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Hiroyuki Suzuki
(b London, Sept 28, 1852; d Tokyo, 1920).
English architect, active in Japan. He was articled to Roger Thomas Smith and then entered the office of William Burges. In 1876 he was awarded the Soane Medallion by the RIBA. In the next year he was appointed the first professor of architecture at the Imperial College of Engineering (now Tokyo University) in Japan, in which role he taught every aspect of architecture and building construction. During this period he was also active as an architect, designing such buildings as the Tokyo Imperial Museum (1877–80; now Tokyo National Museum) and a national banqueting house, Rokumeikan (Deer Cry Pavilion), for the Ministry of Public Works. After leaving his academic and governmental posts, Conder went into private practice and designed many residences, including the Iwasaki residence in Kayacho (1896; see Japan, §III, 5), the Shimazu residence (1915) and the Furukawa residence (1917). His style gradually changed from Gothic to more classical. He is often called the father of Western architecture in Japan, not only on account of his designs but also because of his role in establishing the Western method of architectural higher ...
Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco
Nancy E. Green
[Tei shin; Kanō Yeitan Masanobu]
(b Salem, MA, Feb 18, 1853; d London, Sept 21, 1908).
American curator, scholar, collector, and educator. Fenollosa played a unique role in enhancing the appreciation of Japanese art in both its native country and within the USA. Educated at Harvard, after graduation he studied philosophy and divinity at Cambridge University, followed by a year at the newly founded art school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He also formed important friendships with the collectors Edward Sylvester Morse, Charles Goddard Weld (1857–1911), and William Sturgis Bigelow (1850–1926).
In 1878, with an introduction from Morse, Fenollosa travelled to Japan for the first time, accompanied by his new wife, Lizzie Goodhue Millett, to teach political economy and philosophy at Tokyo's Imperial University. Embracing Japanese art and culture, he became an active advocate for preserving the country's art treasures and, with the Japanese artists Kanō Hōgai (see Kanō family §(16)) and Hashimoto Gahō, helped to revive the ...
Okakura, Tenshin
Yoshikazu Iwasaki
[Kakuzō]
(b Yokohama, Dec 26, 1863; d Niigata Prefect., Sept 2, 1913).
Japanese administrator, art historian and teacher. In 1880 he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University and entered the Ministry of Education. He later moved from administration to art education, and in 1886–7 he visited Europe and America as a member of an official art research team. In 1890, after his return, he became the head of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, where he worked to make way for a new Japanese style of painting (Nihonga), which introduced the realistic techniques of Western painting to traditional methods (see Japan §VI 5., (iii)). Okakura was a formative influence on many artists at the centre of the modern Nihonga movement, such as Taikan Yokoyama and Shunsō Hishida. In 1898 he resigned as head of the school because of internal disagreements and formed the unofficial artistic group the Japan Art Institute (Nihon Bijutsuin). In 1904 he became adviser to the East Asian department at the Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, later becoming head of the department....
Wong, Wucius
Josh Yiu
[Wang Wuxie; Wang Wu-hsieh]
(b Dongguan, Guangdong Province, 1936).
Hong Kong painter and educator of Chinese birth, active also in the USA. Born in Guangdong Province, Wucius Wong moved to Hong Kong in 1938. He joined the Modern Literature and Art Association in 1956 as an aspiring poet, but focused on painting under the tutelage of Lui Shou-kwan. From 1961 to 1965, Wong earned a BFA and MFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design and Maryland Institute respectively. In 1967 he served as Assistant Curator of the City Hall Museum and Art Gallery (later Hong Kong Museum of Art) until 1970, when he received the John D. Rockefeller III grant. Wong taught graphic design from 1974 to 1984 at Hong Kong Polytechnic (later Hong Kong Polytechnic University). In 1984 Wong resigned from teaching to devote himself full time to painting, and then emigrated to the United States. In 1996 he relocated to Hong Kong permanently.
Raised and educated during Hong Kong's colonial period and with formal art training from the United States, Wucius Wong's career had a distinct trajectory that was least politically motivated when compared to other modern Chinese artists. He felt a deep-seated rootlessness and identity crisis for much of his life, as is illustrated in his ...
Yang, Alice
Michelle Yun
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(b Taipei, Taiwan, 1961; d New York, NY, Feb 8, 1997).
Taiwanese curator and art historian. Yang immigrated to the United States at age 15. She received a BA in Art History from Yale University in 1984 that included a six-month sabbatical to Jinan University in Guangzhou to study Chinese in 1982. Yang was exposed to art from a young age through her mother, Suhwa Chou Yang, who ran the Hunglin Art Gallery in Taipei in the 1970s. Upon graduation Yang held internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art , both in New York, before accepting a position as Assistant Curator at the New Museum, New York, in 1988. Notable exhibitions she curated during her time at the New Museum include 1+1+1: Works by Alfredo Jaar (1992); Skin Deep (1993); and The Final Frontier (1993). She left the New Museum in 1993 to work as an independent curator and critic while studying to earn a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. In early ...


River Phoenix was an incredible actor, and gained a huge following of fans after only a few acting roles. He first debuted in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1982, which began the obsession over the young star.
He later appeared in Stand By Me and was considered one of the biggest teen heartthrobs around at the time.
He tragically died in 1993 at the young age of 23, but people are still intrigued about him and his life.
However his whole family changed their last name after they left the "Children of God" religion in the late 70's. They renamed themselves Phoenix to represent their family rising from the ashes after they moved to Florida.
Three sisters and one brother – their names are Joaquin, Summer, Rain and Liberty.
It was called Aleka's Attic, and River was the lead singer and played the guitar, and Rain sang too. (Josh McKay was the bass player and Josh Greenbaum was the drummer).
His one sister Liberty named her son Rio which is Spanish for River, and Summer named her son Indiana because River played young Indiana Jones.
Michael Stipe was also a close friend to Pheonix, and wasn't able to write for five months after his death. They dedicated their classic 'Monster' to him, and their single 'Bang and Blame' included backing vocals from his sister, Rain. Behind the scenes, Stipe even bought the rights to the Aleka's Attic recordings from Island Records, which had River under contract but had never released an album.
Filming for the movie was scheduled to start just weeks after his death. Christian Slater took over the role but he donated the entire $250,000 salary he earned to Phoenix's favorite charities: Earth Save and Earth Trust.
Some people said that his last words were "No paparazzi, I want anonymity," while others claimed he said nothing at all before he collapsed.
He was at the bar with his girlfriend, actress Samantha Mathis, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and two of his siblings Joaquin and Rain.
Depp and Flea were both on stage when River was outside seizing due to a drug overdose on the sidewalk, but as soon as the news got to the stage Flea went with River to the hospital – despite everyone's efforts, he was pronounced dead at 1:51 a.m.
Dark Blood was still in production when River died – the producers said it was 80% done, but then they had to figure out how to finish it without him.
The director had to sneak the footage away to Holland, and it took a long time to save enough money to edit it. It was shown for the first time at a film festival in Holland in 2012. The director uses narration to describe the missing scenes.


1.An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb.
3.Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
4.At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
5.At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
7.Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
8.Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
9.Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
10.Camels are called ships of the desert because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will not have a hump.


This piece was originally published on the Unit Interactive blog (original address now defunct: http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2008/06/26/better-css-font-stacks/). I have given it a home here, with permission and mostly unedited, because some of this is still very relevant.
26/06/2008 · Plano, TX · One aspect of designing for the web that almost immediately offends designers is the lack of fonts that are considered safe to use. While it is true that there are only a handful of web safe fonts, the ones we do have at our disposal can be quite powerful and diversely useful. On top of that, CSS gives us a nice little thing called a font stack.
Font stacks give you freedom.
You want to use Gill Sans? Go right ahead. Nothing should stop you. Font stacks are prioritized lists of fonts, defined in the CSS font-family attribute, that the browser will cycle through until it finds a font that is installed on the user's system. This means that you can use Gill Sans, and if your users don't have it, you can give them an adequate substitute that will not diminish their experience. As Mr. Richard Rutter has already illustrated, there are quite an array of typefaces that may be sitting on your user's machine ready to serve your design needs.
As you can see, there are not a whole lot of options, and the substitutes are often not appropriate. This is an example of how lax typographic standards on the web are leading to poor design decision making. I am not going to speculate, here, as to whose fault it is that typography on the web leaves much to be desired… there are probably as many culprits as there are offenses. I will say, though, that font stack are ultimately design factors, and should be scrutinized as such.
When creating a stack, first consider the context of the text. Is it going to be a headline, sub-head, or body copy? This can determine the appropriate order of a stack, considering certain fonts work well for setting blocks of copy, while others work better at larger sizes. For example, Helvetica's nuances work well on screen, when the text is large enough, while Helvetica Neue's slightly wider letter forms read better at smaller sizes on screen. Arial reads slightly better than Helvetica at smaller sizes on the screen, as well. Therefore, your font stack for Helvetica may need to be different depending on whether it is used for body copy or a page title.
Once context is considered, there are few more things to consider when building a stack. First, select your ideal candidate (more on that later). From there, the path of your choices may fork depending on the context.
Ideal – Your selection need not be bound by what is considered universally "web safe". There are many more fonts that have a fairly high market penetration that you can choose from. Just don't pick anything too obscure, or you will be the only one seeing it.
Alternative – When selecting headline and title fonts, remember that the nuances will be more noticeable, and therefore you need to select an alternative that is closer in spirit than size or relative value. To find a spiritual cousin, you may want to look within the same type classification, or look for something created by the same type designer. Mainly, look for similarities in the letter forms.
Common – At this point, you just need something similar that is not going to break your layout.
Generic – Cap it off with the generic classification, for those zealots that don't believe in installing fonts.
Ideal – Even if you intend this copy to match the titles, you may want to consider the readability of the typeface over the span of a few paragraphs. For example: Helvetica Neue and Arial are better suited to be read small and on screen than Helvetica.
Fit – Find something that is well represented, cross-platform that will not wreck your layout. For example: There is about 2 pts difference between the width of Times New Roman and Georgia. Multiply that by the number of characters in your copy blocks, and you could spell disaster for your otherwise-nicely-considered design.
Common – Something similar in flavor and well-represented.
Generic – Again, finish with the generic classification.
Keep in mind that if your ideal font is only well represented on Macs, for example, you may want use an alternative that is more prevalent on Windows machines. For more information on the prevalence of certain typeface on certain operating systems, take a look at http://fontfamily.io.
I did deliberately leave out some fonts, *cough* Comic Sans *cough*, because I do not particularly see the use in them, and I don't believe that these examples will solve every typographic purpose, but hopefully it's a start. Feel free to apply the above rules and create some stacks of your own.
If you're interested in a more comprehensive comparison, download the PDF (13.1mb). In it, you will find examples of both titles and copy, set in the different font stacks.
Now, font stacks help us open up a few more typographic options to create a more engaging online communication, but how do we choose which specific face to use? And which of these web safe fonts will work as a good compliment? More on that in my next post. Edit: I never did write that follow up.


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Q: How to run htop or any other console based applications from 'alt+F2' command interface? When I am pressing 'alt+F2', this command interface appears.

When I enter any non-console application like firefox, gnome-system-monitor, google-chrome etc and press enter, the application starts immediately. But when I am entering any console based application like htop or cmatrix, it is not starting.
I am using Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS.
Do you guys know what wrong am I doing?

A: The mechanism behind alt+F2 assumes a graphical application program. I tested with
xterm -e htop

and it works for me. You can use another terminal window too. I think Ubuntu Gnome comes with gnome-terminal, so it should work for you with
gnome-terminal -e htop

in the alt+F2 window.

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Golden Sun, Picross To Hit eShops Tomorrow In North America
by Donald Theriault - August 5, 2015, 6:30 pm EDT
Total comments: 1 Source: ESRB, Jupiter
The ESRB outs a long awaited sequel, while word of puzzling art comes from the developer.
Tomorrow's downloads will feature a couple of Virtual Console games for the Wii U and another round of 3DS puzzle fun.
The Wii U Virtual Console releases were leaked via ESRB ratings, as it appears Capcom's 2003 strategy game Onimusha Tactics will be joined by Golden Sun: The Lost Age. The 2003 sequel to the GBA launch RPG featured a link system or passwords to carry content over from the original game.
On the 3DS front, last week's release of Picross e6 in Europe will carry over to North America tomorrow, according to the game's developer Jupiter. The 6th release in the downloadable series will feature 300 puzzles, and each one will be playable in normal or Mega mode.
ejamerAugust 05, 2015
It might not be fair to compare release line-ups across regions, but if Wii U doesn't see Xenoblade available to download in North America tomorrow then I really don't care what they offer. GBA re-releases on the Wii U is not a decent substitute - even when those games were very decent on their original platform.
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Canada's Vast Geothermal Resources Reveal Evidence of Global Warming
By Stacy Feldman, InsideClimate News
Here's a startling coincidence. A first-ever assessment of Canada's shallow geothermal resources has exposed some of the country's clearest evidence yet of global warming.
The study, published in the journal Natural Resource Research (payment required) and brought to light by Tyler Cowen in the Toronto Star, sought to evaluate the prospect of emissions-free geothermal energy down to 250 meters.
What it found was a "vast" potential of shallow hot rocks all across Canada – equivalent to more than 190 million barrels of oil. It also found that climate change was a factor.
Global warming has caused ground temperatures to climb across Canada over the past few decades, according to the research. As shallower depths warmed up, the temperature differences at 50 meters, 100 meters and 200 meters – typically large – shrunk.
The data, says study co-author Stephen Grasby of the Geological Survey of Canada, provides
"one of the best records of climate warming there is in Canada.
"Depending on where you are ground temperature has increased by a few [Celsius] degrees."
Evidence of accelerated warming is never good. But there is a silver – and even green – lining in this discovery, say the researchers. Climate-induced heat trapped inside the rocks offers the nation a shot at "significant CO2 reduction."
The research argues that shallow geothermal energy could be tapped through "geo-exchange" technologies and used in heating homes and buildings. The numbers suggest it would be worth a go at it.
According to the authors, geothermal energy in the first 50 meters alone is roughly equivalent to the commercially recoverable energy in all of the dirty Alberta tar sands. Even if just a fraction of what the research has unveiled is recoverable, "it's still going to potentially make a marked impact on renewable-energy supply," Grasby said.
See Tyler Cowen's terrific blog, Clean Break, for more on the findings.
There are two important things to keep in mind here. One, this isn't the first study to reveal Canada's wealth of underground hot rocks, and it won't be the last. The nation has enormous potential for both shallow and deep geothermal power.
Two, it has yet to even begin to unlock it, even as other nations jump ahead. As Cowen reminds us:
Canada is the only country located on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" that has not developed its high-temperature geothermal resources on a commercial scale.
In January, the Pembina Institute, a Canadian not-for-profit environmental policy research group, published what may be the most compelling case to date for deep geothermal drilling in the province of Alberta, especially in regard to Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS).
(EGS refers to the "unconventional" geothermal systems that require engineered reservoirs to become economical, due to a lack of water and/or permeability in the rocks.)
Find the report here. Here's a snippet:
The most detailed study to date in Alberta suggests that the [EGS] potential in the province may be enormous. An estimated 21 billion GWh of energy are released every year underneath the surface of Alberta at depths of less than 5 km.128 Even with the conservative assumption that only 0.5% of this potential is recoverable, it represents the equivalent of roughly 14,000,000 MW of generating capacity, more than 1,100 times the current total installed generating capacity in Alberta.129 This amount does not include potential resources deeper than 5 km. That's more than 1,100 times the current total installed generating capacity in Alberta.
What about costs?
Costs are no less certain than CCS which has already received significant public investments both provincially and federally. The potentially vast scale of geothermal resources in Alberta warrants significant consideration in this same vein.
The considerable experience Albertans have with drilling for oil and gas, a practice that is easily transferable to geothermal electric technologies, would seem to be a promising factor. Too bad there's no political will in the province to begin to harvest the heat.
Last week, the US Energy Department pledged $84 million for geothermal energy projects. The Canadian Geothermal Energy Association (CanGEA) is now angling for funds from its own government. The organization has said it will be in Ottawa this week with Natural Resources Canada to discuss matching the US investment.
What are the odds of that happening?
Put it this way, CanGEA's goal is to develop 5,000 megawatts of hot rock projects by 2015. It needs to study some 30 potential sites to start, and it wants just $1 million to do it. But it can't raise the funds – this at a time when Ottawa is throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at still unproven, risky and expensive carbon capture and storage technologies.
CanGEA will hold its first major geothermal industry conference on Earth Day, April 22. Let's hope for progress.
For now, there's no escaping it: As the Pembina Institute declared in its media release of January 29 – and SolveClimate has been documenting for months now – these are "dark days for green energy in Canada."
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The move is expected to save the county an estimated $3 million annually.
According to the county, layoffs, attrition and retirement have reduced its work force by 12 percent since July 1. The layoffs will go into effect Feb. 3.
The reduction in staff will result in reduced programming at county parks, longer response times for inspections and permits, longer times to clear county roads of snow and ice, as well as reduced services and hours at community centers, according to the county.


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Home Business Legal Bring Madeleine Home
Bring Madeleine Home
Ros Prynn
Sun May 4, 2008
Madeleine McCann was remembered in church services in England and Portugal yesterday. One year ago, the then 3 year old disappeared from the holiday apartment in Portugal where her younger twin siblings were also sleeping.
Madeleine turned 4 years old just days after that fateful day, and one year on, it seems that this little girl is no closer to being home with her family. During this past year, investigating police in Portugal have been dismissed amid accusations of bungling the case, Madeline's parents Gerry and Kate McCann were named as suspects – and still remain as such. Sketches of another person police want to interview have been distributed, and the international media still covers this terrible tragedy.
Madeleine McCann's mother has asked the community to pray like mad during a church service to mark the first anniversary of her daughter going missing.
An official website has been set up and a reward offered, as it is reported that Maddi's younger siblings play 'pretend' anad make imaginary phone calls on their toy phones to their missing big sister. To read the story of this precious child on that site is gut-wrenching:
About Madeleine
Madeleine was born in May 2003 – a long-awaited and very much longed for the little girl. She lives in the village of Rothley in Leicester, with her mummy and daddy and little brother and sister, Sean and Amelie.
A poster of missing British girl Madeleine McCann hangs on a war memorial in the centre of Rothley, central England May 3, 2008. Madeleine McCann vanished from the family holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007. Her family and friends are marking the one year anniversary with church services in Praia da Luz and Rothley which will be dedicated to all missing children, including Madeleine.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
www.chinaview.cn
Madeleine is a very happy little girl with an outgoing personality. She has always been a very popular little person, appealing to both children and adults alike with her funny and engaging chatter. She has many friends who obviously miss her dearly. Despite her young age, it often felt like Madeleine had been on this earth before!
Like most girls her age, she likes dolls and dresses (and anything pink and sparkly) but with a definite taste for action-adventure too! She has an incredible amount of energy and even as a little baby, didn't seem to need much rest. She enjoys running and swimming and is an Everton fan like her mum and granddad.
Madeleine has always been a wonderfully loving and caring big sister to Sean and Amelie. It was certainly not the quietest house on the planet with lots of giggling, singing and the inevitable odd bit of mischief! For Sean and Amelie, there is without doubt, a very important person missing in their life.
The last picture of Madeleine
Madeleine is a warm, life-enriching little person and will never fail we're sure, to bring joy into the life of anyone she may encounter. [link: http://www.findmadeleine.com//]
The McCanns, who are living every parent's worst nightmare, continue to assert their innocence as they focus on trying to find answers, and maintain some sense of normalcy for the younger children.
Madeleine's grandmother, Susan Healy, asked supporters of the family in Britain and Portugal to light candles at 9:15 pm tonight to mark the moment they believe Madeleine was abducted.
'Pray-like-mad-for-Madeleine'
As they search for clues about their own beloved Maddi, Kate and Gerry MCann also find themselves deeply – and unexpectedly – involved in campaigns focusing on all missing and exploited children. Every year children go missing, never to be seen again by those who love them. Every parent feels totally helpless in the face of any of these stories. As the McCanns get through each day of their own nightmare, Kate McCann asks the community to do what all of us CAN do: "Pray like mad for Madeleine."
Ros Prynn is a NewsBlaze investigative reporter and editor, who writes on a range of topics. Contact her by writing to NewsBlaze, or at her milblog assolutatranquillita.blogspot.com
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Home News 'Murang Kuryente' Bill Passes Congress and Senate
'Murang Kuryente' Bill Passes Congress and Senate
Filipinos can look forward to reduced electricity rates in the near future. This is after the two chambers of Congress voted, on third and final reading, a bill that will help settle the obligations of the National Power Corporation (NPC).
Once signed into law, House Bill No. 8869 will allow the using a portion of the Net National Government Share from the Malampaya Natural Gas Project fund to subsidize the payment to NPC's Stranded Contract Cost (SCC) and Stranded Debts (SD) until 2023.
Republic Act No. 9136, or the Electric Power Industry Reform Act, defines SCC as the excess of the contracted costs of electricity under eligible contracts over the actual selling price of the contracted energy output of such agreements in the market.
Distribution utility costs is another term for SCC.
On the other hand, the said law defines SD as 'any unpaid financial obligations of the NPC which have not been liquidated by the proceeds from the sales and privatization of NPC assets.'
Provision of the bill
Section 5 of the bill provides for the utilization of P123 billion by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) to settle its obligation until 2023.
These debts comprise parts of the universal charges reflected in the monthly electricity bill. Consumers pay these, on top of the regular electricity consumption cost and other charges.
The bill also states that the net national government share will be collected and kept as a special fund to finance exploration and development, if the SCC and the SD have been paid before the termination of the PSALM's corporate life.
In addition, the bill will allocate an amount of P25 billion from the P221-billion Malampaya fund for the exploration projects of the Philippine National Oil Company Exploration Corporation.
Energy Committee Chairman and Marinduque Representative Lord Allan Jay Q. Velasco said that the legislation will result in a P 0.574 reduction in the cost of kilowatt-per-hour. This translates to savings worth P115 for an average of 200 kilowatts per hour consumption per month.
The House of Representatives' version of the bill has garnered 171 affirmative votes, six negative votes, and zero abstention. Meanwhile, 17 senators voted in favor of the bill, zero negative votes, and no abstention.
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In this course, you learn about the relevant scientific, social, and ethical dimensions of major public health debates and problems; the generalizable theories, frameworks, and methods that scholars use to analyze them; and the implications for effective public communication and personal decision-making. Assignments include facilitating class discussion, class presentations, short analysis papers, multiple-choice exams, an annotated bibliography, and a research paper. By the end of the course, you will have gained an integrated understanding of the different roles that you can play in public health debates as professionals, advocates, and consumers. In doing so, you will have improved your ability to find, discuss, evaluate, and use expert sources of information; assess competing media claims and narratives; write persuasive essays, analyses, and commentaries; and author evidence-based research papers.
COURSE ASSIGNMENTS
Discussion Leadership (10%): For each class topic, 2 students will be designated discussion leaders and will provide 1-2 page summaries of each reading. Students should compile their reading summaries into a single PDF document and email the document to Prof. Nisbet by the Monday evening before the class sessions. These summaries will then be posted on the course page in advance of class. In consultation with the instructor, students will choose a complex topic covered in the readings and deliver a 15-minute presentation on that topic. This may include doing additional background reading on the topic.
Weekly Reading Quizzes (15%): To begin each Tuesday class, students will complete a short quiz comprised of 10 multiple choice questions testing their basic knowledge of the assigned readings and of major stories appearing at the NY Times' Health section over the past week.
Three Analysis Papers (45%): Students will be completing three 1000 word analysis papers specific to case studies and topics covered. These papers will assess and integrate the assigned readings and other sources; and be written in a broadly accessible, persuasive, and engaging style. Students will be expected to revise papers after initial grade and review by instructor.
Annotated Bibliography and Research Paper (30%): Students begin by compiling an annotated bibliography of approximately 15 quality academic or research sources on a topic relevant to the course and of personal interest. Based on the bibliography, students will prepare a detailed outline for their final paper subject to feedback and discussion. Drawing on their annotated bibliography and other sources, students will author a 4,000 word paper synthesizing and applying research to their topic, written in a style that is broadly accessible and engaging.
TENTATIVE DEADLINES
Due dates for papers, sent to me by email at 5pm EST:
Monday Feb 22 – First short analysis paper due.
Friday March 4 — Annotated bibliography due.
Friday March 18 — Second short analysis paper due.
Wednesday April 13 — Third short analysis paper due.
Wed April 27 — Final paper due.
Days we will not have class:
Friday Jan 29
Tuesday Feb. 23
Tuesday April 19
Compiling an Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to scholarly books, book chapters, journal articles, and reports. Each citation – usually around 300 words — is followed by a brief descriptive and evaluative paragraph called "the annotation." For your annotated bibliography, you should be able to find and describe in your own words relevant journal articles, book chapters, and books on your topic. The journals, edited volumes, authors, and fields referenced in this course are good places to start to search for relevant sources.
Primer on Getting Started with Your Research
Primer on Using APA Style in Your Writing
REQUIRED BOOKS
Caulfield, T. (2012). The Cure For Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages About Health, Fitness and Happiness. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Gallagher, W. (2009). Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life. New York: Penguin.
NEW YORK TIMES HEALTH SECTION
Each week you are expected to read and follow closely the news articles at the Health section and Wellness blog of The New York Times. We will discuss the relevance of weekly news items and blog posts during class and the major stories appearing each week will be asked about in the regular reading quizzes.
CLASS SCHEDULE / READING
Jan 12 & 15 — Course overview and getting started on research
Jan 19 & 22 — The Central Role of Attention to Health and Well-Being
Summary of Readings
Gallagher, W. (2009). Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life. New York: Penguin, pgs 1-28; 99-132.
Kahneman, D., & Deaton, A. (2010). High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 107(38), 16489-16493 [HTML]
Short, K. (2014, July 7). Here is the Income Level at Which Money Won't Make You Happier in Each State. The Huffington Post. [HTML]
Quenqua, D. (2015, May 12). Lower paid lawyers are happier. The New York Times. [HTML]
Discuss Videos:
TED Talk Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory [video]
TEXx Talk Judson Brewer: The Science of Flow [video]
Jan 26, Jan 29, & Feb 2 — Attention and Distraction in the Digital Age
Gallagher, W. (2009). Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life. New York: Penguin, pgs 145-162.
Wilson, T. D. et al. (2014). Just think: the challenges of the disengaged mind. Science, 345(6192), 75-77. [HTML]
Carr, N. (2008). Is Google Making Us Stupid? The Atlantic [PDF]
Read the full New York Times series "Your Brain on Computers" [HTML]
Ragan, S.R., Massey, J.D., Jennings S.R. (2014), Unregulated use of laptops over time in large lecture classes. Computers & Education. [Library Gateway]
PBS Frontline "Digital Nation" [Video]
Feb 5, Feb 9, & Feb 12 — Technology and the Mindfulness Movement
Ricard, M., Lutz, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2014). Mind of the Meditator. Scientific American, 311(5), 38-45. [Library Gateway]
Widdicombe, L. (2015). The Higher Life: Mindfulness Guru for the Tech Set. The New Yorker. [HTML]
Delahunty, H. (2015, Feb). Let the Game Come to You. Mindfulness magazine. [Distributed to Class]
Horgan, J. (2015, July ). Meta-Meditation: A Skeptic Meditates on Meditation. Scientific American.com. [HTML]
Broad, W. (2012, Jan 5). How Yoga can wreck your body. The NY Times Magazine. [HTML
CBS 60 Minutes "Mindfulness" [Video]
TED Med: Justin Brewer on Mindfulness & Habits [Video]
TED NY: Pico Iyer on The Art of Stillness [Video]
TED: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes by Andy Puddicombe [Video]
Jon Kabat-Zinn "Be Here Now" [Video]
NPR Fresh Air: The Risks and Rewards of Yoga [Podcast]
Feb 16 & 19 — The Obesity Epidemic?
Reading Summaries
Barry, CL, Brescoll VL, Brownell KD, Schlesinger M (2009). Obesity metaphors: How beliefs about the causes of obesity affect support for public policy. The Milbank Quarterly, 87: 7-47. [PDF]
Harris, J.L., Pomeranz, J.L., Lobstein, T., & Brownell, K.D. (2009). A crisis in the marketplace: How food marketing contributes to obesity and what can be done. Annual Review of Public Health, 30, 211-25. [PDF]
Sanger-Katz, M. (July 24, 2015). Americans Are Finally Eating Less. The New York Times. [HTML]
Sanger-Katz, M. (July 28, 2015). How Changing Attitudes Went Along With a Drop in Calories. The New York Times. [HTML]
Discuss Excerpts from Videos:
HBO Films' The Weight of the Nation, Part 4: Challenges, Chapters 1 – 5. [Video]
Documentary "Fed Up" [Video]
Feb 23, Feb 26 & March 1 — Twisted Messages about Diet and Exercise
Caulfield, T. (2012). The Cure For Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages About Health, Fitness and Happiness. Boston, MA: Beacon Press (pp. 1 – 98).
Taubes, G. (2011, April 13). Is Sugar Toxic? New York Times Magazine [HTML]
Taubes, G. (2007, Sept. 24). The Scientist and the Stairmaster. New York magazine [HTML]
O'Connor, A. (2016, Jan. 7). New Dietary Guidelines Urge Less Sugar for All and Less Protein for Boys and Men. New York Times [HTML]
TEDX: Robert Lustig "Sugar: The Elephant in the Kitchen" [Video]
Point of Inquiry: Overwhelmed by Celebrity Culture — Interview with Timothy Caulfield [audio]
March 4 — Discuss Bibliographies and Research Papers
March 8 & March 11 — SPRING BREAK
March 15 & March 18 — The Food Movement and Genetically Modified Food
Pollan, M. (2010, May 20). The Food Movement Rising. The New York Review of Books. [HTML]
Fox, N., & Ward, K. (2008). Health, ethics and environment: a qualitative study of vegetarian motivations. Appetite, 50(2), 422-429. [Library Gateway]
Brody, H. (2015, June 8). Fears, Not Facts Support GMO Labeled Food. The New York Times. [HTML]
Strom, S. (2015, Jan. 7). Campbell Labels Will Disclose GMO Ingredients. The New York Times [HTML]
Nisbet, M.C. (2016, May/June). The Franken Public: Have Americans Turned against Genetically Modified Food? Skeptical Inquirer. [Distributed to Class]
Spector, M. (2014, Aug 25). Vandava Shiva's Crusade Against Genetically Modified Crops. The New Yorker [HTML]
Food Inc [Info]
PBS Frontline "Harvest of Fear" [Video]
March 22, March 25 & March 29 — Media Violence, Video Games, and Public Health
Stossel, S. (1997). Man Who Counts the Killings: George Gerbner… Is So Alarmed about the Baneful Effects of TV That He Describes Them in Terms of Fascism. The Atlantic Monthly, 279. [HTML]
Bushman, B. J., & Anderson, C. A. (2001). Media violence and the American public: Scientific facts versus media misinformation. American Psychologist,56(6-7), 477. [PDF]
Bushman, B. J., Jamieson, P. E., Weitz, I., & Romer, D. (2013). Gun violence trends in movies. Pediatrics, 132(6), 1014-1018. [PDF]
Strasburger, V. C., Donnerstein, E., & Bushman, B. J. (2014). Why is it so hard to believe that media influence children and adolescents?. Pediatrics, 133(4), 571-[HTML]
Markey, P. M., French, J. E., & Markey, C. N. (2015). Violent movies and severe acts of violence: Sensationalism versus science. Human Communication Research, 41(2), 155-173. [HTML]
MEF: George Gerbner on theMean World Syndrome and Desensitization.
PBS What Next: Media Violence [video]
April 1 to April 19 — Catch Up, New Topics, Class Presentations
— Final research paper due during exam week —
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News Electronics & communications Materials
Technique triggers electronic circuits to self-destruct
Engineers have developed a new way of triggering electronic circuits to self-destruct, an advance that could help protect sensitive data and one day be used in biomedicine.
Transient chip
This ability to self-destruct is fundamental to transient electronics, in which key portions of a circuit, or the whole circuit itself, can discreetly disintegrate or dissolve.
No harmful by-products are released upon vaporisation, so engineers from Cornell University and Honeywell Aerospace foresee biomedical and environmental applications along with data protection.
According to Cornell, some transient electronics use soluble conductors that dissolve when contacted by water, requiring the presence of moisture. Others disintegrate when they reach a specific temperature, requiring a heating element and power source to be attached.
The advance from Cornell is said to use a silicon-dioxide microchip attached to a polycarbonate shell that contains microscopic cavities filled with rubidium and sodium biflouride, chemicals that can thermally react and decompose the microchip.
Ved Gund led the research as a graduate student in the Cornell SonicMEMS Lab, and said the thermal reaction can be triggered remotely by using radio waves to open graphene-on-nitride valves that keep the chemicals sealed in the cavities.
"The encapsulated rubidium then oxidises vigorously, releasing heat to vaporise the polycarbonate shell and decompose the sodium bifluoride. The latter controllably releases hydrofluoric acid to etch away the electronics," said Gund.
Amit Lal, professor of electrical and computer engineering, said the unique architecture offers several advantages over previously designed transient electronics, including the ability to scale the technology.
"The stackable architecture lets us make small, vaporisable, LEGO-like blocks to make arbitrarily large vanishing electronics," said Lal.
The technology could also be integrated into wireless sensor nodes for use in environmental monitoring.
"For example, vaporisable sensors can be deployed with the internet-of-things platform for monitoring crops or collecting data on nutrients and moisture, and then made to vanish once they accomplish these tasks," said Gund.
Lal, Gund and Honeywell Aerospace have been issued a patent for the technology, and the SonicMEMS Lab is continuing to research new ways the architecture can be applied toward transient electronics as well as other uses.
"Our team has also demonstrated the use of the technology as a scalable micro-power momentum and electricity source, which can deliver high peak powers for robotic actuation," said Lal.
Fabrication of the polycarbonate shell was completed by Christopher Ober, professor of materials science and engineering, with other components of the architecture provided by Honeywell Aerospace. The research was part-funded under the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Vanishing Programmable Resources program.
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Known in the US as alto horn, in Germany as althorn, and in the UK as tenor horn, this brass instrument pitched in Eb has a conical bore (gradually widening), and normally uses a deep, cornet-like mouthpiece. It is most commonly used in marching bands, brass bands and similar ensembles, whereas the French horn tends to take the corresponding parts in symphonic groupings and classical brass ensembles. In the US and Germany the name tenor horn is identical with baritone horn.
The tenor horn has a conical bore like the orchestral (french) horn and uses deep funnel or cup shaped mouthpieces depending on the model. It is used in British Brass bands and is very rarely included in the orchestra where its place is taken by the orchestral horn. The conical bore and deep mouthpiece produces a mellow, rounded tone which is most often used as a middle voice, supporting the melodies by the trumpets, cornets or flugelhorns, and fills in the gap above the lower tenor and bass intruments (the trombone, baritone horn, euphonium and Tuba). Solos for the Tenor Horn are very occasional, and are usually taken by the solo horns. Most Tenor Horns are pitched in Eb and are transposing instruments. Their typical range is from the A below middle C to the Eb above the C above middle C.The standard bell-up horn comes in two basic shapes. One with the beginning of the bell looping over the top of the valves and the other looping below the valves.
Playing technique
Tenor horns are very free-blowing instruments and intermediate players should be able to reach the high register (from the F above middle C onwards). Its beautiful mellow tone is most evident in this register and the notes at the bottom of its range sound less mellow.
To produce a tone a player buzzes his lips by tightening them and gently forcing air out. The mouthpiece should be pressed gently against the lips and the rim of the mouthpiece is used to sustain the correct lip position.
To reach higher notes, the lips are tightened further and the player should blow the air at a faster speed. Without using the valves, the player can play Eb, Bb, Eb, G, Bb, C# and double high Eb (untransposed) in ascending order. These notes are part of the horn's harmonic series.
The three valves lower the notes by 2 semitones, 1 semitone and 3 semitones respectively. By using a certain combination of these valves, all the notes in the chromatic series can be played; for example:
To play a D#(as on the Tenor Horn)
Since the valves only lower the note, the closest harmonic note above D# is used, in this case a G (Bb on the piano). From G to D# is 2 tones or 4 semitones, the pitch to be lowered by. Therefore the valve fingering is 2-3 (which means the 2nd and 3rd valves are depressed) because 3 semitones (the 3rd valve) + 1 semitone (the 2nd valve) = 4 semitones (the pitch difference between D# and G).
It was invented as a tenor or alto voice in the saxhorn family invented in the mid-1800s by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian who is best remembered for the saxophone. It has been made in various forms: most common is a sort of mini-tuba shape, with the bell pointing upward, which may help the voice blend before reaching the audience; the solo horn looks like (and indeed effectively is) an enlarged flugelhorn, with the bell pointing forward, projecting more toward the audience; another variant has the bell facing backward (for military marching bands that preceded the soldiers, thus helping them hear better and keep better time in marching). Of these types only the standard upright instrument is seen in UK brass bands and remains the most common configuration seen.
Other saxhorns include the Flugelhorn(soprano), and Baritone horn (baritone).
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It is not necessary to seal pavers. Sealing does however retard fading of paver color and provides a measure of protection from some stains. Before sealing, pavers must be clean and dry. It is recommended that you wait at least 30 days after pavers manufactured date before sealing. Once sealed, you will need to re-seal approximately every 12 to 24 months.
My pavers are spreading, what's wrong?
Paver installation should start with the proper base material for the job. Crushed rock with approximately 1 ½" of concrete or gunite sand is recommended. Installation of proper edge restraints is key to preventing spreading of pavers.
Pavers are environmentally friendly. If you have an underground repair to do, simply remove the pavers in the area, complete the repair and replace them. Not so simple with permanent concrete. Because pavers are a flexible pavement, you will not have surface cracks that usually occur with the use of regular concrete. P.S. Interlocking pavers add resale value to your home. They are aesthetically pleasing and create curb appeal.
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Appointment of a High Court Judge: Ritchie QC
AppointmentHigh Court JudgeQueen's Bench Division
The Queen is pleased to approve the appointment of a Justice of the High Court. This appointment will take effect from 1 October 2021. It is anticipated that further appointments will be announced in the coming months.
The candidate approved as a High Court Judge is Andrew Ritchie QC.
This appointment will fill a vacancy in the High Court following elevations to the Court of Appeal and confirmed retirements. For further information regarding the number of applicants and number of recommended candidates, please see the Judicial Appointments Commission website: http://judicialappointments.gov.uk/what-it-is-like-to-be-a-judge/high-court-judges-2021/
Andrew Ritchie QC
Andrew Ritchie QC, aged 61 will be known as The Honourable Mr Justice Ritchie. He was Called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1985 and took Silk in 2009.
He will take up appointment on 1 October 2021.
The Lord Chief Justice will assign Andrew Ritchie QC to the Queen's Bench Division.
Read more about the new appointment through his biography here:
http://judicialappointments.gov.uk/what-it-is-like-to-be-a-judge/high-court-judges-2021/


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Covid-19 Disinformation Campaign Anti-Western Messaging and Conspiracy Theories
The Democracy Research Institute (DRI) continues to study conspiracy theories and disinformative messages related to the Covid-19 pandemic spread through online media. In October-November, 785 articles and posts published on 15 websites and 10 Facebook pages were analyzed.
Disinformation and conspiracy theories are being spread about the treatment methods of the coronavirus, as well as to the origin and spread of the virus. The intensification of the anti-vaccination campaign in online publications and on Facebook has become especially noticeable in Georgia during the Covid-19 pandemic. Media-monitoring has revealed that the disinformation campaign is specifically targeted to influence public opinion.
Disinformation Campaign with Anti-Western Messages
Western companies working on the vaccine, as well as Microsoft founder Bill Gates remain among the primary targets of disinformation campaign. The main purpose of the campaign targeting them is to spread the myth that the coronavirus was invented by the pharmaceutical companies for prospective billions in financial gain and for Bill Gates to establish world domination. The real picture, however, is different.
The message spread by Facebook groups Anti-Masonry. "Antichrist's" New World Order (NWO); Anti-Ecumenism", "United People's Movement for the Survival of the Georgian Nation!", "Georgia First of All", "Corona Mafia" and "Under Italian Sky" that Bill Gates is planning to take over the world through forced dangerous vaccinations, is misinformation, originally spread by Russian website cont.ws. In reality, in the article of New England Journal of Medicine Responding to Covid-19 - A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic? Microsoft co-founder talks about the global threats and challenges of the Covid-19 virus, as well as offering recommendations on how humanity should deal with the pandemic. The article does not cover forced vaccination.
Considering, WHO has yet to approve any vaccine for Covid-19, it's disinformation to talk about any financial profits made by pharmaceutical companies. Yet, Facebook groups that spread the message "Corona Afyora", "Anti-Masonry. "Antichrist's" New World Order (NWO); Anti-Ecumenism", "United People's Movement", "Corona Mafia". got interactions from 854 people on these posts.
Disinformation Campaign and Conspiracy Theories
Multiple conspiracy theories and false information about the origins and treatment methods of Covid-19 keep being spread online. Individual users, as well as groups keep using Facebook to spread conspiracy theories about the treatment methods of the virus, such as a drug called Levofloxacin or a homeopathic method using a special plant. In reality, the story of a plant discovered by German scientists that kills the coronavirus in minutes is a manipulation of facts and is based on a study published by a Thai medical web portal, with its reliability and validity never varified by the international scientific community. The first source of disinformation in Georgian online media was web portal Nostal.ge.
Levofloxacin being effective method to treat coronavirus is disinformation as well. Levofloxacin is an antibacterial agent, and since Covid-19 is a virus and not a bacterial disease, it cannot be used in a treatment protocol. The groups that spread the disinformation about Levofloxacin; "Stalin", "Main News", "World Center Of Georgians" and "In the Middle of the Road". Have cited the information source to be web portal tvm.ge.
The project is being implemented with financial help from Prodemos Fund in the framework of small grant contest "Careful! It's Disinformation!". The material prepared in the framework of the project and the views expressed may not reflect the views of the donor organization.


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Q: $L$ is the algebraic closure of $K$ if and only if $L$ is the splitting field for all elements of $K[x]$. In an exercise given in class, we're tasked with proving that the field $L$ is an algebraic closure for the field $K$ if and only if $L=K(R)$ (the smallest field containing $K \cup R$), where $R$ is the set of all roots of all polynomials $f \in K[x]$ (i.e. the splitting field for the whole of $K[x]$). The forward direction I believe I can solve. Clearly every polynomial splits in an algebraically closed field, and since every element of $L$ is algebraic over $K$, we have $L \subseteq K(R)$ and $K(R) \subseteq L$ is clear. For the converse, I think I can prove that $L/K$ is algebraic. Every element $ \alpha \in K(R)$ (or its inverse) can be written as a polynomial in a finite number of elements $\{\beta_1, \dots, \beta_n\} \subseteq R$. So $\alpha$ is contained in the field $K(\beta_1, \dots, \beta_n)$, which is algebraic over $K$ and hence $\alpha$ is algebraic over $K$. I don't know where to start with proving that $K(R)$ is algebraically closed however. Any help would be appreciated.
My defition of an algebraic closure is an algebraically closed field $L$ such that the extension $L/K$ is algebraic.
Possible solution:
Let $f(x)=\alpha_0+\alpha_1x+\dots+\alpha_nx^n \in K(R)[x]$, $n \geq 2$. Suppose $f$ has no root in $K(R)$. Let $p$ be an irreducible factor of $f$ of degree $\geq 2$. Then $p$ has a root in the field $K(R)[x]/(p)$ given by $\beta := \bar{x}$. However, $K(R)[x]/(p)$ is an algebraic over $K(R)$ and hence algebraic over $K$ so that $\beta$ is algebraic over $K$ and hence $\beta \in K(R)$, contradicting the fact that $p$ has no roots in $K(R)$ since it's irreducible and of degree $\geq 2$.


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Launch of 3rd Experts Committee of APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance
Source : APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance Published: 7 Nov, 2018
The 7th APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance Forum, which took place in Xi'an from september 19 – 20, was hosted by APEC and China's Ministry of Commerce, and jointly sponsored by the China International Electronic Commerce Center, the APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance and the Municipal Government of Xi'an. The theme of the Forum was "Inclusive Trade in the Era of Digital Economy".
During the Forum, 3rd Experts Committee of APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance was launched. The 3rd Experts Committee consists of 27 members nominated or recommended by member economies, and was approved by the APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance Secretariat.
The main tasks of the Experts Committee include: participate in the planning, research and review of the major projects of APEC-ECBA; study how to boost the capacity building of member economies by improving the environment (IT, legal, technical, cultural, policy, etc.) for e-commerce and paperless trade; help member economies issue policies to promote the development of e-commerce; ensure there are enough education and training resources for e-commerce talents in the Asia-Pacific region; share best practices from member economies and provide more insights related to cross-border e-commerce for lawmakers and regulators in their countries and regions.
3rd Experts Committee of the APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance:
—————– Chair ——————–
Wang Jian
Director of the Center for International Business Studies of the University of International Business and Economics
————- Deputy Chairs ————–
Armirudin Abdul Wahab
CEO of Cyber Security Agency of Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation,Malaysia
Ouyang Cheng
Director of Cross-Border E-Commerce Research Center of Alibaba Research Institute
Aldo Myrick
CEO of eHunting Digital Consulting – LATAM
Markus Heyder
Vice President and Senior Policy Counselor,
Centre for Information Policy Leadership, Washington, D.C.
————— Members ——————
Chief of Technology and Innovation, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division, UNESCAP
Mohammad Saeed
Senior Advisor on Trade Facilitation of International Trade Center
Shintaro Hamanaka
Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economics of Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO)
Eduardo Pedrosa
Secretary General, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council
Richard Morton
Secretary General of International Port Community Systems Association, Managing Director of Jura Associates Ltd
Francis Lopez
President and CEO of InterCommerce Network Services, Former Chairman of the PAA Steering Committee
Janette Toral
Lead Trainer of AIE College, Independent Executive Director of John Maxwell Team
Kyoungjin Choi
Director of International Affairs and Professor of Law, Gachon University
Byung-Soo Ahn
Professor, Department of Logistics and International Trade in Seoul Digital University
Xue Hong
Director of Institute for Internet Policy & Law,Law Professor, Beijing Normal University
Li Ming Tao
Dean of Research Institute of China International Electronic Commerce Center
Joshua Harris
Director of Policy, TRUSTe
JJ Pan
APAC Data Ethics Officer, Public Policy Director, Acxiom/LiveRamp Corp., Secretary General Of World Trustmark Alliance
Manuel Maisog
Resident Partner of the Baker Botts Beijing Office
Lan-Ting Say
Project Management Chair of PAA
Igor Subow
Vice President for Logistics and International Relationships at the Russian Distance Selling Association
Li Qian
Vice President of Public Policy of Consumer, Amazon China
Carsten Hess
Vice President & Head of Corporate Public Policy, Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa Deutsche Post DHL Group
Wang Teng Fei
Economic Affairs Officer, UNESCAP
Iliia Dimitrov
Public Ombudsman and OPORA Russia member, President of Seldon
Vineet Malhotra
Director of Kale Logistics Solutions
Joseph Yuan
Rotating Chairman of World Trustmark Alliance, Board Chairman of Hong Kong Federation of E-Commerce
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Some of us have short attention spans. If you're one of them, this book is for you. It's divided up into 99 short readings (each of them about 500 words long). If you're tired of the same old stuff, give it a try.


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Carriera
Chris Osgood iniziò la propria carriera nella Western Hockey League, vestendo dal 1989 al 1992 le maglie di tre formazioni, qualificandosi nel 1992 alla Memorial Cup con i Seattle Thunderbirds. Nel 1991 era stato scelto dai Detroit Red Wings al terzo giro in 54ª posizione assoluta.

Prima di diventare portiere titolare a Detroit Osgood fu mandato in American Hockey League presso la formazione affiliata degli Adirondack Red Wings. Nelle stagioni 1996-1997 e 1997-1998 conquistò le prime due Stanley Cup della propria carriera. Il 6 marzo 1996 inoltre realizzò un gol nella partita vinta per 4-2 dai Red Wings contro gli Hartford Whalers. È decimo per numero di vittorie nella storia della NHL (401).

Nel 2001 dopo oltre 400 incontri disputati con i Red Wings Osgood approdò ai New York Islanders, franchigia con cui rimase per due stagioni. Dopo aver già giocato la parte finale della stagione 2002-03 Osgood per il campionato successivo prolungò l'accordo con la squadra dei St. Louis Blues.

Al termine del lockout nel 2005 Osgood fece ritorno a Detroit, dove alternò presenze da titolare ad altre da backup. Nel corso della stagione 2007-2008 Osgood rinnovò fino al termine della stagione 2010-11; inoltre in coppia con Dominik Hašek vinse il William M. Jennings Trophy e contribuì al successo della Stanley Cup contro i Pittsburgh Penguins.

Tuttavia nelle stagioni successive accusò un calo dal punto di vista delle prestazioni, limitando le presenze anche a causa di alcuni guai fisici. Il 19 luglio 2011, al termine del proprio contratto, Osgood annunciò il proprio ritiro dall'attività agonistica per poi entrare nello staff degli allenatori dei Red Wings.

Palmarès

Club

 Detroit: 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 2007-2008

Individuale
 William M. Jennings Trophy: 2
 1995-1996, 2007-2008

 NHL Second All-Star Team: 1
 1995-1996

 NHL All-Star Game: 2
 2001, 2008

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Someday Ken Griffin will be as famous as Daniel Cook
There were only a few protesters. Clumped together on the sidewalk outside Macy's on State Street, holding signs that read, in essence, "Save Marshall Field's!" Not the store — it had already been sold, lock, stock and Frango mints. But the name. They were protesting the new owners changing the store's name to Macy's.
And in that single moment, any sympathy I might have had for their cause drained away. I could practically feel it pooling at my feet. I'm as nostalgic as the next guy, if not more so. But with all the wrongs in the world, to wake up, lace up your sneakers, paint signs, go downtown and stand in the street to protest the subtraction of one sequin from the little nostalgic tapestry shimmering at the back of your mind, well, it's almost obscene, right?
After that, I became an immediate adaptor of name changes. Guaranteed Rate Field? Sure! Willis Tower? You betcha! There is no John Hancock Building — it's "875 North Michigan Avenue," now, thank you very much.
So when the Museum of Science and Industry — make that the former Museum of Science and Industry — announced it will henceforth be known as the "Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry" thanks to an infusion of $125 million from the richest man in Illinois, I smiled and thought, "Great!"
Nor am I alone.
"Griffin is donating $125 MILLION dollars to the museum," Gail Torkilsen commented after a story about the change. "Nice. No one should be upset. Thanks Mr. Griffin for your gift. I'm proud of you."
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Clark St. October 7, 2019 at 8:42 AM
Years ago, there was a push to rename it after Julius Rosenwald, who gave the money to start MSI. That never went anywhere. He was far more important to the museum & the city than this rich clown!
Of the four big South Side museums, two were funded by Sears execs & two were funded by Field's execs.
Tom October 7, 2019 at 9:49 AM
The Brits seem particularly reluctant to give up on original monikers. The headquarters of the Metropolitan Police is still referred to as Scotland Yard, even though it hasn't been at that address since 1890. Similarly, the Secret Intelligence Service began life in 1909 as Military Intelligence Department 6, and is still referred to as MI 6 these many years after it was transferred to the Home Office in 1931.
Bitter Scribe October 7, 2019 at 10:49 AM
MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.
--Ambrose Bierce
tate October 7, 2019 at 3:03 PM
The fate of the rich as depicted in the Bible and other religious writings seems unenviable in the extreme, but I've never heard of that deterring anyone from attempting to accumulate as much wealth as possible. The only thing holding me back has been the likelihood of someone naming something after me, which would haunt me long after my death. I just hope Beto O'Rourke doesn't become President, because in just a few years I would have to hear about the terrible traffic jams and lousy maintenance on the O'R expressway or the horrible murders, rapes and general mayhem on O'R Boulevard. I'm sure such would keep me awake even in the cemetery.
JP October 7, 2019 at 8:26 PM
Religion doesn't induce people to shun wealth because, push comes to shove, most folks believe in greed more than creed. John, poor Beto goes through life knowing what it means to be "Calling for O'Rourke".
Jimmy October 7, 2019 at 1:35 PM
I see this both ways. However if you are one that gets all worked up over this kind of thing then congratulations! You have a great life. Me, I don't have time to worry about this. I'm too busy trying to figure out how to pay my health insurance premium and still put food on the table.
In their defense, when the coal mine debuted the nation was not so enlightened as it was between 60's, and 2016. The name change you suggest is appropriate but the museum is not totally devoid of science education. History has crept in a bit, but wouldn't the U-505 make more sense at the Field? My first thought was a big donation from a science-denier but perhaps I judge Griffin too harshly. After all, if you watch PBS you will see David Koch as a regular contributor so conservatives aren't all Devils.
Clark St. October 7, 2019 at 6:29 PM
Koch is just buying indulgences with his PBS & other scientific funding, such as at Johns Hopkins.
Well, David has either been paid back for those indulgences and his transgressions, or more likely just disappeared into the void of eternity, neither rewarded or punished for his life's actions.
Grizz 65 October 7, 2019 at 7:33 PM
It doesn't matter what they want to name it...it's what people want to call it. Look at the examples set by pro sports, especially the major-league ballparks. How many people in Chicago still referred to the home of the White Sox as Comiskey Park?
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