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This is the 2nd year Miss Carri has been asked to sing at the 'African American Heritage Cntr' for their annual Christmas Family event. This is a free to the public event with arts& crafts, pics w/ Santa, and much more! A GREAT TIME FOR EVERYONE!
very blessed to be playing at the 'Soul Sessions' in Atlanta this sept 9th!! "Miss carri BABY" & 'UnXpected' band will be playing an hour set with original music that will be featured on the debut up n coming album "Ruby in the Rough"!!!
Special Shout Out to R&B artist 'LaSean' whom I met off ReverbNation/ he came to one of my live shows w/ my band 'UnXpected' and now I will be opening up for his 'OMG' Concert Series Sept 15th in Louisville, ky @ the 'Clifton Cntr'- collabs r great/ networking and building business relationships!
'Miss carri BABY" w/ 'UnXpected' band recorded LIVE @ Redbone Studio 2 originals songs/ my guys blew me away, they are soo great, im very proud to have them as my band! I am currently involved with several area collaborations, and we are deep into phase-2 of filming the footage for my first music video "I Told You" for the first release off my debut album "Ruby in the Rough"! lots of projects being completes, and we are already going over the next treatment for the second video! thanks soo much for the support! Louisville doing BIG things!
We have started the first phase of shooting the official video for my single "I Told You"! we are featuring soo many area artists and local superstars is crazy!! Louisville is doing BIG things! plus I am currently in the middle of 3 new collaborations with well known area artists, and this stuff sounds GREAT! look for all the new things happeinging thru "Miss carri BABY" for you! We do this stuff for YOU!
This Mid-August(date coming soon) @ 'Jazzyblu' RoofTop series/ B.B.Q. Summer Fest (Blues,Beer & BBQ) free beer, free BBQ, come hear some Old School BLUES w/ "Miss carri BABY" w/'UnXpected' band! w/ DJ and dancing!
This whole 'banding' process is a long one, but Im seing love from the community, and really appreciate the oppertunity to be featured on "The Mario Show" on TV Channel 21 ION, Sunday nights @ 12am. CHECK OUT THE VERY FIRST FILMING IN MY VIDEOS, I CLOSED OUT THE SHOW! Louisville is doing Big things, and Im thankful to be involved in them!
I will soon have the downloadable purchase feature on this Reverbnation page! I have had many people asking if they can purchase my song! I really appreciate the support, if you only knew how bad I really need it!!! means the world to me that something I went thru in my life, soo many people can relate to it! Much LOVE!!!
When we as artists come together and show oneanother support, even from a far, it has to be real, not fake, or all it does is attempt to cause things to crumble. When I see connections, or relationship wither for no good reason, or an artist shows their true colors, although they may dissappoint me, Im thankful for the truth being exposed because that teaches me who not to deal with! We must learn from the BS!

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Hey sorry I am so late on my review. I was very busy yesterday, I took my best friend to the Hunger Games in Imax for his 18th B-day, I saw Steel Magnolias at my local theatre, and I had a lot of work to do.
This is pretty much the point where I kind of gave up on this filler arc, and I honestly don't really have anything to say that people don't already know. The english voice actors are doing the best that they can with the material and I really can't ask more for that.
Overall it was an ok episode.
Final Rundown
- Story 6/10
- Art/Animation 7/10
- Sound Effects 9/10
- Script adaptation 9/10
- Music 8.5/10
- Acting 9/10
I give Bleach episode 246 a 8 out of 10.
Join me on Tuesday when I review Bleach 366, my last new Japanese review (for the time being) and join me next Saturday when I review Bleach 247 dubbed.
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Access to Care, Health Status, and Health Disparities in the United States and Canada: Results of a Cross-National Population-Based Survey
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Himmelstein, David U.
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American Journal of Public Health 2006 July; 96(7): 1300-1307
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Has anybody ever pushed an image with FOG Server over a VPN connection? We are moving two of our remote sites to VPN soon and I was wondering how good/bad of an idea it would be to push an image over the VPN to client machines. Does anybody have any stories / pointers / tips concerning this?
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Dec 28, 2010 at 12:26 UTC
KIT is an IT service provider.
I don't think "Ghosting" can be done over VPN. I could be wrong, but Scott Allen Miller would have a more definitive answer for you.
Edit: FOG images through PXE boot so VPN will not work.
Dec 28, 2010 at 12:49 UTC
Petes PC Repairs is an IT service provider.
from bad experience
do it it after hours
warn all remote users their dial ins will be refused
work around any backups that might be due
allow plenty of time
upgrade you bandwidth to the most you can afford
and lastly walk out of office but before your out of building go back to office and click okay on the requester that popped up just as the office door closed and would of been waiting for you in the morning
Dec 29, 2010 at 8:01 UTC
What type of VPN? Site-to-site or remote access? Also, what type of connection is VPN running over? T1? Cable? FiOS?
May also depend on how you have your routing and IP structure set up. Remember that the DHCP server will have to have option 66 set to the address of the FOG server. What will you be using as your DHCP server for these sites?
Dec 29, 2010 at 8:19 UTC
Site to site VPN. Cable on one end, DSL on another. DHCP is handled by our firewall for VPN clients.
Dec 29, 2010 at 2:03 UTC
I'm not well versed in how FOG works. But I think what you'd actually want do is have your disk image on storage that's local at the remote site, and only control the deployment through a FOG server that's at HQ. Pushing a disk image over VPN is going to tie everything up, and it's bound to time out and/or fail during the process, so it might take several very frustrating tries.
If FOG has a way of doing it, you'd be much better off putting the desired disk image for remote office X on some storage medium located at X, then telling your FOG console located at HQ office Y to deploy the image on 'Storage X' to 'Computer X' - that way you don't have to push an image over the VPN any more often than you need to change your master image.
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Constitutive to what injustice means for noncitizens is that the political environments pushes them to the outer margins of society, and thus, of moral concern. Further, marginalization means that people so othered face a difficulty in not only making sense of their political situation, but articulating it as well. Consequently, even when marginalized people want to tell their stories, the prospect of physical and epistemic violence make that a dangerous proposition.
All of this is a continuation of injustice that stretches back centuries, yet it bears qualities that are unique to our time. There is a crisis of knowledge that has corrupted political discourse; "fake news" and "post-truth" conflates much-needed stories from the noise. Further, the discrediting of once-trusted sources of information facilitate the rise of White Nationalist groups such as the neo-Nazis (the now self-labeled "Alt-Right"). Such a crisis of knowledge equivocates knowledge as protest with knowledge as violence. Thus, the illegalized other is further silenced.
It is time the illegalized other speaks back.
We propose Undocumental as a forum for illegalized people around the world to share their stories and question the very terms of their illegalization. It will be an intersectional and interdisciplinary forum, accepting the trailblazing ideas of all identities and all backgrounds in the intellectual resistance against illegalization.
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Monday, January 10, 2011
One definition of 'stupid' is 'dyslexic logic.' A tidal wave
intended to create the earthquake that causes it. Weak.
. Bad enough that we have another pointless mass murder by an obvious lunatic. Worse that the so-called intelligentsia immediately presume to make sense of it as an expression of the politics of their own political enemies. A senseless act cannot be forced to make sense because some species of rationality is applied to it after the fact. The irony is that the most highly educated liberals would agree with this statement wholeheartedly if the context were different. For example, if I were discussing the Creationist interpretation of the Big Bang, they would be cheering me on and congratulating me for my sagacity and impeccable logic.
But we're not talking about the Big Bang. We're talking about the bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang in Tucson, Arizona. Which can be retroactively imbued with all kinds of sense even though the perpetrator -- who, thanks to MySpace, is abundantly on record with his 'writings' -- has never expressed a sensible thought in his short, ignorant, drug-addled life. He's simply a living, breathing oxymoron, with the emphasis on moron.
Ironically, that's where the emphasis should usually be placed when this term is applicable. Except in the hands of (a handful of truly talented) poets, an oxymoron is an impossible contradiction: an illiterate who rails about the illiteracy of others, a fan of Mein Kampf who lists the Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books, a sadly unformed -- even stillborn -- mind that fears the societal dangers of mind control. This isn't poetry or a metaphorical indictment of a nation that quarrels sharply about sharp differences in political philosophy. It's insanity.
The poetic resonances aren't attributable to the event itself or its perpetrator. They're attributable to the phony wave of meanings imposed afterwards in order to justify (or somehow leverage) what came before. And the operative literary term isn't oxymoron but irony. Of which there are almost too many instances to count. The sudden rush to condemn military metaphors in politics because a military reject who doesn't know enough about language to discern the difference between 'grammar' and 'diction' picks up a gun and shoots 20 of his fellow citizens indiscriminately. The equally sudden rush by Democrats (the people's party, don't forget) to constrain freedom of political speech because a high-school dropout incapable of articulate speech of any kind resorted, in his frustration, to gunfire instead. The instantaneous equation between this deviant advocate of incoherent, atheistic anarchy and the predominantly Christian Palin/Tea Party/Constitutionalist faction in American politics which has just demonstrated the most effective use of grass-roots free speech in the New Media yet seen in an electoral campaign.
I could go on. But you get the picture. Any conversation which employs an act of insanity as a basis for political analysis, criticism, or reform is itself insane. And I fault everyone in the MSM, specifically including Fox News, for even giving such conversations house room. There's a term in the law known as "fruit of the poisoned tree." In courts it means that inferences drawn from illegitimate sources are impermissible as bases for argument.
Every word you hear about the Tucson shootings that somehow indicts or questions the rest of us is the fruit of a poisoned tree. Unless you personally happen to be a psychotic high-school dropout with a history of irrational/violent eruptions in public places, a grandiloquent MySpace page that begs for unearned attention, an obscure prejudice against Jews and all mind-control-oriented governments that are neither Nazi nor Communist, and own a gun with a big enough magazine to shoot 20 people at random.
In that case, you should probably pay attention.
Me? I'm just waiting for the ultimately impotent Stupid Wave to subside. And praying for the people who were shot and their families. They're the ones who deserve our thoughts, empathy, and other higher human faculties right now.
No comment about the above. I just thought of it today (actually, truthfully,
last week
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) get it out of my head or my dreams. The sound quality isn't good, so I'm just
original stream
to a mind we know is still fighting hard to come back to us. Come back from the snow and cold. No matter how beckoning the beyond might be. We pray...
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Friday, January 07, 2011
Zouaves & Other
Mixed Metaphors
. Ever heard about the
first Union casualty
of the Civil War? He was a New York Zouave, like the ones pictured above.
Elmer Ellsworth was a hero in the North even before the first shots of the Civil War. Born in Saratoga Springs, NY, Ellsworth moved to Chicago to study law. It was here that Ellsworth was introduced to the Zouaves - colorful military units outfitted in pantalooned uniforms based on those worn by French colonial troops in Algeria.
Pomp and Puffinstance
Ellsworth formed his own Zouave unit and molded it into a crack drill team.
In the summer of 1860, Ellsworth and his Zouaves toured the North performing precision drills before awed audiences in 20 cities. At the end of the summer, Ellsworth joined Abraham Lincoln's law practice in Springfield, IL as a law clerk. Impressed with his hard-working, enthusiastic clerk, Lincoln invited Ellsworth to join his campaign for president. Following his victory, Lincoln asked Ellsworth to join him in Washington.
As tensions between the North and South states intensified, Ellsworth moved to New York City. He formed a Zouave unit made up of volunteers from among the city's firemen - the New York Fire Zouaves - and became its colonel.
May 1861 found Ellsworth and his Zouaves stationed in Washington, DC. On the 23rd of that month the Virginia legislature voted to secede from the Union. Before the sun rose the next morning, Ellsworth, anxious to see some action, led his Zouaves across the Potomac River as part of an eleven-regiment Union invasion of Virginia. Ellsworth's objective was to secure the port of Alexandria.
The Zouave's landing at Alexandria was uncontested, and they quickly spread through the town securing important targets such as the telegraph office and rail station. As Ellsworth led his men through the streets his eye caught sight of a Confederate flag waving from the top of the Marshall House Inn. Followed by four of his men, Ellsworth rushed into the building, ran up its stairs and cut down the offensive symbol. Descending the stairs, Ellsworth was confronted by the inn's proprietor, James W. Jackson, armed with a double-barrel shotgun. Firing at point-blank range, the inn keeper ended the life of the twenty-four-year-old and conferred upon him the distinction of being the first Union officer killed in the war. Almost instantaneously, Jackson was cut down by Ellsworth's men.
There are short, spectacular wars and long, dark, punishing wars. They both tend to begin the same way, with fanfare, lofty rhetoric, and grandiose symbolic gestures. Today, nobody remembers that there were Union troops who wore red pantaloons. Just as nobody remembers that the first battle of Manassas was treated as a picnic outing by Washington, DC, social elites who camped on a hillside to watch the ceremonial showdown between north and south, with plovers' eggs and fine wine as accoutrements. The subsequent rout of Union troops may have been the first indication to those elites that the unfolding war would be less strutting and cheers than stinking charnel house.
I was not inspired by the idea of reading the Constitution on the floor of the new congress. I understood the sentiment, but sentiment is, well, sentiment, not strategy. For me it highlighted the quandary of the new Republican majority: how do you transform a mix of hardened survivalist politicians and idealistic Tea Partiers into an effective political force?
Where all the mixed metaphors come into play. The remaining Democrats in the House of Representatives are clever, experienced politicians. Combat-proven veterans. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, chewing nails and plotting ambushes. The Republicans are a Pro-Am crowd. (Think of
Pros vs Joes
.) The Tea Partiers are definitely the Zouaves of the early days of the Civil War, all puffed up with pride in their red-white-and-blue pantaloons. They may be accomplished at constitutional drilling, but they're lambs to the slaughter in congressional trench warfare unless they learn very damn fast that their mission can't be accomplished with a few symbolic votes and an air of intransigent patriotic virtue.
There's still no sign of a Republican Ulysses Grant, let alone a Lincoln, and the best we can hope for right now is that John Boehner is, gulp, George McClellan, the general famous for refusing to fight who nevertheless succeeded in creating the modern, disciplined, professional military his country would need to win a very very long and very very very bloody war.
The Tea Party members of congress aren't going to roll back the Obama offensive on liberty any more than the Zouaves won an easy early victory in the War between the States. We will see plenty of them become quick casualties of the infantry slugfests in Washington.
Importantly, though, we can't lose heart. There will be many letdowns, defeats, and even some disasters to come. A Gettysburg may make us doubt our own will to continue. But we have to remember -- even those of us from the South -- that Sherman did march to the sea, Grant did take Richmond, and Lincoln did free the slaves. Preserving the union is not easy, and we will all be or know casualties before the war is won.
A quick thank you to 'DorkvsMaximvs,' whose quick response gently corrected an IP brain fart I wouldn't want to get in the way of the post. I'll document my error in a day or so.
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Thursday, January 06, 2011
System Consciousness
The Ghost in the Machine
.� I was going to write today about the Republican legislative calendar and the need for patience. I've been slow getting off the mark in the new year, and I don't mind admitting that it's largely because of the topic of
my first 2011 post
. I found the experience described there and lightly responded to unutterably depressing. I didn't contend with my friend because I recognize impenetrable armor when I see it. For gifted people to be wrapped in such armor makes me come close to despair. Which is why my frail resolve to write about politics was torpedoed by an interesting late comment on that post:
J. W. Helkenberg
� 2011-01-05 10:40:00
Micro: It could be an altogether different reality than anyone has imagined is beginning to take hold, where concepts such as waste, inefficiency and small-mindedness are to be replaced with automation, total information awareness and, of course, total-mindedness. This would imply that no boomer, indeed no human being whatsoever, is in charge of any aspect of our daily lives at all, rather the illusion of personal responsibility is just that, an illusion, and rather than working toward small personal goals, we are being pulled toward an inevitable climax over which no person exercises any control whatsoever. This is not to say that the appearance of incontrovertible evidence regarding human involvement in health care can be denied, it is just to say that whether it is accepted or denied is of no consequence to
the inescapable arrival of a system over which no human exercises any authority.
I look at the continuing expansion of the federal bureaucracy as evidence that soon the system will be so overwrought with specialized rules and regulations that it will be more complex than many organisms. This trend cannot continue indefinitely simply due to the restrictions placed upon physical memory, which is to say that human minds are just memory devices that instantiate a particular rule, when it is deemed necessary by the government, which in this case is the only sentient life on Earth.
Macro: It would seem that the continuous erosion of the abductive logical faculties humans have relied upon for the formation of hypothesis is steadily making the scenario related above more and more plausible, the conclusion being that humans are to become little more than cells in an organism we can loosely define as a corporate-state. This then would lead me to conclude that any sentiments contrary to
the formation of the conscious corporate-state
would be bad. Possibly very very bad. Apoptosis aside, the corporate-state might deem a systematic elimination of those cells that are "rogue" to be a necessary step in the ongoing process of health care reform.
And nothing is worth dying for, especially if you are already immortal.�
[boldface added]
The term "conscious corporate state" is what snagged my attention. Shortly before I left corporate consulting in the early 1990s, I had become convinced that the 'corporate change processes' I was hired to facilitate were being defeated not by human resistance but by a kind of organizational consciousness nobody could contend with because they couldn't even detect its existence. Even though all of us have encountered it directly in every corporate conference room where nominal allies suddenly sell out every important principle without ever acknowledging, even to themselves, what have they done. I wasnt't thinking of it in terms of groupthink or moral cowardice and selfishness. I was thinking of it as an active consciousness made of the pieces it owned of thousands of human brains or, if you will, organizational brain cells.
I even wrote about it in somewhat guarded terms,
nearly fifteen years ago
. Here's what I said in July 1997:
Movies came up. Patrick and I share an interest in bad action movies of both the 'A' and 'B' varieties. While I was giving in to the temptation to see Under Siege II again, he was falling victim once more to Executive Decision Andrew hadn't seen it, so we recapped the plot for him. In the telling, it's almost the same as Under Siege II -- a secret U.S. military technology falls into the hands of terrorists, threatening the passengers on a train/plane as well as the residents of Washington, DC. What to do? Send in Steven Seagal to kill the terrorists, rescue the passengers, and, if there's time, DC too. The only thing different about Executive Decision is the twist about killing off Seagal before he can save the day, which means that bookish Kurt Russell has to do it -- ve-e-e-ery slowly -- with the help of a brave and beautiful flight attendant. There's a Marx Brothers quality about the piece, with Russell constantly popping up inside cupboards and service panels and elevators to ask one more dangerous favor of the flight attendant before the heavily armed commandos can make their appearance.
After a good laugh about the special effects in Seagal's death scene, we returned to a subject Patrick and I have discussed many times before -- "the possibility that there is a collective meaning to the clicheed plots used in bad popular entertainment. I once read a theory -- "I wish I could remember whose -- "that popular culture becomes a kind of underground railroad for archetypal themes that are being ignored or censored by highbrow culture. Such themes may appear in a badly degenerated form, but at the least their most rudimentary essence is being preserved for the day when the official culture rediscovers their value. This made enormous sense to me, and I started watching bad movies in a new way, almost in aggregate, as if they were unconsciously designed pieces of a puzzle that could indeed be fitted together into a coherent picture.
For example, the Under Siege/Executive Decision plot can be read as a cartoonish treatment of two themes that are being ignored by intellectual culture.
First, there is the implicit awareness that the U.S. government is a runaway leviathan, with no one fully in charge or capable of controlling its appetite for predation.
The terrorists are themselves a by-product of that predation, having been servants or victims of it or both. Whatever ambiguities may be present in terms of our expected response have generally to do with these villains. At times they could be proxies for us, tough and ruthless enough to break the eggs for a wickedly delicious omelet we dare not order from the menu. At others they seem more like the face behind the mask of power, the unabashed willingness to use the high-tech killer toys that must have sponsored their creation in the first place. In either case, they display a knife-edged decisiveness which mocks the gassy committee response of a government that makes easy choices hard because it must pretend to care equally about everyone and everything.
The good intentions of individuals within the government -- and even within the military -- are represented, but these are shown to be impotent under the weight of the obese monstrosity the government has become. Note that this is not a liberal view -- it expressly undermines the notion that serious problems can be solved politically by caring legislators. When elected politicians make an appearance, they are depicted as selfish, stupid, and hypocritical fools who are themselves destined to become victims -- the U.S. Senator on the plane in Executive Decision gets killed trying to make personal political hay out of the hijacking.
Overlaid on this theme is
the archetype of the hero, which has been banished from serious literature for most of this century.
He is preserved in the movies as a caricature -- racing from one impossibly dangerous situation to another with near-miraculous impunity.
Almost invariably he is depicted as a loner, a rule breaker, a man natively at odds with authority. The caption seems to be that we need exactly this kind of hero, although the odds against his success are incredibly long.
There are, of course, endless variations of this particular plot combination -- the Rambo movies add the image of the hero as a specifically targeted victim of the U.S. leviathan, although he nevertheless saves the day -- a comic book Christ figure. John Carpenter's Snake Plisskin flicks, Escape from New York and Escape from L.A., cloak the same basic formula in confused political innuendo but offer the same image of the persecuted hero who must be induced to rescue a mindlessly authoritarian political system. In fact, Escape from L.A. ends with Snake Plisskin pulling the plug on all of technological civilization, upping the ante to a level worthy of the Una-Bomber. The Die Hard movies downplay the complicity of the leviathan in the crisis being addressed, but go out of their way to depict the bullying impotence of federal law enforcement organizations and, to a lesser degree, their state and municipal counterparts.
Scores of cheaper, slapped-together movies that make their appearance on late-night cable also give us this same story again and again and again. One could argue that the David and Goliath theme obviously makes for a good story, but the appeal to the American public may very well include the subliminal awareness that there is something fundamentally true about the premise which does not quite come across in the analyses offered by journalists, pundits, and politicians.
Is this plot significant or meaningful? Hard to tell, I grant, but contrast it with the westerns of a generation or two ago. The hero is present -- still a loner and a rule breaker -- but even he is grateful when the cavalry arrives, and when the government makes mistakes and causes problems in an old western, it is still not presented as any kind of impersonal intractable ogre.
There's another stereotypical movie plot that I believe may be groping toward a concealed and very real problem in the American culture. This is the 'Cyborg' theme, which has been worked and reworked in probably hundreds of different ways--ranging from such critically acclaimed efforts as Blade Runner, RoboCop, and Terminator to junky ripoffs like The Demolitionist (female RoboCop), American Cyborg, Johnny Mnemonic, and, most recently, Screamers. What's interesting to me about these is that they have been interpreted by critics as addressing a deep-seated human fear. I suspect, however, that the fear being addressed goes considerably deeper than the one usually cited.
The standard explanation is that we're afraid of the advances in genetics and computer technology which may one day soon blur the line between human being and machine. Thus, we are given the plight of RoboCop, a human being turned into a microprocessor-controlled cyborg by a ruthlessly exploitative corporation. Can his humanity survive the deliberate technological attempt to destroy it? In much the same vein, we are given Johnny Mnemonic, most of whose memory has been erased to permit his brain to be used as a mass storage device for computer data. Can he regain his life and his humanity even as he saves the rest of mankind from the paralyzing AIDS-reminiscent disease caused by overexposure to information technology? In much the same vein. we are given the near-perfect 'replicants' of Blade Runner, who inspire pathos with their desire to be human even though they are artificially created pieces of organic machinery. What will be the difference in the future between humanity and technology? Interestingly, there is also a later release of Blade Runner, captioned 'the director's cut,' in which the hero, a professional killer of replicants, is shown to be--quite possibly--a replicant himself.
Reinforcing this 'fear of technology' theme is the strain of movies inspired by Terminator, in which the cyborg is decidedly more powerful and predatory than any human being. The standard plot shows the pathetic inadequacy of flesh and blood beings burdened by conscience and other baggage when the creature after them is exquisitely designed and programmed to eradicate them. Hints of this are also to be found in the movies already cited. Johnny Mnemonic features a Terminator-like religious(?) cyborg, and the hero of Blade Runner is really no match for the replicant 'superman' played by Rutger Hauer. Completing the circle, Terminator II offers us a killer cyborg acquiring humanity in the process of protecting a 12-year-old human boy.
And so, the reviewers would have it, we're afraid of the possibility of corporate abuses of technology that will become dangerous to us both physically and mentally. They'll create artificial beings to control us, and they'll replace pieces of our bodies to the point where our original identity may be imperiled. It's an interpretation that's plausible enough, as far as it goes. But what if it doesn't go far enough?
Yes, there's an obvious entertainment value in science fiction and its designer-future images. And, yes, people may find sufficient appeal in the prospect of some 2lst century cyborg threat to make hits of such fare. But these movies are just as popular as the Under Siege/Executive Decision genre, which suggests to me that there may be a much more immediate fear embedded in them that hasn't been brought to light.
Movies personify abstractions. They have to because film is a visual medium. The villainous CEO stands in for the anonymous greed of Corporate America. The conniving, amoral CIA executive stands in for the vast, intrusive intelligence bureaucracy. And so on. Why is it therefore the case that the title characters of Terminator, RoboCop, and Johnny Mnemonic must be taken literally, as specific human-machine combinations that could be implemented to our detriment? What if they are also stand-ins?
I believe they are. What's more, I believe that computer technology is also functioning in these movies as a kind of stand-in. The fear being recorded in these movies is a genuine and well-founded fear of essentially the same leviathan depicted in the Under Siege/ Executive Decision genre.
The cyborgs are a way of putting a face on the vast faceless system which presses harder on us every day
. In Terminator, we are given the nightmare vision of a war between technology--i.e., the system--and humanity, which we humans can win only by turning back the clock and undoing what has already been done. In other words, the war is well underway and we are losing it.
In RoboCop and Johnny Mnemonic, we're given symbolic representations of what we are becoming, nominal human beings who have been invaded, incorporated into an inhuman scheme that is turning us into robots. At some deep level, we feel that this is already happening and that we may already have lost our souls to it. Hence the odd circumstance of two Blade Runners--the first giving us a human being in conflict with an impenetrable power structure that annihilates its own creations, the second revealing that the human being was lost before he even realized there was a conflict.
There's an additional possibility in here.
What if these movies, with their cinematic requirement to personify every abstraction, have accidentally captured the deepest fear of all? That this vast overarching system has acquired its own consciousness and knows full well what it is doing. That we are being deliberately transformed, by an authentically superhuman power, into automaton slaves of the system.
That the Terminator is here and is stalking us.
Yes, I know. It's all idiotic. Couldn't be. We talked about it anyway, and then I went home.
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Idiotic. So I'm posting this and then I'm going home for the night. Tomorrow is supposed to be another day.
posted at 4:33 pm by
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Illuminating Anomaly
The real story. They hate women. The Nanny State is pure guilt.
. I told you I got streaming Netflix as an early Christmas present. Mrs. CP thought it would inspire me somehow. What do women know? As it turns out, everything. Why I haven't been paying much attention to domestic political developments. I've been too busy watching British TV shows on Netflix. They
have the best shows by far. As of this moment, I'm surfeited with the superiority of such series as
Touch of Frost, Wire in the Blood
Waking the Dead
, and a truly landmark trilogy called
Red Riding
. The writing is extraordinary, the acting superb. And unlike the old BBC, the production values range from competitive with American shows to cinematic.
All of which leaves me in a quandary. You have a nation that is clearly imploding on itself, day by day and month by month, yet its dramatic output remains the best in the world by far. Their writers are better. Their actors are better. And not by just a little. They're
a lot
better than we are. The tempting answer is the old Greek-Roman thing -- the Greeks were cultured while the Romans were, uh, er, dominant somehow. But I have a different theory in this case. One that might actually shed some light rather than muddy the waters.
Some of you aren't going to like this theory. Bear with me. I'm not arguing politics. I'm pursuing human nature. I think what we're looking at is the biggest disconnect ever between the soul of a people and its contemporary cultural assumptions. The result is absolutely stupendous irony that is nevertheless revealing and potentially healing, if people weren't so determined to be blind.
A case in point. American TV shows love the premise of unresolved sexual tension between a male and female lead. In American hands, the result is invariably irritating and strained to the point of making intelligent viewers want to vomit. (You
Warehouse 13
fans know who you are...You're morons.) The Brits can get away with it. For two reasons. First, their idea of a TV series is a lot shorter than American producers insist on. And, second, everyone in Britain is actually severely repressed, regardless of deep-down sexual preference. And they're all impotent or frigid. Nobody in Britain has had sex in a generation. But they think about sex a lot. Artificial insemination is the national pastime. Along with Manchester United soccer.
When you watch enough Brit TV shows, you realize that emotionally, every female is actually male, with tits she'll show you (desultorily) if you ask. It's just that the women are dumber somehow. Because the U.K. is the single most masculine culture on earth. Why their writing is better than everyone else's, for example. But when you watch their dramas, it turns out that all the women are really men. And increasingly, all the authority figures are women who are, uh, men. Which is why their female dramatic characters are still interesting even when they're not beauties and why there are still always parts for Helen Mirren and all the other non-beautiful, naturally aging female actors who get the best parts in even Hollywood movies.
Except that Britain is dying. Day by day and month by month. How comes it? This is how. The Brits have become the ultimate nanny state because they hate their own masculinity and are looking for women who are no longer women to save them.
Ya know, they never
women. All Brit women turn into men as they age. Even Mrs. Peel. Their voices get deeper, they get more frank and technical about sex. Their increasing sophistication about life and the tea lines in their faces makes you dread the possibility of accidentally seeing their breasts. It might hurt somehow, that contrast between stern authoritarian face and smooth bosom. Some of them were never women in the first place. Just Brits with vaginas. "Cheerio. Saddle up. Afterwards we can trim the hedge."
Something about empire. Something about Rome. About now, the Brits are trying to save themselves from what they believe is excessive masculinity. Hence, the nanny state. I'm thinking the problem is exactly the reverse. A nation without women. And therefore no blood, fertility, or reason for living. Fitzgerald said something about "making love to dry loins." How many hundreds of years can one nation survive on such a diet?
In the meantime, the rest of us get great writing, and the women actors get to be all the man they always wanted to be.
posted at 5:34 pm by
Monday, January 03, 2011
We'll see, won't we?
Funny. I could have sworn there were instant videos of Pelosi being sworn in.
. Over the holidays I had an old and valued friend explain why he contravened the Churchillian maxim that if you're not liberal when you're young, you have no heart, and if you're not conservative when you're old, you have no brain. He's followed the exact opposite route. For example, he's foursquare behind ObamaCare, based on an agonizing personal experience with impotent healthcare bureaucracy he compares unfavorably to what he's seen in Europe.
I didn't debate the subject with him. He's allowed his views. And I like and respect him. He also knows a lot about politics -- the sheer awfulness and tawdriness of it.
I'm not going to debate him backhandedly here, either, since I held my fire in our phone conversation. What I will do is offer two observations, one micro and one macro, I'd like everyone to think about as we embark on a new year.
Micro. It's impossible not to encounter the ridiculous waste, stupidity, and small-mindedness that characterizes every even fairly large organization in which we work or otherwise participate. Every corporate employee finds himself wishing for a
deus ex machina
who can descend from on high with clear judgment and a fair view of what is right and what is wrong. My observation? The bigger the organization, the less likely that clear judgment will ever occur. The greater the size, scope, and scale of the intervening authority, the more waste and absurdity we are likely to see. Truth is, all the ugly wasted effort we all encounter in the private sector is a marvel of efficiency compared to what government does. Inefficiency in the private sector is dealt with by financial death. Frequently ugly, to be sure, but sure. In the government sector it's dealt with by increasing the budget.
Macro. The people in charge, despite the Obama gloss, are still the Baby Boomers. And guess what? They've spent their whole lives looking for easy answers and now they're, well,
. In every possible way. They've explored every nook and cranny of existence and they just don't believe in people anymore, because the people they know best are, TA DA, Baby Boomers. Who don't believe in anything. Because they've believed in everything you can possibly imagine except themselves. Who they always knew were never any damn good.
I'm not dissing my friend. I feel it myself.
What you're fighting as you try to save our nation. Fight well. And fight hard. We're the worst of all possible enemies. Better educated than you and completely filled with darkness.


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While half of our populace struggles to come to grips with four more years of George W. Bush, the president himself is charging down the road to destruction. The man who pledged to be "a uniter, not a divider" has done more to bitterly divide our nation than any president in recent memory. His policy of international unilateralism has alienated our long-time allies, who watch in horror as Bush continues his aggression in Iraq, which has resulted in, by some estimates, 100,000 Iraqis permanently "liberated" through death. Here at home, the Bush policies have proved no more popular than they have abroad. The draconian provisions of the PATRIOT Act continue to erode the freedom and civil liberties of American citizens while masquerading as protection from the terrorists the president endlessly warns us are hiding in every shadow. In a stunning concession, this week the U.S. Senate decided the intelligence budget should be kept secret from the Americans who are paying for it. Now, not only won't we know who is spying on us, we also won't know how much it's costing.
Not yet content, Bush seeks to turn his aggression inward, promising to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage. Meanwhile, his Christian evangelical supporters are pressuring him to appoint an equally evangelical Supreme Court that will outlaw abortion.
For those trying to protect and restore our rapidly deteriorating environment, Bush's second term—and his Congressional Republican majority—is like a nightmare in the making. Industry lobbyists are rubbing their hands in glee at the very real prospect that their greedy and rapacious dreams will come true under Bush's "winner take all" approach to national resources.
That recent Arctic studies show global warming creating drastic impacts occurring much faster and on a larger scale than predicted means nothing to the Bush administration. That the latest study of Idaho forests shows they are burning because of a hotter climate—not overcrowding—is merely "science," easily dismissed in favor of an Orwellian Healthy Forests Initiative that turns the timber companies loose on what remains of America's once-great national forests. Even as Russia approves the Kyoto Treaty to scale back on global greenhouse emissions, Bush promises to lift the lid on pollution regulation and stoke the coal-fired power plants to full steam ahead, once again showing the rest of the world that America could care less about global concerns.
Meanwhile, the conveniently timed invasion of Falluja keeps American televisions and newspapers filled with explosions, gunfire and blood instead of serious discussions about the very real possibility that Bush's "mandate" resulted from hacking the paperless electronic vote. Those interested in the "irregularities" the mainstream press is ignoring can find great info on "votergate" by Thomm Hartmann ("Evidence mounts the vote was hacked" at www.commondreams.org) and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann (www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/). The vote-tampering allegations have prompted Congressmen Conyers of Michigan, Nadler of New York, and Wexler of Florida to request a full investigation by the General Accounting Office.
If there's any bastion against the pending political disaster at the federal level, it will likely come from Montana's new governor-elect. Last week Schweitzer got right to work and made some good appointments to his fledgling cabinet. Hal Harper, a former speaker of the House, has been given the job as Schweitzer's transition policy adviser and legislative liaison. In his 26 years of legislative experience, Harper has always been committed to Montana's constitutional guarantee of a "clean and healthful environment" and carried dozens of bills to protect, restore and enhance Montana's outstanding environment. He also engineered the highly successful Treasure State Endowment program that doles out Coal Tax Trust Fund interest to vital municipal infrastructure improvements statewide.
Joining Harper on the Schweitzer team is David Ewer, now the new budget director. Ewer was a senior bond officer for the State Board of Investments prior to his appointment, but is perhaps best remembered as the leading opponent of electricity deregulation in 1997. Day after day it was Ewer who fearlessly stood against overwhelming Republican majorities to warn of the looming disaster dereg would bring. Years later, the grim results Ewer unerringly predicted have come to pass. Montana is lucky to have such a talented, honest and visionary individual riding herd on the budget process.
But while Schweitzer deserves praise for these commendable appointments, he missed the mark last week when he told reporters: "The defeat of I-147 was just based on people's concern about a single kind of mining that would be done by a single company. Nothing more, nothing less."
In fact, the defeat of I-147 was a stunning affirmation of the value Montanans of all political persuasions place on a clean environment and the importance of protecting their families, homes and property. Proponents of I-147 spent $3 million dollars on this single issue—more than Schweitzer and his opponent spent on the governor's race combined. Though hugely outspent, opponents defeated the measure and garnered considerably more votes than Schweitzer did.
The reality that Schweitzer missed is obvious: Pollution is not partisan. Montana's environment—and the benefits that clean air and water contribute to our high quality of life—is the foundation of our new economy for Democrats and Republicans alike.
Given Bush's full-scale assault on the environment, we will sorely need our state leaders to stand up and protect Montana's natural assets in the looming conflict. Schweitzer should realize that in this battle, as the sound defeat of I-147 confirms, the vast majority of Montanans are firmly on his side.
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The Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge is an exciting extracurricular competition that gives students the opportunity to come up with meaningful solutions to big problems the world faces today related to health.
Learn more about the 2017 final Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge event and see photos and student comments about how much they learned and how much fun they had in the process of bringing their innovations forward. Check out the recap on UW TV. Find out how some of these teams got started and where they are going with their innovations next.
Join the conversation & keep in the loop on dates and deadlines:
Sign up for our newsletter Buerk Center eNews
Subscribe to the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge Community Newsletter
Facebook: UWHealthInnovationChallenge
Instagram: UW Buerk Center Instagram
Questions? Contact Terri Butler at firstname.lastname@example.com
2016-17 Dates and Deadlines
Health Innovation Practicum | Thursdays 4:00-6:00pm, Fall Quarter
Gain knowledge of current healthcare systems local to global, and hear from successful innovators.
Innovative? Find Your People | All at the HUB Room 145, 5:30-7:00pm. Wed Oct 19, Wed Nov 2, Wed Nov 9, Thu Dec 1. Meet students from diverse majors and form interdisciplinary teams to prepare for the HIC.
Panel of Past Participants | Wed Nov 9, 5:30-7:30pm, HUB 145
Hear from participants from past Challenges and see how far they've come.
Prototype Funding Application | Applications open Nov 14, DEADLINE Mon, Dec 12, 5pm.
Funds are available for demonstration models or simulations that will help you showcase your idea.
Health Innovation Challenge Panels | All events at the HUB Room 214, 5:30-7:30pm. Wed Jan 11, Wed Jan 18, Tue Jan 24, Wed Feb 1. Essentials for teams, experts will cover the elevator pitch, market framework, customer development and finance.
Business Plan Practicum | Thursdays, 6:00-7:50pm, Winter Quarter, Paccar Shansby Auditorium
Speakers and resources that will help you understand how to build a business plan. Great preparation for the HIC! You can sit in without being registered for the class.
Science and Technology Showcase &Final Networking Night | Dempsey Hall, Anthony's Forum, Thu Jan 19, STS 5:00-7:00pm, networking 7:00-8:30pm
Are you working on a technology that has potential for commercialization? Participate in the showcase and/or join us for networking to find teammates.
Workshop | Thu Jan 26, 4:30-5:30pm
"Take Your Innovation to the Next Step," How to get past the screening round. Connie Bourassa-Shaw, Director, Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship.
Mentor Connect Office Hours | January- February
Meet 1-on-1 with industry experts from technology, legal, marketing, and financial disciplines.
Team Registration | Jan 23 – Feb 6
Teams officially enter the HIC.
OFFICIAL ENTRY DEADLINE Screening Round | Mon Feb 6, 5pm
Submit a 5-7 page business summary for official entry into the HIC. Judges notify teams Yes/No by Feb 15.
Pitch Workshop for Top Teams | Wed Feb 22 5:30-8:00pm, HUB 214
Attendance is mandatory for all teams in the Seattle area going to the finals on Mar 1.
1-Page Business Summary Due | Thu Feb 23, 5pm
Summaries sent to every judge before the day of the Challenge so they can decide which demos to visit.
HOLLOMON HEALTH INNOVATION CHALLENGE | Wed, Mar 1, 1:00-6:00pm, HUB Lyceum, University of Washington
Teams set up demos/simulations in the morning and pitch to a room full of judges early afternoon. Reception follows.
Watch the video above to learn more about HIC.
The common thread is INNOVATION, the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge builds on the strengths of colleges and universities in the Pacific to provide a platform for interdisciplinary student teams to work on new solutions to existing problems, new approaches to helping people live healthier lives, new opportunities for care and treatment, new products/services to market. Challenges spark creativity, design thinking, novel solutions, and the potential for new companies. This challenge, much like the Buerk Center's well-regarded Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge, is designed for those students who are passionate about health innovation and are determined to make a difference.
Innovations in health and healthcare that promote, impact, and monitor health are creating a paradigm shift in our approach to healthy living. In the United States, healthcare has entered a period of unprecedented change with the Affordable Care Act and the "triple aim," the emphasis on care that is safer, more efficient, and more accessible. Worldwide, the goal is clear: a healthier future that revolves around reducing infectious and noncommunicable disease, increasing the safety of care, lowering the cost of health care delivery, expanding access, and introducing technologies that bring greater health and wellness to the populous.
Entry Requirements
Any student from a Pacific Northwest college or university who is enrolled in a degree-seeking program can participate in the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge (HIC). Teams must be student led. Cross-disciplinary teams are highly encouraged. The most successful teams have members with various skill sets from various departments, including built environments, law, engineering, business, policy, etc. Non-students can be members of a team, generally as advisers, but they can't present at the HIC, nor can they receive prize money.
What is needed to enter?
What is needed to enter the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge?
Prototype funding application (Nov 14 – Dec 12, 2016)
All Entrants
- Register your team (opens Jan 23, 2017)
- 5-7 page Business Summary (due Feb 6, 2017)
Top Teams chosen to come to the final event
- 1-page business summary (due Feb 23, 2017)
- Pitch (at the HIC, March 1, 2017)
- Demo or prototype (at the HIC, March 1, 2017)
Your submission into the competition is distributed to a large group of community professionals who act as judges.
We strongly encourage any team with concerns regarding intellectual property such as patent or copyright potential to either contact their University's intellectual property office (for University-developed discoveries) or competent legal counsel (for non-University related discoveries) before submitting their proposal into the competition.
The University of Washington, the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, the Foster School of Business, and the organizers of the competition are not responsible for any proprietary information and/or intellectual property included in a submitted business summary.
Ultimately, protection of sensitive materials is the sole responsibility of the individual or team participating in the competition.
- Teams entering must have at least one full-time or part-time student on the team who is enrolled in a degree seeking program at an accredited college or university in the Pacific Northwest, including Washington, Alaska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. If you graduated the summer quarter prior to the year of the competition or later, you are considered a current student in the competition.
- The competition entry must be developed during the student's tenure at the college or university. Students working with outside entrepreneurs must create their own original business plan and have responsibility for their own portion of the business.
- All submissions to the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge must live up to the higher ideals of the University of Washington. The team's idea must be appropriate for a university-sponsored event. The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship reserves the right to disqualify any entry that is its judgment violates the letter or the spirit of the competition or exceeds the bounds of social convention.
- If the team or company entering the competition is revenue positive, actual annual revenue cannot exceed $500k. (Please note this is different than the company's projected revenue. This rule does not apply to projected revenue.)
- Eligible students can form a team with non-students, but for the sake of this competition, non-students will be considered as advisors.
- Students must have an ownership stake in the business or the potential for equity or employment.
- Only student team members are eligible to earn prize money. No payments will be made to non-students.
Note: The Director of the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship reserves the right to make the final determination of the eligibility of submitted business ventures.
Judging Criteria
Screening Round Requirements
- 5-7 Page Business Summary
- Due Date February 6, notification of advancement February 15
The first hurdle on your path toward the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge finals is to submit a winning business summary so your team is selected to be one of the Top Teams who are invited to participate in the final Challenge.
What should be included in the 5-7 page business summary?
- Examples:
- Definition of the Problem
- Who cares about this problem? What will be different if you solve this problem? What is the size of the problem?
- Team
- Who are the individuals on the team? Do they have the skills to solve the problem? Have they engaged advisors, mentors, and experts from the community or industry?
- Questions you should address (use your own format and style)
- Have you defined the problem?
- Have you clearly described the proposed solution?
- If there is a demo, what is it? (prototype, simulation, proof of concept, poster, video)?
- Is the solution original or is it a novel application of an existing product or service?
- Has the team researched and described the market opportunity and the competitors?
- Has the team interviewed potential customers? How many? What did they say?
- What is the scope of the opportunity (dollars, units produced, global impact)?
- Does the solution fit the problem? Does it demonstrate an appropriate balance between the cost of the solution and its impact on the problem?
- What is an estimate of the cost to produce?
- What is the estimated timeline for development leading to launch of the product/service?
Final Round Requirements
Top Teams that are invited to the final event held on March 1 must prepare:
- 1-page business summary due Feb 23
- 1-minute pitch, mandatory pitch clinic February 22
- Demonstration or prototype
If your team makes it past the screening round you will be invited to participate in the live half-day competition final event. There the Top Teams have tables set up trade-show style with their prototypes on display. A member of each team gives a 1-minute pitch to the audience of 150+ professionals who will be judging and the judges then circulate and learn more from teams before picking their top choices for the prizes.
The Top HIC Teams that present on the day of the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge finals will be judged on their 1-page business summary, their pitch, their demo or prototype, and the potential for impact.
- Examples:
What should be included in the 1-page business summary?
- The criteria and contents for the 1-page business summary are the same as those for the 5-7 page summary (above), just shorter and more concise.
What matters for the 1-minute pitch?
- How motivated, enthusiastic is the team?
- Does the pitch convey the essential elements of the problem, the solution, and the market opportunity?
- Does the team understand the problem/solution (from both technical and marketing perspectives)?
- Has the pitch generated enthusiasm to see the demo?
What should the demonstration or prototype table setup include?
- Does the Demo work? If it is not yet complete, could it work?
- Has the team provided test results and validation?
- Can the team describe the process and how it works?
- Can they describe how it could be improved?
- Is this solution efficient? Does it make optimal use of resources?
- How practical is this solution?
- What would it cost to make?
- Is this original work? Is it a novel application of an existing product? Is it off-the-shelf?
What questions should be answered for the potential for impact?
- Could this team and this solution have a substantial impact in the market? In healthcare? In people's lives?
- Team Formation Nights
- Team Formation Web Portal
- Health Innovation Practicum
- Capstone Course in Your Major
As long as you have one student on the team who is enrolled in a college or university in the Pacific Northwest, your team can enter the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge.
Questions? Email Terri Butler at email@example.com
- Team Formation Night
Informal meetups are held on the UW Seattle campus where students can come out and find others who have an interest in working on solving problems together. Below are the dates for the events during 2016-17. Additional opportunities to meet others are listed on the "Dates and Deadlines" document.Innovative? Find Your People Meetups
Have an idea? Great. Now you just need to design it, model it, engineer it, create a plan, find funding, and do the marketing. Phew. We know people who can help you. Meet other students who want to join your team. Many groups go on to enter the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge, Environmental Innovation Challenge and/or the Business Plan Competition. No registration necessary. Food and drink provided. Questions? Email Terri Butler, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wed, Oct 19, 5:30-7:00pm, HUB 145
Wed, Nov 2, 5:30-7:00pm, HUB 145
Wed, Nov 9, 5:30-7:30pm, HUB 145
Thu, Dec 1, 5:30-7:30pm, HUB 145
- Team Formation Web Portal
Find teammates through the Team Formation Web Portal. Students log in with their UW net ID (non-UW students email us for a login ID). In this web portal you will find some students who have an idea and need more team members to help out and you will also find students with specific skills who are interested in innovation and want to join a team. Think of it as a match-making site for innovators!
- Health Innovation Practicum
The fall quarter hands-on Health Innovation Practicum course is another way students can dive in and learn about health challenges while working on team-based projects. Many of the class teams decide to continue on into the extracurricular Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge where they will connect with mentors and further develop their concepts.
- Capstone Course Teams
You may be in an engineering, science, or other major that requires a capstone project as a degree requirement. Why not build on that capstone by bringing it in to the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge where the visibility of your accomplishments can be increased and mentors you connect with can help you take it to the next level?
Course Information
Autumn 2017 (ENTRE 445/545 Health Innovation Practicum)
Dates: Thursdays 5:00-6:50 p.m.
Instructors: Emer Dooley, email@example.com & Russell Benaroya
The goal of this seminar is to help students innovate and create solutions to the toughest health challenges we face –on a domestic or global scale. Students will form cross-disciplinary teams around project concepts chosen by the class and present the team's solutions to classmates and a panel of expert judges who will score the presentations. Although not required, teams are invited and encouraged to go beyond the class to compete in the 2018 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge. Learn more on the Health Innovation Practicum page.
Prototype Funding for teams entering the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge
Prototype funding can spur development and help convey your idea to a broader audience. We have funding available to teams that are entering the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge this year to help with creating a physical model, object, or device.
Student teams are invited to apply for funds that can be used to:
- Purchase materials
- Rent equipment
- Hire short-term workers with high level skills beyond the team's capacity
Teams must commit to entering the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge if they submit an application for prototype funding.
Awards are generally between $500-$3000, although other requests will be considered.
Funds can NOT be used for:
- Marketing
- Business cards
- Displays
- Signage
- Computers
- Digital devices
- Legal or professional fees
Information you will need to complete the application:
- Current student team member's information. (We understand this may change.)
- Description of the problem you are attempting to solve.
- Description of the solution you are proposing.
- Description of the prototype you will build to demonstrate your solution.
- A budget estimate (itemized list) to build your prototype. Changes are expected but any major changes must be approved by Terri Butler, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Application window opens November 14, 2016
Application deadline is December 12, 2016, 5pm
Teams will be notified of the amount of funding they will receive by December 21, 2016.
Questions? Contact Terri Butler, email@example.com.
Resources to Help You
Resources to help you with your business plan include our HIC panels of experts , office hours with experts available for 1-on-1 meetings, and Resource Nights on Thursdays.
Office Hours
Dates TBD January-February, 2017
Take your innovation challenge team to the next level by signing up for half-hour, one-on-one appointments with experts in our Office Hours series. Expertise includes legal, regulatory, marketing, financial, business summary critique, etc. Available to teams entering the HIC, EIC, and/or BPC competitions.
Medical device teams, this is a must!
Book your appointment online through MentorConnect.
NOTE: MentorConnect requires a UW login. If you are a student at another college or university, please contact Amy Sallin at email@example.com. Students only!
Health Innovation Panels
Dates TBD in January and February 2017
Resource Nights Thursdays
Attending Resource Nights provide a great way to quickly pick up on business knowledge to help with your business summary. This can be taken as a class for UW students or is open to students and the public who just want to sit it. Can't make it in person? Classes will be streamed live and the links posted afterward. More information and the Resources night schedule.
SEBA's Science and Technology Showcase and Last Chance Team Formation Night
January 2017, date TBD
If you're a student putting together a team for one of the competitions or a student who would like to join a team, take this opportunity to meet the participants and winners of SEBA's Science and Technology Showcase (taking place just before the networking gets going) for a chance to meet potential teammates.
Sponsors and Prizes
2017 Prizes:
$15,000 Grand Prize sponsored by the Hollomon Family
$10,000 Second Place Prize sponsored by the Herbert B. Jones Foundation
$5,000 Third Place Prize sponsored by Fenwick & West
Thank you to our 2017 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge sponsors for their generosity and dedication to helping students achieve their potential.
Game Changers:
The Hollomon Family
UW Foster School of Business
UW College of Engineering
Herbert B. Jones Foundation
WRF Capital
Fenwick & West
K&L Gates
Perkins Coie
UW Bioengineering
UW Biology
Amazon Catalyst
Friends of the HIC:
Kent & Lisa Sacia
Emer Dooley and Rob Short
Devindra and Manisha Chainani
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