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Felicelli added that concerns about confidentiality in the board's management of personnel matters prevented him from offering specifics.
Contracted by SMPA's board of directors, the Vector Group, Inc., with offices in Denver, Philadelphia and London, conducted the analysis during the summer of 2011. Because of confidentiality concerns regarding personnel matters, the Vector study has not been made public and its recommendations have been discussed by the SMPA board of directors only in executive session.
SMPA's power-purchasing members, who in essence own the rural co-op, might never have learned about the study if not for a blog posted in two parts on Aug. 10 and 14 by Vector Group Managing Partner Gary Craig. Though he did not identify SMPA, Craig described how the analysis was conducted, summarized the conclusions and, finally, discussed his frustration that nothing was being done by the client after the presentation of results and recommendations.
Craig described SMPA only as "a small rural utility cooperative," but SMPA Board meeting minutes and SMPA attorney Jim Link both confirm that SMPA did contract with Vector Group for an analysis to improve efficiency within the organization.
While the intent of Craig's blog was to offer a case study in a consulting job that led to frustration, his summary nonetheless paints SMPA as lacking in organization and leadership.
Gathering data from board member interviews, staff interviews, group interviews and observations of goings-on in the workplace, Vector ascertained that, according to Craig's blog, SMPA was "sorely lacking any form of effective management and totally devoid of leadership."
As an example, he wrote, field crews had to wait every day for their work assignments, anywhere from one to three hours, while management was engaged in deciding what needed to be completed that day. Once the crews got their assignments, they had to look for supplies, often not having what they needed.
Craig also suggested that SMPA had a "culture of command" that resulted in a scenario where employees were expected "to check their brains at the door" to work there, and that no matter what an employee might recommend for improving the operation, "only management knows best."
This, Craig stated, led to a lack of trust, no sense of urgency and "a sinking staff morale."
Vector made 112 actionable recommendations to the board of directors, which included recommendations on governance, structure, management, leadership, and culture.
When Vector representatives planned to offer their findings to the SMPA Board of Directors, Craig wrote, they recommended doing so without having General Manager Kevin Ritter present. Ritter, Craig suggested, should receive a full report once the presentation was given.
But Ritter was allowed in the room during Sept. 20, 2011 presentation, Craig wrote, and an unexpected melee unfolded.
"On the day of our presentation to the board, we witnessed a dramatic scene unfold," Craig stated in his blog. "One board member led a coalition of board members to launch a coups d'état in order to depose the current President of the Board and select a new one. Of course, in this melee, the GM was allowed to remain in the room to hear the in-depth report of findings."
Later, as the board discussed the findings, it became clear to Craig that members of the board began to dismiss the results as opinions or perceptions.
"This was the 'shooting of the messengers' by attacking our credibility and expertise in conducting such an operational analysis," he stated.
One of the conclusions found in the analysis, Craig wrote, was that Ritter "had done his best to sabotage the process" from the beginning by portraying the analysis as some sort of "head-hunting expedition" or an "indictment of his management and leadership capabilities." Craig claims Ritter sent out communications to staff and members of the board that the analysis was actually an "efficiency study where we could come in and tell people how to do their jobs better."
Despite that perception, Craig wrote that much in the report was not good, but also not grim.
"Our conclusion was that with no changes in staff, the entire operation could be turned around in 90 days, with significant and noticeable changes within 30 days," Craig stated. "This small co-op could have been built into a model of effectiveness and increased efficiencies. The staff really wanted things to change for the better; the board wanted things to be better but did not want to 'stress' [General Manager Kevin Ritter]. But management thought things were fine and were not going to question the GM's judgment on anything."
Upon following up with the SMPA Board of Directors, after presenting the results, Vector Group officials, according to Craig, clarified how the analysis was completed and reminded the co-op that staff was expecting to hear the results and hoped for improvement.
"We also added the caveat that if the board and GM did not follow up quickly and effectively, the co-op was ripe for return of a labor union."
But, Craig added, the board allowed Ritter to defend against or rationalize about each recommendation, and then let Ritter decide how to move forward with the results of the analysis.
"As predicted," Craig stated, "the co-op returned to union representation after three-four months of waiting for management to take some clear actions with the results of the analysis. This might have been avoided if the analysis had not been done in the first place.
"Even data-gathering for this kind of operational analysis raises people's expectations," he observed.
Craig's assessment of the analysis was not completely negative. "In defense of the board, this was undoubtedly something they did not sign up for in their want to give something back to their respective communities," he wrote. "Generally, this is a group of nice, well-intentioned people who want to represent and advocate for their constituents and attend meetings that are productive, informative and void of high drama and conflict."
Craig also wrote that despite some challenges, the analysis found a "dedicated staff that was competent and able to provide service to the co-op members/owners despite the organization and its management."
Felicelli said Tuesday that he could not go into detail on the results of the analysis, but that changes have been made in its wake.
"This was done a year ago," Felicelli said. "There were a number of recommendations, but I can't go into detail on them. What I can tell you is that we have reduced the number of issues, and we have worked with the board and staff to implement changes in the co-op to make us a more efficient company."
In reading Craig's blog, Felicelli did take issue with a number of statements in the piece, most particularly those concerning precisely what actions have taken place since the analysis was completed.
"There are a number of things where he may have stretched the truth a bit," Felicelli said of Craig's blog.
"They have no real knowledge of what we've done. A lot of it was after the fact, and they have no idea what was done after that.
"I can tell you the board took it very seriously and staff took it very seriously. It's been over a year now and we have implemented a number of changes."
Reached by email, Craig refused comment on the blog, and would neither confirm nor deny that it was written about SMPA.
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Merton College, Oxford
|Colleges and halls of the University of Oxford
Merton College
|College name
|The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford
|"Qui Timet Deum Faciet Bona" ("He who fears God shall do good")
|Named after
|Walter de Merton
|Sister college
|Peterhouse, Cambridge
|Prof. Sir Martin Taylor
|3081 (2011/2012)
Location of Merton College within central OxfordCoordinates: 51°45′04″N 1°15′07″W / 51.751°N 1.252°W
|Boat Club
|Or, three chevronels party per pale, the first and third azure and gules, the second gules and azure.
Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to support it. The important feature of Walter's foundation was that this "college" was to be self-governing and that the endowments were directly vested in the Warden and Fellows.2
By 1274 when Walter retired from royal service and made his final revisions to the college statutes, the community was consolidated at its present site in the south east corner of the city of Oxford, and a rapid programme of building commenced. The hall and the chapel and the rest of the front quad were complete before the end of the 13th century, but apart from the chapel they have all been much altered since. To most visitors, the college and its buildings are synonymous, but the history of the college can be more deeply understood if one distinguishes the history of the academic community from that of the site and buildings that they have occupied for nearly 750 years.3
The college is associated with a number of notable people, including author J. R. R. Tolkien who was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature from 1945 to 1959.4
Merton is among the wealthiest colleges and had a financial endowment of £189 million, as of July 2013.56
- 1 History
- 2 Buildings and grounds
- 3 Modern academic community
- 4 Student activities
- 5 Grace
- 6 People associated with Merton
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 External links
Foundation and origins
Merton College was founded in 1264 by Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Rochester. It has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford, although this claim is disputed between Merton College, Balliol College and University College. The substance of Merton's claim to the title of oldest College is that Merton was the first college to be provided with "statutes", a constitution governing the College set out at its founding. Merton's statutes date back to 1264, whereas neither Balliol nor University College had statutes until the 1280s. Merton was also the first to be conceived as a community of scholars working to achieve academic ends, rather than just a place for the scholars to live in.
St Alban Hall
St Alban Hall was an independent academic hall owned by the convent of Littlemore until it was purchased by Merton College in 1548 following the dissolution of the convent. It continued as a separate institution until it was finally annexed by the college in 1881.7
Parliamentarian sympathies in the Civil War
During the English Civil War, Merton was the only Oxford college to side with Parliament. The reason for this was Merton's annoyance with the interference of their Visitor William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Due to this, the college was moved to London at the start of the Civil War and its buildings were commandeered by the Royalists and used to house much of Charles I's court when Oxford was the Royalists' capital. This included the King's French wife, Queen Henrietta Maria, who was housed in or near what is now the Queen's Room, the room above the arch between Front and Fellows' Quads.
Differences were quickly settled after the war, however, and a portrait of Charles I hangs near the Queen's Room as a reminder of the role it played in his court.
Buildings and grounds
The "House of Scholars of Merton" originally had properties in Surrey (in present day Old Malden) as well as in Oxford, but it was not until the mid-1260s that Walter de Merton acquired the core of the present site in Oxford, along the south side of what was then St John's Street (now Merton Street). The college was consolidated on this site by 1274, when Walter made his final revisions to the college statutes.
The initial acquisition included the parish church of St John (which was superseded by the chapel) and three houses to the east of the church which now form the north range of Front Quad. Walter also obtained permission from the king to extend from these properties south to the old city wall to form an approximately square site. The college continued to acquire other properties as they became available on both sides of Merton Street. At one time, the college owned all the land from the site that is now Christ Church to the south eastern corner of the city. The land to the east eventually became the present day garden, while the western end was leased by Warden Richard Rawlins in 1515 for the foundation of Corpus Christi (at an annual rent of just over £4).8
By the late 1280s the old church of St John the Baptist had fallen into "a ruinous condition",9 and the college accounts show that work on a new church began in about 1290. The present choir with its enormous east window was complete by 1294. The window is an important example (because it is so well dated) of how the strict geometrical conventions of the Early English Period of architecture were beginning to be relaxed at the end of the 13th century.10 The south transept was built in the 14th century, the north transept in the early years of the 15th. The great tower was complete by 1450. The chapel replaced the parish church of St. John and continued to serve as the parish church as well as the chapel until 1891. It is for this reason that it is generally referred to as Merton Church in older documents, and that there is a north door into the street as well as doors into the college. This dual role also probably explains the enormous scale of the chapel, which in its original design was to have a nave and two aisles extending to the west.11
A new choral foundation was established in 2007, providing for a choir of sixteen undergraduate and graduate choral scholars singing from October 2008. The choir is directed by Peter Phillips, currently also director of the Tallis Scholars and Benjamin Nicholas, director of music at Tewkesbury Abbey.citation needed
A spire from the chapel has resided in Pavilion Garden VI of the University of Virginia since 1928, when "it was given to the University to honor Jefferson's educational ideals."12
Front quad and the hall
The hall is the oldest surviving college building, but apart from the door which has medieval ironwork almost no trace of the ancient structure has survived the successive reconstruction efforts, first by James Wyatt in the 1790s and then again by Gilbert Scott in 1874. The hall is still used daily for meals and houses a number of important portraits. It is not usually open to visitors.
Front quad itself is probably the earliest collegiate quadrangle, but its informal, almost haphazard, pattern cannot be said to have influenced designers elsewhere. A reminder of its original domestic nature can be seen in the north east corner where one of the flagstones is marked "Well". The quad is formed of what would have been the back gardens of the three original houses that Walter acquired in the 1260s.
Mob quad and library
Visitors to Merton are often told Mob Quad, built in the 14th century, is the oldest quadrangle of any Oxford or Cambridge college and set the pattern for future collegiate architecture, but Front Quad was certainly enclosed earlier (albeit with a less unified design) and other colleges, for example Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, can point to their own older examples.
The old library occupies the upper floor of the south and west ranges of Mob Quad, and the original archive room is still in the north east corner; it houses one of the most complete sets of college records in Europe.citation needed
Fellows' quad
The grandest quadrangle in Merton is the Fellows' Quadrangle, immediately south of the hall. The quad was the culmination of the work undertaken by Sir Henry Savile at the beginning of the 17th century. The foundation stone was laid shortly after breakfast on 13 September 1608 (as recorded in the college Register), and work was complete by September 1610 (although the battlements were added later).13 The southern gateway is surmounted by a tower of the four Orders, probably inspired by Italian examples that Warden Savile would have seen on his European travels. The main contractors were from Yorkshire (as was Savile), John Ackroyd and John Bentley of Halifax did the stonework and Thomas Holt the timber. This group were also later employed to work on the Bodleian Library and Wadham College.14
Other buildings
Most of the other buildings are Victorian or later and include: St. Alban Quad (or "Stubbins"), designed by Basil Champneys,15 built on the site of the medieval St. Alban Hall (elements of the older façade are incorporated into the part that faces onto Merton Street); the Grove building, built in 1864 by William Butterfield but "chastened" in the 1930s;16 the buildings beyond the Fellows' Garden called "Rose Lane"; several buildings north of Merton Street, including a real tennis court, and the Old Warden's Lodgings (designed by Champneys in 1903);15 and a new quadrangle in Holywell Street, some distance away from the college.
The garden fills the southeastern corner of the old walled city of Oxford. The walls may be seen from Christ Church Meadows. Among other things, the gardens contain a mulberry tree planted in the early 17th century, an armillary sundial, a beautiful lawn, and the old Fellows' summer house (now a music room).
T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
A new lecture theatre named after T.S. Eliot, a former member of the college, was opened in 2010. It has a bust of the writer by Jacob Epstein, presented by Frank Brenchley – a former member and fellow of the college. Brenchley presented his collection of Eliot first editions and ephemera to the college, which is believed to be the second largest collection of such material worldwide. The foyer is illuminated by a lighting display representing three constellations that were visible on the night of 14 September 1264, the day the college was founded.17
Merton College (including chapel) viewed from the north from St Mary's Church
Merton College as viewed from across the Christ Church Meadow to the south
Modern academic community
Merton College admits both undergraduate and graduate students. It admitted its first female students in 1980 and was the second former male college to elect a female head of house (in 1994). Merton has traditionally had single-sex accommodation for 1st year undergraduates, with female students going into the Rose Lane buildings and most male students going into three houses on Merton Street. However, this was changed in 2007, with all accommodation being mixed by gender and course.
Since the introduction of an official Norrington Table published by the University in 2004, Merton occupied one of the top three positions every year (often coming 1st), until 2012 when it dropped to 14th.18 In 2013, it regained a top three position, continuing it as one of the most academically successful colleges in the last twenty years.
Undergraduate admission to the college, like other Oxford colleges, is based solely on academic potential.19 In 2010, it was (incorrectly) reported that Merton had not admitted a black student in the previous five years. A university spokeswoman commented that black students were more likely to apply for oversubscribed subjects.20 The University also reported that Merton had admitted at least one black undergraduate since 2005.21
Student activities
At the (in)famous Time Ceremony students dressed in formal academic dress walk backwards around the Fellows' Quad drinking port. Traditionally, participants also hold candles, but in recent years this practice has been dropped, and many students have now adopted the habit of linking arms and twirling around at each corner of the quad. The purpose of this tradition is to maintain the integrity of the space-time continuum during the transition from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time, which occurs in the early hours of the last Sunday in October. There are two toasts associated with the ceremony, the first is "to good old times!", or "to a good old time!", whilst the second is "long live the counter-revolution!". The ceremony was invented by two undergraduates in 1971, partly as a spoof on other Oxford ceremonies, and partly to celebrate the end of the experimental period of British Standard Time from 1968 to 1971 when the UK stayed one hour ahead of GMT all year round.
Merton is the only college in Oxford to hold a triennial winter ball, instead of the more common Commemoration ball. The most recent of these was held on 30 November 2013.22
Merton also plays host to a number of drinking and dining societies, along the lines of other colleges. These include the Myrmidons, female-equivalent Myrmaids and L'Ancien Régime. Merton College is also rumoured to be the college of the founding members of the alleged Haxley Society, a university-wide establishment and reportedly a chapter of Yale's similarly prestigious Gamma Gamma Phi fraternity.citation needed
There is a society for every subject studied at Merton, the most notable of which are the Halsbury Society (Law)23 and the Chalcenterics (Classics).24 Other more academic societies include the Neave Society, which aims to discuss and debate political issues, and the Bodley Club, founded in 1894 as a forum for undergraduate papers on literature but now a speaker society, inviting 'fabulously interesting' luminaries from all walks of life.
Merton has a long-standing sporting relationship with Mansfield College, with the colleges fielding amalgamated sports teams for nearly all major sports, except rowing. The JCR Football Premier Division was (jointly) won for the first time by a Merton team in 2010/11.25 The side, captained by a Mertonian undergraduate, also reached the semi-finals of Cuppers only to lose out to the eventual champions Worcester.26
In rowing, Merton College Boat Club has been Head of the River in Summer Eights once; its men's 1st VIII held the headship in 1951. Merton's women have done better in recent years, gaining the headship in Torpids in 2003 and rowing over to defend the title in 2004.27
The college preprandial grace is always recited before formal dinners in Hall and usually by the senior postmaster present. The first two lines of the Latin text are based on verses 15 and 16 of Psalm 145.
- Oculi omnium in te respiciunt, Domine. Tu das escam illis tempore opportuno.
- Aperis manum tuam, et imples omne animal benedictione tua.
- Benedicas nobis, Deus, omnibus donis quae de tua beneficentia accepturi simus.
- Per Jesum Christum dominum nostrum, Amen.
Roughly translated it means:
- The eyes of the world look up to thee, O Lord. Thou givest them food in due season.
- Thou openest thy hand and fillest every creature with thy blessing.
- Bless us, O God, with all the gifts which by thy good works we are about to receive.
- Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Amen.
For the relevant verses of the Psalm, the Authorized Version has:
- 15. The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
- 16. Thou openst thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
At the University of Cambridge, a slightly different version of the Latin text of these verses is painted (apparently as a decoration) around Old Hall in Queens' College, Cambridge, and is "commonly in use at other Cambridge colleges".28
By contrast with the rather long pre-prandial grace, the post-prandial grace is brief: Benedictus benedicat ("Let him who has been blessed, give blessing"). The latter grace is spoken by the senior Fellow present at the end of dinner on High Table.
People associated with Merton
Merton alumni (Mertonians) have achieved careers across a variety of disciplines. This includes writers, politicians, academics and four Nobel prize winners: poet T. S. Eliot,29 physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and chemist Frederick Soddy.30
Former students with careers as politicians and civil servants include, diplomats Sir Leonard Allinson, Terence John O'Brien, Sir Michael Palliser, politicians Reginald Maudling, Airey Neave, Jesse Norman, Ed Vaizey and Zimbabwean politician Arthur Mutambara. In business, former Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson,31 CEO of Stonewall Ben Summerskill, CEO of Sony Sir Howard Stringer, co-founder of Punch Taverns Hugh Osmond, investment banker David Freud and businesswoman Juliet Davenport. In philosophy and theology, theologian Thomas Bradwardine, John Wycliffe, John Jewel, philosophers F. H. Bradley, Theodor Adorno and John Lucas. In the fields of science and mathematics, Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles29 who proved Fermat's Last Theorem, chemist Sir George Radda, geneticist Alec Jeffreys and systems biologist Tim Mitchison. Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library founder Thomas Bodley,29 the Oxford Calculators, Principal of King's College London Rick Trainor and American country singer Kris Kristofferson.
Author J. R. R. Tolkien was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton from 1945 to 1959.324
The current Warden of the college is Sir Martin J. Taylor, former Professor of pure mathematics at the University of Manchester.
William of Ockham, major figure of medieval thought, commonly known for Occam's razor
John Wycliffe, early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century
Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library
William Harvey, the first to describe in detail the systemic circulation
Frederick Soddy, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921
T. S. Eliot, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948
Nikolaas Tinbergen, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
Anthony James Leggett, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003
Lord Randolph Churchill, British statesman, father of Winston Churchill
J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion
Wilder Penfield, pioneering neurosurgeon
Roger Bannister, former athlete, doctor and academic, who ran the first sub-four-minute mile
Andrew Wiles, mathematician most notable for proving Fermat's Last Theorem
Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan, heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan
Mark Thompson, CEO of the New York Times Company
Howard Stringer, former CEO of Sony Corporation
See also
- ^ "Undergraduate numbers by college 2011–12". University of Oxford.
- ^ See Martin & Highfield, pp.1–2
- ^ See Martin & Highfield, loc. cit.
- ^ a b Daniel Grotta (28 March 2001). J.R.R. Tolkien Architect of Middle Earth. Running Press. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-0-7624-0956-3. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ^ Financial Statements of the Oxford Colleges (2012-13)
- ^ Merton College - Annual report and Financial Statements, Year ended 31 July 2013
- ^ "St Alban Hall, Library & Archives, Merton College website". Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ See Bott, p.4
- ^ Anthony Wood, quoted in Bott, p.24
- ^ Pevsner, p.25
- ^ See Bott, pp.24–37
- ^ "University of Virginia: Explore the Gardens, Pavillion Garden VI". http://www.virginia.edu/virginia/. 11 June 2009. Retrieved 11 June 2009.
- ^ Bott, p.37
- ^ Martin & Highfield, p.163
- ^ a b Brock, M.G. and Curthoys, M.C., The History of the University of Oxford, Volume VII, Part 2 — Oxford University Press (2000) p.755. ISBN 0-19-951017-2.
- ^ Pevsner, op. cit., p.164
- ^ "College shows off its £5m auditorium". Oxford Mail. Newsquest (Oxfordshire & Wiltshire) Ltd. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ The official Norrington Table – Oxford University
- ^ "Selection criteria for subjects". Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ^ Davis, Anna (7 December 2010). "Oxford college fails to take black students". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
- ^ Mapstone, Sally (9 December 2010). "These figures do not show that Oxford and Cambridge discriminate". Guardian. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
- ^ Merton Ball Website
- ^ http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/admissions/ug_subj_law.shtml
- ^ http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/admissions/ug_subj_classics.shtml
- ^ Merton-Mansfield Football Division Results
- ^ Bush, Stephen (3 March 2011). "Worcester 5-1 Mertsfield". Oxford Student. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
- ^ College Boat Club
- ^ Queens' Cambridge – Graces
- ^ a b c "Episode 8". University Challenge. Series 2011/12. Episode 8. 22 August 2011. BBC. Two. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013yxhz.
- ^ Merton College: Eminent people
- ^ "THOMPSON, Mark John Thompson". Who's Who UK. London: A & C Black. 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
- ^ Biography, pp. 111, 200, 266.
- Bott, A. (1993). Merton College: A Short History of the Buildings. Oxford: Merton College. ISBN 0-9522314-0-9.
- Martin, G.H. & Highfield, J.R.L. (1997). A History of Merton College. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-920183-8.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; and Nikolaus Pevsner (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks on the House floor today calling on House Republicans to stay and work in Washington on issues confronting Americans rather than cutting and running from town. Below are the Leader's remarks:
"Thank you Mr. Hoyer, I appreciate your yielding and your leadership for bringing us together on the floor of the House. We're in after-hours and it is only 12:40 p.m., but it is after hours on a Friday afternoon. That is the context of – we left here on August 3rd, we're not due back until November 14th. And yet we have had only eight legislative days of work in that period of time. I thank you for calling that dereliction of duty to the attention of the American people because we have work to do. It's not as if our work is finished. And as you have indicated, there is critical expiring legislation that is passed even in the Senate yet Republicans have blocked a vote in the House. Whether it's middle income tax relief, postal reform, violence against women, farm bill, and then, of course, initiatives proposed by President Obama to create jobs for our economy.
"I wanted to, I was so pleased to hear what our colleague, Congresswoman Schwartz had to say about Medicare because really, our names are all on the ballot in this year's election, but what is really at stake is Medicare. Medicare, Medicare, Medicare. And as you said, distinguished Whip Hoyer, they offered nothing but to raise costs on seniors for getting less as they phase out Medicare.
"I wanted to just talk about another subject though. Because it is a larger issue that I hear this question bandied about. You hear people say: 'Are you better off now than you were four years ago?' The Republicans have the nerve to pose that question when if you look back to four years ago this very week, Mr. Speaker, you would know that we are indeed fundamentally, and unquestionably, better off as a country today.
"This fall, again, this week, four years ago – September 18th to be exact, but this week – there was a meeting, in my office when I was Speaker, of the Democratic and Republican leadership of the House and of the Senate – gathered together to hear a report from the Administration that was very alarming. Now, mind you, September 18, 2008, the Secretary of the Treasury, Hank Paulson, described for us a financial system in imminent danger of total collapse. Chairman Bernanke, at that same meeting, the Chairman of the Fed[eral Reserve], told us that if we did not act immediately we would not have an economy by Monday. This was a Thursday evening. You remember, Mr. Hoyer; you were there. 'If we do not act immediately we will not have an economy by Monday.' How on earth can people who perpetrated that situation on our country have the nerve to turn around and ask that question? At the end of the meeting we all went out in a bipartisan way and spoke to the press and I said at the time: Time is of the essence and that Congress would act. Trying to lift the confidence in our financial situation.
"Despite a Presidential election seven weeks away at that time, it was no time for partisanship. The crisis demanded that Democrats and Republicans work with President Bush to rescue our economy from depression, or as Chairman Bernanke said, from our not having an economy four days later. In the days ahead, our country confronted the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The costs were staggering: more than $8 trillion lost in household wealth, more than 8 million jobs lost, and more than 4 million families losing their homes to foreclosure.
"Nonetheless the Democrats voted with President Bush to restore confidence in our markets, and the Republicans even walked away from their own President. In the two years after that September 18th meeting, we continued to take actions to reduce spending, to address what was inevitable from the policies of the eight years previous to the November 2008 election. We continued, with the majority and President in office, we took action to reduce spending, to create jobs, keep people in their homes, and pass Dodd-Frank, the toughest Wall Street reforms in generations. And with it, the most historic – for the first time, protections for American consumers in that bill – all of it fought vigorously against by the Republicans.
"So now we have President Obama and we have a Republican Congress. Under President Obama's leadership we have added private sector jobs for 30 straight months compared to losing 700,000 jobs a month as he entered office. The [American] auto industry, which was facing extinction and the loss of over one million jobs in that industry, is again competitive and hiring and thriving. The Dow Jones average, which is one reflection of the security of tens of millions of American investors and pension funds, has already doubled and housing prices are slowly rising again. We need much more private sector [job growth]. But imagine from that time the Dow Jones has doubled.
"We still have work to do to continue the American recovery. If the Republicans had cooperated at all with President Obama in the last two years, we'd be much farther down the road to recovery. We cooperated with President Bush but they would not offer an ounce of cooperation to President Obama and our economy has paid the price. We have reaped the benefits of some of what happened in the two years when we were in the majority and President Obama, in the first two years of his term. But so much more could have been done with some cooperation from the Republicans.
"So we get back to the question: Are we better off this week in September than we were this week four years ago? Well, you be the judge. I know America's families are hurting. We want to do more to create jobs, etcetera. We have to have bipartisan cooperation to do that, the Republicans have resisted that. So from that standpoint, yeah, we can do better. But from the standpoint of this country being in a state where the financial, where there was a financial crisis, we were on the verge of a total collapse where the Chairman of the Fed told us if we did not act immediately we wouldn't have an economy by Monday. Yes, we are fundamentally as a country better off and therefore the prospects for the future are better for all of America's families. And that's what we are here to work on, the future, too bad our Republican colleagues have cut and run from town. But we stand ready to welcome them back to work in a bipartisan way, to make concessions to get the job done for the American people. And I thank you Mr. Hoyer for giving us all the opportunity to express our views on the subject here today."


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SBA Partners with Microsoft to Deliver Free Technology e-Learning Series for Small Businesses
by CeceliaT, Community Moderator
- Created: August 21, 2013, 2:49 pm
- Updated: August 21, 2013, 2:49 pm
If you're a small business owner, then you know the importance of technology in running your business. Together the U.S. Small Business Administration and Microsoft developed a new resource with you – the small business owner -- in mind to help you more effectively use technology to run and grow your business. The Business Technology Simplified online course series teaches the benefits of using modern technology that can help take your business to the next level of success.
Business Technology Simplified features three self- paced online courses that cover basic technology tools and a range of technology-related areas that are vital to your business. Each course gives tips on how to use modern technology and innovation in the day-to-day operation of a business. As a business owner, you can learn practical, relevant and easy to use approaches to save time and money, reach more customers, and take advantage of the current business software.
Some of the topics covered in the series include:
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You can test your tech know-how with quizzes after each course, and you can also download the e-book of each Business Technology Simplified course for easy reading offline. After you finish the online series, you will earn a certificate of completion.
Take advantage of this and other free interactive courses that are offered at the SBA's Online Learning Center to get help with your business needs.
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onaplioa | Window Shopper | 8/26/2013 - 2:58 am
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I am always eager to learn so they will definitely come in handy.
Thank you.
voytya8 | Window Shopper | 8/23/2013 - 7:57 am
forces. I'll start today with the first module.
kmurray | Community Moderator | 8/29/2013 - 3:16 pm
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Here's a web 2.0 tool that could bring some fun into your classroom. Animoto is an online music-video creation application. Go to their site, sign up (it's free), and you can create a short (30 second) music video, using your own digital photos and a song from the animoto library, that can be emailed, downloaded, linked to, or embedded in a web site.
Right now they have a mother's day special going on. The animoto creation you make is sent inside a lovely flash-based mother's day graphic (hard to explain, but it's pretty). I just put an animoto together for my mom (who, at 70 years old, has completely immersed herself in email and the web – go MOM!) and it was a lot of fun. Once I found the digital photos I wanted, it only took me about 15 minutes to put it together. It's a way to send something nice to your Mom while brushing up on your web 2.0 skills.
Animoto would be a useful tool to consider for student projects (maybe a fun end-of-the-year sort of thing?). It's good for setting a mood and giving a content "impression". Not so good for presenting a complex topic or a linear progression. Here are a few biology animotos that might be fun to create… a series of biodiversity animotos? Or an animoto for each biome? Animotos of a local nature area? Student pets? Gardens? Your classroom? Would love to hear your ideas and see what you create.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A 20-year-old Charleston man is clinging to life after he was hit in the head with a brick and robbed Monday night at the KRT Transit Mall, police said.
Charleston Police Lt. Steve Cooper said Brandon Coltey was attacked by at least three men at 7:57 p.m. in front of the Middle East Market and Deli near Slack Plaza on Laidley Street.
On Tuesday night, Coltey was in critical condition at CAMC General Hospital's Intensive Care Unit.
Security cameras aimed at the Middle East Market and Deli captured the attack and about a dozen witnesses standing nearby.
One man enters the video's frame and appears to be agitated about something, Cooper said. That man appears to start a shoving match with Coltey and at least two other men stand nearby. Cooper said one man picks up a loose brick off the street and hits Coltey over the head with it.
Once on the ground, a suspect wearing white repeatedly kicks Coltey in the stomach and head. Another man is captured on the video rummaging through Coltey's pockets before taking his wallet, Cooper said.
Cooper hopes the released video will help identify the suspects in what he calls a "brutal attack."
"The victim is in critical condition, and there were about 15 witnesses in the video that didn't call police," he said. "They just chose to stand around taking pictures and video on their phones."
Cooper said the three suspects appear to be about 18 or 19 years old. One appears to have dreadlocks. Anyone with information is asked to call the Charleston Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division, at 304-348-6480.
Multiple people at the Transit Mall told a reporter what they saw Tuesday but said they didn't want to get involved with the police. One man said he knows the suspects but won't identify them unless police pay him.
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Mayor Susan Fennell is encouraging Bramptonians to join the Cut My Commute campaign and come up with ideas on how to improve roads and public transit, and let her know what their priorities are for local transportation improvements.
Bramptonians can tweet their ideas to @mayorfennell using the hashtag: #CutMyCommute. They can also contact the mayor through her office by calling, writing, or visit Fennell on Facebook here.
Cut My Commute is an interactive transportation-themed challenge that has gone national.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) launched the campaign recently, and Fennell wants Bramptonians to participate to let the country know they care about long-term infrastructure funding from the federal government.
Fennell's asking for ideas that she will then present to Brampton's MPs in advance of the 2013 federal budget.
"The Cut My Commute campaign is an important way for residents to be engaged and to have their voices heard," Fennell says. "I want Bramptonians to share their priorities about improving roads and public transit."
The campaign highlights the benefits of dealing with gridlock, improving public transit and how it can help cities like Brampton attract job-creating investments and improve quality of life.
"The Cut My Commute campaign encourages individuals from Brampton and across Canada, to tell their story and let all governments know what important transportation improvements would mean to their families, businesses, and day-to-day lives," says Fennell, who chairs FCM's Ontario Caucus of councillors and mayors.
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The argument on deodorants and antiperspirants and their effects on health continues generation after generation till humans stop using them entirely. In fact, this argument is justified because many products used for skin are proven to cause some diseases to some people, therefore out of prudence one has to investigate on what fits their body and do not harm their health.
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Dr. Joseph Ojo has been appointed as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE JESTPE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the largest engineering professional society, recently launched a new journal called the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (IEEE JESTPE). Power Electronics has become a dominant and defining technology in our search for better utilization of electricity in transportation electrification, industries and residential applications. The renewed and increasing proliferation of carbon free electricity generating renewable energy sources such as wind and solar have become possible due to the recent advancements in the art, science and practice of Power Electronics. It holds great promise in engendering environmentally friendlier and higher fuel economy transport systems, and making the utility grid in consort with modern communication technologies to operate smartly, interactively and efficiently. The new journal will be a forum for the publication of new and emerging trends in this multi-faceted and interdisciplinary field, while seeking a respectful balance between analytical and theoretical grounding on one hand and the industrial practice on the other.
The journal is an outcome of an on-going collaboration between the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the IEEE Industry Applications Society which are two of the leading Power Electronics Societies in the World. This journal which will produce six issues in a year will come on line in 2013. The pioneering Editor–in-Chief of IEEE JESTPE is Dr. F. Dong Tan, a Fellow of IEEE and a Distinguished Engineer/Senior Staff Manager with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS) in Redondo Beach California.
Dr. Joseph Ojo, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tennessee Tech, has been appointed as the Deputy Editor –in-Chief of the new journal. A Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IEE (UK), Dr. Ojo is also serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and a member of the Editorial Board of the IET Journal of Power Electronics. For more than twenty years he has been teaching and researching in various areas of Power Electronics and with resources from external funding agencies, the Center for Energy Systems Research, (CESR), and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he has built a research laboratory at the University which has produced many PhD and MS graduates.


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The SOS Outreach Colorado-Eagle River Ride is a premier event in the Vail Valley benefiting the youth development non-profit SOS Outreach. The ride loops from Beaver Creek Ski resort out along the scenic banks of the Colorado and Eagle Rivers including the famous hard-packed dirt portion of the Colorado River Road. There are multiple routes to suit each rider's ability including a 100 mile, 68 mile and 42 mile. This unique ride not only gives riders an opportunity to ride a course that can be difficult without full SAG support, but all proceeds go to SOS Outreach.
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Years ago I pitched the idea of a Silent Hill book to Smart Pop, a publishing house that produces books about movies, books and TV shows that have a strong fan following. They are series of essays, often written by fans as well as known authors, about the inner workings and cultural influences of things like Lost, Buffy the Vampire Killer, Star Trek, Hunger Games, etc etc etc.
The books are reasonably popular. When I made the pitch, the editor I spoke to said they had never considered doing a book about a video game (they have since done a World of Warcraft book), but would consider it once the movie came out. Then they said, "maybe if there's a sequel." And eventually they just stopped responding. The immense body of Silent Hill fandom and critique and analysis was either not enough or too much — or, I hypothesize, no one who worked there was into "that sort of thing" and so couldn't imagine how to market a book on Silent Hill. Besides, it's not like they don't have enough material to work with. I think they even made a Glee book.
So, is the idea not a good one after all? I don't think so. I think it could be a great idea. So maybe it needs to be a fan-collaboration. After all, in this day and age, self-publishing is easy, and PoD requires no out-of-pocket funding. Get an ISBN and it can be sold on Amazon, B&N, and any major retailer. The fandom itself can do most of the necessary marketing — word-of-mouth is strong.
Do you think there is interest? Do any of you know of any particularly good writers among the fandom that have produced some good stuff? Writers who might be interested in collaborating on a SH book?
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Flooded with natural light, Hotel Le Crystal's meeting and banquet halls are an ideal destination for corporate functions, unforgettable celebrations and special occasions with thousands of square feet of flexible meeting and event space. The Hotel provides excellent catering services and meticulously orchestrates all occasions, whether grand or intimate. The catering services staff subject every element of each event to rigorous aesthetic standards of presentation, and any special request, whether mundane or esoteric, can be accommodated.
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Senior Adrian Ortiz (Berwyn, Ill./Morton West) and redshirt junior Stefan Antonijevic (Buffalo Grove, Ill./Stevenson [College of Lake County/Marquette]) both repeated as Second Team All-Horizon League honorees, while junior Guy Shabtay (Ramat-Gan, Israel/Blich [Prairie State C.C.]) earned a spot on the All-Newcomer Team as the league announced its postseason award recipients Monday afternoon.
Ortiz earns Second Team honors for the second straight season after tallying a goal and four assists in 2010. The senior, who played in all 75 of Valpo's games over his four-year career, netted his third career goal late in the season against Western Michigan and also led the Crusaders with his four helpers. Ortiz's last assist, which came in the season finale against Detroit, gave him 13 career assists, tied for third-most in program history.
Antonijevic also repeats as a Second Team honoree after scoring four goals, tied for second on the team, and adding an assist in 2010. The redshirt junior, who appeared in 16 games this year, was a physical presence in the midfield for the Crusaders all season long. He was named MVP of the Marquette Invitational after scoring the match-winner in a win over Santa Clara and also tallied goals in Horizon League action against Wright State and UIC.
Shabtay represented the Crusaders on the All-Newcomer Team after appearing in 15 matches, including four starts, in his first season in the Valpo kit. The junior-college transfer kicked off his Crusader career with a bang, scoring the lone goal in a 1-0 win in the season opener at UNLV. He also scored a match winner in Horizon League play against Wright State, and added goals in non-league action late in the year versus Western Michigan and Eastern Illinois. Shabtay's four goals tied with Antonijevic for second-most on the squad.
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Albirex stun SAFFC, Home fire blanks
There was no joy for perennial challengers SAFFC as they were beaten by Albirex Niigata 3-2 in their opening game of the 2012 Great Eastern-YEO's S.League season.
SAFFC went into Friday evening's game as favourites and were looking to make amends for last season's third-place finish, while there were question marks over the threat Albirex would pose after losing a number of key players over pre-season.
However, the White Swans drew first blood in the 26th minute when midfielder Musashi Okuyama found the back of the net, before striker Toshikazu Soya added a second just before halftime.
The game then looked all but over when Soya grabbed his second on the hour mark to put Albirex 3-0 up, but the Warriors were given a glimmer of hope when Croatian hitman Mislav Karoglan pulled one back from the spot.
Nonetheless, the Albirex defence stood firm to hold on to all three points, although they had to survive a late scare when Shukor Zailan added a second for SAFFC at the death with a screamer.
Last season's runners-up Home United looked uncharateristically toothless up front in Friday's other game, as they were held to a 0-0 draw by minnows Balestier Khalsa.
With star striker Frederic Mendy and new signing Shotaro Ihata - who scored more than 40 goals between them last season - leading the line, the Protectors were expected to put Balestier to the sword.
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On Thursday, league newcomers Harimau Muda recorded an impressive 2-0 win over Gombak United with goals coming from Thamil Arasu and Wan Zaharulnizam , while Hougang United and Tanjong Pagar United played out a 1-1 draw.
Canadian striker Jordan Webb gave Hougang the lead in the 23rd minute, but Takaya Kawanabe equalised eight minutes later to earn the Jaguars a share of the spoils.
Sunday's action will see returning Bruneian outfit DPMM FC entertain defending champions Tampines Rovers, while Courts Young Lions face off against Woodlands Wellington.
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Home United 0-0 Balestier Khalsa
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Gombak United 0-2 Harimau Muda
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As if the easy cadence of "Yankees Suck" wasn't enough to catalyze local pride, Mixologist Bob McCoy has gone and added another booster to Boston's ego: The 1822 cocktail. It might sound innocuously numerical (or vaguely historical), but one taste of this boozy, bitter, fruity cocktail, and you'll start to shiver in your Manhattan-sipping boots. Boston's got a cocktail scene that's about to get playfully, confidently self-referential on all of our asses.
Not that we're caught with our guard down. We honored one of the city's most promising mixologists, Tom Schlesinger-Guideli, in 2009. But that's part of the problem (as far as any extant New York-Boston rivalry goes; imbibers, feel free to rejoice). With Island Creek Oyster Bar, Schlesinger-Guideli's risen up to a mentorship position, bringing guys like McCoy through the ranks to build upon an already stellar cocktail scene. The results are drinks like The 1822, a mixture of local rhubarb-infused vermouth, local Knockabout gin, St. Germain, and orange bitters.
Beyond highlighting outstanding local products, The 1822 has the added townie oomph of being named for the year Boston was incorporated as a city (172 years B.N., or Before Nomar) and the year rhubarb was first available in the Boston marketplace—as McCoy puts it, an "unlikely and fitting coincidence."
Beantown pride aside, what really differentiates The 1822 is McCoy's rhubarb vermouth, a rosé-based concoction that clocks in at about six days of prep time. "The bright, fresh, red-fruit flavors of the vermouth are a standout," says McCoy, genuflecting to the key ingredient. "Rhubarb has fresh raw stalks that are crisp and flavorful, but they also have a strong, tart taste," which McCoy tames and teases with a laundry-list of herbs and spices—everything from gentian, fennel, wormwood, and cinnamon to green cardamom, wild cherry bark, and the violet-and-berry mystique of orris root.
Not only do these lovingly culled aromatics make for an elegant, complex vermouth, they bring out some of the herbaceousness of the St. Germain and Knockabout, a Gloucester, Massachusetts-based London dry gin named for local fishing schooners of yore. Put all that together and you've got lively red fruit anchored with a woodsy potpourri of herbs and bitters, garnished with lemon peel and local pride. "It ends with a pleasantly bitter finish," says McCoy. Reminds us of a Yankees-Sox game.


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Samantha Roshak Serendipmitty Mitts
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Samantha started designing this pattern without a plan or goal. The dictionary defines serendipity as "making desirable discoveries by accident," so Serendipmitty must mean making desirable mitts by accident.
Instructions are given for cabling with or without a cable needle.
Materials: 210 yds. sport weight yarn
Needles: US 1.5 (2.5mm) DPN or circular needles with at least a 32" cable (or size needed to obtain gauge).
Gauge: 36 sts and 36 rows to 4" in pattern laid flat without stretching.
Size: M (L) 6"-9" (7"-10") in circumference. Both sizes are 9 1/2"in length.
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