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A Finding Aid to the Charles W. White Papers, 1933-1987, bulk 1960s-1970s, in the Archives of American Art
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The papers of Los Angeles painter, printmaker, and educator, Charles W. White, measure 12.9 linear feet and date from 1933 to 1987, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1960s to the 1970s. The collection contains biographical material, including a sound recording of an interview with White; personal and professional correspondence; writings by White and others about his philosophy of art, his life, and career; professional files documenting White's participation in a variety of boards, committees, juries, symposiums, professional projects, and commissions; teaching files documenting White's tenure at Otis Art Institute; extensive printed material charting White's career from the 1930s until his death; scrapbooks primarily documenting his early career; and a small series of photographs.
The papers of Los Angeles painter, printmaker, and educator, Charles W. White, measure 12.9 linear feet and date from 1933 to 1987, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1960s to the 1970s. The collection contains biographical material including a sound recording of an interview with White; personal and professional correspondence; writings by White and others about his philosophy of art, his life, and career; professional files documenting White's participation in a variety of boards, committees, juries, symposiums, professional projects, and commissions; teaching files documenting White's tenure at Otis Art Institute; extensive printed material charting White's career from the 1930s until his death; scrapbooks primarily documenting his early career; and a small series of photographs.
Biographical material includes documentation of awards received by White, biographical notes, resumes, White's high school report cards, interview transcripts and a sound recording of an interview, and records related to Elizabeth Catlett from the 1940s.
Correspondence includes scattered letters from family and friends but is primarily professional. White's correspondence was often conducted by Benjamin Horowitz and, occasionally, by Frances White, although some scattered original drafts of letters by White can also be found in this series. The series documents many aspects of White's career including: his relationship with Horowitz and Heritage Gallery as his representative; sales, loans, and exhibitions of White's artwork at many museums, galleries, and art institutions; the publication of his work in journals, magazines, and books, and it's use in the film and music industries; and his relationships with others in the arts and the entertainment industry including Richmond Barthé, Margaret Burroughs, Bing Davis, David Driskell, Lorraine Hansberry, and Harry Belafonte's company, Belafonte Enterprises.
Writings by White include two addresses made to the Annual Conference of Negro Artists, statements on his philosophy of art, and an autobiographical essay. Writings by others include drafts of Benjamin Horowitz's book Images of Dignity:The Drawings of Charles White.
White's professional activities are further documented through records related to the many boards, committees, and exhibition and art contest juries he served on, as well as lectures he delivered, and panels and symposiums he participated in. White's professional files also contain records relating to fellowships he received and document projects such as designs for books, films, and magazines.
White's teaching files primarily relate to Otis Art Institute and contain some records related directly to his work there as well as general faculty and board material. The records document, to some extent, White's role as spokesperson for the faculty and students during the transfer of the Otis charter to Parsons School of Design in 1979. Documentation of White's association with Howard University is minimal and includes letters related to his appointment and resignation in 1978-1979.
Gallery and exhibition files document specific solo and group exhibitions and include records on two visits White made to Germany in 1974 and 1978.
Printed material includes announcements, exhibition catalogs, articles in journals, magazines, and news clippings, and publications with artwork by White that provide extensive coverage of White's career from the 1930s to his death. Also found is printed material collected by White on other artists, and on subjects of interest to him.
Three disbound scrapbooks provide compilations of printed material and occasional letters further documenting White's career. A small series of photographs includes holiday card photos of White, Frances White, and their two children, and photos of White and others taken at a workshop in 1969.
Throughout the collection there are folders containing notes written by Frances White, circa 1980-1981, which provide important contextual information about people, organizations and subjects in the collection, and sometimes highlight the racism White encountered, particularly during his early career. The dates of these notes are not included in folder dates.
The collection is arranged as nine series.
Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1934-1979 (Box 1; 0.2 linear feet)
Series 2: Correspondence, 1937-1984 (Boxes 1-4, 13; 3.64 linear feet)
Series 3: Writings, 1936-circa 1981 (Boxes 4-5; 0.45 linear feet)
Series 4: Professional Activities, circa 1942-1982 (Boxes 5-6, 13, OV 15; 1.81 linear feet)
Series 5: Teaching Files, 1950-1979 (Boxes 6, 13; 0.72 linear feet)
Series 6: Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1946-1980 (Box 7, Box 14; 0.98 linear feet)
Series 7: Printed Material, 1933-1987 (Boxes 8-14, OVs 15-17; 4.8 linear feet)
Series 8: Scrapbooks, 1936-1970s (Box 12; 0.15 linear feet)
Series 9: Photographic Material, 1940-1976 (Box 12; 0.15 linear feet)
Painter, printmaker, and educator, Charles W. White (1918-1979), was a prominent figure in the Chicago Black Renaissance and became one of the most celebrated and influential African American artists of the twentieth century. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, White lived and worked in California beginning in 1956, and taught at the Otis Art Institute from 1965 until his death.
White began painting at a young age, earning first prize in a nationwide high school art contest. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was awarded a full scholarship, from 1937-1938. After graduating from the school, White worked as a muralist for the Illinois Federal Arts Project sponsored by the Works Progress Administration from 1939 to 1940. He then received two fellowships from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation in 1942 and 1943 and created the mural The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy at the Hampton Institute. From 1943-1945 he taught at the George Washington Carver School in New York City, and was artist-in-residence at Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1945.
White's first marriage to Elizabeth Catlett ended in divorce and he married Frances Barrett in 1950. The couple relocated to Los Angeles where White was represented by Benjamin Horowitz's Heritage Gallery. White was widely exhibited in Los Angeles, and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Newark Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and elsewhere. Working primarily in black and white or sepia and white drawings, paintings, and lithographs, White's artwork was primarily figurative and depicted African American history, socio-economic struggles, and human relationships.
Charles White received a number of awards and honors and in 1972 he was the third African American artist to be elected a full member of the National Academy of Design.
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Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Funding for the digitization was provided by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
The bulk of the collection was digitized in 2020-2021 and is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
Material lent for microfilming is available on 35mm microfilm reels LA7 and 3099 at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Photographs on reel LA7 and material on reel 3099 were lent to the Archives of American Art for microfilming in 1965 and 1982, by Benjamin Horowitz, White's dealer, and by Frances White. Material on reel 2041 was donated by the George Arents Research Library, Syracuse University, 1976, who had originally received it from Horowitz. The remainder of the papers were donated by Charles White, 1975-1978, and after his death by Frances White and Benjamin Horowitz, 1981-1989.
The collection was minimally processed and a finding aid prepared by Rayna Andrews in 2019 with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation. The collection was further processed in preparation for digitization by Stephanie Ashley in 2019, and was digitized in 2020-2021 with funding from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
Separated Materials
The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of loaned materials (reels LA7 and 3099). Reel LA7 includes photographs of White, his work, and a career resume. Reel 3099 contains 31 items consisting of three travel diaries kept by Frances White, photographs and a recording of their trip to Russia in 1950, and 11 record album covers designed by Charles White. Loaned materials were returned to the lenders after microfilming and are not described in the collection container inventory.
Charles White's "Black Experience Archive," originally received with the papers, was donated to Howard University's Moorland-Springarn Research Center in 1985 at the request of Frances White.
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.
Charles W. White papers, 1933-1987. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The Archives of American Art also holds the Charles W. and Frances White letters and photographs to Melvin and Lorraine Williamson, the Lucinda H. Gedeon research material on Charles W. White, and an oral history interview with Charles W. White conducted by Betty Hoag, March 9, 1965.
A list of subject files on microfilm reels 3190-3195 is available at all Archives of American Art offices.
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The aforementioned tablodaki is accompanied by a large suite of other products and services, including a proprietary trading platform that enables both corporate and private investors to participate in a range of securities, including futures and options, and a sophisticated, centralized securities processing system that can support a large number of clients at a palatable price point. The company is also a leading innovator in the field of air cargo, which has been instrumental in the delivery of millions of tons of goods across the globe.
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FTX aficionados would be hard pressed to find a company other than the venerable FTX to its right if not its left. In a recent FTX shareholder’s meeting, CEO Sam Bankman-Fried touted the company’s foray into the crypto space, which has attracted the attention of major players such as Amazon Studios and Morgan Creek Digital. It’s been an uphill battle, but the FTX may have found a new lease of life.
The company has been issuing bonds to a number of investors, including Morgan Creek Digital, and is touting its recent achievements, as well as its upcoming IPO. The company’s top executives are also on the roadshow circuit, presenting at industry conferences and laying out their plans for the near future. Among their more interesting projects is a new bitcoin exchange, the first such entity to be licensed in the US.
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FTX and Alameda are two of the most prominent crypto firms in the world. Both firms have a close relationship. Both firms are also reportedly under investigation by the US Department of Justice and the Bahamas for criminal violations. There are concerns that the two firms may be in a monopoly over market activity.
FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange that launched in March. The firm’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, launched the exchange in order to capitalize on the growing market for digital assets. The company received funding from high-profile investors, including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, and SoftBank. FTX raised approximately $2 billion in equity early this year.
FTX is known for its guaranteed liquidity. It makes money by making loans to traders and making money on transaction fees. It has been in contact with dozens of regulators in the past 72 hours. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the US Attorney’s Office are also reportedly in communication with the firm.
Bay Bankman-Fried, ise almaya devam etmesine ragmen iddiali
FTX, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been shut down after a tangled series of transactions. During a two-year period, executives purchased 19 properties in the Bahamas for tens of millions of dollars. Most of the purchases were luxury beachfront homes and condominiums. The company also bought prominent sports sponsorships with Formula One Racing and the Miami arena. FTX used its token to make its balance sheet appear robust, but this token was worthless. In a few months, FTX will be forced to pay more than one million creditors for losses of billions of dollars. FTX executives have not been named in the bankruptcy filings, and a Reuters report suggests that funds for the company came from a mysterious source.
The company bought naming rights to the Miami arena, and a number of prominent politicians invited the company to conferences. The company also ran ads featuring Larry David in Super Bowl commercials, and pledged to donate $1 billion to Democrats.
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Spatial Distribution of the Precipitations of the Intensive Energetic Electron Fluxes into the Ionosphere within the 23rd and 24th Solar Cycles
M. G. Golubkov, A. V. Dmitriev, A. V. Suvorova, G. V. Golubkov
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Abstract: The intense precipitation of energetic electrons (with an energy of tens of keV) from the Earth’s radiation belt (ERB) is one of the most important sources of ionization in the ionosphere and atmosphere. In this paper, we analyze the spatial distribution of electron fluxes with energies greater than 30 keV at an altitude of 850 km using the maximum amount of statistical data available today. It is found that the region of electron precipitation from the outer zone of the ERB is shifting over North America to the pole, and over Siberia to the equator. Moreover, in the region of the Brazilian magnetic anomaly (BMA), the intensity of the energetic electron fluxes and its area in the 24th solar cycle decreases compared to the 23rd cycle. Based on the analysis of the distribution of quasi-trapped electrons under the radiation belt at low latitudes confirms the mechanism of their rapid radial transfer from the outer zone of the ERB to the Earth. The results obtained are mainly related to the change in the configuration of the Earth’s magnetic field, as well as to the decrease in solar and geomagnetic activity in the 24th solar cycle.
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Golubkov, M. G., Dmitriev, A. V., Suvorova, A. V., & Golubkov, G. V. (2022). Spatial Distribution of the Precipitations of the Intensive Energetic Electron Fluxes into the Ionosphere within the 23rd and 24th Solar Cycles. Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 16(3), 537-542. https://doi.org/10.1134/S199079312203006X
Golubkov, M. G. ; Dmitriev, A. V. ; Suvorova, A. V. et al. / Spatial Distribution of the Precipitations of the Intensive Energetic Electron Fluxes into the Ionosphere within the 23rd and 24th Solar Cycles. In: Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2022 ; Vol. 16, No. 3. pp. 537-542.
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The realities of ransomware
on April 8, 2022 Compliance and Risk, Cybersecurity
By Monica C. Meinert
Unfortunately for banks and businesses, ransomware is all the rage these days.
These crippling attacks—through which cyber criminals install malware that encrypts data on computers or mobile devices and renders it useless until a ransom is paid—have been observed around the globe, and have grown in scope and sophistication in recent months. Anyone can be a victim, from individuals to global corporations, and criminals have grown increasingly focused on targeting critical infrastructure entities like oil pipelines, food processors, hospitals and municipalities.
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Recent high-profile ransomware attacks included an incident affecting the Colonial Pipeline—a major supplier of fuel to the East Coast—which triggered widespread gas shortages. Another involved an attack on JBS Foods, the world’s largest meat processor, forcing temporary closures of all beef plants in the U.S. Both of these attacks were thought to have been perpetrated by state-sponsored Russian hackers. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has only amped up increased concerns about the potential for crippling ransomware hacks.
“Those attacks demonstrated that ransomware was not just a nuisance, but present systemic risk when the very systems being held for ransom are the critical infrastructures that our nation’s economy relies upon in order to function,” says Juan Zarate, global co-managing partner and chief strategy officer at K2 Integrity, adding that ransomware has become the “issue du jour” for regulators and banks alike. Incidents like the Colonial Pipeline or JBS Foods attacks have “really quickened the pace of attention to threats from ransomware and the financial ecosystem that goes along with it,” Zarate told attendees at the ABA/ABA Financial Crimes Enforcement Conference in January. “Ransomware and the dynamics around the threat and risk have really become a center of gravity for how we think about cyber threats and cybersecurity.”
Convergence with crypto
The rising threat of cybercrime has converged with the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency landscape, which has grown larger and more legitimate over the past few years—in fact, the market cap of all cryptocurrencies at the start of 2022 was hovering around $2 trillion, up from $345 billion in 2020.
Cryptocurrencies have become an important conduit for criminals to move illicit funds, and it’s not uncommon for hackers to demand that payments be made using cryptocurrencies. An analysis of Suspicious Activity Report filings conducted by CipherTrace (a cryptocurrency intelligence company that was recently acquired by MasterCard) found that as 2021 came to a close, more than $4 billion in cryptocurrencies and other digital assets had been lost due to hacks and fraud, and almost $1 billion had been lost due to ransomware.
Essentially, “you have a convergence of cyber-related risk and threat through ransomware and vulnerabilities tied to the crypto economy for illicit purposes all coming to a head,” Zarate explains, which has led regulators and law enforcement agencies—including the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Office of Foreign Assets Control—to issue a number of advisories warning banks of these growing threats and ramping up sanctions and reporting expectations.
(That’s not to say that cryptocurrencies provide a one-sided advantage for bad actors, however. In fact, Zarate adds that the open architecture blockchain ecosystems could actually allow for greater traceability of illicit funds by law enforcement, or a greater ability to claw back payments that have been made in a ransomware context, as was the case in the Colonial Pipeline incident: in June 2021, the Department of Justice announced that it was able to recover the majority of the bitcoins that Colonial Pipeline paid as ransom.)
While many banks have not yet begun offering cryptocurrency products or services to their customers directly, CipherTrace CEO Dave Jevins cautions that even “if your bank isn’t doing crypto directly, it’s being done to you”—meaning that bank customers are engaging in the crypto and virtual asset markets, potentially exposing the bank to greater risk and fraud. Additionally, Jevins notes that “over half of cryptocurrency exchanges . . . have extremely weak or nonexistent know-your-customer procedures. This creates a risk scenario that banks need to understand.”
When clients become ransomware victims
This convergence of threats and vulnerabilities leaves banks with a real tactical challenge, Zarate says. “Institutions have to deal with the question of whether they understand what attacks have taken place, where vulnerabilities are, what data has been taken, what the perpetrators may have—and then the cost-benefit analysis of whether putting those systems offline or at risk is worth it,” he says. “All of this resolves to greater cyber hygiene, greater adherence to [National Institute of Standards and Technology] protocols [and]greater devotion to ensuring that the basics of cybersecurity are being done so you’re not left with the very hard question: do you pay if you’re attacked?”
Beyond being concerned about the bank itself falling victim to ransomware, banks also have to be prepared to respond if they suspect that their customers are making ransomware payments to criminal actors.
These transactions can be hard to identify—particularly if the ransomware payments are exiting the bank and moving through a third-party, like a cryptocurrency exchange—but Neil Eisenstadt, assistant general counsel for global financial crimes at JPMorgan Chase, notes that “there are some circumstances in which financial institutions are uniquely positioned to learn about a ransomware attack against a client, depending on what kinds of products or services you offer your customers.”
For example, clients using online payments products and services may reach out to the bank to have those services disabled if they’ve been subject to a ransomware attack. Given that, Eisenstadt recommends training customer-facing bank staff on how to engage clients in a “frank discussion” of the factors motivating such a request. “A lot of times, with the right approach to that conversation, [bankers]will be able to elicit if the client is subject to a ransomware attack.” His bank provides talking points to help them communicate with clients and explain that it’s in their best interest to inform the bank if they’re contemplating making a ransomware payment. “We want to at least give the client some comfort at the outset that our interests are typically aligned with theirs, and we have a joint interest in trying to get comfortable if the client is even considering making a ransom payment.”
Having a playbook prepared in advance to help guide the bank’s response to various ransomware scenarios can also be helpful. Eisenstadt recommends that banks have go-to response plans ready to address a scenario where a customer is considering making a payment, and one in which the payment has already been made.
In the first case, a bank will likely need to make a decision in a short amount of time about whether or not to allow the payment to go through, observes Sharon Cohin Levin, a partner at Sullivan and Cromwell, so “it’s best to have a playbook so you’re not caught off guard and scrambling to figure it out.”
Levin adds that banks should carefully review their obligations for notifying their regulators and law enforcement in the event they suspect a customer may be a victim of a ransomware attack. “Regardless of the size of your institution, you’re going to encounter this issue,” says Levin. “Everything you can do in advance to prepare—to have that playbook, to know how to respond—is going to help your institution, and it’s also going to help your customer. They’re in a crisis, and you’re going to be working with them to find the most effective way to deal with that crisis, consistent with your legal and regulatory requirements.”
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The latest rape and sexual assault statistics from May released by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) are just as alarming as the previous month’s report. It
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The latest rape and sexual assault statistics from May released by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) are just as alarming as the previous month’s report.
It is disturbing to note that there are people in our society who are sick in their heads.
They walk among us and pretend that they are normal when in fact they are not.
They have gone ahead to allegedly commit heinous acts of rape and sexual assault.
Twenty eight people were charged with a total of 72 separate incidents last month. The offences were rape (51), attempted rape (one), indecent assault (three), defilement (two) and sexual assault (15).
There were 33 victims of the 72 separate incidents of whom 21 victims were under the age of 18 years.
There were three accused persons under the age of 18 years. Of these three, one of the accused is alleged to have raped a three-year-old male. This is shocking and deplorable.
What is more alarming is that there were 12 incidents where the accused and the victims were related to each other. In these cases, children and women are taken advantage of by their own family members.
Of these 12, there were two serious sexual offences where the victims were 1-year-10-months old and 1-year-11-months old. The accused persons were a 22-year-old father and a 60-year-old grandfather.
There was another incident where the victim was three years old and the accused was his 32-year-old stepfather.
Another serious sexual offence involved a 73-year-old man who was charged with the rape of his daughter and daughter- in- law and sexual assault of his granddaughter.
In another incident, a 61-year-old man is alleged to have sexually assaulted a mentally challenged victim. Who in his right frame of mind would prey on a mentally challenged person? Only an insane person would do it.
The release of these figures co-incides with the release of child abuse figures. Between August 2016 and April 2017, 787 child abuse cases were recorded.
There has been a 34 per cent increase from the 2014-2015 statistics. Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation Mereseini Vuniwaqa says almost every week we hear of cases in the news of children who have been sexually abused.
The fight against this scourge in our communities begins at home, she adds.
All these sexual crimes beg the question: What is the role of our religious organisations? Can they do something and help?
Our religious leaders need to move their focus away from politics and other activities and concentrate on the spiritual upbringing of their congregation members.
They need to focus on teachings that will lead to stopping rape and sexual assault.
They need to play a bigger role.
We all need to play a bigger role. The fact that toddlers are being allegedly raped by their family members is a national shame.
Where is the humanity in us? Let’s do something about it and stop this evil.
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Hydrogen Aircraft: £84 million invested in the UK
Tue 2 February 2021
Marine Beal
The Hydrogen Aircraft would be a real technological revolution for the aerospace sector, which has been hit hard by the health crisis. In this sense, the British government has decided to invest more than 84 million pounds sterling. This research would open new perspectives.
The hydrogen aircraft, a revolutionary green technology
Priority to clean energy
The hydrogen aircraft could solve some of the pollution problems caused by conventional aircraft. Even though the use of cleaner energy has become a global priority.
Against the backdrop of the pandemic, emissions from air traffic have been reduced by almost 60% in 2020. But not everything is due to the current crisis.
Read on energynews.com: Is the UK’s energy white paper setting the bar too high?
Accelerating travel with hydrogen
Indeed, progress is being made in this sector, often ignored, notably with the development of hydrogen-powered aircraft.
The latter would allow travelers to go abroad in a more environmentally friendly way. It could also revolutionize our daily life with shorter flights. This would have two positive consequences: less congestion on the roads and faster travel.
A £84 million bet
The creation of 5000 jobs
The British government has decided to bet everything on this new technology. To this end, it has decided to fund three projects to the tune of 84.6 million pounds. Nearly 5,000 jobs could be created in this way.
Great expectations are placed on these projects which could play a central role in the fight against global warming. According to Paul Scully, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs :
“These pioneering projects are expanding the horizons of future air transport, towards a greener future.
The goal is zero emission flight by 2023. It has become urgent for the country to end its dependence on polluting energies such as oil.
Three innovative projects funded
The first elected project is H2GEAR with 27.2 million pounds: It is led by GKN, the world’s leading provider of greener aerospace solutions. He plans to set up an innovative system with liquid hydrogen propulsion, usable for all types of travel.
12.3 million pounds is won by Hyfler II from ZeroAvia: leading developer of hydrogen powered aircraft. The funds will be used to increase the number of zero-emission engines.
Blue Bear Systems Research ‘s Inception receives £2.4 million in funding: It wants to develop a fully electrified zero-emission propulsion system for all aircraft.
Read on energynews.co.uk: Carbon neutrality: UK releases £12bn
Massive investments in aerospace
11 billion pounds in research and development
During the health crisis, the British government was keen to support a key sector of its economy. A total of £11 billion has been mobilized.
Massive expenditures have been directed towards research and development for several years
In 2012, the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) was born. It is more than 3.9 billion pounds invested in aerospace programs for the period 2013-2016. At the end of 2020, Boris Johnson presented his 10-point plan for a green industry that would create 250,000 jobs.
For example, under the Future Flight Challenge, £125 million for aerospace is being awarded to companies working on clean vehicles. There is also a partnership, called the Jet Zero Council, between the government and industry to find solutions to reduce CO2 emissions.
Developing “green” soft power
The United Kingdom has the privilege of hosting COP26 in Glasgow this year. Its position as a pioneer in hydrogen aircraft is a considerable asset for its environmental diplomacy.
The UK government has set a target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by the end of 2030. The hydrogen aircraft will undoubtedly be an ecological but above all economic asset for the United Kingdom.
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Hawaii's Unsolved Murders
Hawaii’s Unsolved Murders: Who killed former Chaminade University basketball player Mark Wells?
by: Brigette Namata
Posted: May 3, 2021 / 11:11 PM HST
Updated: May 4, 2021 / 09:44 PM HST
WEST MAUI, Hawaii (KHON) – Maui Police are renewing requests for information in the death of Mark Wells, who played a role in what’s considered the greatest upset in college basketball history.
The Chaminade University Silverswords defeated the University of Virginia Cavaliers on December 23, 1982.
At the time, the Cavaliers were the NCAA’s top-ranked team which included 3-time national player of the year Ralph Sampson.
The victory is widely regarded as college basketball’s “biggest upset” of all time.
Wells was unable to channel the fame from the surprise win in his later years. Maui Police say he suffered from substance abuse, and was a suspect in an alleged sex assault days before his death.
The 44-year-old’s body was found riddled with gunshot wounds in a remote area of West Maui.
On January 1st, 2005, a hiker came across Wells’ lifeless body at Nakele Point, 100 yards makai of Kahekili Highway in Kahakuloa.
The former basketball player was last seen alive on December 31st, 2004 in the Kaanapali area.
Maui Police Detectives Michael Vai’tualala and Jeremy Pallone-De La Torre took over the investigation in 2021.
The area where Wells’ body was found, is “off the beaten path,” explained Pallone-De La Torre. “You have to really know how to get here. It appears as if he were lured to the area.”
“What struck me with this case is the brutal way he was killed. This is Maui. We’re a tight knit community. The violence that took place is shocking for us here,” said Vai’tualala.
Hawaii’s Unsolved Murders: Who killed Sean Burgado?
MPD says there are reasons to believe more than 1 person was involved in Wells’ death.
Yet 16 years after the crime, no one has come forward.
“It’s very frustrating. We tell people, how would you feel if that’s your family? Your loved one? They would want police to do everything in their power,” said Pallone-De La Torre.
“In Mark Wells’ case, his life was cut short. Whereas the perpetrator or perpetrators are still out there. Mark Wells didn’t have that chance,” he added.
“There’s somebody here on Maui that knows what happened,” said Vai’tualala.
If you have information that can help Maui Police find out who killed Mark Wells, email mauicoldcases@mpd.net.
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Rihanna you’re a Womble !
This is not child protection at all, and a solid 80% of what follows is nonsense, but it is all based on a commercial law case called Fenty and Others v Arcadia Group 2015 just decided in the Court of Appeal. (the case is really Rihanna v Topshop, but that’s the formal name – Fenty is Rihanna’s surname, and Arcadia own Topshop)
This is the original judgment
http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2013/2310.html&query=fenty&method=boolean
and this is the appeal
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2015/3.html
Quickly, because this might confuse older readers, younger readers and No-Telly Neville. Rihanna is a current pop star, with a substantial batch of hit songs and is also a fashion icon for young people – she is cool. The Wombles are a group of fictional furry creatures who live on Wimbledon common and who make good use of the things that they find, things that the everyday folks leave behind. They pick up rubbish.
Major recording artist with a string of catchy hits
Picks up rubbish (yes, I went there with the Chris Brown gag)
[Note that use of any image of the Wombles or Rihanna does not imply that either of them endorse the Suesspicious Minds website – but let’s be honest, we all know that if they want to find out information about family law in the UK, they don’t go anywhere ELSE to find it]
You are probably asking yourself at this point, how the Wombles and Rihanna come together in the English Courts – and possibly also whether there is a musical collaboration in the offing. I will relate to you, how their histories enweave.
The case was about Topshop selling a T-shirt with a photographic image of Rihanna, and Rihanna suing them.
The Court of Appeal point out quickly that in England, unlike America, there is no such thing as “image rights” – Rihanna, as a celebrity, does not own the copyright in her image or photograph or appearance. The copyright lies with the creator of the photograph, who had consented to its use.
The case was, instead, dealt with under the umbrella-ella-ella of “passing off”
the law of passing off is not designed to protect a person against fair competition. Nor does it protect a person against the sale by others of the same goods or even copied goods. What it protects is goodwill and it prevents one person passing off his goods or services as those of another. As Lord Oliver of Aylmerton explained in Reckitt & Colman Products Ltd v Borden Inc & Ors [1990] RPC 341 at page 406, a claimant must establish three elements in order to succeed in such a claim. First, he must establish a goodwill or reputation attached to the goods or services which he supplies in the mind of the purchasing public by association with the particular name or get up under which the goods or services are offered to the public, such that the name or get up is recognised by the public as distinctive of the claimant’s goods or services. Second, he must demonstrate a misrepresentation by the defendant to the public leading or likely to lead the public to believe that the goods or services offered by him are the goods or services of the claimant. Third, he must demonstrate that he suffers or, in a quia timet action that he is likely to suffer, damage by reason of the erroneous belief engendered by the defendant’s misrepresentation that the source of the defendant’s goods or services is the same as the source of those offered by the claimant.
For this case, Rihanna would have to show that :-
She has a degree of goodwill in her name and reputation, particularly in fashion
That Topshop had led the public to believe that the T-shirt was a Rihanna product in some way
That she suffers loss or potential loss as a result of people believing that this was an official or endorsed product.
Would she win, or would Topshop be able to say that Rihanna had found love, and a hopeless case?
The judgment is worth reading – the original trial Judge had been very switched on and in touch in relation to Rihanna, celebrity culture, young people, viral marketing and fashion, including that the item Rihanna was wearing on the unauthorised T-shirt being a “bralet” – and resisted, where I would have not, of saying it was a bralet for a starlet.
This was his original conclusion
There followed an overall evaluation by the judge of the various findings which he had made up to this point. He considered that the fact that the t-shirt was a fashion garment and the further fact that it was on sale in a high street retailer did not assist one side or the other. However, the nature of the image itself was a fairly strong indication that the t-shirt might be authorised and approved by Rihanna herself. So also, the public links between Topshop and famous stars in general and, more importantly, Rihanna in particular, would enhance the risk of consumers believing the garment had been authorised by her. He recognised that the fact that neither the swing tag nor the neck label carried the Rihanna name or the R slash logo pointed against authorisation but, in his view, this was not sufficient to negate the contrary impression. He summarised the position this way:
“72. … Although I accept that a good number of purchasers will buy the t-shirt without giving the question of authorisation any thought at all, in my judgment a substantial portion of those considering the product will be induced to think it is a garment authorised by the artist. The persons who do this will be the Rihanna fans. They will recognise or think they recognise the particular image of Rihanna, not simply as a picture of the artist, but as a particular picture of her associated with a particular context, the recent Talk That Talk album. For those persons the idea that it is authorised will be part of what motivates them to buy the product. I am quite satisfied that many fans of Rihanna regard her endorsement as important. She is their style icon. Many will buy a product because they think she has approved of it. Others will wish to buy it because of the value of the perceived authorisation itself. In both cases they will have been deceived.”
Finally, the judge dealt with damage. He considered that if, as he believed to be the case, a substantial number of consumers were likely to be deceived into buying the t-shirt because of a false belief that it had been authorised by Rihanna then that would obviously damage her goodwill. It would result in a loss of sales to her merchandising business and also represent a loss of control over her reputation in the fashion sphere. It was, he thought, for her to choose which garments she endorsed. In all the circumstances, Topshop’s sale of the t-shirt without her approval amounted to passing off.
I enjoyed the detail that Topshop had commissioned some market research prior to the trial, getting people to look at the T-shirt and comment as to whether they thought it was an official piece of Rihanna merchandise. They called the author of that research.
Sadly, as she was a trainee solicitor working at the firm representing Topshop, one might think that she wasn’t the most impartial witness ever to take the stand. I think the Judge was very kind about that
Mrs Armstrong is a trainee solicitor in the defendants’ solicitors currently seconded to the legal team at Arcadia, the parent group of the defendants. She gave evidence of efforts she had undertaken to find out if Topshop staff were aware of any feedback from customers concerning the t-shirt. She was a good witness but I am not satisfied the exercise Mrs Armstrong described was sufficiently rigorous to establish the proposition advanced, that there had been no comments or relevant feedback relating to the product.
But where, Suesspicious Minds are the Wombles? Do not worry, I am about to go with the Orinoco Flow
In the original judgment, there are a number of legal authorities referred to. Two stood out for me
In the 1970s there were a number of cases in which merchandising rights were not found to exist before the English courts. These included Tavener Rutledge v Trexapalm (Kojak Lollipops, the “unauthorised” local lollipop retailer succeeded against the makers of the television program) [1977] RPC 275
[I remember those Kojak lollipops! Also this story reminded me that when I was eight and a barber asked me how I wanted my hair cut (the only acceptable answers at the time being “short back and sides” or “just a little bit shorter all over”) I instead said “Well, I like the police, and I like lollipops, but I don’t want to look like Kojak” – this being the first time I wrote my own material rather than relying on the Big Daddy bumper joke book. Note for Neville, Kojak was a TV detective in the 70s who had two gimmicks – he was bald, and he sucked lollipops. He also had a catchphrase, see next gag]
For God’s sake, Suesspicious Minds, I hear you cry. I did not start reading an article called “Rihanna, who loves you baby?” – where the chuff are the Wombles?
The next merchandising authority where a celebrity was used to endorse a product without that celeb’s permission was this:-
Wombles v Womble Skip Hire (skips for collecting rubbish branded Womble, injunction refused) [1975] FSR 488
[It is beyond the scope of this article, but the case that altered the Wombles precedent involved Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. I am SERIOUSLY thinking about becoming a lawyer specialising in “passing off” cases if I would get to bring Kojak, Wombles and Ninja Turtles to Court in my bundle of authorities]
I can’t really think about Wombles v Womble Skip Hire without envisaging the actual real wombles becoming outraged and sitting in a solicitors waiting room and bringing the case. Orinco sat behind counsel with his nose in a bowl of porridge, Tobermory with a pencil behind his ear rebuilding the witness box and Madame Cholet checking out the RCJ cafeteria. Or a procession of them walking purposefully down the hallways (possibly with a Womble cover version of “Little Green Bag” playing in the background)
But even better, in my mind, is that at some point, Rihanna’s legal team had to tell her that there was a case that would help in her litigation and that it is about Wombles. And them having to explain to Rihanna what a womble is. For some reason in my imagination, Rihanna’s lawyer sounds like a New York wise-guy (which he or she absolutely is not, in real life, in any way, and this should not be construed as any suggestion that they are anything other than amazing human beings)
“So, they’re like sort of bears, see, but they wear clothes and hats. And they have snouts, and they have bright black shiny noses and one of them eats porridge and falls asleep – like all the time. That one is Orinoco, see? And the main man, he’s Great Uncle Bulgaria, and he sends his crew out every day to find a copy of the Times for him. They all live in a burrow, and the burrow is wallpapered with old newspapers. And they have a French chef, and she’s a womble too – they call her Madame Cholet. You know the Smurfs, right? Like smurfs, only not. Both have an old man leader, and only one girl. But wombles, they ain’t blue “
“Are you billing me for this?”
Rihanna wins the Court of Appeal case, just as the Wombles won their own case about protecting other people using their image to sell unauthorised products. So Rihanna, you’re a womble.
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Quizlet: Innovative Learning and Flashcard Tool
Quizlet Concept and Main Selling Point
Quizlet [1] is a platform designed to help students advance their learning through various worthwhile tools such as study sets and flashcards. It uses artificial intelligence to help learners with the aptly named AI Learning Assistance.
The main goal of Quizlet is to aid students in understanding lessons by providing easy and accessible explanations in 64 subjects available with millions of study sets and repetitive flashcards. Every material is science-based to further enable learning.
With the help of technology such as AI and other innovations, the company is able to distribute its materials to users worldwide. According to the company, 90% of learners who consult Quizlet get higher grades. This tool can be accessed using different devices such as desktop and mobile.
An Overview of Quizlet’s History
2005 – Quizlet was founded by Andrew Sutherland and David Margulius.
2015 – The company obtained capital through a later-stage venture capital funding.
2018 – It underwent another funding round involving later-stage companies.
2020 – Acquired additional funds through a venture capital investor.
2021 – Quizlet acquired Slader.
Founders and Key People
Andrew Sutherland
Andrew Sutherland is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Quizlet. He is also a Board Member of the California YIMBY.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science. He also worked with a team of researchers at MIT’s Self-Labeling Speech group on their speech recognizer back in 2009.
David Margulius
David Margulius is a co-founder and a Board Member at Quizlet. Previously, he worked at Collectors Weekly, Churchill Club, Enterprise Insight, and Evite, just to name a few.
His educational background includes studying at Brown University for a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, and Stanford University Graduate School of Business for a master’s degree in business administration.
Matthew Glotzbach
Matthew Glotzbach is the Chief Executive Officer at Quizlet. Before this, he worked in various roles at YouTube, JobApp Network, Google, and Trilogy.
He is Cornell University-educated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. His skills include Product Management and Enterprise Software. He also has experience volunteering as part of the IT Advisory Board and California Board at Room to Read.
A Look into Quizlet’s Finances and Funding
Quizlet currently has a total funding amount of $62 million, which is obtained through three funding rounds. Namely Series A, B, and C throughout different years. Its biggest funding was during the Series C round with $30 million through General Atlantic with partner Peter Munzig.
It has seven investors, four of them are lead investors namely General Atlantic, Icon Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, and Union Square Ventures. Other investors are Altos Ventures, Industry Ventures, and Owl Ventures.
Quizlet has also acquired the Math resources platform Slader on March 25, 2021. It is valued at $1 billion to $10 billion on May 14, 2020. This is a post-money valuation by PrivCo.
Major Competitors:
Numerade – https://www.numerade.com/
Kahoot! – https://kahoot.com/
Pear Deck – https://www.peardeck.com/googleslides
Ouizlet Website
[1] – https://quizlet.com/
[2] – https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/93045-34#overview
[3] – https://www.linkedin.com/in/asuth/
[4] – https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemargulius/
[5] – https://www.linkedin.com/in/mglotzbach/
[6] – https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quizlet/company_financials
[7] – https://craft.co/quizlet
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August 12, 2022 | American Water (NYSE: AWK) |
Missouri American Water invests $5 million to replace 1930s water mains in Affton
AFFTON, MO (August 12, 2022) – Missouri American Water will replace nearly 8,000 feet (approximately 1.5 miles) of aging water main in Affton, MO starting this summer. The company is upgrading the aging 8- and 12-inch cast-iron water mains that were installed in the 1930s with new 12-inch and 16-inch ductile iron mains along the following streets:
Gravois Road from Tesson Ferry Road to New Hampshire Avenue
New Hampshire Avenue from Gravois Road to Weber Road
Weber Road from Valcour Avenue to Gravois Road
Traffic detours will continue around the New Hampshire Avenue railroad crossing for approximately one week followed by an approximate three-week detour of the Weber Road railroad crossing. Traffic will be detoured onto Valcour Avenue, Heege Road, and Mackenzie Road.
“Investing $5 million to replace these 90-year-old pipes will enhance water service and reliability in Affton, both for everyday use and for community fire protection,” said Rich Svindland, president of Missouri American Water. “This improvement project is part of our $400 million investment this year to upgrade our water and wastewater systems across the state.”
The company will also replace eight fire hydrants and 140 service lines along the pipeline route.
Weather permitting, work will be completed in late fall. Construction will take place between 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Some after-hour work may be necessary in high-traffic areas to minimize inconvenience to our customers. Final restoration of streets and yards will take place in the spring.
To view a map of pipe replacement projects, visit Missouri American Water’s new interactive map.
Motorists should use caution when driving in the construction areas and obey traffic signs, detour routes and flaggers. Missouri American Water will provide continuous updates as work occurs. Customers may receive updates via door hangers and/or the company’s notification system that contacts customers via phone, text or email based on customer preferences. Visit missouriamwater.com for emergency alerts and create or update a MyWater account to sign up for notifications.
Missouri American Water, a subsidiary of American Water (NYSE: AWK), is the largest investor-owned water utility in the state, providing high-quality and reliable water and wastewater services to approximately 1.5 million people. For more information, visit www.missouriamwater.com and follow Missouri American Water on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
With a history dating back to 1886, American Water (NYSE:AWK) is the largest and most geographically diverse U.S. publicly traded water and wastewater utility company. The company employs more than 6,400 dedicated professionals who provide regulated and regulated-like drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people in 24 states. American Water provides safe, clean, affordable and reliable water services to our customers to help keep their lives flowing. For more information, visit amwater.com and diversityataw.com.Follow American Water on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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2016-12-22 10:17 PM -05:00
It Started with the Vesper
Lately I've been experimenting with "mixers". By "mixer" I mean aperitifs, liqueurs, and digestifs that almost always appear as secondary ingredients in a cocktail, but that one almost never thinks of drinking on their own. The intention here is to write a series of articles about each one.
It started with the Vesper, a mixed drink well known in cocktail circles. The recipe comes from an iconic scene in Ian Flemings's Casino Royale, where Bond instructs the bartender as follows:
Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?
Please note the reference to Kina Lillet. It's the most interesting part of the whole business.
There are a couple of problems with following this recipe verbatim. Casino Royale was written in the 1950's, and the Gordon's that you could buy in the 1950's was not the same as the Gordon's that you can buy today. Furthermore, though there is a French aperitif known as Lillet Blanc, and though it is quite delicious in its own right, it bears little resemblance to the Kina Lillet mentioned in Bond's formulation; that one had a bitter kick, due to the added quinine that was later removed from the recipe in the 1980's, thus transforming it into the Lillet sold now.
So what do you do if you want to make a Vesper cocktail today? Glad you asked!
For the gin, it's pretty easy - pick something high proof, as Gordon's was something like 47% when Casino Royale was written. You'll want something fairly classic, where the flavour is mostly juniper - when it came to gin, I don't think the 50's did fancy.
For the vodka too, pick something stronger - vodka was usually sold at 100 proof in Bond's day.
For the Kina Lillet, it's a bit more complicated. As I mentioned, Kina Lillet effectively doesn't exist anymore. So what can you do?
It turns out that there are still products that have a similar flavour profile to 50's era Lillet. One example is Cocchi Americano, an Italian aperitif that still includes quinine in the recipe. By all accounts, it's the closest you're going to get to the Kina Lillet of bygone days, and it's delicious, even on its own. It's readily available in the U.S., though for a long time it was hard to come by in Montreal, where I live. Luckily, Montreal is relatively close to the U.S.
In any case, armed with your substitutes, you can easily make a Vesper cocktail the way James Bond would have wanted. If he weren't, you know, fictional.
So, is it any good?
Well...honestly...not really. I find that the Vesper makes for a better story than drink.
Let me rephrase. If you really, really like ultra dry martinis, containing little to no vermouth, then you'll probably like the Vesper, but probably not as much as an actual ultra dry martini.
If you like your martinis somewhat "wet", containing an appreciable amount of vermouth, then the Vesper might be a welcome change.
If you're like me and you're not a huge fan of dry martinis at all, then the Vesper probably won't be that impressive for you.
I find the Vesper tries a little too hard to be different things. It's kind of like a gin martini, but it has added vodka, so the gin isn't quite as sharp. It basically swaps out some flavour for strength - not a good trade, in my opinion. Also, despite the vodka, it's definitely nothing like a vodka martini - it contains way too much gin. And it's not very dry in the modern sense - it contains more than just a few drops of the Cocchi Americano. So I think the Vesper would kind of alienate a significant portion of the martini drinking population.
When I first made this cocktail, I found that I was having a hard time detecting the presence of the Cocchi Americano. I wasn't convinced it was a necessary component to the drink and, in fact, I've seen so-called Vespers on drink menus consisting of nothing but gin and vodka. To satisfy my curiosity, I proceeded to make two batches of the cocktail to sample side by side: one with the aperitif and one without.
I won't keep you in suspense: the Cocchi Americano is definitely detectable in the drink as...something, just not (to my taste) specifically as Cocchi Americano. The version without the aperitif lacks a certain smoothness that is present in the other. Bottom line: do not omit the aperitif. It definitely improves the drink.
At the end of the day, though, this just isn't one of my favourite concoctions. Dry martinis are, at the best of times (gin-based, with plenty of vermouth), bland affairs, designed to get you wasted quickly and efficiently (and don't get me started on vodka martinis). The Vesper has a little more spice to it, true, but it's still not very interesting.
In fact, the best thing about the Vesper was not the cocktail itself but my discovery of Cocchi Americano; that stuff is awesome, and deserves its own article. Stay tuned.
#cocktails #recipes


Designing and Redesigning the Science Center
Matt Fleury
Editor’s Note: Since this article was published in the Association of Science and Technology Center’s magazine, Dimensions, the architect of the Connecticut Science Center building, Cesar Pelli, passed away at the age of 92.
Science Center President & CEO Matt Fleury issued the following statement:
“Cesar Pelli played a gigantic role in the creation of the Connecticut Science Center we know today, having won the building design competition in 2004. Pelli’s building has redefined the Hartford skyline in a contemporary, complimentary, inspiring and appropriate way, and it continues to serve the Science Center’s functional purposes very well, 10 years since it opened. No facility of this complexity and magnitude is built without its challenges, but those pale in comparison to the singular impact of the Science Center as an iconic statement of Connecticut’s heritage and future as a place of innovation, and as a vessel for the engagement of millions in science, learning and enjoyment.”
Originally published in the July/August 2019 issue of the Association of Science-Technology Centers’ Dimensions magazine.
Link for Dimensions magazine: https://www.astc.org/publications/dimensions/
The Connecticut Science Center in Hartford celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. But the crucial planning choices that led to the institution’s success were made in the years before its doors opened in 2009. And since that time, the natural progression of updates to physical spaces and the interactive experiences they enable have fostered an equally important chapter in the museum’s service to our community.
SCIENCE CENTER PLANNING PHASE
When it was first conceived, the science center was called upon to be a magnetic presence that would make a strong statement about the future of its community in the context of an urban revitalization in Hartford.The science center’s high-profile site meant that it would become a new centerpiece of the state capital’s elegant skyline, and an appropriate architectural statement was essential. Much excitement accompanied a public competition among world-renowned architects. Ultimately, the science center selected Cesar Pelli’s vision, featuring a dramatic array of parallelograms and a sweeping roof reaching toward the Connecticut River. The unique building concept celebrates Connecticut’s history of invention and its vibrant new presence that would inspire hope and investment. The geometry of the building also emblematizes a rediscovery of science and engineering for all ages, which is ignited by the experiences inside.
Realizing that the building’s statement would be hollow if we didn’t consider a science center’s operational and programmatic needs, we designed exhibitions in parallel with the building. One perspective informed the other. Exhibits that require full natural light are situated near extra large windows, while exhibits requiring darkness are tucked into windowless areas the natural light doesn’t reach. For example, an exhibit gallery about the local watershed features an extraordinary vista of the Connecticut River below, while the light controls needed to create an immersive exhibition about space exploration occupy an area where salient external views are not sacrificed. The science center’s planning team, with the help of museum planning experts at White Oak Associates, articulated many of these conditions in a detailed document on required program spaces. This document was provided to candidate architects in the final proposal phase of the competition so that all of the building designs would respond to basic needs, from 24-foot exhibition ceiling heights to parking spaces.
Although the program space requirements were clearly specified, reconciling them with concept-level building schemes was an endeavor that was as challenging as it was crucial. As a start-up organization that had never occupied a facility or served a visitor, we recruited experienced museum professionals to our management staff and sought detailed advice from consultants, with particular attention to visitor movement through the vertical building, dictated by the relatively small 2.4-acre building site. Indeed, the natural tension between interior museum experience design and the requirements of a marquee location with architectural significance demanded fresh thinking from both perspectives. Members of the ASTC community and the ASTC Annual Conference were valuable resources throughout the process,which made it especially exciting when the Connecticut Science Center hosted the ASTC Annual Conference in 2018.
REFINEMENTS IN MOTION
In the 10 years since it opened, the Connecticut Science Center has conducted an ambitious program of capital and operational improvements. In part, these comprised the further development of existing spaces. Other projects included developing fallow spaces that had not been completed in the original project. We made improvements that addressed immediately identified needs, such as building higher barriers on a main stairway to prevent visitors from dropping items. We also tackled projects such as reconfiguring the main ticketing area to afford more comfortable visitor interactions and add capacity. We reoriented the point of entry to the exhibitions to enhance visibility and supplemented the heating system in the lobby. Improvements of this nature were driven by careful observations of visitor and staff experiences as well as by documented visitor comments. The visitor-facing operations team strongly influenced these enhancements, as we channeled feedback from front-line ticketing and visitor services staff into the design process.
More apparent to the general audience, the 140-foot-tall main lobby space was transformed from an architecturally grand venue to the beginning of a museum experience that leverages the volume of space and better satisfies the expectations of an experience-seeking audience. While the architect proposed generalized visions of suspended artifacts, we had not developed this idea in time for the science center’s opening. As with other aspects of the project that were completed or re-imagined after the opening, we embraced this as an opportunity to observe tangible experiences in an operating environment in ways not possible in even the most rigorous design phase. After we reflected on the space in this context, we decided to create a mission-relevant story that would accompany visitors along the vertical flow of the main entry. Visitors are now greeted by a stylized presentation of natural and human-made science and invention from the ocean’s depths to outer space, evoking anticipation of what they’ll see in the exhibitions.
Within exhibit galleries, we carefully review multiple considerations before planning new or revised exhibitions. Across-functional team identifies opportunities to enhance coverage of subject matter areas. For example, the team developed a new Butterfly Encounter to strengthen the center’s life sciences offerings and because our research showed that butterfly exhibits are an audience draw. Metamorphosis, a powerful educational story of the cycle of life, shares the spotlight with a living tropical environment, as visitors take away a memorable lesson in natural science. The Butterfly Encounter occupies an area originally reserved for a greenhouse concept and reflects the evolution of exhibition ideas toward one that responded to multiple priorities.
DESIGN TO SERVE TEACHERS
Like other additions, the Butterfly Encounter project addresses school curricular priorities, supporting dozens of important concepts embedded in the most contemporary Connecticut classroom science standards. The Butterfly Encounter is popular with school field trip groups, driving strong group traffic. A new exhibition on earth and human impact is likewise keyed to specific curricular topics that will appeal to educators across Connecticut who use the science center as a resource to supplement their classroom work.
DESIGN TO SERVE THE LOCAL ECONOMY
The team also considers the economic trajectory of the market to satisfy the workforce development aspect of the science center’s mission. In a recent case, we developed a new exhibition on engineering to drive awareness about trends in software, advanced manufacturing, and other careers in Connecticut. We also recently opened a public program lab and we are currently developing an exhibition to illuminate the increasing genetic sciences opportunities in the region’s biotech and healthcare fields. These projects are often inspired by input from members of the science center’s board of trustees, many of whom have special insights into industry trends and current and projected talent needs. The board adopted an updated strategic plan that establishes STEM career awareness as a specific priority.
Science centers must continually balance the need to attract audiences with the promise of enjoyment and inspiration while delivering experiences and programs that draw visitors closer to science. The lenses of science, education, programs, fund development, audience development, marketing, and operations are all part of how we conceive of and develop public spaces and exhibitions that serve our communities.These perspectives can and do sometimes compete, and this creates an energetic dynamic that can enrich ideation and planning. Our job is to reconcile those interests as we develop and implement projects so that these inherent tensions are appropriately balanced to the benefit of those we serve.
Matt Fleury is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Connecticut Science Center. He is a member of the Association of Science Technology Centers’ board and the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, and has driven major fundraising campaigns to effectively engage education, business, and government leaders.
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Tom Prill
Outside Holliewood Productions
Ever since standing in line as a child to see Star Wars, Tom has loved films. During the indie film boom of the 1990's, he realized that making a film was actually possible. However, instead of applying to film school, he made the more practical decision to continue studying Finance/Accounting at California State University, San Bernardino. While that education has served him and his family well, leading to his becoming a CPA and, eventually, a Finance Director and Deputy City Manager, he never lost his desire to produce a film.
In 2016 he created his production company, Outside Holliewood Productions, LLC, and began getting on-set experience with shorts and features like Dark Specter 2 and Talk to the Hands.
Since August 2019, he has produced (and recorded sound for) a number of films including Bitten by Love and Modern Family 2020, both award-winning 48-Hour Film Project films.
A no-budget horror-comedy Lichlord Dan and the Fall of Man was halted due to COVID-19. However, during the pandemic he produced (and recorded sound for) the social justice thriller "Trauma."
He is currently prepping a short film for his own directorial debut, slated for June 2021, after which he will be turning his sights to a feature film adaptation of a novel that he's had his eye for 30 years.
Thomas works full-time for the city in which he lives with his wife of 31 years. Their three children are all grown now, affording him the time needed to make his film dreams a reality.
In addition to serving as deputy city manager of the city of San Jacinto, Tom is owner/producer of Outside Holliewood Productions, LLC.
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Target (2020) short -- Associate Producer
Two covert "acquisition" agents at a meeting point, slightly ahead of schedule, with valuable cargo. As the two agents wait for the pick up team to arrive, they think about the road they are on, and where they would like their lives to go.
Modern Family 2020 (2020) short -- Producer, Sound
Mom is dating a new guy. Can he bond with her son? 48 Hr. Film Project winner: Best Acting, Audience Award
Bitten by love (2019) short -- Producer
Inland Empire 48 Hr. Film Project Award: Best Editing
Dark Spectre 2 (2018) short -- 2nd Asst Camera
Talk to the Hands -- Grip


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Arkansas officers were suspended after video on social media shows a police beating
By Emma Bowman
Updated August 22, 2022 at 2:17 AM ET
Three law enforcement officers in Crawford County, Arkansas, have been placed on leave after a video shared on social media shows them beating and restraining a man in a parking lot. State police will investigate the incident, the governor said.
In the video, a law enforcement officer repeatedly and brutally punches a man that Arkansas State Police identified as Randall Worcester, 27, and slams his head against the cement ground several times. Another officer is seen kicking Worcester's lower body repeatedly while a third officer is seen holding him down.
The incident occurred at about 10:40 a.m. Sunday outside a convenience store in Mulberry, in Crawford County. Mulberry is located near Arkansas' western border with Oklahoma and about 140 miles northwest of Little Rock.
Worcester is accused of threatening an employee at the convenience store and pushing and punching a deputy in the back of the head after being confronted, according to The Associated Press.
Worcester was sent to the hospital, and was later released and sent to a county jail. He is being charged with second-degree battery, resisting arrest, refusal to submit, possessing an instrument of crime, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, terroristic threatening, and second-degree assault, state police said.
Two of the officers are deputies with the Crawford County sheriff's office and the third is an officer with the city of Mulberry Police Department, law enforcement confirmed.
State police said they have opened a use-of-force investigation, and will submit their findings to the Crawford County prosecutor "who will determine whether the use of force by the law enforcement officers was consistent with Arkansas laws."
Reaction has been swift from the highest levels of state government, with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson commenting on what he called the "arrest incident."
"I have spoken with Col. Bill Bryant of the Arkansas State Police and the local arrest incident in Crawford County will be investigated pursuant to the video evidence and the request of the prosecuting attorney," he said in a tweet.
Crawford County Sheriff James Damante said in a statement hours prior that the two deputies involved in the incident have been suspended "pending the outcome of the investigation."
"I hold all my employees accountable for their actions and will take appropriate measures in this matter," Damante said in the statement posted to Facebook.
In a separate statement from Mulberry Police, the department confirmed that the incident captured on video involved one of its officers, who it said has since been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of a state police investigation.
"The City of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department takes these investigations very seriously and holds all their officers accountable for their actions," officials said in the Facebook post. "We will take the appropriate actions at the conclusion of the investigation."
A user named Naomi Johnson uploaded a video of the incident to TikTok that she also shared on Twitter, and said: "my sister witnessed this today." Johnson's video appeared to have been removed from TikTok on Sunday evening.
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The Andrew W. Marshall Foundation (AWMF) congratulates Jesse Ausubel, member of our Advisory Group and Director of the Program for the Human Environment at the Rockefeller University, on receiving the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The Nierenberg Prize is an annual award honoring the late William A. Nierenberg, an American physicist and former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Previous awardees have included Warren M. Washington, Jennifer Doudna, Sir David Attenborough, and Jane Goodall.
Jesse is an integral member of the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation; his ever-curious nature and sage guidance are vital to our community, and we are honored that he has dedicated time and effort to our mission.
Jesse’s work includes the Census of Marine Life, the International Barcode of Life, the Encyclopedia of Life, the Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds, and the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, among many other ground-breaking activities.


UC Berkeley protesters block gate, get negative viral reaction
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Friday, April 24, 2015 12:22 PM
Members of the UC Berkeley Black Student Union (BSU) and supporters from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network blocked the iconic Sather Gate on Saturday morning to protest the campus climate for black students and the administration’s failure to respond to the demands proposed by the BSU last month aimed at improving campus climate.
BSU has proposed a plan to recruit and retain black students, which includes hiring black staff for the admission committees, hiring black psychologists, and renaming Burrow’s Hall to pay homage to Assata Shakur, a member of the FBI’s Most Wanted list and convicted cop killer.
In a video posted by The Daily Californian students can be heard chanting “UC Berkeley is racist as hell! Shut it down, shut it down!”
“Several people have asked me, you know, what are you doing today, you are just making students mad,” Jonathan Verdugo, a UC Berkeley Student says in the video. “We are like, no look around. You see all this students standing around here? We are raising solidarity.”
The video shows students being aggressive towards anyone trying to cross the gate and pushing other students who attempted to walk through it. According to The Daily Californian a “UCPD spokesperson Lt. Marc DeCoulode said there were three reports of assault during the protest” however no arrests were made.
“They are literally doing what we are talking about in trying to jump over us, and ignoring us, and saying like ‘look I’m going to try to kick somebody, I’m going to punch somebody, I’m going to try to jump over it,’” said Gabrielle Shuman, one of the protesters, criticizing the students who tried walking through the gate. “Like, they feel that entitled in that they don’t need to listen to what we are saying, honestly, it is frustrating.”
According to The Daily Californian, the protest began around 11:30 Saturday morning, as students and activists marched to the gate and blocked passage until around 1 p.m. The event was held as hundreds of people walked through campus as UC Berkeley had its annual Cal Day—a day the school showcases the campus to prospective students.
The protest generated conflict both at the scene and on social media. During the protest, students started “bull-rushing” the blockade as people became frustrated with the protesters. The video by The Daily Californian has received mostly negative comments against the protesters.
“This type of thoughtless, angry protesting is the essence of the problem of campus climate,” Nicholas Jaber, a UC Berkeley junior student told The Daily Californian. “As long as students resort to these tactics, we will never be able to come together and have a thoughtful discourse about race and gender.”
After the protest at the Sather Gate, students and protesters marched to a similar demonstration called Millions March in Oakland, California.
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Customers Can Keep The Tip — Which Might Please Restaurant Workers
By Alan Greenblatt
Published October 9, 2014 at 11:58 AM MDT
Courtesy of Packhouse Meats
Kurt Stephens (right) is general manager of Packhouse, a restaurant in Newport, Ky., that has eliminated tips in favor of a higher hourly rate for its servers, including Jessica Krebs, pictured here.
Imagine there's no tipping. By getting rid of gratuities, a few restaurants believe they'll make life easier for customers, while providing a more stable income to servers.
"It eliminates the pressure on the guest to worry about paying our staff," says Brian Oliveira, chef at Girard, a French-style restaurant opening in Philadelphia in a few weeks that intends to offer its staff up to $13 an hour in salary, plus health benefits, but with no tips.
Successful ideas in the restaurant business always get copied. Oliveira said he and his partners were inspired by no-tipping experiments happening at a handful of restaurants in California, Texas and New York.
Those restaurants say employees are more satisfied and that service has actually improved. Moving away from tipping may never spread industrywide, but it's a model that may help answer some complaints about poor salaries.
, a no-tip meat emporium that opened in Newport, Ky., in January, pays servers $10 an hour and gives them the chance to earn 20 percent of their total sales per shift if they hit certain targets — whichever is higher. Servers bring home the bigger amount most days.
"If it's dead all day, they don't walk out making nine bucks," says Kurt Stephens, Packhouse's general manager.
Not all servers will be better off under this type of arrangement, but lack of tipping makes for easier accounting for customers and the business itself.
Menu prices might read a bit higher, but diners will know what they'll end up paying at meal's end — probably no more than they would have at an equivalent place where they'd tip.
And lack of tips simplifies compliance for restaurateurs obligated to make up the difference between servers' base pay and the standard minimum wage, if they don't make enough in tips. Currently, the federal minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour, although that baseline is higher in a majority of states.
Tipping creates winners and losers. The people who bring you your steaks at high-end restaurants are probably doing quite well off tips, but many restaurant workers can't count on bringing home big bucks, especially after slow shifts on off days. A recent study from the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute found that 17 percent of restaurant workers live in poverty.
"I'm very aware that at some establishments, people would do far better under the existing tipping model," says Bill Perry, who is about to open Public Option, a no-tipping pub in Washington, D.C. "In our category, which is much more neighborhood-oriented, we're concerned that the variability of tips may not produce a good income."
This is an idea still very much in the making. Girard and Public Option aren't even open yet. With only a few other restaurants around the country having made the move away from tipping, it's not at all clear this will be a successful alternative.
But the increasing pressure on restaurants to pay their employees more — from fast-food workers to waiters hustling for tips — is one reason outlets should consider the tip-free approach, says Dennis Lombardi, a restaurant consultant based in Columbus, Ohio.
Wage increases are bound to translate into higher menu prices. "By going to nontipping, they can pay that living wage," Lombardi says, "without having the additional cost of tipping that will determine whether the customer comes back to the restaurant."
It works in Europe. But tipping has long been a part of the American way of dining out, a tool for diners to reward good service — and, less often, to punish those who fail to satisfy. The desire to earn good tips is part of what prompts people to give good service and "promotes the spirit of hospitality," says Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of research at the National Restaurant Association.
"Along with flexible work schedules, tipping is part of what makes [being] a restaurant server an attractive profession for millions of Americans," he says.
Even a labor advocate such as Saru Jayaraman, who directs the food labor research center at the University of California, Berkeley and calls the no-tip approach "a fabulous model," worries that it won't pay off for all workers. An increased base wage is a step in the right direction, she says, but she worries that salaries of $10 or $13 an hour won't be enough.
"Restaurant workers are professionals and in other countries are paid like professionals — $18 or $20 an hour," Jayaraman says.
But many restaurant workers in the U.S. don't make anything near those amounts, she concedes. So the prospect of a guaranteed income will be enticing for many who have come home with hardly anything to show after a quiet Tuesday afternoon lunch shift, suggests Perry, the D.C. restaurateur.
"Some of the folks we spoke to really cited the variability — that they never know what to expect," Perry says. "They can't wait to actually try [the no-tipping model] out."
Restaurant workers have traditionally experienced either feast or famine when it comes to their own pay packets. Some workers might be content just knowing the exact amount of take-home pay they can count on — at least, that's what the number of applicants at the new no-tipping establishments would suggest.
"We're kind of taking the risk off the server and putting it back on the business," says Stephens, the Packhouse general manager. "There's hardly any turnover, and everybody's making money."
A former NPR staffer, Alan Greenblatt is a journalist based in St. Louis.
Alan Greenblatt has been covering politics and government in Washington and around the country for 20 years. He came to NPR as a digital reporter in 2010, writing about a wide range of topics, including elections, housing economics, natural disasters and same-sex marriage.
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Royal Society of Literature International Writer Lifetime Award
Winner of the 2021 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature
Nominated For The Principe De Asturias Prize For Letters 2017
Nominated For The Man Booker International Prize 2017
Finalist For The Man Booker International Prize 2016
Shortlisted For The FT/Oppenheimerfunds Emerging Voices Award 2016
Winner Of The Franz Kafka Book Prize 2014
Nominated For Czech Award Magnesia Litera 2014
Winner Of The Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize 2013
Shortlisted For The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012
Shortlisted For The Man Asian Literary Prize 2011
Hard like Water
The Day the Sun Died
The Years Months Days
The Explosion Chronicles
The Four Books
Lenin’s Kisses
Discovering Fiction
Dream of Ding Village
Born in 1958, Yan Lianke is the author of a huge number of novels and story collections, all remarkable for both their subject matter and their style. He has received many literary prizes, the most prestigious: the Lu Xun in 2000 and the Lao She in 2004. He currently teaches at university in Hong Kong and lives there and in Beijing.
The film adaptation of DREAM OF DING VILLAGE, renamed TILL DEATH DO US PART, was released in China on May 10 2011, starring Zhang Ziyi and Aaron Kwok. From acclaimed director, Changwei Gu, it was promoted at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and received excellent reviews (it’s still awaiting clearance by the Chinese censorship board).
An excellent in-depth article on Yan Lianke, his work and life appeared in The New Yorker:
Yan Lianke’s forbidden satires of China