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2014 NAACP Image Awads: Full winners listAdd to Favorites | The 45th NAACP Image Awards
The 45th NAACP Image Awards were presented Saturday night (Feb. 22), with names like Kevin Hart, Kerry Washington, "12 Years a Slave" director Steve McQueen and Lupita Nyong'o being honored.
The Image Awards pay tribute to the best in film, TV, writing, music and literature. Take a look at the full list of winners below.
Winners are in bold.
Entertainer of the Year
Kevin Hart
Outstanding Motion Picture
"12 Years A Slave"
"Fruitvale Station"
"Lee Daniels' The Butler"
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"
"The Best Man Holiday"
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Forest Whitaker - "Lee Daniels' The Butler"
Chadwick Boseman - "42"
Chiwetel Ejiofor - "12 Years A Slave"
Idris Elba - "Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom"
Michael B. Jordan - "Fruitvale Station"
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Angela Bassett - "Black Nativity"
Halle Berry - "The Call"
Jennifer Hudson - "Winnie Mandela"
Kerry Washington - "Tyler Perry Presents Peeples"
Nicole Beharie - "42"
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
David Oyelowo - "Lee Daniels' The Butler"
Cuba Gooding Jr. - "Lee Daniels' The Butler"
Morris Chestnut - "The Best Man Holiday"
Terrence Howard - "Lee Daniels' The Butler"
Terrence Howard - "The Best Man Holiday"
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Lupita Nyong'o - "12 Years A Slave"
Alfre Woodard - "12 Years A Slave"
Naomie Harris - "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"
Octavia Spencer - "Fruitvale Station"
Oprah Winfrey - "Lee Daniels' The Butler"
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
"Fruitvale Station"
"Blue Caprice"
"Dallas Buyers Club"
"The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete"
"The Trials of Muhammad Ali"
Outstanding International Motion Picture
"War Witch"
"Call Me Kuchu"
"High Tech, Low Life"
"La Playa D.C."
"Lion Ark"
Outstanding Drama Series
"Scandal" (ABC)
"Boardwalk Empire" (HBO)
"Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)
"The Good Wife" (CBS)
"Treme" (HBO)
Outstanding Comedy Series
"Real Husbands of Hollywood" (BET)
"House of Lies" (Showtime)
"Modern Family" (ABC)
"The Game" (BET)
"The Soul Man" (TV Land)
Outstanding Talk Series
"Steve Harvey" (Syndicated)
"Oprah's Lifeclass" (OWN)
"Oprah's Next Chapter" (OWN)
"The Arsenio Hall Show" (Syndicated)
"The Queen Latifah Show" (Syndicated)
Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
Kerry Washington - "Scandal" (ABC)
Chandra Wilson - "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)
Khandi Alexander - "Treme" (HBO)
Nicole Beharie - "Sleepy Hollow" (FOX)
Regina King - "SouthLAnd" (TNT)
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
Kevin Hart - "Real Husbands of Hollywood" (BET)
Andre Braugher - "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" (FOX)
Cedric The Entertainer - "The Soul Man" (TV Land)
Don Cheadle - "House of Lies" (Showtime)
Dulé Hill - "Psych" (USA Network)
Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
Wendy Raquel Robinson - "The Game" (BET)
Aisha Tyler - "Archer" (FX Networks)
Mindy Kaling - "The Mindy Project" (FOX)
Niecy Nash - "The Soul Man" (TV Land)
Tasha Smith - "Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse" (OWN)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Morris Chestnut - "Nurse Jackie" (Showtime)
Boris Kodjoe - "Real Husbands of Hollywood" (BET)
Jerry "J B Smoove" Brooks - "Real Husbands of Hollywood" (BET)
Nick Cannon - "Real Husbands of Hollywood" (BET)
Tracy Morgan - "30 Rock" (NBC)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Brandy Norwood - "The Game" (BET)
Anna Deavere Smith - "Nurse Jackie" (Showtime)
Nia Long - "House of Lies" (Showtime)
Rashida Jones - "Parks and Recreation" (NBC)
Sofia Vergara - "Modern Family" (ABC)
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
LL Cool J - "NCIS: Los Angeles" (CBS)
James Pickens, Jr. - "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)
Michael Ealy - "Almost Human" (FOX)
Shemar Moore - "Criminal Minds" (CBS)
Wendell Pierce - "Treme" (HBO)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Joe Morton - "Scandal" (ABC)
Columbus Short - "Scandal" (ABC)
Guillermo Diaz - "Scandal" (ABC)
Jeffrey Wright - "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO)
Michael Kenneth Williams - "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Taraji P. Henson - "Person of Interest" (CBS)
Archie Panjabi - "The Good Wife" (CBS)
Debbie Allen - "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)
Diahann Carroll - "White Collar" (USA)
Vanessa L. Williams - "666 Park Avenue" (ABC)
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Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
"Being Mary Jane" (BET)
"Betty & Coretta" (Lifetime)
"CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story" (VH1)
"Luther" (BBC America)
"Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight" (HBO)
Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
Idris Elba - "Luther" (BBC America)
Chiwetel Ejiofor - "Dancing on the Edge" (Starz)
Danny Glover - "Muhammad Ali's Greatest (HBO)
Malik Yoba - "Betty & Coretta" (Lifetime)
Omari Hardwick - "Being Mary Jane" (BET)
Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
Gabrielle Union - "Being Mary Jane" (BET)
Angela Bassett - "American Horror Story: Coven" (FX Networks)
Angela Bassett - "Betty & Coretta" (Lifetime)
Gabourey Sidibe - "American Horror Story: Coven" (FX Networks)
Keke Palmer - "CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story" (VH1)
Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
Kristoff St. John - "The Young and the Restless" (CBS)
Aaron D. Spears - "The Bold and the Beautiful" (CBS)
Lawrence Saint Victor - "The Bold and the Beautiful" (CBS)
Redaric Williams - "The Young and the Restless" (CBS)
Tequan Richmond - "General Hospital" (ABC)
Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
Tatyana Ali - "The Young and the Restless" (CBS)
Angell Conwell - "The Young and the Restless" (CBS)
Christel Khalil - "The Young and the Restless" (CBS)
Karla Mosley - "The Bold and the Beautiful" (CBS)
Kristolyn Lloyd - "The Bold and the Beautiful" (CBS)
Outstanding News/ Information - (Series or Special)
"The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." (PBS)
"Justice for Trayvon" (BET)
"Mandela: Freedom's Father" (BET)
"Oprah: Where Are They Now?" (OWN)
"Unsung" (TV One)
Outstanding Reality Series
"Iyanla: Fix My Life" (OWN)
"Shark Tank" (ABC)
"Sunday Best" (BET)
"The Voice" (NBC)
"Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" (OWN)
Outstanding Variety Series or Special
"Black Girls Rock!" (BET)
"12 Years A Slave: A TV One Special with Cathy Hughes" (TV One)
"Key & Peele" (Comedy Central)
"Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth" (HBO)
"Oprah's Master Class" (OWN)
Outstanding Children's Program
"Wynton Marsalis: A YoungArts MasterClass" (HBO)
"2013 HALO Awards" (Nickelodeon/TeenNick)
"A.N.T. Farm" (Disney Channel)
"Dora the Explorer" (Nickelodeon)
"Postcards: Mandela" (The Africa Channel)
Outstanding Performance in a Youth/ Children's Program - (Series or Special)
China Anne McClain - "A.N.T. Farm" (Disney Channel)
Eric I. Keyes, III - "Live Life and Win!" (Syndicated)
Fatima Ptacek - "Dora the Explorer" (Nickelodeon)
Karan Brar - "Jessie" (Disney Channel)
Zendaya - "Shake It Up" (Disney Channel)
Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
Millicent Shelton - "The Hustle" - Rule 4080 (FUSE)
Anton Cropper - "House of Lies" - Sincerity Is an Easy Disguise in This Business (Showtime)
Eric Dean Seaton - "Mighty Med" - Saving The People Who Save People (Disney XD)
Paris Barclay - "Glee" - Diva (FOX)
Stan Lathan - "Real Husbands of Hollywood" - Rock, Paper, Stealers (BET)
Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series
Regina King - "Southland" - Off Duty (TNT)
Carl Franklin - "House of Cards" - Chapter 11 (Netflix)
Ernest Dickerson - "Treme" - Dippermouth Blues (HBO)
Millicent Shelton - "The Fosters" - Clean (ABC Family)
Rob Hardy - "Criminal Minds" - Carbon Copy (CBS)
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture - (Theatrical or Television)
Steve McQueen - "12 Years A Slave"
Jono Oliver - "Home"
Justin Chadwick - "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"
Lee Daniels - "Lee Daniels' The Butler"
Malcolm D. Lee - "The Best Man Holiday"
Outstanding Documentary - (Theatrical)
"Free Angela and All Political Prisoners"
"20 Feet from Stardom"
"Call Me Kuchu"
"Girl Rising"
"The New Black"
Outstanding Documentary - (Television)
"Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic " (Showtime)
"Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream" (HBO)
"Dark Girls" (OWN)
"Venus Vs." (ESPN)
"Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley" (HBO)
Outstanding New Artist
K. Michelle
Ariana Grande
Candice Glover
RaVaughn Brown
Outstanding Male Artist
John Legend
Bruno Mars
Charlie Wilson
Justin Timberlake
Robin Thicke
Outstanding Female Artist
Janelle Monáe
Mary J Blige
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
"Blurred Lines" - Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell
"#Beautiful" - Mariah Carey feat. Miguel
"Fire We Make" - Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell
"Hurt You" - Toni Braxton feat. Babyface
"Suit & Tie" - Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z
Outstanding Jazz Album
"The Songs of Stevie Wonder" - SFJAZZ Collective
"Summer Horns" - Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, Richard Elliot
"The Beat" - Boney James
"The Messenger" - Kevin Eubanks
"The Morning After: A Musical Love Journey" - Najee
Outstanding Gospel Album - (Traditional or Contemporary)
"Best Days Deluxe Edition" - Tamela Mann
"20 Year Celebration Volume 1 - Best For Last" - Donald Lawrence
"Azusa: The Next Generation" - Hezekiah Walker
"Good God" - Shirley Caesar
"Music From the Motion Picture Black Nativity" - Various
Outstanding World Music Album
"Natalie Cole en Español" - Natalie Cole
"Coming from a Lady" - Lady Ele
"Live At The Royal Albert Hall" - Emeli Sande
"Sing To The Moon" - Laura Mvula
"The Standards" - Gloria Estefan
Outstanding Music Video
"Q.U.E.E.N." - Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu
"Cocoa Butter" - India.Arie
"Fire We Make" - Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell
"Made To Love" - John Legend
"Treasure" - Bruno Mars
Outstanding Song
"All Of Me" - John Legend
"Blurred Lines " - Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell
"Fire We Make" - Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell
"Q.U.E.E.N." - Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu
"Treasure" - Bruno Mars
Outstanding Album
"Love, Charlie" - Charlie Wilson
"20/20 Experience - The Complete Experience" - Justin Timberlake
"Blurred Lines" - Robin Thicke
"Love In The Future" - John Legend
"The Electric Lady" - Janelle Monáe
Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction
"Anybody's Daughter" - Pamela Samuels Young
"A Deeper Love Inside: The Porscha Santiaga Story" - Sister Souljah
"Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery" - Walter Mosley
"Never Say Never: A Novel" - Victoria Christopher Murray
"Who Asked You?" - Terry McMillan
Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction
"Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery" - Deborah Willis, Barbara Krauthamer
"Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World" - Retha Powers
"High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society" - Carl Hart
"Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones" - Hill Harper
"The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Donald Yacovone
Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author
"Nine Years Under" - Sheri Booker
"Better Than Good Hair - The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy Gorgeous Natural Hair!" - Nikki Walton with Ernessa T. Carter
"Ghana Must Go" - Taiye Selasi
"On The Come Up" - Hannah Weyer
"The Returned" - Jason Mott
Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/ Autobiography
"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" - Jeanne Theoharis
"Buck: A Memoir" - MK Asante
"Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington" - Terry Teachout (Gotham Books)
"Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker" - Stanley Crouch
"Mom & Me & Mom" - Maya Angelou
Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional
"The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life" - Robin Quivers
"Do I Look Like An ATM? A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children" - Sabrina Lamb
"Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don't Have It)" - Sherri Shepherd with Billie Fitzpatrick
"Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education" - Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D.
"The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs" - Kevin D. Johnson
Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
"Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers" - Frank X Walker
"Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid" - Nikki Giovanni
"Hum" - Jamaal May
"The Cineaste: Poems" - A. Van Jordan
"The Collected Poems of Ai" - Ai
Outstanding Literary Work - Children
"Nelson Mandela" - Kadir Nelson
"I'm A Pretty Little Black Girl!" - Betty K. Bynum (Author), Claire Armstrong-Parod (Illustrator)
"Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me" - Daniel Beaty (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
"Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song" - Andrea Davis Pinkney (Author), Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
"You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!" - Jonah Winter (Author), Terry Widener (Illustrator)
Outstanding Literary Work - Youth/Teens
"Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers" - Tanya Lee Stone
"God's Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens" - Romal Tune
"Invasion" - Walter Dean Myers
"Raising the Bar" - Gabrielle Douglas
"Serafina's Promise: A Novel In Verse" - Ann E. Burg
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
Vincent Brown - "A.N.T. Farm" - influANTces
Erica Montolfo-Bura - "The Game" - In Treatment (BET)
Karin Gist - "House of Lies" - Sincerity is an Easy Disguise in This Business (Showtime)
Mara Brock Akil - "The Game" - The Blueprint I & II (BET)
Ralph Farquhar, Chris Spencer - "Real Husbands of Hollywood" - Rock, Paper, Stealers (BET)
Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series
Janine Sherman Barrois - "Criminal Minds" - Strange Fruit (CBS)
Aaron Rahsaan Thomas - "SouthLAnd" - Babel (TNT)
Chitra Elizabeth Sampath, Damian Kindler - "Sleepy Hollow" - Sanctuary (FOX)
Karin Gist - "Revenge" - Mercy (ABC)
Sara Hess - "Orange is the New Black" - Blood Donut (Netflix)
Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture - (Theatrical or Television)
John Ridley - "12 Years A Slave"
Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón - "Gravity"
Brian Helgeland - "42"
Danny Strong - "Lee Daniels' The Butler"
Ryan Coogler - "Fruitvale Station"
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Archive for March, 2010
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In this introductory analysis, we begin our exploration of how to wring every bit of value out of spend data. From basic Accounts Payable (A/P) spend analysis by supplier to more advanced topics, this is definitely the place to get started.
Implementation Considerations in Quantifying and Tracking Hard Cost Savings
"What are cost savings, really?" you may ask yourself. It's a simple question with a surprisingly complex answer. In this new research download, Pierre Mitchell walks through various ways procurement can lock down hard cost savings in all sorts of areas beyond reducing spend. Download now to learn exactly how to get procurement the credit it deserves.
Indirect Category Sourcing Savings: Fact or Fiction? Delivering Credible Benefits from Sourcing and Category Management Programmes
In this paper, co-authored by Peter Smith (Spend Matters) and Ed Cross, Executive Director, Procurement Services at Xchanging (XPS), we look at why most organisations would benefit from more focus on the area of programme and delivery management, including rigorous benefits tracking and reporting. We also look at "the Vault" a new tool developed by XPS which combines capability to support effective programme management and governance with rigourous savings tracking and verification.
NEW! Is your Supplier Selection Process a Source of Competitive Disadvantage?
Spend Matters - Free Research Download
In this Spend Matters Research Paper we describe how pre-qualification can help – or hinder – your efforts to improve procurement performance, and why it is an important part of the overall sourcing process. We explain the different purposes of the pre-qualification process, why it is important and how it can add value. We look at how to construct and manage an effective pre‑qualification programme, and the different stages involved in the process.
Market-Informed Sourcing: A game-changer for Procurement
Spend Matters - Free Research Download
The latest advanced sourcing technology brings opportunity for organisations – but only if procurement changes the current approach to Category Management, one of our most fundamental processes and methodologies.
Getting the Most From Analytics and Benchmarking
Services Procurement Innovation Compass - Free Research Download
Explores two key (and often confusing!) services procurement subjects, analytics and benchmark data. Includes actionable and practical use cases on the types of basic reporting capabilities, queries and data sets that VMS providers can support, and more advanced analytical strategies and capabilities.
A Foundational Look at P2P Technologies
P2P and Working Capital Compass - Free Research Download
Explore the market state of P2P platforms from basic, hosted e-procurement capabilities to broader deployments combining both best-of-breed and ERP technology components. Provides a short list of vendor recommendations in different arenas based on a variety of buying requirements and needs.
Trapped by Procurement BPO – Pull Out of the Mire
Expecting More From Procurement BPO Compass - Free Research Download
Explores challenges and common pitfalls to procurement BPO at all points in the decision and implementation process — from initial design to sourcing, transition and steady state operations. Includes a number of key recommendations.
Tips for Making the Promised BPO Benefits Real
Expecting More From Procurement BPO Compass - Free Research Download
There are a number of prescriptive organizational, operational and technology components that companies all too often don't fully think through before heading down the BPO path and pulling the trigger on a relationship – not to mention while evaluating their potential partner. This jointly authored Spend Matters / HfS Compass Series paper explores a number of insider tips in great detail, albeit in a fun and informal way.
The Future of Procurement Analytics and Content
Analytics & Spend Visibility Compass - Free Research Download
This paper presents three experiential scenarios that we hope will provide companies with distinct visions for what advanced procurement analytics can enable using off-the-shelf capabilities today.
Analytics and P2P: Using Spending and Payment Insights
Analytics & Spend Visibility Compass - Free Research Download
Spend Matters research suggests that the most powerful approach in defining an ideal future transactional buying and P2P state comes not from what we've expected to achieve in the past, but what we can challenge ourselves to quantify, benchmark, define and measure in the future. Put another way, rather than simply implement P2P (e.g., eProcurement, EIPP, T&E, etc.) systems and related analytical tools to pursue and measure the previously bulleted activities, organizations should first understand both what's possible from a quantitative improvement standpoint and where they are today.This Spend Matters analysis provides both tactical direction for understanding P2P savings and working capital management strategies both broadly and on a category basis as well as expert benchmarks to help companies get more from their efforts.
Redefining Sustainability: Saving Money, Reducing Risk and Going Green
Spend Matters Perspective - Free Research Download
Learn more about the direct intersection of sustainability and sourcing as well as case examples of situations where organizations have benefited from expanding their definition of sustainability to include cost savings and other benefits. We share our learnings on what business leaders are doing differently.


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Newton, IA (SportsNetwork.com) - Scott Dixon won the pole for Saturday's 300- lap IndyCar Series race, while his teammate, Tony Kanaan, qualified second to give Chip Ganassi Racing a sweep of the front starting row at Iowa Speedway.
Dixon, the three-time and defending IndyCar champion, posted a two-lap average speed of 186.256 mph, which set a new track qualifying record at this 0.875- mile, variably-banked oval. He became the ninth different driver to win a pole in 12 races this season. Dixon also earned his 21st career pole, tying Gil de Ferran for 13th on IndyCar's all-time pole winners list.
Dixon is currently eighth in the point standings and has yet to win a race this year. His best finish of the season is third, which came in March at Barber Motorsports Park. Dixon's last pole occurred in September 2013 in Baltimore.
"It's definitely a good thing to see the Ganassi cars at the top," Dixon said. "We had been stuck in sort of a rut, and it had been a while since my last pole. We're winless, so we have a bit of work to do. It definitely will be a tough one."
Dixon started on the pole at Iowa in 2007 (inaugural race) and '08 but has yet to win at this short track. No driver has won from the pole in the seven races here. Dixon's best finish at Iowa is third, which happened in 2011.
Kanaan, the 2010 race winner here, held the provisional pole with his two-lap average of 185.891 mph until Dixon made his attempt.
"The result will be tomorrow [Saturday's race], but obviously had a great qualifying effort from the team," Kanaan said. "I'm pleased with the car. The way the qualifying works, which is by luck, you just got to draw your number. Drawing an early number hurt us just a little bit. But front row, it's all right."
Helio Castroneves from Team Penske qualified third, while Ryan Briscoe from Ganassi took the fourth spot. Rookie Carlos Munoz was fifth.
Sebastien Bourdais, Charlie Kimball, Marco Andretti, Will Power and Ed Carpenter completed the top-10.
Juan Pablo Montoya qualified 19th after starting on the pole and winning last Sunday's race at Pocono Raceway.
"We made some changes to the [car] from practice, because we thought we could be just a little better," Montoya said. "Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way. I wasn't sure the car was going to come back when it stepped out on me. We have a lot of laps to make something happen, so I'm not worried."
James Hinchcliffe, who won at Iowa last year, will start 14th.
Power and Castroneves are presently tied in the championship standings. Simon Pagenaud is 44 points behind the Penske teammates, while Montoya, in his first season driving for Penske, is 55 points out of the lead.


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In the years of America's conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, "losses" have continued to mount elsewhere.
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In the brief interview he gave NBC before the Super Bowl, President Obama declared, "I've been very clear that we're going to do everything we can to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and creating an arms race, a nuclear arms race, in a volatile region." Sounds like a very laudable goal, right? Except for the fact that the nuclear arms race in the Middle East is already under way.
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Stephen Hadley, a former official in ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's office, said in Munich that Europe must spend more if it wants to be a global player. The Europeans regard the George W. Bush administration record, and now the Obama administration's, and see the disastrous results of "global playing."
The obsession of the American foreign policy community, as well as most American (and a good many international) politicians, by the myth of Iran's "existential" threat to Israel, brings the world steadily closer to another war in the Middle East.
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Once upon a time, the "red line" for Washington on Iran was the "enrichment" of uranium. Now, it's an actual nuclear weapon that could be brandished. But what if the red line is really the petrodollar line?
The Union Jack burned outside the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday as angry Iranian protesters charged the compound, smashed windows and demonstrated their displeasure with the British government's newly imposed sanctions in reaction to Iran's purported plans to develop nuclear weapons.
This information, we should note, comes from Iran's state-sponsored news agency, but officials in Tehran said Wednesday they had arrested as many as 12 CIA agents who had been working undercover to gather intelligence about the Iranian nuclear program and what the government planned to do with it.
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Despite the Iranian government's insistence to the contrary, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog group, the IAEA, remains suspicious about Tehran's intentions for the country's nuclear program, passing a resolution Friday registering its "deep and increasing concern" that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been busy courting countries from Latin America to Eastern Europe to the Middle East to the Far East to assemble a political and economic bulwark against American imperialism. (more)
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The Gordian knot by which this American project is bound is the simultaneous conflict and collaboration of the United States and nuclear Pakistan.
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Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few before him, yet boasting unvarnished virtue.
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When environmental regulators do their job properly, that can mean serious trouble for Rick Perry's largest political donors.
In recent weeks, radiation levels have spiked at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan, with recorded levels of 10,000 millisieverts per hour at one spot. This is the number reported by the reactor's discredited owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., although that number is simply as high as the Geiger counters go.
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Fred Branfman was in Laos when the U.S. began covertly dropping bombs on the country's civilian population in 1969 as part of its military operations in neighboring Vietnam. Today, he writes about the Obama administration's international counterterrorism plan, which involves 60,000 Special Operations forces worldwide. (more)
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German lawmakers voted to shut down all 17 of the country's nuclear reactors over the next 11 years and pursue a renewable energy portfolio that would account for one-third of its energy resources. (more)
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In the midst of a strong international reaction to the disaster at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the broad, historical and unquestioning acceptance of atomic power in the only nation to have been attacked by nuclear weapons is eerie. (more)
New details are emerging that indicate the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan is far worse than previously known, with three of the four affected reactors experiencing full meltdowns. Meanwhile, in the U.S., massive flooding along the Missouri River has put Nebraska's two nuclear plants, both near Omaha, on alert.
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Forget the international panic caused by Japan's damaged and still-dangerous Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Officials of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally owned electric utility corporation, have signaled their intent to build six "mini" nuclear reactors on a vacant riverside lot in eastern Tennessee. (more)
I thought we would witness the recent Fukushima reactor meltdown or footage of Americans setting their tap water on fire and at least agree to stop pursuing energy policies that we know endanger our health and safety—if not out of altruism, then out of self-interest.
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The Pentagon has decided to treat Internet-borne attacks on the United States as acts of war. The change is motivated in part by a brewing leet arms race with China and Russia. Essentially the U.S. is playing catch-up in what someone from the 1990s would call "cyberspace" and the military is buying time by creating, it hopes, a deterrent. (more)
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Just two and a half months after Japan's nuclear disaster kicked off a global rethink, Germany's governing coalition has committed to closing down all of the country's nuclear power plants by 2022. Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany will replace nuclear, which ... (more)
Former "60 Minutes" producer Barry Lando imagines what the president might have said to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
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Ukrainian authorities have made plans to store a portion of the country's nuclear waste at the site of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, near the region's major water supply. (more)
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After five weeks of struggling to avoid a total meltdown at the quake- and tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. has announced that it could be nine months before it is able to cool damaged reactors completely.
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Members of the public who are interested in entering the "Kaleidoscope of Spring" photo competition of the Hong Kong Flower Show 2013 are reminded to submit their entries by 6pm on April 16.
All entries with completed entry forms should be submitted by mail or in person during office hours to the Secretariat of Hong Kong Flower Show, 11/F, Leisure and Cultural Services Headquarters, 1-3 Pai Tau Street, Sha Tin.
Jointly organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) and Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), and sponsored by Shriro (HK) Limited, the competition is divided into three categories: Category A - Portrait of TVB Artistes and Miss Hong Kong; Category B - Flowers; and Category C - Snapshots.
Entries for Category A, comprising Open and Student Sections, should be photos taken during the shooting session for TVB artistes and Miss Hong Kong on March 14 at the flower show showground in Victoria Park. Entries for Category B and Category C should be photos taken at the showground during the show period and related to the show.
In each category, there will be a first, second, and third prize and a number of commendations. Results of the competition will be announced in June on the LCSD webpage. Winners will be notified in writing for collection of prizes.
All winning entries will be put on display at the Kowloon Park Arcade between June and July. Photos of the winning entries will also be uploaded onto the LCSD webpage at the same time.
For details of the photo competition, please refer to the leaflets and entry forms available at the LCSD's District Leisure Services Offices, or visit the LCSD webpage www.lcsd.gov.hk/green/hkfs/2013/en/photo_rs.php . For enquiries, please call 2601 8260.
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On Saturday March 7, Charles (Max) McIntosh and Lee Oldak, representing the Ross School and Sag Harbor Community Rowing respectively, attended the OLMA Sprints indoor erg Rowing Event at Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Syosset.
More than 12 Long Island High Schools attended with over 150 athletes participating. Twelve rowers would participate in each heat and the races were projected on to a large screen for all to see. Each race was 2000 meters, which takes anywhere from six to 10 minutes. Most experienced high school racers are in the 7 – 8 min range.
This was McIntosh's first race which puts him into the Novice Division and he placed third with a time of 7:31.
Most of these high school events also offer a Masters Division and Lee Oldak placed 2nd in his age group with a time of 7:41
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HANOVER, N.H. - Holy Cross sophomore Chris Smirti (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) tied the school records for most goals in a game with eight and for the most points in a game with 10 as the Holy Cross men's lacrosse team fell to Dartmouth, 21-12, on Tuesday afternoon in non-conference action. With the loss, the Crusaders fall to 3-5 overall, while the Big Green improve to 4-3 overall. Smirti tied the goals record set by John Vrionis against WPI on April 13, 1968. He is now the fourth Holy Cross player to earn 10 points. The three previous players were Ryan Dooley against Marist on May 1, 1994, Rob Callahan against Siena on April 12, 1994 and Pat Kelly against Tufts on April 16, 1985.
Junior Luke Marchand (Concord, Mass.) had two goals and two assists for four points, while sophomore Edison Parzanese (Edgartown, Mass.) recorded four assists. Senior Toby Banta (Melrose, Mass.) and freshman Colin Flood (Bay Shore, N.Y.) each scored one goal, while senior Bobby Sullivan (Longmeadow, Mass.) and freshman Conor McKenna (Summit, N.J.) each had one assist.
Dartmouth was led by Jonathan Livadas and Ari Sussman who each had four goals and two assists.
After the Big Green took a 2-0 lead, the Crusaders scored three straight goals to move out to a 3-2 lead. Marchand netted a man-up goal off an assist by Smirti, while Smirti tied the game at 2-2 with a goal off a pass by Parzanese. Flood then gave Holy Cross a 3-2 lead with his first collegiate goal. McKenna assisted on the goal. Dartmouth answered with two goals to regain the lead, but Smirti then scored two more goals to give the Crusaders a 5-4 lead. Parzanese assisted on Smirti's third goal of the game. With 42 seconds left in the first period, the Big Green tied the game at 5-5.
Dartmouth started off the second period with two goals for a 7-5 lead before Smirti scored a man-up goal off an assist by Marchand for his fourth goal of the contest. The Big Green then scored four straight goals to take an 11-6 lead into half time.
After the Big Green scored the first goal of the third period to make it a 12-6 game, Smirti answered with his fifth goal of the game with an assist by Parzanese. Dartmouth then made the score 15-7 with three straight goals. Marchand and Smirti then made it a 15-9 game to end the third period. Sullivan assisted on Smirti's goal.
The Big Green opened the fourth period with two goals to increase their lead to 17-9, while Smirti then netted his seventh goal of the game with an assist by Parzanese. Dartmouth scored four goals to increase the lead to 21-10. The Crusaders scored the last two goals of the game for the 21-12 final score. Banta scored with an assist by Smirti, while Smirti scored a man-up goal with an assist by Marchand for his eighth goal of the game.
Holy Cross sophomore goalie Connor Sweeney (South Salem, N.Y.) stopped four shots in the first half, while junior goalie Jimmy Harrison (East Williston, N.Y.) also made four saves in the second half. Michael Novosel stopped seven shots for Dartmouth in the first 52:32, while Pat Marshall made three saves in 7:28.
Holy Cross had 29 shots and picked up 31 ground balls, while Dartmouth had 44 shots and 40 ground balls. Each team went 3-7 on extra-man opportunities.
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Was (or Is) Your Work a Labor of Love?
Undoubtedly because we are in college commencement season, last weekend a philosophy professor held forth in the pages of The New York Times on the subject of the well-worn counsel to "follow your passion" or "do what you love" or "find meaning" or "self-fulfillment" in the livelihood you choose.
He is questioning whether such advice is "wisdom or malarkey" and because philosophers can't help themselves, he embellishes his otherwise thoughtful enquiry with a lot of word salad before coming down on the side of malarkey:
"Our desires should not be the ultimate arbiters of vocation," writes Gordon Marino. "Sometimes we should do what we hate, or what most needs doing, and do it as best we can."
Before arriving at his conclusion, Marino notes that others have found the standard "passion" guidance to be elitist – that whole sets of people, such as some of the students he counsels, don't have that luxury. Nor did his father (or mine either):
"My father didn't do what he loved. He labored at a job he detested so that he could send his children to college. Was he just unenlightened and mistaken to put the well-being of others above his own personal interests?
"It might be argued that his idea of self-fulfillment was taking care of his family, but again, like so many other less than fortunate ones, he hated his work but gritted his teeth and did it well."
Even when there is not the imperative to support a family, few people grow up with a passion that either cannot be ignored or can be turned into a career. I didn't have one and I didn't go to college because, in addition to another issue or two, I had no idea what I wanted to study. Not an inkling.
So, prepared with a decent high school education and barely adequate typing skills (I got better), I earned my living as an office clerk and then secretary.
In my world back then, secretary was a step up but it wasn't any more engaging than being a clerk. The work was deadly boring but no one had ever suggested to me that how I supported myself should be interesting or that I should like it.
After several years, I got lucky and spent the rest of my working life in television production and, for the last ten years, in internet development – engaging, fascinating work where I was always stretched intellectually and was learning every day. I was never bored again.
But I want to stress that it was pure luck and until that happened, it never occurred to me that work would ever be anything but tedious.
(Historically, it is important to recall that back in the 1950s when I started out, women had few career choices. If they attended college – not many of us - they could be nurses or teachers. Without college, waitress or secretary was about it so the question of following a passion or not in those days was primarily a male prerogative .)
Perhaps I'm mistaken but it is my sense that the idea of pursuing one's passion or self-fulfillment is relatively new – that it gained widespread traction in "the Sixties," a time when America's relative economic well-being and the rise of the "me generation" allowed such indulgence. Marino seems to agree:
"The faith that my likes and dislikes or our sense of meaning alone should decide what I do is part and parcel with the gospel of self-fulfillment.
And, to me, sounds hopelessly middle class.
To repeat Marino's malarkey conclusion:
"Our desires should not be the ultimate arbiters of vocation," writes Gordon Marino. "Sometimes we should do what we hate, or what most needs doing, and do it as best we can."
So here is what I'm interested in from you today: Whether you are retired or still working, did/do you follow your passion? Did/do you find self-fullment or meaning in your livelihood?
Have you eagerly gone to your job every day? Or have you detested it?
Tell us about it. And if you were giving a commencement speech this year, would you advise the graduates to do what they love? Is that idea wisdom or malarkey, do you think?
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If you are lucky, you can follow your passion but if one is to survive and be responsible for oneself, usually one must be practical.
One way or another I think luck is involved.
I tried a couple of times to leave and change my occupation and do something exciting or more fun but I always went back because of the money it paid.
I always wanted to do something "artsy" but didn't really go after it. I probably studied education because my mom said I would be a good teacher! Really!! (I was a bossy type...) I finished school, taught a bit in elementary school and then stayed home with my kids....which I loved doing!
When I went back to teaching, a job teaching adults in the county jail was available. I went for it and pretty much enjoyed all of it, even earning a Teacher of the Year award in Corrections. I always felt like I was making a difference. I am proud of my work. Somedays it was not easy to be "on" and it took much energy to do it well.
And now, I am happy to be retired and quilting.
I imagine that those for whom work is always a joy are very very rare indeed. I love my work itself, but there are always other people involved, darn it, and other people vary so much in their character:).
As an aside: My mother got her degree as an architectural engineer. No one would hire here as an architect. Only as a draftsman.
I knew from the age of 4 what I was good at. Drawing. I got A's in high school and the first 4 years of college in art. I went back to school to follow my dreams at age 45. Afterwords, tho I had three small local galleries and sold all I could make, I had to take on day jobs to pay my share of the rent. Following one's dreams isn't always practical, but I'm glad I did.
I had a job that I thought was "following my passion". I stuck with it until it became so stressful that my health was suffering.
Then I got a job that was not anywhere close to my passion, but it paid well, was moderately interesting, was with a bunch of people I didn't mind spending my whole day with, and was sufficiently unstressful that I went home each day and forgot about that job.
I have to say that became my gold standard for a "good" job: it pays OK and you can walk away from it each day and forget about it. I told my kids that finding their passion was not the be-all and end-all; if they could find work that let them live an unstressed life then they were doing well. There's plenty more to life than having the dream job or career.
Yes, in the 60s so many in my college class became teachers as our choice of jobs was limited. So I followed not ever entertaining anything else but education. Lucky me! I had two teaching jobs in foreign countries, found a passionate avocational volunteer job on various archaeological digs, and kept the life long learning interest going for many years. It all turned out OK.
I followed my passion into newspaper journalism. Eventually, I could not earn a good living that way. I was encouraged by others to become a college teacher of communication. I earned my graduate degrees in my late 40s. I now teach at a career college, where it is a privilege to teach young people who are trying to get themselves out of some heart-breaking situations. I have taught three young men with bullet wounds from urban violence, and two more who saw a close relative shot and killed in front of them as a young child. Learning to teach has been a growing experience for me. For example, newsrooms were caustic places; one was expected to be tough. Hurt feelings were not an option. Now, I have to be happy that stray words do not unintentional wound, or even stop, one of my students from trying to change. They often have not had much success, and encouragement is vital. A lot of the job is drudgery -- grading, forms to fill out (with no secretary) and bountiful paperwork. I believe I am supposed to do the work that God sets before me as well as I possible can. Early in life, I noticed that even journalism could be drudgery, and formed this philosophy: "It is called work, because it is not play nor leisure. If it were, they wouldn't have to pay us to do it." I hope to work four more years, and will do so whether full-time or as an adjunct, because I need the nest egg.
It's true that one doesn't always have the luxury of following one's passion at work. When I first got out of college, I didn't have the appropriate degree for what I wanted to do, so I just got a job. I didn't like it much, nor did I like my second one, but I stuck with them and did the best I could because I needed the money.
Eventually, however, I became very unhappy and I simply quit, vowing not to work again until I could do something I really liked. I survived on temp jobs for a year before being hired at a newspaper, which is what I wanted. I did grunt work at first, but that was fine; I knew I could work my way up and I did. The rest of my career was spent in journalism.
Of course we all have to work whether we want to or not to support ourselves, and we can't always choose what job we will have. But I think it simply makes sense to go for the thing you love if you can. Some people can do a job they hate, walk away from it and lead a great life after working hours. I am not one of them. I carry my work with me, good or bad, so I'm glad I was able to do work I really cared about.
I was never able to even get a toe, let alone a foot, into the door of my chosen profession back then. The "Old boy's network" was closed to guys from my background. Fortunately I found meaningful work in an OK job. However, to this day, I feel "unfulfilled". Now, in retirement, I have an opportunity to do something I enjoy, even if I don't get paid for it. Hooray for old age.
I, like you, wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. I went to college for two years with the idea of teaching English and history to high-school students, but I saw the direction that young people (younger than I was) were going insofar as their disrespect to authority, and I abandoned that idea, knowing that I didn't have the patience to put up with such nonsense. I became a secretary, then worked for Uncle Sam for several years, then returned to secretarial work. Then, after I remarried, I found THE LAW, and became a paralegal, which path I followed for almost 25 years until I was able to retire. I found my work as a paralegal to be the most rewarding I could have done. I had all the perks of being a lawyer without any of the pitfalls. I was prohibited from doing three things: (1) giving legal advice; (2) signing court documents; and (3) appearing in court on behalf of client. I could do anything else that a lawyer can do, without having to pay the outrageous malpractice insurance costs. I loved it, up until the last year when I recognized burn-out in myself, and retired to stay home and run my little home-based company and cook dinner five nights a week for my spouse!
I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be a writer and I assumed I should follow my passion. It was a very middle-class idea,and it came from my parents: I knew that they wanted their children to grow up to be happy and productive people. For daughters, of course, that meant getting married and having kids, but I figured I could do that with pen in hand. All the jobs I ever had involved writing, and I disliked some and loved others, but I'm still writing.
I earned my MA (in Physics.. Marie Curie was my lodestar) in 1965. The department chairman made it quite clear that no "girl" was going to earn a PhD in his department. I took the hint and entered the career phase of my life. I had mostly good jobs and a few bad ones. Every job has its share of what I call SLJ's (shitty little jobs). That is life. Inevitable for that time, each new assignment brought the challenge of proving over again that the "girl" actually knew something. Eventually that issue faded (perhaps the times had changed or perhaps I'd developed a reputation... maybe both) and I was accepted as an equal if somewhat different looking colleague. In the middle 90's, the company that I worked for since 1968 hit difficult times and they began treating their older employees (male and female) badly in the hope that they would retire. I was able to and did.
I had assignments that I disliked (testing properties of adhesives). However I had some (hologram development, a prototype video recorder) for which I would jump out of bed in the morning and run to work... eating breakfast along the way. Work in those jobs was interesting and rewarding. Testing adhesives paid the rent and gave me enough free time to look for a better job and for gentleman friends.
On the subject of pay... I discovered that at my adhesive testing job, I was paid less than the man who was my technician... because (I asked) he had a family and I did not! That did not improve my attitude and I intensified my efforts to find a different job. By the beginning of the 70's, I was working for a company that paid by performance level... not need... so that was not an issue again.
I am retired and I miss the structure that work gave my life. My dream work when I graduated college was to work in the Foreign Service. It did not happen because of foreign language problems. I should have tried again.
But I did teach in many schools from Jr.High through college, in this country and overseas. Mostly I enjoyed the work due to both colleagues and many, if not all all, of my students. So a lot of my travel bug was satisfied since many jobs entailed a good deal of travel to places I might not have gotten to otherwise.
Also I know people who have followed their passions to very lucrative and often prestigious jobs but dislike their work even tho successful.
I must say, also, that I find the pejorative use of "middle class" to be unwarranted. There is no reason to scorn those whose ambition is to get into the middle class, with all the problems it faces today. In fact I find its usage, itself, to be "elitist".
Judy, NC
I got an commercial art degree in the 60's over my parent's protests and the only job I could find was drawing airplane parts. It paid twice as much than the only other job I was offered which was doing displays at an apartment store. It was tolerable. I got a business license and did art at home selling it wherever I could but working elsewhere for $.
Later I worked in Tech Publications and I really liked that, turned out I liked to write and got to teach adults which I liked. Along the way I finished a certificate program in programming and became a Systems Analyst. Good pay, great bennies, job was mostly ok. Art still a side venture. Raised kids, one of the perks of my job was flexible time so I didn't miss much of their doings when they became school age. Both of them are/were dyslexic.
Right before my 60th birthday I went to care for my Dad who was thought to be dying at the time. I took a 90 day family leave. Two months before that I got a new manager from hell and in spite of the circumstances was glad to get away. Dad survived, I took early retirement and never went back.
I moved to be near my son and his family, and got a job in with not-for-profit running a job lab and teaching people to write resumes and use computers, I loved it. I started volunteering teaching people to read. If I could magically change anything I would have become a teacher in college, a reading specialist. But that information was not available to me then. My Dad must be laughing, he wanted me to be a teacher. However this is now and I am making art again.
I'd tell graduates to keep an eye on the things that give them satisfaction and see how they can use that information to steer their careers. As for me looking back, I see most of my route changes were chosen to support (in many ways) my family, children and spouse. Turns out the 40+ years of paid work was the avocation, and they were and are the real deal. And I'm making art again.
I graduated from high school in 1965 and went to college. I majored in elementary education because that was what was expected--teaching, nursing, secretary were about all that was available. Even though I had taken all the math (including calculus), biology, chemistry, and physics that was available in my high school, I was flat out told that I would never get into a medical school which was always my interest. I taught for several years, stayed home with my daughter for several years, and then went to pharmacy school. I worked as a hospital pharmacist for 22 years. It was a great career and I got great satisfaction from it. And you better believe I made sure my daughter knew that she could have any career she wanted and was willing to work for.
I remember so well leaving Oklahoma in the mid 60s to seek my career. I headed to NYC, Bos, and WDC discovering in each that all the jobs were secy or gal Friday.
I had no idea what I wanted to do except to avoid teaching (both parents taught) and math (Dad pushed too hard on that). By accident I learned of an unusual intern program designed to lure returned peace corps volunteers into inner-city teaching jobs and was accepted. I taught high school math (!) and loved it but after a few years (which included the year of the riots), found it too exhausting.
So off I went to grad school (because boyfriend got a faculty job) and, doctorate in hand, quickly eliminated working in the federal govt (11 months) and a big research company (3 years). My passion turned out to be working for myself which I have done for 40 years and loved (traveling to schools all over the country, talking to teachers and admins).
I feel extremely fortunate to have landed in something rewarding (education politics excepted). I'm retiring this year at 70 and looking forward to more volunteer work around senior housing and indulging my creative side if I can find it.
I suppose I was not clear enough.
My scornful use of middle class in that sentence was aimed not at those who aspire to the middle class but to the middle class assumption that everyone has the luxury to pursue self-fulfillment.
It would be fascinating to pose the same question to our grown daughters because they have faced much less discrimination related to work. (Think Sandra Day O'Conner who graduated first in her law school class at Stanford, yet was advised to apply for jobs as a legal secretary.)
My own daughter followed her passion in college and majored in philosophy. When she realized that her career options were limited and the pay would probably be quite low, she applied to a graduate program in Regional Planning. It turned out to be a great choice, and she loves the work.
As a career counselor for 30+ years, I didn't use, nor did I encourage the use of the word "passion." Passion comes and goes-- sort of like lust. I likened a good career choice to a good marriage, where there was room for growth and change; where some days were interesting and some dull; where new skills kept things interesting and so on. There is no perfect career, just as there is no perfect marriage. Careers evolve, just as yours did.
AS a retiree of two years, I apply the same advice to myself and others when picking "third box" activities.
I am extremely lucky to have "dropped into" a profession that is definitely my passion and gives me joy at all times. I am also lucky in that I didn't have to rely on my work to support my family, since my husband did quite well at that. Being a floral designer is a wonderful way to spend my time, and it benefits others as well, and makes them happy. What could be better?
In my Senior year, 1966, I decided I wanted to go to college to be an Aerial Photographer. I annouced this to my Father who was going to pay for college and his response was..."You can be a Teacher or a Secretary, that is what girls do" Also I wanted to go away to college, had it all set up....nope that was not happening either, local college only. There were days he would drive me to college. So I selected a mix of Liberal Arts and Business. I worked as a Secretary part time until I graduated and then became the most miserable and scared teacher there was. But there was redemption. I married, changed authority, became pregnant, left the teaching profession, and had some time to really decide what I wanted to do. I became a legal assistant for a public defender. Ah but that just did not sit well with me either as I felt I was on the wrong side here. God Bless my husband who has since passed. He wanted whatever I wanted. At 30 years old I applied and was accepted to the Police Academy. This felt right and this profession was what I wanted. I retired as a Sergeant....but not before I went back to college for 5 years at night while on the force and studied Human Relations. I stayed retired for about a year and a half and then found a job in HR and that is the field I am still in today at age 65. I am still engaged with people but only in a different way, I don't arrest them anymore. Would I say I enyoy my job, yes and no because at some point I would like to retire but I think I will miss it as well. I know the day is coming but I wonder for how long I will stay retired!
I came up in life thinking that work was whatever I did to pay the rent -- and life was following my passion which was participation in democratic (small "d") civic life. As a result I did a vast number of things to pay the rent in smaller or larger chunks, depending on the possibilities I encountered. Some of the odder ones were working for an answering service which had no switchboard, just 20 phone receivers; pasting plastic striping around particle board for furniture manufacture; delivering signs to small businesses via the New York subway system ... Those are just a few.
Concurrently, I followed my passion for participatory politics, electoral and advocacy. After many years and many campaigns, I got pretty good at this and ended up getting paid (poorly at first, later better) to organize the sort of work I'd been doing. At first I was queasy about this; a democratic republic needs engaged volunteer citizens, not just paid political pros. But I had to like getting paid!
I'm still in that world, though probably mostly retired since I simply can't work the 18 hour a day schedules my kind of work needs. But I'm never without calls on my more limited energies; now I can be a volunteer again!
I left school at 17 in the 1950s and spent the next 13 years as a secretary, later P.A. and I kept asking myself "where is the meaning in this". I came close when my final job was in hospital administration, as the end product of patients' well-being held some meaning. I wasn't interested in a fat salary, just enough to pay my way.
I went to university at 30 and studied to be a social worker. I worked in hospitals for the next 20 years - in child protection, geriatric medicine, orthopaedics, HIV and psychiatry.Along the way I studied in my spare time on a psychotherapy course. I experienced many shorter courses too in art and drama therapy and all this was useful in my final job in a residential rehab unit for people with alcohol and drug problems.
I can honestly say I went to work with a spring in my step and that was as much to do with my co-workers as the nature of the work - creative group work and one-to-one therapy. I just loved it.
I thought I'm miss it greatly when I retired 12 years ago, but I've never looked back. Now, I train and coordinate volunteers for a charity for older people who need help and support.
I always knew I was an artist but also realized pretty early that my very affluent and middle class parents were not going to "allow" me to go to college. They were of the keep the female in her place school. They beat and bullied and even took the money I earned by baby sitting to try to cage me in. I had to run away from home (money from a supportive teacher) & work as a waitress to make enough money to move to SF. I worked as a commercial artist for a while but since I wanted to get that college degree, ended up working in hospitals - admitting and various administrative jobs. When I graduated, it was one of our many recessions so I stayed working in hospitals. I took pride in doing difficult jobs well but can't say I enjoyed it. Now, in retirement, I can finally follow my bliss - make art and write about art. It has been a long, difficult road but I can finally get up in the morning without the sense of dread as to what the day will bring.
My experience is a lot like yours, Ronni. I had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up -- went off to college because I could and to get away from home. Studied to be a teacher, because that was one of my few options and I love language and writing.
I didn't stay long in teaching, but my writing abilities are what got me my various other jobs, all different but all involving writing.
I also think that passions change over the course of a lifetime. The secret might be to find something you love to do and find a place in your life to do it. It doesn't have to be your paid work; you just need something in your life that gives you personal job.
After years of struggling to train and be an actress, my daughter married, had a kid, and now is blissfully involved in home-schooling, learning new stuff every day along with her son.
My late former husband used to call me a dilettante because I had no one driving passion. I didn't mind taking jobs I knew nothing about because, eventually, I would find something in them to enjoy. And if I didn't, I would leave and try another.
Of course, with today's job market, that's hard to do.
Knowing what your passion is does not mean that you have to be paid to do it. "Do what you love and the money will follow" does not work most of the time.
Oops, I meant "give you JOY, not Job. (That's what happens when I type too fast.)
I thought I might like to be a nurse but had no transportation to the hospital where I would have to go back and forth in 1961. So, I became a teacher and amazingly I loved it - going between all grades from first to eighth in forty years. I have been retired five years and miss the children so much. My own millennial aged children are well educated but struggle to find jobs in their language arts fields. What can I say to them when survival is key. My husband gave up teaching when he could not support us on a small town teachers salary. Today any job is a job!
Thanks for opening up the DWYL topic today, a mantra for our times that has always sounded somewhat disingenious to me, as I see it plastered over every available surface! Writing for Slate magazine, Miya Tokumitsu wrote a stunning analysis of DWYL a few months back entitled "in the Name of Love" which pretty much ripped the lid off the falseness of our self-absorption and narcissism as applied to the workplace. Here's a brief quote from that article that sums up how I feel about DWYL:
"Do What You Love" disguises the fact that able to choose a career primarily for personal reward is a privilege, a sign (or signifier) of socioeconomic class. Even if a self-employed graphic designer had parents who can pay for art school and who can pay for a slick Brooklyn apartment, she can bestow DWYL as career advice upon those covetous of her success." - and I might add - without the knowledge that the DWYL proselytizer had considerable help. In this regard, the DWYL mantra, embodies the absence of self-sacrifice, a logical conclusion of a cultural revolution that engendered generational advancements towards narcissism and greed.
My life has been compartmentalized by various jobs and careers over many years in the workplace. After starting in the '50s with nothing but a HS degree, the jobs were a string of clerical stints until, following my then husband's college graduation and a fortuitous inheritance, I fell into what I thought was my destiny: homemaking and motherhood. That fell apart with the divorce that seemed to be SOP in those days so I then became a single working mother stupidly looking for a replacement husband, which wasn't difficult to find.
Fast forward through the mad housewife years followed by an epiphany: why didn't I get the education myself? One BA, another divorce, and an MA later, I finally entered the job market with a career---not a job---in mind and the whole DWYL thing in my heart. But prospective employers weren't buying it, since jobs were scarce and applicants many. The job I took, in a government agency, was so depressing that I read the short anecdotes of Studs Terkel's "Working" on the bus to work every morning and related completely to the central theme that work, by its nature, is brutal.
Then I was rescued by being in the right place at the right time and took over a statewide program that built into a management position with a staff of 15 or so, lots of travel and the feeling of doing something really worthwhile. Although I changed jobs once again for the opportunity to live in a better place, the skills and experience I had gained served me well in a university management position until my retirement. And since I had long since stopped looking for replacement husbands, I was quite happy and fulfilled as an independent woman in both my work and my retirement.
I don't think we should do what we hate. But I do agree we should do things that are useful, and not things that are just self-indulgent. From my own experience I'd say the issue is nowhere near black or white. We like some aspects of our job, not others. We can tolerate the bad things about work if we feel, overall, that the job is fulfilling and worthwhile.
By the way, one benefit of feminism for males is that we have been set free (at least somewhat) from the responsibility of being the sole provider for our families, which often in the past did chain men to jobs that they hated.
I ended up teaching high school English for thirty-four years. I majored in English because I love(d) to read. It was only a year before college graduation that I realized I had to find a way to earn a living, so I added education to my major.
Was it my passion? Well, I loved my work eighty per cent of the time. Would I have done it without getting paid? No. I knew I had to earn a decent living for myself. My mother had advised me for years to never put myself in a position in which I would have to depend on anyone else but myself for money. So I worked, and I did everything I could to make it interesting for me and my students. You take the work you have, and you make it work for you. And it helps to be grateful for having the work.
All I wanted to do was be a wife and mother. I am 76 and that's mostly what all girls wanted to do in middle America back then. I never had any dreams of a career. My mother swears she wanted me to major in journalism, but I don't remember her encouraging me in that direction. I think I would have been a good journalist.
I majored in education, which is what middle class women did in those days mostly. I taught for a year, was bad at it and hated it. So I got married and 20 years later got divorced. Then after a decade in commercial real estate (for which I am totally unsuited) I enrolled in the masters program for library school - it was my 60th birthday.
I can't say being a librarian was my dream, but it was better than commercial real estate. I love research and I love reading so I spent the final decade of my work life in a job that gave me an opportunity to do both with like-minded people.
I went to a speech given by Gloria Steinem in Boulder, CO back in the 80s (my commercial real estate decade). She spoke about how life breaks down into decades and it has for me. My life until now can be described by another of her insights when she said "I lived my first 50 years externally, reacting more than acting," she said. "I've been much too nice."
I think the idea falls on the side of "Malarkey". My Dad was a small town banker. I never wanted to do that. He did not go to college and I had the good fortune to do so. I wanted to be a Pharmacist, I thought, but I had a problem, which was Chemistry. I grew to find out that I was a people person and not very analysis oriented. I was a volunteer in the Army and served in Vietnam and even considered a career in the military. But guess what, I completed my military obligation and then became a banker, just like my Dad, but in a big city bank. I succeeded in management of people and found that what I really liked was helping people accomplish things that they wanted to do. I am certain that other similar positions outside of banking would have likely provided me with work that I could love. I retired from the bank and enjoyed retirement for 15 years. I returned to work about 8 months ago because my daughter in law attorney started a new law firm doing only personal bankruptcies. I find that I like helping those people with problems and spend most of my workday in conference with clients examining their alternatives and evaluating their situations. It fits right in and I like it.
I have a friend who is very smart and not very sales oriented. His Dad was a great salesman and developed a very successful auto dealership. My friend was pressured by his father to enter the auto businss which he did. I am sure that he was not in love with it but he was smart enough to see that he could not do anything else that would provide him with such a rewarding financial career.
My point in sharing these two examples is that we end up doing what we have to do to satisfy our needs even if we do not love it. Maybe, we just fall into it and decide that it will work and keep on working to achieve success. After a while in most cases you cannot afford to make a change. And so you go on!!!
From childhood I loved art and writing. I majored in advertising business to combine the two, after deciding a creative writing degree was not likely to pay the bills. Was lucky enough to find jobs with newspapers, printing companies, publishers, etc. Ended as managing editor of a medical journal, which called upon all the different skills I'd developed in the previous years. Deadlines made the work incredibly stressful at times, as did office politics, but I never lost my interest in and love of the process of publishing.
I know I was incredibly lucky to find work I loved AND that paid the bills. And I do believe that if you're doing what you love, you'll naturally be more interested and do a better job. I see no reason not to pursue work you love if you can find it and if it will pay you well enough to live as you want to live.
As for the quotations in the post, why do something you hate if you don't have to, if something you love and care about will pay the bills? And regardless of whether I loved or hated the job, it's a matter of personal pride to always do the best I can.
I have been so blessed in my life to be able to do what I love, first as an avocation, then as a vocation. I lived and breathed music at 17 as I had for ten years since my first piano lesson. I was accepted at a conservatory in a university as a voice major and piano minor. I did not plan to teach, but to perform classical music and direct vocal choirs.Then I discovered boys---and my music passion took second place to my desire to be a wife and mother. So after 2 years, I married and spent 22 years lucky enough to be supported and able to stay home and raise my 3, and help raise my 2 nephews whose mom DID have to earn a living. When the marriage ended, I really didn't have much choice--I had to support myself and music was all I knew.But I loved it even more having started by then a career as a folk music performer. I ended up doing some teaching at private schools, but mostly it was performing, and I don't remember EVER being anything but eager and excited about doing a concert, unless in the one or two times I knew ahead of time it was going to be the "gig from hell." I was able to continue on a part-time basis until I was 67, and also ran coffeehouses for 26 years out of 45, as a volunteer and out of my love for folk music and wish to support other performers. True,I struggled financially for most of those years, but I wouldn't do anything any differently--and guess what? In the last few months, at age 81, I have begun again, feeble voice and all, singing a song or two at open stages, in spite of being able to play only 1 of the 7 or so instruments I used to play. 58 years of RA had done its dirty deeds on my hands, despite numerous surgeries to be able to continue that long. I know how blessed I've been, but I guess I fall into the school of thought that making a choice for following your passion is worth a financial sacrifice. I always had all I needed, and much of what I wanted, but I learned early on to know the difference.
At 77, I'm about to retire in a few months from a job I've mostly found very rewarding. For the past 39 years I've worked for a midsize nonprofit alcohol/drug treatment agency. I started as an outreach worker and progressed to upper management positions, including brief stints as Acting CEO. About 10 years ago, the constant funding crises, disgruntled employees, long hours and stress of being "on call" 24/7 had begun to make me crazy. I helped to select my replacement and took a step back into an administrative support job, where I've been ever since. As I stated in my letter of resignation, for the most part, it's been a great ride. Coincidentally, my replacement is following the same path. She's stepping down as CEO this year but will continue in a less intense role for 2-3 more years.
I had many jobs, mostly secretarial, before joining the agency. Some of them were merely boring and others were downright unpleasant. I briefly(!) worked for a real estate broker with a nasty temper. The day he threw a glass ashtray at me was my last. However, as "career girls" of my generation know all too well, harassment of all kinds was simply the way it was. Much has changed--and it certainly needed to.
I graduated from a respected university in 1958, but since I hadn't elected to become a teacher or nurse, the only jobs available to me were secretarial. I realized some time ago that I took some wrong turns along the way when I was young, and I would do things very differently now. Yet, overall, it could have been a whole lot worse!
At 72, a cancer survivor and having survived a fall that missed severing my femoral artery by one inch, I am lucky to be alive. If I died tomorrow I would have to say that I could not have imagined a more wonderful life. I had wanted to be a teacher ever since I was in first grade. My first grade teacher's name was Miss Valentine and I thought she was beautiful and I wanted to be just like her. I graduated from college in 1963 with a B.A. Degree in Elementary Education. I taught for 14 years...took time out to have a son and a daughter with my handsome musician husband and after retiring from teaching, landed a job as a sales representative for several companies in the fashion industry. I represented lines of clothing and one jewelry company to buyers throughout parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin. I was flown to New York, California, and North Carolina by my companies to preview their lines and study their desired presentations before booking appointments for showing at Minneapolis and Chicago markets. Somehow I was in the right place at the right time and my family supported me all the way. I am facing two major surgeries in the near future, neither for cancer. They will be my tenth and eleventh surgeries. Everyday is a gift and I am thankful for every minute of every day!
Common threads from everyone - in my day, there were few choices and I was one of many children. No money for college, although I briefly tried to work and go to school. But without direction, I ended up as a secretary in the legal specialty - turned out I would never be out of work as there is great demand. But the flip side is that I swallowed many humiliations over the years as a mere "secretary" If I had to do it over (and I am trying to impress this on my grandchildren) I would realize that education is the true and only key to freedom for women. Still, it could have been worse and I am now retired and happy not to have to work for the "man."
Even in 1971, the career choices for women in the farm belt of the Midwest, the career choice for women was either nursing or teaching. My mother was adamant that I go into nursing, and even determined which college I would attend. So of course that meant that I would not even consider going into nursing, and besides – teaching fit in so well with my career as a lifeguard! (Guess it didn't occur to me that there weren't too career lifeguards out there) I have been in education for about 20 years; worked in the personnel administration in the corporate world in the 1980s, which was a wonderful education for this farmgirl! I currently serve as school librarian for several elementary schools. Faced with not-so-subtle pressure from one of my young administrators , I have made no secret of the fact that the next school year will be my last (I'll be 62 next April). I did this consciously, figuring the district would be less likely to try to force me out and have a fight on their hands, or cut the program entirely, which is also a possibility, if they knew I was on the way out. Tenure? Let me educate you folks not employed in education; this is not a life-time job guarantee, but a guarantee of due process when faced with loosing one's job, regardless of the reason. Anyway, I've noticed that I have truly become "neutered" by making so secret of my expiration date. I suppposed that was the trade-off. Was this my dream job? At a younger age, in a different position at a different school, I did love my job and felt that it was an important one; that I was making a difference by encouraging students to continue to educate themselves by reading for enjoyment, and for information, and, most importantly, to question what they read. Guess that entire statement really dates me!!
So sorry for the errors! (and it has been 30 year) School was out yesterday & I look forward to actually being able to comment in a timely fashion!
I loved my work (special education, working with children) but I did not always love my job. Sometimes I hated my job.
I wanted to be a teacher, but repeated grades, dropped out, worked 25 secretarial jobs before returning to university and earning my teaching credentials.
Teaching fit me like a glove.
So looking back, this is my list of past jobs:
Summer camp Counsellor
Short stint at nursing
Standup Comedian
Motivational Speaker
Student Teacher Supervisor
There are so many other jobs I would like to try if I get to come back for a second life.
Piano player in Bob Seger's band
Vet who makes house calls
Cold Case Detective
Song Writer
I feel good about my chosen career.
It was a long time coming.
Most of the time I detested my job as an auditor with the State of NY. I made good friends but the work was less than inspiring. As a single mother I needed the job and was glad to have it. However the NYS pension has allowed me to follow my passion in retirement. I now spend my time as a quilt artist and love every minute.
Why is the assumption made that a person who follows a "vocation", a job or field that they feel drawn to, is being self indulgent? I was drawn to the fashion industry as a young girl, went to school for it and worked in it all my working life. Indeed, in my retirement I am still working in it as a niche etailer (translation: I sell on eBay.) I love clothing and have loved working with it, although certainly I have not loved every job. Some things I did were more fulfilling than others, and some job situations more pleasant. But there have also been sacrifices made to follow this career path. I made a long commute most of my working life, which meant I saw less of my family. I made less, being in a female dominated career, than I might have made in another field. I think many who "do what they love" make similar sacrifices. I would not trade a day of my working life...although I do always wonder what it might have been like to be a librarian. I love books too.
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The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 American spy film directed by Paul Greengrass and loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same title. This film is the third in the Bourne film series, being preceded by The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004). The fourth movie, The Bourne Legacy, is scheduled for release in July 2012. Matt Damon reprises his role as Ludlum's signature character, former CIA assassin and psychogenic amnesiac Jason Bourne. The film picks up the storyline from the previous film, and continues Bourne's saga after he escapes from authorities in Moscow. The script was written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi and an uncredited Tom Stoppard. The producers were Frank Marshall, Pat Crowley and Paul L. Sandberg. The Bourne Ultimatum was produced by Universal Pictures and was released on August 3, 2007, in North America, where it grossed $69.3 million in ticket sales in its first weekend of release, making it the highest August opening in the U.S. and Matt Damon's highest grossing film with him in the lead. Although all three films have been commercially successful and critically acclaimed, The Bourne Ultimatum is the only film in the trilogy to have been nominated for any Academy Award, winning all three of its nominations for Best Film Editing, Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing at the 80th Academy Awards.
Former CIA covert operative Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) eludes Moscow police and goes into hiding after being shot by Russian FSB agent Kirill (in The Bourne Supremacy). Six weeks later, The Guardian correspondent Simon Ross (Paddy Considine) meets with a source to discuss Bourne and Operation Treadstone. The CIA begin tracking Ross when he mentions "Operation Blackbriar" on a cell phone call to his editor. Bourne travels to Paris to inform Marie's brother, Martin (Daniel Brühl), of her death and assures him he's hunting her killers. In London, Bourne meets with Ross at Waterloo Station after learning of Ross' investigation of Treadstone. When Bourne realizes that the CIA is tracking Ross, he helps him evade capture, but Ross deviates from Bourne's instructions and is killed by Blackbriar "asset" (assassin) Paz (Édgar Ramírez) on orders from Blackbriar's director Noah Vosen (David Strathairn). CIA Director Ezra Kramer (Scott Glenn) sends Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), who unsuccessfully hunted Bourne six weeks earlier, to help Vosen after he spots Bourne in a CCTV camera feed. After searching Ross' notes, they deduce that his source was Neal Daniels (Colin Stinton), CIA Station Chief in Madrid, who was formerly involved in Treadstone and is actively involved in Blackbriar. Bourne, having taken Ross' bag after he was killed, is led to Daniels' Madrid office but finds it empty. Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), a former Treadstone support technician, arrives shortly after Bourne incapacitates the CIA field team sent by Vosen and Landy to capture him. She decides to help Bourne escape another incoming CIA squad and tells him Daniels fled to Tangier. It's implied that Parsons and Bourne had a deep, possibly romantic relationship before he lost his memory. Upon arriving in Tangier, Parsons hacks into the CIA database to locate Daniels but fails, finding that Blackbriar asset Desh Bouksani (Joey Ansah) has been tasked with killing him. Vosen learns of Parsons' log-in attempt and orders Desh to kill her as well as Bourne, a decision Landy disagrees with. Afterwards, Vosen calls Kramer and confirms their intentions to use Landy as the scapegoat if things go wrong. Bourne tails Desh to Daniels but fails to prevent Daniels' death by a roadside bomb. He does, however, protect Parsons by strangling Desh after an intense hand-to-hand fight and later sends her into hiding. Upon examining the contents of Daniels' charred briefcase, Bourne finds the address of the deep cover CIA bureau in New York City where Vosen directs Blackbriar. Bourne travels to New York; Landy receives a phone call (in a repetition of the final scene of The Bourne Supremacy) which is revealed to be tapped by Vosen. Landy thanks Bourne for the tape he sent her which revealed the corrupt dealings of former Treadstone director Ward Abbott, and also provides him that his real name is David Webb and his birth date is 15 April 1971. While speaking with Landy, Bourne notices Vosen storing highly classified materials in a safe in his office. Bourne tells Landy to "get some rest" because she "looks tired", which she and Vosen both understand to mean that he's currently surveilling her. Vosen then intercepts a text message sent to Landy from Bourne advising a location for a meet and leaves his office with a team to follow her. Bourne breaks into Vosen's office and steals classified Blackbriar documents and Vosen sends Paz after him, resulting in a car chase which ends with Paz forcing Bourne's stolen police car into a concrete divider. Bourne gets out and holds Paz at gunpoint before sparing his life and continuing on to 415 East 71st Street, memories of which were triggered by the false birthday he was given by Landy. Vosen also figures out Landy's code and warns Dr. Albert Hirsch (Albert Finney), who ran Treadstone's behavior modification program, that Bourne is en route. Landy meets Bourne outside the building and admits to her change of heart; that she's helping him because she hadn't signed up for programs like Treadstone and Blackbriar. Bourne gives her the Blackbriar files before going inside and Landy faxes them to a secondary witness with Vosen arriving just as the last page is successfully sent. Bourne meets with Hirsch in an upper level room and, with Hirsch's help, finally recollects that he was not forced into the program, but in fact volunteered. He proclaims to no longer be "Jason Bourne" and flees from Vosen's pursuing team to the roof. There, Paz confronts Bourne with why he didn't kill him when he had the chance. Bourne questions Paz as to his motives and repeats the dying words of "The Professor", a Treadstone assassin he killed years earlier (in The Bourne Identity): "Look at us... Look at what they make you give." Paz lowers his gun as Bourne runs to jump off the roof, but Vosen appears and shoots at Bourne as he leaps into the East River below. Some time later, Landy is shown testifying before the Senate regarding Blackbriar. Parsons watches a television news broadcast about the exposure of Operation Blackbriar, the arrests of Hirsch and Vosen, a criminal investigation against Kramer for authorizing the operation, and that David Webb, a.k.a. Jason Bourne, was reportedly shot and fell into the East River. Upon hearing that his body has not been found after a three-day search, Parsons smiles; Bourne is shown swimming away underwater after his fall.
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