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Hey you, I'm so glad you stopped by. I'm Chris, mama to three pixies and wife to one Norse-man. Welcome to my blog. I write about living the lyrics of the cross. Lyrics of life, love, faith, and the pursuit of beauty. I hope we become dear friends.
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Are they considered equal in some sense?
For instance, I always write "...for vector $\mathbf{x} \in {\mathbb{R}}^n$ we have ...". I have a small problem with this (not a big one). The problem comes from the fact that the "cartesian power" of a set is defined as: ${\mathbb{R}}^n = \underbrace{ \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R} \times \cdots \times \mathbb{R} }_{n}= \{ (x_1,\ldots,x_n) \mid x_i \in \mathbb{R} \ \text{for all} \ 1 \le i \le n \}$. In other words, we are implying that the vector $\mathbf{x}$ is a tuple because we, with the relation "is an element of" ($\in$), are defining the $n$-dimensional vector to be a member of a set ${\mathbb{R}}^n$ in where members are $n$-tuples.
Is there implied a tiny mathematical abuse of notation here? Or have I completely lost it? :)


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Chris and I both spend too much time on our phones and on the computer, it's so easy, the screen is just right there. This is already something I've been working on, but will continue to do so. I want to be present, I don't want to be distracted by the ease with which the internet/ Instagram/ Twitter can be accessed.
4. Go on more dates-
The ever-present resolution. Clearly, we need to get better at planning things to do.
5. Send out Christmas cards in a timely manner-
If it's not already crystal clear, I'm a procrastinator. An epic, super-human procrastinator. I can't remember if we sent out cards last year. I'd love to actually make them, but more importantly, send something out, even if it's just a store-bought pack of cards from Target.
There are about a million other things that could be listed here, some of them lighthearted, some of them heavier, life-change things. But I'm going to keep this list short and sweet. I know the holidays will be here before I know it, and when it comes down to it, I just really want to slow down and enjoy the holiday preparation and anticipation of a new year.


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Kris Vasquez necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 156 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
We need help to get a logo for our new company, which provides software to hospitals for physician performance evaluation. (All the people we contacted want up to sign up for complicated & expensive marketing packages. Really, we just want a logo at a price we can afford that doesn't look like my kid designed it.) The logo will appear in the product, on data entry screens and reports.
Keen Solutions LLC
We are looking for a logo for software that will be used by hospitals to track physician data and provide physician "scorecards" to show whether the hospitals are meeting performance benchmarks. Right now, hospitals are doing this manually, and it's labor-intensive and difficult. But it's also required by the goverment; it the hospitals don't do it, they get lower levels of reimbursement and they risk losing accreditation. So our software makes things much simpler for them. It also builds in the statistical analysis they need. There are a few other companies out there trying to do this, but they require a lot of custom programming. Our product has been designed from the ground up to be flexible and customizable by the customer, which makes it easy, fast, and cheaper for the customer.
So we're looking for a logo that will convey the idea(s) of ease, flexibility, savings, and/or improved performance. I have no idea how to do that.
- We're open to an abstract design (probably apparent, given our lack of specifics).
- Has to be professional--clients are hospital quality officers, not notorious for a sense of whimsy
- Avoid red as a major theme, as one of our competitors is called "Crimson."
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Hello everyone! This is Deepti Stephens and thank you so much for joining me today. Today I have a cute No Line Water Color Card made with Playful Bunnies and Gerberas Blooms Stamp sets. These bunnies are really very playful, look how they are playing!! :)
'The techniques used in this card were - MASKING and NO LINE WATER COLORING'
I'm not a pro at water coloring but tried my hand at it and I'm simply amazed by the result. Anybody can be an artist, there is no right or wrong when it comes to crafting. I'm super happy with the end result. My husband also liked it very much. :)
This card is pretty simple and straight forward, no fancy materials were used to make this card! All you need is a Water Color Paper - I used Tim Holtz. You can absolutely use any kind of water color paper or a heavy White card stock. Some Distress Inks because they react with water or any water color medium you have, regular Paint Brushes and a Palette to mix the colors.
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The set, composed of three ceramic bowls, was designed by Stefano Giovannoni and it is part of the Mami bourguignonne and fondue set Giovannoni's style is an explicit reference to a poetry of affections.
Born in La Spezia in 1954, Stefano as an architect and designer was taught by Buti at Florence University. In the early 80's he founded the King-Kong Production Group along with Guido Venturini. His explosive talent enables him to embody a complex system of 'affective codes' in his projects. This great approach won him the title of 'Super & Popular' designer in the 90's. A technical designer par excellence he has industrial design in his DNA and the capacity to understand public sentiment like no other designer mentioned in this catalogue. His projects began with the "Girotondo" (1989 designed with Guido Venturini) and the first transparent objects in plastic from the "Family Follows Fiction" series (1993). There is a huge number of his items in the "Officina Alessi", "Alessi" and "A di Alessi" catalogues. www.stefanogiovannoni.it


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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) No visitor has walked out of Moby Arena a winner since Colorado State coach Larry Eustachy led Southern Miss to a victory at the Rams' ear-splitting, high-altitude auditorium back in November 2011.
The Rams went on to make an NCAA tournament run, after which coach Tim Miles left for Nebraska.
In stepped Eustachy, a seasoned coach who's taken three schools to the NCAA tournament and is in line for a fourth with the Rams on such a roll.
Colorado State's 66-61 win over UNLV on Saturday extended its school-record winning streak to 24 straight wins at home.
``We know how important it is to win at home,'' said guard Dorian Green, who was named the MWC player of the week on Monday. ``Especially in our conference. If we want good things to happen this year, we have to win at home.''
The Runnin' Rebels were the fourth ranked team to succumb to the ``Moby Magic'' during the streak.
Now comes the hard part for these Rollin' Rams (15-3, 2-1 Mountain West) - taking that show on the road.
They visit No. 15 New Mexico (16-2, 3-0) on Wednesday night.
``It's going to be a monumental task,'' Eustachy said Monday. ``I've been in there before and I'm quite familiar with Steve (Alford) being at Iowa State when he was at Iowa. He just does a terrific job.''
The feeling is mutual.
Alford ranks the Rams ``right near the top'' of the Lobos' list of top-notch opponents so far, noting ``this is without question the best rebounding team we're going to be matched up against. So, their toughness, their experience, those are all great concerns.''
The Rams start five seniors: center Colton Iverson, a 6-foot-10 transfer from Minnesota; and returners Pierce Hornung at forward; and Green, Wes Eikmeier and Greg Smith at guard.
``Any time you start five seniors, that's extremely dangerous,'' Alford said.
That seasoning showed up at the foul line Saturday night when the Rams made all 10 of their free throws in the final 3 1/2 minutes to pull away from the Rebels in a tight game that featured 14 lead changes, 10 ties and no room for error.
They were also clutch on the glass, where the Rams boast the nation's top rebounding tandem in Iverson and Hornung.
``Our bench is going to have to help rebound. We might have guys sitting over there on the bench and the TV cameramen and everybody else on the floor trying to help us rebound against this team,'' Alford cracked.
``Obviously, the emphasis when you play Colorado State is what you do on the backboard.''
The Runnin' Rebels went more than seven minutes without a point during one stretch.
``It was the first experience for some of our guys with how physical Coach Eustachy's teams are,'' said UNLV coach Dave Rice. ``It was hard for us to get a post catch, hard for us to drive the lane and that's credit to Colorado State and how tough and physical they are.''
The Rams reached the NCAA tournament last year despite a 3-9 road record, and that's not a formula they can count on again. In the four seasons Eustachy has guided schools to the NCAA tournament - Southern Miss (2011-12), Iowa State (1999-00 and 2000-01) and Utah State (1997-98), his programs were 26-20 away from home.
This season, Colorado State is 2-3 on the road, losing close games at Colorado, San Diego State (in overtime), and Illinois-Chicago.
Their experience quotient and talent are augmented by their toughness,'' said Air Force coach Dave Pilipovich, whose Falcons were drubbed 79-40 at Moby Arena last week. ``That comes from Coach Eustachy. He does a great job of getting those guys and just playing every possession very physical and tough. So, you're not going to beat them in that area. And they're talented. That's a group that went to the NCAA tournament last year and has won 24 straight games at home. So, for an opposing coach: talent, experience, play very hard. That's not good.''
Colorado State leads a big group of up-and-comers that have made the Mountain West Conference one of the country's best basketball leagues.
Despite losing perennial powers BYU and Utah in recent years, the Mountain West is ranked behind only the Big Ten and Big East in RPI ratings.
``It's been a lot of fun because each year I think it's gotten better,'' Alford said. ``Three years ago we didn't think our league could get any better or tougher. And yet, I think our league has gotten deeper and tougher each and every year.
``And when you've had a lot of change-up with the landscape of teams leaving and the realignments with conferences I don't think that's very easy to do. Yet, our league has stayed not just good but it's gotten better. And I think that's a great credit to the coaches in the league. I think it's a tremendous credit to the players in the league.''
The Mountain West Conference looks like it will be loaded for years to come, too, which is why Steve Fisher was thrilled when San Diego State reversed course and announced recently that it was staying in the league.
``I've been in the Mountain West for 14 years. I'm the only coach that's been here for this time,'' Fisher said. ``I have great regard for how good it is and how tough it is. Probably the best it's been from top to bottom. I don't think you could consider the outcome of any game an upset.''
Colorado State, Wyoming (15-2) and Boise State (13-4) have joined the traditional trio of power teams - New Mexico, UNLV (15-4) and San Diego State (14-4) as schools that have high hopes for a trip to the NCAA tournament in a couple of months.
``There's some leagues that are top-heavy and that can make it a really good league. But to make it a great league like we have, you've got to have good depth from top to bottom,'' Alford said. ``And we've got that. ... Every night in our league, whether you play at home or on the road, you're going to have to play well to win.''
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The College of New Rochelle is facing a second lawsuit from a former employee claiming wrongful termination , according to a lohud report .
A second lawsuit was reportedly filed in Westchester County Court earlier this year by Veronie Lawrence, a former director for one of the school's campuses who is claiming that the college breached contract when she was among those fired last year as part of cost-cutting moves aimed at keeping the college open.
According to the report , Lawrence is seeking damages and severance pay from CNR .
The College was sued last month by the Senate, Council of Faculty and 14 former staff members who were laid off in June amid the financial probe at the school in a cost-cutting move.
The defendants listed in the suit include the college itself, CNR's Board of Trustees and the school's interim President Dorothy Escribano.
Last year, the school's Board of Trustees launched an extensive investigation into financial misappropriations that revealed approximately $20 million in payroll taxes that were not paid for eight quarters dating back to 2014 under the watch of former CNR President Judith Huntington , who resigned amid the probe.
That discovery led to a crisis for CNR officials, who had to scramble to raise millions of dollars through their # WeAreCNR campaign. The school sold off assets and made agreements to help pay down millions of dollars in debt. In total, approximately 70 people lost their jobs at the college since last year, including 10 tenured faculty members.
According to the Board, layoffs were based on "the continued effectiveness of each area to serve our students was at the foundation of each reduction decision. Schedules and student enrollment in each school, student academic, wellness, extracurricular and financial support services, facilities needs, employee needs were all considered."
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As you motor through Provence, taking in the sights, smells and food that it has to offer, it can be easy to overlook some of the hidden gems. Known for its quaint villages, old cities dating back to the Roman times and beyond, beautiful Mediterranean coastline and gastronomy, Provence also is home to the "Village des Bories".
While there is conflicting evidence regarding the date of its origin, ranging from the 7th to the 18th century, one thing is for sure: these buildings are impressive! Even though they are small in stature, the skill that went into placing the stones without any mortar is impressive. It isn't until you look closely at the stonework that you really start to appreciate it. Definitely worth a visit.
France is affectionately referred to as "the Hexagon" for its overall shape.French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.France is one of the founding members of the European Union and the United Nations, as well as one of the nuclear armed nations of the world.Text by Steve Smith.


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Currently, I am considering 1 out of the following 2 android phones.
- Samsung Galaxy S
- Nexus S (Not available in my country yet)
I was wondering, has anyone used the above 2 android phones before? What is the significant difference of these 2 phones, in term of software and hardware?
p/s Is there any online store where I can buy Nexus S from if I decide to have one? I am from Malaysia.


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On our employment of Drew Spitzer
We have to inform our clients of a possible breach of their contact information today. LAUNCH employed a junior sales executive named Drew Spitzer from July 14th 2014 until November 18th 2014.
During this time we became aware that Mr. Spitzer had taken our sales database and used it to sell for another company. That company, Outreach.io, was also a client of ours. We became aware of the fact that our employee had started working for one of our clients, and used our client database to sell for them, because our clients forwarded his sales emails to us. They were rightfully confused, obviously, that a sales executive for LAUNCH was selling another product from a second company to them.
Based on the information we have, those emails were sent from Mr. Spitzer's work computer while he was being paid by us. This was not moonlighting, this was using our resources, time, and intellectual property to sell for another client while simultaneously working for us.
We fired Mr. Spitzer for cause and on November 18th 2014, but on January 1st 2015, he attempted to breach our network again. He was unsuccessful in doing so.
The company which Mr. Spitzer took our contact database to work with has discontinued their relationship with him. They have assured us that they do not have a copy of our database.
We are considering various remedies against Mr. Spitzer at this time, and we do not currently know if he is using our contact information for other purposes. We take stealing of intellectual property seriously, and we will be working to ensure that none of your contact information is further compromised.


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First Barbara Boxer and Olympia Snowe, John McCain and finally Vice President Joe Biden: Parks and Recreation is really racking up the political cameos.
Now they can add former presidential candidate and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to the list.
Parks and Rec cast member Rob Lowe, who plays nutty city manager Chris Traeger on the popular NBC sitcom about local politics, tweeted Monday about the coincidence.
Latest surprise drop by on set: Speaker Newt Gingrich! So we made up a scene and put him in!!#AllHappeningInIndy— Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) December 3, 2012
According to the Indiana Star, the men of the show were in Indianapolis Monday (most of the show is filmed in Los Angeles), shooting a scene at St. Elmo Steak House. Within the show's universe, the trip from the fictional Pawnee, Ind., to the big city of Indianapolis was to throw Ben Wyatt (played by Adam Scott) a bachelor party.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, in town to meet Gov. Mitch Daniels, stopped by the restaurant for lunch but learned that Hollywood had taken over. Mike Schur, co-creator of "Parks and Recreation," quickly wrote a Gingrich appearance into the script.
"It was a completely random chance," Schur said. "But you can't pass up on an opportunity like that."
Parks and Recreation has one more episode, this Thursday, before it breaks for the holiday hiatus.


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Automakers suddenly have a hard-on for wood. Thanks to the neverending quest to make cars lighter and the pressure for more environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques, the ol' woody might be making a comeback of sorts.
Before you get your hopes up for the return of the Chrysler LeBaron K-platform woody droptop — I know you've been waiting patiently for that comeback, right? — there won't exactly be a flood of wood-trimmed cars hitting the streets soon. Instead, as Bloomberg reports, automakers are looking at using wood and wood-based materials in the body, interior (beyond the dash) and even as fuel.
The need to make vehicles lighter, the rising cost of energy and interest in renewable resources have caused automakers to look into wood again.
"The more expensive energy becomes, the more likely this type of trend will continue," said Joe Harmon, an industrial designer who made the wood-based Splinter super car in 2008. "Wood uses very little energy in manufacturing, especially when compared with aluminum, steel and carbon fiber" and "is our only naturally renewable building material."
This year at the Geneva Motor Show, Finnish papermaker UPM-Kymmene Oyj will show a wooden concept car that runs on fuel made from bark and branches. Ford is reportedly looking at using more wood in its interior components in the Lincoln MKX, and Renault and Daimler are exploring replacing some of its manufacturing materials with wood-based products.
Now, not to be a treehugger or anything, but if car companies start using wood in everything, won't that have some consequences on forestation? Could there be an eventual lumber shortage or some unforeseen environmental impact? It seems like for now wood is only being used in small quantities — and let's not forget cars are also made of a multitude of other materials not used 20 years ago — so maybe not currently, but I still wonder.
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Action for M.E.
Action for M.E. is the UK's leading charity which raises funds to help improve the lives of people with M.E. 250,000 people in the UK have M.E. – this is more than the number of people affected with M.S., Motor Neurone Disease and Parkinson's put together. Symptoms of M.E. are complex and variable – including severe muscle pain, memory loss, poor concentration and sensitivity to light and sound. For all people with M.E. there is an overwhelming feeling of extreme fatigue. This is no normal tiredness but can mean that a person feels unable to wash themselves or clean their teeth, and for many people M.E. means having to rely on a carer. 25% are house or bed bound. Action for M.E. provides emotional and practical support through our help-lines and comprehensive information through our publications and guides. We strive to transform the image of M.E. in the minds of the general public, to improve public services and the way in which people with M.E. are treated and to encourage scientific research to find the cause of the illness, better treatments and in the fullness of time a cure. But to provide these services we need your help. Your donations can really make a difference to peoples' lives.
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Action for Neurological Disorders
Action for Neurological Disorders (A.N.D.) is a consortium of five charities which together provide care, counselling and research for patients with neurological disorders. The charities involved are the British Epilepsy Association, the Parkinson's Disease Society, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, The National Society for Epilepsy and the Way Ahead. By supporting A.N.D. you will be helping people with Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, motor neurone disease, stroke, epilepsy, brain tumours and head injury.
Action Medical Research
There are hundreds of thousands of children in the UK whose lives are devastated by disease and disability.
It's too many. Far too many. Research can put a stop to this.
For more than 60 years Action Medical Research has helped pioneer treatments and ways to prevent disease that have benefited millions of people in the UK and across the world. Our research has helped to beat polio in the UK, develop ultrasound in pregnancy, fight meningitis and prevent stillbirths.
But we urgently need to develop more new treatments and cures for sick babies and children and we can't do it without you. Medical research for children is underfunded in the UK. For every project Action funds there's another one we have to turn away – simply because of a lack of funds.
Join our fight for little lives today and help save and change children's lives
Registered Charity No. England & Wales no. 208701; and Scotland no. SC039284View website Watch video
Alzheimers Research UK
We are the UK's leading research charity aiming to defeat dementia. We power world class studies that give us the best chance of beating dementia sooner.
Our pioneering work focuses on prevention, treatment and cure. We are energising a movement across society to support, fund and take part in dementia research. We aim to empower people across all generations through greater understanding of dementia. Together we have the power to defeat dementia.
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Asthma UK
Today three families will lose someone to asthma.
Everyone knows someone with asthma and yet not everyone knows it can and does kill.
Our dedicated nurses and award-winning information give people the help and support they need to understand their condition better and ensure no one ends up in hospital or dies from an asthma attack.
There must be a cure?
We are searching for a cure to asthma but it will take time and until then, we are funding research to find better treatments and fighting to ensure that everyone with asthma gets the quality of care they deserve.
We want to help the world become a place where no one dies because of asthma.
We're Asthma UK – we're with you every breath of the way.
Registered Charity No. Registered in England Charity number 802364 and in Scotland SC039322.View website Watch video
Bowel Disease Research Foundation
Bowel Disease Research Foundation (BDRF) dates back to 1997 when it was called the Colon and Rectal Disease Research Foundation set up by its then chairman, Professor. Neil Mortensen.
Bowel disease has historically been the most neglected of common diseases. As a result research has been grossly under-funded, especially considering the very great potential for significant advance.
BDRF funds practically-oriented research which increases understanding while delivering direct and demonstrable improvements in the treatment of and survival rates for people with bowel disease. Their method of operation is to invite applications from all practitioners in bowel disease. All bowel diseases are eligible for consideration. Bids received are evaluated by peer review to ensure only the highest-quality projects are approved. BDRF gives priority to projects which offer real hopes of progress for existing patients.
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British Heart Foundation
We are the British Heart Foundation and we fund research to beat the world's biggest killers. We fund over £100 million of research each year into all heart and circulatory diseases and the things that cause them. We also offer support and information for the people affected by heart and circulatory diseases and campaign for polices that protect heart health.
We've helped transform survival rates but heart and circulatory diseases still kill 1 in 4 people in the UK, causing heartbreak on every street. Which means our work is still as urgent and vital as ever.
"Heart diseases. Stroke. Vascular Dementia. Diabetes. They're all connected, and they're all under our microscope."
Registered Charity No. England & Wales No. 699547 Scotland No. SC039426View website Watch video
British Lung Foundation
We're the only UK charity looking after the nation's lungs. One in five of us has problems with our breathing. Millions more are at risk. We offer hope, help and a voice to anyone affected by any lung condition.
Our research finds new treatments and cures. We help people who struggle to breathe to take control of their lives. And together, we're campaigning for better lung health. With your support, we'll make sure that one day everyone breathes clean air with healthy lungs.
Registered Charity No. 326730 for England and Wales and SC038415 for ScotlandView website Watch video
Cure Parkinsons Trust
The Cure Parkinson's Trust has one bold aim - to cure Parkinson's disease. The Cure Parkinson's Trust is a patient led charity that funds innovative projects, inspirational scientists and research projects that will have an impact on the lives of people with Parkinson's, with the hope of an eventual cure for the condition. In addition, it brings scientists together to improve communication and promotes collaboration between researchers.
We are passionate about finding a cure and we feel we are tantalizing close. Support us and help us cure this debilitating neurological disease.
Registered Charity No. 1111816View website Watch video
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that slowly destroys the lungs and digestive system, eventually cutting life short – only half of those currently living with the condition will celebrate their 40th birthday.
We are the only UK-wide charity making a difference for people with cystic fibrosis, and those who care for them. We invest in cutting-edge research, drive up standards of care, campaign hard and shout loud about the issues that matter.
We believe cystic fibrosis is beatable, but we need your help.
Registered Charity No. (England and Wales) 1079049, Registered Charity No. (Scotland) SC040196View website Watch video
Diabetes UK
Diabetes is hard. Hard to explain. Hard to manage.
Hard to live with. We're here to make it easier.
We are the UK's leading charity for people with
or at risk of diabetes and its largest charitable funder of pioneering diabetes research. One day our relentless
search for a cure will end, but until then we'll keep providing vital advice, information and support services, bringing people with diabetes together and campaigning on the issues that are most important to them.
Since 1996, the number of people with diabetes in the UK has more than doubled from 1.4 million to 3.8 million. If nothing changes, by 2025 five million of us will have diabetes. Diabetes is the fastest growing health threat of our times and an urgent public health issue.
Diabetes is far more serious than people think and can have a life-limiting or life-threatening impact on your health if it's not managed well. It can make you go blind or lose a limb, cause your kidneys to fail or trigger a heart attack or stroke. In the worst cases, it can kill you.
Registered Charity No. 215199View website Watch video
Diabetes UK - Northern Ireland
Diabetes UK Northern Ireland works to Care for, Connect with and Campaign on behalf of the 80,164 people living with diabetes in Northern Ireland and their family and friends.
Registered Charity No. 215199View website Watch video
Fight for Sight
Fight for Sight is the main charity in the UK dedicated to funding pioneering research to prevent sight loss and treat eye disease. Over the next few years our aim is to commit £20 million to a research programme covering eye conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, trachoma, cataract as well as the causes of childhood blindness. We also fund research into a number of rare eye diseases.
100 people every day start to lose their sight in the UK, and while blindness may not kill, it has a profound impact on quality of life. It means not being able to read or look at photos. It means not being able to see loved ones or the world at large and it can mean losing independence and perhaps livelihood.
Yet eye research is severely underfunded, because killer diseases win the fight for government and charity funding. Fight for Sight relies solely on voluntary income, so your support is vital to help make sight loss a thing of the past.
Registered Charity No. 1111438View website Watch video
Heart Research UK
Heart Research UK is a visionary charity that leads the way funding ground breaking, innovative, medical research projects at the cutting edge of science into the prevention, treatment and cure of heart disease. There is a strong emphasis on supporting clinical and surgical projects and young researchers on their first steps into research. The charity also encourages and supports original healthy lifestyle initiatives that explore novel ways of preventing heart disease in all sectors of the community.
Heart UK
HEART UK - The Cholesterol Charity - is the only charity in the UK dedicated to supporting people with raised cholesterol and other blood fats and also supporting the healthcare professionals treating these conditions. We aim to prevent avoidable and early deaths caused by high cholesterol. We're committed to raising awareness about the risks of high cholesterol, lobbying for better detection of those at risk and supporting health professional training.
Registered Charity No. 1003904View website Watch video
JDRF is the type 1 diabetes charity, improving lives until we find the cure. We're totally focused on type 1 diabetes, and are run by people with type 1, for people with type 1.
We fund research to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes. We provide information for children, adults and parents living with the condition, at all stages from diagnosis and beyond. We give a voice to people with type 1 diabetes and campaign for increased focus on, and funding for, research to find the cure.
JDRF is a global organisation working towards the cure. Internationally, we are the world's leading charitable funder of type 1 diabetes research. We work with academia, industry and governments to make sure that the research we fund has the greatest possible impact on the lives of people with type 1 now and in the future.
Registered Charity No. England and Wales (No. 295716) and in Scotland (No. Sc040123).View website Watch video
Kidney Research UK
Kidney disease is a silent killer. There are three million people in the UK with it right now. One million don't even know they have it and there is no cure. Prevalence of kidney failure continues to rise, as do factors like diabetes and obesity which put you at risk. We are the UK's leading kidney research charity. We rely almost wholly on the generous donations of the UK public and we believe that everybody deserves a life free of kidney disease. We are pioneers in our field. For decades our developments in treatment, better information for patients and raising vital public awareness have been saving lives. As the likelihood of kidney disease striking you becomes ever greater, our work is more essential now than ever. We are Kidney Research UK.
Registered Charity No. 2525892View website Watch video
Meningitis Now
Meningitis Now is a charity with almost 30 years' experience. Formed in 2013 by bringing together Meningitis UK and Meningitis Trust, founders of the meningitis movement in the UK. We exist to save lives and rebuild futures by funding research, raising awareness and providing support.Our vision is a future where no one in the UK loses their life to meningitis and everyone affected gets the support they need to rebuild their lives.
Registered Charity No. 803016 England and Wales, SC017790 ScotlandView website Watch video
Meningitis Research Foundation
Meningitis and septicaemia can affect anyone of any age and can kill within hours. Meningitis Research Foundation is fighting back against these devastating diseases by funding vital scientific research into their prevention, detection and treatment. Your support helps in ensuring we can continue to work towards our vision of a world free from meningitis and septicaemia.
Registered Charity No. 1091105View website Watch video
MS Society
We're the MS Society – a community of people living with MS, scientists, campaigners, volunteers and fundraisers. We understand what life's like with MS, and we support each other through the highs, lows and everything in between. And we're driving research into more – and better – treatments. For everyone.
Over 100,000 of us in the UK have multiple sclerosis (MS). It's unpredictable, and different for everyone. It's often painful and exhausting, and can cause problems with how we walk, move, see, think and feel. It can make it hard for us to work, and do the things we enjoy. But it doesn't have to be this way.
Together, we are strong enough to stop MS.
£10 could buy lab equipment that will help researchers find new and better treatments for everyone with MS
£20 could help run the MS helpline for one hour, giving someone affected by MS information and emotional support when it's really needed.
Registered Charity No. 1139257/ SC041990View website Watch video
Muscular Dystrophy UK
Muscular Dystrophy and related muscle diseases are unforgiving, hard to understand and difficult to combat. More than 70,000 people in the UK have muscle disease and 350,000 people are indirectly affected as relatives and carers. There are no cures or treatments that prevent the breakdown of muscle, but increased knowledge has improved the quality, and in many cases the length, of people's lives.
Muscular Dystrophy UK is the only national charity focusing on all muscle diseases. We invest £3 million a year into care support services, research, muscle centres, networks, information and resources.
We have pioneered the search for treatments and cures for over 50 years and provide practical, medical and emotional support to people affected.
Your support, by donating regularly through your pay, will help us to continue leading the fight against muscle disease.
National Eczema Society
Providing advice and information to people with eczema and their families as well as funding innovative research into causes, treatments and finding a cure. We campaign for better healthcare, raise awareness of eczema and the needs of people with eczema among both health professionals and the general public. With one in ten people in the U.K. affected by eczema, why not make your support to us yield a further 10% through payroll giving.
Eczema Information Line: 0870 261 3604
National Eye Research Centre
Supporting the UK's principal Eye bank, which supplies over 2000 corneas each year to more than 200 hospitals throughout the UK. Supporting research into the prevention and cure of all the prevalent causes of eye disease including children's eye diseases, Glaucoma and retinal eye disease, Diabetic Retinopathy, Corneal graft surgery, Eye Tumours, Kerataconus.
NI Chest Heart and Stroke
Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke is a local charity for the care and prevention of chest, heart and stroke illnesses. Our vision is a Northern Ireland where chest, heart or stroke illnesses have been reduced and where those affected receive high quality services to meet their needs. To achieve this our work is focused in four areas: Care Services (cardiac services, respiratory services, stroke services and Self Management Programmes to help clients cope with a long term condition), Prevention and Health Promotion, Research and Policies.
Our work has an immediate impact on the lives of thousands of people. We offer crucial practical and emotional support at some of the most difficult times in people's lives. We also provide support for families.
All our funds are raised within Northern Ireland and are spent within Northern Ireland.
Registered Charity No. NIC103593View website Watch video
Parkinsons UK
Imagine not being able to move, sleep or smile. Feeling anxious or depressed and struggling to think or remember. Your body not feeling like your own. This is what Parkinson's can feel like.
Every hour, someone in the UK is told they have Parkinson's.
Parkinson's UK is here to make sure people have whatever they need to take back control. We drive better care, treatments and quality of life.
Together we can bring forward the day when no one fears Parkinson's.
Registered Charity No. England and Wales (258197) Scotland (SC037554).View website Watch video
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability is a national medical charity helping people who are affected by brain injury.
Some have been in car accidents, been mugged or might simply have fallen down stairs. Others have had a stroke, a heart attack, or have an illness affecting their brain such as Multiple-Sclerosis or Huntingdon's disease.
The RHN offers an extensive range of rehabilitation and long-term care services, including specialist therapies and state of the art technology - giving some of the UK's most disabled people the best possible quality of life, whatever their level of ability.
Registered Charity No. 205907View website Watch video
Spinal Injuries Association
Every year in the UK over 1,000 people experience a spinal cord injury, and there are an estimated 40,000 spinal cord injured people in the UK alone. Most spinal cord injuries result in paralysis, and the impact of an injury can turn lives upside down.
With the right support and information, people can still enjoy a full and independent life after injury.
The Spinal Injuries Association (SIA):
Support spinal cord injured individuals and their families from the moment their injury occurs for the rest of their lives,
Provide services and publications that enable and encourage paralysed people to lead independent lives
Campaign for improved medical and social care for spinal cord injury
Registered Charity No. 1054097View website Watch video
Spinal Research
Every day an average of three people in the UK and Ireland are paralysed by spinal cord injury. Paralysis does not just mean being unable to feel or move – it also affects other vital functions such as bladder and bowel control, blood pressure, breathing…
Spinal Research is the UK's leading charity funding research to develop reliable treatments for spinal cord injury. Recent successes in the laboratory open the way to treatments that will restore sensation and movement to paralysed people.
Registered Charity No. 1151015View website Watch video
The Lullaby Trust
The Lullaby Trust is the new name of FSID, the charity dedicated to saving babies' lives.
We support families shattered by the death of a baby; promote expert advice on safer baby sleep; support research into why babies die suddenly and unexpectedly and campaign to prevent sudden infant death.
Registered Charity No. 262191View website Watch video
UCL Hospitals Charitable Foundation
UCL Hospitals Charitable Foundation is a charity that primarily supports projects within the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The charity supports the funding of equipment, buildings and research.
The current main focus of fundraising is the Cancer Centre Appeal. UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country's largest NHS trusts and takes a leading role in national and international trials of treatments for cancers. This has enabled the trust to remain at the forefront of cancer care and to build on its international reputation.
In addition, the charity supports other projects within the NHS Trust, which have included: a new multimedia information centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, research into Sarcoidosis /CFA, research into the early detection and treatment of lung cancer and support of the Foetal Medicine Unit and the Young Peoples Unit.
Versus Arthritis
No one should have to live with the pain, fatigue and isolation that arthritis causes.
Were the 10 million people living with arthritis, the friends, parents, carers, researchers, healthcare professionals, fundraisers, volunteers and supporters all united in our ambition that no one should live with the relentless pain. Its a big ambition, and we cant do it without you. Join us today.
Arthritis Care and Arthritis Research UK have joined forces to become Versus Arthritis, joining award-winning care with outstanding medical research.
Registered Charity No. Registered Charity No. Registered in England and Wales no. 207711, Scotland no. SC041156View website Watch video


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Eyes Free, just announced at [WWDC 2012](/wwdc) will allow Siri to integrate directly into your car so you can keep your hands on the wheel.
Apple has already partnered with several car manufacturers to bring Eyes Free to market.
Siri integration in your car will be coming soon via Eyes Free integration. Apple has already received commitments from several car manufacturers including BMW, GM, Chrysler, Land Rover, Jaguar, Audi, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, and more to build it right into their vehicles. Eyes Free will link into your car via a button by the steering wheel that will allow you to communicate with Siri while driving without ever having to take your hands off the wheel.
Eyes Free will also expand its language support across several countries including Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Italian, German, Korean and French for Canadian users.
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Cave-dwelling fish in Mo. added to endangered list
Grotto sculpin found in Perry County
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add a small, cave-dwelling fish known only to a single southeast Missouri county to the list of endangered species.
The agency's decision on Tuesday was also good news for Perry County: The grotto sculpin's habitat was not designated a "critical habitat." County officials had feared the designation could jeopardize economic development.
Instead, the service will rely on a voluntary conservation plan developed by federal, state and Perry County officials. It includes specific plans for improving water quality in the fish's habitat.
"I think we can build a plan that allows us to protect our water quality and the environment, and still be economically efficient," Frank Wideman, chairman of the Perry County Economic and Environment Committee, said in a statement.
The grotto sculpin lives in an area of Perry County that has hundreds of caves and thousands of sinkholes. It isn't much of a looker - the Fish and Wildlife Service describes it as a fish with a pale skin color, with reduced - and sometime absent - eyes, common among animals that live in total darkness.
It is threatened by water contaminated by agricultural runoff, industrial water and other pollutants.
The small fish will be listed as endangered effective Oct. 25. The Fish and Wildlife Service said "endangered" means a plant or animal is in danger of becoming extinct. Listed species cannot be harmed, killed or harassed.
The Fish and Wildlife Service cited cooperation with residents and government in Perry County and with two state agencies, the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, in the decision not to designate a critical habitat.
"The partners have developed a plan that will not only conserve the habitat of the grotto sculpin, but will conserve and safeguard the water that supports the entire community," said Amy Salveter, the project leader for ecological services at the Fish and Wildlife Service's Columbia, Mo., office.
The agency first identified the grotto sculpin as a candidate for protection in 2002, citing a decline in water quality in the cave systems inhabited by the fish. Biologists documented two mass die-offs in the cave systems over the past decade due to water pollution.
Last September, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed both the endangered species and critical habitat designation. County officials and civic leaders fought hard against the critical habitat designation over concern that it would mean more regulations and potentially make it harder to recruit businesses to Perry County, about 80 miles south of St. Louis.


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TOWNSEND — A transformer and utility pole near Gourmet Donuts on Main Street caught fire Monday morning and forced emergency workers to reroute traffic through Central Plaza, Fire Department Capt. Michael Grimley said.
Firefighters got the report of the fire at 7:08 a.m., and secured the area but waited until about 7:40 a.m. to let Unitil workers go up before they put the fire.
The fire itself didn't cause any power outages, but three customers were taken off-line during repairs, Unitil spokesman Alec O'Meara said. He said the cause is being reviewed.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Seeking a Larger Place in History
Legend has it that William Randolph Hearst built the Warwick Hotel Apartments at 63 West 54th Street in New York City as a place where he could ensconce a mistress.Whether there's any truth to that or not, he did hire Dean Cornwell to paint a mural in the main dining room of The Raleigh Room, the Warwick's restaurant. My good friend Jeff Norwell owns one of Cornwell's original pencil drawings from this mural and has graciously agreed to share it with us today. It measures about 2 to 3 feet wide and about 4 feet tall. Jeff purchased it at The Illustration House and to the best of his knowledge it is the only surviving pencil drawing from the Warwick mural.
Here's another interesting tidbit: Jeff has heard from a knowledgable source that the guard in the back row on the extreme left was modelled by a young Charles Bronson.Again, from the pages of the Warwick Hotel website:
The history of the murals dates back to 1937, when William Randolph Hearst commissioned Dean Cornwell to paint murals in the main dining room of The Raleigh Room, the restaurant inside his Warwick New York apartment hotel. Cornwell completed the murals in 1938 and he received the sum of $100,000 for his work. The breathtaking murals depict Sir Walter Raleigh receiving his charter from Queen Elizabeth I in 1584 and Raleigh landing at Roanoke Island.The large mural depicts the Queen providing Raleigh with a charter and a patent granting him title to any lands he might discover in the name of the crown. After Raleigh returned from Roanake Island, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I.Upon completion of the murals, a dispute arose between Cornwell and Hearst regarding compensation for the work. Enraged and seeking revenge, Cornwell painted images, at the time considered obscene, onto the murals. Due to the controversy, one mural was covered for more than 40 years. The concealed mural included a man urinating on the Queen and another man urinating on Sir Walter Raleigh.Another pictured an Indian with bare buttocks. The dispute was eventually settled and Cornwell painted out one of the obscenities but the others remained.
* My thanks to René Milot for sharing his scans of the finished Warwick mural with me so I could post them alongside Jeff's Cornwell drawing. All of today's images can be viewed at a larger size in my Dean Cornwell Flickr set.
* Drop by the TI blog this weekend for a final post showcasing a variety of scans of Cornwell's work contributed by various TI list members.
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As per usual Leif..OUTSTANDING!ReplyDelete
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Holy cow, even if I gave you pictures of my Cornwell drawings: I had never noticed that the drawing of the women: is Queen Elizabeth 1 for the Warcick Hotel murals! I've spent more time looking at the quality of Cornwell's drawing, that I always associated it with an historical painting, never did I compare it with the murals! Cool!ReplyDelete
Oh well, it's official: I just looked at the Cornwell drawing, flipped the frame around: and it the back: clearly says: head study of Queen Elizabeth 1 for the Warwick hotel murals!ReplyDelete
I love how he says the "models are soft these days" on that last set of "how-to" pages...hah!ReplyDelete
Great set of pieces guys, thanks for the addition to my collection.
"Jeff has heard from a knowledgable source that the guard in the back row on the extreme left was modeled by a young Charles Bronson."ReplyDelete
I don't think so …at the time, Chuck was a teenage coal miner in Pennsylvania.


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"The AAA's Ad Hoc Commission on Anthropology's Engagement with the Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC) continues its work. Our main activities at present include: 1. the writing of a report to the AAA on the widely and hotly debated Human Terrain System of the U.S. Army, 2. The editing of a casebook illustrating the diversity of kinds of practicing anthropology, including associated ethical questions, with a primary emphasis upon the security sector broadly conceived, 3. And providing support for the AAA's ongoing ethics process. In an effort to keep our work transparent and part of the public and disciplinary discussion of all of the above, CEAUSSIC is also going to be contributing a monthly entry to the AAA's blog. Each entry, by different CEAUSSIC members, will address topics that have arisen or that we have been thinking about, which we will continue to discuss via the blog, a discussion in which we hope you will also participate."
Moving Forward with the CEAUSSIC Ethics Casebook: What is the Casebook, and Why Now?
[January 27, 2010]
Laura A. McNamara
Sandia National Laboratories
Last month, George Marcus wrote a retrospective essay about the Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the United States Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC). In his essay, he pointed to the CEAUSSIC ethics casebook as a vehicle for carrying CEAUSSIC's work forward and expanding its complex discussions across the wider AAA. Following George's lead, I reflect on anthropology's conversations about itself and the importance of an Ethics Casebook in bringing forth hidden and important narratives. Thanks to Rob Albro and George Marcus for feedback and comments.
Over the past few years, I've participated in many exchanges about the complex intersections of theory, politics, methods, and ethics in anthropological work, mostly in the context of national security problems. I'm not the only one who's trying to sort out these intersections. With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a seemingly endless battle against terrorism, and a keen policy interest in social science knowledge as the key to an uncertain world, anthropologists are deeply concerned about the potential encroachment of national security interests on our discipline.
Helpfully, the AAA has provided a number of mechanisms for its membership to discuss this trend and its implications for our association and our discipline. Some venues are formal and structured: for example, the CEAUSSIC panel whose members created this blog have met regularly over the past three years to develop and release two reports on the involvement of anthropology with military, intelligence, and other national security efforts. Other venues are more spontaneous. You might have attended the 2007 business meeting, when Terry Turner and John Kelly introduced twin resolutions asking the AAA to consider reinstating language from the 1971 Code of Ethics dealing with transparency and disclosure in research; and directing the AAA to explain why such language was not reinstated, if and when such a decision was made (see www.aaanet.org/issues/policy-advocacy/Vote-on-Changes-to-the-AAA-Code-of-Ethics.cfm for the rest of the story).
Task forces and business meetings provide an important public outlet for our concerns, but I suspect that the most interesting discussions take place in private spaces. Issues of practice, ethics, and politics are difficult topics for anthropologists. How they intersect in our work-lives is the kind of sensitive territory that one explores most honestly with trusted friends: the people we greet joyfully in the hotel lobby during the annual meetings, the ones who help us make sense of what's happening to our discipline and what actions, if any, we might take. I know I've had some extraordinary exchanges with CEAUSSIC members over dinner, after some pretty grueling meetings, when we discussed how sweeping events like war and terrorism were impacting how we perceived our work-lives as meaningful and purposeful and right.
The Origins of the Casebook
The idea of an ethics casebook came into being early in our CEAUSSIC tenure, and I think the idea has its roots in both internal and external interactions we had in the development of the first CEAUSSIC report. Several of us CEAUSSIC members work in and around federal agencies, and it was not unusual for Commission members without that experience to question us extensively about our work environments and research projects. In response, those of us "insiders" from the security sector questioned our colleagues about their own decisions and experiences with ethics and practice. I can only speak for myself, but these conversations were quite enlightening: not only did I develop deeper appreciation for the concerns of my colleagues, but their willingness to share difficult decisions they had made have helped sharpen the ethical framework that I use when choosing or refusing different kinds of projects in my own work-life.
Secondly, as part of the first (2007) CEAUSSIC information gathering process, George Marcus and I interviewed anthropologists working in "national security." The internet enabled a snowball sampling strategy, in which we asked to talk to anthropologists who identified themselves as working in some kind of a national security context. In retrospect, that was a smart decision, since their workplaces and work practices were diverse enough that we'd likely not have guessed where to find these respondents. Our respondents included people with Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees. Some worked in the CIA and the Department of Defense, but we also had respondents from a range of federal civilian agencies, private contractors, and universities that you might not normally associate with "national security." Our interviewees were conducting organizational research, working on historical preservation projects, teaching, giving talks and consulting, designing software, publishing in both open and gray literature (e.g., internal corporate or government reports, white papers, and other publication venues outside traditional publishing channels); working on interdisciplinary modeling and simulation projects, and conducting "remote ethnography" in the form of document-based tactical and strategic analysis for intelligence and defense communities.
Their stories reminded us how anthropology itself has expanded over the past 40 years to encompass a dizzying array of work sites, projects, methods, tools, and interdisciplinary partnerships. Given this heterogeneity, we realized that the problem of how anthropologists practice ethics isn't something that can be assumed or hypothesized with any degree of accuracy. In fact, assessing what should be in a comprehensive ethics code is challenging in a discipline with anthropology's diversity, as the current Ethics Task Force is in the process of discovering. Instead, it requires examples and stories from real-world people doing real-world work – the very narratives that tend not to make it into the business meetings or task force reports. Getting these narratives together is precisely the goal of the Ethics Casebook.
Ethics and Practice in the Present
In public forums, we tend to anchor our public conversations about disciplinary ethics with the stable pillars of principle and history, about which we are very certain. We are less certain, I think, about the present: not just because anthropology encompasses so many different kinds of work, but because it takes a lot of chutzpah to stand up in public and relate a story about difficult ethical choices in one's work. As a result, discussions about how "anthropology" and "research ethics" intersect are weirdly impoverished by a lack of understanding about how our colleagues put their ethical commitments into real-world practice. Particularly in the context of national security, I think it is widely assumed that the setting of one's employment determines one's capacity to make empowered and ethically informed research decisions, in a triumphant assertion of bureaucratic structure over individual agency.
Yet the context of anthropological practice has changed, and not just because "corporate ethnographer" is now a legitimate private sector job category. Consider that Institutional Review Boards did not come into existence until 1974; and that the Common Rule was not formally codified and implemented across the federal government until the Clinton Administration. The 'Common Rule' comprises a set of federal regulations that 17 federal agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. It is the law that governs how signatory federal agencies gather research data from human beings (see http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.htm). Although most of us groan at the thought of federal oversight for research, its application to programs like HTS is a matter of serious debate and discussion within and outside the Department of Defense, and is impacting how anthropologists in the federal sector might get involved with the program.
For example, Steven Chu, the current Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE), recently issued a memo expressing concern about the risks that "Human Terrain Mapping" poses to both researchers and their subjects. It notes that the program is deeply contentious in the social science community, and limits DOE involvement to narrow forms of data management and some analysis. Moreover, it emphasizes that any human subjects research involving DOE personnel and contractors, classified or not, must go through a DOE approved Institutional Review Board. As someone who works for the Department of Energy, the Chu memo's invocation of the Common Rule not only limits any involvement that I might have with a program like HTS; it also enables annoying gadflies like myself to invoke Department-level regulations when raising the issue of research ethics in projects that I might be asked to pursue. (For those of you who are wondering, I've never done HTS-type work. No one has asked me, and in any case, my expertise in human-computer interaction and expert judgment elicitation is profoundly irrelevant for insurgency warfare).
In short, "engagement" and "practice" and "ethics" and "national security" are all terms that need unpacking if we are to really understand ethics as a form of practice in the present, rather than as a set of rules or "thou shalt" statements. From this, we might have a better chance at developing guidance that helps people make better decisions in a wide array of contexts, including "pure" research.
This brings me back to those hotel lobby conversations I described earlier: some of the most important unpacking and reflection that we do takes place in bars and lobbies during conferences, as we describe, reflect, and interpret, and make sense of our experiences with the friends that we trust. The challenge is how to bring these narratives into wider circulation without compromising the privacy and confidentiality of their owners, while simultaneously ensuring a collection of credible narratives that vividly portray a reality that might otherwise remain hidden.
The Casebook
Ironically for a discipline that prides itself on its narratives of the particular, we are missing the thick descriptions that would help us understand the many parallel universes of anthropological practice. With the help of our colleagues, CEAUSSIC is taking a step toward filling that gap. Hence the idea of a casebook – which Rob Albro, George Marcus and I refer to as the "Ethics Casebook," but which has much broader aims than presenting a set of "just-so" stories that lead the reader to important lessons about commonly-encountered moral conundrums. Over the past couple of years, CEAUSSIC members have plumbed their professional networks to begin assembling a set of illustrative case studies in which respondents share a bit of their experience in navigating the intersection of anthropological ethics and research practice in the context of national security work.
We need more cases and are actively working our own networks to encourage our colleagues to provide material for the book. Rob Albro and I are spearhending this project. We have contacted friends and colleagues who work in federal agencies, but we are also interested in talking to anthropologists who self-identify as having some involvement in military, intelligence, or other forms of national security work, or who have studied or critiqued some form of national security practice. Rather than define "national security," we are asking our contributors to tell us what that category means in their work-lives, because we think it is important that anthropologists in national security explain what this sweeping affiliation actually means. The cases must be grounded in real-world experience, even if the details are disguised; but to ensure anonymity, we are working collaboratively with our contributors to make appropriate, case-by-case decisions about publishing the contributor's identities and disguising identifying details, such as precise places or institutions or names.
We expect to publish this case collection as a set of discussion materials for use in classrooms. We are also talking with other AAA committees involved in ethics to develop mechanisms for expanding and maintaining grounded conversations about ethics, perhaps in the form of an ethics blog, an annual update to the casebook (which we hope to be made available online), or regular sessions at the Annual Meetings where we can present and debate particularly provocative or timely cases. We are also open to any creative suggestions about how maximize the relevance of this casebook, as a point of reference in ongoing disciplinary discussion on ethics, disciplinary practice, and security.
CEAUSSIC Blog Series:
- "Origin Story and Grande Finale" ~ George Marcus (December 7, 2009)
- "Reflections on the Soon-to-be Released CEAUSSIC Report" ~ Jean Jackson (November 30, 2007)
- "Why not Mandate Ethics Education for Professional Training of Anthropologists?" ~ Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (October 13, 2009)
- "Anthropological Engagements with Military and Intelligence Agencies: Ethics, Politics, and ongoing Discourse" ~ David Price (September 11, 2009)
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> This is why I'm unhappy with DaveH's words (misquoted/paraphrased): > "anonymous in a request message means the response message" - that's > only true of the anonymous wsa:replyTo / wsa:faultTo in this context. Actually, this is a really important point. I think that it addresses my argument that the semantic applies to the MAP and not to the URI itself. IMO, the semantic of the URI itself means "the connection for this context" where the context is defined by the semantic of the MAP as it relates to the binding and/or MEP. Cheers, Christopher Ferris STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture email: email@example.com blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=440 phone: +1 508 377 9295 firstname.lastname@example.com wrote on 02/21/2006 02:34:43 AM: > While we're talking about anonymous, I'd like to re-iterate one > thing that was brought to my mind by Jonathan's example of a > putative TCP/IP binding. > > In this not-exactly-hypothetical binding, a request message can > legitimately be given an anonymous wsa:to, AND an anonymous wsa: > replyTo. This is kinda interesting. It could be argued that both > anonymous values mean the same thing: "send the message to the other > end of the established TCP/IP connection", but the recipients are > different. If A is sending a request to B, then the anon wsa:to > means B, but the anon wsa:replyTo means A. > > This is why I'm unhappy with DaveH's words (misquoted/paraphrased): > "anonymous in a request message means the response message" - that's > only true of the anonymous wsa:replyTo / wsa:faultTo in this context. > > We really must insist that the meaning of the anonymous URI depends > upon the binding. > > Tony Rogers > > From: email@example.com on behalf of David Hull > Sent: Tue 21-Feb-06 18:15 > To: email@example.com > Subject: Why anonymous may be different (for AcksTo and elsewhere) > The more I ponder the problem of anonymous AcksTo, the more I think > that anonymous can't quite be treated as just another EPR address. > I'm posting this here because I think the situation is not unique to > AcksTo or WS-RX. Rather, WS-RX happens to have presented the use > case that flushes the issue out. Also, while I may have got the WS- > RX use case wrong here, I believe the overall point is still of > interest to WSA. Finally, there are clearly enough WS-RX folks in > the audience here that if this is in fact relevant to WS-RX, I'm > sure the news will find its way there. > > Here's the scenario: > > Suppose that A and B both want to use a reliable sequence to send > messages to C. Each uses its own sequence. As I understand it, > this is the normal case (as opposed to, say, A and B sharing the > same sequence). Now further suppose that A and B both use anonymous > for AcksTo. Given that acks for a given message could come back > with a later message, the following could happen: > A sends C message A1 > C sends back a response with no acks > B sends C message B1 > C sends back a response with an ack to message A1 > For that matter, if C isn't careful, it could send acks to some > completely unrelated process that happened to be sending to it > without even using WS-RX. > > So, in order for this to work, C has to be careful only to use > anonymous AcksTo for replies to request messages that are part of > the same sequence (by the way, how does C ack the last message of > such a sequence if it doesn't know it's the last?). > > By contrast, it doesn't seem C would have to be so careful in the > case where the AcksTo EPRs are not anonymous. Normally (and again > I'm not a WS-RXpert) I would expect that A and B would use separate > AcksTo addresses, and C would just send acks to the addresses it was > told to use. Even if A and B used the same AcksTo address and used > the sequence number on the acks to sort out whose acks they were, > they could do so without any help from C because the acks would at > least always end up at the same destination. > > Another way to look at this is that using the same AcksTo for two > different sequences ties the two sequences together and whoever's > getting the acks has to know about both sequences. This would apply > equally to anonymous and non-anonymous. I believe this handles most > of the problem, but not all. First, this would require every sender > that wants to use anonymous AcksTo with a given destination to know > about every other one. Second, by itself it doesn't deal with > senders that aren't even using WS-RX. I'm not sure the second > problem is serious, but the first one seems like it might be. > > It also seems worth considering the case where A uses anonymous and > B doesn't. If B is expecting acks at non-anonymous D, then it > wouldn't normally be checking for acks in its responses, and neither > could it be expected to know what to do with A's acks if it did > notice them. C can send B's acks freely to D, but it has to be > careful to send A's acks back only on responses to messages from A. > > Even if there turn out to be no serious issues here for WS-RX, it > seems worth noting that trying to extend anonymous beyond the > context of a single request-response message exchange effectively > ties together all senders to a given destination into one virtual > receiver for messages to anonymous. That is, a message sent to > anonymous in such a scenario could arrive back at any sender.Received on Tuesday, 21 February 2006 13:26:48 UTC
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Russia Denies Link to Alleged Agent Busted in the US
(MOSCOW) -- The Kremlin has denied any links to companies recently blacklisted by the U.S. for their alleged involvement in a complex scheme to smuggle sensitive technology from America to the Russian military and intelligence agencies.
"None of them supplied anything to us," Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin told reporters Friday, according to Russia's RIA Novosti.
"This latest row -- thank the Americans -- is a slap in the face for those in Russia who think that foreigners will help us," he added, going on to say that Russia is committed to making its own advanced technology.
Federal officials announced Wednesday they had arrested Soviet-born Alexander Fishenko, who was accused of working in the U.S. as an agent of the Russian government and being at the center of a Russian "military procurement ring." The ring allegedly worked for years to trick U.S. customs agents into believing his company was shipping harmless goods -- like traffic light parts -- to Russia, rather than advanced microelectronics that could be used in military applications including radar and surveillance systems, weapons guidance systems or detonation triggers. The ring also allegedly provided microchips to a specialized electronics laboratory run by the FSB, Russia's powerful intelligence agency and successor to the KGB.
In addition to Fishenko, 10 other suspects working in the U.S. and in Russia were indicted for their alleged role in the scheme and 165 companies and people were added to the Department of Commerce's "Entity List," where they will face licensing restrictions for allegedly "facilitating" Fishenko's operation.
"As alleged in the indictment, the defendants spun an elaborate web of lies to evade the laws that protect our national security," U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a Department of Justice release Wednesday. "But U.S. law enforcement detected, disrupted and dismantled the defendants' work."
Documents provided by the DOJ allege that Fishenko was the link between the Houston-based Arc Electronics, Inc., which he founded in 1998, and Apex Systems, L.L.C., of which he is a part owner, based in Moscow. To get the microelectronics from the U.S. and into the hands of Russian spies or military officers, Arc allegedly used other corporations as intermediaries and provided false information about what the parts were and where they were going.
At one point the firm went as far as claiming it was a "traffic light manufacturer," even though the company doesn't manufacture anything, the DOJ said in a release. In another instance, a suspect in the ring ordered a Russia-based company to make sure documents showed that maritime parts were for a fishing boat rather than for "anti-submarine ones." "Then we'll be able to start working," the suspect said, according to court documents.
In late 2011, the DOJ said several of the defendants tried to cover their tracks by destroying documents and deleting any references to the Russian military in emails.
"In this day and time, the ability of foreign countries to illegally acquire sensitive and sophisticated U.S. technology poses a significant threat to both the economic and national security of our nation," Houston FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen Morris said. "While some countries may leverage our technology for financial gain, many countries hostile to the United States will seek to improve their defense capabilities and to modernize their weapons systems at the expense of U.S. taxpayers."
The charges come as U.S.-Russian relations dipped to a recent low after the Russian government expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development, accusing it of meddling in Russia's internal affairs. Russia has also voiced its displeasure with a set of human rights sanctions being pushed by Congress that would slap visa bans and asset freezes on several Russian officials allegedly tied to the death of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergey Magnitsky, who died in police custody in 2009.
Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested that the "re-set" in relations between Moscow and Washington, which the Obama administration proposed shortly after taking office in 2009, could not last forever.
"If we talk about the 'reset,' it is clear that, using computer terminology, it cannot last forever. Otherwise it would not be a 'reset' but a program failure," Lavrov told Kommersant newspaper in an interview.
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