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One group of tech stocks could be key to the next leg of the market rally
Chipmakers are starting to play catch up.
After lagging the tech rally for the year, the semiconductors space bucked broader market weakness on Thursday to head higher. The SMH semiconductor ETF is up nearly 5% this week, better than the 3% increase for the XLK technology ETF.
“The semiconductor group overall has been clearly a leader. Back in 2018, they gave us a nice warning signal in advance of the late year sell-off there,” said Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak, on CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Thursday. “And then it rallied twice as much as the rest of the market the first half of last year, and then led the whole market higher in the first two months of the rebound in March.”
Since March, he added, its rise has slowed and it was underperforming through May and June. However, this week’s breakout where the SMH ETF made a “higher high” looks “very bullish,” Maley said.
“This is kind of showing that the tech rally is starting to broaden out a little bit. If that can continue, I think it’s going to be very good for the overall market as well,” he said.
Gina Sanchez, CEO of Chantico Global, said the Covid crisis has shined a spotlight on the importance of technology, a trend she sees continuing.
“The trend towards remote working, the revamping and revisiting of business continuity plans, the push towards 5G, all of that has played into the hands of semis stocks,” Sanchez said during the same “Trading Nation” segment. “The continued reliance on technology also helps.”
The SMH ETF is up more than 30% over the past three months. Nvidia, ON Semiconductor and Marvell Technology are among the top performers.
“These trends, by the way, aren’t going to end with Covid. So, I think that this is a broader trend that can last a long time,” Sanchez said.
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Kopp-Etchells Effect: Michael Yon Named Sparkling Photographic Phenomenon to Honor Soldiers
I haven't kept up with Michael Yon since he left Afghanistan.
Instapundit has an update, "THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS MICHAEL YON, WHO MANY INSTAPUNDIT READERS WILL REMEMBER: How a Combat Photographer Named a Phenomenon to Honor Soldiers."
Labels: Afghanistan, Blogging, Photography
Supermodel Paulina Porizkova, 51, in Tiny Bikini on Beach in Hawaii
She's amazing.
Still looking fabulous.
And she's a rock-solid mom as well.
At London's Daily Mail, "'No makeup and no filters!': Paulina Porizkova, 51, proves she's still a supermodel as she poses in tiny bikini on beach in Hawaii."
FLASHBACK: "Rule 5 Saturday: Paulina Porizkova."
On Board the USS Eisenhower (VIDEO)
At London's Daily Mail, "EXCLUSIVE: 'We kill bad guys and blow up their stuff' - on board the USS Eisenhower as its Top Guns blast ISIS with bombing missions around the clock."
Also, via the Joint Forces Channel:
Labels: National Security, Terrorism, U.S. Military, U.S. Navy, War on Terror
Hedge Funds Take Short Position Against Germany's Deutsche Bank
Hedge funds are attacking Deutsche Bank AG, and profiting.
At WSJ, "Hedge Funds Profiting on Bets Against Deutsche Bank":
Hedge funds that have placed bets against Deutsche Bank AG are reaping the rewards.
Deutsche Bank shares are down nearly 50% since the start of the year on concerns about its capital position, leading to large profits for a number of hedge funds who have been running short positions on the German lender, betting its stock will fall further.
However, it has been a bumpy ride. Deutsche’s shares fell as much as 8% in morning trading Friday, reaching a record, following reports that clients, including several large hedge funds, have pulled billions of dollars from the bank. But they later recovered to close up 6.4% in afternoon trade in Frankfurt.
Greenwich, Conn.-based AQR Capital Management, which runs $159 billion in assets, revealed that it had a short position in Deutsche Bank on Wednesday, according to a filing made public by the German regulator on Thursday.
AQR was also among a number of funds that have recently taken steps to withdraw securities or cash from the bank, or dial back their trading activities, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Deutsche Chief Executive John Cryan said in a message to employees Friday that media speculation that a few hedge funds had reduced some activities with the bank was causing “unjustified concerns.”
He said the bank had “strong fundamentals” and pointed to the sale this week of British insurer Abbey Life for $1.2 billion and the bank’s plans to sell its stake in China’s Hua Xia Bank. “We fulfill all current capital requirements and our restructuring is well on track,” he said.
Other hedge funds to have bets against the bank include Marshall Wace LLP, Discovery Capital Management LLC and Highfields Capital Management LP, according to filings. Marshall Wace first declared a 0.5% short position in Deutsche Bank in February. By Tuesday, it had doubled its bet to 1.03%, although this was cut back Thursday to 0.9%.
Discovery first disclosed a position at the start of August and increased it late that month, while Highfields first disclosed a position in July, which it quickly increased.
Hedge funds’ bets against the troubled German lender have been cranked up in recent days, although they are still below levels hit earlier this summer...
Labels: Economics, Economy, Germany, Global Finance, Wall Street
Edward Majerczyk Pleads Guilty in Celebrity Hacking Scandal
I wondered why search results were pulling up my old Jennifer Lawrence posts.
At LAT, "Man convicted of hacking Gmail and iCloud accounts of at least 30 celebrities in L.A."
Labels: Celebrities, Entertainment, Hackers, Hacking, Hollywood
Angelo Codevilla, The Ruling Class
At Amazon, Angelo Codevilla, The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It.
And see Professor Codevilla's essay, "After the Republic" (via Instapundit).
Labels: Amazon Sales, Books, Government, Politics, Reading, Shopping
Senate Votes to Override Obama's Veto of Saudi 9/11 Lawsuit Bill (VIDEO)
And the vote was 97-1?
Can Obama really be that badly on the wrong side of the issue?
Indeed he can.
At USA Today, "Congress rejects Obama veto of 9/11 bill; first override of his presidency":
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate voted Wednesday to reject President Obama's veto of legislation allowing lawsuits against foreign sponsors of terrorism — the first successful override of a presidential veto since Obama took office.
The president had vetoed the legislation Friday because he said the bill — known as the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA — would infringe on the president’s ability to conduct foreign policy. It was the 12th veto of his presidency.
But after an intense push by 9/11 survivors and families of victims who want to sue Saudi Arabia based on claims the country played a role in the 2001 terror attacks, even Obama’s Democratic allies on Capitol Hill voted to override his veto.
The House voted 348-77, well above the two-thirds majority needed. The final vote tally in the Senate was 97-1. Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., cast the lone dissenting vote.
"In our polarized politics of today, this is pretty much close to a miraculous occurrence," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said. Democrats and Republicans in both chambers agreed, he said, that the bill "gives the victims of the terrorist attack on our own soil an opportunity to seek the justice they deserve."
The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said he shared some of Obama's concerns but said the victims' rights outweighed them.
"We cannot in good conscience close the courthouse door to those families who have suffered unimaginable losses," Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said.
Obama told CNN on Wednesday that he thinks overriding his veto was a "mistake" and "basically a political vote." But he said he understood why Congress voted the way it did, despite what he suggested were private misgivings among some lawmakers.
“If you're perceived as voting against 9/11 families right before an election, not surprisingly, that's a hard vote for people to take," he said. "But it would have been the right thing to do."
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest decried the override as the "single most embarrassing thing the United States Senate has done possibly since 1983."
"Ultimately these senators are going to have to answer their own conscience and their constituents as they account for their actions today," he said, adding that Reid showed "courage" in opposing it.
The measure essentially creates an exception to sovereign immunity, the doctrine that holds one country can’t be sued in another country’s courts. It allows plaintiffs to sue other nations in U.S. federal courts for monetary damages in cases of injury, death or property damage caused by acts of international terrorism in the United States.
The White House has argued that the legislation will prompt other nations to retaliate, stripping the immunity the United States enjoys in other parts of the world. Obama said in a letter to Reid before Wednesday's vote that lawsuits already are allowed against countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism by the U.S. government.
The president warned the law could be "devastating" to the U.S. military, diplomatic and intelligence communities...
And watch, at CNN, "Senate overrides Obama's veto 97-1."
The House voted 348 to 77 to override as well, so it's a done deal: the first congressional override of this administration. At LAT, "In a first, Congress rebukes Obama with veto override of 9/11 bill."
Labels: Barack Obama, Congress, Law, Obama Administration, September 11, Terrorism, War on Terror
Deal of the Day: Save on FoodSaver Vacuum Sealing System
At Amazon, FoodSaver FM2435-ECR Vacuum Sealing System with Bonus Handheld Sealer and Starter Kit, Silver.
Also, Nathaniel Persily, ed., Solutions to Political Polarization in America.
And, James Campbell, Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America.
BONUS: Beth Akers and Matthew M. Chingos, Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt.
Labels: Amazon Sales, Books, Politics, Reading, Shopping
Robert L. Shibley, Twisting Title IX
This is a vital read.
At Amazon, Robert L. Shibley, Twisting Title IX.
Labels: Amazon Sales, Books, Civil Rights, Political Correctness, Progressives, Radical Left, Reading, Shopping
Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy [BUMPED]
Following-up from Sunday, "Wendy Warren, New England Bound."
At Amazon, Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832.
I'll have more blogging tonight.
Labels: Amazon Sales, American History, Books, Reading, Shopping
El Cajon Police Officer Shoots and Kills Black Man (VIDEO)
I don't know the full details yet, especially the genuine details outside of the leftist media propaganda machine.
FWIW, at the San Diego Union-Tribune, "Man shot, killed by El Cajon police officer."
And at ABC News 10 San Diego:
Labels: Barack Obama, Democrats, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Leftist Hatred, Leftist Lies, Moral Bankruptcy, Normalization of Evil, Permanent Political Class, Police, Police Brutality, Progressives
AlfonZo Rachel: My Observations on the Clinton/Trump Debates (VIDEO)
At Theo's, "My Observations on the Trump / Hillary Debates by AlfonZo Rachel."
Labels: Democrats, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Leftist Lies, Progressives, Public Opinion, Radical Left, Scandal, Working Class
Hannah Ferguson Irresistibles (VIDEO)
At Sports Illustrated:
WATCH: Charlotte McKinney Strips Down in New Pete Yorn Video
At the London's Daily Mail, "Charlotte McKinney strips off her lacy lingerie in provocative new music video."
Here's the video, "Pete Yorn - I'm Not The One."
Labels: Babe Blogging, Breast Blogging, Charlotte McKinney, Women
Katy Perry Nude Funny or Die Video
At London's Daily Mail, "'Let those babies loose!' Katy Perry strips NAKED at polling station but later gets arrested in new parody clip urging fans to vote..."
She's wild.
Labels: Babe Blogging, Katy Perry, Women
Amber Lee's Wednesday Forecast
It's been very hot, although my school's air conditioning has been working just fine (or at least in my building).
Via CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Labels: Los Angeles, Orange County, Weather, Weather Blogging
Shimon Peres Has Died
A great obituary at NYT:
#ShimonPeres Dies at 93; Built Up #Israel’s Defense and Sought Peace. https://t.co/n8Rr8V2bYG
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) September 28, 2016
Labels: Israel, Middle East, Obituaries
Los Angeles Unified Has Nearly 700 Unresolved Complaints About Failed Air-Conditioning During This Week's 100-Degree Weather
What a nightmare.
At LAT, "L.A. Unified has almost 700 unresolved complaints about broken air conditioning":
Jessica Melgoza is one of the lucky ones. A freshman at Banning High School’s new firefighter magnet, the 14-year-old has a prime seat in her English class — right in front of one of two fans.
All Los Angeles Unified School District classrooms are supposed to have working air conditioning. But as of Monday, when temperatures crept above 100 degrees by early afternoon, L.A. Unified schools had almost 700 unresolved complaints about problems with air conditioning.
Five, including two received Monday, came from Banning, located in Wilmington.
The current number of unresolved complaints is half of what the school system faced in mid-August, after school started, said Roger Finstad, L.A. Unified’s director of maintenance and operations. For the most part, the temperatures this school year have been more forgiving than last year, he said.
“For us, that’s a very modest backlog,” Finstad said. The district has about 30,000 classrooms...
Modest?
Well, I wouldn't want to see a severe backlog then. That's inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on students, inadvertently or not.
Labels: Education, Los Angeles, Weather Blogging
Statement from Dean Melanie Wilson About Professor Glenn Reynolds's tweet
I saw this at Memeorandum yesterday, "Statement from Dean Melanie Wilson about Professor’s Tweet."
And at Instapundit, "THE UNIVERSITY ENDS ITS INVESTIGATION: “In short, no disciplinary action will be taken against Professor Reynolds. The tweet was an exercise of his First Amendment rights.” Though perhaps not the most brilliant such."
Heh, it goes with the territory these days. If you're a conservative online, and a public intellectual college professor, expect the attack mobs to come after you with 20 divisions.
Labels: Blogging, Democrats, Freedom, Leftist Hatred, Leftist Lies, Liberty, Mass Media, Normalization of Evil, Progressives, Radical Left, Secular Collectivism, Secular Demonology
Hillary Clinton Feels the Pressure
At the Hill, "Clinton feels the pressure":
Hillary Clinton is feeling the pressure in the race for the White House — even after a strong night in the first 2016 presidential debate.
Clinton has a huge staff advantage over Donald Trump, which should help her turn out supporters this fall.
The Electoral College is tilted in her favor, and demographics are moving in the Democratic Party’s direction.
She’s running to succeed a popular president who is firmly on her side, and the economy is strengthening.
She’s also running against Trump, who has divided the Republican Party while alienating large groups of Americans.
Despite all those advantages, Clinton finds herself in an excruciatingly tight race.
As recently as Aug. 27, she had a more than 6-point lead over Trump in the RealClearPolitics national average of polls after a strong stretch following the Democratic National Convention.
On Tuesday, her lead was 2.4 percentage points in RealClearPolitics national advantage.
Polls have shown Trump ahead in the swing states of Florida and Ohio, and he has at least a fighting chance in all of the other battlegrounds, from purple states such as Nevada and Virginia to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, two states a Republican hasn’t won in decades.
Clinton’s team believes its candidate had a strong performance in Monday’s debate that will translate into a wider lead going into the second and third contests next month.
“The debate buoys her to the next big thing and the next debate,” said one Clinton surrogate.
They also argue that it is Trump who faces some pressure. The next presidential debate on Oct. 9 in St. Louis could be a must-win situation for the Republican.
All the same, Clinton and her supporters acknowledge they are in a dogfight over the next six weeks that could still go either way.
And they expect a fierce challenge from Trump...
Well, no one should taking it easy at this point.
Debate Reactions
Honestly, I'd say Hillary Clinton won the first debate, but by decision rather than a knockout.
She was clearly prepped with lots and lots of policy details, memes and attacks against trump on racism and sexism, and she was ready with a couple of zippy one-liners. But for all that, she couldn't put Trump away.
In fact, Trump on a number of occasions made Hillary look bad, awful even. Unfortunately he missed a number chances to deliver a tough blow. For me, most of all, he missed the chance to call her out on her endless "racism" attacks, which as Trump pointed out, are desperately unfounded. Also unfortunately, Trump indulged her, especially on the birther issue, rather than waving away the issue as done and settled. That was a mistake, and he wasted time defending his position, as Laura Ingraham pointed out in the post-debate analysis segment on Fox News.
Charles Krauthammer, also on Fox, called the debate a draw, and a challenger usually gets the benefit of the doubt when it's a draw, hence Trump held his own and beat expectations. Perhaps, although I'm certain Trump left some juice opportunities hanging. He was very strong on trade and international treaties. He was also good on law and order, and stayed consistent on longstanding themes of his campaign. But he looked reactive more than proactive. That hurt him, although not too bad all around. [Added: See Glenn Reynolds here, "SO I’D CALL IT A DRAW. Both Trump and Hillary left key points out. Neither looked awful, but neither looked great. And people I follow on social media seem equally divided.")
One thing not to forget: Trump was respectful, didn't call Hillary names, and avoided so-called sexist attacks, even though Hillary tried to make some sexist hay out of his remarks.
I've got CNN on now and the chyron just flashed saying Hillary won the debate according to a CNN/ORC snap poll. Whatever. That's not going to be a trustworthy poll, considering the tiny number of those sampled. Trump, for example, may have helped himself greatly in the Rust Belt with his consistent attacks on the economy and the offshoring of jobs. We won't know for sure on that until the next round of high-quality polls.
So, Hillary came out on top, but not by much, and only won be a decision.
There's more at WSJ's live blog, "First Presidential Debate: Live Coverage."
Also, at LAT, "Clinton and Trump clash often in ferocious opening debate."
And FWIW, the pro-Hillary spin, at Politico, "Clinton gets under Trump’s skin: The Republican nominee loses his cool as a composed Clinton hits him on his business record, the Iraq war, and his secret Islamic State plan."
Labels: Democrats, Depravity, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Leftist Lies, Progressives, Public Opinion, Scandal, Working Class
The Democrats Are Worried
From John Hinderaker, at Power Line:
In recent days, it has begun to dawn on a lot of people that Donald Trump really may win the election. (I, of course, have been predicting it all along…) This is causing near-hysteria in some quarters, and louder demands by Democrats for journalists in general, and the debate moderators in particular, to put their thumbs on the scale. As if they weren’t already doing so!
And more from Hind-Rocket, "ELECTORAL COLLEGE MATH, AND WHY I THINK TRUMP WILL WIN."
Labels: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Depravity, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Leftist Lies, Progressives, Public Opinion, Scandal, Working Class
Wayne Allyn Root, Angry White Male [BUMPED]
At Amazon, Wayne Allyn Root, Angry White Male: How the Donald Trump Phenomenon is Changing America—and What We Can All Do to Save the Middle Class.
Labels: Amazon Sales, Books, Donald Trump, Reading, Shopping
Clinton and Trump Deadlocked Before the Debate; Leftists Media Goes All Out to Paint Trump as 'Unprecedented Liar'
The number of undecided voters at this point is probably ten percent or less, which makes the left's freak out even more hilarious. Polls show the presidential horse race neck and neck, and leftist are worried.
Here's Bloomberg, via Memeorandum, "Trump, Clinton Deadlocked in Bloomberg Poll Before Key Debate."
And Trump deadlocked in the Keystone State, which I've considered my benchmark state for Trump's turning-point in the Electoral College. I'll need to see a couple more polls out of Pennsylvania, but it's exciting.
And see Larry O'Connor, at Hot Air, for the leftist media's coordination with the Clinton campaign on the Trump "unprecedented liar" meme over the weekend, "Where did all those ‘Trump Lies’ articles come from this weekend? The Clinton campaign, of course."
Amber Lee's Triple-Digit Forecast
It's extremely hot.
I couldn't even go out today it was so hot. Ridiculous. I'm glad the Rams weren't playing at home. The Colosseum would have been miserable, if not downright treacherous.
Via CBS News 2 Los Angeles, the lovely Amber Lee:
Wendy Warren, New England Bound
Back in July, I posted the link to Edmund Morgan's, American Slavery, American Freedom.
I've been thinking about it because when my buddy Greg Joseph retired from the college in June he gave me a bunch of old books that he wasn't going to keep, including his old copy of Morgan's tome.
So it's even more interesting to find Wendy Warren's new and related book, New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America.
You can't read everything, of course. But I like to dapple all over the place, so I'll keep the Warren book in mind.
The Silencing of KrebsOnSecurity
On Techmeme earlier, "Brian Krebs' site hit by record 620Gbps sustained DDos attack, nearly twice as big as any previous attack seen by Akamai..."
Up now, "The Democratization of Censorship: As insecure IoT devices make large-scale DDoS attacks more potent, the Internet community should work to adopt standards and tools to prevent these attacks..."
And at Ars Technica, "Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net":
For the better part of a day, KrebsOnSecurity, arguably the world's most intrepid source of security news, has been silenced, presumably by a handful of individuals who didn't like a recent series of exposés reporter Brian Krebs wrote. The incident, and the record-breaking data assault that brought it on, open a troubling new chapter in the short history of the Internet.
The crippling distributed denial-of-service attacks started shortly after Krebs published stories stemming from the hack of a DDoS-for-hire service known as vDOS. The first article analyzed leaked data that identified some of the previously anonymous people closely tied to vDOS. It documented how they took in more than $600,000 in two years by knocking other sites offline. A few days later, Krebs ran a follow-up piece detailing the arrests of two men who allegedly ran the service. A third post in the series is here.
On Thursday morning, exactly two weeks after Krebs published his first post, he reported that a sustained attack was bombarding his site with as much as 620 gigabits per second of junk data. That staggering amount of data is among the biggest ever recorded. Krebs was able to stay online thanks to the generosity of Akamai, a network provider that supplied DDoS mitigation services to him for free. The attack showed no signs of waning as the day wore on. Some indications suggest it may have grown stronger. At 4 pm, Akamai gave Krebs two hours' notice that it would no longer assume the considerable cost of defending KrebsOnSecurity. Krebs opted to shut down the site to prevent collateral damage hitting his service provider and its customers.
"It's hard to imagine a stronger form of censorship than these DDoS attacks because if nobody wants to take you on then that's pretty effective censorship," Krebs told Ars on Friday. "I've had a couple of big companies offer and then think better of offering to help me. That's been frustrating."
Until recently, a DDoS attack in excess of 600Gb was nearly impossible for all but the most sophisticated and powerful actors to carry out. In 2013, attacks against anti-spam organization Spamhaus generated headlines because the 300Gb torrents were coming uncomfortably close to Internet-threatening size. The assault against KrebsOnSecurity represents a much greater threat for at least two reasons. First, it's twice the size. Second and more significant, unlike the Spamhaus attacks, the staggering volume of bandwidth doesn't rely on misconfigured domain name system servers which, in the big picture, can be remedied with relative ease...
Pretty amazing.
Labels: Computers, Cyberterrorism, Hacking, Internet, National Security, Technology
Deal of the Day: Save Big on Fall Camping with Coleman
At Amazon, Save on Coleman Camping Equipment.
More, Coleman 6201A748 100 Quart Xtreme 5 (Wheeled Cooler).
And, Coleman WeatherMaster 6-Person Screened Tent.
Also, Coleman North Rim 0-Degree Mummy Bag.
Still more, VIZIO SB3821-C6 38-Inch 2.1 Channel Sound Bar with Wireless Subwoofer (Certified Refurbished).
Plus, TriggerPoint GRID Foam Roller with Free Online Instructional Videos, Original (13-inch).
And, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) - White.
BONUS: James Campbell, Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America.
Labels: Amazon Sales, Books, Shopping
David Horowitz, Black Book of the American Left, Volume 7: The Left in Power — Clinton to Obama [BUMPED]
Out October 10th, at Amazon, The Black Book of the American Left, Volume 7: The Left in Power — Clinton to Obama.
Labels: Amazon Sales, Books, David Horowitz, Radical Left, Reading, Shopping
Arcan Cetin Islamic Jihad Terrorist Arrested in Cascade Mall Massacre (VIDEO)
Boy, the leftist media almost got away with turning this massacre into a run-of-the-mill, more gun-control active shooter situation.
It wasn't. It was jihad.
At Weasel Zippers, "Cascade Mall Shooting Suspect Arcan Cetin Had Tumblr With Chant to Allah, Pic of Ted Bundy, Was Sent Pic of ISIS Leader…"
And at Jihad Watch, "Washington state: Turkish Muslim, Arcan Cetin, arrested for murder of five people inside Cascade Mall," and "Washington state mall shooter: “Say SubhanAllah [Glory to Allah] 10x”."
And from Pamela, "Mall shooter Arcan Cetin supported Hillary Clinton, linked to page supporting ISIS."
Here's the report at ABC News, FWIW:
Labels: Appeasement, Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, International Politics, Islam, Jihad, National Security, New York, Obama Administration, Political Correctness, Terrorism, War on Terror
With Donald Trump's Nomination, College Republicans Face Tensions Nationwide
Don't care, personally.
I was the adviser for the student YAF club last year. I like conservatives. I don't think the GOP is conservative. And it cracks me up that Trump's upended the campus GOP clubs' reputation for great parties.
It's hard out there.
At the New York Times, "College Republicans, Once ‘the Best Party on Campus,’ Endure Taunts Over Trump."
Labels: Academe, College, Donald Trump, Education, Election 2016, Republican Party
Dangerous Weather Conditions Across Southern California (VIDEO)
Following-up from earlier, "Kristen Keogh Hot Sunday Forecast."
At ABC News 10 Sand Diego, "Dangerous heat and fire risk."
And at CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Firefighters on High Alert Due to Dangerous Weather Conditions."
Labels: Los Angeles, San Diego, Weather, Weather Blogging, Wildfires
Kristen Keogh Hot Sunday Forecast
It's going to hit triple digits in parts of the Southland today.
Via ABC News 10 Sand Diego:
Labels: Los Angeles, San Diego, Weather, Weather Blogging
Protest Thugs and the Real Evil in Charlotte
From Daniel Greenfield, at FrontPage Magazine:
Keith Lamont Scott was scum.
He had been convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in two different states and convicted of assault in three states. He had been hit with “assault with intent to kill” charges in the 90s. His record of virtue included “assault on a child under 12” and “assault on a female.”
The media spin; “Family and neighbors call Scott a quiet ‘family man.’”
Nothing says “quiet” like “assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill” and nothing says “family man” like assaulting women and children.
Keith Lamont Scott, the latest martyr of Black Lives Matter and its media propaganda corps, was shot while waving a gun around. He had spent 7 years in jail for “aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.”
This vicious monster’s career of crime ended when he was shot by Brentley Vinson, an African-American police officer, protecting himself from the latest rampage by this “quiet family man.”
Brentley Vinson is everything that Scott isn’t. The son of a police officer, Brentley dreamed of following in his father’s footsteps. He used to organize his football team’s bible studies and mentored younger players. Former teammates describe him as a “great guy” with “good morals.” His former coach calls him a “natural leader” and says that, “We need more Brent Vinsons… in our communities.”
Except that Obama, Black Lives Matter, the media, the NAACP and everyone else going after this bright and decent African-American officer has decided that what we really need are more Keith Lamont Scotts. And the streets of Charlotte are full of “Scotts” throwing rocks at police, assaulting reporters and wrecking everything in sight in marches that are as “peaceful” as Scott was a “quiet family man.”
That’s what Hillary Clinton wanted when she tweeted that, “We have two names to add to a long list of African-Americans killed by police officers. It’s unbearable, and it needs to become intolerable.”
What exactly should be intolerable? An African-American police officer defending his life against a violent criminal who happened to be black? Should black criminals enjoy a special immunity? The greatest victims of black criminals are black communities.
Whom does Hillary Clinton imagine she’s helping here? Instead of standing with heroic African-American police officers like Vinson, she’s championing criminal scum like Scott.
Tim Kaine, Hillary’s No. 2, wants us to think about Scott’s family. We should do that. Scott’s brother announced on camera that all “white people” are “devils.” Timmy should check to see if he can get an exemption from white devildom. But if there are any white devils, it’s men like Kaine and women like Hillary who enable the worst behavior in a troubled community while punishing those who try to help.
Every time the lie about “peaceful” protests is repeated, another black community becomes unlivable.
Twenty police officers have been injured and National Guard troops have arrived to deal with all those “peaceful” protests. Protesters chanted, “Black Lives Matter” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” before throwing things at police and then peacefully shooting each other. Stores had their windows broken and decorated with Black Lives Matter graffiti. A Walmart was peacefully looted and trucks were torched.
A police officer was peacefully hit by a car. Another was peacefully hit in the face with a rock. Mobs besieged and attempted to break into hotels. Reporters were attacked and a photographer was nearly thrown into a fire. White people were targeted by the racist Black Lives Matter mob and assaulted.
But all these peaceful rioters are probably just quiet family men too.
The peaceful protests are as big a lie as the “bookish” Keith Lamont Scott reading a book in his car. Police had no trouble finding a gun. They couldn’t have found Scott anywhere near a book. The only thing he could have done with a book is try to beat someone to death with it. Maybe a child.
Scott wasn’t a quiet family man; he was a violent criminal with a horrifying vicious streak. He and the rest of the Black Lives Matter rioters remind us of the monsters that we need dedicated police officers to protect us from.
The spin on what happened between a deranged black criminal and a courageous black police officer fell apart as fast as the Freddie Gray case, where black police officers were targeted and a city terrorized over conspiracy theories relating to the accidental death of a drug dealer.
The claims of racism are absurd. Not only was Scott shot by an African-American police officer, but Charlotte Police Chief Kerr Putney, who has taken the lead in defending him, is also African-American.
Are we supposed to believe that an African-American police officer and an African-American police chief are racists or that these two black men took the lead in a genocidal conspiracy to kill black men?
That’s the laughable premise of the racist Black Lives Matter hatefest that alternates between “Stop killing us” street theater and violent assaults on police officers, reporters and anyone in the area.
But the truth doesn’t matter. Black Lives Matter rioters are still chanting, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” long after the Michael Brown lie fell apart. They’re holding up signs reading, “It Was a Book.” The lie is backed by some of the biggest media corporations in the country, by $130 million from George Soros and the Ford Foundation, by Barack Hussein Obama and by Hillary Clinton.
These are the malign forces destroying Charlotte, as they trashed Baltimore. On the ground there are the vulture community organizers of Black Lives Matter, funded by the left, who parachute in to organize race riots, behind them are the reporters who sell the spin live on the air and the photographers who capture glamor shots of the racist rioters, and after them come the lawyers of the DOJ out to ruin, terrorize and intimidate whatever law enforcement survived the riots.
They did it in Ferguson and a dozen other places. Now they want to do it in Charlotte.
They want to do it because they hate white people and black people. They hate peace and decency. They hate the idea of people getting up in the morning and working for a living. They hate the idea of good officers, white and black men and women, like Brentley Vinson, who genuinely believe in doing the right thing. They want unearned power. They demand unearned wealth. And they thrive on destruction.
This is the real evil in Charlotte. And we need to stand up to it. From the ghetto to the manors of the liberal elite from burning cars to pricey restaurants in exclusive neighborhoods, it plots against us.
It is a lie repeated a million times. Sometimes the lie is simple. Other times it’s sophisticated. But the way to fight it is to begin with the truth.
The truth is that Keith Lamont Scott was a violent criminal who came to a bad end because of his own actions. Just like Michael Brown, Freddie Gray and too many other Black Lives Matter martyrs to count.
The truth is that everything Black Lives Matter does reminds us of why we need police officers.
The truth is that this is not about race, but about those who want to build and those who want to destroy. It’s about the difference between Brentley Vinson and Keith Lamont Scott.
It’s about what kind of country we want to be. Is it a country that celebrates a young black football player who chose to follow in his father’s footsteps, who organized bible study and helped others, who risked his life to keep other people safe. Or is it one that celebrates Keith Lamont Scott, who assaulted a woman, a child and anyone else he could get at, who terrorized three states and died as he lived.
Obama and the left want a nation of Keith Lamont Scotts. But now it’s our turn to choose.
Stanford Crushes UCLA Hopes, Scoring Touchdown With 24 Seconds Left (VIDEO)
I had my hopes up for UCLA, big time.
Frankly, they should've won this game. The Bruins played well throughout, especially on defense. But the Cardinal got fired up for the final drive.
At LAT, "UCLA can't escape its past in stunning loss to No. 7 Stanford, 22-13":
It happened again. How could it happen again?
For all but the final two minutes Saturday night, UCLA did everything in its power to break an eight-game losing streak to a Stanford team that has long occupied its nightmares.
Then it happened again. Somehow, it happened again.
Stanford got tough. UCLA got tentative. Stanford found focus. UCLA lost control.
Stanford celebrated its history, while UCLA wallowed in its history, and everything changed as quickly as Josh Rosen fell into a heap while thousands stood stunned and frozen in the Rose Bowl stands rising around him.
The nightmare is back because, it turns out, the nightmare never left.
Stanford drove down the field in the final two minutes Saturday night to score the go-ahead touchdown on a leaping catch by J.J. Arcega-Whiteside from Ryan Burns with 24 seconds left, then added a fumble return for a touchdown on the final play for a 22-13 victory.
“Obviously that’s about as difficult as it gets,’’ said Bruin Coach Jim Mora...
Plus, "UCLA suffers cruel loss to No. 7 Stanford, 22-13."
Labels: Los Angeles, Sports, UCLA Football
Gennifer Flowers to Attend First Presidential Debate Between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton (VIDEO)
That woman was a blonde bombshell back in the day.
She's accepted Donald Trump's invitation to attend the debate.
Heh, this oughta be interesting.
From Austin Bay, at Instapundit, "AN APT RIPOSTE TO TEAM HILLARY’S MARK CUBAN (NOT FIDEL) GAMBIT: Demonstrating his genius for political theater, Trump is threatening to give Gennifer Flowers a front row seat at his upcoming debate with Hillary Clinton."
And at BuzzFeed, via Memorandum, "Gennifer Flowers Agrees to Join Trump at Presidential Debate."
Obama Administration Has Done Little to Pursue War Crimes Trials Against Islamic State
This should surprise no one.
At A.P. "WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FOR IS DETAINEES LACKS SUPPORT":
WASHINGTON (AP) -- War crimes investigators collecting evidence of the Islamic State group's elaborate operation to kidnap thousands of women as sex slaves say they have a case to try IS leaders with crimes against humanity but cannot get the global backing to bring current detainees before an international tribunal.
Two years after the IS onslaught in northern Iraq, the investigators, as well as U.S. diplomats, say the Obama administration has done little to pursue prosecution of the crimes that Secretary of State John Kerry has called genocide. Current and former State Department officials say that an attempt in late 2014 to have a legal finding of genocide was blocked by the Defense Department, setting back efforts to prosecute IS members suspected of committing war crimes...
More. (Via Austin Bay at Instapundit.)
Labels: Corruption, Democrats, Islam, Jihad, Leftist Hypocrisy, Leftist Lies, Moral Bankruptcy, National Security, Obama Administration, Progressives, Public Opinion, Radical Left, War on Terror
Heh. 'It used to be cars were made in Flint...'
This is pretty good, from the Notorious DJT:
Today is the day! Knock on doors and make calls with us on National Day of Action! #TrumpTrain #MAGAhttps://t.co/NQEgRxQN2m pic.twitter.com/4UFXDuj5vy
Labels: Barack Obama, Black Thugs, Crime, Democrats, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Obama Administration, Political Science, Popular Culture, Progressives, Public Opinion, Working Class, Youth Demographic
Professor Allan Lichtman Says Donald Trump Headed for Win on November 8th
Sounds good to me, heh.
At the Washington Post, "Trump is headed for a win, says professor who has predicted 30 years of presidential outcomes correctly" (via Memeorandum).
Here's Professor Lichtman's book, Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House 2016.
RELATED: Professor Helmut Norpoth, who also has an outstanding prediction record, similarly pegs Trump to win in November. At BizPac, "Poll-predicting prof with stellar record says never mind the media, Trump’s going to win."
Ayaan, Heretic
It's a good time to re-up Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
At Amazon, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.
Labels: Amazon Sales, Books, Holidays, Islam, Shopping, Terrorism, War on Terror
Glenn Reynolds 'Planning on Quitting Twitter'
I just saw this, at Politico, "USA Today suspends columnist Glenn Reynolds for one month."
Instapundit's got the best column over at the newspaper. That'd be lame of he got canned, so obviously posting on Twitter's not going to be worth it.
Frankly, I quit for a week after Robert Stacy McCain's @RSMcCain got banned. I didn't miss it that much.
In any case, here's the Professor, "TWITTER HAS UNBLOCKED MY ACCOUNT ON CONDITION OF DELETING THE OFFENDING TWEET."
Also, "OPENED UP TWITTER TO SEE THIS..." Click through to see the offending tweet.
Frankly, it wasn't what he said. It's who he is. Leftists hate Glenn Reynolds and they want his scalp. The Internet's one big lynch mob and demonic fever-swamp progs seized a chance to destroy the Instapundit.
More at Zilla of the Resistance, "The Long Knives Are Out for @Instapundit – The Mob Demands He Lose His Job":
Leftists can use violent rhetoric and actual acts of violence against people with impunity, but a politically incorrect statement by a non-leftist MUST be punished, according to our self proclaimed moral superiors, so the “offended” will scream and howl until the target of their rage is utterly ruined.
USA Today published an apology from Reynolds along with a statement from the paper that his column has been suspended for a month, but in the comments section, predictably, there is screeching that he should also lose his job at the university where he works.
The University of Tennessee is now investigating the good professor.
The PC mob will not be satisfied until they have utterly destroyed a good man’s reputation and ability to make a living.
It's true. And all of that over a throwaway snarky tweet.
.@Instapundit Considering anarchy in #Charlotte last night, to "run them down" would be purely defensive. Screw the leftist speech police.
Glenn Reynolds, @instapundit, has been reinstated. Deets at https://t.co/AUY3qZQGJc pic.twitter.com/lQ3xgCZx2g
— reason (@reason) September 22, 2016
(Longtime readers know that I've dealt with these lynch mobs myself and they're demonstrably evil. It's chilling too, but you can't back down. Fight these fuckers, even if you have to hire a lawyer. They'd murder you if they could get away with it, so watch your back. I do.)
'Between Two Ferns': Shrillary Clinton Trolls for Young Voters (VIDEO)
Following-up, "Shrillary."
At Bloomberg, "Hillary Clinton Goes ‘Between Two Ferns’ in Search of Young Voters."
She's clearly desperate to be liked:
Labels: Barack Obama, Black Thugs, Crime, Democrats, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Obama Administration, Political Correctness, Popular Culture, Progressives, Public Opinion, Working Class, Youth Demographic
Shrillary
I've been joking about Shrillary in my classes for years, but this video's a classic.
During the primary debates I had to hit the mute button she got so bad. I can barely stand to hear her voice sometimes. It's like a screech.
At Hot Air, "Hillary: ‘Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?’"
On YouTube as well, "IT'S OFFICIAL - Hillary Clinton Has Lost Her Mind - Yelling ‘Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?’."
Hat Tip: Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "IT’S DEJA DUKAKIS ALL OVER AGAIN!"
Labels: Barack Obama, Black Thugs, Crime, Democrats, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, International Politics, Islam, Jihad, National Security, Obama Administration, Political Correctness, Public Opinion, Working Class
Presidential Horse Race Tightens in Colorado, Iowa, and Virginia
It's amazing that Colorado's in reach. Gary Johnson's pulling in ten percent there, mostly among young people I suspect, and that's hurting Hillary Clinton.
I'm not surprised about Virginia though. Terry McAuliffe took 48 percent to Ken Cuccinelli's 45 percent in the 2013 governor's race, with the third party candidate taking about 6 percent. Keep an eye on Old Dominion this year. I think Donald Trump'got a good chance. (Mostly, though, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Pennsylvania. If the voters start breaking for Trump in the Keystone State, I think Hillary's fried.)
At Politico, "Swing-state polls: Trump leads in Iowa, narrows the gap in Colorado and Virginia."
Labels: Appeasement, Barack Obama, Black Thugs, Crime, Democrats, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, International Politics, Islam, Jihad, National Security, Obama Administration, Political Correctness, Working Class
Rioting May Tip Presidential Scales in Crucial North Carolina
Actually, I'm not getting my hopes up. North Carolina's an extremely leftist state.
But if these riots continue over the weekend, and perhaps beyond, then yes: undecided whites may shift over into the Trump column.
At Bloomberg (via Memorandum):
Riots threaten to sway a deadlocked presidential race in race-riven North Carolina by pushing enough undecided voters toward Republican Donald Trump to overcome Hillary Clinton’s lead among blacks.
The shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, 43, outside a Charlotte apartment complex was the third at police hands in less than a year in a swing state whose 15 electoral votes are crucial to White House hopes. The ensuing riots culminated a period of charged politics that began in 2013, when Republicans took over both the legislature and governor’s office for the first time in a century.
The state went for Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 and for Republican Mitt Romney in 2012. This year’s race has been a statistical tie for weeks between Trump, who has pushed a law-and-order platform, and Clinton, who has campaigned with the parents of black men shot by police. The contest remained a toss-up in the days leading up to Tuesday’s killing of Scott, according to a New York Times poll released today.
Democratic challengers were also polling even with or ahead of Republican incumbents Governor Pat McCrory and U.S. Senator Richard Burr, according to that poll and one released by Public Policy Polling on Wednesday.
Many voters -- between 10 and 12 percent of the electorate -- haven’t made up their minds on the presidential race, said Carter Wrenn, a Republican political consultant. “The undecideds have been staying undecided.”
Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby Charged in Shooting of Unarmed Black Man (VIDEO)
Authorities says Terence Crutcher was unarmed.
At the Tulsa World, "Officer Betty Shelby charged with first-degree manslaughter in fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher":
The Tulsa County District Attorney's Office filed a first-degree manslaughter charge on Thursday against Officer Betty Shelby in the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher last week.
District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said during a brief press conference that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Shelby, 42, who is expected to turn herself in to authorities.
Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said Monday that Crutcher, a 40-year-old father of four, was unarmed when Shelby shot him once in the upper right lung area next to his stopped SUV near 36th Street North and Lewis Avenue at 7:44 p.m. Sept. 16. He was pronounced dead at a hospital less than an hour later.
"The tragic circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Crutcher are on the hearts and minds of many people in this community," Kunzweiler said at the press conference Thursday. "It is important to note that despite the heightened tensions felt by all — which seemingly beg for an emotional reaction — our community has consistently demonstrated a willingness to respect the judicial process. It is the shared responsibility of all who have the ability to control their actions to do just that."
The charges against Shelby are the second Kunzweiler has filed in less than two years against an officer who killed someone while on duty. His office filed a second-degree manslaughter charge against former Tulsa County Reserve Deputy Robert Bates in the April 2, 2015, shooting of Eric Harris during an undercover operation in north Tulsa.
Bates resigned from his post and was convicted in April of this year, receiving a four-year prison sentence.
Shelby faces one count of manslaughter committed in the heat of passion, or in the alternative while resisting a person's attempt to commit a crime. First-degree manslaughter carries a sentence of four years to life in Department of Corrections custody, according to Oklahoma law.
If convicted, Shelby would have to serve 85 percent of her sentence before becoming eligible for parole.
A probable cause affidavit in the case alleges that Shelby "acted unreasonably by escalating the situation from a confrontation with Mr. Crutcher, who was not responding to verbal commands and was walking away from her with his hands held up, becoming emotionally involved to the point that she overreacted."
The affidavit states she told Sgt. Dave Walker in a police interview that she was in fear for her life and thought Crutcher would kill her. Shelby reportedly told investigators she was yelling repeatedly for Crutcher to stop walking to his vehicle and get on his knees.
However, dash cam and police helicopter footage shows Crutcher walking to the SUV, which was stopped in the middle of 36th Street North, with his hands up while Shelby had a gun pointed at him. The videos show that at least three officers had either a gun or Taser drawn as Crutcher walked back to the SUV.
Shelby turned on her police car's rear flashing lights only when stopping to approach Crutcher, which meant her dash camera did not turn on, Sgt. Shane Tuell told reporters Monday.
Attorney Scott Wood, who has represented Shelby so far, said there are about two unrecorded minutes of interaction between Shelby and Crutcher.
Officer Tyler Turnbough reportedly told Shelby he had his Taser ready before deploying it about the same time Shelby fired her gun.
Shelby said in her interview that she saw Crutcher reach into the driver's side front window before she shot him. Lead investigator Doug Campbell wrote in the affidavit that the videos show that Crutcher's right hand is up and that his left hand is "unobservable" at the time he was shot...
Plus, more video at KJRH News 2 Tulsa, "Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby charged with first degree manslaughter in death of Terence Crutcher."
Labels: Crime, Justice, Law, Leftist Hatred, Leftist Hypocrisy, Leftist Lies, Oklahoma, Police, Police Brutality, Progressives, Radical Left
Teaching Today: Buy Heather Mac Donald's, The War on Cops
Here's her book, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.
I'll be teaching all day. More blogging tonight.
Labels: Amazon Sales, Barack Obama, Black Thugs, Books, Heather Mac Donald, Leftist Hatred, Leftist Lies, Normalization of Evil, Police, Police Brutality, Reading
Marion Cotillard Denies Romantic Affair with Brad Pitt
At Vanity Fair, "Marion Cotillard Responds to Rumored Brad Pitt Affair."
Here's her statement, posted on Instagram:
This is going to be my first and only reaction to the whirlwind news that broke 24 hours ago and that I was swept up into. I am not used to commenting on things like this nor taking them seriously but as this situation is spiraling and affecting people I love, I have to speak up. Firstly, many years ago, I met the man of my life, father of our son and of the baby we are expecting. He is my love, my best friend, the only one that I need. Secondly to those who have indicated that I am devastated, I am very well thank you. This crafted conversation isn't distressing. And to all the media and the haters who are quick to pass judgment, I sincerely wish you a swift recovery. Finally, I do very much wish that Angelina and Brad, both whom I deeply respect, will find peace in this very tumultuous moment.
With all my love, Marion
Labels: Angelina Jolie, Celebrities, Entertainment, Movies, Scandal
Trump Derangement Syndrome is Crippling the Left
From John Podhoretz, at the New York Post.
Get Ready for the Mother of All Corrections
From Jeremy Warner, at the Telegraph U.K., "Get ready for the mother of all stock market corrections once central banks cease their money printing."
A great piece.
Read it all at the link.
Labels: Britain, Economics, Economy, Europe, Federal Reserve, Fiscal Policy, Markets, Monetary Policy
NYPD Opens Special Victims Investigation Into Anthony Weiner Sexting Allegations
Man, this dude needs to be institutionalized.
It's just not funny any more, seriously.
At London's Daily Mail, "EXCLUSIVE: NYPD Special Victims Unit launches investigation into Anthony Weiner after DailyMail.com reveals he had an on-line sexting relationship with 15-year-old girl" (via Memeorandum).
Breaking: Anthony Weiner carried on an online sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl - https://t.co/vgFlmMMXZP
— Alana Goodman (@alanagoodman) September 21, 2016
Labels: Democrats, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Leftist Hatred, Leftist Hypocrisy, Leftist Lies, Moral Bankruptcy, Normalization of Evil, Progressives, Radical Left, Scandal
Thanks to the Reader Who Picked Up Some Gillette Shave Cartridges Yesterday [BUMPED]
Thanks for shopping through my Amazon links. It's appreciated.
These are some nice blades, Gillette Mach3 Base Cartridges 15 Count.
Shop for books as well, folks, at the link.
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Deal of the Day: Gorilla Carts Heavy-Duty Poly Yard Dump Cart
At Amazon, Gorilla Carts GOR6PS Heavy-Duty Poly Yard Dump Cart with 2-In-1 Convertible Handle, 1,200-Pound Capacity, Black.
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BONUS: Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself (New York Times bestselling autobiography).
Labels: Amazon Sales, Books, Reading, Shopping, Technology
Once Again: Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops
I can't post this link enough.
This book is essential reading for this election season.
Be sure to get your copy, at Amazon, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.
Labels: Amazon Sales, Barack Obama, Books, Democrats, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Leftist Hatred, Leftist Lies, Moral Bankruptcy, Permanent Political Class, Progressives, Reading, Shopping
Low-income Families Face Eviction to Make Way for Facebook Employees in Silicon Valley
You can see why I hate Mark Zuckerberg, him and the entire culture he represents.
Entitled spoiled leftists kicking hard-working Latinos out of their homes.
Hey, that's progressive values for you! Democrat values!
At Truth Revolt, "Liberal Leftist Hypocrites: Low-Income, Hispanic Residents of Silicon Valley Apartment Evicted to Make Room for Facebook Staff."
Labels: Facebook, Leftist Hatred, Leftist Hypocrisy, Moral Bankruptcy, Progressives, Radical Left, Silicon Valley
CNN Denies Reports Corey Lewandowski Booted from Network Over Trump Contract
Here's the buzz at Memeorandum, "BREAKING: Corey Lewandowski Suspended by CNN."
At at Heat Street, "CNN is denying reports that Corey Lewandowski has been suspended from his job at the network after FEC filings showed his consulting company pulling in $20,000 from the Trump campaign during July and August."
I actually like Lewandowski, but he shouldn't be having conflicts of interest.
Labels: Appeasement, Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, International Politics, Journalism, Mass Media, National Security, Obama Administration, Political Correctness, Terrorism, Working Class
Donald Trump Rally in High Point, North Carolina (VIDEO)
Watch, via ABC News 15 Phoenix, "FULL SPEECH: A Very Animated Donald Trump in High Point, N.C. Today (VIDEO)."
Also, at the Washington Times, "Donald Trump calls for unity after police shootings."
The situations in Tulsa and Charlotte are tragic. We must come together to make America safe again.
Kendall Jenner for Vogue Spain
At Egotastic!, "Kendall Jenner is Braless for Vogue Spain (VIDEO)."
Labels: Babe Blogging, Kendall Jenner, Women
Donald Trump: 'It's a Movement, Not a Campaign' (VIDEO)
Via Hot Air:
Labels: Appeasement, Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, International Politics, Islam, Jihad, National Security, Obama Administration, Political Correctness, Terrorism, War on Terror, Working Class
CNN, Kaiser Family Foundation Poll on White Working Class Voters (VIDEO)
At CNN, "The anatomy of a white, working-class Trump voter."
Labels: Appeasement, Barack Obama, Democrats, Economy, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, International Politics, Jobs, National Security, Obama Administration, Political Correctness, Terrorism, War on Terror, Working Class
Seattle to Create Government-Financed 'Heroin-Injection Clinics', 'Safe Sites' for Junkies to Shoot Up
It's a terrible idea, but then, this is Seattle, the far-left freakazoid enclave on Puget Sound.
At LAT, "Seattle's new war on drugs: Giving heroin addicts 'safe sites' to shoot up":
Seattle officials are moving forward with a controversial plan for what would be the nation’s first supervised heroin-injection clinics — government-financed shooting galleries that supporters say can save lives but that critics say will only enable drug users.
A new 99-page task force study envisions at least two safe-use facilities — one in Seattle, another in the suburbs — where heroin addicts can legally take narcotics while being monitored by medical personnel who can administer aid or call 911 if needed.
The project is modeled after North America’s first supervised heroin haven, InSite, a government-funded injection facility 140 miles north in Vancouver, B.C., which in 13 years of operation has never had an overdose fatality, officials there say.
That success has inspired other cities — including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland — to consider government-approved safe sites for addicts to inject heroin. But Seattle is moving fastest, convinced there is “urgent need for action,” as the new study puts it.
“For me personally, what has worked,” says Seattle social worker Thea Oliphant-Wells, a task force member and recovering heroin addict for 11 years, “was to have harm-reduction folks engaging me long before I was ready to change my drug-abuse behavior. I promise you, when you give people the opportunity to get better, they will.”
Jeff Duchin, head of Seattle-King County Public Health, said the safe sites — officially known as Community Health Engagement Locations — will increase the odds for drug users to return to healthy lives by reducing overdoses, preventing HIV and other infections and cutting down on other drug-related medical problems.
The proposal has the support of King County’s chief executive and the mayor of Seattle, a city once dubbed by Rolling Stone as “Junkie Town.” Heroin use here and across the U.S. dripped, then spiked in the last decade as Americans addicted to pain killers such as OxyContin and Percocet looked to the streets for cheaper alternatives.
A United Nations study released this summer found that use of heroin has soared in the last two decades. U.S. deaths related to the narcotic have increased fivefold since 2000 and the number of U.S. users has tripled to one million in that time.
In King County, with good Samaritan laws that prevent prosecution of anyone who, in good faith, aids an overdose victim, and with wider use of the recovery drug Naloxone by first responders, overdose deaths actually dropped last year — 132, compared with 156 in 2014.
But from 2010 to 2014, the number of users seeking treatment here doubled from 1,439 to 2,886, and the death toll in 2015 was a third higher than two years ago.
With no apparent end to the upward trend, local officials say safe-use sites are a worthy intervention...
Sorry. I'm not convinced giving addicts a government-sponsored heroin safe space is the path to creating drug-free lives. The article needed to cite addiction experts who provide evidence why this isn't a great idea. It's still experimental at this point. My hunch is that enabling addicts to shoot up only legitimizes hardcore drug dependency. If you want to help people, get them into treatment. Drug use will continue to spike as long as government-financed bleeding-heart leftists enable drug addicts to get high.
Labels: Drug Decriminalization, Drugs, Radical Left, Seattle
Threat Profiling
From Amanda Carpenter, on CNN, via Twitter:
Threat profiling! Good idea. Why is Trump backing down? From me on #CNNSOTR https://t.co/PqTpL2fjXL
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) September 20, 2016
Why FBI Suspects Keep Attacking Americans
Following-up, "Ahmad Khan Rahami Hailed Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki in 'Scrawled Journal' Seized During Arrest," and "Gee, What Could Possibly Be Causing All of These 'Lone Wolf' Terror Attacks?"
From Matthew Vadum, at FrontPage Magazine:
Why does the Obama administration keep failing to thwart Muslim terrorist attacks in the U.S. after receiving apparently good intelligence warning of those attacks?
It turns out that Americans keep turning in budding Muslim terrorists to the Obama administration and the administration keeps on doing nothing. For example, the alleged mastermind of the weekend pressure-cooker bombing in New York City was turned in by his own father but the Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to do much of anything about him.
These intelligence failures have become a recurrent theme in the Obama era, with deadly results. Excluding the events of the last few days, there have been 89 Muslim terrorist plots and attacks in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001 and 25 of those have taken place since the beginning of 2015, according to David Inserra of the Heritage Foundation.
Counterterrorism expert Sebastian Gorka, vice president at the Institute of World Politics, blamed political correctness for the FBI’s inability to do something about Rahami before he acted.
“There are certain sensitivities,” Gorka said on the “O’Reilly Factor” last night.
“A certain political matrix is being forced upon our operators and investigators,” he said. Usually this kind of political pressure originates not from the FBI, but from the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, he said.
The FBI is also hindered by inadequate human resources, Gorka said. There are reportedly 900 active terrorist investigations in all 50 states and the bureau can only do so much, he said.
The FBI has indeed been handcuffed in terrorist investigations by President Obama whose administration has worked with terrorist front groups like the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The law enforcement agency has also become increasingly politicized in the Obama era.
The pressure-cooker terrorist was apprehended after he injured a score of New Yorkers on the weekend but not through brilliant police work. He was caught during a shootout with cops.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, a.k.a. Ahmad Rahimi, was charged yesterday with use of weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use. Rahami was born in Afghanistan but became a U.S. citizen.
Prosecutors say Rahami planted a pipe bomb and triggering cellphone Saturday morning in Seaside Park, N.J., before a scheduled U.S. Marine Corps charity run. Later that day he placed a pressure cooker bomb in the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan that the complaint states caused injuries and “multiple-million dollars of property damage across a 650-foot crime scene.” Twenty-nine people were wounded. He was previously charged with multiple counts of attempted murder of police officers and other offenses arising from a gun battle when he was captured Monday.
Police also discovered and safely detonated a pipe bomb at a train station in Elizabeth, N.J. Although it is unclear if Rahami is connected to that bomb, his family did sue the city of Elizabeth in 2011 claiming harassment and religious discrimination related to their family restaurant, First American Fried Chicken.
Rahami came to the attention of the FBI two years ago when his father suspected his son was involved in terrorism. Mohammad Rahami told reporters he contacted federal authorities after Ahmad stabbed Nasser, another one of his sons, and attacked another family member, which led to a criminal investigation.
The FBI apparently performed a superficial examination of the case at the time.
“In August 2014, the F.B.I. initiated an assessment of Ahmad Rahami based upon comments made by his father after a domestic dispute that were subsequently reported to authority,” the agency said in a press release. “The F.B.I. conducted internal database reviews, interagency checks, and multiple interviews, none of which revealed ties to terrorism.”
It would seem the fact that Rahami made a three-month trip to Quetta, Pakistan, in 2011, and visited Quetta again during an 11-month trip beginning in 2013, were ignored by the FBI. Quetta is a Taliban stronghold and a hotbed of Salafi jihadism.
About two miles from the Chelsea attack, President Obama gave a speech at the United Nations in which he said the U.S. should take more immigrants like Rahami and implicitly attacked GOP candidate Donald Trump. Obama blamed America for the world’s problems as he jabbed at Trump’s promise to secure the border, crack down on illegal aliens, and change our asylum policies.
“The world is too small for us to simply be able to build a wall,” Obama said. “We have to open our hearts and do more to help refugees who are desperate for a home,” he said. He added, “today a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.”
Obama also suggested that Americans and Europeans are racist for not wanting to be swamped by outsiders from hostile cultures. “And in Europe and the United States, you see people wrestle with concerns about immigration and changing demographics, and suggesting that somehow people who look different are corrupting the character of our countries,” he said...
Gee, What Could Possibly Be Causing All of These 'Lone Wolf' Terror Attacks?
Occam's razor says go with the simplest explanation, and in this case it's not too complicated. Repeat after me: "It's the jihad."
At WSJ, "Experts See No Single Explanation for 'Lone Wolf' Terror Attacks."
Typical PC bull: Experts see no single explanation for ‘lone-wolf’ terror attacks. #NYC #Chelsea #Jihad #GWOT https://t.co/dcSpNVUMpP
Ahmad Khan Rahami Hailed Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki in 'Scrawled Journal' Seized During Arrest
This Rahami mofo was a very bad dude.
If you hear people saying they "don't know what the motive" was, just tell 'em to fuck off.
At the Los Angeles Times, "'The sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets': A scrawled journal found with New York bombing suspect":
Federal authorities on Tuesday filed charges against Ahmad Khan Rahami in a series of bombs planted over the weekend in New York and New Jersey, and said they have recovered a journal in which the 28-year-old immigrant from Afghanistan invoked instructions to attack unbelievers “in their backyard.”
“Inshallah [God willing], the sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets. Gun shots to your police. Death To Your OPPRESSION,” were some of the words scrolled in a journal FBI agents found with Rahami when he was taken into custody Monday.
“My heart I pray to the beautiful wise ALLAH. To not take JIHAD away from [me]. I beg...for shahadat [martyrdom],” said the journal, which was damaged during the exchange of gunfire with police that preceded Rahami’s arrest.
The complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan said the bomb that exploded Saturday in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood was powerful enough to shatter windows three stories above ground and cause millions of dollars in damage.
Fragmentation from the explosive, fashioned from a pressure cooker and left in a dumpster, was blasted up to 650 feet away, according to an affidavit from Special Agent Peter Frederick Licata of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Rahami faces federal charges of using a weapon of mass destruction, bombing a public place, destruction of property by fire or explosive and using a destructive device in the commission of a crime of violence.
In their charging document, federal authorities said they have recovered a cellphone video, shot two days before the Chelsea bombing, that appears to show Rahami blowing up a cylindrical container at or near his home in Elizabeth, N.J.
The video, recovered from a phone believed to belong to a family member of the suspect, shows a fuse being lighted, then an explosion.
“The video depicts the lighting of the fuse, a loud noise and flames, followed by billowing smoke and laughter,” according to Licata’s affidavit. “Rahami then enters the frame and is seen picking up the cylindrical container.”
The 31 people injured in the attack suffered lacerations from flying glass, shrapnel and fragmentation as well as “various head injuries,” according to the criminal complaint. At least one victim was hospitalized.
Ten Times in Past Two Years Terrorists Slipped Through Immigration Process into U.S.
From Matthew Boyle, at Breitbart (via Jihad Watch):
NEW YORK CITY, New York — In the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York City and Minnesota during the weekend, the focus of the national debate has again shifted back to America’s enemies exploiting weaknesses in U.S. immigration screening processes to get into the country to attack the United States.
While President Barack Obama’s administration, and his would-be successor, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton, have promised to increase the amount of people they bring into the United States through immigration, refugee, and asylum programs, the Republican nominee for president, Donald J. Trump, has promised to put the brakes on allowing potential terrorists into the United States.
Below is a by-no-means comprehensive list of at least ten times in the last couple years—there are certainly many more instances—that terrorists have exploited the Obama-Clinton immigration weaknesses to get into the United States. This is the first in a series of stories that will examine specific examples on this front...
Angelina Jolie Files for Divorce from Brad Pitt
Well, I'm not all sad about it or anything, although these two are probably my favorite people in Hollywood.
I hope he didn't abuse her, above all.
At LAT, "Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt, seeks full physical custody of their kids":
Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt after two years of marriage.
In her Monday filing under the legal name Angelina Jolie Pitt, the actress-director cited irreconcilable differences but didn’t elaborate on what those differences are.
She’s requesting sole physical custody and joint legal custody of their six children but indicated she is willing to give her husband visitation rights.
The separation date is listed as Sept. 15; Jolie Pitt and Pitt were legally married Aug. 14, 2014, and followed that up on Aug. 23 with a nondenominational ceremony held at their chateau in Provence, France, after a two-year engagement.
The couple, who met while working on the movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” got together in August 2005. They have six children together: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.
"I am very saddened by this, but what matters most now is the well-being of our kids," Pitt said in a statement to People magazine. A source close to the couple told the magazine the divorce was "a complete shock."
The decision to divorce was made “for the health of the family,” attorney Robert Offer, who represents Jolie Pitt, told the Associated Press on Tuesday...
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Steve Emerson, American Jihad
Emerson got a bad rap in 1994 when he made comments about the Oklahoma City bombing having "traits" common to Middle Eastern terrorism, which once Timothy McVeigh was named as the suspect, essentially destroyed his reputation as a terrorism analyst.
But he's looking more prescient all the time. I read his book years ago, but I think I'll pull it off the shelf for some review.
At Amazon, Steve Emerson, American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us.
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Re-Upping David Solway, 'How to Defeat Terrorism'
I posted Solway in July. But since we're going through another round of deadly political correctness following the Chelsea bombing, I thought I'd re-up. This is key, and exactly the opposite of what leftists propose:
The measures and policies that would need to be put in place [to stop terrorism] are so obvious that the failure to implement them is nothing but a sign of lethal complacency and moral cowardice. What are these measures? The list is not unduly long and, as I say, entirely obvious.
* Islamic immigration must be drastically curtailed if not completely stopped. As Donald Trump has cogently warned, “We are allowing people into our country who we have no idea where they are, where they're from, who they are, they have no paperwork, they have no documentation, in many cases.” This, as the proverb goes, is like closing the barn door after the horse has escaped. But there are many more horses in the barn to be confined to their stalls. It’s a start.
* Since large Muslim populations are already settled within our borders, surveillance must be intensive, methodical and ongoing. No-Go Zones must be pacified by whatever means, and must be made Go Zones. Self-regulated ghettoes have to be opened up and rigorously policed. Islamic law must be ruled in contravention of common law and legally prohibited. Vigorous action is required. As Andrew Bieszad, one of Walid Shoebat’s co-bloggers, reported at com, the mayor of Calais has now decided to act, to dismantle the so-called refugee “jungle” that has disfigured the town and to displace or deport thousands of its characteristically violent denizens. As Bieszad says, “It has taken a long time, but the French are finally pushing back against the Muslims in Calais.” But nowhere else, it appears.
*All mosques, which are effectively command centers, must be stringently investigated and many must be closed down.
*Every imam in the country should be thoroughly vetted and many should be de-licensed and restricted from preaching.
*Jihadi suspects clearly and unequivocally known to law enforcement agencies should not be so readily allowed, as is far too often the case, to mix freely among the people. As has often been said, lone wolves are usually known wolves. Moreover, it is a mistake to consider them as “lone”; they are really part of a vast ideological pack. Of course, we would need to protect ourselves against abuse of authority where anyone in disfavor with policing agencies or political administrations can be randomly detained. Wolves may be responsibly “tagged,” so to speak, and monitored, whether digitally or in propia persona, by the intelligence community, with a reasonable prospect of interception before yet another outrage is committed—those like the Nice jihadist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who, as The Washington Post reports, “had been connected to assault and theft since 2010” and sentenced to a six month prison term (though “[i]t was not clear whether Bouhlel served any of that sentence”). Admittedly, there is a fine line between liberty and security, the issue will always remain moot, and safeguards will have to be agreed upon even if we lose some battles along the way.
*Muslims and non-Muslims who leave the country to fight alongside terrorist entities must not be repatriated, even if they are passport-holding citizens. They are accessories to those who would destroy us and are therefore enemy combatants.
*Muslim organizations with ties to terror-sponsoring organizations or that lobby for Sharia or for cultural and political influence must be disbanded and outlawed, no matter how powerful and widespread.
No less important, indeed, perhaps the most crucial of the measures I am proposing, has to do with terminology and the concepts it signifies. We keep hearing that the enemy we are facing is “Islamic extremism” or “radical Islam.” Nothing can be further from the truth. This is the most serious in its consequences of the evasions we practice and one that ensures our eventual destruction. The enemy is not radical Islam but Islam pure and simple. The terrorists, their enablers and the “entry” cohort take their warrant from their holy scriptures—the Koran, the Hadith, the Sira, the schools of jurisprudence, and centuries of political and religious commentary.
Taleeb Starkes: Black Lies Matter
Here's the dude's book, at Amazon, Black Lies Matter: Why Lies Matter to the Race Grievance Industry.
And watch, via Prager University:
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Max Boot Advising Hillary Clinton?
Max Boot jumped the shark earlier this year with his op-ed at the Los Angeles Times attacking the nomination of Donald Trump, "The Republican Party is dead."
I don't care about the GOP, but I do care about Donald Trump, who was the real target of Boot's wrath.
I'm reminded of Boot's tantrum with his new piece at Foreign Policy, "Why Trump Is the Islamic State’s Dream Candidate."
I probably wouldn't even be blogging this, but a passage from Boot's essay is virtually verbatim from Hillary Clinton's comments yesterday on the New York bombing. Here's Boot:
Trump is the Islamic State’s dream candidate, argues @MaxBoot https://t.co/wuD7MEShp3 pic.twitter.com/J4gu73KMAH
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) September 20, 2016
The core of his [Trump's] approach [to global jihad] is to keep saying the enemy is “radical Islamic terrorism,” something that he (wrongly) claims Clinton never does. “To defeat Islamic terrorism,” he said in Ohio, “we must also speak out forcefully against a hateful ideology that provides the breeding ground for violence and terrorism to grow.” But there’s a good reason why both Presidents George W. Bush and Obama have been reluctant to speak of “Islamic terrorism,” and it’s not because Obama is a closet Muslim, as Trump has insinuated in the past. It’s because they realize that in the battle against terrorism, the United States cannot win unless it can get the support of most of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims. By seeming to insult Islam and Muslims as Trump does, he plays into Islamic State and al Qaeda propaganda, which posits that there is a battle between Islam and the West.
I've highlighted the key portion, the part about "Islam and the West," which is almost exactly what Hillary Clinton said yesterday when she claimed ISIS wanted to pull the U.S. into a "religious conflict," a "war against Islam," which is why they prefer Donald Trump.
I'm sick of people like Max Boot, to say nothing of Haggard Hillary. See my post from yesterday for more, "Democrat 'Our Values' Talking Point: It's Not 'Annoying' — It's Evil."
If Boot's not advising Clinton, then the Democrat Party and Clinton's campaign have been working extremely hard at unified messaging for their army of surrogates. It's impressive messaging, but wrong for America. Unfortunately for them, they're going to find that out too late when Donald Trump wins on November 8th, which is becoming a distinct possibility the ways things have been going this last couple of weeks.
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The #ForgottenAmericans Must Be Remembered Before November
Posted: March 8, 2017 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
Tags: 2017, america, economics, Election 2016, Forgotten Americans, politics, Rust belt, Trump, voting
By @anarchyroll
In his first weekly address, Trump made sure to speak to what he called the forgotten Americans. Do you know who those people are? If you don’t, you are apart of the problem, not the solution.
If you live in a major metropolitan city, with a job dependent on technology, an artistic mindset, a liberal paradigm: with no understanding or empathy for the old, rural, industrial, rust belt, baseball, apple pie Americana folks who have been left behind since the 1970s…then your faux rage, uproar, rallies, marches, and hashtag revolts are not only irrelevant, but also impetice for Trump’s re election.
Remember how galvanized the left was after eight years of republican rule in America. When two wars were stared. Stem cell therapy was disabled. Religion was prioritized over science. Then a mixed race gentleman ran for the highest office in the land with the potential to make history, The level of enthusiasm, effort, and existential encouragement to reach beyond the brass ring for annals of history was no longer a wet dream of ideology but a forgone consequence the rise of a political base.
Empathy and compromise must be paid to the south and rust belt at some point. The former Confederacy has been guaranteed red on the electoral map for many generations now. The former manufacturing havens of the mid west have turned electorally red year by year. If the deep blue states of California and Illinois can have red governors multiple times over in recent years, then red states can change majors in the electoral college as well.
The Affordable Care Act has caught on quite well in the Bible belt and the new Pope says a lot of leftist things. Is there not common ground to be gained there?
Trump winning the elections defied many perceived norms. But one old school norm that holds true is that all politics are local. There must be focus paid to state elections. One vote doesn’t mean a whole hell of a lot in a national election. But in state, county, and township elections one vote can go a long way. There must be national emphasis paid to state elections. That may sound like a lot. But in the era of the never-ending news cycle and the unquenchable thirst for content of varying quality, a national spotlight paid to local elections is a natural fit. Think I’m stretching here? Watch a major sports network during an off-season or a preseason.
Solar power is creating more jobs than the coal industry. Legalized marijuana will be creating more jobs than the manufacturing sector. Both of those things scream common ground for liberals and conservatives. But can that common ground be found if we are all lost in the trees of pundit reactivity?
There is a decent percentage of people on each side who are lost. Too dug in the trenches of their side as if it will give them bonus points in this life or the next. But there are vastly more people who simply want a to live a happy life without hurting anyone. If everyone had more income than debt, only the freaks would care about getting rid of second amendment or transgender rights.
But that common ground must be diligently searched for through action and policy. Rhetoric and campaign promises are simply not good enough. The forgotten Americans have been left behind for almost half a century. Their anger is as justified as it is misdirected. Who closed the factories? Who outsourced the jobs? Who cut the aide checks? The answer is not liberal elites.
It isn’t ridicule nor parades that will convince the forgotten Americans about the wonders of social progressivism. It is a path out of poverty that involves a purpose. For generations politicians have leveraged social issues against economics to channel the angry attention away from the people who closed the factories and outsourced their jobs towards the sex, science, and sin of city dwellers.
Getting angry or nasty and marching in the streets of major metropolitan cities does nothing but satisfy ego and social media content appetite. The actual work must be done in the broken rural communities of the country that have been so economically depressed and culturally starved for so long that they have become nationally infamous as centers for the meth and opium epidemics of the past decade.
So instead of trying to cram fringe left-wing issues down America’s throat from New York and LA, try putting boots, brains, and plans of action on the ground one flyover state at a time. The rust belt must be acknowledged and tended to. From factory towns to mill villages. These people need to be explained, then shown through action, a plan for sustainable economic success in the knowledge worker age. Until this entire section of the country, until these forgotten Americans are given a hand up from the other side of the aisle, transgender rights, environmental accountability, progressive income taxes, and marijuana legalization are all mere pipe dreams of a voting block too apathetic and naive to bring about the real change they publically pout about with placards and impotent anger.
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Sympathy for the GOP
23 Mar 2010 @ 7:18 AM
You almost have to feel sorry for the Republican party this year. Their tactics of screaming loudly, encouraging their followers to scream incoherently, and basically kicking and yelling “no!” have failed to prevent the (watered down) health care reform bill from passing. Already, they plan to introduce legislation to repeal it. Since they could never produce more than a dozen pages of counterproposal, I suppose a “make it go away” bill is about the right length for their proven abilities.
One thing that seems to be a truism in American politics is that everyone is against government spending except when it is something they want. Also, every new entitlement becomes an entrenched permanent benefit as soon as it becomes law. Look at the fact that we still have tobacco farming subsidies, even while we do our darnedest to make tobacco usage less popular than a vampiric leper zombie.
Now that the health care reform bill has become law, the GOP is in the unenviable position of trying to reduce benefits and remove people’s health insurance. It’s easy to rant against the evils of socialism, all while ignoring that many of our institutions are socialized (police, fire, road work, military, yada yada). It’s a lot harder to tell people that, for their own good, you’re going to make it okay for insurance companies to more easily deny coverage to their sick mother. Not to mention, the CBO came out with their estimate that this bill will reduce the deficit, which makes the “it costs too much” rhetoric feel a little hokey.
Some of the provisions of the health care reform bill that become effective this year:
Insurance companies can’t drop your coverage if you become sick while insured
Parents can insure adult children up to 26 years old
The Medicare “donut hole” will get a rebate, eventually becoming a solid bismarck-like holeless mass
Children will not be barred for pre-existing conditions
Lifetime coverage limits will be gone
Small businesses will get a tax credit to help provide health insurance for their employees
Of course, John Boehner is upset that one other provision goes into effect this year: tanning beds get a 10% additional tax. I love that taxes are seemingly randomly associated with anything they are meant to assist, but tanning salons? Weird.
So the GOP is going to be campaigning this year to repeal this law. They will be out there telling their constituents and voters that they want senior citizens to pay $250 more for their medication, that they want to deprive small businesses of a tax credit, that they want to deny coverage to little Jimmy with leukemia… yeah, that’ll work.
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A lot of people draw a clear line between Islam and extremist Muslims. But some people don’t. Are we at war with Islam, or just extremists?
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A lot of people draw a clear line between Islam and extremist Muslims. But some people don't. Are we at war with Islam, or just extremists?
BigChil 1 0 on February 9, 2015
I’m not sure…this might be entirely semantic. If Islam always has the goal of becoming the law then yes, Islam will always be a frictional force when it comes into contact with societies that value intelligent dialogue. Christianity had the luxury of being dragged out of the dark ages over hundreds of years-creating many moderate forms of Christianity in the process. Islam, which is still in it’s “medieval” period is experiencing a very different type of Renaissance…one which does not offer moderate positions. It’s still too early to tell. The better question, in my opinion, is “What will Islam look like after everyone in the Arab world has Wikipedia in their pocket?”
lanzacash 0 on February 10, 2015
I don’t even think the Nazi’s (as big of scumbags as they were) being as evil or dangerous as these lowlife extremists.
I don't even think the Nazi's (as big of scumbags as they were) being as evil or dangerous as these lowlife extremists.
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I'm not sure...this might be entirely semantic. If Islam always has the goal of becoming the law then yes, Islam will always be a frictional force when it comes into contact with societies that value intelligent dialogue. Christianity had the luxury of being dragged out of the dark ages over hundreds of years-creating many moderate forms of Christianity in the process. Islam, which is still in it's "medieval" period is experiencing a very different type of Renaissance...one which does not offer moderate positions. It's still too early to tell. The better question, in my opinion, is "What will Islam look like after everyone in the Arab world has Wikipedia in their pocket?"
Matt M. 2 1 on February 9, 2015
There really shouldn’t be a question, but with the lack of outrage by the Muslim community at large against extremism, there’s a blurred line they’ve let remain that way.
There’s been no outcry by the moderates. Kind of makes you wonder…..
There's been no outcry by the moderates. Kind of makes you wonder.....
Matt M. 0 on February 11, 2015
There really shouldn't be a question, but with the lack of outrage by the Muslim community at large against extremism, there's a blurred line they've let remain that way.
jptrenn 9 1 on February 9, 2015
With the exception of the war in Afghanistan and it’s effect on Pakistan, neither. If we were at war with extremists, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen would be in much bigger trouble. Unfortunately, we’ve killed a lot of Muslims since 9/11 that many of them think we’re at war with the religion as a whole.
Funny thing is that just about EVERY single act of terrorism in the last 25 years has been committed by muslims. If a group of Italians or Jews took over a plane and killed everyone on board, there would be a HUGE outcry from those groups saying they don’t represent the rest of us. The muslim population outcry must be on a frequency only bats can hear.
Funny thing is that just about EVERY single act of terrorism in the last 25 years has been committed by muslims. If a group of Italians or Jews took over a plane and killed everyone on board, there would be a HUGE outcry from those groups saying they don't represent the rest of us. The muslim population outcry must be on a frequency only bats can hear.
nashley 1 on February 11, 2015
It’s completely inaccurate to say that almost every act of terrorism in the past 25 years has been committed by Muslims. It wasn’t Muslims who needlessly invaded a country and killed maybe hundreds of thousands in the process–that would be the US government. And the fact is, Muslims have overwhelmingly said that they don’t condone the terrorism done in the name of Islam. The fact that that has barely been noticed by the American media isn’t their fault.
It's completely inaccurate to say that almost every act of terrorism in the past 25 years has been committed by Muslims. It wasn't Muslims who needlessly invaded a country and killed maybe hundreds of thousands in the process--that would be the US government. And the fact is, Muslims have overwhelmingly said that they don't condone the terrorism done in the name of Islam. The fact that that has barely been noticed by the American media isn't their fault.
Uh, yes it is accurate to say that nearly every act of terrorism in the last quarter century HAS been commited ny muslims, “genius.” Let’s go down the list just a bit :A)1983 US embassy building in Beirut, B)1989 Tel Aviv attack C) 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya D) 1993 the first World Trade Center attack E) 1994 Air France flight, and of course 9-11, and the Boston Marathon bombing. Guess what Dimbulb….all done by muslims, although you’d probably try and put a “Bush did it” spin on it. Why not? You probably blame Bush for every evil that’s befallen Mankind since the Great Flood. Then again you’re probably one of those spoiled, campus revolutionary wannabe, ultra left wing llibs who hates America, and has wet dreams of flag burning, and who’s one big regret in life is that you’re not old enough to have a draft card that you could publicly burn. You hate America so much? Then get the hell out. I’m sure people won’t be jumping off high ledges because they miss your company. Better yet, pull up stakes and settle down in one of those Islamic extremist countries you seem to love so much. I’m sure they’ll greet you with open arms, just before they execute you for some imagined slight.
Uh, yes it is accurate to say that nearly every act of terrorism in the last quarter century HAS been commited ny muslims, "genius." Let's go down the list just a bit :A)1983 US embassy building in Beirut, B)1989 Tel Aviv attack C) 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya D) 1993 the first World Trade Center attack E) 1994 Air France flight, and of course 9-11, and the Boston Marathon bombing. Guess what Dimbulb....all done by muslims, although you'd probably try and put a "Bush did it" spin on it. Why not? You probably blame Bush for every evil that's befallen Mankind since the Great Flood. Then again you're probably one of those spoiled, campus revolutionary wannabe, ultra left wing llibs who hates America, and has wet dreams of flag burning, and who's one big regret in life is that you're not old enough to have a draft card that you could publicly burn. You hate America so much? Then get the hell out. I'm sure people won't be jumping off high ledges because they miss your company. Better yet, pull up stakes and settle down in one of those Islamic extremist countries you seem to love so much. I'm sure they'll greet you with open arms, just before they execute you for some imagined slight.
I actually don’t have any particularly specific hatred of Bush, so I honestly don’t blame him for all that much. I don’t even blame him personally for a lot of the bad things done under his administration. He’s probably a likable enough guy.
I also don’t hate America (I even admire Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, among numerous other prominent Americans). I do hate its current government quite a lot, but I thought that was the American thing to do, given how much the Tea Party waves the flag and shrieks about the evils of big government. Apparently when anyone on the left criticizes the government that’s unpatriotic or something, though.
I’m not a “lib” of any variety, since liberalism nowadays generally refers to people like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, who I think are both hacks. As for leaving the country, I coincidentally might be doing that, though not for a radical Islamic country as you suggest (like Saudi Arabia, a historically close ally of the US government), but for Denmark. That’s, of course, a European socialist hellhole, though, so close enough.
I would say I’m pretty spoiled, like most Americans, given that we live in the richest country on Earth, which is why I think it would be nice if we did a bit more to help people in third world countries (which is, of course, more unpatriotic commie talk). As for your attacks on my intelligence, clearly your foam-at-the-mouth patriotism, Islamophobia, and name-calling indicate that you’re the smartest person in the room. I also notice you didn’t actually address what I said (that a major terrorist action, the Iraq War, was committed by the US government, not by Muslims, contradicting your claim that Muslims are responsible for practically all terrorism in the last 25 years). So all in all, good chat.
I actually don't have any particularly specific hatred of Bush, so I honestly don't blame him for all that much. I don't even blame him personally for a lot of the bad things done under his administration. He's probably a likable enough guy.
I also don't hate America (I even admire Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, among numerous other prominent Americans). I do hate its current government quite a lot, but I thought that was the American thing to do, given how much the Tea Party waves the flag and shrieks about the evils of big government. Apparently when anyone on the left criticizes the government that's unpatriotic or something, though.
I'm not a "lib" of any variety, since liberalism nowadays generally refers to people like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, who I think are both hacks. As for leaving the country, I coincidentally might be doing that, though not for a radical Islamic country as you suggest (like Saudi Arabia, a historically close ally of the US government), but for Denmark. That's, of course, a European socialist hellhole, though, so close enough.
I would say I'm pretty spoiled, like most Americans, given that we live in the richest country on Earth, which is why I think it would be nice if we did a bit more to help people in third world countries (which is, of course, more unpatriotic commie talk). As for your attacks on my intelligence, clearly your foam-at-the-mouth patriotism, Islamophobia, and name-calling indicate that you're the smartest person in the room. I also notice you didn't actually address what I said (that a major terrorist action, the Iraq War, was committed by the US government, not by Muslims, contradicting your claim that Muslims are responsible for practically all terrorism in the last 25 years). So all in all, good chat.
Gee, we’ll miss you when you’re gone……
Gee, we'll miss you when you're gone......
And I’ll take that to indicate you have no intelligent rebuttal to any point I’ve made. What a shock.
And I'll take that to indicate you have no intelligent rebuttal to any point I've made. What a shock.
At least none that one with your limited brain matter would understand or appreciate. Enjoy Denmark, while the rest of us try to console ourselves over your impending departure..
It’s not really all that impending. Sorry to disappoint you. But hey, at least I’m making new pals like you while I’m here.
It's not really all that impending. Sorry to disappoint you. But hey, at least I'm making new pals like you while I'm here.
See, it’s not a total loss then. Always look for that silver lining I say.
See, it's not a total loss then. Always look for that silver lining I say.
With the exception of the war in Afghanistan and it's effect on Pakistan, neither. If we were at war with extremists, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen would be in much bigger trouble. Unfortunately, we've killed a lot of Muslims since 9/11 that many of them think we're at war with the religion as a whole.
ZenPop 1 1 on February 10, 2015
We are ALWAYS at war with stupidity… and unfortunately, we lose way too often.
America has to get its head out of its ass and quit worrying about being p/c and offending our enemies.
We are ALWAYS at war with stupidity... and unfortunately, we lose way too often.
Fluffhead 0 1 on February 10, 2015
We are at war with religious fundamentalism, fear, and stupidity. Non violent Muslims around the world need to stand up to this Jihad bullshit and show that they are a peaceful people.
lanzacash 0 0 on February 10, 2015
So called non violent muslims are a lot like the German population of the 1940’s. They see the horrors being committed yet don’t open their fucking mouths to complain, and just keep their heads buried in the sand.
So called non violent muslims are a lot like the German population of the 1940's. They see the horrors being committed yet don't open their fucking mouths to complain, and just keep their heads buried in the sand.
BumFuzzler 0 0 on February 12, 2015
Some individuals do seem to be at war with Islam. But our country is not.
PJ Rodriguez 1 0 on February 12, 2015
At war with Islam? No. The idea that we are is just dumb. I base my proposal on this:
There are about 1.6 billion Muslims, almost one-quarter of the world’s population, making Islam the second-largest religion, after Christianity.
According to Pew Research, nearly two-thirds (62%) of Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region. More Muslims live in India and Pakistan (344 million combined) than in the entire Middle East-North Africa region (317 million).
Are these people at “war” with us?
JeffBishop 0 on February 17, 2015
One would hope not. But the same Pew research shows some pretty disturbing trends among them. I don’t know of a single country in which a majority of self-described Christians think it is appropriate to kill someone for leaving their faith. But commanding majorities of self-described Muslims in all but a handful of predominantly Muslim countries, do.
One would hope not. But the same Pew research shows some pretty disturbing trends among them. I don't know of a single country in which a majority of self-described Christians think it is appropriate to kill someone for leaving their faith. But commanding majorities of self-described Muslims in all but a handful of predominantly Muslim countries, do.
Are these people at "war" with us?
MCG14 0 0 on February 19, 2015
We should be at war with extremists. However some people don’t realize Islam is not the culprit, just like Christian extremists give Christianity a bad name, Muslim extremists give Islam a bad name.
We should be at war with extremists. However some people don't realize Islam is not the culprit, just like Christian extremists give Christianity a bad name, Muslim extremists give Islam a bad name.
This piece by Robert Wright (“The Clash of Civilizations That Isn’t“) makes a good point:
“The point of the [Roger Cohen] column was to dismiss as ’empty talk’ the claim that we’re not at war with Islam. Elaborating, Cohen wrote, ‘Across a wide swath of territory, in Iraq, in Syria, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Yemen, the West has been or is at war, or near-war, with the Muslim world.’
“You might ask: How could it be a war against ‘the Muslim world’ if it’s confined to five countries that house only a minority of the world’s Muslims? Or: How could it be a war against ‘the Muslim world’ if most of the Muslims even in these five countries are not the enemy?”
This piece by Robert Wright ("The Clash of Civilizations That Isn’t") makes a good point:
"The point of the [Roger Cohen] column was to dismiss as 'empty talk' the claim that we’re not at war with Islam. Elaborating, Cohen wrote, 'Across a wide swath of territory, in Iraq, in Syria, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Yemen, the West has been or is at war, or near-war, with the Muslim world.'
"You might ask: How could it be a war against 'the Muslim world' if it’s confined to five countries that house only a minority of the world’s Muslims? Or: How could it be a war against 'the Muslim world' if most of the Muslims even in these five countries are not the enemy?"
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Homologous recombination in GB virus C/hepatitis G virus
Michael Worobey, Edward C. Holmes
Analysis of 33 GB virus C/hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV) full or nearly full genome sequences revealed several putative inter- and intrasubtype recombinants. The breakpoints of the recombinant regions were mapped using a maximum-likelihood method, and the statistical significance for each region was tested using Monte Carlo simulation. The results were highly significant and provided evidence for the existence of complex mosaic genomes showing as many as nine recombination events, with breakpoints in the 5′ UTR and in all of the coding regions except the short NS4b gene. Recombination was confirmed by separate phylogenetic analysis of the various recombinant regions and by Sawyer's runs test. Taken together, these findings demonstrate for the first time that recombination is common in natural populations of GBV-C and that it takes place both within and between subtypes. The wide-ranging implications of such nonclonal history for reconstructing the spread and timescale of GBV-C evolution are discussed.
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Belching dinosaurs may have helped keep their world warm
The gut bacteria of giant plant-eaters made a lot of the greenhouse gas methane.
John Timmer - May 8, 2012 1:12 pm UTC
pitt.edu
The world inhabited by dinosaurs was typically a hot one, with high levels of greenhouse gasses, lots of water vapor, and no permanent ice sheets. And, according to a new estimate published in the journal Current Biology, the dinosaurs themselves may have contributed to their hothouse conditions.
(Note to the editors of Current BIology: I'm not sure that the Jurassic really qualifies as "current.")
A team of British researchers has put together various estimates of the features of the Jurassic's large herbivores, such as population density, typical body mass, and so on. Combined with an estimate of how much methane is emitted by a typical herbivore, these numbers suggest that the dinosaurs were pouring out enough methane to help the greenhouse effect keep the Earth nice and toasty.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, being capable of driving far more heat retention than an equivalent volume of carbon dioxide. And, even when it breaks down, it does so by being converted to carbon dioxide and water vapor, both of which are also greenhouse gasses. So, a little methane can go a long way towards keeping the planet hot.
For many bacteria, methane is simply the end-point of their metabolism (in the same way that water and CO2 are for us). In conditions where oxygen is scarce or absent, these organisms pump out methane as a byproduct of the reactions that keep them supplied with energy. One such location is within the guts of plant-eating animals. There, the methanogens help break down the plant material, helping the cow digest it. In return, they get a meal, resulting in the release of methane. This makes its way into the atmosphere exactly as you suspect it would.
For a single animal, this is no big deal. But there are a lot of plant eaters out there. The US cattle industry is large enough that it contributes 20 percent of the nation's annual methane emissions—and the US has less than 10 percent of the world's cows. Overall, cows account for something like 75 Teragrams of methane emissions annually (technically, this is known as "a lot").
By modern standards, a typical cow seems like a fairly large animal, but they're positively tiny compared to some of the large plant-eating dinosaurs. A medium sized sauropod (the Apatosaurus louise is the authors' choice) weighed in at something like 20,000kg. And, all estimates are that these animals could live at a pretty high population density, possibly because the high temperatures, CO2, and water vapor allowed plants that were adapted to these conditions to flourish. Add in the fact that a lot of the world could probably constitute habitat (again, there were no ice sheets at the time), and you have a whole lot of dinosaurs providing a good habitat for methane-producing bacteria.
Since these dinosaurs were probably not warm-blooded, the environment they created for their bacteria probably wasn't as favorable as that provided by a cow. But even with a reduced amount of methane produced as a function of body weight, even a single animal could produce an estimated 2,675 liters of methane a day. Multiply that by the population estimates, and you get a staggering 520 Teragrams of methane a year. That's roughly equivalent to the total methane emissions for our entire planet at the moment. Even if the authors' estimates are high by a factor of two, it's still more than the preindustrial methane emissions.
Now, there are a lot of estimations involved here: population density, area of available habitat, emissions per animal. But the authors pretty reasonably state that, even if all of these are wrong, the dinosaurs probably still made a significant contribution to the planet's methane cycle. If any of these are underestimates, the collective outpouring of their belches could have been a major influence on the climate.
It doesn't seem likely to have any practical applications, but the work is a nice reminder of just how much biology can shape its own habitat. And, if nothing else, I suspect this will be the only time I ever time I ever read a paper containing a bar chart with items labeled "Modern," "Cows," and "Sauropods."
Current Biology, 2012. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.042 (About DOIs).
John Timmer John became Ars Technica's science editor in 2007 after spending 15 years doing biology research at places like Berkeley and Cornell.
Email jtimmer@arstechnica.com // Twitter @j_timmer
cdclndc Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
A medium sized sauropod (the Apatosaurus louise is the authors' choice) weighed in at something like 20,000kg.
even a single animal could produce an estimated 2,675 liters of methane a day
What's with all the metric stuff? The rest of the world needs hurry up and get on board with the US and use the Imperial system of weights and measures like Liberia and Myanmar. Get with it guys.
Interesting article none the less.
Edit for context: I spent quite a bit of time the other day explaining imperial vs. metrics to my son, who is in grade school and being taught both. Even he thinks the US is retarded in this regard. Out of the mouth of children oft times come gems.
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MoonShark Ars Praefectus
I'm guessing they mean it as in "current research", not "current events". *shrug*
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Quiet Desperation Ars Praefectus
cdclndc wrote:
Even he thinks the US is retarded in this regard. (rest of Imperial unit rant snipped)
What the hell brought that on?
dlux Ars Legatus Legionis
My neighbor owns a garage that makes Hummer stretch-limos and he burps a lot, so the problem hasn't really gone away.
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new2mac Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
Total nonsense. God made farts. I won't believe it until you show me the missing link of farts.
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mattclary Ars Praetorian
That's roughly equivalent to the total methane emissions for our entire planet at the moment.
So, we emit just as much methane, and burn more fossil fuels than the Sleestak did, yet the planet is currently cooler... Interesting.
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fjpoblam Ars Scholae Palatinae
President of the National Academy of Sciences Ralph Cicerone (an atmospheric scientist), has indicated the contribution of methane by livestock flatulence and eructation to global warming is a "serious topic". (Revenge of the herds: farting and burping.) The dinosaur world could have been a really stinky place, no? Kind of like it is, passing Wilderado, TX on I-40 when they have lots of cattle in the pens.
killing_time Ars Praefectus
prehistoric dutch oven
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dbs Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Quite a bit of nonsense -- even by the loose standards of the Global Warming crowd. These people release many times as much huey as those dinosaurs, and the earth has not warmed for 15 years.
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Tafter Ars Centurion
Quiet Desperation wrote:
When I wake up in a foul mood, I always take it out on the Imperial system. Better than kicking the dog, right?
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Ragnarredbeard Ars Tribunus Militum
So in addition to being hot and muggy, the Jurassic smelled like ass.
I'm apologize for not having left a contextual explanation and have since added an edit. Taking engineering in college (back when, might have changed) we had to practically relearn units of measure. Getting rid of the clumsy imperial systems and learning (more like wrapping our head around) rather unfamiliar units of measurement. I remember wishing that I had grown up with metric the whole time.
In reading the article I couldn't contextualize how much 20000kg weighed and had to convert the numbers to a more familiar format (pounds). That reminded me of a conversation with a frustrated kid the other day, hence the poorly framed post.
new2mac wrote:
You have to know where to mine them. I'd suggest starting with your typical office chair.
qmpash Seniorius Lurkius
Guess what the "hidden" message is in this story? Masquerading as a "science" story; its message is that we have to lower the number of cattle in the world in order to reduce global warming. Probably writtenby a fanatic veg-an who needs a transfusion every other day.
1 post | registered Sep 9, 2011
Technoid.se Ars Centurion
And can we please lay off the warm or cold blooded (firstly because they are bad terms that should not be used) bs? Dinosaurs were 100% endothermal just like us mammals.
That the dinosaurs where Exothermal myth should be dead buried fossilised and put up on display at the museums.
jdale Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
"Overall, cows account for something like 75 Teragrams of methane emissions annually"
I guess this relates to the metric-imperial discussion, but 75 Teragrams sounds like a lot less than 75 million metric tons. (82.6 million short tons for the imperials.) I think putting a multiplier that is impossibly big to comprehend on a tiny unit makes it harder to relate to.
12465 posts | registered Jun 27, 2011
Putrid Polecat Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
So how many litres of methane does a human produce each day?
theseum Ars Tribunus Militum
In reading the article I couldn't contextualize how much 20000kg weighed and had to convert the numbers to a more familiar format (pounds). .
Something like 8 F150's.
Or about a quarter of a house.
SolidSquid Ars Praetorian
mattclary wrote:
Not sure if this was sarcastic, but that's one species of dinosaur emitting as much methane as our entire planet. There's quite a few other species of herbivore dinosaur out there, and methane is one of the most effective greenhouse gasses there is (way bigger impact than the CO2 you get from fossil fuels)
540 posts | registered Feb 23, 2012
Wait, dinosaurs were ruminants? When did they discover this? I thought soft tissue was too fragile to fossilize? I mean, other herbivores don't have anywhere near the methane output of ruminant herbivores, so if they're comparing them to cows then that's what they must have been, right?
Fentras Ars Scholae Palatinae
killing_time wrote:
The mental image made its way to my mouth. I feel like I'm going to be sick.
access Ars Tribunus Militum
Strange use of metric units. As a communist-socialist-atheist Nordic Union citizen I would have used 75 million tons, 20 tons and 2.675 m^3.
qmpash wrote:
Er, actual science shows that ruminant animals like cattle are huge contributers to methane production, and so to global warming. iirc, chickens are much less so, as are rabbits and fish. It's not so much a case of getting rid of meat, but rather reducing methane output in the agricultural industry
tayhimself Ars Praefectus
Yeah right, does this include fictitious dinosaurs in the models. I take all dinosaur stories with a dino sized grain of salt.
That said as SolidSquid mentioned above, cattle are a real problem.
AnthonyInVA Ars Praefectus
John Timmer wrote:
Combined with an estimate of how much methane is emitted by a typical herbivore, these numbers suggest that the dinosaurs were pouring out enough methane to help the greenhouse effect keep the Earth nice and toasty.
See, all you vegetarian farts are destroying our environment! Eat more meat!
Nevarre Ars Legatus Legionis
Thanks for not photoshopping a fart cloud on to the image used with the story.
22277 posts | registered Aug 19, 2003
JesusII Ars Scholae Palatinae
Just a WAG here, but if you can infer diet from teeth and possibly some indications of the digestive system from the skeleton, then jumping to ruminant probably isn't that big a stretch. Leaves are pretty poor in nutrition and I believe only some bateria can breakdown the cellulose (sp?). Given how rare that ability is in the modern world it was probably similar for dinosaurs as well. So if you have a big animal primarily eating leaves it probably had a gut with bateria helping to digest it.
721 posts | registered Aug 14, 2001
Boskone Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
I'm sure a lot of research and effort went into the study.
However, I find I just can't take anything about dinofarts seriously. All I can picture is a t-rex trying--and failing--to light his own farts. Where do you think the idea of fire-breathing dragons came from? It's a conflation of the t-rex and the phrase "butt head"! (That, and a creature that has to turn the tooth-filled maw away from you to expel fire just isn't as fearsome as one that can toast you as it's eating you.)
In all seriousness, I wonder if there's a way to reduce a cow's methane output. Adjust the feed or something.
Boskone wrote:
However, I find I just can't take anything about dinofarts seriously.
He could clear the Savannah after every meal!
jonnybond Ars Praetorian
The funny thing about this finding is how the bible bashers in the corn belt will view these findings. First they believe that the world was created 6000 years ago by god and that the dinosaurs were created as well by god to fool us stupid humans into believeing that the world is older than it really is. However they are strong proponents of the belief system that man is not causing global warming and they may see this as a sneaky way to promote man made global warming through child friendly dragons.
blitzphreak Seniorius Lurkius
+1 jonnybond
cant agree more
1 post | registered Jan 15, 2012
William Topping Account Banned
I've never heard as much shit in my life.
No, methane is an excellent feedstock for hydrogen fuels. We need MORE methane. I suggest putting a tube up every cow's butt so that expelled methane can be stored in a tank on the cow's back. Win-win.
Wheels Of Confusion Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
Since these dinosaurs were probably not warm-blooded, the environment they created for their bacteria probably wasn't as favorable as that provided by a cow.
If anyone read this and was curious about the arguments for why a sauropod was probably not warm-blooded (like I was), the answer is that these creatures are so massive that generating too much heat internally would literally cook them. Because of their enormous volume compared to surface area, heat couldn't easily escape their bodies (with the obvious exception of planet-baking farts). They probably maintained a relatively steady internal temperature through their sheer size, as changing temperature over something that big is a slow process. They likely wouldn't need any kind of warm-blooded biology to maintain their internal temperature.
36033 posts | registered Jan 18, 2009
AnonymousRich Ars Praefectus
MoonShark wrote:
I'm just wondering what "BIology" is. Maybe it's the study of dinosaur farts?
nosensewhatsoever Ars Centurion
Wheels Of Confusion wrote:
Cool. I learned two things today. One, what you just said. That's always been a back-of-the-mind question I have had but not been interested enough to research. It may even be a question one of my kids asks, and now I have an answer.
Two, I need to fart less.
366 posts | registered Jul 1, 2011
Could have saved the dinos?
Gonzaga man Ars Praefectus
Lots of greenhouse gases out there, don't forget water vapor.
and those termites that keep belching out methane from all the wood they eat. More than the cows, IIRC.
As for the farting dinosaurs, they were surrounded by rotting vegetation that also generated a lot of greenhouse gases.
I can imagine the author of this 'current biology' topic making some wild-ass guesstimations on the back of a cocktail napkin down at the 'tini bar with his grad students. Sent it in as a joke and the joke is on him; it got published.
Somebody calculate the contribution to global warming by all the potheads smoking weed and burning incense to hide the smell(yeah, that works REAL well, dudes).
Ohmn Ars Tribunus Militum
Really hard to describe how stupid this is. If you are going to make fun of people, it needs to have a ring of truth in it and be funny. Otherwise, well, it is just stupid.
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The Moors in Spain
THE LAST STAND – The Alhambra, Granada, Spain
April 12, 2012 August 27, 2013 ~ artsofadventure ~ 1 Comment
“… a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous palace within…poetry breathing throughout the fairy architecture of its halls…” Washington Irving, The Alhambra, 1832.
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE, THE ALHAMBRA (Al Qal’a al-Hambra, The Red Fort) GRANADA, SPAIN.
Ever since I was a sullen teenager in the 70’s, staring at black light posters and listening to Andres Segovia’s classical Spanish guitar, I wanted to visit The Alhambra. This January, when the Nordic gloom descended on Sweden, we grabbed a compass,
steered south, and 1800 miles later we reached the last Islamic kingdom in Spain.
In the 6th and 7th centuries the Iberian peninsula was populated by Visigoth and Hispani tribes who couldn’t stop fighting each other long enough to fend off the Arabs and Berbers who sailed in from North Africa to seize Spanish real estate, and tax anyone who didn’t convert to Islam.
The green area shows (from top to bottom) the most territory the Moors ever conquered in Spain, to their last precious possession before their expulsion: the Emirate of Granada.
The ALCAZABA (the Citadel) 11th-13th centuries, was the military headquarters and is one of the oldest areas in the Alhambra complex.
In the 1300’s, the Nasrid Dynasty (Moorish) conquered this mountaintop in Granada and built this impressive fortification that hangs dizzily over the cliffs. In time, they added ornate palaces with dreamy reflective pools and acres of sumptuous gardens. Before you die, you should visit this vast compound of heart-stopping beauty, but please follow my rules: allow two full days, wear chunky orthopedic shoes and remember that the only food allowed spews from the vending machines next door to the restrooms. Oh, and never, ever visit in summer, unless you are wearing a solar powered personal air conditioner around your neck.
View of PALACIO DE GENERALIFE (in Arabic “Jennat al Arif”, Garden of the Architect).
PATIO DE ACEQUIA (Patio of Irrigation).
Indoor-outdoor living was invented here in a series of summer palaces built for the Moorish rulers and their harems. “Yet here is everything to delight a southern voluptuary: fruits, flowers, fragrance, green arbors and myrtle hedges, delicate air and gushing waters.” –Washington Irving.
Which way to the harem?
PALACIO DE PARTAL
Water, in this arid climate, symbolized power. Waldemar is sure that Arab princesses once cavorted naked in these delicious pools.
THE COURT OF MYRTLES.
When buying your admittance ticket to the Alhambra, take care to observe the exact hour marked for visiting the main attraction, the Palace complex. Otherwise, a guard left over from the Franco era may prohibit you from entering his little empire.
PATIO DE LOS LEONES. Main Courtyard of the Palace of the Lions where the famous fountain of the lions is swathed in tarps for the winter restoration.
This part of the Palace was built between 1362 and 1391 AD, before unanimous approval for the earth-is-round theory. Los Leones was immortalized in 2011 as a Spanish two-euro commemorative coin – wonder if that Euro will last as long as the building.
FACHADA DE COMARES.
“…he must remember that he treads the halls of an enchanted palace, and that all is “haunted ground.” –Washington Irving
HALL OF THE ABENCERRAJES, refers to a dinner party where the Islamic host poisoned his guests, a rival tribe.
SALA DE DOS HERMANAS, Room of the two Sisters.
CEILING FROM SALA DE DOS HERMANAS.
“How many legends and traditions, true and fabulous; how many songs and ballads, Arabian and Spanish, of love and war and chivalry, are associated with this oriental pile!…” –Washington Irving
The Catholic reconquest of Spain forced the Moors to retreat further and further south. In 1492, while Columbus sailed the ocean blue, Sultan Muhammad XII of Granada capitulated this last Islamic territory to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella who ascended to The Alhambra citadel decked out in flamboyant Arabic costumes. As the winners, they doled out 3/4 of the land to their royal buddies as thank you gifts and made sure everyone knew about the Inquisition. The losers retreated to Morocco where they really didn’t know anybody after 700 years.
PALACIO DE CARLOS I encompassing the Museum of the Bellas Artes, the National Museum of the Hispanic-Islamic Art and the Hall of Temporary Exhibitions.
Tragically, in 1526, King Carlos I of Spain (a.k.a. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, ruled 1519-1556), demolished part of the glorious Nasrid Palace complex to build himself this bull ring. To be fair, he never knew it was a bull ring. He set out to commission a huge rectilinear Renaissance palace with all the usual wretched royal excesses, but the architect died 25 years into the project (of exhaustion?). I’m not sure whose fault it was that the building still wasn’t finished after a century. Successive royals just weren’t interested in living down south in Granada. The vanity project was finally abandoned in 1616. Its circular courtyard was used to violently end the lives of bulls. 200 years later, Napoleon’s French troops used the building to store gun powder and consequently, a few teeny, weeny, little accidental explosions wrecked even more of the Moorish architecture.
Today, Carlos’ palace is home to three fine museums. The exhibit we saw in January 2012 examined the link between the Alhambra’s centuries of abandonment and ruin, verses its revitalization as a fabulous tourist trap in the late 19th century. OWEN JONES (1809-1874, Welsh/English) the determinedly brilliant artist, architect, designer and author of The Grammar of Ornament lived at the Alhambra for 6 months in the early 1830’s. (As did Washington Irving, later). His detailed drawings and illustrations of the palaces were crucial to the restoration that began in 1862 (and will never end) and helped make the Alhambra one of the most glorious attractions in Spain today. My advice, move this one to the top of your queue!
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The fonds consists of records dating from 1987 to 1997 that relate to the Resource Mobilization Department's (FRM) involvement in the development of country strategies. This involved advising the Bank's Operations Committee and senior staff on country strategies. The records contain: policy framework papers; Board papers, including IDA Board papers on technical assistance; country strategy papers; briefings for meetings of the President's Council; reports on sector adjustment operations; progress reports on sector adjustment credits; IMF reports; and credit and project progressreports.
Third Window feasibility, projections, and analysis
In 1975, the Bank launched the Intermediate Financing Facility ("Third Window"), an interest subsidy fund created to mobilize and leverage limited concessional funds from donors. This fund was created due to constrained availability of lending and donor resources prompted by the 1970s oil crisis. The fonds includes records related to the original "Third Window", and feasibility studies, projections, and analysis for a second "Third Window" fund. The records were maintained by the Replenishment Policy Division (FRMRP) of the Resource Mobilization Department (FRM) from 1987 to 1996 (background records are also included from the 1960s to the 1980s). The records are related to the projections and analysis of the feasibility of a third window lending. The records include: background records related to the first Intermediate Financing Facility ("Third Window") launched in the 1970s; draft reports with comments; final reports; copies of Executive Director Board papers; computer printouts; projection tables; internal memoranda; and other internal communications regarding projections and analysis of the feasibility of a third window lending to provide funds on terms and conditions between the near market terms for IBRD funds and the concessional terms for IDA funds.
Trust fund program management and support
The fonds includes records related to the life cycle (establishment, implementation, evaluation, and financial management) of trust fund programs. The trust funds were managed by the followings units: the Vice President of Cofinancing (VPCOF) from 1984 to 1989; the Official Cofinancing Group (CFSOC) of CFSVP from 1989 to 1992; the Official Cofinancing and Trust Fund Management Group (CFSOC) of CFSVP from 1992 to 1996; the Official Cofinancing and Trust Funds Group (CAPOC) from 1996 to 1998 of the RMCVP; the Trust Fund and Cofinancing Department (TFC) of RMCVP from 1998 to 2001; the Trust Funds Operations Department (TFO), the Trust Fund Strategy and Donor Relations Department (TFS), and the Global Partnership Programs (GPP) of RMCVP and the CFPVP from 2001 to 2008; and the Global Partnerships and Trust Fund Operations (CFPTO) of the CFPVP from 2008 to 2010.
The records include management and support records maintained by the program managers and administrators of various trust fund programs. Included are trust fund program management records of grants for the Consultant Trust Fund (CTF) Program, the Policy and Human Resource Development (PHRD) Fund, Global Partnership Programs (e.g. Development GrantFacility [DGF]), and other special trust fund programs. The majority of the trust fund records focus on the technical assistance trust fund programs of PHRD and CTF, and the global program and partnership trust fund of DGF.
The records of the Policy and Human Resources Development (PHRD) Fund (formerly the Japanese Grant Facility) include correspondence, reports, legal, and financial management records related to PHRD grants. The PHRD records were maintained by VPCOF, CFSOC, CAPOC, TFC, and TFO from 1984 to 2006. The records generally include specific PHRD project implementation files consisting of the following types of records: correspondence between the Bank and the Government of Japan; PHRD technical assistance funding proposals; PHRD implementation reports; contract for consultant services; Terms of Reference; Japanese grant agreements with grant recipient country; correspondence with the Regional departments regarding implementation and disbursement; policies and guidelines related to PHRD grants; records related to monitoring of compliance with the grant terms; and records of quarterly PHRD Fund Tranche budgets.
The records also consist of material related to the management and support of trust fund grants of the Consultant Trust Fund (CTF) Program maintained by VPCOF, CFSOC, CAPOC, TFC, and TFO from 1974 to 2006 (predominantly 1985 to 2006). The records include correspondence, reports, legal, and financial records between the World Bank, participating donor countries, and the grant recipient. The CTF records generally include country files with the following types of records: Initiating Briefs for Trust Funds (IBTF); Cofinancing Framework Agreements; CTF Agreements; Memoranda of Understanding between the Bank and donor country; the CTF funding request from Regional Division Chiefs; Terms of Reference; back to office reports; terms and conditions of the grant; briefing notes prepared for donor countries; letters of appointment; reports to the donors describing the disbursement of funds; list of CTF allocations; internal reports on each trust fund; daily reports on each trust fund; semi-annual and annual donor consultation reports; mid-year reports; evaluation reports; agenda and meeting minutes for semi-annual and annual donor consultation meetings; financial reconciliation reports; CTF pledges and cash receipts; CTF grant entries for the Grant Reporting and Monitoring System (GRMS); requests for consultants; lists of consultants; guidelinesand policies for CTF grants; and CTF summary reports for earmarked uses of trust funds.
The records also include material related to the Development Grant Facility (DGF) maintained by TFC and its successor TFO from 1985 to 2006 (predominantly 1997 to 2006; some reference records predate establishment of DGF in 1997). The DGF records include: records related to the strategy and procedures of the DGF; DGF publications; DGF Council meeting records, which include minutes, agenda, and discussion notes; records prepared for or part of meeting with the Bank's Board of Executive Directors, including Board papers, discussion notes, minutes, agenda, technical briefings, and Memoranda to Executive Directors for Annual Review of DGF; records related to meetings with the Bank's Network vice presidencies focused on proposed grants for sector partnerships and projects; records related to DGF eligibility criteria; legal agreements for DGF grant programs and projects; DGF procurement guidelines; records related to meetings of the Special Grant Committee for the Special Grants Facility Program; DGF unallocated funds, savings, carryovers, overruns, and underrun budget reports; DGF statistical tables; DGF budget and expense reports; records related to donor coordination; and records related to DGF major issues. The records also include review and evaluation records of the DGF, including: records related to internal evaluations from the Bank's Operations Evaluation Department (OED) and the Internal Audit Department (IAD); annual review reports of DGF; review, evaluation, and monitoring reports of grant programs and projects of DGF; mid-term and retrospective reviews of DGF; and individual progress, completion and audit reports on individual grants. The records also include copies of parent level entries for proposed Bank-Foundation Partnership grants of the DGF entered as part of the Partnership Approval Tracking System (PATS) database. The entries consist of basic data on each proposed grant, and are arranged by sector, region, or alphabetically by donor foundation.
The records also include IBTF clearance and revision records maintained by the CAPOC, TFC, and TFO for regional, Global Partnership Programs (GPPs), multi-donor, and other ad hoc trust fund programs from 1997 to 2005. The records include: drafts and final copies of IBTF documents; copies of trust fund agreements; and IBTF clearance memoranda with comments and revision input from CAPOC, TFC, TFO Clearance Officers, and staff in the Bank's legal, accounting, and Regional departments.
The records also consist of trust fund review, monitoring, and reporting records maintained by the Trust Fund Management Oversight Unit (TFMOU) and the Trust Fund Monitoring and Reporting Unit (TFMRU) of CAPOC, TFC, and TFO from 1996 to 2004. TFMOU records primarily include: portfolio status and IBTF review case files for regional trust fund projects; IBTF monthly summary reports; IBTF clearance reports; strategy papers; presentations prepared for donor conferences on trust fund monitoring and reporting; briefing books, minutes, and agenda records for donor meetings; and case and review reports for trust fund grant projects and programs. The TFMRU records include those related to the procedures and guidelines for trust fund review documents of the Implementation Completion Memorandum (ICM) and Implementation Completion Reports (ICR) and records of received ICMs and ICRs for reviewed trust fund grant projects.
Records of the Office of Operations Policy
WB IBRD/IDA OP
Records of the VP and Head of Network and the departmental directors'
The fonds includes memoranda, notes, letters, and emails sent and received by Hans Wyss, Director of the Central Operations Department (COD), and by those acting as Director in his absence for the year 1992.
The records also include correspondence and memoranda (external and internal) maintained for the Operational Policy and Country Services Network (OPC) VP and Head of Network James Adams for the years 2001 to 2002.
Budget planning and work programs
The fonds includes budget planning, work program, and task planning budget records for the Operational Policy and Country Services Network (OPC) and its subordinate departments and units for the years 2000 to 2007.
Procurement policy and advisory services
The fonds includes records for departments and units responsible for coordinating functions related to procurement policy and advisory services, including: the Procurement Unit (PPDPC) of the Projects Policy Department (PPD) from 1983 to 1987; the Procurement Unit (CODPR) of the Central Operations Department (COD) from 1987 to 1992; the Procurement Policy and Coordination Unit (OPRPR) of the Operations Policy Department (OPR) from 1993 to 1997; the Procurement Policy and Services Group (OCSPR) from 1997 to 2000; and the Procurement Policy and Services Group (OPCPR) from 2001 to 2004.
Included are records assembled by Raghavan Srinivasan, who served as Procurement Adviser for the PPDPC, and later served as the Chief of CODPR and OPRPR from 1983 to 1994. Included are correspondence and policy development records relating to a wide range of procurement processes and procedures, including shipment inspection, selection of consultants, and contract bidding. The records also include comments on draft World Bank issuances including Procurement Guidelines. Additional records assembled by Srinivasan include memoranda related to CODPR organization and management from 1987 to 1988.
The records also include correspondence, memoranda, and back-to-office reports maintained by Srinivasan concerning borrowers' procurement training sessions and seminars held in the Regions from 1988 to 1991.
Additional records maintained by Srinivasan include records related to CODPR's development of the computerized register Data on Consulting Firms (DACON) from 1984 to 1989. The records include correspondence with firms wishing to do business with the Bank or with Bank borrowers, intra-Bank memoranda and correspondence regarding the revised system (DACON II) and changes and improvements in that system, and revisions of the DACON registration form submitted by consulting firms.
Srinivasan's records also include records related to CODPR's coordination with the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), a subsidiary unit of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the United Nations (UN) from 1992 to 1993. The records include agendas and notes of high level DAC meetings and meetings of DAC's Ad Hoc Group of Procurement Experts, along with related correspondence. The UN records consist of Srinivasan's contacts with UN components on procurement related and consultant issues and the participation of Bank officials in UN sponsored training.
Records are also included for the International Business Opportunity Services (IBOS) subscription service, which provided a publication that informed the international business community, civil works constituents, contractors, subcontractors, and consultants on World Bank procurement procedures and upcomingBank funded projects. Responsibility for IBOS was transferred from the External Affairs Department (EXT) to the OPRPR in 1994. The IBOS records consist primarily of the multiple types of documents produced for this publication, including: Technical Data Sheets (TDS) from 1982 to 1998; Procurement Notices from 1985 to 1994; and Notices of Contract Awards from 1987 to 1994. The IBOS related records also include fact sheets, form letters, and correspondence.
Also included are records relating to the Operations Procurement Review Committee (OPRC) of OPRPR and its successor OCSPR from 1993 to 2000. The OPRC records focus on the review of contract awards. A review was conducted to ensure that procurement was done in accordance with tender requirements and the Bank's procurement guidelines. Each contract award recommendation considered by OPRC usually consists of: a summary of the contract award; names of the country, executing agency and sector; loan /credit number; descriptions of the scope, prequalification status, and number of qualified bidders for the contract; and dates of the bid opening, receipt of the award recommendation, and the Bank's "no objection" action on the award. Sometimes the report of contract award recommendation is accompanied by a copy of the bid evaluation performed by the borrower, correspondence regarding bidder disputes, and a facsimile message or other correspondence notifying the borrower of OPRC's action.
The records also include procurement policy development and review records maintained by PPDPC, CODPR, OPRPR, and OCSPR from 1986 to 2000. The records concern the creation, development, and review of Bank Group-wide and divisional procurement or consultant policies. The policy development records include the following types of records: development proposals; draft policy statements; terms of reference; copies of pertinent legal documents; papers presented to the Procurement Board; correspondence and memoranda; research and background records related to policy development; and final policy papers. Subject files related to procurement policy development are also included and cover a wide variety of topics, including: procurement of contractors and suppliers; selection of consultants; advertising; evaluation of bids; contract awards; and Bank review functions. The records also consist of draft and final versions of guidelines, specifications, forms, standard documents used in bidding and for contracting, and directives and handbooks for various types of procurement.
Records related to Procurement Audit Reports prepared by the Bank's Internal Auditing Department (IAD) and reviewed by OPRPR and OCSPR are also included for the years 1994 to 2000. The audit reports focus on projects particular to a country. The records include: draft and final copies of audit reports; comments on the reports; and correspondence and memoranda regarding audit reports.
Record related to liaison and external relations with NGOs, multilateral development banks (MDBs), and other international organizations are also included for CODPR, OPRPR, OCSPR, and OPCPR from 1987 to 2003. The records primarily include correspondence and memoranda, programs, participant lists, and meeting minutes and agenda for numerous meetings and seminars. Some examples include records for the following meetings: Head of Procurement Multilateral Development Banks Meetings; Annual Meeting of the International Financial Institutions/International Contractors Association (CICA); Biennial Meeting with the Lending Agencies and the Consulting Industry (AMILACI); meetings with the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers; meetings and seminars with the UN Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO); and meetings and seminars with the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC).
The records also include external and internal correspondence regarding complaints and inquiries from suppliers, consultants, contractors, and the Bank's Executive Directors (ED) related to Bank-funded projects, and topics related to procurement. The records were maintained by OPRPR and OCSPR from 1993 to 2000.
Operations policy development
This fonds includes records related to the departments and units responsible for the development, revision, and issuances of operational policies, standards, and guidelines, including: the Projects Advisory Staff (PAS, later renamed the Projects Policy Department [PPD]) from 1972 to 1987; the Operations Policy Unit (CODOP) of the Central Operations Department (COD) from 1987 to 1992; the Operations Policy Group (OPRPG) of the Operations Policy Department (OPR) from 1993 to 1997; and the Operations Policy and Strategy Group (MDOPS) from 1997 to 1999.
The fonds includes records related to the development of Operations Manual Statements (OMS), and its successors Operational Directives (OD), Operational Policies (OP), Bank Procedures (BP), and Good Practices (GP) developed for the World Bank's Operational Manual (OM). The OMSs were replaced by the ODs in 1989. Similarly, the ODs were restructured into new OPs, BPs, and GPs in 1993.
The OMS related records primarily span the years from 1972 to 1988, and include OMS draft and final copies, comments, and correspondence and memoranda from PAS/PPD and CODOP regarding proposed revisions to the Operational Manual and OMSs. The OMS records also consist of Operational Circulars (Circular Ops), and Operations Policy Notes (OPNs). Central Project Memoranda (CPM) and Projects Department Directors' Memoranda related to drafting and revising of OMSs are also included for the years when PAS was part of the Central Projects Staff (CPS) from 1972 to 1982.
The records also include planning and procedure records maintained by CODOP and its successor OPRPG from 1987 to 1994 related to the redrafting of OMSs into ODs for a new Bank Operations Manual (OM) in 1989, and the restructuring of ODs into OPs, BPs, and GPs in 1993. The records consist of: background records on methodology for preparing the Bank's Operational Manual (OM); status reports on transitioning OMSs to ODs; formats, style, design, and procedures for drafting ODs; records related to the impact of the 1987 Bank reorganization on drafting the OM; instructions for coding ODs; administration and distribution of OM; computerization of the OM; procedures for review and approval of ODs; records related to training modules, seminars, and workshops devoted to ODs training; and records regarding the restructuring of ODs into the new OP/BP/GP system. Operations Policy Notes (OPNs) and Central Project Memoranda (CPM) files are also included as part of background research information.
The records also include "dead copy" files of OMSs being replaced by ODs from 1987 to 1991. The dead copy files primarily consist of draft ODs with comments, and Manual Transmittal Memoranda drafted for the OM distribution recipients. Records also included separate files from the same period consisting of correspondence, memoranda, revisions, drafts, and final copies of ODs.
Operational Policies (OP), Bank Procedures (BP), and Good Practices (GP) records maintained by CODOP and MDOPS from 1993 to 1999 are also included. Records consist of correspondence and memoranda regarding revisions, draft, and final copies of OPs, BPs, and GPs with comments.
Records also consist of materials maintained by the Operational Policy Committee (OPC) from 1993 to 2003. The OPC was chaired by one the Bank's Managing Directors (MD), and the Committee was composed of members from the Sector Vice Presidencies, Bank Network departments, and staff from the Regional Vice Presidencies (RVP). The OPC had the responsibility of reviewing sector strategy approach papers, issue papers, and reports primarily prepared by the Bank's sector departments or by Bank special task forces. This review helped inform the development of new OPs, BPs, and GPs within Bank operations. It also informed the revision and conversion of existing OPs, BPs, and GPs. The records include: agenda and meeting minutes for OPC; drafts of approach papers, issue papers, and reports with memoranda and comments from members of OPC; OP/BP conversion plans; OPC review schedules; attendance lists; background documents; and meeting briefs prepared for the Managing Director (MD) and Chair for OPC.
Records also include the subject files maintained by CODOP Chief Randolph L. P. Harris from 1987 to 1993. The subject files concern the work of CODOP and consist of records related to the following topics: environment technical assistance; lending review; operations evaluation; office administration; policy, planning, andresearch; operational directives; and annual reviews. The records also contain copies of reports and policy papers.
Records also consist of materials maintained by Rene Ruivivar, who served as Operations Adviser and Senior Operations Adviser for CODOP, OPRPG, and the Operational Services Group (OCSOS) of OCS from 1992 to 1999. The records include: Standard Disbursement Profiles concerning estimates for disbursement and loans from 1985 to 1996; the 1999 OCS Study of Field Based Supervision; records regarding the development of and guidelines for Project Concept Documents and Project Appraisal Documents; and various studies regarding Bank procedures from 1996 to 1997.
International organization and non-governmental organizations (NGO) liaison
The fonds also consist of international organization and NGO liaison records of the PAS/PPD, CODOP, and OPRPG from 1983 to 1997. The records concern liaison with the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and other external organizations. Therecords were primarily maintained by Nimrod Raphaeli who worked in the following positions: Planning Advisor and Advisor for UN/UNDP for PPD from 1982 to 1987 and UN Technical Cooperation Advisor for CODOP and OPRPG from 1987 to 1997. These records include: correspondence, memoranda, reports, and minutes of meetings compiled by Raphaeli and other staff regarding Bank-supported technical assistance and the Bank's interaction with the United Nations (UN), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and other organizations external to the Bank. The records also include minutes of meetings of the Bank/UNDP High Level Task Force from 1986 to 1993.
Project management and operational review
This fonds also includes records related to the departments and units responsible for the review of projects and economic sector work (ESW) in the Bank's Regional Vice Presidencies (RVP): the Operations Policy Unit (CODOP) of the Central Operations Department (COD) from 1987 to 1992; the Operations Policy Group (OPRPG) of the Operations Policy Department (OPR) from 1993 to 1997; and the Operations Policy and Strategy Group (MDOPS) from 1997 to 1999.
The fonds includes project review records maintained by the CODOP from 1987 to 1993. Project reviews were usually requested by the Bank's Regional Vice Presidencies (RVP) to gain approval for changes to loan/credit agreements for a particular project. CODOP reviewed these projects on the behalf of Operations Senior Vice President (OPNSV) Moeen Qureshi. The project review records include: requests by the Regions for approval to change existing loan/credit agreements with the Bank for projects; requests for waivers of conditions for release of funds; records related to permission to restructure projects; records related to the use of savings accrued for other projects; and records related to the extension of closing dates for credits, loans, or projects themselves.
Records also include materials related to the Final Executive Project Summaries (FEPS) reviewed by the CODOP from 1987 to 1993. The FEPSs were prepared by departments and units within the Regional Vice Presidencies (RVP), and then reviewed by CODOP before their submission to the Operations Senior Vice President (OPNSV) Moeen Qureshi for approval. Most of the FEPS were submitted for loans and credits for projects in the areas of health, nutrition, population, education, infrastructure, agriculture, energy, mining, research and development, and technical assistance. A typical FEPS includes the following: the project summary; a review document prepared by CODOP that analyzes the summary's documentation from various perspectives; and a memorandum from the OPNSV approving or disapproving the FEPS.
Records also consist of economic sector work (ESW) reports prepared by the Regional Vice Presidencies (RVP), which were submitted to the OPRPG and MDOPS for review for the years 1996 to 1998. The records include country specific draft and final reports focused on various economic and development issues. Also included are background papers and reports produced external of the Bank, and correspondence related to review and tracking ESW in the Regions by OPRPG and MDOPS.
Records of the Operations Committee (OC) and Regional Operations Committee (ROC)
The fonds also includes records related to the Bank-wide Operations Committee (OC) and the Regional Operations Committee (ROC) from 1997 to 2003. The OC and ROC were chaired by one the Bank's Managing Directors (MD), and the committees were composed of members from the Bank's Network departments, and staff from the Regional Vice Presidencies (RVP). The period these records were created, the Operations Policy and Strategy Group (MDOPS) and the Operations Policy and Strategy Vice Presidency (OPS) provided membership representation for the OC/ROC Committees from 1997 to 2001. After 2002, membership representation was provided by staff from the Operational Policy and Country Services Network (OPC). The OC and ROC records focus on review of Country Assistance Strategies (CAS), structural adjustment loans (SALs), Sector Adjustment Loans (SECALs), and other policy concerns specific to a country. The records include: draft CAS, SAL, and SECAL papers with memoranda and comments from OC/ROC members; meeting minutes and agenda for OC/ROC meeting minutes; copies of meeting briefs prepared for the Managing Director and Chair of OC/ROC Committees; copies of the final President's recommendation report submitted to the Executive Directors on SALs, SECALS, and CAS for review; and meeting minutes and discussion summaries of the Board of Executive Directors.
Government Accountability Office (GAO) review records
The fonds also includes records related to reviews performed by the U.S. Congressional Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the Bank's assistance and development strategies, lending programming, and other special programs from 1996 to 2000. OCS assisted GAO in this process by helping to form advisory groups to collaborate in the review process. The GAO records cover a wide range of topics for multiple reviews performed, including some of the following examples: review of management controls over investment lending; review of the Bank's Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative; and review of the Bank's Fraud and Corruption program. The GAO records generally include: meeting minutes and agenda for the Bank-wide Audit Committee; meeting minutes and agenda with the Bank's Executive Directors, especially the US Executive Director; terms of reference outlining advisory groups formed to assist and collaborate in the review process with GAO; GAO draft and final copies of audit reports; and correspondence and memoranda primarily between the OCS VP and Head of Network Katherine Sierra, GAO representatives, the U.S. Executive Director, and members of the Audit Committee.
Operational monitoring
The fonds also includes operational monitoring records of the Operations Monitoring Unit (CODMO) from 1987 to 1991.
Included are Overdue Service Payment records created and maintained by the CODMO, which concern problems with overdue service payments from countries receiving IBRD and IDA loans. The records consist of memoranda, reports, and directives concerning procedures for tracking and collecting overdue payments and Bank policy towards governments in arrears on payments. Most of the records consist of IBRD and IDA Overdues Weekly Reports and weekly printouts of overdue service payments. Also included are agreements between the IBRD and the IMF regarding member countries with overdue obligations; memoranda regarding the arrears of specific countries; memoranda regarding overdue financial obligations to the IMF, minutes and reports of the Joint Audit Committee; and records of the Task Force on Policy on Collection of Overdues and Suspension chaired by the Director of the Central Operations Department (COD).
The records also consist of materials from 1988 to 1991 related to the drafting and preparation by CODMO of the Annual Review of Implementation and Supervision (ARIS). The records include draft and final copies of the ARIS submitted to the Bank's Executive Directors for review as well as correspondence and memoranda regarding the ARIS.
Country policy and strategy
The fonds also includes records from 1991 to 1993 related to Country Strategy Papers (CSP), Country Assistance Strategies (CAS), and sometimes Policy Framework Papers (PFP) with related comments from the staff of CODOP and OPRPG. The records document staff comments on and review of proposed loan and credit projects prior to their discussion in meetings of the Bank's Loan Committee. Some records contain only the Chairman's concluding remarks from a meeting of the Executive Directors regarding the Bank's CAS for a particular country.
Also included are Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) records maintained by the Operational Policy and Country Services Network (OPC) from the years 2001 to 2006. A CPIA is a diagnostic tool or survey used to assess the quality of a country's policies and institutional arrangements. The CPIA records include country worksheets drafted for a country, which outline quality performance ratings for specific policies within that country.
Special task forces
The fonds includes records related to OPRPG's participation in the Task Force on Portfolio Management under the chairmanship of Willi A. Wapenhans, Vice President and Special Advisor. The Task Force was established in February 1992 by Bank President Lewis T. Preston. Included are the records of Task Force member Michael Pommier, Operations Advisor, which contain extensive correspondence, studies, and draft and final versions of the Task Force report issued in November 1992.
The records also include news releases, articles, and Bank comments on the Task Force report ("Wapenhans Report") which OPRPG used in developing the OPR's study for the Board of Executive Directors in 1994 entitled "Progress Report on The Implementation of Portfolio Management: Next Steps - A Program of Actions." Responses from various parts of the Bank to the report are included in the records.
The records also consist of reports and correspondence documenting progress under the "Next Steps" program in improving portfolio performance management. These were used in drafting the "Second Progress Report on the Implementation of Portfolio Management: Next Steps - A Program of Actions." Drafts and final copies of the report are part of the records.
The fonds also includes records related to OCS and OPC involvement in the extensive review and reform of the Bank's Middle Income Countries (MIC) development and lending strategies from 1997 to 2008. The records are the accumulation of MIC Task Forces launched in 2001 and 2004, and the development of the MIC Action Plan in 2005. The records include background information and records related to the extensive collaboration within the Bank and with Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), Bank member MIC, MIC Donors, and other International Financial Institutions (IFI) to develop and reform the Bank's MIC strategies. The MIC records include: external background papers, articles, and reports regarding MIC lending in Bank operations; MIC Action Plan drafts; statements drafted by the Bank's Executive Directors with comments and reviews of the MIC Action Plan; informal Executive Director and Board meeting summaries regarding the MIC Action Plan; Second Progress Memoranda regarding MIC Action Plan; President's Memoranda related to MIC reform and strategy; and Strategic Themes and Operational Matrix charts for MIC Strategy.
The MIC records alsoconsist of records related to workshops, seminars, and working groups organized with other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), International Financial Institutions (IFI), and MIC Donors to help facilitate the development of joint papers and reports for MIC development reform. The records include: agenda and meeting minutes for various workshops, seminars, and working groups; interview transcripts of workshops; presentation slides and speech transcripts; correspondence and memoranda between involved Bank parties and cooperative MDB, IFI, or donor representatives; and copies of joint drafted papers and reports submitted to Bank Senior Management and Executive Directors Board members with comments. The records also include materials related to the drafting of Strengthening the World Bank's Engagement with IBRD Partner Countries as part of the joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee for the 2006 Fall Annual Meeting.
Also included are records related to consultation meetings organized jointly by the Bankand MDBs to help facilitate support of Bank MIC development strategies, update Bank member countries of MIC reforms, and develop country partnerships strategies. The participants of the meetings usually included the Executive Director for a specific country, the various ministers in a country, and other country officials. The records include: agenda and meeting minutes; participant lists; presentation slides and speech transcripts; invitation letters sent to participants; and correspondence between Bank representatives, MDB representatives, the country Executive Director, and country ministers.
Conferences, seminars, and workshops
The fonds also includes records related to the conferences and seminars planned or participated in by the Aid Effectiveness Unit (OPCAE) and the Harmonization Unit (OPCCH) of the Operational Policy and Country Services Network (OPC) from 2003 to 2009. The records primarily consist of records related to High Level Forum (HLF) conferences organized jointly by the Bank and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), which focused on the topics of aid effectiveness and harmonization. The HLF records include: correspondence and memoranda regarding preparation, arrangements, and reporting on HLFs; travel expense records; agenda and meeting minutes of HLFs; invitation letters sent to HLF participants; reimbursement records; and reports, studies, and programs prepared or presented for HLFs. The records also include materials related to workshops and seminars planned by OPCAE and OPCCH. Workshopand seminar records include: travel expense records; budget and expense reports; presentation materials prepared for workshops and seminars; agenda and meeting minutes; and mission reports regarding workshops and seminars held in Bank member countries.
Quality assurance and review
The fonds also includes records from 1997 to 2010 related to the Quality Assurance Group (MDOQA) of the Front Office to the Managing Directors and its successor Quality Assurance Group (QAG) of the Operational Policy and Country Services Network (OPC).
The QAG records include budget and business plan records for the fiscal years 2001 to 2009. The records include: correspondence and memoranda; budget monitoring reports; cross support budget reports; budget estimate reports; cost update reports; and compact summaries outlining business plan budget expenses for QAG.
The QAG records also consist of records related to the review of the QAG by the Bank's Internal Audit Department (IAD) from 2007 to 2010. The review records include:IAD review and recommendation reports; memoranda and correspondence related to the IAD reports; meeting minutes from the Bank's Audit Committee regarding the QAG review; and background information summarizing QAG activities.
The QAG records also include organization and management records focused on the re-integration of QAG into the OPC Network in 2010. The records primarily include correspondence and memoranda and work program records detailing QAG functions and activities post-integration.
The QAG records also consist of materials related to the preparation of QAG quality assessment papers and reports prepared for the Bank's senior management regarding the Bank's quality assurance portfolio from 1997 to 2009. The QAG quality assessment papers were prepared to assess Bank operations in the following portfolio areas: lending; non-lending; support for quality enhancement (SQE); and institutional. The records related to the preparation of quality assessment papers include, but are not limited to the following types of assessments prepared by QAG: Quality at Entry Assessments (QEA); Quality of Supervision Assessments (QSA); Sector Board Assessments; ESW Assessments; Global Programs and Partnerships (GPP); World Bank Institute (WBI) Assessments; Country Analytic and Advisory Activities (AAA); and Other Economic Sector Work (OESW). The quality assessment records also include correspondence and memoranda, interview transcripts and notes, and background papers and reports external of QAG gathered in preparationof quality assessments. The records also include assessment paper review files maintained for the Quality Assessment of the Lending Portfolio (QALP) Program, which was launched in 2008. The review files include copies of quality assessment papers related to lending projects with comments from members of the QALP Panel.
The quality assessment records also consist of records related to QAG planning and preparation of the Annual Report on Portfolio Performance (ARPP) reports prepared for the Bank's Senior Management, the Bank's Executive Board of Directors, and members of the Bank's Committee of Development Effectiveness (CODE). The ARPP summarized information gathered by the quality assessment papers, and informed its audience of the quality and scope of the Bank's lending portfolio and other programs. The ARPP records include: correspondence and memoranda regarding preparation of ARPP; project implementation plans for ARPP; and copies of the ARPP prepared for submission. The QAG records also include presentation materials prepared for various conferences and seminars from 2003 to 2009. The records include copies of hardcopy and mylar presentation slides.
Post Conflict Fund (PCF) program trust fund records
The fonds also includes trust funds records maintained by the Fragile and Conflict Affected Countries Group (OPCFC) of OPC from 1996 to 2007. The records primarily consist of grant documentation for the Post Conflict Fund (PCF) program. The grant fund documentation for PCF include: copies of grant agreements; correspondence sent to country finance ministers or responsible agency authorities regarding grant agreements and amounts allotted; request for grant disbursement; request for payment of professional/contractual services; request for Development Grant Facility (DGF) funding; and external background papers and reports focused on a particular country.
The trust fund records also consist of training materials for sponsored Post Conflict Fund (PCF) programs. The training materials primarily include training manuals and guides, program brochures, and other presentation materials designed to be utilized by educational and mental health practitioners.
Operations Policy
1960, 1970 - 2007
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of the education sector in the World Bank. Included in the fonds are records related to research activities. These include: proposals; Research Project Outputs (RPOs); exploratory studies; and other research undertaken by education sector departments. Record formats may include, but are not limited to: research proposals; terms of reference; contracts; agreements with consultants, universities and other third parties who are doing research for or with the division; back-to-office reports; statistical and other data; published and unpublished reports; working papers; related correspondence; information on surveys; and supporting documentation. Topics may include but are not limited to: economic impact of education; women in education; structural adjustment and education; education and public expenditures; education strategy and employment policies; assessments of testing capacities; effects of school conditions and atmosphere on students' performances.
Research records related to policy and best practice development are also included. Topics may include, but are not limited to: building research capacity; economics of education; primary, secondary and higher education; education and adjustment; employment and labor market; vocational training; and higher education in the sciences. The majority of these records is correspondence, but may also include: sector policy reviews; Operations Annual Review; Sector and Operations Vice Presidency (OSP) Annual Sector Review; Operations Evaluation Department (OED) Annual Reviews; and documents relating to special studies. Also included is a final version of the education sector strategy paper (1999) as well as records related to an External Advisory Panel's Advisory Group on Education, which contains correspondence, Group reports, meeting materials, and presentation slides.
Records that document the sector's operational support to the Bank's lending and project activities are included in this fonds. These records primarily include regional strategy papers and supporting correspondence, country summaries, and education status data. Also included are the final review reports of the quality enhancement review panel's work on a number of education projects between 2001 and 2007.
A small amount of correspondence, policy, guidelines, proposals, and organization files related to the Special Grant Program as well as trust funds administered by the education sector are also included.
The fonds also consist of recordsof liaison between Bank education sector departments and national and international organizations, academic institutions and other external education and employment sectors. These records consist exclusively of correspondence.
Records related to communications, training, and outreach activities of the education sector are contained in this fonds. Records relating to a variety of conferences, workshops, seminars, and study tours are included. These records include correspondence, agendas, presentation slides, and training materials. A considerable amount of records related to the World Conference on Education for All (WCEFA) in 1989 are contained in this fonds. The Conference was jointly sponsored by the Bank and the United Nations (UN). While the records were originally created by the Secretariat in New York City, the Bank took responsibility for follow-up matters and thus the records were transferred to the Bank's offices in Washington. A small amount of education sector publications are included; these consist of discussion papers of the Education and Training Series from the mid-1980s. A variety of knowledge and information products produced or received by education sector departments are included. These take the form of: Bank reports; project lesson reports; newsletters; presentations; correspondence; and supporting documentation.
This fonds also consists of education policy reports primarily authored by World Bank education policy staff and consultants from 1974 to 1990.
The fonds also contains small amounts of: Education Sector Board meeting records; chronological files of the Education Sector Board (ESB); and subject files. Also included are HDNED budget and financial review records from 1997 to 2000. These include: business plans; mid-term reviews; retrospective reviews; and budgets.
WB IBRD/IDA WB_IBRD/IDA_111
This fonds contains records that span Frank Vita's entire twenty-three year career at the World Bank Group as well as time spent at Arthur Andersen LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers in the 1990s. Records relate to his involvement in lending operations in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Central Asia in the 1970s and 1990s as well as his work in the Finance Operations Department (FOD) in the 1980s undertaking research and policy work on capital markets and central banks investment. Records relating to his time as Deputy Director in the Tokyo Office in 1984-1985 and his work in the International Finance Corporation (IFC) between 1985 and 1990 are also included.
Vita, Frank K.
Records of the Private Sector Development Vice Presidency
The fonds includes budget, business plan, and work program records for the Private Sector Development Vice Presidency (PSDVP) and its subordinate units.
Private Sector Development Vice Presidency
1970 - 1987 (predominant 1977 - 1987)
The fonds primarily consists of records related to the Adviser on Women in Development (WID) from the years 1977 to 1987. Subject files kept by WID Advisers Gloria Scott and Barbara Herz are included for the years 1977 to 1986, and illustrate the numerous activities and responsibilities associated with this role. Reference files related to women and development issues contain materials created in the years 1973 to 1987. WID operational support records detail the development project evaluations, studies, and training sessions done by WID team members for the years 1977 to 1987.
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Vice Presidencyof (ESSDVP) and its oversight of, and involvement with, sector departments within the network. Note that a small amount of records in this fonds were created prior to the creation of ESSDVP by Bank staff within the Environmentally Sustainable Development Vice Presidency (ESD); the records were brought into ESSDVP's recordkeeping system as a result of staff transfer into ESSDVP. The majority of the records in this fonds are clearly associated with the activities of Ian Johnson, ESSD Vice President from 1998 to 2006.
Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network
Records of the Population, Health, and Nutrition Sector
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of the population, health, and nutrition sector in the World Bank. Included in the fonds are records related to Working Paper, policy, project, and program research. Many of these records were created by PHN's Policy and Research Unit (then Division, PHNPR) in the 1980s. Research topics may include but are not limited to: cost benefit and cost effectiveness studies; resource allocation; demographic data; AIDS research; health care management; family planning; infant mortality; safe motherhood; nutrition delivery services; fertility; special disease control; national health projects; pharmaceuticals and drugs; country health surveys; irrigation health risks; food subsidies and pricing; and the interaction between health and water supply. Records related to the creation of Sector Strategy - Health, Nutrition & Population (1997) are also included as are records, primarily in the form of data print outs, related to the creation of World Development Reports #1 to #8. Records may include but are not limited to: final or printer's copies of reports; concept papers; sector reviews and strategy papers; annual operational reviews; Annual Technical Reports of the Human Reproductive Program (1991-1999); sector and topical policy papers; correspondence; office memoranda; manuals on Bank measurement of poverty; reports on sector work; material on conferences and seminars; project briefs; and committee papers. Reports submitted to Bank Presidents are also included.
A considerable amount of records in this fonds relates to the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). The TDR was created in 1975 at the World Health Organization (WHO) in order to support the development of research, leadership, tools, and strategies to fight infectious diseases in developing countries. The World Bank became a cosponsor of the TDR in 1977. Records include: Scientific and Technical Research Committee (STRC) reports; Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee reports and related records; background material for Bank participation; Tropical Diseases Research Committee records; annual reports; Joint Coordinating Board correspondence and meeting records; correspondence with donors; fundraising materials; general correspondence; fund arrangement records; Onchocerciasis Fund agreement (1979); country profiles; Standing Committee records; legal agreements and board papers; and records of the External Review Committee.
The fonds contains Director's records from the beginning of the Population Projects Department in 1969 through to the early 1980s. Records include: reports; subject files; final reviews; Board and committee meeting records; panel reports; demographic briefs; external advisory panel records; donor's meeting records; country briefs; health sector papers; research proposals; and program papers. Records of liaisons with international and other organizations are also included. Organizations include but are not limited to: American Public Health Association (APHA); United Nations (UN) and the UN Population Division; Population Reference Bureau; Population Service International; World Health Organization (WHO); United States Senate/House and State Department; World Population Society; national aid agencies; Ford Foundation; Asian Development Bank; Smithsonian Institute; UNICEF; John Hopkins University; Rockefeller Foundation; Harvard University; and World Fertility Society.
Records from the PHN Front Office from between 1982 to 1987 are also included. These generally take the form of subject files. Subjects include: national, bilateral, international, and non-governmental aid agencies; annual meetings; team meetings; correspondence with the Bank President; research on specific topics; country and region files; operational policy papers; and seminars and training courses. The fonds contains quality enhancement and development effectiveness reports and background materials created to provide review services and guidelines to operational task teams managing health, nutrition, and population projects. These reports were created by panels which often, but not always included, an HDNHE representative. The majority of these documents date from 1996 to 2007 and generally consist of completed reports; in some cases, panel information and terms of reference are also included.
The fonds also consists of records related to the Special Grants Program and Development Grant Facility. Records contain accounting and disbursement records as well as substantive material on the projects themselves. The latter is most often contained in correspondence and memoranda.
Nutrition sector country files are included in this fonds. These records consist of reports and correspondence between Population, Health, and Nutrition sector employees and country offices. Files are created and organized according to country. A small amount of files organized by country and originating in the PHN department of the HRO vice presidency are also included. These include correspondence between PHN staffand other Bank staff, including the Regions, and discuss a variety of topics related to population, health, and nutrition. Conference, seminar, partnership, and training records created most commonly between 1997 and 1999 are also contained in this fonds.
The fonds also contains chronological files of the Population, Health, and Nutrition Department (PHN) of the HRO vice presidency from between February, 1992, to August, 1995. Records from August, 1995, were created or received by Human Development Department (HDD). Records generally consist of correspondence and attachments. Much of the correspondence is between PHN staff and external agencies, institutions, and governments discussing information exchange and collaboration on projects and conferences. Correspondence between PHN staff and between PHN and other Bank departments related to: research paper publication; peer review and comments on research, strategy, and policy papers; conference attendance and planning; preparation of sector reviews; grants and trust funds; and assistance to and collaboration with the Regions. Records include: back-to-office reports; aide memoires; published and unpublished reports and policy papers; and sector reviews and business plans.
Conference, seminar, partnership, and training records created most commonly between 1997 and 1999 are also contained in this fonds.
Finally, a diverse group of staff and adviser records are contained in this fonds. A group of staff policy research papers and related materials are included; these relate to the work of specific staff members and are organized by name. Notably,he records of K.C. Zachariah, Senior Demographer at the World Bank between 1971 and 1987, are present. These records consist of: subject files; chronological files; terms of reference; back-to-office reports; and copies of Zachariah's reports and articles. Also included are the records created by Dr A. Measham, Health Adviser. These take the form of subject files and date from 1985-1987.
Population, Health, and Nutrition Sector
The fonds consist of budget and work program records related to the PSD department of FPSI.
Finance, Private Sector Development, and Infrastructure Network
WB IBRD/IDA KING
1964-1994 (predominant 1982 - 1989)
The papers consist of a body of materials related to Zambia and a set of general policy and issues papers. King undertook a mission to Zambia for the Bank and wrote a report on it, and he collected information about and remained interested in Zambia thereafter. The materials related to Zambia include four documents prepared and distributed for the December 1986 meeting of the Consultative Group on Zambia, which had had its first meeting in June 1978. Most of the other documents related to Zambia are internal World Bank documents, with a few Bank publications and some publications from other sources. The materials are arranged in four sections: Consultative Group documents; unpublished Bank materials; Bank publications; and other publications. This is a useful body of materials for an overview of Zambian economic issues in the 1980s.
The policy and research papers cover a wide variety of subjects including structural adjustment lending and sector adjustment lending, agriculture, Japan and Ghana, and Bank history. All the policy and research papers are Bank papers except six items, which are identified by source on the item list. They are arranged by date of preparation or publication.
King, Benjamin B.
WB IBRD/IDA ENGY
ca. 1970 - 2002
The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, notes, briefing papers, aide-memoires, back-to-office reports, agreements, background research notes, guides, issuances, published material, research papers authored by staff and consultants, and other records related to the functions of the Energy Sector Department. Records relate to: research projects and economic and sector work in the energy field; the development of regional, sector and country policies and strategies; energy lending projects financed or co-financed by the Bank; energy credits, grants, and trust funds; structural adjustment loans; and cross-support to operational staff in the Regional Vice-Presidencies. The records also relate to liaison, aid coordination and co-financing with other development agencies, bilateral and multilateral organizations, and member countries, including but not limited to: the Overseas Development Agency; the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA); the Finnish Department of International Development Cooperation (FINNIDA); the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); among many others. The records also relate to the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP): a global technical assistance program sponsored by the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and managed bythe World Bank. ESMAP records relate, but are not limited, to: donor relations; involvement in development projects and research studies; organization and management (work program and business planning, status of on-going activities, etc.); and the ESMAP Consultative Group (strategic agenda and programme coordination). The fonds also contains records related to: conferences, seminars and learning events either developed and offered by Energy Sector staff, or attended by Energy Sector staff; promotional and information material intended to inform others of Sector work; participation on Bank-wide committees and task forces; business planning and work program oversight and strategy; and chronological correspondence files maintained at the unit level (such as IENPD and ESMPD), and by individual persons (such as Efrain Friedman, Energy Advisor and Assistant Director for Energy and Fuel).
Records related to operational project (loans, credits, grants, and trust funds), research studies, conferences and seminarsinclude topics such as: fuel sources and technologies, such as coal, oil, gas and hydrocarbons; renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic cells, solar power, hydropower, thermal power, and biomass programs; environmental issues and assessments; climate change; power systems and energy efficiency; gas trading; electricity supply and grid extension; rural electrification; power sector rehabilitation and institutional restructuring of power utilities; legislation and market forces; plus many others.
Energy Development Sector
WB IBRD/IDA DIAMOND
1955 - 1990, 1999 - 2000
Throughout his career, Diamond kept a personal file in chronological order. Sometimes this file was primarily copies of the messages he sent, but at other times he included copies of incoming messages and copies of correspondence that had been sent to him by others. Occasionally a speech draft or a copy of minutes or other official documents are in the file. Although the papers are in one long chronological series, several distinct parts exist. The earliest file, dating from 1955 to 1958, is primarily outgoing messages and personal items on finances, travel arrangements, and publications. It includes information on EDI courses, Diamond's letters to Bank officials during his missions in Ethiopia, Greece, Turkey, and Tunisia; a letter to Newton Parker, March 24, 1958, on the roles of economic institutions in Honduras; and a memo to S.R. Cope of April 1, 1958, reporting on Davidson Sommers' meeting with a Yugoslav representative on future loans to Yugoslavia. An important series of files relate to Diamond's period in India as an advisor to ICICI. Beginning with his preparations in 1958 for the assignment, through the year in India, and continuing into 1960 after Diamond returned to the Bank, the files provide an exceptional view of the early organization of the ICICI and the establishment of its policies. Diamond included in the files incoming and outgoing correspondence, notes of meetings, reports, and clippings, as well as purely personal correspondence. Correspondents include Eugene Black and George D. Woods, the then current and future presidents of the World Bank; ICICI officials; Indian government officials and industrialists; the IBRD resident representatives in India and Pakistan; and various staff members in World Bank offices in Washington. Some items of correspondence discuss the establishment of the Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation Limited and developments in Ethiopia. The bulk of the chronological file covers Diamond's assignments at the Bank between 1962 and 1978, when he retired. For the first eight years the files are primarily copies of Diamond's outgoing messages; thereafter the files increasingly include copies of incoming items, such as reports from the field and copies of items sent to him while he was on official missions. The files from the IFC period contain many items about the development banks in South Asia and North Africa. When Diamond was a director of country programs in the South Asia, the files include information on the Tarbela Dam project and the efforts to assist Bangladesh. The documents in these files are largely duplicates of those in the official files of the Bank, but their chronological arrangement allows the user to see the variety of issues that Diamond was handling at the same time and to trace the evolution of his and the Bank's responses to events. The final part of the series are files relating to Diamond's work as a consultant to IFC between 1980 and 1990. The earliest items relate to IFC's role in the work of the Societe Internatinonale Financiere pour les Investissements et le Developpement en Afrique (SIFIDA), but the bulk of the files relate to the Banco Portugues de Investimento SA (BPI). In 1978 a group of Portuguese industrialists created an Executive Group to develop a private financial institution to promote private economic development. They sought the involvement of the IFC, and the IFC engaged Diamond as its consultant on the BPI. This set of files includes both incoming and outgoing correspondence. The final items inthe Diamond papers are transcripts of two speeches that he gave, one in 1984 on the World Bank's policy on development banks and the other in 1999 on the beginnings of the Economic Development Institute. The Diamond papers are of particular importance to researchers interested in the history of development banks, especially those in India and Portugal, and the history of late twentieth century economic development in South Asia
Diamond, William
Records of the Office of the Chief Economist
WB IBRD/IDA DEC
Records created by the Office of the Vice President (later Senior Vice President), Development Economics and Chief Economist (DECVP) comprise the bulk of the records in Fonds 14. Prior to the creation of DECVP in 1987, responsibility for directing economic research to provide insights into the development process rested with the persons serving as the Economic Adviser to the President in the 1960s and early 1970s, and later with the offices of the Vice President, Development Policy (VPD) and the Vice President, Economics and Research Staff (VPERS) whose records are part of this fonds. Files for both approved and rejected research projects in planning and development policy, population and human resources, industry and trade, and sector studies that were maintained in the offices of VPD, VPERS, and DECVP are included in this fonds.
This fonds also contains a small volume of records of the Bank's Economic Development Institute and records of the Bank's representatives to international organizations concerned with the development process: the Berne Union, the Paris Club, and U.N. organizations at Geneva, Switzerland. Also included are records of economist Bela Belassa who served from September 1966 to May 1991 as consultant to the Economic Advisers to the President, VPD, VPERS, and DECVP.
The following officials served during the period 1964 to 2003 in predecessor organizations or positions whose functions became part of DECVP in the 1987 Bank reorganization and as DECVP following that reorganization:
Economic Advisers
Irving Friedman: 1964 - 1970
Hollis B. Chenery: 1970 - 1972
Vice President, Development Policy (VPD)
Hollis B. Chenery: November 1972 - February 1982
Vice President, Economics and Research Staff (VPERS)
Hollis B. Chenery: February 1982 - August 1982
Anne Krueger: August 1982 - December 1986
Benjamin B. King (Acting): January 1987 - May 1987
Vice President and Chief Economist (DECVP)
Stanley Fischer: 1988 - 1990
Lawrence Summers: 1991 - 1993
Michael Bruno: 1993- 1996
Joseph E. Stiglitz: 1997 - 2000
Sir Nicholas H. Stern: 2000 - 2003.
Office of the Chief Economist
WB IBRD/IDA AFR
The countries included in the Africa region (AFR) have remained constant throughout its history, with the exception being the removal of northern African countries (Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco) into the Europe and Middle East Department (EME) in 1965. These countries have since remained in regional units responsible for Middle East countries. Records related to operations in these countries are not included in this fonds.
This fonds has been provisionally arranged into 13 series. Sub-headings are used to break up the content of this field according to provisional series. For a complete list of the provisional series, see the "System of Arrangement" field.
Operational records
The majority of the records in this fonds are country operational records. The records in the "operational records" series broadly consist of project records relating to the negotiation and administration of loans as well as general country records relating to economic and sector study. These records were created by Area Departments (1947-1972), Country Departments (CDs, 1972-1997) and Country Management Units (CMUs, 1997-2010) as well as the Economic Department (1946-1952), Technical Operations Department (TOD, 1952-1965), Projects Department (1965-1972) and regional project departments (1972 - 1987), technical departments (1987 - 1997), and sector departments (1997 - 2010). See the "Administrative history" field for a history of these units and their functions.
Records related to the Bank's projects overseen by AFR are contained in the "operational records" series. These records relate to investment, structural adjustment, and other development projects financed, co-financed, and / or managed by the Bank. Note that projects funded or co-funded by external bodies such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), national governments, and trust funds but which were executed by the Bank are included.
Records relating to all phases of the World Bank Project Cycle, from conception through negotiation and completion,are found here. Project records contained in this fonds were created by both the unit identified as the designated record keeping unit within the Region and, in smaller number, the regional units that provided project support. Included are records relating to not only completed projects but also to abandoned (or dropped) projects (i.e. projects that were abandoned in the course of preparation or that failed to gain Board approval) and suspended projects (i.e. approved projects, including those partially disbursed, which were suspended and not resumed). Records related to the discussion and negotiation of projects that were never initiated are also included.
Correspondence files make up the bulk of the project records and relate to the identification, preparation, appraisal, negotiation, approval, supervision, fund disbursement, completion, and review of each individual project. Correspondence is in the form of letters, printed email, memoranda, telexes, and faxes. Accompanying materials most often include aide-memoires, minutes of meetings, Terms of Reference, and back-to-office reports. Correspondence is between the Bank and government officials, ambassadors, institutions, contractors, and consultants.
Project records may also include: Project Implementation Index File (PIIF) documents; executive project summary/project concept documents; annual progress reports; supplemental documents; Project Completion Reports (PCRs, also known as Completion Reports); consultant reports; supervision reports; and final versions of mandatory reports. A small amount of project-related newspaper clippings, financial statements, photographs, hand-written notes, maps, engineering plans, and copies of loan agreements and related documents may also be found. External documents received from borrowers, governments, contractors, consultants, etc., including studies, reports, plans, specifications, PIIF documents, etc., are also included.
General country files are also included in the "operational records" series. These refer to correspondence (often in the form of chronological files), topical and subject files, and other records related to IBRD/IDA lending programs, other than those maintained for individual loans and credits. Records relate to economic, social, and sector work study, research, analysis, and the development of sector and country programs, policies, and strategies. Specifically, these records might relate to: capital markets; indebtedness; investment law; missions to the country; technical assistance; disbursement; government relations; inquiries; local bond issues; cofinancing; consultative groups; aid groups; country liaison; resident representatives; Country Program Papers (CPP) preparation; and Project Implementation Review (PIR). Records relating to and filed according to the various sectors of investment are also included. In each series, country sector files may include but are not limited to: agriculture; education; energy; industrial development and finance; industry; population; health; nutrition; telecommunications; tourism; transportation; urban development; water and sewage; governance; public sector development; private sector development; and social development. General country file records take the form of correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, notes for files, back-to-office reports, aide-memoires, briefing papers, and reports. Records relating to other analytical and advisory activities (AAA) and the related collection of data for these activities may also be included. These records may include research material in the form of surveys and spreadsheets and guides created or used for analysis or processing of data.
Country-specific records relating to country program management are also included in the "operational records" series. These records were maintained primarily by the Country Department headquarter units and were used to document Bank Group assistance planning and strategy for each country. Records may relate to the creation of Bank reports such as: the Country Assistance Strategy (CAS); Country Briefs; Country Strategy Papers; Country Economic Memoranda; Medium Term Framework Papers; and policy statements. These records take the form of: agendas; briefings and reports of country team meetings; final versions of reports; consultant reports on specific sector or project issues; meeting summaries and notes; and background materials used in the preparation of reports. Briefing papers prepared for Annual Meetings and other reports to management may also be included.
Also included are informational records related to each country and to development issues specific to that country. Many of the topics covered in these records are focused on the various development sectors. These records primarily contain externally created reference material, although a small amount of internally generated material (such as press releases, speeches and addresses, and material related to internally sponsored conferences and seminars) may also be included. Reference materials may include: lists of government officials; information on external consultants; newspaper clippings related to country matters; press releases related to Bank and country activities; correspondence with government officials and/or ministries; and documents related to the activities of field offices in the country. Also included, in small amounts, are books, journals, magazines, articles, extracts, directories, manuals, handbooks, guides, and dissertations originating from elsewhere in the Bank Group or of external origin. Topics include common development sectors (agriculture, transportation, education, etc.) as they relate to specific countries as well as: resettlement; indigenous peoples; participation; Global Environment Facility (GEF); World Bank operation policies; country politics, legislation and economic situation; debt; cofinancing and trust funds; and natural resource management.
Regional operational records related to the Africa Region are also included in this fonds. Included are the records of projects or programs that span more than a single country, such as the founding of new regional banks, the establishment of a common market, tourism projects, and the creation of regional infrastructure, such as roads, ports, electric power generation and telecommunications. Records relating to the Region's participation in interrelated development activities that have been aggregated into a coordinated development program are also included. These include, for example, the Onchocerciasis Control Programme and the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Program (SSATP). The types of project-related records are similar to those described in the country operational records above. Also included are general records related to economic, social and sector work study and analysis and the development of sector and regional programs, policies, and strategies. In terms of topic and form, these records are also similar to the general operational records described above. However, records relate to either the region as a whole or to multi-country areas of the region.
Project auditing
Series contains records relating to the regular auditing of Bank-funded projects in the Africa region conducted by the Operational Quality and Knowledge (AFTQK) department within AFR. Records primarily contain audit reports produced by external firms but may also contain: correspondence; project appraisal documents; legal agreements; and implementation completion reports.
Departmental subject files, reference materials, and correspondence files
Non-country specific reference materials and subject files maintained by regional departments including both country departments and sector units are included in this fonds. Topics include the various development sectors as well as Bank operational topics such as: policy development; project identification; project procurement; consultants; exports; macroeconomic stability and growth; and private sector assessment. Reference materials may originate from elsewhere within the Bank or external to the Bank and may include: books; journals; magazines; newspaper clippings; articles; extracts, directories; manuals; handbooks; guides; Bank reports; and dissertations. Subject files related to sector-related organizations are also included. These records may include: reports published or disseminated by associations; correspondence between the Bank and organizations; meeting related records; and coordination records.
External aid coordination
Series consists of records relating to the development and implementation of strategies for cofinancing and other instances of aid coordination. Records originate in country and sector departments and relate to cooperative relationships between the Bank Group and donors, cofinanciers, development agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other concerned organizations. Specifically, records may relate to: collaborative development assistance; Bank-sponsored seminars and conferences; cofinancing and trust funds; the Special Program for Assistance (SPA) in Africa; the Consultant Trust Fund Program (CTFP); and external funding for consultants. Records may include: copies of agreements and other legal documents; initiating briefs; reports and memoranda concerning disbursement of cofinanced funds; periodic reports to cofinanciers; and other related materials. Series also contains correspondence files of the Regional Cofinancing Advisor. Records were created while the position was held by Philip Birnham (1985 to 1995) and by Alison Rosenberg (1995 to 1998). The records relate to overall coordination of cofinancing forthe Africa Region and, specifically, to the Special Program of Assistance (SPA) for Africa.
Series consists of records relating to the development and implementation of strategies for cofinancing and other instances of aid coordination. Records originate in country and sector departments and relate to cooperative relationships between the Bank Group and donors, cofinanciers, development agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other concerned organizations. Specifically, records may relate to: collaborative development assistance;; Bank-sponsored seminars and conferences; cofinancing and trust funds; the Consultant Trust Fund Program (CTFP); and external funding for consultants. Records may include: copies of agreements and other legal documents; initiating briefs; reports and memoranda concerning disbursement of cofinanced funds; periodic reports to cofinanciers; and other related materials.
The series also contains records documenting the establishment, proceedings and activities of the consultative groups and aid groups convened and chaired by the Bank to coordinate external financial assistance and which the Bank provided secretarial support to. These include consultative groups for Nigeria (1962), Sudan (1963), Ghana (sponsored by Bank from 1970 after participation under IMF sponsorship since 1967), East Africa (1968), Ethiopia (1971), Zaire - Democratic Republic of Congo (1971), Tanzania (1977), Uganda (1978), Zambia (1978), Mauritius (1980), Somalia (1983), Sao Tome and Principe (1984),Senegal (1984), Zambia (1984), Mauritania (1985), Gambia (1986), Madagascar (1986), Malawi (1986), Mozambique (1987), Guinea (1987), Zimbabwe (1992), Eritrea (1994), Sierra Leone (1994), Angola (1995), and Cote d'Ivoire (1995). Many of the consultative groups typically met bi-annually for several successive years or for longer than a decade such as Nigeria and Tanzania with Bank staff leading smaller sector or local consultative meetings in between the bi-annual group meetings. Files contain a large body of correspondence between the country department staff, the chairman who was typically the Area or Country Director for consultative groups, and donor members of the groups including the recipient country. Correspondence includes copies of outgoing memoranda and letters, cables, original letters from member government officials (some addressed to the Bank President), notes to the file, minutes of pre-consultative group meetings, sector, and/or local meetings, and drafts of documents. Topics covered by the correspondence include policies and practices of the consultative groups; its origins and establishment; changes in membership or participation; pledges and terms of aid by donor countries; and collaboration with International Monetary Fund and other multilateral participants or observers.
Also included are the set of official meeting documents of the earliest Bank-chaired Consultative Groups for Sudan and Nigeria and other countries aforementioned that contain: preliminary meeting summaries, notice of meeting, agenda, list of delegates, Bank-authored or government authored memoranda or economic reports and policy papers, Chairman's report of proceedings, transcripts or verbatim proceedings, participants statements, and press release. Meeting files also contain small amount of administrative correspondence authored by Secretary's department or the Area or Country Department concerning meeting preparations, distribution of documents, or announcements about participants in attendance of the meetings.
There is also a smaller volume of files relating to donor meetings or investor conferences chaired by the department, and consultative meetings or roundtables chaired by other organizations outside of the Bank including Organization for Economic Development (OECD) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in which the Bank participated beginning in the early 1970s. These include (but are not limited to) Central African Republic, Burundi, Benin, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Guinea-Bissau, Rwanda, Lesotho, Togo and Mali.
Participation in external working and policy groups, committees, and other organizations
Series consists of records related to AFR staff participation in committees, task forces, working and policy groups, and other organizations external to, but in some cases sponsored by, the World Bank. Many of these organizations focus on regional cooperation, development, and research, such as the Central African Customs and Economic Union (UDEAC), the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), and the Global Coalition for Africa (GCA). Records may relate to administration, membership, and activities of organization, and the work or research undertaken or sponsored by the organization.
VP Subject files
Series contains records relating to a variety of activities of which the Office of the Africa Vice President are responsible or involved. These include: public relations; borrower feedback; VP reorganization; and VP unit evaluation and organization. The records include correspondence and internal memoranda related to the various activities, as well as country and thematic briefs and meeting materials. Records related to the Region's participation in and leadership of the joint World Bank-IMF Africa Club for staff are included. A small amount of audio visual material in the form of video and audio tapes are also included in this series. They include recordings of interviews, meetings, and social and cultural events. A small amount of records also relate to the visit of World Bank senior staff, including World Bank presidents, to African countries and meetings held with country leaders during these trips.
VP Correspondence
Series includes the chronological files of a number of AFR Vice Presidents, including: Vice President Edward Jaycox (1991-1996); jointly Jean-Louis Sarbib and Callisto Madavo (1996-1997, during which time the two shared the position of AFR Vice President); Gobind Nankani (2004-2007); and Obiageli Ezekwesili (2007-2008). Chronological files of the VP front office and individual front office staff are also included.
Series contains the "Commodity files" of Barend de Vries, Chief Economist for the Western Africa Department and Region between 1970 and 1975. Included are copies of memos and reports relating to international and regional production and pricing of various commodities. Also included are Bank produced reports on commodity trade and price trends and price forecasts as well as papers on population and family planning programs for Africa.
Departmental Communications and Support
Series relates to the activities of AFR departments asked, usually on an ad hoc basis, to respond to correspondence addressed to World Bank Group presidents, regional Vice Presidents, and other staff members.
Series also consists of briefing books prepared for senior officials in preparation for visits to African countries as well as for participation in meetings, seminars, and speeches. Briefing books were created by AFRunits including VP front office staff and were prepared for AFR senior officials as well as for other senior Bank staff including World Bank presidents and Executive Directors. These books commonly contain: program of country visit; background profiles on country leaders and officials; talking points; country overview; World Bank Group activities; visit and meeting briefs; project meeting briefs; and other World Bank authored reports which serve as background information. In some files, travel information accompanies or is part of the briefing books. A small amount of photographs of dignitaries and bank senior officials documenting their visits to resident missions is also included.
Business plan and budget management records
Series includes records relating to the business plan and budget management (i.e. planning, implementation, monitoring, and review) activities of the Region. These records include annual budget files created by the Region's budget and administrative units as well as Business Plans covering three-year periods and Retrospective and Mid-Year Reviews. Records relating to the budgets of country and technical departments are included primarily in the form of correspondence and budget reports and tools. Budget records created by the Regional VP, Country Departments, and the Regional Resource Management and Information Technology Department (AFTRM) are included.
Department directors' chronological files
Chronological files created and maintained by AFR country department directors and technical department directors are included in this series. These may include incoming and outgoing correspondence, copies of reports, and copies of other records created or received within the unit.
Procurement policy, assessment, review, and training
Series contains records related to the regional oversight of procurement for goods and services needed for operational work. Activities include the review and audit of procurement activities. Procurement audits and review evaluate: project preparation procedure with regard to procurement; internal regional procedures; country procurement practices; and other activities. Records also consist of correspondence and documents relating to the review of ongoing project procurement activities.
Records also consist of background correspondence and documents relating to the formulation of Country Procurement Assessment Reports (CPAR). Records related to procurement training activities are also included.
Management and oversight of unit functions
Records relating to the management and oversight of the Region's country and technical departments' functional responsibilities, work program, and policy development are included in this fonds. Topics may include: work program development; unit policy and procedures; agency structure and organization; management improvement studies; coordination and direction; departmental reviews; regional objectives and operational directives; and staffing. Records may include: work program agreements and monthly reports; research programmaterials; various task force records including some final reports; unit reviews; management team meeting records; management retreats; records related to the 1987 and 1991 reorganizations of the operations complex and subsequent reorganization of the Technical Departments; and general correspondence.
Series also includes records maintained in the Region's front office relating to the activities and management of the Region's field offices. Records may include: correspondence; reports; Terms of Reference; establishment agreements; audit reports; and contracts. Records may relate to administrative matters such as: renovation; security; inventory; capital budget; audits; and local staff.
Africa Regional Vice Presidency
Records of the Office of Information Management and Technology
WB IBRD/IDA CIO
Office of Information Management and Technology
Records of the Office of Operations Evaluation
WB IBRD/IDA OPE
Fonds consists of records related to activities undertaken by the Operations Evaluation Department in support of its function as the Bank's independent operations evaluator. The majority of the records in this fonds are working files for project evaluations (Project Performance Audit Reports [PPARs] or Performance Audit Reports [PARs]) produced by the OED; these files are generally accompanied by Project Completion Reports (PCRs) or Implementation Completion Reports (ICRs) that were produced by operations departments and submitted to the OED. Working files for other OED evaluation products include: Impact Evaluation Reports (IERs); Country Assistance Reviews (CARs); Country Assistance Notes (CANs); Country Assistance Evaluations (CAEs); and special evaluation studies. Records related to annual reviews of Department evaluations are also included as are records related to Department annual reports. Publication files for OED periodicals, OED Processes, and Lessons & Practices are also included.
The fonds also consists of records created and received by the Department's Directors-General (DGO), Directors (OEDDR), and division directors. These records generally relate to: policy and procedure development; reporting; Department, Bank, and external projects, committees, and commissions; communications and dissemination of reports; operations management; and Department administration.
Office of Operations Evaluation
Records of the Office of the Historian
WB IBRD/IDA HIST
Because of the broad scope of the work of the office, which was essentially the entire history of the Bank, the records are extremely varied. They include: written reminiscences, solicited or volunteered, by former Bank staff members; drafts of various publications, both Bank and non-Bank; commentaries on drafts, discussing the commenters' views of particular issues and events; and background research materials used by the World Bank History Project.
The largest body of original source material in the fonds is the set of interviews conducted by the World Bank History Project authors as part of their research for the two-volume The World Bank: Its First Half Century. Typed notes are the only record of some interviews, but most interviews have both the tape of the interview and a transcript.
Office of the Historian
Records of the Office of the General Counsel
WB IBRD/IDA LEG
The fonds consists of budget, work program, planning, management, and organization records related to FPD and its subordinate departments of PSD, FSD, and IEN.
Finance and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency
WB IBRD/IDA CFO
The fonds includes records of the Vice President of Finance (VPF), the Senior Vice President of Finance (SVPFI/FINSV), and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), all of which were responsible for the overall management of the Finance Complex of the Bank. The fonds does not include the records for the dual role of Managing Director and CFO (MDCFO) from 2003 to 2004. The administrative history outlines the complexity of the functional relationship between Managing Director and CFO from 1998 to 2014. See "Relatedunits of description" for the location of MDCFO records.
Records of the Finance VPs and CFO
The fonds includes records of the Vice President of Finance (VPF), the Senior Vice President of Finance (SVPFI/FINSV), and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from 1967 to 2010.
First, this includes IDA replenishment negotiation records maintained by the Vice President of Finance (VPF) I.P.M Cargill from 1967 to 1978. Records related to IDA replenishment prior to 1974 were previously maintained by the Office of Vice President Denis H.R. Rickett (OVPDR) and Senior Vice President of Operations (SVPOP) Burke Knapp, but these records were inherited by I.P.M. Cargill when IDA replenishment negotiation responsibilities were transferred to the VPF in 1974. The records consist of general files, IDA meeting files, and IDA country files. The general files consist of correspondence, briefs or background records on replenishment negotiations, and subject files arranged according to replenishment negotiation (e.g. IDA1 or IDA2).The IDA meeting records are arranged chronologically and contain meeting minutes, agenda, lists of deputies, and country correspondence for IDA 2 - IDA 5 meetings. IDA country files consist of internal memoranda and correspondence regarding member country contributions to IDA funds.
The records also consist of materials maintained by Senior Vice President of Finance (FINSV) Ernest Stern from 1987 to 1991. This includes chronological correspondence files containing cables, memoranda, and reports as well as briefing books prepared for Stern for meetings with member countries, International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Annual Meetings, and high level senior official meetings. Records relating to Stern's participation in the President's Council are also contained in this series. These include memoranda, reports, and correspondence to President Conable.
The records also include records maintained by Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Vincenzo La Via from 2005 to 2010. This includes: chronological correspondence files; briefing books prepared for the Joint IMF-World Bank Annual meetings, IDA 15-16 Replenishment meetings, and other high level senior meetings; speech transcripts, statements, and talking points prepared by La Via; and travel arrangement and reporting records.
Records of the Front Office directors and advisers
The records consist of Raymond J. Goodman records from when he served as Director of Financial Policy in the Front Office of the Vice President of Finance (VPF) I.P.M. Cargill from 1975 to December 1977.The records include: memoranda; cables; financial policy papers; Bank and non-Bank reports; press clippings; and notices of meetings related to topics of financial policy. Topics include: Bank borrowing; basic needs; capital markets; capital requirements; capital subscriptions; the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR); cofinancing; the Common Fund; Counterpart funds; debt rescheduling; the Development Commission; the European Investment
Bank; the European Development Fund; the European Communities (EEC) Special Action Fund; the External Department; grace periods and maturities; IBRD financial policies; International Bank for Debt Redemption (IBRD); 4th IDA Replenishment; 5th IDA Replenishment; the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); IMF Trust Fund; loan sales and participation; and program lending.
The records also include annotated memoranda, correspondence, drafts, and reports maintained by Percy S. Mistry, the Adviser for the Senior Vice President of Finance (SVPFI) Moeen Qureshi from 1981 to 1987. Percy's records are arranged by the following subjects: IBRD, finance, development assistance, IDA, and personnel and organization.
Mistry's IBRD records related to: reports from Task force on the Future of the Bank; the Bank's Bank; Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) collaboration; Annual Meeting briefs; the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA); Task Force Survey; and streamlining Bank procedures.
Mistry's finance recordsinclude general topics such as: accessing capital markets; capital subscription status; currency pooling; general capital Increase (GCI); investment authority; loan charges; and technical assistance for financial management.
Mistry's development assistance records include the following topics: debt and adjustment in developing countries; poverty alleviation; IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR)/Aid link; U.S. position on multilateral development banks; Development Finance Companies; the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); the Asian Development Bank; and others. The records also include: minutes and reports from the Bank's Development Committee; meeting minutes and agenda for the Task Force on Concessional Flows; and a report from the Bank's Task Force on Non-Concessional Flows.
Mistry's IDA related records include minutes and reports from IDA Deputies Meetings for IDA 6 - IDA 8 replenishment negotiations from 1980 to 1986. The records also include correspondence, memoranda, andreports focused on the following topics: IDA calls/encashments; IDA legislative status reports; IDA special contributions and trust funds; IDA 7 background papers; IDA 7 briefing papers; IDA country correspondence; IDA political campaign/initiatives; IDA public affairs strategies; IBRD transfers to IDA; and IDA deficits.
Mistry's personnel and organization records include reports and memos related to personnel staffing matters and the organizational arrangement of the Bank and the Finance Complex (FINCOM) from 1981 to 1987. Records related to personnel and organization of the Bank cover the following topics: institutional planning; feasibility studies for the Bank's London Office; the Young Professionals Program (YPP); policy on personnel payments; Bank policy committees; training programs; compensation review; and the IBRD Accounting Framework. The FINCOM records cover the following topics: planning and budgeting; performance planning and review; FINCOM department and unit organization; personnel issues; position descriptions; job grading; consultant hiring; recruitment; payroll administration; staff retirement plans; management development; personnel policy changes; and review and analysis of financial transaction flows.
The fonds includes Bank-wide budget and planning records of the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Vincenzo La Via prepared for meetings with the Bank President from 2006 to 2010. The records include: Bank-wide Quarterly Business Review reports; financial statement reports; and meeting minutes and agenda from President Meetings related to quarterly financial reporting, Bank strategic themes, and financial reporting by external audit and consulting firms.
Managing Committee records
The fonds also consist of records from the Managing Committee established by Bank President A.W. Clausen from 1981 to 1986. Clausen established the Managing Committee for the purpose of providing overall guidance for and management of the Bank in 1981. The SVPFI served as a committee member for the Managing Committee, along with the Senior Vice President of Operations (SVPOP) and other Bank vice presidents. The records were maintained by Senior Vice President of Finance (SVPFI) Moeen Qureshi. The records include: chronological Managing Committee agendas and meeting minutes; memoranda; and policy papers and reports drafted for the committee. The records focus on a broad range of finance-related topics, including: budgeting and planning; IBRD/IDA financing; IBRD borrowing; IBRD general capital increase (GCI); selective capital increase (SCI); financial policy; institutional planning, and others.
Finance Complex Central Files
The fonds also includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, reports, and statements related to finance functions and the Finance Complex units of the Bank. The records were maintained as part of the Bank's centralized filing system of the Non-Regional Information Center (NRIC) from 1978 to 1986. The records are not exclusive to onefunction or unit of the Finance Complex. The records are organized by the following categories: General; Programming and Budgeting; Controller; and Treasurer. The General records cover subjects of data regarding currency exchange, IDA 4-8th replenishment resources, overdue service payments, the Interest Subsidy Fund (Third Window), and preparation for IBRD/IDA Annual Report. The Programming and Budgeting records primarily include review reports of the Bank's financial and operating programs prepared for the Bank's Executive Directors and senior staff. The Controller records are related to accounting and financial statements reporting. The Treasurer records relate to portfolio sales and participation, cashier's reporting, securities, the Staff Retirement Plan, and telegraphic test key arrangements with commercial banks.
Records of the Public Sector Management and Governance Sector
1996 - 2009 (predominantly 2001 - 2009)
The fonds includes records from research, advising, and policy development sector units oriented towards public sector management and governance functions of the World Bank, and does not include records from technical assistance oriented Regional units related to public sector management and governance. The records include Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Program trust fund records related to funding for projects and activities of the Public Sector Governance Department (PRMPS) for the years 1996 to 2009.
Public Sector Management and Governance Sector
Records of the Water Development Sector
WB IBRD/IDA WAT
The fonds consists of a diverse group of records that reflect the various activities of the water function in the World Bank. The fonds includes: internal and external correspondence, including letters, memoranda, and telexes; project files; sector support and research files; conference and workshop materials; and departmental publications.
Records in this fonds generally relate to projects managed or supported by the Transportation, Water and Telecommunications Department (TWT, 19791983), the Water Supply and Urban Development Department (WUD, 19831987) and the Infrastructure and Urban Development Department (IUD, 19871991). Projectrelated records include project documentation and reports, Country Monitoring Evaluations (CMEs), agreements, terms of reference, progress reports, budgets, personnel management, country information and research materials, and unofficial liaison records with outside agencies. Project topics include handpump development and testing, sewerage, landfill design, sanitation, solid waste private options and demonstration projects. Projectrelated records are generally organized by country.
Many of the projectrelated records are related to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, a special cooperative program created in 1978 managed by the World Bank. This Programme intended to develop, field test, and demonstrate the effectiveness of lowcost approaches to the provision of clean drinking water and adequate sanitation. The fonds contains donor files on countries and aid agencies that contributed to the Water and Sanitation Program. These records include: correspondence with donors; funding negotiations and agreements; project descriptions and budgets; progress reports; and backtooffice and meeting reports. Records relating to the UNDP - World Bank's cooperation with other multilateral organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF are included.
The fonds also includes the correspondence of John M. Kalbermatten, Adviser for the Water and Wastes Sector in the Public Utilities Department and the Energy, Water and Telecommunications Department (EWT), from 19731979. Records include consultant reports, activity summaries and reports, progress reports, budgets and administrative correspondence.
Records also relate to projects of the Office of the Training Coordinator of the Water Supply and Urban Development Department (WUD). These records primarily concern the Information and Training program, a UNDPWorld Bank project aimed at preparing and disseminating information and training material on low cost technologies. Records include a chronology, correspondence, consultants' terms of reference, backtooffice reports, training materials and related preparatory materials, field testing materials, drafts of the Training Module Field Test and Review Report of 1984, a user participation package and a Project Preparation Handbook. Also included is correspondence and reports related to the Water Supply and Urban Development Department's (WUD) cooperation with the Economic Development Institute (EDI) in the production of water and sanitationrelated conferences, workshops, and training modules; a small number of other records distributed by EDI, such as planning and evaluation reports, are also included. The fonds also includes a small number of records that relate to conferences organized and attended by water sector staff.
Records also relate to participation in and contribution to external programs and groups. Included are records from the Steering Committee for the United Nations International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (IDWSS). These records include material such as agendas, minutes, and progress reports from meetings between 1981 and 1985 as well as records related to the promotion and support for women's participation in the initiative. Reports submitted by the World Bank to the Committee are also included. The fonds also includes files related to the Urban Poverty Task Group, a project overseen by the Urban Projects Department that began in 1975 with the objective of designing new policies, methods and projects to alleviate urban poverty. Records primarily include correspondence related to the Energy, Water and Telecommunications Department's (EWT) contributions to the water supply and waste water aspects of the Task Group's work.
The fonds also includes eleven volumes issued between 1980 and 1984 by the Transportation, Water and Telecommunications Department (TWT) and the Water Supply and Urban Development Department (WUD) regarding a research project undertaken in 1976 by the World Bank that examined water supply and sanitation in developing countries. Records include published volumes, drafts, final reports, notes, and internal memoranda.
Water Development Sector
Records of the Urban Development Sector
WB IBRD/IDA URB
Fonds consists of records related to activities undertaken by the urban development sector. The majority of records in the fonds are reference materials created or received by the Water Supply and Urban Development Department (WUD) and, more specifically, the Water Supply and Urban Development Department Operations Support and Research Unit (WUDOR). These records were created by Unit staff as well as by other World Bank offices and consultants and organizations external to the bank. Materials include research and discussion papers on a variety of topics related to the World Bank's urban development function. The fonds also contains records relating to the operation and administration of the Urban Poverty Program by the Urban Operations Review and Support Unit (URBOR) and to the research and reporting activities for which it was responsible. Records include reports and memoranda created by the Unit as well as by Regional offices. Finally, the fonds consists of records related to the Conference on Improving the Effectiveness of Urban Assistance convened by the World Bank in Washington on December 2-6, 1985. Records include planning materials as well as speeches, speaker biographies, and a published copy of the summary of proceedings.
Urban Development Sector
Records of the Office of the Treasurer
WB IBRD/IDA TRE
Records of the Transport Development Sector
WB IBRD/IDA TRA
1952 - 1953, 1960 - 1991 (predominant 1968 - 1991)
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of the transport sector in the World Bank. The fonds includes: research materials and background documentation; operational support and project-related records; seminar, conference and workshop materials; and appraisal software user manuals. The records in this fonds were created, collected, and used by transport-related departments beginning in the late 1960s with the Transportation Projects Department (TRP) through to the Infrastructure and Urban Development Department (IUD) in the late 1980s.
The majority of records contained in this fonds relate to research projects and operational support and are authored by the various departmental incarnations of the transport sector as well as by consultants and other World Bank departments. Research and discussion papers on the topic of transport infrastructure development are numerous as are country, project, and technology background studies and reports. Correspondence and memoranda related to the creation and review of these papers are also included. Topics include road location, design, deterioration, maintenance, and upgrading; surface treatments; traffic simulations; rural traffic; pavement and soils; drainage; railways; maritime transport; and climate studies. Records relating to collaboration with external organizations, universities, and national aid agencies are also included. Project evaluation and development materials, loan appraisals, terms of reference, project loan recommendations and related memoranda, and project reviews and audits are present in small amounts. Note that many of the records in these types were created by, commented on, and/or received by William D. O. Paterson, Senior Engineer of the Infrastructure and Urban Development Department Transport Development Division (INUTD). Included in Paterson's files are chronological files, country files, working papers, and extensive records on transport infrastructure projects in Indonesia in the 1980s. Also note that the fonds contains a group of project, operations, sector, and technological reference records as well as World Bank information and policy records that were organized within a single classification scheme in the Transportation Department (TRP, 1983-1987). Reports, memoranda, and correspondence are the most common record form, while topics are wide ranging.
The fonds contains a large amount of records related to the Highway Design and Maintenance Standards Models (HDMS) and to projects that served as the basis for their creation. The HDMS was a tool initially conceived in 1969 by Transport Department engineers and later incorporated external academics and consultants. Its purpose was to meet the needs of highway authorities, particularly in developing countries, for evaluating policies, standards, and programs of road construction and maintenance. The project was concerned with various topics related to highway maintenance and construction, including design, evaluation, damage, costs, pavement performance, and deterioration.The project had at least four iterations. While the majority of the records in this fonds concern HDMS III, released in 1985 and researched and prepared over the previous decade, a significant amount of reports and background materials from the earliest years of the project are also included. Project records include budget materials, research and project proposals, reports, research and discussion papers, user manuals, training materials, and drafts of papers and feedback. HDMS II and III were largely based on primary studies undertaken in Kenya, Brazil, India, and the Caribbean. The fonds includes extensive records from the Brazilian and Indian studies, including reports, working papers, data, notes, memoranda, calculations, correspondence, back-to-office reports, project files, and seminar and presentation notes.
Also included in this fonds are records related to the Transportation Projects Department (TRP) between 1967 and 1972. Records relate to World Bank/United Nations Development Programme projects in the Far East during the years 1968-1972. Much of these records are correspondence between the Department and outside consulting agencies that performed the project research. The files concern the scope of projects, consultative fees, contracts, negotiations with the contracted agencies, and periodic progress reports. A wide array of transportation-related projects is represented.
Also included is a small amount of records relating to seminars, training and workshops. Many of these events were organized by the Transportation Department (TRP, 1983-1987) and Infrastructure and Urban Development Department Transport Development Division (INUTD); records of this type date from between 1986 and 1991 and include speeches and background reports on a variety of Transportation-related topics along with event planning records. As well, a number of records relating to the attendance of and participation in external conferences, seminars, and symposiums by transportation sector staff are also included.
Finally, the fonds includes user manuals for appraisal software used for operational projects. The software includes: Financial Analysis System (FAST), Port Simulation Model (PORTSIM), Cost Benefit Package (CBPACK), and the Road Analysis Model (RAM). The manuals found here, as well as the software itself, was developed by the Transportation and Urban Projects Department (TRU) with the assistance of the Computing Activities Department during the early to mid 1970s.
The fonds also includes records related to the Construction Industry (CI) Adviser Helmut Kadner and his staff from 1981 to 1984. The records include drafts of construction industry papers prepared by CI staff with comments, which were prepared for the Construction Industry in Developing Countries Seminar held in February 1984.
Transport Development Sector
WB IBRD/IDA SOMMERS
The files consist of correspondence, speeches, articles, and photographs related to Davidson Sommers' years of employment in the World Bank's Legal Department and his subsequent service as a consultant to the Bank.
Topics covered in the correspondence files include reorganization of the World Bank, procurement review, communications, loan documentation, Bank studies, World Bank president's succession, and improving efficiency in the Bank. Also included are Sommers' copies of the transcripts of two oral history interviews he gave and a copy of the transcript of an oral history interview with John J. McCloy which Sommers and Richard Demuth conducted in 1984. Some speeches and articles presented by Sommers are part of the series, including a description of the Bank and its operations given in Mexico City in 1950, an address entitled Early Days of the Bank given to Bank staff in 1960, and an article commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the Bretton Woods institutions written in 1984 for the Bank/IMF periodical Finance and Development. Photographs included in the series are of a Bank building remodeling in the late 1950s, an Egyptian negotiation in 1959, the World Bank's twentieth anniversary luncheon in 1966, and the Pension Finance Committee in 1985.
Sommers, Davidson
This fonds contains records that span Jaime Biderman's entire career with the World Bank Group. Records relate to his work as an Economist, Senior Country Officer, and other positions in the World Bank's operations complex. A small number of records also relate to his work in the Operations Policy Department (OPR).
Records of the Sector Policy and Research Vice Presidency (PREVP) and the Sector and Operations Policy Vice Presidency (OSPVP)
The fonds includes sector policy review and sector work program review records maintained by Visvanathan Rajagopalan when he served as the Vice President for Sector Policy and Research (PREVP/PRSVP), and its successor the Sector and Operations Policy Vice Presidency (OSPVP) from 1987 to 1992. It also consists of records maintained by Director David Bock when he served in the OSPVP Front Office. Bock's records are related to OSPVP management, budget records, and sector policy review from 1991 to 1992.
Sector Policy and Research Vice Presidency (PREVP) and the Sector and Operations Policy Vice Presidency (OSPVP)
WB IBRD/IDA ROSEN
1950, 1962, 1968 - 1969, 1987, undated
The papers consist principally of photographs from Martin Rosen's period at the World Bank. The photographs are very largely ceremonial: Rosen at the ceremony when a country joins International Finance Corporation; Rosen at an annual meeting; Rosen at a formal dinner; Rosen touring factories and construction sites. These provide evidence of the kinds of ceremonies a vice president was expected to attend, information about Bank and particularly IFC projects, and specific information about, for instance, what the inside of a cotton mill in Pakistan looked like in 1969.
The scrapbook contains clippings and photographs of Martin Rosen's World Bank and IFC career. The album appears to have been a farewell present to him when he left the Bank in 1969. By interspersing clippings and photographs, it places the photographs in context.
The papers also include a copy of Hosai Hyuga's Memoir, translated from Japanese and published in 1987. The frontispiece has photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Aldewereld (he was a long serving Bank employee) with Hosai. The book mentions of the Bank, but it is primarily concerned with the life of a Japanese government official.
Rosen, Martin M.
Records of the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Vice Presidency
WB IBRD/IDA LAC
This fonds consists of records created by the departments and vice presidencies that were responsible for World Bank operations in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Country operational records
The majority of the records of this fonds are country operational records. These records broadly consist of project records relating to the negotiation and administration of loans and general country records relating to economic and sector study. These records were created by Area Departments (1947-1972), Country Departments (CDs, 1972-1997) and Country Management Units (CMUs, 1997-) as well as Regional project departments (1972 - 1987), technical departments (1987 - 1997), and sector departments (1997 - ).
Project records
Records related to the Bank's projects overseen by the LCR are contained in the "Country operational records" series. These records relate to investment, structural adjustment, and other development projects financed, co-financed, or managed by the Bank. Note that projects funded or co-funded by external bodies such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), national governments, and trust funds and which were executed by the Bank are also included.
Information about specific projects from their conception through negotiation and completion is found in this series; records relating to all phases of the World Bank Project Cycle are included here. Project records contained in this fonds were created by both the unit identified as the designated record keeping unit within the Region and, in smaller number, the Regional units that provided project support. Included are records relating to not only completed projects but also to abandoned projects (i.e. projects that were abandoned in course of preparation or that failed to gain Board approval) and suspended projects (i.e. approved projects, including those partially disbursed, which have been suspended and not resumed). Records related to the discussion and negotiation of projects that were never initiated are also included.
Correspondence files make up the bulk of the project records and relate to the identification, preparation, appraisal, negotiation, approval, supervision, disbursement of funds, completion, and review of each individual project. Correspondence is in the form of letters, memoranda, telexes, and faxes. Accompanying materials most often include aide-memoires, minutes of meetings, Terms of Reference, back-to-office reports, etc. Correspondence is between the Bank and government officials, ambassadors, institutions, and consultants.
Project records may also include: Project Files documents; Project Implementation Index File (PIIF) documents; executive project summary/project concept documents; annual progress reports; supplemental documents; consultant reports; supervision reports; and final versions of mandatory reports. Note that reports included in this fonds are occasionally available through the Bank's Projects & Operations site. A small amount of project-related newspaper clippings, financial statements, photographs, hand-written notes, maps, engineering plans, and copies of loan agreements and related documents may also be found, as well. External documents received from borrowers, governments, consultants, etc., including studies, reports, plans, specifications, Project File documents, PIIF documents, etc., are also included.
Country Economic and Sector Work (ESW) records
General country files are also included in the "Country operational series". These refer to background correspondence and other records of the Region's support activities for IBRD/IDA lending programs, other than those maintained for individual loans and credits. These relate to economic, social, and sector work study and analysis and the development of sector and country programs, policies and strategies. Specifically, these records might relate to: capital markets; indebtedness; investment law; missions to the country; technical assistance; disbursement; government relations; inquiries; local bond issues; country liaison; programs and missions; resident representatives; Country Program Papers (CPP) preparation; and Project Implementation Review (PIR). Records relating to and filed according to the various sectors of investment are also included. In each series, sector files may include but are not limited to: agriculture; education; energy; industrial development and finance; industry; population; health; nutrition; telecommunications; tourism; transportation; urban development; water and sewage; and social development. General country filerecords take the form of correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, notes for files, briefing papers, back-to-office reports, aide-memoires, briefing papers, and reports. Records relating to analytical and advisory activities (AAA) and the related collection of data for these activities may also be included.
Country-specific records relating to country program management are also included in the country operational record series. These records were maintained primarily by the Country Department headquarter units and were used to document Bank Group assistance planning and strategy for each country. Records may pertain to the creation of Bank reports such as: the Country Assistance Strategy (CAS); Country Briefs; Country Strategy Papers; Country Economic Memoranda; Medium Term Framework Papers; and policy statements. These records take the form of: agendas; briefings and reports of country team meetings; final versions of reports; and background materials used in the preparation of reports. Briefing papers prepared for Annual Meetings and other reports to management may also be included.
Also included are informational records related to each country and to development issues specific to that country. These records primarily contain externally created reference material, although a small amount of internally generated material (such as speeches and addresses and material related to internally sponsored conferences and seminars) may also be included. Reference materials may include: lists of government officials; information on external consultants; newspaper clippings related to country matters; press releases related to Bank and country activities; correspondence with government officials and/or ministries; and documents related to the operations of field offices in the country. Also included, in small amounts, are books, journals, magazines, articles, extracts, directories, manuals, handbooks, guides, and dissertations originating from elsewhere in the Bank Group or of external origin. Topics include common development sectors (agriculture, transportation, education, etc.) as well as: resettlement; indigenous peoples; participation; Global Environment Facility (GEF); World Bank operation policies; country politics, legislation, and economic situation; and natural resource management. Also includes some reports and other resources relating to countries and regions outside of Latin America.
Regional operational records
Operational records related to the Latin America & Caribbean region are also includedin this fonds. Included are the project records of projects that span more than a single country, such as the founding of new regional banks, the establishment of a common market, tourism projects, and the creation of regional infrastructure, such as roads, ports, electric power generation and telecommunications. The types of project-related records are similar to those described in the "Country operational records" series section above. Also included are general records related to economic, social and sector work study and analysis and the development of sector and regional programs, policies and strategies. In terms of topic and form, these records are similar to the general records of the country operational series described above; this includes records related to sector study and development and analytical and advisory activities (AAA). However, records relate to either the region as a whole or to multi-country areas of the region. Also included are records relating to multilateral institutions that worktogether with the Bank.
Series consists of records relating to the development and implementation of aid coordination activities not specific to projects, such as cofinancing arrangements, donor meetings, consultative group meetings, and Country Team meetings. Records originate in country and sector departments and relate to cooperative relationships between the Bank Group and donors, cofinanciers, development agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other concernedorganizations. Specifically, records may relate to: collaborative development assistance; Bank-sponsored seminars and conferences; cofinancing and trust funds; the Consultant Trust Fund Program (CTFP); and external funding for consultants. Records may include: copies of agreements and other legal documents; initiating briefs; reports and memoranda concerning disbursement of cofinanced funds; periodic reports to cofinanciers; and other related materials.
The series also contains records documenting the establishment, proceedings and activities of the consultative groups convened and chaired by the Bank to assess and coordinate external financial assistance and which the Bank provided secretarial support to. These include the Colombia Consultative Group (1962) as well as consultative groups for Brazil (1966), Peru (1966), Bolivia (1977), Honduras (1988), Guatemala (1989), El Salvador (1991), Nicaragua (1994), Haiti (1996), and Costa Rica (1998). Many of the consultative groups met bi-annually for several successive years or longer than a decade such as Colombia and Peru, with Bank staff leading smaller sector or local consultative meetings in between the bi-annual donor group meetings. Files contain a large body of correspondence between the country department staff, the chairman who was typically the Area of Country Director, and members of the consultative groups including the recipient country. Correspondence includes copies of outgoing memoranda and letters, cables, original letters from member government officials (some addressed to the Bank President), notes to the file, minutes of pre-consultative group meetings, sector, and/or local meetings organized by country staff in between consultative group meetings, and drafts of documents. Topics covered by the correspondence include policies and practices of the consultative group; its origins and establishment; changes in membership or participation; pledges and terms of aid by donor countries; and collaboration with International Monetary Fund and other multilateral participants or observers.
Also included are the set of official meeting documents of the Bank-chaired consultative groups aforementioned that contain: preliminary meeting summaries, notice of meeting, agenda, list of delegates, Bank-authored or government authored memoranda or economic reports and policy papers, Chairman's reportof proceedings, transcripts or verbatim proceedings, participants statements, and press release. Meeting files also contain small amount of administrative correspondence authored by Secretary's Department or the Area or Country Department concerning meeting preparations, distribution of documents, or announcements about participants in attendance of the meetings.
There is also a smaller volume of files relating to consultative meetings of other organizations including the Guyana-led aid group and the Caribbean Group for Economic Cooperation in Development (CGCED) in which the Bank participated beginning in the early 1970s as well as CGCED sub-group consultative or other donor meetings chaired by the department.
Departmental reference materials
Reference materials maintained by Regional departments are included in this fonds. Topics include the various development sectors as well as Bank operational topics such as: project identification; loan procurement; consultants; exports; macroeconomic stability and growth; and private sector assessment.
Department directors' project records (reference)
Project file reference copies maintained by the CD and CMU directors' front office are also included in this fonds. These include project-related records circulated from project managers to the departments for information, monitoring, review, or input. These records are arranged by project and then, in most cases, by project cycle component or phase.
Departmental directors' chronological files
Also included are chronological files created and maintained by the directors of CDs and CMUs. Specifically, the records of directors from LCC7C (Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay) and LCC1C (Mexico) are included; records date from 1992 to 1998.
Fonds includes records relating to business plan and budget management (i.e. planning, implementation, monitoring, and review) activities of the Region. The VP's Chief Administrator's annual budget records are contained in this fonds. These records include Business Plans covering three-year periods as well as Retrospective Reviews. Multi-volume annual budget files created by the Region's budget and administrative units are also included. Records relating to the budgets of Country Departments are also included primarily in the form of correspondence and budget reports and tools. Budget records created by both the Regional VP and Country Departments relating to country field offices are included. A small number of the Region's Budget Committee records from between 1996 and 2000 are also contained in the fonds.
Records relating to the management and oversight of the Region's functional responsibilities, work program, and policy development are included in this fonds. Topics include: work program development; unit policy and procedures; agency structure and organization; management improvement studies; coordination and direction; departmental reviews; Regional objectives and operational directives; and staffing. Records include: work program agreements and monthly reports; research program materials; general correspondence; various task force records including some final reports; unit reviews; LAC evaluation and restructuring records; records of the Region's Resource Management Group; and general correspondence. Records relating to the Funding Coordinators Group (trust funds) are also included.
Front office administration and oversight of field offices
Fonds also includes those records maintained in the Region's front office relating to the activities of the Region's field offices. Records may include: correspondence; reports; and contracts. Records may also relate to: establishment agreements; leases; renovation; capital budget; local staff; resident representatives; mission statement; and other information of substantive nature. Records were created between 1978 and 1993.
VP chronological files
Fonds includes the chronological files of the Region's VP S. Shahid Hussain for the years 1990 to 1992.
Front office reference material
A variety of front office reference material is included in this fonds. This includes a collection of reports and articles created between 1987 and 1995. Topics include: development; governance; Bank-Fund collaboration; Bank operations; information technology; communications; and human resources. Records take the form of: photocopied articles; Bank-authored reports including task force reports; Bank Executive Director memoranda; reports from external institutions; workshop publications; and seminar reports. Also included are subject files of the LAC front office. Records date from 1977 to 1993 and cover a variety of topics related to sector development, operations, budget, other Bank units, and external institutions.
UNDP liaison
Fonds contains records relating to the Region's cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with respect to development planning. Included are UNDP authored country programme records relating to LCR countries. Other reports authored by the UNDP are also included as is correspondence between the Bank concerning development activities in member countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Records are organized by country and date from 1981-1996. Note that project records from projects funded in whole or in part by the UNDP but executed by the Bank are included in the country and regional operational record series.
Also included are records related to the Region's communications activities. These consist of press releases authored by the World Bank dating from 1949 to 1997. Files are arranged by country and relate to: relations between the Bank and member country; projects fundedby the Bank; and other pertinent topics.
Committee records
Fonds contains records relating to a number of committees, task forces, working groups, etc., that establish, recommend, or monitor implementation of policy and procedures and on which the Region or its units are represented or about which they are kept informed. Included are the Reorganization Steering Committee (1988), Evaluation Monitoring Implementation Committee, Operational Committee, and LCR's Office of the Director Filing Project committee.
Training, seminar, and workshop planning and management
Fonds includes records related to the establishment, organization, proceedings, and output of conferences, meetings, seminars, and training organized by LCR units. Records include back-to-office reports, presentation notes and outlines, planning materials, reports, and correspondence. Many of the records relate to events undertaken in conjunction with the World Bank Institute (WBI). Records relating to training, seminars, and workshops organizedby the Region's Environment Unit (LATEN) between 1992 and 1995 are also numerous. These events were organized for both Bank staff at headquarters and at country offices as well as for member governments and other institutions and groups.
Also contained in this fonds are records related to the management of information technology strategy for the Region. Included are files related to regional information strategy such as the LAC Enterprise Network pilot, the LAC communications link, imaging and the IRIS system, and files on LAC modernization and restructuring.
Latin America and Caribbean Regional Vice Presidency
Records of the Poverty Analysis and Policy Sector
The fonds includes records from PHRWH's involvement with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and World Bank Poverty Research Conference held in 1989. It also includes records related to the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys, as well as records related to liaison with LSMS collaborators in the U.N. National Household Survey Capability Program (NHSCP), the UN Statistical Office (UNSO), and the U.N. Statistical Commission. Lastly, the fonds contains the records of trust fund donor supported projects of the PRMPO and its successor PRMPR from 1998 to 2007.
Poverty Analysis and Policy Sector
The fonds consists of chronological files created by ESDVP. Separate chronological files were created for incoming and outgoing correspondence as well as for incoming faxes. Correspondence relates to: the research and writing of departmental reviews; conference planning and attendance (specifically the Hunger Conference of November 30 to December 1, 1993); the publication of research; plans related to the Bank's 50th anniversary celebration; IT issues within ESD; cross-sectoral and Regional support and collaboration; staff training; budget planning; Bank-wide policy reviews (including the Bank-wide Review of Involuntary Resettlement [1986-1993]); personnel decisions; collaboration and communications with external agencies, institutions, governments, etc.; participation in and organization of meetings; and grants and trust funds.
The fonds also contains the chronological files of ESD Vice President Ismail M. Serageldin from January 1993, to December 1996. Records include correspondence between Serageldin and: ESD's sector department directors; other thematic vice presidencies in the Bank; Bank President Lewis Preston; other Bank departments and units; and external agencies, institutions, government officials, and NGOs outside of the Bank. Records relate to: the planning, research, and review of annual reports, research reports, policy papers, and projects/operations reviews; conference attendance and planning; meetings; budget planning and resource allocation; and cross support between ESD and other vice presidencies and the Regions. General discussion of Serageldin's new position as ESD Vice President and the function and purpose of the newly created ESD is also the subject of some correspondence.
The fonds also contains records of the Transport, Water, and Urban Development Department (TWU) from January 1993, to December 1995. Records include chronological files. Files consist exclusively of electronic message print-outs. Correspondence is between the Department and other ESD departments and Bank departments.Correspondence is created by and addressed to the various TWU divisions. Records relate to: Bank projects; information exchange; meeting and working group participation; cross support between departments, vice presidencies, and the Regions; training of Department staff; conference attendance and organization; hiring and staffing; review of Country Assistance Strategy reports; and mission proposals.
Environmentally Sustainable Development Vice Presidency
WB IBRD/IDA DONATED
A number of individuals have donated to the World Bank Group Archives small quantities of material about the history of the Bank. All of the donations in this fonds are less than four inches in size (the size of a standard archival box). For convenience of reference the Archives has grouped them in this fonds. Donations of the size of an archival box or larger are found listed as separate fonds.
The materials are principally drafts of papers. They range from a paper by W. Frank Blair, which a former Bank historian believes is probably the first mention of ecology in the Bank; to a taped narrative of William Bennett's flight from Egypt in 1967; to a series of reminiscences by A.D. Spottswood covering his work from Peru to Ethiopia to Thailand.
WB IBRD/IDA DAVIS
The papers relate almost exclusively to Indonesia. They include her dissertation and its background data survey sheets. The papers also include background information on all the Indonesia projects in which Davis was involved between 1978 and 1986, including correspondence, subject files, data survey sheets, statistics and computer printouts of statistical analyses. The files on one project in Fiji are included. Davis obtained many official Indonesian government documents during the years when her focuswas on Indonesia. These are found both in correspondence and data files as well as in the set of reports in Bahasa Indonesian. Davis maintained a set of speeches, articles and monographs, mainly about Indonesia, that were written by colleagues. She also maintained sets of publications on Indonesian topics from various research institutions in Indonesia and other countries. The files do not include correspondence with family and friends. No photographs are included. The files are of interest primarilyto students of the history of Indonesia and to the study of migration. The raw data collections are particularly valuable.
Davis, Gloria
WB IBRD/IDA CRS
Conflict Resolution System
Records of the Office of the Auditor-General
WB IBRD/IDA IAD
Office of the Auditor-General
WB IBRD/IDA NURICK
The topics to which the records relate reflect issues of personal interest to Nurick or issues which he handled on behalf of his clients. Records relate to the legal structure of the World Bank as an institution and of its lending operations. Records relate to litigation and specific World Bank lending projects, such as the Volta River power projects in Ghana, the Shashe project in Botswana, the Falconbridge ferronickel project in the Dominican Republic, and the Boke project in Guinea. Records also relate to administrative and personnel issues in the World Bank. A small amount of materials collected, such as publications and invitations, that relate to Nurick's time at the World Bank Group are also included.
Nurick, Lester
WB IBRD/IDA MDS
The records of the era of the general vice presidents are fragmentary. A few records of a Middle East and North African trip by Robert L. Garner exist, as does a file on a meeting in Jogjakarta attended by Mohamed Shoaib. The files of Sir Denis Rickett contain important records on studies of the future role of the Bank, as well as information on the Bank's reactions to the oil crisis of the early 1970s.
General Vice Presidents and Managing Directors
WB IBRD/IDA GEF
The fonds consists of records that relate to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat's various activities. The majority of the fonds consists of GEF project files. Project types include the Small Grants Programme, Enabling Activities, medium-sized projects (MSP), and full-sized projects (FSPs). These records reflect GEF project cycle activities. Records include: reports; correspondence; forms; concept agreements; focal area work program documents; CEO endorsement; evaluation and review documents;terminal report; and other documents generated by the project cycle from concept development stage to its closure.
Records related to GEF's role in operational monitoring and assessment of GEF projects are included. The responsibility is shared between GEF and the implementing agencies. GEF's activities include: overall project evaluation; operational programs evaluation; evaluation of GEF practices and activities; and thematic reviews and assessments. GEF's Monitoring and Evaluation unit (GEFME) also contributes to the formation of Global and Regional Agreements and organizes and participates in workshops and other knowledge sharing activities. Records included here are generally unpublished materials including drafts, working papers, statistical information and other records related to the work of GEFME.
The fonds also consists of policy, procedures, and standards development and business strategy records. Records generally consist of correspondence, reports, research, ad hoc studies on various topics, and other records pertaining to the development and implementation of GEF policies, procedures, and standards.
Also included are records related to GEF's Focal Area programs. These records relate to: program operations; program strategy; program indicators and methodologies; capacity development initiatives; cross-team support; taskforce meetings; conventions; seminars; training; and the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP). Records include: correspondence; reports; policy papers; reports to management; publications; and other materials.
This fonds also consists of corporate affairs and liaison records. Included is correspondence and reports that document GEF's relationship with client communities and stake holders, including: implementing agencies; executing agencies; STAP; donor countries; the private sector; and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Also included are records related to GEF's participation in the various conventions of which it acts as the financial mechanism. Records include: copies of agreements and contracts; terms and conditions; memoranda of understanding; annual and financial reports; and records related to replenishment. Included in this fonds are records created during meetings of GEF Council, GEF Assembly and other standing and ad hoc groups of GEF, including: Participants meeting; various taskforces and working groups; special donor meetings; and project review meetings. Records include: minutes; agendas; reports; Terms of Reference; supporting or background documentation; summaries of proceedings; member lists; intercessional decision reports; and speeches and statements made by GEF representatives. Audio and video recordings of some of the meetings are included in the fonds.
Records related to communications and outreach are also included. The majority of these records are a collection of magazine, journal, and newspaper articles that refer to the GEF. Issues of GEF's newsletter, Talking Points, are included, as are records related to GEF representatives' participation in seminars, meetings, and other events.
Also included are the chronological correspondence files of the GEF CEO, deputy CEO, and Secretariat from between 1992 and 2004. Communications to Council from the CEO and Secretariat from 1993 to 1997 are also included.
WB IBRD/IDA HRS
Records of the Industry Development Sector
WB IBRD/IDA IND
These files, created by the Industry Development Division of the Industry Department, include a large quantity of records of two Banks studies: the 1975 survey of Korean exporting firms and a study of the acquisition of technology capabilities of developing nations. There are manuals and background information regarding software developed by Bank personnel - especially Software for Industrial Trade and Incentives Analysis ( SINTIA and SINTIA T). The series of Reference Materials Regarding Industry Development Issues includes articles and reports regarding Russian defense conversion and industrial restructuring.
The INCA records document the work of a small unit established in August 1981 within the Strategy and Policy Division (INDSP) that conducted Incentives and Comparative Advantage (INCA) studies in the Ivory Coast and a dozen other countries. The unit had completed most of its work by 1984
Industry Development Sector
Records of the Office of External Relations
WB IBRD/IDA EXT
Records in this fonds relate to the functions of the external relations complex as described in the Administrative History field above. In addition, records created and received by EXT Vice Presidencies are also included. Note that, periodically, the EXTVP contained units responsible for functions not included in the above definition. See Related Units of Description below for direction to the fonds containing those records.
External Relations Vice Presidency and reporting units
Records of the Senior Vice President of Operations
Records of Vice President of Operations and SVPOP J. Burke Knapp
The fonds includes records maintained by Vice President and Senior Vice President of Operations (SVPOP) J. Burke Knapp. The records include memoranda sent between Knapp and Bank President Robert McNamara from 1967 to 1978. Much of the memoranda are originals authored by Knapp and annotated and sent back by the President. There are also copies of records addressed to McNamara by other staff and copies of minutes of the President's Council or other meetings with the President. The memoranda to the President focus on IBRD and IDA lending programs, papers on financial and lending policy, loan overruns, and other particular loan issues.
Knapp records also include a set of briefs for the 1972 Annual Meeting. The briefs contain briefing memoranda and reports on the politico-economic situation and the Bank's lending program in individual member countries. In preparation for scheduled meetings between the Bank President and the delegations of membercountries, the briefs provide a summarized background for the meeting, talking points for the President, summaries of subjects likely to be raised by the delegation, and a list of delegates. Filed with some of the briefs are related Country Program Papers (CPP). In addition to briefs for individual countries, filed at the beginning of the series are briefs on the African and Latin American Caucuses, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the European Investment Bank (EIB).
Records of OPNSV Moeen Qureshi
The fonds also includes records maintained by Senior Vice President of Operations (OPNSV) Moeen Qureshi. The records consist of briefing materials prepared for Qureshi from 1987 to 1991. Briefings cover his foreign travel and any formal meetings he attended in New York or Washington, DC. In addition, there are records for his August 17 - September 8, 1984, trip to London, Pakistan, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan. A typical briefing file contains: Qureshi's itinerary and schedule; biographies of people with whom he would be meeting; outlines, drafts, and copies of speeches he delivered; press releases; correspondence; conference agenda and programs; and background papers regarding the Bank's relationship with the countries visited.
Joint IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting briefs prepared for Qureshi are also included for the years 1988 to 1990. The briefs consist of a separate folder for each day of the Annual Meeting. A typical folder contains Qureshi's schedule for that day and a sub-folder for each event he was scheduled to attend. The briefs also include: lists of delegates attending each event; agenda for meetings; Annual Meeting briefs for each country whose delegation met with Qureshi; talking points for and copies of speeches for Qureshi or President Barber Conable; copies of Conable's schedule for the day; and seating charts.
Qureshi's records also include materials concerning the 1987 Bank-wide reorganization from 1986 to 1989. The records consist of: memoranda exchanged between Conable, Qureshi and members of the Operations Complex regarding implementation of the reorganization plan and specific staff appointments; copies of memoranda from Conable updating Bank staff on the reorganization; records outlining interim personnel procedures; Steering Committee issuances regarding staff selection, redeployment, and redundancy; copies of letters from Conable to specific staff affected by the reorganization; Bank press releases; the Support Unit Task Force Report; and studies completed by an external management consulting firm. Much of the records concern implementation of the reorganization within the Operations Complex. Specific records focus on the Operations Task Force Report, which includes: comments from staff regarding that report; draft position descriptions; and memoranda regarding the staff selection and allocation process.
The Qureshi records also contain records related to country lending operations from 1987 to 1991. The records consist of memoranda, letters, cables, reports, studies, and minutes of meetings regarding the Bank's lending policies in specific countries or, in the case of donor countries, aid coordination. The records also include briefing papers prepared for Qureshi and/or President Conable prior to meetings with country representatives, agenda and minutes of meetings of Qureshi or Conable with country representatives, minutes of meetings of Bank Executive Directors, and Bank mission reports. Much of the records include Qureshi's annotations. Issues discussed in the correspondence include technical assistance, economic reforms, environmental impact of Bank policies, political events in a country and their implication for Bank loans and operations, and special grants in response to natural disasters.
Lastly, incoming and outgoing correspondence and memoranda between Qureshi, the OPNSV Front Office Staff, and members of the Operations Complex are included for the years 1987 to 1989.
Records of Special Assistant Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The fonds also includes records maintained by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala when she served as Special Assistant to the Senior Vice President of Operations (OPNSV) Moeen Qureshi. This includes records maintained by Okonjo-Iweala related to major borrowing countries from 1987 to 1991. These records consist mostly of copies of correspondence and reports on lending operations and recent developments in borrowing countries. Background materials and reports of meetings held between Bank officials and official representatives of the borrowing countries are also included. County Strategy Papers (CSP) are found in some records. Among the most discussed lending issues are structural adjustment, privatization, technical assistance, and late payments. Some of the records contain Okonjo-Iweala's correspondence with the staff from the Regional Vice Presidencies (RVPs) officials, her handwritten and typed notes to Qureshi on lending issues, and her handwritten notes taken at meetings she attended.
Okonjo-Iweala records also consist of business plans for the OperationsComplex from 1989 to 1991. The records consist of internal memoranda and reports detailing planned lending expenditures for FY 1991 to 1993 and FY 1992 to 1994. The business plans are broken down by Region, therein by country and sector with reference to the Bank's country lending strategies. Breakdowns on IBRD versus IDA lending are also given. The business plans are heavily annotated by Okonjo-Iweala.
Okonjo-Iweala records also include memoranda, reports, and correspondence on a variety of operational and administrative matters relating to the functions of the OPNSV from 1989 to 1991. Records related to operational matters include records related to the following topics: cofinancing; private sector development; the IDA Ninth Replenishment; the Gulf crisis; and the Bank's interaction with international organizations. Records related to administrative matters include: preparation for the 1990 Annual Meeting; records related to a Senior Operations mangers' retreat; and records related to pay, annual leave,the staff retirement plan, and actions regarding specific staff members. Filed under "Front Office" are also records regarding administrative matters of security, document formats, and the United Way Campaign. There are also records containing briefing notes for trips undertaken or meetings attended by Qureshi.
Okonjo-Iweala records also includes materials maintained for the Operations Committee (OC) from 1989 to 1991. Arranged by country, most of the records include: Okonjo-Iweala's copies of formal minutes of the OC meetings; her handwritten notes taken when she attended the OC meetings; and postscripts on discussions of Country Strategy Papers (CSP) by the OC. Included with the minutes are copies of CSPs, Initiating Memoranda, and reports and recommendations accompanying requests for loans and credits submitted by the country to the OC. Some draft CSPs submitted to Okonjo-Iweala are annotated with her comments.
Lastly, Okonjo-Iweala records include internal memoranda, correspondence, and reports from 1990, which were primarily sent between her, the OPNSV Moeen Qureshi, the OPNSV Front Office Staff, and members of the Operations Complex.
Records of Senior Adviser, Lending and Budget Operations, Cosmas Linus Robless
The fonds also includes records of Cosmas Linus Robless, who served as Senior Advisor for Lending and Budget Operations to OPNSV Moeen Qureshi, from 1987 to 1991. Records include subject files consisting of: memoranda; correspondence; reports; position papers; and guidelines regarding Operations Complex programs and policies. Other records focus on the topics of: annual sector reviews; the Field Offices Task Force; overdue service payments; the Bank's response to the Gulf Crisis; graduation from the Bank; and program goals for the Operations Complex. Correspondence, memoranda, and reports sent and received by Robless are also included.
Robless records also consist of materials related to the Ad Hoc Committee on Board Procedures from 1990 to 1991, which sought to improve bank procedures performed by the Bank's Executive Directors (ED) for reviewing country assistance strategies and policy formulation in Bank operations. The records include: correspondence and memoranda; meeting minutes of the Ad Hoc Committee; draft Ad Hoc Committee reports prepared for the EDs; terms of reference prepared for EDs; and work programs prepared for the EDs for consideration.
Lastly, his records also include copies of Country Strategy Paper (CSP) postscripts prepared for the Operations Committee (OC) from 1991. The CSP postscripts summarize the review, and subsequent actions taken by the OC for a particular CSP.
Front office adviser records
The fonds also includes records maintained by various advisers who served in the Front Office for SVPOP Ernest Stern and his successor OPNSV Moeen Qureshi from 1979 to 1989. The front office records reflect the activities of the SVPOP/OPNSV. The records include: SVPOP yellow sheets, or handwritten project lending notes; decision memoranda and comments prepared by advisers on behalf of the SVPOP for the Loan Committee; Loan Committee log book prepared by advisers; board papers, briefs, and schedules prepared for meetings with the Executive Board of Directors; memoranda regarding Project Completion Reports (PCR) submitted to OPNSV from the Central Operations Department (COD); memoranda regarding Women in Development (WID) country assessments submitted to the OPNSV from the Economic Advisory Staff (EAS); working papers submitted to OPNSV from the Policy, Planning, and Research (PPR) Complex for review; standard budget tables submitted to SVPOP from the Division Chief of the Planning and Budget Department (PBD); and memoranda, budget reports, and other records related to liaison with United Nations cooperative programs.
Communications and Meetings with Area Department Heads (later Operational Vice Presidents)
The fonds includes memoranda address by Ernest Stern as (Vice President (1978-1980) and Senior Vice President (1980-1987) of Operations to the Operational/Regional Vice Presidents. Topics of memoranada include lending policies, programming, and lending activities.
The fonds also includes memoranda and minutes from the weekly meetings of the Area Department Heads and its replacement of the Operational Vice Presidents (OVP, renamed after 1972 Reorganization) from 1968 to 1986. The records dated from 1968 to 1978 were maintained by J. Burke Knapp when he served as Chairman for the Area Department Heads and the OVP as the Vice President of Operations and SVPOP. The recordsdated 1979 to 1986 are maintained by Vice President of Operations (VPO) and SVPOP Ernest Stern.
Country lending and strategy records
The fonds also includes records related to the Bank's country lending operations from 1981 to 1991. Records were maintained by Senior Adviser for Lending and Budget Operations Cosmas L. Robless, and OPNMS Senior Programming Officers Larry Smucker and Manuel Benedito. The records include: lending review records focused on lending projects in the Regions for the fiscal years 1982 to 1983 and 1988 to 1994; lending program status records and reports focused on reporting lending project status to the Bank's Board of Executive Directors; records related to lending allocations for IBRD/IDA loans; records related to the Five Year Lending Program, 1984-1989; records related to the IDA Ninth Replenishment for lending operations; and Country Briefs prepared for various countries in the Regions from 1985 and 1987, which outlined an economic profile of a country, lending programming, and reform actions taken.
Budget formulation and review records
The fonds also includes records related to budget formulation and budget review functions performed by the Office of the Management Systems and Budget (SVPMS) and its successor of the Office of the Management Systems and Budget (OPNMS) within the SVPOP/OPNSV Front Office from 1985 to 1992. The records were primarily maintained by the Senior Budget Officers of SVPMS/OPNMS, and the Senior Adviser for Lending and Budget Operations, Cosmas LinusRobless. The records focus primarily on budget formulation and review for Bank units belonging to the Operations Complex. The budget formulation records include: budget correspondence and memoranda; Operations Complex budget distribution and salary reports; Operations Complex budget proposals; Operations Complex capital budget; budget officers meeting minutes; budget submissions sent to the SVPOP/OPNSV related to the Operations Complex; staffing and consulting budgets; budget calendars and booklets prepared by the SVPMS/OPNMS; budget framework papers; business plans, work programs, budget plans, and budget contracts drafted for the Regional Vice Presidencies for fiscal years 1986 to 1995; and business plans, budget plans, work programs, and staffing records related to the vice presidencies and departments of Operations Complex for the fiscal years 1987 to 1991.
Budget plans and staffing records are also included for OVPMS/SVPMS, and for the SVPOP/OPNSV Front Office. Work program and budget reports are also included for the Management Information System (MIS) of the Operations Information Systems (SVPMI/OPNMI) Unit, and its successor Operations Information Services Division (OPNIS) of the SVPOP/OPNSV Front Office from 1985 to 1989.
Budget review records include: monthly status budget reports for the Operations Complex; reimbursement reports; mid-term perspective reports; quarterly, mid-year, third quarter, and retrospective review records for the Operations Complex for the fiscal years 1988 to 1992; and Operations Complex final expense reports.
Operations information management
The fonds also includes records related to the Operations Information Committee (OIC) from 1987 to 1990. The Operations Information Committee (OIC) was established in November 1987 to develop "Complex-wide strategies, plans, policies and investments in information and information technology which would...coordinate the management of information and information technology activities within or affecting the Operations Complex." Therecords include agenda and minutes of OIC meetings and documents and memoranda forwarded to Committee members. Also contained in the records are some minutes of meetings of the Information and Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC) and records related to the FY 90 work program of the Operation Information Services Division (OPNIS). The records are maintained by OIC Chairman Heinz Vergin, who served as the Operations Staff (OPN) Director at the time.
Transportation, telecommunication, water, and urban development records
The fonds also includes operations policy, project support records, and liaison records related to the sector departments of the: Transportation, Water, and Telecommunications Department (TWT); the Urban Projects Department (URB); the Water and Urban Development Department (WUD); and the Transportation Department (TRP) from 1975 to 1986.
Fonds consists of Sidney Chernick's chronological files from his time in numerous World Bank departments, including: the Policy, Planning and Program Review Department (PPPRD); Country Policy Department (CPD); South Asia Country Programs Department (ASADR); and the Economic Development Institute (EDI). Chronological files contain few gaps and appear to have functioned as Chernick's personal record of outgoing correspondence.
Chernick, Sidney E.
Robert W. Oliver Collection on George D. Woods
WB IBRD/IDA WOODS
The collection includes copies of the oral interviews Oliver conducted in preparing his biography and copies of a portion of the Woods papers that he had at his disposal when writing the biography. It also contains the clippings files that George Woods maintained during his failed attempt to become the head of the Agency for International Development in 1961 and his successful appointment as head of the World Bank in 1962. Original photographs of George and Louise Woods and copies of photographs from various sources, including the World Bank, are included. The copy photographs were made for reproduction in Oliver's biography of George Woods, and many are annotated by Oliver. A small quantity of memorabilia and published materials relating to both George D. and Louise Woods is included.
Robert W. Oliver Collection on George W. Woods
Records of the World Bank Institute
WB IBRD/IDA WBI
The fonds consists of records related to the activities of the World Bank Institute (WBI, previously the Economics Development Institute [EDI]). Records in this fonds most commonly relate to the training and programming offered by the WBI. Topics of WBI training classes, programs, seminars and other events are generally aligned with the Bank's networks and sectors; these include, for example, training courses related to the environment, health, social protection, education, etc. Other training programs represented in these records include: Women Entrepreneurship Development (WED); Women's Management Training Outreach Program (WMTOP); Women in Enterprise Management Training Outreach Program (WEMTOP); Portuguese Speaking African Countries (PALOP); South Pacific Development Management Program (SPDMP); UNEDIL (UNDP/EDI/ILO program for Strengthening African Management Institutions in Africa); Agricultural Management Training in Africa (AMTA); Agricultural Rural Development Network (ARDNET); Gender and Developing Training Programme (GAD); and the Social Policy Reform in Transition Economies (SPRITE). Also included are records related to: programs organized in cooperation with the Joint Vienna Institute; the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID); Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Prior to 1994, the EDI division responsible for a training activity would, at the conclusion of the project, create a 'Master' training file. This consists of the records considered to be the essential products of the training unit. Included in these files are: terms of reference; seminar/training course programs and agendas; data on participants, including participants' registration questionnaires; activity briefs; activity completion reports; and final reports. After 1994, divisions and units sent master copies to the Internal Documents Unit (IDU) and the Infoshop for public dissemination and, consequently, no longer maintained these types of files.
The fonds contains a variety of other records related to training programs organized by WBI/EDI or in cooperation with other agencies and institutions. Records from these programs may include, but are not limited to: participants lists; activity briefs; timetables; agendas; administrative arrangements; budget information; strategic plans; mission statements; descriptions of functional responsibilities; terms of reference; program goals; structure and management records; periodic reports; policy papers; substantive correspondence; chronological files; Memoranda of Understanding; liaison reports; background information on organizations; Back-to-Office reports; and aide memoires. Program evaluation studies and impact evaluations of specific EDI programs are also included. Studies may involve use of questionnaires or site visits, and may be conducted by EDI or by cofinancing partners or external agencies.
Records relating to a program organized and provided by EDI for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to strengthen the participation of [NGOs] in the planning and execution of development policies/programs are also included. Records related to this program take the form of the training program records described previously.
Records of the African Virtual University (AVU) are also included. Records relate to: learning centers; content providers; satellite service providers; researchers; the digital virtual library; the language laboratory; accreditation; conferences, seminars, and forums. Also included are: AVUboard documents; legal documents; commitment summary reports; trust fund and budget reports; and course-related materials like those described above.
Records related to seminars organized and presented by EDI in the 1990s are included in this fonds. These include: seminar proposals; aide memoires; summary sheets; activity briefs; lists of resources and participants; evaluation reports; course curriculum; Back-to-Office reports; general correspondence; and final versions of program materials that were distributed to participants. A small amount of records relating to EDI's Senior Policy Seminars in the late 1980s are also included.
The fonds also consists of divisional and departmental work program and budget records. Divisional work program and budget records from the early to mid-1990s include: budgets; payments and expenditures; budget reviews; trust fund letters of agreement; budget and cofinancing allocation; accrual payment reports; and regional and topical work programs. The fonds also includes retrospective, quarterly, and mid-year work program and budget reviews from 1985 to 1992, as well as records related to the Institute's periodic reorganizations.
Also included in this fonds are a variety of records related to cofinancing of EDI/WBI projects and programs; these records are from the late 1980s through the 1990s. Included are fact sheets summarizing training activities undertaken in developing countries through cofinancing. These consist of: program statements; correspondence; progress reports; Summary Activity Briefs; evidence of expenditures; and related materials. The fonds also consists of correspondence with governments and international agencies regarding their commitments or intentions to participate as cofinancer or Trust Fund provider for activities/programs conducted by EDI. These records include: summaries of coordination meetings; copies of original legal agreements; copies of initiating briefs; and correspondence, reports, memos, etc., concerning expenses and the release of monies.
Thefonds also includes liaison records between EDI and various states, agencies, institutions, and international organizations. These records were created at both the divisional and departmental level and primarily take the form of correspondence. Funding, programming, and information exchange are the most common topics discussed.
The fonds contains records related to the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program and the McNamara Fellowship Program. Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program records primarily include scholars' information (applications, reference letters, etc.) from the late 1990s through the mid 2000s. However, Steering Committee records from its inception (1987 to 1991) and Annual Reports and Director of Scholars (1990 to 1993) are also included. Records related to the McNamara Fellowship Program are similar. Records include: applicant correspondence and reference letters; applicant proposals; letters of award; payment information; quarterly progress reports; and final reports. McNamara Fellowship budget records from 1983 to 1989 relate to: scholars' tuition; travel expenses; subsistence allowances; insurance costs; and other records related to the administration of the Fellowship. An Annual Report for 1989 is included.
A variety of EDI/WBI network/departmental and divisional chronological and subject files are included in this fonds. Records include: WBIVP chronological files (2000 to 2005) and meeting files (2001 to 2003); EDI Directors' chronological files (Amnon Golan [1990 to 1994], Alexander Ter Weele [1991 to 1996] and Vinod Thomas [1995 to 1999]); Coordination and Development Administration Division (EDICD) Chief Robert Lacey (1988 to 1992); Regional Capacity Enhancement (WBIRC) Director Michael Sarvis (2003 to 2004); Joint Vienna Institute (1995 to 1998) subject files; and small amounts of EDI regional coordinators', researchers', and consultants' chronological files.
The fonds contains a variety of the Institute's publications. These include: copies of EDI Bulletins from the 1980s and 1990s; the EDI Preliminary Prospectus (1955); EDI booklets and pamphlets from the 1950s to the 1970s; copies of Selected Readings and Source Materials on Economic Development published by EDI (1963/64 and 1965/66); EDI Curricula of Courses publications (1968 to 1976); and EDI Directory of Fellows (various years, 1967 to 1980).
Records related to the Development Education Program (DEP) are included as well. The DEP, formerly the Schools Program, was begun in the late 1970s with the objective of producing and marketing education materials about economic development for secondary schools in the U.S. and other countries. Records include: published materials based on DEP materials; catalogues; marketing and outreach materials; budget and human resource records; program records; and chronological records.
The fonds also contains briefing books prepared for the WBI Vice President by WBI staff for the years 2001 to 2003. A small number of briefing books prepared for Bank President Wolfowitz (2006 to 2007) are also included.
Finally, the fonds contains records created from the early-1950s through 1968 that relate to the origins of the Institute and its early operation. These records include chronological files from 1952 to 1968 that contain correspondence between the Bank and academics, civil servants, politicians, institutions, agencies, and others. Minutes of the Bank's Staff Loan Committee that relate to EDI's creation and its early operation are also included in these files as are proposals, planning, and budget records for the creation of the EDI. Topics of other records include: EDI's library project; administration of the Institute; funding of the Institute by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations; public relations; reports to the Bank Board; reviews of the Institute; EDI Advisory Board meeting minutes; and travel. Also included are anniversary publications and transcripts of interviews of prominent EDI administrators and instructors conducted in the mid-1980s.
World Bank Institute
Records of the Private Sector Development and Infrastructure Vice Presidency
The fonds includes budget, business plan, and work program records from the Private Sector Development Department (PSD) units mapped into PSIVP in 1999, and similar records for PSD's successor of the Private Sector Advisory Services (PSAS).
Private Sector Development and Infrastructure Vice Presidency
This fonds has been provisionally arranged into one sub-fonds and five series. Sub-headings are used to break up the content of this field according to provisional sub-fonds and series. For a complete list of the provisional sub-fonds and series, see the "Systems of Arrangement" field below.
Office of the Strategy and Resource Management Vice Presidency (SRMVP) records (sub-fonds)
Sub-fonds contains the records of the Office of the Strategy and Resource Management Vice Presidency (SRMVP) created during its existence from 1997 to 2003. The SRMVP was led first by Mark Baird from 1997 to 1999 and then by Anil Sood from 1999 to 2003. The SRMVP oversaw units responsible for the planning and budgeting function as well as support of the Strategic Compact review. Included are records related to the formulation, approval, and subsequent assessment of the Strategic Compact. Records take the form of correspondence, reports, weekly and monthly meeting minutes and agendas, and materials from presentations on the Compact made to internal and external audiences. Sub-fonds also consists of program support files of the SRMVP which document other unique activities of the Vice Presidency. Activities evidenced in these records include: cost effectiveness reviews; strategic staffing; matrix management; Bank-wide programming and budgeting; and auditing. Subject files created and maintained by the Office of the Vice President are also contained in this sub-fonds. Topics include: performance indicators; human resources and personnel issues; corruption; partnerships; non-governmental organizations (NGOs); budgeting; the Strategic Forum; and the Bank's budgeting activities. Records also contain correspondence with Bank President Wolfensohn, Managing Directors, and other senior staff and external individuals. Meeting minutes and speeches are also included.
Series contains records related to the financial policy function of the Bank. Activities supporting this function include: analysis of both the Bank's financial position and the international financial environment; and development and recommendation of policies, programs, and strategies that enable access to finances by the Bank and its borrowers. Records include a compendium of financial policies and a list of principal references and copies of key reference documents. Other correspondence, memoranda, and reports relate to the analysis of the Bank's financial position and specifically to management of Bank capital and IBRD subscription. Specific topics include: past policies regarding reserve targets; the financial structure and operations of IBRD; cost competitiveness of the Bank; overview of changes in IBRD financial policies; review of IBRD lending rate policy; review of IBRD income prospects and policies; review of IBRD/IDA programs and financial policies; variable lending rates; currency pooling; liquidity policy; investment guidelines; and capital subscription.
Also included are the records of the Asset Liability Management Committee (ALMC) which makes recommendations in the areas of financial policy, the adequacy and allocation of risk capital, and oversight of financial reporting. Records of ALMC's two subcommittees, the Market Risk and Currency Management Subcommittee and the Credit Risk Subcommittee, are also included in this series.
Records related to the development and review of lending policies are also included. Specifically, these policies relate to member country eligibility criteria, commitments, disbursements, loan income, and loan portfolio. Records are in the form of subject files. Topics include: currency management; currency composition of loans; lending rates; prepayments; country credit risk exposure; debt restructuring and negotiations; interest rate swaps; repayment terms; cofinancing operations; and single currency loans. Records also relate to development and review of financial risk policy. Specifically these include interest rate risk, exchange rate risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, borrowing risk, and others. Records may include policies on the subject as well as correspondence, memoranda, and other background material related to the policy.
Series also contains records related to financial models and projections used to develop and review various financial policies related to Bank Group lending, borrowing, risk management, asset management, and other activities.
Series also includes a small number of speeches and presentation materials produced and/or presented by financial policy staff when reporting to the Bank's regions, senior management and Executive Directors.
Country Creditworthiness and Program Review
Series contains records related to country creditworthiness review and the credit risk inherent in IBRD's loan portfolio. Activities involve managing credit risk at both the individual country level and the portfolio level that directly affects the lending volumes IBRD may be willing to extend to its borrowers. Records relate to topics such as: debt management and reporting; export credits; Berne Union meetings; developments in portfolio credit quality; and loan loss provisioning requirements. Series also contains external debt studies done by the Budget and Planning Department's Financial Studies Division (PABFS) in conjunction with the International Finance Division of the Economic Projections and Analysis Department (EPDIF) in the 1970s. Series contains annual country risk assessments, final creditworthiness reports, portfolio reviews, and any essential information related to these. Periodic reports, forecasts, and summarydiscussion memoranda are also included as are records of the Short Term Risk Management Group which was responsible for informing senior management about economic and political developments in countries that are at risk of falling into crisis or are of systematic regional importance for Bank member countries. A set of historical debt case files primarily from the 1960s and early 1970s used for reference purposes are also included as are a set of debt rescheduling case files dating from 1967 to 1976.
Country program review activities consist of the review, analysis, and coordination of Country Program Papers (CPPs). Specifically, units within the Planning and Budget Department and its successors were responsible for: measuring the size and composition of the country program proposed to the account constraints on the volume of IBRD and IDA lending; evaluating country creditworthiness and the Bank's exposure to risk; and determining the feasibility and appropriateness of the country program in terms of the country's ability to prepare and implement the projects. Activities include: establishing guidelines for the form and content of CPPs; selective participation in the preparation of CPPs in the form of working level reviews; participating selectively in Regional Vice President review meetings; and review final CPPs. Records related to these activities include copies of CPPs as well as the successor of CPPs, Country Assistance Strategy Papers (CAS); a complete set of CPPs from their introduction in 1968 through1987 are included. Also included are lending program files that supported the review of CPPs. Records include memoranda, reports, statistical tables, spreadsheets, Lending Program Monthly Status Reports, and Lending Operations Monthly Reports relating to the analysis and review of country lending. General lending files of PAB's Country Program Review Division (PABCP) and its predecessor the Program and Operations Review Division (PABPO) are also contained in this series. Subjects include: commercial bank lending, IDA allocations, disbursements, local cost financing, and creditworthiness. Document types include reports, statistical tables, and spreadsheets. Sector files of the Planning and Budgeting Department's Country Program Review Divisions (PABCP) are also contained in this series. These include reviews of economic sector work (ESW) performed in the regions and in the Central Projects Staff (CPS). Records include memoranda, statistical tables, and spreadsheets as well copies of reports from the Operations and Development Policy complexes that PABCP reviewed. Many of the records related to CPP review, general lending, and sector review contain annotations, handwritten notes, and calculations.
Institutional Planning
Series contains records related to organizational effectiveness review, Bank reorganizations, and long term institutional planning. Series includes records created and maintained by the Planning and Budgeting Department's Institutional Planning Division (PBDIP) in the mid-1980s that supportedthe "Future Role of the Bank" exercise which sought to determine the direction of the Bank by examining issues such as trade and capital flows, the Bank's competitiveness, and the Bank's leadership role in research and aid coordination. Records include numerous studies and reports that were disseminated among Bank stuff and submitted to the Board. Topics relate to capital management, IDA replenishment, the Bank's role in the 1990s, Bank/Fund collaboration, staffing, and competitiveness. In addition to final versions of studies and reports, records include report drafts, comments on drafts, memoranda and correspondence, and small amounts of reference material. Also included are the files of Joseph D. Woods that relate to the "Future Role of the Bank" exercise. As Vice President of the Financial Policy, Planning and Budgeting Vice Presidency from 1983 to 1987, Woods had a leading role in the exercise.
Also included in this series are records relating to other committees and task forces that focused on institutional planning from a financial policy perspective. The majority of the records relate to the 1987 Bank-wide reorganization and the Strategic Compact review that took place between 1997 and 1999. The series is comprised of the proceedings of the committee/task force meetings in which units responsible for financial policy, planning, and budgeting activities within the Bank participated in management reviews or in support of relevant institutional committee/task force either as the secretariat or as a member. Records include: terms of reference (TOR); agendas and minutes of meetings; background papers; and related materials.
Budgeting Policy and Planning
Series contains records relating to budget policy development and planning activities. Records are primarily contained in subject files on various topics including: reorganization budgeting; the Special Grants Program; cofinancing and trust funds; project review and aid effectiveness; portfolio management; capital budget management; debt and debt restructuring; staffing; and annual lending reporting. Series also contains chronological files of staff in the Planning and Budgeting Department's Budget Planning and Systems (PBDPS) and Office of the Director (PBDDR) departments that relate to the same topics as subject files. Records of John Blaxall, Assistant Director in the Programming and Budgeting Department (1969-1973, 1976) are also included in this series. These records relate to his involvement in the development of the Bank's Five Year Program (1969-1973) as well as the writing of The Scale of IBRD Financial Operations, FY74-78 discussed at the Executive Directors Meetings in 1972 and Report of the Planning, Programming and Budgeting Working Group which was presented to the President's Council in 1977.
Bank-wide Budget Support and Review
Records in this series relate to the monitoring, evaluation and implementation of the Bank's planning and budgeting processes and the submission of budget materials to the Board for review and approval. The series includes records of the main document production cycle (including Planning Directions papers and budget documents) as well as monitoring, evaluation and implementation documents (including Retrospective Reviews, Midyear Reviews, Apex Reports, and Budget Management Manuals). Other budget documents contained in this series include: medium-term framework reports; business plans outlining units' work programs for the next three years; notes presenting Policy and Budgeting Department (PBD) analysis and recommendations; submissions from vice presidencies; analysis of retrospective reviews; requests for clarification/modification of issues in budget submissions; tables detailing expenditures by service categories; and draft reports, staff comments, tables, framework papers, and correspondence relating to Bank planning and budgeting activities. The series also includes: minutes of monthly budget meetings with clients; copies of contingency funding requests and responses to them; budget contract models; accruals overrun/underrun tables and memoranda; and other papers relating to dollar budgeting implementation.
The series contains a reference collection in the form of copies of summary information regarding the plans and budgets of the World Bank Group from 1949 to 1975. Specifically, these records consist of papers presented to the Board of Governors and Executive Directors regarding the administrative and operations budgets of the World Bank Group as well as related internal memoranda and tables.
Series also consists of subject files created by units responsible for budget support and review. Records served as analytical, statistical, historical, and background information for cross cycle activities related to Bank-wide programming, planning and budgeting processes. The series is comprised of correspondence and papers relating to: budget policies and procedures; service categories; organizational units' plans and budgets; object of expenditures; source of external funds; program objectives; capital budget; service category files (e.g. operational planning, borrowing/investment operations, loan administration, personnel, Special Grants Program); organizational unit budgeting (e.g. vice presidencies, administrative tribunal, appeals committee, ombudsman); source of external funds; program objectives (e.g. debt and adjustment, poverty reduction, human resources development, private sector development, public sector management, environment, and forestry); and capital budget.
Fonds consists of chronological files compiled by McCarthy that cover nearly his entire career at the World Bank. Fonds also contains reports and articles authored by McCarthy in both draft and published form as well as records related to his attendance and participation in a number of conferences and working groups. Records related to his work for the Quality Assurance Group (QAG) in 2004 and 2005 are also included.
McCarthy, Desmond
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Dissection of a QTL Hotspot on Mouse Distal Chromosome 1 that Modulates Neurobehavioral Phenotypes and Gene Expression
Khyobeni Mozhui, Daniel C. Ciobanu, Thomas Schikorski, Xusheng Wang, et al
http://www.mendeley.com/research/dissection-qtl-hotspot-mouse-distal-chromosome-1-modulates-neurobehavioral-phenotypes-gene-expressio
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/452961", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/453360", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/453414", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/453430", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/453449", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/453462"], "description"=>"<div><p>A remarkably diverse set of traits maps to a region on mouse distal chromosome 1 (Chr 1) that corresponds to human Chr 1q21–q23. This region is highly enriched in quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that control neural and behavioral phenotypes, including motor behavior, escape latency, emotionality, seizure susceptibility (<em>Szs1</em>), and responses to ethanol, caffeine, pentobarbital, and haloperidol. This region also controls the expression of a remarkably large number of genes, including genes that are associated with some of the classical traits that map to distal Chr 1 (e.g., seizure susceptibility). Here, we ask whether this QTL-rich region on Chr 1 (<em>Qrr1</em>) consists of a single master locus or a mixture of linked, but functionally unrelated, QTLs. To answer this question and to evaluate candidate genes, we generated and analyzed several gene expression, haplotype, and sequence datasets. We exploited six complementary mouse crosses, and combed through 18 expression datasets to determine class membership of genes modulated by <em>Qrr1</em>. <em>Qrr1</em> can be broadly divided into a proximal part (<em>Qrr1p</em>) and a distal part (<em>Qrr1d</em>), each associated with the expression of distinct subsets of genes. <em>Qrr1d</em> controls RNA metabolism and protein synthesis, including the expression of ∼20 aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. <em>Qrr1d</em> contains a tRNA cluster, and this is a functionally pertinent candidate for the tRNA synthetases. <em>Rgs7</em> and <em>Fmn2</em> are other strong candidates in <em>Qrr1d</em>. FMN2 protein has pronounced expression in neurons, including in the dendrites, and deletion of <em>Fmn2</em> had a strong effect on the expression of few genes modulated by <em>Qrr1d</em>. Our analysis revealed a highly complex gene expression regulatory interval in <em>Qrr1</em>, composed of multiple loci modulating the expression of functionally cognate sets of genes.</p></div>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["dissection", "qtl", "hotspot", "distal", "chromosome", "modulates", "neurobehavioral", "phenotypes"], "article_id"=>149235, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.s001", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.s002", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.s003", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.s004", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.s005", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.s006"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/Dissection_of_a_QTL_Hotspot_on_Mouse_Distal_Chromosome_1_that_Modulates_Neurobehavioral_Phenotypes_and_Gene_Expression/149235", "title"=>"Dissection of a QTL Hotspot on Mouse Distal Chromosome 1 that Modulates Neurobehavioral Phenotypes and Gene Expression", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>4, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 02:33:55"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/915573"], "description"=>"<p>The charts illustrate the total number of <i>trans</i>-QTLs (LOD≥4) in <i>Qrr1</i> (shaded) and in other regions of the genome (non-shaded) in three datasets—BXD cerebellum, BXD hippocampus, and B6C3H F2 brain. The smaller charts represent the <i>trans</i>-QTLs in BXD hippocampus that are also detected in BXD cerebellum, and B6C3HF2 brain datasets. Out of the 101 <i>trans</i>-QTLs common to both BXD hippocampus and cerebellum, 64 are in <i>Qrr1</i> and the remaining 37 are located in other regions of the genome. The BXD hippocampus and B6C3HF2 brain datasets have 54 common <i>trans</i>-QTLs, and almost all (52 out of 54) are in <i>Qrr1</i>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["replicable", "trans-qtls"], "article_id"=>586023, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.g001"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Highly_replicable_trans_QTLs_in_Qrr1_/586023", "title"=>"Highly replicable trans-QTLs in <i>Qrr1</i>.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:40:23"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/915692"], "description"=>"<p>BXD8, BXD29, BXD62, BXD64, BXD68, and BXD84 have recombinations in <i>Qrr1</i>. <i>B</i> haplotype is assigned blue (−), <i>D</i> haplotype is assigned pink (+), and recombination regions are shown in grey. The <i>Qrr1</i> interval (in Mb scale) is shown above and approximate positions of recombination are highlighted (red). The recombinant strains collectively divide <i>Qrr1</i> into six segments (labeled 1–6), and provide six sets of informative markers. Markers are shown below and approximate positions of candidate genes (yellow bars) and tRNA clusters (orange triangles) are indicated.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["maps", "recombinant", "bxd"], "article_id"=>586144, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.g002"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Haplotype_maps_of_Qrr1_recombinant_BXD_strains_/586144", "title"=>"Haplotype maps of <i>Qrr1</i> recombinant BXD strains.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:42:24"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/915773"], "description"=>"<p>Mapping precision was empirically determined by measuring the distance between a <i>cis</i>-QTL peak and location of parent gene. <i>Cis</i>-QTLs in BXD Hippocampus Consortium, UMUTAffy Hippocampus, and Hamilton Eye datasets were used for this purpose. Mean gene-to-QTL peak distance (y-axis) was plotted as a function of LOD score (LOD score range on x-axis). Number of probe sets in each LOD range is shown. Mapping precision increases with increase in LOD score. The mean offset for <i>cis</i>-QTLs with LOD scores 3–4 (genome-wide adjusted p-value of 0.1–0.01) is 900 kb, and the offset decreases to 650 kb at 4–5 LOD scores (p-value of 0.01–0.001). <i>Cis</i>-QTLs with LOD scores greater than 11 (p-value<10<sup>−6</sup>) have mean offset of only 450 kb.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["precision"], "article_id"=>586231, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.g003"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_QTL_mapping_precision_in_Qrr1_/586231", "title"=>"QTL mapping precision in <i>Qrr1</i>.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:43:51"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/915882"], "description"=>"<p>Expression of <i>Atp5j2</i>, <i>Cplx2</i>, and <i>Nars</i> are modulated by <i>trans</i>-QTLs in <i>Qrr1</i> (blue plot). <i>D</i> allele has the positive additive effect (green plot; allele effect scale shown on the right) on the expression of <i>Atp5j2</i> and <i>Cplx2</i>; peak LOD scores are on markers near candidate genes <i>Ndufs2</i> and <i>Kcnj10</i>. <i>B</i> allele has the positive additive effect (red plot) on the expression of <i>Nars</i>; peak LOD score is on markers near candidate gene <i>Fmn2</i>. The horizontal lines indicate the genome-wide significant thresholds (<i>p</i>-value = 0.05). Yellow seismograph tracks the SNP density between <i>B</i> and <i>D</i> alleles. Affymetrix probe set ID for each transcript in the BXD hippocampus dataset is shown.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["genetics and genomics", "genetics and genomics/animal genetics", "genetics and genomics/bioinformatics", "genetics and genomics/complex traits", "genetics and genomics/functional genomics", "genetics and genomics/gene expression", "genetics and genomics/genomics"], "article_id"=>586329, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.g004"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Segregation_of_trans_QTLs_in_Qrr1_/586329", "title"=>"Segregation of <i>trans</i>-QTLs in <i>Qrr1</i>.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:45:29"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/916025"], "description"=>"<p>Transcripts of <i>Gars</i>, <i>Cars</i>, <i>Nars</i>, <i>Mars</i>, and <i>Yars</i> map as <i>trans</i>-QTLs to <i>Qrr1</i> at LOD>4 (genome-wide <i>p</i>-value<0.01) in the BXD hippocampus dataset. The <i>trans</i>-QTLs have peak LOD precisely on markers in distal part of <i>Qrr1</i>, ∼175–177.5 Mb (shaded regions). Yellow seismograph on Chr 1 (x-axis) tracks SNP density between B and D alleles. Affymetrix probe set ID for each transcript is shown.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["aminoacyl-trna", "synthetases", "distal"], "article_id"=>586477, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.g005"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_QTL_for_aminoacyl_tRNA_synthetases_in_distal_Qrr1_/586477", "title"=>"QTL for aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in distal <i>Qrr1</i>.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:47:57"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/916107"], "description"=>"<p>SNPs in <i>Qrr1</i> were counted for (A) C57BL/6J (B6)×DBA/2J (D2), (B) B6×BALB/cBy (BALB), (C) B6×C3H/HeJ (C3H), and (D) ILS×ISS. The SNP distribution profiles were generated by plotting the number of SNPs in 250 kb bins. Vertical red lines mark the approximate positions of recombination (corresponds to <a href=\"http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260#pgen-1000260-g002\" target=\"_blank\">figure 2</a>). Region covered by <i>Qrr1p</i> (horizontal line), candidate genes in <i>Qrr1d</i> (yellow bars), and position of tRNA clusters (triangles) are shown above the graphs. The B6×D2, B6×BALB, and B6×C3H crosses have moderate to high SNP counts throughout <i>Qrr1</i>. In the ILSxISS cross, <i>Qrr1p</i> is relatively SNP-rich but <i>Qrr1d</i> is SNP-sparse.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["genetics and genomics", "genetics and genomics/animal genetics", "genetics and genomics/bioinformatics", "genetics and genomics/complex traits", "genetics and genomics/functional genomics", "genetics and genomics/gene expression", "genetics and genomics/genomics"], "article_id"=>586557, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.g006"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_SNP_comparison_between_crosses_/586557", "title"=>"SNP comparison between crosses.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:49:17"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/916209"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Neurons exhibited pronounced fine granular immunoreactivity for FMN2. The cell body had the strongest signal. The fine granular staining extended into apical and distal dendrites (arrows). Thin axon-like processes were also labeled (arrow head). (B) The fine granular staining is not detected in controls of sister cultures processed in parallel without the first antibody.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["fmn2", "hippocampal"], "article_id"=>586660, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.g007"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Expression_of_FMN2_protein_in_hippocampal_neurons_/586660", "title"=>"Expression of FMN2 protein in hippocampal neurons.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:51:00"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/916332"], "description"=>"<p>Candidate gene <i>Kcnj9</i> (A) has heavy expression in neurons. <i>Kcnj9</i> shows a regionally restricted expression in the hippocampus with intense labeling in dentate gyrus, strong labeling in CA1, and relatively weak labeling in CA2 and CA3. Candidate gene <i>Kcnj10</i> (B) has a more diffused pattern and expressed primarily in glial cells. There is almost no labeling for <i>Kcnj10</i> in the hippocampus. Transcripts of seizure-related genes, <i>Cacna1g</i> (C) and <i>Socs2</i> (D), have trans-QTLs in <i>Qrr1p</i>. Both genes show high expression in neurons. <i>Cacna1g</i> matches the expression of <i>Kcnj9</i> with strong labeling in dentate gyrus and CA1, and weak labeling in CA2 and CA3. <i>Socs2</i> complements the expression of <i>Kcnj9</i> and <i>Cacna1g</i> with intense labeling in CA2 and CA3. <i>In Situ</i> expression data are from the Allen Brain Atlas.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["patterns", "seizure", "genes"], "article_id"=>586785, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.g008"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Expression_patterns_of_seizure_related_genes_with_cis_and_trans_QTLs_in_Qrr1p_/586785", "title"=>"Expression patterns of seizure related genes with <i>cis</i>- and <i>trans</i>-QTLs in <i>Qrr1p</i>.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:53:05"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/916474"], "description"=>"<p>Classical QTLs on Chr 1 from 172–178 Mb; listed by approximate position from proximal to distal end (adapted from Mouse Genome Informatics).</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["qtls", "chr", "listed", "approximate", "proximal", "distal", "genome"], "article_id"=>586922, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.t001"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Classical_QTLs_on_Chr_1_from_172_8211_178_Mb_listed_by_approximate_position_from_proximal_to_distal_end_adapted_from_Mouse_Genome_Informatics_/586922", "title"=>"Classical QTLs on Chr 1 from 172–178 Mb; listed by approximate position from proximal to distal end (adapted from Mouse Genome Informatics).", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:55:22"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/916506"], "description"=>"a<p>Number of missense mutations between <i>B</i> and <i>D</i> alleles.</p>b<p>Mean expression signal of probe sets in BXD Hippocampus PDNN dataset; below 7 is considered to be below background.</p>c<p><i>Cis</i>-QTLs in BXD, B6C3HF2, CXB, and LXS crosses.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["genes"], "article_id"=>586962, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.t003"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Candidate_genes_in_Qrr1_/586962", "title"=>"Candidate genes in <i>Qrr1</i>.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:56:02"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/916543"], "description"=>"a<p>Number of RI strains or F2 mice.</p>b<p>Number of <i>cis</i>- and <i>trans</i>-QTLs in <i>Qrr1</i> at minimum LOD of 3; complete list of these transcripts can be retrieved from <a href=\"http://www.genenetwork\" target=\"_blank\">www.genenetwork</a> .org using search key “LRS = (15 500 Chr1 172 178)”.</p>c<p>Percent of <i>trans</i>-QTLs in <i>Qrr1</i> = [(number of <i>trans</i>-QTLs in <i>Qrr1</i>)/(total number of <i>trans</i>-QTLs in the whole genome)×100].</p>d<p>Percent of <i>cis</i>-QTLs in <i>Qrr1</i> = [(number of <i>cis</i>-QTLs in <i>Qrr1</i>)/(total number of <i>cis</i>-QTLs in the whole genome)×100].</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["qtls", "crosses"], "article_id"=>586999, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Khyobeni Mozhui", "Daniel C. Ciobanu", "Thomas Schikorski", "Xusheng Wang", "Lu Lu", "Robert W. Williams"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260.t002"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Expression_QTLs_in_Qrr1_in_different_crosses_and_tissues_/586999", "title"=>"Expression QTLs in <i>Qrr1</i> in different crosses and tissues.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2008-11-14 01:56:39"}
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University of Georgia - Terry College of Business 1999 — 2003
Izzy Maternity General ManagerIzzy MaternityFebruary 2008 - Present
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta 2003 - 2006
UPS 2003 - 2003
Hansell Roddenbery
Office Tenant Real Estate Specialist with proven success in lowering occupancy costs in Atlanta and throughout the US
MBA, International Management
Mercer University 1980 — 1984
BBA, Business Management
Cresa Atlanta 2002 - Present
U.S. Bison Co. 1998 - 2001
W.B. Roddenbery Co 1976 - 1995
Dean Foods 1992 - 1994
Sales, Contract Negotiation, Brokerage, Marketing, Real Estate Development, Leases, Competitive Analysis, Strategic Planning, Real Estate, Tenant Representation, CRM, Corporate Real Estate, Location Intelligence, Lease Negotiations, Due Diligence, Commercial Real Estate, Management
Hany Atalah ,MD
Macon, Georgia Area
Professor and Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive surgery at Coliseum Health System
Alexandria University 1987 — 1994
MD, Surgery
Benson Union High school 1985 — 1987
Coliseum Health System , HCA Inc. April 2011 - Present
University of Florida July 2008 - August 2010
University of Florida Department of Urology July 2008 - August 2010
Chesapeake Urology Associates/Continence Center 2005 - 2008
union memorial hospital January 2001 - September 2005
Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt August 1997 - July 1999
Alexandria medical school 1994 - 1997
Surgery, Medicine, Clinical Research, Healthcare, Hospitals, Medical Devices, Minimally Invasive..., Medical Education, Healthcare Management, Urology, General Surgery, Healthcare Information..., Board Certified, Surgeons, Pediatrics, Strategic Planning, EMR, Research, Robotic Surgery, Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Cancer, Treatment, Patient Safety, Robotics, Informatics, Public Health, Emergency Medicine, BLS, Fundraising, Physicians, Teaching, Laparoscopic Surgery, Physician Relations, EHR, Inpatient, Oncology, Clinical Trials, Transplant, Orthopedic, Ultrasound, Cardiology, ICU, ACLS, Healthcare Consulting
Harold Abraham, MBA, CPM
Rainbow International of Peachtree City
MBA, Management / Finance / Economics
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 2001 — 2005
B.S. in Professional Aeronautics, Minor in Business Administration
Falcon Aviation Academy 2003 — 2004
N/A, Flight
Dalfort Aircraft Tech 1993 — 1995
Aviation Maintenance Technology, General, Airframe, & Powerplant Technology
Rainbow International of Peachtree City August 2011 - Present
Water, Fire and Smoke Restoration of Georgia, Ltd. July 2011 - Present
Delta Air Lines December 2008 - October 2011
Delta Air Lines June 2008 - December 2008
Delta Air Lines July 2007 - May 2008
Delta Air Lines March 2006 - June 2007
Delta Air Lines 2005 - March 2006
Atlantic Southeast Airlines March 2003 - June 2004
Water, Fire, Smoke and..., Fire Management, Aviation, Carpet Cleaning, Water Damage Restoration, Mold Remediation, Pricing Optimization, Pricing Analysis, Pricing Strategy, Pricing Systems, Revenue Enhancement, Revenue Analysis, Capacity Planning, Capacity Utilization, Analytics, Strategy Implementation, Cost-savings, Cost Reduction..., Cost Reduction Solutions, Rapid Revenue Growth, Marketing Strategy, Revenue Management, Project Planning, Entrepreneurship, Airports, Sales, Flights, Customer Service, Strategy, Leadership, Pricing, Mitigation, Time Management
Harold McManus
Independent Music Professional
Master of Science, Health Care Mangement
Indiana University Bloomington 1976 — 1979
Master of Music, organ
Bachelor of Music, Organ
St Joseph Catholic Church, Macon July 2005 - Present
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston September 1977 - December 1998
First Presbyterian Church of Houston August 1982 - December 1996
Piano, Pianist, Music Education, Music Theory, Chamber Music, Music, Composition
Harold Price
Director, Supply Chain Management at Self Regional Healthcare
MS, Healthcare Administration
Harry S. Keats
Florida Registered Paralegal at Richard J. Goldman, P.A.
BBA, Business Mgt. & Finance
Pine Crest School 1987 — 1988
Boca Raton Academy 1983 — 1987
Richard J. Goldman, P.A. January 1996 - Present
Liberty Mutual Insurance September 1992 - December 1995
Litigation, Trials, Personal Injury, Civil Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Legal Research, Product Liability, Wrongful Death, Personal Injury..., Legal Assistance, Paralegals, Courts, Westlaw, Depositions, Document Review, Hearings, Workers Compensation, Automobile Accidents, Employment Law, Claim, Insurance Law, Pleadings, Torts, Trial Practice, Mediation, Litigation Management, Litigation Support, Legal Discovery, Alternative Dispute..., Legal Writing, Workers' Compensation..., Client Profiles, Commercial Litigation, Arbitration, Legal Documents, Public Liability, Customer Service, Subrogation, Liability, Insurance
Harvey Gilbert
District Manager at Electrolux North America
Bachelor's degree, Business
Middle Georgia State College 1979 — 1981
Associate's degree, Business
Electrolux North America August 1983 - Present
Sales, Sales Management, Retail, Forecasting, Leadership, Inventory Management, Sales Operations, Team Building, Merchandising, Cross-functional Team...
Harwell, David
Knoxville, Tennessee Area
Sales at Lighting Trends
Hassan Omar, MBA
Finance & accounting professional
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Management Information Systems
Georgia Southern University 1997 — 1999
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Motorola Mobility / Lenovo 2014 - 2015
Namaste Laboratories 2011 - 2013
TBD Investing Company 2007 - 2011
The Coca-Cola Company 2003 - 2007
US Army October 1987 - November 1997
history January 1986 - February 1987
Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Reporting, Analysis, Corporate Finance, Business Planning, Investments, Management, Forecasting, Portfolio Management, Real Estate, Asset Management, Entrepreneurship, Accounting, Cash Flow, Managerial Finance, Financial Services, Internal Audit, Strategic Financial..., Auditing, Internal Controls, Project Management, Cash Management, Tax, Financial Risk, General Ledger, Executive Management, Account Reconciliation, Program Management, Variance Analysis
Hayden Williams
Engineering Manager at The Home Depot
MBA, Business
University of Colorado Colorado Springs 1996 — 2000
MS, Electrical Engineering
The Home Depot Electrical EngineerThe Home DepotJanuary 2005 - June 2007
Lockheed Martin June 2001 - December 2004
Hazle Hamilton
CAO at Community Foundation of Central Georgia
National Planned Giving Institute at the College of William & Mary
Community Foundation of Central Georgia August 2000 - Present
Accounting, Non-profits, Public Speaking, Fundraising, Microsoft Excel, Nonprofits, Financial Reporting, Management, Grants, Team Building, Public Relations, Leadership, Budgets, Event Planning, Leadership Development, Social Media, Organizational..., Non-profit..., Volunteer Management, Strategic Planning, QuickBooks, Training
H.B. (Hank) Highland, P.E.
Greater Denver Area
Sr Vice President at CH2M HILL
Thunderbird School of Global Management 2010 — 2010
Post Grad, International Management
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business 2000 — 2000
Post Grad, Executive MGMT
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business 1990 — 1992
EMBA, General Management
Grad School, Management
New Jersey Institute of Technology 1975 — 1980
BSME, Mechanical Engineering
CH2M HILL 2010 - Present
CH2M HILL June 2006 - December 2009
Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd June 1995 - June 2006
ABB Combustion Engineering (Alstom) January 1980 - May 1995
Contract Management, Business Development, Power Generation, Construction, EPC, Heavy Equipment, Project Management, Strategy, Construction Management, Engineering, Power Plants, Contract Negotiation, Talent Management, Strategic Partnerships, Energy, Management, Project Planning, Organizational..., Negotiation
Heath Catherine
Johnson City, Tennessee Area
Director of Marketing at Mountain States Health Alliance
Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration and Management, General and Psychology
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
BRMMC/Mountain States Health Alliance June 2007 - Present
The Coca-Cola Company August 1991 - 1998
Healthcare, Customer Service, Marketing Communications, Product Launch, Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategy, Budgets, Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Leadership, Physician Relations, Market Development, Healthcare Management, Marketing Management
Heather Evans
Sr. Manager, Leadership Capabilities at Sanofi
Healthcare Coaching Institute 2013 — 2014
Certified Coach, Coaching
MBA, Masters in Business Administration
Wesleyan College 1992 — 1994
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General
Sanofi June 2015 - Present
Sanofi December 2011 - Present
Sanofi-Aventis September 2007 - December 2011
Sanofi June 2007 - August 2008
Event Planning, Pharmaceutical Sales, Leadership Development..., Continous Improvement, Team Leadership, Change Management, Coaching, Fundraising, Event Management, Business Planning, Public Speaking, Sales Effectiveness, Team Building, Sales, Strategic Planning, Neurology, Cardiology, Healthcare, Business Strategy, Diabetes, Continuous Improvement, Pharmaceutical Industry, Product Launch, Leadership, Managed Care, Cross-functional Team..., Sales Management, Hospital Sales, Leadership Development, Strategy, Management, Account Management, Hospitals, Training, Market Access, Marketing Strategy, Sales Operations
Staff Accountant at Caterpillar Inc.
Masters of Accountancy / MBA
Bradley University 2004 — 2008
Bachelor, Accounting
Caterpillar Inc. June 2008 - Present
Caterpillar Inc. June 2008 - March 2009
Accounting, Accruals, Financial Reporting, General Ledger, Internal Controls, Financial Accounting, Auditing, GAAP, Account Reconciliation, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Accounts Payable, US GAAP, Financial Analysis
Heather Metcalf
Finance, Accounts Payable & Payroll Coordinator at Postal Fleet Services, Inc.
University of North Florida 2007 — 2011
Master of Business Administration, Finance
Bachelors of Business Administration, Finance
Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance
Postal Fleet Services, Inc. August 2011 - Present
University of Florida, Jacksonville Healthcare, Inc., Jacksonville Physicians, Inc. June 2011 - September 2011
Sandalwood High School September 2008 - June 2010
Englewood High School August 2008 - September 2008
Orange Park High School August 2005 - June 2006
CLAY COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD August 2003 - June 2006
Ridgeview High School August 2003 - April 2005
DUVAL COUNTY SCHOOL August 2002 - August 2003
Duval County Public Schools August 2001 - July 2002
Student at Mercer University Stetson School of Business and Economics
Spotify February 2013 - May 2013
Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Facebook, Social Networking, Digital Marketing, Advertising, Marketing Communications, OS X, Photoshop, Marketing, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Market Research, Marketing Strategy, Microsoft Excel, Marketing Research, Online Advertising, HTML, Team Leadership, Teamwork, Blogging
Heidi Park
Heidi Starnes
Independent Education Management Professional
MBA, International Business
UNC Chapel Hill
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies
Nokia Siemens Networks January 1998 - May 2003
Nortel Networks 1983 - 1998
Helen Spivak, MBA
Asset Manager at National Christian Foundation
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania 1982 — 1983
B.S., Accounting
Lehigh County Community College 1979 — 1981
Associates, Secretarial Science
National Christian Foundation May 2012 - Present
Wipro BPO January 2010 - December 2011
Alcatel-Lucent July 2006 - December 2009
Lucent Technologies November 2002 - July 2006
Lucent Technologies October 1997 - November 2002
AT&T 1995 - 1997
Team Leadership, Training Experience, Administration, Process Improvement, Team Building, Customer Service, Budgeting, Problem Solving, Customer Relations, Collections, Budgets, Program Management, Vendor Management, Analysis, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Telecommunications, Public Speaking, Accounting, Training, Project Management, Networking, Invoicing, Management, Account Reconciliation, SAP, Account Management, System Administration, Time Management, CRM, Coaching, Procurement
henriette harris
Greater New Orleans Area
Vice President at Capital One
BBA, General Business
de la salle 1980 — 1985
holy name 1970 — 1980
Henry Baxley
Norcross, Georgia
Director of Project Management at Cabinet Resources
BBA, Management
Cabinet Resources January 2007 - Present
Residential Design &..., Project Management, Manufacturing..., Lean Manufacturing, Process Improvement, Residential Homes, Cabinetry, Cross-functional Team..., Contract Management, Contract Negotiation, Procurement, Process Scheduler, Negotiation, Renovation, Construction, Contractors, Budgets, Sales
Henry Lie
Master's degree, Marketing, Magna Cum Laude
Feng Chia University 1991 — 1996
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering
Color Stone & Wood, Inc. June 2013 - July 2015
Color Stone & Wood, Inc. 2004 - 2013
Color Stone International 2002 - 2004
ASI Corporation 1998 - 2001
Product Development, Strategic Partnerships, Operations Management, Sales Management, Sales, New Business Development, Key Account Management, Account Management, Sales Operations, Management, B2B
Henry Whitfield
Director Cochran and Eastman Campuses at Middle Georgia State University
Georgia Southwestern College 1973 — 1974
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration
Georgia Southern College 1969 — 1973
Middle Georgia State University October 2014 - Present
Georgia Southern University August 2005 - February 2014
Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute October 2002 - September 2003
BellSouth Business, Inc. September 1998 - December 2001
BellSouth May 1990 - August 1998
Public Relations, Media Relations, Fundraising, Nonprofits, Higher Education, Public Speaking, Event Planning, Community Outreach, Government, Volunteer Management, Marketing, Management, Economic Development, Sales, Leadership
Herb Silver, PT, MBA, DSC, OCS, ECS
President, Senior Clinician at Sensible Wellness
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions 2001 — 2009
DSc, Physical Therapy/Electrophysiology
BA, BS, MBA, DSc (candidate), Physical therapy, health care, psychology, complementary medicine
Sensible Wellness March 2013 - Present
Mercer University January 2010 - Present
Velocity Spine and Sports January 1999 - July 2013
Orthopedics, Physical Therapy, Injury Prevention, Manual Therapy, Orthopedic, Rehabilitation, Shoulder, Wellness, Treatment, Wellbeing, Back Pain, Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, Clinical Research, Exercise Physiology, Fitness, Headaches, Healthcare, Holistic Health, Home Care, Injury, Knee, Musculoskeletal, Biomechanics, Sports, Sports Injuries, Sports Medicine, Strength Training
Herman Anderson
President of Black Veterans Helping Veterans Corp. Inc.
Savannah State College 1968 — 1972
BS, Electronic Engineering Technology
Black Veterans Helping Veterans March 2012 - Present
AARP 2005 - 2013
2006 Mutual Telecom Services, Inc July 2005 - September 2008
Comcast Communications, Inc January 2008 - July 2008
Anteon Corporation March 2004 - April 2005
Nicklas & Partner Engineering November 2002 - October 2003
Boeing Corp July 1996 - September 2002
Lucent Technologies January 1999 - January 2002
Telecommunications, Information Technology, Engineering, Program Management, Wireless, VoIP, Project Management, Transmission, Switches, Project Planning, Data Center, Security, Testing, Wireless Networking, Team Leadership, Training, Analysis, Team Management, Leadership, Management, Proposal Writing, Integration, Process Improvement, Nonprofits, Software Documentation, Cross-functional Team..., Networking, Vendor Management, System Administration, Visio, Team Building, PMP, Administration, Organizational..., Logistics, Leadership Development, Government, Change Management, Business Process..., Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Budgets, Strategic Planning, Fundraising, Business Development, Management Consulting, Employee Training, Microsoft Office, Business Analysis, Purchase Management
Hideto Kobayashi
Sr.Sales Representative at Marubeni Itochu Steel America Inc.
Marubeni Itochu Steel America Inc. July 2012 - Present
Novalux America Inc. November 2006 - July 2012
SteelSummit Tennessee March 2003 - November 2007
Purchasing, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management
Hillary Hanley
Senior Business Consultant at Succentrix Business Advisors, Inc.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Brenau University 2012 — 2014
Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration, Management and Operations
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General
University of North Georgia - Mike Cottrell College of Business
Associate’s Degree, Business Administration, Management and Operations
Succentrix Business Advisors, Inc. August 2015 - Present
Millenium Consulting March 2015 - August 2015
Forge Consulting September 2014 - March 2015
Field Service Engineering March 2013 - September 2014
Field Service Engineering September 2012 - March 2013
Strategic Planning, File Management, Data Recording, Customer Service, Hospitality Industry, Microsoft Office, Office Management, Quality Auditing, Quality Management, Lean Manufacturing, Hospitality, Root Cause Analysis, PPAP, APQP, Continuous Improvement, Automotive, Supplier Quality, FMEA, SPC, Quality Assurance, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Kaizen, ISO, Quality System, Purchasing, TS16949, Cross-functional Team..., Quality Control, Six Sigma, Kanban, Manufacturing..., Toyota Production System, Manufacturing..., Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Process Improvement, 5 Why, Product Quality, Injection Molding, Supply Management, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Customer Satisfaction, Supply Chain Management, TQM, Management, Poka Yoke, Iso 9000, Training
Hinna Ali
Mortgage Consultant at Capital Lending Group
Hinna Jamal, MBA
Financial Services Industry Specialist
Memphis Consumer Credit Association- Equifax Sales Agent September 2013 - Present
PNC- Acquisition of Flagstar Bank by PNC Bank December 2011 - August 2013
Flagstar Bank March 2010 - December 2011
Flagstar Bank October 2008 - March 2010
Flagstar Bank October 2007 - October 2008
Capital Lending Group March 2006 - October 2007
Loans, Mortgage Lending, Banking, Presentations, Coaching Staff, Auditing, Credit, Finance, Commercial Lending, Risk Management, Small Business Lending, Credit Analysis, Cash Management, Commercial Banking, Consumer Lending, Retail Banking, Management, Leadership, Coaching, Financial Analysis, Relationship Management, Lines Of Credit, Financial Services, Insurance, Customer Service, Sales Management, Sales, Investments, Treasury Management, Branch Banking, Loan Origination, Branch Management, Mortgage Banking, Cross Selling, Credit Risk, Deposits, Refinance, Small Business, FHA, Portfolio Management, Credit Cards, Residential Mortgages, Wealth Management, Strategic Financial..., Financial Risk, Commercial Mortgages, Mutual Funds, Marketing, Private Banking, Credit Unions
Holli Broadfoot
Director at Meadows Foundation, Inc.
City University of New York 2011 — 2014
Master of Arts in Business and Leadership, Business Administration and Management, General
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond 1991 — 1995
M.Div., Master of Divinity
Meadows Foundation, Inc. January 2012 - Present
CUNY School of Professional Studies August 2007 - Present
Program Management, Instructional Design, Program Development, Higher Education, Leadership, Social Media
Holli Davis
General Manager at ChickfilA, Inc.
Chick-fil-A, Inc. March 2007 - Present
Hollie Davis
Marketing Communications Professional
MBA, Management/Marketing
Valdosta State University 1999 — 2003
BS, Biology
Sidel April 2008 - December 2012
Client Profiles June 2007 - April 2008
Sharon Ware & Associates June 2006 - June 2007
Axiom Staffing Group August 2004 - May 2006
Affordable Residential Communities May 2004 - August 2004
SunTrust Bank June 2003 - May 2004
H.Daniel Schert, CRC August 2000 - May 2003
Marketing Communications, Teamwork, Project Management, Event Management, Corporate Events, Strategic Communications, Editorial, Internal & External..., Change Management, Budget, Customer Satisfaction, Advertising, Email Marketing, Self-starter, Plastics, Budgets, Marketing Strategy, Business Development, Management, Event Planning, Internal Communications, Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Marketing, Sales, Strategic Planning, Training
Holly Barrett
Controller at Commnet Wireless
Master's degree, Accounting
Commnet Wireless September 2005 - Present
Financial Reporting, Auditing, Budgets, Team Leadership, Wireless, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Forecasting, Management, Analysis, Leadership, Inventory Management, Program Management, Product Management, Cross-functional Team..., IP, Sales, Business Analysis, Accounts Payable, Mobile Devices, Vendor Management
Holly Bartlett
Vice President Account Management at American Well
Master of Science, Healthcare Policy and Administration
Bachelor of Science, Business/Hospitality
American Well August 2015 - Present
Evariant March 2015 - Present
Truven Health Analytics February 2010 - February 2015
Benefitfocus.com August 2008 - February 2010
WebMD February 2005 - July 2008
Solucient, LLC (formerly Sachs Group) April 1997 - December 2004
Hyatt, Imler, Ott & Blount February 1995 - April 1997
Georgia Baptist Medical Center March 1993 - February 1995
Healthcare Information..., Solution Selling, Salesforce.com, Account Management, Healthcare, Product Management, CRM, Competitive Analysis, Business Development, Product Marketing, Analytics, New Business Development, Sales, Contract Negotiation, Consulting, Sales Management, Strategic Partnerships, Strategy, Business Intelligence
Holly Raindrop
Accountant Contractor at Contractor
MBA, International Studies
Contractor January 2015 - Present
Elizabeth Baptist Church November 2013 - July 2014
Elizabeth Baptist Church May 2012 - November 2013
Elizabeth Baptist Church October 1996 - May 2012
CNN 1995 - 1996
SunTrust Bank 1993 - 1995
Budgeting, Accounting, Accounts Payable, Microsoft Office, General Ledger, Reconciliation, Payroll, Budgets, Account Reconciliation, Journal Entries, Bank Reconciliation, Outlook, Management, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
HONARA' TURNER
Lead Math Teacher at Atlanta Country Day School
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Communications, Spanish
Atlanta Country Day School January 2008 - Present
Ministry In Motion January 2008 - Present
Friends United Inc January 2008 - December 2010
Remington International January 2007 - December 2007
First Assembly of God January 2006 - December 2007
Douglass Theatre January 2005 - May 2007
Event Planning, Sales, Teaching, Coaching, Mentoring, Dancing, Educational Leadership, Curriculum Development, Strategic Planning, Research
Horace Simmons
Owner at Simmons Tax Services
Colorado Technical University 2014 — 2017
Bachelor of Science, Cyber Security
BBA, Accounting, Economics
Simmons Tax Services January 1991 - Present
GA Department of Revenue June 2007 - June 2008
Internal Revenue Service March 1999 - February 2006
Budgets, Tax Preparation, Customer Service, Public Speaking, Microsoft Excel, Nonprofits, Analysis, Microsoft Word, Team Building, Strategic Planning, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Fundraising, Accounting
Howard Finch
Dean, Brock School of Business at Samford University
University of Alabama 1987 — 1992
PhD, Finance
University of North Georgia 1980 — 1982
BSBA, Economics & Finance
Samford University July 2011 - Present
Florida Gulf Coast University August 2000 - July 2011
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga August 1991 - July 2000
Managerial Finance, Higher Education, Project Planning, Finance, Research, Portfolio Management, Financial Analysis, Strategic Planning, Investments, PowerPoint, Data Analysis, Fundraising, Public Speaking, Event Planning, Leadership, Leadership Development, Statistics, Student Affairs, Nonprofits, Economics, Teaching, Analysis, Student Development, Microsoft Office, Coaching, Team Building, Financial Modeling
Howard Hoover
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager at Utilities Inc.
Certified Financial Planner Certificate Program, Currently Enrolled
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Accounting and Finance
United States Merchant Marine Academy 1987 — 1991
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Marine Transportation
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering
Utilities Inc. December 2014 - Present
Travels through a Toxic Shock Nightmare (www.howardwhoover.com) 2010 - Present
Raftelis Financial Consultants, Inc. January 2003 - March 2014
Raftelis Financial Consultants, Inc. November 2000 - December 2002
Little and Associates July 1999 - October 2000
Gwinnett County Department of Public Utilities April 1996 - July 1999
Remtech Engineers July 1995 - April 1996
Utility Finance and..., Stormwater Engineering, Financial Modeling, Forecasting, Wastewater Treatment, Consulting, Strategic Financial..., Pricing, Land Development, Microsoft Office, Financial Reporting, Capital Budgeting, Due Diligence, Operations Management, Management, Negotiation, Contract Negotiation
Howard Lemons
Group Vice President, Head of Treasury Sales Support at SunTrust Bank
SunTrust Bank September 2014 - Present
SunTrust Bank May 2011 - September 2014
SunTrust Bank May 2004 - May 2011
Wachovia Bank, N.A. 1997 - 2004
Treasury, Product Development, Leadership, Commercial Banking, Process Improvement, Cash Management, Treasury Management, Banking, Business Analysis, Commercial Lending, Financial Services, Loans, Management, Operations Management, Strategic Planning, Risk Management, Program Management, Payments
Huff Forness
Vice President Corporate Credit at Atlantic Capital Bank
MBA, Accounting and Finance
Bachelors, Finance
Atlantic Capital Bank January 2015 - Present
Atlantic Capital Bank April 2013 - December 2014
SunTrust Bank August 2012 - April 2013
BB&T August 2011 - August 2012
Capital City Bank Group, Inc. 2008 - July 2011
Stone Forest Materials January 2006 - March 2007
Small Business Lending, Commercial Lending, Commercial Banking, Loans, Banking, Credit Analysis, Risk Assessment, Financial Analysis, Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Statistical Modeling, Asset Based Lending, Syndications, Leveraged Lending, Financial Risk, Risk Management, Cash Flow, Consumer Lending, Credit, Credit Risk, Lines Of Credit, Portfolio Management, Treasury Management, Finance, Underwriting, Management, Capital Markets, Cash Management, Analysis, Loan Origination
Hugh Gibson
Vice President of Sales at McKesson Provider Technologies
McKesson Corporation April 2011 - Present
McKesson Provider Technologies February 2010 - April 2011
McKesson Provider Technologies April 2008 - April 2009
McKesson Corporation January 2007 - April 2008
Per-Se Technologies Inc April 2005 - January 2007
Per-Se Technologies Inc January 2002 - March 2005
Quest Diagnostics June 1999 - October 2001
SmithKline Beecham 1991 - 2000
SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories March 1995 - May 1999
SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories January 1990 - March 1995
Team Building, Sales Operations, Strategic Partnerships, Training, Leadership, Business Development, New Business Development, Sales, Management, Sales Management, Salesforce.com, Healthcare, Healthcare Information..., Solution Selling, P&L Management, Sales Process, Vendor Management, Product Management
Hugh Irwin
Transmission Area Manager at Duke Energy
Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration, Management and Operations
Brunswick Jr College 1985 — 1986
Duke Energy Corporation October 2009 - Present
Progress Energy January 2008 - September 2009
Progress Energy April 2007 - December 2007
Progress Energy April 2005 - March 2007
Electrical Industry, transmission System, Outage Management, storm response, Project Management, Distribution Center..., Electric Power, Power Distribution, Energy, Power Systems, Electricians, Electricity Markets, Program Management, Steam, Utility Industry, Electricity
Hui Zhao, MBA
Logistic manager at AJC International Inc.
Tianjin Institute of Foreign Trade 1988 — 1990
BA, International business
AJC International Inc. July 2000 - Present
Tianjin Machinery Import and Export corp. September 1990 - October 1998
Customs Regulations, Freight Forwarding, INCO terms, Export, Business Strategy, 3PL, International Business, International Logistics, International Trade, Inventory Management, Logistics, Logistics Management, Operations Management, Shipping, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Warehousing
Hunter Barrow
Executive Search and Strategic Sourcing
Bachelor of Science (BS), Political Science and International Relations
Opt-N May 2013 - Present
PURE (Pure Pilates LLC) August 2011 - Present
Mission Health Systems, Inc July 2012 - July 2013
The Experts November 2008 - August 2010
CDI IT Solutons August 2007 - December 2008
Client Relations Inc/ Accretive Technologies November 2003 - June 2007
Lante Corporation May 2001 - December 2003
ESG Consulting April 1997 - February 2001
The Experts February 1994 - February 1997
Talent Acquisition, Recruiting, Sourcing, Talent Management, Human Resources, Internet Recruiting, Account Management, CRM, Cold Calling, Strategic Partnerships, Training, Social Networking, Consulting, Performance Management, Team Building, Information Technology, Management, Organizational..., Sales Management, Screening Resumes, Employee Benefits, Networking, Temporary Placement, College Recruiting, Strategic Planning, Business Development, PeopleSoft, Business Strategy, Social Media, Applicant Tracking..., Interviews, Leadership, Coaching, Employee Training, Outsourcing, Sales, Employee Relations, Onboarding, Selling, Technical Recruiting, Leadership Development, Executive Search
Hunter Choate
Director of Marketing Analytics at CNL
CIMBA
University of Kansas - Graduate School of Business
CNL March 2014 - Present
CNL August 2011 - March 2014
Freelance Marketer July 2010 - July 2011
Galaxy Nutritional Foods November 2005 - January 2010
Sears Home Improvement Products February 2004 - November 2005
Southwest Airlines Vacations 2002 - February 2004
Cross-functional Team..., Product Development, Product Management, Leadership, Marketing Strategy, Financial Analysis, Management, Product Marketing, Web Analytics, FMCG, SEM, P&L Management, Customer Insight, Program Management, Coaching, Marketing, Team Building, Online Advertising, Competitive Analysis, Strategy, Analytics, B2B Marketing
Ian Huggan
Manager Global Procurement Accounting COE
MBA, Business Operations & Finance
State University of New York at New Paltz 1994 — 1997
BS, Accounting
UTECH 1986 — 1989
MAAT, Accounting
PepsiCo October 2012 - Present
PepsiCo May 2009 - October 2012
IBM January 1998 - March 2009
ServWell Group of Companies January 1989 - May 1991
Leadership Development, Revenue Recognition, Cross-functional Team..., Business Strategy, Staff Development, Forecasting, Financial Analysis, Accounting, Analysis, Finance, Strategic Financial..., Financial Reporting, Management, Leadership, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Internal Controls
Ian Mullings
CEO at HCA
Ibirimote Diane Feghabo
Financial Analyst at Comcast Cable
Dual MBA/MAcc degree
Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting; Accounting Information Systems, Business Communication
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Accounting
Comcast Cable July 2013 - Present
Navicure May 2012 - July 2013
Navicure June 2011 - May 2012
Georgia State University July 2010 - April 2011
Charter Communications October 2008 - January 2010
TJ Maxx February 2007 - October 2008
Customer Service, Microsoft Excel, Access, Microsoft Word, Data Analysis, Accounting, QuickBooks, Team Leadership, Accounts Receivable, Social Media, Analysis, Salesforce.com, Financial Reporting, Account Reconciliation, Finance, Forecasting, Financial Analysis, Leadership, Time Management, Business Analysis, Budgets, PowerPoint, Financial Accounting
I Ding
Director Industrial Engineering at United Parcel Service
MIT, Master in Technology Management
CS, Computer Science
Universidade Veiga de Almeida
EE, Electrical Engineering
UPS August 1988 - Present
Universal Computers July 1984 - August 1988
Furnas January 1982 - July 1984
Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Simulations, Process Improvement, Operations Management, Cross-functional Team..., Project Planning, Process Engineering, Program Management, Management, Six Sigma, Supply Chain, MS Project, Continuous Improvement, Logistics, Business Process..., Transportation, UPS systems, Quality Management, Engineering, Logistics Management, Transportation..., Analysis, Supply Chain..., Vendor Management, Business Process, Change Management, Integration, Visio, Shipping
Imari Wright
Senior Credit AnalystCommercial Banking at Wells Fargo
BA, Economics
Wells Fargo March 2014 - Present
Wells Fargo Securities August 2010 - March 2014
E*TRADE Financial January 2008 - July 2010
Lenox Financial Mortgage January 2005 - January 2008
SunTrust Bank September 2003 - May 2004
Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta January 2000 - September 2003
Credit Risk, Investments, Financial Modeling, Credit Analysis, Credit, Loans, Series 7, Series 63, Underwriting, Financial Analysis, Corporate Finance, Banking, Commercial Banking
Imran Shahbuddin
Pharmacist at CVS Caremark Corporation
Mercer University of Atlanta 2010 — 2014
Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), MBA
Emory University 2006 — 2010
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry
CVS Caremark Corporation July 2014 - Present
CVS Caremark Corporation September 2008 - May 2014
Target January 2011 - April 2011
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Customer Service, Research, Teamwork, Photoshop, Social Media, Public Speaking, English, Windows, Time Management, Certified Immunizer
IRIS Bakery - Atlanta
Bakery & Cafe General Western & Special Asian Bread, Pastry, and Snacks
Fu Jen Catholic University 2005 — 2009
Food Science, Food Production
Iris Bakery - Atlanta February 2012 - Present
Iris Bakery - Taiwan October 2010 - February 2012
Baking, Bakery, General and special..., Cakes, Bread, Pastry, Chocolate, Ingredients
Isaac Hamilton
Tech Operations Mgr at Unisource Worldwide Inc
Sr. Infrastructure Program/Project Manager at QBE North America
Western Carolina University 1986 — 1991
BS, Information Systems
QBE North America March 2014 - Present
QBE-Financial Partner Services June 2011 - March 2014
Comunity Health Systems April 2008 - June 2011
Unisource Worldwide Inc. December 2002 - February 2008
Georgia-Pacific August 1999 - December 2002
MARTA September 1998 - September 1999
McKesson May 1996 - September 1998
Data Center, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Unix, IT Operations, Storage Area Networks, Storage, Cisco Technologies, Information Technology, Infrastructure, Management, Networking
Isaiah Davis
DC Director
Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business 2011 — 2012
Grainger April 2014 - Present
Toys R Us September 2012 - April 2014
Kohl's Department Stores April 2012 - September 2012
Target April 2007 - April 2012
US Army May 2003 - May 2007
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Ivan Besancon
General Manager at Macon Tennis Association
MBA, Finance/Management
Macon Tennis Association September 2010 - Present
Bank Credit Mutuel Agricol et Rural May 2005 - July 2007
Ivan Burgand
Coatings and Finishes for ICF, AAC, CMU & LATH
Sider-Crete, Inc. March 1998 - Present
Euro Trade of America September 1994 - May 1998
Sapeur Pompier de Paris August 1993 - July 1994
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Iya Osun Fagbamila
Chief Iyanifa at Ile Tifase (House of IFA)
BA, Management
Ile Tifase (House of IFA) May 2000 - Present
The Coca-Cola Company February 1968 - July 1983
Jacinta Howard, MBA
Distribution Planning Engineer at Georgia Power Company
Southern Polytechnic State University 2011 — 2014
Graduate Certificate, Technical and Scientific Communication
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering Technology
Georgia Power Company June 2006 - Present
Georgia Power Company 2000 - 2006
Budgets, Project Management, Power Distribution, Engineering, Cross-functional Team..., Program Management, Project Planning, Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Leadership, Energy, Analysis, Smart Grid, Electricians, Process Improvement
Jackie L Knox
Asset Manager at Pattillo Industrial Real Estate
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General
Bachelor's Degree, Finance and Accounting
Industrial Developments International 2008 - 2014
Confederation Life Insurance Company 1995 - 1997
Coldwell Banker 1993 - 1995
First Capital Properties, Inc. 1990 - 1993
Business Planning, Finance, Financial Reporting, Investments, Management, Commercial Real Estate, Forecasting, Analysis, General Ledger, International Business, Property Management, Auditing, Cash Flow, Leadership, Accounts Payable, Tenant, Microsoft Excel, Accounts Receivable, Variance Analysis, Acquisitions, Dispositions, Asset Management, Financial Analysis, Leases, Real Estate, Due Diligence
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Project Manager at Northrop Grumman
Information Technology and Services
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AT&T June 2007 - June 2011
Technology Bridge May 2005 - June 2007
BellSouth Telecommunications May 2003 - May 2005
PMP Certification..., Vendor Management, Software Development, SDLC, Project Management, Program Management, Process Improvement, PMP, Management, Integration, CRM, Agile Methodologies, Visio
Jackie McIntosh
Flight Attandant at Delta Air Lines
BA, psychology
Airlines, Flights, Microsoft Office
Jack Kipe, MBA, CPM
Sr. Buyer at Graphic Packaging International
Packaging and Containers
BS, Business
Graphic Packaging International February 1999 - Present
Dry Branch Kaolin Co. 1997 - 1998
Nord Kaolin Company 1980 - 1997
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Director State and Local Tax at Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP 2015 - Present
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP 2012 - 2015
Cherry, Bekaert & Holland 2007 - 2008
Corporate Tax, Tax Research, State Tax, Sales Tax, Income Tax, Tax, Tax Accounting, US Tax, Partnership Taxation, CPA, GAAP, FIN 48, US GAAP
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IT Manager at Reynolds, Horne & Survant
MBA, CIS
Reynolds, Horne & Survant IT ManagerSell & Melton, LLPJanuary 2000 - August 2009
IT Manager at Sell & Melton L.L.P.
Jacob W. Poole
Trial Lawyer at Childers & McCain, LLC
Childers & McCain, LLC September 2015 - Present
Jacob W. Poole, LLC Attorney at Law February 2015 - August 2015
Office of the District Attorney, Houston Judicial Circuit March 2011 - January 2015
Nelson, Dixon & Poole, LLC October 2009 - March 2011
Personal Injury, Automobile Accidents, Civil Litigation, Wrongful Death, Trials, Criminal Defense, Criminal Law, Litigation, Trial Practice, Legal Research, Felonies, Courts, Legal Writing, Appeals, Negotiation, Westlaw
Jacqueline Deshpande
Mercer University- Tift College of Education 2009 — 2012
MAT-MGE, SS/LA
BBA, Marketing
Fulton County Schools August 2013 - Present
Fulton County Schools September 2011 - December 2012
Interactive College of Technology February 2011 - September 2012
Avalon English August 2009 - August 2010
Archdiocese of Atlanta October 2007 - July 2009
Adult Education, Teaching English as a..., Educational Technology, ESL, Curriculum Development, Lesson Planning, Social Studies, Differentiated..., Student Affairs, Smartboard, Teaching Writing, Distance Learning, Classroom Management, E-Learning, Classroom, Teaching Adults, Elementary Education, University Teaching, Intercultural..., Literature, English
Jacqueline Easter
Global Process Improvement Champion
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Capella University 2009 — 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Business and Technology: Leadership, 3.9
Master of Business Administration (MBA), International Finance
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Finance and Financial Management Services
Georgia-Pacific LLC November 2008 - Present
Georgia Pacific November 2008 - Present
Ford Motor Company September 1985 - November 2006
Continuous Improvement, Root Cause Analysis, Lean Manufacturing, Process Improvement, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, 5S, Process Engineering, Kaizen, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Value Stream Mapping, Quality Management, Change Management, Program Management, Strategy, Business Process...
Jacque Plair Rushin
Solutions and Services Executive
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University
B.S., Business Education
Rich Rush Enterprises, LLC 2014 - 2015
InterContinental Hotels Group April 2013 - May 2014
IHG January 2010 - March 2013
InterContinental Hotels Group May 2003 - December 2009
Strategy, Negotiation, Program Management, Sales, Outsourcing, Customer Service, Cross-functional Team..., Business Transformation, Product Management, Operations Management, Budgets, Business Strategy, Sales Operations, Business Analysis, Telecommunications, Customer Experience, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Leadership, Human Resources, Forecasting, Hospitality, Team Building, Business Development, Management, Vendor Management, Customer Satisfaction, Account Management, Team Leadership, Training, Hotels, Coaching, CRM, Call Centers, Contract Negotiation, Sales Management, Process Improvement, Performance Management, Business Planning, Business Process..., Change Management, New Business Development, Supply Chain Management, E-commerce, Strategic Partnerships, Mobile Devices
Jacques Massmann
Huntsville, Alabama Area
Mill Controller In Training at International Paper
Paper & Forest Products
Master of Business Administration (MBA), International Business
Armstrong Atlantic State University 1997 — 1999
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
International Paper August 2012 - Present
International Paper April 2010 - August 2012
International Paper August 2006 - April 2010
SAP, Variance Analysis, Forecasting, Financial Reporting, Internal Audit, Internal Controls, Financial Analysis, Process Improvement, US GAAP, Cost Accounting, Auditing, Accounting, Capital Equipment, Capital Budgeting, Working Capital..., Working Capital Control, Inventory Control
Jacques Mumpi
Mercer University September 2013 - April 2014
Jacquita White Blount
Executive Director at Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care
Master of Science (M.S.), Health/Health Care Administration/Management
Savannah State University
Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care April 2007 - Present
Vistacare Hospice 1995 - 2005
Healthcare Management, Healthcare, Recruiting, Hospitals, Team Building, Home Care, Medicare
Jaime Rex
Student at Mercer UniversityStetson School of Business and Economics
Southern Crescent Technical College 2011 — 2014
Associate of Science (A.S.), Paralegal Studies
Mercer University August 2014 - Present
Brannen Law Group, P.C. January 2013 - March 2015
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Jake James
Savannah, Georgia Area
Process Improvement Manager at Gulfstream Aerospace
MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, 4.0
Business Management, Business, Finance, Economics, Organization Theory
Gulfstream Aerospace June 2011 - Present
Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation October 2008 - June 2011
Gulfstream Aerospace January 2007 - October 2008
Gulfstream Aerospace March 2005 - January 2007
Gulfstream Aerospace September 2004 - March 2005
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Gulfstream Aerospace March 2003 - August 2003
Belk April 2002 - March 2003
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James Billups
Timber Information Manager at USDA
MBA, Information Management
Hawaii Pacific University 2003 — 2005
AS, Management
U.S. Forest Service December 2014 - Present
USDA Forest Service January 2010 - November 2014
Georgia-Pacific LLC August 2009 - January 2010
Georgia-Pacific LLC August 2007 - August 2009
Alliance Shippers Inc January 2006 - August 2007
USMC January 2002 - January 2006
Oracle SQL Developer, Dreamweaver, Adobe Contribute, Access, Analysis, Logistics, Management, Process Improvement, Customer Service, Budgets, Data Analysis, Human Resources, Project Management, Microsoft Excel, Team Leadership, Account Management, Auditing, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Project Planning, Inventory Management, Business Analysis, Risk Management, Leadership, Policy, Inventory, Databases, Public Speaking, Quality Control, Military, Finance, Operations Management, Cross-functional Team..., Negotiation, Training, Business Process..., Transportation, Research, Program Management, Government, PHP
James Brisco
Managing Director at Global Alliance Mutual Assurance Group
Security and Investigations
BS, Business/Managerial Economics
Georgia Military College 1985 — 1988
Associates, Business Management
Global Alliance Mutual Assurance Group January 2015 - Present
Organo Gold It's Simple it's Coffee January 2010 - April 2012
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Associate Developer at Big River Associates, LLC
University of West Georgia 2000 — 2004
BA, Anthropology
Big River Associates, LLC January 2012 - Present
Three Pillars Recruiting February 2011 - July 2012
National Sports Publications November 2009 - January 2011
On The Level - Handyman Services, LLC July 2008 - January 2010
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Building Systems Design, Inc October 2005 - January 2006
ADT Security Services July 2004 - October 2005
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James Douthit
Consultant, Entrepreneur & Investor
BBA, Accounting
Monroe Academy 1986 — 1990
High School Diploma, Life
Sterling Industrial Sales & Service, LLC May 2010 - Present
Piedmont Reconstruction Company, Inc. August 1998 - Present
Sterling Appraisals & Consulting October 1995 - Present
Howard, Moore, & McDuffie, PC October 1994 - October 1995
Ross Lane & Company, LLC 1993 - 1994
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James E. Bullock, MBA
Product Specialist Jaguar Land Rover North America
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business and Marketing
University of South Carolina-Columbia
Bachelor of Science (BS), Sport Administration and Business
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Global Imports BMW September 2013 - October 2014
Global Imports BMW June 2012 - August 2013
tre'za Franchise Systems, LLC October 2011 - February 2012
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Artuzzi's Italian Kitchen June 2006 - July 2007
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Greater Seattle Area
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Bin-Co > Ruby
If you are not familiar with Ruby, it is a programming language that claims to be as easy to use as Perl and as Object Oriented as Python. It is perhabs the hottest language on the net right now. OK, maybe that title goes to javascript - but the second hottest title belongs to ruby.
I find learning ruby very easy. I already know many other languages and am proficient in three other main scripting languages(Perl,PHP and Tcl). So I got hang of the language rather easily. All you have to do is connect something in this language to something in a language you already know. For example, the if loop in ruby is like this...
if a == 5 then
print "A is Five"
The same for perl is...
if ($a == 5) {
print "A is Five";
After this connection is made, there is no more problems. All you have to do is make the connection for every thing in the language. This is very easy to do - just read some ruby scripts and within minutes you will get the hang of it.
Something.new
The problem comes where there is something new in the language - something that is not there in the language what we already know. For example, in ruby every thing is an object - ruby has no primitive types. So a string is an object as is an integer. As a result, the perl code will not connect with the ruby code as shown by the following example.
#Perl - Finding the length of a string.
my $hello = "Hello World";
my $length = length($hello);
print "The number of '$hello' is : $length";
And the ruby code for the same is...
hello = "Hello World"
print "The number of chars in ",hello," is ",hello.length
The perl code calls a function with the string as the argument and it returns the number of chars in the string. But in ruby, the length is a property of the string variable. I solved this problem by making the connection with javascript. The example is...
//JavaScript
var hello = "Hello World"
alert("The number of chars in "+hello+" is "+hello.length)
In javascript(as is in java), the connection is made perfectly. The hello.replace(/l/g,"L") in javascript becomes hello.gsub(/l/g,"L") in ruby. Everything is an object - yeah, I think I got that.
The next problem arises when there is a feature in ruby that is not in any language you know. For example, we will print every element of an array.
#Ruby code...
an_array = ["Julius Ceaser","Alexander","Binny"]
an_array.each { |name|
print "This Item : " + name + "\n"
Yes, I know that the foreach loop in perl can do it - but this is different. A method of the object not only returns the values but it also acts like a foreach loop. If I knew the Smalltalk language, this would not be a problem as this syntax is taken from that language - but I don't know that language. I had to struggle with that concept for a few minutes - but after that there was no problems. Many other stuff in ruby uses the same principle. For example, the code for reading the data from a file is given below.
#Open File for reading
aFile = File.new("FileName.txt", "r")
#Process each line
aFile.each_line { |line|
print line
Here, a line from the file is printed per iteration of the 'each_line' loop. There are many other examples, but after you get the concept of one, the rest will be easy to understand.
Ruby Resources
Ruby Lang
Windows Installer
Ruby for Perl programmers - If you know perl and is trying to learn ruby, I would suggest this tutorial.
Programming Ruby (PickAxe)
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
Ruby user's guide
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it a moral aim. We are to make untold sacrifices not for ourselves but for the right of the small and weak nations of the earth to live their own lives without fear of dictation, domination or invasion. They must no longer be mere pawns to be moved about the map as suits the purposes of great and ambitious powers. Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, they are peace-loving nations, and they have the right to pursue their own happy lives without fear or interference. "America seeks no material profit or aggrandizement of any kind. She is fighting for no advantage or selfish objects of her own, but for the liberation of peoples everywhere from the aggressions of autocratic force."
4. In almost every address which Mr. Wilson has made during the last year he has put as the great objective of the war a league of nations pledged to settle its own disputes by peaceful methods and committed, through its united power, to preserve the peace of the world. "We shall fight
for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free." (The many utterances of the President to this effect have been collated in Appendix III.) This is simply brotherhood, co-operation, good-will, mutual service, the common life, applied to nations as Christianity has applied them to individuals from the beginning. It is putting the kingdom of righteousness above the selfishness of nationalism. It
is the realizing of "each for all, and all for each” in the realm of nations as we have long since realized it among men within the nation. It is establishing a democracy of nations similar to the democracy of men. It is a great, sublime, moral aim.
5. Finally the President has declared that we have entered upon this war to secure a Christian standard of conduct between nations similar to that which obtains among good men.
It has not been so in the past. We have had a double standard of ethics, Christian for individuals, pagan for nations. We have said it was wrong for men to steal from each other, but permissible for nations; wrong for men to kill each other, but permissible for the mighty nation to destroy the weaker nation; wrong for men to settle their disputes by guns and swords, right for nations; wrong for men to seek revenge, the natural thing for nations. We have condemned the man who lives for self alone, for his rights alone, and we have called that man a knave who would seek his rights at the cost of the community's suffering, but we have expected nations to live for self and to plunge the whole world into misery to vindicate their own rights or honour. We have called the man who served most the great man; we have called the nation which could get the most, by any means, the great nation. All this must be changed, says the President. The nations must observe the same Christian rule of conduct that men observe in their relations with each other. In other words,
we find the President applying the gospel to nations. When was there ever before a ruler who used such words as these: "We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states." "It is clear that nations must in the future be governed by the same high code of honour that we demand of individuals."
PRESIDENT WILSON'S IDEAL FOR
N Appendix VI we have brought together thirtyfour utterances of President Wilson, chosen
from almost as many addresses, on the ideals he cherishes for America. We believe that we run no risk of contradiction when we say that in no collection of utterances on national ideals by any ruler of past or present times could any such selection as this be made. As Mr. Wilson himself has said in one of his addresses: “It is an unprecedented thing in the world that any nation in determining its foreign relations should be unselfish, and my ambition is to see America set the great example." But in every utterance of Mr. Wilson the ideals for America are as unselfish as those that the finest Christian gentleman would set for himself. The American people seem to be just realizing to how high a pitch the President is raising these national ideals. Some are even beginning to get frightened, for there are many individuals who are not as unselfish as Mr. Wilson wishes to have the nation become. He is demanding that the nation act in a
Christian way, become a Christian nation—not in the sense that everybody in it will be Christian, but that it conform as a government to the standards of a Christian gentleman.
It is interesting to note the effect that these ideals are having abroad. At first England was a little sceptical of them. Now her statesmen and prophets are using Mr. Wilson's words, and her labour parties are introducing them into their constitutions. Germany naturally looks upon them as either hypocritical or the vagaries of a visionary and dreamer. No echo of any such sentiments as ideals for nations has yet come from any of her statesmen. It would mean the end of this war--and perhaps of all war-should the German government be willing sincerely to propound these sentiments as the national ideals. But it is a great thing that the ruler of one nation propounds them in his every utterance. It is not too much to hope that the preachers in the churches may follow him, and help to make these really Christian ideals the ideals of the United States. If one will closely study the thirty-four extracts he will find they may be grouped somewhat as follows:
1. “America exists not to serve itself, but to serve mankind.” The philosophy of nations has always been that the one aim and purpose of the nation was to serve itself, and generally to serve itself at the expense of other weaker nations. No wonder that the German papers said, when Mr. Wilson ut
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ABC Fall 2015 Schedule Change; Adult Swim Orders 7th Season of Childrens Hospital
ABC has announced a few timeslot changes for Fall 2015. New drama Quantico, starring Priyanka Chopra, will move to Sundays at 10:00 PM ET/PT, instead of airings Tuesdays at 10pm. As a result, the Shark Tank spin-off, Beyond the Tank will now air in the fall and on Tuesdays in the 10:00 PM ET/PT time period, beginning this Fall. This scheduling move will allow more production time for new drama Of Kings and Prophets (previously scheduled to air Sundays at 10 in the fall) which will now premiere later in the 2015/2016 season. ABC has also retitled the highly anticipated Sunday drama Oil to Blood & Oil. The updated ABC Tuesday and Sunday line-up for the fall follows below:
8:00PM The Muppets (NEW!)
8:30PM Fresh Off the Boat
9:00PM Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
10:00PM Beyond the Tank
7:00PM AFV
8:00PM Once Upon a Time
9:00PM Blood & Oil (NEW!)
10:00PM Quantico (NEW!)
Adult Swim announced it has greenlit a seventh season of the hilariously absurd and medically accurate live-action comedy Childrens Hospital, the two-time Emmy(R)-winning series from creator/executive producer Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). Premiere episodes from the current season, featuring a star-studded cast of top comedic talent, air on Adult Swim every Friday night at midnight ET/PT. Childrens Hospital explores the emotional struggles and sexual politics of a group of doctors charged with healthy libidos. Their dedication to their personal lives is relentless, interrupted only by the occasional need to treat sick children. The show's creative team is led by Corddry and fellow executive producers/writers Jonathan Stern (Burning Love, NTSF:SD:SUV::) and David Wain (Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer).
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Home › Wine Buzz › A Great Reason to Truck on Over to Monterey
A Great Reason to Truck on Over to Monterey
If there were one place on Earth I could be this coming Saturday, it would be in the California coastal community of Monterey.
The release excerpts from the Monterey County Vintners & Growers Association that follow will explain… and, if you’re like me, cause you to salivate…
As the winegrape harvest starts coming to a close, the Monterey County Vintners & Growers Association (MCVGA) will launch a new gathering for passionate gourmands and wine lovers who want to experience the essence of this burgeoning California wine region.
On Saturday, November 12, Monterey Wine Country’s “Best of the Blue” event will be unlike any other: Gourmet food trucks will travel from around the region to park at the Del Monte Aviation Center’s private jet hangar, where Monterey County wines will be featured alongside fun, delectable dishes made from locally-sourced ingredients.
“Best of the Blue” takes its name from the “Blue Grand Canyon” — an underwater gorge beneath the surface of the Monterey Bay of the same size and scope as the Grand Canyon. The maritime influence caused by this geological feature has a remarkable effect on this viticulture region, producing fog patterns and variable temperatures that span throughout the 90-mile-long grape-growing area.
“The Blue Grand Canyon and the orientation of Carmel Valley and the Salinas Valley combine to provide some of the most hospitable and diverse growing conditions for vintners. It’s what differentiates our wines and helps to make the region so special — a true marriage of land and sea,” stated Rhonda Motil, executive director of the MCVGA, whose members represent nine distinct American Viticulture Areas (AVAs) and forty-two winegrape varietals grown throughout the county.
The “Best of the Blue” will present an opportunity to taste the broad spectrum of wines produced by over 45 wineries across Monterey County alongside creatively conceived, delicious dishes from popular gourmet food trucks, including:
* Babaloo Cuban Cuisine, featuring sumptuous traditional and with-a-twist Cuban dishes.
* Treatbot, the famous karaoke ice cream truck featuring sorbets and cookie sandwiches.
* Piece of Cake Bakery, which bakes goodies from scratch daily using only the highest quality ingredients.
* The Pizza Gypsy, featuring a wood-fired oven that can bring authentic Italian pizza and other wonderful Italian dishes.
* Me and the Hound Memphis BBQ, featuring authentic Memphis pulled pork.
* Lugano’s Swiss Bistro, Chef Andre Lengacher’s culinary magic-mobile that brings Switzerland to you.
Additional food stations will feature Marich Confectionary, Butterfly Brittle, Dr. Kracker, the Monterey Chocolate Company, Paris Bakery, San Tasti, Joseph Farms, Vertigo Coffee, Emi’s Biscotteria and a Williams & Sonoma Culinary Showcase that will provide cooking demos throughout the day and sample holiday recipes that visitors can use at their own Thanksgiving table.
Sited in what is considered Monterey’s finest full-service executive air terminal, with its luxurious yet industrial charm, the event will be a true celebration of all things Monterey County. Live music from the Cachagua Playboys will accompany captivating artwork from internationally-acclaimed photographer Kip Evans, videos from the Blue Ocean Film Festival, and displays from the National Marine Sanctuary and Monterey Bay Aquarium that demonstrate the majestic beauty of the Blue Grand Canyon alongside the very wines that exist as a result of its geography.
Guests can also feel good about their ticket purchase, knowing that a portion of the proceeds will be going to a great cause. The event organizers will be purchasing the furniture for the Wine Lounge, which will feature a social networking room and wines that are certified sustainable. Immediately following the event, all of the furniture will be donated to Shelter Outreach Plus, an organization serving displaced individuals and families in transition.
The food truck phenomenon has really caught on in cities across America, in many cases providing talented chefs with a venue to strut their stuff without the overhead associated with a permanent restaurant location. Some of the best food I’ve ever eaten has been purchased from food trucks parked on side streets in downtown Portland, Ore.
If you’re anywhere near Monterey this Saturday, you owe it to yourself to attend this new event.
Full details, including ticket information, is available at: www.montereywines.org
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Presenting “I Gave Her a Name” and “A New Constellation”
April 5, 2019 by bccpresseditor
Standard Edition Full Color Edition
We have a different version of the pride cycle here at BCC Press: we publish something great and feel proud of it, and then we publish something even better and feel proud about that too. And then we remember all of the other great stuff we published and become so justifiably proud that we have to stay in our rooms for a few days so we don’t go into stores and other random places and start sounding like Robert Goulet in Camelot.
So, it is with great pride (duh!) that we announce, on the second anniversary of the founding of BCC Press, the publication of two new and highly anticipated books by two of our most beloved authors.
First, we present I Gave Her A Name, the sequel to the phenomenal, bestselling, paradigm-busting, AML-Award Winning Mother’s Milk, with poems by Rachel Hunt Steenblik and illustrations by Ashley Mae Hoiland. Rachel wrote nearly 350 new poems for this book, and Ashmae kicked her work up a notch from black-and-white drawings to color paintings–more than a hundred of them. Here are a few samples.
Now, color printing is not cheap, which put BCC Press on the horns of a dilemma: do we put out an affordable, high-quality, black-and-white version of this book–the sort of book that made us famous? Or do we keep the color in the full-color paintings and price the book accordingly.
Well, we actually don’t approve of dilemmas, so we did both. I Gave Her a Name is now available in a standard version with grey-scale renderings of Ashmae’s amazing drawings. And it is available in a special, full-color deluxe edition that presents the paintings as God and Ashmae originally intended. You get to choose.
In our second book, A New Constellation, Ashley Mae Hoiland turns from amazing illustrator to brilliant author–and the author of her own emotionally laden story, which she describes on the back cover better than we ever could:
On December 19, 2018, I went in for an eye appointment. By the end of the day I had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. As this unexpected world intruded into my life, I started to write. I got up that night when everyone else was asleep and wrote and then kept going. An experiment writing in real time. The chronology is not perfect, but when the earth shifts the fault rupture is rarely linear. This is a beginning, nothing more. Above all, it is simply my experience, which I hope can reach out in some way and hold hands with what is hard and unexpected in your life, however small or large.
A New Constellation is an important, remarkable, beautiful, tragic, and hopeful book–and a deeply personal account of an illness by one of Mormonism’s most powerful minds and creative spirits. You will not be disappointed by the emotional and spiritual adventure it makes you a part of.
And, in case you have missed the announcements this week, both Rachel and Ashmae will be reading and signing their books this weekend on Friday and Saturday. Joining them will be Mette Harrison, the author of three BCC Press books, including The Book of Abish, which was published last month. Rounding out the Fantastic Four of BCC Press will be Keira Shae, the author of the AML-Award nominated memoir How the Light Gets In, which was profiled, along with Keira, in a feature story in the Deseret News this week.
Not only can you buy books and get them signed, but ALL OF THE PAINTINGS FEATURED IN I GAVE HER A NAME will be on display and for sale at Writ & Vision on Saturday night.
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Real Talk: From Hurt to Hope
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Joe Raedle / Staff
5 Simple Ways to Get Involved in the Black Lives Matter Cause
Daniel Lee Hue
The fight for racial equality must be heard. Amplify is our series devoted to elevating black voices and brands, spotlighting issues, and taking action.
Within the past two weeks in American history the ugly underbelly of passive racism has been exposed. Race relations in America have come to a head, spawning the ultimate takeaway that progress is still possible. What started with the public execution of George Floyd has spurred a civil rights movement. Today, this moment in civil rights has become larger than the crime it has incited.
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As a person of color, there are so many emotions I’ve experienced. The most important thing I have recognized: every emotion I’ve experienced is valid. Our feelings, opinions and perspectives on this moment in history are allowed to be as volatile and varied as the issue of systemic racism in America is.
The intersectionality of being Jamaican, and Chinese, and gay has heavily impacted my perspective on issues of racism in America. “Too black to be Asian,” “too Asian to black,” and often tacitly rejected, unable to claim either for being gay. From an early age, I’ve learned that if I allowed others to define my ethnicity I’d be confused by my identity to this day. Conversely, I’ve had the privilege of knowing where I come from, enabling me to unapologetically claim my “Blackness” and my “Asian-ness.” Having a rich heritage and sense of self, I’ve been able to navigate through my American experience with empathy for a broad spectrum of races: knowing what it is to be treated differently based on what race others see in me. Experiencing these racial complexities has helped me understand the state of race relations in our nation today.
To those who don’t understand “what the big deal is,” having compassion for a topic you don’t understand is paramount. If you understand how it hurts when someone doesn’t understand your pain, I hope you can imagine how it hurts when someone refuses to even try. Hurt has turned into rage, and through the awakening of black allies, my rage has subsided, and I feel hope.
The largest realization to come from this moment is that Black Americans – those who felt disenfranchised by our political system, hopeless in fighting for change; those who have given up the fight – can see a clear path to a better future. I hope this moment kindles the fires of inactive allies, and reignites the fires of those we’ve left behind.
A resident of Brooklyn, NY, I’ve taken the past week to get involved. Participating in protests organized by groups like @JusticeForGeorgeNYC, and donating to organizations that have pledged to match my contributions like Universal Music Group and The NAACP Defense and Education Fund. Through these acts of participation and the witnessing of real results, I’ve been inspired to continue my small acts of civil activism. The overwhelming support from allies has given me hope that our country has reached a turning point.
So How Do We Continue the Fight? Get Involved
The movement must continue. The issues and frustration expressed by these community leaders don’t end when the news cycle changes. Here are small actions anyone can take to make a difference.
Speak Out: Via social media, at the dinner table, no matter the medium you use to express yourself. Don’t be silent. Be heard, even if it’s uncomfortable. This is no time to be comfortable.
Donate: Find a relevant cause that supports the movement against civil injustice and contribute what you can.
Brand Boycotting: Exercise your consumer sovereignty by taking a stand against brands that support racist political agendas. Look into black-owned businesses for the purchase of everyday items and beyond.
Social Media Activism: More than just reposting civil justice graphics and memes, hold the people in your social circle accountable for not saying enough. Unfollow brands and influencers that chose to stand for nothing #weedthemout.
Stay Woke: Stay informed and active. Know what's happening in your local community and government in general. This includes registering to vote and actually voting for those who support what matters to you.
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Video of the Day: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie behind the scenes on 'By The Sea'
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are one of Hollywood's most intriguing and enduring couples, but the A-listers were unsure of what would happen when they brought to life Angelina's By The Sea, an intimate portrayal of the intense highs and lows experienced by a couple attempting to mend their troubled marriage. "You can absolutely madly love the same person you want to kill," explains the mother of six of the story she penned. With Angelina both starring opposite Brad and at the helm in the director's seat, the experience was one that both husband and wife were excited to undertake. "We can experiment and play and it's oddly a safer environment than any set I've been on before," says Brad.
In this new featurette, the couple takes fans behind the scenes on the set, talks 'letting loose' for the film and even gets pranked by Shiloh and her sling shot!
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Harry Styles to make solo debut on ‘Saturday Night Live’
By Hayley Bradbrook
One Direction fans prepare yourselves -- Harry Styles is making his solo debut on the Apr. 15 episode of Saturday Night Live.
NBC sent Twitter into a frenzy when they made the announcement on the social platform on Tuesday. Harry will join previously announced host Jimmy Fallon on the hotly-anticipated episode.
Excited to announce @jimmyfallon and @Harry_Styles will be in Studio 8H on April 15! #FallonStylesSNLpic.twitter.com/w2Bl2Mpsyz
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) March 28, 2017
The news comes days after a video teaser aired in the U.K that showed Harry opening a door as uplifting piano music played in the background. The video concludes with the words “April 7,” a possible hint that the former One Direction member would be premiering his first solo track on that day.
While Harry has previously performed on SNL alongside his 1D bandmates in 2012, 2013, and 2014, Hollywood Life reports that The Tonight Show host wants Harry to do more than just carry a tune.
“Jimmy wants Harry to be a part of the show when he hosts SNL, he doesn’t want Harry just to sing. He wants Harry in a skit or two and he is very eager to grab his ear and give him some fun ideas,” says a source.
Harry has performed on SNL with One Direction three times.
Sounds like the 23-year-old singer is set to follow in the footsteps of Justin Timberlake, who as a solo artist showcased his comedic skills on the late-night comedy show back when Jimmy was a regular cast member.
We’re sure former band members Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson will cheer him on as they all have released solo music, while Liam Payne has taken a break from music to concentrate on being a father to his newborn son.
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Barack Obama and family enjoy adventurous vacation in Bali
By Chloe Best
Barack Obama is making the most of his time off since his presidency came to an end in January. The 55-year-old is following his holidays in Necker Island, Palm Springs and French Polynesia by taking his wife Michelle and daughters Malia, 18, and Sasha, 16, on a family trip to Bali.
The family touched down in Indonesia on Friday evening and have wasted no time enjoying all that Bali has to offer, including going white water rafting together. The Obamas appeared in high spirits as they were spotted cruising along the Ayung River near the Bongkasa village in Badung at the weekend, all dressed in matching red life jackets and yellow safety helmets. Barack also took his family on a tour of the Jatiluwih rice fields in Tabanan, a UNESCO world heritage site that has breathtaking views across rolling rice paddies.
The Obamas visited the Jatiluwih rice fields in Tabanan
The former First Family are reportedly staying at the luxurious Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan, Ubud during their holiday, where they can enjoy fine dining, spa treatments and yoga classes should they desire. It is likely that they are based in the Royal Villa – the most exclusive villa at the resort – a secluded and palatial three-bedroom residence that has its own private swimming pool and stunning views of the Ayung River.
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They are set to enjoy the next few days in Bali before travelling to Jakarta, where the former US President is scheduled to speak at the 4th Indonesian Diaspora Congress on Saturday. He will also visit Yogyakarta, the city where his mother Ann Dunham did research for her work as an economic anthropologist.
The family are staying at the Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan, Ubud
It is a return to familiar territory for Barack, who spent four years of his childhood living in Jakarta with his mum, stepfather Lolo Soetero and half-sister Maya between 1967 and 1971. Barack has previously described his life in Indonesia as "one long adventure" and reminisced on his experiences living there before he returned to his hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii after his mother and stepfather divorced.
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Game Report: Melbourne HvZ 7/5/16
MHvZ event with a surprise appearance by the police. I’ll let the MTB video fill you in on more of the details and such. Basically someone in the park saw what they thought was a rifle of some kind, called the cops, and the cops responded appropriately. Thankfully noone was fined or anything, but obviously it’s better if the cops don’t need to come at all.
Gamemodes:
Survival – Standard HvZ gametype, humans try to survive for a given amount of time (or until the last human falls). Zombies are given access to upgrades at various times, for instance Infectors at 5 minutes, Tanks at 10 minutes and Husk at 13 minutes.
Secret VIP – There are 3 special players in this game: the VIP, the General and the Traitor. The VIP is a human who the other humans are trying to protect and is restricted to a given area (we used the usual tambark area), while the Traitor is a zombie masquerading as a human. When stunned, zombies must move outside of the VIP’s area before counting down their stun. The only person who knows the VIP’s identity is the General, while all original zombies know the Traitor’s identity. Everyone knows the identity of the General, making them the only guaranteed trustworthy human. The Traitor acts as a human, but can at any point do a single Traitor zombie tag, revealing that they are the Traitor, and thus turn into a regular zombie. Additionally, if a human hits another human, the hit human is stunned for 25 seconds. If the humans protect the VIP for a given period of time (e.g. 15 minutes), the humans win. If the zombies successfully tag the VIP, the zombies win. Zombie upgrades are unlocked on a timer like Survival, something along the lines of 3 minutes for Infectors, 6 minutes for Tanks and 10 minutes for Husk. If a human is hit by a grenade, they are instantly turned into a zombie – this is the only way to eliminate the Traitor.
6 Round Pair Sweep – Each player is given 6 darts to start with, and may take any number of blasters or a single melee weapon. Humans have 3 respawns at the nearest tree, and go to respawn when they are hit. A melee hit or a zombie tag immediately turns a human into a zombie. Humans try to deposit as many darts to a dart collector as possible and are safe during the depositing, and can no longer deposit darts as a zombie. Humans work in pairs. Once all humans have been turned, the game ends and the winner is the pair who deposited the most darts as humans.
Virus Bunkers (name pending) – At regular intervals (starting with 2 minutes after beginning of round), the play area is filled with an airborne virus (or something along those lines) that turns any humans not in designated safe zones (“bunkers”) into zombies. The virus remains lethal for 30 seconds, after which humans can leave the bunkers safely. 2 minutes later the virus is released again, and so the cycle repeats until all humans have been turned. Humans are given a 30 second warning of virus release. Zombies naturally are unaffected by the virus, and may enter the bunkers.
Zombie rules:
Zombies tag humans with their hands onto any body part, blaster, tactical gear, etc, turning the human into a zombie. If a human hits a zombie with a dart, the zombie is stunned for 25 seconds. A human can also stun a zombie with melee, but only with a direct hit to the back.
There are 3 standard zombie upgrades/mutations/perks:
Infector – zombies get to use foam swords, pool noodles, etc. Tags with said foam melee weapons on humans count as regular tags. Said melee weapons can also be used to block darts.
Tank – zombies get to use shields, which block darts. The shields cannot be used to tag humans, presumably as a precaution against shieldbashing which could certainly cause injury.
Husk – a zombie gets to use a ranged attack, in this case a Drain Blaster firing rockets. A ranged Husk attack counts as a regular zombie tag. Husk ammo can be picked up by any zombie, but can only be used by the Husk naturally. The husk may move from the place they were stunned to retrieve their ammo, but do not count down their stun timer until they return to their original stun place.
Zombie upgrades cannot be stacked, so a zombie can only have one upgrade at any time.
If in play, grenades can stun a zombie with a hit to any equipment, including swords and shields, and can be reused at will.
Blasters:
Since there were a lot of different blasters there, I’ve generalised them and only listed down the ones that I saw as significant or noteworthy, or remember for that matter. Being that I can’t be everywhere at once, it’s entirely possible I completely missed some blasters.
Recurring/Regulars:
Rebelle Sweet Revenge (light mods) – my standard dual pistols, worked well when I went to them against a couple of zombies, but easily overwhelmed by more than ~4.
Elite Rapidstrike (various motors, LiPos) – standard high ROF blaster, a staple at MHvZ. Excellent for mowing down multiple zombies in close quarters or saturating an area with darts, but generally not as good at longer ranges. Worker flywheels do help a lot in the accuracy department though.
This was my first event running my Bullpup RS with the -3250 pusher motor, and it worked fine. I was still able to reliably fire off 2 dart bursts, and could easily dump a clip (mag) at a moment’s notice if necessary. I did appreciate the 2 darts being fired off very quickly together, perfect for HvZ style combat.
Elite Retaliator (various pump grips, upgrade springs) – solid pump action springer, good range and accuracy though a little lacking in ROF. I used my Pump Ret for the first time this event, and it worked well. I was able to get a fair number of tags from a longer range than usual. In the round I used it in, the lack of ROF did get me into trouble as I had to engage multiple zombies in close quarters, eventually resulting in me getting tagged.
Elite Demolisher (MTB Honey Badger motors, 2S LiPo) – decided to give it a try again after tweaking it following the previous MLF event. It still feels much less accurate than my Bullpup RS, and I struggle to get used to semi auto compared to full auto. I think I’ve been spoiled by Rapidstrikes, and struggle to use a semi auto effectively. I felt like I actually used a lot more darts with the Demolisher than I did with my Bullpup RS, because I simply couldn’t hit anything.
Zombie Strike Sledgefire (singled, spring upgrades) – as previously, powerful and fairly accurate, making it excellent for picking off single zombies. Being single shot makes it rather difficult to use in close quarters against multiple zombies, though priming on barrel opening does give it an edge over other high power singled blasters.
Elite Stryfe (various motors, LiPos) – the other main MHvZ staple, good ROF with practice, solid range and usable accuracy. Not as fast firing as a Rapidstrike, and not as effective at longer ranges as a Retaliator, Sledgefire, etc, but it’s a good all rounder.
N-Strike Barricade (Elite-compatible flywheels, unknown other mods) – though slow revving and a lot clunkier than say Stryfes, the main advantage of these dual Barricades is the ability to load on the fly. The user of these dual Barricades runs around quite a lot, constantly reloading and picking up darts.
Elite Alpha Trooper (assumed upgrade springs) – standard solid pump action blaster. Slightly better ROF than Retals, but much slower than flywheelers. A good entry level or low fuss blaster.
ZS Slingfire (upgrade spring) – used by the same player as all previous events. Works decently well with practice and experience, but still inferior to pump actions.
Star Wars Stormtrooper Deluxe Blaster (upgrade spring) – worked decently as usual, basically a mini Rampage/side loading EAT. Slightly better ROF than a Retal, but significantly inferior to a flywheeler.
Modulus Recon MkII (AR removed) – same as previously, performed slightly worse compared to a Retal. Works fine for very close quarters against a couple of zombies, but the low effective range prevents effective use beyond close range.
New/Infrequent:
Buzz Bee Sentinel (stock) – incredibly powerful for a stock blaster, performing competitively with spring upgraded EATs and such. ROF is a fair bit slower being lever action instead of pump action, but for a stock blaster it’s extremely impressive.
Lanard Hand Cannon (couplered for absolvers) – by virtue of using absolvers, it puts out a lot of darts in an instant at surprisingly good ranges. Excellent for pushing back tanks, suppressing groups of zombies and wiping out zombies at close range, but having to reload after every burst makes it very difficult to use when covering multiple angles.
N-Strike Vulcan (stock as far as I’m aware) – performed as expected, unnecessarily large and bulky, slow firing and not very powerful, but just looked cool. Not recommended unless you want to challenge yourself.
Vortex Pyragon (stock as far as I’m aware) – first time seeing a Vortex blaster actually get used at MHvZ. I think it worked ok, certainly not as good as a spring upgraded EAT/Rampage/etc, but far from the worst choice possible. Low disc velocity makes for very easy dodging beyond close range, but I think just the surprise factor of Vortex did catch some zombies off guard. Easy high ROF also helps a lot in close quarters.
Mega Rotofury and Cycloneshock (stock as far as I’m aware) – decent blasters, though far outclassed by clip (mag) system blasters. Had decent power, certainly comparable or superior to other stock blasters (besides the Sentinel of course), but the low capacity-size ratio and scarcity of ammo made their use rather more difficult.
Play area was same as usual, a large triangle that’s mostly open barring a few large trees and a tambark area. Weather peaked around 25C which is fine. Player count peaked around 25ish which is a little higher than usual, although a lot more than usual seemed to be newbies/inexperienced/less-tactically-inclined.
Annoyingly, there were several other groups of people using the same area, with one particular yoga group camped out just south of the big cluster of trees. This effectively turned the play area into a trapezoid, as the southern area was pretty much avoided. Late in the day, a group of people started playing soccer in the north east corner, which was not a huge issue as that open area is not essential to play.
We started the event with two Survival rounds, which both went pretty much as expected. Progress for the zombies would be pretty slow for the first ~10 minutes. They might get a tag or two from sneaking up on unaware humans or managing to isolate one or two from the group, but no major progress against the group as a whole. Those humans who get isolated are usually isolated through lack of awareness and poor tactical thinking, as just two or three humans can easily fend off about 5 ordinary/Infector zombies with good coordination. Once the zombies were given access to Tank shields, they can actively move to separate the human groups, making them far easier to rush, isolate and thus tag. The last survivors are a combination of humans who have just avoided notice (usually by skirting around the edges of the play area, or being otherwise stealth) and those who can run and fend for themselves.
In the first round, I was with a small group of humans that was one of the last groups remaining. Human coordination in this round was fairly poor, and so the humans fell rather quickly. I was tagged through poor awareness, being tagged from behind just after fending off a group of zombies in front. Generally the humans didn’t do too well this round, I felt like the Tanks were not very well combated which resulted in a lot of easy tags.
In the second round, I was one of, if not the last human remaining. I feel like this round went a little better than the first, as it felt like it lasted a little longer and I went through more ammo. I was however running my Demolisher, which as I noted above, I have serious trouble getting any hits with. By the end of the round, I was completely out of darts in my clips (mags), and had switched to my Sweet Revenges. I think if I had used my Bullpup RS instead, I could have survived even longer, and kept other humans alive longer as well.
We played a couple of Secret VIP rounds, and overall they worked decently well, though there was an unusual amount of confusion at times. In both rounds, I played an ordinary human. I was never the General, VIP or Traitor, and I survived both rounds long enough to lose the rounds as a human.
In the first round, the zombies were unable to make much progress until they acquired Tank shields, and even then, their progress was slowed by the sheer number of humans they were facing. Because of the sheer number of humans clustered in the area, if a Tank charges in, they’ll be very quickly surrounded and mowed down before they can do any significant damage. They might get a tag if they’re lucky, but generally the raw volume of fire is enough to bypass the shield and stun the Tank. Ordinary and Infector zombies naturally have little hope against the human group, since they have basically no protection and will get instantly hosed down. Usually the only way the zombies make significant progress without the Traitor’s help is a coordinated Tank rush or very poorly coordinated humans.
In the first round, the zombies made minimal progress until the Traitor revealed themselves, and the Traitor themselves did pretty much no damage to the humans, being stunned very quickly. However they did serve as a very valuable distraction – a good lot of the humans formed a circle around the Traitor, and had him grenaded, but in the process the Tanks rushed in and were able to tag a number of humans. One of the humans who was tagged thought they were the VIP (the VIP had been repicked just before the round, but clearly that message didn’t reach the original VIP), and in the ensuing chaos and confusion, the real VIP was tagged. As usual, I was nowhere near the real VIP, and I still have no idea who it was. That Traitor reveal was a critical distraction, and even though the Traitor themselves didn’t do much, the distraction gave the Tanks an opening to rush in.
In the second round, the zombies were able to make better progress without the Traitor’s help, although there were still plenty of humans. Late in the game, I retreated out of the tambark area to try and get out of the chaos of the human defences and have a chance to reload. I was spotted and chased around the outside while reloading, but was able to elude my pursuers, only to find out that our VIP had been tagged. It turns out that the Traitor was in fact guarding the VIP the whole time, although I wasn’t there to see what happened exactly (as usual…). It’s becoming a really annoying habit of mine, it makes writing these posts pretty damn hard.
With a relatively well coordinated human group (as with this event), it’s entirely up to the Traitor to give the zombies a chance. Without a good Traitor, the zombies will have major trouble going up against a much larger human group, who given the length of usual Secret VIP games, will likely have lots of ammo and firepower. Given how tight the VIP’s area is, even just a distraction by the Traitor can be enough to give the zombies a chance, though the zombies have to always be ready to charge in. With a poorly coordinated human group, a well organised Tank rush can sometimes be enough to break the human defences, allowing the zombies to just pick off the rest.
We tried a new gamemode, with prototype name Virus Bunkers. The idea of this gamemode is that the humans are periodically forced to return to designated safe zones, where they will have to fend off zombies while stuck in an enclosed area for a short time. In this first trial, we played with 3 hidden OZs and no regular starter zombies, 30 second virus time and 2 minutes between virus releases. Zombie upgrades were released something along the lines of after 2 virus releases (Infector), after 4 virus releases (Tank) and after 6 virus releases (Husk). Because of the presence of OZs (aka Traitors), a 25 second human stun rule is implemented ala Secret VIP. We had 3 rather small square safe zones (“bunkers”). The game had a fair share of issues and has a lot of potential improvements, but even just from this flawed trial, I felt like it has a lot of potential for a really fun gamemode.
From the start of the game, everyone is quite paranoid of each other, and so during the first virus releases, the humans typically have a 30 second long standoff within each small bunker. I was not near the first OZ to reveal themselves (and the other two were some of the last survivors), so my first zombie encounter was with 2 or 3 zombies, who were easily fended off. The game quickly became more intense once there were multiple zombies during a virus release. Since the humans are confined to a small space for longer than the zombie stun timer (30 sec virus time vs 25 second stun time), a smart zombie will be able to fit two charges into one virus phase. Given how small the squares are, this gives a smart zombie quite a good chance (perhaps even too good) of tagging a human (or providing a good distraction for another zombie to get the tag). I was one of the last survivors, however did not survive on my own for very long. Due to an impending virus release, I was confined to a small square, having to fend off zombies from all directions, which naturally ended very quickly with my getting tagged.
In ordinary Survival rounds, humans can survive quite a while just from constantly moving, as they are constantly distancing themselves from stunned zombies, and escaping potentially awful situations. In Virus Bunkers, the humans have no such luxury and so must rely on teammates and firepower to survive – and given the chaotic and claustrophobic nature of Virus Bunkers, are likely to lose track of some nearby zombies and so get tagged. The long virus phase and relatively short time between virus phases makes it nearly impossible for a human to survive by running away, especially once the zombies notice any stray humans not already in a group in a bunker.
The zombie upgrades make what is already a bad situation for the humans into a deathtrap. Infectors make it just that little bit easier for zombies to tag their prey, while both the Tank and Husk are severely overpowered when the humans are so tightly confined. I have been told that upgrades may be dropped entirely from Virus Bunkers, given that the zombies are already so much more powerful than usual.
I think Virus Bunkers is a good complement to the current primary gamemodes, with some alterations of course. The bunkers we played with were very small, perhaps only 3 or 4 metres wide. This along with the painfully long virus time made it extremely difficult to survive a whole virus phase against multiple zombies. Additionally, the short time between virus phases makes it extremely hard to survive by running away, as chances are you’ll just get caught by the virus and get turned anyway. I would suggest increasing the size of the bunkers by maybe 50%, along with a shorter virus phase (15-20 seconds, has to be less than the zombie stun time), to give humans a better chance of survival during the virus phase. Increasing the time between virus phases I believe would be healthy for the potential survival strategies of the game as well. Zombie upgrades are not really necessary in Virus Bunkers as stated previously. Hidden OZs are suitable, they prevent it from being too easy to defend the bunkers, but perhaps an ordinary starting zombie or two could be beneficial for the game, as it would further increase the paranoia of the humans – maybe only 1 or 2 hidden OZs would be necessary. One other minor issue which would be easy to solve is that not all players could hear the admin’s whistle, which is used for all virus related warnings. This is easily solved by getting a louder whistle.
Overall I quite liked Virus Bunkers, I think it would be a good shorter/more hectic gamemode than Survival, with less stagnation tham Secret VIP often has.
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14th annual asian american showcase in chicago
Hey Chicagoooo! This is your chance support some cool-ass independent Asian American cinema. The Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM) presents the 14th Annual Asian American Showcase, happening April 3-16 at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago.
The 2009 Asian American Showcase spotlights film and videos, along with music and visual art, produced by Asian American artists from across the United States and Canada, in a varied range of format and genre. Highlights include:
Dirty Hands : the art and crimes of David Choe, by Harry Kim, opening night spotlight, Friday April 3
Treeless Mountain, by So Yong Kim, closing night spotlight, Thursday April 16
The First Breath of Tengan Rei, by local directors Ed Koziarski and Junko Kajino
Also featuring Dim Sum Funeral, a comical 7day traditional Chinese funeral; the beautifully crafted coming of age drama Half-Life; and Fruit Fly, a flashy, trashy, and brazenly fun musical.
Don't miss Sarba Das's charmingly chaotic comedy about a Hoboken Hindu family in Karma Calling, or Hein Seok's documentary, The House of Sharing about an education center where four surviving Korean comfort women now live. Passing Poston: An American Story, Origns of Now: Stories of the Chicago Nisei, and The Dwelling is a documentary program about the struggles in which the Japanese and Japanese Americans historically and currently face.
Declare INDIEpendence! 2009: A Showcase of Asian American Music
Celebrate the diversity of independent music in the Asian American community with performances by: Spark*Shop, Lanialoha & Kupono, Cynthia Lin and Wallet-Sized Photo. Hosted by Narciso 'Seeso' Lobo with DJ Huu T. Ly and special guest Dawen. April 15th, 2009 at Subterranean, 2011 W. North Ave. Show starts at 8:30pm. Doors open and DJ set at 8pm. 17 and over. $10 cover.
Encounter with Distance - a visual art exhibition at the Gene Siskel Film Center Gallery/Cafe
All film programs will be at the Gene Siskel Film Center. You know I'm a sucker for Asian American film festivals. This particular one holds a special place place in my heart because it was the first one I ever attended, way back during its early years. Sounds like they've got another solid program. For more information about the Showcase, and full list of films and events, visit the FAAIM website here.
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Los Angeles Public Library Hits 100th Graduate Milestone
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| Originally posted on the LAPL Blog by Kelly Tyler, senior librarian| On September 1, 2017 the Los Angeles Public Library hit a big milestone with the Career Online High School diploma and career certificate program when Tania Velasquez completed her coursework to become the 100th graduate! Managing Librarian, Kelly Tyler, recently sat down with Tania to discuss her … Read more
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“Pomp and Circumstance” has come to public libraries.
The library, always the province of learning and enlightenment, has kicked things up a notch. In addition to providing information, access to knowledge, community resources, personal development programming, and (of course) story time for kids, a group of progressive libraries around the country are now actively providing a path for adults to achieve a high school diploma. And it’s working.
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Originally published by The Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/local/education/community/la-me-edu-library-high-school-20160127-htmlstory.html
By Sonali Kohli
Ron Hagardt didn’t finish high school when he was supposed to, in 1985. Drinking led to pot, which led to cocaine, which led to dropping out of Sonora High School in La Habra during his senior year.
Now he’s 48, four years sober — and a high school graduate. On Tuesday, Hagardt wore a blue cap and gown and moved the golden tassel across his mortarboard during a ceremony at the Los Angeles Public Library in downtown.
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There is an epidemic in the United States that gets little recognition—the high school dropout crisis. Every 26 seconds another student gives up on school, resulting in more than 1 million American dropouts a year, or 7,000 every day. Today, there are nearly 40 million adults without a high school diploma and there are limited options available for students age twenty-two and older who are looking to return to high school.
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When Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced in January 2014 that it would offer Career Online High School (COHS) through public libraries, the response was enthusiastic. The program, developed by Smart Horizons Career Online Education (SHCOE), a Florida-based distance learning company, offers a high school diploma accredited by the AdvancED Accreditation Commission and a career certificate in one of eight specialized areas of study through participating public libraries. Students apply for scholarships and, if accepted, have up to 18 months to complete the program—at their own pace, on their own schedule, from any computer with a broadband connection.
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Woman Who Brutally Attacked Man On Red Line Apologizes
By Diana Perez, WBZ-TV March 12, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Filed Under:Assault, Boston, Diana Perez, Dog, MBTA, Melissa Cote, Red Line, Transit Police
BOSTON (CBS) – The woman who brutally attacked a man on a Red Line train is telling her side of the story. She says she is sorry for what happened as another passenger recorded the relentless beating on a cell phone.
Her name is Melissa Cote and she says there’s a lot more to what happened Thursday night than what was shown on that video. She wanted to come forward not only to apologize but also to set the record straight.
“It’s horrible and I do feel sorry,” she says, for furiously punching the passenger, stopping only when someone stepped in.
Melissa Cote apologized for attacking a man on the Red Line.
But Melissa says the camera started rolling after another confrontation with the victim, “He touched my leg… and I told him a few select words.” She says it’s what he did next that really set her off, “He started shoving my dog that was laying there not doing anything with her muzzle on. Just because I told him to stop touching me he got so upset that he had to take his male aggression out on my dog?”
In the video, Melissa can be heard referring to that shoving, repeatedly asking the victim, “you put your shoe on my dog?”
Watch Video Here (Warning: explicit language)
The victim apologized saying, “I didn’t mean to.”
Now she says she knows she was wrong but admits she was drunk and lost control. She says her life has been tough these days, “My house got condemned I became recently homeless, I haven’t been working.”
Unfortunately for Cote, that isn’t quelling strangers’ strong reaction to the beating. One woman interrupted our interview to share her feelings, “Anybody who hits someone else the way you did is a bad person. You need to learn to control yourself.”
Melissa says she is ready to move past the incident and would like to personally apologize to the victim, “Hopefully I can eventually meet this guy and give him a hug and a big, fat, wet kiss on the cheek and say sorry.”
Transit Police questioned Melissa and will charge her with assault and battery and disorderly conduct. The victim has changed his mind and will press charges now.
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IamA guy that fights phone scammers, telemarketers, robocallers and annoying politicians. AMA!
Hey reddit, Aaron Foss here! I created Nomorobo, a service for consumers that automatically blocks illegal robocalls. It's free - I'm not trying to sell anything.
Basically, Nomorobo is like a spam-blocking service for your VoIP phones.
The service was developed for (and won!) the FTC Robocall Challenge aimed at developing tech solutions to phone spam. In 2014 alone, Nomorobo has stopped over 13 million robocalls. This year Nomorobo expanded to stop political robocalls, which are annoying but technically legal.
So why am I here?
Back in September, the National Associations of Attorneys General requested that the FCC stop playing ball with the big telecom companies. The goal is to make it easier for carriers to include spam-blocking technologies into their services. That should GREATLY reduce the amount of telemarketer spam that we receive.
Next Tuesday, I’m sitting down with the FCC and letting them know that US citizens want them to stop supporting shady telemarketers.
AMA! I'm an open book!
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Update at 4:45pm: I'm outta here. Thanks everyone! I'll let you know how it goes on Tuesday.
Comments: 142 • Responses: 53 • Date: 2015-01-13 18:00:49 UTC source
Dargok19 karma 2015-01-13 18:26:11 UTC
How exactly does Nomorobo block robocalls?
Just the other day I got a call from someone in India pretending to the the IRS and demanding that I "talk to her about my serious settlement issue" which considering the call came from a number in Florida and they spoke in broken English is just sad.
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robocall_killah26 karma 2015-01-13 18:37:42 UTC
Unfortunately, it's usually older and less savvy people that always get taken advantage of from scams like that. Look at the area code they're spoofing - Florida. But anyway...that wasn't your question.
Nomorobo looks at the incoming calls from hundreds of thousands of phone lines in real-time. Robocalling patterns stick out like a sore thumb. The phone number that called you was most definitely spoofed. But, they spoofed the same number to hundreds of people. Nomorobo has the data to detect those patterns.
Also, we have a long list of legal robocallers on our whitelist. This prevents school closings, prescription reminders, doctors appointment calls, etc. from getting blocked.
Right now, since the carriers don't want to cooperate (or can't, so they say), Nomorobo piggybacks off of the simultaneous ring feature of VoIP phones. This was my "hack" to get the product out there and helping people.
That's the main reason I'm going to the FCC on Tuesday. I think they should clarify their position and tell the phone companies that it's ok to block robocalls if consumers want it.
Dargok5 karma 2015-01-13 18:41:40 UTC
Thanks for the answer and thanks for doing this. We definitely need less of these calls going around.
Totally. In all honesty, the ONLY people that disagree on that point are the carriers. And, my theory, is they're making $$ carrying these calls so they don't want them to stop.
Trailmagic3 karma 2015-01-13 21:25:15 UTC
Can you expand on the simultaneous ViOP ring aspect?
robocall_killah5 karma 2015-01-13 21:42:00 UTC
Sure. That's really just my way of hacking the phone system. Without simultaneous ring, Nomorobo couldn't work unless the carriers cooperated with me.
3AlarmLampscooter3 karma 2015-01-13 20:39:06 UTC
So when are we going to see this on landlines? There's your real problem.
Google voice's spam blocking features are already pretty alright.
Also are you white-listing any charities? Some of them are the worst offenders.
Nomorobo only works on VoIP right now. Once the carriers cooperate, I hope it will be everywhere.
Charities are a tough one. You're right - they are the worst. But some people like them. Right now, they're all blocked. When we put in custom black/white lists, you'll be able to choose charities that you want to come through.
What about an asterisk PBX on a landline?
Yep! We have an API available if you're interested.
Sounds awesome, link?
Drop an email to info [at] nomorobo and we'll get you set up. It's still in beta.
captain_reddit_1 karma 2015-01-14 15:16:34 UTC
What are you doing with all the data that comes in, other than screening for robo-patterns? Is it stored in any way?
The data is only used to detect robocalling patterns. A lot of people have asked for a way to view their blocked call logs so we'll be storing that data for them.
BitchGoddess2 karma 2015-01-14 02:55:50 UTC
This same scam has been robocalling me for 2 years! They don't identify themselves as IRS, I don't think they legally can. They just say they're from "the government".
It's rampant. And it must be working because they've been doing it for years.
SageofHalo12 karma 2015-01-13 18:11:24 UTC
The do not call list was created over a decade ago to solve a different problem. Legit companies were trying this new "telemarketing" thing. People needed a way to get them to stop. Thus, the DNC list was born.
And it worked...for a bit.
Nowadays, the robocallers are scammers, plain and simple. Trying to scam elderly people. Trying to sell people fake security systems. It's more like email spam than "telemarketing." I have tons of these calls recorded and they're awful to listen to.
Politicians are a different case. They just want to get elected so they'll do anything they can...including carving out an exemption in the law for themselves.
RedwoodRustlers12 karma 2015-01-13 18:27:28 UTC
Keep up the good work! Now will the phone one day be silent and not have the one ring before it gets blocked?
Hopefully! That's why I'm going to the FCC on Tuesday. I want them to clarify to the carriers that it's ok to provide robocall blocking services if consumers want them.
If we get them to say that, carriers can build robocall blocking directly into their system - just like email providers have spam filtering. And then, all these garbage calls will quietly disappear.
NeilParmesan8 karma 2015-01-13 18:21:35 UTC
Is the practice of "spoofing" your outgoing number on caller ID illegal?
Spoofing a caller id to deceive people is most definitely illegal. These robocallers are breaking TONS of laws but they just don't care. The risk of getting caught is low and the reward is high.
There's actually a lot of legitimate uses for spoofing. For example, big companies, colleges, hospitals, etc spoof their caller ID all the time so you call back into the main number. This is not illegal.
drakins1 karma 2015-01-14 00:57:05 UTC
Is spoofing for collection purposes legal?
Spoofing to hide your identity or confuse people is illegal. Usually debt collectors just have A LOT of phone numbers that they use. And watch out for fake debt collectors.
AtoZZZ7 karma 2015-01-13 19:39:24 UTC
What do I say to tell them to f off? I usually get extremely grotesque and bitter, in hopes that makes them not call me anymore.
"Hi, I'm looking for xyz, is he available? This is abc, regarding a recent inquiry you had on remodeling your home." "Oh, that's funny, because I'm a college student, and my dad is a contractor. So why the fuck would I ever contact you, you filthy liar?"
I feel guilty, but I feel like that's the only way to fight these guys
You're just a blip on a computer screen to these guys. One of thousands of calls they have to answer. Doing anything but hanging up is usually a waste of time.
This summer we tried messing with them hard but, I too ended up feeling really guilty. The people at the other end of the line are really just trying to make a living. It's their bosses that are the scumbags.
When we pulled back from harassing them and instead just setup dumb situations, that got really fun.
We made some cartoons from the calls and we're posting them on YouTube. The first one's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3rFlPc3b_Q
We did a bunch where were acted like we just got into a bad car crash. The people on the other end of the line didn't know what to do.
Another time, some SEO company thought they were calling a tire shop but I pretended it was an adult toy distributor. She kept trying to make the sale until the very, very end.
deadpa2 karma 2015-01-14 13:53:48 UTC
Are you familiar with http://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/ ?
I've seen it - do you think the redditors over there would want to mess with our robocallers? I can send TONS of calls over if they want.
Outlashed1 karma 2015-01-14 00:49:14 UTC
uote this 'I am not interested, I have no interest wasting either of our time, and wish to be blacklisted with immediate effect, have a nice day'
I work with telemarketing, and this is the way you can say it without being too aggressive.
That's not a bad tactic. The more legit robocalls might honor that. The more scummy ones don't really care.
edible_starling7 karma 2015-01-13 19:00:47 UTC
Would you mind giving us a slightly more technical explanation of how this technology works? Does it answer every call? Are there false positives? What can I do not to be a false positive?
Oh yeah - I'm more than happy to get under the hood. Most people are just happy thinking it works like magic.
So here's a more technical explanation.
You put Nomorobo's phone number in your VoIP phone's simultaneous ring list. Now, every call that's made to your house also rings on the Nomorobo server at the same time. This lets it do the real-time detection.
If it's a "good" call (a friend, family member, legal robocall), Nomorobo stays out of the way (rings busy) and the call keeps ringing in your house.
If it's a "bad" call, Nomorobo answers the call (you only hear the first ring at your house) and presents the caller with an audio CAPTCHA. "This phone is protected by Nomorobo. Please enter [random 2 digit number] to be connected."
If they enter the correct number, the call is patched back to your house but the caller id is changed to Nomorobo's phone number. This process eliminates false positives and ensures that good callers can always get through but bad guys are kept at bay.
It's slightly annoying to get the single ring but it's the best I can do until the carriers cooperate.
free_bird_z2 karma 2015-01-13 19:37:44 UTC
You put Norombo's phone number in your VoIP phone's simultaneous ring list.
So this doesn't work for people using POTS?
Unfortunately, no. Traditional copper landlines and wireless phone don't have the simultaneous ring feature that Nomorobo needs to work.
Very cool! I can tell you've put some thought into this. Haha. Haha. Domo origoto. Mr. romoto.
I think that I've put more thought into robocalls than the carriers and the gov't combined :)
advilcoffee6 karma 2015-01-13 18:40:11 UTC
Your service seems interesting, but I have a question. Is there any way to customize the filter for blocking calls. One of my company's parts providers, actually does have you go through a call tree when they are calling you (I know, its weird and very annoying.) Would this be blocked and would there be a way to specify that this number is okay?
Right now it's a pretty blunt tool. Just the global black/white lists. We're launching custom lists this year so you'll have fine grained control.
In your example, that number would be allowed though so nothing would change on your end.
DATBURD1 karma 2015-01-14 01:19:53 UTC
I'm in high school. My school does this thing where parents get automated phone calls saying what period students missed if marked absent. Would those phone calls get filtered?
I know you're still working on it but I'm just curious.
Yep - legal robocalls like that are whitelisted. Also police notifications, tornado warnings, prescription reminders, doctors appointment calls. All of those types of calls are allowed through.
And that's actually a really big part of good robocall detection system. It's easy to block ALL robocalls. It's also really dangerous. You have to be able to tell the difference between good (legal) and bad (illegal) robocalls.
just_another__lurker6 karma 2015-01-13 20:26:03 UTC
Have you ever used the AT-5000 Auto-dialer (invented by Professor Frink) before?? And if so, is there a better scam to use than the old "Happy Dude" scam??
I actually used it to promote my last business, Mr. Plow.
pixelsquishtn5 karma 2015-01-13 22:13:35 UTC
I don't have VOIP, but I am on the national do not call list, but I keep getting a phone call from "Rachel from Cardholder Services", and they ask me to press 1 to lower my interest rate. They call at least 3 times a day from different numbers from all over the country. Every time I block one number on my phone, another one surfaces. It's a never ending game that is driving me mad. Any suggestions as to how I can stop this? I understand it doesn't work with your VOIP app, but you might have some insight.
Unfortunately, the only thing that actually stops them is Nomorobo. Would you be willing to port your number to a VoIP carrier? Ooma actually has Nomorobo built in.
jefferyphillips4 karma 2015-01-13 18:35:08 UTC
How can you report someone that keeps calling you? What can I say to make them not call back?
Are they calling from the same phone number all the time or is it always different?
Not who you're responding to with this, but I also get ones from different numbers but it is the same people. I have multiple of their numbers on my auto-reject list yet I still get calls from both the ignored and new numbers.
Yep - they change numbers CONSTANTLY thoughout the day. Take this robocaller for example - 1-786-450-9028. They used that number for 26 hours last week (1/8/15-1/9/15) and then stopped.
And nomorobo stops the calls when they switch numbers rapidly as well?
Yep. There's also a trick where they spoof your own number when they call you. It's sneaky but also easy to block. They keep trying all different things.
Don't have caller ID, its on my landline at work.
Unfortunately, there's really not much you can do. All the common advice is dumb. Don't answer calls you don't recognize. Hang up when they call. That's why we need better tools to block these kinds of calls.
I was getting calls like this three times a day and would hang up. Finally I started taking the calls and would opt to "connect to an operator" and just try to keep them on the phone as long as possible. After a few incidents I stopped receiving them so often but they eventually came back.
If you answer enough of the calls, you'll see that certain operators aren't allowed to hang up. I don't know if that's how they're paid or what but as long as you stay on the line, they will too.
Honestly, I can think of better ways to spend our time but a lot of people get their kicks from this kind of thing.
Shurikane1 karma 2015-01-14 13:52:03 UTC
In my case, the phone number is always different - except there is a trend: the first six digits are always the same. Since I positively do not know anybody else with a number remotely close to mine, I know right away whoever calling me is a motherfucker.
Yep - that's a pretty common tactic. Nomorobo isn't blocking it yet because there's a little too much room for it to block legit calls. We've also see the numbers being almost exactly the same except for the last 1 or 2 digits. This is a battle and the tactics keep changing - just like email spammers.
Quote this 'I am not interested, I have no interest wasting either of our time, and wish to be blacklisted with immediate effect, have a nice day'
I usually say everything you said but I add "eat a dick" at the end. They still call back.
dustjacketjones1 karma 2015-01-14 04:26:06 UTC
As a telemarketer, I can confirm that you get flagged as a "callback" for that behavior.
Oy. So this actually does happen?
budapest_budapest2 karma 2015-01-17 23:44:21 UTC
Totally agree. That's what I also was saying in another comment. Messing with the person on the other end of the robocall is misguided. They're (usually) just trying to make some cash. It's the boss(es) that we should be going after.
FreeBaconForEveryone4 karma 2015-01-13 18:39:48 UTC
Hands down, Chik-fil-a. Too bad they're not here in NY.
ZeroKarizma6 karma 2015-01-13 18:47:33 UTC
Legend tells of a secret Chik-Fil-A buried deep within NYU, but I've never seen it. http://www.chick-fil-a.com/nyu
When I was in TechStars, I walked past NYU one day and saw a Chik-fil-a wrapper on the ground. Me thinks you're correct.
monkeymania3 karma 2015-01-13 18:52:11 UTC
My parents have been Nomorobo users from early on and absolutely love it. Please keep it free!
My question is about cell phones. I tend to get spam texts more and more these days. Any ideas for future growth into the mobile space?
I hear that a lot - who still has landlines? Parents :)
I'd love to go into the mobile space but they don't have the simultaneous ring function that I need to get around the carriers. There are some apps - NumberCop & Call Control pop to mind - that can help on Android devices. Apple prevents apps from intercepting calls so robocall blocking on iPhones is impossible right now.
And that's a big reason I want the FCC to come out and say to the carriers that it's ok to block robocalls. This will really help solve these kinds of problems.
zixx3 karma 2015-01-13 20:53:24 UTC
Do you have any plans to expand to other countries?
Canada has some robocall issues and I've been working with the CRTC to get up there.
Do you know if other countries have this problem?
codhope12341 karma 2015-01-16 14:42:37 UTC
Australia... But good luck with our twat of a PM.
You know - you're not the first to mention about Australia's robocall problem. It's my guess that EVERY country will have this issue at some point.
SageofHalo3 karma 2015-01-13 18:52:40 UTC
I think it's just easier for them to carry all calls. They have the network capacity so it's not a huge additional cost for them.
But, as more and more people become aware that there are solutions to this problem, they'll have to start taking it more seriously.
I don't know enough about the inner workings of telcos to say if they'd want to buy Nomorobo or do it themselves. Maybe some combination of both.
Securus7773 karma 2015-01-13 21:20:23 UTC
How do I stop the robocalls that just say "Goodbye" when I pick up?
Those are weird. We hear them all the time here. It's some sort of bot that's trying to find victims.
The only good option right now is to use Nomorobo.
TavDnight3 karma 2015-01-13 21:19:24 UTC
Hey Aaron, thanks for doing this ama!
I was wondering your thoughts on the new breed of telemarketing software used mostly by out sourced phone teams with the complex soundboard:
http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/almost-human-the-surreal-cyborg-future-of-telemarketing/282537/
I'm sure over time your system can combat this if not does already but do you believe that companies using advanced systems like this make it harder to defend against.
Thanks for your time and answers!
Edit: best of luck with the FCC!
When I first heard this tactic I said, "This is the future of phone spam."
Foreign accents usually give robocallers away. These sound super crisp and really legit. You have low paid, offshore workers pushing buttons on their soundboard. Then they'll get transferred to shady domestic call centers to complete the scam.
I'm terrified of the implications of this kind of technology.
Nillows3 karma 2015-01-13 23:14:11 UTC
what is the legality of conducting sales calls under the guise of an automated script?
i used to work for a call center in canada and it was my job to sell identity theft insurance to RBC credit card holders all over the country. Basically it was my job to read the persons name and then (based on there response) play automated pre-recorded messages under the guise of a man named "jason spearing" (just google jason spearing rbc and you'll see a lot of complaints) at no time was the consumer told they weren't actually speaking to a human, but i did control what messages were played and what at what time. i no longer work there and i always wondered if that kind of deception was legal or not.
Mango1234563 karma 2015-01-13 23:21:40 UTC
I'm not the OP, but out of curiosity, why play messages instead of read the prompts yourself?
the company had a motto "magic phone theory" basically if you play the "same message" to the "same people" (rbc clients) you should get the "same results"...same message + same people = same results.
the script is professionally done and doesn't sound half bad if you listen to the whole thing, there are rebuttals, simple answers, hell i could press L and it would start laughing in case whoever i was talking to said something funny.
basically for maximum consistency they entirely removed human error, minus the fact i had to listen to 2 calls at once and respond correctly within 0.25 seconds to sound more natural.
they knew if they weren't getting the numbers they wanted it wasn't the way the message was relayed, but operator error/bad luck
It's all a numbers game. And if you can increase operator efficiency, you can increase profits. Even fractions of seconds can mean big bucks.
GMY0da2 karma 2015-01-13 21:23:04 UTC
Can I put my number on a "call-me" list? I've always enjoyed messing with people who make those calls.
What's the most/least fun thing so far?
Favorite food?
E-just noticed you said you'll be telling the FCC that we don't support such calls. Do we inadvertently support them somehow?
We get a lot of robocalls here - I'll gladly send you all of them. This past hour we blocked 6,894 calls. How many do you want?
Most fun? Hearing that people love my product and that it's made a positive impact on their lives.
Least fun? Paying my phone bill every month.
Favorite food? See my previous comment - Chik-fil-a.
As far as the FCC, I'm going down and telling them that people want the power to choose to block these calls and that they should let the carriers make it available.
Do they have general summaries or videos of the proceedings? I would love to watch it or read a transcript or something
I've never done this before so I don't know what they'll make public. I'll try and get as much as I can.
Sign up for anything on the internet that requires your phone number such as the Win a iPad ones
Just please remember, there is a living person on the other end.
Those are HUGE sources of numbers for robocallers. Yeah, don't give your number to any of those guys.
Thanks so much for your work! Have you heard of Lenny? He's actually increased the volume of telemarketing calls I receive, not the reverse, but I'm ok with that because he's pretty entertaining.
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I've seen this subreddit but never participated. I could totally do these kind of things.
wolfxor2 karma 2015-01-13 21:33:08 UTC
Do you believe Wireless providers will ever support the simultaneous ring feature if the customers ask for it? It seems like it is in their best interest to allow such spammers as it uses valuable minutes.
I do. If enough people ask, the carriers will eventually have to listen. And the best case would be if one carrier gets on board. Then they'll all have to fall in line.
Top_Wop2 karma 2015-01-14 02:01:22 UTC
What is the best way to get telemarketers to stop calling me?
Use Nomorobo. That's the only way that I've seen that works.
reverse_2 karma 2015-01-13 20:14:54 UTC
Woah Woah Woah you said you fight these people, not block them! If you could fight these people how and why would you do it?
I'm a lover, not a fighter.
just_another__lurker-1 karma 2015-01-13 21:14:57 UTC
would you rather fight one horse sized duck, or one hundred duck sized horses?
If I stepped on the duck sized horse, would it quack or neigh?
cfreak23991 karma 2015-01-14 05:24:26 UTC
Probably way late to this party but very interested in this topic.
Does your system have a way to block number spoofing? Seems like its becoming a large problem, I'll get the same call (usually a hang-up) from a many different numbers, almost everyday. I individually block numbers but of course they keep getting through because they just spoof a different one. So does your system work only off the caller ID or does it have a way to know where the call was actually routed from?
In my world, EVERY number is spoofed. I don't really have a way to tell the difference between a legit caller id and a spoofed one.
BUT - just because you can fake the number, you can't fake the pattern. Those "many different numbers" that call you also call a lot of other people. That's a big part of the detection algo - having enough data to see patterns across millions of calls.
sodopesauce1 karma 2015-01-14 06:32:25 UTC
'm not positive if this is anything you're referring to, but please hear me out. Over the past year, i've been getting an increasing number of phone calls from random numbers. The thing is, there's never any voicemails left, and if i pick up the call ends right away. I have no idea what this is and can't imagine what the purpose of it would be. It happens about once a day. Do you have a clue as to what this is? Any insight on what this is and how to put an end to it would be greatly appreciated. I've tried searching for an answer to no avail.
This is completely a theory of mine. I have no quantitative data to support it but...
I think there's a group of phone spammers who's only job is to scan all the phone numbers and see which are valid numbers. They then sell these lists to the robocallers.
It's a numbers game - calling all 1 billion phone numbers can take a long time. Spammers are looking for fresh, juicy live numbers. Not just to call every number sequentially.
That's really just a guess though.
LinLin921 karma 2015-01-14 03:47:02 UTC
How do those scams where the scammer ask you to deposit a check for them work? That makes zero sense to me
It's a bogus check. They ask you to deposit it for them and then give them half the money, in cash. You can keep the other half.
Until the bank realizes it's a bogus check and takes the full amount out of your bank account. You're out the rest of the money.
There's a lot of scum bags out there.
roonerspize1 karma 2015-01-13 23:33:01 UTC
I'm sorry I missed you on your AMA, but in case you check back later: will nomorobo block political calls? I know that might handicap your ability to get congressional approval for what you want in the long run, but the political calls annoy me more than the scammers.
If not, do you have any advice/tricks to help me block them on my own without having to use nomorobo or any other service that's trying to win the approval of the politicians behind the political calls?
Nomorobo DOES block political robocalls. While they are legal, Nomorobo users begged me to get them blocked. Not one politician noticed or cared.
Here's a call we blocked by Robo-Newt Gingrich where he accuses Obama of letting terrorists in through Mexico:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nUAn7rRTw
jvb1 karma 2015-01-13 23:55:52 UTC
I'm a non-tech inclined old F#~*T and want to know what others like me can do to help?
I deal with a lot of non-tech people. That's why I tried to make the setup really easy. I spoke with an 82 year old grandmother in NJ that was able to set it up. If you can't get it working, reach out to our support dept. They're fantastic and will get you setup.
rationaljackass1 karma 2015-01-14 00:24:12 UTC
If you sign up for something, let's say home security. And you are getting harassed by numerous phone calls from a lot of companies. Can you use this to block the calls?
The numbers that are calling you are probably harassing a lot of other people and are probably on our list.
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By Douglas Soltys Canadian Startup News, Funding March 31, 2015
MappedIn raises $1.51 million seed round to chart a global course
Waterloo-based MappedIn announced the close of a $1.51 million seed round today, led by Amolino with participation from select angel investors. MappedIn had recently received $600,000 in FedDev funding to offer its interactive indoor navigation system in multiple languages to help fuel international growth.
Despite landing major Canadian partners such as Brookfield Properties and Great West Life Realty, as well as Texas-based hosting provider Rackspace, international growth is still on the young company’s mind. MappedIn co-founder and CEO Hongwei Liu told BetaKit in an exclusive interview that the new funding round would be used to expand the company’s client portfolio to the UK and Asia. For his part, Liu remained extremely confident about MappedIn’s prospects.
“Our biggest differentiator is that our customers are happy. We’re cleaning up after all the other guys.”
“Our biggest differentiator is that our customers are happy and they constantly give us more business,” he said. “We’re cleaning up after all the other guys. I want as many people as possible to not make that initial mistake of going somewhere else. Because we’ve seen what’s out there, we’ve picked up the pieces when it’s failed, and I’d rather not miss out on business that we can get right away.”
Such direct and forthright statements are typical of Liu, whose no-nonsense approach can be heard in the audio of our interview below. However, Liu tempers this honesty with a deep humility and commitment to the Kitchener-Waterloo tech community that cuts through the typical startup hype echo chamber. For example, here is Liu speaking about attending the recent Velocity Fund Finals, of which he and MappedIn are alumni.
“We go back all the time and look at some of the new startups coming up,” Liu said. “And I’m constantly like ‘holy shit, these guys are doing it so much better’, or they’re executing so much better, or so much faster.”
“When we were coming up we looked up to guys like Ted from Kik and Eric from Pebble – those were our heroes. It’s pretty cool that down the road we get to pay it forward.”
Liu reinforces Velocity Director Mike Kirkup’s mantra that “the best advisor for you is someone you had six months down the road,” and admits that while the challenges a startup will face evolve over time, the process never gets easier. MappedIn’s challenges have evolved from early product development to finding customers, and then delivering upon their request for better way-finding. Today, the challenge lies in helping customers manage the data that MappedIn can produce for them.
“Everyone does something different with it,” Liu said. “It’s this gigantic sprawling problem that businesses face – every type of brick and mortar business. Ten different people doing something different with the same piece of information, and none of that feeding back centrally. That’s really the problem we’re solving for customers today.”
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BA, Yale University; MEd, Harvard University; PhD, Boston University
Charles Borges, S.J., Associate Professor of History
BS, Maharaja Sayajirao University (Baroda); MA, PhD, University of Bombay; BLiBSc, Indira Gandhi National Open University (New Delhi)
Allen Brizee, Associate Professor of Writing
BA, MA, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; PhD, Purdue University
Rebecca S. Brogan, Associate Professor of Biology; Chair, Biology Department
AB, Ripon College; PhD, University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
Heidi Brown, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (French)
BA, Bucknell University; MA, PhD, The Ohio State University
Jay R. Brown, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BBA, MBA, PhD, Kent State University
Richard A. Brown, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BS, Loyola University Maryland; MS, Johns Hopkins University
Timothy Brown, S.J., Associate Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations; Special Assistant to the President for Mission Integration
BS, Georgetown University; MDiv, Fordham University; MDiv, Weston School of Theology; JD, George Mason University
Verena M. Brown, Affiliate Instructor of Mathematics and Statistics (Mathematics)
BS, MES, Loyola College in Maryland; MA, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
Patrick Brugh, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (German); Affiliate Instructor of Sociology; Director, Language Learning Center (LLC)
MA, PhD, Washington University
James R. Bunzli, Associate Professor of Fine Arts (Theatre); Assistant Director, Honors Program
BA, Kalamazoo College; MFA, University of Texas (Austin); PhD, Bowling Green State University
John D. Burger, Professor of Economics
BS, Wake Forest University; PhD, University of North Carolina
Thomas Byrd, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BS, University of Nebraska; M.Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology; JD, Loyola University Chicago, School of Law
Lena Caesar, Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology-Hearing Sciences; Director, Undergraduate Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BS, Andrews University; MS, University of Wisconsin (Madison); EdD, PhD, Western Michigan University; CCC-SLP
Martin Camper, Assistant Professor of Writing
BA, McDaniel College; MA, Carnegie Mellon University; PhD, University of Maryland (College Park)
David Carey, Jr., Professor of History; Doehler Chair in History
BA, University of Notre Dame; MA, PhD, Tulane University
Marianna E. Carlucci, Associate Professor of Psychology
BA, MS, PhD, Florida International University
Daniel P. Castillo, Assistant Professor of Theology
BA, University of Florida; MA Washington Theological Union
Diane Chaffee-Sorace, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
BA, Wells College; MA, PhD, Duke University
Yun-Dih Chia-Smith, Educator in Residence of Education
BS, National Chengchi University (Taiwan); MS, PhD, University at Albany, State University of New York
Prince Chidyagwai, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (Mathematics)
BA, BS, Lafayette College; MA, University of Pittsburgh; PhD, Rice University
Remi Chiu, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts (Music)
ARCT, Royal Conservatory of Toronto (Canada); BAH, Queen's University (Canada); MA, PhD, McGill University
Angela Russell Christman, Professor of Theology; Director, Catholic Studies Program
BA, PhD, University of Virginia; MDiv, Virginia Technological Seminary
Tuugi Chuluun, Assistant Professor of Finance
BA, MA, Ohio University; PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; CFA
Timothy B. P. Clark, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (Mathematics)
BA, State University of New York at Geneseo; MSEd, State University of New York (Cortland); MA, PhD, University at Albany, State University of New York
Mary Jo Coiro, Associate Professor of Psychology; Director of Clinical Training (Psychology)
BA, College of William and Mary; MA, Bryn Mawr College; PhD, University of Virginia
Jean Lee Cole, Professor of English; Director, Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship; Program Advisor, Minor in American Studies
BA, Carleton College; MA, PhD, University of Texas (Austin)
André P. Colombat, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (French); Dean of International Programs
Baccalaureate, Lycée Jean-Puy; BA, Maîtrise, Universite Lyon II; PhD, Washington University
John J. Conley, S.J., Professor of Philosophy and Theology; Henry Knott Chair of Theology and Philosophy
BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA Fordham University; Diplome National, Universite de Bordeaux; Lic. Theol.; Centre Serves (Paris); PhD, Universite Catholique de Louvain
Katherine Hadley Cornell, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology; Division Director, Psychology, Loyola Clinical Centers
BA, Williams College; MA, Boston University; MS, PsyD, Loyola University Maryland
Gregory Corrigan, Affiliate Instructor of Marketing
BS, Florida Institute of Technology; MBA, Loyola University Maryland
Hope Bober Corrigan, Affiliate Instructor of Marketing
BS, Hood College; MS, North Carolina State University; MBA, Loyola College in Maryland
Adell Cothorne, Lecturer of Education, Clinical Instructor, Professional Development Schools Coordinator
BS, Morgan State University; MS, Johns Hopkins University; EdD, Walden University
Marian G. Crotty, Assistant Professor of Writing
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MFA, Arizona State University; PhD, Florida State University
Benjamin Cruz, Affiliate Instructor of Management and International Business
BS, Northern Arizona State University; MM, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Jeffrey L. Cummings, Professor of Management and International Business
BBA, MBA, PhD, The George Washington University
Francis J. Cunningham, Associate Professor of Philosophy
BS, Fairfield University; MBA, Loyola College in Maryland; MA, PhD, Fordham University
Tiffany Curtis, Lecturer of Writing
BA, MBA, University of Mississippi; MA, Mississippi University; PhD, University of Southern Mississippi
Elizabeth E. Dahl, Associate Professor of Chemistry
BSc, University of Miami; MSc, PhD, University of California (Irvine)
Ashley Davis, Affiliate Instructor of Education (Teacher Education)
BA, Frostburg State University; MEd, Loyola University Maryland
Bret W. Davis, Professor of Philosophy
BA, Trinity University; MA, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Irem Demirkan, Assistant Professor of Management and International Business
BA, Bogazici University; MS, PhD, The University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson)
Elissa Miller Derrickson, Associate Professor of Biology; Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
BS, Shippensburg University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Kim C. Derrickson, Associate Professor of Biology; Associate Vice President for Academic Budgets, Data, and Governance
BS, University of Wisconsin (Madison); PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Gregory N. Derry, Professor of Physics
BS, Union College; PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Christy L. DeVader, Associate Professor of Management and International Business
BS, Fort Hays State University; MA, PhD, University of Akron
Kelly R. DeVries, Professor of History
BA, Brigham Young University; MA, PhD, University of Toronto
Noelle Dichiera, Affiliate Instructor of Communication
BA, Notre Dame of Maryland University; MA, University of Baltimore
Theresa DiDonato, Associate Professor of Psychology; Director, Undergraduate Education (Psychology)
BA, Wellesley College; ScM, PhD, Brown University
Lesley DiFransico, Lecturer of Theology
BS, The Ohio State University; MA, Regent University; PhD, Catholic University of America
Joseph M. DiNatale, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BA, University of Delaware; MS, Johns Hopkins University
Chad R. Diehl, Assistant Professor of History; Program Advisor, Minor in Asian Studies
BA, Montana State University; MA, PhD, Columbia University
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Professor of Economics
BA, Westminster College; PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Hung-bin Ding, Associate Professor of Management and International Business; Chair, Management and International Business
BA, Soochow University; MA, The George Washington University; PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Walter B. Doggett III, Affiliate Instructor of Accounting
BS, University of Virginia; MS, MS, Georgetown University; MBA, MSF, Loyola College in Maryland; CPA
Randall P. Donaldson, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (German); Director, Graduate Program in Liberal Studies
BA, Pomona College; MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
John P. Dougherty, Assistant Professor of Economics
BA, George Washington University; MS, PhD, Ohio State University
Frank P. D'Souza, Associate Professor of Finance; Chair, Finance Department
B.Com., University of Bombay (India); MBA, St. Cloud State University; PhD, Oklahoma State University
Kevin Drummey, Lecturer (Mathematics)
BA, Towson State University; MA, University of Maryland College Park; PhD, University of Maryland Baltimore County
William Ethan Duckworth, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (Mathematics); Chair, Mathematics and Statistics Department
BA, Rice University; PhD, University of Oregon (Eugene)
Jane Elizabeth Edwards, Instructor of History
BA, Muskingum College; MA, University of Richmond
Mara Egorin-Williams, Affiliate Instructor of Education (Teacher Education)
BS, MA, CAS, Towson State University
Rebekah Ann Eklund, Associate Professor of Theology
BA, MDiv, North Park University; ThD, Duke Divinity School
Wayne L. Elban, Professor of Engineering
BChE, PhD, University of Delaware; MS, University of Maryland
Lynne C. Elkes, Visiting Instructor of Economics
AB, Vassar; MBA, University of Baltimore
Juniper Lee Ellis, Professor of English
BA, Whitman College; Diploma of Arts, Waikato University; PhD, Vanderbilt University
Nan S. Ellis, Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BA, JD, Ohio State University
Scott Emge, Executive in Residence of Finance
BS, Towson University; MBA, University of Maryland (College Park)
Andrea Erdas, Professor of Physics; Chair, Physics Department
BA, University of Cagliari (Italy); MS, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Ramón E. Espejo-Saavedra, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
BA, Occidental College; MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
W. Randall Everett, Affiliate Instructor of Management and International Business
BS, New York Regency College; MA, Naval Post Graduate School
Lisa M. Fairchild, Professor of Finance
BBA, East Tennessee State University; PhD, University of South Carolina
Joseph M. Farrell, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
BS, Loyola University Maryland; MA, American University; PhD, Temple University
Raenita A. Fenner, Associate Professor of Engineering
BS, Morgan State University; MS, PhD, Michigan State University
William Finegan, Affiliate Instructor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BBA, Loyola College in Maryland; MBA, University of Baltimore; Master's Certificate, Villanova University
Louise Finn, Affiliate Instructor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations; Chief Information Officer, Associate Vice President Technology Services
BS, MBA, John Hopkins University
Karen Fish, Associate Professor of Writing; Chair, Writing Department
BFA, Arcadia University; MA, Johns Hopkins University
Kathleen Forni, Professor of English
BA, University of California (Berkeley); MA, University of California (Los Angeles); PhD, University of Southern California
Tepanta R. D. Fossett, Assistant Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BA, MA, Hofstra University; PhD, University of Pittsburgh; CCC-SLP
Bradley K. Fountain, Affiliate Instructor of Marketing
BA, University of Baltimore; MBA, Loyola University Maryland
Stephen E. Fowl, Professor of Theology; Dean, Loyola College
BA, MA, Wheaton College; PhD, University of Sheffield
Herve Franceschi, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, France); MS Stanford University; MS University of Maryland (Baltimore County)
Michael G. Franz, Professor of Political Science
BS, Illinois State University; MA, PhD, Loyola University (Chicago)
Lloyd Frias, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
BA, MA, Marquette University
William Friebele, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts (Studio Arts)
BA, St. Mary's College of Maryland; MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art
Andrew Futterman, Professor of Psychology
BA, Wesleyan University; PhD, Washington University, St. Louis
Sally Gallena, Associate Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BS, Towson University; MS, Loyola College in Maryland; CCC-SLP
Joseph Ganem, Professor of Physics
BS, University of Rochester; MS, University of Wisconsin (Madison); PhD, Washington University (St. Louis)
Laura L. Garofalo, Lecturer of Classics
BA, Northwestern University; PhD, The Johns Hopkins University
Michelle I. Gawerc, Associate Professor of Sociology
BA, University of Colorado (Boulder); MA, University of Notre Dame; PhD, Boston College
Theresa M. Geiman, Associate Professor of Biology
BA, McDaniel College; PhD, The George Washington University
Marco Gentile, Affiliate Instructor of Marketing
BBA, MBA, Loyola College in Maryland
David J. Gerrity, Affiliate Instructor of Marketing
BA, MBA, Loyola College in Maryland
Kathleen A. Getz, Professor of Management and International Business; Dean, Sellinger School of Business and Management
BS, Pennsylvania State University; MBA, Gannon University; PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BSBA, Bowling Green State University; JD, College of William and Mary
Melissa A. Girard, Assistant Professor of English
BA, Duquesne University; MA, PhD, University of Illinois
Jennifer Glick, Affiliate Instructor of Communication
BA, University of Wisconsin (Madison); MA, University of Maryland (College Park)
Keenya J. Golden, Affiliate Instructor of Education (Teacher Education)
BS, Morgan State University; MA, Goucher College
Frank D. Golom, Assistant Professor of Psychology; Chair, Psychology Department
BA, Loyola University Maryland; MA, PhD, Teachers College, Columbia University
Margarita Gomez, Associate Professor of Education
BA, Boston College; MS, State University of New York at Binghamton; PhD, Boston College
Ana Gómez-Pérez, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish); Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Licenciatura, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain); MA, University of Wisconsin (Madison); PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Lisa Green-Cudek, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Fine Arts (Dance)
BS, Skidmore College; MLA, Temple University.
Sharon Green-Hennessy, Professor of Psychology
BA, Clark University; MA, PhD, University of Rochester
Scott Gromacki, Affiliate Instructor of Finance
BBA, Walsh College; MBA, DePaul University
Rachel L. Grover, Professor of Psychology
BS, Cornell University; PhD, University of Maine
Nina Guise-Gerrity, Affiliate Visiting Assistant Professor
BA, Loyola University Maryland; MA, St. John's College (Annapolis)
Veronica Gunnerson, Affiliate Instructor of Communication; Internship Coordinator (Communication)
BA, California State University, Long Beach; MA, University of Southern California
Fuat Gürsözlü, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
BA, Bogaziçi University, (Turkey); MA, PhD, State University of New York (Binghamton)
Selin Gursozlu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
MA, PhD, State University of New York (Binghamton)
Sondra Guttman, Affiliate Assistant Professor of English
BA, Johns Hopkins University; MA, Boston University; PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Erhan Guven, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
MS, PhD, George Washington University
Catriona Hanley, Associate Professor of Philosophy
BA, McGill University; MA, Université de Montréal; PhD, Loyola University of Chicago
Edward C. Harding III, Affiliate Instructor of Finance
BS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; MSF, Loyola College in Maryland
Douglas B. Harris, Professor of Political Science
BA, American University; PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Kimberly Hart, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Marketing
BA, Hood College; MBA, Loyola College in Maryland
Inas Hassan, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (Arabic)
BA, MA, PhD, University of Alexandria
Courtney J. Hastings, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BS, College of William and Mary; PhD, University of California (Berkley)
Matthew Hearn, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BA, MS, Loyola University Maryland
Scott Heil, Military Science Instructor; Training Non-Commissioned Officer; Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army
Robert J. Helfenbein, Professor of Education; Associate Dean, School of Education
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MA, Appalachian State University; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joshua D. Hendrick, Associate Professor of Sociology
BA, University of Georgia; MA, Northern Arizona University; MA, PhD, University of California (Santa Cruz)
Yolopattli Hernández-Torres, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
BA, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico); MA, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alfredo J. Herrara, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Biology
BS, MD, Cayetano Heredia University (Peru); FAAP; CAAP
Michael Herring, Affiliate Instructor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BS, Mississippi State University; MBA, Loyola University Maryland
Afra Ahmed Hersi, Associate Professor of Education; Director, Graduate Program in Literacy; Chair, Teacher Education Department
BS, Radford University; MEd, PhD, Boston College
Inge Heyer, Senior Lecturer of Physics
BA, Smith College; MS, University of Hawaii (Manoa); PhD, University of Wyoming
Justin Hicks, Senior Military Instructor; Master Sergeant, U.S. Army
Brianne Higgins Roos, Affiliate Faculty of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BA, MS, Loyola College in Maryland; CCC-SLP
Christopher I. Higginson, Associate Professor of Psychology
BS, MS, PhD, Washington State University
David H. K. Hoe, Associate Professor of Engineering
BAS, MAS, PhD, University of Toronto
Helen Hofling, Lecturer of Writing
BA, Vassar College; MFA, The Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph's College
Janine P. Holc, Associate Professor of Political Science
BA, Illinois State University; MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Gregory Hoplamazian, Associate Professor of Communication
BA, Pennsylvania State University; PhD, Ohio State University
Nune Hovhannisyan, Assistant Professor of Economics
BA, Yerevan State University; MA, Bowling Green State University; MA, PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder
Coraetta Howell, Assistant Professor of Military Science; Military Science Instructor; Captain, U.S. Army
BS, Kansas State University; MA, Florida Institute of Technology
Mark Hubbard, Affiliate Instructor of Management and International Business
BS, University of Maryland University College; MBA, Loyola College in Maryland; JD, University of Maryland
Kevin W. Hula, Associate Professor of Political Science
BA, University of Kansas; AM, PhD, Harvard University
Sibren Isaacman, Associate Professor of Computer Science
AB, Cornell University; MEng, MA, PhD, Princeton University
Michiko Iwasaki, Associate Professor of Psychology
BA, Maryville University; MA, Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville); PhD, Ball State University
Frank B. Izzo, Lecturer, Accounting
BS, MPA, Loyola College in Maryland; CPA
Cara H. Jacobson, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology; Director of Doctoral Field Education; Therapy Service Coordinator, Loyola Clinical Centers
BA, McDaniel College; MS, PsyD, Loyola University Maryland
Margarita Jácome, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
BA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá); MA, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá); PhD, University of Iowa
Theresa Jefferson, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BS, MS, DSc, The George Washington University
Randall S. Jones, Associate Professor of Physics
BS, Brown University; MS, PhD, Cornell University
Patricia Tinen Kanashiro, Assistant Professor of Management and International Business
BA, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brazil); MA, University of Pittsburgh; MA, PhD, The George Washington University
John Karabias, Affiliate Instructor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BA, Western Washington University; MBA, Loyola University Maryland
Armina A. Kazi, Associate Professor of Biology
BA, Goucher College; PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Sean P. Keehan, Executive in Residence of Economics
BA, St. Mary's College of Maryland; MA, American University
Suzanne E. Keilson, Associate Professor of Engineering
BA, Yale University; MS, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University
Derek M. Kendig, Assistant Professor of Biology
BS, University of the Sciences; PhD, Drexel University College of Medicine
Elizabeth J. Kennedy, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BA Smith College; JD, University of California (Berkeley)
Robert Kenyon, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BA, State University of New York (Postdam); MED, Florida Atlantic University; EdD, Nova Southeastern University (Florida)
Marie Kerins, Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology-Hearing Sciences
BS, Marquette University; MS, Loyola College in Maryland; EdD, Johns Hopkins University; CCC-SLP
John R. Kiess, Associate Professor of Theology; Director, Peace and Justice Studies Program
BA, University of Virginia; MA, Queen's University (Northern Ireland); MPhil, Cambridge University; PhD, Duke University
Elliot King, Professor of Communication
BA, California State University; MS, Columbia University; PhD, University of California (San Diego)
Matthew W. Kirkhart, Associate Professor of Psychology
BA, MA, West Virginia University; PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Richard Klink, Professor of Marketing
BS, Duquesne University; MBA, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Michael P. Knapp, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (Mathematics)
BA, Northwestern University; PhD, University of Michigan
Julie Knight, Affiliate Instructor of Sociology
BS, Pennsylvania State University; MS, PhD, Cardiff University (UK)
Perrie Kohel, Affiliate Instructor of Education (Teacher Education)
BA, MEd, Goucher College
Glenn S. Kohne, Associate Professor of Engineering
BSEE, University of Maryland; MES, Loyola College in Maryland
Amanda Konradi, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director, Minor in Gender Studies
BA, Swarthmore College; MA, PhD, University of California (Santa Cruz)
Beth A. Kotchick, Associate Professor of Psychology; Associate Chair, Psychology Department
BA, MA, Loyola College in Maryland; PhD, University of Georgia
John P. Krahel, Associate Professor of Accounting
BA, MAcc, Rider University; PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Newark); CPA
Libby Kumin, Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BA, Long Island University; MA, PhD, New York University; CCC-SLP
Reagan A. Lake, Lecturer of Biology
BA, University of Arizona; MS, University of Maryland
Steven Lane, Lecturer of Biology
BA, Spring Arbor University; MS, Central Michigan University; PhD, University of Montana
Jeffrey M. Lating, Professor of Psychology
BA, Swarthmore College; MS, PhD, University of Georgia
Dawn J. Lawrie, Professor of Computer Science; Chair, Computer Science Department
AB, Dartmouth College; MS, PhD, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Andrea M. Leary, Lecturer of Writing
BA, College of the Holy Cross; MA, PhD, University of Delaware
Drew L. Leder, Professor of Philosophy
BA, MD, Yale University; PhD, State University of New York (Stony Brook)
Bu Hyoung Lee, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (Statistics)
BS, Seoul National University; MA, Seoul National University, MS; Temple University; PhD, Temple University
Karyl B. Leggio, Professor of Finance
BS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; MBA, East Tennessee State University; PhD, University of Kansas
Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner, Lecturer of Theology; Health Professions Advisor; Director of National Fellowships
MA, PhD, University of Turku (Finland); BS, Helsinki Metrapolia University of Applied Science (Finland)
Salvatore Lenzo, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations; Director of Information Systems, Sellinger School of Business and Management
BS, MBA, Loyola College in Maryland; PMP, Project Management Institute
Tasha Lewis, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
MA, California State University (Long Beach); PhD, University of California (Davis)
Michael Liebman, Affiliate Instructor of Management and International Business
BS, University of Baltimore; MS, Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan J. Lillie, Associate Professor of Communication
BA, Warren Wilson College; MA, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brian F. Linnane, S.J., Professor of Theology; President
AB, Boston College; MA, Georgetown University; MDiv, STL, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University
Xuefeng Liu, Assistant Professor of Marketing
MS, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Giuseppina Iacono Lobo, Assistant Professor of English
BA, University of Connecticut; MA, PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Jake London, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BS, University of Georgia; MBA, Augusta University; PhD, Clemson University
Christopher Lonegan, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Fine Arts (Studio Arts)
BFA, University of the Arts; MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art; PhD, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
Katie J. Loomis, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology; Director of Master's Education; Director of Undergraduate and Master's Field Education (Psychology)
BA, Lehigh University; MS, PsyD, Loyola University Maryland
Patrick LoPresto, Affiliate Instructor of Psychology; Director, Undergraduate Professional Development; Clinical Professional Counseling (CPC) Advisor (Psychology)
BA, MA, Loyola College in Maryland; LCPC
Mary L. Lowe, Professor of Physics
AB, Harvard University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Jen L. Lowry, Associate Professor of Psychology
BS, University of Evansville; MS, PhD, Saint Louis University
Paul Lukacs, Associate Professor of English; Chair, English Department
BA, Kenyon College; MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Dave Luvison, Executive in Residence of Management and International Business
BA, John Carroll University; MBA, Miami (Ohio) University, DBA, Nova Southeastern University
Moira K. Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science
BA, Miami University; MA, PhD, University of Minnesota
Heather Z. Lyons, Professor of Psychology
BS, Northeastern University; PhD, University of Maryland (College Park)
Sara Magee, Associate Professor of Communication; Chair, Communication Department
BA, PhD, Ohio University; MA, Virginia Commonwealth University
Jon Malis, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts (Photography)
BA, The George Washington University; MFA, American University
Daniel R. Mangiavellano, Assistant Professor of English
BA, Michigan State University; MA, American University; PhD, Louisiana State University
Heidi Martino, Affiliate Instructor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BS, Towson University; MS, Loyola University Maryland
Claire Mathews McGinnis, Professor of Theology; Chair, Theology Department
BA, Swarthmore College; MDiv, Yale Divinity School; PhD, Yale University Graduate School
Dede Matrangola, Clinical Faculty of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Graham James McAleer, Professor of Philosophy
BA, University College London; MA, University of Alberta (Canada); PhD, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)
Thomas D. McCreight, Associate Professor of Classics
BA, Brown University; MA, City University of New York; PhD, Duke University
Kia McDaniel, Affiliate Instructor of Education (Teacher Education)
BA, University of Maryland; MA, George Washington University; EdD, Bowie State University
Nicola McDougal, Senior Lecturer of Chemistry
BSc, University of Reading; PhD, University of Cambridge
Shelley Bliss McGarry, Affiliate Instructor of Information Systems and Operations
BS, Towson University; MS, Johns Hopkins University; MBA, Loyola College in Maryland
Gayla McGlamery, Associate Professor of English; Co-Director of the Honors Program
BA, Baylor University; PhD, Emory University
Lisa McGrain, Affiliate Instructor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BS, Towson University; MS, Loyola College in Maryland
Robert E. McKee, Affiliate Instructor of Mathematics and Statistics (Mathematics)
BA, Gettysburg College; ME, Towson University
Craig R. Medvecky, Lecturer of Writing; Associate Director, Loyola Writing Center
BA, Princeton University; MFA, Emerson College; PhD, University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
Fabio Mendez, Professor of Economics; Hanway Chair in Global Studies
BA, Universidad de Costa Rica; MA, PhD, Michigan State University
Raelene Meneses, Affiliate Instructor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BA, MS, Loyola College in Maryland
Anthony J. Mento, Professor of Management and International Business
BA, PhD, University of Maryland; MA, Towson University
Jesse R. Merriam, Assistant Professor of Political Science
BA, Wesleyan University; MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins University; JD, George Washington University Law School
Dominic Micer, Lecturer of Writing
BA, Virginia Commonwealth University; MA University of Vermont; PhD, Miami University of Ohio
John Michel, Associate Professor of Management and International Business
BS, Towson University, MS, University of Baltimore, PhD, University at Albany, SUNY
Maja Milicevic, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (French)
BA, University of Belgrade, Serbia; MA, University of New Orleans
Nicholas A. Miller, Associate Professor of English; Program Advisor, Minor in Film Studies
BA, Harvard University; MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Kyle Ann Mino, Affiliate Assistant Professor
BS, Elon University; PhD, University of Florida
Robert S. Miola, Professor of Classics; Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English
BA, Fordham University; MA, PhD, University of Rochester
Timothy Mitroka, Assistant Professor of Military Science; Training/Operations Officer; Major, U.S. Army
BS, United States Military Academy; MS, Missouri University of Science and Technology; ME, University of Virginia
Judith Montgomery, Affiliate Instructor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BA, University of Maryland (College Park); MBA, University of Dallas, Irvine
Cindy Moore, Professor of Writing; Associate Vice President for Academic Student Affairs
BJ, MA, University of Nebraska (Lincoln); PhD, University of Louisville
Jesse D. More, Associate Professor of Chemistry; Chair, Chemistry Department
BS, John Carroll University; MS, PhD, University of California (San Diego)
Leslie Zarker Morgan, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Italian and French); Associate Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures; Program Advisor, Minors in Italian Studies and Medieval Studies
AB, Mount Holyoke College; MA, Middlebury College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University
Christopher H. Morrell, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (Statistics), Director of Data Science
BSc, University of Cape Town; MS, PhD, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Matthew A. Moser, Lecturer of Theology
BA, Eastern University; MA, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg; PhD, Baylor University
Joseph Mucci, Scholarship and Enrollment Officer; Department of Army Civilian; Major, Maryland Army National Guard
BS, Saint Joseph's University
Matthew B. Mulcahy, Professor of History
BA, Macalester College; MA, PhD, University of Minnesota
Melissa Mulieri, Clinical Instructor of Education, Professional Development Schools Coordinator (Elementary and Secondary)
BA, McDaniel College; MA, Notre Dame University Maryland
Michele M. Murphy, Affiliate Instructor of Education (Teacher Education)
BA, Hood College; MEd, Goucher College
Brian Murray, Professor of Writing
BA, Dominican College; MA, PhD, University of Tulsa
John Ned, Instructor of Finance
BS, McNeese State University; MBA, University of Houston-Victoria; PhD, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
April Newton, Affiliate Instructor of Communication
BA, Northern Michigan University; MS, Syracuse University
Nguyen, Nguyen, Affiliate Instructor of Communication
BA, Bard College; MM, University of Maryland (College Park)
Theresa P.T. Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BS, Loyola Marymount University; MS, PhD, University of California (Los Angeles)
Barnaby Nygren, Associate Professor of Fine Arts (Art History)
PhD, Harvard University
Lisa A. Oberbroeckling, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (Mathematics)
BS, University of Iowa; MS, PhD, University of Oregon
Oghenetoja Okoh, Assistant Professor of History
BA, University of Minnesota; MA, University of Wisconsin; PhD, New York University
Ammilee Oliva, Professor of Military Science; Chair, Military Science Department; Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
BS, Northeastern University; MA, Webster University
Megan M. Olsen, Associate Professor of Computer Science
BS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; MS, PhD, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Peggy O'Neill, Professor of Writing; Associate Dean for the Humanities and the Core
BA, University of Maryland (Baltimore County); MA, University of Maryland (College Park); PhD, University of Louisville
Paul Oorts, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (French and Italian)
BA, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; MA, PhD, Pennsylvania State University
David T. Opitz, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BS, University of Notre Dame; MS, University of Texas (Austin)
Mark Osteen, Professor of English; Director, Center for the Humanities
BA, MA, University of Montana; PhD, Emory University
Stephen Park, Assistant Professor of English
BA, Cornell University; MA, University of Chicago; PhD, University of Southern California
Paola Pascual-Ferrá, Associate Professor of Communication
BA, Princeton University; MA, American University; PhD, University of Miami
Dilip Patel, Affiliate Instructor of Management and International Business
BS, ME, Pennsylvania State University; MBA, Loyola University Maryland
Adam Peake, Executive in Residence of Marketing
BS, University of Maryland; MBA, Wake Forest University
Ronald Pearl, Professor of Fine Arts (Music)
BM, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; MM, Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University
Thomas R. Pegram, Professor of History
BA, Santa Clara University; PhD, Brandeis University
Gloria Phillips-Wren, Professor of Information Systems and Operations; Chair, Department of Information Systems, Law, and Operations Department
BA, Western Maryland College; MEd, Towson University; MBA, Loyola College in Maryland; MS, PhD, University of Maryland (Baltimore County)
Giselle Pile, Lecturer (Mathematics)
BA Western, New England College; MS, Loyola University Chicago
Daniel Pinha, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
Bachelor of Scenic Arts, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); MFA, University of Maryland
Donna Pitts, Assistant Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BS, MS, Towson University; AuD, Central Michigan University; CCC-A
R. Trent Pomplun, Associate Professor of Theology; Director of Graduate Studies, Master of Theological Studies
BA, Rice University; MA, PhD, University of Virginia
Robert B. Pond, Jr., Senior Lecturer of Engineering; Chair, Engineering Department
BES, Johns Hopkins University; MS, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Porter, Affiliate Instructor of Marketing
BFA, Belmont University; MBA, Loyola University Maryland
Janet Preis, Associate Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences; Director, Graduate Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BS, MS, Towson University; CAGS, Loyola College in Maryland; EdD, Johns Hopkins University; CCC-SLP
Jason M. Prenoveau, Associate Professor of Psychology
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MA, PhD, University of California (Los Angeles)
Clayborn Price, Director of Choral Studies
BM/BMe, Belmont University; MM, University of North Carolina (Greensboro); DMA, University of South Carolina
Emalee J. W. Quickel, Assistant Professor of Psychology
BA, MA, University of North Carolina, Wilmington; PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Srikanth Ramamurthy, Associate Professor of Economics
BS, St. Xavier's College; MA, University of Memphis; PhD, Washington University (St. Louis)
Mohammad S. Raunak, Associate Professor of Computer Science
BS, North South University; MS, PhD, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Matthew Rausch, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BS, Univeristy of Maryland Baltimore County; MBA, University of Baltimore
Walter J. Reinhart, Professor of Finance
BS, MBA, Oklahoma State University; PhD, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Joan Ricart-Huguet, Assistant Professor of Political Science
BA, Autonomous University of Barcelona; MA, Columbia University
Giuliana Risso Robberto, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (Italian)
BA, University of Asti (Italy); MA, License, University of Torino (Italy)
Juan Rivera-Mata, Visiting Affiliate Instructor of Management and International Business
BA, ICADE-UNED Madrid (Spain); MBA, Alliant International University; PhD, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville (Spain)
David B. Rivers, Professor of Biology; Director of Forensic Studies
BS, Ball State University; PhD, Ohio State University
Stephen R. Robinson, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BS, Towson University; JD, University of Baltimore School of Law
Bernadette M. Roche, Associate Professor of Biology; Program Advisor, Minor in Environmental & Sustainability Studies
BA, University of Virginia; PhD, University of North Carolina
Elana E. Rock, Associate Professor of Education
BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, New York University; EdD, Johns Hopkins University
Tania Rosas-Moreno, Associate Professor of Communication; Program Advisor, Minor in Latin American and Latino Studies
BA, MA, Brigham Young University; PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Andrew I. Ross, Assistant Professor of History
BA Washington University in St. Louis; MA, PhD, University of Michigan
Laurence Ross, Lecturer of Writing
BA, Loyola University Maryland; MFA, University of Alabama
Joseph S. Rossi, S.J., Professor of Theology
BA, University of Pittsburgh; STM, MDiv, Jesuit School of Theology; MA, PhD, The Catholic University of America
Maria Ruiz Rosique, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
BA, MA, University of Murcia (Spain); MA, West Virginia University
Bahram Roughani, Professor of Physics; Associate Dean for the Natural and Applied Sciences, Loyola College
BS, MA, Indiana State University; MS, PhD, University of Cincinnati
Camika Royal, Assistant Professor of Education; Urban Education Minors Advisor (Teacher Education)
BA, North Carolina Central University; MAT, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Temple University
Samantha Rukert, Lecturer of Psychology
BA, Smith College; MS, PsyD, Antioch University New England
Michael B. Runnels, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BA, University of Georgia; JD, Fordham University School of Law
Jerome (Jay) Russell, Affiliate Instructor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BS, University of Maryland (Baltimore County); MBA, Loyola College in Maryland
Terre Ryan, Associate Professor of Writing
BA, Fairfield University; MBA, Baruch College; MA, City College of New York; MA, University of Montana; PhD, University of Nevada (Reno)
Leah K. Saal, Assistant Professor of Education; Co-Director, Literacy Graduate Program
BA, MS, MA, EdS, PhD, Louisiana State University
James F. Salmon, S.J., Affiliate Associate Professor of Chemistry
BS, ME, Stevens Institute of Technology; MA, Boston College; PhD, University of Pennsylvania; STB, Woodstock College
Andrew Samuel, Associate Professor of Economics; Chair, Economics Department
BA, Calvin College; MA, PhD, Boston College
Carlos Sanchez, Affiliate Instructor of Management and International Business
BS Celaya Institute of Technology, Mexico; MS, Drexel University; MBA, Loyola University Maryland
Willeke Sandler, Assistant Professor of History
BA, New York University; MA, Northeastern University; MA, PhD, Duke University
Jane Satterfield, Associate Professor of Writing
BA, Loyola College in Maryland; MFA, University of Iowa
Catherine Savell, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (French)
Baccalauréat Lettres-Philosophie (Lyon); MA, Middlebury College
Terrence M. Sawyer, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations; Senior Vice President
BA, University of Maryland (College Park); JD, Widener University School of Law
Ursula C. Sayers-Ward, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
BA, Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Perú); MA, The Catholic University of America
Sara Scalenghe, Associate Professor of History; Chair, History Department
BA, University of London; MA, PhD, Georgetown University
Diana J. Schaub, Professor of Political Science
AB, Kenyon College; MA, PhD, University of Chicago
Lisa Z. Scheifele, Associate Professor of Biology, Director of Advising and Curriculum in Biology
BS, Messiah College; PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Thomas E. Scheye, Loyola Distinguished Service Professor (English); Senior Advisor to the President for Planning and Strategy
AB, Georgetown University; MA, Yale University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Schlapbach, Professor of Fine Arts (Photography); Chair, Fine Arts Department
BS, Washington University (St. Louis); MFA, Indiana University
Heather Schmidt, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BS, Loyola College in Maryland; PhD, University of Delaware
Astrid Schmidt-King, Executive in Residence of Management and International Business
BA, New York University; JD, University of Baltimore; LLM, American University; MA, Freie Univeristat
Mary Kate Schneider, Lecturer of Political Science, Director of Global Studies
BA, Kutztown University; MA, Lehigh University; PhD, University of Maryland
Michael F. Schneider, Affiliate Instructor of Mathematics and Statistics (Statistics)
BS, Loyola College in Maryland; MS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Andrew J. Schoeffield, Associate Professor of Biology
BS, Loyola College in Maryland; PhD, University of Maryland
Lisa Schoenbrodt, Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences; Chair, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BA, University of Maryland; MS, James Madison University; EdD, Johns Hopkins University; CCC-SLP
Carlyle A. Schrouter, Affiliate Instructor of Finance
BS, University of Maryland; MBA, Loyola University Maryland
Jeremy Schwartz, Associate Professor of Economics
BS, Boston College; MA, PhD, The George Washington University
Kathleen A. Sears, Affiliate Instructor of Education
BS, College of Notre Dame of Maryland; MLA, Johns Hopkins University
Ali M. Sedaghat, Associate Professor of Accounting
BA, Abadan Institute of Technology; MBA, DBA, The George Washington University; CMA
Norman H. Sedgley, Professor of Economics
BA, MA, PhD, University of New Hampshire
Dustin Sentz, Lecturer of Psychology
BA, Elizabethtown College; MA, PsyD, Loyola College in Maryland
Ryan Servant, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BA, Shippensburg University; MS, Bloomsburg University
William Sheppard, Affiliate Instructor of Sociology
BS, Anthropology and History, Illinois State University; MA, Anthropology, The College of William and Mary
Yoon S. Shin, Associate Professor of Finance
BBA, Kookmin University; MS, Texas A&M University; PhD, University of South Carolina
Nicole Shoenberger, Assistant Professor of Sociology
BA, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; MA, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; PhD, Bowling Green State University
Patricio Simari, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BS Universidad National del Sur, Argentina; MS, PhD, University of Toronto
Jason Singh, Visiting Assistant Professor (Sociology)
BSc, Utah Valley University; MPhil, Oxford University (UK); PhD, Durham University (UK)
Kathleen Siren, Associate Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences; Director, Undergraduate Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BA, MA, PhD, University of Kansas; CCC-SLP
Mary Skeen, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Fine Arts (Photography)
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art; MFA, Towson University
H. Lovell Smith, Assistant Professor of Sociology
BS, Southern Methodist University; MEd, University of Massachusetts (Amherst); PhD, University of Maryland (College Park)
Joshua S. Smith, Professor of Education; Dean, School of Education
BA, MS, PhD, University at Albany, State University of New York
Kirby Smith, Affiliate Instructor of Finance
BS, BA, Georgetown University; MBA, George Washington University; JD, University of Baltimore School of Law
Wendy M. Smith, Professor of Education
BA, State University of New York at Genesco; MEd, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; PhD, University of Wyoming
Dale E. Snow, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Philosophy Department
BA, Clark University; MA, PhD, Emory University
James Snow, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Co-Director, Messina
BA, MA, Ohio University; PhD, Temple University
Jalal Soroosh, Professor of Accounting; Chair, Accounting Department
BS, Iranian Institute of Advanced Accounting; MBA, The George Washington University; PhD, University of Mississippi; CMA
Lucas Southworth, Associate Professor of Writing
BA, Knox College; MA, Iowa State University; MFA, University of Alabama
Lauren A. Spearman, Lecturer of Biology
BA, Arcadia University; PhD, Rutgers University (New Brunswick)
Ravi Srinivasan, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BE, Osmania University (India); MS, Kansas State University; PhD, Michigan State University
Gregory J. Stefanelli, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BS, State University of New York (Stony Brook); MS, Loyola University Maryland; EdD (candidate), University of Phoenix
Arthur M. Sutherland, Associate Professor of Theology; Dean, Class of 2020
BA, Harding University; MDiv, STM, Yale University Divinity School; PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary
Paul Tallon, Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BComm, MMgtSc, University College Dublin; FCA, PhD, University of California (Irvine)
Kerria M. Tan, Associate Professor of Economics
BA, University of California (San Diego); MA, PhD, Ohio State University
Clarke Tankersley, Affiliate Instructor of Mathematics and Statistics (Statistics)
BA, University of Maryland; MS, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Ron Tanner, Professor of Writing
BA, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill); MFA, University of Iowa; PhD, University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
Jiyuan Tao, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (Mathematics)
BS, MS, Beijing Institute of Technology; MS, PhD, University of Maryland (Baltimore County)
Martha C. Taylor, Professor of Classics, Fine Arts (Art History), and History; Chair, Classics Department
AB, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, Stanford University
Amanda Thomas, Professor of Psychology; Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
BA, College of William and Mary; MS, PhD, University of Georgia
Andrea S. Thomas, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (French)
BA, New York University; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University
Christopher Thompson, Associate Professor of Biology
BS, Eastern Washington University; PhD, University of Iowa
Rebecca Trump, Associate Professor of Marketing
BS, Georgia State University; PhD, University of Arizona
Jill-Kristi Tyler, Affiliate Instructor of Sociology
BS, Towson University; MSW, University of Maryland (Baltimore); LCSW-C
Sarah Tyler, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
BA, MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carsten T. Vala, Associate Professor of Political Science; Chair, Political Science
BA, Williams College; MA, MS, PhD, University of California (Berkeley)
Barbara H. Vann, Associate Professor of Sociology; Chair, Sociology Department
BA, University of Alabama (Birmingham); MA, East Tennessee State University; PhD, University of Arizona
Maren E. Veatch-Blohm, Associate Professor of Biology
BS, Brigham Young University; MS, PhD, University of Arizona
Kara Vincent, Clinical Faculty of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BA, MA, Loyola College in Maryland; CCC-SLP
Sarah Vitale, Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish); Coordinator of Spanish
BA, Southeastern Louisiana University; MA, Louisiana State University
William J. Von Hagel, Affiliate Instructor of Computer Science
BS, Loyola College in Maryland; DM, University of Phoenix
Kimberly Wagner, Executive in Residence of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BS, Towson State University; MBA, Loyola College, Maryland; JD, University of Baltimore, Maryland
Bobby Waldrup, Professor of Accounting; Associate Dean, Sellinger School of Business and Management
BS, MPA, Mississippi State University; PhD, University of Mississippi; CPA
Joseph J. Walsh, Professor of Classics and History; Co-Director of the Honors Program
AB, Fairfield University; MA, State University of New York (Buffalo); PhD, University of Texas (Austin)
Jinghua Wangling, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
BA, Fudan University (Shanghai, China); PhD, Harvard University
Kathleen Ward, Clinical Assistant Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
BA, MS, Towson University; AuD, A.T. Still University; CCC-A
Thomas Ward, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish); Program Director, Minor in Latin American and Latino Studies
BA, Southern Connecticut State University; MA, PhD, University of Connecticut
Steven Weber, Affiliate Instructor of Philosophy
BA, St. John's College
Carroll J. Weise, Jr., Affiliate Instructor of Management and International Business
John E. Wheeler, Affiliate Instructor of Accounting
BA, MBA, Loyola College in Maryland; CPA
Todd M. Wickwire, Affiliate Instructor of Finance
BA, Franklin & Marshall College; MBA, University of Pennsylvania
Lemar Williams, Logistics Technician; Department of Army Civilian
Stacy A. Williams, Clinical Instructor of Teacher Education; Coordinator of Clinical Experiences; Professional Development Schools (Elementary/Secondary); Secondary Minor Advisor (Teacher Education)
BS, James Madison University; MAT, Johns Hopkins University
Erin Wilson, Visiting Affiliate Assistant Professor of English
BA, MA, University of Tulsa; PhD, University of Missouri at Columbia
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Associate Professor of Communication
BA, Lincoln University; MA, University of Notre Dame (Indiana); PhD, University of Maryland (Baltimore County)
Jeffrey C. Witt, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
BA, Wheaton College; MA, PhD, Boston College
Amy R. Wolfson, Professor of Psychology
BA, Harvard University; MA, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis
James R. Wolgamott, Clinical Instructor of Education; Professional Development Schools Coordinator (Elementary)
BS, Bowling Green State University: MS, Johns Hopkins University
Helen Xu, Assistant Professor of Accounting
BBA, Harbin University of Science and Technology; MAcc, University of Alabama; PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marie A. Yeh, Associate Professor of Marketing
BS, University of Maryland; MSEd, Old Dominion University; PhD, Kent State University
Dobin Yim, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Law, and Operations
BS, MS, Brown University; MBA, MA, University of California, Irvine; PHD, University of Maryland (College Park)
Douglas J. Young, Affiliate Instructor of Finance
BBA, Loyola University Maryland; MBA, University of Southern California (Berkeley)
Kyle Zdrojewski, Assistant Professor of Military Science; Operations Officer; Captain, U.S. Army
BS, Niagara University; MS, Canisius College
Qiyu (Jason) Zhang, Associate Professor of Marketing; Chair, Department of Marketing
BS, FuDan University; MS, PhD, University of Georgia
Yu Zhang, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
BA, MA, Shaanxi Normal University (China); PhD, University of Oregon
Guangzhi (Terry) Zhao, Associate Professor of Marketing
BA, Hebei Institute of Finance and Economics (China); MA, Sun Yat-sen University (China); PhD, University of California (Irvine)
Hong Zhu, Associate Professor of Accounting
BS, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; PhD, University of Missouri (Columbia)
Lisa Zimmerelli, Associate Professor of Writing; Director, Loyola Writing Center
BA, Albright College; MA, PhD, University of Maryland
Jennifer Zwillenberg, Lecturer of Education
BA, Brandeis University; MAT, Johns Hopkins University; MEd, Loyola University; EdD, University of Pennsylvania
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Guest post: Patricia Preston #AuthorLove
In the Southern town of Lafayette Falls, a new life brings together a woman with everything to lose and a doctor with everything to prove.
When a sickly infant is surrendered at the Lafayette Falls Medical Center, and orphaned soon after, pediatrician Aaron Kendall arranges to adopt him. After a painful divorce, the busy baby doc is about to realize his own dream of becoming a father when the baby’s beautiful estranged aunt turns up. She doesn’t exactly approve of the Kendall bachelor pad complete with Aaron’s cranky dad and wacky brother, forcing Aaron to form a risky alliance with her.
Country singer-songwriter Lia Montgomery barely knew her half-sister, but she’s determined her tiny nephew goes to a good home. If only she fit the bill herself, but her stressful life on the road is no place for a baby. Yet despite her misgivings, as she gets to know Aaron, she realizes the smart and sexy doctor is everything a child could want in a dad and more unsettling, everything she’s ever hoped for in a man. After all she’s put him through, is it too late to form a family and maybe put a song in the good doctor’s heart?
Aaron looked across the table at his brother and for a moment, all the fear and heartache bottled up inside him exposed itself in his voice. “I can’t go through losing a son for the second time.”
Stevie’s brow netted in a worried frown as he sat up straight. “Okay.” He tented his fingers. “So you’ve gotta get tight with the girl.”
“What are you talking about?” Aaron continued to squash the aluminum can. “I have nothing in common with Lia Montgomery.”
“You have the baby,” Stevie pointed out. “I know that’s not what you want, but it is what it is. And you need to make the most of it. Bro, women are not that hard. Listen to me. You’ve got this chick whose sister just died so she’s got all this guilt and grief going on. And then there’s the sister’s sick little baby. Okay, so what’s Lia gonna do? I mean, she’s family. She’s gotta do something or she’s gonna feel like crap about herself.”
“Stevie—” Aaron tried to cut in.
“You’re going at this ass-backwards by trying to scare her off. How’s that working for you? Acting like a jerk? No wonder she wants the baby transferred.”
Aaron threw the ball of crushed aluminum at Stevie, who caught it. “Just putting the truth out there,” Stevie said. “Of course, I know why you’re an asshole, but she doesn’t.”
Aaron glared at his kid brother, but he didn’t say anything.
“You gotta put on your sad face. Like this.” Stevie’s face crumpled so that he looked on the verge of tears. “It works every time. I promise.” He grinned. “You need to say you’re sorry for how things went today. Keep on the sad face. Then you tell her you really could use some help because the baby doesn’t have any clothes.”
“What? He’s in an incubator. He doesn’t need clothes.”
“It’s not about the baby needing clothes. For chrissakes, do you know nothing about women? It’s about shopping. The magic word. Shopping,” Stevie reiterated. “Tell her you’d like for her to pick out some clothes for the baby and, hey, decorate the nursery, too. She’ll go wild. Shopping for baby stuff. That’s like mainlining heroin for women.
“Tell her you want her to pick out some toys, too. And then you go from sad face to hopeful face. Like a dog waiting for a treat. And you say that with her help, you think you can be the best dad ever. Bingo! You win! She’ll be thrilled because she’ll get to feel good about herself and she’s getting to help with the baby. You got her hook, line, and sinker.”
“What’s crazy is you sitting out here, covered in sweat, having a pity party about the past. You’re missing the opportunity of a lifetime if you know what I mean. Call her.”
“I can’t call her. I don’t have her number.”
“You didn’t get her number? Holy shit.” Stevie threw the ball of aluminum back at Aaron who caught it. “You know, that’s standard protocol.”
“Maybe,” Aaron replied. “But in this case, she’s not available.”
Stevie leaned forward. “Every chick is available if you play your cards right, bro.”
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Award-winning author Patricia Preston writes mainstream humorous romance, historical romance and comedy. She is represented by the Seymour Agency. Her newest titles are part of a standalone series, Love Heals All, for Kensington Books/Lyrical Press imprint. She has several other e-book titles available including a historical romance, TO SAVE A LADY, set in the French Quarter during the Battle of New Orleans. She also has a comic short story anthology, DIXIE DARLINGS, available in print. Besides writing she loves music, photography, graphic design, and visiting her favorite historical locales including the French Quarter and the Natchez Trace.
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Industry Report: Television
European movies make up 31% of all films broadcast on TV in Europe
by European Audiovisual Observatory
19/10/2016 - The new report from the European Audiovisual Observatory provides an analysis of films programmed by a sample of 125 TV channels from 17 EU countries
The 31% share of EU films breaks down into 16% of national and 15% of European non-national films, indicating significant circulation of European films.
The number of film broadcasts increased by 12.4% between the 2011/12 and 2014/15 seasons studied but the actual number of films broadcast has decreased. So the number of broadcasts per film has increased.
45% of single titles broadcast were produced in Europe, 46% in the USA and 9% in ROW for the two seasons studied (2011/12 and 2014/15).
Films on television - Origin, Age and Circulation
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This brand new report from the European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has been published free on line in time for the 2016 edition of the MIPCOM. It provides an analysis of films programmed by a sample of 125 TV channels from 17 EU countries for two seasons: 2011/12 and 2014/15.
1. Market share for European films
Films broadcast during the 2014-2015 season by country of origin (all day - including repeats)
Films produced in Europe accounted for 31% of films broadcast by the TV channels of the sample during the 2014-2015 season. This share is slightly lower when considering only prime-time hours (26%). The 31% share of EU films breaks down into 16% of national films and 15% of European non-national films, indicating a significant level of circulation of films as regards broadcasting on TV. The share of EU films increased for the 2014-2015 season when compared with 2011-2012, both for all day broadcasts (31% vs. 28%) and prime-time broadcasts (26% vs.23).
2. Fewer titles but more broadcasts
Number of films broadcast by the TV channels of the sample in the 2011-2012 and 2014-2015 seasons - All day.
The 125 TV channels of our sample broadcast 101 849 films (including repeats) during the 2014-2015 season, which amounts to more than 2.7 films broadcasts per day. Excluding repeats by the same TV channels, the 101 849 broadcasts of the sample correspond to 33 652 films, indicating that a film is broadcast on average 3 times by the same TV channel. The number of broadcasts obviously varies significantly between free TV channels (1.4 broadcast per film on average) and pay-TV channels (6.5 broadcasts per film on average). The number of broadcasts (including repeats) has increased when compared to the 2011-2012 season (+12.4%). But, excluding the repeats, the number of different films broadcast has actually decreased (-1.6%), indicating that the number of broadcasts per film has increased over the period (2.6 broadcast per film during the 2011-2012 season vs. 3 during the 2014-2015 season).
3. Two-thirds of films broadcast only in one country
Breakdown of unique European films broadcast during the 2014-2015 season by country of origin.
33 652 different films were broadcast in the 17 countries of our sample during the 2014-2015 season. However, the same film may have been broadcast in different countries. The list of single films broadcast in our sample comprises 16 321 titles, indicating that, in average, a film has been broadcast the same year in two countries. However, most of the films (67%) were broadcast in only one country. Out of these 16 321 titles, 7 372 were produced in Europe (45%), 7 546 in the USA (46%) and 1 403 in another region of the world (9%). Out of the 7 372 European films, the top 5 countries of production (France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Czech Republic) accounted for 74%, and the top 10 for 91%.
Method note about Mediamétrie
This analysis is based on a set of data provided by Mediamétrie Eurodata TV.
Mediamétrie tracked all film broadcasts for a sample of 125 TV channels from 17 European Union countries for two seasons: 2011-2012 and 2014-2015.
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in this industry report
Françoise Nyssen discusses series and protecting creation at the Lille Transatlantic Dialogues
Netflix's Reed Hastings speaks at the Lille Transatlantic Dialogues
Lille Transatlantic Dialogues: A new international forum for series professionals
Europe produces over 11,000 hours of home-grown TV fiction per year
European TV series episodes make up 24% of all episodes on pay per view VOD in Europe
European films make up 28% of films broadcast on TV in Europe
A look at the 2017 Mipcom
Ruth Caleb • Producer
Oliver Hirschbiegel, Paula Milne • Director, writer
Misan Sagay, Katie Swinden, Sam Miller • Creators
Harold Apter • Showrunner
Justus Riesenkampff • Distributor
Série Series 2016: Cultural Identities and the International Market
Série Series 2016: Let’s Talk About Commissioning
One Vision Série Series 2016: Tone C. Rønning
One Vision Série Series 2016: Anne Landois & Caroline Proust
Masterclass Série Series 2016: Nathaniel Méchaly
Masterclass Série Series 2016: Anaïs Schaaff
Masterclass Série Series 2016: Matthew Graham
Masterclass Série Series 2016: Lars Blomgren
Frédéric Lavigne • Artistic director of the Séries Mania Festival
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Home Examiner Examiner News Mount elected to serve as Upper Freehold mayor during 2021
Mount elected to serve as Upper Freehold mayor during 2021
MATTHEW SOCKOL, Staff Writer
UPPER FREEHOLD – LoriSue H. Mount has been elected by her colleagues on the Township Committee to lead Upper Freehold Township as mayor for 2021.
Under Upper Freehold’s form of government, the mayor and deputy mayor are not directly elected by voters. The mayor and deputy mayor are elected each January by the members of the Township Committee to serve a one-year term.
Upper Freehold’s municipal government held its 2021 reorganization meeting on Jan. 7.
At the reorganization meeting, incumbent committeeman Dr. Robert Frascella, the winner in the November municipal election, was sworn in to begin serving a new three-year term on the governing body. Frascella has been a member of the Township Committee since 2009.
Mount, who joined the committee in 2008, previously served as deputy mayor in 2019 and 2020.
Elected deputy mayor for 2021 was Committeeman Stephen Alexander, who served as mayor in 2019 and 2020. Alexander joined the Township Committee in 2004 and is the longest-serving member of the governing body.
Republicans hold a 5-0 majority on the Township Committee. Mount, Alexander and Frascella are joined by Stanley Moslowski Jr. and Robert Faber.
In other business, committee members were appointed as the heads of municipal departments.
Mount was appointed as the head of administration, finance and public safety; Frascella was appointed as the head of building/construction and buildings and grounds; Alexander was appointed as the head of recreation and economic development/commercial and light industrial; and Faber was appointed as the head of public works and open space.
Moslowski was appointed as the alternate head of building/construction, buildings and grounds, recreation and public works; Alexander was appointed as the alternate head of public safety; and Frascella was appointed as the alternate head of open space.
Municipal officials have posted the following notices on the Upper Freehold Township website:
• A free rabies vaccination clinic will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Jan. 30 at 314 Route 539, Cream Ridge. Checks only for license payment.
• Byron Johnson Park is closed for improvements until further notice.
• Upper Freehold youth basketball has been cancelled for this season due to COVID-19 safety concerns.
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Centering Relationships During Transition
Lucie Addison
This post originally appeared on the Einhorn Collaborative blog.
Philanthropic organizations need to change course all the time, but the speed and scale of the change required in 2020 is profound. In all organizational change, there are real challenges felt during the period of “liminality,” when we have one foot in the old world and one foot in the new, navigating the often painful work of letting something go while grasping the possibilities of what lies ahead. In philanthropy, that balancing act usually entails shaping your emerging future while also managing relationships and expectations with current grantees, many of whom you are about to cease funding. It can be a sticky spot, swirling with emotion on both sides.
Our team at Einhorn Collaborative recently went through such a transition as we shifted from the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust to develop the new philanthropic strategy for David Einhorn. With all humility, we thought the lessons we learned from that transition might be relevant for fellow funders navigating their own significant change right now. One overarching finding, not surprisingly, was that the work of our grantee partners over the last decade — in helping people get along better and spreading the power of relationships — was not only helpful to advance our mission in the world, but also essential in how we effectively transitioned from one strategy to the next.
Four lessons from our relationship-centered transition
Bringing our grant partnerships to a close at an unnatural and unexpected point felt…well, unnatural. Maybe this is the case for you, too. It was an adjustment for our team to switch almost overnight from being students of effective grantmaking to students of ethically exiting and managing transitions.
We asked ourselves: how do we change with integrity? How do we model our values, minimizing harm to grantee partners? How do we look out for our staff for whom transition will invoke loss and uncertainty, while requiring a cooperative and positive team culture?
We learned four lessons that were valuable for us:
Channel the human, real experience of change — approach this as a conversation, not an announcement.
When imposing change, allow change — come to the table with solutions and flexibility.
Accept offers of help — recognize partners as a tremendous source of wisdom and advice.
Recognize change as an opportunity to take a really good look at yourself — gather feedback in moments when it can be particularly unvarnished and helpful.
Lesson One: Channel the human, real experience of change
We knew the best way to share the news of our transition was to pick up the phone and connect personally with those the transition would most impact. We were filled with apprehension about bearing the bad news when we called all 57 of our active grantee partners (plus a few dozen peer funders) to explain that their current grants would be their last. We planned thoroughly for these calls, anticipating partners’ questions as well as their needs. And, let’s be real: first and foremost among their needs would be future funding, and in some cases, the question of long-term financial sustainability.
We used objective criteria to quickly determine some final transition grants, and we pledged those grants (where applicable) in the same conversation as sharing our news. Partners didn’t need to apply for those grants, we assessed based on the status of our existing funding commitment with criteria that included: proximity of their anticipated grant renewal date, the percentage of operating budget we were providing, risks to other funding contingent on ours, and risks to the successful completion of the outcomes tied to our existing investment.
Since we couldn’t provide transition funding to everyone, we asked our partners what else they needed. Based on their ideas, we responded by sponsoring portfolio-wide access to two training programs: financial contingency planning and practices for leading large-scale change. We wanted to find ways to honor our relationships and bolster organizational strengths in what would clearly be a time of increased uncertainty.
Through this process, we were deeply moved and inspired when the most common response to our phone calls was actually concern for us, coupled with gratitude for the work that we’d done together. The strong spirit of reciprocity evident in our partners’ eagerness to help us work through our next act turned a challenging day into one fueled by connection, care, gratitude, and even love. It was clear that our partners valued the candid, empathic, and personal way in which we shared the news and how we focused on planning for the future together, even if our role in that future would be different. While we often talked about the importance of our relationship-based approach to philanthropy, we were reminded that day, in a way that we could have never anticipated: the quality of our relationships mattered.
That said, if we could do it all over again, we would have followed up our phone calls with notes in writing. We now recognize that in times of change, especially when it concerns a primary funder, it’s hard for anyone to take in all of the information. We would have been well-served to communicate our own context and plans more formally, as we ended up having to repeat the information many times, playing a few games of “telephone” with our partners and correcting misunderstandings of our process and plans.
Lesson Two: When imposing change, allow change
We heard that the impact of our news was softened by the flexibility we were able to offer at the same time. Specifically, we changed grant end dates and payment schedules in any way that partners requested. We also made sections of reporting optional — which delivered some insight when we saw which areas partners chose to continue — and we ultimately eliminated reporting altogether.
We assumed going in that every partner would ask for all their remaining funding up front in the next payment — and many did — but a couple said to us, “It’s really important for my fundraising to be able to show how many gen-op funders I have, so I’d like to extend our grant term and keep you on that list for longer.” The CEO of a very large organization, which has national and regional agendas, asked us to change their grant from general operating to restricted, so that he could leverage the investment to maintain his board’s prioritization of the initiative our funding was enabling. We were surprised by the myriad requests, and yet, we found that by offering flexibility and openness, even in an exit, we were able to deepen some partnerships and continue to advance the work.
Lesson Three: Accept offers of help
We knew our grantee partners were way better at navigating dramatic change than we were. As you can imagine, most had been thrown many curveballs over the years. We also knew that outside perspectives were critical for us in making decisions about our future strategy. It was no good for us to go it alone, no matter how many brainstorming sessions we had and great diagrams we came up with.
As we imagined our vision for the future, we received generous input from over 200 grantee partners, pipeline organizations, peer funders, and other stakeholders from our twelve-year history. We also convened an advisory panel of partners and peers, bringing the whole group together every few months to help us interpret feedback and other data, and making informal ad-hoc requests to further explore specific questions and strategic details. For example, when we were stuck on a particular idea about our strategy or how to characterize our problem statement, a team member would call an advisor to pressure-test the idea, just as that advisor had often done with us as a grantee partner over the years.
We were reminded that true relationships are mutual, and the roles we play as partners can extend well beyond how the dollars are invested to include being strategic thought partners, connectors, and champions for each other.
Lesson Four: Recognize change as an opportunity to take a really good look at yourself
Major organizational change affords an opportunity unlike others to really step back and examine your practices. Of course, evaluation takes time, which is in short supply for many of us in 2020. However, there are ways to welcome feedback and examine your practices rapidly — because not everything needs to be a capital “E” evaluation.
We were grateful that our trustee gave us license to fully reimagine our work going forward. Our staff and panel of advisory partners and peers consequently approached this transition with tremendous open-mindedness. We engaged Cascade Philanthropy Advisors and the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to conduct 60 anonymous in-depth interviews alongside a survey we shared with all stakeholders from the past decade. We think the new circumstances — EFCT no longer holding the purse strings as renewal was off the table — increased partners’ candor. For example, we heard from a grantee that “we have an honest, authentic relationship with each other. I trust that they care about my success as much as I do. The money is important, but it’s not the sum total.” And, we learned that our due diligence process was a bit intense. As one grantee put it: “They’re all up in people’s business, it’s a bit of a pap smear!” It was a profound blessing to see our strengths and our areas for growth reflected so clearly in the hearts, minds, and experiences of our partners. And that candid feedback deeply informed how we shaped our future strategy.
Note that asking partners to provide feedback is not the only way to take a good look at oneself. We should always find ways to minimize the burden we place on grantee partners’ time, but most especially during a transition that impacts future funding. To that point, we also conducted thorough desktop reviews of our strategies and investments over the prior decade to identify insights for our future, including looking at past feedback data with new eyes. And, we tried to close grantee relationships with both ritual and respect, writing the stories of our partnerships with our 26 longest-standing grantees and using each story as a starting point for a conversation with each grantee where we reflected together on our partnership. There was tremendous power in this storytelling, and the conversations were filled with tears and laughter. In almost all 26 conversations, partners shared something they “wished they’d told us earlier.” It was also a good reminder of the power dynamic and to make sure we carried practices for personal and human connection into our future strategy.
Navigating the space “in between”
Looking back on the process, when it’s summed up as four neat lessons, our transition sounds simpler than it felt in real life. It was consuming, emotionally and physically, to live in that liminal state of being “in between.” Our team was challenged to balance between concentrating on strategic planning in order to return to grantmaking quickly, and continuing to support the existing work of our nonprofit partners.
It wasn’t easy; in fact, it was heartbreaking when a longstanding partner fell into financial difficulty and we weren’t able to provide the direct financial help they needed. We toggled between emotions of grief, knowing that our exit had contributed, and not wanting to portray ourselves as the powerful “hero” or “savior.” At the same time it was paradoxically gratifying to be able to shift into a different kind of role with many of our partners, sitting more on the sidelines, offering thought partnership even when we couldn’t commit more funding, and getting to watch so much of what we’d helped to build fall into place: fields “took off” and organizations continued to thrive without us. The bittersweet nature of transition was both painful and powerful.
There was benefit in having a foot in both worlds where we could, remaining engaged in our existing grants as the majority of the portfolio remained active for at least another year during our transition. We gained an avenue for learning that strengthened our next strategy, without taking as much bandwidth as launching new learning projects and new relationships. And most of all, we benefitted from the relationships, connection, and normalcy that aided us as individuals and a team during such an uncertain time.
Our initial instinct in all of this might have been to retreat and go underground, worried about the harm we were causing by suddenly not renewing investments in the ambitious long-term plans we’d helped create. And yet, our grantee partners taught us well: in times of change and uncertainty, connection is the best medicine.
Lucie Addison leads Einhorn Collaborative’s Organizational Learning and Improvement strategy. Follow Einhorn on Twitter at @einhorncollab.
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The Top Episodes of The Chad Whittle Podcast for 2020
Did your favorite episode make the list?
We have almost made it to the end of 2020!
Thank God!
Good riddance and here’s to 2021!
As the year wraps up, I wanted to share with you some of my most-listened to podcast interviews I’ve conducted on The Chad Whittle Podcast from this crazy year of 2020.
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I really do appreciate your support! Please share my work with your friends!
Below are my most-listened to episodes for 2020:
Robert Morales is a video creator, producing inspiring, informative, and entertaining travel videos. His videos are mainly published on YouTube, but some of them are also available on Amazon Prime Video and Facebook.
He joined Chad to discuss producing travel videos, how he got his start producing YouTube videos, and if the RV lifestyle is right for you. Listen to my conversation with Traveling Robert here.
Scott Christianson is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Management at the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri. On this episode, he discussed the future of technology including A.I., blockchain, COVID-19's impact on higher education and our society, 5G, and more. Listen to the interview here.
Chris Beckham is the host of the Chick-fil-A Football Friday Night radio show that is heard on multiple radio stations in South Georgia and the High School Football Report on NewsTalk 105.9 FM WVGA Valdosta, Georgia. Listen to this touchdown of an interview here.
Preston Scott, is the host of The Morning Show with Preston Scott on 100.7 WFLA Tallahassee and 94.5 WFLA Panama City. He discussed his career, hosting a talk radio program and the future of the format with Chad. Hear the interview here.
Senior Pastor Mike Waers of Northridge Christian Church in Milledgeville, Georgia, joined Chad to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on worship services from a media perspective as churches across the country had to move their services exclusively online and find creative ways to use media to reach their communities each week. Listen here.
Frank Barnas teaches video production and screenwriting at Middle Tennessee State University. He has published six textbooks and produced multiple documentaries. He is also the former host of The Morning Drive with Frank Barnas on News Talk 105.9 WVGA-FM Valdosta, Georgia.
Frank discussed producing documentary films around the world, including Antarctica, and how technology has impacted producing video content. He also discussed why he likes talk radio and why he started his travel podcast. Hear his conversation with Chad here.
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Becky D.Dec 27, 2020
Thank you for sharing. They were all such good episodes.
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On this episode, we lace up the skates and hit the ice to talk about colonialism in hockey, and the Indigenous hockey experience. What does it mean to call hockey “Canada’s game” while Canada is a country built on stolen Native land? We’re gonna take a deep dive into hockey’s role in Canada’s residential schools, the presence of Native mascots in sports, and the changing role of Indigenous hockey players in the NHL today.
To help us pick apart these huge questions, we hear from:
-Braden Te Hiwi. Te Hiwi is an Indigenous Maori academic, originally from New Zealand, who now teaches as an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, ON. He co-authored an incredible paper on the history of hockey at the Pelican Lake Residential School in northern Ontario:
https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cjh.ach.52.1.04www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.313…jh.ach.52.1.04
-Justin Louis is from the Samson Cree Nation of Mascwacis, Alberta, and the co-founder of Section 35, an Indigenous clothing company. Louis and Section 35 have put out a line of clothing called “Kill Mascots”, which takes aim at racist Native mascotry in sports (particularly the Chicago Blackhawks):
www.sectionthirtyfive.com/
-Jason Brennan is the producer and director of Hit the Ice, a show on the Aboriginal Peoples’ Television Nework (APTN) that follows the lives of young Indigenous hockey players. The show is now in its 6th season!
www.hittheice.tv/
To read the Calls to Action on sports from the Truth And Reconciliation Report, visit:
www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitu…Action_English2.pdf
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Music in this episode is by The Kendallz, DJ Spooky, A Tribe Called Red, and Ilegot.
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Upcoming 2017… Saga Press
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I still have a few more of these Upcoming 2017 posts to do. While browsing Edelweiss catalogues, I was reminded of Saga Press novels I was looking forward to, so here are just a few that caught my eye.
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Guest Post: “The Long Orbit of RADIANCE” by Catherynne M. Valente
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Sometime in 2009 I was asked to write a science fiction story for Clarkesworld Magazine. At the time, I had mainly written fantasy — I was eager to dive into the other side of the speculative field. Two things had been bouncing around my head, and they bashed together at once. I had sprouted a fascination with the pulp SF planets of Zelazny, Bester, Burroughs, and Asimov’s day. The worlds we thought might be out there before satellite footage assured us it was not. Savage deserts of Mars, undersea Neptune, Venusian waterways. I wanted to make a planet like that. I didn’t want to follow the trend of hewing closely to established scientific fact. I wanted to go back to the wild, free-wheeling pulp universe, where there are no shackles on what you can imagine out there.
At the same time, I had read an interview with Mark Danielewski, who wrote House of Leaves, one of my favorite novels. He talked about his father, a cinematographer, and what a profound influence on his writing his father’s profession had been. And I thought: I was raised by a film director. It shaped every way I see the world and the ways I make my own. And I’ve never written about it even a little.
Upcoming from Little, Brown UK
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Here’s a selection of upcoming titles from Little, Brown UK that have caught my eye. (It’s a bit more of a mix than usual.)
Kelley Armstrong, DECEPTIONS (August 18th, Sphere)
Olivia Jones is desperate for the truth. The daughter of convicted serial killers, she has begun to suspect that her parents are innocent of their crimes. But who can she trust, in a world where betrayal and deception hide in every shadow?
RISK EVERYTHING
Liv does have one secret weapon: a mysterious sixth sense that helps her to anticipate danger. The trouble is, this rare power comes with its own risks. There are dark forces that want to exploit Liv’s talents – and will stop at nothing to win her to their side.
FACE THE TRUTH
Now Liv must decide, before it’s too late. Who does she love? Who is really on her side? And can she save herself without burning down everything that matters most?
Book three in Armstrong’s Cainsville series — following Omens and Visions. All published in the US by Dutton.
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Stephen Aryan, BATTLEMAGE (September 24th, Orbit)
An action-packed and magic-fuelled fantasy novel from a British debut author, Stephen Aryan’s Battlemage features mages fighting an empire-spanning war for a homeland that fears and despises them
‘I can command storms, summon fire and unmake stone,’ Balfruss growled. ‘It’s dangerous to meddle with things you don’t understand.’
BALFRUSS is a battlemage, sworn to fight and die for a country that fears his kind.
VARGUS is a common soldier – while mages shoot lightning from the walls of his city, he is down on the front line getting blood on his blade.
TALANDRA is a princess and spymaster, but the war will force her to risk everything, and make the greatest sacrifice of all.
Magic and mayhem collide in this explosive epic fantasy from a major new talent.
Jonathan Aycliffe, THE LOST (October 1st, Constable)
When a man is lost, who but his ghosts will find him?
British born Michael Feraru, scion of a long line of Romanian aristocrats, leaves his country of birth and his love, to reclaim his heritage — a Draculian castle deep in the heart of Transylvania. He plans to turn his inheritance into an orphanage in the new post-Ceausescu, post-communist country. There he enlists the help of a young local lawyer, Liliana Popescu, to search for the missing Feraru millions, and battle through the complex maze of old bureaucracy in the scam-rich, newly-born state.
Feraru describes his journey into the heart of the Romanian countryside, wasted by years of neglect and caught in a time-warp, as though the twentieth century had never reached it. When he eventually arrives at his inheritance, he finds the castle of the Ferarus, in a sunless valley in the Carpathian Mountains, is home to much more than memories…
Jim Butcher, THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS (September 29th, Orbit)
A new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors…
Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace.
Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is severely damaged in combat, leaving captain and crew grounded, Grimm is offered a proposition from the Spirearch of Albion-to join a team of agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring Predator to its fighting glory.
And even as Grimm undertakes this dangerous task, he will learn that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Humanity’s ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand years, has begun to stir once more. And death will follow in its wake.
Published by Orbit in both the UK and US. This is the first in a new series, The Cinder Spires.
Monica Byrne, THE GIRL ON THE ROAD (September 3rd, PB, Blackfriars)
In a world where global power has shifted east and revolution is brewing, a young woman sets out from her home in India on a desperate, profound journey of escape and discovery.
A young woman called Meena wakes up one morning covered in blood. There are mysterious snakebites across her chest. She knows she’s in danger but something has happened to her memory. All she can do is run — but why? And from whom?
As Meena plots her escape she hears of the Trail – an extraordinary, forbidden bridge that spans the Arabian sea, connecting India to Africa like a silver ribbon. Its purpose is to harness the power of the ocean — Blue Energy — but it also offers a subculture of travellers a chance for sanctuary and adventure.
Convinced the Trail is her salvation, Meena gathers supplies — GPS, a scroll reader, a sealable waterproof pod. And so begins her extraordinary journey — both physical and spiritual – from India to Ethiopia, the home of her birth. But as she runs away from the threat of violence she is also running towards a shocking revelation about her past and her family.
Still haven’t had the chance to read this, unfortunately. New paperback edition.
Kate Elliott, COURT OF FIVES (August 27th, LB Young Readers)
In this imaginative escape into an enthralling new world, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott begins a new trilogy with her debut young adult novel, weaving an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege
Jessamy’s life is a balance between acting like an upper class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners. But at night she can be whomever she wants when she sneaks out to train for The Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom’s best competitors. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an unlikely friendship between a girl of mixed race and a Patron boy causes heads to turn. When a scheming lord tears Jes’s family apart, she’ll have to test Kal’s loyalty and risk the vengeance of a powerful clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death.
Joseph Fink & Jeffery Cranor, WELCOME TO THE NIGHT VALE (October 20th, Orbit)
From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves… no matter where we live. The Telegraph calls Night Vale a ‘cultural phenomenon’ and Time Out says it’s ‘as hilarious as it is macabre’. For fans of Stephen King, Serial, Twin Peaks and of course the number one iTunes podcast itself.
Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.
Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked ‘KING CITY’ by a mysterious man in a tan jacket. She can’t seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City before she herself unravels.
Diane Crayton’s son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane’s started to see her son’s father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.
Diane’s search to reconnect with her son and Jackie’s search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: ‘KING CITY’. It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures . . . if they can ever find it.
Robert Galbraith, CAREER OF EVIL (October 22nd, Sphere)
When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg.
Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.
With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them…
A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives. You will not be able to put this book down.
I loved the first two novels in Galbraith’s series — The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm. Very much looking forward to Career of Evil. Oh, if you were somehow unaware of the fact, “Robert Galbraith” is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling.
Kim Harrison, THE DRAFTER (September 1st, Piatkus)
LIVE. DIE. REPEAT.
Detroit 2030: Double-crossed by the person she loved and betrayed by the covert government organization that trained her to use her body as a weapon, Peri Reed is a renegade on the run. Don’t forgive and never forget has always been Peri’s creed. But her day job makes it difficult: she is a drafter, possessed of a rare, invaluable skill for altering time, yet destined to forget both the history she changed and the history she rewrote.
When Peri discovers her name is on a list of corrupt operatives, she realizes that her own life has been manipulated by the agency. Her memory of the previous three years erased, she joins forces with a mysterious rogue soldier in a deadly race to piece together the truth about her fateful final task. With only her intuition to guide her, she’s on a vengeful mission to decide-who must she kill and who, including herself, can she trust?
Julia Knight, SWORDS AND SCOUNDRELS (October 8th, Orbit)
The first book in the Duellist’s trilogy — a fast-paced adventure from one of the most exciting new British talents in fantasy
Gold is for fools, and dying is for amateurs…
Vocho and Kacha are champion duellists: a brother and sister known for the finest swordplay in the city of Reyes. Or at least they used to be — until they were thrown out of the Duellist’s Guild.
Now all that’s left to them is to become reluctant highwaymen. Well — it’s a living, and for Vocho it’s a way to win back some form of notoriety. But when they pick the wrong carriage to rob, their simple plans to win back fame and fortune go south fast.
After facing down three armed men and barely besting a powerful magician, Vocho and Kacha make off with an immense locked chest. Vocho is convinced it must be worth a fortune, perhaps enough to buy him and his sister back the lives he lost for them when he inadvertently killed a priest.
But the contents of the chest will bring them much more than they’ve bargained for — when they soon find themselves embroiled in a dangerous plot to return an angry king to power…
Julia Knight is also known as Francis Knight, the author of the Rojan Dizon trilogy (which is very good). Details of the second book in the Duellists trilogy, Legends and Liars (November 5th), are here. The covers for all three novels in the series can be seen in all their glory here.
Barry Lyga, Peter Facinelli & Robert DeFranco, AFTER THE RED RAIN (August 27th, LB Young Readers)
A post-apocalyptic novel with a cinematic twist from New York Times bestseller Barry Lyga, actor Peter Facinelli, and producer Robert DeFranco.
On the ruined planet Earth, where 50 billion people are confined to mega-cities, and resources are scarce, Deedra has been handed a bleak and mundane existence by the Magistrate she works so hard for. But one day, she comes across a beautiful boy struggling to cross the river. A boy with a secretive past and special abilities, who is somehow able to find comfort and life from their dying planet. A boy with an unusual name… Rose.
But just as the two form a bond, it is quickly torn apart by the murder of the Magistrate’s son, and Rose becomes the prime suspect. Little do they know how much their relationship will affect the fate of everyone who lives on the planet.
Catherine M. Valente, RADIANT (October 20th, Corsair)
Severin Unck is the headstrong young daughter of a world famous film director. She has inherited her father’s love of the big screen but not his exuberant gothic style of filmmaking. Instead, Severin makes documentaries, artful and passionate and even rather brave – for she is a realist in a fantastic alternate universe, in which Hollywood occupies the moon, Mars is rife with lawless saloons, and the solar system contains all manner of creatures, cults and colonies.
For Severin’s latest project she leads her crew to the watery planet of Venus to investigate the disappearance of a diving colony there. But something goes wrong during the course of their investigations; and her crew limp home without her.
All that remains of Severin are fragments. Can these snippets of scenes and shots, voices and memories, pages and recordings be collected and pieced together to tell the story of her life – and shed light on the mystery of her vanishing?
Clever, dreamy, strange and beautifully written – Radiance is a novel about how stories give form to worlds.
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The Temple of St. Francis in Gaeta: history, restorations, location and useful information to visit this splendid Gothic church
Immagining Gaeta's skyline without the imposing Gothic contour represented by St. Francis' Church, containing the famous Statue of Religion and its monumental staircase, is pretty much impossible.
To get there, you need to go along a tiny upward road that twists and turns from the historic center. Once you get there, though, your effort will be largely rewarded by the breath-taking views over the whole Gulf of Gaeta.
St. Francis' Church is absolutely the symbol of the city, a great artistic heritage site we are sure you will love at first sight!
St. Francis' Church in Gaeta
A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY: FROM THE FOUNDATION TO THE LATEST RESTORATION
In 1222 during his stay in Gaeta, Francis of Assisi founded, at the slopes of Mount Orlando, a small convent. In 1285, thanks to the great devotion of the citizens and the funds by Charles II of Anjou and Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, the convent turned into a biggest church in honour to Saint Francis. Over the centuries, the temple has undergone many damages, that have always needed important restoration interventions.
The first restoration took place after the Napoleonic invasion during which the convent was requisited and the church fell into disrepair. Therefore, in 1854 architect Giacomo Guarinelli disegned an intervention that was concluded four years later. Guarinelli did not demolish the old church but he preserved its structure covering it both internally and externally by neo-Gothic decorations.
From 1927 to 1992 the church was entrusted to the Salesians of Saint John Bosco who restored it and also founded the Oratory of Don Bosco in the old convent. The 8th of September 1943, during World War II, a bomb hit the front façade of the building making it necessary to start new restoration works, that took place between 1951 and 1952.
Finally, during the twentieth century St. Francis' Church was newly restored between 2004 and 2008.
WHAT TO SEE: ART AND ARCHITECTURE
The atmosphere that you can feel in this sacred place is somehow magical. From the square where you get once you climb the staircase, you can enjoy one of the most beautiful panoramic views of the coastline. Stop for a while to admire the splendid views over the Medieval city with the gulf in the background. This panoramic viewpoint will especially delight all photography enthusiasts... the moment has come to take your reflex camera!
The spectacular panoramic view over the Gulf of Gaeta
In front of the church, watching over the whole city, there is the Statue of Religion, by Luigi Persico, representing a standing woman holding a big cross.
On the external façade, at the sides of the big marble gate are the statues of Charles II of Anjou and Ferdinand II of Bourbon, both by sculptor Gennaro De Crescenzo. On the tympanum, on the other hand, is the Allegory of the restoration of the papacy and on the cornice, from left to right are the statues respectively representing St. Bernard, St. Ambrose, St. Francis, St. Agostino and St. Thomas Aquinas.
The interior of the church is formed by three naves without transept, covered by a vaulted ceiling and divided by two rows of pointed arches. The whole, together with the decorations of the ceiling and the walls, represents the quintessence of the Gothic and neo-Gothic styles.
The whole setting is extremely bright and the walls are adorned by light coloured decorative elements and the sunlight streams throught wide glass walls. Worth noting, just before the pilars, are 12 big plaster statues representing the Apostles with The Redeemer and the marble pavement with inlaid panels.
The main altar, designed as well by Guarinelli, is made with finely sculpted plaster, with a rich embossed neo-Gothic architectonical decoration.
Façade of St. Francis' Church in Gaeta
Like all Gothic churches and cathedrals, also St. Francis Church in Gaeta is vertically designed thanks to a systematic use of pointed arches. The shapes are elongated, expanded and the space seems unlimited causing a sense of dismay to the faithful that walk through it. Light represents one ot the main elements of Gothic art and it is a symbol of the trascendental nature of God. In addition, the interior of the church, after the last recent restoration works looks even more majestic and imposing.
It is no coincidence that it reminds of the famous Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris!
This article ends here. As usual, to find out how to get there and when to visit this architectonical pearl read the box at the bottom of the page!
From the Port of Gaeta: Getting to St. Francis' Church (often called Temple of St. Francis) is really easy. It's impossible not to see from Gaeta's promenade the building standing out over the city. If you are close to the Harbour Master's Office in Lungomare Giovanni Caboto, turn right into Via Begani and continue straight up to 22 Via Angioina. Take then a tiny upward road leading to the monumental staircase below the entrance to the church.
Opening: Saturday and Sunday.
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Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey Shares Secrets For Success
Shaheer AnsariAugust 30, 20200 Comment0397
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: People think ‘success means I work 20 hours a day’ like Elon Musk — ‘which is BS’
The idea that entrepreneurs need to pull all-nighters working and never take a day off to be successful is outdated, according to Jack Dorsey. In fact, that attitude often leads to burnout, the Twitter and Square CEO and co-founder said on a recent episode of “The Boardroom: Out of Office Podcast.”
‘Maximization Of Time Takes Away The Quality Of Time’
“I would rather optimize for making every hour meaningful — or every minute meaningful — than I would maximizing the number of hours or minutes I’m working on a thing,” Dorsey told Rich Kleiman on the podcast, which aired on Aug. 12. “Because I just found that the maximization of time takes away from the quality within the time I do have.”
The 43-year-old billionaire explained that when people are “too rigid about having to work all hours,” it’s harder to be self-aware and pay attention to what’s happening in the world around you. Self-awareness is one personal trait that he attributes to his massive success, he said.
Many people are under the assumption that “success means I work 20 hours a day and I sleep four — because that’s what I read that Elon Musk does,” Dorsey said. But Dorsey said that is “bulls—.” (The Tesla CEO has said that he sometimes works 80 to 90 hours a week, and has admitted working up to around 120 hours a week at times, which he called “nutty.”)
Typical Day In Jack’s Life
Dorsey has found ways to schedule self-reflection into his day so he can make the most of the time he spends working.
Before Twitter and Square employees began working from home due to Covid-19, a typical day for Dorsey would start at 5 am with meditating, he said on the podcast. He practices “vipassana meditation” or “insight meditation,” a technique that focuses on observing and understanding thought patterns. (Dorsey has been criticized for going on a 10-day vipassana meditation in Myanmar on his birthday in 2018, which some called tone-deaf amid the military attacks on Rohingya Muslim people.)
Dorsey would then drink coffee and walk five miles to work, which took an hour and 20 minutes. He says he would usually listen to podcasts or audiobooks on the walk, “so that I learn,” he said.
“The most important thing about that morning is, I meditated, which means I calmed my head, I did some physical exercise, [and] I learned in just a short, effectively three-hour window before my meeting started,” Dorsey said.
The routine also gives Dorsey a confidence boost: “I already won the day,” he said. “The day could be a terrible day, and I feel like I already did so much for myself and I felt like I had another day entirely.”
Once the workday begins, Dorsey said that he tries to get rid of all distractions. “I just get so much more done and time really slows down, so the hour feels like three hours,” he said. “You can make this time so fungible and flexible if you really understand how to kind of focus on it.”
In the past, Dorsey has said that he eats only dinner seven days a week, so that he’s not interrupted by breakfast or lunch.
“I just found that I got so much more done during those fasting periods because I was so focused and it just felt like I had much more time to really think and to work in that moment,” Dorsey said on Ben Greenfield Fitness: Diet, Fat Loss and Performance podcast in April 2019. (While some studies on mice suggest that fasting can improve cognition and potentially protect the brain against neurodegenerative diseases, more research needs to be done to show that it’s safe for humans. Furthermore, feeling hungry during fasting periods can mess with your ability to make decisions, think and concentrate.)
Dorsey Handles Two Companies
Dorsey splits his day to devote time to both of his companies: Twitter in the morning, Square in the afternoon and evening, he told Kleiman. At the end of a typical day, Dorsey would go home, make dinner and wind down, he said.
Courtesy: Yahoo Finance (old data)
While some details of Dorsey’s habits are far-fetched for the average person, at the end of the day he comes back to one relatable question, which he often journals about. “What did I learn today?”
Dorsey said he’s been keeping a journal since he was 14, but the same prompt still applies to his life as a billionaire and entrepreneur: “What is the world trying to teach me about what I need to do personally to maintain this level, or to extend, or go beyond the level?”
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San Antonio Housing Authority gives away more than 120 desktop computers
As part of their Connect Home SA Program and to promote Digital Inclusion Week, the San Antonio Housing Authority gives away more than 120 desktop computers to residents. Watch KSAT San Antonio's news story on the giveaway event.
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Mountain to climb for Pearses outfit against Cork men
Bernie Ni Fhlatharta
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STEPHEN GLENNON
GALWAY champions Padraig Pearses will make their bid for a place in the All-Ireland club intermediate hurling decider when they face Cork outfit Ballymartle in the penultimate stage of the competition at Templetuohy, Tipperary this Sunday (2:30pm).
Having secured the Galway championship with a 1-10 to 1-8 win over Killimor last November, Pearses subsequently added the Connacht title to the silverware cabinet when accounting for a plucky Ballyhaunis side in the provincial final a week later.
However, Pearses will be acutely aware that their hurling will need to be taken to the next level if they are to continue their winning ways when they face a Ballymartle outfit that has been nothing less than impressive throughout their county and Munster expeditions.
In the Cork intermediate decider, they accounted for Tracton on a scoreline of 2-14 to 0-13, with their goal poacher supreme, Dan Dwyer tallying the two goals. Interestingly, it was the club’s first Premier Intermediate title; they had lost the previous year’s showcase to Douglas by four points. Indeed, aside from winning an Intermediate ‘A’ crown in 2006, they had not appeared in an intermediate decider since 1954.
However, since claiming the county title last October, they have gone from strength to strength. After defeating Hospital Herbertstown of Limerick in the Munster semi-final, they then carried out a demolition job on Borrisokane of Tipperary in the provincial final, winning 2-14 to 0-8. Once again, Dwyer was the hero, scoring 2-1 in the 12-point victory.
On that evidence alone, one would have to favour Ballymartle. That said, it would be a surprise if a spirited Padraig Pearses side are to be found wanting on the day, particularly as they boast of quality players like Galway senior Cyril Donnellan, former Galway minor goalkeeper Fergal Flannery and the prolific attacking duo of Thomas Flannery – who captains the side – and Jimmy Gelston.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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The way we were – Protecting archives of our past
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People’s living conditions less than 100 years ago were frightening. We have come a long way. We talk about water charges today, but back then the local District Councils were erecting pumps for local communities and the lovely town of Mountbellew, according to Council minutes, had open sewers,” says Galway County Council archivist Patria McWalter.
Patria believes we “need to take pride in our history, and we should take the same pride in our historical records as we do in our built heritage”. When you see the wealth of material in her care, this belief makes sense.
She is in charge of caring for the rich collection of administrative records owned by Galway County Council and says “these records are as much part of our history as the Rock of Cashel is. They document our lives and our ancestors’ lives. And nobody can plan for the future unless you learn from the past, what worked and what didn’t”.
Archivists and librarians are often unfairly regarded as being dry, academic types, but that’s certainly not true of Patria. Her enthusiasm is infectious as she turns the pages of several minute books from Galway’s Rural District Councils, all of them at least 100 years old.
Part of her role involved cataloguing all the records of the Councils – Ballinasloe, Clifden, Galway, Gort, Loughrea, Mountbellew, Portumna and Tuam. These records mostly consisted of minutes of various meetings.
When she was cataloguing them she realised their worth to local historians and researchers, so she decided to compile a guide to their content. The result is For the Record: The Archives of Galway’s Rural District Councils, which will be a valuable asset to anybody with an interest in history.
Many representatives on these Councils were local personalities and several were arrested during the political upheaval of the era, she explains.
And, ushering in a new era in history, women were allowed to sit on these Rural District Councils – at the time they were not allowed to sit on County Councils.
All of this information is included in Patria’s introductory essay to the attractively produced A4 size guide, which gives a glimpse into how these Rural Councils operated and the way political thinking changed in Ireland during a short 26-year period. In the early 1900s, these Councils supported Home Rule, but by 1920, they were calling for full independence and refusing to recognise the British administration.
“I love the tone,” says Patria of the minutes from meetings. “The language was very emotive.”
That was certainly true of the Gort Rural District Council. At a meeting in 1907, following riots in Dublin at the premiere of JM Synge’s play, The Playboy of the Western World the councillors’ response was vehement. They recorded their decision to “protest most emphatically against the libellous comedy, The Playboy of the Western World, that was belched forth during the past week in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, under the fostering care of Lady Gregory and Mr Yeats. We congratulate the good people of Dublin in howling down the gross buffoonery and immoral suggestions that are scattered throughout this scandalous performance.
For more from the archives see this week’s Tribunes here
Henshaw and McSharry set to field for Irish Wolfhounds in clash with England Saxons
Date Published: 24-Jan-2013
CONNACHT’S rising stars Robbie Henshaw and Dave McSharry look set to named in the starting xv for the Ireland Wolfhounds who face the England Saxons in Galway this weekend when the team is announced later today (Thursday).
Robbie Henshaw is the only out-and-out full-back that was named Tuesday in the 23-man squad that will take on the English at the Sportsground this Friday (7.45pm).
Connacht’s centre McSharry and Ulster’s Darren Cave are the only two specialist centres named in the 23 man squad, which would also suggest the two youngsters are in line for a starting place.
Former Connacht out-half, Ian Keatley, Leinster’s second out-half Ian Madigan and Ulster’s number 10 Paddy Jackson and winger Andrew Trimble, although not specialist full-backs or centres, can all slot into the 12, 13 and 15 jerseys, however you’d expect the Irish management will hand debuts to Henshaw and McSharry given that they’ll be playing on their home turf.
Aged 19, Henshaw was still playing Schools Cup rugby last season. The Athlone born Connacht Academy back burst onto the scene at the beginning of the season when he filled the number 15 position for injured captain Gavin Duffy.
The Marist College and former Ireland U19 representative was so assured under the high ball, so impressive on the counter-attack and astute with the boot, that he retained the full-back position when Duffy returned from injury.
Connacht coach Eric Elwood should be commended for giving the young Buccaneers clubman a chance to shine and Henshaw has grasped that opportunity with both hands, lighting up the RaboDirect PRO 12 and Heineken Cup campaigns for the Westerners this season.
Henshaw has played in all 19 of Connacht’s games this season and his man-of-the-match display last weekend in the Heineken Cup against Zebre caught the eye of Irish attack coach, Les Kiss.
“We’re really excited about his development. He had to step into the breach when Connacht lost Gavin Duffy, and he was playing 13 earlier in the year. When he had to put his hand up for that, he’s done an exceptional job,” Kiss said.
The 22-year-old McSharry was desperately unlucky to miss out on Declan Kidney’s Ireland squad for the autumn internationals and the Dubliner will relish the opportunity this Friday night to show-off his speed, turn of foot, deft hands and finishing prowess that has been a mark of this season, in particular, with Connacht.
Drinks battle brewing as kettle sales go off the boil
You’d have thought there might have been three certainties in Irish life – death, taxes and the cup of tea – but it now seems that our post-tiger sophistication in endangering the consumption of the nation’s second favourite beverage.
Because with all of our new-fangled coffee machines, percolators, cappuccino and expresso makers, sales of the humble kettle are falling faster than our hopes of a write-off on the promissory note.
And even when we do make tea, we don’t need a tea pot – it’s all tea bags these days because nobody wants a mouthful of tea leaves, unless they’re planning to have their fortune told.
Sales of kettles are in decline as consumers opt for fancy coffee makers, hot water dispensers and other methods to make their beverages – at least that’s the case in the UK and there’s no reason to think it’s any different here.
And it’s only seems like yesterday when, if the hearth was the heart of every home, the kettle that hung over the inglenook fireplace or whistled gently on the range, was the soul.
You’d see groups gathered in bogs, footing turf and then breaking off to boil the battered old kettle for a well-earned break.
The first thing that happened when you dropped into someone’s home was the host saying: “Hold on until I stick on the kettle.”
When the prodigal son arrived home for the Christmas, first item on the agenda was a cup of tea; when bad news was delivered, the pain was eased with a cuppa; last thing at night was tea with a biscuit.
The arrival of electric kettles meant there was no longer an eternal search for matches to light the gas; we even had little electric coils that would boil water into tea in our cup if you were mean enough or unlucky enough to be making tea for one.
We went away on sun holidays, armed with an ocean of lotion and a suitcase full of Denny’s sausages and Barry’s Tea. Spanish tea just wasn’t the same and there was nothing like a nice brew to lift the sagging spirits.
We even coped with the arrival of coffee because for a long time it was just Maxwell House or Nescafe granules which might have seemed like the height of sophistication – but they still required a kettle.
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Trivia Game
If you like Trivial Pursuit but really like Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, then pick up the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Historical Trivia Game, which is most bodacious. Each character represents a different question category, like Genghis Kahn for Geography, Joan of Arc for Women in History, Beeth-Oven for Music History. (And yes, of course you have to say Beeth-Oven.) First player to collect all six historical figures in their phone booth wins the game.
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Die Hard: Nakatomi Heist Board Game
I’m firmly on team “Die Hard is a Christmas movie,” so of course we had to play Die Hard: Nakatomi Heist Board Game over the break. Players form Hans Gruber’s team of thieves and attempt to pull off the heist on Nakatomi Plaza, while one plays as John McClane and attempts to thwart their evil mission — all in under the run time of the film itself. I want to point out that game creators suggest it’s for kids ages 15 and older, but I think that has more to do with the movie and less do to with the actual game play which is just fine for tweens. Yippie Ki Yay…well, you know.
A Christmas Story Card Game
The new A Christmas Story Card Game is a Major Card Game! Well, it’s a simple card game that kids as young as 7 or 8 can easily play — and trust me, you’ll enjoy it long after Christmas. Inspired by the highlights of the 1983 film, your goal is to help Ralphie get his Red Rider BB Gun and secret decoder ring. Players can “triple dog dare” other players to trade cards, or just straight up steal them should they be in possession of the coveted leg lamp.
The Shining Board Game
Where are my 80s horror fans? Yes, there is a The Shining Board Game and I know a lot of people who will be excited to get their hands on this one. The goal, as you might have guessed, is to survive a winter at the Overlook Hotel without going mad. One player starts off “corrupted,” however, and you need to figure out the culprit before they affect everyone else. Even the art is a little creepy on this one, drawing from the iconic imagery from the Kubrick film, so I’d recommend this one for those teens (and parents!) who like a good spooky story.
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Jaws: The Board Game
Okay so I’m cheating a little here because both Jaws and Jaws II were released in the 70s, but there’s no Gen X-er I know who wasn’t impacted by that shark in some way. Whether or not your tweens or teens have seen the film, if they enjoy a good strategy board game, then the Jaws Board Game is a terrific addition to your game stash. It takes about an hour, and is played in two rounds: In the first round, one person plays the shark, whose goal is to eat 9 swimmers, while everyone else plays the crew trying to tag the shark. In round two, the crew members climb aboard the Orca and work to fight off the shark before, well, he eats you all.
Despite that very finite ending, it’s enjoyable to play the Jaws Board Game over and over since the one-versus many game play makes it interesting and different every time.
CMP received promotional review copies of some of these games for editorial consideration
Tags: board games, family activities, family entertainment, games, gifts for geeks, gifts for men, gifts for teens + tweens, gifts for women, movies
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Brock Lesnar Calls Out UFC Heavyweight Champion
Lesnar made an unannounced appearance at UFC 226.
By Jack G. King
Brock Lesnar made an appearance at the end of last night's UFC 226 pay per view, calling out UFC Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier.
Cormier had just knocked out Stipe Miocic to become a double-champion in UFC, simultaneously holding the Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Championships.
During his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan, Cormier called out Lesnar, who was present for the event. Lesnar entered the octagon and shoved Cormier, before getting on the mic himself and proclaiming that he intends to take the Heavyweight title from the new champion.
Lesnar was notably without the WWE Universal Championship. His status as the top champion on Raw has attracted criticism throughout much of 2018, mainly stemming from the fact that Lesnar works a very limited WWE schedule - making few appearances, and even fewer title defences.
Since winning the Universal Championship from Goldberg at WrestleMania 33, Lesnar has only defended the belt six times (not including house show matches). His most recent defence came at the Greatest Royal Rumble event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he defeated Roman Reigns under controversial circumstances in a steel cage match.
Lesnar's challenge to Cormier seems to have confirmed (or at least fuelled) rumours that the pair will clash in Madison Square Garden in November. This would presumably mean that Lesnar has to drop the Universal Championship at some point before then, with the most likely date being SummerSlam - WWE's biggest show between now and then.
However, that hasn't necessarily been confirmed. A number one contender for Brock's title hasn't yet been confirmed, nor has a date for his next defence.
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Colleges and Universities are Improving Response to Campus Sexual Violence as a Result of New Program, Report Shows
Colleges and universities that participated in a new program are making big strides in preventing and responding to sexual violence on campus, according to a new report. The Collective is the signature program from Culture of Respect, a NASPA initiative, and the report is an evaluation of the program’s successful first two years.
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Wake Forest students assisting with University’s implementation of new Title IX regulations
Laurie D. Willis
This is what a Culture of Respect looks like. Wake Forest University, a Collective Cohort 1 school, under the leadership of Culture of Respect Advisory Board member Penny Rue, is ensuring students have a seat at the head of the table when it comes to Title IX implementation.
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Universities Are Aligning Sexual Assault Policies With New Federal Guidelines
Jennifer E. Henkle
Culture of Respect’s Collective Program Manager Jennifer E. Henkle weighs in on problematic areas in the new Title IX rule, as well as the challenges of adhering to the quick turnaround time for implementation while also navigating a pandemic. Listen to the full interview.
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May 19, 2020 |Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Culture of Respect’s Jennifer Henkle Talks Title IX with Columbia University
Earlier this month, Culture of Respect’s Jennifer Henkle spoke with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism about the new Title IX rule issued by the Department of Education; listen here.
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Introducing the 4th Cohort of the Culture of Respect Collective
We are thrilled to announce the participating institutions in Cohort 4 of the Culture of Respect Collective, an ambitious two-year program that brings together institutions of higher education dedicated to ending campus sexual violence and guides them through a rigorous process of self-assessment and targeted organizational change. This fourth cohort of 20 diverse institutions from […]
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NASPA Joins More than 200 Organizations Calling for the Suspension of Title IX Rulemaking Amidst COVID-19
Last week, NASPA, along with more than 200 other organizations, signed on to a letter calling on the White House and the Department of Education to suspend the Title IX rulemaking process amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. As the letter states: “The unprecedented challenges arising from this pandemic will continue to require significant school resources and […]
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City Council Extends Interim Rent Control Through October
As COVID-19 cases surge to record heights across the nation and unemployment claims continue to rise, City Council voted last night to preserve current rent control and tenant protections, at least until the end of October.
In a 4-1 vote, Council approved to extend the Interim Rent Control Ordinance until October 31, 2020. Mayor Goran Eriksson was the only one opposed.
“I’m going to be consistent and I’m not going to vote to extend something I didn’t believe in from the beginning,” Eriksson said in a discussion before the vote.
The extension is a result in part of the sweeping effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to language from the new ordinance to extend IRCO, “during this unprecedent [sic] time, it remains critical that tenants are not faced with excessive rent increases or no fault evictions without some type of financial assistance for relocation.”
Over 30 people submitted speaker cards, calling in from their homes around the city to protest or support the furthering of the measure.
“These protections would create an equitable playing field,” said Freddy Puza, a Fox Hills resident currently running for City Council on the November ballot, voicing his support.
“We need to reconcile with our history as a sundown town,” he continued. “Stable housing is one of the key factors in creating healthy and vibrant cities.”
Speakers from both sides of the issue – including members of both Protect Culver City Renters and the political action committee Protect Culver City – cited a rise in crime as a potential consequence of not following through on their respective positions.
One resident, Eric Metz, said he has owned a home in Culver City for over 12 years. He is spending over $500,000 to install an ADU, which according to him, will help his family financially. The only problem? Under IRCO, evicting a tenant could cost him $9,000.
“We want to make sure there is no rent control because what will happen, we’ll have higher rates for rents in order to offset these potential future issues,” he said.
According to the measure, a payment of three times the monthly rent plus $1,000 would be required for a no-fault eviction. For example, if a landlord wanted to vacate a unit in order to move a family member in.
City staff will prepare a draft ordinance and present it to Council in September based on last night’s recommendations.
“This ordinance is about protecting the small landlord as much as it is about protecting the tenant. Those two go right together,” Councilmember Thomas Small said.
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Top marketers highlight 5 common themes about the impact of 2020 on business
ClickZ interviewed four marketing leaders from industry-leading organizations including eBay, IBM Watson, FILA, and Salesforce with the goal of understanding how 2020 has impacted their business, marketing strategy, and plans.
Although each company has different goals, business models, and customers, five common themes emerged about this year’s impact on business.
The five themes for 2020, in a nutshell, are: change, personalization and data, adaptability, an optimized mobile experience, and the importance of being helpful (and relevant).
Surveys, data, and trends reveal a lot about the impact 2020 had on businesses and consumers, but it’s also helpful to get the perspective of marketing leaders who have firsthand experience navigating how this very unusual year has impacted their business and clients.
ClickZ interviewed four executives at eBay, FILA, Salesforce, and IBM Watson/Weather to get a better understanding of how the coronavirus and 2020 impacted their approach to marketing, influenced their business, and forced them to rethink their strategies going into 2021 and beyond.
Five common themes emerged from our conversations with each marketing leader. The first was pretty universal—2020 ushered in a startling and enormous amount of change.
Theme #1: 2020 is the year that changed everything
Change was a common theme among the marketing leaders we spoke to, with COVID-19 causing a rapid shift in consumer behavior that required companies to adapt quickly, particularly in the Ecommerce space.
FILA’s VP of Ecommerce, Dawn Trenson, noted how stay-at-home orders and store closings forced consumers to rely on digital channels to solve their commerce needs.
“Since so many stores were closed and stay-at-home orders were common, our customers relied on online channels to solve their commerce needs,” explains Trenson. “Our online strategy included a fully re-vamped direct-to-consumer channel. In May, our site saw a massive increase in digital engagement following the site’s relaunch; we also had the highest number of sales in a single day.”
For consumers and retailers alike, the rapid adoption of and transformation to Ecommerce was a natural consequence of having limited bricks and mortar options.
While online retail sales jumped 32% in the first quarter of 2020 compared with the previous quarter, department store sales declined sharply, a trend that was already occurring, but was exacerbated by COVID-19.
Quarterly revenue of top department stores in 2020 compared with 2019—Source: Vox
Ebay’s Scott Kelliher, Director of Brand Ads and Partnerships, spoke to how consumers’ needs shift as the pandemic drags on.
“On the consumer side, what we’ve seen is that when people first locked down, purchasing trends were really functional (e.g., cleaning products, masks, etc.) But over the course of the summer, we saw a big spike in interest for auto parts, home office accessories, and categories like jigsaw puzzles.”
Theme #2: Personalization and data-driven marketing are more important than ever
Personalized messaging that relies on data-driven technologies like AI and machine learning have become incredibly important throughout the pandemic.
As brands and businesses went dark then re-emerged due to lockdowns, protests, and other issues in 2020, relevant and authentic messaging has been an essential way that companies communicate with consumers.
Randi Stipes, CMO at IBM Watson Advertising and Weather, emphasized that messaging be as relevant as possible during times of uncertainty, noting how IBM’s clients are leveraging their technology to do just this.
“We’re using AI to help clients be more responsive and tone appropriate in their communications with consumers,” says Stipes. “We launched a solution called Watson Advertising Accelerator at CES which harnesses AI to rapidly and continuously make sense of data signals to predict the optimal creative that drives the highest engagement among a target audience.”
Personalization and data have been key ingredients in FILA’s approach to marketing as well.
With a data-driven focus, FILA’s online channels serve tailored shopping journeys and relevant messaging at specific moments, all while creating an optimized customer experience.
FILA works with Capgemini, a technology consulting firm that specializes in helping companies with their digital transformation initiatives.
Says Trenson, “Prior to 2020, FILA was sending general marketing emails and only sharing visibility at various points throughout the year. The site was siloed, so it was difficult to pull customer data and establish relevant messaging. Capgemini saw the gaps, and quickly implemented digital marketing and SEO optimizations that gave us specific insight into who our customers are and how they interact with the site.”
Theme #3: Adaptability is crucial
Salesforce’s VP of Marketing, Jo Pettifer, notes that the pandemic has tested marketer’s ability to be adaptable.
Says Pettifer, “Just like our customers, we’ve had to reimagine nearly every aspect of our business — our products, employee experiences, customer engagements, and events, with relevance and speed.”
In the B2B sector where in-person events traditionally represented a large pillar of an organization’s marketing strategy, companies have had to think differently about digital and the role it can play in creating engaging customer experiences.
“We reimagined our events so they deliver timely, relevant and impactful content to the right audience, from anywhere,” explains Pettifer. “Most recently we launched Dreamforce to You, a customized, digital experience for our customers, trailblazers and stakeholders to inspire, connect and define the blueprint for how to succeed in this new normal.”
Stipes pointed out that being adaptable and resilient was the silver lining in a year filled with challenges.
“In a matter of weeks, IBM implemented a remote work culture for over 350,000 employees across the globe,” she explains. “We’ve been agile with our clients and have been able to help ensure their business continuity in the face of the pandemic.”
Theme #4: An optimized mobile experience becomes the rule
Optimized mobile experiences have been crucial to remaining agile and adaptable throughout 2020 as more consumers access websites from their mobile devices and apps take on more importance to meet the growing demand for online orders, planning, and shopping.
For the Weather Channel, an IBM property, mobile has been a critical part of their marketing and business strategies.
“Between mobile web and the app, we’re seeing that more than 75% of our traffic in any given month comes from mobile,” says Stipe. “The global pandemic has only accelerated that behaviour.”
FILA’s Dawn Trenson notes that the pandemic has increased their mobile traffic and they’ve seen increased conversions from mobile as well.
Says Trenson, “Because FILA’s customers skew younger, an optimized mobile experience is important and can be a notable differentiator. In 2020, we saw a surge in mobile traffic and increased conversion rates – reflecting the massive spike on the desktop site.”
Pettifer highlighted the need for consistency across all channels and devices at Salesforce.
“Marketers today use an average of 24 different platforms in their tech stack to advertise, engage their customers, deliver web and mobile experiences, and drive conversion to sales. Having the ability to deliver a consistent customer experience across all touchpoints is key.”
Theme #5: Being helpful and relevant are key to ensuring marketing success in 2021 and beyond
Relevancy, authenticity, and helping customers succeed (whether it’s with finding the right shoe or making their entire marketing infrastructure more agile) are the hot buzzwords for 2021.
Focusing on these things as businesses continue to weather the pandemic (and hopefully) move on from it, will be key to succeeding.
“Our number one job at Salesforce is to help our customers right now,” says Pettifer. “We must be relevant when it comes to empowering them. While this is something that is a natural part of our Salesforce ethos, it is important to live the example.”
Per Trenson: “FILA is launching a detailed personalization survey that will enable us to have more effective digital conversations with our customers. We plan to share these outputs with our apparel and footwear designers to drive the ideation of future exclusive product launches on FILA.com.”
“At eBay, we want to give our customers more control,” says Kelliher. “To this end, we’ve built a completely cookieless server-side technology to offer the broadest or the narrowest segments that a marketer can ever want. By the time we get to 2025, we’ll give you the control you want, the speed you need, and the flexibility that goes along with it.”
Stipes says IBM Watson is planning for future success by being open, unbiased, and privacy forward.
“We’re definitely thinking long term. We want to provide solutions that are open and can be used anywhere. We’re also ensuring that they’re unbiased, which is another advantage of AI—it can detect and mitigate bias. Finally, we we’re privacy forward. There’s a lot of talk about solutions to meet the depreciation of the third-party cookie, and we believe that the best path forward is to leverage AI.”
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Tim McGraw’s Impromptu Backstage Jam Session Of Classic Country Hit Is Perfection
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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill thrilled fans following the announcement they would be going on their third co-headlining Soul2Soul World Tour in 2017, kicking it all off earlier this year in April. In addition to announcing their tour, the country music superstars announced they would be bringing along a massive amount of opening acts.
“They are very special singers, songwriters…people that we have discovered over the last year,” Hill said according to The Boot, McGraw later adding, “There’s some fantastic acts, and some people we have a special connection to … and people that we really love.”
Making it onto the long list of artists invited on the tour is 31-year-old rising country star, Charlie Worsham. Not only inviting Worsham on their tour, McGraw lent the spotlight over to the country singer in their backstage jam session to the tune of Glen Campbell‘s “Rhinestone Cowboy.”
The pair jammed out to the ’70s country hit, transforming the glitzy tune into a stripped down rendition, allowing listeners to fully appreciate the magic of the moment. Worsham played the acoustic guitar while McGraw took lead on vocals before lending the spotlight over the young singer.
“Rhinestone Cowboy” was released by Campbell as a single off his 1974 album, quickly becoming an international success, dipping into the charts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, and many more.
You can listen to their rendition of “Rhinestone Cowboy” below.
This guy rocks! @CharlieWorsham and I doing the great @GlenCampbell's “Rhinestone Cowboy” pic.twitter.com/AqsaIMsnAP
— Tim McGraw (@TheTimMcGraw) July 7, 2017
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SCHELLONG SAYS WATER RATES NOT A TAX
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BY DONNA WESTFALL
DAY 5 of the protest tabulation against raising water rates starts at 8:30 this morning at the WWTP. Looking back over the November 4th city council meeting video revealed the disdain and ignorance once more of our council members. I walked out of the council meeting once Councilwoman Kathryn Murray opened her mouth. Ever since our July 4th incident of years ago when she told me to get out of then Mayor Charles Slerts Porsche I have had little respect for the woman. “You mean to tell me Kathryn, you can’t ride in a car with me for even one hour and be civil?” Nope, she couldn’t. Since I didn’t budge, you will see video of Murray walking the parade route. I’m sure it helped her overall diet plan.
When Councilwoman Kelly Schellong referred to the water rate
increase as, “I DON’T LOOK AT THIS AS A TAX,…” I just shook
my head.
What does she think Prop 13 is? If Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
Association hadn’t gotten involved all those years ago, most of us wouldn’t
even be homeowners today because of the way politicians think they can
take and take and take from the public through.. get this…. PROPERTY
TAXES.
Now, let’s have a history lesson. Proposition 218 came about in 1996 to close
a loophole because once the politicians figured out that they couldn’t gouge
the public any longer on property taxes, they switched gears and looked at
their utilities. Yep. Another way to charge “TAXES.”
Schellong has sat on the City Council for 7 years. SEVEN YEARS! You want
to know why we’re now in this predicament. Look at the one that has sat on
the council the longest. She was there voting to increase sewer rates. She’s
there now voting to increase water rates. And she doesn’t look at raising
water rates as a tax.
Really, I’m not joking. Here it is in living color:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uu5iI00VTg#t=4504
Schellong doesn’t look at the water rate increase as a tax. “Everyone here looks at us as we want to take your money and that’s not the case. We’re here to provide a service.”
Councilwoman Schellong, why don’t you look at cutting the City Manager’s $100,000+ yearly salary first? Or what about cutting Public Works Director, Eric Wier’s salary at $86,000/year. Wait, wait, wait, did you continue to vote for annual increases to City Attorney Bob Black’s contract. Yes, you did. Did you vote for those merit bonuses? Yes, you did. Your words are hollow, Kelly because your voting record speaks for itself.
Yes, we know you’re a single mom on a single income. The big difference between you and the majority of our folks living in this town is that you can still earn an income, Kelly. For those that have lived through the depression, suffered a disability or can’t find a job, you’re content to throw them away or throw them under the bus to feed the monster called GOVERNMENT. What is it about “fixed income” that you don’t understand? Oh, I know the answer to that one too. You’re not on a fixed income.
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Katherine Kelly says:
Interesting side note: I was just reading that Sarah Palin, as Governor of Alaska, made $125,000 a year…and our CITY MANAGER makes $100,000????? Obscene.
I think our over-payed city officials should take Murray’s advice and move if they can’t afford to make less in such an economically depressed area.
You don’t need any special education or skills to be a council member and it shows in our current line up. Critical thinking skills are severely lacking and simple knowledge about the world we live in is also absent. Kelly is one of the worst offenders as far as not knowing much beyond her limited bubble. As far as the tax issue goes, ask those who not only pay their water bill but also pay a tax for their water district. It’s a tax Kelly, by law, and treated to the same dynamics as any property tax under prop 13, only since it’s a service as well it has a special prop, 218, to rein in out of control government spending.
Aside from lack of knowledge and absence of critical thinking, there’s also the petty personal politics on display by Schellong and Murray. They have created an adversarial atmosphere of The City vs The People. News flash to both of them: the City IS the People. You were not elected to represent the City, you were elected to represent the PEOPLE. ALL of them, not just those who dwell within your political bubble.
We need elected representatives with working brains who can think outside the box. This city/county has been ruled by the same group of people who have totally messed up everything, who can’t think their way out of a paper bag, and who rely on dishonesty and fraud to keep their positions of power. When you have the mayor telling someone their water rates would not be raised when they had gotten a notice that they would be, that is fraud. When you’re raising the rates 150% but only claim 60% that’s called lying. I talked to people, I know what they thought about the rate increase and almost all of them thought it was “only” 60%. Using scare tactics that dirty water would be delivered if the rate increase didn’t go through is a scare tactic. Are these the methods we want our elected reps to use AGAINST the people they were elected to serve? I think not.
Linda Sutter says:
once again well said Donna. I wonder if she has heard of Google, to look into what she thinks is not a tax. Google is a wonderful educational tool…but the ole saying goes, Beauty fades dumb is forever, oh that is the name of a book written by an infamous judge judy…
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Fasthosts sponsored Pixel Boat sets sail in world record attempt
It has been a year since Fasthosts announced its sponsorship of long-term customer, Alex Alley, in his Solo Non-Stop Around the World Record attempt on his 40ft yacht, known as Pixel Boat, and during that time Alex has worked with absolute dedication to raise enough funds to participate in the eagerly awaited ‘Non-Stop Solo Around the World Challenge’.
Having spent the last few months waiting for optimum sailing conditions, Alex left Gosport Marina on Christmas Eve, 24th December 2018 where he headed for the official World Record start line north of the French island of Ushant.
While initially held back by some last minute technical difficulties which delayed his start time – which certainly weren’t helped by the challenges of acquiring much-needed replacement parts during the festive period – Pixel Boat’s official world record attempt began on New Year’s Eve at 14h 31mins 09secs.
Alex will now spend the next four and a half months alone crossing continents, time zones and seasons, as he attempts to beat the World Record. If Alex is to beat the current World Record set by Guo Chuan, his deadline is to cross the line again going the other way, on 18th May 2019 at 10h 32mins 06secs.
“After so many years preparing for this huge challenge, it seems almost unreal that the time has finally come to cast off and head out to sea, not touching land again for over four months,” said Alex.
“The support we have had from everyone has been amazing and just goes to show that with a bit of ingenuity and a lot of perseverance you can achieve pretty much anything”
“I keep getting asked how I am feeling, well it is a mix of nerves and excitement. I can’t wait to get out and in to the routine of sailing the boat and ticking off the days towards the record. It will be a great homecoming next year.”
To help fund the ambitious trip, businesses, individuals and schools purchased ‘pixels’ to feature on the hull of the yacht – so far Alex has accumulated images of company logos, beloved pets, happy couples, family photographs, and in memorial images, all adding to the personal feel of the record attempt.
The Fasthosts sponsorship not only includes Pixel Boat’s state-of-the-art carbon fibre solent and mainsail, featuring a clean, black and yellow design – it also covers Alex’s cloud hosting solution, CloudNX, ensuring his website and, vitally, the sale of his fundraising pixels, runs without a hitch.
Alex has been sailing his way towards seven record breaking achievements before bravely taking on this incredible global challenge, facing the elements alone for four months. With Fasthosts proudly emblazoned on the sails and CloudNX used to run his website below deck, Fasthosts will be with him every step of the way.
Fasthosts will also be tracking Alex live and checking in on his wellbeing. Setting off from Ushant, France, Fasthosts will continue to share Alex’s progress via social media, including monitoring via GPS tracker, as he looks to beat the current world record of 137 days, 20 hours, 1 minute and 57 seconds.
“Fasthosts have been looking after my website for many years so I contacted them when I needed something more powerful to cope with the extra demands of the Pixel Boat side of the website. I am thrilled to have received their support, which has had a massive impact on my ability to complete this once-in-a-lifetime challenge.”
You can find out more about the adventure via www.fasthosts.com/pixelboat or directly via the Pixel Boat website www.alexalley.com. You can also track Alex’s progress live at https://my.yb.tl/alexalley.
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Pakistan records current account surplus for fourth consecutive month
by Asad Iqbal
The current account surplus rose further to $382 million from $59 million in September. — Dharti News/Files
For the fourth consecutive month in October, the country’s current account experienced a surplus, rising to $382 million, or 1.6 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) showed on Thursday.
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Compared with $59m in September, the current account was up 547pc month-on-month.
“The surplus was due to a sustained growth in remittances and a lower trade deficit,” said the central bank.
The accumulated current account surplus has hit $1.2 billion since the beginning of this fiscal year in July, reversing the $1.4bn deficit reported in the same timeframe last year the SBP added.
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“A fourth consecutive monthly surplus was reported in the current account in October […] an improvement was seen due to a better trade deficit as imports decreased by 9pc month-on-month compared to exports rising by one percent month-on-month,” said Syed Atif Zafar, chief economist at Topline Securities.
At $2.28bn, remittances have remained safe, he said.
The trade deficit in October reduced by 20pc to $1.49bn from $1.86bn in September on a monthly basis. Remittances clocked in at $2.284bn during the month, unchanged from the previous month.
A large rise in remittances over the current fiscal year has helped the country’s current account.
So far, overall remittance inflows have risen to $9.43bn, up 26.5pc, in the four-month period from July to October, compared to $7.45bn in the same period last year.
On the other hand, over the same period from July to October, the country’s trade deficit in goods rose by four percent to $6.74 billion from $6.48 billion over the same period last year the trade balance in services declined by 38 percent to $785 million compared to $1.27 billion.
In response to this growth, Hammad Azhar, Minister for Industries and Production, said that the economy of Pakistan continues to improve.”
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“The trade deficit is starting to shrink and there is good growth in industrial development,” he added.
Pakistan's economy continues to improve. Pakistan has posted a Current Account Surplus for the fourth successive month of the fiscal year (total $1.2BN). The Trade Deficit continues to Shrink and Industrial Production is showing Strong Growth.
— Hammad Azhar (@Hammad_Azhar) November 19, 2020
Federal Minister of Planning and Development Asad Umar said This is the fourth month of the current account surplus. With monthly current account deficits of $2 billion when the government was created, we inherited the highest current account deficit in history!”
382 million $ current account surplus in Oct. This is the 4th month of current account surplus. Cumulative surplus jul to oct is $ 1.2 billion. We inherited the biggest current account deficit in history with monthly current account deficits of $2 billion when govt was formed!
— Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) November 19, 2020
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Max George’s ex-girlfriend ‘warns his partner Stacey Giggs that he could fall for Strictly curse’ after friends of the couple insist they are ‘not worried’ about possible show romance
According to The Sun, Carrie Baker has claimed Max, 32, would revel in the attention of other women when they were together
The claims come in contrast to a friend of Stacey’s who has insisted the couple are not worried about Max falling for his partner on Strictly Come Dancing
Carrie said: ‘I wouldn’t like to be in her shoes. Everyone knows what Strictly is like — and I know what Max is like. He’s a serial flirter’
She added: ‘I thought I was going to marry him and have his children. I’ve never been in love like that and it broke my heart when he left’
In February 2019 Carrie said she received a tearful call from Max telling her that she deserved to be happy and he couldn’t give her that while living in England
Carrie said she can’t see him and Stacey being happy and claimed Max called her in secret from his friend’s phone last December but she is now over him
By Sean O’grady For Mailonline
Published: 01:09 BST, 13 September 2020 | Updated: 02:16 BST, 13 September 2020
Max George’s ex girlfriend has warned his new partner Stacey Giggs that he could succumb to the ‘Strictly curse’ after he reportedly dumped her over the phone.
According to The Sun, Carrie Baker has claimed Max, 32, would revel in the attention of other women, including Jennifer Lopez and Amy Willerton, when they were together.
The claims come in stark contrast to a friend of Stacey’s who has insisted the couple are not worried about Max falling for his partner on Strictly Come Dancing.
Warning: Max George’s ex girlfriend Carrie Baker has warned his new partner Stacey Giggs that he could succumb to the ‘Strictly curse’ after he reportedly dumped her over the phone
Max’s ex Carrie, who dated him for five years, told the publication that he previously asked her father for permission to propose but later changed his mind.
She also claimed that he would down 16 pints a night and regretted getting engaged to actress Michelle Keegan because he was drunk when he proposed.
She said: ‘I wouldn’t like to be in her shoes. Everyone knows what Strictly is like — and I know what Max is like. He’s a serial flirter.
‘I thought I was going to marry him and have his children. I’ve never been in love like that and it broke my heart when he left. He handled it all wrong and people need to know the truth.’
Relationship: The claims come in stark contrast to a friend of Stacey’s who has insisted the couple are not worried about Max falling for his partner on Strictly Come Dancing
Max is said to have got Carrie pregnant but she later miscarried and he moved on with Stacey, 41, after their relationship ended.
Carrie and Max met in February 2014 in LA bar Rock And Reilly’s where she was working as a waitress and he was trying to crack the US market as a solo artist.
The beauty queen admitted she was immediately attracted to The Wanted singer and invited him to a party after her shift and they hung out ‘all night’.
Carrie said she had moved into his one-bedroom apartment near Sunset Boulevard only weeks later and became pregnant during their first year together but sadly lost the baby.
She also said that her ex would go to the pub four nights a week and tell her he was planning on only having one or two drinks but could end up having up to 16.
Carrie told the publication that Max did not want her to accompany him to red carpet events in case it would upset his female fans, however she would later see photos of him out with other girls, including a brunch with model Amy Willerton.
Max insisted nothing happened between them and Carrie also claimed Jennifer Lopez’s manager got in touch, saying she wanted to meet him.
Carrie, who is studying to become a nurse, said Max became stressed about money so the pair moved into her mother’s Las Vegas apartment in 2017 to save for their own place.
Past: e also claimed that he would down 16 pints a night and regretted getting engaged to actress Michelle Keegan because he was drunk when he proposed (pictured in August 2011)
She explained that Max would travel back and forth to the UK for work and she came to Britain to spend Christmas with him in December 2018 where everything seemed alright.
However, in February 2019 Carrie said she received a tearful call from Max telling her that she deserved to be happy and he couldn’t give her that while living in England.
Two months later, her mother informed her Max had a new girlfriend and Carrie went online and saw it was Stacey.
Carrie claimed mutual friends told her he first got together with Stacey while they were still seeing each other but Max promised her he didn’t start dating Stacey until after they had already split.
Early days: Carrie and Max met in February 2014 in LA bar Rock And Reilly’s where she was working as a waitress and he was trying to crack the US market as a solo artist
Carrie said she can’t see the couple being happy together and claimed Max called her in secret from his friend’s phone last December but she is now over him and does not believe anything he says.
MailOnline has contacted representatives for Max George and Michelle Keegan for comment.
It comes after a source close to Stacey told new! magazine that she and Max are not worried about the infamous Strictly curse.
The source said: ‘They’re very solid. He’s totally smitten with her. Everyone goes on about the Strictly curse, but she’s not worried at all.
‘They trust each other totally. They’ve got a very good, strong relationship and she’s very supportive of him.
‘It was her idea. She told him, ‘This could be great for you.’ She’s so supportive of Max. Behind every successful man there’s a strong woman and Stacey is that. She wanted him to do this.’
Contact: Carrie said she can’t see the couple being happy together and claimed Max called her in secret from his friend’s phone last December
In July, Max told how he hoped to marry Stacey, who is the ex wife of footballer Ryan Giggs, one day and have children.
He told The Sun: ‘I’ve always said I’ve wanted kids but never committed to it in my own head but I think Stacey’s the one.
‘We would love to add to the family at some point, that would be amazing. Obviously there are no guarantees but I’m sure we both feel the same way.’
The couple recently enjoyed a holiday to Spain where they were joined by Stacey’s children Liberty, 17, and Zach, 13.
Back in March, it was reported Stacey was shopping for a new £1.5million house with Max, following one year of dating, after putting the £3.5million pad she shared with her ex Ryan up for sale.
Stacey reportedly invited The Wanted singer to move in with her at her Worsley home, near Manchester back in October, after seven months together.
Secure: It comes after a source close to Stacey told new! magazine that she and Max are not worried about the infamous Strictly curse
A source told The Sun: ‘Stacey was planning to move before she met Max because the house was getting too big for her but now things have moved on so quickly they’ve decided to buy somewhere together.
‘She was cautious that things were moving too rapidly at first, but they are absolutely head-over-heels in love. She’s never been so happy – ever.’
Stacey’s relationship with the singer is her first reported romance since she parted ways for good from sportsman Ryan, whom she split from in 2017.
Ryan and Stacey finalised a £40million divorce after he cheated on her with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas during their 10-year marriage.
The Welsh football coach also had an eight-year relationship with his brother Rhodri’s partner Natasha throughout the duration of his marriage.
Future: In July, Max told how he hoped to have marry Stacey, who is the ex wife of footballer Ryan Giggs, one day and have children
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The current outbreak of COVID-19 is stress testing our institutions, infrastructure, governments, and societies more than any event in most of our lifetimes. We have to go all the way back to the two World Wars to find similar precedents. Yet, as our businesses and personal lives are profoundly impacted, some of us can also perceive great forces of change in motion that offer us hope for positive and important new outcomes that we might influence.
The realization has also set in that we won’t likely be able to roll things back to how they recently were — at least any time soon — so we must now look at what is likely to be the next new normal, as it was famously known as during the 2007-2008 financial downturn (and which now sadly looks increasingly minor by comparison.)
In the last month and a half, I’ve been exploring how organizations must rapidly adapt themselves to the pandemic as most of our organizations now consist purely of digital workers connected over our global networks. As many of us in the digital workplace and employee experience community have noted of late, there are now major opportunities to follow-up on significant yet often slow or stalled transformations of human-centered work.
But first we must face our current situation and likely trajectory.
Profound Disruption of Work is Here
There’s just no avoiding it: The disruption we are facing today is as profound as it is pervasive. Yet I deeply believe it also offers an increasingly fertile and robust landscape into which we can drive meaningful and sustained change for good. Our timing must be careful and the thinking behind it — combined with effective action at scale — both crisp and clear, albeit real challenges in our fast-changing times.
There’s also no denying that how we’ve worked before is simply gone. Something much better than what we currently have must replace our current unwieldy situation for many of us: Weeks long slogs through endless video calls, tiring teleconferences at all hours, with our team chat windows scrolling mindlessly past our gaze. We can and must now create a much better design for our current working realities. Whether you will focus on remote work, more quarantine-friendly physical facilities, or a comprehensive rethink of the modern enterprise for being near 100% digital, we will have to go as deep as the core ideas that underpin work itself.
We must also — to make it much easier to evolve going forward — start designing our workplaces and our work itself much more as a contemporary digital product in an ongoing and continuous exercise of collaboration and co-creation. I once asked in Designing the New Enterprise, “how do we adapt sustainably to constant change?” Now the question is also, “how do we adapt sustainably to large disruptive change?”
Answering these big questions will require profound and outside-the-box thinking. Our very foundations are in the midst straining. We now live in an era where even the traditional nation-state as well as the new global order both seem threatened. Answers to how we will thrive in a post-modern pandemic-stricken world seem stubbornly hard to find. Neither model seems sufficiently effective at providing adequately coordinated leadership or proactive response.
If we move down from the macro level of the global stage down to the size of our organizations (corporations, state/local governments, associations, non-profits, etc.) and other related but long-standing business structures like unions, partnerships, alliances, consortiums, and so on, we see that these too are now struggling to help their constituents in many cases.
The Ways Forward are Unfamiliar and Unknown, But Not For Long
Many better connected and easier to operate digital alternatives — at least in our currently locked down global state — do now exist, but seem either rather immature and/or unproven in comparison. These include global digital communities (yes, Facebook, and others), the larger and older open source groups/projects, and digital communities like LinkedIn and Github do seem to show that massively scaled communities can share information, powerful ideas, and help each other in compelling new ways, as many of us have long hoped. While there are plenty of downsides to these too, because the pandemic resistance of digital networks is outstanding, no other workable new modes exist.
We’re now entering a phase where we must begin to plan for post-pandemic. This does not mean going back to where we were. It cannot, because we now know the reality of the impact of a return of a new pandemic or a newly mutated coronavirus:
It’s simply irresponsible and unacceptable to go back to the entirely too fragile and so easily-disrupted operating models of the pre-COVID-19 world.
What does this suddenly urgent near-future of work look like you ask? No one has all the answers, but the good news is that we’re about to discover very quickly what is working and what isn’t in the vast global living laboratory of #suddenlyremote.
From my conversations the last few weeks with CIOs, my fellow futurists and thought leaders in the Future of Work, digital workplace leads, and employee experience groups (mostly in IT, but some in HR), there’s a recent but increasingly broad swing from the tactical, as in just getting everyone onboard with the basics of working remotely, to the strategic, where we look at where we must now go, both in-pandemic and post-pandemic, and quite possibly the next pandemic.
How Work Will Evolve
From this vantage point, which I am very fortunate to have in the industry, I can see a number of likely outcomes that will allow us to take a precarious economic reopening and flailing early growth and turn it into a stronger story of resilient resurgence, no matter what happens:
Designing for loss of control. By taking advantage of the tendency of systems and external agents to use an organization’s people, ideas, resources, systems, and data to do new and interesting things, organizations can deliberately create thousands of emergent outcomes at scale, many of which they have a stake in (see: platforms, ecosystems, etc.) The raw components are well known and understood for making this happen. Now it is an imperative to drive rapid recovery and growth.
A strong preference for tools with exponential potential and leverage. The pandemic catches us at a time of exponential change, and is further driving it. We simply can’t fight exponential change with yesterday’s linear tools. Organizations now need access to near-instant response to large events at scale. This is only possible with capabilities that can respond in kind. This means everything from mass decentralized automation and AI enablement to using digital communities and social networks as our primary organizational structures.
The rise of fully open and agile new operating models. The biggest question is whether our traditional institutions lead the world out of the pandemic, or will citizens around the globe come together and opt instead for something different using our global networks? We’ve seen the inexorable shift in agile methods in recent years, which came from key insights and experiences in the technology world, and which I’ve long noted has begun to infiltrate the broader world of business itself. The envelope of agile has expanded to something we now call DevOps, and that envelope will continue to expand and merge with mass digital collaboration models that now existing within the realms online forums, enterprise social networks, and team chat channels: Communities of practice, communities of interest, and now, communities of business, a notion I’ll expand on soon as I am currently collecting growing evidence for them.
Self-organization, self-service, and pull-based models for reorganization, restructuring, rebuilding, reviving, and thriving. The single most powerful model for work is humans collaborating together in open, transparent, and self-organizing processes. As I’ve often strongly encouraged businesses and people: Let the network do the work. There is no time in modern history where this concept is more important. It’s how we’ll each have enough access to resources, skills, ideas, and capabilities to do almost anything that needs to ne done. We’re already seeing things like this happen such as the formation of the Open COVID Pledge to mobilize invaluable IP quickly to respond to the pandemic in any and all ways necessary. The list of now free, but previously commercial, services available to help individuals and businesses is impressive as is the list of initiatives to help businesses most impacted. Again, all these resources have digital communities or capabilities at their core.
I also predict that our digital communities of citizens, workers, and organizations will be the single most influential and important resources that we have in surmounting the challenges of the current pandemic. It’s an easy prediction, because that’s largely all that government, society, organizations, and our institutions are at this moment. While there are badly needed and greatly appreciated people out there in the real world still growing our food, staffing our hospitals, and keeping the peace, these still represent only a tiny fraction of the total sum of our global cognitive power, operating capacity, and economic capability. The rest, for better or worse, has just gone almost completely digital.
We absolutely require the best ways of operating in this new reality. My point is that we largely have them, but the hard work remains to adopt, adapt, and succeed with them. It will be one of the most profoundly positive changes in human history, unleashing untold autonomy, human diversity, bold new ideas, dramatically transformative action, as well as human freedom and potential. Or not. The choice is ours to make, right now.
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Steven Swartz, president and CEO of the privately held Hearst Corp., says the company managed a seventh straight year of record profit in 2017 despite an increasingly difficult media content environment.
In his annual state-of-the-company letter to employees, Swartz said total company revenue was flat compared with 2016 at $10.8 billion.
Last year “was another great year to be a consumer of media products but less so to be a provider of that content,” he wrote. “While platform companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix thrived through their dominance of advertising and e-commerce channels, many individual media brands struggled to get their share of the advertising pie and consumers bought fewer television bundles or magazine subscriptions.”
A bright spot for Hearst, the CEO emphasized, was its Business Media unit. Decidedly less splashy than the company’s storied portfolio of magazines, television stations or cable networks, its assets span healthcare, aviation safety and financial services. The division accounted for 28% of total company profit in 2017, Swartz said, a share that has more than tripled over the past decade and will continue to climb.
As to the company’s more traditional media holdings, Swartz said the acquisition this year of Rodale, publisher of magazines such as Men’s Health, will “give our magazine business a shot in the arm.” He also noted ratings improvement at A&E and strides toward an OTT extension by the company’s other part-owned cable TV empire, ESPN.
Hearst’s 30 local TV stations are in a good position heading into the new year, he said, thanks to the Winter Olympics and mid-term political ad spending. “With elections and Olympics back on the agenda, Hearst Television will have a strong year in 2018, and we expect the company’s revenue to grow along with it.” The station group also contributed significant revenue in 2017 due to a rare opportunity to sell off spectrum in the auction organized by the FCC.
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Gun Lawsuits Flood in After Barrett Supreme Court Confirmation
It will be interesting to see how Second Amendment case fare with Amy Coney Barrett on the high court.
Activists hope slate of new cases can set landmark Second Amendment precedents.
Gun-rights activists have filed a slew of new cases in hopes Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court will lead to an expansion of gun protections.
Groups like the Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, and National Rifle Association have filed numerous federal cases against restrictive gun laws across the country with the intention of taking as many as possible to the Supreme Court. They hope to not only strike down restrictive laws in places like Massachusetts, California, and New Jersey but also further clarify the reach of the Second Amendment. New rulings, they believe, could change American gun laws forever by forcing judges in lower courts to a formal standard of review in Second Amendment cases.
“We started this process and planning as soon as Trump nominated [Barrett],” Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, which has already filed half a dozen new cases in recent weeks, told the Washington Free Beacon. “And, of course, as soon as she was confirmed, we started ramping it up to make it happen.”
“The lawsuits you’re seeing are part of a long-term strategic litigation,” Adam Kraut, director of legal strategy for the Firearms Policy Coalition, told the Free Beacon of the group’s recent surge in suits. “The confirmation of Justice Barrett, who seemingly would provide a fair analysis, is something that was part of the analysis that went into the timing of it.”
The Supreme Court has been reluctant to take on gun-rights cases since striking down local and state gun restrictions in the landmark District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. Chicago (2010) decisions. Justices have only ruled on one Second Amendment case in the past decade and declined a slate of new suits in June. The confirmation of Barrett, who experts view as friendly toward broadening Second Amendment protections, has given activists hope. The NRA filed Mazahreh v. Grewal on Tuesday to challenge a restrictive New Jersey gun-carry law that allows officials to deny permit applications to the vast majority of residents.
Legal analysts said the strategy of flooding the Court with new lawsuits could pay dividends for gun-rights groups. Adam Winkler, a University of California Los Angeles professor specializing in gun policy and the Supreme Court, said President Trump’s appointments throughout the federal bench have created a friendly environment for such cases.
“You can’t imagine a more favorable judicial environment than what we have right now,” Winkler said. “You have the lower courts that feature a large number of Trump-appointed judges. Many of those judges seem likely to support strong gun rights and weaken gun control. And the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has been strengthened. And Amy Coney Barrett, in particular, has taken a strong stand on Second Amendment issues as a lower court judge.”
Eric Ruben, an assistant law professor who teaches a Second Amendment seminar at Southern Methodist University, said Barrett replacing liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg unquestionably “shifted [the Court] in a more gun-friendly direction.”
“There are plenty of open questions, from the constitutionality of public carry restrictions to large-capacity magazines to prohibitions on gun possession by felons or the mentally ill,” Ruben said.
David Bernstein, executive director of the Liberty & Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, told the Free Beacon the new Court majority may feel a responsibility to clear up those questions after such a long delay between major cases.
“Since McDonald, the Supreme Court has studiously avoided clarifying the scope of the individual right to keep and bear arms,” Bernstein said in an email. “This led to a fair amount of confusion/inconsistency in the lower courts, but also in some courts basically limiting McDonald and Heller strictly to their facts (i.e., virtually absolute bans on private ownership), which seems to me unjustified.”
Bernstein also noted the legal playing field is likely to get less friendly as President-elect Joe Biden takes office. “Biden will soon be picking judges,” he said. “So, for a while, they aren’t going to have more sympathetic lower federal courts than they have right now.”
The Second Amendment Foundation alone has 40 cases in the courts as of Friday. Gottlieb said he wants to present the Court with “a cafeteria plate of cases” to increase the likelihood at least one issue gets through. He and Kraut of the Firearms Policy Coalition both said they want to win each case on the merits but are also hoping to get the Court to establish precedents on the legal standard lower courts should use to examine future gun cases.
Winkler said the ultimate goal for gun-rights groups is “not just to strike down one or two laws but to establish a framework that makes it harder to support gun control.” He is skeptical the new raft of cases will end up becoming landmark rulings. He thinks the new Court majority, which is already considering whether to accept one new gun-related case this term, may decide on a Second Amendment case even before the lawsuits filed since Barrett’s confirmation have a chance to make their way to the justices.
“I think the Supreme Court is going to issue those landmark rulings before these new cases ever come to Court,” Winkler said.
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Biden Chief of Staff Seems to Back $23 Minimum Wage
Joe Pee Pads Biden wants $15.00 per hr. minimum wage will his Chief Of Staff convince him to push for $23.00 per hr.?
$15.00 per hr.minimum wage would cost jobs and cause businesses to close $23.00 would bankrupt many more businesses.
Incoming White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Friday appeared to endorse a $23-per-hour minimum wage, just minutes after President-elect Joe Biden called for boosting the federal minimum wage.
Klain retweeted a tweet by California-based investor and onetime presidential aspirant Joe Sanberg that called $15 per hour a “step in the right direction” but argued that Americans are “entitled to $23 an hour” to keep in line with rising productivity since the 1960s.
The Biden transition team did not respond to a request for comment as to whether either Klain or Biden endorses a $23-per-hour minimum wage.
Klain’s gesture came as Biden said Friday that he wanted to see the federal minimum wage boosted to $15 per hour, up from $7.25. That’s in line with the demands of the “Fight for Fifteen” movement, which has agitated for a national wage hike since 2012. Biden has already endorsed the proposal as part of his “build back better” economic agenda.
Sanberg is a generous supporter of Biden. FEC records indicate that he gave $50,000 to the Biden Victory Fund, a pro-Biden fundraising group, as well as the legal maximum of $2,800 to the candidate himself. He has generously supported other Democrats and was at one point considering a run for the 2020 Democratic nomination himself on an anti-poverty platform.
A $23-per-hour minimum wage would likely exacerbate inequality even more than a $15-per-hour payout. That’s the conclusion of an expert analysis of the $15 proposal from the libertarian-leaning Mercatus Center. While a higher federal minimum wage would boost some workers’ earnings, it would do so at the expense of pushing others out of the labor market—specifically, Mercatus fellow Robert Graboyes notes, the “young, inexperienced, disabled, and poorly educated, along with immigrants, inner-city dwellers, those whose skills have grown obsolete, and residents of areas where costs of living are low.”
Author deplorablesunitePosted on January 10, 2021 January 9, 2021 Categories $15 Minimum WageTags $23 Minimum Wage, Biden Chief of Staff Seems to Back, Joe Pee Pads Biden
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bluecat57 says:
Ok. So if this will solve all economic inequality then why are they always” phased in”?
Start today.
Actually, simply eliminate all withholding from paychecks and then just print money to pay for government. That fixes the problem immediately.
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Indian Navy deploys warhsips, divers to find missing pilot
Frigates pictured during the Bilateral Maritime Exercise between the navies of Sri Lanka and India in 2019. PHOTO/INDIAN NAVY
India's navy has intensified a search for any sign of an air force pilot whose jet crashed into the Arabian Sea during a training exercise last week, authorities said Monday.
The Russian-made MiG-29K aircraft hit the water off the coast of western Goa state on Thursday, with one of the two officers on board rescued.
Landing gear and other bits of wreckage from the plane have been found, the Indian Navy said on Twitter, adding that nine warships, underwater diving teams and 14 other aircraft were assisting with the search.
The accident happened just days after joint military exercises with the United States, Japan and Australia.
India has been engaged in a campaign to modernise its ageing fleet of military aircraft.
Last year India fought air skirmishes against arch-rival Pakistan as tensions soared over violence in Kashmir, a territory fiercely disputed by both countries.
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Big Sky Beef Season: County Officials Want Montana SoS To Dial Back Fraud Rhetoric
By Doug Chapin August 8, 2017
[Image by Lou de la Rosa via Complex]
Things are tense in Montana these days, as county election officials gather for their annual meeting in the midst of growing tension with the Secretary of State over his increasingly harsh rhetoric on voter fraud. The Herald has more:
Secretary of State Corey Stapleton’s allegations of voter fraud in Montana has widened a rift with elections officers across the state, some of whom want the elections chief to dial back his rhetoric.
As they prepare to meet for their annual convention Tuesday, elections officials are hoping to rebuild relations with Stapleton, whose combative style has left some put off.
“We are hoping for better communications with the secretary of state, and I’m hopeful that will happen in the near future,” said Regina Plettenberg, the election administrator from Ravalli County and president of the Montana Association of Clerk & Recorders and Election Administrators.
The SoS’ tone and approach has already apparently cost him several key staff members and is increasingly driving concerns among counties:
Tensions have been building for months amid turmoil within Stapleton’s administration. Stapleton has been without a communications director since May. Two weeks ago, Stapleton’s director of elections and voter services, Derek Oestreicher, abruptly departed after a falling out that neither side wants to discuss publicly. And on Monday, a former deputy chief of staff, Stephanie Hess, began working for the state Auditor’s office.
Stapleton did not respond to requests for comment.
The fissures began during the legislative session when Stapleton came out against conducting the May 25 special congressional election by mail as requested by elections clerks who were concerned about the cost to open polling places.
But the rift has widened as Stapleton has focused on voter fraud amid President Donald Trump’s launch of an advisory commission looking into the integrity of the country’s voting systems. Trump has asserted, without evidence, that widespread fraud took place in the November election.
The president has called on states to provide data to the commission, including partial Social Security numbers, voting history and other personal information. Stapleton has declined to provide such information.
Still, Stapleton has alleged that voter fraud may be more common than local elections officials acknowledge. In a brief interview with The Associated Press last month, he asserted that more than 360 illegal ballots were cast, though not counted, during the special election. That number is just a minuscule fraction of the 383,000 cast statewide in the election won by U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte.
County officials are especially frustrated that the SoS continues to allege fraud without providing the evidence to support his allegations:
Local elections officials dispute Stapleton’s assertions and have asked him to provide proof, but he has thus far declined to provide details.
Kathleen D. Mumme, Madison County’s election administrator, said in a letter to Stapleton last week that election administrators across the state “feel as though they have been kicked in the stomach by someone who is supposed to be the captain of their team.”
Mumme’s letter, which underscored concern about Stapleton’s voter fraud allegations, was obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request. Mumme called Stapleton vindictive and lacking professionalism, and suggested that he lashed out at individual elections officials who have taken issue with him.
“I have a difficult time understanding what seems to be your attempt at making Montana Counties look bad, and your inability to mend fences,” she wrote.
Mumme and other county elections administrators bristle at the secretary of state’s assertions that they aren’t taking his fraud allegations seriously.
“It would be interesting to see where he’s getting his statistics,” said Lana Claassen, the elections officer for Chouteau County.
The Associated Press last month filed a public records request with the Secretary of State’s Office seeking information documenting Stapleton’s voter fraud allegations. The request has yet to be fulfilled.
Regular readers of this blog know that tension between state and local election officials is nothing new; hard feelings and sharp words can emerge over differences on policy and, of course, funding. But this kind of “beef” between county officials and the SoS is something different: evidence of a deep-seated mistrust and frustration that cannot be good for the state in the short- or long-term. I’ll be curious to see how, if at all, the SoS dials back or documents his fraud allegations – and if not, what happens next in an already fragile relationship with county officials.
Stay tuned …
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Share this Story: Edmonton researchers hope to change lives with money from the ALS ice bucket challenge
Edmonton researchers hope to change lives with money from the ALS ice bucket challenge
Bob Paterson, director of advertising, does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge held outside the Edmonton Sun in Edmonton, Alta., on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Ian Kucerak/Edmonton Sun/ QMI Agency
The Edmonton Sun's Cory Martin does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge held outside the Edmonton Sun in Edmonton, Alta., on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Ian Kucerak/Edmonton Sun/ QMI Agency
Video editor Nathan Martin does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge held outside the Edmonton Sun in Edmonton, Alta., on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Ian Kucerak/Edmonton Sun/ QMI Agency
(Left to right) Nathan Martin, Bob Paterson and Cory Martin pose for a photo after completing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge outside the Edmonton Sun in Edmonton, Alta., on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Ian Kucerak/Edmonton Sun/ QMI Agency
As donations flood in with the ALS ice bucket challenge, money will trickle back to help those with the disease in Edmonton.
Wendy Johnston is a professor of neurology in the department of medicine faculty of medicine and director of the ALS program with the University of Alberta.
“I’ve never seen so much sustained media coverage in a positive way,” Johnston said.
The ALS program is an interdisciplinary approach that includes clinical care and research, on topics like speech and swallowing and biomarkers. Currently they’re awaiting a drug trial and are looking at non-drug solutions.
“ALS, because it is a lesser-known disease, has trouble competing for other research grants with more common diseases,” Johnston said.
Dr. Ming Chan take recordings of the brain and how it changes. Dr. Sanjay Kalra looks at the chemistry of the brain through MRIs.
“It’s not just labs with petri dishes and Erlenmeyer flasks,” Johnston said.
Kalra’s research into biomarkers is looking at ways to tell if the drugs are working before you can see it working through patient’s actions.
Dr. Stuart Cleary is looking at improved airway and breathing function.
“People don’t feel hopeless in the face of what can be a very overwhelming disease,” Johnston said.
Thanks to the ALS Society, a team of researchers across the country have formed a network to help apply to centres for pharmaceutical studies.
Researchers can be co-applicants with American labs for investigation research grants as well.
Brandee Fossen, manager of the north region for the Alberta ALS Society, said families who have had to explain what ALS is no longer have to, thanking participants.
The ice bucket challenge started in the U.S. With a man who nominated his friend who is living with ALS. It has since gone viral with people participating in the challenge and in donations.
“We’ve had people basically coming to our door to make donations,” Fossen said.
Because of the surge in donations, the organization is going to take time to work out where the extra money will go. They know it will go to research, client services and advocacy.
“It gives hope to our families and it’s also a public tribute to them,” Fossen said.
Donations can be made the the ALS Society of Alberta at www.alsab.ca.
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By creating an account, you verify that you are at least 13 years of age, and have read and agree to the Comicbook. Grand Theft Auto V players are pretty pissed off right now. This isn't new. But for one reason or another, Take-Two who owns Rockstar decided to shut it all down, and fans are lashing out by bombarding the game with overwhelmingly negative reviews on Steam. Well there's an interesting trend.
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This is a great shame in that it limits Xbox players to wreaking virtual criminal havoc on the fictional city of San Andreas, rather than giving them the ability to serve the finer moral values of law enforcement. And the LSPDFR mode is exceptional: As the video below shows, it allows players to take on the role of a police officer and respond to a wide array of callouts. More aggravating here is that there seems to be no good reason why Rockstar won't add its own police mode for consoles. After all, the game's online mode — where players can play against other human players over the internet — already offers a vast array of various races and competitions. In addition, the game's frequent updates prove that Rockstar continues to put resources behind its creative team even as the company prepares for new game releases.
I was sitting in a police car in a video game. Actually, he was doing something the game was never really built for. Known in-game as ViceCity, this player wore a nice black suit and an ear piece. He said a man was recently kidnapped and had his ear cut off. Many GTA fans use the game as a sandbox to play out criminal fantasies.
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University of Sussex UK delegates build capacity of the Secondary School Teachers in Nigeria
Sep 28, 2017 University of Sussex UK, Workshop for teachers in Nigeria
The Head of Department of Education of University of Sussex, United Kingdom, Dr Simon James Thompson has led the delegates from the University to build the capacity of the secondary school teachers in a one-day free training/workshop in Abuja.
The workshop which was in collaboration with Portsbrigde Educational Services had Senior Members of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) as participants as well as other Head teachers within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and its environs.
Dr Simon James Thompson, Lead Delegate, University of Sussex
According to the academic, Dr Simon, “the intention of this brief workshop is to introduce the ideas of differentiation. By differentiation I mean how do we adjust our teaching strategies to support the learning of other people so that both the learners and the teachers can feel challenged and work together for improved learning outcomes”’.
“The fundamentals of theory of multiple intelligences in learning process between the teachers and the learners are essential. The theory of Multiple Intelligences helps the teachers to establish unique and balanced engagements with the learners most importantly, within the academic environment”, he affirmed.
Dr Simon who was visiting Nigeria for the first time will be working in collaboration with National University Commission (NUC) on capacity building and effective leadership development of the top 82 selected University lecturers across the country in the coming weeks.
While describing the importance of the workshop, Simon who is also UK National Teaching Fellow, the highest honorary fellows in teaching in the UK stated that having taught in the secondary schools in the UK for many years before moving into University of Sussex he had realised that constant and periodic capacity building for the teachers is paramount toward improving their teaching efficiency in the classroom.
“I understand that some teaching methods and techniques are gradually becoming old and obsolete for this digital age, hence the need for
The Delegates and few participants
the teachers to be encouraged to unlearn the old ways and relearn new, modern techniques and more effective teaching methods” said Thompson.
Tosin Adebisi, one of the delegates/Facilitators from the UK, said the workshop for the teachers, was borne out of passion for educational development and mission to help expedite the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals across sub-Saharan Africa.
“Capacity building and continuing professional development are central to our work at Sussex. We hope that this free workshop will be the first of many more training courses to widen participation and we are delighted to welcome around 60 teachers”, said Adebisi.
Dr Stella Adagiri, CEO, Portbridge Educational Services who was the key coordinator for the workshop added that training of this sort would not only broaden the horizons of the teachers, it would also promote effectiveness in teaching as a profession, which is what we need in Nigeria’s education sector at this time”.
Participants at the Workshop
Adagiri added that teachers in Nigeria are now being open to learn new things regarding their profession.
Mrs Samira Jibri, President, NAPPS FCT Chapter, was at the workshop to lend support for the participants as well as ensure proper coordination expressed her excitement about the workshop when she stated that NAPPS is taking workshops and training for teachers as its top priority.
“This is digital age and it has become imperative that we are well equipped and up-to-date with the new trends so as to be able to connect with our students for effective teaching and improved learning outcomes” she explained.
Samira added that NAPPS in partnership with ASP in Ireland has just concluded a Coding Workshop for 400 teachers selected from both public and private schools across Nigeria.
One of the teachers from Roberto School, Abuja, Miss Chinelo Okafor said it was a great opportunity for her to learn new things regarding her profession.
“It is a great privilege for me to learn how to handle and teach different students with different needs in an academic environment” she stated.
Another participant, Jennifer Emelife from the Centre for Teaching and Learning, Abuja, said the workshop was quite timely and helpful for her as an educator whose desire is to improve on her teaching skills at all times.
“For me, the lecture as delivered by Dr Simon represents the strategic methods through which teachers can get their students engaged in the classroom, make learning fun and still meet the objectives” said Jennifer.
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Mezcal comes from the agave plant. The agave core is cut out, placed in a pit and roasted over charcoal and wood, which is where the traditional smoky flavor comes from. Some entrepreneurial distillers now use ovens to make modernized versions. Whichever process is used, the distilled agave liquor is then aged in oak barrels. Different types of mezcal have different aging timeframes. For example, añejo is aged for a minimum of one year, reposado can be aged for up to one year and joven mezcal is aged for a mere two months at most.
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AC/DC rumours regarding Phil Rudd and Vancouver come from the right place
I don’t care how tiny Angus is, the world needs his killer riffs.
By Steve Newton
There’s been a lot of rumour and speculation flying around the music world since yesterday, when I posted a blog on the Georgia Straight website reporting that Phil Rudd and Stevie Young had been spotted in downtown Vancouver.
The assumption was that, since AC/DC had recorded its last three albums here at Warehouse Studio, it might be in the midst of making–or at least planning–another one, this time with Rudd back in the lineup on drums.
Well, the AC/DC universe went a bit nuts at that news, the message boards and fan sites lighting up. Some diehard followers were beside themselves at the possibilities, while others immediately declared it bullshit or “fake news” (god I hate that Trumpian term).
I have complete faith in my source who says he saw–and actually chatted with–the two Aussie rockers. Why the hell would he contact me out of the blue and lie about it?
Also, I guess I really wanted to believe that it was happening, that AC/DC was going to make another album–with either Axl Rose or Brian Johnson at the mike. I’d prefer it be Johnson–unless they wanted to give Jimmy Barnes, the former steel-throated howler for Cold Chisel, a shot. But if it has to be Axl because Angus Young says so, so be it. As long as I get to hear Angus cranking out killer riffs and kick-ass solos, I’m good.
When it comes right down to it, the world would be a much lamer place if AC/DC wasn’t rockin’ the joint. At least that’s the conclusion I came to after considering my personal connection to the band.
The first AC/DC album I remember owning was 1978’s Powerage, so I was a little slow to pick up on the group, not getting previously turned on to international releases like Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (’76) and Let There Be Rock (’77). But Powerage blew me away with bluesy boogie tunes like “Gimme a Bullet”, “Down Payment Blues”, and “Gone Shootin'”.
Keith Richards has stated that it’s his fave AC/DC album, so there ya go.
A few months after Powerage came out the band released its first live album, If You Want Blood You’ve Got It, so I scored that one real quick. True to its title, it sounded like its creation had left lead-guitarist Angus Young’s fingers dripping red. Goddamn was that one fierce-sounding platter. I relied on it continuously and at high volume to ease the suffering of studying at UBC, much to the chagrin of my landlord.
Five years later, as luck would have it, I’d scored a job writing about metal for the Straight, so when AC/DC came to town in support of its 1983 Flick of the Switch LP, I went and interviewed Malcolm, singer Brian Johnson, and then-new drummer Simon Wright in their room at the Four Seasons. They were the coolest blokes you could ever be invited to have tea with.
Among other things, Johnson proclaimed his fondness for ZZ Top (“They don’t give a fuck”) and Young described their approach to making videos (“We just keep it raw and basic, like our music.”).
The next time I got to hang out with the boys was when they played B.C. Place Stadium on their Blow Up Your Video tour in 1988. There was a small riot outside the venue, but that didn’t stop me and some pissed-up buddies from invading their dressing room and scrounging beers and autographs on our backstage passes. I’m sure they didn’t remember me from five years earlier, but they were still unbelievably down-to-earth and friendly as hell.
Why can’t all rockers be like that!?
Over the years I’ve seen AC/DC in Vancouver numerous times, including in 1991 on the Razor’s Edge tour (“Thunderstruck” anyone?) and, most recently, in 2008 on the Black Ice tour. Each and every time they kicked extreme butt.
The Black Ice album—the second AC/DC disc recorded at Warehouse and mixed by Langley hard-rock maestro Mike Fraser—went to Number One in 29 countries and sold six-million copies. At the time of its release, I didn’t give it a great review, but hey—maybe one day I’ll learn not to compare everything to Back in Black.
If AC/DC is indeed in Vancouver making an album right now, that’s awesome. And if it isn’t–if Rudd and the younger Young just happened to be in town because they wanted to experience the annual fireworks display at English Bay or some crazy shit–that’s okay too.
As long as I can entertain the thought that more AC/DC music is coming one day–or even just spread rumours about it–I figure I’m doin’ alright.
To hear the audio of my 1983 interview with AC/DC’s Malcolm Young and Brian Johnson subscribe to my Patreon page, where you can also eavesdrop on my uncut, one-on-one conversations with:
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4 thoughts on “AC/DC rumours regarding Phil Rudd and Vancouver come from the right place”
Zoxter says:
It’s no longer AC/DC, it’s the Angus Young Band. I’m a fan through and through but Malcolm was AC/DC, with him gone and by firing Brian, Angus managed to destroy what remained of it. Cliff retiring after Brian being given the boot just confirms it.
RoxxHoffner/T.Byrd (@RoxxHoffner) says:
I’ve been to three AC/DC shows with the original lineup, including the original lead vocalist. Best of the best shows possible! When Bonn died it was all over, as far as I was concerned. I didn’t want to hear the new guy, it wasn’t the same. But the fact that Angus, Malcolm and the band held it together was too amazing to not appreciate, being a musician and knowing it’s not exactly easy(closer to impossible) to put together, join or even find a perfect band and make it be around forever?! It’s still AC/DC as long as Angus Young says so. How dare anyone judging Angus Young with all he’s done for not only AC/DC, Rock and Roll, Music but for helping make the world a better place than it actually is. Thank you Angus!▶🎼💛👍
While Johnson replaced Bon it was Angus and Malcolm writing the music, actually Axle vocals allowed AC/DC to cover Bon era songs, I personally think they would be better with a young ( no pun intended) nobody who could cover both Bon and Johnson era to move forward, or if need be a new group for Angus to continue onward with…
Ed D. says:
Brian wasn’t fired. He voluntarily left because he didn’t want to go deaf. He left out of respect for the fans and he didn’t want to embarrass the band with his failing voice capabilities — he said. He complained about the four operations he had to undergo and said he doesn’t want to go through that again so he’s done his time, and with nearly forty Years under his belt with the boys he said he’s grateful and feels honored but no more, he added. Cliff’s daughter scolded fans for dissing Angus and falsely spreading news that Bry was fired. Boy I’ll tell You, she really gave it to them that girl and thank God for that
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Indian weddings are most famously imagined as enormous spectacles. The most luring aspect of a Big fat Indian wedding is its claim to a global yet Indian sensibility, bringing together the “western” and the “Indian” into the wedding experience. Here are the top big fat weddings that took place this year:
Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta:
Spread over three days, the bustling metropolis of Mumbai was transformed into a party zone as business empire heirs Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta got married in an opulent manner. Bollywood actors made the groom’s baraat. The guest list was extensive and saw renowned personalities like Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Alia Bhatt, Deepika Padukone, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Ratan Tata, Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, and Usha Mittal, Anand Mahindra, Gautam Singhania, Rajinikanth, Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai. The pre-wedding festivities took place in St Moritz in Switzerland where Chainsmokers and Chris Martin of Coldplay performed at the Ambani's party. A Harry Potter-themed party was also arranged before Mumbai wedding celebrations. The wedding venue — the Jio World Centre, Bandra-Kurla Complex — was decked up with elaborate floral arrangements set according to a garden theme complete with a faux waterfall, floral figurines, a fountain and a grand stage with a huge Krishna idol done up in flowers.
Mohena Kumari Singh, best known for her appearance in the television show Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, married Suyesh Rawat in October. Mohena is the princess of Rewa and hosted a grand reception for her friends and family in the Madhya Pradesh city after their wedding. The Rewa event was followed by another reception in New Delhi, which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other VVIPs.
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On August 15, 2015, an unusually hot and sunny Saturday, Wildlife Associates commemorated their new 27 kW solar energy system with a both wildlife and solar focused celebratory event at their sanctuary in Half Moon Bay, CA.
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Nigel Cockroft, General Manager of Jinko Solar US, Dirk Herfurth, Director of Production and Supply Chains at Moutning Systems, Inc., and Reuben Veek, Executive Director of SunWork Renewable Energy Projects each spoke about their organizations' contributions to the project.
Brian Korgaonkar, of Enphase Energy who played an integral role in jump-starting the project with their early donation of 90 Enphase M-250 microinverters was unfortunately unable to attend but provided the following uplifting remarks regarding their efforts with the project:
On behalf of the entire Enphase Energy team, we could not be happier to donate our high-performance microinverter system to Wildlife Associates. When compared to traditional solar energy systems, the Enphase Microinverter System will allow Wildlife Associates to save an additional $1,000 per year on their energy bill, which will allow George the Anteater and Yoda the Kinkajou to make a lot more field trips to see youth across the Bay Area.
It has also been a pleasure to work with Youness and the team at Everybody Solar, who dutifully guided our volunteers through the rooftop installation. This was no small task when you consider that at least one member of our team – who will remain nameless – has a lifelong fear of heights.
While ribbon cuttings are meant to celebrate past accomplishments, we know that this is not an ending but rather a beginning. We look forward to continuing our partnership with both Wildlife Associates and Everybody Solar over the years to come.
Special thanks also go to All Points North Foundation (APNF), a private foundation that supports projects that promote solar energy awareness and implementation, who awarded Everybody Solar with a prestigious $30,000 grant to cover the installation and ancillary equipment costs for the project.
Laura Staich, executive director of APNF, added, "We are pleased to have partnered with Everybody Solar to help Wildlife Associates reach its goal of going solar. As an organization dedicated to driving awareness, education, training and hands-on application of solar as a practical and cost-efficient energy source, we see first-hand the value solar can provide to important community organizations like Wildlife Associates. APNF is proud to help Wildlife Associates reach their goal of using solar energy to significantly reduce their energy costs so more money can be allocated to where it matters most, providing nationally acclaimed educational programs using their ‘wildlife teachers’ for children, families, and adults.”
But the highlights of the event were the wild ones from Wildlife Associates. With the help of their care-takers, PIG, a prehensile-tailed porcupine, Luna, a one-eyed great horned owl, and Katavi a black-throated monitor with aditute all provided a real life example of the impact that these wild teachers have on connecting us all to the natural world everywhere around us and on which we depend.
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Wall Street Kid
(thing) by Servo5678 Mon Jul 22 2002 at 15:57:17
I would love to have been at the executive board meeting at a little software company called Sofel back in 1990. I just want to be the fly on the wall and listen in on the discussion that led to the creation of Wall Street Kid for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Why Sofel thought that the NES's core audience would be interested in a watered-down stock market simulation I'll never know, but here it is: Wall Street Kid.
The game begins with your family's attorney coming to you and telling you that your distant uncle, Mr. Benedict, has passed away and left you a hefty sum of money: $500,000. Your job is to invest that money and turn it into millions of dollars. Ideally you should also acquire a house, yacht, castle, and wife during your wild investment days. After the introduction your sent to an office. Enjoy this screen, because you'll be looking at it for the rest of the game. From the main office you can read the Wall Street Kid Journal to look for stock tips, use your primative computer to buy and sell stocks, call mysterious men for insider trading tips, or call your girlfriend and offer to take her shopping. Every action you perform causes the time to tick by, and at 5pm game time the clock resets to 9am and it becomes the next day.
Every morning you should check the stock reports to see how your portfolio is doing. Stocks available for trade include cleverly disguised versions of real life companies from the late 1980s: YBM, Boing, Yapple, and so on. There are little news tidbits to review, such as "Yapple has new product coming." Seeing this, you invest in Yapple only to discover that nothing ever happens with it. That's right, the stock tips and news blurbs are unrelated to the actual stock performance. At least, that's how it seems to me. The game never followed up on its stock advice. For the record, here's the complete list of companies up for trade:
Xearox
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Yapple
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The game could have been somewhat enjoyable if Sofel had included directions on how to play the stock market itself. Instead you were left to your own devices and only given hints like "Buy the stocks you think will grow." Gee, thanks. I'm glad I paid the mysterious tipster $500 for that advice. The game begins on April 1 and you have until July 28th to make $1,000,000. If you don't, the game ends. If you do you go on to the next section of the game which is exactly like the first except you're expected to make even more money. The game ends when you acquire the house, yacht, castle, and wife.
Why, Sofel, why? I rented this game several times because I desperately wanted to understand what the hell was going on with it, but eventually I gave up and turned to a more authentic moneymaking simulation: Vegas Dream for the NES. At least in Vegas Dream I had a chance of making a little pixelated money.
I like it! 2 C!s
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Acid rain mitigation experiment shifts a forested watershed from a net sink to a net source of nitrogen
Emma J. Rosi-Marshall, Emily S. Bernhardt, Donald C. Buso, Charles T. Driscoll, Gene E. Likens
Decades of acid rain have acidified forest soils and freshwaters throughout montane forests of the northeastern United States; the resulting loss of soil base cations is hypothesized to be responsible for limiting rates of forest growth throughout the region. In 1999, an experiment was conducted that reversed the long-term trend of soil base cation depletion and tested the hypothesis that calcium limits forest growth in acidified soils. Researchers added 1,189 kg Ca2+ ha-1 as the pelletized mineral wollastonite (CaSiO3 ) to a 12-ha forested watershed within the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Significant increases in the pH and acid-neutralizing capacity of soils and streamwater resulted, and the predicted increase in forest growth occurred. An unanticipated consequence of this acidification mitigation experiment began to emerge a decade later, with marked increases in dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) exports in streamwater from the treated watershed. By 2013, 30-times greater DIN was exported from this base-treated watershed than from adjacent reference watersheds, and DIN exports resulting from this experiment match or exceed earlier reports of inorganic N losses after severe ice-storm damage within the study watershed. The discovery that CaSiO3 enrichment can convert a watershed from a sink to a source of N suggests that numerous potential mechanisms drive watershed N dynamics and provides new insights into the influence of acid deposition mitigation strategies for both carbon cycling and watershed N export.
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Rosi-Marshall, E. J., Bernhardt, E. S., Buso, D. C., Driscoll, C. T., & Likens, G. E. (2016). Acid rain mitigation experiment shifts a forested watershed from a net sink to a net source of nitrogen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(27), 7580-7583. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607287113
Acid rain mitigation experiment shifts a forested watershed from a net sink to a net source of nitrogen. / Rosi-Marshall, Emma J.; Bernhardt, Emily S.; Buso, Donald C.; Driscoll, Charles T.; Likens, Gene E.
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, No. 27, 05.07.2016, p. 7580-7583.
Rosi-Marshall, EJ, Bernhardt, ES, Buso, DC, Driscoll, CT & Likens, GE 2016, 'Acid rain mitigation experiment shifts a forested watershed from a net sink to a net source of nitrogen', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 113, no. 27, pp. 7580-7583. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607287113
Rosi-Marshall EJ, Bernhardt ES, Buso DC, Driscoll CT, Likens GE. Acid rain mitigation experiment shifts a forested watershed from a net sink to a net source of nitrogen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2016 Jul 5;113(27):7580-7583. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607287113
Rosi-Marshall, Emma J. ; Bernhardt, Emily S. ; Buso, Donald C. ; Driscoll, Charles T. ; Likens, Gene E. / Acid rain mitigation experiment shifts a forested watershed from a net sink to a net source of nitrogen. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2016 ; Vol. 113, No. 27. pp. 7580-7583.
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Formula 1's 2020 driver salaries, from top to bottom!
Michael Delaney 26/11/2020 at 08:09 27/11/2020 at 07:58
Lewis Hamilton will unsurprisingly remain Formula 1's top earner in 2020, with the seven-time world champion collecting a basic salary from Mercedes estimated at a lofty €47m, according to industry publication Business Book GP.
BBGP, which monitors F1's finances and business deals, has put together a full list of drivers salaries for 2020.
However, given the confidential nature of driver contracts, the figures are obviously the result of a seemingly astute guess work at the very best.
As a reminder, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the sport's collapse in revenues this year which has directly impacted all teams' budgets, F1's top drivers - and likely many others - all agreed to salary reductions for 2020, probably worth anything between 10 and 15 per cent, or perhaps even more in certain cases.
This clearly hasn't been factored into BBGP's estimates.
Case in point: the value of Daniel Ricciardo's two-year contract with Renault was inadvertently divulged to the public following a legal case in 2019 that involved the Aussie and his former manager.
While a €20m annual retainer assigned to the seven-time Grand Prix winner in 2020 is indeed correct, it doesn't take into account the COVID-generated reduction accepted by Ricciardo this year, the principle of which was revealed by Renault before the start of the season.
Furthermore, BBGP notes that its estimates do not include bonus schemes or endorsements.
Read also - Hamilton: New Mercedes contract must address issues beyond F1
Hamilton - who has yet to sign a new contract with Mercedes for 2021 and beyond - is predictably F1's top earner, the Briton enjoying a comfortable monetary lead over former arch-rival Sebastian Vettel.
The soon to be ex-Ferrari driver will take home a hefty €35m, an amount the Scuderia will be more than happy to get off its books in light of the German driver's meager contribution to his team's points tally.
Vettel will have earned this year three times more than teammate Charles Leclerc while the latter has so far scored almost three times more points than the four-time world champion! How's that for pay discrimination?
Anyway, check out the full 'guesstimated' list of retainers, to be taken with the usual grain of salt…
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10 Best Batman Moments in Animated Movies
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by David Moya July 29, 2020, 8:25 am
We have already covered the Ten Best Live-Action Batman Moments in a previous article that covered all of the most badass moments in Batman’s live action appearances. But some might overlook some of his greatest animated film moments. It was difficult coming up with only ten, considering the vast array of cartoon Batman films there are. But I think we have managed to narrow it down to just ten. This list will only feature moments from animated movies, not any animated series so any moments from Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League, The Batman, or any other cartoons that feature the Dark Knight. We want to be taking a look at not only the moments that have made this iconic character the definitive hero that we all know, but also some of his visually best. The moments that have shaped him in the man who is the World’s Greatest Detective, along with some of the coolest things we have seen him do on screen.
What’s this do? – Justice League: War (2014)
After an encounter with a parademon, Batman and Green Lantern continue to investigate by following it into the Gotham sewers. Lantern begins to try and figure who or possibly what Batman is. He asks if he has super strength, flight, or any powers at all. After the realization that he is just a man in a suit, Batman turns to him and grins. In disbelief, Lantern asks him “What? Nobody asked you to prom so now you dress as a bat and prowl around your parent’s basement?” with a classic Batman move, he responds with “What’s this do?” and holds up Lanterns ring. Hal Jordans suit is retracted, Batman continues with “No buttons. I assume it works off concentration.” Lantern responds with “How’d you do that?” and Batman replies “You weren’t concentrating”. The argument continues when Lantern retracts his ring and angrily says “You won’t do that again” as Batman confidently says “Unless I want to” considering this is one of the first appearances of Batman in the DC Animated Film Universe, it was the perfect way to introduce him and show us just what kind of Batman we had in store.
The Riddler is Mine – Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Taking place in the Batman Arkham universe. Assault on Arkham begins with the Riddler toying with Amanda Waller, who most people know is the leader of the Suicide Squad. He asks his usual riddles, Waller answers them in order to distract him so she could get a location on him. Just then, soldiers burst through the glass ceiling and aim their weapons at Riddler. Just as they are about to apprehend him, the lights shut off, in the pitch black the next thing they hear is Batman saying “The Riddler is Mine” voiced by the always flawless Kevin Conroy. The soldiers turn on their night vision goggles, just to find Batman standing in the middle of them as he begins his massacre of Wallers men. This scene is crafted together so masterfully, as it perfectly blends Batmans strategic tactics and ruthlessness all together in one scene. Taking direct references to how Batman moves and fights from the Arkham games, this entire fight stays true to those roots and showcases incredibly for the opening scene of this film.
My actions don’t require any defense – Justice League: Doom (2012)
Jumping from the beginning of a movie, to the ending of one. The premise of this film is a bit controversial. After Mirror Master breaks into the batcave and steals files from Batmans computer that contain information on how to neutralize each member of the Justice League. These plans are handed off to Vandal Savage who alters them to not just neutralize the League, but to kill them. After each Leaguer come toe to toe with death, they manage to overcome the adversities and reassemble to face Savage and his newly appointed Legion of Doom. The Justice League manage to come out on top, but now face another dilemma that begs the questions “Can we trust Batman? And should he remain on the Justice League?” Just before they vote, Wonder Woman insists that Batman should offer a defense on why he should remain among the League. Batman disagrees, claiming “My actions don’t require any defense. In the same situation, I’d do it again” this scene shows us just how much Batman understands the repercussion of an out-of-control Justice League is. And despite if others trust him or not, he is willing to do what is necessary for the greater good of humanity.
It’s an operating table, and I’m the surgeon – Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part I (2012)
When a dangerous new gang called the Mutants begin to cause mayhem and terror on the streets of Gotham, Batman comes out of retirement to put a stop to it. In this incredible story, adapted from the mind of Frank Miller we are graced with one of the best Batman stories ever told. After Batman takes a loss to the Mutant Leader, the Dark Knight gathers himself together and attempts to take him on again. This time in a mud pit and in front of the rest of the mutant gang, to make a statement and give the mutant followers a new leader. Batman strategically attacks the leader with precise hits to neutralize him, before finally taking him to the ground and preform a procedure. Batman exclaims “You don’t get it son, this isn’t a mud pit. It’s an operating table, and I’m the surgeon” as he proceeds to break his arm and move onto breaking his other limbs, making the mutant leader completely incapacitated. The gang now see Batman as their new leader and start adopting the bat-persona as the symbol of their new gang, the Sons of Batman.
Forget About Me – Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
The story that humanized Batman for everyone, this movie gave us an origin story unlike any other we had seen in a Batman movie. Bruce Wayne falls in love with a woman named Andrea Beaumont, he asks her to marry him and she accepts. Bruce starts to believe that despite the trauma he experienced as a child, this might be his only opportunity for a normal life. Unfortunately, when she is supposed to come to Bruces home, Alfred approaches him with a note she left that says she is leaving with her father and they couldn’t be together. At this moment is when Bruce realizes he will never have true happiness and Batman is born. Bruce equips himself in his Batsuit, he looks over at Alfred who hold his mask and takes it from him. When he puts on the mask, Alfred has this shocked looked on his face at the terrifying figure he has become. It’s this scene that gives us a very real and sympathetic look at Bruce Wayne and final straw that caused him to make the transition into Batman.
Work through your pain – Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
An exploration of Bruce Waynes early years and his development into Batman. When Bruce travels to India in search of a way to deal with pain, he is denied. He manages to find a woman named Cassandra who agrees to teach him this. Bruce goes though Cassandras teachings and learns to manage his pain. One night, they are braided by a group of men and instead of following Cassandras word and not pursue them Bruce decides to make a stand and stop the men. They try to attack Bruce, but with every hit they land on him it doesn’t faze him. He manages to defeat them, but Cassandra sends Bruce away. However, despite him learning how to manage his physical pain he still hasn’t learned how to manage his true pain. Any story that explores Bruces journey is always one to behold, as this one explores just how much pain he is capable of taking. Where he learned how to manage it and the way it has shaped and formed him into a hero.
You Blinked – Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)
The Justice League take on an opposite version of themselves from an alternate world known as the Crime Syndicate. After an epic showdown between the Syndicate and the League, they all realize that there is something much more sinister going on. As Owlman has made plans to take a nuclear bomb through the multiverse to Earth Prime, the original Earth and destroy it. Destroying Earth Prime would also destroy every version of Earth that came from it, and eradicate the Multiverse. Batman follows Owlman to Earth Prime, where a battle ensues between the two. However, they are so similar in style that they fight is somewhat even. The difference is Owlmans unwilling to hold back, but Batman manages to gain an upper hand and attach Owlman to the bomb and send them both to another uninhabited Earth. The monologue Batman gives is superb, as during the battle he tells Owlman “There is a difference between you and me. We both looked into the abyss. But when it looked back at us. You blinked” referring to the line Batman isn’t willing to cross, and the unbreakable psychological toughness Batman has.
The one man who beat you – Batman: Dark Knight Returns – Part II (2013)
The finale to the epic two part movie, the ultimate showdown between The Dark Knight and The Man of Steel. When the President orders Superman to put an end to Batmans vigilantism, Superman travels to Gotham to find an armored Batman waiting for him. With every piece of technology Batman has to take on Superman, the two battle it out in a colossal battle. As the battle concludes, Batman calls upon the help of Green Arrow to fire a specially made Kryptonite arrow. The arrow is shot at Superman but when he catches it, it expels a kryptonite gas that enters his lungs and weakens him. As Batman stands above Superman in victory, Superman notices that Bruces heart isn’t pumping correctly and he is in risk of a heart attack. Regardless though, Batman grabs Superman tells him “I didn’t have to go easy on you. A different binding agent, a stronger mix… I want you to remember that. I wanted to remind you to stay out of my way. In all the years to come, in your most private moments, I want you to remember the one man who beat you!” Which finally answers the question of who would win a fight between the two. Revealing that no matter how powerful Superman might be, the will of Batman will always be greater and that’s what will always give him the advantage of The Man of Steel.
Omega Lambda 7-X-L-9 – Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010)
After Darkseid kidnaps Kara (Supergirl) and takes her to Apokolips to make her the new leader of his honor guard, The Furies. Superman, Batman, Barda and Wonder Woman travel to the hellish planet to save Kara and bring her home. While Barda and Wonder Woman face off against the Furies and Superman against his cousin. Batman sets out on a mission to find hellspores Darkseid has stored away, and a way to activate them as leverage in exchange for Kara. One Hellspore is capable of turning a planet into a fire pit, imagine what 500 is capable of. When Batman approaches Darkseid, he explains to him that they have been activated and he has reprogrammed them. Darkseid doesn’t believe Batman, calling his bluff since the spores are encrypted with a specific code. Until Batman recites the code “Omega Lambda 7-X-L-9” Darkseid loses composure and attacks Batman. He threatens Batman to destroy him with a zap of his omega beam, but if he did that the Hellspores would still go off. This moment shows us just how daring Batman is willing to be, to go up against a god and bend him to his will. No matter how big or powerful someone might be, Batman can always find a way to beat them.
I’ll never come back – Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
After Batman discovers the lethal Red Hood is his old sidekick Jason Todd. The two finally come to blows, as Jason leads Batman to an abandoned building. In one of the rooms, Jason has the Joker tied up and threatens to finally end the Jokers madness. Jason asks Batman why he has never killed Joker, Batman explains “It’d be too damned easy. All I’ve ever wanted to do is kill him. A day doesn’t go by that I don’t think about subjecting him to every horrendous torture he’s dealt out to others, and then… end him. But if I do that, if I allow myself to go down into that place… I’ll never come back.” This entire monologue, explains who Batman is and what he represents. How Batman rides a line between wanting to kill Joker and what would happen if he did. Batman understands the kind of hero he would be to Gotham if he chose to kill his enemies. Which answers the question many might ask “Why has Batman never just killed the Joker?”
A beautiful blend of Batmans most meaningful moments with his most pulse pounding moments. The scenes and moments that make Batman the legend that he is today. Moments that have given him the reason to be one of the most recognizable characters in the world.
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30 November 2016, UP Town Centre, Dilliman, Quezon City. On November 30th, at the UP Town Centre, UP JMA showed the public at large a whole new way of living as it presented its eco-friendly movement dedicated to initiate and promote a more sustainable and environment friendly lifestyle: “EcoSwitch”. Attended by Diane Penales, VP of Operations and Anne-Marie Mananquil Bakker, Director of Partnerships, FEED was joined by its Sustainable T-Shirt merchandise partner Mondo Project, represented by Bogs Balangat. Together with Mondo Project’s t-shirts containing messages about the Earth and Sustainability, FEED showcased native Philippine fruit trees (buko/coconut, sili/chilli, lanka, rambutan, kasoy and umbrella/coastal species).
“We really appreciate the opportunity to contribute with you helping our planet!
My experience in the EcoSwitch event was really fruitful, as I heard a lot of stories which were really inspiring, and also having to know that there is an increase in the the development of youth leaders being more aware and able to help and contribute in this way. It is really great to know that UP JMA has these programs.
We hope to be able to join as much as we can about FEED’s mission, and we hope Mondo Project would be able to contribute little by little to this movement.” -Bogs Balangat, Co-Founder, Mondo Project
Photos: Courtesy UP JMA
This movement aims to raise awareness on environmental degradation, and encourage a nature-sustaining lifestyle, through the showcasing of local eco-friendly brands in a fashion show. It was a whole day bazaar, and throughout the day, raffles were featured for exclusive prizes and giveaways, workshops on sustainable living and practices, live performances from local artists and a fashion show to end the evening.
Through EcoSwitch, UP JMA invited FEED as its partner beneficiary organization, and further culminated the event in a tree planting on December 3rd with the members of UP JMA, as well as their scholars from the UP JMA Kids Integrated Development Through Schooling (KIDS) Program, which aims to help restore Philippine forests. Catering primarily to students & families, the event attracted traffic of at around 500 visitors of all ages, and a wide range of products.
Thank you UP JMA for your outstanding support to FEED and the environment – keep it up, and more power to your purpose!
About UP JMA
The UP Junior Marketing Organization (UP JMA) is a duly recognized university-wide student organization, with over 300 members, based in the Cesar EA Virata School of Business, University of the Philippines – Diliman. As an affiliate of the Philippine Marketing Association (PMA), we have been acknowledged as an eleven-time winner of the Agora Youth Award for the Best Student Marketing Organization and have also been honored as one of the Three Outstanding Marketing Associations (TOSMA). Equipped highly in marketing experience, UP JMA holds high standards of flexibility and professionalism effected to each and every of its relations, guarantying superior brand awareness for your projects, products, and promotions.
More about UP JMA here: https://www.facebook.com/officialUPJMA/
About Mondo Project
Mondo Project was established by Rejina and Bogs Balangat to produce sustainable t-shirts carrying environmental messages with impact, triggering FEED to accept the company’s offer to become a merchandise partner to help spread the word on environmental awareness and the need to take action at any level we can, from tree planting to reforest 70% of lost forest cover in the Philippines to water conservation in our own homes, and reconnecting with nature.
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Technical instructor and HVAC expert Jerry Clemons completely covers both air-conditioning as well as heating systems, so you can save money repairing your own vehicle.
Covered is a history of HVAC systems, airflow throughout the system, the principles of refrigerant, diagnosis of common faults in older systems, testing procedures, and finally repair and, in the case of air conditioning, recharging your system. Also included is proper evacuation and disposal of any residual refrigerant in the system. Components such as compressors, condensers, evaporators and heater cores, pressure switches and climate control electrics and switches are also covered. Finally, for people with older cars, converting from the no-longer-available R-12 to R134a is detailed.
Automotive climate controls are a complex system and are difficult to repair without proper instruction. Whether you are trying to get your old classic back to its original form or are just looking to save on expensive repairs, author Jerry Clemons and this book provide the knowledge you will need to get your car back on the road and cruising in comfort.
Jerry Clemons
Jerry Clemons holds an AAS in Automotive Technology from Southern Illinois University as well as a BS in Technical Education from Western Kentucky University. Jerry also earned a MS degree in Safety, Security, and Emergency Management from Eastern Kentucky University. Jerry has been employed at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College since 1999, where he is a professor and program coordinator for the Automotive and Diesel Technology programs. He is certified by ASE as master automotive technician as well as a master truck technician. Jerry is also an active member or the Mobile Air Conditioning Society (MACS) as well as the North American Council of Automotive Teachers (NACAT).
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How to Repair Automotive Air-Conditioning & Heating Systems - Jerry Clemons
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Automobiles have been around since the late 1800s, and changes have come along to improve them in every imaginable way. The vehicles from the 1800s did not have an enclosed cab to protect the occupants from the elements.
History of Cabin Heating Systems
Closed-body cars first appeared in the early 1900s, and the occupants used gas lamps and gas burners to provide heat. These heating techniques were the same methods that horse-drawn carriages were using. As time passed by, manufacturers used engine exhaust heat as well as hot air off of the engine to produce a little heat for the cabin and its occupants.
Car manufacturers began using heated engine coolant in the 1930s, which was a more effective method to provide comfort. General Motors and the Nash brand were among the first companies to use heater cores to provide heat for the cabin of the vehicle. Another milestone that General Motors was involved in was the heated seats that were available on a few models. Development of heating systems on a wide sector of the market was somewhat slow because it was the late 1950s when most models had heating systems. By the 1960s, heating systems were standard equipment across most major car brands.
The heater hoses route the engine coolant into the heater core of this 1969 Chevrolet Camaro.
The climate control head on this 1969 Camaro has settings for blower speed, air temperature, and defrost. This system uses cables to move the doors on the duct box.
History of Air-Conditioning Systems
Keeping the driver and passengers comfortable in hot weather was also a challenge for car manufacturers. Techniques used in the early history of the car business included canvas covers, vent windows, and crank-style windows.
Providing shade to keep direct sunlight off of the occupants was an improvement over open-air vehicles. In addition, providing windows that could be positioned to provide increased velocity of the air provided more cooling capacity for the cabin.
Air-conditioning systems that used a pressurized refrigerant first appeared in the early 1930s. The Packard Motor Car Company was the first manufacturer to offer air-conditioning as an option around 1939. The system used by Packard was manufactured by Bishop and Babcock and was called the weather conditioner. This air-conditioning system was mounted in the trunk and involved a lot of plumbing and piping, which was a disadvantage because there were many places that could develop a leak. This system used a compressor that ran at all times and did not have any temperature adjustments. The $274 price for this system made it a very expensive option for that time period.
The windshield on this 1936 Rolls-Royce folds forward to allow increased airflow into the cabin to help keep the occupants comfortable in hot weather. This vehicle also has side windows and vent windows that operate with a crank.
This two-door 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air has side windows and vent windows that operate with a window crank arm. The vent window was a popular option that caused a strong airflow when it was opened up.
The window crank arms and door handle are within easy reach for the passenger of this two-door 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air.
Chrysler and General Motors began offering air-conditioning as an option in the early 1950s. In 1954, the Nash Ambassador used a system called the weather eye, which was the first fully integrated climate control system with air-conditioning. It included dash controls and an air-conditioning compressor with a clutch that could turn on and off as needed.
By the 1960s, air-conditioning was growing in popularity and market share. In 1969, 54 percent of cars sold in the United States were equipped with air-conditioning. Characteristics of cars from this era were the large compressors and large quantities of refrigerant used to make them work. A good sales pitch for this popular system was that it would increase resale value on the vehicle. As time passed, more and more vehicles were sold with air-conditioning as standard equipment.
Evolution of Heating and Air-Conditioning Systems
Cabin comfort in automobiles has seen many changes in the last 100 years. The industry has gone from not having cabin heat or an air-conditioning system to both becoming standard equipment. Many other advances have become common on cars and trucks as well. Some advancements that are available on modern cars and trucks include dual zone systems, rear heat and air systems, automatic temperature control systems, heated and cooled seats, and remote starting systems.
Dual zone climate control systems allow the driver and the passenger to have different air temperatures delivered to each side of the car. These systems are typically available on upscale vehicles and are made possible by having a more complex duct box system that has separate blend doors for each side of the vehicle. The drawback of these systems is that with more complexity in the system, more potential problems can occur when the vehicle begins to get older and in the higher-mileage category.
This dual zone climate control head allows the driver and the passenger to choose different temperature settings for each side of the vehicle. This control head also has the switches for the heated seats for the driver and the passenger.
The heat and air-conditioning controls are located at the roof area within easy reach of those in the second-row seats on the driver’s side. This control allows the blower speed, the temperature, and the mode to be chosen.
Many larger vehicles are equipped with rear heat and air systems that provide heat and air-conditioning directly to the rear section of the cabin. Having the added capacity to heat and cool the rear of a larger vehicle provides much improved comfort for the passengers of these vehicles. These systems require hoses and lines for heated coolant as well as pressurized refrigerant to be routed to the back section of the vehicle. This requires increased capacity for both the cooling system as well as the refrigeration system. In addition, these systems have more serviceable parts that must be operational as well as more potential leak locations for the coolant and refrigerant.
Automatic temperature control is another convenient option that is available on many modern vehicles. These advanced systems incorporate many sensors and computers to automatically control the temperature to the desired level. When these systems are in automatic mode, the operator selects the desired cabin temperature and the system works to move the cabin temperature to that level. Many of these systems are also equipped with dual zone capabilities, as mentioned previously.
Heated and cooled seats have become very popular in modern upscale vehicles. This added capacity to keep the occupants comfortable is a great advancement that is popular with consumers. Heated seats have been available for many years, but cooled seats have only been available for a few years.
Remote start systems have become a popular option in recent years. These systems are incorporated into the keyless remote systems and allow the user to start the vehicle by using the remote transmitter. Being able to start the engine with a remote control allows the heater or air-conditioning system to begin working before the driver enters the vehicle. This process allows the operator and passengers to enter a climate-controlled vehicle rather than having to wait for the system to get to the efficient zone after entering the unit.
This control head features automatic temperature control, dual zone, and rear defogger controls. Most vehicles with automatic temperature control also allow the operator to manually pick the air distribution point, blower speed, and air temperature.
The remote control for the door locks also features a button for the remote start function for this vehicle. Most vehicles with factory remote start require a sequence of buttons to be pressed in order to activate the function, which reduces the chances of accidentally starting the vehicle.
The rest of this book will provide information on how the air-conditioning and heating systems operate as well as how to diagnose and repair many of the common problems that could occur with these systems.
The heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system is a fascinating series of components that all work together to help control the temperature and humidity of the cabin in a vehicle. These systems work by adding heat to the air in the duct box when the heat mode is chosen and removing heat from the air in the duct box when the air-conditioning (AC) mode is chosen. The information in this book will help you understand how the system works as well as how to troubleshoot and repair the system when it is not functioning properly.
Working Safely
Many precautions must be taken when working around the HVAC system on cars and trucks. This section provides information and procedures to help prevent injuries, accidents, and unwanted disposal of the fluids and chemicals within the HVAC system.
Always wear personal protection equipment (PPE) when performing repair and maintenance on a vehicle’s AC or heating system. Quality Z87-rated safety glasses will provide eye protection. Wearing quality latex or nitrile gloves protects the hands from potential frostbite.
The substance inside the AC system that is used to flow through the components and remove heat from the cabin is called refrigerant. There are three main types of refrigerant that have been used by original equipment manufacturers (OEMS): R12, R134a, and R1234yf. All of them have some characteristics that need to be understood, and they will all be explained in greater detail later in this chapter.
All three of these refrigerants behave in a similar way. First of all, these substances are pressurized when in an enclosed vessel or when in a closed system, such as the AC system on your car. Care must be taken when working around this pressurized refrigerant because it can cause frostbite if liquid refrigerant gets on your body. A person could also get burned by the refrigerant while the system is in operation due to the high pressures and temperatures within the AC system. When working around refrigerants, do the following:
1. Wear safety glasses to protect from getting refrigerant in your eyes.
2. Wear latex or nitrile gloves to give a layer of protection for your skin.
3. Store refrigerant containers in a cool, dry location away from any heat source, such as a heater or direct sunlight.
4. Work with confident and meaningful actions when connecting or disconnecting service hoses to the service ports on the AC system.
The cooling system on cars and trucks must be dealt with in a safe manner. The liquid that transfers heat from the engine to the radiator as well as into the cab to the heater core is called coolant, and it is typically a mixture of antifreeze and pure water. Care must be taken to never attempt to repair a cooling system when the engine is at operating temperature or above due to the system operating under a pressure of 14 to 17 pounds per square inch (psi). This means time should always be taken to allow the engine to cool down before removing the cap that holds the coolant in the system.
In addition to hot systems being a safety concern, coolant should always be drained into a suitable container when it is removed from the engine for maintenance or repair. Used coolant should also be disposed of in a proper and legal manner. Many parts stores allow customers to bring in used fluids to be recycled. The store will typically record the names of people who bring in used fluids. Coolant should never be poured out on the ground or into a drain that connects to public sewer systems.
It is vital to use confident actions when connecting and disconnecting service hoses to the service ports on the AC system. The valve should also be in the released position when connecting and disconnecting it from the system.
Refrigerant should only be stored in areas that are free from direct sunlight or added heat. The pressurized refrigerant should also be stored away from areas where lots of movement and sharp objects are present to prevent one of the containers from being punctured.
A reliable drain pan should be placed under the drain valve when releasing coolant from the radiator. There is typically an open path for the draining coolant to reach the pan without running down the frame, but care should be taken to catch as much of the draining coolant as possible.
The drive belts on an engine are an area where caution must be used in order to prevent injuries when working on the AC system. Many drive belts on late-model vehicles are held in place by a spring-loaded tensioner that holds strong pressure on the belt at all times. The belt tensioner must be released with the proper tool to safely remove or install the drive belt.
Drive belts on older vehicles are typically a V-belt type and are adjusted by moving one of the accessories on a pivot to allow the belt to be loosened or tightened. The key point to remember when dealing with adjustable V-belts is to tighten the belt to the correct level but not overtighten it. Overtightening these belts adds stress on the pulley and bearing of the accessories and could lead to early failure. It is also a prudent action to recheck and possibly adjust the belt tension on brand-new V-belts after they have been installed for a few days.
V-belts are used on older-generation cars and trucks. These belts are adjusted by physically moving one of the driven components within an open groove in the mounting brackets or by installing an adjustment strut that allows the belt tension to be adjusted by shortening or lengthening the bar.
The accessories on most late-model vehicles are driven by a serpentine belt that is much wider than the belts on older vehicles. This belt system typically uses a spring-loaded tensioner that holds constant pressure on the belt during operation.
The belt tensioner on a serpentine belt must be released when removing or installing the drive belt. Some vehicles allow a ratchet or a socket to be used to release the belt tensioner, while other vehicles require a special belt-release tool to be used to service the drive belt.
A belt tension gauge is a valuable tool to use when installing a new V-belt or when adjusting the tension on a used V-belt. After this tool is inserted on a section of the belt, it measures the deflection of the belt and lets the user know if the tension is correct. If the tension is too loose, then the belt can be tightened up. If the tension is too tight, then the belt can be loosened.
The vehicle’s battery and electrical systems must be respected when working on the air-conditioning system. Disconnect the battery prior to performing work under the dash, such as replacing the heater core or the evaporator core. Repairing the HVAC system often requires electronic components to be disconnected, so this process should be handled carefully.
All modern-era vehicles have airbags located on the steering wheel and passenger-side dash panel. In addition, airbag assemblies are also found in the side pillars, seats, and doors of many late-model vehicles. Extreme caution must be used when performing diagnosis and repair inside the vehicle and under the dash area. The first step that should be taken prior to performing extensive disassembly of the instrument panel is to disconnect the battery negative cable and secure it with a shop towel or similar item to prevent the cable from moving back into contact with the battery terminal. After removing an airbag assembly, it should be handled carefully and stored in a safe place facing upward to prevent the unit from being projected in case of an inadvertent deployment.
The negative battery cable should be removed and secured prior to performing extensive repairs on the AC or heating system. Having the power removed from the vehicle reduces the chance of shorting out a live circuit when performing repair work.
Extra caution should be used when connecting and disconnecting electrical connectors on cars and trucks. Most connectors have locking tangs that must be carefully released when disconnecting the device or module.
All modern vehicles are
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Full-scale Development of LTE Telecommunications Service Begins in Myanmar
KDDI CORPORATION
SUMITOMO CORPORATION June 19, 2017
―Introducing Myanmar's First 4x4 MIMO Technology Brings Fastest Speed―
KDDI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Chiyoda, Tokyo, President: Takashi Tanaka, hereinafter "KDDI") and SUMITOMO CORPORATION (Headquarters: Chuo, Tokyo, President: Kuniharu Nakamura, hereinafter "SUMITOMO") are currently providing telecommunications services in Myanmar in a partnership with Myanma Posts & Telecommunications (hereinafter "MPT").
The newly-acquired high-speed data transfer service "LTE+", which utilizes the 1.8 GHz band, which began in Yangon, Mandalay, and Naypyidaw from the end of May, and will be expanded to around 30 cities throughout the country by September 2017.
This will not only gives users access to widespread high-quality 3G coverage, but will also allow them to enjoy high-speed data transfer with LTE.
With the high-speed data transfer service "LTE+", MPT will become the first telecommunications carrier in Myanmar to adopt 4x4 MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology, enabling users to receive high-speed data transfers of up to 150Mbps [1].
By using "LTE+" with an LTE-enabled device, users can use their current plans with high-speed data transfer.
Furthermore, in response to the increasing needs of SNS (social networking service) and video streaming service users in Myanmar, in addition to the ordinary data amount, MPT will start providing a data package that includes a data amount just for SNS and video streaming [2] in a pack called "Happy Data Combo".
KDDI, SUMITOMO, and MPT have worked towards improving the quality of telecommunications, providing an environment in which many customers can use mobile phone services comfortably.
We will continue to contribute to the development of the economy and industry in Myanmar, as well as to improving the lives of the people living there, while making efforts toward improving customer satisfaction.
[1]This is a best effort service. Note that the maximum communication speed is not the actual communication speed, but the maximum value based on the technical standards. The actual speed may fall substantially short of the maximum for various reasons including your use environment and the traffic amount even in the service area.
[2]Eligible services: Facebook, Viber, YouTube (TM), Pyone Play
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Going West: The Talking Stone
September 28, 2020 September 27, 2020 Sue Vincent
While I was researching the cathedral at St Davids, I came across a couple of legends that caught my fancy. Both of them concern Llechllafar, the talking stone. The name just by itself was intriguing… where did the emphasis lie? Was it a stone that spoke, or a stone where people could speak? I soon found out and it tied in with the legends of the old corpse roads that Stuart and I had come across when working on our books.
When villages began to get their own churches, quite often it would only be the mother church of the area that had burial rights. People were obliged to carry their dead, often long distances, to bury their loved ones. There were many legends associated with these old highways that could scale hills and ford rivers for mile upon mile, following a straight line, very like the leys, that might take them even through homes…the spirits of the dead always took a straight course, and a convoluted path would confound or confuse them.
There was a corpse road at St Davids… and it was crossed by Llechllafar.
The talking stone was a huge white slab of marble, ten feet long, six feet wide and a foot thick. It lay across the little river Alun that separates the cathedral from the palace… making me wonder which side was that of the living and which that of the dead, especially as, beyond the ruins of the bishops palace, there is only the sea and the islands that float in the mist…
Llechllafar, wrote Giraldus Cambrensis around 800 years ago, as part of the corpse road was so old even then that it was worn smooth with age and the passing of many feet. As one body was carried across it for burial, the stone spoke. So far I have found no record of its words. The effort of making itself heard was so great that the stone split asunder and, from that day, none would cross that way through fear.
There is another legend that does record the words… though here, it was Merlin, not the stone, who spoke them. Merlin foretold that an English king would attempt to cross the bridge. This king would have conquered Ireland and would also have been injured by a man with a red hand. Crossing Llechllafar the king would die.
King Henry II, having just returned from Ireland, made a pilgrimage to St Davids. He heard of Merlin’s prophecy yet chose to cross the water by Llechllafar. As he reached the other side alive, he laughed at the prophecy, calling Merlin a false seer. A local man shouted out that Merlin’s words held true… Henry had not conquered Ireland, so he was not the king of the prophecy.
Henry never did defeat the whole of Ireland…
It wasn’t until the 16th century, that a new bridge was built and the stone taken away. Llechllafar is now lost, along with any words it may have whispered as to why it was so important. In a land where the hills hold the quarry from which the bluestones of Stonehenge were hewn, and where ancient stones now stand silent in the landscape, you have to wonder about its origins…
Tagged corpse road, folklore, legends, Merlin, pembrokeshire, prophecy, secret meanings of ancient myths, St David’s, standing stones, symbolism
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Sue Vincent is a Yorkshire-born writer and one of the Directors of The Silent Eye, a modern Mystery School. She writes alone and with Stuart France, exploring ancient myths, the mysterious landscape of Albion and the inner journey of the soul. Find out more at France and Vincent. She is owned by a small dog who also blogs. Follow her at scvincent.com and on Twitter @SCVincent. Find her books on Goodreads and follow her on Amazon worldwide to find out about new releases and offers. Email: findme@scvincent.com. View all posts by Sue Vincent
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15 thoughts on “Going West: The Talking Stone”
I do love old legends and particularly when handed down from generation to generation.. that storytelling art existed here for hundreds of years and thankfully the folk singers and bards still keep it going.. Lovely post Sue.. xx
There is so much history hidden in storytelling… we need to preserve the old traditions x
With you on that Sue..hugsx
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I love old legends. especially since there is always some truth at its base. This was fascinating!
It is a grand old story 🙂
So interesting. I read about the corpse road in a fantasy book (believe it or not) and didn’t know it was a real thing. How fascinating and too bad that the stone was lost. I love it when you share the mythology of the landscape, Sue.
I like being able to unearth the old tales.
Yes, the corpse roads are real… and there are a lot of old tales associated with them.
I’m always fascinated by legends associated with place. They’re a way to bring the past back to life.
It is the continuity…and so often, there are still echoes in the present.
Yes, that makes perfect sense.
alexcraigie says:
Loved this! One of my favourite genres is history – both fact and fictionalised – but this is the first time I’ve heard mention of corpse roads. I need to explore the subject further! Thanks, Sue.
There are the remnants of Corpse Roads all across the country, Alex and many have fascinating legends attached to them.
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3 Ways to kill the Creeper in Jeepers Creepers
Updated: 23 Jun 2017 9:19 am
This guy needs a breathmint.
BY: Andrew Kerr
The Creeper seems immortal. What is it?
The Creeper is an ancient maybe even biblical demon that sees the world as a massive 7-11 supermarket. He looks and dresses like a man, but has bat wings that help him to swoop down on his victims quickly and fly really fast. He has superhuman strength. He stalks humanity doing his best to check the body parts off of his insatiable shopping list.
The Creeper spent two movies and a smorgasbord of corpses looking for the perfect specimens. He even passed up Trish, for Darry's soulful eyes. He feasts on the body parts of his victims to regenerate his decaying body for 23 days every 23 years and then he hibernates. The Creeper can also regenerate lost or damaged body parts by absorbing the same body part of one of his victims. He decides when someone is ripe or not by smelling fear and finding something that he likes. The Creeper isn’t picky and has used body parts from promiscuous teens and even prisoners to heal itself.
“I’m baaack” cliché but still terrifying
No one is safe from his hunger. His face opens up sometimes and makes him look like a spitting dinosaur from Jurassic park. The Creeper is agile and is difficult to hit. Trish and Darry crushed him with a car, but he dusted himself off and kept right on coming -hurt, but not stopped. A police station full of police officers filled him with lead and he kept on coming. He’s been decapitated and Jack Taggart senior even shot him with a harpoon, made a kitchen knife block out of him and pegged him to a barn door and here he is, back 23 years later. Killing the Creeper will not be easy.
What are three ways we can kill it?
Do I have something in my eye? The kids in Jeepers Creepers 2 shove a javelin in the Creepers eye.
Seeing that his ability to regenerate himself gives him his immortality it follows that the first way to kill him would be to starve him of victims to stop him from regenerating. This can be accomplished in three ways:
Trap the Creeper in a thick, iron walled prison at the beginning of his 23 days of feeding and isolate him in an area with no traffic or population.
Cast the Creeper in concrete take him to the deepest part of the ocean and drop him in.
Find the Creeper during his hibernation period put him on a rocket and send him to the sun.
There are faults with all of these ways, the first being the availability of resources. The second being the possibility of someone freeing the Creeper unwittingly. A second way to kill the Creeper might be to blow him up because his pieces would not be able to kill and absorb a victim’s body parts - barring divine intervention.
The third way to kill the Creeper stems from his biblical/religious origin. Most evil has a contrasting entity which could be the key to his destruction. Knowledge of the Creeper’s weakness would lie in a tome of history where the creature was battled and defeated. The Creeper has survived for millennia and will not die easily. His demise will not be engineered easily by some uneducated or unwitting victim.
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Can I play a game installed on my Xbox with another disc?
So I have Skyrim, but part of the disc is scratched and it won't ever get passed the standard Skyrim loading screen when I try to load a saved game. If I was to install it on my Xbox with another disc (a friends) would I be able to play that installation using my disc?
GroppeGroppe
The answer is - it depends.
There's a type of "authentication check" that does a rudimentary "is this a valid Xbox 360 Skyrim disc" that happens when you first start the game. The intent of this check is to ensure you're not sharing or selling the disc after install.
This isn't anywhere as intense as the actual game itself, but there's still a chance that the part of the disc it checks has been damaged. If it hasn't been, then you'd be fine. If it has, then this technique will not work.
I've seen discs go either way though, so the only way to know is to try.
agent86agent86
This should be a comment, not an answer. – James Aug 20 '12 at 20:04
@James, I don't understand - sometimes "it depends" is an answer. (for example) – agent86 Aug 20 '12 at 20:09
"It can vary between games so the only way to tell for this game is to try it" seems like a message to me for someone to actually give it a try for the answer.. Sorry man but that is a comment to me, not an answer. If the question was more generic to just cover all games then this is the answer, but this question is about a specific game and so to me is a comment. – James Aug 20 '12 at 22:13
@James, it's disc-specific. It can't be definitively answered without having the specific disc that is scratched. Nobody can reproduce his situation but him. – agent86 Aug 20 '12 at 23:05
I can answer this to some degree, because I've dealt with the problem before. My grandson had Call Of Duty and he would always play on disk.
I always played on install and disk. He had damaged his disk, so I went over his house and installed the game off of my disk, which resulted in him being able to play with no problems. Therefore, it does not matter if you are using the same disc, as to it continuously referring to the disk after install obviously does not matter, since his disk would not play.
It appears to be the first time that this is happening. It does just a small system check for a disk that is not damaged.
Now, what does that allow? Legally, you cannot make a copied disk and play it. But you could spend pennies on the dollar for certain damaged disks, rent the disk from a kiosk or video store then install and play the game.
In other words, Microsoft tries to prevent most piracy scenarios, but it does not go overboard to prevent them all, and it most likely does not matter if you had purchased an original disk.
jbmjbm
Yes but the chances of it working if your original disk doesn't work are slim. It does not install the entire game to load it off your hard drive, but rather things like textures and other resource intensive items.
You will still need a functioning disk to play the game successfully.
hiiambohiiambo
this is incorrect. If you have a game installed your diskdrive will not be spinning except for the dick check routine. – user4139 Aug 21 '12 at 3:52
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Author of the Month – Nicole Clarkston
Good Afternoon everyone,
We are reaching the end of the month and that means it is time for my author of the month post. In 2018 I created this new feature, which started with Joana Starnes as author of the month in January, and was very happy to see that you welcomed the initiative. Your incentive gave me the inducement to keep going, so today I’m bringing you the author of the month for February.
This month I would like to give a shout out to Nicole Clarkston!
Nicole Clarskton caught my attention back in 2015 because she was the only author I knew who wrote both P&P and N&S variations. Nowadays there are more authors who are venturing into N&S variations but Nicole Clarkston continues to be the one I consider a true expert in both genres. I must say that as a reader I’m very demanding when reading a North and South fan fiction book, and sometimes North and South variations disappoint me, either because they are unable to keep me interested in the story, or because the characters are too different from what Gaskell presented us with. I have often seen less experienced authors make Mr. Thornton too similar to Mr. Darcy and I know it may be hard to differentiate both heroes when writing a romance, but knowing both characters very well is essential to pull it off. Nicole Clarkston masters this art of differentiating.
Even though she writes both genres, her deep knowledge of the stories and the characters is visible in her books and I have never felt someone was out of character in her stories, it always feels I’m visiting old friends whom I know quite well. Her Mr. Thornton is indeed Mr. Thornton and Margaret Hale is not one bit like Elizabeth. I love that! I do love variations from both Pride and Prejudice and North and South, but I am expecting to find different characters (even if some traits may be similar) and that is what I find in Nicole Clarkston’s books. She shows a true understanding of each characters traits and past story, how they got where they are and what we expect from them in each new situation, this knowledge produces perfect books because she remains true to Austen and Gaskell’s characters and uses her creativity in her original new characters. This is a perfect as it gets in my opinion because it gives us the best of the two worlds: authenticity and creativity.
I cannot tell if I prefer her North and South or her Pride and Prejudice variations, in my opinion they are all equally good, and that is not something easy to achieve, particularly when one is writing the stories simultaneously as she usually does, so congrats Nicole!
Apart from being the only author who continues to consistently write both P&P and N&S variations, which by itself and considering the theme of my blog would be enough for me to give Nicole a shout, she writes stories with a perfect balance. In my perspective, she has the right quantity of everything, her books are perfectly balanced in terms of pacing and in terms of sweet romance vs. angst which always makes the reading experience very pleasant to me.
She has written variations, prequels, gone abroad to Spain and Portugal, created new characters, developed more than one love story in the same book… She keeps challenging herself and it is refreshing to see and read that, hence my shout out 🙂 Thank you for providing me with so many wonderful reading hours Nicole!
Below you can see the books that made me love Nicole Clarkston:
Rumours & Recklessness – A Pride & Prejudice Variation
My Review (coming soon) Amazon.com
These Dreams – A Pride & Prejudice Variation
My Review Amazon.com
The Courtship of Edward Gardiner – A Pride & Prejudice Prequel
No Such Thing as Luck – A North & South Variation
Northern Rain – A North & South Variation
But these books aren’t enough for me so I keep asking Nicole when will she release her next work, what is she working on etc. I affraid that she may get a little tired of all my insistence, but when I told her about this post she was happy to share some news with me and my readers, so if you’re curious about what she has been doing after the release of These Dreams, you can hear it directly from her 🙂
Below she explains what she has been working on and shares some exclusive excerpts 🙂
I have always had a pattern of working on more than one book at a time, so I’m currently writing two. True to my pattern, one is a North & South, and the other is a Pride and Prejudice. The North & South book, still tentatively named Nowhere But North, began back in July of 2016, on the heels of the blog tour for Northern Rain. It started as a prequel/sequel, kicking off the very first scene with an uncomfortable marriage ceremony. The story moves forward but is enhanced by a series of flashbacks which contrast and flow with the main story line. This book got put on hold so I could finish These Dreams, and it is proving to be just as much of a monster as that story was. I hoped to have it finished by this month and ready for final edits, but I am afraid I have a couple more months ahead of me (sniff!) This scene is relatively early in the book, just as Margaret and John have begun to reconcile their feelings toward one another.
Exclusive Nowhere But North Excerpt
“Love, are you well?” John tugged at her hand as they moved to abandon the dining room. Hannah had already left them behind, and they had lingered for a few stolen moments in privacy before John returned to the mill for the afternoon.
Margaret hesitated, then turned back to him. The empty quality her eyes had taken on in the few seconds she had looked away fully terrified him. Grief was a fickle tormentor – raising its hideous aspect whenever it pleased, crushing any budding hopes of happiness beneath waves of guilt and remorse for aspiring to such. Well did he know the conflict which bound her within its grasp. Her entire future – their future – hung on what measure of courage and faith she possessed to face her sorrows. She had begun to confide in him, but it was not yet with the strong force of habit which could break through the darkest melancholy.
“Margaret?” he touched soft fingers to her cheek. “What is it?”
She lifted her shoulders and her mouth worked helplessly. “It is nothing of any consequence, John. You mustn’t be troubled… Dixon is to arrive this afternoon – I will be grateful to have her company. I shall be well.”
He narrowed his eyes. “Am I to understand, then, that you have not found my mother’s company very satisfying?”
She swallowed, and her gaze dropped to his waistcoat again.
“Margaret,” he touched her chin, and those clear eyes braved his once more. “I know how she can be. You frighten her, you know,” he murmured softly.
Astonishment swept over her face. “I, frighten her? How is that possible?”
“Because you are yourself – my strong Margaret,” he smiled, a little teasingly.
She shook her head, brushing off his words with a dismissive little laugh. “I feel that I am neither myself, nor strong of late, John.”
He pulled her close to press a loving kiss to her forehead. Had he perceived the unbearable frissons his breath sent through her hair and down her back, it is likely that he would not have returned to the mill at all that day. From him, at least, the gesture was one of innocent comfort. “You will grow strong again, Margaret,” he whispered. “It is your nature, and she knows it as well as I.”
She sniffed a little and turned her face into his shoulder. “I do not understand why that should trouble your mother. She could not respect me otherwise, could she?”
“No, but neither would she be threatened by you. She likes her own ways, and has been left untroubled by contradiction for too long. I never questioned her domestic arrangements, and in late years she has had every resource and influence her heart could desire. All of that has changed, for everything that was hers is now yours.”
“And I am undeserving! You need not say it, for I know that is how she feels. I never meant to displace her,” her mouth tugged ruefully, “either in her home or in your affections.”
“And you have not done so,” he insisted, tugging a little on her hips. “You have only brought to this home what has long been missing. It will take time for her to learn to trust in you as I do, Margaret.”
She drew a long breath and shone a grateful smile. “Perhaps I will sit with her this afternoon, instead of….” She halted.
“Instead of going to the kitchen to visit Bessie Higgins?” he guessed.
She blinked a few times, then her old boldness made a little gasp of reappearance. She lifted her chin. “I had intended to do so, yes. I regret if you are displeased.”
“Not in the least. I was about to offer to escort you, but of course if you desire to remain here with my mother….”
She studied him for a moment in puzzlement. “You would not feel it immodest of me, or a defiance of your authority, if I desire to pay social calls on one of the workers?”
“You would not be my Margaret if you did not defy me whenever the fancy strikes you!” he laughed. “I think I can withstand the shock – to be quite truthful, I have lately missed locking horns with you.”
“John!” she protested. “I beg you would not speak of me in such a vulgar way.”
“Vulgar! I suppose it was, but apt, nonetheless. What amusement would there be in a wife who did not keep me on my toes?”
She frowned, but it was more playful than chagrined. With a little hitch of her chin and a flash of her old hauteur, she surveyed him through lowered lids. “I ought to have expected you, of all people, to thrill in such a challenge. You have ever carried your way against those who wish to come against you.”
“Not always. I suspect you will have the better of me yet, but I plan to enjoy the battle. And, since we are speaking of differing opinions, there is one contrary old fellow who has been asking after you for days. What would you say to a brief tour of the mill before I walk you to the kitchen?”
Her eyes lit expressively, and it was the only answer he required. He leaned down to kiss her once more – a soft brush, a secret pledge of later delights. “I will wait for you to make yourself ready,” he whispered against her lips.
As she turned away, her steps once more sparkling with energy, he gazed after her with the admiration of one who has found his greatest treasure. She disappeared, and he tapped his finger pensively against the leg of his trousers. It was an opportune moment to visit with his mother, to salve her fears that he was lost to her, and to explain to her in detail that cryptic conversation with Henry Lennox.
He found her not in her sitting room as he had expected, but in a small little alcove of the stairwell, the window of which looked out to the mill beyond. “Mother?” he greeted her softly, when she did not seem to hear his approach.
She did not turn immediately, but when she did, he detected a redness about her eyes. Her thinned lips quivered, and her arms were crossed defensively. “How long have you known about Margaret’s brother?” she demanded in a fragile voice.
“She told me yesterday,” he confessed, tugging his fingers through his unruly hair in that way he had when he was troubled. “You may well have guessed that it was he who was walking out with Margaret at the station after Mrs Hale’s death.”
She turned her face back to the window, verifying his words with only a slight lift of her chin. “And what are these heinous charges she spoke of?”
“The Navy considers him a mutineer. Margaret tells me that his captain, a man named Reid, had gone mad – had antagonised and persecuted his men to the point of exhaustion and the limits of physical impossibility. The mutiny itself was instigated by the senseless death of a crew mate falling from the yard arm when he feared punishment by the captain. Frederick Hale is said to have restrained the men from hanging Reid there next. The captain and his officers were instead set on a boat, which was found some days later. They all survived, but the mutineers took the ship to South America, where most of them scattered in fear of their lives. Some of the poor devils were caught and hung regardless, and mad Captain Reid given his old command back.” He sighed in sympathetic exasperation. “I cannot condone the mutiny, but there seems little justice in the matter.”
Hannah had tilted her head back over her shoulder as he spoke, the infamy of it all registering as shock over her stark features. She did not answer when he had finished – instead, her eyes drifted slowly to the floor. Margaret had borne more than she, in her unawareness, had accounted for, and the harshness of her own assumptions chastened her most uncomfortably.
“Mr Lennox spoke of a cousin,” she at last ventured in a subdued voice.
“Yes. Margaret grew up with her in London. She married Lennox’s brother, a captain in the Army, just before the Hales moved to Milton. She has gone with her husband to Greece. They have a child by now, I understand, and are expected to return to London sometime later this year. When they do, Mrs Hale’s sister – a Mrs Shaw – will likely return as well. The last word Margaret had placed her in Paris.”
She rounded fully on him at last, the full weight of these tidings sinking in to her astonished thoughts. Margaret’s revealed family, the previously unknown opportunities she had forsworn, and the sudden devotion she had glimpsed in the young woman’s eyes for John – it all began to make sense to her. “She loves you,” she whispered.
The Pride and Prejudice book is still under pretty tight wraps. I’m not even publicly sharing the title yet because it would be too much of a spoiler. I will say that this plot idea had been jingling around in my head for almost 2 years, but I had other books lined up first and I wouldn’t let myself touch it. I had intended to be truly mean to my muse and make myself finish the North & South book first, but the Muse threw a crying temper tantrum over that edict. After the heavy, angsty These Dreams and the dark, personally challenging scenes I was coming back to when I picked up Nowhere But North again, it was a breath of fresh air to play with something that was just for fun. All I will share so far is that the book is unrepentantly lighthearted and irreverent, and will be chock full of page time for ODC. I’m hoping to have it finished by late spring, possibly even scheduling a simultaneous release with NBN.
Exclusive Excerpt
Colonel Fitzwilliam was, indeed, at his flat. He was in the habit of rising early from his long days in the army, and even when off duty, he could scarcely remain abed after seven of the clock. He was already up and enjoying a cup of coffee—no tea for him in the mornings—when his batman informed him that he had a visitor.
“So early! Perhaps a friend ran aground at the gambling tables last night, eh? Well, show him in, Jenkins, show him in.”
“Colonel, it is Lady Catherine de Bourgh who wishes to speak with you.”
Fitzwilliam nearly spit his coffee. He managed to salvage his dignity in that regard, but could not avoid spilling a few drops as he set it on the saucer. “My aunt! What in blazes could she want? Nevermind, Jenkins, of course, you could not formulate the answer to that. That would imply reason on my aunt’s part, and I suffer under no illusions that she has submitted to such an authority. Well, show her in, and I shall make myself presentable.”
He stood, inspecting his coat to be certain that no crumbs besmirched it. Lady Catherine descended upon the apartment like a thunderstorm, cracking and pouring down the force of her displeasure. What he had done to merit this personal call at his humble abode, he could not say, but like enough, it had something to do with Darcy.
“Fitzwilliam, where are you keeping him?” she demanded at once.
“Him… forgive me, Aunt, but I have not the pleasure of understanding you. Good morning to you as well, by the by. There is no one here, save Jenkins and myself. And my housekeeper, of course, but….”
“Fitzwilliam Darcy! He has come here, has he not?”
“Darcy? I beg your pardon, Aunt, but I last saw Darcy a fortnight ago. I have only just gone on a short leave, do you see, but I intended to call upon him this morning.”
She stalked nearer. “Do not play coy with me, Richard Fitzwilliam. What has he arranged? I must know all his plans.”
“I would certainly reveal what I knew, Aunt, but Darcy is not here, nor have I had word from him. Perhaps he is paying a call on some friend or other.”
“You and I both know that Darcy never pays social calls at such an hour, and apart from yourself, there is only that tradesman whom he might have gone to for an informal visitation.”
“Bingley? He is not in Town at present. Have you truly not seen Darcy since last night?”
She drew herself up. “Of course I have, and that is the subject of my desired conversation with him.” Lady Catherine seemed to pause. “You will swear that he did not come here… perhaps this morning?”
“Unless I was still abed, Aunt, which is unlikely. May I ask, why the urgency? If I am not mistaken, you are his guest at present, and he will only naturally return to the house when his errands are complete. Has something happened?”
She pursed her lips. “Indeed, something has happened. He has ruined my daughter. Compromised her, beyond hope of recovery, and practically before my very eyes!”
“No! I cannot believe this, Aunt. Darcy would never… and Anne! I find it difficult to credit, Aunt.”
“She was in his bed this morning,” asserted the lady. “I would have him found at once so that the settlement can be drawn up and the wedding might be arranged. As you cannot testify to his whereabouts,” here, she smiled faintly, “I shall speak with him once he has returned to the house. I shall depend upon your support to ensure he behaves the gentleman toward his cousin hereafter. I shall call next upon the earl to discuss the matter with him. Good day, Fitzwilliam.”
Colonel Fitzwilliam stood aghast as his aunt departed in a sweep of black and an irregular tapping of her cane—a means of expression, rather than a necessity for mobility.
Darcy and Anne! If his aunt had not sworn to it, he could never have believed it. Darcy could have any woman he wanted, as a wife or even a mistress, but Anne? Apart from a sickly, unappealing person, there was the matter of her mother. No man in his senses would touch her, least of all Darcy! The man must have been desperate… or intoxicated. After seven and twenty years of celibacy—as far as he knew—perhaps it was a little of both. Besides, any man would be driven to drink with their Aunt Catherine as a guest.
Fitzwilliam shook his head and sighed. Well, Darcy could step into the hornet’s nest if he wished. He wanted no part of it for himself.
What did you think about Nicole’s news and excerpts? After reading these I’m really eager to get her new novels on my hands. I confess I’m more excited about Nowhere But North but that is only because I’ve known about the plot for quite some time and I find it fascinating! Also, there aren’t as many North and South books out there, so I’m craving for a new one 🙂
Until Nowhere but North comes out, I would like to offer to one of my readers the opportunity to read one of the best North and South variations I have ever read: No Such Thing as Luck.
I’m offering an ebook copy to an international reader and all you have to do to participate is to leave a comment on his post. If you share this post on any social media you’ll get another entry to the giveaway, but please let me know in the comments that you have done so.
The giveaway is open until the 9th of March and the winners will be announced shortly after.
Filed under Author of the month, JAFF, Nicole Clarkston, North and South, Pride and Prejudice
39 responses to “Author of the Month – Nicole Clarkston”
J "Joy" Dawn King
Like you, Rita, I love Nicole’s writing. She’s a rock star.
And an incredible lady too :))
Joy, you always know how to make my day. XOXOXO
I had never read N&S and after listening to my GoodReads friends discuss how one cannot go through life w/o reading it… I did. It was OK and I liked it but it left me wanting more. Then I ran into Nicole’s No Such Thing as Luck and absolutely fell in love with the variation. OMG! It was on then. Don’t include me in the give-a-way as I already have the book.
Nicole is a genius and how she can have a foot in each camp is a mystery to me. She is brilliant. I’ve read all her books except Northern Rain and that is on my TBR pile.
Wow! I loved these excerpts… I am so looking forward to reading them. Thanks for hosting this post Rita… I know you were instrumental in My Dreams being located in Portugal. Thank you for that. It was so different and I loved it. Blessings to Nicole on her writing and the future launch of these works.
Thank you, Jeanne! I am so glad you have discovered N&S and delighted I could have a small part in that. Everyone deserves to know John Thornton as well as Darcy 🙂
Claire Ferguson
I love N&S but am yet to read any variations! Nicole Clarkston is one of my favourite P&P variation authors and I am beyond excited to hear that she is writing another P&P variation!! I would love to read No Such Thing as Luck! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your sweet words, Claire! Good luck in Rita’s drawing.
You are so right. I’ve only read Northern Rain so far of her two N&S, but she does a great job of basing her characters on Gaskell’s creations and not Austen’s. I enjoyed R&R, too. I have Courtship of Edward Gardiner and No Such Thing as Luck so I need to get on the stick. 🙂 It’s not like I don’t like her writing… love it. 😉
Please do not enter me, Rita.
If your TBR pile is anything like mine, you need to hire Sir Edmund Hillary to help you summit! My white flag of surrender is waving pitifully. Thank you for your kind words, Sophia.
Thank you so much for hosting me on your lovely blog, Rita, and for sharing these snippets! It is a treat and an honor, my friend.
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I love both North and South and Jane Austen works so I am so glad that there is an author that writes both so well. Thanks for the excerpts.
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Thank you, Darcy! They are different, but I suppose after one obsesses over the genius of the original characters long enough, they start to feel like old friends 😉 Very kind of you to share.
Wonderful post. Love the excerpt and updates. I always love new P&P variations but I am also particularly looking forward to more N&S. No need to enter me. I actually own No Such Thing As Luck in print, ebook and most recently,, audio!
Wow, Becky, you don’t mess around! I’ll do my best to feed the N&S need as quickly as possible 😉
I must applaud you for this fantastic homage to Nicole and her wonderful writing!! 😊
You were absolutely right about her amazing ability to take both Gaskell’s and Austen’s beloved characters and place them in new,angst filled situations, while always remaining true to the inherent and distinctive personality traits of each character. While Elizabeth and Margaret and Darcy and John share similarities,they are not the same character and should not be written as such.
When one chooses a N&S variation penned by Nicole,one could easily be forgiven for thinking it a misplaced manuscript penned by Gaskell herself,so accurate,realistic and true to form are these beloved characters in Nicole’s hands. Acutely aware that her fans have an intimate knowledge and love for John and Margaret,she magically weaves a story that not only keeps the reader enthralled from first page to last,but one that reflects the John and Margaret we know from canon.
I treated myself to NSTAL many moons ago. I loved and recommended it to others. Northern Rain is also a personal favourite and joins the angst filled pile penned by a writer whose books are clearly a labour of love.)Please don’t include me in the giveaway).
I love the excerpts but,like you Rita,am looking forward to reading the N&S variation.
Continued success to you Nicole.I hope the the Muse continues to sit quietly on your shoulder,providing inspiration for both insightful,sigh inducing romantic moments as well as the angst laden ones! ☺️👏
That’s the problem with a muse, Mary. They never sit quietly. In fact, it’s rather bossy! I guess that’s a good thing, eh? Thank you for your lovely thoughts. You are so kind, and I always enjoy reading what you have to say.
Another worthy author! I’m sorry to say that I haven’t read her N&S variations yet but I do plan to as I love Nicole’s writing and have really enjoyed any excerpts I have read.
I have read her P&P variations – all fabulous, especially These Dreams 💖.
Although I’m a little worried by the excerpt for her new one. Lightness and irreverent sound great but Lady C claiming compromise of Anne??? I assume she orchestrated this so i really really hope he has an unbreakable alibi.
Ah, yes, the alibi. That becomes a bit of a problem! I can’t wait for you to read more, and I hope you giggle once or twice.
sheilalmajczan
I also love Nicole’s books, having read all of them. This is one author whose books I jump at buying. Although I did wait to read These Dreams, having just had open heart surgery, I thought the angst could wait until I felt a little bit stronger. But I do love angst.
Thank you for your sweet words, Sheila! I think my next P&P will be heart-surgery friendly, but the N&S will feed your angst cravings. I hope you get to read them *SOON*!
Not one but two teasing excerpts!!! What a treat this was. I have read all of Nicole’s P&P variations but have yet to start her N&S. I totally agree with your comment:
“This is a perfect as it gets in my opinion because it gives us the best of the two worlds: authenticity and creativity.”
It was through you, Rita, praising Gaskell’s North & South and Nicole’s N&S variations that had me reading Gaskell. I had only read ‘Wives & Daughters’ which is a favourite of mine. I must say, the ending of N&S by Gaskell was a bit of a disappointment for as it left me hanging. Knowing Nicole’s P&P creative and heartfelt variations, I know I will be in for a masterful treat when I do read her N&S creations.
Thank you both!
Carole, I believe you will fall head over heels in love with John Thornton one of these days. Gaskell frustrated everyone with that ending! The mark of a master, right? We want more! That gentleman is definitely worthy of a little more page time.
Awww, these excerpts are delicious! Thank you, Nicole for sharing and Rita for posting. You picked an excellent author of the month, Rita! You know I agree wholeheartedly with your choice. I posted my review of These Dreams almost simultaneously to your post. After I saw yours, I put a link to it at the bottom of my post. 🙂 Thanks for such a worthy shout out to Nicole!
Thank you, Janet, for all your support and for cross posting! I’m still fanning myself from that review 🙂
Nicole’s writing, be it P&P or N&S, are simply wonderful. These two excerpts from her upcoming works are prime examples of that. Really looking forward to reading both.
I read The Courtship Of Edward Gardiner for the first time this year and just loved it. Although I have all of Nicole’s books in at least two formats, I have most in three. Stevie Zimmerman’s narrations add a whole new dimension to the writing and her Thornton and Darcy voices are swoon-worthy. These Dreams and No Such Thing as Luck are on my TBR pile, which seems to be of similar proportions to Nicole’s own ( I’ve taken to calling it “planet-sized”!).
Good luck with writing the rest of these amazing-sounding books, Nicole!
Thank you so much, Anji! I am so glad you loved Edward Gardiner, that book has a special sentimental place in my heart (because I based Edward’s character on my husband’s!). Thank you for the well wishes and support!
I love all of Nicole’s P&P stories! I haven’t had a chance to read any of the N&S yet, but plan to eventually. I ❤️ the P&P excerpt, I can’t believe you left with such a cliffhanger and making us wait to find out what happens! Looking forward to reading it when it’s published!
Oh, Dung, anyone who loves Darcy must meet Thornton! They are different, as Rita pointed out, but both delicious 😀 As for what Lady Catherine is up to, she definitely has Darcy in a pickle. I can’t wait to see how it all turns out myself!
Nicole is a 5 star writer and lady, definitely! I was lucky enough to have won and/or bought most if not all of her books by now, so no need to count me in this giveaway.
Cannot wait to read these 2 new stories, Northern Rain was delicious and These Dreams is definitely a favorite and these will certainly be awesome as well!
Thank you so much for your kind words, Rellaenthia! I’m just sitting down right now to have some more quality time with one of my favorite couples, and your sweet words are the perfect encouragement for the Muse tonight. 😉
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Hello everyone! I have recently discovered North and south and I have read it for the first time! I liked it and I find that, in spite of the similarities between it and Pride and prejudice, it is very different! Margaret isn’t at all like Elizabeth, in a first moment I didn’t like her for her behaviour, for me she was more like Scarlet from Gone with the wind than Elizabeth!
Aren’t they an interesting couple? Gaskell didn’t give us nearly enough to satisfy. Margaret doesn’t win many friends at first, but she is very “Victorian,” with her extreme modesty and long-suffering. She is also very young and naive when we meet her, and she learns her own arrogance in painful ways. I think she displays a rare strength, and she is quite a fascinating gem to study. I am so glad you love N&S!
You’re right Nicole! Even if I finished the book with a smile on my face I wanted more…at least a kiss!!! XD
The scenes in which I started to appreciate more Margaret are those in which she suffers the losses of her beloved ones. She has a lot of strength, she became responsible of herself bringing with her the pain of a misunderstanding with John…surely she grows up!
You have a very important point there about her growing up. She is so young in this book, and she has so much maturing to do. I think if the reader doesn’t understand and appreciate this about her, they’re going to have a hard time liking her. I am so glad you love her!
I love both excerpts, but Nowhere But North was my favorite
Oh, goody! I am so glad you are liking what you read. It’s not all cheerful, but Margaret and John are such rich characters that I love spending time with them.
I confess that I’ve never read N&S or any of the variations before but I’ve seen the mini-series starring Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe some years back. So reading the excerpt from Nowhere but North brings back memories and I think it’s time for me to re-watch the series.
I’m more curious on the P&P variation. You left us hanging with suspense, Nicole.
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Coke eyes cannabis-infused wellness drinks as market for CBD beverages expands
Jonathan Shieber @jshieber / 2 years
Coca-Cola is looking at pitching cans of cannabis-infused wellness drinks to consumers in the latest bid by a big beverage behemoth to tackle the budding market for potentially potent enhanced potables.
“Along with many others in the beverage industry, we are closely watching the growth of non-psychoactive CBD as an ingredient in functional wellness beverages around the world,” the company said in a statement issued in response to a report from the Canadian BNN Bloomberg new service.
BNN reported that Coca-Cola was in talks with cannabis producer Aurora Cannabis to make marijuana-infused wellness drinks. Aurora Cannabis did not confirm that it was in talks with Coke, but the company’s chief executive did acknowledge that it had been in conversation with several beverage makers over the last few months.
“I think it’s important to have a beverage, period,” said Aurora Cannabis chief executive Terry Booth in an interview with Bloomberg. “We can’t comment on speculation at this time… We’ve spoke [sic] to at least three different beverage companies in the space in the last three months.”
Drinks infused with either cannabinoids like CBD, which has medicinal, pain-relieving qualities, and THC, which gets users high, have become popular in states in the U.S. where the drug is legalized and in Canada where it has been fully decriminalized nationally.
Portland’s Coalition Brewing has already introduced CBD-infused Two Flowers IPA, and big brands like Molson Coors announced a partnership with Hydropothecary to pursue cannabis-infused beverages.
Other big beer companies are going the direct route. Constellation Brands, which makes beers like Corona and Negro Modelo, along with whiskies, tequilas, vodkas and other boozy spirits, has invested $4 billion into Canopy Growth, another Canadian cannabis business.
Coke isn’t the first non-alcoholic soda maker to try a bud-based brew. That honor belongs to California Dreamin, a startup we covered that’s looking to bring cannabinoid drinks to market. The company, which launched from Y Combinator, is focused on a THC-based beverage.
As we wrote earlier this year:
Each bottle contains 10 milligrams of THC — an industry-standard dose of the psychoactive chemical in marijuana. The company only uses sativa, the more energizing, euphoric type of pot, compared to the more body-relaxing indica variety. That’s compared to some competing marijuana beverages with as much as 100mg — enough that a single sip will get you high and a bottle will lay out all but the hardiest stoners. “We want it to be a light, head high feel,” says Seven Cities Beverage Company aka California Dreamin’ co-founder Amy Ludlum. “We don’t want to give anyone couch lock. We want it to be social.”
The experiments in better sales through new chemistry come at a time when demand for both beer and bubbly sodas is slowing. Beer is being supplanted by booze and wine among American consumers (or a rising number of teetotalers are eating into sales of both). Meanwhile, sugary drinks also have seen their popularity dwindle as new consumers reach for the kombucha rather than the Coke.
Dabbling in the doobage also makes more sense as an increasing number of states push for legalization and our neighbor to the North doubles down on its full embrace of all things cannabis.
Reports of Coke’s interest sent shares of Aurora Cannabis up nearly 19 percent in trading on the OTC.
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Presented in beautiful restored condition, One of only 278 356 B Carrera 2 Coupés produced, One of approximate...
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The Porsche 356 Carrera 2
The Porsche 356 is a lightweight and nimble sports car, powered by a rear-mounted air-cooled engine. Production started in 1948, and would continue through to 1965, with engineering innovations and developments leading to one of the most iconic and important sports cars ever built.
The production of 356s is split into four designations, the 356, 356 A, 356B and 356 C. The most popular is the 356 B which was in production from 1960 to 1963 and in mid-1962 featured a new body design, the T6, with larger front and rear windows, larger front hood which was more square in shape, twin engine compartment cooling grilles, an external fuel filler in the right front wing and enhanced luggage capacity. To improve cabin ventilation, intake louvres were added to the front scuttle, and for the first time, an electronically operated sliding sunroof was available as an option. In the cabin, these latest T6 cars featured a new dashboard with standard clock, improved seat adjustment, door armrest, rear view mirror with day/night adjustability and variable speed windscreen wipers.
Along with these improvements to the body, the Carrera name returned to Porsche’s line-up, now equipped with a race-derived 1,996 cc, 130 bhp, air-cooled, four-overhead camshaft, four-cylinder engine, named the 587/1. Improvements to the cylinder heads, and new aluminium alloy cylinders with Ferral coating resulted in increased power. Initially, Porsche had planned to build only 100 examples for homologation purposes, but despite a hefty price of $7,600, 278 examples were built over the production run.
This Porsche 356 B Carrera 2 Coupé by Reutter
The Porsche 356 B Carrera 2 Coupé offered here, chassis 123978, completed assembly at Porsche on the 28th March 1963, and left the Porsche factory for delivery on 5th April. The car was finished in Green with a light brown leatherette, corduroy interior and beige carpets. From new, this car was fitted with an electric antenna, two speakers, chrome finished wheels and shoulder straps.
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Also accompanying this Porsche are copies of its German Fahrzeugbrief confirming that in 1988 the car was owned by Hans Wilfred Kuester in Germany, wearing license ‘SU-C 386’. Later, the car was bought by another German, Bernd Mattusch and assigned license ‘K-HK 356’, before a full restoration was carried out in the early 1990’s, with the bodywork being undertaken by Ambrosi in Germany. Since this restoration, the car has resided in Norway, Belgium and most recently with a prominent Italian collector.
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Home » News » FOR PEACE WITH RUSSIA, PREPARE FOR WAR IN EUROPE: NATO AND CONVENTIONAL DETERRENCE
FOR PEACE WITH RUSSIA, PREPARE FOR WAR IN EUROPE: NATO AND CONVENTIONAL DETERRENCE
Apr 23, 2016 by Casey Coates Danson
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Elbridge Colby and Jonathan Solomon
The dangerous and irresponsible flyovers by Su-24 attack aircraft of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Donald Cook operating in international waters in the Baltic Sea a few days ago, followed by a Russian aircraft’s hazardous flyby of a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace just a few days later, are a reminder that, while many hope for a relaxation of tensions with Moscow, that is likely to be wishful thinking. Whether we want it or not, relations between the United States and its NATO allies on the one side and Russia on the other are likely to remain distrustful and tense. More to the point, they are likely to remain shadowed by the possibility of crisis and even conflict. Moscow’s willingness to conduct brazen violations of international rules, its revanchist attitude towards elements of its former empire, its resurgent military power, and its sense of deepened alienation from the West all point towards the persisting potential for a standoff with the Atlantic alliance.
This means that the United States and its NATO allies need to be prepared for such an eventuality — and, better yet, prepared to such a degree that Moscow will recognize that pushing on the alliance will be too costly and risky to be worth trying. The U.S. defense budget request for next year (and accompanying commitments to further deployments in Europe), which is currently being used by the relevant House and Senate committees to inform their markups of the Fiscal Year 2017 defense authorization and appropriations bills, represents a major step forward in achieving this goal. It appropriately concentrates on the threat to U.S. and allied security posed by “great power” potential adversaries. It plusses up investments in key next-generation technologies in areas like space, unmanned systems, and cyber, while also preserving funding for the modernization of the nation’s nuclear deterrent. And it allocates $3.4 billion for the European Reassurance Initiative, while committing to reestablishing the permanent presence of an armored brigade combat team in Europe to strengthen the American posture there in the face of the most serious near-term threat to U.S. and allied interests — a resurgent and revisionist Russia. This represents a series of significant and commendable improvements.
But they are not enough. And this is not because more is always better. Rather, it is because even this augmented posture is considerably below what the alliance needs for an effective conventional deterrent. This is especially urgent because analysis by the RAND Corporation and other sober sources suggest that, if the Russians opted to do so, they could quickly mobilize with minimal warning and then rapidly bypass or overrun the presently envisioned U.S. and allied forward “tripwire” defense forces, en route to overrunning the Baltics in as little as two to three days. Simultaneously, Russian artillery, airpower, submarines, and long-range missiles could maul NATO forces as they attempted to surge from rearward locations in defense of their embattled allies.
So what should the alliance do beyond what the Obama administration is proposing? In order to most effectively deter Russian adventurism, NATO should want the most formidable deterrent, one that persuades the increasingly capable Russians in the most concrete ways that embarking on even limited military aggression would simply be too risky and costly. This means fielding a conventional military posture that includes substantial, potent forces permanently deployed forward in Central and Eastern Europe that can assuredly arrest any Russian military thrust into NATO member-state territory. Such a posture should be able to hold off, or at least bog down and bloody, a Russian force — even if it cannot quickly defeat it — until NATO can surge the forces needed to prevail forward. This is not a revolutionary military idea, but rather what a classic conventional deterrent should look like.
Yet the administration’s proposed deterrent does not look much like this. For instance, the single U.S. armored brigade planned for deployment will likely be divided into contingents that will be rotated through numerous Central and Eastern European countries. Nor are our European allies, who must also carry their share of the burden in a more constrained budgetary environment and in the face of a more challenging Russian military, proposing anything more substantial. The dispersed, transient force that would result from this risks being inappropriately configured and positioned, as well as insufficiently manned or armed, to impose serious costs on a Russian assault. Indeed, RAND wargaming, for instance, indicates that the alliance would need six to seven combat-ready brigades — plus supporting air and naval forces — in Europe just to avoid losing in the face of a Russian thrust. The modest force proposed therefore risks being circumvented, if not simply avoided. Indeed, given the length of the Baltic states’ borders with Russia, such a posture could offer the Russians the ability to force NATO to act tactically aggressively first — or even save Russia from having to fire a shot in anger at all — thereby missing the fundamental value of a forward deterrent.
Accordingly, the United States and its NATO allies should focus on developing the capabilities to enable their forces to confront a growingly sophisticated Russian military, and particularly forces sized and equipped to fill the dangerous gap in the alliance’s forward defense in the east. In line with this, the United States and key allies should concentrate on initiatives like obtaining rapidly procurable air defense, electronic warfare, and artillery systems that will enable ground forces to hold the line against a modern Russian onslaught. These would prepare the alliance to defend against and weather Russian missile strikes; enhance force-wide communications systems’ security, resiliency, and joint/allied interoperability; and improve capabilities for air and sea operations — including the flow of U.S. Army and Marine reinforcements to Europe — in the face of Russia’s potent anti-access/area denial umbrella. In the United States, Congress should fund the resources necessary to realize these measures.
But this effort also cannot only be about the United States. Elsewhere in NATO, member states should not only strive to meet their 2-percent defense spending commitment, but, particularly given the political obstacles to meeting this criterion, direct existing military forces much more efficiently toward deterrence of Moscow. NATO’s larger European members, such as Germany, should contribute their own troops, particularly heavy forces, to the defense of their treaty allies to the east, including by stationing them as part of multinational permanent forward units. This would signal that the entire alliance comprehends the danger — and is resolved to address it. Little else would be so likely to communicate to Moscow that any thrust, however potent, would elicit a resolute and ultimately availing response from the Atlantic alliance.
Elbridge Colby is the Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Jonathan Solomon is a senior systems and technology analyst at Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. This piece is adapted from the authors’ article “Facing Russia: Conventional Defence and Deterrence in Europe” in the December 2015 – January 2016 issue of Survival. The opinions expressed herein are solely the authors’ personal views.
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Stephen Verchinski
Shades of the escalation before WWII.
The Baltic States see Poland going nationalistic and arming like crazy. Hillary in her neoliberal interpretation of American Exceptionalism called for Ukraine to be part of NATO with our proxy supported neo nazis. Can anyone tell me just what we are doing as a country moving the planet to war? Perhaps someone has been moving the idea again of winnable nuclear war.
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Casebook: Jack the Ripper
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Originally posted by etenguy View Post
Thanks Herlock.
Given the above, I am left wondering why Druitt was put in the frame at all - other than two facts
a the date of his death
b MacNaghten's talk of him being a strong candidate for the Ripper based on 'private information'
Those other (a, b and c) events, are speculated to be relating to Druitt but only due to his name already being in the ring. Why did MacNaghten favour him? If there was information relating to Druitt and the crimes, of which MacNaghten was aware, why was this not explored/investigated? Do we need to insert a conspiracy of silence to explain this?
Apologies for all the questions, but I am struggling to understand why contemporary investigators thought Druitt a possible suspect.
hi eten
the way i see it, someone who knew the family told mac of their suspicions. his other circs, being sexually insane and or mentally ill amd killing himself right after the c5 probably also solidified it in macs mind.
its based mainly on a rumor of course, but alot of the times rumors are true. that it came from his own family makes the rumor more likely to be true than if it came from some other source.imho
hes a valid suspect, i just dont have him in my top tier.
To be honest Eten the same could be said about Kosminski or any of the named suspects. We have no specific evidence against any suspect apart from that they were around at the time and appeared to be of the type or were mentioned by police.
A lot of this is down to whether MacNaghten genuinely did have reason to suspect Druitt or did he lie or was he mistaken? He went on record to say that he had good reason, that he’d received private information and that the Druitt family believed Monty to have been guilty. Could he have had info from the family? Was there a link/avenue? Yes, one of Mac’s best friends was related to the family by marriage. As Roger Palmer pointed out why did so many people in later years all accept MacNaghten’s solution?
Ive always been fascinated by Druitt. I favour him of the named suspects but I’m not saying that he was definitely the ripper. Even his death was strange. I certainly think that he’s worthy of continued research.
Herlock
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As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
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Originally posted by Bridewell View Post
Why would his possessions not still be at the school? If he had died then obviously he couldn't collect them and no relatives had yet been contacted. The key question is surely the reason for his dismissal. The note he left suggests he may have thought he was going mad but what caused him to think that?
But the school didn’t know that he was dead. Just that he’d been sacked. No certainties here of course Colin but I wonder how long they might have given him to get his property moved? Especially as he’d done something so serious. Why didn’t the school try to contact him at KBW?
The note might have meant that but it could also have meant that he suspected that he was going to end up incarcerated like his mother.
Bridewell
Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View Post
But the school didn’t know that he was dead. Just that he' been sacked. No certainties here of course Colin but I wonder how long they might have given him to get his property moved? Especially as he'd done something so serious. Why didn't the school try to contact him at KBW?
Apologies. I wasn't suggesting that the school staff knew that he was dead but that, if he left his belongings behind they would surely have held onto them until he or somebody else collected them. It would be rather high-handed to chuck them out without further enquiry as to his whereabouts.
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins twisting facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (as Sherlock Holmes).
Where is it thought that Druitt entered the river? Do we know? Not Hammersmith presumably.
Originally posted by Wickerman View Post
What still intrigues me is whether the Manor House Asylum at Chiswick had any role to play in Druitt's suicide story, the family who ran the place also being of close association with the Druitt family.
The asylum can't have been far from where his body was found presumably, assuming that the location 'near Thornycroft's' refers to the shipbuilders of that name who were based in Chiswick.
https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thornycroft:_Shipbuilding
etenguy
That's very true, Herlock.
If Druitt travelled by train from Charing Cross to Hammersmith, what did he do when he got there? His body was found in the river 'near Thornycrofts' which I take to be a reference to the shipbuilders of that name who were based in Chiswick. As Chiswick is upstream from Hammersmith he must have travelled (walked?) for several miles in order to arrive at a point upriver from where his body was found. I guess it's not improbable that a man contemplating suicide may have walked around for a bit before doing the deed but could he really have gone into the river at Hammersmith and ended up 2 miles upstream at Chiswick?. I know it's tidal but the overall direction of water travel is downstream.
Trevor Marriott
This might throw some light on what happened to him and how he died and where he died.
It is suggested that Druitt went to Chiswick to visit a high class club for homosexuals at The Osiers, Chiswick Mall, and the home of one Henry Wilson from 1887 until 1895.
Henry Wilson was a barrister, a close friend of the Duke of Clarence and a leading member of the Apostles, an exclusive, esoteric and secretive homosexual group. Homosexuality was, of course, illegal and the need for secrecy was particularly necessary in the 1880s and 1890s.
Druitt’s body was found in the River Thames at Chiswick that in itself begs a question “Did he jump, or was he pushed”?
www.trevormarriott.co.uk
Originally posted by Trevor Marriott View Post
Fascinating stuff. Thanks, Trevor.
Joshua Rogan
I think it is possible, yes. I remember reading that because of the incoming and outgoing tides, the water (and thus anything in it) moves as little as one kilometre a day downstream - despite moving 15k down at each ebb tide, the same water will move back upstream for 14k on the flood tide. All it would take was for poor Monty's corpse to bloat enough to achieve flotation when the tide was coming in and he could have been yoyoing past Thorycrofts for a week (if I've got my calculations right).
No problem Colin
I wonder if the school might have contacted KBW to try and get Monty to get his stuff moved? Could this have been what pushed someone from KBW to contact William? Then again, William said that he didn’t discover Monty’s dismissal until he got to London.
Last edited by Herlock Sholmes; 10-25-2020, 08:09 PM.
The theory that Trevor mentioned is from the Howell’s and Skinner book The Ripper Legacy. It’s not what I’d call a conspiracy book but it suggests that because Monty knew/was friendly with a lot of upper class people like The Cambridge Apostles (in a circle which definitely included Prince Eddy) that he may have confessed to the murders or been found out so they killed him rather than him being found out and being linked to them.
David Anderson suggested that Monty might have visited the Manor House Asylum at Chiswick (where his mother was later incarcerated and died) He was acquainted with the Tukes who ran the asylum so he may have gone to see one of them? Maybe he was staying there?
If your suggestion that he might have feared being incarcerated in an asylum is true, it seems unlikely that he would voluntarily visit one.
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They Can Be The Boss of Me!
Good news: This post is not about bad boss behavior. This is about brilliant boss behavior in my estimation. This is the good stuff and it’s from bosses who were the boss of me very early on in my work life and I’m thankful for that.
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“I found 10 dollars!” As a 16 year old, one of my early jobs was as a busboy at a restaurant called The Ground Round. My first night shift included vacuuming up peanut shells and popcorn strewn about the floor after closing. As I pulled a heavy table away from the booth, (as I had been instructed), I found a crisp $10 bill! That was a lot of milk money back then. Never found any more bills in my 18 months – but every night thereafter I pulled out those tables, vacuumed and hunted hard for more. Years later I learned it was planted by the boss and he did that for many new employees. Incent the behaviors you want and you’ll get it every time. Brilliant!
“You have an attitude problem!” I was 15 and working at Stahhh Mahhket. (Clarification; – it’s “Star Market” for you non-New Englanders). This grocery chain had a lot of shopping carts and a big lot. I would collect dozens of carts in the sleet, snow and rain, slam them through the auto doors, drift the whole heavy train across the wet floors and crash them into the well because golly, this job sucked. One night the Store manager came storming out of his office after watching me do this and said, “You have an attitude problem and you can’t have that here! Look at your vest – that has my store’s name on it and everyone is watching you whether you think so or not! I will not have that attitude in my store. This ends now! Act professional!” I did immediately. There was no conversation prep on his part or any concern for my feelings or point of view. Good. Sometimes it’s OK to be the boss. Brilliant!
“It means a lot less to me than it does to you.” I was a 17 year old newish driver insisting on driving the truck from the warehouse to the retail store. With my boss in the passenger seat, I was getting a kick how fast this box truck was compared to my mother’s 75’ Plymouth Valiant. The state trooper got a kick out of it too and pulled me over. A $50 ticket. As we drove away my boss pulled a $50 dollar bill out of his pocket and tried to give it to me – I said “no way” it was my fault. He said “Buddy, $50 bucks means a lot less to me than it does to you, take it.” I did and used it to pay the fine. That always stuck with me what he said. Not everyone has to do everything equally; If it’s easier for me to write the report, or pay the bill, or make the phone call and it’s really really hard for you; let me do it – it’s not the same burden. Conversely, the things we struggle with, there’s a darn good chance someone you work with or work for doesn’t bat an eyelash helping you with it no matter whose turn it is. Brilliant!
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Traditional stories give children new ideas Due to the range of traditional stories which are available, children are always presented with new ideas and concepts regarding everyday life.
Therefore, they help children link the outside world with the classroom, home-life and everyday experiences..
The main purpose of folklore is to convey a moral lesson and present useful information and everyday life lessons in an easy way for the common people to understand. Folk tales sugarcoat the lessons of hard life in order to give the audience pointers about how they should behave.
William John ThomsWilliam John Thoms, The Man Who Invented The Word Folklore. All words must have been coined by individuals. This statement surprises and embarrasses not only the uninitiated but also some language historians.
As nouns the difference between folklore and folktale is that folklore is the tales, legends and superstitions of a particular ethnic population while folktale is a tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.
Impressed by the work of Jacob Grimm (1785-1863), who, from 1812 to 1822, had compiled with his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) an anthology of German fairy tales, the British author William John Thoms (1801-85) coined the word folklore in The Athenæum.
As an outgrowth of the human experience with nature, folklore itself was thought to be a natural expression of man before city, commerce, civilization, and culture contaminated the purity of his life.
Folklore reflects culture because it relates to the way of life of the people who produce it: their ceremonies, their institutions, their crafts and so on. It also expresses their beliefs, customs, attitudes and their way of thinking.
Aaron DessnerIt was a surprise album, released through Republic Records on July 24, 2020, eleven months after its predecessor, Lover (2019). With production from Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, Folklore eschews the upbeat pop of Swift’s previous albums for mellow ballads driven by piano and guitar.
Are Folktales True? Although folktales are imaginative narratives, they are shelved in the nonfiction area of social sciences. Ironically, these tales are “true” not because they actually happened but because there is often a bit of “truth” or wisdom embedded in them.
A legend contains some facts and becomes exaggerated to the point that real people or events take on a “larger than life” quality. In contrast, a myth isn’t based on fact, but is symbolic storytelling that was never based on fact.
The word folklore, a compound of folk and lore, was coined in 1846 by the Englishman William Thoms, who contrived the term as a replacement for the contemporary terminology of “popular antiquities” or “popular literature”. The second half of the word, lore, comes from Old English lār ‘instruction’.
Folklore has been used as a mechanism to reconstruct ancient beliefs, customs and rituals. … Traditional culture is seen as proof of distinctiveness among different societies and as confinnation that a culture can be based on oral traditions.
Types of Folktales:Animal Tales.Tales of Magic/ Wonder Tales.Religious Tales.Realistic/ Romantic Tales.Tales of the Stupid Ogre.Jokes and Anecdotes, Formula Tales, Unclassified Tales.
Folktales “allow students to experience one of the ways a society develops a sense of moral behavior in its children.”3 Children today can learn from this rich literary heritage, which provides both a window into other cultures, and a mirror that allows viewers to reflect more clearly on aspects of their own culture.
The Epic of GilgameshThe Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the most well known Mesopotamian myths, and is often regarded as the oldest known piece of literature in the world.
terminology. I know folklore studies are called “folkloristics” and people who study folklore are called “folklorists”.
1 : traditional customs, tales, sayings, dances, or art forms preserved among a people The coyote appears in much of Native American folklore. Paul Bunyan is a figure from folklore. 2 : a branch of knowledge that deals with folklore a specialist in folklore.
William John Thoms) The English antiquarian William John Thoms (using the pseudonym Ambrose Merton) coined the English word folklore in August 1846, taking credit in a letter to the periodical The Athenaeum.
Share this page: Folkloristics investigates the nature of tradition among the peoples of the world and how these unofficial beliefs and practices help to form cultural identity over time. Folklorists usually specialize in one of three areas: oral traditions; rites and practices, and artifacts.
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St. Albans, VT Welden House Hotel Fire, Jul 1897
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VERMONT'S LARGEST HOTEL IS NOW A PILE OF SMOULDERING RUINS.
Blaze Was Discovered in the Kitchen in the Rear Ell About 11:15 Last Night.
GUESTS HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO REMOVE MOST VALUABLES EFFECTS AND NO ONE WAS HURT.
Insurance, Which About Covers Loss, Is $35,000. That On Hotel Being $30,000, and $5,000 Representing Losses of Guests.
The Welden house was destroyed by fire last night. The loss is hard to estimate, but the insurance involved is in the hotel, the rest carried by persons living in the hotel.
It is a serious blow to St. Albans as it is extremely doubtful if the hotel is rebuilt on anything like its former proportions.
The post-office lost and a large share of the furnishings were saved.
The post-office is now located in the Whiting building on Main street and the Welden National Bank is doing business at the Peoples Trust Company's banking rooms.
The fire was discovered about 11:15 o'clock by persons outside the hotel. Dr. H. DeL Knickerbocker was in his rooms in the Collins building and smelled smoke. He went up Congress street and traced it to the Welden house. He saw that the smoke was coming from the kitchen. Just then Mr. Ford and Mr. Ellis, who were on their way home, came up through they alley way beside Dutcher's drug store. They had noticed the smoke and were looking for the fire. They were unable to open the door leading into the cellar under the kitchen from whence the smoke was coming, but clambered in through an open window. They saw the live coals dropping down the elevator shaft that runs from the cellar to the kitchen, and above the shaft was a mass of flames. While Dr. Knickerbocker ran to pull in an alarm from Box 31, Mr. Ford went through the court into the hotel and gave the alarm there. Several were in the billard[sic] room and they rushed for buckets and the garden hose. The hose proved too short to reach up into the kitchen and was of no use.
When the hose wagon arrived and a stream was gotten into the kitchen, the fire seemed to be around the range and running up the wall in the rear. There was some delay in placing ladders and laying the lines of hose and by the time the fire department got fully at work the flames had escaped from the kitchen part and were eating their way into the west wing.
The fire evidently ran up the partitions for before many minutes the flames had broken through the roof of the west wing. From that time on the fire burned slowly down from the roof, devouring the building story by story. Before 1 o'clock the fire had reached the roof of the east wing and that was slowly consumed. All this time 20 streams of water were pouring into the building, apparently without effect. At four o'clock the fire had eaten down to the first floor and was under control.
In front it burned lower than in the wings on account of the elevator shaft and front stairways. In the wings it did not get much below the second floor.
John Greenway, the proprietor, saved nearly all his goods. He could not this morning estimate his loss, but it is fully covered by insurance.
The other boarders and servants lost small amounts, not covered by insurance.
The Welden National Bank began early to move out and saved everything even to the stationery.
It was a hard fire to fight, but many conditions were favorable. There was little or no wind, the smoke was not dense, it burned slowly and none of the brick walls fell. There same conditions, aided by the work of the firemen, gave the guests of the house plenty of time to escape with most of their belongings. A hundred hands were ready to help and teams were quickly procured to remove goods to a place of safety. The trunks and furniture were moved across the street to the park until it resembled a huge warehouse. From the hotel office, parlors, and dining room most everything was removed.
Little or nothing was taken from the rooms except the personal property of the boarders.
M. M. Reynolds' saved practically everything except a grand piano. His goods were taken to E. W. Hyde's residence. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds' have rooms for the present at M. L. Chandler's.
A. W. Fuller saved most of his goods. His loss is small and is covered by insurance.
Col. and Mrs. E. A. Chittenden were in Rouses Point. Things that he valued most were saved by friends, but such things as clothing and furniture were burned. He had
$1,500 insurance which will cover the loss.
E. D. Nash saved nearly all his goods, and has insurance enough to cover his loss. Mrs. Nash is visiting her son in Willimantic, Conn.
Dr. G. C. Berkely succeeded in saving about all his belongings. His loss is small and covered by insurance. Dr. and Mrs. Berkely found shelter at Dr. Jenne's.
W. P. Davis' goods were mostly saved, except some books, papers, and small things. He had insurance.
Guy Boyce lost considerable furniture and personal effects, with no insurance.
The bank stuff was moved to the People's Trust Company and The Messenger office. The bank's loss is confined to damage to its fixtures and vault; no insurance.
Everything movable was cleaned out of the post office and taken to the Whiting building on North Main street. This morning, the letter boxes and most of the other fixtures were moved so that the office is in good running order. The mail was received and dispatched this a.m. as usual. The government carries no insurance, but the loss is small.
C. R. Fortune, proprietor of the barber shop, moved out his stuff and lost nothing.
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PA: What possible election fraud could mean for your gun rights
Written by Michael Hammond Published: 20 November 2020
Time to Put Your Legislators on Notice
“State [legislators] have the final say over the choosing of electors, not any Board of Elections, Secretary of State, Governor, or even court. You have the final say — Article II of the Fed Constitution. So get read to do your Constitutional duty.”
— Attorney, author and talk show host Mark Levin
The anti-gun Left has spent the last four years trying to convince the American people that the 2016 was a fraudulent election.
But now, the media and political operatives who have lied to us for the past four years, are pressuring Americans to ignore the allegations of lies and fraud that occurred on Election Day, and they are all too anxious to bring on the Biden coronation.
“Nothing to see here,” they tell us. And yet there’s a lot to see.
On the one hand, the fraud and irregularities that occurred may not be enough to change the election results. But shouldn’t everyone be in favor of examining all reports of fraud prior to the December deadline when electors coronate the next president?
Why is it that the Party — which told us there was massive, foreign-inspired voter fraud four years ago — is now bending over backwards to claim this was the cleanest election in American history? And why resist all efforts to shine the light of truth on claims of potential voter fraud?
If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris take the reins of power this January, it will have serious consequences for our Second Amendment rights. It’s imperative that all potential claims of voter fraud be investigated.
While the mainstream media has mostly ignored the evidence for serious irregularities, valid election-related concerns remain.
Pennsylvania’s Leftist Supreme Court, composed of anti-gun Democrat hacks, threw out the Constitution (Article II, Section 1) and the state’s statute and authorized large numbers of late votes to be counted. Thankfully, the state has already received a rebuke by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
In Michigan and Pennsylvania, Republican poll watchers were prevented from examining ballots that were being counted.
In at least one Michigan county, Dominion voting machines switched thousands of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. The Dominion software was a concern prior to the election, as PBS had raised concerns and states like Texas had specifically rejected the software because of the potential for fraud.
At TCF Center in Detroit, there are allegations that cars with out-of-state license plates showed up in the dark of night on November 4 with crates full of unsecured ballots.
And two Wayne County canvassers, who initially voted to certify the election after they received violent threats, now want to rescind their votes. Both cite multiple irregularities in the vote totals.
In three Georgia counties, several thousand missing votes were erroneously overlooked.
These reports are just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many more allegations:
Unsolicited ballots mailed to voters in violation of state law
Unmatched signatures
Irregular ballot counting procedures in violation of state law
Kicking out poll watchers
Backdating mail in ballots that were received after deadlines, etc.
Here’s the problem: If we allow this election to be concluded without a serious investigation into the claims of fraud, the consequences could be permanent.
The anti-gun Left is pursuing agenda items that would fundamentally transform our nation by:
Packing the courts
Abolishing the filibuster
Changing the election rules to institutionalize fraud
Giving Senate seats to D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam
Sidestepping the Electoral College.
These agenda items will, of course, lead to substantive ramifications for gun owners with:
Bans on firearms and ammunition
Universal Gun Registries
Confiscation of newly outlawed guns through middle-of-the-night “red flag’ gun confiscation raids.
So given the serious concerns of fraudulent activity surrounding the November 3 election, we are urging legislators:
To insist that all allegations of fraud or election illegalities be fully investigated before the election results are certified;
To use every tool available to them under the Constitution to prevent the inauguration of a candidate who secured that position by fraud; and,
To counter coverups and obstruction with every sanction available under the law.
State legislators are being bombarded with withering attacks from the very media which sanctioned the fraud which is being investigated. And they need your encouragement to stand up to these bullies and to expose them.
So please take action today (above).
We are at a perilous time in history. And if the anti-gun Leftist bullies succeed in intimidating us into overlooking their corruption, the results will be permanent and irreversible.
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Just Three Steps to Quit Gaming
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Quitting games is simpler than you think. You don’t have to find inner peace before quitting games. There’s no need to work on letting go of negative experiences from your childhood before quitting games.
You don’t have to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a recovery program to quit gaming. Heck, you can still use your phone and computer while quitting games instead of eschewing all screen devices like some Luddite. It’s simple, but it’s not easy.
Throw away your assumptions and self help books because here are the minimal steps you need to take to quit games:
1. Sell Your Games and Delete your Accounts
Delete Steam, Origin, and any other gaming accounts.
Steam is notoriously tough to delete. I’m not sure if the other gaming accounts do this, but Steam lets you recover your account even if you switch to a throwaway email account.
Contact steam (and other gaming accounts’) support and ask them to permanently delete your account. I relapsed a handful of times before I finally asked them. Don’t be like me. Ask support to delete your accounts immediately.
Yes, you will be throwing away potentially thousands of dollars worth of games (like I did) when you delete your accounts. This is a sunk cost, and your hesitation is just the gaming junkie part of your brain not wanting to let go. It’s not like you can sell the Steam games anyway since it’s against Steam’s terms of service. The money is already gone, regaining your time–your life–is far more valuable.
If you have physical systems or games, offload them to goodwill or a game reseller. I was lucky to have a used game store nearby which wasn’t GameStop. The small used game store actually paid more than I would have gotten reselling on eBay. Either way, get rid of all games and systems at once. Don’t give yourself the chance to relapse by selling a little at a time.
2. Create a ‘Stop Gaming Contract’
These behavioral modification contracts go by a few names. James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, calls it a Habit Contract. Here’s a template.
Nir Eyal has a similar system where he uses loss aversion to stick to habits. Just turn this around to lose money if you relapse on video games. But don’t burn the money as Nir suggests. Either give it to charity or your accountability partner. Giving it to your accountability partner to handle right away is the best option, since there’s the temptation to “forget” about the owed penalty.
The first step in creating the contract is to find an accountability partner. You want someone who will catch you lying to yourself if you decide to renege on the contract or sneak in an activity which is considered relapsing. They will be co-signing the contract and holding you accountable for paying up when you relapse. And it’s okay if you relapse. I did a several times.
Next, clearly define what relapsing means to you. This would be any activity that makes you want to game. For me, this included not only video games, but also gaming media such as videos, articles, or gaming subreddits.
Also define clear exceptions to the rule. For example, I don’t get the urge to play Jackbox Games alone for 72+ hours straight (I don’t think most are single player anyway), so I’m allowed to play these with friends.
Finally, define the penalty. This penalty should be enough to hurt, but not enough to impoverish you. The monetary penalty may change over time based on your life circumstances. If you make partner at a law firm or are a surgeon, then a $100 penalty won’t mean much.
I recommend setting two equally painful penalties: one time-based and another money-based. My time-based penalty involves cleaning the entire house, taking my partner to dinner, and making her lunch for a week. If I’m busy with work, I just choose the money penalty.
3. Find a Purpose
Games give us a clear purpose in a way of quests, ranking systems, and achievements. It’s satisfying to look at these paths of progress in games and to complete each milestone.
A similar system can be created for real-life goals with a bit of organization.
Start with your vision statement
First, find your overall purpose. Creating a personal vision statement is a solid start.
Person vision statement examples:
To provide value to others and to inspire them to live their best lives.
To achieve mastery in a skill and achieve financial independence.
If you find it hard to discover your vision, ask yourself these questions:
How do you want people to remember you?
What activities do you enjoy which provide value to others; to a market?
What are your core values?
What important truth do very few people agree with you on? (The famous Peter Thiel question).
You will dedicate your life to this vision; this purpose. It’s not set in stone, but it should change very infrequently, and should be solid after your first few years as you dial in your purpose.
Derive your mission statement from your vision
You have a clear vision. Now how will you get there? The vision statement describes the what and the mission describes the how.
Your mission takes your vision and outlines the practical steps to achieve it.
Let’s use the earlier examples:
Vision: To provide value to others and to inspire them to live their best lives.
Mission: Provide content on a daily basis to others while maintaining revenue streams to pay for personal expenses and to invest back into generating more valuable content.
Vision: To achieve mastery in a skill and achieve financial independence.
Mission: Take online courses and enroll in coding boot camps while building a portfolio through open source contributions and freelance work. Then land a career in one of the top 50 tech companies.
Your personal mission statement will change more often than your vision since the implementation of achieving your vision may change based on life circumstances.
For the second mission example, let’s say that after two years you still haven’t been hired into one of the top tech companies. Maybe it’s due to the lack of a relevant degree, experience, or maybe the GitHub projects you contributed to didn’t get enough exposure.
The mission could change to:
Further my software development portfolio while interviewing at startups. Seek a position with ownership options.
With this modified mission, you can still achieve financial independence through skill mastery. But now you have a higher chance of fulfilling your vision given your new life circumstances. It’s not moving the goalposts as much as it is creative thinking. Missions are plans, and plans change. The vision is ultimately what’s important.
Supplemental Tools
The above three steps are enough to stop gaming. But there are tools to make the journey more bearable and to reduce the chance of relapse.
Filter Out Gaming Media
Use browser filters like Distraction Free for YouTube and News Feed Eradicator to reduce the chances of surfing gaming media.
If you want to take it a step further, there’s also Pluckeye, although I noticed increased page load times after installing. There’s the simpler, perhaps better, manual method of blocking sites via your hosts file. Here are instructions for Windows and Mac.
If you do not track your time, other unhealthy activities may fill the void created by gaming abstinence. Track every activity to watch for this. It may seem like a pain to track your entire day, but here’s why it works when quitting a time sink habit like gaming.
By having to track each activity, it forces awareness of how you spend your time. If you decide to watch Netflix in the middle of the day, you have to record it. Even if you decide to watch, your weekly hours will show your hours sunk into television versus activities in pursuit of your vision.
Time reports allow you to set quotas for time investments. Say you want to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on building a new skill. Then, if you need the motivation, reward yourself for meeting the quota. If you pursue the right skill, meeting the quota should become its own reward after the first few months as the new positive habit strengthens.
Harvest works well for time tracking and is free for up to two projects. It’s easy to work around the project limitation by using tasks to track activities. Any time tracking software with reporting which allows you to track by activity should work.
To-do lists like asana can organize your goals into projects. Then you break your projects down into to-do items with due dates. This creates some healthy time pressure to help you stay on track.
Daily Exercise
Whether it’s lifting weights or cardio, exercise lifts your mood and trains your mind to associate uncomfortable tasks with rewards. This attenuates the effect that games have where you become used to comfortable, less challenging tasks. It also reduces the anxiety you will experience from not gaming.
It may feel agonizing at first if you’re not used to regular exercise, but after about fifteen to thirty minutes of your workout session, your brain releases dopamine and endorphins. Become aware of this feeling once it happens and recall it whenever you don’t feel like exercising.
Nostalgia Triggers Gaming Urges
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We tend to remember only the rosiest parts of our past when feeling nostalgic. This is especially true for games. Memories of childhood games beckon us to replay them; to try and recapture this part of our lives.
Why are games so nostalgic?
When we revisit physical locations from our past–maybe a childhood home or grade school–we see the effects of time. Our childhood home’s landscaping is overgrown with untrimmed shrubbery and weeds. We notice the roof is discolored and sagging.
Something digitized like a movie or game provide a piece of frozen time. A digital format provides an exact copy of the game we played from our childhood.
While our childhood home decays, the neighborhood changes, childhood friends grow up and grow apart, we can replay an experience from the past in a game, like a high fidelity memory. As we play the game, old memories are triggered, amplifying that warm, nostalgic feeling.
Maybe it’s a game you used to play with a friend or family member who passed away or who grew apart. You feel as though the game is a link to their memory.
Can we really relive the past?
Despite the high fidelity of digital games, we cannot relive an experience in this same fidelity. This is the fault of our ever-changing lives. Greek philosopher Heraclitus defined this in his quote:
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
Even though a game stays constant in its mechanics and graphics, our experience differs when we play it years later. Our knowledge of the world; our interpretation of our experiences change.
This is also why eating food you enjoyed as a kid, especially sweets like candy or cookies, changes. You no longer enjoy sugary things like you did as a child.
Replaying an old game that seemed so magical as a child now seems vapid once you take off the nostalgia googles. You don’t enjoy the game as much as you enjoy the memories and feelings it triggers.
The game remains exact, but our interpretation is different.
So when you feel the urge to game due to nostalgia, remember that the promise of reliving the past is a lie. The game is better off as a memory. Focus on creating new memories so that several years from now, you can look back on today as a fond memory–one that doesn’t involve games.
Why Quitting Gaming is so Hard
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Playing video games is a sort of security blanket, a surrogate mother, wrapping you in its embrace when you don’t want to face life’s problems.
This escape hatch for life’s problems feels safe. It reduces anxiety since you know you can fall back into gaming’s warm embrace.
You become satisfied with working just enough to survive in order to spend the rest of your time gaming. It’s like this verse from the King of Queens show theme song:
I’m sittin’ here in traffic,
On the Queensborough bridge tonight,
But I don’t care cuz all I wanna do,
Is cash my check and drive right home to you,
Cuz baby all my life I will be driving home to you
Except instead of driving back to a loving spouse, it’s gaming–an all-consuming habit.
But you’ve been gaming for so long that this habit releases dopamine while also relaxing you. Over the years, your brain becomes rewired so that these pleasurable feelings are amplified due to neuroplasticity.
It feels like losing a best friend
This is why it feels like losing a best friend or loved one when you quit games. When your thoughts drift to pleasurable memories of gaming, you’re struck with melancholy as you realize you can’t return to games without relapsing and having to start over.
You have all of these pleasant memories of gaming. And if you’ve gamed most of your life, most of your memories may revolve around games. This leaves you feeling that you can only be happy while gaming. But this is a lie.
Fulfillment without games
It will be depressing at first, especially the first few weeks without games. But don’t believe the lie that you can’t achieve happiness without games.
You will experience a deeper sense of fulfillment through building real-life skills than you ever did with games. But this is difficult to explain in words and is something you must experience to appreciate.
This deeper sense of fulfillment starts to take hold after your first few months. Give yourself at least 90 days before expecting a reward while working on real-life skills that fit your life’s task.
Your life’s task, or mission, takes time to realize. Experiment with learning different skills to see which ones energize you and feel effortless.
Once you start building the skill set in line with your life’s task, you experience a slower burning gratification. And just like with the gaming habit, the more time you invest in a real life skill, the more pleasurable it becomes.
The gratification return on time investment is a steeper curve than gaming, but unlike gaming, it’s sustainable.
Gaming slowly erodes your quality of life. Building a skill in line with your mission slowly improves your quality of life.
Quitting Games Will Not Fix Your Life
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When you quit gaming, you won’t magically turn into some successful person with a great job, a relationship with a great partner, and a better body.
Quitting games is tough, especially in the first few weeks, and you likely won’t see much progress on other aspects of your life for the first few months, perhaps longer. You’ll also likely feel depressed and have a sense of loss during your first few weeks.
After a year of quitting games, I’m still some pale guy with the same office-chair posture because now I code and write when I stare at a screen all day instead of playing games.
I’m still not a social butterfly and haven’t developed as many deep relationships as more extroverted people. Quitting games didn’t change my personality or temperament. I still have social anxiety and general anxiety when alone.
I still have addictive tendencies and must be continually watchful for other addictive behaviors and thought patterns.
So why stop gaming?
Quitting games simply provides you with the raw material to build a better life: time.
How you invest this newfound time determines the extent of your personal growth. You won’t see an immediate return on this invested time in building skills or relationships. It’s not the short feedback loop that games provided. Returns are usually realized weeks, months, or sometimes years later.
If you begin a new skill, it could take years before you turn the skill into a career.
One way to counteract the slower burn of real-life skills is to spend time on healthy experiences, such as hiking or a road trip. Reward milestones for building a new skill with these experiences to take the drudgery out of the grind. But here’s the best way to take the blow out of real-life leveling.
Find a purpose
One issue that draws us to games is our lack of purpose. Games provide clear-cut goals with a firm sense of progression toward achievements.
Life is open-ended. If you lack a defined purpose with goals and plans to achieve those goals, then life lacks an end game and has no meaningful achievements.
Finding your purpose isn’t easy. But once you do, this provides meaning to the grind of building new skills. With a purpose that excites you, investing time in real life skills won’t feel like work. You will eventually look forward to building your chosen skill with the same enthusiasm as you did games.
Explore your purpose by asking these questions
What do you want to be remembered for?
What skills have you started building which provide value to others and that you enjoy doing?
If you have no existing valuable skills, then explore marketable skills which match your interests. Test drive each skill to see what which one captures your interest and energizes you.
Once you’ve targeted a skill, hone it for at least two hours daily for two to four weeks. If you see it turning into a long-term career, then keep at it with the eventual goal of mastery. After around 20 to 40 hours, if it’s not what you thought it would be, then explore a different skill.
But do not keep jumping from one skill to the next every few months once the going gets tough or you will never achieve mastery. Building a skill will have its low points and it will sometimes feel like drudgery. This aspect of learning a skill is described in Seth Godin’s The Dip. After the honeymoon period, building a skill may start to feel like work, this is The Dip.
The key to skill selection is deciphering which skills are worth continuing and which can be dropped.
Skills required for a dead-end careers with minimal future growth are not worth the continued time investment. On the other hand, a skill which you enjoy that also has excellent market demand is worth the time investment even if it’s not your current job. You can gradually transition to work which uses your target skill.
Transition to your target skill
For example, if your target skill is writing, then your current job may not utilize this skill. You can either ask your boss for a lateral move to a position which utilizes the skill or ask to take on a project which utilizes the skill.
If a lateral move isn’t possible, you can moonlight with freelance or part-time work. Once you have enough writing work to sustain your personal expenses, then you can give up the job with the low value skill and write full-time.
Can you ever game again after quitting?
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Once you stop playing games, you will keep wondering if you can ever play again. Will you ever outgrow your compulsion to binge playing games?
The short answer
If you’re here because you’re seeking help due to an out of control gaming habit, then no, you won’t be able to return to playing the types of games you’ve played in the past.
The long answer
You can’t return to the games you’ve played in the past. It’s up to you to set these boundaries. For at least the first six months, do not return to ANY games, even digital board games (physical board games are fine).
This reddit post offers a great explanation as to why we shouldn’t return to gaming. We have to stop gaming because we cannot moderate our consumption. One hour of gaming is too much and 72 hours isn’t enough.
For me, the games I binged on consisted of open world single player games, mostly Bethesda games. I never marathoned multiplayer games alone. The closest I’ve come to this were all-nighters in college and high school LAN parties and a two-day WoW binge with a friend in-person LAN-style.
This doesn’t mean I can play multiplayer shooters or MMORPGs. I’m sure I would start gaming binges with those due to an addictive personality. But I allow myself to play digital party games like You Don’t Know Jack type games. Also, digital board games are allowed as long as they can’t be played single-player or alone against bots. This rule excludes the video game version of Gloomhaven since it has a single-player mode.
When I play these party/social games, I don’t feel the urge to binge them and don’t have obsessive thoughts when I stop playing them. They can only be played with others and the type of people that play these games rarely have time to marathon them.
Of course non-digital games are fine. Board games are a great substitute. However, I’m undecided on persistent campaign games requiring large time sinks such as Gloomhaven.
In other words, you will never play games again that scratch the addictive itch. So although they are technically games, they’re not anything you would want to binge.
Cold Turkey versus Selective Quitting
Some cold turkey purists my scoff at my inclusion of digital party games and multiplayer-only digitized board games, and that’s fine. It’s up to each person to decide their boundaries.
If you find yourself neglecting your responsibilities to play a digital version of Catan with online friends, then that’s a good indicator you should exclude digital board games as well.
If you compare addictive gaming to alcoholism, alcoholics must discontinue all alcohol consumption since alcohol is the same whether it’s in beer, wine, or liquor.
But games are more nuanced. They consist of a series of activities to achieve set goals. Game mechanics control how the activities achieve these goals. The mechanics and activities to achieve these goals come in a wide array, with some activities being on the addictive/compulsive spectrum, and other activities being casual/social.
Examples of addictive/compulsive game mechanics
Expiring time and resources
Examples: FarmVille, scheduled raids in MMORPGs, Animal Crossing’s timed errands.
Games with this mechanic will penalize you for not playing, or not playing at specified times. A game starts to control your schedule instead of real-life responsibilities.
Wealth and experience acquisition
Examples: MMORPGs, Open World RPGs
Games like this are especially addicting when there is no clear end game or when the end state requires hundreds or thousands of hours. This can be compounded by games which encourage replay though various character builds, New Game Plus modes, or infinitely generated worlds or quests.
Here’s a great resource on addictive game mechanics and how games leverage them.
Social/casual game mechanics
Multiplayer games without persistence or global leaderboards/ranks
Examples: Jackbox Games, Mario Party 10 and earlier
Multiplayer games which have no effect persistence between game sessions. Without the drive to level a character or increase global ranking, there is little reason to play for more than a few sessions, usually with friends instead of strangers.
Skill or logic-based casual games
Examples: Snake, Mario platforming games, and most similar platformers
Puzzle games or platformers are iffy. I wouldn’t recommend that any recovering game addict play them, but there is usually an expiring interest after the first dozen or so hours.
A former gaming addict’s view on Gloomhaven
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Gloomhaven scratches the gaming itch I’ve been ignoring for almost a year, and I don’t think that’s a good thing.
I had never been so excited to play a board game, but was never this ambivalent about an analog game once I started playing.
It took several hours for my partner and I to assemble the game pieces and comprehend the rules while absorbing YouTube videos, the rule book, and online searches for ambiguous guidelines. The setup felt like work, but we heard from others that it was worth it.
After the first few turns in the initial dungeon, I felt a dopamine release as the game mechanics clicked and I started anticipating building the town and starting character skills. This was more than the normal reward experience when learning a new board game.
Games like Dead of Winter become rewarding after suffering through the one to two hours of learning. But Gloomhaven’s initial learning curve reward was more pronounced, likely due to the game state’s persistence between gaming sessions.
Your character is one of many playable characters, most of which are unlocked through various achievements and actions. Many unlocks are unknown until you get to a certain point in the world map. The maps points of interest also need to be discovered, similar to an open world video game. And not only do you level and customize the characters, but the town of Gloomhaven can also be improved.
The persistence of leveling different aspects of the game creates a sort of anticipation where you look forward to sinking more time into the game. Aside the town and your character’s level, each character has a customizable deck of cards it uses for actions. Higher level cards are unlocked as your character gains experience. There’s even extra non-leveled cards so you can customize out of the gate with a new character. What’s more, (possible spoiler), you can eventually unlock enchanting which allows stat increases for traits on individual cards. The sense of accomplishment is complete with stickers displaying the permanence of each card’s stat improvements.
This sort of anticipation of future time investment isn’t present in one-off games where the characters and world reset once you finish the game’s objective.
This is the part that worries me. As someone who has stopped gaming due to not being able to moderate their play time, I don’t want to return to investing huge amounts of time in RPG-like games.
It was almost midnight and I wanted to keep playing. We failed our first scenario, but the game allows you to keep your experience and gold collected regardless of failure.
With my partner heading to bed, I considered a solo campaign, since Gloomhaven allows for a single-player variation, but knew this wasn’t healthy.
The game was sinking its hooks into my brain. In bed, I thought of how to improve the next dungeon run and which cards to swap into my deck to specialized against its enemies.
This was all too familiar. I would often think of new character builds for Bethesda games while doing non-gaming activities. This was less theorycrafing and more looking for ways to increase immersion, normally through role-playing unusual builds like a peasant farmer or an orc mage.
I’m taking a break from Gloomhaven as I consider whether or not to keep playing.
Any activity that intrudes my mind while I’m on productive tasks gives me pause. An interesting TV show may do this to an extent. If you’ve watched an engrossing series, a character or some scene pops into your mind while you’re on some other task that requires concentration. But you can usually dismiss the thought and get back to work.
But some games hijack your thoughts and won’t let go. But many people welcome it without concern, since planning character builds and quests is pleasurable. The anticipation of future rewards releases dopamine.
Analog Gaming Addiction
What’s interesting is that I assumed my gaming addiction was unique to video games. I never considered being addicted to a non digital game. But as someone who never played PnP RPGs, perhaps this is what it’s like when you’re involved in an immersive D&D campaign.
It looks like I’m not the only one who feels this compulsion with Gloomhaven.
What makes Gloomhaven so addicting?
It’s turn-based strategy game with RPG elements, something it shares with favorites from my past gaming life: Final Fantasy Tactics and XCOM games. My other past favorites being (almost) anything developed by Bethesda.
Gloomhaven’s designer is a huge fan of Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series. The sense of exploration and discovery in the game is inspired by the TES games. Similar to strongholds in Morrowind or settlement building in Fallout 4, your choices shape the town of Gloomhaven.
All these video game inspired ingredients come together to make a freebased cardboard and plastic game. It looks like a board game, but feels like an immersive open world computer RPG.
Are other analog games addicting?
So is it just Gloomhaven or are there other analog games with addictive qualities? Some others have the same obsessive/addictive personality when it comes to board games. Spikeybits has an analysis on tabletop game addiction, specifically wargaming.
Magic: The Gathering can be problematic for some. One author goes over some of the addictive qualities about the game.
What are your thoughts on analog games? Have you had trouble controlling your play time with them? Share your experience in the comments.
8 Horrible things that Happen when you Quit Gaming
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Prepare yourself for these unpleasant side effects when you quit gaming for good.
You feel like you lost a best friend
While still gaming, it seems unimaginable to give up an activity on which you’ve spent a majority of your free time. The first few weeks after quitting is tough. You feel a part of you is missing. It’s similar to ending a long relationship or losing a best friend.
It’s okay to sometimes look back on your relationship with games fondly. You don’t have to look back with sadness. It’s a part of your life that’s over.
When you catch yourself remembering a time when you gamed, gently redirect your thoughts to the future and anticipate the new memories you will create with healthier activities.
Keep the nostalgia for gaming at bay by avoiding all gaming media: videos, social media discussions, blogs/news sites, etc.
Searching for any game will only make the separation more painful, and increases risk of relapse.
Gaming dreams that trigger urges
Even if you avoid all gaming media and try to redirect your thoughts while thinking of games, there are still dreams. If you had gaming dreams before quitting gaming, they may increase in frequency after quitting. It’s as though your subconscious is starving for it’s gaming fix and controls dreams as its outlet.
Not all dreams may be an obvious game. I’ve had frequent game-like dreams where I could control events as though it were a game. And the beings in the dreams are either NPCs or enemies with obvious game-like mechanics.
The dreams haven’t stopped even after over a year. The good news is that the dreams become less about specific games after several months of quitting. The dreams become more about new games your mind invents. It’s almost a guilty pleasure, but there’s no use in feeling guilty since you can’t help this side effect.
Explaining why you quit gaming to others
Not all of your friends will understand why you’re no longer online or at gaming events. Unlike alcohol or other drugs, behavioral addictions seem strange to people without addictive personalities.
Imagine you have a friend who is a recovering binge eater. At first it may seem strange that they leave the room if someone brings in a box of doughnuts to share. Unless you’ve seen someone mid-binge, almost possessed, shoveling food into their mouths, you would think they were making a big deal about a harmless activity.
You can either try to hide that you have a problem or just be honest. Tell others that when it comes to you and games, one hour is too much and 72 hours isn’t enough.
Saying goodbye to your anticipated games list
Most gamers look forward to the next Bethesda or Rockstar game. It’s a real kick to the stomach when you realize you won’t play the next release.
But think of it this way. You are only passing up pleasure. There is no game that will add true fulfillment to your life. Reflect on what Marcus says about passing up pleasurable activities:
Remorse is annoyance at yourself for having passed up something that’s to your benefit. But if it’s to your benefit it must be good—something a truly good person would be concerned about.
But no truly good person would feel remorse at passing up pleasure.
So it cannot be to your benefit, or good.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Book 8
You realize how many projects you’ve ignored
You turned to gaming to escape responsibilities and stress. These stressors will return once you’re off the high of gaming. You will have more time that you’re no longer gaming, but it won’t feel like it at first. Now that your brain isn’t being constantly distracted, you will start remembering all the projects you’ve been putting off.
Don’t let this discourage you. Turn it into fuel to beat your gaming addiction. Categorize your projects in asana (the free version) and configure a setting that triggers random rewards when checking off to-do items. It’s not as great as opening a treasure chest or loot box, but it’s a start.
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Low dopamine levels
You’ve been getting “high” on a steady dopamine drip while gaming. These dopamine releases are triggered when you level up, get rare loot, win a match, etc. During the first few days if quitting, you experience dopamine withdrawal.
Thankfully you can counteract this with supplements like the uridine stack (uridine, DHA fish oil, and CDP choline) and keep your energy levels up with some caffeine.
But supplements only help so much. Positive habits are the best long-term solution. Start a consistent exercise schedule to improve mood and energy levels. Also get at least seven to eight hours of sleep and create a consistent sleep schedule.
If you still feel unmotivated after getting plenty of sleep, try this trick: sleep only five to six hours the next day (and take your morning caffeine). See if your mood is increased on this reduced sleep schedule. Then continue your usual sleep schedule the next day.
I can’t find solid research on this, but my theory is that some people become used sleep deprivation and the mood boost it provides. There is something called the hangover effect which could be related.
This dependence on a reduced sleep scheduled happened to me while binging games and getting little sleep. After stopping a binge and getting a healthy amount of sleep, my mood actually dropped. I had to temporarily reduce my sleeping hours to feel an increase in mood.
Being tempted by other bad habits
You will be tempted by other bad habits. Be careful not to fall into other pleasure seeking behavior such as binge eating or binge watching television.
I had a difficult time with binge eating after quitting gaming. There’s a sort of euphoria, or numb feeling, when you shovel enormous quantities of food into your mouth. I overate sometimes when I was gaming, but it was infrequent. Once games left the table, food was an easy replacement for instant gratification.
My solution was a habit contract (which I broke a few times and had to pay the price). Make one of these contracts as soon as you notice another bad habit filling the void of gaming.
After the first several months of quitting, if you abstain from other habits, the temptation for other bad habits diminishes.
If you’re curious as to why this happens, read The Addictive Personality. The short explanation is that, as addicts, we look for something or some activity to enter a trance-like static (the “high” we experience when acting out). Once we give up one addictive habit, the addict part of our minds seeks the next most convenient replacement. These replacements tend to be TV, food, alcohol, or drugs.
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Posted on July 1, 2017 April 23, 2018 by calvin
Happy Canada Day 150+! Today we recognize the birth of a nation and the much longer history of First Nations, Métis and Inuit across this land.
This Canada Day we celebrate our 150th year since the Confederation of 1867.
This is not only a time for celebration. It is also a time for reflection–a time to reflect on the history upon which this country was built.
The Indigenous origins of this land predates 150 years — by many thousands of years. The Indigenous story is an enduring one that predates and includes Canadian history. Ours is a land of many nations.
We have much to be proud of as a country, such as opening our doors and hearts to welcome Syrian refugees. Over time, Canada has welcomed people from around the world. We’ve become a better, stronger nation because of our diversity.
In celebrating our past and our diversity, we cannot afford to be blind to our history. In this province and across Canada, Indigenous people continue to lack access to basic human rights like clean water, decent housing, and quality health care. We must recognize that in building this country, treaties were broken, land was taken unceded, and rights not respected. Government programs like Residential Schools and Sixties Scoops have had terrible repercussions for generations of people.
Today, we take the opportunity to reflect on this history, and look forward to the country we want to be in the next 150 years. Most importantly, we ask what we can do today to shape that future for present and future generations?
Today is a time to confront the truth and continue the conversation about how to foster reconciliation among the nations of this land. Canada can be a place that honours Indigenous rights and learns from the wisdom of Indigenous elders on how to be stewards of this land for the next 150 years–protecting it for the benefit of the next seven generations.
I sincerely hope that Canada 150 is a moment in history to celebrate the shared values that bind us–respect, truth, compassion, justice and a deep and abiding love for this land and the people who share it. In the spirit of reconciliation, we have hard work ahead of us as we try to achieve these values in action. I’m confident Canada is up for this challenge.
With this as our starting point, on behalf of the Green Party of Ontario, we wish everyone a Happy Canada 150+!
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by Andy SmithPosted on March 17, 2017
Deborah Simon, a Virginia-born, New York-based artist, creates sculptures that explore “the reality of the animal and the vulnerability imbued in toy.” Though her sculptures appear to be taxidermy, series like “Flayed Animals” are made entirely from hand. She uses materials like polymer clay, faux fur, acrylic paint, wire, foam, glass, and embroidery materials to create these animals, mostly focusing on bears.
“My work walks the line between taxidermy, toy and sculpture,” the artist says, in a statement. “Each sculpture is meticulously fabricated to create an unnervingly accurate but slightly off version of the natural animal. Evolution has always held a particular fascination for me, informing how I create and group the animals in my work. As I’ve read and dug through museum collections to research my pieces, western science’s mania for labeling, codifying and collecting has stood out.”
The bear has become a focus of this series due to it being an iconic toy, in the form of the teddy bear. Simon reflects on inconsistent humans are with animals, in which are loved and hated, killed without care and idolized. In her works, the tension arises with how the artist combines the child-friendly aesthetic and the interior of the animal, the familiar and the unsettling.
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