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With around 70 lovingly presented stalls on the market square and Johannisplatz, you can feel the magic of Christmas in the air. St. John's tower, which stands 45 metres tall, commands an excellent view of the festive proceedings. There is also a varied programme of entertainment to enjoy. Children can 'do the rounds' on the kids' railway, the fairytale carousel and the Ferris wheel, or visit the donkey and the sheep at the Nativity scene.
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In 1543 he served time in Fleet Prison "for disobeying the wardens in the search because that he would not suffer them to carry the cloth out of his house". Adam was not released from Fleet until he paid a 600 pound fine. In 1544 he bought a manor house in Groton and became "Lord of the Manor" . King Edward VI granted him arms and the rank of Gentleman in 1544. This was passed on to his son John Winthrop. I descend from the youngest son, the third Adam Winthrop in this line.
This Adam was also a clothier in London. He was made master of the Clothworker's Company in 1551. When his brother John went to Ireland in 1594 he became the Lord of the Manor at Groton. His papers were preserved in the British Museum as "The Winthrop Papers". Adam and his second wife are buried at St. Bartholomew's Church. Adam's only son, John Winthrop (1588 – 1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and came to New England on board the ship Arbella in 1630. There were a total of eleven ships that came that summer with the Arbella, and these ships carried about 800 Puritan immigrants known as "The Winthrop Fleet".
Governor John Winthrop's youngest sister, Lucy (1601-1679) came to the New World in 1638 on board the ship Thomas and Francis with her husband, Emanuel Downing and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. They returned to England in 1645 when her husband became a spy for Cromwell. Downing was appointed to be Minister to Holland under Cromwell, and later Council of State for Scotland under the King Charles. He died in Scotland, and Lucy went to live with her son, Sir George Downing, in London. George lived at Number 10 Downing Street, which later became the Prime Minister's residence.
Lucy Winthrop Downing was my 10th great grandmother, and the end of my Winthrop line. Her daughter, Lucy Downing (1625- 1697) was born in Salem, Massachusetts and married Bonus Norton. They were my 9th great grandparents.
The Winthrop Papers are online at https://archive.org/details/winthroppapers05wint
The Lion and the Hare: Being the Graphic Pedigree of over one thousand Descendants of John Winthrop, 1588 – 1649, by Ellery Kirk Taylor, Ann Arbor Michigan, 1939
Notes On the Winthrop Family: And Its English Connections Before Its Emigration to New England, by William Henry Whitmore, Albany NY, 1864
The Winthrop Family in America, by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1948
My Winthrop Genealogy:
Generation 1: Adam Winthrop married to Joane Burton
Generation 2: Adam Winthrop, born on 9 October 1498 in Levenam, Suffolk, England, died on 9 November 1562; married first on 20 July 1534 to Agnes Sharpe; married second to Alice Hunne.
Generation 3: Adam Winthrop, baptized on 10 August 1548 at St. Peter's Parish in Levenam, died on 28 March 1623 in Groton, Suffolk, England; married first on 20 February 1579 to Anne Browne; married second to Alice Still.
Generation 4: Lucy Winthrop, born on 9 January 1601, died on 1679 in England; married on 10 April 1622 in Groton to Emanuel Downing. He was the son of George Downing and Dorcas Bellamy baptized on 12 August 1585 in St. Lawrence Parish, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, and died on 26 July 1658 in Scotland. Five children.
Generation 5: Lucy Downing m. William Norton
Generation 6: Bonus Norton m. Mary Goodhue
Generation 7: Elizabeth Norton m. Benjamin Swett
Generation 8: Elizabeth Swett m. David Batchelder
Generation 9: Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane
Generation 10: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson
Generation 11: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke
Generation 12: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson
Generation 13: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 14: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
The Day After
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
It's a Good Day to be an Oregonian
With all the problems popping up (totally expected, of course), I like the plug Kos is giving Oregon's vote by mail system. I love it, for all the reasons he lists and more. This should be the wave of the future.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Down and Dirty
Yes, it's been a month since I blogged. I've been watching each day as the events leading up to this election have blossomed into the major FUBAR situation that is bound to happen next tuesday with some dismay, and also some resignation. It's been a long, drawn out election for me as a government teacher because I've had my students examining the Oregon ballot and voting themselves while also learning about the electoral process - both nationally and locally.
The one issue added to the curriculum this year is the electronic voting. They've read Robert Kennedy's article in Rolling Stone, and they've watched several NOW episodes about voting machines. Lou Dobbs also did a great segment of CNN's "Broken Government" series on the voting machines. What's scaring me is Karl Rove's continued insistence that he knows stuff the rest of us don't know... is that to make Republicans look good in the face of increasing opposition, or does he truly know some nefarious information and is setting the public up to feed us a bunch of crock when the election gets fixed?
The polls are looking pretty amazing, but this year, 2006, I refuse to hope. I've hoped before. I am going to remain a neutral observer and see what happens. Of course that's actually a lie...I'm going to hope no matter what. I always do: I'm a progressive! I'm all about hope!
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Sunday, August 7, 2016
How I Used the Career Triforce to Change my Job
I was on a career trajectory for Microsoft that was almost unreal. Averaging better than a promotion every 2 years with no slow down just because I was cross bands eventually ending up at the top of the Principal ladder. Compensation was great when compared relatively across other MS employees (will not be discussing this further). Everything seemed to be going amazingly well.
What did I say to everyone? Well, I said there are three areas (these are not my own, but taken from a book on career advice that I found exceptionally relevant) on which you should judge your current career. You should start by looking at your Job. Do you love it? Are you able to make an impact? Are you passionate about what you are doing? All off my answers here would be positive. The first part of my TriForce is complete
Next you look at your Manager. This is the singular individual who has the most control over your happiness and your career path in most companies. Ask yourself questions like, are you aligned with your boss? Does your support you when you are about to fail? Does your boss accentuate your good qualities and help you improve on your bad qualities? Can your boss act as your manager, your friend, a leader and a mentor? Well, #FML, it turns out I just found the second part of my TriForce.
Lastly I said you look at your Team. For me, at my level this meant looking at my immediate team, the entire Edge WPT team and then finally up to the Windows organization as a whole. Those are the scales at which I had impact at Microsoft. When looking at all levels of the team you ask questions like, do I like working with these people? Are the politics manageable or are they over the top? Does the team exercise trust? Does the team exercise transparency? As I worked from my local team up to Windows the third component in my TriForce starts to crack a little bit, maybe it has a little bit less luster.
However, when I consider the most stress I faced while making my decision to change jobs, it came down to the people. I loved the people and I felt like we created an almost extended family like support system for one another. I wasn't concerned about my projects that wouldn't get done if I left. Instead I was worried about the people that I worked with on a daily basis that I could see growing and becoming amazing engineers in their own rights. I was worried there wouldn't be enough people left infusing positive energy into the team on a daily basis to keep the morale up. I was worried that I was failing my team by leaving. That's when you realize, yeah, you have a great team. There may be some scuffs on that TriForce shard, but its still shining just as brightly as the other 2. My TriForce was complete.
My Answer
Okay, so if I already had the TriForce what kind of answer could I give everyone then? Why was I leaving? This is when I learned something that I had learned earlier in my career, but it took another 11 and a half years to discover it again. Once you've built a TriForce there isn't as much exponential growth in your future and mostly you just end up making incremental improvements. You spend more time doing the things you know, rather than learning new things. Your awesomeness starts to atrophy. You rarely feel the stress of a complicated and new situation. You rarely push your boundaries.
That isn't to say there aren't still moments like that. There certainly are. They just aren't as often and so growth tends to become linear and plateau increasingly frequently.
You also don't know if you have the skills to build another TriForce. I spend a lot of time mentoring and I often reach out for new mentees. My dream is that they too can achieve their TriForce and that I'm an enabler for that. I provide experience and strategies for working with difficult situations and to figure out why some aspect of their career is not shining or working well with the rest. Are my recommendations good? Do I have enough experience to offer the types of career advice that they need? If I put myself in their shoes, with their knowledge, and took on their risk would I be able to replicate my experience?
That is an important question for me. Doing something once can be dumb luck. It doesn't mean you can make it happen. It means it happened and perhaps it has something to do with you. But perhaps you are unaware of the actual forces of nature that brought it into being and it turns out it had nothing to do with you. That is a scary thought. Am I successful because of me? Or am I successful because of a random set of circumstances that I only manipulated superficially.
This led me to my answer to the team, paraphrasing a bit I finally said, "When you make a career change you should look at your job, boss and team. If they are all great then you are probably on the right track. When I look at myself, I have a TriForce in these three areas. Everything is amazing. So I had to use other measures to figure out my future. Specifically to follow my passions in VR and to see if I can build my second TriForce."
Maybe everyone thinks that is bullshit and will point to other factors in my decision making. I had a lot. Compensation, family, location and friends were all additional complications. However, I can say after tons of cross comparison Excel tables, almost everything zero'ed out between Oculus and Microsoft. I was only left with a very real and pressing question, one that Brendan Iribe asked me during my process. Do you want to think about VR all day, every day? That was his pitch to me. An offer to work on a technology that would change the future with all of my insight and passion. And when my answer to that simpler question is, "Fuck Yeah!" you can see how my explanation to my former team was given in honesty.
Passion isn't on the TriForce, but it is part of how you feel about your Job, how you are supported by your Boss (does he let you run with your wacky ideas?) and how your Team adapts to a changing society and marketplace. That makes it is an integral component in all of them. When you are passionate you'll find that you can't sleep because you are still solving problems. You spring out of bed every morning to rush to work. You let everyone know what you are working on and why they should care. You see clearly how what you are doing is going to change the future, improve lives, connect you more closely to your friends/family and make the world a better place for everyone to live.
When I saw the opportunity to lend my passion and devote all of my ability to launching the VR revolution I couldn't pass it up. VR has to potential to change the way that we think about education, jobs and entertainment. It literally allows us to redefine space itself and transform a living room into an anything room. I didn't jump ship to VR in the beginning because my expertise wasn't needed yet. But now is the time to scale and build platforms for VR that extend to millions. This is where I thrive as a developer. This is where the web thrives as a platform for scale and accessibility. This is the time to deeply investment my time and effort and build my second career TriForce. With news like the HTC VR alliance offering 10 billion in VC capital to development of VR content and experiences, I think I'm in good company thinking this way.
My Final Advice
Most people in their careers I find are working on some aspect of building their TriForce, probably for the first time. I know because I mentor some amazing developers and almost always they have some sort of hang-up in one of these areas and they haven't yet figured out how to completely self-diagnose themselves when things are going wrong.
For this reason I think evaluating your job, boss and team is a great way for you to figure out two things. For instance, do you need to improve something in your current career in order to elevate yourself to the next level. You may find that your job sucks for some reason, but it is within your control to make it not suck. You should do that. The easiest thing to change is yourself.
If you evaluate these and find that there are things outside of your control that you don't see are going to change then you can use it as a way to figure out how you are going to change your career. Not everything is within your control and often times your happiness or passion requires an environmental change. Perhaps your current job would get you there, but in a time period that is longer than you would like. I always recommended being open and honest during this period just in case you've misread your situation. If you did, then making your situation apparent to your team can sometimes result in the change that you were going to switch jobs for.
If you are sitting on your TriForce though and you are happy with all three you shouldn't close your eyes off to the opportunities that might present themselves. Maintain your marketability and interview skills. From time to time, reach out and do an interview or two and see what else is available both in terms of unique job roles, but also life changing compensation. When an opportunity comes along and you do have to make the big decision, know that it will be stressful. Then calm down, evaluate everything objectively and if it looks like another opportunity to build your next TriForce then perhaps you should go for it!
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Passion makes the days fly by. You wake up excited to work. Eating is a burden. Sleep is a burden when the night comes, because you prefer working to sleep. Let us move in passion until we rest in peace.ReplyDelete
Why not Hololens?ReplyDeleteReplies
This is a great question. Almost another article. Hololens isn't VR in my opinion at least. It is AR with some promises of MR.Delete
VR is a kind of transportation of the user to a new environment with a very deep replacement of self and the senses. You want to feel presence in this new space, but you want the new space to be extremely immersive. VR is a technology which, again in my opinion, is ready to climb the growth curve and impact a lot of users. Virtual tourism, education, productivity and of course gaming and entertainment are all possible. From your desk, or room, without real world expense.
AR is on the other side of the pendulum and favors the presentation of the real world with augmentation. This is great if you have a stage on which to work that is already of interest to the user. For instance, you can travel to New York or Tokyo and be in the "real experience" with some additional value add on top. But what if you can't be there? I see this AR type of experience more for improving everyday life but less as a vehicle for transportation.
MR and this is where Hololens wants to sit, tries to bridge the gap a bit more by using some aspects of the real world, but having a heavier focus also on the virtual world. MR therefore wants to be a blend that can swing between VR and AR like experiences in an almost transparent manner. But challenges exist here such as field of view and having powerful enough equipment to be able to drop the user into a full immersion virtual world.
For me then, its about making an impact in the next 2-5 years versus starting work on a technology that can make an impact in say 5-15 years. Price is important. Quality of experience is important. Reach and Availability is important. VR is most likely in its sweet spot, and I'm a scale engineer, whereas AR/MR are more experimental and are likely a few years off from the sweet spot.
Also want to see how the Hololens vs Magic Leap pans out ;-)


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I thought... how awesome.
But, we also enjoy decorating with the girls and don't want to give that up.
Who says we can't have both though?
Tonight, we brought in our little fake tree and set it up on Blue's nightstand. When she wakes up, she'll have a little bit of Christmas just appear in her room. Next year, perhaps we'll do more and make it fancier - garland and whatnot. But for this year, this small bit of magic is awesome enough :)
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Franz LISZT (1810-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 in E (1851-53) [5.21]
Ballade No. 2 in B minor (1853) [13.43]
Liebeslied (Widmung) (Schumann/Liszt) (1848) [3.37]
Gretchen am Spinnrade (Schubert/Liszt) (1838) [3.59]
Sonata in B minor (1854) [29:46]
Nino Gvetadze (piano)
rec. Westvest 90-church Schiedam, The Netherlands,16-19 February 2011
Nino Gvetadze was the recipient of the Second Prize, Audience Prize and Press Prize at the 2008 Liszt Competition and received a prestigious Barletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2010. She appears to have a close affinity with the music of Liszt and for this disc has elected to play the greatest of his piano compositions - the Sonata in B minor - as well as a selection from his other works as her contribution to the bi-centenary year.
She opens the recital in sparkling form playing the Tenth Hungarian Rhapsody. Difficult scale passages, glissandi, trills and virtuoso passage-work are tossed off with consummate ease. The gypsy idiom is beautifully captured and the virtuosity is dazzling. This is followed by a larger-scale work - the seemingly ubiquitous Second Ballade. This is taken at a brisk speed. I liked this performance better than some of the others I have heard. Gvetadze brings organic unity to a piece that can otherwise come across as flabby and disorganised. Theres some rather compelling and imaginative story-telling at work here. The keyboard gymnastics did not pose any sort of problem to this gifted technician.
Gvetadzes performance of Liszts transcription of Widmung seems slightly understated. I thought she could have made more of its rich sonorities and grand romantic sweep. However, her Gretchen am Spinnrade was hauntingly beautiful articulating a sense of anguish, foreboding and growing disquiet. The mesmeric whirring of the ever-present spinning wheel is wonderfully realised.
The Sonata is one of the pinnacles of the piano repertoire and it was a brave choice to include it. Gvetadze maintains a strong sense of architectural and thematic coherence throughout yet brings a fresh and improvisatory feel to the music. Some of her passage-work and pyrotechnics were glorious particularly in the opening Allegro Energico. She could have made a little more of the orchestral sonorities by using a wider range of tone colours and textures particularly in the central section. The fugue which opens the final episode was brisk and well articulated. Gvetadze does well to maintain a strong sense of line and thematic coherence through the various subsequent changes of tempo in the closing pages. The prestissimo octaves at the end are dispatched with virtuoso aplomb although I have heard them played faster and more powerfully. The Lento Assai was lyrical and elegant although it does not fully express the mysticism and other-worldliness that Liszt may well have been trying to realise. All in all, however, I thought this was a first rate recital.
Robert Beattie
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Registration just started for the 2013-2014 school year. Kindergarten families and first graders register today. (I remember registering our first child before the Spanish immersion program started. We were scared!) Many people worry when they send kids to school… any school, so I thought I would post the galleries from last year's kindergarten and first grade classes.
Here are photos of both first grade classes. Except for the photo that includes me, I took these photos in June. 2012-2013 First Grade Photo Gallery. I think a first grader took the photo of me, and I probably should give him credit and ask permission before posting it.Here is the 2012-13 Kindergarten Photo Gallery. Did you think your kids would have this much fun by the end of kinkindergarten? Tomorrow the second through fourth graders register. On Friday August 16, the sixth through eighth graders register. Remember to click the link if you wish to view the photo gallery.… Read the rest


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Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) is a premier R & D unit of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India and one of the constituent institutions of Homi Bhabha National Institute. This Centre is dedicated to carry out frontier research and development in the fields of Accelerator Science & Technology, Nuclear Science (Theoretical and Experimental), Material Science, Computer Science & Technology and in other relevant areas
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Courses offered in the past four years.
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FREN 0399 / PSCI 0399 - Power & Pen: Franco Africa
Of Pen and Power: Writing Political Francophone Africa
Writing is a political act. Taking this as a premise, we will examine the extent to which political writing has affected political change in French-speaking Africa from the colonial era to the present. The course will be based on readings in both political science and Francophone African literature, and it will investigate the connections between political practices and political writings. Topics will include anti-colonial struggles, dictatorships on trial, neo-colonialism and democratic challenges, civil strife, women's agency, and African resilience. The course will be conducted in French. (FREN 0221) 3 hrs. sem. AAL LIT LNG SAF SOC
Spring 2016
FYSE 1332 - Reading Africa
Reading Africa
What do we know about Africa? In this seminar we will explore this vast continent through novels written about it. African and non-African writers will help us discover the continent's geographies, histories, cultures, and politics. We will study particular phenomena affecting Africans over the centuries including colonialism, dictatorial rule, humanitarianism, the women's rights movement, and racism. With the help of films and student presentations, we will focus on Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. 3 hrs. sem. AAL CW SOC
Fall 2015
IGST 0428 / PSCI 0428 - Dictators and Democrats
Dictators and Democrats
In this course we will explore the processes through which charismatic individuals create, use, transform, or circumvent state institutions to seize and maintain political power. We will examine individual, national, and international factors that propel dictators and democrats to leadership positions. We will also look at the historical context and personal circumstances leading to leaders' demise, sometimes resulting in regime change. Cases from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe will help students describe, classify, explain, and predict leadership outcomes (Comparative Politics) 3 hrs. Sem. CMP SOC
Spring 2018
IGST 0700 - Senior Work ▹
Senior Work
(Approval Required)
Spring 2019, Spring 2020
IGST 0705 - African Studies Senior Thesis ▲ ▹
African Studies Senior Thesis
(Approval Required)
Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020
INTD 0212 - Soc Innovation Social Change
From Social Innovation to Social Change
In this course we will study what spurs social innovation and produces change. Our inquiry into the world of changemaking will entail theoretical and conceptual exploration, studying cases of social innovation around the world, and personal introspection. Theories from a variety of disciplines such as economics, political science, psychology, and sociology will frame our understanding of social change. Concepts examined include social problems, social innovation, social enterprise, and social impact. By the end of this course, students will understand what social innovation and social impact require. This course is primarily intended for students participating in the Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship program. Open to others by approval (approval only) 3 hrs. sem. SOC
Spring 2019
INTD 0500 - Independent Study ▲ ▹
Independent Study
Approval Required
Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
IPEC 0500 - Independent Project ▲ ▹
Independent Project
(Approval Required)
Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020
IPEC 0700 - Intl.Pol.&Economics SR. Thesis ▲ ▹
Senior Thesis
(Approval Required)
Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020
PSCI 0103 - Intro to Comparative Politics ▹
Introduction to Comparative Politics
This course offers an introduction to the comparative study of political systems and to the logic of comparative inquiry. How are different political systems created and organized? How and why do they change? Why are some democratic and others authoritarian? Why are some rich and others poor? Other topics covered in this course include nationalism and political ideologies, forms of representation, the relationship between state institutions and civil society, and globalization. The goal in this course is to use comparative methods to analyze questions of state institutions -- how they arise, change, and generate different economic, social, and political outcomes. 3 hrs. lect. disc. (Comparative Politics)/ CMP SOC
Spring 2020
PSCI 0202 - African Politics ▲
African Politics
This course surveys the challenges and possibilities that Sub-Saharan Africa presents in our era of globalization. We will look at the process of state formation to appreciate the relationships between historical legacies and political and economic development. Themes include state formation, democratic governance, sustainable development, and Africa in world affairs. Topics such as colonial rule and national responses, authoritarian rule, ethnic politics, the debt burden, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and natural resource politics will be discussed. Case studies from English-, French-, and Portuguese-speaking Africa will be used to illuminate such relationships. 3 hrs lect/disc. (Comparative Politics)/ AAL SAF SOC
Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019
PSCI 0209 - Local Green Politics ▹
Local Green Politics
How do local communities manage natural resources throughout the world? How do they avoid natural resource degradation, and how do they interact with environmental decision makers from other levels of authority? Through case studies in wildlife and forest conservation, ecotourism, protected area management, and environmental and conservation planning, we will study community-based natural resource management efforts. Case studies – from ancient times to present – will be drawn from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. By the end of the course, students will be expected to critically analyze cases of resource management and mismanagement. 3 hrs. lect./disc./(Comparative Politics)/ AAL CW SOC
Spring 2020
PSCI 0321 - Anglo vs. Franco Africa
Anglophone vs. Francophone Africa
Multiple European powers fought to colonize Africa, but only a few prevailed. In this course we will focus on two major post-colonial blocs: English- and French-speaking Africa. We will examine whether, to what extent, and why the current political systems of Anglophone Africa differ from those of Francophone Africa. To do so, we will explore variations in modes of colonial rule, processes of decolonization, and post-colonial political developments in Algeria, Belgian Congo, Madagascar, Senegal, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. 3 hrs. lect./disc. (Comparative Politics)/ AAL CMP SAF
Spring 2017
PSCI 0431 - African Government ▲
African Government
Sub-Saharan Africa has been described as being in a state of permanent crisis, a place where disorder and chaos reign and states are chronically weak. How do political systems form and thrive under such conditions? What accounts for their survival in the face of tremendous political, economic, and environmental challenges? We will investigate the distinctive characteristics of African political systems, the different governance models throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, and the types of public goods or public ills these systems have produced. We will also have the opportunity to more deeply appreciate the real-life consequences for displaced Africans through a service-learning component. 3 hrs. sem. (Comparative Politics)/ AAL SAF
Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
PSCI 0500 - Independent Project ▲ ▹
Independent Projects
A program of independent work designed to meet the individual needs of advanced students. (Approval required)
Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020
PSCI 0700 - Honors Thesis ▲ ▹
Honors Thesis
(Approval required)
Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020
Curriculum Vitae
2010 - "Bridging the Gap between Environmental Decision-Makers in Madagascar" in German, Laura, Alain Karsenty and Anne-Marie Tiani (eds.) Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World. Earthscan: 234-257.
2009 - "Gestion Communautaire ou Préservation des Ressources Renouvelables : Histoire Inachevée d'une Évolution Majeure de la Politique Environnementale à Madagascar" VertigO, 9(3), with Alain Bertrand and Pierre Montagne.
2008 - "Strong Support for Weak Performance: Donor Competition in Madagascar" African Affairs 107(428): 405-431.
2008 - "Madagascar's Biodiversity Conservation Challenge: from Local- to National-Level Dynamics" Environmental Sciences, 5(2): 109-128.
2008 - "Behind Sacredness: Rules, Local Interests, and Forest Conservation in Bara Country, Madagascar" in Nyamweru, Celia and Michael Sheridan (eds.) African Ethnoforests: Sacred Groves, Culture, and Conservation. James Currey and Oxford University Press: 117-132.
2007 - "Les nouvelles idées de gestion locale des ressources renouvelables et le processus de promulgation de la loi 96-025" in Zo Razanamaharo, and Andrew Cooke (eds.), Le Transfert de Gestion à Madagascar, Dix Ans d'Efforts: Tanteza, RESOLVE/CIRAD/CITE: 21-28, with Alain Bertrand in Pierre Montagne.
2005 - "The Cost of Ignoring Rules: Forest Conservation and Rural Livelihood Outcomes in Madagascar" Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, Vol. 15: 149-166.
2004 - "How Rules Affect Conservation Outcomes" in Goodman, Stephen and Jonathan Benstead (eds.) The Natural History of Madagascar. University of Chicago Press: 146-153.
Research Interests
Development in Sub-Sahraran Africa
The Politics of Biodiversity Conservation
Community-Based Natural Resource Management
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Gulen Movement uses death of 2 Hizmet teachers to raise moneyhttp://embracerelief.org/5172-2/
With the growth of Gulen schools worldwide. We had requests from around the world to start a second blog on the Gulen Turkish Schools worldwide. From Mexico to Iraq, and Africa to Afghanistan we will post the news stories and as usual amuse you at the same time. To contrast and compare we invite you to http://www.gulencharterschoolsUSA.blogspot.com http://www.charterschoolwatchdog.com http://www.charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com
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Madigan omitted as Joe Schmidt names four uncapped players for Argentina tour
Ian Madigan has been left out of Ireland's summer tour to Argentina as Joe Schmidt named 'project players' Robbie Diack and Rob Herring in his 30-man squad.
Ian Madigan has been left out of Ireland's summer tour to Argentina as Joe Schmidt named 'project players' Robbie Diack and Rob Herring in his 30-man squad.
The duo are among four uncapped players in the panel with Munster's James Cronin one of three loosehead props in the squad as Dave Kilcoyne makes the plane. Connacht's Kieran Marmion, who toured the US and Canada last June without winning a cap, also gets the nod.
As expected, Cian Healy, Gordon D'Arcy and Sean O'Brien have been given the summer off as Schmidt looks to the future, with Darren Cave and Robbie Henshaw set to battle it out for the now vacant No13 shirt.
Simon Zebo has been selected along with Rob Kearney, Andrew Trimble, Keith Earls, Fergus McFadden and Felix Jones, but Tommy Bowe has been left behind after an injury plagued season.
Schmidt has gone with two recognised fly-halves in Johnny Sexton and Paddy Jackson, meaning Madigan is likely to be included in the 'Emerging Ireland' tour to Romania.
Up front, Paul O'Connell will lead the tour with Jamie Heaslip also included, with South African born hooker Herring set to do battle with Rory Best and Damien Varley as Sean Cronin is left behind.
Ireland play Argentina in Resistencia on June 7 and Tucuman on June 15 and fly out on tour the day after Leinster's Pro12 final meeting with Glasgow.
Ireland squad for the tour to Argentina: Forwards: R Best (Ulster), J Cronin (Munster), R Diack (Ulster), I Henderson (Ulster), C Henry (Ulster), J Heaslip (Leinster), R Herring (Ulster), D Kilcoyne (Munster), J McGrath (Leinster), M Moore (Leinster), J Murphy (Leinster), P O'Connell (capt, Munster), M Ross (Leinster), R Ruddock (Leinster), D Toner (Leinster), D Varley (Munster). Backs: D Cave (Ulster), K Earls (Munster), R Henshaw (Connacht), P Jackson (Ulster), F Jones (Munster), R Kearney (Leinster), K Marmion (Connacht), L Marshall (Ulster), F McFadden (Leinster), C Murray (Munster), E Reddan (Leinster), J Sexton (Racing Metro), A Trimble (Ulster), S Zebo (Munster).
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New Curriculum Seeks Scientific Literacy
In a major departure from the traditional "science-by-discipline" approach, a group of chemistry teachers and researchers will this fall begin developing an interdisciplinary high-school chemistry curriculum designed around social issues.
Called "Chemistry in the Community: A Problem-Focused Course for High Schools," the project is sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and funded by a $193,201, three-and-a-half-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Focusing on issues like acid rain, hazardous-waste disposal, food supply, and food additives, the new curriculum will use chemical concepts as a basis for helping students understand and seek solutions for the technology-related problems of modern life, according to a spokesman for ACS's Office of High School Chemistry. The course will be designed to enhance the "scientific literacy" of students who do not plan to continue their formal education, but it will also serve as an introductory chemistry course for college-bound students.
The program is unusual, according to ACS, because it includes not only chemistry but also economics, sociology, biology, toxicology, and other disciplines that are increasingly important in establishing public policy.
"You can't look at it as pure chemistry anymore," an ACS spokesman says. "This approach will be especially relevant for the general student."
Such subjects as acid rain and chemical wastes are of general societal concern, the spokesman notes. "Each is a chemical issue about which we must make a societal decision."
"Chemistry in the Community" will be organized into a series of "modules," each of which will be based on one such social issue. Students will learn to identify problems, learn the chemical concepts involved, describe or propose solutions, and anticipate new problems resulting from proposed solutions.
Between 40 and 50 high-school chemistry teachers nationwide will be involved in both the writing and field-testing of the new course.
They will work under three "unit directors," who are university-based chemists and science educators.
Thomas Lippincott of the University of Arizona will be principal investigator for the project, which will be directed by Sylvia Ware, manager of ACS's office of preprofessional programs.
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Identifying and Treating Elbow Pain
Your elbows are complicated joints which extend your forearm and bend and rotate your forearm and hand. Your elbows are used by you to perform your daily activities almost all, and this may make doing even simple tasks challenging when you've got elbow pain. The muscles and nerves additionally join to make your elbow joints. When any of these parts is inflamed or damaged elbow pain is the outcome.
Overuse is among the very typical reasons for elbow pain. Despite its name Tennis Elbow can happen in anyone with that participates in repetitive movements. Sportsmen are not the only ones to whine of Tennis Elbow. Carpenters, plumbers, and butchers may also experience pain from overuse. You may experience pain due to miniature tears which grow in the tendons of your forearm. Your hand feel poor when you hold a cup and may tremble, attempt to open the door, or shake hands. Over the counter pain, relievers and remainder are often recommended for the alleviation.
This state is as obscure as carpal tunnel of the wrist, but might cause tingling, numbness, weakness, and pain of hand and the arm. It's also called ulnar neuropathy and is due to increased pressure to the nerve in the region of your " funny bone". This nerve is called the ulnar nerve, and cubital tunnel syndrome could be caused holding a mobile phone, or by leaning in your elbow and flexing your elbow for extended intervals during slumber. Additionally, it may result from recurred around use, or an unusual development of the bones in the elbow.
Symptoms include weakness, numbness, tingling, and pain in arm and your hand. Numbness and tingling in your ring and small finger are early hints of cubital tunnel syndrome.
This is done under general anesthesia in a hospital setting, or as an outpatient procedure at work. The orthopedic surgeon creates a path that is bigger for the ulna nerve and alleviates the pressure. Physical therapy could be needed after operation and recuperation time is rather brief.
Radial tunnel syndrome is not dissimilar to cubital tunnel syndrome, but the radial nerve is affected by it. Bone tumors, lipomas harm, (non- cancerous tumors that are greasy), and this illness may be caused by inflammation of the surrounding tissue. Unlike cubital tunnel syndrome, this syndrome does not generally cause tingling or numbness. These may happen primarily when you make an effort to straighten your fingers or wrist.
Treatment may contain preventing pressure in the radial nerve, in the event the illness is serious, but the operation could be an alternative. Physical therapy could be required after operation, and many individuals recover pretty rapidly.
All these are some of the common reasons for elbow pain. Your elbows work hard for you, and sometimes around use and harm can cause tingling, numbness, and pain to happen. In case you have some of these symptoms get in touch with a physician who specializes in orthopedics to determine your treatment choices, as well as the reason.


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We are located in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, just 1 hr's drive north of Brisbane. For those already on the Sunshine Coast, we are 20 minutes south of Mooloolaba, 25 minutes south of Maroochydore.
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View 11 - 20 results for after restroom comic strips. Discover the best "After Restroom" comics from Dilbert.com.
Friday September 30,
Tags #after every typo, #point and click, #poorly documented commands, #reboot, #interface
"We could design the product with a simple point - and - click interface..." "Or we could require the user to choose among thousands of poorly documented commands, each of which must be typed exactly right on the first try." "Bear in mind, we'll never meet a customer ourselves." "Make it so they have to reboot after every typo."
Thursday November 17,
Tags #paperless office concept, #restroom situation
The Boss, Wally and Dilbert sit at a conference table. The Boss says, "Since implementing our 'paperless office' concept, we've saved . . ." The Boss looks at a figure written on the back of his hand and says, "Uh . . . ten percent!" Wally looks at his arm and says, "Next on the agenda: the restroom situation . . ."
Wednesday May 03,
Tags #sex after marriage, #depraved practice, #liberals, #headaches, #fatigue, #become consultants, #extinction of mankind, #right winger
Dogbert sits in a radio DJ booth wearing headphones and speaking into a microphone. He says, "Today we're talking about sex after marriage. Many liberals support this depraved practice but I do not." Dogbert continues, "It can lead to headaches, fatigue and unwanted family members who become consultants." A caller asks, "Wouldn't your philosophy lead to the extinction of mankind?" Dogbert replies, "Cry me a river, Liberal."
Monday May 06,
Tags #wally compensation, #equalibrium, #project, #lower quality, #consistent, #salary, #first month, #after raises, #achieved equilibrium, #money
The Boss, Alice, Wally and Dilbert sit at a conference table. Wally says, "This week I kicked off the 'Wally Compensation Equilibrium Project.'" Wally continues, "My goal is to lower the quality of my work until it is consistent with my salary." The Boss thinks, "I hate the first month after they see their raises." Wally says, "I'd go on, but I just achieved equilibrium."
Tuesday May 14,
Tags #after merger, #reduce staff, #redundant, #employees, #evaluated, #buying company, #bald guy, #steal office furniture, #business
Alice, Wally, Dilbert and a man from the buying company sit at a conference table. The man says, "After the merger, we'll reduce staff in areas that are redundant." Wally says, "I hope the employees of this company will be evaluated fairly compared to those in the buying company." The man says, "We already have a bald guy." Dilbert asks, "Does your steal office furniture, too?"
Tuesday March 11,
Tags #young and inexperinced, #naive question, #doing email, #after tax earnings, #alice, #stuffed body, #shirt sleeve
Asok stands behind Alice's desk and says, "I am young and inexperienced, so please excuse this naive question, Alice . . ." Asok continues, "You spend hours every day 'doing e-mail.' How does this contribute to net after-tax earnings?" Asok stands behind Dilbert's desk and says, "Today I learned that Alice can stuff my entire body into one shirt sleeve."
Thursday January 29,
Tags #deputy of common sense, #safety inspector, #after insepction, #determine pay, #decrease in accidents, #trips wally
Dogbert, Deputy of Common Sense, stands a filing cabnet and says, "Are you the government safety inspector?" The inspector says, "Yup. I love my job." Dogbert watches as the inspector trips Wally and notes something on his clipboard. Wally's glasses fall off and he says, "HEY!" Dogbert puts his hand on his gun and says, "How does your boss determine your pay?" The inspector writes something down and says, "It's based on the decrease in accidents after my inspection."
Friday April 10,
Tags #no layoffs, #after merger, #Catbert, #evil director, #frozen asteroid, #protective space suits, #not a team player
Caption: "Catbert: Evil H.R. Director" Catbert tells Ted and Dilbert, "There will be no layoffs after the merger." Catbert says, "However, many of you will be transferred to jobs on a frozen." Ted asks, "Will we have protective space suits?" Catbert says, "I label you 'not a team player'."
Sunday February 28,
Tags #Dilbert, #break, #restroom, #mingle, #dryer, #delay, #impenitrable, #agenda, #alone, #Dogbert, #work
Dilbert sits in a meeting. The speaker says, "Let's take a ten-minute break." Dilbert thinks, "Uh-oh." Dilbert thinks, "I've got to use the restroom and get back before all the mingle groups have solidified." Dilbert stands in the bathroom and thinks, "Uh no, it's an air dryer, an unexpected delay!" Dilbert returns to the room and thinks, "I'm too late. All the minglers have formed impenetrable groups." Dilbert thinks, "I'll pretend to study the agenda so it looks like I have a reason to be alone." Dilbert thinks, "Everybody knows it doesn't take this long to read an agenda. Now what do I do??" Beads of sweat fly off Dilbert's forehead and he tugs on his tie. He thinks, "I've got to stand here alone, totally non-mingled, for five more minutes." Dilbert arrives at home looking disheveled. Dogbert asks, "Tough day at work?" Dilbert replies, "Just the breaks."
Monday June 01,
Tags #telephone shyness, #make business calls, #restroom, #shyness passes, #Dilbert, #office
Dilbert in his cubicle in his office next to his computer staring at the phone thinking, "I'm having a severe case of telephone shyness." Dilbert thinking, "I'm afraid to pick up the phone and make business calls." Dilbert entering the restroom thinking, "I'll duck into a restroom stall until the shyness passes."


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The Art in Action conference will be held in Fargo, March 7, 2016. The conference is about networking, advocating and activating the arts throughout the state of North Dakota. This one-day conference hosted by Arts North Dakota is focused on how to advocate and bolster the arts in communities large and small throughout the state. The goal: continue to build relationships and advance the role the arts play in the overall success of the state. Conference presenters include USDA Rural Development Director Ryan Taylor.
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A year ago, Aubrey Graham was playing a troubled wheelchair-bound teen named Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Today he's playing to an audience of thousands on tour with Grammy-nominated, multi-milli-selling rapper Lil Wayne.
The Toronto-born Graham, known now as Drake (or Drizzy, Heartbreak Drake, Drizzy Drake Rogers - anything but Jimmy Brooks), is on the brink of hip-hop stardom. And his pass out of the halls of Degrassi has unquestionably been the mixtape.
Mixtapes marry a collection of off-the-cuff raps with a collage of other artists' music - Lil Wayne rapping over a Beyoncé beat, Jay-Z putting a verse on top of an M.I.A. single, Ghostface Killah spitting rhymes over While My Guitar Gently Weeps - all "hosted" by a mixtape DJ.
They aren't traditional DJ mixes, nor are they cassette tapes (at least not any more). Mixtapes are loosely slapped-together compilations of songs, whether on CD or in digital form. They're cheap to make and cheap to own (often free on the Internet). And due to copyright law, most of them are illegal.
But in hip-hop, mixtapes are simply the cost of doing business. Every rapper - no matter the stripe - records them for promotional purposes. Only a few build careers on them.
Drake is touring, unofficially, with the aforementioned Lil Wayne after the latter took note of a few sharp mixtape verses. (Drake doesn't yet have an album, but Wayne considers him a protege and brings him onstage for most of his concerts.)
Like Drake, Lil Wayne, who's coming to Canada for the first time in his 15-year career, made his reputation via mixtapes. As did duo Clipse, who are currently involved in a war of verses with Wayne and touring their own latest mixtape. Both just happen to be playing Toronto this week.
Here to stay: hip-hop stalwarts
Pusha and Malice, Virginia Beach brothers known jointly as Clipse, have worn the crown of mixtape kings since 2004's We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 1. They'd already released Lord Willin', a full-length album (and coke-rap classic) a couple of years earlier, but major-label red tape prevented a second album. So Pusha (once known as Pusha-T) reached out to mixtape DJ extraordinaire Clinton Sparks.
"We had never really done mixtapes before, and I felt Clinton had a grasp of the Internet side of mixtape distribution," says Pusha (aka Terrence Thorton), on the phone from Virginia.
That grasp proved to be a chokehold. Clipse quickly became a hit with bloggers, who worshipped their grimy and dizzyingly creative cocaine metaphors. We Got It 4 Cheap became a series, spawning two more volumes. Vol. 3, which came out last February, was another Internet sensation. Music critics, most notably at the New York Times, began reviewing Clipse mixtapes as if they were legitimate albums.
The DJ who hosted Vol. 3, Atlanta's DJ Drama, had his mixtapes seized by authorities in 2007. The police worked with the Recording Industry Association of America to confiscate 81,000 copies - which they deem counterfeits - along with cars and recording equipment. As a result, Drama was charged with racketeering.
When it came time to release yet another Clipse mixtape in December 2008, Pusha decided to try to avoid legal trouble. Road To Till The Casket Drops was an Internet-only tape released by Complex Magazine, owned by hip-hop designer Marc Ecko. (Complex editor-in-chief Noah Callahan-Bever says he's unconcerned about the group's use of unlicensed music.)
"We had DJ nobody," Pusha says. "With the trouble that's been caused by the mixtape situation, everyone has gravitated to getting free music off the Net. So I was like, whatever. I don't need anyone. I'll distribute it through Complex."
The songs, which use beats to Jay-Z and T.I.'s Kanye West-produced Swagga Like Us and the slick R&B jam So Fly by former 112 member Slim, were again treated as an album. Pitchforkmedia, the Web's pre-eminent tastemaking music site, reviewed it alongside new releases from the likes of the Flaming Lips, pushing Pusha to push back online.
"When the Pitchfork thing came out, we were like, 'Dawg, why are you misconstruing the actual premise of a mixtape? Since when are you taking my mixtape and putting it on the same high criteria as albums?'" says Pusha. "It's really not the same. The amount of colours you put on a mixtape isn't the same as an album. Everybody knows what goes into a mixtape: the freshest lyrics, beats that you're almost familiar with. It's a competitive thing."
The competitive spirit of mixtapes is the result of rapping over the backtrack of another rapper. The goal is to outshine whoever rapped on it before, often using insults. The modern dis-heavy mixtape track was popularized by 50 Cent, who taunted (and in some cases threatened) virtually every mainstream rap act on his How To Rob in 1999. He was signed to a label almost immediately afterwards.
The Clipse have taken to targeting another mixtape rapper, a rival who's also won the hearts of bloggers everywhere: Lil Wayne. It started with the album single Mr. Me Too, a veiled swipe at Wayne and what the Clipse and their producer, Pharrell Williams from the Neptunes, call identity theft, and continued on mixtapes. Pusha went at Lil Wayne: "Lil nigga flow, but his metaphors boring / Don't make me turn daddy's little girl to orphan / That would mean I'd have to kill Baby, like abortion." (Wayne's alias is Weezy F. Baby, and his surrogate father/hip-hop mentor is nicknamed Baby.)
"Anything I addressed to him was a response to something I've heard [him say]. The opportunity to respond - and keep it musical and great for the listener - is to do it on a mixtape," says Pusha. "When you do mixtapes, you address certain shit. It's about your tape being relevant."
But while Wayne and his mixtape foes will both be in Toronto this week, Pusha says he has no plans to further the feud onstage.
"It's not an actual problem," he claims. "But you gotta respond some way. He said what he said, and we said what we said. It's not in my best interest to let [Wayne] say something about us in a public forum and not respond musically. Especially when I'm as good as I am. At least you'll be happy when you hear me saying that slick-ass line. You'll be like, 'Aw, shit, that was cute.' Know what I'm saying?"
On his way out? The hip-hop savant
Hours after Lil Wayne got word that his sixth studio album, Tha Carter III, had broken the 1.5 million mark in sales in just one week, he got back behind a microphone.
Over his single A Milli, he rerecorded the verses, thanking his record-buying audience (and hype-creating mixtape DJs) for their support with an Internet-only freestyle.
"A million sold, first day I went gold. And how do I celebrate? Work on Tha Carter IV," he rapped triumphantly.
More than Clipse, Wayne releases mixtape tracks at a torrential pace. It's estimated he's recorded upwards of 500 songs not on studio albums. His Dedication and Da Drought series of tapes (officially six in total) were recorded in the space of two years and celebrated by critics at staid publications like the New Yorker and underground rap blogs alike. (The former called his mixtape work "astonishingly good"; the latter frequently label him best rapper alive.)
He uses his mixtapes - and the Internet - as showcases for his talent as a lyricist, for his work ethic and ability to rhyme endlessly over a wide range of music. All his tireless and pro bono mixtape work has paid off in album sales.
Wayne (aka Dwayne Michael Carter), the diminutive rapper from New Orleans, began flipping left-of-centre, often brilliant turns-of-phrase over beats as an ambitious 11-year-old. At 27, his game is the same, yet his level of success - more Grammy nods than Coldplay, higher sales numbers than Kanye West - has increased dramatically, by and large because of mixtapes.
But Wayne is nothing if not erratic. He now claims he's done making mixtapes, the platform that relaunched him after his work as a child rapper, and so far he's stayed true to that statement. His last mixtape, in December, Dedication 3, hosted by DJ Drama, was more a showcase for his entourage than a Wayne mixtape. He barely rapped on the tape's 23 songs.
"I'm like Alfred Nobel or whatever his name is," he said earlier this year to Foundation Magazine. "He created gunpowder and all them mass destruction things that killed millions of people. But before he died, to clear up his name... he be givin' out peace prizes to people who do humanitarian things. So now when you hear the Nobel Peace Prize, what you think that is? It's all good, great. But this nigga was a mass [murderer]. That's who I am. I'm him.
"I created the mixtape game, but I'm not into that no more. I'm against, an anti-mixtape dude. Fuck mixtape DJs. I'm pissed off at the mixtape game."
Maybe so, but that's not to say Wayne isn't still a major player in that game. Look no further than Drake for proof.
The up-and-comer
Drake, the 23-year-old Toronto actor-turned-rapper, self-published his first mixtape, Room For Improvement, and used his blog, Octobersveryown.blogspot.com, to promote and distribute it. That tape led to his being featured on Trey Songz's hit Replacement Girl, which found a huge admirer in Lil Wayne.
While others - Kanye West and, coincidentally, Pusha of Clipse - have since come out to support Drake's music, it's Wayne who took him under his wing. Though Drake, as a member of Lil Wayne's touring entourage, doesn't get billing, Wayne often calls him onstage to perform.
"Drake is the only one who gets to perform every night!" complains Jae Millz, another Wayne acolyte who's also backstage at every show hoping to get the call. Millz has a right to be bitter; he's been on the mixtape circuit for nearly 10 years but has nowhere near Drake's degree of hype.
Drake, judging by such early successes, should be on top of the game in half that time.