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As a young child living in West Texas, Carla Scull first learned how to crochet from her mother.
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Will Basil has been a force on the mound for West Union over the last three seasons, and will now take his game to the young and growing Blue Mountain College program.
The Eagles' senior helped lead the team to the 2009 1A State Championship as well as another playoff appearance this season. Basil is now excited about the opportunity to play collegiately for Coach Curt Fowler's squad.
"Ever since I pitched wellmy tenth grade year, I've been receiving stuff in the mail from different schools. I kept playing, but none of the offers came through until I heard from Blue Mountain," he said of the recruiting process. "They showed me the most interest, and I like the coach, so I thought that was my best option and chose to sign with them."
Basil was third on the team this season in batting average, hitting .386 with six home runs and 22 RBI. While Fowler is impressed with his offensive stats, it is Basil's pitching that made him an obvious choice to the Toppers.
"Will is an outstanding player who is only going to get better over the next couple of years," Fowler said. "He's a really good offensive player but his real value to us will be as a pitcher. He's got a good fast ball and good control of his breaking pitches. He'll be a big help to us on the mound next year."
On the mound, Basil appeared in six games, picking up five wins with a team-best .135 ERA while allowing six earned runs in 31 innings pitched. For Eagles' head coach Ashley Russell, this is the first player that has signed at a four year school.
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OXFORD, Ohio--The Miami University men's basketball team captured a gritty 55-52 win versus Bowling Green on Sunday afternoon inside Millett Hall. The win snaps a five-game losing streak by the Red and White.
Bowling Green's Jehvon Clark missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer as Miami improved to 10-15 overall and 6-8 in Mid-American Conference play. The win guarantees that Miami will finish the season with at least 10 wins and the most MAC wins since the 2010-11 season.
Sophomore guard Willie Moore and senior forward Will Felder led Miami in scoring with 11 apiece. Moore added six rebounds and three assists, while Felder added a career-high-tying four assists and three blocked shots. Moore also made the first start of his RedHawk career.
Bowling Green (11-16, 5-9 MAC) opened the game with a pair of three-pointers to take an early 6-0 lead, but Miami answered back with a strong effort, scoring the next 15 points. Helping in that span was Moore, who scored seven of his 11 points during that run.
The Falcons climbed back into the game, getting to within one at 25-24. The Red and White finished the final four minutes of the first half on a 10-1 run. Helping extend to a 35-25 halftime lead were freshmen Jaryd Eustace and Joshua Oswald. Both connected on back-to-back buckets from behind the arc late in the first half.
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Sophomore guard Geovonie McKnight added nine points and a career-high-tying seven rebounds.
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Coach Keith Allain led 16th-seeded Yale to the national championship in the NCAA tournament last spring. (Photo by Dave Arnold/New England Hockey Journal)
Yale men's hockey coach Keith Allain (Worcester, Mass.) is the first to admit things like a first-round bye and home-ice advantage help in the ECAC Hockey tournament.
Just don't expect the coach of the defending national champions to throw in the towel now that his team is likely to play on the opening weekend of the conference tournament.
"My expectation is that Yale will be the (ECAC Hockey) team playing the best in March," Allain said.
Allain's Elis played the best of any team in the nation last March, earning the university's first national title in any sport. However, they didn't do it the traditional way – by dominating in a conference tournament en route to a national title.
Last year, Yale fell short of the ECAC Hockey tournament championship game, dropping an embarrassing 5-0 loss to Union in the semifinal. Then, the Elis seemed content to let the season end in Atlantic City, N.J., dropping another 3-0 loss to Quinnipiac in the championship game.
Yale slipped into the NCAA tournament as the 16th – and lowest – seed, before catching fire against the top teams in the nation. The Elis beat three No. 1 seeds en route to the national title.
"The most important thing about the first-round bye is you get a chance to rest, recuperate and prepare in a different way than when you play on back-to-back weekends," Allain said. "A couple of years ago (2011-12), we didn't get the bye, and we played a three-game series against Brown, and a three-game series with Harvard with a couple of overtime games. By the end of those six games, we were gassed."
Yale lost to Harvard in the quarterfinal round in 2012. This year, it looks like Elis will have to go a similar route – only more successfully – if they want to return to the NCAA tournament. The Elis sit two points behind Cornell in the ever-important race for the fourth seed, the lowest that will earn a first-round bye, heading into the final weekend.
"Home ice is important," Allain said. "First-round byes are important. They all make a big difference."
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Ciampini extended his goal-scoring streak to six games with a pair of goals in Friday's cup-clinching victory over Clarkson. He scored the game-winner, a short-handed goal and finished with three points to post his eighth multiple-point game of the season. Ciampini also took over the Dutchmen goal-scoring lead with his 16th marker of the season. He now has 30 points on the season, which is second on the team. He finished with a plus-3 rating on the weekend.
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Dartmouth at Colgate, Saturday (7 p.m.)
It's a meeting of two of the hottest teams in the conference. The Raiders have 12 wins in ECAC Hockey with a 7-2-2 mark in the second half of the season. The 12 victories in league is the most since Colgate had 14 in 2005-06. During the Big Green's current four-game unbeaten streak, Charles Grant is 3-0-1 with a 1.46 goals-against average, boasts a .955 save percentage and has stopped 126-of-132 shots.
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1. Union (22-6-4; 16-3-1): The Dutchmen clinched the top seed in the ECAC Hockey tournament with a victory over St. Lawrence Saturday. Junior forward Daniel Ciampini is the hottest player in the conference with a seven-game point streak and a team-leading 16 goals.
2. Quinnipiac (21-8-5; 11-6-3): The Bobcats are in the midst of their biggest slump in two years as they have lost three in a row and four of five. If they don't pick up at least two points this weekend in a road set at St. Lawrence and Clarkson, they could conceivably be playing on the opening weekend of the ECAC Hockey tournament.
3. Colgate (16-11-5; 12-5-3): The Raiders, 9-2-3 since the turn of the calendar to 2014, clinched a first-round bye in the ECAC Hockey tournament with a sweep of Princeton and Quinnipiac last weekend. They scored nine goals in the two games.
4. Cornell (14-7-5; 10-6-4): The Big Red can wrap up a bye weekend during the opening round of the ECAC Hockey tournament by earning three points this weekend in a home set against Dartmouth and Harvard.
5. Yale (14-8-5; 9-7-4): The Elis likely assured themselves of playing on the opening weekend of the ECAC tournament with a 3-3 overtime tie against Dartmouth on Saturday. They outshot the hosts 42-27 in the frustrating draw.
6. Clarkson (17-14-3, 10-9-1): The Golden Knights clinched home ice in the opening round of the ECAC Hockey tournament last weekend and could conceivably finish as high as third in the conference. That's a long shot, though. Expect the Golden Knights to play opening weekend.
7. Dartmouth (7-16-4, 6-12-2): Look out for the Big Green in the ECAC Hockey tournament. They have gone 3-0-1 in their last four with the one tie coming against defending national champion Yale in a game the Bulldogs absolutely needed for a first-round bye.
8. RPI (13-13-6; 7-8-5): The Engineers assured themselves of playing on the opening weekend of the ECAC Hockey tournament last weekend when they picked up just one point in a home set against St. Lawrence and Clarkson. It's only fitting the Engineers will play opening weekend considering they haven't won two in a row since late January.
9. Brown (11-13-3; 8-11-1): The Bears put themselves in position for home ice in the tournament with a win Saturday against Harvard. However, it won't be easy as they face RPI and Union at home this weekend.
10. St. Lawrence (12-15-4; 6-10-4): The Saints can finish anywhere between sixth and 11th in the league standings heading into this weekend's home set against Quinnipiac and Princeton.
11. Harvard (9-14-4; 5-11-4): A sign of better times to come: 51 of Harvard's last 54 goals have been scored by either freshmen or sophomores, including the last 33.
12. Princeton (5-22-0; 4-16-0): The Tigers are limping to the finish. They were outscored 10-2 in games against Cornell and Colgate last weekend.
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- Professor of Accounting
- Monroe Shine & CO. Faculty Fellow
- Bloomington
- Ph.D., Accounting, University of Colorado, 1986
- M.S., Spanish, Indiana State University, 1978
- B.S., Spanish, Indiana University, 1971
Professional Experience
- Chair, KSB Honors Program, 1999-2004
- Financial Planning Board, Administrative Council, Trustee, Strategic Planning Committee, First United Methodist Church, 1995-present
- Visiting Professor, Tax Policy, University of Canterbury, 1996
- Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, 1986-1988
- Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, 1985-1986
- CPA, Tax Manager, Gaddy & CO, Arkansas, 1978-1981
- Billing Officer, US Air Force, 1973-1975
- Former secondary teacher of Spanish, English, and Drama, 1972-1973
Awards, Honors & Certifications
- Trustees' Teaching Award (2006, 2007)
- Selected as the Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand (1996)
- Outstanding Teacher in the Indiana University School of Business, Alpha Kappa Psi (1996)
- Selected to FACET, an Indiana University forum for those achieving excellence in their teaching careers (1995)
- School of Business Competitive Research Grants (1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007)
- Ernst & Young Faculty Fellow (1995 to 1997)
- The Indiana University President's Award for outstanding teaching, with competition from all eight campuses (1994)
- Faculty Group Leader for the American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium (1994 and 1995)
- Schulyer F. Otteson IU School of Business Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, (1993)
- Alpha Kappa Psi, 1993 Outstanding Teacher in the Indiana University School of Business
- Alpha Kappa Psi, 1993 Outstanding Teacher in the Department of Accounting
- Recipient of the Best Faculty Paper Award for the 1991 Midwest Region American Accounting Association
- Finalist, Schulyer F. Otteson Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award (1991 and 1992)
- Ernst and Young Tax Research Grant Recipient (May 1991) -- Joint project with R. Parry (Funding - $15,000)
- KPMG Peat Marwick Tax Research Grant Recipient (June-July 1991) -- Joint project with R. Parry (Funding - $30,000)
- Selected attendee to the Arthur Young Stanford Summer Tax Conference (1989)
- Arthur Young Tax Research Grant Recipient (Summer 1989) -- Joint project with M. L. Roberts (Funding - $30,000)
- Peat Marwick Faculty Fellow (1987-92)
- Mortar Board, President (1971)
Professional Interests
Taxpayer Compliance, Tax Education, Preparer-Client Relationship, Progressivity
Personal Interests
Tennis, Fine Food
Current Projects
- Framing Effects on Taxpayer Compliance
Selected Publications
- Fatemi, Darius, John Hasseldine, and Peggy A. Hite, (2008), "Resisting Framing Effects: The Importance of Prior Attitude on Estate Tax Preferences," Journal of the American Taxation Association, Spring. Read Abstract
- Hite, Peggy A. (2007), "Tax Rate Preferences, Understanding the Effects of Perceived and Actual Current Tax Assessments," IRS Research Bulletin, Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income Division: Publication 1500, pp. 23-50. Read Abstract
- Hasseldine, John, Peggy A. Hite, Simon James, and Marika Toumi (2007), "Persuasive Communications: Tax Compliance Enforcement Strategies for Sole Proprietors," Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring, pp. 171-194. Read Abstract
- Hasseldine, John and Peggy A. Hite (2003), "Tax Practitioner Credentials and the Incidence of IRS Audit Adjustments," Accounting Horizons, March, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 1-14. Read Abstract
- Hite, Peggy A. (2003), "The Effects of Attribute Framing and Political Party Affiliation on Taxpayer Preferences," eJournal of Tax Research, September, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 2-18. Read Abstract
- Hite, Peggy A. (1998), "An Examination of Factors Influencing the Financial Reporting Decisions of Small Business Owner-Managers," Behavioral Research in Accounting, Vol. 10, pp. 159-178. Read Abstract
- Christensen, A. and Peggy A. Hite (1997), "An Investigation of Factors Affecting Taxpayer Compliance Decisions on Ambiguous Issues," The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Vol. 19, April, pp. 1-18. Read Abstract
- Bradley, C., Peggy A. Hite, and M.L. Roberts (1994), "Understanding Progressivity: An Empirical Investigation of Preferences Using Abstract and Concrete Information," Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 58, Winter, pp. 165-190.
- Hite, Peggy A. and Rob Parry (1994), " A Study of the Effectiveness of Writing Exercises as Elaboration Techniques for Teaching Tax," The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Vol. 15, Spring, pp. 172-186. Read Abstract
- Hite, Peggy A. and G. McGill (1992), "An Examination of Taxpayer Preferences for Aggressive Tax Advice," National Tax Journal, Vol. 45, December, pp. 389-403. Read Abstract
- Hite, Peggy A. and M. L. Roberts (1991), "An Experimental Investigation of Taxpayer Judgments on Rate Structure in the Individual Income Tax System," Journal of the American Taxation Association, Vol. 13, Fall, pp. 115-137.
- Ayres, F., Peggy A. Hite, and B. Jackson (1989), "The Economic Benefits of Regulation: Evidence from Professional Tax Preparers," The Accounting Review, Vol. 44, April, pp. 300-312. Read Abstract
- Hite, Peggy A. (1988), "The Effect of Peer Reporting Behavior on Taxpayer Compliance," Journal of American Taxation Association, Vol. 10, Spring, pp. 47-64.
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April 2, 2007
Vol. 22 , No. 08
China: Fragile Superpower
China has sought to prove itself a responsible power as it has grown in economic and military strength. But how might China's domestic politics derail its peaceful rise? And what can the United States do to help keep China on a peaceful track?
Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright calls Susan Shirk's new book, China, Fragile Superpower: How China's Interrnal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise (2007), "the definitive book at the right time." In her book and her talk at CMC, Susan Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics to reveal how the insecurity of China's communist leaders drives their international actions in ways that have serious consequences for the future security of the United States and China's Asian neighbors.
Shirk has been studying and visiting China since 1971 and is an important player in American policy toward Asia, as well as a highly regarded China scholar. She is the director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and a professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. In addition to her new book, her writings include How China Opened its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms (1994); The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China (1992); Competitive Comrades (1982); and numerous scholarly and popular articles.
Dr. Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mongolia from 1997-2000. In that capacity, she handled the visits of President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji to the United States, the visit of President Bill Clinton to China, the aftermath of the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and the WTO negotiations with China. Before serving in the Department of State, Dr. Shirk was a member of the Defense Policy Board. She also is the founder (1993) and leader of the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, an unofficial multilateral process for discussion of regional security issues among government officials, military officers, and academic experts from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, and North Korea. She received her doctoral degree from MIT.
The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies is pleased to host Dr. Shirk's visit to CMC as a Freeman Foundation Visiting Professor in Asian Affairs.
Enoch Arden, by Alfred Lord Tennyson: A setting for narrator and piano by Richard Strauss
GAYLE BLANKENBURG, piano
HEINZ BLANKENBURG, narrator
Alfred Lord Tennyson's epic poem Enoch Arden (1864) has seen many adaptations. None is perhaps as moving as Richard Strauss' setting of this text for narrator and piano.
Richard Strauss was most famous as an opera composer, conductor, and pianist in the first half of the twentieth century. He composed a "melodrama" using the Tennyson text for his friend Ernst von Possart (a former actor), with whom he premiered the work in 1897.
The idea of combining spoken text with piano was not new. Composers such as Schubert, Liszt, and Wagner had already composed such melodramas, and similar spoken scenes over music had also occurred in opera. Strauss' setting uses a German translation of the Tennyson poem; however, this performance by the Blankenburgs will revert back to the original English text.
[It is interesting to note that Hollywood found itself drawn to this poem as well. D.W. Griffith directed a silent movie based on this story in 1911 – it was actually the first American 2-reel film, each reel lasting 17 minutes. In 1915 there was another Enoch Arden silent movie made, this one starring Alfred Pager as Enoch and Lillian Gish as Annie.]
After a performance of this work in Los Angeles several years ago, Los Angeles Times critic Daniel Cariaga wrote, "The high point of the evening was the revival of Strauss' melodrama 'Enoch Arden,' for speaker and piano, in this case Blankenburg and her husband, Heinz, an international operatic figure now retired. Together, these artists held the Southwest audience tightly in the dramatic grip of the Tennyson epic. They did so without overperforming or exaggeration but by giving the words and the musical continuity the respect of clear statement and sensitive timing. It was one of the more satisfying hours Southwest Chamber Music has given us."
Heinz Blankenburg's long and distinguished international career as a baritone has made him a major figure in the world of opera. He has performed major roles with most of the world's major opera companies, and can be heard and seen on numerous opera CDs and DVDs. In addition to his performing career, he has extensive experience as a stage director for opera companies around the world. He is a retired member of the UCLA voice faculty, and currently teaches at the Music Academy of the West.
Gayle Blankenburg is on the music faculties of Scripps College, Pomona College, and Claremont Graduate University. She has performed and recorded extensively as a solo pianist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. Mrs. Blankenburg was the pianist with Southwest Chamber Music for many years; she currently is the pianist with the Los Angeles based chamber ensemble "inauthentica."
The concert grand piano is provided courtesy of Yamaha Corporation of America.
Democracy and Religion
For me, General, prison is no unusually painful punishment. On that December night, it was not I who was condemned, but freedom; it is not I who am being held prisoner today, it is Poland.
-Adam Michnik to General Czeslaw Kiszczak
Adam Michnik is one of the greatest democratic leaders of 20th century Europe. One of the most influential dissident writers in Poland, he became a leading adviser to the Solidarity movement and one of the most powerful voices for nonviolent resistance to communism in the 1980s. After martial law was declared in December 1981, Michnik was imprisoned by the communist government for three years; but his Letters From Prison and Other Essays (1985) attest the persistence and power of his vision. Later, Michnik became a member of the Solidarity delegation that ended communist party rule in Poland, and he served as MP from 1989 to 1991.
An historian and literary critic, Michnik has authored several books on the Polish intellectual tradition, history, politics, and current affairs, and is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and Der Spiegel. He is currently editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, the largest daily in Poland.
Michnik's writings on post-communism are among the most influential not only in Poland but throughout the region and Europe. As historians and scholars have noted, his writings, like the Federalist papers or the articles and letters of Gandhi, are not only reflections on action but a form of action themselves. As a leading proponent of nonviolent transformation and tolerance in all spheres of life, Michnik was essential not only to the Polish revolution but to the shift in moral climate in all of Eastern Europe, both as an intellectual voice and as a political actor.
Born in 1946, Michnik was expelled from Warsaw University in 1968 for his role as a student activist, and subsequently sentenced to his first three years in prison. He became editor of two Warsaw underground journals, Krytyka and Zapis, before his work with Solidarity. He currently lives in Warsaw.
Adam Michnik is a visiting fellow at Loyola Marymount University in Santa Monica as well as Princeton University. His visit to CMC is sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.
Greening Global Investments
Back in 1990, when Lily was a freshman in Beckett, the movie Wall Street (1987) held a place in every loyal CMC student's VCR collection. The idea of a green fund was a fund full of greenbacks. Oil had dropped to all-time lows, and "Greed is Good" was part of the national lexicon.
Seventeen years later, Wall Street and Main Street now see green as something more than money. In the latest sign that climate change is a major economic and financial driver, KKR's potential takeover of one of the nation's largest utilities has environmentalists' fingerprints all over it. When did the environment start becoming a key underpinning business decision? When did long term factors such as melting ice-shelves become a problem for corporate America? And how does a movie about a slideshow win an Oscar?
Environmentally or socially responsible investing (SRI) is one of the key factors in developing the corporate "triple-bottom line," a philosophy that balances profit with the needs of people and the planet. With approximately $2.3 trillion of assets in the U.S. today, this investment segment has recognized that long term financial gains cannot come at the expense of the global commons. Choices made today will affect the future. For over 25 years, the Calvert Group has been a leader at the intersection of finance and the environment, developing a broad range of investment products, including the U.S.'s largest family of socially responsible mutual funds.
Lily Donge influences these factors as a senior analyst at Calvert. She focuses on issues such as the environment, climate change, human rights, and indigenous peoples' rights. She developed Calvert's environmental and social investment guidelines for the electricity and oil and gas sectors. She also leads the social analysis team responsible for Calvert's Social Index Fund®, a broad-based, rigorously constructed benchmark for measuring the performance of large, U.S.-based socially responsible companies. Lily helps guide Calvert's $5.7 billion in assets through SRI oversight on a daily basis.
Before Calvert, she worked in the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute, where she analyzed natural resource issues and international finance. She has both an M.B.A. and a M.A. in International Development Economics from Yale. Above all, she is a true "Athena", having received her B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College, after spending late nights serving at the Athenaeum. Originally from Vietnam, Lily is a French citizen, grew up in the Philippines, and has researched equities and environmental governance in Asia and the United States. Lily spends her free time rock climbing in Thailand, Colorado, France, and other locations where she hopes hurricanes or other natural forces won't happen overnight.
Lily Donge's visit to CMC is sponsored by the Roberts Environmental Center.
Dinner Theater
The Real Inspector Hound by TOM STOPPARD
DINNER 6:00 p.m., PERFORMANCE 6:45 p.m.
The sophisticated British wit of Tom Stoppard is on full display in The Real Inspector Hound (1968). During his career, Stoppard has enthralled audiences with such works as the Academy Award winning Shakespeare in Love (1998) and the Tony Award winning The Real Thing (1982). He is known for the clever wordplay in his plays and his skill with parody and satire.
The Real Inspector Hound is a delightful comedy which follows two theater critics: Birdboot, a serial philander, and the insecure and self-absorbed Moon, as they are drawn into the action of the absurdly bad murder mystery they are supposed to be reviewing. They must contend with a cast of characters including a rakish gentleman, a cantankerous Canadian, and an incompetent police detective. The plot of the show concerns the efforts of the characters to discover the murderer or murderers responsible for the appearance of corpses in the parlor of the Muldoon estate and has many exciting twists and turns, which will keep the audience on its toes and entertained. The off the wall antics of both the characters in the play within the play and the critics provide plenty of laughs for the audience. The show is not simply a ridiculous farce, but like other Stoppard works, it has some real depth and gives the audience something to think about in addition to the jokes.
The Real Inspector Hound is directed by Julian Dormady '08, with technical direction by Lauren Mikov '07. The cast consists of Amanda Sardis '09, Brad Walters '08, Silvia Lu '08, Benjamin Fidler '08, Annie Fairman '07, Ariel Boorstin '07, Colin McDonell '08, Brendan Sasso '10, and Linsday Mandel '09. This Dinner Theatre production is made possible by Under the Lights, the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, and ASCMC.
Lunch Theater
Friends and Foibles by LAUREN MIKOV '07
LUNCH 11:45 a.m., PERFORMANCE 12:00 p.m.
Friends and Foibles (2007) is a satire of college life in the style of a British Restoration Comedy. Fiona, a freshman, is excited by the new college world of parties, drinking, and hooking up. Her protective older brother Ronan, a junior, discovers her at a party and forbids her from trying to enjoy her newfound freedoms. Fiona and her roommate Sophie devise a way for Fiona to get around her brother's ultimatum. Meanwhile, a notorious senior named Sylvester's reputation for using and abusing the girls of the college is so well known that no girl will succumb to his seduction, not even the naïve freshmen. To solve this problem, he and his best friend Broden come up with a plan to make the female population of the school have a personal interest in Sylvester's well-being.
For students attempting to "find themselves" in college, and graduates who already have, Friends and Foibles provides a witty look, full of both romance and debauchery, at the struggle between the person we show to the outside world, and the person we really are.
This performance is a staged reading of Friends and Foibles, written and directed by Lauren Mikov '07 as her Senior Thesis. The cast includes Lindsay Mandel '09, Kestrel Arps '09, Emily Miles SC '07, Colin McDonell '08, Daniel Curtis '07, Court Hoang PO '10, Michelle Buch SC '07, Freya Lee '09, Brendan Sasso '10, Lauren Harrell '09, Matthew Filippo '10, Rebekah Binns '10, Elise Viebeck '10, Musab Siddiqui '10, Rebecca Offensend '08, and Brian Davidson '08.
Embracing Our Common Humanity
BRIDGES AUDITORIUM, 4:30 p.m.
William Jefferson Clinton, born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, and shortly thereafter entered politics in Arkansas.
In 1975 he married Hillary Rodham, a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. In 1980, Chelsea, their only child, was born. Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978. After losing a bid for a second term, he regained the office four years later, and served until his 1992 bid for the Presidency of the United States.
Elected President of the United States in 1992, and again in 1996, President Clinton was the first Democratic president to be awarded a second term in six decades. His key initiatives of building community, creating opportunity, and demanding responsibility moved the nation from record deficits to record surpluses; lowered levels of unemployment, poverty, and crime; and created an unprecedented 22 million jobs and the highest homeownership and college enrollment rates in history.
After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. The Clinton Presidential Center, located in Little Rock, Arkansas, is comprised of the Library, the archives, Clinton Foundation offices, and the Clinton School of Public Service.
Following the 2002 Barcelona AIDS Conference, President Clinton began the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) to assist countries in implementing large-scale, integrated, care, treatment, and prevention programs that will turn the tide on the epidemic. In September 2005, he hosted the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), a non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges. President Clinton also works through the Clinton Foundation Urban Enterprise Initiative to help small businesses acquire the tools they need to compete in the ever-changing urban marketplace, and with the American Heart Association on the Alliance for a Healthier Generation to combat childhood obesity.
Following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, President Clinton and former President Bush led a nation-wide fundraising effort and established the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund to assist survivors in the rebuilding effort. This campaign was the second collaboration for the former presidents, the first being their work on relief and recovery following the Indian Ocean tsunami. President Clinton also served as Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, as appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2005.
William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, will speak at Bridges Auditorium on Sunday, April 15, as a guest of Claremont McKenna College. Doors at Bridges open at 3 p.m. The presentation will begin at 4:30 p.m.
The event is free but tickets are required. Due to strong interest from the Claremont McKenna community, lecture seating is limited to CMC students, faculty, staff, and invited guests.
The public is invited to hear Mr. Clinton's lecture in a live remote broadcast at two locations on campus: Mary Pickford Auditorium and The Forum. Tickets are not required for the remote broadcasts, however, seating is on a first-come basis. Doors for the remote locations will open at 3:30 p.m.
For a World-Literature in French
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville. He was educated in France and later worked for a French company for a decade while publishing his poetry. He published his first novel in 1998, Bleu-Blanc-Rouge (Blue-White-Red), the story of Massala-Massala, a drop-out who dreams of going to Paris, which won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire.
In 2001 Alain Mabanckou was a writer in residence in the United States, and in 2002 he accepted a position in Francophone literature at the University of Michigan. Recently in 2006 he moved west to UCLA to take a visiting professorship in the department of francophone studies and comparative literature.
His 2005 novel Verre Cassé (Broken Glass) was translated into several languages and in the same year was awarded the Prix des Cinq continents de la Francophonie, the Prix Ouest-France /Etonnants Voyageurs, and the Prix RFO du livre. His 2006 novel Mémoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine), a fable loosely based on the African legend that each human being has a double, received the Prix RENAUDOT, the equivalent of the National Book Award, as well as the Prix Aliénor d'Aquitaine and Le Prix de la rentrée littéraire française 2006.
Alain Mabanckou is clearly one of the most prolific contemporary writers in French. Three of his novels are to be published in English this year: Bleu Blanc Rouge (1998), African Psycho (2003), and Verre Cassé (2005). Another book, on James Baldwin, is to be published later this year.
Darfur: So Far from Here
LUNCH 11:45 a.m., LECTURE 12:15 p.m.
For over three years the Darfur region of Sudan has been embroiled in a deadly conflict. At least 400,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes. Today, there are more than 3.5 million men, women, and children that are completely reliant on international aid for survival.
Professor Jerry Fowler, Podlich Distinguished Visitor, will address the unfolding crisis in Darfur. His lecture will focus on the roots of the crisis in Darfur, the U.S. and international response to date, and the prospects for the future. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights.
Jerry Fowler is the William F. Podlich Distinguished Visitor and Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights. He is on leave from his position as the founding staff director of the Committee on Conscience, which guides the genocide prevention efforts of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Previously he was legislative counsel for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, where he worked on a broad array of human rights issues, including international justice and refugee and asylum policy.
His publications include the essay, "Out of that Darkness: Preventing Genocide in the 21st Century," in the 2nd edition of Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views (Routledge, 2004). He also directed the short film, A Good Man in Hell: General Romeo Dallaire and the Rwanda Genocide (2003). Professor Fowler has taught at George Mason University Law School and George Washington University Law School, and has been a Scholar-in-Residence at American University's summer Human Rights Institute. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Princeton University. Fowler was stationed in Germany as an officer in the United States Army from 1983 to 1987 and served as Special Litigation Counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1993 to 1995.
The State of the Transgender Movement
In a society largely polarized in its opinion of alternative lifestyles, Andy Marra does not merely protest prejudice and discrimination; instead, she goes to the root of the problem and educates people about what they may not understand. Among her many projects, Andy serves as the Asian-Pacific Islander Media Manager for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a group dedicated to promoting fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. In addition, Marra is also the Board Co-Chair of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). As one of the youngest board members of a LGBT national organization, she oversees the only national organization in the country dedicated to advancing transgender equality.
Commentary by Marra appeared in media outlets including Asian Week, The Advocate, The Associated Press, MTV, NPR, and Access Hollywood. Currently, she is writing an academic journal piece on sustainable development with a focus on NGOs, and an edited book of essays on Korean Reunification.
Marra is also a past recipient of the Gay and Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) National Pathfinder Award; The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) Creating Change Award; The Colin Higgins Foundation Courage Award; and was named one of the next LGBT leaders in the Movement by The Advocate.
Andy currently resides in New York with Kennedy, her American Pit Bull Terrier that she rescued from the streets of Queens.
Political Change under Yeltsin and Putin
11:45 a.m. LUNCH, 12:15 p.m. LECTURE; PARENTS DINING ROOM
The Russian government under President Vladimir Putin is widely criticized abroad for putting constraints on the free media, limiting the non-profit sector, manipulating the legal system, eliminating institutional checks on the presidency, and increasing state control over the commanding heights of the economy. Journalists, civic groups, political opponents and alternative parties who fail to support President Putin are undermined, harassed or silenced by many means as they try to express their opinions. Yet Putin is extremely popular at home, with approval ratings consistently over 70% - an enviable level for a politician anywhere. Why does President Putin remain so popular when his government has run roughshod over Russia's newfound freedoms? How widely enjoyed is Russia's recent economic growth and is economic growth the primary reason for Putin's continued legitimacy? In order to answer these questions, Hilary Appel will examine Putin's popularity in the context of Russia's broader political and economic transformation since the fall of the Soviet Communist regime.
Independent Producing and the Art of Staying Busy in Hollywood
As part of the continuing lecture series Life after CMC, the Athenaeum is pleased to welcome back Lance Lanfear '99. Lance started Fearless Productions nine years ago, while attending CMC. As a student at CMC he produced numerous recruitment, instructional, and professional videos for almost every department and organization associated with The Claremont Colleges. Lance then went on to receive the "Best Directing" acknowledgement from his professor and peers at the summer New Film Academy program at UCLA. After majoring in both film studies and psychology (a key element in his success as a producer), Lance jumped at every position and challenge offered him. In the last six years, Lance has been an assistant director on nearly 40 productions.
However, Lance's real passion is still within the independent film world, where "projects and scripts can stay honest and pure." Joining Jake's Closet (2007) was a rare opportunity to help produce a movie that deserved to be made. Among his other productions, The Vinyl Battle (2002) and Counter Productive (2006) have proven to be two more homages to Lance's love for the indie filmmaking industry. The writers and directors for both of these full shorts will also be on hand to answer questions at the end of the evening.
Seen through the eyes of a six-year-old, the film Jake's Closet follows Jake as he investigates the terrifying noises coming from his closet every night. The true story of the film is what he discovers in the process of looking for the monster — a reality that will haunt him forever. There will be a screening of Jake's Closet in Pickford Auditorium on Wednesday, April 18th at 9:00 PM. All are welcome and there is no charge.
Torture and the War on Terror
In the national debate over such issues as the use of torture in the war on terror, an interesting alliance has formed between traditional human rights advocates and retired senior military officers. These unusual allies share a common concern that violations of international standards on the treatment of captives are a serious mistake. Invited by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Elisa Massimino, Washington Director for Human Rights First, and retired Rear Admiral John D. Hutson, former top lawyer for the U.S. Navy, will present their perspectives on torture and the war on terror.
An expert on a range of international human rights issues, Massimino is a national authority on U.S. compliance with human rights law. She testifies frequently before Congress, writes extensively for legal and popular publications, and serves as Human Rights First spokesperson to the media. She has taught at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and George Washington University and has degrees from Trinity University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Michigan.
As the Navy's Judge Advocate General from 1997 to 2000, Admiral Hutson supervised the JAG Corps -- 1,600 officers, enlisted and civilian personnel in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marines -- and advised the Secretary of the Navy, the Commandant of the Marines, and the senior leadership of the Navy in all legal matters related to military justice. He has degrees from Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota, and Georgetown University.
Do Minimum Wages Help the Poor?
David Neumark is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Fellow of IZA. He has held prior positions at the Public Policy Institute of California, Michigan State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Federal Reserve Board. He is a labor economist with broad public policy interests including minimum wages and living wages, youth labor markets, the Earned Income Tax Credit, discrimination and affirmative action, and the economics of aging. He has published most extensively on minimum wages, most recently a monograph entitled "Minimum Wages and Employment," which surveys the more than 100 studies of the employment effects of minimum wages written in the last decade and a half, covering the United States, other industrialized countries, as well as the developing economies.
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Marine life refers to the collection of organisms that inhabit Earth's oceans. The World Ocean blankets more than 70 percent of the planet's surface, comprises 99 percent of its living space and hosts almost half of its species. Thus oceans are collectively Earth's largest habitat. According to the first Census of Marine Life, the total number of known marine species is around 250,000.
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I have kept this to myself for about a year, mostly because the semantics necessary to describe this are beyond me...but here it goes.
From movie 2 onwards, there is an atrocious paradox. This is because of the trip to 2015, and the subsequent events that was caused by this. Basically, we have the following events happen in sequence:
-Doc and Marty go to 2015 where Future Marty was in a car accident.
-Old Biff goes to 1955, Doc and Marty follow and get the Almanac back,
-Lightning sends the Delorean to the old West, Marty follows.
-Marty overcomes his "chicken" phobia in the West and goes back to 1985
-Marty with new experiences does not get in a car accident.
This means that the 2015 from movie 2 is erased and Future Marty is no longer a loser. This means Marty Jr. will grow up better and there is no need for Doc to bring Marty to 2015. Biff never sees the almanac/time machine and he doesn't go to 1955 to meet his younger self. This means Marty doesn't go to the Wild West and never gets over his "chicken phobia", but this means that the 2015 with loser Future Marty DOES exist...
So, this is a complete paradox, as bad as there being a Carl Sagan in FCB's timeline.


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Catalan language developed by the 9th century from Vulgar Latin on both sides of the eastern part of Pyrenees mountains (counties of Roussillon, Empúries, Besalú, Cerdanya, Urgell, Pallars and Ribagorça). It shares features with Gallo-Romance and Ibero-Romance, and started as a dialect of Occitan (or of Western Romance).
As a consequence of the Catalan conquests from Al-Andalus to the south and to the west, it spread to all present-day Catalonia, Balearic Islands and most of Valencia.
During the 15th century, during the Valencian Golden Age, the Catalan language reached its highest cultural splendor, which was not matched again until La Renaixença, 4 centuries later.
After the Treaty of the Pyrenees, a royal decree by Louis XIV of France on April 2, 1700 prohibited the use of Catalan language in present-day Northern Catalonia in all official documents under the threat of being invalidated. Since then, Catalan language has lacked official status in that Catalan-speaking region in France.
On December 10, 2007, the General Council of Pyrénées-Orientales officially recognized Catalan language as own one of the department, and searches to further promote it in public life and education.
After Nueva Planta Decrees, administrative use and education in Catalan was also banned in the territories of the Spanish Kingdom. It was not until Renaixença period, that Catalan language started to recover.
In Francoist Spain (1939–1975), the use of Spanish over Catalan was promoted, and public use of Catalan was discouraged by official propaganda campaigns. The use of Catalan in government-run institutions and in public events was banned. During later stages of the Francoist regime, certain folkloric or religious celebrations in Catalan were resumed and tolerated. Use of Catalan in the mass media was forbidden, but was permitted from the early 1950s in the theatre. Publishing in Catalan continued throughout the dictatorship. There was no official prohibition of speaking Catalan in public or in commerce, but all advertising and signage had to be in Spanish alone, as did all written communication in business.
Following the death of Franco in 1975 and the restoration of democracy, the use of Catalan increased partly because of new affirmative action and subsidy policies and the Catalan language is now used in politics, education and the Catalan media, including the newspapers Avui ("Today"), El Punt ("The Point") and El Periódico de Catalunya (sharing content with its Spanish release and with El Periòdic d'Andorra, printed in Andorra); and the television channels of Televisió de Catalunya (TVC): TV3, the main channel, and Canal 33/K3 (culture and cartoons channel) as well as a 24-hour news channel 3/24 and the TV series channel 300; there are also many local channels available in region in Catalan, such as BTV and Td8 (in the metropolitan area of Barcelona), Canal L'Hospitalet (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat), Canal Terrassa (Terrassa), Televisió de Sant Cugat TDSC (Sant Cugat del Vallès), Televisió de Mataró TVM (Mataró).
The ascription of Catalan to the Occitano-Romance branch of Gallo-Romance languages is not shared by all linguists. According to the Ethnologue, its specific classification is as follows:
Catalan is very similar to Occitan. (See also Occitan language: Differences between Occitan and Catalan and Gallo-Romance languages.) Catalan shares several similarities with other Romance languages as well.
Catalan is spoken in:
All these areas are referred to by some as "Catalan Countries" (Catalan: Països Catalans), a denomination based on cultural affinity and common heritage, that have also had a subsequent political interpretation but no official status.
|Can speak
|Balearic Islands
|Valencian Community (as Valencian)
Figures relate to all self-declared speakers, not just native speakers.
|Can speak
|Alghero (Sardinia, Italy)
|Northern Catalonia (France)
|Franja de Ponent
|Carxe (Murcia)
|No data
|No data
|Rest of World
|No data
Figures relate to all self-declared speakers, not just native speakers.
|Can speak
|Catalan-speaking territories (Europe)
|Rest of World
|No data
Notes: The number of people who understand Catalan includes those who can speak it.
Sources: Catalonia: Statistic data of 2001 census, from Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, Generalitat de Catalunya Land of Valencia: Statistical data from 2001 census, from Institut Valencià d'Estadística, Generalitat Valenciana Balearic Islands: Statistical data from 2001 census, from Institut Balear d'Estadística, Govern de les Illes Balears Northern Catalonia: Media Pluriel Survey commissioned by Prefecture of Languedoc-Roussillon Region done in October 1997 and published in January 1998 Andorra: Sociolinguistic data from Andorran Government, 1999. Aragon: Sociolinguistic data from Euromosaic Alguer: Sociolinguistic data from Euromosaic Rest of World: Estimate for 1999 by the Federació d'Entitats Catalanes outside the Catalan Countries.
There is no precise linguistic border between one dialect and another because there is nearly always a transition zone of some size between pairs of geographically separated dialects (except for dialects specific to an island). The main difference between the two blocks is their treatment of unstressed vowels, in addition to a few other features:
In addition, neither dialect is completely homogeneous: any dialect can be subdivided into several sub-dialects. Catalan can be subdivided into two major dialect blocks and those blocks into individual dialects:
Western Catalan
Eastern Catalan
There are two main standards for Catalan language, one regulated by Institut d'Estudis Catalans, general standard, with Pompeu Fabra's orthography as axis, keeping features from Central Catalan, and the other regulated by Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, restricted scale standard, focused on Valencian standardization on the basis of Normes de Castelló, that is, Pompeu Fabra's orthography but more adapted to Western Catalan pronunciation and features of Valencian dialects.
IEC's Standard, apart from the basis of Central Catalan features, takes also other dialects features considering as standard. Despite this, the most notable difference between both standards is some tonic "e" accentuation, for instance: francès, anglès (IEC) - francés, anglés (AVL) (French, English), cafè (IEC) - café (AVL) (coffee), conèixer (IEC) - conéixer (to know), comprèn (IEC) - comprén (AVL) (he understands). This is because of the different pronunciation of some tonic "e", especially tonic Ē (long "e") and Ǐ (breves "i") from Latin, in both Catalan blocks ([ɛ] in Eastern Catalan and [e] in Western Catalan). Despite this, AVL's standard keeps grave accent "è", without pronouncing this "e" [ɛ], in some words like: què (what), València, èter (ether), sèsam (sesame), sèrie (series) and època (age).
There are also some other divergences like the tl use by AVL in some words instead of tll like in ametla/ametlla (almond), espatla/espatlla (back) or butla/butlla (bull), the use of elided demonstratives (este this, eixe that (near)) in the same level as reinforced ones (aquest, aqueix) or the use of many verbal forms common in Valencian, and some of these common in the rest of Western Catalan too, like subjunctive mood or inchoative conjugation in -ix- at the same level as -eix- or the priority use of -e morpheme in 1st person singular in present indicative (-ar verbs): "jo compre" (I buy) instead of "jo compro".
In Balearic Islands, IEC's standard is used but adapted into Balearic dialect by University of the Balearic Islands's philological section, Govern de les Illes Balears's consultative organ. In this way, for instance, IEC says it is correct writing "cantam" as much as "cantem" (we sing) and University says that priority form in Balearic Islands must be "cantam" in all fields. Another feature of Balearic standard is the non-ending in 1st person singular in present indicative: "jo cant" (I sing), "jo tem" (I fear), jo "dorm" (I sleep).
In Alghero, IEC has adapted his standard into Alguerese dialect. In this standard one can find, among other features: the lo article instead of el, special possessive pronouns and determinants la mia (my), lo sou/la sua (his/her), lo tou/la tua (your), and so on, the use of -v- in the imperfect tense in all conjugations: cantava, creixiva, llegiva; the use of many archaic words, usual words in Alguerese: manco instead of menys (less), calqui u instead of algú (someone), qual/quala instead of quin/quina (which), and so on; and the adaptation of weak pronouns.
There is a roughly continuous set of dialects covering the various regional forms of Catalan/Valencian, with no break at the border between Catalonia and the Valencian Community (i.e. villages contiguous to both sides of the border speak exactly the same), and the various forms of Catalan language, among them, the Valencian ones, are basically mutually intelligible. This is so even though in some cases only educated speakers may have real linguistic competence, like it is the case when the most divergent Eastern dialects such as the one from Alghero or from the Balearics are confronted to Valencian or other Western varieties.
All in all, differences do exist: Valencian accent is recognisable, there are differences in subjunctive terminations, and there are a large number of words unique to Valencian varieties; but those differences are not any wider than among North-Western Catalan and Eastern Catalan. In fact, Northern Valencian (spoken in the Castelló province and Matarranya valley, a strip of Aragon) is more similar to the Catalan of the lower Ebro basin (spoken in southern half of Tarragona province and another strip of Aragon) than to apitxat Valencian (spoken in the area of L'Horta, in the province of Valencia).
The Valencian language has often been seen as a dialect of Catalan due to their basic mutual intelligibility. However, the issue of language versus dialect is as much a matter of politics as of linguistics. By the criterion of mutual intelligibility, Valencian and other varieties of Catalan are dialects of a single language; but according to this criterion, Galician and Portuguese are also dialects of a single language, as are Norwegian and Danish, a contentious conclusion in either case.
What gets called a language is defined in part by mutual comprehensibility, but also by political and cultural factors. In this case, the perceived status of Valencian as a "dialect of Catalan" has historically had important political implications including Catalan nationalism and the idea of the Països Catalans or "Catalan countries."
Catalonia and the Valencian Community are two different Autonomous Communities of Spain, but were the feeling of a common Catalan identity to become strong enough, some believe, or fear, that there could develop into a political will for a single large Catalan region which might wish to become independent of Spain. The language(s) debate is part of this. Some Valencians who advocate distinguishing two Catalan languages do so to resist a perceived Catalan nationalist agenda aimed at absorbing Valencian language and identity, and incorporating Valencians into what they feel is a "constructed" nationality centered on Barcelona. This idea is promoted by organisations opposed to a union between Catalonia and Valencia.
Similarly to Serbian and Croatian, the issue of whether Catalan and Valencian constitute different languages or merely dialects has been the subject of political agitation several times since the end of the Franco era. The latest political controversy regarding Valencian occurred on the occasion of the drafting of the European Constitution in 2004. The Spanish government supplied the EU with translations of the text into Basque, Galician, Catalan, and Valencian, but the Catalan and Valencian versions were identical. While professing the unity of the Catalan language, the Spanish government claimed to be constitutionally bound to produce distinct Catalan and Valencian versions because the Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community refers to the language as "Valencian". In practice, the Catalan, Valencian, and Balearic versions of the EU constitution are identical: the government of Catalonia accepted the Valencian translation without any changes under the premise that the Valencian standard is accepted by the norms set forth by the IEC.
Valencian and Central Catalan have fewer differences from one another than do American English and British English, although this is partially because the English phonetic system is much more complex than that of Catalan. The differences between British English and American English can roughly be compared to those between Valencian and Catalan. For example, British English and American English have a different vowel system, as do Valencian and Catalan. In Valencia, as in America, the language is generally rhotic (that is, final "r" is pronounced); in Catalonia, as in England, it generally is not. There are pairs of words similar to "truck"/"lorry" or "cookie"/"biscuit", for example "mirall"/"espill" (meaning "mirror") or "rentar"/"llavar" ("to wash"). There are different spellings for the same word à la "color"/"colour", for example "seva"/"seua" ("his"); although in this case the pronunciation is not the same, it is a common feature in dialectal and not-so-old Catalan to turn intervocalic "u" into "v", so "seva" and "seua" are phonologically identical (/'seua/), although phonetically different ([ˈsevə] vs. [ˈsewa].) There are differences in conjugation just like "lit"/"lighted", for example, "acomplix"/"acompleix" ("accomplishes"). There are verbal forms which are not frequently used in either dialect - "aní"/"vaig anar", just like "I advise that he come"/"I advise him to come". In short, much like English, Catalan is a multi-centric language - there exist two standards, one for Oriental Catalan, regulated by the IEC, which is centered around Central Catalan (with slight variations to include Balearic verb flexion) and one for Occidental, regulated by the AVL, centered around Valencian.
The AVL accepts the conventions set forth in the Normes de Castelló as the normative spelling, shared with the IEC that allows for the diverse idiosyncrasies of the different language dialects and varieties. As the normative spelling, these conventions are used in education, and most contemporary Valencian writers make use of them. Nonetheless, a small minority mainly of those who advocate for the recognition of Valencian as a separate language, use in a non-normative manner an alternative spelling convention known as the Normes del Puig.
The grammar of Catalan mostly follows the general pattern of Western Romance languages.
Substantives and adjectives are not declined by case, as in Classical Latin. There are two grammatical genders—masculine and feminine.
Grammatical articles originally developed from Latin demonstratives. The actual form of the article depends on the gender and the number and the first sounds of the word and can be combined with prepositions that precede them. A unique feature of Catalan is a definite article that may precede personal names in certain contexts. Its basic form is en and it can change according to its environment (the word "en" has also other lexical meanings). One of the common usages of this article is in the word can, a combination of "casa" shortened to ca (house) and en, which means "The house of." For example "Can Sergi" means "Sergi's house".
Verbs are conjugated according to tense and mood similarly to other Western Romance languages—present and simple preterite are based on Classical Latin, future is formed from infinitive followed by the present form of the auxiliary verb haver (written together and not considered periphrastic), and periphrastic tenses are formed from the conjugated auxiliary verbs haver and ésser followed by the past participle. A unique tense in Catalan is the periphrastic simple preterite, which is formed from the conjugated present form of the verb anar (to go) which is followed by the infinitive of the verb. Thus, "Jo vaig parlar" (or more simply "Vaig parlar") means "I spoke."
Nominative pronouns are often omitted, as the person can be usually derived from the conjugated verb. The Catalan rules for combination of the object pronoun clitics with verbs, articles and other pronouns are significantly more complex than in most other Romance languages; see Weak pronouns in Catalan.
For example, the full name of the architect Antoni Gaudí is Antoni Gaudí i Cornet after his parents: Francesc Gaudí i Serra and Antònia Cornet i Bertran.
Some useful Valencian phrases (pronounced as in the standard Valencian):
Catalan courses are offered at a number of universities in Europe and North America.
Voluntaris per la Llengua is a Catalan language learning programme.


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Part of the ASPCA Animal Relocation Initiative, the Carroll Petrie Foundation Dog Rescue Project helps cash-strapped municipal shelters like Abilene's relocate dogs to off-site adoption programs, rescues or private shelters by providing municipal shelters $50 per dog placed. That money can be spent on vet care for an animal, transportation of the pet, or on anything else that will help move the animal out of the shelter.
For Diamond, this program was a godsend. Abilene was able to use the Petrie subsidy to move her to The Pawed Squad rescue. After a desperately needed grooming, Diamond revealed herself to be an adorable little Bichon Frise! She also came out of her shell and showed she would make a wonderful companion.
Soon after rescuing Diamond, the Pawed Squad was able to place her in a loving home that cherishes her every day. Her deafness was never an issue for these awesome adopters.
Congratulations to Abilene, The Pawed Squad rescue and Diamond's happy family. We're so glad the Carroll Petrie Foundation Dog Rescue Project is changing lives like hers and thousands of others.
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I love stories like this. No animal should have to live the way she lived. Being an animal rescuer myself, I am delighted to see she found some very loving humans! Great job ASPCA - and all the others responsible for Diamonds happiness.
I love all animals. Do cats or other small animals ever need rides? My car is small (Miata) but I can transport 3 of kitty carriers at a time. If u need transportation 24/7 any distance I'd like to help. God bless u all for caring for God's most innocent creatures; the animals. Aillion thanks to y'all!!
I live in Central CT and would be available to transport animals. Let me know how I can help.
So happy sweet Diamond has found her new beginning in her new forever home. She reminds me of my first dog friend from four decades ago. I'm sure Markie has spent many years playing with the other beloved pets at the Rainbow Bridge.
I would donate my time to give animals care in my area.
I live in central Maine. Would be honored to give an animal a ride any time
What a gorgeous baby...Thank You ASPCA for changing pets AND peoples lives EVERY DAY!
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best things that i do for the animals . I have four
animals , 3 dogs and 1 cat all rescues .
I live in mid NJ, across the river from Philly. I would be very happy to help with transporting rescue animals. How do I get started?
Lets not forget our hoofed companions!! I would dearly love to become involved in rescue/fostering of abused/neglected/unwanted equines.


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