Obama Great Threat To Press Freedom

video embedded
[From article]
James Risen told his own paper in a profile about his plight published Saturday. “They don’t want to believe that Obama wants to crack down on the press and whistle-blowers. But he does. He’s the greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation.”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/17/nytimes-reporter-obama-greatest-enemy-to-press-freedom-in-a-generation/

NYTimes Reporter: Obama ‘Greatest Enemy To Press Freedom In A Generation’ [VIDEO]
2:31 AM 08/17/2014
Jamie Weinstein, Senior Editor

Media Invades Staging Area During Bomb Scare at Harvard University

Posted December 16, 2013 9:36 PM ET; Last updated December 18, 2013 9:35 PM ET

The below images show six media vehicles parked alongside of my building outside of my window at about 2:30 PM on December 16, 2013. They came to report on the "bomb scare" at Harvard University earlier in the day. They parked in a "no stopping" zone on Broadway. It was used for the past three years by construction vehicles for the former Fogg Museum, new Art Museum,  across the street. Now that only delivery vehicles park there, it is available to media personalities and journalists who visit Harvard University and Cambridge where laws are optional. 


This is an example of the kind of vehicles using the roadway near my windows for staging for three years, bringing earth-moving equipment to the site.  Notice the Cambridge city policeman on paid detail watching this delivery. 


Now deliveries are supplies for the new museum. 


Cab of delivery truck.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/17/media-explosives-threat-national/

National Media Follows Bomb Threat
By ALEXANDER H. PATEL,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
December 17, 2013


WCVB-TV mobile broadcast truck.

Parking in a no stopping zone is one of the perks of living and/or working in Cambridge for special persons. It is the lesson taught by that great Harvard Law School trained constitutional law instructor, Barack Obama. If a law is inconvenient you may ignore it.


WCVB-TV truck.

Sheriffs across the nation ignore gun laws because they do not like the infringement on the Second Amendment. Sheriffs too are experts on constitutional law.

WHDH-TV truck, with cameraman and on air personality. 

Obama does not like parts of the health care law which the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate passed into law and Obama signed without any of them reading it. So he ignores parts of the law and changes other parts. It is how the rule of law has evolved to a higher level of existence.


Closer look at TV journalist. Is this Sharman Sacchetti of Fox News Boston? 

Thus in Cambridge if construction companies are renovating the prestigious Harvard University Fogg Art Museum, well, they can ignore no stopping signs in order to use the roadway for a staging area for three years. Not a problem.


Antenna extended ready for live broadcast.

Local police working details stand by and protect this operation. It is a development project of Harvard University, approved by the City of Cambridge and its boards and commissions. Do you know how many laws, ordinances and hoops that the over-worked and under-paid Harvard University employees had to jump through in order to get the approvals to renovate this art museum?


Four media vehicles parked on Broadway near Prescott Street.

The lesson applies to teenagers who walk along the streets of the nation and pass someone whose face they do not like. Because laws are inconvenient they simply ignore that law, and punch out the faces of those undesirable persons. Obama is a great teacher.

Preparing for broadcast. 

Journalists covering the prestigious university which may be under threat of a bomb scare on final exam day, can ignore the local traffic laws because they are covering an important story about an important university. Not a problem either.


Doesn't look like Sharman Sacchetti.


Head in lower right of image is another on air TV journalist. 


A mini media convention waiting but nothing happening after the bomb scare. 


Stalling in case of a new development. Who wants to go back to the studio? We are at Harvard. Sigh!


Is that WCVB-TV's Jorge Giroga? 

[From article]
In a statement released about 3 p.m., the university said students were allowed back into Thayer Hall, a dorm, and classrooms in Emerson and Sever halls and the Science Center. An earlier restriction on access to Harvard Yard was also lifted.

The Harvard University Police Department had ordered students and others to evacuate all four buildings in the morning after receiving a report that bombs had been planted there. "Harvard's focus is on the safety of our students, faculty and staff," the university in Cambridge, Mass., said.

[From Harvard University Housing]
Harvard's focus is on the safety of our students, faculty and staff. We will continue to update the community via MessageME and through messages posted at harvard.edu/emergency and on the University's Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Statements from "the university" and from "Harvard University Housing" say their focus is "the safety of our students, faculty and staff." In other contexts they say their focus is on "their mission," to educate their students. But university representatives, usually PR flacks at City Council meetings,  Planning Board, Zoning Board and University Relations Committee meetings, boast of how open the Harvard University campus is to "members of the community," second class of citizens in Cambridge. So is the safety of "members of the community" who attend events on campus, and who may live in university buildings of any concern to the university? Or as is common practice, do members of the community become targets for abuses of campus police? Are vulnerable elder citizens targets for Harvard University Housing building superintendents and graduate psychology students at Harvard Medical School to prey on, for sport? Harvard University usually claims that their campus police, and their building superintendents are "not the real Harvard." But these employees are paid by the President and Fellows of Harvard College just as the faculty is paid. Campus police display the Harvard University logo on  their patches. So why are these "not the real Harvard" employees permitted to abuse their power and the prestige of the prominent University contrary to law? Is that also part of their mission and focus? Ahem!

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304403804579262132386475134

Harvard Students Allowed Back in All Evacuated Buildings
Officials Found No Evidence of Explosives Following Bomb Threat
By JENNIFER LEVITZ
Updated Dec. 16, 2013 2:16 p.m. ET

* * *

[From article]
A White House spokesperson confirmed at half past 11 a.m. that President Obama has been briefed about the explosives scare at Harvard University. The White House will stay in communication with officials at federal, state, and local levels, and Obama will continue to receive briefings as necessary as the situation develops, the spokesperson added.
[. . .]
At 12:40 p.m., life in the Yard was returning to normality. Securitas guards stood by Johnston, Widener, Lamont, and the Science Center gates, allowing Harvard ID holders into the Yard.

Will Obama remind the Cambridge police that they are acting stupidly again? 

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/16/unconfirmed-reports-explosives-four-buildings/

Campus Receives All Clear; Search Has Yielded No Explosives
By CRIMSON NEWS STAFF,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
December 16, 2013

SwissNex, Northeastern Media, Arts, Design Expression

SwissNex Boston with Northeastern University's Department of Media, Arts and Design presented Swiss Style Reboot, a media arts communication project installation. The exhibition will be on display from June 1 to July 17, 2013. It was curated by SwissInfographics, "a platform dedicated to exploring new visual representations of information."


http://www.northeastern.edu/camd/artdesign/events/swiss-style-reboot/



A symposium will be held on
Thursday June 20, 2013
11AM-5PM, 6PM-9PM
Gallery 360 and West Village F Room 20
Northeastern University
northeastern.edu/camd/artdesign  



The opening reception was held on June 4, 2013 at the Gallery 360 in the Curry Student Center at Northeastern. Some of the displays exhibited information set in graphs on printed signs. Others were on computer displays. Bound books were available for inspection. One printed graph showed the top ten causes of death with age range specifics. One computer display was limited to the number of drone attacks, with screens showing the number deaths and how many Americans were killed.



Items on display included, poster art developed by Otto Baumgartner in 1923 to Carlo Vivarelli in 1940. Also posters from Ernst Kelelr, 1926 and 1931; Alfred Williman 1932; Pierre Gauchat 1935; Jan Tschichold 1938. Modern posters includes some designed by John Grimwade, 1996, The Transatlantic Superhighway; Nigel Holmes 2004, Top Ten Causes of Death in the US, by Age; Francesco Franchi 2008,  "piu veloce dell'aereo" (faster aircraft); and Nigel Holmes 2008, "It's The Economy Stupid."



Swiss Railways Station Clock, designed by Swiss electrical engineer and industrial designer, Hans Hilfiker in 1944. "The red second hand was was added a few years later. It quickly became a reference for train station clocks around the world and was copied by Apple in 2012. The red second hand takes its form from the disc waved by the dispatcher to signal a train's departure. It is not only aesthetic but also has a function; it shows the precision guaranteed by the clock - a mark of honesty. There is a trick: the second hand rotates a little faster than normal so that it can stop at 0 seconds and wait for an external signal before starting again. This impulse is used to coordinate all the clocks in the train station. The brief break also gives a better chance of leaving "exactly" on time."



Other forms of information design and data visualization includes Max Bill, 1947, for the Allianz (Association of Modern Swiss Artists); Max Huber 1948, "Gran Premio dell'Autodromo" (Autodrome Grand Prix); Ernst Keller, 1950s, "pictograph for the seed shop Emil Mauser at Rathausbrucke in Zurich;" Warja Honeggar-Lavater, Swissair's 1952 annual report; Josef Muller-Brockman 1953, "road safety poster 'Mind that Child' designed for the Swiss Automobile Club;" Emil Ruder, 1954 Exhibition of "die gute Form" (Good Design) in Zurich; Carlo Vivarelli, 1955, booklet cover for Feller electrical equipment switch, "which became an icon of Swiss industrial design."



Modern expression includes Francesco Franchi 2009, a column published in Milan-based magazine IL-Intelligence in Lifestyle. "The goal was to produce maps that allow the relationships among the elements of a literary narrative to be visualized, and specifically to make complex relationships more understandable." Mollie Bates and Elaine Bradley, 2010, World of Rivers Map published by National Geographic. Kai Krause 2010, "The True Size of Africa," published online.



Also on display was Kurt Wirth's 1956 Swissair advertising brochure.Willi Eidenbenz's 1958 product poster (beer). Karl Gerstner's 1958 Geigy Heute (Geigy Today), "a 320-page book produced for the 200th anniversary of the pharmaceutical company Geigy, now Novartis. It represents one of the first extensive uses of Swiss graphic design to guide a reader through a huge mass of information."



Max Schmid's 1959 poster of Novartis's package design for medicines. Fridolin Muller, 1960s advertising card for dermatological medicine uses an effect to represent itching. Gerstner, Gredinger and Kutter brochure, 1960s,  designed for Holzapfel furniture, and a unique photographic technique of using different perspectives of the furniture pieces.



Included is the poster by Martin Krzywinski, 2010, The Deadly Genome, for the National Science Foundation Visualization in Canada.  Two infographics published in the Brazilian scientific magazine Superinteressante. One in 2010 shows how plastic surgery is accomplished. The other in 2011 "explains the surgical procedure for sex change using photographs of fruit."  A LargeNetwork 2011 production of a poster for best results in Track and Field competitions, published in the Swiss science magazine, Reflex.



Catalogtree is a poster showing 3 million donations to the campaigns of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney between April 4, 2011 and September 9, 2012. Alessandro Giberti's 2012 infographic shows the U.S. military presence in Africa. Two Largenetwork infographics from 2012 show "the design history of chairs," and "causes of Swiss deaths."



Siegfried Odermatt, 1960-1961, ads for insurance company "combines a word and an image to evoke hazards." Keith Potts 1962-1963, chart for identification of medicine tablets for UK branch of Geigy. Roland Aeschlimann's, 1963, ads for rheumatism drugs "was suited for countries of very different cultures." Armin Hofman's 1963 "poster suggests the Swiss legend of William Tell sending an arrow through an apple placed on his son's head." 



Rene Martinaeel's three brochures: two, 1963 and 1965, "for washroom-hygiene company" products; one 1964 brochure for electrical products displayed on the cover. Peter Megert's 1965 poster for "Light and Movement"  uses typography creating a feeling of movement by "shifting the text horizontally."



Markus Low's 1967 displayed the serious image of Swiss Railways signage system for a U.S. agrochemical company. Carol Moore's 1971, elegant and simple diagram, exhibiting its own beauty. Mervyn Kurlansky/Pentagram, 1972, is from a book about the psychiatric drug Nobrium. Massimo Vignelli's 1972 map of the New York City subway system.



Jean Widner, 1972-2002, conceived "pictograms for France's official signage system." Josef Muller-Brockmann's 1981 "ultra-functional signage of the Swiss Federal Railways." An infographic published in Brazil's Superinteressante magazine, showing "the illegal commerce of animals and plants in the Amazon." Cybu Richli and Fabienne Buri (C2F) map of the world for Wired Magazine.



Nicholas Felton "designed Facebook's Timeline." He documents everything he does from sleeping to taking photographs. LargeNetwork's infographic showing how energy companies search for new wells of fuel minerals.



These images were captured at the opening reception.


Mervyn Kurlansky/Pentagram, 1972, is from a book about the psychiatric drug Nobrium.


Josef Muller-Brockman 1953, "road safety poster 'Mind that Child' designed for the Swiss Automobile Club


Alessandro Giberti's 2012 infographic shows the U.S. military presence in Africa.


Cybu Richli and Fabienne Buri (C2F) map of the world (in red) for Wired Magazine.


Roland Aeschlimann's, 1963, ads (red hand to right of woman) for rheumatism drugs "was suited for countries of very different cultures."


Also on display was Kurt Wirth's 1956 Swissair advertising brochure.


John Grimwade, 1996, The Transatlantic Superhighway;


Peter Megert's 1965 poster for "Light and Movement"  uses typography creating a feeling of movement by "shifting the text horizontally."


Pierre Gauchat, 1935, Traffic Distribution Creates Order


Ernest Keller, 1931 created for exhibitions of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius


Armin Hofman's 1963 "poster suggests the Swiss legend of William Tell sending an arrow through an apple placed on his son's head." 


Nigel Holmes 2008, (bottom) "It's The Economy Stupid."
A LargeNetwork 2011 production of a poster (top right) for best results in Track and Field competitions, published in the Swiss science magazine, Reflex. 


Nicholas Feltron's programming creation


Dr. Xavier Costa (right), Dean, Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media and Design Speaks to gallery
Zeina Aoun, (left)
Nathan Felde (center), Chair, Arts, Media and Design Department, Northeastern University 



Dr. Xavier Costa (left), Dean, Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media and Design
Joseph E. Aoun (right), Northeastern University President


Swiss Consul Dr. Felix Moesner (left), Director SwissNex Boston 
Stephen Director (right), Provost, Northeastern University;

Bruce Ployer (in the middle behind them), Northeastern University Campus Curator

Swiss Consul Dr. Felix Moesner (left partially obscured), Director SwissNex Boston; 
Stephen Director (right), Provost, Northeastern University;
Bruce Ployer (in the middle behind them), Northeastern University Campus Curator


Benjamin Bollman (left), Curator

Zeina Aoun, (second from left)

Nathan Felde (second from right), Chair, Arts, Media and Design Department

Dr. Xavier Costa (right with microphone), Dean, Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media and Design


Paparazzi


Benjamin Bollman (left), Curator
Zeina Aoun, (center partially obscured)
Nathan Felde (right), Chair, Arts, Media and Design Department


Joseph E. Aoun (right), Northeastern University President Speaks to Gallery
Dr. Xavier Costa (left), Dean, Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media and Design


Benjamin Bollman (left), Curator
Zeina Aoun (center)
Dr. Xavier Costa (right), Dean, Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media and Design


Joseph E. Aoun, Northeastern University President Speaks to Gallery;
Swiss Consul Dr. Felix Moesner, Director SwissNex Boston (right) 


Joseph E. Aoun (left), Northeastern University President Speaks to Gallery
Swiss Consul Dr. Felix Moesner (center), Director SwissNex Boston 
Nathan Felde (right), Chair, Arts, Media and Design Department


Stephen Director, Provost, Northeastern University, (right with arms folded);
Nathan Felde, Chair, Arts, Media and Design Department (left)


Benjamin Bollman (with microphone), Curator
Joseph E. Aoun (right), Northeastern University President


Dr. Felix Moesner (left), Swiss Consul, Director, SwissNex Boston;
Nathan Felde (right), Chair, Arts, Media and Design Department, Northeastern University 
Bruce Ployer (in the middle behind them), Northeastern University Campus Curator 


Andreas Rufer (right, holding microphone), Deputy Swiss Consul, Project Leader, Art and Culture
Benjamin Bollman (left), Curator


Swiss Railways Station Clock, designed by Swiss electrical engineer and industrial designer, Hans Hilfiker in 1944


Swiss Railways Station Clock. 

New Music Accompanied Geological Maps Display of Massachusetts











Geological Maps of Massachusetts











Visiting Scholars From China


Arvid Tomayko, DJ For New Music Geological Concert