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Experts and Fellows
Rachel Cooper is Director of Global Performing Arts and Special Cultural Initiatives at the Asia Society. Cooper has presented and curated film programs from India, Indonesia, China, Iran, Japan, Korea and Thailand, as well as producing and presenting performances from throughout Asia. She has co-sponsored and presented various film festivals and film series at the Asia Society, including the Iranian Documentary and Short Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival and the IAAC India Film Festival, among others. She has organized major arts and culture initiatives, including Festival of Song: Music of India and Pakistan, Creative Voices of Islam in Asia, Festival of Indonesia and Dance — the Spirit of Cambodia. In addition, she has conducted and published research on international impact of the arts, which resulted in the report Making a Difference through the Arts. In 2006 she was awarded the Dawson Award for Sustained Excellence in Arts Programming.
Alexis Menten is a director in Asia Society's Education division, where she leads afterschool and youth leadership initiatives for the Partnership for Global Learning. The Partnership connects educators, business leaders, and policymakers to share best practices, build partnerships, and advance policies to ensure that all students are prepared for work and citizenship in the global 21st century. In support of this mission, Alexis directs Asia Society's Expanding Horizons initiative, which advances global learning as an essential approach for all high-quality afterschool and summer programs, and as a means to build collaboration between schools and community partners. Alexis joined Asia Society after several years in Central Asia and the Middle East, where she coordinated youth programs for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and directed school- and community-based educational technology programs for Relief International - Schools Online. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.
Adriana Proser is John H. Foster Senior Curator of Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York. A specialist in Chinese art, she has organized and co-organized over 40 exhibitions featuring diverse works from all over Asia, including the exhibition Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art. Proser has also coordinated and served as in-house curator for international loan exhibitions such as The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara and Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire for Asia Society Museum. She was editor and contributor for the catalogue Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art (Asia Society Museum and Yale University Press, 2010). Proser received her Ph.D. in Chinese art and archaeology from Columbia University. She was formerly Assistant Curator of East Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and has taught East Asian Art History at the University of Pennsylvania, Loyola College in Maryland, and Columbia University.
Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Schell is the author of fourteen books, nine of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are, Virtual Tibet, The China Reader: The Reform Years, and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders. He is also a contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Granta, Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The China Quarterly, and The New York Review of Books. Schell graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, was an exchange student at National Taiwan University in the 1960s, and earned a PhD (Abd) at University of California, Berkeley in Chinese History. He worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-70s.
Expertise: China; Chinese History; US-China Relations; Energy, Environment and Climate Change; Sustainability
David Whitelaw Reid is the Executive Director, Global Talent Initiatives at Asia Society, where he leads the institution's global efforts in promoting Asian talent development. Mr. Reid manages Asia Society's Asia and Global Talent and Diversity Councils, comprised of Asia Regional and Global Chief Talent, HR and Diversity Officers from Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Reid also leads a vital platform for businesses to discuss Asian diversity and talent issues at the Diversity Leadership Forum. His team successfully yields the support, funding, marketing, development and overall experience for the annual event. Now in its 7th year, Mr. Reid created the Asia Pacific Americans Corporate Survey in 2010. The survey is the first ever peer-reviewed, published initiative to exclusively measure the leadership success of Asian Pacific Americans in Fortune 500 companies. In his prior role as Director of Corporate Relations, Mr. Reid led corporate membership, sponsorship and stewardship activities for the Society's New York Center. He also managed the Society's Global Business Council comprised of senior executives from corporate members. Mr. Reid serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. For the last five years he collaboratively partnered in this role to provide LGBT entrepreneurs with the essential tools for taking their organizations to the next level of success.
Michelle Yun is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Asia Society Museum where she manages the museum's initiatives in modern and contemporary visual art by Asian and Asian American artists. Appointed in 2012, Yun specializes in Chinese contemporary art and diaspora artists. In addition to planning and implementing the museum's modern and contemporary exhibitions, she also manages and builds the Contemporary Art Collection, initiated in 2003. Before joining Asia Society Museum, Yun was curator at Hunter College Art Galleries where she was responsible for multiple aspects of exhibition planning and management, including curatorial, publications, conservation, and public programming. Prior to joining Hunter College, Yun served as the Project Director of Cai Guo-Qiang's studio and as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art in addition to organizing numerous independently curated exhibitions. She is a frequent lecturer on modern and contemporary Chinese art and has previously taught at SUNY New Paltz and The Museum of Modern Art.
Senior Advisors
Dr. Hassan Abbas is a former Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society's New York headquarters. Hassan joined Columbia University's South Asia Institute as Quaid-i-Azam Chair Professor in January 2010 and is also a Senior Advisor at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, after having been a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center from 2005 to August 2009. He is also a non-resident Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), Michigan, and an Associate of the Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU), University of Bradford, in the United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and an LL.M. in International Law from Nottingham University, UK, where he was a Britannia Chevening Scholar (1999). Hassan also remained a visiting fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School (2002–2003) and as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation (2003–2004). His research interests are nuclear proliferation, religious extremism in South and Central Asia, and relations between Muslims and the West. Hassan is a former Pakistani government official who served in the administrations of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1995–1996) and President Pervez Musharraf (1999–2000).
Priscilla Clapp is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service and a senior advisor to Asia Society, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and other NGOs focused on Myanmar. During her 30-year career with the U.S. Government, she served as Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Burma (1999–2002), Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in South Africa (1993–96), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Refugee Programs (1989–93), Deputy Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (1986–88), and Chief of Political-Military Affairs in the U.S. Embassy in Japan (1981–85). She also worked on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, in its East Asian, Political Military, and International Organizations Bureaus, and with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Prior to government service, Ms. Clapp spent 10 years in foreign policy and arms control research, under contract to the MIT Center for International Studies and as a research associate at the Brookings Institution. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Her books include: with Morton Halperin, Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy (Brookings, 2006), with I.M. Destler et al., Managing an Alliance: the Politics of U.S.-Japanese Relations (Brookings, 1976), with Morton Halperin, U.S.-Japanese Relations in the 1970's (Harvard, 1974). She is also the author of numerous chapters, articles, and other publications on foreign policy, and has co-authored multiple Asia Society reports on Myanmar, including Sustaining Myanmar's Transition: Ten Critical Challenges and Advancing Myanmar's Transition: A Way Forward for U.S. Policy.
Expertise: U.S.- Asia Relations; Burma/Myanmar; Track II Diplomacy
Dr. Desai is the President Emerita of Asia Society. As the organization's president, from 2004 to 2012, Dr. Desai set the direction for the Society's diverse sets of programs ranging from major U.S.-Asia policy initiatives and national educational partnerships for global learning to path-breaking art exhibitions and innovative Asian American performances. Dr. Desai is a frequent speaker at national and international forums on a wide variety of subjects that include US-Asia relationships, cultural roots of Asian economic development, regional connections within the Asia Pacific region, as well as the arts and cultures of Asia and Asian America. She has authored many opinion pieces that have appeared in over 50 publications around the world. As a scholar of Asian art, Dr. Desai has published and edited several books and numerous articles on traditional and contemporary art. She has an international reputation for introducing contemporary Asian art in the U.S. through critically acclaimed exhibitions and scholarly catalogues.
Junjie Zhang is Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research centers on empirical issues in environmental and resource economics, and his research topics include climate change, water resources and fisheries. He is particularly interested in an interdisciplinary approach that involves both social sciences and natural sciences to deal with environmental problems with policy relevance. Dr. Zhang was the 2011 recipient of the John V. Krutilla Research Award and the 2007 recipient of the Joseph L. Fisher Doctoral Dissertation Award. He was also awarded the Dr. S-Y Hong Award for Outstanding Article by Marine Resource Economics in 2008. At present, Dr. Zhang is working on a project about renewable energy in China. Specifically, he uses the structural econometric method to investigate the impact of the project-based carbon market (the Clean Development Mechanism) on renewable energy investment. In another project about the impact of climate change on fisheries in the Southern California Bight, he develops econometric models to examine how climate change affects fisheries production. He also empirically models fishers' behavioral adaptation to climate variability and its implication for policymaking.
Expertise: Environmental Economics; Energy and Climate Change; Natural Resource Management
Asia Society Policy Institute Fellows
The Bernard Schwartz Fellows Program seeks to contribute to a better understanding of policy challenges related to the growing importance of Asia in the international political arena and global economy. The program selects highly qualified professionals to serve as resident Fellows at Asia Society's headquarters in New York City or its office in Washington, D.C. for up to one year. During the course of their residencies, Fellows direct a policy initiative, such as a Task Force, Study Group, or policy research project.
Current and Past Bernard Schwartz Fellows
Associate Fellows
The Asia Society Associate Fellows Program was developed to deepen the public's understanding of Asia and U.S-Asian relations, raise a greater awareness of current events, and provide more opportunities for nuanced public dialogue on important issues that are affecting both communities. The Program aims to build a network of leading Asia experts and scholars in the United States and around the world. As recognized leaders in their respective fields, Asia Society Associate Fellows are frequently called upon to raise the profile on important and timely issues affecting the Asian region while helping to accurately shape public understanding on these subjects.
Faiysal AliKhan is Senior Advisor, Public Policy, for DHL Pakistan. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of FIDA, an organization working in the southern districts of Pakistan's Frontier Province and Tribal Area. Recently, FIDA has carried out relief work for those displaced by military operations and by flooding. He also serves on the board of the Rural Support Programmes Network and is an active member of a number of their steering committees. In addition, Fayisal is the Executive Director of the PESCO Group, which is involved in trading, consultancy in the energy sector, transportation and contract logistics. He is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and chair of their Customs and Trade Regulation Commission. He is also a member of the National Trade and Transport Facilitation Committee (NTTFC) and the Transport Commission of Pakistan. Faiysal has spoken on issues of national security, development and trade at a number of think tanks, organizations and government offices both in Pakistan and abroad. Previously, Faiysal served on the Boards of SHV Energy and DHL Pakistan, and has worked as Director of Operations for DHL.
Charles K. Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History and the Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University. Professor Armstrong teaches courses on modern Korean history, the international history of East Asia, and US-East Asian relations, among others. A specialist in the modern history of Korea and East Asia, Professor Armstrong has published several books on contemporary Korea, including The Koreas (Routledge, 2007), The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Cornell, 2003), Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (M.E. Sharpe, 2006), Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy, and the State (Routledge, second edition 2006), and Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950 – 1990 (Cornell, forthcoming). Prof. Armstrong holds a BA in Chinese Studies from Yale, an MA in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and PhD in History from the University of Chicago.
Expertise: Contemporary North Korean and South Korean Affairs; Northeast Asian security and international relations; US foreign policy in East Asia
Michael Buehler (Ph.D., The London School of Economics and Political Science) is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Specializing in Southeast Asian politics, his teaching and research interests evolve around state-society relations under conditions of democratization and decentralization. He is particularly interested in the relationship between politial parties and social movements as well as state-religion relations. From 2013 to 2014, Michael Buehler was a Research Fellow at the Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) program at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Southeast Asian Studies at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University in New York City, USA. In 2008, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden, The Netherlands. Buehler has consulted on aid effectiveness, corruption eradication, party financing, procurement reform and other governance and political reform issues at the national and local level for, amongst others, the Asia Foundation, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Transparency International, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), USAID and the World Bank. He has also contributed to political risks evaluations for private sector companies operating across South East Asia and is a regular contributor to news briefs on political and economic developments in the region for Oxford Analytica, a business consultancy company.
Expertise: Southeast Asia; Corruption; Democratization; Decentralization; Elections; Governance; Islam; Local Politics
Pramit Pal Chaudhuri is the Foreign Editor of the Hindustan Times who comments on Indian international security and economic policy. He is presently serving a two-year term on the Indian government's National Security Advisory Board. Pramit also serves as a delegate to a number of Aspen India Institute-Confederation of Indian Industries track-two dialogues including those with the US, China and a trilateral dialogue with the US and Japan. Pramit is a Senior Associate of the New York-based economic consultancy, the Rhodium Group. In 2011, he was part of an Aspen Institute of India-Council for Foreign Relations study group that issued a report United States and India: A Shared Strategic Future. He was previously an editorial writer for the Telegraph and the Statesman of Calcutta. Pramit was a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society New York in 2007-08. In the past he has been a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland - College Park; media fellow at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy; South Asia fellow at the Henry Stimson Centre and a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University's South Asia department. Pramit has a BA in history from Cornell University and has traveled to over 50 countries.
Expertise: Indian foreign policy and political economy; corporate India's overseas activity; Asian geopolitics and technology policy
John D. Ciorciari is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy. He focuses on international law and politics, particularly in Asia. Before joining the Michigan faculty, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University and was a policy official covering Asia in the U.S. Treasury Department. He was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, and worked as an attorney at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Since 1999, he has been a pro bono legal advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which promotes memory and justice with respect to the abuses of the Khmer Rouge regime. John is the author of The Limits of Alignment, which examines foreign policy dilemmas facing Southeast Asian states as they navigate relations with the great powers and co-editor with Anne Heindel of On Trial: The Khmer Rouge Accountability Process. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds an A.B. and J.D. from Harvard and M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford.
Expertise: International relations in the Asia-Pacific; U.S. foreign policy in Asia; transitional justice
John Delury is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University's Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul. John is a non-resident senior fellow of Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations, where he previously served as Associate Director. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on North Korea, and National Committee on US-China Relations. His writings can be found in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, 38 North and Global Asia, and his op-eds have appeared in The New York Times and Washington Post. John received his BA, MA, and PhD in Chinese history from Yale University. He is the co-author, with Orville Schell, of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century (Random House, 2013), and and is currently writing a book on US-China espionage in the 1950s.
Ayako Doi is an independent journalist with expertise in Japan and East Asia. She served as the Editor of the Japan Digest, a daily briefing paper for government officials, business people and the academics, until 2004, and the contributing editor for its sister publication, the Japan Automotive Digest, until 2009. Doi began her career in journalism as a reporter for Sankei Shimbun in Tokyo, and worked for Forbes in New York, for Newsweek in Tokyo and for the Japan Times in Washington. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Press Club, Congressional press corps, the Asia Society and the Japan-America Society. She also taught a course on Japanese politics and diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University. She has written many articles on Japan and the U.S.-Japan relationship for the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Foreign Policy, among other publications. She has been a guest on PBS News Hour, CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC and the National Public Radio. Doi has a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) from Waseda University and a Master of Science in journalism from Columbia University. In the mid-1970s she was a French government fellow for the Journalistes en Europe program in Paris.
Expertise: Japan (politics, economy, society); U.S.-Japan Relations; Asian Strategic Challenges; Japan-China Relations
Thomas E. Gouttierre serves as the Dean of International Studies and Programs at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), and as the Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at UNO. Prior to assuming his present position in 1974, he lived and worked for nearly ten years in Afghanistan. While in Afghanistan, Gouttierre served as a Peace Corps Volunteer, a Fulbright Fellow, and Executive Director of the Fulbright Foundation. Throughout his time in Afghanistan, Gouttierre coached the Afghan National Basketball Team. Gouttierre was selected by the US Department of State to serve as Senior Political Affairs Officer on the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission to Afghanistan in 1996/1997. He has participated in Fulbright Programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Norway, France, India, Nepal, and Germany. He served as a member of the International Rescue Committee's Citizens Commission on Afghanistan Refugees from 1988-1993.
Expertise: Afghanistan; Afghanistan culture and politics; Post 9/11 Afghanistan
Alexandra Harney is a Blakemore fellow at Tsinghua University and an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society. The author of The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage (The Penguin Press, 2008), Alexandra spent seven years at the Financial Times as an editor and reporter covering China and Japan. She has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. Alexandra appears regularly on the BBC, NPR and other international media discussing economic, political and social developments in China and Japan. A graduate of Princeton University, Alexandra has a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also an Asia Society Asia 21 Fellow. In 2012, Alexandra will be moving to Tokyo as an international affairs fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations. She speaks, writes and reads Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.
Expertise: China; Japan; Social Consequences of Economic Change; Demographic Trends; Labor Issues; Economics and Policy
Dr. Mira Kamdar is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York and a member of the editorial board of World Policy Journal. Dr. Kamdar most recent book, Planet India: the Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World (Scribner 2008) has been translated and published in over a dozen foreign editions. Her memoir Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey into her Indian Family's Past (Public Affairs, 2000) was a 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and won the 2002 Washington Book Award. Dr. Kamdar's work appears in leading publications around the world, including in India Ink for the New York Times, Slate, Yale Global, Le Monde Diplomatiquel, World Policy Journal and The Caravan magazine where she is a contributing editor. She writes Le Mot de l'Inde column for Courrier International. She regularly provides expert commentary in English and in French for the BBC, CNN and CNN International, Bloomberg, France 24, Radio France, NPR. Dr. Kamdar was a Fulbright Senior Scholar affiliated with the Centre des Etudes sur l'Inde et l'Asie du Sud at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 2010-2011. She has taught international affairs courses on India at SUNY Stony Brook and currently teaches at Sciences Po in Paris.
Expertise: Environment: Climate Change and Energy; Asian Strategic Challenges: US-Asia; India; Economics; Europe and Asia; Agriculture and Food Politics and Policies; Sustainability
Steven W. Lewis, Ph.D., is the C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow and faculty adviser for the Jesse Jones Leadership Center Summer in D.C. Policy Research Internship Program. He is also a professor in the practice and associate director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies, which he helped found in 2008. His research explores the growth of a transnational Chinese middle class; the influence of advertisements in new public spaces in Chinese cities; the development of privatization experiments in China's localities; and the reform of China's energy policies, national oil companies and international energy relations. Through the Transnational China Project, Lewis has organized research conferences with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He also has worked with the Energy Forum as the organizing researcher for the Northeast Asia Energy Cooperation Workshops, the Coastal Cities Summit surveys and U.S.-China-Middle East energy relations conferences. Lewis has also been adviser to the Science Collaboration Across Borders initiative and served as the chief liaison between the Baker Institute, the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and the China Institute for Contemporary International Relations. He is co-director of the Rice Ephemera Archive project of Fondren Library's Center for Digital Scholarship, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Expertise: China; Chinese politics; China's energy policies
Duncan McCargo is Professor of Southeast Asian Politics at the University of Leeds, UK, and wrote his PhD thesis on Thai politics at London's School of Oriental and African Studies. He is currently in his second stint chairing Leeds' School of Politics and International Studies, one of Britain's largest university politics departments. McCargo's specialty is fieldwork-based research on the politics of Thailand, including book-length studies of the controversial politicians Chamlong Srimuang and Thaksin Shinawatra, on the internal politics of the Thai-language press, and on the ongoing insurgency in the Patani region. His last book, Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand (Cornell, 2008) won the Asia Society's inaugural 2009 Bernard Schwartz Book Prize. McCargo also taught for three years in Japan, has held year-long visiting appointments in Cambodia and Singapore, and has written and researched on Indonesia and Vietnam. No stranger to controversy, he gained some notoriety for his ground-breaking 2005 Pacific Review article on Thailand's "network monarchy."
Expertise: Politics of Thailand; Cambodian politics
Katharine H.S. Moon is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wellesley College. Moon received her B.A. from Smith College, magna cum laude, and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, Department of Politics. She was born in San Francisco. Moon is the author of Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations (Columbia University, 1997; Korean edition by Sam-in Publishing Co., 2002) and other publications on the U.S.-Korea alliance and social movements in Korea and Asia (e.g. democratization, women's movements, migrant workers, human rights). They are available in edited volumes and academic journals such as Asian Survey and The Journal of Asian Studies and Korean publications such as Changjak gwa Bipyeong and Dangdae Bipyeong. Currently, Moon is completing a book manuscript Protesting America, Pursuing Democracy: Korean Civil Society in Alliance Politics (forthcoming, GAIA/University of California Press). Moon received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in 2002 to conduct field research in Korea on this subject and was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in 2002-03. Katharine Moon has served in the Office of the Senior Coordinator for Women's Issues in the U.S. Department of State and as a trustee of Smith College. She serves on the editorial board of several journals of international relations and consults for NGOs in the U.S. and Korea. She also serves on policy task forces designed to examine current U.S.-Korea relations and contributes op-eds to various media organizations.
Dr. Ann Marie Murphy is Associate Professor at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University and adjunct research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Her research interests include Southeast Asian politics and international relations, and U.S. foreign policy toward Asia. She has been a visiting research scholar at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia, and the Institute of Security and International Studies, Bangkok, Thailand. She monitored Indonesia's first direct presidential election in July 2004 as a member of the Carter Center delegation and has served on the Freedom House Ratings team. In August 2008, Dr. Murphy was honored by the Indonesian government which named her a Presidential Friend of Indonesia. Dr. Murphy's most recently publications include an edited volume, Legacies of Engagement in Southeast Asia (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008), Indonesia Returns to the International Stage (Orbis, 2009), Toward a United States-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership (Indonesian Quarterly,2009) and Beyond Balancing and Bandwagoning, Thailand Responds to China's Rise (Asian Security, 2010). Her opinion pieces have been published in the Asia Times, PacNet Newsletter, opinionasia and the East Asia Forum, The Australian National University. Dr. Murphy is currently writing a book examining the impact of democratization on Indonesian foreign policy. She is also conducting research on the impact of climate change on Indonesia, and the politics of health governance in Southeast Asia. She received her PhD in political science from Columbia University.
Expertise: Asian Strategic Challenges: Intra-Asia and US-Asia; international relations in Asia, and US foreign policy toward the countries of Southeast Asia; Political change in Indonesia and Thailand
Ahmad Nader Nadery is a Commissioner at the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. He represented Afghan Civil Society at the UN peace talks for Afghanistan in the Bonn Conference 2001. Mr. Nadery works also as the Chairperson of Fair and Free Election Foundation of Afghanistan, he is a member of the Steering Committee of Citizens Against Terror and member of advisory board to Open Society Institute (OSI) Afghanistan programs. He has written extensively on politics and human rights in Afghanistan and is a member of the Board of Editors of the Oxford Journal on Transitional Justice. He served as Spokesperson for the national assembly (Loya Jerga) in 2002. Prior to his appointment at the AIHRC he worked as country director for the international human rights law group (Global Rights). Mr. Nadery won several international awards and was recognized as an "Asian Hero" by Time magazine in 2004. He was recognized as 21 Young Asia Leader's by the Asia Society and the World Economic Forum recognized him as Young Global Leader (YGL) of 2008. He studied law and political sciences at the Kabul University and earned his masters degree on International Affairs from George Washington University.
Vasuki Nesiah is a legal scholar with a focus on public international law. Currently her main areas of research include the law and politics of international human rights and humanitarianism, with a particular focus on transitional justice. Her past publications have engaged with different dimensions of public international law, legal history focused on colonialism and self-determination, the politics of memory, comparative constitutionalism, law and politics in South Asia and international feminisms. Prior to joining Gallatin she taught in the International Relations and Gender Studies concentrations at Brown University where she also served as Director of International Affairs. She has taught at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and continues as core faculty in the summer workshop of the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. Before entering the academy full time, Nesiah spent several years in practice at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) where she worked on law and policy issues in the field of post-conflict human rights. She serves on the International Advisory Boards of the UK based journal, Feminist Legal Studie and of the Institute of International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne, and is an Associate Fellow with the Asia Society.
Expertise: International law; human rights and humanitarianism; transitional justice
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is an Oscar and Emmy award winning film producer and journalist who has worked on 14 films for major networks in the United States and Britain including CNN, PBS, Channel 4 (U.K.) CBC, Arte and the Discovery channel. Amongst other honors, her work has earned her The Alfred I. Dupont Award, The Livingston Award, The Overseas Press Club Award, The American Women in Radio and Television Award, The One World Media Award and the Banff TV Rockie Award. Sharmeen's work has taken her to over 10 countries around the world where she has worked with refugees, women's advocate groups and human rights defenders. In 2007, after living outside of Pakistan for more than a decade, Sharmeen helped found The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, a non-profit, volunteer organization that works with thousands of underprivileged children to inculcate critical thinking skills and instill sense of pride in them about their history and identity. Born in Karachi, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy graduated from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Government, and went to complete two Master's Degrees from Stanford University in International Policy Studies and Communication.
Professor Jacob Park, associate professor of business and public policy at Green Mountain College since 2002, specializes in the teaching and research of global environment and business strategy, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and community-based entrepreneurship and innovation. A former financial journalist with Fortune magazine, global environmental policy advisor to Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and a United Nations research specialist on Asian environmental and urban development issues, he worked as a senior research consultant and Japanese and Asian equity specialist in the Governance and Socially Responsibility Investment Group of ISIS Asset Management, a London-based investment company. An editorial/review board member of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Business Strategy and the Environment and Greener Management International, his most recent book is the Ecology of the New Economy: Sustainable Transformation of Global Information Technology, Communication, and Electronics Industries (Greenleaf Publishing, 2002) and he is currently working on editing two other books, Sustainable Global Governance, and Ecological Modernization & Asia-Pacific.
Expertise: Social innovation and entrepreneurship; Business and sustainable development/resource scarcity issues; Energy and climate change; Corporate environmental and social responsibility
Sheridan Prasso is an Asia specialist and author with more than two decades of experience in writing about and analyzing the region. Currently she is based in Hong Kong as an Editor-at-Large for the Asia-Pacific region at Bloomberg News, specializing in in-depth coverage, particularly of China, India, and Japan, for all outlets including the website, terminals, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Bloomberg Markets magazines. She is the author of The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient, a critically acclaimed book that probes the origins of Western stereotypes about Asia, particularly women. As an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, she recently co-authored a book on international finance. She has consulted on media development in countries such as Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Turkey, and edited the Invest in Kazakhstan 2010 guide. Sheridan was previously a Contributing Editor at Fortune magazine, Asia Editor and Senior News Editor at Business Week; and Cambodia Bureau Chief and an Asia Regional Correspondent in Hong Kong for Agence France-Presse (AFP). She has lived in China as a Knight International Press Fellow, and in Japan as a US-Japan Foundation Media Fellow.
Expertise: China and Taiwan; Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma); Kazakhstan; Japan, India; finance, banking, travel industry, media, women's issues.
Simran Sethi is a journalist, strategist and educator committed to an expansion of environmentalism that includes voices from the prairie, inner city and global community. Simran has served as guest faculty at the Presidio Graduate School and Poynter Institute and as an associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She also works with NGOs on brand development, social media training and citizen journalism outreach. Sethi is the founder and curator of the beta website Metamorphose, an interdisciplinary exploration of the personal and cultural dimensions of transformation. Named one of the top ten "eco-heroes" of the planet by the UK's Independent and lauded as the "environmental messenger" by Vanity Fair and an "environmental woman of impact" by Daily Variety, Simran has contributed numerous segments to NBC Nightly News, CNBC, PBS, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show and has been featured on Sundance Channel, MSNBC and the History Channel. Sethi is the contributing author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, winner of the bronze 2008 Axiom Award for Best Business Ethics Book. She has written about sustainability for The Huffington Post, Metropolis magazine, Mother Earth News, Oprah.com and the Guggenheim Museum.
Expertise: Asian Strategic Issues: Economics; Environment: Sustainable Cities; Sustainable business practices; life cycle analysis; consumer movements to be more environmentally-friendly, environmental justice; renewable energy and energy efficiency; socially-responsible investments; personal consumption and sustainability; media
Dr. Shen Dingli is the Executive Dean of Fudan University's Institute of International Studies and Director of the university's Center for American Studies. He is also the founder and Director of China's first non-government-based Program on Arms Control and Regional Security at Fudan University. He is on Fudan University's Committee of International Exchange and Cooperation, and a Shanghai Ambassador for Conference appointed by Shanghai Municipality Government. Dr. Shen is Vice President of Chinese Association of South Asian Studies, and Vice President of Shanghai Association of International Studies. Outside China, he is a member of IISS, Global Council of The Asia Society, and is on USCI Board of Scholars and a number of other international organizations. He has been a Visiting Professor of Washington University in St. Louis, University of Virginia (Semester at Sea program) and Colorado College. He edits Fudan American Review, and is on the editorial board of World Economy and International Politics (China), Journal of Contemporary China (U.S.), Journal of East Asian Studies (U.S.), China Security (U.S.) etc. He was one of a team of 40 (but the sole Chinese member) who advised Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan on strategic panning for his second term.
Expertise: Asian strategic issues; U.S.-Asia; China-U.S. relations; Arms control and disarmament; Nuclear weapons policy of the United States and China; Regional nonproliferation issues; Defense and foreign policy of China and the U.S.
Dr. Susan Shirk is Director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and Ho Miu Lam Professor of China and Pacific Affairs in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. Previously, Dr. Shirk was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs with responsibility for the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia (1997-2000). In 2008 09, Dr. Shirk was an Arthur Ross Fellow at the Asia Society in New York City. In 1993, Dr. Shirk founded and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial "track-two" forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, and North Korea. Dr. Shirk is the author of: China: Fragile Superpower; How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms; The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China; and Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China. In fall 2009, she co-authored an Asia Society task force report, North Korea Inside-Out: The Case for Economic Engagement.
Expertise: Asian Strategic Challenges: Hotspots and US-Asia; China and North Korea: Hotspots, Economics, US-Asia Relations
Philip Shishkin was a 2011 Bernard Schwartz Fellow at Asia Society and is currently an Associate Fellow. He is a Washington correspondent at Reuters and a former award-winning staff reporter of The Wall Street Journal. During his time at WSJ, Philip covered Europe, Afghanistan, Turkey and the broader Middle East. He ran the newspaper's Baghdad bureau during the height of the country's sectarian war. Shishkin has written extensively about Central Asia, chronicling the turbulent nation-building process in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
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Simon SC Tay LL.B Hons (National University of Singapore) LL.M (Harvard) is a public intellectual and adviser on political and economic issues. He teaches international law and public policy at the National University of Singapore and is concurrently chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, a non-governmental think tank that represents Singapore in the influential ASEAN-ISIS network of regional think tanks. For 2009, he was with the Asia Society in New York, as Schwartz Fellow, directing a Task Force report on US-Asia relations under the Obama administration. From 2002-08, he chaired the National Environment Agency, the country's major agency for environmental protection. Prior to that, he was a Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament (1997–2001) and led public consultations on Singapore in the 21st century, the national concept plan, and the Singapore Green Plan 2012. He has also directed the Singapore Volunteers Overseas, the country's "peace corps." In 2006, he received the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat, PBM), a Singaporean National Day award. He was a visiting professor to teach at Yale, Harvard Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has spoken or chaired events for international business meetings including the World Economic Forum.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History at University of California-Irvine, where he also serves as the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He is a widely published author whose most recent book is China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know. This accessible yet scholarly primer was published by Oxford University Press in 2010 and came out in an updated second edition, with contributions by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, in 2013. It has been translated into Turkish, Korean, and Chinese (complex characters), with an Indonesian edition coming soon. He is a frequent contributor to newspapers (including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times), magazines (e.g., TIME and Newsweek), blogs (such as The Huffington Post and The New York Times' "Room for Debate"), and literary reviews (such as London's Times Literary Supplement and the Asian Review of Books). He co-edits the Asia Section of the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he has been a guest on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He has been a consultant for two prize-winning documentaries and been interviewed about Chinese politics and about U.S.-China relations by Marketplace, Al Jazeera, Australian television, the BBC, and CNN.
Expertise: Chinese history; Contemporary China; U.S.-China relations; Global cities
Thom Woodroofe is a freelance foreign affairs analyst based in Australia. Commentating in print and on television, Thom has contributed on the ground from hotspots such as Burma during parliamentary elections, communist Cuba under Castro, and on the Middle East peace process from inside The West Bank. He has interviewed both the current and former Prime Minister of Australia and spent time travelling with the Foreign Minister for a profile piece. Thom has worked for both sides of politics overseas: in the United States Congress for former Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi and for former Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in California. In 2009, Thom was recognised as the Young Victorian of the Year for his work in establishing Left Right Think-Tank. He has previously been named one of Melbourne's 100 Most Influential People by The Melbourne Magazine, one of the region's leading young people by Asia Society, and one the world's emerging security leaders by the St. Gallen Symposium in Switzerland. Thom holds a Bachelor of Arts (Global) from Monash University and a First Class Honours degree from The University of Melbourne where he is currently reading for his Masters.
Expertise: The Asia Pacific; U.S.-Asia relations, Australian foreign policy; Governance - global and regional; Multilateral forums and architecture; Young people and foreign affairs
Ms. Wenchi Yu is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Banyan Advisory Group LLC, a firm connecting Asia to the world. She is also a Managing Committee member of the Suu Foundation, an organization founded by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi that focuses on health and education work in Myanmar. Earlier in 2013, Yu served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. During this appointment to the first administration of President Obama, she led key initiatives in the Asia Pacific region with a focus on women and girls. She led the launch of key initiatives such as the APEC Women and the Economy, the Secretary's International Council on Women's Business Leadership, the US-China Women-LEAD Initiative, and the mWomen Initiative that uses mobile technology for effective development and women's empowerment. She also led the White House Equal Futures Partnership initiative for the Department of State and managed the 57th UN Commission on the Status of Women meetings for the United States. Prior to 2009, she worked in the U.S. Congress on China's rule of law development and at Vital Voices Global Partnership, a leading international NGO founded by Hillary Rodham Clinton. She has testified before the U.S. Congress. Early on, she was a foreign policy assistant in the Parliament of Taiwan. Yu is a Caixin columnist, an Associate Fellow and an Asia 21 Fellow of Asia Society. She received her M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago and her B.A. in Political Science from the National Taiwan University. Her writing has appeared in the United Nations Chronicle, Asian Wall Street Journal, and Taipei Times.
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Exponential Data Tables
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Objective: Students will be able to find the function rules for exponential functions given a few data points organized in a data table.
Big Idea: Students develop their own algebraic methods to find exponential functions to match data tables.
This warm-up is basically asking the same question in several ways, but students can come to that realization themselves. If students are struggling to figure out any one problem, ask them to try to turn that problem into one of the other problems. When circulating, if a student seems unable to get started on any section, I ask the students to figure out how the data tables relate to the bunny problems. Usually this remainder is enough to help them understand what they are looking for. Once they realize that they are basically looking for the multiplier in all the situations, they start to look for shortcuts and this search for shortcuts will frame the entire lesson.
This lesson is another one that differentiates itself in the sense that students will develop their own methods to find these rules. The fractions will be challenging for some students, so there is a method described in the middle of the lesson that you can show these students if they have trouble getting started. If students are using the guess and check method, they can be encouraged to develop a more efficient method, two of which are described in the middle section of the lesson.
Today's lesson is very much about MPS1 and MPS2. In terms of MPS1, the goal is for students to figure out their own way to understand or make sense of the problems and for them to be able to explain why their methods make sense to them. In terms of MPS2, student should be using both numerical and algebraic methods to solve these problems and to verify their solutions, and they should be encouraged to reflect on which methods they prefer and why.

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(AP) Rivera throws BP for first time since knee injury
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Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has thrown batting practice for the first time since knee surgery last year.
The 43-year old Rivera threw 25 pitches Friday and said he was happy with the results. He expects to be ready when the Yankees open the regular season April 1 against Boston.
Rivera was limited to nine games last year, his season ending when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee while tracking down a fly ball during batting practice in Kansas City on May 3. He had surgery to repair the injury on June 12.
Rivera is a 12-time All-Star with 608 saves in the regular season and 42 more in the postseason.


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Samsung's Unpacked event at IFA 2012 isn't all about new devices. Amongst the announcement of the Note II and Galaxy Camera, the Galaxy S III and Note 10.1 both got a mention in regards to when they'll be updated to Android 4.1, Jelly Bean.
There's still no exact date, but during Samsung's presentation it was said that the Galaxy S III and Note 10.1 will be updated "very soon." There was no verbal mention of the original Note, but it did appear on the slide in the background when the update was being discussed.
So just how long until "very soon"? Considering we've already seen fully functional Jelly Bean builds for the S III, we can't imagine it's far off. Maybe even before the first day of fall.
Samsung is doing a great job keeping the Galaxy S III fresh in everyone's mind. Some new paint jobs and an update to Jelly Bean will keep the S III as one of the top smartphones to consider for the rest of the year. It's great to hear about the Note 10.1 being updated so soon as well.


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A Shield is a type of personal armor used to block attacks. They are commonly carried by Heavy Sentries. They are also deployed by some ICPs in the non-canon game TRON 2.0.
While this is a less known weapon it is a versatile weapon. In the series TRON: Uprising, system moderators such as Tron and his team often employ shields when acting as riot guards.
Shield DeresolutionEdit
In TRON 2.0, shields are static objects and remain persistent until the program holding them is derezzed. Shielded ICPs rezz in with these shields. On the other hand, in TRON: Uprising, shields can be rezzed or derezzed at will, depending on the program. There appears to be no apparatus for the shield, and therefore must be part of the program's code. These shields can be derezzed from contact with discs, but have been proven to be capable of withstanding several hits.


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Psychologist sees uptick in patients with TTSD: 'Trump Traumatic Stress Disorder'
Feeling stressed out and anxious about what's happening in Washington, D.C.?
You're not alone. Since last November's election, psychologists have seen an uptick in patients suffering from political anxiety, aka, Trump Traumatic Stress Disorder, or TTSD.
"The American Psychological Society did a study in January, and two-thirds of Americans were anxious about the future of the country because of the current political landscape," said Portland psychologist, Dr. Aziz Gazipura. "My colleagues and I, we just call it TTSD, Trump Traumatic Stress Disorder, because that's the source ... people are anxious about the future, there's uncertainty."
Gazipura, who's written two books on social anxiety and building confidence and is working on a third, has developed a process to help his patients cope.
"I've actually come up with a process that I guide people through, and if they practice those steps, then the anxiety goes down, dramatically, and their confidence and their sense of trust and belief in themselves and the future goes up," he said.
Gazipura said 18 percent of Americans -- nearly 40 million people -- have been diagnosed with some sort of social anxiety disorder. He said Trump Traumatic Stress Disorder while not an officially named disorder, is an adjustment disorder.
Tips to Reduce Stress/Anxiety About the Trump Presidency
1. Choose Your Focus
What we focus on determines how we feel. Many of these will not even occur. Stay focused on what is in your control, not on what Trump is or is not doing.
2. Get Specific
Slow down and identify what you are afraid of about Trump. Facing each fear one by one in your mind helps you calm down.
3. Take Action
Anxiety creates a Fight-Flight-or-Freeze response in our bodies. Action alleviates anxiety. Concentrate on raising your children, growing a business, or contributing time or money to causes you value, etc.
4. Use Media Strategically
Avoid aimless scrolling through social media or random news articles many times per day. Tune out when needed.
5. Believe In Yourself
Remind yourself that you can handle whatever happens.
6. Find Humor
Watch or read satire and comedy shows as much as possible, joke with friends and loved ones to lighten your mood.
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TERA PATRICK, WILLIAM LUSTIG and JOSLYN JAMES sign for GIRLS and CORPSES Magazine at MELTDOWN COMICS on Friday August 12th from 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
It will be a night of thrills and chills, babes and bones and comedy and horror at Meltdown Comics. And what else would you expect from GIRLS and CORPSES a newsstand magazine that The Huffington Post voted' The most ridiculous magazine' of all time! TERA PATRICK graces the summer issue cover and JOSLYN JAMES graces our previous cover. They will both be signing their issues of Girls and Corpses Magazine. Also, signing will be iconic horror director WILLIAM LUSTIG (Maniac), famed sex therapist DR. SUSAN BLOCK, amazing artists LOU RUSCONI and PETER ADAMYAN and actress/producer PAULA LABAREDAS.
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Witness says Pasadena teacher didn't hide romance, dates with teen
Reports of a man on a date with a young girl wearing a school spirit shirt have led to felony charges against a Pasadena Memorial High School teacher, according to Harris County court documents.
Paul Edward Tate, 36, has been charged with having an improper relationship with a student and indecency with a child over a relationship he allegedly began in October with a 16-year-old female at the school.
According to Harris County records, Tate and the teen were seen at various eateries in Pasadena and Tate had showered her with presents, including jewelry, a purse, and clothing. A witness reported seeing the pair at an Olive Garden location earlier this month on what appeared to be a date. Tate and the student seemed open about the relationship, walking arm in arm into the restaurant, according to court documents.
Officials said Tate previously had been warned by an assistant principal at the school to stay away from the student after seeing them together in October at a McDonald's. Records state that the assistant principal saw Tate purchase a $200 Pandora bracelet for the student, though Tate said he was purchasing it for his mother.
During an interview with the student, court documents show, a Pasadena Independent School District Police Department officer noticed the student wearing a bracelet matching its description.
PISD police officials obtained the phone records of both Tate and the student and discovered that a number of text messages, photos and phone calls between the two, which indicated that there had been sexual contact and intercourse involved in their relationship. According to court documents, the student also sent Tate photos of herself in lingerie.
The Pasadena ISD Police Department wasn't able to be reached for comment on Friday morning.
On Friday afternoon, Renea Ivy, Associate Superintendent with the Pasadena school district, acknowledged the charges levied against Tate, but did remind that the alleged incidents did not happen at the school.
Tate was placed on administrative leave just before winter break on Dec. 17, according to Ivy, while law enforcement personnel investigated the relationship between teacher and student.
"Our primary concern is always the welfare of our students. Therefore, the district removed the teacher from the educational environment," said Ivy, noting that Tate has not been terminated or reassigned.
"Any time an educator is accused of an improper relationship, it's important to make sure that the situation is reviewed thoroughly," added Ivy.
Ivy said Tate was popular and very well-liked around campus, teaching history at the school since August 2009.
According to the Harris County District Attorney's Office on Friday, Tate has not been arrested but he is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.


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Hollywood Actress Dakota Fanning looked hot in a midnight blue lace gown, flaming the red carpet at the screening of "Night Moves" during the Venice Film Festival.
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The Herschel Space Observatory
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The Herschel Space Observatory was the largest most powerful infrared telescope ever flown in space. During its active lifespan, it made over 35,000 observations and logged more than 25,000 hours of studying the Universe, unveiled previously invisible celestial objects, and leading to new insights into the origin and evolution of stars, planets and galaxies.
Through funding from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), two Canadian teams of astronomers were an integral part of the development and operations of two of the three science instruments on board the European Space Agency's telescope: the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) and the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE).
Professor Michel Fich of the University of Waterloo is the Principal Investigator for HIFI in Canada, to which Canada contributed a key sub-system (known as the Local Oscillator Source Unit) built by COM DEV, in Cambridge, Ontario. Professor David Naylor of the University of Lethbridge is the Principal Investigator for Canada's contribution to SPIRE. The Canadian Herschel science team consists of scientists from: the University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, Western University, Toronto University, University of Victoria, McMaster University and the National Research Council Canada. A high tech spin-off company, Blue Sky Spectroscopy of Lethbridge, Alberta, was founded as one of three worldwide centres of expertise to process SPIRE's data.
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DSL Chips: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2018
Feb 13, 2013, 02:33 EST
NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
DSL Chips: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2018
http://www.reportlinker.com/p01095482/DSL-Chips-Market-Shares-Strategies-and-Forecasts-Worldwide-2013-to-2018.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=BroadbandAccording to Susan Eustis, lead author of the study, "Deutsche Telekom, British Telecom, AT&T, Bell Canada, Century/Qwest and many other carriers have made clear they will use DSL, not fiber, for the majority of lines because it's cheaper. Increasingly, that's DSL from a neighborhood DSLAM (FTTN) with short loops that will soon be capable of 100 megabits through bonding and vectoring. There is plenty of copper wire in the telecommunications networks that can be used to provide broadband connectivity from fiber in the neighborhood, DSLAM connectivity to copper wires running into the home."
The rapid advance of end to end optical broadband networks continues to threaten to make xDSL obsolete, but copper will never go away, fiber is too expensive to use it to replace all the copper and the copper works in many cases and does not need to be replaced. xDSL markets will be strong for some long time to come as copper remains a transport line.
Copper is everywhere in the telecommunications network. It is still the primary wireless backbone transport means, meaning it continues to be vital as new wireless systems continue to expand their markets. It predominates in the local loop, creating demand for systems that are able to support high speed signal transport over copper wire.
Both smart phones and tablet devices depend on wire line backhaul, much of which is copper. As copper goes away, xDSL goes away, but this is certainly not happening within the forecast period.
The development and growth of the broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) and communications processing markets is assured as carriers seek to leverage their investment in copper wire infrastructure. DSL is the way to do that with its support for high speed communications and video signal transport.
Vendors consider companies that have access to broadband or communications processing technology as potential competitors. Established competitors, suppliers of products based on new or emerging technologies, and customers who choose to develop their own technology.
Deutsche Telekom, British Telecom, AT&T, Bell Canada, Century/Qwest and many other carriers have made clear they will use DSL, not fiber, for the majority of lines because it's cheaper. Increasingly, that's DSL from a neighborhood DSLAM (FTTN) with short loops that will soon be capable of 100 megabits through bonding and vectoring.
Even the DSL customers have a hybrid fiber / copper connection; it is just the last mile that is copper, hence requiring DSL.
The communications consumer end points worldwide are moving to 100% wireless smart phones that can connect to the Internet. The communications infrastructure worldwide will remain wire based to connect the central office to the base stations, and to provide Internet / IP based connectivity to the home. The wire based communications infrastructure worldwide is all moving to fiber so as to handle the increased demand for bandwidth.
The copper is not efficient for the cable companies because of the demand for bandwidth to the home that the cable companies are providing. The copper is not efficient in the wireless backbone connectivity of the central office to the wireless base stations, and hence there is a priority on replacing the copper that is there first. The copper from the curb or from the neighborhood to toe home is efficient; therefore the need for DSL persists.
Worldwide tablet market revenues at $799 million in 2011 are anticipated to reach $1.7 billion by 2018. DSL chip markets are forecast to grow year-over-year throughout the forecast period. This is in the context of a world communications infrastructure that is changing and seeking to leverage the existing plant to hold down costs. Technology is enabling interaction, innovation, and sharing of knowledge in new ways. DSL chips promise to bring significant new broadband for Internet access capability making the Internet available for increasingly productive, efficient use.
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Table of ContentsDSL Chips Executive Summary
DSL Chip Market Driving ForcesData And Video Traffic Being Added To Voice Traffic In AbundanceDSL Chip Market SharesDSL Chip Market Forecasts
1. DSL Chip Market Dynamics and Market Description
1.1 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Chips1.1.1 Demand for Broadband Services and MarketOpportunities for Service Providers1.1.2 High-Performance Communications Processing1.1.3 Key Benefits of DSL Technology1.1.4 Improving Time-To-Market With ProgrammableSystems-Level Products1.1.5 DSL Provides Cost-Effective, High-PerformanceTransmission Over Existing Copper Lines1.1.6 End-to-End DSL Products1.2 Stability Of Global Credit And Financial Markets1.3 DSL Design Wins1.3.1 Semiconductor Components1.4 Communications Industry1.4.1 Carrier Networking1.4.2 Enterprise Networking1.4.3 Cloud Computing1.4.4 Increasing Demands for "Next-GenerationNetworking" Integrated Circuits1.5 Communications Strategy1.6 Internet And Wireless Dominate Communications Technology1.6.1 Optical Networks1.6.2 Data And Video Traffic Being Added InAbundance To Voice Traffic1.6.3 Semiconductor Companies Design DSL1.7 Storage Industry1.8 Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit Market1.8.1 Network Access Last Mile Of Telecommunications Network1.8.2 Metropolitan Area Networks1.8.3 Internet1.9 Signal Processing1.10 Product Positioning
2. DSL Chips Market Shares and Market Forecasts
2.1 DSL Chip Market Driving Forces2.1.1 Vendor DSL Positioning2.1.2 Data And Video Traffic Being Added To VoiceTraffic In Abundance2.2 DSL Chip Market Shares2.2.1 Broadcom2.2.2 Ikanos2.2.3 Ikanos Shipments2.2.4 Ikanos VDSL2.2.5 Lantiq Broadband Solutions2.2.6 MediaTek / Ralink / Trendchip2.3 DSL Chip Market Forecasts2.3.1 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Subscriber Markets2.4 Research and Development2.5 DSL Chip Applications2.6 DSL Chip Prices2.7 DSL Chip Regional Market
3. DSL Chips: Product Description
3.1 Broadcom3.1.1 Broadcom BCM6519 Multi-DSL Transceiver3.1.2 Broadcom BCM6529 Low Power Dual-Channel Analog Front End Device3.1.3 Broadcom BCM65300 VDSL2 G.Vector Central Office SoC3.1.4 Broadcom BCM65x00 Family Central OfficeHigh Density Multi-DSL Chipset3.1.5 Broadcom BCM6515 High-Performance VoIP DigitalSignal Processor3.1.6 Broadcom xDSL CPE Solutions3.1.7 BCM63168 xDSL Integrated Access Device SoC3.1.8 BCM6338 ADSL2+ Router Solution3.1.9 BCM6348 Single-Chip ADSL2+ CPE Chip3.1.10 BCM6358 Single-Chip ADSL2+ Integrated AccessDevice Solution3.1.11 BCM6362 Single-Chip IAD with Integrated ADSL2+,802.11n and DECT3.1.12 BCM6368 Residential VDSL2/ADSL2+ Gateway Solution3.2 Lantiq3.2.1 Lantiq XWAY VRX2003.2.2 Lantiq XWAY VRX2003.2.3 Lantiq XWAY VRX288 / VRX2083.2.4 Lantiq XWAY VRX268 / VRX2083.2.5 Lantiq XWAY VRX288 / VRX2083.2.6 Lantiq CONVERGATE3.2.7 Lantiq MELT3.2.8 Lantiq VINETIC-LTC3.2.9 Lantiq Smart SLIC-T3.2.10 Lantiq XWAY DANUBE3.3 Ikanos3.3.1 Ikanos Chipsets for Central Office Equipment3.3.2 Ikanos Chipsets for Customer Premises Equipment3.3.3 Ikanos Velocity A/VDSL CO Chipset3.3.4 Ikanos Accelity-2+ 8-Port VDSL2 Central Office Chipsets3.3.5 Ikanos' Accelity DA87781 VDSL2 CPE chipset3.3.6 Ikanos Fx-5 CO3.3.7 Ikanos FxS-5 CPE3.3.8 Ikanos Maxtane CX955xx3.3.9 Ikanos Orion Plus CX98124-11Z3.3.10 Ikanos Fusiv Vx185/1833.4 Analog Devices3.5 MediaTek xDSL(Ralink) / Trendchip
4. DSL Chip Technology
4.1 Delivering Video-Intensive Services4.2 Ikanos Technologies4.2.1 Advanced Bonding Capabilities4.2.2 Flexible Network Interfaces4.3 Ikanos NodeScale Vectoring4.3.1 Ikanos Quality Video (iQV) technology4.4 Telecommunications and DSL Standards Organizations4.4.1 ATIS4.4.2 Broadband Forum4.4.3 ETSI4.4.4 FSAN4.4.5 Home Gateway Initiative4.4.6 The International Telecommunications Union4.4.7 TTC4.4.8 UNH-IOL4.4.9 The FTTH Council Europe4.4.10 The FTTH Council Asia-Pacific4.4.11 The Broadband Forum4.4.12 Home Gateway Initiative4.4.13 Communications Standards Bodies:
5 DSL Chip Company Profiles
5.1 Analog Devices5.1.1 Analog Devices Focus On Key Strategic Markets5.1.2 Analog Devices Broad Line Of High-Performance ICs5.1.3 Analog Devices Digital Signal Processing Products5.1.4 Analog Devices Revenue5.1.5 Analog Devices Revenue Trends by End Market5.1.6 Analog Devices Industrial –5.1.7 Analog Devices Automotive –5.1.8 Analog Devices Consumer –5.1.9 Analog Devices Communications –5.1.10 Analog Devices Markets and Applications5.1.11 Analog Devices Industrial and Instrumentation Segments5.1.12 Analog Devices Defense/Aerospace Segment5.1.13 Analog Devices Energy Management Segment5.1.14 Analog Devices Healthcare Segment5.1.15 Analog Devices Automotive Segment5.1.16 Analog Devices Consumer Segment5.1.17 Analog Devices Communications Segment5.1.18 Analog Devices Segment Financial Information andGeographic Information5.1.19 Analog Devices Revenue Trends by Product Type5.1.20 Analog Devices Revenue Trends by Geographic Region5.2 Broadcom5.2.1 Broadcom Revenue5.2.2 Broadcom Broadband Communications Solutions5.2.3 Broadcom Mobile & Wireless (Solutions for the Hand)5.2.4 Broadcom Infrastructure & Networking(Solutions for Infrastructure)5.2.5 Broadcom Customers and Strategic Relationships5.3 BroadLight5.4 Cavium5.4.1 Cavium Customers and Target Markets5.5 Freescale Semiconductor5.5.1 Freescale Embedded Innovation5.6 Ikanos5.6.1 Ikanos Outsourcing and Value Chain5.6.2 Ikanos Net Loss5.6.3 Service Provider Platform Deployments5.6.4 Ikanos Revenue5.6.5 Ikanos Revenue5.6.6 Ikanos Revenue by Country as a Percentage of Total Revenue5.6.7 Ikanos Acquired from Conexant Systems, itsBroadband Access Product Line5.6.8 Ikanos Product Lines5.6.9 Ikanos Solution5.6.10 Key Features of Ikanos Technology5.6.11 Ikanos Major Service Provider Customers5.6.12 Ikanos Service and Support for Customers and Service Providers5.6.13 Sales, Business Development and Product Marketing5.6.14 Ikanos Go to Market Strategy5.6.15 Ikanos / Aricent5.6.16 Ikanos / ASSIA, Inc.5.6.17 Ikanos / Atheros5.6.18 Ikanos / DSP Group5.6.19 Ikanos / D2 Technologies5.6.20 Ikanos / Gatespace5.6.21 Ikanos / Jungo5.6.22 Ikanos / picoChip5.6.23 Ikanos / Ralink5.6.24 Ikanos / SoftAtHome5.6.25 Ikanos / Sunrise Telecom5.6.26 Ikanos / Wintegra5.7 Infineon Technologies5.7.1 Infineon Technologies Revenue5.8 IXYS Integrated Circuits Division5.8.1 IXYS Integrated Circuits Distribution Channels5.8.2 IXYS Integrated Circuits / Clare5.9 Lantiq5.10 Marvell5.11 MediaTek / Ralink Technology5.11.1 MediaTek / Ralink / Trendchip xDSL5.11.2 MediaTek xDSL(Ralink)5.12 PMC-Sierra5.13 Pulse5.14 Shantou New Tideshine Electron5.15 Shenzhen Chaoyue Electronics Co., Ltd.5.16 Shenzhen Sky Foundation5.17 Shenzhen Tianxiaowei Electronics Co., Ltd.5.18 Other xDSL Chip Based Products and Market Participants
List of Tables and Figures
DSL Chips Executive Summary
DSL Chip Market Driving Forces
Data And Video Traffic Being Added To Voice Traffic In Abundance
DSL Chip Market Shares
DSL Chip Market Forecasts
DSL CHIP Market Description and Market Dynamics
Highly-Integrated Chip Solutions
Table 1-2
Digital DSL Product Positioning
Table 1-3
Digital DSL Advantages
DSL CHIP Market Shares and Market Forecasts
DSL Chip Market Driving Forces
Table 2-2
Vendor Competitive Positioning Factors
Figure 2-3
DSL Chip Market Shares, Dollars, 2012
Table 2-4
DSL Component Shipments Dollars, Units Worldwide, 2012
Figure 2-5
DSL Chip Market Shipments Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2013-2018
Table 2-6
Broadband DSL Market Forecasts, Units and Dollars, Worldwide, 2013-2018
Table 2-7
Broadband DSL Market Forecasts, Low End, Mid Range, and
High End Units and Dollars, Worldwide, 2012
Figure 2-8
DSL Subscriber Forecasts, Number, Worldwide, 2013-2018
Table 2-9
Broadband DSL, Cable Modem, Wireless Device, and
Fiber to the Home Subscribers Worldwide, 2012
Figure 2-10
Broadband Services Typical Speed in Mbps
Table 2-11
Broadband Fiber Cost Per Household to Build Out
Table 2-12
DSL Chip Applications
Figure 2-13
DSL Regional Market Segments, Dollars, 2012
Table 2-14
DSL Regional Market Segments, 2012
Table 2-15
xDSL Component Regional Shipments by Company,
Dollars, Worldwide, 2012
DSL CHIP Product Description
Broadcom BCM6519 Multi-DSL Transceiver Features
Table 3-2
Broadcom BCM6529 Low Power Dual-Channel Analog
Front End Device Features
Table 3-3
Broadcom BCM65300 VDSL2 G.vector Central Office SoC Features
Table 3-4
Broadcom's new BCM65x00 Family Central Office SoC Features
Table 3-5
Broadcom BCM6515 High-Performance VoIP Digital Signal
Processor Features
Figure 3-6
Ikanos 496pix_Velocity_Chipset2
Table 3-7
Ikanos Communications Processors
Table 3-8
Ikanos DSL Chipsets
Figure 3-9
Ikanos Velocity Chip Architecture
Table 3-10
Ikanos Velocity A/VDSL CO Chipset Key Features
Figure 3-11
Ikanos Accelity-2+ AD11008
Table 3-12
Ikanos Accelity-2+ AD11008 Key Features
Table 3-13
Ikanos Accelity-2+ AD11008 Applications
Table 3-14
Ikanos Accelity DA87781 Applications
Table 3-15
Accelity DA87781 Family product Key Features
Figure 3-16
Ikanos Fx100100-5/Fx10050-5 System Architecture
Table 3-17
Ikanos Fx100100-5/Fx10050-5 System Key Features
Figure 3-18
Ikanos Fx100100S-5/Fx10050S-5 System Architecture
Table 3-19
Ikanos FxS-5 CPE Key Features
Figure 3-20
Ikanos Maxtane CX95516/CX95524 System Architecture
Table 3-21
Ikanos Maxtane CX955xx Key Features
Figure 3-22
Ikanos Orion Plus CX98124-11Z Block Diagram
Table 3-23
Ikanos Orion Plus CX98124-11Z Key Features
Table 3-24
Ikanos Fusiv Vx185/183 Key Features
Table 3-25
MediaTek Product Advantages
Table 3-26
MediaTek / Ralink Comprehensive Product Portfolio
DSL CHIP Technology
Broadband Services Typical Speed in Mbps
Table 4-2
Ikanos NodeScale Vectoring Product Key Features
Table 4-3
Ikanos Quality Video (iQV) technology Key Features
DSL CHIP Company Profiles
Analog Devices Embedded In Electronic Equipment
Table 5-2
Analog Devices Industrial And Instrumentation Market Applications
Table 5-3
Analog Devices Defense/Aerospace Products
Table 5-4
Analog Devices Energy Management Segment Products
Table 5-5
Analog Devices Healthcare Segment Innovative
Crosspoint Switch Technologies
Table 5-6
Analog Devices Green Automotive Segment
Table 5-7
Analog Devices Safety Automotive Segment
Table 5-8
Analog Devices Comfort Automotive Segment
Table 5-9
Analog Devices Consumer Segment Products
Table 5-10
Analog Devices Communications Segment Systems
Table 5-11
Analog Devices Crosspoint Switches
Table 5-12
Broadcom Broadband Communications Solutions
Table 5-13
Broadcom Customers and Strategic Relationships
Table 5-14
Ikanos Product Lines
Table 5-15
Ikanos Works Directly With Various Major Service Providers
Figure 5-16
MediaTek Revenue
Table 5-17
MediaTek Industry Leadership
Figure 5-18
MediaTek Product Portfolio
Table 5-19
MediaTek Product Advantages
Table 5-20
MediaTek / Ralink Comprehensive Product Portfolio
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While we are proud of Local Finds, its really not a new idea for New Seasons Market. Weve been working in partnership with local farmers, cooks, and crafters for the last fourteen years, says John Boyle, New Seasons Markets director of merchandising and buying. We created the Local Finds program as a way to maximize what we were already doing.
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Tonight (2/18) we have a stack session with a St. Louis hip-hop duo you should know by now– AtM (pronounced "atom"), whose mixtape "A Night Like This" dropped last August, are one of the more well-known local hip-hop acts in this city, and if you don't know them yet, then now is the time. Tune in at 10pm tonight for something very special.
You can get the mixtape here: http://atmmme.bandcamp.com
Their soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/a-t-m-3
Upcoming shows:
2/21: w/ G-Eazy at Old Rock House
3/2: at The Demo
In the meantime, here's something that resembles an album review.
If I had a time machine, I can think of about a thousand things I might try to do with it, but one of them would involve going back to the starstruck conversation I never thought I'd be having in March of 2012, with a well-known rapper, who asked me what I knew about the St. Louis hip-hop scene; to which I reluctantly told him if there was indeed someone or something spectacular coming out of St. Louis these days, I hadn't heard it yet.
As it turns out, there was (and still is) something spectacular here, and if I hadn't been living under a rock at the time, I would have said to keep an eye out for A Night Like This, AtM's first mixtape, which dropped last August. I would have said what I shouted last October at the Gramophone, drowned out by the noise of a crowd, when I first saw AtM live: "These kids can actually rap."
Amir and Malcolm have a natural and comfortable vocal pairing; they bounce off each other with ease. Sometimes their music plays a fluid game of compare-and-contrast: frenzied/calm, smooth/jagged. A Night Like This starts off with the kind of track that punches you in the face– "Year 1," backed by a beat of epic proportions, a sweeping Michael Franco production that throws you headlong into the tape, and as Amir rips through the first verse, it's obvious that AtM is not playing around. They're lucky enough to have several instances of Michael Franco's production on here; sometimes the only word truly capable of describing Franco's standalone beats is "gorgeous." (Michael Franco, another St. Louis musician, is one half of Franco-Hill, and if you catch an AtM live show you could easily be blessed by their musical backing. The other half, Jeff Hill –also AtM's music director– is unbearably talented on the drums; you'll hear him referred to as "The Best Drummer in St. Louis." The music they make as Franco-Hill is incredible and their chemistry is unmatched, but that's another review altogether.)
(It's just like this, no need to fight it/ Invite it/Try me out, you just might like it)
It's no surprise that when AtM breaks out "That Woman" at a live show, the crowd can't help but sing along with the hook of what is probably their most well-known track– it's a rich soulful song with a complex set of verses, and the beat is downright irresistible. Probably the most interesting thing about A Night Like This is that it retains a unifying sound while the actual experience of listening can be all over the map– "Hero Troubles" is relentlessly emotional; "Odd Motivation" is dark, soulful, oddly rhythmic; "You Take Up 95% of My Brain" is far more lighthearted– like "Time Machine," it's catchy as all hell and solidifies these MCs in my mind as two twenty-year old men who deserve serious credit for the music they make, and deserving of the affections of various unnamed women they're rapping about. Amir and Malcolm's flows can blend seamlessly with all different types of beats, but they also work well with a range of topics and emotions; listening to this mixtape will make you want to know them, and by the end of it, you'll feel like you do, to some degree.
This is hip-hop that takes itself seriously, as hip-hop should. The music feels genuine, heartfelt. These boys are young, but I don't bring that up for the usual reasons– they don't try to cover subject matter that's beyond their scope. Their content is age-appropriate, but handled with a surprisingly tongue-in-cheek sense of humor– the everyday struggles of young men are illuminated by a remarkable maturity, and it's obvious they have room to grow, both for themselves and their music. In this case, that's a good thing.
It's the plague of young MCs (think Joey Badass) that no matter how talented they are, they've either got nothing to say or lack emotional maturity, and eventually end up spitting what sounds like the same old verse, packed with nifty little jokes and similes. With AtM, this is not my concern– like all young men, they have emotional depth and complexity; unlike all young men, they're good at talking about it without sounding corny. Their talent isn't wasted on clever throwaway rhymes and regurgitated attitudes and attributes drawn from raps of old; they use their considerable abilities to create something new. Listening to A Night Like This, you are made to understand that creating music is a thoroughly personal process, not merely producing something for others to consume–whether you're scribbling or spitting or just sitting with the music and spending time with it, it is a process that involves growth and furthering your understanding. You can tell that their next project could very well sound completely different from A Night Like This but still sound like AtM, and that by then, they will have matured somewhat, without falling off.
St. Louis has been hungry for this, for kids who can actually rap. And they have been here for twenty years, calmly waiting to blow up.
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