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AFC West in midst of dismal 2012 run
I know this dates me, but I actually remember when the AFC West was a somewhat respectable NFL division.
Amazingly, the division that's responsible for the league's only powder blue uniforms, the Black Hole, Hank Stram's legendary sports jacket and this incredible John Elway poster was once — I know, this sounds crazy, NFL fans under the age of 30 — among the league's finest.
It has since been reduced to rubble. The 2012 version of the AFC West is a complete and utter embarrassment.
Peyton Manning must have known what he was doing when he signed with Denver last offseason. He'll play 10 games against real NFL opponents this season. He'll have seven bye weeks — the one the league gives him and the six games against his divisional opponents.
Oakland, Kansas City and San Diego are a combined 4-17 since Week 4. Only one of those wins — a 26-23 Raiders overtime win over 1-9 Jacksonville — came against an opponent outside the division.
The Chiefs have lost seven straight games. They're 0-5 at home. The Raiders, meanwhile, have given up 135 points in their past three contests. The Chargers? Phil Rivers summed up the season best when he — with the chance to still toss a final Hail Mary pass against the Broncos with a few seconds left on the clock in a seven-point game — briskly jogged off the field and shook Denver coach John Fox's hand on the sideline instead of taking another snap. Denver forced San Diego into 10 straight three-and-outs at one point on Sunday. The Chargers defense played well. It was all for naught.
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San Diego's gone from being a 3-1 team in September to one of the worst squads in all of football. The epic collapse at home versus the Broncos gets all the attention, but were they frauds all along? Better yet, does it even matter?
The Raiders haven't had a winning season since 2002, so failure's nothing new to their long-suffering fan base. But how sad is it that an entire generation of young Oakland fans have never seen a playoff game? Mark Davis mentioned "the Raiders way" in his postgame comments after Sunday's embarrassing 38-17 loss to the Saints. What does that even mean anymore? A 30-year-old Raiders fan spent his 20s watching the following poo-poo (not a typo) platter of quarterbacks: Rick Mirer, Marques Tuiasosopo, Kerry Collins, Andrew Walter, Aaron Brooks, Josh McCown, Daunte Culpepper, Jamarcus Russell, Charlie Frye, Bruce Gradkowski, Jason Campbell, Kyle Boller and Carson Palmer.
Charlie Frye!
To put this in perspective, the New England Patriots have started just two quarterbacks — Tom Brady and Matt Cassel — in that same decade's worth of games.
Oakland's quarterback situation isn't what's ailing them, though. Carson Palmer is by no means lighting it up, but he has no help. Across the field, there's a dearth of talent on Oakland's roster. With Darren McFadden and Richard Seymour currently out of the lineup with injuries, you could make a legitimate case that the Raiders do not have a top-10 talent at any position on the field outside of punter and kicker. This is not an acceptable NFL roster.
But it's not just the players.
When first-year GM Reggie McKenzie hired Dennis Allen as the team's head coach this offseason, defensive expertise was the reason why. If you had to subtly nod your head and do a quick Google search for "Dennis Allen" when he got the gig, you're not alone. There was some head-scratching around the league with the hire of the denver Broncos defensive backs coach.
A cold night in Buffalo won't keep NFL Week 11 from having blazing action. Check out the best photos.Eleven weeks in, you can't blame the fans if their patience is wearing thin. The Raiders have been the league's worst second-half team. The third quarter — the time when a team is supposed to react to halftime adjustments and the things coaches spot on film — has been a nightmare for Oakland. They've given up 56 points in the third quarter of the last three games alone. On the year, they've been outscored in the third quarter by more points than any other team in any quarter this season. Having watched a lot of Carolina Panthers fourth-quarter collapses this year, that's saying something.
And then there are the Chiefs.
I can take a stab at detailing their 2012 woes in a tight paragraph or two, but it'd pale in comparison to anything Bill Reiter or Jason Whitlock have written on the team over the past three months. Scott Pioli needs to go. Romeo Crennel needs to go. The quarterbacks both have to go. It's Thanksgiving and the season's already been over for two months.
It's late November, and Denver's already got the division wrapped up. Signed. Sealed. Delivered. Manning knew what he was doing signing there. Looking at their opponents, I have no doubt that this team could have won the AFC West with Tim Tebow at the helm this year.
Hell, they could have done it with Charlie Frye.
Or Marques Tuiasosopo.
Or ... well, you get the point.
This Thanksgiving weekend, take a moment to remember the AFC West, a once-proud division that's fallen on very hard times.
I'd love to say it'll be back soon enough, but I really can't do that with any sort of confidence.
Week 11 record: 8-6
2012 overall record: 91-68-1
Though it wasn't pretty, the Falcons beat the Cardinals in Atlanta on Sunday. Matt Ryan improved to 30-4 all-time at home. In the Super Bowl era (1970-now), four other quarterbacks have won 30 of their first 35 games at home. Who are they?
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Houston at Detroit: Heading into Week 11 with a 4-5 record and playoff hopes hanging in the balance, Detroit squandered an early lead and let a Packers team playing without starters Clay Matthews, Charles Woodson, Bryan Bulaga and Greg Jennings beat them in their own building. That's all I needed to see from the 2012 Detroit Lions. I have no reason to believe they'll suddenly shake off the rust and beat a sound Houston team. Calvin Johnson may be the best wide receiver in football, but Andre Johnson is awfully dangerous when he's 100 percent healthy. Look for the latter to steal the show from the former on Thursday.
The Pick: Texans 34, Lions 20
Washington at Dallas: Coming off a week in which he completed 93.3 percent of his passes (the highest percentage by a QB with four passing touchdowns since 1994), Robert Griffin III is making his first home start in his home state of Texas in front of a national television audience on Thursday afternoon. Knowing the way RG3 has risen to the occasion when the bright lights have been on him in the past (See: 2011 Alamo Bowl), it's awfully tempting to take Washington. But even with the hideous win over the Browns still fresh in my memory, I'm riding this Cowboys train I boarded last week ... and I'm riding it until the very end. At 5-0 all-time in Thanksgiving games, give me Tony Romo over the kid in all of the adorable Subway ads.
The Pick: Cowboys 33, Redskins 21
New England at New York Jets: Watching the all-22 film this week of their 59-24 win over the Colts last Sunday, I'm pretty sure the 2012 Patriots are New England's best team since the 18-1 squad of 2007. The Jets' home crowd will be nice and loose — in a Brad Keselowski kind of way — on Thursday. Expect the boo birds to come out in full force if this one gets out of hand early. The Pats D is significantly better now than it was when these two teams played in October. They made red-hot Andrew Luck look average last week. What will they do to Mark Sanchez?
The Pick: Patriots 38, Jets 20
Sunday, 1 p.m. ET:
Minnesota at Chicago: The Bears were 7-3 last season when Jay Cutler went down with an injured wrist. They finished the year 1-5 in their final six games without him, missed the playoffs by one win, and wondered about what could have been. Rinse and repeat in 2012? It appears that might be the case. I thought Jason Campbell was a significant upgrade from Caleb Hanie. I was wrong. If anything, the past two seasons should shed some light on just how terrific a quarterback Cutler really is. The fact that Chicago — with that offensive line — has two wins, let alone seven, is incredible.
The Pick: Vikings 20, Bears 17
Oakland at Cincinnati: The Carson Palmer Bowl! I was tempted to write the Bengals off after losing four straight games to AFC opponents to close out the first half of their season. Naturally, they've since rattled off two straight wins and have games against Oakland, San Diego and Philadelphia in three of their next four weeks. Looking for your second wild-card team in the AFC? The Bengals are screaming, "Me! Me! Me!" An above-average junior varsity high school squad might be able to put up 30 on this Raiders defense. Cincy should have no problem doubling them up.
The Bears look to break a five-game skid against the Packers. Check out full coverage of FOX's game of the week.The Pick: Bengals 41, Raiders 17
Pittsburgh at Cleveland: I woke up Monday and read Charlie Batch was starting for Pittsburgh and they were working out Plaxico Burress. I immediately went to Google and searched the names Amos Zereoue, Willie Parker and Duce Staley to see which mid-2000's Steelers contributor was next to join the party. Charlie Batch, Tommy Maddox or Kordell Stewart — I don't care who's playing quarterback for the Steelers on Sunday — I'll always take a Mike Tomlin-coached team over a Pat Shurmur one. Always.
The Pick: Steelers 19, Browns 10
Buffalo at Indianapolis: Watch out for Buffalo. The high-priced defense — absent for most of the season — showed us some life against Miami last week, they've had 10 days to prepare for a young Indianapolis squad, and they've got a very manageable schedule from here on out. Buffalo's next six games are at Indianapolis, vs. Jacksonville, vs. St. Louis, vs. Seattle, at Miami and at New York Jets. Did I just advise you to pencil the Bengals in for that second AFC wild-card spot a second ago? Grab your eraser. Switch that to Buffalo.
The Pick: Buffalo 27, Indianapolis 21
Denver at Kansas City: Hahahahahaha. Oh, you're serious? You really need me to pick this one? C'mon. One fun stat to think about while watching this blowout on Sunday: Von Miller has 13 sacks with six games left to go. Michael Strahan's all-time single-season sack record is 22.5. Miller had three sacks last week against the Chargers. I'm not saying it'll be easy, but I'm saying there's a chance ...
The Pick: Broncos 34, Chiefs 14
Seattle at Miami: Seattle's 5-0 at home, but just 1-4 on the road. That'd usually be a giant red flag. Not in this case. Whatever Ryan Tannehill had going on in the season's first half, defensive coordinators have identified his weaknesses and adjusted to them. He's been downright awful in Miami's last two games. The uber-talented Seattle defense — coming off a bye week to prepare and scheme for the rookie QB — will be foaming at the mouth come Sunday at 1 p.m. ET. Sorry, Ryan.
The Pick: Seahawks 23, Dolphins 9
Atlanta at Tampa Bay: Has there ever been a 9-1 team with less positive buzz surrounding them than the 2012 Atlanta Falcons? With Sunday's "meh" 23-19 win over Arizona, the Falcons have now been very fortunate to escape scares at home from the lowly Raiders, Panthers and Cardinals — three teams with a combined road record of 3-11; a trio that certainly won't be confused for the '85 Bears, '76 Steelers, and '99 Rams anytime soon. Once in a while, a young squad comes along that just has a magic glow. The Bucs had no right even being within a score of the Panthers late in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game in Carolina, and of course, they found a way to not only tie the game at the end of regulation, but win in overtime. Gut pick, here. Give me Tampa Bay. I'm not sure how, but they'll find a way.
The Pick: Buccaneers 30, Falcons 27 (OT)
Tennessee at Jacksonville: It's amazing what having a real NFL quarterback can do for a receiver, isn't it? Labeled a "draft bust" all season long, Justin Blackmon erupted for seven catches, 236 yards and a touchdown once Chad Henne entered last Sunday's shootout with the Texans. He had 250 receiving yards combined in the nine games prior. Tennessee shouldn't lose this one, but I'm feeling an upset. Who needs Montana to Rice when you've got Henne to Blackmon?!
The Pick: Jaguars 27, Titans 23
Sunday, 4:05 p.m. ET:
Baltimore at San Diego: Ed Reed's suspension appeal was a success on Tuesday, but the $50,000 hit to the wallet still isn't exactly chump change. The Ravens will have their star safety in the lineup this weekend, but it probably wouldn't have mattered much if he wasn't, anyway. Baltimore could trot out a bunch of second- and third-stringers against this anemic Chargers offense and be just fine. In the past five years, the Chargers have opted not to re-sign Michael Turner, LaDainian Tomlinson, Darren Sproles and Vincent Jackson. Philip Rivers could use every single one of them now.
The Pick: Ravens 27, Chargers 16
San Francisco at New Orleans: Minimize the Excel spreadsheet on your computer right now. Kick back. Put your feet up on your desk. Grab a cold soft drink. And enjoy this montage of Aldon Smith's 49ers/0ap2000000098143/All-hail-Aldon?campaign=Twitter_atl">5.5-sack night from Week 11. Awesome. As for the suddenly fascinating quarterback situation in San Francisco? I'm biased. I thought Colin Kaepernick was worthy of a first-round pick in 2011 and had him rated higher than Andy Dalton, Christian Ponder and Jake Locker on my draft board that April. I would have started him as a rookie last year. The dude's the real deal. Alex Smith, I fear, still has the tendency to be "just a guy." Ride the hot hand. Fear the ostrich! Whether it's Smith or Kaepernick under center come Sunday, I like the 49ers to get the best of the Saints in New Orleans.
The Pick: 49ers 31, Saints 27
St. Louis at Arizona: No one ever questions Ken Whisenhunt, but I was baffled by his handling of Arizona's quarterbacks on Sunday. Coming off a bye week, Coach Wiz benched starter John Skelton after just seven pass attempts and replaced him with rookie Ryan Lindley early in the first half. I have no problem benching Skelton if he's not playing well, but why not just start Lindley? Name him the starter after Week 9, give him an entire bye week to walk around the facility as the team's starter, and let him be the man from the get go. I don't know. I just feel bad for Larry Fitzgerald. He deserves better than this, whatever "this" is.
The Pick: Rams 20, Cardinals 17
Sunday night:
Green Bay Packers at New York Giants: After two straight weeks of listening to the "Is Eli elite?" debate all over again on New York's sports TV and radio stations — I'm thrilled there's actual football to discuss this Sunday. Aaron Rodgers' running backs, tight ends and receivers dropped eight passes in last year's divisional round loss to the Giants. I'm sure he's watched the tape of that one a few times since the loss and I'm sure he wants this one. It hasn't been as pretty as his 2011 campaign, but Rodgers is certainly in a bit of a groove right now. He'll hand the Giants their third straight loss, complicating things in the NFC East quite a bit, on Sunday night.
The Pick: Packers 34, Giants 21
Monday night:
Carolina at Philadelphia: I have just one word to describe this game: Gross. Has there ever been a worse fourth-quarter team than the 2012 Carolina Panthers? Besides the 2011 Carolina Panthers? This one should just be named the Jon Gruden Bowl. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on who you ask), he'll be calling it. If Cam Newton can do half of what Robert Griffin III did against this Philly defense, this shouldn't be a problem for Carolina.
The Pick: Panthers 31, Eagles 16
1. Saw "Argo" over the weekend. Loved that the actors who played Eric Taylor ("Friday Night Lights") and Henry Francis ("Mad Men") were both in it. Yep, that was my big takeaway. There's a reason I get a vote for the Heisman and not the Academy Awards.
2. Every time I read a 5,000-word puff piece on Chip Kelly's "unstoppable" offense, a college defense steps right up and shuts it down. Auburn did it two years ago in the BCS Championship Game. Les Miles did it last season. Stanford did it last weekend in Eugene. This is not a very popular sentiment in league circles, but I'm just as intrigued by Stanford head coach David Shaw as I am with Kelly in terms of NFL head coaching gigs.
3. I attended my first Brooklyn Nets game last Thursday night. Fun experience. Only complaint? A little too much "Dance Cam" for my liking. I can't spend an entire game scared that I'll be on a Jumbotron every time there's a stoppage of play. The cameras came way too close to my torso way too many times.
4. Basketball writer and noted ATLien Lang Whitaker had the line of the week in regards to the Steelers' throwback uniforms: "More NFL teams should wear khaki pants." Couldn't agree more.
5. Oh, and Gronk shouldn't have been in the game.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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Posts for September, 2011
College enrollment boom
It's back to school time and a new Pew Hispanic Center study shows that a record number of Latinos may be heading for the halls of higher education.
According to the new study the enrollment of Hispanics in college increased by 24% in October 2010.
From 2009 to 2010, the number of Hispanic adults 18-24-year-old attending college hit 12.2 million, an all-time high, says the study that analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data.
During that year the number of young Latino adults in college grew by 349,000 compared with an increase of 88,00 blacks, 43,000 Asian-Americans and 320,000 non-Hispanic whites.
For the complete study go to: pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php
Word spreads about dairy farmers and E-verify
A story in the Journal Sentinel about state dairy farmers and the proposed mandatory E-verify law that would require employers to ensure workers are legal has been getting national attention.
The Huffington Post and its new Latino Voices section linked to the story. It included a commentary about the issue by local immigration attorney Erich Straub.
New Holstein dairy farmer Deb Reinhart, who was featured in the story, and I, also discussed the issue on National Public Radio's show "Tell Me More" with host Michel Martin earlier this week.
White House official to discuss Hispanic education in Milwaukee
White House and U.S. Department of Education officials will be at South Division High School Thursday to meet with parents and others in the community for a listening session on ways to improve the education of Hispanics.
Jose Rico, of the White House's office of Hispanic Education, along with Karen Mines and Leticia Magdaleno, of the Department of Education, will attend the session from 4 to 6 p.m.
Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Gregory Thornton, Jesus Santos, director of the MPS bilingual and multicultural office, along with Tony Baez, executive director of the Council for the Spanish Speaking, also are expected to make comments.
This is one in a series of listening sessions being held around the country, said Baez. He was one of a group of Latino leaders who were invited to the White House in July to discuss educational concerns.
"The officials are holding a listening tour to present their perspective and to listen to what others have to say," he said.
A similar session will be held earlier in the day in Chicago, he said.
In May, the White House issued a lengthy report, called "Winning the Future: Improving Education for the Latino Community," on the state of education and ways to improve academic achievement.
It outlines the state of education among Latinos, the fastest growing minority in the country. Latinos now make up 23% of those under the age of 17.
Yet, less than half of Latino children are enrolled in any early learning programs and only about half of all Latino students get a high school diploma on time.
The report suggests a number of measures to better meet the needs of Latino students, including developing more Latino teachers and providing better support for English language learners.
The report can be found at: www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/WinningTheFutureImprovingLatinoEducation.pdf
Brides walk against family violence
Six years ago a group of local women put on wedding gowns (theirs or ones they had borrowed) and walked through the streets of the south side to raise awareness against domestic violence.
This year what's become the annual Bride's Walk against domestic violence will take place Saturday, September 10. It begins at 10 a.m. at the UMOS Latina Resource Center, 802 W. Mitchell St. and ends at noon at Tres Hermanos restaurant where there will be a "speak out."
The women wear wedding gowns to call attention to the fact that domestic violence often occurs among those in intimate relationships with partners, spouses and ex-spouses and partners.
The walk will be led by U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, (D-Milwaukee, along with Mayor Tom Barrett, County Sup. Peggy West and Milwaukee police Officer Isabel Monreal.
In the past, the Bride's Walk has been part of the UMOS Mexican Independence parade. But this year the event has been separated from the parade to call attention to the seriousness of domestic violence, said UMOS President and CEO Lupe Martinez.
"We want to make a single, non-celebratory statement that domestic violence is not acceptable anytime, anywhere, from anyone," he said.
The Mexican Independence Parade will take place the following week, on Sunday September 18.
The Latina Resource Center offers support and services aimed at Latinos and Spanish-speaking families.
For more information call (414) 389-6508 or go to: www.umos.org/special_events/brides_walk.html
Street soccer on the south side
Growing up in Peru, Juan Carlos Ruiz said he and his friends used to just put down two big rocks on the street as goals and play soccer.
Now he's working to bring street soccer, which is catching on in some big cities, to Milwaukee this weekend.
His firm, Milwaukee Street Soccer, LLC., has joined with several community soccer players, health organizations, and businesses to put on the 2011 Milwaukee Street Soccer and Health Festival Saturday and Sunday on S. 4th St. between W. National and W. Virginia Avenues.
On Saturday the festival will run from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday it goes from 12:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
There will be five street soccer fields with 40 teams, a health education, prevention and intervention area, activities for children and youth, such as slides and rock climbing. There will also be music and dancing, including a salsa, merengue and bachata competition.
The goal of the festival is to promote family exercise and activies and to promote healthy lifestyles, said Ruiz..
For more information, go to: www.milwaukeestreetsoccer.com/
Three questions and many answers on education
Jose Rico looked a lot like the Chicago high school principal he used to be as he stood facing a room of more than 100 at South Division High School's cafeteria Thursday afternoon.
The founding principal of the Multicultural Arts High School in the Little Villages area of Chicago, Rico and 13 others staged a 19-day hunger strike in 2005 as part of an effort to show the need for building the new high school in the Latino community.
Now he's the deputy director of the White House's office of Hispanic education, an initiative focused on working to improve education in the nation's rapidly growing Latino community.
He was in Milwaukee, along with other U. S. Department of Education officials, to ask parents, teachers, students and community leaders for their ideas on how to improve the education of Latinos, who now make up one in four students at Milwaukee Public Schools.
Instead of just throwing the meeting open to questions and comments, Rico broke up the session by posing three questions that were answered, at first, by a self-selected panel of six. Then those in attendance broke up into small groups and discussed the question for 15 minutes and wrote down their responses, which he said will be compiled by his office.
The three questions were simple, but drew a lot of discussion. They were:
1) What do we need to STOP doing to improve the education of Latino students?
2) What SHOULD WE BE DOING to improve education for Latino students?
3) What is it we need to START DOING to improve the quality of education for Latino students?
"We need to stop cuts to the education budget," was one popular response to the first question.
"Let kids develop their English and Spanish so that they can do better," said another.
"Stop demonizing public education and public school teachers," said former MPS school board member Jennifer Morales, the first Hispanic to serve on the board.
Schools need to do more mentoring and collaborate more with community colleges and universities, and listen to parents and their needs, many said in response to the second question.
What is needed is to reduce the reliance on standardized testing and maintain quality bilingual education, said others, including Bob Peterson, of La Escuela Fratney and the president of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association.
"We need to get together and make our voices be heard, so we can make a bigger difference," said Angel Salmeron, the vice president of the PTA at Fairview where his two children attend. He also decried the elimination of art, music and gym programs. "Art and music is part of every culture and that's the way values are transmitted," he said.
Others also discussed the need for a DREAM ACT, so that students who were brought here as young children and are undocumented can go to college and get a path to citizenship.
At the close of the meeting, Heidi Ramirez, the chief academic officer for MPS, urged parents to "partner with us" so that the system can improve and do better.
Hispanic Heritage awards
Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, Harvard-educated lawyer and political activist Ruben Blades will receive the Hispanic Heritage award in the arts on Thursday, Sept. 15 at ceremonies at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Thursday marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs through the middle of October. And it marks the 25th year that the Hispanic Heritage Foundation has given awards for outstanding accomplishments to Latinos in various fields.
The others who will be receiving recognition at the event are:
Jorge Vergara, a Mexican businessman and film producer, in the field of business.
Juan Andrade Jr., president of the U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute, who has led that organization since 1982, in the area of leadership.
Hugo Sanchez, Mexican soccer player and coach, in sports.
Elizabeth Molina Morgan, who has worked for 30 years in inner city, suburban and rural education and leads an effort to end the dropout crisis, in the area of education.
The Vision Award will be given to Colombian singer and musician Juanes.
And the Legend Award will go to Roberto Gomez Bolaños, a Mexican writer, actor, director, comedian, poet and philosopher who goes by the stage name Chespirito, which means "Little Shakespeare."
40th Mexican Independence Day Parade goes "green"
Mexican Independence Day will be celebrated in Milwaukee Sunday with the 40th annual UMOS parade and festival.
And this year, instead of using showy convertible cars to carry UMOS board members and other officials, VIP's will ride in pedal powered carriages in a move to be more eco-friendly, said UMOS spokesman Rod Ritcherson.
The parade kicks off at 11:30 a.m. from South Division High School, 1515 W. Lapham Blvd., and will take a new, shorter route this year, Ritcherson said.
It will go from Lapham Blvd., left to Cesar Chavez Drive, left on Arthur St., right on S. 6th St., left o Rosedale to the UMOS Center on Chase Ave.
Once at the UMOS Cener at 2701 S. Chase Ave. there will be the festival featuring food, music, a carnival and children's activities.
Jesus Salas, a former UMOS executive director, teacher, and member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, will be the parade marshal.
Perez named winner of Zeidler award
Antonio "Tony" Perez, who founded the Milwaukee Community Service Corps and now serves as the executive director of the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee, has been named the recipient of the 2011 Frank P. Zeidler Public Service Award.
Perez was selected primarily for starting the Milwaukee Community Service Corps in 1991, which is modeled after the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps.
The Milwaukee Community Service Corps is a nonprofit vocational training organization that provides employment and education to young adults in Milwaukee. The program integrates education, life skills and on-the-job work experience to help low-income youth between the ages of 18 and 23 to get jobs.
From 1991 to 2000 when Perez ran the program, more than 900 participants found jobs and received more than $4.5 million in income, according to a press release from Ald. Robert Bauman that announced the award.
The service corps now serves an average of 100 participants a year. Since its inception approximately 2,000 young adults have received job training through the program.
Because of his experience here, Perez serves as a member of the executive committee of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, is a past president of the National Association of Service and Conservation Corps, and has served as a consultant to the Peace Corp.
He was also cited for his work, along with Mayor Tom Barrett, in helping to bring the $28 million Job Corps Center to Milwaukee. The U.S. Department of Labor selected Milwaukee for the project, which opened in the fall of 2010 near N. 60th St. and W. Green Tree Road and is currently working with 300 students.
At the Housing Authority, Perez oversees housing for more than 12,000 low-income families, elderly and disabled persons. During his tenure the agency has received or leveraged more than $265 million in development resources.
Perez was nominated for the award by Common Council President Willie Hines.
The award acknowledges residents whose effort most embody the values and vision of Zeidler, the city's last socialist mayor who died in 2006. Zeidler served as mayor from 1948 to 1960 and was known for his work in public service and social justice until his last days. Elected public officials are not eligible for the award.
Arthur Heitzer, a civil rights attorney who chairs the Zeidler award committee, said Perez was selected because of his work and initiatives that "address the massive need for jobs and job training for young adults and especially urban youth in Milwaukee."
Perez, a native of Puerto Rico, said of the Zeidler award: "I'm honored that my name is mentioned with his and his can-do Milwaukee attitude."
Voces receives national leadership award
Voces de la Frontera will receive a "community organizing and leadership" award from the Center for Community Change, a national organization that works to strengthen grass roots organizations and improve the leadership and power of low-income communities.
Founder and Executive Director of Voces, Christine Neumann-Ortiz will go to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 22 to accept the award.
Voces is one of six honorees to be recognized with the National Community Change Champion awards.
Others who will be honored include Arizona Democratic U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva; One America; Quinn Delaney, president of the Akonadi Foundation; and George Gresham, president of 1199 SEIU United Health Care Workers East.
Past recipients include then-U. S. Sen. Barack Obama and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
Napolitano visits Wisconsin
U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be in Madison today and tomorrow.
Today at 2 p.m. she will speak at the University of Wisconsin Madison's Varsity Hall 2 about the government's initiative to encourage "the best and the brightest foreign students and scholars to study and remain in the U.S.," according to a news release from DHS.
Tomorrow she will be guest speaker at the Madison Civics Club 100th anniversary luncheon at Monona Terrace Ballroom.
Agency's long "journey" realized
More than 200 persons from the community, government, and the philanthropic community gathered this morning for the ground breaking of the new $6 million Jouney House community center that will be attached to Longfellow Elementary School.
Mayor Tom Barrett said the "long journey" for the agency and the school shows the power of partnerships. "The two organizations are incredible assets to this community," he said, standing on the playground where work has already begun on the new center.
Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Gregory Thornton said the new cafeteria (which drew cheers from the crowd), new gym and new classrooms that will be shared by the center and the school, will help change the lives of the children and families that live in the largely Latino neighborhood.
Journey House has been trying to get a new center for 12 years. Through the efforts of Journey House, MPS, government, and various foundations the project is finally getting off the ground. Kids from the school and the center also pitched in by holding rummage sales, carwashes and teen dances.
Retiring...but not now
Maria Monreal-Cameron, the president and CEO of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin, said she's told the board of directors that she plans to retire in 2013.
"I wanted to give the board enough lead time to find a replacement and I plan to devote the next two years to making sure I leave the chamber as a thriving and robust agency," she said.
Monreal-Cameron has run the chamber for the last 22 years and has grown it into a highly visible and respected organization locally and nationally.
But the chamber, which now has 551 members, has suffered from the economic recession, she said. The agency's four fundraising events no longer bring in the dollars they used to and sponsorships are down, she said.
"We have to be innovative and start repackaging the chamber," she said. For example, there's money from federal and state sources for job training and that might be an avenue to pursue, she said.
"We need to move forward and get resources in here," she said.
In honor of those who served
John A. Scocos, who was appointed as Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs on August 25, 2011, has written this guest column honoring Latino veterans.
Since returning to the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs as the first Cabinet-appointed Secretary of the agency, it has been rewarding to reconnect with our veterans and their families. As we move into the fall season, let us take time to honor the legacy of Wisconsin's Latino veterans. From September 15 through October 15, join me in commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month and recognizing the contributions of all Latino veterans.
Latinos have fought in every major war since the United States won its independence. Since World War II, Wisconsin's Latino veterans have gained recognition for their valor and duty. During the Korean War, despite intense torture and endless deprivation, Waukesha's Marcos "Jesse" Martinez, repeatedly escaped his POW camp, but was recaptured each time. As a result, Martinez spent nearly three years in solitary confinement in a bamboo cage before returning home to a hero's welcome.
Wisconsin American G.I. Forum Commander George Banda was a combat medic with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam. He received the Silver Star on April 23, 1970 for protecting and saving a wounded soldier while under enemy fire. He received the Bronze Star for wounds received in combat while defending follow soldiers at Fire Support Base Henderson on May 6, 1970. The retired Milwaukee County Airport firefighter also received the Purple Heart for his many acts of heroism and gallantry during his military service in Vietnam.
"Hispanics have been part of this country since its inception. We feel an obligation to honor our country by helping to defend freedom," Banda said. He, like so many other Wisconsin veterans, is modest and unassuming about his actions despite saving the lives of dozens of his fellow soldiers. "My uncles inspired me to help defend this country, because they enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked," he added.
Earlier this year, West Point Military Academy graduate Daren Hidalgo, a Waukesha native, made the ultimate sacrifice, losing his life to an IED while fighting in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was the youngest of three sons currently serving. His father, Jorge Hidalgo, is also a graduate of West Point.
Military images of Hispanic veterans and their unique stories can be found online at The Pictorial Project, Wisconsin Latino Veteran Stories. The pictorial display has been previously exhibited at Milwaukee's Summerfest and the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. U.S. Marine Corps veteran Joe Medina, president of the foundation, thanks the Hispanic veterans and their families for donating copies of their heartfelt photos to the foundation. Medina and Banda will participate in a presentation at the William S. Middleton VA Hospital in Madison on September 29 to honor veterans during Hispanic Heritage Month.
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs Diversity and Equity Committee will also acknowledge Hispanic Heritage Month with a program on September 28.
"Our men and women have given precious time and some have never returned home," Joe Medina said. "Let the story be told from one generation to another."
These veterans, and the hundreds of Wisconsin Latinos currently serving in military branches throughout the world, share in this legacy of honor. Wisconsin is eternally grateful for their United States military service.
State of mental health issues explored
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month there will be movies, Salsafest and other events at the Roberto Hernandez Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
But this year, instead of presenting and array of topics for discussion in the Latino community, the center has decided to focus on the issue of mental health in the community.
"There's a real shortage and need for mental health professionals in the greater Milwaukee area, especially those who are bilingual," said Enrique Figuerora, the director of the center. "By discussing this issue we hope to bring attention to it and to the disparities that exist."
The discussion begins Tuesday at 7 p.m. when Steven Lopez, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Southern California, will be here to discuss "documenting and eliminating disparities in mental health care for Latinos."
His presentation will be held at the Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave., 4th floor conference room.
On Thursday at 6:30 p.m., there a panel featuring local psychologists who will discuss: "Latinos: State of Mental Health."
Those on the panel include Carolina Gonzalez-Schlenker, the co-founder of the Latino Health Coalition; Toni K. Rivera-Joachin, manager of Project Ujima at Children's Hospital; Leslie Davie, a psychologist at Aurora Hospital and the Walker's Point Community Clinic located at Core-El Centro, and Gabriela Dieguez, a psychologist at the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center.
That will be held in the Regents Room of Chapman Hall, 2310 E. Hartford Ave.
On Tuesday, Sept. 27, the subject of "Latino Psychology & Research" will be discussed by a panel consisting of UWM faculty and graduate students that include Jonathan Kanter, Jose B. Torres, and Lucas Torres. The program starts at noon and will be held in the Union 191.
New campaign to protect Medicare and Medicaid
A coalition of 10 leading Latino organizations launched a national campaign Tuesday to protect Medicare and Medicaid and to educate the Latino community about its importance.
As part of the campaign the coalition, which includes the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), The Hispanic Federation and the American GI Forum, released a report that shows increasing the Medicare eligibility age to 67 could cost Latinos in the U.S. more than $2.4 billion in the first year alone.
The report, "The High Cost to Latinos of Raising the Medicare Age," shows that health care costs could rise by nearly $6,000 over the lifetime of an individual Latino if the Medicare age increases.
"The weak economy has hit the Latino community the hardest — the unemployment rate for Hispanics has escalated to 11.6%," said Brent Wilkes, executive director of LULAC. "In a time when Latinos are already hurting, it's appalling that these are actual recommendations that are on the chopping table," he said in a news release announcing the campaign and report.
The Latino community depends on these programs for quality, affordable health care, he said. "Making these proposed cuts would make second class citizens of a population that is already underserved," he said.
Instead of raising the Medicare eligibility age, the report suggests creating a Medicare prescription drug benefit with negotiated prices that, it said, could save money.
Yahoo roundtable with Obama
Yahoo will hold an online round-table with President Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 28 that will focus on Hispanic issues.
The event — the first of its kind — will be streamed live from the White House in both Spanish and English, according to a story in The Hill.
Jose Siade, Yahoo's editor-in-chief for U.S. Hispanic and Latin America, will lead the conversation.
Those wishing to participate can submit questions by visiting Yahoo's Spanish language site.
New Peruvian and Puerto Rican eateries
Near 35th and National Ave. two new restaurants have popped up.
Mr. Sebass serves up Peruvian specials like ceviche, roast meats, potatoes, rice and sandwiches. Owner Juan José Ludena was busy during Friday lunch serving up plates of specialties in the small, cozy restaurant that seats 32.
A native of Lima, Ludena said he moved here from San Francisco and opened up the restaurant about a week ago. The restaurant is so new that menus are not yet available. Instead, Ludena just tells you what's cooking.
Across the street in the building that once housed the Colombian Bakery, La Isla II, a Puerto Rican restaurant, is another new addition to the neighborhood.
It's run by Gilberto and Meralis Fuentes who operate La Isla restaurant at 1704 Pearl St. Specialties of the house include mofongo, fried plantains and plenty of pork dishes served in an atmosphere that's bright yellow.
"Harlistas" shows tonight
The documentary film "Harlistas: An American Journey" will be shown tonight at 7 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Bolton Hall, Room 150.
In "Harlistas, " award-winning filmmaker Alfredo de Villa examines the life of Latino Harley riders who seek adventure, camaraderie, and the open road as they chase the American dream.
The film is part of various activities scheduled by the Roberto Hernandez Center at UWM for Hispanic Heritage Month.
New El Rey market opens Oct. 15
The new El Rey Family Market will open at 5200 W. Oklahoma Ave. on October 15, Olivia Villarreal, co-owner and spokesman announced Wednesday.
The 22,000-square-foot store that was formerly a Sentry grocery store, has been remodeled and renovated. It will employ 100, she said.
"We're very excited to expand our family business and serve new neighbors," she said. The new El Rey will feature Hispanic food specialties, but also Serbian and Polish specialties to serve the needs of the neighborhood, she said.
The store will be managed by Nelson Lang and his wife Liz, Olivia's daughter.
A Latina who became THE Secretary
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, in Milwaukee Friday to push President Barack Obama's jobs bill, met with Latino leaders and members of the community and shared some of her story.
The daughter of immigrants — her father was farmworker from Mexico, her mother from Nicaragua — said she was discouraged by one high school counselor from going to college. She should get a job and maybe be a secretary, he told her. He didn't think she was "college material."
Yet, another counselor encouraged her to pursue higher education and showed her programs that could make a college degree possible.
So, she became the first in her family with a college degree.
She never forgot that discouraging counselor, though. "He was half right," she said. "I became a secretary-the Secretary of Labor," she told the Latino audience that included some Latino students.
"Sometimes they put us in a box, but you don't have to accept that," she said. "This country gives you a lot of opportunities."
Frankly, she told her audience this is not the best time to be the cabinet secretary for labor because of the current job situation.
There are 14 million out of work.
Unemployment among Latinos is about 11%, which translates or about 1 million, she said. That's why she urged her audience to contact their Washington representatives and urge passage of the jobs plan.
The impact of the American Jobs Act on Hispanics, she said, would mean:
Tax cuts to benefit 250,000 Hispanic-owned small businesses.
Extension of unemployment insurance to benefit 1.1 million Latinos and their families.
"Pathways Back to Work" to support subsided jobs and summer and year-round jobs follow income youths and adults. Unemployment among Latino youths stands at 19.3%.
An estimated 25 million Latino workers would benefit from the extension of the payroll tax cut.
More jobs in construction would be created by the investment in infrastructure to rebuild roads, bridges, schools and homes hit by foreclosure.

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Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums.
Early life
She grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts (Born in Hampden, Maine), then in her wealthy grandmother's home in Boston. She struggled to find a career in traditional female occupations: schoolteacher, governess, writer. None of these pursuits satisfied her ambition, and in her mid-thirties she suffered a debilitating breakdown. In hopes of a cure, in 1836 she traveled to England, where she had the good fortune to meet the Rathbone family, who invited her to spend a year as their guest at Greenbank, their ancestral mansion in Liverpool. The Rathbones were Quakers and prominent social reformers, and at Greenbank, Dix met men and women who believed that government should play a direct, active role in social welfare. She was also exposed to the British lunacy reform movement, whose methods involved detailed investigations of madhouses and asylums, the results of which were published in reports to the House of Commons.
Read more about Dorothea Dix' efforts on the behalf of the mentally ill, free from psych.org.
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After she returned to America, in 1840-41, Dix conducted a statewide investigation of how her home state of Massachusetts cared for the insane poor. She published the results in a fiery pamphlet, a Memorial, to the state legislature. "I proceed, Gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of Insane Persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." The outcome of her lobbying was a bill to expand the state's mental hospital.
Henceforth, Dix traveled from New Hampshire to Louisiana, documenting the condition of pauper lunatics, publishing memorials to state legislatures, and devoting enormous personal energy to working with committees to draft the appropriations bills needed to build asylums. In 1848, Dorothea Dix visited North Carolina and called for reform in the care of mentally ill patients. In 1849, when the North Carolina State Medical Society was formed, the construction of an institution in the capital, Raleigh, for the care of mentally ill patients was authorized. The hospital, named in honor of Dorothea Dix, opened in 1856. She was instrumental in the founding of the first public mental hospital in Pennsylvania, the Harrisburg State Hospital, and later in establishing its library and reading room in 1853.
The culmination of her work was legislation to set aside 10,000,000 acres of Federal land, with proceeds from its sale distributed to the states to build and maintain asylums. Dix's land bill passed both houses of congress, but in 1854 President Franklin Pierce vetoed it, arguing that the federal government should not involve itself in social welfare. Stung by the defeat of her land bill, in 1854 and 1855 Dix traveled to England and Europe, where she reconnected with the Rathbones and conducted investigations of Scotland's madhouses that precipitated the Scottish Lunacy Commission.
Final years
During the Civil War, Dix was appointed Superintendent of Army Nurses. Unfortunately, the qualities that made her a successful crusader—independence, single-minded zeal—did not lend themselves to managing a large organization of nurses. She was gradually relieved of real responsibility and would consider this chapter in her career a failure. However, her even-handed caring for Union and Confederate wounded alike, which may not have endeared her to radical Republicans, assured her memory in the South.
Her nurses provided what was often the only care available in the field to Confederate wounded. "The surgeon in charge of our camp ... looked after all their wounds, which were often in a most shocking state, particularly among the rebels. Every evening and morning they were dressed." - Georgeanna Woolsey, a Dix nurse. "Many of these were Rebels. I could not pass them by neglected. Though enemies, they were nevertheless helpless, suffering human beings." - Julia Susan Wheelock, a Dix nurse. Over 5000 Confederate wounded were left behind, when Robert E. Lee retreated from Gettysburg, who were then treated by Dix's nurses, like Cornelia Hancock who wrote about what she saw. "There are no words in the English language to express the suffering I witnessed today ..."
Dorothea Dix spent her last years living as a guest in the New Jersey State Hospital in Trenton.
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Hello-Hello launches Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish language courses for Android phones.
20 April 2011, Washington DC: Hello-Hello, a pioneering company in mobile language learning, announced the launch of 11 new language courses for Android phones. Hello-Hello apps are the top selling language learning apps on the iPad and are also available on the iPhone and Android tablets.
The language courses were developed in collaboration with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Each course offers 30 conversational lessons based on real-life situations supplemented by hundreds of flashcards containing words and sentences for vocabulary building. Courses are available in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Dutch and Chinese.
The new Hello-Hello language learning apps incorporate special features including animation-rich frameworks, beautiful graphical interface, high-quality audio files and a research-based methodology. Users can learn a new language by building conversational skills rather then teaching out-of context words and sentences.
Sarah Gontijo, Hello-Hello's Founder & CEO said: "Today, Android-based smartphones are the top selling smartphones in the world. They are available in a wide price range and are sold in almost in every country. Our new Android smartphone apps will reach more users who want the convenience of learning a new language on their mobile device."
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Identity theft has been recognized as the fastest-growing crime in the 21st century. As such, your BBB of Northern Indiana works diligently with agencies like the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Indiana State Police to combat this growing crime.
As a proactive effort, BBB of Northern Indiana joined forces with the U.S. Postal Inspectors, the ISP and 3Rivers Federal Credit Union in a "Shred It Day" to be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday. A mobile shredder was to be provided by Iron Mountain at 3Rivers Federal Credit Union, 3750 E. Dupont Road, for the public to bring unused or unwanted papers, credit cards, or other such materials that contain personal information to be destroyed free of charge.
"The nature of this crime and the effect it can have on its victims makes it even more important to shred personal information, even those papers or labels that may seem harmless, " said Andrew Gottfried, U.S. postal inspector, in a news release. "Identity thieves have no scruples in what they can and will do. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service, BBB, 3Rivers Federal Credit Union and Indiana State Police hope that Shred It Day serves as a reminder of its importance because Dumpster divers truly do exist and it's up to you to be proactive."
"There is not one single person - from infancy to elderly - who is not vulnerable to ID theft," said Michael Coil, president/CEO of BBB, in the news release, "and it shows no signs of letting up. If you have important financial and personal information you want to dispose of, bring it to 3 Rivers Federal Credit Union to have shred. This is your first step in the right direction."


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Dr. Kristie Ogilvie will become dean of the School of Business at Emporia State University by July 1, according to Dr. Michael D. Shonrock, president of Emporia State University.
Ogilvie currently is associate dean of academics in the College of Business and Public Administration at California State University at San Bernardino. Ogilvie visited the Emporia State University campus April 23 and 24 for interviews.
"The students and faculty were so inspiring," Ogilvie said of the visit. "They made the decision for me that Emporia State University would be a good fit."
Ogilvie earned a bachelor's degree with a marketing concentration from California State University at Sacramento, a master's of business administration degree from University of Tulsa and advanced research certificate and doctorate of business administration from Grenoble Ecole de Management.
She was a senior business analyst at GenCorp Corp./Aerojet in Sacramento, Calif.; and taught at California State University at Sacramento and California State University at Fullerton before moving to San Bernardino where she served on the management faculty and as director of AACSB accreditation before becoming associate dean. As associate dean, Ogilvie is responsible for graduate programs, accreditation, administrative affairs and student services.
"I am very excited to bring what experiences I have to take the School of Business to the next level with support of a wonderful combination of faculty, staff, community and Emporia State leadership," said Ogilvie.
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Dalian residents know that every two years a key international event comes to town; the Davos forum.
The city prepares for Davos months before the conference. Hundreds of volunteers are recruited to play host to the domestic and international leaders who visit Dalian. Thousands of flowerpots adorn the main avenues and public security is bolstered to guarantee the safety of citizens and attendees during this important event.
But, what is it about Davos that makes it the event of the year? We take a look at exactly what Davos is and why it is important, to China and to the world.
The Davos forum is comprised of a series of meetings organized by The World Economic Forum (WEF) in which global leaders converge to discuss key global issues. It was dubbed the WEF's "Davos forum" because it originated in Davos, Switzerland.
Currently, the Davos forum is hosted twice a year:
Winter Davos: Every January in Switzerland at the annual meeting of the WEF
Summer Davos: Every September during the Davos Annual Meeting of New Champions alternating between Dalian and Tianjin.
The Annual Meeting of the New Champions, the "Summer Davos", is the foremost global business gathering in Asia. Introduced in 2007 in close collaboration with the People's Republic of China and with the personal support of Premier Wen Jiabao.
The WEF is an independent organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging international business, political, academic and other leaders of society to coordinate global, regional and industry agendas.
The WEF was first conceived in 1971 when a group of European business leaders met under the patronage of the European Commission and European industrial associations. Professor Klaus Sc hwab of the University of Geneva chaired the first meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Professor Schwab's vision for what would become a platform for resolving economic and international conflicts grew steadily and the WEF's Davos meeting expanded its focus from management to economic and social issues. In 1974 political leaders were invited for the first time to Davos.
The WEF is now also responsible for organizing other important global meetings such as Economic Summits, Summits on the Global Agenda, and World Economic Forums.
As the economy of the eastern hemisphere countries grew and issues based on such growth started to make international headlines, it became clear that the Davos forum needed to expand horizons.
China's rapid buildup of technology, investment in human capital and a shift of labor from low to high productivity sectors have enabled the country to go from zero to double-digit economic growth in the past 20 years. These remarkable economic conditions made it the perfect candidate to host Davos in the eastern hemisphere. In February of 2006, Zhang Xiaoqiang, Vice Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top planning body, signed an agreement with Klaus Schwab, WEF's founder, to hold the late summer version of Davos in China.
Several cities in China showed interest in hosting the forum and presented their proposals to the WEF's Beijing office where Prof. Schwab's team evaluated all proposals to assess the suitability of each potential host city. Selection criteria included the standards of venues, hotels, transportation and services. They shortlisted the potential host cities and carried out site visits.
Dalian and Tianjin were chosen not only based on required standards, but also based on the professionalism and enthusiasm of the cities' representatives.
Every conference focuses on a key theme that addresses pressing global issues. The theme this year is Mastering Quality Growth and will be supported by activities divided into four main pillars:
Pursuing New Frontiers of Growth
Embracing Disruptive Innovation
Shaping New Industry Models and Innovation
Sustaining a Creative and Entrepreneurial Culture
The discussions around these four pillars and the initiatives that result from them are entrusted to the Davos attendees who are grouped in different "communities" depending on their expertise and personal interests. To learn more about the WEF's communities visit www.weforum.org/communities
Main speakers will include Premier Wen Jiabao, WEF's Founder Klaus Schwab, China's Sinopec Group Chairman Fu Chengyu, Aetna's Chairman Mark Bertolini and Mitsubishi's Chairman of the Board Yorihiko Kojima.
One of the reasons why Davos is such an internationally renowned conference is because its attendees are the most senior executives of the world's largest companies and powerful political leaders.
This year's forum is expecting more than 1,500 participants from 80 countries including government officials, scholars and business leaders. A good number of them make a point to not miss Davos and participate every year.
So, why is DAVOS so attractive to such global leaders?
They say they take advantage of their twice-a-year physical proximity to meet in person with many of the key players in the world's economy, to discuss both business and how to make the world a better place.
We interviewed some of the regular participants of Davos and asked them to provide their opinion on the forum.
JIMMY WALES – Wikipedia Founder. Awarded by the WEF as Young Global Leader.
FD: You've participated in a number of Davos meetings. Has that influenced you in any way as a professional and as a person?
JW: I have found my participation in Davos meetings to have been a real high point of my career and very helpful to me in a number of ways. I am particularly fond of the Young Global Leaders group, where I have made many very interesting and good friends all around the world.
FD: Do you think Davos attendees can truly make a difference?
JW: I think so, yes. I think the results of Davos are easy to see and difficult to measure - not because they are small, but because they are so large. The ability of like-minded people who are in a position to make the world a better place to get together and get to know each other so that they can take action to make the world a better place is incredibly powerful.
FD: At Davos you have guided many discussions such as those of the WEF's Young Global Leaders community. What would be your advice to this year's Young Global Leaders? How can they approach the discussions so that the meeting's outcome can be transformed into practical action items?
JW: Interestingly enough, I think that the structured discussions - even ones that I have led (for better or worse ha ha!) are not the important part of the meeting. You'll often learn a lot from these discussions, and have the chance to meet and talk to genuine experts. But then, also really important discussions happen after the meetings - over dinner, at the cocktail meetings, etc.
My advice is get to know people, and follow up afterwards with them. Don't stick to your own field or industry. Don't look for clients or partners. Not right now. Just meet some really great people and in a year's time, amazing ideas will have bloomed.
FD: After visiting Dalian a number of times, what is your impression of the city and its people?
JW: Dalian is a beautiful city and there's an amazing crowd of international people living and working in Dalian. Having attended a WEF meeting in Tianjin, I can say that in my opinion, Dalian is 100 times better! Be sure not to miss the closing celebration - at least the last time I was in Dalian, it was amazing.
YOSHITO HORI - Dean, GLOBIS UNIVERSITY, Managing Partner, GLOBIS CAPITAL PARTNERS. Awarded by the WEF as New Asian Leader.
FD: What was your motivation to participate in the WEF's Davos meetings?
YH: I have three reasons and anticipations. The first, to get fresh ideas, knowledge and wisdom from the world-top-class leaders and to get myself inspired and stimulated. The second, to establish wonderful friendships with those leaders and specialists from a variety of fields and build a global-scale human network. The third is to contribute to the world's prosperity and peace by joining discussions and giving my opinion as a Japanese entrepreneur. I think that the Davos meeting satisfies me in terms of all the three expectations and we reaped a rich harvest from all activities.
FD: As an entrepreneur, you say that "Anyone with a winning idea just needs to know where to look". In your opinion, does Davos provide attendees with a good sense of where to look?
YH: I think that Davos works very effectively as the place where the world visionary leaders are brought together spontaneously. We know that fresh ideas, constructive relationships and powerful impulses will be created among and from the melting pot of those inspirational people. This is very important characteristic that makes Davos unique and different.
This is completely the same as GLOBIS MBA School. I think that we have been preparing the PLACE where ambitious people get together, learn cooperatively and motivate with each other. They do not join us for self-aggrandizing purposes, but for creating positive changes in society. That's why GLOBIS puts particular emphasis on the development of its students' KOKOROZASHI' which means a personal mission in Japanese language and we think that it is the very core of a leader's strength. At GLOBIS, students are challenged to think deeply about their own personal mission in life and to apply their passion to create and innovate. That makes GLOBIS more than a business school.
In the same sense, I believe that Davos is more than a conference.
FD: In your view, what are the key responsibilities and conference take-aways for New Asian Leaders, now that economies are favoring Asia?
YH: I think that it is quite important for every global leader to understand the diversity of people, culture and value of Asia both in the past and in the future. Since it will be the next-generation Asian Leaders that change and develop the world economy in this century, we will have to listen to them carefully and should know what and how they think. Davos Dalian will be the best place for us to give that valuable opportunity.
FD: What would you advise attendees in order for them to create their own of memorable moments of Davos Dalian?
YH: I would like to suggest to them; 1) Meet as many people as possible, 2) Join as many sessions as possible, 3) Take part in as many discussions and Q&As as possible, 4) Enjoy it! I will do so.
RICH STROMBACK – Chairman and CEO, Stromback Ventures. Awarded by the WEF as Technology Pioneer and Young Global Leader.
FD: How would you describe disruptive technologies in simple words?
RC: I'll cite WikipediAddress: "A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology there. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe
innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market."
Apple's iPhone is a perfect example of a disruptive technology. The iPhone has completely changed telecommunications; putting access to that much information in the palm of a hand has empowered people in many unforeseen ways. Apple has transformed the phone from just a communications device to a platform for everything.
FD: Why is this topic one of the four main topics of discussion at the Davos Conference?
RC: Because it's extremely relevant to everyone. Across the world we are witnessing how disruptive technology is affecting all aspects of our lives. Disruptive technologies such as smartphones coupled with social media have been utilized to topple regimes. Technology and innovation have been the foundation of globalization and the development of emerging markets such as India. Governments, media, business and finance are being affected by disruptive technologies on a scale that we have never witnessed before. I can't think of a more timely topic than disruptive technology.
FD: Who will benefit from the initiatives that will result from the discussions?
RC: It's hard to predict what will come from the discussions. The event is only a few days long but the discussions that are initiated and continued during it are influencing the decision makers who shape our lives. The WEF assembles a powerful group of constituents that span the breadth of influence in government, business, technology, finance etc. Because of this, the discussions and transfer of knowledge that occur within the forum have the potential for great impact.
FD: How has your participation at the Davos meetings influenced you as a person and as a professional?
RC: It's incredible to have access to such an amplitude of leadership; those who are shaping our world. It has given me a global perspective and many great friendships.


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Women Model Management of Women Management was founded in 1988 in New York with the aim of embracing non-conventional beauty. Its main office is located in Lafayette Street No. 7, New York. It also has branches in Paris and Milan.
Women Management has launched top models over the past two decades that include Julia Stegner, Isabeli Fontana, Iselin Steiro, Jourdan Dunn, Natasha Poly, Kate Moss, Carmen Kass, and Kylie Bax and many more.
Last year, counting covers, campaigns, and editorials that agencies in New York have booked, Women Management was number one among the top fifteen management agencies.
The Pros
A decade after the founding of Women Management, the company has experienced some ups and downs that made some people think that the foundations of the agency are about to shatter.
Amazingly, what was expected to happen did not occur and what actually happened was the opposite. The bookings for the agency's upcoming models and the established ones went rocket high. It was a proof of the agency's effort, experience and deep-rooted connections.
Despite the several dives, the stars of the agency never left and they are still intact. The aggressiveness and enthusiasm of Women Management in scouting for new faces made them a reliable management agency that clients can trust to handle their top prospects. This resulted to making Women Management the top in launching new faces and at the same time landing its star models to be on top fifty at all times.
Today NY is a city dominated by the Women and IMB management agencies balance of power. However, when the mother agency wants to position a new face on the market, Women is the first choice. Women Management has the personnel and capabilities to go an extra mile on the behalf of the mother agency. Apparently, nobody can contest the ability of Women in marketing a new superstar.
The Cons
Managing and maintaining over seventy models is very exhausting and challenging. Women Management has been supplying the demand for new face in the modeling world. Eventually, there will come a time that the supply might be scarce or the scouting team will be burned out. If this happens, Women might take a deep dive and have a difficulty swimming up.
Therefore, the company could just hope that the market turn around will slow down and the focus will be more on upcoming models who can stay longer on top posts.
In Conclusion
Women Management has proven its worth when it comes to making new models become supermodels. Mother agency looking for a company that can give their new girl a complete package to stardom will definitely rely on Women. Women Management is able to create lucrative bookings at highest rates and expensive contract offers.
The fashion and beauty industry will likely be dominated by Women for the next few years. Therefore, any mother agency that would like to make their girls land on the top list, they should make Women do the work for them.


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Kilkenny is a beautiful county that lies to the South East of Ireland. It is a county with rich farmland, extensive valleys and rolling hills. Steeped in history, this wonderful region is rich in medieval architecture, round towers and ruins of monastic settlements.
Kilkenny City dates back to the 6th century and is a fine example of how a capital, with such historic landmarks, can marry old architecture with modern day buildings, in an elegant fashion. Situated on the banks of the River Nore, this vibrant city has so much to offer in terms of history and culture and the best way to explore and uncover its delights is on foot. A dominant feature in the city is Kilkenny Castle, which dates back to Norman times and the beautifully restored St Canice's Cathedral is another must see attraction. The city's quaint streets are also lined with contemporary shops, design galleries and various restaurant and cafes.
There is a great selection of places to stay in Kilkenny, but if you want to get the most out of your Irish holiday experience then you should consider Kilkenny bed and breakfast accommodation. It is a chance to stay with an Irish family and immerse yourself in their culture and they are great value for money. Kilkenny B&Bs offer great comfort, first-class facilities and delicious homemade food. Hosts can advise you on all the best sights to see and places to visit. They have extensive knowledge on local restaurants, traditional pubs and entertainment in the area.
Kilkenny is famed for its hurling background, but this is not the only sport that can be enjoyed in the region. Horseracing, greyhound racing, golf and angling are all well catered for. It is also a great county for walking enthusiasts as there are many trails surrounded by stunning scenery and breath-taking views.
Kilkenny City is in the ideal location for visitors to Ireland as it is in close proximity to the major airports and ferry ports. The county also has excellent bus and train services, making the neighbouring counties easily accessible.
With picturesque villages, vibrant city life and welcoming locals, Kilkenny really is the perfect holiday choice. Don't miss your opportunity to explore Ireland's wonderful medieval capital.
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Your wrists will thank you with the Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000
Personally, I'm a maximum comfort kind of guy and prefer a split keyboard. But I understand that split keyboards might not be for everyone. One of the challenges has been – how can I provide better comfort and posture for people who prefer working with a straight keyboard? The original Comfort Curve layout was the first step in this direction. The new layout on the Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 represents the next step.
Building on the original Comfort Curve, this new key layout is designed to be a better option for straight-keyboard users and has been improved in two fundamental ways. First, the QWERTY keys are uniformly sized in a way that is more similar to a standard straight keyboard. That increases the familiarity. Second, the curve has been modified to be more organic – adding curvature in the third dimension. That increases the comfort.
This keyboard has been three years in the making and I'm excited that people can finally benefit from it after all of those rounds of research and iteration.
The Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 will be available in August for $24.95 at Amazon, Office Depot, and the Microsoft Store.
- Dan Odell, Certified Professional Ergonomist
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Wow, that's cheap! How much will it be in the UK?
June 15, 2011
6:55 am Tom Clarke -
Very cheap, hope to see it soon in Brazil.
June 15, 2011
7:26 am Helder Ferreira da Luz -
Now, how about bringing back the Microsoft trackball optical mouse?
June 15, 2011
9:40 am Christopher Beaver -
I'm sure that in Brazil will cost much more.
June 15, 2011
2:07 pm Rocha -
Microsoft's Keyboards are some of the best I've ever tried. I've had pretty expensive wireless keyboards filled with features only to settle on the very affordable microsoft keyboard 600, simply because it is the best I've ever "felt".
I'm not usually an ergonomic-keyboard kinda guy but I am really intrigued with this product. I guess I'll wait until I can try it in a store and see how it feels.
Great stuff.
June 16, 2011
12:43 am Nuno Sousa -
A wireless one with Mac compatibility please! A $10 or even $15 markup for that wouldn't be minded.
June 17, 2011
10:36 am B -
hi there, this is really nice. I'm your counterpart actually – maximum comfort kind of girl. I'm into ergonomic chairs, keywords, and all ergo stuffs. And this is a good find right here. I just might change my keyword next week. Thanks for sharing this!
June 23, 2011
6:58 am Ehm Mendoza -
Hmm, compared to the previous model this is not a keyboard, it's just a toy. Actually, it has nothing common with previous model – Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000. There was no marketing reason to use same name other than to annoy customers.
New keyboard does not have Break key, so it's impossible to open System properties by pressing Win-Break.
New keyboard has wrong Delete key and Insert Key, so it's impossible to copy and paste text with Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert. Print Screen is also misplaced.
New keyboard has small substandard functional keys so it's impossible to use them.
New keyboard does not have enough space around arrows block so it's hard use arrows.
New keyboard does not have standalone context menu key so you have to use mouse or Shit-F10 or Fn-Shift.
New keyboard does not have back/forward buttons which could be remapped to Media Previous Track/Next track with Original software or with Autohotkey software.
New keyboard does not have Mute button.
The only thing that seems to be better than in 2000 model is a spacebar but we cannot be sure looking at the images.
Hopefully, Microsoft will release real Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 replacement, which actually had only two issues – its overly curved (it's harder to reach backspace) and rather noisy spacebar.
June 23, 2011
11:43 pm Vyacheslav Lanovets -
There's one thing that drives me crazy. Why the hell did you move the keys? The rows ASDF and ZXCV are half a key to the right compared with the Comfort Curve 2000.
I've used it for less than half an hour, made about a hundred typos, and my left arm already hurts.I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm using a Spanish keyboard.
June 21, 2012
6:10 pm Patrick -
***Newly Edited 03.26.09 So although I am a Mac, and not a PC, I still iialntebvy end up using Microsoft products. Most recently, their Comfort Curve keyboard, which I chose over the Logitech Wave. I pretty much refuse to use Microsoft's mice because a number of them have died rather early deaths. This time Microsoft has come out with something to make even Apple and Logitech jealous. It's this splendidly, sleekly stylish bluetooth keyboard and number. It's about as thin as the instruction manuals that came with it. It also is the perhaps the only keyboard of its kind (ultra-slim, designed primarily for mobile/laptops, bluetooth, very portable) that I've ever seen to have an ergonomic layout. (If you, like me, get pain & cramping after even short typing sessions with regular keyboards, trust me the ergonomic keyboards on the market are well worth it.) It is PRICEY, but relative to its competition of this genre of keyboards, it's priced fairly reasonably, though it does lack many of the multimedia and hot keys that I've gotten accustomed to (likely sacrificed to keep it compact.) One final note: regarding infamous delay time. It occurs with startup and power save mode, which it does quite often. Everyone seems to have a more negative opinion of this, but the time it takes to wake on my older Mac from start to type is less time than connecting my bluetooth headset to my phone. I'd estimate about 2-3 seconds to wake up, and when it does, it instantly types out whatever keys I have begun typing. I'm a pretty impatient person, but I enjoy this keyboard enough that it's relatively minor to me personally.
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These no-fuss wings are fall-off-the-bone tender. Chili sauce offers a bit of spice while molasses lends a hint sweetness. "They make a great meal with a side dish of rice," notes Sharon Morcilio of Joshua Tree, California.
Editor's Note: Uncooked chicken wing sections (wingettes) may be substituted for whole chicken wings.
Nutritional Facts 1 serving (3 each) equals 197 calories, 11 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 46 mg cholesterol, 478 mg sodium, 10 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 15 g protein.
Originally published as Moist N Tender Wings in Quick Cooking May/June 2004, p53
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