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IT auditors must draw a clear distinction between IT governance and IT management processes:
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Hackensack University Health Network, Meridian Health to merge
Hackensack (N.J.) University Health Network and Neptune, N.J-based Meridian Health have signed a memorandum of understanding to consider merging and creating the largest health system in
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The outspoken House representative says it was Karzai's statement that prompted him to draft a resolution calling for a House vote on the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"We shouldn't be there another 15 to 20 months, let alone 15 to 20 years," Kucinich told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "When I'm in my district talking to people, nobody has come up to me and said we need to be in Afghanistan for the next 15 to 20 years. They do say we need jobs, we need to protect our basic industry, we need education, we need to protect retirement security. I'd like to see us start taking care of things here at home."
Kucinich is circulating a letter (PDF) among congressional colleagues asking them to co-sponsor his resolution.
My bills, which would trigger a timeline for a timely withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and Pakistan, invoke the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and are intended to secure the Constitutional role of Congress, as directly elected representatives of the people, under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, to decide whether or not America enters into war, continues a war, or otherwise introduces armed rorces or material into combat zones.
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"We cannot afford these wars. We cannot afford the loss of lives. We cannot afford the cost to taxpayers. We cannot afford to fail to exercise our constitutional right to end the wars," Kucinich said in a statement circulated among reporters on Wednesday.
Kucinich told the Plain Dealer he expects his resolution to land at the House International Relations Committee early next year. If the resolution is voted down, he will ask to have it moved back to the floor of the House — a maneuver that earlier this year allowed him to debate the impeachment of former Vice President Dick Cheney on the House floor, the Plain Dealer notes.
During a visit by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Kabul on Tuesday, President Karzai told the Pentagon chief that Afghanistan would need the US's help in security matters for 10 or 15 years going forward. President Obama's plan to start withdrawing troops in July 2011 has sparked concern in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan that the Taliban could sit out the surge and attack a pared down force in 18 months' time.
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Okay, so still no Pokemon Go tracker update but the latest patch does add one interesting new feature: the ability for Team Leaders to check your creature's stats. As revealed by Niantic's John Hanke back at Comic Con, it means Blanche, Candela and Spark are going to start being useful.
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'Pokemon Appraisal' isn't exactly a game changer but it will help when you've got a herd of near identical Eevees and need to make that all important choice - who to keep and who to send to the professor's blender.
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After a first-quarter blunder, Syracuse's cornerbacks and safeties strung together a dominant performance, holding Central Michigan scoreless for the final 37 minutes on Saturday. Read more »
Death Valley is on Babers' bucket list and is a "great home-field advantage." Read more »
Syracuse and NC State will air on the ACC Network Sept. 30. The Orange has not beaten NC State since 2013. Read more »
Beat writers Joe Bloss and Tomer Langer join the podcast to discuss whose stock moved where for Syracuse football headed into a week 4 matchup against LSU. Read more »
Brickman had two tours in Afghanistan. He came back and played football at Hudson Valley Community College before transferring to SU. Read more »
Sean Riley was SU's top performer, while kicker Cole Murphy had some questionable mistakes. Read more »
Beat writers Matthew Gutierrez and Joe Bloss discuss Syracuse's win over Central Michigan. Read more »
The Orange literally stampeded the Chippewas on Saturday night, rushing for more yards (300) than it passed for (274). Read more »
Sean Riley jumpstarted the Syracuse offense, the defense dominated on third downs and the special teams stepped up after a weak first two games. Read more »
The senior receiver left Saturday's SU win in the second quarter with an apparent injury to the knee, although his status is unclear. Read more »
The best shots from SU's victory on Saturday in the Carrier Dome. Read more »
The Orange locked down on defense for the 24-point victory on Saturday afternoon in the Carrier Dome. Read more »
One week after a devastating loss to Middle Tennessee State, Syracuse's offense clicked on all cylinders, hanging 31 unanswered en route to a 41-17 win. Read more »
How can you watch the game? What's to know about CMU? Gear up for Syracuse's final nonconference home game of the season. Read more »
Central Michigan has eight interceptions in two games, with one coming from its leading tackler in linebacker Alex Briones. Read more »
The last time SU and CMU matched up, 2015, the Orange won, 30-27, in overtime. Read more »
Player safety concerns place an emphasis on how exactly players tackle and what they can do to prevent injury. Read more »
Only a few months after being named Central Michigan's head coach, John Bonamego found out the unthinkable: He had squamous cell carcinoma. Read more »
Is CMU legit after a win over Kansas? How does the offense with top receivers out? The Daily Orange talks to a Central Michigan beat writer. Read more »
The first brutal hit Dungey took in Orange came when SU hosted CMU in 2015. Dungey leads SU's offense into the team's first meeting since on Saturday. Read more »
Syracuse's highest-touted prospect in years has arrived on campus. He can play at a high level, but will he see the field in 2017? Read more »
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Campus School to Hold Open Houses
The Smith College Campus School will hold two open houses to introduce its programs and provide information on admission and financial aid to prospective families. Visitors can tour the facilities and meet teachers.
The preschool open house will take
place Sunday, Jan. 23, at the Fort Hill campus, 28 Lyman Rd.
Principal Cathy Reid will present an overview at 2 p.m. followed
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For more information, call the Smith College Campus School admission office at (413) 585-3295.
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Syria opposition handed Western powers lists of targets for strike
The West is also urging the opposition to get ready for participation in Geneva-2 peace conference despite the planned air strikes.
Western powers told the Syrian opposition to expect a strike against President Bashar al-Assad's forces within days, according to sources who attended a meeting between envoys and the Syrian National Coalition in Istanbul.
"The opposition was told in clear terms that action to deter further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime could come as early as in the next few days, and that they should still prepare for peace talks at Geneva," said one of the sources who was at the meeting.
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text: Born in Turin in 1972, Fabio Geda is an Italian novelist who works with children in difficulties. He writes for several Italian magazines and newspapers, and teaches creative writing in the most famous Italian school of storytelling (Scuola Holden, in Turin). In the Sea There Are Crocodiles is his first book to be translated into English.


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Installing and launching
The NEAT Receipts software must be installed prior to attaching the scanner for the first time, and it comes in a standard Mac .dmg file. Installed, the application takes up 237 MB of hard drive real estate. As soon as the software installation is complete, your Mac reboots.
Immediately after launching the software for the first time, I was notified that a newer version was available. Instead of entering the license key, I shut down the installation and let Firefox download the 122.2 MB updater. The update required yet another restart, which was a bit annoying - what do they think this is, a Windows application? ;-)
Upon launching the updated application, I was greeted with a very neat and clean Welcome screen (see gallery for a screenshot). According to the Getting Started pamphlet, it was time to connect the scanner and calibrate it. The scanner is a tiny device, only 10.8" x 1.6" x 1.3" (27.4 cm x 4.1 cm x 3.3 cm) in size, with its own carrying bag -- a very nice touch. It's also very lightweight, weighing in at a svelte 10.6 ounces (300 grams). NEAT Receipts requests that you calibrate the scanner before using it, and they include a calibration card to get everything aligned properly.
Scanning receipts
The first couple of receipts I scanned were from OfficeMax and had fairly high contrast, so I expected them to scan well and was not disappointed. The receipts were scanned in about 10 seconds each, followed by a 20-30 second recognition sequence. When that was done, I had not only a fairly decent scan of the receipts, but NEAT Receipts had filled in information about the vendor, date of purchase, amount, and payment type (i.e., Visa, cash, check, etc...) in a small form on the right side of the screen. The receipts didn't have a field called "Sales Tax", so that field wasn't filled in. However, when I double-clicked the image, I found that I could drag the Tax line of the receipt image to the Sales Tax field to populate it. In fact, every line of text that had been recognized was highlighted on the image in a light yellowish-orange tint, and each one could be individually dragged to the form if I needed the information. Very cool.
I went to my completely unorganized receipt drawer and grabbed a handful of receipts to scan. Many of these receipts were crumpled from living in my wallet, some had faded, some were in color (movie ticket receipts), and they were from a variety of vendors. NEAT Receipts surprised me in many cases with its accuracy and uncanny ability to "know" what category of vendor a receipt belonged to. For instance, when I scanned in a receipt from Red Robin (a burger chain), the category was automatically set to Meals/Restaurant.
Next, I started feeding in receipts that were hard for me to read. For instance, one was about two months old and quite faded, but the results were still fairly good. While it didn't bring in the name of the restaurant automatically, it was able to let me drag what it thought was LiV Ricci's (actually Lil' Ricci's) into the Vendor slot of the data page and correct it. Not bad!
Did it recognize 100% of the receipts? No. The receipts that weren't recognized were usually so badly crumpled, ripped, and faded that I could barely read them, so it's unlikely that any optical character recognition (OCR) software would do any better.


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Gwendolyn Audrey Foster has a new essay out on the classic Japanese supernatural film Kwaidan.
As Foster writes, in part, in the latest issue of Senses of Cinema, "along with Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) and Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jō, 1957), Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan (1964) – aka Kaidan, or 'ghost stories' – is one of the peaks of the Japanese cinema during its golden era, and one of the most superbly atmospheric supernatural films ever produced in any country. It's also a terrific example of how a portmanteau film can work successfully, harking back to Ealing Studios' multi-director Dead of Night (1945), and gesturing towards the multi-story films of Amicus in the 1960s.
Kobayashi's filmography as a director isn't extensive, with only 21 feature films to his credit throughout his entire career, yet each of his projects has an individual stamp that makes them deeply personal. His earlier films are both gritty and introspective, and seem nothing at all like Kwaidan: one of Kobayashi's most compelling early films is the brutal baseball noir drama I Will Buy You (Anata kaimasu, 1956), in which a young player rises to the top of Japanese professional baseball, revealed to be little more than a racket.
Kobayashi's other major works include the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959 – 1961), which clocks in at an astonishing 9 hours and 47 minutes in its entirety, and Harakiri (Seppuku, 1962), a suitably violent and nihilistic samurai film. Most of Kobayashi's work is in black and white, but in Kwaidan he evokes a world of heavily stylized colour, and creates one of the most sensual and strangely evocative supernatural films ever made. It remains one-of-a-kind not only for Kobayashi, but also for what has been loosely called 'the horror film': Kwaidan doesn't deal in shock imagery, but rather in an ever-mounting sense of psychological dread.
Based on Lafcadio Hearn's anthology of Japanese tales of the supernatural, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), the film is structured in four parts. 'The Black Hair' follows a warrior who leaves his first wife for a second marriage to gain greater status, only to find the promise of a 'better life' is an empty one indeed. 'The Woman of the Snow' is a tale of supernatural vengeance in which a woodcutter falls in love with a Yuki-onna, or 'snow woman' – a spirit who wanders the woods – with unexpected results.
'Hoichi the Earless' deals with a blind musician who discovers that he has been unwittingly singing for a family of ghosts, resulting in dire consequences. The last section (which the spectator is invited to complete in their own mind) is 'In a Cup of Tea,' the philosophically deepest and most challenging of the tales, in which a writer is continually disturbed by the unexpected sight of a face in – as the title suggests – his cup of tea.
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, and honored with an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film the same year, Kwaidan is one of the most sumptuously mounted horror films ever made, shot in moody, otherworldly colour that would be evoked again in Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977), in true TohoScope ratio 2.35:1 by the gifted cinematographer Yoshio Miyajima, with stunning art direction by Shigemasa Toda."
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A giant lorry was finally unjammed last night after spending 24 hours stuck in Cambridge Road.
Traffic lights were removed allowing a police motorbike escort to accompany the 100 foot lorry to its destination at about 8pm.
Later two more lorries carrying 40m beams rolled through Kingston with no problems.
Lorry watcher @strnks on Twitter said of the second two lorries: "Went through so smoothly I only realised it was happening when a friend from New Malden text me to say two more were coming."
Between 20 and 30 more deliveries to the Skerne Road riverside hotel and flats development are expected over the next few months.


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Designer: Verner Panton (Danish, Gamtofte 1926–1998 Copenhagen)
Date: designed 1960, manufactured ca. 1973
Medium: Luran-S plastic (acrylate-styrene-acrylonitrile)
Dimensions: 32 5/8 x 19 x 21 3/4 in. (82.9 x 48.3 x 55.2 cm)
Classification: Furniture
Credit Line: Gift of Herman Miller, Inc., 1986
Accession Number: 1986.425
Rights and Reproduction: © Herman Miller Inc.
If technological advances in the postwar years allowed for the development of new aesthetics, Panton's chair must be seen as one of the most extraordinary examples. It marks the first instance in which both technique and material define appearance: injection-molded plastic allows for a single-material, single-form chair. The decorative effect is achieved through the sculptural quality and the use of vivid color-the plastic could be dyed almost any shade. Easy to mass-produce and inexpensive (the chair originally sold for $75), these stacking chairs typify the 1960s populist approach to furniture design.


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Fletcher Aluminium is one of the businesses that form the Fletcher Building Group, a New Zealand and Australian based building materials manufacturer and distributor.
Fletcher Aluminium has a long history in the aluminium business. The Fisher® brand was first introduced in 1959. Oakley® Commercial originated in the late 1960's and merged with Architectural Windows in 1977. Over the years Fletcher Aluminium has acquired other well recognised window brands such as Rylock® , Nebulite®, Vistalite® and ALTI® Timber Composite Windows & Doors.
Fletcher Aluminium is a fully integrated operation that encompasses the design, development and testing of joinery and façade systems. The whole process is controlled through our integrated management system that covers our health and safety, quality, environmental and business processes to ensure the solutions that we develop and supply can exceed our customers expectations.
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This is how Mimi does mommy style!
Mariah Carey took her 3-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe to the playground on Monday in New York City and the singer might have put the rest of the parents to shame in the style department.
The singer opted for a floor-length, fishtailed ball gown and high heels, which even Mariah noted might have been a little much for a day at the park.
PHOTOS: Mariah Carey's Sexy Styles
"Sinking into the rubber matsââ¬Â¦lol" she wrote in the caption of an Instagram photo of herself pushing her two kids on the swings.
Last week, Mariah brought couture to the masses when she rode on the NYC subway in an Atelier Versace gown and she captured the moment in multiple Vine videos.
"I figured as I'm under dressed I might as well take the subway," she joked in one video.
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Items where Division is "College Of Engineering Sciences > Aerospace Engineering Dept" and Year is 2003
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Al-Garni, Abdullah M. and Bernal, Luis P. and khalighi, Bahram (2003) Experimental Investigation of the Near Wake of a Pick-up Truck. 2003 SAE Conference (2003-0).
Shafiq, M. and Al-Sunni, F.M. and Farooq, S.O. (2003) Adaptive control of nonlinear Hammerstein model using NLMS filter. Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2003. ICECS 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 10th IEEE International conference, 2.


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Talk:Starbase 74
The size for Starbase 74 is in serious error. Where is the reference for the scaling of 50% larger given? Proportionately, the refit Constitution class Enterprise is 26.2 to 1 on the width and 32.67 to 1 im comparison of the height to refit Enterprise's width (excluding the spindly antenna towers) as seen in the comparison diagram available at Jeff Russell's Starship Dimensions website at www.merzo.net. This means a 470 meter wide Galaxy class in the same proportions to Starbase 74 as the refit Constitution was to Spacedock would mean SB 74 is an astounding 12.14 km x 15.55 km (again without the antenna towers, which would add considerably to the height).
- I have not found official sources for the ship widths, but unofficial sources put the width of the Galaxy at 467m and the Constitution at 127m. That's a ration of 3.68. Using that ratio, Starbase 74 would have an overall length of 16.9km and a diameter of 13.2km, even greater than your figures. Even so, the actual arguments in the page are still valid. If you know the official dimensions, feel free to update the article accordingly. --Ted C 16:23, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
127 meters is the width for a pre-refit Connie, Ted. Offical blueprints published back in 1979 for the refit Connie and David Kimble's iconic cutaway poster place it at 140-145 meters for the saucer diameter. This can be confirmed to comparisons of the drawings of the ship seen in the various editions of the Star Trek Encyclopedia and deriving the width from the offical stated lengths. The same is true for the E-D and other Galaxy class starships.
I will update and try to include the various scalings, such as Graham Kennedy's.


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'Scandal' revolves around presidential affair
When "Scandal" debuted last spring, its premise seemed clear-cut and comfortable. This latest melodrama from Shonda Rhimes ("Grey's Anatomy," "Private Practice") starred Kerry Washington as boss of a Beltway crisis management firm that fixes sticky problems for the D.C. high and mighty. Clearly, Olivia Pope was well-connected: She had been the communications director to the president of the United States and, before that, helped put Fitzgerald Grant in the White House. But a certain scandalous detail gave the show a surprise punch: Olivia and Fitz had been locked in a torrid love affair since the campaign, right under the nose of his first lady and the rest of the nation.For the Grant administration, this could mean big problems — the sort of problems Pope is typically retained to fix, not play a role in creating. Meanwhile, it's a blessing for Tony Goldwyn, who plays the smitten chief executive. "When I was signed for the show, Shonda indicated that she had big plans for Fitz and Olivia," says Goldwyn, "but you never know." He knows now. So does the addicted "Scandal" audience. The juicy saga (airing tonight at 10 on ABC) has this season found Olivia and Fitz ever more deliciously and dangerously entwined. Fitz survived an assassination attempt plotted by a Supreme Court justice (Fitz paid her back by killing her). He resolved to dump his wife and wed Olivia. Then he learned Olivia and other supporters of Fitz conspired to rig the vote for an election he would likely have lost otherwise. "I'm so grateful the show has gone where it's gone," says Goldwyn, savoring the problems dogging Fitz's presidency. "It's beyond my wildest expectations." Fitz, who, as portrayed by Goldwyn, is charismatic, statesmanlike and (in scenes with Olivia) sizzling hot. Now 52, Goldwyn first caught the public's eye as Patrick Swayze's villainous best friend in the box office smash "Ghost." He went on to appear in "The Pelican Brief," Oliver Stone's "Nixon," "The Last Samurai," and as astronaut Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon." "On 'Scandal,' " he says, "I wanted to avoid playing a generic TV president. And I wanted Fitz to be a modern president, so I spent a lot of time watching Clinton and Obama, who have this ability to connect with people. I saw Fitz as a Republican Obama who is very purpose-driven and wants to get beyond party politics. "And, of course, he's got a very complicated personal life," adds Goldwyn with a hearty chuckle. "The saving grace for the character is that Fitz is desperately in love with Olivia, and she with him. It isn't just a dalliance. And whatever bad behavior he exhibits — and there's a lot of it — he's always competent in his job. That's priority No. 1. If Fitz were to fall down on the job, I think you'd lose the audience like that," he says with a snap of his fingers. No profile of Tony Goldwyn can fail to mention the film dynasty he springs from. His grandfather was the legendary mogul Samuel Goldwyn, a party to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio empire. Despite being shielded from the business by his TV producer father, he was still bitten by the acting bug and found work for several years on episodic TV. Then came "Ghost," the romantic fantasy that became the highest-grossing film of 1990. "Suddenly, after all the struggling, I was in this huge hit, and I didn't know what to do next," Goldwyn recalls. Eventually, he produced and directed the acclaimed 1999 drama "A Walk on the Moon," starring Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen. In 2010, he directed Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell in "Conviction." "Directing takes the pressure off as an actor," he explains, allowing him to be more selective in the acting roles he takes. With that, he shares his criteria for which acting jobs he accepts: Does the material interest him? Who else is involved that he might like to work with? How much does it pay? "If an offer satisfies any two of these three, I'll take it," he says. So which two conditions does "Scandal" satisfy? "It's a trifecta," he replies hastily. "Thank God, this really is a dream job!"
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CBS Films have released two new images from Dwayne Johnson's upcoming revenge thriller "Faster". Check them out below.
After 10 years in prison, Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has a singular focus – to avenge the murder of his brother during the botched robbery that led to his imprisonment. Now a free man with a deadly to-do list in hand, he's finally on his mission…but with two men on his trail – veteran cop (Billy Bob Thornton) just days from retirement, and a young egocentric hitman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) with a flair for the art of killing and a newfound worthy opponent. The hunter is also the hunted. It's a do or die race to the list's finish as the mystery surrounding his brother's murder deepens, and new details emerge along the way hinting that Driver's list may be incomplete.
Starring Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Maggie Grace, Moon Bloodgood, Billy Bob Thornton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Matt Gerald, Annie Corley, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and directed by George Tillman, Jr.
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Car Crashes Into Power Lines, Vehicles In East Columbus
A car crashed through an east Columbus neighborhood early Tuesday morning, knocking down power lines and crashing into cars.
10TV spoke with the driver involved in this crash, who says she got off of her third shift job and as she was driving home. She says she fell asleep, leaving a plethora of damage in her wake at the intersection of Scottwood and Picard Roads.
No one was injured in the crash, despite the accident occurring just feet from a school.
Rob Moore's truck was unfortunate enough to get stuck in the crash. "Once I came out, I noticed trash cans was everywhere, knocked all over the place, and when I looked up, I saw (my truck was damaged)."
Moore says speed is a continuing problem on the street. "It's like the Indy 500," he says, adding that drivers usually travel around 50 or 60 MPH despite the 25 MPH limit.
Neighbor Saudai Payne says she woke up this morning to a big boom. "At first I thought it was some kids getting hit because these people ride down this street so fast." Payne says she fear more children getting hit by cars after a child was killed several years ago on the same street.
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Neckties are a funny thing.
People love them or hate them. They wear them proudly, as a badge of success. Or they struggle under the weight, like the chains worn by Jacob Marley, Scrooge's dead business partner.
First introduced as the cravat by King Louis XIV of France, ties made their way to England, and on to America. They were originally worn by wealthy gentlemen, but were soon worn by any man who wanted to appear well-dressed.
Neckties are said to symbolize power, success, wealth. They are also said to symbolize oppression and strangulation of middle management. They're even said to be a phallic symbol, which is why I never wore a tie tack.
Now they're the cause of a sex discrimination complaint filed by a British government employee.
Ian Jarman, who works for the Department for Work and Pensions in Birmingham, England, is filing an official complaint against his employer for sex discrimination, because they're forcing him to wear a tie at the office.
Jarman has gone tie-less at his Job Centre Plus office (official motto: "In England, we spell it 'centre.'") for 26 years. But ever since a new dress code was introduced, he has been forced to wear one. He has already had two disciplinary hearings for failing to follow the new code, and risks losing his job if he goes without a tie again.
Jarman told a BBC interviewer he's upset because "Women are allowed to wear an open shirt and trousers, many even wear a t-shirt. If I wear an open shirt without a tie, it's a disciplinary offence for which I could potentially get the sack — it's sex discrimination."
However, a spokeswoman from the DWP disagreed. "The dress code was introduced in April to give a more professional appearance to staff who deal with members of the public," she told reporters, dressed provocatively in a Cate Coles green and russet evening dress. "We require a smart and professional image from all of our staff, but there is no specific requirements for women."
"See? See?!" shouted Jarman, pointing his finger accusingly at some female co-workers wearing sleeveless t-shirts with "Neener Neener Neener" printed on the front.
"It is ridiculous. I have done this job for 26 years without wearing a tie and it has never affected my ability to do the job," said Jarman, who believes a person's clothing has nothing to do with their professionalism.
Many strippers may disagree with Jarman's idea of clothing and job performance, he does have a point. If an organization makes a rule for one sex, but not the other, that's discrimination. Requiring a man to dress a certain way without making similar rules for women is unfair. And those rules would result in a lawsuit if the tables were turned.
I've spoken with a number of companies that don't have specific dress codes for women for fear of sexual harassment lawsuits. Instead, they require "professional/appropriate dress for women; suits and ties for men," which creates problems for people like Jarman.
And thanks to some gender fashion confusion over the years, certain male fashions have become acceptable for women to wear, causing even more problems for men.
In the '80s, I lost count of the women wearing men's sport coats with the sleeves rolled up because it looked "kicky." But, short of a fraternity prank gone horribly wrong, you'll never see men wearing dresses on a regular basis.
Don't get me wrong. It's not my place to dictate fashion for anyone. I would never tell a woman what she should or shouldn't wear. This will change when my daughters become teenagers.
However, I'm struck by the double standard of what is "acceptable" fashion: men would be laughed at and even arrested if they ever wore a dress in public, but women are free to wear suits and ties if they like. Some would argue this is fashion discrimination and extremely unfair.
Not me, of course.
I wear pants. Very rugged, extremely macho pants. Pants that have a charcoal grill in the pockets. Pants that can be used to put out small house fires.
I would never consider wearing a dress. Not to make a statement against fashion and gender inequality. Not to show solidarity for Ian Jarman in his fight against sex discrimination. Not even if I just wanted to feel pretty.
They just make my butt look big.
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Im having fun driving my mom crazy, because Brandus and I have named Voldemort, but we arent sharing.
Because its fun.
Well, Im not sharing. Brandus told me a few days ago that he told his ENTIRE CLASS OF FOURTH GRADERS, which annoyed me. But, whatever.
Anyway, I finally told her last night that his name started with a 'G,' and that was the only hint she was getting.
She came into the living room today, and asked, "You arent naming him Grover, are you? Or Goober?"


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There will be a different venue for the third concert of the Coon Rapids Arts Commission's annual free summer series.
Instead of the Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park performance pavilion, where eight of the nine concerts in the series will take place, the Thursday, June 21, 7 p.m., concert featuring country music star and former Coon Rapids resident Rockie Lynne will be at Sand Creek Park.
"We are expecting a large crowd and Sand Creek Park has more room," said Kris Linquist, deputy city clerk and staff liaison to the arts commission.
Lynne has appeared nationally on "Good Morning America," CMT, GAC, The Grand Ole Opry "Live" and Fox News.
His debut single, "Lipstick," spent 10 consecutive weeks in the No. 1 slot on Billboard's Country Singles Sales chart.
According to his website biography, Lynne first made a name for himself when he released his critically acclaimed self-titled debut CD on Universal Records.
He was named a "breakout artist" by ABC-TV's "Good Morning America," while Billboard Magazine named him their artist "Most Likely To Succeed" and he has made countless media appearances, including performances on GMA's Summer Concert Series and 14 appearances on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn., where he now lives..
A native of Statesville, N.C., Lynne has been singing and writing songs since the age of 14. After high school, he joined the U.S. Army, where he served for three years in the 82nd Airborne at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
After leaving the military, he starting playing clubs and has spent the better part of the last year touring and writing songs for his new album, "Songs For Soldiers."
One third of the proceeds from the record will benefit troop-related charities.
The inspiration for the album was his 21-day tour of Afghanistan, Southwest Asia and the Persian Gulf, where he and his band entertained U.S. troops stationed abroad.
Lynne is co-founder of an annual charity motorcycle ride called Tribute To The Troops, where riders visit the homes of the families of fallen soldiers to acknowledge them for having made such a sacrifice. The organization has raised over $200,000 in aid to the families of the fallen.
The remainder of the 2012 concert schedule is:
• June 28 – The Elvis Experience, a tribute to Elvis.
• July 12 – Minnesota Sinfonia, family pops concert.
• July 19 – Bill Koncar, accordion variety.
• July 26 – Island Time Band, island party/dance.
• Aug. 2 – Betty Rydell and Randi Rae, country/gospel.
• Aug. 9 – The Hillbilly Mafia, top 40 country.
Ray McManus, owner of the Shortstop Bar & Grill on Northdale Boulevard, has donated $7,500 to sponsor eight of the nine concerts this year.
The Minnesota Sinfonia concert July 12 is sponsored by the Pentair Foundation.
Boy Scout Troop 524, Church of the Epiphany, is selling popcorn, candy, soda and water during the concerts, while the Coon Rapids North Star Lions Club has food items such as hamburgers, hot dogs and brats for sale.
The Coon Rapids Arts Commission, which is a volunteer advisory commission to the city council, plans arts events in Coon Rapids throughout the year.
For more information call 763-767-6432 or 763-757-4700.
Peter Bodley is at [email protected]


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Best Gif's of the Week [PICS]
Being the so called "King of Weird", I tend to stumble across a lot of awesomeness. Mix in a hint of internet over-exposure, and normal photos just aren't good enough anymore. I've slowly become somewhat of a Renaissance Man for moving pictures. They are my medium of choice in this "Art Eat Art" world. Any way you slice it up, it's going to be awesome, hilarious, creepy, and a possible touch of disgusting.
If at first you don't succeed, give up.
Topical gif's aren't always hitting their funny mark, but it's hard to not laugh when there's so much truth in the symbolism.
There's no secret that guns are awesome, when handled properly of course… They just also seem to be hilarious when not handled properly.
If there's a chance something could ruin your childhood, I'm all in and hellbent on doing just that.
Yoga pants are best pants
And last, but not at all the least.. Quite possibly the funniest gif I've ever seen. It's got it all! An appropriate, but not overbearing level of creep and a gross factor comfortably at the top of the chart. It's like a big 'ol pot of hilariousness gumbo.


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ANALYSIS Fine margins prove the difference as Serb world No.1 retains title, writes Hugh MacDonald
IT was, as Andy Murray had predicted, brutal. There were no tears from the Scot in the aftermath of his defeat by Novak Djokovic in the Rod Laver Arena, but there will be pain. The worst of it will not come from his blistered feet, a hamstring injury in the left thigh or the rigours of having played for the best part of eight hours in two matches.
It will be experienced this morning, though, when he reflects on the moments when he had the momentum in the Australian Open.
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With the first set in the bag, having just served to love in the first game of the second, the 25-year-old world No.3 won three successive points on the serve of Novak Djokovic.
The world No.1 was in a nasty spot. He extricated himself with all the athleticism, will and talent at his command to win in four sets. But Murray will ask questions of himself. It is what losers do. It is why some of them, most notably Murray, become winners.
The player from Dunblane had been scarred by previous defeats in grand slam finals. This one will hurt, though victory in New York takes always the worst of the sting.
Murray's reaction to a major defeat is always to come back stronger and he will rest this morning physically while his mind will be racing about what separated him from the world No.1.
The missed break points will be regretted, the moment in the second set tiebreak when he stopped to field a feather before serving a double fault will be experienced again with a shake of his head, and he will minutely examine every tactical decision.
He will know he could have won but he will accept that finally he was beaten by the better man on the day. Murray will not look back in either anger or resignation but as a way to plot a course forward.
This was Murray's fifth defeat in grand slam finals and he will be condemned in some quarters for this record, and for losing his composure at times yesterday, particularly with the umpire after the second-set tiebreak. The more frequent and similar eruptions by Djokovic will be forgotten.
The act of winning leads to almost universal forgiveness.
The triumphant player is seen as pumping himself up, the loser is regarded as being mentally unfocused.
There were more relevant incidents in the match than the Serb's bashing of his racket or Murray's verbal outbursts. The most important of these is that Djokovic has proven invincible in Melbourne over a period of years. This was his third consecutive title, his fourth in all, in Australia. He justified his favouritism by playing better than Murray over the match and was only fragile during the first tiebreak and in the opening period of the second set.
If Murray had struck then, perhaps all would have been different. But perhaps not. Djokovic, after all, came back from two sets down to Murray in New York, though he ultimately lost in the fifth.
The Scot will be more concerned with how he can improve his game. He is playing at a level that makes this a matter of tweaks rather than major reconstruction. He will be encouraged by his progress in a year under Ivan Lendl.
Murray is more confident, more aggressive, than he has ever been. His first serve is a formidable weapon and he is improving his delivery of it, with a 60% rate a decent return yesterday. Lendl has made a significant improvement to his client's forehand. Murray has always been an excellent returner, has the best backhand in the game, and his movement is astonishing.
So where can he improve?
He will work on his second serve. He won 46% of points on it against Djokovic, while the Serb won 66% of points on his second serve. Murray was also about 15mph on average behind Djokovic on second-serve speed. Pace, of course, is not everything on a serve but the figures suggest Murray has work to do to match Djokovic in this area.
The enduring lesson of Murray's personal history is that he will not be disillusioned by defeat but irked and provoked by it. His recent record includes three consecutive grand slam finals. It will be pointed out that he has lost two of them but this is a run that suggests there is more to come from Murray.
His dismissal of Roger Federer in the semi-finals in Melbourne was a watershed for the Scot. It may also be a significant defeat for the greatest player of all time.
Murray's serene progress to the final suggests he has cause to look forward to further occasions such as yesterday. The grand slam roadshow now moves to Paris where the Scot has never gone beyond the semi-finals and where there are legitimate doubts over the potency of Rafael Nadal, the King of Clay, who has still to return from injury.
Murray's first objective will be to go one step further and his constant preoccupation will be to finds ways to disconcert the remarkable Djokovic. His painful reflections will be of feathers and missed break points. His positive thoughts will centre on a day at Flushing Meadows when the Serb could not find the winning answer.
All is not lost, though it may feel that way as Murray nurses his wounds this morning.


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Autism Now: Bridget Taylor Extended Interview
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ROBERT MACNEIL: Describe your program as it is and what you hope it will be, your adult program.
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Well we created a program for young adults to learn community based vocational skills so that they can be employed. And so our goal is really to have 100 percent of our young adults earning a paycheck and contributing to society by working and continuing to learn skills that are essential for independent living and independent functioning. So if you think about it most of us learn a great deal of information after graduation from high school when we go on to college.
And so that shouldn't be any different for individuals with autism. And what we really hope is that their trajectory of learning and acquiring skills continue. So just because they turn 21 doesn't mean they stop learning. And so our goal is really to create a learning environment where they can continue to increase their language goals, their social goals, their community independent goals and of course to gain competitive employment at some point.
ROBERT MACNEIL: How many young adults do you have in the program now?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: We currently have eight adults in the program and we will be graduating three in July into the adult program from the school program. So the program is growing, it's small but it's growing, as our educational students graduate that program will continue to grow.
ROBERT MACNEIL: And you're planning to build a facility for that program on the same campus?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: That's correct. We purchased a property right next door with the hope to build a learning center, really a state of the art learning center. There are so few models for adult learning for individuals with autism and our goal really is to create a learning center to serve as a model really for other programs who are interested in creating a similar learning model.
And so we'd like to really create a center where individuals with autism as young adults are learning and continuing to acquire skills. And we're currently campaigning of course to raise the money to build the facility but we've purchased the property.
ROBERT MACNEIL: You're campaigning in a very different environment economically than you campaigned 20 years ago when you first opened this learning center. How do you make the case now in an economy when millions of able bodied and fully able people can't find employment, how would you make the case to people in the New Jersey state government who are generally considered generous to autism so far about the young adults, what would you say to them?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Well, we can't give up. We can't give up on hundreds and hundreds of individuals who've worked incredibly hard their entire lives and send them home. We just can't give up and we have to create a future for them that's meaningful — that gives them quality of life, that gives their families quality of life and — it's just, to me in many ways, would be criminal to stop the learning trajectory for these individuals because, you know, we've as taxpayers we've spent an inordinate amount of money educating them and bringing them to a level of functioning where they can be, as you saw with Zach, very independent in many ways.
But he will continue to require extraordinary services as he grows and becomes an adult. And to throw it all away at this point in time because he turned 21 is really — would be very criminal and — he deserves a chance to become as independent as possible as any of us would and the chances that we have in our life he deserves the same chance.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Is that case being heard by public officials now do you think?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Not as loudly as it should be and there certainly is a growing trend now to bring adult services to the forefront — to politicians and to — to, you know, talking about the need for funding for adult services and there is a whole body of families now who grew up on very good services for their– children with autism and now they're taking the fight to the next level.
And so their parents are going be at the forefront of this movement, advocating for services for their adult children with autism. But the — the cry needs to be louder and the demand needs to be greater and politicians really need to know that there are — thousands of children coming up — and — and entering adulthood who will need — care and need — need the services in order for them to continue to be as independent and as functional as possible.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Do you consider Zach a success story through your learning center?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Absolutely. Zach is a tremendous success story. And really all our students are success stories. There's not one student that I would ever say is not a success story. Zach is certainly an extraordinary young man who started our program with very, very few skills; unable to talk, unable to communicate and unable to attend for periods of time so that he could learn information. And over the years he's acquired tremendous amounts of skill and able to communicate.
But Zach is still very challenged. Zach still has lots of issues with understanding language, with communicating, he can't be left for long periods of time by himself. So although he's made tremendous gains and he is certainly one of our, you know, as they all are success stories, Zach continues to require services.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Your center, through your efforts and others is — would be considered very privileged in a way in the — one on one teacher/student ratio you're able to employ. That is still very rare in services for children with autism. How do you — do you ever think that your standard of service could become the general standard in the country. It's so expensive.
BRIDGET TAYLOR: It's very expensive. But its money well spent. And its money that is preventing individuals like Zach from being placed in institutions and I would hope that a model such as Alpine could certainly occur in many, many places. But certainly funding becomes an issue. And it does cost a lot of money to do the kind of work that we do here. But I would argue that it's certainly money well spent.
I think more and more public schools are seeing value of creating learning centers and learning environments similar to Alpine. And I've seen some very good public school programs who are able to make that happen and make that work. So you have to allocate money creatively but I do believe it can be done.
ROBERT MACNEIL: What is the cost/ benefit ratio you're asked by somebody in the New Jersey state legislature; costs nearly $100,000 a year to educate a child here– and you see the amount of progress they make, which you call a success, but necessarily still leaves a lot of individuals lacking in some skills. So looking at a hard cold view from some elected official who has 100 calls on his generosity or his political savvy, what do you say?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: The money is well spent and it is worth it. And while it might cost $86,000 a year for a student to go here it would cost over $300,000 per year for them to be placed in an institution. And an institutional environment is not gonna teach the kind of skills that we're teaching children here.
And it is a hard sell, but it is a worthwhile sell. And when people see the kind of progress that individuals with autism can make there's no price to put on that kind of progress. And it becomes invaluable.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Your adult center, would individuals like Zach move into that for awhile or study there for awhile or be taught there for awhile and then that would be a limited time and then they would move on to as much independent life as they can handle?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: The goal would be that we would create a learning environment where we would teach them the skills necessary to be as independent as possible. Some of those individuals might be with us for a long time. I see us eventually creating multiple centers that are able to serve individuals as they age through the life span.
The first step and the next step is post-graduation. And then we look down the road to the future. I would hope that our young adults could gain the skills necessary to live somewhat independently, to work in the community and require less and less assistance over time.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Your young adults at present — where do they live?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Most of them live at home. One lives in a group home. But there are not a lot of residential options for young adults with autism in the state of New Jersey. There's a very, very, very long waiting list. So families have their young adult children at home with them and as they're aging their young adult children are aging and so they're home with them.
ROBERT MACNEIL: So the way you see the equation is either the public helps these children with autism as they become adults now or they're going to end up down the line paying for them in residential institutions.
BRIDGET TAYLOR: That the cost long term certainly will be greater and there has to be some mobilization around what are we going to do with them? What, you know, what will happen to them because there is– you know, some people have used the term tsunami, I don't particularly love that term, but it's a term that indicates that there is a wave of individuals with autism coming up, that we're really gonna need to look very hard at how we are allocating funding in order to take care of them.
And also to create creative ways to teach them without as much funding as you had in the education programs. And so we have to get creative about how to match kids in groups and to create learning environments where they can continue to learn and have the supervision that they require, but again with less funding. And so there has to be a lot of creativity around this process.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Do you consider this in terms of public policy as a kind of continuation of the acts so far that have funded education for people with disabilities. That the spirit that lay behind those acts of compassion for people with disabilities needs to be extended beyond their teenage years.
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Absolutely, we have to think of this as people with disabilities need the protection and they need the education. Certainly the Americans with Disabilities Act adds protection. The laws regarding education, a free appropriate public education whether you're disabled or not protects children in the education years for funding. That mandate doesn't exist past 21, and that mandate needs to continue. And so I see it as a trajectory in terms of a legal process in mandating legislation for that.
ROBERT MACNEIL: If that didn't happen, as it hasn't happened yet, what aid would a young person like Zach get from the state on becoming an adult?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: What would he get now, very little, very little. And as it exists today, what's available to– you know, what's interesting is that I think the current belief for adults with autism and probably for most folks with disabilities is that once they graduate high school they enter what's called maintenance. So all we're doing is maintaining and keeping them safe and not teaching any more skills.
And so public officials, if that's their belief, the types of funding available to staff and to take care of individuals with that mindset is going to be somebody who doesn't have a level of expertise — and isn't paid very well. And so the care is impacted by the money available to pay a person who then doesn't have the level of expertise.
And so currently there is not a mechanism to ensure that someone like Zach will have a highly qualified person working with him, a well-paid person who deserves to be paid for the kind of work that they're doing with somebody like Zach. So right now very little exists.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Is there anything about Zach's achievements in the years you've been looking after him that disappoints you? Hopes…that have not been realized?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: You know, whenever we work with a child we never know when we first start working with him where they will end up. And so, you start out with a certain level of healthy denial and that you teach as much as you can to see how much you get. And every child's different and every child has strengths and weaknesses.
And certainly with someone like Zach we put a lot of work into his language and a lot of work into his understanding of language. And I think I can say that for all the folks who've worked with him over the years the hope was is that his language skills would take off and his ability to really communicate socially. But despite those challenges, he is quite remarkable in his ability to communicate what he likes and what he doesn't like and what he likes to do and what he doesn't like to do, and who he likes to be around and who he doesn't like to be around. So you know, as practitioners who work with these children we don't hang on to what we didn't get. We look forward to the future and what's available next.
ROBERT MACNEIL: And he's apparently very competent at his job.
BRIDGET TAYLOR: He's very competent in his job and Zach applies himself very well. He is an extremely hard worker. He really in many ways is a model to all of us because he works hard and he figures things out and he doesn't stop until he figures it out. It's one thing that's very fascinating about him is he's very visually interested in things and so when he's presented with a task he spends an inordinate amount of time looking at things and trying to figure things out; because he likes to be independent, he doesn't want someone to tell him what to do. And so he spends a lot of time really figuring out how to do things.
ROBERT MACNEIL: I gather there's a question over whether he can keep that job. Can you describe that situation?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Well we would want him to keep that job. Long-term, every job is tenuous. I would imagine that as everybody's affected by the economy, Zach's job is also tenuous like everybody else's job in this kind of economy. So we're hopeful that he can continue but you never know.
ROBERT MACNEIL: But he needs a supervising person with him to do that job. And that supervising person at present is funded by…the education…
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Yeah, so that's a really important question.
ROBERT MACNEIL: So that person disappears under present funding when Zach is 21.
BRIDGET TAYLOR: That's correct, so that's a really good point would is that when Zach graduates he's got a job but he won't be able to keep the job because the state will no longer fund somebody to support him in his job. We will try to find funding and we will do what we can and his parents will advocate, but there's no guarantee that when he turns 21, the day he graduates, that that job will be available to him simply because there is no funding to support what he needs in order to maintain that job.
For me personally I've spent 22 years educating and working with these children who are now young adults and I've known them since they were three and now they're 21. And for me, both personally and professionally, we have to finish the story. We can't stop at 21.
And these relationships that I've had and for many of my teachers have been some of the most significant relationships at least personally for me in my life. And the story will not end simply because they turn 21–we owe it to them to continue the story.
ROBERT MACNEIL: And do you feel you owe it to yourselves in a way because of the emotional investment–
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Absolutely, absolutely. You know, you don't work with someone for as long as you work with someone like Zach and not have an emotional connection to him, to the family and there's certainly a sense of personal obligation and professional obligation to continue Zach's learning and to give him, you know, to help provide for him what he needs.
ROBERT MACNEIL: What replaces the relationship you and your teachers have had with a young person like Zach when they have few other social relationships?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Well for most of our students and for, certainly someone like Zach, we are his social world. We are his social relationships. And those social relationships shouldn't end simply because he turns a certain age and those relationships are rich and important to him, certainly important to the folks who've worked with him, myself andthey shouldn't stop simply because he turns 21.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Because he won't be able to easily make new relationships.
BRIDGET TAYLOR: And somebody like Zach it will take many years for him to establish new relationships and the people who've been working with him closely over the years know him best, know what he likes are able to help him learn because they know his learning style and that will require a whole new process for folks who if he were to move into some other kind of program. And that would be a lot of wasted time.
ROBERT MACNEIL: What is out there for adults with autism at present?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: There are very, very few programs for adults with autism currently. There are not good models. There are a few and certainly some of the programs that help integrate people into the community for work but there are no learning centers that exist. And so we're creating this learning center to serve as a model and that's because there's nothing else out there.
There really is nowhere for our graduates to go that has the same quality of expectation, the same quality of care, the same level of fortitude in terms of maximizing their potential on into adulthood. And so we created a center to continue, really continue the mission that we started when they were three years old now that they're turning 21.
ROBERT MACNEIL: So that's 18 years ago when Zach first came here. And how would you describe him then?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: When Zach came to Alpine Learning Group 18 years ago, he had very limited language and couldn't follow directions. If he did, they were very simple directions. He was very difficult to engage socially and, you know, here on the tape, what you see is I'm asking him questions. And he only knows answers to very few questions. And he can't really attend to our conversational interactions for long periods of time. Here on the tape, he's just about three years old. And you can see on the tape he's, you know, unable to ask for things that he wants. He's unable to use his language functionally. He's unable to name things and answer simple questions. And so when he first came to us, he really didn't have a good repertoire of learning skills.
ROBERT MACNEIL: So how did you then go about changing that?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Well, we engaged him in a very rigorous program of teaching him step by step how to follow directions, step-by-step how to attend to his teachers, how to answer questions. And all of that instruction took place in a very systematic way with one teacher and Zach working closely for many hours. So it took many, many hours for him to acquire these skills.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Well, you're asking him questions there. Did you teach him yourself?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: I was very much involved early on in Zach's education, and you know, this is going back 18 years. You can imagine, I've known Zach for a long, long time. I have a long history with him. And so watching him learn has been a wonderful process.
ROBERT MACNEIL: How equipped is he nowadays, do you think?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Zach has a lot of great skills that he can now use as an adult. He can prepare his own meals. He's able to take care of his personal hygiene. He's able to clean and engage in leisure activities. He's got a lot of really good skill. He's able to, you know, answer a broader range of questions. But, Zach still needs treatment. Zach still needs an educational program to help him.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Is he somebody who's going to be able to live relatively independently?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: I'm hopeful that Zach could live in a supervised apartment– perhaps with a roommate, and learn to go to work more independently without as much supervision, and be able to live a quality of life that he wouldn't have been able to have had he not had this intensive treatment.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Could he could he cope with transportation systems and get to and from working?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Perhaps, with the right training he could, yes. We're lucky that we live in the suburbs so, you know, the public transportation is a little bit different here. But I think he could negotiate those skills with the right supports.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Will he always for the rest of his life need somebody watching over him to make sure he doesn't get into risky situations?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Yes, Zach will always need somebody watching over him and making sure that he's safe, and ensuring that he's using the skills that he's learned over the last 18 years. So he'll always need somebody in his life to take care of him.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Is there a — a prospect that somebody with what Zach has achieved so far, that he can go on achieving more in terms of, for instance, language?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Absolutely. We learn through our lifespan. We learn, all of us, I mean — people acquire new languages as adults. So why should that be any different for Zach? And so the belief is that he could certainly continue to acquire better and more enriched language skills.
ROBERT MACNEIL: How do you feel, Bridget, as you in effect push him out to the real world?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Well, I'm very proud of Zach. But, I'm also worried that he will not have the future that we hoped for because the funding doesn't exist. And so while I'm very proud of his accomplishments, I also worry for him and I worry for all our students because a lot of work has been accomplished by Zach. And nobody's really worked harder than him. And so I worry for him for the future. But with the right supports I'm also very, very hopeful.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Will he need teaching all his life? Or can he go through a few more years of sort of post high school or post secondary school education and then be independent enough to live independently — will he be able to stop being taught, I guess, is the–
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Well, do any of us? You know, we acquire skills forever and I would hope that Zach continues to require skills forever and acquire skills forever. And I hope that the services are available to him that allow him to continue to learn as all of us do throughout our life. Could he maintain a level of existence now with the skills that he's acquired? Perhaps. There's also a risk that he will lose a lot of skills if he just leaves our program and does not enter a quality program upon graduation.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Does it prevent someone like Zach from reaching his full potential if he continues, as many of them do, to live at home as long as the parents are alive, does that somehow curtail his development as a person?
BRIDGET TAYLOR: It's a good question. Many families don't want their adult children with autism to leave home, for very good reasons, for worry and fear.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Because they know their vulnerabilities.
BRIDGET TAYLOR: Their vulnerabilities. But you know, Zach deserves to live away from home like all of us learn to live away from home, and to learn to live around friends and in a community where he's fully integrated. And so, yes, living home with his mom and dad until they're an elderly, and he's in his '40s is not doing Zach a service. And he really deserves that opportunity like all of us have had.
ROBERT MACNEIL: Thank you.