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(on second thought, I'll have to come back to this)
Following directions. Exactly, precisely following directions. It's a basic skill necessary for success in information technology. And sometimes it doesn't work, and then you need the skills to discover where it went wrong and how to cure it.
Last weeks' class attempt at installing Drupal 7 is the case in point.
A year ago, the web architecture class had no problem at all in installing Drupal 6, and configuring various options… and thus I figured it would be a nice easy walk-in-the-park install.
Wrong. I should know better by now (Eternal optimism thou art my companion).
We started off with everyone logging in to the command-line environment, doing the wget routine to pull the tarball down, unpacking and following the directions as given on drupal.org for "command-line" installation. And then – kablooie (that's an advanced technical term). It didn't work, and the server was popping out 500 errors everywhere. But yet, this shouldn't be happening.
A dedicated (hardheaded?) core remained trying to work through the problem – and suddenly a breakthrough! One had succeeded. But, the method of success made no sense, at least to the old Unix hands. But after some headscratching and handwringing and wtf-ing, we performed the same steps – and it worked!
A week later I've successfully replicated the winning pattern, cutting it down to only a few steps.
Sometimes it pays not to think too much.
Installing Drupal step by step – notes by Lora DiGiuseppantonio
1. Download drupal onto your computer local machine, unzip it and install .
Quick install with FTP.
2. Right click download on to tar.gz(version) IN HOME Directory!!!!
copy link location
3. in linux type in wget inside putty
right click in putty then enter
4. once you have the file loaded in linux ls the file and you should have
5. in command line type: tar xvfz drupal-7.12.tar.gz
ls- should be blue file drupal-7.12
6. mkdir public_html/(destination directory name) <–name file
7. cd (command) drupal-7.12
type on commandline mv* ../public_html/(destination name)
8. once you have moved all the files to the new file
cd (new file) ls the new file
Now you are in the NEW file with all the Drupal files. YOu have to change some permissions
9. Step 1 Go into the sites file cd sites
(ls) you should see a file named default
cd default type ls to see files
There should be a file named default.settings.php type this command:
cp default.settings.php settings.php Enter:
chmod a+w settings.php
10. Once the settings are changed you are all set to install your info into durpal as in
server name and user name.
11. to install a theme :
Right click the file location . Copy address
install new theme
enter address that you copied
then the user name password you use either in linux or FTP server your
address of server.
"So what tools and setup do you use for testing/development?"
If I had a quarter for every time I've been asked that question…
Here is my recipe for a decent, portable, single-system does-it-almost-all development environment. It uses virtual machine technology to provide for a local hosting server – a server which is logically isolated from the development host.
1) The host computer – you can use whichever OS flavor you want for the host, but it needs to support virtual machines and have at least a couple of gigabytes of RAM and enough processor horsepower to pretend to be two different machines – so a dual-core or hyper-threaded CPU is going to be necessary. You'll need about 30 GB of storage space for all the parts and scratch areas.
2) Virtualization software is dependent to some extent on your host platform, and how much you'd like to spend on things. Most readers I expect will want the low-cost spread, so I would recommend VMWare Player. It is free after registration (VMWare will send you infrequent advertising and promotions). Note if you use Windows XP you should download Player version 3.x; the current 4.x releases require Windows 7. In either case, the default install works fine.
3) The VM image file is next on the list – I have found the Bitnami LAMP-stack to be especially easy to use. Download the virtual machine image, unpack to a directory and you're almost ready to go.
4) Before you launch the VM for the first time, check your network settings in VMWare Player. I prefer the NAT choice (allows the VM to get to the Internet but will not expose your system to the outside world). For better security, select host-only and the VM is completely invisible.
5) Start the VM. When it boots, switch over to the window and login "bitnami" password "bitnami" and then change the password to something you'll remember.
6) Fix a couple of things to make life easier – turn sshd on as default, and enable phpmyadmin for administration. To enable sshd,
$sudo cp /etc/init.d/ssh.conf.back /etc/init.d/ssh.conf $sudo start sshd
(sudo will ask for your password; this is normal behavior)
To enable phpmyadmin, edit the file
and and replace the line
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from all
and you're done.
7) You can access your new server via the web at whatever address it is configured to use. You can find the IP address in windows by opening a command prompt window and issuing the command ipconfig /all, and then taking note of the IP address assigned to the VMNet8 adapter (one of two virtual network adapters installed by VMWare Player). On my installs this address is 192.168.154.128 but yours may be different.
8) To move files in and out of the virtual machine use a secure-shell copy (or just configure your FTP client to use SSH-SFTP); and when you're finished with the VM either suspend it or shut it down.
A few other notes:
I use VMWare. I've played with the others – VirtualBox, Parallels (Mac-only), Virtual-PC (Windows-only) but VMWare is the leader for a very good reason: It works. You don't have to spend hours twiddling settings trying to coax features or improved performance. I mostly use VMWare ESXi, or VMWare Server (obsolete but nifty), or VMWare Workstation (pricey but really sweet).
I don't bother with installing VMWare Tools on a server instance… I rarely log in on the server, except for configuration changes or updating software or doing a polite shutdown.
It's better to do a shutdown than a raw power-off on a VM. You run the risk of corrupting files on when doing a power-off.


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Washer Family History
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Washer Name Meaning
English: from an agent derivative of Middle English wasch(en) 'to wash' (Old English wæscan), hence an occupational name for a laundryman, or for someone who washed raw wool before spinning. Various other occupations, too, involved washing processes and the name may relate to any of these. For example, it may have denoted a man who washed sheep; some tenants on the manor of Burpham, near Worthing, in Sussex (where the surname is found from an early date), had as part of their feudal service to wash the flocks of their master. Americanized spelling of the German cognate Wascher.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Wascher, Asher, Lasher, Walker, Wasser, Dasher, Flasher, Usher

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My Body is The Laboratory of Love .
Is the place where Love incarnates and experiments ways to Feel and Express .
There are as many Laboratories as many bodies on the Planet …or even more precisely – as many Entities in the Cosmos!
Love is the great Mystery playing in the Laboratory of my Being.
The Combinations are Infinite, the Expressions Endless …
and even the messy parts turn out to be Divine !
"I was made in Italy at the dawn of the Seventies -definitely made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds. I have always questioned the answers. I have travelled a lot, experienced a lot and tried all that I could! I have lived in caves, ashrams and apartments. I engaged in mystic conversations with wandering Gurus and drank enlightening teas with silent Sadhus. I have sung the endless heart song with giggling Shamans and laughed at cosmic jokes with invisible friends. I have travelled Africa barefoot and Europe on high heels. I have made love over cremation grounds and romanced the Cosmos- made love, literally, with the stars and the planets! I have danced till the early colours of the morning and counted the million stars in the sleepless nights of the darkest hour of self doubt. I have found myself on all four, on the floor of my bedroom, throwing up a lifetime of emotional toxins and realized much later that this was the awakening experience… I have explored all kind of therapies, modalities, meditations and movement practices, healed traumas, danced the divine ecstasy, the shadow , the inertia, the chaos …the Cosmic Drama, before Endless Cosmic Orgasm.
Today I am Dakini – the Skydancer.
I surrender my Divine Humanity to Existence, to be seduced by my true Form."
I hold the lineage of female teachers in the Tantra School of Kashmir Shivaism . I call it the Tantra School of FASCINATING WONDERMENT (Vismayo) . Our teaching is intuitive and direct . There is no linear evolution , it requires a deep desire and devotion to become truly intimate with Reality .
Working with me will ask everything of you .
>>> Valentina Maria Leo, (a.k.a. Mrs Love ) is italian by birth, living in Cape town since the late 90's.
In this incarnation She explored a variety of identities already …such as being a Photographer, a Dancer, a Painter, a Performer, a Criminal and a Show Director.
Of lately she identify with being a Mother, a Lover, a Fool and a Facilitator for the true understanding of Sacred Sexuality as a Catalyst for Wholeness and Human Evolution.<<<
…And it can All change with one breath .
- I teach a traditional form of Tantra Yoga based on the Kaula System of Tantra , initiated by Ācārya Bhagavan Shanmukha Anantha Natha of Shri Kali Ashram in India
- I am affiliated to the Advait Tantra School of South Africa, highly influenced by Swami Rahasya's teachings on sexual shadow work.
- Shakti Mari Malan initiated me into the embodied wisdom of Human Sexuality.
- Bernie Prior inspired my heart with divine romance, Rumi inspires my romance with the Beloved.
- Andrew Barnes guided me towards full body energetic Orgasm.
- Jonti Searll relaxed my Yoniverse.
- Kali van der Merwe supported my tantric initiation as divine Muse.
- Callie Widd is showing me the way of the Tantric Mama.
- Daniel Odier keeps taking me Home, as Cosmic Mothers do!


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Write a Cover Letter in 5 Easy Steps
Do you need to write a cover letter for a job? By following these five easy steps, you'll find the path to a successful cover letter is a simple one. By taking it one step at a time, you can ensure that your cover letter will be drafted, written and sent off without much stress - and with a good chance of success.
Here are five steps you can follow to craft a winning cover letter.
1. Look for a Specific Employee Name
Comb through social media sites to find the name of a contact at the company.
Through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and even Instagram, you may be able to find the name of a relevant employee to whom you can address your cover letter.
For example, you can use Twitter's advanced search to find names, and if the company has a profile on LinkedIn, you can view its employees from there.
Don't just choose a random individual, but if you can, find someone in Human Resources - preferably a Director or Manager - or a higher-up within the department you're applying to.
This is a key way to kickstart your application and make sure it gets to where it needs to go.
Tip: If you're going on a major stalking spree in LinkedIn, adjust your privacy settings so that other people can't see you've viewed their profile. While connecting with a company on LinkedIn can be a good way to increase your visibility, you probably don't need them to see that you've clicked through their entire staff on LinkedIn.
Tip: If you know someone at the company who can refer for the job, mention them in the first paragraph of your cover letter.
2. Analyze the Job Listing
Give the job listing a careful read and see where your own experience best matches up.
Be discriminatory about which of the company's requirements you choose to highlight, as you are going to use these selections to make a table in your cover letter.
Remember that when all is said and done, your cover letter should only be one page long. The points you choose should be the ones that are most significant to the position, but also the ones that provide specific examples and compelling anecdotes about your experience.
Aim for half of the company's requirements, but keep it under five or six total.
Tip: When you copy and paste from the job listing into your word processor, proofread the listing for typos that might be in the listing. The person who gives your application a first read probably won't know - or care - that the mistake wasn't your fault.
3. Create a Table
Next, make a two column table with the company's requirements on the left side, and your matching attributes on the right side.
When you make the table, you'll need to make it two columns. Then, take the number of requirements you're choosing and add one for the header. So, for this example, which has focused on five points, the table is two columns by six rows.
Tip: If you need something to jog your memory for the right side of the table, see if you can find a copy of the job description for your current or past position, which will give you a nice guideline on how to phrase your past responsibilities and your professional and personal attributes.
Tip: If you're having difficulty creating a table, you can include your qualifications in paragraph form.
4. Format Your Cover Letter
You can incorporate the table format right in your cover letter.
Now that you've made your table, you should copy and paste it into the body of your cover letter. This is often called a "T" shape cover letter format. The table should go in between your introductory paragraphs, and before your closing.
It's a nice look to format the table with invisible borders, although it's not absolutely necessary. To achieve this in Microsoft Word, right click on the table, select Borders and Shading, and then click "None" on the left hand side of the small window that pops up.
Review examples to see what a finished cover letter looks like.
Top Tip: You should save your cover letter as a PDF file so that the document retains the proper formatting when it is opened and looked at.
5. Finish With a Follow Up
Finish strong and close the cover letter with the promise of a "next step." That way, even if your application gets lost at the bottom of a pile, when you reach out to the potential employer they'll be reminded to go retrieve your cover letter and resume and take another look.
Finally, be sure to proofread your cover letter so it's error free.
Tip: Reach out when you say you will to demonstrate your punctuality and ability to follow through with promises. If you have submitted many different applications and have trouble keeping track of dates, stay organized with an Excel sheet or set reminders with your phone.


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"CST Global's revenues have increased by 88%, to £6.7M GBP, in 2017," Neil Martin, CEO.
CST Global appoints Kyle Kennedy as Staff Engineer, in the sales and marketing department.
CST Global profiles 'CoolBlue' and 'MacV' quantum technology projects at Photonics West.
Dr. Thomas Slight, Research Engineer, is guest presenter at Photonics West, San Francisco, 2018.
CST Global receives £83,774 to continue GaN laser development for quantum sensing (CoolBlue2).
CST Global appoints Antonio Samarelli as Senior Process Integration Engineer in Blantyre.
CST Global receives £108,000 to develop an InP-based interface supporting 60 GHz Radio-Over-Fibre.
Peter Linksted, British Junior Canoe Slalom Champion, completes his work experience at CST Global.
CST Global's owner, Sivers IMA Holdings AB, is approved for listing and trading on Nasdaq First North.
CST Global appoints Dr Susannah Heck as Principal Device Development Engineer.
CST Global receives £131,600 funding to develop Mid-Wave, IR imagers with the University of Glasgow.
CST Global appoints Sam Zhang as Field Application Manager, China, to support sales channels.
Sivers IMA wins SEK4m order for new project with existing Fortune 100 customer.
Sivers IMA Holdings receives a further SEK20m framework order from an existing, US, Fortune 100 customer.
CST Global has signed a Master Purchase Agreement with a prominent, North American, cloud services provider
CST Global shows the future of NG-PON, last mile connections at the Broadband World Forum, Berlin
CST Global's 500% growth in silicon photonics, increases further with $490k order
CST Global signs a MPA with a large, North American supplier of network systems.
CST Global confirms acquisition by Sivers IMA following an EGM shareholder's vote on 2nd May.
Sivers IMA, Sweden, acquires all shares in rapidly growing CST Global in merger deal.
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I found out today (through my Facebook friend Laura Hartmark) that, yet again, a woman poet of African descent has passed on.
Ai identified as mulit-racial, a woman with Cheyenne, Choctaw, Chicasaw, Irish, Japansese, and African ancestors, but when I was a very young woman–a girl, really–I came upon her work and it was so important to me, as a budding black woman poet.
The anger, the rage, the craft, the beauty. I grabbed ahold to Ai's poetry, and it kept me afloat emotionally and politically.
I remember meeting Ai one day, years ago at the AWP conference. It was back in the Spring of 2001. I had heard that she was supposed to be at the conference, and then, I heard that she wasn't coming because of flight delays. I was walking down a path that crawled through the middle of the hotel (it was a strange place), when I recognized Ai.
I ran up to her, and said, "Oh, you are finally here! I'm so happy!" And she said to me, "Thanks a lot," only not in a sweet way, but a sort of mean way.
I guess this is not the kind of story you should tell when somebody passes. You should try to find a really nice story to tell. But you know what? When I think about it, those few seconds that I interacted with Ai seemed familiar, considering her poetry. Her work was raw and relentless. It wasn't nice kind of work, but it was necessary kind of work.
And in the moment when I discovered her, when I was just a girl back in the early 90s, raw and relentless was what I needed. I didn't need nice, I needed angry. I needed to get my mind right because I was fighting to stay who I was. And if I had known how truly difficult things would be, even more difficult than I ever imagined, I don't know that I would have kept going.
As the poet Sonia Sanchez told me, just a few weeks ago, you can't always get what you need being quiet and polite. Ai wasn't a woman who pandered to people in her poetry. Why should she pander in real life?
Now, in these days where many, many poets are pandering to the other poets, instead of trying to make friends with regular readers out there, through their own poetry–and criticizing readers as "dumb" instead of doing the hard work of staying smart but writing real, which is so hard to do–I wonder a lot about this world I'm in.
Money's drying up, when there's not much money to be had in the first place, and I am praying hard these quick, empty days, trying to figure out why God is taking all my pillars away, these black woman poets who didn't even know I needed them, but who gave me so much anyway. These are the folks that stood around me, protecting me from the world.
I wonder what God is trying to tell us black poets who remain here on this earth. Every time an elder in the black writing community passes–and we black poets claimed Ai, even if she didn't claim us–some of us say, "We have to fill their shoes."
Are we doing that? Do we even know what those shoes look like, much less how to stand in them?
Today, I want you to ask yourself, how are you walking in the world as writer? Are you the same person on the page as you are in real life?
If you are black, are you the same person in a room full of "brothers and sisters" as you are in a cocktail party filled with white folks, and you are the only Negro in the room? Are you swallowing your tongue over insufferable verbal assaults because you want to make your paper–as I have done, and only stopped doing just a few years ago?
This morning, I woke up mad. You know how you have a really bad dream, and the fingers of that dream are still clutching you when you wake up? That's how I felt just a few hours ago. I woke up mad and confused and crying. I was ready to fight somebody. Now, I guess I know why.
What is the universe trying to tell us, with our elders falling down around us? This morning, why wouldn't my dream let me go?


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Law Office at Congress Graz / LOVE
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The "Scherbaum Seebacher" law office in Graz moved to the former premises of the Steiermärkische Sparkasse bank on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Congress Graz. In addition to the future law offices, the historic building (built in 1883 by Mathias Seidl for the Steiermärkische Sparkasse bank) houses various event locations, such as the Graz musical society (Grazer Musikverein), the Stefaniensaal, the Steiermarksaal, the Kammermusiksaal, and the Graz Casino. The property is located in the heart of Graz's old town in the direct vicinity of the main square and is therefore perfectly connected to the city's center. In the future, 3,000m² of office space on two levels will be available. In addition, the future law office features several balconies and an access point to a rooftop terrace in the courtyard of the Graz Congress ensemble. The existing rooms are symmetrically built. A central access corridor with a total length of approx. 180m and a width ranging between 1.8 and 2.3m connects the individual rooms of the u-shaped structure.
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Dr Pietro Panzarasa
Professor in Organisational Theory and Behaviour
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com: +44 (0)20 7882 6984Room Number: Room 3.28c, Bancroft Building, Mile End CampusWebsite: http://pietropanzarasa.wordpress.com/
Student drop-in and feedback hours
Wednesday 2 - 4pm
Third Year Academic Advisor
Other affiliations
Centre for Complexity Science, Imperial College London
Cambridge Networks Network (CNN), University of Cambridge.
Undergraduate Teaching
- Coordination and Social Dynamics (BUS206)
- Social Networks (BUS311)
Research Interests:
Pietro Panzarasa's research is concerned with the field of complex networks, and focuses primarily on the structure and dynamics of social interaction. The general goal of his work is to better understand the antecedents, structure, functioning, and implications of complex large-scale networks. Recent work has examined the topological properties and growth mechanisms of weighted and dynamic networks in a variety of empirical domains, including scientific collaboration, online communication, technological and transportation systems. Ongoing projects investigate communities and patterns of scientific collaboration in large-scale co-authorship networks, interdisciplinarity and specialization in scientific production, social capital and the effects of social cohesion and structural holes on innovation and knowledge creation, the effects of homophily and social dependence on social interaction, and patterns and dynamics of e-learning usage in medical education. His work is also concerned with fundamental network properties such as assortative mixing in signed networks, centrality measures in multiplex networks, brokerage, and rich-club orderings in weighted networks.
Recent grants:
(2012-2013). "The social and structural foundations of group creativity". Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC; Joint QMUL/Warwick Sharing Facilities Award & Joint Institutional Award for Collaborative Research Projects) (with University of Warwick).
(2012-2014). "Communities of knowledge, collaboration networks, and the determinants of research performance". Funded by Elsevier's Bibliometric Research Program (BRP), in collaboration with Imperial College (Dr. T. Evans), King's College London (Dr. P. Expert), and University of Namur, Belgium (Dr. R. Lambiotte).
(2011-2012). "The tangled market model: A complex network approach". Funded by Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, in collaboration with Imperial College (Prof. H. Jensen, Principal Investigator), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (Prof. M. Takayasu), and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo (Dr H. Takayasu).
(2010-2012). "A Complex Network Study of Online Communication and Medical Training: Evidence from London Specialty Schools". Funded by Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, in collaboration with the Royal College of Anaesthetists (Dr. E. Hammond) and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry (Prof. M. Roberts).
(2008-2012). "E-learning for healthcare". Funded by North East Thames Foundation School, in collaboration with the Royal College of Anaesthetists (Dr. E. Hammond) and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry (Prof. M. Roberts).
2007: British Conference Grant. Funded by the British Academy.
Awards and honours:
2014: Best Poster Award at Cambridge Networks Day, University of Cambridge (with M. Bonaventura, V. Nicosia, V. Latora, and P. Panzarasa).
2012: Best Paper Award at Inaugural International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice Relevant to China, Wuhan, China (with M. Prevezer and J. Li ).
2010: Nominated for the Drapers' Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (QMUL).
2009: Winner of the Contribution Reward Scheme award for academic excellence (QMUL).
2009: Best Paper Proceedings of the First International Conference on Complex Sciences. Theory and Applications, Shanghai, China (with J.J. Ramasco, and V. Colizza).
2007: Nominated for the Drapers' Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (QMUL).
Professional activities (sample):
2015: Member of Scientific Committee of the Fifth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis (ARS'15 - Large Networks and Big Data: New Methodological Challenges), Capri, Italy, April 2015.
2013-present: Grant evaluator for the Leverhulme Trust.
2013: Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop on Quantifying Success at the ECCS'13 (European Conference on Complex Systems 2013), Barcelona, September 2013.
2013: Member of Scientific Committee of the Fourth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis (ARS'13), Rome, June 2013.
2013: Grant evaluator for the Open Research Area (ORA) in Europe for the Social Sciences, a scheme funded between the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC UK), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR France), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG Germany), the Nederlands Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO Netherlands) and the National Science Foundation (NSF, USA).
2013: Editor of the Special Issue of Industry and Innovation on "Collaboration networks and knowledge exchange in science and technology".
2013: Grant evaluator for "Futuro in Ricerca 2013" (to fund research projects coordinated by young researchers), Italy's Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
2012-present: Grant evaluator for PRIN (research project of national interest), Italy's Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
2011: Member of the Program Committee for the ECCS'11 (European Conference on Complex Systems 2011) held in Vienna, September 12-16.
2009-present: Grant evaluator and rapporteur for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
2008-present: External PhD Examiner at: King's College London (Department of Mathematics); Imperial College London (Intelligent Systems and Networks Group - Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department); Imperial College London (Faculty of Medicine); Imperial College London (Complexity & Networks group; Department of Mathematics); University of Southampton; Birkbeck College, University of London.
2007-present: Editorial Board member of Studi Organizzativi.
2007: Organiser and Programme Committee member of the UK Social Network Conference.
2003-present: Editorial Board member of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (Area: Computational economics, markets and systems).
2002-present: Grant evaluator for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Council for the Physical Sciences).
Selected publications:
T. Athanasiou, V. Patel, G. Garas, H. Ashrafian, K. Shetty, N. Sevdalis, P. Panzarasa, A. Darzi, S. Paroutis (forthcoming). Perception and academic performance: An Academic Health Science Centre survey. Postgraduate Medical Journal.
V. Ciotti; M. Bonaventura; V. Nicosia; P. Panzarasa; V. Latora (2016). Homophily and missing links in citation networks. EPJ Data Science 5(1): 1-14. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0068-2.
D. Hristova, M. J. Williams, M. Musolesi, P. Panzarasa and C. Mascolo (2016). Measuring urban social diversity using interconnected geo-social networks. Proceedings of WWW2016, 25th International World Wide Web Conference, Montréal, Canada, April 11-15, 2016.
P. Panzarasa and M. Bonaventura (2015). Emergence of long-range correlations and bursty activity patterns in online communication. Physical Review E 92: 062821. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.062821.
P. Panzarasa, B. Kujawski, E. Hammond, and C. M. Roberts (2016). Temporal patterns and dynamics of e-learning usage in medical education. Educational Technology Research and Development 64(1): 13-35. DOI: 10.1007/s11423-015-9407-4.
V. Ciotti, V. Latora, and P. Panzarasa (2015). Birds of a feather? Revisiting homophily and tie creation in social networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Social Science, Helsinki, Finland.
M. Bonaventura, V. Latora, V. Nicosia and P. Panzarasa (2015). Interdisciplinarity and specialization: Roads to scientific success. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Social Science, Helsinky, Finland.
C. Howes, P. G. T. Healey, T. Hills, and P. Panzarasa (2015). Ideas in Dialogue: The effects of interaction on creative problem-solving. COGSCI 2015. Mind, Technology and Society. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
D. Hristova, P. Panzarasa, and C. Mascolo (2015). Multilayer brokerage in geo-social networks. Proceedings of the 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-15).
V. Ciotti, G. Bianconi, A. Capocci, F. Colaiori, and P. Panzarasa (2015). Degree correlations in signed social networks. Physica A 422: 25-39, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2014.11.062.
J. Alstott, P. Panzarasa, M. Rubinov, E. T. Bullmore, and P. E. Vértes (2014). A unifying framework for measuring weighted rich clubs. Nature Scientific Reports 4(7258). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07258.
G. Menichetti, D. Remondini, P. Panzarasa, R. J. Mondragón, and G. Bianconi (2014). Weighted multiplex networks, PLoS ONE 9(6): e97857. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097857.
V. Ciotti, G. Bianconi, A. Capocci, F. Colaiori, and P. Panzarasa (2014). Degree correlations in signed social networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Network Science (NetSci'14), Berkeley, CA.
M. Bonaventura, V. Nicosia, V. Latora, and P. Panzarasa (2014). Interdisciplinarity and specialisation: Roads to scientific success. Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS '14), Lucca (Italy).
A. Halu, R. J. Mondragon, P. Panzarasa, and G. Bianconi (2013). Multiplex PageRank. PLoS ONE 8(10): e78293. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078293.
V. Latora, V. Nicosia, and P. Panzarasa (2013). Brokerage and social capital: Reconciling social cohesion and structural holes. Proceedings of the International Conference on Network Science (NetSci'13), Copenhagen, Denmark.
M.A. Maggioni, S. Breschi, and P. Panzarasa (2013). Multiplexity, growth mechanisms and structural variety in scientific collaboration networks. Industry and Innovation, 20(3): 185-194.
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It's one thing to have a tolerant meeting with a wild wolf that goes on for a matter of minutes. But this went on for six years!
The residents of a neighborhood on the outskirts of Juneau came to know the wolf, called Romeo, as an individual. And he got to know them and their dogs.
In the winter of 2003, a jet-black wolf appeared at the edge of suburban Juneau, Alaska. It was not the snarling villain of folklore. This wolf seemed to crave the company of humans and their dogs.
Soon Romeo, as the wolf came to be known, captured the hearts of almost the entire town. But its presence raised complex questions. Should a predatory animal, however friendly, be encouraged to live among people and their children? What if someone decided to shoot it?
Talking from his winter home in Florida, Nick Jans, a former hunter turned wildlife photographer and the author of A Wolf Called Romeo, describes how some tracks in the snow led to an encounter that would change his life; why the Inuit revere the wolf; and why there are parts of the book he still can't read in public without crying.
This is a wonderful book full of surprises that challenge cultural stereotypes of wolves, human beings, and dogs. Set the scene. How did you first meet the wolf called Romeo?
The first thing I saw was tracks out on the lake in front of our house on the outskirts of Juneau. A few days later, I looked out from my house and there was this wolf out on the ice. I'd had 20 years of experience around wolves up in the Arctic and immediately knew it was a wolf, not a dog. I threw on my skis and found him.
The amazing thing about this animal was how relatively relaxed and tolerant he was. That's not out of the question for wolves. Certain wolves are like dogs, and they all have different personalities. Some are more cautious or fearful than others. But this wolf was downright relaxed and tolerant from the start, as if he had dropped out of the sky like a unicorn.
It's one thing to have a tolerant meeting with a wild wolf that goes on for a matter of minutes. But this went on for six years, so we got to know this wolf, whom we came to call Romeo, as an individual. And he got to know us and our dogs.
For want of a better word, the only thing I can say from a human perspective is that it amounted to friendship. If you wanted to be scientifically correct, it would be "social mutual tolerance." But it was more than that. The wolf would come trotting over to say hi, and give a little bow and a relaxed yawn, and go trotting after us when we went skiing. There was no survival benefit. He obviously just enjoyed our company.
Romeo was a bit of a flirt, and like Shakespeare's Romeo seemed to fall in love with your Juliet of a yellow Labrador. How did you accept this odd pairing? And how did Romeo challenge your own preconceptions of wolfish behavior?
The first thing is that wolves have a tendency to attack strange canines and at least beat them down, if not eat them. It's a pretty common thing, as any good wolf biologist will tell you, that any wolf's job in his righteous social behavior is to investigate and assault strange canines. They very seldom accept strangers.
A pack of wolves is typically a family group. Think of it like the Mafia. The Gambinis do not accept the Genoveses in their midst. They're very rigorous about that. We were keeping our dog under control and she just slipped out from under my fingers, which were hooked around her collar. That first meeting, when Dakotah—our "Juliet"—and Romeo stood nose to nose, is recorded on the cover of the book.
If you look at that photo, you see the wolf is very much being a boy. He's standing very tall, with his ears narrow and his tail slightly up, his neck ruff raised a little bit. He's being very flirtatious. Dakotah is very confident but giving a neutral signal with her tail straight out. They're both very relaxed; there's not the least hint of aggression. And that was very typical of how Romeo interacted with dogs.
How did he get his name?
My wife, who did not exactly approve of this "miscegenation" because of the potential danger, was looking out the window one frosty morning and there was the wolf curled up out on the lake ice, waiting for Dakotah to come out.
With that arms folded, slightly protective tone of voice any mother with a cute teenage daughter would use, she said, "There's that Romeo wolf again." The name caught on because it fit. He was not only doing this with our dog, he was also flirting with others. But he certainly had favorites, just as people do: dog friends, dog acquaintances, and dog BFFs.
The local newspaper reported on the wolf's visits, and he became a fixture. People would say, "I'm going to the lake to see the wolf." A lot of people wanted to get close to him, but most strangers couldn't get closer than a hundred yards.
Though humans love dogs, we are not so kind to their cousins. Can you briefly explain the difference between domesticated dogs and wolves? And why humans are generally so afraid of wolves?
The fear seems rooted in our genetic consciousness. We have the big, bad wolf; we have Peter and the Wolf; we have the Three Little Pigs. There are no cuddly wolves in our mythology, though there are lots of cuddly bears:Winnie the Pooh, the Berenstain Bears, and so on. Never mind the fact that bears, especially grizzlies, are much more dangerous to humans [than wolves are].
When you get down to the genetic difference between a wolf and a domestic dog, whether it is a Chihuahua or a Great Dane, all dogs are 99.98 percent genetically a wolf. That 0.02 percent obviously looms huge, because if you raise a wolf cub from the time it opens its eyes, it may make a wonderfully bonded animal, but it will not be a dog, no matter what you do. It will act like a wolf and be a wolf. It takes generations to shape the soul of a wolf and its physical shape into "man's best friend."
The fear of wolves seems rooted in our genetic consciousness, and in many stories, like Little Red Riding Hood (illustrated above by Gustave Dore, c. 1880), the big bad wolf is a menace. But all dogs are 99.98 percent genetically a wolf.
Indigenous peoples see wolves in a completely different way. Take us inside that mind-set.
The Inuit are not just attuned to the natural world. They are part of it. A couple of them became my friends, and I traveled with one in particular. He was a superb tracker and amazing hunter. I went along with him and learned what he had to teach me.
The Inuit would not even say the word "wolf," or amaruk in Inuktitut. They would use aliases because they believed if you talked about an animal, it could hear you. They believed the animal wasn't just an equal, but a superior being with magical powers.
As the ultimate hunter in a landscape of hunter-gatherers, wolves were revered. But many Inuit communities also had the same unreasoning fear of wolves that you see in European culture. I had several Eskimo hunters tell me to be extremely careful and keep my rifle by me because when wolves came around your camp, they might be trying to grab you.
But the Inuit also sought out wolves to breed with their semi-domesticated dogs. They wanted some of that blood in their dogs—the wolf's intelligence and the wolf's incredible endurance and toughness.
You tried to keep Romeo a secret from the Juneau community, but after a few winters even the local newspapers were writing about him. Did the Juneau community surprise you by its reaction to the wolf?
The reactions covered a continuum. Everything from "the only good wolf is a dead wolf" and "let's kill this one now," to "this is a spiritual creature that is beyond us"—the New Age version of a wolf.
From the time he first started showing up, it was reported in the paper, and it went from a handful of people to hundreds of people within a couple of months. He became a fixture. People would say, "I'm going to the lake to see the wolf." But some people were extremely hostile to the whole idea. Some people didn't care one way or another. It was a wild animal. They wanted to go out there and ski or play with their kids, and as long as the wolf kept his distance, that was fine. It's Alaska, after all.
Author Nick Jans shows a plaque at the memorial held for Romeo in November 2010. The average life span of a wolf in the wild is three years, and Romeo was at least eight years old at the time of his death.
A lot of people were fascinated by this animal and wanted to get close to him. He more or less allowed it, although he had a very elastic sense of personal space. Typically, most strangers couldn't get closer than a hundred yards. But if it were someone he knew and whose dogs he knew, you'd find yourself within touching distance of him. There were a number of times when I could have reached out and brushed my hand along his back as he went by. But I never did.
You began to withdraw from spending time with Romeo, but he used to wait for you to bring your dogs out for a walk. Should the local people have continued to interact with the wolf?
It was a slippery slope. Not just for the people, but also the [wildlife] management agencies. What if this wolf goes somewhere else where he might be in more danger? At least here he was spending most of the winter in an area where hunting and trapping was illegal.
The average life span of a wolf in the wild is three years. Romeo was already full grown when he showed up, and then he lived among us for six-plus more years. So he was at least eight years old at the time of his death. So we must have been keeping him safe because he outlived a wild wolf by nearly three times.
How do you explain Romeo's behavior? Was he just more dog than wolf?
He was a pure wild wolf. He was not a pet, as some suggested, that had been released, because then he would have been coming to us for food. He was his own gatekeeper and came and went as he pleased. Sometimes he disappeared for weeks. He clearly was catching and eating wild food with great skill.
Wolves that are socially tolerant to humans must have appeared to us not once, but many times over our history. Clearly, dogs came from wolves. But the question is, Where and how? The latest theories suggest there were multiple points of domestication. So there must have not been one wolf like Romeo. There must have been a number of wolves in the past that came to lie down by our fires.
Like humans, wolves are predators. Yet Romeo shows us a different side of wolf nature. Talk about the role of play and how it is a part of even wild creatures' natures.
When you have a very intelligent, social animal like a wolf, play—just as it is for dogs—is an important practice and a rehearsal of necessary survival skills. When you watch dogs playing, what are they doing? They're play-fighting a lot of the time. They're chasing; they're engaging in predatory behaviors, games of chase. Play also cements the social structure of a pack. And Romeo was an unbelievably playful animal. He would run into the middle of a game of fetch and steal the tennis ball, run off with it, throw it up in the air, and bat it with his paws.
For my friend Harry Robinson, who had an incredibly close relationship with the wolf, the wolf would bring out toys that he'd stashed. One was a Styrofoam float. Romeo would pick it up and bring it to Harry to throw. He clearly understood the same sort of behaviors that we see in dogs. Any highly intelligent animal, from killer whales to wolverines, will engage in play when they have leisure and aren't engaged in survival.
"For want of a better word, the only thing I can say from a human perspective is that it amounted to friendship" between the wolf and the people and their dogs, says the author.
How did Romeo change your life?
Romeo was the single most transformative event of my life. I am about to turn 60, and knowing him was the culmination of why I came to Alaska in the first place and an absolutely magical experience. His life and death are not something that I ever expect to get over. It's part of who I am. I find myself waking up at night and thinking about him. If I am doing a reading in front of an audience, there are certain places in the book I cannot read. If I do, I can guarantee I will be a blubbering mess. And when I look up, everybody else is misty-eyed too.
The amazing thing was Romeo's understanding. It wasn't just our understanding and tolerance. It was the combination of his and ours and the dogs'. We were these three species working out how to get along harmoniously. And we did.
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There are many child friendly versions of Peter and the Wolf which, I think, help promote a positive image of wolves, instead of promoting fear. I love this article and can't wait to read A Wolf Called Romeo!
Beautiful account of the author himself.
Each and every animal, in its full habitat and fed is stunning coexistence for sure.
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We the undersigned lawyers practicing in Mumbai, condemn the undignified behavior of our professional colleagues in the Patiala House Court Complex, Delhi during this week.
As members of the legal fraternity we are ashamed of their conduct which is neither becoming of the dignity of the profession nor as citizens of a free and democratic country.
This is nothing but tyranny and mockery of a system we took an oath to practice in.
We practice in a system that recognizes freedom of speech and expression and a right to be represented before a court.
As officers of the court and upholders of law it is not becoming of us lawyers to engage or indulge in such acts of assaulting, beating up and intimidating people within or outside the Court premises.
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The conduct of assaulting any citizen of the country is not only taking law into our hands but proclaiming that we have no faith in justice and the very legal system we practice in.
Freedom of speech and expression is the very foundation of our practice and if these very rights and freedoms are curtailed it threatens the edifice of our profession.
A fundamental principle of law is that everyone is innocent till proven guilty and by such unbecoming conduct we are declaring the entire process of law infructuous.
If guilt were to be decided outside the court, through popular sentiment the entire judicial process would be rendered meaningless.
We as practitioners of law must desist from such conduct and uphold the dignity of the profession.
We write this open letter with the hope, that our fellow lawyers will respect and uphold the dignity of our profession.
Anil Anturkar, Sr. Counsel
Aspi Chinoy, Sr. Counsel
Dinyar Madon, Sr. Counsel
E. P Bharucha, Sr. Counsel
Gayatri Singh, Sr. Counsel
Janak Dwarkadas, Sr. Counsel
Mihir Desai, Sr. Counsel
Milind Sathe, Sr. Counsel
Navroz Seervai, Sr. Counsel
Rahul Narichania, Sr. Counsel
Rajani Iyer, Sr. Counsel
Ravi Kadam, Sr. Counsel
Sanjay Singhvi, Sr. Counsel
Shirish Gupte, Sr. Counsel
Shyam Mehta, Sr. Counsel
Venkatesh Dhond, Sr. Counsel
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"Lift every voice and sing 'til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea."
— James Weldon Johnson
The McLean Community Center's (MCC) first Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration was not just a sellout, it was a blowout as well, a celebration that brought some of McLean's oldest families to the Alden Theater to celebrate King's 75th birthday with song, dance and a rousing speech in the King style by Rose McElrath-Slade, a businesswoman from Great Falls, who preached a sermon in King's oratorical style.
"There are people here today who I don't think have ever been here before," said MCC director Bill Bersie, who generated the idea for the celebration two years ago while brainstorming about the center's programs with assistant director Peter Gray
Choirs from two of McLean's oldest black churches, First Baptist of Chesterbrook and Shiloh Baptist, joined together to form a choir of 40 people. Susie I. Hall, 83, of First Baptist, was among them; she has sung in her church choir for 61 years.
"I wish you were here with me on stage," said McElrath-Slade, "so you could see the beauty that I see [in the audience]; people of all colors and age groups.
"I feel that my heart is knit together with yours in unity and love."
She recited the history of the black community in McLean, which began with a community of freed slaves who called their neighborhood "Lincolnville." Now it is known as Chesterbrook.
McElrath-Slade recounted how King overcame a common human failing, the fear of inadequacy, but "went to work and embraced 'the dream.'
"Opportunity's door no longer reads 'white' or 'colored,'" McElrath Slade said.
She described how Christopher Columbus Hall, an Irish-Latino immigrant, "dreamed of owning a dairy farm" in east McLean, where his descendants still live in the Cottonwood Road neighborhood.
"Who among us does not, at times, waddle in our inadequacy?" she asked rhetorically. "The answer's the same for you as it was for Moses, Jonah, [Cyrus] Carter, and Martin Luther King Jr.," she said:
"Why not you and why not me?
"Let not [King's] work be minimized by our inaction," she said. "Let not fear prevent us from living out our dreams.
"Let not this day be a day of shopping, a day of football, a day of play; let this day be a day of self-examination and reflection."
Sheila Coates, president of Black Women United, spoke of the significance within the black community of the closing anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," written by James Weldon Johnson.
Known during the Civil Rights era as "the Negro national anthem," it was sung at mass meetings and contained "cryptic messages" of hope, said Coates. "We never lost it within the African-American culture."
MCC Governing Board chairman Caroline Pickens lived in Selma, Ala., in 1964-65, when her husband, Ed, was in pilot training at Craig Air Force Base, and she was present during the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, which became a powerful historic benchmark for the era.
On Sunday she invited everyone present to run for positions on the MCC's Governing Board this spring.
"We really welcome new faces and new blood," she said. "It was an indelible experience," she said.
Sabrina Anwah, a native of Birmingham, Ala., and the MCC's public information officer, said the planning process for the first observance of King's birthday was energized by "the dynamic trio: Armeta Basil, Sue Dorsey and Jackie Harney.
"There was nothing but enthusiasm and up, up, up, from the word 'go,'" Anwah said. The enthusiasm spread in the community to infect local businesses, she said.
Fairfax Screen Printing donated 100 free T-shirts bearing the "Embracing the Dream" legend; PIP Printing donated services; and food was donated by McLean Family Restaurant, Corkie's Grille, Monroe Grill, Rocco's, Ralph Coates, Costco Wholesale and Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe. Golden Touch Florists donated flowers.
"They said, 'We know McLean doesn't have a huge African American community, but the words of Dr. King are for everybody, including us,'" Anwah said. "We should all be happy about how much we've changed. It's a group thing."
After the music, a reception filled all the MCC's meeting rooms. People proudly pointed out their ancestors, pictured in photo exhibits showing the histories of the two churches, which were founded more than 130 years ago by the same man, Rev. Cyrus Carter.
Toni Carter Pearson, Carter's great-granddaughter, carried on his message, passing out fliers about the book she will publish Feb. 1. Titled "Joyfully Enter the Temple," it is a collection of "praise and meditation starters," inspired by e-mail messages between Pearson and a close friend.
After Sunday's premier event, "Everybody was happy," Anwah said. "It speaks volumes."


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Hydro Fest: Hydroflight Takes Off
Hydroflight Takes Off in this 1 Hour Documentary Film
On Wednesday November 2, 2016 H2RO had the pleasure of screening the new film Hydro Fest: Hydroflight Takes Off
For us at the magazine it couldn't have come at a better time. It encompasses everything we hope for our sport and industry to achieve and reminded us why we fell in love with flying in the first place. We hope you will find it as entertaining and visually stunning as we did.
From the first two trailers that were released (embedded in this post) it was immediately clear that David Quittman (Director/Editor), Eric Mulker (Camera/Drone Operator), the Surf Channel and Jetpack America had committed to bringing the world the most beautifully captured 4K action anyone had ever seen. (and H2RO has put out some great looking 4K video ourselves but hats off to these film pros for enhancing their footage to the fullest). Whether on a phone, a television or the big screen this film will look amazing and for the general public provide a captivating look at the beauty of our sport.
(photos courtesy of Jack Stone Photography)
The second, and most important, goal that we were happy to see Hydro Fest Hydroflight Takes Off achieve was them going beyond the flying on the water and taking full advantage of their long format (1 hour) running time to provide audiences who may not be familiar with our industry/sport enough backstory, product introductions, athlete profiles and overall context so that they could really understand and get excited about what they were watching. The film does a great job of spotlighting the entertaining personalities involved while clearly walking the viewer through the competition from start to finish.
Finally, for us at H2RO, it was really cool to see on camera our friends talking, as we have with them many times, about the future of our sport, about the community of passionate people who are driving it all forward, about the satisfaction in seeing an event pulled off where multiple manufacturers, various products, divisions for Jetboards, Jetpacks and Jetbikes could all come together and deliver an event where the end result far exceeded the sum of the parts. If you look closely you will see the 'real' future of our sport twinkling in the eyes of every athlete on camera regardless of who they are sponsored by. You can hear the optimism for a unified Hydroflight community in their voices and for us at H2RO this is what we see and hear when we talk to people.
Zapata Racing Community, FlyDive Community, X-Jets Community, DEFY Hydroflight Community, Jetavation Inc Community, trust us when we say if everyone had been able to personally experience Hydro Fest 2016 you would all fully understand that OPEN competitions are the greatest thing Hydroflight can offer the world. CEO's you battle in the board rooms, collect your royalties, enforce your patents, but global community members of Hydroflight our energy needs to be channeled towards competition formats like Hydro Fest. Jetboard athletes, Jetpack athletes, Jetbike athletes, ALL of you are so fucking awesome and it's going to take ALL of you to make Hydroflight massive. We cannot afford to have any of you on the outside looking in. … ok rant over.
The Surf Channel presents …
— via DirecTV, Comcast/Infinity, Cox and Cablevision.
The movie is *FREE* to view and you can watch it all you want 24/7 on the Video on Demand national network.
The Video On Demand network is available via the following TV providers: DirecTV, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Cablevision.
For more information on how to access The Surf Channel via your television, review the specific instructions for each provider below.
> The Surf Channel on DirecTV
The Video On Demand page is on Channel 1860. The Surf Channel is available on Channel 1000.
> The Surf Channel on Comcast Xfinity
Under TV On Demand, via Comcast Xfinity, go to Networks and find our channel under the "SKICHANNEL."
> Cox Communications
Find The Surf Channel by visiting Channel 1 > Freezone > Sports > Action Sports Net.
Access The Surf Channel via Set Top Box and through the Optimum App via smartphones & tablets. Find Action Sport Networks within the On Demand menu. Then click through the following settings: On Demand > Free On Demand > Sports > Action Sport Networks > The Surf Channel
To get more information about the film H2RO spoke with one of the driving forces behind the film Eric Longabardi:
H2RO) Eric, please introduce yourself and what role you played in the Hydro Fest event?
I'm a (semi-retired since 2013) Broadcast TV Producer and journalist who spent over 20+ years working in Network TV as Broadcast Story Producer and Investigative Journalist. I've worked for ABC News, CBS News, CNN and Fox News, and many other major TV news orgs in my TV/Journalism career. I'm a Alfred I. DuPont (Pulitzer Prize equiv.) national-award-winning producer and journalist, who has been named -TV Journalist of the Year (twice) by Los Angeles Press Club (2000 & 2008) among a long list of national TV and print/online producing and journalism awards. My full 20+ year broadcast producer/journalism career CV is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/
re: Hydro Fest
Since mid-2012 I have been working as a media and business consultant to Dean O'Malley of Jetpack America (JPA) in Newport Beach (my hometown and residence) I met Dean via a chance viewing of the Jetlev Jetpack at an event he put on in Newport Beach in mid-2012. As you see in my CV I was hired by Dean after I conceived, then produced the Jetpack America media project called -The Catalina Project-. Hydroflight's first major MSM project that resulted in massive world-wide media exposure for JPA and helped birth the new hydro-jetpack technology and industry to the general public far beyond what had been done by Jetlev itself. Since then I have created and executed on an endless list of MSM media content projects for JPA and been a key player in building the "brand name and value" of Jetpack America to what it is today along with Dean.
Hydro Fest itself was born in early 2016 when Dean decided he wanted to host and put on the event. We had considered staging similar events going back years (and explored it, but never pursued them past the initial stages for a variety of reasons) I was second only to Dean in the planning, design, work load and execution of the HydroFest event on all fronts (including sponsors, media, and event planning/design. The hydro-competition format and practical logistical execution was Dean's primary responsibility. You name it I was second only to Dean as I explained. I was even the primary designer for the event's logo and t-shirts! (with help from our graphic designer) In addition, all media, public outreach and other marketing aspects of the event where my specific responsibility.
H2RO) What were the goals going into this project and how did Surf Channel get involved?
This media-project was conceived by me to produce a long form TV "Hydroflight" program that would be at a min. broadcast on the cable TV network that is owned by Steve Bellamy. Steve is a very successful TV/media/businessman who created and built The Tennis Channel into a cable TV success. He also owns and operated many other businesses, including his current national cable tv network, which is branded as The Surf Channel, The Ski Channel and Action Sport Cinema. For more on Steve: https://www.linkedin.com/in/
I brought the idea to Steve Bellamy, who I have been in touch about the sport of hydroflight off and on for a few years. Hydro Fest as a sporting / public event was a perfect match for a long form action sport media-product. Steve agreed and he provided his production team to me in order to produce an action sports program that his network could air and that the hydroflight industry would embrace. Working with Bellamy's crew (David Quittman is the program's Director/Editor and Eric Mulker its Camera/Drone Operator, we produced the program after shooting it on-site at the 2016 event. We also did various pre-event promo spots and have produced a 'movie trailer' for the program.
H2RO) What distribution channels are you employing to bring this to the masses?
I am self-distributing this doc with the primary assistance of Bellamy's company and also minor assistance from Jetpack America in a multi-part dist. approach.
- First — we will be premiering the doc via an online Video-On-Demand — special 3 day online only release.
The cost to view the movie/doc is $15 for 3 days (72 hours of access) between Nov 4 – 7 (12A), 2016 (Fri/Sat/Sun)
- Second — We are attempting to set up live public screenings throughout the country after the initial online premiere.
We are still seeking program sponsors and other approaches to support such a public screening tour.
- Third — The program will be presented on Mr. Bellamy's national cable TV network "The Surf Channel" in 2017.
The cable network is in approx. 50M U.S. cable households. It will also be presented on The Surf Channel's popular YouTube channel.
H2RO) What are the top three things you hope people take away from this film?
1) Exposure of the Hydroflight sport/industry itself to the general public (what it is, how it works, the people/companies involved in it etc.)
2) The fact that anybody can do this sport from A to Z.
3) That it is NOT an extreme sport, but just like other sports it has its very skilled expert/pros who are pushing the limits of the sport.
H2RO) Can the public and Hydroflight industry expect another HydroFest in 2017?
That is Dean's call, but he has expressed an interest in doing it, so the answer is YES.
We hope you will support this film either by renting it now or viewing it and turning friends onto it when it becomes available on VOD. H2RO is super stoked for Hydro Fest 2017!


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SEC's 2016 Examination Priorities Include Continuing Focus on Cybersecurity Controls
The Securities and Exchange Commission last week issued a press release outlining the agency's 2016 Examination Priorities that included cybersecurity. The release states:
"To help fulfill the SEC's mission of maintaining fair, orderly, and efficient markets, OCIE will continue its focus on cybersecurity controls at broker-dealers and investment advisers."
This announcement comes in the wake of the SEC's 2015 order censuring an investment adviser and imposing a $75,000 fine for cybersecurity control gaps. Among these gaps were a lack of: (a) written policies and procedures designed to safeguard client data; (b) periodic risk assessments; and (c) a breach response plan. This 2015 order followed a data breach suffered by the investment advisor, and the SEC's post-breach examination.
Thus, the SEC may uncover lax or missing cybersecurity controls either through a formal examination or by investigating after a data breach has occurred. Whistleblowers such as disgruntled former employees also present a threat.
While cybersecurity is an ongoing challenge, putting basic cybersecurity controls in place is not an overwhelming task. Armstrong Teasdale has successfully assisted investment adviser clients with risk assessment, cybersecurity policy, and incident response planning. These projects can be done on a fixed-fee basis, providing clarity as to costs and timeframes.