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Smith-Mundt Symposium of 2009
2009 Smith-Mundt Symposium
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On January 13, 2009, a week before President Obama was sworn in, nearly two hundred attended the Smith-Mundt Symposium at the Reserve Officers Association on Capitol Hill. This "discourse on America's discourse" consisted of two keynotes, four panels, and one of the most diverse groups ever brought together on the subject. Practitioners to policymakers to observers came from the Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Congress, the media, other government agencies and from think tanks, consultants, universities, and other organizations based both inside and outside the United States. Many of these people had little reason to be in the same room, let alone the same table, let alone to discuss public diplomacy and strategic communication, or whatever they called activities that intended to understand, inform, and influence.
On its face, the discussion was organized around the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, the law intended to "promote the better understanding of the United States among the peoples of the world and to strengthen cooperative international relations." The intended purpose was to facilitate a broad and on-the-record discussion about the purpose, structure, and direction of America's global engagement.
The event was recorded and transcribed. It was to be broadcast live, but C-Span ran out of cameras covering a number of confirmation hearings, including now-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's.
See the links below for Matt Armstrong's 23-page report on the event, transcripts, speaker biographies, and more.
Report on the Smith-€Mundt Symposium of January 13, 2009 (370kb PDF)
See below for the agenda and transcripts.
See bottom for Speaker Biographies
Morning Keynote by then-Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James Glassman. Amb. Glassman's remarks are preceded by opening comments by event chair Matt Armstrong.
Transcript (65kb PDF). Glassman's comments begin at the bottom of page 5, after Matt Armstrong's.
Audio (54min, 13mb). Glassman's comments begin at the 13:45 mark after Matt Armstrong's.
First Panel
Panel 1: History of Smith-Mundt (transcript)
Len Baldyga, moderator
Richard Arndt
Barry Zorthian
Mike Schneider
Rear Admiral Greg Smith, Jeff Grieco
Panel 2: America's Bifurcated Engagement (transcript)
Marc Lynch, moderator
Karen DeYoung
Jeff Grieco
Rear Admiral Greg Smith
Mike Doran
Lunchtime Keynote by former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Support to Public Diplomacy Mike Doran
Transcript (72kb PDF)
Audio (63min, 15mb)
Panel 3: Rebuilding the Arsenal of Persuasion (transcript)
Kristin Lord, Ted Tzavellas, Nancy Snow, Colleen Graffy, Bill Kiehl
Kristin Lord, moderator
Ted Tzavellas
Nancy Snow
Colleen Graffy
Bill Kiehl
Doug Wilson, Congressmen Paul Hodes and Adam Smith
Panel 4: The View from the Hill (transcript, 140kb PDF)
Doug Wilson, moderator
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)
Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH)
Lynne Weil
Closing Comments by Matt Armstrong (transcript included at the end of the Panel 4 transcript)
On January 6, 2010, a pre-event media roundtable was hosted by the AOC (transcript). Speaking at the roundtable were:
David Firestein
George Clack
This event was organized, chaired, and funded by Matt Armstrong. Additional financial support was graciously provided by the Center on Communication Leadership.
Questions or comments should be directed to Matt Armstrong at blog@mountainrunner.us.
Speaker, moderator, and panelist biographies of the 2009 Smith-Mundt Symposium.
James K. Glassman Under Secretary, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Term of Appointment: 06/10/2008 to present
James K. Glassman leads America's public diplomacy outreach, which includes communications with international audiences, cultural programming, academic grants, educational exchanges, international visitor programs, and U.S. government efforts to confront ideological support for terrorism. He oversees the bureaus of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Public Affairs and International Information Programs, and participates in foreign policy development.
Mr. Glassman previously served as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the independent federal agency that oversees all U.S. government non-military international broadcasting, including the Voice of America (VOA), Alhurra, Radio Sawa, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), and Radio and TV Martí. As the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Mr. Glassman is designated by the Secretary of State to serve as one of nine members of the BBG board.
Prior to assuming his position as Under Secretary, Mr. Glassman was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington public policy think tank. He served as editor-in-chief of The American, AEI's bimonthly magazine of business and economics. He is the former president of The Atlantic Monthly Co., publisher of The New Republic, Executive Vice President of U.S. News & World Report, and editor-in-chief and co-owner of Roll Call, the congressional newspaper. In 2003, he served on the Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World, a commission mandated by Congress. Between July 1993 and July 2004, he was an investing columnist for The Washington Post. For four years, he also wrote an op-ed column for The Washington Post on political and economic issues. His articles have been published in the Wall Street Journal,Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and other publications. Glassman's most recent book is The Secret Code of the Superior Investor (Crown).
He was also formerly host of Capital Gang Sunday on CNN and TechnoPolitics on PBS and has been a frequent guest on television public affairs programs. In 2000, he co-founded Tech Central Station.com, a technology and policy website. He has given frequent congressional testimony, recently on subjects as varied as the response to corporate accounting scandals, Social Security reform, personal investing, mutual fund regulation, and telecommunications policy. He was a member of the President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce and serves on the board of trustees of the U.S. Chamber Foundation and the Intel Corp. Public Policy Advisory Board.
Mr. Glassman is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was managing editor of the university daily, The Crimson. He is the recipient of, among other honors, the Warren Brookes Award of the American Legislative Exchange Council for distinguished journalism.
Mike Doran is an academic expert on US policy toward the Middle East who has held a number of senior government posts related to Middle East policy and to the application of soft power. Currently he is serving as Senior Adviser to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the State Department. In addition, he has served at the Pentagon as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and at the NSC as the Senior Director of the Near East and North Africa. In January 2009, he will take up an appointment at the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University.
At State and the DoD, Doran has been responsible for promoting greater cooperation between the two departments on strategic communication in general and, more particularly, on countering ideological support for terrorism. At the White House, Doran helped to devise and coordinate national strategies on a variety of Middle East issues, including Arab-Israeli relations and efforts to contain Iran.
Prior to coming to government, Doran taught in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, where his work focused on the international politics of the Middle East. His publications include a book, Pan-Arabism before Nasser, which analyzes the first Arab-Israeli war as an inter-Arab conflict; and an article, "Somebody Else's Civil War," which was first article to advance the thesis that Osama bin Laden used the attacks of 9/11 as a tool for influencing conflicts within Muslim societies.
Originally from Indiana, Doran received a BA from Stanford in 1987 and a PhD from Princeton in 1997.
Leonard J. Baldyga Senior Consultant for Central and East European Programs International Research & Exchanges Board
Leonard J. Baldyga is Senior Consultant for Central and East European Programs at the International Research & Exchanges Board, a consortium of nearly 150 American universities and colleges that provides field research opportunities for American specialists and analysts; develops and supports collaborative international conferences and workshops; and designs and implements multistage training opportunities for foreign leaders and professionals.
Mr. Baldyga is a former Director of the Office of European Affairs at the U.S. Information Agency. He retired from the foreign service in 1994 with the rank of Career Minister after more than three decades of service in Washington and overseas. As a senior officer he served as Public Affairs officer in Warsaw (1972-1975) and Mexico City (1976-1978) and Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs in Rome (1983-1988) and New Delhi (1988-1991). In Washington, he served as Deputy Director of European Affairs (Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 1979-1981) and as Director of European Affairs (1981-1983), a position he returned to again in 1992. He was USIA's principal negotiator of bilateral cultural and scientific agreements with the Soviet Bloc in the 1979-1983 period.
Before entering the foreign service in 1962, Mr. Baldyga worked in journalism and publishing as a financial writer, city editor and assistant to the publisher. His early career assignments overseas were in Dakar, Senegal, Poznan, Poland, and Vienna, Austria, and as country affairs officer for Romania and Czechoslovakia in Washington.
He has a B.S. degree in communications from Southern Illinois University and a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. He also attended the State Department's Executive Seminar in National and International Affairs (Senior Seminar) in 1978-1979. In 1991-1992, he was recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Fellowship at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he also served as Acting Director of the Murrow Center and taught seminars in international political communication and in public diplomacy.
Mr. Baldyga was the recipient of the Presidential Distinguished Service Award in 1984, the Presidential Merit Service Award in 1988; the USIA Distinguished Service Award twice; and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy from the Fletcher School in 1988. He was decorated with the Republic of Poland's Officer's Cross Order of Merit in 1994 and the Commander's Cross in 2002.
In addition to his consultancy work, Mr. Baldyga currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Sabre Foundation (Boston); the Public Diplomacy Foundation; Partners for Democratic Change (Washington); and of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences (New York). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Polish-American Jewish-American Council and of the Alumni Advisory Council of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He has served as a member of the editorial board of the Polish Edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.
Richard T. (Dick) Arndt
Richard T. (Dick) Arndt, Philadelphia-born, grew up in the New York's Jersey suburbs. After working through his way through Princeton, he went to France as a Fulbright Student in Franco-American literary relations, working at the University of Dijon in the first year of Fulbright's French program (1949-50). He taught through the 1950s at Columbia University, where he took his PhD in French literature of the 18th-century in 1959.
In 1961, he joined USIA, went to Beirut as deputy Cultural Officer, and was caught up in the discovery of cultural diplomacy, with the help of friends at the American University of Beirut. To this little-known art, he made a career commitment that has never changed. After Beirut came Sri Lanka (1963-66), followed by Tehran (1966-71), then a mid-career year at Princeton's Wilson School, focused on manpower economics, i.e. education and socio-political development. He worked in Latin American Affairs, Foreign Student Affairs, Youth Affairs, and "American Specialists" in the pre-USIA Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the State Department (1972-74), before going abroad again as Cultural Attaché in Rome (1974-78) and Paris (1978-80). He returned to various Washington jobs in cultural affairs and Middle Eastern affairs (1980-85). Retiring in 1985, he began three years of teaching at the University of Virginia, then three more, renewed in the Spring of 2007, at the George Washington University's Elliott School and School of Education.
In 1992, he was principal editor of The Fulbright Difference (Transaction). His book The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century (Potomac) appeared in April 2005 and has appeared in paperback.
Among his board memberships, he has been President of the US Fulbright Association and Chairman of the National Peace Foundation; he is Co-chair of the advisory Council and Past-President of Americans for UNESCO, organizing citizen support for a productive US role in the organization which US withdrawal all but destroyed in 1984; he also chairs the US Committee to Save Ancient Tyre and is a member of the board of the Streit Council for a Union of Democracies.
His wife Lois W. Roth, an icon of US cultural diplomacy, died in 1986; in her memory, he founded and still chairs the Lois Roth Endowment, established from gifts and bequests of colleagues and friends. The Endowment manages more than a dozen ongoing projects in international exchange and translation, reaching fourteen countries; in translation, it sponsors the MLA bi-annual Roth prize for literary translation and the annual Roth Prize for translations from contemporary and ancient Persian literature; it contributes to the Prix Coindreau in France and the Dyankov Prize in Bujlgaria, rewarding the best annual translation from American literature. Additional exchange programs are conducted with Australia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Italy, New Zealand, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Tu rkey, often in cooperation with Fulbright Commissions but also with the SUNYSystem, the American Scanidnavian Foundation, the National Gallery of Art, the National Peace Foundation, and the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation.
Four children and seven grandchildren are scattered around the globe.
Barry Zorthian Communications Consultant Alcalde & Fay
Barry Zorthian is a communications consultant in the government and public affairs firm of Alcalde & Fay in Washington, DC. A former senior U.S. foreign officer and Vice President of Time Inc. (now Time Warner), he has an extensive background in government, journalism and communications. He is a graduate of Yale University and New York University School of Law, a retired Colonel in the U.S.Marine Corps Reserve, served 13 years with the Voice of America, the last five as Program Manager, and seven years in the foreign service, first in India and four and a half years in Vietnam in charge of all in-country and media relations. After twelve years with Time, including Time-Life Broadcast and Cable and Washington Affairs, he has been a communications consultant in Washington since 1980. He has served on the Board for International Broadcasting with jurisdiction over Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.
Mike Schneider Director, Syracuse-Maxwell International Program
Michael Schneider directs the Syracuse-Maxwell Washington, D.C. International Program. The Program brings graduate and undergraduate students to Washington for a combination of courses and internships.
Previous to joining the Maxwell School faculty, Dr. Schneider helped direct global policy and information programs for the U.S. Information Agency, served as senior adviser to the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs and represented USIA on the National Security Council and the State Department Policy Planning Council. In the late 1980s, he organized a series of informational and exchange initiatives with the USSR.
Dr. Schneider contributed to the evolution of U.S. public diplomacy through creation of a strategic planning process, and modernization of USIA information systems. He has led special studies of the Fulbright exchange program and U.S. broadcasting. His 2000 report, "Others Open Doors" analyzed international educational outreach activities of the U.S. and other nations.
Schneider began his USIA career with Foreign Service assignments in Calcutta and Dhaka. He earned his B.A. in American history from Rochester University, M.A. in American history from Columbia University and Ph.D. in international studies from American University.
Matt Armstrong Publisher, MountainRunner.us Principal, Armstrong Strategic Insights Group
Matthew C. Armstrong is principal and co-founder of Armstrong Strategic Insights Group, consultant, and publisher of MountainRunner. Mr. Armstrong writes on Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication in the context of irregular warfare and counterinsurgency. Mr. Armstrong has been published in books, journals, as well as presented at conferences and workshops on public diplomacy, strategic communication, the privatization of force, and unmanned warfare.
Prior to this, he spent a decade working as a technologist designing knowledge management systems subsequently developing high-value competencies in areas of Internet influence. Mr. Armstrong obtained both his B.A. in International Relations and a Master of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California (USC). He has also done work at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the areas of U.S. Intelligence, Contemporary European Security, and the Middle East.
Mr. Armstrong has presented at the U.S. Army War College, the National Defense University, Department of Homeland Security conferences, other Defense Department events, and the Foreign Service Institute. He frequently consults to the Departments of State and Defense.
Mr. Armstrong is Principal (strategy) at Armstrong Strategic Insights Group, adjunct staff with RAND, a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a fellow with Proteus USA, and a member of the Senior Information Operations Advisory Council.
Marc Lynch Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs George Washington University
Marc Lynch is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. His most recent book, Voices of the New Arab Public: Al-Jazeera, Iraq, and Middle East Politics Today, was published by Columbia University Press. He writes frequently on Arab politics, the Arab media, Iraq, and Islamist movements in journals such as Foreign Affairs, the National Interest, the Wilson Quarterly, Foreign Policy, the European Journal of International Relations, Arab Media and Society, and Politics and Society. He also runs the influential Middle East politics blog Abu Aardvark (www.abuaardvark.com).
David S. Jackson Senior Advisor for Communications Bureau of European & Eurasian Affairs, Department of State
David S. Jackson is a Senior Advisor for Communications in the Bureau of European & Eurasian Affairs at the Department of State. From 2002 to 2006, he served as the 26th Director of the Voice of America. Jackson came to VOA following a year at the Department of Defense, where he created and edited a public website devoted to news and information about the war against terrorism. Before entering public service, Jackson spent 23 years with Time Magazine as a correspondent based in Chicago, Washington DC, Houston, Cairo, Seoul, Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Karen DeYoung Associate Editor, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent The Washington Post
The Washington Post: 1975-present
Current Position: Associate Editor,
March 2006-January 2007: Principal reporter, terrorism/counterterrorism.
June 2003-March 2006: Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sabbatical while writing SOLDIER. The Life of Colin Powell (published by Knopf [Random House] in October, 2006).
September 2001-June 2003: Principal reporter covering Bush administration foreign policy.
February 1999-September 2001: Enterprise reporting, global issues (War crimes/International Law; Peacekeeping; HIV/AIDS; War on Drugs, etc.)
January 1990-February 1999: Assistant Managing Editor (AME) for National News.
January 1989-January 1990: National Editor.
January 1985-January 1990: Bureau Chief, London
1981-1985: Foreign Editor
1976-1981: Bureau Chief, Latin America
1975-1976: Metro political reporter, Maryland
1974-1975: Stringer (non-staff), West Africa.
Awards and Honors:
2003-Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Coverage (Institute for Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service)
2002-Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (team award for coverage of U.S. war on terror)
2000-Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting (team award for series on U.S. pharmaceutical companies and overseas clinical trials)
2000-InterAction Excellence in International Reporting Award (for reportage on U.S. development assistance, global HIV/AIDS
Earlier awards: Sigma Delta Chi Award for Foreign Reporting; Maria Moors Cabot Award (Columbia University); Inter-American Press Association Award for Latin American Coverage
Education: University of Florida; BS in Journalism/Communications, 1971.
Residence: Washington, D.C.
Jeffrey J. Grieco Assistant Administrator, Legislative and Public Affairs U.S. Agency for International Development
Jeffrey Grieco, USAID's Assistant Administrator for Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) is the Agency's senior advisor on and manager of all legislative relations and public affairs activities.
As head of LPA, he is responsible for all Congressional contacts and communications, manages all agency communications to both foreign and domestic audiences, and supervises USAID media and public affairs programming worldwide. He also serves as the agency's lead congressional and public affairs representative at global meetings and conferences dealing with USAID's reconstruction operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Liberia and other nations. His portfolio deals with issues as diverse as USAID's $13 billion humanitarian and development programming in more than 100 countries, 84 of which have a full-time USAID Mission.
Mr. Grieco also serves as USAID's senior representative on various interagency committees and working groups dealing with legislative affairs, communications, public diplomacy and public affairs, including inter-agency working groups such as the Joint Policy Council of the Department of State, the Administration's Iraq Stabilization Group (ISG), and the Agency's Muslim Outreach Coordinating Committee. He is the U.S. Representative to the Development Assistance Committee Communicators Network of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and participates in major multilateral efforts to improve aid effectiveness and communications.
Just prior to his current position, Mr. Grieco served as the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator of LPA, where he was responsible for all public affairs aspects of the Agency. As a result of his innovative efforts, he has been awarded numerous Agency awards including a Superior Unit Citation, Superior Group Award, Meritorious Unit Citation, and several Meritorious Honor Awards and helped found the Development Outreach & Communications (DOC) program of USAID placing trained communications and outreach staff in most USAID Missions abroad.
Prior to joining the Administration, he was an Associate Fellow at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, where he focused on U.S. Foreign Policy. He has also been an international consultant working with U.S. and foreign multinational corporations in more than 25 countries.
Mr. Grieco is a graduate of Georgetown University's Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service Studies where he obtained a Masters Degree in Foreign Relations in 1986. He has also received a fellowship for graduate studies in comparative international management at Oxford University's Templeton College. His undergraduate degree is from George Washington University's Elliott School (1982) with a major in international affairs. He is proficient in Korean and French.
Rear Admiral Gregory J. Smith Director of Communication United States Central Command
Rear Admiral Smith, a career Navy Public Affairs officer, is the Director of Communication for United States Central Command. He is responsible for synchronizing the command's strategic communication efforts to include oversight of the Offices of Public Affairs, Information Operations and the Strategic Effects Division. He also coordinates communication efforts with United States Central Command's component commands, the Department of State and numerous government and non-government agencies from the 27 countries that comprises Central
Commands area of responsibility.
Most recently, Rear Adm. Smith was Spokesman and Chief of Public Affairs for Multi-National Force-Iraq. Prior to deploying to Iraq, he was the U.S. Navy's Chief of Information (CHINFO) serving as principal spokesman for the Department of the Navy and providing strategic communication counsel to the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations.
As CHINFO, he managed the Navy's public affairs community, which included more than 2,500 active and reserve officer and enlisted and civilian communication professionals.
At the time of his selection to Flag in May 2006, Rear Adm. Smith was serving as Special Assistant for Public Affairs to the Vice Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff. Additional joint and NATO experience included serving as Director of Public Affairs, U.S. Joint Forces Command and Chief of Public Information for NATO's Allied Command Transformation.
During this period, he oversaw the establishment of the Joint Public Affairs Support Element (JPASE), which provides combatant commanders with expeditionary public affairs, exercise and mission rehearsal training, and joint public affairs proponency.
Other public affairs tours of duty have included three overseas assignments to Guam, Italy, and Japan; at-sea assignments aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), aboard the U.S. 6th Fleet flagship USS Belknap (CG 26), and the U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19); three previous tours in the Pentagon as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, media desk officer and Director of Media Operations for the Chief of Information; and in direct fleet support as director of public affairs for Naval Air Station Whiting Field/Training Air Wing Five, Submarine Forces Atlantic Fleet and Commander U.S. Pacific Fleet.
A native of Dubuque, Iowa, Rear Adm. Smith received a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from the University of Iowa, and was commissioned in 1982.
He was a 1997 honors graduate of Old Dominion University receiving a Master of Public Administration degree.
Rear Adm. Smith's personal awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal (second award), Legion of Merit (second award), Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal (second award), Navy Commendation Medal (fourth award) and Joint Commendation Medal (second award).
Kristin M. Lord Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program and Saban Center for Middle East Policy The Brookings Institution
Kristin Lord is a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program and Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution. At Brookings, Dr. Lord directs the science and technology initiative of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World.
Prior to joining Brookings, Dr. Lord was Associate Dean for Strategy, Research, and External Relations at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. In that capacity, she oversaw the School's six research centers, graduate admissions, public affairs, and strategic initiatives. During her twelve year tenure at the Elliott School, she launched three master's programs, ten certificate programs, a global network of university partnerships, the School's skills curriculum, and numerous educational programs for students, diplomats, and mid-career professionals from the public, private, and non-profit sectors. As a member of the faculty, she also taught courses on U.S. public diplomacy, U.S. foreign policy and the causes of war.
In 2005-2006, Lord served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and Special Adviser to the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. In that role, she worked on a wide range of issues including international science and technology cooperation, international health, democracy and the rule of law, communications, and public diplomacy.
Dr. Lord is the author of Perils and Promise of Global Transparency: Why the Information Revolution May Not Lead to Security Democracy or Peace, (SUNY Press, 2006), Power and Conflict in an Age of Transparency, edited with Bernard I. Finel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), and numerous book chapters, policy papers, and articles. In 2008, she published two Brookings reports A New Millennium of Knowledge? The Arab Human Development Report on Building a Knowledge Society, Five Years On and Voices of America: U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century. Her publications have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Science, Foreign Service Journal, National Interest on-line, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Dr. Lord is a non-resident fellow at the University of Southern California's Center for Public Diplomacy and served as a non-resident Fellow at Brookings in 2007-2008. In 2006-2007, Dr. Lord served as project director of a Council on Foreign Relations study group entitled "Beyond Institutions: Building Cultural Support for the Rule of Law." She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University and her B.A., magna cum laude, in international studies from American University.
Ted Tzavellas Vice President, S4 Inc.
Mr. Tzavellas is a Vice President with S4 Inc., a company specializing in information domain-based solutions and services. He joined S4 Inc. in early 2007 after having held a position as Senior Analyst with Lockheed Martin. Prior to that, Mr. Tzavellas was Director of Business Development with the Industrial Consulting and Systems Group, a $450 million enterprise of American Management Systems, Inc., a "top-five" business consulting, information management, and IT services company. He previously held a position as Operations Manager with Cubic Applications, where he headed the Intelligence and Information Operations Support Group.
Mr. Tzavellas is acknowledged in the public, private, and juridical sectors as an expert who provides thought leadership in strategic communication, information operations, perception management, risk/ crisis communications, message development, and information shaping activities. He has helped clients pattern the flow of information and its effects on decision-makers, constituents, and key influencers. With his deep understanding of human factors, and technology and its applications, Mr. Tzavellas has helped clients identify current, and future, informational and technical threats, vulnerabilities, and protection capabilities and measures.
In November 2001, Mr. Tzavellas assumed responsibilities as Senior Information Policy and Strategy Advisor to the Department of Defense, Joint Staff Deputy Director Global Operations, Information Operations (DDGO-IO) under the Joint Staff J-3, where he worked closely with various Federal Departments and Agencies to develop information policies, strategies, technologies, and actions that apply the perceptual assets and informational capabilities of the US Government to achieve national objectives.
Mr. Tzavellas has provided technical support, expertise, and testimony in cases of product liability and other litigation efforts. He is recognized for his unique support to the States of Florida and Texas during groundbreaking major litigation against the Tobacco Industry; to Michigan in its litigation against Publishers Clearing House; and to a major class action in Canada. He has lectured at Northeastern University School of Law on strategic communication and perception management, and their application to jurisprudence, and to various business enterprise processes and practices.
He has been engaged by different organizations as a recognized expert to examine their communication strategies in light of evolving media and audiences; to develop communication strategies; to establish campaigns for regional influence; and to review the role of new media, and how to manage and measure effects in the current information environment. He was also invited by the Lomonosov Moscow State University to present to the Second International Forum on "Partnership Among State, Business Community and Civil Society in Ensuring Information Security".
Nancy Snow Associate Professor of Public Diplomacy Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
She teaches in the dual degree Masters Program in Public Diplomacy sponsored by Newhouse and the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs. Snow is a former USIA and State Department Presidential Management Fellow and author/editor of five books, including the recently published RoutledgeHandbook of Public Diplomacy (with Philip M. Taylor). She blogs about America's arsenal of persuasion for the Huffington Post. Contact her at www.nancysnow.com
Colleen P. Graffy Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy
Colleen Graffy assumed her duties as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in September 2005. In this capacity, Ms. Graffy oversees public diplomacy and public affairs programs for the Bureau and coordinates efforts with Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James Glassman. Prior to her current position, she was the Academic Director and Associate Professor of Law at the London Law Program for Pepperdine University School of Law.
Originally from Santa Barbara, California, Ms. Graffy earned her BA from Pepperdine University and her MA from Boston University. She then served as co-director of Pepperdine's Year-in-Europe program in Heidelberg, Germany.
Ms. Graffy completed the Diploma in Law in London. After attending the Inns of Court School of Law, she was called to the Bar of England and Wales as a Barrister of the Middle Temple and received her LLM through King's College, University of London with Merit. As academic director of the London Program, she was in charge of the London Moot and Clinical Program and taught International Public Law, International Environmental Law, International Law and the Use of Force, and Legal Ethics. Altogether, she has resided nearly 20 years in London, where she was often invited by the media to communicate the U.S. point of view on international issues.
Ms. Graffy is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, The British Institute of International and Comparative Law, The Pilgrims, and The British American Project and was Chairman of the Society of English and American Lawyers. She is a Bencher at the Middle Temple.
Deputy Assistant Secretary Graffy has written on legal issues in the United States and Britain and is a frequent commentator for radio and television on transatlantic political, legal, and cultural issues.
Bill Kiehl PDWorldwide
William P. Kiehl is the founder President and CEO of PD Worldwide, consultants in international public affairs, higher education management and cross-cultural communications.
In February 2004, he was appointed Executive Director of the Public Diplomacy Council at the School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University. He served in that position through April 2007 when he was elected to the Public Diplomacy Council's Board of Directors. He retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in November 2003 but continued to serve as an Instructor in Public Diplomacy in the School of Professional and Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State. He was awarded a doctoral degree in Higher Education Management at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary interest of research is international education.
As the Diplomat in Residence at the U.S. Army War College's Center for Strategic Leadership, he was the Senior Fellow of the U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute (now the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute) until July 2003. His duties included advising the Center and the Institute on foreign policy and conducting outreach with the academic, military and civilian government communities. He continues to advise the U.S. military on issues of influence operations.
With the reorganization of the Foreign Affairs agencies in October 1999, Dr. Kiehl was named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Resources of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State. With USIA he was Acting Deputy Associate Director for Educational and Cultural Affairs and also Staff Director of the Interagency Working Group on U.S. Government-Sponsored International Exchanges and Training (IAWG).
Overseas, Dr. Kiehl was Director of the U.S. Information Service in Bangkok, Thailand. As the first Chairman of the Bangkok Interagency Council on Administrative Support Services, he led representatives of some 34 government agencies in finding efficient solutions to administrative problems at one of the largest U.S. overseas missions. He also directed U.S. press and cultural affairs in London, Helsinki and Prague. His other Washington assignments with USIA included: Acting Director and Deputy Director, Office of Program Coordination and Development and Country Affairs Officer for the USSR and the Baltic States.
William Kiehl joined the U. S. Foreign Service in 1970 and retired with the rank of Minister-Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service. His first overseas posting was to Belgrade, Yugoslavia; followed by assignments to Zagreb and to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Kiehl escorted the exhibition "Agriculture USA" throughout the former Soviet Union in the late 1970s and thereafter served as Embassy Press Officer in Moscow. A decade later he was Public Affairs Advisor to Ambassador Max Kampelman and the U.S. Delegation to the CSCE Moscow Conference on the Human Dimension. He was a principal member of negotiation teams for cultural and exchanges agreements with the former Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. During his career he directed media responsibilities for overseas visits by Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton to the United Kingdom, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine and Thailand as well as for summit-level meetings in Geneva, Helsinki and London.
In addition to his Doctor of Education degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Kiehl earned an honors degree from the University of Scranton and an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. He was Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Before joining the Foreign Service he worked in the Governor's Office of Pennsylvania, his home state. He is the recipient of numerous Foreign Service honor awards and two Hammer Awards– for his role in reinventing USIA's Information Bureau in 1994 and for his work with the IAWG in 1998. He received the Frank J. O'Hara Award for Distinction in Government Service from his alma mater in 2002.
Douglas B. Wilson President, The Leaders Project Board of Directors, The Howard Gilman Foundation
Mr. Wilson, a native of Tucson, Arizona, and a graduate of Stanford University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, is President of The Leaders Project, which he co-founded in 2001 with former Defense Secretary William Cohen. This non-profit initiative brings together global groups of successor generation leaders — from politics, government, business, the military, the media, arts and sciences, NGOs and community organizations – several times a year to address issues of ongoing international concern on a cross-disciplinary basis. Mr. Wilson also serves as member of the six-person Board of Directors of the New York-based Howard Gilman Foundation; in that capacity, he oversees the development and implementation of the Foundation's domestic and international policy programs at White Oak, the Foundation's internationally-acclaimed wildlife and conference facility in northern Florida.
From 2002-2007, Mr. Wilson served as a Vice President of The Cohen Group, handling strategic communications issues for clients in telecommunications, aerospace, security, transportation, software and other areas, and as a Vice President for PSB in Seattle, overseeing strategic communications messaging and research for Microsoft, the company's largest client. (Mr. Wilson has not been a lobbyist in either position or in any capacity.) Mr. Wilson has also served as Vice President for Strategic Development for Business Executives for National Security (BENS) (2000-2002).
From 1997-1999, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. He spent a year as National Political Director of the Democratic Leadership Council — working with Senate and House members and governors and developing the DLC's state and local networks — before returning to the Pentagon in the summer of 2000 to become Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and the senior communications strategist for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. During his tenure at the Pentagon, Mr. Wilson coordinated communications and long-range public affairs strategy on issues including defense reform, base closures, Bosnia, NATO expansion, new technology and military quality of life. He was twice presented the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the Pentagon's top civilian honor.
During the first four years of the Clinton Administration, Mr. Wilson served as Director of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs for the U.S. Information Agency, where he coordinated negotiations to consolidate international broadcasting, with savings of some $400 million. He later became Senior Advisor to the Director of USIA.
In 1996, Mr. Wilson left government service to coordinate the Clinton-Gore re-election effort in his home state of Arizona. Mr. Wilson conceived and designed the strategy which resulted in the only Democratic presidential win in Arizona since 1948 (breaking the longest Republican presidential winning streak in any state in US history).
In 1987, Mr. Wilson established the first international office for the City of Phoenix, which has become a template for similar city offices throughout the nation. He helped Phoenix to secure its first international air service and served as consultant to the National League of Cities' International Subcommittee.
In 1981, he became Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to former U.S. Senator Gary Hart. He organized Senator Hart's meetings with world leaders, drafted the Senator's high-technology trade bill (which was incorporated into the Trade Act of 1982) and served as a deputy campaign manager for Senator Hart's 1984 presidential campaign. Prior to 1981, he served as a public diplomacy Foreign Service Information Officer at U.S. diplomatic posts in Naples, Rome, and London.
Mr. Wilson has been featured as a commentator on BBC; his opinion pieces have been published in national and regional publications. In addition to his Howard Gilman Foundation work, Mr. Wilson is also a Member of the Boards of Directors of Third Way and the National Security Network.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) U.S. House of Representatives
Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH) U.S. House of Representatives
Lynne Weil Communications Director House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Ms. Weil oversees all foreign affairs media matters for Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), the chairman of the committee. She writes speeches, op-eds and other media-related materials, is Chairman Berman's spokesperson and serves as his legislative aide on public diplomacy issues. She held the same position under the late Chairman Tom Lantos from 2003 to early 2008.
From 2001 to 2003 Ms. Weil was the press secretary for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under its chairman, Senator Joe Biden. She started on Capitol Hill as a journalism fellow through the American Political Science Association, spending her fellowship year as a foreign policy aide to Senator Ted Kennedy.
Ms. Weil spent 15 years as a journalist, nearly nine of them in Europe. Her work included stories on politics, economics and culture from 18 countries for National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and the BBC. She earned a BA in communication studies at UCLA and in 2001 completed a Master's degree in public policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.
For more on the 2009 Smith-Mundt Symposium, see this page.


Between early May and late July/early August (weather permitting) Gordon Grant Marine make daily trips to Lunga from Fionnphort (except Saturdays). Times vary, leaving Fionnphort Sunday & Monday about 1210, Tuesday-Friday 09:50. Two hours ashore on Lunga, followed by an hour ashore on Staffa. Total duration about 5½ hours. In high season it is best to book at least the day before, which we will be pleased to do for you. The puffins and other nesting birds leave their nests and go back to sea around the end of July, and there are no further trips after that.
The boat leaves from Iona and calls at Fionnphort before departing for Lunga, so you can go to Iona in the morning, take the trip to Lunga and return to Fionnphort, or vice versa.
You can also make a similar trip with Turus Mara from Ulva Ferry (at least 1½ hours drive from Maolbhuidhe).
Puffins are a great favourite with visitors because of their brightly coloured beaks and clownish appearance. They spend most of the year at sea, returning to land from April to July to breed, and going away again in early August.
They arrive offshore in March/April, gathering in 'rafts' on the sea, and then gradually come ashore to start nesting. They nest in burrows at the top of the cliffs, and will use the same burrow year after year. A single egg is laid, and hatched in May/June. The parents both care for the chick, and can be seen bringing sand eels in their beaks. In early August the parents leave the nest and the chick follows after a few days, usually at night. The puffins gather on the sea again before flying away.
The puffins on Lunga are unafraid of people, and it is easy to creep to within a few feet of the nest openings. An ideal opportunity for photography. Please do not walk over the burrows. Many people are surprised to discover that the puffin is only about the size of a pigeon.
Other birds nesting on Lunga include Kittiwakes, Guillemots, Razorbills and Shags. The latter tend to nest under cover in small caves or crevices beneath rocks, but the others gather in huge colonies on the sea stack on Lunga's west side. The noise (and smell) is considerable, but well worth the half mile walk from the landing place. Do this first, and then go back to the puffins.


Humanoid robots can't take over the world alone: Insect-esque androids are a great distraction, their tiny mechanical bodies crawling or flying to divert attention from the cyborg uprising.
Or, I suppose, they could be better used for time-consuming tasks too challenging for larger drones.
That's a dream for the future, though, as current robo-insects remain tethered to the ground by electronics needed to power and control their wings.
But, by cutting the cord and adding a brain, engineers at the University of Washington have solved the mobility problem, allowing their so-called RoboFly to independently take flight.
"This might be one small flap for a robot, but it's one giant leap for robot-kind," the UW press announcement quipped.
Expanding on his previous work with RoboBee—an automated bug that requires a grounded leash—Sawyer Fuller upgraded to more modern technology.
An assistant professor in UW's Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fuller used a minuscule onboard circuit to convert laser energy into electricity to operate the fly's wings.
"It was the most efficient way to quickly transmit a lot of power to RoboFly without adding much weight," according to Shyam Gollakota, an associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering.
But a laser alone cannot provide enough voltage to satisfy the power-hungry process of moving the wings. So, the team designed a circuit to boost the seven volts emitted by the photovoltaic cell to the 240 volts necessary for flight.
They even added a microcontroller to give RoboFly control over its own manufactured outgrowths.
And it does so in a way that mimics a real insect's flappers—by using pulses to shape waves.
Don't expect the RoboFly circus to come through town any time soon, though.
As soon as the device, which can currently only take off and land, moves out of direct line of sight of the laser, it runs out of power. The team is working to be able to steer the laser so RoboFly can hover and move at will.
To avoid these restraints, future versions may use tiny batteries, or even harvest energy from radio frequency signals, allowing the power source to be modified for specific tasks.
The team will present its findings next week at the International Conference on Robotics and Animation in Australia.


Over one-third of the world's population is estimated to suffer from anemia, and more than half of all cases can be traced to iron deficiency. Fortifying foods with iron offers an attractive way to distribute supplementation widely; however, past evaluations suggest that the choice of fortified food and the channel for its delivery are important policy decisions. In Bihar, India, researchers are examining how double fortified salt can be most effectively priced, marketed, and distributed, in order to have the greatest impact on a range of health, education, and economic outcomes.
Over one-third of the world's population is estimated to suffer from anemia, and more than half of all cases can be traced to iron deficiency. Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) has been linked to low productivity in adults, and slowing of cognitive and physical development among children; among pregnant women, severe anemia can result in low birth weight and child mortality. Iron supplements can reduce anemia, but ensuring regular intake and widespread coverage is difficult. Fortifying foods with iron offers an attractive way to distribute supplementation widely; however, past evaluations suggest that the choice of fortified food and the channel for its delivery are important policy decisions. The food chosen must be easily and inexpensively fortifiable and widely consumed, while the delivery channels need to have wide geographic and socioeconomic reach.
In India, an estimated 24 percent of men and 56 percent of women are anemic, and prevalence among women and children in India actually increased between 1998 and 2005. Prevalence rates in Bihar are among the highest in India: 68 percent of ever-married Bihari women and 88 percent of Bihari children under the age of 35 months are anemic . The Health Department in Bihar has made reducing anemia a key priority and has committed to reduce the prevalence of anemia by 25 percent among adolescents and women of reproductive age.
Although there are numerous foods that can be fortified, including flour, milk products, and fish sauce, salt , which even poor and isolated populations buy packaged, may be the best choice to reach those most in need. Among such households in rural Bihar, most meet their demand for salt either through local commercial stores called kiranas' or through the public distribution system - a government sponsored food security system that provides subsidized food items to the poor. Although several state government agencies have begun distributing salt fortified with both iron and iodine (Double Fortified Salt, or DFS) as part of small-scale public programmes and the central government has recently mandated DFS use in mid-day meals for children enrolled in school, there have been no attempts to market DFS to a larger cross-section of the population.
This evaluation will examine the impact of DFS availability on a set of health and education outcomes, and will also explore the most effective distribution and pricing to increase take-up.
The evaluation will proceed in two phases. The first phase of the evaluation will test the effect of different distribution channels, information campaigns, and discounts on purchase of DFS in 43 randomly selected villages in one district of Bihar. While both kiranas and government-subsidized stores (PDS) have the advantage of exploiting consumers' pre-existing habits, effective marketing schemes are needed to convey the benefits of iron fortification to potential consumers. The first phase will test the ability of basic marketing (posters); basic marketing plus campaigns designed by the manufacturer; and basic plus manufacturer plus government health worker campaigns to inform households about DFS. In addition, 99 randomly selected households in each village will receive different discount vouchers for DFS, with final sale price ranging from Rs. 8 to Rs. 17 per kg, in order to estimate price sensitivity of demand for DFS.
Using lessons from phase one, DFS will then be introduced for sale in 200 randomly selected villages, while another 200 randomly selected villages will serve as a comparison group. One year after the baseline survey, DFS take-up will be measured along with health and economic indicators including anemia status, weakness, health, cognitive health, school attendance, workforce participation, and wages.
Abhijit Banerjee, Sharon Barnhardt, and Esther Duflo. "Can Iron-Fortified Salt Control Anemia? Evidence from Two Experiments in Rural Bihar." Working Paper, December 2018.
Abhijit Banerjee, Sharon Barnhardt, and Esther Duflo. "Movies, Margins, and Marketing: Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt." in Economics of Aging, Wise. Forthcoming 2016.


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Q: Holding two different versions of the same spring bean in the same application context I have a spring based application that uses beans to describe the metadata of certain entities. As my application grows, the metadata also changes.
Upon a new release of my application, I want to sustain the old bean definition together with the new one and to make them available to the program.
My original idea was to add a new property to the bean definition called 'Version'. Its value will correspond correspond to a release version. Thus if I want to change the metadata definition of one of the entities, I copy paste the old definition, make the required changes (e.g. add a field) and update the version field.
In code I can easily filter the beans by their version.
The problem:
Naturally, Spring will not allow me to have two beans with the same id (it does not know that I actually can disambiguate by version). It seems that instead of adding a new property to the bean definition, I need to encode the version in its name.
Is this the proper way to do it in Spring (I did not find any OOTB support for this)? Are there any other patterns that solve this issue?

A: You can't have two beans of the same type and the same name at the same time. You could include a version suffix in the bean name, but this is likely to break some of your @Autowired injections.
Spring profiles (introduced in 3.1) are a way to quickly switch between alternative context configurations, but activating two of them at the same time may again lead to conflicts.

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Faded Melody () is a 1938 German drama film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel and Carl Raddatz. The film was made by Germany's largest studio of the era UFA. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam and on location in French Algeria, New York City and Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hermann Asmus and Max Mellin. It premiered at Berlin's Gloria-Palast.

Synopsis
Horney and Birgel play characters engaged in a troubled transatlantic romance, with she based in New York City and he in Berlin.

Partial cast
 Brigitte Horney as Barbara Lorenz
 Willy Birgel as Thomas Gront
 Carl Raddatz as Werner Gront
 Hans Brausewetter as Steffken
 Vera von Langen as Olga, Thomas' Freundin
 Silvia de Bettini as Sonja
 Erich Fiedler as Freddy
 Karl Platen as Karl, Diener
 Andrews Engelmann as Casiez
 Bill Bocket as Léon
 Achim von Biel as Schmidt, Thomas' Sekretär
 Angelo Ferrari as Der Kellner bei der Silvesterfeier
 Jens von Hagen as Das Mädchen bei Barbara
 Hilde Heinrich as Die Krankenschwester
 Carl Merznicht as Der Assistenzarzt
 Pia Mietens as Ein Gast bei Olga, die sich nach Thomas erkundigt
 Michael von Newlinsky as Ein französischer Sergeant am Flughafen
 Hans-Joachim Roedelius as Der kleine Bobby, Barbaras Söhnchen
 Stella Textor as Eine französische Flugpassagierin
 Theodor Thony as Ein französischer Flugpassagier
 Werner Finck
 Boris Alekin
 Ernst Behmer
 Josef Karma

References

Bibliography
 Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

External links

1938 films
Films of Nazi Germany
German drama films
German black-and-white films
1938 drama films
1930s German-language films
Films set in Berlin
Films set in New York City
Films directed by Victor Tourjansky
UFA GmbH films
1930s German films
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
Films shot in Algeria

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If you're looking for art in Seattle, there's no shortage of galleries, museums and pop-up spaces to visit. They vary from rotating works to those that specialize in one specific medium. Among the many options for the aesthete is A/NT gallery at Seattle Center in the International Fountain Pavilion. At any given time, an average of 90 works of art are on display, from abstract paintings to sculptures to photographs. New works are consistently shown in the space in part because the gallery is also an artist collective. What sets A/NT apart is that they are all-inclusive. Whatever an artist wants to show has a place in the gallery. Artists are given 100 percent freedom and the work isn't juried.
"We're setting an example for artists to focus on creating their artwork rather than focus on trying to convince somebody that their work is worthy to be shown," said Lonny Johnson.
Johnson is one of the original founding members of A/NT gallery and currently serves as president of the executive board for the all-volunteer organization. This month, a retrospective of his work, called "Zero to 30," is in the center and south galleries. He began as a jewelry artist and now creates figurative sculpture with alternative mediums. Johnson's show anchors the celebration of A/NT reaching the 30-year milestone — a feat he wouldn't have predicted when the initial three-month-long guerrilla art show opened at the old Trailways bus terminal off Westlake in 1987. "The People's Gallery" soon became known as Art/Not Terminal as people wandered through, searching for the bus. The building at Seattle Center is their third location.
The impetus for the first show was rejection. Johnson said some of the artists had solicited commercial representation from several galleries but were unsuccessful. So, he says, they carved out their own space. Now, 30 years later, the same fiery spirit that drove the artists to create a new venue is still driving A/NT today. Johnson credits their longevity to maintaining a group dynamic within the organization, the willingness of artists to put themselves out on display and affordable rent. As a result, they've provided a safe space for artists, where veteran makers can help the next generation navigate the complexities of showing one's work.
"Pivotal" is the first word to come to mind when Michelle Ishimitsu describes discovering A/NT. She's the daughter of a painter and musician and has been producing art for as long as she can remember. She started painting at 15 years old and was looking for places to show her work in part because she was interested in what the public would think. She'd given up on galleries long before happening upon A/NT's second Westlake location a few years ago. Johnson happened to be working that day and invited her to come back and hang her work in the space. After walking out, Ishimitsu said she jumped up and down on the sidewalk and squealed with joy.
Ishimitsu is vice president of the executive board along with her husband, Mike Piper. Ishimitsu said she's restructured her life around the gallery and wouldn't have it any other way. Exhibitions are booked two or three months in advance, while single works can make the cut the day before.
Recently, board member Ron Jones began curating the shows, rather than having the artists place the art on the walls themselves as they'd done in years past. Jones has an eye for grouping pieces together and everything is hung at the same height. Johnson takes great pleasure in positioning the lights to give each work the best presentation.
A/NT has made an effort to show art with a social justice theme. Exhibitions in the past have included showcasing work from people experiencing homelessness, incarcerated artists, refugees, people with Alzheimer's, people dealing with infertility and more. The gallery is surrounded by other art-centered groups, including The Vera Project, SIFF and Pacific Northwest Ballet.
Because of their current location, A/NT gets a lot of foot traffic. Johnson said it's split two-to-one between tourists and locals. Most people spend at least 20 minutes looking around.
Those visitors do more than just peruse the space — they also find works to take home. Over the years thousands of artists have displayed work at A/NT and there are plenty of gems to be found.
After three decades, A/NT shows no signs of slowing down. They're working on becoming a 501(c)(3) and expanding their footprint. They want the community at large to know they're a welcoming space for all and hope to rise to greater prominence in the years to come. They serve a vital role in being a space for artists to share their creativity without having to prove themselves first.


Not, why I blog occasionally. We all do that. Why I. Blog. Every. Day. (Actually, every working day, only M-F, not weekends).
Simple answer: inspired by Fred Wilson. He has been blogging every day since "forever" (not actually forever, but I cannot remember when he was not blogging every day). I have been blogging every day since 29 June 2014 (about 9 months ago, for the record here is that first post).
I call the blog Daily Fintech, because I have now done it daily for nearly 9 months and think it is sustainable.
Passion. I happen to love my subject. The Fintech revolution in Financial Services is, to me, endlessly fascinating. OK, I know that not that many people think it is as interesting as I do and that's fine. I want to connect with those who also find it fascinating, wherever they are.
Discipline. Like any discipline – exercise, meditation, diet – there are days when it is easy and days when it is hard.
I love writing. I actually enjoy it. I get into Flow and that is fun.
There is a business logic. I do not monetize through advertising. I use blogging to connect to people who are "fishing in the same waters" and to learn (from people who correct me if I am wrong and fill in details that I have missed). It works for me at a practical level. I saw how tech blogs struggled to monetize quality writing from my year as COO of ReadWriteWeb (and the recent epitaph of GigaOm is probably a sad reflection of that same reality).
As I tell all who I speak to "I am an entrepreneur who blogs, not a professional blogger, publisher or journalist". That means that all conversations are off the record unless I can see the same content online or you tell me its OK to make it public. Daily Fintech is about insight based on publicly available information. I leave scoops to the news business.
How do I write every day? Simple answer: good days and bad days.
Queued posts. I am not news driven, I am insight driven. So I can have posts ready to go out in a few days time. For example when I am travelling and in back to back meetings, I write less but have ones lined up to go.
I write when inspiration strikes. First draft is usually Notes on my iPhone (that nice 6+ screen is good).
I have a weekly calendar. For example, I always do Fintech Global Tour on Friday. That helps me plan and schedule.
Today is the day that this changes because today there are two posts not just one and only one is written by me.
The first post is this one. The second post is the first from a regular writer on Daily Fintech other than me. I am delighted to welcome Efi Pylarinou to Daily Fintech. Last Monday I asked for her help on the Darwinex post. That worked so well that I asked her to write regularly and I am delighted to say that she agreed. Efi is a professional writer (see her book on Fixed Income) but her motive for writing is the same as mine – to do her research in public, learn from others and connect with people fishing in similar waters.
The Darwinex post was me interviewing Efi as subject matter expert. Today's post (just a few pixels down the great blogging river) is written by Efi.
Actually Bern is a gorgeous City with some of the most beautiful mountains but if you want exciting new business hop on a train to Zurich or Geneva and maybe hop on a flight from there.
I asked Efi to help me out because she knows more about Fixed Income, Commodities, FX and Derivatives Trading & Asset Management than I will ever know. As Fintech grows, the need for specialists becomes more apparent every day. When Efi blogs I am only the Editor. My keyboard will be relieved.


My god, that graphic. Would you look at that graphic? Beautiful.
Navel-gazing aside, I met Deborah Martin and Adam Lauver (the INTERVIEWER and INTERVIEWEE, respectively) last night while witnessing? presiding over? whatever it is a playwright does during a rehearsal of his or her play. Mostly what I did was watch and listen, and I'm so glad I did.
You guys, they were so good. As written, I think the play has some really funny moments and a bit of heart. As performed by them last night, it was actually hilarious and even poignant. The choices they were making were so, so funny. They found moments to play with that, in my mind, were just words on their way to an entirely different moment. By Thursday (the final rehearsal) I have every confidence that they will have elevated the material far above anything I could have imagined.
Which is exactly what I had hoped for. The play is written in a way that Olivia, the director, calls "actor-friendly." I didn't include many stage directions because I wanted to give the actors and director a lot of room to explore. Even in the casting of it, either role could be male or female. This is why I love theater—the script is only the first piece of the play. It's what everyone does with the script that makes it a play.
And if I can say so (this website has my name on it, so I guess I can), it's going to be a great play. Tickets for this Sunday's Boston Theater Marathon can be purchased here!
May 7, 2013 by Brandon Crose.


A hidden world. A wicked agenda.
In 1948, John Sable leaves England and a painful past to start afresh in the Southeast Asian country of Nusantara. He then disappears without a trace in the rainforest behind his new home.Twenty years later, John's shocked family receives a spine-chilling letter from him explaining what had really happened, and his role in the creation of something horrifying in the murky peat swamp forest.
Decades pass, and unsuspecting 15-year-old Gemma and her uncle Norm arrive in Nusantara for what's supposed to be a short research expedition. They soon find themselves trapped in an astonishing realm hidden deep in the ominous jungle, pursued and tormented by supernatural beings with an evil agenda. When Norm falls ill, Gemma must face frightening events alone, and fight for their survival. Who is haunting them? How will their nightmare end? Find out in Shroud, a dark fantasy that will intrigue you until the very last page.


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Born in The Philippines and raised in Australia, Anne Numont is a Sydney-based artist. In 2003, she completed an Honours degree in Design at College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales. Since then, she has traded as a broadcast designer in the television industry where projects she has worked on have been awarded locally and overseas.
In 2010, she reconnected with drawing as a form of creative therapy. Later that year she became a finalist in her first attempt at a professional art prize, The Dobell Prize for Drawing. After exhibiting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Numont began to seriously consider her art practice.
Since then, her work was selected and published in Curvy 8 (2012) which attracted over 1100 entries world-wide, a finalist in the Yen Art Awards Australia & New Zealand (2013), The Hutchins Art Prize Australia (2013), North Sydney Art Prize (2011, 2013, 2015), Cliftons Art Prize Asia-Pacific (2015), Hornsby Art Prize (2016 & 2017), Hunters Hill Art Prize (2017) and Northern Beaches Art Prize (2017). In 2015, her work was acquired by North Sydney Council. She is a continuing artist-in-residence at Primrose Park Artist Studios.
Place, perception and memory are central to my art practice. Experimenting with method and scale in the field of contemporary drawing, I make landscapes and informal geographies. With a syncretist approach, references include migration, Australiana, my Filipino heritage, cubism, typography, weather systems, astrology and science. I am fascinated by the potential of light, landscape and mapping to project aspects of space, self and society.
While working, I relish the handmade and elemental: water in papermaking and earth in pastel. Fire and air are instrumental to excavations of personal history, connecting to core memories and rituals. The mercurial quality of nature helps me to reconcile inherent polarities of life such as permanence / temporality, home / dislocation, forgetting / remembering.
Tailored processes spawn different outcomes from drawing to handmade paper, collage, mixed media and, recently, installation. Underpinning my work is a state of being in-between and the possibilities this space can manifest.
Ultimately, my art practice helps me to engage with life, infinitely. It is about intimacy, inquiry, mindfulness and expression.
All Artwork Copyright © 2018 Anne Numont. All rights reserved. Use of any artwork without permission is prohibited.


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The Company was started by former smokers, who once they had switched over to vaporising soon started spreading the word to all the smokers we knew. Soon we developed a small customer base and UltraVapour.com was born. In September 2013, after our website was established we decided to open our first shop in the 'Shell Corner' area of Halesowen, where anyone can visit to get advise, try our E-liquids and other products.
Our Halesowen Branch is located in the Shell Corner area of Halesowen, near Blackheath.
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Moisture stress is a challenge to cowpea production in the drought prone areas of eastern and north eastern Uganda, with yield losses of up to 50% reported. Genotypes grown by farmers are not drought tolerant. This study was therefore, undertaken at Makerere University Agricultural Research Institute Kabanyolo to identify cowpea genotypes tolerant to drought. Thirty cowpea accessions comprising of Ugandan landraces and released varieties, Brazilian lines, Makerere University breeding lines, elite IITA germplasm and seven IITA drought tolerant lines as checks were screened for drought tolerance at vegetative and reproductive stages. The experiment was designed as a 2 × 37 factorial and laid out in a split-plot arrangement, 37 genotypes of cowpea at two soil moisture stress levels (T1, no stress and T2, severe stress) with all factorial combinations replicated two times in a screen house. The genotypes showed considerable variability in tolerance to drought. Genotypes were significantly different for chlorophyll content (P ≤ 0.01), efficiency of photosystem II (P ≤ 0.05), non-photochemical quenching (P ≤ 0.05), recovery (P ≤ 0.01), delayed leaf senescence (P ≤ 0.01), grain yield (P ≤ 0.01), 100 seed weight (P ≤ 0.05), number of pods per plant and number of seeds per pod (P ≤ 0.001). There was a highly significant positive correlation between chlorophyll content and efficiency of photosystem II (r = 0.75, P ≤ 0.001) implying that chlorophyll content and efficiency of photosystem II could be used as efficient reference indicators in the selection of drought tolerant genotypes. Genotypes SECOW 5T, SECOW 3B, SECOW 4W, WC 30 and MU 24 C gave relatively high yields under stress and no stress conditions, maintained above mean chlorophyll content, efficiency of photosystem II and had good recovery scores from stress and thus were tolerant to drought stress induced at both vegetative and reproductive stages.


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Q: Using std::async in constructor I am quite new to the C++11 feature std::async and I fail to grasp why the code below never prints bar.
Could someone shed some light on this for me?
class Thready {

  public:

    Thready() {
        std::async(std::launch::async, &Thready::foo, this);
    }

    void foo() {
        while (true) {
            std::cout << "foo" << std::endl;
        }
    }

    void bar() {
        while (true) {
            std::cout << "bar" << std::endl;
       }
    }
};

int main() {
    Thready t;
    t.bar();
}

A: See "Notes" section on this page: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/async

The implementation may extend the behavior of the first overload of
  std::async by enabling additional (implementation-defined) bits in the
  default launch policy. Examples of implementation-defined launch
  policies are the sync policy (execute immediately, within the async
  call) and the task policy (similar to async, but thread-locals are not
  cleared) If the std::future obtained from std::async is not moved from
  or bound to a reference, the destructor of the std::future will block
  at the end of the full expression until the asynchronous operation
  completes, essentially making code such as the following synchronous:

std::async(std::launch::async, []{ f(); }); // temporary's dtor waits for f()
std::async(std::launch::async, []{ g(); }); // does not start until f() completes

(note that the destructors of std::futures
  obtained by means other than a call to std::async never block)

TL;DR:
try to save the returned value of std::async call into some variable:
auto handle = std::async(std::launch::async, &Thready::foo, this);

EDIT:
the following code should work as you expect.
#include <future>
#include <iostream>

class Thready {

  public:

    Thready() {
        handle = std::async(std::launch::async, &Thready::foo, this);
    }

    void foo() {
        while (true) {
            std::cout << "foo" << std::endl;
        }
    }

    void bar() {
        while (true) {
            std::cout << "bar" << std::endl;
       }
    }

    std::future<void> handle;
};

int main() {
    Thready t;
    t.bar();
}


Castruccio in Flanders and France—Alberto Scoto—Benedetto Pepi.
After a favourable navigation of a few hours Castruccio arrived at Ostend. He landed destitute of friends, and even of the equipage of a gentleman. What Castruccio felt during the voyage can hardly be described. Anger, grief and shame kept his spirits in a perpetual fluctuation, which, painful as it was, was far preferable to the extinction of hope, and the sense of utter desertion upon his landing in Flanders. The world was indeed before him: he had been torn with frightful suddenness from the affections he had cultivated for a year, from ease, luxury and the friendship of a powerful monarch, and consigned to utter destitution. He did not even possess the lance and horse, with which knights-errant of old won kingdoms for themselves. Nor did he think without remorse of the blood with which his hands were for the first time stained; he had received a blow, and blood alone could expiate this injury: in France or England a duel in regular and courtly form would have terminated the quarrel; but in Italy the secret stiletto was the weapon of revenge, and the murder of one was avenged by the assassination of another, until the list of expiatory murders ran high, and were carefully counted by each party, each justifying his own, and blaming those of his adversary. Yet, although the mind of Castruccio was tinctured by the morality of his country, he was too young and too new not to feel a natural horror at having been the cause of the death of a fellow creature. Seated on a rock amidst the wide sands left by the retiring sea, listening to the melancholy roar of the tide, he shed bitter tears of repentance and conscious guilt. One idea alone calmed him, that his adversary might not have died—and then what was he? His rashness and folly had thrown him from a high station of prosperity and happiness, to being the solitary, helpless creature that he then was.
Castruccio accepted this friendly invitation with joy. He found his host a rich merchant of Ostend, living in the Italian style, and surrounded by a family, whose language and persons transported him to the plains of Lombardy, or the vallies of his native Tuscany.
During the conversation of the evening his host mentioned the wars that were then carrying on between the French king and the Flemings, and that Alberto Scoto commanded under the banners of the former with a troop of Italians. This account struck Castruccio with a hope, that he should now find some remedy for his misfortunes. Being obliged to enter on a new career, and his inclination leading him to war, he thought that this opportunity of serving under a fellow-countryman was too favourable a circumstance to be neglected. He made many enquiries concerning this troop and its illustrious chief. Alberto Scoto had once possessed a wide dominion in Lombardy; he had expelled the Visconti from Milan, and had been constituted tyrant or lord of the most flourishing Lombard states. When by the joint force of revolt and treason he was driven from his power, he had not lost his reputation as a successful general, and Philip le Bel, king of France, eagerly accepted his offered services. In former times he had been considered as belonging to the Guelph faction; but he had changed before he quitted Italy; and, now an exile, the distinction of party was entirely lost to him.