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Cody Rhodes defeated Christopher Daniels tonight at Ring of Honor's "Best In The World" PPV. The crowd gave Cody a standing ovation, and his Bullet Club brethren celebrated in the ring with him.
Cody Rhodes will be now facing Kazuchika Okada in a Title Vs Title Match at NJPW G1 Special in the USA.
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Fenerbahce defender Martin Skrtel has allegedly rejected the chance to sign for Barcelona.
The 34-year-old - formerly of Liverpool - has spent the last two-and-a-half years in Turkey, but it has been suggested by a partner of his representatives that the Slovakia international was offered the opportunity to join Barcelona in January.
However, it has been claimed that the centre-back is happy with life at Fenerbahce and did not want to be regarded as a backup option.
Mithat Halis is quoted by AS as saying: "Barcelona wanted to sign him and were insisting on him because they needed a central defender that was a reliable alternative, but the player didn't agree because he did not want to be a substitute for [Gerard] Pique and [Samuel] Umtiti."
"I think he is a better centre-half than Clement Lenglet (Barcelona's eventual defensive signing). On the other hand, Martin Skrtel is happy in Istanbul and has an important role to play in Fenerbahçe. He did not want to be third choice at Barcelona.
"[Barça reps] saw the player in the game between Slovakia and the Ukraine and appreciated again that Skrtel is the leader of his team, but Skrtel told us he wants to continue playing in Turkey."
Skrtel has made 80 appearances for Fenerbahce since July 2016.

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NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Mountco President and Principal Joel Mounty, Interfaith Dwellings President Marc J. Harary, elected officials and residents of the building this morning joined to celebrate the rededication of New Rochelle's newest affordable housing development, Washington House Apartments.
"We're very proud of this development, our latest successful venture with Interfaith," said Joel Mounty. "Not only that, it is a personal joy for me to rededicate this development in my hometown of New Rochelle. I'd like to thank Marc J. Hararay and the entire Interfaith Board for all their work and guidance throughout the process and we look forward to working with Interfaith in the future."
Washington House is a two-building development with 211 total units of affordable housing serving income-eligible people who are 55 years and older. The property was developed by Mountco in partnership with the Interfaith Dwellings Corp. of New Rochelle.
For Joel Mounty, this event is imbued with additional meaning. A New Rochelle native, Mr. Mounty played a role in the purchase and renovation of the Washington School and the new construction of the tower building in the 1980's when he was just starting his professional career. Having developed more than 3,000 affordable housing units over the course of his career, he now gets to see Washington House through to another renovation and use as affordable housing units for a new 30-year life cycle.
Washington House is the third collaboration between Mountco and Interfaith Dwellings, preceded by Maple Center and Maple Terrace. Altogether, their partnership has resulted in 420 units of affordable housing.
Established in 1968, the Interfaith Dwellings Corp. of New Rochelle is a nondenominational nonprofit comprised of local faith leaders committed to constructing and operating low income housing for seniors in New Rochelle.
Marc J. Hararay said "Washington House represents the culmination of our five-year redevelopment program, which has renovated and upgraded all three of our properties. It has been a pleasure to have undertaken this redevelopment with Mountco here in New Rochelle. Our partnership has resulted in hundreds of units of affordable housing, which is a vital part of our local community."
Mayor Noam Bramson said, "Quality affordable housing for seniors is an essential part of a healthy community in which all of us have opportunities to age in place. The redevelopment of Washington House demonstrates New Rochelle's commitment to this priority, while highlighting the value of successful public-private partnerships."
County Executive Rob Astorino said, "The County is pleased to have been able to assist in financing the Washington House Development for over 200 senior New Rochelle households. This is the County's fourth successful project with Mountco supporting $75 million in private development of affordable housing in New Rochelle, Sleepy Hollow and Rye.."
The financing for this project was provided by the New York State's Division of Home and Community Renewal, Citi Community Capital, Raymond James, Tay Credit Funds Inc., Washington House HDFC, an affiliate of Interfaith Dwellings, The New Rochelle Industrial Development Agency, The Westchester County Industrial Development Agency, and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.


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I Know How to Pick'em by Lawrence Block
My rating: 1 out of 5 stars
This story was a tease from beginning to end and frankly, it does not have a dangerous woman. Although Lawrence Block could argue semantics, I would respectfully disagree. The narrator is a man, the "dangerous woman" turns out to be nothing of the sort.


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Michael McNamara
Coming Soon: Celtic Soul
Markham Street Films' Michael McNamara on tapping soccer enthusiasts and Jay Baruchel fans to build buzz for the road trip doc.
Aaron Hancox named VP unscripted at Markham Street
Hancox will oversee Markham Street's domestic and international documentary production in the newly created post.
Coming Soon: Big News from Grand Rock
Markham Street Films' Judy Holm on the theatrical distribution strategy for the debut feature from writer/director Daniel Perlmutter.
Super Channel invests $850,000 in 34 new projects
Projects selected in the latest round of financing from the Super Channel Development Fund include Jason Priestley's The Day Santa Didn't Come.
Big News From Grand Rock signs on big name Canucks
With actors including Gordon Pinsent, Aaron Ashmore and Ennis Esmer on board, the Markham Street Films production will begin shooting in Midland, Ontario after successfully raising part of its production funding through Indiegogo.
Hold Fast to begin shooting May 28 in Newfoundland
The feature film starring Molly Parker and based on the novel by Kevin Major will shoot in and around St. John's, Mount Pearl and the province's parks.
Markham Films prepping mystery comedy Fit to Print for fall shoot
Jessica Pare and Ennis Esmer are top-lining the indie feature from writer/director Daniel Perlmutter.
OMDC puts producers on fast-track to screen adapations
Relationships mean everything in film and TV, and match-maker OMDC's From Page To Screen mixer is where many start.
CBC honors International Women's Day with feminism doc
CBC Doc Zone's documentary The F-Word: Who Wants to be a Feminist? examines the state of feminism in Canada today as well as the history of the movement, with the help of pioneering feminist writers Germaine Greer, Susan Faludi, Amy Richards and Naomi Wolf.
Shaw Media-Hot Docs fund hands out coin
Shaw Media has has handed out $203,000 in grants and non-interest loans to eight promising indie documentary projects, including the latest work by Michael McNamara and Francine Pelletier.


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Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values by Sharon Beder
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anti-communist, battle of ideas, business climate, corporate governance, en.wikipedia.org, full employment, income inequality, invisible hand, liquidationism / Banker's doctrine / the Treasury view, minimum wage unemployment, Mont Pelerin Society, new economy, old-boy network, popular capitalism, Powell Memorandum, price mechanism, profit motive, Ralph Nader, rent control, risk/return, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, school vouchers, shareholder value, spread of share-ownership, structural adjustment programs, The Chicago School, the market place, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas L Friedman, Torches of Freedom, trade liberalization, traveling salesman, trickle-down economics, Upton Sinclair, Washington Consensus, wealth creators, young professional
During the First World War, propaganda was used for the first time 'as a systematic weapon of war'.11 Business leaders were not slow to learn from this demonstration of how public opinion could be shaped and harnessed, and they hired the very men who had achieved it to defend their public reputations and fight the unions.12 These men included Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays, each of whom has been cited as the father of modern public relations. Bernays was the first to write books on public relations and apply theory to their practice, seeking to utilize psychology, sociology and other social sciences to manipulate the desires and beliefs of members of the public in ways that went far beyond mere publicity and advertising. One of his most famous public relations 4 FREE MARKET MISSIONARIES strategies was the 1929 Torches of Freedom March he organized on behalf of the American Tobacco Company. It involved women marching through New York streets smoking cigarettes, thus associating women's rights and liberation with smoking without linking the march to his client.13 Bernays was a key proponent of the idea that 'changing the public's opinion – using public relations techniques – about troublesome social movements and labour unions, was far more effective than hiring goons to club people'.14 Despite a general improvement in public acceptance of large corporations, public relations expanded in the 1920s, as part of a 'conscious policy of managing public attitudes to retain' corporate power.
Ayer & Son 31 Nabisco 50 Nader, Ralph 64, 185, 198 Nadler, Richard 175, 176, 182, 183, 191 NAFTA 150 National Alliance of Businessmen 65 National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) 1935 Convention 30 1970s campaigns 75 anti-socialist message 38 campaign spending 26 community program outreach 18, 19 and Coors 109 decentralized approach 18–19 discredited 30 economic education programmes 46, 47, 49–50, 53 employee education 55–56 free market message 20–3 funding for associations 47 and pensions 172 post-war campaigns 35–36 pre-war political campaign 4–5, 13, 14–26 reactions to campaign 19–20 techniques 15–18 National Association of Secondary School Principals 52, 53 National Better Business Bureau 52 National Center for Employee-Ownership (NCEO) 179 National Center for Policy Analysis 176 National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) 203, 209–210, 214–219, 220 see also Joint Council on Economic Education (JCEE); education, standards in economics National Economic Council 48, 54 National Education Association 47, 52 National Education Business Partnership Network 214 National Education Program 54, 71 National Electric Light Association (NELA) 194 National Farmers Federation 132, 133, 137 see also McLachlan, Ian National Federation of Building Trades Employers 113 National Federation of Enterprise Agencies 214 National Federation of Independent Business 65 National Foundation for Consumer Credit 54 National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship 209, 212 National Industrial Conference Board 45 National Restaurant Association 172 National Science Teachers Association 52 National Tax Limitation Committee 118 nationalism 21, 25 nationalization 94 Nelson, Brendan 180 neo-classical economics 6–9, 94–95, 105, 159, 220 neo-liberalism 93–105 see also economics, economic rationalism; ideology, free market Nestlé 73, 211 New Deal 14, 15, 24, 117, 222 New Right 127, 130–131, 159, 160 New York Stock Exchange 53, 195 New York Times 45 New Zealand civil service 163 deregulation 152–155, 156, 163–165 economic advisers 152–156 economic literacy 218 New Right 130 privatizations 132, 138 social justice 153, 154, 163–164 258 FREE MARKET MISSIONARIES think tanks 129, 131, 132, 134, 135, 138 Treasury 152–156 US influence 154 Washington consensus 149 New Zealand Association of Economists 155 New Zealand Business Roundtable 104, 132, 133, 135, 155, 156 News Corporation 201 newspapers, campaigns 5, 15–17, 18, 26, 34–35, 68, 70, 71, 87, 110, 117, 120 Nimmanahaeminda, Tarrin 148 Niskanen, William 118 Nixon, Richard 64, 97, 99 Noble, Edward 109 Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) 99 North Limited 135 OECD 152, 154, 156, 159 Olin Foundation 73, 110, 119, 171, 209 opinion leaders 36 opinion polls/surveys 30–32, 56, 57, 66, 68, 86, 215–218 see also Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) 31, 35, 39–41, 45, 52, 55, 57–58 Ortiz, Guillermo 148 Packard, David 72 parent–teacher associations 36 patriotism 5, 14, 16, 21, 22, 25, 26, 33, 36 pensions, privatization 171–173, 181–184 see also social security People's Bicentennial Commission 66 Pepsico 73 Perle, Richard 121 Pfizer 119, 222 Philip Morris 69, 119, 222 Phillips Petroleum 70, 73 Pinochet, Augusto 97, 145–146 planning 96, 103 Poleconomy 87 policy institutes see think tanks political freedom, and free market 8, 21, 38, 41, 42, 48, 50, 67, 88, 95, 131, 145 pollsters' role 30–32 Porter, Michael 132, 133, 134, 137 Powell, Lewis 63–64, 72, 73, 109 Pratt, Dick 133 Prebble, Richard 153 PricewaterhouseCoopers 210, 212 privatizations Adam Smith Institute 113 Australia 132, 138, 183–184, 196 Chicago School 96 France 196–197 Germany 196 New Zealand 132, 138 public choice theory 105 social security 171–173, 181–186 UK utilities 102, 195–196 Washington Consensus 148 Procter & Gamble 15, 33, 38, 65, 110, 119, 209, 211, 222 Productivity Promotion Council of Australia 82 Profit Sharing Council of America 180 Progress for America 172 Progress Party 128 Project Victoria 134–135, 156 propaganda, etymology of 3 Proshare 178, 202 Protestantism 231 Psychological Corporation 25, 31 Public Affairs Council 79 Public Choice Society 103 public choice theory 103–105, 111, 128, 223 Public Media Center 66 public speeches 16, 35, 36, 39, 71 see also speakers Quaker Oats Company 53 radio programmes see broadcasting Rainbow Warrior 153 Rand, Ayn 127 Read, Leonard 45, 46, 93 Reader's Digest 45, 47, 49, 88 Reagan, Ronald 71, 97, 99–100, 101, 102, 103, 109, 110, 115–118, 121, 147, 149, 171, 182 regulation freedom from 5, 7, 8, 36, 37, 41, 83, 105, 149 See also free market, economic freedom opposition to 14, 21, 23-25, 38, 41, 46, 74, 86, 95, 98, 100, 102, 103, 110, 115, 116, 151, 176 see also government Reith, Peter 180–181 religion economics as religion 230–231 free market scriptures 6–9 missionary zeal 87 Protestantism and capitalism 231 Republic Steel 26, 33, 38, 58 Richardson, Ruth 132, 153 Rio Tinto 212 Roach, Ian 130 Robinson, Claude 45 Rochester University 96, 154 Roosevelt, Franklin 13, 14, 18 Roosevelt, Theodore 3 Rotary Clubs 36, 88 Roux, Michael 161 Royal Bank of Canada 220 Rumsfeld, Donald 171 Ryerson Inc. 70 Saint-Gobain 196–197 Santos 129, 130 Scaife, Richard Mellon 110 Scaife Foundations 73, 119, 171, 212, 223 Scanlan, Phil 135 school teachers 26, 36, 40, 41, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, INDEX 259 69, 70, 72–74, 80–81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 202–203, 209–210, 212, 222, 223–224 schools see education Schwab, Klaus 185 Sears/ Sears Roebuck 50, 57, 70 Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education (SIFEE) 203–204 share ownership annual general meetings 197 Australia 174, 180–181, 201–202 children 194–195 classes of shares 199, 201 decision-making power 197–202 election of boards 197–198 employee share ownership 177–181 holdings within shareholdings 201 institutional investors 198–199 'public' ownership 193–197 school education 202–204 shareholder democracy 8, 191–204 and social justice 192 statistics 199–202 Stock Market Game 203–204 United Kingdom 177, 178–179, 199, 200 US statistics 182–183, 201 wider ownership 173–177, 184–186 Shared Capitalism Institute 184–185 Shatner, William 70 Shell 73, 119, 127, 129, 133, 212, 222 Shell Australia 130, 135 Shell Canada 224 Shell Live Wire 214 Sherman, Alfred 113 Shultz, George 99 Simon, William 73 Singleton, John 127–128 Small Business Service 213, 231 Smith, Adam 6–7, 95 Smith Richardson Foundation 73, 110, 119 social justice Australia 165, 192 and free market 151–152, 153 New Zealand 153, 154, 163–164 and shareholder democracy 192 United Kingdom 149 social security 41, 96, 98 see also pensions, privatization socialism 38, 41, 47, 48, 49, 57, 71, 84 socially responsible corporate behaviour 174 Society for the Development of Austrian Economics 128 Society for Individual Liberty 128 South Korea 218 Southern California Edison 45 Soviet Union 59, 96 Spain 138 speakers 16, 18, 19, 26, 47, 50, 54, 63, 72, 80, 82, 85, 87, 88, 129 see also public speeches Standard Oil 3, 15, 31, 50, 51, 69 standards, economics courses 218–221, 222, 223 Stanford University 147, 148 Stanolind Oil and Gas Company 56–57 State Electricity Commission of Victoria 138 Stock Market Game 203–204 Stone, John 132, 133, 134, 137, 161 structural adjustments 146, 148–152 Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) 222 Sturgess, Gary 159–160, 161 Suncor 224 supply-side economics 100–102, 110 Sydney Institute 135–136, 204 Sydney Stock Exchange 82 Tasman Economics see Tasman Institute Tasman Institute 133–135, 138 taxation Australia 88, 128, 131, 132, 158, 164 free market ideology 95, 96, 118 IMF 147 New Zealand 153 public opinion 88, 175, 176 opposition to 14, 21, 23, 24, 35, 53, 82 Reagan era 116 shareholdings 174, 178, 179, 195, 196 social security 171, 172 supply-side economics 100, 101–102 United Kingdom 149, 178, 179 Washington Consensus 148, 149 technopols 149 see also economic advisers Telecom NZ 213 television see broadcasting Telstra (Australia) 196, 204 'Ten Pillars of Economic Wisdom' 47–48 Tenneco 73 Test of Economic Literacy (TEL) 216–217, 218 Texas Bureau for Econmic Understanding 71, 72 Texas Corporation 15 Texas University 73 Thailand 138, 148 Thatcher, Margaret 97, 99, 111–114, 116, 149, 196 think tanks Australia 84, 127–138 dissemination of free market ideology 110–122 funding 109, 110–111, 119 influence mechanisms 119–122 influence on economics teaching 223 and Mont-Pèlerin Society 94 New Zealand 129, 131, 132, 134, 135, 138 United Kingdom 111–115 United States 115–122 Third Millennium 184 Thomas, Jean-Pierre 185–186 'thought leaders' 36 TNT Express 211 tobacco, and women 4 Torches of Freedom March 1929 4 trade unions and Advertising Council campaign 33–34 Australia 87, 88, 133 banning 109 260 FREE MARKET MISSIONARIES and economics education campaigns 53 and NAM campaigns 4 and people's capitalism 177 post-war business propaganda 23–6 United Kingdom 98, 149–150 Trades Union Congress 179 Trotter, Ron 156 Truman, Harry 26, 38, 48 Tullock, Gordon 103 Turbull, Shann 180 UCLA 96 Uncle Abner 15, 17, 21 unemployment 16, 46, 68, 113, 97–100, 145, 150, 151, 153, 164, 174, 231 Unilever 209, 212 United Kingdom children and enterprise 209, 210, 211–212, 213–214 civil service 89, 163 economic education 79–81, 211, 213–4, employee share ownership 177, 178–179 inflation policies 98 Labour Party 48, 114 privatizations 102, 113, 138, 195–196 public view of business ethics 231 share ownership 195–196, 198–200 Thatcher economics 99, 149 think tanks 111–115 Washington consensus 154 welfare state 48, 150 universities 1970s free market education 72–74 Australian economics courses 89 centres of private enterprise 221–222 economics 96, 147–148 influence 154, 159 and Mont-Pèlerin Society 94 University of Canberra 160 University of Chicago 58, 94, 96, 99, 147 see also Chicago School University of Miami 74 University of Southern California 73 University of Virginia 96 Uranium Information Centre 224 US Chamber of Commerce 25, 26, 35, 36, 46, 47, 53, 63–64, 72, 75, 86, 117 US Civil Aeronautics Board 102 US Industrial Council (USIC) 70–71 US Steel 18, 22, 31, 50, 51, 54, 193 USIC Educational Foundation 71 utility companies 5, 138, 194, 195–196 see also electricity companies Vanderbilt, Cornelius 2 Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry 135 Victorian Employers Federation 134 Victorian Farmers Federation 134 Victorian Gas and Fuel Corporation 138 Vodafone 212 Voice of America 80 Volker, William 94 W.
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
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'We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of,' he wrote in his book Propaganda, '… It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.'27 Bernays invented the 'public relations' industry and rapidly became America's master wire-puller, convincing women (on behalf of the American Tobacco Corporation) that cigarettes were their 'torches of freedom', while persuading the nation (on behalf of the Beech-Nut Packing Company's pork department) that bacon and eggs were the 'hearty' all-American breakfast.28 Drawing on his uncle's insights into the workings of the human mind, Bernays knew that the secret to influencing preferences lay not in advertising a product's attributes (it's bigger, faster, shinier!) but in associating that product with deeply held values, such as freedom and power.
Kagel, J. and Roth, A. (1995) The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press pp. 253–348, cited in Beinhocker, E. (2007) The Origin of Wealth, London: Random House, p. 120. 26. Henrich, J. et al. (2001) 'In search of Homo Economicus: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies', Economics and Social Behavior, 91: 2, pp. 73–78. 27. Bernays, E. (2005) Propaganda, New York: Ig Publishing, pp. 37–38. 28. Edward L. Bernays video interview on the Beech-Nut Packing Co., available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vFz_FgGvJI, and on 'Torches of Freedom', available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pyyP2chM8k 29. Ryan, R. and Deci, E. (1999) 'Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations: classic definitions and new directions', Contemporary Educational Psychology 25, pp. 54–67. 30. Schwartz, S. (1994) 'Are there universal aspects in the structure and content of human values?', Journal of Social Issues 50: 4, pp.19–45. 31. Veblen, T. (1898) 'Why is economics not an evolutionary science?'
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
full employment, means of production, Plutocrats, plutocrats, South of Market, San Francisco, Thorstein Veblen, Torches of Freedom
Sixty strong, sixty loud, sixty wild, they come swinging into the great plush gold-and-marble lobby of the San Francisco City Hall with their hot dogs, tacos, Whammies, Frostees, Fudgsicles, french fries, Eskimo Pies, Awful-Awfuls, Sugar-Daddies, Sugar-Mommies, Sugar-Babies,, chocolate-covered frozen bananas, malted milks, Yoo-Hoos, berry pies, bubble gums, cotton candy, Space Food sticks, Frescas, Baskin-Robbins boysenberry-cheesecake ice-cream cones, Milky Ways, M&Ms, Tootsie Pops, Slurpees, Drumsticks, jelly dougnuts, taffy apples, buttered Karamel Korn, rootbeer floats, Hi-C punches, large Cokes, 7-Ups, Three Musketeer bars, frozen Kook-Aids--with the Dashiki Chief in the vanguard. In no time at all the man's dashiki is practically flapping in the breeze from the hurricane of little bodies swirling around, roaring about with their creaming wavy gravy food and drink held up in the air like the torches of freedom, pitching and rolling at the most perilous angles, a billow of root-beer float here ... a Yoo-Hoo typhoon there ... The kids have discovered the glories of the City Hall lobby. Such echoes! Their voices ricochet off the marble in the most groovy way. Screams work best, screams and great hollow shrieks ... and the most high-toned clatter of sixty pairs of little feet running at top speed ...
What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live by Rachel Botsman, Roo Rogers
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Airbnb, barriers to entry, Bernie Madoff, bike sharing scheme, Buckminster Fuller, carbon footprint, Cass Sunstein, collaborative consumption, collaborative economy, commoditize, Community Supported Agriculture, credit crunch, crowdsourcing, dematerialisation, disintermediation, en.wikipedia.org, experimental economics, George Akerlof, global village, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, information retrieval, iterative process, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, late fees, Mark Zuckerberg, market design, Menlo Park, Network effects, new economy, new new economy, out of africa, Parkinson's law, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, peer-to-peer rental, Ponzi scheme, pre–internet, recommendation engine, RFID, Richard Stallman, ride hailing / ride sharing, Robert Shiller, Robert Shiller, Ronald Coase, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, SETI@home, Simon Kuznets, Skype, slashdot, smart grid, South of Market, San Francisco, Stewart Brand, The Nature of the Firm, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Wisdom of Crowds, Thorstein Veblen, Torches of Freedom, transaction costs, traveling salesman, ultimatum game, Victor Gruen, web of trust, women in the workforce, Zipcar
He realized that the real desire for women was not the cigarettes themselves but the liberty to pursue the same things as men. During the 1929 New York Easter Parade, he arranged for a group of attractive young debutantes, including his own secretary, Bertha Hunt, to march in their Sunday best. On Bernays's signal, the women all lit up a Lucky Strike cigarette. Hunt's press release described the march as "Lighting the Torches of Freedom" in the interests of gender equality. And being the master of PR, Bernays saw to it that media throughout the world covered the event. The idea was that anyone against the idea of women smoking would appear to be against their liberty and freedom. Although this did not completely do away with the taboo against women's smoking, the number of women taking up smoking skyrocketed (American Tobacco's revenues jumped by $32 million in 1928 alone).6 In his memoirs, Bernays wrote, "It was on this day I learned that age-old customs could be broken down by a dramatic appeal, disseminated by the network of media."7 When you consider that the average person sees more than three thousand advertising messages per day, it is not surprising that we have become so seduced by the pull of the new and the desire for more.8 Influencers like Bernays were part of a wider force, which engineered and reinforced a system that converted consumers' wants into needs into everyday habits.
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco by Matthew Richard Poole
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Bay Area Rapid Transit, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable, game design, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, haute cuisine, Loma Prieta earthquake, Maui Hawaii, old-boy network, pez dispenser, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, Torches of Freedom, upwardly mobile
The city's more modern role as a catalyst for social change and the avantgarde began in the 1950s when a group of young writers and philosophers—including Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac— challenged the materialism and conformity of American society 2 by embracing anarchy and Eastern philosophy, expressing their notions in poetry. They adopted a uniform of jeans, sweaters, sandals, and berets, called themselves "Beats," and hung out in North Beach bars such as Vesuvio, Caffe Trieste, Tosca, and Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe (all of which are still in business). In the 1960s the torch of freedom passed from the Beats and North Beach to the hippies and Haight-Ashbury, but it was a radically different torch. The hippies replaced the Beats' angst, jazz, and poetry with love, communalism, rock music, and a back-to-nature philosophy. Timothy Leary (and many others) experimented with LSD and exhorted youth to "turn on, tune in, and drop out." In 1967, during the Summer of Love, thousands of young people streamed into the city in search of drugs, sex, and the sounds of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother and the Holding Company.
War Without Mercy: PACIFIC WAR by John Dower
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anti-communist, Bartolomé de las Casas, British Empire, colonial rule, European colonialism, ghettoisation, Gunnar Myrdal, labour mobility, land reform, Monroe Doctrine, Plutocrats, plutocrats, Scientific racism, South China Sea, Torches of Freedom, transcontinental railway
He proceeded to collect millions of feet of enemy film, to cut and edit this until the expressions of the Axis powers became lean anti-Axis images, and to juxtapose the menacing faces and words of the enemy against the bright hope and accomplishments of the American people and their allies. To be inspired with the will to win, Capra told his associates as they embarked on this work, Americans needed to be shown that they were fighting for the existence of their country, and at the same time were carrying the "torch of freedom" for a better postwar world–a world in which conquest, exploitation, and economic evils had been eliminated, and peace and democracy prevailed. This seemed a clear line, and a familiar one to anyone who recalled the idealistic Allied propaganda of World War One. A team of seven Hollywood writers was asked to prepare rough scenarios for a sequence of films conveying this message. Although the assignment seemed straightforward enough, the draft outlines Capra received upset him greatly, for in his eyes they were "larded with Communist propaganda."
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty by Benjamin H. Bratton
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Or it could go on a shopping spree and buy Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora, and Spotify. When it was done buying those companies, it would still have $59 billion in cash to spend on anything else it wants. See http://www.businessinsider.com/mind-blowing-facts-about-apple-2014-4?op=1#ixzz30L3YYeDJ. 57. In this famous TV advertisement aired only once—during the 1984 Super Bowl—a young rebel representing Apple hurls "a torch of freedom" into the screens on which the face of "IBM" drones on. The promise is that with Apple's new colorful day, 1984 (the year) will not be like 1984, the Orwellian dystopia. If the reader is unfamiliar with the advertisement, its Wikipedia page will explain its significance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_%28advertisement%29. 58. See Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
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When, for instance, the company wanted to do something dramatic in 1929 to counter the taboo against women smoking on the street, Bernays was allowed to engage the services of psychiatrist A. A. Brill, who counseled Hill that cigarettes were symbols of freedom for women as well as "a sublimation of oral eroticism; holding a cigarette in the mouth excites the oral zone," as Bernays recounted this flash of profundity. Thus, Brill concluded, "Cigarettes, which are equated with men, become torches of freedom." This last phrase sounded so uplifting that Bernays, with Hill's blessing, organized a "freedom march" led by ten debutantes and some prominent feminists who strode up six blocks of Fifth Avenue while smoking extravagantly as part of the Easter Sunday parade of finery. The stunt won enough publicity for Hill to seek analyst Brill's renewed counsel a few years later for a billboard campaign to show women smoking.
Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan by Lynne B. Sagalyn
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"Today we reclaim New York's skyline with a towering beacon to New York and our nation's resilience," Governor Pataki declared at the unveiling of the master plan's iconic visual landmark in mid-December 2003. "The Freedom Tower will be a proud new symbol of our country's strength—and a monument to our two lost icons." What the rhetoric promised, the architectural model put on view: a "unique geometrical torque of the building's tower" creating an asymmetrical form with a soaring offset 1,776-foot spire designed to "echo the profile of the Statue of Liberty's arm holding the Torch of Freedom."47 Symbolism infused the iconic tower's tribute to the American creed of freedom in every dimension: in name, height, size, and location—at the northwest corner of the site to complete the spiraling composition of the master plan's towers. The model's formal unveiling at Federal Hall, the classical building where the first U.S. Congress met and wrote the Bill of Rights and George Washington was inaugurated as president, conferred additional historic meaning on this early act of political symbolism.
The Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew
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Until 1931 the responsibility for dealing with civilian 'revolutionary movements' belonged to Thomson's Directorate of Intelligence and, after its demise, to the Special Branch. Kell was obliged to tell chief constables in 1925 that MI5 was'only concerned with Communism as it affects the Armed Forces of the Crown'. 'Civil' subversion was Thomson's responsibility.5 MI5's New Year card for 1920 showed the attractive figure of 'Liberty and Security' in diaphanous gown, holding aloft the torch of freedom and standing on a pedestal erected by the heroic efforts of British fighting and working men (stage right). But 'Liberty and Security' is menaced by an assortment of subversives (stage left): a defeated Hun in pumpernickel helmet (by now a reminder of past dangers rather than a present menace), the rebel Irish (a much smaller threat on the mainland than in Ireland) and Bolshevik revolutionaries.


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Review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 9: Flatline
Flatline sees Clara (Jenna Coleman) take a more central role, with her acting as the eyes and ears for the Doctor (Peter Capaldi). An unknown force is shrinking the TARDIS while the Doctor is trapped within. People have been disappearing in the area where they have landed; Clara and the miniaturised TARDIS with the Doctor inside must investigate.
The Doctor seems helpless and relies heavily upon Clara, who has to be more independent here. As for Danny (Samuel Anderson) he is still in the dark about the fact that Clara has chosen to continue travelling with the Doctor. A dramatic scene with Clara on the phone to Danny, who at the time doesn't have a clue of the danger Clara is in, is quite amusing to watch.
The Doctor's helpless entrapment in this episode makes him angry, but this doesn't stop him trying to find out what is causing the dimensions of the TARDIS to shrink on the outside. This adventure was a test for both Clara and the Doctor, with Clara growing frustrated as the Doctor fails to recognise her hard work.
There were hopes here that the Doctor would be warmer towards Clara, as he almost lost her as a companion earlier in the season, suggesting that Clara may experience another crisis of faith as to whether she should stay with the Doctor.
The episode was one of the scariest of the season, as we question whether the Doctor will survive, with the alien entity wanting to reduce our 3D world into 2D – plus, the great special effects really enhanced the action.
The mystery woman appears again (having recurred throughout the series), seeming to save some of the people who have died. Her identity, however, is still to be uncovered…


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Telematics gateway
Scale and Control Inc. (SCI) offers a telematics gateway and a database for fleet management purposes. The gateway is equipped with a CAN interface.
The U.S. company provides a dynamic solution for small and large fleet operations. The hardware and software solution reduce maintenance costs, said the supplier. The telematics gateway enables monitoring remotely on-vehicle equipment. It can set alarms and can send alerts via email or text to enable immediate action. This includes alarms for over-temperature, low fuel, low oil pressure, and
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Typical use cases include vehicle tracking, remote diagnostics, predictive maintenance, remote vehicle interaction, etc. The offered telematics database allows analysis of fleet activity and trends, real-time asset location viewable on graphical or satellite maps, configurable screen based on desired data, and much more on site or remotely.
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Small Budget, Big Memories: Vacation Is a State of Mind
Food is getting more and more expensive. Gas is over $4 a gallon and airfares are out of sight. That family vacation you've been looking forward to all year seems to be getting further and further out of reach. The choice between a winter's worth of heating oil or a week-long stay at the beach is really a no-brainer. But the part of you that really, really wanted a change is not at all happy with the decision to stay home.
It's hard to change plans. It's hard not to be resentful. It's even harder to feel like we're letting our kids down when they've been counting on returning to a favorite lake or amusement park that has been the family vacation routine for years. It's hard to be "responsible" when we'd really rather not be. And yet it's our job to be responsible. Even more important, it's our job to help kids see that when reality requires a change of plans, it doesn't require full-scale mourning. Our challenge is to show kids that people have the choice to be happy or miserable whether at the beach or in their own back yard.
My friend Penny figured this out years ago. A single mom with two girls, ages 8 and 10 at the time, she simply couldn't manage a vacation trip that summer. Imagine my surprise, then, to get a postcard that pictured our own lovely town common and a local postmark. "Having a wonderful time. Wish you were here!" Huh? So I called. The answering machine picked up: "Hi. We're on vacation in beautiful western Massachusetts. Leave a message and we'll get back to you when we get back next week."
Penny had taken a week off from work. She put a moratorium on all chores. She put the TV in a closet and limited time online to checking email once a day. She and the kids went to bed when they pleased and slept in every morning. They ate ice cream for breakfast. They went to see local attractions they had always meant to see but had never gotten around to. They put up a tent in the backyard and spent a couple of nights whispering ghost stories in the dark. They stayed away from malls and explored the nearby state parks instead. Most important, the girls had their mom totally to themselves for a week of spontaneity. What started as a make-do holiday turned into a yearly tradition until the girls got old enough for summer jobs that made coordinating schedules too hard. Even so, every now and then one of them would ask for a "vacation weekend."
"It's all in how you go about it," says Penny. I realized that lots of other people spend money to be tourists in our town. So I decided we'd be 'tourists' too. We went to the Chamber of Commerce office and picked up the brochures and maps they give to out-of-towners. Then we all agreed to spend the week pretending we didn't live here and that we were staying at a great bed-and-breakfast.
How To Make a Vacation at Home Truly a Vacation
The conversation with Penny led to talking with other people who have tried to vacation at home. The deciding factor between frustration and success seems to be the ability to set boundaries, i.e., a few rules that put a bubble around the vacation time to make it special. Boundaries that last for just that week or two set the vacation time apart from the usual routine. Boundaries say, "We're due for a change. We're on vacation."
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- Various types of screens. Get the kids and the adults away from instant messenger, Facebook, text messaging, email, video games, and TV. Focus on spending time together instead of of attending to different-sized screens. Make a game of it. Challenge the family to see if they can manage without screens for a week. Resurrect board games. Find outdoor activities that everyone in the family can do. Cook outside. Connect with each other instead of the virtual world.


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Andrea Grimes Parker
Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
Khoury College Courtesy Appointment
For a list of Andrea Grimes Parker's publications, please see her Google Scholar page.
CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Catalyzing Youth Civic Engagement Through Innovations in Social Computing
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CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Catalyzing Youth Civic Engagement Through Innovations in Social Computing
The award is for $469,248 over 3 years. The project is a collaboration between myself (PI), Brooke Foucault Welles in CAMD (co-PI), and Catherine D'Ignazio at Emerson College (co-PI). Our community partner for this project is The Center for Teen Empowerment, an amazing organization doing critical social justice work in MA and NY.
This grant will allow us to build and evaluate novel social computing tools that help youth to visualize, understand and leverage the social capital in their networks to engage in more effective activism around social justice issues.
This research will design, develop, and evaluate novel smartphone applications that help youth explore and leverage their social networks to engage in collective action, and assess the impact of this action. From affiliation with social movements through the use of Twitter hashtags, to collective organizing through Facebook, social computing tools have catalyzed new and exciting forms of civic engagement (efforts taken by individuals and collectives to address issues of societal concern). While historically it has been challenging to engage youth in civic action, social computing platforms offer a media-relevant way for youth to address issues that matter to them. However, despite increased opportunities for civic engagement online, youth can have difficulty navigating their social networks, which creates challenges for understanding and putting to use the social capital within networks, that is, the beneficial resources that can support collective action. This research examines how interactive visualizations of youth's social networks can help youth more effectively understand and put to use the social capital within their networks. Such visualizations may support civic engagement by easing access to the rich and complex information about social ties, helping youth evaluate the impact they have through online civic action, preparing them to make effective decisions about future activities. The work will include the design, development, and evaluation of two novel smartphone applications. Although there is a large literature on how best to visualize these networks from an algorithmic perspective, very little is known about how people, especially young people, interpret network visualizations, nor whether or when network visualizations may enhance access to and utilization of social capital. This project will contribute new empirical findings and novel software tools to fill this research gap. Additionally, although complex network data is increasingly packaged for public consumption, there are few standards for how to do so effectively, particularly in the context of mobile visualizations where small screen real estate dramatically amplifies the visualization challenge. The research will contribute new knowledge regarding how best to visualize network data for lay audiences, on the mobile platforms that people are increasingly using to interact with data. This work will yield empirical assessments of how designed interfaces can best manage the complexities of networked data in order to amplify cognition, action, and feelings of empowerment. This work will culminate in a conceptual framework to guide the design of social computing tools for youth civic engagement. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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Recent Publications
Social Computing-Driven Activism in Youth Empowerment Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities
Irannejad Bisafar, F., Martinez, L.I. and Parker, A.G. Social Computing-Driven Activism in Youth Empowerment Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, Montreal QC, Canada, 2018, 1-13.
Throughout the world, organizations empower youth to participate in civic engagement to impact social change, and adult-youth collaborations are instrumental to the success of such initiatives. However, little is known about how technology supports this activism work, despite the fact that tools such as Social Networking Applications (SNAs) are increasingly being leveraged in such contexts. We report results from a qualitative study of SNA use within a youth empowerment organization. Using the analytical lens of object-oriented publics, our findings reveal opportunities and challenges that youth and staff face when they use SNAs. We describe the illegibility of youth outreach efforts on SNAs, and how this illegibility complicated staff attempts to hold youth accountable. We also characterize how youth and staff differed in what they felt were socially appropriate uses of SNA features, and tensions that arose in the co-use of these tools. We conclude with implications for the design of collaborative technologies that support youth-led activism in organizational contexts.
Family Health Promotion in Low-SES Neighborhoods: A Two-Month Study of Wearable Activity Tracking
Herman Saksono, Carmen Castaneda-Sceppa, Jessica Hoffman, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Vivien Morris, Andrea G. Parker. 2018. Family Health Promotion in Low-SES Neighborhoods: A Two-Month Study of Wearable Activity Tracking. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM.
Low-socioeconomic status (SES) families face increased barriers to physical activity (PA)-a behavior critical for reducing and preventing chronic disease. Research has explored how wearable PA trackers can encourage increased activity, and how the adoption of such trackers is driven by people's emotions and social needs. However, more work is needed to understand how PA trackers are perceived and adopted by low-SES families, where PA may be deprioritized due to economic stresses, limited resources, and perceived crime. Accordingly, we conducted a two-month, in-depth qualitative study, exploring low-SES caregivers' perspectives on PA tracking and promotion. Our findings show how PA tracking was impacted by caregivers' attitudes toward safety, which were influenced by how they perceived social connections within their neighborhoods; and cognitive-emotional processes. We conclude that PA tracking tools for low-SES families should help caregivers and children to experience and celebrate progress.
Designing and Evaluating mHealth Interventions for Vulnerable Populations: A Systematic Review
Elizabeth Stowell, Mercedes C. Lyson, Herman Saksono, Reneé C. Wurth, Holly Jimison, Misha Pavel, Andrea G. Parker. 2018. Designing and Evaluating mHealth Interventions for Vulnerable Populations: A Systematic Review. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM.
Diverse disciplines, including Human-Computer Interaction have explored how mobile health (mHealth) applications can transform healthcare and health promotion. Increasingly, research has explored how mHealth tools can promote healthy behaviors within vulnerable populations-groups that disproportionately experience barriers to wellness. We conducted a systematic review of 83 papers from diverse disciplines to characterize the design and impact of mHealth tools in low-socioeconomic (low-SES) and racial/ethnic minority individuals. Our findings highlight that the diversity within low-SES and racial/ethnic minority groups was not reflected in the populations studied. Most studies focused on improving the health of individuals, often neglecting factors at the community and society levels that influence health disparities. Moreover, few improvements in health outcomes were demonstrated. We further discuss factors that acted as barriers and facilitators of mHealth intervention adoption. Our findings highlight trends that can drive critically needed digital health innovations for vulnerable populations.
Social Reflections on Fitness Tracking Data: A Study with Families in Low-SES Neighborhoods
Herman Saksono, Carmen Castaneda-Sceppa, Jessica Hoffman, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Vivien Morris, and Andrea G. Parker. 2019. Social Reflections on Fitness Tracking Data: A Study with Families in Low-SES Neighborhoods. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 313, 14 pages. DOI
Wearable activity trackers can encourage physical activity (PA)-a behavior critical for preventing obesity and reducing the risks of chronic diseases. However, prior work has rarely explored how these tools can leverage family support or help people think about strategies for being active-two factors necessary for achieving regular PA. In this 2-month qualitative study, we investigated PA tracking practices amongst 14 families living in low-income neighborhoods, where obesity is prevalent. We characterize how social discussions of PA data rarely extended beyond the early stages of experiential learning, thus limiting the utility of PA trackers. Caregivers and children rarely analyzed their experiences to derive insights about the meaning of their PA data for their wellbeing. Those who engaged in these higher-order learning processes were often influenced by parenting beliefs shaped by personal health experiences. We contribute recommendations for how technology can more effectively support family experiential learning using PA tracking data.
Previous Publications
A Sociotechnical Study of a Community-based Rewards Program: Insights on Building Social, Financial and Human Capital
Irannejad Bisafar, F., Ponnada, A., Shamekhi, A. and Parker, A.G., "A Sociotechnical Study of a Community-based Rewards Program: Insights on Building Social, Financial and Human Capital," Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 1, CSCW (2017), 1-21.
Individual empowerment is defined as an increased sense of confidence and control over one's life.
Empowerment is critical in low-income communities, and can be facilitated through the development of
social, financial and human capital. We present a qualitative study of a community program that seeks to
empower low-income neighborhood residents through a mobile application that connects them to local
resources. Our findings highlight how the application and offline socio-organizational mechanisms worked
in tandem to create gateways for capital building—sparking connections (to people and opportunities) that
residents leveraged with varying motivations and outcomes. We also discuss how the interplay of newly-developed
financial, social, and human capital contributed to residents' sense of empowerment and
impacted their families. We contribute to CSCW by extending an existing community informatics
framework, characterizing the value of sociotechnical systems that holistically build social, financial, and
human capital amongst neighborhood residents.
A Community Health Orientation for Wellness Technology Design & Delivery
Parker, A. G., Saksono, H., Hoffman, J. A., & Castaneda-Sceppa, C. (2017). A Community Health Orientation for Wellness Technology Design & Delivery. In Designing Healthcare That Works. 59-76.
Health promotion increasingly occurs outside of the boundaries of traditional care settings such as hospitals and clinics. Interventions that are anchored within community-based organizations, seeking to meet the nuanced needs of local residents, are a vital component of the wellness promotion ecosystem. These programs are particularly critical when addressing health in low socioeconomic communities, as the services may be more accessible, affordable, and relevant to the needs of populations facing significant barriers to wellness.
In this chapter, we examine how technology can become embedded within the context of community-based health interventions. We present a case study from our research, in which we employed a user-centered design process to create and evaluate a novel family exergame within a community-based organization. We use this case study to discuss the criticality, challenge, and benefits of integrating wellness technologies within a broader community health promotion infrastructure.
Reflective Informatics Through Family Storytelling: Self-discovering Physical Activity Predictors
Herman Saksono and Andrea Grimes Parker. 2017. Reflective Informatics Through Family Storytelling: Self-discovering Physical Activity Predictors. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '17, ACM.
HCI research has increasingly examined how sensing technologies can help people capture and visualize data about their health-related behaviors. Yet, few systems help people reflect more fundamentally on the factors that influence behaviors such as physical activity (PA). To address this research gap, we take a novel approach, examining how such reflections can be stimulated through a medium that generations of families have used for reflection and teaching: storytelling. Through observations and interviews, we studied how 13 families interacted with a low-fidelity prototype, and their attitudes towards this tool. Our prototype used storytelling and interactive prompts to scaffold reflection on factors that impact children's PA. We contribute to HCI research by characterizing how families interacted with a story-driven reflection tool, and how such a tool can encourage critical processes for behavior change. Informed by the Transtheoretical Model, we present design implications for reflective informatics systems.
Youth Advocacy in SNAs: Challenges for Addressing Health Disparities
Farnaz Irannejad Bisafar, Herman Saksono, Priscilla Baquerizo, Dana Moore, and Andrea G Parker. 2016. Youth Advocacy in SNAs: Challenges for Addressing Health Disparities. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '16: 3620–3624.
Social networking applications (SNAs) have been touted as promising platforms for activism: they provide a platform by which voices can be heard and collective action mobilized. Yet, little work has studied the suitability of existing SNAs for enabling youth advocacy efforts. We conducted an intensive 5-week qualitative study with 10th graders to understand how existing SNAs support and inhibit youth advocacy. We contribute to the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) by explicating several themes regarding the barriers youth face when using SNAs for advocacy, features in existing SNAs that are not suitable for youth advocacy, and the peer pressure youth perceive when advocating for serious issues in these environments. We conclude with recommendations for how existing SNA features could be reformed to better support youth advocacy.
Confidence & Control: Examining Adolescent Preferences for Technologies that Promote Wellness
Farnaz Irannejad Bisafar, Andrea G. Parker. 2016, "Confidence & Control: Examining Adolescent Preferences for Technologies that Promote Wellness", To appear in Proc. of the CSCW 2016.
Our work contributes to the growing body of CSCW research examining how technology can encourage wellness. In a 10-week participatory design study, we examined how technology can help teens overcome intra-personal and social barriers to healthy eating and positive relationships (the wellness topics of greatest interest to our participants). Our findings revealed teens' desire for expressive technology that helps them initiate dialogue, negotiate conflicts, and restrict communication with family, and their desired degree of engagement with tools promoting healthy eating (passively to actively involved in behavior change). Our analysis further yielded crosscutting themes: the importance of examining issues of self-efficacy, locus of control, and socio-ecological context in the design of health technology. We use our findings to contribute new directions for CSCW research: developing a nuanced perspective on the psychology of change, designing for varying levels of self-efficacy and locus of control, and problematizing the persuasive technology research agenda.
Spaceship Launch: Designing a Collaborative Exergame for Families
Saksono, H., Ranade, A., Kamarthi, G., Castaneda-Sceppa, C., Hoffman, J.A., Wirth, C. and Parker, A.G., "Spaceship Launch: Designing a Collaborative Exergame for Families," Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (2015), 1776-1787.
Parents play a critical role in facilitating children's physical activity, as they are an important source of modeling and support. While Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers have explored exergame design for children or adults separately, an important open area of work is identifying design guidelines for family exergames. One question that researchers have increasingly posed is, how can exergames be designed to avoid potential negative consequences of competition? To address these questions we designed Spaceship Launch, an exergame for parents and kids in lower income neighborhoods, where obesity is most prevalent. We describe our iterative design process: the formative study to identify design opportunities, our resulting system, and our field evaluation of the tool. Our findings highlight the impact of SL on physical activity intentions, and how parental preferences for in-game competition were aligned with the psychological needs of relatedness and competence. We conclude with design recommendations for future family-focused exergames.
Collectivistic health promotion tools: Accounting for the relationship between culture, food and nutrition
Parker, A.G. and Grinter, R.E., "Collectivistic health promotion tools: Accounting for the relationship between culture, food and nutrition," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 72, 2 (2014), 185-206.
Reflection-through-performance: personal implications of documenting health behaviors for the collective
Parker, A.G., "Reflection-through-performance: personal implications of documenting health behaviors for the collective," Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 18, 7 (2014), 1737-1752.
Previous work has examined how technology can support health behavior monitoring in social contexts. These tools incentivize behavior documentation through the promise of virtual rewards, rich visualizations, and improved co-management of disease. Social influence is leveraged to motivate improved behaviors through friendly competition and the sharing of emotional and informational support. Prior work has described how by documenting and sharing behaviors in these tools, people engage in performances of the self. This performance happens as users selectively determine what information to share and hide, crafting a particular portrayal of their identity. Much of the prior work in this area has examined the implications of systems that encourage people to share their behaviors with friends, family, and geographically distributed strangers. In this paper, we report upon the performative nature of behavior sharing in a system created for a different social group: the local neighborhood. We designed Community Mosaic (CM), a system with a collectivistic focus: this tool asks users to document their behaviors using photographs and text, but not for their own benefit—for the benefit of others in their community. Through a 6-week deployment of CM, we evaluated the nature of behavior sharing in this system, including participants' motivations for sharing, the way in which this sharing happened, and the reflexive impact of sharing. Our findings highlight the performative aspects of photograph staging and textual narration and how sharing this content led participants to become more aware and evaluative of their behaviors, and led them to try to eat more healthfully. We conclude with recommendations for behavior monitoring tools, specifically examining the implications of users' perceived audience and automated behavioral tracking on opportunities for reflection–through–performance.
I am what I eat: identity & critical thinking in an online health forum for kids
Parker, A.G., McClendon, I., Grevet, C., Ayo, V., Chung, W., Johnson, V. and Mynatt, E.D. "I Am What I Eat: Identity and Critical Thinking in an Online Forum for Kids," Proceedings of CHI'13 (2013), 2437-2446.
As kids encounter food advertisements, it is important that they be able to critically evaluate the message's claims, the healthiness of the promoted product and their desire for it. To explore how technology might help kids develop these skills, we created an online forum called TalkBack that encourages children to critically analyze the messaging in food ads and their attitudes towards marketed foods. We evaluated TalkBack with twenty-eight middle school students in a summer camp program. We discuss how participants appeared to project and protect their sense of self through their interaction with TalkBack. We also describe the limited analytic depth of their forum contributions and suggest directions for HCI research that attempts to encourage critical thinking and health promotion in adolescents.
Health promotion as activism: building community capacity to effect social change
Parker, A.G., Kantroo, V., Lee, H., Osornio, M., Sharma, M. and Grinter, R.E. "Health Promotion as Activism: Building Community Capacity to Affect Social Change," Proceedings of CHI'12 (2012), 99-108.
As HCI researchers have designed tools to promote wellness, disease has often been approached as a general problem. In contrast, public health research argues for an activist approach focused on how certain groups disproportionately experience disease and eliminating these disparities. Taking this activist stance, we examine how technology can reduce health inequalities by disrupting power relationships and helping communities pursue social change. We discuss our tool, Community Mosaic (CM), which allows individuals to share their healthy eating ideas with one another as a means of advocating behavior change. Our results characterize how CM helped facilitate activism (i.e., collective efforts to counter local challenges to healthy living) and shift users' attitudes regarding their role as advocates for health. We contribute to the field of HCI by using our findings to present a set of recommendations for future research focused on designing and evaluating health promotion tools using an activist lens.
Let's play!: mobile health games for adults
Grimes, A., Kantroo, V. and Grinter, R.E. "Let's play!: mobile health games for adults," Proceedings of Ubicomp'10, 2010, 241-250.
Researchers have designed a variety of systems that promote wellness. However, little work has been done to examine how casual mobile games can help adults learn how to live healthfully. To explore this design space, we created OrderUP!, a game in which players learn how to make healthier meal choices. Through our field study, we found that playing OrderUP! helped participants engage in four processes of change identified by a well-established health behavior theory, the Transtheoretical Model: they improved their understanding of how to eat healthfully and engaged in nutrition-related analytical thinking, reevaluated the healthiness of their real life habits, formed helping relationships by discussing nutrition with others and started replacing unhealthy meals with more nutritious foods. Our research shows the promise of using casual mobile games to encourage adults to live healthier lifestyles.
Celebratory technology: new directions for food research in HCI
Grimes, A. and Harper, R., "Celebratory Technology: New Directions for Food Research in HCI," CHI'08 (2008), 467-476.
Food is a central part of our lives. Fundamentally, we need food to survive. Socially, food is something that brings people together-individuals interact through and around it. Culturally, food practices reflect our ethnicities and nationalities. Given the importance of food in our daily lives, it is important to understand what role technology currently plays and the roles it can be imagined to play in the future. In this paper we describe the existing and potential design space for HCI in the area of human-food interaction. We present ideas for future work on designing technologies in the area of human-food interaction that celebrate the positive interactions that people have with food as they eat and prepare foods in their everyday lives.
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"Rubber Duckie" is Ernie's signature song, a tribute to his beloved Rubber Duckie. The song enjoyed popular fame, reaching number 16 on Billboard's "Hot 100 Singles" chart in 1970.[1] It was even nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children, but it lost to The Sesame Street Book & Record, which also contains the song.
Ernie originally performed the song in the first season of Sesame Street, singing in a bathtub in a room that resembled his living room. The most common version, filmed for the second season, features Ernie in a bathroom with a plain blue background. (First: Episode 0136) The song has been dubbed into many different languages, a montage of which was featured in the special Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting.
In 1974, Ernie sang the song as "El Patito," with a new Latin arrangement, translation by Wyatt Day, and Spanish-language vocals by Jim Henson. This version was released on the album ¡Sesame Mucho!, and later issued as a single backed with the original English version in 1976.
A new version of "Rubber Duckie" with Ernie was filmed in season 30, using the original album recording with Jim Henson's vocals (First: Episode 3842). Similarly, the same track was also used for a film segment showing various kids taking baths (First: Episode 3811). In addition to Ernie, the song has also been covered by Little Richard, Bob McGrath and other artists.
- Ernie sang a few lines from the song in a segment where he prepares for a bath. (First: Episode 0269)
- The Two-Headed Monster sing a line from the song in a 1980 sketch where they take a bath.
- Bob whistles the tune as he bathes in Episode 1797.
- The sketch "Best Friend Blues" begins with Hoots the Owl asking Ernie if he wants to sing "Rubber Duckie."
- An instrumental version of the song is heard during a 1996 sketch starring Grover and Mr. Johnson in a department store.
- The tune is briefly quoted in the last few notes of "Songs" in Elmopalooza.
- An instrumental version of the song is used as the music button for a season 30 sketch where Ernie loses Rubber Duckie.
- In Elmo's World: Babies when Elmo is counting ducklings, the tune of the song is played.
- "Another Sunny Day" from the Sesame Street Live show Out of This World briefly changes to the tune of "Rubber Duckie" as Ernie sings a solo verse about his duck.
- The song is used in the score of Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic, as Ernie and Bert imagine themselves in a bathtub.
- "Rubber Duckie" is quoted musically several times in the Journey to Ernie segment "Musicland." (First: Episode 4031) Ernie and the Two-Headed Monster also sing lines from the song.
- The song underscores the "Ducks in a Row" game on Play with Me Sesame.
- In a flashback sequence in Episode 4067, The Electric Three (Gordon, Bob and Luis' garage rock band) perform the song.
- A clip of the Season 30 remake is seen in a 2008 promo for Sesamestreet.org. The score quotes a bit of the song as the clip plays.
- Chris hums the song while taking a bath in Episode 4214.
- At Sesame Street at SeaWorld, a hidden interactive element on the back door of 123 Sesame Street (enabled only by the park's special Elmo wands) has Ernie singing the first verse of the song.
- Jeff Moss squeaked a duckie during the original recording, and has squeaked the duck in all subsequent Rubber Duckie recordings. The same Rubber Duckie has been used because nobody could find a duckie that could match the sound of the original.[2]
- Before the documentary Sesame Street Unpaved aired on TV, Noggin's website featured "Rubber Duckie" and three other classic clips for fans to vote on (with "Rubber Duckie" getting the most votes).
- Sesame Street Songbook Vol. 1
- The Sesame Street Song Book (1971, 1992 and 2007 editions)
- Songs of Sesame Street (1977)
- The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures (1983)
- The Reader's Digest Children's Songbook (1986)
- Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets (1986)
- Jim Henson: The Works (1993)
- Sesame Street Unpaved (1998)
See also
- ↑ The Greatest TV Moments: Sesame Street Music A-Z
- ↑ Christopher Cerf, Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music booklet, page 12


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ADULTS / USMS Members who wish to register for the POOL MEET EVENTS shall click on this link for MASTERS POOL MEET registration.
YOUTH / USA SWIMMING Members who wish to register for the Junior Olympic Open Water Championship shall click here for YOUTH OPEN WATER registration.
Open Water Dates: Saturday, June 29 - Sunday, June 30, 2019
Open Water Distances: 1 Mile Saturday and 3 Miles Sunday; swimmers may enter both distances.
LOCATION: East Beach, 1118 East Cabrillo Blvd Santa Barbara, CA 93101. From the 101 Freeway going North, exit at Cabrillo Blvd (exit 94C), the exit is on the LEFT. Left on East Cabrillo Blvd. East Beach and PAY parking lots will be on your Left. From the 101 Freeway going South, exit at Garden Street (Exit 96C). Right onto Garden Street to East Cabrillo Blvd. Left on East Cabrillo Blvd. East Beach and PAY parking lots will be on your Right.
RULES: The current USMS and USA Swimming open water rules will govern the Open Water Swims as outlined in Part 3 of the USMS 2019 Rule Book and Part Seven of the 2019 USA Swimming Rules and Regulations Handbook.
ELIGIBILITY: All swimmers must be registered with USMS for 2019 or USA Swimming for 2019 or foreign equivalents. You must submit a copy of your 2019 USMS card or USA Swimming card or foreign equivalent at check-in. Age for USMS participants is Age as of December 31st, 2019 except for 18 year olds, who must be 18 on the day that they swim. There will be No One Event USMS Registration (OEVT) for the One Mile and Three Mile Sanctioned Swims.
SCHEDULE: One mile Saturday June 29. Three mile Sunday June 30.
Check-In Begins – 7:30 AM
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Pre-Race Briefing/Safety Meeting – 10 minutes prior to the start of each race.
Competition starts – 9:30 AM
The one mile will be a one loop rectangular course.
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START TIMES: Start times are as listed above, but may be adjusted based on the number of entrants. Pre-registered athletes will be informed of any changes via email. Events will be swum in order. Events may be started prior to the completion of the previous event(s) at the discretion of the Referee. Details of the competition schedule will be discussed during the pre-race briefing.
CHECK-IN: Swimmers must report to the check-in table appropriate for their age and gender for check-in packet, numbering and chips. Chips must be worn.
SAFETY PROCEDURES: There will be a mandatory Pre-Race Briefing held 10 minutes before competition begins to discuss the course, rules and safety procedures. The Referee will remove any swimmer from competition who does not attend the pre-race briefing or is found to be inattentive during the briefing. Course will be patrolled by qualified safety personnel. For safety reasons, participants should be adequately trained for open water competition. City of Santa Barbara Lifeguards reserve the right to remove any swimmer from the course. Previous open water experience is recommended. Safety watercrafts and lifeguards on paddleboards will monitor the entire course. Swimmers must wear body-marked race numbers on arms for identification. The safety of swimmers is our primary concern. Therefore, this event may be delayed or canceled due to poor conditions. The Event Director and City of Santa Barbara Lifeguards will make this decision.
ATHLETE ATTITUDE: Athlete conduct will be governed by Part Seven of the USA Swimming Rules and Regulations Handbook. Intentional obstruction, interference or intentional contact with another swimmer may be deemed "Unsporting Impedance" and lead to disqualification. Swimmers shall maintain clearance from other swimmers except at the start, turn, and the finish or where the course or race conditions dictate otherwise. Parents and swimmers should be advised that if there are a significant number of entrants, open water swimming may be expected to involve inadvertent contact with other swimmers. It is important that swimmers keep a cool head while in the water.
SWIMWEAR: No fins, buoys, or other devices will be allowed. Swimwear shall be made from textile materials and not contain clasps or zippers. For both men and women, the swimsuit shall not cover the neck and shall not extend past the shoulder nor below the ankles. Wetsuits are permitted in the USMS Wetsuit Division. Wetsuits are not permitted in the USA Swimming Division.
Open Water REFEREE: Paul firstname.lastname@example.com
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Open Water SAFETY DIRECTOR: Rick Hubbard-805-896-6460
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The Independent Safety Monitor has the final authority on whether the events will be held.
ENTRY FEES/PROCEDURES & DEADLINE: USMS (adults) entry fee per race distance is $45, or the combo $56. USA Swimming (youth) entry fee per race distance is $35, or the combo $45.
START/FINISH TIMING SYSTEM: There will be a beach start and beach finish. A chip timing system will be used. Chips must be worn on the ankle.
TIME LIMITS: Swimmers not completing the race course within 30 minutes of the first athlete to cross the line will be notified that the race is over and that they must leave the water at that time. Results will show their time as Did Not Finish (DNF) and will not be eligible for awards.
AWARDS: Top three in each age group for Men and Women: 18-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, (additional 5 year age groups as needed); Top three overall in Men's and Women's Wetsuit divisions.
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OPEN WATER EVENT WARM-UP PROCEDURES: An area adjacent to the competition course will be available for warm-up and warm-down at designated times. Swimmers found in the water outside of the designated area and not engaged in competition will be scratched from the meet regardless of whether or not they have completed their events.
WATER TEMPERATURE: Between 63 and 68 degrees
RECORDING DEVICES: Use of audio or visual recording devices, including a cell phone, is not permitted in changing areas, rest rooms, or locker rooms.
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The Zachary Bornheimer Quartet will take center stage at the Lake Wales Arts Center for their Tribute to John Coltrane on 2/8/19 at 7:00 PM.
Jazz composer and saxophonist Zachary Bornheimer's lyrical improvisations and melody-driven compositions have sparked international and national intrigue with performances in Florida, Chicago, Italy, France, England, and terrestrial radio. Bornheimer was a 2017 Fellow at RSMI's Program for Jazz and a Y2K Fellow at the University of South Florida, where he earned his MM in Jazz Composition.
Bornheimer's small and large ensemble works are noted with accolades: his composition "Haunted Lullaby of the Forgotten" is one of the winners of Ravinia's Bridges competition, he is the first 2x winner of the Owen Prize in Jazz Composition for his composition "Elegy" (2017) arrangement of Donny McCaslin's "Henry" (which was premiered by McCaslin), and his composition "Color Shift" was both a Finalist for The 2015 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards was selected for part of the the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers' 2017 Symposium for the New Music Workshops.
Bornheimer was a Finalist for the 2017 VSA's International Young Soloist Award and was selected by Billy Childs, Nathan Davis, and Rufus Reid for the RSMI 2017 All Star Quintet. Bornheimer has performed with Chick Corea, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, The Four Seasons (The Modern Gentleman), and saxophonist Jack Wilkins, along with various guest artists while at USF including: Maria Schneider, Rufus Reid, Steve Houghton, Ron Blake, Donny McCaslin, Gary Smulyan, and more. Bornheimer was recently appointed instructor of Saxophone at Eckerd College.


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SBI Group is one of the largest multi-billion dollar financial institutions in Japan that operates with three core businesses in asset management, biotech, and financial services. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao announced that the firm has already begun the discussions to create a project for R3 that uses Ripple (XRP) more extensively.
"We have already begun discussions to create a project to use XRP for R3. By using R3, XRP is used more extensively," Kitao said in a speech.
SBI Group has worked with R3 to create a variety of blockchain-based systems to be utilized by large-scale conglomerates since they led a $107 million funding round for R3CEV in May 2017.
"We regard blockchain as the core of FinTech innovation and are working on various measures both in Japan and abroad. Through this effort, we believe that we can contribute to the progress of the global blockchain field," SBI Group said at the time.
In April of this year, SBI Group in Russia joined the R3 blockchain consortium to cooperate with hundreds of financial institutions within the consortia in testing blockchain products.
The Japanese firm has not released any additional details regarding the integration of XRP in the new project that the bank is currently developing, according to sources.
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"It's been an incredible 2018 for us. We're now signing up one bank to a production contract per week. We announced that we signed the largest bank in Kuwait, the National Bank of Kuwait, so it [Ripple] continues to build momentum and the dynamic there is the network effect. The more participants, the more value in joining. So we're seeing that momentum build," Garlinghouse said.
The Ripple CEO also stated that the company intends to bring a dozen of major banks onto its blockchain network.
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