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Let me ask you some questions that I want you to really think about…How do you prepare your life, your purpose, and your success? And for some of you, do you even prepare at all or do you just “go with the flow” What we need to understand is in order for us to achieve what we want, hope, desire, and dream about we need to PREPARE ourselves to attract our goals.
Let’s look at this from a peak sports performance viewpoint. Do you think the swimmer Michael Phelps could have achieved 8 gold medals at the 2008 Olympics without any or even very little preparation? There is no way he could of just rolled out of bed, skipped stretching and warm-ups, exercising, and weight lifting to achieve such phenomenal results. His coach helped him maximize his “peak swim time” performance through maximum preparation. Speaking of a coach, do you have a personal coach in your life? Well if you’re having trouble getting started in business, finding your purpose, or creating consisted results then you might want to consider a coach who can mentor success in your life. The action of preparation is very critical to your success. It helps you get the results you want exponentially faster than “going with the flow”. As it is important to make good preparations for one’s success, so is to the installation of a ball mill.
(1)When mining machine is transported to the site, the grinder mills should be properly kept from rusty parts after sun and rain if you cannot install the mining machine immediately. What’s more, the mining machine should be coated with anti-rust oil once the metal processing is exposed to surface .If you have established a regular maintenance system to keep the good performance of mining machine, the grinder mill’s life time would be extended longer.
(2)According to site-specific conditions and base map, make a good basis by using high-grade cement to configuration and reinforcement and bury the threading pipe or make cable trench. When installing the motor, not only the distance with the mainframe should be inspected, customers also should make sure that the grinding roller is corresponding to each other, before the belt of motor and the grooved wheel of mainframe is balanced, so as to ensure that all the triangle belts work efficiently.
(3)Cement base must have sufficient time to support solid-phase.
(4)If you make rectangular configuration, you should consider the general map size of mining machine with sufficient height and location.
(5)The installation site of mining machine should be provided with some lifting gears for installation or maintenance which is as follows: For the mining machine with 3R, starting weight of lifting tools should be 2t, and 4R with 2-3t, 5R with 5t.
(6)The main parts of mining machine, such as roller device, central axis and oil pool of analyzer, should be cleaned and checked after using for 6 months.
(7)After completely cleaning and checking, you had better add sufficient grease to every transmission section.
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|Kurt Adler's story begins after the close of World War II when he tried his hand at exporting general goods. As the business grew and European economies began to flourish, he changed direction to importing. In the 1950's, ornaments were first offered. Beautiful handmade angels from East and West Germany found an enthusiastic audience in America. The line was expanded with glass ornaments from Czechoslovakia, hanging ceiling decorations from Germany, and miniature lights from Italy. Suddenly, America was ablaze with festive decorations that offered a European flair.
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Is Canada saying ‘none is too many’ to the Roma?
The spokesperson for the Roma Community in Canada says her community feels disheartened and frustrated by Canada’s new immigration laws.
Gina Csanyi-Robah, executive director of the Toronto Roma Community Centre has harsh criticism for Bill C-31, the Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act, which she criticized as being specifically anti-Roma and which she said seeks to bar her people from entering the country based on a racist philosophy.
She made the comments while speaking at an intercultural discussion at congregation Darchei Noam on Nov. 18.
Csanyi-Robah said the new law, which was highly touted by Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney earlier this year, falsely labels Roma who are seeking entry into Canada as “bogus” claimants linked to human smuggling operations and as criminals who are trying to abuse Canada’s welfare system.
“Kenney has succeeded in convincing Canadians that [Roma] are here to take advantage of the country rather than fleeing terrible persecution. By doing so, he’s re-victimizing them,” Csanyi-Robah said.
The immigration minister has said the new law aims to curb false applications to Canada.
While not referring specifically to Hungarian Roma, in an interview last April with The CJN, Kenney said 95 per cent of all Hungarian refugee claims worldwide target Canada.
They do so to access Canada’s generous social benefits and obtain federal work permits, as well as to get supplemental health benefits that exceed what they get in Hungary, he said.
“One would have to be blind to the facts to suggest there aren’t other factors at play in this… ‘irregular migration.’ This [situation] undermines and abuses our immigration system,” Kenney said. “Thousands of unqualified claimants consume massive resources and slow down the system for those bona fide claimants that need Canada’s protection.”
But the Roma community in Canada thinks the new law is rooted in racism.
The stereotype of “the Gypsy” in Canada continues to permeate and be promoted, Csanyi-Robah said.
Case in point: on Sept. 5, Sun TV host Ezra Levant launched into a hateful tirade against the Roma, known pejoratively as Gypsies, on his show The Source.
Sun TV later apologized to viewers.
His comments however, prompted the Toronto Roma Community Centre to launch a hate speech complaint with Toronto police on Oct. 11.
Levant said on his show that “Gypsy culture” is synonymous with “swindlers” and that most Roma make false claims to immigrate to Canada.
“The words ‘Gypsy’ and ‘cheater’ have become so interchangeable historically” that they spawned the verb “gypped,” he said, adding: “And too many have come here to… gyp us again, to rob us blind, which they have done in Europe for centuries.”
His rant continued for about eight more minutes. The investigation into his comments is ongoing, and police have referred it to the Crown attorney’s office.
“I am praying that we will receive some justice, finally. The only way to stop this barrage of institutional and media racism is to hold them accountable for their words,” Csanyi-Robah said.
According to Kenney’s office, Canada receives more asylum claims from the European Union than from Africa or Asia. The top source country for asylum claims is Hungary. Citizenship and Immigration Canada said Hungarians constituted 18 per cent of all claimants to Canada in 2011. It notes that the “vast majority of all asylum claims from the EU are abandoned, withdrawn or rejected.” Indeed, between 2009 and 2011, 94 per cent of Hungarian refugee claims were abandoned, withdrawn, or rejected by the IRB. Most of those were Roma.
Bill C-31 will also create a list of “safe countries” – or designated countries of origin (DCOs) – whose asylum claimants would be treated differently, because they hail from democratic countries that protect their citizens.
“Designated countries of origin will be those nations that do not normally produce refugees, that are liberal democracies that respect human rights. The designation process is in no way arbitrary. It would require both well-defined quantitative and qualitative criteria be met. This includes the number of claims that are rejected, abandoned and withdrawn,” said Alexis Pavlich, a spokesperson for Kenney.
The list is scheduled for release on Dec. 15. Hungary and the Czech Republic – another country with large numbers of Roma who’ve applied en masse to Canada – were rumoured to be on it.
In April, prior to the new law’s passage, Kenney’s office said the new immigration bill would benefit all refugee claimants, regardless of country of origin. It said claimants would still receive IRB hearings based on the merits of their cases and in an expedited fashion.
“Bill C-31 will benefit genuine refugees, as they will receive Canada’s protection in a matter of a few short months, compared to the current system, in which they must wait an unacceptable two years,” a spokesperson for Kenney, said at the time.
But the shorter wait time isn’t an incentive and instead harms claimants’ chances of staying in Canada, according to Toronto immigration lawyer Max Berger. He also told The CJN that the new law is designed to “scare” claimants from DCOs, particularly Roma, from applying to Canada.
“Those who do come in large groups may be detained with no review of detention for 14 days and then not again for six months. There will be no right to the new Refugee Appeal Division that claimants from other countries have. There will be expedited hearings in 30 or 45 days after arrival, which is hardly enough time to retain counsel and prepare,” he said. “Even those who win their refugee claims will not be able to get permanent residence or sponsor their spouses or children for five years.
“The DCO label is like a scarlet letter that sends a message to refugee board judges that these claims ought to be rejected.”
The law has other detractors as well, including the Canadian Civil Liberties Union, the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL), and Jewish Immigration Aid Services (JIAS) Toronto, among others. All of them contend that provisions in the law give too much power to ministers and don’t give refugees enough time to establish their cases before Canada’s Immigration Refugee Board (IRB).
Echoing Csanyi-Robah’s sentiments, they also all claim the government is not properly taking into account the reasons behind the surge in Roma applicants.
On Dec. 6, CARL said it was preparing to challenge the law in court.
“There will be many constitutional challenges to the new provisions, including the DCO list, that will be argued by many lawyers, including myself,” Berger said.
According to EU statistics and reports, the Roma community continues to struggle with institutionalized discrimination. Its children are placed in segregated schools, forced evictions from homes are ongoing, and its women endure forced sterilization at the hands of the state.
“[Roma] are living in the same kind of abject poverty that can be found in sub-Saharan Africa. And that same filter of information still exists” in the western media, Csanyi-Robah said. “We don’t have an accurate reflection of the reality of the Roma in Europe anywhere in our media in Canada.”
Last April, Kenney said he believed many claimants, specifically Roma from Hungary, were making false claims and abusing Canada’s refugee system.
IRB statistics show a spike in Roma claims from 2010 to 2012. Roma from the Czech Republic and Slovakia have also been trying to reach Canada in greater numbers since the mid-2000s, though Czech Republic claims have dropped since Canada put a visa requirement on the country in 2009.
Hungarian Jews are also starting to feel skittish about an increasingly xenophobic landscape in Europe.
The rise of neo-Nazism, particularly in Hungary, where the ultranationalist Jobbik party and its paramilitary groups constantly harass Roma and Jews, is creating new fears among ethnic minorities there, Csanyi-Robah said.
Numerous Jewish bloggers and activists in Hungary are being targeted for reprisals by neo-Nazi groups for taking part in pro-Roma and counter-Jobbik rallies.
In March, Hungarian-Jewish author Akos Kertesz, 80, fled to Canada and sought asylum. He told the Hungarian News Agency he faced harassment and threats after making controversial statements last summer about Hungary’s role in the Holocaust.
In June, the Toronto Board of Rabbis wrote to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Kenney asking them to reconsider the DCO list, because it might turn away legitimate asylum seekers fleeing persecution, including Jews, from countries such as Hungary, despite growing concerns of rising antisemitism and anti-Roma attitudes.
“As Jews, we know that countries where the majority lives in safety can be dangerous for minority groups. Roma people living in Hungary, for example, face persecution that has been documented by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and other human rights groups,” the board wrote.
Kenney travelled to Hungary in October to meet with Roma and Jewish leaders there. At the time, his office said he sought to “better understand the nature of discrimination faced by the community and the reasons for a large wave of irregular migration to Canada.
Asked last week whether the meetings have had any impact on Kenney’s formulation of the DCO, a spokesperson said no decisions have been made about which countries will appear on the list.
Follow-up questions to Kenney’s office asking whether the delay in releasing the DCO was due to Kenney’s reconsideration of the situation in Hungary were not answered.
Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), said his group has begun outreach to the Canadian Roma community and that it monitors the situation in Hungary and the EU through its affiliation with the World Jewish Congress (WJC).
“There have historically been co-operative efforts between the Jewish and Roma communities. We haven’t met with them formally recently, but it’s something we’re prepared to do, and we’re exploring whether there are things we should do to address some of the challenges they face, which are similar to the problems with perception issues our community has had over the decades,” he said.
Last month, WJC president Ronald Lauder slammed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for not taking decisive action against racism and antisemitism.
Particularly galling to the WJC were remarks by Hungary’s ambassador to Norway, Géza Jeszenszky, who wrote in a university textbook used at Budapest’s Corvinus University that all Roma are mentally ill.
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Are you leaving an impression?
Posted: June 20, 2012 | 9:09 ET by Tessa Wegert
Just how many ad impressions it takes to convert a consumer into a customer is a marketing mystery for the ages. Traditional media buyers have said the optimal number of "touches" can range from 6 to 12, but this includes every nature of exposure, from e-mail to direct mail, display ad to TV spot. And given the sheer volume of media exposure consumers must deal with on an everyday basis, it might be prudent to lean toward the lower end of this scale.
Smarter still is to consider the nature and scope of each unique campaign, particularly when the campaigns are confined to digital media. Forcing your target consumer to sit through the same online video ad every commercial break during a long-form video program is nothing short of cruel. Combining a couple of those spots with banners and e-mails placed where that same consumer is likely to see them, however, is a brilliant marketing strategy.
To execute a campaign in which ad impressions are in perfect balance takes a good amount of effort. The most memorable campaigns I've seen of late have included display ads and integrated e-mails, along with social media chatter and even unpaid press mentions. In order to achieve maximum impact, every exposure must be made to collide in a consumer's life at the very same moment. It's an issue of placement and scheduling, both of them equally important to creating the impression that a brand is everywhere when, in fact, it's only everywhere the brand knows the consumer likes to go.
There is no one answer to the question of optimal ad exposure. There is only a brand, a target audience, and the media that binds them together.
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"At this my heart pounds
and leaps from its place.
Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice,
to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven
and sends it to the ends of the earth.
After that comes the sound of his roar;
he thunders with his majestic voice.
When his voice resounds,
he holds nothing back.
God's voice thunders in marvelous ways;
he does great things beyond our understanding.
He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,'
and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.'
So that everyone he has made may know his work,
he stops all mortals from their labor.
The animals take cover;
they remain in their dens.
The tempest comes out from its chamber,
the cold from the driving winds.
The breath of God produces ice,
and the broad waters become frozen.
He loads the clouds with moisture;
he scatters his lightning through them.
At his direction they swirl around
over the face of the whole earth
to do whatever he commands them.
He brings the clouds to punish people,
or to water his earth and show his love.
"Listen to this, Job;
stop and consider God's wonders.
Do you know how God controls the clouds
and makes his lightning flash?
Do you know how the clouds hang poised,
those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge?
You who swelter in your clothes
when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
can you join him in spreading out the skies,
hard as a mirror of cast bronze?
"Tell us what we should say to him;
we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
Should he be told that I want to speak?
Would anyone ask to be swallowed up?
Now no one can look at the sun,
bright as it is in the skies
after the wind has swept them clean.
Out of the north he comes in golden splendor;
God comes in awesome majesty.
The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power;
in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.
Therefore, people revere him,
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EECS Students are highly committed to their studies, yet somehow find time to participate in a wide variety of activities that help them make friends, serve their community, exercise, develop their talents, and take advantage of the many cultural and entertainment events happening in Ann Arbor.
EECS students have many opportunities for connecting with others, developing their leadership abilities, and serving their community through their participation in students societies. EECS-sponsored societies include:
GEECS: Girls in EECS
CSE Scholars: Students interested in computer science
HKN: Eta Kappa Nu - Honor Society for Electrical and Computer Engineers
IEEE: Students interested in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Amateur Radio Club : Students interested in "ham" radio
CSEG: Computer Science and Engineering Graduate student organization
Many of our students are involved in student societies that comprise students throughout the College of Engineering. These include:
See a more complete list of all the student societies.
Many EECS students participate in student teams that often work together to compete in national and international competitions. These include:
U-M Solar Car Team - competitive team
U-M Future Car Team - competitive team
Wolverine Soft - video game development
Walter E. Wilson Student Team Project Center - with links several student projects, including Formula SAE (M-Racing), Mars Rover, Solar Car, Autonomous Surface Vehicle, etc)
Student Space Systems Fabrication Laboratory
MClimber - competitive laser powered climbing vehicle
There are a variety of opportunities for students who are motivated to pursue research. including the following established programs:
Students are encouraged to approach their faculty advisor for advice if they are interested in pursuing research.
Students elect to join U-M intramural sports teams individually, or participate in sports and other activities as part of an EECS student team. It's a great way to have fun and stay healthy! Here are a few links to get you started:
Ann Arbor offers an incredible variety of cultural and entertainment offerings, including:
Students on North Campus can also partake of regular free performances by students at the School of Music, or attend theatrical performances at the Arthur Miller Theater , in The Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Drama Center.
Ann Arbor, a city of 140,000 residents, is a beautiful city, with many parks and rivers. Northern Michigan is a favorite tourist destination of Michiganders and others throughout the country attracted to the sandy beaches of the Great Lakes, the numerous smaller lakes, and the many opportunities for canoeing, hiking, camping, boating, fishing, skiing, and snowmobiling. | <urn:uuid:762cdf9e-d4aa-460e-93b2-c81844fbd4f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eecs.umich.edu/ai/student_life.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952891 | 539 | 1.539063 | 2 |
By Brian Homewood
LANDQUART, Switzerland (Reuters) - St Moritz is famous as a playground for the rich yet financial concerns are undermining public support for the glitzy resort's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in tandem with nearby Davos.
Voters in the Swiss canton of Graubuenden, where both towns are located, will decide in a referendum on Sunday whether or not to support the bid.
It would be a first for Davos while St Moritz, home of the Cresta run and the annual polo World Cup on snow, would be hosting the games for the third time after 1928 and 1948.
Organizers want to bring the winter Olympics "back to the mountains" after the city-based Games in Turin, Vancouver and upcoming Sochi but are having a hard time convincing the local population.
"We want to bring the winter Olympics back to the snow, it would be great if you could sit in the hotel and watch it snowing outside," Joerg Schild, president of the Swiss Olympic Committee, told a news conference on Monday.
"Turin is a beautiful city, but it took two hours by car to get to the Alpine sports venues. Vancouver was a fantastic games but it was 1-3/4 hours to the mountains."
Graubuenden 2022 organizing committee member Gian Gilli added: "I was in Sochi recently and it was 18 Celsius in winter."
But even the organizers admitted that the referendum, the first hurdle the bid must pass on its way to the International Olympic Committee, was on a knife-edge. "It will be very close," said Schild.
The bid organizers argue that the estimated investments of 4.3 billion Swiss francs ($4.62 billion) will be repaid by the boost in tourism which will result from staging of the event.
Of this, 1.5 billion would be on transport on sporting infrastructure and 2.46 billion would be on running the game.
They say that the bid is sustainable and environmentally friendly and that much of the necessary infrastructure already exists.
Opponents fear the environmental impact of new buildings, ski lifts and other infrastructure on the Alpine environment. They are also are concerned that the initial budget will spiral out of control, as invariably happens with major sporting events.
"This is an enormous chance to give tourism a big boost in the region," Sigi Asprion, head of the St Moritz town council, told reporters.
"If we can we show ourselves as a place for winter holidays, the whole of Switzerland will benefit."
Tarzisius Caviezel, the head of the bid, rejected any suggestion it would be environmentally destructive.
"This is an unfounded criticism because, from the start, we have given great importance to this ecological aspect and we have ensured that not one piece of wood will have to be pulled up," he told Reuters.
"The construction of temporary structures in the village area will be done with great care, so no environmental damage will be caused."
But the locals are still worried.
"Pressure to say yes to this has been enormous, including from public officials, but I think that pressure in recent days has shifted to the bid committee," Juerg Grassl, an architect who lives in Davos and works in Chur, told Reuters.
He said that promises such as federal subsidies for the single-track, narrow gauge Rhaetian railway which serves the reason have not panned out.
"It doesn't make sense financially, it's much too large an event, and it would burden the region with about 175,000 additional guests daily, about 10 times what we get on a booming day," he said.
Karin Bravo, a 41-year-old opticians' receptionist from Davos, said the region was too small for such a big event.
"I find it too risky. It's much too large an event for Davos and St. Moritz alone, but would be all right if it was carried out in all of Switzerland," she said.
"I was almost swayed by the good concept the bid committee put together, but the costs are opaque and it will incur a lot of debt."
She said another problem was affordable housing in Davos, alreading suffering from event fatigue from its annual hosting of the annual World Economic Forum.
"If the bid is accepted, it will mean a lot of construction, which would jeopardize our summer tourism season. The Olympics won't make up for that shortfall."
The vote will be held on the same day as the so-called "Fat Cat" nationwide referendum on executive wages where voters will be asked whether shareholders should have a binding say on pay and ban "golden handshakes" for new arrivals and "golden parachutes" for departing managers.
Caviezel said he welcomed the debate as an example of Swiss grass-roots democracy.
"It shows we really live in a democracy where everyone can voice their opinion," he said.
($1 = 0.9302 Swiss francs)
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The lowest of three bids was accepted Wednesday by the Rollin Township Board of Trustees for aquatic weed control at Round Lake for the 2013 season.
The board approved the bid from PLM Lake and Land Management Corp. for approximately $40,000 to apply aquatic herbicides to control weed growth in the 550-acre lake. The township had been using aquatic weevils to control Eurasian milfoil, an exotic weed that was choking out the rest of the lake’s ecosystem. However, the board and residents expressed concern the tiny water beetles were not doing a sufficient job and opted over the winter to change direction in treatment. The township is using a special assessment district tax to pay for controlling the weeds.
The price was per application, township officials said.
Clerk Denice Combs said before the board vote that municipalities and property owner associations at Wamplers and Sand lakes, and lakes Somerset and LeAnn have been satisfied with their relationship with the Minnesota-based company.
“Everyone is very happy with PLM,” Combs said.
The board also approved a motion to get the proper permits to have the herbicide application done at a cost of $800.
The board will also apply for a permit to have herbicide treatment done at Devils Lake in 2013. That permit will cost about $1,500, said supervisor John Jenkins, because the permit is based on acreage.
Trustee Jerry Wilson said he doesn’t want the township to delay in getting the permits in place for the season’s weed treatment. The Devils Lake portion of the treatment has yet to be established.
“We need to get going full speed on this,” Wilson said.
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BOE Was Naive on Libor and King Overstepped Power, Lawmakers Say
The Bank of England’s handling of questions about the rigging of the London interbank offered rate was naive and lacked urgency, a U.K. panel of lawmakers said.
The House of Commons Treasury Committee also criticized Governor Mervyn King for his part in the effective ousting of Barclays Plc (BARC) Chief Executive Officer Robert Diamond last month, saying it was “difficult to justify” and that greater checks on his power were needed.
“The evidence suggests that the Bank of England was aware of the incentive for banks to behave dishonestly, yet did not think that dishonesty was occurring,” the committee said in preliminary findings into the scandal, published in London today. “With hindsight this suggests a naivety on the part of the Bank of England. They were certainly relatively inactive.”
Barclays was fined a record 290 million pounds ($455 million) in June for attempting to manipulate Libor, prompting the resignation of Diamond as well as the bank’s chairman and chief operating officer. The central bank became embroiled after Barclays released a memo of a 2008 phone call between Diamond and Deputy Governor Paul Tucker. The note suggested Tucker might have hinted Barclays could lowball its Libor submissions.
In its report, the Treasury Committee downplayed the role of that conversation, saying it may have been used to distract lawmakers from other issues. The finding may provide relief to Tucker as he tries to stay in contention to for the central bank’s top job next year. Still, the panel criticized the central bank for not keeping its own record of the call.
“It remains possible that the entire Tucker-Diamond dialogue may have been a smokescreen,” the lawmakers said. “The committee remains skeptical about the importance of the Tucker-Diamond phone call given the already established pattern of dishonest Libor submissions.”
Lawmakers stopped short of accusing the central bank of misconduct over its failures on Libor and said the shortcomings of the Financial Services Authority as the prudential regulator were “far more serious.” In a statement, the Bank of England said it welcomes the conclusion that it “did not have any regulatory responsibilities for Libor during the relevant period.”
Britain’s Parliament is debating a financial-regulation bill that will see the FSA absorbed into the Bank of England and hand the central bank sweeping powers. At the same time, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne must find a replacement for King, who is due to retire in June. Both Tucker and FSA Chairman Adair Turner have been linked to the job, as has former top U.K. civil servant Gus O’Donnell.
On the resignation of Diamond, the Treasury Committee said it was wrong of King and Turner to interfere in decisions about management at banks. They both spoke to former Barclays Chairman Marcus Agius after the bank was fined and expressed concerns about management.
“Mr. Diamond’s resignation as Barclays CEO was a fait accompli once both men intervened,” the committee said. “Neither the FSA or the Bank of England should intervene to remove senior bank executives to placate public, media and parliamentary opinion.”
The central bank said in its response that King’s discussion with Agius “in the circumstances was fully justified.” Asked about the accusation that it was “inactive” in relation to Libor, a Bank of England spokesman referred to comments by King to the Treasury Committee on July 17 that it did not have any evidence of wrongdoing.
The Treasury Committee said King’s discussion with Agius “exposed implicit, and potentially arbitrary, power to force out senior figures in the financial services industry.” It said that once the Bank of England assumes powers over financial stability and micro-prudential supervision, “the governor of the Bank of England will stand all-powerful and able, by dint of raising his eyebrows, effectively to dismiss senior banking executives without discussing it with, or consulting, anyone.”
“This is unsatisfactory,” the lawmakers said. “A much stronger governance framework is needed.”
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Secretary of State Trey Grayson was recently honored at the Republican National Convention as a “Rising Star” in the Republican Party by United Leaders, a nonpartisan, nonprofit action tank based at Harvard University Institute of Politics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“I am honored by the recognition that United Leaders has given me,” stated Secretary Grayson. “It is important for young people to realize that they can make a difference in their communities and in state and federal government at any age. This award just highlights the impact that young people are making all across our Country.”
Secretary Grayson, at 32 years old, is the youngest Secretary of State in the country and was only 31 when he assumed office. He has been recognized by the Kentucky Press Association and the Shakertown Roundtable as one of 41 “Kentucky Leaders for a New Century.” In June, he was one of 40 state leaders from across the country selected to participate in the prestigious Toll Fellowship Program sponsored by The Council of State Governments.
Other honorees included Bobby Jindal, former candidate for Louisiana Governor and current candidate for United States Congress, Congressman Adam Putnam (R-FL) and Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA).
“As more and more young people turn away from the political system as a means to change the world, it is important to find and exhibit the beacons of hope and shining examples of success,” Jack Schnirman, Campaign Director for United Leaders, stated in a letter to Grayson. “We need idealistic, courageous, and dynamic leaders like [Secretary Grayson] to inspire a new generation to political service.”
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A new student organization – Democratic Students’ Federation – has been formed in the first unit conference of SFI-JNU held on 24-25 January, 2013. The Conference adopted an Interim Programme for the new organization. The name of the new organization was decided through a referendum. 54 out of the 131 students participating in the Conference voted for the name Democratic Students’ Federation (DSF), which were the maximum votes received for any of the proposed names. The Interim Programme was also adopted unanimously by the Conference after deliberations. Along with students from JNU, the Conference was also attended by students from Delhi University, Ambedkar University - Delhi, Jamia Milia Islamia and South Asian University.
Pragoti has been tracking the political developments in Jawaharlal Nehru University over the past year. SFI-JNU, a rebel student organisation that was formed following the dissolution of the erstwhile SFI unit in the campus has over the year, won the president's post in the JNUSU elections and has, also since, involved in the formation of a new initiative for a joint struggle platform of Progressive, Democratic and Left forces. SFI-JNU has now resolved to form a new student organisationon the basis of a set of principles.This blogpost carries that message (also hosted at their website).
Two recent events forced me to reflect on the training in economics that I received in CESP both as a MA student (1995-97) as well as a doctoral student (1998-2003). The first was when the queen of England asked economists during a visit to the LSE at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 why nobody had seen it coming.
A blogpost on the results of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Student's Union Elections.
"" -- Rosa Luxemburg.
In continuation with the ongoing debates in the Left student movement in JNU, here are some more insights from SFI activists and sympathizers in JNU
The Left movement and SFI have been undergoing a major churning in JNU over the last few days. Pragoti has already carried some of the debates within JNU SFI. A crucial question at this juncture that needs to be delved into is the future pathway of the left, democratic students’ movement in JNU. In that context, here are some more insights into various issues, including that of the Presidential Election, from a group of SFI activists and sympathizers.
"The SFI national leadership's move to dissolve the entire unit reeks of authoritarianism, a lack of appreciation of the political impulse of the students of JNU, and a violation of its own stated aims of mass organisation independence". A short blogpost on the events related to the SFI-JNU unit recently.
Recent events at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Delhi University showcase the implicit command of the right wing political forces in controlling the academic environment. However, this communal-casteist agenda of the Sangh Parivaar needs a comprehensive rebuff. The perspectives of the Left and Dalit-Bahujan intelligentsia have the needed intellectual capacity and argumentative rigor to show the Sangh Parivar its place in the academic world. Says Harish Wankhede in his article for Pragoti.
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The School of Design at George Brown College is located in the heart of Canada's largest concentration of design businesses and in one of North America's four top centres for design. The City of Toronto's economic development division has identified design and innovation as being one of the key drivers in the city's evolution towards a knowledge economy.
The School of Design reflects this context by developing programs and projects that foster excellence in design thinking, design culture and design business.
Built on a system of areas of specialization, the new curriculum at the School of Design offers an opportunity for students to gear their personal portfolio to the design career of their choice. Our newly renovated facilities and new computer labs include the latest hardware and software and are complemented by our new RealtimeStudio exhibit space in the Distillery District. Designed to focus imagination and hone critical thinking, our programs assist students in applying the latest technologies for a career in design. Our unique educational approach combines academic programs with authentic-task projects to create a community of learning that includes knowledgeable faculty, international lecturers, Alumni stories, industry partners, and designers-in-residence.
We build skills, refine talent, and expose students to the world of professional design practice.
At the George Brown College School of Design, you’ll not only learn design – you will live and breathe it. Your design education takes place in a brand new, state-of-the-art learning space in downtown Toronto – home to Canada’s greatest concentration of design businesses. Here you’ll be immersed in the design community, and expected to apply your natural skills to actual design projects. You’ll be more than ready to step into this competitive workforce with career options that include:
- Design and strategic consulting
- Design manager
- Design entrepreneur
- Graphic designer
- Web designer
- Production artist
- Advertising copywriter
- Marketing coordinator
The programs at the School of Design will help you focus your imagination and perfect your talent for a successful career in design.
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Updated 10/15/2012 07:40 PM
State adding to overcrowded county jails
It's something that costs several counties, including Jefferson and Oswego, more than a million dollars a year. Their jails are overcrowded and some inmates have to be housed elsewhere. Considering housing, health and travel expenses, it's busting some budgets. It's a problem one state lawmaker says is partially the state's fault. Our Brian Dwyer has more on a proposed law that would require the state to take care of its own.
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- It's a problem in Oswego County.
"If everything holds true until the end of the year, we're going to be about a million one over," Oswego County Undersheriff Gene Sullivan said.
It's an issue in Jefferson as well.
"Jail overcrowding has been a problem for over 10 years. Ever since I've been sheriff," Jefferson County Sheriff John Burns said.
Also in St. Lawrence County.
"We've recently had some overcrowding issues and a lot of that is based on the fact we have parolees sitting here," St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin Wells added.
Parolees who should actually be in state prisons. In fact, there's more than 780 parolees sitting in county jails across the state. The state used to reimburse the counties for that, but not anymore. The housing, medical, transportation and payroll costs pile up.
"We've all made our phone calls as sheriffs to parole and said, 'Why is this one still sitting here? Why haven't they had a parole hearing?'" Wells said.
"These are state inmates. These are the state's problems. The state should be paying financially and the county shouldn't be picking up the tab and causing the overcrowding issue," State Senator Patty Ritchie said. "Local taxpayers shouldn't be paying for a state problem.”
Ritchie met behind closed doors with three sheriff's in her district and also fellow Senator Michael Nozzolio, who chairs the Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections Committees. She's pushing a bill that would require the state to pick up parolees within ten days.
"It's not a few hundred dollars a day," Senator Nozzolio added. "It's in the tens of thousands of dollars a day just for the counties Senator Ritchie represents. Across the state, it's a multi-million dollar problem."
While they know it won't be the be-all, end-all solution to the overcrowding issue, especially in Jefferson and Oswego counties, the sheriff's do agree this change could make a big difference in the budget.
"Is it the total solution? No," Sullivan said. "Is it a significant number to local municipality like Oswego County? Absolutely."
"You take the medical again. You take what it costs to feed them and clothe them. You're talking, from Jefferson County, that's big money," Burns added.
Ritchie says there's beds out there in state prisons. She points out Watertown's just closed two dorms that had roughly 100 beds.
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Given the tendency of partisanship to shape perceptions, the big question for President Obama is this:
Will accelerating improvement in the economy translate into perceived improvement among those voters the president most needs to reach?
Here’s a data point that may have some bearing, a survey of job creation by metro area in 2011.
Among the outstanding performers:
Metro Pittsburgh (up 27.5% year over year November 2010-November 2011)
Metro Nashville (up 27.4%)
Metro Grand Rapids (up 22.5%)
Metro Indianapolis (up 21%)
Metro Detroit (up 18.9%)
Metro Kansas City, MO (up 18.8%)
West Palm Beach Florida (up 18.4%)
There were also big job gains in Salt Lake City (the job leader), Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth—but let me focus on the selected cities for a minute.
These are areas where the Democratic party tends to be strong normally, but is facing demoralization and demobilization in the face of lagging economic results. The president’s challenge in those places is not to change minds but to reactivate a disappointed coalition. These are the people most likely to accept a perception of improvement.
Does surging job creation generate such a perception? Remember, the overall situation remains very bad. What has happened is that the ratio of job seekers to job openings—which hit a worst-ever-in-recorded-history nadir of 5.5:1 in the spring of 2009—has now relaxed to 3:1—or about the same ratio as during the severe recession of 1981-82. How do job seekers experience that kind of change? A lot will hinge on that answer.
NB—I’m writing this post from New York City, one of the metro areas that has done least well according to this metro jobs report, actually down 12.5% between November 2010 and November 2011. Yesterday morning, walking to a breakfast meeting along East 57th Street, I passed a queue of 15 people waiting, resumes in hand, for job interviews at the big Nike store. I doubt they were hiring 15 sales assistants. The jobseekers—mostly under 30, mostly minority—looked like natural Obama voters. And they also looked cold, weary, and frustrated. | <urn:uuid:737bdfad-bb90-4c06-83af-b71b95c49c7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/19/understanding-obama-s-poll-numbers-continued.html?cid=interactiveonetrade | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950336 | 485 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Liberty University, Free Speech, and the Private University
June 3, 2009
Since Liberty University decided recently to derecognize its chapter of the College Democrats because it believed the group's "parent organization stands against the moral principles" of the university founded by Jerry Falwell, we've been getting a lot of mail and questions about our stance on the issue. Despite the fact that we've made our position on private universities very clear in the decade since our founding and have covered the subject both in our Guides and, most recently, in Robert's blog post last week about Liberty, it appears that some people are not understanding us. Therefore, I am going to try to explain this in as straightforward a manner as possible.
Public colleges are bound by the First Amendment. Therefore they must provide their faculty and students with robust free speech rights. Private colleges are not bound by the First Amendment and therefore are not obligated to provide freedom of speech. Indeed, the First Amendment guarantees freedom of association to citizens, so we are actually free to establish institutions of higher learning that promise virtually no speech rights and no academic freedom if we so choose. Accordingly, individuals also have the right to choose to join these institutions and voluntarily relinquish a great number of their rights. Fraternities are a prime example of institutions at public colleges in which inductees have usually agreed to surrender certain rights. It is the same with college athletics, military academies, theological seminaries, and even some professions like my own: law.
With this being the case, people ask, why does FIRE fight so many private and even religious colleges? Doesn't that put FIRE at odds with this crucial right to freedom of association? The resolution to this apparent conflict is, in fact, simple. The overwhelming majority of private colleges represent themselves as citadels of freedom, free expression, academic freedom, debate, and candor. Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Brandeis, and virtually all the rest of our nation's most prestigious universities make extensive promises of free speech in their promotional literature, in their handbooks, in their contracts with professors, and in their presentations to prospective students, donors, and alumni. Many colleges have raised literally billions of dollars and attracted the best and brightest students by presenting themselves as epicenters of open discourse and discussion. It is therefore fraud of the highest order for these schools to induce students to attend based on promises of the utmost freedom and then deliver repression, censorship, and viewpoint discrimination. The Constitution protects the right of freedom of association. It does not protect the right to defraud, lie, fraudulently induce, and otherwise misrepresent an institution in order to trick people into sending their children, attending, or donating to a college. That's why FIRE battles with private colleges that promise freedom of speech and then deliver censorship.
There are, however, a handful of colleges that do not promise freedom of speech or basic rights. Indeed, these schools often exist precisely to provide a more restrictive campus environment then you would see at any public college or the overwhelming majority of private colleges. Anyone who has heard me give a speech over the last two or three years knows that my favorite two examples of schools like this are Brigham Young University and, you guessed it, Liberty University.
Originally, I thought BYU's policies were likely the clearest of any school I was familiar with in notifying students that they should be prepared to give up the rights they otherwise would enjoy at a public college. Then I discovered Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, which—just for a start—actually requires students to sign a contract recognizing that they will be relinquishing many of their most basic rights in order to attend. Liberty also forbids, among many other things, the viewing of R-rated movies in its residence halls. Music and video games that run counter to Liberty's standards of morality as informed by the school's reading of the Bible are similarly prohibited. Liberty also forbids female students from wearing two-piece bathing suits, judges any dating behavior beyond handholding as inappropriate, and places the bedrooms of opposite-sex students (whether on- or off-campus) off limits entirely. Students are taught to "respect authority," are trained as "visionary champions for Christ," and are required to attend convocation or chapel three times a week. As Robert noted in his blog entry from last week, the "About Liberty" section on the school's website advertises Liberty as "distinctive" for maintaining
An uncompromising doctrinal statement, based upon an inerrant Bible, a Christian worldview beginning with belief in biblical Creationism, an eschatological belief in the pre-millennial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of His Church, dedication to world evangelization, an absolute repudiation of "political correctness," a strong commitment to political conservatism, total rejection of socialism, and firm support for America's economic system of free enterprise.
Based on these clearly enunciated policies and the contract, time and time again I have used Liberty University as an example of a university that no one could attend not knowing that they were giving up an extraordinary number of rights. It is not plausible to think that anyone could read the contract that Liberty University requires applicants to sign and say "Gosh, I had no idea the university Jerry Falwell founded was so restrictive!" See, for example, Section 6, titled "Agreement," which reads:
I am applying for admission to Liberty University. I am familiar with the doctrine, standards and programs of the University as stated in The Liberty Way, found on Liberty's website at www.liberty.edu/studentaffairs. I am prepared to abide by the codes of conduct and rules and regulations of the University set forth therein. I certify that all of the information given in this application is complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge.
Just below the signature line, in case an applicant had somehow reached this point by accident, is the bolded, italicized statement: "Liberty University's mission is to produce Christ-centered men and women with the values, knowledge, and skills required to impact tomorrow's world." Signing this and not realizing that one had agreed to live according to a very particular worldview would be like someone joining the military and then being shocked that they could not take afternoons off whenever they felt like it. It is Liberty University's right to form a community around its stated beliefs and values—even if those values do not include free speech. Likewise, students have the right to agree not to engage in certain behaviors or express certain opinions in order to attend this very restrictive religious college. That is how freedom of association works—indeed, that is how freedom of association should work.
Frustratingly, I have watched many very intelligent people get very simplistic when the issue of private colleges comes up. Either they think that all private colleges should be allowed to do whatever they want no matter what they promise, or they think that it doesn't matter and that First Amendment standards should apply even to schools that make it exceedingly clear that they place other values on a higher level than free expression. Both positions are wrong. I would not have agreed to work for FIRE if it did not already have such a principled way to recognize the importance of freedom of association while still defending freedom of speech at the overwhelming majority of colleges.
I know that some don't trust this system to work. They ask: "Is FIRE saying that all private universities in the country could one day wake up and decide that they don't promise free speech anymore?" Actually, yes, that is what FIRE is saying. But here's the thing that people miss: The market for highly restricted colleges is extremely small. How many people want to go to a college that promises no free speech and no academic freedom? Who wants to teach at a college that promises no free speech and no academic freedom? Such people are out there, but they are a very small percentage of the total number of students and scholars. The overwhelming majority of colleges promise free speech because they must do so if they wish to attract most serious students and scholars. Our society, in essence, demands institutions of higher learning that guarantee these freedoms.
Indeed, it is often only the very religious who wish to go to very religiously restrictive colleges (imagine that!) and it's their right to do so. To illustrate the small size of this market, consider this: of the 364 colleges and universities rated in our Spotlight database of speech codes, only eight—yes, eight!—promise so few rights that we do not even rate them. Those institutions are Bard College, Baylor University, Brigham Young University, Pepperdine University, the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Yeshiva University. (Liberty University is not part of our Spotlight database at this time, but it would also not be rated.) As you can see, contrary to the assertions of some of our critics, these schools include deeply religious schools, a science and engineering-heavy institution, two military academies, and even one well-known secular liberal arts college.
Imagine what might happen if Yale decided tomorrow that it would banish any mention of freedom of speech from its policies and announce that free expression was henceforth no longer an important value at Yale. Faculty members would leave, donors would demand their money back, students would drop out, prospective students would flock to Harvard and Princeton, and generally the school would suffer a massive collapse of its reputation and goodwill. On the other hand, the people who created Liberty University and who attend Liberty University did so precisely because of the restrictive environment that the school offers, and Liberty goes out of its way to let people know the environment they are signing up for if they choose to attend. Again, there is a very limited market for this environment, but America is a pluralistic and diverse society. Our great nation has room for the comparative handful of schools that decide, like the Pilgrims did, to create their own strict, puritanical community, even if most Americans would find it far too repressive.
I believe that the contract theory of rights at private schools to which FIRE adheres, outlined above, is the only effective way anyone has come up with to acknowledge the rights of private colleges while maximizing free speech.
Nonetheless, a few people have blown up at us, claiming that we are hypocrites for our refusal to fight Liberty University for not delivering rights that the school was very clear about not promising in the first place. Another claim is that we somehow let religious universities off the hook. As someone who has been adamantly nonreligious since I was in the seventh grade, I find my supposed favoring of religious institutions quite amusing. It is true that religious universities do seem more likely to be attracted to a model that promises fewer rights than other universities, but many religious colleges do promise freedom of speech. When they do, FIRE fights them the same way we would any public college. For example, we fought successfully at Catholic University of America in order to get it to recognize a chapter of the NAACP because of the college's promise of freedom of association. FIRE has similarly gone to the mat for wronged students and faculty at Gonzaga University, Marquette University, and DePaul University.
We have also been accused of somehow making up this policy as a way of avoiding a fight with Liberty University. Sorry—this has actually been FIRE policy since the beginning. Check out our Guides, our letter to Catholic University, and former FIRE employee Chris Perez's excellent blog post on the subject from several years ago.
Finally, we are hearing some critics fall back on the old chestnut that this policy reveals FIRE as a partisan organization. I find this argument tiresome. As I've explained before, FIRE is not a partisan organization. Indeed, it is the most uniquely nonpartisan organization I have ever heard of. You can read more from me on this topic in this blog that I wrote in response to an accusation several years ago. Since that time we have also defended the rights of a student newspaper editor at Colorado State University who was investigated over an editorial titled "Taser this...F*** BUSH"; a student group at the University of Colorado charged exorbitant security fees for an event featuring Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill; and the University of Oklahoma itself when conservative legislators began to investigate it for bringing Richard Dawkins to campus. In person, I often challenge FIRE skeptics to go on Fox News and defend Ward Churchill, as I have done, or try debating Pat Buchanan on his own show about free speech zones, or go on MSNBC to defend the free speech rights of Sami Al-Arian.
If FIRE is doing its job right, we know we will get angry letters from a lot of people. That's par for the course when it comes to First Amendment advocacy. And I do understand that people who don't spend all day thinking about student and faculty rights may not quite get FIRE's position on this issue. But before you hit "send" on your angry e-mail to FIRE, I ask you to read what we've written, think about it, and look at the facts. If you still disagree with us, we can accept that. But before you write us, please do make sure you understand our position. | <urn:uuid:1841b318-d26e-4934-a391-b7743ba441cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thefire.org/article/10689.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968939 | 2,697 | 1.703125 | 2 |
This is probably one of the most creative outdoor toys we've seen in a while. Generations of kids have been making mud pies right in their backyards, but no one ever thought to create a mud-pie kitchen. Today's kids can make the perfect "gourmet" mud pie with the Makin' Mud Pies playset. Kids can mix their mud ingredients with the hand-crank mud mixer, then pour the mixture into the pie mold. The set also comes with a sink strainer so your mud can be the perfect consistency, a shaker and lid, a large mixing bowl, a mixing spoon and scoop, a measuring cup, and a cutting board. Kids will feel just like a real chef in their very own kitchen.
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New York, October 19, 2011--Venezuela's telecommunications regulator has fined Globovisión, the country's last remaining critical network, more than US$2 million for its coverage of deadly prison riots in June and July, news reports said.
The fine stems from Globovisión's coverage of a tense 27-day standoff between government troops and prisoners at the country's El Rodeo II Prison in the city of Guatire, outside the capital, Caracas. The conflict began after troops raided a nearby prison looking for weapons, which set off gunfights that killed at least 22 people, according to news reports.
Pedro Maldonado, director of the National Telecommunications Commission, known as Conatel, told reporters that in Globovisión's televised interviews with relatives of prisoners, which were rebroadcast 269 times, the station violated the law on social responsibility in radio and television that, among other things, sanctions stirring public anxiety. He said the station falsely claimed that members of the National Guard had "massacred" prisoners and that the reporting could have provoked riots in other prisons. He also claimed that Globovisión failed to transmit the government's point of view in a timely manner.
The fine of 9,300,000 bolívares (approximately US$2,164,000) is equal to 7.5 percent of Globovisión's gross income for 2010, according to Maldonado. The director said in a news conference on Tuesday that the fine was the unanimous decision of the 11 members of the body's social responsibility directorate, press reports said.
"Yet again, Venezuela is attempting to silence the television station Globovisión, this time saying the television station's reporting stirred public anxiety," said Carlos Lauría, CPJ's senior coordinator for the Americas. "Venezuelan authorities must end their systematic campaign of harassment against one of the country's only remaining critical media groups and withdraw the fine."
Globovisión president Guillermo Zuloaga, who is living in exile, said the station would go before the Venezuelan courts to appeal the decision, which he called "grotesque and absurd," the network said. But under Venezuelan law, the fine cannot be deferred until a final court decision is handed down, and Maldonado said the fine must be paid by December 31.
Ricardo Antela, a Globovisión legal adviser, told CPJ that the station did its best to report an important story under extremely difficult circumstances. He said the station's reporters were forced to cover the story from outside a security cordon more than half a mile away from the prison. He also said the government made no official declaration until six days after the riots began and that government officials refused to speak to Globovisión about the crisis.
Globovisión Vice President María Fernanda Flores told reporters that the fine could bankrupt the station, which receives no government advertising. But she also vowed to continue transmitting the news. "There is no way to pay that much money," she said in an interview broadcast by the station. "We will continue to inform the public. We have never censored ourselves and we are not going to. We are not scared," she said.
However, Antela said, if Globovisión does not pay the fine, the state could seize Globovisión's bank accounts, making it impossible to pay employees and suppliers, and effectively shut down the station. He also said that eight of the 11 members of Conatel's social responsibility directorate were government appointees and added that the fine was an attempt to silence a critical voice. He said there was little hope of winning an appeal before the pro-government Venezuelan courts but said the station would take the case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Globovisión, a 24-hour news station, has frequently sparred with President Hugo Chávez and his administration, of whom it has been highly critical. In August 2009, a group of more than 30 armed pro-government militants riding motorcycles stormed the network's premises and set off tear gas. Earlier that year, Venezuelan regulators opened five administrative proceedings against the broadcaster on similar charges.
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Editor's note: Michael R. Taylor is the Deputy Commissioner for Foods in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The following is the speech he gave on March 22, 2012 at the America Trades Produce Conference in Tubac, Ariz.
Good morning. It’s a pleasure to be here today with Octavio Carranza to talk about the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and what it means for domestic producers as well as for importers.
A number of FDA staff are here with me—Jim Gorny, Phyllis Marquitz, and Domenic Veneziano—which illustrates how important we believe it is to maintain a dialogue with you as we proceed with FSMA implementation.
While FSMA is “top of mind” for us in the U.S., we are aware that Mexico has a new legislative mandate that addresses the certification of good agricultural practices. So we want to learn more about that and continue the dialog so we can learn together and grow together. In fact, we are finalizing a food safety arrangement with Mexico that affirms our commitment to keep lines of communication open. This arrangement re-institutes and revitalizes a former food safety arrangement with Mexico, which was signed by the secretaries of Agriculture and Health for both the United States and Mexico. We are looking forward to finalizing and signing the new arrangement, which will provide a framework for ongoing food safety communication and collaboration with Mexico on food safety.
Key FSMA Framework Rules
Today, I will provide an update on the foundational proposed rules that establish the basic regulatory framework under FSMA. Three of the forthcoming proposed rules require preventive controls for those who grow and pack fresh produce and process food and animal feed.
While Congress recognized that prevention is a shared responsibility of all participants in the food system, it also recognized the differences among facilities that manufacture or pack food and animal feed, and farms that grow produce. That is why we are proposing three separate rules to establish the basic framework of prevention standards.
Facilities that process human food will be required to establish modern preventive controls that are consistent with internationally recognized principles of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and address supplier verification activities that relate to the safety of food. Congress used some different terms in mandating preventive controls in all types of food facilities, but these proposed rules will seem familiar to those who are currently following Codex principles and guidelines for HACCP.
Animal feed facilities are also subject to the preventive controls mandate but will be addressed in a separate but similar rule that takes into account some differences in how preventive controls would work in human and animal food facilities.
Produce Safety Rule
I know that the produce safety rule is of most interest to this audience, and I want to emphasize that his rule was created with full consideration of the international framework under which we operate. The United States is a key participant in Codex Alimentarius—as is Mexico—and our proposed rule on produce safety is closely aligned with the Codex Code of Hygienic Practice for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables.
Farms that grow fresh produce must take a preventive approach, but, because of the nature of these operations, the preventive controls will be different from those in facilities that manufacture food. The produce safety rule will set science- and risk-based standards for the safe production and harvesting of fruits and vegetables. The rule focuses on five familiar potential routes of contamination: worker health and hygiene, agricultural water, soil amendments, animal intrusion, and buildings and equipment. At one time or another, all of these routes have been identified as potential contributing factors in produce related outbreaks. They represent the core of the long-standing Good Agricultural Practices program. So focusing farmers and packing house operators on both sides of the borders on these key areas will simplify the message of what it takes to safely produce these crops and reduce illness.
The challenge is to devise rules that target the practices most likely to introduce hazards but that also are flexible enough to be feasible and effective across the great diversity of crops, hazards, practices and growing conditions in the produce sector. We recognize the need to maintain consumer access to a wide range of imported foods while minimizing to the extent possible added costs and disruption of trade.
We are sensitive to this and for that reason, are imposing new requirements only when they are relevant and necessary for the safety of a crop. And we have built in flexibility in several ways. We are proposing that farms be able to use alternative practices as long as they are based on sound science.
Foreign Supplier Verification Program
The fourth proposed rule addresses import safety, and it is closely tied to the preventive controls and produce safety requirements. The proposed rule on Foreign Supplier Verification calls for a fundamental paradigm shift. Rather than placing primary reliance on FDA inspectors detecting and correcting problems at the port of entry, importers must manage their supply chains to ensure the safety of imported foods. FSMA makes importers accountable for verifying, in a manner transparent to FDA, that the food they import has been produced in accordance with U.S. standards, or under modern preventive controls that provide the same level of public health protection.
This new import paradigm is grounded in public-private collaboration. FDA sets safety standards and will provide a certain level of oversight through a continuing presence at the border and a stronger presence overseas. But much of the assurance that imported food safety standards are being met will come from the importer carrying out a Foreign Supplier Verification Program. The fourth rule FDA is working on will lay out how importers can meet this new requirement.
Having preventive control requirements apply to both domestic and imported products is, of course, essential for food safety and for consumer confidence in today’s global marketplace, and it will require real collaboration between government and industry to achieve that goal.
Together, these closely interconnected requirements –preventive controls for facilities and farms and importer verification that imported food meets U.S. standards – establish the central core of the regulatory framework envisioned by FSMA. The four proposed rules establishing this framework are in the final stages of review and should be published for public comment soon.
Third Party Certification
The Foreign Supplier Verification program is a central element of the new import safety system envisioned by Congress, but it is part of a larger tool kit for import safety that includes FDA conducting more foreign inspections and working closely with foreign governments to strengthen food safety oversight. Congress has also recognized the important role already being played in the international arena by private sector third-party audits. So following closely behind is a proposed rule on third party certification. Congress and FDA recognize that some of these audits are rigorous and add significant food safety value—and that some do not. To build on the strengths of this private effort, Congress has given FDA a mandate to establish an Accredited Third-Party Certification Program.
Under this program, FDA will recognize accrediting bodies and set standards for accreditation of private third-party auditors that will help ensure the rigor, objectivity and transparency of privately conducted audits. Transparency means that the audit results will be available to FDA, which in turn means that we can rely on private audits as part of the public system of assurances and accountability for food safety.
FDA sees the Accredited Third-Party Certification Program as central to the vision of a system that provides significantly elevated assurances about the safety of food moving in international trade in a more efficient way. In fact, by capitalizing on private sector food safety efforts and linking them to the public assurance system, we think accredited third-party certification can help transform the way we ensure the safety of globally traded food. And we think this kind of partnership for prevention is in the best interest of both consumers and the food industry.
Partnering with Mexico
As we move forward with FSMA and in particular our new import system, we place a high priority on partnering with Mexico. This partnership is critical in maintaining consumer confidence in the safety of imports and is critical to ensuring the successful implementation of the Foreign Supplier Verification Program and third party certification.
Our partnership began more than 10 years ago with a 2001 Pilot Program on Good Agricultural Practices in Sinaloa. Since then FDA and our academic partner JIFSAN have held eight Good Agricultural Practices workshops in Mexico—more than in any other country. Numerous technical experts have shared their knowledge in areas such as laboratories, seafood and dairy processing, and food packaging. FDA has hosted 40 visitors in 14 delegations to facilitate information exchange between our countries.
Just since FSMA was enacted, we have carried out or have planned more than 30 outreach activities in Mexico. Our FDA office in Mexico City just recently spent a week in Guadalajara, two days in Puebla and one day in Mexico City talking about various import requirements and how to participate in FSMA. I led a delegation last June to meet with Mexican food safety officials in Mexico City. The input we receive at these events is invaluable.
We have number of ongoing activities and initiatives to support this partnership. For example:
- We completed 131 inspections in the last year in Mexico, many of them in collaboration with the Mexican government. We currently have a temporarily stationed inspector in Mexico conducting inspections simultaneously with SENASICA.
- We recently hosted a team of laboratory staff from SENASICA at our New York district office so they can learn about analytical methods, and we have translated certain methods into Spanish. We have also conducted pilots to share the results of certain laboratory samples collected at the border with the Mexican government in real time.
- We're working with industry and COFEPRIS and SENASICA to develop a mapping project to capture in one place the supply chain of fresh produce sectors. We are starting with papaya and mango and will continue with other commodities.
- We’ve held sessions for industry on FSMA, registration and prior notice, import alerts and refusals, Good Manufacturing Practices and Good Agricultural Practices.
And last year, we broke new ground in outbreak response when FDA and its two counterpart agencies in Mexico collaborated on the outbreak of foodborne illness attributed to papayas. This was the first time we had such a high level of engagement and collaboration so early in the process with the exporting country. FDA and Mexican officials conducted a joint inspection of a grower, and Mexican officials stepped up efforts to trace the source or sources of contamination and to develop methods for preventing these problems in the future. Additionally, we collaborated on laboratory methodologies for testing fresh papayas for Salmonella.
These specific initiatives and ongoing communication, along with the Food Safety Arrangement I mentioned earlier, illustrate our real commitment to partnering with Mexico to ensure food safety. Our collaboration is a work in progress that will require sustained commitment and investment on both sides, and the United States is committed to this effort.
This strong partnership will be extremely beneficial as we implement the FSMA initiatives I have laid out today. These changes will not happen overnight, of course. They must be implemented through a public rulemaking process. This process takes time, but is crucial to ensuring we get the rules right based on input from all of our stakeholders.
It is through this public process that we ensure we have achieved the right balance between specificity and flexibility. And it is through this public process that we ensure that all the pieces fit together as a practical whole that can work in a complex and diverse global food system.
We hope that you will take advantage of the opportunity to comment on our proposals. We will carefully review your comments and take them into account in making final decisions about our rules. We will, of course, also fulfill our WTO notice obligations, which provide another chance for foreign governments and other stakeholders world-wide to provide comments.
I want to emphasize that, even after we issue final rules over the next year or so, we will be allowing additional time for firms to come into compliance. We are committed to devising a compliance schedule that ensures as much as possible an orderly, feasible transition to the new system. For certain final rules, we will also prepare guidance documents to help industry comply with the requirements.
Outreach and Technical Assistance
We also will continue stakeholder engagement—which has been a key part of our implementation strategy. The extensive outreach we have already conducted in Mexico over the past decade sets the stage for continued interaction.
Once the foundational rules are published, we will hold another set of public meetings to engage stakeholders. And we will continue our outreach both domestically and internationally. Our goal is to get the best input we can on our proposed rules.
As we move forward with final rules, we also will provide technical assistance both domestically and internationally and will work closely with the industry and our federal, state and foreign government partners on this phase of implementation. We will provide training through Alliances we have established for produce, sprouts, and preventive controls and through the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
In closing, I just want to say again how much I appreciate the opportunity to be here today to share with you some of the important work we have underway and to hear from you as well.
Food safety is a great challenge, especially in a global environment. We will succeed if we work together, if we build a true partnership for prevention, and if we sustain our effort for the long term. FDA is committed, as I know you are, too. So we look forward to continuing to work with you. | <urn:uuid:128f5931-b2f4-4f45-bab5-f030cb028719> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dairyfoods.com/blogs/14/post/88353-ensuring-produce-safety-in-a-global-food-system | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950956 | 2,753 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 254 from December 15, 1977. This issue and the rest of the Rolling Stone archives are available via Rolling Stone Plus, Rolling Stone's premium subscription plan. If you are already a subscriber, you can click here to see the full story. Not a member? Click here to learn more about Rolling Stone Plus.
And in at least momentary fairness to the Management, we should note that the term "star-crossed" is Dr. Thompson's — as are all other-harsh judgments he was finally compelled to submit....
"We work in the dark, we do what we can." Some poet who never met Werner Erhard said that, but so what?
What began as a sort of riptide commentary on "the meaning of the Sixties" soon turned into a wild and hydra-headed screed on Truth, Vengeance, Journalism and the meaning, such as it is, of Jimmy Carter.
But none of these things could be made to fit in the space we had available — so we were finally forced to compromise with The Doc and his people, who had all along favored a long, dangerous and very costly piece titled: "The Search for the Brown Buffalo."
It was Dr. Thompson's idea to have Rolling Stone finance this open-ended search for one of his friends who disappeared under mean and mysterious circumstances in the late months of 1974, or perhaps the early months of 1975. The Brown Buffalo was the nom de plume of the Chicano attorney from East Los Angeles who gained international notoriety as the brutal and relentless "300-pound Samoan attorney" in Thompson's book, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.' — The Editors
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Encounters with the Torturer
Pinochet's dirty warriors tortured Hector Salgado. Now he's tracking them down.
May/June 2006 Issue
CHILE’S MODERN HISTORY IS A STORY OF LISTS. In the 1970s and ’80s, General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship compiled lists of leftist sympathizers, union leaders, student activists, and other suspected comunistas. These lists, in turn, led to new ones—of political prisoners, exiles, the missing, and the executed. After Pinochet stepped down in 1990, more lists were made, identifying some of the 3,000 Chileans who had been killed or “disappeared” under his 17-year rule. By 2004, Chile’s National Commission on Political Prisoners and Torture had compiled the longest list yet, with the names of more than 35,000 people claiming to have been victims of torture.
Then there is Hector Salgado’s list. The names of the former military officers on his list are not well known. They live in pleasant neighborhoods and own nice houses and expensive cars. They have rounding bellies, retreating hairlines, and little reason to recall Salgado. But Salgado, who was arrested and tortured by the military more than three decades ago, has been unable to get these men out of his mind. For the past seven years, he has been gathering their names, addresses, and phone numbers. One by one, he plans to confront them all.
On a mild autumn morning in the resort town of Viña del Mar, Salgado stood on the sidewalk wrestling with his tie. The 49-year-old was dressed in a handsome charcoal-colored business suit, the only one he owns, purchased especially for these occasions. He calls it his “uniform.” The pattern on his tie was a swirl of green and yellow spots, and at the center of one of these spots was a small hole. The glassy eye of a tiny camera lens peered from the hole; Salgado has dubbed this curious invention the “corbata cam,” or tie cam. A hidden microphone was taped inside the breast of his coat. “I get so nervous before these confrontations,” Salgado said, smoothing his slacks. “I never know how they are going to react. And the last thing I want is to be abused by them again.”
Accompanied by his wife, Marianne, and a two-person film crew, Salgado approached the gate of an apartment tower and rang the buzzer. Since he began confronting former members of Pinochet’s military, Salgado has gotten used to having doors slammed in his face. He’s already tracked down more than half of the 20 men on his list, though only 6 have consented to on-camera interviews for the documentary film he and his wife are making. However, he is not overly preoccupied with the legal implications of surreptitiously re- cording the others. He would welcome their lawsuits, he says defiantly—naively, perhaps— as a chance to expose them in court.
A doorman allowed Salgado into the building, and when he reached the lobby, a former navy captain whom Salgado had not seen in more than 30 years was waiting for him, looking puzzled. They exchanged introductions, and the captain, now in his 60s, said he didn’t remember Salgado. “But I remember you,” Salgado said. “I remember you from Talcahuano.”
The mention of the naval base in southern Chile immediately put the captain on the defensive. “Why were you there?” he asked accusingly.
“I was detained. In the gymnasium,” Salgado replied.
“What does that have to do with me?”
When the two men first met in 1973, on Talcahuano’s soccer field, Salgado was a teenage prisoner and the captain a menacing young officer with a hunting knife strapped to his boot and a Colt pistol on his belt. Salgado had been sent with a group of prisoners to clean up the field. There on the grass, Salgado says, the captain ordered him to crawl, kicking him in the ribs and stomach.
“Do you know how old I was then?” Salgado demanded. “I was 16.… You beat me and made me get down and walk on my hands and knees.”
But the captain would admit nothing and insisted that Salgado had him confused with someone else. He steered the conversation into more comfortable territory, justifying the military’s attempts to save Chile from Cuban-style communism—excuses Salgado has heard many times before: That was another era. You can’t judge it by today’s standards. That was the Cold War. “I sleep with a clear conscience,” said the captain.
The two men argued for an hour as the tie cam recorded everything and Salgado’s crew waited in a nearby stairwell, monitoring the conversation. Eventually, Salgado gave up and headed outside. He said that facing the captain after so many years was a small step toward closure, but he was frustrated that the man wasn’t honest with him.
“It’s always the same story,” he said. “The officers say they didn’t see anything and didn’t torture anyone. The lower-level guys say they were just following orders. No one accepts responsibility.”
Hector Salgado grew up in a working-class section of Tome, a small fishing and manufacturing town 400 miles south of Santiago. When Pinochet overthrew Salvador Allende in September 1973, Salgado and his teenage friends were eager to do something to resist. They knew of a local Pinochet supporter who ran a mining operation and kept a large store of dynamite. The boys managed to steal and hide the explosives but had no real plans to use them. “We were just kids,” Salgado says. “It’s not like we had any military training.” A few weeks passed. Then, on the night of October 7, 1973, military officers came and arrested Salgado. A navy lieutenant told his mother her son would be back in an hour.
Instead, Salgado was subjected to weeks of terrifying interrogations, including beatings, electric shocks, and moments so dark he has blocked them from memory. His teeth were knocked out and his nose and ribs broken. On one occasion, officers blindfolded him and told him he was going to be shot, and then staged a mock execution for their own amusement.
The horror and humiliation lasted nearly three months, until a team of psychologists declared Salgado fit to be tried as an adult. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Most of his friends received similar punishments, but one, 19-year-old Fernando Moscoso, was sent to a firing squad.
Salgado spent the next three years in prison, housed with political detainees, who gave him the nickname “El Guagua” (“the baby”). In 1976, he was released, put on a plane for the United States, and forced into exile. He landed in New York with $40 and no English, but he eventually made his way to Berkeley, California, where he became active in Chilean exile politics. He married and started a family, and later went into therapy. But he could not expunge his memories of what had happened in Tome and Talcahuano.
As an American citizen, Salgado began traveling back to Chile in 1987 and started gathering information about what had happened to him and his friends more than a decade earlier. He interviewed other ex-prisoners, managed to obtain copies of military records, and even hired a private investigator. Later he realized he could search for his former captors online. “Basically,” he says, “I just Googled the Chilean navy.”
Since then, Salgado has located and met face to face with many of the figures from his past. One former lieutenant posed proudly for Salgado beneath an autographed portrait of Pinochet. A former prison guard who had watched over Fernando Moscoso said he’d fantasized about freeing the condemned man. A childhood friend confessed that he had revealed the names of Salgado and the other boys, under torture, and had been consumed by guilt ever since.
Salgado says he is driven by both the need for answers and his frustration at the slow pace and limited scope of Chile’s official truth and reconciliation process. Only a handful of high-ranking former military officials have been convicted, and hundreds of investigations remain unresolved. (Pinochet has evaded prosecution for years, though the 90-year-old is currently facing new murder and corruption charges.) Amid this dawdling, Salgado’s dogged legwork has attracted the attention of human rights investigators. In 2002, he filed a deposition with a special investigative judge, opening an inquiry that could result in some of the men on his list facing criminal charges. In the meantime, Salgado continues to prosecute them himself, in person and in the ambush-style film he hopes will one day air on Chilean television.
Salgado returned to Chile during the recent election of its first female president, Michelle Bachelet, herself a torture survivor. He had come to track down a man he’d been hunting for many years—the lead judge of the war tribunal at Talcahuano. Salgado had learned where the man was registered to vote, and at seven in the morning on election day, he went to his polling place in a wealthy neighborhood of Santiago.
The morning passed. By mid-afternoon, the man hadn’t arrived. “I watched thousands of faces go by,” Salgado says. “And then, just before the polls closed, he walked in.”
Now in his 70s, the man looked shrunken and slightly disoriented. After the old man had voted, Salgado approached him, introduced himself, and held up a small photo. “This is Fernando Moscoso,” he said. “He was my friend. You sent him to death.”
The judge took the photo and held it for a moment. “These poor kids,” he said, looking up at Salgado.
Salgado pressed him for an admission of guilt, but he would only blame others. Then the old man said he had to leave. As the last voters streamed in, Salgado just stood there and watched him walk away, his corbata cam silently recording everything.
One Sunday morning in 1976, a few weeks before he went into exile, Salgado was granted a one-day furlough from prison. He took the bus to Tome and began walking home for the first time in more than two and a half years.
When he passed Fernando Moscoso’s house, his dead friend’s grandmother was sitting on the porch. She began to cry when she saw him. “Oh, my son,” she wept, “you’ve come home.” She had mistaken him for Fernando, and Salgado didn’t know what to do. So before going home to see his own mother, Salgado brought her to the cemetery to visit Fernando’s grave.
That day, Salgado says, he made a vow. “I promised him that I would expose what happened. When I’m walking to these confrontations, I’m always thinking about that. How right I am. I’m not going there to beat anyone up. I’m not going to destroy anything. I’m going to confront them with the truth.” | <urn:uuid:d8153bf9-232b-4c74-a351-cfe39571c074> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://watertreading.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986139 | 2,493 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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Recently, it seems that all topics are about “save”. In 09 Copenhagenclimate conferences which had just ended, all countries were asked to save limited resources and energy. Last week, Obama asked his people to spend less and save more. And the economic recession also requires you to save. Truly, you may have had the sense of “save” with the reducing of the household budget.
Then, what can you do exactly? Cancel the family trip that you have expected for a year?
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Comparing before deciding
If you have no preference in the destination of your trip, you can consider and compare the exchange rate of currency in advance. It really could make big difference sometimes. And you can search online to find a good place to exchange the local currency. Besides, it is much cheaper to book tickets and hotel with local currency.
After deciding your destination, you do have to think about the trip tickets. And first of all you should visit some discount websites and compare the price to choose the best deal. Getting some coupon codes is also a great idea. In addition, one way tickets are much more expensive than that of the round trip, so you’d better find round trip tickets, or at least get back to the same airport, which will also save you a lot even in car rentals.
It is much likely that the breakfast from hotel is much expensive but with a not so good taste. So just avoid the food from the hotels. You can search online to figure out where to eat before you go out. It is not only good for your wallet, but for your stomach. Anyway, walk around to find a local café or restaurant to enjoy the local favorite. Besides, you can cook for yourself, which is quite fun, clean, and economic as well.
Keeping wants and needs in mind
It is really very essential for you to keep wants and needs in mind since you may be attracted by many distinctive, or to say, interesting things in local stores. Truly, it is fine to get some typical souvenirs with local features. But it would be a financial disaster if you spend your money on those things which are just cheaper than those in your country. So each time you buy something, ask yourself a question: Am I really need it or am I really want it? Make sure that you just buy those things that you really need and want.
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Boston Children's Theatre (BCT) has announced the return of the critically acclaimed play REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK LOBSTER. Based on the autobiography by Aaron Fricke, and adapted by BCT Executive Artistic Director Burgess Clark for the stage, REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK LOBSTER is the true story of a gay teenager and his fight to defend his life and preserve his civil rights in the wake of bullying, prejudice and intolerance.
In March 2012, BCT became the first children's theater in the country to address the issues of bullying and growing up gay in a mainstage production. "We knew it was a risk to produce a new work that focused on these sensitive themes, but it was a risk we were willing to take because of the importance of the message," revealed Clark, who is also directing the production. "The play has had a tremendous impact on our audiences and the community. The ground swell of support was so strong that we felt a responsibility to produce the show again for an even broader audience."
Bullied, ridiculed, misunderstood and gay. This was the life of Cumberland, Rhode Island high school student Aaron Fricke, a teenager whose unprecedented civil actions forever changed the lives of gay and lesbian students. The year is 1980 and as an openly gay high school student, Aaron is subjected daily to violence and rejection--leaving him feeling dejected and with thoughts of suicide. Rising from his despair, Aaron strikes back by suing his Rhode Island high school for the right to escort his boyfriend to the prom. By standing up for his personal and civil rights and for refusing to apologize for who he is, Aaron not only wins in court, but he also wins in the hearts and minds of his peers and his community. His strength and ultimate victory help pave the way for legions of gay and lesbian students.
Currently residing in San Francisco, Fricke has continued to work closely with BCT since the World Premiere last season. "I was overwhelmed by the reaction to the piece from the public and from school groups. This production has sparked incredible and insightful discussions and I'm extremely proud of the impact the play has had on the community," said Fricke. "I think everyone is able to relate to what I experienced. The fact that bullying and prejudice still exist today in our society, makes this play even more relevant and powerful."
Nominated for 2 IRNE Awards and a 2012 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script, REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK LOBSTER has been gaining national attention since its premiere. In support of this powerful production, Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon said, "The largest challenge one can face is to lead an authentic life when to do so is to be isolated from our "tribe", your peers, especially at a time when that "tribe" seems to be everything. To stand up takes great courage and it is important to celebrate such courage." Broadway aficionado Seth Rudetsky admits he was "obsessed" with the play and has encouraged his fans to "come see the show in Boston.
Locally, BCT was named Best of Boston by Boston Magazine for producing a work that "defines what a children's theater company ought to be." Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino also recognized the importance of bringing this production to the public. "I applaud Boston Children's Theatre for producing a play that addresses issues that have such a profound impact on our community," said Mayor Menino. "Bullying, prejudice and anti-gay sentiments cannot be tolerated in our schools or in our society. 'Reflections of a Rock Lobster' teaches us all the importance of acceptance and tolerance in an entertaining, creative and powerful way. I congratulate their efforts and I encourage everyone to experience this ground-breaking production."
REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK LOBSTER will be performed by students between the ages of 14 and 19 alongside several adult actors. The student cast includes Arlington resident Hannah Doyon; Boston resident Elias Duncan; Braintree resident Rachel Padell; Brookline residents Emma Baxendale and Felix Teich; Cambridge residents Ellie Brelis, Lily Keats and Lily Steven; Dover resident Paul McCallion; Durham, NH resident Olivia Clark; Boston resident Shayna Bredbeck; Medford resident Lauren Tomaszczuk; Milton residents Garrett Sager and Alexandra Upton; Newton resident Julia Fein; Quincy residents Ellis Hampton, Nick McNeil, Jeremy Mele and Niamh O'Connor; Rockport resident Tom Rash; Roslindale resident Joy Kozu; Sandwich resident Megan McMahon; Sherborn resident Ainsleigh Caldicott; Weston resident Larson Miller; and Winchester resident Caroline Ver Planck.
The adult cast features Richard Snee as 'Walter Fricke;' Doug Bowen-Flynn as 'PrincipAl Richard Lynch;' Kippy Goldfarb as 'Loretta Fricke,' June Kfoury as 'Marie Cote;' Nate Punches as 'Ronald Chase;' Ed Carlo as 'John Delaney;' and Arthur Waldstein as 'Judge Pettine.'
Performances will be in the Wimberly Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street, Boston, MA on March 9, 10, 15, 16 and 17. Tickets are $35.00 and $25.00 and can be purchased by visiting the BCT website at www.bostonchildrenstheatre.org or calling the Box Office at 617-933-8600. REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK LOBSTER is supported in part by BNY Mellon. | <urn:uuid:ef706841-8a65-48e3-9358-5d333b0cf5d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://boston.broadwayworld.com/article/Boston-Childrens-Theatre-to-Re-Mount-REFLECTIONS-OF-A-ROCK-LOBSTER-39-17-20130228 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958298 | 1,149 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Bluefield Consortium Professional Development Schools Receives $30K Grant Award from WV Department of Education
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(Bluefield)—A $30,000 grant award from the West Virginia Department of Education & the Arts will provide a valuable and substantial boost to the Bluefield Professional Development Schools (PDS) consortium. The Bluefield PDS focuses upon enhancing the preparation of teacher education candidates, enhancing instructional services to students, and providing collaborative professional development activities.
“I am so pleased to receive this grant as it provides timely support for our PDS and will underwrite a variety of initiatives involving members of our consortium,” observed Dr. Betsy Steenken, BSC Teacher Education Program Director and the grant’s project director. Consortium member schools include Montcalm Elementary, Montcalm High, Whitethorn Elementary, Bluefield Middle, Bluewell Elementary, Princeton Primary, and Bluefield Intermediate schools and BSC.
Ashley Pettus Shaw, a teacher at Montcalm Elementary School, is the public schools’ chair of the PDS Consortium. Sandy Puckett, a retired school administrator, serves as the consortium’s liaison, visiting each school and sharing information throughout the year.
“Our leadership is intent on making the most of PDS opportunities and constantly being aware of new possibilities.” Steenken explained. “The mission of developing quality educators is the focus through communication and increased understanding between BSC and its public school partners. There is an important sense of collaboration and optimism as we begin a new year.”
“This grant sustains that momentum,” Steenken added. “We will continue to offer mini-grants to member schools this year. Our PDS schools are the primary sites for the field experiences of our teacher education students. Placing BSC teacher education students at partner sites ensures continuity and collaboration between the school and college. Partnering with local schools is one of the primary ways that students and our faculty learn of latest educational initiatives and current technology. We are grateful to our partner schools for helping our students receive the best possible training”. | <urn:uuid:a147b3a7-0eb9-4301-80db-1d66d9ad57cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bluefieldstate.edu/about/news/81-latest-news/1237-bluefield-consortium-professional-development-schools-receives-30k-grant-award-from-wv-department-of-education?format=pdf&fontstyle=f-smaller | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93466 | 467 | 1.585938 | 2 |
I am often asked, "How do you think up such creative units?"
I must admit, units, though not exactly genetic to me, were bred into my very fabric by my theme oriented mother. I grew up in a home where everything "matched." If we had crepes for dinner we dined to "The Last Time I Saw Paris." A bowl of chili was eaten to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" with bandanna napkins and a centerpiece complete with miniature Texas flags and cacti. Matching was not limited to the culinary realm. It extended to color coordinated Christmas decorations, theme birthday parties and even matching "sister dresses" for special occasions for my sisters and myself.
As I absorbed the "make-it-match mentality" in my own home, I often became frustrated when my theme did not work out to the nth degree. There was the fireman birthday party complete with fire truck cake, fireman party hats, and a ride on a fire truck, yet I could not find cheap fire trucks for favors. I could not be satisfied with just "any" toy car. After all, four-year-olds would notice, wouldn't they? Or the Winnie the Pooh party where "Pin the Tail on Eeyore the Donkey" fit nicely, but woe be to my poor husband who suggested the game of dropping clothes pins in a milk bottle. "Where in any of the Pooh stories was there ever a mention of milk bottles or clothes pins?" I retorted.
Small wonder when I began teaching, my mind thought in units. But just as having a panic attack over fire truck favors verged on the ridiculous, so some units can verge on the ridiculous. Some units seem to be connived instead of flowing together naturally. Here are three red flags to beware of in units.
Beware of Units that Miss the Big Picture
If a unit revolves around American history, The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a natural book to read. If the unit launches off into pond life, for the sake of adding science to the unit, then the entire point of the book has been lost as well as the point of the unit. The Witch of Blackbird Pond is about Puritan history, tolerance and intolerance, obedience and disobedience, love and hate, not about pond life. For a unit to be well constructed, each activity should contribute to the big picture rather than strain at minutia or incidentals. All activities should build on the same general theme, rounding out the unit. Units should be as carefully woven as fabric is woven. It makes no sense to be weaving with yarn and then to insert a piece of barbed wire.
Beware of Units that Integrate Every Subject in Every Unit
Sometimes integrating every subject in every unit simply does not fit. A unit on air pressure should not "force" art into the unit just to check art off the list of subjects covered. While an art activity such as "paint or draw air" is a definite waste of time, another art activity to paint with a straw is not a waste of time. As the child sucks paint into the straw, places his finger over the end of the straw, and then releases his finger and slings paint on the paper, he is using the principle of air pressure he has just learned. This art activity reinforces the main theme of the unit.
Let's face it. Some units are heavy on science or history while other units are heavy on art or music. Many moms are frustrated, when they cannot have 30 minutes of each subject balanced perfectly in each unit. This attitude causes the natural flow of a unit to be lost.
Beware of Units that Have No Higher Purpose
Christians should teach children not only units of WHAT but also units of WHY. All knowledge should further our understanding of God as well as equip us to operate in the world. Units on simple machines, inventions, and the Industrial Revolution, should emphasize the common character traits of the inventors such as resourcefulness and persistence. Children should focus on the character traits of those they study. While studying grains and bread, parents should point children to "the bread of life" which is in the Word of God and to the bread of communion which represents the body of Christ. As we study units on stars and planets, the goal for our children should be to crack open a door of wonderment revealing an incredible God of orderliness, creativity, and design.
Pointing to a higher purpose need not be contrived. Beyond all facts, figures and activities is the Creator of the universe whom we want our children to know personally. The more Christian parents study His Word, the more we will see it evidenced in everything from gardening to Beethoven, and the more we will pass this wonder on to our children.
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A fancy fried feast for fast food fiends!
Mention the word “kabob” (or, depending on language and spelling preference, “kebab”) and the first image conjured up is a grilled treat on a skewer. The description of H. Salt’s “Fishkabob Feast” initially doesn’t stray from this image, promising a healthy-sounding mix of fish, fruits, and vegetables. It sounds like a dish that, with the proper glaze or marinade, could have been a last-ditch attempt to keep the Polynesian food craze alive. But the reality of the fast-food business quickly kicks in: it turns out the ingredients are dipped in batter, rather than grilled. Given the low price (even for the time), we’re shocked there isn’t a disclaimer that the fishkabobs are the same size as those depicted in the ad.
H. Salt Fish & Chips began in the San Francisco Bay area in 1965, when English expatriate Haddon Salt opened a chippy in Sausalito, California. To cultivate associations with his homeland, Salt donned bowler hats in his advertising, appended “Esq.” to his name, and wrapped the fish in reproductions of English newspapers. By the time he sold the chain to Kentucky Fried Chicken four years later, it had grown to 100 outlets. When asked what became of Salt in a 1981 Star profile of names behind well-known restaurants, a Canadian chain official said “Damned if I know.” Turns out Salt stayed in the seafood business. He ran a fishery in the desert east of San Diego.
While the H. Salt chain pulled out of Canada years ago and is currently limited to locations in California, a fish and chip stand bearing its name is a longstanding staple of the CNE’s Food Building. Given the fair’s obsession with artery-clogging, fried-food novelties, the “Fishkabob Feast” is ripe for a comeback in 2013.
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Family Gives Back in Pan Mass Challenge
by Katelyn Haggerty
Mack and Christine Downs
In January of 2002, Christine Downs of Pelham, 10, had not been feeling right. Complaining of a sore back and throat, Christine’s mother, Danielle Downs, brought her to the doctor on four occasions. The doctor diagnosed her with strep throat and gave Christine antibiotics on a Friday afternoon.
On Monday morning, January 7, Christine vomited a small amount of blood. Danielle Downs called her doctor and was told that she could be seen at 4 p.m. Danielle did not want to wait.
“I told them I was bringing her to the emergency room right now,” she said. “We got there and I said I wasn’t leaving till they took blood samples and found out what was wrong with my daughter.”
While waiting in the ER, Danielle Downs called her husband, figuring that he would be very upset at dinner that night if he had found out that they were there and didn’t tell them.
“We never had dinner at home that night,” said Danielle.
A team of doctors called the family into a room and told them that Christine had cancer. Her kidneys were failing and an ambulance was prepared to take her to Children’s Hospital Boston. For Christine, some of the Downs family will be riding in the Pan Mass Challenge, a bike throughout Massachusetts that raises money for cancer research.
“That was the beginning of the nightmare,” said Danielle. “She was in the intensive care unit for two weeks. Her heart failed, her kidneys failed and she was on dialysis. We were told she had a very rare form of cancer called Burkitt’s lymphoma.”
Christine had leukemia, tumors in her stomach and intestines and lymphoma.
“We came to find out a few years later, she was the sickest kid at Children’s at the time,” said Danielle. “A title I would never in my life want to have. The doctors said they would do all they could for her.”
The doctors at Children’s Hospital flew an experimental drug to the hospital from Europe for Christine in hopes that it would work.
It did. Christine had spinal taps, chemotherapy, blood transfusions, and dialysis.
“All the while, she had a smile on her face and a ‘thank you’ for everyone who touched her. I remember her oncologist (whom she still corresponds with) doing one of many spinal taps on her. When it was done, Christine said ‘thank you.’ Her doctor looked at her, shocked, and asked why in the world would she thank him for that? She responded with ‘because you are doing this to help me get better.’ That was, and is the type of kid she is,” Danielle said.
“I truly believe her spirit and heart got her through it all. I stayed in the hospital with her while my husband stayed home with my son Jake who was in seventh grade at the time. Seventh grade is hard enough, but for this to happen to his little sister on top of it all was very hard for him.”
Through it all, the Downs family can’t thank everyone who supported them enough.
“We have fantastic family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers who helped make life more bearable for us while we were going through all this,” said Danielle. “They paid our bills, picked Jake up, made phone calls, cooked meals, did laundry and shoveled. You name it, it was done for us, making it easier to concentrate on the most important thing: making sure our daughter got healthy.”
“We live in Pelham,” said Danielle, “and my partner and I have a business in Windham. The support that we received from these two towns was incredible. To this day, six years later, I am still stopped and asked how Christine is doing! Without them, we never would have made it through. With the help of the amazing doctors and nurses at Children’s and The Jimmy Fund, Christine is a happy and healthy 16-year-old who just celebrated six years cancer-free in April!”
With the help of the doctors and nurses in mind, as well as everyone who helped Christine and her family, the Downs family will be riding in the Pan Mass Challenge (PMC) in August. Beginning at different locations in Massachusetts, cyclists can make their ride through the state as long as they want to, up to 192 miles.
“My husband says it’s his way of helping other people with family and friends who may be stricken by this horrible disease,” said Danielle. “When Christine was in the hospital, he had heard about it and said he would do it in her honor someday. Well that was last year, his first ride. I still can’t hear ‘Beautiful Day’ by U2 without crying. It was the song they all took off from in Wellesley, Massachusetts, last year at the starting line.”
The PMC’s Website, www.pmc.org, states that the PMC “raises money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through an annual bike-a-thon that crosses the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Since its founding in 1980, the PMC has successfully melded support from committed cyclists, volunteers, corporate sponsors and individual contributors. All are essential to the PMC’s goal and model: to attain maximum fundraising efficiency while increasing its annual gift. Our hope and aspiration is to provide Dana-Farber’s doctors and researchers the necessary resources to discover cures for all cancers.”
“It was an incredible sight at 7:30 a.m. to see all those bicyclists riding for the same cause,” said Danielle, “but still bittersweet knowing so many of them have been affected in the same way we had. Mack did great and finished in four hours. He raised $3,000 and the total raised last year was $33 million!”
Last year, 100 percent of every dollar that PMC cyclists raised went directly to the Jimmy Fund. This is one of the many reasons that riders participate in this event. Besides all of the money donated and the riders doing their part, volunteers help out with setting up, cleaning, and everything else that comes with successfully organizing and running the event without a cost.
“This year, our daughter Christine, son Jake, who is 19, and nephew Derek are all doing the ride in her honor,” said Danielle. “I am so proud of them all! Jake and Christine work at Hannaford in Pelham and Hannaford has been kind enough to set up a donation bucket just for them and the cause. Also, my family is doing a car wash in Pelham on July 19 for any donation amount to go directly to the PMC. Clean car and a great cause!”
The Pan Mass Challenge began with a group of 36 cyclists raising $10,200 and has developed into an event that brings more than 5,000 cyclists from 36 states and eight countries. This year’s PMC will take place on August 2 and 3.
The PMC’s mission statement as stated by its Website:
“Since 1980, the PMC has contributed more than $204 million, which finances research in its earliest stages. It is the largest single contributor to the Jimmy Fund, bringing in nearly 50 percent of its annual revenue. Known as “seed money,” PMC funds enable clinicians and scientists to pursue innovative research that has the potential to achieve the results that will warrant National Institutes of Health (NIH), or other private and government grants. In so many cases, this early support has fostered the development of some of the most important advances made in cancer research over the last two decades.” www.pmc.org
Last Hurrah for Century-Old Trolley Substation
by Karen Plumley
Courtesy of: Reflections: A Pictorial History of Pelham, New Hampshire, 1746 – 1996, published by The Pelham 250th Anniversary Committee, Inc., 1998, with permission.
With repair costs estimated in the millions, a condemned building sitting lonely and crumbling in Pelham Center will be coming down in mid-July. Owned since the 1940s by St. Patrick Parish, the “Trolley Barn” as it is now known, has been a fixture in Pelham Center since 1902 when it was erected. It was then a substation housing steam-powered generators, flanked on the right by the larger trolley station, and on the left by a 50,000-gallon water tank. The Pelham trolley station was part of a prosperous railway system that snaked its way through Southern New Hampshire towns such as Hudson, Nashua, and Salem and the communities of Lowell, Methuen, Haverhill, and Lawrence, Massachusetts. Currently, only three structures from the original Western Division Railway System still remain - the Trolley Barn, Salem Depot, and Canobie Lake Park. Soon there will only be two.
A Less Hurried Time
In a 1903 advertising brochure called “On The New Line,” a leisurely trip to Pelham is described in glorified splendor. “Leaving Nashua at Main and Pearl Streets and crossing the Merrimack, the road winds through the primeval forest of pine and hemlock after passing Hudson, ascending a chain of foothills as rugged and primitive, as wild and grand as any of the gorse-covered mounds that mark the approach to the Scottish Highlands, and through panoramic vistas of far hills and farmhouse clusters until Pelham is reached … On this upland level, Pelham is situated, a pretty village in a prosperous farming region …”
In the center of this quaint little town, the beautiful new trolley station stood majestically, ready to board passengers going to and from work in the mills and factories of the surrounding cities. According to Reflections, the definitive pictorial book on Pelham history, the trolleys were used for recreational trips on weekends to Canobie Lake Park and Glen Forest in Methuen. Traveling at the blinding pace of 15 to 25 miles per hour, the trolleys would make their way on gravel lanes parallel to roadways across the countryside, sometimes barely inching past a horse and buggy along the way. A fare would cost a mere nickel for certain routes, a dream for those of us who reached gas price sticker shock back in January and six months later are now simply comatose.
In 1903, the worst accident in trolley car history occurred in Pelham when two trolleys collided on a blind curve just north of Pelham Center. Six people were killed and over 70 more were injured in various states of severity. A Boy Scout erected a memorial for the victims of the crash in the form of a plaque mounted on a brick pedestal. It currently stands next to the building.
The trolley station portion of the building was taken down in the 1940s during World War II, but the substation remained and was acquired by St. Patrick Parish. Known as “St. Patrick’s Hall,” it was used as a gymnasium until two years ago, when it was condemned. Dances were held there, as well as community events, and it was also used as a meeting place for an infant/toddler playgroup.
The Last Hurrah
Recent photo of the Trolley Barn
On Wednesday, July 2, an outdoor movie night was held at the Trolley Barn. “Trolley Barn’s Last Hurrah!!” was a concept conceived by Father Robert Guillemette. The movie Monsters, Inc. was projected on the right side of the building, where Guillemette himself sprayed a fresh coat of white paint. Before the show, a rousing game of candy bar bingo was enjoyed and a sizable crowd shuffled in steadily as the sun went down.
“The building is a wonderful part of the community. I spent a lot of time playing basketball in there. But now it is really too far-gone to repair it,” said Guillemette.
Principal Roger Dumont of St. Patrick School commented on the demolition.
“I knew this community would take it hard. It’s a wonderful part of Pelham’s history and has special memories associated with it,” he stated.
According to Pelham Historical Society President Bill Scanzani, a two-year-old estimate places a price tag on fixing the building’s deficiencies at $1.5 million.
“And the estimate covers deficiencies only and doesn’t really make the building functional,” noted Scanzani. (Right now, one of those deficiencies includes a separation between the roof and one of the walls.) However, Scanzani notes that the building is no longer large enough to be a gymnasium for the school, and is not structured for office space. According to Scanzani, the area currently occupied by the Trolley Barn will provide more parking for the church and school once it is demolished.
Could a Piece of Pelham History Be In Your Future?
To raze the Trolley Barn, it will cost the church approximately $40,000, noted Scanzani. In addition to movie night (which earned $10 per carload), Father Guillemette has come up with another innovative idea. Engraved bricks, anyone? Bricks taken from the Trolley Barn during its demolition will be engraved with the dates “1902 - 2008” and can be purchased through the church. Contact St. Patrick’s at 635-3525 for more information.
Windham Town Budget Status Halfway Through Year
by Barbara O’Brien
Halfway through 2008, the largest concern about the annual Windham town budget is fuel costs, a dilemma most residents also are facing.
During the selectmen’s meeting on Monday, July 7, Financial Director Dana Call projected an overage of about $30,000 by year’s end for vehicle fuel. A total of $101,000 had been budgeted for 2008, Call said.
Compared to the cost at the pump for most of us, Windham is “doing OK price-wise,” Call said. The cost of fueling town vehicles has averaged $3 per gallon, she said, about $1 less per gallon than for those who pay retail without benefit of municipal deductions.
As for the Fire Department’s diesel fuel, which is bought in bulk, Call said the current price being paid is $4.69 per gallon. About 36 cents a gallon will come back to the department, though, through state and federal tax rebates. The department’s diesel storage tank has a capacity of 800 gallons.
“I have no idea where heating oil and propane costs will go,” Call said of the upcoming season. “We have to keep this in mind as we go into the fall.”
In other areas of the 2008 budget, some savings being realized as the result of personnel vacancies might be used to cover the overages in the fuel budget, Call said. Personnel vacancies include an assistant town planner, deputy fire chief, a transfer station employee and one employee in the maintenance department.
As for the police department budget, Call said the overtime account is 92 percent spent only halfway through the year. “This needs to be addressed,” Call said. Most of the overtime expenses are due to the hiring of new officers, which requires field training and attendance at the New Hampshire Police Academy in Concord.
The bottom line, Call said, is that by state law, town officials cannot go over the allocated budget for any particular year. If necessary, a spending freeze could be put in place later in the year, she said.
Selectman Bruce Breton said most town departments had spent their individual budgets between 53 percent and 66 percent by June 30 halfway through 2008. “We need to look into how to save money on energy consumption ... before cold weather hits again,” Breton said. Chairman Dennis Senibaldi suggested an energy audit to determine where money might be saved.
Call said she and Town Administrator David Sullivan will be reviewing the entire 2008 town operating budget in the near future and determining where modifications might be needed to balance the overall budget.
Selectman Roger Hohenberger asked Call about a $1 million tax anticipation short-term loan taken out in June that generated an interest payment of $3,400. Call said the loan, needed due to the cash flow at the time, was taken out in anticipation of real estate taxes due July 1. The loan was needed, Call said, largely because the school district needed its money a little earlier than anticipated. The school district’s financial calendar runs from July 1 to June 30. Selectman Charles McMahon also said the cash shortage was due to the rough weather the region suffered this past winter. “There’s very little wiggle room in the budget,” McMahon said, “but we still have to plow” the snow. Call pointed out that the town also had to play catch-up in funding for the new union contracts, two of which were retroactive.
“We try to delay spending as much as possible,” Call said, adding she hopes another tax anticipation note won’t be needed just before tax payments are due again on December 1.
Windham Selectman Proposes Performance Stage at Griffin Park
by Barbara O’Brien
Windham Selectman Charles McMahon displays miniature model of the proposed performance stage for Griffin Park. McMahon said the decision has been made to eliminate the turret
in the center of the roof and to retain those at either end of the stage reminiscent
of Windham’s Searle’s Castle. The model was designed at no cost to Windham
by Ray Capptell, one of the owners of Canobie Lake.
Windham Selectman Charles McMahon has been working for the past four years on getting a performance stage someplace where groups, such as the Windham Players or the Windham Community Band can entertain town residents. McMahon’s vision moved one step closer to reality when selectmen voted unanimously (5 to 0) to accept his plan, cost-free to taxpayers.
McMahon, one of Windham’s state representatives, as well as a newly re-elected selectman, said he has begun initial fund raising. “It is not my intention to ask taxpayers for any money, at all,” he said.
McMahon offered an overview of the proposed performance stage during the selectmen’s meeting on Monday, July 7. The stage would be built near the Griffin Park pond and situated at an angle facing the center of the park. At the corners of the stage, turrets reminiscent of Searles Castle, would be erected. Behind the stage, a grid would be erected to project sound outward toward the audience. The facility would be constructed of faux (cultured) stone. Little maintenance would be required for its upkeep, McMahon said. The stage would be built on a concrete slab with ground-level seating for the audience. The purpose of the performance stage, McMahon said, would be to provide cultural opportunities for the community. “There’s a whole plethora of possibilities,” McMahon said. When asking the other four selectmen for their support, McMahon emphasized that the stage would not in conflict with any other use of Griffin Park.
“I think it’s a great addition to the park,” Selectman Roger Hohenberger said. Selectman Galen Stearns agreed. “We should go for it,” Stearns said. Selectman Bruce Breton said he was impressed with the work McMahon already had done.
Depending on the amount of money raised for the project this summer, McMahon said he hopes to get the stage built this year. Large and small donations are welcome. If one large, single donor were to come forward, the facility could be named after that person, McMahon said. Anyone interested in donating to the fund can contact the selectmen’s office at 432-7732.
Caption: Windham Selectman Charles McMahon displays miniature model of the proposed performance stage for Griffin Park. McMahon said the decision has been made to eliminate the turret in the center of the roof and to retain those at either end of the stage reminiscent of Windham’s Searle’s Castle. The model was designed at no cost to Windham by Ray Capptell, one of the owners of Canobie Lake.
Pelham Library Has Wireless Access
by Lynne Ober
If you have a Pelham library card and want to find somewhere cool to work, bring your laptop down to the Pelham Library. They will soon have an operational wireless network.
The hardware for the library’s new wireless access point has been installed by Selectman and Pelham volunteer Victor Danevich. He installed one AIR-WLC526-K9 Cisco 526 Wireless Express Mobility Controller - Network Management, which cost $1,155, and two AIR-LAP521G-A-K9 Cisco 521 Wireless Express Access Points, which cost $310 each for a total of $620.00. These devices meet internationally established wireless standards 802.11b and 802.11g.
“This entry level commercial wireless controller can be expanded to handle 6 Access Points (APs), and we are currently only utilizing two,” said Danevich.
If there’s technology around that needs work, you can expect to see Danevich with his sleeves rolled up and working. Thanks to Danevich, the wireless access is almost complete.
According to Library Director Sue Hoadley, “Additional programming and set-up remains before the system will be available and accessible by library card number. However, once we are up and running, wireless access will make it easier for library patrons to access information resources and make their time that much more productive.”
Danevich decided to install commercial level equipment after the library received donations, which the trustees accepted.
“I didn’t want to use a home router because this is, after all, a business application and we need security and reliability,” Danevich said. “Thanks to the donors, we could purchase the equipment.”
“Wireless service is just one more way that the library serves this community,” said Library Trustee Diane Chubb. “A library is more than a building that holds books - it brings together all kinds of resources for adults and children alike. And the librarians are fantastic at helping patrons with questions and research. This just adds another dimension to that level of service.”
“By offering a free, wireless network, the library is able to provide a better education, streamlined access to government information and services, and open the door to innovation,” commented Hoadley. “Besides, the library is a cool place to work on a hot summer day.”
Danevich’s dream is to use one of four APs when funding becomes available to provide an outdoor coverage for the village green.
“Sue is always looking for ways to make the library more appealing to residents,” said Chubb. “We not only have an active set of children’s activities, but we offer many adult services and library patronage has been growing since we opened in the new building.”
“What better way than offer not only what is in the world, but respond to it as well,” smiled Pelham Library Trustees President Francis Garboski. “That’s our interactive library!”
Danevich has long been a proponent of technology. He helped write the town’s technology plan and has been active in all phases of public technology in Pelham. While this is the first wireless phase, Danevich has also proposed a wireless video monitoring system for Pelham’s parks.
“Eventually, we will add two APs to the Municipal Building and two to the Police station for public access,” Danevich noted. “The main difference between this and low end consumer models is security, reporting, authentication choices, multi-SSID support, and performance – all of which we need.” | <urn:uuid:b6ac974d-a891-4283-9ffb-e17b3652424a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.areanewsgroup.com/archives/2008/0718/PWN.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972798 | 5,157 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Low Battery Voltage Displayed at Device Interrogation
EnRhythm and EnRhythm MRI Pacemakers
Original Date of Advisory:
All EnRhythm and EnRhythm MRI pacemakers.
Original Advisory Information (February 2010)
Two specific battery issues with EnRhythm pacemakers were identified. The risks to patients for both issue have been addressed by a Medtronic software update.
In February 2010, Medtronic had received 62 reports (out of approximately 110,000 devices worldwide) indicating that the battery voltage at device interrogation was lower than the battery voltage that is tracked by the device to provide data for the elective replacement indicator (ERI) notification.
Medtronic’s investigation found that none of these reports resulted in loss of therapy. Importantly, the original ERI notification, which uses the nightly battery voltage measurement, was unaffected and accurate. Medtronic identified the root cause as higher than expected battery impedance.
Medtronic’s internal testing showed there was no current risk for compromised therapy delivery. If the software update referenced above is not implemented, there will be a potential risk of loss of device functionality in a small percent (less than 0.08% 6 years post-implant) of devices. The software update obviates this risk.
Through internal accelerated testing, Medtronic identified a second issue that projects battery voltage could decrease sooner than expected due to a slightly increased rate of lithium depletion near end of device life. This issue has not been clinically observed and is not expected to occur until approximately 9 years post-implant. If the software update referenced above is not implemented, there may be a potential risk for loss of therapy at or near ERI in a small number of devices. The software eliminates this issue by changing ERI criteria.
Software Update (As of October 2010)
The battery issues described above and subsequent software update are summarized in the table below. When a device receives the software update, if battery impedance is greater than the new ERI threshold ERI will be triggered shortly thereafter. Therefore, clinicians may observe an ERI/EOL indicator at the next patient follow-up. When ERI is triggered by battery impedance, additional battery capacity remains and can support device function at ERI parameters for at least one year. Medtronic is not aware of any reports of loss of therapy due to this issue.
As a reminder, when ERI is triggered, EnRhythm devices revert to VVI pacing at 65 ppm at the programmed output settings. EOL is declared 90 days after ERI or at a battery voltage of 2.69V, whichever comes sooner.
|Battery Issue||Software Update|
|Battery voltage could decrease sooner that expected due to a slightly increased rate of lithium depletion||Changed ERI battery voltage threshold from 2.59V to 2.81V to ensure 90 days of therapy from ERI to EOL|
|Higher than expected battery impedance||
Added a secondary ERI trigger based on battery impedance. This new criteria will identify devices with increased battery impedance before device performance is impacted.
If triggered, displayed battery voltage is reset to 2.81 V to ensure alignment with ERI battery voltage threshold
Updated Performance Information (as of August 2011)
We now have access to battery impedance and ERI performance on more than 5000 EnRhythm devices that have received the EnRhythm software update. Our modeling based on these data shows that approximately 6-10% of devices will reach ERI within 5 years post-implant. Consistent with our previous communications, we continue to expect average device longevity to be reduced by approximately 10 –15%, with the expected average longevity remaining at 8.5 to 10.5 years, depending on device settings.1
Updated Patient Management Recommendations (as of August 2011)
After consultation with Medtronic’s Independent Physician Quality Panel, we recommend:
- Performing a device follow-up within 90 days after the software download to identify devices that triggered ERI shortly after the software update. Subsequent follow up can be performed per standard practice. During programmer interrogation of a device at ERI, there is a slight possibility a transient drop in pacing amplitude could occur. If this is noted, either remove the programmer head or temporarily program to a higher output voltage.
- If an unanticipated ERI/EOL is declared, it is likely due to battery impedance. In such cases, additional battery capacity remains and can support device function at ERI parameters for at least one year. However, when ERI or EOL (typically 90 days after ERI) declaration is seen, schedule device replacement.
As of February 25, 2013, 364 devices out of approximately 146,500 devices worldwide have been confirmed as having exhibited an advisory event related to the original advisory, in which higher than expected battery impedance caused a drop in battery voltage at interrogation. Approximately 88,800 remain implanted.
|Initial Affected Population||Number of Confirmed Advisory Related Events||Estimated Remaining Active Population||Current Malfunction Rate (confirmed malfunctions over total population)||The software update eliminates any potential future risk of the two battery issues described above by changing the ERI criteria.|
|All EnRhythm pacemakers (146,500 Worldwide)||364 Worldwide||88,800 Worldwide||0.25%|
Included in the August 2011 Performance Update was information about the projected percentage of devices that would encounter an early ERI due to unexpected high battery impedance. As of February 25, 2013, percentage of devices that encountered ERI due to battery impedance has not exceeded the rate of 6-10% within 5 years of post-implant as communicated with our August 2011 Performance Update.
|Initial Affected Population||Number of Confirmed ERIs due to impedance||Estimated Remaining Active Population||Only devices using the updated software can trigger ERI due to impedance|
All EnRhythm pacemakers (146,500 Worldwide)
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Knol, Google's knowledge sharing service launched last year, has improved with a lot of new features that have gone unnoticed: collections, templates, categories, Google Analytics integration, review scorecards.
A recent feature added to Knol is a basic equation editor that uses the LaTeX markup language. "This markup language beautifully aligns, sizes and indents mathmatical symbols after they are expressed using a combination of standard letters, words and punctuation characters. The typical LaTeX equation is difficult to read until it is rendered by the typesetting engine that produces an image with the right size, layout and margins that you would expect to see in the equation if it were written in a book. Even though LaTeX can be used to format and markup entire documents, we only support the subset of the LaTeX language that is used to describe mathematical equations and expect that you'll use the standard Knol editor to handle formatting for the rest of your document."
The equation editor is not very user-friendly, so it's a good idea to be familiar with LaTeX, but it will hopefully be improved and added to other Google services, like Google Docs. | <urn:uuid:b8c00b59-ad9f-491a-966b-b0d499fbfb9a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/08/knols-equation-editor.html?showComment=1249412588806 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937314 | 233 | 1.757813 | 2 |
No 1: Un peu triste (after Prelude No 10)
No 2: Marche funèbre (after Prelude No 14)
No 3: Une valse vite (after Prelude No 15)
No 4: Une valse militaire (after Prelude No 16)
No 5: Mélodie amoureuse (after Prelude No 17)
No 6: Une danse ironique (after Prelude No 18)
No 7: Finale (after Prelude No 24)
The twenty-six-year-old Shostakovich composed his set ofbetween 30 December 1932 and 2 March 1933, roughly six years after his previous solo piano pieces, the Aphorisms, Op 13. Their directness and sharply defined characters are surely indebted to the huge amounts of music for stage and screen he had composed in the intervening years. At the same time, they showcase his newly evolving neoclassical style, already more than halfway towards the obligatory moderated language he adopted from the Fifth Symphony (1937) onwards. More practically, they served as vehicles for his own appearances as pianist. Since the first Chopin competition in 1927, where Shostakovich made a strong impression but was not among the top prize winners, he had given up thoughts of a solo performing career. But he continued to perform his own music, and from the late 1940s he also recorded much of it, including twelve of the Op 34 Preludes.
Strakhov’s transcriptions may not be as well known as those by Dmitry Tsïganov for violin and piano, but they are no less resourceful. The pieces are transposed to suit the configuration of the viola, which is generally allocated the main thematic lines (though the fast waltz, No 15, effectively reverses the roles). The French titles are the transcriber’s—the originals give initial tempo indications only—though they take hints from Shostakovich’s notation when the character is less than obvious. The ‘Mélodie amoureuse’, for instance, picks up the ‘amoroso’ marking for the melody beginning in the third bar. The composer’s own recorded performance of this prelude goes a step further, suggesting tipsy strumming in a late-night bar.
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Poteet Architects in San Antonio, Texas recently constructed this shipping container house for a local client to use as a tiny guest house in her artist community. The plan is to also use it as a summer house, an art house and for entertaining. The owner enjoys the shipping container house for its uncluttered, sunlit appeal and the wonderful blue color.
The shipping container was chosen specifically for its bright color. Shipping containers are a readily available resource for building because they are usually abandoned by shipping companies. The architects mounted the container on recycled telephone poles, and the floor and walls were covered with bamboo. Sliding doors, windows, heating, air conditioning and an 8 foot by 4 foot bathroom with a composting toilet and red sheet metal walls were also added. A garden storage room was also added at the end of the container, which retains its original access doors. A patio with a cantilevered overhang was added to the front of the house and a rooftop garden with a drip system was installed by Madrone Landscape Architecture.
Poteet Architects is a 12-year-old firm based in San Antonio, Texas. Jim Poteet opened the office with the hope that the firm could further the sustainable revitalization of downtown San Antonio. The firm’s portfolio of completed work includes residential, commercial and institutional projects, but is perhaps best known for the sensitive adaptive reuse of existing buildings and a fresh, rigorous approach to modern interior design. The Container Guest House won a 2010 Design Award from AIA San Antonio.
Photos courtesy of Poteet Architects, LP | <urn:uuid:04890234-dbf1-40f1-aa07-977e9b5723b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tinyhouseblog.com/pre-fab/shipping-container-guest-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970489 | 319 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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NYS Catholic Conference Reacts to Newly-Elected Pope
The new pope elected Wednesday is the first pontiff from the Americas - Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, whose papal name will be Pope Francis. Here is reaction from the New York State Catholic Conference.
The Catholic Conference is the official voice of the Catholic Church in the state, representing New York’s bishops in matters of public policy. Dennis Poust is its spokesman.
Poust highlights what he thinks the 76-year-old South American’s papacy will mean for New York’s Catholic Community.
Plus, says Poust:
Pope Francis becomes the 266th pope in the history of the Catholic Church. New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s name had been talked about early on as a long shot, and Cardinal Dolan had said it would be "highly improbable" for him to be considered for the papacy. As cardinal, Dolan was part of the College of Cardinals electing the new pope. Cardinal Dolan released a statement congratulating the newly-elected pope, saying it marks a great milestone in the Catholic Church.
New England News
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In 1998, the UK government introduced a law designed to deter harassment called the Anti Social Behaviour Order or ASBO. The law has been controversial - some hailed it as a great way to deal with wayward punks whereas in other instances, something like this happens:
Daniel Cope, 13, was devastated when eight-year-old Milly disappeared from the family home.
He spent hours hunting for the pet with his parents before printing off 100 posters with tortoiseshell Milly's picture and putting them up on lamp-posts near the family home in Whitstable, Kent.
Just three days later, Daniel's mother Heather, 43, received a phone call from a community warden telling her they had to come down. [...] 'She said it came under an anti-social behaviour act and we could face an £80 penalty. I just burst into tears when she told me, I couldn't believe it.' | <urn:uuid:bf88b178-e3a2-4658-8190-508a2e3dd580> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/missing-cat-poster-got-boy-asbod/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978231 | 188 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Judy Holliday wins Academy Award for best actress
March 29, 1951
Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson, and Anne Baxter were all in the running. When the Academy Award for best actress was announced on March 29, 1951, however, the Oscar went to young comedian Judy Holliday, for her performance as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday. Holliday had created the Billie Dawn role on Broadway in 1946. On both stage and screen, Holliday played the ex-showgirl girlfriend of a corrupt tycoon who is trying to mold her to his will. In the end, Holliday's seemingly dumb-blonde character manages to overturn her boyfriend's plot to corrupt the federal government. The New York Times called her performance "not only funny but also human and moving."
Holliday's acting career was brief but impressive. Born in 1921, she grew up in New York City. She was brought up mainly within her mother's extended and socialist-leaning family. Her father was an active Zionist leader as well as the president of the American Federation of Musicians from 1929 to 1937.
After graduating at the top of her class at the Julia Richman High School, she got her start in the theater as a member of the Revuers, a group that played clubs in New York's Greenwich Village. Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who would go on to great fame as a musical-comedy writing team, were also members of the troupe. Holliday's first Broadway role was as a prostitute in Kiss Them for Me (1945), for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award for best supporting actress. During this period, Hollywood producers convinced the actress to change her last name from Tuvim. She chose Holliday because of its relationship to holy days, one of the Hebrew meanings of Tuvim.
Despite her success on stage in Born Yesterday, Harry Cohn, the producer of the film version, wanted to find a more glamorous and well-known star for the movie role, reputedly dismissing Holliday as "that fat Jewish broad." The efforts of director George Cukor and stars Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey to spotlight the young actress in a supporting role in Adam's Rib (1949) finally convinced Cohn of Holliday's marketability.
One year after receiving her Academy Award, Holliday got caught up in the McCarthy-era investigations of Hollywood and was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee in 1952. Transcripts reveal that she used her "dumb blonde" persona to deflect the committee's attempts to implicate her or get her to name names. She was not accused of being a Communist, but the taint of the investigation kept her off of television and radio for a number of years. Holliday's contract with Columbia studios continued, however, and she appeared in a series of films including The Marrying Kind (1952) and It Should Happen to You (1954). Holliday returned to Broadway in 1956 in the hit musical Bells are Ringing, written by her friends Betty Comden and Arthur Green, with music by Comden, Green, and Jules Styne, and directed by Jerome Robbins. Holliday played a wish-fulfilling telephone operator, a role for which she earned the New York Drama Desk Award and the Tony Award (chosen over Ethel Merman and Julie Andrews). Holliday also starred in the film version of the musical in 1960.
A diagnosis of breast cancer in 1960 limited Holliday's future work. She died in 1965, at age 43.
To learn more about Judy Holliday, visit Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.
Sources: Gary Carey, Judy Holliday: An Intimate Life Story (New York, 1982); William Holtzman, Judy Holliday (New York, 1982); Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, pp. 647-649; New York Times, March 30, 1951, June 8, 1965; jwa.org/discover/comedy/holliday.html; The Judy Holliday Resource Center: www.wtv-zone.com/lumina/judy/main.html. | <urn:uuid:ef443f02-cce3-481e-833d-8b3631b84e8b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/29/1951/judy-holliday | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969324 | 850 | 1.554688 | 2 |
is a relatively new high-performance Java implementation of the Ruby language that is showing increasing popularity among Java developers looking for additional productive frameworks.
JRuby allows for the incremental adoption of the Ruby language by allowing easy integration with existing Java libraries. It also lets Ruby and Rails applications to run easily on existing Java application servers that have been selected as standards within an organization.
I've been somewhat dismissive of Ruby as a language but there are more and more examples of large websites running extremely well. In fact RubyConf (already sold out) and JRubyConf are both seeing significant interest from developers for the upcoming events in San Francisco.
In the Q&A below I discuss how Jruby powers shopping site Gilt.com with CTO and co-founder Michael Bryzek.
If you are not familiar, Gilt Groupe has an interesting business model, somewhere between eBay and Woot, offering invitation-only sales of high-end fashion and luxury brands for men, women, and children. The site deals with unique spikes in traffic when new items are released as well as when an item becomes extremely popular. Accordingly, the IT infrastructure needs to be able to scale and burst in order to meet customer demands. … Read more | <urn:uuid:c435ba10-8f93-469c-be60-bbc90151adaf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cnet.com/8300-5_1-0.html?keyword=gilt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94607 | 250 | 1.570313 | 2 |
WELCOME to them each and all! They do goodthe deepest, widest, most needed goodthough quite certainly not in the ways attemptedwhich have, at times, something irresistibly comic. What can be more farcical, for instance, than the sight of a worthy gentleman coming three or four thousand miles through wet and wind to speak complacently and at great length on matters of which he both entirely mistakes or knows nothingbefore crowds of auditors equally complacent, and equally at fault?
Yet welcome and thanks, we say, to those visitors we have, and have had, from abroad among usand may the procession continue! We have had Dickens and Thackeray, Froude, Herbert Spencer, Oscar Wilde, Lord Coleridgesoldiers, savants, poetsand now Matthew Arnold and Irving the actor. Some have come to make moneysome for a good timesome to help us along and give us adviceand some undoubtedly to investigate, bona fide, this great problem, democratic America, looming upon the world with such cumulative power through a hundred years, now with the evident intention (since the Secession War) to stay, and take a leading hand, for many a century to come, in civilizations and humanitys eternal game. But alas! that very investigationthe method of that investigationis where the deficit most surely and helplessly comes in. Let not Lord Coleridge and Mr. Arnold (to say nothing of the illustrious actor) imagine that when they have met and surveryd the etiquettical gatherings of our wealthy, distinguishd and sure-to-be-put-forward-on-such-occasions citizens (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, &c., have certain stereotyped strings of them, continually lined and paraded like the lists of dishes at hotel tablesyou are sure to get the same over and over againit is very amusing)and the bowing and introducing, the receptions at the swell clubs, the eating and drinking and praising and praising backand the next day riding about Central Park, or doing the Public Institutionsand so passing through, one after another, the full-dress coteries of the Atlantic cities, all grammatical and cultured and correct, with the toned-down manners of the gentlemen, and the kid-gloves, and luncheons and finger-glassesLet not our eminent visitors, we say, suppose that, by means of these experiences, they have seen America, or capturd any distinctive clew or purport thereof. Not a bit of it. Of the pulse-beats that lie within and vitalize this Commonweal to-dayof the hard-pan purports and idiosyncrasies pursued faithfully and triumphantly by its bulk of men North and South, generation after generation, superficially unconscious of their own aims, yet none the less pressing onward with deathless intuitionthose coteries do not furnish the faintest scintilla. In the Old World the best flavor and significance of a race may possible need to be lookd for in its upper classes, its gentries, its court, its ètat major. In the United States the rule is reversd. Besides (and a point, this, perhaps deepest of all,) the special marks of our grouping and design are not going to be understood in a hurry. The lesson and scanning right on the ground are difficult; I was going to say they are impossible to foreignersbut I have occasionally found the clearest appreciation of all, coming from far-off quarters. Surely nothing could be more apt, not only for our eminent visitors present and to come, but for home study, than the following editorial criticism of the London Times on Mr. Froudes visit and lectures here a few years ago, and the culminating dinner given at Delmonicos, with its brilliant array of guests:
We read the list, says the Times, of those who assembled to do honor to Mr. Froude: there were Mr. Emerson, Mr. Beecher, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Bryant; we add the names of those who sent letters of regret that they could not attend in personMr. Longfellow, Mr. Whittier. They are names which are well knownalmost as well known and as much honord in England as in America; and yet what must we say in the end? The American people outside this assemblage of writers is something vaster and greater than they, singly or together, can comprehend. It cannot be said of any or all of them that they can speak for their nation. We who look on at this distance are able perhaps on that account to see the more clearly that there are qualities of the American people which find no representation, no voice, among these their spokesmen. And what is true of them is true of the English class of whom Mr. Froude may be said to be the ambassador. Mr. Froude is master of a charming style. He has the gift of grace and the gift of sympathy. Taking any single character as the subject of his study, he may succeed after a very short time in so comprehending its workings as to be able to present a living figure to the intelligence and memory of his readers. But the movements of a nation, the voiceless purpose of a people which cannot put its own thoughts into words, yet acts upon them in each successive generationthese things do not lie within his grasp The functions of literature such as he represents are limited in their action; the influence he can wield is artificial and restricted, and, while he and his hearers please and are pleasd with pleasant periods, his great mass of national life will flow around them unmovd in its tides by action as powerless as that of the dwellers by the shore to direct the currents of the ocean.
A thought, here, that needs to be echoed, expanded, permanently treasurd by our literary classes and educators. (The gestation, the youth, the knitting preparations, are now over, and it is full time for definite purpose, result.) How few think of it, though it is the impetus and background of our whole Nationality and popular life. In the present brief memorandum I very likely for the first time awake the intelligent reader to the idea and inquiry whether there isnt such a thing as the distinctive genius of our democratic New World, universal, immanent, bringing to a head the best experience of the pastnot specially literary or intellectualnot merely good, (in the Sunday School and Temperance Society sense,)some invisible spine and great sympathetic to these States, resident only in average people, in their practical life, in their physiology, in their emotions, in their nebulous yet fiery patriotism, in their armies (both sides) through the whole Secession Waran identity and character which indeed so far finds no voice among their spokesmen.
To my mind America, vast and fruitful as it appears to-day, is even yet, for its most important results, entirely in the tentative state; its very formation-stir and whirling trials and essays more splendid and picturesque, to my thinking, than the accomplishd growths and shows of other lands, through European history, or Greece, or all the past. Surely a New World literature, worthy the name, is not to be, if it ever comes, some fiction, or fancy, or bit of sentimentalism or polishd work merely by itself, or in abstraction. So long as such literature is no born branch and offshoot of the Nationality, rooted and grown from its roots, and fibred with its fibre, it can never answer any deep call or perennial need. Perhaps the untaught Republic is wiser than its teachers. The best literature is always a result of something far greater than itselfnot the hero, but the portrait of the hero. Before there can be recorded history or poem there must be the transaction. Beyond the old masterpieces, the Iliad, the interminable Hindu epics, the Greek tragedies, even the Bible itself, range the immense facts of what must have preceded them, their sine qua nonthe veritable poems and masterpieces, of which, grand as they are, the word-statements are but shreds and cartoons.
For to-day and the States, I think the vividest, rapidest, most stupendous processes ever known, ever performd by man or nation, on the largest scales and in countless varieties, are now and here presented. Not as our poets and preachers are always conventionally putting itbut quite different. Some colossal foundry, the flaming of the fire, the melted metal, the pounding trip-hammers, the surging crowds of workmen shifting from point to point, the murky shadows, the rolling haze, the discord, the crudeness, the deafening din, the disorder, the dross and clouds of dust, the waste and extravagance of material, the shafts of darted sunshine through the vast open roof-scuttles aloftthe mighty castings, many of them not yet fitted, perhaps delayd long, yet each in its due time, with definite place and use and meaningSuch, more like, is a symbol of America.
After all of which, returning to our starting-point, we reiterate, and in the whole Lands name, a welcome to our eminent guests. Visits like theirs, and hospitalities, and hand-shaking, and face meeting face, and the distant brought nearwhat divine solvents they are! Travel, reciprocity, interviewing, intercommunion of landswhat are they but Democracys and the highest Laws best aids? O that our own countrythat every land in the worldcould annually, continually, receive the poets, thinkers, scientists, even the official magnates, of other lands, as honord guests. O that the United States, especially the West, could have had a good long visit and explorative jaunt, from the noble and melancholy Tourgueneff, before he diedor from Victor Hugoor Thomas Carlyle. Castelar, Tennyson, any of the two or three great Parisian essayistswere they and we to come face to face, how is it possible but that the right understanding would ensue? | <urn:uuid:6903f983-9502-4e00-9565-8212656bb747> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bartleby.com/229/5001.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957603 | 2,102 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Stimpson’s authorial debut is a remaking of the timeless fairy tale that includes both a wonderfully fleshed-out city circa the 1930s and an ending that is happy for everyone.
Jack’s Fast Food is a hopping café run by Jack and his mother out of an old, broken-down burger truck. But when the new overpass closes the street out front, Jack and his mom fall on hard times. Per tradition, Jack spends their last coins on a can of magic baked beans, which his furious mother hurls outside. In the morning, Jack climbs the cans-of-beans–festooned beanstalk to find a friendly but lonely giant busily counting his money, “Fee-Fi-Fo-Fummy, / I’m always counting money. / Be it silver or be it gold, / It’ll make me happy— / Or so I’m told.” Jack, the giant, the magic radio and the giant chicken all bond over lunch, but a beanstalk mishap extends their visit indefinitely while opening a whole new chapter for the Baked Beanstalk Café. As in The Polar Express, Stimpson’s artwork masterfully evokes both the mood and setting of the story. Retro styling, colors and type all work together to convey an old-time, urban feel to the digital illustrations, which portray a world where suits and dresses are the dress code (both incomplete without a hat), and the streets are filled with classic cars.
Stimpson’s money-can’t-buy-happiness moral goes down easily with the help of his wonderfully atmospheric artwork. (Picture book. 3-9) | <urn:uuid:accb99a3-92d4-485a-9534-c82e4ec90924> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/colin-stimpson/jack-and-baked-beanstalk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931549 | 357 | 1.835938 | 2 |
In 2007, then candidate Barack Obama declared in no uncertain terms that the U.S. President must go to Congress and the people of our nation to make the case for military action - before that action is taken. My, what a difference four years make.
For a candidate so intent on showing his self-confidence as the potential Commander-in-Chief with his strong criticism against the former Bush administration, he is rapidly setting new standards. Let it be noted that George W. Bush, as president, went to both Congress and the U.N. before going into Iraq and spoke directly to the American people (and the world) in an Oval Office address.
The hypocrisy is easily noted.
Typically, when a president declares war, polling show that the president's popularity rises. This is due to the rally around our country and our military in the initial days of a conflict. It's who we are as Americans. In this case, however, President Obama's polling numbers have not fared well. The latest Pew Research poll released Monday afternoon shows:
After several days of airstrikes on Libya by the United States and its allies, the public has mixed reactions to the military operation. Nearly half of Americans (47%) say the United States made the right decision in conducting air strikes in Libya while 36% say it was the wrong decision. Fully one-in-six (17%) express no opinion.
On balance, however, the public does not think that the U.S. and its allies have a clear goal in taking military action in Libya. Just 39% say the U.S. and its allies have a clear goal, while 50% say they do not.
Obama, frankly speaking, brought this lack of support on himself. He first was silent, then he dithered until he found his voice, then we were offering humanitarian support for people being massacred in the streets by a madman dictator, and now the position last stated is that Qaddafi must go. Obama went into the coalition with NATO and the African Union and approved the launching of almost two hundred Tomahawk missiles without so much as a phone call to the leaders of Congress. There was a vote taken in the U.N. and the Obama Doctrine seems to be that the U.S. is only to be under international control, not the leader of the free world.
Is that change we can believe in?
Addressing an audience of military experts at the National Defense University, President Obama was tasked with laying out his reasoning for his actions and the plan he has for the mission and then the endgame. Did he succeed? I don't think so. There were zings at George W. Bush with references about Iraq - as what not to do - and there was the standard flowery Obama campaign speak. He was determined to make us think he is deliberate and confident that his decisions are strong. And, regime change is not our objective.
This is how the man sums it all up:
Moreover, we have accomplished these objectives consistent with the pledge that I made to the American people at the outset of our military operations. I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners. Tonight, we are fulfilling that pledge.
Our most effective alliance, NATO, has taken command of the enforcement of the arms embargo and No Fly Zone. Last night, NATO decided to take on the additional responsibility of protecting Libyan civilians. This transfer from the United States to NATO will take place on Wednesday. Going forward, the lead in enforcing the No Fly Zone and protecting civilians on the ground will transition to our allies and partners, and I am fully confident that our coalition will keep the pressure on Gaddafi’s remaining forces. In that effort, the United States will play a supporting role – including intelligence, logistical support, search and rescue assistance, and capabilities to jam regime communications. Because of this transition to a broader, NATO-based coalition, the risk and cost of this operation – to our military, and to American taxpayers – will be reduced significantly.
Here's a bit of irony from Obama as he was anti-war in Iraq but that was then and this is now:
To brush aside America’s responsibility as a leader and – more profoundly – our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are. Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as President, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.
Mass graves and images of slaughter ring a bell? Like Saddam and the Iraqis?
The task that I assigned our forces – to protect the Libyan people from immediate danger, and to establish a No Fly Zone – carries with it a UN mandate and international support. It is also what the Libyan opposition asked us to do. If we tried to overthrow Gaddafi by force, our coalition would splinter. We would likely have to put U.S. troops on the ground, or risk killing many civilians from the air. The dangers faced by our men and women in uniform would be far greater. So would the costs, and our share of the responsibility for what comes next.
To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our troops and the determination of our diplomats, we are hopeful about Iraq’s future. But regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars. That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya.
Obama really wants you to know he is not George W. Bush.
We now know very little more than what we knew before the speech. It was delivered in pre-prime time and no network had to interrupt night programming. Turns out no one really exerted much effort here. The time would have been wasted on the size of a prime time audience. | <urn:uuid:300cf7a7-13c2-42c8-874d-95c761c35dde> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ponderingpenguin.blogspot.com/2011/03/obama-addresses-nation-on-libya.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977321 | 1,239 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Thus, as long as the price would not be an advantage there should be something else Microsoft should offer to beat the competition. But what might it be? Surface runs Windows RT which is not compatible with the desktop version of Windows application-wise, so the iPad would even have a better ecosystem. Besides, using desktop applications in tablet format, while at a first glance sounding attractive always has been a nightmare. This was shown pretty well by Microsoft's own early experiments in the tablet market with Tablet PC platform.
What's even more disturbing is that it's not very clear what particular target audience and use cases are being considered by the new device. Looks like Redmond is trying to tell us - 'Look, our product is a tablet, but it's also a notebook, you can use it on the go and set it on your desk, too. Isn't it amazing?' Might sound so, but it is not.
We heard it all before in the times of Tablet PCs. What in theory was a universal solution in practice was just a frankensteinean device full of compromises, a thing that did everything but not in a quite right or convenient way. It was almost like the adult three-wheeled bicycles of the old times. You could ride them if you wanted to, you could use them as transport if you needed to prove this is possible, but it was not convenient or productive at all, even if amusing. If we continue with this analogy, what Apple later did was getting rid of the third wheel and inventing the bike in its modern form, making it practical, as well as defining the field of usage for this kind of device, a niche between traveling in a serious vehicle, such as a carriage, a bus, or a car and walking.
What Microsoft does now is almost like coming back and saying - yeah, we get it. This new concept is awesome and we will make it even more so. Now you can have a roof on your bike so you can use it almost like a car, and just for the sake of safety we are giving you re-designed hi-tech 3rd wheel, too. 2-wheeled construction is too unsafe to use, isn't it?
The device is trying to be everything for everyone, a mobile, a desktop, and your best buddy. It's just as good as having your cake and eating it too. But did it ever work?
Microsoft history shows it didn't. Having a price advantage could somehow help to solve the problem with targeting by just forcing device onto the market and then hoping users will figure it out how to use it best. Without said advantage the fate of the Surface is very questionable. It might very well repeat the grim story of BlackBerry Playbook and HP Touchpad - two very well-built devices that even had technical advantages over iPad but never had a clue how they can make themselves actually helpful.
Still, the tablet market needs competition, that’s for sure. Apple is there big time, but the maps gaffe shows that it is too, unfortunately, not infallible. It looked in fact more like Microsoft strategy: release a product which is half-ready, and then slowly built it up to acceptable standards. And if Apple is going Microsoft-style, perhaps we will Microsoft going in Apple-way? | <urn:uuid:3ed0765a-7b5d-413a-a0ee-b5988712ebdd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.entrepreneurcountry.com/news-features/technology/item/2384 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977933 | 672 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Information will be used as money (transcript)
Ethan Zuckerman, who specializes in the implementation of transformative technological innovations in developing countries, observes how a system for transferring money in Uganda has anticipated a trend in the use information such as cell phone credits as a viable currency for day to day transactions. These alternative payment systems will be mediated by phone companies and anyone who is in the business of turning money into information.
Shedding new light on Kenyan violence (transcript on same page)
Ethan Zuckerman describes a project called Ushahidi, a project which resulted from the elections in Kenya, that allows anyone around the world to gather reports by mobile phone, email and the web – and map them.
Mobile reporting deepens global narratives (transcript on same page)
If we don’t have reporters in Gomah, but we do have a lot of connected citizens in Gomah, how do we take advantage of that? How do we take advantage of their ability to witness and report, and how do we knit that together into narratives that tell us something we didn’t know previously? | <urn:uuid:7b97e27c-71c2-4e00-a77c-44cc6a967277> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.experientia.com/blog/ethan-zuckerman-on-mobile-news-and-mobile-currency-in-africa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945711 | 232 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Wednesday 3rd February will mark another significant milestone in winter 2009/10, seven weeks of consecutive snow lie at even relatively low altitudes in places such as Aviemore. Indeed even here in Central Inverness, you need to go back the same 7 weeks to find a time when the immediate surrounds has been completely snow free and there is a light dusting of fresh this evening as well.
At least some patches of snow on the ground for 7 weeks at ~10m above sea level in Inverness… 7 days of snow lie is quite rare consecutively for low levels!
It’s now officially the coldest December and January period for Scotland as a whole since Scotland wide records begun in 1914. What about the Coldest Winter? Well we’re still a good bit short of the coldest recorded 2 month period and February would need to make the festive period look quite benign to get close the coldest winter record.
However, could this be the fabled Hale Winter everyone was talking about 2 or 3 years ago? | <urn:uuid:c3219fa7-da8c-42e2-a62c-0e21f517564d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.winterhighland.info/blog/winterhighland/uncategorized/2010/02/coldest-winter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965377 | 213 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Kahwas (egyptian Coffee Shops)
By Dr. Maged El-Bialy
One night in Cairo the heat was unbearable. Humidity was chest tightening so I head out to an open-air caf to refresh myself with some drinks. A caf is the usual gathering spot. My friends and I sometimes meet without prior arrangement. Cafs in Egypt are nice gathering spots for friends. In Egyptian Kahwa means coffee and can also mean a coffee shop. Often, they are like local pubs in the West, where people from a specific neighborhood gather. Like Paris and Greece, Kahwas are often sidewalks Cafs. The main item served in a Kahwa is the sheesha or hookah pipe. You will not find any American coffee in a Kahwa. All drinks are traditional and include tea, Turkish coffee and tamarind. What is interesting about Kahwas is that they are extremely cheap. In some Kahwas one Egyptian pound can buy you two drinks. The source of entertainment is board games like backgammon, chess and dominos. Often one may find friends setting up miniature tournaments of one of these board games. In Hussein and the Khan El Khalili Kahwas are common, the most popular being El Feshawi, which has been around since the time when Egypt was a monarchy. Even in Zamalik you will find Kahwas. An excellent example of a Kahwa is Robaeyyat El Khayaam, which is on 26th of July St. and within walking distance from the Marriott hotel.
While many Kahwas remain rustic, others have been modernized and and can be very fancy to match the look of a nice locale. They are of coarse more expensive than the local Kahwas as the service is more stylish. A television with satellite receiver might be a source of entertainment. Yet still these fancier Kahwas are gathering spots where friends meet on a regular basis. The menu is different from that in the local Kahwa. You may find cocktails and fancy drinks in addition to the traditional Egyptian drinks. Some of these coffee shops even serve food. The names of theses new Kahwas have even been modernized, and include places such as the Time Out Caf which is near a local Kahwa called Nadi Hammo (nadi means club).
Whether the Kahwa is local or modernized the crowd is the same. Mainly young men working in all fields can be customers to such places. In a Local Kahwa (far away from Hussein and the Khan El Khalili) women are not regular customers because it is a tradition that Kahwas are meeting places for men. However women are regulars in a modernized Kahwa.
In a local coffee the waiter takes beverages orders using a special terminology. The following are some of the terms used in a local Kahwa:
- ShaySokkar Bosta :tea with sugar on the side. In local Kahwas the tea comes already with sugar added.
- Shaykhamseena: tea in a small glass (you drink tea from a glass in a local Kahwa)
- Shaymenno feeh: a special tea with milk added to it. The milk is heated and then tea is added without added boiling water.
- Ennabis: same as karkade
- Vanilliameans: hot chocolate
- Kahwascitto: Turkish coffee with out sugar
- Kahwamazboot: Turkish coffee with medium sugar
- Kahwaziyada: Turkish coffee with a lot of sugar.
Next time you are in Egypt visit a Kahwa away from the Hussein and then visit a modernized Kahwa. You will feel the difference between the two types of Kahwas. Yet I guarantee you will have a very close encounter with the daily lives and entertainment of the Egyptian people.
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The Balanced Counseling Strategy:
A Toolkit for Family Planning Service Providers
The Balanced Counseling Strategy (BCS) is an interactive, client-friendly counseling strategy that uses three key job aids to guide comprehensive and high-quality family planning counseling to clients.
The BCS toolkit incorporates international family planning norms and guidance as recommended by the World Health Organization, including the 2004 Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use and the 2007 Family Planning Global Handbook. The process, tested and refined in several countries, involves a set of steps to determine the method that best suits the client according to her/his preferences and reproductive health intentions. The BCS toolkit includes:
- An algorithm that summarizes the 11 steps needed to implement the strategy (PDF);
- Counseling cards with basic information about 15 family planning methods, plus a card with the checklist to be reasonably sure a woman is not pregnant; (PDF); and
- Brochures on each of the methods for the client to take once a method is chosen; (PDFs below):
The BCS approach is easy to adapt to local contexts, and the toolkit includes instructions for adaptation as well as a CD-ROM with electronic copies of the materials that can be modified for the local context. The BCS has been adopted by many programs in countries around the world, translated into multiple languages (French and Spanish versions are available), and further modified for each specific service-delivery strategy in many settings. For example, the Extending Service Delivery project has included the BCS as a "best practice" for providing counseling on family planning and adapted it slightly to address healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy and to help providers identify women who are most at risk of a high-risk pregnancy.
In addition to the original toolkit, the BCS was revised and tested by the Population Council in Kenya and South Africa to facilitate integration of counseling and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, in settings with high prevalence. The Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus (BCS+): A Toolkit for Family Planning Service Providers Working in High HIV/STI Prevalence Settings is a tool to improve the quality of family planning services and to strengthen the integration HIV prevention, detection, and care into family planning, such as the risk assessment of STIs.
Population Council staff are currently working to update the counseling tool and further adapt it for use in different settings, such as postpartum clinics; by other health professionals, such as community health workers; and in new and more technologically advanced formats, such as mobile phones and SMS. | <urn:uuid:6c121d85-a7a1-4642-969f-ad119956ae7e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.popcouncil.org/publications/books/2008_BalancedCounselingStrategy.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945916 | 529 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Philly Responds to Flash Mob with More Youth Repression
Thousands of people flooded the streets. The police made numerous arrests for disorderly conduct, property damage, theft, and even arson. Local hospitals reported a slew of injuries.
These events occurred after the Phillies won the World Series in 2008. The city took it in stride. There was no public outcry, no crackdown on Phillies fans, no call to prohibit future baseball games. Riding the wave of euphoria, the public largely accepted these crimes as collateral damage. After all, the Series was good for the sports franchise, good for city tourism, and good for city pride.
On March 20th of this year, a similar event took place. Thousands of teenagers converged on South Street in a flash mob. Several injuries and incidents of vandalism occurred. The city’s reaction, however, was very different. The local media published images and video of unruly and destructive African American youth. Officials painted a picture of an epidemic of Black teenagers terrorizing the innocent people of the city. The violence that occurred provided a pretense for perpetuating a longstanding racial stereotype of the threat of out-of-control Black youth.
Calls to action have been overwhelmingly repressive. Nearly every commentator has agreed that teenagers need more discipline and the threat of stiffer punishments. Sadly, these reactions reflect the broader culture of security that currently exists in the U.S., where the solutions are always to impose more restrictions and controls over what people can do, to make punishments harsher, and to paint entire racial groups as potential threats to “our” safety.
All of this ensures that business can continue as usual. And quite literally: one week later, Mayor Nutter made a big show out of strolling down South Street, demonstrating that it was safe to patronize the businesses there. A tattoo artist was quoted in the Inquirer as saying, “We wouldn’t have minded a flash mob at all... if they were all 18 years old and had money in their pocket.” The deeper source of anger over the flash mob, it seems, was the fact that it disrupted the revenue that suffering South Street business owners were hoping for on the first warm Saturday evening of the year. It is a joke to imagine that city officials and media outlets actually cared about those who were hurt.
Repressive measures only fuel the fundamental problem, which is that there is an increasing lack of vibrant social scenes available to youth in the city. Failing schools, slashed budgets for services and programs, a growing prison-industrial complex, and the disproportionate impact of the recession on African Americans have severely limited the means available to youth for social expression, interaction, and community.
Meanwhile, other forms of mass social gathering like sports games are funded and sanctioned by the city even as fights and vandalism routinely occur around these events. More often than not, those incidents are simply downplayed, since the events appeal to a wider population and bring in money to the city.
It’s revealing that almost no one has remarked on the fact that rallying thousands of Philly teens through social networking and mobile technologies was an amazing feat. The security apparatus encourages blindness to the generative and resourceful aspects of what youth were able to achieve. The flash mob was a testament to how young people can and will take things into their own hands to create new forms of social gathering for themselves if our educational and cultural systems fail to do so. If there’s anything to be learned, it should be that the flash mob was not only destructive, but fiercely creative as well. | <urn:uuid:fbc3bbf7-2107-4941-a263-abb6f4b8ec76> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.defenestrator.org/flashmob_repression | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97116 | 727 | 1.742188 | 2 |
The Living ChurchA leader’s dream for his church and the entire church
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In the Roman Catholic Calendar All Souls Day (2 November) commemorates the souls of the faithful departed who are regarded as being in purgatory. This being so, we at All Souls are often asked why such a committed evangelical church as ours should have been thus named. The answer is not hard to find. We understand that the church founders were determined to build a church large enough to seat all the souls of the parish. Thus their resolve was not to commemorate all the souls of the dead, but rather to accommodate all the souls of the living.
The church was consecrated and opened to the public on 25 November 1824. So when the year 1974 dawned, we were anxious to mark the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the church. I was asked to preach on the nearest Sunday and to look into the future. With due apologies to Martin Luther King and his famous dream speech in Washington, D.C., I concluded my sermon with my own dream:
I have a dream of a church which is a biblical church
which is loyal in every particular to the revelation of God in Scripture,
whose pastors expound Scripture with integrity and
relevance, and so seek to present every member
mature in Christ,
whose people love the word of God, and adorn it
with an obedient and Christ-like life,
which is preserved from all unbiblical emphases,
whose whole life manifests the health and beauty
of biblical balance.
I have a dream of a biblical church.
I have a dream of a church which is a worshiping church
whose people come together to meet God and worship him,
who know God is always in their midst and who
bow down before him in great humility,
who regularly frequent the table of the Lord Jesus, to
celebrate his mighty act of redemption on the cross,
who enrich the worship with their musical skills,
who believe in prayer and lay hold of God in prayer,
whose worship is expressed not in Sunday services
and prayer gatherings only but also in their
homes, their weekday work and the common things of life.
I have a dream of a worshipping church.
I have a dream of a church which is a caring church
whose congregation is drawn from many races,
nations, ages and social backgrounds, and exhibits
the unity and diversity of the family of God,
whose fellowship is warm and welcoming,
and never marred by anger, selfishness, jealousy or pride,
whose members love one another with a pure heart
fervently, forbearing one another, forgiving one
another, and bearing one another's burdens,
which offers friendship to the lonely, support to the
weak, and acceptance to those who are despised
and rejected by society,
whose love spills over to the world outside, attractive,
infectious, irresistible, the love of God himself.
I have a dream of a caring church.
I have a dream of a church which is a serving church
which has seen Christ as the Servant and has heard
his call to be a servant too,
which is delivered from self-interest, turned inside out,
and giving itself selflessly to the service of others,
whose members obey Christ's command to live in the
world, to permeate secular society, to be the salt of
the earth and the light of the world,
whose people share the good news of Jesus simply,
naturally and enthusiastically with their friends,
which diligently serves its own parish, residents and
workers, families and single people, nationals and
immigrants, old folk and little children,
which is alert to the changing needs of society,
sensitive and flexible enough to keep adapting its
program to serve more usefully,
which has a global vision and is constantly
challenging its young people to give their lives in
service, and constantly sending its people out to serve.
I have a dream of a serving church.
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To the moon, Gingrich
POLITICO Pro’s Michelle Quinn takes a look at Newt Gingrich’s onetime rep as “Newt Skywalker,” and reports that he plans to deliver a technology speech in Silicon Valley in 2012:
Some of his futuristic predictions were — and still are — far out. On Saturday, Mitt Romney pointed to one of Gingrich’s Jetsonian ideas to underscore their differences: “We can start with his idea to have a lunar colony that would mine minerals from the moon.”
Gingrich earned the Star Wars-era nickname in the 1980s and '90s — back when his high-tech, futuristic proselytizing landed his face, bathed in electric lime, on the cover of Wired. He was often compared to Al Gore as an Internet evangelist; he enlisted Alvin Toffler, author of "Future Shock," as his tech adviser; and he held conferences through a think tank with the likes of John Perry Barlow and Esther Dyson. …
As House speaker, Gingrich marshaled forces on issues such as data scrambling technologies, freedom of speech on the Internet and securities litigation reform. He helped launch Thomas, the Library of Congress website that provides information about bills. He started the High Technology Working Group, now the Technology Working Group, composed of Republican leaders involved in a wide swath of tech issues. …
In a 2008 essay published in an anthology by the Personal Democracy Forum, Gingrich advocated using wikis for communities to create solutions for government, launching a website for rating government agencies and officials and starting something called “Solutions Island,” “a private, 3D Internet metaverse for elected officials to share ideas and best practices.”
As a presidential candidate, Gingrich has so far not issued much information about his tech policy agenda, except to hit on the familiar theme that the federal government should be more nimble and efficient like the tech industry. It’s a theme echoed by other candidates, including President Barack Obama.
Gingrich, who’s amassed more than a million Twitter followers, is planning a major policy speech on technology in Silicon Valley early next year, a source close to the campaign told POLITICO. | <urn:uuid:d845ec16-f644-4c46-8f8e-f286d0d106a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2011/12/to-the-moon-gingrich-106875.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961518 | 455 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Faces, names, and signatures policy
Sellers aren't allowed to list an item that has an image (such as a photo), likeness (such as a drawing), name, or signature of another person on it unless the product was made or authorized by that person.
Make sure your listing follows these guidelines. If it doesn't, it may be removed, and you may be subject to a range of other actions, including limits of your buying and selling privileges and suspension of your account.
What are the guidelines?
A t-shirt with a picture of a movie star on it that was authorized by that person.
A key chain with an unauthorized picture of a rock star on it (even if the seller took the picture at a concert).
A scanned copy of an original, signed picture of a baseball player.
A mouse pad with an unauthorized picture of a movie star on it.
A CD containing pictures of a singer taken from various sources on the Internet. (Even if a seller had permission to download the pictures, the seller probably doesn't have the right to sell them.)
An unauthorized t-shirt with the name of a celebrity on it.
Why does eBay have this policy?
eBay requires its members to follow all government laws and regulations. Because the sale of items with the image, likeness, name, or signature of another person on them might be prohibited by law, sellers can't list these items on eBay unless the product was made or authorized by that person. This policy helps to protect buyers from purchasing counterfeit or fraudulent items, protect intellectual property rights owners against infringement, and create a safer place to buy and sell. | <urn:uuid:68ee0a84-7540-40c7-8c23-39609ee06cb8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/signatures.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95478 | 337 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Last weekend, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) enthusiasts over at MacRumors tore open one of the new Apple TV units, which has recently received a quiet and slight internal upgrade. What they found inside was an A5 processor similar to the predecessor, except that it was significantly smaller.
That fact led to some speculation that perhaps Apple had at long last begun its transition away from Samsung as a foundry partner and perhaps got together with Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM ) and used its 28-nanometer manufacturing process. I had previously mentioned that definitive confirmation for or against this theory would have to await analysis from "specialists like Chipworks." Never one to pass up a good silicon-identification challenge, Chipworks has stepped up to the task.
Die size comparison using the polysilicon from the prior gen A5 (left) with the top metal from the current gen A5. Source: Chipworks.
Sadly, there were no markings to indicate that the shrunken A5 hailed from Taiwan Semiconductor's plants. In fact, the evidence points toward Apple's continued use of Samsung's 32-nanometer process, meaning there was no change in the process. Instead, the reduced size was attributable to a new design instead of a process shrink.
Previous generations had a dual-core A5 recycled from other devices but simply had one core disabled, but Apple has now removed the unused core altogether, among other changes. That helped get the overall size down.
Another notable change is the addition of a newer Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM ) Wi-Fi combo chip. The chip is the BCM4334, an upgrade from the BCM4330 used in the last generation model. That change has allowed Apple to simplify the design into a one-antenna solution as opposed to the previous two antennas that were used. This arrangement is essentially how Apple now implements short-range radio transmissions in all of its latest iDevices, including the iPhone 5.
For now, Apple's still sticking with Samsung.
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George Hickman Jr., a flight mechanic with the famed Tuskegee Airmen, has died, according to a spokeswoman for the group.
An elderly man suspected of Nazi war crimes has been arrested in Hungary, prosecutors said Wednesday, after a worldwide Jewish rights organization discovered him living in Budapest.
A worldwide Jewish rights organization is pushing Hungarian authorities to prosecute a man it claims is a Nazi war criminal, recently discovered in Budapest, Hungary, who allegedly sent more than 15,000 Jews to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944.
An estimated 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis and their allies during the Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands more suffered, but somehow survived, in concentration camps. And some escaped, savoring freedom they otherwise never would have known.
All eyes are on London this summer. The Olympic Games begin next month; earlier this month, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee provided glorious pictures and joyous sounds to the watching world.
People in London step up to CNN's Open Mic and deliver their messages to Queen Elizabeth II on her Diamond Jubilee.
Adapted from ROAD TO VALOR: A TRUE STORY OF WWII ITALY, THE NAZIS, AND THE CYCLIST WHO INSPIRED A NATION Copyright © 2012 by McConnon LLC. Published by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc.
Congress holds a Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring Japanese-American World War II Veterans.
The Polish prime minister on Wednesday reacted strongly to what the White House said was a mistake by President Barack Obama during a Medal of Freedom ceremony.
The White House says President Obama misspoke by referring to a Nazi death camp as a Polish one.
The crowds continue to visit the dead.
A small Polish wild horse that was used in Nazi experiments during the 1930s has become the center of wetland regeneration efforts across parts of Europe.
Greek president Karolos Papoulias proposes a technocratic government after coalition talks fail to produce anything.
A Jewish group in Greece has condemned the leader of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party over comments he made about the Holocaust in a TV interview.
As Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, CNN's Kevin Flower reports on a political debate behind the scenes.
CNN's David McKenzie reports on the declassified story of the hunt for Adolph Eichmann, the architect of the holocaust.
President Barack Obama has now done what every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt has done -- visited the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
For 70 years, survivors of the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor have captivated listeners with their firsthand accounts, recalling buddies who died in their arms or the glasses worn by a low-flying Japanese pilot.
Survivors mark the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack amid dwindling ranks. CNN's Greg Black reports.
Survivors of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor gathered Wednesday to remember the 2,400 people who lost their lives exactly 70 years ago.
A journalist says people do have to leave from time to time when a bomb is discovered in Germany.
Alison Shein considers herself an amateur genealogist, spending hours online searching for information about family members she never knew.
On November 2, Lt. Susumu Ito with other members of the 442nd RCT will be honored with a Congressional Gold Medal.
Out of sheer boredom, Susumu Ito, in World War II, became a forward artillery observer, one of the most dangerous jobs available.
Federal authorities seized a masterpiece painting from about 1538 from a Tallahassee, Florida, museum because it was stolen as part of the Nazi plunder of World War II, prosecutors said Friday.
A Jewish human rights organization on Monday called for Thailand's Christian leaders to condemn a parade at the Sacred Heart School in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in which participating students wearing Nazi uniforms performed "Sieg Heil" salutes.
Seven decades after Nazi forces looted the National Museum in Warsaw during World War II, two paintings by treasured Polish artist Julian Falat were repatriated in a ceremony Thursday night, according to a statement from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
A 90-year-old Michigan man who officials say rounded up and shot Jews in Nazi death camps during World War II is a step closer to being deported, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
The soldiers came for her at night. They took the girl to a barrack and forced her to watch a woman get raped.
A German court finds John Demjanjuk guilty of being involved in the murders of thousands at a Nazi camp.
A German court convicted onetime Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk on Thursday in the murder of tens of thousands of Jews at a Nazi concentration camp, capping a 30-year legal saga.
A year after his death at 91, J.D. Salinger is known, above all else, as the author of "The Catcher in the Rye." Since its publication in 1951, identifying with Holden Caulfield has become an American rite of passage.
CNN's Don Lemon talks to Dr. Mark Goulston about the new rule changes for troops suffering from PTSD.
Richard "Dick" Winters, a decorated hero of World War II and the central figure in the book and miniseries "Band of Brothers," has died. He would have turned 93 years old in February.
WWII Veteran Chris Maurer sees the WWII memorial in Washington for the first time thanks to Honor Flight.
In the days before there was an organized baseball draft, there was a military draft.
Ohio congressional candidate Rich Iott has come under fire for participating in German SS reenactments.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will join hundreds of veterans Sunday to commemorate the 65th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day, or VJ Day, which was Saturday.
Prime Minister David Cameron walks in a procession honoring fallen British troops on the 65th anniversary of VJ Day.
The roof is cracking at the place where the British cracked the Enigma code in World War II. So are the roads and fences.
A German court sentences an 88-year-old former Nazi hitman to life in prison for 3 civilian kilings during World War II.
Women pilots of WWII were honored for the first time with the Congressional Gold medal, Congress's highest honor.
Jerry Yellin has spent most of his life trying to forget about the stench of death on the island of Iwo Jima 65 years ago.
One of America's top World War II fighter pilots, an African-American who took on Nazis abroad and racism at home, was laid to rest Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.
The aging veterans gingerly walk from the plane in the nation's capital. Some get pushed in wheelchairs. A brass band strikes up World War II era tunes. Strangers rise to their feet and clap their hands.
Honor Flight flies WWII veterans to see their memorial in Washington at no charge. A CNN crew went along on a recent trip.
Some reviewers have called "Saving Private Ryan," Steven Spielberg's World War II film about D-Day and the search for a soldier, one of the greatest war movies.
Only six fallen troops have received the Medal of Honor during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Barbara Starr explores why.
When President Obama gave a Medal of Honor to Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti's family this week, it was just the sixth time the nation's highest medal for valor has been awarded to a hero of the current conflicts.
Around the world, commemorations have taken place this month to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
Leading classical musicians perform in Krakow, Poland, marking the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
At least 20 world leaders gathered Tuesday in Poland to commemorate the start of World War II 70 years ago -- a conflict in which 6 million Poles died.
65 years after D-Day, a handful of veterans visited the WWII Memorial in Washington for the first time. CNN's Elaine Quijano reports.
I knew my first visit to the American Cemetery at Normandy would be emotional, but I really had no idea I'd be tearing up literally within about eight minutes of walking the rows of bone-white gravestones.
CNN's Rick Vincent reports on the somber ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
World leaders gave thanks Saturday to military veterans for their efforts in the D-Day landings of 65 years ago at a ceremony in northwest France, warning that their legacy must not be forgotten as the world faces renewed threats of tyranny.
The forthcoming trial in Germany of John Demjanjuk could be the last occasion on which a Nazi war crimes suspect faces prosecution.
CNN's Atika Shubert reports from Ludlow, England, where Adolf Hitler's watercolors are being auctioned.
An immigration judge with the U.S. Justice Department has granted a stay to John Demjanjuk, the Nazi war crimes suspect who had been ordered deported to Germany, his lawyer said Friday.
France bears responsibility for deporting Jews to their deaths in concentration camps during World War II, the country's highest court ruled Monday.
A World War II medic describes telling a man how his brother died in his arms 63 years ago at a Nazi slave camp.
Photojournalist John Torigoe introduces us to a family that had brothers fighting on both sides of WWII.
We must never forget the stories of past wars. Photojournalist Jim Castel sits down with a WWII vet to reminisce.
A state-run Chinese newspaper expressed relief Monday that senior Japanese officials had dismissed the country's air force chief after he denied Japan's aggression before and during World War II.
At 94, Barbara Podoski finally gets to tell the story of how she punched a German sergeant in the face during World War II, when she was a secret U.S. interrogator.
Barbara Podoski punched a German sergeant in the face during World War II when she was a secret U.S. interrogator.
CNN's Diana Magnay reports on the beheading of a wax Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany's, Madame Tussauds.
Madame Tussauds says it will repair the wax figure of Adolf Hitler beheaded by a visitor over the weekend and return it to its Berlin exhibition space as soon as possible.
A historic flyover honors the 30,000 American airmen who gave their lives flying from British bases during WWII.
A report from the U.S. State Department details "an upsurge" across the world of anti-Semitism -- hostility and discrimination toward Jewish people.
ITN's Elodie Harper reports on recently released files that reveal British security services hired an astrologer to try to defeat Adolf Hitler.
Kurt Vonnegut, whose absurdist visions and cynical outlook infused such books as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," has died. He was 84.
Remains of a U.S. Navy sailor who was listed as missing in action after Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor have been identified and will be returned to his family, the Department of Defense said.
We will stay in Iraq, the president and his aides keep saying, until we have achieved victory. But how will we know when that is? What does victory look like these days?
A decaying address book. A black plastic comb. A dirty penny.
Use this explainer to help students understand the history of World War II, a topic relevant to current news.
U.S. President George W. Bush and French President Jacques Chirac have stressed their joint support for democratic strides being made in Iraq, although the French leader admitted he was troubled by the "level of chaos" in the Mideast country.
President Bush arrived in Paris Saturday as part of a 36-hour European trip designed to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy and drum up support for the war in Iraq.
It began as one of the greatest secrets in history. But by the end of June 6, 1944, the world knew the Normandy invasion was under way, turning the tide in World War II.
Invoking the words of Ronald Reagan, President Bush on Wednesday compared the war in Iraq and the fight against terrorism to World War II and the battle against communism.
Among decorated veterans, at a place they now call their own, Michel Thomas is decorated for the first time -- at age 90.
In dedicating the World War II Memorial, President Bush addressed more than 140,000 people who had gathered on Washington's National Mall.
Thousands of people gathered on Washington's National Mall on Saturday to pay tribute to the millions of Americans who served during World War II in the military and on the home front.
A day before the dedication of the National World War II Memorial, and almost 60 years after the end of the war, CNN's Paula Zahn spoke with three American WWII veterans about what this tribute to their service means.
This Memorial Day weekend marks the dedication of the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
A highlight of the Memorial Day weekend will be Saturday's dedication of the National World War II Memorial, which caps the 16-year effort to honor the spirit and sacrifice of America's involvement in World War II.
When you meet Pennsylvanian Robert Collins, radioman second class United States Navy (ret.) on a visit to the new World War Two Memorial in the nation's capital, you no longer care who was right or wrong in the argument over whether it should have been built on the mall between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Through the years, members of America's armed forces have been court-martialed for bolting from the Battle of the Bulge, failing to zigzag a ship under attack, misplacing secrets that ended up in a Moscow newspaper and all manner of sexual misconduct.
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Using data from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, I showed last week that job creation – depending on how one wants to measure the business cycle – is either the worst or close to the worst for any period since World War II.
My argument is that Obama’s policies are impeding growth. Simply stated, higher tax rates, a heavier burden of government spending, and other forms of intervention are not exactly the right recipe for growth and prosperity.
But sometimes it’s easier to get that message across with a clever cartoon.
Payne’s cartoon has a similar theme to this Ramirez cartoon, which is the fourth-most-viewed post in the history of my blog.
And here’s another Ramirez cartoon with the same message, and one of my favorite Chuck Asay cartoons also shows what happens when you impose a lot of burdens on the economy’s productive sector.
At some point, though, the public sector becomes so demanding that slow growth becomes no growth. Here’s a very clever Asay cartoon about what happens when you reach that tipping point.
P.S. I suspect it was meant as sarcasm and to nail Obama for blame-shifting, but the “Republican fiscal flux capacitor” does deserve some of the blame. Just look at these charts to see what happened the last time the GOP was in charge. | <urn:uuid:5d5b9412-1855-48b9-8152-1df46fcbb739> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/whats-slowing-down-the-economy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949703 | 281 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Beatitudes of Buylessness
Music: William Moses
Band: E.K. Lewis / E. Johnson/ N. Stevens/ L. Gruenbaum / M. Tipton
Blessed are the Consumers, for you shall be free from Living By Products…
Blessed are you who stumble out of branded Main Streets, for you shall find lovers not downloaded and oceans not rising.
Blessed is the ordinary citizen who holds onto a patch of public commons, for you are the New World.
Blessed is the artist who is not corporate sponsored for you shall give birth to warm fronts of emotion and breakthroughs of Peace.
Blessed are you who confuse “Consumerism” with “Freedom,” for you shall be delighted to discover the difference.
Blessed are the advertisers and commercial celebrities, for you are waiting for the remarkable restfulness of honesty.
Blessed are city neighborhoods that people have flown from in fear, for your children shall return to illuminate the dark economy.
Blessed are the workers in the supermalls, for the town your employers’ killed shall come back to life!
Blessed is the breadwinner with out-sourced dreams who sits in the SUV stuck in a Christmas from Hell, this year a gift will set you free.
Blessed are the young women in sweatshops, for the things you make will fly you like magic evening gowns to the City of Light.
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Celebrating Washington, DC’s first Gold Award of Distinction in USDA’s HealthierUS School Challenge
I had the pleasure of celebrating the top notch achievement of the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School as USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon and District of Columbia State Superintendent of Education Hosanna Mahaley presented this great school with a HealthierUS School Challenge Gold Award of Distinction. The award represents the highest honor a school can achieve in the Challenge and they couldn’t have done it without the committed leadership and staff at this special school. This school is truly a role model and the award puts them on the map as the first school in the nation’s capital to earn the Gold Award of Distinction. E.W. Stokes is a diverse pre-school and elementary school providing instruction in two languages. Their unwavering commitment to sharing the benefits of physical activity and making good food choices is evident in everything they do!
We dined on a very tasty and visually appealing lunch with students who just couldn’t get enough of the Asian-inspired baked chicken, brown rice, and sautéed spinach. I would have loved to have sampled the vegetarian option, featuring a chickpea and cauliflower curry but I was full. I have it on good authority from the smiling faces around us that it was simply delicious! As for physical education, this school takes the First Lady’s Let’s Move! mantra to a whole new level! Kids can dance, play soccer, basketball or volleyball, learn yoga, go swimming, or practice Tae Kwon Do. So many choices and something for everyone! Almost makes me wish I could join them—especially on the basketball court!
One of the First Lady’s biggest priorities is improving the health of our nation’s children through the Let’s Move! initiative, and a big part of that effort is getting more schools to participate in the HealthierUS Schools Challenge. As we approach the anniversary of Let’s Move!, it’s wonderful to see how much we’ve already accomplished. From participating in HUSSC to improving school meals, there are so many things schools like E.W. Stokes are doing to help children get a healthy start that can last a lifetime.
Thank you, E.W. Stokes for hosting our celebration and building a solid foundation for students to develop healthful habits that will last them a lifetime. I hope more schools in the District—and around the country—follow your lead. | <urn:uuid:1de0c892-472a-400f-8890-1dded70bd6aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.letsmove.gov/blog/2011/02/04/celebrating-washington-dc%E2%80%99s-first-gold-award-distinction-usda%E2%80%99s-healthierus-school-c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947849 | 525 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Steve Charles—Last week we received word that Doris Strawn—long-time assistant at the Crawfordsville Public Library, and wife of Professor Emeritus of French Dick Strawn for more than 66 years—had died on Friday, January 7. She had worked at the public library between 1958 and 1986, and she and her good friend Marion Powell had established at Hoover Elementary School the first of the modern elementary school libraries in Crawfordsville.
I did not know Doris well, so when I heard of her death, I asked Professor Strawn to tell me more about her. I found out that he and Doris were married on a Christmas Day. The more I read about Doris in the three pieces he sent me, the more fitting that seems.
The first piece is both Wabash history and a story of the Strawns, the Powells, the Salters, and other faculty and student families during one of the most interesting and endearing eras of the College. Doris had written a section in These Fleeting Years about Mud Hollow, the College’s post-World War II housing for married faculty and students in what is today the Wabash soccer field:
The walls were indeed thin, but in addition to being able to knock for baby-sitting service or other assistance we were able to hear Elvena Barnes yelling at her husband, “Oh, Chuck, there’s another one! Smash it!” This let us know that they had “them” too, so we could broach (no pun intended) the subject of collaborating on arranging a visit from the exterminator.
Outdoor acoustics were interesting, too. While hanging clothes outside the neighbors’ kitchen window one warm day, I heard Mrs. Neighbor say to her husband, quite forcefully, “Why don’t you use your head for something besides a hat rack once in awhile!” It enriched our family language.
We would never have made so many good friends in such a short time under any other circumstances. We all had a lot in common, including a meager economic base; young children, in most cases; husbands working on term papers, themes, or dissertations till all hours while wives tried to keep the kids and the dishes quiet; co-ordinating wash-days for maximum use of the clothesline, and showers for best use of water pressure, and naps and play-time for mutual baby-sitting; and a general sharing of nearly everything, of which few families had enough, to provide for a stray guest or two.
There was little distinction between faculty and student. We were all in the same boat, and most were quite close in age, since many of the student residents were on the G.I. Bill, at least as mature as most of us assistant instructor types. And what a fine bunch those men and families were!
There’s more to the entry, and Doris’s love of and skill with language shine throughout. Not to mention her sense of humor, even more abundant in the second piece Dick sent me, labeled “Doris Strawn’s ‘bons mots’ in later years:”
March 27, 1990, after failing several times to get an AT & T long-distance call formula to work: “Even the recorded voice was beginning to sound impatient.”
June 12, 1995: “I’m too old to get old.”
July 24, 1995: “We should privatize politics.”
June 19, 1996:, of goofiness like Whitewater and Travel Office shenanigans and misapplied FBI files in the Clinton White House: “backwoods Chicago.”
December 9, of Rod McKuen: “Tie-dyed poetry.”
February 5, 1998: a good name for a nursing home: “Rest Assured.”
The final bit of writing is a set of notes Dick wrote about Doris for Karen Moehling, a local artist, so that she could give a Lafayette jewelry-maker an idea of the person he was to design a piece for:
Doris Strawn, age 72, height 5’ 4”, weight 125 pounds
Fond of the painter Mondrian; prefers symmetry to dispersal, finished to rough, simple to ornate, delicate-with-strength to forceful.
Not mawkish but with deep sentiment; ironic and wry, reserved but no push-over; her jokes are pungent but unhurtful.
She wears a plain, thinnish gold wedding ring and with it a small daisy-like setting of six opals (her grandmother’s).
The piece of jewelry to be designed: a golden-wedding-anniversary piece: wearable.
Suggestion: a gold pendant, or gold pin if not heavy. Non-representational or, at best, stylized.
Up to $500; anything more and she’d be afraid to wear it.
Last Saturday, a group of old friends and Wabash folks from Kansas (Doris was born in El Dorado, Kansas and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Kansas) gathered to read two of these three pieces, to offer a toast and a traditional Kansas cheer in Doris’s honor.
Among those friends were Becky and Bill Degitz ’42 and Marion and Professor Emeritus Vic Powell H’55. When he turned 90 last year, Vic attributed his long life, in part, to the “network of friendships that is so important” and “a sense of well-being you have with people whose companionship you enjoy.”
“Thanksgiving wouldn’t be Thanksgiving at our house if Dick and Doris didn’t come by,” he said.
In her story about those days in Mud Hollow, Doris recalls watching her student- neighbors graduate: “We swelled with pride and a tear when Ken Lee and Harry Nimmo, among others, received their degrees. They were family.”
You can almost see her smile as she wrote the conclusion to her description of those Mud Hollow Days: “Ah, nostalgia! We did a good deal of complaining about it all at the time, but if we had it to do over again, we would.”
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[Editor's note: Are increasingly complex graphics (visual confections / data visualizations), aka chart porn & eye/brain candy, necessarily good at conveying essential information to readers? Alberto Cairo says no, see below. I have to wonder if he means just for daily minute-read journalism or for publications that have a tradition of offering readers, say, tear-out map supplements and posters they like to admire and reexamine. This might have been raised by the 2008 box office graphic from the NY Times, implementing a steamgraph, but the general question applies to all infographic professionals. We have awesome new tools and datasets, but we still need to focus on fundamentals, beyond interesting and visually appealing, to consider what as Lee Byron calls the "interplay between considerations of aesthetics and legibility."
From Edward Tufte (p121 in Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative):
A confection is an assembly of many visual events, selected ... from various Streams of Story, then brought together and juxtaposed on the still flatland of paper. By means of a multiplicity of image-events, confections illustrate an argument, present and enforce visual comparisons, combine the real and the imagined, and tell us yet another story.
Tufte actually shows a similar chart to the NYT box office example in the same work from the cover of "Rock 'N' Roll is Here to Pay: The History and Politics of the Music Industry". He says of the Rock and Roll example: "The multiple, parallel flows locate music-makers in two dimensions – linking musical parents and offspring from 1955 to 1974, and listing contemporaries for each year."
But what fundamentals and what audience? A later NY Times graphic on How Different Groups Spend Their Day resolves part of the box office problem with an ability to focus (isolate) parts of the stream into a standard axis chart and thus read and compare quantitatively. Much less complicated, but also on a standard axis: Jackson’s Billboard Rankings Over Time. I don't entirely buy the similar axis baseline argument as I'm a fan of graduated circle maps, but reading them is certainly not for the average reader and must be augmented with summary charting and text.
But the box office chart is more approachable (read fun and inviting) then simple charting per Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller. But I think simple axis presentation of Taking apart the federal budget is easier to read at first glance then the multi-axis Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent, even if I use the same approach in the Washington Post's Potus Tracker to analyze Obama's schedule. At the core is trying to make increasingly complex datasets (2) grockable visually. Have fun figuring it out and in the meantime enjoy this XKCD comic ]
Republished from Visual Journalism.
Alberto Cairo is a former professor at Chapel Hill, where he taught online graphics. Before that he was the succesful graphics director at El Mundo Online. In short: This guy knows what he is talking about, when it comes to both printed and online graphics …
Today Alberto took a critical look at the current data-visualization-trend, which got a huge boost last year, when New York Times took home a gold medal and even the ‘Best of Show’-award for a certain Box Office graphic. Regular readers of this site will remember the discussion we had last year after the awards. Click here to read it again.
Emperor’s new clothes
What Alberto is saying out in the open now, has been floating around for a while. But apparently only a few dare to say that graphics are getting too complicated – for fear of being looked upon as stupid, if they dare challenge such abstract wonders. I can’t help to think of the Emperor’s new clothes, whenever such a situation takes place. | <urn:uuid:e155a9e9-e453-4f63-be8d-354e5a969f16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=3610&cpage=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937981 | 806 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Car Assembly Bringing $5 Billion to Russia
According to an Economic Development Ministry official, the Russian government has signed four car assembly agreements with a total investment of over $5 billion. This includes the $1.1 billion Fiat plans to invest in the expansion of a local automobile factory and the creation of a factory to produce engines.
Dmitry Levchenkov, head of a special economics zones and project finance department of the ministry, told reporters that agreements had been signed with Sollers, Ford, Volkswagen, General Motors and an AvtoVAZ, Renault-Nissan, Izhavto and KamAZ consortium. He said, “up to 100,000 modern car models will be produced in the volume of up to two million a year,‚ÄĚ and that the investment would be made within three or four years.
Car makers have rushed to Russia to use the advantages its market offers and the government has promised to relieve them of import duties on car components for eight years in exchange for assurance they will build at least 300,000 cars a year per production site by 2015.
GM will invest about $1 billion to expand and modernize its Russian facilities, while Volkswagen will invest $900 million, Levchenkov said.
Levchenkov added that Fiat, the only foreign company that has not signed up for the new regime, has committed itself to expanding production to 120,000 cars from the current 25,000 and building an engine plant in Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga.
Fiat, whose Russian partner Sollers dropped out unexpectedly earlier this year, is in talks with Sberbank to finance the project, Levchenkov said. | <urn:uuid:031af89b-1c39-4764-9aec-c41353741be8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://businessfacilities.com/car-assembly-bringing-5-billion-to-russia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95419 | 346 | 1.59375 | 2 |
In stark contrast to the plethora of interview collections catering to aspiring screenwriters and would-be film critics, there's a dearth of material on the market about the craft of writing and producing television. "TV Creators" fills that void.
In stark contrast to the plethora of interview collections catering to aspiring screenwriters and would-be film critics, there’s a dearth of material on the market about the craft of writing and producing television. “TV Creators” fills that void. Ironically, most of the TV creators featured in the compilation admit they set out to be filmmakers and fell into TV only when their initial plans didn’t work out.At its best, “TV Creators” provides insider insight into the process of making TV. Longworth manages to get the top-notch TV creators he interviews to let down their guard and reveal what’s really on their mind. Deriding networks’ reliance on the pilot process, Dick Wolf recalls that nobody liked “ER” when they saw the pilot. Tom Fontana posits that if he’d created “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” “She would have been raped by the second episode.” John Masius vents about why he walked away from “Touched by an Angel” after it turned from dark musings on mortality to soft-core evangelism; Barry Levinson bemoans the lack of creativity among network execs; and David Chase discusses the autobiographical mother-son elements of “The Sopranos.” The introductory passages to the interviews, however, are less insightful. Fawning in his praise of the auteurs, Longworth compares Levinson to both Thomas Jefferson and Orson Welles and audaciously concludes, “Levinson kicks Welles’ butt.” Longworth’s worshipful treatment of his subjects does them a disservice; the hyperbole only mocks their real accomplishments. He likens Steven Bochco to “part Andrew Jackson, part P.T. Barnum, and part (famed UCLA basketball coach) John Wooden … Jacksonian in his democratic approach to programming, Bochco’s face may never grace a 20-dollar bill, but he has changed the face of television drama forever, and, for that, he is an American legend.” While his prose tends toward the overwrought, Longworth — a veteran producer of TV documentaries and public affairs programming — has clearly done his research and is not afraid to ask the tough questions (“Is ‘ER’ really worth $13 million an episode?”). Even more impressively, he gets his subjects to answer frankly. In one especially moving passage, Masius discusses the irony of developing a character on “St. Elsewhere” who has to deal with his son’s autism — years before Masius and his wife would struggle to raise two autistic sons. The show “Providence,” which deals with personal tragedy and unpredictable life changes, apparently was the product of that struggle. In such revealing moments, Longworth gets to the core of the emotional turmoil that often drives good TV. | <urn:uuid:cbb981ea-3309-40ca-91a2-ecf2a5ce9990> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://variety.com/2001/more/reviews/conversations-with-america-s-top-producers-of-television-drama-1200466869/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958907 | 660 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Today is the last day of the Olympic Games and we will be bidding farewell to the athletes from around the world.
We barely came to know some of them, and may not even remember most of the others.
But we are grateful to all of them for the wonderful sports gala.
By wonderful I do not only mean the stars like American swimmer Michael Phelps who won eight gold medals and the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt who won three gold medals with three world records.
By wonderful I mean those moments that revealed something that transcended the gold tally and world records. That noble sportsmanship the athletes from various countries demonstrated. What impressed me most was the Olympic spirit they displayed.
As a sports layman, I remember the name of Paula Radcliffe from Britain. She finished 23rd in the women's marathon, a result probably disappointing to many and to herself.
Yet in my mind, she is a true heroine.
On the day of her race, I watched her on TV. She was clearly ill at ease which caused her to gradually slip back in the field. I saw her twisted face and thought she would drop out.
To my astonishment and admiration, she soldiered on, even without any hope of grabbing a medal. I was greatly touched.
Then there was Lee Bae-young, the Korean weightlifter and a gold medal hope. He injured his right foot as he attempted to lift 183 kg. But he limped onto the stage and tried again. Again he failed. Again he returned and tried once more.
Even though Lee failed, his courage to challenge the impossible outweighed that of winning a medal. His performance well interpreted Pierre de Coubertin's Olympic ideal.
Also touching was the story of Oksana Chusovitina, representing Germany. She was really outstanding among the women gymnasts and yet old enough to be the mother of some of her competitors.
At first I felt it strange for a 33-year-old to compete with teenagers. But Chusovitina's performances were so convincing, and her determination so resolute, she soon won me over.
Then I learned that she was competing to earn money to pay for the medical treatment of her 9-year-old son diagnosed with leukemia. This selfless mother's love gave this woman unusual courage and strength to fulfill a "mission impossible". She won silver in the women's vault.
I am sure when spectators at the National Gymnasium saluted her with a thundering ovation, Chusovitina had won something beyond an Olympic silver. She won our heart-felt respect.
Equally impressive was the always smiling Shawn Johnson, a gymnast from the United States. I could sense the frustration of the 16-year-old as she kept losing by a slim margin to her Chinese opponents and teammate Nastia Liukin. Nevertheless, she wore that disarming smile all the time, for the spectators, her opponents, her coaches, and herself.
When she finally got a gold in the balance beam, observed Yahoo sports columnist Dan Wetzei, "the mostly Chinese crowd roared like one of their own had prevailed". I could not agree with him more. That girl was a ray of sunshine at this quadrennial sports festival.
Many athletes never entered the limelight, yet they made no less remarkable contributions to the Olympic legacy.
I will not forget Dana Hussein, the women's 100m sprinter from Iraq who failed to qualify after her first run. I view her as a winner no less, as she had come in defiance of death threats.
My respect also goes to Asenate Manoa, another 16-year-old, from Tuvalu. I learned that she had never seen a starting block until she went for training to another country in preparation for the Beijing Games.
Like Dana Hussein, Manoa failed to qualify in the women's 100m sprint at 14.05 seconds. But she set a national record. And she managed to draw many of us to her Pacific island country.
These athletes showed us that in the Olympic Games, you do not necessarily have to win honor for your country only with medals. Two sharpshooters added grace to the Olympic spirit with their actions.
When Russia and Georgia got into a bloody conflict shortly after the Games opened, two of their competitors shared the medal platform in the women's 10m air pistol. Hardly was the medal awarding ceremony over, when silver medalist Natalia Paderina of Russia embraced the bronze winner, Georgia's Nino Salukvadze.
No message could be stronger than this emotional hug to tell the world that in the Olympic spirit, sport is beyond politics, and even though fiercely competitive, peace reigns.
These were the scenes that made the Beijing Games - the most watched in its 112-year Olympic history - beautiful and memorable. They represented the honorable Olympic spirit.
The author served as a chief editor of Official News Service with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games
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October is national physical therapy month and to celebrate, First Choice Physical Therapy held a fall prevention and balance screening event on Thursday at Edgewood Vista. From 1 to 3 p.m., residents could have their blood pressure taken and try a couple of tests to see how their balance rated.
Katie Glessing-Laskowski and Krista Becker, physical therapists at First Choice Physical Therapy, decided to hold an event like this to celebrate national physical therapy month. They also wanted to tell people about physical therapy and what physical therapists can do for people.
Becker said they try to do a different activity each year for physical therapy month and did a similar fall prevention and balance screening event about three years ago at their clinic at Arrowhead Mall. There will be another fall prevention and balance screening, similar to the one held at Edgewood Vista, only it will be at The View on Oct. 30. In the spring, First Choice Physical Therapy will hold another event, Becker said, and will probably focus on ergonomics.
A small group of residents enjoy each other’s company as they wait their turn at taking one of the balance tests Thursday afternoon at Edgewood Vista during the fall prevention and balance screening event.
To screen for balance, Glessing-Laskowski and Becker set up two stations in the wellness center at Edgewood Vista, along with a station for people to have their blood pressure taken. At one station, the person would walk at a normal pace from a chair to a strip of tape on the floor and back to the chair, then Becker would time the person and assess their risk factor for falling based on a chart of national averages for their age. The other station involved the person standing up and sitting down as many times as they could in a minute and then Becker would again match the number of times with the person's age and time on the chart.
If a person's balance is off, it could mean a variety of things. The person's medication could be a culprit, said Glessing-Laskowski, or the person's vision or level of fatigue because the person is not lifting their feet high enough off the ground when walking.
Some ways in which people can prevent falls include wearing your glasses and seeing an opthalmologist once a year, being careful of pets or young children scurrying under your feet, removing clutter, wearing shoes with non-skid soles, and getting out of bed and standing up slowly to avoid dizziness. Other ways to prevent falls consist of carrying a portable phone to avoid running to answer the phone, pacing yourself because fatigue can affect balance, seeing a physician if you feel weak or unsteady, and beginning an exercise program.
There are ways in which a person can improve his or her balance, though, such as through walking or strengthening the lower extremities.
"As we age, we lose flexibility and don't stay as active," Becker said. "A lot of times people become less active after they retire and become lackadaisical."
Unfortunately, there aren't many, if any, techniques people can use if they're falling.
"When people age, the receptors in the ankles, knees and hips don't work, so when they fall, they just fall," Becker explained. If she is walking with the person and the person starts to fall, Becker said she can hold on to the person to keep him or her from falling as hard or at all.
A misconception about falling that people may have, Glessing-Laskowski said, is that they think there's nothing they can do but accept they're getting older and will fall.
"Just because you're getting older, doesn't mean there's nothing you can do to prevent (falling)," she said.
Motivation is a big challenge that people face when recovering from a fall, Becker noted, and another is that they're scared they'll fall again.
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A desert sandstorm crashed Gus and Jennifer Luna’s storybook garden wedding, forcing the officiating judge to cut short the vows, pronounce them man and wife and send everybody indoors to the reception.
The wedding party had gathered under a decorative arch in Florence, Ariz. and were just starting their planned ceremony — which included a “sand ceremony” in which each poured a vial of sand into a bowl, signifying their becoming one.
Suddenly, the wind picked up, the bride’s veil whipped the judge’s face and visibility dropped to zero.
“I looked up and I saw this big wall of dust coming,” Gus told Phoenix ABC15 TV.
Around Phoenix, such a sandstorm is known as a “haboob,” a term used in the Sudan, Africa, for fierce dust storms that blow in from the Sahara. They are usually created by the collapse of a thunderstorm. Winds begin to whip in a direction opposite to the storm’s travel, creating a wall of dust or sand — and they often approach with little to no warning.
Although the ceremony was cut short and many guests had already fled inside, the judge told the groom he could kiss the bridge. He did, but admits “I was thinking ‘Let’s get it over with. We’re eating a mouthful of dirt,” Gus recalls.
The bride has taken it all in stride.
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In order to maintain fairness and equity across our institutional grants and scholarships, all opportunities on this page are available to both international and domestic students. Unless noted, institutional scholarships and grants are available to incoming students.
$7,000-$27,950 annually │ Renewable for 8 semesters
In an effort to promote greater diversity and access to higher education, all admitted students to the BA in Liberal Arts program whose annual earned family income is $60,000 or less, and who have neither graduated from college nor completed more than 3/4 of their required coursework towards their first undergraduate degree (e.g., BA/BS) at the time of application to SUA, will receive free tuition (room and board fees will still apply). Soka also provides prorated awards for students who come from families with higher income levels.
Students who receive any combination of Pell, SEOG, Cal Grant A and Soka Opportunity Scholarship funds will see a reduction in the actual Soka Opportunity Scholarship award by the amount(s) awarded through Pell, SEOG and Cal Grant A. SUA's policy is to apply these funds, towards tuition charges before awarding the Soka Opportunity Scholarship. The end result is that the tuition will be fully covered by the combination of these funds.
Eligibility for the SOS is determined by your financial aid application. Domestic students should complete the FAFSA and international students should complete the International Financial Aid Application.
Full Ride ($42,076 - $43,076) annually │ Renewable up to 8 semesters
SUA offers a select number of full ride scholarships to the top students of each entering class. The scholarship covers the entire “Cost of Attendance” which includes not only the direct costs to the university such as tuition, room and board, but also the indirect costs like travel, personal expenses, books and supplies.
Eligibility is determined by taking into consideration materials submitted in the admissions application. All admitted students are given equal and automatic consideration for this award.
$3,000-$20,000 annually│ Renewable up to 8 semesters
Students who have demonstrated exceptional academic achievements are awarded Merit Scholarships upon entrance to Soka University.
Eligibility is determined by taking into consideration materials submitted in the admissions application.
Full Ride (At least $43,076) annually │ Renewable up to 8 semesters
Each year an SUA Makiguchi Scholarship for Global Citizens award will be given to one international applicant, who has graduated from high school in an African nation, is outstanding both in character and academic standing, and who has difficulty studying at SUA due to financial reasons.
Eligibility for this award is determined by information submitted on the admissions and financial aid applications.
$1,000-$25,000 annually │ Renewable at the discretion of the Director of Athletics
Gifted student athletes participating in one of the below sports may be offered an athletic scholarship to draw on in conjunction with other institutional, state or federal aid.
Awards are offered and renewed at the discretion of the Director of Athletics and the Directors of each sport. Students wishing to enquire about an athletic scholarship should contact the director of the sport he/she is interested in.
$1,000-$4,000 annually │ Dependent on application and job availability
While SUA does participate in the Federal Work Study Program which is outlined in the “Federal Aid” section, the university also makes jobs available to students who are not eligible for the Federal program. All student employment jobs are open to all students.
Eligibility is determined by application for the specific job posting and usually requires a résumé and interview.
A growing number of merit based scholarships are reserved for students already enrolled at SUA and exist to inspire talented freshmen, sophomores, and juniors to continue to push themselves in their academic and personal endeavors.
Full Ride ($42,076 - $43,076) │ Single year
The Ikeda Scholarship is the most prestigious scholarship program at Soka University of America. This scholarship provides students with all expenses paid, including tuition, room and board, books, and incidental expenses for the academic year. Ikeda Scholarships are awarded annually in May to one student going into the Sophomore class, the Junior class and the Senior class for a total of three scholarships per year.
Eligibility is determined on merit alone, primarily academic accomplishment with experiences in leadership and service also taken into account. SUA’s Dean of Faculty and Dean of Students act as the selection committee, making final recommendations to the University President who announces the recipients in the Spring of each academic year.
$10,000 │ Single year
Each year the Scholarship Committee selects the top five academic students from SUA's freshman, sophomore, and junior classes to receive merit scholarships for the following academic year. Although the Soka Academic Merit Awards are given only for a single year, awardees can be selected again in subsequent years. In cases where recipients are already receiving financial aid, the Soka Academic Merit Awards will be used to reduce the amount of the student loan within their financial aid for that year.
Selection is based on outstanding academic performance for that year and not on cumulative performance. A selection committee is formed each year making final recommendations to the University President who announces the recipients of the Academic Merit scholarships in the fall of each academic year.
Soka also administrates other opportunities available to current and graduating students. These awards are employed for extended learning opportunities.
$10,000 │ One-time award for use at a graduate school, 15 awards available each year
Any graduating senior who has been accepted for graduate studies next academic year may apply for this $10,000 Merit Scholarship. The scholarship must be used toward the first year of graduate studies. Applicants who have been accepted to graduate school and have demonstrated a high level of academic performance and strong commitment to the university as demonstrated through participation in student clubs and organizations will be considered for the scholarship.
$2,000 - $4,000 │ One-time award
The Summer Internship Grant has been set up to encourage students planning to pursue a career immediately after SUA to jump start their career preparation by obtaining concrete work experience in their field of interest by undertaking a summer internship.
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SOURCE: Kids Activities Blog
Easy to make homemade birthday card ideas is the latest topic that has Moms blog in numbers on Kids Activities Blog. How sweet is it to receive a homemade card made by children themselves? Various ideas are featured on Kids Activities Blog such as making cards using cupcake wrappers or making homemade birthday cards using crumple, accordeon or collage art.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) October 05, 2012
Homemade birthday card ideas are still a hot topic on Kids Activities Blog. In the age of electronic cards, it is still sweet to receive a home made card made by the children themselves, according to Moms blogging on Kids Activities Blog.
Easy to make birthday card ideas include cute cupcake designs. Supplies needed for this fun cupcake inspired card are cupcake wrappers, mini pom poms, tissue paper, glue and a blank card. Simply glue the cupcake according to the instructions, fold the tissue paper to resemble icing on the cupcake, glue on some pom poms and finished is the homemade birthday card made by kids themselves.
Easy to make home made cards for every occasion is another hot topic on Kids Activities Blog. One Moms idea to use crumple art as the main decoration feature has Moms blog in numbers. Crumple art is a hot topic, since every age child can participate in making the card. The more crumples the prettier.
The crumple art technique is fun, easy, and includes everyone. A crumple technique home made card is a great way to do collaborative art with children of different ages, because even when the art styles and abilities are totally different, crumpling will give the kids a unified artistic feel.
Kids Activities Blog features a laundry list of different home made card techniques approved by Moms and children. These easy to make home made birthday cards and home made cards for every occasion are still among one of hot topics among blogging Moms. Kids Activities Blog features the latest what Moms have to say about making a homemade birthday card.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Applying for Aid
- How is financial aid eligibility determined?
- Is the information that I provide in my financial aid application kept private?
- Does CSB/SJU offer a discount for more than one child enrolled at their school?
- Do I need to complete the FAFSA online?
- When will I receive my financial aid award for next year?
- How do I report special circumstances that might influence my family's ability to pay for my educational expenses?
- How is financial aid applied to my student account?
- How will outside scholarships affect my financial aid?
- Can my academic scholarships be increased if my grades improve?
- Does CSB/SJU offer athletic scholarships?
- Can I receive a MN Grant if I graduated from a MN high school, but now my parents and I are residents of another state?
- How will dropping a class affect my Minnesota Grant?
- How will my financial aid be affected if I study abroad?
- What if I study abroad through a different college?
- I am going to transfer next semester, how will this affect my financial aid?
- I'll be graduating in December, how will this affect my financial aid?
- I'll be a fifth year student next year, how will this affect my financial aid?
The FAFSA formula generates a number called the Expected Family Contribution (EFC), which is comprised of a Parent Contribution and a Student Contribution. This is the amount, based on the federal formula, which your family is expected to pay towards college costs. Each student’s financial need is determined by subtracting the EFC from the cost of education at CSB/SJU. While CSB/SJU do not guarantee to meet 100% of every student's financial need, CSB/SJU wll do their best to provide financial aid to eligible applicants through a combination of federal and state grants, insitutional grants, student employment and loans.
There are optional unsubsidized loan programs, which are available to help fund the EFC.
The College of St. Benedict and Saint John’s University comply with federal and state privacy laws and regulations. The data in your file may be released to your parents (if you are considered a dependent by financial aid guidelines), financial aid donors, lenders, and the colleges’ offices needing the information for awarding or advising. No one else, however, may review your file without your written consent or a subpoena or court order.
No. CSB/SJU do not have any targeted grant or scholarship for mulitiple siblings enrolled at the same time. However, the federal formula automatically takes this into consideration and students with more that one family member enrolled in college often receive mor financial assistance.
Yes. You can access the FAFSA online at: www.fafsa.ed.gov.
Returning students are encouraged to complete the CSB/SJU Institutional Aid Application and the FAFSA immediately after filing their federal tax returns. The priority deadline for completing these forms is May 15th of each year. Starting in early June, financial aid awards are mailed to students with a complete financial aid application.
How do I report special circumstances that might influence my family's ability to pay for my educational expenses?
Students with special circumstances should contact the Financial Aid Office.
If all requirements are complete, institutional scholarships, grants, and Federal Perkins Loan funds will automatically be applied to your account at the rate of 50% for fall semester and 50% for spring semester prior to the first billing for each term.
Assuming that you have completed the appropriate forms for the Federal Stafford Loan, Federal PLUS Loan, and alternative loans, the funds are usually electronically wired to your student account prior to the start of each semester.
Student employment earnings will be applied to your off-campus bank account as they are earned each month. If you want all or a portion of your student employment earnings applied to your student account, you must complete a payroll deduction form.
As required by federal regulations, the award from the college may be reduced to reflect addional resources such as outside scholarships. Grants or scholarships from the college will not be reduced unless the total of all awards exceeds the cost of attendance. Instead the student's loans and/or student employment award may need to be adjusted.
The dollar amount of academic scholarships is determined by a competitive ranking within the first year applicant pool at the time the student applies for admission to CSB/SJU. These scholarships are four year renewable scholarships and cannot be adjusted.
Since CSB and SJU are Division III schools, NCAA regulations prohibit athletic scholarships.
Can I receive a MN Grant if I graduated from a MN high school, but now my parents and I are residents of another state?
Yes, you meet the eligibility criteria for a MN Grant because you graduated from a MN High School.
MN Grant recipients must carry 15 credits per term to receive the maximum grant. Funding at 12, 13, or 14 credits is prorated. Call the Financial Aid Office to check your funding if you plan to enroll for less than 15 credits.
All job openings are listed on the CSB/SJU Student Employment Jobs Website.
Only eligible students are authorized to look for work at certain times during the year. A username and password may be required to access the website.
All students are eligible to be placed on the waiting list. Contact the Financial AId Office to have your name placed on the waiting list. You will be notified when you are authorized to look for employment on campus.
Work awards are included in your financial aid package. It sometimes is necessary to reduce Federal subsidized loans to make room for a work award. Please contact the student employment administrator on your campus to find out specifically how the addition of a work award will affect your financial aid.
The Financial Aid Office will be notified by the Office of Education Abroad if you plan to study abroad. Students participating on CSB/SJU semester study abroad programs are eligible to keep the same financial aid (grants, scholarships, loans) as they would receive during a semester on-campus. Students attending CSB/SJU study-abroad programs pay the same tuition, room and board that they would if they stayed on campus. Some study abroad programs may have an additional fee depending on the cost of the program. The Office of Education Abroad has information on which programs have the additional fee. Loans are available to assist sudents in paying for the additional expenses (airfare, personal expenses, etc.) to study abroad. Some scholarships are available through outside sources and are listed on the Office of Education Abroad website.
Students who plan to study abroad through a short-term program (May for example) should check with the Financial Aid Office about available financing options. Scholarships are not available from CSB/SJU for short-term programs and in general, students must be taking at least 6 credits to qualify for loans.
Charges for study abroad programs not affiliated with CSB/SJU will vary. Students may contact that study abroad organization to determine the costs for tuition, fees, room, board and other expenses for external programs. In some cases, students participating in a program offered through another educational institution may be eligible to keep federal or state grants through an arrangement called a consortium agreement.
To begin this process, students must complete the External/Consortium Study Abroad Application.
CSB/SJU grants and scholarships may not be used for external study abroad programs.
Students transferring after fall semester, will not receive any of the financial aid scheduled for spring semester. In addition, all student loans will be returned to the lender. Students will need to re-apply for financial aid through the school they will be attending. Contact the transfer school's Financial Aid Office for details and assistance in applying for aid.
If you are transferring at the end of the school year, your CSB/SJU financial aid for the current award year will not be affected.
If you borrowed a Federal Stafford Loan, or a Federal Perkins Loan, you will need to complete a loan deferment form, to insure that your loans will not go into repayment. Contact the Fiancnail Aid Office for instructions on completing a deferment form.
If you haven't already notified the Financial Aid Office, you need to do so. Your financial aid budget and award will be adjusted accordingly.
I'll be a fifth year student next year, how will this affect my financial aid?
Fifth year students are not eligible for college grants and scholarships. However, the Federal Pell Grant may extend into the 5th year, depending on the results of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Student loans and student employment are also available for fifth year students.
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The federal pay debate: To be continued
- By Camille Tuutti
- Jul 05, 2012
The discussion about federal pay never seems to end, with people arguing that feds are either underpaid or overcompensated. But couldn’t the debate be settled once and for all by looking at actual salary data?
It’s not as simple as it seems. Speakers at an event sponsored by the Coalition for Effective Change in June highlighted how the seemingly easy task of determining whether feds are paid more, less or the same as their industry counterparts is fraught with challenges because of the different methodologies used.
Rex Facer, a member of the Federal Salary Council and an associate professor at Brigham Young University, said the council’s research and data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that feds are undercompensated on average between 30 percent and 40 percent. However, Joseph Kile, assistant director of the Microeconomic Studies Division at the Congressional Budget Office, disagreed, saying CBO estimates indicate that feds, in general, make roughly 2 percent more than private-sector employees.
The disparities sparked a discussion among FCW readers who commented on the story and on a follow-up post on the “Management Watch” blog. The majority said feds are underpaid and stressed how even decades of experience do little to bump up salaries.
“Federal employees never have and never will make as much as the private sector — that’s just the nature of the beast,” reader David said. “We have always been 15 to 25 percent behind on all of the wage surveys I have read for the localities I have worked in over the years. Unfortunately, that gap has increased even further due to the [pay] freeze.”
A reader posting under the name Spacedude said that even with years of know-how, he was still earning less than his private-sector colleagues. “I am near the upper end of the government pay scale, and after several decades of being a federal employee, I can truthfully say my counterparts in industry earn more,” he said.
Reader Carol echoed those sentiments, saying that despite her three decades as a fed, she made far less money than her industry peers. “I am a GS-11 in the IT field and earn at least $20,000 less a year than my counterpart on the outside with the same certification,” she wrote.
Another reader who has worked in both sectors shared how a transition from industry to government resulted in a significant salary decrease. “I worked in an IT job in St. Louis as a team leader,” Atlanta wrote. “I moved to a GS-13 office chief. Other than increasing my supervisory responsibilities, the work was very similar. I took a $14,000-a-year pay cut. I made the move after [the 2001 terrorist attacks], and I wanted to help my country.”
But lower government salaries often come with attractive benefit packages that are unheard of in the private sector. Agnes, whose industry career spanned 15 years, recently joined the government and noted that the public sector “has good benefits long term, good vacation time if accumulated.”
Reader Paul acknowledged the great benefits he has as a fed but said his move to the public sector came at a price that went beyond a pay cut. “With all the added benefits, I figure I came out slightly ahead but realized later that I also gave up much chance for career progression,” he wrote. “Now that I'm a fed, I'm trapped in one job, in one area, and have no flexibility and no promotion options. I'm having to look at getting a third degree just to hope I can see some movement.”
Ultimately, people choose to work where they can receive maximum compensation, and money doesn’t always come out on top, reader John said. “Obviously, the federal government offers them a better total package than they think they can get in the private sector,” he wrote. “Compensation includes pay, health care benefits, holidays and vacation, sick leave, retirement plans, and a stable work environment — not just a salary.” | <urn:uuid:6a908d95-4721-4c5e-81a8-8ecfa644b91e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fcw.com/articles/2012/07/15/buzz-federal-pay-debate.aspx?admgarea=TC_MGMTWORKFCE | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978887 | 873 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
That's the preference of FOXNews.com readers who answered a poll that posed a simple question: Should the Obamas adopt a Labradoodle or Portuguese water dog to be the next "first pet"?
Of the 1,878 respondents who voted, 59 percent recommended the Obamas fetch a Labradoodle, while 41 percent said they preferred the underdog.
President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that the presidential pooch will be one of the two breeds, because both are non-shedding dogs -- a trait that is important because his 10-year-old daughter, Malia, is allergic.
"We're closing in on it," Obama said on ABC's "This Week," adding, "This has been tougher than finding a commerce secretary."http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/13/fox-poll-labradoodle-favored-portuguese-water-dog-pet/
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Cocoa, a 4-month-old black pit bull puppy, was purchased from a pet store a few weeks before Christmas by what was to be her new family.
A month later, she was in a cage at a Virginia Beach shelter with a broken leg, waiting to be taken to another new home. Too much rough play with the family's two other dogs, the shelter staff was told. Cocoa just wasn't going to work out.
It's that time of year again. After Easter, animal shelters see an influx of chicks and bunnies. In the weeks after Christmas, shelters across the nation brace for a slew of animals like Cocoa: cute puppies and kittens picked up for the holiday season. Continued
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
If the recent pet food scare makes you want to fire up the stove and fix your own dog and cat cuisine, hear this: "Dogs have nutrient requirements that not all homemade diets are going to meet," says Andy Sokol, a veterinarian at Caldwell Mill Animal Clinic. "Once in a while, cooking for them is not going to cause a problem. But I do not recommend a homemade diet for the life of a dog or cat."
Taurine is a particularly critical component of a cat's diet, Sokol says, so whatever you do, don't leave that out of a recipe. "Without taurine, a cat could develop a heart condition and die within a year." He also recommends two vitamins a day for dogs who get homemade meals.
If you still want to treat your pet, check out these recipes from Liz Palika, author of "The Ultimate Dog Treat Cookbook: Homemade Goodies for Man's Best Friend" (Wiley, $14.99) and "The Ultimate Cat Treat Cookbook: Homemade Goodies for Finicky Felines (Wiley, $14.99):Click here for more news on this story | <urn:uuid:8a8a3b1c-c865-40df-b42b-37d56ef7f7ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.veterinarianclinic.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953776 | 608 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Here is Gregory Corso, poet, free spirit and notorious moocher, writing from New York in 1959 to Willis Barnstone: "I want to get out of this Woody Woodpecker cartoon; can your Wesleyan give me 200 dollars? Do I sound like I won't read but for loot? No. It's just that I want to get away, and I'll probably get the money from somebody; under the threat of madness etc., etc."
To us, later voyeurs, this is interesting: firstly, "200 dollars" was a lot for a poetry reading in 1959; secondly, Corso feels (or feigns feeling) bad about asking for money (shades of erroneous romantic hangover that "poetry should be free"); and thirdly, the money is not for anything frivolous like, let's say, drugs or food, but for the purpose of getting out of New ("Woody Woodpecker") York, a place that no longer suits the poet. The unquestioned assumption here is that the poet must move in search of new inspiration as soon as it dries out.
In 1962, from Paris, Corso writes to Judith Schmidt: "Two things, first the check you said you sent to American Express Paris never arrived. Maybe American Express doing me in after that book I wrote?" We find here the unquestioned assumption evolved into full-blown paranoia, though still tinged with a tiny streak of humor. The poet is no longer being faux-delicate about his needs; he now blames the vast conspiracy of rich philistines, the duplicity and jealousy of colleagues and friends, and the occult power of poetry, all of them embodied in the American Express office.
Outside of money, Corso's letters, like those of other poets, are about The Work, its creation and its disposition. To Allen Ginsberg in 1958, from Paris: "I finished BOMB poem -- had much difficulty, pain, thought, for ending. Could have ended it with light or profundity, or humor, or bitterness. I choose the latter because deep in me it's the way I feel -- someday perhaps the light, but as for now -- no." Immediately followed by, "George Whitman will print it up in his new job as publisher, mine will be the first (scroll) yours the second." Note all the italicized words: they cover the Work inside-out, from conception to publication. And he slyly manages to claim first place in a group mythology that has Ginsberg second (my italic).
In the lives of poets, money goes from "I need it because I'm great," to "You owe it to me because I'm great." Work also follows a well-established trajectory from the context-defining ruminations of youth (establishing poetic family; solidifying poet gang; laying poetic foundation to the art of Love, Liberty, and the Pursuit of the Absolute) to the embittered (or ecstatic) consideration of immediate surrounding (the only life there is) and the defense of choices made for deeply disturbing reasons.
This spring, New Directions will publish An Accidental Biography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso, edited and with an introduction by Bill Morgan, preface by Patti Smith. | <urn:uuid:967398e9-bba1-474b-bd64-b56ba7ec0689> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/gregory-corso-poet-letter-writer/Content?oid=1241138 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961173 | 675 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Tropical Storm Celia may become hurricane off Mexico
Tropical Storm Celia formed on Saturday in the Pacific off southern Mexico and could soon become a hurricane as it moves away from the coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Celia, the third named storm of the Pacific hurricane season, was 340 miles south of the tourist resort of Acapulco, the Miami-based hurricane center said.
"Celia could become a hurricane later tonight or Sunday," the center said, warning the storm will cause dangerous surf conditions along the Mexican coast.
With winds up to 65 mph, Celia was moving toward the west at 8 mph and was expected to remain well offshore from Mexico, the center said.
Tropical storm Blas, which on Thursday became the second named storm of the Pacific hurricane season, was 420 miles south of Baja California and was expected to continue to move west, away from the coast.
Tropical storm winds extend out to 65 miles from the storm center.
Map shows storm track over the past 5 days.
Article link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65I2E920100620
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Your word in the Gospel reveals to me thebeauty of the mystery of the Cross. I open myself now to you with a believingheart. Your love for humanity is so present in what you say. You give me hopethat the world can be changed by your message of love. I want to be more likeyou, a lover of the Father, a lover of my brothers and sisters to the point ofgiving my life for them.
Lord, exalt the cross in my mind and my heart, that I might see itas an instrument of love.
1. Jesus’ Identity:
Nicodemus comes toJesus to find out who this miracle worker is. Jesus tells him that he is theSon of Man and God’s Son. He has come down from heaven and will return there.Now that he has identified himself, he has gotten Nicodemus’ attention andmine. His answer to the first question does not satisfy us because it hasbrought up several other questions. How can he claim to be the Son of God whenthere is but one God? If he is truly God’s Son, why has he come down to earth?What does he want or expect from me?
2. A Savior Greater Than Moses:
Moses had,at God’s command, led Israel out of slavery in Egypt. When the people rebelledin the desert, they were punished by fiery serpents that bit them withpoisonous venom. Moses intervened on their behalf, making a bronze image of aserpent, placed on a post; those who looked at it were saved. Jesus saveshumanity from its rebellion, not by a symbol raised on a stick, but bysacrificing himself as he was raised on a cross. He saves me not from temporaldeath, but from eternal death. He is indeed a Savior greater than Moses.
Degree of God’s Love:
How much doesthe Father love me? If we could measure love on a thermometer, God’s infinitelove would send the mercury out the end. His love is boundless. What would hewithhold from me if he has already given his son to save me? My sentiments uponcontemplating the immensity of God’s love for me should be gratitude, praiseand a reciprocating love towards him.
Lord, I am moved when I
discover how muchyou love me.
came down from heaven, becoming the Son of Man
so that I couldknow, love and imitate you. You loved
me to the extreme of
offering yourself upon the cross
to save me from sin and death. I want to love you
in return to thepoint of giving my life for you.
I will contemplate the cross as a symbol of love, making it a symbolthat says something to me whenever I see it. I will try to bear my cross todaywith love.
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This large site (circa 80 acres) is located at Stonehall, north of Shannon Aerospace, and is going to be zoned to facilitate the development of a large scale green/ renewable energy development i.e a Biomass incinerator which will NOT be Carbon neutral.
Policies in the County development plan allow for waste to Energy for the generation of power and this would lead the way for Industries to operate on this site for the purpose of burning waste to Energy. ie incineration process.
There are numerous industrial areas in the Shannon region already available to accomodate this development, with existing services in place (roads, water, power)
The Mid Western Regional Authority is opposed to the zoning of this site.
They believe there are plenty of Brown field sites in the Industrial estate for the re-generation of Industry.
There is already an oversupply of Zoned Land in the Shannon region.
It will split up a community.
An new Industrial Estate will be located between a Primary School and Carrygerry Church. We do not want the Environment eroded further.
It will also cause displacement of Jobs.
John Millane employs people on his organic farm beside this proposed land being zoned.
It will also effect tourism in the area.
Carrygerry Hotel and various B&B's.
Please offer your support and oppose this rezoning .
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Our fall issue features an article on the AAS bicentennial and the current Grolier Club exhibit of AAS treasures, In Pursuit of a Vision.
September 2012 Archives
Our fall issue features an article on the AAS bicentennial and the current Grolier Club exhibit of AAS treasures, In Pursuit of a Vision.
Some catch-up: Huguette Clark was a reclusive New York heiress who inherited a vast fortune from her father, William Andrews Clark, one of the richest (and most disliked) of the Gilded Age industrialists. Clark was a socialite in the 1920s, before disappearing from the public eye after a failed marriage that ended in divorce in 1930. (That divorce, incidentally, also produced the last known photograph of her, seen above). Clark retreated into a grand old apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park. While she eventually purchased the entire 8th floor of that building, along with mansions in Santa Barbara and Connecticut, Clark moved permanently into a hospital about twenty years ago where she took a pseudonym and lived under the care of a private nurse. Clark died at age 104 in March of 2011, leaving behind an estate worth about $500 million.
Clark, who said once that "wealth is a menace to happiness," used a slice of her fortune to amass an impressive doll collection. She began collecting dolls when she was five, focusing in particular on historic French dolls. Clark was born in Paris, spoke French fluently (apparently preferring it to English), and purchased most of her dolls from old French shops such as An Nain Bieu. The dolls were housed in their own suite of rooms in one of her Fifth Avenue apartments. The doll collection is supposedly worth millions today -- but nothing has been mentioned of it since the media blitz after Clark's passing last year. Apparently, the collection passed to her nurse, Hadassha Peri, along with a decent sized chunk of her estate. But what Peri did with the dolls remains a mystery. The New York apartments (which, by the way, were supposedly like walking into a time-warp - check out their amazing floor plans here), have already been sold, so the dolls must have moved into a new home. However, I have seen no mention of them in any auctions over the last year. (Clark's jewelry collection, meanwhile, brought a cool $20 million at Christie's earlier this year). So what has Peri done with them? Does she intend to sell them -- donate them? It sounds like a collection worthy of a museum, so it's a bit of a shame that they're just sitting somewhere out of commission, not being added to, not being sold, not being viewed.
All of this serves as a good reminder to us book collectors: include a provision in your will for your books. Arrange for them to pass to someone interested in them, or have them donated to a library or sold at auction on behalf of your heirs. It's so important to keep collections in the hands of appreciative audiences.
Clark, by the way, apparently owned a number of rare books in her time-warp apartments, although I can only find scant mention of them in the various newspaper articles about her death. It appears that they will be moved to her Santa Barbara mansion, along with her very impressive art collection, as part of a soon-to-be-formed public museum under the direction of the newly created Bellosguardo Foundation. What rare books she owned, however - along with so much else about the heiress - remains a mystery.
Volume one alone (volumes two and three are missing) of Frankenstein, published in 1818, with Shelley's handwriting on a blank page preceding the half-title page, will remain on view at Harrington's until October 3. In an unconventional move, the bookseller is taking bids for the book -- only those in excess of £350,000 (about $567,000) will be entertained.
Only one other copy of a signed Frankenstein first edition seems to have survived the nearly two hundred years since publication---and that is Shelley's own copy, which now resides at the Morgan Library in New York City.
Photo courtesy of Peter Harrington.
NP: What is your role at Peter Harrington?
LM: I started as the general cataloguer in 2009, and my job quickly expanded to include a variety of other responsibilities. I'm particularly interested in using the internet to make rare materials accessible and interesting to those who aren't specialists, which is why I started our blog and Twitter feed. I also love science, and my main goal is to specialise in that direction. I'm in the process of compiling my first catalogue, a selection of important 20th-century science books with a strong focus on a favourite subject-nuclear physics. I've always been interested in the ways that science and medicine are presented to the public, and I think that there's room in the book world for us to improve the ways that science books are catalogued.
NP: How did you get started in rare books?
LM: It really began with my parents. Both of them love books, especially my mom, who started reading to me as soon as I was born. My dad trained as a ceramic artist and was inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement and the Japanese philosophy of making everyday objects both beautiful and functional. So I grew up with not only an appreciation for literature, but for the book as a material object. I always loved the idea of working with rare books but, growing up in a small town, that world seemed so distant that I never considered it a serious career choice. After finishing my undergraduate degree I was living in Atlanta and having trouble finding a fulfilling career. I spent a lot of lazy summer afternoons in my local used and rare book shop, A Cappella, and it dawned on me one day that this was something I could really do. So I made a long-term plan: I read everything I could about book history and rare books, began volunteering at the shop (thanks Frank!), and started a blog so that I could connect with other rare book people. A few years later I entered the book history MA programme at the Institute of English Studies in London. I knew that, in addition to the amazing faculty and all the libraries I would have access to, I would also be in one of the world centres of the book trade, and hoped I might get my foot in the door with an internship or part-time job. As my course wound down I sent out a few CVs and was lucky enough to approach Peter Harrington just as the firm was looking for a full-time cataloguer.
NP: What do you love about the working in the trade?
LM: Having access to so much wonderful material and getting to work on something different every day. I also love writing and doing research, which is a huge component of my job.
NP: Favorite or most interesting book you've handled?
LM: At the moment I have two. The first is our Ars Moriendi block book leaf, which I've written about for the blog. I became fascinated by these during my master's degree because they're a sort of proto-printing technology, but they're rare and I never thought I would run across one outside of a special collections setting. The second is my first major book fair find, a copy of Alexander Fleming's Penicillin: Its Practical Application. It's not a scarce book, and this copy didn't look unusually inviting, but I picked it up because bacteriology is of particular interest to me. And it turned out to contain an uncommon presentation inscription to one of the contributors. A good lesson in rare book buying!
NP: So, this copy of Frankenstein is pretty awesome. Tell us about your thoughts on it:
LM: It is! Mary Shelley and her mother Mary Wollstonecraft have long been feminist heroes of mine, and the relationship between the Shelleys and Byron is fascinating. But the book's sudden appearance is the most exciting part. I've worked with a lot of amazing objects since I joined the firm, but most of them already had an extensive provenance. It's truly rare for an item of this significance to appear out of the blue, and I feel privileged to be present at its reappearance.
[Note: This question was in reference to the copy of Frankenstein inscribed by Mary Shelley to Lord Byron which was recently acquired by Peter Harrington. The book will be on display and viewable to the general public at the shop, 100 Fulham Road in Chelsea, London, from September 26 to October 3].
NP: What do you personally collect?
LM: Unfortunately, I'm more of an accumulator than a collector. I tend to buy objects that interest me personally, but without feeling the urge for comprehensive acquisition in any one field. What catches my eye could be a book one day, then a natural history specimen, bicycle poster, or piece of jewellery the next. That being said, I do have a wonderful collection of antique jelly moulds, all of them gifts from a friend.
NP: Do you want to open your own shop someday?
LM: Probably not. I'm really happy working in a large shop because of the opportunities it provides to learn from colleagues and to work on material that I would probably not see on my own. I'm also not keen on admin and bookkeeping, so consider it a reasonable trade-off not to be my own boss if I don't have to deal with any of that.
NP: Thoughts on the future of the trade?
LM: I feel very positive about it, and think that the e-book revolution will be beneficial to rare books in general. Instead of the massive, low-quality print runs of the last few decades we'll see small runs made to higher standards-books that look better, last longer, and are more collectible. Digital may be more convenient, but people still want the human touch a physical object provides. This is already apparent with other formats such as vinyl and film photography, which are seeing a renewal of interest. At the same time, overall access to literature will increase. There's evidence that people with electronic readers consume more books because of the ease of access, and more book lovers means more collectors. Additionally, greater access to out-of-copyright works from Project Gutenberg and the like will encourage people to explore books they would not have been exposed to in the age of the chain store. It's a very exciting change to live through!
On Saturday, Oct. 6, the Fest continues with a talk by book designer and calligrapher Jerry Kelly, followed by Daniel De Simone, curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of the Library of Congress, who will discuss color printing in early books. The afternoon offers a fine press exhibition and sale, with exhibitors that include the Fine Press Book Association, Ladies of Letterpress, Russell Maret, Midnight Paper Sales (Gaylord Schanilec), Lead Graffiti, and many more (full list is here). On Sunday, you can head back to the fine press exhibition after Carol Grossman gives a talk on George Macy and the Limited Editions Club.
What a line-up! And did we mention that all weekend Oak Knoll holds its own shop sale, offering 20% off everything in the store? The Oak Knoll Fest only comes around once every two years, so if you can make the trip, carpe diem!
Reviewed by Edith Vandervoort
Those of us who are familiar with the Art Institute of Chicago may also know of its outstanding collection of Surrealist works, thanks to its notable exhibitions on the subject. Surrealism under Pressure 1938-1953 (Yale UP, 2012) is the catalogue that accompanied an exhibition of Jindrich Heisler's work at the AIC earlier this year.
Heisler, who began his career as a poet, joined the Czechoslovak Surrealist Movement in 1938, a group comprised of former avant-gardists who influenced and helped him throughout his lifetime. With a fellow member, Toyen (Marie Cerminová) and other visual artists he produced several illustrated poetry books such as The Specters of the Desert (1939) and Only the Kestrels Piss Calmly on the Ten Commandments (1939), the latter originating during the suffocating existence of German occupation in Prague. The groundbreaking 1940 photobook, From the Strongholds of Sleep, innovative because it consists of photographs of text and images, is discussed in detail. Upon the publication of On the Needles of this Day (1941), Heisler, a Jew, goes into forced exile following a summons for deportation in the winter of 1941/42. Until the war's end he lives with Toyen, relatives, and fellow Surrealists, rarely going outdoors. During his years in exile he produces much of the work reproduced in this catalog. It is believed that none of the works created in hiding were ever exhibited in his lifetime. Significantly, and perhaps emphasizing the uncertainty of his existence, they are not dated and the titles were added posthumously by Toyen. After the war, Heisler returned to Prague, but because of the threat of a Communist takeover, relocated with Toyen to Paris in March 1947, where he enjoyed close contact with other Surrealists in preparation for the exhibition Le surréalisme en 1947. There he also founded the Surrealist magazine Néon, considered by Heisler as "an important expression of a theory of friendship and love." The difficulty of separating Surrealism from radical polemics soon became evident and the journal only lasted until March 1949. The artist died of a heart attack on January 3, 1953, a result of the long-term physical and psychological burden of the uncertain fate he had recently survived.
Surrealism under Pressure is comprised of several articles--writings, tributes, and academic articles on his poetry books--which are followed by photographs. Other sections categorize Heisler's artwork according to their subjects or the techniques he used. Many of them are photographs of dioramas using everyday objects or images altered by organic substances, such as fish bladders, and then photographed. It is evident that he was working with limited resources while in hiding. The book also contains a chronology of his work, a selected bibliography, and an index. It is a valuable resource for any scholar or art enthusiast.
--Edith Vandervoort is a freelance writer based in California.
This past August marked the anniversary of the London riots, the anniversary of a terrible time that saw pockets of the city razed, pillaged and plundered for reasons that still have not been adequately identified.
In the South-East district of Peckham, the damage was devastating and iconic: images of a flaming double-decker bus on the local high street became emblems of the destruction the rest of the city had sustained.
The worst in a few brought out the best in the rest of communities all over London: the streets were cleaned, the broken glass and skeletal remains of burned out cars were cleared away early in early the morning after the riots, a massive effort organized almost entirely over Twitter. In Peckham, the boarded-up windows of a looted Poundland (the UK equivalent of a Dollar Store), went a step beyond utility: they became a public archive. Members of the local theatre, the Peckham Shed, started to stick post-it notes on the boards, decorating what they called the 'Why We Love Peckham Wall':
Neighbors and passersby joined in, and soon the covered wall was featured as a zoomable, interactive images on The BBC: "Peckham isHome"; "CHANGE!"; "I feel at home here"; "PECKHAM LIVES", and "I love Peckham".There was so much fear, anger and distress in the area in the aftermath of the rioting that we wanted to do something to remind people that lots of people really care about Peckham; that there are incredibly talented young people here and a vibrant and proud community which wants to come together to try to address the problems here. (Source)
Luckily, the Peckham Shed also had it in mind to preserve the testimonies of locals with more than images - and thus an archive of just about the most ephemeral materials you can think of, Post-It Notes, was born.
Last month in remembrance of the riots the boards containing the post-its were exhibited outside the library in an area known as the Peckham Space. And now, the Peckham Peace Wall has been installed, according to the Creative Review, it is based on 4,000 originals that have been digitally hand-traced and added to tiles for permanent display, designed by the local creative collective Garudio Studiage.
Archives are awfully elastic things: it's great that something like the Peckham Peace Wall, an archive from the ashes, serves all three purposes of serious commemoration, positive reinforcement, and the literal preservation of local color and local involvement. Let's hope to see more like it.
The papyrus, dated to the fourth century, and written entirely in Coptic, contains the line "Jesus said to them, 'My wife...'' The discovery was made by Dr. Karen King of Harvard's Divinity School, an expert on early Coptic literature. King revealed the papyrus fragment at a conference on Coptic studies in Rome this week.
The implications of the passage, if the fragment's authenticity is verified, are, of course, far reaching.
The provenance of the fragment, however, remains mysterious. Dr. King received an e-mail from a private collector in 2010 who asked her to translate it. The collector has declined to publicly reveal his name, nationality, or location. Dr. King offered some limited details about the collector: He collects Greek, Arabic, and Coptic papyri. He purchased this particular fragment in a lot of papyri in 1997 from a German collector. The papyri was accompanied by a letter in German referencing a now deceased German professor who claimed the papyrus fragment to be "the sole example" of a surviving text indicating Jesus had a wife. The collector left the papyrus fragment with Dr. King in 2011 for translation and verification of authenticity.
Thus far, the scholars who have seen the papyrus believe it is unlikely to be a forgery. King, however, is eager for more scholars to weigh in.
The revelation of the papyrus resulted in a fury of news coverage, with major media outlets across the world reporting on it. Old controversies about the historical Jesus and early Christianity shortly followed suit.
You can read more about the papyrus here, in an article from the New York Times.
For the past few years, the ABAA has carried the torch by holding a National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. Competitors from more than thirty colleges and universities enter the contest, and an awards ceremony is held for the winners at the Library of Congress every October. This year's winners were announced recently. First Prize: Jordan Haug, University of California San Diego, "Mormon Fundamentalism & Polygamy"; Second Prize: Jessica Anne Kahan, University of Michigan, "Romance Novels in DJ, 1925-1935″; Third Prize: Andrew Ferguson, University of Virginia, "Bibliography & Puzzle of R.A. Lafferty"; Essay Prize: Kevin Baggot Roberts, Johns Hopkins University, "Cheap Thrills: Sex in American Publishing, 1924-1970.″ Congrats to those young collectors!
Now, the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS) has announced a second venue for young collectors. The group is offering a $1,000 award for an original essay by a writer aged thirty or younger on any aspect of book or manuscript collecting by private collectors or institutions in the U.S. from 1940 to the present. Good news for collectors not currently in college, or enrolled in a college that does not have a formal book-collecting contest of its own.
In order to be considered for the FABS contest, each essay should run 3,000-4,000 words and be based on original source materials and documented by appropriate Chicago Style endnotes and citations. Submissions should be sent to the FABS newsletter editor, Scott Vile, at firstname.lastname@example.org before the deadline of May 1, 2013. The winning essay will be published in the FABS newsletter.
English: Great Seal of the State of Georgia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In a press release issued last Thursday, 13 September, Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced that the state archives would close due to budget cuts. "After November 1st, the public will only be allowed to access the building by appointment; however, the number of appointments could be limited based on the schedule of the remaining employees." As of yesterday, 7 of the 10 staff members were given notice that they would lose their jobs at that time.
The Friends of Georgia's Archives and History are the best resource for updates but also the central HQ for activism & elegance on the subject. Their 'ACTION ALERT' for advocating on behalf of archival access makes a clear case against Kemp's decision. Conveniently, ironically, we can organize the three main points of the Action Alert under Georgia's State Motto:
- WISDOM: Access to records now avoids even more expensive legal fees later. It upsets the due process of law, since easy access to the documents held in the archive are a basic component of land claims, boundary disputes, utility right-of-way, claims against state agencies. On top of that the Secretary of State himself has noted that even limited access to the archives will still cost millions a year to rent.
- JUSTICE: According to State Law (Georgia Records Act, Title 50 Chapter 18 Article 4 section 70(b), whew) it is a legal right for individuals to have access to public records. Restricting hours to appointment only is completely "contrary to the practice of government transparency".
- MODERATION: The Secretary was required to decrease his annual spending by 3%. That 3% is the entirety of the Archives budget rather than a combination of cuts. There are many gruesome ways of visualizing this kind of economics: lopping off limbs rather than trimming the fat is one of them.
There has been an outcry from archivists and librarians from blog to shining blog, and the American Libraries Association has issued a press release condemning the closure:
"The Georgia Archives is a treasure trove of unique documents and official records. As one of the original 13 colonies, Georgia has a rich and colorful history. Events of historic importance continue to occur. The State of Georgia established the Archives to preserve the history of Georgia, and access to that resource is vitally important to the future of Georgia and its citizens."
There is a large spectrum of scholars who suffer from such a drastic action: historians of the South from Professor James C. Cobb of the University of Georgia, to local genealogy researches, historical re-enactment societies, and families interested in their own history. And lest we forget, 21 September is the Civil War Sesquicetennial.
Archives are an important component of civic life, counting forward from the records of Colonial American days which enrich our understanding of the past, to the present need for easy access to legal documents, court rulings, marriage certificates, mortgages and deeds. Between the two, this archive is in constant use.
The outer limits of the need for access to are no less vital. Rachel Maddow recently reported, for instance, on Jeff Thigpen's use of local archives in Greensboro, North Carolina to challenge potentially fraudulent signatures filed by banks and mortgage companies and used to take away homes from families during the housing crisis. Thigpen: "Public recording
offices are part of our democracy in rule of law and the laws that govern them need to be respected". These are exactly the same documents that closing the Georgia archives would place under lock and key. Each document has a role to play in local culture and local administration, and in the extreme case of Greensboro and many other counties across the United States, in preserving local dignity.
Georgia would be the first state to close its archives, but seen in a more threatening light, it would be the first state to set the precedent that it is okay to close the archives, to deny citizens access to historical and legal documents. For this reason a petition at Change.org to the Governor of the state has collected over 13,000 signatures so far, and you can add yours here. You can also contact the Governor by e-mail.
UPDATE (20 September 2012):
The Clayton News Daily has reported that Governor Deal announced Wednesday evening that the archives would remain open for now, without providing further details as to how. The news was a surprise to protestors who had confronted the Governor with a print-out of the 13,000 strong petition against closure, as well as the Secretary of State himself:
Making a promise to keep the archives open is different from actually fulfilling that promise, however. Kemp said the funding issue still has to be addressed. He added the governor did not tell him about his pledge before it was made. Kemp's office oversees the archives operations.
"If he funds it to keep it open, that'd be great," said Kemp.
The secretary explained Deal would have to "tell me we weren't going to have to come up with a $733,000 cut" in order to fulfill the promise to keep the archives' doors open.
Nothing has been guaranteed. Watch this space for more information.
The summer is gone and it's been three months since the
last update on eBay rare book prices. No incunables this time around but some
solid early printing as well as crowd favorites and historically significant
ephemeral Americana. I've changed around the methodology of reporting on eBay
sales for this and future updates. I'm increasingly skeptical of high-value
sales reported in the eBay "buy it now" category (i.e. at a set price with no
bidding). Some of these end up re-listed suggesting that they weren't actually
sold to begin with - so from now on I'll only be reporting on items sold
through competitive bidding. This is by no means to impugn all no-bid sales but simply a matter of reliability and convenience for me. For those interested there were a number of interesting and pricey books sold in this format including a 1568 Vesalius and signed firsts of the hot books of the day - the Hunger Games Trilogy.
1.$8,600: The top slot this time around goes to the ever-collectible 1851 first American edition of Melville's Moby Dick. The American first can command over $30,000 but this copy features significant foxing and some other condition issues. Nonetheless a highly sought-after book and sold after 11 bids on July 3rd by Capstone Collectibles of Boxborough, MA.
2.$8,100: Pittsburgh bookseller Lux & Umbra remains one of the most consistent sellers of high-value books on eBay. This quarter they made the list with a beautiful 1503 Parisian Book of Hours printed on vellum [USTC 26042]. Full of illustrations and with historiated borders throughout, this item drew a lot of attention, selling after 38 bids on July 14.
3. $6,999: Third on the list is an edition of the ever-popular Hypnerotomachia Polyphili. The earliest editions of the lavishly illustrated work can sell in the six-figures. The edition here is Béroalde de Verville's interpretation and reworking of the classic entitled Le tableau des riches inventions printed at Paris in 1600 (illustrated above). Copies of this edition have popped up in the trade a few times in the last decade including on eBay. A copy in not quite as fine condition made $3,450 at auction in 2005 while another brought 15,000 euros in 2007. This copy, offered by the Ottawa dealers Colin Borgal and Peter Jones sold after 30 bids on July 11.
4. $6,500.23: Salvador Dali's lithographed edition of Alice and Wonderland appears again this quarter (copy #2106 appeared at no. 5 last time around and #1653 was sold by the same dealer in the buy it now format in August). Beacon Estate Services of San Diego offered this 1969 Alice (copy #488) which sold after 4 bids on August 13 (it had originally sold for more than $8,000 on Aug. 1st before the buyer defaulted).
5. $6,101: Bibliopathos booksellers of Milan grabbed the top spot in last quarter's listings with a 17th c. edition of Galileo. This quarter they made the list with Vincenzo Coronelli's Epitome cosmografica, o compendiosa introduttione all'astronomia, geografia, & idrografia, (Cologne [Venice], 1693). Full of prints, maps, and astronomical charts this is an attractive book and in fact this exact copy was sold in March at Christie's for £6,875. It's an interesting strategy to turn around an auction purchase this quickly using eBay but it didn't pay off in this instance despite heavy bidding, selling for just over $6,000 after 20 bids on July 1.
Though not formally listed in the Antiquarian Books category on eBay, a remarkable printed form completed in manuscript would have won the top spot. In June 1774 the Boston Committee of Correspondence circulated a printed subscription form to towns throughout the surrounding area in which residents would publicly pledge to boycott all goods and trade from Great Britain in order to protest Parliamentary taxes levied on the colony. Copies of these subscription forms, either completed or blank survive at the American Antiquarian Society, Boston Public Library, and Library of Congress. In June Armory Antiques of Rhode Island offered on eBay a copy of one of these subscription forms (the 49-line version ESTC W4187) signed by the residents of Attleborough, Mass. and dated 13 July 1774 (correcting in Ms. the printed word "June"). This remarkable piece of Americana sold for $11,600 after 21 bids on June 24th. For more on the subscription form and the politics surrounding it see William Hunting Howell, "Entering the Lists: The Politics of Ephemera in Eastern Massachusetts, 1774," Early American Studies 9.1 (2011), 187-217.
NP: When and where did you hear about the lost Cain novel?
CA: Back when I was first working on getting Hard Case Crime off the ground - this was about a decade ago -- I was talking with Max Allan Collins, and he said, "Did you know there is an unpublished James M. Cain novel? You should try to track that down." Well, I hadn't known - and tracking it down turned out to be much harder than anyone expected.
NP: How did you track it down? Tell us about the hunt...
CA: It began with calls and emails to everyone I knew who might have an idea where the manuscript could be. The agents for the Cain estate didn't have a copy, no collector I contacted did, no academics. So I widened the search. Other agents. Other authors. Fans. But they were all dead ends. Then I found myself talking about the search with my Hollywood agent, Joel Gotler, and he said that he'd inherited the files of an old-time agent named H.N. Swanson, who had been Cain's agent back in the day. I asked him to check Swanson's files to see if there was any reference to THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS in them - and there not only was a reference, there was a copy of the manuscript!
But that turned out not to be the end of the search. Cain's papers are kept at the Library of Congress, and in among a batch of unrelated material I turned up several more drafts - some typed, some handwritten and almost indecipherable. In the end, I had more COCKTAIL WAITRESS than I knew what to do with! So the challenge became how to turn the multiple drafts into a single novel.
NP: Tell us about that. How did you decide which parts to include from the different manuscripts?
CA: Well, some of the choices were clear. Cain wrote his first draft in the third person, but all subsequent drafts were in his customary first person, and he'd said in interviews that he preferred the first person for the book -- so clearly we had to go with first person. But other choices were less obvious, ranging from what name to give each character (Cain sometimes went back and forth four or five times) to how the book should end (he wrote several endings and told his editor he was still working on it). In the end, I approached it the same way I would with any living author. My job as editor is to take what the author hands me and turn it into the best book it can be. It's easier when the author's there to answer questions and make choices - but it's not as though I've never worked on posthumous books before. In fact, I seem to have made something of a specialty of it, having published posthumous work by Donald Westlake, Mickey Spillane, David Dodge, Roger Zelazny, and Lester Dent. You do your best to be true to the book the author wrote, while giving readers the most satisfying possible read.
NP: Who did the gorgeous cover art for your edition?
CA: Michael Koelsch, who previously painted our covers for SAY IT WITH BULLETS by Richard Powell, SOMEBODY OWES ME MONEY by Donald Westlake, and BLOOD ON THE MINK by Robert Silverberg. All terrific covers, and his painting for THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS is probably my favorite of the four.
NP: Where do you rank "The Cocktail Waitress" in the Cain oeuvre? And what's your personal opinion of it -- did you like it? Love it?
CA: It's great - as a long-time Cain fan, I still get goosebumps at hearing the master's voice one last time. There are lines in the book, and plot twists, that only Cain could have come up with. Will it knock THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE off its pedestal as one of the very best noir novels ever written? Of course not, just as other great Cain novels didn't - not SERENADE, not JEALOUS WOMAN, not PAST ALL DISHONOR. But I think THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS holds its own very well with those. If you can only read one Cain book in your life, read POSTMAN - but why in the world should you only read one Cain book? Read a batch - they're short, and oh so good.
If this is catalogue #1 from the New York City-based Extant Americana, our eyeglasses might be knocked off by forthcoming catalogues. There is so much visual punch on these pages, beginning with the cover illustration of a signed gelatin silver print of Fort Peck Dam by Margaret Bourke-White ($15,000).
How about a piece of watercolor folk-art depicting a black Union soldier holding some playing cards ($1,250). From the same period, a set of "extremely rare" hand-colored prints by Currier and Ives bound into a salesman's sample book, c. 1863 ($10,000). The prints are Civil War scenes, such as the bombardment of Fort Sumter and combat between the Monitor and the Merrimac. They show some foxing, but the colors are amazing.
The red-tinted tintype of a fireman and his dog is a fascinating piece ($2,250), as is (for all the wrong reasons) a real-photo postcard of the public lynching of John Heath in 1885 ($2,250). The rare German Army recruiting poster titled "Und Du?" by Ludwig Hohlwein is another striking image ($6,000).
Bright Buffalo Bill posters and circus posters, advertising broadsides, Civil War medical photos, and election ephemera are also offered throughout, not to mention important letters, presidential autographs, and cool things like an 1872 Skull & Bones Society gold lapel pin (in a group with a yearbook and additional cartes de visit; $2,750).
Nearing the end of this jam-packed catalogue, you'll find an original ink drawing by New Yorker artist Saul Steinberg that has never before been offered ($30,000) as well as a "women's rights" toy figurine depicting a crude caricature version of Sojourner Truth that is quite incredible to see ($10,000).
But's there more, so much more! You can download the full catalogue here: http://extantamericana.com/
NP: Could you tell us a bit about the Dido Hoare series? (For example, what inspired it? What's the next entry in the series?)
MM: My then husband ran an antiquarian book business in which I was a partner. It seemed to me that there was a lot of promise in that; I wanted to write an amateur series, and the book business allowed me (or Dido, to be precise) to make use of the fact that antiquarian books are a useful area for investigation. Some can be very obscure and very valuable, and of course with strangers wandering into a shop almost anything could happen. I had published quite a few children's books before this, but I'd always enjoyed reading mysteries, so I thought I would go there next. And when I finished the first one, I found I'd enjoyed the writing; and my agent sold it quickly to Hodder, who wanted some more.
NP: What sort of research do you conduct for the Dido Hoare series?
MM: Well, obviously I need to research the books. That's not difficult. I have been known to turn up in bookshops to look around and ask the proprietors a lot of odd questions about the trade. For some reason, I often had the feeling that I made them a bit nervous.... But my husband, and various friends who were also in the business, could always provide information and suggestions. And I like Dido and her father. I've really enjoyed writing the series.
NP: What do you think makes bibliomysteries so appealing to readers?
MM: That's easy: they are readers and so to some extent are interested in the books anyway, and prepared for the problems that come up.
NP: What do you enjoy about writing them?
MM: I simply love writing. I wrote my first published children's book, heavily influenced by Arthur Ransome, when I was still at high school in Montreal, and at university (McGill) there were two English lecturers, the poet Louis Dudek, and Edith M. Scott, who believed in what I was doing and encouraged me to try new things.
NP: Are you personally a book collector? (And if so, what do you collect?)
MM: Er... Well, if you could see the inside of my flat, you wouldn't need to ask. Most of my walls are covered with bookshelves stretching from floor to ceiling and many of them have more than a single row of books. I like to tell myself that they are excellent insulation. I do try not to buy too many new books, if only because I've reached the point where the top of the clavichord is covered with piles of books a foot or two high. I do own a few books which could be described as collectibles, but frankly I buy books to re-read because I love them. A first edition of The Lord of the Rings would be the most valuable thing of all, except that I read it seventeen times when it came out, and that valuable first edition of Volume 3 is barely holding together.
You can find out more about Marianne on her website. Her books can be found in the usual spots.
RRB: Since we last talked in May of this year how has the Grolier Club exhibition progressed?
CL: The Grolier exhibition One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature has been making great strides in the past few months. When you and I talked last, I mentioned that we had completed the selection earlier this year of the "one hundred famous children's books" that will be displayed in the exhibition in 2014. I'm happy to report that this month we have completed the next step in our project, which is the complex job of arranging to borrow these one hundred famous children's books from nearly twenty institutions and private collectors in the US. We're pleased that this has been accomplished successfully.
In the course of completing this borrowing process, my advisory committee and I learned of the outstanding exhibition of books that currently is on show at the Library of Congress. Titled Books that Shaped America, this exhibition presents 88 books written by Americans from 1751 to 2002 that have had a strong influence on our lives in this country. Of the 88 books in the LC exhibition, 11 are children's books. And I'm delighted to say that all 11 of the children's books selected by the LC for their exhibition also have been selected independently by our committee for the "Grolier 100" children's exhibition. I take great encouragement from this strongly shared vision.
RRB: What do you think is the greatest similarity between the two exhibitions?
CL: Both the LC and the Grolier exhibitions have in common the goal of presenting viewers with books that cover a large span of time ~ the LC exhibition covers approximately 250 years of history; the Grolier exhibition covers roughly 350 years. Both exhibitions take the brave step of displaying books from centuries gone by that, while not well known today, were exceptionally well known in their time, and have left remarkable contrails as they have entered and influenced literary culture.
For example, the earliest children's book in the LC exhibition is a wonderful book titled A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible ~ and yes, that "k" at the end of "Hieroglyphick" is correct. This innovative book (shown at left), shown in the American edition of 1788 published by Isaiah Thomas, represented an effective and entertaining way to teach children biblical passages. It accomplished this by utilizing the "hieroglphick" tradition of replacing some words in each sentence with simple pictures. The result was an enjoyable way for children to receive and retain important information. This tradition continues today in the form of the "rebus" book for children.
While I don't generally talk about the books we've selected for the Grolier children's exhibition, I'll bend my own rule here just a bit to provide your readers with a taste of what they can expect from this landmark show. The earliest book in the Grolier exhibition is called Orbis Sensualium Pictus (often referred to simply as Orbis Pictus), which translates roughly as Visible World in Pictures. Written by Johann Comenius in 1658, this innovative work was an one of the earliest illustrated textbooks for young students, and functioned much like a bilingual (Latin and German) encyclopedia to instruct students in Latin, as well as to inform them of basic scientific and social components of the physical world.
Both of these fascinating books were exceptionally influential in their time, and remained in print for several hundred years.
RRB: What is the biggest difference in the two shows?
CL: The LC exhibition bases the selection of its 88 books on the concept of "influence," which is another term that might be used for books that "shape" a culture. In contrast, the Grolier exhibition bases the selection of its 100 books on the concept of "fame." Each of these words requires a detailed description that might best be illustrated by looking at specific books.
The LC exhibition has focused on books whose exceptional "influence" has "shaped Americans' views of their world and the world's views of America." Perhaps one of the best examples of this is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain in 1884 (shown at left). This iconic tale of Huck and Jim's trip down the Mississippi River is a work of the highest caliber in American literature, and so has left its mark as an exceptionally influential work. It also is a book that depicts encounters with racism, violence, and other evils of American society, and at times utilizes profanity and racial slurs. And this is another way in which the book has had an important cultural influence ~ it has engendered controversy which has set it firmly in the minds of the American public since its publication. In either regard, this book has had exceptional impact on American literature, and has shaped the work of important writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and many others over multiple generations.
In contrast, the Grolier exhibition will focus on books of great "fame." We have defined this term to refer to books of both great popularity and of literary merit. One of the best examples of this, and not a surprise to anyone interested to guess at books on the list, is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, written in 1865 by Lewis Carroll [C. L. Dodgson] and illustrated by John Tenniel. Alice is one of the most famous books in the history of children's literature, and perhaps in literature in general. It was an immediate publishing sensation whose popularity has not waned in the nearly 150 years since its publication, during which time the book has never been out of print. It has sold millions of copies in hundreds of editions in over one hundred languages to adoring children and adults alike. But beyond its popularity, Alice has strong literary merit. It offers exceptional intellectual play with logic and mathematics, and is considered one of the finest examples of both the literary nonsense genre and the fantasy genre. Few books have ever achieved this level of fame in the world of children's literature.
RRB: What can you share about the list of books that the Grolier Club exhibition will display?
CL: Oh Rebecca, you've already gotten me to mention several books that will be part of the Grolier children's exhibition. I'm working hard to insure that when this exhibition opens it will offer viewers great intellectual interest, much joy of heart, and SURPRISE. If I say any more about books on the list, that sense of surprise will be diminished. What I will say is that, like the LC exhibition, the Grolier Club's One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature is likely to engender great discussion, and possibly controversy, about which books "made the list" as well as which books did not. And rather than looking at this as cause for concern, I welcome it as a great opportunity for compelling conversation, and for lauding the great depth and breath of literature for children.
The Grolier Club exhibition is scheduled to open in December of 2014. We'll be following along till then, checking back in with Chris every now and again to watch this major exhibition and catalogue take shape.
A new "bookshop" in Japan attempts just that. "Ika Bunko" specializes in bookish events, information, and products. It recently took part in a book fair. It has a store manager and two employees. All it's missing are the books themselves.
The store's "manager", Yuki Kasukawa, explained in an interview with The Ashia Shimbun, that Ika Bunko is like an "air bookshop." It exists without being seen.
Kasukawa and two friends decided they wanted to open a bookshop, but they did not have the money to actually, you know, open a bookshop. Over drinks one night they came up with a better idea: why not open a virtual bookshop instead? The start-up cost: zero.
And so Ika Bunko, which translates to "Squid Books," began operation. They distribute a free weekly bookish newsletter and sell shirts and tote bags with the store's logo printed on them. The even set up a promotional display recently at Books Ruhe, an real, live, breathing bookshop in Tokyo.
Perhaps one day Ika Bunko will graduate to actually selling books. But in the meantime, they are content with their ephemeral existence. Daisuke Nakajima, one of the store's part-time "employees," said in the same interview, "We would be happier if we can keep on going, wandering aimlessly, like squids floating in the water."
Is this afterlife the future of books? Can a bookshop exist on a purely spiritual plane?
If so, there are a few historical bookshops I'd like to see re-opened.
The 33-page press release issued by ILAB presents a selection of highlights in books, manuscripts, autographs, prints, posters, and photographs from 64 dealers from all over the world. Seen here are but a few fine examples.
Daniel Crouch Rare Books will show this full color first edition Nuremberg Chronicle (Koberger, June 1493) formerly owned by Christoph Sigmund von Kirschberg, Baron of Lower Austria. The exquisite book is bound in seventeenth-century blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled oak boards. (475.000 CHF $500,000 USD)
Sims Reed Rare Books will offer this stunning Georges Crette binding of Balzac's Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu illustrated with thirteen etched plates by Picasso. It is one of 65 copies. (87.750 CHF $92,000 USD)
Dutch Natural history specialists Antiquariaat Junk has this very fine copy of Illustrations of the American Ornithology of Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucien Bonaparte, "one of the scarcest colour-plate books on American ornithology." Formerly in the library of Frederick Ducane Godman. (144.000 CHF $152,000 USD)
During the fair, the Zurich Central Library will exhibit Treasures from five centuries of printing in Zurich, and the Gutenberg Guild will demonstrate early printing techniques. The fair runs from Sept. 27-30, following the ILAB Congress on Sept. 22-26. For more information, or to download a book fair catalogue, go to: http://www.ilab.org/eng/ilab/ILAB_Congress_2012_Switzerland/24th_ILAB_Fair.html
What I particularly liked is that is a terrific introduction to the terminology and processes that can seem complicated to those who were raised in a primarily digital design environment. Know the difference between a personal monogram and a cipher? Or, what the size of a calling card signifies? Or, how to tell the difference between wood engraving and steel engraving? You will. Collins' book is abundantly illustrated and her timeline of engraving, from Gutenberg (who dabbled in copperplate engraving) to today's specialty engravers is clear and useful.
The Complete Engraver is both a history and a how-to. This is one for the home library reference shelf.
To read an interview with the author over on the Crane & Co. blog, go here.
To enter into the contest, participants are asked to submit a 1,500 to 2,000 word essay on their collection. Jang's intelligent and well-written essay is posted in its entirety on Abebooks, who sponsors the contest. If you have a few minutes, take the time to read his essay - it's well worth it and will encourage any optimism you have about the future of the book trade.
Jang began collecting Aesop's Fables at the age of eight, after a fortuitous Christmas gift from his parents of Russell Ash and Bernard Higton's illustrated edition. A book collector was born that day: "The book's physical aspects enamoured me: The profuse illustration of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse outlined in a blue border on the bright dust jacket, the smoothness of the thick pages as my tiny fingers opened the book and the spine made a cracking sound for the first time, and the irresistible "new book smell" of paper, ink and glue."
Jang, now in his late 20s, initially collected any children's book in English with Aesop in the title before graduating to older editions. Jang also expanded his scope to include writers who popularized fables, such as La Fontaine and John Gay. "Although I am a more knowledgeable collector today than I was at the age of eight, I still retain many of the same characteristics. I love Aesop's Fables just as much, if not more, because they are great stories that continue to stimulate my imagination and make me more aware of myself." Jang continued, "My collection has value beyond its monetary worth; to me, it represents 18 years of personal growth as a collector, and the evolution of my long-held assumptions about what makes a "good book."
Jang also discussed his role as a book collector, "I see my role as that of a preservationist. I refuse to collect e-books and none of my books are ever for sale. In an age wherein digital technology is transforming our lives through social media, the internet and e-readers, the digitization of the book world has rendered books an evanescence of electron flows, limitless and searchable in seconds. Yet, an e-book can never capture the physical embodiment of a book, its smell, look, feel, and flaws - its beauty."
Read the entirety of Jang's essay here, accompanied by photos of selected books form his collection.
In addition to Abebooks, the Canadian book collecting contest is sponsored by the CBC and the National Post, and administered by the W. A. Deacon Literary Foundation, the Bibliographic Society of Canada, and the Alcuin Society.
In addition to Peterson's paintings and photography, the auction features Audubon prints, quite apropos to the subject matter. No bid estimates were published in the auction catalogue. Guernsey's will hold the auction this Saturday, Sept. 8, at The Arader Galleries in New York City.
13 September seems to be the big day for sales this month:
- Christie's New York sells Asian Art Reference Books, from the library of C.T. Loo and others, in 129 lots.
- PBA Galleries offers Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Property of Jane Hohfield Galante and others, in 138 lots. The highlight is expected to be a copy of the Second Folio, estimated at $200,000-300,000. William Bradford's The Arctic Regions (1873), containing 141 albumen photographs by John Dunmore and George Critcherson, could fetch $140,000-180.000. An untrimmed copy of the first edition of Smith's Wealth of Nations rates estimates of $100,000-150,000, as does a German copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Most interesting for me, though, is Darwin's copy of Bewick's British Birds, which is estimated at $60,000-90,000.
- There will be a Bibliophile Sale at Bloomsbury, in 422 lots.
Here's what's up for the rest of the month:
- There's a huge sale of Children's, Conjuring, Private Press and Modern First Editions at Bloomsbury on 20 September, in 801 lots.
- Dominic Winter Auctions will sell Printed Books and Historical Documents, Important British Atlases & Maps on 19 September, and "A Gentleman's Library" on 20 September.
- Bonhams Oxford sells Printed Books and Maps on 25 September, in 688 lots.
- No preview yet for the 27 September PBA sale of Americana, African-American History, Travel & Exploration, Cartography from the library from Jane Galante.
NP: When did you invent the imaging system and how does it work?
ICM: The first imaging system was needed about 15 years ago when I had to date a French Kabbalistic manuscript. There are three versions of this manuscript by the French Franciscan Jean Thenaud - the Paris one is on vellum and is dated 1521; the Geneva one is on paper and is dated 1536; the Nantes one is undated.
So I made a device at home, based on use of a 1 mm thick electroluminescent light sheet. My home-made device allowed images of watermarks to be captured safely. Later research, guided by John Simmons of Oxford, allowed me to date the Nantes copy to the first quarter of the seventeenth century. This proved that the Nantes one is the youngest. Success!
Later the UK government Department of Trade and Industry granted me a £10,000 SMART award to have my Advanced Paper Imaging System (APIS) made and marketed. In the UK, for instance, it has been used by Leeds University to image a copy of the Koran. In Spain it has been used with a manuscript of the Apocalypse.
Since then the system has been greatly simplified and developed. One development is the use of infrared.
The most simple is the earlyVIEWER which allows watermarks to be found and to be imaged safely with the use of a digital camera or even with a cell phone.
NP: What potential do you see in this technology?
ICM: There are two avenues of potential.
The first is use of the full system as the means of revealing hidden texts. The first success that I enjoyed with this was at the Sir John Soane's Museum of London. They hold many drawings by the famous architect Robert Adam. Some of the drawings had been stuck into albums by the great man himself. This meant that pictures on the lower side could not be seen. Happily use of my backlighting system, when combined with front lit images, duly processed on a computer, soon revealed the previously hidden drawings.
And the addition of infrared opens up further possibilities. IR, for instance, passes through some inks. This can be exploited. It means, for example, that when handwriting obscures printed ink the use of IR (with a suitable camera) just does not 'see' the handwriting.
The second is to empower individuals. earlyVIEWER is designed to take advanced imaging from behind the scenes and to make it available to any owner of a cell phone.
NP: Are you partnered with the Victoria and Albert museum in an official capacity?
ICM: The V&A have bought a number of my specialist imaging devices and they have also called me in on occasions for imaging work.
NP: Could you tell us a bit more about the Dickens project and how you got involved with it:
ICM: The V&A Conservation Department knew from our previous contacts that my imaging system might be able to reveal hidden texts in their holding of Dickens autograph manuscripts. Their hunch proved correct. Success has been reported in the press as far away as India, as can be seen here.
NP: Could you tell us a bit about your SMART grant and what that means for the future of your imaging system?
ICM: In itself the SMART award was a great encouragement. It was also essential for allowing a professionally made version of my concept to be marketed.
Since then digital cameras have become widely available and the latest developments take advantage of this. The current earlybook imaging system and the earlyVIEWER are simpler to use than the APIS. And cheaper.
NP: Any other interesting things to share about the system or the project's future?
ICM: The future is bright but not without frustrations.
Backlighting, especially when combined with front lighting, opens up a totally new dimension for research and discovery. Archivists, librarians and researchers are increasingly aware of this.
Here is a small example. Without doubt the most influential printed book in English is the 1611 Authorized (King James) version of the Bible. Most of it, including such phrases as 'the powers that be', go back to William Tyndale's New Testament. There is some doubt about the place of printing of that 1526 version. (There are only three known copies of it extant). Here is a (very much reduced in size for ease of transmission) image of a watermark from Tyndale's 1526 New Testament, no less.
This Basle crozier supports the likelihood that the book was printed in Worms.
[Image taken by me, with earlyVIEWER, courtesy of Wuerttembergische Landesbibliothek].
Fuller information here
The frustration is that archivists and librarian do not have the imaging facilities to offer. Researchers do not ask for the images / facilities because they know that they are not available.
Thank you so much for giving me this chance to air the situation. It will help make sure that what is on offer becomes available ever more widely.
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Ansible is a radically simple deployment, configuration, and command execution framework. It is dead simple and painless to extend. Extending Ansible does not require programming in any particular language; you can write modules as scripts or programs which return simple JSON. It’s also trivially easy to just execute useful shell commands.
The Apache Traffic Server (TS or ATS) is a modular, high-performance reverse proxy server, generally comparable to Squid. It was created by Inktomi, and distributed as a commercial product called the Inktomi Traffic Server, before Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo!. Traffic Server has been actively used inside of Yahoo for over 4 years, serving billions of requests every day. As of fall 2009, Traffic Server is an Open Source project, and in April 2010 the Apache Traffic Server was promoted to a top-level project of the ASF.
Changing directories in bash can be tedious if you have long names or nested paths. Creating aliases or adding to the CDPATH can help, but can be improved on. Bashcd adds 6 new commands to make changing directories a bit easier. This commands use find, the locate database, the mdfind database, or other contextual information to make it easier to change to other directories.
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ATM Security & Fraud: Tools & Techniques to Mitigate Persistent Losses
ATM Security & Fraud: Tools and Techniques to Mitigate Persistent Losses
Have ATMs become just another way for criminals to access cash?
There are more than 370,000 ATMs in the United States幼reating convenience for bank customers but also generating accessibility for criminals. Although fraud statistics have remained low, criminal activity surrounding ATMs is by no means dormant. In a new report, ATM Security & Fraud: Tools and Techniques to Mitigate Persistent Losses, Celent explores the latest challenges facing the ATM industry with respect to fraud and security. It will also propose solutions and dependable tactics for many of these challenges.
Statistics suggest that banks have been successful in preventing fraud. However, advances in technology are equipping criminals with clever ways to outwit the system and are beginning to offer them the upper hand. Schemes like skimming and Lebanese Loops continue to threaten ATM owners. Criminals are relying more on gadgets, such as micro cameras and palm pilots, for capturing data rather than on con artist stunts designed to fool the cardholder. But more important is the lack of proper authentication at the ATM and the doorway it could potentially open for criminals.
The industry is full of solutions to counter the various threats. Some are modifications that may be made to the exterior of an ATM, while others are software-based monitoring solutions. The price and level of sophistication for these products varies.
"Decisions in purchasing both hardware and services designed to tackle ATM fraud are often challenged by lack of a cost justification," comments Ariana-Michele Moore, author of the report. "The industry has grave difficulty in measuring ATM fraud given the lack of a national classification, the secrecy surrounding such frauds, and the unfortunate fact that one cannot know the true cost of fraud until one is hit with it. Even low-cost solutions, such as customer awareness, challenge banks who fear scaring customers away from the ATM, or worse, into the doors of a competitor," continues Moore.
Aside from revenue generation and cost savings, ATMs are becoming the face of many financial institutions. For many consumers, ATMs are becoming the only interaction they have with their banks. In addition, ATMs are also becoming a competitive mark for many banks. Therefore, it is imperative to ensure that the customer痴 experience with the ATM is safe and secure.
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Singer-Songwriter Joe Glazer, Class of '38, Dies at Age 88
Singer-Songwriter Joe Glazer
The singer-songwriter Joe Glazer, whose booming baritone voice took him from the classrooms of Brooklyn College to more than sixty countries around the globe and along the way earned him the title Labor's Troubador, died Tuesday at his home in Chevy Chase , Maryland . He was 88.
The cause of death was non-Hodgkins lymphoma, said his wife Mildred.
In 1950 Glazer and the Elm City Four became the first to record a version of the song that during the tumultuous Sixties would become the anthem of the civil rights movement, “We Shall Overcome.” According to Mildred Glazer, the song had originally been a folk song and then a Baptist hymn before he helped popularize it as a labor union tune. In its earlier versions it began, “I Will Overcome,” she told the New York Times.
Besides belting out songs on picket lines, in union halls and even once on the White House lawn during the Carter administration, Glazer over the course of his long career recorded more than thirty albums, wrote a book on labor music, and helped give rise to a whole new generation of protest singers. Among his own compositions were the union classics “Automation” and “Too Old to Work.” Probably the best known of his pieces was “The Mill Was Made of Marble,” which he wrote in 1947.
Joe Glazer was born in Manhattan on June 19, 1918 , the son of immigrant parents whose father was a tailor in the International Garment Workers Union. He grew up listening to Gene Autry and other singing cowboys on 1930s radio. Buying a guitar for $5.98, he taught himself to play and sing their songs.
He went to James Madison High School , then attended Brooklyn College , graduating in 1938 with a bachelor of arts degree. He was the first in his family to finish college. Later he would continue his studies at the University of Wisconsin .
He was hired as a civilian radio instructor by the Army Air Corps after failing his draft physical. In 1942, he married the then Mildred Krauss, whom he had met at a summer camp in the Catskills where they were counselors. She said she was drawn to him after he led the camp counselors in a strike.
After the war and postgraduate studies Glazer joined the textile workers as an assistant education director. His boss suggested that he use music to sell the union's message to workers. The ploy worked. Glazer would continue to use it after he moved to the rubber workers union as education director.
In 1961 he joined the Kennedy administration as a labor information officer with the United States Information Agency, working under noted newscaster Edward R. Murrow. Later he moved to the State Department. Besides explaining America 's current events to foreigners, he made frequent trips overseas to sing protest songs.
In a 1981 interview, Glazer said that protest songs “use humor, they tell about terrible conditions, but you still have to be able to laugh and sing and tell a joke.”
Besides his widow, Glazer is survived by a brother, Nathan, professor of education and sociology, emeritus, at Harvard University ; a sister, Gail Klebanoss, of Verona , New Jersey ; a son, Daniel, of Northbrook , Illinois ; daughters Emily Glazer, of Silver Spring , Maryland , and Patti Glazer, of Asheville , North Carolina ; and four grandchildren. | <urn:uuid:b38118b5-6419-45b6-9b65-4bfab466ac11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/spotlite/news/index.php?link=092206 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984074 | 747 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Believe in a cause? Do something
"The only paradise is paradise lost," said Marcel Proust.
"Most of our future lies ahead," said Denny Crum.
So what do a fey, Belle Époque Parisian novelist and a 20th century, Appalachian NCAA basketball coach have in common?
Not a single thing. Proust treads no more shared turf with Crum than a bird of paradise with a pterodactyl.
Except we are all mortal: Proust looked to the past and saw what was squandered; Crum looked to the future and saw what could be won.
Ennui can’t replace energy. Stalling out is not interchangeable with stoicism. Indifference to pain or pleasure is no panacea to believing one’s voice can’t be heard.
All our future depends on the present’s actions. Here and now, our cause has come too far for lost horizons.
The year 2010 (fewer than two months away) will mark the 25th anniversary when the first HIV test came available, as well as the 25th anniversaries of when blood banks began testing for AIDS; when the first global celebrity, Rock Hudson, died of AIDS; when the world’s first AIDS Candlelight Parade took place in San Francisco.
2010 will mark the 25th anniversary when widespread gay terror first reached critical mass.
We have crossed a threshold: There are more AIDS marchers every year too young to remember the origins in San Francisco and New York City, where protestors were often walking skeletons or in wheelchairs, covered in purple splotches.
I remember. I moved to New York City in 1985, at 23, and witnessed it all firsthand — the helplessness and the holocaust.
I remember all the blonds died first, the dazzler kind: vivacious, fearless and flirty. I was blond.
There is no reason at all for me to have lived. I am the sole survivor of my friends from then.
Thus, did I submit a recent letter to Dallas Voice in which I vented my observational disappointments regarding LifeWalk 2009 ("LifeWalk needs more life," Dallas Voice, Oct. 16).
I expected no response — no one, after all, actually writes the old-fashioned way anymore; we tweet. I assumed my concerns would be ignored.
Instead, rather, the opposite occurred.
Margaret Byrne, director of resource development for AIDS Arms Inc., not only contacted me, but invited me to join the LifeWalk Steering Committee in a proactive way.
When one believes in a cause, one should never just put his head in the sand.
Everything is about change and hope. Keeping up with what the community will support is at the forefront, always, of causes taken for action.
The only paradise is paradise lost; most of our future lies ahead.
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Ralph Daetwyler took over the reigns of his family business in January. With its U.S. headquarters in Huntersville, Max Daetwyler Corp. (MDC) has 14 locations worldwide, employs over 850 people, and for decades has been a market leader in the printing industry. Assuming control of such a successful and well-established company would be a daunting task for anyone, and at just 30, Daetwyler admits that he’s feeling the pressure, especially as he steers the company through the current economic upheaval.
But rather than just sit tight and weather the storm, Daetwyler is looking to the future and ways he can expand MDC’s strength and expertise in order to stay competitive in a global marketplace. It’s the same tactic that his grandfather Max used after founding the company 66 years ago.
As a young man in Switzerland, Max Daetwyler apprenticed as a motorcycle mechanic working in his uncle’s shop. However, his passion was not for two-wheeled contraptions, but for winged ones. Even in his teenage years Max and his friends would make homemade hang gliders and take turns leaping off of hillsides.
As Max became more proficient at small engine work, he picked up a job helping repair and rebuild airplane engines at an airport near Zurich. By then he was an avid pilot and well-versed in all aspects of small aircraft maintenance.
In 1943 Daetwyler, took advantage of an opportunity to become independent and started the Max Daetwyler Corporation, rebuilding airplanes and manufacturing aviation parts. Several years later he branched out again, getting involved in the printing industry.
“When a friend in the printing industry told him he needed some help manufacturing parts, my grandfather recognized it as yet another opportunity,” recalls Ralph.
This was during a burgeoning time for the rotogravure (or gravure) industry, a printing process that involves engraving small cells or holes onto a copper cylinder which are then filled with ink and used to print everything from labels to magazines and newspapers. Max started out making acid etching machines, which created the small cells in the printing cylinders.
But the company’s big break came in 1973 with the advent of its doctor blades which wipe off the excess ink from the cylinders during the printing process. MDC developed a new design that greatly improved printing quality, and today the company’s comprehensive steel doctor blades are considered the finest in the industry.
To help market and sell the doctor blades, Ralph’s father, Peter, left Switzerland and started the company’s U.S. sales and service operations in Long Island, New York. Soon after this, MDC also developed the highly successful Polishmaster, a state-of-the-art product that cleaned and polished printing cylinders.
The company now offers several of the industry’s most successful products for processing gravure cylinders, including plating machines and engraving machines that are the rotogravure industry’s most widely sold prepress machines.
“The biggest kick to get us into the printing industry came with the doctor blade and the Polishmaster,” Daetwyler says. “That’s when things really took off.”
As MDC’s U.S. location continued to thrive, the company started looking for ways to better service its customers in the U.S. and Canada. Daetwyler explains that the Charlotte area was an ideal location because of the airport and its proximity to many of its clients.
In 1990, the company moved its U.S. headquarters to a 72,000-square-foot facility in Huntersville in 1990, where it continues to provide sales, installation and service for North American printing companies.
In 1994, MDC pioneered an innovative four-year apprenticeship program. The apprenticeship program has been a great success, providing students with a college education while they work as a paid employee.
Today, the program involves a consortium of North Carolina manufacturing companies including Ameritech Corp., Julius Blum, Inc., Pfaff molds, Sarstedt, Inc. and Timken.
MDC made another strategic move in 2000 when it formed an alliance with Ohio Electronic Engravers, Inc. “This expanded our capacity,” says Daetwyler. “By combining the experience and expertise of the two companies, MDC became a single, streamlined source for the printing industry.”
Yet it was also during this time that a shift began to occur in the printing industry itself. As more content became available online, the demand for printed materials like newspapers and magazines declined.
Another shakeup occurred in 2005, when company founder Max Daetwyler died. “He basically ran the company until he passed away,” Daetwyler says of his grandfather.
Getting His Hands Dirty
In 1979, during the company’s early boom days, Ralph Daetwyler was welcomed into the world. While born and raised in the U.S.—first in Long Island and then North Carolina—he spent many summers in Switzerland working for the family business, “turning wrenches and getting my hands dirty,” he says.
Following his graduation from Providence Day High School in 1997, Ralph’s father, Peter, gave his son an option: “Go to school for one year in Switzerland, then decide if you want to continue your education in Europe or return to the U.S.”
Daetwyler chose to return to the U.S., explaining that, while he loves Switzerland, he’s always considered himself an American. He went to N.C. State University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business, and then returned once again to Switzerland. For nearly a year he worked for one of MDC’s customers in Germany that made cylinders for the gravure industry.
“It was a detailed overview of what our customers worldwide go through to get product out of the door and, for me, it reaffirmed that this was the business that I wanted to get into,” he says.
It also prepared him for his return to the U.S., where he earned a master’s in graphic communications from Clemson University in 2007.
“I learned in the classroom then turned right back around and taught other undergrads how to do it. It was very hands-on. I had ink under my fingernails.”
Rather than attend his college graduation, Daetwyler instead got married. The following week he and his new bride departed for an extended honeymoon/business trip.
“We traveled for nearly two years with the intention of visiting our customers and subsidiaries worldwide,” he says. However, the trip was cut short last December when, while they were in India, terrorists started bombing Mumbai.
“The economy was tanking, bombs were exploding—we decided it was time to go. I returned to Huntersville, grabbed a paddle and started rowing. For the past two years it’s been non-stop. I feel like I’ve been catapulted into the industry.”
This January marked a momentous alliance for MDC. They announced partnership with Max Rid, a German competitor and owner of the companies Hell Gravure Systems, K. Walter, and Bauer Logistik, uniting their activities in developing, manufacturing, selling and servicing gravure cylinder making equipment.
The partners named the new joint venture Heliograph Holding GmbH, which is now home to the newly founded Daetwyler Graphics as well as the corporations Hell Gravure Systems, K.Walter Service Corporation, Bauer Logistik, Schepers, Daetwyler R&D Dayton and their worldwide sister companies.
Daetwyler explains that for many years Max Rid’s K. Walter Company was MDC’s biggest competitor. As the major gravure printing companies began to absorb many of the smaller gravure printers, it became evident that “there was no more room for two big players in the prepress equipment sector,” Daetwyler says. “So my father and Max Rid talked it out, and agreed to a joint venture.”
In the U.S., activities and employees involved in sales and service of gravure cylinder-making equipment at Max Daetwyler Corporation remain in Huntersville, but now operate as K. Walter Service Corporation along with another office in Inman, South Carolina.
When MDC announced this venture, it also named Ralph as the new president of K. Walter Service Corporation and Daetwyler USA. Ralph’s father Peter now serves as chairman of the board of Daetwyler Industries in Switzerland.
With the gravure industry customers firmly established and MDC’s new merger, Daetwyler knew it was time to diversify, commenting, “Why limit yourself to one thing?”
Looking to expand, Daetwyler wants to apply MDC’s machine making capabilities to other industries and new technologies. Daetwyler is also focusing on “finding niche markets that are not just ‘me too.’”
One venue Daetwyler is exploring is developing prototypes for companies or individuals that have an idea or existing product they want to bring to market. While MDCs’ facilities in Switzerland are designed for mass-producing machines, the Huntersville location, which has its own machine shop, is ideal for building “prototypes.”
“We have engineers, machinists and assembly specialists who know high-precision, micron-accuracy but also put massive amounts of thought into how to build something with minimum cost,” Daetwyler explains. “Bring us a product or an idea and we’ll work with you to get it out the door exactly to your expectations.”
MDC has also installed two Micro Waterjet machines. This technology, which is new to the U.S., is a high-precision device that uses patented Abrasive-Waterjet- Micromachining technology capable of making very fine, detailed parts out of nearly any material, including steel, aluminum, glass and titanium. “The accuracy is unparalleled,” he says.
Daetwyler believes such a device will become increasingly valuable as global industrial manufacturing continues to move toward smaller machines and components. And unlike laser cutting, which can damage materials because of the intense heat; Abrasive-Waterjet-Micromachining can be used on an unlimited range of materials. Daetwyler says that in addition to being the exclusive worldwide seller of the Micro Waterjet, MDC is also using the high-tech machines to court the computer and medical, motorsports and racing, jewelers, and the micromachine industry in general.
An Energizing Future
Of all the avenues Daetwyler explores as he maps out the company’s future, he is perhaps most excited about the company’s venture into the alternative energy field. Daetwyler facilities in Switzerland already manufacture machines for making windmill turbines which harness the energy of the wind as well as equipment that cuts and polishes ingots used for manufacturing solar panels. But now the company is delving into other alternative energy opportunities.
In January, MDC launched Daetwyler Clean Energy LLC. “Clean and renewable energy is way beyond a fad. It’s a living, thriving industry and it’s the right thing for our environment,” Daetwyler says.
Bill Taylor, former national sales manager for MDC and now Daetwyler Clean Energy’s vice-president of global business development, explains that this new corporation provides engineering, manufacturing and assembly services to the alternative energy marketplace.
One of its ventures, Daetwyler Clean Energy, is currently in talks with a California-based solar energy company that is developing solar fields capable of generating electricity at lower prices than other forms of power generation. This company has developed the technology to build mirrors called heliostats that track the sunlight and concentrate its rays on a water-filled receiver atop a tower. The intense heat vaporizes the water and creates steam, which in turn drives an electricity-generating turbine.
Earlier this year the California solar company entered into an agreement with a large utility company to build 11 solar power plants in the Southwest U.S. and 22 abroad.
According to Taylor, Daetwyler Clean Energy’s role in this new venture would be to coordinate the supply chain to manufacture and assemble the heliostats that control the solar modules.
Daetwyler Clean Energy has already defined a supply chain within the region to help facilitate the order once they’re given the go-ahead.
Taylor says this would mean that Daetwyler would acquire a separate facility to assemble two million parts per year and hire up to 180 additional people—preferably all within the Carolinas.
“It could profoundly impact the local economy,” says Taylor.
While Daetwyler says that printing industry products remain the company’s “bread and butter,” he believes new initiatives like Daetwyler Clean Energy are key to helping grow the company and keeping it competitive in a global marketplace.
“Our goal is to continue to uncover opportunities in the renewable energy market and help other manufacturers in our region who can re-tool and participate within our robust network of manufacturers.
“I’m young, and I’ve only been president since January, but I’ve always paid attention. This company started with airplanes and went into printing, and now we’re exploring other opportunities. We have no sentimentality about what we do. As long as we enjoy doing it and it’s successful. That’s what’s important,” Daetwyler smiles. | <urn:uuid:2e73f749-20d3-4d0c-b3f2-897a61ca7f0f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greatercharlottebiz.com/article.asp?id=923 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962645 | 2,919 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Scores of asylum-seekers, most believed to be Afghan, are still missing after their boat capsized in waters between Indonesia and Australia.
Two crew members are among the 109 survivors of the asylum-seeker boat tragedy north of Australia, it was revealed Saturday, with around 90 others still missing.
The boat is believed to have originated in Sri Lanka and to have been carrying as many as 200, mostly Afghan, asylum-seekers.
The two crew members, who were taken by Navy vessel to Australia's Christmas Island with the other surviving passengers, are being held at the same detention facility on the island, Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship said.
The revelation came as two more bodies were found at the scene of the tragedy. Three bodies have already been recovered.
Of the 109 survivors, 105 are in a detention facility on the island, with the other four receiving medical treatment in western Australian town of Perth.
Most of the survivors, including a 13-year-old boy, were taken to Christmas Island yesterday, with three men treated at the island's hospital.
Customs and Border Protection and AMSA confirmed today that the safety authority received calls from a vessel "indicating it was experiencing difficulties" about 10pm (AEST) on Tuesday.
"Later that evening, the location of this vessel was determined to be within Indonesia's search and rescue zone and as such the information was forwarded to (Indonesia's national search and rescue organisation) BASARNAS," customs said in a statement.
"There was no indication of where the vessel was located."
About 1.30am (AEST) on Wednesday AMSA received more calls from the vessel, which was then reported to be 38 nautical miles south of the Indonesian mainland.
"AMSA advised the vessel to return to Indonesia if it was experiencing difficulty.
"AMSA advised the Indonesian Search and Rescue agency, who took responsibility to coordinate a response."
Hopes of finding more passengers alive are quickly fading and an AMSA spokesman said the "window was rapidly closing'' on finding survivors. No survivors have been recovered since 10.30pm Australian-time on Thursday.
Three aircraft and one boat continued the search for survivors on Friday overnight. Another three aircraft and extra boats joined the search Saturday morning but poor weather conditions had hampered the effort.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said medical advice suggested there was still a chance.
"We are operating under conditions that include the water temperature, the weather, the fact that we now there were life jackets on board, rafts and debris," AMSA spokeswoman Jo Meehan said.
"At the moment we are operating on the basis that they will be able to survive for two days."
Rescuers, including the crew of merchant ship JPO Vulpecula, saved 109 people from the people-smuggling ship, which capsized with some 200 people on board in the Indian Ocean on Thursday afternoon, two days after first issuing a distress call.
Australia's opposition leader and leader of the Liberal party Tony Abbott said today he wouldn't be criticising the government while the "tragedy" is still unfolding.
"I am doing my best to avoid (politicising the issue) - not a word of criticism will escape my lips today," Abbott said.
"We should be grieving for those who are lost."
He said he was willing to discuss the political impasse on asylum-seekers, but he would not be budging on new legislation.
"It doesn't really matter whether [Australian Prime Minister] Julia Gillard and I talk about this, what matters is that the government put the right policies in place," Abbott said in Sydney.
His comments came after Liberal parliamentarian Mal Washer and independent MPs called for a compromise on refugee policy.
Amid reports Mr Abbott could be facing internal pressure in the Coalition Party room to compromise on asylum policy, the opposition leader took a hardline, no-compromise stance.
''The first point I make is that what's needed here is not more bipartisanship, but effective policies,'' he said in Melbourne.
''What's needed here is not compromise for compromise sake, but policies that work.
''It is not the opposition's policies that have failed here, it's the government's policies that have failed here.
''This is a government which inherited a border protection solution and unfortunately it changed policies and we all see the result.''
Amid reports that Malcolm Turnbull is urging the opposition leader to take a more bipartisan approach on boats,
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Users: 'Personalized internet? Fuggedaboutit!'
Survey shows Business Plan 2.0 to be unpopular
A new research report will make worrying reading for Google and social media companies, as it shows that most consumers don't want their online activity used to personalize search results or advertising.
The study of 2,253 adults, conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life, found that 73 per cent of search-engine users didn't want their search results to be tailored to them based on past searches. Use of internet habits in producing search results was disliked least by respondents under 29, as well as those from ethnic minorities and those earning less than $30,000 a year.
Over two-thirds of respondents didn't want web sites to do targeted advertising that uses their internet history, and just over half said they had noticed targeted advertising that was clearly using such data. Men are better at spotting such ads than women, and the survey showed the more educated and well-paid you were, the more likely you are to see them.
Consumers are pretty clueless about what happens to their browsing history. Only 38 per cent said they were aware of how much data was being collected about them. Web-history deletion was the most common privacy tactic among this group, followed by using the privacy settings on websites and locking down their own browsers.
The results come as Google has shifted its users onto new privacy terms that will increase the amount of information the search giant will collect and use. Meanwhile, Facebook and other social-media companies are making targeted advertising one of the key planks of their business plans - but consumers don't want to play along, it seems.
Google's annihilation of its competition accelerates
The survey had some good news for denizens of the Chocolate Factory, and some very bad news for Yahoo! – and thus, by proxy, Redmond. In comparison with a similar survey in 2004, Google is killing the opposition, with 83 per cent of searches, while Yahoo! and others have all seen their user footprint shrivel.
Search itself is the second most popular activity online, the survey found. Email is still king, used by 92 per cent of people, but search is just a single percentage point behind, ahead of getting news or shopping. Social networking stands at 66 per cent, but is still growing fast.
Overall, people are happy with the accuracy of whichever search engine they choose. Nine out of ten search users were happy with their results, and 73 per cent felt the data they got was accurate. On any given day, 56 per cent of people use internet searching in 2012, compared to 30 per cent in 2004. ® | <urn:uuid:aee96e25-141c-45e3-9247-bcc3bfbecb0c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/09/personalized_search_unpopular_pew/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976247 | 539 | 1.632813 | 2 |
This is the first article in a series where we'll take a look at our social network profile and begin our journey to a whole new digital you. But first I have some homework for you.
Take stock of your social presence. How many friends do you have? Do you have work colleagues, family, close friends, distant acquaintances or all the above in your friends list? I'm going to assume that in-person you tend to share different degrees of personal information depending on the relationship you have with the individual that you're speaking with? Do you practice that same discretion when posting photos and status updates?
Barry Schnitt, director of policy communications at Facebook, has some tips to get you started in separating business from pleasure:
• Make a limited set of information that helps people find and connect with you available to everyone—information like "About Me" and where you work or go to school.
• For more sensitive information, like photos and videos in which you've been tagged and your phone number, we recommend a more restrictive setting.
• As always, you can block specific users, which prevents them from seeing any of your information or contacting you on Facebook. No matter what section you choose, you'll see an identical setting selector with three basic levels of privacy: Friends, Friends of Friends and Everyone.
Once you've taken the basic steps above, you can develop specific friends lists. I suggest you divide your existing contacts into friends, family and work-related as a start, and then use privacy settings to limit what each group can see. In the weeks to come, we'll talk about status updates, applications and turning social networking into a tool to help you accomplish your goals. For now, if you've taken the first step to set your privacy settings, well done. Have a virtual beer on me.
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Kathmandu (AsiaNews) – Nepal’s Catholics no longer consider the Monarchy’s impositions on the Jesuits valid, now that the country is a secular State and that the king has lost his power. The bishop of Nepal speaks with AsiaNews about the situation of the Church and its’ initiatives.
The accord dates back to 1951 when the then king, Tribhuwan, invited the Society of Jesus to found the Saint Francis Xavier in Kathmandu, after almost two centuries of anti Christian prohibition. But the king only allowed education, forbidding any form of missionary activity and evangelization. A ban that was always respected by the Jesuits, who in 1984 founded a further three schools in the country. But now Nepal is no longer a Hindu monarchy and royal decrees are no longer law, so Catholics are once again free to carry out any type of activity.
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Dumfries Peter Pan house project launched
Ambitious plans are being unveiled to turn the house which inspired the story of Peter Pan into a Scottish centre for children's literature.
It is hoped the Moat Brae scheme in Dumfries can be completed by 2015.
Author JM Barrie played in the grounds of the building as a child but the property has fallen into disrepair.
The Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust is currently raising funds for the upgrade of the building and has secured Joanna Lumley as a patron for its plans.
She said: "I am so thrilled and proud to be here to launch these exciting plans for the future of Moat Brae House and garden.
"There is such wonderful potential to create a fantastic National Centre for Children's Literature.
"I want to help raise the profile of this admirable project so that Peter Pan fans from all over the world can support this wonderful restoration."
MOAT BRAE HOUSE PROJECT KEY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
- Raise the funds to restore the Georgian Town House
- Create a Scottish centre for children's literature
- Establish a centre for literacy development
- Build a cafe and shop with Peter Pan memorabilia
- Redevelop the terraced riverside garden which inspired Neverland
- Provide an outdoor learning and play area
The house and garden were in private ownership between 1823 and 1914.
It subsequently became a nursing home which shut in 1997 and fell into disrepair.
A local housing association then bought the property and planned to turn it into a residential development.
However, a campaign was launched to stop those proposals and ownership of the building was transferred to the PPMBT for £1 in 2010 with the goal of creating an "attraction of international significance".
The group is now launching its prospectus with its vision for the historic site which Barrie described as an "enchanted land" which was "certainly the genesis" of Peter Pan.
The trust's first goal is to raise £750,000 to fund the agreed final purchase price of the building and undertake urgent repair works.
A second phase of marketing to generate financial support is planned for next year and will be aimed at the "national and international audience" for Peter Pan.
"What we want Moat Brae to become is Scotland's first centre for children's literature," said project development director Cathy Agnew.
She said the trust had been working closely with the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh, Seven Stories in Newcastle, the Scottish Book Trust and the Wigtown Book Festival to develop the plans.
She said the centre could become a place to celebrate children's stories and "their history, their heritage and their past".
"It is a very fitting legacy for JM Barrie - this was his enchanted land which was the genesis for his character of Peter Pan," she added. | <urn:uuid:3a9a1653-d927-45d0-a1db-195a8cb0eabe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-14343219 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973168 | 589 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Well, three or four months run
along, and it was well into the winter now. I
had been to school most all the time and could spell
and read and write just a little, and could say the
multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five,
and I don’t reckon I could ever get any further
than that if I was to live forever. I don’t
take no stock in mathematics, anyway.
At first I hated the school, but by
and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I
got uncommon tired I played hookey, and the hiding
I got next day done me good and cheered me up.
So the longer I went to school the easier it got
to be. I was getting sort of used to the widow’s
ways, too, and they warn’t so raspy on me.
Living in a house and sleeping in a bed pulled on
me pretty tight mostly, but before the cold weather
I used to slide out and sleep in the woods sometimes,
and so that was a rest to me. I liked the old
ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones,
too, a little bit. The widow said I was coming
along slow but sure, and doing very satisfactory.
She said she warn’t ashamed of me.
One morning I happened to turn over
the salt-cellar at breakfast. I reached for
some of it as quick as I could to throw over my left
shoulder and keep off the bad luck, but Miss Watson
was in ahead of me, and crossed me off. She says,
“Take your hands away, Huckleberry; what a mess
you are always making!” The widow put in a good
word for me, but that warn’t going to keep off
the bad luck, I knowed that well enough. I started
out, after breakfast, feeling worried and shaky, and
wondering where it was going to fall on me, and what
it was going to be. There is ways to keep off
some kinds of bad luck, but this wasn’t one of
them kind; so I never tried to do anything, but just
poked along low-spirited and on the watch-out.
I went down to the front garden and
clumb over the stile where you go through the high
board fence. There was an inch of new snow on
the ground, and I seen somebody’s tracks.
They had come up from the quarry and stood around
the stile a while, and then went on around the garden
fence. It was funny they hadn’t come in,
after standing around so. I couldn’t make
it out. It was very curious, somehow. I
was going to follow around, but I stooped down to
look at the tracks first. I didn’t notice
anything at first, but next I did. There was
a cross in the left boot-heel made with big nails,
to keep off the devil.
I was up in a second and shinning
down the hill. I looked over my shoulder every
now and then, but I didn’t see nobody.
I was at Judge Thatcher’s as quick as I could
get there. He said:
“Why, my boy, you are all out
of breath. Did you come for your interest?”
“No, sir,” I says; “is there some
“Oh, yes, a half-yearly is in
last night over a hundred and fifty dollars.
Quite a fortune for you. You had better let
me invest it along with your six thousand, because
if you take it you’ll spend it.”
“No, sir,” I says, “I
don’t want to spend it. I don’t want
it at all nor the six thousand, nuther.
I want you to take it; I want to give it to you the
six thousand and all.”
He looked surprised. He couldn’t
seem to make it out. He says:
“Why, what can you mean, my boy?”
I says, “Don’t you ask
me no questions about it, please. You’ll
take it won’t you?”
“Well, I’m puzzled. Is something
“Please take it,” says
I, “and don’t ask me nothing then
I won’t have to tell no lies.”
He studied a while, and then he says:
“Oho-o! I think I see.
You want to sell all your property to me not
give it. That’s the correct idea.”
Then he wrote something on a paper and read it over,
“There; you see it says ‘for
a consideration.’ That means I have bought
it of you and paid you for it. Here’s a
dollar for you. Now you sign it.”
So I signed it, and left.
Miss Watson’s nigger, Jim, had
a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took
out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to
do magic with it. He said there was a spirit
inside of it, and it knowed everything. So I
went to him that night and told him pap was here again,
for I found his tracks in the snow. What I wanted
to know was, what he was going to do, and was he going
to stay? Jim got out his hair-ball and said
something over it, and then he held it up and dropped
it on the floor. It fell pretty solid, and only
rolled about an inch. Jim tried it again, and
then another time, and it acted just the same.
Jim got down on his knees, and put his ear against
it and listened. But it warn’t no use;
he said it wouldn’t talk. He said sometimes
it wouldn’t talk without money. I told
him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn’t
no good because the brass showed through the silver
a little, and it wouldn’t pass nohow, even if
the brass didn’t show, because it was so slick
it felt greasy, and so that would tell on it every
time. (I reckoned I wouldn’t say nothing about
the dollar I got from the judge.) I said it was pretty
bad money, but maybe the hair-ball would take it,
because maybe it wouldn’t know the difference.
Jim smelt it and bit it and rubbed it, and said he
would manage so the hair-ball would think it was good.
He said he would split open a raw Irish potato and
stick the quarter in between and keep it there all
night, and next morning you couldn’t see no
brass, and it wouldn’t feel greasy no more, and
so anybody in town would take it in a minute, let
alone a hair-ball. Well, I knowed a potato would
do that before, but I had forgot it.
Jim put the quarter under the hair-ball,
and got down and listened again. This time he
said the hair-ball was all right. He said it
would tell my whole fortune if I wanted it to.
I says, go on. So the hair-ball talked to Jim,
and Jim told it to me. He says:
“Yo’ olé father
doan’ know yit what he’s a-gwyne to do.
Sometimes he spec he’ll go ‘way, en den
agin he spec he’ll stay. De bes’
way is to res’ easy en let de olé man take
his own way. Dey’s two angels hoverin’
roun’ ’bout him. One uv ’em
is white en shiny, en t’other one is black.
De white one gits him to go right a little while, den
de black one sail in en bust it all up. A body
can’t tell yit which one gwyne to fetch him
at de las’. But you is all right.
You gwyne to have considable trouble in yo’
life, en considable joy. Sometimes you gwyne
to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but
every time you’s gwyne to git well agin.
Dey’s two gals flyin’ ‘bout you
in yo’ life. One uv ’em’s
light en t’other one is dark. One is rich
en t’other is po’. You’s
gwyne to marry de po’ one fust en de rich
one by en by. You wants to keep ’way fum
de water as much as you kin, en don’t run no
resk, ’kase it’s down in de bills dat
you’s gwyne to git hung.”
When I lit my candle and went up to
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Today is Veterans Day. If you see a vet, thank them. And do it not only today but every day. The men and women of our Armed Forces willingly put it on the line for us, risking everything without the lure of riches and fame. They do it so you and I can remain free and live life how we want to. They deserve our gratitude.
Last Veteran’s Day I shared my Veteran’s with you. Since then, our middle son, John, joined the Army. His father and I were amongst the hundreds of proud ‘patriot’ parents in attendance at his graduation ceremony this past September at Ft.Knox, KY. In October, John was deployed to South Korea, serving in the 2nd Infantry Division as a Cavalry Scout.
Yesterday, the day before Veteran’s Day, our youngest son, Matthew, signed a 4-year contract with the Army. Matthew is scheduled to leave February 22nd for Ft. Jackson, SC and then onto Ft. Benning, GA to complete his Bootcamp and OSUT (one station unit training). Matthew chose the Infantry/Airborne with an ultimate goal to make it into the Army’s Ranger program.
My Father, graduated from the eighth grade in June 1949, and enlisted in the Army Guard on October 15, 1949. In June 1950 his unit was activated for Korea: Police Action. He volunteered 8-years of his life in defense of our great Nation and its people. Later, he was discovered as UNDER-AGE and was honorably discharged. My Father, is a Life Member of VUMS (Veterans of Underage Military Service), and a Montana volunteer transportation driver for DAV (Disabled American Veterans).
When my Father alerted me to the fact that it was up to the volunteer transportation driver’s themselves to raise the donations to replace the wore-out Vans, I wanted to help this cause!
Within the Montana community that my Father volunteers, the DAV transportation volunteer drivers must raise $14,000 in order to replace a van. Between the 12 drivers, they have two Vans that they drive about 250,000 miles annually — taking Disabled American Veterans to clinics and the VA Hospital at Fort Harrison. There are nine clinics all over Montana. Some times they must pick up a Vet where he lives, maybe transfer from Hospital to another clinic — sometimes to Cody, Wyoming if directed. Donatoins are their lifes blood in providing Transportation for these former Warriors. The VA (Govt) buys their gas, and maintenance – BUT it’s the volunteers’ who must muster up the $14,000 for each Van, and the public is unaware of what DAV is all about.
How I propose to help this great cause
Saponifier Magazine will donate 10% of all sales throughout the months of November and December, and will present a check directly to the DAV volunteer transportation drivers in my Fathers Montana community to help towards the purchase of this much needed Van!
“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves under the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag”…. By Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, USMC
In my other life before founding Saponifier, I worked in one of our nations largest cemeteries, which also had a very large veterans section.
Although some would view working in a cemetery to be gruesome or gross – I found it to be an honor. I found it an honor to lay to rest the Veterans who devoted their lives for the freedom of many. I found it an honor to manicure their graves and to clean their headstones. I shed many tears while I worked there.
I not only had the honor of burying someone else’s brother, grandparent, aunt or uncle – I was honored to have buried my own brother, grandmother, aunt, cousin and my husband’s parents. With that, I’d like to share *My* Veteran’s with you.
More than a million Patriots stand ready, or are actively defending our nation today. These men and women were not drafted into service, but volunteered to serve. To all of them – Thank You! Thank you for the freedom I have enjoyed by your unselfish sacrifice to our Country. | <urn:uuid:8dcd956b-9c95-45cb-b040-ac90cac296e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://saponifier.com/category/in-memory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967818 | 965 | 1.515625 | 2 |
What's in store at your supermarket: Top 10 food trends for 2012
(BPT) - Last year's high grocery prices had many Americans looking for ways to save at the supermarket. The upswing in prices over the past 12 months may have you wondering what will happen this year at your local grocery store.
In partnership with ConAgra Foods, industry expert, and "Supermarket Guru," Phil Lempert, predicts an interesting year ahead.
"We will continue to see higher prices, but we will also see all the different ways Americans love their food - in supermarkets, on television, at restaurants and now even on their mobile phones," Lempert says. "We are on the verge of what may be one of the most exciting and game-changing years in the food world."
Lempert advises consumers to watch for 10 major trends in their supermarkets this year:
1. Higher food prices - Last year's trend will continue, so consumers will place even more emphasis on ways to save money. In addition to already-popular methods like coupons and frequent shopper cards, you may want to consider using your mobile device to menu plan while you shop. Websites like ConAgra's ReadySetEat.com
give you recipe ideas and can also help you find out which ingredients are on sale in your store.
2. The group experience will grow - Food blogs set a foundation for group experiences, food trucks tweet their locations, and flash food raves assemble underground at midnight. More Americans are choosing to eat and shop together in new ways. Mobile app marketers will offer "social rewards" for groups that shop together - think of it as the virtual version of warehouse clubs.
3. The baby boomer influence will grow - Last year, the first of the 76 million-strong boomer generation turned 65. Their influence on the supermarket will show up this year in increased healthful food options, wider aisles and lower shelves.
4. Increased emphasis on "farm to fork" - More Americans are interested in knowing where the food comes from. In 2012, you'll see more blogs and social media featuring farmers, as well as advertising and TV programs starring farmers as food experts. Hunt's tomatoes, for example, are grown in Oakdale, California and harvested at the peak of ripeness then flash-steamed to maintain the natural tomato goodness.
5. The end of the checkout lane - Tech-savvy options are gaining popularity, with consumers enjoying self-checkouts, comparing prices at nearby retailers, and taking advantage of the convenience of cellphone scanners, in-store interactive media devices, QR codes, RFID and mobile coupons.
6. Ethnic on the road - Food trucks are replacing gourmet and specialty stores as the channel to experiment and discover new food experiences - especially when it comes to ethnic foods. More often than not, these ethnic food trucks are operated by natives of the countries from which the actual cuisines being offered originated, and they have the ability and knowledge to share the heritage and romance of the food.
7. It's a man's (grocery shopping) world - Dads aren't just winning the bread; these days, they're also bringing it home from the grocery store. A Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that 41 percent of men are now preparing food for their families, as compared to half that percentage in 2003. Look for them to do more grocery shopping, too, Lempert predicts.
8. Extreme home cooking - More people will continue to eat at home to save money. Following the lead of extreme couponers, groups of everyday cooks pride themselves on making the most food for the least amount of money.
9. How sweet it isn't - Reduced sugar products and revised Nutrition Facts panels will be the biggest health claim in 2012. With the negative health effects of sugar and high fructose corn syrup gaining so much attention, look for a continued emphasis on reducing sugar in our diets. Food producers like ConAgra are responding by eliminating high fructose corn syrup from such staples as Peter Pan peanut butter and Hunt's Ketchup products.
10. Listen to your food - You judge the readiness of some foods (like microwave popcorn or grilled burgers), by the sounds they make. Multisensory perception will be one of the new "food sciences" in 2012, as psychologists and food scientists join forces to design, create and influence the sounds of our foods to convey freshness, taste and even health attributes.
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It was the 1966 Sebring 12 Hours. Ford GT40 drivers Ken Miles and Dan Gurney were dicing for the lead, coming dangerously close to knocking each other out of the race. Team boss Carroll Shelby tried to send the message to the drivers to stop racing each other, but neither would listen, so Shelby decided to intervene. With a hammer.
The 1966 Sebring race was seriously important for Shelby. It was the start of the first season where he had a real chance to consistently beat Ferrari. Ford had poured unthinkable sums of money into the ‘Destroy Ferrari' project and it was the beginning of their third year. The GT40 had been extremely unreliable in the past, and Shelby could not afford to take any risks with his drivers. He needed them to toe the line and bring their cars home.
Dan Gurney (seen below taking with Shelby) had also balked at the starting line, losing a minute before he could get away. He had been driving like he was possessed to get back to the front and Miles was only putting him at risk. As Rinsey Mills writes in Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography, Shelby desperately needed to "get him off Dan's back."
His solution? Run out on the wall and chase his driver off with a hammer.
You can just see Shelby coming back into pit lane with his hammer in the clip (left) for ABC's Wide World of Sports. It makes Ferrari's recent team orders just seem limp-wristed in comparison.
Shelby was no stranger to fixing problems with a hammer. Remember, this is the guy who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in overalls (below right). In a 2002 article in Airport Journals, co-founder of the Shelby American Collection, Stephen Volk explained how the big Texan fixed a problem complying with the French governing body on motorsports back in 1964.
All sports racing cars then had to have room for luggage, and they were tested to see if the trunk would hold a certain size suitcase. In 1964, Shelby's Cobra roadsters failed the test. Volk explained, "on the spot, [Shelby] took the hammer out and fixed it so they could get the trunk closed and pass that requirement."
When in doubt, just hit things with a hammer. It worked for Carroll Shelby.
All of that being said, one should not mention the 1966 Sebring race without remembering its five deaths. Bob McLean was a driver in a privately-entered GT40. In the fourth hour of the race, he lost control of his Ford and crashed into an entirely unprotected telephone pole. His car caught fire, he was trapped inside, and he burned alive. His team retired its second car, but the race continued.
Several hours later, Mario Andretti made contact with a Porsche 906. The Porsche went off the track and into a crowd, killing four spectators. The race was not stopped. The lack of safety precautions was shameful, to a level that is also unthinkable today.
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Startling Stories was a pulp-era science fiction magazine known for its lurid covers by Earle K. Bergey and its eye-catching title designs. It was a companion to Thrilling Wonder Stories and Fantastic Stories. The magazine was very successful in the immediate post-war period, but as the golden age of pulp magazines faded in the 1950s it became less competitive. In 1955 the publishers attempted to reach a more serious audience by changing to a less garish title style and making the cover art less lurid, and once they gave up the stylistic markers which set it aside from competing magazines sales slumped further and it was dead within the year.
Our new Startling Stories font celebrates the salacious covers and truly startling look of the magazine in its glory years and is based on the striking lettering of the main title. It includes both a bold and a regular version. the regular font comes in outline form like the original cover lettering and the bold version is a solid variant of the style. Both are kerned so that the characters overlap slightly creating the dramatic look of the magazine title.
There’s nothing better for a font foundry than when one of your fonts gets picked up as the signature font for a brand or a product or a franchise. Sadly sometimes those big customers are fickle. Case in point being our Windlass font which got a nice boost from being used on the cover of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson books for years, and then in the titles for the movie Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, but they dropped it from the cover of the more recent books and from the titles of the next movie, replacing it with something far more bland and generic. Not a good decision and not very loyal. Windlass took the books to the bestseller list and did great at the box office, so why not stick with it?
But some publishers are a bit more loyal, like Pyr who publish Mark Chabourn’s novels. A few years ago they started featuring our Valdemar font on his Age of Misrule series, and not only did they stick with it for the whole series, but now he has two new series out, The Dark Age and Kingdom of the Serpent, with a couple of books each, also featuring Valdemar.
Both series feature our Valdemar font for their series titles, or more specifically a combination of Valdemar and the popular companion font Valdemar Alternate. Although they have stuck with the original small caps look of the font and not used the lower case version. They have also added some variations of their own, creating a new D and a new T using elements of the I from the original font design, changes which are still consistent with the original look of the font, and forgivable given their loyalty and repeated use of the font.
Slava is based on lettering by legendary Art Nouveau master Alphons Mucha from his later post-Parisian period when he returned to Prague and did a lot of design work in support of the slavic nationalist movement. The letter forms still have many of the characteristics of his theatrical posters from the 1890s, but some added slavic character which distinguish it from his earlier work. It is one of the featured fonts in our Alphons Mucha Fonts and Art Package along with a great selection of other original fonts based on Mucha designs.
Alphonse Mucha was born in what is now the Czech Republic in 1860 and moved to Paris in 1890 where he became the star of the poster-art movement under the patronage of the Sarah Bernhardt, socializing with the greatest of the impressionists and moving in the highest circles of the salons of the intellectual elite of Paris. After World War I he returned to Czechoslovakia and became the father of a slavic arts and crafts movement which combined elements of art nouveau with classic national themes.
In addition to commercial art, jewelry design, interior decoration, sculpture and stage design, Mucha experimented with lettering and calligraphy to produce excellent source material for unique typefaces. Mucha’s style is virtually synonymous with French Art Nouveau and he is one of the most imitated artists and designers of all time.
The Scriptorium’s Mucha collection features a selection of rare images taken from 19th century sources, focusing on seasonal postcard art and theatrical posters, plus a disk of fonts based on Mucha’s poster lettering, including seven original typefaces in both TrueType and Postscript Format. Samples of both the art and the typefaces are provided here.
We have recently expanded our Mucha collection with new art and several additional fonts. The Mucha Collection is only $59 including shipping. It is also available in a retail package ideal for sale in museums and bookstores. Send email for information on wholesale terms and availability. To order your own Mucha collection just visit our online ordering page — ORDER YOUR MUCHA!
I run into our fonts in the strangest places, but it was an unexpected surprise the other day when I was playing SongPop on my iPhone with my daughters and I got a pop-up ad for a iPhone game called War of the Fallen with the title done in our Abaddon font. Abaddon is hideously overexposed, but nonetheless it’s nice to see it in a new medium.
War of the Fallen is basically be a fantasy card game with collectible elements for the iPhone – obviously influenced by games like Magic the Gathering, but with some concessions to the format. It’s an interesting idea and the art is very impressive, but the game seems static and the format is restrictive. It looks very good, but I wasn’t really drawn in and compelled to play.
However, if you like the Abaddon font, you can add it to your collection just VISIT OUR STORE.
Here are several examples of informative short films on typography using a number of different, interesting presentation techniques of presentation. The first addresses the history of type and the second and third both deal with aspects of vocabulary and terminology in interesting ways. And finally a fun sarcastic video on the top 5 fonts to never use.
No guarantee that these videos will make you an expert on typography, but they may at least entertain for a few minutes.
Ripley is a new titling font with a bold character weight and a somewhat randomly distressed and unbalanced, tall and narrow sans serif look. It includes capital letters and custom small caps weighted to match the capitals. It is based on the title lettering from the original 1955 pulp paperback printing of Patricia Highsmith’s classic suspense novel The Talented Mister Ripley, hence the name. For some reason the look of the font brings to mind something dark and Eastern European from the cold war era, which inspired the sample graphics.
Memorial Day is a great American tradition, recognizing the sacrifices made by those who have served our country in war and in peace. The tradition began during the Civil War as a day when flowers, flags and wreaths were placed on the graves of soldiers or on military memorials by relatives or by the community, an appropriate act of remembrance for their sacrifice.
But America is also the land of unabashed consumerism, so our other great tradition – perhaps less laudable – is the Memorial Day Sale. And who are we to deny this grand commercial tradition?
So just for three days, going through midnight on Monday, we’re offering a special sale. Use the coupon code MEMORIAL and you’ll receive 25% off of any purchase of $50 or more including an unlimited number of products and total value.
In addition, 10% of all sales during this period will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project to help with the special needs of wounded veterans..
In 1906 legendary illustrator Arthur Rackham was commissioned to illustrate J. M. Barrie’s prequel to his play Peter Pan. The standard edition features 10 original illustrations, but there was also a very limited edition with 40 additional illustrations which is now extremely rare. Remarkably the tipped in plates are included as an appendix to the regular book consisting of nothing but a portfolio of illustrations separate from the text.
We have collected together and digitized high resolution versions of all of the illustrations in that extended edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens which includes some of Arthur Rackhamn’s most fascinating fairy illustrations and a remarkable diversity of themes. These are examples of Rackham’s best work at the absolute height of his talents. The number and quality of these illustrations is unexcelled.
You can order the complete illustration set from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens for just $59 and you can preview all of the images below. To order now and download the package immediately, just go to our ONLINE STORE and follow the instructions. It’s a fairly large download, but manageable with a high speed connection. All of the illustrations are in high resolution and suitable for printing, with a license allowing their use within our standard restrictions.
Bilitis is an original “brush script” style font we designed for a project back in 1998 and released then with some success. It has a strong visual appeal with rough hewn character forms which are very unusual. In this new release we’ve also added a larger selection of alternate character forms and ligatures to add more variety if you want to explore the extended character set. As a script which doesn’t have too much of a refined and elegant look it’s a nice alternative style to have in your collection. | <urn:uuid:9759ab0d-c543-4b84-a126-43b3c1ac2084> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fontcraft.com/fontcraft/?p-2541 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956507 | 1,976 | 1.679688 | 2 |
When it comes to the idea of tuition increases at community and technical colleges in West Virginia, officials are of two minds.
Presidents from the state institutions recently passed a resolution that proposes no tuition increases for next budget year if Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin does not cut their state funding.
At the same time, the presidents also are discussing a change in how they charge tuition, and Chancellor James Skidmore of the state Council for Community and Technical College Education said it would lead to higher student costs.
"It is a tuition increase for those students who take beyond 12 credit hours now," Skidmore said Tuesday during a state legislative committee meeting.
Right now students are considered full-time if they take at least 12 credit hours per semester, Skidmore said. To graduate with a two-year degree on time, Skidmore said a student must take at least 15 credit hours per semester. Most students don't take more than 18, he said.
Those who do take more than 12 credits are getting a deal on tuition.
"They're paying a full-time rate at 12 credit hours. So the six additional hours, they're not paying for," Skidmore said. "If you charge them on a per-credit-hour rate, obviously they'd be paying for those additional hours."
The new price would vary among institutions just as tuition rates do now. However, Skidmore said the method for determining that rate is the same for every institution.
Under the new system, a school would divide its full tuition rate by 12 to determine the per-credit-hour rate. Then it would add that dollar amount onto a student's bill for each additional credit hour he or she was taking, he said.
Most states use the per-credit-hour billing system, Skidmore said.
The change would affect every institution differently because the number of full-time students at each school is different, Skidmore said. However, he told legislators preliminary figures show the changes would more than account for the proposed reduction in state budget dollars.
The community college council has not yet considered the change, and it would take legislation to change the credit-hour pay rate, Skidmore said.
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Bacon lovers will find all they want on supermarket shelves in the coming months, though their pocketbooks might take a hit.
The summer drought is likely to nose up prices for pork products next year, by as much as 10 percent. But U.S. agricultural economists are labeling as “hogwash” reports of a global bacon shortage issued by Britain’s National Pig Association.
Pork supplies are expected to decrease next year because of the high cost of pig feed resulting from severe damage to feed crops this year.
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NEA names Maryland’s Martin O’Malley ‘America’s Greatest Education Governor’
Award presented at NEA’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS - July 05, 2010 -
“Governor O’Malley took office in 2007, just months before the nation plunged into a deep recession,” said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. “Despite the economic devastation to his state, he kept his eye on the big picture—he understands that the recipe for economic recovery and success means preparing Maryland’s young people for the challenges of the 21st century.
“Governor O’Malley is a strong advocate for public education,” Van Roekel added. “He has made great strides in increasing school funding, expanding school programs, and taking the needs of the whole child into account in education policy decisions. O’Malley listens to parents, educators and community members when making policy decisions that affect Maryland’s public schools. He continues to be a champion of public education and truly believes, as we do, that education will lead to a brighter and better future for all of us.
“Lots of governors like to think of themselves as education governors, but Governor O’Malley has really earned that accolade.”
Under O’Malley, Maryland has made progress in closing the achievement gap. A key strategy has been the governor’s insistence that underprivileged and minority students be taught by teachers as highly qualified as those who teach economically advantaged students. That approach is paying off. In 2009, for example, 7.5 percent of Hispanic students and 9.6 percent of African-American students earned a score of 3 or better on at least one AP exam during high school. That’s up from 5.7 percent and 7 percent, respectively, in 2004.
O’Malley also secured a freeze on tuition to Maryland institutions of higher learning, making higher education more affordable for Marylanders.
"Public education is the cornerstone of our democracy, and especially in these difficult times, we must remember that it is also the key to moving our economy forward and the key to our future,” said O’Malley. “In Maryland, we've made some very tough decisions to protect funding for our schools, and it is paying off.
“We've worked with our Maryland teachers to create the No. 1 public school system in the nation. I'm honored that the NEA recognizes our strong partnership and the great results it has produced with this award.
“While as a country we don’t always do the best job at showing our appreciation,” O’Malley told NEA members, “your work is the answer to the great global challenges of our times and the key to unlocking our greatest job-creating potential and expanding our global leadership in a rapidly changing world. Improving pre-K, K-12, and post-secondary education is essential for unleashing the job-creating, life-saving, power of American innovation.”
NEA President Van Roekel presented the award to O’Malley in front of the 9,000 educators who are attending NEA’s Representative Assembly in New Orleans. The Maryland governor is only the third person to receive this award. Previous winners were Gov. Richardson of New Mexico and Gov. Easley of North Carolina.
Some of O’Malley’s other accomplishments: reinvigorating Maryland’s Career and Technology Education and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs statewide, and launching the comprehensive Maryland STEM Innovation Network to promote the delivery of high quality STEM education at all levels throughout the state.
“Governor O'Malley has consistently placed public education at the top of his agenda,” said Clara Floyd, president of the Maryland State Education Association."In the most difficult of economic times, he championed historic funding of K-12 public schools, which has increased student achievement and led us to become No. 1 in the nation.”
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Rockefeller University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, the health and medicine branch of the National Academy of Sciences. Announced today at the institute’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Tessier-Lavigne is among 65 new members and five foreign associates elected this year.
Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.
A world leader in the study of brain development, Tessier-Lavigne has pioneered the identification of the molecules that direct the formation of connections among nerve cells
to establish neuronal circuits in the mammalian brain and spinal cord. The mechanisms he has identified are important for understanding how the human brain forms during normal development, and are increasingly being implicated in a variety of other processes, including vascular patterning and axonal regeneration following spinal cord injury, as well as neurodegeneration such as that seen in Alzheimer’s disease.
A native of Trenton, Canada, Tessier-Lavigne obtained his Ph.D. from University College London and performed postdoctoral work at the MRC Developmental Neurobiology Unit in London and at Columbia University. He has been on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. In 2003, Tessier-Lavigne joined Genentech, one of the world’s leading biotech companies, where he oversaw 1,400 people in disease research and drug discovery as executive vice president and chief scientific officer.
Tessier-Lavigne was elected the 10th president of Rockefeller in 2010 and began in March 2011. He heads the Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair.
He is the recipient of numerous scientific awards and is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Societies of the U.K. and Canada.
Established in 1970 as the health branch of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine has become recognized as a national resource for independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on health issues. Projects during the past year include studies on calculating people’s vitamin D and calcium needs; improving the process for clearing medical devices for the market; preventing obesity among infants and toddlers; improving American’s access to oral health care; preparing for the future of HIV/AIDS in Africa; ensuring the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people; and enhancing nurses’ roles in improving health care.
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There is a startling gap between the glamorous television world of "CSI" and the gritty reality of the forensic crime lab. With few established scientific standards, no central oversight and poor regulation of examiners, forensics in the U.S. is in a state of crisis. In "Forensics on Trial," NOVA investigates how modern forensics, including the analysis of fingerprints, bite marks, ballistics, hair, and tool marks, can send innocent men and women to prison -- and sometimes even to death row. Shockingly, of more than 250 inmates exonerated by DNA testing over the last decade, more than 50% of the wrongful convictions stemmed from invalid or improperly handled forensic science. With the help of vivid recreations of actual trials and cases, NOVA investigated today's shaky state of crime science as well as cutting-edge solutions that could help investigators put the real criminals behind bars. | <urn:uuid:d709c3c7-0989-4c46-b6a0-6126db13412d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.klru.org/episode/nova/forensics-on-trial/?M=schedule | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942746 | 181 | 1.578125 | 2 |
There were some mixed housing numbers released today. The NAR says the resale of existing homes increased by 12.3 percent from November to December. However, the overall sale of homes in 2010 was down 4.8 percent from 2009 and was the lowest year of sales since 1997.
At the same time, the median sales price for a previously owned home ended 2010 at $168,800, which is 1% lower than 2009. Yet, on a more positive note, the number of existing homes on the market dropped 4.2% in December from an 9.5-month supply in November to a 8.1-month supply of homes.
Still, there are serious concerns that the shadow inventory of homes—those not listed as a part of the housing supply, but are likely to hit the market in the coming months and years—is growing. According to a Standard and Poor's report, the total supply of homes as of the third quarter of 2010 was 44 months—a 25 percent increase from the start of last year. As I noted on this blog back in November, Fitch believes the shadow inventory is about 40 months of supply
CNN Money cites Dian Westerback, an author of the S&P report, as saying "The problem is you have all these properties coming down the pipeline that are nearly certain to hit the market. That's going to be a negative for the supply-demand equation." She also says the biggest contributor to the growing shadow inventory is the delay in foreclosures. And the recent robo-signing scandal is certain to make that slow going foreclosure problem worse.
But on the upside, the CNN Money article reports, it looks like mortgage modifications—a big source of shadow inventory supply since some 85 percent of modified mortgages wound up back in default two years ago and getting foreclosed on anyway—are getting more stable, with the re-default rate now around 50 percent.
I also wrote about this last November at The Corner:
The focus so far has been on using government programs to “fix” the housing market. But whether it’s the modification plan (HAMP), the refinancing plan (HARP), the First-time Homebuyers Tax Credit, or Treasury’s mortgage-backed securities program, prices are still low and there are still significant housing problems.
The tax credit only temporarily boosted sales. HAMP has only delayed some foreclosures; over half of its modifications have failed. Combined, these programs have boosted the so-called “shadow inventory” for homes in America – basically, the homes that should be for sale on the market today and would be if not for a government program or foreclosure procedural backlog.
The problem is that when this inventory of homes eventually gets put up for sale, it will boost supply and put downward pressure on housing prices. Everyone who is buying a home today might be overpaying, since the market has not been allowed to find its true bottom.
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John Lowenhaupt's decision to refuse induction into the William and Mary athletic hall of fame is to be admired and questioned.
Lowenhaupt made the refusal to protest the status of the basketball program. The Indians are currently ranked in the bottom 10 of the 290 NCAA Division I basketball teams.
Ten years ago, when Lowenhaupt played, the Indians were good enough to earn a berth in the post-season National Invitation Tournament.
How did William and Mary go from a playoff team to the bottom 10? Mostly it was coaching changes and the inability to recruit quality players.
The oddity of college basketball is that it takes just one blue-chip player to create an instant contender. Indiana State, with Larry Bird, was a Final Four team. Bird graduated and Indiana State hasn't had a winning record since.
This year, without Danny Ferry who was hobbled by a back injury, Duke lost four of five games. When Ferry returned to health, the Blue Devils were again one of the top teams in the country.
To Lowenhaupt's dismay, the Indians have had no luck in blue-chip recruiting. His protest is well founded.
But the forum is wrong. The hall of fame induction was to have been a personal award, not a political venue.
Just by accepting, Lowenhaupt would have reminded people that not many years ago William and Mary was a quality program. And the obvious question generated would have been, "What happened?"
By refusing, he shifted attention to himself and away from the problem he was trying to point out.
THANKS, MARIO - After he won the International Boxing Federation lightweight title by decisioning Greg Haugen, Pernell Whitaker of Norfolk used a press conference to thank the people who had helped his career.
One of those people was Mario Cuffee.
It was Cuffee who inadvertently launched Whitaker's boxing career.
One summer day when he was eight years old, Whitaker was involved in a street fight. Clyde Taylor, who ran a youth boxing program in Whitaker's neighborhood, intervened.
Do your fighting the gym, Taylor said. "He took me home and got my parents' permission, then he took me to the gym and put the gloves on me," Whitaker remembered.
Whitaker's opponent in that street fight was Mario Cuffee.
Cuffee was at Whitaker's post-fight press conference. After he explained the story, Whitaker smiled and said, "Thanks, Mario,"
Haugen looked up and said, "Yeah, thanks Mario."
REACH OUT - Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz said he has never had an unlisted telephone number.
"I'm just a football coach," said the man who guided the Fighting Irish to the national championship this year. "I figure if somebody wants to call me, he ought to be to get my number."
Has that created any unusual problems?
"Well, my wife and I have learned not to go to bed until the bars close," Holtz said.
GOLDEN OLDIE - Years ago, stock car race driver Richard Petty was on the Johnny Carson Show.
Carson's question: "How do you know when the pit crew is done changing tires and you can go back out on the track?"
Petty's answer: "They let the jack down."
ASK AGAIN - With pro hockey moving into Norfolk and pro hockey wanting to move into Hampton, an age-old question is again making the rounds: Can Hampton Roads support professional sports?
The answer is yes, but first, changes are needed.
Hampton Roads remains in the grip of a provincial mentality. The area's seven cities insist on working independently and competing over opportunities that actually benefit the entire area.
Exhibit A is the current hockey situation. Norfolk has secured a team in the East Coast Hockey League. Hampton wants one. Groups from the two cities are in competition.
What would happen if they worked together, pooling resources and savvy? They would have the financial and civic clout to bring in high quality hockey.
As it is, they have the ECHL, a low minor league that is several steps below the major league National Hockey League.
This has always been Hampton Roads' problem. When professional baseball moved into the area many years ago, the cities and civic leaders didn't work together. Rather than one quality product, minor league teams were placed in Portsmouth, Norfolk, and on the Peninsula.
When an attempt was made to build an auto race track in the area, valuable time was lost to squabbling over in which city the track would be built. In the end, no track was built. Instead, Paul Sawyer was able to shelve the issue by refurbishing his Richmond International Raceway.
The same thing happened to a horse race track proposal. While the cities were hashing out a way to work in concert, a group in New Kent County took the lead and in all likelihood will build a track.
A visionary group named the Future of Hampton Roads has attempted to address this issue. It established a sports committee that examined resources and potential and made recommendations. The committee decided the area would support a variety of professional sports endeavors.
Nothing has been done because provincialism continues to block the way.
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This spring, Florida, Massachusetts, Ohio and several other states will review their statutory standards covering post-conviction testing—particularly DNA testing—to test biological evidence using modern scientific technology or biological evidence not available at the time of a defendant’s original trial or conviction. Several motivations factor into the states’ increased interest in post-conviction testing, from funding to ideology. This article briefly revisits a few compelling cases and reports on recent events possibly associated with these motivations.
Jerry Frank Townsend confessed. Arrested in 1979 for the rape and murder of a pregnant Miami woman, Townsend accompanied police to the murder scene and confessed in gruesome detail. Then police led him to the south Florida crime scenes of five unsolved rape-murders occurring between 1973 and 1979 and videoed Townsend as he confessed to all of the additional crimes.
Townsend, with the mental capacity of an eight year old, pled guilty in 1982 to a total of four Miami rape-murders and two Broward County slayings, none of which he committed. He was sentenced to serve seven concurrent life sentences. Townsend confessed largely to please authority figures, a practice commonly adopted by persons with his mental and emotional limitations.
Ironically, the mother of thirteen year old victim Sonja Marion suspected that Townsend had not murdered her daughter. In 1998, Ms. Marion convinced Fort Lauderdale police to test a semen sample preserved on her daughter’s shorts using new forensic technology not available at the time of Townsend’s confessions. The test results implicated another man, Eddie Lee Mosley, who was eventually convicted of Sonja’s murder as well as the rape and murder of numerous other victims including all the murders to which Townsend confessed.
Townsend was exonerated and released from prison in 2001 after serving twenty-two years in prison. He would likely still be in prison without the intervention of Sonja Marion’s mother. This is due to the fact that Florida’s current post-conviction relief statute enacted in 2001, requires prisoners to have “been tried and found guilty,” and bars petitioners like Townsend who were convicted after a confession or a plea deal.
Meanwhile, Frank Lee Smith awaited execution on Florida’s death row. Arrested for the 1985 brutal rape and murder of eight year old Shandra Whitehead, Smith confessed after police convinced him that three eye-witnesses had unequivocally identified him as the murderer, although erroneous eye-witness identifications are the leading cause of wrongful convictions. Smith did not plead guilty, but his confession presented at trial convinced the jury of his guilt and defeated his insanity defense.
By the late 1990’s, Smith began to repeatedly petition the courts for newly developed DNA testing on the biological material still available from the trial. Although Smith was convicted at a contested trial, the court denied Smith’s petitions because his post-conviction appeals through existing laws were time-barred.
At the same time that the new DNA evidence in the Townsend case implicated Eddie Lee Mosley as the perpetrator of rapes and murders throughout Broward County, an eye-witness at Smith’s trial recanted and declared that Mosley looked more like Shandra’s murderer than Smith. Broward County prosecutors suspended their opposition to Smith’s requests for DNA testing.
Once again, DNA results pointed to Mosley. Smith could have walked out of prison on December 15, 2000, the same day he was exonerated for the murder of Shandra Whitehead—except that Smith died eleven months before the DNA evidence proved his innocence, after serving fourteen years on death row. Arduous opposition to post-conviction testing has another dark side: while an innocent prisoner remains incarcerated, the true perpetrator can remain on the street. Eddie Lee Mosley was ultimately credited with at least sixty rapes and twelve south Florida homicides—including several that he committed during the time that Townsend and Smith waited for the state to grant their testing pleas.
Since the mid-1990s, improvements and accuracy in testing have advanced DNA evidence as the scientific standard used to prove guilt or innocence in investigations and trials. Every state has passed legislation requiring DNA collection from criminals, at some level, which in turn has solved thousands of cold cases across the country. Yet authorization for post-conviction testing of untested biological evidence remains difficult for the majority of petitioners to obtain.
Most statutes contain time limits or other restrictions limiting authorization in the thirty-nine states which offer post-conviction DNA testing. Over half the statutes limit petitions to certain types of convictions. Kentucky and Nevada limit applications to death row inmates only. Some time limits, often called “sunset” provisions, can expire before the retained DNA evidence can be located or tested, although many states have repeatedly extended these deadlines. Many petitions are delayed while appellate courts debate statutory language like “actual innocence” in cases where a favorable outcome would not conclusively prove the petitioner’s innocence.
This issue is pending in Pennsylvania and Tennessee. In Pennsylvania John Dolenc has petitioned to test thirty-nine blood spatters using DNA technology not available in 1975 when he was convicted of his wife’s brutal murder. Dolenc’s petition has been denied despite the fact that retesting the samples using modern DNA testing could not only exclude Dolenc as the blood source, but potentially identify another suspect. Pennsylvania’s statutes require that anticipated results must prove “actual innocence” and consequently prosecutors argue that merely eliminating Dolenc as the source of the blood will not conclusively prove that he is innocent. Ironically, Dolenc’s attorneys claim that during the trial, prosecutors supported their case using blood-type evidence indicating that Dolenc, his wife, or an unknown party could have been the blood source.
In another case, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in January from attorneys representing Paul House, convicted of the 1986 rape and murder of his Tennessee neighbor. The Court’s task is not to determine House’s ultimate guilt or innocence. Rather, it is to define what constitutes a "truly persuasive showing of actual innocence" before a federal court may order a re-trial based upon new scientific technology unavailable at the time of an inmate’s conviction. A likely catalyst advancing House is the Justice for All Act (JFAA) enacted by Congress in 2004. This act includes less restrictive procedures for granting postconviction DNA testing to all federal prisoners and is hailed by advocates as a model statute for states to follow. Many states continue to resist enacting or amending statutes to expand postconviction testing using new or substantially improved science. It appears that House is intended to put those states on notice that their days of unnecessary opposition are numbered.
Statistics supporting the tenacity of advocates are impressive, especially if one believes that one wrongful conviction is one too many. Since 1989, when The Innocence Project began advocating for DNA testing of critical evidence to potentially exonerate inmates, 175 defendants have been deemed not guilty of the crime for which they have spent years incarcerated.
Of course, even 175 wrongful convictions is not an indictment of a justice system that “gets it right” tens of thousands of times every day. Additionally, many truly guilty inmates never recant their innocence. Consider the case of Roger Keith Coleman, a Virginia coal miner who vehemently maintained his innocence after his conviction for the 1986 brutal rape and murder of his 19-year-old sister-in-law. Only moments before his execution in 1992, Coleman chillingly proclaimed, “An innocent man is going to be murdered tonight.” In the days before Coleman’s electrocution, an international outpouring of support for clemency included a compelling cover on Time Magazine and an appeal from Pope John Paul II. DNA testing as late as 1990 had indicated an approximate—and arguably uneasy—1 in 500 chances that someone other than Coleman committed the crimes. Virginia’s outgoing governor authorized tests using newer DNA technology on swab samples to quell persistent claims that Virginia had executed an innocent man. The new probability yielded 1 chance in 19-million.
Since Pennsylvania enacted a post-conviction testing statute in 2002, the state has authorized only two out of fifteen testing petitions filed in Allegheny County (population 2.5 million). Tests have already exonerated a man released from prison after serving 19 years for the rape he didn’t commit in the first case and results from the second case are still pending.
In the pending case, Drew Whitley was convicted for the 1988 cold-blooded murder of 22 year-old Noreen Malloy during a robbery attempt. DNA testing was unavailable to identify forty-one hairs found in a stocking mask recovered from the MacDonald’s parking lot crime scene at the time of his trial. After the technology became available, Whitley petitioned the state for six additional years before obtaining the tests. Lost, destroyed or misplaced evidence becomes more likely as statutory obstacles and adversarial debates delay petitions. By the time the state granted Whitley’s petition, only two hairs could be located after a flood damaged police headquarters where the evidence was stored. Tests using the limited sample were inconclusive. In 2002, however, additional hair samples were discovered and another test scheduled. As of late 2005, the results are still pending.
As noted above, Pennsylvania is one of several states that does not authorize new testing unless a petitioner can show that a favorable test result will prove the petitioner’s “actual innocence.” Opponents of eliminating such restrictions and expanding access to post-conviction testing often cite two primary justifications for their opposition: 1) the fear of burdensome costs to process a “flood of frivolous claims” and 2) the importance of “finality,” especially for victims and their families.
Fears that post-conviction testing would open a “floodgate of frivolous claims” and overburden the criminal justice system have proven unfounded. In fact, one recent national survey reports a lack of prisoner requests even in states with the most lenient standards for post-conviction testing.
A Texas appellate judge in 1990 defended the court’s opinion denying an inmate’s petition for advanced DNA testing developed after his conviction for rape and murder by proclaiming, “[w]e can’t give new trials to everyone who establishes after conviction, that they might be innocent. We would have no finality in the criminal justice system, and finality is important” because continuously reopened adjudications “hold little respect.” The inmate ultimately received new testing and a pardon after the results conclusively proved his innocence—ten years after his initial appeal. Texas, now has one of the least restrictive post-conviction testing statutes; this year further steps to provide judges with increased discretion in granting DNA testing were recommended by a criminal justice panel appointed by the governor.
Similar renewed interest in post-conviction testing is quite probably attributable to federal action. The Innocence Protection Act (IPA), enacted in 2004 as part of the larger JFAA, offers incentives for state’s willing to pass or improve statutes to conform to provisions for post-conviction DNA testing specified in the Act. The law provides funding for 1) testing a nationwide backlog of more than 300,000 rape kits, 2) grants to prosecutor and defender offices, and 3) access to post-conviction testing for prisoners. Additionally, the law provides state grants to improve the quality of death penalty trials and assist families of victims.
Florida has the dubious distinction of exonerating twenty-three death row inmates - more than any other state. Perhaps that distinction as well as the incentives available through IPA will play a role when Florida’s legislature votes this session on identical Senate and House bills (S186 and H0061). If the bills are passed, Florida will amend its existing 2001 Post-sentencing Testing/DNA Evidence statute, expanding access to post-conviction testing to all felons, including those convicted after a plea arrangement, and eliminating time limits for petitions. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement estimates that approximately four percent of Florida’s prison population, or 2,419 inmates, are currently eligible for post-sentencing testing under the state’s existing statute. Enacting the proposed amendment would increase the number to approximately 3,483 potential analysis requests, or 696 cases per year spread over a five year period. Testing costs performed in-house are estimated at $452,000 per year for five years after a one-time purchase of equipment for $273,000, or slightly more than $700 per inmate to evaluate a claim of innocence.
By comparison, last year Florida authorized $2 million to compensate a wrongfully convicted man who served twenty-two years in prison at the time of his 2004 release. Wilton Dedge, convicted of raping a 17-year-old woman in 1981, first requested DNA testing in 1988 at his own expense. This was possibly the state’s first case petitioning for post-sentencing DNA testing. At the time of the request, Florida, like many states currently, did not have a post-conviction DNA testing statute and Dedge’s petition was considered time barred under the state’s general post-conviction relief procedures. After multiple appeals, testing was granted nearly ten years later. However, determinative testing was not completed until 2001, after newer DNA technology was required to test the badly degraded samples. The final result conclusively proved that Dedge was not the rapist. A former Florida lawmaker recently reflected on the testing delay, commenting, ''I have asked the question several times: why not simply allow the test?''
There are so many seemingly needless obstacles and so much contentious debate engaged in establishing the certainty of justice served or justice subverted. To add insult to injury, the cost involved is a nominal $700. Peter Neufeld, co-founder of The Innocence Project in a 2000 interview asked: “If the issue is innocence, why quibble?” Could the debate be dispatched by asking this one simple question?
Innocence Project Policy Page, The Innocence Project Case Profiles, Innocence Project (last visited March 23, 2006).
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Postsentence DNA Testing, S. 186, 2006 Leg. (Fla. 2006) (Senate 0186: Relating to Postsentence DNA Testing). | <urn:uuid:cad1a4bb-0e1b-427a-bc88-78c7b7a9a4ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ncstl.org/news/Fitterman3-06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949775 | 3,421 | 1.773438 | 2 |
9/11 Police Aid Foundation
The 9/11 Police Aid Foundation assists members of the NYPD who were disabled during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The officers are suffering from illnesses due to their exposure to toxins at the World Trade Center and Fresh Kill Landfill.
September 11, 2010
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ALDRAT, Metropolis – EVE Online can be highly intimidating for new pilots. Mastering even the basics to survive in New Eden is a daunting challenge. To make this easier for capsuleers, Seamus Donohue and EVE University have released a series of tutorial videos which guide new pilots through character creation through the introductory career mission tracks.
This 46-part series, encompassing over seven hours of content, can be found at http://tinyurl.com/SurviveEVE, or by searching for “How to Survive EVE Online” on YouTube. Each video runs from 6 to 14 minutes in length.
“I like explaining things,” said Seamus Donohue, “so when I saw ‘How to Survive Minecraft’ by ‘paulsoaresjr’ on YouTube, I decided it would be a good idea to create a similar series for EVE Online. In my case, I had watched the entire Minecraft series before actually buying Minecraft.”
“We are delighted with the excellent work that Seamus Donohue has done,” said Neville Smit, EVE University’s Director of Education. “The quality and usefulness of these tutorial videos are excellent. Anyone joining EVE who wants some practical advice about how to get through those critical first steps in New Eden will find these video lessons to be a life-saver – perhaps literally!”
Conservative estimate suggest that the collection of videos will both help the successful rate of attraction of new players, and will addtionally assist in the retention of players who have already signed on to the game, but are not quite sure where to start. It has always been the goal of EVE University to help these individuals, and it is fully expected in the coming months that the rising popularity of these videos will result in rising rates of admissions.
EVE University recently recognized Seamus Donohue’s long list of contributions as an Instructor and Mentor by awarding him the EVE University Professor Medal – one of only four Capsuleers to have earned this high honor.
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On Wednesday the full House, debating the full-year continuing resolution HR 1, voted 228-203 to approve an amendment that would transfer $298 million from NASA to the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services, a program that provides funding for local police forces. The amendment, introduced by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) was actually debated Tuesday evening by the House and failed by a voice vote, but prevailed in the recorded vote hold over to the next day, with 70 Republicans joining 158 Democrats to approve the amendment.
In the debate Tuesday night (starting on page H890 of the Congressional Record), Weiner indicated he only reluctantly chose NASA as the source of the funding to support the COPS program. “Now, do I like the idea we have to take it from NASA space exploration? I don’t know any of the crime statistics on Mars, and I’m interested, but it’s a bad choice,” he said. “If any of you like space exploration, so do I. In a way, I’m playing the game too. I’m taking from one place to give to another. But I do believe it’s in the interest of all of us to try to set these priorities straight.”
Defending the agency was Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), chairman of the CJS subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. “This bill makes deliberate choices within NASA to strike an appropriate balance between achieving budget savings, procurement support for NASA’s $16 billion in annual contracts, and safety and mission assurance to prevent spaceflight accidents,” he said. “To do this, you would almost guarantee that something could potentially happen.” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tried to find a middle ground, saying he supported COPS but that the funding should not be taken from NASA.
The $298 million would specifically come from NASA’s Cross-Agency Support account, a relatively poorly understood part of the agency’s overall budget that covers management and operations of the agency and its various field centers, as well as its safety and mission assurance work. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) was critical of the growth of that account over the last several years in his comments on the amendment. “This is a cross-agency support budget which has gone up six times, 600 percent in 2 years, and it’s going to go up again here today, and we’re going to slash the heck out of the COPS program. Now, go home and explain that to your constituents,” he said. “You can’t even say, Look up there, because it’s not a satellite. It’s not headed to the Moon or to Mars. You have to say, Hey, it’s the cross-agency support budget at NASA, and when the criminal is breaking down your door, call NASA. That probably isn’t going to work too well.”
Passage of the amendment doesn’t guarantee NASA’s final FY11 appropriations will include that cut. While the House will likely pass HR 1 (debate on the bill continued as of Wednesday evening), Senate appropriators have expressed their opposition to the bill, raising the prospect of an impasse and even a government shutdown if some kind of continuing resolution isn’t passed when the current one expires on March 4.
Also: if you continuing reading the Congressional Record after the end of the debate on the Weiner amendment, there’s also a brief debate on an amendment introduced, and then withdrawn, by Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) to transfer $517 million of NASA funding from the agency’s climate change research to human spaceflight, continuing a recent theme by Olson and several other members. “The 15 other agencies conducting climate research can pick up the slack while freeing up resources for NASA to make a truly unique contribution, maintaining U.S. dominance in human space flight,” he argued. Olson did not explain why he withdrew the amendment, but Rep. Wolf said he would work with Olson and others in the future “to maintain a robust human space flight program at NASA.” | <urn:uuid:0cda58b6-80de-4c8c-83cc-aba8a16d832e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/02/16/crime-takes-a-bite-out-of-nasa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957415 | 885 | 1.5625 | 2 |
LONDON -- Britain's bipartisan consensus on Persian Gulf policy frayed yesterday as the Conservative government prepared for war and the opposition Labor Party called for more time for sanctions to work.
The difference will be highlighted in a House of Commons emergency debate on the gulf next week as the United Nations' Jan. 15 deadline for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait arrives.
Labor's leader, Neil Kinnock, who chaired a meeting of his party leadership yesterday, said that sanctions were hurting Iraq not only economically, but also militarily.
"They continue to be evidence of the total isolation of Iraq and the utter hopelessness of Saddam Hussein," he said.
His foreign affairs spokesman, Gerald Kaufman, explained: "What we have said is that we want sanctions to work. We want time to be given for sanctions to work. Everybody in this country takes the view that Iraq must get out of Kuwait. There is no doubt about that.
"If, in the end, the only way to get Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait is force, then force will have to be used. But, of course, every sane person wants to avoid war, wants to avoid killing, wants to uphold the U.N. sanctions policy."
Both Mr. Kinnock and Mr. Kaufman stressed that if British troops were deployed in action, Labor would support the initiative.
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