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March 4, 2015
In anticipation of a Future Tense event on technology and the future taking place in Washington, D.C., Senior Sustainability Scientist Sethuraman Panchanathan explores the subject in Slate magazine. His article, titled "The best adaptive technologies are designed by, not for, people with disabilities," illustrates this point using ASU graduate David Hayden as an example. Hayden, who is visually impaired, used his disability to develop an assistive tablet called the Note-Taker – a technology that his sighted peers were also eager to use.
"Truly revolutionary technologies require engagement with users throughout the design and development process. While it's helpful to get feedback and ideas from focus groups on users' needs, short sessions don't give us a full understanding of the challenges and opportunities in developing assistive technology solutions," writes Panchanathan. "It is imperative that people with disabilities play a leading role in envisioning, conceptualizing, developing, implementing, deploying, testing, and validating potential solutions, tools, and technologies."
In a November 2014 Thought Leader Series Piece, Ray Jensen made a similar point about the importance of including disabled persons, particularly from a sustainability standpoint.
March 2, 2015
Senior Sustainability Scientist Heather Bateman was honored with the 2015 Award for Professional Service at the annual meeting of the Arizona and New Mexico chapters of The Wildlife Society – the national professional organization for wildlife biology and conservation. The award recognized Bateman – a field ecologist, conservation biologist and associate professor in the College of Letters and Sciences – for her dedication to the leadership and professional development of her students.
"This award is well-deserved recognition for Heather and the good work she is doing both in research and teaching," said Senior Sustainability Scientist Chris Martin, head of the faculty of Science and Mathematics in the College of Letters and Sciences. "It also shines a spotlight on our wildlife program in applied biological sciences and student-centered approach to learning and doing science."
February 27, 2015
A new poll, conducted by ASU's Morrison Institute for Public Policy and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, articulates the top two priorities among Arizona residents: education and water.
The inaugural Morrison-Cronkite Quarterly Poll surveyed 754 Arizonan adults statewide to assess opinions on a variety of issues, from law enforcement to arts and culture. Among the 11 issues offered to respondents, "maintaining adequate water and water quality" ranks at that same level of importance (87 percent) as education.
"It's apparent that the importance of ensuring an adequate and quality water supply for Arizona's varied interests figures prominently on Arizonans' radar," said David Daugherty, associate director of Morrison Institute and director of the poll. "This is a complex and dynamic issue, but clearly one that Arizonans understand as a priority that needs to be thoroughly examined and addressed."
February 26, 2015
Addressing a crowd of nearly 2,000 people in ASU's Gammage Auditorium, renowned journalist and author Thomas Friedman contended that maintaining our freedom is going to require a major value adjustment. The Pulitzer Prize winner, who visited ASU on Feb. 26, explained that society has been built on situational values, which have led to unhealthy interdependencies and our current climate concerns.
Friedman went on to explain that our freedom now relies on building healthy interdependencies that mirror those found in nature, and are based on sustainable values. The impactful talk – titled "Sustainability as Freedom" – marked the first of this year's Wrigley Lecture Series and was made possible with the generous support of sustainability visionary Julie Ann Wrigley.
February 26, 2015
Today's students will become tomorrow's leaders, and educating them about sustainability is increasingly important in light of the complex social, economic and environmental issues the world faces.
Arizona State University's new National Sustainability Teachers' Academy aims to bring teams of elementary, middle and high school teachers from across the nation together to establish an educational task force for sustainability.
As a program of ASU's Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives, the teachers' academy will focus on solutions-based curriculum with an emphasis on urban systems. ASU sustainability scientists and scholars will help coach and lead hands-on sessions on solutions surrounding food, water, energy and climate.
February 24, 2015
SAN BRUNO, Calif., Feb. 24, 2015 – Walmart announced today the debut of its Sustainability Leaders shop, an online shopping portal on Walmart.com that helps customers identify and purchase products from suppliers that are leading in sustainability.
The launch of the Sustainability Leaders shop builds on the company's ambition to provide customers more information about the products they purchase at Walmart. The new portal helps to advance Walmart's goal to offer customers a way to choose products they can afford, and that are produced in an environmentally and socially responsible way.
The Sustainability Leaders shop is the customer-facing iteration of Walmart's Sustainability Index, launched in 2009 in collaboration with The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), an independent, third-party organization of academic-based scientists and more than 100 member organizations that creates tools and strategies to drive more sustainable consumer products. Over the last several years, Walmart and TSC have worked with suppliers, several leading non-profit organizations and TSC to build the Sustainability Index.
February 24, 2015
This year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science – the world's largest science and technology society – featured research from ASU sustainability scientists. Topics ranged from the sustainable intensification of food production, as discussed by geographer B. L. Turner II in a panel symposium, to the sequestering of atmospheric carbon dioxide through ranching techniques, an idea being explored by Peter Byck and his SoilCarbon Nation team.
Additionally, Nadya Bliss – an assistant vice president for research strategy in the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development – is working with science historian Manfred Laubichler to develop a set of mathematical techniques to detect patterns in networks that point to the emergence of innovation in research.
The annual meeting draws thousands of scientists, engineers, educators, policymakers and journalists from around the world.
February 23, 2015
By Prasad Boradkar
Note: March 3 marks the launch of ASU's new Biomimicry Center, established in partnership with Montana-based Biomimicry 3.8, and co-directed by Prasad Boradkar. In this essay, Boradkar describes how biomimicry can help us create solutions to address our problems in sustainable ways.
A short five-minute walk takes me from my suburban home in south Phoenix to the Sonoran Desert, from the highly standardized and manufactured human-made world into the somewhat wild and undomesticated natural world.
Satellite views show stark differences between the two landscapes: rectilinear, hard lines divide the land inhabited by people, while meandering, unrestrained territories mark the land inhabited by all other creatures. We have, by design, created in contrast to the natural world, an artificial world of products, buildings and cities.
Philosopher Richard Buchanan describes design as "conception and planning of the artificial." Using these processes of planning, we have created everything from tiny paperclips to enormous jet aircraft, from the smallest dwellings to the largest metropolises. And though these things are made of such materials of human creation as chrome-plated steel, aluminum and reinforced concrete, they are all ultimately extracted from the natural world. From the natural emerges the artificial.
February 18, 2015
Marking the culmination of the Sustainability Solutions Festival, the Sustival will ask attendees to reimagine how one person, one community or one organization can positively impact our future. The celebration takes places at the Civic Space Park in downtown Phoenix, and will feature art, educational opportunities and entertainment. It will kick off with a bike parade through the Roosevelt Row arts district.
"We organized the Sustival not only to shed light on sustainability challenges, but to also celebrate and acknowledge those who are tackling them head-on," said Kelly Saunders, program manager for the Sustainability Solutions Festival. "The Sustival brings together the community to learn how to have less impact on the environment, support an equitable economy and promote a prosperous society."
February 17, 2015
ASU's new Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, led by faculty in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, aims to show that capturing excess carbon dioxide is a viable way to stabilize and reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. With novel technology that uses plastic resin to capture carbon dioxide when dry and release it when moist, the center transcends the limitations of traditional carbon reduction approaches.
The center also intends to show the economic viability of carbon capture by demonstrating its many uses. Recycled carbon could power the production of synthetic fuels, as well as provide an essential food source for plants in greenhouses. In fact, carbon dioxide collected by air capture units could enhance the yield of algae-based biofuels.
In light of its groundbreaking work, the center expects to find a place within ASU's sustainable solutions framework alongside LightWorks, PlanetWorks and the ASU Wrigley Institute.
February 17, 2015
TEMPE, Ariz – The power of global business leaders discussing the latest trends, challenges and opportunities in sustainable business is returning to Arizona State University for GreenBiz U, a shadow conference of the 2015 GreenBiz Forum taking place in Paradise Valley, AZ, Feb. 17-19.
A part of the second annual Sustainability Solutions Festival, a program of the ASU Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives, GreenBiz U will bring GreenBiz Forum keynote speakers to the ASU Tempe campus for three days of insights and discussions with sustainability business, education and thought leaders such as Carter Roberts (President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund), Aaron Hurst (Author of "The Purpose Economy"), Jackie Prince Roberts (Chief Sustainability Officer for the Carlyle Group), and Sheila Bonini (CEO of The Sustainability Consortium).
February 13, 2015
How will we feed a world population that is predicted to grow to 9.6 billion people by 2050, using only the resources that are available to us today?
The answer may be what scientists call sustainable intensification. Arizona State University geographer B. L. Turner II was a discussant at a panel symposium on that topic at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), held in San Jose, Calif.
Sustainable intensification refers to increasing food production without reducing environmental quality, and takes into account a broad range of factors including a changing climate, changing patterns of consumption, and the need to sustain both natural resources and human livelihoods.
Turner, a distinguished sustainability scientist in ASU's Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, is an expert in human-environment relationships, both modern-day and historical. Part of his extensive body of work includes examining how climate change affects a civilization's ability to feed its people, and conversely, how changing patterns of farmland cultivation affect climate through things like deforestation and desertification.
February 4, 2015
The Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives honored five teams of middle school students at the 2015 Arizona Regional Future City Competition, an initiative of DiscoverE that promotes engineering careers to young learners. This year's theme, "Feeding Future Cities," asked participants to design cities that provided one protein and one vegetable source for inhabitants.
The teams spent four months designing their future cities using SimCity software and fashioning prototypes using recycled materials. The recipients of Walton Sustainable Community Awards were recognized for their particularly innovative application of community health and civic design. All participants learned valuable lessons in engineering, sustainability and science, as well as important skills such as public speaking and presentation.
February 3, 2015
This year, the annual Founder's Day Awards Dinner – taking place at the Arizona Biltmore on March 5 – will recognize alumni, faculty and supporters who have made game-changing contributions to the field of sustainability. Among the awardees are School of Sustainability graduate Ryan Delaney; School of Sustainability faculty Christopher Wharton and Hallie Eakin; sustainability scientists Jim Elser and Chad Johnson; and Norton and Ramsey Sustainability Scholarship benefactor Rev. Jenny Norton.
The Philanthropists of the Year Award will be presented to Rob and Melani Walton in recognition of their dedication to creativity, innovation and engaged practice in creating a more sustainable world. They have demonstrated this through corporate leadership and philanthropy, such as their investment in ASU's Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives. The seven programs of the Walton Initiatives are designed to develop scalable solutions to global economic, social and environmental challenges.
January 28, 2015
Susan Clark-Johnson, executive director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy and a member of the Board of Directors for Sustainability at ASU, has died at age 67. Through her role as a board member, Clark-Johnson advised and assisted the ASU Wrigley Institute in accomplishing its mission to promote "human prosperity and well-being for all, while protecting and enhancing the earth's life support systems."
Among her many accomplishments was the creation of the Morrison Institute's State of Our State Conference, which has become an annual signature event featuring panel discussions, reports and interactive discussion regarding Arizona's key challenges and opportunities. She also played an integral role in the early stages of the Kyl Center for Water Policy's formation.
January 28, 2015
To demonstrate ASU's dedication to sustainability and embeddedness in the community, students from the School of Sustainability will lead the clean-up of University of Phoenix Stadium after Super Bowl XLIX concludes. More than 20 students have volunteered to sort recyclable items from non-recyclables, thereby diverting them from landfills.
Sustainability is a primary reason for ASU's involvement in Super Bowl-related events. The university even has a booth at Super Bowl Central in downtown Phoenix to showcase its advancements in the field. The booth is covered with solar panels, and visitors may play hands-on football games powered by solar energy.
The Super Bowl is also working to strengthen its sustainability efforts, and is now lauded "the greenest professional sports championship in the United States." Jack Groh, Environmental Program Director of the National Football League, discussed these efforts during a Sustainability Series lecture titled "Greening the Super Bowl" hosted by the ASU Wrigley Institute.
January 27, 2015
Arizona State University is pleased to announce the launch of its new Biomimicry Center, established in partnership with Montana-based Biomimicry 3.8. We invite you to the March 3 launch ceremony, held at 5:30 p.m. in the Carson Ballroom of Old Main on ASU's Tempe campus.
The Center is dedicated to advancing nature-inspired, sustainable solutions to the most complex challenges humanity faces. Join us for an important conversation between ASU President Michael Crow and Janine Benyus, co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 and renowned author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. A reception will follow at 7:00 p.m.
Please save the date.
January 26, 2015
Senior Sustainability Scientist Leah Gerber has joined the Fishery Ecosystem Task Force, a team charged with establishing fisheries management standards that focus on entire ecosystems rather than single species. The Lenfest Ocean Program created the task force – made up of natural and social scientists – to address the need for fisheries management to consider the interconnections between fishing, fished species, humans and the well-being of the larger marine environment.
"This task force will take the next step in making ecosystem-based fisheries management a reality," says Tim Essington, chair of the Fishery Ecosystem Task Force. "We are working closely with managers and stakeholders to ensure our work will be useful and won't just sit on a shelf."
The task force will provide recommendations in 2016 after holding a series of meetings.
January 23, 2015
To examine extreme weather's impacts on urban environments, the ASU Wrigley Institute's Sustainable Cities Network convened municipal and nonprofit leaders for a conference on the subject. It featured a diverse panel of experts from multiple organizations – including the National Center for Atmospheric Research – who described the effects of extreme weather on human health, economies and urban infrastructure.
The event was part of the American Meteorological Society's annual conference, and was an opportunity exclusive to SCN members. Attendees included representatives from planning, public works, community development and other city departments, as well as local policymakers. The conference provided them with a holistic understanding of some of the issues Arizona's communities are facing, or will face – information that may aid in future decision-making.
January 22, 2015
Arizona State University's Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, a unit of the ASU Wrigley Institute, recently formalized a partnership with nonprofit The Earth Genome. The partnership is envisioned as an opportunity to promote the organizations' shared goals of developing the solutions needed to conserve and sustainably manage life on earth.
The center will connect its affiliated faculty with The Earth Genome to build information systems and tools that will enable the world's governments, multi-laterals, non-governmental organizations, corporations and investors to incorporate the environment into their decision-making and long-term cost calculations. In doing so, improved outcomes for both society and natural systems are expected.

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As implied by its name, the limb movements occur at regular intervals of between 20 to 30 seconds apart, five times or more an hour during non-REM sleep. The movements are similar to jerking or kicking, and consist of a partial flexing of the big toe, ankle, knee and occasionally, the hips. Occurrences are not continuous throughout the night, but occasion more in clusters, in the first half of the night.
PLMD sufferers are generally unaware of their limb movements or the resultant "microarousals" (very brief awakenings) that lead to excessive daytime sleepiness the morning after. However, they do often complain of difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or remaining alert and awake during the day. Other common symptoms include hot or cold feet, or hair wearing off the legs.
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Kristen seemed sad and depressed at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 6 — feelings that are most likely lingering from her split with Robert Pattinson. Ironically, Kristen revealed during a recent press junket event that she likes being crammed in a car — it's so unfortunate that she used those words.
Kristen Stewart is currently promoting On The Road, her new movie that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday Sept. 6. While the press seems to be staying away from questions pertaining to Kristen's personal life — she cheated on Robert Pattinson with director Rupert Sanders — the questions certainly push the boundaries in relation to her affair.
"Definitely crammed in a car," Kristen told Citytv when asked what she'd prefer — being crammed in a car or stuck on a plane. That question was certainly unfortunate considering Kristen was caught making out with Rupert … in a CAR!
During another interview, Kristen had a hard time hiding her nerves and even got choked up when talking about her character's capacity to love.
What do YOU think of Kristen's comments, HollywoodLifers?
– Christopher Rogers
More Kristen Stewart News:
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I remind you, stayed with Brad Angelina while married, Gisselle B take my husband to a pregnant woman and Natalie Portman broke a ratio of more than 8 years. Stoned to these women who do not understand why they do this with Kristen. Neither God in all its grandeur accept a humiliation of this kind. I tell Mrs. Bonnie, over the years I have, rewarding life, but life and the universe charge injustices we commit at some point in life and can not imagine how. You and your people use this medium to attack the dignity of a human being that is the minimum that any law be bad it is worthy, you are incisive attacks with this girl, she made a mistake, but recognized him, think women loved ones and reflect a little, is making a big mistake. Because it gives us another seven weeks against both Rupert Sanders?
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That's not normal here, Kristen talking about the movie!! And just for twifans: sat you reach a mini cooper? front seat? Do I really have to laugh! There will not do anything, anything at all, it just is not possible for a small space the story. Hug and kiss, that's all, America is crazy.. Ha, ha, look at mr. Bean. I have to laugh.
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OMG Here we go again. HL printing lies again. Leave Rob and Kristen alone. They will work this out. This is becoming absurb. How many more lies are going to be written. It has been nearly 7 weeks now and it keeps going on and on. I just wish Rob would come out and tell everyone if he and Kristen have split or not. No-one knows except Rob and Kristen. There has been nothing said by Rob or his management. If they have why does Rob and/or his management put out a statement it would be the decent thing to do instead of dragging it out. If Rob still loves Kristen like he has been saying he will never be able to move on. Maybe he can go live with Kristen in her new Malibu house she has purchased, even though it is registered in her mother's name. Reports have said that her mother has moved out of the house because of the divorce from Kristen's father. Why does HL take things out of context. MOVE ON HL LET IT GO. STOP REHASHING THINGS.
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Garret Headlum, the guy in the interview is dating Kristen Dunst not Kristen Stewart. Kristen S. contract had her scheduled to attend the Toronto Festival. I think you had the wrong Kristen. She was asked a question about traveling in a car or a plane. She answered in a car just like I would have traveled too. Stop trying to make something dirty out of nothing HWL.
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If i was asked that question i'd say the same thing. Can we just move on from all of this? Its getting pretty absurd and out of hand. Let rob and kristen work things out. No need to get anymore involved. Her comment was most likely not even related to the affair at all. Im sure kristen is ashamed of what she did and the last thing she would want to do is say stuff that's reminds her of it..
Gente se vocês perceberem ela está usando uma aliança no dedo,nessa aliança tem um "R" que concerteza e um "R" de Robert,eu sei disso porque numa foto em que ela está indo jantar solitária depois do VMA ela está com ima aliança no dedo e eu ampliei ela,nela está gravado um "R" lindo,ela ainda ama Rob muito,e ela está provando isso!Robsten Eternamente♥
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There are a lot of things wrong here.. first she didint looked sad and depresed, she looked beautiful, yes she didint looked her normal self but not sad and depressed , second that is not what she ment by saying that, they were not talking about that all the reporters were very respectful with her, I think the most personal questions they asked were how are you and what happened to your finger that is it!! So plz stop taking her words and making it to something ugly !!
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One thing i forgot to mention when have robert mention kristen on any type of interview like when have you heard him talk about his relationship with her like i miss her i love her when the only thing he had said is that he dosent like to sell his personal and kristen in the vogue magazine is selling her personal life shes talking about something that has to stay private like i said in my comment she just like to play games and in the interview shes doing for the movie on the road shes putting this act like im suffering and depress and sad girl is like robert cheated on her shes the victim it was her own dam fault she shouldnt have done what she did i understand it was a mistake everyone makes mistakes but it dosent make it right but all kristen fans are so blind they dont care what she did because they admire her alot like she was a godess like shes the only actress in hollywood that is so down to earth i think emma stone is down to earth when she has interviews shes funny she says whats on her mind or miley cyrus shes down to earth to shes not afraid to answer questions and she funny and she has an answer for everything she dosent get nervous when shes doing interviews or stutters or grabs her hair every 8 seconds and emma watson is dont to earth to shes great she looks really pretty and mature on her new magazine cover.


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Amid a hectic day in the office, with everyone checking their routes home for safety reasons, I came across this inspiring picture taken on Green Street today. Much is made of the difference between the East End in the days of Bobby Moore et al and today, and yes it is vastly different, but the spirit is clearly still there.
This image shows local residents have taken to the street to literally protect their businesses from any potential rioters. Absolutely brilliant.
Seeing this image, the decision to postpone tonight's League Cup tie is clearly the best for everyone. Let's let the idiots have their fun and then get back to the task of watching West Ham return to winning ways.
I'm expecting to see an image soon of the David's outside the front of the Boleyn Ground with over-sized dildo-bats in hand. Ready for action. Gold will probably be in disguise though, predictably as some sort of porn Dracula. Sullivan will be, as ever, dressed as some sort of faux Russian militant.
Rumour is that riots are also scheduled for 4.00pm at the Brittania Stadium, Stoke, as supporter's heard that the club might be in talks with Matthew 'Celebrity' Upson…


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Professor of Human and Community Development
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My academic training is in Psychology/Human Development. I attended Williams College as an undergraduate, did my graduate work at the University of Chicago, then was a post-doc at Johns Hopkins University and Rutgers University. After that, I spent 12 years as a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I joined the UIUC faculty in January of 2008 as a Professor of Human and Community Development. My interests center on issues of risk and resilience in children and adolescents from culturally diverse and "non-mainstream" populations. Current research and teaching focus on adolescent risk taking, development under conditions of poverty, sexual socialization in Latino families, and promoting positive adaptation of children growing up in immigrant families.
Education and Training
Ph.D., Psychology (Human Development), 1990. Dept. of Psychology (Committee on Human Development), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
M.A., Human Development, 1987. Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
B.A., Psychology, 1982. Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Professional Activities
I am actively involved in several professional organizations, including the Society for Research in Child Development, Society for Research on Adolescence, and National Hispanic Science Network.
Reseach Interests
My interests center the development of children and adolescents, with a particular focus on youngsters from culturally diverse and "non-mainstream" populations (e.g., Latino/a youth, immigrants, homeless youth). I am particularly interested in understanding how individual, social, and contextual factors affect development in both positive and negative ways. Accordingly, my work has focused on a range of developmental outcomes (e.g., risk-taking behavior, mental health, physical outcomes). Much of my work is conducted in collaboration with colleagues from around the country and in other nations.
Possibilities for Student Involvement
Undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in the kind of work I do are encouraged to sign up for one of my classes, read some of my articles, and/or send me an email to set up a meeting to discuss opportunities for becoming involved in research. Past undergraduate students have helped with data collection and analysis, co-authored conference presentations and articles, and conducted independent work (e.g., honors theses) under my supervision. A number of these undergraduates went on to graduate school. I have also been fortunate to collaborate on research and publications with many graduate students, most of whom are now in academic positions


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Jessie J may have found herself a new man in the form of Justin Bieber's bodyguard, Kenny Hamilton, whom she was spotted having dinner with last night.
The 'Dominos' singer looked pleased as punch clinging onto the arm of Justin's burly security as they headed to dinner in central London before partying at the Cirque Du Soir nightclub. Jessie and Kenny appeared to be very close to one another and were even holding hands at one point, fuelling rumours they are more than friends.
As if that wasn't enough, Kenny also tweeted: "Dinner with my fav british lady @JessieJ."
It looks as though Justin gave Kenny a night off while he spent some time with his pal Niall Horan from One Direction, annoying the boyband singer's neighbours at 3am.
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"installs toolbar whether you allow or disallow"
Quick download. Doesn't slow the download until you buy a "pro" version. Downloaded and converted in one step.
I made sure I unchecked all the extra crap it asked for permission to install. However, next time I started my computer, the IB toolbar was in internet explorer, and Firefox gave me messages that an add-on was trying to do something. When I looked at the ad-on list, the IB toolbar was there.
It did what I needed it to do, but I just can't trust software that pretends to give you the option to install add-ons, only to install them anyway. I am currently scanning my system.
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Author | Thomas Pynchon |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical novel |
Published | 2006 (Penguin Press) |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 1085 pp |
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LC Class | PS3566.Y55 A73 2006 |
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First edition cover | |
Author | Thomas Pynchon |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical novel |
Published | 2006 (Penguin Press) |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 1085 pp |
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LC Class | PS3566.Y55 A73 2006 |
Against the Day is a 2006 historical novel by Thomas Pynchon. The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, and "one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all," according to the book jacket blurb written by Pynchon. Like its predecessors, Against the Day is an example of historiographic metafiction or metahistorical romance, and at 1,085 pages it is the longest of Pynchon's novels to date.
Besides appearing within the book itself, the novel's title apparently refers to a verse in the Bible (2 Peter 3:7) reading "the heavens and the earth ... [are] reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."[1]
William Faulkner, whose diction frequently echoes the King James Bible, liked the phrase, and many reviewers have traced it to a speech of Faulkner's against racism. Perhaps as relevant is a passage in Absalom, Absalom! in which Sutpen, a Faustus character of the sort that Pynchon deploys everywhere, seeks "a wife who not only would consolidate the hiding but could would and did breed him two children to fend and shield both in themselves and in their progeny the brittle bones and tired flesh of an old man against the day when the Creditor would run him to earth for the last time and he couldn't get away." The Creditor there is Mephistopheles, to whom Faustus/Sutpen would owe his soul. (The passage in Gravity's Rainbow about the "black indomitable oven" with which the witch-like Blicero, another Faustus character, is left once the Hansel-and-Gretel-like children have departed, alludes to another passage in Absalom, Absalom!.)
Nonliterary sources for the title may also exist: Contre-jour (literally "against (the) day"), a term in photography referring to backlighting. There are also two uses of the phrase "against the day" in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon,[2] and, anecdotally, three uses in William Gaddis's J R.[3] One may assume that Pynchon has read his Walter Benjamin, who in his famous Theses on the Concept of History XV quotes a satirical ditty composed on the occasion of the July Revolution of 1830, when it was reported that several clock towers across Paris had been fired on: Who would have believed it!/ we are told that new Joshuas/at the foot of every tower,/ as though irritated with time itself*,/ fired at the dials/ in order to stop the day. - * The French makes it clearer: "qu'irrités contre l'heure" [4]
A 1998 children's novel by Michael Cronin uses the same title: it tells an alternate history of a Britain occupied by Nazis.
Last but not least, the novel's epigraph from Thelonious Monk would appear to comment on the title: "It's always night, or we wouldn't need light."
As Pynchon researched and wrote the book, a variety of rumors about it circulated over the years. One of the most salient reports came from the former German minister of culture, and before that, the publisher of Henry Holt and Company, Michael Naumann, who said he assisted Pynchon in researching "a Russian mathematician [who] studied for David Hilbert in Göttingen", and that the new novel would trace the life and loves of mathematician and academic Sofia Kovalevskaya. Kovalevskaya briefly appears in the book, but Pynchon may have partly modeled the major character Yashmeen Halfcourt after her.
In mid-July 2006, a plot-synopsis signed by Pynchon himself appeared on Amazon.com's page for the novel, only to vanish a few days later. Readers who had noticed the synopsis re-posted it.[5] This disappearance provoked speculation on blogs and the PYNCHON-L mailing list about publicity stunts and viral marketing schemes. Shortly thereafter, Slate published a brief article revealing that the blurb's early appearance was a mistake on the part of the publisher, Penguin Press.[6] Associated Press indicated the title of the previously anonymous novel.[7]
Pynchon's synopsis states that the novel's action takes place "between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the years just after World War I". "With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred." Pynchon promises "cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi and Groucho Marx", as well as "stupid songs" and "strange sexual practices".
The novel's setting
Like several of Pynchon's earlier works, Against the Day includes both mathematicians and drug users. "As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them."
The synopsis concludes:
The published jacket-flap of the book featured an edited-down version of this text, omitting the last three sentences, references to specific authorship (as well as misspelling Nikola Tesla's first name as "Nikolai"; Pynchon had previously spelled it correctly).[8]
Nearly all reviewers of the book mention the Byzantine nature of the plot. Louis Menand in The New Yorker gives a simple description:[9]
As to the multitude of plot dead-ends, pauses and confusing episodes that return to continue much later in the narrative, Menand writes:
Many reviewers have commented on the various writing styles in the book that hark back to popular fiction of the period. John Clute identifies four "story clusters", each with one or more prose-styles mimicking a popular fiction genre in the style used before the end of World War I:
Examples: "boys' adventure fiction, from the [contemporary] Airship Boys tale by Michael Moorcock to Horatio Alger; the Dime Novel in general; the British school story in general ... the future war novel"
Examples: Edward S. Ellis, Bret Harte, Jack London, Oakley Hall
Examples: "the Lost Race novel; the Symmesian Hollow Earth tale; the Tibetan Lama or Shangri-La thriller; the Vernean Extraordinary Journey; the Wellsian scientific romance; the Invention tale and its close cousin the Edisonade ..."
Examples: "the European spy romance thriller a la E. Phillips Oppenheim; the World Island spy thriller a la John Buchan; the mildly sadomasochistic soft porn tale as published by the likes of Charles Carrington in Paris around the turn of the century." [Clute may mean to include "the Zuleika Dobson subgenre of the femme fatale tale in particular" in this cluster.]
Clute sees (but does not specifically categorize) another style mimicked in the book: "the large number of utopias influenced by Edward Bellamy and William Morris".[10]
Some reviewers complain that Pynchon's characters have little emotional depth and therefore don't excite the sympathy of the reader. For example, Laura Miller in Salon.com:
Time doesn't exist, but it crushes us anyway; everyone could see World War I coming, but no one could stop it — those are two weighty paradoxes that hover over the action in "Against the Day" without truly engaging with it. This is the stuff of tragedy, but since the people it sort of happens to are flimsy constructions, we don't experience it as tragic. We just watch Pynchon point to it like bystanders watching the Chums of Chance's airship float by overhead.[11]
New York Times reviewer Michiko Kakutani writes of the characterizations: "[B]ecause these people are so flimsily delineated, their efforts to connect feel merely sentimental and contrived."[12]
In some of the reviews to his previous works, Pynchon had been called a cold, lapidary writer. Poet L. E. Sissman, from The New Yorker, instead praised and defended him, saying
I do not find him to be one. Though his characters are not developed along conventional lines, they do, in their recalcitrant human oddity, live, and they do eventually touch the reader more than he at first thinks they will.[13]
As a complement to Miller's criticism about tragedy, Adam Kirsch sees comedy as undercut as well, although parody remains:
The gaudy names Mr. Pynchon gives his characters are like pink slips, announcing their dismissal from the realm of human sympathy and concern. This contraction of the novel's scope makes impossible any genuine comedy, which depends on the observation of real human beings and their insurmountable, forgivable weaknesses. What replaces it is parody, whose target is language itself, and which operates by short-circuiting the discourses we usually take for granted. And it is as parody — in fact, a whole album of parodies — that Against the Day is most enjoyable.[14]
Critic Louis Menand sees an organizing theme of the book as
something like this: An enormous technological leap occurred in the decades around 1900. This advance was fired by some mixed-up combination of abstract mathematical speculation, capitalist greed, global geopolitical power struggle, and sheer mysticism. We know (roughly) how it all turned out, but if we had been living in those years it would have been impossible to sort out the fantastical possibilities from the plausible ones. Maybe we could split time and be in two places at once, or travel backward and forward at will, or maintain parallel lives in parallel universes. It turns out (so far) that we can't. But we did split the atom — an achievement that must once have seemed equally far-fetched. Against the Day is a kind of inventory of the possibilities inherent in a particular moment in the history of the imagination. It is like a work of science fiction written in 1900.[9]
Menand states that this theme also appeared in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and that it ties in with a concern present in nearly all of Pynchon's books:
Steven Moore, in a Washington Post book review, writes:
Pynchon is mostly concerned with how decent people of any era cope under repressive regimes, be they political, economic or religious. [...] 'Capitalist Christer Republicans' are a recurring target of contempt, and bourgeois values are portrayed as essentially totalitarian."[19]
Jazz (or, as Pynchon refers to it in one variant spelling of the novel's time period, "Jass") provides a non-hierarchical model of organization that the author relates to politics about a third of the way through the novel, according to Leith, who quotes from the passage, in which 'Dope' Breedlove, an Irish revolutionist at a Jazz-bar makes the point. Breedlove characterises the Irish Land League as "the closest the world has ever come to a perfect Anarchist organization".[20]
In a Bloomberg News review, Craig Seligman identifies three overarching themes in the novel: doubling, light and war.[17]
"Pynchon makes much of a variety of calcite called Iceland spar, valued for its optical quality of double refraction; in Pynchonland, a magician can use it to split one person into two, who then wander off to lead their own lives", Seligman writes.[17]
Sam Leith identifies the same theme:
Although the novel directly portrays the First Balkan War (1912–1913) and the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920), it dispatches World War I after a few pages. But during most of the book the Great War "looms as an approaching catastrophe", according to Seligman.[17] This theme might form part of what Menand describes above as the struggle between power-pursuers and power-transcenders.
Reviewer Adam Kirsch criticizes Pynchon's overall treatment of political violence:[14]
Light becomes a "preoccupation [...] to which everything, finally, returns", according to reviewer Sam Leith.[20]
Light appears as a religious symbol or element and as a scientific phenomenon, as Peter Keouge, in his Boston Phoenix review[18] points out:
In his Bloomberg News review, Craig Seligman portrays the book as "overstuffed with wonders" often related to light, including a luminous Mexican beetle and the Tunguska Event of 1908 that leaves the native reindeer soaring and "stimulated by the accompanying radiation into an epidermal luminescence at the red end of the spectrum, particularly around the nasal area" (reminiscent of the luminescence of a certain fictional reindeer). "[T]he novel is full of images of light, like those beetles and those noses (and the title)", Seligman reports.[17]
Reviewer Tom Leclair notes light in various flashy appearances:
God said, 'Let there be light'; Against the Day collects ways our ancestors attempted to track light back to its source and replaced religion with alternative lights. There is the light of relativity, the odd light of electromagnetic storms, the light of the mysterious Tunguska event of 1908, when a meteorite struck Siberia or God announced a coming apocalypse. [...] the dynamite flash, the diffracted light of Iceland spar, the reflected light of magicians' mirrors, the 'light writing' of photography and movies, the cities' new electric lighting that makes the heavens invisible at night.[1]
Scott McLemee sees connections between light, space-time and politics:[21]
It remains unclear whether Pynchon himself regards such escape or transcendence as really possible.
The book received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Metacritic reported the book had an average score of 68 out of 100, based on 25 reviews.[22]


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This article on Joseph Kony poses the perfect questions: can we use numbers and internet technology to affect justice?
Being Good to Others Means Being Good To US
In the kind of Buddhism I practice, Nichiren Buddhism, its founder (13th Century Japanese monk Nichiren) has a quote: "if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit." This is a statement by which I try to live my life, and living this way has shown me time and time again that when I extend myself for others my own life is more full than it would have ever been otherwise. It also keeps me kind and from falling into the agonies of competitiveness. The reason why this theory holds true in Buddhism is that all of life is interrelated, so your behavior towards others is linked deeply to your own life.
My thesis is now going about exploring the validity of this belief in the context of international relations. Globalization and global problems are forcing us to view ourselves as an interrelated planet instead of individual countries. In that case, do policies that take this interrelated view actually prove better for national self interest? Make for a more secure planet?
There are two parts to this research. The first is exploring the underlying political theories that discuss these concepts (I'm starting with cosmopolitanism first). The next is actually discussing how this would look from a policy perspective. What would the U.S. do if it viewed itself as part of a global community? My passion is diplomacy but I may tackle this argument from an environmental perspective because it is where these ideas make themselves the most clear.
In the meantime these ideas are all over the place, and it really feels as though our society is moving in a new direction. Robert Wright wrote Non-Zero, in which he discusses that mutually beneficial agreements in fact pushed life and innovation forward. Jeffrey Sachs and Bill McKibben also discuss how a change in our value system will ensure our security as a planet. This changing viewpoint also has implications (from a political theory perspective) for an international state-based system, but I haven't done as much research on that subject yet.
Any of you know what else is out there?
Content Marketing
Below we've got the 10 Commandments for Content Marketing (as it applies to Brand Journalism) put together by Shane Snow. You can check them out yourself, but there were a few things that stuck out to me in relation to the blog. Namely: Content has to be intellectually stimulating, original, and transparent. It has to be geared to its audience and to its medium (twitter, blog or print). It's gotta keep it real and needs to be planned like a publication.
Gives me some good things with which to go back to the drawing board for my online publication.
Urban Agriculture – making our cities green
Cities have SO much potential for innovation, and I've had this fact come at me again and again in my reading this week.
First, I was reading "Common Wealth" by Jeffrey Sachs, which is a manual for "economics on a crowded planet." As we now have more people in cities than we have in rural areas it means that we will have to invest more resources into the burgeoning field of "urban ecology". This will be an interdisciplinary field, according to Sachs, with "architects, city planners, ecologists, public health specialists, and environmental engineers". To achieve this, we need to create more interdisciplinary dialogue (Gallatin!) and route scientific and policy research toward the field.
Next, I was reading Foreign Policy's Jan/Feb Issues, "The Economy Issue." They had a feature, "How to Save the Global Economy" with 13 fascinating posts by various economists and thought leaders. Number 12? Build Green Cities, by Alex Steffen. Basically, there's no turning back from being urban, and we need to make urban be as cutting edge as possible. "Carbon-neutral cities will also help uncage urban innovation," he writes, "given that making them carbon-zero will involve a million opportunities to do things better in nearly every industry". (And the picture featured in this article is of the High Line! NYC!)
We need to get going on this, asap. And if you're in NY, I've got two events coming up for you:
Hosted by New York City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn, March 6
2. 31st ANNUAL MAKING BROOKLYN BLOOM
Think Global, Grow Local: What's Next for Urban Gardeners? March 10
3. 28th ANNUAL GREEN THUMB GROW TOGETHER, March 31
4. BROOKLYN FOOD CONFERENCE, May 12
The New School also had a two talks on Urban Agriculture last week: "URBAN AGRICULTURE'S ORIGINS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN OAKLAND: AND INTERDISCIPLINARY AND PARTICIPATORY APPROACH" (Nathan McClintock) and"REALIZING THE POTENTIAL OF URBAN AGRICULTURE: Policies to Support New York City's Growing Production Sector" (Nevin Cohen). Work worth checking out. And,NYTIMES on Urban Ag
Let's make our cities bloom!
What Drives Social Change?
Good question. I've been working on this as a part of my thesis. How do ideas move from scholarship to policy? What creates the intellectual mood of a time? I came across this interesting article from the Columbia Journalism Review that talked about driving forces behind public opinion on climate change.
From my thesis I am interested in looking at the ideas of sustainability promoted by activists such as Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben (on the grassroots level) and Jeffrey Sachs and the normative frameworks they put out, as well as take into consideration constructivist and cosmopolitan philosophies and explore their frameworks as well (Anne-Marie Slaughter and Kwame Anthony Appiah for starters). Then, how do these eventually become law? I get the impression that artists and activists often have their fingers on society's pulse before policy catches up. I'm going to peek into social movement theory too!
And….also from CJR – Bloomberg has a new sustainability section!! And it's edited by Eric Roston, whom they interviewed! So, something's happening out there. Let's make it good!
The Future of Journalism
My research over the past week has got me thinking about the future of journalism and possibilities. I rounded up a few articles from the past year that I thought did a good job of poking around the media field – just a look for you all!
- A recap of a TIME Magazine panel on the future of journalism (Oct 2011)
- The NextWeb has a nice little recap of London's Social Media Week: what happens when Twitter and journalism meet?
- 5 myths about the future of journalism, according to WaPo
- A way old (2010!) Forbes article on the future of journalism and why it shouldn't become a public good
- And…Nieman Lab, a great resource who dedicates all of its time to this stuff!
Let me know if any of this catches your eyes!!
My Q&A with ProPublica got me thinking about new models of journalism, or emerging forms of new media. While I will publish a more collected post tomorrow, I wanted to bring your attention to an organization that I think is doing interesting work: Purpose.
Purpose creates "21st Century Movements." Their aim is to use the power of an engaged people to create massive social change through social movements. They call their work "movement entrepreneurship" and have been behind campaigns that work to change health policy, security policy and marriage equality.
Purpose's cofounder and CEO, Jeremy Heimans, was the keynote speaker on the last day of Social Media Week (Friday the 17th). I've included a brief introduction to his speech (take from Social Media Week's site and block quoted below) and the video. It's a bit long but worth the watch: Heimans and his organization have their finger on the pulse of change, and are able to harness changing media, social and economic structures to make a big difference.
Purpose.com co-founder/CEO Jeremy Heimans will discuss new sources of power in the 21st century – and the risks and opportunities this creates for established institutions. Rapidly forming, self-organizing, technology-enabled movements (such as those seen in the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and through groups like Avaaz.org) and new economic models (such as collaborative consumption) are emerging almost every day. Working together, these groups are challenging the power of entities such as governments, corporations and even NGOs. These changes have prompted a dramatic re-evaluation that forces us to ask what does it mean to have lasting power in the 21st century.
How do entities respond to these new demands while still fulfilling their missions? How should new entities structure themselves, and to whom are they accountable? How do we balance the inside/outside power dynamic to create positive social change? When should traditional institutions seek to deploy the technologies and techniques of rapid self-organization and mobilization to aid their existing work?
Watch the keynote here.
Q and A with Minhee Cho of ProPublica
Editor's note: We have to conduct two Q and As with media startups and publish them on our blogs. I got in touch with ProPublica, and luckily their Communications Manager, Minhee Cho, was kind enough to take the time to answer my long list of questions. If you don't know ProPublica yet, you need to. They're "an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest", and they're awesome. Q and A below – Ms. Cho drops some real knowledge on us all:
1. How does ProPublica's online platform differentiate it from a traditional print publication? Did the founders conceptualize it in a totally different manner? Did they draw on their experiences from print publications?
The business crisis in publishing is making it increasingly difficult for the companies that control nearly all of our nation's news organizations to afford – or at least to think they can afford – the sort of intensive and uncertain efforts that produce great investigative journalism. ProPublica's founders recognized this need and wanted to create a news outlet that would address the growing gap in investigative journalism while also being completely independent and focusing solely on stories with "moral force."
The fact that ProPublica is an online-only news outlet definitely works in our favor. For one thing, print is expensive. Managing the costs of printing and distributing a traditional newspaper would have made launching ProPublica much more difficult. On top of that, ProPublica stories are mostly deep-dive investigations that are much longer than what a traditional newspaper would run. An online platform is ideal for this type of journalism to thrive.
2. Do you see yourself as a news organization? An elaboration on a news organization?
ProPublica is definitely a news organization. We produce top-notch journalism with the same quality and aggressive reporting you can find at any traditional news outlet. We are led by some of the nation's top journalists and have won two Pulitzer Prizes in two years, which emphasizes how our cohorts feel the same way.
3. Do you believe you fill a different role than a traditional media organization as we've come to know them?
In some ways, yes. Unlike many traditional news outlets, ProPublica isn't just looking for stories that drive traffic. Our mission is to produce journalism in the public interest, or stories with "moral force" as our key leaders like to say. While a Kim Kardashian piece may bring us more readers than say a piece on the foreclosure crisis or hydraulic fracturing, we recognize the need for these stories to be told and aren't afraid to pursue them. And luckily, our readers have grown to appreciate the issues we cover.
4. What stylistic and content evolutions has ProPublica undergone since its launch in 2007?
ProPublica is still relatively young but we've had a few website redesigns since we first starting publishing stories in 2008. We've also increased the volume of stories from our initial launch by mixing in quick, hard-hitting posts to balance out our deep-dive stories and provide fresh content for our readers daily.
In June 2011, we also began a new project called MuckReads where we curate the best accountability stories of the day: http://projects.propublica.org/muckreads/ In line with our mission, we wanted to uphold journalism that has real-world impact and support others that have the same impetus. More details on that ongoing project here: http://www.propublica.org/article/introducing-muckreads-a-new-way-to-share-the-best-accountability-reporting
5. Investigative reporting is inherently risky: both time and labor intensive. What's your secret to success?
ProPublica is led by some of the nation's most distinguished editors and journalists who are devoted to the art of investigative journalism. Their skills, experience and drive to produce stories that serve the public have led to much of ProPublica's success.
6. How sustainable is the non-profit model for your organization? Would you recommend it for other news organizations/platforms?
ProPublica is very fortunate to have donors that support our work wholeheartedly and recognize the ever-growing importance of investigative journalism. I have no doubt that the nonprofit model is sustainable for ProPublica in the years to come, especially with our Vice President of Development, Debby Goldberg, at the helm.
As our annual report states, we've doubled our number of donors from 2010 to 2011, and last year we also received more than half of our funding from supporters outside the Sandlers – demonstrating that we are on right path.
ProPublica's General Manager, Dick Tofel, has also facilitated many new and exciting means of additional funding for ProPublica, including a partnership with SurveyMonkey Contribute (https://contribute.surveymonkey.com/charity/propublica), Amazon Kindle Singles (http://www.propublica.org/kindlesingles), Open Road (http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/open-road-teams-with-propublica_b19827), as well as advertisements on our site (http://www.propublica.org/article/why-were-publishing-advertising-and-where-we-stand-on-funding).
7. Who tend to be your biggest donors grant-making organizations or individual supporters? In your experience, what is the relationship between one-time donors and repeat supporters?
Our largest supporters tend to be foundations, which include the Sandler Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts, among several others. To the best of my knowledge, we also have many significant contributions from individuals but ProPublica is still relatively new (we're just approaching our fourth anniversary) so it's hard to say what drives a one-time donor compared to a regular supporter. My best guess is that one-time donors are those who love a particular story or series and that repeat supporters are those that love ProPublica and want to support our overall mission rather than any specific topic we're investigating.
8. Has your funding model changed since inception?
ProPublica's funding model has evolved since our inception but the change was something we always had in mind. When we first began, ProPublica relied on the Sandler Foundation for nearly all of its operating budget. Over the years, however, our funding has become more and more varied. We had only about 100 donors in 2009 but grew to 1,300 in 2010 and then 2,600 in 2011. In fact, in 2011, more than half of our funding came from donors outside the Sandlers.
9. Do you foresee any upcoming changes or challenges with your current model?
Nothing in particular that I can think of but I don't work in development so it's hard to say.
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10. Does the company have a social media strategy? How does it fit into ProPublica's overall mission? Does social media play a significant role in capturing readers?
Social media plays a huge role in ProPublica's overall outreach strategy. We've recently hired a full-time social media editor and social media producer who monitor our accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc. and engage with readers and relevant communities. They also drive ProPublica's crowd-sourcing efforts, much of which is used for our reporting, and are always innovating new ways to create the most impact while upholding our mission of creating journalism in the public interest.
As our annual report mentions, our Twitter account has grew by nearly five-fold to the point that if ProPublica were a daily newspaper, we'd have the eighth-largest following in the country. Our Tumblr was also recently highlighted by TIME Magazine as one of its top 30 must-see Tumblr blogs: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/30/30-must-see-tumblr-blogs/. All this has definitely helped us spread our reach and remain at the forefront of online journalism and innovation.
11. Could you please elaborate on the relationship between ProPublica and its online community? What sort of responses do you get from your readers? Does community response influence new topics or deeper coverage?
We constantly get comments and suggestions for new stories. While ProPublica can't pursue everything that comes our way, we do engage with our online community and take their responses seriously.
One case that comes to mind is our recent investigation into redistricting issues in California: http://www.propublica.org/article/how-democrats-fooled-californias-redistricting-commission. Our reporter Olga Pierce and news applications developer Jeff Larson received a lot of criticism, particularly from the California Democrats that the story highlighted (go figure): http://www.propublica.org/article/how-democrats-fooled-californias-redistricting-commission. This led our redistricting team to write a separate post shortly afterward addressing the many questions our readers had: http://www.propublica.org/article/answering-your-questions-on-our-california-redistricting-story/
12. What sorts of trends are you encountering in the field of journalism? Is ProPublica quick to adopt new models early; what are some issues you consider before making bold changes to your style of reporting?
ProPublica is definitely an early-adopter, much of that credited to the superior journalists and editors who are on top of trends. However, we do carefully approach decisions to try new models, making sure they fall in line with generating stories with impact, and not just more noise.
13. How does ProPublica view citizen journalism?
Citizen journalism has played an important role in ProPublica's reporting efforts. We launched our reporting network back in May 2009 with the goal of organizing readers and guiding them to "commit acts of journalism" http://www.propublica.org/article/introducing-the-propublica-reporting-network-520 This was specifically focused on the stimulus when it launched, but we've more recently used crowdsourcing to drive our series on foreclosures and mortgage modifications: http://www.propublica.org/article/struggling-homeowners-tell-us-your-story-515 More on that project here: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/propublica-demonstrates-the-benefits-of-crowdsourcing_b13394
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Ideas for my business. I'm bouncing these off you guys! I want to do a non-profit news aggregation site. A bit like Dowser in that it promotes "solution journalism." Below is my elevator pitch, what do you all think?
I'm starting a blog that provides rich, short sharp snippets on theories and projects that make the world better. It will distinguish itself from the pack as a blog that is critical, intelligent and speaks across multiple sectors: a do-good site for pragmatists. It will have a strong aesthetic vision and employ the newest multimedia and blog technologies. The twist? It's a non-profit and offers a range of services for customers and organizations including a store and publicity platform.
So now, how do I get funding? And what are my perks/services?
Innovation Management
I had a conversation with a friend the other day and we discussed the most effective ways that people can make change. One of the questions I ask myself is: what sector? Non-profit, government or private?
Buddhism cites that you can create value absolutely any place that you are, since your behavior matters more than anything else. Constructivist International Relations claims that "significant aspects of international relations are historically and socially contingent, rather than inevitable consequences of human nature or other essential characteristics of world politics" (according to Wikipedia at least). In this case, NGOs and Civil Society play a large role in shaping culture and norms. So I'll go with that.
But there are definitely ways to make the non-profit (and public sector) more lean and efficient. These are old gems but I thought they'd be worth sharing. The first is a white paper from Bridgespan titled "Ending the Non-Profit Starvation Cycle": how we can coax donors to allow non-profits larger overheads so that non-profits can operate more efficiently.
Jason Saul of the Kellogg School of Management published a book in March of 2011 called "The End of Fundraising". Saul is an expert on measuring social impact. To him, non-profits offer valuable services that can be leveraged so that they actually are paid to do the work that they do. Because higher education rates are proven to create economic good, for instance, you can get private sector companies to donate to the non-profit because it benefits them in the future.
The Lean Startup's got me thinking so much about management innovation! Fascinating stuff. And now that I have to think about funding models for my online publication, I'm on the prowl for ways that I can leverage my services to others.
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Schmidt had a lung x-ray to see if a persistent cough was pneumonia. The scan discovered a tumor, five centimeters, huge in cancer terms and very likely stage 4.
"As a nurse, I know the survival rate for lung cancer is dismal," Schmidt says. "The worst part is discovering a limit on your lifetime."
She smoked her final cigarettes on the night of her diagnosis.
"I was very lucky," Schmidt says.
A lobectomy removed the tumor, which, miraculously, had not spread. Schmidt is cancer free, but will need PET scans every six months to be certain it does not return.
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"If I can reach one more person who quits," Schmidt says, "It's worth every minute of my time."
Schmidt is joining other volunteers at Sentara Virginia Beach General who are training as tobacco cessation facilitators. They will conduct a series of workshops to help fellow employees, their families and community members quit tobacco use prior to implementation of the Tobacco Free Environment initiative (TFE) on the Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital campus. All tobacco use will be banned after January 1st, 2008, including in cars on parking lots.
Jeff Hartenberg, director of cardiac services at Sentara Virginia Beach General, has a clinical background in respiratory therapy. Yet, he smoked until 15 years ago. Hartenberg has joined other volunteers training as tobacco cessation facilitators.
"I've been through the process of quitting," Hartenberg says. "I'd like to share what worked for me with others trying to quit."
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"It makes perfect sense for hospitals to ban all forms of tobacco," says Ray Troiano, M.D., vice president and administrator of Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital. "The most significant thing we can do to improve health is to create an environment that encourages people to stop using tobacco."
The Tobacco Free Environment initiative better aligns Beach General with Sentara's mission statement; "We Improve Health Every Day."
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"This isn't about punishing or embarrassing tobacco users, "Dr. Troiano adds. "This is a positive demonstration of concern for the health of everyone using our campus."
Smokers will be asked, politely, to put out all smoking materials on the campus, including in parked cars. Those chewing tobacco or pinching snuff will be asked to dispose of it. Nicotine replacement will be available for short term use while visitors are on the campus. Educational materials and tobacco cessation information will be offered.
"All tobacco products cause cancer," Dr. Troiano says, "of the lung, stomach, liver, mouth and gums. "I'm a neurologist and I know it can even affect blood flow to the brain.
"Smoking can also cause heart disease and emphysema," Troiano continues. "It is a hospital's mission to help prevent acute and chronic diseases and stopping the use of tobacco is step one."
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(CNN) — After months of hints, China announced Friday it will relax its decades-long one-child policy and abolish labor camps in an effort to improve human rights, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Officials had said earlier both controversial policies were under review, but that did not diminish the force of Friday's announcement.
The biggest change could be the abolishment of the so-called "re-education through labor" system under which tens of thousands are imprisoned in China without trial.
"Reform through labor" was set up in the 1950s under Mao Zedong and modeled on Soviet gulags -- a place where "counterrevolutionaries" and "class enemies" could be detained without trial.
Millions are believed to have died through overwork, suicide and harsh conditions until a system overhaul in the 1970s when Deng Xiaoping released prisoners accused of political and religious offenses.
According to the latest available figures from the Ministry of Justice, 160,000 people were held in 350 re-education through labor centers nationwide at the end of 2008. The United Nations has said the figure is possibly as high as 190,000 people.
As part of the reforms, China said it will reduce the number of crimes subject to the death penalty.
Even those who know little about China have likely heard about its one-child policy. China's family planning laws require most families living in urban areas to have one child.
The policy will be slightly relaxed so that couples will be allowed to have two children if one of the parents was an only child, Xinhua reported. Currently, both parents must be sole children to be eligible for a second child.
The one-child policy, though applauded by many for slowing down China's population growth, has been widely criticized for resulting in forced abortions and hefty fines that are sometimes used to enforce it.
Some critics say the law hurts China's elderly, who typically rely on their children for support in old age, and even constrains economic growth as the working age population begins to decline.
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The investigator took Lieutenant O'Neill's words to be a threat. "I have no intention of ever going back out there and risk getting caught in his little world," Mueller says. "There was simply no reason for him to come after me the way he did." Following that encounter, Mueller says he had no doubt Negron was telling the truth. Attorney Kenneth Weisman was furious when he learned that his investigator had been threatened in such a manner. "This P.K. O'Neill is one nasty, unethical sleazeball," he says. "And you can quote me on that."
(O'Neill, like all sixteen members of the tribal police force, is not an Indian. This past December he was promoted to captain and is now second-in-command. He refuses to discuss the Mueller incident or Negron's case generally. The Osceolas also refused to comment.)
The next day, Saturday, November 5, Negron called the Miccosukee Police Department to arrange a time when he could retrieve his tow truck, which is his means to a livelihood; without it he has no business and no income. (Custom-built to his specifications, the truck is designed so the special rear hooking device can be operated from inside the cab. Negron can back up, snag a car, and drive off with it in less than 30 seconds A all without having to step outside. In the sometimes dangerous world of repossessions, such equipment is essential.) In addition to the truck, the tribal police had confiscated other items necessary for his work. Besides his two weapons, his truck had carried his house keys and driver's license, a set of walkie-talkies, his cell phone, his repossessor's license, and a box of paperwork on more than a dozen pending jobs. Without that paperwork or his repossessor's license, he couldn't work even if he rented another tow truck. (Police also refused to return Bythwood's property: keys to his car and house.)
When he called the tribal police, Negron was transferred to O'Neill, who apparently was still fuming over his encounter with Mueller the night before. "You're not getting the truck back," O'Neill stated, "not after you sent that bonehead Mueller out here. We're filing forfeiture on it."
The Miccosukees have adopted Florida's forfeiture laws, which allow police agencies to seize property such as cars, boats, airplanes, and houses if they believe the property was used in the commission of a felony. Forfeiture proceedings take place independent of criminal trials, and a defendant doesn't have to be convicted of a crime before his property can be confiscated. In fact, a person can be found innocent of the felony that prompted the forfeiture case and still lose his property. The laws originally were designed to be used in drug cases, but in this instance, tribal police officials claimed that Negron had committed the felony of armed trespassing and that as a result the truck was now rightfully the property of the Miccosukee Indians.
Even before Negron could fully comprehend the catastrophic financial effect of losing his tow truck and its contents, Lieutenant O'Neill had an offer for him: The tribe would be willing to sell him his truck for $5000. "You want me to give you $5000 for my own truck?" Negron repeated in disbelief. O'Neill responded by saying that if he couldn't come up with $5000, he should make a counteroffer. Says Negron: "That's when I realized what this was all about A money."
In the four months since the arrest of Bythwood and Negron, the case has drawn the attention of politicians and high-profile attorneys; it has pitted the Miccosukees' assertions of sovereignty against Miami businessmen who have little recourse in recovering property from the reservation, and it has stirred up a hot cauldron of emotions.
"We are all Americans and we are all supposed to be governed by the same laws," says Joseph Taylor, chairman of the state's advisory council on private investigators and recovery agents. "I try to make things real simple: If a guy signs a contract saying he is going to pay and he doesn't pay, then I should have the right to get that car back." Taylor says he has been aware of Negron's case for several months, but there has been little he could do to help. "It's a real tragic situation," he offers. "And I think Mr. Negron has suffered immeasurably and unjustifiably just for trying to do his job. The very most they should have done was escort him off the property and tell him not to come back. He's done nothing to deserve the treatment he's gotten."
Negron's case illustrates the peculiar situation in which non-Indians find themselves when they visit a reservation. Numerous courts throughout the nation have found that tribes like the Miccosukee, which have been recognized by Congress to be sovereign nations, enjoy nearly complete immunity from individuals seeking to file civil lawsuits in either state or federal court. (However, state and federal criminal statutes do apply on Indian reservations.) In Alaska, for instance, the state supreme court has ruled that an Indian tribe could not be sued by the family of a man who had been beaten to death by four tribal police officers. In Florida, the Fourth District Court of Appeals has ruled that the Seminole police department could not be sued in state court for wrongful arrest.


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