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10-megawatt power plant using OTEC in Hainan to be completed in 2017
The ocean absorbs energy from the sun, stores it, and then releases it slowly. Sounds like a prescription for meeting the world's energy needs, since the ocean is the largest feature of our planet. But can ocean energy be tapped in a way that doesn't create more problems than it solves?
That's the promise behind a recently announced deal between Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group, a resort developer based in Beijing. The two companies will develop a 10-megawatt power plant using ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) technology in waters off southern China's Hainan Island. Construction is expected to be completed in 2017.
The process
Scientists have long been interested in the potential for generating energy from the difference in temperature between warm surface waters and deep water. When this difference is large – for example, in tropical locations with narrow continental shelves – the warm water can be used to convert a liquid (like ammonia) into steam. The steam drives a turbine, producing electricity, and then is recondensed into a liquid using cold water pumped up from the deep ocean so that the cycle can be repeated.
The OTEC process can produce a number of benefits in addition to clean electricity. The large volumes of cold water pumped through the system can be used to cool buildings, saving on air conditioning (and associated greenhouse gas emissions from this major energy consumer). Lots of freshwater condenses on the cold water pipes, especially in humid tropical environments – so much that it can become a viable supplement to local water supplies or even the major water source for local communities.
Because the deep ocean water pumped up to the OTEC facility is rich in nutrients and free of pathogens, it can be used to raise fish or to grow marine organisms like, microalgae for nutritional supplements. Doing this could actually reduce the environmental impact of OTEC, since the cold water is allowed to warm up and the nutrients and carbon dioxide can be removed by the farmed organisms.
Another nice thing about OTEC is that, unlike other kinds of renewable energy, power production is steady and peaks in the summer months when demand is typically highest (due to air-conditioning and refrigeration needs). Some analysts estimate that a single 100-megawatt commercial scale OTEC plant would prevent about 500,000 tons of carbon from being emitted into the atmosphere and save about $130 million per year in oil costs. Although there are environmental concerns associated with OTEC, which my co-authors and I outlined in a recent paper, the potential for clean energy, drinking water and food seem quite large.
Why the delay?
If OTEC is so great, why has it been in development since the late 1800's but never commercialized? One reason is that there are only so many suitable sites – conventional OTEC plants need to be onshore yet close to deep water, and the surface water must be quite warm. Another reason is that the capital costs are high while the energy yield is low – the process isn't very efficient. And yet another reason is that it is technologically challenging to lay a pipe long enough to reach deep water – and keep it there.
Despite these challenges, scientists and engineers have remained intrigued enough with OTEC's possibilities to keep working on it for all of these decades. The potential sites have been expanded by using floating platforms, as with the plant Lockheed Martin is building, minimizing pipe length. Other innovations allow OTEC to extract energy from smaller temperature differentials. Efficiency has been increased through the use of better heat exchangers and advanced materials. Pipe manufacturing, laying methods and maintenance have all vastly improved. And while OTEC remains quite costly, the rising price of oil has made OTEC and other forms of renewable energy much more competitive in recent years, as our paper outlines. These factors make me think that OTEC may be on the verge of commercialization.
In fact, in our paper we concluded that the project in southern China was the missing link in commercializing OTEC. Several small OTEC plants have been built already, so we know that the concept produces net energy and all of the other benefits described above. But the costs associated with scaling OTEC up have been very uncertain, perhaps scaring off potential investors and customers up till now.
Proceed with caution
OTEC is definitely not a panacea. Using large amounts of cold, nutrient rich water from the deep ocean in order to produce energy could have some very negative impacts, like killing sea life by sucking it into the intake pipe or creating algal blooms by discharging nutrient rich sea water into warm, nutrient-poor surface water. But these and other impacts can be prevented or mitigated. This new industry should be carefully regulated to ensure that the costs of safe operation are internalized by beneficiaries and not borne by all of us, on behalf of the ocean.
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A bit over a week ago, President Bush and his men promised to provide the legal, constitutional and moral justifications for the sort of warrantless spying on Americans that has been illegal for nearly 30 years. Instead, we got the familiar mix of political spin, clumsy historical misinformation, contemptuous dismissals of civil liberties concerns, cynical attempts to paint dissents as anti-American and pro-terrorist, and a couple of big, dangerous lies.
The first was that the domestic spying program is carefully aimed only at people who are actively working with Al Qaeda, when actually it has violated the rights of countless innocent Americans. And the second was that the Bush team could have prevented the 9/11 attacks if only they had thought of eavesdropping without a warrant.
Sept. 11 could have been prevented. This is breathtakingly cynical. The nation's guardians did not miss the 9/11 plot because it takes a few hours to get a warrant to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mail messages. They missed the plot because they were not looking. The same officials who now say 9/11 could have been prevented said at the time that no one could possibly have foreseen the attacks. We keep hoping that Mr. Bush will finally lay down the bloody banner of 9/11, but Karl Rove, who emerged from hiding recently to talk about domestic spying, made it clear that will not happen — because the White House thinks it can make Democrats look as though they do not want to defend America. "President Bush believes if Al Qaeda is calling somebody in America, it is in our national security interest to know who they're calling and why," he told Republican officials. "Some important Democrats clearly disagree."
Mr. Rove knows perfectly well that no Democrat has ever said any such thing — and that nothing prevented American intelligence from listening to a call from Al Qaeda to the United States, or a call from the United States to Al Qaeda, before Sept. 11, 2001, or since. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act simply required the government to obey the Constitution in doing so. And FISA was amended after 9/11 to make the job much easier.
Only bad guys are spied on. Bush officials have said the surveillance is tightly focused only on contacts between people in this country and Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Vice President Dick Cheney claimed it saved thousands of lives by preventing attacks. But reporting in this paper has shown that the National Security Agency swept up vast quantities of e-mail messages and telephone calls and used computer searches to generate thousands of leads. F.B.I. officials said virtually all of these led to dead ends or to innocent Americans. The biggest fish the administration has claimed so far has been a crackpot who wanted to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch — a case that F.B.I. officials said was not connected to the spying operation anyway.
The spying is legal. The secret program violates the law as currently written. It's that simple. In fact, FISA was enacted in 1978 to avoid just this sort of abuse. It said that the government could not spy on Americans by reading their mail (or now their e-mail) or listening to their telephone conversations without obtaining a warrant from a special court created for this purpose. The court has approved tens of thousands of warrants over the years and rejected a handful.
As amended after 9/11, the law says the government needs probable cause, the constitutional gold standard, to believe the subject of the surveillance works for a foreign power or a terrorist group, or is a lone-wolf terrorist. The attorney general can authorize electronic snooping on his own for 72 hours and seek a warrant later. But that was not good enough for Mr. Bush, who lowered the standard for spying on Americans from "probable cause" to "reasonable belief" and then cast aside the bedrock democratic principle of judicial review.
Just trust us. Mr. Bush made himself the judge of the proper balance between national security and Americans' rights, between the law and presidential power. He wants Americans to accept, on faith, that he is doing it right. But even if the United States had a government based on the good character of elected officials rather than law, Mr. Bush would not have earned that kind of trust. The domestic spying program is part of a well-established pattern: when Mr. Bush doesn't like the rules, he just changes them, as he has done for the detention and treatment of prisoners and has threatened to do in other areas, like the confirmation of his judicial nominees. He has consistently shown a lack of regard for privacy, civil liberties and judicial due process in claiming his sweeping powers. The founders of our country created the system of checks and balances to avert just this sort of imperial arrogance.
The rules needed to be changed. In 2002, a Republican senator — Mike DeWine of Ohio — introduced a bill that would have done just that, by lowering the standard for issuing a warrant from probable cause to "reasonable suspicion" for a "non-United States person." But the Justice Department opposed it, saying the change raised "both significant legal and practical issues" and may have been unconstitutional. Now, the president and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales are telling Americans that reasonable suspicion is a perfectly fine standard for spying on Americans as well as non-Americans — and they are the sole judges of what is reasonable.
So why oppose the DeWine bill? Perhaps because Mr. Bush had already secretly lowered the standard of proof — and dispensed with judges and warrants — for Americans and non-Americans alike, and did not want anyone to know.
War changes everything. Mr. Bush says Congress gave him the authority to do anything he wanted when it authorized the invasion of Afghanistan. There is simply nothing in the record to support this ridiculous argument.
The administration also says that the vote was the start of a war against terrorism and that the spying operation is what Mr. Cheney calls a "wartime measure." That just doesn't hold up. The Constitution does suggest expanded presidential powers in a time of war. But the men who wrote it had in mind wars with a beginning and an end. The war Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney keep trying to sell to Americans goes on forever and excuses everything.
Other presidents did it. Mr. Gonzales, who had the incredible bad taste to begin his defense of the spying operation by talking of those who plunged to their deaths from the flaming twin towers, claimed historic precedent for a president to authorize warrantless surveillance. He mentioned George Washington, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. These precedents have no bearing on the current situation, and Mr. Gonzales's timeline conveniently ended with F.D.R., rather than including Richard Nixon, whose surveillance of antiwar groups and other political opponents inspired FISA in the first place. Like Mr. Nixon, Mr. Bush is waging an unpopular war, and his administration has abused its powers against antiwar groups and even those that are just anti-Republican.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is about to start hearings on the domestic spying. Congress has failed, tragically, on several occasions in the last five years to rein in Mr. Bush and restore the checks and balances that are the genius of American constitutional democracy. It is critical that it not betray the public once again on this score.

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Irish business could learn a thing or two from Darwin - Opinion
What should have been a very run-of-the-mill press launch last week for the Tanaiste has been somewhat overshadowed by a decidedly dodgy grasp of scientific history. Maybe it was a slip of the tongue on Mary Coughlan's fault, and perhaps I'm cruel to bring it up again, but the second in command of Ireland Inc. really should know better.
The Tanaiste was addressing a bunch of entrepreneurs to promote the IDA's campaign to market Ireland oversees when she made the monumental blooper of suggesting that it was Albert Einstein and not Charles Darwin who had come up with the theory of evolution. This is despite the fact that the last year has been a celebration of all things
Undoubtedly, the Tanaiste should have known better, especially as she was speaking to a group of entrepreneurs who would, I imagine (and hope), place good science and scientific research pretty high up on their agenda when it comes to developing new ideas to get us out of our current economic doom and gloom. Ms. Coughlan was, in fact, alluding to that great catch-all term 'survival of the fittest' when she put her foot in it. However, on this point too she has made the very common error of giving
Darwin did eventually use the term 'survival of the fittest' but not until the later editions of his work where he qualified it, using the word "fittest" to mean "better adapted for immediate, local environment" rather than "in the best physical shape".
Perhaps the same could be said for Irish entrepreneurs. Those who will survive this current period of recession will be the best adapted to meet the economic and social challenges that we are presented with right here, right now and not necessarily the larger companies who for the last decade have been seen as being in 'the best physical shape'. Irish business could learn a thing or two from


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Preschool Depression Is The Saddest Illness Ever
Latest"Preschool depression" sound like a term created just to piss off psychiatry skeptics — but clinicians argue that it's real. And descriptions of the condition are some of the saddest things you'll ever read.
Writing in the Times Magazine, Pamela Paul records this interaction between a depressed preschooler and his mom, during a form of therapy where the therapist induces guilt so that parent and child can work through it (in this case, the therapist gave the kid a cup that was made to break when he picked it up):
The boy nodded tearfully. "I feel like I'm going to go into the trash can," he said.
"Who would put you in the trash can?" his mother asked.
"You would," he replied in an accusatory voice.
"I would never do that," she said. "I love you. Accidents happen." The boy seemed to recover, and they chatted about her earrings, which he flicked playfully with a forefinger. Then his face drooped again.
"Are you mad at me?" he asked, and then added, almost angrily, "I never want to do this activity again."
"You're not a bad boy," she consoled him. […]
"I am a bad boy," the boy said, ducking under the table. "I don't think you love me now." He started to moan from the floor, whimpering: "I'm so sad. I'm so sad."
Another kid, offered a trip to Disney World, said, "Mickey lies. Dreams don't come true." Reading these stories made me kind of depressed, and they also convinced me that even the youngest children can have problems that go beyond mere transitory sadness. But what can we do about them? Doctors aren't sure — many are worried about overmedicating and labeling kids, and preschoolers are especially difficult to diagnose. Explains Paul, "Preschoolers not only lack the linguistic sophistication to describe the experience, but they're also still learning what emotions are." How do you help kids so young they barely know what a feeling is?
One possible answer: involve the parents, but don't blame them. While a parent's depression can influence a child's mental health, psychologist Joan Luby says, "I've seen many depressed kids with nurturing, caring parents." And while we often tend to blame parents for problems that show up in kids — especially this early — parents can actually be part of the solution. Says Luby,
Psychotherapy for depressed preschoolers should always involve the caregiver. Not because the caregiver is necessarily bad or doing anything wrong, but because the caregiver is an essential part of the child's psychological apparatus. The child is not an independent entity at this age.
Amid all the sadness of this story, there's a grain of hope, which is that maybe recognizing illnesses like depression in preschoolers can head off more serious problems in adulthood. Writes Paul, "recent successes in treating autism have also shown that in many cases, the earlier the detection and intervention of a disorder, the greater chance for significant results. One principal argument for diagnosing depression early is that even with a genetic predisposition, depression isn't cemented into the psyche; the very fluidity of preschoolers' mental states seems to make them more treatable." Preschool depression may not be a new mental illness du jour — perhaps, some speculate, today's depressed adults were depressed as toddlers too, but society wasn't yet equipped to notice. Now that we are, maybe we can help kids before depression is "cemented into the psyche" — and perhaps have a shot at really stopping an illness that so often proves devilishly difficult to treat.
Can Preschoolers Be Depressed? [NYT Magazine]
Earlier: Disturbing New Study Reports Depression Occurs In Toddlers
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Do You Know?
Diddy (P. Diddy / Puff Daddy / Brother Love)
Then, there are the times in my life
When I feel, trapped
Feel there's, no way out
No escape
To be honest, I don't know where my life is goin
Where I'll end up at
I just don't know
Verse One: Puff Daddy
I looked back and saw the cat focus, took notice
Stayed away from the bogus, til his rise began
Phillies stacked his grand played the brokest
til he seemed hopeless, soon to be the dopest, cat comin
Track stunnin, fame singin, his name ringin
Money starts to pile, honeys start to wild
Top notch drop top make everything he drop hot
He dream, visualize, plot and scheme
Got the cream legally without the beam
Witcha fire eye drive slow, 8-5-0
Jet black tint still, they might know
Who the cat controllin the strings of rap and R&B
Trapped inside of a movie starrin me, so far
Chorus: repeat 2X
Do you know where you're
goin to?
Do you like the things that
life is showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?
Verse Two: Puff Daddy
Shorty was brimmin, singin, hangin with cats who move bricks
Heard she do backflips, for niggaz who stack chips
Suck for dough, now she fuck for Bills up in Buffalo
Real G's makin her back swell
Only givin head to those niggaz who rapped well
Owned a black cell, flip it, sippin on Whitman cool mints
Rumors spread, half a G she took, six or more
Two bagged up, four went raw
Back of my mind countin up the big score
Violators from the door, she lookin up from the floor
Sore from all the pain her body couldn't ignore
So far from pure, rotten to the core
Either or, for sure, trapped inside the world of a whore
Verse Three: Puff Daddy
Hard to cope with, all these niggaz and dope whips
with cash flow, motherfuckers that gotta flash gold
to bag hoes, they not nice, 600 circle the block twice
In they Roleys they rock ice, to get they hit on
Bitches dyin to get on, suck a dick or get shit on
Don't understand they playin wit it
Players get these bitches open and let they man hit it
Fuck that, you can trust that, if I had a gun
I'd release slugs black and bust back
See how these players love that, to the point where
I can't take it, I'm a playa hater, I can't fake it
I wanna spill myself, to feel the thrill myself
And since I can't be a player, wanna kill myself, trust
Chorus w/ variations
I been on this road for a long time now
At time it seems like the road is never gonna end
On this road there's a lotta, hills and mountains
Peaks and valleys
Even a lot of potholes on this road
It's never smooth, on the road of life
I don't know where I'm going
I just know where I wanna end up at
Chorus w/ variations
Lord can you help me get there?
Please let me get there
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Jamie Hyde is guide for an adventure travel company out of San Francisco. She climbs mountains, shoots rapids, and goes wherever traveling adreneline junkies want to be. She has few emotional ties aside from her dying boss, best friend Larson and she actively avoids the entanglements of heart and hearth. She was in Bali researching potential trips for the company when her world exploded in the blink of an eye in the 2002 nightclub bombings. As a survivor, her body has healed but she is still filled with guilt and grief and horror about the events of that terrible night. So just one year later, she is back in Bali for a healing ceremony arranged for both survivors and victims' families. She's come to not only face the horrors of that night, as she has explained to everyone who has asked, but also on a more private quest to find the stranger who saved her life and whom she cannot get out of her mind.
Jamie's host in Bali at the Paradise Guest House is Nyoman, a gentle Balinese man whose wife was a waitress at one of the clubs. If anyone can understand some of her sorrow and pain, he can. As Bali and the people there work to ease her guilt and grief, she starts her search for Gabe, an American ex-pat living in Bali after his own personal tragedy, the man who saved her life that fateful night but who she has only the scantest of information on: first name and occupation. What Jamie's final outcome will be, if she will find acceptance and make peace with what happened both in the nightclub that night and with Gabe in the aftermath of the bombing, will depend greatly on his reception of her and on her ability to forgive herself. Jamie is on a journey, courageous and struggling, but her strength of spirit shines through, even despite her guilt and deep sadness.
The novel starts in 2003 but moves back to 2002 and the bombing and its immediate aftermath, before coming back to 2003 and Jamie's emotional quest. This allows the additional reasons behind Jamie's survivor's guilt over the bombing to be revealed slowly and effectively to the reader. It also allows the reader to get a sense of Gabe's motives for rushing into the burning building to save as many as he can before it collapses completely. And it explains why these two souls, so hurt and damaged even before the bombings, would cling to each other as to life rafts in the face of a world seemingly rent asunder in those days immediately following the arrival of terror on an island previously known for its paradise.
Sussman has written a beautiful travel novel, a gentle romance, and a quiet homage to the innocent place where a terrible event rocked the world. Touching on not only the famed beauty and spirituality of Bali, Sussman has also drawn a lovely picture of the people who live there, from Nyoman, grieving his wife and unborn child; to wily street child Bambang and his loyal dog; from Dewi, Nyoman's rebellious yet endearing niece; to Wayan, the local doctor who treated her after the bombing and who feels righteous anger over the second class treatment of the Balinese injured. She's portrayed the culture as welcoming and thoughtful, anxious for healing and moving forward. Jamie as a main character was complex and her baby steps toward opening herself up to the possibility of living and loving made her very appealing to read about. Gabe was a sympathetic character as well and together their confusion and hurt over the past as they explored their needs for the future, together or separately, was well handled. Their bonding after the nightmare quality of what they experienced together was understandable and very emotional but their connection the following year was perhaps a bit rushed. In the end though, the search for connection and the opening up to love and life was done beautifully and respectfully and the end of the story was spot on. The book was touching, serene, and a pleasure to read.
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Yet still a few more more words from Carl Jung
I thought I was done with Carl, but this last bit of his book (save the "Retrospect" or epilogue) is really quite beautiful. I would like to commit it to memory but that is not likely given the current state of my brain's writing mechanism; saving it here to find again in the future is the next best thing. (Note to readers or future selves: ignore the Latin terms and big words, and try to focus on the essence of the thing. It is a bit long but worth it.)
At this point the fact forces itself on my attention that beside the field of reflection there is another equally broad if not broader area in which rational understanding and rational modes of representation find scarcely anything they are able to grasp. This is the realm of Eros. In classical times, when such things were properly understood, Eros was considered a god whose divinity transcended our human limits, and who therefore could neither be comprehended nor represented in any way. I might, as many before me have attempted to, venture an approach to this daimon, whose range of activity extends from the endless spaces of the heavens to the dark abysses of hell; but I falter before the task of finding the language which might adequately express the incalculable paradoxes of love. Eros is a kosmogonos, a creator and father-mother of all higher consciousness. I sometimes feel that Paul's words — "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love" — might well be the first condition of all cognition and the quintessence of divinity itself. Whatever the learned interpretation may be of the sentence "God is love," the words affirm the complexio oppositorum of the Godhead. In my medical experience as well as my own life I have again and again been faced with the mystery of love, and have never been able to explain what it is. Like Job, I had to "lay me hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will now answer." (Job 40:4 f.) Here is the greatest and smallest, the remotest and nearest, the highest and lowest, and we cannot discuss one side of it without also discussing the other. No language is adequate to this paradox. Whatever one can say, no words express the whole. To speak of partial aspects is always too much or too little, for only the whole is meaningful. Love "bears all things" and "endures all things" (1 Cor. 13:7). These words say all there is to be said; nothing can be added to them. For we are in the deepest sense the victims and the instruments of cosmogonic "love." I put the word in quotation marks to indicate that I do not use it in its connotations of desiring, preferring, favoring, wishing, and similar feelings, but as something superior to the individual, a unified and undivided whole. Being a part, man cannot grasp the whole. He is at its mercy. He may assent to it, or rebel against it; but he is always caught up by it and enclosed within it. He is dependent upon it and sustained by it. Love is his light and his darkness, whose end he cannot see. "Love ceases not" — whether he speaks with the "tongues of angels," or with scientific exactitude traces the life of the cell down to its uttermost source. Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self-deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom, he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown, ignotum por ignotius — that is, by the name of God. That is a confession of his subjection, his imperfection, and his dependence; but at the same time a testimony to his freedom to choose between truth and error.


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Expanded evacuations as the Kirishima eruption continues
I spent most of the weekend with some sort of cold/flu/virus, so I'm only now catching up with all the goings-on that I missed over the weekend (not that my head isn't 100% cleaned up, but Mondays are Mondays). Looks like I got a lot of reading to do, but I'll start with an update on the ongoing Kirishima eruption in Japan (along with a bit on Sakurajima as well).
Japanese officials have now extended the evacuation zone around the Shinmoe-dake cone* in the Kirishima Volcanic Field to now include 610 residents of the town of Takaharu for fears of potential pyroclastic flow and bomb activity. This is likely related to the appearance of a dome in the summit crater of the cone that could collapse to produce the flows of hot ash, tephra, volcanic blocks and gases if the dome gets big enough to reach the edge of the crater (see image below). The new dome was at least 50 meters in diameter on Friday but more recent images from January 31 suggest it has gotten larger (see below – or see the new image with the glow of hot lava/tephra from the center of the dome), closer to 500 meters in diameter (Japanese). The same article that describes the new dome also mentions that Geospatial Information Authority in Japan had noted inflation at Kirishima since December 2009 – and since May 10, they calculated ~6 million m3 (0.006 km3) of magma in a reservoir at 6 km depth that is ~10 km WNW from Shinmoe-dake and another 1 million m3 (0.001 km3) of magma at 3 km depth under the Shinmoe-dake cone itself. There is a lot of great information on the eruption on a website hosted by the University of Tokyo (Japanese – try Google Translate) that has compositional data and images of clasts from the eruption – it appears to be an andesite eruption on the most part, along there might be multiple flavors of the magma. The explosivity of this eruption so far suggests that the magma was fairly gas-rich at first – and the pumicaceous/scoriceous nature of the clasts seem to support that – but the new dome might be signs of a less gas-rich magma.
The dome inside the Shinmoe-dake crater at Kirishima, taken on January 31, 2011. Image courtesy of the University of Tokyo.
As for the eruption itself, Eruptions reader and volcano documentarian captured some great video of the eruption at Kirishima, along with some of the activity at nearby Sakurajima. The footage of Sakurajima has more of the "pressure waves" first noted during the eruption at Eyjafjallajokull this past spring – and as always, is great up-close-and-personal footage of an erupting volcano. Eruptions reader Mike also sent me a great "before" image of the crater area of Shimnoe-dake, taken in 1990 (below). You can compare that to the images from the University of Tokyo website of the current conditions (see top left). The BBC has also posted a nice collection of images from the eruption and the nearby region, showing the ash fallout and evacuation centers. In fact, there is no shortage of great image galleries for this eruption.
Shinmoe-dake crater at Kirishima seen in 1990. Image by Eruptions reader Mike.
*Note: There has been some confusion about Shinmoe-dake versus Kirishima and it all comes down to what you consider the actual volcano. Kirishima is a series of vents/domes that make up a cluster while Shimnoe-dake is a single crater in that greater volcanic field. I suppose an equivalent might be how Lassen Peak and Chaos Crags in California are both part of the greater Lassen Volcanic Center. In this case, both Shinmoe-dake and Kirishima are both technically correct names for this eruption.
Be sure to keep an eye on the webcams for the eruption (seventh from bottom on right hand list) to see all the action as it happens.
Some other brief volcano news from other spots around the world:
Bromo: Flights have resumed to Bali as the ash explosions from the crater inside the Tengger Caldera. As usual, it might take a few days to clear out the backlog of the cancellations, but there is still the threat of new cancellations. The Darwin VAAC does still have an ash advisory, but only to ~4 km / 12,000 feet.
St. Helens: We can all get a little excited about the small earthquake swarm under St. Helens – except these are as common as anything. The grand total so far has been ~9 earthquakes of between M1.3-2.6 over the last 2 days, all somewhat poorly constrained between 3.5-6 km depth.
Beerenberg: There was an earthquake over the weekend somewhat near Jan Mayen Island in the far north Atlantic Ocean. Jan Mayen is a territory of Norway and actually has the lone active volcano on Norwegian soil, Beerenberg. That volcano last erupted in 1985 producing lava flows with minor tephra. Now, it doesn't seem like the M6.2 earthquake is likely to prompt an eruption at Beerenburg, but it did at least cause me to note that Iceland doesn't have all the volcanoes of the great white north. If anything does happen, you can check out the webcam on Jan Mayen, added to the "Volcano webcams of the World".
Top left: The crater area of Shinmoe-dake on January 30, 2011. Image courtesy of the University of Tokyo.


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Heather Armstrong
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A pioneer mom blogger sadly took her own life. Heather Armstrong, also known as Dooce, was only 47 years old. She had been very open about her struggles with depression and her battle with alcoholism in the past.
David Miranda
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Quite a story from Brazil, as 37-year-old political star David Miranda died, nine months after contracting a gastrointestinal illness. A Rio de Janeiro city councillor, then a member of Brazil's Congress, the young political star had caused quite a stir, first in the Edward Snowden affair, then by signing articles for The Guardian, including one in which he predicted that Bolsonaro's movement wanted him dead.
Young Lo
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Rapper and producer Young Lo has been killed in a shooting that broke out at a Miami nightclub. His fans, friends and family are in shock. He has notably collaborated with Drake and Lil Wayne. He was only 37.
Bobby Moudy
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TikTok star Bobby Moudy took his own life. The father of three was reportedly overwhelmed by financial problems. He was only 46 years old. His family and fans are in shock.
Sienna Weir
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Sienna Weir, a Miss Universe finalist, has died following a terrible riding accident, several sources report. She was only 23 years old.
Petr Klima
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Former NHL player Petr Klima has died at the age of 58. He won the Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers.
Tori Bowie
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Star athlete and Olympic medalist Tori Bowie has been found dead in Florida. Her family, team, friends and fans are in shock. She was only 32 years old.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Canadian folk music icon Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84 in a Toronto hospital.
Heather Walker
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Heather Walker, vice president of public relations for the Boston Celtics, has died of a rare form of brain cancer, the NBA team has confirmed. She was just 52 years old.
Patty Raynes
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New Yorker Patty Raynes was found dead in her Florida home by her housekeeper. Raynes was a prominent member of Manhattan's elite. She was 70 years old.
Ginnie Newhart
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The wife of American comedian Bob Newhart, Ginnie Newhart, died at 82 after a long illness.
Dale Meeks
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Dale Meeks, star of ITV's Emmerdale, has died aged 47. A relative says he was really unwell before his death.
MoneySign Suede
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The Los Angeles rapper known as MoneySign Suede was killed in a California jail. The rapper, 22, whose real name was Jaime Brugada Valdez, was fatally stabbed.
Keith Gattis
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Veteran country musician Keith Gattis has died, plunging many fans and collaborators into mourning. The latter included Kenny Chesney, George Strait and Sheryl Crow. Crow was quick to pay tribute to Gattis on hearing the news of his death. "I woke up to the news that Keith Gattis was gone. He was a wonderful person, an incredible talent and a much-loved friend to all who knew him. He will be missed," she said. Keith Gattis was only 52 years old.
Jerry Springer
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Iconic host and TV genre pioneer Jerry Springer has died at the age of 79.
Harry Belafonte
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The legendary Harry Belafonte has died aged 96, reports the New York Times. The star marked generations with his voice and undeniable charisma.
Len Goodman
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Beloved Dancing With The Stars reality TV judge Len Goodman has died aged 78, just months after announcing his retirement from the show. The news sent shockwaves through fans and loved ones alike.
Mark Stewart
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Mark Stewart, singer and founding member of British post-punk band Pop Group, has died, confirms Mute Records. Stewart was 62.
Barry Humphries
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Australian comedian Barry Humphries, best known for his comic character Dame Edna, has died aged 89, his family has confirmed.
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Moonbin, a member of the K-Pop group Astro, was found dead in his Seoul home. He leaves many friends, family and fans in complete shock and mourning. He was only 25 years old.
Elizabeth Hubbard
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Elizabeth Hubbard, star of As the World Turns and The Doctors, died at 89.
Red Robinson
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Vancouver radio star Red Robinson, who astonished audiences with his grandiose interviews, including with The Beatles, died just hours after his 86th birthday.
Richard Ng
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Beloved actor Richard Ng has died aged 83, his wife confirms.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has died of cancer at the age of 71. He was responsible for many iconic soundtracks and projects.
Al Jaffee
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Al Jaffee, cartoonist and pioneer of humor comics in the United States (Mad), has died at the venerable age of 102.
Dan McKillen
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Former HealthDay CEO Dan McKillen has died aged 71.
Mark Sheehan
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The Script guitarist Mark Sheehan has died. According to TMZ, he died in a hospital after a brief illness, but details remain unclear. He was only 46 years old.
Craig Breen
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Rally driver and champion Craig Breen sadly lost his life after an accident while testing his car. He was only 33 years old.
Lasse Wellander
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ABBA guitarist Lasse Wellander has died aged 70. He was praised by the band and their many fans. He died in his sleep, surrounded by his family.
Michael Lerner
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Actor Michael Lerner, here with Robert Emms and Lily Collins, has died at the age of 81. His family announced the sad news. He starred in many films over the span of an impressive career including Godzilla, Elf and Barton Fink.
Paul Cattermole
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Paul Cattermole, member of the popular British group S Club 7, died at the age of 46. He was found at his home. His family and friends are devastated.
Bob Lee
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Bob Lee, founder of Cash App, was murdered in the middle of the street in San Francisco. The 43-year-old succumbed to his injuries in a hospital after being stabbed. Lee's loved ones and the citizens of San Francisco are in shock and angry, as a crime wave hits the city.
Care Failure (Caroline Kawa)
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Care Failure (Caroline Kawa), singer and guitarist with Canadian rock band Die Mannequin, has died aged 36. Her family confirmed that she died of heart failure following an infection. Rock fans in Canada and around the world are in shock and mourn the star.
Bill Leavy
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NFL referee emeritus Bill Leavy, known for his professionalism and integrity, which led him to the position of supervisor, has died aged 76.
Paul Grant
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Actor and stuntman Paul Grant, notably star of the Harry Potter and Star Wars sagas, died at the age of 56. He was found near a train station in London.
Lewis Largent
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MTV star Lewis Largent has died. The 58-year-old has also been a prolific member of the music industry, notably with Def Jam.
Lance Reddick
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It's complete shock for millions of fans around the world as actor Lance Reddick's death has been confirmed by TMZ. Unforgettable figure of projects like Fringe, The Wire, Bosch or the John Wick saga, the star leaves a huge void. Lance Reddick was 60 years old.
Denise Russo
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Reality TV star Denise Russo, best known for VH1's The X-Life, was found lifeless in a relative's home. She was only 44 years old. Drug-related items were reportedly found at the scene.
Robert Blake
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Robert Blake, a highly controversial Hollywood figure, starred in a number of successful films and series. However, he is best remembered for the murder charge brought against him in the death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Although criminally acquitted, Blake was found guilty in a civil case in 2005.
Gary Rossington
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Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington has died aged 71. The exact cause has not been revealed, but he had been suffering from heart problems for some years.
Tom Sizemore
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Tom Sizemore, star of numerous films including Natural Born Killers and Saving Private Ryan, died at 61 of a brain aneurysm. His family had the difficult task of making the decision to stop keeping him alive artificially.
Stella Stevens
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American actress Stella Stevens, star of such films as The Nutty Professor and Where Angels Go, has died at the age of 84.
Jim Nunn
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Jim Nunn, former CBC star (Land and Sea, Marketplace), died after a battle with cancer, aged 72.
Gordon Pinsent
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Newfoundland-born Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent died at the age of 92 on February 25. He starred in more than 150 films and wrote two novels for the big screen.
Jansen and Hayden Panettiere
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Terrible drama in the Panettiere household, as Hayden's younger brother, Jansen, is found dead in his New York home. He was only 28 years old.
Richard Belzer
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Comedian and Law & Order SVU star Richard Belzer has died at the age of 78.
Raquel Welch
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The iconic Raquel Welch has passed away at the age of 82. Her charm and talent marked an entire era.
Burt Bacharach
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Legendary composer and musician Burt Bacharach passed away at the age of 94.
Paco Rabanne
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Iconic fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died aged 88.
Bobby Hull
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Bobby Hull has died at the age of 84, confirm numerous sources. He was an iconic figure in the NHL and with the Chicago Blackhawks.
Annie Wersching
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Annie Wersching, actress seen in the popular series 24, died on January 29 of cancer. She was 45 years old.
David Crosby
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Legendary musician David Crosby has died aged 81. Music fans around the world are in mourning.
Gina Lollobrigida
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Legendary Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida died at the age of 95.
Gino Odjick
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Former and larger-than-life Canucks (and Canadiens) field field hockey player Gino Odjick died of a heart attack at the age of 52 on January 15. The NHL, fans and many communities are in mourning.
Lisa Marie Presley
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Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, died after being rushed to the hospital hours earlier. She was only 54 years old.
Jeff Beck
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It was with sadness that the music world and fans learned of Jeff Beck's death on January 10 at the age of 78.
Ken Block
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To everyone's shock, veteran motorsports pioneer Ken Block, a star both on the road and on the web, has died of a winter accident at the age of 55.


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By Leslie Carol Botha
April 25, 2011
• 108 reports of anogenital warts found after HPV vaccination
• 224 reports of papillomavirus infections found after HPV vaccination
• 41 reports of cervical cancer after HPV vaccination
• 21,634 Adverse Events
• 95 DeathsThe numbers reflect approximately, 1 to 10% of the adverse event population reporting. Medical consumers and physicians do not often think that vaccinations harm people – and therefore injuries and illnesses are not immediately associated with the vaccine.HPV vaccines have been administered to adolescent girls and boys whose parents believed in the government's vaccine program. They followed their physician's advice – and have been deceived. What does that say about a government 'for the people'?SANE Vax, Inc. is outraged at the injustice shown to these families who now suffer from loss of life or diminished quality of life; outraged by their financial helplessness as they pay for mounting medical bills not covered by health insurance companies.
It is apparent in this country – the only one's innocent until proven guilty are the government and corporations – who have protected themselves from liability. For the rest of us – well, we are guilty until proven innocent – and the burden of proof lies on our shoulders.
SANE Vax, Inc. has prepared a Global Concerns about HPV Vaccines Fact Sheet that includes the peer reviewed analysis, research documents and data that prove the culpability of Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, the CDC, FDA, and NCI in regards to fast tracking the HPV vaccines to medical consumers. The SANE Vax Team believes it is time to hold them accountable for their actions. The Fact Sheet is posted on the SANE Vax, Inc. web site at https://sanevax.org/sane-vax-inc-presents-global-concerns-about-hpv-vaccines-at-the-british-society-for-ecological-medicine-conference-2/
The HPV Vaccine Fact Sheet was created so that it could be shared globally with politicians, physicians, the media and anyone looking for an overview of the concerns about the Gardasil and Cervarix travesty.
We are hoping readers will post the fact sheet to their Social Media Network sites and circulate the fact sheet far and wide. If we cannot get through to our government – then we, the people, need to make it our responsibility to educate other innocent medical consumers to prevent the Grim Reaper from striking down more innocent adolescents.
SANE Vax Inc. is dedicated in our efforts to remove Gardasil and Cervarix from the market until independent studies on their safety and efficacy are conducted. We have become internationally recognized and known for the research and work we have done on this issue. Conversely, we are now being contacted by more mothers whose daughters have been adversely affected by HPV vaccines. Most of these injuries have not been reported to VAERS. We have even heard of a new death – another previously healthy teenage girl who went to bed on a Sunday night and never got up to go to school the next morning.
Read the comments from mothers and other innocent girls affected by HPV vaccines. The government and Big Pharma must be held accountable for the innocent lives they have destroyed. Government agencies and pharmaceutical companies have become the Grim Reaper.
"My 15 year old autistic daughter was given all three Gardasil injections in 2009, and hasn't been well since. She's struggled her entire life with development delay, OCD, stuttering, and a seizure disorder that hasn't reared its head since she was 9, so we're not unfamiliar with hardships. Shortly after her last Gardasil injection, she began to have chronic vaginal itching, low grade fevers, severe headaches, abdominal pains, dizziness, leg pains, heart racing, heightened sense of her heartbeat and blood flow, fatigue, and an overall feeling of illness. I'm sure there are other symptoms that I've passed off as growing pains, hormones, you name it. I'm relieved to find this group, and join the ranks as another frustrated, determined mother, who is ready to see the makers and distributors of this "vaccine" be accountable for what they have done to our daughters."
"My daughter who has just turned 14 years old has been unable to attend school due to fatigue and nausea and other symptoms since last December 2010. When I took her to her G.P. and had all the usual blood tests done they returned as normal. I did mention to the doctor that my daughter had had her second HPV injection at school just before she began to feel sick, but she dismissed any connection. The third vaccination injection is due this Thursday and I have decided to not allow my daughter have this final injection. Is this o.k. for her not to complete the vaccination programme as I am now suspecting that there may be a connection between the vaccination and her illness? My daughter has just started back to school this week after an absence of over three months. She is attending for only a few hours per day as she is too fatigued to manage any more than that."
"I just had an MRI completed for my lower lumbar spine; I had a minor sports injury. Results read "bladder distention was noted." I completed my Gardasil vaccine over a year and a half ago, and two months after started noticing extra pressure and pain in my abdomen, and enlarged lymph nodes. Prior to the vaccine, I never experienced any of my "symptoms" and Gardasil is the biggest regret of my life. It was pushed upon me by my 3 doctors for years, promising it was safe, and there were no side effects associated. After I started complaining about tiredness and abdomen pain, major side effects were being brought to my attention. I feel deceived, lied to, and tricked. I experience discomfort and occasional pain when I am intimate with my partner. I have trouble urinating, and urinate frequently now. I am 24 years old, and devastated about my experience and findings. I am depressed and fearful of other complications it may cause in the future and can only be hopeful that I didn't damage and will not pass on any complications to a child."
"I am writing to u because I was also affected by Gardasil. I now have limbic encephalitis, which is the swelling of the brain, along with heart palpitations which don't let me sleep, extremely bad headaches, body pain every morning, bone problems, anxiety problems, the list goes on forever. If you can please contact me, I would really appreciate it."
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The brand new E.P 'Union' will be released February 24th 2017
Steve Smith
Whether performing at the world's most famous music festivals or playing intimate acoustic sets, Steve Smith has done it all. The Grammy winning Artist has also composed for television and film and remixed Platinum selling artists such as Madonna and Justin Timberlake. Following a bidding war for the band Dirty Vegas in early 2001, Steve and his band mates Paul and Ben Harris signed with legendary UK label Parlophone- home to The Beatles, Coldplay and Radiohead.
With the release of their first album, the band went on to tour the four corners of the globe, developing a reputation as a powerful and entertaining live act. In a two year meteoric rise, the band headlined their own worldwide tour and also supported such artists as Moby, Underworld, and Groove Armada.
Dirty Vegas stole the show at a number of international festivals including Coachella (USA), V Festival (UK), Roskilde (Denmark), and Fuji Rock (Japan).
In the same period, memorable performances on late night TV shows such as David Letterman and Jay Leno demonstrated that Steve and his partners were more than just studio musicians.
This climb to the top of the charts ultimately garnered the band three Grammy nominations, landing the
Grammy award for "Best Electronic Song". Dirty Vegas was the first electronic act to be nominated for a Grammy and the first recipients of Best Dance Recording. Read more …


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Thank You for Attending
Automotive Linux Summit 2018 is a wrap! Thank you to all the attendees and sponsors that joined us in Tokyo this year. To experience the best of this year's event, be sure to view photos from the event and review session slides from speakers who provided them via the event schedule.
Save the Date for 2019
Open Source Summit Japan & Automotive Linux Summit 2019 will take place July 17 – 19 at the Toranomon Hills Forum in Tokyo, Japan.
2018 Featured Speakers
Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director, Hyperledger
Brian Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum. Most recently, Behlendorf was a managing director at Mithril Capital Management LLC, a global technology investment firm. Read more about Brian's presentation.Dan Cauchy
Executive Director, Automotive Grade Linux
Dan is the General Manager of Automotive at The Linux Foundation and the Executive Director of Automotive Grade Linux. He is responsible for the overall management and execution of the Automotive Grade Linux collaborative project, an industry effort to build an open source automotive reference platform backed by leading car manufacturers around the world. Dan has over 22 years of experience spanning the automotive, telecom, networking, and mobile business verticals. Prior to his current position, Dan was the Vice President and General Manager of MontaVista's Automotive Business Unit (acquired by Mentor), responsible for P&L and worldwide execution of MontaVista's automotive software strategy, sales, marketing, products, and services. During this period, Dan served on the Board of Directors of the GENIVI Alliance and was responsible for the creation of the GENIVI Compliance Program, a group that he chaired for its first three years, which led to the release of the GENIVI Specification, a widely adopted standard in the automotive industry. While at MontaVista, Dan previously held the position of VP of Marketing and BD, where he was responsible for the development and execution of MontaVista's global marketing strategy, which led to an acquisition by Cavium. Based in Silicon Valley, Dan has extensive startup experience. He was the Director of Product Management at Atrica (acquired by Nokia-Siemens Networks), a carrier Ethernet equipment provider startup. Prior to Atrica, Dan was the Director of Architecture and Strategy at BlueLeaf Networks, a tunable laser optical networking startup (now Picarro). He also previously held senior management positions and engineering leadership positions at Cisco Systems, Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel), and Nortel. Dan earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (with a Computer Engineering major) from the University of Ottawa. He holds three patents in the areas of routing and networking, with several others pending.Dan Kohn
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Dan is Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus. He also helped create and launch the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative as an industry-wide response to the security vulnerabilities demonstrated by Heartbleed. He previously served as CTO of several startups, including Spreemo, a healthcare marketplace, and Shopbeam, a shoppable ads company. Earlier, he was a general partner at Skymoon Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm that created startups in semiconductors and telecom infrastructure. Dan helped manage a number of telecoms firms controlled by Craig McCaw and started his career as founder and CEO of NetMarket, one of the first Internet companies. In 1994, he led the development of the first music store on the web, conducting the first secure commercial transaction after building the first web shopping cart. Dan lives in Manhattan with his wife and two sons.Dirk Hohndel
VP & Chief Open Source Officer, VMware
Dirk is VMware's Chief Open Source Officer, leading the company's Open Source Program Office, directing the efforts and strategy around use of and contribution to open source projects and driving common values and processes across the company for VMware's interaction with the open source communities. Before joining VMware, Dirk spent almost 15 years as Intel's Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist. Before that, among other roles, he worked as Chief Technology Officer of SuSE and Unix Architect of Deutsche Bank. Dirk has been an active developer and contributor in several dozen open source projects since the early 1990s, today most of his work is on the Subsurface dive log project and many of the related open source projects around that. He currently is a member of the Board of the Linux Foundation. Dirk holds a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Würzburg, Germany. He lives in Portland, OR.Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux Kernel Developer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation
Greg is among a distinguished group of software developers who maintain Linux at the kernel level. In his role as Linux Foundation Fellow, he continues his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of subsystems while working in a fully neutral environment.Jim Zemlin
Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Jim's career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through the use of open source and Linux. At The Linux Foundation, Jim works with the world's largest technology companies, including IBM, Intel, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, and others to help define the future of computing on the server, in the cloud, and on a variety of new mobile computing devices. His work at the vendor-neutral Linux Foundation gives him a unique and aggregate perspective on the global technology industry. Jim has been recognized for his insights on the changing economics of the technology industry. His writing has appeared in Businessweek, Wired, and other top technology journals, and he is a regular keynote speaker at industry events. He advises a variety of startups, including Splashtop, and sits on the boards of the Global Economic Symposium, Open Source For America, and Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.Kenji Kaneshige
Kenji Kaneshige leads open source and Linux development work at Fujitsu and is the company's representative to open source communities. He and his team have made many contributions, particularly to enterprise features such as reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS), resource management, scalability enhancements, and virtualization. Kenji's team contributes to a variety of OSS communities, including the Linux kernel, QEMU, libvirt, Linux Test Project (LTP), OpenStack, Kubernetes, the Open Container Initiative (OCI), and more.Linus Torvalds
Creator of Linux & Git
Linus was born on December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. He enrolled at the University of Helsinki in 1988, graduating with a master's degree in computer science. His M.Sc. thesis was titled "Linux: A Portable Operating System" and was the genesis for what would become the most important collaborative software project in history.In August 1991, Linus announced that he was developing the Linux kernel, proclaiming, "it won't be big and professional." Never in the history of technology has someone been so wrong. In spite of his humble proclamation, Linux has become the world's most pervasive operating system. Today the Linux kernel forms the basis of the Linux operating system and powers billions of Android devices, powers ChromeOS, and has permeated almost every industry and form factor. Smartphones, TVs, appliances, cars, nuclear submarines, air traffic control, stock exchanges, and scientific research all run Linux. Linux also provides the underpinnings of the internet and the cloud computing industry.In 2005, citing a lack of free and open source version control tools that met his needs for performance and scale, Linus famously created Git in only 10 days. Today Git is widely used in software development and for other version-control tasks such as configuration management, and has become popular as an integral part of the DevOps culture.In 2000, Linus was listed by Time Magazine as Number 17 in the Time 100: Most Important People of the Century. Again, in 2004, Time Magazine named him one of the Most Influential People in the world. He was honored in 2008 with the Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland, "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel." He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award. A true tech titan, he was admitted to the Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows, joining the ranks of the tech elite including Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, Tim Berners-Lee, Gordon Moore, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Steve Wozniak, and others.Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.Masato Endo
Toyota Motor Corporation
Masato Endo is Project Manager of the Connected Car Technology-related IP group in the Toyota IP Division. He is engaged in the planning and implementation of the IP strategy for the Toyota Connected Company. He focuses mainly on building the OSS governance structure within Toyota and developing relationships with the OSS community, through projects such as Automotive Grade Linux and the Open Invention Network. Recently, he began to work with the OpenChain Project as the primary Toyota representative. He has experience in giving presentations at OSS or IP events facilitated by the Linux Foundation, Free Software Foundation Europe, Asian Legal Network, DLA Piper and Patent offices. Originally, he was a patent engineer working with various technologies such as MaaS, Autonomous Vehicle, Navigation Systems, Intelligent Transport Systems, Smart Grid, and so on. His experience includes work in New Delhi to study Indian IP and External Affairs. In 2017, he began work for an IP project of the Japan Automotive Manufacturers Association.Michelle Noorali
Microsoft Azure
Michelle is a Sr. Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure and a core maintainer of the Kubernetes Helm project. She co-cofounded the special interest group in Kubernetes that focuses on running and managing workloads in Kubernetes (SIG-Apps) and serves on the Kubernetes Steering Committee. Michelle is primarily a Go developer but has Ruby roots and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Georgia.Mitchell Hashimoto
Mitchell Hashimoto is a passionate engineer, professional speaker, and entrepreneur. Mitchell has been creating and contributing to open source software for almost a decade. He has spoken at dozens of conferences about his work, such as VelocityConf, OSCON, FOSDEM, and more. Mitchell is the founder of HashiCorp, a company whose goal is to make the best DevOps tools in the world, including Vagrant. Prior to HashiCorp, Mitchell spent five years as a web developer and another four as an operations engineer.Scott Overson
Intel K.K.
Seiji Goto
Mazda Motor Corporation
Seiji Goto is a manager of IVI advanced development at Mazda Motor Corporation. Mazda joined The Linux Foundation and Automotive Grade Linux since Jan-2016 as a platinum member. He is a member of AGL's Advisory Board, and from last year he is starting up a "Reference Hardware Architecture EG" together with other OEMs.Thomas Di Giacomo
As Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo drives the rapid innovation and growth of SUSE's expanding portfolio from the enterprise Linux operating system to software-defined solutions such as the OpenStack cloud infrastructure, Ceph-based storage, and software-defined networking solutions. He engages customers, partners, and open source communities to share and define SUSE's technological vision. Di Giacomo has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, serving in various global leadership roles in engineering and product innovation, with expertise in open source platforms, development, and support of global information systems and technologies applied to various industries such as telecommunication, hospitality, and healthcare. Di Giacomo holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Geneva where he was a senior software developer & researcher involved in both academic work and joint corporate projects with international leading enterprises.Troy Topnik
Troy is a Senior Product Manager responsible for SUSE Cloud Application Platform. He began working with Cloud Foundry shortly after its open source debut in 2011, and has been a technical writer, instructor, and product manager with the ActiveState and HPE Helion Stackato teams.