Working Close to Home: WIRE-Net's Hire Locally Program

Hire Locally is an employment program that matches Cleveland's west side residents with industrial jobs employers would otherwise have searched far and wide to fill. The program is part of the nonprofit Westside Industrial Retention and Expansion Network, or WIRE-Net. This report documents the program's innovation in developing a sectoral strategy to meet labor market demands while also setting a broad agenda for community improvement. It also shares key program elements and recommendations to ensure that future programs are more effective

Representing Darwin : Art, Taxidermy and Bio-politics at the Darwin Museum Moscow, 1907-2009

This paper looks at aspects of the relationships between art, taxidermy, bio-politics and the shifting representations of Darwinian evolutionary theory within the history of the Darwin Museum, Moscow from 1907 to 2009. The museum began in 1907 at the Higher Womens’ Courses institute in Moscow, with a collection of stuffed birds belonging to the founder, Dr Aleksandr Kots. It was nationalised by the Bolsheviks in 1918 and opened to the general public in 1924. Soviet Decrees in 1926, 1946 and 1968 promised the construction of a dedicated building, which, however was only realised after the fall of the USSR, opening in 1995. Today it is the leading natural history museum in Russia, designated the Scientific, Informational and Methodological Centre of the Russian Association of Natural History Museums, under the Russian National Committee of ICOM – the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Natural History. What the new museum explicitly shares with its previous incarnations is a commitment to the use of art - including graphics, painting, photography, sculpture, taxidermy, as well as the art of museum display - as means to engage the viewer with Darwin’s evolutionary theory, and to emphasise the variety and variation in nature. Indeed, many of the current exhibits include art works and mounted specimens dating back to the earliest days of the museum’s existence. Today, as in the past, the displays are designed by artists in conjunction with curatorial subject experts. In narrating a partial history of the museum, I want to draw attention to the mesh of connections and contrasts with western approaches to Darwinian science and museological representations of evolution. Among the connections, are the use of taxidermy and art to provide an educational spectacle, particularly for the education of women; links with zoopsychology, early genetic science and discourse on eugenics; as well as reference to a ‘progress’ model of human evolution common in popular culture. The differences relate to how Darwinism was politically, and scientifically nuanced within shifting historical contexts: as intrinsically, politically radical in the pre-revolutionary era; as the basis for understanding and prompting a new stage of human evolution in the Revolutionary1920s-30s; and as diametrically opposed to genetic science in the Lysenkoist period between 1938 and the 1960s. I will begin by looking briefly at the role of taxidermy, leading on to consider the Museum’s engagement, firstly with issues of micro-evolution, and secondly with macro-evolution, where I will focus particularly on approaches to the evolution of humankind.Peer reviewe

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The Food and Shelter Initiative: Final Report

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Posets arising as 1-skeleta of simple polytopes, the nonrevisiting path conjecture, and poset topology

Given any polytope $P$ and any generic linear functional ${\bf c}$, one obtains a directed graph $G(P,{\bf c})$ by taking the 1-skeleton of $P$ and orienting each edge $e(u,v)$ from $u$ to $v$ for ${\bf c} (u) < {\bf c} ( v)$. This paper raises the question of finding sufficient conditions on a polytope $P$ and generic cost vector ${\bf c}$ so that the graph $G(P, {\bf c} )$ will not have any directed paths which revisit any face of $P$ after departing from that face. This is in a sense equivalent to the question of finding conditions on $P$ and ${\bf c}$ under which the simplex method for linear programming will be efficient under all choices of pivot rules. Conditions on $P$ and ${\bf c}$ are given which provably yield a corollary of the desired face nonrevisiting property and which are conjectured to give the desired property itself. This conjecture is proven for 3-polytopes and for spindles having the two distinguished vertices as source and sink; this shows that known counterexamples to the Hirsch Conjecture will not provide counterexamples to this conjecture. A part of the proposed set of conditions is that $G(P, {\bf c} )$ be the Hasse diagram of a partially ordered set, which is equivalent to requiring non revisiting of 1-dimensional faces. This opens the door to the usage of poset-theoretic techniques. This work also leads to a result for simple polytopes in which $G(P, {\bf c})$ is the Hasse diagram of a lattice L that the order complex of each open interval in L is homotopy equivalent to a ball or a sphere of some dimension. Applications are given to the weak Bruhat order, the Tamari lattice, and more generally to the Cambrian lattices, using realizations of the Hasse diagrams of these posets as 1-skeleta of permutahedra, associahedra, and generalized associahedra.Comment: new results for 3-polytopes and spindles added; exposition substantially improved throughou