Andreas Schleicher, SDirector and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD's Secretary-General.

CV

This was the most useful chart for me in keeping track of my walking progress in 2014. This chart told me if I was ahead or behind of my goal.

For most of the year I was behind my goal. The furthest behind goal I got was on 6 June 2014 where my goal was to have walked 1290.6 miles and my actual was 1134.3 so I was 156.3 miles behind. F

From this chart, it is easy to see that i was getting behind (negative slope) the first part of the year and started catching up in the summer (positive slope). I ended up 8 miles ahead of my 3000 mile goal.

DeltaFitness2014

Ordnance Survey is a partner in the CityVerve project, offering a geospatial framework. We helped visualise various use cases. This is a frame from an animation that showed how you might analyse parking trends in a city using a dashboard view.

Diana F+ (Mr. Pink), 120 Kodak Portra 800. 22 Feb 2012.

Fox Commentators talking about the Pacers and Bobcats.

a fat roll caused the light leaks.

North Platte Community College hosted its annual Inter-High Scholastic Competition and TECH-Knowledge & Skills Discovery Day on Wednesday at the North and South Campuses of the college.

The theme for Inter-High Day this year is “Spotlight on Success.” Students from 28 area schools took nearly 900 tests in the Inter-High Scholastic competition. In the TECH-Knowledge and Skills competition, more than 120 students represented 21 high schools.

Awards were presented to the top three individual finishers in all categories. They also received a certificate for up to three credit hours of free tuition to be used at MPCC this summer. First place winners were awarded with $500 Mid-Plains Community College Area scholarships. The schools also competed in divisions.

Results of NPCC’s Inter-High Day are:

Accounting:

First - Megan Stokey, North Platte High School

Second - Megan Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s

Third - Carissa Rayburn, Brady

Art:

First - Alissa Rosentrater, Wallace

Second - Amber Nelson, Elwood

Third - Brooklyn Nordhausen, Wauneta-Palisade

Athletic Training:

First - Maegan Hiatt, Hershey

Second - Sage Schmidt, Medicine Valley

Third - Brittany Lawrence, St. Patrick’s

Biological Science:

First - Jordon Laubry, Eustis Farnam

Second - Jocy Nelson, Sutherland

Third - Calyn Werkmeister, Maywood

Business Communications:

First - Libby Jensen, Dundy County Stratton

Second - Abby Daffer, Southwest

Third - Sam Staggs, Sutherland

Chemistry:

First - Megan Kelley, Southwest

Second - Alec Fox, Paxton

Third - David Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s

Dramatic Arts:

First - Alex Roc, McCook

Second - David McCown, Maxwell

Third - Karni Doyle, Callaway

Fire Science/EMS:

First - Kris Kopetzky, South Platte

Second - Chris Werth, Eustis Farnam

Third - Tristan Johnson, Arnold

Grammar & Composition:

First - Grace Magill, Arnold

Second - Christi Christner, Wauneta-Palisade

Third - Bailee Clark, St. Patrick’s

Health Occupations:

First - Sabine Vanhaaren, Cody-Kilgore

Second - Jamie Smith, St. Patrick’s

Third - Taylor Ellison, Callaway

History:

First - David Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s

Second - John Klintworth, Medicine Valley

Third - Joey Anderjaska, Hayes Center

Information Technology:

First - Jared Brosius, St. Patrick’s

Second - Hayden Pollmann, Wauneta-Palisade

Third - Nathaniel Maxcy, Sutherland

Introduction to Business:

First - Cody Ballew, Elwood

Second - Dawson Brunswick, McCook

Third - Chance Kennicutt, Wallace

Literary Analysis:

First - Justin Hardwick, Paxton

Second - Rebekka Ralston, Sutherland

Third - Izzy Fox, Dundy County Stratton

Mathematics:

First - Megan Siebrandt, McCook

Second - Hayden Pollmann, Wauneta-Palisade

Third - Isaac Langan, McCook

Music Performance (Instrumental)

First – Sohyeon Yi, Cody-Kilgore

Second - Matti Mickelsen, Medicine Valley

Third - Brandon Montgomery, Brady

Music Performance (Vocal):

First - Nathan Rick, Hitchcock County

Second - Rachel Gordine, McCook

Third - Alisha Heelan, Garden County

Music Theory:

First – Josie Burke, Sutherland

Second – Matti Mickelsen, Medicine Valley

Third – Mason Harouff, Hayes Center

NPCC Facts:

First - Cheyanne Loeffler, Paxton

Second - Valerie Most, Brady

Third - Alexis Franzen, Brady

Personal Finance:

First - Cassandra Medina, Sutherland

Second - Marley Sandberg, Sutherland

Third - Ian Bridge, North Platte High School

Physics/Engineering (session one):

First - Cody Trump, Cody-Kilgore

Second - Kyle Halsted, North Platte High School

Third - Chet Krajewski, Garden County

Physics/Engineering (session two):

First - Lane Vasa, Arthur County

Second - David McCown, Maxwell

Third - Dakota Seng, Callaway

Word Processing:

First - Brooke Scott, Hitchcock County

Second - Tristan Johnson, Arnold

Third - Rebecca Lorens, Dundy County Stratton

Results by Division are:

Division 1 –

First – St. Patrick’s

Second – Sutherland

Third – McCook

Division 2 –

First – Cody-Kilgore

Second – Medicine Valley

Third – Hitchcock County

Division 3 –

First – Wauneta-Palisade

Second – Arnold

Third – Elwood

Results of NPCC’s TECH-Knowledge & Skills competition are:

Autobody:

First – Aaron Stegman, Garden County High School

Second – Joel Anderson, Garden County High School

Third – Jon Jackson, Franklin High School

Automotive/Diesel:

First – Philip Hammer, North Platte High School

Second – Logan Mull, North Platte High School

Third – Wesley Hoatson, North Platte High School

Building Construction (teams):

First – Walker Wolff, Ivan Rosfeld, Austin Wobig and Wyatt Galloway of Cody-Kilgore High School

Second – Lucas French, Jayson Rezek, Nick Hahn and Calvin Carsten of Sutherland High School

Third – Brock Alexander, Caleb Kleewein, Justin Cosler and Clancey Barnum of Stapleton High School

Electrical:

First – Tyler Daniels, Franklin High School

Second – Walker Wolff, Cody-Kilgore High School

Third – Ivan Dobesh, North Platte High School

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning:

First – Wesley Hoatson, North Platte High School

Second – Logan Mull, North Platte High School

Third – Blaker Morrissey, Maxwell High School

Welding:

First – Dillon Schultz, North Platte High School

Second – Colton Thompson, North Platte High School

Third – Trevor Hanna, Stapleton High School

Finance data on the computer

Postgraduate Medicine

There are often many possible reasons why engineering components fail in service, and the cause and mechanisms of failure can only be determined with the right combination of analytical equipment and experienced engineers.

TWI has both the state-of-the-art facilities to carry out complex failure investigations and the critical mass to interpret the results and offer the solutions to avoid further failures in the future.

For more information www.twi.co.uk/services/failure-investigation/

If you wish to use this image each use should be accompanied by the credit line and notice, "Courtesy of TWI Ltd".

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Someone said: "Landscape photography, like pornography, attempts to seduce the beholder by presenting an image divorced from its actual physical context ... " ...Context?.....What context?........the weather? ;~)>

The thought I've had is that beautiful photographic images of pristine-looking nature often collude with our compartmentalized denial fantasies............. about the minute by minute ongoing damage and destruction to our mother earth........ Even well meaning eco-tourists (such as me) exact significant costs.....

Just as pornographic images arouse sexual energy without love, connectedness and intimacy, landscape images can create the illusion of feelings and connections with our planet that only exist in "virtual reality"......

This phenomenon reminds me of the "tree museum" Joanie Mitchel talks about in her song "Yellow Taxi":

"They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum

And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them

No, no, no, don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone

They paved paradise, and put up a parkin' lot"

The dillema is........... ....how to create non-objectifying, non-narcotizing, non-compartmentalizing art that puts us in touch with the world around us, such as it is.......while inspiring alternative visions of what could be......

The New Mexico Photography Field School Landscape Photography Class.

I am grateful to our teacher Craig Varjabedian and his workshop assistant Jay Packer. They were wonderfully skilled guides in helping me to orient myself to the basics of landscape photography. Their understanding and grasp of the technical, aesthetic and ineffable mysteries of photography are simply awesome and a delight. www.photofieldschool.com/craig.html

I took this photo at Ghost Ranch where Georgia O'keefe lived and painted. It is said that she claimed that if she painted a nearby mountain enough times god had told her that it would be hers. She is buried there. This is a spiritually and artistically inspiring and powerful place.

Ghost Ranch was part of a land grant to Pedro Martin Serrano from the King of Spain in 1766. The grant was called Piedra Lumbre (shining rock). The name "Ghost Ranch", or the local name Rancho de los Brujos, was derived from the many tales of ghosts and legends of hangings in the Ranch's history.

"When I got to New Mexico, that was mine."

In this way Georgia O'Keeffe described her instant love for Northern New Mexico, a love that lasted the rest of her life. The time was 1917, the event was a trip O'Keeffe and her sister Claudia took to New Mexico and Colorado from their home in Canyon, Texas. Yet it was 12 years before O'Keeffe returned to New Mexico and even longer before she found her way into the beautiful valley that would eventually become her summer home.

In 1929 O'Keeffe went to Taos at the invitation of friends Dorothy Brett and Mabel Dodge Luhan. There she heard of Ghost Ranch and once even caught a tantalizing glimpse of it from a high plain. In 1934 she finally found the ranch but was dismayed to learn that it was a dude ranch owned by Arthur Pack. However, a place was available for her that night in Ghost House and she spent the entire summer at the ranch.

That established a pattern she would follow for years, summers at Ghost Ranch exploring on foot and on canvas the beauty of the place, winters in New York. Because she was basically a "loner," she soon sought Ghost Ranch housing that was somewhat isolated from the headquarters area. Pack offered to rent her his own residence called Rancho de los Burros; this suited her very well. One spring she arrived unexpectedly and found someone else in the house. She demanded to know what those people were doing in her house. When Pack pointed out that it wasn't her house, she insisted that he sell it to her. Thus she became the owner of a very small piece of Ghost Ranch land: a house and 7 acres. (In later years she told a ranch employee doing roadwork near her home, "I wanted enough land to keep a horse - all Arthur would sell me was enough for my sewer!")

But Rancho de los Burros was a summer place and also a desert one. O'Keeffe wanted a garden and a winter home. Eventually, she bought 3 acres in the village of Abiquiu. She spent 3 years remodeling and rebuilding the crumbling adobes before the place was fit for human habitation. After her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, died, O'Keeffe left New York to make Abiquiu her permanent home.

In 1955 Arthur and Phoebe Pack gave Ghost Ranch to the Presbyterian Church. O'Keeffe was aghast. The Packs should have sold her the ranch, she thought, and besides, she never cared much for Presbyterians anyway. Her precious privacy would be gone. However, from the very beginning of this new relationship the Presbyterians respected and tried to preserve the privacy of their famous neighbor. Visitors were told, as they are today, that Rancho de los Burros was on private land with no public access. Gradually her fears were allayed and the relationship grew warmer. Office personnel sometimes did secretarial work for her; Ghost Ranch folks replaced the pump on her well. O'Keeffe became friendly enough with long-time ranch director Jim Hall and his wife Ruth to have Christmas dinner with them.

She made a money gift toward construction of the Hall's retirement home on the ranch. When fire destroyed the headquarters building in 1983, O'Keeffe immediately made a gift of $50,000 and lent her name to a Challenge Fund for the Phoenix campaign which resulted in replacing the headquarters building and adding a Social Center and the Ruth Hall Museum.

During the last few years of her life O'Keeffe was unable to come to Ghost Ranch from Abiquiu. Eventually she moved to Santa Fe where she died in her 99th year, reclusive to the end. "I find people very difficult," she once said.

Ghost Ranch gave her the freedom to paint what she saw and felt. Knowledgeable visitors can look around and identify many of the scenes she painted. Red and gray hills like those across from the roadside park south of the ranch headquarters were frequent subjects. Kitchen Mesa at the upper end of the valley is an example of the red and yellow cliffs she painted many times. Pedernal, the flat-topped mountain to the south, was probably her favorite subject. "It's my private mountain," she frequently said. "God told me if I painted it often enough I could have it." And of course, the Ghost Ranch logo, used on everything from stationery to T-shirts, was adapted from an O'Keeffe drawing.

ABOUT: Craig Varjabedian is a fine-art photographer of the lands and peoples of the American West and Southwest and is Director of the Field School. He was born in Canada and began photographing at the age of thirteen. He has subsequently sustained an artistic career spanning over thirty years, which began in earnest in 1971 and involved studies with Phil Davis at the University of Michigan and Paul Caponigro in Santa Fe. Varjabedian’s first one-man show was at the Albuquerque Museum in 1994. Since that time he has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the McCune Charitable Foundation have been awarded to Varjabedian over the course of his photographic career in recognition of his powerful imagery. His pursuit of an intensely personal vision has culminated in images of moments made extraordinary by light and life. He approaches his subjects receptively, preferring to utilize an intuitive approach rather than arranging forms and recording surface details. In the final analysis, Varjabedian’s photographs allow viewers to share in the authentic experience of an artistic process which celebrates luminous and heartfelt experience.

Upcoming books of his photographs include Four & Twenty Photographs: Stories from Behind the Lens (Spring 2007) and a book on Ghost Ranch (Spring 2008), both with Santa Fe author Robin Jones, which will be available from the University of New Mexico Press. The late Beaumont Newhall, preeminent photographic historian, wrote, “The remarkable photographs by Craig Varjabedian are not only beautiful but also extremely valuable documents of architecture, culture, and lifestyle of Northern New Mexico.”

www.photofieldschool.com/craig.html

Task Management

Visual Analysis of the Learning experience for the "Digital Footprint" lesson plan, created with the "Learning Designer" tool

BeautySchool_1st_56

VersuS: love vs turin, visualizing the realtime lives of cities

www.artisopensource.net/2011/10/16/versus-rome-october-15...

How do people express their emotions on social networks?

Information has become ubiquitously accessible, thus transforming our perception of cities and of the ways we work, learn, communicate and relate to other people.

VersuS analyzes the digital lives of cities to suggest a scenario in which digital and analog realities interweave and become one.

By performing realtime content harvesting on social networks we are able to perform natural language analyses on the conversations running between users, to peek into their emotions, wishes, expectations and desires.

We can make this information available and accessible using information visualizations, mobile applications and generative design artifacts, thus creating the tools which enable the creation of a new form of public space which merges the digital and analog lives of people, transforming them into active agents in a new idea of citizenship, enabling novel forms of expression and representation.

In "love VS turin", we focus on an emotional approach, visualizing the expressions of love and passion of the citizens of the city of Turin, in a realtime collective conversation.

The visualization is put side by side with 3D objects produced using various digital fabrication techniques, and which represent a tangible representation of the emotional condition of the whole territory of the city of Turin.

"Love" can be replaced with other emotions, thus enabling scenarios of focal importance for ecology, public administrations, security, economy and the overall possibility to evaluate the wellness of the people on a certain territory.

VersuS is designed as an evocative tool for people, institutions and organizations, fostering the creation of new, positive, imaginaries for the future of our lives and our relation with the planet and with our fellow human beings.

VersuS is a concept by Art is Open Source and FakePress Publishing, and it is part of the ConnectiCity initiative.

It has been created together with the Fablab Italia and with the Piemonte Share Festival, in a transdisciplinary process in which arts and sciences collaborate to the creation of innovative, breakthrough, scenarios.

VersuS will be officially presented at the 2011 edition of the Piemonte Share Festival together with the Fablab Italia.

Check these websites for more information:

www.artisopensource.net

fakepress.it

www.toshare.it

www.fablabitalia.it/

This image is not from a statistically significant sample size--although it is from a real analysis I did (aka, the figures are not made up).

After reading any comments before yours, write 1 comment about this photograph from one of the two areas below:

Composition & Framing - this is to do with how the photographer has arranged the various elements within the photograph including their viewpoint, angle and distance. It also takes into account perspective, use of space and line.

Message & Meaning - does the image have message for the viewer? Do you see a meaning behind the work? What do you think the purpose of the image is and how does it make you feel?

Someone came out with this visual poster of Twitter, weighted by followers. What are the patterns here? Why do they have large followings and what do the do on twitter? Does topic affect it? Gender? Promotion? Community leadership?

It's no surprise to me that daringfireball and majornelson are there. Mac and XBOX fans, yeah. Easy following. We have some TV types also. The two Twitter guys Ev and Biz might be an exception, it's their product.

Have fun! :)

IFPRI Research Fellow, Danielle Resnick introduces the speakers at the even, Donor Approaches to Political Economy Analysis.

IFPRI hosted a policy seminar titled “Donor Approaches to Political Economy Analysis” on February 5, 2015. For more information, please visit: www.ifpri.org/event/donor-approaches-political-economy-an...

©IFPRI/Xinyuan Shang

Jack, on the Beach

Shih Tzu

History

DNA analysis placed the ancestors of today's Shih Tzu breed in the group of "ancient" breeds indicating "close genetic relationship to wolves".[7] Ludvic von Schulmuth studied the skeletal remains of dogs found in human settlements as long as ten thousand years ago. Von Schulmuth created a genealogical tree of Tibetan dogs that shows the "Gobi Desert Kitchen Midden Dog", a scavenger, evolved into the "Small Soft-Coated Drop-Eared Hunting Dog who would fight lions in packs " which evolved into the Tibetan Spaniel, Pekingese, and Japanese Chin. Another branch coming down from the "Kitchen Midden Dog" gave rise to the Papillon and Long-haired Chihuahua and yet another "Kitchen Midden Dog" branch to the Pug and Shih Tzu. The Shih Tzu was almost completely wiped out during the Chinese Revolution. Seven males and seven females were saved, and today, all shih tzus can be traced back to one of these dogs.[8]

There are various theories of the origins of today's breed. Theories relate that it stemmed from a cross between Pekingese and a Tibetan dog called the Lhasa Apso; that the Chinese court received a pair as a gift during the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907 AD); and that they were introduced from Tibet to China in the mid-18th century (Qing Dynasty.[9] Dogs during that time were selectively bred and seen in Chinese paintings. The first dogs of the breed were imported into Europe (England and Norway) in 1930, and were classified by the Kennel Club as "Apsos".[9] The first European standard for the breed was written in England in 1935 by the Shih Tzu Club,[10] and the dogs were recategorised as Shih Tzu. The breed spread throughout Europe, and was brought to the United States after World War II, when returning members of the US military brought back dogs from Europe. The Shih Tzu was recognised by the American Kennel Club in 1969 in the Toy Group.[9] The breed is now recognised by all of the major kennel clubs in the English-speaking world.[citation needed] It is also recognised by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale for international competition in Companion and Toy Dog Group, Section 5, Tibetan breeds.[5]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shih_Tzu

Data Analysis Class Final ITS

End of a successful 80 minutes.

Asbestos in non-friable form, such as asbestos-cement shingles, roofing, and board, is generally considered safe.

Analytical chemists (from left) Carolyn Koester and Heather Mulcahy work in an environmental reference laboratory at the Forensic Science Center to develop and validate sensitive methods for analyzing chemical warfare agents.

I'm guessing about the authors of these three pieces of graffiti written on a ventilation shaft of the MTR at Kowloon Tong station: there were three teenage, female, native English speakers, who shared the same felt tip pen while waiting for a bus. One or more was smoking a cigarette (because it's hidden from street view). The thoughts are interesting/sensitive, but they didn't finish one of them because their bus had arrived. I note the same mistake of a dotted "i" while the rest of the letters are capitalized. However, the mistake was probably made by different authors suggesting they are in the same class at school, and were taught the same mistake/were not corrected. The writing is delicate, suggesting the authors were female, but the "quiet hope" sentence was written with a heavier hand, suggesting either confidence or possibly a male author. There is some inconsistency about the dots at the end of each sentence, with most placing three, one four and one five.

Almost nil, even along the ITCZ.

Neon sign with multiple reflections

With blood analysis only inches from food there must be Vampires about.

On October 21, 2014, CSIS and USAID/DCHA's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) will host a major event, Advances and Challenges in Political Transitions. In honor of OTI's 20th anniversary, this conference will feature more than 40 experts and senior officials focusing on the challenges and opportunities of working in conflicts, crises, and political transitions. What will new conflicts look like, region by region? What role will extremism, organized crime, and chaotic violence play? What contributions will youth, women, the private sector, and technology make to prevention, mitigation, and recovery? And what tools, approaches, resources, and support will be needed to build more resilient societies in the coming years?

Agenda

Welcome and Opening Remarks

John Hamre, President, CEO, and Pritzker, CSIS

Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Keynote Address

Ambassador Alfonso E. Lenhardt, Deputy Administrator, USAID

Opening Presentation

Robert Lamb, Visiting Research Professor, U.S. Army War College, and Director and Senior Fellow (on leave), Program on Crisis, Conflict, and Cooperation, CSIS

Morning Plenary: Conflict Response and Recovery in Complex Environments

Moderator: Stephen Del Rosso, Program Director, International Peace and Security Program, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Panelists:

Stephen Lennon, Acting Director, OTI, USAID

Ambassador William Swing, Director General, International Organization for Migration

David Yang, Deputy Assistant Administrator, DCHA Bureau, USAID

Morning Breakout Panels

Track 1: Violent Extremism in MENA

Moderator: Tom Sanderson, Codirector, Transnational Threats Project, CSIS

Panelists:

Robbie Harris, Senior Transition Advisor, USAID/OTI

David Hunsicker, Senior Conflict Advisor, USAID/CMM

Hunter Keith, Development Specialist, DAI

Mona Yacoubian, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Middle East Bureau, USAID

Track 2: Geography, Technology, and Data

Moderator: Amy Noreuil, Data Analysis Support, USAID/OTI

Panelists:

Noel Dickover, Senior Program Officer, PeaceTech Initiative, USIP

Ian Schuler, CEO and President, Development Seed

Jessica Heinzelman, Manager, ICT Strategic Initiatives, DAI

Ivan Sigal, Executive Director, Global Voices

Track 3: Urban Violence and Organized Crime

Moderator: Lt. Col. (Retired) Scott Mann, CEO and Founder, Stability Institute

Panelists:

Miguel Reabold, Honduras Country Representative, USAID/OTI

Scott Aughenbaugh, Fellow, International Security Program and Deputy Director, Strategic Futures, CSIS

Enrique Roig, Coordinator, Central America Regional Security Initiative, USAID

Lunchtime Plenary: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

Moderator: Jim Kunder, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Panelists:

Robert Jenkins, Deputy Assistant Administrator, DCHA Bureau, USAID

Rick Barton, Former Assistant Secretary, Bureau for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, Department of State

Johanna Mendelson Forman, Scholar in Residence, American University, and Senior Associate, CSIS

Steve Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

Afternoon Breakout Panels

Track 1: Future of Conflict in Africa

Moderator: Jennifer Cooke, Director, Africa Program, CSIS

Panelists:

John Langlois, Africa Advisor, USAID/OTI

Pauline Baker, President Emeritus, Fund for Peace

Track 2: Future of Conflict in Eurasia/Pacific

Moderator: Susan Kosinski Fritz, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Europe and Eurasia Bureau, USAID

Panelists:

Oren Murphy, Ukraine Country Representative, USAID/OTI

John R. Deni, Research Professor of Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational Security Studies, Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College

Track 3: Future of Conflict in Latin America

Moderator: Katie Prud'homme, Latin America and Caribbean Team Leader, USAID/OTI

Panelists:

Beth Hogan, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator LAC, USAID

Steven Dudley, Codirector, InSight Crime

Douglas Farah, President, IBI Counsultants, and Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center

Afternoon Plenary: Evolution of Agencies and Resources

Moderator: Kathleen Hicks, Senior Vice President; Henry A. Kissinger Chair; Director, International Security Program, CSIS

Panelists:

William Brownfield, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Department of State

Tom Perriello, Special Representative for the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, Department of State

Melissa Brown, Director, Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, USAID

OTI in Transition: A Brief Oral History (film)

Programs

PROGRAM ON CRISIS, CONFLICT, AND COOPERATION (C3)

Topics

DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION, GOVERNANCE, DEVELOPMENT POLICY

As we grew to become common net camper analysis specialists, we thought the perfect thing to do with all the good RV assets and advice we have obtained is share it here for future fanatics to discuss with... and of course, for our personal profit when we begin yet again with our next bigger mannequin (see beneath)! It's going to most likely be August or September before water levels in the river are low sufficient to lift the part of damaged pipe accountable for the spill, Quarterman mentioned. Our aim is to attenuate the influence that water damage can have on you, your loved ones or business and restore your property or property again to its former glory in a well timed method. Extensive flood injury within the basement can pose a threat of electrocution or gas poisoning.

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From: www.connectedaction.net

Link: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6225446144/

Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word #occupywallstreet when queried on October 8, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another.

See: occupywallst.org/

Layout using the "Group Layout" composed of tiled bounded regions. Clusters calculated by the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm are also encoded by color.

A larger version of the image is here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6225446144/sizes/l/in/ph...

Betweenness Centrality is defined here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality#Betweenness_centrality

Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm is defined here: pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v70/i6/e066111

Top most between users:

@maddow

@motherjones

@aclu

@zerohedge

@mmfa

@spread4freedom

@diggrbiii

@angelsavant

@marychastain

@katiepavlich

Graph Metric: Value

Graph Type: Directed

Vertices: 1000

Unique Edges: 3835

Edges With Duplicates: 916

Total Edges: 4751

Self-Loops: 1109

Connected Components: 311

Single-Vertex Connected Components: 301

Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 678

Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 4327

Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 9

Average Geodesic Distance: 3.283708

Graph Density: 0.003408408

NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.179

More NodeXL network visualizations are here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157622437066929/

NodeXL is free and open and available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl

NodeXL is developed by the Social Media Research Foundation (www.smrfoundation.org) - which is dedicated to open tools, open data, and open scholarship.

The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.

Marc Smith on Twitter.

Analysis of iron in water from Pacific surface region by the Flow Injection analysis in the Chemistry Lab.

35 research participants and 1.5 hour interview for each leads to a lot of stuff to analyze. We've really gone crazy with the stickies since this photo was taken last week. I'll post a version of the current space as soon as I stitch together the photos I just took.

BeautySchool_1st_55

New Laminating Carts

before looking at others with judgement you must first judge yourself.

Big thanks to MONDO RODRIGUEZ for helping me out with this shot !

enjoy :]

Analysis of iron in water from Pacific surface region by the Flow Injection analysis in the Chemistry Lab.

A medical concept of the human body

Participants attending the Technical Meeting on Nuclear Power Cost Estimation and Analysis Methodologies held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 25 April 2018

Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA

From: www.connectedaction.net

Connections among the Twitter users on the Twitter-List-ValdisKrebs-network-analysis when queried on July 14, 2011.

Layout using the "Group Layout" composed of tiled bounded regions. Clusters calculated by the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm are also encoded by color.

A larger version of the image is here:

Betweenness Centrality is defined here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality#Betweenness_centrality

The local networks of each of the users is shown alongside the complete network graph.

Top most between participants:

@juneholley

@orgnet

@vidujagoss

@ressivenetworks

@marc_smith

@barrywellman

@kammerait

@soramaki

@fasresearch

@danielequercia

Graph Metric: Value

Graph Type: Directed

Vertices: 181

Unique Edges: 2879

Edges With Duplicates: 13

Total Edges: 2892

Self-Loops: 0

Connected Components: 1

Single-Vertex Connected Components: 0

Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 181

Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 2892

Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 3

Average Geodesic Distance: 1.897256

Graph Density: 0.088551258

NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.172

More NodeXL network visualizations are here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157622437066929/

NodeXL is free and open and available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl

NodeXL is developed by the Social Media Research Foundation (www.smrfoundation.org) - which is dedicated to open tools, open data, and open scholarship.

The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.

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Analysis of iron in water from Pacific surface region by the Flow Injection analysis in the Chemistry Lab.