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Sponsored by Moscow State University, the forum titled The crisis of market fundamentalism in Russia and worldwide – birth of new guidelines also examined Russia's current economic challenges and possible solutions.
"The venue has been chosen for a reason," said the Viktor Sadovnichy, the Rector of Moscow State University.
"As all the flowers grow at this university, so will the forum present different points of view," he added.
Ruslan Grinberg, director of the Economy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, began by outlining how Russia's economy changed since the fall of Communism.
"There is no longer a deficit, no queues outside shops. We have achieved significant progress. But there are problems as well, and they should be solved. Economic policy should be changed," he said.
When the discussion turned to the problems facing the global economy, forum delegates suggested various 'remedies', but many were contradictory in nature.
"We have to insist on producing account surpluses," said Alfred Gusenbauer, former Chancellor of Austria.
"Over the decades social justice was an additional political goal in addition to economic efficacy and GDP growth. But now things have changed. Now, social justice is a fundamental pre-requisite for economic success, because social justice essentially means that there will be additional demand that is more widespread and distributed," Gusenbauer said.
Neo-liberal Capitalism
Grzegorz Kolodko, the former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Poland, approached the challenges from the point of view which stressed that today's crisis is embedded in the problems of neo-liberal capitalism.
"And neo-liberal capitalism is the capitalism of speculators. It has no future, but it is being fought for," he added.
Kolodko, who is also credited with reforming Polish economics, believes that the crisis has manifested itself in four different spheres of daily life. It started in the financial sphere, spreading to the real economy, followed by the social sphere, and finally spilling over into the political sphere.
He says the result is that the world is now facing a crisis of ideology. Many experts agree with Kolodko's analysis adding that the world should come up with a new approach to the new challenges instead of resorting to outdated mechanisms.
"Business as usual would be a major mistake you can do now," said Kolodko.
But Immanuel Wallerstein, a professor at Yale University, believes that a market economy is not synonymous with capitalism; rather he believes that the two are opposing forces.
"Market economy means buyers, sellers and information. So they can't make much money. While capitalism is a pro-state economy that needs to suppress market economy for quasi monopoly," Wallerstein said.
Gusenbauer agrees. He believes that capitalism starts where market economy ends.
"Capitalism's aim is to finish competition, and competition is an attribute of market economy. Capitalism is a power structure, not an economic model."
The need to properly define and re-define common knowledge comes as a pre-requisite of the global economic future. Global economic measurements, such as GDP or the Gini index – which measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income – are no longer relevant.
As the economy shifts, new paradigms become necessary. In today's market realities, it much more relevant to speak about employment or unemployment.
On the left side of the debate Alexander Buzgalin, professor of economics at Moscow State University, believes market capitalism does have a future.
"There is no market capitalism today. The key word is today… Choosing where to go – to debts and inflation or to neo-liberalism; there is a third option – you can change the system of production, [make] it more efficient and [ensure] just distribution," he said.
The trouble of today's situation is that it is impossible to predict what happens next and there are no short-term solutions, as each patch on the global financial system makes the wound even worse.
"We shouldn't look for an ideal model that could solve the troubles," says Alexander Nekipelov, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Science.
"We should act pragmatically. That means we need to reject dogmas."
By Daria Chernyshova for The BRICS Post


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Eve Online lifts nullsec blackout, ending experiment into chaos
What's next for the "chaos era"?
Since July, players lurking in the darkest and crimeiest corners of Eve Online have been denied a valuable tool for surviving nullsec: seeing who else is in the same solar system. The "nullsec local blackout" meant that players had to speak in the local chat before they were counted and revealed to everyone else around, which made it a lot easier to lurk all sneaky-like. Developers CCP Games ended the 60-day blackout today, saying they've "seen some substantial changes in player behaviour" and learned a lot. Given recent talk of reintroducing chaos to the spaceskulduggery MMO, that's perhaps equal parts threat and promise.
"The blackout has given us an incredible amount of insight in terms of player behaviour, sentiment and ability to adapt to rapid short notice changes," CCP said today. "This will help to better inform us on where to take the direction of New Eden in future."
The blackout also put the fear up scamps who use bots to farm materials, with CCP reporting "a massive impact on those we believe to be suspected of botting." Bots watch warily for people entering the system, see, so not seeing the local population caused them trouble. Though I've read botters found ways to work around this, the persistent devils.
Talking on the Talking In Stations podcast in July shortly after the blackout began, CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar said this was one of several "calculated experiments" they had brewing. He noted they often overthink plans, so here they are doing something strange and using their extensive datagathering powers to draw conclusions.
"Overall we want to decrease the challenge for new players and we want to increase the challenge for veterans," he told the pod. "Eve Online has so many super-smart players that, to some extent, the game had already been solved . . . The end-game solution state of the chaos of Eve Online has been drained into order and everyone is slowly reaching a consensus on how things should be. That is a clear signal to us that we need to increase the challenge and we need to shake things up."
He added that he hoped Eve Online will "enter into a very exciting chaos era" after an era where "our sandbox is turning into cement."
A week before the blackout, an NPC faction launched an invasion and started attacking player-run starbases. Chaos indeed.
Responses from players in the official nullsec blackout forum thread range from players who loved the blackout wanting it back to players who hated it saying CCP had to turn it off because it was making people flee the game. No tidy consensus, then. Science!


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Holywell Street revisited
I don't want to sound obsessive about this - though it's probably a bit late in the day to say this given my previous form - but I have just come upon conclusive evidence that the BBC occupants of soon-to-be-vacated Bush House are heirs to the scurrilous pamphleteers and print makers of nineteenth century Holywell Street.
My colleague Paul Coletti has posted his own tribute to Bush House, exploring the story behind a plaque in memory of Andrew Young ('first valuer to the London County Council') which rests on our outer walls. He has borrowed from Peter Berthoud's excellent Discovering London site a plan overlaying the current street map of the Aldwych area on the Victorian one. Here it is:
It's a bewitching map - and you can see Holywell Street to the north of the Strand as it runs east of St Mary-le-Strand (there's a close-up below). And yes, my old, now deserted office, lay exactly on the line of that ancient, disreputable, rather wondrous street.
Much of the fire of Holywell Street's original pamphleteers was about holding those in authority to account - that too was the purpose of the radical print makers with their bawdy lampoons of the Regent and his courtiers - and isn't that, in a sense, what the more recent BBC occupiers of this space have been doing so well over the past 71 years?
Jonathon Green has written a wonderful account of Holywell Street in its least reputable phase on his website The Dabbler - complete with a range of marvellous images. I've lifted the photograph below from there - Holywell Street being brought down in 1902. All things must pass!
Homage to Holywell Street
Within a week, I am being 'migrated' from Bush House - my workplace for most of the past thirty years - to the splendid new extension to Broadcasting House at Portland Place. My hinterland switches from Covent Garden to the equally enticing Fitzrovia and Marylebone. But among all the haunts I will miss when I move, one that has given me much innocent pleasure is the vestigial presence of Holywell Street.
My office on the third floor of Bush House, on the north side of the Strand, lies exactly where Holywell Street once stood. I'll explain why that's important. But first - where was Holywell Street?
Take a glance at this enlarged section of Edward Weller's 1868 Map of London. Holywell Street lies just to the north of the Strand, between the churches of St Mary-le-Strand and St Clement Danes.
It was an Elizabethan Street demolished about 1900 to make this part of the Strand altogether grander. I reckon my office is somewhere very close - if three floors up - to the H of 'Holywell'.
And what was Holywell Street? A narrow, jumbled thoroughfare which - for much of its nineteenth century incarnation - was utterly disreputable. I owe my knowledge of this 'street of shame' (a precursor to Private Eye's similarly named street just yards away) to two wonderfully researched books - Lynda Nead's Victorian Babylon (Yale UP, 2000), from which I have taken the following painting with the spire of St Mary-le-Stand looming over the street scene, and Iain McCalman's effervescent Radical Underworld (Cambridge UP, 1988).
The place became the haunt, in the early years of the nineteenth century, of radical and ultra-radical pamphleteers and print makers. The radical tradition persisted, but over time some of these enterprises turned to smut and pornography. If you wanted stuff that would shock - politically, erotically - Holywell Street was the place to go. 'For Victorian London,' Lynda Nead writes, 'Holywell Street and obscenity were synonymous'.
'The obscenities of Holywell Street' (Nead says) 'grew out of a radical past. In the first decades of the nineteenth century the street was occupied by radical pressmen: freethinkers, who published tracts on politics, religion and sexuality and who, in the decades following the Revolution in France, were spied on by police informers and prosecuted for sedition, blasphemy and obscenity. This was the home of the literature of radicailsm and of a type of bawdy publishing dedicated to exposing the hypocrisy and immorality of the ruling classes. Holywell Street bore the traces of this political radicalism through the nineteenth century, as its activities shifted from freethinking to pornography.'
It's the radical and freethinking aspect of Holywell Street which engages me. I love political pamphlets of all hues, the more ephemeral the better. Among my haphazard collection are dispiritingly few from Holywell Street. But there is this very nice pamphlet from about 1872, by the then notorious republican George Odger who lived nearby in St Giles, from a Holywell Street address.
Of course, the media work I have been engaged in over the past three decades has little in common with old Holywell Street. But there is a thread of sorts. I am pleased to be in the same space that these rebellious, uncouth pamphleteers once occupied. And in my remaining days in Bush House, I will pay homage to the spirit of Holywell Street.
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Christine Savinel, Gertrude Stein : Autobiographies intempestives
Savinel, Christine, Gertrude Stein : Autobiographies intempestives (Paris : Editions Rue D'Ulm/Presses de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2017), 246 p, ISBN : 9 782728 805662
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Mots-clés :autobiographie, identité, biographie, histoire, géographie, expérimentation littéraire, expérimentation linguistique, avant-garde, cubisme, témoignage, vérité, méditations, intériorité, signature steinienne
Keywords:autobiography, identity, biography, history, geography, literary experimentation, linguistic experimentation, avant-garde, cubism, testimony, truth, meditations, interiority, Steinian signature
Persons mentioned:Gertrude Stein, Alice Toklas, Pablo Picasso, Leo Stein, Thornton Wilder, Georges Braque, Virgil Thomson, Daniel Defoe, George Hugnet, Mary Pickford, Henry James, Ulysses Simpson Grant, George Washington, Wilbur Wright, Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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1Gertrude Stein: Autobiographies intempestives offers exemplary scholarship on Gertrude Stein's autobiographical oeuvre. Chistine Savinel scrutinises the multiple facets of a cubist-like self-portrait painted by the prominent American author, an iconic figure at the heart of a vibrant artistic environment at the beginning of the twentieth century in Paris. Stein's "autobiographical enterprise" (15) amounts to a literary revolution, similar to her friend Picasso's geometrical representation of the author in his 1906 "Portrait of Gertrude Stein". The subject's mask-like face suggests the artist's inability to reveal her truth and access her interiority. Likewise, despite the multiplication of autobiographical poses in her oeuvre, Stein remains an elusive subject who both displays and dissimulates herself. Savinel leads us through Stein's autobiographical workshop and demonstrates that out of the multiplicity of fragmentary, partial, direct or oblique glimpses we are shown, the modernist author's "inopportune" autobiographical forms compose a consistent personal, national, literary, and aesthetic identity.
2The monograph consists of an introduction, six substantial chapters and a conclusion. In her introduction, Savinel outlines the wide scope of her book that sets out to examine some of Stein's writings in which the autobiographical propensity appears, be it openly declared or thinly veiled. Savinel maps out and temporally delimits her corpus out of Stein's vast and varied oeuvre to focus especially on four major works revolving around questions of autobiography: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), Four in America (1934), The Geographical History of America (1936), and Everybody's Autobiography (1937). The first and last autobiographical landmarks–more accessible and popular–of this creative spectrum temporarily enclose more elitist and experimental works, but Savinel evinces that they all have in common Stein's creative strategy of hiding the self behind other subjects. Stein's personal letters as well as other additional writings are taken into account in order to highlight her "interior landscape" (15): essays (Lectures in America [1935]; Narration [1935]), a play (Four Saints in Three Acts [1927]), and her only detective novel (Blood on the Dining Room Floor [1933]). The autobiographical dimension crosses and brings together all these eclectic texts in which the author's personal reflexions resurface in indirect, unexpected ways. Savinel thoroughly investigates the nature of the Steinian autobiography, its displacements, detours, and contours, as well as its "inopportune" ramifications into other genres. The felicitous subtitle of the monograph, "Autobiographies intempestives", reflects Stein's unique autobiographical project: a disconcerting, incongruous and devious literary enterprise to stage and represent herself.
3The first chapter of this monograph, "Faux témoignages", aims at exposing the "falseness" of Stein's autobiographical testimonies. Savinel mainly focuses on the literary ventriloquism at the heart of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, that is to say Stein's hiding under her partner's identity in order to write a third-person autobiography and use it as a tribune from which she imparts her vision on art and creation. Savinel examines the immediate reception of this autobiography, especially the controversies triggered by Stein's opinions about artists from her entourage. Some of them question the truthfulness of their representations as well as Stein's inaccurate recording of historical truth, and voice their discontent in Témoignage contre Gertude Stein. By closely analysing Stein's stance and statements on writing her life, Savinel points out essential questions about the impossibility of being oneself when writing an autobiography and the limits of true and complete self-disclosure; hence, for Stein, the necessary devious literary game of borrowing another voice and identity to indirectly unveil herself and speak her truth.
4While the previous chapter deals with other people's reactions to Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Chapter 2, "La place du mort", starts with Stein's own reaction to its reception and her writer's block (her dying and drying inspiration) about which she paradoxically abundantly writes in her second declared yet oblique autobiography, Everybody's Autobiography. After the successful reception of the first autobiography, Stein's written flow is paralysed, and Savinel contends that this amounts to an identity crisis for a writer who is defined by the flow of written words she has written, is writing and will write. For this, Savinel offers a detailed close reading of Stein's text, with an attentive eye on its materiality and movement, its breathing spaces, language, "grammar of crisis" (67), punctuation, syntax, and structure that participate in the expression of the author's strenuous effort to write.
5Savinel demonstrates that Stein retrospectively casts doubts on the truthfulness of her first autobiography and reveals its fictitious nature by drawing analogies with Robinson Crusoe: "nothing is entirely real in autobiography and nothing is entirely fictitious in Robinson Crusoe" (70). Savinel underlines the lack of factual information for an autobiography, for its author is more interested in the evolution of her development and "apprenticeship as a genius" (81), and in questions of fluctuating memory, by definition inaccurate and untrustworthy. Autobiography is thus seen as fiction about oneself. Savinel further discusses the penetrating metacreative discourse to be found in Blood on the Dining Room Floor, a curious detective novel that draws on real events, and concludes that the author's inability to lead the investigation is ironically going to finally de-block and unleash her creative flow, her literary and linguistic experimentation. In this chapter, Savinel dwells on various examples in which Stein replaces, alienates, metaphorically "kills" people in her entourage (her brother Leo, friends, and collaborators) and performs identity substitutions and creative thefts in order to stage her own self and liberate her literary production.
6In chapter 3, "Le général", Savinel's starting point for her analysis of Stein's multiple autobiographical stances is Everybody's Autobiography. She minutely examines Stein's penchant for generalisations and indeterminacy, as well as the idiosyncratic Steinian grammar, which is intrinsically linked to the author's mode of thinking and writing. She further offers an analysis of Stein's own reflexions on her name, her identity stemming from family genealogy and filiation. Within such identity considerations, Savinel inserts an astute analysis of Four in America, a "biographical fantasy" (124), and an appropriate case to study for its original autobiographical dimensions. Stein fictionalises the lives of four American figures and imagines four "improbable" destinies for them, thus changing the course of their real lives and playing with their identities, as well as historical and biographical reality. Savinel contends that Four in America actually constitutes facets of Stein's self-portrait, as the four fictional portraits reflect her own American identity and offer "biographical, aesthetic and critical analogies" (121) with her own personal life. The autobiographical subtext thus underlies the ensemble of this fanciful literary production.
7Chapter 4, "L'Amérique: géographie du hors-temps", focuses on Stein's Geographical History of America, another formal variation on the genre of autobiography in which Stein meditates about a-temporal interiority and personal identity shaped by origin and history. Savinel offers a thorough study of the relationships Stein establishes between biography and autobiography, personal and collective, interiority and exteriority, human mind and human nature, and explains that the Steinian autobiography exhibits tendencies towards temporal generalities, abstraction and geographical and historical de-contextualisation. Savinel also makes references to Narration, which gathers Stein's four conferences given in Chicago in 1935, in which questions about writing history are essential. Savinel argues that for Stein writing autobiography and history is similar insofar as they both consist in interiorising external events. This leads Stein to reconsider her American interiority and the nature of her "Americanness" (162), and ponder how much it is accounted for by human nature in general.
8The interdependence between geography and identity is also a topic discussed in chapter 5, "Folie de la reconnaissance". Savinel follows Stein's geographical displacement and points out her disorientation during her American tour in 1935. The author's position as a public celebrity prompts musings about her American identity, about the adverbial motifs of "here", "there", "where", about her insularity as a prerequisite to her creativity, as well as about her "recognition" and "non-recognition". Savinel asserts that Stein's non-recognition of her American territory has an impact on her writing, as confusion and malaise are reflected in her discourse and her use of a tortuous grammar and syntax. On the other hand, Stein's recognition as a "genius" and a creator of valuable, original works makes her reflect on the attributes of masterpieces which go beyond the author's identity and time; obliterating the self is thus paramount in the act of creation. Hence, being recognised by the public interferes with creativity. Savinel pores over such sharp observations and comments on the author's growing popularity in America, and shows how Stein is her own spectator and astute evaluator of her image and oeuvre.
9According to Savinel, meditation is the essence of the Steinian autobiography, since all her autobiographical texts display reflexions about people, things, events, places, creation, language, literature and writing. In the last chapter of her monograph, "La méditation infinie", Savinel analyses the relationship between Stein's meandering, slow flow of thought and her use of an idiosyncratic punctuation to create meaning and rhythm. She offers the reader fine studies of the anatomy of the Steinian sentence, dissecting and interpreting its fluidity and sound effects. The Steinian autobiography is thus a recording of the author's meditations and reflexions on her own processes of thinking and creating; it does not display the materiality, exteriority and intimacy of the body, but scrutinises the mental interiority and the dynamics of her thoughts.
10In each chapter of this intense monograph, Savinel investigates a plurality of aspects related to the specific themes announced in her titles that revolve around the central question of identity. We see how the icon of Gertrude Stein is built by Gertrude Stein herself, although we are never given a simple, straight-forward self-portrait. As an expert art and literary critic, Savinel guides us into Stein's intricate autobiographical poses and accounts and points out features that the modernist author skilfully dissimulates behind a variety of masks, filters, oblique representations, veiled truths, ventriloquism and convoluted discourses. Savinel has a comprehensive view of her subject, but also pauses on the Steinian text and magnifies it to offer us minute, illuminating close-reading analyses. As such, this book constitutes a valuable contribution to Gertude Stein studies in France and will appeal to an academic audience interested in Stein and avant-garde art and literature at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Yes, you have read that correctly! After a desperate fan's tweets to Demi (@mrskutcher) became more and more distressed, Demi asked other contacts to call the Police!
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As messages became more and more anxious: "@mrskutcher getting a knife, a big one that is sharp. Going to cut my arm down the whole arm so it doesn't waste time", Demi RTed the frantic message and tried to contact other followers to help.
After the poor lady tweeted the message "Gbye…gonna kill myself now", the local police department and hospital became involved. Demi reassured followers around four hours later explaining: "It is my understanding that the situation was not a joke and that through the collective efforts here action was taken to provide help!"
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So now Twitter is saving lives! Is there no end to its powers!?'


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Mitchell Moses didn't get all the "bells and whistles" that can come with an NRL debut.
As a late inclusion into the Wests Tigers Round 17 team, very few people knew that Moses would be taking to the field against the Panthers, with the 19-year-old admitting that being away from the spotlight actually helped him best prepare for the match.
"I just approached that game against the Panthers like any other week — just like I was going to play with the under-20's or State Cup boys," recalled Moses.
"I couldn't really tell too many people because I didn't get named in the team [on Tuesday], so I think that kind of helped me stay grounded.
"Not being named actually helped me treat it just like another week more than if I had been named, I think, so that was helpful for me."
Listed in the top-25 NRL squad at the start of the season, many were expecting the Holy Cross junior to get his shot at first-grade in 2014 and follow in the footsteps of his close friend and halves partner, Luke Brooks. But despite the hype, Moses waited patiently in the lower grades for more than half the season — featuring in both NYC and NSW Cup — before a season-ending injury to star fullback James Tedesco against the Canberra Raiders in Round 16 opened the door for the teenager to finally get his shot.
And despite it being not in his favoured position and a little earlier in the year than he'd expected, Moses understandably took the opportunity with both hands.
"To be honest," he admitted later, "I didn't think I was going to make my debut as early as I did. I guess there were a few injuries which kind of gave me that chance… but even then, because it wasn't a halves spot, I didn't immediately think that it could happen.
"I'd played [at fullback] a bit over the last few years, so it wasn't too bad on the day. I think when I stepped into the No. 6 jersey later on in the year I started to feel a bit more comfortable than I did at fullback, but I was just happy to be out on the field.
"I didn't get my debut when we were going at the best of times, "Moses reflected. "That was hard to fit into, I guess, but I was just so happy that it came.
"I felt really lucky to make my debut and achieve that dream I've had since I was a kid.
"And to do it at Leichhardt — where I grew up watching footy — was unreal as well."
There's almost a hint of excitement in Moses' voice as he mentions the ground that he grew up watching the Wests Tigers play at so often as a youngster.
A Parramatta Eels fan in his younger years, moving to Holy Cross and playing for Balmain in Harold Matthews and SG Ball quickly saw his passion turn to the orange, black and white — making the occasion all the more special for the debutant.
"The thing that I remember most about the day was the atmosphere," recalled Moses.
"I think that day was close to a sell-out at Leichhardt Oval. A packed Sunday afternoon game — I used to go to those games when I was young to watch the Wests Tigers play — so I guess to debut on a really similar day to those ones will always stand out to me.
"I remember running out and looking up to the hill and seeing the old scoreboard… I almost had to pinch myself that it was all happening and that I was actually out there."
As memorable as the day and moment might have been for Moses, the fairytale script didn't quite have the perfect ending for the youngster, as competition heavyweights Penrith Panthers emerged with a comprehensive 26-10 victory on the day.
But even in a loss, those first moments are still there, as clear as anything in his mind.
"I remember my first touch," said Moses. "A bomb… you know, it was all right."
"I don't mind getting stuck with a high ball or two; I was kind of hoping they'd try and test me out because I knew that if I took it well, that would give me confidence. It was a pretty windy day that day and I can remember the ball swirling all over the place, but I was just happy to hang on and get that first touch under my belt and get some confidence. It was a tough game for me personally, I guess, with a kicker like Jamie Soward who just hits the ball so well and never gives you anything easy to deal with."
"But it was good fun. I know I'll never forget the memories of that game."
With his debut then ticked off the list — along with his first try — of career goals, Moses' focus immediately turns to 2015 and the years ahead. There's a sense of pride in what's to come; desire to be better than the weeks and months before.
"Having made my debut, I think it's just made me that extra bit more hungry," he said.
"I was playing those last couple of rounds with a bit of an injury so I don't think I was playing to my full potential. I don't think I was doing everything that I was capable of and kind of showing earlier in the year with the 20's boys, so I'm just looking forward to getting my body 100 percent right and going from that into pre-season.
"I'm pretty hungry for 2015, with the goal to put a bit of size on and work on my game a bit to kind of eliminate those faults that are there, and just learn as much as I can.
"There's a great group here, and I can't wait to be a part of this new future at the Club."


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RanWe are proud to once again welcome you all for a jam packed Toy News Tuesday! We're the one weekly column right here on ScienceFiction.com where we seek out all of the awesome news you need to know about any announcements and cool happenings in the toy industry and put them all in one easy to find place for you! We are just a few short days away from the largest toy news event of the year, New York Toy Fair 2019! We will be reporting to you live from the show floor this weekend and we are super excited to share all of the best news with you! In the meantime, we still have plenty of cool stuff to show off before the show in the Toy News for the week of February 12th, 2019!
The 'Galaxy of Adventures' Set To Continue
This past holiday season the team at Hasbro launched their new 3.75″ scale line of 'Star Wars: Galaxy Of Adventures' figures to much acclaim from collectors and kids alike! This week, just ahead of New York Toy Fair 2019, Hasbro has unveiled the new third wave of figures in the fledgling line of basic figures. Each figure sports a basic 5 points of articulation and includes a mini comic, as well as a code that can be used to gain access to even more cool stuff on the toyline's website. Figures in the new wave include Rey, Kylo Ren, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, General Grievous, and Darth Maul! This new wave is due out in stores spring, check them out below!
It's Finally 'Morphin Time' At Hasbro
This year we saw the baton that is the 'Power Rangers' toy license change hands for the first time in the franchise's lengthy history. For a quarter of a century the brand has been resting comfortably at Bandai, but as of this year it has made the jump over to the team at Hasbro who has now purchased 100% of the rights to the franchise from Saban. With New York Toy Fair just a few days away, Hasbro has decided to pull back the curtain a little bit early and show off the first new figures for the brand's latest iteration 'Power Rangers: Beast Morphers'. We've got our first look at both a new role-play Beast-X Morpher, as well as the new 6″ basic figure line. Check out the full details below!
(Ages 5 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $29.99/Available: Spring 2019)
Get ready to Go Go POWER RANGERS! In the POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS series, Rangers morph into their superhuman form by activating their Morpher. Now kids can imagine that they're activating their own super powers with the POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS BEAST-X MORPHER toy. Putting it on the wrist and saying "It's Morphin Time" activates music, lights, and sound effects. Swinging it around as if battling monsters unleashes special animal-inspired sounds. Insert the included MORPH-X KEY to activate different character sounds and phrases. Look for other POWER RANGERS items that include MORPH-X KEYS to unlock even more sounds and phrases, along with other POWER RANGERS figures and gear to expand the morphinominal action. Each sold separately. Available at most major toy retailers nationwide.
POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS 6" BASIC FIGURES Assortment
(Ages 4 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $9.99/Available: Spring 2019)
When scientists convert the power of the Morphing Grid into Morph-X, a group of teens are infused with animal DNA to become the POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS and protect the Morph-X from any villains who may try to steal it. The figures in the POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS BASIC FIGURES Assortment stand at 6 inches tall, feature multiple points of articulation, and includes 2 accessories so kids can imagine the martial arts action of the POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS TV show. Plus, with the included Morph-X key, kids can imagine unlocking powers in the Beast-X Morpher toy. The assortment includes the RED RANGER Figure, BLUE RANGER Figure, YELLOW RANGER Figure, CYBERVILLAIN BLAZE Figure and TRONIC Figure. Imagine the CYBERVILLAIN BLAZE and TRONIC Figures commanding the forces of Evox to steal the Morph-X and have the RED, BLUE and YELLOW RANGER Figures fighting to protect the Morph-X! Find other POWER RANGERS figures and gear, including POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS toys, to expand the morphinominal action. Each sold separately. Available at most major toy retailers nationwide.
Hot Toys Takes Flight With 'Captain Marvel'
Marvel Studio's next big blockbuster is heading to theaters next month with 'Captain Marvel'! So of course, as always with the release of a new blockbuster superhero film, we've got a wonderful new 1:6th scale figure coming from the team at Hot Toys based on the film's titular heroine herself, Captain Marvel! The new 1:6th scale Captain Marvel figure will stand approximately 11.5″ tall and includes three interchangeable heads (masked, unmasked, and light-up masked!), a number of alternative hands, a figure stand, and a variety of special power effect pieces! There will also be a special Deluxe version that includes additional accessories like a removable jacket, Goose the Cat, and some extra effects pieces! Check out the full release info and photos for both versions of the Hot Toys 1:6th scale Captain Marvel figure below!
Captain Marvel – 1/6th scale Captain Marvel Collectible Figure
"I'm not what you think I am."
One of the most anticipated movies of 2019, Captain Marvel is getting ready for her close-up! The film follows an Earth-trained pilot Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel, a powerful hero with strong sense of duty and honor. In the middle of a galactic war between two alien races, she protects the Earth from extraterrestrial threats with her unimaginable ability. Given immense popularity of the character, Hot Toys is proud to introduce Captain Marvel 1/6th scale collectible figure prior to the epic release.
The movie-accurate collectible is specially crafted based on the image of Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel from the film. It features two interchangeable head sculpts including a newly developed helmeted head sculpt with LED light-up function that accentuates Captain Marvel's superpower and a newly developed unmasked head sculpt, two pieces of Mohawk hair sculptures, a newly developed body equipped with LED light-up function on both sides of the forearms, an iconic Captain Marvel costume in metallic red and blue with a gold star emblem on chest, wearable energy-blasting effect accessories, and a movie-themed figure stand. The latest Captain Marvel collectible figure is a perfect way to show off your super powers!
Captain Marvel – 1:6 Captain Marvel (Deluxe Version)
"I'm not gonna fight your war, I'm gonna end it."
While Captain Marvel is coming to theaters in less than a month, anticipation for this forthcoming installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is running exceptionally high. Being introduced at the post-credits scene of Avengers: Infinity War, Captain Marvel represents a key addition to the Earth's mightiest heroes.
Today, Hot Toys is expanding Movie Masterpiece Series with the cosmic-powered hero Captain Marvel in 1/6th scale collectible figure awaited by millions of fans! Go on an epic adventure with Carol Danvers – better known as Captain Marvel – a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot with power to change the world.
Expertly crafted based on the appearance of Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel in the movie, the highly-detailed collectible figure features two interchangeable head sculpts including a newly develop unmasked head sculpt with amazing likeness and a newly developed helmeted head sculpt with LED light-up function that accentuates Captain Marvel's superpower, two pieces of classic Mohawk hair sculptures, a newly developed body equipped with LED light-up function on both sides of the forearms, a skillfully tailored costume in metallic red and blue with a gold star emblem on chest, multiple energy-blasting effect accessories that are wearable on arms, and a movie-themed dynamic figure stand for aerial poses! The Deluxe Version will exclusively include Goose the Cat, a delicate Flight Bomber jacket and an extra pair of firing effect accessories to complete the style. Pre-order Captain Marvel collectible figure now and discover what makes her a hero!
Last "Who You Gonna" Call?
This week the 10th and potentially final wave of Diamond Select Toys 'Ghostbusters Select' toyline is hitting stores! The latest wave is based on 'The Real Ghostbusters' animated series and includes 8″ scale figures of Ray Stantz, Peter Venkman, and The Staypuft Marshmallow Man! Each figure includes a piece of the massive Firehouse Diorama that collectors began to build way back in Series 6 of the line, bringing the Diorama to completion if you managed to buy every figure in the line! These are the final figures that have been shown for the line as of the time of this writing, but with Toy Fair just days away who knows? I, for one, wouldn't count this line out just yet. Series 10 of 'Ghostbusters Select' from Diamond Select Toys hits stores this week for $24.99 each!
More Mezco Pre-Toy Fair Reveals
Mezco seems to be pulling out all of the stops for some of their new products just ahead of New York Toy Fair! This week they have released new information and images for one of their highly anticipated box sets, plus an entirely new toyline that has never been seen before!
First up we've got a much better look at the all new One:12 Collective 'The Warriors' Box Set! This set includes four figures in total, with Swam and Ajax from The Warriors and two Baseball Fury gang members! These figures feature all of the articulation and detail that fans have come to love about the One:12 Collective line and include a massive amount of accessories like alternative heads, hands, and weapons, making this box set a "must have" for fans of the film. This set is already up for pre-order and will cost a whopping $275 when it releases next winter. Check out the full release details from Mezco below!
In addition to this box set, this week Mezco also released prototype images and information for an all new line called '5 Points'! This is a new retro style line of figures, and as the name implies they feature a minimalistic take on things with just 5 points of articulation. Mezco has not yet released any information as to what scale these will be in, but our best guess is likely 3.75″ as that is the scale that the majority of retro figures like this are based in. The only licenses for this line so far appear to be Hanna Barbera, with characters from 'Birdman' and 'Scooby Doo: Where Are You?' shown. Hopefully we will see more on this line at Toy Fair this weekend!
NECA's Newest Sci-Fi Reveals
We're sure we will see lots of great new stuff coming from the team at NECA this weekend at New York Toy Fair 2019, but for now we will have to settle for closer looks at two of their most highly anticipated upcoming figures plus a whole new figure we never even saw coming!
Diving right in we've got a much better look at the upcoming 'Alien: Resurrection' Deluxe Newborn Alien 7″ scale figure! As it is in scale with the rest of the figures in the long running 'ALIEN' line, making it a massive 11″ tall! Combine that with over 30 points of articulation and you've got one hell of a figure coming our way! The NECA Deluxe Newborn Alien from 'Alien: Resurrection' is due to release in the second quarter of 2019.
From Alien: Resurrection, the fourth movie in the thrilling sci-fi series! Two hundred years after Ripley's death, military scientists are attempting to clone Ripley in order to extract the Queen embryo that was in her body when she died… And on the eighth attempt, they succeed.
Contaminated with Ripley's DNA, the Queen gives birth to a grotesque human/alien hybrid called the "Newborn." The Newborn action figure stands approximately 11" tall and includes a display stand. The Newborn features a screen-accurate sculpt and almost 30 points of articulation. This deluxe figure comes in display-friendly window box packaging with opening flap.
Next up we've got a new look at the new NECA Ultimate Emissary Predator #1 figure from 'The Predator'! You may find yourself asking "wait what is an Emissary Predator?", and that would make perfect sense, because they never technically happened! The Emissary Predator is based on a character design from a deleted scene from last year's 'The Predator'! The figure gives you a chance to enjoy the scene which was never really meant to be, so be sure to pick it up when it releases in the second quarter of 2019!
From the new Predator movie directed by Shane Black! Although their scenes were deleted from the final cut of the movie, the Emissary Predators were military Predators who fought alongside the Loonies.
Emissary #1 stands over 8" tall and features 30 points of articulation. Includes interchangeable masked and unmasked heads, 2 pairs of hands, and rifle accessory. Comes in collector-friendly deluxe window box packaging with opening flap.
Finally we have a fantastic new figure that we never saw coming in a million years with an 8″ Retro Style figure of Detective Ray Cameron from 'Night Of The Creeps'! Once again partnering with Scream Factory, NECA is bringing us a special 8″ Retro Style figure to release in a limited edition bundle with a Deluxe Edition 'Night Of The Creeps' Bluray, which is limited to just 3000 pieces. Detective Ray Cameron comes packaged with a shotgun, a can of beer, and a removable trench coat! This set is up for pre-order now with a price point of just $69.99 and a release date of May 28th, 2019!
The 'Walking Dead' Is Dead?
Fans will be shocked to hear that McFarlane Toys apparently has no new 'The Walking Dead' merchandise planned or in development! According the ToyArk and McFarlane Toys themselves, McFarlane "doesn't have any Walking Dead figures set to release this year"! At least that's what they said in a since deleted Facebook comment in response to a fan question regarding the line. We haven't seen any new 'Walking Dead' figures from them in a while as is, and even several figures previously revealed for a 2018 release have since ended up cancelled. So will they continue to hold the license? Only time will tell.
The Funko Forecast
Get ready for the Funko Forecast! This is where we're going to be showcasing all of the cool new announcements and reveals from Funko! With all of the awesome that consistently seems to be flowing out of those guys, it shouldn't be hard to keep this section alive each and every week!
Hot Topic Heads To The DC Universe
The latest batch of retailer exclusive Funko POP! Vinyls is on it's way to Hot Topic stores this month and they're coming straight from the DC Comics Universe! This February Batman fans can look forward to New 52 Red Robin and a 'Joe-Ker' version of The Joker in Hot Topic Stores! Check out a first look at the exclusive new figures below!
Gotta Catch'em All!
Last fall Funko released their first ever Nintendo branded POP! Vinyl with Pikachu from the 'Pokemon' gaming franchise! As many of you probably know, the whole trick of the 'Pokemon' brand is that "you gotta catch'em all", so it makes perfect sense to see that Funko would announce even more Pokemon POP! Vinyls are coming our way! It looks like classic Pokemon Bulbasaur will be joining the POP! vinyls line in the near future! Check out our first look at him below!
And with that, we bring this week's Toy News Tuesday to a close! What do you think about the new items announced this week? Do you plan on picking up anything we mentioned in this week's column? Are there any lines or brands you'd like to see more coverage of? Let us know in the comments section below!


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Ten Ton Hammer's Exclusive Preview of Otherland
Ten Ton Hammer travelled to Singapore last month for the first public reveal of Otherland - a genre-spanning MMORPG based on the virtual reality novels of Tad Williams. In the tradition of innovative games like Uplink and Darwinia, Otherworld makes reality the starting point, inviting players into a surreal, beautiful, and unabashedly virtual collection of worlds where nothing is as it seems and a sinister plot is unfolding just below the surface. The game's slogans is telling - you play the game, the game plays you.
"Otherland's central hub, Lambda Mall, is much more than a stopover between points A and B. It's a sort of Dave & Buster's meets Six Flags on the Las Vegas strip about 20 stories above the set of a gentrified, pollution-free Blade Runner. Two of the Mister J's meeting places we toured - and these are just bars, mind you - had me wondering why we hadn't seen these imaginative concepts in a game before."
Join Ten Ton Hammer for our reveal and first preview of Otherland, RealU's truly different MMORPG project, currently slated for a 2010 release.
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Ten years. It's been ten years since we got our first look at Iron Man. Little did we know, that the small tale of a billionaire weapons developer turning his life around would lead to a movie on this unbelieveable scale.
Avengers: Infinity War. The hype and anticipation behind this film is unprecedented. Fans have been clamoring for their first look look at Thanos in action for months, with their jealousy of those that attended D23 and SDCC panels fueling their fire even more (unless you were able to catch the infamous leaked footage).
Well the time is finally here. If you haven't already, you can get your first look at the beginning of the end for the MCU—as we know it—down below. If you've already seen it, well…you probably should just watch it again.
Kind of mind-blowing right? Well let's take a shot by shot look at what we saw, sprinkled with some speculation on my part.
- An orange, dusty planet. Is it Earth? Maybe a future ravaged version of it? Or another planet entirely, maybe Xandar? Also, is that potentially two suns we see?
- Tony in mourning/sad contemplation. This is likely on that same orange tinted planet that we see throughout the trailer (from the first shot).
- Bruce has fallen into Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum! This is a direct reference to Silver Surfer's arrival in the original Infinity Gauntlet Comic storyline. Doctor Strange and Wong are there to greet him.
- Vision has a human form! He is in a room (hotel?) with Scarlet Witch. Is his Human form Vision's doing or is it an illusion from Wanda? He also seems to have his mind stone still. They are certainly putting focus on the relationship between the two of them.
- Thor is looking out of windows into space. Is this the same ship that we see at the end of the trailer? Very likely.
- We see Bruce Banner standing next to a Hulkbuster Gauntlet. He is talking to what seems like Black Widow (the arm matches her new costume), who makes an appearance with her new look in the next shot. Their location is Wakanda, based on its reappearance several points throughout the trailer.
- Nostalgic placement of the Marvel Studios logo alongside the fantastic Alan Silvestri Avengers theme.
- Tony has arrived at the Sanctum Sanctorum. He is joining Wong, Strange, and Banner. This is probably very shortly after Bruce has landed. Also do you recognize that familiar flip phone in Tony's hand?
- Tony is leaving the Sanctorum because of the commotion being caused outside, and the panic on the streets that can be briefly glimpsed.
- Peter Parker's Spidey sense! Him, and all of his classmates, notice the flying ring device in the sky. We get a closer look at this device with the next shot, and we see the inside gears of it rotating rapidly.
- Now this thing in the sky, Is it a portal device? A device or engine that will lead to destruction? Maybe it's responsible for the destruction of earth (as theorized above)?
- Tony, Strange, Wong, and Banner are seen looking into the sky (probably to the same device that Peter sees). Tony can be seen with his new arc reactor. I really have no idea why he would have a new one. The only reigning theory is that it is important to the functionality of his new Iron Man suit.
- Someone is stepping over dead/incapacitated bodies, in a destroyed environment. Is it Loki? One of Thanos' children?
- We see Loki handing over the Tesseract—also known as the Space Stone—to someone off camera, probably to Thanos himself or one of his children (The Black Order for you comic fans).
- Thanos! His first appearance in the trailer, as he enters from a portal. One could speculate the portal is a product of the space stone. You can see ruins behind the portal, and a familiar orange tinted landscape. If you look carefully, you can see stones and other debris unnaturally floating in the background. Does this lean more to the idea that this landscape is on a foreign planet, or just the aftermath of earth thanks to those floating ring devices? Also does some of the wreckage in the background look suspiciously like Nova Corp ships?
- Spider-Man lands on the foreign device, fully decked out in his new Avengers armor! Looking good Spidey. Would also like to note that the sky is still blue behind him.
- Thor is holding together two big handles. Not a single clue what this might be, but there does seem to be a door opening behind him. Is he trying to keep or closed or open it? Maybe neither?
- Proxima Midnight throwing her spear at a shadowed Captain America.
- "Get this man a Shield." — T'Challa (aka the best line)
- A shot of Scarlet Witch looking at something/one in distress.
- Clear look at the new Mark II Hulkbuster armor. Who is in the armor? Tony Stark doesn't seem to be in any of the Wakanda scenes. Could it be Bruce Banner, as alluded to by the previous shot of him by the gauntlet?
- Black Widow stabbing someone with a staff, very reminiscent to a similar shot in the first Avengers.
- Doctor Strange lowering his spells.
- A huge spear like building/object falling into what looks like the area surrounding Wakanda. A massive tool of destruction from the Children Of Thanos?
- Captain America and Black Panther fighting four-armed aliens, with plenty to go around in the background. These aliens or creatures are likely The Outriders.
- Thanos smashing Spidey into the ground, pinning him down. Pete may be in over his head.
- Tony looking into the distance very distressed.
- Vision getting his mind stone pried from his forehead. The object doing the prying looks an awful lot like Corvus Glaive's staff. Proxima Midnight may be standing next to him judging from the blue glowing spear in frame.
- Thanos placing the the space stone in its slot on the Infinity Gauntlet. The special effects look awesome, with the vacuum and then shockwave once the stone is in. Also that CGI for Thanos is nuts.
- There are two more Thanos shots, one of his groovy-chined face with fire and rubble in the background, and another with Thanos flaunting his Gauntlet, with the space and power stones in their place.
- Side note: behind Thanos flaunting his Gauntlet, can we see the same ring device from earlier? Now crashed into the ground. The sky seems blue, so that might suggest earth? Maybe they all destroy the devices in the sky on earth and this upsets Thanos, causing him to arrive via portal (but some destruction has already occurred).
- Iron Man raises his hands in both protection and fear, as Thanos uses his bare non-Gauntlet hand to beat Stark to the ground. You can feel the raw power of the hit as Stark goes limp and crushes into the floor.
- Bucky at the front lines of a Wakandian army. He seems to have his arm back. We also see Black Panther leading, with Steve and Bucky visible in the second row of soldiers. Also is that Winston Dukes' M'Baku/Man-Ape in the back left?
- Falcon does a fly by, and you can see Hulkbuster fighting in the crowd.
- The two armies clash: Wakandians vs. Aliens.
- The money shot. Black Panther, Captain America, Bucky, Okoye, Black Widow, Hulk, War Machine, and Falcon leading the Wakandian army in a charge. Cap has some sort of Wakandian tech on his arms, seemingly modeled after the Black Panther suit itself.
- That sweet sweet logo.
- Eye-patch Thor meets the Guardians of the Galaxy!
All around, the trailer was pretty amazing and showed a lot more than anyone could have hoped for a first teaser trailer. Along with the trailer Marvel also released both a new synopsis and teaser poster for the films, which can be seen below.
An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Infinity War" brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Anthony and Joe Russo direct the film, which is produced by Kevin Feige. Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Michael Grillo and Stan Lee are the executive producers. Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely wrote the screenplay.
Are you guys excited for Avengers: Infinity War? What was your favorite part of the trailer? Be sure to let us know down below in the comments.
Avengers: Infinity War releases in U.S. theaters on May 4th, 2018.


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Program dates are January 13 to February 17, 2018. The Institute will host a group of up to 20 students from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. The Institute will be conducted in English and will be hosted at the Institute for Training and Development (ITD) in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Application forms should be completed online at http://goo.gl/F06aqI. Please submit any supplemental documents (concentración de notas and awards) in ONE email to email@example.com.
Deadline for applying is 11:59 PM on Friday, September 15, 2017. Applications received after this deadline will NOT be accepted.
Candidate Description and Qualifications:
The participants are expected to be highly motivated undergraduate students from colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher education, who demonstrate leadership through academic work, community involvement, and extracurricular activities. Their fields of study will be varied, and may include the sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, business, and other professional fields. Students graduating in December 2017 are not eligible.
Preference will be given to students who have graduated from public or private subsidized schools; are studying under "gratuidad" or have financial aid (becas), and have had minimum exposure to the U.S.
Candidates nominated for this program will:
be proficient in English;
come from historically underserved communities;
have at least one semester left of their undergraduate studies, and therefore be committed to return to their home universities following completion of the program;
be between 18-25 years old;
have had little or no prior study or travel experience in the United States or elsewhere outside of their home country;
demonstrate strong leadership qualities and potential in their university and community activities;
indicate a serious interest in learning about the United States and about U.S. history and government;
have a sustained high level of academic achievement, as indicated in grades and awards;
have demonstrated commitment to community and extracurricular university activities;be mature, responsible, independent, confident, open-minded, tolerant, thoughtful, and inquisitive;
be willing and able to fully participate in an intensive academic program, community service, and educational travel program;
be comfortable with campus life, prepared to share living accommodations, and able to make adjustments to cultural and social practices different from those of their home country.
Program Description:
Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) for Student Leaders are intensive academic programs whose purpose is to provide groups of undergraduate student leaders with a deeper understanding of the United States, while simultaneously enhancing their leadership skills. The Institutes will consist of a balanced series of seminar discussions, readings, group presentations, and lectures. The coursework and classroom activities will be complemented by educational travel, site visits, and volunteer opportunities. The Institutes will include an academic residency component of approximately four weeks and a domestic travel component of approximately one week. During the academic residency, participants will also have the opportunity to get out of the classroom.
The program will be conducted in English and will focus on contemporary American life, as it is shaped by historical and/or current political, social, and economic issues and debates. Students will be provided with an overview of the foundations of democracy as they learn about the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, the federal system of government, elections, the court system, etc. Students will explore the various complex historical and contemporary issues associated with identity throughout the Americas, including race, ethnicity, and color. Participants will discuss topics related to immigration and the Latino experience in the U.S.; and will travel to New York City to visit cultural and historic sites. During their study tour they will take a five-day trip to Arizona where topics in immigration will be revisited along with a discussion of the Native-American experience. The program will conclude in Washington, D.C. where students will meet participants from Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru who participated in the concurrent Institute at the University of Arizona.
Other core components of the Institute include leadership development, community service, and fostering cross-cultural understanding. Participants will engage with Americans on campus and will also participate in a weekend homestay.
Other Essential Program Information:
A. What is Covered: Participant costs, including program administration; visas; domestic travel and ground transportation; books, cultural, mailing and incidental allowances; and housing and subsistence. Applicants will be responsible for acquiring and paying for their own passport.
B. Housing and Meal Arrangements: Participants will reside at the ITD House, an 11-bedroom home situated in the center of Amherst, MA and a 10-minute walk from Amherst College campus. Most meals will be provided at the Amherst College dinning commons, though some meals will be provided by the program, and participants will also receive per diem that they can use to go out to local restaurants.
Care will be taken to ensure that any special requirements regarding diet, daily worship, housing, and medical care are satisfied.
C. Health Benefits: All participants will receive the Department of State's coverage of $100,000 with a $25 co-pay for the duration of the program. Pre-existing conditions are not covered.
D. Program Requirements and Restrictions: Participants are expected to participate fully in the academic program. They are expected to attend all lectures and organized activities, and complete assigned readings. The Institute is intensive, and there will be little time for personal pursuits unrelated to the program. Under no circumstances are participants allowed to arrive in the United States prior to the start date of the Institute or remain in the United States after its end date. Similarly, participants will not be allowed to leave the Institute to visit relatives or friends while in the United States. If a relative or friend wishes to visit them, it will be addressed on a case by case basis, in consultation with ECA and the program director.
Violations of program rules, host institution rules or local, state, or federal laws can be grounds for immediate dismissal from the program.
E. English Language Ability: English language proficiency is a requirement to participate in this program. The program will be conducted in English. The Institute is a rigorous and demanding program; participants will be expected to handle short reading assignments in English and to be full and active participants in all seminar and panel discussions.
Frequently Asked Questions:
1) What degree of English proficiency should a nominee have? All participants must be fully proficient in English; throughout the Institute they will need to fully understand lectures, actively participate in discussions, and read and write assignments in English.
2) Can a nominee who is a dual citizen (U.S. and country of origin) participate in Study of the U.S. Institutes? No. U.S. citizens and permanent residents (green card holders) are NOT eligible to participate in this program.
3) How much free time will a participant have during the program? There will be some free time during the program. However, nominees MUST understand that this is an intensive academic program and they are expected to fully participate in all lectures, activities, and scheduled events.
4) If a nominee has relatives in the U.S., would s/he have time to see them? Participants will NOT be allowed to leave the Institute to visit relatives or friends. Occasionally, it is possible for a relative or friend to visit the participant on a specific day designated by the host institution if the schedule permits. These situations will be addressed on a case by case basis in consultation with the ECA program officer and the host institution.
5) Can a participant arrive early/late or stay after the Institute? No. Participants who choose to travel to the United States on a Study of the U.S. program are required to abide by the terms and conditions of the program. These terms state clearly that student leaders may NOT arrive in the United States before the program start date or remain in the country after the close of the institute.
6) Can a graduate student participate in this Institute? No. Study of the U.S. Institutes are designed exclusively for undergraduate students.
7) Can a participant miss one part or component of the Institute? No. All participants are expected to participate in all scheduled lectures, events, site visits, trips, and activities.
8) How much money will participants need to bring for the program? The Study of the U.S. Institute covers all costs of an individual's participation including transportation, lodging, and meals. Generally, host institutions provide for meals through a combination of a cafeteria meal plan and cash allowance to permit participants to cook or eat at local restaurants. Information on housing and meal arrangements will be provided by the host institution six weeks prior to the start of the Institute. Participants should bring their own spending money if they wish to purchase souvenirs or other items during their time in the United States.
9) Can a student who participated in the English Access Microscholarship Program or Youth Ambassadors Program participate in this Institute? Yes.


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Expert Interview Series: Dr. Edward Pultar, PhD, of Valarm on the Benefits of Remote Monitoring
April 20, 2017
April 20, 2017
Dr. Edward Pultar, PhD, is an engineer and founder at Tools.Valarm.net, an Industrial Internet of Things / IIoT company that monitors environmental assets like air quality, pollution and water. Tools.Valarm.net also gives organizations real-time monitoring of any industrial equipment and assets. Valarm Tools Cloud software makes effective business information available for decision makers in all industries, so they can create profit and efficiency for their organizations.
We recently asked Dr. Pultar about the advantages of remote monitoring. Here's what he shared:
Can you tell us about the mission behind Valarm? How are you hoping to impact industrial technology?
The mission of Tools.Valarm.net is to help organization's around the world with effective remote monitoring systems. Our motto is monitor anything, anywhere, and we really mean it. Tools.Valarm.net software impacts industrial technology by giving you rapidly deployable sensor telemetry solutions. The company started after my brother Lorenzo's motorcycle was stolen.
Years ago we made the Valarm Tools Cloud platform for monitoring assets, like stolen motorcycles, and quickly realized the utility for all industry verticals. From distant facilities, tanks,and water wells, to fleet vehicles and mobile assets monitoring air quality and industrial equipment, our software continues to be improved as we listen intently to the needs of our customers.
Can you talk about the world of the Industrial IoT? How has it evolved in recent years? What are your predictions for the future of how IoT is applied to industry?
Industrial IoT is a rapidly growing world. In recent years we've seen a significant increase in customers monitoring two key factors: air quality and water / fluids. There was a gap in industry for remote environmental monitoring, particularly air and water, and I believe that will continue to be an area of growth for the future.
I believe in the future we'll continue to see new networking technologies, like LoRa, Sigfox and Ingenu, that are focused on connecting Internet of Things sensor devices to the clouds.
Also, I think that international sensor standards will be even more critical in the coming years. Technologies like 4-20mA, 0-10V, serial, RS-232, RS-485 Modbus, and SPI allow sensor adapters to communicate and read sensor measurements regardless of where the sensor was manufactured.
What are the advantages of using remote monitoring? What about any potential drawbacks or risks?
Remote monitoring has many advantages. However, just like everything else it's not perfect, so there are pros and cons for your organization. A key advantage with remote monitoring is saving time and money. Many organizations have folks drive for hours out to remote field sites to take a measurement from a sensor, then drive a few hours back to the office. One example of this is with water resources management and remotely monitoring water wells. Staff used to drive to a distant water well and write down water usage measurements (e.g., gallons, inch acres, or liters) from flow meters and water level measurements from pressure transducers.
Industrial Internet of Things and IoT sensors give organizations these measurements automatically on a webpage or a custom dashboard. By eliminating hours of driving, employees spend more time analyzing sensor information and a business has less gas expenses plus less wear and tear on their assets like vehicles. A potential drawback is the risk of vandalism and damage to remote monitoring equipment. By locking or deploying monitoring systems in high or difficult to access locations helps reduce this risk.
What have been the most interesting or exciting applications for remote monitoring products you've observed?
The most exciting applications for me are water and air quality monitoring systems. Air and water are valuable assets for you, me and everyone on our planet. How long can you and your family live without water or air? I feel grateful to make an impact with businesses, environmental consultancies, government agencies, cities, and organizations to monitor pollution, particulate matter like PM2.5, gases (ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides) and water resources.
What tools do you rely on to build and run your products? What is essential to ensuring your clients are collecting accurate data efficiently?
We rely on excellent sensors made by companies all around the world. For efficient data collection, it's essential to use the most effective combination of hardware equipment, which may come from all over the world, like California, Colorado, England, Switzerland, Texas and New York.
Today our customers also rely on Tools.Valarm.net APIs to integrate their remotely monitored sensors with their business intelligence and analytics systems, products, and tools like the Esri ArcGIS platform and Cityworks.
What are best practices for implementing a remote monitoring strategy? What considerations should company's be making?
In my opinion best practices are to make sure you're considering what options will make your remote monitoring deployments the most effective. For example, I recommend using most effective internet connectivity for your application.
Since Tools.Valarm.net is an open platform, you can send and upload your sensor measurements using any connectivity, whether it's GSM cell networks like 3G, or WiFi or ethernet. Our customers who monitor stationary assets and tank farms save money every month by using their existing WiFi and ethernet networks to upload their sensor information. While they could upload tank level and volume measurements via mobile cell networks, that would cost more than using the internet connection already available at the office!
We recommend a similar implementation practice with power sources. Sometimes a solar powered remote monitoring system is appropriate in distant facilities. However, even with remote water wells, there is a water pump, so that means there's a standard power source available like standard mains wall electricity 110V AC. Why not use that? A one size fits all IoT solution doesn't make sense because each organization's remote monitoring needs are unique. If there is a power plug available, use it! You'll save money by not buying solar panels, batteries, solar charge controllers, and other equipment. The simplest solution makes the most sense. Keep it simple.
How can industries use the information they've collected over time to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their equipment and processes?
Efficiency and effectiveness are critical for our customers monitoring fleet vehicles, trucks and trailers with industrial assets like pumps, vacuums, motors, generators and tanks. Over time, organizations in industries like chemical distribution use Industrial IoT and remote sensor monitoring to fulfill Supplier Managed Inventory (SMI) needs. This means if a tanker truck is returning to headquarters, but is passing by a customer who is low on fertilizers or oil in their tanks, then this connection can be made and the truck can make a quick stop to refill product right now rather than driving back out in a few days.
Another application is monitoring run times of industrial equipment and assets like pumps, generators and motors. Run time counters keep track of how long an asset has been turned on and how long it's been turned off. So you'll be alerted and know if your equipment has been running for a critical number of hours in the last month and it's now time to run the recommended cleaning or maintenance routine.
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Spieth Wins Hyundai TOC, Off to Roaring Start in 2016
No one seems to downplay Jordan Spieth's accomplishments more than Jordan Spieth. After vaulting to World Number One in 2015 and further securing the ranking by winning the Tour Championship, he assured everyone that he couldn't expect to repeat a season that included a Masters win, a U.S. Open win and, oh yes, $22 million in prize money (not including the millions made in sponsorship money from brands like Under Armour and Titleist).
Spieth was at it again Sunday evening at Kapalua, Hawaii. "I think it's going to be very difficult to have a year like last year," he said. However, all this was said as he was clutching hardware won moments before by trouncing a field of last year's PGA Tour winners by eight strokes in 2016's first event. It's really getting hard to believe the things Jordan Spieth says.
It's Tough Finding Motivation When You Reach Number One
When you beat down the world's best golfers while seemingly on cruise control, sometimes you have to start setting different goals. For Spieth at the par 73 Kapalua links, it was to reach 30 under par. He managed to get there, playing the 16 par-fives in 16 under par, even though he is not considered a "long hitter." Spieth became only the second PGA golfer to dip that deep into red numbers, joining Ernie Els who set the record of 31-under par on the same track back in 2003.
Spieth's seventh PGA Tour victory immediately triggered yet more comparisons to Tiger Woods, who was the last player to collect seven Tour wins before his 23rd birthday. And of course Spieth was even quicker to deflect such talk ("What Tiger has done I can't imagine ever being done.") The modest Texan may have been right in this case; the Hyundai Tournament of Champions was Spieth's 77th event and Woods got his wins in just 38 tournaments. Spieth's unassuming "aw shucks" assessment of his career accomplishments also stands in stark contrast to young Woods, who at the same age was making television commercials vowing to "change the world" and kick every other golfer's behind.
Lies and Statistics
If there are still doubters that Jordan Spieth is the best golfer on the planet as the year 2016 dawns, there is statistical evidence to back up those thoughts. Consider that in 2015 Spieth ranked 78th in Driving Distance and was not particularly accurate at the same time – 80th in Driving Accuracy. Four dozen PGA players were better at hitting greens and he was only 26th in Proximity to the Hole. Best ball striker on Tour? It wasn't Jordan Spieth – he sat at 45th in All-Around Ball Striking. And that was the precocious Texan's best year yet statistically.
However, those middle-of-the-pack statistics omit one club in the bag – the putter. If it seemed like Spieth was holing putts from all over Kapalula's massive greens, it was not an illusion. Spieth led the elite field by picking up 1.91 strokes putting and he gained 2.395 strokes from tee to green, which also led the field.
So is Jordan Spieth just a good golfer who doesn't have any glaring weaknesses and rises to the top of the game behind a magical putter? As he continually reminds those who want to anoint him as the next generational golfer, it still very early for such pronouncements. He could very well just be going through an early career hot streak. Or, he could be getting better as a ball-striker and those five wins and two majors in 2015 could be a launching pad to join the pantheon of Jones and Hogan and Nicklaus and Woods. Either way, it will be fun to find out.


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RE/MAX Estate Properties' Kindness Series
Highlighting those acts of humanity, compassion, and generosity selflessly spurred by individuals in our offices and beyond.
With the end of the 2016 Summer Olympics, when you think about Jamaica your mind probably fixates on Usain Bolt or the multitude of Olympic sprinters with Jamaican heritage. Of course, these individuals are incredible in their own right, but today we want to focus on Mrs. E. Burrell, a name you aren't as familiar with, yet.
Her son-in-law, Warder McKenzie, is a cheery, incredibly hard-working realtor at RE/MAX Estate Properties. He humbly shared his experience with us about his recent participation in Mrs. E. Burrell's annual medical trip to Jamaica and took documented the trip with his camera.
Mrs. Burrell, an 86-year-old retired nurse, has organized and participated in this excursion every year for the past 14 years. She arranges the whole trip: from transporting doctors, nurses and pharmacists, corresponding with the Jamaican Department of Health to assure the medical supplies they bring meets regulations, to finding sponsors in Jamaica and the United States. The trip typically lasts anywhere from 6-10 days. Mrs. E. Burrell works constantly and relentlessly to provide medical services to communities that desperately need them.
Warder never considered joining the group of volunteers because of his lack of medical experience. However, with one doctor withdrawing due to injury, Warder stepped in to serve in the 10 person group of medical associates.
Warder broke down the trip for us:
After getting situated with a delicious breakfast at their hotel of Ackee and Codfish, fried dumplings, boiled green bananas and yellow yams, the medical group ran a clinic for the hospitality staff. Each medical service began with blood pressure and blood sugar tests. Just like a normal check-up, each patient would talk to a nurse concerning their medical needs and then see a doctor. If medications were prescribed, the pharmacist either gave them out directly or wrote a prescription to fill at a local pharmacy at a reduced cost. The medical group saw 60 patients on their first day.
The trip continued with clinics at Fort Augusta Women's Correctional Facility, Point Hill Medical Center, Waterford Baptist Church, and Old Harbor Bay School. At their last clinic at the grade school, the group worked alongside numerous volunteers sponsored by Jamaica Energy partners. Catering to the needs of the community, there were dental care services, Pap Smear & HIV testing, and lecturers on health, safety, and trash management. Warder and other volunteers gave out hygiene gift bags to the long line of folks waiting to be treated.
At each location Warder noticed the tireless effort and hours the medical group dedicated to each patient. Warder comments:
'Intense' is the word I would use to describe this medical group. They start at 8 or 9am and ended around 6pm, if they did a cut off time. During those 4 days they treated over 400 patients and donated about $10,000 worth of medicine to the Corrections Department."
Mrs. E. Burrell's incredible efforts are nothing short of inspiring. Warder was amazed by her drive. "She never stopped moving. She was always on her feet making sure doctors and everyone had what they needed," Warder notes. On a previous trip, she even started a Barber Program at a Boys Youth Correctional Facility, providing these young men a means to earn a living when they are released.
Mrs. E. Burrell, her medical team, and our very own Warder McKenzie set a wonderful example of getting outside one's comfort zone to serve someone in great need.
Please consider contributing to the Jamaica Outreach Ministry/Beulah Baptist Institutional Church. 1006 Cypress Street, Tampa, Florida 33606. Contact Mrs. E. Burrell at [email protected]


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Pondichéry | Screening of "The Diary of an Old Man"
As part of the International Month of the #Francophonie, the Quebec Government Office in Mumbai organizes, in collaboration with the Alliance Française de Pondichéry, a screening of the Quebec film ''The Diary Of An Old Man | Le journal d'un viel homme". The film will be screened in French with English subtitles.
Nicolas, a famous doctor and scientist, has an incurable disease and knows he is going to die. The only thing that binds him to life is the affection of his adoptive daughter, Katia. Confronted with the great questions of existence through the anguish of Katia, he realizes that he is as helpless as she is in the emptiness of his own life and the imminence of his death.
A film by Bernard Émond
Nicolas, médecin et homme de science célèbre, est atteint d'une maladie incurable et sait qu'il va mourir. La seule chose qui le rattache à la vie est l'affection de sa fille adoptive, Katia. Confronté aux grandes questions de l'existence à travers l'angoisse de Katia, il se rend compte qu'il est aussi démuni qu'elle devant le vide de sa propre vie et l'imminence de sa mort.
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Mulberry Creek Elementary STEAM Philosophy
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (S.T.E.A.M.) education creates an integrated, innovative, learning environment in every classroom. The S.T.E.A.M. approach facilitates learning experiences driven by problem solving, discovery, and exploratory learning. Blending a S.T.E.A.M. culture into all subjects allows students to connect what they learn with the real world around them. S.T.E.A.M. learning promotes career and college readiness, and prepares students for the challenges of the 21st century; technical competence is no longer an option, it's a necessity.
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