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This walkthrough shows the basic setup steps and workflow for the Batterystats tool and the Battery Historian script. To learn how to use Battery Historian to inspect battery-consumption patterns, read Analyze power use with Battery Historian.
Batterystats is a tool included in the Android framework that collects battery data on your device. You can use adb to dump the collected battery data to your development machine and create a report you can analyze using Battery Historian. Battery Historian converts the report from Batterystats into an HTML visualization that you can view in your browser.
What it's good for:
- Showing you where and how processes are drawing current from the battery.
- Identifying tasks in your app that could be deferred or even removed to improve battery life.
Install Battery Historian
The easiest way to install Battery Historian is to use Docker. For alternate installation methods, including building from source, see the Read Me on the project's GitHub page. To install using Docker, do the following:
Install Docker Community Edition following the instructions on the Docker website.
To confirm that Docker is correctly installed, open the command line and enter the following command:
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Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally latest: Pulling from library/hello-world 78445dd45222: Pull complete Digest: sha256:c5515758d4c5e1e838e9cd307f6c6a0d620b5e07e6f927b07d05f6d12a1ac8d7 Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest Hello from Docker! This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly. To generate this message, Docker took the following steps: 1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon. 2. The Docker daemon pulled the "hello-world" image from the Docker Hub. 3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image which runs the executable that produces the output you are currently reading. 4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it to your terminal
Run the Battery Historian image using the following command:
docker run -p port_number:9999 gcr.io/android-battery-historian/stable:3.0 --port 9999
Battery Historian will use the port of your choice, as specified using
Navigate to Battery Historian in your browser to confirm that it is running. The address varies depending on your operating system:
- For Linux and Mac
- Battery Historian is available at
- For Windows
- Once you start Docker, it tells you the IP address of the machine it is
using. So, for example, if the IP address is 123.456.78.90, Battery
Historian is available at
Figure 1. The start page for Battery Historian
Gather data with Batterystats
To collect data from your device using Batterystats and open it in Battery Historian, do the following:
Connect your mobile device to your computer.
From a Terminal window, shut down your running adb server.
adb kill-server
Restart adb and check for connected devices.
adb devices
You should see your device listed, similar to the example output below.
Figure 2. The output of
adb devices, showing one connected device
If you don't see any devices, make sure your phone is connected, and USB Debugging is turned on, and then kill and restart adb.
Reset battery data gathering.
adb shell dumpsys batterystats --reset
The device is always collecting batterystats and other debugging information in the background. Resetting erases old battery collection data. If you do not reset, the output will be huge.
Disconnect your device from your computer so that you are only drawing current from the device's battery.
Play with your app and perform actions for which you would like data; for example, disconnect from WiFi and send data to the cloud.
Reconnect your phone.
Make sure your phone is recognized:
adb devices
Dump all battery data. This can take a while:
adb shell dumpsys batterystats > [path/]batterystats.txt
batterystats.txtfile is created in the directory you specify using the optional path argument. If you do not specify a path, the file is created in your home directory.
Create a report from raw data.
- For devices running Android 7.0 and higher:
adb bugreport [path/]bugreport.zip
- For devices running Android 6.0 and lower:
adb bugreport [path/]bugreport.txt
Bugreport may take several minutes to complete. Do not disconnect your device or cancel the process until it is complete.
As with
batterystats.txtabove, these files are created in the directory you specify using the optional
pathargument. If you do not specify a path, they are created in your home directory.
If it's not already running, run Battery Historian using the following command:
docker run -p port_number:9999 gcr.io/android-battery-historian/stable:3.0 --port 9999
To view your data in Battery Historian, open the Battery Historian in your browser. (For Mac and Linux, Battery Historian runs at
http://localhost:port_number. For Windows, Battery Historian runs at
Click Browse and then choose the bugreport file you created above.
Click Submit. Battery Historian will open a chart created from your batterystats data.
View data with Battery Historian charts
The Battery Historian chart graphs power-relevant events over time.
Each row shows a colored bar segment when a system component is active and thus drawing current from the battery. The chart does not show how much battery was used by the component, only that the app was active. Charts are organized by category, showing a bar for each category over time, as displayed on the X-axis of the chart.
- Add additional metrics from the dropdown list.
- Hover over the information icons to see more information about each metric, including a key for the colors used in the chart.
- Hover over a bar to see more detailed information about that metric and the battery stats at a specific point on the timeline.
Additional batterystats output
You can view additional information from the
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The 1 System Stats tab includes system-wide statistics, such as cell signal levels and screen brightness. This information provides an overall picture of what's happening with the device. This is especially useful to make sure no external events are affecting your test.
The 2 App Stats tab includes information about specific apps. Sort the list of apps using the 3 Sort apps by dropdown list in the App Selection pane on the left. You can select a specific app to view stats for using the 4 apps dropdown list below.


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A post on Death Valley's official Facebook page read, "An employee's posting of frying an egg in a pan in Death Valley was intended to demonstrate how hot it can get here. … However, the Death Valley NP maintenance crew has been busy cleaning up eggs cracked directly on the sidewalk"
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While that number includes both college-educated and other young adults, it's a discouraging figure for professors and students alike. We owe it to our students to give them the best opportunity to start their careers on solid ground. From my perch at a liberal-arts-oriented institution, it seems clear that our liberal-arts and social-science majors are missing out on something vital to their futures: Business 101.
I'm not suggesting that we prepare English and sociology majors to become hedge-fund managers or corporate raiders. We rightfully place a high value on the best components of a traditional liberal-arts education—interdisciplinary coursework, an emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving, and shaping students into socially aware citizens committed to the common good.
I'm proud of that mission and of how our students embrace that philosophy. And yet it's not enough. All students should graduate with a basic understanding of business principles as well. It should be part of the curriculum, akin to "Introduction to Sociology" or "Kant and 19th-Century Philosophy."
My mass-communications students, who are headed for careers as television producers, advertising designers, and public-relations professionals, should at least know what happens when expenses rise faster than revenues, or how supply and demand dictate the pricing of the products and services they'll buy. Students who major in psychology, sociology, political science, history, music, or theater should know how and why interest rates affect what they pay on their credit cards or their ability, one day, to buy a house.
When I talk with employers representing public-relations firms, advertising agencies, and media companies, they increasingly indicate that they need graduates with basic business sense. Most liberal-arts majors will end up working for and with business people and organizations concerned with at least breaking even at the end of the day. Steve Jobs was a creative genius, but he also cared about sales.
Unfortunately, there are several roadblocks for a liberal-arts major trying to get more classroom exposure to business basics. Classes in business schools often fill up quickly, with priority given to business majors. And prerequisites often block students from taking electives in a business school. It takes courage for most liberal-arts majors to enroll in a business class; the last thing they need is to find out that the class is full, or that they don't meet a prerequisite. They feel defeated before they begin.
Even the classes they could take aren't ideal. Liberal-arts majors may find that the texts used in a marketing or finance class are too in-depth and don't employ examples relevant to their fields of study. My students don't need to know about mortgage-backed securities or what Ben Bernanke ate for breakfast.
We need new classes tailored to areas of the liberal arts: say, "Business Basics for the Social Sciences." This would be similar to the approach taken in other disciplines, where new courses, like "Statistics for the Social Sciences," have been designed for the needs of liberal-arts majors. Some colleges are already moving in this direction. Marquette University offers a "Business Foundations" class for students in its college of communication.
Many of my students show up with a fear of numbers. I demystify the math for them and show them that they don't need to be math whizzes to get the core ideas. My goal is not to turn my students into the next Warren Buffett or Meg Whitman, but to give them every tool possible to succeed upon graduation—and not go broke.
Every time I see or hear the nation's monthly unemployment report, I think of my students at this urban Midwestern institution. Many are first-generation college students working one or two part-time jobs on top of their full-time course load. They're hard-working kids. Hardly a week goes by that I don't read another story about the crushing student-loan debt that many of them juggle, even as tuition continues to climb. It's enough to make me feel that I'm not doing enough as a professor to prepare them for life out in the wild.
According to Gallup, the economy remains the No. 1 issue in the country, followed by the lack of jobs. Chances are, those issues will top the list for a while. Whether today's students aspire to work for a small start-up, a multinational corporation, a nongovernmental organization, or even a university, employers want graduates who have had at least some exposure to why budgets matter—including, of course, their own.
Matt Ragas is an assistant professor of public relations in the College of Communication at DePaul University. This article originally appeared in the current edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.


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James and Jas of Simian Mobile Disco, though quite different in personality, are both modest fellows. In conversation each of them, more than once, puts the success of SMD down to sheer luck – however, this is not really true. Yes, they were in the right place at the right time in some senses, but it takes an awful lot more than that to bring an album as sonically glorious and ambitious as Unpatterns to as broad an audience as they are managing to reach. And as you get deeper into the details of their career to date, it becomes very clear how much tenacity, scholarship, imagination and sheer love for what they do, as well as good fortune, has got them to where they are today.
Most of all, their success has been based on learning as they go. And they've had plenty of things to learn from since they were thrown into the deep end of the industry when Simian, the band they formed with Simon Lord and Alex McNaughten at Manchester University, was signed to a subsidiary of a major label in 2000. It was an unlikely start, given that they were in James's words "a kind of prog-psychedelic thing partially named after the Silver Apples' drum synth", or as Jas puts it "trying to show you could make band music with songs and harmonies but be into Autechre too, just at the moment the world was into the Strokes and White Stripes and straight-ahead rock music."
In fact Simian's music was gorgeous, with a rich pop streak – but as the descriptions suggest, its overtly baroque structures were way out of tune with the time. With the arrogance of youth, the four of them convinced themselves that big things were theirs for the taking, but though their two albums were exceedingly well received in many quarters, global domination evaded them; the combination of thwarted ambition and four very different creative personas led to friction and the band split before completing their third album.
Meanwhile, though, the Simian Mobile Disco project had started to take a vague kind of shape. Originally simply a name under which band members would DJ – in order to, says Jas, "satisfy our urges to do something more freeform, as touring locked us into playing the same songs again and again in the same way." The name, increasingly just referring to James and Jas, was then used for the band's own remix of themselves, then for remixes of others, and as Simian came to an end became the duo's main creative outlet as they made more and more electronic tracks for their own DJ sets.
It's at this point, around 2004-5, that you might say the right-place-right-time factor kicked in: the two were focusing entirely on genre-hopping electronic music when very few others were, inadvertently putting themselves in a perfect position for the huge resurgence of dance music with substance that would take place in the second half of the decade. They both suggest an element of mucking about to what they were doing: "We were just making strange sounds for the sake of it," says James, while Jas describes endless DJ gigs "playing the opposite of what suited the venue, including completely clearing Room 2 of Fabric the first time we were asked there." But again there's more to it. The fact that they kept on keeping on, playing gigs, making tracks weekly and honing their craft suggests and intense focus that maybe they didn't even know they had themselves.
Certainly they were surprised when, after a couple of releases and remixes, making a connection with Wichita Recordings led to the possibility of an album – and they realised they had at least two full CDs' worth of viable tracks. Attack Decay Sustain Release emerged in 2007, riding a wave of attention following the success of the "Hustler" single first released on the fledgling Kitsuné label, and Justice's inescapable remix of Simian's "We Are Your Friends". This latter never had anything to do with SMD directly, and they have done their best to dissociate themselves from it bar the occasional mischievous dropping of the intro in a DJ set, but there's no denying the boost it gave the Simian Mobile Disco name, with ADSR consolidating that masterfully.
Never ones to fit in unnecessarily, however, Jas and James made damned sure they didn't just take this success and run with it. Associated with "the electro thing" along with the likes of DFA Recordings, Ed Banger and Erol Alkan, they deliberately shied away from the noisiness and rockism of that scene, always keen to achieve something much deeper and more cosmic in line with their love of a long line of strange electronic music running through 90s techno and back to avant-garde experimenters of the more distant past. However, though they had developed close relationships with Bugged Out and (despite their initial awkwardness) Fabric, they never became part of the minimal techno scene that was sweeping Europe either.
They also reached out to other artists well beyond the club world, through both of their work as producers for bands, through increasingly great live shows and through generally being quite sociable – as with one Beth Ditto, who James says "we met at Glastonbury and had a generally really great time with!" So, where ADSR had had a couple of guest vocals, its follow up Temporary Pleasure was veritably star spangled. Ditto features prominently, as well as Gruff Rhys, Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, Yeasayer's Chris Keating and more. The results are sometimes as stellar as the lineup, with "Cruel Intentions" in particular being a deserved underground hit, but both Jas and James have reservations: both admit they were acting too much like producers, letting the singers and songs take precedence rather than "the SMD sound". It was this they reacted against with Delicacies, a record label (and subsequent compilation album) of straight ahead techno tracks purely designed for their own DJ sets; but even the hedonistic blast of these tracks still felt constrained by techno's own rulesets.
Which brings us to Unpatterns, an album which more than ever shows just how unwilling Jas and James are to rest on their laurels. In the place of big name guests and ventures into booty-bass, all the voices are abstracted, spaced out, woven into the fabric of the synthetic sound. So broken hearted robots croon in "I Waited For You", a cyborg Chicago house singer implores us to "Put Your Hands Together", and alien choirs raise their voices in the ambient "Fourteenth Principles." It's a monstrous record with none of the poppiness of ADSR, the multiple voices of Temporary Pleasure nor the orthodox dance dynamics of Delicacies: instead it's the sound of SMD breaking away from any standard structures and going deep into exploring the possibilities of their their studio equipment and selection of vintage synthesizers. The effusive, slightly professorial Jas talks happily of "spending months getting our heads round some of this kit", while the rather more laconic James laughs as he says it was a process of "twisting knobs until we got something we liked."
Either way, the sound is entirely confident, and brings together all their influences in the pursuit of pure sonic pleasure. In a weird way it brings back the "prog-psychedelic" feel of those very first Simian songs, though with all the knowledge of the dancefloor they've gained in the SMD years. And the effect of that is quite uncanny: it completely sidesteps questions of retro and futurism to create a sonic temporal zone all of its own, where the place where relatively primitive electronic sounds stop and the mind-boggling degree of control offered by digital signal processing starts is impossible to locate. And thus synthetic noises that might echo a Tomita or Suicide record from decades back are reinvigorated in a perfect demonstration of electronic music's power of recreation. The title of one track – "Everyday" – says it all: this is about renewal as a routine part of music making.
It's a record full of love, dedication, hard-earned experience, obvious understanding of decades of electronic music from across scenes and styles, and huge fun. It's completely of the now, showing a band as familiar with Blawan and Lone as they are with Silver Apples and Phuture, but never jumping on bandwagons; as Jas puts it "why would we want to try and imitate a Hessle Audio record when they do it perfectly already? Why make a Lindstrom record when you can't be better than Lindstrom?" It's just this sort of deliberate refusal to imitate or latch on to any one sound, along with a whole lot of passion and hard work, that's given SMD the longevity and fruitfulness they've achieved. So if you ever hear them suggest they just lucked out, don't believe a WORD of it.


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A year after acquiring Virgin Mega, Nike is revealing some of the early results of its experiments with augmented reality and community-building.
Virgin Mega was a startup backed by Richard Branson's Virgin Group that focused on fan communities and shopping. Ron Faris, who led the startup, told me that Nike acquired Virgin Mega in order to explore those same ideas.
Since then, the team has turned into a "digital studio" called s23NYC. Faris said it still has a "startup culture," with a small team of 24 startup veterans working out of the old Converse offices on 23rd Street in New York City.
s23NYC has taken over Nike's SNKRS app, which offers insider access to and content around the latest sneakers. Faris, who is now the general managers of SNKRS and s23NYC, said he treats the app as "our digital piranha tank."
"This is like our lab," he said. "We drop something in the piranha tank and see how fast the piranhas swarm around it."
For example, after Penny Hardaway took a sharpie to his sneakers so that they met NBA rules, the SNKRS app launched a stealthy promotion where users could unlock Royal Foamposite shoes by swiping over the screen to color in a digital photo — Nike describes it as "scratch-off cards for the digital age."
SNKRS has also run geotargeted Stash campaigns, where users can purchase limited edition sneakers from the app — but only after they've traveled to a certain location in their city, whether it's Washington Square Park in New York or pop-up flower stands in Los Angeles.
And the team ran a promotion with Momofuku's David Chang, where users had to capture an image of Chang's Fuku East Village menu in the SNKRS AR Camera, which would bring up a 3D model of the Nike SB Dunk High Pro Momofuku and unlock the ability to purchase the sneakers.
Faris said these promotions are linked by a focus on scarcity and urgency, combined with the idea of giving sneakerheads the opportunity to "peacock" their knowledge. In other words, the most in-the-know fans can snag their own sneakers, then get bragging rights by sharing that knowledge with others. For example, Faris said users were posting photos of the Fuku menu on Instagram, and they'd hang out at a Stash location to help others unlock the promotion.
Faris added that one of the goals is to use technology to capture "only the good of lines, which is the tailgate, while avoiding the bad, which is where you feel like you're at the DMV." So even when users are directed to a certain geofenced area, there's no actual line to pick up the physical shoes. That means it's less of a cutthroat competition, and it doesn't come with any tedious waiting.
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I would love to win this giveaway-- I want to Win My Year of gifts in blog giveaways so that I can take a vacation with Hubby with the gift fund that we are contributing to each month...I want to try out new recipes with my food blog and for Getting all my Ducks in a Row -- which I started so that I could participate more in the blogosphere -- I want to get more organized so that I don't get so overwhelmed and backed up with reviews/giveaway's...Not to much to ask right?ReplyDelete
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(do i need to choose one subject and stick to it? can i write about art AND life AND photography AND creativity? does having such an ecclectic subject range drive readers away?)
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My goal for this year is to keep it simple and not over commit. Which might be a tad hard but that's why it's a goal right!
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Instead of two wings, the first birds might have used four feathered limbs to stay aloft, according to research published today in Science.
Birdlike dinosaurs, such as Microraptor and Sinornithosaurus, are known to have had long, sturdy feathers on their hindlimbs. But until now, researchers were not sure whether the earliest birds had already abandoned this extra plumage when they emerged to take to the Cretaceous skies over 100 million years ago.
The researchers, led by Xing Xu, a paleontologist at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology in Shandong, China, found evidence of feathers on the hindlimbs of 11 basal bird specimens (gathered from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group in China). On some of the individuals, these feathers appeared to be veined flight feathers that stood perpendicular to the leg bones, similar to those in the basal bird Archaeopteryx.
One specimen, attributed to the Sapeornis genus, had at least one hindlimb feather longer than 50 millimeters. Feathers on the feet were shorter, but were still more than 30 millimeters long.
"It is amazing that so many early birds had large leg feathers," Xu says. The first winged dinosaurs were discovered just 10 years ago, he notes. These findings "are important for both flight origin and feather evolution".
These fossil traces, however, do not indicate how these ancient animals used their rear set of feathers — whether for gliding assistance, steering or both. And this small sampling does not prove that four wings was the rule for all early birds, says Mark Norell a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. "Flight is many things to many people," he notes. "The origin of flight is not going to come from just one discovery."
Since the era of these early four-winged fowl, scales have replaced most feathers on modern birds' legs. But with a few genetic changes, these coverings can turn back into feathers, such as in Silkie chickens, which have feathered feet. One specimen from the latest study, belonging to the genus Yanornis, already had some scales below its feathered parts. And modern fowl have not lost all their rear plumage, which is now downier and used for warmth.
Downsizing from four wings might have helped early birds out by allowing the hindlimbs to become dedicated legs that could help them get around better on the ground, the researchers suggest. And as exciting as the discovery of hind-leg flight feathers might be, says Norell, other clues are needed to really understand the locomotion of birds. "What would really be a smoking gun is if they found footprints."
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Hiding in the recesses of a dead star is an ultra-strong magnetic field bursting from its surface in the form of X-rays, astronomers report.
The surprising nature of the object SGR 0418+5729 was revealed after three years of observations by several telescopes that initially showed a weak magnetic field there.
Uncovering the "magnetic monster," as European Space Agency officials described the star in a statement, required a new analytical technique. If confirmed, the find could rewrite scientists' understanding of how magnetic fields form and are amplified in other neutron stars, which are the leftovers from star explosions. [The Top 10 Star Mysteries Ever]
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SGR 0418, as the neutron star is known in its short form, is the core of a huge star that used up all of its fuel and exploded as a supernova. Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoon full of material would weigh about 10 million tons, scientists say.
Some neutron stars (such as SGR 0418) are also magnetars, so called because they have immense magnetic fields. But when SGR 0418 was first discovered in June 2009, scientists believed the object actually had one of the weakest magnetic fields ever detected: 100 times lower than the usual magnetar.
"Understanding these results was a challenge," lead researcher Andrea Tiengo, an astronomer at the University Institute of Advanced Studies in Italy (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori), said in a statement. "However, we suspected that SGR 0418 was in fact hiding a much stronger magnetic field, out of reach of our usual analytical techniques."
Tiengo's team thus applied a new method to measure the object's magnetic field. The traditional way with magnetars, which rotate every few seconds, is to look at how much a star's spin rate declines over time. But in this case the researchers instead examined variations in SGR 0418's X-ray emissions during its nine-second rotation. Scientists then noticed SGR 0418's X-ray brightness falling off suddenly at one spot in its rotation, which they took to mean that something is absorbing the X-rays.
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The new observations suggest that in small regions of SGR 0418 — which could be only a few hundred feet across — X-rays are being absorbed by protons covering the surface. These positively charged particles are trapped in a small area because of a strong magnetic zone beneath the magnetar's surface.
If the magnetic field is twisted, as the researchers believe it is, it could behave similarly to strong magnetic regions on Earth's sun. In the sun's case, these regions produce flares. On SGR 0418, a pulse of X-rays would occur when the magnetic field builds up below, then temporarily breaches the surface when the pressure reaches a certain point.
"This magnetar has a strong magnetic field inside it, but it is hidden beneath the surface," said Silvia Zane, a co-author of the study and a reader at University College London's space science laboratory. "The only way you can detect that is to find a flaw on the surface, where the concealed magnetic field can leak out."
The study was based on observations with the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope. The results were published in the Aug. 14 edition of the journal Nature.
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As the grassroots sit-ins and marches that originated as Occupy Wall Street spread to other cities, Van Jones, lead evangelist for the American Dream movement, took the stage Monday at a Washington, DC hotel where organizers of the institutional element of the progressive movement converged at Take Back the American Dream. The gathering was organized by the Campaign for America's Future in partnership with Jones' new organization, Rebuild the Dream. Jones voiced his support for the spontaneous Wall Street uprising, and for the U.S. Marines who agreed, he said, to protect the protesters while wearing dress blues.
Jones said that after he left the White House, where he served as a green jobs adviser to President Barack Obama, he occupied his time studying how the Tea Party movement came into existence and marshaled its power. Jones had been a target of Tea Party ire, stoked by Glenn Beck on his Fox News Channel platform, back when Beck served as the de facto community organizer for media baron Rupert Murdoch, before Beck fell out of the mogul's favor.
Jones explained the Tea Party's "leaderless" model to the activists with a PowerPoint showing how the instigators of the Tea Party movement — leaders of groups such as FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity — didn't so much create a top-down organization as they did a network that fostered the development of local Tea Party organizations by local activists, who then took ownership of their own corners of the movement. "The Tea Party is an open-source brand," Jones explained, "that 3,528 affiliates use; none of them own it." For all their talk of rugged individualism, Jones said, the forces behind the Tea Party "have enacted the most collectivist strategy for taking power in the history of the republic."
Jones also demonstrated, with modeling schematics, how progressives had initially, during the 2008 presidential campaign, centered their movement more around a person — Obama — than their own issues. In no small part, Jones implied, progressives were drawn to the Obama campaign's branding, with its iconic "O" logo onto which people projected their own aspirations and beliefs.
"It has been a tough couple of years," Jones told his audience. "We went from hope to heartbreak in about a minute…We have the wrong theory of the presidency."
As for the rise of the right, Jones said, "I'm not mad at the Tea Party. I'm not mad at them for being so loud. I'm mad at us for having been so quiet the past two years."
With Monday's speech, Jones set out to sell the idea of a more diffuse and locally directed progressive movement to a gathering of progressives who are more used to being part of organizing campaigns launched from organization or union headquarters. What Jones is offering instead, though his Rebuild the Dream hub (launched in partnership with MoveOn.org), is an open-source brand for the left, complete with a logo in the form of a red "A" (for "American Dream") with a white star at its center, underlined by a blue stripe. It's a graphic turn on the American flag, part of Jones' call to the left to reclaim the mantle of patriotism.
Rebuild the Dream has already facilitated some 1,600 house meetings of like-minded people who aim to build a grassroots movement on a par with the Tea Party. Rebuild the Dream has also issued a "Contract For the American Dream," built on the model of past right-wing contracts, which politicians are being asked to sign in order to signify their willingness to support movement goals in their political and legislative work.
Today, the more institutional wing of the left will be represented among the less-affiliated protesters of Occupy Wall Street, as union members, artists, hactivists and students join in the mass expression of outrage at the impunity with which big banks and traders have turned the economy against everyday Amercans for the benefit of the 1 percent of Americans who own 42 percent of the nation's wealth. A number of New York union locals are marching in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street from City Hall to Zuccotti Park, the protesters' base camp.
Van Jones sat down yesterday with AlterNet executive editor Don Hazen and Washington bureau chief Adele Stan to share his hopes for the rebirth of a liberal people's movement.
AlterNet: When you talk about Rebuilding the Dream being a resource hub for progressives, how do you envision that?
Van Jones: We want to be a support center like FreedomWorks is a support center [for the Tea Party]. Everybody focuses on the money from the Koch brothers; they focus on Fox News TV. But they don't focus so much on infrastructure, and the relationship between the institutions. So we've tried to focus in on that.
AlterNet: One of the things FreedomWorks did was to create the Tea Party Patriots, which is a network, as you noted in your speech. One of the things Tea Party Patriots did was to create its own social media infrastructure. Progressives tend to use Twitter and Facebook, which means our calls to action are out there on public platforms. Is that just who we are, or do you foresee building an American Dream movement social-media network, just as Tea Party Patriots did for their people? They build communities that way — communities that are locally and regionally based, but which are then tied to the national Tea Party Patriots network, which is in turn tied to FreedomWorks. But they also bring in new people who may not have been politically active before, because there's a level of the social media network that's local. One of the reasons some people are saying that Occupy Wall Street is more like the Tea Party than the folks at this conference is that nobody is directly affiliated with a top-down, long established organization.
Van Jones: People can take too literally the [Tea Party comparison] — like what is the one effort that is going to be the [progressive version of] the Tea Party. Then people can start having a tug of war over it. But, really, I don't think of it like that. I think we're going into a real period of serious experimentation and innovation, and even improvisation — certainly through the [2012 presidential] election, and probably a couple of years beyond as a couple of things happen. One, as the economic crisis gets worse — it ain't gonna get better — the formal economy is going to continue to contract. That means you're going to have a lot of people suffering due to the economy. That's going to create a need for a response. What are we going to do? How can we address the ways in which people are hurting — immediate needs? That's going to be a driver of innovation, the economic crisis. People have to eat. People have to live indoors. People aren't going to just lay down and die because Wall Street wants to hold up the economic recovery.
But the other driver will be the other process — which is a global phenomenon — of the business model for social change changing, moving away from the hierarchical and more toward the horizontal. And you'll see different efforts that reflect different aspects of that. Getting all these grassroots leaders to align ourselves differently as we begin to function differently, more in partnership, and also a lot more open-source efforts.
For example, November 17 is going to be a major protest date. And we're just letting people take that and run with it. There's no central group people are going to do this. We're just throwing the date out there — November 17th, "Jobs Not Cuts." That's different from the kinds of coalitional tables that have been set up before where [groups] try to dictate exactly the messaging, exactly this and exactly that. So you're seeing urgency because of the economic crisis, and the opportunity to do things differently, because of the technology, to create all kinds of new forums. And so it could be, in some ways, Occupy Wall Street will reflect some of the success model from the Tea Party. We're talking about the Tea Party because that's what gets the attention. But we're also studying the Arab Spring.
There's a way that we, as Westerners look at things: What is the one right answer? Is it the American Dream Movement, or is it Occupy Wall Street? Which is it? When, actually, we're just glad that the volcano is starting to erupt. We just want to fight. And there are some pre-existing grassroots assets that need to be re-aligned or redeployed; we're trying to do that here. Then there's all this new energy out there. And what you're going to see happening is that new explosion of energy will capture and inspire some existing stuff; some of these new organizations that are started will capture and inspire some new stuff, and you'll see all kinds of interpenetrations and that kind of thing.
AlterNet: So, you as a brand may still say, we're going to build our own social networking infrastructure.
VJ: We're going to continue to innovate and improvise, and nothing would make us happier than for this to result in something that's incredibly useful, and for other things to show up that create incredible utility. There's not going to be one thing that progressives do to fix this; we're going to be in a period of improvisation. Now people are going are, rightly, using your work — Dangerous Brew and other stuff — to get insight and a window into the Tea Party phenomenon, but there are other things.
AlterNet: So, you're saying, that even structurally you're not looking to mirror that movement.
VJ: Not primarily. We wanted to see that if we went through the steps they went through, with their Contract from America, with the house meetings, could we do it? You know, they had 800 house meetings; we had 1,597 — almost double.
AlterNet: And are those people going to meet again to build the grassroots?
VJ: Yes. Look at the three things we're committed to coming out of here. One, November 17th — that's a big deal. That's going to be all over the country. So, if you look from September 17th, when the young people took over Wall Street, to November 17th. That's the American Autumn. You had the Arab Spring; that's the American Autumn…That process is ongoing, on the theme, Jobs, Not Cuts. Now, the difference is, there's not all kinds of coalitions zipping around, trying to dictate all the signs and messaging. We're inviting all kinds of people, individuals as well as organizations, to jump on board.
Number two — we're saying protests must lead to participation. We had those house meetings — we had, I think, 31,000 people, online and in person. We're going to be launching a new online platform…where people will be able to continue that effort. We're also going to be developing teach-ins, because one of the things we learned from all those house meetings was that there's a need for some experience. Because if you go to [a house meeting] that's great, that's great. But if you go to one that's not so great, it's not so great. So if you have a teach-in, there's a way to get the best of all possible worlds. You get a lot of people together, you have some videos or a some main speakers — we're going to try that out.
AlterNet: So you start a national conversation and get people talking.
VJ: We're going to try to get a million leaders in America online and talking with each other. And that's going to be a major piece.
And then there's a third piece, and it's new — and it seems to have escaped people's notice — and that's that we've said we're going to run 2012 people for office in 2012. Now, that's a big deal.
AlterNet: That's a lot of people.
VJ: And the reason we're able to do is not because Mike (Lux) have 2,000 people in their back pockets. It's because we have groups like Progressive Majority and the New Organizing Institute.
AlterNet: Then you're talking about local folks, too — people running for school board and town council.
VJ: Everybody, up and down. We're talking about U.S. senators who want to run as American Dream candidates — soon to be announced. We've reached out to the House Democratic Caucus; there are House members who want to run as American Dream candidates. One of the things that's been missing is, you have Tea Party Republicans: you may not like the product, but you know what the product is. Right now, you say Democrat, and you don't know if you're getting Larry Summers or Dennis Kucinich. So you can imagine at some point that there will be American Dream Democrats — or American Dream Republicans, if they want to act right, or even American Dream independents. They just have to agree with our Contract For the American Dream — those 10 things (the contract contains "10 Critical Steps to Get Our Economy Back on Track"), and including the preamble that says "liberty and justice for all," not for some, but for all. So you've got more corners where you can have a lot of activity happening.
Look, the Occupy Wall Street stuff is a huge, big deal; this is a huge, big deal; there will be other huge, big deals. There is a big thaw happening. People have gone through their grieving process, and people want to fight. Look, if the economy gets worse, there may be a whole section of Latinos that jump off [and into the movement] — people nobody expected, because of the horrible things that are being dropped on Latino communities in the Southeast and Southwest.
I just want to say one last thing, and this is important. A lot of the people in the leadership of the American Dream Movement just love Occupy Wall Street. We're in awe of them and we want them to do well. And what we're struggling with is how do we support it without looking like we're trying to take it over. Because we couldn't've thunk this up, therefore we want it to be able to have its independence. At the same time, [it's important to determine] where they might need a little bit of support, so you don't jump in and wind up killing something that is an organic thing.
AlterNet: It's going to be interesting to see what happens when Dan Cantor, executive director of the labor-aligned Working Families Party, and other union members join with Occupy Wall Street for the solidarity march this week.
VJ: Exactly! This is thrilling stuff! This is an epic battle [with] the dream-killers on Wall Street — who are so disgusting and so despicable; they are ingrates who are sitting up there laughing at us. I mean, every other bloc of capital that has this much weight, they try to do something to make you like them. Even the polluters, they say, "We'll get clean coal." They try to do something. But these people on Wall Street — they just don't care. So it's just going to be an epic battle now between the worst people in America, the most selfish people in America, and the most selfless. And that's going to be amazing.
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If there is any benefit to be salvaged from the disastrous overfishing of the bluefin tuna (see "The Bluefin in Peril," by Richard Ellis), it's the spotlight that it shines on the plundering of the world's marine life. It has been 16 years since the demand for cod led to the collapse of the once superabundant cod fisheries in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland. Disappearing with them were some 40,000 jobs. Seafood Watch, an online information clearinghouse run by the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, has placed all Atlantic populations of flatfish, including flounder, halibut, plaice and sole, on a list of fishes that it urges consumers to avoid. The list goes on.
You can't entirely blame the fishers. Yes, a lot of pirates are out there, taking fish illegally, underreporting their catches, fishing under the flags of countries not party to international fishing agreements. But for many cultures, fishing is a way of life—and sadly, because of overfishing, a hard way to carry on. The lure of dollars—or euros or yen—becomes all but irresistible when the alternatives become ever more limited. As Ellis reports, a single bluefin tuna fetched $173,600 in Tokyo, and prices of a sushi dinner for two in New York City can reach $1,000.
With that kind of money at stake, it is hardly surprising that industrial-scale technology has caught on, big time. Hooks are paid out on "long-lines" more than 50 miles in length. Factory ships that can hold 1,000 tons of fish store and process the catches. Fishing on such a massive scale can quickly exhaust a fishing ground, but when that happens, the factory ships just move on. As a result, fisheries themselves are becoming ever more remote.
The bottom of what is known as the continental slope, between 600 and 6,000 feet deep, is home to several species that swim in schools and grow as long as two to three feet. Their presence opened up the continental slope to industrial deep-sea fishing that pays off handsomely. The usual method, known as bottom trawling, is to drag a large cone-shaped net, weighted with 15 tons of gear, across the seabed. The net catches everything in its path, and the gear crushes any 1,000-year-old coral that stands in its way.
What are the environmental costs? No one really knows—and that is part of the problem. According to Richard L. Haedrich, an ichthyologist writing in a recent issue of Natural History, catch quotas for deep-sea fishes were set "essentially by guesswork, relying on ... knowledge of shallow-water species. They took no account of the far slower turnover rates in a typical population of deep-sea fishes." The predictable result is that two deep-sea species have already been depleted: the orange roughy, formerly known as the slimehead, and the Chilean sea bass, aka Patagonian or Antarctic toothfish. When they're gone, Big Fishing will pack up and move on once again.
What is to be done? Biologists must have the chance to study fish populations before sustainability levels are set and fish are taken. Laws, treaties, police work and stiff penalties are essential to curb the pirates and keep honest fishers in business. But market forces are ultimately to blame, and market forces will determine the outcome. Consumers who vote with their pocketbooks can turn the tide of demand.
The first step is finding out what is safe to buy. Numerous Internet sites such as Seafood Watch, mentioned earlier, give basic information about the sustainability of various marine populations. The second step is determining the provenance of a fish on the market: Where does it come from, and how can you know the information is reliable? The provenance system is already in place for wine and in some countries for beef. A similar system of tracking fish from catch to consumer could drive down demand, and hence price, for endangered, uncertified products.
With provenance determined, fish lovers could harness the power of the Internet. Does a restaurant or supermarket persist in selling "red card" fish? A comment in an online review might get results. Publicity and shame are powerful tools, not to be used lightly or without warning. But those who knowingly trade in fish that are demonstrably at risk lose their right to be ignored.
Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services. Boris Worm et al. in Science, Vol. 314, pages 787–790; November 3, 2006.
Deep Trouble. Richard L. Haedrich in Natural History, Vol. 116, No. 8, pages 28–33; October 2007.
Recommendations for fishes to buy or avoid can be found at www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_factsheet.aspx?gid=60
For a summary of the efforts aimed at fighting illegal fishing, go to www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/marine/our_solutions/sustainable_fishing/improving_management/illegal_fishing/index.cfm


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Global travel and climate warming could be creating the right conditions for outbreaks of a new virus in this country, according to a new Cornell University computer model.
The model predicts that outbreaks of chikungunya, a painful virus transported by travelers and spread by the invasive Asian tiger mosquito, could occur in 2013 in New York City during August and September, in Atlanta from June through September, and year-round in Miami. The probability of a disease outbreak is correlated with temperature, as warmer weather allows the Asian tiger mosquito to breed faster and grow in numbers, according to the study published in the November issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
According to the simulation, there is a high probability of a chikungunya outbreak if a single infected person arrives in New York in July or August and is bitten by an Asian tiger mosquito. The risks are the same, but with wider time frames, for transmission in Atlanta and Miami, according to the paper.
Asian tiger mosquitoes were introduced to the United States in Texas in the 1980s; they are established up the East Coast into New Jersey and are rising in numbers in New York City. The aggressive mosquito outcompetes local varieties and transmits more than 20 pathogens, including chikungunya and dengue, said Laura Harrington, associate professor of entomology and the study's senior author.
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The model estimates that with typical regional temperatures, a chikungunya outbreak in New York would infect about one in 5,000 people, said Diego Ruiz-Moreno, a postdoctoral associate and the paper's lead author
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Chikungunya symptoms include a fever, severe joint pain, achiness, headache, nausea and fatigue, as well as "debilitating and prolonged" pain in the small joints of the hands and feet, according to the paper. The virus originated in Central Africa and is endemic in Southeast Asia.
Since no chikungunya vaccine exists, U.S. residents can help prevent an outbreak by removing standing water, wearing long sleeves and repellent during the day when the mosquitoes feed, and knowing the risk and symptoms when traveling, Harrington said.


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