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300 done, 1500 to goPosted: October 17, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: observational cosmology, redshift surveys 2 Comments
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Last week I was in Milan doing something I traditionally don't really do – getting my hands dirty on data, and doing my bit to make it usable for science.
By data, in this case, I mean 100,000 spectra which were collected by the VIMOS spectrograph which is one of the instruments on the Very Large Telescope in Paranal for a new project caller VIPERS. A spectrum is simply the light of an object decomposed in a relatively large number of components. So instead of decomposing an image in, say, 3 colours, a spectrum will often have hundreds to thousands of different pixels – or colours, really – so we can see exactly how "red", or "blue" an object is. Think of it as a rainbow – which is simply the light of the Sun decomposed in a number of colours. And yes, astronomers spend a large amount of effort effectively making rainbows out of the light of galaxies.
Spectra of objects (stars, galaxies, quasars, planets, etc) are one of the most useful observables of our Universe. Depending on whether you are a cosmologists or someone who studies galaxy evolution, you want them mainly for different reasons. Today I'm going to put my cosmologist hat on.
As we've covered here before, galaxies have a very rich range of properties which we can use to trace their evolution. With our hat today, none of it matters – the astonishing this is that we can learn an awful lot about the evolution of the Universe as a whole simply by studying the position of these galaxies. This is the realm of observational cosmology – the study of the birth, evolution, dynamics, composition and ultimate fate of our Universe by studying the spacial distribution of galaxies. This may be a somewhat narrow description of a huge field of modern-day Astronomy, but to first order it's perfectly correct.
So why is the spacial distribution of galaxies so revealing? Well, let us start by considering the components of our Universe. In our current standard model we have four main components: radiation, baryonic matter, dark matter and dark energy. The first two we are very familiar with – baryonic here just refers to the matter that makes up all we see in the Universe: ourselves, the solar system, distant galaxies, far away planets, etc. The last two are more of a mystery, and excitingly also the two most important components of our Universe today. I must leave a more thorough explanation for another post, but for now let us state that there is 5 times more dark matter out there than baryonic matter, but we can't see it. It interacts gravitationally with baryonic matter so we can detect its presence and because it is so much more abundant than baryonic matter, it's dark matter that has the most influence in the master game of tug of war that is the evolution of our Universe – not baryonic matter. The other player is dark energy. Now, I can't tell you what dark energy is (nobody can), but I can tell you that it behaves in the opposite way to gravity. Whereas one attracts, the other repels. Whereas one brings things closer together, the other takes them apart.
The amount of dark matter and dark energy govern the dynamics of our Universe, but we can't see either of them directly. So we turn to what we can see: baryonic matter, via the radiation produced mainly (but not exclusively) by stars. The neat thing is that baryonic and dark matter attract each other gravitationally, so baryonic matter traces dark matter. And this is why simply measuring where galaxies sit is so insightful – it gives you a tool to track dark matter and see how its spacial distribution evolves. This in turn tells you about the interplay between dark matter and dark energy – depending on which one dominates, by how much and for how long, the evolution of the spacial distribution of dark matter (and therefore galaxies) will be different. And that we can measure! The spacial distribution (or clustering) of galaxies is one of the most promising tools to tell us about dark energy and how structure has grown in our Universe.
But before all of this can be done, we need to know the distance to each galaxy. This means measuring their redshift, by using the spectrum of each galaxy to determine how fast it is receding from us – which in turn tells us how far away it is. If the data coming out of the telescope and spectrograph are good enough, the whole process can be fully automatised. However, our position is slightly different in that due to some instrumental artifacts, the red side of the spectra is much below standard and the computerised pipeline often fails in assigning the correct redshift.
This is where I (and around 25 other people) come in. Humans are much much better at spotting mistakes than computers, so each of the 100,000 spectra is being looked at by at least two different people to make sure that the redshift is correct and that when the time comes to do science, we are doing it with reliable data. As I mentioned, this is not something I'd ever done before, so my time in Milan was used to get me trained and up to scratch with the software. I measured 300 redshifts this week, which is rather slow especially when I think that I have to do 1500 more or so in the next couple of months!
It's a huge task but one that really needs to be done. And on the upside, I will never get bored on a train or airport ever again!
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Update: That J.J. Abrams Mystery Trailer Was for a Book Called 'S.'
Update 9/9/13: A second trailer for this project hit online today (embedded below), confirming that it's for a book called S., conceived by J.J. Abrams and written by Doug Dorst, hitting store shelves on October 29, 2013. The book itself sounds a bit like Mark Z. Danielewski's brilliant House of Leaves, in that it is a mystery that unravels itself using notes and references made by fictitious parties.
Oh, that J.J. Abrams and his "Mystery Box" -- what will it bring us next? Considering the fact that Abrams' production company Bad Robot is involved in all sorts of projects, from television shows to movies, it's hard to tell what this new, mysterious teaser trailer is, well, teasing.
It's titled Stranger, and it seems to follow a man who goes missing and then reappears with his lips sewn shut, followed by the text "Soon he will know," perhaps alluding to this man's journey to figure out who he is, where he came from and why his lips are sewn shut... cause that kinda sucks.
If we were to guess, this is tied to a new television show Bad Company is working on. No, we don't think it's in any way related to Star Wars (so squash those dorky thoughts right now), but it's definitely intriguing. From the Lost-style piano cues to a dude with his lips sewn shut, color us interested in knowing more about this.
We're not always fans of the way Abrams uses his "Mystery Box," but we like to be teased. We like to stretch our imaginations. Unfortunately, more times than not, we like that better than the finished product. Where do you see this going, and what do you think it's tied to -- a TV show, a movie or something else entirely?
Update: Apparently it was something else entirely, as multiple reports are suggesting this teaser is linked to a book called S., by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams. From the L.A. Times: "Abrams conceived of and developed a multilayered literary puzzle of love and adventure. At its core, we have a book of mysterious provenance. In the margins, another tale unfolds: hand-scribbled notes, questions, and confrontations between two readers. Between the pages, online, and in the real world, you'll find evidence of their interaction, ephemera that brings this tale vividly to life."
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Yesterday, District of Delaware Judge Sue L. Robinson declined jurisdiction over a discovery dispute involving a party's instruction not to answer. At a deposition, the plaintiff's attorney directed the nonparty deponent — who was involved in prosecuting the underlying patent — to refrain from answering certain questions on work-product grounds.
The Court found that any order on the subject would have to originate from the court where the deposition occurred:
[A]lthough the nonparty deposition was taken outside this jurisdiction, the nonparty witness was represented by plaintiff's counsel, and it was plaintiff's counsel who instructed the witness not to answer certain questions based on work product. Nevertheless, the protection belongs to the attorney witness, not to the client . . . . Therefore, I conclude that, in this case, an order compelling the nonparty witness to answer is directed to the nonparty, not to plaintiff.
Despite declining jurisdiction, the Court in dicta cautioned that work-product immunity for prosecution activities must proceed on a case-by-case basis: "patent prosecution activities are subject neither to a blanket immunity nor automatic disclosure."
Accenture Global Services GMBH v. Guidewire Software Inc., C.A. No. 07-826-SLR (D. Del. July 29, 2009) (Robinson, J.).


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It's episodes like this that make me happy to be watching Star Trek. I'm feeling a lot of nostalgia, and it's great. This episode also makes me glad I can pause the video. So much information can be missed if you don't! So, you have been warned: spoilers ahead!
Season 1, Episode 3: Where No Man Has Gone Before
Original Air Date: September 22, 1966
Stardate 1312.4
Planet: None. Delta Vega
Featured Alien: None
Main Cast: Kirk, Spock, Scott, Sulu
Main Guest Characters: Lt. Cmdr Gary Mitchell (Gary Lockwood), Lt. Lee Kelso, Dr. Elizabeth Dehner (Sally Kellerman), Dr. Mark Piper
Things I Noticed
First off, it seems there are so many different characters. That's because this was originally the second pilot episode, the one that was made after Lucille Ball encouraged NBC to give the show a second chance. Lucille Ball saved Star Trek! Some differences in this episode are that there are no red uniforms, instead replaced with a lighter yellow. Spock is wearing yellow and Sulu is wearing blue. In this case, Sulu is a physicist, not the helmsman.
McCoy, Uhura, and Rand are not in the pilot, but Scott is. So, this is the first time we get to see Scotty. The other main crew members that we see here are Lt. Commander Gary Mitchell, Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, Lt. Lee Kelso, and Dr. Mark Piper. Only Piper survives this episode.
Mitchell's actor is Gary Lockwood, who is most notably in the 2001: A Space Odyssey movie as Dr. Frank Poole. Dehner's actress is Sally Kellerman, who has had a long acting career. She's still active! She was Major Margaret Houlihan in the M*A*S*H movie.
In this episode, Spock looks a little different. His eyebrows are slanted much more. He also smiles again. Since this was a pilot, and his character wasn't firmly established yet, emotions slip sometimes. On the bridge, later in the episode, he shouts a lot. Very shouty Spock. We also find out that he has human ancestry.
One of the curious things I noticed is that they used zippers. If you look at Kirk's collar at the beginning, you can see a 20th century zipper.
The first three episodes all have something to do with ESP or some other psychic ability. Isn't that odd? Star Trek started out embracing ESP as a fact. Of course, we know this is a fairly common theme in the series, especially with Vulcans and Betazoids. But they have an ESP rating in their medical records. This is where pausing comes in handy with this. Dehner's and Mitchell's medical records are interesting to read. But what I found funny is that they're typed with a typewriter, and then someone underlined key phrases with a pencil or pen.
More on technology, the S. S. Valiant used tapes, but so does the Enterprise. However, they look more like 3 1/2 inch floppy disks. Also, the communicator looks like clear plastic. It's a bit different than the ones they use in later episodes. However, they're still shaped like more modern flip phones.
The Enterprise went through a barrier at the edge of the galaxy, as had the Valiant. But I don't really understand why there would be a barrier there. There's no real scientific basis for this. That's why it's science fiction.
In an interesting parallel with the first episode of The Next Generation, Mitchell and Kirk talk about being at Deneb IV. That's where TNG's first episode takes place. Not only that, both episodes feature beings with god-like powers: Mitchell and Q.
And finally, the sick bay's walls are an awful shade of green. Why'd the choose that colour?
My Impressions
This should have been the first episode! With the major differences in cast and characters, it makes no sense for it to be the third episode. Really, it isn't. However, it was aired after the first two. I wonder how much that confused people. But it turned out that this was a very good episode.
Gary Lockwood as Gary Mitchell was very good. He portrayed a man who was given the ultimate power and his arrogant nature was evident even before it happened. I just felt arrogance from him, and once he had those powers, he took advantage of them early on. Dehner was also affected, but exhibited the changes much later on. Both performances were good. I felt good about Kirk in this episode, too. Spock was Spock-like, but not totally.
We were treated to one of Kirk's signature fights here, too. He's the underdog, he gets bloodied up, and his shirt gets ripped. That always happens. He has a strange fighting style, but we love it, don't we?
The action and tension in this episode were top notch for Star Trek. The original series never had the best fight choreography, but this was decent. And the main theme of this episode, absolute power corrupts absolutely is done well. Probably one of the better episodes, and really should have been the first.
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It's always fun to see where musical celebrities will venture in San Francisco. After a fantastic show with young collaborator Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) at the Orpheum Theatre on Monday night, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne apparently spent much of Tuesday hanging out around the Mission and Bernal Heights, killing time before his evening talk at City Arts and Lectures.
Byrne was spotted by several sources, as the ever-vigilant Bernalwood recounted today. He apparently wasn't photographed, but there are enough credible sources reporting this that we're just going to ignore the usual "pics or it didn't happen" rule. First to Tweet about it was NYT Magazine contributer Jon Mooallem, who said he saw Byrne on Bernal Hill's Cortland Avenue.
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* David Byrne and St. Vincent Take Love This Giant to New Heights at the Orpheum, 10/15/12
Byrne's presence in the general Mission-Bernal vicinity was confirmed later by the folks at 826 Valencia:
@bernalwood do you have a drudge siren? DAVID BYRNE IS ON CORTLAND RIGHT NOW.— Jon Mooallem (@jmooallem) October 16, 2012
Also yesterday, another NYT writer in the area, Malia Wollan, chimed in with more Byrne info:
This must be the place David Byrne likes to visit. #davidbyrneinthepiratestore— 826 Valencia (@826_Valencia) October 16, 2012
Bernalwood chalks up the lack of presence-proving pics to some general politeness among the neighborhood's residents: "Alas, no one got any photos of David Byrne on Cortland, because the denizens of Cortlandia prefer to play it cool -- which is great for Bernal's street cred, but bad for our paparazzi." But frankly, we're amazed that David Byrne could meander through the streets of San Francisco in broad daylight without pictures appearing somewhere on the Internet. We stalk Zuck's every dietary fancy -- obsessing over where he lives and eats -- but can't be bothered to surreptitiously snap one of the post-punk greats when he visits our town? Losing your edge, San Francisco, losing your edge. (But hey, if you DID get pictures of Byrne on the streets of S.F. yesterday, we'd love it if you'd send 'em our way! We'll give you credit, hugs, gratitude, etc.) [h/t to Bernalwood and the above Tweeters.] See also: * David Byrne and St. Vincent Take Love This Giant to New Heights at the Orpheum, 10/15/12 -- @iPORT
@jmooallem @chriscolin3000 @7im @bernalwood sources say he's cruising city on a rented bike before @cityartssf show. Also, dude can dance.— Malia Wollan (@mwollan) October 16, 2012


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The objective of Monkey Pool is slightly different than that of other pool games that you may be familiar with. One of the main differences is that it is the Cue Balls that score, that win or lose, and the Players are somewhat incidental to the process. The game requires, if not mastery, then at least a working knowledge of all the skills of barroom pool, billiards, snooker, bumper pool, geometry, algebra, high-energy physics, transpersonal psychology and xenozoology.
Monkey Pool is best played by at least three people, and up to six have participated to good effect, but four or five is ideal. Hats are essential for keeping track of which Player belongs to which Cue Ball at any given point. If more than three Players are involved, the extras are Judges, rotating in as Scratches dictate.
The score begins at 10 points for each of the Positive Scoring Cue Balls. Each Player (except the Judge(s)) begins with a Cue Ball and all break simultaneously, followed by the Player who won the coin toss. Play proceeds to the next eldest Player (including Judge(s)). Points are scored for pocketing Scoring Balls (4's, 7's (both of which are known as "4-Balls"), 6's, 10's, 11's), knocking Monkeys into pockets, causing Elephants to achieve various formal permutations, forming the Purple Cross on the head spot, and Untabling Purple Balls while the Purple Cross is intact. Two of the Cue Balls maintain a score and the third subtracts from whichever of the two Scoring Cue Balls the Player wishes. From time to time a Doubling Round will occur, where all scores are doubled.
Upon Scratching, the Scratched Cue Ball is placed in the scratching Player's Hat and given to the next Player; all Hats rotate at this point, including the Judge(s), though occasionally a permanent Judgeship will be bestowed due to exhaustion. Reverse Scratches occasionally occur, causing Hats to be passed in reverse order.
Play ends when five 4-Balls have reformed the Purple Cross on the headspot and the remaining three 4-Balls have been Untabled and placed on the three head rail spots. The Player controlling the Cue Ball with the high score at this point is declared the Winner.
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Setup and Break
The balls are racked with the five 4-Balls of the Purple Cross centered on the head spot, the other balls arranged more or less symmetrically behind them, with the Scoring Balls grouped pleasingly with triangles and 45 degree angles dominating.
One Purple Monkey is placed in front of each of the corner pockets and an Elephant in front of each side pocket. The Elephants should be able to be recognized one from the other, as it is at times necessary to replace them in front of their pocket of origin. Likewise, the Purple Monkeys should also be recognized for the individuals they are. The Snowman Bumper is held off the table until after the break. If the smaller Snowman is used, it is, of course, also held off the table.
Each Positive Scoring Cue Ball begins the game with 10 points.
Order of play is determined by a series of coin tosses between sucessive pairs of as many Players as wish to participate, the winner of each toss challenging the next Player until an ultimate winner is selected. This Player (the Coin Toss Winner) selects one of the three Cue Balls (or the Judgeship if more than three are playing) and a Hat which is linked to that particular Cue Ball for the duration of the game. The picking order follows the hierarchy of Coin Toss Winners until each Player is allied with a Hat and Cue Ball or Judgeship. In games of four Players there will be a Judge, accoutered with Official Judging Visor. In games of more than four Players, there will be a Senior Judge and a Junior Judge and so on.
The break is simultaneously made by the three Cue Ball controlling Players, with the Cue Balls placed on the foot string spots, the Coin Toss Winner's Cue Ball in the center and the others to the right or left as they will, and generally on a count of "three." No points are scored on the break.
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Canada's elite alpine competitors will not being staying in the $131 million 2010 Olympic Athletes' Village built to house them at Games time.
"The (athletes') village is more of a staging location rather than where the athletes are actually staying," said Ken Read the CEO of Alpine Canada Alpin (ACA), the governing body of alpine ski racing in Canada.
"That means they come through there, but when they are competing they are not staying there."
ACA has already lined up accommodation in Whistler, though the exact location remains a secret. It will use the same accommodation for the February World Cup races and Canadian Championships as well as competitions in 2009.
Read said athletes bound for the Olympics will have been preparing for years, "and you want to be sure you have every single aspect thought of prior to going into competition.
"That includes the bed they sleep in, the food they eat, the utensils they use, everything. We can't risk anything."
The cost of the accommodation for the athletes outside the village is paid for by the ACA. The organization is funded by the federal government, sponsors and private contributions.
For 2007, with a financial year ending April 30, the ACA received $8.4 million from corporate advertising and sponsorships, $4.6 million from the federal government, $892,000 from corporate and personal donations, $598,000 from memberships and fees, and $1.9 million from fundraising, team fees and other sources. Alpine Canada's budget for 2007 was nearly $16.5 million. For 2008 the organization is anticipating a $20 million budget.
Whistler's $131 million athletes' village, which will become affordable employee-restricted housing after the Games, is being partially funded by the 2010 Organizing Committee (VANOC) out of its government supported venues budget. VANOC will contribute $37.5 million to the village. The rest of the money is being borrowed by the municipality and will be paid back following the sale of the units to Whistler residents after the Olympics.
It's likely Canada won't be the only country housing its athletes outside the athletes' village. Other well-heeled National Olympic Committees (NOC), such as Austria, will also keep their top athletes away from the village at competition time.
"It has been the case for decades and decades," said Read.
Other Canadian athletes who will be competing in Whistler in 2010 — the ski jumpers, Nordic competitors and biathletes — are still working on their accommodations and have not decided how they will use the athletes' village, which can house 2,750 athletes at Games time.
Tim Gayda, vice president of sport for VANOC said even with teams electing to stay outside of the village all the accommodation will be used, as teams travel with dozens of support staff, all of whom need accommodation.
"In terms of the number of beds we know we need those beds it is just more or less how they are allocated within each of the NOCs," he said.
Gayda said it is common for competitors to go in and out of the athletes' village as they compete.
Asked if VANOC was upset that athletes were choosing to stay elsewhere Gayda said: "In terms of it being upsetting we know that this is the reality of every Games.
"(Our) focus is to make sure we are providing a great environment for the athletes to prepare for their competition. That is the number one thing we want to make sure of.
"Then (we want) to provide them the kind of unique experience that you might only find in Whistler — that Canadian experience — for the NOCs that are coming to Canada. It is to create a once in a lifetime experience in terms of having all these nations together in the Olympic environment in this unbelievable setting in Whistler."


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Not getting any play in the Western media, but the struggle in Egypt is incomparably more promising for the advancement of the Left than whatever is going on in Iran: Per Bjorklund, "Egypt's State-Controlled Unions Under Pressure" (10 August 2009); and Per Bjorklund, "Tax Collectors Repeat Historical Sit-in" (11 August 2009).
BTW, have I mentioned that Hossam el-Hamalawy, referenced in Bjorklund's notes above, is very hot (and about four decades younger than Mousavi who is even older than Ahmadi) in case any of you is looking for a cute Middle Eastern youth to back, the fashion in this political season? He's a revolutionary Marxist, too (unlike probably 99.99999% of the Green protesters in Iran, no matter how cute they are) if that means anything to you.
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September 30, 2011
Everyday Paris
Another page from my Imaginary Trip to Paris with Laure Ferlita. Enjoying the sights, food and museums. Sure wish I was there!
September 23, 2011
Wandering Paris
My Imaginary Trip to Paris continues. Lots of fun and laughs with a great bunch of artists and Laure Ferlita (our host). This week we are touring Versailles, and WOW! The assignment was to pick a scene and do a time sketch (the time up to us). I am striving to learn fast sketch techniques and I am happy to say I am!! I allowed 10 minutes for a quick pen only sketch of the framework and scribbles of the art within of this CEILING view (yes the ceiling is jaw dropping gorgeous). 10 minutes for paint concentrating on VALUES. then 10 or so for text 'back at our hotel'. Sorry my text scanned so faintly - need to up my pen sizes. There are more pages to post, as soon as I have time ;)
September 8, 2011
Imaginary Trip to Paris - Crypt
Laure Ferlita hosts Imaginary trips to wonderful places (imaginarytrips.com) and a troupe of fabulous journal sketchers have just arrived in Paris, myself included. I highly recommend the course for its fun, creative atmosphere with new learning curves around every corner.
Here is my first post from a highly unlikely location: Pere lachaise Cemetery (timed - only 35 minutes allotted) -
I love Paris and my last visit I was a newbie journaler, this trip I am raring to go (and prepare for my Paris trip next spring!)
September 2, 2011
IRENE - day 6
Sloppy mish/mash page as I strive to record some of what surrounds me from Irene remnants. the direct shoreline is so much worse with major devastation than we are. Power companies are struggling to get schools open (already eating up "snow" days). finally there are some gas stations open and a few restaurants and the grocery store. Thee are water refill stations and pot luck suppers here and there, many Good Neighbors. We are lucky Irene was only a TS at time of impact but enough is enough. AND rain and humidity are coming for the holiday weekend - Yipee!
September 1, 2011
Everyday Objects - Last
Day 5 and still no power, at least enough trees are removed that we can navigate the town pretty well (to search for gas, ice, food ;-) Work has power and it is good to be in a normal environment for a time each day. It does appears the main route through town (Rte 1) is getting power gradually so we see hope. We are better off than many with a generator and enough food and a well that Will flush our toilets. But this is getting Old. I need more wine!
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Design Thinking: Meet Your New Strategy for Retaining High-performers
While the War for Talent is heating up for the moment, the War for Top Talent never stopped. Whether you're in a bear or a bull market, high-performers are essential to your organization. They take sales to the next level, they turn customer service into an art form, and they prototype your next best-selling product. If you were trying to sum up the purpose of modern HR, it might go something like this: hire more high performers and figure out how to retain and develop them. Today, we're going to talk about the second part of that statement and how principles of design thinking can make your employee experience more engaging for high-performers and your workforce as a whole.
Pioneered in Silicon Valley, Design Thinking is a methodology used to shorten the time-to-market and improve the quality of new products, services and processes. Design Thinking starts by grounding the project in empathy for the end user and advocates for a rapid cycle of brainstorming, prototyping and testing to optimize the final product. How can this approach help you retain more rock star talent? Let me count the ways!
High-performers are always in demand.
In the age of LinkedIn and Glassdoor.com, your best employees are hyper aware of their value in the marketplace. To retain them, HR needs to start curating employee experiences with programs and processes that serve the needs of top talent. Design Thinking has the potential to deliver human-centered experiences that turn your best people into your biggest fans.
Avoid expensive, drawn out design processes.
Properly applied, Design Thinking principles force you to start prototyping quickly and let the flaws in your concept reveal themselves early. Coupled with frequent opportunities to pilot, collect feedback and reiterate, Design Thinking will help you avoid much of the second guessing and analysis paralysis that can derail your project and cost you money.
Enable mastery and autonomy.
Mastery and autonomy are major motivational forces for most people. Keep this fact in mind when designing your next policy or process. Does it seriously restrict your employees' ability to develop their skills or how they use them at work? Without a compelling reason for such a restriction (e.g., regulatory compliance, safety etc.), Design Thinking dictates that you take the path that best aligns with your employees' fundamental human needs.
Design meaningful rewards and career experiences.
The better you understand your people, the better you can design programs that recognize them the way they want to be recognized and develop them the way they want to be developed. Programs rooted in empathy for the end user can be an essential part of your strategy to retain your top talent.
Design Thinking is no panacea for every human capital challenge under the sun, but it is a powerful tool to increase engagement and reduce roadblocks to performance throughout your organization.
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What are the things that you fondly remember from your childhood?
The thought struck me the other day as I was in the supermarket and saw Soreen Malt Toastie Loaf. Total flashback. I loved this as a child and remember how always, no matter how long you'd kept the loaf in the fridge or bread bin, that when you went to cut a slice the loaf squeezed down to a nanomillimetre square!
So my first childhood memory has to be Soreen Malt Loaf spread with butter. Yes, butter, none of that terribly healthy and good for your cholesterol low-fat spread.
My second memory was helping my mum making cakes and then being able to lick the spoon with the remnants of the unmade cake mixture.
Did it matter one iota that it had a raw egg in? No. The egg scare hadn't happened then. I wonder what would happen today if children were allowed to do that?
But my favourite childhood memory has to be that of my beloved grandfather's carrots.
He was a nursery-man and had a garden as long as a football pitch (not as wide though) and every inch of it was dedicated to growing vegetables. You name it, he grew it!
He kept onions in tights in his shed, along with sackfuls of potatoes. Cabbages, cauliflowers and other staple vegetables were plentiful. Picked, cooked and served when required.
But the best thing was always going over and helping him dig carrots out of the ground, washing them under some water and then eating them. Nothing will ever come close to beating that taste.
My dad, has not inherited the gardening genes, and carrots grown in our vegetable plot tend to be very tiny! SC and I on the other hand love getting grubby in the garden and have decided that this year we will take on the vegetable patch and I hope that the gardening genes have only skipped 1 generation!
In this day and age of technology it saddens me to think that some children will not have innocent happy childhood memories to look back on, but I hope I can make some for SC 😉


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Virtualizing Project Server 2007
This Office product will reach end of support on October 10, 2017. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see , Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.
Server virtualization offers Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 customers the opportunity to run multiple operating systems on a single physical computer. This enables the consolidation of underutilized servers onto a smaller number of fully utilized computers. By implementing virtualization, companies can minimize operational and capital costs associated with deploying and operating the servers required for enterprise applications.
The Windows Server 2008 operating system provides the Hyper-V technology to accommodate server consolidation through virtualization of multiple operating-system instances onto a single physical server.
The key scenarios for implementing Hyper-V are:
Server Consolidation Minimize server footprint and operational and capital expenditure (TCO) associated with running applications by consolidating multiple physical servers onto one computer.
Testing and Development Using virtual machines, developers and architects can quickly provision new computers to try out new technology and scenarios in a safe environment that accurately reflects the characteristics of a physical environment. Virtualization enables new computers to be provisioned running on a wide platform of operating systems without new hardware being required. This provides a great platform for testing and development environments.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Hyper-V includes powerful business continuity and disaster recovery features such as live backup and quick migration, which enables businesses to meet their service-level agreements.
Dynamic Data Center By combining Hyper-V with the Microsoft System Center suite of tools, organizations can automate virtual machine configuration and monitoring.
The information in these articles directly relates to the Server Consolidation and Development scenarios for Hyper-V.
Supportability of Project Server 2007 SP1 and SQL Server 2005 on a Hyper-V virtualized environment
Office Project Server 2007 is fully supported when installed on a supported operating system that is running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 when installed on a supported operating system that is running on Hyper-V is provided as "commercially reasonable" support. "Commercially reasonable support" is defined as all reasonable support efforts by Microsoft Customer Service & Support (CSS) that do not require code fixes for SQL Server 2005.
Hyper-V overview
There are many compelling reasons to consider deploying a production Office Project Server 2007 solution in a Hyper-V virtualized environment. While there is some performance overhead associated with the virtualization layer that enables running a guest operating system on a virtual machine, one of the primary design goals of Hyper-V was to minimize this overhead and therefore maximize performance of guest operating systems. Guest operating systems running in a Hyper-V virtual machine provide performance approaching the performance of an operating system running on physical hardware if the necessary virtual server client (VSC) drivers and services are installed on the guest operating system. Hyper-V virtual server client (VSC) code, also known as Hyper-V enlightened I/O, enables direct access to the Hyper-V "Virtual Machine Bus" and is available with the installation of Hyper-V integration services. Both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista support Hyper-V enlightened I/O with Hyper-V integration services. Hyper-V integration services that provide VSC drivers are also available for other client operating systems, including Windows Server 2003.
For more information about the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology, see Virtualization with Hyper-V (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121187).
For more in-depth information about the benefits of leveraging virtualization technology provided with Hyper-V, see the white paper, Advanced Virtualization Benefits of Windows Server 2008 Editions for the Enterprise (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=123530).
See Also
Hyper-V Architecture (Project Server 2007)
Deploying Project Server 2007 on Hyper-V
Best Practices for using Project Server 2007 on Hyper-V
Installing and configuring Project Server 2007 and Hyper-V
System Resource Costs of Hyper-V (Project Server 2007)


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text: The Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn is a car that was produced by Rolls-Royce at their Crewe works between 1949 and 1955. It was the first Rolls-Royce car to be offered with a factory built body which it shared, along with its chassis, with the Bentley Mark VI until 1952 and then the Bentley R Type until production finished in 1955. The car was first introduced as an export only model. The left hand drive models had a column gear change, while right hand drives had a floor change by the door. Only with the R Type based model was it officially available on the home market, from October 1953.


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Goiânia, Brazil. GLEG's Grand Master welcomed the decision of the Supreme Federal Tribunal regarding the "Ficha Limpa" law. The project involves reducing electoral corruption in Brazil. The Court recognized that the law is constitutional and will come into force in local elections this year.
APMR's Secretary-General welcomes the enthusiasm of the Grand Lodge of Goias and congratulates Grand Master Ruy Rocha for GLEG's initiative.


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It has been argued that there is no more instrumental document in shaping Alaska's modern-day culture than that passed by Congress and signed into law by President Nixon in 1971, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).
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Byron Mallot is one Alaskan leader who has been intimately involved in decisions that have shaped the state. He's been actively involved in the development of the State's future since he was elected mayor at the age of 22 in Yakutat, AK.
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Mallott reflects on the opportunity he received as a young man working for the state, "...We used to say back in those days that having a 'TR' book was power." (The 'TR' book was a state travel request form where one could approach an airline counter and essentially fill out a piece of paper and the agent would provide a ticket). The ability to exercise this privilege in the mid-60s as Mallott did when air travel was prohibitively expensive and nowhere near as reliable as it is today, was incredibly rare. "...There I was, this young person, having an opportunity to travel, to go to Fairbanks, to go to Anchorage, to go to Bethel..."
In the piece, Mallott poignantly discusses the significance of ANSCA from his perspective as a young-man listening to elders in communities and villages across the state, and witnessing first-hand the unique conditions associated with their respective environments.
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Jumbled books at Anchorage's Loussac Library after the 1964 earthquake. View more images at LitSite.
Years ago, librarians were responsible for nurturing a deep knowledge of informational resources contained within a building, the library. Now, this responsibility extends beyond the walls of a traditional library building.
Find out what is happening in libraries throughout Alaska and how librarians and curators are promoting literacy in their communities. Visit
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For a list of programs and events happening in libraries near you visit LitSite's
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A follow-up post authored by Mallott,
Unfinished Business: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
, celebrates the 30th year anniversary of the landmark legislation. In the article, Mallott describes the thought and energy that went into initial drafts and their evolution, as well as the legislation's impact on Native people. "...As we look to the future and search for the path of our journey, we need to sit down and say, 'Who are we?' 'Where are we going?' 'What do we want?'..."
Now, almost ten years later, as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the passage of the landmark legislation, Mallott reflects on this significant issue once again: "I think as Alaskans, we need to make more personal efforts to understand one another - socially, economically regionally. Even in a place this intimate, people can be misperceived, marginalized or misunderstood. We tend to concentrate on the mantra that 'all politics are local' but in Alaska, all politics are personal. We tend to look through filters. It is especially important we try to understand one another. We have a small population and there are consequences to knowing one another better."
Mallott notes there have been many changes to ANCSA since its adoption and more changes are necessary. "Sometimes there is a perception that if Native corporations are doing well, then Native people are doing well, and vice-versa, but the reality is, that is often far from accurate." He notes too, that ANCSA has largely succeeded in the progression of economic development across corporations but there are still 44 million acres that have been preserved for other uses of the land - subsistence, spirituality, Native identity, history and tradition. He suggests a long-term review of all ANCSA lands to determine the best overall value - going well beyond economic - to the benefit of the people. "In Native Alaska, the notion of ties to lands, lifestyles, traditions, languages, values - is incredibly valuable."
Mallott says he is excited about the development and of what is still possible. "Alaska is still a very small place, huge with spiritual and material wealth. It has a huge sense of place that shapes us. Alaska is on a potential destiny that will carve a place in history that would shine forever."
Read Byron Mallot's original ANCSA at 30 interview here...
Read Mallot's article, Unfinished Business here...
View LitSite's complete collection of articles on the Alaska Natives Claims Act of 1971 here...


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Vancouver might not have elected a woman mayor this time around, but eight out of 10 seats on the new council are being filled by women.
That's a significant increase over 2014, which saw an even split of men and women elected to council. The new school board remained the same with women elected to six out of nine trustee positions, the same number that were elected in last year's by-election. On park board, just two of seven commissioners elected this time around are women, a slight decrease from three in the last election.
And while female candidates' successes at the council level might be a first for the city, there is still a way to go, says Ellen Woodsworth, a former city councillor and founder of Women Transforming Cities a group whose aim is to make cities friendlier to women and girls.
"For women, it's very difficult to get elected," she told the Courier. She added that factors such as income level, a woman's household responsibilities, childcare, eldercare and even the current at-large electoral system used in Vancouver all play a factor in the fact that fewer women feel able to step up to run for public office.
"We know that with a ward system eight per cent more women get elected," Woodsworth said.
That is something that could be changing. Among his campaign promises, mayor-elect Kennedy Stewart stated that the 2018 election would be the last at-large election in the city.
He told the Courier Monday: "We're having a referendum provincially on proportional representation. We need to wait for those results, and see what the results are in Vancouver. If there is a vote for proportional representation in Vancouver, then I would move forward with trying to bring proportional representation to the city. If it doesn't go that way, then I would try to bring neighbourhood constituencies to this city."
Shauna Sylvester had hoped to become the city's first woman mayor, but fell short placing third behind Kennedy Stewart and the NPA's Ken Sim. She got 35,537 to Stewart's 49,812 and Sim's 48,828.
On election night, Sylvester acknowledged the push to have more women in power in the city.
"I know that there are many in the city that want more women to assume leadership roles… and there are a lot of women on this city council," she said in her concession speech. "We may not have heard the shatter of the glass ceiling but it's coming. The cracks are really showing and I know around this room there are women who are going to break through it."
Sylvester told the Courier Saturday night that throughout the campaign she was pressured to step down as a candidate.
"There was so much pressure on me to step back, so much pressure, and there was a group of younger women who said, 'You just can't. What's the message you're delivering to us. That's just not OK,'" she said. "And we sat down and we went through a little workshop… and walked out of that [thinking] 'I can't step back.'"
Women Transforming Cities first organized ahead of the 2014 election to identify issues facing women and corresponding actions the city could take to address them. Ahead of this election, the group surveyed women's groups about key issues and hosted a forum that included discussions around top election issues. Its recommendations, 33 policies in 11 areas, include reserving 50 per cent of low-income housing for women and including childcare spaces in all large developments. WTC then sought commitments from electoral parties and candidates running in the election.


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Manchester is one of the beautiful cities in UK. It offers something for everyone ranging from world-class architecture buildings, museums, monuments and great restaurants to vibrant nightlife and shopping areas.
Hotels and Resorts
We will not spoil your plan by saying that we can't help you in booking of hotels.
We care for our customers and for their convenient. Eurostar had a link with various big hotels. You can book your hotel along with your traveling ticket. This will give you three gains. You will get a best way of journey, you will get a best hotel and you can save your money under various offers of Eurostar.
- The Gardens Hotel
- The Lowry Hotel
- IBIS Manchester Centre
- Malmaison Manchester
- Premier Apartment Manchester
- The Midland Hotel
Manchester in Dark
Stunning nights of Manchester will force you to dance on the beats of DJ's. Yes there are lots of things that you can do in nights. It depends on your mood that your nights should rock on the floors or you want to enjoy with wine and drinks.
- The Alchemist
- The Rumours Are True
- Hacienda at Sankeys
- Rain Bar
- Cord
- Band On The Wall
Manchester Shopping
Amazing wears, accessories, households, wine, religious things etc the list is so long. You can do lots of shopping in the city. Highly classy shopping malls or street markets the choice is yours.
- The Trafford Centre
- House of Fraser Kendals
- Selfridges
- Harvey Nichols
- Market Place Outlet Mall
- The Lowry Outlet Mall
Manchester to Paris By Eurostar
Rocking and vibrating city with lots of events is waiting for you. So do not think much joust book your tickets and ride all the way with Eurostar. You will feel the ultimate comfort in this train. It will take your short time and will give you more comforts.
We will take your 5 hours and 12 minutes from Manchester to Paris and you will reach at your dreamy vacation destination. You will get more exited after hearing that the return fair from the city is just £91.
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Mount Carmel Area Football Alumni Organization
The Red Tornadoes would like to connect with former players and people who support MCA. Register here to help the Red Tornadoes continue our tradition.
Support MCA Big Red Band
The Big Red Band needs a new sound system. You can help make it happen by donating to the Mount Carmel Area Education Foundation. Any amount helps to bring this much-needed equipment to the band members.
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You can register to receive the Mount Carmel Area Education Foundation Newsletter via email. We will let you know what's going on at MCA and keep you informed on initiatives and happenings in the district.
MCA is home to one of the first high school television stations in the country and now we're sharing MCA sports highlights and memorable moments on our Youtube channel. Visit our video archives or catch MCA LIVE and morning announcements from the George McFee Television Studio live every school morning at 7:40.


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SEAD was excited to present a poster at IASSIST 2016. The conference took place in Bergen, Norway and was hosted by NSD – Norwegian Centre for Research Data. The poster described current and developing tools available to researchers as they work through their projects, collect rich metadata throughout the whole process, share their data, and discover the best location for preserving and archiving their data. Conference participants learned how SEAD data services can be an integral part of best practices for data management, curation, and dissemination of data at their home institutions.


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Just for clarification, there are now two different types of groups on the forums: usergroups, which we have always had, and which dictate your permissions on the forums - and social groups. So there's no confusion, here's a quick rundown:
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These groups have not changed. Guild members should apply to be included in whatever local (or IBRSC) they belong to. ONLY users who are associated with authorized locals will be allowed to access certain members-only content such as the Little Brown Book and other exclusives. If you register for the site and do NOTHING else, you should apply to be part of your local usergroup. They should not be considered optional for bonafide guild members.
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Social groups are NOT tied to any kind of permissions or exclusive contemt. The best way to describe them are sub-sets of the forums that allow people with similar interests to discuss things that may not be on-topic enough to warrant their own dedicated forums.
Social groups have their own messages, AND their own photo albums. Please try to keep the images posted to the albums PG13 *and* on topic. After all, that is the whole point in having groups.
Any registered forum user may create a group. Any registered forum user may upload photos, and post messages to the group.
I have set up some starter categories. Please let me know if there is a category you feel is missing.
Social groups are entirely, 100% optional, and are there simply to enhance your experience on the forums.
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As of January 1, 2016, Gapers Block has ceased publication. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
✶ Thank you for your readership and contributions over the past 12-plus years. ✶
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Executive Committee
- William Marotti, Director, Associate Professor, History, UC Los Angeles
- Noriko Aso, Associate Professor, History, UC Santa Cruz
- Gregory P. Levine, Associate Professor, Art History, UC Berkeley
- Margherita Long, Associate Professor of East Asian Language and Literatures, UC Irvine
- Kate McDonald, Assistant Professor, History, UC Santa Barbara
- Anne McKnight, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, UC Riverside
- Jordan A. Yamaji Smith, Assistant Professor, Comparative World Literature and Culture, CSULB
- Bert Winther-Tamaki, Associate Professor, Art History & Visual Studies, UC Irvine
- Miriam Wattles, Founder, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara
Cal State University Long Beach
- Jordan A. Yamaji Smith, Assistant Professor, Comparative World Literature and Culture, CSULB
- Kendall Brown, Professor of Asian Art History, School of Arts
- Michiko Takeuchi, Assistant Professor, History
The Ohio State University
- Namiko Kunimoto, Assistant Professor, History of Art Department
Graduate Students:
- Alice T. Phan
UC Davis
- Kyu Kim, Associate Professor of History
- Joseph Sorensen, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
UC Berkeley
- Junko Habu, Associate Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology)
- Gregory P. Levine, Associate Professor of the History of Art
- Daniel O'Neill, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Literature)
- Miryam Sas, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature/ Film Studies
- Alan Tansman, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Literature)
Graduate Students:
- Kristopher Kersey, firstname.lastname@example.com
- Carl Gellert, firstname.lastname@example.com
UC Merced
- ShiPu Wang, Assistant Professor of Soc. Sci, Humanities, and Arts (Art History)
- Ken Yoshida, Assistant Professor in the Global Arts Studies Program
UC Santa Cruz
- Noriko Aso, Associate Professor of History
- Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History
- Shelly Errington, Professor of Anthropology
- Stacy L Kamehiro, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture (Oceania)
UC Santa Barbara
- Ann-Elise Lewallen, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
- Sabine Fruhstuck, Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies
- Kate McDonald, Assistant Professor, Modern Japan Department of History
- Hyung Il Pai, Professor of EALCS (History/Archaeology)
- Luke Roberts, Professor of History
- Kate Saltzman-Li, Associate Professor of EALCS (Comp Lit/ Lit)
- Miriam Wattles, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Graduate Students:
- Julianne P. Gavino is a doctoral student in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Her research interests include Post-WWII American Art, Public Art and Public Spaces, and Asian American visual culture.
- Travis Seifman (email@example.com) is a doctoral student in the Department of History.
UC Los Angeles
- Michelle Liu Carriger, Assistant Professor, School of Theater, Film, and Television
- Torquil Duthie, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures (Literature)
- Chris Hanscom, Asian Languages and Civilizations
- Katsuya Hirano, Associate Professor of History
- Seiji Lippit, Associate Professor of ALC (Literature)
- William Marotti, Associate Professor of History
- Michael Marra [In Memorium], Professor of Japanese Literature and Hermeneutics, ALC
- Donald McCallum, Professor of Art History [In Memorium]
- Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Professor of Theatre (Emeritus)
Graduate Students:
- John Leisure, History
- Kevin Richardson, History
- Toulouse-Antonin Roy, History
- Ken Shima, ALC
- Tatiana Sulovska, History
- Wakako Suzuki, Asian Languages and Cultures
- Mariko Takano, Asian Languages and Cultures
- Sarah Walsh, History
UC Riverside
- John Kim, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (German and Japanese)
- Kelly Jeong , Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Korean
- Setsu Shigematsu, Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
- Annmaria Shimabuku, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (Japanese)
- James Tobias, Associate Professor of English.
- Ayano Ginoza, Lecturer in Japanese film and literature (2011-2012).
Graduate Students:
- Paul Cheng is a Ph.D candidate in English. His areas of study include Asian American literature and film and his dissertation will explore the phenomenon of a "Transpacific Action Cinema," tracing the movements of capital, populations, ideas and culture across the Pacific Rim and its complex relationship with visual culture.
- Anne Chang, MA candidate. Interests: in Chinese Literature and Japanese popular culture.
- Birgit Geipel, Ph. D. Candidate in Comparative Literature. Interests: in German and Korean Literatures of participation and division, theories of migration, biopolitics, cosmopolitanism, East Asian Movement.
- Jae Hyung Ahn, Ph.D. Candidate, English Department. Interests: American literature, Japanese literature.
- Regina Yung Lee (email@example.com) works in English, French, Mandarin,
Science Studies, and Feminist Theory.
UC Irvine
- William Bridges, Assistant Professor, in East Asian Language and Literatures
- Susan B. Klein, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, East Asian Language and Literature
- Margherita Long, Associate Professor of East Asian Language and Literatures, UC Irvine
- Julie Rousseau, Program in Nursing Science
- Serk Bae Suh, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Literature School of Humanities
- Anne Walthall, Professor of History
- Bert Winther-Tamaki, Associate Professor of Art History & Visual Studies
Graduate Students:
- Ben Aaron, Visual Studies, researching the painter Kazuki Yazuo (1911-1974)
- Vanessa Baker, Japanese and Korean literature
- Michelle Cho
- Hyonhui Choe is writing a dissertation on Korean literary criticism during the colonial period.
- Matthew Chudnow, classical Japanese theater, especially noh
- Kim Icreverci is is a graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on Japanese body genre cinema with particular interests in erotics (after Audre Lorde), affect, and the politics and experience of spectatorship.
- Christina Spiker, Visual Studies. Christina Spiker's current work focuses on Meiji-period photography.
UC San Diego
- Norman Bryson, Professor of Art History
- Joseph Hankins, Assistant Professor of Socilology
- Shen Kui Yi, Associate Professor of Visual Arts
- Daisuke Miyao, Professor in the Department of Literature
- Masao Miyoshi, [In Memoriam] Emeritus Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature
- Stefan Tanaka, Professor of Communication
Graduate Students:
- Matt Davidson, History
- Gabrielle Chang
- Stephen Mandiberg
- Paul W. Ricketts
University of Chicago
- Chelsea Foxwell, Art History
Graduate Students:
- Zhiyan Yang, Art History
University of Southern California
- David Bialock, Associate Professor and Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Miya Mizuta, Art History
- Satoko Shimazaki, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Graduate Students:
- Carolyn Lee, East Asian Studies
- Kathryn Page-Lippsmeyer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Annie Manion, Critical Studies
University of Washington, Seattle
- Andrea Gevurtz Arai, Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies
- Paul Atkins, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature
- Davinder Bhowmik, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature
- Justin Jesty, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Literature
- Ted Mack, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature
- Ken Tadashi Oshima, Professor, Architecture
Board of Advisors
- John Clark, Australian Research Council, Director, Austalian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology
- Sharon Daniel, Professor, Film and Digital Media Department and Digital Arts and New Media MFA program, UCSC
- Adrian Favell, Chair in Sociology and Social Theory, University of Leeds; Professorial Academic Associate, UEA. Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
- Christine Guth, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- Michio Hayashi, Professor, Sophia University
- Shigemi Inaga, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
- J Thomas Rimer, Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh
- Yoshiko Shimada, Artist and Researcher.
- Toshio Watanabe, Director, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), University of the Arts London
JAG Alumni:
- Emi Foulk Bushelle, UCLA (History), 2016. Interests in Early Modern and Modern Japanese Intellectual and Cultural History, especially Kokugaku. Now Assistant Professor, Western Washington State, Dept. of History.
- Jane Correia, UCR (Comparative Literature), 2011. Her research interests include the socio-political situations in France and Japan in the second half of the 19th century as well as post WWII.
- Rosemary Candelario, UCLA (World Arts and Cultures), with interests in the globalization of butoh and the choreography of Eiko and Koma. Now Assistant Professor at Texas Woman's University, Dept. of Dance.
- Timothy Unverzagt Goddard, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, focuses on Japanese, Chinese, and Korean literature, thought, and Buddhism. Now Assistant Professor, Japanese Languages, Modern Arts and Culture, University of Hong Kong.
- William Huber, UCSD. Now Head of Centre of Excellence, Division of Games and Arts, Abertay University, Scotland.
- Nobuko Anan, UCLA (Department of Theater and Performance Studies). She is working on contemporary Japanese women's performance from the perspectives of gender/sexuality studies and pop culture studies. Now Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies.
- Franz Prichard, UCLA (Asian Languages and Cultures), working on practices of critical urbanism and cultural politics. Dissertation: "Ruined Maps: The Urban Revolution in Japanese Fiction, Documentary, and Photography of the 1960s and 1970s," 2011. As of Fall 2013, Prichard is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University.
- Yuka Kanno UCI received her Ph.D. from the Visual Studies Department. Her research interests include queer film criticism, feminist theory,discourses on the actress, and Japanese queer visual culture.
- Noritaka Minami, UCI. Studio Art. Noritaka Minami is photographing and researching the current state of Metabolist monuments of the 1970s. He is currently working as an artist in Los Angeles applying the medium of photography as a means of investigating history and memory associated with sites.
- Gabriel Ritter, UCLA Art History. Now Curator and Head of Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art.
- Jordan A. Yamaji Smith, UCLA (Comparative Literature). Research interests include contemporary Japanese literature in transnational context, cross-exoticism, translation/interpretation, Japanese comedy/humor, kimono, hip hop studies. Authors of special interest include Oe Kenzaburo, Kirino Natsuo, Suzuki Takayuki, and Takahashi Genichiro. Now Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Cal State Long Beach.
- Namiko Kunimoto, UCB, received her Ph. D in modern and contemporary Japanese art history. Her dissertation focuses on Tanaka Atsuko and Shiraga Kazuo, both members of the Gutai Art Association. Now Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, Art History Department.
- Ken Yoshida, UCI (Visual Studies), completed his dissertation, "Between Matter and Ecology: Art in Postwar Japan and the Question of Totality (1954–1975)" in 2011. Now Assistant Professor and JAG member, Global Arts Studies Program, UC Merced.


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WILD NEIGHBORS: The Schreckstoff Chronicles
I've heard all my life that dogs can smell fear. If this has been empirically demonstrated, I don't know about it. However, science has established that fish can. It may only work within a species, and it would be more accurate to speak of detecting schreckstoff than of smelling fear. Still, it's a neat trick for a fish.
Schreckstoff—a wonderful word. It has nothing to do with soft-hearted green-skinned ogres; "shreck" is "fright" or "terror" and "stoff" is, well, "stuff," "matter." It's a substance, whose nature was only recently clarified, emitted by an injured fish that alerts other fish to the presence of a predator.
The word was coined by Karl von Frisch, the German naturalist who decoded the dance language of the honeybee. (Some diehards, notably Adrian Wenner, still deny that the bees are saying anything to each other. Dancing can convey fairly complex information, though; ask any hula performer. And you may have seen one of those Youtube videos in which graduate students dance their dissertations. I recall one in which belly dancers simulated the currents of the Southern Ocean.)
Anyway, von Frisch, back in 1938, discovered that minnows released schreckstoff when attacked by a predator. The process is triggered by a break in the victim's skin and results in other members of the school taking evasive action. Most widespread in the large order of fish that includes carp, catfish, and piranhas, chemical alarm signals were confirmed in rainbow and brook trout in the 1990s.
I first read about the phenomenon when researching an article about salmon and pollutants for another venue a couple of years ago. Nathaniel Scholz, an ecotoxicologist with NOAA Fisheries, reported that young coho salmon (probably in the smolt stage) respond to alarm chemicals from a piece of coho skin smaller than a grain of rice in 100 liters of water. When skin solution is introduced to a clean tank, a salmon, which had been swimming actively, drops to the bottom and hovers in place. But after three hours' exposure to copper at a concentration of ten parts per billion, the fish doesn't react—a good way to become someone's dinner.
Then last week I was reading the "Findings" column in Harper's, the back-page feature that reports oddball scientific discoveries. And there was shreckstoff. New research by Suresh Jesuthasan and Ajay Mathuru in Singapore and Rainer Friedrich in Switzerland has isolated its active ingredient: a sugarlike molecule called glycosaminoglycan chondroitin, GAG for short. It's a chemical relative of the chondroitin sulfate used as a dietary supplement for treatment of osteoarthritis.
The organism they used was the guppy-sized zebra fish, a minnow relative and a kind of finned lab rat. Ground-up zebra fish tissue was subjected to a series of chemical tests-by-elimination. The researchers destroyed all the proteins in one sample, but it still elicited escape behavior in live fish. So schreckstoff couldn't be a protein. But when they broke down GAG chondroitin with enzymes or neutralized it with antibodies, the fish didn't react.
Friedrich and his colleagues were also able to locate the zebra fish's shreckstoff receptors: specialized neurons called crypt cells in the olfactory bulb, the part of the brain that processes odors. These neurons responded when the fish were exposed to schreckstoff but not to other odors. When you consider the size of the zebra fish brain, measuring any kind of neural activity must be quite a feat. My hat is off to these guys.
The release of schreckstoff can be considered a kind of automatic altruism, warning other fish of imminent danger. This could become fodder for the renewed debate over kin selection versus group selection in evolution (E.O. Wilson has abandoned kin selection for group selection; big scandal), since the fish in a school are not necessarily close relatives. It's also been hypothesized that that GAG chondroitin has something to do with the skin's immune system, and that its role as an alarm signal is a secondary exaptation. I'm not taking sides here.


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Written by Bobby Jan for Gaebler Ventures
As an entrepreneur and as an economic agent, there are three basic economic questions you should ask when deciding how to allocate scarce resources
Economics is, essentially, the science of decision making.
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As an entrepreneur and as an economic agent, there are three basic economic questions you should ask when deciding how to use scarce resources:
What to Produce?
In a true command economy, what to produce is determined by a central economic authority. In a true free market, what to produce is determined by individual choices. However, most nations fall somewhere between a true command economy and a true free market and production is determined by a mixture of central planning and individual choices.
For example, in the United States, while the production of some foodstuff is determined by supply and demand, others, such as sugar and milk, are subsidized by the government.
All businesses must decide what to produce given limited resources. While a society must decide how much food and shelter to produce to satisfy the population, a business must decide how much of each goods or services to produce.
Because of scarcity, by producing A, you must forgo the production of B, thus incurring an opportunity cost. You choose to produce, hopefully, the product or service that brings the highest benefits relative to costs. However, as the organization gets bigger and more complicated and as the number of choices increases, so will the difficulty in answering this question.
How to Produce?
There are many ways to produce a good or service of equal quality. As an entrepreneur, it is important to have a clear understanding of all your alternatives. Should the business produce all the goods and services it sells by itself or will it bring in outside contractors? Should the production take place domestically or should it be outsourced to another country? Should the production be labor intensive or capital intensive?
For Whom to Produce?
All goods and services are produced for somebody to consume. In a free market, who gets what is determined by who is able to afford what at a price determined by supply and demand. As an entrepreneur, this question should be addressed in the same line of thought as "what to produce?" Who are your customers? Will your targeted customers be able to afford the product? Are there enough of them to support your business?
Cheng Ming (Bobby) Jan is an Economics major at the University of Chicago who has a strong interest in entrepreneurship and investing.
Conversation Board
Do you agree with us that entrepreneurs would do well to understand basic economic principles? Share your comments below.
I couldnt find much simplified answers than this. Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for this! It was so simple and easy to understand, it was exactly what I needed!
It can be said that, ultimately, consumers are the driving force in answering these three basic economic questions. It would be nice if you might explain the consumer's role in providing these answers. Thanks!
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Friday, May 06, 2005
Blog bibliography list under construction
7 comments:
- Andrea said...
Yep, you're missing sth which doesn't exist yet:
Reed, A. (forthcoming). 'My blog is me': texts and persons in UK online journal culture (and anthropology). Ethnos.
- 8:52 pm
- Andrea said...
oh, and sth. else:
"The vulgar spirit of blogging" - by Alireza Doostdar in the American Anthropologist.
By the way: would you mind making your bibliography wiki-able, so we could all contribute? Or do you think that's gonna end up in too much of a mess?
- 9:04 pm
- Jill said...
That's a useful addition to the Kairosnews bibliography, which doesn't seem to include offline sources as yours does. You should include
Serfaty, Viviane. 2004. The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Monographies in American Studies.
It's really quite good, and the first scholarly book I've seen on blogs. There's a website describing it a little.
- 10:02 pm
- Torill said...
I don't mind making it wiki-able at all, except for the fact that I am an absolute idiot with things liek that. If somebody wants to cut and paste and put it into a wiki and leave a link here, feel free! I am not copyrighting it!
- 12:01 pm
- Torill said...
There is also the list Kaye Trammel put together, which I have been looking everywhere for.
- 3:01 pm
- Torill said...
The blogtalk downunder (may 19th - 21st) articles are coming online.
- 9:24 pm
- Torill said...
A special edition of Communications of the ACM, Blogosphere.
- 9:47 pm


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One of the most challenging questions that every thinking Christian eventually runs into is how to handle the interplay between Scripture and Tradition. Is Tradition equal to Scripture in its authority? Is one dependent upon the other? Is there a difference between their functional/practical authority and their ultimate/definitive authority? How does the Holy Spirit use Scripture and Tradition in the life of the Church? How we answer that question accounts for a large number of the divisions that exist among Christians today, especially between the Catholic and Protestant worlds, and those who stand between them.
The folks over at Credo House, a fascinating ministry geared towards building up more solid theological foundations among Evangelical Protestants, put together a really succinct article explaining five different views of how Scripture and Tradition interact in terms of authority within the Church. I encourage anyone reading this to check out the original article. It's even got pictures! 🙂 http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2014/06/five-views-of-traditions-role-in-the-christian-life
The five views they present are the Dual-Source Theory, Prima Scriptura, Regula Fidei, Sola Scriptura, and Nuda Scriptura. I'll summarize them briefly.
#1 Dual-Source Theory
Scripture and Tradition are two equally infallible sources of authority that come from Jesus and the Apostles. Only the Church, in turn, can interpret them infallibly.
This is generally the prevailing view of the Roman Catholic Church.
#2 Prima Scriptura (Scripture first)
Scripture and Tradition are two infallible sources of authority that come from Jesus and the Apostles. Only the Church, in turn, can interpret them infallibly. Furthermore, the implementation of Tradition can degenerate over time and must be kept in check by Scripture.
This is an alternative view among Roman Catholics.
#3 Regula Fidei (Rule of Faith)
Scripture and Tradition are two infallible sources of authority that come from Jesus and the Apostles. Tradition, however, is an infallible summary of the Gospel as put forth in Scriptures, and thus the Church cannot definitively add to it. In other words, Tradition and Scripture together form a "rule of faith" which sets the standard for correct interpretation.
This is the view among the Eastern Orthodox and some Anglicans.
#4 Sola Scriptura (only Scripture)
Scripture is the infallible source of authority that comes from Jesus and the Apostles. Tradition, then, is a summary of the Gospel as put forth in Scripture which holds authority but not infallibly – it remains subject to Scripture.
This is the view among Classical Protestants.
#5 Nuda Scriptura (naked Scripture)
Scripture is the infallible source of authority that comes from Jesus and the Apostles. All tradition is suspect and man-made.
This is a view typical among Fundamentalists, though is rarely considered a mature Christian perspective.
My comments on all this
Reading that article and going through its categories of layers of interaction between Scripture and Tradition, I was reminded of my slow struggle through understanding sola scriptura and the more Tradition-attentive perspective that I was growing into over several years. A year and a half ago, I wrote an article summarizing where I had arrived on this subject, mostly arguing for the need for Tradition. Two years before that I named my position prima scriptura. As I compare my stance with this article from Credo House, however, it seems that I fit more into the category they call Regula Fidei.
Furthermore, I have learned that the original definition of sola scriptura is a lot more robust than I was previously led to believe. The point is that Scripture alone is infallible, even though it is not the only authority. Tradition is still authoritative in the sola scriptura view, just not infallibly authoritative. And so I've realized that where classical Protestantism made their stand is not that far off from where I stand after all. Understanding the regula fidei to include Tradition alongside Scripture is a relatively small step away.
At the same time, this only further highlights the silliness of the anti-tradition mindset as I come to realize just how important Tradition can remain in classical sola scriptura Protestantism. The idea that we can read and believe and obey the Bible without any framework for reading it together is just too unrealistic and naive to take seriously. Everyone uses non-scriptural forms of summarizing the Gospel. Even the mantra "The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it," is itself a sort of tradition!


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Our dolls have been cooking up a storm lately and can use a little organization ... so we made them these recycled canisters to store all of their goodies :oD
Here is the vid on however did it...
And here is the printable that we used... feel free to download and print , for personal use only... Just click the pic.
Just pic your size...
How To Print Printables:
*** To print the printables, just click on the pic... the pic with open in a new window and you can drag it to your desktop.
*** then print according to your printer settings... For background images like bricks and stuff, I like to set my printer to "fill page"
Happy crafting :oD


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A very refreshing take on the TV series from 1978 by the same name. This movie serves as a back story to the set up for the TV shows main characters.
Don't. Trust me. Don't.
If this were the feature-length pilot episode for some cheap reboot on a streaming service — which is what it feels like — a generous viewer might half-heartedly agree to tune in next week and see if things get more interesting. But on the big screen? A sequel would be less welcome than a new episode of, say, Charlie's Angels. Or Starsky Hutch.
Fantasy Island is the sort of inept, forgettable disaster that doesn't even induce so-bad-it's-good chuckles.
Fantasy Island is a failure on nearly every level.


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Public Health
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|The new College of Health at Lehigh University invites applications for multiple appointments at the rank of full professor with tenure or associate professor with or without tenure with responsibilities to advance education, research and service in population health--including epidemiology, biostatistics, community health, health innovation and technology, global health, social and behavioral health sciences, and health policy and management. The mission of the College of Health (COH) at Lehigh University is to understand, preserve, and improve the health and well-being of populations and communities through excellence and innovation in education, research, and service. The College will prepare the next generation of innovative and diverse scientists and leaders in population health through cutting edge and innovative course work, distance learning, and experiential learning opportunities. The COH seeks to recruit a diverse group of professionals (from the academic, public, or private sectors) whose work contributes vitally to improve population health. Candidates must possess an earned doctorate in the fields of population, public health or health science field (including degrees in epidemiology, biostatistics, community health, health policy and management, health economics, or the social sciences (with a focus on health). The successful faculty candidate(s) will be expected to contribute to the research, educational, and service missions of the COH and the broader University. Candidates are expected to have and maintain strong records of high-quality scholarship and to have active, externally-funded programs of research in population health. High quality scholarship includes: evidence of external grant funding; demonstration of sustained success as a principal investigator or co-principal investigator; a strong record of peer-reviewed publications in top tiered journals; participation in national conference proceedings; and/or the development of patents or intellectual property. They will also contribute to teaching and mentoring in the COH, including courses and other modes of instruction for undergraduate and graduate students. The Health, Science, and Technology (HST) Building is Lehigh Universityâs newest, state-of-the-art research facility and administrative home for the COH, slated for completion in 2021. The innovative, flexible, and sustainably-designed facility will advance Lehigh Universityâs academic research endeavors. The primary goals of the building are to encourage an interdisciplinary culture via maximized transparency and accountability; develop functional neighborhoods that create a model of intensity and productivity; engage the campus community by bringing the public into the building; and become the home for the College of Health. The facilityâs five floors will each provide environments that encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between occupants throughout the building. Flexible, open laboratories accommodate immediate expansion & contraction of research groups with minimal disruption. The open lab zones are comprising wet, damp, and dry labs. Review of Applications - Review of applications will begin immediately and will be conducted on a rolling basis until recruitments have been completed. Lehigh University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applications from women and minorities. Applicants should submit a letter of interest that addresses the qualifications for this position, a curriculum vitae, a research statement, a teaching statement, and contact information of three references. These materials should be submitted online by accessing: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/13669 For additional information please email firstname.lastname@example.com. and indicate the name of the specific position in the email.


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Tea Towel - London Skyline on Teal
Price: £9.00
Additional information
Adding a dash of urban style, washing and drying up needn't be a chore. Featuring a view from Hartwig Braun's illustrated artwork of London Looking East on Teal.
Tea Towel comes ready to hang with a handy loop attached.
Design: London Skyline on Teal.
Tea Towel Size: 75 x 45 cm (approx.)
Proudly made for us in the UK! 100% cotton and machine washable.


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Introducing "Greetings from Los Angeles," my latest pictorial history from publisher Gibbs Smith. Following the format of my other books, "Greetings" is a comprehensive, humorous, historical tour of Greater Los Angeles told through vintage images (postcards, photographs, brochures, matchbooks and other dazzling … Continue reading


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Every morning I scour the web and look at 10 random ads (in any medium) from around the non-US world. Then I post for you my Ad of the Day. Some days it will be awesome, some days you might not like it. But it's the Ad of the Day!
Today's pick:
- Agency: Memac Ogilvy
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
- Client: Engagement Citoyen (voter drive for upcoming elections)
- Name: "Retour de Ben Ali"
- Why I like it: I mean come on, this isn't just good, it's bloody brilliant!! For those of you that have forgotten, Ben Ali was the long-serving head (dictator) of Tunisia, who was ousted on January of this year as part of the "Arab Spring" uprising. What a way to send a message about civic involvement, eh? Vote…or one day you can easily find yourself in a dictatorship again. One of the most creative usages of the OOH medium that I have seen. Just fantastic. Congratulations to our friends at Memac Ogilvy!
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