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Here's an article from last May in which Paul Krugman calls out the Obama administration for failing to address criticisms of the TPP. It's hardly a ringing denunciation, but even Krugman, who has what you might call free trade DNA, saw that this agreement isn't really about trade at all, but corporate privilege. So, Paul, I call on you now: DENOUNCE THE TPP and explain in your inimitable style why it's a bad deal for the American public as a whole.
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CNN Poll results released today, 9/25/2015
CNN Poll results released today, 9/25/2015
Democratic Primary, New Hampshire • Only identified Democratic voters polled
Sanders "favorable" 78%
Clinton "favorable" 67%
ratic Primary, New Hampshire
Sanders "favorable" 78%
Clinton "favorable" 67%
I thought I would take a second to, sort of, unpack that, because I could tell there's a lot of people, both Evangelical conservative folk and more liberal Bernie-supporting folk, who are very confused that I could occupy both worlds. So, I thought, I'll take a few seconds and explain myself, and maybe that will be helpful for the conversation.
So a little bit about me. I am not a current student at Liberty. If I was, I actually wouldn't have been able to post onto that Reddit board and say that I'm supporting Bernie. There is an Honor Code at Liberty University, and while it's not always enforced, if you support a candidate who is pro-choice or pro-gay marriage, you can be punished by the University, up to and including expulsion from the school. So as a graduate of Liberty University, I'm in a good position to represent folks that might go there and people from the Evangelical tradition, but not be within the world that they can, you know, punish me for my opinion.
So I got my Bachelors degree in Religion from Liberty University, and I also got my Masters degree from Liberty University in Marriage and Family Therapy. In 2004 I worked for the George W. Bush campaign. I spent about 8 years as a Conservative pastor. And also as a schoolteacher at a conservative Christian academy. And today I serve my community as a therapist and also a pastoral counselor, somebody that folks from churches might go see to get counseling whenever they want to see somebody who's both a clinical counselor but also a pastor.
So I serve all those roles. I think I'm pretty much a card-carrying Evangelical Christian. I still subscribe to a conservative evangelical theology. And what that means, a lot of people get confused when they hear the word 'conservative,' they assume you mean politically. 'Conservative theology' means that I believe the Bible is trustworthy, I think that God inspired it, Jesus was absolutely real, and really died on the cross, and really did resurrect three days later; and I am an Evangelical Christian in that way.
So, how did I come to find myself supporting Bernie Sanders? How did that evolution take place? How could it be that in 2004 I was working for the George W. Bush campaign, and today in 2015, as a double Liberty University graduate, under Jerry Falwell—when I went to school, Jerry Falwell was the Chancellor—how is it that I could be now supporting Bernie Sanders, who's a very progressive, very liberal guy; he describes himself as a 'democratic socialist.' How do I find common ground on those two things?
Well a lot of people I think falsely believe that in order to do that you have to give up one of your sides. Either you have to not really be a progressive, and you're just an Evangelical who just likes Bernie, or you have to not really be an Evangelical, and just secretly be a Progressive who's faking it and pretending to be an Evangelical, but wouldn't actually pass the litmus test of being an Evangelical.
I pass both tests, I am very much 100% legitimate in both camps, and I want to explain why that's not a mythological thing, that's not a disconnect. Some people call that a contradiction, or hypocrisy, it is absolutely not. I believe that my views are 100% consistent. And so I think that the shock value for that comes in beginning to appreciate that the Bible and Jesus, in my opinion and in my very moderate reading of the Bible and the words of Christ, leads us to a Progressive worldview. And that is shocking to a lot of people, especially folks back home in the Evangelical community, they hear that and go, "What are you talking about? That's heresy—" it's like, hold on. Hear me out. There is a Biblical argument for voting for Bernie Sanders, believe it or not, and I'm gonna walk you through it really quick on some key issues.
So that first issue that I'd kind of point your attention to is kind of what Bernie brought up during his speech at Liberty. Basically, the wealth inequality problem—and see a lot of us, on the Evangelical side think that what Jesus really cares about is gay marriage and abortion. And of course, the great irony is if you read the red letters of Jesus, there are no statements on abortion. There are no statements on gay marriage. Now, that's not to say the Bible doesn't speak about these things, but it certainly is to say that Jesus, founder and master of our faith, did not see fit to make these high-priority topics. It's not to say he doesn't care. But it is to say that we need to be careful not to 'major on minors.' We should be focused on the things Jesus did talk about.
So what did Jesus talk about?
So here's the interesting thing. When I was watching Bernie Sanders talk at Liberty University, I was just really shocked, and something kind of magical happened for me, because as I watched that guy stand up on that stage, here's what I saw. I saw a wild-haired Jew crying out in a hoarse voice, in a very forceful and forth-speaking way, he was convicting the Christian leaders and religious leaders in that University and calling us out for being complicit in the abandonment of those who suffer: "The least of these." And siding with the powerful and the rich and the masters of this world. And he was convicting us, and calling us out. And we scorned him, and we stared him down, and with sour faces we thought, "Who is this whacko? And why do all these people seem to follow him, seem to like him? This wild-haired Jew, crying out from the wilderness of the political Left, in his hoarse voice?"
And if you're an Evangelical listening to me today, you already know where I'm going with this. When I heard Bernie speaking in that way, when I saw that guy on stage at Liberty University, I saw John the Baptist. I saw the wild-haired, roughly-clothed John the Baptist, eating honey and wearing camel's hair, and crying out to the religious leaders, the Pharisees of his day, calling them corrupt and complicit with those who have all the power and all the money and all the wealth, and for abandoning the people that God loves, that God cares about. For the Pharisees, who were siding with those who already have power and wealth and saying that they will be the last in the Kingdom of God, and that the weak, and the meek, and the simple, and those who need help—they are first in the Kingdom of God.
And I saw that guy, that John the Baptist figure, who is standing up and saying "There is coming a messenger, there is coming a messenger who will bring equity and justice to the poor, and to the weak, and who will stand for 'the least of these.'" That's the wild-haired Jew that I saw up on that stage. I saw, and felt, the same voice coming from the Bible when I read about John the Baptist, who cried out in the desert to the Pharisees, warning them that Jesus was coming, the messenger of God. And that he was coming to restore justice, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and to value 'the least of these' when the Pharisees had failed.
And as I heard Bernie talking, and as I listened to his cries for justice, I remembered, suddenly, what Jesus had actually said in the Book of Luke, when he unravels the scroll in the synagogue, and he quotes the Book of Isaiah, which says that the Son of God was coming. And then he says, "This has been fulfilled in your presence here today." He quotes the book of Isaiah which says that the Son of God is coming to bring justice, and Jesus says "it is now come to pass in your presence." And he says, "I have come to bring Gospel to the poor."
Gospel—is that word we Evangelical Christians have based everything on. Gospel means 'good news.' And Jesus said "I have come to bring good news to the poor." To restore sight to the blind, to stand with the suffering, to set the captives free, and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
As I heard Bernie Sanders crying out to the religious leaders at Liberty University, in his hoarse voice, with his wild hair, this Jew, and he proclaimed justice over us. He called us to account for being complicit with those who are wealthy and those who are powerful and for abandoning the poor, 'the least of these' who Jesus said he had come to bring good news to. And in that moment, something occurred to me, as I saw Bernie Sanders up there, as I watched him I realized: Bernie Sanders, for President, is good news for the poor. Bernie Sanders for President is good news for the poor. Bernie Sanders is Gospel for the poor. And Jesus said, "I have come to bring Gospel—good news—to the poor."
And lightning hit my heart in that moment. And I realized that we are Evangelical Christians, that we believe the Bible. We believe in Jesus. We absolutely shun those who attempt to find nuance and twisted and tortured interpretation of scripture that they would use to master all other broader interpretations, to find some kind of big message that they want to flout. We absolutely scorn such things. And yet somehow, we commit to the mental gymnastics necessary that allows us to abandon 'the least of these,' to abandon the poor, to abandon the immigrants, to abandon those who are in prison. I listened to Bernie Sanders, as he said he wanted to welcome the immigrants and give them dignity. As he said he wanted to care for the sick children, and mothers, and fathers, who do not have health care. As he said he wanted to decrease the amount of human beings who are corralled like cattle in the prisons. As he said he wanted to do justice for those who have nothing and live homeless. And I remembered the words of Jesus, who warned his disciples that there will be judgment, and on that day he will look to his friends, and he will say 'Blessed are you, for you cared for me, for I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick, and you cared for me; I was hungry, and you fed me; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was in prison, and you came to visit me; I was homeless, and you gave me shelter." And the disciples said, "Jesus, when did we do any of those things for you?" And he said, "If you have done it for 'the least of these,' you have done it for me."
And those words echoed in my heart. As I listened to that crazy, hoarse-voiced, wild-haired Jew, standing in front of the religious leaders of the Evangelical movement, calling us to account, as a Jew once did before. Telling us that he intends to care for 'the least of these.' To clothe the naked, to shelter the homeless, to care for the sick, to set the prisoners free.
Yes. I am an Evangelical Christian. I believe in the Bible. I follow Jesus. When I look at Bernie Sanders, and I hear the things that he's saying, it's like he's ripping them out of the pages of scripture. I would have to try to avoid the meaning of those words. I would have to bury my head in the sand to continue to support conservative policies. I am religiously conservative but I am not politically so. And I think here is the heart and soul of it:
When we chose to follow Jesus, we decided that the Kingdom of God, and the men and women and children of this world, were more important than us. And that accidentally made us all liberals. The day we decided to follow Christ, and the day we decided that we value other human beings more than ourselves, we accidentally became liberals.
And so there is no contradiction between being a Bible-believing Christian and a Bernie Sanders supporter.
I follow the teachings of Christ: to care for 'the least of these.' And I believe that just as John the Baptist once cried out in the desert for justice, and called the religious establishment to account, and hearkened unto the day that Jesus would walk among us, and declare equity and justice and good news for the poor; and just as that day came, that Jesus stood in front of the multitudes at the religious institution and said "I have come to bring gospel to the poor," I believe that Bernie Sanders now stands in front of us, wild-haired and hoarse-voiced, and he now declares justice for the poor. He declares good news for 'the least of these.' He has come to bring gospel. And I wouldn't be much of a Christian if I didn't stand on the side of gospel for the poor. Because the last time I checked, that's where my master Jesus stood, and I'll stand with him. And for now, that means I stand with Bernie Sanders.
The 2016 presidential election will be studied for generations, primarily because it's a turning point in U.S. history. Will the Democratic Party shift even further to the right, or will Democrats nominate a true progressive? Below are 25 reasons I'm voting only for Bernie Sanders in 2016. And these reasons not only highlight my value system, but also what I believe (or assumed) the Democratic Party had always stood for as well.
Jacob Heilbrunn, in a New York Times article titled The Next Act of the Neocons, writes, "It's easy to imagine Mrs. Clinton's making room for the neocons in her administration." Also quoted in The New York Times, conservative historian Robert Kagan says, "If she pursues a policy which we think she will pursue, it's something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that; they are going to call it something else."
In addition to voting for the Iraq War (and pushing for the disastrous bombing of Libya) while calling this decision a "mistake," her quotes in an Atlantic interview with Jeffrey Goldberg confirm that President Hillary Clinton could be a liberal Dick Cheney in the White House:
This is what Clinton said about Obama's slogan: "Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle."
"You know, when you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward," she said. "One issue is that we don't even tell our own story very well these days."
"The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad--," Clinton said.
As if the lessons of bombing Libya during Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State weren't enough, Clinton would have armed the Syrian rebels had she been president. The problem with this is not only that half the Syrian rebels are jihadists, but also that it would have pushed the U.S. into the Syrian civil war, while we were still embroiled in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If anyone wonders why I wrote an article last year on a certain GOP Senator, saying that I'd vote for that person (I'm, of course, voting for Bernie and that piece was written from a purely anti-perpetual war standpoint), the fact that Vox says Clinton's words on foreign policy sound "super hawkish," is one of the main reasons I wrote that piece.
America has suffered enough from a neoconservative foreign policy and one look at icasualties.org highlights this reality.
In contrast, Bernie says, "I'll be damned" if America leads the fight against ISIS (calling for others to put ground troops in the region, not us) and puts American soldiers and veterans first, as evident by his recent Congressional Award from the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Unions that back Hillary Clinton should remember Reason # 10 as well.
4. The Vermont Senator voted against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 and stood up for gay rights when polls were against this issue. Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, opposed gay marriage up until 2013.
Don't claim to be outraged by Kentucky's Kim Davis if you're voting for Hillary Clinton. Both had the same views on gay marriage, only Davis didn't "evolve." Like The Guardian says, Hillary Clinton's views evolve on gay marriage, just in time for presidential campaign.
5. Bernie Sanders has a Racial Justice Platform. Hillary Clinton ran a 3 AM ad with a "racist sub-message" in 2008. South Carolina Congressman James E. Clyburn denounced Bill Clinton's remarks about Obama in 2008 and stated the Clinton's were "committed to doing everything they possibly can to damage Obama to a point that he could never win."
6. Clinton's encounter with Black Lives Matter exemplifies her outlook on race. In an interview with NPR, Daunasia Yancey, the founder of Black Lives Matter Boston, called Hillary Clinton's racial justice record "abysmal."
As for commentary on Clinton's meeting with Black Lives Matter, Benjamin Dixon and Yvette Carnell explain how Clinton politicized her meeting (and in effect, hurt the movement's momentum) with Black Lives Matter representatives.
It's no secret that Wall Street is in Hillary Clinton's corner and few believe the populist rhetoric from the former Secretary of State. Bernie Sanders, however, is a genuine reformer who eagerly takes on the "billionaire class."
8. Hillary Clinton is constantly involved in scandal and either the victim of a "surreal witch hunt" according to James Carville, a conspiracy among intelligence agencies (a Clinton spokesman says the government has "competing views" on what is classified, apparently making it alright for a retroactively classified email to be on a private server), or controversy.
Bernie Sanders can type an email without a nationwide scandal.
9. Bernie Sanders will not take money from billionaires. Hillary Clinton accepted $100,000 from Donald Trump in donations for her foundation and Senate runs in New York.
It's difficult to debate the potential GOP nominee and tell the country you're different, when you've accepted $100,000 from the billionaire.
10. Four of Clinton's top five donors since 1999 are Wall Street firms. Bernie Sanders is running a grass roots campaign.
12. It's true that Republicans have an irrational hatred of Clinton and that the Benghazi attacks have been unfairly leveled at Clinton. However, most of Clinton's scandals are based on her own decisions, not the irrational behavior of others. Not everything is Benghazi.
13. Hillary Clinton hasn't explained the political utility in owning a private server as Secretary of State.
14. I want a female president; however, I want her to be Elizabeth Warren.
15. I don't want my president to have an ongoing FBI investigation during her first term.
16. Hillary Clinton hasn't explained whether or not her server was safer or better protected than the U.S. government's server.
17. It is a fact that Clinton had classified and "Top Secret" emails flowing through her server.
18. Many of Clinton's classified emails were "born classified," meaning they weren't classified retroactively.
19. Five intelligence agencies thus far are now a part of the email saga. They can't all be part of a right-wing conspiracy.
20. Economically, Bernie is more progressive in tackling wealth inequality while Clinton addresses the issue, but continues raking in Wall Street money.
21. Bernie Sanders was active in the Civil Rights movement and also endorsed Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns.
22. Edward Snowden says it's "ridiculous" to think Clinton's email setup was secure. Freedom of Information Act expert Dan Metcalfe calls Clinton's email defense "laughable." Neither one is a part of a right-wing conspiracy.
24. I want a true progressive as president, especially in terms of the greatest powers of a president: getting America into wars and shaping foreign policy.
25. I trust Bernie Sanders. I do not trust Hillary Clinton or the GOP.
Finally, inherent in all 25 reasons above is the fact that Clinton's positions are too far to the right, therefore too closely related to the GOP's views on war, Wall Street, foreign policy, and other key issues, for me to accept in a president.
Ending perpetual war in American foreign policy is my biggest concern, therefore Bernie Sanders is my only choice in 2016. Also, Clinton rarely answers questions without carefully crafted wording; ambiguous to the point she can act in any manner she chooses once attaining the presidency.
As for other key issues, Clinton sides with the GOP (and away from most Americans) on the most controversial topics, which is why polling trajectory shows Bernie Sanders will win the Democratic nomination, in addition to the presidency.
Krugman in NYT this morning is must read, on what the implications of Corbyn's triumph over Labour's Conservative Wannabes will mean for Britain. It's hard not to think about the not-quite-perfect analogy with the struggle between the Clintonians and the Sanders Wing of the Democratic Party here. (Here, the Progressives have already had some success in pulling the whole party towards a more forward thinking stance, and, it must be said, Sanders is not nearly as far to the left as Corbyn... for better or worse.
Money quote: "In short, the whole narrative about Labour's culpability for the economic crisis and the urgency of austerity is nonsense. But it is nonsense that was consistently reported by British media as fact. And all of Mr. Corbyn's rivals for Labour leadership bought fully into that conventional nonsense, in effect accepting the Conservative case that their party did a terrible job of managing the economy, which simply isn't true."
It's unusual to see someone making a convincing case that, for once, the US Media seems to be actually a little better at NOT reporting Right Wing propaganda as fact than the British media.
I don't see it that way at all. I thought her Brookings Institution Speech betrayed her strong neocon credentials. She is farther to the right on foreign policy than Obama, who largely continued the Bush foreign policy. Sanders is emphasizing domestic agendas, as probably befits a presidential campaign at this point, but he has read Chalmers Johnson, Lawrence Wilkerson (a Republican, but someone who understands how international power politics works), Brent Scowcroft (ditto), and Steve Clemmons, and he knows that continued land presence in the Middle East, and attempting to prop up the regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, while maintaining an irrational double standard as regards terrorism sponsorship and human rights for Iran as opposed to our supposed "allies", Saudi Arabia and Pakistan (both Sunni and both worse than Iran by any reasonable measure)... are all mistakes that need to be ratcheted back and reversed long term. Clinton may have a lot of experience as secretary of state, but her accomplishments hard to identify, and some of the projects she was involved in, such as the TPP, are clearly antithetical to the interests of working people. Kerry has accomplished far more in a shorter period of time than she did. And I keep thinking, who do I really trust on foreign policy? Someone who saw through the lies and voted against the Bush II Iraq invasion (Sanders) or someone who didn't (Clinton)? Sanders is the obvious answer. Her experience just shows that her judgment is suspect, and I sorry to say that some of the decisions she's made even in the present campaign show that to be the case as well.
And I have to disagree with the implication that she is more or less equivalent to Sanders on domestic policy too. Her position on Keystone (refusal to say), TPP (supports, called it the "best trade deal ever," but is now being coy), $15 min. wage (no support), Glas-Steagall restoration (not supporting), and other enhancements to Dodd-Frank (sound of silence); not to mention her refusal to endorse Medicare for All, breakup of the 5 "too big to fail = too big to exist" banks, major infrastructure investment, which economists and tax experts like Krugman and David Cay Johnson agree is a "no brainer" (she has failed to articulate any such plan); or universal free public higher education (she has equivocated on this), are all MAJOR distinguishing features of their respective DOMESTIC agendas.
I will support the eventual Democratic nominee (as I certainly hope her supporters will also say). But for now, I find Clinton is the LEAST desirable, from a general Progressive point of view, of all the likely Democratic candidates (Her, Sanders, Biden, O'Malley, Lessig). And I actually believe a pretty good case can be made that she is less electable than Sanders or Biden, at least, as well. Her negatives, which are a better predicter of outcomes of elections than issues positions in polling, are awful.
"I don't understand it," a political reporter I've known for years told me this morning. "A new poll shows Sanders leading in Iowa. He's leading in New Hampshire. It makes no sense."
"It makes sense to me," I said.
"Well then, explain it to me."
"Bernie is speaking about what's true and important – the plundering of our economy and the pillaging of our democracy by big corporations and Wall Street and billionaires."
"But that's been going on for years," he said. "Why now? Why are Americans suddenly waking up to it?"
"Because it's reached a tipping point." I explained. "There hasn't been this much inequality of income, wealth, and political power since the Gilded Age of the 19th century. Americans are fed up."
"But they're disillusioned with politics. Few even vote. So why are they suddenly becoming involved now? How do you explain the crowds?" he asked.
"Because in Bernie they're discovering someone who isn't afraid to tell the truth or to propose big solutions."
"Maybe you're right," said the reporter. "But I'll believe it if he wins Iowa and New Hampshire."
"Stay tuned," I said.
What do you think?
Now the grassroots movement behind him has to PICK UP SPEED and work like hell if we hope to translate these gains into real political momentum.


At YourTrove, a lot of what we do involves ingesting social content via APIs and then regularizing that data within our system. For a lot of data, this is pretty straightforward. For example, while Facebook and Flickr might return different meta data, or name fields differently, no one disagrees that a photo is a photo. This is true for essentially all uploaded binary user generated content.
Among a slew of product announcements, Google introduced its latest smartphone; the Pixel 2. The new smartphone packs some incredible capabilities, especially when paired with Google's new Pixel Buds. But as industrial designs go, the Pixel 2 is nothing special to look at. But that doesn't matter.
When Apple open-sourced Swift, developers saw a greater potential for the language than mere client-side iOS development. The community envisioned a language that could become more universal and cross-platform, evidenced by the emergence of server-side Swift powered by the Vapor Web Framework.


As a growing share of the country’s income flows to the very wealthiest, the poll found that 57 percent of Americans say lawmakers should pursue policies aimed at balancing an economic system they think is out of whack. Nearly two in three say federal policy is tilted toward helping the rich over Americans who are less well-off, according to the survey.
The findings come as President Obama has moved to refocus national attention on the problems of inequality and decreasing social mobility. Earlier this month, he called confronting the twin issues “the defining challenge of our time.” He added that “making sure our economy works for every working American” will be a central task of his remaining time in office.
Obama recently came out in favor of rasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour — a much larger increase than he had proposed in his State of the Union address in February, when he advocated raising it to $9 an hour.


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David Madden tapped to head Fox Television Studios
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David Madden, the top creative executive at Fox Television Studios -- the News Corp.-owned production company responsible for some of the cable industry’s highest-rated dramas -- has been tapped as president of the unit.
Madden, who most recently was executive vice president, succeeds Emiliano Calemzuk. Calemzuk resigned last week to become chief executive of the U.S. arm of Shine Group, a U.K.-based production company that is headed by Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch.
Fox Television Studios, which became a hot producer of dramas for cable under Calemzuk, has been trying to broaden its reach into broadcast television as well. Its cable shows include ‘White Collar’ and ‘Burn Notice’ on USA and ‘The Glades’ on A&E. It also produces ‘The Good Guys,’ a buddy comedy for Fox, and ‘The Games’ for ABC.
‘David has been front and center throughout Fox Television Studios’ rise to its current position as one of the premiere brands in cable programming,’ Gary Newman and Dana Walden, the chairmen of 20th Century Fox Television, said in a joint statement. Like Calemzuk, Madden will report to Newman and Walden.
Calemzuk’s departure was not a complete surprise. He rose quickly at News Corp. and was key in turning Fox Television Studios into a profitable unit. However, there was little room for him to move within the company, at least on the television side in its U.S. operations. At Shine, he will oversee Reveille, the production company whose credits include NBC’s ‘The Office’ and ‘The Biggest Loser.’
By jumping to Shine, Calemzuk will still be close to a powerful Murdoch.
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VII. time signatures
Time signatures and bar lines are secrets told to the performer by the composer.
- Antal Dorati
Time signatures, like bar lines, have evolved into practical notational conventions that indicate groupings used consistently for all or significant portions of a piece of music. The time signature consists of two numbers stacked vertically. The bottom number stands for one of the binary note values: 2, 4, 8, or 16 (1 for the whole note and 32 for the thirty-second note are found rarely, if ever). The top number shows how many of the notes indicated by the lower number occur in a measure, the space between bar lines. The most common time signatures are shown in Example 23.
You may say with a great deal of confidence that “2/4 means there can be two quarter notes between bar lines,” that “6/8 means there can be six eighth notes between bar lines,” etc. Keep in mind, however, that these note values may or may not represent the pulse you choose as a beat. That choice depends primarily on the tempo of the pulse streams in the metric structure. For example, we say that in 3/4 there can be three quarter notes in a measure, and the speed of the quarter note is such that the pulse it represents may be chosen as the beat. But a slow speed for the quarter note might cause us to choose the eighth note as the beat. And if the quarter note is performed very fast, we may choose the dotted half note as the beat. Tempo is the crucial factor when deciding whether the note value shown in the time signature represents the beat.
Although some composers nowadays substitute a note value for the bottom number in a time signature:
no consistent way of showing tuplets (see below) or dotted notes in time signatures is in common use. You will encounter scores in which time signatures change frequently (this is sometimes referred to as “mixed meter”). While mixed meters of, say, 2/4, 3/4, 5/4, 6/8, 3/8, and 4/16 in succession may present a challenge in performance, each time signature gives the same kind of information—it tells how many of what kind of note (or its equivalent) occurs in a single measure.
What does “or its equivalent” refer to in the previous sentence? Let’s use 2/4 as an example. 2/4 means there can be two quarter notes in each measure (see Example 24). We know, however, that a half note or four eighth notes or eight sixteenth notes are equivalent to two quarter notes. The term tuplet refers to a grouping of notes that can not be expressed by the time signature. In the example below, the second line shows the standard way of notating tuplets. Here six eighth notes can be played in the time of four eighths (the natural division in 2/4) by using a slur and a number; three quarter notes can fill the time of two quarters, and six sixteenths can fill the time expressed by four sixteenths. Tuplet notation is found throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, and we will consider it a legitimate option, especially for triple meters. So a piece may be notated with a signature of 2/4, and two three-note triplets can be used throughout to communicate triple meter. A look through Beethoven’s piano sonatas, for example, will show that he was fond of switching frequently from duple to triple divisions and back at levels faster than the beat. In Example 24, any of the groups in any combination that is equivalent to two quarter notes may appear in a measure following a time signature of 2/4. Anything else is a mistake!!


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Laure Albin Guillot was one of the first artists in France to explore the decorative use of photography by blending art and science. Married to a specialist in microscopy, she began making photographs based on her husband's slides seen through the microscope. She published twenty of these abstract images as this artist’s book and later used related images on wallpaper, silk, and book bindings intended for luxurious interiors. These seemingly abstract designs are greatly magnified images of natural specimens, including cross-sections of rhinoceros’ horn.
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STA, 9 August 2021 - A month after the start of the Slovenian EU presidency, a cycle route was launched running between the northern town of Kranj and Brdo pri Kranju, the main venue for presidency-related events. To honour Slovenia's second stint at the helm of the Council of the EU, Kranj will also plant trees along the lane in the autumn.
The route runs from Kokrica to Predoslje, linking Kranj and Brdo as well, the Kranj municipality said on Monday. The EUR 360,000 project got under way after the state cleared EUR 217,000 in state and EU funds out of the Regional Development Fund in mid-May.
The investment, Kranj's contribution to the Slovenian presidency, seeks to boost sustainable mobility of the locals in the long run as Kranj is now linked with villages in the northern part of the municipality. The bike path may be used by pedestrians as well, however they are given lower priority over bicycles.
The two-way lane will soon be tree-lined as the municipality aims to plant apple trees native to Slovenia this autumn. In total, 54 trees will be planted, two per each EU member state, at a ceremony most likely to be attended by representatives of EU countries, the municipality said in a press release.
"This tree-lined route will be a symbol of ties and cooperation," said Kranj Mayor Matjaž Rakovec, noting that cooperation for the benefit of all was one of the EU's pillars.


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Former FF minister Andrews to head up aid agency GOAL
Published 09/11/2012 | 05:00
FORMER Fianna Fail minister Barry Andrews is the new CEO of international aid agency GOAL.
Mr Andrews, a former Children's Minister, will take over the charity following the resignation in August of John O'Shea -- who founded the charity in 1977.
He was one of 88 applicants from 18 countries to apply for the position, which was publicly advertised, and was selected by an independent panel.
"I have a strong affinity with the work that GOAL do and know about the ethos from my sister (who worked for GOAL in Calcutta)," Mr Andrews said said.
He attended one informal and two formal interviews for the job -- the final one chaired by independent panel member senator Martin McAleese.
"They asked me to outline a strategy for the first few years and I gave them my vision," he said.
A GOAL spokesman refused to reveal the remuneration package. While Mr O'Shea never talked about the amount he was paid, it was revealed in 2010 that he was on a salary of €98,320.
Mr Andrews's junior ministerial colleague in the last government, Peter Power, has also made the move to aid organisations.
The former minister with responsibility for international aid and development was last year appointed executive director of UNICEF Ireland. The position attracts a salary of around €100,000 a year.
Mr Andrews said he was "very excited to be chosen" and was looking forward to the challenge. His plans include:
• Implementation of best practice in corporate governance.
• Stabilisation of fundraising "to build on the success of the past".
Mr O'Shea's resignation came after controversy over a decision to take out a court injunction preventing the board of the organisation from dismissing him.
The former charity boss rejected complaints of "institutionalised bullying" in court as "false and concocted" when applying for the injunction.
However, he stepped down and agreed to take an "ambassadorial role" in the charity.
Mr Andrews said yesterday he would contact Mr O'Shea to discuss the role when he starts in the coming weeks.
Welcoming the appointment, GOAL board chairman Pat O'Mahony said the organisation would grow and remain true to its ethos to deliver aid to the poorest of the poor.
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Tori Spelling may be pregnant yet again!
On Thursday, April 1, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum took to the 'gram to seemingly announce she was expecting baby number six. In a sweet snap, the 47-year-old wore a white crop top and floral kimono (sans bottoms), as she cradles her exposed stomach. Her long platinum blonde hair was left down in waves, and she appeared to be in full glam makeup.
"No. 6," she vaguely captioned the post.
Spelling, along with her husband Dean McDermott, already share five children: sons Liam, 14, Finn, 8, and Beau, 4, and daughters Stella, 12, and Hattie, 9. She is also the stepmother to Jack McDermott, 22, who is her husband's son with ex Mary Jo Eustace.
The comment section of the proud mama's post was immediately flooded with well wishes from famous faces. "Ahhhhhhhh!!! This is the BEST news!!! I’m so happy for you!! A delicious little half dozen!!! 🙌🙌," wrote TV personality Dawn McCoy.
"Omg Tori!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤," commented radio host Jessica Hall.
The actress' former 90120 co-star Kathleen Roberston echoed the sentiment, posting a series of clap emojis.
But the timing of the announcement has some fans raising their eyebrows. In addition to Spelling's age — pregnancies that happen in women over the age of 35 are considered “geriatric pregnancies” — Thursday is April Fools' Day, an annual custom consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes.
If the Stori Telling author is just goofing around, she may have some backlash to deal with, as the gag is reading as insensitive to many. "I really hope you aren’t using a pregnancy as an April fools joke considering there are so many women out there who wish they could have just one child. You have been blessed with 5, please have compassion and empathy. This is nothing to joke about!" one user commented.
"I hope this isn’t an April fools joke because that’s in such poor taste for those of us who have lost babies," another agreed.
"If this is an April Fools joke you’re gonna get so roasted 🙈," warned another.
OK! reached out to a representative for Spelling, but they have yet to respond to OK!'s request. Guess we'll just have to wait and see!


text: India's little known Air Costa has announced an order for up to 100 EJet-E2s at the Singapore Airshow. The deal includes firm orders for 25 E190-E2s and 25 E195-E2s, plus 50 options. It is worth $2.94bn for the firm orders and $5.88bn if all options are exercised. Launched in January 2012 out of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, the airline is focused on second and third tier routes, connecting tertiary cities, which hold 70 per cent of India's population. Such cities include Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad as well as those in the north and north west of India. In addition to the purchases, Air Costa will introduce two leased E190s from GECAS later this month to operate in the southern region. In 2014, it will expand operations to cover India, using pre-owned E190s, which it will also lease from GECAS. The airline will take four leased E190s each year from July this year until 2018, when it plans to reach the third phase of its expansion. This phase involves international operations using the new E2 aircraft, which fall under this order.


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WhatIWore: It’s fair to say after 9 days and 2000+ miles, Adam and I are bonafide road warriors. Our most recent vacation took us through the Shenandoah Valley, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and inland to the Blue Ridge Mountains. We ate some of the best food of our lives, had gorgeous weather and beautiful scenery. Read on to hear more recommendations for the first part of our trip!
Our best vacations have a mix of beautiful natural settings, a little history and a little something fancy. Driving through Virginia and North Carolina certainly gave us ample doses of all three.
Staunton, VA The impetus for our journey was our friends’ wedding. We always like to stay in the bridal party’s recommended hotel, which was the Stonewall Jackson in Staunton. I really love cute old main streets and late 19th century/early 20th architecture and this little town had great examples of both.
Zynodoa - Our first official meal of vacation was at the upscale local farm-to-table restaurant Zynodoa. There was a little mix up with our reservation (which made me a little crabby after being on the road all day), but once we were seated, everything fell into place. The bartender made me an awesome ginger, mint, cranberry faux cocktail and Adam ordered a martini. The menu changes according to ingredient availability (and I don’t have a perfect memory for the dish names), but Adam had a pork belly small plate while I ordered something tasty with crab on it. Both delicious. For our main dishes, Adam had a house made pasta with pesto and mushrooms and I had a grilled shrimp dish. Again - incredible. For dessert we had an amazing strawberry shortcake. I would highly recommend this restaurant if you’re in the area!! Reservations Recommended.
Zynodoa 115 E Beverley St, Staunton, VA 24401 (540) 885-7775
If you’re into wine, check out Barren Ridge Vineyards, the beautiful location for our friends’ wedding. (Here’s What I Wore)
Barren Ridge Vineyard 984 Barren Ridge Rd, Fishersville, VA 22939 (540) 248-3300
On wedding Saturday, we took the bride’s recommendation to check out Charlottesville, which was a 30 minute drive from Staunton. We initially wanted to do a tour of Montecello, but the wait wouldn’t allow us any spare time to check out the town or have lunch, so we bailed. Instead, we walked around the main street and explored all of the darling little shops. I can’t remember any by name, but they’re all super cute. There was also a farmer’s market that looked really fun (although crowded), so we had a quick lunch and went home to get cleaned up for the wedding.
Adam and I are huge AirBnB lovers and we rented through the site for the remainder of our trip. The Kitty Hawk Surf Bungalow was our favorite rental of the week. It came with a pass to a private beach and had all of the sand toys you can dream of (would be great for families - lots of kids stuff plus towels, an umbrella and chairs for us). The family renting the room were friendly and fun (the husband hand makes surf boards!). The rental was located in a beachy neighborhood and felt very safe and was a short drive to the next closest town of Duck, NC, where we spent a lot of time. We will definitely be returning to the same spot for our next trip!
AQUA For our second dinner in the OBX, we went to AQUA, which also overlooked the western bank for an amazing sunset view. This meal was also delicious and we ordered crab dip to start, crab cakes (Adam) and fresh caught tuna (me). For dessert, I had the best fresh home made mint ice cream of my life. Reservations Recommended
AQUA 1174 Duck Rd, Duck, NC 27949 (252) 261-9700
Duck Donuts If you follow my Instagram, you probably know that I’m kinda crazy for donuts. If it’s on the menu or a local donut shop is in town, I’m gonna try it out. I can say, without a doubt, that Duck Donuts are the best I’ve ever had in my life. They’re freshly fried cake donuts (I usually order yeast) and coated and you eat ‘em hot. So crispy, so gooey, so incredible. For all of the gourmet faire we tasted on our trip, these little donuts still rank near the top of my list. Maybe even the best thing I ate (maybe because I consider myself a bit of an expert on the topic!)
Because everything is made to order, you can customize your toppings. We tried: Chocolate, Strawberry, Lemon, Plain and Maple Glaze (with peanuts), plus a cinnamon sugar and a plain glaze with coconut topping. My favorite was my very first bite - a chocolate glazed super piping hot, freshly fried donut. Trust me - my mouth is watering just thinking about it.
When we got home, we immediately ordered the mix and plan on trying to recreate with our family over the 4th of July weekend. I know it won’t be the same, but it’s worth a shot!
Duck Donuts | 1190 Duck Rd Kitty Hawk, NC (252) 480-3304
(multiple locations in the OBX)
The Blue Point Thanks to our hosts recommendations, we went to The Blue Point on our first (and last!) night in the OBX. Both meals were incredible and highlights were the crab soup, crab cakes and Key Lime pie for dessert. Oh! We also had our first soft shelled crab too. Again on the pricy side but absolutely worth it. We both feel like the first meal was one of our best (and that’s no easy feat - we ate like royalty on this trip!) Also worth noting, because it’s on the western side of the bank, sunsets here are beautiful. The first night we watched from our table and on our second visit we hung out in a grassy outside bar area in Adorondak chairs. It was great! Reservations recommended.
The Blue Point 1240 Duck Rd, Duck, NC 27949 (252) 261-8090


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Chronic Hyperglycemia and Biochemical Alterations Induced Hepatic-Renal Dysfunction in Rats Administered Ethylacetate Fraction of Plumbago Zeylanica, Linn (Published)
Chronic hyperglycemia is an independent predictor of death in myocardial infarctions and nephropathy and it is a major cause of organ damage. Previous studies have shown that administration of Plumbago zeylanica extract elevated significantly the glucose concentration of the organism even though there have been many claims of the ameliorative effects of the plant. Hence, we investigated the likely dysfunctions of liver and kidney that may results from the induced hyperglycemia. Twenty rats (150-190 g) were grouped into four of five rats per group. Group 1 (control) was administered 2% Tween-20 and groups 2, 3 and 4 were administered 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg b. wt. doses of P. zeylanica ethylacetate (PZE) fraction respectively. Administration of PZE for 28 days significantly increased the plasma glucose level suggesting hyperglycemia. The activities of plasma aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) were significantly increased thereby suggesting hepatic dysfunction and the kidney function monitored by plasma protein, creatinine and urea levels was impaired by PZE suggesting renal dysfunction. However, there was no significant change in the level of lipid profile. PZE elicited hyperglycemic effect, hepatic and renal dysfunctions in a dose-dependent manner. Thus, the inducement of hyperglycemia by PZE may have resulted into organ damage noticed in the liver and kidney. Therefore, PZE should be used as herbal medicine with caution.
Free Radical Scavenging Activities of Extracts and Bioactive Constituents from the Roots of Plumbago Zeylanica (Linn.) (Published)
Bioactive constituents from the methanolic extract (ME) and ethylacetate extract (EA) of Plumbago zeylanica were characterized by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The free radical scavenging activities of ME and EA was determined using 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH). Major bioactive compounds found in the ME includes oxalic acid allyltridecyl ester, decane, 2-piperidinone-N-[4-bromo-n-butyl] and tetradecane, compounds obtained from EA were 1-(ethenyloxyl) octadecane and cis-13-octadecenoic acid. Cis-13-octadecenoic acid, though known, was isolated for the first time from the root of P. zeylanica. The highest percentage antioxidant activities of ME and EA were 98.5% and 45.5% respectively at 350 µg/ml concentration of extracts. Results obtained from this study justify the use of P. zeylanica in traditional medicine for treatment of different ailments and it could be a potential source for novel drug compounds.

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Ed Miliband branded David Cameron's excuses not to engage in TV debates before the General Election as "feeble and pathetic".
There has also been a suggestion of a five-way leader online debate to solve Cameron and Miliband's "stalemate" position.
ITV News Political Correspondent Romilly Weeks reports.
David Cameron has damaged his reputation by trying to avoid TV debates with other leaders, according to a new ComRes poll for ITV News.
Ed Miliband say a Labour government would take legal steps to make sure leaders' debates a permanent feature in general election campaigns
Former Conservative Party chairman suggests a Tory-Labour grand coalition to stop the SNP holding the balance of power at Westminster.


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Our client in East Kilbride contacted us to request a complete driveway paving service which would breathe a new lease of life into their property through the revitalisation of their old and damaged driveway paving. Over the years various pieces of the driveway’s stonework became loose, damaged and lost which led to a rather unsightly visual appeal to the property’s driveway – more-so when you looked at the well-presented neighbouring driveways.
Garden Makeovers were tasked with a comprehensive driveway design change, with the client giving us the creative liberty to create something truly special. Initially starting with landscaping to clear the driveway of its old features, we cleared the area to start afresh and quickly came up with a driveway paving design which was a little bit different than the rest. We used a variety of high quality stonework for the driveway to create a mosaic like effect which meanders all the way to the front door of the property in a sweeping fashion.
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Capitalism’s free market results in rapid growth in its own society and other countries. Due to the fact that Capitalism has no boundaries of ...
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... for themselves and achieve any level of success or capital. If everyone’s goal increases their own wealth then the country’s economy will prosper as supply and demand will always increase employment, maintain the strength of the work force, and advance goods and services. Unlike socialism, that leads deterioration of the work force, economy and production. A socialist believes the willingness to relinquish wealth and status, for the benefit of the many, will result in a strong economic system and society, which is false. This is because if one work gets no more wealth or status than the other, there is drive to improve his or hers services. If a socialist society demands social equality, there will be no room for improvement. As there is no will to volunteer in the work force, the economy can never grow and just like communism, will only lead to economic depression.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan appreciated Turkey’s operation for “peaceful resolution of the Syrian situation”. PM told Erdogan over a telephone conversation that Pakistan is fully aware of the threats faced by Turkey and is hopeful that Turkey’s efforts for peaceful Syria are successful. He also assured Pakistan’s full support and solidarity for this operation.
PM later added that the government and people of Pakistan were looking forward to accord a warm welcome to President Erdogan, who will be visiting Islamabad later this month
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A new MapleStory 2 shows one very interesting character customization option, something that many players certainly wished was available in other MMO games: the ability to add your own pictures to the clothes. You simply upload a PNG image and place it in the clothing piece you desire, as the video below showcases.
Now, while this option is very exciting and we love the degree of liberty and variety it can bring to the game, we’re hoping Nexon has really good control over the players’ creations when the game launches. Because we’re pretty sure many characters will go around the game world with some overly controversial images stamped on their shirts. Human nature, heh?
MapleStory 2 just entered alpha in South Korea so we’re bound to see a lot more about the game in the coming weeks. You can learn a lot about the game just by watching our Top 5 Reasons to be Excited for MapleStory 2 video.


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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — In her final act as Rochester's mayor, Lovely Warren says she has submitted legislation to Rochester City Council to create a Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) pilot program.
This comes as the mayor's time in office comes to end, having announced her resignation in October, effective Dec. 1, after pleading guilty to violating election law. Warren agreed to resign as part of a plea deal.
Warren says this program would, in its first year, provide $500 a month to 175 families in the city of Rochester who live at, or below, 200% of the federal poverty line. In the second year, 175 different families would be provided with a GBI of $500 per month.
“The quickest path for Rochester families to escape poverty and build generational wealth is through the establishment of a guaranteed basic income,” Warren said in a statement. “While the City alone cannot achieve this goal for all of our families, we can demonstrate the powerful impact that a guaranteed basic income would provide. My hope is that a successful pilot would spur our community’s non-profits, private donors and, ultimately, other levels of government, to embrace this effort and make guaranteed basic income a cornerstone in our efforts to achieve equity.”
Warren says the pilot program would cost $2.2 million. The outgoing mayor says you must be 18 years or older or an emancipated adult, and must be a current resident of the city of Rochester with at least one year of established residency, to benefit from the program.
“I have always believed that the best way to improve our entire community is to lift up those who are struggling to succeed,” Warren said. “By improving the lives of Rochester’s poorest families and providing a path towards equity, we ultimately will improve the economic wellbeing of all of Rochester and beyond.”
Warren says the pilot program is an eligible use of the American Rescue Plan Act funding, of which Rochester received $202.1 million from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund established by the ARPA.
Warren says the program will be considered by Rochester City Council during the December legislative cycle.

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Hermes Real Estate launches property loan fund
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Hermes Real Estate Investment Management Limited (HREIML) is launching the Hermes Real Estate Senior Debt Fund to invest in UK commercial real estate (CRE) loans.
The portfolio will consist of well-structured private loans secured on UK domiciled CRE and overseen by HREIML. Commercial office, retail and industrial real estate classes will be targeted with the aim of providing a diversified portfolio by borrower, number of loans, underlying assets, tenant covenants and loan maturities. The security focus is for high-quality assets with a strong track-record of tenant retention in London and the South East, with regional transactions in prime metropolitan locations considered opportunistically.
The launch comes at a time when the funding gap remains substantial. With GBP143 billion of UK CRE debt scheduled to mature between 2013 and 2017, there are fewer lenders able or willing to underwrite CRE loans in excess of GBP50 million on a bilateral basis. This fund launch will create an excellent opportunity to ‘cherry-pick’ transactions with strong risk return characteristics, especially in an environment where loan-to-value (LTV) ratios have fallen and loan margins have increased.
Chris Taylor, Chief Executive of Hermes Real Estate Investment said:
“The current lending shortfall provides a large pool of transactions with strong risk-return characteristics for us to choose from. The attractiveness of the opportunity is further enhanced by the decline of loan-to-value ratios on already reduced capital values, meaning senior CRE debt compares favourably with similar quality corporate bonds. While our existing commitment to direct real estate investment will remain strong, this move affords a further opportunity to capitalise upon our proven real estate underwriting skills.”
Marcus Palmer, Head of Real Estate Debt at Hermes Real Estate Investment Management Limited, said:
“Our strategy for UK CRE debt plays to our existing strengths in UK real estate. Strong origination and structuring capability alongside HREIML’s proven in-depth understanding of property fundamentals will be key elements of our risk assessment and analysis of the market and specific lending opportunities. In addition, our strong links with borrowers and financial institutions means we are well placed to source the best opportunities, and ensure deal flow remains strong.
“Loans will typically be made to strong borrowers in partnership with other debt providers and of values between GBP30 million and GBP100 million.”

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Fellowship Alumni Selected for 2021 Ford Global Fellowship
Congratulations to the three Fellowship Alumni who have been selected for the 2021 Ford Global Fellowship!
With a $50-million investment over the next 10 years, this program of the Ford Foundation aims to connect and support leaders from around the world who are advancing innovative solutions to end inequality. The program focuses on shared learning across issue areas, building and strengthening connections across borders, and developing a supportive, interconnected cohort from across a wide variety of sectors.
This year, the Ford Foundation welcomed 48 new Fellows, including:
- Murendeni Mafumo, 2014 Fellowship Alumnus, South Africa
- Adebukola “Bukky” Shonibare, 2016 Fellowship Alumna, Nigeria
- Ian Tarimo, 2019 Fellowship Alumnus, Tanzania and 2021 Leadership Impact Award Winner


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Each year in the United States alone, more than 200,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed. Most women find their tumors on their own, by feeling a lump in their breast. Tumors can be detected in this way because they are stiffer than normal tissue, explains Valerie Weaver, Director of UCSF's Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration. This stiffness is both a consequence and a cause of cancerous processes in solid tumors.
Weaver's work on cancer cells’ interactions with the tumor microenvironment had its origins in her postdoctoral work with Mina Bissell at UC Berkeley, where she studied how integrin signaling affects the phenotypes of tumor cells (1, 2). Now, she is at the forefront of a burgeoning new field, mechanotransduction, which seeks a better understanding of how cells sense and respond to physical forces (3–5). When discussing her career, she says it hasn't always been easy getting to that position, but, even with all the challenges she's faced, it's been worth it.
When did you decide on a career in science?
I come from a working-class background. Growing up, none of my friends were university bound. I think it was expected that I should learn how to type and get some kind of job with a nice pension, then get married and have a family. But I think I always knew I wanted something different for myself. I was a huge reader—I love books—and maybe that was why I decided to go to university. But I don't think I seriously considered a science career until well after that.
“I celebrate science and what it offers.”
After college, I was working at Chalk River Nuclear Labs, and my supervisor there really encouraged me to try to go farther. She could see my potential even though I couldn't. So I went to graduate school at the University of Ottawa and started a postdoc at the Canadian Research Council. My horizons just opened up—there were so many possibilities. But I still didn't really know if I could or should pursue a research career.
Then I saw Mina Bissell give a presentation at the Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences meeting in Windsor. I somehow worked up the guts to run up to her at the end of the meeting and say, “Oh, I'd love to do a postdoc with you.” To my surprise, she said, “Well, contact me.”
So off you went to your postdoc?
Actually, no, not right away. I'd had a rough time during graduate school—my father died from a brain tumor, and I was in a really horrific car accident. And I wondered: do I have what it takes? Can I really do this? I needed time to think it through, so I just… took off.
I never told Mina my plans. I used the settlement money from my car accident and bought a plane ticket to Africa. I spent six months traveling around, ending up in India. It was an amazing experience, but, along the way, I had this revelation: I realized that I was really lucky that I had the opportunity to get an education and do reasonably well for myself in life. I had a certain capacity for doing research, and I had a passion for doing it.
I ended up phoning Mina from a phone booth in Kathmandu and telling her that I wanted to come start my postdoc with her. It was a great choice: Mina is another person who really believed in me. Her belief gave me the power to think bigger and to expand my vision, to see where I needed to go.
And you never looked back?
I've met several students who seem confused about why they are pursuing a research career. They have all these external expectations put on them, and they put so much stock in whether they get a particular award or grade, as opposed to whether this is what they really want to do. I didn't have any expectations placed on me, so it was easier for me to decide that I was doing it for the right reasons.
As I tell my students, science is a tough job, but it's important to realize that nobody owes us this. We're lucky to do this! It's challenging and fun and interesting… I celebrate science and what it offers; hopefully that'll help draw people in for the right reasons.
What interests did you pursue in your postdoc?
Mina had recently published some papers with Nancy Boudreau where they showed that normal breast epithelial cells in 3D culture apoptose when they lose cell adhesion, but tumor cells are resistant to this kind of death. I wanted to look at how that pathway is altered in tumors and how tumors become resistant to apoptosis. So, after consulting Mina, I contacted Ole Petersen's group in Copenhagen, which had a bunch of human cell lines at different stages of tumor progression, and started trying to find out at what point during tumorigenesis they could no longer be killed by blocking cell adhesion.
“Signals from the environment are important for driving tumor cells’ behavior.”
The really early lines died like crazy when you blocked β1 integrin, and, as the disease progressed, they died less, as expected. But when I got to fully progressed tumors, I remember looking at the cultures and thinking, “Okay, I must have mixed these up because they look just like normal cells.” What was happening was that, by blocking β1 integrin, we were sending the tumor cells into phenotypic reversion; they were no longer invasive. This showed that signals from the environment are important for driving tumor cells’ behavior.
That's the subject you've chosen to pursue in your own lab?
I was hired at UPenn as part of what was going to be a big interdisciplinary cancer research group. But shortly after I got there the University had a funding crisis and stopped hiring. It ended up that I was the only cancer researcher in what was really an engineering and physics group. I couldn't get graduate students to come over because they were terrified by all the physics and engineering, and the lab was way on the other side of campus from the biological sciences labs. So I hired a technician, Nastaran Zahir, and trained her in lab work, hoping that she might stay to do grad school—and she did.
I was trying to think of a project for Nas that was relevant to my interests and to engineering. To make a long story short, I started wondering about things like viscoelasticity and whether that might impact tumor behavior in a 3D environment. We started thinking about when the mammary acinus expands during development or during tumor progression. Could there be some kind of physical force that's altered, and could we model it?
But I couldn't get any money for these studies. No one would take a chance on a grant for this; it just sounded too crazy. We ended up going around, collecting other peoples’ extra mice—mice with myc- or ras-based tumors or whatever—to see if we could make force measurements on them. And what we found was that breast tumors are stiffer than normal tissue. We've been expanding on that ever since.
How does stiffness in the tumor environment impact cancer cells’ behavior?
Think of it this way. Mammals start off as one little egg, which is very soft and is not under tension. As an animal develops different tissue types, these different tissues have different properties of stiffness or softness, and the cells in them tune themselves to the stiffness of the extracellular matrix in their environment. They do this, in part, through ion channel activation but also through clustering of integrins. This changes the activation of Rho GTPases, which in turn alters actomyosin contractility and actin behavior. That then feeds back and changes how receptors function (by affecting their clustering or localization), which then drives reorientation of matrix bundles and more deposition, stiffening the local environment. You can therefore drive different configurations of cell surface receptors—literally reprogram the cell—simply by changing the stiffness of the cell's environment.
When you talk about a breast tumor, or other tumors we work on like pancreatic or brain tumors, they don't have to stiffen very much to become a tumor. Tumor cells are hypersensitive to stiffness changes because many oncogenes change the cell's actomyosin contractility. We're also finding that oncogenes change things like the glycocalyx and cell surface glycoproteins, which can also affect the cell's mechanical characteristics. We can actually use atomic force microscopy and fluorescence image contrast (FLIC) microscopy to measure some of these changes.
I'm excited about how things are turning out. I love where our work is going, and I think people are finally starting to pick up on how interesting this stuff is. Of course, we have a long way to go. But I have a nice group and I feel extremely privileged to be part of this.
Text and Interview by Caitlin Sedwick

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In an interview on his newest project (the just over 1-year-old long-form platform Medium) Twitter co-founder Evan Williams shared a few thoughts on the uselessness of general news, and the need for a platform to highlight ideas of lasting import.
Williams is taking aim squarely at the news industry’s most embarrassing vulnerability: the incessant need to trump up mundane happenings in order to habituate readers into needing news like a daily drug fix.
“News in general doesn’t matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import,” he tells me during our interview inside a temporary Market Street office space that’s housing Medium, until the top two floors are ready for his growing team. “Even if it’s fiction, it’s probably better most of the time.”
[…] Instead, Williams argues, citizens should re-calibrate their ravenous appetite for information towards more awe-inspiring content. “Published written ideas and stories are life-changing,” he gushes, recalling his early childhood fascination with books as the motivation to take on the media establishment. The Internet “was freeing that up, that excitement about knowledge that’s inside of books–multiplied and freed and unlocked for the world; and, the world would be better in every way.”
In Williams’s grand vision, the public reads for enlightenment; news takes a backseat directly in proportion to how often it leaves us more informed and inspired.
This is a really valid, and really noble ambition that resonates with more than a few people. In a letter to a young journalist, Pulitzer winning writer Lane DeGregory looks back on her career and says she wishes she had “read more short stories and fewer newspaper articles.”
It also echoes what Maria Popova has been aiming to do with her curatorial interestingness project, Brain Pickings, for years now. Last week, she wrote a must-read piece on tech writer Clive Thompson’s new book, which pushes past “painfully familiar and trite-by-overuse notions like distraction and information overload,” to deeply examine the impact of digital tools. She writes:
Several decades after Vannevar Bush’s now-legendary meditation on how technology will impact our thinking, Thompson reaches even further into the fringes of our cultural sensibility — past the cheap techno-dystopia, past the pollyannaish techno-utopia, and into that intricate and ever-evolving intersection of technology and psychology.
The Problem: Though I’ve been excited about Medium and its potential, I’m inclined to file Williams’ vision for it into the “pollyannaish techno-utopia” bucket that Popova mentions because although the impulse behind it (the desire for an antidote to the ravenous appetite for tidbits of useless information) is something I wholeheartedly agree with, algorithmic curation worries me.
Traditional news editors stake their reputations on having an intuition for what drives eyeballs to their sites. Editors don’t, however, know whether readers leave more informed.
Williams thinks Medium has an answer: an intelligent algorithm that suggests stories, primarily based on how long users spend reading certain articles (which he’s discussing publicly for the first time). Like Pandora did for music discovery, Medium’s new intelligent curator aims to improve the ol’ human-powered system of manually scrolling through the Internet and asking others what to read.
In the algorithm itself, Medium prioritizes time spent on an article, rather than simple page views. “Time spent is not actually a value in itself, but in a world where people have infinite choices, it’s a pretty good measure if people are getting value,” explains Williams.
"Time spent" seems like a questionable way to measure value, if "enlightening" content is what Medium wants to put on the screens of readers. As a content-neutral long-form discovery platform, sure, it makes sense. And there isn’t really anything wrong with it either. But touting itself as a solution to our appetite for endless streams of meaningless information seems troubling to me. Here’s why:
A key aspect of Thompson’s argument on the good the internet has done for our brains is that it has given us unprecedented access to one another’s memory stores, which means that our ability to indiscriminately discover information and understand the world through it, has expanded infinitely. To oversimplify it: we don’t have to remember as much by ourselves—we simply need to remember where information is stored and how to access it quickly. While the benefits are obvious, the issue with this is that it hampers creative thought, and our ability to make connections.
In light of platforms like Medium, longer isn’t better, especially when the discovery of value is left to machines. Popova excerpts a portion of Thompson’s book in which he explains how an algorithm’s biases exist, but are almost impossible to identify:
The real challenge of using machines for transactive memory lies in the inscrutability of their mechanics. Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners’ minds work — where they’re strong, where they’re weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it’s harder with digital tools, particularly search engines. You can certainly learn how they work and develop a mental model of Google’s biases. … But search companies are for-profit firms. They guard their algorithms like crown jewels. This makes them different from previous forms of outboard memory. A public library keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms; a search engine keeps many. On top of this inscrutability, it’s hard to know what to trust in a world of self-publishing. To rely on networked digital knowledge, you need to look with skeptical eyes. It’s a skill that should be taught with the same urgency we devote to teaching math and writing.
Popova explains that without a mental pool of resources from which we can connect existing ideas into new combinations—and I’d add, thereby access, retain, and be “enlightened” by information—our capacity to do so is deflated.
TL;DR: Popova’s piece doesn’t directly address or assess discovery platforms like Medium, but I think it’s worth considering them together. Longer form writing isn’t an antidote to short bites of information, and ideas of lasting value can’t be judged by time spent consuming them. The point here is that for content platforms that truly seek to give people access to more ideas with more lasting import, a lot more work has to be done, namely: (1) The limitations of algorithmic curation need to be transparent, and talked about, and (2) Readers need to be taught how to critically consume self-published writing that they received through digitally networked knowledge. —Jihii
Even robots have biases.
Any decision process, whether human or algorithm, about what to include, exclude, or emphasize — processes of which Google News has many — has the potential to introduce bias. What’s interesting in terms of algorithms though is that the decision criteria available to the algorithm may appear innocuous while at the same time resulting in output that is perceived as biased.
We need, in short, to pay attention to the materiality of algorithmic processes. By that, I do not simply mean the materiality of the algorithmic processing (the circuits, server farms, internet cables, super-computers, and so on) but to the materiality of the procedural inputs. To the stuff that the algorithm mashes up, rearranges, and spits out.
CW Anderson, Culture Daily. The Materiality of Algorithms.
In what reads like a starting point for more posts on the subject, CUNY Prof Chris Anderson discusses what documents journalists may want to design algorithms for, and just how hard that task will be.
Algorithms doing magic inside massive data sets and search engines, while not mathematically simple, are generally easy to conceptualize — algorithms and their data are sitting in the computer, the algorithm sifts through the excel sheet in the background and bam! you have something.
But if you’re working with poorly organized documents, it’s difficult to simply plug them in.
Chris writes that the work required to include any document in a set will shape the algorithm that makes sense of the whole bunch. This will be a problem for journalists who want to examine any documents made without much forethought, which is to say: government documents, phone records from different companies and countries, eye witness reports, police sketches, mugshots, bank statements, tax forms, and hundreds of other things worth investigating.
The recovered text [from these documents] is a mess, because these documents are just about the worse possible case for OCR [optical character recognition]: many of these documents are forms with a complex layout, and the pages have been photocopied multiple times, redacted, scribbled on, stamped and smudged. But large blocks of text come through pretty well, and this command extracts what text there is into one file per page.
To read the rest of Stray’s account, see his Overview Project.
And to see more with Chris Anderson, see our recent video interviews with him.


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You wake up.
The full force of your hangover gradually makes itself known. Your head is swimming a little bit because you're still a little drunk. The light streams in, you open your eyes and begin to orient yourself.
You can feel the sheets against your skin, your breasts. You're shirtless. Then you feel his heat against your back… his hand is on your hip, his face in your hair. You pull the comforter up a little bit in order to cover yourself better.
His bed is next to his window. You can tell by the light and the feeling in the room that it's beautiful outside. It's the beginning of March and random beautiful days have been popping up here and there. It's one of those.
The door is propped open. One of his roommates is playing some simple blues, just a man and his guitar. You remember seeing your man playing guitar for the first time last night… it turned you on, no lies. His fingers on the frets, plucking the strings, no pick.
You turn over. He's awake now too, rubs his eyes.
"I'm still tired."
You smile, and he grins a little and closes his eyes again. You huddle a little more under the covers but reach up a hand and begin to touch his face, his lips, his sideburns, the back of his hair. The blues float in through the open door, and you experience a completely perfect moment, a moment so round and without blemish in its entirety and its contentedness that you never want to leave it. You want to touch this man's face in this bed with no shirt on and a beautiful day outside forever.
The moment ends but lingers in the air and in the pit of your stomach for a long time after, warming you with its small little light and limitless perfection. You know that whatever deviations you may have taken from the life that has been set out before you, that long open road, that this moment has come to pass with you being in exactly the right place at the right time, and more importantly, with the right person.


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A video we did for or Educational Psychology Class.
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