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Feb. 2, 2005
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- University of New Mexico head women's soccer coach Kit Vela announced today the signing of three student-athletes from the Southern California area to National Letters of Intent. The UNM women's soccer team welcomes forward Hannah Hand, midfielder Kaci Paetz and defender Krista Peterson to a 2005 roster that features 19 returning letterwinners.
Two of the three recruits carry existing connections to the New Mexico women's soccer program as Kaci Paetz is the younger sister of current Lobo sophomore defender Eryn Paetz. Kaci Paetz and Peterson also played on the same club team in Southern California. Hand may not have any immediate ties to the UNM program, but said in an interview with her school paper that she liked the environment at UNM and said that the team is a good fit for her.
"Although it's a small class, they are probably some of the most decorated players in Southern California, between their accomplishments in high school and ODP (Olympic Development Programs)," said Vela.
Hannah Hand Forward 5-9 Los Angeles, Calif. (Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy)
HIGH SCHOOL: A four-year letterwinner and senior captain at forward at the Sacred Heart Academy...first team all-state honoree as a junior...started in all 25 games and led the team with 21 goals...also had 11 assists as a junior and was named team's Most Valuable Player...was the team's leading scorer as a sophomore with 14 goals and 11 assists...all-area team honoree her freshman, sophomore and junior years...was selected to participate in the ODP spring pool as a freshman and sophomore...member of the Long Beach Infinity Soccer Club...is currently competing at the U-17 Premier level with the Infinity...also lettered in track...holds school records in 400m and 4x400m relay...four-time all-academic team honoree.
Quoting Kit Vela
"Hannah is an outstanding forward who will complement the team's aggressive attack up front. We are looking for her to help with our missed scoring opportunities we saw in 2004."
Kaci Paetz Midfielder 5-6 San Pedro, Calif. (San Pedro HS)
HIGH SCHOOL: Letterwinner at midfielder at San Pedro High School...led the Pirates in scoring in 2003, helping the team capture the Marine League Championship title that year...named to the 2003 all-league first team...earned MVP honors as a freshman...member of the Irvine Strikers Soccer Club, under head coach Don Ebert...played a defensive midfielder position for the Strikers, helping the team capture the OCU Tournament Championship title and advance to the Nomads College Showcase Final Four in 2003...invited to participate in the 2004 Premier Development Program...member of the Marine Biology Magnate Program and the academic honor roll.
Quoting Kit Vela
"Kaci will strengthen our midfield as the defensive midfielder we've been lacking in the past. She will bring experience to the team having been recently named to the U-17 national pool."
Krista Peterson Defender 5-6 Fountain Valley, Calif. (Fountain Valley HS)
HIGH SCHOOL: A three-year letterwinner at outside midfielder at Fountain Valley High School...helped lead the team to first Sunset League Championship in school history as a sophomore...led the team in scoring her junior year...two-time all-Sunset League honoree...a two-time Coaches Award...also lettered in swimming and basketball...two-time Sunset League finalist in the 50 free (swimming)...five-year member of the Irvine Strikers Soccer Club, under head coach Don Ebert...played marking back for the Strikers, helping the team become two-time National State Cup Finalist...named Outstanding Senior Athlete and was named Athlete of the Month in January of 2005...earned the 2002 PTSA Student Achievement Award-Foreign Language...2004 Student Leader for Every 15 Minutes program.
Quoting Kit Vela
"Krista will bring tremendous depth to our back line. She is very athletic and tenacious at the outside back. She will complement our current system and players."


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Woman gets jail for fraud chargesOctober 11,2012Woman gets jail
on fraud counts
A Hubbardton woman was sentenced to 21 months in jail for defrauding Vermont corporations, banks and residents of more than $70,000 so she could buy horses.
Ruth Tucker, 66, formerly of Randolph Center, was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 15, 2010 for bank fraud and then again in October of that year for wire fraud.
According to court records, in 2009, Tucker got loans totaling $55,000 from the Community Capital of Vermont and the Addison County Development Corporation so she could re-establish her small business and to hire Vermonters.
Instead, she used the funds to buy registered Morgan horses and to pay for their training and board as well as other horse-related expenses, according to federal prosecutors in Vermont.
The U.S. attorneys office said Tucker also defrauded Peoples United Bank (formerly the Chittenden Bank) and KeyBank by writing large checks on accounts with insufficient balances, to the tune of $18,000, also for horse-related items.
And she wrote bad checks to local individuals and businesses who also suffered losses, prosecutors said.
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Founded in 1740, Enfield, North Carolina is the oldest
town in Halifax County. In 1896, the opening of the Enfield Tobacco Market
brought a glimmer of prosperity to this small town of 700 people (today 2300+).
As the tobacco market grew, new businesses were established along with the Bank
of Enfield, the oldest bank in Halifax County. Enfield is easily accessible 5
miles from I-95, Exit 154 (view local mapDirections to Enfield, NC).
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The Final Secret: Gossip Girl Series Finale
Hello Buzznet,
I can't believe it's been 5 years since The CW teen drama, Gossip Girl premiered! For 6 seasons, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively), Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgely) and Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) have schemed their way through the elitist crowd and ruled the Upper East Side of New York City but tonight, that all comes to an end.
With every secret, came a price and you couldn't help but feel for these characters at some point. How do you resume a normal life when someone is constantly lurking and watching your every move? For Serena (Lively), this seemed to be her hardest struggle. She even tried to re-invent herself several times to no avail. What will happen to the infamous van der Woodsen? Will she give up scandal for privacy?
The burning questions seem to be: what will happen with Chuck and Blair and are they ever going to get married? Will Serena and Dan finally stay together? What will happen to Nate and The Spectator? Will Rufus and Lily reunite? What will be Lily's reaction to Bart Bass's tragic death? And most of all....who IS Gossip Girl?
Tune in tonight at 8PM for the 2 hour series finale of Gossip Girl on The CW. I hear we're in for a few juicy secrets and surprises! Also, I hear the lovely Taylor Momsen took a break from being a rock n' roll goddess to reprise her role as Jenny Humphrey for the finale!
Until then, your secrets are safe with me...maybe ;)
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TABLE 5–1 Exposure Sources Relevant to Aircraft Cabin Air Quality
Exposures Related to Normal Operations of the Aircraft
Exposures Related to Incidents
Carbon dioxide
Relative humidity
Off-gassing from interior material and cleaning agents
Personal-care products
Infectious or inflammatory agents
Ambient airport air
Cabin pressure/partial pressure of oxygen
Jet exhaust fumes (runway)
Carbon monoxide
Smoke, fumes, mists, vapors from leaks of engine oils, hydraulic fluids, and deicing fluids and their combustion products
As discussed in Chapter 2, at cruise altitude, the aircraft cabin is typically pressurized to the equivalent of an altitude of 6,000–8,000 ft (1,829–2,438 m), with a corresponding barometric pressure of 609–564 mm Hg and an ambient PO2 of 128–118 mm Hg (see Table 5–2). As specified in the Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) 25.841, aircraft "cabin pressure altitude" must not exceed 8,000 ft at the aircraft's highest operating altitude (14 CFR 1986).
The reduced pressure in the cabin environment results in several physiological changes in the passengers and crew. Specifically, the reduced ambient air pressure will cause the gas in body cavities (e.g., middle ear, sinuses, and gastrointestinal tract) to expand in volume by as much as 25%. In the lungs, the lower PO2 in ambient air will reduce the oxygen (O2) pressure in the alveoli from the normal value of 105 mm Hg. That decrease will lower systemic arterial PO2. In healthy people, the arterial PO2 is usually about 5–10 mm Hg lower than the alveolar PO2 (see Table 5–2). It is the arterial PO2 that determines the amount of O2 that is carried by the hemoglobin in the blood, expressed as the percent hemoglobin saturation.


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1. jack - noun
· a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"
Synonym(s): doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit
Hypernym(s): small_indefinite_quantity, small_indefinite_amount
2. jack - noun
· a man who serves as a sailor
Synonym(s): mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old_salt, seafarer, gob, sea_dog
3. jack - noun
· someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Synonym(s): laborer, manual_laborer, labourer
Hypernym(s): workman, workingman, working_man, working_person
4. jack - noun
· immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
Hypernym(s): edible_fruit
5. jack - noun
· a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
Hypernym(s): ball
6. jack - noun
· an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
Hypernym(s): electrical_device
7. jack - noun
· game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
Synonym(s): jackstones
Hypernym(s): game_equipment
8. jack - noun
· small flag indicating a ship's nationality
Hypernym(s): flag
9. jack - noun
· one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
Synonym(s): knave
Hypernym(s): face_card, picture_card, court_card
10. jack - noun
· tool for exerting pressure or lifting
Hypernym(s): tool
11. jack - noun
· any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
Hypernym(s): carangid_fish, carangid
12. jack - noun
· male donkey
Synonym(s): jackass
Hypernym(s): ass
13. jack - verb
· lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire"
Synonym(s): jack_up
Hypernym(s): raise, lift, elevate, get_up, bring_up
14. jack - verb
· hunt with a jacklight
Synonym(s): jacklight
Hypernym(s): hunt, run, hunt_down, track_down
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Social Sciences: Anthropology, 2012-13
At Haverford we teach social and cultural anthropology. Social and cultural anthropologists study the family, gender and social organization; modes of subsistence and exchange practices; politics and power; ritual and religion; and all forms of expressive behavior. Once anthropologists primarily studied small-scale indigenous communities (so-called "primitive societies") and rural populations, but now we also study state societies, urban groups and globalization. Our method of research is called ethnography. The ethnographic method requires us to live in the communities that we study for extended periods of time. Through immersion in the lifeways of a particular people and place—observation of local practices, interviews and informal conversations, participation in local events—social and cultural anthropologists build a framework for analysis that integrates an insider's and an outsider's perspective. Two core principles inform our ethnography. First, we are holistic. We examine the context in which a particular incident or practice is occurring, as a way of developing a fuller understanding of that specific practice, and of that place, those people and how things work there. Second, we are comparative. Anthropologists want to know what is unique and distinctive about the subject we are studying and what generally tends to be true about that sort of thing. Therefore we compare social and cultural phenomena in one place to those in others and examine the particular features of a specific people and place, in light of general theories about humans and human societies.
FacultyEdmund and Margiana Stinnes Professor of Global Studies and Professor of Anthropology Laurie Kain Hart, chair
Assistant Professor Nikhil Anand (on leave 2012-2013)
Professor Maris Boyd Gillette
Associate Professor Zolani Ngwane (on leave Fall 2012)
Assistant Professor Jesse Weaver Shipley (on leave 2012-2013)
Visiting Assistant Professor James L. Watson (spring 2013)
Visiting Assistant Professor Rubie S. Watson (spring 2013)
Visiting Assistant Professor Tapoja Chaudhury
Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Zainab Saleh
John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences, emeritus Wyatt MacGaffey
Affiliated Faculty at Bryn Mawr College:
Professor of Growth and Structure of Cities Gary McDonogh
Visiting Assistant Professor of Growth and Structure of Cities Jun Zhang
Faculty of the Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College
Major Requirements
Students are required to take a total of 11 courses in the major, including six required courses within the department. Individual programs require the advisor's approval.
- ANTH 103a, Introduction to Anthropology, preferably in the first or second year
- ANTH 303a or b, History and Theory of Anthropology, before the senior year
- One course focused on an ethnographic area, such as ANTH 241, Mediterranean; ANTH 245, Africa; ANTH 244, China; or a similar course at Haverford or on another campus
- One other 200 level course in this department.
- One 300 level course in this department, before the senior year.
- A two-credit, intensive Senior Thesis Seminar, during the fall and spring semesters of the senior year (Anthropology 450/451).
All major programs require the approval of the major advisor. Students may count no more than one biological anthropology or archaeology course for the Haverford major. They may take the remaining courses in the Haverford department, in an anthropology department on another campus or in approved related fields. Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the use of e-mail, Blackboard, Tripod and the storage server.
Minor Requirements
The minor in anthropology consists of six courses, including: ANTH 103a, Introduction to Anthropology; ANTH 303, History and Theory of Anthropology; an ethnographic area course; and three other courses at the 200 or 300 level, including one course at the 300 level. A minimum of three courses must be taken in the Haverford department. All minor programs require approval of the minor advisor. Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the use of e-mail, Blackboard, Tripod and the storage server.
Requirements for Honors
Honors are decided at the discretion of the faculty in the department of Anthropology. They are based upon overall excellence in the major. "Excellence" is defined by three criteria: outstanding work in the senior thesis (final written work and oral presentation), strong cumulative performance in all anthropological coursework (typically a grade point average of 3.7 or higher) and a record of consistent intellectual commitment and participation in the department. High Honors will be awarded, upon occasion, for exceptional contributions in all areas.
103 Introduction to Anthropology SO
This introduction to the basic ideas and methods of social anthropology examines major theoretical and ethnographic concerns of the discipline from its origins to the present, such as family and kinship, production and reproduction, history and evolution, symbolism and representation, with particular attention to such issues as race and racism, gender and sexuality, class, and ethnicity. Prerequisite: Not open to students who have completed BMC ANTH 102.
110 Anthropology of Food and Eating SO
This is an introduction to anthropological modes of inquiry and interpretation through an examination of food and eating. It is primarily concerned with symbolism, social stratification and the relationship between local and translocal orders, and includes such topics as meat, rituals of sacrifice, etiquette, eating disorders, famine, and transnationalism. Offered occasionally.
155 Themes in the Anthropology of Religion SO (Cross-listed in Religion and African and Africana Studies)
What is it that rituals actually do? Are they enactments (affirmations) of collective ideals or are they arguments about these? Are they media for political action or are they expressions of teleological phenomena? The course is a comparative study of ritual and its place in religious practice and political argumentation. Concrete case studies include an initiation ritual in South Africa, the Communion Sacrament in Christianity, a Holocaust commemorative site in Auschwitz and the cult of spirit-possession in Niger. Enrollment is limited to 20. Preference is given to freshmen and sophomores. Offered occasionally.
202 Among Men: Construction of Masculinities SO (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies)
AA comparative exploration of the sociocultural politics of gender, with particular reference to masculinity, the course combines an intellectual historical approach, i.e., how the related notions of maleness, manhood and masculinity have featured in the history of social thought, and a thematic focus on issues such as the men's movements, popular culture, the queer movement, etc. While the course is grounded in an anthropological notion of the social basis of power, culture and identity formation, the readings are nonetheless interdisciplinary—including historical narratives, literature and film ethnographies (from Africa and the United States) and critical work from fields such as queer, feminist and postcolonial studies. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 Offered occasionally.
204 Anthropology of Gender SO (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies)
This course examines the cultural construction of gender and sexuality, kinship, inheritance and marriage; the performative dimensions of sexual identity; the cultural politics of motherhood; myths of matriarchy; and ideologies of masculinity and femininity. Not open to students who have completed ANTH 216b or Bryn Mawr ANTH 106. Offered occasionally.
205 Social Anthropology: Artisans in Global Context SO
This course examines artisanal and artistic production, and how such productive systems intertwine with other aspects of social organization, such as kinship and gender, and are affected by large-scale forces, such as marketization and globalization. Students conduct independent research on a small-scale producer in the Philadelphia area. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or 103. Offered occasionally.
206 Anthropology of Art SO
This course looks at the social and cultural foundations of a category of things referred to as "art." We examine the properties of these things and of the people who make, trade, exhibit and look at art, and ask why they (we) do that. This involves: (a) understanding, and making theory about, the general development of the concept and uses of "art" in European civilization, as well how and why objects from "exotic" (that is, colonized) societies (in particular Africa, Native America and Australia) have been identified and collected as a particular kind of art ("primitive art"), and (b) exploring the "power of images" in diverse societies and social contexts. These questions allow us to challenge our received conceptions of what art is and does and to broaden our understanding of human creativity beyond conventional notions of art, taste, value and power. Prerequisite: One course in ANTH or consent of the instructor. Offered occasionally.
207 Visual Anthropology SO
This course looks at anthropology's relationship to the visual, focusing particularly on ethnographic film. How have anthropologists used visual media and ethnographic film to represent culture and produce knowledge? Students study visual anthropology as a field and also practice as visual anthropologists by making two short ethnographic films in groups. Prerequisite: Anth 103 at Haverford or 102 at Bryn Mawr. Typically offered in alternate years.
208 Museum Anthropology SO
This course is a comparative and historical introduction to museums and objects and how we might study and think about them as anthropologists. It places special emphasis on cultural history museums and the complex interplay of memory, memorialization, cultural heritage, history and museum exhibits. How do museum publics and museum professionals explore the past through objects, and how do changing ethical standards of collecting, management, and display of artifacts inform those explorations? The professor's background as museum curator and director inspires these efforts to understand museums as cultural institutions, and professional museum practices form an important part of course discussions. The course will address in some detail the ways in which museums deal with issues of repatriation of cultural property. Students will debate in class controversial exhibits and repatriations (or their lack), with a view to better comprehend how and why museum professionals make specific decisions within complex cultural institutions. Students conduct research on the collection, management and exhibition of individual museum objects. Offered occasionally.
209 Anthropology of Education: State of the Debate SO
This course explores education and schooling as discussed in anthropological literature. We compare the concepts of "socialization" in British Social Anthropology with "cultural transmission" in American Cultural Anthropology, to look for differences in how, over time, the two have framed the role of education in social reproduction and transformation. In addition to basic works by thinkers such as Durkheim, Malinowski, Mead, Benedict and Boas, we read a selection of ethnographies of schooling from the United States, Africa and Japan. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 and one course in Education. Offered occasionally.
216 Women and Power in Comparative Perspective SO (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies)
This course explores issues of power and its operation through examining women and women's experience. Course readings combine theoretical materials on power and women's empowerment with ethnographic studies that allow us to investigate theoretical questions in specific contexts. We consider the nature of power, the sources of social inequality and the potential for powerful action on individual and collective levels. Offered occasionally.
220 Storytelling and the Ethnographic Imagination SO
From anthropology's inception as a discipline, anthropologists have experimented with the relationship between ethnographic writing and storytelling. Even early anthropologists who were deeply committed to the idea of anthropology as a science (such as the founder of ethnography Bronislaw Malinowski) nevertheless tried to entertain, excite, and emotionally engage readers by using storytelling techniques for ethnographic monographs, such as "Imagine yourself suddenly set down, surrounded by all your gear, alone on a tropical beach close to a native village, while the launch or dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight." This course explores ways to combine ethnography with techniques from dramatic writing. Students read classic and contemporary works by anthropologists who enrich ethnographic writing with techniques from dramatic writing, conduct individual ethnographic research projects, and experiment with story-telling techniques to present their findings. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or permission of the instructor. Offered occasionally.
225 Anthropology of Postcolonialism SO
This course examines the cultural and social transformation in the former USSR, Central/Eastern Europe, China and Cuba through readings in recent ethnography. How do socialist-era institutions and ideologies continue to influence people's contemporary efforts to create a new kind of society and market? In what sense can we speak of shared national histories and cultures as determinative of these processes - or is it culture itself that is changing? Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or 103. Offered occasionally.
235 Social Practice of Media SO
This course examines cross-culturally how the mass media (print and electronic, old and new) have become critical to the constitution of subjectivities, collectivities and histories in the contemporary world and are the primary means for the circulation of symbolic forms across space and time. We focus on how the production, reception, and circulation of media forms and technologies are integrated into social practice at the local, national and transnational levels. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or consent. Offered occasionally.
236 Language and Electronic Media SO
20th—century politics and culture were intimately linked to the rapid development of radio, television and film. These electronic media have creatively engaged with local cultural practices around the world in reshaping the nature of artistic expression; national, gendered and racial difference; and political power. This course uses anthropological notions of language to examine cultures of electronic media around the globe. We create a theoretical frame that allows to look at radio, video/film, television, the Internet and mobile phone technologies as forms of social mediation. We consider mass media in relation to the formation of new types of embodiment, value, production and consumption. In particular, we trace how actor-centered performance approaches to language, reference, and authority give insight into the making of contemporary, electronically mediated ways of understanding the world. This class draws together the fields of philosophy of language, linguistic anthropology, media studies and various approaches to performance studies. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or consent of the professor. Offered occasionally.
241 Anthropology of the Mediterranean SO (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies)
This course focuses on pluralism and cultural interaction in circum-Mediterranean societies. It includes such topics as: orientalism and the problematics and politics of ethnographic production in and on peripheral societies; the use and abuse of concepts of cultural continuity; ethno-religious interaction in rural and urban settings; imperial legacies and nation-state ideologies in 21st—century cultural politics; local and transnational economic systems and migration patterns, conflicts and contemporary social transformations. Typically offered in alternate years.
244 Anthropology of China SO (Cross-listed in East Asian Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies)
This course examines changes to family structure and social organization in China over the past 150 years. The course centers around two key questions: First, how do family, kinship, gender and other notions of relatedness and personhood affect economic life? Second, how has the state (Imperial, Republican, Socialist) shaped social and economic practices? Students read a selection of ethnographic and historical materials, view films and visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collection of Chinese objects. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or East Asian Studies. Typically offered in alternate years.
247 Anthropology and Literature: Ethnography of Black South African Writing 1888-2008 SO (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies)
Through analysis of the development of writing in colonial and apartheid South Africa this course examines the "crisis of representation" of the past two decades in literature and anthropology. We consider debates about the textual status of ethnographic monographs and the more general problems of writing and social power. Specifically, we look at how such writing contributed to the construction and transformation of black subjectivity. Course material includes 19th- and 20th—century texts by black South Africans including life narratives, particularly collaborated autobiographies by women in the 1980s. Prerequisite: ANTH 103. Typically offered in alternate years.
249 Colonialism, Law, Human Rights in Africa SO (Cross-listed in Peace, Justice, & Human Rights and African and Africana Studies)
This course examines the colonial legacies of contemporary discourses of human rights and development as they are relevant in contemporary global politics. By taking an historical approach to the idea of rights, we make connections between sovereignty, the rule of law and the rights of citizenship. We use a critical eye to explore the conditions of possibility that allow states, development organizations, donor agencies and individuals to unwittingly reproduce centuries-old tropes of poverty, degradation, and helplessness of non-Western peoples. Using historical descriptions of the encounters between Europeans and Africans in West Africa and South Africa, we unpack assumptions about African societies. We also explore liberalism, its connections to British colonialism and its contemporary incarnations. Prerequisite: One course relating to Africa, African politics or African literature.
252 State and Development in South Asia SO (Cross-listed in Peace, Justice, and Human Rights)
This class investigates how development projects in South Asia make particular kinds of states and citizens. What kinds of authority are created as states go about their business, particularly the plans and programs of development? How is development gendered, and what are the consequences for citizens and national identities? How have development projects played out across national boundaries in South Asia, and with what consequences? Prerequisite: ANTH 103.
254 Diseased Bodies: AIDS, Culture and the Anthropology of the Body SO
This course is a study of discourses of cultural and medical management and stigmatization of the diseased human body. We look at how cultural perceptions of disease generate binaries of taboo/restoration, sin/redemption, dying/living and decay/healing. We look at how responses to HIV/AIDS embody this ambivalence of the diseased body in ideologies of social subjectivity. The course is informed by an approach to this problem that views the human body as society's investment in its cultural and material reproduction, while also serving as an ideological frontier separating socialized subjectivity from potentially antisocial libidinal forces of the biological self. Within this framework we pursue the question: in what specific ways does disease, HIV in particular, represent a breach of the boundary between the body as social order and the carnal forces of its disruption? With HIV as an organizing problem, the course is structured around themes including religious notions of the body, sin and redemption; Western philosophical opposition of the body to the faculty of reason; interventionist technologies of modern medicine and the secularization of illness; and African notions of the ssocial body and disharmonies of disease. We conclude the course with reflections on how the professor's work on HIV prevention in South Africa has addressed these cultural issues in local communities. Prerequisite: At least one 100–level course in the Social Sciences and consent of the course professor. Offered occasionally.
256 Political Anthropology SO
This course considers politics as what groups of people do to affect their social conditions, and examines how their ability to affect those conditions is organized and controlled. Through the reading of ethnography and anthropological theory, we raise questions about: how "leaderless" societies organize social action; the interrelations of gender, bodies and politics; and about the ways in which people of different societies exercise and contest power. We will discuss how modern states arose and what impact they have had on the peoples they incorporate and on options for political action in contemporary complex global political systems. Prerequisite: ANTH 103. Offered occasionally.
257 Ethnic Conflict SO
Anthropological approaches to the study of violence, emphasizing ethnographic case studies of violence and the aftermath of violence, informed by classic and recent anthropological theory on kinship, class, ethnicity, "race," nationalism, colonialism and the post-colonial state. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or permission of the instructor.
258 Politics of Culture and Identity SO (Cross-listed in Peace and Conflict Studies-Bi Co Conc)
This course examines how "culture" and "identity" have become increasingly important frameworks through which people articulate claims to resources, rights, and power. Drawing on a diverse set of case studies, we will ask how we can approach politics of culture and identity ethnographically, and what role anthropology might have to play in such struggles. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or 103. Offered occasionally.
259 Ethnography of Islam SO
This course examines comparative ethnographies of Muslim societies, Islam as a field of anthropological inquiry and theorizing, ethnographic representation and the construction of ethnographic authority and Islam in the western imagination. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or consent of the instructor. Typically offered in alternate years.
261 Memory, History, Anthropology SO
This course focuses on the social aspects of memory, collective representations and memorial genres, institutional memory and the effects of institutions on individual memory, memory in oral and literate societies and memory as a political act and a tool of political legitimacy. Other topics include: mourning and trauma, role of narrative in memory and the relationship between non-narrative forms and memory, and how memory relates to the present and to the past. The course examines a number of influential theoretical texts on memory and looks at selected case studies. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or consent of the instructor. Offered occasionally.
263 Anthropology of Space: Housing and Society SO
This course explores space, place and architecture in anthropological theory and the contributions of anthropology to our understanding of the built and imagined environment in diverse cultures. Topics include: the body and its orientation in space; the house, kinship and cosmology; architecture as a communicative/semiotic system; space and sociopolitical segregation and integration; and space and commodity culture. May be taken for Bryn Mawr Cities credit. Prerequisite: One course in anthropology or growth and structure of cities. Offered occasionally.
270 Psychoanalysis and Anthropology SO
This course traces areas of convergence of anthropology and psychoanalysis from the beginnings of the discipline of anthropology to the present through selected topics, including: kinship, society and the self: sexual difference; the interpretation of dreams; anthropological hermeneutics, ethnographic fieldwork and clinical practice (listening, transference and countertransference); magic and fetishism; and individual and collective violence. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or 103. Offered occasionally.
281 Nature/ Culture: An Introduction to Environmental Anthropology SO (Cross-listed in and Environmental Studies and Peace, Justice, and Human Rights)
This course is an introduction to the ideas and methods central to environmental anthropology. Topics covered include political ecology, crises and uncertainty, indigeneity and community management. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or ENVS 101, Case Studies.
303 History and Theory of Anthropology SO
This course surveys the development of anthropological thought. theories of society and the human subject, social organization and social structure, and the culture concept; structuralism, Marxist anthropology, the crisis of representation in the 1980s and 1990s, postmodernism, the relationship between ethnography and history, and practice theory. Prerequisite: One course in ANTH, excluding BMC ANTH 303.
310 Modes of Thought SO
This course explores anthropology as a discipline concerned with the translation of cultures. This includes propositions concerning "modes of thought" or "belief" in traditional and modern societies, debates about rationality and models of social and cultural evolution. Prerequisite: One other course in Anthropology, Sociology or Philosophy. Offered occasionally.
315 Human Rights, Gender and Knowledge: The Truth And Reconciliation Commission in South Africa SO
This course offers reflections on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from the perspective of rural women's testimonies. Reports and scholarly reflections on the TRC often reflect the perspectives of elite groups. Based on first-hand research funded by the College's CPGC, the course has students read testimonies based on submissions collected from women in poor rural communities who lost members of their families during the struggle against Apartheid. We try to understand the role of gender in testimonies to the TRC and how knowledge was distributed unequally between men and women. We situate women's testimonies within the larger context of human rights discourses. We read critical theories of human rights and Truth Commissions. We also discuss taped interviews the professor carried out in 2008-09 with the same women, family members and other members of the community. These testimonies and recorded interviews form primary readings for the course. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 and at least one 200 level class in Anthropology. Offered occasionally.
322 Ethnographic Methods SO
This course explores qualitative research methods, with a focus on participant-observation. It addresses theoretical debates, ethical questions and practical issues concerning the craft of ethnographic field-work. Students conduct several small-scale field exercises and design and implement a larger ethnographic project. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or 103. Preference to ANTH majors/minors and PEAC concentrators. Typically offered in alternate years.
327 Ritual and Performance SO (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies)
This course examines theories of performance and practice as a way to understand how specific events and actions relate to social structure, history, and memory. We explore how bodies become produced and contested in the performance of political and personal productive and sensuous activity. The course's central theme explores the tension between theories of performance and theories of practice, which highlights key philosophical issues within anthropology and social thought more generally: power and its enactment, the relationship between personal experience and macro-sociological processes, the nature of consciousness, structure versus agency, and stasis versus change. Prerequisite: ANTH 303. Offered occasionally.
350 Social and Cultural Theory SO (Cross-listed in Peace, Justice, and Human Rights)
How do political, social and economic factors affect biodiversity? What conflicts, alliances, and negotiations affect the use and abuse of ecosystems? To what extent do conservation efforts and national parks consider the rights or needs of indigenous populations, local residents, and tourists? This course addresses these questions through the comparative study of nature preserves, national parks and conservation efforts around the world. Prerequisite: ANTH 303. Offered occasionally.
351 Writing and Social Construction of Subjectivity SO (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature)
This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of writing as a social institution, personal ritual, cultural artifact and technology. Beginning with some debates in the social sciences concerning the place of literacy in individual cognitive development and social progress, we proceed to explore core assumptions about speech and writing in Western thought, from Plato to recent French feminist theory. The goal of the course is to offer students a genealogical account of anthropological ways of thinking about the human being as a creative agent and a social subject. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 and 303.
355 Anthropology and the New Faces of Modernity SO
This course is an examination of recent trends in reflection on modernity in the human and social sciences. It addresses questions about social subjectivity, globalization and the endurance of modernity through a number of ethnographic snapshots from different parts of the world. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 and one 200-level course in Anthropology. Offered occasionally.
358 Anthropology of Capitalism SO
This course explores capitalism from an anthropological perspective. We combine study of theoretical work on capitalist processes and the nature of capitalism with ethnographic studies of how capitalism operates in particular places at particular times. Our work includes examining and producing materials in multiple media, including written texts, film and oral presentations. Students conduct ethnographic studies of capitalisms over the course of the semester and work together in crews to make films about capitalisms. Each crew produces at least two short films. Prerequisite: ANTH 207 or 303. Offered occasionally.
361 Advanced Topics in Ethnographic Area Studies SO
This course is the department's offering for advanced work in the study of an ethnographic area. In addition to ethnographic monographs, course materials include missionary records, memoirs, and realist fiction where appropriate. The course is intended to help students develop skills of social and cultural analysis and to deepen the students' understanding of an ethnographic area. Prerequisite: One course in an appropriate ethnographic area or the instructor's consent. Offered occasionally.
365 Advanced Readings in Visual Anthropology SO
This is an advanced course in visual anthropology that explores the history and development of anthropology's relationship to visual practices, both as a mode for representing culture and as a site of cultural practice. One of the central themes of the course is the relationship between representation, power, and knowledge as manifest in cross-cultural representation. Prerequisite: ANTH 207. Offered occasionally.
415 Research Seminar in the Material Culture of China: Producers and Collectors of Chinese Ceramics SO (Cross-listed in East Asian Studies)
This course focuses on the production and collecting practices of Chinese porcelain. It provides a basic introduction to research on material culture, Chinese high-fired ceramics, and the practices of collectors and porcelain producers. Students gain a good basic understanding of the technical and social aspects of Chinese ceramic production, forms and decoration of Chinese ceramics, the porcelain center of Jingdezhen and the political and cultural aspects of Chinese porcelain consumption. In addition to engaging with course materials, each student designs and completes a major independent research project related to ceramics or an aspect of Chinese material culture. Prerequisite: One course in ANTH, EAST, or the instructor's consent. Offered occasionally.
450 Senior Seminar: Research and Writing SO
This course comprises the fall semester of the two-semester senior thesis seminar. Students do archival and ethnographic research, write a research prospectus, get training on ethics, and write a review of the anthropological literature on their area of inquiry. Prerequisite: Senior standing in ANTH at Haverford. Typically offered every fall.
451 Senior Seminar: Supervised Research and Writing SO
M. Gillette, L. Hart, J. Watson, R. Watson
This course comprises the spring semester of the two-semester senior thesis seminar. Students complete research on their thesis and write an ethnography. Most of the semester is individual meetings between thesis writers and advisors. The spring senior thesis seminar includes a public thesis presentation and an oral exam. Prerequisite: Senior standing in Anthropology at Haverford. Typically offered every spring.
460 Teaching Assistant SO
Students acting as a teaching assistant serve as discussion leader and course assistant in ANTH 103, ANTH 110 or other selected anthropology courses. This includes responsibility for selected tutorials and a final paper. Offered occasionally.
480 Independent Study SO
This course comprises independent studies on topics that a student and faculty member agree upon. It is available at the discretion of the faculty member. Offered occasionally.
Course Offered at Bryn Mawr College
- 101-102 Introduction to Anthropology
- 203 Human Ecology
- 208 Human Biology
- 209 Human Evolution
- 220 Methods and Theory in Archaeology
- 223 Anthropology of Dance
- 234 Forensic Anthropology
- 236 Evolution
- 237 Environmental Health
- 240 Traditional & Preindustrial Technology
- 249 Asian American Communities
- 281 Language in Social Context
- 303 History of Anthropological Theory
- 316 Anthropology of the Body
- 322 Anthropology of the Body
- 330 Archaeological Theory and Method
- 331 Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology
- 333 Anthropological Demography
- 350 Advanced Topics in Gender Studies
- 185 Urban Culture and Society
- 218 Topics in World Cities: Contemporary Chinese Urbanism
- 229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China
- 306 Advanced Fieldwork Techniques: Places in Time
- 335 Topics in City and Media: Popular Cultures in East Asia
- 365 Techniques of the City: Space, Place and Power


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Annie Boyd Hall is the best of old meeting new. When Annie Boyd Hall was completely renovated in 2012, the building was designed to look and feel like a brand new residence hall, while preserving the beauty and charm of the original building. You'll note the building's original fireplace remains in the lobby, but it is surrounded by modern furniture and amenities to meet the needs and expectations of a 21st century college student.
As a traditional hall, Annie Boyd Hall is open to all majors and all years of students. Because of the unique room set up, location, and suite-style bathrooms, the building is popular with upperclassmen, although first-year students are welcome to live in the building too. Because of its small size, Annie Boyd provides a close community atmosphere.
From the outdoor porch used for relaxing to the lobby computer lab used for class projects and the hall's small group study rooms, Annie Boyd has everything for students. Not to mention it's convenient location to the Student Union, The 459 Commons dining hall, Barnes & Noble bookstore, and the Union Square Parking Garage make it in the heart of campus.
- Co-ed res hall with 111 beds
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Insurance Company of North America
|November 19, 1792Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1]in
|ACE Limited
Insurance Company of North America (INA) is the oldest stock insurance company in the United States,[2] founded in Philadelphia in 1792. It was one of the largest American insurance companies of the 19th and 20th centuries before co-founding CIGNA in 1982. Since 1999 it has been a subsidiary of global insurer ACE Limited.
In 1792, Boston merchant Samuel Blodget moved to Philadelphia. He did so in part to seek a commission from President George Washington as superintendent of construction for the new federal city then being built along the Potomac River (an amateur architect, Blodget would later design the First Bank of the United States building in Philadelphia[3]), but also to collaborate on a business venture with former U.S. Postmaster General Ebenezer Hazard, who owned a counting house in the city.[4]
Hazard had previously invested in an idea of Blodget's called the Boston Tontine, a sort of early annuity fund that also acted as a lottery for the last surviving investor. It failed, but Blodget and Hazard decided to try again in Philadelphia, then the largest city in North America. They called their new attempt the Universal Tontine Association and this time gave it a 21-year lifespan, after which the association would disband and the surviving investors would split what remained of the fund.[5]
The Universal Tontine Association also failed to generate the hoped-for interest. In November 1792, its investors met at the Pennsylvania State House (today Independence Hall) to decide what to do with their fund. On November 12, they adopted a proposal to form a general insurance company, to be called the Insurance Company of North America. On November 19, the investors adopted articles of association, giving the company the ability to write fire, life, or marine insurance, though initially the investors would focus solely on marine.[6]
The company started with $600,000 capital, selling shares at $10 each. Investors subscribed to the first 40,000 shares in eleven days, and on December 10, they met again at the State House to elect directors. The directors held their first board meeting the next day, at Philadelphia's City Tavern. There, they elected merchant and underwriter John Maxwell Nesbitt as president and Hazard as secretary. On December 15, the company opened for business at 119 (now 223) South Front Street. The first policy was issued to Nesbitt's mercantile firm, Conyngham, Nesbitt & Co., for the ship America on its voyage from Philadelphia to Londonderry.[7]
On December 18, the company petitioned the Pennsylvania legislature for a charter of incorporation. Due to opposition from private underwriters and others, the legislature took over a year to approve the petition; Governor Thomas Mifflin signed the charter incorporating INA on April 14, 1794.[8]
Soon after incorporating, INA entered the field of fire insurance. While Philadelphia already had two fire insurance companies--The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire (1752) and the Mutual Assurance Company for Insuring Houses from Loss by Fire in and near Philadelphia (1784)--INA was different. The existing fire insurance companies, being an outgrowth of volunteer firefighting associations, only insured buildings from loss. INA, with its marine insurance origins, introduced the concept of insuring the "cargo" (contents) of the buildings as well.[9]
INA's first fire insurance policy went to William Beynroth on "German Dry Goods" at his house at 211 High Street (today Market Street) in Philadelphia. INA's first fire mark was a six-pointed star, made with lead and mounted on a wooden shield; in 1796, INA adopted a new mark, of an eagle rising from a rock.[10] Variations of this image would symbolize the company until the 1950s.[11]
By 1807, INA wrote fire insurance from New Hampshire to Georgia. In October, as the wars in Europe made marine insurance increasingly unprofitable, INA director Alexander Henry proposed extending insurance to Lexington, Kentucky on the nation's frontier. The board of directors appointed Henry to head a committee "to consider as to the benefit and propriety of extending insurances against Fire generally to other Cities and Towns in other States beyond what is now customary to take." Henry's committee recommended in favor, and the board authorized INA President John Inskeep to appoint "suitable and trusty persons at such places as he shall think advisable to act as Surveyors and Agents of the Company whose duty it shall be to Survey and Certify the situation of all Buildings and property on which insurance is required, at the expense of the persons applying therefor [sic]." On January 26, 1808, Inskeep appointed agents to Lexington, Frankfort, and Louisville, Kentucky; Washington, Pennsylvania, near the Ohio border; and Cincinnati.[12] This is often credited as the start of the "American agency system," and in 1957 a marker was erected on the campus of Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the event.[13]
In 1850, INA bought a property at 232 Walnut Street in Philadelphia to begin the tenure of its longest-serving home office site. Though it demolished and rebuilt the office twice (1851; 1880–1881), INA operated from 232 Walnut Street as its headquarters until 1925, and kept the location as its local Philadelphia office until 1942.[14]
Despite the Civil War, INA's agents grew from 40 to 1,300 between 1860 and 1876.[15] INA appointed its first agents outside of the United States in 1873, when it did so in Canada.[16] In 1897, it appointed the Yang-Tsze Insurance Association, Ltd., as its agents in Shanghai, becoming the first U.S. company to write insurance in China.[17]
In both the Chicago fire of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, INA was noted as being among the few insurance companies to pay its losses in full.[18]
By the 1890s, INA began to write modern inland marine insurance. This included automobile insurance in 1905, though the company soon discovered that automobile owners were more concerned about casualty than property protection. As a fire and marine company, INA could not write casualty insurance, so in 1920 it formed its first true subsidiary, the Indemnity Insurance Company of North America,[19] to do so.[20]
As World War I was ending, INA joined other U.S. insurance companies in forming the American Foreign Insurance Association (AFIA)[21] to facilitate the growth of U.S. insurance and reinsurance abroad.[22] INA left the association in 1921, but continued to expand internationally. By the start of World War II the company had service offices in Canada, China, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, and had agents throughout the world.[23]
By the 1920s, INA had outgrown its Philadelphia home office at 232 Walnut Street and constructed a new 16-story office building far to the west of what was then Philadelphia's downtown.[24] The Insurance Company of North America Building, at 1600 Arch Street, opened in 1925 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978.[25]
INA came out of the Great Depression as one of the nation's largest insurance companies, with total assets in December 1941 of about $117 million. According to A.M. Best, it had the largest policyholders' surplus (over $75 million) of any U.S. fire insurance company.[26]
In 1942, INA celebrated its 150th anniversary through the book Biography of a Business, a narrative history of the company by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marquis James and published by Bobbs-Merrill.
In the 1940s, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) appointed INA President John A. Diemand to head a committee to consider the subject of "multiple-line" underwriting: the idea that non-life insurance companies could write any form of non-life insurance, even combining several kinds of insurance coverage in the same policy. At the Diemand Committee's recommendation, the NAIC approved the concept of multiple-line underwriting in 1944.[27]
In 1950, INA invented what became the most successful of all multiple-line policies: the homeowners policy. The homeowners policy combined into one policy various kinds of fire, theft, and liability insurance that previously insurance companies had only offered separately. It was soon INA's most popular and most imitated product. In 1951, INA wrote $777,000 in premiums in the policy; by 1960, it wrote $750 million.[28]
In the 1950s, INA engaged in two notable marketing ventures: In 1955, it began an eight-year sponsorship of CBS Radio's popular Christmas Sing with Bing programs, starring Bing Crosby.[29] And in 1957, it entered into an agreement with Walt Disney in which INA sponsored and staffed an information booth in the Main Street U.S.A. area of Disneyland (called the "Carefree Corner"), and hosted a series of "Family Security and Family Happiness" conferences at the park.[30] The relationship lasted into the early 1970s.
As competition increased from "direct writers" (companies such as Allstate and State Farm that sold insurance directly to the consumer rather than through independent insurance agents), INA looked for ways to diversify as an insurance company. INA formed a life insurance subsidiary, Life Insurance Company of North America,[31] in 1956; in 1965, INA expanded its presence on the U.S. West Coast and also in the workers' compensation field when it acquired the Los Angeles-based Pacific Employers Group (PEG). PEG's flagship, Pacific Employers Insurance Company,[32] was a pioneer in workers' compensation when formed in 1923, and by 1937 was the largest casualty insurance company in California.[33]
As the financial services industry emerged in the 1960s, INA's directors sought to diversify further by entering insurance-related and non-insurance businesses. State regulations made this difficult for an insurance company to do, so in 1967 directors formed a holding company named INA Corporation. On May 29, 1968, INA ended over 175 years as a publicly held company when it became a subsidiary of INA Corporation.[34]
On March 31, 1982, INA Corporation and Connecticut General Corporation (CGC) combined to form CIGNA Corporation.[35] INA became CIGNA's lead property and casualty (P&C) insurer,[36] integrating its business with CGC's smaller P&C firm Aetna Insurance Company.[37] Effective July 2, 1999, ACE Limited acquired CIGNA's international and U.S. property and casualty businesses, including INA.[38] As of 2015[update], INA remains one of ACE's active insurance companies, licensed in all 50 states in the United States, as well as the Philippines and Taiwan.[39]
External links[edit]
Official page from the ACE Limited site.
An official timeline of corporate events, including about former subsidiary INA.
From the International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 45 (St. James Press, 2002). Includes much about the history of INA and the CIGNA Property & Casualty companies (bought by ACE Limited in 1999).
Official site of INA's branch in the Philippines.
- ^ Marquis James, Biography of a Business (Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill, 1942), p. 16-17.
- ^ Best's Insurance Reports Property-Casualty 1979, 80th ed. (Oldwick, New Jersey: A.M. Best Company, Inc., 1979), p. 693.
- ^ http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/butowsky2/constitution5.htm
- ^ James, p. 12.
- ^ James, pp. 12-14.
- ^ James, pp. 16-18.
- ^ James pp. 16-18, 21-22.
- ^ James, pp. 36-39.
- ^ James, pp. 40-42.
- ^ James pp. 42-43.
- ^ William H. A. Carr, Perils: Named and Unnamed (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967), p. 338.
- ^ James, pp. 103-104.
- ^ Carr, p. 350.
- ^ James, pp. 143, 173, 282.
- ^ James, p. 171.
- ^ Carr, p. 235.
- ^ 200 Years of Results (Philadelphia: CIGNA Corporation, 1992), p. 7.
- ^ James, pp. 165, 224-226.
- ^ Merged into INA in 1960. Not related to the active Indemnity Insurance Company of North America, a subsidiary of ACE Limited (as of 2012).
- ^ James, pp. 286-287, 304-305.
- ^ As of 2012, a subsidiary of ACE Limited.
- ^ 200 Years of Results, pp. 9-12.
- ^ Carr pp. 235-237.
- ^ James, pp. 280-281.
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- ^ "Insurance Company of North America," Best's Insurance Reports (Fire and Marine Edition), 43rd ed. (New York: Alfred M. Best Company, Inc., 1942), p. 333.
- ^ Carr, pp. 155-159.
- ^ Carr, pp. 263-265.
- ^ "Christmas Sing with Bing," North America Fieldman 13(2), February 1956, p. 3.
- ^ "Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom: Disneyland – How It Will Work for North America Agents," North America Fieldman 14(2), February 1957, p. 3; "45 Agents and their Families to Attend," North America Fieldman 14(8), October 1957, p. 3.
- ^ As of 2012, a subsidiary of CIGNA Corporation.
- ^ As of 2012, a subsidiary of ACE Limited.
- ^ Carr, pp. 347, 363-366.
- ^ Bradford Smith, Jr., "Letter to stockholders," INA Corporation 1968 Annual Report (Philadelphia: INA Corporation, 1969), p. 2.
- ^ 200 Years of Results, p. 20.
- ^ For more on the history of the CIGNA P&C companies (1982-1999), including INA, see "CIGNA Corporation -- Company History"[2]
- ^ As of 2012, a subsidiary of ACE Limited. Founded in 1819, Aetna Insurance Company has been known as ACE Property and Casualty Insurance Company since 1999. No relation to Aetna Life Insurance Company since the two companies separated in 1853.
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]


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Montgomery Council Committees to Discuss MCPS Report on School Safety and Security Also on Thu., Jan. 14: MCPS Enrollment, Demographic Trends; Forest Conservation Enforcement; Small Business Program
ROCKVILLE, Md., January 13, 2010—The Montgomery County Council's Education and Public Safety committees will meet jointly on Thursday, Jan. 14, for a review of the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) report on "School Safety and Security." The report will include information on school suspensions, reported serious incidents, drills that prepare students for emergencies and the perceptions of students, staff and parents in regard to safety and security. The Education Committee, which is chaired by Council Vice President Valerie Ervin and includes Councilmembers Phil Andrews and Mike Knapp, and the Public Safety Committee, which is chaired by Councilmember Andrews and includes Councilmembers Roger Berliner and Marc Elrich, will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the Seventh Floor Hearing Room of the Council Office Building at 100 Maryland Ave. in Rockville. At 10:30 a.m., the Education Committee will meet to hear an update on MCPS enrollment, capacity and demographic information. The report on projected six-year trends will show that enrollment in the current 140,000-student system is expected to increase by about 7,000 students by the 2015-16 school year. At 2 p.m., the Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment (T and E) Committee, which is chaired by Council President Nancy Floreen and includes Councilmembers Roger Berliner and George Leventhal, will discuss proposed Bill 34-09 that would amend the County's forest conservation law to modify the number of required inspections and the pre-inspection notice period in regard to evaluating existing forested land before disturbing the land for development. The T and E Committee also will hold a worksession on a report issued by the Council's Office of Legislative Oversight on "Evaluation of the Local Small Business Reserve Program." The reserve program, established in 2005, requires that all County government departments award at least 10 percent of eligible contract dollars to local small businesses. Among the findings in the report is that since January 2006, only 1,540 businesses registered for the program and at the end of Fiscal Year 2009, only 687 were actively registered. However, amended regulations could make an estimated 20,000 businesses eligible.
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In what many Americans may have seen as an eerie echo of the "House of Cards" television series, last week an effort to change the way sexual assaults of military personnel are prosecuted failed to amass the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster. It was an issue on which normal party and ideological lines were completely blurred as Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the primary advocate for the bill, was joined by Republicans such as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and opposed by her normal liberal allies like Carl Levin and, more crucially, Claire McCaskill. While Gillibrand claimed that opponents of taking such crimes out of the military chain of command "turned their back" on the survivors of sexual assaults, they responded by saying that this reform might have unintended consequences. One such critic of the bill was Amy Davidson who wrote in The New Yorker last week that this change might actually result in fewer prosecutions of assaults.
Given the experiences of many rape survivors in the military, Gillibrand's stand is hard to argue with. While, as Gillibrand has noted, every secretary of defense has enunciated a zero tolerance policy for the past 20 years, the number of assaults continue to rise with many in the military still convinced they have more to lose by speaking up about these crimes than by staying silent. But, as the New York Times' coverage of a sensational sexual assault case now being tried at Fort Bragg, North Carolina shows, the military's desire to avoid being labeled as insensitive to this issue may be leading to some poor decisions. The trial of Brigadier General Jeffrey A. Sinclair for sexual assault of a female officer with whom he had an affair illustrates just how messy the nexus between politics and justice can be in the military.
Davidson made the following argument about why Gillibrand's reform might backfire:
Is any involvement by the chain of command in sexual-assault cases a mistake? Gillibrand would say yes—that it's a conflict of interest. She is disappointed that Obama didn't put his weight behind her bill now. Many survivors and advocates who have long, painful experience with the workings of the military would agree.
One can fully respect that view and not share it. It's not just that, as many around the military argue, this is how it works for all sorts of crimes. McCaskill, who has prosecuted sexual-assault cases herself, has argued that, as well-meaning as it sounds, pulling out sexual assault in this way would result in fewer prosecutions. Part of the reasoning is technical and structural: while commanders are motivated by discipline and order (as well as, one hopes, respect for the law and concern for and loyalty to all their troops), prosecutors are often looking for cases that they can win. If it is left up to the prosecutors alone, they might have a more jaundiced view of how a jury would hear a witness than does a commander—again, no longer the unit commander, and no longer alone.
The Sinclair court martial seems to demonstrate the truth of this assertion. Sinclair is accused of coercing a junior office into sexual relations and then threatening her if she told anyone about what had happened. But the chief military prosecutor in the case withdrew from the court martial because he believed the evidence showed that the alleged victim in this case — who acknowledges that she had a three-year affair with Sinclair — had been untruthful and that the most serious charges of assault against the general should be dropped. He was overruled and the case has gone to trial only on those counts since the general has entered a guilty plea on the lesser charges of having an inappropriate relationship. The victim has testified about what she says is the general's violent behavior and his threats. Sinclair, who was once the deputy commander of U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan and a rising star in the army and whose future in the military is now finished, claims the female officer only accused him of rape after he refused to leave his wife as well as to avoid prosecution herself for adultery after their affair was revealed.
Davidson's point about experienced prosecutors being reluctant to go to trial without an open-and-shut case seems to be vindicated by what happened here. The military establishment has been rightly excoriated for a lackadaisical approach to sexual assaults as well as a culture of apathy toward the victims. But it may be overcompensating for that here by deciding that the bad press and probable political firestorm that would have resulted from a dismissal of rape charges against a high-ranking officer was far worse than going to trial with a case that seems unlikely to result in a conviction or to be upheld on appeal.
As Davidson writes, previous reforms of the Defense Authorization Act have made it easier for such prosecutions to continue and to take the immediate unit commanders out of the decision since they may be part of the problem. She also argues that the growing number of female officers is creating a better atmosphere in the military for dealing with the problem. However, it may also be that the Sinclair case points out the pitfalls of expecting the military chain-in-command to deal wisely with these issues. Gillibrand rightly worries about officers who want to cover up these crimes or are involved with them being part of the process of victims seeking redress. But by the same token, an army that is worried about being branded as soft on rape may proceed with shaky or unsubstantiated cases that would never be prosecuted in civilian courts.
The more the Times reports about the Sinclair court martial, to which they have devoted a steady stream of articles, the more Gillibrand's assertion about the military's incapacity to deal with these cases appears to be justified. Georges Clemenceau, France's prime minister during World War One famously said that, "military justice is to justice what military music is to music." The less the soldiers have to do with prosecuting rapes committed in the military, the better it may be for both the victims and the cause of justice.


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There will be a different type of Sandman featured at the Apollo next month.
Metallica is set to rock the legendary Harlem venue on Sept. 21. They will promote their 3D concert-action film "Metallica Through the Never," released in IMAX on Sept. 27 and other theaters a week later. It will also air live on a special temporary Metallica channel on SiriusXM.
The Apollo, revered for its place in black entertainment and historic performances from the likes of James Brown to Michael Jackson, has become a venue for rock legends in recent years, including Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney.
And while the Apollo is known for its "Sandman" character who boots weak contestants during its famous amateur show, "Enter Sandman" is one of Metallica's famous songs.
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Lagwagon's Joey Cape will plug in, and out, this weekend
Get a double dose of Lagwagon's Joey Cape this weekend
The local music scene will be seriously laggin' (in a good way) this weekend. First, punk rock icons Lagwagon will play a short set tonight at the Majestic Ventura Theater on the bill with NOFX, Old Man Markley and Punk Is Dead. Then, Lagwagon's frontman and main songwriter, Joey Cape, will do an extended solo acoustic gig of quieter, gentler songs from his vast repertoire a few blocks away at Zoey's on Sunday night. Don't expect Cape to run low on songs.
Cape and his guitar will, doubtlessly, dig deep into the Lagwagon catalog, but Cape also is the guitar player for punk cover group Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, plus he was in Bad Astronaut, who put out four pop punk albums. Cape's expansive band output also includes a pair of solo efforts. His latest from 2011 is "Doesn't Play Well With Others." And there's another project, Joey Cape's Bad Loud, a band that has electrified the tunes on Cape's solo albums.
As a working, successful musician, adamant about remaining complete strangers with any sort of day job, Cape formed My Records in 1996, which released albums from Ridel High, The Ataris and, most notably, one of the funniest pop punk bands ever: Santa Barbara's Nerf Herder, forever immortalized for playing the theme song for everyone's favorite vampire slayer, Buffy.
Originally from Goleta, but having nothing in common apart from a ZIP code, Cope is in the middle, along with Nerf Herder's Parry Gripp, of the short musical food chain that includes Fabulous T-Birds frontman Kim Wilson and that one-woman bubble corporation, Katy Perry. Cape had plenty to say about all that and more during a phoner from his NorCal home.
Hey, Joey, so how's the punk rock biz — are you guys rich rock stars?
(Laughs) Well, it's all relative, right?
Pretty much.
Yeah, we enjoy it. We've been doing it for a long time — we must like it or else we're gluttons for punishment.
This will be a preview for your solo gig at Zoey's in Ventura. So where's the band? How often do you do band stuff and how often do you do solo stuff?
I think if you're in a band, there's a lot of downtime, especially if you commit to being in a band full time. A Type A like me has to be doing something. Music is what I do, so at some point or another — I had always demoed on acoustic anyway — it just seemed like a natural progression. It offsets the band shows nicely.
And there's no shortage of material, obviously?
No, and that's the best thing about it. I've got endless material from all the years of being in bands, and it's nice to play different renditions of songs — slow 'em down and hear the melodies.
Acoustic was the original version of all these songs anyway, right?
Yeah, that's always been the case with me. They always start out acoustic and I bring them to my band and see if they like them. Then they go through the band fax machine or copy machine and turn into something entirely different. It's kind of interesting to bring them back to their original state. There's a strange irony in that.
Fat Wreck just released a box of your old stuff; that's a good thing, I would assume?
Oh, definitely. It was really fun to do, and for me, I don't have the best memory and had forgotten so much of the band's history. We spent about three years working on that and I learned so many new things. It's also really cool to get everything from a certain time all in one place.
How come punk bands are so good about coming up with funny names — funny band names, album titles or song titles?
For us, 90 percent of our songs, if not more, were very serious and things we took very seriously, but there's also the fact that you have five good friends all in the same room playing a song, so there was this bit of levity. In our case, that happened with the band name. The name was very appropriate because it was what we called the van we toured in, and it was always breaking down. When we made our first album we were called Section 8, but changed our name to Lagwagon. So humor is definitely important.
How did the DIY punk thing turn into corporate rock?
I think even if you're in a band like Green Day that gets big, it's still the inner workings of the band and the politics that matter as to whether that'll turn into something corporate. Yes, there's marketing and people that handle that stuff — and they are corporations in many cases — but I think there's plenty of bands that are very, very famous that still operate in the DIY fashion and still have that original goal. A band like the Foo Fighters — and I know those guys pretty well — seems to operate in a very cool, DIY manner still to this day, and they're huge. We've just never been in a situation like that.
So, punk rock in Goleta in 1990: What was that like? And did you survive those shows at the Goleta Valley Community Center?
I was actually going to shows in the earlier '80s. I played drums in a band in Santa Barbara called Urban Assault, and we played one of those shows. We played with the Bad Brains, Circle Jerks and Wasted Youth at the community center. But by 1984, when they started booking a lot of punk shows, I was on a different path. I took a break from the whole punk rock thing for a while and ended up living in the Bay Area — San Francisco.
So, as to rock stars from Goleta, there's Kim Wilson, Katy Perry and you, right?
(Laughs) If you say so, yeah. There's also Parry Gripp, man.
So, punk rock these days: a kinder, gentler mosh pit? Is it the same old scary bald guys?
A lot of people that come to our shows have grown up quite a bit. It's nice, actually. I'm 45 and sometimes when we play a show and I walk onstage, I feel like Ozzy Osbourne or something: "Wait a minute — I'm not supposed to be doing this anymore. I look like a joke." And you look down to the audience and see a lot of people that have grown up with your band.
What's the strangest gig you guys ever played?
There's been so many. We've played shows where guys in the band had to wear wireless units and play outside in the snow; they weren't allowed in the venue because they were underage. We played outdoors on a mountaintop in a blizzard; we played on boats.
What do you wish you knew when you started this crazy adventure?
Well, I don't have many regrets. Sometimes my band was pretty self-indulgent and we kind of did what we wanted to do, which is good. I really like the way things turned out. I really like everything we've done. We really have progressed.
Who would you pay to see, alive or dead?
Jeez, I'd like to meet John Lennon, but I know everybody that writes songs says that. I'd really, really like to meet — again — Elliott Smith; I met him when I sat next to him in a bar, Spaceland in L.A., and we drank a bunch of whiskey. We started chatting and he just seemed like such a cool guy. It wasn't either of our shows — someone else was playing — but I'm just a huge fan of his and he just went so young.
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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
Wasn't it Mark Twain who once famously said, "Lies, damned lies and statistics?" Well, after scouring last Saturday's Pinstripe Bowl stat sheet, and then reading the corrected version that came out yesterday, I have a feeling old Mark may have been on to something.
WVU football sports information director Mike Montoro noticed "several discrepancies" following West Virginia's loss to Syracuse and sat down with assistant athletic director Michael Fragale on Monday morning at the Milan Puskar Center to go through the game tape and re-score it. Their quick review ended up taking four hours.
Once their work was completed, they then had to send the game file to Syracuse to get their approval (Syracuse was the home team and it is the home team's responsibility to ship the stats off to the NCAA) before the file was eventually submitted.
There were changes to just about everyone's final total – which, of course, ultimately affects the final career standing for WVU record breakers Geno Smith, Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey.
For instance, instead of completing 16-of-24 passes for 197 yards and two touchdowns, as was reflected in the box score issued after the game, it was determined that Smith actually completed 19-of-28 passes for 201 yards and two touchdowns.
The discrepancy?
Plays that were recorded as Tavon Austin runs were actually passes. Therefore, Austin's final rushing total was 45 yards instead of 54, and his receiving yardage total was 30 instead of 21 (this also happened during last year's Orange Bowl as well).
Stedman Bailey finished with five fewer receiving yards than were listed immediately after the game (121), and West Virginia's rushing total actually ballooned from 88 yards after the game to 103 on the corrected version a week later.
Terence Garvin's numbers were also dramatically affected. Instead of the 15 total tackles he was credited with after the game, the final stat sheet has him with eight, although Garvin did keep his two sacks, three TFL, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery in an outstanding all-around performance.
For those who like to keep track, Geno now officially finishes his Mountaineer career completing 988 of 1,465 passes for 11,662 yards and 98 touchdowns; Tavon shows 288 catches for 3,413 yards and 29 touchdowns and Stedman has 210 catches for 3,218 yards and 41 touchdowns.
There were also some notable changes for Syracuse as well: Prince Tyson-Gulley actually finished the game with 213 yards rushing instead of 208, and Jerome Smith ended with 152 yards on the ground instead of 157.
The Orange still had 369 yards rushing.
However, the one change Montoro and Fragale couldn't get Syracuse to agree upon was the final score. That remains 38-14 in favor of the Orange.
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Statement on Release of Fatality Figures for 2004 Motor Vehicle Crashes
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|August 1, 2005
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Statement of Judith Lee Stone, President
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates)
On the Release of Fatality Figures for 2004 Motor Vehicle Crashes
Today's announcement by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that overall motor vehicle fatalities declined in 2004 should be encouraging news, although deaths due to crashes involving rollover, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), motorcycles, and large trucks continued to climb:
- Rollover fatalities grew from 10,442 to 10,553;
- SUV deaths increased from 4,483 to 4,735, at the same time passenger cars, pickup trucks and vans decreased by 834 deaths.
- Motorcycle deaths surpassed 4,000 (4,008 in 2004 vs: 3,714 in 2003), an 8% increase; and
- Large truck deaths increased from 5,036 to 5,190.
Alcohol-related deaths were down by 2.4%, and pedestrian deaths dropped by 2.8%.
Final Fatal Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data for 2003, published by NHTSA, showed there were 42,643 deaths for the year. Today NHTSA reported that 42,636 people were killed in 2004 on our nation's highways. This high annual death toll has fluctuated between 41,500 and 43,000 for a decade, costing the nation more than $230 billion a year. The annual cost of motor vehicle crashes is nearly the amount of money authorized by Congress for the 6-year highway bill passed last week.
Passage in Congress of a new set of safety advances in H.R.3, the surface transportation reauthorization legislation, could not have come at a better time. Included were numerous directives to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to issue standards by certain dates for rollover prevention, improved roof strength, side impact protection, and better occupant ejection prevention, which apply to all vehicles and address safety issues across the board, including the escalating problem of SUV rollovers.
The bill also encourages states, through an incentive grant program, to adopt primary enforcement seat belt laws allowing a police officer to stop and ticket for lack of belt use. Passing these tougher laws and subsequently enforcing them is the most effective approach to boost seat belt use rates, which in the U.S. still lag behind European and other industrialized nations. Only 22 states and the District of Columbia have primary enforcement seat belt laws.
Among many other provisions, the bill also includes a new emphasis at NHTSA by requiring a study on vehicle backover avoidance technology and a data collection system for non-traffic incidents, such as backovers in driveways and parking lots, heat exposure when trapped in a car, carbon monoxide poisoning and power window strangulation, especially of children.
It is always encouraging to see the fatality numbers go down somewhat, but the unacceptable toll of more than 42,000 deaths -- year in and year out -- is an economic, social and personal burden on too many Americans. Taking preventive action, such as the safety package in H.R.3, will lead to thousands of lives being saved over time and help alleviate this annual public health epidemic.
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is a coalition of consumer, health, safety and insurance companies working together to advance highway and auto safety.


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Hannah Bateman
Hannah is from Surrey and trained at the Susan Robinson School of Ballet and Central School of Ballet. She joined Northern Ballet in 2002 having previously performed with the Israel Ballet. Hannah performed in Kenneth Tindall's Production Prize winner Project #1 in Hannover and Northern Ballet's first visit to the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House.
Learn more about Hannah
Where were you born and raised?
Horsell in Woking.
Where did you train?
Susan Robinson School of Ballet and the Central School of Ballet.
Previous companies
Dance UK Future Leaders Mentorship programme 2012 and Clore Leadership Course attendee 2013.
What are your favourite Northern Ballet roles to dance?
Juliet (Romeo & Juliet), Mina (Dracula), Marquise (Dangerous Liaisons), Cleopatra (Cleopatra), Isabella (Wuthering Heights), Pas de Deux couple (Perpetuum Mobile), Hans van Manen's Concertante and Kenneth Tindall's The Ultimate Form, Luminous Junc·ture and The Architect.
Career highlights
Performing Juliet in Romeo & Juliet at The National Grand Theatre in Beijing and Sadler's Wells. Dancing the role of Cleopatra, dancing the principal couple in Christopher Hampson's Perpetuum Mobile and working with and performing Hans van Manen's Concertante.
If you could adapt one work into a ballet what would it be?
The Kiss by Klimt.
How do you like to relax?
Sleep, garden, plan and organise.
If you weren't a dancer what would you be?
An architect, a garden or interior designer or a hotelier.
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As debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami continues to wash ashore in Oregon, officials are making an effort to keep the public informed.
The debris task force will discuss the cost of clean up, and also a new reporting system to residents in Gold Beach and Warrenton.
Officials have already visited five other Oregon counties to discuss the clean up.
Today's meetings are open to the public and will take place at the following locations.
10 a.m.: Curry County Fairgrounds, Docia Sweet Hall, 29392 Ellensburg Avenue, Gold Beach.
3:30 p.m.: Camp Rilea, Post Headquarters Auditorium Bldg 7021, 91204 Oregon Road, Warrenton.


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Midfielder Berrick Barnes has been warned that he is unlikely to be handed a starting role in the Waratahs' opening Super Rugby clash with the Reds.
The Wallaby midfielder has been ruled out of the final two trials of the pre-season with a knee injury picked up during training on Tuesday and while he sits out Saturday's game with the Blues in Whangarei, he will have to watch his rivals audition to take his place when the new season starts.
Coach Michael Cheika says he will use the final two hit-outs of the summer to finalise his plans for the Super League opener in a fortnight. That means he will unleash five of his Wallabies for the first time against the Blues.
New recruit Michael Hooper, wingers Drew Mitchell and Lachie Turner, lock Kane Douglas and prop Paddy Ryan will all see their first action in Whangarei.
Cheika has indicated that, although he may be a former Wallaby captain and a veteran of two Rugby World Cups, he won't necessarily be pitched in against the Reds even if he is fit.
"Maybe (he'll be back) for the Queensland game but it just depends how the other guys go in his position in the trial matches," he said. "He's not guaranteed a start if he doesn't have a practice match... I think he's at least a week away from (returning to training)."
Cheika says he will give "a certain credit" to his Wallabies players, in terms of selection at the start of the season, but no-one's place was secure.
He said when he comes to put together his side to face the Reds, "It's got to be a best side based out of performances that they've delivered perhaps in the recent past and then in the practice matches in particular.
Meanwhile, Cheika has ruled out making a play for Luke Burgess after the former Wallabies scrumhalf sought an early release from French club Toulouse.
Burgess, who signed for Toulouse following the 2011 Rugby World Cup, wants to return home for family reasons when the French season ends in May.
He has already been linked with a move to the Rebels, but Cheika says though the Waratahs have a spot available following the departure of youngster Sam Lane earlier this week, he has no plans to lure the 37-Test veteran back to the club.
The Waratahs are 5001.00 to win the Super Rugby title and 101.00 to be Australia's top team in the competition.
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