle of jail time, the judge decided to involve the community in deciding how to stop this intractable cycle. After Allan heard his community testify how they wanted to help him and integrate him back into society, an insight was achieved. The authors look at the involvement of the community and how this could change his behavior patterns. Instead of granting Allan more jail time, a rehabilitation process was agreed upon with the community and Allan's needs in mind. The authors conclude with applying the Insight Theory to this story and looking at the direct insights, inverse insights, feelings, values and learning that was achieved in this case study.
Reflecting back on the past chapters, the authors reiterate and solidify the importance of learning in transforming conflicts. Curiosity as a necessary skill for gaining insight is also a concept that is stressed. The curiosity must be genuine and focused on others. Picard and Melchin warn of the dangers of self-interest when dealing with insights. Overall, the final chapter summarizes the main points of the previous chapters and pursues a greater advance in learning about learning.


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E-Project: Baby, We Can Drive That Car
A patented video mapping technique and a foam model of a car help launch a virtual preview of car manufacturer Nissan's new Infiniti M Luxury sedan.
By Jacqueline Tobin
Photo Credit: © 2009 Pier Nicola D'Amico
Klip Collective created a 360-degree, five-projector video installation for Nissan and its Infiniti M luxury sedan debut. At the launch party, video was projected onto the walls of the tent and a model of a car.
Advertising and editorial photographer/cinematographer Pier Nicola D'Amico (Nic to his friends and clients) says he will never forget a call he got back in 2003 from friend and video artist Ricardo Rivera. "Ricardo called me from his apartment after he had sitemapped his kitchen," D'Amico says. "When I got there he presented this room to me which had video on the ceilings and spinning apples on the cabinets and water running down the walls," illusions created by projecting video onto every surface of the kitchen. D'Amico adds, "Everything was mapped to the pixel of the shapes he chose to project on, and it all came from one projector." Rivera and D'Amico were sure there was a commercial use for the technology. That night they came up with a business model and all the possible applications Rivera's technique could encompass, and most importantly, a name: Klip Collective.
The goal of the Philadelphia-based firm has always been to create high-end, large-scale and unique video installations that go way beyond basic video playback. Six years after that phone call, D'Amico and Rivera have a patent on an innovative sitemapping technique for projecting 3-D objects onto any surface that they call The Klip Effect™, which—along with video projectors and custom-made content—allows the duo and their team of filmmakers, photographers and interactive artists to turn any multi-surface environment into a video screen, without distortion and with perfect integration into existing interior or exterior architectural features. They can project onto most any building façade (in October they projected onto the New York Public Library's exterior for an event by beer company Stella Artois) and many of their installations have been featured in hotels, theaters and restaurants around the country.
The Klip Effect™, explains Rivera, "is a patent for projecting digital content onto any surface the projection light covers." The first step of the process is for D'Amico and Rivera to visit the site they want to project onto, map all the surfaces, take the maps back to the studio, render everything in the proper sequence, position and perspective using the Klip Effect™, then take the final cut of the video back to the location—and "perform" it.
Recently, Klip Collective, in collaboration with Stefan Boubil of the New York design agency The Apartment, brought its video projections to the 2009 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance for a one-of-a-kind preview of car manufacturer Nissan's new 2011 Infiniti M Luxury Sedan. The site-specific video installation transformed Infiniti's tent into a dynamic digital display of video projections with sound accompaniment. The car itself could not be on site, so D'Amico and Rivera transformed a foam model of the 2011 M into a moving 3-D illusion. Video projections from four projectors seamlessly enveloped 224-feet of floor-to-ceiling wall space creating a 360-degree video wall. By mapping video of a moving car onto the foam mold and a passing landscape onto the wall, Klip Collective created the illusion of the M Luxury Sedan driving through a forest, Japanese garden, and on a winding street. (Video of the installation can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/ 6194331 and at http://www.klip.tv.)
"Essentially we had a 70 foot x 50 foot x 70 foot box to work in," says D'Amico of the tent they were projecting in. "We had four high-definition Panasonic projectors seamed and timed together using software. The Klip Effect™ allowed Ricardo to put the projectors in very odd places as well as to correct the perspective and seam all the content together."
D'Amico says that since they would have to project not only onto the tent's "walls" but also on a mold of a car that wasn't going to be there, a lot of pre-planning took place, including building a foamcore model of the space at Klip Collective's studio and using toy cars. D'Amico says they also interfaced for about two months with Da Vinci Fusion (the company that produced the tent), and went back and forth on surfaces and what the walls would be made of and how tall they would be. The foam mold itself—a matte, digital gray—was based on virtual wire frame of the car that Nissan provided. The Klip team used stretchy fabric across the tent walls to project onto.
In creating the projections, D'Amico says the team worked with 8K video files, "not 4 K, not 2K, but 8 K—which are long and skinny. All of that had to be prepared and readied when we arrived on site. There, the projectors are mounted, aimed and locked in place. The projectors cannot move."
Since the Infiniti theme is "Inspired by the Power of Nature," CGI animation (done by RTT USA) was used to render organic shapes on the hood of the car. "Since we had the virtual wire frame for the car from Nissan we were able to 'skin it,' in a sense. and add the grill and the lights and so on, all on screen. It was wild."
A separate projector threw images onto the car itself and four projectors were mapped on the walls. D'Amico says, "It's all just an illusion of a car being there. Ricardo's vision was to have the 'car' drive. . .so the road is moving on the screen, the wheels turn—the foam model is static—and the result is you feel like you are flying along with the car, like a real car commercial."
Photo content came from the image library that Nissan had for the Infiniti, and from atmospherics shot by D'Amico and Rivera: 360 degree forest scenes and landscapes that were taken in the middle of the Pine Barrens in New Jersey and The Japanese House in Philadelphia. "So, we shot content for all of June, edited through July and in August they put the show up," says D'Amico. "Once we got on site we acquired our maps and then we rendered, rendered, rendered all the content. Once you have it all rendered, you go back to the site, load it into all the computers and hit play. It's a nice convergence of cinematography, photography and video installation art."
Creative Credits
Klip Collective:Ricardo Rivera – Lead Video Installation Artist and Editor
Pier Nicola D'Amico – Video Artist and Director of Photography
Andrew Warner – Sound Design
The Apartment (Design Agency):Stefan Boubil – Creative Director and Principal, Sound Design
Gina Alvarez – Principal, Brand Strategist
RTT USA (3D Animation for the Infiniti M Launch) :Andrea Gunshera Josh Kohlmeier
DaVinci Fusion (AV Event Support): Chris Read – Network Specialist
Egwrk (Synchronized Playback System): Bill Gastrock – Programmer/Installation Artist
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If the DIDP Did Its Job
by Asvatha Babu — published Nov 03, 2016 — last modified Nov 07, 2016 12:57 PM — filed under: IANA, Transparency and Accountability, Internet Governance, ICANN, IANA Transition, Transparency
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IANA Transition: A Case of the Emperor's New Clothes?
by Vidushi Marda — published Oct 15, 2016 — last modified Nov 03, 2016 06:20 AM — filed under: IANA, Internet Governance, IANA Transition
Transparency is key to engaging meaningfully with ICANN. CIS has filed the most number of Documentary Information Disclosure Policy (DIDP) requests with ICANN, covering a range of subjects including its relationships with contracted parties, financial disclosure, revenue statements, and harassment policies. Asvatha Babu, an intern at CIS, analysed all responses to our requests and found that only 14% of our requests were answered fully.
Submission by the Centre for Internet and Society on Revisions to ICANN Expected Standards of Behavior
by Vidushi Marda — published Jun 29, 2016 — last modified Jun 30, 2016 06:07 AM — filed under: Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Featured, ICANN, IANA Transition, Homepage
Prepared by Vidushi Marda, with inputs from Dr. Nirmita Narasimhan and Sunil Abraham.
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Jurisdiction: The Taboo Topic at ICANN
by Pranesh Prakash — published Jun 27, 2016 — last modified Jun 29, 2016 07:51 AM — filed under: IANA, Internet Governance, Featured, ICANN, IANA Transition
The "IANA Transition" that is currently underway is a sham since it doesn't address the most important question: that of jurisdiction. This article explores why the issue of jurisdiction is the most important question, and why it remains unaddressed.
Comments on the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10)
by Geetha Hariharan — published Nov 18, 2015 — last modified Nov 18, 2015 06:33 AM — filed under: ICT4D, Call for Comments, WSIS+10, Access to Knowledge, Accessibility, Human Rights Online, Internet Governance, ICANN, IANA Transition, Open Source, Open Access
Following the comment-period on the Zero Draft, the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of implementation of WSIS Outcomes was released on 4 November 2015. Comments were sought on the Draft Outcome Document from diverse stakeholders. The Centre for Internet & Society's response to the call for comments is below.
Do we need a Unified Post Transition IANA?
by Pranesh Prakash, Padmini Baruah and Jyoti Panday — published Oct 23, 2015 — last modified Oct 27, 2015 12:46 AM — filed under: IANA, Internet Governance, IANA Transition
As we stand at the threshold of the IANA Transition, we at CIS find that there has been little discussion on the question of how the transition will manifest. The question we wanted to raise was whether there is any merit in dividing the three IANA functions – names, numbers and protocols – given that there is no real technical stability to be gained from a unified Post Transition IANA. The analysis of this idea has been detailed below.
The 'Global Multistakholder Community' is Neither Global Nor Multistakeholder
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 20, 2015 — last modified Nov 03, 2016 10:42 AM — filed under: Multi-stakeholder, ICANN, IANA Transition, Internet Governance
CIS research shows how Western, male, and industry-driven the IANA transition process actually is.
Response by the Centre for Internet and Society to the Draft Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration
by Pranesh Prakash — published Aug 30, 2015 — last modified Nov 29, 2015 06:35 AM — filed under: IANA, Internet Governance, IANA Transition
This proposal was made to the Global Multistakeholder Community on August 9, 2015. The proposal was drafted by Pranesh Prakash and Jyoti Panday. The research assistance was provided by Padmini Baruah, Vidushi Marda, and inputs from Sunil Abraham.
IANA Transition Stewardship & ICANN Accountability (II)
by Jyoti Panday — published Jun 21, 2015 — last modified Jul 31, 2015 03:47 PM — filed under: ICANN, IANA Transition, Internet Governance
This paper is the second in a multi-part series, in which we provide an overview of submitted proposals and highlight areas of concern that will need attention moving forward. The series is a work in progress and will be updated as the processes move forward. It is up for public comments and we welcome your feedback.
IANA Transition Stewardship & ICANN Accountability (I)
by Jyoti Panday — published Jun 20, 2015 — last modified Jul 31, 2015 02:56 PM — filed under: ICANN, IANA, Internet Governance, IANA Transition
This paper is the first in a multi-part series, in which we provide a background to the IANA transition and updates on the ensuing processes. An attempt to familiarise people with the issues at stake, this paper will be followed by a second piece that provides an overview of submitted proposals and areas of concern that will need attention moving forward. The series is a work in progress and will be updated as the processes move forward. It is up for public comments and we welcome your feedback.
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