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EXIDE VERNON MEDIA ROUND-UP – Residents urge closure of Exide lead smelter during first SCAQMD hearing
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Downey), who represents many of the affected areas, called the company "one of the worst environmental polluters of lead and arsenic in California."
"Without board action … hundreds of thousands of local residents and their children will continue to be at risk of silently being poisoned by dangerous emissions," she said.
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Exide Technologies Hearings Begin In Los Angeles
Exide Technologies runs a lead-acid recycling operation in Vernon, California that has been emitting lead and arsenic into the neighboring communities for many years. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) held its first hearing on Saturday, December 14 on its request that an Order for Abatement issue to shut Exide's Vernon operation until Exide makes upgrades to its pollution control systems to reduce arsenic pollution. You can read SCAQMD's request here. My NRDC colleague Melissa Lin Perrella and I attended the hearing on the campus of Cal State LA.
Hundreds of community members attended the hearing and many spoke of their desire to shut Exide down. The Hearing Board allowed all community members to speak, despite Exide's request to limit public testimony to the technical issues arising from the Order for Abatement. Some of the most powerful testimony came from Father John Moretta of the Resurrection Church in Boyle Heights, who has seen his parishoners affected by pollution from Exide for decades; you can read about his remarks in the LA Times story about the hearing here.
Exide recycles used automobile batteries at the rate of 20,000 to 40,000 per day. That is a lot of batteries! Exide melts down the old batteries in two furnaces and creates lead ingots which it then sells. The heart of the Order for Abatement proceeding is whether those furnaces are required to maintain negative pressure inside , so that any airflow is into the furnace, not out of it, and no "fugitive emissions" from the lead smelting process escape into the air. Exide does not dispute that its furnaces don't have this feature, but claim that they are not required to have it under Exide's existing permits and SCAQMD rules. Exide also claims that its processes are now so clean that there is no appreciable excess health risk to the community and so no reason to shut it down. These legal and technical issues will be resolved in a series of hearings; the next is January 7, 2014 at SCAQMD headquarters in Diamond Bar.
On a different track, SCAQMD is working on a regulation that, among other things, would clearly require Exide and a neighboring lead-acid battery recycler, Quemetco, to maintain negative pressure in their furnaces and to meet certain emissions standards for lead and arsenic. Lead is a very dangerous neurotoxin whose negative effects on IQ and learning ability can last a lifetime. Arsenic is a known carcinogen. Melissa and I have attended a number of working groups on this proposed regulation, which is scheduled for consideration before the Governing Board of the SCAQMD on January 10, 2014. Based on industry comments so far, I'd say that Exide will likely do everything it can to avoid further regulation, including pursuing litigation.
The Exide situation is very important for the East L.A. community and for SCAQMD. I'll write again after the January 7, 2014 hearing.
Hundreds Turn Out for Exide Closure Hearing
Vernon battery recycler faces new clean up order.
By Nancy Martinez, EGP Staff Writer
The state Department of Toxic Substance Control ordered Exide Technologies in Vernon to conduct an emergency clean up of off-site contaminated soil, dust and sediment at several locations and in at least two storm drains within 1,500 feet of the plant that been found to have concentrations of lead and other metals at or near hazardous-waste levels. Concerned that anticipated rainfall could wash the hazardous waste into local storm drains, officials on Monday told Exide in a letter the clean-up must be done by Dec. 31.
DTSC's emergency order comes in the heels of a hearing last Saturday during which hundreds of angry residents from southeast Los Angeles County told a Southern California Air Quality Management District independent hearing board they are fed up with the battery recycler and want the facility shut down.
Residents were joined Saturday by a number of elected officials representing the area impacted – from Boyle Heights to Huntington Park. Exide however was not without its own group of supporters, many of them workers at the plant and local union representatives.
Exide workers and residents from throughout Southeast Los Angeles County attend Exide's abatement hearing at CSULA. (EGP photo by Nancy Martinez)
The formal judicial proceeding held Saturday at Cal State Los Angeles marks the latest round to hold accountable the Vernon based facility accused of failing to maintain toxic lead and arsenic emissions at permissible levels, thereby allegedly elevating the cancer risk for more than 100,000 people living in the region.
The hearing was held in response to SCAQMD's petition to temporarily shut down Exide's smelting operations until it upgrades its air pollution control systems to reduce the release of toxins into the air.
Exide and SCAQMD presented their cases to the board before the start of public testimony. To promote greater participation from the community, air quality officials provided a free shuttle service to and from the meeting.
Nancy S. Feldman, attorney for the air quality district, told the hearing board Exide's air pollution control system is not adequately controlling emissions from its blast furnace.
According to the district's petition, Exide is accused of consistently violating its permit conditions and District Rule 1407, which requires that good operating practices be used to maintain air movement and emission collection efficiency.
"We will establish that Exide's air pollution control equipment has insufficient draw to control the arsenic emissions into its air pollution control system as intended," Feldman said in her opening remarks. She said the problem has been further compounded by leaks in the furnace.
But Exide's lead attorney Steve O'Neill argued that Exide's current emissions do not exceed limits set by AQMD.
He said the facility has made substantial improvements since emission samples were taken back in March. Relying on data from those tests would be "relying on obsolete evidence," he said.
In March, air quality officials found lead and arsenic emissions from the battery recycler high enough to warrant notifying 200,000 residents in Boyle Heights, Maywood, Vernon, Commerce, East Los Angeles and Huntington Park that their cancer risk had been raised.
O'Neil also called the argument for requiring negative pressure "incomprehensible."
"The District is making a highly technical argument," he said, adding they had failed to identify what "design criteria has not been complied with by Exide."
But Feldman said the reduced risk of arsenic exposure does not equate compliance with all other district rules and regulations.
During public testimony, speaker after speaker said health and safety, not technicalities, are what matters. They cited personal cases of cancer, asthma and other health issues they believe were caused by the lead battery recycler.
"We know… that there is no safe level of lead in children's blood," said Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, who represents many of the impacted cities and neighborhoods. "Without board action the environment and quality of life of hundreds of thousands of local residents and their children will continue being at risk of silently being poisoned."
O'Neill, however, said AQMD must prove its case with facts, not "emotional" testimony.
"This [hearing] is not a referendum on Exide's popularity," he argued. "The central issue is simple: Is Exide operating its furnace and control equipment as designed and engineered and permitted by AQMD?"
Feldman, hoping to make the district's case more understandable, used the analogy of a household vacuum cleaner to further her argument.
She said a vacuum cleaner is supposed to suction up dirt and debris, filter and capture it in a canister. But if the vacuum's suction capabilities are not strong enough, not everything will be picked up and the debris could instead be scattered into the air "before it ever reaches the filters."
"But what if all that dust, dirt and debris from the vacuum cleaner also contained toxins, poisons, things that were carcinogenic," she said. "While this case may focus on the technical issues, we must not lose sight on the fact that an order of abatement is to protect the public health"
Boyle Heights resident Arturo Herrera, pictured, expresses his frustrations with Exide Techonogies, during the SCQAMD hearing Saturday at CSULA. (EGP photo by Nancy Martinez)
O'Neill claims the district is trying to impose requirements on Exide that currently do not exist in the district's rules or Exide's permit.
But Feldman says the abatement order is not about trying to enforce a non-existent requirement, but "giving meaning and substance to the rules that are already on the book."
"No matter how the district tries to word its argument the fact remains that the district is trying to impose a standard that does not exist in any rule or any permit condition," said O'Neill.
He said AQMD's hearing board can only issue an abatement order if there is an ongoing violation and shutting down the operation is necessary to stop the violations.
"The rules language states in present tense that the rule must be 'being' violated in order to justify abatement," he said. "A historic violation that has been remedied or fixed cannot provide basis for abatement."
Santiago Rosas, an Exide worker for over 32 years, called on the hearing board to look at actual facts, not just information from people who do not know about the plant's operations.
"Exide has spared no expense by using first quality and top of the line equipment," he said in Spanish.
Exide's lawyers say the closure order is being fueled by politics, not facts. They claim an unnamed politician confronted AQMD's Executive Officer Dr. Barry Wallerstein to find a "creative way" to shut down Exide at a public meeting at Resurrection Church on Oct. 8, 10 days before the abatement petition was filed.
"We are here because of political and public pressure," O'Neill said. "There has been a great deal of political and public pressure on state environmental agencies to shut down Exide since the health risk assessment results."
It was a point echoed by many speakers, with most seeing the move to seek closure as a positive outcome of efforts to pressure air quality officials to move in that direction.
"Absolutely we are!" responded Martha Molina-Aviles, field director for Sup. Gloria Molina. "These [residents] have come to us and asked for us to advocate on their behalf because they have not been listened to prior to this."
Longtime Boyle Heights community activist, Monsignor John Moretta of Resurrection Church, testified Exide has not done enough to win back the community's trust. He said the company released higher than safe levels of arsenic while it was being closely monitored following findings of too high lead emission.
Moretta said he was there not because of "political pressure," but out of "moral pressure."
"Can you imagine how we felt, first lead, now arsenic," said Moretta. "Exide has not been a company of their word; they have been given many opportunities to clean up their act."
Several speakers called for the plant to be permanently closed, rather than temporarily as called for in SCAQMD's petition. They said public health should be the priority.
"Put some teeth on these orders to keep these companies from throwing out emissions and endangering our community," said Boyle Heights resident Arturo Herrera.
Some, however, see the state agency's petition as overreaching. They say approval would not solve the health and environmental problems in the community.
"Closing Exide is not going to get rid of cancer, autism or asthma," Huntington Park resident Esmeralda Rosas said.
David Campbell, secretary-treasurer of United Steel Workers Local 675, in a statement called for keeping the plant open in order to protect 100 good paying union jobs.
On Saturday, O'Neill emphasized that Exide had never been cited for violating Rule 1407 until Dec. 4, days before the hearing. He argued the district's move to amend its rules to require negative pressure contradicts its allegation that Exide is violating the negative pressure requirement.
The state's department of Toxic Substance Control in April tried to close the plant due to its hazardous emissions, but Exide appealed and a judge overturned the order.
Saturday's hearing was the first of several hearings to be held as part of the petition process. The next hearing will be held January 7, 2014 at the board's Diamond Bar headquarters. Testimony is expected to continue in subsequent days and another community hearing will be announced before closing arguments.
Residents urge closure of Exide battery recycling plant
A hearing focuses on concerns over arsenic and lead emissions from Exide Technologies' plant in Vernon. The company says it has reduced emissions.
|A warning sign is posted outside Exide's plant in Vernon. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times / April 24, 2013)
One by one, hour after hour Saturday in a ballroom at Cal State Los Angeles, residents, elected officials and activists from southeast Los Angeles pleaded with an air district hearing board to shut down a Vernon battery recycler accused of endangering hundreds of thousands of people because of unsafe arsenic and lead emissions.
"I'm a mother, asking you, please, do something," said Sandra Martinez. "I go days without sleeping, worrying about my child dying in his sleep from asthma."
But company officials and workers from Exide Technologies, one of the world's largest recyclers of lead acid batteries, made a passionate case of their own that the plant's emissions no longer pose a health risk, and that the air district lacks the authority to force it to shut down or make certain other operating changes.
Exide employee Juan Felix said he has seen "vast improvements" to reduce emissions at the plant. "They do care about the community and they do care about the health and safety of employees," he said. "Take the time to look at the facts."
Saturday's hearing was the first of several planned on a petition filed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District in October calling for a halt to lead smelting operations at Exide "until its air pollution control systems are improved and deemed adequate" to control toxic emissions.
A health risk assessment released earlier this year found that the plant was posing an elevated cancer risk to 110,000 people living from Boyle Heights to Huntington Park because of arsenic emissions. The plant, which opened in 1922 and was taken over by Exide in 2000, has also been cited several times in recent years, often for exceeding permissible levels of lead.
In April, the state department of Toxic Substances Control, which oversees the plant, moved to shut it down temporarily, citing health risks, but Exide appealed and a judge allowed the plant to resume operations.
Stymied, the state entered into an agreement with the company in which Exide agreed to spend $7.7 million for a new storm water system and improvements to reduce arsenic emissions. The company will also pay for voluntary blood tests for hundreds of thousands of people who might have been affected.
That did little to satisfy furious residents in southeast Los Angeles County, who have accused the company of poisoning their community and regulatory agencies of allowing it to happen.
In October, Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and state Sens. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) and Kevin de Le¿n (D-Los Angeles) confronted regulators in front of an angry crowd at Resurrection Church in Boyle Heights, demanding that officials do everything in their power to protect the public.
Ten days later, the air district, which regulates air emissions independently from the state toxics agency, issued its petition to shut down the plant.
Now, under air district rules, an independent, quasi-judicial panel will take testimony from both sides and from members of the public before ruling.
In her opening statement, Nancy Feldman, the air district's lawyer, compared Exide's pollution control system to a vacuum cleaner that spews dust and debris from the carpet "out of the sides before it ever reaches the filters in the vacuum" and "more distressing …it actually spits dirt right out the front, back onto your carpet."
"You better buy a better vacuum cleaner," she said.
Exide's lawyer, Stephen O'Neil, countered that Exide's arsenic emissions have plummeted since the source tests on which the health risk assessment was based. He also charged that the air district, in response to political pressure, is trying to impose conditions that are not actually enshrined in law on the company.
"Truth No. 1: The Exide facility's current emissions are not creating a health risk," he said, adding that the hearing process should not be "a referendum on Exide's popularity."
Many who packed into the ballroom did not appear convinced.
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Downey), who represents many of the affected areas, called the company "one of the worst environmental polluters of lead and arsenic in California."
"Without board action … hundreds of thousands of local residents and their children will continue to be at risk of silently being poisoned by dangerous emissions," she said.
Others made more personal pleas, telling of relatives who have died of cancer, or who suffer from asthma.
Some also complained that other, less harmful air pollution threats, such as a pungent chili smell from the Sriracha hot sauce factory in Irwindale and the fire rings in Newport Beach, have resulted in shutdown orders, while Exide has been allowed to continue to operate.
Responding to Exide's complaint that the air district was acting under political pressure, Monsignor John Moretta of Resurrection Church said: "I'm not here because of any political pressure. I'm here because of a moral pressure…. Can you imagine how we felt, first lead and now arsenic?"
Proponents of keeping the plant open, meanwhile, repeatedly emphasized that emissions are way down; Exide has also submitted a detailed plan for further reduction to the air district.
Exide officials and workers warned that shutting the plant would eliminate well-paying manufacturing jobs and leave few options for safely recycling batteries. The Exide plant is one of just two west of the Rocky Mountains.
"We share the company's commitment to health and safety and, on behalf of the 100 union workers and families from the communities surrounding the Vernon site, we ask our fellow Californians to support [keeping the plant open with new emission controls] to protect the environment and preserve these good jobs," said David Campbell, secretary-treasurer of United Steel Workers Local 675, in a statement.
The next hearing on the Exide question will be Jan. 7 at air district headquarters in Diamond Bar.
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Air Regulators Seek Public Comment on Vernon Battery Recycler
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An employee wearing a breathing mask works at Exide Technologies, a battery recycling plant has discharged harmful amounts of lead into surrounding communities.
Update 5:00 p.m: More than a hundred people turned out for the South Coast Air Quality Management District's hearing about the Vernon-based Exide battery recycling plant.
AQMD is asking for the district's independent quasi-judicial board for an abatement order that would force Exide to halt all lead smelting operations until it comes into compliance with rules to control emissions of arsenic metals from its blast furnace.
The air district said the battery recycler hasn't property maintained air pollution control systems in the past, which resulted in excess emissions of lead and arsenic.
AQMD lead attorney Nancy Feldman made the district's opening statement.
She said Exide's argument is that the company has decreased its arsenic emissions since air quality regulators became aware of the problem but she argued that doesn't mean the company is in compliance.
"These rules are adopted solely to protect the public health and welfare of every person living in the South Coast air basin," Feldman said.
Exide officials contend the company has already taken measures to significantly reduce emissions by installing filtration systems and closing up previously exposed areas of the plant.
Attorney Steve O'Neill spoke on behalf of Exide. He said there is no existing rule on the books that would require the plant to have negative pressure in its blast furnace.
"The district is trying to impose a standard that does not exist in any rule or any permit condition," he said.
O'Neill also testified that Exide's testing shows a 98% reduction in emissions.
Members of the public including; state and local politicians, and resident of cities that neighbor the battery recycling plant in Vernon, also spoke. Most residents expressed concerns about their health and the health of loved ones. Several told stories of neighbors dying of cancer and respiratory breathing problems.
Sandra Martinez asked for the plant to be closed. She talked about her son who frequently visits the emergency room frequently with asthma problems.
"I want my children to live a long life," she said. "I want them to be here when I pass away. I don't want to bury a child."
Others said they're frustrated with having to attend multiple regulation hearings about Exide's operations.
"Let's look at some of the other communities that are being helped out with having polluters taken out of the neighborhood," said Boyle Heights resident Jose Gonzales. "Newport Beach took out fire rings."
At least three people spoke in support of Exide, claiming the company has made improvements over the last few years. One woman said plant employees are residents from the surrounding communities with good jobs.
"I ask that the board actually looks at facts when they make the ruling," said Juan Felix who described himself as a plant worker.
David Campbell is the secretary-treasure of the local United Steel Workers union that represents workers at the Exide plant. He acknowledged the community's concern but believes Exide is serious about solving its environmental problems.
"Clearly there are a lot of people who want the plant shut down but they are frustrated by the past," he said. "I can't really blame them for that."
Campbell said he doesn't want to see workers pitted against the community.
The board will hold one more public hearing to gather testimony from the community. A separate meeting is scheduled for Jan. 7 at AQMD's Diamond Bar location.
-Erika Aguilar
Update 10:15 a.m. The public hearing has begun. Dozens of people are in attendance. Representatives from Exide Technologies and South Coast Air Quality Management will make opening statements and then take comments from residents.


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A warm welcome to all the new Reception children and families! Please watch the video for a tour of the classroom and areas of the school. I can't wait to meet you all in September!
Hello everyone!
Just a little note to say that I will continue to upload activities and games that you can play at home and a lot of what is being uploaded is what we are doing in school too.
However if you wish to top up the activities then please follow the links to some really good websites.
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P.E will be on Friday mornings starting on the 13th September. Your child can come to school in their P.E kit and stay in it all day. Please make sure everything is labelled and earrings are removed.
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Here at St Mary's we offer the children a practical play based learning environment, providing children with adult focused and child initiated activities both inside and outside. We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage framework.
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The earliest hacks were MIT-inspired and targeted at Harvard sporting events. The Harvard-Yale football game has been the primary target of MIT's hacks on Harvard. In 1940, MIT students burned the letters of their institute into the Harvard football field (Peterson 172). Reports of failed hacks on the 1948 and 1978 games exist, but the most storied prank came in 1982. Engineered by three separate groups, a six-foot-diameter MIT balloon filled with white powder inflated and exploded at the forty-six yard line, MIT's band sneaked onto the field at halftime to spell "MIT" in formation, and an array of cards disguised to spell "Beat Yale" but which actually spelled "MIT" were distributed (Peterson 172 and 176). MIT President Paul E. Gray claimed, "There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that I had anything to do with the planning or promoting of [the hack], but I wish there were" (Schwarz 1). The MIT community proudly supported the pranksters. The Harvard reaction was mixed. Backup Joe Ippolito was named hero of the game by his teammates for throwing a stone at the balloon, and Harvard Coach Joe Restic complained, "I didn't think that this was the appropriate place…It is not part of the game and could have altered the outcome" (Berman). However, Harvard President Bok deemed the prank "a stunning practical joke" (Berman).
During the 1990 game, members of the MIT fraternity Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) planted and launched a rocket over the field goal posts, draping a massive MIT banner over the goal (Peterson 176). In Katherine Shim's November 20, 1990 article in The Tech, three ZBT brothers claimed credit for the prank and proudly divulged both the intricate plans behind the 1990 success and the unfortunate flaws of previous failed attempts (Shim 1-2). The conception, planning, and execution of the hack were detailed in full and distributed through the highly read school newspaper, a testament to the unifying impact of the hacking rivalry on the MIT community as a whole. The school-wide support and interest also reveals MIT's embrace of its role as technical instigator.
In the 2006 game, MIT hackers changed Harvard's "VE-RI-TAS" logo on both sides of the scoreboard to "HU-GE-EGO" (Pentacoff). Reaction to or pride in this hack was not publicized in either The Tech or The Harvard Crimson except for a lone photograph, perhaps because of its abnormally disparaging nature. The tone of this hack provides a great insight to the MIT-Harvard hacking rivalry, which seems rather one-sided up to this point. Unlike some of the past engineering-feat hacks that had a playful tone, this one was a direct shot at the character of Harvard students and received no response from either administration. The hack exudes resentment of Harvard's Ivy League status, but neither MIT's administration nor student body embraced the hack's uncharacteristic direct aim at Harvard's perceived self-importance. It appears the MIT community generally views itself as an adroit instigator, not a rude troublemaker.
"It appears the MIT community generally views itself as an adroit instigator, not a rude troublemaker."
Overall, the football game hacks revealed important characteristics of the early rivalry. MIT was the instigator, pitting its engineering prowess against Harvard's sports prowess. However, although the hacks lacked reciprocity, they were generally appreciated by both parties. In a 2008 account of her visit to the Harvard-Yale game, a Harvard student wrote, "[The MIT hack] has always amused me—MIT nerds feeling left out by the ceremony of self-importance and athletic exclusivity upriver, and resolving to crash the party" (Konrad). While the Harvard student's arrogant sentiment is not representative of Harvard's outlook, it reveals a fueling stereotype in the rivalry.
MIT hackers are not only out to poke fun at Harvard's sports snobbery but love spoiling their fellow Cambridge residents stuffy traditions as well. On September 13, 1990, a group of hackers swooped into Harvard Yard and stole a silver plate, the Yard Plate, which freshmen spent the whole night searching for in their annual hunt (Stone 1). The pranksters delivered it to the office of MIT's president. The next day, dressed in his ridiculous academic regalia (bonnet, gown, and royal cane) and escorted by a line of police cars, President Paul E. Gray presented the Yard Plate to the Harvard administrators on a lavish pillow (Stone 2). The theft and return of the Yard Plate were parodies of Harvard's proud traditionalism, something that stands in stark contrast with MIT's techy modernism.
While MIT's hacks on Harvard-Yale football and Harvard's Yard Plate traditions exhibited MIT students' pride in their creativity, they have also been one-sided ventures that fall short of provoking an enthusiastic spirit of retribution on the part of MIT's "victim." Harvard's disinterest may stem from a hidden insecurity, a fear that it could not match the creativity and ingenuity of MIT. In contrast, when the MIT student government humorously granted Harvard colonial status in 1982, and gave an MIT sophomore jurisdiction as governor over the college (Peterson 177), former Harvard Student Assembly Chairman Andrew Hermann poked back. He encouraged the imposition of a massive blockade around Harvard, sneering, "What are they going to attack us with–calculators and slide rules? They don't even have a football team" (Marshall). Harvard Dean of Students Archie C. Epps added, "I didn't realize that they learned anything about American government at MIT" (Marshall). The retaliation was indirect and hack-less, expressing a combination of mild disinterest, intellectual condescension and an aloof above-these-shenanigans attitude. However, the verbal assault suggests participation in a two-sided rivalry. Harvard parodied MIT's narrow academic focus, inferior athletics program, and nerd stereotype. Harvard had finally deigned to get involved, but in its own vernacular: the snide repartee. It raises the question: Might Harvard's superior attitude also cover an insecurity of its own—that it can't quite match the upstart up the river on MIT's own turf of ingenuity and engineering prowess?
"Harvard had finally deigned to get involved, but in its own vernacular: the snide repartee."
Starting in 1960, MIT has made a ritual of attacking another icon of Harvard's old and hoary history and traditions: the statue of the founder, John Harvard, that sits outside Harvard's University Hall. In 1979, hackers attached a giant Brass Rat, MIT's iconic class ring, to the statue's finger (Peterson 181-182). MIT students also dressed the John Harvard Statue in a leg cast after Yale trounced Harvard in a 1990 football game; a Spartan helmet and futuristic rifle for the 2009 Halo 3 video game release; and a full wardrobe of MIT logo apparel for no special occasion. Because adorning architecture with humorous accessories or collegiate paraphernalia requires little effort or planning and there are so many susceptible sculptures around the MIT campus, such as the Alchemist, Harvard's lack of pranks on the MIT campus confirms an apathy that classifies this hacking-rivalry as one-sided. Harvard students can spar with barbed comments, but they won't travel up the Charles to take practical revenge on the MIT campus. A brief 1995 episode epitomizes Harvard students' apathy. It took an MIT facilities employee (who was a Harvard graduate) to strike MIT's campus with a hack, inserting a brass H into a replacement sidewalk (Peterson 179). Of course, MIT retaliated brilliantly and immediately with the installation of a brass H with a beaver gnawing on it on the sidewalk outside the Great Dome (Peterson 179).
Tech Rival
If Harvard has acted the part of apathetic rival, dragged in as an only half-hearted participant, Caltech is the eager opposite, launching the first salvo in the cross-country hacking skirmishes between the two technological institutes. Caltech struck first in 1984, hacking the scoreboard of the nationally televised Rose Bowl football game to make it appear that Caltech was trouncing MIT rather than UCLA beating Illinois (Mohammad 1). What were their motives? How significant was it to them? I couldn't have found a more emphatic answer, as I open a scanned version of The California Tech. In the left corner is "Caltech 38" and in the right corner is "MIT 9"; both are typed in massive bold font and boxed, dominating the page as only the Super Bowl score does on Sports Illustrated's front cover (Mohammad 1). A full-page photograph of the scoreboard from the hill on which the remote hackers stationed themselves and the title "Tech Scores Big at Rose Bowl" accompany the emphatic header (Mohammad 2). The orchestrators mention nothing of their choice of MIT as the losing score, as if MIT is the obvious candidate to the Caltech students and faculty, but what is obvious is that it was a big deal and that the hacking rivalry was initiated by Caltech.
I return to the two college newspaper archives. Come on MIT, get them! 1984, nothing. 1985, nothing. MIT did not respond, and Caltech struck again in 2005 at MIT's Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). Disguised Caltech students passed out 400 t-shirts to accepted pre-freshmen at the CPW academic and athletics fairs that had MIT on the front and "because not everyone can go to Caltech" on the back (Fu 1). They also filled Lobby 7 with 100 orange balloons and a miniature CIT blimp, covered the word "Massachusetts" with a banner that read "That Other" on the Building 7 MIT inscription, planted five-foot-tall inflatable palm trees on the Great Dome, and flashed the letters C-A-L-T-E-C-H onto the Green Building with a green laser (Seigel 2). The Caltech pranksters even created a website displaying the score of the prank battle–Caltech 6, MIT 1–encouraging retribution (Seigel 2). MIT hackers swiftly changed the banner to read "The Only," and engineered a harness to retrieve the miniature blimp floating in Lobby 7, counteractions that confirmed a two-sided hacking war (Wang 14).
Why were the pranks conducted during CPW? Caltech put on a mocking display of MIT in front of MIT's pre-freshmen, potential enrollees–what might be interpreted as a humiliating message of superiority. However, this does not appear to be the motive of the Caltech pranksters. Caltech sophomore Todd Gingrich claimed, "We thought that if we could do something to MIT it would create some energy around here," and MIT hackers told reporters that the Caltech students explicitly encouraged them to retaliate (Elton). Caltech pranksters did not seek to humiliate its tech rival. They wanted to reignite a hacking war for the mutual benefit of both institutes. Confirming that hacking is embraced by all levels of the MIT community, Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones agreed, deeming the pranks "hilarious" and responding that "CPW was a perfect time, as it helps spark interest in the hacking culture at MIT" (Wang 14). Both sides seem to be on the same page about the motive: reviving rivalry. While I would expect any institution to angrily expel and publically ignore the mischief, MIT orchestrated a playful and clever retribution. This speaks a lot about MIT's character. Although often the instigator, MIT can take a taste of its own medicine and even rise up to reciprocate.
"Although often the instigator, MIT can take a taste of its own medicine and even rise up to reciprocate."
A year later, MIT struck back with a bang. Under the clever disguise of Howe & Ser Moving Company, five to seven MIT students hitched Caltech's iconic Fleming Cannon to the back of a pickup truck, provided fake work order documents to campus security guards, and loaded the cannon into a rented moving truck for a cross-country journey (Hiszpanski 1 and 5). On April 6, 2006, the cannon appeared on MIT's campus with a massive gold brass rat, MIT's iconic class ring, on the barrel (Vogt 1). The Caltech victims were not going to back down. Twenty-three Fleming House residents flew out to Boston and met with seven local alumni, with whom they even plotted a helicopter extraction of the stolen cannon (Peterson 12).
MIT peacefully returned the cannon to Caltech on April 9, ending another back-and-forth episode in the MIT-Caltech rivalry. In this episode, the bar was raised, as pranks on both sides required larger hacking groups (24 MIT students and 23 Caltech students) with more intricate coordination and greater engineering feats, namely cross-continental cannon removal and giant, gold ring construction and potential helicopter extraction. Caltech got the retaliation they asked for in 2005 and some more. The cannon heist was directly motivated by the rivalry, according to an anonymous MIT hacker who claimed, "Caltech issued the challenge last year…and then we took the cannon in response…Now the ball is in their court" (Elton). The MIT students' response highlights the inspiring one-up nature of this playful rather than bitter rivalry. Caltech President of the Associated Students, Todd Gingrich, agreed: "[The hack] suggests the prospect of a back and forth thing in the future, which is something many Caltech students are excited about" (Vogt 11).Side by side, the 2005 and 2006 CPW rival hacks reveal a meticulous attention to detail, which sheds light on and confirms the motives of ingenuity and school pride. The CPW hacks also suggest that MIT has found a capable and interested rival in Caltech, which has proved its ability to match the ingenuity and enthusiasm of MIT.
"Both rivalries provide venues for social cohesion on various levels of the MIT community."
In its rivalry with Harvard, MIT is the instigator. It is a culture war of sorts, in which Harvard and MIT have rigid, well-defined senses of their own and each others' characters–the well-rounded, traditional, responsible, favored oldest brother, Harvard, and his singly focused, contriving, nocturnal, underdog younger brother, MIT, striving for more attention. On the other hand, the MIT-Caltech hacking rivalry seems to be a reciprocal struggle between similar cultures competing for the pinnacle of superior technological ingenuity. Both rivalries provide venues for social cohesion on various levels of the MIT community. Small groups of hackers bond over the intensive planning and execution. The MIT faculty and student body proudly unite over the public displays of engineering excellence and intense school spirit.
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Elton, Catherine. "Comedy on Campus: MIT Takes on Caltech for Prank Distinction." The Boston Globe 19 April 2006. Web.
Fu, Meng-Meng. "Caltech 6, MIT 1." The California Tech 11 April 2005: 1. Print.
Hiszpanski, Anna. "Flemming Cannon Gone." The California Tech. 3 April 2006: 1,5. Print.
Konrad, Alexander. "Harvard-Yale's Third Party." The Harvard Crimson 21 November 2008. Web.
Marshall, Jessica. "Student Leaders at MIT Claim Harvard as Colony." The Harvard Crimson 21 April 1982. Web.
Mohammad, Hossein. "Tech Scores Big at Rose Bowl." The California Tech 6 January 1984: 1,2. Print.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
auxin \aux"in\ n. 1. a substance which, in small concentrations, promotes root formation, bud growth, or certain other processes such as fruit ripening or leaf drop in plants.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plant growth hormone, 1934, from German (1931), from Greek auxein "to increase" (see augment) + chemical suffix -in (2).
n. (context botany English) A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle.
n. a plant hormone that promotes root formation and bud growth
Auxins (plural of auxin ) are a class of plant hormones (or plant growth substances) with some morphogen-like characteristics. Auxins have a cardinal role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant's life cycle and are essential for plant body development. Auxins and their role in plant growth were first described by the Dutch scientist Frits Warmolt Went. Kenneth V. Thimann isolated this phytohormone and determined its chemical structure as indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). Went and Thimann co-authored a book on plant hormones, Phytohormones, in 1937.
Usage examples of "auxin".
In the same way, auxins will concentrate on the lower side of a stem held horizontally, curving the tip upward.
One of the most powerful of the auxins was discovered through studies of a plant disease.
Geotropism seems also to be mediated by auxins, but how the distribution of auxins can be affected by gravity is not yet understood.
The best-known of these auxins is a compound called indolyl-^-acetic acid, commonly abbreviated 7AA.
Many of the movements of plants are governed by the distribution of these auxins.
One of the most powerful of the auxins was discovered through studies of a plant disease.
Many synthetic compounds have been shown to have auxin activity and are commercially available, such as napthaleneacetic acid (NAA), indolebutyric acid (IBA), and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4 DPA), but only indoleacetic acid has been isolated from plants.
Natural plant growth substances such as auxins, cytokinins, and gibberellins are certainly responsible for the control of root initiation and the rate of root for- mation.
Starch levels drop, strengthening tissues and fibers begin to soften, cell wall thickness decreases, vascular tissue is diminished, auxin levels rise, and undifferentiated tissue begins to form.


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$200M Obama Inc. Cashes In: 8 Things To Know About The Emerging Obama Media Empire
Barack and Michelle Obama are literally America's sweethearts. With Michelle being voted as the most admired woman in the world and Barack tying with his successor Donald Trump for most admired man of 2019, their appeal stretches across race, culture, creed and class. That's why it's no surprise they've decided to use their talents post-presidency to venture into storytelling.
The power couple and former U.S. first family founded Higher Ground Productions – a media company launched in partnership with streaming giant Netflix, with whom the Obamas have a multi-project deal.
They discussed their move into the media and entertainment business with Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, who directed "American Factory," the award-winning documentary film that is also Higher Ground's first release, Variety reported.
Here are 10 things to know about the Obama media empire and Higher Ground Productions Company.
Multi-year deal with Netflix to produce films and series.
The Obamas created Higher Ground Productions after signing a multi-year deal with Netflix to "produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries and features. These projects will be available to the 125 million-member Netflix households in 190 countries," according to a press release.
Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said, "President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and the Higher Ground team are building a company focused on storytelling that exemplifies their core values. The breadth of their initial slate across series, film, documentary and family programming shows their commitment to diverse creators and unique voices that will resonate with our members around the world."
Harnessing the power of storytelling to amplify marginalized voices
"We all have a sacred story in us, right? A story that gives us meaning and purpose and how we organize our lives," Barack said in the clip. "A good story is a good story. If it's a documentary like yours or if it's a scripted story that helps people understand something they didn't understand before, we want to see if we can give voice to it."
"Higher Ground is a reflection of both of us," Michelle said in the clip shared in a Vanity Fair article. "So that means that our platform is gonna look a little bit like everything, just like the world is a little bit of everything."
Women are in executive leadership roles at Higher Ground
The Obama media empire was cemented by placing women at the helm as executive leaders. They hired Priya Swaminathan and Tonia Davis as co-heads of their company, according to Deadline. Qadriyyah "Q" Shamsid-Deen was also appointed as a creative executive. The women have massive experience between them, and Barack and Michelle Obama sang their praises.
"With Higher Ground Productions, we hope to bring people together around common values and uncommon stories—and Priya, Tonia and Q are precisely the people to bring that vision to life," Barack Obama said. "They're masterful storytellers. They're veterans in the industry. And they not only bring their unique perspectives and life experiences to every project, but they're committed to finding new voices who have their own stories to tell. Michelle and I couldn't be more excited about the team we're assembling."
"Our goal isn't just to make people think—we want to make people feel and reach outside of their comfort zone. With their thoughtfulness, creativity and empathy, we know that Priya, Tonia and Q will find the common thread within every story to inspire us to be something more. I'm thrilled about this team as professionals—and as people. They're wonderful," Michelle Obama added.
The initial slate includes a range of programming
In addition to "American Factory," the Obama media empire will produce a variety of other projects. According to The Hollywood Reporter (THR), they range from biographies and documentaries to scripted and unscripted original programming.
THR wrote: "Initial projects include a feature adaptation of David W. Blight's best-selling 'Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom; 'Bloom,' an upstairs/downstairs post-World War II drama series written by Callie Khouri; the scripted anthology series 'Overlooked,' based on the New York Times' ongoing obituary column; the kids nutrition series 'Listen to Your Vegetables & Eat Your Parents;' and a docuseries based on Michael Lewis' 'The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy,' which takes aim at the Trump administration — perhaps the lineup's only arguably partisan offering."
The Obamas have a $65M book deal with Penguin Random House
The Obamas have inked one of the largest book deals in history with Penguin Random House for two standalone works, Publisher's Weekly reported.
As a part of the deal, Penguin Random House pledged to donate 1 million books to First Book, a nonprofit that provides books to disadvantaged children, Newsweek reported.
Though initially believed to be a gamble, Michelle Obama's "Becoming" memoir became one of the best-selling memoirs of all time.
RELATED: Michelle Obama's Book Sold 10M Copies, Could Be Best Selling Memoir Ever
The Obamas signed a deal to produce podcasts for Spotify
Last summer, Barack and Michelle Obama signed a deal with Spotify to produce podcasts on the streaming service. Much like their Netflix slate, they said they want to use the platform to amplify marginalized voices and bring people closer together.
"We're thrilled to have the opportunity to amplify voices that are too often ignored or silenced altogether, and through Spotify, we can share those stories with the world," Michelle Obama said in a press release. "Our hope is that through compelling, inspirational storytelling, Higher Ground Audio will not only produce engaging podcasts, but help people connect emotionally and open up their minds—and their hearts."
"We've always believed in the value of entertaining, thought-provoking conversation," President Obama added. "It helps us build connections with each other and open ourselves up to new ideas. We're excited about Higher Ground Audio because podcasts offer an extraordinary opportunity to foster productive dialogue, make people smile and make people think, and, hopefully, bring us all a little closer together."
Oprah Winfrey gave the couple suggestions on who to hire to run their company.
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey revealed that she gave the presidential couple some advice after Barack reached out asking for advice on the Obama media empire.
"When they were starting, (Barack) called me for names to run (their company), and I offered him some," she told O Magazine. "They ultimately were not the people he chose, but that's fine. There's nobody like them. Nobody. Their desire to want to use this medium to tell stories, to show us our history, to bring an informational, inspirational approach to content—I'm looking forward to seeing whatever that's going to be."
Trademark Battle
The Obamas are in a trademark battle with a Hanisya Massey, a Black woman from California who owns Higher Ground Enterprises, reported the New York Times.
According to the report, Massey trademarked the name of her Covina, California-based computer training company in 2017. When the Obamas tried to trademark their productions company, the United States Patent and Trademark Office said it was too similar.
Initially, the Obamas offered to purchase the name from Massey, but after Massey furnished her own demands, including asking to be featured in some of the Obamas' projects, the presidential couple filed a petition to cancel Massey's trademark. Experts say litigation of the matter could take years.


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"....The alternative strategy – and the task now facing the Tunisian people – is to build a wide coalition of the forces that can dismantle the legacy of the despotic post-colonial state and bring about the change their people have been yearning for decades. This has been the driving force for the alliance being forged between the Communist Workers' Party, led by Hamma al-Hammami, the charismatic Moncef al-Marzouqi's Congress Party for the Republic, and Ennahda, led by my father Rachid Ghannouchi, along with trade unionists, and civil society activists.
Their shared bitter experience of prison and exile has made them more pragmatic, and thus more capable of standing up to dictatorship and building a strong alliance around the demand for real change. This politics of partnership and consensus is what Tunisians and Arabs need to dismantle the structures of totalitarianism which have held them in their iron grip for generations."


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The CSC board of directors has approved a merger with the enterprise services arm of Hewlett Packard Enterprise to create a merged group with annual revenues of US$26 billion and more than 5,000 clients in 70 countries.
HPE shareholders will control 50 percent of the combined entity, with the remainder to be held by CSC's investors under the proposal, which is still subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.
The deal is expected to deliver approximately US$8.5 billion (A$12.5 billion) to HPE's shareholders on an after-tax basis.
The new company's board will be split 50/50 between directors nominated by HPE and CSC. Mike Lawrie, the current head of CSC, will become chairman, president and CEO of the new company, while HPE chief executive Meg Whitman will join the board of directors.
CSC's current chief financial officer, Paul Saleh, will continue in that role in the new company after the transaction closes, expected to be March next year.
Following the spinoff, HPE will focus on software-defined infrastructure and servers, storage, networking, and converged infrastructure, as well as its Helion Cloud platform and software assets.
The deal will unwind HP's US$14 billion acquisition of the IT services firm EDS in 2008 under then chief executive Mark Hurd.
"Together, CSC and HPE's Enterprise Services will have the scale, foundation and next-generation technologies to innovate, compete and grow in a rapidly changing marketplace," Lawrie said in a statement.
Meanwhile, CSC is splitting its commercial information technology division - the business that will merge with the HPE unit - from its government arm, which will remain independent.
Late last year, it acquired Australian IT services provider UXC Limited for $428 million.


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The MPTS2020 workshop is intended as an informal consultation step about the development of criteria for evaluating multi-party threshold schemes for the cryptographic primitives identified in NISTIR 8214A. The organizers are asking the community of stakeholders to participate by providing examples, suggestions and recommendations for the multi-party track of the standardization process considered by the NIST Threshold Cryptography (TC) project. The collected feedback will be taken into consideration in the development process.
Primitives (see NISTIR 8214A, Section 4.1):
Some related topics (see NISTIR 8214A, Section 5):
The Threshold Cryptography (TC) project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is exploring the potential for standardization of threshold schemes for cryptographic primitives. The goal of the multi-party track (see NISTIR 8214A) is to enable the distributed execution of key-based primitives when the keys are secret-shared across multiple parties. By applying a threshold scheme, the confidentiality of the original key is preserved even if some threshold number of parties are compromised. A threshold property can also extend to other security aspects,such as integrity and availability of the operation.
The current focus of the project is on devising criteria for evaluation of threshold schemes that may be proposed in the future for consideration in the TC multi-party track. To develop such criteria, it is essential to obtain meaningful and timely feedback from expert stakeholders. The NIST Workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes (MPTS 2020) is organized as a step to enable the organizers to collect useful feedback from the community. The organizers ask the community to aim at recommendations that promote security, practicality and interoperability, under the umbrella of improving best practices and fostering innovation, within the scope of standardization.
Workshop structure. MPTS 2020 will be a virtual workshop. The presentations and comments will be recorded and made publicly available after the event. The workshop will last three days,with up to four hours per day. The program will be based on two types of contributions:
We invite the community of stakeholders to participate in the workshop and share their views on threshold schemes for the multi-party track of NISTIR 8214A, and give recommendations on criteria for their standardization. We will publish the collected feedback after the workshop.
Content scope. This workshop and the multi-party track of the TC project cover the cryptographic primitives highlighted in Section 4.1 of NISTIR 8214A. The organizers are interested in characterizing potential threshold schemes with respect to the features in Section 5 of NISTIR 81214A. See also the Sections 2.3--2.5, 6.1 and 7.2.
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