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September 29, 2010 By Bill Schrier
Chief Information Officers need "help". Some might say we need psychiatric "help". I'd say we especially need the psychiatrist's couch. Or, perhaps, we need to play the psychiatrist, listening to the people on the couch – our customers.
CIOs need to be "joiners". We need to be good at establishing relationships, empathizing (putting ourselves into the shoes of others), and we need to be generalists in our businesses.
I was reminded of this again last week as the Metropolitan Information Exchange (MIX) held our annual conference in Raleigh. MIX is composed of about 60 CIOs from larger (over 100,000 population) cities and counties who collaborate together to harness information technology to make their individual governments efficient and effective.
But I'm constantly amazed that we only have 60 members when there are 276 large cities and 578 large counties. So MIX has only 60 members although there are over 850 large cities and counties. So why don't other government CIOs join up? I'll get to that.
Yes, CIOs need to be "joiners". Yet, IT is not a field which easily produces leaders who are collaborators, listeners and joiners. IT engineers and technicians and programmers are naturally heads down "hey guys let's write this code" or "get this server installed". We tech types prefer to use e-mail or text message or even face-to-face contact rather than the telephone. In many ways we are "geeks" or "nerds". I'm often proud to introduce myself as the "Chief Seattle Geek".
Yet, when we become senior IT managers or CIOs, exactly the opposite skills are required. Here are some specific examples:
In terms of collaboration, CIOs not only need to prevent re-invention of the wheel within their city or county, but they also need to watch for collaboration and innovation opportunities across the nation.
Is the District of Columbia making itself transparent with an open data catalog and "Apps for Democracy"? Gee, wouldn't that work in Seattle? Has Harris County, Texas, built an 800 megahertz public safety radio network which allows cops and firefighters from many counties to interoperate and support each other during small disasters and large? Would that work elsewhere? Baltimore and Chicago and Miami-Dade have created innovative new 311 centers and constituent relationship management systems. Wouldn't something like that make governments more accessible everywhere else?
And that's where organizations like MIX (for City/County CIOs) or the Digital Communities information sharing group , with 644 members, or NASCIO for State CIOs or even (here in the Seattle area) the Technology Executive Peer Group (about 40 mostly private and some pubic CIOs) come into play. These groups help CIOs to exchange information about applications and best practices and solutions which work.
Yet, out of the hundreds of government CIOs in the nation, only a few join these groups. Are the rest "loners" out on their own? Or are they working so hard within their individual governments - managing their technology workers, building relationships with their own elected officials and business departments and draining their own swamps - that they don't have time to collaborate with the rest of us who are "joiners"?
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September 10, 2010 By Bill Schrier
Police officers and firefighters carry $5000 radios. Local and state governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build public safety radio networks. Yet, today, cell phone networks seem to be everywhere, most people carry a mobile phone and many of us think paying $199 for an iPhone is expensive.
Why can't cops and firefighters and emergency medical technicians (EMT) use cell phones like everyone else? A Washington State legislator from Seattle recently public argued for this approach in his blog. And, at first, this appears to be a simple way for governments to save a lot of taxpayer dollars.
Here are a few reasons public safety officers need their own dedicated networks:
Are there problems with the current dedicated public safety networks? Absolutely. The use proprietary technologies, for example "Project 25". Theoretically all "Project 25" radios work on any "Project 25" radio system. But only a few of those are deployed around the nation. These proprietary technologies are one reason the radios cost up to $5,000 each.
Representative Carlyle, in his blog, proposes that we deploy "Tetra" radios for public safety. While Tetra is common in some parts of the world, it is not used at all in the United States. This is a dangerous proposal, because it means Tetra networks we buy would not work with the equipment used by any other government or telecommunciations carrier anywhere in the United States. If called to respond to a diaster overseas, we could talk to firefighters in Hong Kong or the police in Ireland, however.
Another problem we face is the small market - the total market for public safety is perhaps 10,000,000 radios which are replaced, say, once every 10 years. On the other hand, the cell phone market is huge - 260 million cell phones replaced every two years in the United States alone. The economies of scale means consumers will have a lot more choice, and their cell phones will be relatively cheap.
So is there some way to reduce the sky-high cost of these dedicated public safety networks while at the same time not endangering cops, firefighters, EMTs and the public in general?
Absolutely. The FCC, in its national broadband plan, and the federal Department of Commerce, with its forward-thinking grant program for broadband, are lighting the way for a new public safety network which will be more robust, national in scope, and interoperable. By "interoperable" I mean the new public safety equipment will probably operate almost anywhere in the nation, wether on a dedicated government network or on a commercial cell phone network. Here are some features of the new networks:
The City of Seattle is one of a handful (about 20) forward-thinking governments leading the way to deploy these new networks. Seattle's public safety LTE network, hopefully launched with a federal stimulus grant, will eventually expand throughout the Puget Sound region and across the State of Washington. The State of Oregon also has authority and a grant request to build an LTE network, and we are working with Oregon to make sure our networks work with each other seamlessly.
Is all of this a pipe dream? I don't think so. A number of public and private companies, governments and telecommunciations carriers and equipment manufacturers are working together to realize it. Many of them are in the Public Safety Alliance. In the Federal government, the FCC is working with the National Institute of Standards and the Departments of Commerce and Homeland security are providing grant funding. It will take a lot of work and many years to realize this network.
But when it is finished, we'll have public safety networks which work to keep us safe, and consumer networks which work to keep us productive and linked to our friends and families. These networks will be separate yet connected. They will be built from common technologies. And they will be less expensive for taxpayers than the networks we have today.
August 19, 2010 By Bill Schrier
"Hacking" has a bad connotation. We're going to change that in Seattle this weekend with the Open Government Hackathon. The Hackathon is the culmination of of Geek Week here in Seattle.
Yeah, yeah most of you non-Puget-Sounders think every week is Geek Week in Seattle, complete with nerdish denizens such as Microsofties, Googlers, Socratians, IBMers, Tropons, Amazonians, Pirilloians and now even Facebookers.
Geek Week is the creation of local Geek King Chris Pirillo. I envy Chris, with his 85,326 Twitter followers compared to my mere 2,232 followers. We both come from humble backgrounds in Iowa, and made it to Seattle to seek our futures in the Pacific Northwest.
Chris found his future and part of it is Geek Week and Gnomedex. The 10th Annual Gnomedex "Conference of Inspiration and Influence" is happening on Friday and Saturday, August 20th and 21st.
As Gnomedex winds down on Saturday at 5:00 PM, the Open Government Hackathon winds up. The Hackathon is sponsored by two phenomenal local tech companies, Socrata and Tropo. Socrata has made its name making data open and transparent, most notably with data.gov and data.seattle.gov (well, and a few other sites).
Developers will converge on the Edgewater Hotel on Seattle's waterfront. They'll have 24 hours to use government datasets to create interesting applications. At 5:00 PM on Sunday, we'll be judging applications for those which are most useful, interesting, unique or maybe just cool. There will be a number of prizes - hackers will get codes for some Amazon Web Services usable to deploy and test apps there and other prizes include a Flip HD camera, year membership in Amazon Pro and even an iPad - gee, if Microsoft or Google or Facebook made a nice slate computer, maybe that could be the prize. Perhaps next year!!
Read more about the Hackathon on Chris Pirillo's blog here, or the Socrata blog here, or the Tropo blog here.
In any case, it will be wonderful to see what sorts of applications the hackers develop, all with the intent not of hacking into government, but rather of making data held by government more accessible to citizens, residents and the people government serves.
Note: I'm especially proud of data.seattle.gov, with over a hundred cool datasets of information like fire department 911 calls, active building permits, and public toilets. That's an initaitive of Mayor Mike McGinn and the City of Seattle's Department of Information Technology, and we'll be adding a lot more data to the site over the next couple of months, including police crime statistics, police 911 calls, and business licenses. You can already view crimes and 911 calls plotted by neighborhood on My Neighborhood Map here, powered by Microsoft's Bing Maps and the employees of City government. The data feed of this information to data.seattle.gov will be active soon.
August 5, 2010 By Bill Schrier
This past Tuesday night, there were 1,219 parties in the street all around Seattle. Kids, hot dogs, drinks, cops and firefighters and neighbors everywhere. It was part of the National Night Out. And it was, perhaps, one of the last in Seattle, as the City may cut the jobs of six or seven crime coordinators responsible for the Blockwatch program.
Blockwatch programs are a widespread form of civic engagement. And they've morphed over the years adopting technology to become more effective. Now the combination of the Great Recession, the Great Budget Crisis and the explosion of social media such as Facebook, they are likely to morph again into a new and cool form of civic engagement, if we can maintain the thin blue line of civilians who run the programs.
Blockwatches, often called neighborhood watches, are a staple of many communities across the United States. I talked to Terrie Johnston, a crime prevention coordinator and 30 year employee in the Seattle Police Department, and she gave me some history of Blockwatches in the Seattle PD. This history is typical of Blockwatches across the nation and Canada.
Often a Blockwatch starts around a particular incident in a neighborhood. Sometimes it is a series of burglaries, or perhaps a drive-by shooting, or an incident near a school. One or more people in a neighborhood get concerned enough to call the local police precinct or Seattle Crime Prevention. The crime prevention coordinator sets up a meeting with the neighbors, discusses the incident and related crimes, and gives the neighbors hints, tips and advice on how to be watchful and protect each other.
Amazingly, Terrie says, it is young families with children who often initiate the Blockwatch or get involved to protect their families. I say "amazingly" because it is this demographic - young people who have kids and very busy lives, often with two jobs - who are hard to get involved in public meetings with City officials. Not so with the Blockwatch!
From this beginning, Blockwatches progress in a variety of ways. Many become social groups as well as crime prevention tools. In my neighborhood we have an e-mail list, we get together for a Christmas party, we even watched the Presidential debates of 2008.
In most Seattle neighborhoods, the Blockwatches also organize themselves into a SNAP (Seattle Neighborhoods Actively Prepare) team. Seattle will have a major earthquake in the future. Such a quake - perhaps at 8 or even 9 on the Richter scale - will mean many neighborhoods may be isolated and have to survive on their own for many days. Neighbors need caches of food and water, need to know first aid and light search and rescue. Neighbors need to help each other.
There are probably a thousand active blockwatches in Seattle, but the Seattle Police crime coordinators have a list of 4000 blockwatch contacts. The crime coordinators actively stay in touch with their Blockwatch contacts. Originally this contact was by conducting meetings and handing out fliers or maps of recent crimes. While they still attend meetings, make phone calls and hand out paper, the coordinators have also adapted technology. By far the most common method of contact now is e-mail, and they'll email hints and tips or alerts to their Blockwatch Captains and contacts.
The most active Captains themselves will suggest alerts and updates - for example alerting neighbors to a Memorial Day observance at a military cemetery which included gunshots - a 21 gun salute. Every precinct has a blog and web page for crime prevention.
Just within the last year the City of Seattle and Seattle Police have developed a whole series of new online tools to improve the effectiveness of crime prevention. There's now an online tool which allows residents to map almost all the crimes in their neighborhood (domestic violence and a few others are excluded). The map also allows people to actually download and view the actual redacted police report for many of these crimes. Just last week mapping of Police 911 calls debuted on the website, added to the mapping of Seattle Fire 911 calls which has been available for 6 years or more. Also last week a new crime reporting function was added to the Seattle.gov web, so residents can file reports online for minor crimes such as thefts under $500 or car prowls or similar incidents where they don't need to talk to a police officer.
Seattle departments - including Police, Fire and others, have adapted twitter to rapidly inform residents of incidents as they occur. The Seattle website also includes a series of fifteen interlinked blogs called CityLink. On the Police blog, called spdblotter.seattle.gov, more detail is given on crimes and other incidents which the Police also tweet .
There are many organizations which operate in every neighborhood. Besides Blockwatches, there are district councils, and arts organizations and community development groups, not to mention an active set of privately operated neighborhood blogs which have, in many ways, taken over the functions formerly performed by community newspapers. The City has an index of all these resources on its website, Neighborhoods on the Net.
I think Blockwatches may morph in two ways in the future - first expanding their function and also changing their method of communication to use social media.
In terms of function, traditionally some Blockwatches have morphed from crime prevention to community engagement. They actively advocate for cleaning up derelict properties, eliminating graffiti, calming traffic (adding speed bumps or traffic circles) and of course caring for each other, e.g. checking in on the elderly or disabled.
But the City hasn't always adopted the power of the Blockwatch movement for other forms of civic engagement. Many City departments go to neighborhoods and hold public meetings to gain input on zoning changes or neighborhood plan updates or changing the configuration of an arterial street to add turning lanes or bike lanes. But those meetings tend to be "one shot" deals or tend to use or create new e-mailing lists. Rarely do the other departments take advantage of the existing power of the organized Blockwatches. And often the City doesn't actually give feedback to neighborhoods about how their input was used.
In these days of constrained resources, Blockwatches can and should morph from just crime prevention, to community involvement groups - "Citywatches".
To do this, municipal governments need to find ways to adapt social media to Blockwatches and community engagement.
Facebook has taken the Internet by storm, with over half-a-billion users. It seems to be a natural new way for Blockwatches to post news, communicate and interact both internally, with other Blockwatches and with police departments and other City functions.
But Facebook as a company doesn't "play nice" with government or other companies, in that it is hard for governments to save Facebook entries and comments, thereby complying with State records retention laws and FOIA laws. Furthermore, it is hard - if not impossible - to create a set of "blockwatch neighbors" separate and distinct from other groups and friends, and keep that group private, only sharing selected updates with other groups or the municipal government.
Facebook's great advantage for this purpose is that so many people use it - they don't have to learn or adopt some new tool. Other social media tools also hold promise for the future of Blockwatches and Citywatches. These include, perhaps, Wiki's for sharing information about neighborhoods, Ideascale or Uservoice tools such as Ideas For Seattle to generate and rank ideas on certain topics, and Twitter.
A common problem - especially with Twitter and Blogs and Facebook - is easily capturing and harvesting comments or tweets so the Blockwatch captain or appropriate City department can adequately respond. Smartphone applications are already used by governments for JAPA (just another pothole application) feedback, but haven't been widely used in public meetings, e.g. making comments and what is being said or voting during public meetings, which can improve the level of involvement among the audience. Certainly many governments are afraid of being overwhelmed by input which underscores the need for tools or software to harvest and consolidate responses.
Seattle has asked Code for America, the new non-profit founded by Tim O'Reilly, for help in developing a solution to improving Blockwatches via such social media tools, and thereby helping them to evolve into new platforms for civic action and engagement. With some luck, such a solution can be developed and used by many local governments across the nation.
Finally, I will admit and lament that personal interaction among neighbors has declined. The many time pressures on families mean we have less time to simply talk to our neighbors. But all these new smartphone, social media, technology tools can help improve that interaction.
Fundamentally, however they only supplement the face-to-face Blockwatch meeting which builds community and trust, so neighbors truly care about and watch out for each other.
June 26, 2010 By Bill Schrier
The whole two-dot-oh thing seems so "contrived". Like a marketing gimmick. Or selling the "new improved" laundry soap, that is, the "new, stickier, more connected, web".
Yet there is a kernel of truth here, not so much in the technology but in the fabric of our society. It is Society 2.0.
First of all, I'm not coining the term Society 2.0. I'm not sure who coined it, but I first heard of it on Monday, June 21st, from Julius O. Akinyemi, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Media Lab at MIT. I was privileged to be one of 25 or so folks who came together under the leadership of Zach Tumin of the Ash Institute at Harvard's JFK School of Government. Zach sponsored an executive session at Harvard on the topic "Making the Move to Gov 2.0: Citizen Engagement and Empowerment".
The phrase "Web 2.0" seems to have significant validity. Tim O'Reilly created and defined the term Web 2.0, I think. There IS a vast difference between the World Wide Web as it existed before about 2003, and the kinds of web "stuff" available in the last six years. Perhaps the watershed moment was in 2003 when MySpace was founded by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. MySpace is a signal achievement, marking the true "social web" where normal people could post information and easily interact with each other. Web 1.0 was about viewing information and doing transactions. Web 2.0 is about social interaction.
And the term "Society 2.0" certainly makes sense to me as well.
Those of us old enough to remember life in 1980 may still remember what life was like in those days of ancient history. Typewriters, secretaries, phones with cords. Film cameras. Giant paper phone directories plopped on your doorstep. Anyone who used a computer or talked about bits or bytes (much less gigabits or terabytes) was an uber-geek who must have a pocket protector and be one full bubble off the level of normal.
Today, most human beings in the United States feel naked without at least a cell phone, but preferably a smartphone. Anyone using terms like "typewriter" or "secretary" will make listeners smile like they are humoring a very elderly relative who is suffering from dementia. Many of us have to check our e-mail constantly. Most of us use text messaging or multi-media messaging as a matter of course. And who uses a film camera or even knows a retailer which develops the stuff?
Welcome to Society 2.0. The technology-enabled society.
Government 2.0. Now that term is foreign to me.
I certainly understand "government", as I am one (sorta). Or at least work for one.
This morning I attended Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn's regular cabinet meeting. Did we talk technology? Hardly. Indeed, except for the specific details of the subject matter, this could have been a Mayor's cabinet meeting from 1980 or even 1950. We talked about jobs - the overriding need for people in Seattle to have living wage jobs and how we, as a government, can help businesses large and small make that happen. We talked about the South Park Bridge, which will close in five days because it is rickety and dangerous, and that closure will isolate a whole neighborhood for over two years until we can find the money to replace it. We discussed the need for people to feel safe and secure on the streets, and how our departments - not just police, but transportation and neighborhoods and the electric utility - can work to help people downtown and in neighborhoods feel safe.
Sure, technology was there and it permeated the meeting - in the background. Three people, including the department director sitting my right, took notes on their iPads. I took notes using Microsoft One-Note on my HP Mini which uses Windows XP and which sat on top of the table - I've not yet become a fanboy for Apple technology. But I used my BlackBerry to set an appointment with the FCC and text message my deputy. Everyone else at the meeting surreptitiously checked their BlackBerrys for e-mail.
But Government 2.0? Whatever that is, it wasn't present there, and it certainly should not have been.
Now don't get me wrong - Government is doing a lot of innovative work with technology, and Seattle is a leader. You can follow the tweets of the Seattle police department and fire department and transportation. We've got a set of 15 interlinked blogs for up-to-the-minute information. You see any account balance and pay almost any bill or tax of the Seattle government online. And we do really cool stuff like a Traveler's information map and posting Fire Department 911 calls on a map within a couple minutes of dispatch. Anyone can download a ton of information from data.seattle.gov. On Monday, June 28th, you be able to view a map showing crimes in your neighborhood and download redacted but pretty complete reports on any of them, a service probably unique in the nation.
But if websites are Web 1.0 and Facebook is Web 2.0, and typewriters/corded phones are Society 1.0 yet smartphones and ipods and email or text messaging are Society 2.0, then all that innovative stuff in Seattle is probably Government 1.5, not Government 2.0.
Government still has not quite figured out how to harness mobile phones and Facebook and LinkedIn. We still conduct public meetings with presentations by officials followed by citizens trooping one by one to the microphone to deliver a two or three minute diatribe to elected officials. We are not gutsy enough to allow even moderated comments on our blogs, or to establish a free-wheeling social network of citizens, much less a smartphone app for interacting with elected or senior government officials.
But there are glimmers of hope for Government 2.0. Mayor McGinn's public meetings often include a display of tweets projected on a screen. The Seattle Channel has figured out ways to live-stream video from almost every major public meeting in the City. The Channel's Ask-the-Mayor show includes interaction from constituents via e-mail, telephoned and even videotaped questions from citizens. IdeasforSeattle gives people an opportunity to suggest and rank ideas, and we'll have a new, improved Idea generating tool later in the summer.
A true Government 2.0 needs to be more interactive. Government 2.0 will be about inclusion: elected officials having the ability to listen to a large number of constituents, not just the NIMBYs (not-in-my-backyard) folks who can show up at a meeting, or the lobbyists with the clout to get a face-to-face meeting with an official. Government 2.0 needs to be about drafting new solutions from a wide variety of people ("crowdsourcing"), not just those who have the time or media attention to relentlessly push forward their own agenda. Gov 2.0 will be empowering people on their own blocks and in their own neighborhoods to have more control over and take charge of their safety and quality of life. Fundamentally this requires a change in culture in government from "we'll collect the data and make the decisions, and let you review them" to "let's collaborate and work on this together".
Technology has a role in this. For example, by using tools to harvest @replies from Twitter. Or to engender comments and discussions on Facebook or blogs without having the conversation degenerate by a few anonymous people using four letter words to viciously attack government and elected officials, a problem old and new media outlets face every day. We need ways that a "public meeting" can span two days allowing everyone to attend and discuss the topic and voice and debate ideas with online and video tools, without the need to travel downtown to City Hall for a meeting at fixed time.
And we - government - need to harness the tools which the "normal" people of Society 2.0 use every day. Their mobile phones, and smartphones and Facebook. We need to harness those tools, so that our constituents don't have to come "downtown" or come to government to use services or give input on policy. So they can use tools they already use - the Internet and Facebook and mobile phones - to interact with officials at meetings or to give feedback to elected official.
Interacting with your government should be as easy as posting to your Facebook wall or texting on your smartphone or adding a comment to a blog. But it will also be hard because it will require every constituent - as well as our officials - to listen to the ideas of others and interact, discuss and collaborate in new ways beyond giving a two-minute speech at a public meeting or writing an e-mail message. When our culture changes that way, then perhaps we'll have "Government Two dot Oh".
(And we'll be talking about Gov 3.0!)


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Many glamorous women were the privileged targets of Bill Blass's wit. There was usually a sting somewhere. At one time I was particularly, if not uniquely, vulnerable to his charms: during the months that he and I worked together on his 2002 memoir, Bare Blass, a book that brought me to his house in Connecticut every Saturday. These sessions typically began with an edifying hour of gossip to loosen the tongue.
On one of those mornings, I innocently, I feel now asked Bill what he thought I should do with my hair. Let it grow out? Make it blonder? Women were always seeking his advice and approval, as I knew from the many phone calls. Surely he would have something expert to say about my hair.
From his chair near the fireplace, Bill regarded me. "Have you considered combing it?" he said.
Then, in the spring of 2002, our work nearly finished, I learned that I was to receive an award for writing from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. The CFDA gala was a big affair; there would be many designers and speeches, and of course I wanted to wear a dress from Blass.
Bill frowned. "Get Karl to make you something," he said. As his life was then winding down he would in fact be dead in a few months I knew the suggestion of Karl Lagerfeld was an attempt to test my loyalty one last time. I gently persisted.
He quickly sketched a black dress with a halter neckline and tossed it across the table.
"And for God's sake," he barked, "don't look as if it's the only time in your life that you're going to get an award!"
Although I would end up failing Bill the hair that night was a bit too polished, and the makeup gave me an unnatural glow I think his advice was among the most foolproof I've ever heard. It applies to gala nights as well as to job interviews, dinners to meet your husband's boss, and even first dates.
Bill meant be yourself; be natural. Some nervousness is to be expected it can even help break the ice or win over an audience but eagerness is deadly. More than merely suggesting you spent too much time in front of the mirror, eagerness in dress or manner implies that you have a separate agenda from that of your host or spouse, that you want more than you legitimately deserve, and that you are a person of no particular finesse or subtlety.
The trouble in a celebrity-ruled culture is that we are expected not merely to show up; we are also expected to show off. Encouragement is given by any number of quarters notably the Oscars and the string of red-carpet events that urge actors to speak in boldface ("This is Lanvin," "This is Armani"), but also from reality-TV shows and Web sites devoted, like MySpace, to cataloging the obsessions of virtually anyone. There's a sense that dressing involves performance and competition rather than old-fashioned notions like appropriateness and dressing to please others. Under those circumstances, who would know the difference between "too little" and "not enough"? I was recently reading Kennedy Fraser's book Ornament and Silence, with its 1995 profile of Valentina, the Russian-born designer in New York who was famous for giving clients what she thought they should wear. She once told Kitty Carlisle Hart, "You want bows? You go to Macy's!" Clearly, Valentina had a taste for performance. ("I am theater," she once declared.) Still, there was something deeply noble and secure about her knowledge. It was like a stronghold of the mind. Today, because we recognize the power of individual style tribes, from goth girls to Gwen Stefanilike blondes, such knowledge seems less terrifying than quaint. And as for bows and other furbelows, these former enemies are now regarded by many young designers as ironic gestures and are not to be sniggered at.
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Backstage Cafe @ 158 Kallang Way
Backstage Cafe has been around for more than a year now and considering its rather secluded location and inaccessibility, I must say they have done quite well for themselves. Located in the industrial area, the cafe is known for its spacious area and high ceilings. I for one, was very impressed when I first stepped in because the space felt like a huge warehouse which was both inviting and comforting without being stifling. A great place to spend the weekend catching up on your reading or work with ease and not having to worry about the person from the next table looking over your shoulder.
For the food, I was told that Backstage Cafe had recently welcomed a new chef and so there was a whole new menu of savouries launched as well. And instead of plainly serving the usual cafe grub, Backstage Cafe actually does "serious" food such as Spring Chicken $15, Breaded Pork Chop $14, Angus Ribeye Steak $23, Pan Fry Salmon $16 among others at pocket-friendly prices that have no added GST or service charge either. Drop by for lunch between 11am-2pm and you get to enjoy a complimentary soup and ice-cream too. We had the Duck Confit $18 and both agreed that it was honestly tasty. The duck which had been marinated in red wine was roasted to a crisp and had meltingly tender succulent meat beneath. The duck leg itself was fleshy so there was sufficient to share. Served with mashed potato and a honey balsamic glaze, this dish could possibly be passed off as one from a restaurant.
The Tastemaker Store @ 22 Havelock Road
Dubbed the Mitju-inspired cafe with its clean finishes, white-washed walls, minimalistic interior and predominantly wooden furniture, the opening of The Tastemaker Store in an otherwise old and sleepy estate of Beo Crescent created some waves for being different and such a unique addition among the old-school coffee shops and food stalls.
To give the cafe some credit for trying to fit into the neighbourhood, they do serve up local delights such as breakfast sets of kaya toast and half boiled eggs, traditional yam cakes and glutinous rice which are jazzed up a little, while the usual suspects of matcha latte and Instagram-worthy cakes from Maple & Market are also on the menu.
Instead of going for the usual kaya and butter combination, we decided to be more adventurous and tried their exotic-sounding Lemon Curd with Clotted Cream $3 instead. Served between two toasted English Muffins (which somewhat reminded me of a particular fast-food joint's breakfast), the layer of lemon curd was thick and sinfully complimented by a blob of clotted cream. Interesting mix of ingredients but surprisingly, it worked really well. The curd itself was tangy, a little sourish with subtle sweet notes while the richness of the cream pulled it together. Two thumbs up! Top up $2.80 for a side of half boiled eggs and cup of coffee.
Sunday Folks @ Chip Bee Gardens
From the same people behind home-grown ice-cream brand Creamier at Lor 1 Toa Payoh, comes a new soft-serve dessert concept located in the heart of Chip Bee Gardens. And almost an entirely different concept it is indeed as compared to their predecessor, as Sunday Folks serves mainly just 6 flavours of soft serve ice-cream and a range of cakes which changes routinely. Rest assured however, their famous crisp eggy waffles are still on the menu.
The space itself is much more luxurious than the cramped few seats there were in Creamier, with this being a lot more spacious and airy, sitting roughly 40 people quite comfortably. The interior too while minimalistic, bears some attention to details with vases of flowers on each table, light brown wooden furniture complimenting the cream-coloured walls, creating an overall cosy and comfortable feel.
Whale & Cloud @ 48 Niven Road (Selegie)
A couple of us crazy girls decided to embark on our cafehopping trip at 9am on a rainy Saturday morning. Reasons being, this discreet and hidden gem of a cafe only opens on selected
weekends (word has it that it is only Saturdays now!), we heard that practically everyone was making plans to visit it that same weekend and knew that it had such a cosy space that was way too small to accommodate a crowd. So we went there bright and early to secure a table and mind you, we were still not the first to arrive when we reached.
There is nothing not to love about this place. It has a cutesy name- Whale & Cloud, the route to the cafe feels like an adventure itself, entry is only via the door along the back alley, you have to knock on it before the door is opened for you and when it does, it feels like walking into a whimsical wonderland of trinkets thrown together for that homely feeling. The red bricked wall, the vintage Cathay cinema seats, the bakes on sale for the day sitting on an oven top and the stalks of Baby's Breath adding a touch of femininity to the place- clearly the owner takes pride in the details and it shows at every corner of the cafe.
Although we were told that the owner bakes her own cakes and cookies to sell sometimes, the ones we had last week were from Kisses Bakery instead. Not complaining because I got to try their Red Velvet Slice $4 and amazing Carrot Cake $5 that was so moist and rich with that layer of thick cream cheese. I would have ordered a few more to takeaway if I was going straight home that day! Not sure if the owner will eventually decide to bake her own or cater from Kisses Bakery but either way, there will definitely be sweet treats on the table when you are there (while stocks last!).
Other items on sale at Whale & Cloud include chocolates, bags of coffee beans, cooking books and even Kinfolk which the owner has brings back from her trips overseas so almost everything here is technically "limited edition".
Bécasse Dempsey Hill
The Bécasse brand is no stranger to the Sydney dining scene. And now after creating waves there for their French-inspired European fare and glorious pastries, Bécasse has made its foray into Singapore, opening its first ever full-fledged restaurant, equipped with an open kitchen, seafood counter displaying the freshest catch, a modern luxe dining hall with a beautiful rear garden conservatory and complete with the luxurious postal code of Dempsey Hill.
Brought in by the Jones the Grocer group, Bécasse Dempsey Hill boasts of a wide and varied selection of items in their menu with notably unique dishes which you will not find else where. From Sticky Date Pancakes, to Moreton Bay Bugs, Rabbit Schnitzel and Oyster Mushroom Crepes, these are definitely not your regular run-of-the-mill courses that you find in other restaurants.
Bécasse serves Breakfast from 8am-12pm every day and till 3pm on weekends, Afternoon High Tea from 3-6pm daily and a Sharing Menu at all other times from 12pm onwards.
From the Small Plates of the Sharing Menu, we had their Anchovy Flat Bread $9 that was baked with a generous topping of chopped soft sweet onions and dressed with some thyme and lemon zest. The breads are all freshly baked on-site as well and might I add that the complimentary Sourdough served at the beginning paired with a spread of salted French butter is by far one of the best I have had in a while. We could not resist buying back a loaf to enjoy at home after that.


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Many Syrians to shun elections.
Disputing the term "election", ordinary Syrians were furious at the prospect of getting yet another rubber-stamp parliament of yes-men.
"The elections are a step in a void and will not lead to any change in the political landscape and security of Syria," Oraib Al Rantawi, director of the Amman-based Al Quds Centre for Political Studies, told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. .
"[They] have been prepared by the regime without consultation with the opposition," Al Rantawi added.
No candidate has proven to be the kind of leader to thrive on accountability, justice, and democracy, rather than nepotism nep·o·tism
Favoritism shown or patronage granted to relatives, as in business.
[French népotisme, from Italian nepotismo, from nepote, nephew, from Latin and the patron-client system that has flourished in Syria for the past 50 years.
The list of candidates was alarming, to start with. None of Syria's traditional notables, nor any of its community leaders or members of its powerful business families were running for office. No political independent or opposition figure was running from the Syria-based National Coordination Committee which is headed by veteran opposition chief Hassan Abdul Azzem.
Several Baathists, trying to show that things have changed, campaigned as political independents, like football coach Sharif Shehadeh, who appears regularly on Arab satellite TV as a political commentator on Syrian affairs.
Other candidates include Mohammad Sabah Obaid, a television actor and former President of the Actors Guild, Nizar Al Badin, a Charlie Chaplin mimic who is hired to perform at children's birthday parties.
His campaign posters were signed off by "The Charlie Chaplin Association in Syria." Grassroot Syrians were not enthusiastic about this upcoming Parliament, knowing from experience that parliamentary procedure parliamentary procedure
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Bashar Al Haraki, a member of the Syrian National Council, the principal opposition coalition, labelled the elections a "farce which can be added to the regime's masquerade".
He asserted that even those who support the regime "are not interested in [the elections] at all".
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In theory, the Baath Party's hegemony over Syrian politics was broken by the new Constitution, passed last February, which dropped the controversial Article 8, designating the Baath Party The Arab Socialist Ba'th Party (also spelled Baath or Ba'ath; Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي) was founded in 1945 as a left-wing, secular as "leader of state and society".
Under the Constitution, new independent parties were allowed to run for the new Chamber--with Islamic parties being constitutionally barred--and in theory, whatever party wins gets to name the new Speaker, and thus, create the new Cabinet.
The oldest of the new parties was formed in August 2011, meaning that none of them has the network, funds, or membership base enjoyed by the Baath Party.
As a result of the Baath Party's loud campaign, several independents dropped out, like Asma Kaftaro, a women's right activist and granddaughter of Syria's late Grand Mufti Noun 1. grand mufti - the chief mufti of a district
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In a statement last week, she said that she was withdrawing her candidacy "because this is a period where justice has been lost." Shortly afterwards, Shaaban Azouz, president of the Workers Union, also withdrew his candidacy.
When this Parliament goes into effect, the cabinet of Prime Minister Adel Safar will automatically resign and transform into a caretaker cabinet. Depending on what party wins a majority (in this case the Baath) a new cabinet will be formed by late May, headed by a Baathist as Prime Minister.
This of course, has been the plan all along, explaining why the Baathists agreed to remove Article 8 of the Constitution, arguing that they can still overtake parliament in any election -- at least for the upcoming round. This chamber, it must be noted, will be charged with Syria's upcoming presidential elections, which constitutionally ought to take place in the summer of 2014. The role of the Baath Party's Regional Command in naming a presidential candidate has been abolished by the new Charter. Instead, the parliamentary majority (again, in this case the Baath) gets to name a presidential candidate, if he/she gets approval of no less than 25 MPs. In order for the elections to take place, no less than two candidates need to be running for presidential office. In this case, if this parliament survives until 2014 -- which is highly unlikely -- then in addition to creating the new Cabinet, the Baathists will also get to name the next president of Syria.
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"300: Rise of an Empire" has launched impressively with $3.3 million in late-night showings Thursday in the U.S.
The sword-and-sandals sequel, from Warner Bros.-Legendary Entertainment, is expected to win the domestic weekend box office battle with tracking in the $40 million to $43 million range.
DreamWorks Animation's "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" has been forecast to finish the weekend with a solid $30 million.
"300: Rise of an Empire" is arriving seven years after the original "300," starring Gerard Butler, became a surprise hit with $456 million worldwide. The sequel stars Aussie actor Sullivan Stapleton (TV's "Strike Back"), Eva Green and Lena Headey.
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel "Xerxes" and directed by Noam Murro in the same style as "300," the new film centers on Greek general Themistocles (Stapleton) and his attempts to unite all of Greece against the Persian invaders with much of the battling at sea.
Zack Snyder, director of "Man of Steel" and "300," is producing along with Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari. Green stars as Artemisia and Headey reprises her role from "300" as the Spartan Queen along with Rodrigo Santoro as the Persian King, Xerxes.


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WARNING! Voter Fraud in OHIO!Submitted by TJoe1776 on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 10:17
My wife went to vote today in Marysville (Precinct: Paris 1). When she got there, she asked for a Republican ballot.
But when the ballot was loaded into the computer, it came up as a Democrat ballot! She asked for help and got a new ballot, only after one of the election volunteers said, "The same thing happened to my husband!"
This is crap. She is calling all networks now!
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Just got my daily run in fueled by "Ron Paul Revolution" Aimee Allen, Golden State "bombs" and even through in "Waiting on the world to change" by John Mayer. Ready to rock..the vote in Ohio. Ill be video taping and updating if (when) I come across anything worth noting!
THANKS TO ALL THE TRUE AMERICANS WHO HAVE OR WILL CAST THEIR VOTE ALL ACROSS THIS GREAT COUNTRY FOR THE CHAMPION OF LIBERTY! and my personal hero!
Really? You are assured this must be a conspiracy? Or is she calling all the networks to report a simple mistake?
Do you and all those commenting think that when a bird poops on your head that it must have been aiming for you?
For awarenss, such as the "switching parties" post following
Of couse mistakes happen...but we have seen times when people have been misdirected or purposefully told thinigs which are intimidating. I just saw this post (sorry about the caps) over at ronpaulforums:
From Columbus Ron Paul FB Group:
I AM GETTING REPORTS FROM FRIENDS IN OHIO THAT THEIR POLLING PLACES WILL NOT LET THEM "SWITCH PARTIES" BC THEY ARE "DISCOURAGING PARTY HOPPING". THIS IS ELECTION FRAUD!!!! OHIO IS AN OPEN PRIMARY!!!! IF YOU WANT TO SWITCH PARTIES, YOU ARE ALLOWED, REGARDLESS OF PAST AFFILIATION!! I HAVE WORKED POLLS AND VOTED IN MANY OHIO PRIMARIES--ASK FOR PARTY BALLOT AND DO NOT ANSWER ANY OTHER QUESTIONS!! -brendan.orourke
Now that is an objectionable act
Now that is an objectionable act.
Thanks for pointing out the difference between actual election fraud and "we don't know what happened"
You should contact Ben Swann
You should contact Ben Swann, he is all over this voter fraud
Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy
OHIO: Similar thing almost happened to me . . .
I learned the hard way that in Ohio you need to CLEARLY STATE UP FRONT that you want to register as a Republican and vote for one of the Republican candidates. This morning when I went into my local polling location, I told the workers that I wanted to vote, but also told them I was not a Repbublican. They asked me my party, and I had to think for a second, because when I originally registered in 2000 I registered Green, and have not changed my affiliation since then as I've only voted in general elections. I told the supervisor this, and he sort of vaguely mentioned that I would be voting on just the issues, but he did not clearly state that I wouldn't be able to vote for a Republican candidate, and handed me a card for the Diebold machine.
When I went to the machine, the only candidates I was able to vote for were Green candidates, and no Republican presidential candidates. Before submitting my ballot though, I spoke to the supervisor, who gave me another card and directed me to another Diebold machine so the first machine could "time out." I was then able to vote for Ron Paul on a Republican primary ballot.
I'll take partial responsibility for my initial mistake, as I should have been paying closer attention, but I'm not sure if the pollworkers were trying to make the process confusing for first-time Republican voters. All I know is that when I mentioned that I had registered as a Green in 2000, the supervisor made a comment about how the Green candidate was Ralph Nader. I'm sure that he put 2 and 2 together, and realized that as a former Nader supporter and a first time Republican voter, that I was probably not voting for Gingrich or Santorum. After voting for Paul, I politely said thank you to the supervisor on my way out, but he didn't exactly seem happy with me at that point.
I was lucky that I got to cast my vote, but I can see how many people might be duped.
Did you recently register republican?
It seems that the scam according to some is - when you register they look your name up on google like this...."John Doe Ron Paul". If you seem to be a Ron Paul follower they accidentally (cough) register you as something else.
It's 2012. Please get a
It's 2012. Please get a camera and record this.
Stand outside and warn people
We need to let people know as they come in.. That way it can be documented and fixed as it is happening. Good job!
Call for Patience
I implore everyone to keep their energy in check with regards to these reports. I am as concerned as anyone that the process be fair. However, jumping to anger and assumptions is not going to help. The Occam's Razor explanation is that a poll worker, who probably had a few hours training the day before, just screwed up. The problem seems to have been fixed.
In addition, I think it is reasonable to expect that across a state during an election there are irregularities. It is no surprise to hear the board of elections is recording these. Again, before assuming there is a systemic effort to skew votes lets wait to see whether there is a pattern in effect here. Otherwise, individuals acting unethically can be caught and dealt with individually.
"Video or it didn't happen" is the mantra to live by.
email@example.com let him know.
Just be sure she didn't hit the wrong button
before you sound the alarms.
it's either
incompetence or fraud. Either way, the election system is completely broken.
This is the state Ben Swann
This is the state Ben Swann lives in. Call his station in Cincinnati!!
Channel 10 to interview wife this afternoon
and will confront sec of state about her experience
Liberty will reign in America!
Vote for Liberty!
VIDEO RECORD your voting,
VIDEO RECORD your voting, please.
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Oh poop
here we go again.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine
The R3volution requires action, not observation!!!!
uh OHH they grabbed the wrong machines Those we not supposed to be used till the general election.
Yup!! Exactly right!
Yup!! Exactly right!
My God, what next! This is
My God, what next! This is crazy!
If you walk blindly through life, you will run into a lot of walls.
Record, record! Video evidence of shinanigans is always going to be more compelling than 'he said, she said'.
I hope to NOT see many threads like this today!
Not that your thread is bad, on the contrary, but I'd rather hoped the GOP would realize that we are on to them by now. I guess they just can't quit being sold out and hopelessly evil, that's why the bicameral unicamerial must go!
Drew, by the very grace of GOD through the blood of Christ Jesus.
"there shall come after us men whom shall garner great wealth using our system, and having done so shall seek to slam the door of prosperity behind them." George Washington
Can they go to the election board office to report this and to stop it immediately?????????????????
Already ...
Already called state Secretary's office. Lady there said they were logging all kinds of voter irregularities from all over Ohio. We are now calling networks and radio!
Liberty will reign in America!
Vote for Liberty!
is the establishments best weapon for hurting Ron Paul votes..


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3 Undervalued Stocks Near Ex-Dividend Dates
For investors interested in dividend income, keeping track of a company's ex-dividend date is a good idea. An ex-dividend date, also commonly referred to as the "ex-date", is the last day by which an investor must own stock in order to receive a payout.
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To start, we ran a screen for stocks that are going ex-dividend within the next week. We then looked for stocks appearing undervalued relative to their cash flows, indicated by high ratios of levered free cash flow/enterprise value.Levered free cash flow is the amount of cash that remains after deducting interest payments on outstanding debt. Enterprise value is the sum of the firm's value from all ownership sources: market cap, outstanding debt, and preferred shares. When companies have ratios of levered free cash flow/enterprise value in excess of 10%, it may indicate that the company as a whole is being undervalued. This ratio shows us the money the business can use to grow and pay dividends. The List INTERACTIVE CHART: Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research. Do you think these stocks deserve a closer look before their ex-date? Use this list as a starting point for your analysis. 1. Microsoft Corporation ( MSFT): Develops, licenses, and supports a range of software products and services for various computing devices worldwide.
- Market cap at $278.18B, most recent closing price at $33.31.
- Ex-dividend date on 5/14/13.
- Levered free cash flow at $22.32B vs. enterprise value at $220.66B (implies a LFCF/EV ratio at 10.12%).
- Market cap at $455.33M, most recent closing price at $11.16.
- Ex-dividend date on 5/14/13.
- Levered free cash flow at $35.76M vs. enterprise value at $331.91M (implies a LFCF/EV ratio at 10.77%).
- Market cap at $695.63M, most recent closing price at $26.29.
- Ex-dividend date on 5/14/13.
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Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation
The UAB Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary research and rehabilitation center that provides quality patient care, teaching and research to advance knowledge in the area of vision rehabilitation. State of the art care is provided for persons with vision impairment not correctable with glasses, contact lenses, or other treatments. Every year approximately 700 low vision patients receive rehabilitation care in the center. Experts in ophthalmology, optometry, occupational therapy, and psychology combine their knowledge to meet the special needs of each patient. Together they help persons with low vision lead more satisfying and productive lives.
The center has an active support group for children with visual impairment and has organized multiple Songs for Sight fundraisers to support the group.
Community Eye Care
The Community Eye Care (CEC) service has been created and is actively supported for the patients who have individual challenges in health and vision care. Eye clinics are held weekly at various health department locations around Jefferson County. There are also vision screenings that are scheduled at various health fairs, employee benefit fairs, schools, and other events.
The CEC has been recognized with an award by the Jefferson County Department of Health for the community health contributions.
Outreach Clinics
The School of Optometry is an active participant of many outreach clinics and programs, including public school screenings and many others. The LINCPoint's Optometry Clinic at United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham is staffed by students and faculty from the School of Optometry. Eye exams provided are designated specifically for individuals with disabilities and are quite extensive. The Clinic also provides outreach services to Jefferson County and Birmingham City School Systems' special education students. The School of Optometry has won 2010 Life Without Limits Outstanding Volunteer Award from United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham.
The UAB Eye Care Clinic provides assistance at the Alabama Institute for the Lovelady Center, Low Birth Weight/Newborn Follow-Up Clinic, Birmingham Health Care for the Homeless Coalition, Cahaba Valley Health Care, nursing homes, health departments, and other locations that benefit the community.
Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB)
The Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB) is a residential facility primarily for children with sensory impairments. Founded in 1868, AIDB is located in Talladega, Alabama about 60 miles east of Birmingham. On its campus are the Alabama School for the Blind, the Alabama School for the Deaf, The Helen Keller School of Alabama and the E. H. Gentry Facility. The UAB School of Optometry is an integral part of their health services program and has provided eye and vision care on the AIDB campus for over 38 years in a dedicated, permanent, Low Vision Clinic located within the Dowling Infirmary.
In addition, funds were obtained from the US Department of Education to support qualified students to pursue a PhD in sensory impairments. These funds support tuition and living expenses for two doctoral students in Vision Science up to five years. This training is carried out in collaboration with other universities via web based instruction in hearing and visual impairments, and deafblind research and practice.
Remote Area Medical (RAM)
The faculty members and students of the School of Optometry are actively taking part in Remote Area Medical (RAM) trips to provide vision care in the South US. The care includes basic screening, refracting, and eye exam, and if needed, glasses are provided to the patients. The members of the School of Optometry participated in multiple Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH) and other mission trips to central and South America and Africa.
Black Belt Eye Care Consortium/Adult Eye Care
The Consortium is administered under the Community Eye Care Service and is designed to provide comprehensive eye examinations in the Alabama Black Belt counties. This project started as a multi-disciplinary approach to vision and healthcare in rural Alabama in 2001 with a research grant from the CDC. When this grant ended funding was obtained thorough other sources and partnerships allowing travel to the Black Belt counties for exams and to provide free glasses. A partnership with county Department of Human Resources and other sponsoring agencies schedules appointments and serves the most needed citizens in the communities (eg: the elderly and individuals that do not have insurance or transportation). Currently 45-60 patients per month are examined in mobile clinics. This project would not continue to exist without the many varied forms of support from the VSRC. On each monthly clinic 16-18 interns are scheduled to provide exams and vision information to patients under the guidance of UAB's Clinical Associate Professors and Optometry Clinic Coordinator. We have 5-7 other volunteers as part of the monthly teams that provide intake services, fitting of glasses and patient education. We currently have an outstanding volunteer, Shirley Wilson who is the Black Belt Adult Eye Care Clinic Manager setting up and coordinating sites, collecting data and providing administrative services.
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Topical Conferences in Vision and Education
This is a program of interactive seminars that reaches over 200 persons each year in rural and urban areas through the statewide VIANET system. Topics include reading media assessment, cortical visual impairments, psycho-educational testing, functional vision, and cognitive skills assessment. Collaborating university sites are University of North Alabama, Alabama A&M, UAH, University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Talladega College, Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama State, Troy University, and the University of South Alabama.
Parent Support Groups
Two statewide parent groups are affiliated with the VSRC Education and Outreach Module. The Alabama Deafblind Multi-handicapped Association meets during the annual Helen Keller Festival with collaborative training from VSRC staff. The Alabama Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired is assisted by the graduate teacher trainees who work with the children during the annual meeting. The parent group is a collaborative effort with "Songs for Sight" ophthalmology low vision, Hilton Perkins Parent Programs, and the UAB School of Education where the graduate students provide activities at the camp while obtaining clinical hours with children with low vision.
VSRC Support for Cultural Events
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Mats Hummels (right) of Germany celebrates with Thomas Müller (centre) and Benedikt Höwedes (left) after scoring the winner against France in the Fifa World Cup quarter-final at Estadio do Maracana in Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: Marcus Brandt / EPA
"Adieu les Bleus" sang some slightly giddy German fans before this first World Cup quarter-final and though some nearby French replied, as expected, with a famous chant of their own, it seemed their players simply had no answers when the three times world champions put it up to them out on the pitch.
Mats Hummels' goal 13 minutes in was good but you'd have bet against it being the only thing between the sides at the end. Despite having had more of the ball and most of the chances during much of what followed, however, the French simply couldn't find a way of saving themselves.
Didier Deschamps insisted afterwards that there "was not a big gulf between the two sides", and to some extent he had a point. However, his side were ultimately beaten by stronger, more purposeful opponents. The difference between the teams, it seemed at the end, was that the Germans knew how to win and did it well.
"The Germans have experience, they know what it is to be at this stage of the competition; that was what separated us today," added Deschamps.
Joachim Löw didn't deny the importance of his side being filled with players who know what it is to play on a big stage. "Some of them have already won the Champions League," he said and "we have made it before to the semi-finals in the last five tournaments; it is a fantastic achievement".
However, though his side showed fierce resilience here, it is still far from certain that they are world champions in waiting.
Both managers made changes with Löw relenting and switching Philipp Lahm to right-back. More surprising and less successful, perhaps, was the inclusion of Miroslav Klose up front, but the veteran striker worked hard.
Poor finishing
Deschamps placed his faith in Karim Benzema over Olivier Giroud and just when it really mattered, the Real Madrid striker's goalscoring touch deserted him. He had chances here – plenty of them – but a combination of poor finishing and a desire to take too many touches proved costly.
Late on, he was one of the few French players who looked like he appreciated the team's plight and he did finally force Manuel Neuer into a decent reaction stop with a shot from a tight angle. But it was always going to take more than that to keep France in the tournament.
The closest the French came to scoring, though, was in the first half when Mathieu Valbuena got onto the end of Antoine Griezmann's cross from the right and saw his shot stopped well by Neuer. "It's insanely good," said his coach, "for a defence to have a goalkeeper that good behind them."


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