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Checkit for Food Service
Checkit Real-Time Operations Management ensures your staff carry out essential tasks, the right way - without fail.
Improve the management of day to day work
Boost productivity, cut risk, improve performance
Checkit digitises the management of key aspects of food service operations. It replaces paper checklists with smart apps, automates temperature checks with wireless sensors and provides real time insights into what's working and what isn't.
Protect and grow revenue. Checkit helps improve consistency and quality of service across businesses, freeing up staff to focus on customer service.
Improve productivity. Digitisation cuts out checks that can be done automatically. It slashes training time, getting workers up to speed quicker, and it cuts out local and regional management admin.
Cut risk. Every check tracked and recorded. Every management action logged. Every faulty fridge alerted. Checkit cuts risk and the cost of risk, from cutting waste from equipment failures to demonstrating and defending against compliance issues to poor food safety ratings.
Checkit provides continual insights across your business
Checkit Real-Time Operations Management incorporates Work Management and Automated Monitoring which capture millions of data points on how people, processes and equipment are performing against your operational strategy. Operational Insight pulls this data together into usable information that gives an unprecedented view on the health of your organisation.
Manage and monitor performance in real time with Work Management
Customer experience and safety depend on many routine things being done right, every time. Paper systems just aren't up to the job.
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Smart compliance management protects your brand and reputation
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Her social entrepreneurship and dedication to social media won her 2016 Voice Pioneer at the Canadian Screen Awards. She's been awarded Best Travel Blog, Best Lifestyle Blog, and Top 100 Blogs in Canada among many accolades from mainstream media. Casie is represented by the National Speakers Bureau of Canada and has previously spoken at TEDx, SXSW, NXNE, CMW, and for the United Nations Association of Canada.
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It's been a while since I submerged myself into some good Japanese horror. Unfortunately, this movie was more like rolling around in a shallow puddle in the middle of a Home Depot parking lot.
Ring of Curse (ummm…is it just me or does it sound like there's something off in the translation here?) begins with three cutesy little teenage girls explaining to us, the viewers, about a movie they created. Naturally it's based on a true story and the girl speaking says she has taken on the main role of Yuka while her companions look awkward and sad. Enjoy.
Yuka is asked by her literature club teacher to enlist the membership of Hinako, a loner weirdo girl in her class to join the club. Hinako won an award for a novel she wrote and won't that make her a great addition? Yuka is promptly shut down because hello? Loner.
Not only is Hinako a loner but she's a great student and her classmates, particularly Sonoda, are sick and tired of not being as smart. So they organize a class wide bullying campaign against her. They also use the opportunity of producing a class play to make Hinako write the script, allowing them more opportunities to be little assholes. Hinako accepts the job, though, and we all know this is probably a VERY BAD THING.
Soon Hinako's bullies begin dying, usually soon after they read her work. Yuka suspects shenanigans on Hinako's part and eventually confronts her. Yep, Hinako has discovered the power of putting a curse into words and anyone who reads what she writes is doomed to die.
You might think that's the end of the story but oh, no. Not by a freakin' long shot. But that would involve spoilers and I don't want to ruin too much for anyone!
Overall the movie was rather lackluster. It felt like so many other Japanese horror films. In fact, I'm pretty sure they stole ideas from The Ring and Death Note but put everything in the context of high school so that made it feel more original….not really.
Hinako is dark and weird right out of the gate but her backstory gives us an idea of why. Sure it was a bit contrived but it worked in garnering my sympathy for the poor thing. Personally almost everyone that fell to the curse got exactly what was coming to them. Yeah, we were all shitbirds as kids (well, maybe the Dalai Lama wasn't) but the students in this film were just so abhorrent that trust me, you wanted them to die.
Most of the deaths related to the curse were unsettling (I have a thing about not being able to breathe) but there were two that had me in shock in their severity. I can't tell you what they were because that would spoil it but they are worth slogging through the rest of the film to watch.
Certain elements that just sucked, aside from the stolen ideas, were: 1. Hinako researching on the Internet about how to create a curse. Really? She just had to Google it? (insert resting bitch face here) 2. Yuka and some fellow students trying to math their way into a survival solution. Who the hell wants a statistics homework montage in the middle of a horror movie? "Study your math, kids. Key to the universe!" 3. Near the end of the film, the writers just start dumping exposition in to explain multiple layers and elements of this curse and it becomes so muddled and complicated that I had no idea what the hell was going on until one character finally comes in at the end to explain it all.
Aside from a few precious moments of awesome in the movie, the whole film was a let down. Go watch the films Ring of Curse stole its ideas from and you'll be much happier.
2 Hatchets (out of 10)
About the Author
Peggy Christie has been writing horror fiction since 1999. Her work has appeared in several websites, magazines, and anthologies, including Necrotic Tissue, Code Z: An Undead Hospital Anthology, Black Ink Horror, Elements of Horror, and Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes. Her short story, "Why Be Normal?", opened the anthology Reckless Abandon from Catalyst Press which premiered at the Horrorfind Convention in 2002. Her collection, Hell Hath No Fury, was published by Hazardous Press in May of 2013. Peggy is also the Secretary of the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers. She even has her own webpage. Check it out at themonkeyisin.com.
Peggy loves Korean dramas, survival horror video games, and chocolate (not necessarily in that order) and lives in Michigan with her husband and their two dogs, Roscoe P. Coltrane and Dozer.


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Federer rallies with legend Laver in rare Australian Open warmup
Roger Federer traded shots with his hero Rod Laver on Wednesday in the stadium that bears the Australian great's name before promising that his hunger for grand slam titles remains as strong as ever.sports Updated: Jan 09, 2014 02:39 IST
Roger Federer traded shots with his hero Rod Laver on Wednesday in the stadium that bears the Australian great's name before promising that his hunger for grand slam titles remains as strong as ever.
The 17-times grand slam champion beamed with pride after enjoying a few rallies with the 75-year-old, who was dressed in traditional whites and impressed a packed crowd with his movement ahead of Federer's exhibition match with French world number 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
"Hitting with Rod Laver for me clearly is an absolute dream come true," Federer told reporters after a crowd-pleasing 6-7(5) 6-3 7-5 win over Tsonga in the fund-raising event for his charity, the Roger Federer Foundation.
"It's in his arena as well, it's named after him and he deserves it so much.
"He told me that his wrist was hurting less on the forehand so he asked me to play there a bit more often.
"While I was playing my racket was feeling extremely heavy, that means I was very nervous which I really was because you don't want to miss a shot.
"I was happy we had some rallies. What an honour it was for me and I hope that the crowd enjoyed it and I'm very thankful that he was willing to do something like this because it's not normal in any way and that's why I really appreciate it."
The 32-year-old Federer has won four of his 17 major titles in Rod Laver Arena and famously burst into tears when receiving the second of his winner's trophies in 2006 from the Australian, the only man to complete two grand slams in calendar years.
Laver has returned the admiration and said during the Melbourne launch of his autobiography in October last year that the Swiss could hit back from his disappointing 2013 by winning the year's first grand slam.
Federer heads into the grand slam seeded sixth and after losing the final of the Brisbane International to fellow 32-year-old Lleyton Hewitt of Australia.
The Swiss has not set any goals for himself at Melbourne Park as he battles to return to peak form but said the tour was still keeping the competitive juices flowing.
"It's a different feeling today and the enjoyment factor I get out of playing on tour is totally different," he said. "It's a much deeper love I have today for the game and a much bigger appreciation and respect I have.
"I just remember playing on court 25 all along in my career. So now that I can play on centre court it's an absolute privilege most of the time and if they put me on Hisense (Arena) or Margaret Court (Arena), I don't care," he said of the two other showcourts at Melbourne Park.
"As long as I can play in great conditions and enjoy myself I'll keep on playing."
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Charles Mingus at Carnegie Hall: 90th Birthday Salute
In honor of the 90th birthday earlier this year of bassist, composer, and bandleader Charles Mingus (1922–1979)—and on the 35th anniversary of his final appearance at the Hall on June 28, 1977—we're taking the opportunity to look back at this legendary musician's Carnegie Hall performances.
Charles Mingus made the first of his 11 Carnegie Hall appearances on April 2, 1955, as part of a memorial concert for saxophonist Charlie Parker, who had died three weeks earlier at age 34. Besides Mingus, some 40 musicians, ranging from trumpeter Henry "Red" Allen to saxophonist Lester Young, turned out to pay homage to Parker, one of the most important and influential figures in the history of jazz.
Program pages from the "Memorial Concert for Charlie "Bird" Parker" on April 2, 1955, during which Charles Mingus made his Carnegie Hall debut. Courtesy of the Carnegie Hall Archives.
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Mingus's next several Carnegie Hall performances were similar all-star events: a salute to Sammy Davis Jr. in 1956; a memorial tribute to Billie Holiday in 1962; and a benefit for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1963. Jet magazine called that event "a smashing success." His first headline appearance didn't take place until 1973, when his quintet was augmented by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, his collaborator from the famous Massey Hall concert in Toronto 20 years earlier (which had also featured Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach).
Program insert from the "Billie Holiday Memorial Concert" on May 7, 1962, during which Charles Mingus performed. Courtesy of the Carnegie Hall Archives.
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Program insert from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee benefit on February 1, 1963, which featured Charles Mingus. Courtesy of the Carnegie Hall Archives.
Although he had appeared at Carnegie Hall very infrequently since 1955, Mingus made up for lost time with a string of performances between 1973 and 1977. One notable appearance, with his Jazz Workshop ensemble on January 19, 1974, was recorded by Atlantic Records, but only two tracks—"C Jam Blues" and "Perdido"—were released, and most of the concert remains unissued.
Some of the reviewers of the early- to mid-1970s concerts felt that those performances lacked the sustained burning intensity displayed by his landmark Jazz Workshop bands of the late 1950s and '60s. But his Newport Jazz Festival appearance with his sextet and the Azucena y Edo Flamenco Dance Group at the Hall on June 26, 1976, prompted Robert Palmer of The New York Times to remark that having "worked the audience into a near frenzy ... the night belonged to Mr. Mingus, and it was one of the outstanding triumphs of his career."
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Panspermia (also known as exogenesis) is a hypothesis that originated in the 19th century in opposition to the theory of spontaneous generation. Pansperia propounded that reproductive bodies (seeds) of living organisms exist throughout the universe and develop wherever the environment is favorable. The term is derived from the Greek word 'pan' meaning all and 'sperma' or seed. Exogenesis comes from the Greek words meaning outside origin. It is a hypothesis which maintains that microscopic living organisms came to our planet from outer space. It is largely distinguished in that it makes no prediction about how widespread life is in the cosmos.
The basic assertion of these hypotheticals is that primitive life, which originated elsewhere, was deposited on Earth's surface by means of a collision with some other object that already harbored life. An asteroid or comet, perhaps containing primitive cells or simple bacteria, fell to Earth at some time in the past. Then over billions of years they evolved into the more advanced forms of life now spread across our planet. To date no meteorites have ever been shown to harbor bona fide life.
The search for extraterrestrial life (exobiology) has been repopularized upon the realization of the improbability that life formed through abiogenesis. Scientists have been unable to get a cell to form under any conceivable condition. Likewise it has also become clear that for the basic building blocks of life to form, oxygen must be absent, and yet oxides have been found in rocks supposedly 300 million years older than the first living cells.
Much of the research currently underway by NASA, such as the recent expedition to Mars, is aimed at finding proof that life might have begun elsewhere.
College biology textbooks nationwide either highlight or place front-and-center the "extraterrestrial origin of life" as the front-running theory of modern science.
These are only a few examples of how the concept is being seeded into the culture. Of concern for creationists: This not only mainstreams the idea of space-aliens as a valid scientific endeavor, it fully accepts the argument-from-design while at the same time co-opting and assimilating it into secular discussions, stripping it from creationist discussion.
Objections to Panspermia
The full theory of panspermia requires two events to explain the presence of life on earth:
- The generation of life outside the earth
- The transfer of this life to earth
Many scientists have objected that the generation of life cannot occur, or have occurred, outside of a planetary environment, where heavier elements are plentiful. Almost the only elements present in interstellar space are hydrogen and helium--and the latter, being an inert or noble gas, is not a component of life in any form known to man.
The generation objection by itself would not destroy panspermia. But the transference event requires a transit through space, followed by a passage through the earth's atmosphere and then an impact on the ground or at sea. Either of these events is fraught with danger. The unprotected space outside of an atmosphere is subject to unfiltered radiation in various forms. These include the products of radioactive decay, cosmic rays (the highest-energy form of electromagnetic radiation known to man), and the stellar wind, a stream of particles that fly out from any star as it continuously burns. Even if any life forms could survive the spatial passage, it must then somehow penetrate the atmosphere and risk incineration from sheer friction, and then must survive the impact.
Recently a team of researchers at the Centre for Molecular Biophysics in France were able to simulate a meteoric entry by strapping rocks containing microfossils and laced with Chroococcidipsis, an unusually robust bacterium, to the heat shield of a rocket probe before it was launched and then ordered to re-enter the atmosphere. Though the microfossils remained after re-entry, the bacteria were all destroyed, and only their outlines remained. The investigators concluded that any bacteria or other micro-organisms in a meteorite would require at least 2 cm of rock covering to protect them. In fact, the experimental conditions seem to suggest that micro-organisms within an actual meteorite would require more shielding than 2 cm, because a typical meteorite enters the atmosphere at about twice the speed of the returning rocket probe.[1]
Directed Panspermia
In 1973, Francis H. Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, and Leslie E. Orgel proposed a new mechanism, which they called directed panspermia, to mitigate the hazards of transport and entry detailed above. They assume that an advanced civilization fired a brace of rocket missiles, each laden with a payload of bacteria and/or blue-green algae, in all directions. Crick and Orgel estimated that a payload of one metric ton could contain 1017 micro-organisms organized in ten or a hundred separate samples.
The theory has gained some attractiveness primarily by proposing to explain why so many life-forms on earth depend on the element molybdenum, which is rare on earth but might not have been so rare on the planet of origin of these micro-organisms.
Excerpted and publicly available from the movie Expelled[2], prolific and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins directly answers why DNA has the appearance of having been designed: "It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by, probably by some Darwinian means, to a very, very high level of technology, and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. That is a possibility and an intriguing possibility. And I suppose its possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of our chemistry and molecular biology you might find a signature of some sort of designer - and that designer could well be a higher intelligence from elsewhere in the universe, but that higher intelligence would have had to come about by some explicable or ultimately Darwinian process. It couldn't have just jumped into existence spontaneously."
However, this theory is subject to a number of logical objections:
- 1. Where and how did life form or come to this other world, for an intelligent race to build a civilization capable of launching guided missiles into interstellar, or even inter-galactic, space? Directed panspermia thus appears to be an example of the logical fallacy of infinite regression, and thus violative of Occam's razor.
- 2. Crick and Orgel totally ignore the question of the motive for firing this hypothetical brace of missiles. The attitude of such a civilization toward humanity would have to be one of four things:
- A. Irrelevant--that civilization was dying when it fired the missiles, and is now dead.
- B. Indifferent--having fired the missiles, they really don't care whether any of them landed intact or not, or whether any of them spawned a new civilization or not. But if so, then why bother with such a project? One can only imagine the sort of political debate that might have begun before the first launch-pad gantry crane was erected, and plagued the project for its duration. Such debates on alleged wastefulness ultimately curtailed Project Apollo, constantly threaten the abandonment of the International Space Station, and place the current plans for re-exploration of the moon by NASA in serious doubt. (They also invite disaster to themselves. Suppose, for instance, one of their "child" civilizations should decide to look for them and go to war with them to poach their technology, resources, and so on?)
- C. Friendly--that civilization plans a follow-up visit with a view to establishing trade and travel. Such a theory would no doubt have its appeal to non-believers hoping for a God-substitute to solve all the world's problems--which is a common theme in the science fiction of the twenty-first century. (Indeed, the intellectual heirs of the popular entertainer Gene Roddenberry explicitly proposed a race of "Progenitors" who were ultimately responsible for the spawning of humanity, "Vulcankind," and all the other hundreds of races that Mr. Roddenberry and his successors conceived for the longest-running franchise in the history of television.) More recently, movies such as Prometheus (the prequel to Alien) and Mission to Mars have continued to popularize this concept.
- D. Hostile--that civilization intended to create new planets for its own people to settle, in which case we are in the way, and "they" will follow up their life-seeding project with an expeditionary force consisting of warships. This theme pervaded the popular science fiction of the middle part of the twentieth century, especially in the early years of the Cold War between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
For all the attention that Drs. Crick and Orgel pay to the design of one of those missiles, and the stresses and radiation bombardment it must have had to withstand while in transit, they say absolutely nothing in consideration of motive. Without such predictions, one cannot even make a decent public-policy recommendation--and indeed, they don't seem even to have considered that their theory has any public-policy implications at all.
In sum, directed panspermia is a remarkably sloppy theory to come from the co-discoverer of DNA. But more than that, Dr. Crick shows himself determined to reject God. So determined is he that he now indulges in a flight of fancy that is surely worse than any of which anti-creationists routinely accuse creation scientists.
Theological Implications
Many Christian believers accept the notion of space-aliens or complex life in other parts of the universe. Whether this belief is a due to a superficial understanding of Scripture or a product of deliberate, objective study, many significant issues arise:
(a) Jesus Christ redeemed the entire creation, not just mankind Revelation 13:8 Romans 8:22 Revelation 5:1-9 (b) Jesus Christ redeemed the entire creation on the Cross, on planet Earth (c) If other sentient life forms of God's creation exist elsewhere, how are they heirs to the promise of a human Redeemer? Genesis 3:15 Galatians 3:9 (d) God used prophets to foretell many significant events, but was silent on the subject of beings from other worlds visiting Earth (e) Every "evidence" posited by believers in Ancient Astronauts are always the types of artifacts that could survive a flood, such as large rock structures or sculptures. No optics, electronics etc. Are these artifacts left behind by aliens, or by a highly intelligent culture that was wiped out by water in the Global Flood? (f) Discussion of beings on other worlds is a modern concept that has a foundation only if evolution is true. If evolution is false, the whole narrative of space-aliens is meaningless. Thus Panspermia is an artifact of the belief in evolutionary theory, not the result of scientific inquiry. (g) Panspermia requires a leap-of-faith that is far greater than the simple faith required to believe Scripture. When attempting to distill truth, Occam's Razor is useful here. Why take a leap of faith, in the name of science, when science has no observable justification for such beliefs? (h) No evidence for space-aliens have ever been discovered. Around the world, millions of dollars in bounty and rewards are offered for anyone presenting bona-fide evidence of extra-terrestrial life.
Exobiology News
- Did Life Come from Another World? New research indicates that microorganisms could have survived a journey from Mars to Earth. Scientific American Nov 2005.
- Exobiology: It's life...isn't it? Scientists find it hard enough to pin down evidence of early life on our own planet. How on Earth do we plan to determine whether life exists elsewhere? Nature 430, 288-290. July 2004
- Study May Cast Doubt On Some 1996 Evidence Of Past Life On Mars Debate over whether a meteorite contains evidence of past life on Mars continues to intensify. May 6, 2004
- ↑ Sarfati, Jonathan. "Panspermia theory burned to a crisp: bacteria couldn't survive on meteorite." Creation on the Web, Creation Ministries International, October 10, 2008. Accessed October 31, 2008.
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoncJBrrdQ8
- ↑ Photo S94-032549 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Crick, F. H. C., and Orgel, L. E. "Directed Panspermia," Icarus, 19, 341 (1973).
External links
- Designed by aliens?: Discoverers of DNA's structure attack Christianity by Gary Bates. Creation 25(4):54–55. September 2003
- Nature and Origin of Life on Planetary Bodies by Nicholas M. Short. NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial.
- Planet Quest NASA's Exoplanet Program.
- Origins NASA's Origin of Life Program.
- Astrobiology NASA's Astrobiology Program.
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Dr Lawrence Gilchrist graduated from Queen's University faculty of Medicine with the award of Gold Medal in Surgery. He then went on to complete his residency in Surgery and Urology at McGill University, obtaining his diplomas as a specialist in Urology at both the Collège des Médecins du Québec and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
He has practiced as chief of the Urology service at Centre Hospitalier Pierre-Boucher since its inception in 1982 until 2012.
He has the following associations: The Quebec Urological Association, Société Internationale d'Urologie, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, The American Urological Association and Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners in the United States.
Dr Gilchrist practices general urology with more then 30 years experience in all aspects of urology. He has a large practice in prostate and bladder cancer, kidney stone disease, urinary incontinence in females, and all disorders of the prostate including benign prostatic hypertrophy. All major surgeries are performed at Centre Hospitalier Pierre-Boucher. Minor procedures such as vasectomy, circumcision, cystoscopies can be performed at his office.
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"One of the most coveted locations at the central business district, the SKY Hotel provides more than just a convenient locale in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah."
Contemporary, sleek and discerning with just the right touch of quality make the SKY Hotel the perfect lifestyle choice for those looking for something different.
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The SKY Hotel comprises a unique setting of 70 spacious 2 to 6 persons bedroom hotel serviced apartments with quality finishing using natural materials with neutral, relaxing colour scheme. All are well-designed units with a fully furnished kitchen plus full hotel services such as laundry, hotel/airport transfer, city pick-up etc upon request.
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Vito Acconci (American, born 1940)
Way Station I (Study Chamber), 1983/rebuilt 2013
Steel, concrete, spray enamel, mirror, 81 x 72 x 54 inches. Commissioned with funds provided by the Christian A. Johnson Fund (1983) and the Committee on Art in Public Places (2013), 2013.017
Location: Pond behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts
(Photo: Jonathan Blake)
Vito Acconci, an artist and architect of global stature, began his career as a writer and performance artist. Much of his early installation work incorporated language directly into the experience of the viewer, and some of his performances set a high bar for the extremely provocative performance art of the years to follow. By the late 1970s his work was featured in numerous museums, and he had his first retrospective exhibit in 1980 at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.
In January 1983 Acconci was appointed a Christian A. Johnson Visiting Artist at Middlebury for Winter Term. A month later he completed Way Station I, a large metal shed with a single entry way and a six by four-and-one-half foot foundation. The structure included painted images of flags of various national entities—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and the Palestine Liberation Organization—as well as mirrored glass and painted two-sided sliding metal panels. On the inside of the structure the panels spelled "GOD." "MAN," and "DOG"; on the exterior they depicted playing cards.
Way Station I was originally installed at a site between dormitories and dining halls, along a pathway regularly traveled by many students. Now the area is bounded by the Ross Complex, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, and the Freeman International Center. The piece was intentionally sited in the vicinity of the College Observatory and oriented to take advantage of the view of the Adirondack Mountains to the west and the Green Mountains to the east. It was intended to provide its users both a study space and a place for rest, contemplation, and reflection.
Though intended to invite introspection, Acconci's sculpture did just the opposite, inciting contention and abuse from much of the campus. Students and faculty alike complained about its plain metallic appearance and its placement on campus. Debates and arguments about the sculpture's artistic merits occurred regularly in the Middlebury Campus from the moment it was constructed. In addition to verbal abuse, the structure also sustained regular physical abuse on the way to its ultimate demise in May 1985, when an unidentified vandal or group of vandals lit the sculpture ablaze.
Initially, although there was some public mention of its reappearance, few advocated for repair of the work. But after more than three decades in storage the sculpture—at the behest of Richard Saunders, director of the museum and chair of CAPP—has now been reinstalled, with some modifications.
Way Station I was Acconci's first permanent site-specific work and, retrospectively, it clearly marks a significant transition from his temporary installations to his permanent architectural work. In conjunction with the reinstallation of Way Station I the museum also showed a retrospective exhibit titled Vito Acconci Thinking Space, which included photos and information about several of Acconci's completed projects as well as reproductions of Middlebury Campus articles covering the controversy the work created.


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TAMPA — Let's play a game. Try to imagine what Alex Rodriguez would have received had he been a free agent this past offseason.
Some teams would have abstained because they did not want the circus that comes with A-Rod. But even just the baseball — normally an asset for Rodriguez — would not have been a strong selling point.
This will be his age-36 season, and just four times in major league history has a third baseman 36 or older qualified for the batting title and produced an OPS over .900. The only person to do it twice was Mike Schmidt, but he was done as a useful player after his age-37 season. Rodriguez turns 37 in July, so how long would you want to make his contract?
Especially when you consider Rodriguez's OPS trend line the past five years: 1.067-.965-.933-.847-.823. Then throw in revelations of a failed steroid test, hip surgery in 2009 and injuries to his shoulder, knee and thumb last season that contributed to .276 with 16 homers and 62 RBIs — his worst full major league campaign.
And Rodriguez grew less effective as the season transpired. His second-half slugging percentage was .353, which was the same as the season-long result for Tony Gwynn. Unfortunately for Rodriguez that is Tony Gwynn Jr.
Once a graceful athlete, Rodriguez was not running smoothly and, without solid legs, his swing lacked fluidity and fury.
Also there is now a general bias against older players. Just look at how Johnny Damon, Vladimir Guerrero and Hideki Matsui can't find work.
Often a team will bail out a pedigreed player looking for money and the Marlins were the drunken sailors of this offseason. Moving into a new stadium and changing their first name to Miami, the Marlins could have been tempted to bring their native son home to play third next to fellow import Jose Reyes.
And don't think I didn't check to see during the winter if Rodriguez was tired enough of the New York criticism that he would have waived his no-trade clause. I saw some possibility — especially because the Yankees were thinking long-term finances — that they could swap A-Rod to Miami for the disgruntled Hanley Ramirez. Alas, it worked in my mind, but not in anything approaching reality.
But even if the Marlins played on Rodriguez in the free-agent scenario what could they have maximally offered: Four years at $60 million, five at $80 million? Even that would be something the vast majority of the sport would have found outrageous. So, of course you can see the Yankees' problem. They have Rodriguez, from this point forward, at six years, $143 million.
So they need him to defy both his trend line and the history of the game by being really good, and not just for 2012. This became even more vital when the Yankees traded Jesus Montero.
I think Montero was a for-real hitter. I believe he would have begun the 2012 season hitting seventh or eighth in the Yankees lineup and slowly worked his way up. I think in the near future the long-term 3-4 would have been established as Robinson Cano followed by Montero.
But now Montero is gone, and the Yankees do not have another hitter of his potential on the horizon. For financial reasons pertaining to the new collective bargaining agreement, they also are determined to stay under the $189 million luxury-tax threshold in 2014. Thus, it will be difficult to obtain an outside hitter for big dollars. Heck, in part because of the presence of Rodriguez's contract (and also those of CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira), it will be problematic for the Yankees to stay under $189 million and keep Cano and Curtis Granderson long term after their pacts expire following the 2013 season.
So you see how badly the Yankees need Rodriguez to endure and excel, and the first step is how good he looks as the full team is scheduled to take the field today for the first time. His work ethic is never in question, and he obsessed on agility and explosive movement during the offseason. But Rodriguez looked equally great at this time last year. Hitting coach Kevin Long remembers him as "the MVP of spring training."
Rodriguez then had a great April before his body slowly began breaking down, and his game followed.
"If he stays healthy, he will put up a big year, guaranteed," said Andruw Jones, who lived and worked out in Miami with Rodriguez from Jan. 3 to Feb. 9. That "if" is as huge as A-Rod's contract. It lurks ominously over the Yankees — and not just for 2012.


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The Ubuntu UK community and Canonical are hosting a 'different kind of IT event' next month to promote the use of Ubuntu in UK businesses.
The event, which takes place on Tuesday July 13th in London, will help to demonstrate to attendees the advantages Ubuntu can bring to the worksplace and how to approach introducing it 'safely & effectively'.
"The Ubuntu operating system for the desktop and server has made significant inroads into UK businesses over the last 5 years." the official event blurb leads with. "This event gives those advocates an opportunity to introduce their colleagues to Ubuntu, Canonical, Partners, community experts and their fellow IT professionals."
The event itinerary, which can be viewed on-line here, boasts a eclectic mix of case studies, 5 minutes 'evangelism' spots, demonstrations and a panel discussion lead by well known Open-Source writer and Journalist Glyn Moody.
The event will be rounded off with the Ubuntu-inspired Ubuntini cocktail being served at the bar.
"All are welcome, but if you already count yourself as an Ubuntu user, please drag along a colleague who has yet to see the light"
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MR-HUMAN v.1 Master of Philosophy (Humanities)
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Registered full-time Duration: 2 Years
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Master Degrees (Research) prepare students to apply advanced knowledge for research, scholarship and further learning corresponding to AQF level 9 qualifications.
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