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A combination of photographic, text and GPS data gathered in real-time from smart phones produced a representation of peoples’ movement across the campus. By taking photos and adding captions, delegates could post images to a central map projected at the workshop base.
The digital landscape quickly became populated with images and texts that were orientated according to direction in which the photograph was taken. Each group decided upon a different theme for their landscape, for example: evidence of student life, or things that looked unusual or out of place.
The location of participants was also streamed to the map and iPhone software allowed to move across the landscape as a group. The group was shown on the map as a convex hull with members at each corner. As they moved together the shape revealed a satellite base map.
The use of text to complement each photograph provided a useful insight into the visual and conceptual focus of each participant. The combination of imagery and text, associated with a GPS trace of the group. produced a very particular representation of the place.
A representation that is filled with the personal perspectives of each participant based upon their interpretations of a group task. Back at the base, teams were given the opportunity to watch the live development of each landscape as media was streamed from the ‘field’ back to a visualisation.With the exception of the third presidential debate in which candidates accused each other of lying and corruption, this year’s Iranian presidential election has been relatively calm in comparison to the last two elections. No one has attempted to disclose secrets about a candidate’s wife, and the country’s longtime nuclear negotiator was not suddenly criticized for his intransigence, breaking a longstanding taboo of not debating foreign policy. But the relative calm of this year’s election changed May 17 when President Hassan Rouhani issued one of his harshest criticisms of the country’s conservative unelected bodies and his main conservative rival.
Without mentioning his name, Rouhani criticized the policies of Ebrahim Raisi, who is the head of Astan-e Quds Razavi, Iran’s largest foundation that is linked to the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, the holiest site in Iran for Shiite Muslims. In his criticism, Rouhani also included Raisi’s father-in-law, Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, who is the Friday prayer leader in Mashhad and who has publicly endorsed his son-in-law. “You want to manage the country?” Rouhani asked of both Alamolhoda and Raisi. “First tell me how did you manage Mashhad?”
Alamolhoda has been the Friday prayer leader of Mashhad since 2007, while Raisi has been the head of Astan-e Quds Razavi since March 2016. These two positions are arguably the two most important positions in the Khorasan Razavi province in northeastern Iran.
Citing Alamolhoda’s August 2016 comments telling people to leave Mashhad if what they wanted was music concerts, Rouhani said, “You told people to leave Mashhad if they wanted art. Now you want to have the whole country and tell people to leave Iran?” Rouhani’s comment, which was delivered at a rally in Raisi’s hometown of Mashhad, was met with cheers.. “You have all the financial resources, all the institutions of Mashhad. What have you done for the marginalized?” Rouhani asked. He also accused Raisi of using Astan-e Quds Razavi for his campaign.
In addition to the unprecedented attacks on Raisi, Rouhani also used the speech to attack the heads of unelected bodies who are appointed to their positions by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Citing instructions by the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Rouhani asked the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij to not get involved in party politics and stay in their place. Likely in a direct attack on the IRGC-connected media and business enterprises that sometimes operate as monopolies, Rouhani said, “You want to have cultural institutions and news agencies? You want to have business companies? We’re not opposed, but do not crowd out other people."
Rouhani then turned his attention to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the country’s state TV. He said that IRIB was taking government funds while simultaneously attempting to undermine the administration. He accused IRIB of ignoring the administration's achievements during the debates, not asking any questions about the reduction in inflation and self-sufficiency in wheat and gasoline.
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Specific Aim 1: Characterize immune status by measuring immunomodulatory cytokines in biospecimens.
Specific Aim 2: Examine whether in utero chemical exposures influence immune status.
Specific Aim 3: Assess the relation of in utero chemical exposures to the risk of childhood ALL, while accounting for immune status.
Investigators hypothesize that specific in utero chemical exposures will impact maternal and neonatal immune status and the altered immune status increases the risk of childhood ALL. To test this hypothesis, this project will leverage exceptional resources from two existing NIH-funded studies (through Core A): neonatal dried blood spots collected at birth from the California Childhood Leukemia Study (CCLS), a population-based case-control study, and paired samples of neonatal blood spots and second trimester maternal serum from the California Mother-Child Birth Cohort. In both populations, investigators will (1) characterize immune status by measuring immunomodulatory cytokines in biospecimens, (2) examine whether in utero chemical exposures (identified in Project 2) influence immune status, and (3) assess the relation of in utero chemical exposures to the risk of childhood ALL, while accounting for immune status. In the CCLS population, home dust measurements and self-reported chemical exposures will be used to further characterize in utero chemical exposures, and data on maternal infections during pregnancy will be used to help characterize maternal immune status. An engineered mouse model of childhood ALL will be used to elucidate mechanisms by which in utero chemical exposures and maternal/neonatal immune status interact