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Realizing that we are an under-represented population at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and are collectively faced with issues unique to us as students of color of African descent, the Black Graduate Students of MIT do hereby organize the BLACK GRADUATE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION.
ARTICLE I – Name and Type
The name and type of the organization shall be the Black Graduate Students Association (BGSA), a non-profit student run organization.
ARTICLE II – Purpose
The purpose of the BGSA is Education, Empowerment, Encouragement, and Entertainment. We are an organization that recognizes graduation with a Masters or Ph.D. as our #1 priority. Secondly we wish to empower our members so that they can properly transfer the usage of the tools acquired at MIT to successfully advance our community. Third we wish to provide a place of refuge. A place where African, African American, and Afro-Caribbean graduate students are encouraged to express ideas, concepts, and frustrations without rebuke. Finally, we try to provide opportunities for our membership to relax, relate, and release through healthy entertainment.
ARTICLE III – Membership
Section 1.
Any graduate or undergraduate student shall be considered a full member of the BGSA if that student has paid his/her dues for the current academic year. If no dues have been assessed during a particular year, than full membership will be open to all associate members.
Section 2.
All other interested parties shall be associate members with no voting privileges.
Section 3.
It is understood that members will abide by this constitution.
Section 4.
BGSA shall not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic in the MIT Non-discrimination policy, including by not limited to sex, handicap, status as a veteran, sexual orientation, nationality or ethnic origin.
Section 5.
If an associate member cannot afford organizational dues, they will be granted membership upon attending two (2) consecutive General Body meetings.
Section 6.
An associate member is defined as a member who expresses written interest in joining the organization or who attends a General Body meeting or other organizational event.
ARTICLE IV – Administration
Section 1.
The Executive Committee of BGSA shall consist of:
a) 2 Co-chairpersons
b) Treasurer
c) Administrator
d) Assistant Administrator
Section 2.
The Executive Committee shall:
a) Be accountable to the General Body and none of its acts shall conflict with the goals and objectives of the organization or the decisions made by vote of the full members.
b) Determine the objectives of the organization for each academic year.
c) Determine all questions of policy and shall administer the affairs of BGSA.
Section 3.
The chairpersons and the treasurer are the only persons authorized to make transactions on BGSA accounts.
Section 4.
The Executive Committee shall not spend more than a specified amount of BGSA funds between General Body meetings without the approval of the General Body. The specified amount and the annual dues for the next academic year will be determined by the incoming Executive Committee before the end of the fiscal year.
Section 5.
The BGSA agrees to abide by the rules and regulations of the Association of Student Activities (ASA), its executive committee and the finance board. This constitution, amendments to it and the by-laws of the organization shall be subject to review by the ASA Executive Committee to insure that they are in accordance with the aforementioned rules and regulations.
ACTICLE V – Committees
In order to ensure that the purpose of BGSA is fulfilled, and to ensure that the BGSA is a cohesive, effective, and efficient organization, the following committees are hereby permanently established:
a) Educational Support Committee (ESC)
The role of the BGSA-ESC is to assist in the recruiting, retention, and graduation of African, African American, and Afro-Caribbean Students at MIT.
b) Political Action Committee (PAC)
The role of the BGSA-PAC is to inform, educate, and raise consciousness of the membership and the MIT community on political issues relevant to the African Diaspora.
c) Community Service Committee (CSC)
The role of the BGSA-CSC is to work to increase the level of service to and interaction between the local (Collegiate (undergraduate and graduate), Cambridge, and Boston) and international Black Community and BGSA members.
d) Ebony Affair Committee (EAC)
The role of the BGSA-EAC is to organize and facilitate the annual BGSA Black
History Month Ball, also known as The Ebony Affair.
e) Publicity Committee (PC)
The role of the BGSA-PC is to enhance the awareness of the MIT, Cambridge, and
Boston communities to the events and happenings of the BGSA.
f) Social Committee (SC)
The role of the BGSA-SC is to help maintain the sanity and cohesiveness of the
BGSA by providing stress relieving, entertaining, and healthy social outings for
the organization.
ARTICLE VI – Offices
Section 1.
Each member of the Executive Committee must be a full member of the BGSA.
Section 2.
Each full member of the BGSA is entitled to one vote.
Section 3.
In general, decisions shall be made by the majority vote of those full members present. A quorum shall be met if at least 4 members are present.
Section 4.
In case of an emergency (decided by the Chairperson), a decision shall be made by a majority vote of the entire Executive Committee. Such a decision must be reported to the general body at the next meeting or in writing before the next meeting.
Section 5.
Voting by proxy is only allowed during elections.
Section 6.
a) General elections for the Executive Committee shall be held at the second-to-last meeting of each academic year.
b) The Executive Committee shall appoint a parliamentarian prior to the second-to-last meeting of the Spring term, who shall preside over elections, count ballots and announce election results.
c) A candidate must receive a majority of votes cast to be elected.
d) In case of a tie, there will be a re-vote for the two top candidates.
e) Committee Chair elections shall be held at the first meeting of each of the six committees and prior to the second general body meeting in the fall.
f) Committee Chairs shall be selected by a majority vote of those full members present. In case of a tie, the Executive Committee Co-Chairs will select the committee chair.
Section 7.
The membership reserves the right to impeach any officer or committee chair by a two-thirds majority of the full membership.
Section 8.
The Chairperson(s) and the Treasurer must be distinct, current MIT Students.
Section 9.
All Officers shall serve for a term of 12 months, at which point they may run again for re-election.
ARTICLE VII – Duties of Officers and Committee Chairs
The duties of the elected officers are:
a) Co-Chairpersons (2):
- Is responsible for the day – to – day functioning of the organization.
- Shall call and chair Executive Committee and General Body meetings.
- Shall ensure effective communication between the committees and the General Body.
- Shall be the primary representative of BGSA.
b) Treasurer:
- Shall maintain and update the BGSA's financial records and accounts and shall be the financial representative of the other finance groups.
- Shall be responsible for recording the organization's financial transactions and for reporting a monthly statement and a written yearly report of its accounts.
c) Administrator:
- Shall facilitate the ordinary business of the organization.
- Shall maintain and update the organization's mailing list.
- Shall record and report minutes at all meetings.
d) Assistant Administrator:
- Shall assist the Administrator.
- Shall be responsible for handling mailings and other internal communications with the General Body.
e) Committee Chairperson (Six)
- Shall be responsible for the functioning of the committee.
- Shall call and chair committee meetings.
- Shall be responsible for reporting committee activities at General Body meetings.
- Shall be responsible for informing Co-Chairpersons of the committee's agenda BI-weekly.
ARTICLE VIII – Meetings
Section 1.
General body meetings shall be held at least monthly.
Section 2.
Executive board meetings shall be held at least twice a month.
ARTICLE IX – Amendments
Section 1.
Amendments to this constitution may be made by:
a) proposal (at least verbally) during the course of General Body meeting.
b) full members only.
Section 2.
A written draft of such an amendment must be distributed to the General Body at least two weeks prior to the meeting at which it will be voted on.
Section 3.
A two-thirds majority vote of the Full Membership present at a General Body meeting is needed for amendments to be made to this document.


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Chicago activists today launched a lobbying effort to pressure the Obama administration into taking up immigration reform before 2010, part of a week of events in 20 states that will culminate in a national prayer vigil the night before the White House is scheduled to host a bipartisan meeting on the issue June 8.
"We're here because of one simple truism: If it's broken, fix it and fix it now," Allie Kabba, vice president of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, declared before a standing-only crowd at the Jane Addams Hull House museum, on the near Southwest Side. "We can't continue to be confronted with injustice, with hopelessness, with indignity. We must always act with the fierce urgency of now."
Seeking to ramp up the pressure, a national coalition of nonprofit groups, labor unions, religious leaders and business organizations are planning to convene in Washington on Wednesday for a three-day summit to map out lobbying strategies.

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Santa rescue, lighting ceremony Friday will start the holiday season in Lawrence
Globe Santa is back for the 60th year.
"Dear Santa: Children's Christmas Letters and Wish Lists, 1870-1920" (Chronicle Books; $14.95) contains gift requests published in newspapers around the world, with letters as mournful as "mama says that Santa Claus does not come to poor people" and "I am afraid you may forget me, like last year." The scale of the desired gifts ranged from "some little trifle to make our hearts glad" to "the whole earth." Santa's finances and his reindeers' health were among the writers' concerns, as well as his safety while navigating narrow chimneys and the accuracy of his lists of addresses and children's names and ages. "Letters to Santa Claus" (Indiana University Press; $16) reproduces about 250 messages from the 1930s, which belong to the Santa Claus Museum & Village in Santa Claus, Ind.Tape temporarily covers Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer's brand-new nose, which will shine at the 2015 Santa Claus Parade in Winnipeg on Saturday. (Sara Calnek/CBC) JCI Winnipeg, which has maintained the parade's iconic Santa float for more than 50 years, is refurbishing it with the help of landscape ecologist and designer Samantha Braun. "There's some duct tape around Rudolph's nose; he just had a nose job," Natasha Fisher, JCI Winnipeg's 2015 chapter president, told CBC News on Thursday morning. "But it is going to be all ready for Saturday, so you're going to see Rudolph's nose — bigger, brighter and redder — coming down Portage Avenue. People are not going to miss it." "Last year there was kind of a deep blue sparkly sheeting over a majority of it and a lot of silver tinsel, and we removed all of that and kind of really simplified it and cleaned it up and put a bit of a more modern take on it," Fisher said. They also confided secrets: "mama cries at night when she thinks we are asleep, because she has no money." One prisoner in Indiana, hoping to be released in time for Christmas, asked Santa for a lawyer and an appeal bond.
Alex Palmer, a journalist living in Brooklyn, explores a family scandal in "The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York" (Lyons Press/Rowman & Littlefield; $25.95). A 10-year-old girl named Patricia was among hundreds who obliged: "My brothers are only seven and they believe in Santa Claus," she wrote. "It's not so bad on my sister and I because we don't believe any more. The group had volunteers sort through unopened letters to Santa that had ended up at post offices and tried to persuade philanthropists to buy the requested gifts. In honour of the partnership, the Raptors built a box replicating the one seen in Drake's video, and invited fans to attempt their best impressions as part of "Drake Night." The pair struck up the friendship on social media after Kelly defended Drake during a Twitter feud with Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill. Take this recent letter from a local mother: "I work full time as a case manager for families who are homeless and living in shelters, and despite my wages my family is still at the poverty level," she wrote to Globe Santa. "I often am upset and feel like a disappointment to my children because I have no funds for even the smallest extra expenses. "I do not want my children to suffer because I had too much pride to ask," she added. "They are sweet boys filled with tons of love in their hearts." Today, Globe Santa kicks off its 60th year soliciting donations from the public to fill the Christmas lists of thousands of children who approach the season anticipating miracles, even as their parents too often have a sense of dread.
He planned to build a white marble headquarters in Manhattan, with the façade showing images of "Santa Clauses from all the countries of the world." It is not clear how many Christmas presents the association sent out, nor is it certain that the children were telling the truth in the descriptions of their families' dire needs. The original mission and the pleas for help have echoed down through the years as Globe Santa has answered letters and calls from some 1.2 million families, delivering holiday gifts to about 2.9 million children. All donations go directly to support Globe Santa, a charity that is strengthened by individuals, families, and organizations that choose to assist their neighbors by joining in this unique holiday tradition. "Globe Santa speaks to the community commitment that the Globe and its readers share," said Linda Pizzuti Henry, the Globe's managing director. "Our mission with this program is to deliver joy to needy local children at this special time of the year, and our readers and our customers make this possible with their generous contributions, support, and heartfelt letters." When the Globe was moving to fill its first sleigh with presents in 1956, Santa had a prominent helper in John B. In fact, the original name of the program was the Mayor Hynes-Boston Globe Santa Claus Fund, a successor to the 46-year-old Santa Fund of the Boston Post, which had ceased publication earlier that year. He set up shop at the Globe offices one day and collected about $6,000 in donations at a time when large numbers of people were stopping by or sending in a dollar or two to help out.
Palmer said in an interview that he found no evidence his forebear regretted deceiving generous people during holiday seasons: "He convinced himself that he was doing good." "A Token of Elegance: Cigarette Holders in Vogue" (Officina Libraria/ACC Distribution; $50), by the historians Martin Barnes Lorber and Rebecca McNamara, analyzes about 140 holders that Carolyn Hsu-Balcer has acquired in the past two decades. She owns silver and gold pieces studded with diamonds, plastic souvenirs from restaurants and tubes that sprout miniature sculptures of snakes, dragons, a monkey admiring itself in a mirror and a mermaid engulfed in smoke. She avoids items that show signs of wear and tear, although she made an exception for a faintly chewed tube of amber, blue enamel and gold that belonged to Princess Margaret. McComb Sinclair II inherited his collection of about 1,000 cigar bands, which a Philadelphia teenager named Hugh Augustus Wilson tucked into an album around 1900. Sinclair has reproduced the album pages in "Box of Cigar Bands" (Schiffer Publishing; $34.99) and analyzed the history of lithographed paper strips that were wrapped around cigar tips.
Wilson eventually outgrew the hobby (he left a few blank pages in the album), but for part of his boyhood, the collection most likely provided a kind of virtual escape. "He was looking at the world through the eyes of the people who were walking down the street," tossing aside bits of multicultural lithography, Mr.
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I resisted joining Instagram for a long time, until I ran across the Veteran Vision Project. It is a sad reality that 22 veterans kill themselves every day. The project highlights the lives of the people who have served their country and what their lives are today. Some have successful lives, some live with PTSD, some are on the verge of being one of the 22. If you have a chance to read through their archive, take your time and do so. The images and the tales are worth reading.
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It made me remeber my Grandfather, Eugene and Okinawa. So, here's a throwback Thursday. I wrote this on my old blog when we were still in overseas.
Before we moved to Okinawa, there weren't many things I knew about the island. This pretty much sums it up, in no particular order:
- It's an island in Japan.
- It's 'featured' in the Karate Kid series (though really, it was Hawaii).
- It was the stage for a very brutal battle during WWII.
- ….that's about it.
I have learned many things about Okinawa in the last four years. I have fallen in love with the island. But one thing that you cannot forget when you're here (specially if you're either Okinawan or American), is the fourth item on my list up there. It was the stage for a very brutal battle during WWII.
There is to this day a military presence on island and the relationship between both cultures is varied. Some love it, some hate it, some merely tolerate it, some learn about each other. My presence on this island alone, is the result of my husband being in the Air Force. I was born and raised in Mexico. My Mom, however, was born and raised in the U.S. Her entire family is from North Dakota.
I knew that none of my Grandma's brothers fought in WWII due to their age (they were considered too old). But I also knew that at least four of the Beaton boys (my Grandpa and three of his brothers) fought in the war. My Grandpa was in the Navy and he spent the war in the Pacific. I think the closest he came to Japan was the island of Guam. I didn't know of any other members of his family (or my Grandmother's extended one) who had taken part in the conflict.
There are many parks and monuments in Okinawa and if you have the chance to come here, you need to take the time to visit as many as you can. One of these, is Peace Prayer Park. That's how we military and dependents know it. Some know it as the "Cornerstone of Peace", the "Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Park", the "Okinawan Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum", etc. Names for it also vary a little on the road signs. It's located on the southern part of the island and if you have a map and a good sense of direction, you'll find it. It overlooks the sea and you can spend a lot of time sitting there and thinking.
Amongst the many things in the park, you'll find a series of wave-like dark granite low walls (stelai/screens/etc). They are inscribed with the names of all who died during the 82 day-long Battle of Okinawa, military and civilian alike. We visited once, late in the day and with the dwindling sunlight, we didn't have much time to explore it.
The second time we visited the park, back in November 2011, we arrived with enough time to go through the Museum and take pictures.
Allow me to repeat myself here: if you're ever in Okinawa, this has to be one of your stops. The museum alone is an impressive place to spend time reflecting on the history of this island and on the history of the world. There is one section of the museum, where you can sit and read first-hand witness accounts of those who survived the battle. Take your time. Read them.
As we walked out, we made it to the granite walls and for no reason other than sheer curiosity, I started looking at the names on the wall and…I found Eugene Charles Beaton. We took a picture of the name and went home, where I posed the question to my Mom's side of the family. Had anyone heard of a Eugene Beaton? My cousin answered that yes, there was an Eugene. And yes, he had died during WWII. So I looked it up and sure enough…..Eugene was my Grandpa's cousin. He was a Marine, who died on June 3rd, 1945. Eighteen days before the end of the Battle of Okinawa. He was 26.
I'd never heard of him, but ever since I found his name on that wall, he has been on my mind. Every time we've visited a war memorial on this island, I have wondered……what did Eugene see? He was on this island during a very violent time. You cannot visit historical sites here without seeing pictures like these:
I cannot help but wonder, what life was like for Eugene here. Specially after being in the museum, looking at the models, the pictures, reading the accounts. We went back to Peace Prayer Park last week to visit Eugene and so we could make a rubbing of his name. On our way there, we stopped at another WWII Memorial: the Former Japanese Naval Underground Headquarters (the link's in Japanese, sorry).
After going through a museum and then a rather long staircase, you find yourself in a series of tunnels dug during WWII and where near the end of the Battle of Okinawa, hundreds of Japanese soldiers committed suicide. If you're claustrophobic, this might not be the place for you to visit. The main corridors are wide enough, but some of the minor ones can get narrow (I'm 5'3″ and I could feel my hair rubbing the top of some archways). If you don't suffer from any confined space problems, then yes…you have to go there. There is more than one side to every episode in history. You should become acquainted with as many as possible. The place is eerily quiet, save for the shuffling of tourist's feet and the sound of water running down the little channels cut on the ground of each tunnel.
Pictures and sketched dramatizations of life in the tunnels hang here and there, giving you an idea of the conditions soldiers lived in during the battle. The stone is cool to the touch, but the humidity and overall heat underground is stifling and you'll feel sweat running down your back in no time. As a side note, there are free paper and plastic fans by the ticket counter. Take one. You'll use it, trust me.
There are few 'rooms' in the headquarters, and those either served a military purpose or where inhabited by high ranking officials. For everybody else, there were roughly carved smaller caves by the tunnels. One of these was the 'Medical Room", barely lit with a naked bulb. As a CNA, I cannot imagine what it must've been like trying to attend to your duties in such a place. But the room that shocked me the most, was this:
The sign on the walls, in both English and Japanese, reads: "Wall riddled with a hand-grenade when committed suicide".
I cannot even begin to picture that moment. We left the headquarters and as we emerged form the tunnels, it started to sprinkle. The rain felt like a blessing after the suffocating heat, but nothing could dispel the heaviness in my heart. Then we got in our car and drove down to the Park and after gathering all of our materials, made our way back to the granite walls.
"Hello, Eugene" I mused as I ran my fingers over his name. I wanted to cry. The Bear proved better at getting the name rubbed onto paper and later, he went off in search of a place where we could watch the sunset and take pictures (something we've been doing a lot of in the last few months). I took a few pictures around the park and then sat, watching the sea. I could try to write something philosophical about the war and both sides of the battle. I could try to sound smart, but I won't. I don't have the brains nor the wisdom to do so.
Furthermore, I think it will be a long time before my heart comes up with a conclusion. So instead I'll say this: There are very dark episodes in history. And they're painful. But we need to know about them. We cannot change what has happened, but we can learn from them.
We'll be leaving Okinawa in less than a month and I'll take a lot of things with me. About food and fun and sun and sand and wonderful places. But I will also take Eugene's memory. I never met him, but now he's in my heart. And he will always be.
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The white walls in your place have begun to loom, haven't they?
Glaring down at you, bare as the Gobi Desert when the camels are on holiday.
And hark! That box of photos in the closet that you've been meaning to organize is starting to whisper to you. "Put me up," the photos mutter. "Show me off!"
Of course, hearing these things means you are probably insane. But before the funny farm comes to take you away, you might as well sort out your wall and photo problem.
Grab a handful of bulldog clips and a few nails and put up some pictures. That'll show those imaginary voices who's boss.
Poppytalk and amberminty gave us the idea.
Why's It Cool?
Why would you cover your walls with bulldog clips and hang a bunch of photos? So many reasons. It's super cheap, it's ridiculously easy, and it requires practically no skill. Plus it means you can change the photos you have up at any time with practically zero effort.
Also, it looks really cool.
What You'll Need
- A whole mess o' photos
- Assorted bulldog clips and/or binder clips — one for each photo you want to put up
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Figure out where and how you want to hang your photos. Decide how much of the wall you want to cover and how much space you want between your photos. As a general rule, more space between pictures looks more sophisticated.
Personally, we like a random approach with lots of different sizes of clips and pictures. Having said that, it's good to use smaller clips for small photos, and larger clips for large photos.
If your walls are painted, you may not want to hang photos whose color scheme clashes with your paint. If you have really bold colored walls, using all black-and-white pictures would look great.
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- OCD-style: If you want to be orderly about it, use one kind of clip and one size of photo (i.e. 8×10). Use a level and a ruler to place your nails in an even grid pattern before hanging your photos exactly straight.
- Mix it up: Use lots of different sizes and styles of photos. Throw in some cool postcards. Put up that illustration you love but still haven't gotten around to framing. Go crazy, kid!


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It started with Inception. Or, more accurately, it started with Inception's third trailer. The music, 'Mind Heist', by trailer music specialist Zack Hemsey (yes, such a profession exists), was the world's first glimpse of a sound that has since dominated our aural landscape. It was an inarticulate, spectacular, overblown, deep brass exclamation mark: Bwarrrm.
Though Hemsey's trailer music was our first exposure to the Inception sound, on the film's release it quickly became clear that the film's actual composer, Hans Zimmer, was its true source. Zimmer's Inception soundtrack was defined by deep brass in a way no other film had been before — the trailer was but the tip of the reverberating iceberg. Bwarrrm.
In a way, this was no surprise: Zimmer has been working for years to refine the system of leitmotif in film music into a tight, masculine package. 'The whole form language of current cinema music derives from advertising,' wrote Adorno and Eisler in Composing for the Films in 1947. 'The motif is the slogan.' With few exceptions, Adorno and Eisler have been proved correct in their caustic summation of the Hollywood music business; film music is now, more than ever, a kind of brand to be attached to a movie that can be instantly recalled and identified with its corresponding franchise.
Zimmer himself has gone from writing quirky and cheesy tunes for films like Driving Miss Daisy to Hollywood's kind of brooding, muscular branding for films like Pirates of the Caribbean and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. The emergence of digital composing tools has played no small part in this shift. Zimmer now composes, records, and tweaks his film scores almost wholly with the aid of digital software — that orchestra you think you're hearing is, most often, a series of digital samples and synths. 'At one point or another, every note that is in the score has been played by me,' Zimmer said about his Dark Knight Rises score. What this high level of sound manipulation and high-resolution tweaking means is that there is an enormous emphasis on rhythm and texture over melody and harmony in modern film music.
Thus, the sound of modern movies is almost singular. Zimmer's Dark Knight scores are a case in point — while Danny Elfman's Batman music of the early 90s were gothically melodic, Zimmer's central Batman theme is just two notes. It should therefore be no surprise, then, that with Inception he took this approach to its logical extreme — a film that can be identified with just one note, one sound: Bwarrrm.
That's not to say that there isn't something deeper going on here. In fact, the Inception score is highly rhythmically complex: as each level of dream in the film's lengthy climactic sequence plays out, a new level of rhythm opens up. At the top, there's just quavers. At the bottom, there's that huge, iconic semibreve — one note to rule them all. And that's not even mentioning the ties that the Inception sound has to Edith Piaf's 'Non, je ne regrette rien', which plays a role as a pivotal plot point.
But there's something to the way that this sound has taken hold in popular culture. Inception might have been the beginning, but we now find similar sounds everywhere, from ads, to reality TV, to videogames, to practically every film trailer going around. What is it about this sound?
In the same way that Brad Nguyen proclaimed viral clip Kony 2012 the film of the year here at Killings, I'm tempted to label this sound as the sound of our contemporary age. In many ways, this sound is representative of the most visible trends in popular culture — it is the sound of inarticulate sensory overload. It is the sound of amazement, the sound of shock and awe, the sound of a bodily impact from our media. It is the sound of eyelids widening, of backs stiffening, of fists clenching. This is what the most popular of contemporary entertainment media do: Christopher Nolan films shock with baroque plot and spectacle; dubstep shakes and jars with rhythmic intensity; first-person shooter videogames blow us away with virtuosic performance; the bodies of professional sportspeople collide: Bwarrrm.
That is what this sound is. It is the sound of modern spectacle.
Dan Golding is a Killings columnist, freelance writer and academic interested in videogames, film, music, and most other cultural forms. Find him on Twitter.


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Lord Colwyn: My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Miller for the clear way she introduced this order this evening. I also wish to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Gould, for the well-informed understanding of the problems that are concerned with this aspect of research and development.
My noble friend may be aware that I asked a Question on 12th January drawing the Government's attention to the need to promote high quality research in the area of gene therapy and to undertake a co-ordinated approach to new treatments and scientific research.
With that in mind I am delighted this evening to welcome the introduction of the order. I should like to think that it shows on my part an intelligent anticipation of government thinking.
On 12th January I declared an interest as a director of a biopharmaceutical company. Although I can see only a very tenuous connection between my directorship and our debate this evening, in view of the current climate I declare that interest this evening.
My noble friend Lady Cumberlege replied to my Question, stating (at col. 359 of Hansard):
My noble friend corrected me and said that although the US spends about 10 times more capital on gene therapy as the UK, the UK leads the world and that lead is the result of very good basic science allied to the clinical environment provided by the NHS. As a result, the UK has been able to attract leading scientists.
She also laid to rest my fears that the UK was taking an unco-ordinated approach to scientific research. The MRC and health department, through the appointment of Professor Michael Peckham as director of research and development, are responsible for the nation's co-ordinated approach. In addition, a number of advisory committees and councils have been established to assist in that process, one such council being the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils. I am pleased this evening to acknowledge its foundation and offer it support and encouragement.
The CLRC has been given a wide charter under which to operate. Under that charter its objectives have been defined in the order.
Objective (a) in the schedule is commendable, but I should like to remind your Lordships of the comment of Mr. Dai Rees, the Medical Research Council's secretary, in the 1994 Scientific Strategy:
In view of the assurance of my noble friend Lady Cumberlege, I ask my noble friend whether the UK is doing enough to ensure that it remains a world leader in scientific research and, in particular, gene therapy.
Can the CLRC truly perform its first objective to full potential if capital investment remains at current levels? Many core technologies around the country are currently dormant. To promote research by providing facilities or additional technical expertise may well not be the answer as I guess that it is additional funding which will eventually convert core technologies lying on the laboratory bench into economic reality.
I hope that the CLRC will be able to encourage greater participation from the business community by establishing additional programmes outside those already in place.
I urge the CLRC to accept an obligation to ensure that objective (c) in the schedule is pursued with great vigour and that gene therapy falls under that umbrella.
If the CLRC fulfils that objective it is likely that the community, and more importantly the business community, will have a far better understanding of the promise that scientific research and particularly genetic research holds for the nation. I hope that, as in the US and Europe, more private capital in the form of
For the UK to remain a world leader more capital will be required as the public purse is stretched to the limit, and it is crucial that that finance is available in the near future.
If the CLRC is successful in educating minds and organisations with substantial capital awaiting investment opportunity, it will successfully fulfil its other objective objective (b), which is designed to ensure that the CLRC contributes to the economic competitiveness of the United Kingdom and the quality of life. I welcome the order.
The Earl of Selborne: My Lords, I too should like to intervene briefly to welcome the order. Before I do so I should like to thank my noble friend the Minister for the comprehensive way in which she introduced the order and also to welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Gould, to her new responsibilities on the Front Bench. I am delighted that she has joined the team.
In a sense this is unfinished business from the reform of the research councils last year, as my noble friend the Minister reminded us. I wish to draw attention to the exemplary way in which the Office of Science and Technology has undertaken the review. It has not rushed it. It has taken a great deal of advice, from scientists and customers. It has taken into account accountability and funding arrangements. The fact that that has taken 18 months from the announcement of the previous research councils demonstrates what a thorough job has been done.
There is one small matter about which I would be concerned had I to direct the new council, namely the support required from the Department of Trade and Industry. At present the Department of Trade and Industry is rather fickle in regard to research funding. It seems to be changing its priorities. It clearly feels that its previous contribution to research is not something which it wishes to maintain. I hope that the newly appointed director has been given an assurance from the Department of Trade and Industry, although I do not expect the Minister to answer that point because clearly such an assurance would not be public knowledge.
I wish to draw attention to an unfavourable comparison with how research might have been reorganised. This emanated from the Efficiency Unit scrutiny of public research establishmentsan exercise which the House of Lords Select Committee regarded with some horror, as did the Select Committee of the other place. It was based purely on reasons of efficiency. Members of the House may remember that the proposals revolved around reorganisation on either a disciplinary or a regional basis, and, if that could not be decided upon, the proposal was to have directors of rationalisation.
The Select Committee considered that it is necessary to reorganise research from time to time. It is clearly necessary to review the scientific bases and priorities, value for money and accountability, as is well demonstrated by the draft order before us tonight. What
In the Select Committee report which came out in November we draw attention to the fact that where rationalisation had taken place in the past it tended to have the characteristic of bringing together government departments, research councils and users of the research and producing a solution which appeared to meet everyone's requirements. We quoted the example of Horticultural Research International, which had brought together sites from the former agriculture and food research council and from the Ministry of Agriculture and put them together under one direction.
Had the order been tabled before we completed our report, I have no doubt that we should have quoted this also as an excellent model of how to organise and reorganise publicly funded research.
Baroness Miller of Hendon: My Lords, the debate has benefited from a number of distinguished and valuable contributions, which I welcome. In particular, I should like to welcome that of the noble Baroness, Lady Gould, from the other side of the House. It is very nice that two of us from the class of '93 are here this evening.
Lord Graham of Edmonton: A very good year, my Lords!
Baroness Miller of Hendon: Indeed, my Lords.
The noble Baroness asked me several questions, particularly about funding, as did my noble friend Lord Colwyn. There is no reason to suppose that there will not be enough funding. The management certainly believe that they can attract enough investment. Currently they have a demand for some key facilities which exceeds the supply by three times. The laboratories have demonstrated their ability in the past to attract significant research projects from research councils and also external funding. The research councils will remain the main customers.
The noble Baroness also asked whether they thought that the new research council could attract investment. The laboratories have currently already initiated research work for over 150 companies. I am sure that the noble Baroness would not wish me to read out the names, but, to give a few examples, there is a £10 million investment from Japan and a £19 million investment in the Central Microstructure Facility for research in micro-electronics and micro-engineering, funded by five industrial partners and the DTI. There is also a £5 million contract to design and build the world's largest superconducting solenoid for CERN, with most of the components being made by United Kingdom industry.
The noble Baroness also asked whether the new council would be accountable. I should like to assure her and the House that it will be fully accountable. Like existing research councils, the new council will have to make an annual report to Parliament and publish accounts audited by the National Audit Office. The new chief executive, Dr. Paul Williamsto whom my noble friend referredwill be the designated accounting officer and will be responsible to the permanent secretary of the Office of Public Service and Science. Ministers will be answerable to Parliament.
The noble Baroness was also concerned over whether or not there might be job losses at the laboratories. We do not believe that there will be any direct impact on jobs at the laboratories arising simply from the change of status. Levels of employment will obviously depend upon the ability of the management and staff to attract customers. New arrangements intended to increase the laboratory's competitiveness should have a beneficial impact on employment.
The noble Baroness was also concerned as to whether basic research might be threatened. We neither intend nor envisage that the laboratories will become short-term contract laboratories. They will continue to work mainly for the other research councils, which have the support of basic research as part of their missions. The mission of the new council refers explicitly to its role in providing facilities and expertise to support basic research.
The noble Baroness was anxious about European funding. We expect that the laboratories will be successful in bidding for European funding and it will be in addition to other income from public sources. I also wish to assure her that the change will not interrupt the work of the laboratories.
My noble friend Lord Colwyn was worried about capital and we understand that it is essential to ensure that the CCLRC facilities remain competitive. So do its research council customers. We envisage that they will continue to support the laboratory with the funds necessary to carry out their work. My noble friend Lord Colwyn was also worried about gene therapy. My right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster announced on 2nd February in the debate in another place on the allocation of the science budget that additional funding of some £3.5 million is to be provided for the Medical Research Council to take forward its important work on genome. That underpinning research work should lead to an improved understanding of our genetic make-up and subsequent treatments of the type referred to by the noble Lord.
The Government are working to establish a framework to ensure that we get maximum impact and maximum value from our national strengths in science and engineering. Within that framework, the creation of this new council is an essential part of the research council structure. In my opening remarks I mentioned that the proposed order received cross-party support in the other place and I am very gratified by the support it has also received from your Lordships and in particular my noble friend Lord Selborne.
It is notable that both the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering have welcomed the Government's plans. The Royal Society described Daresbury and Rutherford-Appleton as national assets. They are indeed and I believe that our proposals mean that we will get the best from them. I therefore commend the draft order to the House.
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Diane Goble has a masters degree in community psychology, another in hypnotherapy, and has been a spiritual counselor and author for over 25 years. She had a profound near-death/afterlife experience in 1971 which lead her to step onto her spiritual path. The knowledge she received during her journey beyond the veil is revealed on her web site BeyondtheVeil.net and is now being made available to a wider audience through electronic books. Her mission has been to help others overcome fear of death and realize it is an important milestone along our soul journey and accelerates the evolution of consciousness of humanity. Diane is semi-retired and lives in Sisters, Oregon, USA.
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Over the last four months, 16-year-old Chief Keef has come from almost complete obscurity as a kid on house arrest to being one of Chicago's most buzzed-about artists. Last week, Kanye West announced a remix of Chief Keef's song "I Don't Like" with rappers Pusha T, Big Sean, and Jadakiss, helping to expand Keef's national profile. On Thursday, Chief Keef flew to New York to meet with labels and press outlets. RedEye sat down with him after his trip to get the full scoop on labels, find out how his music has gotten so big and ask how his grades look on his latest report card.


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Noble, Mark D. 2017. "Chocolate and The Consumption of Forests: A Cross-National Examination of Ecologically Unequal Exchange in Cocoa Exports." Journal of World-Systems Research 23(2):236-268.
Austin, Kelly F., Mark D. Noble, and Kellyn McCarthy. 2017. "Conditionality Contaminates Conservation: Structural Adjustment and Land Protection in Less-Developed Nations." International Journal of Social Science Studies 5(5):46-58.
Noble, Mark D. and Kelly F. Austin. 2016. "Rural Disadvantage and Malaria Prevalence in Less-Developed Nations: A Cross-National Investigation of a Forgotten Disease." Rural Sociology 81(1):99-134.
Austin, Kelly F., Mark D. Noble, and Maria Theresa Mejia. 2014. "Gendered Vulnerabilities to a Neglected Disease: A Comparative Investigation of Women's Legal Economic Rights and Social Status on Malaria Rates." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 55(3): 204-228.
Austin, Kelly and Mark D. Noble. 2014. "Measuring Gender Disparity in the HIV Pandemic: A Cross-National Investigation of Female Health Resources, Income Inequality, and Disease in Less-Developed Nations." Sociological Inquiry 8(1): 102-130.
Noble, Mark D. and Kelly F. Austin. 2013. "Gendered Dimensions of the HIV Pandemic: A Cross-National Investigation of Women's International Non-Governmental Organizations, Contraceptive Use, and HIV Prevalence in Less-Developed Nations." Sociological Forum 29(1): 215-239.
Bollen, Kenneth A., Mark D. Noble, and Linda Adair. 2013. "Are Gestational Age, Birth Weight, and Birth Length Indicators of Favorable Fetal Growth Conditions? A Structural Equation Analysis of Filipino Infants." Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 32, 17:2950-2961.
Bollen, Kenneth A. and Mark D. Noble. 2011. "Structural Equation Models and the Quantification of Behavior." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 108, Supplement 3:15639-15646.


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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Fresh thoughts and observations from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's 86-59 loss Saturday at the College of Charleston:
The opening tip
The Mocs laid an egg -- a rotted stinky one left in the fridge two months after the expiration date on the carton.
UTC played its worst game of the season.
A running clock should have followed Adjehi Baru's NBA-quality alley-oop at the 12:09 mark.
The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZkaq7oWyp0
All credit for the video clip goes to the College of Charleston support staff.
All credit for the on-court wood-shedding goes to the Cougars basketball program, from coach Doug Wojcik down to the garbage-time players who worked in practice to help the starters recover from a humbling 62-57 loss to Samford.
Everybody in TD Arena had a feeling this would be a whipping very early in the game. The only hesitation of anybody calling "Sharpie" was the fact Samford came from behind to beat the Cougars on Thursday.
Mocs' chalk talk
No amount of X's-and-O's work would have helped UTC in this game.
The Cougars "hedged" on every ball-screen, which forced the UTC point guards to dribble backward, disrupting the timing of the plays.
The term comes from both the defending guard and defending post player closing in on the guard on a ball-screen. It's a trend I've noticed this year. UTC guards don't like getting "hedged."
Stats STAT!
There were 70 missed shots in the game, and only 31 left the fingertips of Charleston players. Yet they grabbed 46 rebounds compared to just 32 for UTC. That is not part of the Mocs' formula for success.
Stats Stat! II
Coach Wojcik sent 15 players into the game against the Mocs.
It's tough for a college team to have 15 healthy and eligible players to play at this point of the season in a blow-out.
Freshman report
The Mocs' freshmen combined for 28 points.
Gee McGhee had a span when he went to the free-throw line on three straight possessions. He went 3-of-6 on those.
Eric Robertson hit two 3s after officials could have gone with a running clock.
In all, not much to report.
What they take from their first real whipping of the year will be more paramount.
The open floor
Before Saturday, the Mocs were rolling in the right direction -- perhaps not at a high rate of speed -- but they were at least doing the speed limit in the right-hand lane.
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It is hard to believe that we are already in 2016. My guess is that this thought makes some of you like a kid in a candy store as you just say, "bring it on!", and others of you are maybe saying, "Stop the world want to get off!"
Regardless of how you feel, we are here and God gives us another chance to live for Him. Yesterday, at our Sunday service, we spent time reflecting on a single verse to help us keep perspective of the year that lies ahead.
Proverbs 27:1 says, "Don't boast about tomorrow, for you don't know what a day might bring."
Let's first consider what this verse is not saying.
1. It is not saying that we should give up on life.
2. It is not saying that we should not plan – as people who have faith in God, planning is a proper expression of the reality of God's Sovereignty. Proverbs 16:3 says, "Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed."
3. It does not say "Live life as passive fatalists." Many seem adopt that attitude with the attitude of "Whatever happens happens!" I believe this is a call to embrace life! So more than saying give up on life is, make your days count.
Surely the curse of our day is the apathy of the church about eternity. John Piper, in his book Bloodlines says some sobering words about apathy that we would do well to take to heart. He says,
"Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing bad things instead of the aggressive pursuit of doing good things.
"If that were God's intention for the godliness of his people, why would Paul say, "All who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted" (2 Tim. 3:12)? People who stay at home and watch clean videos don't get persecuted. Godliness must mean something more public, more aggressively good.
"In fact, the aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil. "[Christ] gave himself for us . . . to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works" (Titus 2:14). The gospel produces people who are created for good works (Eph. 2:10), and have a reputation for good works (1 Tim. 5:10), and are rich in good works (1 Tim. 6:18), and present a model of good works (Titus 2:7), and devote themselves to good works (Titus 3:8, 14), and stir each other up to good works (Heb. 10:24).
"And when they set about them, the word they hear from God is, "Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord" (Rom. 12:11). The gospel does not make us lazy. It makes us fervent. The Greek for fervent signifies boiling. The gospel opens our eyes to the eternal significance of things. Nothing is merely ordinary anymore."
So then, what is this verse saying to us?
1. Look beyond tomorrow – set your eyes on eternity. The truth is, if tomorrow is the best that you can boast in i.e. your accomplishments, your attainments, your abilities, and your astuteness, then you have nothing to boast in. This is because tomorrow will never be as glorious as eternity with our Father in heaven.
2. Look to the One who has made tomorrow. This verse reminds us that God is the sovereign God and I am not. In actual fact, this verse is a sobering reminder of my frail humanity because I do not even know what tomorrow will bring! But I know who does!
3. Live for the One who gives hope for tomorrow. This is why Paul said in Galatians 6:14, "If I am going to boast, let it be in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ…" I really have nothing else to boast in. It is only in the finished work of Christ on the cross that I find purpose to live. Because of Christ we get to embrace life fully in ways we could never have done on our own.
4. Don't make tomorrow the end of everything. James challenged this when he said, "do not say tomorrow I will do this or that, but rather say, if it is the Lord's will!" Tomorrow doesn't give us our identity, God does!
5. Be ready for surprises. There may be times through the year when things don't turn out as we planned. If God is Sovereign and has given us a new day, then perhaps He has plans for us through the surprises that He gives us – plans that will result in Him being glorified and not us.
Our prayer is that this Scripture will actually lead us to fully embrace life with the purposes of God in our lives. Oh to be a people who have positioned ourselves to embrace the future with the goal of glorifying Jesus in everything, a people declaring, "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come and Your will be done!", as a people who are not ashamed and not afraid because we know the promise of Jesus, "I will be with you always to the very end of the age."


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At the Oscars on Sunday night,
Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette used her moment in the spotlight to speak out on the issue of
gender inequity. "It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and
equal rights for women in the United States of America!" she said. Though she was not speaking directly
about wage equality and equal
rights for women directors of film and television, Ms. Arquette's points
are as applicable to the entertainment industry itself as they are to broader
American labor issues.
Much has been written
about the gender gap regarding women helmers in Hollywood, but little has been
offered in the way of solutions. Part of the problem is that the system is indeed rigged
against women filmmakers, since default hiring practices rely on looking at
qualifications from a very specific and antiquated point of view: "Who is her
agent?" and "What was her last job?" Women are predisposed to fail by these
criteria — they are often unrepresented and lack the resume employers are
seeking. These traditional questions, which aim to establish proof of talent,
in truth do little more than validate the fact that others have already vetted
that director.
If fresh voices and talents
are ever to fill the employment pipeline in equal numbers, the questions asked
by employers must change. Executives must develop their own evaluative criteria and instincts instead of following the pack. Over the years,
development executives have become sophisticated in the language of the writer. It's time for studios and networks to trust their executives to evaluate potential
directors with more than a pre-ordained stamp of approval.
Some substantiating facts:
1) Very few female film and
TV directors have representation. Most
women directors, even the 1,200 DGA members with myriad professional credits,
simply do not have a proxy to advocate for them.
2) Defining prior
experience through a traditional lens shuts women out. Women filmmakers will
take any job they can get in order to learn and grow: public-service
announcements, music videos, webisodes. These jobs may not have hot stars or
big box-office results, but it's a credit to their passion that they'll take on any kind of work they can in order to exercise their skills. The
experience of accomplished assistant directors and script supervisors who have
supported decades of other directors' work also warrants attention. These women
know the job, but have never been given an opportunity. Their experience on the
set should count.
We are accustomed to
thinking of a good director as an "auteur," a filmmaker with a strong, distinctive style and practice. This is also often the core factor in hiring a
director. Yet an essential ingredient
in developing any artist's unique voice is practice, and practice requires
opportunity. But opportunities are scarce for women. In fact, women directed only
4% of our industry's studio films in 2014. Without the opportunity for
practice, the "auteur" theory rules out the vast majority of female filmmakers.
If the status quo is ever
to change, the entertainment industry must desire
change. Complacency has left our statistics at embarrassing levels, lower than
most other American industries. Isn't Hollywood supposed to be a liberal and
progressive environment?
Two specific shifts need to
occur in the hiring evaluation process in order for gender equity to occur. The
first is as simple as engaging in deep conversation with the potential
director. Does she have a vision for the project? Does she bring a unique and
well-formulated approach to the job? Do you leave the meeting with a strong
sense of her ability to lead a set? Was she inspiring? Does she have a strong
sense of the visual world, of performance, of story?
While conversation is
certainly not a foolproof method of evaluation, if more women were simply
brought in for discussion, hiring would improve. The Rooney Rule is a fine
example of this in action. When the NFL mandated that more minority coaches be interviewed, lo and behold, more African-American coaches were
hired! It's as simple as that.
The second essential change
is reel evaluation. Those with the responsibility to hire must take a serious
look at any reel a director has available and evaluate it for what it is, not for what it might be lacking. It
doesn't matter if her credits are older — talent doesn't dry up, only opportunities
do. Perhaps that director spent a few years having children, or writing novels,
or sailing around the world. Does that make her a weaker director? Doesn't that
make her a stronger director?
It also shouldn't matter if her reel is comprised
of commercials, corporate videos, or television episodes in another language. Talent
and skill can be evidenced in so many ways. It is the responsibility of the
executives in charge to ask themselves, "Does this director demonstrate a level
of competence and artistry?" If the answer is "yes," then that director
deserves further investigation.
A common hiring trap for
television directors in consideration for features is the expectation of pilot
credits as proof of being able to lead a vision. Episodic television credits
are often discounted because the perception is that the director was hired to execute an established style and therefore might not be able to create an
original vision from her own imagination.
But toiling in series television is
also perhaps the best training for professionalism, efficiency, and thinking on
one's feet. It's also a world that is more open to women and should be viewed
as the perfect pipeline for feature filmmakers. Just look at the 2015 DGA wins: four
out of ten categories were won by women! Give women opportunities, and they will
excel. Working in series television as a journeywoman director, learning and
adapting to different techniques, styles, personalities, and politics doesn't diminish one's ability to create a
distinctive voice. It prepares a director for the time when she will be given
her shot to create the world as she sees it.
If you are optimistic about
diversity, shadowing, and mentoring programs generating statistical change, think
again. The vast majority of these programs, including those created inside the
DGA itself, consider gender part of a larger diversity pool. But women make up
52% of the population. We are not a minority, and we represent every ethnicity
and sexual orientation under the sun.
If you're an agent,
financier, actor, technician, or an executive at a studio or network, if you
are anyone in the position to hire directors or support the careers of women
directors – and you care about the role of women in our society and the voices
of women being elevated and heard in media – it is your ethical and moral imperative to
change the way you evaluate and hire. Stop relying on lists created by others. Talk
to women directors, look at their work, and then — if you see talent — push for
them. That's all it takes.
Rachel Feldman is in development to direct "Ledbetter," about fair-pay activist Lilly Ledbetter, produced by Burton Ritchie and Academy Award-winning
producer Cathy Schulman. "Ledbetter," co-written with Adam Prince, was a 2014
winner of The Athena List. Rachel directs movies and episodic television and
was a recent Chair of the Directors Guild of America Women's Steering
Nora Tillmanns is a third-year law student at the University of
California, Los Angeles. She will be joining Jones Day as an associate in the fall
of 2015. She is Rachel's daughter.
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