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World View: Obamacare and the 'Stupidity of the American Voter'
John J. Xenakis
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
Vladimir Putin eats lunch alone at G20 meeting
Jonathan Gruber on Obamacare and the stupidity of the American voter
Massachusetts health care site finally up — for $254 million
The implementation of Obamacare
An isolated Vladimir Putin eats lunch alone at G20 meeting on Saturday(Reuters)
Nobody wanted to eat lunch with Russia's president Vladimir Putin onSaturday at the G20 Leaders' Summit being held in Brisbane, Australia.It was supposed to be an economic summit, but most other leaders usedthe opportunity to blast Putin for Russia's repeated militaryintervention in Ukraine, for annexing Crimea, and for supplying theweapons and training to the Russians who shot down the MH17 airlinerover Ukraine, killing hundreds of innocent passengers. Severalleaders told Putin bluntly to "get out of Ukraine."
By lunch time, Putin was so isolated that no one wanted to be seenhaving lunch with him, so he sat at a lunch table alone. Later, hisdelegation announced that he would be leaving the G20 meeting early,calling the meeting "nonsense." Australian Broadcasting
Obamacare supporters have been fleeing in droves from MIT professorJonathan Gruber, who was the principal architect of Obamacare. Butthere's no getting away from him. A glowing article in the NY Timeson March 28, 2012, made it clear that Gruber was the number one healthcare expert in the country, not only because he had been developingmodels for decades, but also because he was a prime architect forRomneycare in Massachusetts, on which Obamacare was based.
Gruber's lectures at MIT are available on videotape, and they'verevealed everything from the contemptuous attitude of Obamacareofficials, and also deception and fraud in the selling of Obamacare.
According to Gruber:
This bill was written in a tortured way to make sureCBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandateas taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it's written to do that. Interms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said thathealthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthypeople pay in and sick people get money, it would not havepassed…. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Andbasically, call it the stupidity of the American voter orwhatever, but basically that was really really critical for thething to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make itall transparent, but I'd rather have this law thannot.
I'd like to point out that it's not people like me that Gruber iscalling "stupid." The stupid people, in Gruber's view, are thesupporters of Obamacare, who are presumably too stupid to see throughthe deception and fraud of Obamacare, as I was and many others wereable to do. Gruber's remarks are an indictment of the Obamacaresupporters, mostly Democrats who, in Gruber's view, were too stupid tosee what was going on.
When I first wrote about the "Obama's health plan, a proposal of economic insanity"in 2009, I said that this plan would never be implemented because itwould destroy markets and be economically disastrous. I compared itto President Richard Nixon's wage-price controls which were not asdisastrous for the markets as Obama's health plan, but still wreckedthe economy for close to a decade. I've repeated that many timessince, and I'll discuss if further below.
However, let's turn to another Gruber quote, this one revealingfinancial fraud on the part of the Obamacare officials.
Obamacare advocates have repeatedly made statements to theeffect, "Romneycare worked in Massachusetts, which proves thatObamacare can work across the country." However, anotherGruber videotape says that's not true, because Romneycare wasessentially bailed out by the federal government:
We had a pretty powerful senator you may have heardof named Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy had managed to figure out a wayto rip off the federal Medicaid program to the tune of about $500million a year through a series of strange manipulations.
Here was Mitt Romney's dirty little secret that we don't like totalk about in Massachusetts, which is the way we passed our law isthe federal government paid for it.
George Bush said why am I sending this Democrat $500 million ayear, I'm taking it back. Mitt Romney to his credit went toGeorge Bush and said, look, can we keep the money if we use it foruniversal coverage. And Bush to his credit said yes.
We realized that we can't do this at the state level anymore. Thefeds are going to have to get involved. […]
[Kennedy was] delivering about $400 million a year in slush fundsto our SafeNet hospitals, basically ripping off the federalMedicaid program.
So Romneycare was never self-sustaining, as Obamacare supporters havesaid, but was actually "ripping off the federal Medicaid program" tosurvive, according to Gruber. We now know that Obamacare wasbased on deception and fraud on many levels:
"You can keep your doctor" was a knowing lie.
"You can keep your health plan" was a knowing lie.
"Premiums will decrease by $2,500" was a knowing lie.
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It's almost impossible to even imagine the astronomical sums that havebeen spent on the greatest IT disaster in world history, theHealthCare.gov web sites. As I wrote a year ago, this would have beena $10 million project if implemented in the private sector. (See "1-Dec-13 World View — Obamacare: 500M lines of code, $500M, only 60% completed" fromlast year.)
But let's say that it should have cost $20 million. Then triple thatamount because everything the government does is inefficient, andwastes enormous amounts of money, due to corruption, public sectorlabor unions, and cronyism. So that would be $60 million paid tothe government for something that the private sector could dofor $10 million.
According to some estimates, Healthcare.gov implementation costs arenow in the billions of dollars.
On Saturday, open enrollment began, and the Massachusetts Obamacareweb site, known as the Health Connector, came up. The cost forthis one state web site? $254 million. And that was $80 millionover budget.
This is almost unbelievable. Where is all this money going? There'sno way that this is simply IT development expenses. There must behundreds of millions of dollars being skimmed off by the contractorsimplementing Obamacare, and those contractors are going to be bigObama supporters and Democratic party contributors. My guess is thatObamacare contractors are skimming off hundreds of millions of dollars andkicking it back to Obama administration cronies, to pay for the 2016elections. That's the most credible explanation, until someone tellsme where billions of development costs have been going.
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As soon as Obamacare was proposed, I called it a "proposal of economicinsanity," and compared it to Nixon's wage-price controls, which isthe same kind of proposal as Obamacare, at its core. I said thatObamacare would never be implemented, and I've repeated that manytimes.
Has Obamacare been implemented? It was supposed to be universalhealth coverage, and it certainly is not.
Nixon's wage-price controls were supposed to reduce inflation from 4%to 2%. That didn't happen. Instead, the economy was so screwed upwith shortages and misallocations that the inflation rate rose to 12%.In other words, Nixon's wage-price controls destroyed the economy, andnot only accomplished nothing, but were much worse than nothing.
Nixon's wage-price controls were popular because they promisedsomething for nothing. They promised price controls that would keepprices of everything low. But then the shortages started occurring –gasoline, heating oil, red meat, soybeans, and numerous otherproducts. Nixon did everything he could to save the controls,granting special exemptions and perks to favored people, announcingfrequent rule changes to resolve each new problem as it arose, and soforth.
Obamacare has followed the same path. People loved the promise oflow-cost health care. But then shortages started showing up in theform of restricted networks. Skyrocketing insurance premiums arebeing ameliorated by federal subsidies that are a clearly in violationof the Obamacare law, and are being reviewed by Supreme Court, with adecision to be announced in June. (At least Nixon didn't try toreduce high prices with federal subsidies. That's an Obamainvention.) And Obama has issued a wealth of rule changes andmodifications to Obamacare to keep it from collapsing.
Obamacare supporters like to brag that there are 8 million moreinsured people now. That's a distortion of the situation. There aremillions of "insured" people with deductibles of $5,000-$15,000.These millions of people are effectively uninsured, because they haveto pay all of their medical expenses, in addition to the Obamacareinsurance premiums.
The heart of Nixon's wage-price controls were the mandates — it wasillegal to increase prices or wages by more than a certain amount.
The heart of Obamacare are the mandates — the employer mandate thatforces employers to provide insurance, and the individual mandate thatforces people to purchase insurance.
Both of these have been eviscerated, for the time being. Because theywere so unpopular, Obama was forced to effectively postpone them until2015, under the assumption that Obamacare would be so wildly popularby 2015 that the mandates could be implemented then. Even so,millions of people with full-time 40 hour/week jobs have been forcedinto part-time 29.5 hour/week jobs by employers who can't afford topay for health insurance for their employees. These mandates are atthe core of Obamacare, just as wage/price mandates were at the heartof Nixon's controls, and without the mandates, both Nixon's controlsand Obamacare become meaningless.
Nixon desperately did everything he could to save his wage-pricecontrols, but in the end they were so unpopular and so disastrous thatCongress forced them to be ended. They did enormous damage to theeconomy and accomplished nothing.
Similarly, Republicans are going to control both houses of Congressnext year. My expectation is that some "compromise" will be found toweaken the mandates so much as to make them meaningless. In thatcase, both Obama and Republicans will be able to declare victory, andthe only casualty will be the health care system which has beenenormously damaged by Obama's "Obamacare" ego trip. But no matter.Obama will have his meaningless Obamacare legacy, and his cronies willhave their hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Biografia
Nacque a Ferrara dall'avvocato Paolo e da Elisa Orlandini, con la quale visse, rimasta vedova, assieme allo zio paterno Leone nel rossettiano palazzo Mazzuchi in Piazza Ariostea.
Spesso confuso con l'omonimo architetto, studiò dapprima alla scuola Dosso Dossi di Ferrara, allievo di Longanesi, e compagno di studi di Oreste Forlani, si perfezionò poi all'Accademia di belle arti di Napoli tra il 1892 ed il 1894 sotto la guida di Domenico Morelli e Filippo Palizzi. Rientrato a Ferrara, contaminò la luce dell'acceso tardo-romanticismo di Morelli con la spigolosità mitteleuropea dei maestri tedeschi ed austriaci, tra cui von Stuck, Klinger, Klimt e Böcklin e, entrando in contatto con il letterato Domenico Tumiati, elaborò una reinterpretazione della Marfisa, articolata sulla leggenda narrata da Tumiati.

Trasferitosi definitivamente a Milano si dedicò a pittura, decorazione, scenografia, incisione, monotipia e grafica applicata. Da questa città, risultano essere inviate le lettere al concittadino Pietro Niccolini col quale elaborò nel 1910 la grafica del manifesto dell'esposizione del Consorzio delle Bonifiche e la medaglia commemorativa. Queste opere sono da considerarsi tra le più precoci manifestazioni dell'influsso di Klimt sull'arte italiana. La manifestazione, rimasta famosa, si svolse nei pressi della stazione ferroviaria, in effimeri padiglioni liberty progettati da Ciro Contini e decorati da Arrigo Minerbi.

Magrini morì a Milano a causa di un infarto.

Opere

Pittura
 La principessa Marfisa scompariva stretta fra i suoi rimorsi, opera a tempera, presentata alla Biennale di Venezia del 1899; nel 1897, un suo lavoro con lo stesso soggetto fu esposto ad una collettiva a Palazzo dei Diamanti
 Ritratto di Oreste Forlani, 1897, olio su tela, Ferrara, collezione privata
 Opere a tema ariostesco, tra cui Fiordiligi e Brandimarte, 1920 ca.
 La Bonifica, Esposizione del Cinquantenario, Roma, 1911
 La Vergine col Bambino con S. Egidio abate e S. Giorgio guerriero, dipinto ad olio, offerto dall'autore al nuovo santuario di Sant'Egidio e distrutta da un incendio bellico nell'aprile del 1945
 Ritratto equestre del generale Raimondo Montecuccoli conservato al Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea Filippo de Pisis
 Sacra Famiglia, Parsifal e illustrazioni per l'Iliade, conservate a Ro Ferrarese presso la Fondazione Cavallini-Sgarbi
 Folklore marchigiano: la grande pentola, ex collezione Carife, ispirata ad un racconto di Fabio Tombari
 Opere riguardanti Don Chisciotte, tra cui Don Chisciotte e Sancho Panza incontrano tre contadine, olio su cartone
 Composizione floreale, olio su compensato
 Oggetti erotici quali Leda e il cigno, Nudo di schiena, La corte di Cleopatra, Nudo femminile di schiena, Volto femminile, Nudo femminile nel paesaggio.

Decorazione
 Pannelli per il Teatro Carlo Felice.

Illustrazione
Attività alla quale si dedicò per oltre mezzo secolo, assieme alla pittura da cavalletto, nella cui produzione si ricordano:
 Il volume, anche in gran parte scritto, Leggende cavalleresche
 Molte illustrazioni per la Divina Commedia, ediz. Alinari, Firenze 1902-1903
 Le copertine per i volumi Ferrara a Gerolamo Frescobaldi (1908) e di Re Carlo Alberto (1909)
 Giovane Italia (1910) di Tumiati assieme alle illustrazioni per la Divina Commedia (1902-1903), i cui bozzetti presentò al Concorso Alinari del 1900, risultando nel primo decennio del Novecento, uno dei principali illustratori dell'edizione dell'opera, voluta dal fiorentino Vittorio Alinari.
 Copertina con allegoria alla Fede per un volume dedicato a Gaetano Previati raffigurante una vergine con un unicorno
 La Ruota di Luppis, 1913
 La Mandragola di Niccolò Machiavelli, 1920
 Le Fiabe dei Fratelli Grimm, 1920
 Erotici, editore Quinteri, Milano, 1921
 Mille e una notte, sette volumi, 1926
 Cyrano de Bergerac, 1928
 Il libro della giungla, 1930
 La pergamena conferita nel 1932 a Cesare Maria De Vecchi conte di Val Cismon
 Fiabe e racconti di Andersen, 1940
 La rivista L'Automobile di Milano.

Tali libri furono in prevalenza editi da Bietti.

Collaborò anche con la Domenica del Corriere, Novissima, La Lettura, Secolo XX e Romanzo mensile.

Cartellonismo e scenografia
Oltre alle cartoline di carattere lirico-paesaggistico stampate da Alberto Grubicy, fratello di Vittore (mercante sia suo che di Previati col quale espose in diverse occasioni), vi sono:
 Manifesti per la Mostra di Segantini, Milano, 1906
 La città di Parma, 1907
 Mostra delle Bonifiche di Ferrara, 1910
 Guerin Meschino, commedia di Tumiati, 1910, di cui curò anche la scenografia

editi da Chappuis e da Ricordi. Riguardo allo stile, è palese il collegamento ai modi della grafica simbolista tedesca, fra von Stuck e Böcklin reinterpretati in chiave "italica" neo-michelangiolesca.

Magrini fu inoltre autore di diverse scenografie per opere alla Scala.

Altre attività
Si occupò anche di traduzione e fu autore di diversi articoli riguardanti l'arte.

Editò per diverse case editrici, oltre alle già citate: società Campari, Zanichelli, S. E. I. e Formiggini.

Esposizioni
Oltre alle già citate e nonostante risiedesse a Milano, espose con assiduità alle rassegne della Benvenuto Tisi Gli fu dedicata a Ferrara una personale nel 1928.

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Motorola Buy Ashes Of Sendo: Analysis
It's not everyday a new mobile handset company comes along, so it was sad news to hear that Sendo, a relatively new entrant, had gone into administration. Motorola weren't slow to see a good buy, and purchased it by the afternoon. Guy Kewney takes us through the reasons.
Sendo is dead; there is now nothing left of it, except a new set of features for Motorola, which has formally announced its purchase of Sendo from the administrator.
Effectively, Sendo went bust because its gamble failed; it should have been the world's leading provider of smartphones, but had to quit the business when it fell out with Microsoft, and start all over with Nokia/Symbian.
The company was making money, but spending more. It was, say competitors, winning business by two ploys. The first was its breakthrough ploy, and that's the one which Motorola has bought it for: the ability to produce a phone that does everything the operator wants.
"The difference between Motorola and Sendo," said one source today, "was that if Vodafone said: "We need these features for Vodafone Live!" then Motorola would say: "Let's get working, and we'll have something for you in nine months!" while Sendo would say "OK, we'll do it now."
Another source said: "The 'entire intellectual property portfolio – including 50 existing and 40 pending patents' which Motorola referred to in its release is half of the reason. The software they want is the software which allowed Sendo to configure a phone for people like Orange for Orangeworld – but almost more important, is getting the people at Sendo who knew how to configure that software."
Motorola already has a Symbian licence, and the deal doesn't give them Sendo's Series 60 licence. Some sources insist that nonetheless, the move shows a significant move away from Windows Mobile, following the cancellation of its long-awaited WM Bluetooth phone recently – but that is almost certainly wishful partisan thinking, since Motorola has both Symbian and WM phones on its road-map.
Partisan thinking is also behind suggestions that Sendo's collapse owes nothing to Microsoft's actions in the split between the two corporations.
The most recent disaster, admittedly, was Ericsson's doing, not Microsoft's: but the crunch was inevitable, after Microsoft's attempt to pull the plug on Sendo (analysis shows how easily this could have been deliberate).
At the time Microsoft and Sendo parted company, Sendo was the sole provider of the only Microsoft smartphone in the world; it was literally years ahead of all rivals, except perhaps for Nokia with its Communicator. Because of the collapse of the Microsoft-Sendo partnership, however, Sendo found itself as far behind the mass market as it had been in front.
Smartphones were crucial to founder Hugh Brogan's strategy. They are deliciously high margin products, and also high profile. Without the smartphone, the only way Sendo could win contracts was:
by offering to customise them for "added value" services like Vodafone Live!
by cutting the margins below the bone.
The hope was that the company's financiers would stand by it until it reached the point where it could start charging market rates, and making profits.
"Actually, they might have managed that," said one source, who works for a company that contracts to Motorola, "but for the fact that they built some very poor phones. Poor build quality meant they were struggling to win repeat contracts from several networks."
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Help Make Citizen Science Tools Accessible and Discoverable
December 9, 2016 December 9, 2016 The Wilson Center's Commons LabLeave a comment
SciStarter, a longtime collaborator of the Wilson Center, has always been a platform for the citizen science community to find projects to contribute to. But for many projects and would-be participants, there are significant challenges to finding and accessing the right tools for collecting and sharing scientific information.
To meet this need, SciStarter is expanding their platform to collect information on a range of tools that projects and volunteers can build, borrow, or buy. The Wilson Center, a proud partner in this initiative, recently co-hosted a Workshop at the Arizona State University Citizen Science and Maker Summit to help design an initial taxonomy for the SciStarter Tools Database. Our next step towards finalizing this taxonomy is testing the initial list of fields by collecting information on a range of tools used by citizen science project coordinators and volunteers.
If there is a citizen science tool that you sponsor, fund, design, build, calibrate, distribute, or otherwise consider yourself an expert on, we need your help. Please add your tool to the beta version of the SciStarter Tools database by filling out this form (note: you will need a SciStarter user account to submit your information). The information you share will help us better understand how people articulate important information about citizen science tools before the database structure is finalized and populated with hundreds of tools from around the world.
Photo: A kit containing the tools required to participate in a citizen science project measuring soil moisture. For more information on citizen science tool kits, check out this video.
While the taxonomy included in the beta version of the SciStarter Tools database builds upon the contributions of our workshop participants, the workshop was a single step in a longer process of user-centered design.
In early 2016, SciStarter and Arizona State University interviewed 110 people about their citizen science tool needs. The core project team, which included SciStarter founder Darlene Cavalier, ASU Assistant Professor of Engineering Dr. Micah Lande, and students Brianne Fisher, David Sittenfeld, and Erica Prange, used lean launch methods to identify key "pain points" for the "customer segment" of citizen science volunteers and project organizers. Insights gleaned from this approach are documented here.
Led by Erica Prange, the SciStarter team then surveyed 50 project owners about their tools. These responses were instrumental in building the initial database taxonomy.
SciStarter, the Wilson Center, and Arizona State University held a workshop to test the use of key database fields through personas and use case to validate key hypotheses and identify new information to include.
Based on this research, a beta version of the SciStarter Tools database will be tested by project coordinators and volunteers who enter information their tools here.
Entries to the beta database will be tested and reviewed by an expert advisory panel. This step will help ensure, for example, manufacturer specifications for longevity, data quality, and other factors are accurate in a range of use conditions.
Thanks to a growing number of databases including SciStarter, the Federal Catalog, and CitSci.org, information about citizen science projects is now very easy to find. Information about tools- including the hardware cataloged by SciStarter, and also the software required to support data management and other key phases of the scientific research process- remains elusive. The SciStarter Tools database is one crucial step towards a research ecosystem where the public can access both opportunities for contributing to science, and the tools required to get research done.
EVENT: The Future of Federal Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing
November 9, 2016 November 9, 2016 The Wilson Center's Commons LabLeave a comment
Citizen science and crowdsourcing has gained significant momentum in the U.S. Federal government in the past four years. In September 2015 the White House issued a memorandum asking federal agencies to report on their citizen science and crowdsourcing projects and appoint coordinators within each agency. In 2016 we witnessed the launch of http://www.citizenscience.gov, a platform with an extensive toolkit on how to conduct these projects as well as a catalog and community hub. In addition to these Executive Branch initiatives, a grassroots Federal Community of Practice for Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science (CCS) has emerged with 300 members across 59 agencies. The Science and Technology Program (STIP) at the Wilson Center has played a role in encouraging this momentum, providing support through building a cartographic catalog of federally supported citizen science and crowdsourcing projects and through extensive research into some of the legal, administrative and intellectual property concerns for conducting projects within the Federal government.
However, a new Administration often brings new priorities, and it's vital to preserve this momentum and history for new leadership. STIP conducted interviews with twelve representatives of the Federal Community of practice and Agency Coordinators and conducted desk research to compile 10 strategic recommendations for advancing federal policies and programs in citizen science and crowdsourcing to facilitate the transfer of knowledge on this incredible momentum.
Please join us for a discussion of these recommendations, a celebration of the history of the movement and a dialogue on the future of citizen science and crowdsourcing in the Federal government.
1:30 – 1:35 Introductions & Welcome
Elizabeth Tyson, Science & Technology Innovation Program (STIP), Wilson Center
1:35 – 1:45 Administrative Change
David Rejeski, Global Fellow, Wilson Center
1:45 – 2:00 Strategic Recommendations for Federal Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing
Elizabeth Tyson, STIP, Wilson Center
2:00 – 2:10 The Federal Community of Practice on Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing
Jennifer Couch, National Institutes of Health
2:10 – 2:15 History of Open Innovation at the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Jenn Gustetic, National Aeronautics & Space Administration
2:15 – 2:25 Formalizing Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing within a Federal Agency
Heidi Hadley, National Science Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management
2:15 – 2:30 The Future of Federal Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing
Chris Nelson, Office of Science and Technology Policy
2:30 – 3:00 Panel Q & A
Audio for this event will be recorded and then podcast for future listening.
WHEN: Tuesday, November 15th 1:30 – 3:00
WHERE: 5th Floor Boardroom, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
DIRECTIONS: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/directions-to-the-wilson-center
RSVP: http://pages.wilsoncenter.org/10.20.2016FutureofFederalCitizenScience_Registration.html
My Crash Course in Citizen Science: A Reflection
July 29, 2016 July 29, 2016 The Wilson Center's Commons LabLeave a comment
By Lauren Nally, a departing Commons Lab intern.
Each year the Commons Lab hosts a number of Interns for 3-12 month appointments. These Interns support our research and outreach efforts, learning about citizen science and meeting key community members in the process. Because we are interested in understanding how newcomers appreciate the paradigm of citizen science, we ask each to blog about their experiences during their last week at the Wilson Center.
Thus far in my engineering education, the importance of social interaction has played little to no role; the customer is at the end of a long pipeline– sometimes literally– and their satisfaction is assumed as long as you have done your research and calculations correctly. It's difficult to stay motivated if your scope of impact is limited to machinery and blue screens. I've noticed this sentiment among federally employed scientists and researchers. As employees of a democratic government, their work serves the American people, and should consequently benefit the shared concerns of the public. But, because science can be a highly technical profession and the educational pre-requisites are steep, there is a certain distance between the researcher and relevant communities.
Non-scientists can, and should, play a very powerful role in research, particularly when it comes to the Federal government. Local communities are the largest and most important stakeholders in their local environmental conditions, biodiversity of ecosystems, traffic patterns, and health concerns. In any regional project relating to these or other factors, the residents should be involved because they will be the most directly influenced by any results. But, self-doubt and unfamiliarity with the sciences or research can limit people's confidence and interest in such projects.
Citizen science in the federal government is an excellent method of subverting that mentality by partnering scientists with interested citizens to perform research that both parties care about. Mobilizing citizens in this way allows them to feel empowered with regard to things that they typically wouldn't. It increases science literacy, can produce rigorous data sets, and bridges the communication gap between research and community interests.
This methodology has proven its capabilities in regard to mass data collection and analysis across a wide range of fields in both the private and public sectors. But, there's still room for improvement. My dream project is something along the lines of the latest international craze, Pokémon GO, but with wildlife as the subject of interest. Combining gamification with data collection through an engaging mobile application is a fantastic way to capture public interest on a wider scale. It could engage the 18-35 year old demographic that is the least likely to be involved in citizen science projects.
However, there are two distinct obstacles associated with this path:
The need for an advanced and highly technological platform;
Cybersecurity and the collection of information on people's whereabouts and actions, particularly by any Federal agency
Citizen science is somewhat limited at the moment when it comes to technological scope. Many data collection apps, like iNaturalist, have been able to streamline wildlife observation projects, but beyond logging information and recording a geographic location, there is a lot of room for expansion. A bridge has yet to be formed between citizen science projects and the advanced capabilities of modern technology, particularly relating to smartphone apps. But, web-based projects like Eyewire and Foldit have proven that further expansion is possible.
Furthermore, with such advanced data collection methods involving the public, privacy concerns will rise to the surface. This draws our attention to legal, moral, and logistical problems that many organizations are facing in the Internet age, but that should not bar progress and innovation. There are many exciting new directions that citizen science could go in, but this requires new partnerships and the consideration of barriers very unique to the 21st century.
Lauren Nalley is a rising third year at the University of Virginia, studying chemical engineering with a focus in materials science engineering. She is interested in the intersection of science and technology with public policy, and likes the idea of becoming an "engineer in context." She hopes to continue combining these interests by pursuing a career related to the management of municipal water utilities.
White House to Host Arctic Science Ministerial
In spring of this year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced plans to host the first-ever White House Arctic Science Ministerial. On September 28, science ministers from Arctic and non-Arctic nations alike will convene in Washington, DC. Joining them will be representatives from various indigenous groups that call the Arctic home. Together, the OSTP is hoping to "advance promising, near-term science initiatives and create a context for increased international scientific collaboration on the Arctic over the long term." The Ministerial will revolve around four key themes: arctic science challenges and their regional and global implications, strengthening and integrating arctic observations and data sharing, applying expanded scientific understanding of the arctic to build regional resilience and shape global responses, and of particular significance to us here at the Commons Lab, arctic science as a vehicle for STEM education and citizen empowerment. Current citizen science projects in the Arctic both address this theme, and serve as powerful examples of the near-term initiatives the OSTP intends to highlight.
One doesn't have to look hard to discover the abundance of citizen science projects already underway in the Arctic. Because it is often difficult or expensive to reach, researchers rely heavily on the input of citizen scientists. This dependency has contributed to the proliferation and long history of Arctic citizen science. One such initiative, the Kachemak Bay CoastWalk, dates all the way back to 1984. For more than 30 years, CoastWalk participants have helped remove debris from Alaskan beaches and record observations of flora and fauna. In fact, a CoastWalk team member was the first to spot oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill on the beaches of Homer, Alaska. And when it comes to keeping track of invasive species, one project has proven that no age is too young. "Early Primary Invasion Scientists," an article published in Science and Children, highlights the contributions of a first grade class, who helped document how climate change is affecting invasive species in the far North.
Poseidon Expeditions, a Russian polar tourism outfit, recruits clients to make sea ice observations (photo credit: Lauren Farmer)
While the Inuit may have more than 50 words for snow, Arctic residents haven't forgotten about ice either. The SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook provides the scientific community, stakeholders, and the public with information on Arctic sea ice, and receives its funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Ice Watch, coordinated by the International Arctic Research Center out of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, serves as an open source forum for data on Arctic sea ice. By using their ASSIST software, anyone can collect, archive, and access Arctic sea ice data from around the globe.
Projects like these have cemented the role that citizen science plays in Arctic research, a field integral to monitoring climate change. With temperatures rising twice as fast as the global average, permafrost is thawing, and glaciers are melting, at an alarming rate. In conjunction with the Paris Agreement, the international collaboration displayed during the U.S.-Nordic Leaders Summit is invaluable to combating climate change globally, an issue with sobering local ramifications, especially for those in the Arctic.
Webinar on Citizenscience.gov
Interested in learning more about the Citizenscience.gov platform? Join the Wilson Center Commons Lab and the General Services Administration (GSA) for a webinar tomorrow afternoon from 11am – 12pm. Hosted via DigitalGov University, topics of the webinar will include an introduction to the platform, a tour of the Federal Catalogue, and a few citizen science examples from federal practitioners.
Whether you're a seasoned citizen science practitioner, aiming to promote a current project within the federal community, or simply interested in what Citizenscience.gov, and the field as a whole, have to offer – all are welcome to attend. By capturing the input and enthusiasm of the general public, citizen science and crowdsourcing projects are tackling the problems of today and tomorrow. Citizenscience.gov serves as the hub for federal endeavors of this nature, providing the populace and federal practitioners with three pillars of support: a Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit, a Federal Catalog, and a Community Page.
Presenting at the webinar are Elizabeth Tyson, a CoDirector of the Commons Lab, and Kendrick Daniel, a representative from the GSA's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, and the Program Lead for Citizenscience.gov.
Open Geospatial Consortium Formally Approves Citizen Science Domain Working Group
June 30, 2016 The Wilson Center's Commons LabLeave a comment
The international project on citizen science data and metadata interoperability, supported by the Commons Lab and organizations like the U.S. Citizen Science Association, has a new partner. At the closing plenary of the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) recent technical committee meeting on June 23rd, the OGC formally approved the creation of a Citizen Science Domain Working Group (DWG).
The OGC's mission is "to advance the development and use of international standards and supporting services that support geospatial interoperability." Simply put, whenever someone asks "where?" the OGC is there, helping more than 500 universities, government agencies, and private entities make the most of location-based information. The organization helps researchers, public-sector, and private-sector employees alike by acting as an open-access forum for technology developers and users, each of whom benefit from implementing OGC-compliant policies and procedures.
With over 20 years of experience, it should come as no surprise that OGC members have engaged in a host of exciting initiatives. From monitoring Climate Change to laying the groundwork for tomorrow's Smart Cities, the group meets each challenge head-on. Work through OGC is undertaken collaboratively through interoperability testbeds, where standards ae developed and best practices identified by experimenting with concrete use cases, and by individual members. For example, a consortium of OGC researchers collaborated on a recent citizen science project, entitled the Citizen Observatory Web, or COBWEB for short. Acting as a liaison between a variety of European Biosphere Reserves, the initiative aims to address data quality issues by integrating citizen and professional spatial data. Ideally, by complying with OGC standards, the species distribution input from a citizen scientist in Greece's Mt. Olympus Biosphere Reserve would be accessible by, and intelligible to, a Zoologist in Wales' Dyfi Biosphere Reserve. The toolkit and set of models the OGC is creating will help make potential citizen science projects a reality, in European Biosphere Reserves and beyond.
Given its immaculate track record and incredible potential, the OGC has plenty to offer the citizen science community. With the launch of the COBWEB initiative, a precedent was set for supporting and advancing citizen science through OGC channels. Now, with the establishment of the formidable team of researchers and professionals comprising the Citizen Science DWG, anyone trying to engage in citizen science data collection and sharing will have a new organization to turn to for guidance. Geospatial data saturates the citizen science field, and while collecting it can be a challenge, making sure the results gleaned are accessible can prove to be a logistical nightmare. That's why this new DWG plans to underscore the importance of interoperability, eliminating the nuances that isolate projects by establishing best practices and promoting open standards. Citizen science projects rely on their communities, and now project leaders have a new resource of their own.
For more information about the OGC Citizen Science Domain Working Group (DWG), please contact Anne Bowser, anne.bowser@wilsoncenter.org
Serious Games: A Key Player in the Years to Come
Serious games and citizen science – at a glance both appear somewhat unconventional in nature. As relatively new fields attempting to establish themselves alongside more conventional counterparts, formulating an appropriate vocabulary can be a challenge. While they are each busy trying to establish common terminology, they also face remarkably similar challenges from within.
Last week the Commons Lab sat down with Eric Church, a prolific game designer and Program Associate at the Wilson Center's Serious Games Initiative. As relative novices when it comes to serious games, having only dabbled with the Fiscal Ship, we asked him what factors determine the success of a serious game. His reply was cut and dry: clearly set goals and immediate feedback to participants. The two elements he highlighted are also evident in citizen science projects, especially as a means of inspiring and maintaining participation.
The Fiscal Ship, a product of the Wilson Center's Serious Games Initiative, lets players craft the Federal Budget.
Every serious game worth playing has an objective, a clearly stated mission with which participants can understand. For example Eyewire, a serious game developed by MIT, encourages players to help scientists map the neurons of the occipital lobe, the portion of the brain responsible for vision. This charter is clearly advertised on their website, and directly referenced in the name of the game. By engaging the public with their message, through the medium of an interactive game, they've successfully mapped more than 700 neurons. Citizen science projects within the medical and health field have proliferated as well. A UK-based app is doing its part to fight Parkinson's disease globally; participants in the 100 for Parkinson's program simply upload information on ten aspects of their health over a hundred day period, all in the aims of gathering data to learn more about the affliction.
Some projects require creative participants. Projects that follow an ideation model, like the U.S. Army's SciTech Futures exercise, are examples of open-ended crowdsourcing. Last week, participants from around the world were asked to speculate what the future will hold by answering the question, "What technological emergence or sociopolitical trend will shape the year 2040?" For the Army, a successful crowdsourcing project in this model is one replete with diverse answers or original content. Using SciTech Futures as an example, the goal of a similar venture, e.g. answering an open-ended question on future sociological trends, should be made clear to participants. The specific methods used to reach that goal depend on the nature of the assignment at hand, in this case canvasing as many scenarios as possible.
Ocean-based hydroponics, one of most popular concepts on the SciTech Futures Marketplace (photo credit: Forward Thinking Architecture)
Mr. Church's second criterion for success is a reward system. This is perhaps where citizen science and crowdsourcing-based serious games diverge most from one another. While both revolve around the largesse of volunteers – citizens willing to spend time, and occasionally money, on assignments extracurricular of work and family life – each rewards participants differently. Citizen scientists conducting research for Zooniverse might find themselves at the forefront of an incredible discovery, a thrill for amateur and professional scientists alike. People participating in one of the National Park Service's many BioBlitz events can rejoice in contributing valuable information to biodiversity databases, all while spending a day at the park. Serious games, on the other hand, seem to yield more verifiable results, that is to say, the accuracy of a player's answers can be readily determined. Wrong answers can be addressed, while correct answers may be rewarded, either in the form of in-game progression, symbolized by achievement notifications and virtual medals, or a tangible remuneration, like cash or concept art, the prizes taken home by winners of the Department of State's Fishackathon and the Army's SciTech Futures events respectively. At the end of the day however, both citizen science and serious games seek to educate and empower individual participants, whose contributions benefit their local communities and the world as a whole.
An integral part of any project though, citizen science and serious games alike, is the feedback provided to the participants. For citizen scientists, this feedback can be a reward in and of itself; engaging in an open-dialogue with career experts in a shared field of interest is a marvelous opportunity. Naturally, the amount of feedback depends on the nature of each task; those requiring methodological consistency would demand greater moderation, yielding a data set that's easier to aggregate, while ideation exercises benefit from a high degree of independence, and subsequently provide more creative returns.
Moving forward, it's safe to say that citizen science and serious games will face a few similar challenges on the road ahead, in the form of standardization, or maintaining legitimacy, but promising strides are being taken to address these obstacles. Currently there is a team, of which the Commons Lab is a part, working to establish core standards for sharing data, and establishing metadata standards among citizen science projects. Furthermore, in 2013 SRI and Concordia University conducted a study that highlighted the potential of serious games in the classroom: STEM students whose curriculum's included simulations experienced a 25% improvement in achievement. It's steps like these that foment the open innovation movement, establishing citizen science and serious games as key players in the years to come.
Reflections on the Federal Catalog of Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Projects
This Blog Post is a collaboration between Anne Bowser, Sven Schade, Greg Newman, Claudia Göbel, Peter Brenton, and Darlene Cavalier.
In conjunction with the sixth and final Science Fair hosted by President Barack Obama, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released citizenscience.gov as the new home for citizen science and crowdsourcing within the US federal government. This website hosts a toolkit, the homepage for a federal community of practice on Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing (CCS), and a growing catalog of 300+ projects supported by over 25 federal agencies.
As outlined in a 2015 Memo from OSTP Director John Holdren, the goals of this catalog are:
Help improve collaboration within and across agencies. The catalog supports collaboration by highlighting synergies. For example, a keyword search for "water quality" yields 10 projects supported by 7 Agencies. These projects likely collect complimentary data, and may have similar goals.
Reveal opportunities for new projects. People who are planning new projects can conduct a gap analysis to see where opportunities lie. As granting agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF) have recently amplified their support for citizen science, these ideas can become a reality more easily than before.
Make it easy for federal agencies to engage the public in citizen science and crowdsourcing. This catalog is the go-to US resource for government-verified information on citizen science and crowdsourcing projects.
At the same time, this database builds upon the groundbreaking work accomplished by early pioneers like DataONE, Citizen Science Central, SciStarter and Citsci.org, and also by more recent collaborators including the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)'s Project Finder. These databases all support public participation in science, technology, and policy by collecting and sharing information from and with their respective communities. And we know that even more databases are planned. The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA) are mapping citizen science activities in Europe and Australia, while the European Commission is compiling information on the citizen science projects they fund.
Collaborating rather than competing with these platforms has been our goal from the time the first record was collected. To this end the Wilson Center has published a suite of APIs to share data with any interested party. Coordination between the various databases is largely managed by SciStarter, which has already ported in 109 records from the Federal Catalog (in addition to sharing 68 projects with CitSci.org, and 212 projects with ALA).
The value of sharing records between different databases can be seen from a number of perspectives.
Researchers and practitioners can see their activities and results disseminated via multiple channels, therefore tapping into multiple diverse communities. Zooniverse's Lucy Fortson illustrates the value of listing Notes from Nature in multiple databases: "Linking globally with other transcription efforts is a great way to highlight this project. The more we can get out of the museum collections from across the world and into shared databases, the more we can truly begin to understand the world's biodiversity and the challenges in conserving it."
Volunteers appreciate multiple access points for joining projects. SciStarter supports over 65,000 volunteers, including teachers who use citizen science in their classrooms. Sharing records with SciStarter helps these volunteers find new projects to contribute to that not only support science, but may also drive policymaking.
Funders get insights about the priorities and focus of other funding bodies or agencies. This is especially valuable when a US funder can see how their portfolio compares with the projects supported by a similar funder in a different geography, like the EU.
Sharing records is possible only when different databases use compatible project metadata, or in other words structure their information about citizen science projects in compatible ways. Early efforts to articulate joint standards for citizen science and crowdsourcing project metadata were accelerated by a number of activities, and sponsored by groups including DataOne, CitSci.org, SciStarter, the Wilson Center, the Atlas of Living Australia, and the European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC). An international Working Group on Data and Metadata Interoperability is now hosted by the U.S. Citizen Science Association (CSA) in cooperation with ACSA and ECSA. The OSTP Memo also mobilized the federal community around this task, stipulating that "OSTP, GSA, and CCS will work with agencies to develop the metadata requirements" for the federal catalog.
All these activities reveal an interesting tension: that standardization is important for achieving interoperability, but also that each database, organization, and related community will want to collect slightly different information about the exact same projects. Hutch Brown, a citizen science supporter at the US Forest Service, explains, "A key issue for federal agencies and researchers—and for their funders in Congress—is to understand the value of citizen science, real or potential, in adding to the capacity of federal agencies to conduct research, do monitoring and assessment, and engage citizens in our work." This audience, which is served by the Federal Catalog, will have different information needs than other users, such as the such as the researchers and volunteers that use SciStarter to learn more about citizen science projects, or the scientists that use CitSci.org to host their data.
This need for balance can also be considered form the volunteer perspective. The Internet has no international boundaries. People may choose to use project finders based on fitness for purpose, regardless of where such project finders are located. At the same time, because citizen science volunteers are often inspired by a localized context—e.g., the relevance of a project to their immediate community, or to their own backyard—users should be able to discover projects not only globally, but also locally.
A consortium including members of CCS, the Agency Coordinators, CSA, ACSA, ECSA, the European Commission, the Open Geospatial Consortium, and many more are building a roadmap to advance the interoperability of citizen science data and metadata beyond what is already in progress. It will be necessary to:
Develop concrete use cases for each database, by distinguishing and addressing the needs of different communities by separating the contents of a particular database from the requirements to share information between different databases.
Based on these use cases, identify and if possible resolve any necessary discrepancies. For example, the Federal Catalogue maps projects based on the location of government coordinators; SciStarter, a more public-facing platform, is moving towards mapping projects based on the boundaries of participation.
Perform stakeholder analyses to get an overview of projects who emerge every day, to better understand different needs regarding interoperability that arise from different project designs, as well as to continue standardization efforts in an open and participatory way.
Coordinate these activities via open and transparent online platforms, including those hosted by each partner organization, and a central coordinating node.
While this blog post is inspired by recent gains in the US Government, citizen science and crowdsourcing are global phenomena. Only if we manage to interconnect the past and ongoing efforts-within countries and between borders- will we get access to the best solutions for future use.
First ECSA Conference 2016
The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) will hold their first conference, Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society, and Policy, on May 19-21st in Berlin, Germany.
The call for Abstracts was recently extended to March 3rd, 2016. This intriguing list of sessions includes:
Citizen Science Studies: Engaging with the participatory turn in the co-production of science and society. Citizen Science (CS) reshapes pre-existing hopes for a democratization of knowledge, empowerment and a decentralization of power in science. Also professional scientists, scientific institutions and policy makers are beginning to engage with CS in terms of their own goals – which may differ from those of the citizen scientists. In this situation, it becomes important to reflect about CS. Recognizing this challenge, at least three groups of stakeholders are beginning to analyze the phenomenon of CS: 'cs-practitioners' themselves, 'practitioner-reflectors', who practice CS but are also engaged with its funding, promotion etc., and most recently also those who reflect the phenomenon from the perspective of the various academic fields which explore the shifting relationship between the sciences and society – we call them 'academic-reflectors'.
Data, Metadata, Quality and Visualisation of Citizen Science Data: This session will focus of the observations themselves and how they are stored, shared, processed and visualised. This session will thus discuss various elements of data, metadata, quality and visualisation of citizen science data. Is it possible and useful to have one common data model for a number of different types of observations within and across different citizens science areas such as air quality, water quality, flooding, biodiversity, etc. ?
Communicating Citizen Science through storytelling: We propose a session on citizen science communication through storytelling, an engaging way of telling your story for a deeper and lasting communication experience, to share your knowledge, to link ideas or to create a vision. Or simply to celebrate the success of your citizen science experience. The aims of this workshop are to make you aware of your storytelling potential, to bring your skills alive, and thereby create stories of citizen science and show the potential of this communication tool for citizens, scientists and the media.
Gaming for good: Exploring the potential and pitfalls of citizen science games. The list of games that people can play while contributing to science is growing. These methods are sometimes viewed as easy ways to attract entice large numbers of citizens to contribute their time and skills to solve hard-to-automate tasks such as protein folding or image recognition. However, the convergence between games and science may stir controversy, as the two can be seen as separate – and even incompatible – paradigms.


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Our world needs higher education now more than ever. A pandemic has swept the globe. A new passion has awakened in us to acknowledge and root out structural racism. The teaching and learning at the core of the University of Maine System's public mission advance knowledge, diversity of thought, and human understanding in these challenging times, all of which are critical to the future health of our communities and society.
We are fortunate in Maine that our state leaders and public health authorities have so far kept the coronavirus from spreading unchecked. This presents us an opportunity to look ahead to how we can safely resume our academic operations in the fall.
As we have done throughout the pandemic, we continue to balance the advancement of knowledge with the public health of our university communities. With new capacity now to limit virus transmission through testing, contract tracking, and isolation, along with a strong communal discipline to follow social distancing and other recognized public health measures, Maine's public universities will resume in-person teaching and learning on our campuses this fall because classroom instruction and immersion in a diverse community of ideas remains the best model to serve the majority of our learners. Doing so provides support and enrichment opportunities that are especially important to our first-generation and special population students. And for at-risk faculty, staff, and students, we'll employ new technologies and flexible teaching and learning modalities so that all have meaningful opportunities to participate with those on campus in their teaching, work, and learning.
Since the last day of on-campus instruction this past spring, our scientists, university presidents, faculty, and System and campus leaders have worked to be ready to bring people back together this fall if the science and the guidance of civil authorities would permit it. The work has not been easy or without risk, as we are still living in the midst of a global pandemic that requires us all to do our part to maintain personal and community health and public safety. The Together for Maine principles we announce today represent our commitment to serve our students and the state with science-informed plans that each of our public universities will be using to reduce the spread of disease, accommodate vulnerable members of our community, respond to incidents of coronavirus infection, and protect each other and our communities.
I hope you'll do your part to keep our university communities safe as we return to our universities this fall.
Dannel P. Malloy


Of witness for Thy love.
Wherever she went in her frequent travels she was constantly asking people whether or not they knew the joys of salvation, and by thus being a witness she led hundreds of souls to the cross.
"If I am really going, it is too good to be true!"
"Splendid ! To be so near the gates of heaven."
This hymn was written in 1874 and was first published as a New Year s card, later in collections of her own works, and finally in many hymn books. It has proved to be an inspiration to thousands standing at the threshold of a new year.


Meet Kiana and Fabrizio! I'm so excited to introduce you to this darling couple. Kiana and Fabrizio met at the end of summer 2016 through a dating app. After their first date, she knew she had found her husband - and even called her mom to tell her as much! Fabrizio was everything Kiana had been looking for and more, smart, fun, caring, genuine...and even Italian!
They started dating consistently from that very first week and soon they were spending every amount of free time together. They even went grocery shopping together! It only took a month before they were openly talking marriage with each other. Fabrizio and Kiana both realized that this was going to be a lifelong relationship because of the deep friendship, honesty, and commitment.
Initially, they both planned on a courtship of at least a year. As they began to plan and set a timeline, they realized there was a bit of a time crunch. Fabrizio had been accepted and was planning on going to dental school the following summer in July and it was already October. Kiana would graduate only a month before his move in June and naturally wanted to move across the country with him.
However, both Fabrizio and Kiana come from conservative, religious families and maintain these same values so moving in before marriage wasn't an option. It seemed most favorable to marry right before July in order to have the longest courtship possible.
All too soon, though, the logistics of planning a wedding during Kiana's senior year of college, graduating, throwing a wedding, finding an apartment and moving in together, and then moving across the country all over the course of one month seemed impossible, to say the least. In addition, Fabrizio's family was still mostly located in Italy. Even with a date six months away, it was unlikely they could make all the travel arrangements to come without longer notice and they didn't want to have their large wedding celebrations without the groom's entire side of the family.
Realizing that his family wouldn't be able to come regardless of the date was actually a relief because it removed the cultural obligation of having an immediate big wedding reception and party. After many heartfelt discussions, they decided to simply elope and move forward with their marriage in November before Christmas break. Kiana and Fabrizio knew they wanted to be together and it seemed a pity to waste any more time waiting simply to log in more "dating hours".
"We were glad that we could have an intimate ceremony with the focus on our love and commitment, rather than the decorations, elaborate cake, or wedding gifts. Our elopement was just about us, our love, and our decision, rather than about all the other expenses society currently requires of a wedding. We wouldn't have done it any other way. And nearly 9 months later, we consider it the best decision of our lives."
From the Photographer: We loved the secluded nature of Grotto Falls in Payson, Utah for their intimate elopement, and I couldn't think of a better way to showcase their exotic beauty. There was a perfect pocket of light that danced around them and allowed for all the incredible textures of her hair, dress, florals, waterfall, and rocks to shine.
From the HMUA: Kiana has gorgeous natural curl and we wanted to showcase her beautiful hair by doing an undone updo with swept curls framing her lovely face. She has a cathedral length veil tucked in the bottom of her updo. Her makeup was peachy and perfect for her skin tone. She has striking skin tones and facial features so we used natural colors to enhance her beauty!
From the Florist: Our multi-cultural couple and their unique backgrounds were such an inspiration for the florals and I wanted to combine flowers that represented both the exotic looks and cultures of the bride and the groom.
For the bride, I have stunning orchids and David Austen's "Juliet" garden roses and I paired those with sprigs of eucalyptus, olive branches, honeysuckle, and fresh rosemary as a nod to the groom and his Italian heritage. The result was a deeply meaningful bridal bouquet with organic sophistication and a heavenly fragrance. I'm in love with this earthy peach and rust bridal bouquet!
A peach carnation fairy ring was the perfect pop of color against those rocks and a simple, earthy decoration for the elopement and something that an eloping bride could easily DIY!
And I know you typically only see orchids as corsages for Mother's Day, but these rust colored orchids were so beautiful that I had to reinvent the orchid into a chic groom's boutonniere. I loved pairing the lines and movement of the orchid groom's boutonniere with the pattern and colors of his suit and tie!
Our couple loved their elopement sign and announcement! I would definitely be framing the poster as a keepsake and sending out the announcements and photos to share the big news!
So, you may have read this blog post and loved it but thought, "I could never elope! There are too many traditions I would hate to give up" If that's the case, you can click here to see ideas we've put together to help reconcile our wanderlust and desire for adventure with our roots and our family traditions.
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October 1942: The Southern Conference on Race Relations and the "Durham Manifesto"
This Month in North Carolina History
As he opened the Southern Conference on Race Relations on October 20, 1942, sociologist Gordon B. Hancock compared the meeting of fifty-seven African-American professionals to the gatherings of revolutionaries two centuries before in Boston's Faneuil Hall. "The matter handled in Faneuil Hall was delicate, but it was firmly handled and the world thereby was blessed," he told those assembled at the North Carolina College for Negroes (now North Carolina Central University) in Durham. "So in this historic meeting today, whatever advance step we may make in race relations will rebound to the advantage of the South and nation no less than to the advancement of the Negro race."
Hancock, a 57-year-old professor at Virginia Union University in Richmond and a nationally-syndicated columnist for African-American newspapers, had joined with several other prominent African-Americans from the South in calling the Durham meeting. They were concerned about the poor state of relations between blacks and whites in the South. Lynchings were still occurring. Black unemployment was high. And, as had happened during World War I, African-American soldiers were fighting for democracy overseas while facing segregation at home. In a December 1941 column titled "Interracial Hypertension", Hancock had cautioned that "unless matters are speedily taken in hand and shaped according to some constructive plan, we shall probably lose many important gains in race relations that have been won through many years, through sweat and tears." In a subsequent column, Hancock called for a "Southern Charter for Race Relations." Such a document, Hancock wrote, would "set out specific demands such as the moral right to work for an honest living; the right to share equitably in the educational opportunities, without which [African-Americans] cannot function in a democracy; the right to vote for the mayors and governors, law makers and law enforcers, officials who control [African-Americans'] daily life, as well as for the President, who is powerless in local affairs."
Hancock's call for a charter sparked interest from other African-American leaders. Luther P. Jackson, a historian at Virginia State College in Petersburg, and P. B. Young Sr., the publisher of the Norfolk Journal & Guide, joined in the push for a conference to draft the document. Young even published a feeler in the May 24, 1942 issue of his paper, asking readers whether they would attend such a meeting. The response was largely positive.
Once agreed on a time and place for the meeting, the planners focused on the list of invitees. Jackson argued that they should invite African-American leaders from throughout the country. But Hancock and Young worried that such a move would lead Southern whites to dismiss the meeting as the work of Northern agitators. Eventually their view prevailed.
Planners sent invitations to seventy-five prominent African-American professionals living in the South. And on October 20th, 1942, fifty-seven people showed up in Durham for the meeting. Others sent letters or telegrams of support. Attendees included university presidents, educators, ministers, physicians, businessmen, labor union officials and social workers. Conferees were mostly male, with only 5 women participating. Noted African-American writer and scholar W. E. B. DuBois had been invited. But he declined the invitation.
After officially designating the meeting the Southern Conference on Race Relations and listening to Hancock's keynote address, conferees split into seven committees to discuss specific issues affecting African-Americans. Groups looked at political and civil rights, industry and labor, service occupations, education, agriculture, military service, and social welfare and health. They spent the day drafting reports that outlined their complaints and offered remedies.
As the day's deliberations drew to a close, Benjamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, urged attendees to draft a conference statement. Charles S. Johnson, a sociologist at Fisk University in Nashville, was selected to lead the drafting committee. The group immediately set to work. But they were unable to complete the document by day's end and they chose to continue their discussions at subsequent meetings. During deliberations in Atlanta (November 6, 1942) and Richmond (November 26, 1942) members seemed to fall into three camps – those who wanted a complete and unequivocal denunciation of segregation, particularly in education; those that feared a strong denunciation of segregation would threaten partnership with Southern, white liberals and consequently favored wording that showed an openness to compromise; and those who favored conciliatory language that opposed segregation and stressed the importance of economic opportunities for blacks.
It fell to Johnson to synthesize the various views into one statement and he did so, releasing A Basis for Inter-racial Cooperation and Development in the South: A Statement by Southern Negroes on December 15, 1942. The document, which came to be known as the "Durham Manifesto," broached the topic of integration in a carefully worded preamble. Johnson wrote that conferees were "fundamentally opposed to the principle and practice of compulsory segregation," but that they regarded "it as both sensible and timely to address ourselves now to the current problems of racial discrimination and neglect and to ways in which we may cooperate" in improving race relations. The statement then laid out steps for improving the treatment of African-Americans in education, the legal system, farming, the workforce, the military and health care.
The Southern white press had generally favorable reactions to the statement. But the African-American press was mixed in its response. The Houston Informer called the statement an "historical achievement destined to play a large part in bringing about adjustments" and a blueprint for African-American rights. But the Carolina Times, published in Durham, was less enthusiastic. Editor and publisher Louis Austin wrote that he thought the statement would do neither harm nor good. "About the only purpose it can serve is to give Negro intellectuals in the South an opportunity to show off by appearing profound, and Negro hirelings an opportunity to square themselves with the bosses of the opposite group…" he wrote. "So we say let the 'Leading Southern Negroes' rave. They no more have the leadership of the mass of Negroes in the South than if they didn't exist. Let them get out their little statements and have their little meetings from time to time; it's good exercise for them."
Despite the mixed reaction to the "Durham Manifesto" from the African-American press, several prominent African-American leaders expressed their support. Both W.E.B. DuBois and Walter White, the head of the NAACP, backed the statement.
Many prominent Southern white moderates and liberals also found the "Durham Manifesto" inspiring. More than 100 of them met in Atlanta in April 8, 1943, to discuss it and then released their own statement in support and calling for further black-white dialogue to improve race relations. At subsequent meetings in Richmond and in Atlanta, a committee of African-Americans and Southern whites worked out plans for a bi-racial organization in the South. And in February 1944, the Southern Regional Council (SRC) held its charter meeting in Atlanta. Under the leadership of UNC-Chapel Hill sociologists Howard Odum and Guy Johnson, Fisk University's Charles Johnson, and Atlanta University sociologist Ira Reid, the Atlanta-based organization began its fight against racial injustice—a battle that it continues to wage today through advocacy, education, and research. The Southern Conference on Race Relations may be all-but-forgotten, but its offspring lives on.
Egerton, John. Speak now against the day: the generation before the civil rights movement in the South. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Gavins, Raymond. The perils and prospects of southern Black leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1977.
Holloway, Lin. How southern conference of race leaders became standing goodwill group. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1958.
Hancock, Gordon B. Interracial hypertension. Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1942.
Hancock, Gordon B. Needed…: a southern charter for race relations. Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1942.
Southern Conference on Race Relations. Southern Conference on Race Relations, Durham, N.C., October 20, 1942: statement of purpose…. [Durham, N.C.?: Southern Conference on Race Relations?, 1943?]
The Southern Regional Council: its origin and purpose. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1944.
Author John BlythePosted on October 1, 2010 Categories 10 - October, From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, This Month in N.C. HistoryLeave a comment on October 1942: The Southern Conference on Race Relations and the "Durham Manifesto"
A colleague recently found this image in our collection. Any guesses as to whom it is?
Leave your guesses in the comments box below.
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Valleys of whatever, mountains of whatever
The St. Petersburg Times quotes Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink as recalling North Carolina as "the valley of humility between two valleys of conceit." Did the reporter misquote or the candidate misspeak?
Regardless, that mangling is no match for what N.C. Rep. Cary Allred of Alamance County concocted during a 1999 debate on clean air legislation: "a valley of despair between two mountains of deceit."
And then there's this: According to the New York Times, "Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have described [New Jersey] as a valley of humility between two peaks of conceit, New York City and Philadelphia." I see the hand of a skeptical copy editor in that "is supposed to have," but if the attribution is correct, then Franklin beat Mary Oates Van Landingham of Charlotte by a century or so.
In 1900, lamenting her state's puny literary output, Van Landingham asked the Mecklenburg Historical Society, "Could it be that being located between Virginia and South Carolina, our people for so long have been furnished such conspicuous illustrations of self-appreciation that they have, by contrast, learned modesty and silence? Where there are mountains of conceit, there are apt to be valleys of humility."
Author Lew PowellPosted on October 1, 2010 Categories History, Tar HeeliaTags alamance county nc, alex sink, benjamin franklin, mary oates van landingham, mecklenburg historical society, mountains of conceit, nc rep cary allred, new jersey, valley of humilityLeave a comment on Valleys of whatever, mountains of whatever


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Q: Principal component analysis- covariance or correlation matrix
I am doing a PCA on 24 satisfaction variables from a survey.
Respondents indicate their levels of satisfaction towards different aspects of the service.
These variables are all measured in same unit, 1-5, 1= very dissatisfied, 5= very satisfied.
x1-x3 are about pier, x4-x11 are about staff, x12-x16 are about food, x17-x18, x19-x22, x23-x24 are related
EDIT: if the principal components show a satisfaction variable with high eigenvector loading value,
does it mean that respondent is satisfied with that aspect of service,
or does it mean that the respondent puts more weight on that aspect of service when he/she thinks of his overall satisfaction of the service.
If the answer is the former one, I should find the factor with lowest/negative score across all PCs and interpret that that aspect of service needs to be improved, yes?

A: "It means what it says" will no doubt not seem helpful.
So, let's try to make it concrete.
As the variables are all on the same scale, you do have a choice. Using a correlation matrix will ignore differences in variance (variation) so that e.g. a variable with many 1s and 5s will have the same weight as one with mostly 3s.
If that sounds what you want, go for correlation.
If not, go for covariance.
In any case, look at the variances, or equivalently the standard deviations (SDs), of the variables: if they are about the same, it should not matter much which you choose. If even one variable has very different variance (SD), it will matter.
For data like yours, I would typically use the covariance matrix. If say one variable is nearly constant, it doesn't much help to explain patterns of variation or covariation and I would see no point in standardising so it does, which would just mean that small noise is amplified.
In practice, researchers don't usually include a question unless they expect variability that is interesting and informative, so SDs may not differ enormously.
On a different note, I would be cautious about putting all 20 variables into a PC unless they are measures of the same underlying phenomenon. It is often much more fruitful to be strict about looking only at clusters of variables that make sense as being closely related.
EDIT A table of results (loadings?) has been added. You seem to be throwing all 24 (!) (not 20) variables into one PCA. As already hinted, I don't usually find that helpful unless variables all have similar meaning in the first place. I find it's more helpful to show correlations between original variables and PCs; that's not always a default from software and you may have to do some work to get them. Here PC1 just appears to be an average of everything (which can happen). Any interpretation of results needs more subject-matter knowledge than we can possibly have.
Although you asked a question, you aren't saying whether these results come out of a covariance or a correlation matrix.
Also, the whole question is still backwards. It perhaps needs to start "P people in situation S were asked Q questions with the aim of finding out about X" -- where the abstractions are all to be made concrete.


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Track by Track Album Guide: "Warmth & Shelter" by Secret American
By Meredith VanceMay 21, 2018OTHER FEATURES
Philly band Secret American just released their debut album entitled Warmth and Shelter, the record follows up the band's Why Believe? EP that came out this past year. The record is one part alt-americana and part retro-indie rock, but overall an infectious, feel-good mix. It possesses breezy, vibrant arrangements that parallel the charismatic, crooning vocals throughout the album.
Lead singer Derek Krzywicki breaks down the record below and describes how discovery, finding love and a search for something more influenced the final result.
"Warmth and shelter"
Bluntly stated, this is the first time in my life I'd written a love song. I was at a point in my life where I finally felt I loved someone and I felt the urge to settle down. This song essentially romances the idea of moving to the country, living simply, loving someone, and two people only needing warmth and shelter.
This song is simply about sexual tension disguised as a love song. The first line "I'm a red bullseye baby, you're a loaded gun" is pretty cut and dry about it. The rest of the song follows that theme throughout.
I came back to california after recording all the songs on the record and felt compelled to write something really simple to add to the album. After recording some guitar chords and looping some drums I felt a vocal melody and wrote much of the song in the course of one day. It's more or less a slight to anyone who follows a creed blindly without question.
"Good Men Change"
This is the result of playing with the mellotron for the first time. Once I recorded that progression everything else fell into place over the course of evening. The theme being mostly about how all things are relative. Our morality is what we make of it.
"I Wanna Know"
This is another song guided by sexual tension. "I wanna know you completely, turn on your TV and put your records on" is my best attempt to wax poetic about wanting someone. Aside from my perfectionist tendencies this song almost wrote itself in the course of a day.
"Amen, California"
This is one of the oldest songs on the record and it's ironically not written in California, but my apartment in Fishtown/Port Richmond. It was more of a mantra/prayer themed song I wrote as I was mentally preparing my move westward. You can hear a waitress' Philly accent that was recorded in The Acropolis Diner (no longer in business) at the corner of Frankford and Girard.
"Chelsea the cat"
When I moved to California. I didn't have a job so I started a pet care company. One of my first clients was named Chelsea. During my first time cat-sitting for her I noticed a great acoustic guitar on the wall. I thought that I might make more comfortable around me if I played a little. The first thing that came out was that bass line and verse progression. I went right home afterwards and wrote the whole song that night. It's written from a cat's perspective but parallels my life in some way.
"Wish a well"
This funky-ish jam fits squarely in the sexual category. Being loaded with guitar riffs and sliding bass lines it just grooves. We didn't know if it would make the record but clearly it has. One not so obvious thing to note is the lead guitar riff near the end of the song is the same guitar part that starts off the next song "human". We thought it would be fun way to secretly hint at the next track.
I had written the first half of this song in my Philly apartment basement. I was watching some North Korean military march and came up with that guitar riff to match their movements. I then tracked drums and some rough vocals and had a dog concept I was pretty excited about. Years later, when putting this record together I knew I wanted to finish this track. It was difficult and I showed up to Cambridge Sound Studios without a finished song. Todd and I played around late one night and it just came to us. I started free-styling lyrics and the star spangled banner emerged and we just went off the deep end at that point. It's one of my favorite moments of the recording process
This was just a fun little jingle I didn't think I'd ever release. Nonetheless, we slapped it on the end of the record and I animated a music video from the scraps of the "Why Believe?" video.
Take a listen to the full record below and follow Secret American here
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Q: Какое поле базы данных mysql-server mysql-client 5.7 хранит пароль и какой функцией шифрует? Установил mysql-server mysql-client командой: sudo apt-get install mysql-server. Таблица user не имеет поля password, вместо него есть поля: authentication_string, password_expired, password_last_changed, password_lifetime. Поле password_last_changed хранит время последнего изменения пароля. А где хранится сам пароль? И какой хэш функцией он хешируется,

A: Хранится в authentication_string
Хешируется в зависимости от параметра default_authentication_plugin:

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*mysql_native_password - встроенная функция mysql (по умолчанию)

*sha256_password - SHA256

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_default_authentication_plugin


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Q: the point of autocomplete attribute in html forms I know what autocomplete attribute is and how to use it, but I don't get the point of it!
I mean, why should I set autocomplete='off' as a developer?
Is there any security benefits in there? or something?

A: Yes, it's a security feature. Imagine this scenario:
Your website fell victim to a XSS attack (e.g. somebody was able to implant a piece of javascript in your page without your knowledge)
Your website also has username/password fields, and when a user enters the page, the malicious script immediately takes the values and sends them off to the attacker's server.
Granted, this is not strictly mitigated by disabling auto-complete, but at least it prevents userdata from being stolen just by somebody with saved data loading the page. It requires them to at least type in their credentials.
Also there is the rather obvious component of somebody gaining physical access to your machine and then being able to auto-complete their way into your accounts.