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Humanizing Your Audience and the Power of Little Networks
I came across this post from Brian Solis about audiences. I found that it really helps to demystify why social networking platforms have made such an important impact on society. I don't think most people really realize the impact; they simply see social networking as either a hobby, a waste of time or a free way to self promote. Or they say this type of networking has always existed, it has just moved online. I don't agree. I think what is happening now is a complete shift in how we communicate and with whom we communicate. It isn't just the tools available to us, but the creative and exciting ways we use them to reach people and assemble those people into spheres of influence.
"The cultural impact of new media is profound as it weaves a new fabric for how we connect and communicate with one another. As a digital society, we are ushering in an era where everyday people form a global network of self-empowered social intermediaries that accelerate and proliferate the reach and effect of information and experiences."-Brian Solis
In Solis' post, he references the words of Jay Rosen from 2006 where he addressed the people of the media from the perspective of the people formerly known as "audience." While some see audience as the faceless mass waiting to be entertained or reduced to eyeballs needing to be captured, Rosen points out that audiences now have the means and ability to make their own work. Hence, the glut of content now available and the multiple distractions competing for everyone's time. This could be perceived as a bad thing or as a good thing.
A bad thing because all of the content being produced isn't what some would call "professional" or worthy of attention. It also makes it that much more difficult to wade through the crap to get to the gold bits(from the consumer perspective) and that much harder to raise your gold to the level of consciousness in order to make an impact and a living (from the creator perspective).
A good thing because more people will have a newfound respect for those with talent (it isn't easy to create content worthy of an audience) and a network of creators can be harnessed to spread work much further than an expensive ad campaign can do. When everyone can speak, you are no longer dependent on the words of the few with access to broadcast (or the means to buy media space) for recommendation. By making connections with those most interested and inspired by your work, you are creating a web of interconnected communication that helps to spread the work faster and further and more cheaply. They speak for you, with you and amongst each other, but ONLY if you have made those connections. How do you make the connections? They are made by 1)using the networking tools to communicate (dialog, not monologue) and 2)knowing who you are trying to reach. Really knowing them, not having a vague idea of them.
You must stop creating work without thinking about the audience. Those faceless people, those eyeballs, must become real. You must think about the human with whom you are trying to communicate. After you devise the story you want to tell (NOT after you make it, but while you are creating it!), I want the next thought in your head to be "who is going to love this?" and be able to visualize that person in detail. I hope you can see someone similar to yourself. The key to knowing that audience is being a part of it yourself and everyone who works on it also must be part of it in some way. You cannot hope to build an audience for your work if you cannot say who they are, exactly, and how you are going to tell them about your work.
Also, it isn't enough to hire the most talented person or the person who will work the cheapest. The people you hire (or collaborate with) should also have a voice that can be used to help spread the word of your project. Really take that last sentence to heart, both as an employer and as an employee. Your worth as a craftsperson is no longer only judged on your abilities, it is also being judged on how big of a network you personally bring to a project. I can hear the balking already, but just think about this. What is the value a film star brings to a project? It isn't just acting ability and how good looking they are on screen. It is how well recognized and how big their personal audience is that determines their worth. Studios know this, distributors know this, that is why star vehicle films are MUCH more attractive buys than non star driven films. A celebrity's personal audience is worth a lot financially to them and so it should be to you and so it should be to the person employing you. Those personal networks didn't spring up overnight, they were carefully cultivated over time and it is something you too should be doing every day. Personal networks should no longer be prerequisites only for those on screen, they should be considered for everyone and everyone should believe enough in the projects they are working on and want them to succeed that they are willing to evangelize them to their personal networks. Lots of little networks on a project grow into bigger ones so it is beneficial for you as a creator to cultivate a team around you who all have little networks that are similar to your own and to the audience you are trying to reach.
The power of building audience lies in the aggregation of little networks and genuinely knowing the humans behind the networks.
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Hello everybody,
I would like to open/start this thread by myself.
I think that the computer section here is a little bit slow and lacks of such kind of threads. I thought about opening a thread that involves critical thinking concerning any subject related to computers and technology.
This thread is intended to share ideas, information, thoughts and enlighten on some facts that some people doesn't know, that some people aren't really aware of.
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One way to recover Hotmail?
Early morning, you turn on the PC and go ahead to check you hotmail Inbox. You found out that the email account is not opening! You re-checked 1,2,3,4...,n times and yet you are unable to log-in.
You knew then that your Hotmail email account was hacked!
Taking the worst case scenario. You forgot the secret answer for the secret question and you haven't set an alternative email account address OR the hacker have changed the secret answer and the alternative email account address. You don't have hacking skills, you don't know a friend hacker and you contacted Hotmail but they didn't replied. => Therefore, there is no way for you to get back your stolen Hotmail account!
Don't panic.
There is a workaround for this problem. But you must get back in time.
Look at this picture. How many options did you tried so far?
Don't you think that there is an option you missed?
In fact there are 3 options and you only considered them as 2!
How about sending a password reset message to the same stolen email?! Sounds odd, no?
It might sounds odd yes, and you will complain that you won't be able to read the message since you're not able to access the account itself (holding the message). So what? What's the point?
Have you ever tried the email forwarding option provided by Hotmail?
Allowing such an option will forward all the received messages to another email account chosen by the user.
So when you choose the option that sends a reset confirmation message to the same stolen email, the message will be automatically forwarded to the email account you entered when you applied the email forwarding option.
Therefore, you are now able to reset your password and recover your stolen email.
Believe me and believe my statistics, 95% of hackers (or better if I say email hijackers) don't check this option, they just ignore it. They will be enjoying changing the secret answer and the alternative email account address.
The process is so simple:
1- Create a secret email account.
2- Set your Hotmail account to forward messages to it.
3- Use it to recover you Hotmail account in case it was stolen.
The email forwarding option is listed under the account settings.
Now I'm not finished yet. This trick has some disadvantages.
Microsoft doesn't allow data duplication and yet their mail service is slow. Nowadays, they are facing congestion. You can use Google to find more about this issue. Sometimes I'm not able to log-in.
When you're configuring the mail forwarding option, you will notice a sentence saying:
"Note: Forwarded messages are deleted from this account."
This means that you can't keep a copy of the received messages! So if you want to see the messages you've received, you need to log-in to the new account where the messages are forwarded.
Also, because Microsoft sucks. It implies that the receiving email account should be one of the Microsoft family (hotmail.com, msn.com, live.com, or is part of Windows Live Custom Domains).
On the other hand. If you are an owner of a Gmail account. You have the option to forward your received messages to any account + You can keep a copy of these received messages + Gmail is much faster.
Wait. I'm not advertising Gmail. I'm mentioning some differences. It is up to you what to choose, depending on your needs.
At the end. I do need to ask a question. Why Microsoft made the "sending reset confirmation message to the same email" option? Did they counted the trick I mentioned here? Or what?!
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this way, you can also protect your emails from being read by the hijacker.
note that you will also use the address account as the only account to compose messages from, and keep the login account as secret as your password.
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And Microsoft didn't make that option available for you to apply this trick.
Why the hell would Microsoft allow email duplication (so that each Hotmail user would have 2 emails, one for recovery and one for usage) while it doesn't allow message duplication and it experience slowness and congestion. So no, this option wasn't made for this trick.
I'll tell you why it might be made. How many times people create their email account and directly forget what did they put as password?!
I know that this is a little bit silly and unexplainable but believe me, this happens so often. So when they are in, they can request a reset confirmation message.
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I want to benefit from this thread also to launch other vector of thinking.
Making it short. If any member here has a project in mind and would like it to be implemented, he can share it here.
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nice work,
what abt coding a mtc bot ? similar to alfa's..I dont think its hard.
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a bit of thinking..
have you ever downloaded a rar file that is password protected and you found out that you know shit about the password?
take the link and paste it in google search.
i've helped many people using this, it even happened with me many times.
few people thought about this before.
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what abt coding a mtc bot or alfa bot but with .jar or .sis extension .
if it is not impossible it wll be a revolution in leb :P
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Most of the people just use the "Remember Me" & "Remember My Password" options so they might forgot their password easily ... it happened a lot with people i know !!
So i think that's probably why this was made by microsoft !!
And you're right dude ... it's not in microsoft's benefits every hotmail user to have more then 1 account !!
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The Calista board of directors is putting the pieces together of the new regional committee.
The committee had a start in the 1980s, but it is getting new life this spring. Rural Alaska has no shortage of boards, committees, task forces, and panels. The Calista board has now created another committee, but this one's membership and ambition are larger than most. They aim to lend a unified voice to native people of the delta, according to Robert Beans.
"You have a lot more clout politically and otherwise. That's the impetus of why now. Our region in my estimation is really behind time, we have a senator and a representative but we need to go beyond that," said Beans.
Robert Beans is originally from Mountain Village and sits on the Calista board of directors and is member of the committee. The committee will have a representative from each native government and village corporation. It adds non-profit representatives and Calista's president. They plan to conduct a review of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Indian Reorganization Act. They will also develop a strategic plan to in their words – correct the deficiencies and negative effects associated with state and federal government actions."
Thom Leonard is Communications manager for Calista. He notes that there are many groups that represent the region, but they work on a range of issues and concerns.
"If you're able to gather together a region and connect those circles together you're going to have a much more centralized and focused base to work off off. I think that's a pretty neat visualization. If you think of the Olympic rings there's some overlap in the rings, so that's what we're looking at here," said Leonard.
The large regional committee will create a much smaller steering committee that will build strategic plan to obtain remedies from the government about decisions that they say have negatively impacted native people in the area. As an example of the challenges in the area, Beans points outs the region's high suicide rate.
"That's very unacceptable in my opinion. My son is one of those statistics and it drove the point home real close. One suicide is one too many. One domestic violence is one too many. One person without a job is one too many," said Beans.
Leonard says a successful committee will take work from the entire region.
"We are looking for input we are looking to build on the history of when this regional committee was originally conceived and passed back in the 1980s by AVCP and hopefully working with the region put it in action," said Leonard.
40 Tribes and Village Corps have registered so far. The board authorized a budget of 200 thousand dollars for work this year. The resolution passed by the board is posted at Calista's website.


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The swirling lines from Linden Bateman's pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms.
In years gone by, it helped distinguish the literate from the illiterate. But in the digital age, people are increasingly communicating by computer — no handwritten signature necessary.
Call it a sign of the times. When the new Common Core educational standards were crafted, penmanship classes were dropped. But at least seven of the 45 states that adopted the plan — California included — are fighting to restore cursive.
Bateman, a 72-year-old state representative from Idaho, says script writing conveys intelligence and grace, spurs creativity and builds brain cells.
"Modern research indicates that more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard," said Bateman, who handwrites some 125 ornate missives each year. "We're not thinking this through. It's beyond belief to me that states have allowed cursive to slip from the standards."
State leaders who developed Common Core omitted cursive for a host of reasons, including a need for children to master keyboarding and evidence that even most adults use some hybrid of cursive and print in everyday life.
"If you just stop and think for a second about what are the sorts of skills that people are likely to be using in the future, it's much more likely that keyboarding will help students succeed in careers and in school than it is that cursive will," said Morgan Polikoff, an assistant professor of K-12 policy and leadership at the University of Southern California.
States that adopt Common Core aren't precluded from deviating from the standards, but in the world of education, where classroom time is limited and performance stakes are high, optional offerings tend to get sidelined in favor of what's required.
That's why at least seven states — California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Utah — have moved to keep cursive a requirement. Legislation passed in North Carolina and elsewhere couples cursive with memorization of multiplication tables as twin "back to basics" mandates.
Advocates cite recent brain science that indicates the fluid motion employed when writing script enhances hand-eye coordination and develops fine motor skills, in turn promoting reading, writing and cognition skills.
They argue that scholars of the future will lose the ability to interpret valuable cultural resources — historical documents, ancestors' letters and journals — if they can't read cursive. And if they can't write it, how will they communicate from unwired settings like summer camp or the battlefield?
"The Constitution of the United States is written in cursive," Bateman said. "Think about that."
The fuss seems a bit loopy to members of Gens X, Y and Z, which have veered from handwriting to computers. The volume of first-class mail at the U.S. Postal Service fell in 2010 to its lowest level in a quarter century.
Some 95 percent of teens use the Internet, and the percentage using smartphones to communicate has grown from 23 percent in 2011 to 37 percent today, according to the Pew Research Center. And Pew research has also shown educators don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.
A survey of American middle and high school teachers published in July found 78 percent believed digital tools such as the Internet, social media and cellphones were encouraging students' creativity and personal expression.
Pew surveys of teens have found many prefer to write on the computer, which they see as faster and neater, but many still use handwriting for notes, letters, journals, short stories or lyrics — as well as for school.
"I find it hard to think creatively when I am typing," a high school boy from the Pacific Northwest told Pew in a 2008 study. "So I like to handwrite everything, then I put it on the computer."
Kathleen Wright, handwriting product manager for Zaner-Bloser, a Columbus, Ohio-based textbook publisher, said colleges of education that have focused on "whole language" education have turned out a crop of teachers unable to either write cursive or teach it themselves.
And that has financial implications for the Common Core.
"One of the things I've seen over the years is hesitance on the part of some boards to legislate specific things because it may require additional training for teachers," she said. "If you specifically require things for handwriting at different grade levels, you have to provide professional development. That may be the reason why it wasn't included in the Common Core."
Adults unable to write cursive might think back to the experiences of Jacob Lew when President Barack Obama nominated him as Treasury secretary in 2013.
In that position, Lew's signature would be on U.S. currency — but his John Hancock looked more like a series of loops than the distinct letters in his name.
"Jack assured me that he is going to work to make at least one letter legible in order not to debase our currency," the president joked at the time.


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Renaissance art in its historic old town. Alcaraz, some 80 kilometres from Albacete, is outstanding for the monuments in its historic old town.
Of these, special mention should be made of Plaza Mayor square (16th century). It is a solemn, sober construction, flanked by the Trinidad and El Tardón towers. Nearby is the Lonja del Corregidor (market), dating from the same period. At the highest part of the village you will find the walls from its 13th century castle. There are other interesting buildings to be seen, such as the María Magdalena Convent. The best thing is to wander its streets and discover the interesting sites in this village in the La Mancha Region.
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Dateline: March 17, 2012, AT&T Park, San Francisco, Calif.
Playing against the visiting Houston Dynamo, San Jose Earthquakes goalkeeper Jon Busch is whistled for a foul in his own penalty box against Dynamo forward Brian Ching, resulting in the game's only goal through a Brad Davis penalty kick in the 14th minute.
Following the loss, Busch accepted responsibility for the foul.
"(The referee's) explanation to me then and there was, 'I thought you took him out.' I respect that decision. It's a split-second call for him. It's a split-second decision for me."
And went a step further.
"I owe the boys a point down the road. We should have at least got a draw out of that."
Dateline: March 31, 2012, CenturyLink Field, Seattle, Wash.
With the Earthquakes nursing a 1-0 advantage heading into the final stages of their match at Western Conference rival Seattle Sounders FC, Busch makes three critical saves, bookended by two highlight-reel stops on star Sounders striker Fredy Montero.
Off a free kick in the 70th minute, Montero got a right-footed flick on the ball just outside the Quakes' six-yard box, only for Busch to dive to his left and parry the ball away. The veteran goalkeeper then still gathered himself in time to turn away Zach Scott's low, left-footed rebound effort.
Just six minutes from the finish, it was Montero again, this time with a dipping left-footed strike from the top of the penalty area. With over 38,000 spectators on hand thinking equalizer, Busch lunged low to his right to save the shot out for a corner kick and preserve the 1-0 shutout victory for his side.
"The play against Houston was unfortunate," said Busch after Monday's training session. "Like I said back then, it could happen to anybody, but I felt like I owed the boys some points. I guess people seem to think that I paid them back on Saturday night. I don't like to look at it that way. I was just doing my job, and it was a great result for us."
With a share of first-place in the Western Conference alongside Real Salt Lake and the Colorado Rapids, the Earthquakes (3-1-0, 9 pts.) return home from a perfect two-game road stretch to host another Western foe in Vancouver Whitecaps FC this Saturday, April 7. Whitecaps FC (2-0-2, 8 pts.) sit one point behind the Quakes, and have yet to concede a goal through four games this season. The Quakes themselves have only allowed the Davis spot-kick back on March 17.
"('Caps goalie) Joe Cannon's playing great," concluded Busch. "They haven't given up a single goal yet. It's a testament to him and their new coaching staff, how well they are doing. It's going to be a battle, and we're looking forward to it."
Kickoff in Santa Clara is slated for 4 p.m. as the Earthquakes aim for their eighth straight sellout inside Buck Shaw Stadium. The match will be aired live on Comcast SportsNet California, 1590 KLIV and 1370 KZSF. Individual game tickets can be purchased by calling 1-800-225-2277 or online at sjearthquakes.com.


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The boys are chasing Pestilence. Woot—Tanya's favorite kind of episode!
We open with some scientists in a research lab, and a man dressed as a janitor jabs a needle—presumably the Croatoan virus, if one goes by the "THEN" segment—into the neck of one, then leaves him alone with the other one, who he apparently rips apart, judging by the blood spatter. (I don't usually use this many adverbs—testing week has wiped my brain.)
Sam and Dean show up on scene as CDC. The woman they're speaking with wants a vaccine for the swine flu, not the Croatoan. Dean mentions something about statues crying—hope we learn more about this. Sam and Dean call Bobby from the Impala. They're trailing Pestilence and wondering why he's teasing with swine flu when he has the Croatoan virus.
Suddenly the demon Crowley shows up in the back seat. Dean spins the car and Sam lunges with a knife, embedding it in the back seat (sob). Crowley has disappeared, only to knock at the window. The brothers are pissed at him for sending them to kill Lucifer with the Colt. They think he knew it wouldn't work, and Jo and Ellen died because of it. Crowley convinces them he can get them to Pestilence. He takes them back to his new digs—a far cry from the mansion the other demons burned down when they learned he helped the Winchesters. He tells them he was tracking them with a magic coin in the car, and it allowed him to hear their plan. Turns out he doesn't know where Pestilence is, but he knows the demon who does, the Horsemen's stable boy.
The next scene is a boardroom at a pharmaceutical company where a man is demanding distribution of an undeveloped vaccine for swine flu. Later we see him in a private office, talking to a cup of blood bubbling with flies (AND I'm putting down the brownie) after cutting the throat of someone who questioned his will. Pestilence is getting an update.
Wow, short commercial break, and back to the brothers and Crowley. Crowley doesn't want Sam along because he doesn't like him. After the brothers seemed to get along better than they have in several episodes, Dean agrees to leave Sam behind and accompany Crowley. Sam is suspicious, and alone. He calls Bobby and they drink together over the phone (aww.) I just realized we don't see enough of Sam's dimples this season.
Oh, no. Sam asks Bobby about how, when he was possessed, he managed to take his body back. He proceeds to lay out his plan—get the devil to the cage, and Sam will jump in to lure Lucifer, then attempt to gain control of himself. Bobby goes off on him, reminding him that he's talking about Satan. Bobby asks how he could control the devil when he can't control himself.
I'm not trusting Crowley. He and Dean are sitting in the Impala, and suddenly Crowley disappears and reappears inside the building they're watching, cutting the throat of the night watchman. He sets Dean in an elevator and sends him on his way. Dean asks why he's not coming.
"It's not safe up there. They're demons." I love this actor.
Dean continues up and comes face to face with the suit who had been talking to the bowl of blood. Dean tells the demon that he's willing to sell the rings he has. The demon proceeds to kick the crap out of Dean. Dean escapes into the elevator but the demon follows him. Crowley drops a bag with a devil's trap on it over the demon's head and bashes him over the head. A lot. Then Crowley changes his plan. He won't take the demon back to Sam because they have history. Hmm.
Dean prevails and Sam comes face to face with the demon, tied up in a devil's trap. Turns out he went to college with the guy—he had a devil on his shoulder even then. Brady, the demon, introduced him to Jess. Sam loses his temper, but Dean pulls him away, trying to convince him to stay focused.
While Dean calms Sam down, Brady and Crowley have a conversation. Brady doesn't believe the demons will be destroyed if Lucifer wins, and would rather die on the winning side. Crowley leaves to kick open a hive of demons, and Sam traps Dean in the bathroom so he can face Brady—complete with the demon-killing knife.
Brady talks about what a good friend Sam was, how YED sent him to toughen Sam up. He tells how he killed Jessica, and Sam lunges with the knife, but stops before he does more than knick him. He lets Dean out of the bathroom as Crowley returns. Crowley tells Brady that he massacred the demons except one. He told the survivor that he and Brady were lovers in league against Satan. Brady knows what this means. His only choice is to tell him where Pestilence is.
Before Brady says anything, they hear the baying of a hellhound. Turns out one of the demons planted a magic coin to track Crowley. Crowley tosses the coin to Dean, who catches it (and gets an I-told-you from Sam). The hellhound bursts through the window when Dean goes to find salt. Crowley reappears with a hellhound of his own, and the Winchesters and demons escape while the invisible dogs go at it.
Brady gives up Pestilence's location and the brothers trap him with salt while Sam glares. Brady continues to taunt Sam, who approaches with the knife. Dean watches his brother fight as Brady says Sam's just like them, but his hell is right here. Finally Sam ends it and walks past his brother.
Bobby's on the phone with Rufus when Crowley shows up in his kitchen. Bobby shoots, and Crowley complains that he'd liked that suit. Crowley's willing to help find Death. But he wants Bobby's soul!!! NOOOO!!! Bobby blasts him with rock salt. Crowley promises he'll give the soul right back, and Bobby wants to know if he thinks he's a natural born idjit. Bobby's considering it when they go to credits. NOOOOOOO!!!!! Why isn't it next Thursday???
Not a favorite episode for me. I was waiting for Pestilence, though I did like the insight into Sam's college life. What did you think?


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January 21, 2012
A memorial service will take place Sunday, February 12, 2:30 p.m., at Silver Maples in Chelsea. A Celebration of Life on the Albion campus is being planned for later this year.
By Jake Weber
Philosophy professor emeritus Jack Padgett passed away January 20 in Chelsea, Mich., at the age of 85, following a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
Padgett came to Albion in 1965 to design and teach the innovative "Basic Ideas" program. "I deeply respected Jack's commitment to moral and ethical integrity, and to intellectual clarity. He was an outstanding teacher and colleague," recalled emeritus professor of religious studies Johan Stohl, who also taught Basic Ideas courses. "Jack focused us on ways of drawing our students—and ourselves—into thoughtful and vigorous discussions."
"Jack Padgett helped Albion crystallize ideas about teaching and learning which are still relevant to our mission and values," commented Albion College President Donna Randall. "Our reputation as a leader in liberal arts education has been established on the work of visionary professors like Jack."
Padgett extended his leadership skills to the philosophy department, which he chaired for 14 of the 25 years he spent on Albion's faculty. A demanding but popular professor, Padgett received Albion's Outstanding Teacher award in 1975. Padgett traveled to Sarajevo, in the former Yugoslavia, where he spent a semester at the University of Sarajevo as a Fulbright teaching fellow. In 1989 Albion College named him its Phi Beta Kappa Scholar of the Year.
"His direct, down-to-earth, unadorned manner cut straight to the heart of any issue and became the model I emulate," said Doug Johnson, '71, retired director of the State of Michigan Administrative Information Network. Johnson further noted that students were also grateful for Padgett's sense of humor while tackling sometimes controversial subjects. "He made it safe to experiment with 'the different thought' without fear of knee-jerk reaction or ridicule," Johnson stated.
Padgett authored The Concept of Personality in William Temple's Philosophy and The Christian Philosophy of William Temple, and regularly published research in ethics and moral philosophy. After introducing medical ethics and business ethics into Albion's curriculum, he was often called upon as a speaker on these relatively new areas. Shortly before his retirement, Padgett presented a paper on Personalism at the World Congress of Philosophy. He continued to lead seminars for adult learners as an emeritus professor, especially on issues related to death and dying.
In the early 1980s Padgett was appointed the first director of Albion's Center for the Study of Ethics. Padgett was instrumental in having the College's Observatory (then home of the Ethics Center) recognized as a Michigan Historic Landmark, a designation that was received during Albion's 150th anniversary celebrations in 1985.
Prior to joining Albion's faculty, Padgett spent six years as director of the Vital Center Program and philosophy professor at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. While there he supported the civil rights effort by joining a group delivering office supplies to the Freedom School in Indianola, Miss.
For many years, Padgett also chaired the ethics committee on the board for Hospice Care of Battle Creek. In retirement, he continued as a fan of University of Michigan and Albion College athletics.
As a teen, Padgett enlisted in the Marine Corps; he was a veteran of the Battle of Okinawa and received a Purple Heart. He graduated from Juniata College and earned a graduate degree from Boston University School of Theology and a doctorate in philosophy from Boston University.
Padgett is survived by his college sweetheart and wife of 62 years, Katharine ("Kitty"); children Deborah (Gary Nickel) of Plymouth, Wis.; Susan (Rick) White of Springfield, Vt.; Stephen of Seattle, Wash.; and Thomas of Sparks, Nev.; and grandchildren Katie and Grant White and Allie and Emma Padgett as well as many loving nieces and nephews.
Padgett will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Jack Padgett Award in Philosophy at Albion College or to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
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Lucius Horatius Venator Piperbarbus (alias Stephanus Ullerius Venator Piperbarbatus) lost his information for here and reregistered under the user name Venator_Poeta.
For those with whom I've not exchange words in awhile, hello again!
I'll look through my old posts and see if I need to catch y'all up on anything important.
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Founded in 1979, Modernism has since presented more than 450 exhibitions, both historical and contemporary, in media ranging from painting to photography, sculpture to performance, by an international roster of artists.
Throughout over 40 years, owner Martin Muller has striven to keep the gallery's challenging, museum quality program at the forefront of the art world.
Early landmarks included being the first gallery to show Andy Warhol in the Bay Area (1982), and holding the first exhibition on the West Coast (in a gallery or museum) of the Russian Avant-Garde 1910-1930 (1980, 17 more retrospectives have since been mounted).
In the 1990s Modernism highlighted its strong abstract program with the exhibition of "Four Abstract Classicists" (1993), a recreation of the show presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1959, while at the same time introducing America to the confrontational, and ofttimes disturbing, conceptual works of Austrian born artist Gottfried Helnwein (1992).
Modernism is elebrating its 40th anniversary in October, and with it, many more firsts of recent years, including the first major exhibition of the works of Le Corbusier on the West Coast (2003), and in 2006, the first major retrospective in the U.S. of the paintings, drawings, collages, and photographs of Erwin Blumenfeld.
In addition to the milestones above, Modernism prides itself on the scope of its program:
Historical exhibitions encompass areas including Dada, Cubism, Surrealism, Vorticism, German Expressionism, and foremost, the Russian Avant-Garde 1910-1930.
The contemporary program features rotating shows, six to seven weeks in duration, of the nearly 50 gallery artists—including various representational and abstract modes, sociopolitical, and conceptual works—presented at both Modernism and Modernism West, as well as at art fairs in the United States and Europe.
Modernism publishes numerous books, monographs, catalogs, and fine art editions.
Modernism is a member of the prestigious Art Dealers Association of America and the San Francisco Art Dealer's Association.
The gallery moved to its new space on Ellis Street in San Francisco in February 2017.
Martin Muller, President
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David Peniston, Registrar
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Written By: NATALIYA VASILYEVA
MOSCOW (AP) – In czarist times, Geda Zimanenko watched her mother offer the local police officer a shot of vodka on a plate and five rubles every Sunday to overlook the fact that their family lived outside the area where Jews were allowed to live.
Then came the Bolshevik Revolution and Zimanenko became a good Communist, raising her own son to believe in ideals that strove to stamp out distinctions of race and religion. Her grandson, born after the death of dictator Josef Stalin, was more cynical of Communism and felt the heat of growing Soviet anti-Semitism.
Now the 100-year-old matriarch's great-grandson, brought up after the fall of the Soviet Union and in a spirit of freedom of conscience, is fully embracing his Jewish roots: He works at Moscow's new Jewish museum, Europe's largest and Russia's first major attempt to tell the story of its Jewish community. The four generations of Zimanenko's family are a microcosm of the history of Jews in Russia over the past century, from the restrictions of imperial times through Soviet hardship to today's revival of Jewish culture in Russia, a trajectory that is put on vivid display at the Jewish Museum and Center of Tolerance.
The museum, which opened this week, tells the history of Jewry through people's stories, which come alive in video interviews and interactive displays. The journeys of people like the Zimanenko-Rozin family are traced from czarist Russia through the demise of the Soviet Union. The $50 million museum was built under the patronage of President Vladimir Putin, who in a symbolic move in 2007 donated a month of his salary – about $5,600 – to its creation.
Putin has promoted Russia as a country that welcomes Russian emigrants back into its fold. Early in his presidency, he encouraged the repatriation of Russians who left in the wake of the 1917 Revolution as well as ethnic Russians left stranded in former Soviet republics, now independent states.
In Poland, which is undergoing a similar revival of Jewish culture, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews is due to open next year in the heart of the former Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw.
The Moscow museum's portrayal of Russia as a safe and welcoming place for Jews today may run counter to the beliefs of some emigres and their descendants who were raised on dark stories about pogroms and discrimination in Russia. And while there's no doubt that anti-Semitism has declined dramatically in Russia, there remains a strong strand of far-right sentiment that expresses itself in acts against Jews, as well as against dark-skinned foreigners.
To Borukh Gorin, chairman of the museum's board, the history of Russian Jews is much more complex than the stark narrative of anti-Jewish oppression. The museum does not dwell on the "victimization of Jewish history," he said.
"It's about what actually happened," said Gorin. "And what happened was complicated. There were pogroms, but there was also an active role of Jews in Russian public life – scientists, writers, journalists, Jews awarded with the country's highest honors."
By 1917, the Russian Empire had the largest Jewish community in the world, more than 5 million people. Most of the Jews were confined to the Pale of Settlement, the area of the Russian Empire stretching across what are now western Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Poland, beyond which Jews were not allowed to live. Today, only about 150,000 people who identify themselves as Jews live in Russia.
Zimanenko, feisty and talkative even at 100, was the daughter of Marxists and the granddaughter of pious Jews. Most of her life, she was true to Communist ideals and never thought much about her Jewish identity.
"If somebody asked me about my nationality then, it'd take me a while to remember that I was Jewish," she said. "We were all Soviet people."
But like other Soviet Jews, Zimanenko was reminded of her roots when Stalin's repressive regime "foiled" the so-called Doctors' Plot in 1952, accusing a group of prominent Moscow doctors, predominantly Jews, of conspiring to kill Soviet leaders. Their trial unleashed the first major wave of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, triggering dismissals, arrests and executions among Jews.
Zimanenko's son, physicist Anatoly Rozin, said the family had such a strong faith in Communism and Stalin that they genuinely believed in the plot: "No one could doubt it. We were a Communist family." In 1956, three years after Stalin's death, the authorities admitted that the doctors had been framed.
Anatoly Rozin, now 78, is still an atheist and does not feel much affinity for his Jewish heritage, although he remembers being exposed to "everyday" anti-Semitism since childhood when neighborhood children called him and his brother names.
Anti-Semitism in the final decades of the Soviet Union was never official policy, but Jews had greater difficulty winning admission to university and traveling abroad.
Anatoly's nephew and Zimanenko's grandson, 47-year-old Mark Rozin, was also brought up in a family that was very "distant" from Jewish traditions and Judaism. Although he had no firsthand experience of the discrimination that led hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews to emigrate in the 1970s and '80s, he said that the shared burden of inequality and suspicion allowed him to relate to other Jews.
There was a certain bond based "on the assumption that you faced some restrictions, you were not allowed to do what others did, that's why you had to study harder than others, for example," said Mark Rozin, a psychologist. In that sense, "you were always reminded of your nationality, but that didn't bring you closer to the traditions."
Scores of his friends and distant relatives took advantage of their Jewish roots to secure permission to leave the Soviet Union for Israel, but he said most left for "freedom and opportunity," and not because of the Jewish faith.
Mark Rozin and his uncle also were allowed to emigrate, but decided against it.
"I'm a man of this culture," said Anatoly Rozin, referring to the Soviet Union. "Leaving seemed impossible at the time."
These days, Zimanenko falters when she tries to pronounce the words "bar mitzvah," only to be corrected by her 24-year-old great-grandson, Lev Rozin. For him, having to get permission to travel or being barred from university for being Jewish is something from another planet.
Russia in recent years has seen a dramatic decrease in displays of anti-Semitism, down to isolated cases of violence and vandalism. In a survey conducted last year by the respected Levada Center, 8 percent of those polled said they believed Jews should be barred from living in Russia, down from 15 percent in 2004.
Members of the Zimanenko-Rozin family said they felt no anti-Semitism in Russia today, but only members of the youngest generation have been eager to explore their roots. Lev Rozin, who works in the museum's children's center, said he began to identify himself as a Jew in his teens after attending a Jewish youth camp in Hungary. His two younger siblings attended the same camp.
The revival of Jewish culture in Russia has been driven predominantly by young people, which is reflected in the staff of the Jewish Museum. The museum's development director, Natalya Fishman, is just 22.
"In our family, it's the younger generation that is trying to rediscover our roots," Lev Rozin said. "I try to keep my Friday nights free, I don't eat pork and try to observe some Kashrut (Jewish dietary) rules."
For his father, Jewish identity is more than religion or customs.
"It stems from a feeling of belonging to your family, its roots, Grandma's stories," Mark Rozin said. "By talking to Grandma and learning about her life, we're getting closer to the Jewish culture."


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METRO VANCOUVER — The George Massey Tunnel is being replaced with a new bridge the provincial government says will eliminate one of the worst road and marine traffic bottlenecks in British Columbia.
Construction on the new bridge over the south arm of the Fraser River between Richmond and Delta will begin in 2017 and will trace the 56-year-old tunnel's route, Premier Christy Clark said Friday.
But the impact of a new bridge on Highway 99 goes far beyond simply eliminating the long lines of rush-hour traffic for commuters who have fumed for decades as they queue up to enter the tunnel. Clark said the old tunnel represents a major impediment to commercial goods movement and the province's Asia Pacific growth strategy.
Accompanying the bridge will be major improvements to Highway 99 from Bridgeport Road in Richmond clear to the Canada-U.S. border, according to Geoff Freer, the project's executive director.
The tunnel's removal will also return the Fraser River to a deepwater river capable of handling large-draft freighters.
For years, Port Metro Vancouver has cited the pre-built sectional tunnel's shallow draft as a major impediment to expanding commercial river traffic. As a result, river port facilities such as Surrey Fraser Docks have been limited in what they can handle.
Freer said the new bridge will include high-occupancy vehicle and rapid-bus lanes, room for pedestrians and cyclists, and the potential for future rapid transit improvements. It will also tie into the soon-to-be-finished $1 billion South Fraser perimeter expressway, which will allow better movement of goods from the Trans-Canada Highway to Roberts Bank and the BC Ferries terminal.
Clark, who made the announcement at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Vancouver, said public consultations last year made it clear taxpayers want a bridge instead of a new tunnel, and that it has to go along the existing Highway 99 alignment.
"In 2017 we begin work on not just the worst bottleneck in the Lower Mainland, the worst bottleneck in British Columbia and across Canada as we work hard to get our goods to market," Clark said. "The engineering and technical work for the bridge and associated improvements along Highway 99 have now begun. Promise made, promise kept."
Freer said that there were no significant technical or engineering issues that would prevent the bridge from being built and that the ground is similar to that on which the Alex Fraser is built.
Pushing aside the message of fiscal restraint her government has made since the May election, Clark said B.C. has the ability to finance the bridge and related Highway 99 improvements, which she said would likely be in the same range as the nearly
$3 billion it spent on the new Port Mann Bridge and accompanying Trans-Canada Highway changes.
"We have a feel for how much it might cost and we are confident we can finance it but we are still working on those details," she said.
Although Clark shied away from reporters' questions over whether the bridge will be paid for through tolls, such plans are likely, since the two newest bridges the province built over the Fraser, the Port Mann and the Golden Ears, are tolled.
"It will have a toll, there's no question about it," Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts said. "But I am very, very pleased with that announcement right to the border. We have the second-largest border crossing in the country so the billions of dollars of goods that go across that border are significant and we need these improvements."
Watts said she also wants assurances the project will be subject to a public referendum, since Clark has said other major Metro Vancouver transit and transportation projects should go to referendum.
"I think that this is an expansion of infrastructure and transportation, and we clearly heard during the (provincial) election that the expansion of transportation would go to a referendum," Watts said. "So yes, I would expect that would go on to the upcoming referendum next year."
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie said that by itself the new bridge will do little to relieve congestion on Highway 99 and said he doesn't believe it's money well spent.
"What we need to know is the full story, the full plan, not just what is happening around that tunnel. You have a corridor from the south end of the tunnel to the north end of the Oak Street Bridge.
"By putting in a new bridge instead of a tunnel, you're only dealing with a small part of the congestion. Coming northbound, you'll get over that bridge faster than if you take the tunnel. Then you'll hit the parking lot. You're going to hit congestion. You're going to stop. Unless there's strategies to reduce the amount of traffic, you're going to have congestion then as you do now."
Brodie wants to see funding for more buses along the route and wants to see the port operating 24 hours a day to relieve congestion.
North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton, chairman of TransLink's Mayors' Council, said while nobody questions the need for a new bridge it should have been done within an overall integrated transportation plan.
"We fully support investing in transportation resources in the region and recognize Highway 99 is a key provincial highway artery.
"The concern we have is that we've been advocating an approach for all mobility in the region, goods movement, people movement and transit, and a critical part of regional mobility is that the more you keep commuters off the road, you're freeing up capacity for goods movement."
Walton said he doesn't know why the new bridge plan was placed ahead of other transportation initiatives.
"To what extent was this project ranked against the others in terms of the region?" he asked. "I don't know if a business plan was done — certainly I never heard of one — that would have ranked the preferability of a transit investment or even a joint investment of upgrading the tunnel and investing in transit at the same time."
Clark, in her speech, did not indicate whether she would put the project to a referendum.
However, unlike other roads and bridges in Metro Vancouver, Highway 99 and the George Massey Tunnel are part of the provincial highway system and are not under TransLink's jurisdiction.
Delta Mayor Lois Jackson was ecstatic about the announcement. Delta residents for years have suffered from the impacts of a clogged highway and tunnel system, she said.
"This is not just about eliminating a bottleneck. It will help traffic to the border, to the Tsawwassen First Nations' developments, to the BC Ferries terminal," she said.
"What I am hoping for is that it will also include possible room for a future rapid transit system to Delta and even to South Surrey and White Rock."
Freer said the transportation ministry is aware of those needs and expects to include them in the bridge design. The work now underway will develop a project scope and business case for the bridge and highway corridor improvements, and will be presented to the public next spring, he said.
How the bridge will be funded is still undecided, but other stakeholders such as Port Metro Vancouver will be included in the discussions, he said.
"We absolutely believe we can get this ready so that we begin construction in the next four years," Freer said.
The highways ministry said before bridge construction starts in 2017 it will lengthen the Steveston off-ramp on Highway 99 at the north end of the tunnel to improve safety and reduce congestion.
The new bridge proposal won immediate support from the business community, which had lobbied heavily in favour of replacing the tunnel during the province's initial consultation phase.
The Vancouver Board of Trade cites Delta's estimates that congestion along the Highway 99 corridor costs the provincial economy $66 million a year.
"The new bridge will alleviate congestion and traffic for commuters while bolstering trade and strengthening British Columbia's role as Canada's Gateway to the Pacific," Board of Trade CEO Iain Black said in a statement.
"As a gateway, we would become more efficient in the sense that we would be utilizing an investment that is already not currently being used to capacity," said Louise Yako, CEO of the B.C. Trucking Association.
She is also not opposed to the prospect of tolls.
"Nothing in life is free, so we expect to be paying," Yako said, "whether that ends up being through a toll or some form of road pricing, or sitting in traffic and having to absorb congestion, we're already paying."
In a statement, Port Metro Vancouver CEO Robin Silvester said he supports the plan for a new bridge but gave no indication if the federal Crown corporation would be willing to share in the cost since it will reopen the river to deeper-draft vessels.
The B.C. government's new commitment to replace the (tunnel) with a bridge supports Port Metro Vancouver's top priorities for the crossing, including reducing the impact of port traffic on local communities, increasing efficiencies and ensuring long-term sustainability of the gateway," he said.