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Amsterdam knowledge institutions invest 1 billion in AI
15-12-2019 8:00 pm Published by Nederland.ai Leave your thoughts
The knowledge institutes of Amsterdam have joined forces and will invest 1 billion euros in the development of responsible AI technologies in the coming ten years, by setting up research programs, attracting top scientists and training students with the latest knowledge of AI . Collaborations with top institutes around the world, public partners and the business community will be greatly expanded. The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) announced this week that the UvA has been selected as the ELLIS unit to retain talent in machine learning and related AI research areas for Europe in Europe.
Under the heading 'AI technology for people', leading knowledge institutions in Amsterdam have committed themselves to investing 1 billion euros over the next ten years, to hire at least 800 researchers, and 5,000 undergraduate, graduate and PhD students to lead to 10,000 students follow an AI minor and develop (or assist with the development) of 100 spin-offs and 100 startups.
AI technology for people
Amsterdam has the largest science and innovation ecosystem in the Netherlands and has at least three decades of experience in research, education and innovation in the field of AI. We have a broad expertise here – technological knowledge and knowledge about the legal, social and ethical aspects of AI. Yet we too are starting to feel the shortage of AI talent, "says Geert ten Dam, president of the University of Amsterdam. "Extra investments are desperately needed," adds Mirjam van Praag, president of the VU University Amsterdam (VU). "In this highly competitive world, we need to focus on attracting, developing and retaining talent to ensure that we keep the development of advanced technology under control while maintaining our national and European values."
The Amsterdam knowledge institutions focus on related technological areas: machine learning, hybrid intelligence and accountable AI. The core of the plan is the need to develop better systems that are focused on people and offer guarantees for responsible application: AI technology for people. Anita Nijboer, board member of the VNO-NCW Metropool Amsterdam, will be the ambassador of the Amsterdam coalition. Central to the coalition's approach are three main themes, all with a major impact on people's daily lives and socio-economic development in the region: AI for health, AI for business innovation and AI for citizens.
The coalition has joined leading international initiatives such as ELLIS (European laboratory for learning and intelligent systems) and CLAIRE (Confederation of laboratories for artificial intelligence research in Europe). On Tuesday, December 10, ELLIS announced that the UvA had been selected as a center of excellence for its proven scientific quality. The ELLIS network, consisting of European cities with excellent AI institutes, will facilitate the exchange of researchers and students. As part of this initiative, the Excellence Unit, located at the Amsterdam Science Park, can appoint new researchers and new PhD students.
Cooperation in Amsterdam
The Amsterdam region combines technical infrastructure ( SURFsara , Amsterdam data exchange ), institutional infrastructure ( CWI, eSciencecenter, UvA, VU and HvA ) and data science networks ( AmsterdamDataScience, Amsterdam Medical Data Science ). The municipality of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Economic Board and the province of Noord-Holland invest in development by creating an attractive business climate, by providing tailor-made support programs for talent and by bringing parties together to encourage co-creation.
The knowledge institutes are already working closely with a growing number of companies in public-private research laboratories in ICAI (the national innovation center for AI at the Amsterdam Science Park). The Atlas Lab was launched with TomTom in November, and earlier launches included: AIRlab Amsterdam (a joint industrial laboratory with Ahold Delhaize), the National Police Lab (a joint venture between the UvA, Utrecht University and the National Police) ), Elsevier AI Lab (a joint venture between UvA, VU and Elsevier), AIM Lab (a joint venture between UvA and Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence Ltd.), Delta Lab (a collaboration between UvA and Bosch) and QUVA Lab ( a collaboration between UvA and Qualcomm). Also this year, the program Hybrid Intelligence (a collaboration between UvA and VU University Amsterdam, among others), was subsidized by Gravitation. The Hogeschool van Amsterdam will open its Expertise Center for Applied AI on January 1, 2020.
Partners in AI technology for people
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (of which the Netherlands Cancer Institute is a part), Amsterdam Economic Board, Amsterdam UMC, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, municipality of Amsterdam, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Sanquin, University of Amsterdam, VU University Amsterdam.
For more information: Marcel Worring , professor of Data Science at the University of Amsterdam.
Read here the interview in the NRC December 12, 2019
Source https://www.amsterdameconomicboard.com/en/nieuws/amsterdam-knowledge-institutions-invest-1-billion-in-ai?cookie=1
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1. Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
2. National Leadership in Arts and Humanities: Institute for Advanced Creative Exploration and PAVAC 2 and 3
3. Ecology, Center for Emerging Tropical and Global Diseases, School of Marine Sciences
4. Workforce Development in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
5. Outreach
6. Administration and Information Technology
Introduction: This synopsis presents the main focal points of the Strategic Plan developed by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. The College is committed to maintaining or building excellence in all its programs. The following areas are ones to which the College will give special emphasis in the next decade.
Budget: This proposed plan would require a continuing budget of $4,014,692 from the College of Arts and Sciences and of $2,986,250 from other sources, presumably half from state monies and half from through development and external grants. This plan also proposes approximately $173 million in money for construction of buildings for the School of Art, Drama, The Georgia Museum of Art, Marine Sciences, Ecology, Chemistry, and the Center for Emerging Global and Tropical Diseases, to be raised by the University through legislative efforts and fund-raising. The College of Arts and Sciences will provide its portion of this budget through redirection of existing resources.
Across the nation major colleges and universities are reemphasizing the importance of undergraduate education. Undergraduate students are the heart of the University of Georgia, and providing them with a high quality education is a central reason for its existence. The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences is committed to providing a first-class instructional program for undergraduate students. We will strive to provide our students with a learning environment that stresses the value of a liberal education, excellence in teaching, and meaningful contact with faculty. We will provide continuing and enhanced support to programs that foster a student-centered educational environment. These programs enhance the quality of student life and in particular learning opportunities in the subject areas that form the traditional core of a liberal education: English, mathematics, foreign languages, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. This plan proposes providing expanded support for the Writing Intensive Program, Freshman Seminars, and the Mathematics pre-calculus learning labs, which were conceived to provide additional individual attention to undergraduate students. The College also proposes to enhance support for the Biology and Chemistry learning labs, which utilize instructional technology to provide a high-quality computer-based testing environment; and to implement a program for providing faculty and classrooms with modern computers and other instructional equipment on a continuing basis to insure continuing and improving use of technology in the classrooms. Enhanced support for all of these programs will enable the College and the University to maintain and raise the level of instruction our students receive. The most highly ranked universities in the nation are known not only for their research and graduate programs but also for their excellent programs in undergraduate studies.
International Programs: Current and future UGA graduates will encounter a world where space and time are increasingly compressed. In such a future virtually all occupations will have frequent global interactions as information and communications technologies link all parts of the world. To enable our students to function effectively in this environment, we must provide them with a broader global academic experience that promotes appreciation of other cultures and traditions. To reinforce the traditional role of international and intra-cultural studies as part of all College degree programs, the College Strategic Plan proposes to add new faculty positions in carefully selected international areas such as African Studies, Latin and Central American Studies, GLOBIS, and East and South Asian Studies. The further development of international programs will benefit departments across the College, from the social sciences to the humanities and the environmental sciences.
Lower-Division Language Teaching: The College proposes to continue its development of diverse foreign language and cultural studies programs. One immediate prospect in the Asian languages is Hindi. With its rich tradition of literature, history, and culture, Hindi is the official business language in India, the world's largest democracy. A Hindi Language Program will provide students with proficiency in the most important cultural and business language of India and its billion inhabitants. The addition of other Asian or African languages will help prepare University students to play a role in economic and cultural relationships the United States is forging in Asia and Africa. We will also at the appropriate time introduce new course sequences in Scandinavian and Eastern European languages, and in modern Hebrew. The creation of new language programs, and continued support for existing language programs, is essential to the development of international research and instructional programs at the University. They will be accompanied by the development of study abroad programs that allow students to be immersed in the culture of the languages they are learning. Language proficiency provides the basis for scholarly and practical applications in international business, medicine, and agriculture. Its importance cannot be overstated.
2. National Leadership in the Arts and Humanities: The Institute for Advanced Creative Exploration and PAVAC 2 and 3
The Institute for Advanced Creative Exploration: Proposed by schools and programs in the arts, the Institute for Advanced Creative Exploration will undertake an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to collaboration between the arts and related fields. Faculty at the University have identified the interface between the arts and technology as a point of common interest that has already garnered significant recognition for the University. The proposed Institute would generate significant opportunities for external funding both from federally and private sources. This new institute will be an interdisciplinary endeavor that cuts across traditional boundaries separating Art, Music, Drama, Dance, and the humanities. It will build and focus attention on the creative potential of new technologies and media in the arts and will encourage interdisciplinary and inter-media collaborations. The Institute will invite artists on the cutting edge of art forms that utilize new media and technologies to campus, and will seek significant support from grants and private funding opportunities in the corporate world. Among the areas that would likely form the heart of this new collaboration are such areas as computer art and computer animation, computer technology used in dramatic performance and design, film studies, creative writing and the New Music Center in the School of Music, which supports the performance of both contemporary as well as electronic music.The creation of new faculty positions in film studies and creative writing will specifically benefit the humanities and will address as well the goals of the first theme of this strategic plan, excellence in undergraduate instruction.
PAVAC 2 and PAVAC 3: The completion of planning and construction for the second phase of PAVAC will provide the School of Art, and along with it the Center for Advanced Creative Exploration, a new building appropriate designed to accommodate the needs of the school, its students and faculty, and the changing face of the arts. The fact that the School of Art has achieved the success it currently enjoys, given the absence of a suitable building and the dispersal of the faculty over the campus in at least eleven separate locations, is a real tribute to the talent and hard work of the faculty and staff of the School. Better facilities that allow the various studios and areas that make up the School to be located in a central location will improve morale among faculty and students and enhance collegial interactions. The proximity of the new Art building, and of the building for Drama that should follow, to the Music building, and to the expanded Art Museum and the Performing Arts Center, will encourage the sort of interactive collaboration among the Arts that the Institute will seek to encourage and support. The expanded Georgia Museum of Art, to be funded with externally raised monies, will enhance the new Fine Arts campus that results from this building program and will make the University of Georgia a leading collegiate force in the arts regionally and nationally. Projected cost of the PAVAC projects is 67 million dollars.
The College further proposes to build the creative writing program in the English Department. A recent external review suggested this program can become in short order a highly ranked program in the nation. New undergraduate degree programs in African American Studies and Women's Studies will also enhance the diversity of the undergraduate curriculum in the humanities.
3. Ecology, The Center for Emerging Tropical and Global Diseases, The School of Marine Sciences
Because the University of Georgia does not have a medical school, it has not in the past deeply engaged in biomedical research. This intra-college and interdisciplinary biomedical initiative seeks to move the University towards the forefront in biomedical research by exploiting developments in a number of fields. It seeks to strengthen our research programs in molecular parasitology, genomics, and biotechnology and to draw the University into collaboration with other colleges and universities, particularly the Medical College of Georgia. Biomedical research has the potential to attract substantial external research grants and to provide educational and research experiences to our students in areas that are in great demand. While National Science Foundation funding was recently increased by less than 10%, funding from the National Institute for Health was doubled. The new Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases is an outstanding example of the sort of UGA biomedical program that requires expansion.
Ecology: The University's strength in ecological studies will be an important complement to the biomedical initiative. The Institute of Ecology is one of the oldest such programs in the nation. Our Environmental Studies Program has been ranked at number 16 in the nation by the National Research Council's analysis of graduate research programs in the 1990s. Diversification and enhancement of this program will enable the University to play a leading role as this area of research and study continues to develop. Interdisciplinary collaborations with such departments as Anthropology, Geography, and the Biological Sciences will further enhance the potential value of this program. The strategic plan proposes 30 million in construction costs for a new building for Ecology.
The Center for Emerging Tropical and Global Diseases is a cross-college collaborative effort between Arts and Sciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine. It will build on the research of our scientists who are utilizing modern technology in molecular biology, chemistry, immunology, genetics, and other fields. It seeks to focus research and educational attention on formerly tropical diseases that have emerged from the isolated forests and jungles of their origin and that are now having a significant impact on a world-wide basis. In addition to the suffering they cause, they have become an international health issue with potentially damaging consequences for the world economy and international relations. The heart of the biomedical initiative involves some of the most pressing problems of the global world-AIDS, malaria, schistomyosis, Chagas disease, and other infectious diseases. Also included are diseases of animals that play an important role in Georgia agriculture. Through the biomedical initiative the University can forge fruitful relationships with the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Emory University, and the Medical College of Georgia. The projected cost of a building for the center will be 10 million dollars.
The School of Marine Programs provides educational and research opportunities in all aspects of the marine environment. This relatively new program already secures more external funding for research grants than any other unit in the College, and its reputation is rapidly building. The Sapelo Marine Institute fostered pioneering studies on salt marsh ecosystems that have had enormous practical applications for marine fisheries. Further development of the School will have a significant positive impact on the state's marine resources and will make it a leading research and extension centers of its type in the nation. It will also enhance opportunities for collaboration with Geography, Geology, History, and other units of the University. Sapelo Island on Georgia's coast is a resource of immense value to our strong research and instructional programs in the Marine Sciences. Both the laboratory facilities and the residential and instructional facilities for students have deteriorated and need renovation or replacement. With a reasonable investment the University could gain a research and educational resource that could not be purchased at any price elsewhere in the nation. We propose that Sapelo Island and its Marine Institute be incorporated into the School of Marine Programs to provide seamless administration from campus to coast. Given the existing strengths of our Marine Sciences programs, which lead all other units in the College in receiving external grant support, the rehabilitation of Sapelo could be the cornerstone of a genuine center of excellence in instruction and research for the University of Georgia. The plan proposes 6 million dollars in construction and renovations for Marine Programs.
The new millennium will clearly be an age of information and technology. Our departments of Computer Science, Statistics, and Mathematics stand at the center of this interdisciplinary nexus. The need for skilled graduates in computer sciences and allied fields where computation is important is growing faster than state schools can produce them. Governor Barnes has called for strengthening computer science programs and increasing the number of computer science graduates in the state of Georgia. The computational and informational sciences interface with virtually every subject area taught at the University, including the arts, humanities, and the natural sciences. Our programs in these fields are gaining recognition; the number theory program was recently recognized as the tenth best such program in the nation. The potential for heightened national recognition, external funding both federal and private, and a burgeoning job market make building and strengthening programs in this area a primary focus for the College and the University. Undergraduate as well as graduate students are clamoring for admission to degree programs in Computer Sciences. There is a need for a careful yet rapid expansion of the programs in Computer Sciences. The Yamacraw Mission is providing funds for new faculty lines in the department, including one distinguished senior position, and there is the opportunity for more such positions in the future. By adding new faculty and support positions, we propose to develop a fully rounded department that can serve undergraduate and graduate student needs alike and that can play a major role in North Georgia's growing industry in information technology, telecommunications, biotechnology, and the "chip" industry.
In two outreach areas the College proposes significant expansion. The State Museum of Natural History is poised to become a major state-wide resource. The College shares support of the Museum with Public Service and Outreach. Increased support will enable the Museum to enlarge its operations and better prepare for the building it will soon be able to make its home. As the needs of the expanding programs at the University grow, the importance of an effective development program at the College level becomes all the more apparent. The College proposes to add two development officers to its staff. They will provide assistance to departments that need to become active in development activities-units in the arts, humanities, and social sciences in particular. They will help to secure funds for new and enhanced programs that will increasingly rely on external funding sources for financial support. An enhanced development programs will be necessary to provide supplementary support to many of the initiatives proposed in this strategic plan.
Arts and Sciences collaborates with the Office of the Vice President for Service and Outreach in support of the Museum of Natural History, which was recognized last year by the state legislature as the official natural history museum of Georgia. The Museum provides resources for research in flora and fauna of the state and the region. It is an educational resource for students at the University, for public schools at all PK-12 levels, and for citizens across the state. The Museum needs a facility for displaying its collections, for research, and for storage and maintenance of its considerable collections in virtually every category of natural organisms. The Museum provides strength in the area of systematics, which interfaces with the Environmental Sciences in particular. The Museum is just beginning to receive much deserved recognition as a valuable resource to the state.
By providing effective and efficient administration at all levels, the Franklin College can free faculty and students for study and research and can provide better support and planning for its instructional programs. Enhancements in Internet and web-based technology and informational technology provide means for the College to improve the accountability of its operations. We propose to take advantage of these technologies to overhaul and refine the administration of the College at all levels into a paperless, electronic set of procedures and transactions.
Arts and Sciences Other funds
Totals: $4,014,692 $2,966,250
Center for Emerging Global and Tropical Diseases $10,000,000
Marine Sciences Construction and Renovations $6,000,000
PAVAC II and III $67,000,000
Institute for Advanced Creative Exploration $10,000,000
Chemistry Building $50,000,000
Environmental Sciences Building $30,000,000


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Not that Reinhart Poole, the character portrayed by Mr. Eckert, is a biographical facsimile of Niebuhr, whose writings on the practical applications of Christianity to political conduct have been appropriated in recent years by both neoconservatives and liberals, including Barack Obama.
Mr. Eckert is less concerned with presenting the worldly details of his character's life than with distilling the intellectual essence behind it. There are no equivalents in "Horizon" to the varying (and to some of his disciples, perplexingly varied) political stances adopted by Niebuhr during a career that lasted through and was shaped by the vicissitudes of World War II, the cold war and the Vietnam War — subjects on which Niebuhr had much to say.
Instead Mr. Eckert has deliberately placed his man of God in a sort of spiritual laboratory: a seminary, to be exact, where Poole has taught for 25 years and from which he is being forced to depart for ominous but unspecified reasons. "Horizon" is set on the day of his last class, which becomes in a sense his last day in an academic Eden, where theory is unchallenged and uncontaminated by practice.
This framework gives a grounding dramatic tension to a work that might otherwise float entirely in the clouds of cerebration. It is also an ideal structure to consider the worldview of a man who advocated what came to be called "Christian realism," a theory that embraces the necessity of adaptation and the danger of absolutes in a universe of flux.
Mr. Eckert and Mr. Schweizer are faced with their own, appropriately Niebuhrian adaptive challenges, those of transforming the vapors of intellectual discourse into the flashy flesh of showbiz. How do you hold the attention of a nonacademic audience on subjects — ethics, God's judgment, allegory, doubt — that Mr. Eckert regularly spells out in capital letters on a bank of blackboards?
Mr. Eckert's felicitous discovery here is that Niebuhr's philosophical approach translates naturally into theatrical terms. For Niebuhr, man always saw God through a glass darkly; you needed the interpretive tools of parable and allegory to begin to comprehend the ineffable, with the important caveat that the symbol must never be mistaken for the real thing.
Mr. Eckert's rangy, magnetically restless Poole, assisted by two vivacious shape-shifting actors (David Barlow and Howard Swain), keeps these levels of intellectual awareness in play with the verve of a vaudevillian juggler. His instructional devices include a play-within-the-play, an eternally unfinished work by Poole about the construction of an eternally unfinished church; brisk story-theater enactments of parables and songs that vary in tone from hymnal to hillbilly, from barbershop harmonies to arias of anguish.
Occasional personal detours are integrated into the flow of ideas: remembered catechisms with Poole's father (also a minister, as was Niebuhr's) and mother; childhood arguments with the brother who later disappeared from his life (giving a visceral relevance to the tale of the prodigal son); admonitions from his long-suffering wife, who wants Poole to look up from his notes and see the sunset.
Some of the vignettes have the grating didactic preciousness of a "Sesame Street" for grown-ups. (Can you say "original sin," boys and girls?) But Mr. Eckert, whose previous works have drawn inspiration from the knotty minds of W. B. Yeats and Herman Melville, is undeniably expert in anchoring elusive ideas to the point at which they become graspable. The forms he uses are often deliberately simple, precisely because the content is anything but.
The notion of allegory as a means of comprehension extends to Alexander V. Nichols's set, a combination of construction site and classroom, with an assortment of cinderblocks, wooden planks and sheets of plastic, as well as the professorial blackboards.
The cinderblocks, those unpromising deadweights, become wondrously fluid elements of transformation, especially in a parable about the dangers of idol worship, which is what happens when symbol is mistaken for substance. This cautionary tale could be applied to the rigorously literal-minded of any faith and sets off unsettling echoes in this age of raging religious divisiveness.
In 2005 the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who died earlier this year, wrote an essay in these pages suggesting that it was time to rediscover Niebuhr, a writer who warned against the dangers of nations that "try to play the role of God in history." Without ever making specific political references, and keeping his character poised on the edge of active engagement, Mr. Eckert has invitingly and unobtrusively opened the door for such a reacquaintance.
At the same time, he finds vivifying parallels between the theological quest of one man and the theatrical quest to capture and illuminate life. In "Horizon," the dynamics of art and religion are remarkably and nobly the same.
Created, written and composed by Rinde Eckert; directed by David Schweizer; sets and lighting by Alexander V. Nichols; sound by Gregory T. Kuhn; choreography by David Barlow; production stage managers, Chad Brown and Odessa (Niki) Spruill; assistant stage manager, Richard A. Hodge; executive producer, Susan Endrizzi. Presented by the New York Theater Workshop, James C. Nicola, artistic director; Lynn Moffat, managing director. At the New York Theater Workshop, 79 East Fourth Street, East Village; (212) 239-6200. Through July 1. Running time: 1 hour, 25 minutes.
WITH: David Barlow (Mason No. 1/Reinhart's Wife/Reinhart's Brother), Rinde Eckert (Reinhart Poole) and Howard Swain (Mason No. 2/Reinhart's Mother/Reinhart's Father).


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North Carolina GOP Accused Of Intentionally Suppressing Black Votes To Preserve Their Majority
Alice Miranda Ollstein Jan 25, 2016, 1:00 pm
A voter in Winston-Salem, NC protests the new voter ID law. CREDIT: ALICE OLLSTEIN
On Monday, residents of North Carolina are taking the state to court, arguing that North Carolina legislators designed a new voter ID law to stifle growing minority turnout that threatened the Republican majority in Raleigh.
The state is claiming that the law was passed to prevent voter fraud, though there is no evidence of widespread fraud at the ballot box. Attorney Denise Lieberman with the Advancement Project, which is representing the North Carolina NAACP in this case, told ThinkProgress that the state lawmakers who debated and passed the ID law knew it would place a disproportionate burden on African American and Latino voters.
"This is illuminated by the fact that there's no legitimate basis for having this law," she said. "We have expert witnesses who will testify that the state's rationale for the law is unsupported, that there is absolutely no evidence of in-person voter impersonation that would justify this law. Furthermore, these laws don't advance or expand people's confidence in the voting process, as the state is arguing. They actually reduce it. So the conclusion we must draw is that lawmakers knew what they were doing."
Lieberman and her colleagues plan to argue that this 2013 law was in part a backlash against the "increased political power" of voters of color in the state. Over the past few decades, both the number of residents of color and the percentage of them who showed up to vote have increased exponentially, thanks in large part to a series of laws making it easier to vote.
"To remedy past suppression of voters of color, the state implemented same-day registration, out of precinct voting, the pre-registration of 17-year-olds, and an extra week of early voting," Lieberman told ThinkProgress. "These are the very measures the legislature sought to repeal — the ones most important for opening the doors of access."
That access and increased turnout, the NAACP argues, threatened the Republican majority in the state legislature, since residents of color generally vote for Democrats. The legislators had an "interest in burdening those voters," their brief states, due to this "racially polarized voting pattern."
North Carolina has a long and repeated history of clamping down on African American voting strength after surges in minority political power.
The NAACP is also arguing that the legislature intentionally waited until the Supreme Court struck down key protections in the Voting Rights Act before going forward with the ID law and other provisions. Before that controversial ruling, North Carolina was one of several states with a history of race-based voter suppression that had to ask for federal pre-clearance before changing any of its voting laws.
"The lawmakers sat on this bill, waiting until the Shelby ruling came down, then passed this monster legislation," Lieberman said.
The NAACP's legal brief goes on to say that while lawmakers were debating the ID provision, they specifically requested and received data indicating that it would disproportionately burden voters of color, who are twice as likely as white residents to lack an official form of identification. The state proceeded to pass the bill "despite these warning signs."
Though the legislators rushed to tweak the voter ID law just as civil rights groups were preparing to file a lawsuit, a court ruled that the case could still go forward. Under the version currently on the books, residents who don't have one of the proper forms of ID can still cast a provisional ballot, but only if they fill out a form explaining why they faced a "reasonable impediment" to obtaining an ID.
Lieberman explained that to qualify for an exemption, voters who don't have an ID have to stand in a separate line and write down their explanation under penalty of perjury. If their reason is accepted, they will be given a provisional ballot, which won't be counted until after Election Day, and could be thrown out entirely if the county Board of Elections rejects their explanation. "All of this could intimidate or humiliate voters, especially those who have limited reading skills or English skills, and deter them from trying to vote," she said.
All of this could intimidate or humiliate voters.
With the 2016 primaries only a few months away, the NAACP asked the courts to delay the voter ID law's implementation until after the election, to avoid voter confusion and depressed turnout. The courts refused, and anxieties are high.
"This is the first election with this law in effect, but the state has done a very limited amount of education and training of both voters and poll workers," Lieberman said. "They are reinforcing the message that without exception you need an ID to vote, and distributing very little information about the ability to exercise the reasonable impediment process."
The trial could last up to a week. North Carolina residents are still waiting for a ruling on the rest of the challenged voting changes, which went to trial last summer.
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2nd day of Synod – Experience comes first according to Nichols and a Filipino couple tell a story of failure
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Experience comes first according to Nichols and a Filipino couple tell an important story of failure in their attempt to offer ministry to couples in "irregular situations"
At the midday press conference Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster said that, daily, the experience of married couples is being heard first before prelates speak.
"Their testimony is very important. I think there is some foundation being laid for the discussion," said Nichols.
Referring to Chapter 1 of the "Instrumentum Laboris," the theme of today's conference was "The Gospel of the Family and Natural Law" and "The Family in the Vocation of the Person of Christ."
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines introduced the first speakers this morning. George and Cynthia Campos told the story of their marriage in 1987, the birth of their four children, their discernment regarding their vocations (Cynthia felt called to be a nun at one point).a high risk pregnancy and Cynthia's diagnosis with breast cancer.
Obviously a faith filled couple, they also shared their participation and work for Couples for Christ which they described as a "private lay association of the faithful of the pontifical right."
Speaking to one of the important issues at this synod, they told a story of failure. Couples for Christ had developed a special ministry called "Jacob's Well" for couples in "irregular situations." A biblically-inspired outreach rooted in John's Gospel account of Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman, they reached out to those who were considered outsiders in the parish because of their unorthodox living arrangements. But, things did not go well.
"It didn't fare well due to mutually felt uneasiness and lack of interactive preparedness with regularly married couples and a Church advisory that our organization is meant only for couples married in the Church."
If Nichols can be taken seriously and experience is the foundation for all the work that will be conducted at this synod, the story this couple told is critical – a lesson, a bit of real life wisdom, and a story of ministry foiled for those who will have a hand in shaping new pastoral practices. According to the Campos couple, "An enlightened pastoral charity inaugurating innovative forms of 'accompaniment', of conjugal spirituality formation and of inclusionary participation in church life leading to full communion needs promotion and enactment by our ordained ministers."
In short, we need a better way.
Rosica sums up the work thus far
Fr. Thomas Rosica CSB, English language assistant to the Holy See summed up the synod work thus far. He said right now there are a number of categories that capture the English interventions being discussed including
The process within the synod itself including both the day to day workings and the weight given to the questionnaires that were completed
The application of the "law of graduality" as developed in "Familiaris Consortio"
The use of language describing marriage saying "marriage is already seen as being filtered by harsh language in the Church"
The virtue of hope in marriage preparation and life
Creative pastoral practices and programs to help develop strong marriages and families
The unique place of family as a cell in society and the Church.
The unchangeability of doctrine and yet the desire for a change in pastoral practice
The multifaceted nature of marriage
The evolving nature of biblical interpretation of Jesus' words regarding marriage and divorce
Marriage as a mystery of Trinitarian relational life
Explaining some of the categories further, on point 1 Rosica said the synod participants were aware of both the blessings and the dangers in consulting Catholics on the issues addressed in the preparatory survey. They warned that the consultation was not a popular opinion poll where the media might report, "everyone is against the teaching of the church," but a methodology for listening to Catholic experience.Referring to point 2, a component that would have implications for softening pastoral practices, Rosica said, "the law of graduality refers to the stepping stones in the journey of faith and holiness."
Nichols clarified further saying, "The mention of the law of graduality is part of moral theology. In 1982 there was much discussion of this law which meant, 'take one step at a time in our search for holiness in our lives,' yet at the end of the synod on 1982, John Paul II make the distinction, 'There is a law of graduality, but it should not be confused with graduality of the law.'" Lombardi continue, "It is not as if there is one law at this time and another law at another time, but there is a pathway."
Taking up the importance of language in point 3, Rosica noted there was much discussion about the necessity of rethinking some of the language of the Church. He said, "phrases like, 'living in sin,' 'contraception mentality' and 'intrinsically disordered' do not bring people to Christ. The language has to change."
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In introducing the context of this economic activity, Bouchard reminds her readers that "the twelfth century was a time both of rapid economic development and of an intense pursuit of the spiritual life." The Cistercian order, she demonstrates throughout the book, participated in both without finding them incompatible.
This may indeed seem on the face of it unlikely. Founded in 1098 on the principles of "separation from society and close adherence to the original tenets of the Benedictine Rule," the Cistercians sought "purity and knowledge of God through poverty, manual labor, silence and obedience, and intellectual learning and contemplation." And they grew rapidly both in number and in wealth. (1)
Bouchard notes that while Cistercian spirituality had been well-studied by her time (e.g. by the prolific and honored scholar Dom LeClerq), and their innovations in "opening up uncultivated land and in draining bogs . . . has been widely discussed," and "the Cistercian grange system has been studied as a tool of agricultural exploitation," on the other hand "the role of the Cistercians in other kinds of economic transactions—pawning leasing, sales, and exchanges—or even in the monetary aspects of gifts and countergifts, has been relatively neglected." (2)
Granges were outlying landholdings held by monasteries independent of the manorial system. A grange might be established adjacent to the monastery but others were established wherever it held lands, some at a considerable distance. Some granges were worked by lay-brothers belonging to the order, called conversi—who worked the land so that the "choir monks" could spend more time in contemplation, liturgical rounds, etc.—and others by paid labourers.
"The neglect of the Cistercians' economic activities, however, can also be attributed to the assumption that spirituality and economics are and were antithetical. As a result, scholars interested in the spiritual life have not usually concerned themselves with the kinds of transactions that charters [documents recording property transactions, usually between the monks and their secular knightly or noble neighbors] record.[ii] In fact, it has often been assumed that economic activities were the slightly sordid 'reality' that Cistercian 'ideals' could not ultimately overcome and that these activities represent a rather sad decline from the original pinnacle of the order's founding intentions and dreams."(3-4)
"[T]he charters reveal that even the earliest leaders of the order did not aspire to quite so lofty a separation from economic transactions as most scholars have assumed. . . . [in fact,] throughout the twelfth century the Cistercians continued to be considered holy men with the ear of the saints, even while they also become accomplished financial managers." (4)
Bouchard admits that "solitude" and "anti-urbanism" were demonstrable values in the founding of the order, and the siting of many subsequent houses on parish boundaries, away from population centers – but that seems to have more to do with avoiding (1) distractions of urban life (as opposed to Cluniac houses, or "black monks," who ended up in urban areas) and possibly (2) the spiritual dangers of urban life.
"The solitude the Cistercians sought," says Bouchard, "was not an isolation from certain forms of exchange or economic activity so much as isolation from the distractions and demands of the city." (193) This seems to point more toward our "worldliness thesis," Or at least, to our "busyness thesis."
But it does not point to a restriction on, or positing of an inherent opposition to spiritual flourishing of, economic exchange per se. So we may here adduce some of Antony's motivations in heading out to the desert. And also remember that as each wave of reform in monasticism occurred in the Middle Ages, Athanasius's life of Antony came easily to hand as a statement of the ideals of those reforms.
Distraction? Yes.
Pollution by the city? Maybe.
Pollution by the very fact of economic exchange, or by certain types of economic exchange? No.
This early commitment to solitude and simplicity has led scholars to assume that "the Burgundian Cistercians would have kept themselves aloof from the kinds of transactions they have found elsewhere, and that therefore these transactions are a sign of falling away from early ideals." (8) But Bouchard dismantles this assumption quite effectively.
To start, she points out that despite the Cistercians' desire for solitude, the Duchy of Burgundy was no backwater: "The Burgundian dioceses on which this study is based were located halfway between Paris and Lyon, in a region that was both a religious and aristocratic center of medieval Europe." (9-10) There was no pristine initial solitude of the order, far from neighbors and the need to develop relationships with them that sometimes involved economic transactions.[iv]
Then, she notes that for the knights giving pious gifts to the monasteries – which was the biggest category of transaction recorded, their purposes were "not necessarily economic" – nor were the monks who received these gifts only interested in their material gain. Rather, "both sides attempted through the medium of property transfers to establish and maintain a dialogue." (31) This assertion is supported by "the enormous variety of Bible quotations used in charter prefaces." (28)
Bouchard notes that "Nothing in early Cistercian legislation forbade such activities" (32). Also, importantly, while there were later limitations imposed on the kinds of properties Cistercian houses could buy, receive in pawn,[v] and lease,[vi] those self-imposed limits did not emerge from spiritual but rather economic concerns, as some monasteries were getting in financial trouble by the late twelfth century.
Continued in part IX
[i] Holy Entrepreneurs: Cistercians, Knights, and Economic Exchange in Twelfth-Century Burgundy, Constance Brittain Bouchard (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991.
[ii] A cartulary is a book containing copies of original charters – "it was common for the monks to copy their charters, including the pancartes, into one (or sometimes two) large book(s)—that is, cartularies." (16) [This was for both organization and preservation – to avoid losing individual pieces of parchment, Bouchard notes], and the pancartes were"charters drawn up (generally by a diocesan bishop) to record a large number of different transactions by different people." (14)
[iv] Though the 1120s document the "Exordium parvum," describing the movement's founding and early years, talked about Benedict, in the 6th c., building monasteries "not in cities, not in castles, not in villages, but in places remote from the throng," the Cistercians still were not able to found their new houses in "an untouched wilderness." In fact, "Burgundy had been a political and financial crossroads since before the Romans reached Gaul." (192) And though the Cistercians tended to build their monasteries on the intersections between dioceses, so as to be as far as possible from those dioceses' inevitable central towns or cities, there was, by the late 11th and early 12th centuries, "nowhere in Burgundy where the Cistercians could not have been reached after a fairly short ride by a mounted neighbor." (193)
[v] "An increasingly common transaction after about 1150 was the pawn, in which the monks advanced a layman a lump sum of money in return for a piece of property. If he or his heirs wanted the pawned property back, they would have to [34] repay the money, generally within a specified interval. Six years was the most common term, although a layman who pawned an especially large amount of property might be given longer." This practice originated in the late 10th and 11th c.s but "became common only in the rapidly expanding economy of the twelfth century."(33-34) Bouchard notes that these were not mortgages, for several reasons, including the fact that the repayment had to be in one lump sum, and that "the money the monks lent on the basis of security was less than they would have had to pay for buying the property outright." (Also the term "mortgage" wasn't used at the time.) (34)
[vi] "Another common method the Cistercians used to acquire property and rights, especially pasturage for their flocks, was leasing. That is, they would pay an annual fee, a cens, commonly specified as due in March, or occasionally on the Feast of Saint John (June 25), to someone in return for property or certain rights. . . . there are some examples of property held for an annual cens from the time Citeaux was originally founded, but the practice became increasingly frequent in Burgundy after 1150. Indeed, leases became the second most common sort of economic transaction, after gifts." (43)
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BREAKING: Emily Thornberry resigns after tweeting picture of Confederate Flag
— robertsharp59 (@robertsharp59) June 23, 2015
Flags are symbols, full of historical meaning. Just ask Emily Thornberry.
Following the despicable shootings in Charleston, South Carolina last week, there has been renewed debate over the Confederate Flag, the banner under which the secessionist Southern states fought the American Civil War. Some people claim that the flag is simply a symbol of Southern culture and 'heritage'— that flying that flag is merely an expression of an independent, libertarian spirit. But that is disingenuous. The Confederate cause was explicitly racist, about fighting for the right to subjugate black people. Ta-Nehisi Coate catalogues the unequivocal words of those men who rallied their fellows to the ideology of white supremacy, and argues "Take Down The Confederate Flag—Now". The recent discussion has unearthed this article by Christopher Hitches from 2008, where he excorates the former Governor of Arkansas and (at the time) Presidential Candidate Mick Huckabee for lauding those who would fly the Confederate flag. A "straightforward racist appeal" for votes, Hitchens called it.
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Roman outlines the principles of good flag design, draws attention to some good city flags, some bad city flags, and some truly terrible city flags. He also explains why we should care.
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Making Markets EP19: Quick Take on Salesforce
by Daniel Newman | December 15, 2021
In this Making Markets quick take, host Daniel Newman covers Salesforce's latest announcement of the company's new co-CEO structure, with Marc Benioff appointing former President and Chief Operating Officer Bret Taylor as his co-chief executive to lead the company through its next chapter. He also talks about this quarter's earnings — they were good again, with 27% year over year growth. Salesforce continues to focus its growth on its sales service platform, marketing, and data, and the new co-CEO relationship will be something to watch.
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Daniel Newman: So let's start with Salesforce. Salesforce had a big week. Probably the biggest news was that it's CEO announced that it has another co-CEO. And Salesforce has done this before. They did it with Keith block. But this time it is going to be what was president and CEO, Bret Taylor, stepping up alongside of Marc Benioff to take the role that didn't quite work out with Keith. But I do believe it's going to work out much better with Brett Taylor.
Bret's been doing a lot of these parts and pieces. We all know Marc Benioff has bigger ambitions. Not bigger than Salesforce per se, but just bigger overall ambitions, and has wanted to have someone in this role alongside him. I think Bret's the right guy. Bret's proven that. Strong personality, strong leadership, and the company's done very well under his tutelage. Now the earning this period were once again good. You had 27% year over year growth, you had revenue come in just above what was expected. You had earnings, then of course come in like I said, at 27% as well. So like I said, revenue, growth, earnings growth on a similar trajectory.
The company also split out some of its numbers in a new way. They added a new category. So they used to be sales, service, platform, and marketing. Now they are sales, service, platform, marketing, and data. And that's how they've broken out the MuleSoft and Tableau businesses, which are now tracking towards about a billion dollars and growing at 20%. But the biggest growth area for Salesforce and something I've been talking about continues to be its platform business. You've heard about Hyperforce perhaps, but you also have definitely heard about Slack. And slack, at a $27 billion purchase was one of those things that you said it has to work out. So far it is working in the right direction. It's going to have to be the centerpiece of the future of what Marc Benioff calls the digital HQ.
And at 51% growth, it is looking good. Now the stock got sold off a little bit after earnings, and that was mostly because people thought the guidance was a little bit soft. This is a company that has typically given guidance and blown it out of the water. During the pandemic, it's grown very fast. It continues to grow well. I'm not worried about Salesforce. I feel like the company's doing very well. The new co-CEO relationship will be something to watch. Of course, seeing the Slack business grow is going to be very important, but it's got stable growth across the organization. Sales, service, platform, marketing, data, all growing. All growing double digits. Salesforce, nothing to worry about there, nothing to see, looking good.
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In preparation for the new National Curriculum in England (NC2014) in September, we're pleased to let you know that we've just launched over 50 ThinkIts across Maths and Science to...
In preparation for the new National Curriculum in England (NC2014) in September, we're pleased to let you know that we've just launched over 50 ThinkIts across Maths and Science to bolster our curriculum coverage. In most cases, we now have at least five ThinkIts per strand per year in our Maths and Science modules!
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Rare Chance in 2020 to See This Classic Danish Masterwork
At the Portrait Gallery, a new show gets at the visual heart of competitive camaraderie roiling within artist colonies
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The 1906 Kunstdommere (Art Judges) (detail) by Michael Ancher, group portrait captured a handful of Danish cultural luminaries of Scandanavia's Modern Breakthrough movement of the 1870s and 1880s. The Danish Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle
For centuries, artists have gathered together to share ideas, trade techniques, show support and to occasionally pose for one another. They have also been competitive rivals, sniping at one another in good-natured and not so good-natured ways.
So when a quartet of artists from a far-flung Denmark fishing village turned artist colony came together to see the unveiling of one painter's portrait of another, there was enough skepticism, consideration and rumination to warrant a whole other work—Michael Ancher's monumental 7-by-5 foot 1906 oil on canvas, Kunstdommere (Art Judges).
Ancher's group portrait captured a handful of Danish cultural luminaries of Scandanavia's Modern Breakthrough movement of the 1870s and 1880s, and that only helped to make it a beloved national masterwork.
Now, the artwork is the centerpiece of the third Portraits of the World exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington. The series borrows a key work from a chosen country, and surrounds it with augmenting pieces from the museum's own collection. Earlier shows have showcased works from Switzerland and Korea.
In this case, the competitive camaraderie of the Skagen village artist colony is put in context with works that largely show artists working together in quite a different setting—the teeming studios of early 20th century New York City.
In Kunstdommere, Ancher, one of Demark's best known artists, depicted the reactions of four notable figures—dramatist Holger Drachmann, artist Peder Severin Krøyer, artist Laurits Tuxen, along with Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, a younger artist.
The painter George Bacon depicts his circle at a speakeasy in a 1933 painting Zum Brauhaus that until now had been hanging at a government building. NPG
Willumsen's work would eventually encompass abstraction, but at the time, the Modern Breakthrough artists of Denmark were already making their mark with evocative, realistic depictions of everyday life and not just the usual romanticized views of royalty. That aim sparked their move to a remote fishing village to do their work.
"One of the things that's so great about this painting is that it's a mini history lesson on Danish culture," says the Portrait Gallery's curator of prints and drawings Robyn Asleson, who put together the show. "These are the greatest artists and literary figures in the country—all in this one, monumental painting."
They are still well-regarded figures in their country. A profile of Ancher and his wife—from a portrait by Krøyer—was on the 1000 Danish Kroner banknote from 1998 to 2012.
Of the four in the painting, Tuxen, in his white suit and red beard, was the "royal portraitist of favor; he painted the royal court, he painted Queen Victoria," Asleson says. "So he's a little bit of the old school."
Krøyer, by contrast was the epitome of the Modern Breakthrough. "Perhaps the most famous and loved artists in Denmark, with his scenes of fisherman and their lives of danger and hardship near the water. He is explaining to this group, this portrait we can't see," Asleson says.
Underlying the relationship among artists was competition, and some specific grousing about how long it took to sit for such a portrait. "That's the tension that's under the surface among these friends," she says. "It's like: 'What's taking you so long?'"
Memory by John French Sloan, 1906 NPG
Asleson says she had hoped to augment the painting with examples from rural American arts colonies of that era, but found there were no portraits in their collection from communities in Ogunquit, Maine or Provincetown, Massachusetts.
"Luckily we have all these great portraits of artists' communities in New York," she says. It includes the early Ashcan School of Robert Henri represented in a 1906 etching by John Sloan, who also appears in a Marion D. Freeman etching of a workshop at the Art Students League.
The painter George Bacon depicts his circle at a speakeasy in a 1933 painting that had been hanging at a government building until now. Peggy Bacon shows the Whitney Studio Club drawing class in a frenzy while things are calmer in Mabel Dwight's 1928 lithograph of the Weyhe Gallery.
Alfred Stieglitz's modern art circle is represented in a pair of works by Marius de Zayas and Francis Picabia sharply critical of Stieglitz's perceived lack of forward movement.
American art's own Modern Breakthrough arose from Abstract Impressionism, so there are a couple of striking Hans Namuth photographs from the early 1950s—one of Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Tony Smith at Betty Parsons' gallery and another of Elaine and Willem de Kooning with one of his works (as if to show that she's not the model for his jagged abstractions of women).
De Kooning is celebrated further in a Red Grooms work that literally breaks through the picture plane with the bicycling artist giving his abstracted woman a ride on his handlebars.
The idea of art judges reflects some other events currently at the museum, where the juried triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition is on display. A Bill Witt shot of Hans Hoffman in his Provincetown studio in the Portraits of the World show hangs quite near a shot from the same session in a photography show called "In Mid-Sentence."
Portraits of the World: Denmark will hang through October. The Portrait Gallery established a connection with the lending Danish Museum of National History in Hillerød by offering in a return last winter a show of jazz portraits by Herman Leonard.
"We really hope that the art judges in the United States—the visitors to the gallery and the critics—will receive it positively," Mette Skougaard, director of the lending museum said before the work was shipped.
Currently, to support the effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, all Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C. and in New York City, as well as the National Zoo, are temporarily closed. Check listings for updates."Portraits of the World: Denmark" is scheduled to remain on view through October 12, 2020 at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.
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Roger Catlin is a freelance writer in Washington D.C. who writes frequently about the arts for The Washington Post and other outlets. He wrote for many years at The Hartford Courant and writes mostly about TV on his blog rogercatlin.com.


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