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Wilma F. Johnson, 72, of Little River and formerly of Topeka, passed away Saturday, December 29, 2012, at Hospice House in Hutchinson. She was a retired Certified Nurse Aid and had worked at The Homestead Assisted Living in Topeka.
She was born August 31, 1940 in Tontitown, Arkansas, the daughter of Roy and Othel (White) Norton. She attended McPherson High School and graduated from Topeka Technical College. Wilma was a member of Westridge Baptist Church in Topeka.
Survivors include: three daughters, Connie Bennett (David Oakes) of Hillrose, CO; Eileen Tomlinson of Evans, CO; and Beverly Dultmeier (Kirk) of Topeka, KS; two sisters, Nada Ebeling and Marie Hansen, both of Little River, KS; four brothers, Ray Norton of Marquette, KS, Travis Norton of Mount Pleasant, TX, Gene Norton of Winnsboro, TX, and Kendall Norton of McPherson, KS; seven grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren.
Wilma was preceded in death by two sisters, Lorine Hurdle and Reba Hamilton, and a brother Charles Norton.
A memorial service will be held at 10:00 AM, Friday, May 31, 2013, at Stockham Family Funeral Home. There will be no visitation.
Memorial donations may be given to the American Cancer Society in care of Stockham Family Funeral Home, 205 N. Chestnut, McPherson, KS 67460.


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Judge OKs MLB Antitrust Settlement
On Monday, January 25, 2016, a federal judge gave her approval of a settlement agreement between the MLB and sports fans over territorial blackouts and high prices for out-of-market sports packages.
The suit began four years ago when a group of sports fans sued the MLB, the National Hockey League (NHL), individual clubs, Comcast, and DirecTV. According to the fans, the defendants agreed in the early 1980s to divide up the country into geographic territories so that only one or a few teams could broadcast their games in any given area. U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin provided an example of a typical situation for out-of-market fans in her 2015 opinion granting class action certification: A Yankees fan who lives in Iowa cannot purchase only the YES Network — as a fan living in NY can — he must purchase an "out-of-market package," which is unsurprisingly more expensive than a single-team package.
The NHL settled with the fans in June 2015, agreeing to sell single-team packages for a reduced price. The MLB has now done the same, moments before the trial was set to begin last week.
Under the approved settlement, the MLB is agreeing to: (1) offer season single-team packages for its online streaming service for $89, a 23 percent reduction from the previous least expensive version of the service; (2) reduce the cost of its league-wide MLB.tv package to $109; (3) implement a new product by the All-Star Break, which will cost an additional $10, that will allow consumers who are subscribers to a Regional Sports Network to watch a chosen away team's broadcast for "in-market" games; and (4) work with DirecTV, Comcast and 21st Century Fox to offer live-streaming of in-market games by 2017, or the MLB will be prohibited from increasing the price of its MLB.tv packages.

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Ayaad is a Top Ten Winner in our summer 2017 national poetry contest for his poem "Rain".
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I love books, but man, do I LOVE rock magazines. My mail carrier most likely hates my guts.
livin' out of a suitcase is a concept shamefully foreign to most.
oh & just a P.S. for all those whiny cunts babbling that tired predictable
Hate, Misogyny, Racism, & Xenophobia script.....
this song will always be the soundtrack to one of my favorite memories with random strangers in Hollywood.
I love Live To Tell & Oh Father. Those are my 2 favorites. But she's ruining her legacy with shit like that Bitch I'm Madonna.... At least until she's gone. That's SO bad it's shocking. She's in her fat Elvis stage.
that's definitely an interesting drug.
in small doses it's just your friendly neighborhood dissociative.
i'd like to add this chapter of my book for that dwindling minority who still do not understand my position when it comes to this man.
once upon a time in a land before MySpace there was one crazy FUCKED UP summer but this time it's real and not a John Cusack movie
i wish this copy was better quality but this is just SO hard to find now unless you want to order a digital version from Amazon.
just for the hell of it let's do a little social commentary math regarding ABOUT ME sections of "fan pages" with "fan art" in 2014.
this is the infamous front lawn of a Vietnam Vet in the Moecherville (pronounced Mokerville) section of Aurora IL.
how is it that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my foreign friends speaking and typing English as a 2nd (if not 3rd or 4th) language know how to spell YOU'RE properly but an insane amount of lazy uneducated Ameri-con idiots can not seem to figure it out ???
OK World Wide Web your assignment for the week is to begin writing your heartfelt eulogies for Iggy Pop and David Bowie.
WALKED INTO A TARGET FOR THE 1st TIME IN I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YEARS AND THIS IS MY CONCLUSION
i've been saying it for years: if the check-outs in Hollywood's grocery stores were STOCKED with rags like Average Fuck Weekly, Them Magazine, Non-Star, and they were filled with pictorials of how AWFUL most American men and women look....
as it relates to the outside world i always tread cautiously this time of year. it's 4 months into that inevitable and predictable post-Xmas lull......
$1 in 1913 required $21.60 in 2007 to match it....a 96% devaluation meaning it WAS worth 4 cents. $15/hour meant you literally made 60 cents 5 years ago. now it's.....
this is not conjecture by "normal" everyday citizens. it is only structural engineers, architects, and others in related scientific fields...but it also covers the psychology with doctors who explain why it is so common for some to still deny something that is as obvious as the noses on their faces.
the PEOPLE of America may in fact be generalized as "noble" but America is certainly not.
some see music as trivial. i do not. popular culture is one of the most direct and immediate reflections of the society we live in and we've reached a point where we have a generation whose bands are the ugliest jokes we're ever seen and heard to date.
it's so odd growing up and then living in a so-called "manly" culture of men who primarily have zero access to the most beautiful women in the world.......
i guess i could go back to before MySpace but i'll just start there because it's all the same dialogue anyway...besides i'm going to keep this relatively short because i do not feel like writing a thesis right now.
today i saw this on FagBook for the 10th time or so. all those people that posted it were on my friends list but i want to assure you that this is directed at none of them but at the public at LARGE (key word).
(not going for a complete list here by any means but...) If you think L.A. bands are all plastic what about Tool ??? Rage Against The Machine ??
in 1996 Clinton signed the Telecommunication Act which completely eliminated the rules of how many channels or stations one entity could own. before 1996 large corporations controlled less than 65 radio stations....& now we have one company like Clear Channel who owns about 1200 of them
if you think the U.S. government has any compassion or places any value on human life just look to the many atrocities it perpetuated against innocent Panamanian civilians in 1989.
if you think the U.S. government has any compassion or places any value on human life just look to the many atrocities it perpetuated against innocent Panamanian civilians in 1989.
The Patriot Act was 300 pages long & weighed as much or more than a baby. It was printed at 3AM & it was required that representitives vote for it that same day at 11AM. Why ??
MEMORIES: honestly i was a bit wasted backstage during this performance....anna nicole smith & velvet revolver were there......
comments are disabled before i begin. don't get me wrong. i COMPLETELY support the progressive movement/unrest that is brewing right now. but there's SO much more to it (including what the "other" side has to say about it as well). anyway.....
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before i begin. don't get me wrong. i COMPLETELY support the progressive movement/unrest that is brewing right now. but there's SO much more to it (including what the "other" side has to say about it as well). anyway.....
this is the sheer essence of how genius is treated so often in the present tense meaning at the time it's happening. let's just take three key words (monumentally unimaginative movie) out of a review of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
i've seen it so many times but it's still so SO odd. i go to this nice little restaurant across from my building.......
i'll tell you all about the "sanctity" of most marriages. it can be defined by one very evident very relevant ABUNDANTLY COMMON aspect of most marriages. the general rule goes like this for most: once you've got that ring on the finger you no longer have to make any effort to be attractive. you're now free to look like shit, gain as much weight as you want, & generally be a pale version of that former self that showed up on that 1st date way back when.
as Freud suggested we all have suppressed emotions whether they be mental, verbal or even sexual & that we should in essence blurt them out with zero regard for censorship.
QUESTION: Who was the one band that packed CBGB's more than any other other band in its entire history (not to mention the longest lines around the block that the place would ever see) ???
so i'm at this party in west hollywood. in walks this typically predictable white chick slingin' the low waist jeans with the slightly belled (& of course slightly long) bottoms, some lacy black top with the spaghetti straps, & heels that are obviously an inch or three higher than the flip-flops, flats, or sports shoes she's used to wearing when the camera isn't on. yep she's got her unoriginal like all the other white American cunts uniform on: check, check, & check.
women (mostly American) are supposedly in an "uproar" over this 10-year-old appearing in French Vogue this month.
i was lucky to have this incredible mentor when i was 19. not only was it a woman but she was close to 60 years old at the time. i met her the day i walked into her class in my 2nd year of college. she only taught that one class because she owned a legendary recording and rehearsal studio. she was also a political columnist writing with a jewish nom de plume because "she always wanted to be jewish". i'll skip stating her name because of part of the story.
Unlike Brian Eno Lady Gaga is the purr-fect Ameri-con foil. she's not pretty enough to threaten the women. as far as the guys go well they fuck such god-awful women that almost ANYONE is hotter & more appealing than that.
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On the student riots: "I loved it, man. I'm into the violent side of it. I thought it made for fucking great TV. I still think they should get a fucking job, though. But I'm into people getting wound up about things. It's better than being fucking dead, innit?" (NME, December 2010).
being around me & expecting me to have zero commentary about modern Amerikkka & its minion of fat, ugly, shitty purveyors of the "dream"is like inviting Jesse Jackson over for Sunday brunch & expecting him to never once mention God.
Vincent Gallo: Uh-huh. I have no publicist, no agent, no manager, no lawyer, no assistant, no helper, no stylist, no intern, no maid, no gardener, nothing. Oh, I have a dentist. I had a shrink but he died 9 years ago, right when I needed him most. As for friends I have one. She's a girl. I like her a whole lot though she is a passive aggressive, makes a lot of excuses, and plays dumb.
no thanks. i do not want to be in your tagged Fagbook photo at the bar making stupid faces with the rest of the useless morons. i do not want to be in your video at the show either. i want to watch it. enjoy the moment. if i want to pretend i'm a cameraman for an afternoon i'll go on a tour of a film school (or some shit) or better yet: i'll actually BE one & cash the check.
Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit.
i was watching Donnie Darko once again. i can really appreciate the Jesus narrative. the notion of giving his life so that he can save others, namely Gretchen, but also a few other unsavory characters that definitely needed "saving".
KLF - The Manual is the famous book by the KLF which describes how to get a number one hit. Written by Bill Drummund and Jimmy Cauty, who have become famous as The KLF, The Manual teaches you everything you'll need to know to be successful in the music business. The printed edition is no longer available, but you can read The Manual right here, right now, so enjoy it and learn from it.
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Americans should look at the tags on their clothes right now....mine say:
SHIRT: made in Mexico
quick point: I think part of the stereotype of who & who is not a "slut" is perpetuated by women more than ever as well. The typical body type out there is AT LEAST 15-20 pounds heavier & when I see deliberate rule/game changers like Dove's campaign for "real" beauty I know that means I'm at the crosswalk for the next set of insecurity-based societal issues….so the more those women cover up the more the other women are going to appear "uncovered". I've seen it time & time again where just being desired in any way shape or form is grounds for being a "slut" at this point. It was not so generally like that 15-20 years ago: not even close.
We desperately need more originality more potent unique voices especially in this Facebook era where the YOU'RE JUST LIKE ME factor derails those concepts
so often we hear all this shit about corporations this corporations that because for most people they have nothing more interesting to say. in other words that's just where all the other sheep happened to be walking while they were playing the "rebel" (too bad they forget their director yells CUT at some point) & they quickly fall back into who they really are.
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here's a simple analogy of how propaganda & spin works in modern America: it goes something no make that EXACTLY like this.
the U.S. government reports that John Smith, a hero to all who knew him even though not one person who knew him will be reported saying anything about him, chokes to death on Jello in an apparent "terrorist attack" by some dark-haired man with a frizzy beard wearing some sort of cloth on his head & body along with any pair of dirty worn-out sandals.
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i've really REALLY enjoyed my time alone this year. i'm living alone for the 1st time in years. i've lived a higher more privileged existence this year more than any other in the last 10 years of my adult life. i honestly want for so little. i'm lucky like that at this point.
OK let's 1st dispense with the usual disclaimer: there's no gay-bashing here so read on before you stick those self-righteous ploys in your gloryhole & suck 'em (watch the teeth).
violence in America is actually decreasing in every group except for one:
teenage to early 20-something GIRLS
i've been around a variety of bands lately because my building is mostly inhabited by "artists". nearly every evening i hear them practicing downstairs attempting to polish their wears. most of them are average to below average but that's nothing new. it's always been that way & will always be. call it the nature of any beast that allows anyone to participate in any given form a.k.a not ALL elitist views on society are "evil". ANYWAY....the one thing i'm most struck by is how bad they look.....
i worked (acting not crew) on a television show at Warner Brothers Studios where Two & A Half Men shot as well for almost 5 months......


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These Are the Cities Vying for $40M in 'Smart City' Funds
Seven cities have the chance to change the world—or at least their section of it.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently announced the finalists in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge. Now Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Kansas City, Mo.; Pittsburgh; Portland, Ore.; and San Francisco must duke it out to become the first city to "fully integrate innovation technologies…into their transportation network."
Announced in December, the Smart City Challenge invited any mid-sized U.S. city to present ideas to make transportation safer, easier, and more reliable—with an eye toward self-driving and connected vehicles.
The DOT received "an overwhelming response," according to Foxx, who said the agency collected 78 applications in total. "We chose to select seven finalists instead of five because of their outstanding potential to transform the future of urban transportation," he added.
In this second phase of the competition, each city will receive a $100,000 grant to further develop their initial proposals, details of which were not published online.
The winner will be announced in June, selected based on their "ability to think big," and a provided roadmap detailing how the municipality will integrate the future of transportation into their city.
The Smart City champ will receive up to $40 million in funding from the DOT, while Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan will provide another $10 million. Plus, new partner Amazon Web Services promised $1 million in credits toward AWS Cloud and Professional Services.
"The creativity and determination of the applicants to envision a greener future represents the best of American ingenuity," Barbara Bennett, COO of Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc., said in a statement. "We hope to catalyze a transportation transformation across the country that will dramatically drive down emissions from this leading source of carbon pollution."


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Company-wide upskilling initiatives will help to empower employees who are dealing with technological changes
A Sydney man who claimed to work for a Registered Training Organisation has been charged with allegedly selling fraudulent health and safety accreditation cards to workers.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the NSW Police alleged the man charged a fee to fraudulently obtain the 'white cards' for the unqualified construction workers.
The Identity Security Strike Team (ISST) is a multi-jurisdictional initiative between the AFP and the NSW Police.
Last year in July, the ISST received information relating to the fraudulent supply of white cards to the workers and commenced investigations under "Operation Drax".
After a the investigation, ISST officers arrested the man at Kellyville this week. The 37-year-old was taken to Castle Hill Police Station and charged with four counts of fraud.
Police will allege in court the man completed online white card training falsely claiming to be someone else. He then provided General Construction Induction Cards to the people for a fee.
The Fraud squad commander, Detective Superintendent Arthur Katsogianis, said the man sold at least 400 cards.
The man was granted bail and is due to appear at Parramatta Local Court on Wednesday 2 November 2016.
Following the arrest, ISST investigators executed search warrants at a home in Kellyville and an office at Eastwood. The fficers located and seized computers, mobile phones, 'white cards', cash and documents relating to training/courses/qualifications for the construction industry.
Katsogiannis said the ISST is dedicated to investigating all facets of identity-related crime.
"The compromise of personal information and the production of false or forged documents is a serious issue and can have dangerous consequences for the community," Katsogiannis said.
"In this case, the potential of having unqualified workers at a work site is a great concern and puts the safety of other workers, and the community at risk.
"In addition, ISST investigators are working closely with SafeWork NSW and interstate agencies to ensure national work health and safety laws are not compromised.
"I would like to commend ISST investigators for their hard work and perseverance with this complex investigation," Det Supt Katsogianis said.
Further, Executive Director of SafeWork NSW, Peter Dunphy said SafeWork would cooperate with NSW Police on their investigation.
"SafeWork NSW does not tolerate licence fraud and will work with NSW Police, SafeWork Australia, and other regulators to cancel any fraudulently issued cards and take whatever regulatory action is necessary," Dunphy said.


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Leadership…and Hiking
Hey…remember when I trekked into the remote community in Mexico to check out the great work that The Hunger Project have been doing there?
A big part of my involvement was going on a self discovery journey, and unlocking my leadership skills (who would've thought little old me would be standing up at the Australian Embassy in Mexico City speaking in front of some very influential people!)
Well – I was so thrilled to be a part of what The Hunger Project do, that I wanted to find a way I could continue to support them…so, I've written a couple of articles on Leadership for their new 'Mythbuster' series – and the first two are now LIVE!
There'll be more to come, so I'll let you know.
In case you missed it, here is one of the posts I did about my work last year with The Hunger Project.
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Morning is the period of time between 12:01 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. [1] Morning precedes afternoon, evening, and night in the sequence of a day. Originally, the term referred to sunrise(12:01 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
The name (which comes from the Middle English word morwening) was formed from the analogy of evening using the word "morn" (in Middle English morwen), and originally meant the coming of the sunrise as evening meant the beginning of the close of the day. The Middle English morwen dropped over time and became morwe, then eventually morrow, which properly means "morning", but was soon used to refer to the following day (i.e., "tomorrow"), as in other Germanic languages—English is unique in restricting the word to the newer usage.[2][3] The Spanish word "mañana" has two meanings in English: "morning," and "tomorrow," along with the word "morgen" in Dutch and German which also means both "morning," and "tomorrow." Max Weber, (General Economic History, pp23) states that the English word "morning" and the German word "Morgen" both signify the size of land strip "which an ox could plow in a day without giving out". "Tagwerk" in German, and "a day's work" in English mean the same. A Good morning in this sense might mean a good day's plow. [4]
The most obvious manifestation of this meaning is in English speaking countries where the greeting changes from "good night" to "good morning" when midnight passes.[5]
Morning may also be used in a strictly personal sense, to refer to the period immediately following waking up, irrespective of the current time of day. In this sense, morning encompasses the (mostly menial) prerequisites for full productivity and life in public (i.e. cleaning, a morning meal—often breakfast, dressing, etc.). The boundaries of such morning periods are by necessity idiosyncratic, but they are typically considered to have ended on reaching a state of full readiness for the day's productive activity. This modern permutation of morning is due largely to the worldwide spread of electricity, and the concomitant independence from natural light sources.[6]
A morning newspaper is one on sale in the mornings (as opposed to an evening newspaper, on sale from about noon onwards). In practice (though this may vary according to country) this means that a morning newspaper is available in early editions from before midnight on the night before its cover date, further editions being printed and distributed during the night. Previews of tomorrow's newspapers are often a feature of late night news programmes, such as Newsnight in the United Kingdom.
Morning meals include breakfast, though logically this need not be in the morning, and are varied across cultures. Brunch is a late morning meal.[7]
The ability of a person to wake up effectively in the morning may be influenced by a gene called "Period 3". This gene comes in two forms, a "long" and a "short" variant. It seems to affect the person's preference for mornings or evenings. People who carry the long variant were over-represented as morning people, while the ones carrying the short variant were evening preference people.[8]
- ^ Online Dictionary Definitions of "morning"
- ^ Origin of the phrase "Good Morning
- ^ Etymology of the word "morning
- ^ Weber, Max (1961). General Economic History. New York: Collier Books. p. 23.
- ^ Why do you say Good Morning when you don't mean so?
- ^ "Why some of us are early risers". BBC News. London. 2003-06-17. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ^ History of breakfast
- ^ Gene determines sleep patterns
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THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (2003) Language: French. Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau. Dir. Denys Arcand
First up: our lovely neighbors to the north, and Canada's Oscar winning entry in the Best Foreign Language film race of 2003. This is French Canada of course, and this movie was a highly moving, highly involving and effortlessly funny exercise in nostalgia and death, with ruminations on love, friendship and all kinds of other subjects. It's kind of a superior version of The Big Chill, upon closer inspection. It was Denys Arcand's sequel to a film he made in 1986, called The Decline of the American Empire, but the truth is I saw this movie before I saw that earlier one, and not only is it better, but you don't have to have seen that film to love this one at all. Remy is the main character, a feisty old man who is now dying and whose vicarious exploits and socialist past lay long behind him. His estranged son Sebastien returns to arrange for his father's peaceful death at a summer home in Vermont, and makes arrangements to bring all Remy's old friends (and their kids) to come visit him one last time. At the summer cottage, the characters reminisce while verbally and physically engaging in all kinds of interactions, involving politics, drugs, and their own sordid histories. I compared it to The Big Chill before, and that's accurate, but if that description repels you, trust me this film is FAR better. The characters are not self-important narcissists, or if they are they themselves are aware of it and relate with each other in ways that are funny, casual, but at times also sad and serious (this is after all, somebody's deathday party they're attending). The playful and literate script is consistently smart and insightful about the nature of people's lives, and the tragic end we all must meet someday. You come to know and like these characters, care about their relationships and connections with each other, and I dare you to not choke up at the extremely powerful and rather daring ending. Remy believes the end doesn't have to be tragic, and maybe if we're lucky, it won't be for us either.
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JU DOU (1990) Mandarin. Gong Li, Li Baotian. Dir. Zhang Yimou
Get ready guys, this is some dark stuff. Zhang Yimou was, and still is one of the most acclaimed directors in China, and this particular early film of his was banned by the Chinese government for its risqué content. That also makes it hard to find, but the ban was lifted recently, so hopefully this one is due for a restoration. It's the early 1900's in rural China, and Ju Dou is a young girl sold as a bride to a sadistic monster who owns a cloth factory. He keeps the girl as a prisoner for his own amusement, torturing her every night to the pained helplessness of his nephew, who operates the textiles in continuously poor working conditions. But slowly, the young girl and the nephew fall in love, have an affair and she is soon pregnant with his child. At right about the same point, the old man becomes paralyzed and his victims turn the tables on him, keeping him as their prisoner and forcing him to suffer for his sins committed against them. It's an engaging and dark melodrama, but the passions and emotions are real, and you never know what twist is coming next. If you can find a good quality version of this, it'd be worth the wait, because the cinematography and colors in this movie are striking and a genuine part of the story itself. The textile factory symbolizes the emotions being felt on screen, and the use of Technicolor for the cloth brings out the passion in every scene. You can practically SEE the various shades of jealousy, revenge, fervor and anger spilling forth as the plot unfolds. The film's strong sexuality is what got it banned in China, and you can imagine the expression of repressed emotion as representative of oppressive Chinese culture. Yimou was daring in his exploration of the dark side, and though his most acclaimed film is probably still Raise the Red Lantern (from 1992), I actually prefer this one, with its bolder themes and striking visual metaphors. Again, seek it out. It's worth it.
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AMELIE (2001) French. Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz Rufus. Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Next up, France. Ok, this was difficult, because France has a thriving film industry, and is home to the works of some of the most revolutionary directors of all time: Godard, Truffaut, Renoir, Melville. The list goes on and on. Sure, my head is telling me that I have an obligation to recommend Breathless, The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, etc., but something would be gnawing at me the whole time and telling me that I HAVE to be true to my heart's desire, which would be Amelie, one of my favorite films of all time. I love it, I can't help it. I won't pretend it's on the level of a Godard film from the French New Wave, but so what? Few things are, and it's a wonderful movie in its own right. Every time I see it it fills my heart with joy. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, that fanciful director with the penchant for whimsy, put forth perhaps his most whimsical effort with this story of an imaginative and carefree young woman who fills her time by meddling in the lives of neighbors, co-workers, and even strangers, plotting epic romance in their life, a discovery of a long lost relative, or straining to give them a bit of a thrill by creating a secret admirer. Oh, and Jeunet also made a big star out of Audrey Tatou in the process, who shines as the dreamer Amelie. There are frequent flights of fancy, inanimate objects come to life, surreal twists of reality, and it all makes perfect sense through the eyes of our protagonist, who lives in a fairy tale world of her own making. Amelie tells herself this is all for the sake of making people's lives better, but is the real truth that Amelie is all alone and indulges in her games to hide from the hard work of interacting with those around her? The movie was a whimsical piece of fantasy, sure, but it was also a moving, poignant and heartwarming tale of lonely people who want just what the rest of us want, the things that make life worth living: a chance at love and human connection with others.
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RUN LOLA RUN (1998) German. Franka Potente, Mortiz Bliebtreu. Dir. Tom Tykwer
This is a tough one as well. As we travel to Germany, there some incredible German films of importance you feel obligated to recommend (Das Boot comes to mind, for example, and Aguirre, the Wrath of God was this close to making it), but when you're limited to one per country, you're forced to pick your favorite over the one you think might be the "best," and once again, I love this particular movie. It's an experimental film and a really cool one at that. Not inaccessible in the slightest though, so don't fret about the word "experimental." Franka Potente is the twentysomething punk rocker Lola, who has 20 minutes to get $100,000 to save her boyfriend's life. From that point on it's a complete whirlwind, as she literally races to the task, and the movie shows you three alternate ways she could have gone to get the cash. It never lets up, and we're with her through every path she takes, practically the driver in her race against the clock. It's a pure adrenaline rush from beginning to end, and it's kinda cool to see a female protagonist at the heart of a gripping crime thriller for once (ok, so her only goal is saving her crook boyfriend's life, but every move she makes tells us she's a better con artist than he is, so she ought to trade up). It plays out in real time (just 81 minutes long), and before you know it the ride's over. But it's exciting, action packed, and a million times better than American made movies in a similar vein (Sliding Doors, Speed). Check it out, especially if you think you've got a bias against foreign films. I imagine this one just might win you over.
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LA DOLCE VITA (1960) Italian. Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekburg. Dir. Federico Fellini
A much easier call. La Dolce Vita is not only one of the greatest movies ever made, but it also happens to be one of my favorites, thank goodness. Fellini, that brilliant Italian mastermind, had an affinity for the surreal, the carnival atmosphere, and the just plain nutty, as his later work showed. His earlier films though, were much more grounded in reality, and this one is the perfect bridge between his earthbound stories and his later ventures into surrealist fantasy. There are elements of both here, but he more or less plays it straight. Mastroianni is a showbiz reporter, assigned to cover the glamorous movie star Anita Ekberg, but is disillusioned by his work, his life, and his relationships. He takes us on an extended journey through the various hot spots of Italy, dogged by the occasional "paparazzo," (the italian word that immediately became the universal term paparazzi), and indulges in the existential emptiness of a decadent society obsessed with celebrity and artificial connection. Noted at the time as a critique of a shallow post war Europe (and the 60's had barely begun), it's eerily even more timely today, with our superficial and hundred times magnified tabloid culture swamping everything in sight…Fellini would have been horrified. Mastroianni isn't the hero in this story, more of a passive everyman who sees but nevertheless indulges in what he claims to condemn. This may sound like depressing material, but trust me, in Fellini's hands it's the exact opposite. Every scene is brimming with life and energy, and they include his token moments of pure breathtaking imagery that may have you begging for meaning but never once condescended to explain. People have made a study out of finding meaning in Fellini's films, but I take them simply as a declaration of life's passing moments, many of which cannot be explained. It's an affirmation of life, rather than a condemnation of its decadence. We see it but we cannot help but go on living anyway, even if there's something better waving at us from another shore. We simply shrug our shoulders and move on.
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SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) Japanese. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune. Dir. Akira Kurosawa
The prelude to every team up movie in existence, basically. Kurosawa was one of the most prolific filmmakers, constantly churning them out Hitchcock style, so he's bound to have quite a few masterpieces in his repertoire. This is far and away the best, and most influential film he ever made. With his stock players at the ready (Toshiro Mifune was in nearly every Kurosawa movie), Kurosawa fashioned the story of a village of peasants in 16th century Japan, who hire a group of Samurai to defend them from the bandits who ravage their crops every year. The team of seven who assemble are comprised of the archetypes this movie practically invented: the young learner, the old master, the crazy wild card, the professional killer, etc. If you're at all schooled in movies, that plot should sound familiar. It's now the standard for every modern heist movie, and immediately became so after it came out, with the American remake, The Magnificent Seven, released just 5 years later. At more than three hours running time, it never feels long, and the final battle sequence in the rain is filmed with a majestic beauty that remains unsurpassed on screen. The film explores the complicated class system between the samurai and the peasants, and even manages to push a somewhat political message that was much more intended for the modern Japanese audience than the western. Kurosawa was occasionally criticized for his films being too westernized, too out of step with the traditional values and culture of his home country, but he wasn't afraid to push boundaries in the face of objections. Audiences didn't seem to mind the end results. Other classics of his include Rashomon and Yojimbo, check those out as well.
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Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN (2001) Spanish. Gail Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna. Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron's crowning achievement (so far) now rightfully takes its place among the modern classics in foreign cinema, a stunning, sexy, insightful movie that manages to sneak in layer upon layer of meaning, some of which you may not absorb upon first viewing… due to the all the sex, of course. Understandable, considering that so many American made films are basically banned by our ancient and outdated ratings system from having too much sexual content, which pretty much prevents them outright from exploring sex as a subject matter, outside juvenile American Pie-type snickering. Cuaron clearly returned to Mexico to make this one because it couldn't have been produced in the United States (a sad state of affairs indeed). On the surface, it's a road movie about two horny teenage boys whose girlfriends are gone for the summer, and who then take up with a sexy older woman on what will be a life altering road trip. Sounds simple enough, right? Could have been made in America so far. But then what happens along the way is too much for the MPAA- it's a fast paced, frankly sexual, ultimately meaningful journey that takes you to unexpected places emotionally, geographically, and intellectually. The boys start out immature and raunchy teens, and think they end more or less the same, but with the audience guarantee that they haven't yet absorbed what's happened, and we know the truth is they will never be the same. The older woman is played by the famous Spanish actress Maribel Verdu, who gives us a character at once fun, playful, mature and harboring secrets that imbue her every move, which we only realize in the end, if then. The screenplay manages to combine coming of age with a much deeper, humane and gutwrenching subtext, while of course tackling human sexuality directly and subtly showing us the realities of a present day Mexico that seems to inflict life at every turn, for better or worse. Pretty much flawless. And because it can't be said enough: screw the ratings system, tear it up, burn it down, whatever must be done. Movies this smart deserve to be given a wide release in this country.
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4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS (2007) Romanian. Adi Carauleanu, Luminita Gheorghiu. Dir. Cristian Mungiu
An intense and tremendously powerful experience. Cristian Mungiu expertly directs this story about two college girls living under the iron fist of the Soviet Union before the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of them needs an abortion, and her roommate goes to extreme lengths to figure out how to obtain one for her. Filmed almost entirely in long tracking shots and claustrophobic close ups, the movie literally follows the two girls as they maneuver their way about their surroundings in one 24 hour period, the longest day of their lives. The gray and gloomy atmosphere along with the severity of the problem they face combine to make the whole film into a gripping suspense thriller. You're on the edge of your seat the entire time, a fly on the wall of these people's lives, and witness to the sacrifices the girls have to make, which are tragic and sorrowful indeed. The acting is powerful, especially Carauleanu giving a powerhouse performance as the capable roommate, forcibly saddled with fixing her emotionally fragile friend's problem. Mungiu mostly tackles material that deals with life in Romania under the oppressive regime, this one being the most effective, because it places the burden on the shoulders of young women who suffer severe consequences of a society with zero regard for women's rights. There were people who lived this way and still do, feeling every day that they have no choice but to constantly look over their shoulder for the watchdogs whose job it is to oppress freedom and individual choice. There were some who tried to read this as an anti-abortion morality tale, but I think it couldn't be more obvious that the message conveyed is one of choice, and the horrifying consequences that result under a police state that squashes it.
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THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (1973) Spanish. Fernando Fernan Gomez, Ana Torrent. Dir. Victor Erice
Get ready to have your minds blown. And also maybe, hate me a little bit for recommending this. But I had to do it. One of the all-time great debuts from first time director Victor Erice, this is a haunting, contemplative mood-piece that really challenges you to look beyond the surface of everything you see. Set in a post-Civil War Spain in 1940, just months after Franco had come to power, it chronicles the life a 7 year old girl whose first viewing of the 1931 Frankenstein film leaves a tremendous impact on her. She becomes convinced that the spirit of the monster inhabits those in her immediate surroundings, and it's not long before we begin to question it along with her. That description makes it sound simple, but the movie itself is not nearly so clear cut in its implications. Filmed at a lyrical pace, much of the movie seems to take place in a dreamlike setting, with its characters unsure of themselves, their standing in life, and the ideas that occupy their thoughts from day to day. I think the intent is to force the audience to figure out the subtext of the film for themselves, with only vague intimations and one blatantly surreal sequence that may or may not be imagined, as clues to the greater meaning. A consistently wondrous, consistently evocative reverie that will stay with you for a long, long time. That is, if you stay with it and don't find its refusal to state its meaning too frustrating to behold. The ultimate power of Beehive lies, like the best of our dreams, in what it leaves open to interpretation.
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FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982) Swedish. Pernilla Alwin, Berta Guve. Dir. Ingmar Bergman
The great Ingmar Bergman was known for ponderous, deeply philosophical films that struggled with questions about death and the meaning of life. His films were not the most accessible to general audiences, but he was revered in Sweden and worldwide as a master filmmaker, who used his medium to tackle the issues that gnawed at his own spirit. I think this film is the best example in his canon to tell you at once, everything you need to know about what Bergman was about. It's simultaneously his most accessible and his most challenging, perhaps because it draws you into the internal lives of children. A semi-autobiographical look at the life of a wealthy family in early 1900's Sweden, Fanny and Alexander are two siblings who are part of an upper class, privileged world of parties, material riches and loving parents. Then their father dies, their mother remarries, and the kid's lives descend into a cruel, harsh and oppressed reality under the tyrannical operations of their new stepfather. It sounds pretty accessible from the plot right? Well, Bergman's direction reels you in with the beginnings of the story and the incredibly detailed look at life in the extended family, with crazy and loveable relatives at every turn. But the second half takes on sinister forces, both from within the mind and without, and since our point of view is 10 year old Alexander's, reality starts to become skewed and we begin to question it right along with him. Is what he's seeing really happening or just in his mind? And ultimately, what's the difference? It's an incredible look at the life of a child in dire circumstances, and exposes the questions that haunt him, and the rest of us as we grow up. Oscar winner for Best Foreign film of 1984, this one should not be missed.
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IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN (1994) China: Mandarin. Xia Yu, Ning Jing. Dir. Jiang Wen
In the Heat of the Sun deserves a mention here. This film is incredibly difficult to find in the United States, if it can even be found at all. In fact, the version that I viewed was a fan-subtitled copy that had been burned onto a DVD. The film was originally released in 1994 and shown at the Venice and Golden Horse Film Festivals, but was then banned in China, resulting in Jiang Wen being prohibited from directing another film for years. It might be possible to find on DVD in South Korea or maybe Japan, but likely without subtitles. It was controversial because of its depiction of the Cultural Revolution,which, for those unfamiliar, was a period in China from the mid-sixties to seventies in which there was political upheaval led by Chairman Mao Zedong, now remembered as a dark and violent period in Chinese history. In the film however, it's chosen as the setting for a coming of age tale about a teen over the course of one summer. The film marks the directorial debut of Jiang Wen, an actor who had been described as China 's Marlon Brando. It is hard to believe that this could be anyone's debut film after watching it; it seems to have been directed by a master of the art. There are some wonderful sequences that display not only Wen's understanding of China 's history, but of the history of Chinese cinema as well. There are references that could only be understood by one who grew up in the times depicted on film; references for example, to films such as Lenin in 1918, a Soviet propaganda piece that was part of the limited film library that China allowed to be dubbed and viewed by the people. The story is of a teenager named Ma Xiaojun, or "Monkey" as he is called by his friends, who grows up during the Cultural Revolution. Over the course of a summer he falls in love with an alluring older girl named Mi Lan, and he and his gang experience love and violence while living in chaotic times. Too young to be forced into the military, he and his friends have a certain freedom in their town; that is, they more or less run the place. Monkey is likable and interesting to watch and it's his character in the future who narrates the story. The film maintains a dream-like commentary on the period from a Post-Mao point of view through its imagery and soundtrack. Chairman Mao, though not depicted in person in the film, is part of many scenes through his ever present images in the background, revealing just how much a part of the day-to-day life he was. There are enough details and references that it is possible to notice something new after every viewing. If a chance to see this film presents itself, seize the opportunity. - (By Guest Writer Ian D)
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Bangladesh's opposition accused authorities of placing their leader under virtual house arrest yesterday as tens of thousands of troops were deployed across the country ahead of elections next month.
Amid growing violence in the build-up to the Jan. 5 general election, the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said police were barring anyone from visiting its leader, former Bangladeshi prime minister Khaleda Zia, at her home in Dhaka.
The move comes after Zia, an archrival of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, called for supporters to stage a mass march on the capital on Sunday aimed at scuppering the polls.
The BNP is one of 21 opposition parties which are boycotting the elections over Hasina's refusal to stand aside and allow a neutral caretaker government to organize the contest.
The country's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has also been banned from taking part.
"Since yesterday she [Zia] has been under virtual house arrest," BNP vice-president Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury said.
"Police are not allowing anyone, including party leaders and activists, to meet her. It is part of a government move to foil the Dec. 29 march for democracy," he added.
Dhaka police deputy commissioner Lutful Kabir confirmed that extra officers had been deployed outside Zia's home in the upmarket Gulshan neighborhood, but said the move was designed to "enhance her security."
Police confirmed that two senior BNP members, including a lawmaker, were detained outside Zia's home on Wednesday night, but denied the arrests were made because they wanted to meet her.
With Hasina and her Awami League party determined the election goes ahead, troops are being sent to nearly every corner of the country at the end of what has been an unprecedented year for political violence.
A total of 269 people have been killed since January this year, either in protests at the elections or by Islamists who have seen several of their leaders sentenced to death from crimes dating back to the 1971 independence war.
The authorities are expecting Sunday's rally to further inflame tensions, with Zia having made clear its purpose is to force a last-minute cancellation of the polls.
"This march is to say 'no' to these farcical elections and to say 'yes' to democracy," she said in a speech on Tuesday.
The troop deployments are expected to infuriate the BNP, which has accused the government of trying to set the army up against normal civilians.
Election Commission spokesman S.M. Asaduzzaman said that troops would be deployed in at least 59 of the country's 64 districts.
"They'll be used as a striking force if there is any violence and they will patrol important areas, streets and highways," he said.
While a small number of soldiers had begun taking up positions earlier this week, military spokesman Muhammad Reza-ul Karim said the mass deployment began yesterday and would continue until Jan. 9.
"The troops have been deployed at the request of the Election Commission ... in an effort to ensure free, fair and peaceful elections," Karim said in a statement.
He did not say how many troops were being deployed, but local media put the number at about 50,000.
The boycotts have highlighted the growing political polarization in the country of 153 million.
A constable was burned to death in a gasoline bomb attack on a police vehicle on Tuesday night, while two more people succumbed to their burn injuries on Wednesday.


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Chrysler's Update on the gun rack
When I live in Texas in the mid-1980s there were still some pick up trucks with gun racks and guns in them. Chrysler still thinks that there is a market for a more discrete version of those racks.
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I have always been a Ford man, but this could make me desire a Chrysler.
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Neighbor goes for a walk. He finds missing boy who disappeared in Land Park
Sean Rogers was sure he had heard something. He had walked around the block late Saturday evening after the repeated passes of a police helicopter signaled the search under way for 3-year-old Marcus Meja, who had disappeared during a family barbecue near Land Park's Duck Lake.
Meja's relatives feared Marcus had fallen into the pond after he went missing about 8:30 p.m.. As darkness fell, members of the Sacramento Fire Department's search-and-rescue team slowly checked the water as more than 30 police officers went door-to-door late into the evening, alerting residents to the missing boy.
Rogers was walking along 13th Avenue when he thought he heard crying, but when he stopped, so did the crying. After several minutes of silence Rogers headed back to his 12th Avenue home.
He was almost there when he decided to go back. He spotted two police officers nearby, directed them to where he thought he had heard the crying, and they shined their flashlights at bushes along some houses.
"There was a really loud kid's scream and they looked and right in the corner of this hedge, they just pulled him out of the bushes," said Rogers, a software engineer and father of two.
The boy was reunited with his family shortly after midnight, police said.
Before Meja was found, fire officials had suspended the Duck Lake search and had just started to empty the pond. The water level had barely fallen before officials ended the draining.
Officers already had sent out alerts about Marcus' disappearance to phones within two miles. A Sacramento County Sheriff's Department helicopter also aided in the search.
"It was a priority. There were a lot of circumstances that were very concerning to us," said Sacramento Police Sgt. Bryce Heinlein, citing the boy's age, the nearby pond and busy roads through the park.
The rattling of police helicopters is a common sound above Land Park and other parts of Sacramento. Usually, though, officers are on the hunt for criminal suspects.
"Of all the times we've heard a police helicopter, I was happy that, one, this involved a kid, and two, that he was found," Rogers' wife, Jennifer Henderson, said.
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Sussex oral history accounts of women's liberation feature in national exhibition
The personal stories of women activists collected, recorded and filmed by academics at the University of Sussex form part of a major new exhibition in London devoted to women's history and the struggle for female emancipation.
Audio clips of feminist activists talking about their experiences in the 1960s, 70s and 80s and film interviews with leading campaigners will feature alongside items from The Women's Library collection in The Long March to Equality: Treasures of the Women's Library.
Alongside iconic objects such as an ornamental pit lamp from the Women Against Pit Closures campaign, a Miss World board game and original posters and literature from the movement, voices include:
- Betty Cook, who remembers how campaigning as a miner's wife and mother became part of a personal road to women's liberation;
- Jo Robinson, on throwing vegetables at the 1970 Miss World contest;
- Pragna Patel, on her role in helping to found Southall Black Sisters and a feminist concept of honour and shame;
- Mary McIntosh, about gay liberation in the early women's movement;
- Karen McMinn on setting up Women's Aid in Belfast across the religious divide.
The Sussex audio clips and films are the first results of the three-year Leverhulme Trust-funded Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project, led by cultural researcher Dr Margaretta Jolly, in partnership with The British Library.
Star exhibits also include the prison diary of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison and a copy of Marie Stopes' hugely controversial Married Love – the first leaflet to address female sexuality (1918).
The exhibition includes other recordings of work by women authors such as the 18th-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the first "domestic goddess" Mrs Beeton, read by famous names including Sophie Dahl and Sandi Toksvig.
Dr Jolly and her team – researcher Dr Rachel Cohen, film-maker Lizzie Thynne and doctoral student Freya Johnson Ross – have spent the past two years recording the memories of women who have powered the liberation movement in more recent times, so that their personal accounts can be preserved for posterity. Around 60 interviews have been completed so far.
In tandem with the interviews, the team has been researching the legacy of the crucial efforts of these women in bringing about social and political change.
The project will be the first to publicly archive a comprehensive collection of interviews with this generation of feminists and its findings will be made available for use by researchers of all ages via an interactive learning website about the Women's Movement.
Dr Jolly says: "Treasures of The Women's Library is a must-see exhibition that brings to life the epic story of women's liberation. I am proud that our oral histories with some of the movement's living legends feature so prominently."
Notes for Editors
The Long March to Equality: Treasures of The Women's Library opens on 17 October 2012 at The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, London and runs to Spring 2013. Admission is free. Opening times: Tue, Weds, Fri, 9am-5pm; Thurs 9am-8.30pm.
For details on the Women's Library contact London Metropolitan University press office: Isobel Diamond on 020 7320 1180 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Sisterhood and After: the Women's Liberation Oral History Project at the University of Sussex is partnered with the British Library, where recordings of interviewees will be archived as part of the National Life Stories Collection, and The Women's Library, which has advised on whom to interview and how to share the results.
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The Oregonian
February 19, 2016
By Andrew Theen
Raising tuition every year has become a higher-education rite of passage, almost as predictable as graduation ceremonies.
when Oregon lawmakers approved $665 million in general support for the
state's seven public universities last summer, it was hailed one of the
largest reinvestments in public education in decades. Maybe that would
move the needle, and limit tuition hikes?
No such luck.
University of Oregon has proposed an increase of nearly 4.8 percent for
in-state undergraduate students starting next fall, and the state's
other publics are lining up for their own hikes.
because state support for public universities is far outpaced these days
by contributions from student tuition. When schools, then, need more
money to pay for staff, services, scholarships or other needs, they turn
to students rather than the government.
"We're the lesser
payer than student-tuition dollars," Ben Cannon, executive director of
the state's Higher Education Coordinating Commission, said of state
funding. "That's the ratio that's really problematic when you're trying
to figure out, 'Gosh, why a 4 or 5 percent tuition increase?'"
agency is alerted if a university wants to raise tuition by more than 3
percent, and the state's higher education commission must approve
tuition requests of 5 percent or more.
But independent boards of trustees at each university are responsible for approving tuition plans.
Oregon Student Association, the statewide nonpartisan nonprofit, asked
the universities last year not to raise tuition by more than 3 percent
for the 2016-17 school year. Daniel McCall, OSA's spokesman, said some
students are frustrated that many universities appear to be forging
ahead with higher rates, anyway.
"It can be especially hard on
first-generation students and low-income students," he said of tuition
increases. Those students may be less inclined to enroll in courses when
the costs go up, he said, especially if they're working multiple jobs.
said "sizeable tuition increases," like those being considered at some
schools, are a concern but that they don't capture the whole story.
Affordability is best achieved by minimizing tuition increases, ramping
up financial aid and investing in student successes through on campus
services and programs.
"We've got a lot of students who are
starting college, taking on some debt and not completing," Cannon said.
"And frankly, even if their tuition was lowered, if they're not getting
the support they need to graduate, it's unaffordable."
of Oregon President Michael H. Schill said in a letter to students,
staff and faculty Feb. 9 that the recommendation to raise tuition was
not made rashly, but is necessary to help UO achieve its mission.
"To achieve excellence, we must invest in faculty hiring, research infrastructure, and student access," he wrote.
The proposed increases vary by school, and some proposals are still in flux.
what we know as of n ow about plans at the state universities
(estimated annual tuition is based on a 15 credit per term class load
for three terms. Costs don't include annual student fees, room and board
or other costs):
What: Proposed 4.8
percent tuition bump for in-state undergrads, a $405 annual increase.
Out of state undergraduates will see a 4.5 percent increase, more than
$1,350 annually.
When: The UO Board of Trustees will discuss the proposal March 3.
money does: According to a press release, more than half of the
estimated $16.9 million in additional tuition dollars will pay for staff
and faculty pay increases required through labor agreements and
increased medical costs. Another $2.75 million is earmarked for
information technology improvements on campus, with $2.5 million more
reserved for faculty hiring. UO will also dedicate $1.4 million to
financial aid programs.
What: OSU is
considering a 2.2 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduate
students, roughly $180 annually. OSU is not proposing an increase for
out of state students partly "to encourage growth" in enrollment.
(Out-of-state students already pay far higher rates than in-state ones.)
When: Board of Trustees will debate proposal March 31.
money does: OSU's proposal will cover faculty salary increases, energy
costs and health insurance, according to documents. Despite the
increase, "OSU will not recover all of its costs of operation."
PSU is proposing a 3.7 percent tuition and fee increase for in-state
undergraduates, and a 3.5 percent increase for
When: PSU's board will discuss the plan March 31.
money does: According to PSU, without increasing student fees and
tuition, the school would face a $6 million shortfall. With the proposed
increase, PSU will hire faculty, advisers and staff as well as cover
personnel costs.
Southern Oregon University:
SOU is still developing a proposed tuition rate, but is considering a
2.7 percent increase for in-state undergraduate students. School leaders
will adopt a formal recommendation in March.
Eastern Oregon University:
EOU is also still developing a tuition plan, but proposals could vary
from 2 to 4 percent increases. A final plan will be discussed and
approved in March.
Western Oregon University:
WOU is considering a 2 to 4 percent tuition increase. In a letter to
school administrators this month, student leaders said increases of 4 to
5 percent "would be manageable" for students.
Oregon Institute of Technology: The Klamath Falls-based school will recommend a 3 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduates.
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Today's Freshman Class Is the Most Likely to Protest in Half a Century
The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Courtney Kueppers
February 11, 2016
February 11, 2016
Today's college freshmen are more likely to participate in a student-led protest than each of the nearly five decades of classes that preceded them, according to survey results released on Thursday. That includes the college freshmen of the late 1960s and early 70s, an era storied for its on-campus political activism.
Nearly one in 10 freshmen said there was a very good chance they would participate in a protest in college, according to the annual Freshman Survey by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, part of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles.
The racial unrest in recent years — including police shootings nationwide and protests on college campuses — has clearly made a mark on students' psyches. Among black students, 16 percent said they were very likely to demonstrate while in college. But students of all races reported being more likely to demonstrate than just a year before.
A report on the survey, "The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2015," is based on responses from 141,189 first-time, full-time freshmen at 199 four-year colleges and universities in the United States.
Below are five takeaways about the behaviors and beliefs of today's freshman class.
1. Students' heightened interest in political activism could make them a force in this year's elections (and it's likely to be on the left).
Sixty percent of freshmen surveyed said there was "a very good chance" they would vote in a federal, state, or local election while in college. That's up nearly 10 percentage points from 2014 (though it's worth noting that in 2014 a heated presidential campaign was not underway).
And when they get to the polls, they are likely to vote for candidates on the left. Thirty-four percent identify as "liberal" or "far left," a share similar to the figure in 2008, which was the highest since 1973. About 22 percent of respondents identify as "conservative" or "far right." That figure is down from about 26 percent of students in 2006.
Not only do students plan to vote, but they also have a desire to bring about change. When it comes to influencing the political structure, 33 percent of black students saw it as a "very important" or "essential" life objective, compared with 27 percent of Latinos and 20 percent of white students.
2. Pell Grants are vital for students, but they're not enough, especially for women.
For the first time, the survey included questions about Pell Grants, the bedrock piece of federal financial aid for low-income students.
The vast majority of students without Pell Grants (73 percent) said they relied on family resources to pay at least part of their first-year bills, but just 32 percent of Pell Grant recipients did the same.
And they worry about making ends meet. Eighty-four percent of Pell Grant recipients reported concern about paying for college, compared with 57 percent of nonrecipients.
Women are more concerned about paying for college than men are, especially women at historically black colleges, where 79 percent of women said they had "some" or "major" concerns about paying for school.
3. LGBTQ students more frequently feel overwhelmed and depressed.
Just 25 percent of students who identify their sexual orientation as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or "other" rate their emotional health as "above average" or in the "highest 10 percent," compared with 53 percent of heterosexual students. (For the first time in the survey's history, students could identify their sexual orientation and indicate if they are transgender.)
About 46 percent of students who identified as queer said they frequently felt depressed, compared with 8 percent of heterosexual students.
Among all students, about 10 percent reported feeling frequently depressed, a figure virtually unchanged from the year before.
4. On pace with societal trends, students continue to be less likely to affiliate with a specific religion.
This was the first year that students were given the option to select agnostic or atheist as affiliations. Nearly 30 percent of incoming freshmen said they were agnostic, atheist, or "none." The percentage of students identifying with a specific religion stands at 71 percent.
Asian students are the least likely of the survey's racial and ethnic groups to affiliate with a particular religion, while black students are by far the most likely — at 86 percent, at least 10 percentage points higher than any other group.
Queer students are more likely than their peers to identify as agnostic or atheist.
5. More than ever, students are paying attention to the job outlook and grad-school admissions in their undergraduate search.
Job outlook has always been an important factor in students' college choices, and it continues to become more so. This year 60 percent of students, an all-time high, said whether a college's graduates land good jobs was a "very important" consideration in choosing a school.
Over all, 38 percent of students said they considered grad-school admissions when choosing an undergraduate destination, indicating steady aspirations for advanced degrees.
Additionally, nearly 70 percent of students say it is "very important" that their school of choice has a "good academic reputation."
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Report: More Oregonians finishing community college while non-residents boost universities
By Andrew Theen
The Oregonian, February 05, 2016
Out-of-state residents accounted for nearly one-third of the degrees and certificates awarded at Oregon's seven public universities during the 2014-15 school year, according to new figures released by a state agency Friday.
The total number of non-Oregonians completing four-year degrees or advanced programs increased by 7.5 percent from the 2013-14 year while the number of Oregon residents finishing programs fell by about 1.4 percent, according to the first annual completion report produced by the state's Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
Overall, Oregon colleges and universities awarded 3 percent more certificates and degrees during the 2014-15 school year than in the year before. More people, in a sense, are getting their degrees, than ever before.
The data are a reflection of one of the key strategies for Oregon's largest schools in the face of a paucity of state funding (despite the $700 million injection of money during the 2015-17 biennium): pull in more money from out-of-state residents' higher-priced tuition.
Ben Cannon, HECC's executive director, said the grand total of more than 45,151 completed programs at community colleges and four-year schools is exciting news for Oregon.
"It indicates pretty clearly the progress that we're making toward our state goals for higher ed," Cannon said. "Are we making enough progress quickly enough? Probably not, but we're certainly trending in the right direction."
Cannon's office compiled figures from Oregon's seven public universities and 17 community colleges, including the number of bachelor's, associate's, master's, certificate and other professional degrees awarded to both Oregonians and non-resident students during the 2013-14 and 14-15 school years.
The data show more Oregonians are completing community college programs - 19,783 Oregon residents finished associate's degrees or certificate programs in 2014-15 - a 4.4 percent jump.
Cannon said the figures are, to some extent, a product of the ongoing effect of the Great Recession, which led to marked increases in community college enrollment.
While Cannon said it was exciting to see more students' complete programs, he would not be surprised to see the figures decline somewhat in the coming years as more people find jobs.
Community colleges play a big role in preparing the workforce, and Cannon said the completion growth could have wider economic ramifications.
He described in-state student completion rates as "basically flat."
"Our commission would be concerned if it appeared that nonresident students were crowding out resident students," Cannon said of the two-year comparison. "There really isn't evidence of that."
Here are some key takeaways from the 2014-15 data set:
Most out-of-state bachelor's degrees awarded:
1) University of Oregon: 1,982
2) Oregon State University: 1,282
3) Portland State University: 588
Most in-state bachelor's degrees awarded:
1) Portland State University: 3,528
2) Oregon State University: 3,520
3) University of Oregon: 2,733
Most out-of-state master's/doctoral/professional degrees awarded
1) University of Oregon: 747
2) Oregon State University: 687
3) Portland State University: 551
Most in-state master's/doctoral/professional degrees awarded
1) Portland State University: 1,204
2) Oregon State University: 534
3) University of Oregon: 470
Most certificates/associate's degrees awarded:
1) Portland Community College: 5,729
2) Chemeketa Community College: 2,358
3) Mt. Hood Community College: 2,168
4) Lane Community College: 1,720
5) Clackamas Community College: 1,408
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Gutenberg & Digital Outlook Exhibit Sales Grow Over 20 Percent To Accommodate Demand
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Reston, VA – Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC) announced today that in the last two weeks the exhibit space sales at the west coast's premier industry tradeshow, GUTENBERG & DIGITAL OUTLOOK, have grown by over 20 percent. The event's growth is a clear indication of the recognized value of the show, held this year for the first time in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, April 28 – 30, 2005. With the addition of nearly 25 new exhibitors, with names like Hewlett Packard, Kodak Versamark, L.A. Salazar, Rollem Corporation of America, Mail Right, Inc., Microtech Graphics, Technifold, USA, Universal Laser and XpresScreen Inc., the floor has grown substantially, reflecting a recognition by suppliers that the event provides the ROI manufacturers insist upon before committing marketing dollars. "GUTENBERG & DIGITAL OUTLOOK has always offered value to both exhibitors and attendees alike, and the West Coast offers a myriad of opportunities for suppliers, especially those in the digital space," noted Regis J. Delmontagne, President of GASC, the show's producer. Attendees visiting the event can expect to see displays of all sizes and styles, with more of the suppliers focusing on their digital products than ever before. Software for workflow, image capture and manipulation, image and digital asset management, pre-flighting and repairing PDF files, and much more will be on display, alongside equipment for traditional offset sheetfed and digital printing, post-press bindery and finishing equipment and supplies, and a wide range of supplies and substrates, inks and other consumables. Special educational sessions have been created as well, with over 15 of them focused on digital technology, including sponsored sessions with introductions by Hewlett Packard and Xinet. Sessions on topics related to technology, management, sales and business trends offer the broadest range of information available in the western U.S. With over 8,000 print and digital professionals expected to attend, solutions to business and digital challenges will abound at the annual west coast gathering. More information on the west coast's premier printing event can be found at www.gutenberganddigitaloutlook.com, including online registration, hotel information, current listing of exhibitors, seminar sessions speakers, times and descriptions and much more. GASC, producers of GUTENBERG & DIGITAL OUTLOOK, is jointly owned by the National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL), NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies (NPES), and the Printing Industries of America (PIA). In addition to GUTENBERG & DIGITAL OUTLOOK, GASC manages the most important national and international industry events in the western hemisphere, including the giant international PRINT & CONVERTINGSM exhibition, next scheduled for September 9 – 15, 2005, EXECUTIVE OUTLOOK, the annual GRAPH EXPO and CONVERTING EXPO, as well as the national VUE/POINT Conference. Complete information about GASC events can be obtained from its web site at www.gasc.org, by mail at 1899 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 20191-4367, telephone 703/264-7200, fax 703/620-9187, or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Thomas Adams fired off the pole and then led all the challengers all the way to the finish in a Sportsman race that was over almost as soon as it began. The division ran caution-free so that not only Adams but the race itself both went green-to-checkers. Ryan Flood made a game of it, getting past Mr Fun, Craig Pianka into the runnerup spot on lap 10. Flood pursued the leader, but Adams was unyielding and crossed under the checkers five carlengths ahead. Flood earned second, followed by Kid Chaos – Corey Fanning. Steve Axon ran home fourth while Pianka rounded out the top five.
Adams nosed out on Tim Watson then took the lead in turn two. Dick Benoit got under Watson and took second crossing the stripe. Pianka grabbed thrid with Flood coming up behind him.
Sparky Arsenault and Jesse Melberg were engaged behind Flood, fighting for position as Paul Lallier waited behind them for a decision. Sparky took the position and Lallier rolled in under Melberg. The field stretched out single file.
Adams held Benoit at bay ahead of Flood while Sparky, running fourth, had Lallier looking underneath but unable to push in. He was able to get there but Arsenault would not give way. Fanning wne high around them and Scott Serydynski came up to debate position with Arsenault.
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Adams was running a straightaway ahead of Flood, who had Benoit, Pianka and Fanning in tow. Lap fourteen saw Fanning duck under Pianka into fourth on turn two.
By lap 18, Adams was encountering lapped traffic. Danny Cabral was encountering problems and took his car to the pits. And lap 20 saw Flood begin to lap the rearmost cars in the field. Fanning, running third, had Pianka locked onto his bumper while Axon had gone ahead of Arsenault.
Axon pushed in under Pianka; there was some paint traded and he came out in fourth. Pianka settled into fifth.
Flood had been able to close on Adams, but five cars remained between them and they rushed around the oval for the final six circuits with everybody holding position. At the checkers, Adams crossed the line first however, he would fall victim to a post race tech violation that would award the win to the #98 of Ryan Flood . The entire 30 laps had taken just 11 minutes.
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Avocados are so dangerous, they may soon carry a warning label in the UK.
Amateur cooks just can't seem to slice up the fruit — a staple of brunch fare and Mexican food — without also chopping into their hands, according to a report from the Times of London.
British surgeons have seen such a spike in the number of people who seriously injure themselves while trying to penetrate avocados' rubbery skin and remove its finicky pit that they've dubbed the condition "avocado hand."
The British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons is demanding a warning label on the trendy food, which is actually quite healthy if consumers can manage to remove the skin and pit without also removing their own fingers.
The problem is so pervasive that doctors at London's St. Thomas Hospital expect a "post-brunch surge" of avocado-related injuries on Saturdays, the paper reported.
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Allegiant Air planes fail 4 times more often than those operated by other U.S. airlines
Allegiant Air's aircraft are four times as likely to fail during flight as those operated by other U.S. airlines, an investigation by the Tampa Bay Times has found.
In 2015, Allegiant jets were forced to make unexpected landings at least 77 times for serious mechanical failures, the Times' first-of- its kind analysis of federal aviation records shows.
None prompted enforcement action from the Federal Aviation Administration.
To create such a comparison, Times reporters built a database of more than 65,000 records from the FAA.
Working through the data, they connected a year's worth of flight records with documents showing mechanical problems at the 11 largest domestic carriers in the United States, including Allegiant.
The airline did not dispute the newspaper's findings, which included:
▪ Forty-two of Allegiant's 86 planes broke down in mid-flight at least once in 2015. Among them were 15 forced to land by failing engines, nine by overheating tail compartments and six by smoke or the smell of something burning.
▪ After certain systems on Allegiant planes fail, the company repairs them and puts the planes back in service, only to see the same systems fail again. Eighteen times last year, key parts such as engines, sensors and electronics failed once in flight, got checked out, and then failed again, causing another unexpected landing.
▪ Allegiant's jets are, on average, 22 years old. The average age of planes flown by other carriers is 12. Experts say planes as old as Allegiant's require the most rigorous maintenance in the industry. But Allegiant doesn't staff its own mechanics at 107 of the 118 airports it flies to.
▪ Allegiant relies most heavily on McDonnell Douglas MD-80s, an aging model retired by all but two other major U.S. carriers. The company's MD-80s fail twice as often as those operated by American Airlines and three times as often as those flown by Delta.
Presented with the Tampa Bay Times' findings last week during an interview at Allegiant's Las Vegas headquarters, the carrier's CEO, Maurice Gallagher Jr., said, "I can't sit here and say that you're wrong. We're very much focused on running a better operation."
To read the full story now, go to tampabay.com/allegiant
Allegiant Air's Fresno history
June 1998: Started in Fresno under CEO Mitch Allee as a charter company with one DC-9
February 2000: Received authority to fly as a scheduled carrier with routes from Fresno to Las Vegas and Long Beach
December 2000: Filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy, five days after dropping 4 of 5 routes (keeping Las Vegas)
June 2001: Judge OKs restructuring plan and new CEO Maurice Gallagher Jr. moved headquarters to Las Vegas
2005: Earned $7.3 million on $132.5 million in revenue
2006: Allegiant Travel Co. makes public stock offering
Today: Serves Las Vegas and Mesa, Arizona from Fresno
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