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Coldplay Announce World Tour Dates for 2017
Coldplay will be spending the bulk of 2017 touring the world.
With a knack for crafting cinematic stadium rock, Coldplay burst on to the scene with their 2000 debut 'Parachutes' and its breakout hit 'Yellow.' From there, the British quartet became an international success, filling the arenas its thoughtful pop music was truly made for. Fronted by singer-songwriter Chris Martin, Coldplay continued to win over fans with their 2002 follow-up, 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' and its mesmerizing single, 'The Scientist.' Together, 'Parachutes' and 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' earned Coldplay the Grammy for Best Alternative Album two years in a row. Despite the distractions that come with Martin's tabloid-cover marriage to a famous actress — and subsequent divorce — Coldplay have continued to carve out their spot among Radiohead and Oasis as iconic Brit rockers well into the '00s with their growing catalog, including 2005's wildly successful 'X&Y' and the Brino Eno-produced 'Viva la Vida' in 2008.
Coldplay will be spending the bulk of 2017 touring the world.
Chris Martin played a solo acoustic version of Bruce Springsteen's hit during his band's stop in Philadelphia.
Watch the biggest highlights from Coldplay's triumphant Glastonbury-closing set.
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Adele, Beck and M83 will also play Glasto 2016, but despite last year's rumors, almost-headliners Foo Fighters are not on the docket.
While performing at the 2016 NME Awards, Bring Me the Horizon's Oli Sykes climbed on top of Coldplay's table, sending a ton of champagne flying in his wake.
The pair significantly upped the energy during what was, you know, a low-scoring defensive battle with a Coldplay concert in the middle of it.
James Corden picks up Martin on his way to his Super Bowl halftime show, and the travelers quickly busy themselves with Coldplay and David Bowie sing-alongs.
Ever single-minded in his creative output, David Bowie turned down the chance to produce a Red Hot Chili Peppers album and sing on a Coldplay song.
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A number of Federal Public Sector groups say they're fed up with what they believe are a number of actions against collective bargaining.
And they'll be voicing their displeasure at a rally in Downtown Vancouver on Tuesday.
In a release, the various groups say there's been an effort by the Federal government to change how collective bargaining is done.
They say it's due to the Budget Implement Act – or Bill C-59.
It was tabled by the Federal government earlier this month.
The bill would allow the Treasury Board to modify collective agreements.
That includes the removal of sick leave, and imposing a short and long term disability plan beyond collective agreements.
Opponents are concerned these changes could bypass negotiation processes.
The rally will be held at Library Square.

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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQCPP-361?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13019820#comment-13019820 ] Timothy Bish commented on AMQCPP-361: ------------------------------------- You can call stop on a session to stop the session's executor from dispatching any messages. So you could do something like: {code} consumer.stop(); session.stop(); consumer.close(); delete consumer; session.start(); {code} > Destroying a consumer may cause a crash > --------------------------------------- > > Key: AMQCPP-361 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQCPP-361 > Project: ActiveMQ C++ Client > Issue Type: Bug > Components: CMS Impl > Affects Versions: 3.2.5 > Environment: all > Reporter: Teemu Torma > Assignee: Timothy Bish > > ActiveMQSessionExecutor::dispatch gets a consumer and calls consumer's dispatch method without holding any locks in between. This leaves a window when a consumer can be no longer valid on a dispatch call causing a crash. > Since this is a timing issue it is hard to demonstrate as such. If one adds let's say one second sleep in ActiveMQSessionExecutor::dispatch before the call to the consumer->dispatch, and destroys a consumer on a destination which has messages incoming will likely crash the application. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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When Van Jones picked up the San Francisco Examiner on June 7, 1995, his blood ran cold. The cop he'd helped take to court two years earlier for shooting a mentally ill black man nine times was in the news again, this time implicated in the death of Aaron Williams, an unarmed black robbery suspect who was beaten and pepper-sprayed.
Jones, then a 26-year-old lawyer with dreadlocks down to his shoulders, didn't just get mad -- he organized. He rallied hundreds of urban youth to pack San Francisco's weekly police commission hearings and demand that Officer Marc Andaya be dismissed from the force. Jones didn't tell the activists to put on suits or mind their manners. He simply told them to speak out, which they did -- loudly. The hip-hoppers disrupted the usually somnolent meetings with raps like "Up on the pavement / Out of enslavement / Why do cops gotta act like cavemen?"
"They didn't want to hear our culture," Jones says, "so we gave it to them. They didn't want to see intelligent, marginalized people on television, so we gave it to them. They didn't want to see some uppity young lawyer like myself showing up in a suit and quoting all their laws, so I did it every chance I got."
In 1997, after months of turbulent hearings, Andaya was suspended, and eventually fired, ostensibly for lying on his application. The victory was sweet, but Jones' crusade against police violence, and his commitment to the youth he'd helped organize, was just beginning. In 1996, Jones had founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, named to honor the great, often unheralded, civil rights organizer. The center created the first lawyer referral service for victims of police violence in northern California, and it now fields more than 50 calls a week. "Our staff looks like the fucking Muppets," Jones laughs. "We've got every color in the Skittles bag -- hip-hoppers, transgender activists, lawyers -- all working together." The center recently expanded its horizons, opening a branch office in New York City and helping to spearhead the fight against California's Proposition 21, a draconian juvenile crime initiative voters passed last spring.
Jones' efforts to mitigate police violence earned him the prestigious Reebok Human Rights Award in March 1998. But he isn't resting on his laurels, and he isn't stuck behind a desk. That fall, Jones led a band of hip-hop activists to the home of San Francisco district attorney Terence Hallinan. The district attorney hadn't satisfactorily answered their questions about the death of a white 17-year-old girl inadvertently shot in the head during a drug bust, so the group decided to pay him a house call -- with television camera crews in tow.
"There's Mr. Terence, TV cameras in his face, kids asking, 'Why are you protecting a killer cop?'" says Jones. "This is what you live for. If you get 20 phone calls a day about people getting beat up by police, children getting their arms broken, then this is what you live for."


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text: Curry's emotional week ends with a win By Doug Smock October 15, 2011 Story Share HUNTINGTON - At one point, all Vinny Curry could say after Marshall's 24-20 victory over Rice was, "Next question, please."The Thundering Herd's star defensive end is personable and passionate, which can get his emotions running. And he has had an emotional season off the field - for starters, Hurricane Irene deeply affected his home state of New Jersey with flooding.And this past week, he mourned the passing of his mother. She had been in failing health in recent weeks, and that is tough to take for a college student hundreds of miles away.When she died, Curry was allowed to leave school and the team, and return when he felt ready. He missed practice all week and returned Friday night, getting a warm welcome from his teammates.He had a long talk Friday night with his roommate, nose tackle Brandon Bullock. It helped, but he still had a very heavy heart going into Saturday. He did not participate with his team in the "Herd Walk" into Joan C. Edwards Stadium, and struggled with the decision to play."There was nobody in the world that was stronger than my mother," Curry said. "I was just trying to stay strong, stay positive. I know she would be proud of me, with everything else going on."She didn't want me to be sad in [game week], because this morning was a mess; I'm not going to lie to you all. I wasn't even going to play, I was an emotional wreck."Curry's aunt, his mother's sister, was on hand to watch one of the better efforts by a Marshall defensive end. Curry had nine tackles, four for loss, with 31/2 sacks, a fumble recovery and the forced fumble that gave Marshall the ball on the Rice 23-yard line and led to the game-winning touchdown.On that forced fumble, he dove over a blocker to get at Rice runner Sam McGuffie. On some plays, he simply pushed a tackle deep into the backfield to get where he needed to go.As he had two of his sacks in the first six minutes, he clearly was on a mission. His teammates noticed."What he's going through and [he still] came back, that's really tough," said Monterius Lovett, who recovered the Curry-forced fumble. "He played really big today." nn Curry was passionate about his fumble recovery that nearly wasn't, one that could have led to a go-ahead touchdown much earlier in the fourth quarter.On that play, Rice quarterback Taylor McHargue went to pass, but the ball flew backwards out of his hands. In the scramble, Curry fell on the ball at the Rice 25-yard line, 29 yards behind the line of scrimmage. Curry got up to celebrate, and let go of the ball. That touched off another scramble, with Rice's Vance McDonald fighting for possession even further back. Based partly on Curry's lobbying, Herd's coach Doc Holliday challenged the call and won.Curry's recovery was restored. "Coach Holliday, he knows I don't complain about much, and I was complaining about that call," Curry said.The challenge wasn't a small gamble, as Marshall was down 20-17 and already had used a second-half timeout."We just felt Vinny had possession of the ball at that point, and it was worth the challenge," Holliday said. "It was worth the timeout, if we lost it. We're fortunate we were right - unfortunately, we turned the ball over the next play."That the Herd did, as A.J. Graham's pass was tipped by a linebacker, richocheted off receiver Troy Evans and was plucked by Rice's Paul Porras. nn Graham's slant pass to Antavious Wilson, the 11-yarder to the Rice 12 on the game-winning drive, was much better. Graham froze in the pocket for a split-second before firing a Byron Leftwich-style bullet to Wilson.Rice defender Corey Frazier was all but draped over Wilson until the ball arrived, it seemed. "With 'zero' coverage [straight man-to-man], normally you don't let a guy inside of you like that," Graham said. "He was able to get inside and win, and I was able to make a play. It was a tight window." nn Tyler Warner returned from a benching during the Louisville game two weeks ago for field-goal duties, hitting a 45-yarder to give Marshall a 17-6 halftime lead.The reason for Warner's return was simple: Justin Haig was injured and didn't practice this week. Haig retained kickoff duties after kicking for the first time Saturday morning.Haig didn't hold back, though. On the opening kickoff, he stuck 230-pound returner Jeremy Eddington with a big lick.Elsewhere on special teams, the Herd keeps getting closer to blocking a punt. Somebody got a hand on the last boot by Rice's Kyle Martens, but it still made it 34 yards downfield before dying.Marshall's punter, Kase Whitehead, averaged 40.1 yards on seven punts and put three inside the 20, but had one of his more dubious moments. He shanked a 23-yarder into the Marshall bench - and into a trash can on the fly. Fans in the chairback section gave the kick an ovation.Briefly Graham's first rushing touchdown ended a team drought that stretched to the Herd's 11th game last year, at SMU. The drought lasted 228 rushing attempts. Left tackle Ryan Tillman did not dress, giving sophomore Jordan Jeffries his first start of the season. "Tillman practiced Thursday, and I thought after practice he was fine, but he didn't play a snap," Holliday said. Right tackle C.J. Wood missed eight plays over three different possessions after walking off with an injury, but returned with 4:53 left. Redshirt freshman Josh Lovett took over in his absence. When Rice needed to travel 75 yards in 1:49, it didn't have starting QB Taylor McHargue to do it. He was injured with 5-plus minutes left when he tried to duck a tackle by Kellen Harris and Devin Arrington. Reserve Nick Fanuzzi completed his first pass on the last-ditch drive for 11 yards, but threw incomplete, got flushed out, got sacked and misfired on fourth down. The Herd's defense used a three-man front much of the first half, with a fourth linebacker often standing on the edge. Linebacker Billy Mitchell played that role on the first snap, earning his first start of the year. Marshall still hasn't lost a home game to a team from the state of Texas, a streak that has reached eight games. That started with the 1988 Division I-AA playoffs against North Texas, and has included Texas-El Paso twice, Rice twice, Southern Methodist twice and Houston once. Martin Ward and George Carpenter were added to the contingent of Herd captains to make six, though only four can go to the coin toss. 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With the incredible Seattle boom, we now face several challenges. Your mission should you decide to accept it is to pick the one that will have the most profound long-term negative consequences:
With today's jobs numbers, here's a look at today's economy vs. a full-employment economy (h/t Justin Wolfers):
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• The enigma of Russia's economy | Tim Taylor
• Free mobile data plans are going to crush the startup economy | Wired
• Why stocks could be facing a big correction | Slate
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Chapter 0: The True Insanity From WithinMature
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Fujitsu was about to walk into the infirmary with a wooden tray that with two teacups filled with hot, steaming tea when came walking out, somewhat in deep thought. The two of them nearly bumped into each other, but after Fujitsu bumped into Kara, and the scene with Xeranad, Fujitsu was more alert than before, and smoothly slid around Click as it he were on ice skates, avoiding collision. Click flinched.
"Click, what're you doing here?" Fujitsu asked.
Click replied, "I was paying the girl a visit, you know, to make sure she was alright."
"How is she?" Fujitsu inquired.
Click smiled. "Don't worry, she just woke up. She's fine."
Fujitsu gave a breath of relief, saying, "Phew... That's good to hear... Well, I'mma go in now. See ya' around."
"Uh... Yeah, sure..." Click responded hesitantly, walking off, but then he stopped and said, "Also, you couldn't have held her back even if you tried; she was to determined to kill Xeranad. You don't have to feel so guilty."
Fujitsu, who was about to open the door, nearly dropped the tea as Click finished his sentence. His head snapped to where he was standing. "How...?"
"Never mind that. I'll see you around." And with that, Click walked off.
Still looking in his direction, Fujitsu slowly opened the door and walked in, carefully balancing the tray on his left hand. When he walked in, he closed the door as slowly as he came in and turned around to see Aria's eyes open. Fujitsu gave a breath of relief and walked up to the left side of her bed and set the tea tray by the white wooden nightstand.
"It's good to see that you're okay," Fujitsu said, smiling and handing her a cup of the steaming tea.
She accepted the tea, saying, "Thank you," in her usual quiet voice.
Fujitsu laughed, "That was some stunt you pulled there, and I thought that just talking to the monster was an extreme one that only the insane could pull off.
"But," he continued in a more serious, yet quite, voice, "You shouldn't have done that, you could have been killed. I know what the need of revenge feels like; I was feeling the same thing at the moment."
Aria stared at him.
Fujitsu sighed. "My entire kingdom was destroyed by Xeranad and his minion onions when I was only three, and I remember the day perfectly... I wanted to strike him down but then I remembered that revenge is blind, and by running into battle blindly, you're giving the enemy an advantage that could kill you."
Aria looked down and away from Fujitsu, embarrassed. Fujitsu noticed that and immediately smiled. "Listen, I don't blame you, I know what it feels like, and had it not been for my master, I would have been dead by the time I saw Xeranad. I just know how to control my emotions a bit-- OW!!!"
Fujitsu yelled out in pain due to a fist being jammed in is face, but it wasn't Aria's. It was... his own. Fujitsu looked at his hand in surprise, and then it started pecking at his head.
"OW!! Why are you pecking at me, O evil hand of mine!?" Fujitsu asked.
His hand "replied", "YOU'RE ACTING NORMAL!!! START ACTING CRAZY!!"
"Well you don't have to start attacking me, me... YOW!!" he added with his right foot kicking ass.
"NOOO!! Not you too!?" Fujitsu cried. "WHY AM I TRYING TO MAKE MYSELF CRAZY AGAIN!!?"
"BECAUSE IT'S NORMAL FOR YOU!!!" his and and leg "answered".
Fujitsu fell onto the ground after his right leg kicked out his left leg with a "thud". Fujitsu said, "Alright..! I'll be crazy again, just stop hurting me..."
After a couple of seconds, his they both said, "Alright," and let Fujitsu have control of them again. Fujitsu looked around and cautiously stood up, once again experiencing his previous knee pains. He looked at Aria and cried happily, raising his hands and hopping, "Yatta! Another crisis averted! You're going to have to deal with my insanity for a bit, though, as I volunteered to look after you as you healed, n'kai?"


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The Open Book Podcast Episode 007Podcast: Download (Duration 30:54 – 28 MB) This episode's guest Maura Zagrans and I discuss Camerado: I Give You My Hand and her vision for a Camerado Corps. Links Mentioned in this Episode: Maura's website www.maurazagrans.com Here you can find a link to CBS report we mention in this episode Purchase a copy of Camerado, I Give You My Hand. Music for this episode provided courtesy of Sam Rocha from his album Late to Love. The intro song is Genesis T … [Read more...]
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People living with HIV/AIDS in China face difficulties accessing the necessary care.
Although the prevalence of HIV in China is low, providing an adequate response to people needing treatment remains a challenge. China initiated the 'Four Frees and One Care' policy in December 2003, providing HIV counselling and testing, antiretroviral treatment, prevention of mother- to-child transmission and schooling for children orphaned by AIDS, all free of charge, but many people with the disease have not benefited from these measures. According to the Ministry of Health, some regions and departments are not sufficiently concerned with HIV, and there is still widespread discrimination and stigma. A Chinese NGO, Aids Care China (ACC), is developing quality care and treatment through private clinics, hoping to show the impact this can have on people's health and influence reforms that will make care more widely available. In October 2011, at the request of ACC, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started supporting a clinic near the China– Myanmar border in Jiegao, Yunnan province, where there are high numbers of Chinese and Burmese injecting drug users with HIV or HIV–TB and HIV–hepatitis C co-infection. In September, a four-person MSF team began providing medical expertise and staff management under a one-year agreement.
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By Jessica Daniels On June 16, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In Our Faculty
In the final Faculty Spotlight post for this academic year, the subject is Julia Stewart-David, who spent this past year at Fletcher as a visiting fellow.
I am about the twelfth visiting European Union (EU) Fellow at The Fletcher School (records are a bit patchy) but we can thank Professor Alan Henrikson for having reached out to set up the EU Fellowship at Fletcher somewhere back toward the end of the last century. So what is a visiting EU Fellow? Well, there are around ten of us each year, mid- or senior-level career officials in European Union institutions, who are given the opportunity to have a sabbatical year in a select few universities worldwide. While we are visiting fellows, we have a dual mandate of pursuing research and of educating about the European Union and its policies through outreach and teaching. We each bring a different area of practitioner expertise.
The Fletcher School was my first choice destination, mainly because professionally I knew of its strong interest in human security issues, through the influential research work of the Feinstein Center. My "usual" job is a policy role in the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department, co-managing a team working on evidence and disaster risk management. I've been in the humanitarian sector for over a decade now, working closely with the UN and international NGOs on quality of aid. But being in a sector whose business is crisis leaves little time for deeper reflection on the world and the interlinked complexities of power, politics, poverty, and human potential. One of the dilemmas of disaster risk management is how to get better investment over the long-term to help communities prevent or better cope with crises, when the immediate humanitarian response is so constantly overwhelmed by the need to respond to the emergencies of the present. Most of these are prolonged conflict-related "complex emergencies."
So imagine my sense of opportunity at having an academic year where my professional life is focused upon thinking, reading, and contributing to a longer-term process of reflection on change in the humanitarian sector. While at Fletcher, I have been researching how humanitarian organizations learn. This is a time when the sector has undergone much soul-searching ahead of the recent World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul. Failure takes its toll in lives; which leads perversely to risk-aversion in organizations trying to provide assistance, when bold action, or maybe even a radical new approach, could be what's needed.
I have found life here at Fletcher a wonderful privilege. There is a strong sense of community and a core of thoughtful people who care about the world and how they can best contribute to it. The most remarkable learning resource is the diversity of student experience and interest. As to the professional experience I have been able to share, it has covered a wide range of topics: from strategies to address violent extremism, to the forthcoming UK referendum on the European Union; from humanitarian financing and use of evidence and evaluation, to tips on combining motherhood and management in an international organization that has still not reached gender parity. I have also enjoyed explaining my passion for "participatory leadership" practice in policy-making, or put another way: bringing diverse people together to co-generate future action based on collective wisdom. In my mind, international and community leadership to address the challenges of our times requires multi-disciplinary reflection, adaptability and an ability to host difficult conversations on questions that really matter to society. I see these qualities in abundance at Fletcher. Wouldn't it be wonderful if traditional educational approaches and curricula would value and develop those kinds of skills at all levels from a young age?
My family and I will be taking many happy memories from Boston back with us to Brussels when we head home this summer. I also have a head full of ideas of things we should try to do better in the humanitarian sphere.
Professor Alan Henrikson says farewell to Fletcher
By Jessica Daniels On May 19, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In Our Faculty
Students aren't the only members of the community who close out a chapter of their lives at Commencement. In some years, graduation day also marks the start of a professor's new less-than-daily relationship with Fletcher.
Following this 2015-2016 academic year, Alan K. Henrikson, the Lee E. Dirks Professor of Diplomatic History, and Fletcher's Director of Diplomatic Studies, will conclude his 44-year teaching career at Fletcher and move on to whatever comes next. Professor Henrikson has taught U.S. foreign policy to international and U.S. students alike, acquiring a very loyal and devoted following among current students and alumni.
I would describe Professor Henrikson as singularly dedicated to the art of teaching. I aim to make a distinction here between simply being a great teacher (there are many of them at Fletcher) and putting teaching at the center of everything. It is in that devotion to the classroom that Professor Henrikson is the leader among his peers.
At the end of the fall semester, the last one in which he would teach DHP D200: Diplomacy: History, Theory, and Practice, Professor Henrikson shared two things with his colleagues on the faculty. The first was the text of his final exam for the class, and the second was a photo. He noted:
As you will see, if you have a chance to look through the examination paper, Diplomacy 200, which I think of as the cornerstone of diplomatic studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, "covers" nearly all of the subjects we teach at the School — and, I believe, in an integrating and integrated way. The students draw from other fields in which they are working, as well as from their own national-cultural and personal experiences. And, I hope, they bring a diplomatic (and diplomatic-historical) understanding back to their intellectual and other activities in those fields, now and in their future professional careers and lives.
Several members of the faculty responded to Professor Henrikson's email and I would like to share a few of the responses. (Note that several current professors were once Fletcher students.)
Professor Diana Chigas, F88: As an alum of D200, I can say that it was an influential course in my Fletcher education, both because of its integrated and historical perspective, and because of the infectious nature of your obvious love for diplomatic history and your commitment to your students.
Professor Ian Johnstone: I saw some of your past exams and was always impressed by the depth and scope, as well as by the way you integrate history and current events. You outdid yourself this time! That course is a foundation for so much of what we do at the School. It is hard to imagine you won't be teaching it again.
Professor Sulmaan Khan: I agree with Ian, Alan. It's hard to imagine Fletcher and our broader curriculum without your teaching.
Professor Antonia Chayes: Reading your complex and erudite exam, I can only regret that I never had the chance to take your course. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Dean Bhaskar Chakravorti: I will write an essay response to one of your prompts (too tempting to let them go) and will struggle with knotting my bow tie over the holidays in honor of the passing of an era.
Kathleen Ryan, F87, director of the Office of Development and Alumni Relations: Also as an alum of D200, I love seeing this — both the bow ties and the test. Really glad I took the test when I did! You cannot know how much you mean to so many former students. A legend. So thrilled that you will be giving the Friday night lecture to kick off the reunion in May. Sure to be wonderful!
Professor Leila Fawaz: A lovely tribute for a cherished teacher. I am very glad you shared the wonderful photo with us. We appreciate all you had done for us all at the School and the University.
Professor Elizabeth Prodromou, F83: Thank you for sharing this message and photo, both of which speak to the intellectual excitement, graciousness, and civility, which are your continuing legacy to generations Fletcher students (including many of us among them!).
In a note to me, Professor Prodromou further wrote: "He leaves an extraordinary legacy at Fletcher — his was an approach to teaching, learning, and scholarship that is rooted in a classic understanding of education as a experience in becoming a fuller, enlightened, inquisitive, and alive human being."
And now the photo from his final D200 class, which will explain all the above references to bow ties, an Alan Henrikson trademark look.
Professor Henrikson will address the community, including this year's graduates and alumni visiting for their reunion, tomorrow afternoon, on the topic of "Fletcher: A Great Place to Teach." I will miss running into Alan Henrikson in the hallways and I wish him the very best. But I'll give the final word to Frances Burke, one of Professor Henrikson's students this year. When I asked her for her thoughts, Frances wrote:
Whether sitting in Professor Henrikson's "Diplomacy" class or his U.S. Foreign Relations classes, every moment was a treasure. His depth of knowledge was, of course, daunting, as each comment on a historical period cascaded into the details of a particular statesman, or comments on esoteric cartography, or asides regarding a special envoy, or opinions on a crucial summit. Most of us left lectures awestruck by our own ignorance. Professor Henrikson's deep, deep knowledge of American history and foreign policy was illuminated by his obvious adoration for his subjects. During one class, when describing reportage emerging from the Spanish Civil War, he paused to sing a song of the resistance, concluded by a sweet smile and trademark laugh. You could see how much he loved his calling. His departure rips a great hole in the grand tapestry of Fletcher teaching, as he so vibrantly twined the threads of history, diplomacy, and foreign relations in a way only a truly gifted teacher can do.
Medical innovation case studies
By Jessica Daniels On May 10, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In Our Faculty, Our Students
Even as 2016 graduates are submitting their Capstone Projects, some of 2017's grads have already selected a topic for theirs. Professor Amar Bhidé recently informed the community that he is compiling a "'library' of case studies on successful medical innovations," as part of a study of medical advances. He invited students to work on a case study, individually or as part of a team, for a Capstone. The list of innovations from which they can select includes such topics as:
Bone marrow transplant
H. Pylori testing and treatment
Hip and knee replacement
HIV testing and treatment
Inhaled steroids for asthma
IV-conscious sedation
Laparoscopic surgery
MRI and CT scanning
Nonsedating antihistamines
NSAIDs and Cox-2 inhibitors
Ultrasonography including echocardiography
These aren't the typical Fletcher topics, but for the right students, they could be the start of a very interesting Capstone.
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UN forum comments from Professor Kyte
By Jessica Daniels On April 27, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In Our Alumni, Our Faculty
I love hearing from alumni, and not only when they send me news for the blog. But if they happen to send something newsworthy, well, I'm certainly going to seize the opportunity to share.
On Monday, I was pleasantly surprised by an email from Atanas, a 2015 grad. He recently started in a new position at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, working on climate resilience. I'll let him continue the story:
Last week I was lucky to be working at the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General on the organization of the Paris agreement signature ceremony, and on Friday, I witnessed first-hand this historic moment. I met a few presidents, including Colombia's President and Fletcher grad Juan Manuel Santos, and had a brief chat with Leo DiCaprio who is UN Messenger of Peace and delivered a speech during the ceremony. It was certainly a day to remember.
But one of the most powerful experiences I had was listening to a Fletcher alumna who spoke on a panel in the afternoon of the same day — Rachel Kyte, who is the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) and Special Representative of the Secretary General. She talked only for five minutes but completely captivated the audience and, according to everyone working in this area, hers was one of the best speeches given in a long time.
I'll plug in a few details about Rachel Kyte. She's a 2002 graduate of the GMAP program and, also, currently a Fletcher professor of practice of sustainable development, associated with the Center for International Environment and Research Policy.
The forum at which Atanas heard her speak was "Taking Climate Action to the Next Level: Realizing the Vision of the Paris Agreement." Click the photo below to hear her comments following a question at about 1:47:00.
For the last few years, Dean Stavridis has written a blog and he occasionally includes video interviews with members of the community. I figure the interviews could be interesting for prospective students, and I'd like to simplify your search, if you'd like to watch them. Here are all of the video interviews that the Dean conducted with Fletcher professors, plus a few extras.
Alex de Waal:
Jenny Aker:
Kelly Sims-Gallagher:
Richard Shultz:
Bhaskar Chakravorti:
Eileen Babbitt:
Michael Glennon:
Leila Fawaz:
Sulmaan Khan:
Edward Schumacher-Matos:
Sung-Yoon Lee:
And here are a few "bonus tracks":
Banafsheh Keynoush, Fletcher alumna:
President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves:
Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency:
Dina Dara Miren, a current MALD student:
Patrick Meier, Fletcher alumnus:
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Professor Glennon discusses his theory of "double government"
By Jessica Daniels On March 24, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In About Fletcher, Our Faculty
Professor Michael Glennon published a book in 2014 on "double government," and that book, National Security and Double Government, has resonated for many with the themes of this year's election. You can hear him in an extended conversation on "Radio Open Source." It's worth a listen.
Faculty Spotlight: John Allen Burgess
By Jessica Daniels On March 17, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In Our Faculty
The subject of today's Faculty Spotlight feature is John Allen Burgess, Professor of Practice and Executive Director of Fletcher's LLM Program. In addition to his role as LLM director, he currently teaches Mergers and Acquisitions: An International Perspective, and Securities Regulation: An International Prospective.
Every semester, I have the privilege to enjoy a range of special experiences along with the Fletcher LLM students. From the fall, when we first get a chance to meet each other and other members of the law faculty at Professor Chayes' beautiful home, to the spring, when we gather as a group off campus to hear about each other's work and talk with a range of guests over lunch, a drink or dinner, the year is filled with so many chances to learn and to interact with each other.
But the experience I most enjoy is the High Table — an opportunity for the LLM students and law faculty to come together in a book-lined seminar room to learn from experts in various aspects of international law. It is the perfect location and atmosphere for off-the-record conversations on a wide range of issues.
I attended my first High Table in September 2014 — and immediately realized that it was a very special experience. Dr. Mohamed El-Baradei joined the group to discuss his experiences as Chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency in both Iraq and Iran as well as his experiences during the Arab spring. It was an extraordinary opportunity to hear in a small group about the views of a Nobel prize winner, and learn more as he, my fellow faculty members, and the LLM students pursued an open dialogue across a wide range of topics.
As I now look back at the many High Tables I have attended, two things strike me. The first is the opportunity to meet and hear from people who have achieved amazing things in the law, often against extraordinary odds and challenges. Chief Judge Patricia Wald, who spoke to us regarding her work as Chair of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, was also a pioneer in so many respects — as a young mother who went to law school when few women attended and as the first woman Chief Justice of the DC Circuit. She then, instead of taking a well-earned retirement, served as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, working to build a new international jurisprudence. The High Table's intimate surroundings gave me a chance to see first-hand her intelligence, her humility, and the richness of her experience. It left me feeling both humble and deeply impressed.
The second special feature of the High Tables is the excitement of being exposed to legal issues that are outside my area of expertise. For example, earlier this year, Kingsley Moghalu, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Nigeria, gave a provocative talk on issues of rule of law in emerging economies — he challenged our thinking on the issue and provoked an informative discussion among the group. Cravath partner Rory Millsom walked the group through the thicket of legal considerations surrounding targeted killing by drones, making some challenging points about the application of law to new technologies along the way.
No matter how many High Tables I have attended, I always leave the discussion knowing that I have learned something new and that I am lucky to be surrounded by such informed students and teachers. It's a great feeling and a significant perk of my work at Fletcher.
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Here's something a little different. Emeritus Professor William Moomaw participated last month in a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) session about the COP21 climate talks. As Professor Moomaw explains in his AMA intro, in addition to his usual responsibilities during his long Fletcher career, he was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Within the general framework of climate-related topics, the AMA discussion ranged widely, from water issues to nuclear energy to the "clathrate gun" hypothesis. There's even at least one question from a Fletcher alum. Check it out!
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Faculty Spotlight: Jeswald W. Salacuse
By Jessica Daniels On February 9, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In Our Faculty
Professor Jeswald W. Salacuse, the subject of today's Faculty Spotlight feature, has had a long and varied career at Fletcher, starting in 1986 with eight years as dean, and continuing as he transitioned to a teaching role. Currently, as the Henry J. Braker Professor of Law, Professor Salacuse teaches International Investment Law, Corporate Governance in International Business and Finance, Law and Development, and a new course Negotiating International Leadership, but in his post below, he tells us about one of his out-of-Fletcher activities.
I moonlight as an international judge. For the past several years, while teaching full time at the Fletcher School, I have served as president of an international arbitration tribunal, hearing cases brought against Argentina by foreign investors in that country. The investors have claimed that the Argentine government had not treated them as it had promised in various bilateral investment treaties made with the investors' home governments. A principal purpose of investment treaties, of which there are now about 3000 in the world, is to protect and promote investment between the countries that sign them. Under these treaties, each country promises, among other things, that it will not expropriate investments from the other country and that it will treat them fairly, provide them with protection and security, and will not discriminate unjustly against them.
Promises are only as good as the mechanisms to enforce them. The enforcement mechanism in investment treaties is international arbitration, a process that allows investors to sue a foreign government before an independent international tribunal, to obtain compensation for injuries caused by that government's failure to give the investor the treatment promised under the treaty. Granting a private party the right to bring an action against a sovereign state in an international tribunal is a revolutionary innovation that now seems largely taken for granted. Yet its uniqueness and power should not be overlooked. A similar remedy does exist in most other areas of international law. It is this mechanism that gives important, practical significance to an investment treaty, and truly enables investment treaties to afford protection to foreign investment. As a result, aggrieved foreign investors are bringing increasing numbers of arbitration claims when they believe host countries have denied them treaty protection, and in some cases tribunals have awarded them damages in the tens of millions and even hundreds of millions of dollars. Fearful that they may be subjected to "home-town justice" in national courts and will therefore receive prejudicial treatment, investors have preferred to plead their cases before an independent international tribunal rather than take their chances in national courts under the control of the government they are suing.
Most investor-state tribunals consist of three arbitrators, one named by the party bringing the claim, another appointed by the party defending against the claim, and the third, usually, the president or chair of the tribunal, appointed by agreement of the two sides. The tribunal members are not the representatives of the parties but are to exercise their judgment independently. If arbitrators have not maintained their duty of independence, they may be challenged and removed from the tribunal. Each side is represented by lawyers, often major international law firms because of the amount of money at stake, and the whole process functions according to strict rules of procedure and elaborate principles of international law. Many investor-state cases take place under the facilities of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an independent international organization affiliated with the World Bank and located in Washington, D.C.
Although the United States is a party to almost fifty investment treaties, all of which provide for investor-state arbitration, and though it has even been a defendant in a few cases, public attention suddenly focused on this process only in the past year as a result of projected U. S participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a twelve-nation trade and investment treaty that will provide investor-state arbitration for claims in the event of treaty violations. TPP opponents have railed against investor-state arbitration in particular, expressing fears about lost sovereignty and the machinations of "secret and sinister tribunals." Much of the opposition to that agreement has been based on unsubstantiated fears and ignorance of the nature of the process and how it functions. The actual record of investor-state arbitration over the past twenty years has been good. As of 2013, 274 investor-state cases had been concluded. Of that number, 42% had been decided in favor of defendant states, 34% had been decided in favor of investors, and 27% were settled by agreement of the parties. The record by no means shows, as some would claim, that tribunals have an investor bias and that investor-state arbitration is a threat to national sovereignty. On the contrary, I would argue that the investor-state arbitration supports the international rule of law. Governments sometimes violate international law. When they do, they should be held accountable. The essence of the rule of law is the ability of a private person to sue a government for violation of the law and obtain a fair hearing.
My experience moonlighting as an international judge has enriched my teaching of Law and Development and International Investment Law at Fletcher, as well as my scholarship in those areas. The tribunal over which I have presided has included Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, a Swiss national, and Professor Pedro Nikken from Venezuela, both exceptional lawyers who have diligently and knowledgeably worked to render fair decisions on innumerable procedural and substantive issues in the years we have worked together. Far from being a "sinister tribunal," our association has been most congenial. In support of that proposition, I offer the attached photo of the three of us showing up for work one summer morning as Exhibit A.
Faculty Spotlight: Andrew C. Hess
By Jessica Daniels On December 28, 2015 · Leave a Comment · In Our Faculty
Our next post in the Faculty Spotlight series comes from Andrew Hess, Professor of Diplomacy and Director of the Southwest-Central Asia and Islamic Civilization Program. Professor Hess currently teaches Southwest Asia: History, Culture, and Politics, The Globalization of Politics and Culture for Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and The Globalization of Central Asia and the Caucasus. In his post, Professor Hess describes the curriculum changes he has needed to make to keep his courses current.
The courses I offer in the fall semester deal with an explosion of complex conflicts from Eastern Europe to China. Happily this should improve employment opportunities for future diplomats! But the down side of all this violent activity means I need to constantly adjust course curricula.
In the interest of keeping up with all the turmoil, I am going to describe the additions to our previous semesters' battles by trying to understand radical change in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the emerging nation states along the southern edge of the former Soviet Union. I, however, offer no guarantee on including all that may happen in Southwest and Central Eurasia: I find this region has indeed earned its reputation for being a land of unpredictability.
Diplomacy 265 (The Globalization of Politics and Culture for Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan) was originally dedicated to understanding the international and internal politics related to key diplomatic issues of the three non-Arabic language speaking nation states east of Iraq, south of Central Asia and west of India. Alas, the power of twenty-first century global change makes it ever more difficult to explain what is happening in this region on the basis of only a national analysis.
The big issue is: Why so much violence and so little in the way of diplomatic solutions in this huge chunk of Eurasia? The answer is, no doubt, going to be complex; and among the various new explanations for this bleak situation I suggest that the intensified impact of three global trends in this sub-division of Southwest Asia have added to the forces of instability already underway in this strategically important portion of Eurasia.
Very briefly these "trends" are:
- The absence of a balance of great powers for Eurasia as a whole has intensified powerful regional struggles on a global level (think about the states and-non government organizations who might want to take advantage of weak states);
- Second, the widespread inability of Middle Eastern and Southwest Asian governments and societies to cope institutionally with a global acceleration of social and cultural change is certainly behind recent upheavals (which terrorist group do you follow on Pakistan's northwest frontier);
- Finally, what to do about a new geopolitics of energy (there is an ongoing gas revolution) for a region (the Central Eurasian Energy Ellipse) that provides, maybe, seventy percent of the world's oil and gas resources;
And while we are talking about diplomatic problems involving commerce, we should not forget that Afghanistan is probably the world's largest producer of heroin.
The Globalization of the South Caucasus and Central Asia (Diplomacy 267) course came to the Fletcher curriculum as a response to the increasing strategic importance of this slice of Eurasia during the period of the Cold War (1953-1991). But the politics of the old bipolar struggle in Eurasia has now been replaced by conflicts between of new nation states now emerging from within the former body of the Soviet Union and the effort of the ruling elite of the Russian Federation to restore in some fashion the prestige of the Russian state.
Meanwhile huge technological forces associated with the economic development of all of Eurasia are linking the heartland of the Continent with the global economy: starting in the last quarter of the twentieth century the almost simultaneous growth of global oil production in the Soviet Union and the transfer under European control of high level petroleum skills into the Persian/Arabian Gulf arena set the stage for the modern geo-politics of energy in Eurasia. So the two courses (Diplomacy 265 and 267) complement each other in the sense that great and small powers have to develop policies to defend their strategic interests in the production, processing, and transportation oil and gas.
Starting last fall, I have expanded the coverage of the 267 course to include a wider range of states along the edge of the southern frontier of the former Soviet Union. In the west, we will argue that the Russian seizure of the Crimea is part of the larger political struggle for political power in the center of Eurasia; and it is an event that should be included within the wider Eurasian geo-politics of energy (gas supply for Europe). At the eastern edge of former Soviet frontier we need to study the diplomatic problems of Russia's new energy relations with China, in relation to the interests of Eurasia's Turkish speaking states and societies. (Uyghurs!). And of course, I have added some new material concerning the technical revolutions taking place in the petroleum sector, where the international impact is not so clear at this time.
Finally, my current research asks, what role does the sectarian dispute between the Sunni and Shi'i versions of Islam play in the contemporary politics of Southwest Asia?
Outside of the classroom, the Southwest-Central Asia and Islamic Civilization Program involves students in the selection of speakers and the generation of discussions of key events involving Southwest and Central Asia. When there is student interest, the Program sponsors the online journal (Al Nakhlah) as an effort to encourage students to publish their research papers. We usually employ two student editors for this project. And the program also supports summer research efforts for those students who are in the MALD or PhD programs and are working on a topic related to the Southwest and Central Asian courses. Last, during the fall semester, we celebrate social and cultural cohesion at an annual picnic.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Packers had to select their 53-man roster by Fridays 8 p.m. deadline, parting ways with 18 players who had been on the team just a day earlier for Green Bays preseason finale.Tackle Derek Sherrod, the teams 2011 first-round draft pick who is still recovering from a broken leg suffered last season, was played on the reservephysically unable to perform list, and linebacker Vic Sooto (ankle) was placed on injured reserve.The list of players Green Bay released was headlined by wide receivers Tori Gurley and Diondre Borel, both of whom were on the practice squad last season and had high hopes of making the team this year.However, both were hit with injuries during training camp and didnt quite show enough to justify adding them to the already-deep group of wide receivers group of Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, Donald Driver, James Jones and Randall Cobb. Undrafted rookie Jarrett Boykin seemed to be passing Gurley and Borel late in camp, and it was Boykin who ended up convincing the Packers to retain six receivers.Last season, Borel had an offer to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers active roster but declined. Its likely hell get a similar opportunity now, so Green Bay will not have a very good chance of keeping Borel on the practice squad again. Borel finished the preseason with seven receptions for 48 yards and no touchdowns.Gurley turned down an active roster spot from the Minnesota Vikings late in the 2011 season, and he, too, will likely be a part of another team this season. Gurley had three catches for 75 yards in the preseason.The next-biggest name to Packers fans may have been quarterback B.J. Coleman, a 2012 seventh-round draft pick who played sparingly in the preseason. It appears the Packers will begin the season with only two quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers and Graham Harrell on the active roster and that Coleman will be a candidate for the practice squad.One surprise cut was defensive lineman Daniel Muir, who had looked solid throughout training camp and preseason. Muir played his rookie season with the Packers in 2007 before spending the past four years with the Indianapolis Colts. He also will likely have an offer to join a different NFL team this season.The Packers also released running back Marc Tyler and fullback Nic Cooper, though both are prime candidates to be added to Green Bays practice squad.Gurley and Borel werent the only receivers let go on Friday, with Dale Moss and Curenski Gilleylen joining them. Moss will likely land on the practice squad.The second- and third-string offensive line was a problem nearly all of training camp and preseason for the Packers, and on Friday, the team released several of those players. Sampson Genus, a center who was on the practice squad in 2011, was let go. Genus could be back on the practice squad again this season. Tommie Draheim, Shea Allard, Greg Van Roten and veteran Reggie Wells were also all released.Seventh-round pick Andrew Datko was cut, but he will likely stick with the Packers. Datko suffered a concussion late in training camp and has not yet been cleared to return. When healthy, Datko struggled early on but bounced back fairly well later.Safety Anthony Levine was also released. According to his agent, Howard Shatsky, Levine has drawn interest from "several NFL teams."Defensive lineman Lawrence Guy, cornerback Otis Merrill and tight end Brandon Bostick were also released. Given the Packers depth at tight end, Bostick will not likely be asked to join the practice squad.Undrafted rookies besides Boykin who did earn a spot on the active roster include outside linebacker Dezman Moses, safety Sean Richardson and offensive lineman Don Barclay.General manager Ted Thompson will have more decisions to make soon. Linebacker Erik Walden is suspended for Week 1, but if Thompson wants to keep him in Green Bay, Walden will need to be added to the 53-man roster heading into the second regular season game. Also, after defensive lineman Mike Neals four-game suspension is over, the Packers will have to remove another player from the active roster if they want to keep Neal.Follow Paul Imig on Twitter
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Help replacing T12 Ballast
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In the garage built in the early 80's there are (3) light ballasts accross. Half of the bulbs lit but then some died so I bought some new ones and they didn't light so it had to be something else. Long story short this is what I got when I tested each ballast with new bulbs.
Ballast #(1) Lights both and ballast looks modern/smaller and guess from the 90's
Ballast #(2) Old universal ballast stating 120v, 60hz but only lights one bulb and the box looks like it has gotten hot and metled some rubber coating. Also box looks really old like from the 70's or 80's
Ballast #(3) These bulbs do not light and this is the one I really want working since its over my work area. It has an identical box as #(2) but it has gotten way hotter and melted a ton of rubber off.
I already bought (4) new bulbs at homedepot for total of $20 and found some in the garage attic after buying them but really don't want to change the fixtures so I can use the bulbs I have now. I stopped by home depot and got one ballast for the f96t12 bulbs and since it was about $40 with tax I just got one. Thinking of just pulling #(2) ballast out and leave it empty and then wire up the end #(3) ballast. That would be enough light for the size garage it is.
But how do I wire it up? The diagram shows this:
2 sockets have 2 wires comming out and the other just has one and I want to wire it up correctly.
The attached picture show how it is currently wired up and the dots on the wires are just wire nuts. The 2 big dots are the large wire nuts with 6 wires in them with the power input!
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wire it like the diagram...
IMO, return what you bought and buy new 4 foot T-8 fixtures. You will save money and have more efficient fixtures.
The diagram show 2 wires comming out of each socket
And in case you didn't get the hint....stop what your doing and take back the ballast and get new T8 fixtures.
One important thing to remember.....the T12 stuff has already been phased out....what you bought is pretty much what is left....
3-5 years from now, there will be no T12 ballasts to buy.....
When you consider the difference in performance....the price difference between that ballast and a couple of new T8 fixtures will be paid for in a couple of years.....
I could take back the ballast and 2 bulbs since they are unopened and get $50 back out of the $60 invested. But it still sounds simple to just get this ballast installed then change over to T8 later like years later when the bulbs die.
How much would it cost per T8 fixture?!?!?! Decent good ones.
A decent T-8 4 lamp fixture (8') can be bought for under $50..and very likely under $40. I recently bought 2 at Home Depot...and a 10 pack of lamps for $12. Forget the T-12, just not worth any investment.:yes:
Not so fast. He can change to 8' T8. That would be fine if the lights are turned on and left on for long periods. They will chew up the tubes fast with frequent switching, however. If lots of switching is anticipated, get new 4' T8 fixtures or go to a lighting supply shop and get some "belly pans" and socket kits for about 25 bucks a fixture. Ballasts will be extra.
OP, I believe that you can not use those ballasts with your fixtures. Your lamps have one pin on each end, now two on each end, right? If so, you can not use the ballast you bought.
No matter what you do, you should probably switch to T8. You don't have to do anything with the fixtures except change the ballast and lamps. If you turn them on and off a lot, you might consider more extensive changes. The single-pin slimline lamps (six to 8 foot) must be used with instant-start ballasts (T12 or T8). They are very energy efficient, but use lamps fast if switched a lot. If you switch them frequently, get program start T8 ballasts, change to 4' lamps with conversion kits or new fixtures.
You can stick with instant-start T12 if you wish.
Give more detail and let us know what you want to do and I can probably steer you towards less expensive ballasts on Ebay if you are patient. You've got 3, single-lamp, 8' strips or reflectors? At my residence, I have 14, two-lamp, 1 four-lamp and one single lamp. Conversion is in progress. My 4' luminaires are already converted. Ballasts cost me about $10 each in case quantity.
The Home Despot fixtures are likely to have lousy, cheap ballasts. They are likely to be instant-start which is OK if you are working under them continuously for several hours.
I'm going to take the ballast and unopened pair of bulbs back to home depot.
Take back the opened lamps too. they might take them back. Give it a try.
Buy a new fixture. Seriously, it will probably be cheaper than the cost of the parts.
If you are going to change to 8' T8 it might only cost $10 for a ballast in each luminaire if you stick with instant-start lamps. I believe that your luminaires already have the right tombstones. Again, instant start is good for applications where the lamps are turned on and left on for hours. Not so good for frequent switching.
If you want to change to 4' lamps it will be $35-45 for retrofit ($10-20 for a new ballast and $25 for a belly pan kit.
An additional question. I am assuming that you have luminaires that are attached to your ceiling directly and connected with cable or conduit, not hung by chains and plugged in to an outlet. Is that the case?
More information about T12 phase-out. Manufacture and importation of new, full power T12 luminaires is already banned. After July 14 this year, MAGNETIC T12 ballasts will no longer be imported or manufactured in the USA for replacement use. Electronic T12 ballasts for replacement use will still be available. Some specialized T12 are exempted. T12 lamp manufacture is ending next month.
I need to add that the simplest conversion to 8' T8 might not be that advisable even though it is cheap right now. There have been lots of retrofits done to T12, 8' luminaries in industrial and commercial establishments. Most of them are to convert each T12 to 2 x 4' T8. The reasons are not clear to me, but the lamps are easier to ship and store for one thing. Perhaps as a consequence, the shorter lamps and ballasts that drive them are less expensive due to supply and manufacturing factors.
In addition to that, my impression is that 8' T8s are more vulnerable to future phase-out because they are less efficient than the 4' systems. I am not sure of that, however. I am finding the information difficult to digest.
T5 is more efficient than T8, but it is more difficult to retrofit without changing luminaires.
Note that T8 and T5 technology has been around almost as long as T12, but was not developed until relatively recently.
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I love the art of Red Alter, although this project is more true to Red Alert 2.
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They work via remote terminals currently, but we could do something with the AI on practise maps!
Not without a sharp performance drop.
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On September 10, 2016, Jill Anthes, Executive Director of Planning and Design, San Francisco State University (SFSU), led a tour of interested design teams of the competition site. The following is a summary of her comments, as well as questions and answers pose by teams present.
Jill Anthes:
This project is important to SFSU because of the lack of affordable housing in the Bay Area. Diversity is a key issue as 30% of incoming freshmen are first generation college attendees. Many students travel up to 2 hours each way to campus. The high cost of housing, coupled with this exhausting commute, impacts academic performance, retention, and graduation rates. SFSU has a six-year graduation rate of only 49.7%. As part of a proposed housing strategic plan, the college would like to be able to guarantee housing for 2 years for undergraduates and create a better sense of community, activity, and life on the campus.
The main entrance to the campus is at Holloway and 19th Avenue, where a major transit stop is located. This is the busiest stop on the entire SFMTA system, with the exception of the downtown stops. The main entrance is located on a busy street that functions as an urban highway with heavy vehicular traffic. The campus is looking at ways to increase its presence on this busy street, as it is easy to pass by the campus without realizing it is there.
The Architecture at Zero challenge is focused on student housing with a strong residential life component, which will flank the valley leading through the campus from 19th Avenue to Lake Merced. The campus has also recently undertaken a landscape framework and forest management plan to refresh the landscape and make it more resilient to climate change. This framework plan will provide a plant palette for each character zone, as well as a plan to preserve and enhance the campus forest. The impressive Monterey Cypress and Monterey Pines are character-defining features on campus, but they are in decline. Proper reforestation of the campus and the Eucalyptus grove needs to be addressed.
Weather conditions for a typical day on campus are morning and afternoon fog, overcast skies, and a constant breeze, with temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s year round. The quality of light resulting from these conditions is a factor to consider when thinking about technology and reaching ZNE. Lake Merced is known as one of the foggiest areas in San Francisco, partly due to its proximity to the Pacific Ocean.
The most important landscape garden on campus is the central Quad, with a stand of prominent Monterey Cypress trees. The preference on campus is to maintain a lush, informal, and contemporary landscape, with limited areas of irrigated lawn because of the drought.
The planning department is looking to unify the disparate architecture on campus by implementing a clean background palette of white and gray that plays well against the fog and the foliage on campus.
Q: Should we consider a white and gray palette?
A: You are free to use whatever color palate you choose.
Q: Do you use gray water?
A: All new buildings will be dual-plumbed for recycled water, as SF State is in San Francisco's "purple pipe district." While the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission SFPUC (city agency) is building a recycled water treatment plant close by, the campus is unlikely to receive this water for many years. Instead, SFSU is being encouraged to look at on-site water capture, treatment, and reuse. Ideally, SFSU would like a build a blackwater treatment system on campus.
Q: The challenge asks for housing that looks like traditional units, why?
A: With the current housing shortage, SF State has put three beds in shared rooms that normally house two students. One of the findings of a recent student housing preference survey is that students of any age group are willing to give up privacy for affordability. In other words, students are willing to share a room or have a smaller living space, if they could just afford to live in the area. This drives a campus decision to seek efficiency in its housing units. Small living spaces can be a benefit, in that they encourage students to leave their rooms to study or relax in shared spaces. This tends to create a stronger feeling of community within the population and leads to higher student satisfaction with living on campus. It also creates the challenge of building a good mix of community spaces, such as lounges, study rooms, coffee shops, parks, etc.
Q: Does the campus have bike lanes?
A: There is a not a dedicated bike lane from major transit connections to campus. Bikes and cars share lanes, which is not optimum. There are some bike paths on campus, but the central campus is a dismount zone. Improving bike access to and within the campus will be a priority in future mobility planning. A dedicated, two-way bicycle track is desired around the perimeter of campus.
Q: Who gets the energy from the fuel cell?
A: PG&E gets all the energy from the fuel cell, and the campus gets the waste heat.
Q: Is it natural gas?
A: Yes
Q: Do we need to keep the wall between campus and the residential area to the right (northern edge) of the competition site?
A: While the wall provides a barrier between the campus a poorly policed urban area where car break-ins are common, the wall is also impenetrable and is an obstacle to connecting all parts of the campus. With redevelopment of the residential property to the north, the campus envisions removing the carports and replacing them with a continuous pedestrian and bike path along the edge of the hill.
Q: Will the parking requirements outlined in the competition brief meet the needs of students and faculty?
A: Yes, we are a "transit first" campus and are working on building bike infrastructure. Many new housing buildings in the city of San Francisco are being constructed with very few or no new parking spaces. The car parking in the program is purposely limited. We will replace a portion of the existing parking spaces with each new development so that the large parking structure can be removed, reopening the historic valley in the middle of campus.
Q: There is only one solar panel on campus, are there plans for more?
A: The new wellness center will have photovoltaics, and we have written a grant that would fund solar on the roof of the library. Remember that SF State is shrouded in fog for a large part of the year.
Q: Can you tell me more about the bridge in the campus master plan?
A: The 2007 Campus Master Plan was written before the economic downturn, and was very ambitious. The long-range vision anticipated removal of the parking garage and spanning the valley with a suspension bridge. The campus will be updating the master plan soon, with a special focus on universal design. The bridge was a great idea, but is it isn't economically viable today, so we'll be looking for other solutions to traverse the valley.
Q: What are current local construction costs for building this kind of housing?
A: Currently, the cost estimates for multifamily, residential construction in San Francisco are as high as $1300/sf total project cost, depending on construction type. We hope to construct campus housing for $850/sf or less.
Q: Are the units open to other construction configurations outside of the brief?
A: The configuration was provided as a formula so you could focus on achieving ZNE.
Q: Can we build beyond the maximum height of 85 feet for buildings outlined in the brief?
A: SFSU, as a state entity, is not bound by the city / county of San Francisco codes or regulations. Building height is more of a political, economic, and design decision than a regulatory one. The neighborhood surrounding the campus is primarily single family homes with a handful of multi-unit buildings to the south at Parkmerced.
The suggested building height for the purposes of the competition was determined by the height of the eucalyptus trees on the adjacent hillside, which are a prominent feature of the campus and provide a visual barrier for neighbors.
Q: Are we required to consider access compliance with the Americans for Disabilities Act?
A: ADA is required, and we hope to exceed that standard and achieve Universal Design standards.
Q: Are we required to replace the police station that is currently on the competition site?
A: No, it will be relocated to another part of campus, as it contains a large vehicular yard and other uses. However, a small substation would be a nice addition to the program.
Q: The site is on the edge of the campus, is the vision for the porous or non-porous border?
A: University campuses belong to the people of the city and state, but the campus seems walled off by busy streets and walls. We want to think of the campus as a park within the city for all to enjoy. The decisions we make when we design this residential community will define our relationships with our neighbors and will be telling about our place as an institution within the larger community.


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