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Four past Tech 25 honorees share the impact of winning on their careers
By Joshua HallMay 30, 2019
This year marks TechPoint's fifth annual Tech 25 Awards, and we're taking a look back at some of the honorees from the first four classes to see what kind of an impact winning had on their careers and lives.
It's also the fifth year for Indianapolis Business Journal's CTO of the Year Awards and we're pleased to announce that we're joining forces with IBJ to host both events during the same awards breakfast on August 22, at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown.
The idea behind the Tech 25 Awards is a simple one—recognize the people who are helping to grow our community's tech and tech-enabled companies but who, not being the CEO or other top executives, don't get celebrated publicly as often. Tech 25 winners are critical and exceptional performers who have gone on to found their own companies or take on c-suite or other leadership roles within their companies.
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Nominations for the 2019 Tech 25 class are due Friday, June 7.
We reached out to a number of past Tech 25 winners and we were able to connect with these four honorees who shared their experiences with us.
(Left to right) Jenn Golding, San Pathak, Egan Montgomery and Robin Fleming.
Jenn Golding (Tech 25 Class of 2015) started her own agency called Sapphire Strategy, hired six people, and grew revenues by triple digits in her second year since branching out on her own with the blessing and encouragement of her former boss and business partner. Oh, and she got married in the middle of everything.
Members of the Sapphire Strategy team pose with Jenn Golding (right), past Tech 25 winner.
San Pathak (Tech 25 Class of 2017) has taken on tremendous new responsibilities with a promotion to VP of Technology, Operations and Finance for Element Three. He also co-founded the education technology startup Afterschool HQ, which boosts afterschool program participation.
Egan Montgomery (Tech 25 Class of 2018) was promoted to DemandJump's Director of Marketing just before last year's Tech 25 class was announced, and the honor gave him confidence stepping into a new, much larger role. He literally had to dye his hair blue earlier this month because his outbound sales team achieved 200% of their goal.
Robin Fleming (Tech 25 Class of 2015) came to Indy from Match.com in Texas and received job offers from the Lone Star State and the Coasts following the Angie's List acquisition in 2017. High Alpha, however, lured her into becoming an Entrepreneur in Residence, which resulted in her current role as CEO and Co-founder of Anvl.
Describe your career path from your role when you won Tech 25 through to today.
Jenn Golding: Since winning Tech 25, my career has completely exploded! At that time, I was the Director of Client Success for DK NEW MEDIA, and I eventually moved into the role of Vice President and Partner. In January of 2017, my former business partner and I amicably decided it was time for a change, and I went on to found Sapphire Strategy, a measured marketing agency for tech companies, service-based businesses, and nonprofits. Now, we have six employees, have upgraded to a bigger office in The Union 525, and grew our revenues over 200% in our second year.
San Pathak: When I won Tech 25 in 2017, I was the VP of Technology at Element Three. I have since become the VP of Operations taking on the delivery management team, and I have also taken on the VP of Finance role. Luckily I have great directors handling the day to day operations of my teams!
San Pathak (right) co-founded After School HQ with his friends and colleagues Darye Henry (center) and Denzil "Val" Crooke.
Egan Montgomery: I was promoted to Director of Marketing just before last year's Tech 25 class was announced. Tech 25 gave me a ton of confidence stepping into a new, much larger role. I think there's always some measure of self-doubt when you're trying to do something that's really big, and each of us copes with that in our own ways. Tech 25 is something I always hold close when those moments of doubt creep in.
Robin Fleming: I was honored to be selected as a member of the Tech 25 inaugural class of 2015 shortly after moving to Angie's List, where I continued my software technology focus after several years at Aprimo/Teradata. After the HomeAdvisor acquisition of Angie's List, I moved to High Alpha as an Entrepreneur in Residence with the goal of becoming part of a High Alpha Studio startup company. I'm thrilled with my decision which resulted in my role as CEO and Co-founder of Anvl, where we focus on frontline worker safety software and helping companies engage with frontline workers and ensure they make it home at the end of the day.
What major milestones or achievements took place during this time?
Jenn Golding: The biggest milestones for me since 2015 have included becoming VP and partner and then starting my own business in January of 2017. With the new business, I have had several key milestones: hiring my first employee within two months, meeting my recurring revenue goal within four months of starting the business, upgrading to a bigger office within a year of signing our first lease, and growing revenues more than 200% in the second year of business. It was also very humbling being honored as the youngest member of the 2018 IBJ Forty Under 40 Class.
San Pathak: I have co-founded an EdTech startup called Afterschool HQ (AHQ) focused on getting more students involved in afterschool programs. We have seen schools exceed 50% participation through the use of our platform, something we are very proud of. AHQ was also nominated for a Mira Award in 2019, which was a blast! Being named to the Tech 25 also opened a door for me and I was asked to be a judge for the Mira Awards as well.
Egan Montgomery: One of our major priorities since Tech 25 has been building our Outbound Marketing capabilities. I have two of the best BDRs in Indy Tech, and fantastic sales & marketing ops leadership. Together we've gone from almost no productivity to performing 115% to our aggressive quarterly target so far in Q2. It's been a process and a total team effort, but Tech 25 was a source of confidence that I could lean on during that battle to achieve in a new category.
Governor Eric Holcomb signs Senate Bill 257 at DemandJump's headquarters making Indiana "one of only four states to exempt software as a service in state statute."
Robin Fleming: Transitioning from a technology-focused leadership role to co-founding a startup is THE major milestone in my career over the last 15 months. I was looking at technology leadership roles outside of Indianapolis and fully expected to take one. Then I talked with the team at High Alpha and learned more about the studio approach to building startups, and I knew that's what I wanted to do next.
High Alpha gave me the courage to take a really big risk and embark on the startup journey. They pitched me Anvl and the concept and vision really resonated strongly with me, so I signed up to be employee #1 and began building the company. I am so very proud of the Anvl team and what we have been able to accomplish in a little over a year. I can't wait to see what we do next!
What did being a part of your Tech 25 class mean to you?
Jenn Golding: Being a part of the Tech 25 class meant being accepted as a contributing member of Indiana's tech community. I care about our state and city, the businesses we're growing here, and all of the amazing work the people are doing here. We matter. Every little thing we can do to help make our city and state stand out more is worth it!
San Pathak: I was very honored to be recognized for my achievements in tech. Since then I have bumped into fellow 2017 Tech 25 winners during my regular activities at Element Three. It's always a cool feeling to walk into a conference room with another company and there's another Tech 25 winner across the table from you.
Egan Montgomery: Being a member of my Tech 25 class was honestly one of the most humbling achievements of my career so far. It means so much to me that our co-founders, Christopher Day and Shawn Schwegman, had the confidence in me to even make the nomination. And to be included in such a talented class of individuals is beyond humbling. Tech 25 is one more symbol of the innovation happening in our state right now. This group of 25, along with the other classes, are the non-C-level leaders who are helping to facilitate a new wave of industry that is transforming our economy and the lives of the many customers benefiting from Indiana's technology companies.
Anvl leadership team (top left clockwise) Diana Nolting, Allison Bantz, Robin Fleming.
Robin Fleming: Being part of the first Tech 25 class was very special to me. I was at a point in my career where I was too old to be the 30 under 30 or 40 under 40, and not yet at a C-Level, so being recognized for my contributions meant a lot to me. Also, being recognized alongside such a talented, diverse group of individuals, with many different roles and skills, made the honor extra special.


In Ancient Times Ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc., Zingiberaceae) was used for over 5,000 years in China and India as a functional food. In modern times Ginger has been the subject of many scientific studies for its impact on human and animal health.
Through ancient trade routes ginger spread throughout Europe during the Roman Empire as a luxury ingredient in foods and beverages giving us modern delicacies such as ginger cookies and ginger ale.
Traditionally Ginger has been consumed for thousands of years. In Ayurveda, the ancient traditional science of India, ginger was used universally for wellness.
The Kama Sutra (300 B.C.) describes the uses of ginger as a tonic. In ancient Persia Ginger was known as the spice of Paradise — "And they will be given to drink a cup [of wine] whose mixture is of Zanjabil (ginger) from a fountain of Paradise" – Koran.
Chemically The strong aroma of ginger is the result of pungent ketones, predominantly 6-gingerol and 8-gingerol, the primary active biomarkers that are the focus of research studies and believed to have a wide range of physiological activities.
Ginger is commonly recommended for nausea due to the chemical compounds in ginger that block serotonin receptors and its effects suppressing the production of the hormone vasopressin which affects motion sickness. Ginger also has the enzyme zingibain which can aid in the digestion of food.
Today All across South Asia, ginger is a prized spice. In Japan, thin slices of pickled, fermented ginger ads heat and crunch to sushi and sashimi. In India, ginger is essential to curries and chutneys, and chai tea. In the land of spices, in Kerala in southern India, ginger is often sprinkled with sea salt, honey and a squeeze of lime to support the immune system.
Ginger oil is categorized by the FDA as a food additive and flavoring. It is one of the few natural, approved food additives to be studied in multiple human studies, where it's shown to support digestive health.
The Ginger family also includes cardamom, turmeric and galangal.


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Without going into a big debate about whether to run them or not, how would I go about running an untrusted GUI application with the basic criteria being:

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*it does not have access to my important files

*isn't able to listen to keyboard or mouse input when it's not focused

Possibilities I know of
another, restricted user on another or the same system
The problem I have here is X. Sure you can run xhost +local:restricteduser or maybe gksudo -u restricter thatapplication, but would they fullfill the basic criteria listed above? Is it secure?
I doesn't seem so as I tested this with JDownloader, which ran in a VM I sshed into with X access and it had access to my clipboard...
other machine/system (could be virtual)
This seems pretty safe as they could trash that other system and yours would still be ok, but spinning up a VM every time you the application seems like overkill (you must really, really distrust the application).
other
I heard of an operation system under development that IIRC would create a new virtual machine per user. Can't remember the name...

A: If the threat model is focused on files and X access, files should be handled by creating a new user/group, and making sure file permissions are restrictive enough this user/group cannot access anything important.
Restrictions to X can be handled by starting a virtual X server (e.g. vnc4server) where you can control (e.g. via xvnc4viewer) that this server only sees mouse or keyboard activity when you explicitely focus the viewer window etc.
Of course nothing keeps you from using read-make sandboxes like firejail or others.

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On a recent episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, contributor Lewis Black examined three different science stories on his recurring "Back in Black" segment. If you didn't see the show, you've probably only heard about one, even though the other two are potentially much more groundbreaking.
I Want to Symbiotically Circulate Your Blood
Not that there isn't a lot to learn from the "vampire therapy" study that showed older mice can become stronger and improve their memories when treated with the blood of younger mice. The unfortunately nicknamed work – "I like my science trendy," Black quipped – gruesomely involved the sewing of two mice together so that they shared a common blood stream. More politely called "heterochronic parabiosis," the technique, which Jocelyn Kaiser of "Science" notes was first attempted 150 years ago, seems to rejuvenate the older mouse's muscle stem cells while also bolstering the spinal cord and brain.
Sometimes science resembles a Victorian horror novel.
Now before anyone goes all Bram Stoker on the college kids next door, I should point out that it's probably easier to head straight to the source, as several more studies claim to have isolated the responsible party, a protein called growth differentiation factor 11 (GDF11). GDF11 injections have had similar results as the Frankenstein-patchwork method, and has also been used to thicken the cardiovascular tissue of aging mice as well as boosting the production of new blood vessels and olfactory nerves in their brains.
"You can really taste the proteins!"
Of course mice are not people, but we do have our own version of GDF11 coursing through our veins, so maybe the same process could carry over. Tony Wyss-Coray of the parabiosis study wants to begin human trials on Alzheimer's patients this year. So be careful the next time you visit Grandpa at the home; he might try to pull more than a quarter from behind your ear.
"Grandad, did you just nick my jugular?"
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Not satisfied to just stitch macroorganisms, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute, home to 3,000 biomedical researchers, have found a way to insert artificially made compounds into our very DNA.
You might remember from high school biology that our genetic material is made up of four different nitrogen-containing nucleobases; adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). Black prefers to think the letters stand for "alcohol, tobacco, cigars and gravy." Either way, those four little chains make up the basic building blocks of all life on Earth, from ants to trees to crabs and even Grandpa. Until now, that is.
Used to be all there was to you. We may be on the verge of changing that.
Inserting d5SICS – novel because it contains a sulfur atom when no natural nucleobase does – and dNaM into the bacterium's nucleus was the easy part. Getting the compounds to react as aggressively yet seamlessly as the natural base pairs, so that the bacteria would reproduce with the new stuff along for the ride, was the challenge. The amazing feat was finally accomplished by borrowing an algae transport mechanism to keep the E. coli cells bathed in the necessary triphosphate building blocks.
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Without that added stream, the oddball bases worked their way out of the DNA after a few replications, so there's no reason to worry about mutant/alien E. coli escaping the lab, finding its way into your burger and turning your organs into liquid s--t. But this does open the door to almost unimaginable future applications, allowing us to potentially synthesize never-before-seen proteins and other nanomaterials.
Heal Thyself
Rather than synthesizing something new, two different research groups have been able to spur growth from something old. The separate groups were each independently able to clone adult human skin cells, one from a 35-year-old and one from a 75-year-old, to make pluripotent, embryonic stem cells matching the donor's genome. This somatic-cell nuclear transfer could eventually produce disease treatments tailor-made to an individual, or even personalized organ replacements.
The procedure is ethically problematic, though, as it involves stripping a human ovum of its nuclear material and using it to create an embryo (with the donor material) for the sole purpose of harvesting its stem cells. And it doesn't even work all that well, anyway, as it took one team 39 tries to make it happen. It might not be necessary for each individual to have his own stem cell line, though, as one of the researchers, Robert Lanza, says that since many people have genetically similar immune systems, as few as 100 lines could be applied to over half the U.S. population.
"Open wide, here comes the airplane."
That's not enough for Black, who says, "I don't want a refurbished ticker, I want another ME!" That's not something that's in the cards, for several reasons. The cloning of an entire human being is illegal in many countries, and the U.S. will not allocate federal funds for the practice. It's kind of like banning elephants from driving cars, though, as it seems impossible to bring a human clone to birth even if we tried. The "highest" forms of life that have been successfully cloned, in the common usage of the term, are wolves and pigs. Monkey embryos never seem to take.
Sorry Miles, not happening anytime soon.
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Jimmy Carter Explains Racism to the White House; It is Not Pretty
Posted on September 16, 2009 by wallwritings
by James M. Wall
President Obama's health care hopes are floundering. So are his dreams for a Middle East agreement. Remember that triumphant election night victory, celebrated by a cheering, weeping, crowd in Chicago's Grant Park?
That one shining moment gave us hope that racism had been defeated. The entire world rejoiced with us. In January, a new president and his family would be living in the White House. This president would bring peace and justice into the darkest corners of the planet.
What happened? Racism was not defeated last November. It was only stunned briefly, and was quickly resurrected by forces for whom profit and greed are far more important than delivering health care services to all.
The hope for equality and justice for all was battered down by a democratic system that deceived us into believing that Barack Obama's election was a paradigmatic moment, the dawning of a new day.
Instead of letting Barack Obama seize that joyous moment and take command of his priorities, affordable health care for all, a just peace in the Middle Peace, and the end of our military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House played clumsy politics with these priority issues.
By giving the Congress a free hand to write a health care bill, the Obama team lost that battle before it began. They turned the process over to Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
Baucus, a politician whose existence in Washington is almost totally dependent on the health care industry, proceeded to deliver a bill designed for the wealth and security of the health care industry.
How did they do this? How did they destroy the dream of last November? They did what unscrupulous men and women have always done when their own security was threatened.
They stirred the fears and hatreds of a vulnerable population by playing the racist card. No, not just the card, make that the entire deck.
The White House staff, Obama's advisors, and the president himself, failed to recognize how easily the reality of an African American family living in the White House, could be manipulated into serving the desires of the highly paid Powerful who have never wanted anything close to "change we can believe in".
"Give me back my America", is an easy slogan to exploit with people whose latent racism is easily aroused. It worked with the Ku Klux Klan; it worked with McCarthyism, and now it works to benefit a health care industry that insists on using the same "socialism" lie that delayed for decades the adoption of Social Security and Medicare.
Those so-called town hall protest meetings were orchestrated for the benefit of a 24 hour media monster that wants red meat with every meal and snack. And through that media, members of Congress were reminded of their duty to the deep pockets that keep them in Washington.
Those protests culminated in a march on Washington that displayed to the world just how easily the genuine fears of a vulnerable public can be twisted into expressions that are ugly in the extreme.
Those signs that looked so spontaneous were not painted in Grandma's basement. They were produced by public relations professionals as instruments of hatred, and then doled out to willing sign wavers. They smeared not only our president, but the very core of decency and civility in American life.
Which was the ugliest? The list of candidates is long. Start with the tasteless sign at left: "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy". Or how about, "Hitler was a member of the National Socialist Party", shown above? This linkage of Obama with Hitler began in the 2008 campaign and persists with even greater fervor. The level of the health care debate has not been informative; it has been ugly because at its heart is the ugly reality of racism.
Former President Jimmy Carter spoke of that ugly reality when he explained racism to the nation, and to a White House that has, thus far, failed to listen to the counsel of a man who knows a great deal about racism.
Carter was referring to the "You lie" incident during President Obama's recent speech to the nation. He speaks with the authority of a man who was born into, and grew up with, the evil of segregation. This is how he responded to Congressman Joe Wilson's outburst:
Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act "based on racism" and rooted in fears of a black president. . . ."Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care," he said. "It's deeper than that."
Yes, this openly expressed fear and anger is much deeper than the health care demonstrations. Carter knows this, from childhood through his years of political life. What people say and do with great fervor, often reflects a deeper reality than even they realize.
Carter read Reinhold Niebuhr and learned much from his theological insights about the nature of human existence. But more importantly, Carter lived with racism, existentially, because he lived with it as a child, a young man, and now as an older man. He experienced a racism that infiltrated the core of his society, draining it of its sense of right and wrong.
Anyone born in the South as close in time to slavery, as Carter did, knows how easily racism shapes a culture. He knows that to be born into a racist society is to carry that taint within one's own soul forever.
Carter was blessed by having a mother who knew the world into which she had brought this child. By example and moral authority, she was determined to show him that he could overcome that handicap. He did.
In his inaugural address as Governor of Georgia in 1971, Carter addressed a public that had chosen him as their governor:
At the end of a long campaign, I believe I know our people as well as anyone. Based on this knowledge of Georgians North and South, Rural and Urban, liberal and conservative, I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. Our people have already made this major and difficult decision, but we cannot underestimate the challenge of hundreds of minor decisions yet to be made. Our inherent human charity and our religious beliefs will be taxed to the limit. (Bold face added for emphasis).
Carter became the governor of Georgia, and later the president of the United States, out of a background of experience that showed him the way slavery, and its children, segregationists, could retain their power not by promising peace and prosperity, but by promising to keep "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", as George Wallace did when he was sworn in as governor of Alabama in 1963.
What does racism provide to leaders who want to seize and retain power? It gives the insecure citizen a sense of a false power granted to them because they are superior to Others.
Thanks to the manipulations of the entrenched forces in charge of the nation's economic future, a white minority in the nation has been handed pitchforks in the form of marches, town hall meetings, and uncivil and ugly signs that proclaim a racist hatred that threatens to destroy the hope we felt with Obama's election.
Of course, some of the anger expressed in those town hall meetings reflect genuine fears of citizens who are ill-informed and easily shaped into an army of the ignorant. It is the distortion of those fears on behalf of the forces that do not have their best interests at heart, that makes the fear and smear campaign so reprehensible.
An African American who had the audacity to be elected president, is being demonized by the rich and powerful who pretend a patriotism they clearly do not feel, in order to retain the same power as that maintained by the White Power structure in Jimmy Carter's childhood South.
Don't compromise on health care for all, President Obama. You are better than that. Listen to Jimmy Carter. Do the right thing. That is why this nation elected you.
Copyrighted pictures above are from Talking Point Memo; the photographer is Max Kagnanov.
From 1972 through 1999, James M. Wall was editor and publisher of the Christian Century magazine, based in Chicago, lllinois. He was a Contributing Editor of the Century from 1999 until July, 2017. He has written this blog, wall writings.me, since it was launched April 27, 2008. If you would like to receive Wall Writings alerts when new postings are added to this site, send a note, saying, Please Add Me, to jameswall8@gmail.com Biography: Journalism was Jim's undergraduate college major at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He has earned two MA degrees, one from Emory, and one from the University of Chicago, both in religion. He is an ordained United Methodist clergy person. He served for two years in the US Air Force, and three additional years in the USAF reserve. While serving on active duty with the Alaskan Command, he reached the rank of first lieutenant. He has worked as a sports writer for both the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, was editor of the United Methodist magazine, Christian Advocate for ten years, and editor and publisher of the Christian Century magazine for 27 years.
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5 Responses to Jimmy Carter Explains Racism to the White House; It is Not Pretty
Caroline Cracraft says:
To try and understand the red states and the red necks, I recommend that everyone read David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (OUP 1989 – still in print, I believe). You only need the chapter Borderlands to the Badlands. I referred to it in a report I sent to London in an official report after the 2004 elections. I was thrilled to note that THE ECONOMIST did too.
Sally Mitchell says:
how can we empower Obama again?
Mary Cameron says:
President Carter is one of the few American presidents with the integrity and courage to speak the truth. He has done more for peace and freedom than any sitting president and more since he left office while others do nothing and are still greedily accepting speech incomes from lobbies that should be outlawed.
Lobbies have corrupted our politicians with bribes to change opinions and votes, alienating the American voters. They contribute openly to euphemistically named campaign contributions. The foreign country of Israel has one of the largest lobbies, combined into some 250. No politician should be allowed to accept money from lobbies. Most of them have fulltime jobs, have excellent medical benefits, travel allowanced and retirement plans most Americans do not have. Each qualified politician running or re-running for office should be allotted an equal amount and not one cent from lobbies.
Until that is changed, we cannot expect fairness for the American taxpayer or even peace because of the armchair warriors who profit from unnecessary wars. President Carter is to be admired for his honesty and integrity, and it is a pity the current president does not call on him for advice instead of those who are so corrupted by lobbies.
pat wj says:
I think "how" is as many ways as we are people who care about justice and a healthy democracy. I think we are in the beginning? middle? of a revolution in this country, to wrestle back our press to speak the truth and our laws and regulations and resolutions to support all our citizens
You can call Obama at the White House ( 202-456-1111) and let him know where you stand on any issue – surly he's hearing where the bankers and polluters and oil men and corporations that make money from war, stand. For the first time in a long time (and we do not know how long it will last), someone lives there who will listen. And if we don't speak up, he'll think the voices of POWER represent more of us than i think they do, and he is not strong enough, no one could be, to stand up to all of them without the support of all of us who voted for him, and even those who did not, but who love our country and want us to prosper – in spirit as well as material goods.
We can call our members of Congress (Federal switchboard 202-224-3121) and let them know where we stand. Many (most?) of them can't get elected without contributions from the corporations and lobbyists who "give" them campaign money. But our votes are what really determine who gets elected, so if enough of us are well enough informed to vote for those who truly represent our best interest and the best interest of our nation, and if we let the members of Congress know we will vote them out based on how they vote, regardless of what they may say in expensive ads before the next election – we will once again have a Congress that represents us. As long as some people are working for genuine election reform that will take away the monopoly of voting machines, and return voters to ballots that cannot be easily manipulated. Help Nancy Tobi, in NH work on this.
We are in a perilous place, where those corporations that care more about their stock numbers than the American people having homes to live in; than obeying our laws about torture; than protecting our water and air and sea and land – have pretty much wrapped up their control over the rest of us. But we are also living in an exciting time, when we can still inform ourselves and our neighbors, via alternative media and letters to the editor, and emails and old fashioned conversation. There are countless ways we can share this information and speak to those who represent us. The country if fairly bursting with groups ,large and small, of people who are working on one area of positive change – election reform, environmental protection, food protection, stopping torture within the US and closing down GITMO, where the whole world knows about the torture committed by US military – work alone or with a group, engage in what you believe in and feel passionate about. There is plenty of work for everyone. The country is ours to take back, only if people work for it.
Funny – in history, i learned that wrestling for control over one's government, meant fighting physically, maybe killing and risk getting killed. We don't have to take those kinds of risks. We just have to fight being lazy and lulled into inaction by TV shows or all the responsibilities that vie for our time. We just have to use a little imagination and take a little initiative to get ourselves informed by sources who speak the "truth" and let our opinions about the future of our country be known. If we don't make the effort, we have no one but ourselves to blame . . . If enough of us care enough to take action, i do believe, we can take back our country, some day.
The swed says:
Wow that picture sure made me laugh, talk about not knowing your history… or hey, it wasn't their history, they probally just heard about it on TV and it just had to be true! …


Abstract: The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) aims to demonstrate how the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) could be achieved locally through an integrated approach to development. While the MDGs have now been superseded by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2016–30), there remains a consistent thread to the MDGs around issues such as eradicating poverty, preventing avoidable deaths and improving education. Furthermore, the interconnected nature of the SDGs means the MVP model also has relevance for those seeking to address extreme poverty by taking an integrated approach to sustainable development. This report summarises the findings from what we believe to be the first independent impact evaluation of the MVP approach. It is hoped that the evidence and analysis will be of relevance to a wide range of actors in international development.
"The initial MVP evaluation claimed great success but simply compared some development indicators before and after in the treated villages without comparing to trends elsewhere. In 2010 such a study was completely out of step with contemporary practices in impact evaluation. Red flag! Clemens and Demombynes showed that comparing to trends elsewhere significantly moderated the impact. A second MVP paper was published in the Lancet but then was quickly retracted when Bump, Clemens, Demombynes and Haddad demonstrated that it had significant errors. Clemens and Demombynes wrote a summary piece on the controversy then in an astounding and under-reported scandal the MVP tried to stifle Clemens and Demombynes. The MVP, with Jeff Sachs at the head, also sicced their lawyers on Nina Munk and her book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. More red flags.
Yet, despite all of this controversy and bad behavior, the MVP project continued to move ahead and in 2012, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded US $11 million into an MVP in Northern Ghana that ran until December 2016. Under the auspices of the DFID, we now finally have the first in-depth, independent evaluation of one MVP project and it doesn't look great. The project did some good but the big push failed and the good that was done could have been done at lower cost."
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Abstract: Prior research suggests that conservatives are more fear-motivated, disgust-sensitive, and happy than liberals. Yet when it comes to political targets (e.g., politicians), both liberals and conservatives can get very emotional. We examined whether the ideological differences in emotion seen in past research apply to emotions towards specific ideologically similar vs. dissimilar targets, or whether these emotions are instead equivalent between liberals and conservatives. Across two studies, liberals and conservatives rated their anger, contempt, disgust, fear, and happiness towards Democratic and Republican congresspersons. We compared participants' levels of each emotion towards their respective ideologically dissimilar and ideologically similar congresspersons. Liberals and conservatives both experienced stronger negative emotions towards ideologically dissimilar congresspersons than they did towards ideologically similar ones. Neither liberals nor conservatives differed in negative emotions towards politicians overall (i.e., on average). However, there were ideological differences in emotional bias. In Study 1, liberals exhibited a greater contempt bias (i.e., a larger gap in contempt ratings between ideologically similar and ideologically dissimilar politicians) than conservatives did. In Study 2, liberals exhibited greater contempt, anger, disgust, and happiness biases than conservatives did. The need to consider context in the study of ideological differences in emotion is discussed.
Abstract: Research suggests that people's aversion towards pattern deviancy – distortions of repeated forms or models – contributes to social phenomena, such as prejudice. Yet, the factors motivating pattern deviancy aversion remain unclear. Potentially, anxious attachment, as it entails hypervigilant detection of and reactivity to social inconsistency and unreliability, heightens pattern deviancy aversion. In Studies 1 (N = 137) and 2 (N = 102), anxious but not avoidant attachment predicted aversion towards broken patterns of geometric shapes. In Studies 3 (N = 310) and 4 (N = 470), experimentally inducing anxious versus avoidant and secure attachment (Study 3), and versus a neutral prime (Study 4), heightened pattern deviancy aversion. Controlling for participants' aversion towards unbroken patterns, novel objects, and negative stimuli did not change these results. Our findings demonstrate that anxious attachment is one antecedent of pattern deviancy aversion, and suggest that pattern deviancy aversion may underlie links between anxious attachment and certain social phenomena.
People tend to derogate their ideological opponents. But how does social status affect this tendency?
Abstract: People tend to derogate their ideological opponents. But how does social status affect this tendency? We tested a prediction derived from hierometer theory that people with higher status would derogate ideological opponents less (i.e., evaluate them more charitably). We further predicted that greater rhetoric handling prowess (RHP: feeling more confident and less intimidated while arguing) would mediate the effect. Study 1 established a link between higher status and lesser opponent derogation correlationally. Study 2 did so experimentally. Using a scale to assess RHP developed and validated in Study 3, Study 4 established that RHP statistically mediated the correlational link between status and derogation. In Study 5, experimentally manipulating status affected RHP as predicted. However, in Study 6, experimentally manipulating RHP did not affect opponent derogation as predicted. Thus, our findings were substantially, but not entirely, consistent with our theoretically-derived predictions. Implications for hierometer theory, and related theoretical approaches, are considered.


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Littelfuse Far East Wins Seventh TTI Supplier Excellence Award for 2017
Littelfuse, Inc. was recently recognized with a 2017 TTI Supplier Excellence Award presented by TTI Asia to Littelfuse Far East. Peter Kim, Vice President, Global Sales, Electronics at Littelfuse, accepted the award on the company's behalf.
Kim said, "We're very pleased to be recognized by TTI Asia, a well-regarded leader in electronics distribution. This award highlights the continuous value we strive to bring to our customers and our associates' relentless commitment to providing industry-leading quality and service."
Sam Sung, Vice President, Product Management at TTI Asia, noted, "We are very pleased to present Littelfuse with the Supplier Excellence Award. This is the seventh consecutive year that Littelfuse has won this award. Achieving the platinum level requires five consecutive years of award recognition, and continuous recognition each year to maintain platinum status. Our Supplier Excellence program focuses on quality measurements that include on-time delivery, receiving quality, customer-reported quality, administrative quality, operations and business systems. Littelfuse has demonstrated consistent dedication in these areas. On behalf of the TTI team, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all colleagues at Littelfuse for their ongoing support."
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, TTI, Inc. celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2016 as the world's leading authorized distributor specialist offering passive, connector, electromechanical and discrete components. TTI's extensive product line and supply chain solutions have made the company the distributor of choice for industrial, military, aerospace and consumer electronics manufacturers worldwide. For more information about TTI, visit www.ttiinc.com.
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