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2012 STScI May Symposium:
Gas Flows in Galaxies: May 7-10, 2012
The flows of gas into galaxies, and from them back to their environments, have assumed increasing importance at the frontier of galaxy formation studies. The purpose of our Symposium is to bring together the multi-wavelength communities that study the gas flows into, within, and out of galaxies, and which drive their evolution. The scientific sessions of the meeting will address the following key questions:
- How do baryons cycle in and out of galaxies?
- What are the flows of matter, energy, and metals in the circumgalactic medium?
- What controls the matter, energy, and chemical cycles within galaxies?
- How do gas flows influence galaxy evolution?
These and other questions will be addressed by a set of invited talks. We also invite contributions in the forms of talks and posters via this website. Only a limited number of contributed talks are available.
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|May 7—10, 2012
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|April 27, 2012
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|February 29, 2012
STScI has reserved a block of rooms at the Doubletree in at the Colonnade, a hotel within walking distance from the institute. For a special conference rate at the Colonnade register online or call them and say you are registering for the MaySymposium (group code MSG).
To register as a student for the May Symposium, please contact Samantha Pryce for the student code. For this, or any other questions, please contact the workshop coordinator, Samantha Pryce. Her phone number is 410-338-4970.
Invited Speakers
- Leo Blitz
- Alberto Bolatto
- Joel Bregman
- Alyson Brooks
- Hsiao-Wen Chen
- Francoise Combes
- T. J. Cox
- Clare Dobbs
- Megan Donahue
- Sara Ellison
- Ken Freeman
- Reinhard Genzel
- Jenny Greene
- Tim Heckman
- Christopher Howk
- Guinevere Kauffmann
- Mark Krumholz
- Crystal Martin
- Brian McNamara
- Brice Menard
- Norman Murray
- Ben Oppenheimer
- Xavier Prochaska
- Daniel Proga
- Mary Putman
- Marc Sarzi
- Joop Schaye
- Alice Shapley
- Mike Shull
- Rob Simcoe
- Greg Stinson
- Sylvain Veilleux
- Mark Vogelsberger
- David Weinberg
Scientific Organizing Committee
- Jason Tumlinson (chair)
- Andrew Fox (co-chair)
- Ron Allen
- Alessandra Aloisi
- Michael Fall
- Timothy Heckman
- Margaret Meixner
- Brice Menard
- Julia Roman-Duval
- Kenneth Sembach
- Christopher Thom


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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American political theorist whose work deals with the nature of power, authority, and totalitarianism.
- 1 Quotes
- 1.1 Love and Saint Augustine (1929)
- 1.2 The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
- 1.3 Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
- 1.4 "Some Questions of Moral Philosophy"
- 1.5 Crises of the Republic (1969)
- 1.6 The Life of the Mind (1971/1978)
- 1.7 The New York Review of Books interview with the French writer Roger Errera (1978)
- 2 External links
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
- The Human Condition (1958), part 3, chapter 16.
- It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.
- The Human Condition (1958).
- In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. All the characteristics you stress in the Negro people: their beauty, their capacity for joy, their warmth, and their humanity, are well-known characteristics of all oppressed people. They grow out of suffering and they are the proudest possession of all pariahs. Unfortunately, they have never survived the hour of liberation by even five minutes. Hatred and love belong together, and they are both destructive; you can afford them only in private and, as a people, only so long as you are not free.
- Letter to James Baldwin (21 November 1962).
- What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
- On Revolution (1963), ch. 2.
- Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
- Men in Dark Times (1968).
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- The New Yorker (12 September 1970).
- The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
- The Life of the Mind (1978), "Thinking".
- I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.
- Speaking of her book The Human Condition, as quoted in Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (2004) by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, p. xxiv.
- The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.
- "Martin Heidegger at Eighty," in Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays (1978) by Michael Murray, p. 294.
Love and Saint Augustine (1929)Edit
- As edited by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark (Chicago: 1996)
- In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
- p. 17
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)Edit
- In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. [...] under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
- The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man. Yet to turn our backs on the destructive forces of the century is of little avail.
The trouble is that our period has so strangely intertwined the good with the bad that without the imperialists' "expansion for expansion's sake," the world might never have become one; without the bourgeoisie's political device of "power for power's sake," the extent of human strength might never have been discovered; without the fictitious world of totalitarian movements, in which with unparalleled clarity the essential uncertainties of our time have been spelled out, we might have been driven to our doom without ever becoming aware of what has been happening.
And if it is true that in the final stages of totalitarianism an absolute evil appears (absolute because it can no longer be deduced from humanly comprehensible motives), it is also true that without it we might never have known the truly radical nature of Evil.
- Preface to the first edition, written in the summer of 1950.
- Persecution of powerless or power-losing groups may not be a very pleasant spectacle, but it does not spring from human meanness alone. What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use. Even exploitation and oppression still make society work and establish some kind of order. Only wealth without power or aloofness without a policy are felt to be parasitical, useless, revolting, because such conditions cut all the threads which tie men together. Wealth which does not exploit lacks even the relationship which exists between exploiter and exploited; aloofness without policy does not imply even the minimum concern of the oppressor for the oppressed.
- Part 1, Ch. 1, § 1.
- A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynism the vice of superior and refined minds. Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
- The Nazis were 'convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,' Bolshevik assurances inside and outside Russia that they do not recognize ordinary moral standards have become a mainstay of Communist propaganda, and experience has proven time and again that the propaganda value of evil deeds and general contempt for moral standards is independent of mere self-interest, supposedly the most powerful psychological factor in politics.
- Part 3, Ch. 1 § 1.
- The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; not citizens with opinions about, interests in, the handling of public affairs, like the parties of Anglo-Saxon countries.
- Part 3, Ch. 1 § 1.
- Hitler never intended to defend 'the West' against Bolshevism but always remained ready to join 'the Reds' for the destruction of the West, even in the middle of the struggle against Soviet Russia.
- Part 3, Ch. 1 § 1.
- The only man for whom Hitler had 'unqualified respect' was 'Stalin the genius', and while in the case of Stalin and the Russian regime we do not… have the rich documentary material that is available for Germany, we nevertheless know since Khrushchev's speech before the Twentieth Party Congress that Stalin trusted only one man and that was Hitler.
- Part 3, Ch. 1 § 1.
- What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.
- Part 3, Ch. 10, § 2.
- Real power begins where secrecy begins.
- Part 3, Ch. 12, § 1.
- The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual's own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.
- Part 3, Ch. 12, § 3.
- The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
- Part 3, Ch. 13, § 3.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)Edit
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)
- [H]e was genuinely incapable of uttering a single sentence that was not a cliché.[…] Eichmann, despite his rather bad memory, repeated word for word the same stock phrases and self-invented clichés (when he did succeed in constructing a sentence of his own, he repeated it until it became a cliché) each time he referred to an incident or event of importance to him.[…] The longer one listened to him, the more obvious it became that his inability to speak was closely connected with an inability to think, namely to think from the standpoint of somebody else. No communication was possible with him, not because he lied but because he was surrounded by the most reliable of all safeguards against the words and the presence of others, and hence against reality as such.
- Ch. III.
- What stuck in the minds of these men who had become murderers was simply the notion of being involved in something historic, grandiose, unique ("a great task that occurs once in two thousand years"), which must therefore be difficult to bear. This was important, because the murderers were not sadists or killers by nature; on the contrary, a systematic effort was made to weed out all those who derived physical pleasure from what they did. The troops of the Einsatzgruppen had been drafted from the Armed S.S., a military unit with hardly more crimes in its record than any ordinary unit of the German Army, and their commanders had been chosen by Heydrich from the S.S. élite with academic degrees. Hence the problem was how to overcome not so much their conscience as the animal pity by which all normal men are affected in the presence of physical suffering. The trick used by Himmler — who apparently was rather strongly afflicted by these instinctive reactions himself — was very simple and probably very effective; it consisted in turning these instincts around, as it were, in directing them toward the self. So that instead of saying: What horrible things I did to people!, the murderers would be able to say: What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!
- Ch. VI.
- The case of the conscience of Eichmann, which is admittedly complicated but is by no means unique, is scarcely comparable to the case of the German generals, one of whom, when asked at Nuremberg, "How was it possible that all of you honorable generals could continue to serve a murderer with such unquestioning loyalty?," replied that it was "not the task of a soldier to act as judge over his supreme commander. Let history do that or God in Heaven."
- Ch. VIII.
- Eichmann, much less intelligent and without any education to speak of, at least dimly realized that it was not an order but a law which had turned them all into criminals. The distinction between an order and the Führer's word was that the latter's validity was not limited in time and space, which is the outstanding characteristic of the former. This is also the true reason why the Führer's order for the Final Solution was followed by a huge shower of regulations and directives, all drafted by expert lawyers and legal advisors, not by mere administrators; this order, in contrast to ordinary orders, was treated as a law. Needless to add, the resulting legal paraphernalia, far from being a mere symptom of German pedantry and thoroughness, served most effectively to give the whole business its outward appearance of legality.
And just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it — the quality of temptation.
- Ch. VIII.
- For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.
- Ch. XIV.
- The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani, commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.
- Epilogue.
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
- Epilogue.
"Some Questions of Moral Philosophy"Edit
- It is not murder which is forgiven but the killer, his person as it appears in circumstances and intentions. The trouble with the Nazi criminals was precisely that they renounced voluntarily all personal qualities, as if nobody were left to be either punished or forgiven. They protested time and again that they had never done anything out of their own initiative, that they had no intentions whatsoever, good or bad, and that they only obeyed orders.
- To put it another way: the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons. Within the conceptual framework of these considerations we could say that wrongdoers who refuse to think by themselves what they are doing and who also refuse in retrospect to think about it, that is, go back and remember what they did (which is teshuvah or repentance), have actually failed to constitute themselves into somebodies. By stubbornly remaining nobodies they prove themselves unfit for intercourse with others who, good, bad, or indifferent, are at the very least persons.
- Lecture read in 1965 and 1966, in Responsibility and Judgment, 2003, ISBN 0-8052-4212-0, pages 111-112
Crises of the Republic (1969)Edit
- The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.
- "On Violence".
- The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
- "On Violence".
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
- "On Violence".
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
- "Civil Disobedience".
- Man's urge for change and his need for stability have always balanced and checked each other, and our current vocabulary, which distinguishes between two factions, the progressives and the conservatives, indicates a state of affairs in which this balance has been thrown out of order. No civilization — the man-made artifact to house successive generations — would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.
- "Civil Disobedience".
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.
- For the trouble with lying and decieving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
- "Lying in Politics"
The Life of the Mind (1971/1978)Edit
( Hannah ARENDT, 1978, The Life of the Mind, New York, Harcourt )
- Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
- p. 4.
- Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?
- p. 5.
- It was mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence, wherein the mind appears to play only with itself, that turned out to be the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe that are concealed by appearances.
- p. 7.
- Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
- p. 12.
- If [...] the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant—in this respect almost alone among the philosophers—was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.
- p. 13.
- Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason," that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.
- p. 14.
- Kant was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and desire for knowledge." Hence, the distinguishing of the two faculties, reason and intellect, coincides with a distinction between two altogether different mental activities, thinking and knowing.
- p. 14.
- Kant stated defensively that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge. . . to make room for faith," but he had not made room for faith; he had made room for thought, and he had not "denied knowledge" but separated knowledge from thinking.
- p. 14.
- The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
- p. 15.
- The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
- pp. 31-32.
- If the inner psychic ground of our individual appearance were not always the same, there could be no science of psychology, which qua science relies on a psychic "inside we are all alike," just as the science of physiology and medicine relies on the sameness of our inner organs. […] The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.
- pp. 34-35.
- […]the simple-minded positivism that believes it has found a firm ground of certainty if it only excludes all mental phenomena from consideration and holds fast to observable facts.
- p. 39.
- It is characteristic of the Oxford school of criticism to understand these [metaphysical] fallacies as logical non sequiturs—as though philosophers throughout the centuries had been, for reasons unknown, just a bit too stupid to discover the elementary flaws in their arguments. The truth of the matter is that elementary logical mistakes are quite rare in the history of philosophy; what appear to be errors in logic to minds disencumbered of questions that have been uncritically dismissed as "meaningless" are usually caused by semblances, unavoidable for beings whose whole existence is determined by appearance. Hence, In our context the only relevant question is whether the semblances are inauthentic or authentic ones, whether they are caused by dogmatic beliefs and arbitrary assumptions, mere mirages that disappear upon closer inspection, or whether they are inherent in the paradoxical condition of a living being that, though itself part of the world of appearances, is in possession of a faculty, the ability to think, that permits the mind to withdraw from the world without ever being able to leave it or transcend it.
- p. 45.
- If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
- p. 55.
- Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
- p. 56.
- To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
- p. 61.
- Kant [...] stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge […] to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.
- p. 63.
- Since it is always the same person whose mind thinks, wills, and judges, the autonomous nature of these activities has created great difficulties. Reason's inability to move the will, plus the fact that thinking can only "understand" what is past what neither remove it nor "rejuvenate it" … have led to the various doctrines asserting the mind's impotence and the force of the irrational, in brief to Hume's famous dictum that "Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions," that is, to a rather simple-minded reversal of the Platonic notion of reason's uncontested rulership in the household of the soul. What is so remarkable in all these theories and doctrines is their implicit monism, the claim that behind the obvious multiplicity of the world's appearances and, even more pertinently to our context, behind the obvious plurality of man's faculties and abilities, there must exist a oneness — the old hen pan, "the all is one" — either a single source or a single ruler.
- p. 70.
The New York Review of Books interview with the French writer Roger Errera (1978)Edit
- Source: Hannah Arendt: From an Interview. Comments made in 1974 during an interview with the French writer Roger Errera and published in October 26, 1978 issue of The NewYork Review of Books Interview. Copyright © 1978 Mary McCarthy West, Trustee. Archived via Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive on February 22, 2017.
- Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: "Things must change — no matter how, Anything is better than what we have." Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it. They were told before, thou shalt not kill; and they didn't kill. Now they are told, thou shalt kill; and although they think it's very difficult to kill, they do it because it's now part of the code of behavior. They learn whom to kill and how to kill and how to do it together. This is the much talked about Gleichschaltung — the coordination process. You are coordinated not with the powers that be, but with your neighbor — coordinated with the majority. But instead of communicating with the other you are now glued to him. And you feel of course marvelous. Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another.
- The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
- The main characteristic of any event is that it has not been foreseen. We don't know the future but everybody acts into the future. Nobody knows what he is doing because the future is being done, action is being done by a "we" and not an "I." Only if I were the only one acting could I foretell the consequences of what I'm doing. What actually happens is entirely contingent, and contingency is indeed one of the biggest factors in all history.
- Nobody knows what is going to happen because so much depends on an enormous number of variables, on simple hazard. On the other hand if you look at history retrospectively, then, even though it was contingent, you can tell a story that makes sense…. Jewish history, for example, in fact had its ups and downs, its, enmities and its friendships, as every history of all people has. The notion that there is one unilinear history is of course false. But if you look at it after the experience of Auschwitz it looks as though all of history—or at least history since the Middle Ages — had no other aim than Auschwitz…. This, is the real problem of every philosophy of history how is it possible that in retrospect it always looks as though it couldn't have happened otherwise?
External linksEdit
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- On Revolution. H. Arendt Portal


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Peapod rolls out 'virtual grocery store' concept
Chicago — An online grocery delivery service is launching "virtual grocery stores" at commuter rail stations across the country.
Peapod.com, owned by the U.S. subsidiary of Dutch supermarket operator Royal Ahold, announced it would launch more than 100 of the virtual grocery stores at commuter rail stations in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, New Jersey and Connecticut. Commuters in the markets Peapod serves spend an hour in transit to and from work each day, according to Census data.
The "stores" consist of billboards that allow commuters with iPhones, iPads and Android phones to scan a QR code, download an app and start shopping by scanning bar codes on the products. Peapod has made deals with Barilla, Coca-Cola, Kimberly Clark, Proctor & Gamble and Reckitt Benckiser as part of the new initiative.
The initiative is a larger rollout of virtual grocery stores that Peapod has gradually unveiled at commuter and rapid transit rail stations in places like Chicago and Philadelphia.
"Getting your groceries on the way home from work just got a whole new meaning," Peapod COO Mike Brennan said. "With schedules that are more demanding than ever and people spending 200-plus hours a year in transit, our hope is that consumers will take advantage of our virtual stores and mobile app while they're on the go and enjoy the time saved when they're at home."
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This panel will focus on the role of ICTs in mediating the information environments of immigrant and diasporic communities. While focusing on how ICTs mediate immigrant information needs, this panel also contextualizes immigrant information behavior research within globalization and diaspora studies. For instance, the concept of e-diaspora is a term gaining in popularity, but rarely invoked in relation to immigrant information behavior research. How do new media technologies mediate and influence the information needs and behaviors of immigrant populations? Are localized immigrant information needs mediated by diasporic information sources?
The panelists will focus on ICT-mediated services for immigrant populations within the context of both local and global information environments. Questions addressed include: In what ways do diasporic information environments shape local immigrant information needs and their social inclusion into the host society? How does the digital divide manifest itself in studies of ICT-mediated immigrant information behavior? The issues addressed by the panel are both timely and critical as evidenced by the ongoing debates in Europe, North America and elsewhere on immigration policy, on integration and identity, and the role of ICTs in a globalized world. This international perspective will be reflected in the composition of the panel.
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When "people familiar with the situation" start talking, the financial world takes note. Those people have apparently told Reuters and the Wall Street Journal (subscription) that Microsoft and Yahoo are in discussions over the possibility of a merger, an outright acquisition, or some sort of joint venture that would enable them to compete more effectively with Google.
If this sounds familiar, it should. The companies held similar discussions around this time last year, which ultimately amounted to nothing. Microsoft was game, but Yahoo was not—Yahoo CEO Terry Semel said at the time that "I will not sell a piece of search—it is like selling your right arm while keeping your left. It does not make any sense."
Yet here we are a year later, and the conversations have apparently rekindled. If you're wondering what's changed, that's the wrong question to ask. A better one would be "what hasn't changed?" and the answer is simple: Google's utter dominance of the search and advertising landscape.
Aside from a modest, Vista-related bump in March for Windows Live, Microsoft and Yahoo have seen their search market share fall while watching Google's continue to climb. Google also continues to flex its advertising muscles, kicking sand in the faces of its competitors with the recent acquisition of DoubleClick. Adding insult to injury, DoubleClick may have turned down a more lucrative offer from Microsoft before being purchased by Google.
From a strategic standpoint, then, some sort of Microsoft-Yahoo alliance makes sense. An outright acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft is almost certainly out of the question, however. Yahoo has a market cap of $44.98 billion and Microsoft has never come remotely close to spending that much on an acquisition. Some sort of stock-cash combination is plausible, but also unlikely.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo joint venture or other partnership would allow the companies to pool their online advertising expertise as well as their traffic, and would better position them to compete against Google. It wouldn't be enough to overtake Google's search figures: going by comScore's March search rankings, Yahoo and Microsoft combined would take 38.4 percent of the search market compared with 48.3 percent for Google.
The same is true for advertising. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, the combined advertising reach of Microsoft and Yahoo would be less than a quarter of Google's.
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The Taoyuan International Airport Corp (TIAC) said yesterday that it completed the installation of a new surveillance system last year in the nation's largest airport, employing several state-of-the-art facilities used by the US military.
The airport began to step up its efforts to enhance airport security following an incident in 2011, when a woman intruded onto the airport's restricted area by climbing over the perimeter wall that encircles the airport.
After entering the airport's restricted zone, the woman drove onto the taxiway a ladder truck used by ground crew and eventually succeeded in boarding a China Airlines plane.
Several managers received demerits or warnings over the incident, including former TIAC president Samuel Lin (林鵬良).
The airport company's director of operational safety Chen Chi-chia (陳志嘉) said the west side of the airport by the Pusin River (埔心溪) is now equipped with the same radar system that is used by the US military.
"The wall near the river is often damaged by typhoons, so the radar system is mainly used to protect the west side," Chen said.
The airport company also purchased two thermographic cameras and installed them on the southern and northern boarding corridors, allowing the company to capture the images of objects 3km away.
Thermographic cameras will help identify an object once it appears in the radar system, Chen said.
"We need to make sure if the object is a stray animal or a person, because this will determine whether we should contact the Aviation Police Bureau or elevate the security level at the airport," he said, adding that both the radar system and thermographic cameras had assisted the US military in desert-based combat operations.
According to the TIAC, the new radar system would enable it to target and track up to 350 objects at a time, unhindered by topography and weather.
The airport company said that it plans to install the intrusion detection system and surveillance cameras along 20km of the airport's perimeter walls.
Aside from the installation of these new facilities, the airport company says it has also replaced old surveillance cameras and integrated different operating systems. It would also start building the second perimeter walls around the airport, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of next year.
The entire project is expected to cost about NT$200 million (US$6.54 million), the TIAC said.
In other news, the Airports Council International (ACI) has chosen Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to be in this year's Airport Service Roll of Excellence, according to the TIAC.
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Building Better Child Care--Northland Early Educ Council (Session 7 of 8)
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 10 a.m. to noon
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The Northland Early Education Council (NEEC) board is comprised of representatives of Northland community agencies, organizations, school districts and early childhood programs. The primary mission and purpose of NEEC is to plan, provide and promote educational events and training sessions for professionals and para-professionals who provide care and education to young children. A secondary goal is to serve as an advocacy group for quality, assessible and affordable child care, especially in the Clay, Platte and Ray County area of the Northland.
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Diabetes-Friendly Tips for Handling the Summer Heat
The heat being experienced in many parts of the nation these days is tough enough for the average person, but for the estimated 21 million Americans with diabetes, special precautions may be required.
"People with chronic diseases like diabetes as well as people taking certain medications, including heart disease medications and diuretics, which are often used to treat complications of diabetes, are at increased risk of experiencing difficulties in the heat, even though they may not be aware of it," says Catherine Carver, M.S., A.N.P., C.D.E, Director of Educational Services at Joslin Clinic.
Carver and her colleagues at Joslin Clinic offer the following tips for people with diabetes during these steamy summer days:
Keep hydrated. Dehydration, or the loss of body fluids, can happen on these very hot summer days whether you have diabetes or not. If you have diabetes, dehydration also can occur when blood glucose is not under control. When blood glucose is elevated, this can lead to an increase in the body's excretion of urine. To prevent dehydration drink plenty of caffeine-free fluids such as water, seltzer or sugar-free iced tea and lemonade. Limit your intake of alcohol.
Watch for signs of heat exhaustion, especially if you are working or exercising outdoors. People with diabetes and other chronic diseases like heart disease are more susceptible to overheating. Symptoms include: feeling dizzy or fainting; sweating excessively; muscle cramps; skin that is cold or clammy; headaches; rapid heartbeat and/or nausea. If you experience any of these symptoms, move to a cooler environment, drink fluids like water, juice or sports drinks (based on your healthcare provider's instructions) and seek medical attention.
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The pump housing provides some insulation from the heat. If you are concerned about heat, you can use a protective pouch with a small, cold gel pack placed inside the pouch as a way to protect your insulin from the effects of heat. If you are spending an extended amount of time in the sun, cover the pump with a towel to protect it from prolonged direct sunlight. Disconnecting your pump for up to an hour is another option, but if it is disconnected for a longer time, you will need to adjust your insulin infusion rate accordingly to allow for the missed doses.
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Sonja Santelises stood before a room of Baltimore educators whose faces were filled with angst as she spoke about a rigorous new curriculum that would soon change everything they thought they knew about teaching.
Three years later, when she pulled up a new English and language arts curriculum aligned with new standards — known as the "common core" — that will be rolled out this year, a room of educators erupted into cheers.
"That didn't mean that everything is perfect, because there's no magic bullet to this common core thing," Santelises, the city schools' chief academic officer, recalled recently. "That meant that there is a troupe of people here who were ready to do this work."
Santelises, who will leave her $175,000 job with the city school system Sept. 20, reflected on such displays of confidence as she visited educators settling into a school year that will mark the most substantive changes to classroom instruction in decades. Her resignation is the second key leadership departure in Baltimore's school system in as many months.
Santelises, 46, acknowledged that her departure is significant, particularly coming on the heels of the resignation of city schools CEO Andrés Alonso in June. Education stakeholders and observers say that while Santelises has built a solid foundation for the school system's academics, the pressure is on to find strong leaders in the coming year.
"There's just a lot going on, and there's a leadership void right now," said James Campbell, who works at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education and served on the school board that hired Alonso.
Campbell called Santelises "an outstanding leader who emphasized excellence," and whose "emphasis was always on quality education and taking the system to the next level.
"There's a lot of top leaders leaving, so the constant has to be the board," Campbell said. "I hope they focus on the search to get the best person they can get for the job."
City school board President Shanaysha Sauls called Santelises' departure a "significant loss to the district."
"She was an important part of our sense of optimism and possibility moving forward," Sauls said. "We are confident her work and her leadership, on behalf of students and staff, has been strategic. And Baltimore is left in a better place than where it started."
Santelises, who will head to Washington to serve as the vice president of K-12 policy and practice at the Education Trust, has maintained a low profile since Alonso brought her on in 2010 to orchestrate one of the most critical academic transitions in recent years.
The mother of 4-year-old twin girls and a 7-year-old will still live in the city, and her children will continue to attend city schools.
Alonso said in 2011 that she was the first person he called when he knew he would take the job in Baltimore, and she turned him down three times before agreeing to leave her job in Boston's public school system, where she was assistant superintendent of a network of charter-like, autonomous programs.
When she arrived, he said, people "began paying attention to standards in a way that hadn't occurred in the district before."
Santelises said that while she had hoped the district's test scores would not be stagnant during her tenure, she told Alonso six weeks into the job that she "didn't care about his reading scores, I'm in schools and kids aren't reading."
Her early emphasis on literacy has resulted in a reversal of low reading scores among middle school students, who posted some of the few gains on state tests last year.
And last year, Baltimore kindergartners showed an unprecedented rise on the state's standardized "readiness" assessment — even as scores in the highest-performing districts were flat or declined — a change that state and city officials attributed to the system's advanced introduction of the common core in pre-K programs.
This year, all Maryland public schools will be using a new curriculum, a change dictated by the state's decision to sign on to the voluntary national common core standards, which are designed to require higher-level thinking and more rigorous lessons.
Linda Eberhart, a retired teacher and former director of teaching and learning in the school system, said educators should take solace in the fact that what Santelises built cannot be easily dismantled.
"No one is comfortable with all this change, and she's been the one there saying, 'This will be OK,'" Eberhart said. "It's going to be hard, but it's going to be hard even with her here."
She added: "It's going to be a challenging time for the school board for the next few months."
Eberhart recalled that in preparing educators for the common core, Santelises brought in the writers of the new standards so that educators could hear about the new curriculum directly from the source.
She overhauled professional development to be more intensive and to have more substance. And she began coaching principals, who are now "instructional leaders" and part of a decision-making team.
Now, Santelises said, it's time for her to advocate for educators at the next level.
"There hasn't been this much activity at the federal level in one to two decades," she said. "And I think the biggest frustration has been this question of: Where is the ground-level voice in the national focus? It's an important time to steer that conversation, and I feel strongly that someone needs to advocate at the national level, to make the road easier for leaders and teachers who put their trust in our team."
Among those leaders was Principal Amanda Rice, who through tears on the first day of school last week recalled how Santelises encouraged her to move to the larger Waverly Elementary/Middle School this year.
"She taught us so much," Rice said. "We're so far ahead, because she set the tone for us."
Rice said that she was persuaded to leave George Washington Elementary — a school she turned around after a cheating scandal — because Santelises had a vision for her personal growth and the system wants to match strong leaders with schools that need them.
"I feel like she's prepared me for this," Rice said. "I'm a little scared, a little humbled. But she gave me my wings, and now I have to fly. We all do."
Sonja Santelises
Age: 46
Family: Married mother of 4-year-old twin daughters and a 7-year-old daughter
Education: bachelor's degree from Brown University; master's in education administration from Columbia University; doctorate of education in administration, planning and social work from Harvard University; completed post-doctoral work at Harvard's urban superintendents doctoral program.
Career highlights: chief academic officer in Baltimore schools, 2010-present; assistant superintendent of pilot schools and assistant superintendent of teaching and learning/professional development in Boston public schools, 2005-2010; part of original staff of Teach for America, where she was director of professional development and teacher placement, 1989-1992.


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February 4, 2008
In this year's Sundown County wrestling tournament, wrestlers from each of the eight county high schools, including one from East York High, competed for the championship in the heavyweight division. In the tournament, the eight wrestlers, one of whom is the Orton boy, paired off against each other in first round matches. The four winners of those matches advanced to the championship bracket in the second or semifinal round, with the four losing wrestlers going into the consolation bracket in the second round. The winners of the championship bracket second round matches met for the heavyweight championship, the losers of the championship bracket second round matches wrestled each other for 3rd place, the winners of the consolation bracket second round matches grappled for 5th place, and the losers of the consolation bracket second round matches met for 7th place. From the clues below, can you determine the full results of the county heavyweight wrestling tournament: the full names (one first name is Greg) of the wrestlers who won and lost in every match of the three rounds and the high school for which each competes?
Danny edged the Mountaintop High heavyweight when they met during the regular season.
Frankie, who isn't the Rock boy, didn't score a pin in any of the three matches he wrestled.
Chad and the Summerset High wrestler both attended the Sammartino Wrestling Camp last summer.
These three wrestlers finished the county tournament with 2-1 records: Frankie, Hart, and the Mountaintop High heavyweight.
The Central City High grappler, who isn't Eric, did not make it to county championship match.
Adam Kane is the only sophomore among the eight competitors.
In the four second round matches, the Summerset wrestler pinned Vandam in the 2nd period, the Central City entrant won by decision over Brad, Danny pinned the Jericho boy in the 3rd period, and the Rock boy pinned Ian in the 1st period.
McMahon won his first round match.
The wrestlers from Summerset and Central City did not wrestle each other in the tournament.
These three wrestlers finished the county tournament with 1-2 records: Brad, Savage, and the Wildlake High heavyweight.
Jericho, who isn't the New Caledonia High heavyweight, and the Fork Union High wrestler, who isn't Danny, are the smallest of the entrants at 225 lbs. each.
In first round matches, Chad upset the Fork Union entrant, and Eric lost to the Angel Island High heavyweight.
All of Hart's matches in the tournament ended in decisions.
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Hosch Professor Thomas A. Eaton was quoted in Columns regarding the Athens Justice Program, where he serves as the vice president of the board of directors. The program aims to provide assistance for people accused of a crime and to help them stay out of jail. The article was written by Aaron Hale and appeared on 10/8/12. Read the full article


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Ken Grossman, who founded Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. in Chico, Calif., at a time when "craft beer" was a foreign term in America, is widely regarded as one of the most influential pioneers in the industry.
DENVER — Amid a cluster of skyscrapers here in downtown Denver, the path to the Colorado Convention Center runs down a street aptly named California.
Ken Grossman, who founded Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. in Chico, Calif., at a time when "craft beer" was a foreign term in America, is widely regarded as one of the most influential pioneers in the industry. Thanks in large part to the movement toward full-flavored, complex beers that he played a huge role in starting back in 1980, nearly 50,000 people converge on the convention center each October for the Great American Beer Festival, the largest commercial beer competition in the world.
Throw in the 7,000-plus industry professionals attending this week's 2014 Craft Brewers Conference, BrewExpo America trade show and World Beer Cup awards ceremony, and the convention center has become a symbol of craft beer's rise across the U.S. with 2,800 breweries now operating nationwide.
Grossman's focus these days is the brand new brewery complex still under construction on Sierra Nevada's sprawling, wooded property near Asheville Regional Airport in Mills River. Grossman, applying 35 years of experience designing and building breweries, is hands-on with every aspect of the project. Unlike his early days, however, when he almost singlehandedly cobbled together his brew house from old dairy tanks, this time Grossman has been leading a team of up to 350 workers in the building of what has become one of the world's most technologically advanced, sustainably focused and visitor-friendly breweries in the entire world.
"The man is a genius," said Jeffrey VanVoorhis, marketing director for Symbiont, the company that installed Sierra Nevada's elaborate wastewater treatment system in Mills River. "He knows almost as much as my staff about our little part of his facility, and he knows that much about the entire facility. That's what is so amazing. There's not many corporations that can be successful with his model of having a single person with a vision that can be implemented by a whole team, because usually it's management, but with Sierra Nevada it's Ken. It's his vision, and everyone is just responding to his ideas."
Stopped wherever he goes this week in the Mile High City for a handshake by admirers, colleagues and budding brewers who he inspired, Grossman sat down Thursday with the Times-News in the lobby of his hotel — across the street from the convention center — to discuss the Mills River brewery, the industry and his hectic life during the past two years.
T-N: You've been traveling between Chico and Mills River every two weeks. Has it been exhausting?
KG: Yes, it's been a pretty challenging year. I've been doing that almost since we started construction, so more than a year and a half.
T-N: What did you do before your son, Brian Grossman, purchased a home in Mills River?
KG: I had a trailer right there on the site and lived there a couple months.
T-N: This elaborate brewery is your vision: Were there a lot of sleepless nights thinking of all the aspects of its design?
KG: There still is, yes.
T-N: But it's been a team effort?
KG: Yes, we're using the same design architect we've used in Chico the past 20 years so we have a lot of history together.
T-N: I understand that while you were living in the trailer, you woke at 5 a.m. one day and just got up and walked the property. Talk about the personal connection you've developed with the land there.
KG: It's a spectacular piece of property, and it's got a lot of history and I've been able to explore a bit of it. I'm a mushroom hunter and there's a lot of mushrooms on the property, and so during mushroom season I'm able to get a lot of chantrelles.
T-N: You began having family discussions 10 years ago about the possibility of building an East Coast expansion facility, but when did you begin thinking about the specific design of the Mills River facility?
KG: Right at the very beginning. Initially we said, "Well, we'll just build a production facility and it could be anywhere — it could be in a business park" — and then as concepts started to gel, we started having discussions about wanting a place where people could come visit and that we'd be proud to show off, so it evolved from just a production facility to a destination that would have a "wow" factor for people.
T-N: How pleased are you with the progress of construction of the Mills River facility?
KG: Construction has gone well considering all the challenges we've had with weather. We've got a lot of really great contractors; they've worked really hard to put the project together, from the people who did the site work to local electricians and plumbers; we've really had a great crew.
T-N: With the vision you had for the facility, talk about the dynamics of working with so many people on the ground in all aspects of the project. Was it challenging at times?
KG: Oh yeah. Managing that big of a crew, and a lot of folks put in seven eight-hour days or seven 12s in some cases, so it was a real effort to make up for some of the time we lost with the weather.
T-N: Is your goal to have all the Customer Experience features of the facility opened by your 34th anniversary date of Nov. 15?
KG: Yes. Barring any real hiccups with weather, we're hoping to have the public site opened up by November, but we'll start doing tours before that.
T-N: Besides the construction crews, how many people have been hired at the Mills River facility, and what's the goal moving forward?
KG: We're approaching 70 right now. We'll do some additional hiring here in the next month or two, and when the restaurant opens I assume we'll be adding another 75 people at least.
T-N: The Mills River brewery has been designed to fully accommodate and engage visitors taking tours. How was this state-of-the-art design developed?
KG: Most of it was from our internal thinking. We have weekly meetings with my architect, my son Brian and daughter Sierra and myself, the Customer Experience teams from Chico and Mills River, and we talk through that and work on that. We just recently opened the Torpedo Room in Berkeley, Calif., so we're taking what we did there and matching it with North Carolina. We have a team coming out to Mills River next week from Chico to work with Customer Experience manager John Holt, laying out the Customer Experience side with design artifacts and the story that we're going to tell for our tours.
T-N: What was your vision and goal with regard to the tour experience?
KG: We want to teach people about beer, the raw materials and how beer is made, give people a chance to sample the different styles of beer, so that it should hopefully take an inexperienced person who doesn't know brewing and explain the basics about beer to them. We have a fair amount of historical brewing equipment, and we'll explain everything from the raw materials to the chemistry behind brewing.
T-N: Looking down on the two open fermenters from the viewing deck should be a cool experience.
KG: The restaurant will have four open fermenters in there as well, and they'll be right at the entry to the restaurant so you'll see them when you walk in.
T-N: What's been Sierra Nevada's sales trajectory the past couple years?
KG: In 2012 we grew 12 percent. In 2013 we were out of capacity in Chico, so we grew a little less than 4 percent; we were delayed with Mills River coming online a little late, and Chico has been out of capacity really since 2012. We're looking at about 8 percent for this year.
T-N: With all that's happening in the industry with increased competition from more and more craft breweries really pushing the envelope with a wide range of products, and with the aggressiveness of the larger conglomerate companies seeking to capitalize on craft beer's growing popularity, what will be the key to Sierra Nevada continuing to thrive looking down the road a few years?
KG: Obviously we need to make beers that are relevant and that people are wanting to taste and experience, so for us it's just making sure we are part of the growth of the industry by producing beers that excite people's sensibilities and taste buds.
T-N: Is Sierra Nevada trying to strike a balance between producing beers for the everyday person just now exploring craft beer, and continuing to release more and more cutting-edge products for the experienced craft drinker?
KG: Yes. For us it's being able to offer something for everyone. Some people are seeking beers that are hoppier and maltier and big flavor profiles, so we're trying to brew a wide range of beer styles for a wide range of customers.
T-N: Can you share any new products coming out this year?
KG: Well, we're doing the Beer Camp Across America (variety 12-pack) project with a dozen different new beers, so that's our main focus for this year.
TN: Was this your idea?
KG: It was a collective idea. We started out with, 'Let's do some collaborations,' and we ended up with a 12-pack.
T-N: Between the challenges of creating a mixed 12-pack and planning the cross-country festival tour, did there come a time where you thought, 'What did we get ourselves into?'
KG: We've acknowledged it's a pretty crazy proposition, but it should be fun as well. We talk about it every week and we have meetings about it. We're chipping away at all the logistics and we'll make it happen.
T-N: U.S. craft beer exports grew almost 50 percent in 2013. With Sierra Nevada being an international brand, is this a market you're looking at as an opportunity for big growth?
KG: There's a huge amount of interest not just in Europe but globally — we get a lot of requests. We're cautious about a lot of expansion in our export program. We're doing some, but we want to make sure we have good partners and distributors because once the beer gets shipped out of the U.S., we're making sure there are controlled measures to ensure quality. We get requests every day, whether it's Japan or Brazil; all over the world, there's a lot of interest in accepting what's happening with craft beer in America. Craft beer is a big, exciting aspect of the beer market around the world, not just in the U.S.
T-N: Will the Mills River brewery supply some of Sierra Nevada's international markets?
KG: That would definitely be where we'd ship beer to Europe. We're shipping to Australia and New Zealand, and that beer will still come from Chico. The rest of the exports will originate from Mills River. We could expand that very quickly, but we're being cautious not to get in bed with partners that we're not comfortable with.
T-N: The Brewers Association has established its 20/20 goal of 20 percent overall beer market share for craft beer by the year 2020 (it's grown steadily to 7.8 percent in 2013). How viable do you think that is?
KG: It's pretty ambitious — it's a stretch goal — but if the growth rates continue close to the way they are, it's definitely achievable. If you look at the wine industry, the percentage of high-end wine is above that, so beer should be able to have the same kind of percentages of high-end versus pedestrian styles.
T-N: How many Craft Brewers Conferences have you been to?
KG: I missed a couple, but I've been to almost every one since the first one 30 years ago.
T-N: As an industry pioneer, what do you think when you see the record 7,000-plus attendees at this year's conference?
KG: Phenomenal interest in the craft segment, and there's now a lot of options from the supply side which we didn't have a few years ago. So walking through the trade show there's a lot of craft-focused fabricators with a lot of equipment now available for us. So that side of it wasn't around when I started.
T-N: Are you surprised at all with the soaring popularity of craft beer the past few years?
KG: I don't know if "surprised" is the right word. It's amazing that it's continued to grow and prosper the way it has the last five years. I guess I didn't envision that it would continue with this much acceleration of growth.
T-N: As a father, talk about watching the development of your son, Brian, as a person as he's moved across the country and become a husband, father and leader of this world renowned brewery all at the same time.
KG: He's definitely had the trial by fire going on. It's been great to watch him grow. It's been tough — it would be tough for anybody, it's been tough for our whole team — to maintain this kind of intensity with construction and development of the new brewery. I've been out there pretty much every other week since we started, so I've been there to support him. But it's been hard on all of us, and certainly having a new family and new home and all that has added a lot of complexity to his life. But he's handled it well, as has my daughter, Sierra, who is working in the Chico brewery and shouldering a lot of responsibility as well.
T-N: Once the Mills River facility is complete, will you begin to scale back on your travel back and forth?
KG: I think so. I'll certainly be coming out on a regular basis, but I probably won't continue with the every other week much past the end of this year.
T-N: Is retirement on the nearby horizon?
KG: No, I'm not thinking about retirement yet but I would like to work less.
T-N: After all the years of toiling and the challenges you faced in building Sierra Nevada from scratch, talk about the sense of pride you feel as this world-class dream brewery of yours continues to go up.
KG: Hopefully I'll be able to enjoy all that here in the next six months as everything wraps up. It's been a really focused effort until now, and will continue until we get things open and operational. As things get completed, it's great to look at them and check the box off that, 'Yeah, we got that done,' so there's been plenty of milestones and we've got a few more to go, but the light at the end of the tunnel is getting a little closer, which is great to see. We've still got a fairly significant workforce focused on completion and will continue to be for the next six months, but we're definitely on the down slope of getting things wrapped up.
T-N: Can you share any stories of an unexpected challenge or hurdle you and your team faced during construction?
KG: There were lots of things that were head-scratching and upsetting. Probably one big one that comes right to mind was when our fermentation tanks arrived there were some small dents in the outer jacketing, on the cosmetic side of it. The first day the sun got on the tanks they started to buckle, and it turned out they hadn't provided enough expansion joints in the outer skin, and as the heat got on the tanks they would get waves in them, and then when they cooled off it was one of those things where it wasn't apparent when the sun was shining on them. So we were able to cut some expansion joints and relieve the pressure, but it took quite a bit of work to solve that problem. We had just gotten these tanks and an hour later it was like, 'Oh, my God, there's wrinkles in them!'
T-N: You chose Western North Carolina for a reason to build your expansion facility. Now that you've been part of the community for the past two-and-a-half years, talk about the validation of the choice that you made.
KG: The community has been hugely supportive; we've really felt welcomed. We don't have any regrets for choosing Western North Carolina. It's been a really positive experience right from the beginning.


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Hi All,
Seriously considering getting the new 2005 Subaru Legacy 2.5 GT Limited. I test drove it and found it SUPERB for handling and great acceleration. However, being a huge fan of upgrades ,
* Are there ANY real modifications available to the Legacy (in the U.S.), from STI (Subaru's awesome racing division)?
I heard about a chip you can add on, that unlocks the full power of the WRX STI engine on the Legacy, but a follow-up question (if this chip exists):
* Why wouldn't Subaru just have the full power unlocked on the STI engine for the Legacy? Could it be that the Transmission can't handle it? (I'm looking for an Automatic.) Or just horrible fuel economy?
Thanks in advance for any help on upgrades here! I'm willing to import if it works.
Lastly, any new updates on getting the Audio System replaced w/ Aftermarket? Last time I checked, there are no adequate face plates to cleanly install an aftermarket Audio Systems, sigh.
made the Legacy GT with 300+ hp, it would do several things, I feel: one, it would directly impact the WRX STi market share; two, it may cause many consumers NOT to buy it, since talking the wife into a 250 hp car is one thing, but talking her into a 300 hp version is another; and there's not yet a market for a 300 hp wagon, especially at the price point Subaru is trying to maintain.0
So aside from marketing issues, are there in fact chips for the Legacy? An online search yielded me no results. I'd like to know if I can add a chip to bump the HP up to 300. I have not purchased a Legacy yet, but I plan to very soon. I want the short throw shifter (I heard the stock shifter has a long throw, much like my current Prelude).
Crutchfield reps told me there was no aftermarket CD player to fit the Legacy. I guess I will be stuck with a crappy stock unit :-(0
You're not going to get 50HP out of a chip. That's not realistic I don't think. If you really want 50 more HP (reliable, practical HP I mean, not a nitrous bottle), you're going to have to spend some serious money.0
buddhabman Posts: 252There is a reflashed ECU available for the Subaru Leagcy GT. I think the West Coast EVO/STi Tuner Guru Vishnu sells it. The claim is for 50HP/50LB-Ft Trq. You probably might not get that without some exhaust mods but maybe. Vishnu is pretty highly regarded in the Subaru & EVO tuning camps. I think the 50HP will be pretty noticable if you have a stick, less so with auto.
There are some brake mods and of course a stiffer rear anti-roll bar to lessen any AWD push. Though the Legacy is pretty good in turns.
For 32K the fully loaded Legacy is pretty nice. It will be interesting to see if they ever doa magazine compare with the new IS350, M35, A4, V70R, S50. I think it will prove out pretty well.0
merrycynic Posts: 340Driftracer,
I'm not the only one here that has been crying out for an STi wagon. As far as I know, Subaru plans on creeping upscale. I think full blown STi wagons in both Impreza and Legacy lines would be just great!0
but until recently, the market here in the states wouldn't have supported the effort - again, I say YEAH to Sony's Gran Turismo games!!0
A cat-back exhaust, which you will need on a street car, is only good for 3-4 HP as a rule, so that's not much for what you spend. I bet a cannister type air filtration system (ram-effect) would help. I've heard there are some slick ones coming out of Europe that might get you 7-8HP at high rpm.0
"highly regarded" after Car&Driver write up about their long term Evo.
Apparently after the "upgrade" car became very trouble prone.
PS http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=17&article_id=9270&page_number=4
PS2 It could be true about any tuner not just Vishnu.0
Well this is what happens with mods...you need to shake the bugs out, sometimes over and over again. I thought it was interesting that to gain 82 HP they had to install a new exhaust system, a new turbocharger housing, new camshafts and cam gears, and a remapped engine computer. This is a far cry from just a "chip" for 50 HP.
We have an EVO out here in the Bay Area that is apparently putting out about 800HP with a stroker kit and all kinds of other radical works. Problem is, the car has no armor shielding and nobody is willing to dyno it---too risky for personnel and liability to the car.
Sounds like their EVO was running too lean, a common mistake when creating more boost from TC or SC.0
I want that...
But $750 for them to perform a few minutes of work on the ECU seems excessive...
If I could get it for $300 - $500 I would seriously consider it.
What happens to my factory warranty if I get the ECU reflashed?0
I think it's toast. Apparently some dealers now have equipment that can tell as soon as they hook up.0
There's some more discussion about various Subbie mods over in Subaru Crew - Modifications II.
Steve, Host0
fzanetti Posts: 7I was just curious...
Was just curious if anyone got his/her 2.5GT a Vishnu ECU refresh?
How was the feeling? Incredible difference?
I have drive the WRX with Vishnu ECU refresh Stage Subzero - 265hp, and the punch increase is very noticeable....(talking manual transm here btw).
Also, does anyone here know how fas the sportshift transmission changes gears???? Both in the S mode and changing gear manually.....
Any advise is very welcome...
Thanks in advance guys,
Flavio Zanetti
Boston - MA0
focusd Posts: 1Vishnu all the way, call them and see what they offer. I know fellow Evo owners love that shop and same goes for STI guys.
is the way to go. I had my WRX done at www.grdperformance.com in addition to full, catless race exhaust. I wound up at 215-220 whp&wtq vs. 165-170 bone stock. The difference is amazing particularly with spool up and powerband width.
Vishnu does the same thing that most Ecutek reseller/installers do. They access your ECU the same way your Subaru tech dept would if you brought it in for repairs - via the OBDII port. Unlikes "chips" or "piggybacks" that require cutting or splicing of OE wiring harnesses there is no physical evidence of a reflashing...nor can they prove it.
40-50whp and 50-60wtq are common improvement ranges on the current iteration reflashes for the Legacy GT. AWD dyno time plus a new DP might add another 10-15whp/wtq and a new UP maybe 5-10whp/wtq.
$750 is a BARGAIN for 20%+ power improvements - there is no other bolt-on that can replicate it for the price/value/reliability/warranty issues. You could waste $1-1.5K on a TBE exhaust only to get a loud, smelly car with nominal 10whp/wtq gains.
As for competition Volvo makes a Type R V70 at 300hp, BMW's 540iT was about 290hp and the S6 Avant was 340hp.
You could have a sleeper Legacy GT that is faster, more powerful and more reliable than any of the above for <50% of the cost of any of the above.0
"faster, more powerful and more reliable" to describe car that had its ECU modified.
Did you read the nightmare Car&Driver had with their Vishnu modified Evo?
Evos are notorious for long-term reliability with or w/o reflash.
I believe this thread is about Subarus. Until I see a good sample of Subie reflashes gone awry I'll stick to facts such as a) I've never had a problem going on 30K+ miles post-reflash on my WRX (knock on wood) and b) I've never seen others have problems.
Again, I'm talking about just the reflash - not replacing other critical parts such as exhaust, BOV, fuel systems, etc. Also, stories of DIYers messing up their rides don't count either - they should leave this stuff to the pros or keep their whining to themselves.0
anyone know of any mods for an 00 outback. the idaho speed center told me one way is to find a wrecked wrx or sti and rob it blind for parts. anyone have another solution, if im going to find a wrx or sti, i might as well get a newer one and drive that because im going to spend not too much more for a newer one that hasn't been wrecked
Hey, another Outback owner named Steve - nothing new there, but I'm in Idaho too. Mine's a '97 OB Ltd. Join us for the Subaru Chat in about 5 minutes if you are still around. Link is on the left.
ok, carry on. :-)
Steve, Host0
hey mines a Ltd too. fully loaded which makes it a dog. and as for chat ill try to look at it tomorrow. you done anything to yours.
on another note, do you know of a adaptor for the six disk changer to adapt over to a regular imput on an aftermarket player
The Subaru Crew chat is a weekly event - almost every Thursday night.
Mine just putts around town and I barely drive it until Bogus opens. I haven't filled it up since July 1. :-)
Check out the Sound Systems - Aftermarket & OEM Upgrades discussion for adapter questions.
Steve, Host0
mikeydee Posts: 2Also check out Cobb Tuning; they specialize in Subaru upgrades. They have a Stage 1 kit that is supposed to bump the hp to 290 with just an ECU mod (using a neat AccessECU thingy that lets you choose from a variety of maps, including a "valet" (aka "teenager") map), and they are working on a Stage 2 kit which adds an exhaust kit to the Stage 1 kit for a boost to 305hp. Price for the Stage 1 kit is a bit cheaper than Vishnu, plus you have the ability to flash back the stock map if you need to have warranty work done...0
saberkat Posts: 1>Also, does anyone here know how fas the sportshift >transmission changes gears???? Both in the S mode and >changing gear manually.....
When the SPORTSHIFTs are in S mode the tranny simply shifts at a higher rpm than it normally would.
When there in manual mode there's a little less than a second delay from when you hit the control (either the shifter or the wheel buttons) to when the car upshifts. Just enough time to plunge the thing into the red >:)
stickguy Posts: 33,262Does anyone know if the standard radio (on an '06 SE) has an aux jack on the back? I'm considering buying one, and am wondering if I have any options to hardwire an ipod into the head unit, since I hate the way FM modulation works in my area.
I don't care about anything fancy (like having the radio control anything but volume), I really just want an Aux jack to plug into. If it is there, shouldn't be too hard to pull out the head unit, and fish the wire to someplace convenient. I assume there are kits that will plug right into the ipod and supply power, since there seems to ne an accessory for just about everything else.
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We let the stack of breakfast dishes sit sticky and we stayed around the table… for three hours. What started out as conversation evolved into an epic board game battle while my daughter and I knitted scarves and I'm pretty sure my son refined his noise-making skills. Oh, junior high boys, you are a mystery.
It wasn't planned. It wasn't perfect. It wasn't entirely peaceful.
There were arguments with winners and losers and tangled yarn battles and annoyances.
So, basically, you know, family life.
But there was laughter and love and the one word that has impacted our home more than any other the past few years. Togetherness. There was intentional purpose to make time to be together.
I think in a perfect world, we equate togetherness with peace. But if your world is anything like mine, reality is often chaos. There are tears and fears and giggles and grumbling. It's a hodgepodge of emotions. But through it all, we choose to be together and that has strengthened us.
We visited House Church (think midweek Bible Study for families) and we ended up at a house without children. The leader offered a TV to my kids, but I asked if we might stay together, study together. My children sat still as church mice on the leather couch in a stranger's house, quietly listening and I could only think how bored they must be. But as soon as our van door closed, they all talked at once how much they enjoyed the Bible Study and declared being together was the best part and could we please do that again? I smiled wide in the dark car on the way home because I couldn't agree more.
The world will pull our families apart if we let it. It will divide and separate us and interrupt dinner and encourage us to live for yourselves and forget others. It will tell you to buy into the American Dream for your family and move out of that starter home and build your own little Kingdom of worldly possessions.
But our culture won't tell your family breaking bread and breaking your life and giving it away is the way to really keep it together.
If you want to change your family, the world, do it side-by-side. It doesn't have to cost a dime or even that much time. It's about getting back to the basics and getting back together.
Go to church together. Ride bikes together. Play games together. Clean the kitchen together. Look for opportunities to bond as a family in your every day life and a new year is the perfect time to start.
My kids are getting older and I feel a pull to draw them back in.
Start with one or two of these four goals that can radically impact your home:
- Eat Together – This is as simple as it sounds, but it's not always easy. And it's definitely not a priority in many families (especially as kids get older). When I had toddlers around the table, I just got through many nights. But I did it because it set precedence and one day, your meal will last longer than 9 minutes. As children grow, the demand to move away from the table is strong with practices and rehearsals and games. Fight against it.
- Read Together –I don't have to tell you that reading to your children will change their life. But so will reading with your kids. Several years ago, we moved from reading to our kids to reading books with them. You can check out some recommendations here (I've updated the list). Pick a book and read one-page-at-a-time until you're done. You won't regret this kind of togetherness. A perfect time to do so is at the dinner table (and a chalkboard table helps busy hands).
- Serve Together –By far, this has changed our family the most and kids are never too young or too old to give to others in some way. (I have a huge list of ideas here). After making this a priority in our lives, I'm beginning to see that my children are becoming servants. Start with one or two opportunities a year; it doesn't have to be about quantity to give quality to your family and others.
- Gratitude Together – Get in the habit of sharing the highs and lows of your day together, write down your thanks. Keep a record. Thankfulness and giving our children opportunities to work hard are great ways to defeat entitlement in our home and stir up grateful reflection. I love this one for kids: My First Gratitude Journal: A Write-in, Draw-in Gratitude Journal for Kids.
Goals are just that –goals. We don't eat together seven nights a week, four weeks a month, twelve months a year. But we try to. We don't schedule things during dinner. We look for opportunities to serve; we practice gratitude. We don't always hit the mark, but we aim for it and hit much higher than we would if we led life lead us instead of the other way around.
This week, I'm reposting some of my most shared blog posts of 2014 with you. Thanks for being a part of this community. I can't wait to see what 2015 brings!


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Iran Declares Victory Over Internet-In-A-Suitcase
from the efforts-still-ongoing-vs.-d**k-in-a-box deptWhatever anyone comes up with, Iran has an answer for it. The regular internet (a.k.a., "The Wild West") too wild and free and uncensored? No problem. Iran's got it covered with its own internet (still in progress). You say you've put some men and other assorted animals into orbit? Hey, Iran's been doing that since sometime this month.
So, what's up next for Iran, the little dictatorship that could? Why, it's nothing less than announcing its triumph over the possibly still-in-progress internet-in-a-suitcase. Built by the US to keep dissidents supplied with a viable internet connection and a direct line to the CIA, the internet-in-a-suitcase has already proven to be no match for whatever it is that Iran did to combat it. Says Iranian Intelligence Minister, Heidar Moselhi:
[U.S. President Barack] Obama admitted several times, in Congress and elsewhere, that the cyberwars he has carried out against us have not succeeded. He has admitted defeat. We had foreseen in advance the steps they are taking in cyberspace -- for example, the 'Internet in a Suitcase' that they have hyped so much -- and we have ways to counter it," Moslehi said in an interview with Iranian state television.A very bold statement from Moselhi, who makes the brash claim that the U.S. has already conceded this cyberwar "several times." The only thing stopping a chorus of "[citations please]" from raining down on his head is the implicit threat of violence aimed at dissenting opinions. Moselhi seems to have wiped the Stuxnet situation from his memory, much like Stuxnet itself wiped several years of nuclear arms racing right off Iran's "World Domination Timeline" by tearing them a literal wormhole via some cybernetic centrifuge abuse.
But... but... supremacy!
In addition to the un-vetted statement above, Iran would also like you to be aware that its military is tops in cyberspace readiness:
Seeing as the product in question isn't even completely out of R&D yet (or is it? [conspiratorial hmmm accompanied by raised eyebrow]), how does the Iranian superforce know exactly what it's combating? Is it just shaking down everyone carrying luggage or posting "No Luggage Allowed" signs everywhere? Did they hire the Samsonite ape to beat the hell out of everything while outlawing the purchase of ape-proof luggage?
Army Commander Ahmadreza Pourdastan has said that the Iranian Army is adequately prepared to counter any possible cyber threats against the Islamic Republic.
"Iranian armed forces are capable of carrying out offensive and defensive cyber operations," Brigadier General Pourdastan told the Mehr News Agency on Saturday. "The Army is fully prepared to defend the country against cyber attacks," he said. "We are not afraid that other countries are turning to (strategies and tactics of) cyber war because we are also familiar with cyberspace."
Perhaps the military's newly minted cyberwarriors are already on the attack, browsing farhadslist.org for spikes in luggage listings or suspicious "Missed Connections" with half the conversation in English. Who knows? Even more to the point, who's saying? Much like its earlier claim of internet superiority over various hacktivists, this is another unprovable statement that Iran will use as evidence of its constant victory over every nation with at least a modicum of civil rights.
Stay tuned.
Filed Under: cyberdefense, cybersecurity, internet in a suitcase, iran