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Army expected to remove Pinon Canyon waiver Monday
Army generals have come and gone, but Southeastern Colorado ranchers haven't budged and Monday they will likely win another victory in their seven-year fight to keep the Army's Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site from getting any bigger.
Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., is flying Army Assistant Secretary Katherine Hammack to the 238,000-acre training range Monday — a helicopter ride from Fort Carson to announce the Defense Department is repealing its 2007 land-aquisition waiver for the Army to try and add 418,000 more acres to the maneuver area northeast of Trinidad.
Tearing up the waiver means the Pentagon is waving a white flag, at least for now.
To the ranchers and opponents who have steer-wrestled the Army since 2006 — blocking any expansion of PCMS with congressional-funding bans, state laws and federal lawsuits — Hammack's announcement is an important victory in what has been a grueling fight.
"I hope this means we've chased the wolf from the door for a good long while," said Lon Robertson, a Kim rancher and president of the Pinon Canyon Expansion Opposition Coalition. "But we know that as long as (the training range) is there, we'll need to keep look-outs posted."
Since 2006, the 55-year-old Robertson has spent hundreds of hours organizing community meetings, logging "windshield time" going to hearings, and leading delegations of area landowners to gatherings large and small along the Front Range.
"This hasn't been just a few voices saying no to the Army," he said Friday. "We've had supporters across the state and across the nation who didn't like what was happening here. The families that have lived out here on the land for generations, we don't give up very easily."
Las Animas County Commissioner Gary Hill, 63, lost his parents' ranch when the Army created PCMS in the late 1970s, mostly through land condemnation. Those hard memories still linger in the region.
"I've wanted that waiver removed since the day it was granted," Hill said. "I'd love it if this meant we could get out from under this shadow (of expansion) forever, but I don't know if I can ever believe that."
What is certain is the Army didn't expect the intense battle that erupted over Pinon Canyon when officials revealed in a November 2005 meeting in Colorado Springs that they hoped to add up to 1 million acres to the training range.
Booz-Allen, the Army consultants hired to grease the process, tried to calm alarmed landowners, saying they were dealing with numerous "willing sellers" — a claim ranchers scoffed at from that day to this.
At the time. U.S. troops were fighting insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Army officials said they wanted a larger PCMS because the terrain resembled those countries. Ranchers countered that the Pentagon already had millions of acres to train on in the West.
Fort Carson leaders tried different strategies over the years. Maj. Gen. Robert Mixon was in charge when the waiver was granted in 2007. He tried to ease opposition by saying the process would take years and might not end with land acquisition. Ranchers didn't believe that and kept hammering "This land is not for sale" signs along their fences.
Army officials tried reminding ranchers they'd initially wanted 1 million more acres, so that 418,000 more acres wasn't unreasonable. That only convinced opponents the Army had a bigger land appetite than it admitted.
During President George W. Bush's administration, expanding Pinon Canyon was the top Army land acquisition priority. Which is why the 2008 congressional funding ban was a major victory for ranchers.
Sponsored by Reps. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., and John Salazar, D-Colo., it prevents the Army — on a year-to-year basis— from spending any money to expand PCMS.
"I was never convinced the Army needed any more of our agricultural land because all our research showed they'd hardly used the existing Pinon Canyon in the past," said Salazar, who is the Colorado agriculture commissioner today.
President Barack Obama's administration started taking the pressure off expansion in 2009. It didn't hurt that another expansion opponent, the Not 1 More Acre! group, also won a federal lawsuit against the Army that struck down the environmental studies that were done to justify more training at PCMS.
Hoping to ease the distrust between the Army and the ranch community, Army Sec. John McHugh gave Udall and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., a letter of assurance in 2011 that said expansion was no longer in the Army's five-year planning forecast.
Which refocused lawmakers' attention on the 2007 waiver. The two senators along with U.S. Reps. Scott Tipton and Cory Gardner, both Colorado Republicans, began lobbying the Army to repeal the waiver as proof the expansion question was shelved.
Udall and Gardner are putting an amendment in the 2014 Defense Authorization Act that says PCMS can only be expanded in the future by an explicit vote of Congress. While ranchers want lawmakers to keep the funding ban in place, Gardner has said the amendment is stronger protection.
"I applaud the Army's decision to remove the waiver and am pleased that assurance has been provided to the farmers, ranchers and families of Southeastern Colorado that there will be no expansion of PCMS," Gardner said in a statement Friday.
But Robertson said the lesson of the Pinon Canyon fight, from 1980 until today, is that government promises change.
"What happens at Pinon Canyon can change with every new administration," he said. "We know that. But we've demonstrated to everyone that if the government thinks it can just take land without proving a real need, they've got a real fight on their hands."
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|New Balance 1005 Women's Shoe Scores
|Arch Support
|Foot Support/Stability
|Overall Sole Durability
|Toe Durability
With out-of-the-box comfort, the New Balance 1005 shoes are like pillows for your feet. At least that's how the playtesters felt. They slipped on the shoes and immediately noticed the comfort and super lightweight feel. Both of these features were loved by our team. However, the shoe's support and stability were called into question, restricting aggressive movement around the court. Durability was adequate, and while some of the testers wore through the shoe a little faster than expected, the one-year durability guarantee was more than sufficient to justify the overall durability of the shoes.
While all of our playtesters really enjoyed the comfort of the New Balance 1005, there were some concerns as to the consequences of all that comfort. Tiffani found the comfort high and liked the 1005 right out of the box. She said, "Immediately after slipping on this shoe I noticed the slipper-like feel. The 1005 is very soft underfoot, and the cushioning has a bit of a squishy feel. It felt great while walking around, but I prefer a more responsive cushioning while playing. I do have wide feet, so I chose to wear the D width shoe. The toe box is a nice width and easily accommodates my foot. There is absolutely no break-in needed to feel the comfort of this New Balance shoe."
One of the highlights of the shoe for Brittany was the comfort. "There was absolutely zero break-in period, and I could go from taking it out of the box to walking straight on the court. I had no pinching, poking or rubbing in this shoe. There was ample cushioning throughout the midsole, especially in the heel. I did find, however, that the amount of cushioning also led to my foot sitting higher in the shoe, and that took some getting used to."
Siobhan agreed, saying, "The comfort is easily one of the best things about this shoe. No break-in period, no discomfort at all during play and the cushioning runs throughout the shoe. The sole felt really soft and comfortable, and despite the high level of comfort from the upper moving the shoe toward a lack of stability, the shoe itself was great to have on my feet."
Also enjoying the comfort but having a few more hesitations was Karly. She offered, "When I first put this shoe on my initial thought was that the shoe offered decent cushioning and padding. However, playing in them was a different story. I don't think the shoe offered enough cushioning or padding. The insoles didn't offer much cushioning and the padding around the foot felt too flimsy. The comfort was fine for walking around, but once I started to make faster movements the cushioning wasn't as substantial and the comfort level dropped."
Our high expectations for breathability were not quite met, despite a mesh design. Brittany said, "Being an all mesh white shoe, I expected a lot of ventilation. Unfortunately, the New Balance 1005 let me down. For some reason, my foot was getting pretty hot in these shoes. I think the amount of material on the upper didn't allow my foot to breathe as well as I would like. Once my foot started sweating, I felt like the moisture was held there instead of being wicked away from my foot."
Karly also experienced lower than expected ventilation. She said, "My feet were fairly warm on the courts. I wouldn't necessarily say they overheated to where it was uncomfortable and I wanted to take them off immediately, but they left my socks slightly damp. I thought the breathability was just average, which really surprised me since it's a lightweight shoe."
"I don't find ventilation to be too much of a hindrance, so these fell middle range for me," said Siobhan. "They were OK, but like the rest of the ladies, I was a little surprised with how much mesh they had and how little breathability that mesh provided."
Tiffani also expected more breathability. "I was surprised by the heat build-up in this shoe. It wasn't terrible, but I honestly expected better ventilation from it because it looks pretty meshy in the upper. Breathability was just average or slightly below average."
Despite the medium to low support, most of our testers found the New Balance 1005 to be adequate, even those with higher arches. With her high arch, Siobhan is used to the support not quite being where she likes it. She said, "I found these comfortable and supportive enough of my arch. As usual, I could do with a little bit more, but the comfort was more than acceptable."
Tiffani felt the cushioning increased the comfort. She explained, "The shoe caused me no arch pain. With no pain, I have no complaints. I could feel the support on my low arches, but because the cushioning is so pillowy it just molded to the shape of my foot."
Karly was a little more critical of the arch support. She said, "For me the arch support fell below average, mostly because of how firm the soles were. I found the insoles to be too low and too hard to offer any real support."
Sitting on the fence was Brittany, although she didn't have any real complaints. She offered, "The arch support was middle of the road for me. I felt it did its job, and I did not have any pain. It may have been a tad on the low side, but it didn't affect the overall support."
Our players felt a little uneasy moving around the court in the New Balance 1005. For Karly, the biggest downside of the shoe was the stability. "I wasn't very happy with this aspect of the shoe. There was a ton of room in the forefoot, and my foot would slide a lot. I felt there was no support for the ankle, and I didn't feel confident moving aggressively in this shoe."
Brittany agreed, saying, "This was the biggest negative for me. First, in my shoe size the length was a tad long so my foot had a lot of front to back movement when I was moving on the court no matter how tight my laces were. Secondly, I found very little ankle support. A couple of times when I was moving aggressively in a match (or even a drilling session) I felt I was going to roll over my ankle. As I mentioned in the comfort section, my heel was sitting up higher in the shoe, which also contributed to the rolling sensation."
Support and stability were lacking enough to make Tiffani's footwork tentative. She said, "This shoe is super comfortable and super soft. However, this made the shoe less than stable. When scrambling during a tough point there were times I felt just at the limit of rolling an ankle. After being at the brink a couple of times I started to hold back on my movements. I also struggled a little bit with support. Though I loved the width of my shoe, it ran a little long and I was sliding forward in them. I had to wear two pairs of socks to help fill out the length, which didn't help the mediocre ventilation any. Putting in an aftermarket insole helped stiffen up the shoe for more stability, but it hurt the comfort factor too much, so I took it out."
Siobhan echoed the others' concerns. "There is just no stiffness to the shoe. It's far too flexible to really give me the support I need. I didn't move how I normally would in this shoe simply because I didn't feel comfortable really pushing my movements. With all the mesh one would assume that the ventilation would be better, and since it isn't, then there seems to be no reason for the shoe to be so unstable. Comfort, again, was great, but the foot and ankle stability just wasn't there for high performance play. Keep in mind that I move quite aggressively and carelessly, so I expect my shoes to look out for me when I throw my ankles every which way."
With the sole durability not quite meeting the high standards and aggressive footwork of our testers, the one year durability guarantee would definitely be used by most of our team. Brittany didn't play in these shoes as much as some other playtest shoes due to the lack of stability. She said, "I did, however, have some balding underneath my big toe on both my right and left feet. The sole looked like it was wearing down faster than the average shoe I have playtested. On the positive note, this shoe does include a one-year durability guarantee that I definitely would have used."
Siobhan also felt like the durability guarantee was an important feature, saying, "The durability was OK, but if I were playing regularly these would wear out sooner rather than later. I'm a bit scrappy and don't pick my feet up off the ground, so I noticed some expected wear and tear that would result in the shoes needing replacing."
Finding the overall sole durability to be average was Karly. She offered, "I didn't notice an excessive amount of wear, though I can't say I really put the shoes to the full test because I was playing less aggressively in these shoes due to the lack of stability."
Tiffani said, "I felt light on my feet, and I didn't see excessive wear on the outsole. There is just some smoothing in the medial forefoot area. However, I didn't feel that I could put it to the full test. I held back on my movements and did not wear them as much as I usually do for a playtest. That said, with the New Balance NDurance guarantee I would have no need to worry."
Our toe draggers had varied opinions, with one liking the toe durability, another finding it adequate and the last grinding through the bumper guard a little too fast. Karly said, "The toe durability was decent and didn't show too much wear, but I wasn't really making fast, aggressive movements to see how durable the shoes were."
Dragging her toe a bit heavier was Brittany, who said, "Unfortunately, the toe bumper didn't live up to my toe dragging. The bumper is on the thinner side and goes about half way up the front of the shoe. Then there is a seam at the top that is right in the way of my toe dragging. By the end of my playtest there was definite wear on the toe bumper and the seams had started to fray."
Tiffani didn't have too many issues with the toe durability of the New Balance 1005. She said, "I can be pretty tough on the toes of my shoes, but this time I didn't see much wear. I did see some stitching start to pop, and I scraped it up a bit, but not as much as I would usually see. However, I reiterate that I wasn't moving like I normally do on the court."
Mixed opinions came out again about the traction. Finding it difficult to give a true opinion was Siobhan, saying "It's hard to really judge a shoe when you can't move in it as you would like. I never slipped, but I never really moved in a way that would allow for slipping so I rated these around the middle of the range."
Tiffani agreed with Siobhan, adding, "You'll hear no complaints from me in this department. I could stop and start without worrying about slipping. The one caveat with this statement, though, is that I did hold back on my movements. The support level in the shoe didn't allow me to go full speed with confidence."
Brittany wished that she had been able to test the New Balance 1005 a little more. She said, "Since I didn't feel as stable as I would have liked I definitely didn't move as aggressively as I normally do. That being said, I couldn't get the best read on traction. I did notice that I gripped the court OK and wasn't slipping, but nothing stood out to me as being great or bad. I would rate this shoe average on traction."
Karly also felt a little restricted, saying, "I thought the traction was a little too sticky, especially for a shoe that doesn't offer much support. Again, the instability hindered testing the performance of the shoe. I wasn't stopping and starting or changing directions as fast or as often because I wasn't confident in the support."
"Light" describes the 1005 down to a T. Our playertesters really noticed how little weight they were carrying. Tiffani was impressed with how they felt. She said, "This shoe is ridiculously light. I feel like I can pick up and move with ease. This is easily one of my favorite aspects of the shoe."
"This is definitely a lightweight shoe and I felt extremely quick on the court," said Brittany. "I enjoyed the fast feel, and sometimes I even forgot that I was wearing shoes. However, the downside to being so light was the distinct lack of stability that came with it."
Karly also really noticed the weight, but like Brittany, got a little deterred on the stability. She said, "I thought the weight was good. It was definitely lighter than most shoes. However, once again the lack of stability limited my movement, and I wasn't able to move as fast as I would've liked."
Siobhan enjoyed how easy it was to pick up her feet, saying, "They were enjoyably light. Not only were they comfortable as soon as I put them on my feet, but as I continued to play I loved the weight. I didn't like the lack of stability, but as a singular category the weight of the 1005 was wonderful."
Tiffani - "It's so light, had no break-in and it's offered in widths."
Brittany - "I liked the comfort and light weight of the shoe."
Siobhan - "It was really comfortable and had no break-in period."
Karly - "The no break-in period was nice."
Tiffani - "The support does not meet my needs. I had sore ankles and feet after playing."
Brittany - "There was a low level of stability, especially in the ankle, for me."
Siobhan - "Lack of stability."
Karly - "The instability made it really hard to play in. I was not confident at all in the support of the shoe."
Tiffani - "The comfort and cushioning reminds me of the Fila Alfa. In the New Balance family, its weight is a little bit like the 851. The 1005 has a more classic tennis shoe fit when compared to the more streamlined fit of the 851."
Brittany - "This shoe reminded me of the Wilson Tour Spin II. There were many similarities between the two, including comfort, lack of stability and mesh uppers. I did find the traction and the lightweight feel were better."
Siobhan - "It made me think of the Wilson Tour Ikon - high levels of comfort but lacking in stability and support when moving aggressively around the court."
Karly - "The cushioning, no break-in period and weight reminded me of the Nike Courtlite 3, though I thought the Courtlites offered more support and stability than the 1005s."
(Scores are determined by averaging individual play test scores)
Playtester Foot Types:
Tiffani - Wide width / Low arch
Brittany - Narrow width / Medium arch
Siobhan - Narrow width / High arch
Karly - Medium width / Medium-low arch
Review date: September 2012. If you found this review interesting or have further questions or comments please contact us.
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Soon to be released children's story, The Grizzly's Christmas, holds special ties to the Whittier College community. Written by the late Professor Malcolm Farmer, the book has been adapted with notes by his former student Cindy Schuricht '69. Prior to his passing, Farmer asked Schuricht to revise the children's story that reflects Farmer's affinity for the cultural significance of bears.
Based upon years of research, the book contains a heartwarming story about Irving, a grizzly bear from Idaho, who is on a quest to unlock history and rediscover his "special powers" as he helps St. Nicholas on Christmas Eve. Along the way, the bear learns his own role in the world and why it's important that he claims his worth.
"This beautifully illustrated story relates the importance of bears in cultural beliefs and rituals," wrote Albert W. Upton Professor of English, Emeritus William A. Geiger
Farmer who passes away in 2011, taught at Whittier from 1957 to 1981. He specialized in anthropology, sociology and Native American cultures. During his time at Whittier he became known for his love for ursine figurines.
Copies of The Grizzly's Christmas will be available for sale during Whittier Weekend, October 18-19 or in e-book format through Amazon.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Telephonics to Supply Radars for Indian Mi-17s
Kazan Helicopters has contracted Telephonics Corp. to supply 85 RDR-1600 weather avoidance/search and rescue (SAR) radars for a fleet of Mi-17V-5s on order from the Indian Air Force.
This is the second order for the RDR-1600s from Kazan, after the recent order of 93 systems for another fleet of Indian Air Force helicopters.
Telephonics plans to begin deliveries of the systems to Kazan in summer 2013.
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Underrated: Ben JohnstonPosted by Trevor Hunter in Composers, Contemporary Classical, Just Intonation
For the first subject of this column I've picked Ben Johnston, someone who has gotten some coverage on this site but remains criminally neglected. Born in Georgia in 1926, Johnston was variously taught by Harry Partch, Darius Milhaud, and John Cage. All three composers had an obvious effect on his music, but he quickly developed his own distinct voice. Best known for expanding on Partch's experiments with just intonation, Johnston has contributed not only as a composer, but as a theorist and writer as well.
Johnston has written for orchestra, voice, and chamber ensembles, but his most important works as a composer have been his ten string quartets. Due to the intonational flexibility of the instruments, he has been able to fully explore his ideas concerning pitch and form. His quartets are arguably (and it's an argument I'm willing to make) the most important works by an American composer in that medium. In his earliest works with non-tempered scales (Sonata for Microtonal Piano, String Quartets 2 and 3), Johnston pulled off the nifty trick of using a basic triad based tuning (5-limit JI) with pitch choices based on serial rows. The results are fascinating, but the cognitive dissonance of such an approach didn't last long. A major change in Johnston's thinking was heralded in 1972 by his fourth and most popular (and populist) string quartet, a set of variations on Amazing Grace. His latest works have explored the question of how European music would have developed unconstrained by temperament.
The University of Illinois Press recently released Johnston's compiled writings on his musical theories and philosophies (and some other miscellany), Maximum Clarity, for which NewMusicBox conducted an interview with Johnston and published an excerpt.
While many of his works are unavailable, a sizeable portion have been recorded. The most significant Johnston recording is the disc of string quartets 2, 3, 4 and 9, put out by the Kepler Quartet last year (it deservedly made Jerry's top 10 list for 2006). Kepler intends to record all 10 string quartets when funding allows. Head over to their website to see how you can support this important project… or just buy the recording on iTunes. Also, a CD of Johnston's chamber works is available on New World, and Philip Bush has recorded his piano works for Koch. Those wonderful people at Counterstream Radio have put most of these recordings into their regular rotation.
For those of you who can't possibly wait to hear any of Ben's music, the Avant Garde Project is hosting two now out-of-print CRI LPs, containing Johnston's fantastic 6th string quartet and two very different choral works.
I imagine that many of the readers of this site have at least a passing familiarity with the tuning concepts talked about above. To anyone who isn't as familiar, Ben's work is a wonderful starting place for acquainting your ears with these intervals, both because of the extent of which he employs them, as well as the general accessibility of his music. For those who have further interest, I encourage them to check out Kyle Gann's page "Just Intonation Explained". Jim Altieri has also designed some free software for calculating and hearing any of these intervals, available at his website.


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Skip to comments.Video captures massive meteor as it lights up sky in Canada
Posted on 11/23/2008 10:46:19 AM PST by Lorianne
amazing video
very hot
I saw something very similar in November of 1950,while riding in the back of a truck and looking north. I thought there had been a nuclear attack !
Later on,after reading a lot of science fiction,I wondered if the meteor had contained "contra-terrene matter" (positrons instead of electrons,etc.)
The color of the "fireball" was almost exactly like that produced by the nuclear test at Eniwitok (sp?)a year or two later.
Cool. If it were me in the car I might have gotten into an accident ... or had an accident.
Yeah, because the time that I saw dinosaurs walking, it sounded just like this.
Wow....If I had seen that I would have thought it to be a ballistic missle. I wonder if there was any explosive sound that happened when it broke up?
I lost my meteor. Thanks for finding it.
That wasn't any toolbag crashing to earth!
Wow! On the evening of November 14th, between 7 and 7:30 p.m., we saw one of the largest meteors we've ever seen as we were driving back to our cabin. The one we saw actually looked like a brilliant green burst before falling through the atmosphere. It was really something to see and I don't know how many times we said, "wow, oh wow!" LOL
That's exactly what I thought when I saw one headed right for Salt Lake City one evening back in the Cold War days of the early 1960s. It was twilight and the street lights had just come on. The thing grew brighter and brighter until the lights turned off again. I was waiting for the Soviet nuclear blast but instead the thing exploded silently in a huge fireball then disappeared.
We learned the next day a large meteorite had exploded over central Utah. I know teams were sent to search for remnants and can't recall if any were found. But for a few moments I thought WWW3 had started.
Ha ha! My daughter and I saw a pretty amazing meteor on Tuesday, I think, and that's what we wondered if it could be - the lost toolbag!
The Toolbag Has Landed!
At a $100 Grand it must have been SnapOn.
The average of 2 "Cool" and post 3 "Very hot": Lukewarm!
LOL I saw the video on Fox this morning after watching a show on Discover last night about Mammoths and a comet hitting the earth 13k years ago, and at the end the supposition was maybe this was much more common than we thought....
60 kilometers per second.. that's boogying.. cool stuff.
thanks, bfl
I was just a kid in NYC in the late 40s or early 50s when I heard a low rumble, looked over towards New Jersey and saw a large mushroom cloud. I thought that Joe Stalin had started the Big One. Scared the yell out of me. It was "just" a ship that was loaded with ammunition - and I guess someone was clumsy. Nobody who knew for sure was left.
From "Darwin's Ghost" by Steve Jones. page 218 ...
A trillion comets orbit the sun. The gravel that surrounds them appears, should it hit our atmosphere, as a shower of meteors. The Earth gains a ton in weight every hour from their dust. Two thousand asteroids big enough to destroy civilization orbit nearby.
Yeah, I try not to think about it! ;)
One thing that I've always found pretty amazing about these things is that they seem so cataclysmic from the ground, but then most experts indicate that the object was actually pretty small. One guy quoted in the article says it was probably no larger than a grapefruit.
SASKATCHEWAN FIREBALL: Amazing Video!
Spaceweather | Nov 20th, 2008
Posted on 11/21/2008 11:30:07 AM PST by TaraP
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
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Very impressive. Must have been one heck of a big chunk to be seen that large of an area.
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In a remote Cuban town, believers in a small house church gathered around a desperately ill 10-year-old boy. Canadian missionary Gary Clow gently laid hands on the child, whose skin had turned a deathly yellow, and asked God to heal him. "As we prayed, I raised a hand heavenward and experienced what felt like a surge of electricity pass through my body," Clow recalls.
The next day, the boy's father asked Clow if he felt anything unusual while praying over his son. He explained that his son—who had a liver disease—felt power coursing through him "as if his entire body was being cleansed."
Today, the boy is completely healed.
God's power is being unleashed in Cuba—the island nation off the coast of Florida that since 1959 has stood as a communist outpost, ruled by its notorious president, Fidel Castro. Since the communist revolution, Castro's atheistic regime has tried to stifle Christianity. For many years, government suppression seemed to be working. To the outside world, at least, Christianity in Cuba appeared to be dead.
But today, as Castro faces health battles, the church in Cuba is thriving—full of faith, evangelistic zeal and the Holy Spirit's power. In one of the most dramatic turnarounds in church history, missionaries report astonishing church growth accompanied by miraculous signs and healings.
Clow, a missionary with World Team, travels to Cuba—a nation of 11 million people—several times a year to encourage and strengthen house churches. He encounters believers who trek miles on foot to share the gospel and look forward to the day they are free to go as missionaries to other lands.
The church has grown so rapidly in the last 15 years that the island's communist officials have been caught off guard. It's difficult to find a village without an evangelical church. Periodically, pastors are intimidated, interrogated and imprisoned. Christians are routinely discriminated against in employment and schools. But persecution has simply strengthened the church.
Oklahoma-based The Voice of the Martyrs tells the story of Pedro (not his real name), a Cuban Christian jailed for preaching the gospel in public. Behind bars, Pedro exasperated his jailers by continuing to preach. "He's a greater menace in jail than outside," they complained.
When the police released him with a stern warning not to talk about Jesus, the stubborn evangelist walked directly to the next town to carry on where he left off.
Building Casas Culto
Pedro personifies the resolve and passion of Cuban believers—men, women and children of courage who are spearheading one of the most remarkable revivals of our era.
Prayer is the key to Cuba's Christian awakening, says Hector Hunter, general superintendent of the Assemblies of God (AG) of Cuba. "I believe from the depths of my heart that there is revival in Cuba today because of the prayers of believers around the world," he says.
The AG is the largest evangelical presence on the island, with several hundred established churches and thousands of house churches or cell groups, known as casas culto. With an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 casas culto meeting in private homes throughout the island, many Cubans are introduced to Christianity through the house-church movement.
Because of the sensitive political climate in Cuba, U.S.-based missionaries tread carefully when talking about their work. Almost all of those Charisma interviewed for this story wished to remain anonymous, fearful of a backlash. "We walk with a lot of caution because they pay the price for our indiscretions," one Pentecostal leader says.
The price can be high. In recent months, evangelical and Pentecostal churches have been closed or their meeting venues destroyed. Persecution and material hardship feed the spiritual hunger of Cuba's people, according to New York-based Pastor Jay (full name withheld for security reasons), a missionary to the island.
"Their poverty leaves them no choice but to trust God completely for food and other necessities," he says. "If Cuban believers do not cling to God, they die."
For several years, Pastor Jay has led teams to Cuba to train the native leadership of a burgeoning charismatic movement. "The local church leaders travel for hours by foot, by mule, or standing on cattle trucks to get to our training," he reports.
Like Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego—the men who risked everything amid tyranny, as recorded in Daniel 3—Cuban believers place their trust fully in God. "This is their time in history," Pastor Jay continues. "They believe they've been equipped by God through suffering to take the gospel to the hardest places of the world."
Without steady employment, many Cuban Christians live hand-to-mouth. Yet one local missionary says they exude joy that many believers in the free world don't possess.
"We'd say they have absolutely nothing to be happy about, but they have the joy that surpasses all understanding," he says.
Persecution of the church is intensifying, he says, citing recent laws that require all house churches to register with the government. In his twilight years, Castro is reasserting control, Cuba watchers say, reversing the relaxed religious policies of the 1990s and steering the country back to an orthodox communist model.
Directive 43 and Resolution 46—introduced last year—require house churches to submit detailed information about the pastor and everybody living in the house. The rules prohibit worship in a home not registered for religious activity, and authorities have the power to supervise all "legal" worship.
Under the regulations, house churches cannot meet more than three times a week. That's a major hang-up in Cuba, where Christians meet every day, sometimes twice a day, to pray.
Furthermore, Resolution 46 prohibits foreign missionaries from having any involvement with house churches without government approval. "It's as if the government is afraid of the church because it's so well-organized," another missionary told Charisma.
Certainly, the communist regime has seen the power of the church at work. Scores of government officials have come to faith in Christ, giving up the security of their positions to join the ranks of impoverished believers.
Many missionaries view the latest crackdown as a desperate attempt to isolate the church and halt its growth. But it appears to be having the opposite effect. "The Cuban church has gone through a long history of persecution, and [persecution] has contributed to its health," notes a missionary who has ministered in Cuba since 1999. "Historically, when the church is persecuted there is a true refining process. Cuba is desperately in need of salt and light—and the Cuban church is truly salt and light."
Other missionaries agree. "There's a purity about the Cuban church," remarks one denominational leader. "It's a church that really 'gets it.'"
Experiencing the Miraculous
The tremendous faith of Cuban believers is evident from miracles that occur across the evangelical spectrum. For instance, a Baptist missionary prayed for an elderly woman who explained she had bad knees. "She stood, walked around a bit, and told us her knees felt better but not perfect," he told Charisma.
"We prayed again, believing that if God had begun something He would finish it. Then I did something which in hindsight seems a little dramatic. I said to her in Spanish: 'Rise up and walk!'"
The woman jumped from her chair and ran around the room. Only then did her son reveal she had been lame for 10 years. "I don't know if I'd have had the faith to pray for healing if I'd known that beforehand," the missionary admits.
One rural congregation had no money for a building. Trusting that God would provide, the members began digging the foundation. Breaking ground, they struck something hard. As they unearthed the object, they discovered it was a box filled with gold coins—enough to fund their new church building.
Although the Cuban government does issue visas to American missionaries, Christians from the U.S. are viewed with suspicion. Russ, an independent missionary from Florida, was interrogated by the secret police.
Supported by his charismatic church, Russ (full name withheld for security reasons) has made 40 trips to Cuba in the last 12 years, working with native church leaders and mission groups. "I live and breathe Cuba," the 41-year-old father of three says. "I've traveled all over Latin America, and I've seen nothing to compare with the move of the Spirit in Cuba."
Like other U.S.-based missionaries to Cuba, Russ distinctly heard God call him to minister there. "The Lord laid Cuba on my heart," he explains. "I was flying over Cuba and looked out at the island when I heard the Lord say, 'One day, you will be preaching there.'"
In the midst of the island's sustained revival, the commitment and fire of local believers is inspirational. "They've done such an incredible job of evangelizing their own country that they've run out of space," Russ says.
Mainline churches, such as the Methodists, also are being filled with the Spirit and experiencing revival. Christian youth of all denominations—including young people who used to spread communist ideologies—now have a passion to go overseas with the gospel.
Even Castro's family has been influenced by the island's Christian awakening. One of Castro's nephews reportedly attends one of the most dynamic churches on the island—and has, according to one missionary, actually invited the president along to church.
But Satan isn't giving up without a fight. Realizing the emptiness of atheism, Castro's regime has erected idols and images relating to traditional Cuban witchcraft—called Santería—at the entrances to many towns.
Santería, similar to Haitian voodoo, is a variation of West African spiritism, intermingled with aspects of Roman Catholicism. The Cuban government supports Santería under the guise of "national culture."
Cubans steeped in witchcraft for generations are being set free as they turn to Christ. Yet as the church grows, spiritual warfare intensifies. One charismatic missionary put it like this: "The devil is just plain angry."
The missionary, who has a sports evangelism ministry in Cuba, tells of a U.S. major league baseball star who had a brush with evil spiritual forces on the island. The player, from a Presbyterian background, came into contact with a Santería practitioner.
That night, he awoke in a sweat, convinced he had been visited by a demon. The unnerving experience opened his eyes to the reality of spiritual forces at work in the invisible realm, including those bent on harming the church.
In the midst of such dark oppression, though, there is no stopping the Cuban church. One pastor reflects: "We will just have to be on our knees more, shed a few more tears perhaps, but we will never turn back."
Julian Lukins is a freelance writer based in Sequim, Washington.
In the Shadow of Fidel
The Cuban government has clamped down on churches in recent years.
Cuban authorities are clamping down on house churches—a fast-growing movement that President Fidel Castro's regime considers to be out of control.
Earlier this year, the pastor of one of the largest evangelical churches on the island was forced to leave the country after authorities threatened to imprison him. According to an American missionary, the pastor's family was granted refugee status in the U.S.
Across the island, the Cuban government makes it difficult for churches to meet. Those awaiting approval to put up a building have erected crude shelters, but officials order congregations to tear them down. Undeterred, believers meet in the open, even in the hot sun or driving rain.
One church of 300 members was told it could no longer meet in a yard—even though congregants had gathered there for five years. Now the church's only option is to cram as many as possible into the tiny living room of a nearby house.
A missionary highlighted the situation facing a native Cuban evangelist. "Officials have threatened him and been very vulgar," the missionary says. "He was called in by the Communist Party, which can be a very worrying experience."
Oklahoma-based The Voice of the Martyrs reported Cuba's secret police interrogated a Pentecostal pastor and confiscated a small printing press they described as "dangerous."


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The MSc in Digital Anthropology is a cutting-edge taught postgraduate programme that combines professional development and methods training with a solid grounding in anthropological theory and critical analysis. Based within the Material Culture section of the UCL Anthropology Department, the MSc is the first program to embed digital studies so deeply within anthropology. We locate the complex field of information and communication technologies, digital media and tools in a global, comparative context, using the rich tools of field-based methods and their commitment to long-term study and community.
Digital technologies have become ubiquitous. From mobile phones, personal computers, to public records keeping, voting, and surgical procedures. Increasingly every aspect of many peoples lives is experienced digitally. Museum displays migrate to the internet, family communication in the diaspora is dominated by new media, labour is intermingled with automated systems. More and more people are defined by their exclusion from these new digital worlds, even as they may provide the raw materials for these digital infrastructures. As well as studying the differential take-up of digital technologies, today's students need to become proficient with digital technologies as research and communication tools, to understand their histories and limitations. In the MSc students will be trained for further research and involvement in this emergent world through introduction to anthropological methods, to critical thinking from an anthropological perspective, and a specific engagement with key sites and practices in which people interact with digital technologies around the world.
This programme is suitable both for those with a prior degree in anthropology but also for those with degrees in other disciplines who wish to be trained in anthropological and related approaches to digital culture. In addition to our intensive practical and research methods and theory-based seminars, students will have the opportunity to network with practitioners through seminar series and workshops, to arrange internships, and develop their own intensive research projects.
The MSc in Digital Anthropology is based on the following components adding up to 180 credits.
Core courses
Our Core Course stretches over two terms and is worth 45 credits (25% of the overall mark). Every other week we will meet in a small group seminar and work through core issues in Digital Anthropology. This includes weeks on Digital Identities, Cyborgs, Digital Work, Digital Property Forms, and Digital Images. These weeks introduce a core analytic framework underscoring the importance of global, comparative, and ethnographic perspectives on digital technologies.
This core seminar is typically convened 13.00-16.00 on Mondays.
Digital Anthropology Core Practical
All students take practical training modules, for which they meet for two hours every other week. This will allow students to be guided through the different stages and tools needed to study digital practices and work with digital technologies during ethnographic research. Working intensively on a single, common ethnographic project, students will be required to commit to a small fieldwork project and will be guided through a number of different methods. Some training in software tools for presenting and visualizing research will also be given. In the past students have worked on the idea of "Digital London", and on a comparison of digital technologies and practices in London home environments.
Here are some examples of previous practical projects:
Laura Parraga Gonzalez's project [EMBED LINK http://technologyinahouse.blogspot.de/]
Luke Evison's project [EMBED LINK http://intertwinedhomesproject.neocities.org/]
Lousi Evans' project: EMBED LINK [ https://quantifiedhome.wordpress.com/]
Following the award of a UCL Grant for Teaching Innovation we also offer a series of high level workshops on new forms of data analysis. The workshops, which will be held by experts, will cover topics such as big data visualisation, web analytics, smart cities and citizen science.
The Core course is assessed through two 2500 word essays (the best mark counts for 33% of the Core) and a digital project, drawn from the practicals, which counts for 33%.
The core course is also evaluated through a 2 hour essay based exam, undertaken in May, which counts for 34% of the Core mark.
Optional Courses
Over the year, Students take three optional courses (each counting for 15 credits, or 8.33% of the overall mark). These courses are examined by one essay each of 2-3,000 words.
Sample courses available of relevance to Digital Anthropology students include:
- The Anthropology of Social Media
- From Analog to Digital: Museums, Knowledge and Classification into the digital age
- Material and Visual Culture
- The Anthropology of Digital Infrastructures
- Anthropology of Art and Design
- Anthropology and Photography
- Anthropology of Media and Consumption
- Documentary film and the Anthropological Eye
- Ethnographic Filmmaking
Details are provided below on the most relevant options taught within the department.
There are also a number of other relevant courses in other departments which are open to Digital Anthropology Students subject to approval by the course tutors:
- Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities (Digital Humanities)
- Knowledge representation and semantic technologies (Digital Humanities)
- Affective Interaction (UCLIC)
- Understanding Useability and Use (UCLIC)
- Interfaces and Interactivity (UCLIC)
- Sociotechnical Systems: IT and the Future of Work (UCLIC)
- Smart Systems Theories (Bartlett)
- Geographic Informations Systems and Science (Bartlett)
Each student works closely with a dissertation supervisor in term 2 to develop their individual research projects which are then undertaken during term 3 and the summer and which culminates in a 15,000 word dissertation to be submitted by September 15th. This will count for 50% of the overall mark (90 credits).
Some recent titles of MSc dissertations include:
- Azeez, Ola-Walé (2011) Towards Revolution 2.0: Digital Communications Media in Cairo Under the State of Emergency
- Cook, Chloe (2011) Computer Says No? An Exploration of Technological Breakdowns in Office Life
- Spyer, Juliano (2011) Making Up Art, Videos and Fame: The Creation of Social Order in the Informal Realm of YouTube Beauty Gurus Sreberny-
- Mohammadi, Leili (2010) Digitally Green: Vision and Visibility in Post-election Iran
- Wojnarowska, Anna (2011) Bodily Integrity and Technological Struggles: How Patients and Staff Cope With the Reality of the Hospital
Research seminars
Students are invited to be part of a dynamic, contemporary research environment. Weekly seminars over Terms 1 and 2 present the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research into material, visual and digital culture. In 2016, speakers included Joe Dumit (UC Davis), Adrian Mackenzie (University of Lancaster) and Shireen Walton (University of Oxford).
Digital Anthropology co-hosts the Material, Visual and Digital Culture Research Seminar Series and the Anthropology in the Professional World Seminar Series.
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Watch Gabriella Coleman delivering the "Anonymous and the Craftiness of Craft and the Trickiness of Trickery" talk at UCL
Other activities
There are a number of Reading and Research Groups (RRGs) that students are encouraged to join, on topics as diverse as the anthropology of statistics to human-animal relations. Here is a list of RRGs.
Anthropology MSc students and staff were involved in the preparation and
hosting of EPIC in London in September 2013.
MSc student Freddy MacKee revised his dissertation for publication in Social Media + Society: "Social Media in Gay London: Tinder as an Alternative to Hook-Up Apps".
Current Course Tutors:
Haidy Geismar
Haidy Geismar has a PhD in Anthropology and Material Culture from UCL (2003). She has long term fieldwork experience in both the South Pacific and within museums, in the Pacific, North America and Europe where she has worked both with South Pacific and with photography collections. She is particularly interest in the legal regimes and cultural frameworks through which culture is owned and has a book forthcoming from Duke University Press, which looks at the ways in which intellectual and cultural property regimes are articulated in the museums and cultural centres of Vanuatu and New Zealand. Recently she has been researching the digitization of cultural collections, the incorporation of indigenous protocols into museum databases and she is in the early stages of a book looking at new practices and forms of digital photography. Dr. Geismar is also founder and chief editor of the Material World blog and has worked extensively with digital tools to enhance teaching and research practices.
Hannah Knox
Hannah Knox is a Social Anthropologist and her research is
concerned with understanding processes of social and political transformation
through the ethnographic study of technical relations and expert practices. Over
the years her work has moved from a focus on struggles over knowledge and
expertise to incorporate the role that materials of different kinds play in
shaping techno-political relations. She has conducted research with new media
entrepreneurs and economic development practitioners in the UK, IT managers and
digital modellers in global corporations, and road construction and design
engineers in Peru. Most recently she has been studying the politics of energy
and climate change in a project that has been following the pursuit of carbon
reduction strategies by a network of scientists, activists and local authority
officers in Manchester, UK.
Hannah gained her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2003 and joins UCL from the ESRC Centre for Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the University of Manchester where she has worked since 2004. She is the co-editor of 'Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion' (2013), and a monograph resulting from her work on road construction in Peru is due to be published with Cornell University Press in 2015.
Daniel Miller
Miller has carried several research projects on the media which have resulted in publications including The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (with D. Slater) Berg: Oxford 2000 and The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication (with H Horst) Berg: Oxford 2006, Tales from Facebook Polity 2011, and with Dr. M Madianou of Cambridge University Migration and New Media: transnationalism and polymedia (Routledge Sept 2011). He is currently working on the impact of social networking and webcam on transnational relationships and within Trinidad.
Beginning in 2012 he will lead a team of researchers (funded via a £2.1 million ERC grant) in a major cross-cultural study of social networking spanning seven countries and five years. See the UCL-hosted project website and blog for further details.
See Prof. Miller's discussion of his Tales from Facebook (on YouTube and Vimeo).
Victor Buchli
Buchli works on architecture, domesticity, the archaeology of the recent past, critical understandings of materiality and new technologies and the anthropology of sustainability and design. He also teaches on the UCL Urban Studies MSc and supervises on the Mphil/PhD programme at the Bartlett and serves on the Board of the Victoria and Albert/Royal College of Art MA History of Design Programme. He has conducted fieldwork in Russia, Britain and more recently in Kazakhstan, where he concluded research based on a neigbourhood ethnography in the new capitol of Astana, Kazakhstan, examining questions of materiality, architecture and urbanism in the post-socialist period. In addition, he is writing a new book Immateriality which examines the significance of material cultures that paradoxically attempt to deny their own physicality and another entitled The Anthropology of Architecture (Berg 2011). Currently he is starting new research in new materials and new technologies examining the rise of rapid manufacturing or 3-D printing. This research is part of a co-organised ESRC funded intiative entitled New Materials, New Technologies with Susanne Kuechler and Graeme Were in UCL Anthropology and Materials Sciences at Kings College London. In addition, he is a member of the Eco-Town Delivery Consortium: an industry based knowledge transfer initiative examining the development of carbon neutral living through which he is conducting a long term ethnographic project 'Assembling the Carbon Neutral Subject' and supervising research into the anthropology of ecologically sustainable development and design. More recently he has begun work as a member of the interdisciplinary Templeton Scholars Group on the origins of domesticity at the Neolithic site of Çatal Höyük in Turkey where he is examining long term culture change and processes of material iteration and innovation.
Adam Drazin
Adam Drazin is an anthropologist who works on design and with designers. He obtained his PhD in anthropology at UCL in 2001, on the material culture of care in Romania. For the last three years, he has been lecturing in Ireland at Trinity College Dublin on themes including material culture, globalisation and migration, gender and the home.
Adam is running the new MA programme in Materials Anthropology and Design. He aims to promote the broad spectrum of ways in which anthropology engages with design and materials, and explore how dialogues with institutions in the private and public sectors can advance anthropological understandings, particularly through the use of object-focussed design methodologies.
In the past, he has conducted postdoctoral research in Ireland on Irish-romanian homes and constructions of openness, and has worked as a design anthropologist with engineers and designers in companies including Intel and HP Labs. This latter work has included work on memory and remembering, the material culture of ageing, and the intersection of mobility and isolation in later life. He has also lectured in anthropology at NUI Maynooth and Dublin Business School; and has taught ethnographic methodologies to design students at the RCA in London, NCAD Dublin, and TU/e Eindhoven. He is an external examiner for the Glasgow School of Art's BDes and MDes programmes, and has published in a number of journals and collections.
Ludovic Coupaye
Areas: Melanesia, Polynesia, Australia, Africa (Mali, Madagascar)
Topics: exchanges, rituals, magic, food, aesthetics, materials, environment, heritage, innovation, methodology, history of theories.
Approaches: archaeology and ethno-archaeology, art history, Science and Technology Studies, Frankfurt School, non-linear theory, structuralism/post-structuralism, praxeology, ergonomy, cognition.
My main field research is in Oceania, and I did fieldwork in the Sepik area of Papua New Guinea. My doctoral thesis dealt with the cultivation and display of the Abelam's long yams in Maprik area.
My research interests so far have focused on the study of the relationships between people and things through two related angles: techniques and arts, especially in the Pacific area (mainly Melanesia, Polynesia and Australia). This implies investigating knowledge, materials and skills as well as addressing dimensions such as rituals and aesthetics in relation to social dynamics and environment.
Following Mauss's footsteps, my approaches combine Francophone anthropology of techniques (Leroi-Gourhan, Lemonnier), with Anglophone material culture studies, as well as archaeological and ethno-archaeological approaches. Other theoretical interests include the history of anthropology, notably the relationships between the different anthropological traditions, regarding the treatment of material culture and art.
Incoming book: Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Abelam of Papua New Guinea (Berghahn Books).
Based on my study of the decorated long yams of the Abelam in a contemporary Papua New Guinea village, my book asks the following question: "How does one make artefacts beautiful and powerful enough to act simultaneously as symbols, valuables and images?" Through the combination of anthropology of material culture, anthropology of art and anthropology of techniques, I unravel the process of making, decorating and displaying these long yams, and I show how this process merge agricultural techniques, social interactions, and cosmological knowledge. In the course of the book, after discussing the debated positions of techniques and arts within anthropological studies, I also address theoretical issues on agency of art, technology and determinism, as well as on exchanges, rituals and aesthetics.
Susanne Kuechler
Küchler is currently working on a new manuscript, which develops the theoretical implications of her past ethnographic research into the making of sculpture and the cognitive work of images. The Material Mind takes insights into the nature of innovation, won during long-term and collaborative research on the take up and transformation of cloth in the Pacific, to the context of the development of 'mindware' in laboratories. The manuscript offers a critical review of the existing theorisation of the aesthetics of the material [Materialästhetik] and sets out a new vision for the study of sculptural art and design, which takes into account the interface between the material and the cognitive as symptomatic of knowledge economies. Geographical: South Pacific; Papua New Guinea, New Ireland; Polynesia, the Cook Islands. And laboratories. September 2005-July2006: Invited Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin: The library research conducted during the year of residency concerned the evolving technology and fabrics supporting wearable computing and investigated its implications for the theory and methodology of material culture and anthropology. 'Smart' clothes and ambient intelligence provoke questions of how notions of mind and of life inform and are informed by prototyping, where it is the functionality of collections of artefacts which supports systemic relations between artefacts, and where a sociality with objects is mediated by such inter-artefactual relations. The initial work on the manuscript also concerned itself with a critique of current work on innovation, directing attention to the need for anthropological research to be conducted on the social history of the prototype in order to develop new methodologies and theories capable of handling emerging futures.
Jerome Lewis
2011-2012: Developing geographic information systems for non-literate users. ESRI (the leading GIS manufacturers in the world - products include ArcInfo and ArcGIS) have committed $150,000 to bring me to work with their prototype laboratory in California on developing a stand alone GIS application for use by non-literate users - focusing on hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin involved in 'extreme' citizen science. 2011-2012: Monitoring poaching and illegal hunting. Developing mapping software for non-literate hunter-gatherers to identify and map illegal hunting activities. With First Peoples Worldwide, Wildlife Conservation Society, Helveta Ltd. and Congolaise Industriel de Bois. US$20,000 2005- Ongoing: Extreme Citizen Science. Making tools and developing methodologies for scientifically valid data collection to be done by non-literate people. Together with Helveta, a UK firm specialising in traceability and monitoring software, I designed prize-winning icon-driven mapping software for palm-top GPS units to enable non-literate hunter-gatherers to map key resources they want to protect from damage by loggers. The system is now being used in Cameroon, Central African Republic and Nigeria and will soon be used in Gabon. Interest has been expressed for work in Ethiopia and Indonesia.
Key Information
Programme starts
September 2017
In addition to its importance for careers such as in media, design and museums, digital technology is also integral to development, theoretical and applied anthropology. Companies and institutions collaborating with the MSc are: British Telecom, UCL Computer Sciences, UCL Information Studies, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Skype, Intel, the British Museum, NESTA, NOKIA, the Home Office and Inventi V.
The programme is also developing relationships with: Cultural Informatics Research Centre for the Arts and Humanities (CIRCAh), Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Centre for Museums, Heritage and Cultural Studies, UCL Interaction Centre, UCL Digital Humanities and UCL Urban Laboratory.
Top career destinations for this degree
- Digital Strategist, Canopy Brand Group.
- Researcher, River Research
- Principal Lecturer and Course Director, University of the Arts, London
- Assistant Print Analyst, GroupM
- Graduate Worker, Dare
New media and technology companies are showing considerable interest in Digital Anthropology as a degree that qualifies students for positions in all fields of user interaction and research. In the last few years students graduating from the MSc have been recruited by the best international agencies doing research on users' digital practices. In the non-profit sector students have joined organisations involved in policymaking, open access and citizen journalism. The subject is also a good grounding for students who are interested in continuing to a variety of PhD programmes.
Careers data is taken from the 'Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education' survey undertaken by HESA looking at the destinations of UK and EU students in the 2012–2014 graduating cohorts six months after graduation.
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well as developing critical academic skills in anthropological engagement with
digital technologies and cultures the practical components of the course allow
students to develop skills useful to careers in industry, market research, and
other digital research environments. Students have gone on to work in design
consultancy, digital agencies, and corporate research environments. Many
students also go on to further graduate work, at UCL, and elsewhere.
Internships at inVentiv Health
UCL Digital Anthropology has been collaborating with inVentiv Health since March 2015 to offer an internship programme to it's MSc students.
Working with inVentiv's digital and innovation team based in central London, the internship provides an opportunity to apply digital anthropology thinking and approaches in a commercial setting, understanding the impact of digital technology on people's health behaviours.
Beyond this, the internship offers participants exposure to a wide
range of business disciplines related to healthcare communications, including
advertising, PR, medical communications and management consultancy, working
with colleagues and clients across Europe and the US.
Quote from Mark, one of our 2014-15 MSc students:
"I was brought in to work on one 4-week social media listening project, investigating the "buzz" around a single medication, but when that project was put on hold, the digital team at InVentiv instead let me help them with various other projects that they were working on at the time. In addition to the original social listening project, which eventually was resumed by my third week, I was able to help by mapping patient journeys, investigating product competitors' online presence in multiple markets and languages, and contributed to brainstorms with members of international teams. The experience of applying digital anthropology in the office rather than in a classroom was exciting, because it made me look at what I've learned in a new way, and apply lessons to situations I had not thought of before. The digital team at InVentiv is a small group of people within a large network of businesses, so I was able to experience nearly all aspects of what it means to work there, and as a masters student straight out of undergrad, the cooperation and teamwork within the team in every project really prepared me for my entry into the working world."


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Corsair Memory on Thursday revealed memory modules that can be formally claimed to be the fastest in the industry. Thanks to hand-picked memory chips, advanced cooling and advanced cooling system, the Dominator GT GTX6 memory modules can achieve whopping 2.625GHz clock-speed. But the modules have little practical usage: they only have 1GB capacity and even Corsair itself does not seem to want to guarantee their reliable operation on all platforms.
The Corsair Dominator GT GTX6 1GB memory module is officially rated to work at 2625MHz with CL9 11-10-30 latency settings and 1.65V or 1.45V voltage. The modules have been tested on the Gigabyte P55A-UD5 motherboard with BIOS Revision F10 at a clock speed of 2625MHz with specially selected Intel Core i7-860 and Core i7-870 microprocessors in single-channel mode. According to the manufacturer "speeds as high as 2600MHz" can "typically" be achieved in dual-channel mode. Corsair stresses that the novelties have not been tested on AMD-based and Intel LGA1366 platforms.
When Corsair Memory started its business roughly sixteen years ago and up to the year 2003 all of its memory modules were sold separately and end-users with advanced systems featuring dual-channel memory sub-systems had to acquire a couple of such sticks and then ensure that they work properly in tandem. However, starting from 2003 – 2004 timeframe Corsair and other leading manufacturers of computer memory started to sell virtually all modules as dual-channel matched pairs, saving time for the end-user. But with the Dominator GT GTX4 and GTX6 Corsair decided to go back to the roots and offer the modules separately.
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A West Palm Beach holiday tradition once again unfurls as the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens opens its doors for the sixth annual Festival of Trees. This year's theme takes a lyrical note with "A Musical Masterpiece," letting tree decorators and sponsors tap into their inner musician and use a favorite song as inspiration. Each year, trees sponsored by area patrons and businesses are designed by an array of interior designers, area artists, architects and floral artists. Every aspect of the tree is meticulously planned and executed—no branch is left unturned in the pursuit of the perfect marriage between aesthetic, theme and originality—as the gardens are transformed for the holiday season.
A cacophony of songs—disco, classics and more—will blanket the gardens for the festival. The music also take physical form on the branches of Douglas and Fraser Firs, as each tree is decorated to represent a specific song. Christmastime favorites like "We Three Kings," "Nutcracker Suite" and "Silver Bells" are sure to put revelers in the spirit of the season, while tunes like "Surfin' USA," "Night Fever," "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and "Love Shack" will give the decorated forest a little swing and an added dose of fun. In all, 33 trees will grace the lawns, gardens and courtyards of the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, each unique and noteworthy in its own right.
The Festival of Trees is one of the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens' major fundraising events. Funds raised support not only the gardens but also its Community Enrichment Program, which includes exhibitions, literacy days, Earth days and student visits. Featuring a dazzling lightshow and performances by local musicians, dancers and actors dressed as holiday characters, the family-friendly Festival of Trees has become one of the most anticipated events of the holiday season.
The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens' sixth annual Festival of Trees comes to life with the gala reception November 30 from 6-9 p.m., followed by Community Evening from December 1-9 from 5-8:30 p.m.
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- Check out the video of last year's Festival of Trees, filmed and produced by Reynaldo Martin.
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Rural/Metro and Grants Pass firefighters were called out Tuesday night to a detached garage fire at 2046 Allen Creek Road. Nobody was hurt, and an estimate thousand dollars damage was done.
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