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MIAMI — Ray Allen has played in Boston as an opponent 15 times before. He knows what it's like to play under the fabled Celtics banners, knows exactly how the crowd treats visiting players.
His 16th appearance there as a visitor will be substantially different.
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Then he joined the Celtics in the summer of 2007. A year later, he helped them win a championship. He bled green.
Now, not so much.
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"It's going to be all about Ray," Heat forward Chris Bosh said. "Celtic fans, they're very fixated on the rivalry and 'How could you do that?' They're very passionate."
Allen's relationship with the Celtics broke down in some respects last season, and when the Heat made him an offer last summer, he eventually accepted — knowing it would raise the ire of those back in Boston.
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I'm pleased to present this interview with John Donohue, a karateka and kendoka who possesses a strong reputation as a martial arts author.
With over 30 years of training experience, Mr. Donohue has combined his martial arts with his academic life. As a result, he has created multiple high quality written works in both the fiction and non-fiction formats. He is most well known for the Connor Burke series, starting with the popular novel Sensei, and branching out into Deshi, Tengu, and most recently Kage.
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MA: How did you first get started in the martial arts some 30 years ago? What was your earliest experience?
JD: I was an adolescent in the 70's at the time that the martial arts were really getting some popular exposure—Bruce Lee, the Kung-fu TV series. I was someone who had always been interested in other cultures (an interest that stuck with me—years later, I got a doctorate in anthropology). I was also fascinated by the Asian approach to traditional martial arts that integrated philosophical concepts along with physical technique.
My first exposure to actual training started with getting my hands on some popular "how-to" manuals for kung-fu, the Bruce Tegner stuff, and trying it out. I quickly realized that there was more to this than met the eye.
MA: Could you provide a brief outline of the styles you've studied over the course of your training, and under whom you studied?
JD: In college, I started taking karate classes that were offered either as intramurals or for PE credit. At Stony Brook University, I was fortunate enough to be introduced to Shotokan Karatedo by Mori Masataka. He was a tremendously skilled sensei and I studied with him for a number of years. After graduating from college, I studied judo with Shiina Kiyoshi. As a graduate student, I conducted research on the martial tradition had an opportunity to be exposed to kendo with Kataoka Noboru and aikido with Hagihara Edi. Later on I continued studying karatedo with Liu Hong-guang, who also exposed me to some taiji. Finally, I studied kendo with Kimura Hiroaki.
I've been very privileged to study with some fine sensei.
MA: Who do you consider your biggest influences in the arts (your primary instructors)?
JD: Mori Sensei, since he opened my eyes to the power and beauty of traditional budo and Kimura Sensei, who set me on the path of kendo.
MA: Could you tell us a bit about their background and whom they studied with?
JD: Mori Mastaka studied at Takushoku University, joined the karate club there and eventually became team captain. He joined the JKA in 1955. He became Chief Instructor of the Karate Association of Hawaii (KAH) in 1963. In 1968 he relocated to New York and became the North Atlantic regional chief instructor of the JKA. His dojo is located in New York City.
Kimura Sensei showed interest in martial arts at a very young age (his father was the kendo coach at the local high school). He studied kendo and then began studying Shorinji Kempo in college. He moved to the United States when he was 22 and continued to study and train, but also recognized that there was strong interest in the martial arts in the United States. He has been teaching kempo for more than thirty years and was instrumental in introducing kendo training to Western New York.
MA: You're an associate editor with the Journal of Asian Martial Arts. When did that happen in context with your personal writing career? Was it before or after you became a published author?
JD: I was fortunate to meet Mike DeMarco, the publisher of JAMA at the very early stages of the Journal's development, sometime in the early 90's. At that point I had published a version of my doctoral dissertation (The Forge of the Spiri—1991) as well as a few scholarly articles on the subject of the martial arts. Mike, along with a handful of other interested scholars, encouraged me to pursue more research and writing on the topic. It wasn't until about ten years later that I started to write martial arts fiction—my first novel, Sensei, was published in 2003.
MA: The Journal of Asian Martial Arts is considered one of only a few highly reputable publications for traditional martial arts. Could you talk about the mission of the magazine and how you contribute?
JD: JAMA is devoted to providing high-quality scholarly and technical articles on the martial arts. Its mission is to take writing about the martial arts as seriously as we do training in them. It tries to bridge theoretical, academic, and technical perspectives on the martial arts and provide readers with well-written, accurate, and engaging material.
MA: Over the years you've developed a successful academic career as well as writing career. Has it sometimes been difficult to find time for training?
JD: It has. I think that the demands of family and career mean that there are times when training needs to be put on the back burner. It never goes away completely (and the desire and interest is always there) but the reality of it is that I am not a professional martial artist. I am a committed martial artist and I value the lessons that training has given me. When I can't train regularly I miss it. But I'm also clear-headed enough to know that first things need to come first.
MA: Since Sensei you have written Deshi, Tengu, and now Kage. Has the story unfolded more and more naturally in your mind, or has it been difficult to improve upon yourself?
JD: Since I've invested considerable time and energy into making Burke's world a fictional reality, I don't have much difficulty generating possible story lines. I have about seven burkebooks outlined in my head. But one of the real challenges of writing a series about a set group of characters is that you have to make them change. This sometimes can be upsetting to readers, since they like things the way they are. Familiar characters that always act the same are in some ways comforting and are also probably related to the fact that we've been programmed to expect this from watching too much TV.
That said, I've tried to make the story of Burke and Yamashita and the others unfold with a little realism—Burke needs to grow, Yamashita is ageing. Yet at the same time I try to hold on to the essence of the characters and their settings.
The real challenge for me is in the technical sense of writing. I try to get better at it. The craft of writing is really important to me—I try to write clearly and to engage the reader and not fall into some of the more hideous mistakes that are often too abundant in popular fiction.
MA: Tell us a bit about the new book Kage. What elements of adventure and martial arts can readers look forward to?
JD: The new book finds the protagonist unwittingly getting involved with the shadowy world of cross-border smugglers in Arizona. The action takes place in the American Southwest as well as in the New York area and involves competing smuggling gangs, shadowy operatives from the Border Patrol and Federal government, as well as sinister hit men of various types. Connor Burke has to use all the skill developed in years studying under the master warrior Yamashita to come out whole.
MA: What are your plans for future books, and do you have an idea for how long the Connor Burke saga will last?
JD: As I mentioned, I've got at least seven burkebooks in mind, although I'll probably keep writing them for as long as readers are interested. I'm also developing some new series, one involving an ex-Army Ranger named Oso Moreno—a hit man with a conscience who studies Daito-ryu aikijutsu—and another series that focuses on paranormal aspects of Asian culture with a heroine named Sharon Kao whose love interest is a top-notch judoka. Lots of action, lots of martial arts. I hope people like them.
MA: Thanks a lot for your participation and we look forward to more of your work!
Interview: Bill Hayes, "Old Student", Okinawa Shobayashi-ryu Karate-do (Part 2)
This is a continuation of the interview with Bill Hayes Sensei. Part 1 can be found here. Hayes Sensei is a senior practitioner of Shobayashi-Ryu Karate-do and a keeper of the old ways of Okinawan study. His personal experiences with Eizo Shimabukuro Sensei and the United States Marines (retired Major) have given him unique insight into the Ryukyuan Arts.
Hayes Sensei is a martial historian, subject matter expert for the U.S. Marines, and applications expert. He can often be found providing advice and insight to even the highest ranked instructors around the world. He refers to himself simply as "old student".
And now the conclusion of the interview.
Broken Kata, Bunkai, and Allowable Differences
Hayes Sensei discusses how Eizo Shimabukuro Sensei would consider certain student's kata "broken". This often occurred after long periods of time away from training on Okinawa, and sometimes after the ego of the practitioner had gotten ahold of his art and changed it for the worse. Also discussed are the matters of bunkai, oyo bunkai, and tichiki, the varying levels of application of kata. The final topic is that of hacho, allowable differences in order to make karate unique and effective for each individual.
Grandmaster Book, Hinkaku (Special Dignity), and the Power of Nature
There are very few texts available that accurately portray old style training of karate on Okinawa, and Hayes Sensei is the author of one of those books. My Journey With the Grandmaster provides us with a unique glimpse into the culture, training, and philosophy of "te" as Hayes Sensei intermingles personal stories with technical and historical knowledge. This book is not available via standard resell. If you are interested in acquiring a copy, please print out this order form or contact Hayes Sensei directly with a book request.
Also discussed in this video is the concept of Hinkaku, a special dignity that only the highest gentleman (or gentlewoman) karateka can attain. The last topic mentioned is the power of nature in our training, and how to integrate it with meaning.
Diet, Wellness, and Longevity
The Okinawans have been studied for years due to their unusual longevity and quality of life. Okinawa is a Blue Zone, and a combination of fitness, diet, community, and low stress has created a society of virtually no crime and strong, happy living. Hayes Sensei has spent much of his life adopting the ways of the Okinawans and figuring out ways in which western culture might successfully integrate some of those "good ideas" and apply them in their own lives.
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If you'd like to hear more from Hayes Sensei check out the book "Tales From the Western Generation". In it Hayes Sensei expands on more ideas regarding training and martial philosophy.
Interview: Bill Hayes, "Old Student", Okinawa Shobayashi-ryu Karate-do (Part 1)
I'm very pleased to present this interview with Bill Hayes, Kyoshi of Shobayashi Karate-do. Hayes Sensei became a senior student of famed Okinawan instructor Eizo Shimabukuro and has worked diligently to pass along karate as it was originally taught to him over the course of multiple decades.
Hayes Sensei is a retired Major of the United States Marine Corps, having served two active tours of duty in Vietnam as well as three tours on Okinawa. He is often considered the "complete package" of Okinawan Karate, embodying Okinawan culture, diligent wellness, strong character, and technical transcendence.
Hayes Sensei is the author of the book "My Journey With the Grandmaster", a work not originally intended for public consumption but now a staple in many traditional artist's libraries. Hayes Sensei also publishes a quarterly newsletter containing rare bits of history and wisdom accrued over many years of research and study.
These days Hayes Sensei heads the Okinawa Shorin Ryu Karatedo Kenkyu Kai Shobayashi-Kan, a semi-private research group that he uses to guide students in a very personal way that mirrors the core essence of his original training on Okinawa.
I recently had the chance to sit down with Hayes Sensei and ask him a wide variety of questions, ranging from his personal experiences to matters of technique, as well as philosophical issues in present day training. I hope you enjoy the following videos, broken into topical sections.
Beginnings, and Training with Eizo Shimabukuro OSensei
In the first video I ask Hayes Sensei to explain how he originally became interested in martial arts training. We go on to explore his original tours of duty in Vietnam and how they introduced him to the island of Okinawa. Also discussed is how Hayes Sensei originally met Eizo Shimabukuro, and what about OSensei made him so special.
Karate Influences and Learning Theory, Meeting Korean "Tae Kwon Do"
Hayes Sensei explores some of his karate influences, as well as explaining how learning changes and adapts over the course of many years. Also discussed is some of Hayes Sensei's travels to Okinawa and Japan, as well as training and teaching with South Korean Marines in Vietnam.
Okinawa Evolves, The Tournament Scene, and the Development of MCMAP
In this video Hayes Sensei explains how he has seen Okinawa evolve over the years, and how certain "pipelines" of karate are fading away. Hayes Sensei also discusses his involvement with tournaments in the early days, and how he gained a reputation as a top tier Sai practitioner. The video is concluded with a discussion on Hayes Sensei's involvement with the development of MCMAP, the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program.
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The Nation magazine notes that just as Bob Dylan moved the Vietnam era, many modern-day acts are eloquently calling for change in America.
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There may never be another Bob Dylan. But there will always be protest music of the sort that first endeared Dylan to a mass audience, and that confirmed the power of song to move not just a generation but a nation. Dylan was not the first protest singer; indeed, a good deal of his early Dust Bowl-poet persona derived from Woody Guthrie. And as his more overtly political compatriot Phil Ochs noted in the mid-1960s, Dylan was never comfortable in any movement, a fact that eventually led him to shed his topical-songwriter trappings to become the mythical character that Richard Goldstein examines on page 11. But the artful approach to political songwriting that Dylan pioneered remains an inspiration to today's musicians. And what they sing and say still matters, as the first skirmish of the Iraq War—the frontal assault on the dissenting Dixie Chicks after their lead singer criticized George W. Bush—confirmed….
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A new Field Poll shows Gov. Jerry Brown has a 20-point lead in his re-election campaign against Republican Neel Kashkari.
The survey released Wednesday shows the Democratic governor with 52 percent support among likely voters and Kashkari with 32 percent. The rest are undecided.
It's the first public opinion poll since the June 3 primary, when Brown and the former U.S. Treasury official emerged as the front-runners. Kashkari helped lead the federal bank bailout during the recession.
He has a long way to go to mount a credible challenge to Brown, who amassed $21 million for the fall campaign and has spent his life in California politics.
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Jones vs Hopkins – The Rivals. The Rematch. The Retirement?April 3rd, 2010 at 4:10 pm by Cary Chow under FOX10 Sports, Uncategorized
Pensacola's Roy Jones Jr is taking on Bernard Hopkins in a fight that pins two of history's best boxers against each other. While a lot of folks wished this fight would've taken place 10 years ago, it should still draw plenty of attention.
Both these guys have seen their skills diminish a bit, but that being said – they could still put a whuppin on.
I watched Jones train at his farm in Cantonment a couple weeks ago, and he looked lightning quick to my untrained eyes. He said, "I'm not quite there yet, but soon."
Jones, 41, has been asked many times when he's going to hang up the gloves, and he insists he'll walk away when he's ready. While sometimes it's tough to watch beloved athletes hang on for too long (Jordan with the Wizards what?), it's still their choice. If they want to keep playing, if they want to keep fighting, so let them. It's only our memories that we are selfishly holding onto. We don't want our memories of them to be tainted in any way. But if an athletes' happiness lies in their respective sport, who are we – the fans, the media – to tell them to stop? Just a thought.


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Discussion in 'Ground2k4, SBuilder, SBuilderX' started by MikeH, 30/3/06.
Morning everyone.
How can I dry-up these ponds. With Sbuilder or G2k4.
Hi Mike,
I think that drawing a grass VTP polygon on top of them is the easiest solution for you in this case. There is no real exclude for LWM polygons, so covering them is the best approach.
Thanks Arno, I'll give it a try.
BTW, which programe is better at doing this?
Hi Mike,
That should not really matter, both have about the same features. So it is more about which interface you prefer in that case.
Hi Mike.
The exclude for an LWM water mask is to make a land mask.
Thanks Arno and Dick.
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Cheesecake, Etc. is a late-night dessert cafe in the South Granville neighbourhood. It is the perfect spot for catching up with friends and family […]
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Join participating South Granville restaurants in celebrating Dine Out Vancouver 2014 from January 17 to February 2, 2014.
Canada's largest restaurant festival, produced by Tourism Vancouver, dishes up unlimited ways to enjoy the flavours of the city. Choose from hundreds of restaurants, a 17 day calendar of culinary events and dozens of hotel options to create your own delicious dining experiences.
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Join Siena from October 21st to November 6th, 2013 for their Fall Mushroom Festival Menu featuring marvelous B.C. mushrooms, the bounty and signature flavour of autumn! Siena's special $32 menu highlights local mushrooms as the focus for some incredible dishes. Reserve your table here.
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Delight your friends and family with traditional holiday flavours with a contemporary twist, as Executive Chef Quang Dang presents an exclusive eight-course Thanksgiving Tasting Menu. With suggested festive wine pairings carefully selected by Wine Director Owen Knowlton, it will truly be an occasion to remember as West celebrates the change of seasons.
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Mark Taylor, owner of Siena, is pleased to announce that Jessica Howery has accepted the position of Executive Chef at his South Granville neighbourhood restaurant. Both worked together at his previous venture, the award-winning CRU Restaurant. Mark considers her to be one of the top up-and-coming talents on the highly competitive Vancouver culinary scene. […]
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Charlie Kimball overtook Simon Pagenaud at the end of the long backstretch on Lap 73 of 90 and went on to win the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio for his first IZOD IndyCar Series victory.
The Camarillo, Calif., native is the ninth different winner in 14 races this season and the fourth first-time winner. In the previous five seasons, there were five total first-time winners. Four different teams were represented in the top five.
"It's nice when the team gives you such a great car," said Kimball, who started fifth in the Honda-powered No. 83 NovoLog FlexPen Chip Ganassi Racing car on the 2.258-mile, 13-turn road course. "All I needed to do was to hit the lap times they needed me to."Charlie Kimball, IndyCar, Mid-Ohio


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Memorial Day Pancakes & Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce
Last year during Memorial Day weekend, we were in the Big Apple for the National Skeeball Championship. Yep, you read that right; my friends and I play in a skeeball league. Anyways, at said skeeball championship, we were already talking about next Memorial Day's plans which included a fellow national skeeballer's wedding in Monterey.
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The Science Museum itself has a rich architectural history. It was completed by John Russell Pope in 1919 and was for decades the bustling Broad Street train station. The site was also briefly a Civil War military encampment and the site of many state fairs. Visitors to the museum will get to try their hands at building and construct a dome using simple machines. The exhibit will also introduce concepts of physics, science and engineering. The exhibit will run at the museum at 2500 West Broad Street through May 12, 2013. Admission is $10 to $11. For further information, visit www.smv.org. The Science Museum is within walking distance of Maury Place at Monument.
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"The houses on the Divide were small and were usually tucked away in low places; you did not see them until you came directly upon them. Most of them were built of the sod itself, and were only the unescapable ground in another form. The roads were but faint tracks in the grass, and the fields were scarcely noticeable. The record of the plow was insignificant, like the feeble scratches on stone left by prehistoric races, so indeterminite that they may, after all, be only the markings of glaciers, and not a record of human strivings."
The farmers of Westward expansion, more specifically the Great Plains, were lured to the land when President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862. This act promised heads of households, or people 21 years or older who were U. S. Citizens or showed that intent, 160 acres of land for a $10.00 filing fee. The U.S. hoped to encourage settlement on the "Great American Desert," a term mistakenly applied to the Great Plains due to its lack of trees and the myth that trees showed fertility of the land.
These farmers, "sodbusters" as they were called, were met with lack of adequate housing, water, and fuel and had to tackle extreme environmental conditions. Characteristically perseverant people, they made the land productive and built their sod houses or "soddies" from it. The sod house is uniquely American and reflects the never-say-die attitude of these farmers.
The lack of trees on the Great Plains dictated a unique solution to the problems of constructing a house. A sod house consisted of sod and grass with intricate root systems cut into three-foot slabs (like building blocks) that were layered into building the walls of a one room home with a door and window. Some sod houses were built into the side of a hill, while others were freestanding. The soddie was characteristically dirty and a home for bugs, mice and snakes. Some soddies were more elaborate, with glass windows and wooden doors, or perhaps had more than one room. Sod houses were used as dwellings well into the twentieth century, when wooden frame homes replaced them throughout the Great Plains.
Farmers had difficulty growing crops, but with the invention of dry farming and improved machinery they sometimes made a profit. Life was hard for these men and women. The loneliness, poor weather conditions, and lack of money drove many back to the East. For others this was the promise of land ownership they dreamed about for their entire lifetime, and giving up was not an option.
The Exodusters, a large, spontaneous migration of African-Americans, were also beckoned to start a new life on the Great Plains after the Civil War. They were not specifically led by a charismatic leader, but a rather by a small group of men who encouraged movement to Kansas. By 1880 the black population in Kansas increased from 16,000 to 43,000. It was thought that Paradise could be found in Kansas, the place where John Brown, the famous abolitionist, had lived. Nicodemus, an all-black settlement in Kansas, became a thriving community until a financial depression hit the nation, poor weather conditions hurt farming, and a white-run railroad intentionally chose not to pass through the town but six miles to its south. Nicodemus fell into financial ruin and today houses but fifty inhabitants.
Financial despair was the norm for Great Plains farmers for a variety of reasons. When the railroads bought land they sold it to farmers on time payments, promising better land than the farmer could buy elsewhere. If the crops did not grow, the farmers were unable to pay and their land was foreclosed upon by the railroad. Secondly, blights of grasshoppers and locusts caused catastrophes of biblical proportions to the crops. Descriptions included seeing a cloud of smoke coming closer and closer, blotting out the sun like an eclipse, until the farmer could see that in reality it was not smoke but grasshoppers. The crackling and snapping of corn and other crops was heard as they ate. When they left there was nothing left but stripped ears of corn.
The majority of farms were created between the 1860s and the 1880s. Many images of sod houses and farms were immortalized by photographers of the time. Solomon D. Butcher was an emigrant to Nebraska who did not care for farming, but discovered photography and made a name for himself as a frontier photographer. Through photos by people like Butcher, Americans of modern times can appreciate the struggle the Plains farmers endured to find their American Dream.


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Earlier Black Friday makes shopping experience smoother, managers say
Managers and marketing directors at three Des Moines- area malls said the earlier start to Black Friday sales lessened the hectic chaos that usually comes with the massive shopping day. Instead of having throngs of people come through the doors at a single time, mall officials said the Thursday start time ...
Black Friday shopping tradition brings some families together
Black Friday is a tradition. For some, that tradition entails getting up early, or perhaps staying up later, to take advantage of deals. There are lines and crowd control is necessary as shoppers eager to get their holiday buys out of the way flock to stores. Even though that tradition started a ...
Early start to 'Black Friday' puts dent in Friday morning crowds
(Update 1)It looks like retailers' plan to bring in shoppers in earlier for holiday sales has worked, at the cost of putting a dent into the massive crowds that usually come out on Black Friday. Retailers opened their doors for Black Friday on Thanksgiving this year to make up for a ...
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Annual Thanksgiving dinner continues, serving more than 3,600 meals
It will continue. That was the sentiment during this year's Parks Community Thanksgiving Dinner. For organizers Linda Tullis and Bob Iversen, the dinner was missing a familiar face – Linda Bisignano, who passed away earlier this month. She was the owner of Chuck's Restaurant, where hundreds of volunteers gather every year to ...
Favorable travel conditions predicted for Thanksgiving
The weather isn't going to stop travel plans in the Midwest over Thanksgiving. Officials from the National Weather Service forecast weather in Iowa, and most of the Midwest, to be cold and dry during the holiday and weekend travel. "(It's) just a typical winter day," Brad Fillbach of the NWS in Des ...
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The historical Palazzo Demidoff-Amici was originally built in the 15th century as the residence of the wealthy Russian family of the same name, who later became protagonists of the Florentine cultural scene in the 19th century. Home of famous astrologer Giovanni Battista Amici, during the 20th century the building was used firstly as a leisure association for Allied troops, and then, after careful restoration in 1964 it passed to the Belotti family, which furnished it as a guesthouse before transforming it into a welcoming 3 star hotel in Florence in the 1980s.
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Vol. 55, No. 32 • Sixteenth Week • Spring Semester • May 5, 2008
Featured Articles
Committee announces finalists for associate vice chancellor/dean of undergraduate studies post
May 7 reception to honor retiring employees and those reaching career milestones
Emergency notification system test set for Thursday
Softball team gets
Initiative creates international opportunies for College of Business students, faculty
Recent alumni receive Fulbright awards
ORSP announces Student Research Day winners
Service abroad leads to fundraiser for children
Emeritus professor establishes history thesis award
Musical acts come to campus for Springfest
Committee announces finalists for
associate vice chancellor/dean of undergraduate studies post
The search and screen committee for UW-Eau Claire's associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of undergraduate studies has announced three finalists for the position.
The finalists will make campus visits Tuesday, May 6, through Wednesday, May 14, during which the campus community will have the opportunity to listen and speak to each candidate during an open forum. The forum topic will be as follows: "This new position brings together student support services and academics to create an integrated undergraduate experience. What do you see as the challenges and opportunities?"
The finalists and their open forum dates are as follows:
May 7 reception to honor retiring employees
Emergency notification system test set for Thursday
UW-Eau Claire will conduct a campuswide test of its recently enhanced emergency notification system between 2 and 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8.
The test will include the following notification methods:
Thursday's test will help university officials determine how an alert will impact the campus and cell phone technology infrastructure. Following the test, faculty, staff and students will be asked to complete a brief Web survey to provide feedback regarding the emergency notification system.
Softball team gets bid to NCAA championship,
UW-Eau Claire is set to host an eight-team, first-round regional tournament this weekend at Carson Park in Eau Claire. In addition to UW-Eau Claire, the other teams competing in the Eau Claire regional are St. Thomas (Minn.), Ripon College, Illinois Wesleyan University, Simpson College (Iowa), North Central College (Ill.), Aurora University (Ill.) and UW-Oshkosh. More information.
Initiative creates international opportunities
UW-Eau Claire senior Eric Becker will take a big step toward making his dream career a reality when he begins an internship this summer with H&T International Transportation Ltd. in Guangzhou, China.
"I'm thrilled with the way things have worked out," said Dr. Rama Yelkur, project director and author of the Partnerships in International Education (PIE) program. "Everything is falling into place. We've created international faculty exchanges, established international internships and have begun to support area businesses as they compete in a global economy."
PIE, which will run through June 2009, is funded by a $174,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Title VIB Business and International program. Full story.
Recent alumni receive Fulbright awards
Sarah Janes, a December 2007 political science and Latin American studies graduate, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant to study the impact of male migration on women in sending communities of Veracruz, Mexico. Janes will collaborate with two researchers from the Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural. She said she hopes to emphasize the importance of incorporating non-migrant women's experiences into the immigration story, from public awareness to public policy and beyond. Full story.
James Patrick Hahn, a December 2007 Spanish and mathematics education graduate, has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. Hahn, who currently teaches Spanish in the Oshkosh Area School District, will teach English or another subject in English in a secondary school in the Madrid area of Spain. In addition to teaching 16-20 hours per week, he will study the Spanish math education system and how multiple intelligences are used within the classroom. Full story.
ORSP announces Student Research Day winners
More than 400 UW-Eau Claire students displayed student and faculty collaborative research projects and independent student research projects at the 16th annual Student Research Day April 28-29. The event was sponsored by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs with support from the UW-Eau Claire Foundation.
Senior chemistry major Skye Doering was the recipient of the Kell Container Corporation Scholarship. Doering worked with faculty mentor James Boulter on a research project titled "Effect of Dissociated Oxygen on the Structure of Low-Temperature Water Ice Films."
A 10-member faculty judging panel with representatives from Montana State University, The College of Wooster, Depauw University, UW-Stout, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the University of St. Thomas, Oberlin College, Carleton College and Illinois Wesleyan University also selected several research projects for special recognition. The following students and faculty mentors received first-place honors in their categories (see other Student Research Day winners on the ORSP Web site):
Service abroad leads to fundraiser for children
The 5K charity run/walk will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 10, by the Nursing Building at UW-Eau Claire. Registration is $12 in advance or $15 the day of the event. All proceeds from the event will be given as scholarships to children in El Fortín, Nicaragua, so they can purchase school uniforms, shoes and supplies.
For two years, UW-Eau Claire students studying in Nicaragua have worked on a service-learning project in El Fortín. The students lived in the community, staying with local families while building a greenhouse so the community can raise herbs to sell. During the project, the university students became aware of the needs of the people, particularly the need to educate the children. Full story.
Emeritus professor establishes history thesis award
Dr. Thomas Miller, UW-Eau Claire professor emeritus of history and former chair of the history department, has given $12,000 to establish an award for the outstanding history thesis completed by a student in the senior thesis class.
The first Miller Prize was awarded this spring to Patricia Callaghan, a senior from Eau Claire, for her paper, "The Irish of Manitowoc County: Maintaining ethnic identity in a rural community." The $200 award will be presented each semester.
Miller, who joined the history department in 1967, served the university for 40 years before retiring in 2007. In addition to teaching, Miller served as associate vice chancellor and interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. Full story.
Musical acts come to campus for Springfest
UW-Eau Claire's Springfest — the annual campus celebration of music and spring — will feature a variety of performers during shows from noon-1 p.m. today through Friday, May 9. The free performances will be held on the Central Campus Mall (rain site: The Cabin, Davies Center). A variety of grilled lunch items will be sold during the shows.
Performers will include Soap, an experimental rock fusion jam band from Chicago; Snifter, an experimental-psych-pop trio from Eau Claire; The Bright Life Soundtrack, featuring acoustic folk-rock performer Kevin Castillo of Menasha; the Trapper Schoepp Band from Milwaukee and Ellsworth; and Ada Jane (formerly the Matt Marka Band), a Minneapolis rock group. Full story.
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Victory in Spain! National Park Saved from Oil Development
We're pleased to announce that the Spanish government has put an end to proposed oil industry development that would have threatened the Doñana National Park, a World Heritage Site, after campaigning by Oceana and our allies.
Plans to build an oil refinery in the Gulf of Cadiz, not far from Doñana, would have led to higher ship traffic in the area and a higher risk of oil spills or accidents during the tankers' unloading operations. Oceana is currently working to create a Marine Protected Area in this section of the Gulf of Cadiz, which would be linked to the National Park.
Doñana National Park was established in 1993 and named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. Its marshes, streams, and sand dunes are home to plants and animals found almost nowhere else in the world.
Many migratory birds spend their winters in the park lands, and endangered species like the Spanish imperial eagle and the Iberian lynx (one of the world's most endangered cat species) call this area home. In the marshes of Doñana National Park, you can also find birds like the Avocet and the Purple Heron, both of which depend on the sensitive estuary habitats.
Increased oil tanker traffic could have potentially damaged the already vulnerable habitats of these animals.
Oceana identified the threats posed by the construction of this oil refinery in 2005, and has been campaigning against it with other conservationist groups. Oceana Europe is now calling on the Spanish government to enact similar protections for other marine protected areas.
Infographic: Gas Prices Not Really Impacted By Oil Import Levels
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post.
Are gas prices impacted by the source of countries' oil? The graphic below, from Oceana, suggests that how much oil a country imports does not affect gas prices.
Rather, the group "found that while gasoline prices vary greatly among these five nations, the variation is almost entirely attributable to variation in gasoline taxes," according to an Oceana email sent to HuffPost. "Once these taxes are factored out, gasoline prices are largely the same across the five nations, despite marked differences in how much oil is sourced domestically versus via imports. This shows that gasoline prices are largely independent of how much oil a country imports or produces domestically, or, in simpler terms, we cannot drill our way to lower gasoline prices."
A 2012 study, of "36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production," by the Associated Press found that there is "no statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S. wells and the price at the pump."
A May report from the Natural Resources Defense Council found that if built, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline could actually raise domestic gasoline prices, reported HuffPost's Lucia Graves. Report author and NRDC attorney Anthony Swift said, "Our study has found that Keystone XL is likely to both decrease the amount of gasoline in U.S. refineries for domestic markets and increase the cost of producing it, leading to even higher prices at the pump."
Earlier this week, Reuters reported that the average price of gasoline in the U.S. fell nearly 16 cents in the previous week. The drop is a result of a decline in crude oil prices, fueled by "fears over Europe's economy and a stronger dollar," according to Reuters. A recent survey of Americans by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that three quarters of Republicans and 34 percent of Democrats "cite government limits on drilling as a major reason for energy problems."
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Listen Up, Foodies! Saru Jayaraman Thinks You Should Care as Much About Restaurant Workers as You Do Your Organic Chicken
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There's little question that the vast majority of restaurant workers in the United States could use a union. On the whole, their jobs offer low pay and few benefits and employees have little job security. Yet they are also a very difficult group to organize: turnover in the industry is high, the workforce is largely an immigrant one, and employers effectively use threats of deportation and other retaliation against those who speak up.
Over the past decade, the Restaurant Opportunities Centers, now a national organization known as ROC-United, has taken on these challenges. While not a union, ROC-United has brought together 10,000 restaurant workers into an advocacy organization devoted to improving wages and working conditions. In recent years, ROC has expanded beyond New York City and launched affiliates in New Orleans, Miami, Michigan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Washington DC. The organization has deployed a diverse arsenal of tactics - community and workplace mobilization, lawsuits against discrimination and wage theft, high-profile research and reports on the industry, and partnerships with "high road" restaurant owners - to advance the interests of low-wage workers who have been largely beyond the reach of the traditional labor movement.
Recently, I spoke with ROC-United's co-founder and co-director, Saru Jayaraman, about how it has been able to use its status as an advocacy organization to develop fresh approaches to defending workers' rights and building alliances in the community. Next month will see the release of Jayaraman's first book, Behind the Kitchen Door, which challenges foodies who demand organic, fair-trade and free-range ingredients in their food to pay just as much attention to the people who do the majority of the work in the restaurants we patronize.
I started by asking Jayaraman about her background and about how ROC got started.
"My background is that I am a child of immigrants from India," she said. "I grew up in California, then ended up going back East for law school and graduate school, and I got more and more engaged in immigrant worker issues. Ultimately, after 9/11, I received a phone call from the union that was in Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center. They asked if I would start an organization that would initially support the workers who had lost their jobs and the families of the victims."
"We started in those early days just helping people get back on their feet. But something happened very shortly after the tragedy, which is that the owner of Windows opened up a new restaurant in Times Square, refused to hire any of his former employees from Windows. The workers felt a lot of moral outrage at that. We organized a protest in front of the new restaurant on opening night. The owner ended up hiring everybody who wanted to work there. That was in 2002."
"It was on the cover of the Metro Section of the New York Times and got a bunch of other press. Instantly, we were overwhelmed, flooded with calls for help from workers, first all over New York City and then all over thWe country."
Jayaraman discussed the conditions in the restaurant industry that soon came to the fore: "We did some research early on, in those early days," she said, "and we found that the restaurant industry really is neck-and-neck with retail as the nation's largest private-sector employer. It has over 10 million workers. An estimated 1 in 10 American workers are employed in the restaurant industry. It's been one of the fastest growing [sectors of the economy], even during the economic crisis. But it also has 7 of the 10 lowest-paying jobs in America. Actually, the two absolute lowest-paying jobs in America are restaurant jobs: fast food cooks and dishwashers. Largely due to the power of the National Restaurant Association, which has been named the tenth-most-powerful lobbying group in Congress, the minimum wage for tipped workers has been stuck at $2.13 at the federal level for the last 21 years."
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