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South Carolina State's Tyler McDonald was selected as the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's (MEAC) Offensive Player of the Week, while teammates Justin Taylor was named Rookie of the Week and Nick Belcher earned Special Teams Player of the Week accolades, respectively the conference announced Monday.
McDonald (WR, 6-1, 190, Sr., Summerville, SC) caught four passes for 108 yards with one touchdown in the Bulldogs season opener against #25 Coastal Carolina. McDonald recorded a catch of 74 yards while averaging 27 yards per catch.
Taylor (RB, 5-10, 215, Fr., Atlanta, Ga.) had 24 carries for 80 yards with one touchdown against #25 Coastal Carolina.
Belcher (P/K, 5-9, 170, Sr., Sumter, SC) had five punts with an average of 46.0 yards against #25 Coastal Carolina. He booted a 61-yard punt and landed three inside the 20-yard line.
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2011-12 Volleyball
Two sport athlete for the Eagles. Competes on the Women's Volleyball and Softball teams.
Career Stats
Softball As A Senior (2014) | Game-By-Game Stats
Named Atlantic Sun All-Conference Second Team…started 54 games in center field…hit .337 on the season with a .405 average against league foes…hit .750 with runners on third base…led the league and the nation with seven triples…held an on-base percentage of .419 and a slugging percentage of over .585…knocked in 25 runs on 57 hits…crossed the plate a team-high 52 times…hit eight homeruns…led the team with 19 stolen bases on 23 attempts…held a fielding percentage of .953 with just four errors and 72 putouts…recorded 18 multi-hit games…went 2-for-2 with a solo homerun in the season opener against Ole Miss (Feb. 7)…hit her second homer of the season in a 3-2 win over Western Kentucky (Feb. 8)…again went deep for two RBI in the team's shutout of Wisconsin (Feb. 14)…recorded 3 hits in 4 at bats against LIU (Feb. 28)…knocked a two-run homer over the fence against ETSU (Mar. 15)…went 3-for-4 with two runs scored at Stetson (Mar. 29)…knocked in two runs on three hits including a homerun in the series finale at Jacksonville (Apr. 13)…started the series with UNF (Apr. 18) with a triple, two RBI and two runs scored…hit her seventh triple of the season and drove in three runs at NKU (May 3)…knocked in two runs in the Atlantic Sun Championship (May 7-9).
Volleyball as a Redshirt-Junior (2013) | Match-By-Match Stats
Led the team with 1,005 total attacks and 347 kills for a team-high 3.10 digs per set...played in 112 sets with 23 starts after an injury sidelined her briefly...amassed 1.92 digs per set and 215 total digs on the year...produced 18 service aces...recorded a team-high seven double-doubles...had 17 games with double-figure kills and eight games with ten or more digs...had a season-high 19 digs with 16 kills at Florida A&M (Sept. 8)...recorded 17 kills in the home opener against Central Arkansas (Sept. 13)...produced a double-double with 10 digs and 12 kills against UNF (Sept. 21)...had a season-high 19 kills with 13 digs against FAU (Oct. 8)...followed with 17 kills and 16 digs at USC Upstate (Oct. 11)...again produced back-to-back double-doubles with 10 digs and 13 kills at Mercer (Oct. 25) and 10 digs and 11 kills at Kennesaw State (Oct. 26)...went on a seven-game streak with at least 11 kills at the end of October...produced 12 digs and 14 kills against ETSU (Nov. 1).
Softball As A Junior (2013) | Game-By-Game Stats
Played in 54 games this season with 50 of those appearances having been starts in the FGCU outfield ... Was named A-Sun Player of the Week on Apr. 8 after hitting two home runs and eight RBI the week prior while tallying 14 total bases off of six hits to put up a 1.077 slugging percentage … Finished tied for the most at-bats this season among Eagles with 158 ... Had nine multi-RBI games and five multi-steal games … Her four triples tied her for second in the A-Sun and 38rd in the nation in the category … Drew 30 walks and went 27 of 28 when stealing bases, her 27 stolen bases led the team … Ranked second in the A-Sun in stolen bases (27) and 50th in the nation … Hit a grand slam at Mercer (Apr. 6) to drive in four runs and finished the game going 3-for-5 at the plate with three runs scored … At Kennesaw State (Apr. 9) went 2-for-3 in the game with two home runs and four RBI ... Struck a leadoff home run off the left-field foul pole against Kennesaw State (May 9) in an elimination game of the A-Sun Championship that FGCU won 6-4 in walk-off fashion.
Volleyball As A Junior (2012)
Utilized a medical redshirt.
Softball As A Sophomore (2012) | Game-By-Game Stats
Was named All-Atlantic Sun First Team selection … started 56 games in the outfield … was second on the team in batting average (.319), hits (51) and RBI (31) … tallied two hits, two runs and a RBI vs Long Island (Feb. 11) … hit a homerun and drew a walk against Delaware (Feb. 18) … collected two hits and a RBI against Seton Hall (Feb. 26) … recorded two hits, a RBI and two stolen bases vs South Dakota State (Mar. 3) …had two hits, a double and a stolen base versus Kennesaw State (Mar. 7) … tallied two hits, a run scored, a walk and a stolen base against Georgetown (Mar. 9) … Was named A-Sun Player of the Week on Mar. 12 for her performances the week before … recorded two hits, two runs scored and swiped two bags against Rutgers (Mar. 16) … had two hits, two runs scored, two runs scored and a RBI in the second game of a doubleheader against Maryland (Mar. 21) … started a 10-game hit streak Mar. 29 against Florida State with a single … collected two hits, three RBI and three runs scored at Belmont (Apr. 7) … tallied a career-high five RBI on three hits including a homerun vs Kennesaw State (May 12)
Volleyball As A Sophomore (2011) | Match-By-Match Stats
Appeared in 23 matches, starting 12 ... recorded 2.30 kills/set, the third-most on the team ... tallied a kill in 21 of 23 matches, including picking up five or more kills on 12 occasions ... picked up a service ace in nine matches … tallied three service aces at Campbell (Aug. 26) … picked up two kills, three service aces and four digs at Miami (Sept. 9) … finished with four digs and two kills vs. Alabama A&M (Sept. 10) … racked up four kills and three digs vs. Radford (Sept. 10) … picked up two kills at No. 5 Penn State (Sept. 17) … finished with 20 kills and seven digs vs. USC Upstate (Oct. 14) … blasted a career-high 25 kills vs. ETSU (Oct. 15) … earned A-Sun Player of the Week honors (Oct. 17) … recorded eight kills, six digs and three blocks at Belmont (Oct. 21) … blasted 14 kills at Lipscomb (Oct. 22) … finished with 12 kills and five digs at Stetson (Oct. 29) … picked up 11 kills at FAU (Nov. 1) … finished with nine kills, five digs and a career-high five service aces vs. Mercer (Nov. 4) … hit a career-high .565 with 16 kills at Jacksonville (Nov. 12) ... blasted eight kills vs. UNF in the conference quarterfinals (Nov. 17).
Softball As A Freshman (2011) | Game-By-Game Stats
Started 35 games in the beginning of the season, batting .218 with 18 RBI and eight extra-base hits … her average was seventh on the team, while her RBI total was fifth-best on the team … had five multi-hit and multi-RBI outings … went 7-for-8 on stolen bases … tallied nine walks … opened the season with an RBI against N.C. State (Feb. 11) … had a four-game hitting streak from Feb. 13 - Feb. 18 … had back-to-back triples against Long Island (Feb. 13) and Georgetown (Feb. 18) … went 2-for-4 versus the Hoyas with three RBI and two runs scored … had a season-long six-game hitting streak from Feb. 20 - Mar. 2, including hitting her first collegiate home run against Iowa (Feb. 25) … went yard in the loss against Eastern Michigan (Mar. 2) … went 2-for-4 against Dartmouth (Mar. 5) with a two-run home run … tallied a two-run double versus Weber State (Mar. 11) … had two hits and two RBI versus Winthrop (Mar. 18) at The Game Tournament … followed that performance with another RBI against Dartmouth (Mar. 18) … closed out the season going 2-for-3 in the lone conference series against Campbell (Mar. 26) … also tallied two stolen bases versus the Camels.
Volleyball As A Freshman (2010) | Match-By-Match Stats
Appeared in 14 matches, starting four ... recorded 2.18 kills/set, the third-most on the team ... tallied a kill in 12 of 14 matches, including picking up five or more kills on eight occasions ... finished with five kills vs. UNLV (Sept. 4) ... blasted eight kills vs. Georgia Tech (Sept. 10) ... recorded seven kills at Georgia (Sept. 11) ... picked up five kills vs. Washington (Sept. 11) ... tallied career-highs in kills (16) and digs (5) at FAU (Sept. 21) ... finished with seven kills and a career-high four blocks at Belmont (Sept. 25) ... recorded 11 kills at Jacksonville (Oct. 1) ... finished the season with six kills against Stetson (Nov. 13).
High School
Was a three-sport star at Haines City High School ... named to the All-State first team in softball her senior season ... named News ChiefVolleyball Player of the Year in 2008 and 2009 ...named Lakeland Ledger Volleyball Player of the Year in 2009... also named to the All-Area first team from 2007-2010 in softball ... in 2009, she participated in the state tournament in tennis.
Born January 13, 1992 ... daughter of Franklin and Joyce Barnes ... has one sister, Jordan (15) ... computer information systems and finance major.
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Submitted by Nadine Fiedler on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 9:56am
A personal story of the importance of financial aid from Dr. Derrick Butler '86
From the Spring 2010 Caller
After hearing the news that the Rummage Sale would retire, Derrick Butler '86 M.D. shared his story on how financial aid changed his life. Inspired by his life story, we invited him to speak at the Gambol and help the school raise funds for student financial aid. Here are some excerpts from his speech.
I am confident that my life's work is changing lives and inspiring others. My work is challenging and, many times, fatiguing, but I can wake up every day and possibly make a small positive difference in someone's life. That is the essence of what Catlin Gabel has given me, and must continue to instill in its students.
My journey at Catlin Gabel began with me as a shy, fat kid from the 'other side of the tracks' (or in this case, the Willamette River). I was black, not wealthy, from a single-parent household, but hungry for knowledge. Six years later I emerged as a confident, curious, inspired young adult with a desire to explore every corner of the planet. Catlin Gabel allowed me to navigate the world outside of my inner city neighborhood and to realize my own potential for achievement. This school opened up the world for me and gave me the skills and courage to go out and savor it.
Financial aid at Catlin is what made all of this possible.
Catlin Gabel exposed me to a diversity of races, cultures, religions, and ideas that made a difference in my life by broadening my world view. I believe that my tenure there equally exposed my peers to someone like me, which helped them understand racial and socioeconomic differences—but also realize our sameness as human beings. I think the need for a wide diversity of students is even greater in our world today, a world of global cooperation and increased complexity.
I graduated from Catlin Gabel in 1986 to continue my journey of self discovery. I was first on full scholarship at Morehouse College, where Catlin Gabel's academic rigor gave me the discipline and study skills to graduate second in my class. Then with the Peace Corps to Africa, where I taught science and math, traveled extensively, mastered French (which I first encountered at Catlin Gabel), and truly became a world citizen.
Led by my desire for service, my love of people in general, and passion for science, I then pursued my medical degree at the University of California–San Francisco and a public health degree at the University of California–Berkeley. During this period I also first experienced the devastation of the HIV epidemic, which would influence my later career path.
Now as a family physician I treat all types of patients, especially underserved populations of color in South Central LA and those who are even more disenfranchised: people living with HIV. I consider myself a doctor, master of public health, HIV specialist, breaker of stereotypes, lifelong seeker of knowledge, student of the world, and servant to humanity. Upon reflection, I see that Catlin Gabel was the foundation for these accomplishments.
I hope my humble story will help convince you that Catlin Gabel's investment in people is what makes this school such a special institution. Greater than any investment on Wall Street, the support you can give for Catlin Gabel's students will reap so much more in terms of human impact.
We must continue to give talented and motivated students the support they need to realize their potential at Catlin Gabel. Please help Catlin Gabel continue to change the world with its amazing graduates. So please, give cheerfully, give heartily, and give with inspiration. Thank you.
Derrick helped Catlin Gabel raise the crowd to its feet—and raise $150,000 for student financial aid. We thank him and all those who were moved by his story.
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Hopes were dashed Wednesday afternoon for the family of a missing 72-year-old woman, when surveillance video didn't give them the break through they wanted.
However, authorities have released new information on a vehicle that Hellen E. Cook, who suffers from Alzheimer's, possibly got into over the weekend. Hellen Cook has been missing since late Saturday morning, and has had her medication since then.
Hellen E. Cook was last seen about 11:30 a.m. Saturday near Walnut Grove and Hensley Road in Benton County. This is just southwest of Warsaw in Benton County.
Eleven police canines indicate that Hellen Cook walked to the intersection of Cold Springs Avenue and Highway 7, authorities say. The dogs lose the scent at that point, indicating that she got into a vehicle.
An eyewitness reported seeing someone matching Hellen Cook's description get into a newer model black Ford F-150 about four miles south of Lincoln on U.S. 65. This occurred about 3 p.m. Saturday, which was less than four hours after she was last seen.
A family member said someone may have seen Hellen Cook at the QuickTrip near West 72nd Street and Wornall Road in Waldo on Monday.
Police and the family reviewed surveillance video Wednesday afternoon, but it was only inside the convenience store. The woman matching Hellen Cook's description was spotted outside, and never came inside.
Family members are planning a search of their own Saturday.
They are asking volunteers to come to the Blue Springs Assembly of God Church from 8 to 10 a.m. They will be having staggered starts during the two-hour window.
Hellen Cook and her husband, Howard, live in Buckner, but have the vacation home in Benton County. She has wandered away several times in recent weeks, and has found her way to Blue Springs.
"I'm asking you: Please don't judge. If you talk to her and she's obviously disoriented, please call police. That could be my mother or someone else's mother," her daughter, Terri Cook, pleaded on Tuesday.
Authorities said she will likely not recognize her name, nor will she be able to speak in complete sentences.
Her family is desperately worried, knowing that she is confused and disoriented. She may have been without food, water and shelter this entire time. She is physically fit and walks up to seven miles daily.
Hellen Cook is described as 5' tall and 97 pounds with hazel eyes, and short brown or auburn hair. She was last seen wearing blue jean shorts, a white T-shirt and tennis shoes. She was also carrying an extra pair of boots, and a walking stick.
Anyone with information is asked to call Benton County authorities at 660-438-9555.
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The King of the Baldwins has ushered another daughter into the world.
Alec Baldwin's wife Hilaria was admitted to New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital Friday evening after going into labor, the The New York Daily News reports. She soon shared the happy news on Twitter:
We are overjoyed to announce the birth of our daughter Carmen Gabriela. She is absolutely perfect. @ABFalecbaldwin @IrelandBBaldwin—
Hilaria Baldwin (@hilariabaldwin) August 23, 2013
The 55-year-old actor, who stars in 30 Rock and in this summer's Woody Allen flick Blue Jasmine, married the 29-year-old yoga instructor last June. Carmen Gabriela Baldwin is their first child together. Baldwin already has another daughter, Ireland, with former wife Kim Basinger.
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Greg from Dare 2 Share (who I'll be interviewing later this month here on the blog and in the SYM Today) sent along a quick note to let me know about a great new (and free!) training they're doing next week called Follow the Leader. The focus is to try to help you become a leader worth following – something a youth worker at any level needs continual training in.
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The theme of third day of the Republican National Convention at the Excel Enegry Center in St. Paul, Minnesota was "Prosperity: Meeting Our Challenges for a New Era." The evening featured speeches by former presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Rudy Giuliani, as well as several citizens who spoke about thier support of the McCain/Palin campaign. Governor Sarah Palin spoke near the end of the night and said she would accept the Republican vice presidential nomination. Following her speech delegates nominated Senator McCain and Governor Palin in a roll call vote. close
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Language is at the heart of the Social Forums. Or at least it should be. The Porto Alegre Charter that continues to shape and guide the ESF process makes clear our collective commitment to "reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action". It reminds us that the Forum must always be open to pluralism and "the diversity of genders, ethnicities, cultures, generations and physical capacities, providing they abide by this Charter of Principles." Breathing life into these worthy principles requires that people have the means to communicate with and understand each other in ways that are egalitarian and democratic. As Susan George writes in her new book 'Another World is Possible If…', political activists are as guilty as the ruling classes in using language for purposes of power, control and domination:
Some people use specialised language in order to communicate faster with each other…but others may consciously or unconsciously use jargon to impress or to exclude. Some may simply be unable to imagine that others do not share their vocabulary, concepts and intellectual framework.
Language in the ESF is foremost experienced through interpretation. For the last three years, participants in the ESF's 'official' plenary and seminar spaces will have all at some point traded in a piece of identity for a flashy black headset providing live, simultaneous interpretation of speakers into French, English, Spanish, German and Italian, and increasingly other languages like Arabic, Russian, Greek, Turkish, and even Galician. Those new to the ESF experience are often impressed by this aspect of internationalism; others, however, can be left frustrated by the long pauses, broken sentences and occasional loss of sound, and have been known to complain about the 'quality' of interpretation being provided.
Yet how much do ESF organisers and participants reflect on the people, skills, technology, and resources – and above all the politics – involved in enabling participants to understand and speak in the myriad different languages that define and bring the Forum to life? For example, a common misunderstanding among Forum goers is the assumption that interpreters are hired in by the Forum to cater for 'international speakers'. Yet since the first ESF in Florence 2002, almost all simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, as well as document translation, has been provided in political solidarity by Babels, the growing international network of volunteer interpreters and translators that was born out of the Social Forum process. The development of Babels and the commitment of its protagonists to 'learn from practice' pro vides one of the best examples of how alternatives to market capitalism can and are being actively produced through the Social Forum process. At the same time, the problematic way in which the ESF (organisers) and Babels relate both to each other and language issues is evidence of the contradictory political ethics and practices within the ESF that must be addressed during the process towards Athens 2006.
The aim of this article is to critically examine these issues as a contribution to the debate on the future direction of the ESF process. We begin with a brief overview of the Babels story so far before turning to how its identity, principles and activities are being developed by learning from practice. Then we reflect on the serious dilemmas and contradictions relating to language within the ESF through examples from the London ESF.
Babels: a Brief History
Babels was born in the run-up to the Florence ESF in 2002 when the dubious politics and huge expense of hiring professional interpreters for the WSF in 2001 and 2002 led a small network of communication activists linked to ATTAC France to propose that only volunteers be used to interpret. Initial scepticism about volunteer 'quality' gave way to pragmatism at the 11th hour when the high cost of the traditional market route began to bite the Italian organisers, unsurprising when one considers that professional interpreters normally command between 300 and 400 euros per day. An emergency call for volunteers was made to which some 600 people responded, eventually yielding around 350 volunteer interpreters and translators for the Forum.
Although rightly hailed as a great success, the Babels experiment in Florence was in reality a miracle born out of improvisation, some good fortune, sheer hard work…and a bit of old-fashioned direct action to boot. Cathy Arnaud, an interpreter at Florence and now a coordinator with Babels Spain, paints a frantic scene:
It was complete chaos, but miraculously it worked. We had to fight the organisers just for a space to work in; eventually we took our own initiative and squatted a medieval tower. It was beautiful but freezing and we had no money, computers, phones, nothing. Coordinators hung booth planning sheets on washing lines; some people stayed up all night to finalise everything. As for the quality of the interpretation, well, that was definitely a mixed bag.
The success of Florence led to the emergence of new Babels coordinations in Germany, UK, and Spain alongside the original French and Italian pioneers. It also prompted more consideration of language issues by the Paris ESF 2003 organisers with Babels given decent office facilities, computers, a longer preparatory process and a relatively large pot of money (£200,000) to coordinate and innovate with. Boosted by Babels' participation in the counter-G-8 conferences in Evian and Annemasse, the Paris ESF was able to draw on over 1000 Babelitos from a volunteer pool four times that number.
With the Mumbai World Social Forum (WSF) and the first Social Forum of the Americas in Ecuador under its belt during 2004, by the time of the third London ESF in October this year, the Babels database had almost doubled to over 7000 people representing 63 languages. From this network, the London ESF welcomed 500 volunteers from 22 countries who in turn enabled some 20,000 participants from more than 60 countries to express themselves in 25 different languages over 3 days. However, despite undoubted progress on many levels, it was widely felt within the Babels network that London had been the most politically difficult ESF it had participated in, especially in terms of its relationship to the host country's main organisers. We return to this issue later on.
The Emerging Praxis of Babels
The impressive and rapid expansion and development of Babels cannot be adequately understood through statistics alone. The Babels network must also be recognised as an emerging political actor in its own right with a growing sense of identity and purpose. A commonly-held belief within the network is that of 'horizontality' – Babelitos eschew leaders and hierarchies and instead seek to work collectively as equals in a network organisation based upon creative thinking and consensus. In reality, horizontality remains a difficult principle to put into practice, not least because of the top-down and centralised way in which the ESF itself is organised.
Underpinning the Babels philosophy is a determination to continually reflect upon its role in each Forum and then learn and develop from practice. Out of this process, three important political pre-conditions have emerged for Babels involvement in Social Forums that are now guiding principles of the network. The first is that all interpreters and translators for the ESF must be 100% volunteers. This stems from the problematic experience of a two-tier workforce of voluntary and paid interpreters in Florence. Babels believes that hiring professionals or companies to 'service' the Forum goes directly against the principles of solidarity and developing communicational alternatives to the market that are supposedly enshrined in the Social Forum's charter.
Secondly, Babels volunteers are not 'free' service providers and oppose any attempts by social Forum organisers to treat them as such. Instead, they see themselves as Social Forum organisers like any other and want to participate fully in debates about the "part language plays in the mechanisms of cultural domination and in the circulation of ideas between the various social and citizens' movements" (Babels charter).
The third and perhaps most important principle of all is Babels commitment to defend and promote "the right of everybody to express themselves in the language of their choice" (Babels charter). For example, for the London ESF Babels insisted that 'official' and 'unofficial' language distinctions be abolished after the experiences of Florence and Paris, where the limited language pool of interpreters combined with the inherent bias of the Forum's organisers to make English, French, German, Italian and Spanish the official and thus overwhelmingly dominant languages. As Emmanuelle Rivière a professional interpreter and coordinator with Babels-UK explains, this outcome led to some serious soul-searching within the Babels network as to its own role in the Social Forum:
We did not like the idea of helping to reinforce and reproduce the existing patterns of political, economic and cultural domination in the world through some official 'language hierarchy'.
At a deeper level, in its efforts to bring to life these principles of 'learning from practice', 'solidarity, 'horizontality' and 'equality', Babels embodies the two main positive achievements of the Social Forum process. The first is its Gandhian philosophy of 'being the change we want to see', also known as 'pre-figurative politics'. In other words, Babels attempts to put into practice the very egalitarian and internationalist principles of the 'good society' the alter-globalisation movement calls for in facilitating communication across linguistic and cultural boundaries.
The second contribution of the Social Forums is that through organising as much as possible 'outside' of the capitalist sphere of competitive market relations, alternative systems of social and economic organisation based on need and solidarity – and not profit and private ownership – are being developed out of necessity. Annual Social Forums assembling tens of thousands of people from across different continents simply cannot take place unless we develop alternative means of internationalist communication to the high cost and qualitative limitations of the market. At the same time, Babels must not be seen as a 'low cost service provider' directly threatening the 'communicatariat' of working interpreters and translators. Instead, it is an act of political solidarity indispensable to the Social Forums and the development of a global transformative politics and movement.
Putting both these principles and the knowledge gained into practice is no easy task for a volunteer network working mainly by Internet, but progress is being made on a number of fronts. Partly through Babels pressure, the last WSF in Mumbai 2004 saw the spectrum of 'official languages' publicly broadened to 13 languages to reflect the ethnic diversity of India and the Asian continent, a development thought to have increased the number of participants from those language groups. Respect for language diversity is also being addressed through a commitment to improving the 'quality' of interpretation and translation. Quality in the specific context and purpose of the Social Forums does not mean a professional standard of 'technical proficiency' but the general 'quality of communication' experienced in the Social Forum as a whole. This not only concerns how interpretation and translation are performed, but also how 'access to the message' is facilitated or obstructed by the organisational structures and language discourses of the Forum, and its organisers, speakers and participants.
For example, Babels is developing innovatory new language tools through activities like the Lexicon Project. This is an on-going effort by volunteers from a wide range of countries and backgrounds (teachers, students, professionals, activists) to create a comprehensive glossary of words and phrases to help interpreters and translators best reflect different meanings according to different national, cultural and politico-historical contexts. It is consciously creating a process of 'contamination' in which the excellent language skills of the politically sympathetic trained interpreter/translator interact with the deeper political knowledge of the language fluent activist to constantly improve the communications medium within the Social Forums.
Lexicons are being formed in conjunction with the Situational Preparation Project, more commonly known as 'Sitprep.', which records WSF and ESF plenaries and seminars in a wide range of languages on to DVD to allow any volunteer – experienced or inexperienced – to more realistically prepare for simultaneous interpretation in the Social Forum. This issue links to the broader 'memory' implications of the NOMAD project to which Babels belongs. As Sophie Gosselin argues elsewhere in this newsletter, one of NOMAD's main achievements so far has been the creation of Targ, an open source software system which can replace expensive propriety audio equipment used for live simultaneous interpretation. In addition to the revolutionary cost implications, using computers to relay the voices of speakers and interpreters the Targ system enables all speeches and interpretations to be easily archived, creating a direct and accurate 'memory' of all the debates, themes, and controversies of each Forum. Taking it a step further, the audio could also be streamed live over the Internet. These possibilities would allow millions of people currently outside of the Forum to take part via the web.
Significantly for Babels, the creation of Memory will allow the quality of interpretation to be assessed and new online 'distance practice' materials for inexperienced volunteers to be created. Not everyone will welcome this latter development within Babels. Many interpreters are already reluctant to have their work scrutinised and not just because they are 'volunteers'. While professionals are simply not used to such practices in their particular labour market, non-professionals are often worried about being judged badly and marginalised. But if Babels is genuine about its commitment to 'equality' and 'quality' of communication' within the Social Forums, then these worries will hopefully disappear.
Babels, Language and the ESF: Dilemmas, Contradictions and Future Directions
Despite the central role of Babels in both meeting the language needs of the ESF and developing alternative long-term communication infrastructures with others, the network cannot and does not function in isolation from the rest of the ESF process. Ultimately, Babels like everyone else involved in organising and participating in the ESF, must reflect critically on the outcomes and relationships being generated by our activities, and what this implies for future directions.
To begin with, we must all accept and attempt to address the fact that the ideals of diversity and inclusion within the Porto Alegre Charter still remain largely unrealised in many Social Forums, especially the ESF. Like Florence and Paris before it, the large majority of the 20,000 participants – and interpreters – at this year's London ESF were again mainly white, able-bodied Western Europeans. This failure over three years to significantly expand popular participation of those either living in or originating from Central and Eastern Europe and the global South, not to mention from the disabled and deaf communities, cannot be simply explained away by the systematic refusal of visas (the disgrace of London), problems of disability access or the gargantuan cost of international travel from outside the EU – the 'politics of language' has also played a central part.
Witness the London ESF. Although the official language hierarchy was dropped, informally the same old colonial languages of English, French, Spanish, German and Italian dominated the outreach materials, website, press releases, platforms, and programmes. This means that since its inception in 2002, the ESF has been almost exclusively communicated as a Western European event, contributing hugely to the fact that it generally remains so. How do we explain the continuation of this 'language elite' at the London ESF? In general, this year's ESF organisers, steered by the controlling influence of the Greater London Authority (GLA), saw language through the prism of market economics, as a simple matter of 'supply and demand'. This is a familiar story. All too often, language is treated as 'something that interpreters and translators provide' to those who say they need it, and not as either a political right to self-expression and democratic participation, or as a means of pro-actively including and expanding out to people and movements traditionally marginalised.
While it is true that language hierarchisation is a reflection of the continued dominance of West European political movements in the ESF process, the ESF organisers also heavily influenced the 'demand' for languages through restricting the supply. From an early stage, it was decided that the London ESF would be a much smaller event than those witnessed in Florence and Paris. The main organisers effectively made sure of this by setting very high entry fees and only planning for around 20,000. They also believed that in such circumstances, most of the participants would come from Western Europe and thus began to communicate almost exclusively in English whilst asking Babels to translate important documents for the website into the other main languages. This inevitably acted as a major outreach barrier to the social movements of 'majority Europe' and beyond because many people did not believe that their languages would be spoken. This was reinforced by the huge travel costs and the failure of the ESF organisers to put into place an adequate system for helping participants – including interpreters – to receive Visas to enter Britain.
But if Babels is a political actor like all others in organising the ESF, committed to language diversity and undermining power relations within the movement, how did it allow such a situation to develop in the first place? More to the point, why did it not withdraw its participation from a Forum that did not respect Babels pre-conditions for participation? The answers to these questions are very complex and still somewhat unknown, so here we simply flag up some of the dilemmas and constraints Babels faced.
In general, Babels could not prevent the de facto officialisation of languages because coordinators were only provided with information about the language profiles of registered speakers and participants two weeks before the ESF took place. Prior to this, it was only able to build up a vague idea of the nationalities of people and sizes of delegations that would be attending from second-hand scraps of information. This is because from the very beginning of the ESF process, Babels coordinators were excluded from the information flows coming in and out of the ESF office, and their recommendations for how to integrate language needs into the heart of the organising process were generally ignored. Babels was also not allowed to have any autonomy over its own coordination budget. In other words, just like languages issues themselves, Babels was marginalised from the decision-making centre consisting of the Mayor of London's political office that runs the GLA, a handful of trade unions, and political sects like the Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Action and the Communist Party of Britain. These forces ultimately controlled the ESF and put up political walls and barricades around a supposedly open space.
Because of this, and a number of serious problems over accommodation and reimbursement for volunteers, Babels issued a number of critical public statements and nearly pulled out of the London ESF on several occasions. That fact that Babels stepped back from the brink each time was partly due to the fact that reaching a consensus to walk away is far harder than agreeing to get involved, especially in a a network bringing together people from different backgrounds and perspectives. Moreover, the UK coordinators of Babels who agreed to participate in this year's ESF did so with their political eyes wide open. The reality is that the Social Forums – and especially the ESF – are not politically 'pure' spaces where everyone works together in mutual respect and harmony. They are instead political battlegrounds where self-interested factions fight for leadership and control and are met with resistance from those opposed to vanguardism. Babels thus currently accepts that the innovations and alternatives being generated by projects like itself and and Nomad come not only through the annual process of organising the ESF and WSF, but also in struggle against those within them. And whatever the shortcomings of the organisation of this year's ESF, we still managed to gain an enormous amount of knowledge and experience that we will now share with future processes, particularly through adding value to the Lexicon and Sitprep projects. Most importantly, pulling out would have stopped the ESF from taking place – this was not a decision that Babels alone should have the power or right to make.
At the same time, in an organising process lasting just under 12 months, problems develop cumulatively and become institutionalised before anyone has noticed or developed the means to challenge them. Babels cannot shy away from its own responsibility in this regard. Through its inseparable development alongside the ESF, the majority of nationalities and languages of Babels interpreters, translators and coordinators also belong to the same Western Europe elite. This means that however much we criticise the ESF organisers' insular outlook, the way Babels has evolved inevitably acts to some extent as a reinforcing mechanism of bias. More seriously, while Babels may dislike being treated as a service provider, it has so far done little other than follow the market model imposed on it by the ESF organisers. This implies the urgent need for all of Babels volunteers, be they interpreters, translators or coordinators, to stand back from the ESF process and once again engage in a deep process of collective self-reflection and self-criticism in order to learn the lessons of London.
If we are serious about creating spaces for exchange between people from a diversity of social, ethnic, cultural and political backgrounds and contexts, with a multiplicity of needs, then all of us in the ESF process must collectively address head on the issues and politics of language and communication within our movement. Babels cannot obviously do this alone. Trade unions, NGO, social movements, networks and individuals must from now on work hand-in-hand with Babels to make connections with social movements and actors in marginalised countries and communities in the process help pass on knowledge to create new Babels coordinations. This is especially urgent for the next ESF scheduled for Athens in Spring 2006 due to the severe shortage of Greek interpreters within Babels. Without a genuine commitment by everyone to an unprecedented process of linguistic and popular outreach – and to the necessary resources this implies – the ESF is destined to remain centred around the Western European left and risks having the microphones turned off altogether.
Stuart Hodkinson is Associate Editor of British green-left magazine Red Pepper; Julie Boéri is a professional interpreter and researcher. Both are coordinators with Babels-UK; www.babels.org


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The latest stage in work to repair the busiest road in Torbay starts today. Livermead Road in Torquay was flooded by the rough sea over Easter after the sea wall was damaged. Rocks will be placed in front of the wall to protect the road from future flooding.


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Week 11 Bye Teams: Indianapolis, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Houston
Thursday Night Game: New York Jets @ Denver Broncos
The fantasy waiver wire should be a busy one this week. First, we had a ton of injuries yesterday with starting quarterbacks taking a pounding (keep up with all the Week 11 injuries here). Second, we got the last bye week to deal with which will cause some roster juggling. And finally, it's the push for the playoffs and every owner is looking for anything to give them an advantage. All that adds up to a busy week on the waiver wire.
So who is a good bet for the Week 11 waiver wire? We check in with SB Nation's fantasy sports blog, Fake Teams, for some direction.They have a large list of guys who may be of interest to you on the waiver wire, so check it out for more details. They cover the Houston Texans players in-depth in light of the Matt Schaub injury, including what to expect from Matt Leinart.
Michael Vick was another quarterback from Week 10 who is now injured, so it's time to look at his backup. Ladies and gentlemen, Vince Young via Fake Teams.
Let's be honest, if you're going to add Vince Young it's not going to be for his passing prowess. V.Y. has a career YPC of 5.6 and Andy Reid has seen most of his quarterbacks use their legs with (a younger) Donovan McNabb and Michael Vick. Contrary to what Sunday's game may suggest, he has some nice weapons around him. If Michael Vick could do what he did last year, there's a chance that Young could emerge as a marginal fantasy asset in deeper leagues.
Bottom Line: There are a lot of quarterbacks going down and Young is a player to consider for owners scrambling for a QB in 12-team leagues.
Over in Denver with Tim Tebow as quarterback, the Broncos have become decidedly run-oriented. And an injury to Knowshon Moreno has elevated the status of Lance Ball.
There is good news and bad news for the Bronco backfield. The good news for them is that Willis McGahee is just day-to-day with a hamstring strain and appears probable for Thursday's tilt with the New York Jets. The bad news, Knowshon Moreno is out for the rest of the season with the gruesome torn ACL injury. The combination of this news still means Ball is a very strong add in most leagues though. First and foremost, the Broncos are going to be running the ball constantly and Ball could become what some would compare to as Jonathan Stewart in Fox's system with the Panthers sans goal-line duties. More importantly, McGahee has a couple metaphorical fender benders with a broken hand and that aforementioned hammy. If Miles Austin and Arian Foster have taught us anything this year, it's that hamstrings are flaring up a lot in 2011. Also don't forget Willis is part of the torn ACL club, too. Ball has been a solid 4.1 YPC despite having his season long being only nine yards (so no big runs to throw off the average).
Bottom Line: There's only one more injury in the way from Ball becoming a possible RB2. He's also going to frequent low-end RB3 value in his current position. He should be owned in all competitive leagues.
They don't score much in Cleveland, but one wideout is starting to make a name for himself. Greg Little.
Non-ideal passing conditions in Cleveland didn't stop Little from catching all six of his targets for 84 yards. He also had one carry for 10 yards. Little was on the field essentially for the entire game and has shown his skills as a receiver with several highlight-reel catches through the course of the season. The Browns did turn to the running game more than expected with 30 carries as a team and that's a number they won't likely be able to attain against teams that will overmatch them.
Bottom Line: Little is clearly the WR1 on his team and is primed for a strong finish. He should be owned in most leagues and it feels like he's one game away from busting out.
For all the players and details on this week's waiver wire, visit Fake Teams.


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Following the publication of the Scenarios for the future in 2007, the topic was taken up again at the European Patent Forum 2008 in Ljubljana. The event was the first ever international conference on climate technologies and patenting, and attempted to answer the question "How can patenting and intellectual property support innovation that benefits the environment and counteracts climate change?"
In April of the following year, the EPO signed an agreement with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) to work on a joint study on "the role of patents in the development, dissemination and transfer of technologies for addressing climate change". The OECD then carried out a statistical analysis on climate change related data identified by EPO patent examiners. At the same time, a survey was carried out on the EPO's behalf to examine licensing practices and trends.
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Foothills Mall developer: Rehab off unless Sears can be acquired
Should that occur, the mall's new owners will instead seek to "maximize leasing potential," Don Provost of Alberta Development Partners, the Denver-based developer planning a $100 million redevelopment of the mall, said in an interview.
In a related development, City Manager Darin Atteberry today said that the eminent domain decision would be postponed for 30 days because Sears officials agreed to sit down with Alberta.
The vote had been scheduled for Jan. 15, but instead, officials from the city and both companies will have a face-to-face meeting, Atteberry said.
If no agreement is reached, then eminent domain will be back on the table, he said.
Atteberry has been aware of Alberta's resolve to abandon redevelopment plans if the Sears property cannot be acquired, he said Thursday. A lot of business people and community members want the development to happen, he said, and there are high expectations for the project.
Fort Collins Mayor Karen Weitkunat said that her sympathies are with the developer.
"I hear him," she said. "It's a matter of public good."
The mayor explained that the mall's redevelopment is key to the city's hopes of revitalizing Midtown.
"It's the sum of the parts, not just the mall. I'm talking about all of it. (Sears) is not on its own in this."
Walton Foothills Holdings, the limited liability corporation formed by Walton Street Capital, purchased the mall last summer and is hoping to draw higher-end tenants and introduce other more upscale amenities as part of the redevelopment.
But the developers have made it clear that Sears does not fit the tenant mix they are seeking and has offered to purchase the building that Sears inhabits.
It's not that the developers object to Sears. Rather, the problem is that the location of Sears does not fit in with the developers' plans, Provost said.
According to a letter submitted to Atteberry in his capacity as executive director of the Urban Renewal Authority, "the property owned by Sears is at a critical location within the overall mall property."
The real estate there is being "underutilized," according to Provost. The plans envisioned for that spot include two or three high-end anchor tenants, water features, new atriums and more.
The property also faces College Avenue, making it an important point of entry for the mall, even though existing street access will remain.
Because College Avenue is also a state highway, Provost said, no alterations can be made to create an access point directly from College Avenue. Right now, the easiest access to the mall from College is via Foothills Parkway.
Without access to the Sears property, Provost said, the developers will not be able to rehabilitate the infrastructure there. A Foothills Mall Existing Conditions Survey, produced by the city, shows that there are several problems with sidewalks, drainage and vehicle circulation at the mall.
Walton has made two offers to Sears for their property, neither of which garnered any response, according to Provost.
He declined to reveal how much was offered, but said an independent appraisal of the property ordered up by the city was "not much higher than the offers made."
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Salt isn't entirely bad. Health experts say it's necessary for maintaining a proper fluid balance in the body.
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Rock music, a classic car show, a motorcycle show and an Elvis impersonator are scheduled to rev up Greenacres Community Park Sunday during the 15th annual Rock 'n Roll Sunday event organized by the Nam Knights motorcycle club.
Admission is free. Proceeds from vendors and raffles will benefit veterans' charities.
This year's headliner, The Michael Allman Band, is scheduled to perform at 2 p.m. Allman is the son of Gregg Allman of the Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band.
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If a law enforcement or emergency vehicle hits you when on the way to an emergency, you could be stuck paying for your losses. It's a lesson a Rankin county woman recently learned.
"It could have been a lot worse than what it turned out to be," said Donna Gilmer.
The Rankin county mother is talking about the accident last Wednesday where her daughter Taylor Hammond's car was T-boned by a Rankin county deputy.
It happened at the intersection of Holly Bush Road and Highway 25. The 20 year old's Nissan Altima was totaled, and she suffered minor injuries.
Hammond had the green light.
Rankin county authorities say witnesses confirm that the deputy had sirens and lights going when he slowed down at the red light but did hit Hammond.
Now her mother has learned that the sheriff's department's insurance may not pay because of a state law limiting liability.
"I feel like it's an unlawful issue," said Gilmer. "I feel like if you got a police officer out there they need to be liable for a vehicle if they crash into it. I was told a hundred percent that they were liable by another source in the service, and I feel like they should have to compensate me for my daughter's lost car," said Gilmer.
Sheriff Bailey takes responsibility and wants the county to pay but said his hands are tied. He said the department pays more than $377,000.00 a year to cover his fleet of more than 100 vehicles.
State law 11-46-9 exempts government entities from liability when responding to emergencies and there is no reckless disregard for the law.
"I want to do the right thing especially if it's one of my deputies is at fault, just as something as small as backing into a car or as something as serious as a serious accident at an intersection," said Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey. "if it's my fault, I want to pay for it but the state law won't allow me to pay for it."
If Glimmer's claim is denied by the county's insurance company, the sheriff says she can file through her insurance company as an un-insured motorist, which he says should not count against her policy or cause her insurance to increase.
But that is little comfort to Gilmer who fears she will be stuck with medical costs and replacing her daughter's car.
Sheriff Bailey worked with state Senator Dean Kirby on legislative changes to the law to allow law enforcement agencies to at least pay for an accident victim's deductible. It takes effect July first.
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Crown Prosecution Service under fire again after court cases dropped because prosecutor does not turn up (From thisisoxfordshire)
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Crown Prosecution Service under fire again after court cases dropped because prosecutor does not turn up
Updated 8:23am Monday 9th June 2014 in News By Ben Wilkinson, Crime Reporter, also covering Barton and Wood Farm. Call me on (01865) 425427
TWO court cases - including one where three people were allegedly assaulted - had to be dropped after a prosecution lawyer failed to turn up.
The independent lawyer had been hired by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) but did not appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court last Tuesday.
As a result, a local prosecutor was sent from the CPS's Cowley office, but arrived at 11.40am, 25 minutes after the cases – one an assault trial – had been dismissed.
Magistrates' Association chairman Richard Monkhouse said: "Failure to attend court, be it prosecution or defence, wastes the time of magistrates and court staff when it could be better served delivering justice."
One man was due to stand trial charged with four counts of assault in Witney against three people.
He had pleaded not guilty, but the trial had to be dropped.
It is understood his lawyers are now applying to recoup the money wasted in taking the case to court.
The second case was a man who had been charged with failing to provide a breath specimen.
District Judge Tim Pattinson told him: "For legal reasons I'm formally dismissing the case against you.
"That means, put another way, I'm formally finding you not guilty."
The unit's Adrian Foster, chief crown prosecutor for Thames and Chiltern Crown Prosecution Service, said he had personally apologised to the complainants and witnesses in the cases.
It comes as an inspection report published in February revealed the Thames Valley CPS unit was one of the worst in the country.
The report, based on an inspection last year, ranked it 41st out of 42 units in either not getting a guilty plea or a conviction at a trial for magistrates' cases, and was ranked 38th in crown court cases.
Between April last year and March this year, nine per cent of the Thames and Chiltern CPS' 15,981 half-day magistrate court sessions were taken on by external prosecutors.
Mr Foster said: "We acknowledge that due to an error, the external barrister that we had instructed did not attend court as expected on Tuesday.
"Since this incident we have put in place an additional check into the process for confirming that instructed barristers will attend their allocated court as expected."
However, just last month the CPS' handling of cases was lambasted as shambolic by a Crown Court judge frustrated at continual delays.
Judge Francis Sheridan said: "It is a massive implosion into the taxpayers' fund.
"This is a shambles at the moment.
"Somebody has got to seize this. Somebody must take control of the CPS in this courtroom."
Mr Foster said in the past 12 months 0.07 per cent of prosecutions at Oxford Magistrates' Court failed due to the CPS not being ready to proceed.
He added: "Although this figure is small, any amount of discontinued cases for CPS reasons are disappointing.
"I can assure the public that in all such cases lessons are learned.
"We are disappointed that these cases have been brought to an end in this way and I have personally written to the victims and witnesses to offer an explanation and an apology."
The local Crown Prosecution Service has also admitted recently it bungled when it twice made untrue allegations against the Oxford Mail over the Ahmed Bullfinch sexual abuse case.
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1. He seldom studies for his exams, does/doesn't he?
2. He never studies for his exams, does/doesn't he?
3. He hardly studies for his exams, does/doesn't he?
I believe in each of the above sentences, I should use 'does' because the adverb in each sentence is negative.
Please correct ms if I am wrong.
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What about: He has no close friends, does/doesn't he?
For the above sentence, I would use 'does' because it sounds right to use 'does he'. I believe 'no' is the adverb in this case.
Am I correct again?
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It doesn't sound natural either way.He has no close friends, does/doesn't he?
"He doesn't have any close friends, does he?" is how I would say it.
It sounds natural to me, as quoted by Dave.
There is no comma in what you quoted.