Last September, I wrote about the Social Media Blackout experiment conducted by the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I was particularly intrigued by their exercise, blocking all messaging and social media on campus for a week to get students to reflect on the issues surrounding ubiquitous connectivity, because I had just finished doing my own experiment on myself – and publishing the journal of the experience in my 2010 book, Disconnected.
Last week, I participated in a panel that discussed the issues associated with connecting and disconnecting at Harrisburg University's Social Media Summit 2011. It was tremendously fun! If you're interested in these issues, consider attending their Social Media Summit in May 2012.
This year, they're at it again! I've attached the hot-off-the-press news release that describes the exercise, which will be conducted between September 21 and 27, and their results from last year.
Sep 21, 2011–Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, beginning 8 a.m., Wednesday, September 21, will block access over its network to several popular social media sites including, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Additionally, access to all instant messaging services will be blocked. This exercise, which will affect all students, faculty and staff at the University, will conclude September 28, 2011.
The intent of this consciousness-raising exercise is to inspire thinking about how, when and where the University community uses social media as well as awareness about uses and/or abuses of social media, says Dr. Eric Darr, Executive Vice President and Provost at the University.
Additionally, a panel of educators and authors recently discussed social media addiction and the benefits and drawbacks of unplugging from social network during the 2011 Social Media Summit held September 14th at the University. One conclusion from the panel is that insights gained through unplugging can be used to set healthy personal boundaries around future social media use. The University will encourage journaling by students and staff in an effort to preserve and reflect upon opinions, feelings and ideas.
The sites being blocked include: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Hi5, Linkedin, Twitter, Twitxr, Plurk, Tweetpeek and texting outlets.
The private STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) focused comprehensive university is home to several academic programs that focus on social media and mobile application development. In addition to the annual Social Media Summit, the University is home to the annual Learning and Entertainment Evolution Forum (LEEF) and the Center for Advanced Entertainment and Learning Technologies.
"Obviously, this is a University that weaves technology into most of our daily activities. We believe that technology is not inherently good or bad. Rather, technology becomes useful or destructive in the hands of users. This exercise is an attempt to better understand an important technology, social media, that clearly impacts how we live and work It might inspire students, faculty and staff to think more about their social media habits and to further raise awareness about the impact that social media has on daily life and work," says Darr.
This is the second consecutive year the University has conduct this exercise. During the week of September 13 -17, 2010, the University shutdown access over its network to several social media sites. In an attempt to understand basic usage patterns and opinions following the 2010 'blackout' exercise, students, faculty and staff were surveyed about their social media habits and reactions to the blackout. An initial survey was completed on the first day of the blackout, and a follow-up survey was completed during the week following the blackout. Additionally, multiple focus group sessions were conducted with students and faculty in the middle of the blackout week.
One-quarter of the 822 students and 40% of the faculty and staff at Harrisburg University responded to the 2010 surveys. The surveys revealed that the majority of students, faculty and staff are regular users of social media. In fact, many are heavy users of various social media outlets. Specifically, two-thirds of the sample reported using Facebook on a daily basis, while 10% said they use Twitter on a daily basis. Among Facebook users, 25% cited mainly "social" purposes, including contact with friends, as the primary reason for using the site. Students and staff also use social media for "entertainment." In fact, 13% of student responders said they rely on Facebook to combat boredom between classes. Exactly half of student responses cited the use of YouTube regularly for "academic and social purposes." Instant messaging is also used by a large segment of the student body, with 35% usage among this sample.
Darr notes that one question that is routinely debated is whether people can become addicted to social networking. The results from the 2010 survey suggest that this is possible. Specifically, it is remarkable to note that 20% of the student respondents spend between 11 and 20 hours a day using social media sites.
"One has to believe that this level of usage would likely interfere with school work and jobs. Further, it is somewhat disturbing to note that several faculty and staff reported spending more than 20 hours a day on social networking sites. Clearly, this level of usage would interfere with many of life's routine responsibilities," says Darr.
Initial reactions to the 2010 blackout were similar for students and faculty. Both groups were skeptical and upset at the onset of the social media blackout. And, both groups became more positive about the event after reflecting on the week.
Information about student behaviors during the blackout was also collected. The results suggest that a healthier, more productive life style was practiced by a significant portion of the students during the week-long social media blackout. Specifically, 25 % of students reported better concentration in the classroom during the blackout week. In fact, 23% of students found lectures more interesting. Interestingly, 6% of students reported eating better and exercising more during the blackout week. School work was given a higher-priority when social media was unavailable. Specifically, 21% of the students used the time that they usually spent on Facebook to do homework, whereas 10% used the time usually spent on Facebook to read online news.
An obvious question is "Did anyone learn anything from the blackout?" Survey results show that 44% of the students reported that they learned something, while 76% of faculty and staff reported learning something from the blackout. Focus group sessions and student commentary uncovered several specific lessons learned during the blackout week. Several students reported gaining a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of Facebook. They used Facebook for its obvious ability to connect with friends, but they also used Facebook for collaborating on a business plan. During the blackout, these students were forced to use another tool for working on their business plan, and discovered that it was easier than Facebook. Additionally, they reported that it had become increasingly difficult to distinguish business related posts from social posts on Facebook. These students learned that document management is not one of the core strengths of Facebook.
A second lesson learned was a better understanding of the value of face-to-face communications versus conversations carried out solely over social media. Several faculty were reminded about the power of face-to-face dialogue when they discovered that complex biology concepts that had confused students for weeks when discussed over social media, were readily learned when explained in a series of face-to-face meetings. In fact, 10% of the students reported enjoying face-to-face conversations during the time they would normally spend on Facebook.
Further, an additional lesson learned was that social media use can cause stress. Nearly 33% of students reported feeling less stressed during blackout week.
The University plans to discuss the social media exercise at its 2012 Social Media Summit, set for May 23 at Harrisburg University.
Founded in 2001 to address Central Pennsylvania's need for increased opportunities for study leading to careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, Harrisburg University is an innovative and ambitious private institution that produces graduates who provide increased competence and capacity in science and technology disciplines to Pennsylvania and the nation. Harrisburg University ensures institutional access for underrepresented students and links learning and research to practical outcomes. As a private University serving the public good, Harrisburg University remains the only STEM-focused comprehensive university located between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.


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Q: Lookup table in Java When I want to speedup part of codes, I use a lookup table instead of a function. In other languages I use global arrays to do this job. I pre-calculated all return values and put them in an array.
Here is an example of a function :
public static int Box(int c) { /* c value range is 0-80 */
    return ((c / 9) / 3) * 3 + ((c % 9) / 3);
}

I could instead use an array like this :
int Box[] = {0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2,2,0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2,2,0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,5,5,5,3,3,3,4,4,4,5,5,5,3,3,3,4,4,4,5,5,5,6,6,6,7,7,7,8,8,8,6,6,6,7,7,7,8,8,8,6,6,6,7,7,7,8,8,8}

Java doesn't have global arrays!
What would be the best way way to do this so I can access these values?

A: In Java, the equivalent of globals are public static variables.  If you want to make the static variable immutable, then it should also be declared as final.
Also, the naming convention in Java for static variables is to capitalize the entire name, and separate words with underscores (ex: SOME_BOX).
Using your example above, you can do:
public static final int[] BOX = {0,0,0....};

A: You can still use global variables.  You just need to put them in a class.
public class PrecalculatedValues{
    public static final int BOX[]={0,0,0,1,1,1,...};
}

You can access BOX later in your code like so:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(PrecalculatedValues.BOX[0]);
}

A: Though it is possible to use a lookup table it is completly unnecessary in this case, since the equation can be calculated without branches in a couple of cycles.
When using arrays as a lookup table branches will become necessary because of the ArrayIndexOutOfBounds checks.

A: I would recommend to put a static array inside a class where that method is located and still call the method from outside code and just use the array from within the function. Yes, you will have some overhead for a funcall but I suppose you're not trying to gain like 0.001% of performance? Also JIT will probably simplify it. Most importantly your interface will be consistent and it will look like a normal function not like some hack. If you're trying to get some performance from a costly function by precalculation you can also consider memoization. The thing with hiding this array behind the funcall is that you can use any technique of caching or precalculation later without disturbing public interface.
E.g.
class A {
    private final static int values[] = {0, 1, 2 ... };

    public int myFun(int x){
        return values[x];
    }
}

A: for one you could just simplify your function (the /9/3*3 and the parens are very unnecessary. I know this is an example but just always look for ways of simplifying)
secondly if you function is simple enough, the "spedup" methods are not necessarily faster. Generally your lookup table method is not exactly scalable
third if you still want a lookup table method, just create an object that holds the values.

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A Good American Family
The Red Scare and My Father
By David Maraniss
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In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family's ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication.
Elliott Maraniss, David's father, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-black company in the Pacific, was spied on by the FBI, named as a communist by an informant, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years. Yet he never lost faith in America and emerged on the other side with his family and optimism intact.
In a sweeping drama that moves from the Depression and Spanish Civil War to the HUAC hearings and end of the McCarthy era, Maraniss weaves his father's story through the lives of his inquisitors and defenders as they struggle with the vital twentieth-century issues of race, fascism, communism, and first amendment freedoms. A Good American Family powerfully evokes the political dysfunctions of the 1950s while underscoring what it really means to be an American. It is an unsparing yet moving tribute from a brilliant writer to his father and the family he protected in dangerous times.
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David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s – Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History). A Good American Family is his twelfth book.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (May 2019)
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Political Science > Communism & Socialism
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Pakistanis greet bin Laden death with suspicion, caution
Killing of 9/11 orchestrator "a further blow to the credibility of the Pakistani government," analyst says.
By AMER FAROOQ IN ISLAMABAD, RUTH EGLASH
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As most of the Western world celebrated the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden on Monday, the public mood in Pakistan's capital city, Islamabad – less than 100 kilometers from where the mastermind of the September 11 attacks was killed – was somewhat cautious.
While some expressed anxiety for what might now be in store for Pakistan both locally and in the international arena, others said they seriously suspect the whole episode to be a hoax created as part of an overall US strategy in the region.
"I am not sure whether the news is true or not," said Misbah Mazhar, a 20-something blogger in her final year of medical school. "At least some proof should have been offered, the whole thing being a hoax cannot be ruled out."
Adding to her suspicions was what she terms the "silence of the Pakistani government," even though Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was quoted on Monday by news agency AFP, calling the incident a "great victory."
One Islamabad-based journalist who preferred to remain anonymous told The Jerusalem Post that many people in Pakistan do not believe it was bin Laden who was killed in a helicopter raid Sunday night and that the man so wanted by the US had actually been assassinated several years earlier.
"Everyone in Pakistan sees this as a fake drama," said the journalist, who has been working recently on several pieces examining the attitudes of Pakistanis towards the US. "It is very interesting that our president seemed to know very little about this operation but Obama knew everything."
He said that most discussions in Islamabad have centered on the fact that the story is fabricated and that it was released at a time that is "strategic for the US."
"They are killing innocent tribal people in North West Pakistan and, for their own interests, the US has wanted to keep a presence in the area," he said, adding that the region provides access to countries such as North Korea, Iran, China and Russia.
"The people here do have sympathy for Americans who lost their loved ones in 9/11 but they hate the policy of the American government and its agencies," added the journalist. "Last year I surveyed the public about this issue and some said they hate America but most said it was American policy and interference in our country that bothered them more."
"It is a cause of serious concern for people like us who neither like Osama nor the American aggression," observed Ahmad Ali, a policy expert associated with an independent think-tank in Islamabad.
He said he believes direct action by US forces has put a question mark on Pakistan's sovereignty and is seriously concerned that the operation was conducted without the knowledge of Pakistani authorities.
There is now a state of confusion prevailing in Pakistan and the government "should sit once for all, take into confidence different political forces and make a concerted strategy as to what course the state of Pakistan will take in to days to come," Ali added.
Asked whether he feared this incident will further tarnish the image of Pakistanis aboard, Ali responded: "We already suffer from a tainted image, if any; this development would only substantiate the allegations."
Less concerned about the reaction of pro-al-Qaida elements in Pakistani society, Ali added that there was now a chance that Pakistan could now become the "primary target of a US onslaught."
Ehsan Syed, a local educator with a strong anti-US stance, does not even bother to conceal his suspicions.
"I do not believe bin Laden has been killed," he said, alluding to the fact that the killing most likely already took place.
However, he warned that the reaction of the Taliban to bin Laden's death could mean an eruption of suicide attacks in the near future.
Another journalist, Tariq Zia from Dawn TV, shared Syed's fears.
"We would be compelled to link it to Osama's death if, God forbid, a big terrorist attack takes place anywhere in Pakistan in a week's time," he said, adding, however, that his deeper fear is that it would perpetuate the image that Pakistan was "not doing enough in the war against terror."
"I was shocked to hear the news and immediately deluged by the fear that [bin Laden] has been killed in Pakistan," pointed out Zia.
Despite US claims that bin Laden had been living for sometime in Abbotabad, a populated urban center just a few hours drive from the capital, some of those interviewed for this article expressed their disbelief that this was possible.
"How could he have been there? How could he have moved about freely when so many people, even children, would have recognized him? It is just not possible," exclaimed another journalist, who did not want her name used.
Aftab Awan, a senior development professional with a background in education, also expressed surprise at the location where bin Laden was finally killed.
"It would not have been a big surprise if he had been killed in the far flung tribal areas of Pakistan," said Awan, pointing out that bin Laden was also responsible for the deaths of countless Muslims and had created agony and trouble for them throughout the world.
"[Bin Laden] left the Muslims of the world in far worse state than they were when he started his struggle," he observed. "His movement did not bring an iota of improvement in their lives or status."
Awan said he was not so worried about the chances of possible reactions from bin Laden's followers.
"What more can they do: a couple of suicide attacks or bomb blasts? These are already happening in Pakistan, so it's nothing new," he added. "Rather, the death of an iconic figure like bin Laden has a lot of symbolic significance and might contribute in bringing the remaining leaders to dialogue table in future."
Nevertheless, Awan is seriously worried that bin Laden's killing in Pakistan would further tarnish the image of the country and its people.
"The government of Pakistan has always maintained a stance that bin Laden is not in Pakistan," he said. "Now that he has been found and killed in Abbotabad, it is a further blow to the credibility of the Pakistani government.
"I am afraid that this will be used to malign Pakistan in the international media, which will add to the problems of Pakistanis living abroad," he added. "Nobody will pay attention to the fact that the operation was carried out with the cooperation of Pakistani intelligence agencies and with support from Pakistan army."


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The person whose name is indistinguishable from the arena of art is the internationally-acclaimed artist Monirul Islam. He was born in 1943 in Jamalpur, Bangladesh. From 1966-1969, he studied in current Fine Arts at the University of Dhaka. In 1969, he got a scholarship in Cultural Relations and from 1969-1971 studied at Madrid Academy of Fine Arts on Mural Paintings.
A huge number of his exhibitions, workshops and art camps run the whole gamut of artistic styles. Since 1986, he has been an honorable International Jury Member. He received many prestigious national and international awards including the International "Bennial of Graphics", Ibiza, Spain (1972); "Palm of Gold", Beaux-Arts; "International Art Guild", Monte Carlo, Monaco (1975); "International Print and Drawing Exhibition Prize", ROC, Taiwan (1983); "Saddam Merit Prize", Baghdad International Art Festival (1986); "National Award of Prints" (1997)' "Ekushey Padak" (1999) – the highest National Award of Bangladesh; "NRB National Award", Scholars of Bangladesh (2007); "Berger Lifetime Achievement Award" (2016) and many others..
My first inspiration is my mother. When I was a kid, people around me did not have proper understanding about art and its colossal beauty. Only a few people supported me on that time. Remarkably, the Headmaster of my school (Kishoreganj Ramananda High School), Sir Jagadish Roy, inspired me to flourish my potential in art. After joining the Art College, I found a great teacher, Sir Mr. I Base, who taught me very carefully. Additionally, the eminent artist Sir Kibria and Sir Mustafa Monwar are some of my honorable instructors whose inspirations were prodigiously motivational in growing my interest towards art and I strongly admire the ideologies and philosophies of them. Our great Shilpo-Guru Sir Zainul Abedin is also my inspiration. I am proud to say that I am a lucky person because I had the chance to work with him. He visited Chandpur and met me, resulting in an experience I will never forget. After coming to Spain, I got to know more about many of the great artists and their artworks. Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Francisco Goya, Tapies, Antonio Lorenzo and many other great artists are my inspirations. My friends and well-wishers are my lifetime inspirations as well.
Life is momentous; in this short span of life, we have a lot of duties and responsibilities as human beings. Painting is a form of art which keeps changing all the time and it is a universal communication process. In my view, art is successful when it is admired universally. No specific language is needed to have the acceptance and appreciation by the people of other countries, because art itself is a language with a heavenly grace. The people who are able to wear the beauty of art are the luckiest people in the world. Of course, folk art is the root of our nationality, but after that we have to go for other forms of art which widens our thoughts.
In my view, a piece of art is stronger than the artist. To become a successful and sustainable artist, one should be passionate and dedicated toward his artwork. Many of our young artists are very talented and I appreciate their excellence. Remarkably, many organizations are rewarding and inspiring them, which is very positive in preserving our root culture. Therefore, I am very hopeful of the young generation of our country.
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Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray is one of my most favorite movies. The Godfather, Two Women, An Andalusian Dog, War and Peace, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca are some other films I am a fan of. I also like to watch entertainment and fiction films.
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Undoubtedly, my parents are my idols. I also greatly admire the Shilpo-Guru of our country, Sir Zainul Abedin. I strongly admire the ideologies and philosophies of the legendary artists Sir Mustafa Monwar and Sir Kibria.


This week, I also faced a blocker when I was finding it difficult to export the internally needed CallContext vtable methods.
To improve my understanding, rurban helped me in fixing args.c and context.c to directly call some CallContext methods.
All this work is giving us a probable speed improvement of around 3% for now.
My objective for this week includes finding more such CallContext methods that can be called directly.


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Brown researchers draw on diverse perspectives to explore the natural world, the ways in which people all over the world interact with it, and solutions to environmental challenges.
Building on Distinction, Brown's strategic plan, identifies Sustaining Life on Earth as part of an academic focus for integrated research, scholarship and education. Research by Brown faculty and students tackles key environmental challenges from a variety of perspectives. Much of Brown's environmental research comes from the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), the hub of environmental teaching and research at Brown. But environmentally focused research thrives across Brown's campus.
Brown faculty members lead field studies all over the world, gathering data to help reconstruct global climate in the past, while experts in mathematics and computing develop ever better models to predict the climate of the future. Scientists from Brown are revealing the dynamics of Earth's fast-disappearing sea ice, while also exploring how its disappearance affects cultures and livelihoods of the people who depend on it.
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Foresight Open Source Disclosure Project — Disclosed
from the Out-in-the-Open dept.
Thanks to coverage in Salon.com, and discussion on Slashdot.org — Foresightís new project to protect open source from patents — has been announced a bit ahead of schedule.
The Salon article ("Patents are your friends," by Damien Cave; 21 March 2001) sums things up pretty well:
"The Foresight Institute, a nonprofit nanotechnology think tank, will announce later this month that it is forming an alliance with IP.com, a Rochester, N.Y., start-up dedicated to protecting intellectual property through the publication of new ideas. Together . . . the pair will give open-source programmers and projects the chance to work within the patent system even as they strive to overturn it."
Read more for details . . .
You can find the details of the Foresight Open Source Disclosure Project on the Foresight website.
The Salon article gives a good summary of the purpose of the project:
"Specifically, the joint venture will give open-source and free-software developers the chance to 'defensively publish', [and] place their innovations in a searchable software database. Since IP.com has already convinced the U.S. and European patent offices to check its database before issuing patents, inventors will be assured that patent examiners will see innovations that might otherwise be lost to unseen Web pages or college papers.
"Still, experts say that IP.com and Foresight aren't just setting a precedent for cooperation among hostile forces. They're also offering open-source innovations more protection than they've ever had before. By creating a central, legally strong database that's cheap enough to be accessible to all, [Foresight and IP.com] have given independent programmers the chance to 'write a patent claim without getting a patent' "
"Intellectual property has typically been about cornering things off," says Robin Gross, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting free speech on the Web. "But this is about using the law to make technology free, open and available. It's the open-source community taking the intellectual property laws and making them work to their own advantage."
Published March 23, 2001 By Foresight Editor
Categorized as Nanodot, Open Source
Drexler Debunked? And Auschwitz, too.
Nanotechnology Regulation?


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Senior Carla Valdez '21 takes a human-centered approach to economics and advocacy for first-gens in STEM
Carla Valdez '21
Carla Valdez '21 wrote her economics senior seminar paper about the effect of remittances—the money immigrants send back to their home country—on inflation in Guatemala, where her parents emigrated from before she was born.
Her adviser and senior seminar professor, Associate Professor of Economics Menna Bizuneh, asked her how she came up with the idea for the paper—it was a very macro concept, Bizuneh recalled, and Valdez hadn't been in her macroeconomics class. Valdez responded that the premise struck her after observing cycles of poverty when she visited Guatemala.
That mix of macro and micro is "very Carla," Bizuneh said.
"She approaches the application of economics on a very personal level," Bizuneh said. "Carla's way of thinking is always human-driven, human-focused—her solutions, her propositions, her inquisitions are always, 'How does this affect the people? What about them?'"
Valdez, who will graduate from Pitzer on May 15 with a degree in mathematical economics, is the first in her family to go to college. After her parents immigrated to the US from Guatemala, they worked tirelessly to ensure Valdez could pursue her undergraduate degree.
"My mother sacrificed all she had to let me attend college, which has truly been a dream for everyone in my family," she said.
Valdez is a two-time recipient of an Edison International STEM Scholarship, which supports Chicanx/Latinx students majoring in a STEM discipline. She is passionate about representing underrepresented students who are pursuing science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and related fields.
In the United States, Latinx, Asian, and Black American women receive less than 5 percent of STEM bachelor's degrees, according to a 2020 article in the International Journal of STEM Education. Valdez says Pitzer's integration of its core values into the curriculum and school culture enabled her to explore "what it means to be a first-generation, low-income Latina student"—and what it means to be underrepresented in one's area of academic interest.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed having conversations about the marginalization of students with similar backgrounds to me in STEM and empowering other students like me to continue pursuing these disciplines," she said.
Valdez originally planned to concentrate on mathematics, captivated by the way the field breaks down and solves problems. Then she discovered a similar excitement as she learned new material in her economics courses.
"I started reading economics books on my own," she said. "Soon enough, I realized that I could have a combined major bringing together two fields I am intrigued by, leading me to major in mathematical economics."
Valdez says the way Pitzer professors incorporate real-world experiences into academic coursework encourages students to think critically, differently, and proactively.
"Pitzer College goes beyond teaching basic material in class and instead helps mold students into leaders," she said.
In the future, Valdez sees herself as part of the burgeoning field of data science and is considering a master's degree in statistics. She plans to draw on her personal, educational, and professional experience to encourage and mentor students with similar stories and aspirations.
"I hope I can participate in actively helping out my community and other first-generation Latinas who would like to go into a STEM field," she said.
Whatever Valdez does, she will leave her footprint, according to Bizuneh.
"I do believe Carla could change the world. I don't say that lightly. We're going to feel her impact in society."
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Play is often thought of as a hankering for the past when we were immature and childish. But in truth, it foreshadows the joy and completion of the coming Kingdom of God. Engaging fully in life-giving play is a pretty close thing to what heaven will be like. In the New Earth all manner of drudgery, disease, decay, and death will be left behind. In those moments when we are on the floor making faces with a toddler, reading a story with a loved one, blowing bubbles, working a puzzle, knitting for fun, enjoying a good meal with dear friends in a relaxed state, or laughing uncontrollably with those who share our joy – in these ways we are bringing to our lips an appetizer of the banquet God has prepared for us in the eschaton. Play is not useless activity. It is practice for heaven.
In play we become like the children Jesus suggested we needed to become like in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Tim Hansel, one of my favorite authors on this subject, described his young children as "midget gurus of play." They have so much to teach us! They focus intently on play, engage fully, experience deeply, show their emotions, and embrace the moment. Oh to be free like that! Surely their eagerness for play and their joyful vulnerability is part of what Jesus was commending to us! The prophet describes the Kingdom of God as a place where children are playing together in the streets (Zechariah 8:5). Not only are we to work hard to make a world where children can play safely in the streets, we are to be those children playing.


Modern investigations have thrown the current version of history into question.
The army withdrew from town. Then the rangers marched 15 men and boys out from the center of the village. Shots were fired. The rangers said they were being attacked.
Justice says that a lot of hands are dirty in this incident – rangers, military, even ranchers – and 98 years is still not long enough for some of the descendants. "You know there are a lot of people who don't want this story told." But many here today believe there are still lessons to be learned in Porvenir and elsewhere along the border. And they'll keep on digging.


A ten-centimeter long metal cylinder that appears to be lead. In the lower left quadrant is what appears to be a green oxidized copper screw or bolt.
An anemone with grayish translucent tentacles attached to the very end of a bamboo whip coral.
An odd picture of something growing (perhaps inanimate inclusion) from the bottom of a large venus flytrap anemone. The greenish material has small white delicate barnacles with cirri extended.
The large venus flytrap anemone seen in image expn6003.
A large pinkish anemone attached to a bamboo coral. Did the anemone attack the bamboo while settling on the branch or did it attach itself to an already damaged segment of the coral branch?
A pink corallium bush with pink polyps.
Pink corallium coral bush to left and unidentified coral with polyps retracted to right.
A pink corallium coral bush with polyps retracted. The large pink object at the end of the branch on the bottom right is possibly a closed anemone.
A white scleractinian coral. The brownish spiky shoelike object below the coral bush might be a small sponge. The chelae of a brown squat lobster is seen extending downward from the left side of the coral bush. The substrate is botryoidal manganese encrusted.
A white scleractinian coral bush with a large squat lobster on its far side.
A bamboo coral bush in the left foreground and a large primnoid coral in the background.
A pink corallium coral bush with polyps extended. The orange brown arms of a large brittle star are seen intertwined in the coral.
A pink corallium coral bush.
A very large bamboo coral bush - more than two meters across and over 1 meter high. For measurement, look for the red laser dots that are 10 cm apart in the center of the image.
A beautiful symmetrical white primnoid coral bush with smaller corallium bushes on the basalt cobble and boulder substrate.
A peach colored chrysogorgia coral bush.
A white chrysogorgid coral with two associated squat lobster just barely visible near the exact center of the image and in the upper left branches of the bush..
Pink corallium coral bush with polyps extended. Three large anemones are seen on the branches of the coral bush.
An Iridogorgia magnispiralis coral is in the midst of numerous bamboo coral bushes.
A pink corallium coral bush. Numerous large gooseneck barnacles are attached to the rock substrate in this area.
An orange-red anthomastus coral attached to rock substrate.
A red anthomastus coral attached to rock substrate.
Closeup of a red anthomastus coral bush.
Looking down on an orange anthomastus coral.
A pink corallium coral bush with polyps extended. A large brownish red brittle star is intertwined in its branches. Branches of a small bamboo coral bush are in the right foreground.
A white to translucent stoloniferous coral. Note the interconnecting root-like structure connecting individual polyps.
Yellow coral polyps, a yellow crinoid, and small barnacles appear to be covering a dead coral stalk. The large tentacle-like appendages at the base of the crinoid appear to be regenerating legs called cirri.
Regenerating legs (called cirri) of a yellow crinoid.
A lone bamboo coral bush, a cerianthid anemone, and a poliopogon sponge.
A large sine-wave-like black whip coral.
A small brown tree-like black coral bush (Stauropathes sp.) with associated squat lobster.
Closeup of the polyps of black coral bush (Stauropathes sp.) seen in image expn6031. A small squat lobster is in its branches.
A seascape including diverse coral and sponge species on a black basalt substrate.
A gold coral amidst a scene of large sponges and numerous fan-like corallium coral bushes. At least three squat lobsters, one with very long chelae, reside in the gold coral bush.
A pinkish brown octocoral bush with polyps extended.
A brownish red brittle star intertwined in a parasol coral, Metallogorgia melanotrichos.
A hydroid bush. Note the small brittle stars on the main stalk at the left bottom of the image.
Base of hydroid bush on a carbonate substrate.
Highly porous carbonate rock with large vugs and cavities serving a substrate for gold corals and white and pink corallium corals and other biota.
A white corallium coral bush that apparently is being attacked by a large starfish.
The chrysogorgid coral Pleurogorgia sp.
Very strange looking octocoral bushes with a xenophyophore in between.
Purple and red squat lobster, likely an undescribed species in anomuran family Chirostylidae, on a cream-colored black coral bush.
A candelabra shaped bamboo coral bush.
A primnoid coral bush seen from above.


Is college always the right path? Given that we are dedicated to helping students through the college admission process, it may seem odd that I'm writing a blog post questioning whether a student should always go to college. But I think we all know high school students who see their academic classes as a slog but light up in other areas of their life.


For those of you anxious to finish up your village, the printable PDF for the last two pieces are here.
The last bits to add are the barn and farmhouse!
The PDF for the last two pieces are here.
I also did not mount any extra bits on, but were I to do that, I would cut out an extra sled for the house, and an several extras to the barn: the wagon wheel, barn star, the pump and the sheep behind the fence and haystack piece. Foam mounting tape is ideal for it, but I had success with just regular tape rolled up, too.


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A quick study put Uber in the driver's seat
April 10, 2016 Reprints
P/C Insurers Risk Management Auto liability More + Less -
Gus Fuldner, Uber Techonologies Inc./ THOMAS BROENING
When Uber Technologies Inc. needed someone to develop an insurance program for the pioneering ride-sharing company, it turned to a newcomer who was equally innovative to manage the company's risks.
Gus Fuldner, who joined the San Francisco-based firm as an insurance novice in 2014 following a venture capital career, helped break the auto insurance coverage mold by helping design a program based on miles driven rather than the traditional yearlong policy.
Uber's 34-year-old head of insurance worked closely with insurers, regulators and even other transportation network companies — the industry's term for the ride-sharing business — to develop a uniform standard for automobile liability insurance for Uber's part-time drivers.
Those with whom he has worked praise his attention to detail, quick uptake and retention of specifics of insurance risk management issues, and his ability to inspire and contribute to creative solutions to problems.
It is for these efforts and others during his tenure at Uber that Mr. Fuldner has been named Business Insurance's Risk Manager of the Year®.
Thirty-three states, the District of Columbia and about 40 cities now have insurance requirements for ride-sharing drivers, and most also have regulatory frameworks, according to Uber. For instance, Uber operates in New York City, but not elsewhere in the state.
The ride-sharing company said it operates in 45 states, the District of Columbia and about 70 countries internationally.
"Gus is obviously a very impressive young man," said Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak, who is based in Tulsa and has worked with Mr. Fuldner. "He can comprehend a lot of regulatory information. When Gus is in the room, many times it takes other companies' five or six people to keep up" with him.
Karim Hirji, Toronto-based senior vice president of international and ventures at insurer Intact Financial Corp., who is working with Mr. Fuldner in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec, said Mr. Fuldner's "quite phenomenal" depth of knowledge is apparent "as soon as you walk into a room."
Mr. Fuldner said with its approach to insurance, Uber is "really changing two industries at once — both the transportation and the insurance industry — and that's a pretty unique opportunity."
"Insurance is a very core part of Uber," Mr. Fuldner said. To deliver people or goods, what's needed is a safe driver, a safe late-model vehicle and "a way to address insurance that has the appropriate coverage," he said. "You can summarize a lot of the regulation and other things down to these three issues."
Eighteen months ago, there was much discussion on the insurability of ride-share drivers, and a big debate among the taxi industry, the insurance industry and transportation network companies — each with a different view of how insurance should work for ride-sharing, he said.
"That really peaked in early 2015, when that was being discussed in state houses across America. At one point, probably in February or March of last year, there were more than 100 active bills in different legislatures in the U.S. discussing the insurance of ride-sharing," Mr. Fuldner said.
"My team was flying around from state capital to capital to hearings on this topic," he said. There was "lots of misinformation and there was lots of confusion."
"It was really Gus who was driving the regulatory side of the development of the industry, because at that point nobody knew what to do with it," said John Clarke, senior vice president of marketing at Richmond, Virginia-based James River Insurance Co., a surplus lines insurer for Uber.
California, Colorado and Illinois were early adopters of ride-sharing legislation, each of which had some differences, he said.
So, Mr. Fuldner said, he met early last year with large insurers and trade associations "and came up with a piece of model legislation we could agree to that satisfied the needs or interests of personal auto insurers, of insurers that sell insurance to the (transportation network company) industry and (transportation network companies), and then address the sort of concerns that legislatures generally had about ensuring the public was protected."
Participating parties included San Francisco-based competitors Lyft Inc. and Sidecar Technologies Inc.; personal auto insurance firms; and major trade associations including the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the National Association of Mutual Insurance Cos. and the American Insurance Association. Last July, the Manasquan, New Jersey-based National Conference of Insurance Legislators endorsed the model legislation.
"Then we were basically able to say, "Here's a framework'" and a "set of language we can agree on together, instead of arguing with one another," Mr. Fuldner said.
This led to meetings at the state legislatures "where we were literally sitting in a row and saying, "Uber supports this, Lyft supports this, AIA supports this, Farmers supports this,'" said Mr. Fuldner. "Things passed much more easily that way" and the language is now part of most states' and cities laws on the topic, he said.
"There's an area of common interest among all players in the industry, and so I'm often finding myself speaking at regulatory conferences or on the same panel as someone from Lyft or those who are testifying at the same state Senate or statehouse hearing with them," he said.
Mr. Fuldner has been a major factor in Uber's success, said Randy Nornes, Chicago-based executive vice president at Aon Risk Solutions, a broker for Uber.
"If they didn't get some of the risk and insurance right, and really take the lead in building not only the insurance programs, but also building relationships with regulators ... it would certainly have slowed" the business's growth Mr. Nornes said.
Mr. Fuldner "was able to work with regulators like myself to develop a way that Uber could provide insurance coverage ... to protect consumers, rather than find ways around it," said Jim Stephens, chief deputy attorney at the Illinois Insurance Department in Chicago. "He found a way to make it work, and I admire his work on it. As a regulator, I don't often say that about people in his position."
"What I think is just amazing about Gus is his ability to kind of play at 30,000 feet, and then very quickly get into the weeds on an issue," such as policy language, then "get back to 30,000 feet," said Kristy Furrer, senior vice president a Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. in San Francisco, who runs the broker's property/casualty practice. "There are people who are good in one area or the other, and he's really stellar at both."
Uber (oo-ber) verb: To arrive at a destination via ride-sharing service
Gus Fuldner first encountered Uber Technologies Inc. as a user of the ride-sharing service.
Actuaries, legislative liaisons, claims processors round out team
Driver star-rating system doubles as risk management tool
Kittens on demand and other successful experiments
Ability to measure usage in miles not months leads to creation of new models
Where a driver's personal coverage leaves off and Uber's picks up
Global business expansion reveals a world of difference in auto coverage
Mobile app opens three routes of risk: on-duty, off-duty, cyber
Fuldner arrives at Uber via work at startups, consulting
Winning over reluctant allies


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ICNA CSJ Cosponsors the War on Terror Film Festival and Panel Discussions (October 1 – 31, 2021). Register Today!
ICNA CSJ
Date published: Tue, 5 October 21
Coalition for Civil Freedoms (CCF) and its partners, including ICNA Council for Social Justice (ICNA CSJ), announces an upcoming virtual film festival to mark twenty years of the global War on Terror. The War on Terror Film Festival is a month-long, public virtual event featuring twenty award-winning films made over the last 20 years that document abuses, highlight crimes, and satirize absurdities of the post-9/11 era.
Each screening will be accompanied by a live-streamed panel discussion with filmmakers, survivors, actors, scholars, journalists, and resistors, who will reflect on the challenges of living through the policies of the "war on terror" and telling these stories. Confirmed panelists include Edward Snowden, Michael Moore, Rory Kennedy, Kate Davis, Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Laura Poitras, Dan Reed, Chris Morris, Amy Goodman, Jehane Noujaim, Glenn Greenwald, Alex Gibney, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Mat Whitecross, Jeremy Scahill, and many others.
The War on Terror Film Festival will run on five weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) in October, beginning Friday, October 1 and ending Sunday, October 31.
From the Oscar-winning "Citizenfour" and "Taxi to the Dark Side" to the Oscar-nominated "Dirty Wars" and the highly-acclaimed "The Mauritanian," "Four Lions," "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "The Feeling of Being Watched," these films shine a spotlight on the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, indefinite detention at Guantánamo Bay prison, torture and surveillance.
The slate of films include documentary and narrative features and cut across genres from drama to comedy. Together, they paint a picture of the experiences of those who bore the brunt of America's post-9/11 policies, as well as their pain, trauma, hope, and resilience.
All films and panel discussions will be accessible through the main festival website https://wotfilmfestival.com, which also includes upcoming showings, a roster of participants in each film's discussion, and the complete 5-weekend schedule. Participants should register on the website to receive email updates and full, free access to watch the films. Follow and like @WOTFilmFestival on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for updates and announcements.
The dates for the virtual festival are: October 1–3; 8–10; 15–17; 22–24; and 29–31, with four films screened per weekend. The festival is entirely free and accessible to the public following registration.
The opening night of the festival on October 1 will feature a virtual premiere event from 3–4 PM ET hosted by CCF and featuring festival sponsors. The four films screening on the opening weekend, October 1-3, will be The Mauritanian (2019), The Road to Guantánamo (2006), The Confession (2016), and The Battle of Algiers (1966). Each film will feature a live discussion with audience Q&A.
Based in Washington, D.C., the Coalition for Civil Freedom's mission is to defend civil liberties and freedoms, promote a fair U.S. criminal justice system, and advocate for the rights of political prisoners targeted in the War on Terror. www.civilfreedoms.org. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/civilfreedoms
Sponsors of the War on Terror Film Festival
Center for Constitutional Rights
United Voices for America
ICNA Council for Social Justice
Project South
Islamic Scholarship Fund
Massachusetts Peace Action
The Freedom Initiative
For media contact:
Rameez Abid
ICNA Council For Socal Justice
E-mail, Press@icnacsj.org
Leena Al-Arian
Executive Director, Coalition for Civil Freedoms
Email: leena@civilfreedoms.org
Frank Barat, WOTFF Co-organizer, russelltribunaluk@gmail.com


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Ed Domain Is Still Standing
An Arch Grant brought him to town. A terrible taxi ride almost destroyed him
PHOTO BY DOYLE MURPHY Ed Domain came to St. Louis after winning an Arch Grant. He left on far less celebratory terms.
Five years ago, Ed Domain moved to St. Louis with big dreams and good health. When he left a few weeks ago, he was limping and in worse financial shape than when he arrived.
Domain stares into the overstuffed U-Haul in front of his empty Cherokee Street apartment. "My whole life fits in a fifteen-foot truck," he says. "There's probably a message in that."
His 45th birthday was four days ago, and he's starting over. A new city. A new job. Everyone agrees this is best.
He watches as movers finish loading the last of his furniture. They have managed to cram in the high-end rowing machine he hopes will help him rebuild his strength, the bicycle he would like to ride one day and an aluminum-frame walker he keeps just in case.
"I don't want to be negative," he insists, a refrain he has repeated during the past several days every time he finds himself wandering too far into the old battles. He can list dozens of people who helped him in St. Louis — business connections who adopted him as family because they knew he arrived here alone, grown men who dressed up in costumes to cheer him up at the hospital and friends who told him the truth when they worried he was losing himself in the fight. But it is hard to separate these kindnesses completely from what was taken from him during his time in St. Louis. The greatest acts of generosity were only necessary because of appalling injustices. The good was the counterweight to the bad, and the bad drove him for so long.
"The rage was there," Domain says. "It was like this hate furnace."
This move will be good, he says. He is heading west to Denver. He loves the outdoors, and his new apartment will have a view of the mountains. Best of all, he doesn't know the politicians or lobbyists, and they don't know him. Colorado offers an opportunity to begin anew — if only he can make peace with what happened to him here.
"I can either be angry the rest of my life," he says, "or I can move on."
Ed Domain rolled into town in 2012 with the entrepreneurs' equivalent of a golden ticket.
Arch Grants, a new nonprofit designed to lure innovators to the city, chose him for its first round of awards. The honor was not only generous — winners were given $50,000 and promised a suite of support services in exchange for their move to St. Louis — it instantly marked him as someone to watch in the local startup scene.
"Ed was a very engaging, outgoing guy who was passionate about his business," remembers Arch Grants co-founder Jerry Schlichter, a nationally known attorney dubbed "the Lone Ranger of 401(k)s" by the New York Times. "He really wanted to make a difference in so-called flyover country by showing what was going on in tech outside the coasts."
An Army vet who was raised in a blue-collar suburb of Chicago, Domain was big, loud and gregarious. His business was a news media site called Techli, an online publication he created to report on startups in the heartland. He had tried a couple of other ventures before — a pair of social networks geared toward teachers and the military — but Techli was the first to gain much traction. It combined his passions for tech and startup culture with a long-held desire to build and run his own business, a dream he had nurtured ever since he began reading about Silicon Valley stars in Wired magazine as a college student.
By its nature, Techli also gave him a perfect entry into the close-knit community of innovators who had begun filling shared work spaces within repurposed warehouses in the city's central corridor. With a few notable exceptions, the largely young and ambitious entrepreneurs here lived so completely in the shadow cast by the giants of Silicon Valley and, to a lesser extent, innovation hubs on the East Coast, that they barely existed in the minds of the national tech media.
"When an entrepreneur starts a business, whether they admit it or not, one of the things they desperately desire is recognition that their idea is a good one," says Aaron Perlut, a co-founder of marketing firm Elasticity. "That is a basic human instinct."
COURTESY OF STARTUP VOODOO
Domain with Mayor Francis Slay and Aaron Perlut at Startup Voodoo, sort of a South by Southwest for St. Louis.
The struggle to be noticed was not solely a matter of vanity — although there were certainly elements of that. Media coverage was also an opportunity to attract the attention of the venture capitalists whose investments can mean life or death for young companies.
In the quest to be seen, Domain quickly emerged as an ally. He profiled both established and up-and-coming stars of the St. Louis scene with genuine enthusiasm for their ideas. And unlike the city's print and television journalists, they recognized Domain as one of their own. He had an office alongside other startups in the old T-REX business incubator downtown, and he kept the same crazy hours, popping in during the middle of the night to work when he couldn't sleep.
"The joke is that you can work any fifteen hours of the day," he says.
His excitement expanded beyond even the website. He and Perlut made plans to launch an innovation-focused event called Startup Voodoo, modeled after Austin's South by Southwest. He had even begun recording a talk show "The Domain Tech Report." In the pilot, he danced onto the set alongside a beautiful, dark-haired woman — a friend who'd agreed to play along — spun her theatrically and leaned in for a stage kiss before settling down to begin an interview with LockerDome CEO and co-founder Gabe Lozano.
"When you talk to that guy, you get excited," Lozano, who now counts Domain as a friend, tells the Riverfront Times. "It's hard not to get excited."
Less than a year after arriving, Domain had become a man to know in St. Louis' entrepreneurial world, showing up at conferences and mixers all over town. He was headed to a Cinco de Mayo party hosted by GlobalHack executive director Matt Menietti on May 4, 2013, when he called Harris Cab for a ride.
The blue minivan arrived shortly after, and Domain climbed inside with two friends visiting from out of town, texting Menietti from the road.
"We're in the cab," Domain wrote. "Be there in a few minutes."
The collision of a full-sized van slamming headlong into the flank of the taxicab must have made a terrible sound, but Domain doesn't remember it.
In the last seconds of his life as a healthy man, he recalls the cab driver looking up from his phone as they cruised right through a red light. The man spoke a single word: "Oh."
Domain followed the driver's eyes to his right just as the van hit. The sensation was more of a feeling than a sound, like a shock. An explosion of glass, metal and plastic sprayed across the intersection of Russell Boulevard and Gravois Avenue. Domain and his friends must have been flung from their seats, but any glimpse of how that happened is lost to time. One moment they were riding toward a party, and the next they were in a heap, bleeding and confused. His friend Danyelle Michelini was crumpled on her knees. Domain landed on her back. His left foot was wrenched behind him and caught under one of the seats.
"I said, 'I think my leg is broken,'" he recalls. "That was my hip shattering."
Michelini's ribs snapped and punctured her lung. Domain, who was seated next to the sliding door, took a direct hit. His pelvis was nearly destroyed and his left hip so thoroughly mangled that his femur had broken loose at the top end and was floating around in his thigh. Doctors would later chronicle serious injuries to his left knee, neck, chest, back and head. His nose was broken. His right shoulder was torn to pieces, and the brachial artery in his right arm was severed, bloating his arm with blood and injuring it so terribly surgeons would later consider amputation.
The third friend suffered only minor injuries, but Domain and Michelini were loaded into an ambulance and rushed to the hospital. He remembers asking the EMTs to check on Michelini only to hear her call out from his side, "I'm here. I'm fine."
It's hard for him to sort out everything that happened that day. His mind was fogging over in the shock and trauma, but he clearly remembers an EMT asking if there was a pastor or someone they should call.
"That really got through all the fuzz in my thinking," Domain says today.
"Am I going to die?" he asked.
"Not if we can help it," the EMT replied.
"Good," he told them, "because I don't plan on dying today."
COURTESY OF ED DOMAIN
Domain spent six months in hospitals and a nursing home after a 2013 crash.
In his nightmares, Domain used to see that van coming.
The crash was like a bomb dropped into the middle of his life. Between the hospital and a nursing home, he spent six months recovering before he was strong enough to move back into an apartment. The former English major would read a paragraph without understanding its meaning. The dancing talk show host had to learn to use a wheelchair and then a walker.
Still, it is not the crash itself that tortures him now. He can recite his memories of those bloody moments without anguish, and the nightmares are in the past. It is the injustice that lingers.
"I don't think I would have gotten so mad if I had just been treated decently," he says.
Unbeknownst to Domain, the cab that picked him up for the Cinco de Mayo party was uninsured. It seemed almost impossible that Harris Cab was still in business at all.
"It was remarkable that the cab company didn't have insurance," says Schlichter. The Arch Grants co-founder and prominent attorney took on Domain's case. "They made it very clear they had no insurance, and if we sued them, they would go bankrupt." When the lawyer insisted on seeing their financials, he learned that Harris had been slapped with more than twenty civil judgments over the years and was the subject of federal tax liens in excess of $140,000.
Domain was stunned. He wrote a letter to the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission, which regulates taxi service in the St. Louis region, hoping the MTC would take Harris off the road, step up enforcement and include new protections to keep others from getting hurt. He figured he was the perfect person to push for more accountability, given the personal hell he had suffered and the fact that he had some standing as an Army veteran and Arch Grants recipient.
No one even bothered to respond, although commissioners would later say they weren't given the letter by staff. Harris never faced any discipline from the regulators. (The taxi commission says that's for two reasons: One, they claim they didn't know about the incident until years later. Two, they believe any lapse in coverage was not the fault of the cab company. They blame its broker.)
Domain snapped this picture of one of Harris' blue taxis, blocked up on rocks, as he tried to illuminate the company's practices.
The MTC was created in 2002 to bring order to the unruly world of cars for hire in the city and county, but it has always retained the air of a fox watching the hen house. By law, four of the nine commissioners must come from the industry, ensuring cab company owners maintain a powerful voice in how they are regulated. Unsurprisingly, when the commission did crack down, it focused on the drivers, rather than the companies. A Riverfront Times investigation published last year found the commission fined drivers, whose fees fund the MTC, a total of $21,918 between January 2014 and September 2015. Just one cab company was fined during the same period, despite numerous complaints from consumers about their experiences. Naturally, it was Harris Cab, cited in 2015 for allowing an unlicensed person to drive. The fine? $100.
The only companies the MTC seemed to have any real interest in fighting were the newcomers, app-based services Uber and Lyft, which cab owners saw as potentially lethal competitors to their business model. Led by its chairman, the influential lobbyist and longtime St. Louis political insider Lou Hamilton, the commission argued it was simply looking to keep people safe. It painted the ride-sharing services as lawless renegades in contrast to regulated cab drivers.
Even after cities across the nation let the ride-sharing companies in, St. Louis resisted. The MTC sued Lyft and won an injunction in 2014 to bar the service, and then immediately began citing Lyft drivers who continued to operate.
The MTC similarly battled Uber in court, insisting that its drivers submit to the commission's background checks, including fingerprinting. Uber claimed that the mandate was needlessly burdensome and that its online background checks were just as effective.
The commission's fight against Uber struck Domain as emblematic of the lethargic, influence-driven political system that he believed was choking the city's progress. It just seemed dumb for St. Louis not to welcome a new technology that was already ubiquitous in cities across the country, especially at a time when the city was trying to position itself as a hub for innovation.
And then there was the commission's argument that MTC oversight was the safety net that would protect riders. All Domain had to do was look at his scarred leg or remember he could no longer lift his right arm above his shoulder to see the gaps in that logic. Wasn't this the same MTC that was supposed to ensure that Harris' taxis had insurance before the company sent one of them to pick up Domain and his friends in 2013?
"They're so bad at being bad, they don't even try to hide it," he says.
Uber cars carried million-dollar liability insurance. In contrast, cabs operating in St. Louis were only required to have $200,000 in liability — and Domain was living proof even that was not guaranteed under MTC oversight. He seethed every time he heard Hamilton or a cab company owner cast MTC regulation as the only thing protecting riders.
In July 2015, Domain decided he had had enough. A friend alerted him to a St. Louis Public Radio story on the Uber fight. Domain tuned in just in time to hear a representative from Harris Cab tell the host the ride-sharing services should heed what was "simply an old kindergarten rule: Follow the rules."
Domain could not believe it. He called the station in hopes of getting on air to confront the rep, but the program was just about over. So then he turned to Twitter. During the next five hours, he tweeted 48 times. Forty-five of them were directed at Hamilton.
"Does the MTC only preach safety when they don't have to answer to their own MASSIVE failings?" he wrote in one.
He included pictures of himself lying in his hospital bed after the crash and highlighted bits of the vehicle-for-hire code that prohibit driving a cab without insurance.
"So either Harris lied to the MTC or the MTC is run by incompetent, protectionist tyrants," he added.
Domain now says that it was a conscious decision to go after Hamilton and the MTC on a public forum. They had ignored him for two years, and here was an opening to make them finally feel the pressure. But while the theatrics of an hours-long Twitter shaming may have been calculated, the anger was real.
"Silence won't work for you @Hamiltonstl," Domain wrote in a sign-off message, "if [you] think twitter was something today, wait till you see the crowd I can bring to you in person."
PHOTO BY DANNY WICENTOWSKI
Attorney and taxicab lobbyist Jane Dueker and Domain battled repeatedly online in recent years.
Once he had publicly declared war, Domain settled in for a long fight.
He posted an open letter on Techli to then-Mayor Francis Slay and County Executive Steve Stenger that laid out the strengths and possibilities of entrepreneurs at work in St. Louis, describing the extreme kindness with which they had treated him since his crash, and then contrasted that with the "cancer" of the MTC.
He also gave interviews to reporters and vigorously debated MTC lawyer Neil Bruntrager during a KTEC show hosted by Casey Nolen. He continued to fire away on Twitter, where he soon began to spar with attorney Jane Dueker, who is the registered lobbyist for a cab company and is often seen as an ally of Hamilton. He targeted MTC commissioners Tom Reeves, who would go on to succeed Hamilton, Pasta House owner Kim Tucci and Laclede Cab owner Dave McNutt as part of the problem.
The battle hit a crescendo in late July. Domain had rallied dozens of people from the entrepreneurial community and beyond to fill the MTC meeting in support of UberX. The meeting had been moved to St. Louis Community College at Forest Park to accommodate a large crowd, which arrived expecting a vote that could open the door for the service.
But there would be no vote. Hamilton announced that Slay and Stenger, who share appointing power for the nine-member commission, had asked members to wait until they could consider a potential agreement with Uber.
Domain, dressed in a dark sports coat and blue tie, was among the dozens who planned to speak during the public comment session, but Hamilton cut off the comments five to ten minutes early, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Domain stormed the microphone and shouted "Coward! Coward!" Hamilton had him escorted from the room.
Outside in the hall, Domain came face to face with McNutt, the owner of Laclede Cab and a commissioner.
Domain says McNutt chest bumped him and tried to goad him into a fight, telling him, "What are you going to do? You going to hit me, big man?"
The encounter resulted in a furious Domain shouting in McNutt's face as a crowd began to notice. He figures that was the cab owner's goal, to egg him on and make him look like a lunatic. He says he later spotted McNutt walking toward the parking lot, chuckling. (McNutt didn't respond to a request for comment.)
"He got me," Domain says. "Totally made me look like an idiot."
Domain knew he had become too easy to bait.
"I can be very loud; I can be very persuasive," he says. "But when I'm being loud and negative, it doesn't help anybody."
It was a difficult balance. He had committed to persistence, to showing St. Louis' old guard that they could not just ignore him and expect him to go away. He had also become a spokesman for those who sought to shake up the city's insular power elite. Some people supported him in private, even as they feared the political and financial retribution if they confronted the wrong people.
"He didn't care about the political stuff of St. Louis," says Maxine Clark, philanthropist and founder of Build-A-Bear. "He wasn't born here. He took a lot of the heat for people who had to play the softer ball."
At the same time, friends could see that years of fighting were taking a toll. Always a happy networker, the emcee for countless conferences and events, he had grown so angry he began to turn down social engagements. He was in nearly constant physical pain. Domain has lost track of how many surgeries he's had since the crash, estimating the number is now in double figures.
Techli had also suffered. Domain lost a crucial investor during a stretch of repeated hospitalizations. He had dreamed of turning the site into a major news platform with video and thought-provoking stories in the model of Vice, but every time he got going again he was interrupted by another surgery.
And, really, he was out of money. In 2015, after two years of fighting, Schlichter was able to negotiate a settlement of $200,000. Domain says he was left with about $90,000 after medical bills and fees. The money kept him afloat for about eighteen months, and then it was gone, too.
PHOTO BY DOYLE MURPHY
Harris Cab operated for years from its Washington Avenue headquarters, despite numerous civil judgments and federal liens against the business.
He took a friend's advice last year and began to see a counselor, working through crash-related PTSD. He says he learned that in the five stages of grief, most get stuck in the second stage — anger.
Slowly, he began to shift his focus away from the politics and a system that still burns in his mind if he lets it. He eats better and has started hiking again, heading off to Castlewood State Park during his last weeks in Missouri.
Maybe the most surprising thing, he says, is to find people still want to work with him when he was certain his very public, very loud crusade had made him toxic.
"I thought I was done, but then people started calling and saying, 'Hey, would you be interested in this?'" he says. "The second I started letting it go and being positive, everything started happening."
To this day, he has deep allies in St. Louis, who describe him as a genuine and kind man who refused to bow to city politics.
"Ed did it his way, and I really admire how he didn't give up," says Ginger Imster, who was the executive director of Arch Grants before joining the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, "I might not do it the same way, but I appreciate the tenacity with which he approached the situation."
Says Clark, "People thought they could bury him. They couldn't, but they thought they could."
Liz Lohman, the founder of Cubicle.com, and her entrepreneur husband, Dan, basically adopted Domain as part of their family after he was injured. It was heartbreaking to see him struggling to keep the dream of his company alive while also fighting so hard for what she and others in the startup community generally saw as a righteous cause.
"When he stood up and pointed at the taxicab commission — that was him trying to make things better," she says. "He was wronged, almost killed, and he was just trying to make things better."
Friends sometimes questioned his tactics, but they point out he was ultimately effective. Uber and Lyft now operate in the city and county. Two years after Domain first went public with his war on the MTC, the services have even gained access to St. Louis Lambert International Airport, one of the last strongholds of the cab industry.
He has also outlasted several of his enemies. Harris Cab has quietly gone out of business, and construction crews at its former Washington Boulevard headquarters last week were busy renovating the space for something new.
Hamilton, who famously had Domain tossed from the July 2015 commission meeting, resigned from the MTC five months later. He says it had nothing to do with Domain: "I just have no opinion of the guy, because I don't know him." But he admits he is "happy as a clam" that he's no longer fighting the battles on the commission.
"I wish him well," he says. "He's not had anything good to say about me."
The MTC did increase liability insurance for cabs to $400,000 from the $200,000 minimum at the time of Domain's crash. But that turned out to be a little too progressive. In May, after complaints from the cab companies, the commission lowered it to $125,000.
Domain left his Cherokee Street apartment at the end of August and set out for a new start in Denver.
Domain sold Techli in July. It was difficult, but he is happy to see it live on, even if it is without him. He says the sale gave him enough money to live off for about six months, which is a good feeling after grappling with medical debts that ultimately forced him to file for bankruptcy.
Newly unburdened, he visited Denver recently and liked what he saw. There are cranes everywhere, and entrepreneurs are pushing some exciting ideas.
He is not allowed to say much about his new job until his employer is ready to announce its new project, but he says he got it through a St. Louis connection.
"I'm going to keep rooting for the good parts" of St. Louis, he says, adding that maybe he'll be back one day. "It's definitely bittersweet. I had big plans for St. Louis, but c'est la vie. I guess I'll have big plans for Denver.
Editor's note: A previous version of this story stated incorrectly how much money Domain received in the sale of Techli. It was enough to sustain him for about six months, not a few years. We also erred in describing the TV station that aired Domain's debate with Neil Bruntrager. It was KETC. We regret the error.


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Kicked out of the hospital as it's too late. No new baby nor sign thereof. Gone to woodlands to sleep, back in tomorrow to try again.