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This position is no longer an active posting on HigherEdJobsUnder the supervision of the Assistant to the Vice President of Student Services, the Student Services Receptionist serves as the initial point of contact for all visitors to the student services area on the Old Charlotte Highway campus in Monroe. The receptionist provides high quality service to visitors, students, and employees to achieve a high standard of excellence and innovation in support services.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Associate Degree.
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Previous college level work experience.
- Thorough understanding of student services functions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work with a diverse population.
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- Proficiency in Microsoft Office; demonstrated ability in office organizational skills; Datatel/Colleague experience a plus.
- Must be enthusiastic, creative, a team player.
- Personal and professional integrity which communicates a sense of mission, leadership and ability to self-start.
- A demonstrative positive and proactive approach in identifying problems, creating innovative solutions and managing projects.
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1. Perform reception duties:
a. Greet and assist visitors, students, and employees in a professional manner.
b. Monitor phone calls with consistency and clarity. Relay messages as necessary to appropriate staff and ensure continuity of communication.
c. Take accurate messages and relay to individuals as needed.
d. Provide general information to the public regarding hours of operation, registration dates, programs, events, etc.
2. Demonstrate quality customer service at all times. Provide general assistance and refer students appropriately.
3. Serve as initial point of contact for visitors and supervise office sign-in procedures.
4. Assist with routine requests for Student Services forms, general information; make appointments for visitors to see personnel in counseling, testing, and other areas when staff are unavailable.
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6. Serve as liaison with security and be thoroughly familiar with safety policy.
7. Work variable schedule if needed, including evenings and/or weekends.
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September 23, 2008 - Issue 47 - ISSN 1935-48866
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1) Greetings/News
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3) Recommended Resources
September 22nd was the autumnal equinox. Like a light switch summer turned off and the first day of fall turned on. In the northern hemisphere our temperatures are dropping, the trees are beginning to show off their glorious coats of vibrant color, and the lazy, hazy days of summer are officially over.
Today's calendar also shows we have 99 days left in 2008. That's 99 days remaining to accomplish the goals you set for yourself back in January. How are you doing with that? Have you even given it much thought? Or are you already making a plan for an even better 2009? If you need help, or a booster shot, you might want to avail yourself of a TastyBite Coaching for Clarity session to keep you true to your vision. More information can be found below.
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"…As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'."
~Bob Dylan (1964)
Listen up, fellow Creative Multipreneurs. The times they are a-changin' and the good news is it's to your benefit.
According to bestselling author Daniel Pink in his consciousness-awakening book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future, we are moving out of the Information Age, with a workforce and life attitude that has been largely dominated by left-brain attributes—literal, sequential, analytical, logical, and functional, and into the Conceptual Age. Knowledge was king; long live the king. Not anymore. Not here in the U.S. anyway.
Pink attributes this change to three things: Asia, Automation, and Abundance. High tech, left-brain type jobs are being outsourced to Asia, where the work can be done far more cheaply. Or, computers and automation that can do it faster are replacing them.
We live in an age of abundance with a plentitude of shopping opportunities. It is no longer enough that a product or service be functional. We want an aesthetically pleasing form and a compelling story that touches our soul. We consumers want what we buy to have meaning and we want to know, like and trust the seller.
To compete in the marketplace in this emerging Conceptual Age, we must employ our right-brain attributes—simultaneous, contextual, metaphorical, aesthetic, and empathic.
In the Conceptual Age we must complement our left-brained reasoning with the addition of high concept and high touch skills. High concept involves the ability to see the big picture, to detect patterns and relationships, to craft a great and meaningful story, and to combine seemingly unrelated ideas into something novel. High touch involves the ability to empathize with others, and to understand, sense or intuit subtleties in human interaction.
To stand out in a crowded marketplace we must engage our creative right-brain aptitudes that are high touch and high concept. As Dan Pink says, "We must perform work that overseas knowledge workers can't do cheaper, that computers can't do faster, and that satisfies the aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual demands of a prosperous time."
It is your time to shine, my friends.
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The B8 was a smaller-wheeled version of
B2 Sir Sam Fay class, and were known as the
"Glen Almonds" after the prototype locomotive Glenalmond. This first locomotive was built in 1913, one
year after the
B2 was introduced. A year later, construction of ten further B8s commenced.
The failures of the parent B2 class
should have been evident by this time, so it is suprising that further locomotives of virtually the same design were
No major rebuilding of the B8s occurred although some of the modifications applied to the
B2s were also applied. In 1927, Nos. 5443 and 5004 were fitted with 20in cylinders.
No. 5443 was converted back in July 1935, although No. 5004 kept its smaller cylinders until withdrawal.
From 1938, No. 5004 was referred to as class B8/2, whilst the other locomotives became B8/1.
Boiler changes also followed the same pattern as the B2s, finally settling on a final
28-element superheater design.
The B8s were the first locomotive type to be fitted with
Robinson's boiler top-feed.
The top-feed was fitted to all of the B8s except for No. 4 Glenalmond.
Between Grouping in 1923 and the mid-1930s, the top-feeds were gradually removed following LNER policy.
The B8s were mainly used on goods trains, as well as some slow passenger and excursion services.
Initial allocations were to Gorton, Neasden, and Immingham. By 1923, five were allocated to Annesley.
With the LNER's construction of further B7s in 1923, the B8s were displaced from the GC section
to March to help with the GE Section's shortage of mixed traffic locomotives.
The B8's height restriction posed a major problem, and they were returned to the GC Section by the end of 1926.
During the Second World War, the B8s were used on a variety of traffic including heavy goods services and troop
trains. They also wandered far and wide, and Glenalmond was sighted in Edinburgh on at least one occasion.
As is to be expected from the similarity of designs, the B8s duplicated the faults of the
B2 Sir Sam Fay class.
However, they survived until 1947 when rapid withdrawals of all of the GCR 4-6-0 types started. The last B8 was withdrawn
in 1949.
The B8s entered LNER ownership with an intermediate superheater design with 24 elements and 24 flues.
The superheater and boiler heating data below, is for the final superheater design fitted to the B8s.
The last B8 was scrapped in 1949, and none of the B8s survived into preservation.
An O gauge (7mm scale) kit of the B8 is available from Gladiator.
Four of the eleven B8s had names:
The five B8s that entered BR ownership were allocated BR numbers, but
were withdrawn before receiving them.
Glenalmond was named after the Scottish home of the GCR's chairman, Sir Alexander Henderson.
Sutton Nelthorpe was named after a GCR director.
The other two named B8s were named after World War 1 military leaders. Earl Roberts was famous from the Boer War, but
travelled to France to encourage the troops after the Mons retreat.
Thank you to the Malcolm Peirson for the above photograph of B8 No. 5446 Earl Roberts of Kandahar.


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Order of Service - Opening & Dedication of St Andrew's Church, Trentham, Mar 1966 Reg. No: HT 30704
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- Order of service for the opening and dedication of St Andrew's Church, Trentham, Presbyterian denomination, on Saturday, 19 March 1966 at 2.30pm.
In 1958 the Presbytery Architectural Committee advised that the building required either extensive repairs or rebuilding. With the encouragement of Mrs Cluny (Jessie) Macpherson, mother of Hope Black, the congregation moved to build a new brick veneer church.
Reference to Mrs Cluny (Jessie) Macpherson can be found on page three of the centrefold giving the history of the church contained in the Order of Service, under the heading 'A New Church Planned.'
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- A beige card folded into four pages, printed both sides in blue ink. Contains a smaller centrefold of beige paper folded into four pages, of which three are printed in blue ink. Centrefold was originally held in place by one staple on the fold.
- Statement Of Significance:
- The Hope (Macpherson) Black Collection is a significant addition to Museum Victoria's working lives collection, it reveals the journey of a woman from depression era Melbourne and illustrates the power of education. It also reveals the often discriminatory policies in place in Victoria before the equal opportunity developments of the late 20th century. In balance though it also exposes the somewhat free expression possible for empowered women in this period. Hope Macpherson clearly states that in her day to day work she never felt discrimination and believes she was given great opportunity to pursue her career and aspirations. However, on analysis her role was often shaped by her gender and its perceived strengths and weaknesses; she was dissuaded from applying to become a taxidermist as it was 'an unsuitable job for a woman', although part of the first group of female scientists allowed to travel to Macquarie Island they were not permitted to camp on land with the male crew for fear of inciting passions. And finally after a distinguished career she was forced to resign her tenure as Australia's first female Curator when she married late in life, as a consequence of the Marriage bar.
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- Donation from Mrs Hope Black (nee Macpherson), 2011
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|Jessie Macpherson, Trentham, Victoria, Australia, Mar 1966
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|Trentham, Victoria, Australia, 19 Mar 1966
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The Elk County Catholic Crusader basketball team outscored the St. Marys Area Flying Dutchmen by a 30-23 margin in the second half to pick up a 51-46 District 9 League victory last night at the SMAHS Dutch Oven.
With 5:02 left in the third period, the Dutch held a 30-24 lead. In the final five minutes of the third period the Crusaders outscored the Dutch by a 13-5 margin to take a 35-34 lead with eight minutes remaining. In those final eight minutes Elk Catholic outscored St. Marys 16-12 to win the game.
"That was a really nice win," said ECCHS coach Aaron Straub.
"St. Marys has an excellent team and are getting better each night out. We feel fortunate to come away with the win tonight," said Straub.
"I thought we did a good job tonight fighting through foul trouble and some illness. We have to get sharper offensively and have a better understanding offensively," added coach Straub.
The Crusaders were led by Darren Simons with 20 points on two twos four threes and a four for five night from the foul line. Simons also led Elk in rebounding with seven. Tyler Herzing finished with 16 points on four field goals and an eight for eight night from the foul line.
The Dutch offense was led by Ryan Uhl with 14 points on six field goals and a two for two night from the foul line. He finished the night with 12 rebounds. Dylan Reigel and Justin Quiggle were next in the scoring for the Dutch with seven points each.
"The complexion of the game changed when we lost both our big men (Ryan Mancuso, Ryan Uhl) to fouls. We have to get better at not fouling," said St. Marys coach Mark Guido.
"The kids played well tonight. This is the type of game you have to use to get better," added coach Guido.
The game started out as a back and forth affair as the Crusaders went up 6-0 on two trifectas by Simons. Reigel and Quiggle scored to make it 6-4. Foul shots by Tyler Herzing made the score 8-4. Uhl and Eric Wehler traded buckets with Uhl scoring again on a putback. Luke Daghir sank one of two foul shots as Elk led 11-8. Quiggle hit a two and Uhl converted a three-point play as the Dutch led 13-11. Herzing tied the game with a field goal. Quiggle converted a foul shot as St. Marys led 14-13 at the end of the first period.
Jordan Weinzierl converted two foul shots for the Dutch to open the second quarter. Simons scored at the 5:48 mark with Ricky Pearsall adding a foul shot for ECC with 5:17 left to tie the game at 16. Ryan Mancuso scored on a putback then added two foul shots giving St. Marys the 20-16 lead. Ben Daghir converted two foul shots cutting the St. Marys lead to 20-18. Weinzierl and Pearsall traded three giving St. Marys the 23-21 lead at the half.
Reigel gave St. Marys the 25-21 lead to start the second half. Simons hit a three making it 25-24. Mancuso converted two foul shots with Reigel adding a three giving St. Marys the 30-24 lead. Simons scored on a putback with Herzing converting four of four from the line then adding a field goal as Elk took a 32-30 lead. Bob Vollmer tied the game with a field goal for the Dutch. Uhl gave St. Marys the 34-32 lead. Wehler hit a three for Elk giving the Crusaders the 35-34 lead with eight minutes remaining.
Herzing and Uhl exchanged buckets to open the fourth quarter. Jimmy Werner converted one of two for the Dutch from the line making it 37-all. At the 6:10 mark, Mancuso fouled out for St. Marys. Simons hit a three at the 5:55 mark giving Elk the 40-37 lead. Uhl converted a three-point play as Josh Gebauer fouled out for ECC on the play. Mitchel Haberberger converted one of two giving ECC the 41-40 lead with 4:44 left. Herzing and Vollmer traded buckets. At the 1:59 Uhl fouled out of the contest as Pearsall converted one of two foul shots, 44-42. Simons sank two foul shots with 1:43 left, 46-42. With 35 seconds left Herzing sank two foul shots giving Elk the 48-42 lead. Quiggle cut it to 48-44 before Simons sank two more foul shots, 50-44. Ben Daghir sank one of two foul shots making it 51-44. Werner scored for the Dutch with 11 seconds remaining making the final score 51-46 in favor of the Crusaders.
Game notes
The Crusaders are now 8-3 on the season and are 2-1 in District 9 League play.
The Dutchmen are now 8-3 on the season and 3-1 in District 9 League play.
The Dutch return to action next Tuesday when they travel to Punxsutawney for a District 9 League game.
The Crusaders will return to action next Wednesday when they travel to Curwensville for an AML contest.
The Crusaders were guilty of 10 turnovers while the Dutch turned the ball over 12 times.
Ricky Pearsall 0-1-2-4-5, Tyler Herzing 4-0-8-8-16, Ben Crowe 0-0-0-0-0, Eric Wehler 1-1-0-3-5, Darren Simons 2-4-4-5-20, Mitchel Haberberger 0-0-1-2-1, Ben Daghir 0-0-3-4-3, Luke Daghir 0-0-1-2-1, Josh Gebauer 0-0-0-0-0. Totals 7-6-19-28-51.
St. Marys 46
Jordan Weinzierl 0-1-2-2-5, Ryan Hockman 0-0-0-0-0, Bob Vollmer 2-0-0-3-4, Dylan Reigel 2-1-0-0-7, Ryan Uhl 6-0-2-2-14, Justin Quiggle 3-0-1-4-7, Ryan Mancuso 1-0-4-4-6, Jimmy Werner 1-0-1-2-3. Totals 15-2-10-17-46.
Score by quarters
ECC JVs win
The Elk County Catholic junior varsity defeated the St. Marys squad by a 49-37 score.
Elk took a 10-5 first period lead and outscored St. Marys 13-9 for a 23-14 halftime lead.
The Crusaders outscored the Dutch 15-11 in the third period. In the fourth quarter St. Marys outscored Elk 12-11 making the final score 49-37 in favor of the Crusaders.
ECCHS scoring: Clayton Housler 13, Devin Constable 6, Hank Cappiello 5, Jack Herzing 7, Brock McCullough 16, Shea Meyer 2.
St. Marys scoring: Matt Kronenwetter 2, Justin Beimel 6, Caleb Bennett 12, Brett Lanzel 2, Sam Guido 3, Brandon Vollmer 2, Logan Gilmore 8, Shajuan Carrero 2.


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"The view is amazing and ideal location on the island making it easy to get to Chaweng and Fishermans village easily. You get the view because you are on a very steep hill and not all transport can get up the hill but the manager arranged a minibus taxi that we mainly used throughout our 3 week stay. Sometimes a taxi will drop below taxi, and while it isn't a long walk it is very steep so something to bear in mind if walking difficulties etc. There is plenty of space in the property for all guests and furnishings are comfortable. However please note the staircase to upstairs is external at the side of the property which is not stated anywhere and was not ideal for us because of sleeping arrangements. This meant our older children were separated from us and had to be locked in downstairs and because you can't hear between the floors we couldn't hear the kids when they were sick on a few nights. It will work for some families and families sharing but feel its important to know so you can make decision if suitable. The manager of the property was very helpful and any issues were quickly resolved and he was contactable immediately, nothing was too much trouble. There are villas being built behind and to the side of the villa, which meant we were woke every morning at 7am when banging and work started and so relaxing by the pool wasn't as peaceful as we would have liked, especially when you just wanted to enjoy the tranquil view. Once the main structures up (which won't be too long) the noise should stop. We can see why you would want to build in this location, the view is gorgeous, however if we had known we probably would have chosen an alternative until the building works completed as we love to relax by a pool and indeed not have to get up earlier than when we go to work at home! This was our 3rd visit to the island, we love the beaches, the food and the people. We didn't try the local hotel by the villa but it looked very nice. We did charter a boat over to koh phanagn with samui boat charter which were better value than others we looked at. A fantastic day out, great boat and crew and would recommend the trip and the company. Overall we had a lovely holiday but feel the above should have been noted and have mentioned for others incase they are factors that could spoil a holiday and you want to check building progress."Guest: Alison J. Date of Stay: July 2014 Review Submitted: October 4, 2014View listing
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This fantastic complete astronomy starter kit featuring the Sky Watcher Capricorn Classic 900 (70mm x 900mm) refracting telescope and a host of accessories that normally cost Ł100 alone to get anyone, young or old, started in the fascinating hobby of astronomy!
The Classic 900 is an ideal scope to get started in astronomy (a lot better than my first 2" scope! James A&NC) and has a superb 70mm air-spaced achromatic doublet primary lens and comes supplied with a well-engineered German equatorial mounting (picture D) with fully geared manual slow-motion hand controls on each axis (see picture B,2)and a rigid aluminium full height field tripod (just the tripod and mount is amazing and looks like it would cost Ł150 on its own!).
With our small web pages we are going to struggle to list all of the features this stunning kit has to offer for only £89.99 (inc UK p&p!) but here goes!
Supplied with the unique Classic 900 kit are three good quality eyepieces - 4mm, 10mm, and 20mm (see below for full specification) giving a useful range of magnifications from high to medium and lower power (wide-angle). The instruction manual (in well-written English!) is illustrated, and if this is not enough guidance we have included two great guide books.
Free: astronomy guide books offer To make sure you get the most from the Classic 900 we have included popular astronomy guide books. These superbly written and fully illustrated guides provide expert, easy-to-understand guidance on what to see in the night sky for all the seasons of the year. Fully illustrated with colour diagrams and easy-to-use star maps, the guides together with the Classic 900's super electronic red dot LED finder will allow you to discover the extraordinary wonders to be found on any clear night in the skies above Britain the very first night you use the telescope!
To help find your way among the stars and constellations there's a fantastic electronic red dot LED finder! Red dot finder - it's a clever little gadget that you switch on and it appears to project a red dot on the sky - simply place the red dot on the target you wish to look at! (the red dot finder can even be used during the day to find terrestrial targets).
To make the best use of the red dot finder the kit also includes Philip's Star Finder FREE. This well written 64 page guide book has easy-to-understand star maps to help you find the most interesting objects in the night sky all-year round.
And to make sure you can see what you are doing without spoiling your dark-adapted vision we've included a special red LED torch FREE that only emits red light of a wavelength that will not reduce the eyes' dark-adapted sensitivity. Also includes a useful 2x Barlow lens to allow you to double the magnification of any eyepiece used. Simply pop the eyepiece into the Barlow lens and put the combined unit into the scope as you would the eyepiece and the Barlow will double the magnification of that eyepiece - it's like getting six eyepieces with the scope instead of three!
This outfit is our best ever astronomy starter kit - in fact, all you will need to supply is a clear night!
Telescope specifications
Primary lens: Air-spaced achromatic doublet
Focal length: 900mm
Aperture: 70mm (f13)
Magnification with supplied eyepieces:
45x,90x,180x,and 225x.
This is achieved with the following combinations:
4mm = 225x plus, 10mm = 90x plus Barlow = 180x, 25mm = 45x plus Barlow = 90x,
Mounting: German equatorial with dual-axis manual slow motions
So what's so great about the Sky-Watcher Classic 900 telescope kit?
Well, overlooking the fact that it has everything you need to get going (apart from a clear night that is!) Classic 900 is a great truly "classic" astronomy telescope. It has a decent-sized aperture, 70mm (2 and 3/4 inch in old money!) to achieve high resolution images, and has a useful long focal length to achieve high magnifications without making the telescope too difficult to use.
At two or three times the price, the Sky-Watcher 900 is a well-made scope - at our price it's extraordinary value for money. The telescope is well equipped with an ultra modern red-dot finder scope (to make pointing and target finding easy) and the simple two-screw collimation system shows a nice attention to detail and user convenience. As well as direct photography through the scope - you can also get into guided astro-photography with this scope. The tube rings (see picture C,1) have a tripod fitting boss that allows cameras to be attached directly to the telescope mount for tracked photography.
Fully upgradable! The equatorial mount can be upgraded with an RA motor to track the stars - far too many lower-cost scopes offer no kind of upgrade path and if you really get bitten by the hobby (and you may well with this great scope) with inferior instruments you have nowhere to go but to buy a new scope. In fact, Scopes'n'Skies main forte is supplying astronomy telescope accessories and the Classic 900 can be upgraded and added to in many different ways. For example, it has a standard 1.25" eyepiece holder (regarded as the hallmark of a serious telescope, by the way) allowing a wide range of additional accessories to be attached. These accessories include camera adaptors (to try your hand at astro-photography), Barlow and amplification lenses (like the one included, to increase the magnification without using short, difficult to use, eyepieces), as well as wide-angle and higher-powered specialist eyepieces and other accessories to make the telescope easier to use on terrestrial targets. Even a Solar observation filter is also available for the Classic 900.
What can you see with the Sky-Watcher Classic 900 telescope?
At low to medium power the ancient landscape of the Moon becomes a fabulously intricate panorama of craters, rays and rills. At higher powers individual crater systems can be explored. The planet Mars will show many details on its surface and the polar cap can be seen during ideal observing conditions. At good observing times, when observed at just 50x or higher magnification, the planet Jupiter will appear as a banded disc larger in size than you normally see the full Moon with the unaided eye! The cloud belts of Jupiter will show ever changing detail that will show drift across the planet's face in just a few minutes. The four main moons of Jupiter will be seen orbiting the giant planet, sometimes casting shadows onto Jupiter's dense cloudy atmosphere. The planet Saturn will show its magnificent ring system and its bright famous moon Titan. These are just a few of the things that can be seen in our own solar system with the Classic 900 telescope.
A fantastic introduction to the lifelong hobby of astronomy!


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GOTTCENT: College Dorms
Soon it will be time for this year's high school grads to head off for college, and many families will be faced with a major question: Should their new freshman live on or off campus?
For many attending the local university, the answer is clear: Stay home and save money. Traveling back and forth each day will be a lot cheaper than paying for room and board, when those very things can be provided at home as they have been all along. No-brainer.
However, having spent 46 years as a student and teacher in higher education, I want to argue the other side. If at all possible, send your student to a dormitory.
When I was a freshman, I read an essay whose title and author I've long forgotten but whose point stays with me today. The writer was fantasizing about having oodles of money and starting his own college. He acknowledged that many such benefactors would begin by constructing classrooms and laboratories. Yet those were no higher than third on his priority list.
In second place was a library. And at the top of his list were dorms.
His idea bemused me, for I was actually living at home at the time and commuting to campus each day. Why would I want to attend a school, I wondered, that had dorms and a library, but had not yet constructed classrooms?
Two years later I transferred to another college in a town four hours away. At first I lived in an apartment, but eventually I moved into the dorms. And then I began to realize the wisdom of the essay writer's thoughts.
Living in a dorm, even for only a few years, taught me more than all my classroom and lab hours combined. I learned about people from other parts of the country and world, not from textbooks, but from those people themselves. I encountered their customs, their food, their ideas.
I began to realize that not everyone shared the same thoughts as my family and myself. I engaged in late-night bull sessions, usually not about class assignments but about things that mattered in other ways: politics, religion, culture. I found myself molded in ways I didn't even realize till years later.
It's this, I think, more than the added expense, that makes many parents reluctant to have their kids live on campus. They're afraid they're going to pick up wacky ideas, dangerous philosophies that will scar them for life.
This is usually an unfounded fear. If you've raised your children well, they're not going to abandon the values you've instilled in them just because they're rooming with someone who has different values. But they are going to learn that those different values exist, that some of them may even have merit, that in any case they need to be confronted and understood.
This may sound traitorous to the teaching profession, but those things are not going to happen in class. They're going to happen, unintentionally, sporadically, over a midnight pizza, in ways that simply cannot happen at home.
Don't be afraid to take the plunge. To get the full value of a college experience, you need to live there 24/7 and soak up all that you can.
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She carried water that day. She'd expected to be balancing buckets over her shoulders like in the schoolbooks, but they fitted her with a bubble-suit that distributed the weight over her whole body and then filled it up with a hose until she weighed nearly twice what she normally did. Other kids were in the stairwells wearing identical bubble-suits, sloshing up the steps to old peoples' flats that smelled funny. The old women and men that Valentine saw that day pinched her cheeks and then emptied out her bubble-suit into their cisterns.
It was exhausting work, and by the end of the day she had stopped making even perfunctory conversation with the other water-carriers. The old people she met at the day's end were bitter about being left alone and thirsty all day, and they snapped at her and didn't thank her at all.
She picked Trover up from the creche, and he demanded that he be carried, and she had half a mind to toss him down the stairs. But she noticed that he had a b
It certainly had me intrigued from the beginning. It was quick to read, but will hang in your head for much longer. At times it was so vivid, you could almost smell the stench of suffering and feel the pains and delerium of hunger. What people do in order to survive. Disturbing at times, but well worth it. I will be reading more of his works!
Although this a science fiction book, the context is closer to World War II. The author mentions his inspiration was his Grandmother surviving two years during the siege of Stalingrad. Its teen protagonist suffers and survives in the most desperate of circumstances. A quick page turner, read it in one night. The language and situations pull no punches, so I would recommend for older teens.
The premise sounds like just too much at once: robots, war, zombies, a wizard, starvation. But somehow it all comes together for a riveting story. I'd love to see it expanded into a full-length novel.
A young teenage girl lives in the perfect world where zombieness is cured an all things you need is printed out. But then the siege beginns and all changes. Hunger and violence becomes her world. The parents dies one after one and she has to take care of her little brother. Only a wizard gives her help. And then it's hers to finnish the war ...
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We took the kids to see "Disney on Ice" at the Boston Garden today, and since parking in Boston usually a.) is a pain in the ass and b.) costs a small fortune, we parked just outside the city and took the subway two stops to the Garden. I do believe it was Jayna's first time on the subway, and she was slightly intimidated, but settled in just fine, thanks in part to her veteran-of-the-subway brother.
Zan's most memorable subway experience—which he recounted for us today—happened in April of last year, when he and I went to see a daytime Red Sox game on a Massachusetts holiday known as Patriot's Day. It is on that day each April that the Boston Marathon takes place.
For those of you who are math fans, here's a little equation for you: [Red Sox day game] + [Boston Marathon] + [Boston subway system] = [mass fucking pandemonium]²
After standing in the midst of a sea of people at an underground station and watching about five overloaded trains pass through, I finally played the "taking my kid to a ballgame" card, which involved picking Zan up in my arms as the next train was pulling in and saying just loud enough for the several rows of people between us and the tracks to hear, "Don't worry, buddy, we'll make it in time for the first pitch." It was like I said "Abracadabra," because two Sox-cap-wearing guys up front parted the sea for us and said, "Go 'head, pal."
There was just enough room for the two of us to squeeze on board, and we then rode for about a half-dozen stops while sandwiched in the middle of the standing-room-only car … which was particularly fun for Zan, since eye-level for him at the time was ass-level for everyone else.
On the way home after the game, it was even worse. We managed to get two seats, but then the train stopped in the tube, between stations, for about 15 minutes … with absolutely no ventilation whatsoever. We were drenched with sweat, and the sweltering conditions quickly konked out the already-tired Zan, who I fanned with one of those foam "Sox are No. 1!" index-finger things the entire time. Finally, we started moving, then pulled into the next station, where we were told everyone had to disembark because the train we were on was being taken out of service. Must've needed to get to its other job … as a sauna. Thus, we had to wait around for another train that had enough room for us to shoehorn ourselves on board.
With all of that in mind, it amazes me that Zan couldn't wait to take the train into the city today. Then again, every subway ride we ever take from now until eternity will almost surely be more pleasant than the one we took on Patriot's Day. Kind of like getting struck by lightning: probably not gonna happen twice … particularly since never, ever, ever again shall we even consider using the subway on Marathon Monday.
UPDATE: Yesterday, when I wrote the part about the sweltering-hot train stopping in the tube, I vaguely recalled that another passenger had broken the silence with a terribly funny remark, but couldn't remember what he said. It just occurred to me:
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The National Rifle Association has put out a statement saying it is "prepared to offer meaningful contributions" to prevent more violence like that which occurred in Newtown, Conn., last week. The organization said it will hold a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
The release states:
"The National Rifle Association of America is made up of four million moms and dads, sons and daughters – and we were shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders in Newtown.
"Out of respect for the families, and as a matter of common decency, we have given time for mourning, prayer and a full investigation of the facts before commenting.
"The NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.
"The NRA is planning to hold a major news conference in the Washington, DC area on Friday, December 21.
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Wondering why Alvaro became Kosmo? Think you could mack The Pick Up Artist in a bar? Desperate to know why Kosmo thinks Pradeep is a faker?
The second half of our chat with The Pick Up Artist winner has all the goods on the show that Kosmo calls "an underground revolution."
Why did you change your name to Kosmo?
Kosmo is my breakdancing name. I got it when I was 10-years old and I used to breakdance in Miami. People couldn't figure out what I was thinking, so they called me Kosmo. I like it better. I'm out there, I'm not normal at all.
Was the show experience harder than it looked?
Hell yeah! They made it look easy on TV. It's like going out on the battle field. Going in that bus, everyone was shaking. I was sweating and stuttering and started to think about going home.
Who did you think was going to be your biggest competition?
Joe W. He looked like he didn't need any training at all. He seemed like he had no problem talking to women.
I thought Joe D. was gonna win it because he seemed like the underdog.
Had you kissed a lot of girls before you got it on the show?
I've kissed girls, yeah I have. But they've all been kind of drunken kisses. We'd make out, and they'd been like "Holy cow you're a good kisser." But I would just be quiet and not say anything so they would leave. Latinos are born to make out, like I said.
How has it been since you left?
There is no one that I will not walk up to and talk to. Without me sounding conceited, I don't care if it's Halle Berry now or a 450-pound ugly woman. I'm not intimidated anymore.
So do you get picked up a lot now?
Women come up to me all the time now, and ask me the same thing. And if they don't know what to say, I get bored. So it is what you have to say. I could meet the most beautiful woman, but if she has nothing to say I'm not interested.
Were you scared during the finale?
Brady was right when he said I was getting competitive. The whole time I didn't take it as a competition. This is why I love this show so much – it's not about us arguing with each other like other reality TV shows. We made a pact and we were connected. I never felt the whole thing was a competition until the last show. I wanted the last competition to be me versus Brady – toe to toe.
Could you relate to Kip at all? He looked like he was having a panic attack at one point during the final competition.
When we were done with the whole thing, I said "Kip I wanted you to look at me right now. I don't give a f*ck about the money, bro. Oh my god you just scared the sh*t out of me because you remind me of me so much."
What's next for you?
I have a movie coming out this November called Shadowboxer 2, and I lost twelve pounds for this role, so I look really sexy. And I have two other films coming up in December and January.
Were you surprised that the show was going to be a hit?
No, I felt like we were starting a revolution, like Fight Club, an underground society. I feel like it's never been done before. And I felt like the people they picked were so perfect. We were fighting within ourselves to be better people. It's not like I ever picked a fight with Joe D. because he stole my soap or something. I am not a fan of reality shows, so I was really skeptical. But it was a sign from God.
So it was worth it?
Oh yeah. If they told me right now that I could either do a movie with Robert DeNiro or The Pick Up Artist, I would pick The Pick Up Artist. It changed my life.
Any other last words?
I'm not trying to hide that I am an actor and just because I am an actor doesn't mean the show is fake. In fact – Pradeep was the one acting, because I think acting is when you hide your emotions. To me, that's acting, and to me I wasn't acting, because I was what I was –if there was or wasn't a camera on me.
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Last year, Xavier School installed a wastewater recycling plant that is expected to provide at least 60% of its current raw water consumption. The system collects water from drainages, drainpipes, and toilets, and through a membrane-based process, treats the water for reuse for irrigation of the football fields, general cleaning, and toilet flushing.
While the recycled water is certified for standards based on the US Environmental Protection Agency 2004 policy, this would only be recycled back for use on non-human contact purposes. All the water used for these functions comprise around 60% of Xavier's total water bill.
This investment in water recycling is part of the school's ongoing program to become more responsible in the use of resources, as well as a continuing effort to reduce costs without sacrificing the welfare and best interests of the community. The school partnered with Technotest Inc. (www.technotestinc.com) to commission this process and system which involves the use of both chemical and membrane-technology that is similar to what Singapore uses to treat their wastewater for reuse and recycling.
Completed and running since November 2009, the system required extensive replacement of pipes and the construction of the treatment system. The capital investment, based on the projected savings in the monthly water bill, should be recovered in 3.5 years. More than the cost benefits, the system serves to underscore the school's commitment to conservation as a sound environmental philosophy. With this move, Xavier School becomes the first academic institution in the Philippines to have its own waste-water recycling system.
Consider these facts:
• A DENR study released in 2007 indicated that the Philippines would likely face a severe crisis in fresh water supply by the year 2010.
• The study further showed that the Philippines ranked second to the lowest among Southeast Asian countries in fresh water availability.
• The supply problem would be particularly critical in Metro Manila, where the rampant extraction of ground water has resulted in the lowering of the water table and a consequent increase in water salinity. (Xavier School has shut down its deep well since 2002 precisely due to this problem.)
In light of increasingly severe climate changes such as the El Nino phenomenon, and the deepening water crisis that future generations of Filipinos are likely to face, Xavier School hopes the entire Xavier community will join in and embrace conservation to preserve the rapidly dwindling lifegiving resource of clean fresh water.


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So, it's been a while, and in case any of you had wondered where I had disappeared to, I am back to fill you in on the latest happenings in my neck of the woods. Considering it has been over a month, I have a lot tell you, so buckle up. *que Top Gun theme song*
A New Season, A New Position
I love this time of year. There is something about November to New Year's Eve that is simply magical. Everything about the smell of the air, the smell of the kitchen, and the smell of grandma's perfume intoxicates my senses and consumes my soul. And oh yeah, I get to celebrate my birthday!
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Alright folks, it's time for an update; the scoop, this dish, the latest happenings. A little FYI, if you will. Forgive me; my coffee is stronger than normal this morning.
Since we met last, progression on the program has been both productive and sluggish.
Productive in that meetings are set, conversations have been had, and a "plan…
This past weekend was pretty amazing. Getting a quick trip home, full of family and friends, was just what the doctor ordered. Although, work was on my mind … especially Friday.
Curtis Fletcher informed me before I left on Thursday that he would be attending the entire cabinet meeting as a representative for Rick…
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Another week, another update, another way that God is taking things into His hands.
After a number of revisions, I presented the business case to Rick Davis, the head of the marketing department. Remember him? His approval and support is crucial . . . and we have it.
The meeting went well; questions…
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Setting: Sitting in the arms of the big Jesus statue in the Compassion foyer. Eyes closed. I'm so tired.
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RBS, Lloyds Cut by Moody's on Declining Government Support
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Moody's Investors Service cut the senior debt and deposit ratings of 12 British lenders including Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Lloyds Banking Group Plc, saying the government would be less likely to provide support in the event of failure.
Lloyds TSB Bank Plc, Santander UK Plc and Co-Operative Bank Plc had their ratings lowered one step by Moody's, while RBS and Nationwide Building Society were cut two levels. Seven smaller building societies were cut from one to five levels, the rating company said in a statement today. Clydesdale Bank was confirmed at A2, with a negative outlook.
"Moody's has pulled the trigger a little early," said Michael Symonds, a credit analyst at Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd. said in a note today. "The escalation of the sovereign and banking crisis" will "result in a broad government-backed recapitalization of the continent's banks," he said.
The Bank of England, the Financial Services Authority and the Treasury have provided guidance that banks that fail in the future shouldn't expect a taxpayer-funded bailout, Moody's said. The government-sponsored Independent Commission on Banking's report published last month is "credit-negative for bondholders longer-term as they indicate that new structures, such as ring-fencing, could be introduced to aid resolution and allow senior bondholders to share the burden of bank failure," the service said.
Future Support
"Moody's reassessment assumes a decrease in the probability that the U.K. government would provide future support to financial institutions if needed," Moody's said in the statement.
RBS, which rose 7.8 percent yesterday, traded down 3 percent to 23.62 pence, while Lloyds was down 3.4 percent to 34.66 pence. The stocks have declined by 40 percent and 47 percent respectively this year.
"The equity market is already ahead of Moody's as viewing sovereigns as weak and therefore sovereign support to banks as being weak," said Alex Potter, an analyst at Berenberg Bank in London. "This is predicated purely on the change of assumptions from Moody's on support from the U.K. government; this is nothing to do with saying RBS itself is weaker."
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RBS said it has made "significant progress" in strengthening its credit profile since 2008, and reducing its loan-to-deposit ratio to 114 percent from 154 percent, in a separate statement. The bank gained 45.5 billion pounds of taxpayer aid to lift its capital following the 2008 banking crisis.
"One of the reasons they're doing this is they think the British government is moving in the direction of trying to get away from guaranteeing the biggest banks in Britain," Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne told BBC Radio 4's "Today" program. "In other words, trying to move away from the too big to fail problem."
Lloyds said "it is important to note that both the standalone rating and short-term ratings remain unchanged," in an e-mailed statement. "This change will have minimal impact on our funding costs".
RBS said it is one of the most strongly capitalized banks in Europe following a newspaper report saying it might need extra capital after a new round of European Union stress tests.
"The design of any new application of the EU stress tests is completely up in the air," RBS said in an e-mailed statement following the story in the Financial Times. "Any analysis of how any bank will be affected is nothing more than speculation."
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European lenders may need as much as 200 billion euros ($269 billion) of additional capital, according to the International Monetary Fund's European head Antonio Borges.
"RBS reported an 11.1 percent Core Tier 1 capital ratio as at 30 June 2011, which places us among the strongest capitalized banks in Europe," the bank said.
In Europe and elsewhere "there is a desire to ensure that if there are problems at banks in the future, that it's also debt holders and not just equity holders and subordinated bondholders that share that pain, and that's what we're reflecting in our ratings here," Elisabeth Rudman, senior vice president at Moody's, said in a telephone interview. "It's not that we think they'll let these banks fall apart in a crisis."
RBS had a five-grade increase in its ratings because of implicit government support and Lloyds had a four-level benefit, which Moody's has lowered, though not eliminated, she said.
"Three notches is a significant advantage for banks that otherwise would be on life-support," wrote Cornelius Hurley, a law professor at Boston University, in an e-mail.
For the customer-owned building societies, "these institutions are smaller, to resolve and do an orderly wind-down," said Rudman. "That's why we decided with these smaller institutions, we're not including any systemic support into the debt rating."
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Mitsubishi has come pretty much out of the blue with this and they're seriously up to the teasing business.
The press release at Mitsubishi hasn't gotten a break either so let's see what they've just come up with.
The Mitsubishi Motor Corporation plans to build a new plant in Thailand at a location called Laem Chabang Industrial Estate. The new Mitsubishi plant will be situated somewhere in the Chonburi province and is just 60 miles away from Bangkok.
The new plant the Japanese plan to build in Thailand isn't the big news however. The big news lies within what Mitsubishi plans to build over there.
According to Mitsubishi's press release the new Thai plant will be the birthplace of a new small city car.
To further sweeten the deal Mitsubishi have released some renders/sketches to tease us with what the little city runabout might look like.
On first impressions I find it hard to differentiate it from the sketches Kia released just days ago of their future version of the Picanto.
That is slightly worrying but given the fact that these are for the moment no more than drawings they might be pretty far away from what the actual production versions of this car may look like.
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May 5, 2012 at 11:18 pm
So, there was nothing wrong with this guys' reeviw because by the end of the reeviw he realizes these are two completely different cars meant for different things. The EVO is an econo box with enough computer and drive-train goodies to make anyone look like a star on the track. That's just it, it's a track toy some can put up with on the street. This goes for the STI too. Now, onto the R. Yes, it's based off an econo box but, fit and finish on VW has always been a step above for its price point. With that aside, the R is not a track toy. This is a car you can live with everyday. It does everything you want a street car to do. It's sporty and fun to drive, that's a VW. If it's not fast enough for you, and you want to defeat the ASR/ESC add some software, a driveable 300hp+ is possible. Remember, that's the same engine found in the S3. It won't punish you at the pump either like the EVO and STI. Once again, the R is not a track toy. If you wanna drive a rally car to work everyday, go for it. You wanna be comfy, that's your choice too. I just commuted in a rain/thunder storm on a CBR last night.
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In the lead up to the Today sessions, Elvis won a Grammy® for 'Best Inspirational Performance' of 1975. The award was for an in-concert version of "How Great Thou Art," and it couldn't have come at a better time. The chance to take possession of the treasured trophy came when Elvis flew out to the coast in readiness to rehearse and record at RCA's studio in Hollywood. Elvis' last studio album, like his first, was made up of songs he chose and loved.
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President Obama's secret offer to Russia on scrapping an Eastern European missile defense shield is a debacle. Obama sent a letter to Dmitri Mevedev last month suggesting the U.S. would abandon its plan to deploy a missile intercept system in Poland and the Czech Republic if Moscow got Iran to halt its nuclear program. The worst part of the offer is not that the U.S. president was willing to turn his back on our Eastern European allies (that's just a dangerous and depressing long-term side-effect); it's that the offer was flatly rejected by Moscow. This is called diplomatic failure. The New York Times buries the lede five paragraphs in:
When asked about the letter on Tuesday, according to the Interfax news service, Mr. Medvedev said that the Kremlin had ruled out the notion of a deal in which the United States would shelve its planned missile defense system in exchange for Russia's help with preventing Iran from developing weapons.
"No one links these issues to any exchange, especially on the Iran issue," Mr. Medvedev said at a news conference in Madrid, where he was visiting to boost economic and political ties. "We are working very closely with our U.S. colleagues on the issue of Iran's nuclear program."
Barack Obama is turning into a bizarro Don Corleone: He makes offers you can't not refuse. Here are the fruits of "smart power" so far: Iran responds to President Obama's "extended hand" by demanding apologies for a litany of American crimes; China has been given an American green-light to ramp up undisguised human rights abuses; the Russian president brushed off Obama's appeal for help like so much dandruff; and Eastern Europe, where George W. Bush had successfully built up a spate of American allies, has been cut loose.
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"For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God" (2 Corinthians 4:15) expresses the heart of the TWR team who traveled to Central Europe last week to minister among the Roma (formerly called "Gypsies") people. They were blessed!
The team included TWR President Lauren Libby, TWR Director of Radio Partnerships John Summerville and six radio executives from the United States. In Romania and Bulgaria, TWR staff joined them in their outreach to distribute pre-tuned, solar-powered radios among this people group who are the most despised, persecuted and marginalized in Central Europe.
I recall when TWR first began airing programs to the Roma. Initially, listener responses were few, because the Roma are an oral society. Because of the poverty and societal discrimination they face, many have a minimal education and are nonreaders. Additionally, there is not a complete Bible translation in the Roma language.
The gospel broadcasts in their own heart language (TWR airs programming in seven Roma dialects) had and continues to have a tremendous impact in their lives. We've learned that several Roma churches formed as a result of the broadcasts. Last week, the TWR team had an opportunity to worship together in a Roma church of about 100 people in Bulgaria, all of whom were fairly new Christians. "It's like being in the first century and seeing the gospel take root among a people for the first time—very exciting!" said Lauren.
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How the Art of Social Practice Is Changing the World, One Row House at a Time
Social practice is going mainstream as more artists focus their work on making an impact on problems like homelessness and pollution. But the question of how to judge activist art remains elusive
By Carolina Miranda | ARTnews
This article originally appeared here
Last summer, Thomas Hirschhorn constructed the final edition in a series of "monuments" commemorating thinkers he admires. Like the Swiss artist's other monuments, this one was crude-resembling a feverishly built backyard fort made from plywood and packing tape-and assembled with the help of the community that hosted the project. In this case, his collaborators were the residents of Forest Houses, an austere arrangement of public-housing towers dating back to 1956 in New York's South Bronx.
Hirschhorn designed his _Gramsci Monument_-in honor of Marxist political theorist Antonio Gramsci-to encourage interaction. "The question of the site," he wrote in a text that accompanied the work, "is a question of human encounter." And for its ten-week duration, the monument was just that: a place for panel discussions, seminars, Latin-music performances, and art workshops. Kids ran up and down the ramps. Local poets took to an open microphone to read their stanzas. On family day, someone showed up with a horse.
"Even on a rainy day, it was special," recalls Yasmil Raymond, curator at the Dia Art Foundation, which organized the project. "There was one day where Marcus Steinweg"-the philosopher-"was giving a lecture, and there were people there in raincoats listening to him." One resident of the Forest Houses told the blog Art F City: "A lot of people up there have said they're gonna cry when it's down. I dunno if I'm gonna cry, but I'm gonna miss it a lot."
This type of art of the encounter, frequently referred to as "social practice," has been having a moment in art circles-albeit a moment that dates back a couple of decades. In that time, artists such as Rick Lowe in Houston and Theaster Gates in Chicago have turned urban renewal into an art form, transforming abandoned buildings into thriving cultural hubs. In Detroit, the Museum of Contemporary Art harbors Mobile Homestead, one of Mike Kelley's final works, a near-exact replica of his childhood home, which now serves as an ever-evolving community center.
And the New Orleans Museum of Art recently opened the doors on "Mel Chin: Rematch," a career retrospective of the Texas artist, who has long produced socially driven projects. Chin's latest, Operation Paydirt/Fundred Dollar Bill Project, brings together groups of children and scientists to draw awareness to the issue of lead-contaminated soil. "The esthetic component is key," says Miranda Lash, curator of modern and contemporary art at NOMA, where the show remains on view through May 25. "But the involvement of children is a vital part of the piece as well. Children are the most affected by lead contamination, so he wanted children to be part of the solution."
Certainly, the notion of participatory art is not new. The Surrealists were staging hands-on events in Paris almost a century ago. In the 1950s and '60s, figures like Allan Kaprow and members of Fluxus were turning collective actions into art. The '70s provided all manner of boundary-blurring social projects: from Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago's Womanhouse in Los Angeles-which was part art installation, part educational facility, part performance space-to Mierle Laderman Ukeles's pieces involving workers at the New York City Department of Sanitation. (She remains an artist in residence there to this day.) All of these traditions, and many others, have made their way into social practice, a stream of participatory art that tends to display a strong sociological and political bent, often in an effort to draw attention to social ills and conditions. Sometimes, these projects are meant to incite empowerment or change in a community.
Tom Finkelpearl is the author of What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation, published last year by Duke University Press. He is also director of the Queens Museum in New York, which sponsored, along with the public-art nonprofit Creative Time, Tania Bruguera's Immigrant Movement International, a piece begun in 2010 that resulted in the creation of a community center for immigrants in Corona, Queens. Finkelpearl defines social practice as "art that's socially engaged, where the social interaction is at some level the art."
He thinks that the popularity of social practice among today's artists reflects a pendulum swing away from the art market. "It's a reaction against the excesses of individualism," he says. Indeed, with its ephemeral gatherings and activist happenings, social practice generally produces little in the way of salable objects. (Of the artists mentioned in this story, a slim minority have gallery representation, such as Hirschhorn and Gates, who show at Gladstone Gallery in New York and White Cube in London, respectively.)
Nato Thompson, chief curator of Creative Time, thinks that the form is a byproduct of our technology-reliant times. "I mean, doesn't any kind of human interaction that isn't on the Internet just feel very special?" he asks. Last fall, Creative Time and the Brooklyn Museum staged Suzanne Lacy's Between the Door and the Street, in which 400 mostly female participants decked out in lemon-yellow scarves took over a brownstone-lined block in Brooklyn to discuss issues of gender, race, and class with passersby.
This September, Creative Time is cohosting a series of community-based commissions that will take place at the Weeksville Heritage Center, a historic African American site in Brooklyn. Thompson points out that these kinds of manufactured encounters aren't unique to the art world. "The entire foundation of the Apple Store was that it would be a place of human relations," he says. "Sales people were trained to be empathetic, and the cash register was purposely kept hidden. There is a global interest in human relationships."
It is in academia, perhaps, that the art of social practice has gained the most traction. In 2005, the California College of the Arts (CCA) began offering social practice as a concentration within its M.F.A. program and soon put it in the curriculum. Since then, similar programs have launched at Queens College in New York, Portland State University in Oregon, the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Ted Purves, who founded the program at CCA, explains that these courses emerged out of pedagogical necessity. "If you're interested in doing work out in the world, you need another box of tools," he says-tools that go beyond studio practice and art history. "You need classes on social theory, theories of politics, and theories of public space."
At the museum level, social practice has made headway as well. Four years ago, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles launched an initiative called "Public Engagement," which has gotten artists and other thinkers to connect with visitors in unusual ways-such as putting someone in a coat closet with an opera singer for a private concert. In 2012, New York's Museum of Modern Art began a similar program called "Artists Experiment." As part of that series, Caroline Woolard created the Exchange Café, where patrons could barter conversation for a cup of tea. "It established a real dialogue," says artist Pablo Helguera, who initiated the program for MoMA's education department and wrote the book Education for Socially Engaged Art.
Helguera's interest in such interactive scenarios emerges from his own artwork. Last year, he created a crowd-sourced Spanish-language bookstore called Librería Donceles at Kent Fine Art in Chelsea, which became an impromptu hangout for Spanish speakers in a city without a dedicated Spanish-language used bookstore. Last month, the project traveled to Phoenix, where it was installed inside a defunct Borders bookshop under the auspices of Arizona State University. "We spend years in art school, where we are taught to explore ourselves," Helguera says, "but social practice is completely about the opposite thing. It's about how to listen. It's remaining engaged with the world in an active way."
For artists and institutions, these kinds of projects have required some adjustments to the way they usually operate. Though some pieces last an afternoon, others go on for years. Bruguera's Immigrant Movement International was launched four years ago and remains active today. Chin began his piece on lead pollution in 2007, and it, too, is ongoing. In 1993, Rick Lowe renovated a series of nearly two-dozen shotgun houses in a depressed corner of Houston, turning them into artist residences, studios, and galleries. More than twenty years later, "Project Row Houses" continues, with 49 buildings spread out over ten blocks-and a support program for young mothers to boot. "You have to spend years developing relationships to be able to do something like this," Lowe says. "It'd be an arrogant disregard of a community to come in and think you can grasp all the complexities of a place in a short time."
For this reason, some organizations are starting to rethink the way they award residencies and grants. Jen Delos Reyes is an assistant professor in social practice at Portland State, and the founder of the Open Engagement conference, an annual art and social-practice gathering launched in 2007. (The next one will take place at the Queens Museum in May.) Recently, Delos Reyes sat on a committee for Portland's Regional Arts & Culture Council, which wanted to establish a community-engaged artist program.
"Typically, when applying for a residency, an artist pitches a project in advance," she says. "But in this case, no one should be coming to us with fully formed projects-that should be determined by the context. So instead, we shifted the focus to have artists share their approach and their intent." The piece, therefore, emerges during the residency, not before-giving the artist time to conduct research and letting the community help shape the direction of the work. This is an approach shared by Lowe, who says he will take months, even years, to investigate an idea, before approaching institutional partners.
Despite the current enthusiasm for social practice, it is not without its tensions, especially in sectors where art and activism overlap. As agents of change, social-practice projects can seem wanting: the scale is often small, the works are temporary, and success may depend on the charisma of a single artist. On an esthetic level, they can also be befuddling, perceived as too much like community organizing to feel truly like art. (This tension is not new: Lacy addressed it back in 1995 in her collection of essays Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art.)
Finkelpearl says that the lengthy nature of some projects demands more engagement, over time, from critics. Hirschhorn's Gramsci Monument, for example, was a work that evolved over the course of a summer. To visit for an afternoon wouldn't provide the viewer with a clear picture of what happened over the long haul. "That's like saying, 'I'm going to review Beethoven's Fifth, but I'm only going to listen for two minutes,'" says Finkelpearl. "This is not the kind of work that unfolds in an hour. Sometimes it is something that requires going three, four, maybe five times."
When Hirschhorn put up his temporary structure, critics debated how well it served the residents of Forest Houses. Artist Glenn Ligon, who once lived in the houses, wrote in Artforum last November: "What if instead of building the Gramsci Monument, Hirschhorn had proposed building the Gramsci Charter School? . . . Far-fetched, I know, but one of the many possible projects that might have resulted in a deeper collaboration between Hirschhorn and the residents of the Forest Houses."
Hirschhorn's intent, however, lay elsewhere. "He wanted to create a monument that didn't burden anyone with the fascism of permanence," says Raymond, the Dia curator. "He wanted a monument that you could walk into and be inside." Addressing Ligon's idea, she says, "We were not a school, nor did we have the time or skills to be a social-services agency."
This issue gets at how social-practice works are critiqued. Should they be evaluated for the social changes they produce, for the elements of performance they incorporate, or for the esthetic qualities of the environments in which they take place? "It's not easy to talk about this work," says Creative Time's Thompson. "You have to synthesize so many different things-the social aspects, what it does politically, as well as the cultural elements." He continues, "It's really about thinking about process: Who does it connect? And how does it connect them? And what makes this a unique experience for those involved?"
Many of the artists in the field say the "art" is in the intent. Chin describes his work as having an "invisible esthetic," a change that people can't perceive-such as the decontamination of soil-but a change nonetheless. Lowe sees his role with "Project Row Houses" as both an urbanist and a storyteller, one who can help change the narrative of a place. When he first took over those shotgun houses in Houston, they represented the worst of inner-city neglect. Since then, he has transformed them into important symbols of an African American cultural revival.
Of course, Lowe is not the only artist who views his work in this way. Caledonia Dance Curry is an artist based in Brooklyn. In some quarters, she is better known as Swoon, a moniker she adopted as a street artist in the late '90s. Swoon has done intricate cut-paper installations in galleries and collaborated on a series of sculptural rafts that have navigated the waterways of Mississippi, New York, and Venice. A few years ago, she and a team of artists helped build sturdy Superadobe shelters and a community center in earthquake-ravaged Cormiers, Haiti. Currently, the group is in the Rust Belt town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, where they are rehabilitating an abandoned church.
"We're trying to think about how we can regenerate this space so that the narrative isn't simply about destruction," Swoon says. To help do that, the group is building a kiln that will fire the bright ceramic tiles that will one day cover the roof-tiles the community will have a hand in making. "It's not that different from my previous work," she adds. "My question to myself as an artist has always been, 'How do I make something that engages my city-that creates art where people don't expect to find to it? And how can we change what's valued and how we value it?'" Art is a universe that traffics in these symbols, which means social practice should feel right at home.
Carolina A. Miranda is an independent journalist based in Los Angeles. She blogs at C-Monster.net.
A version of this story originally appeared in the April 2014 issue of ARTnews on page 58 under the title "Changing the World, One Row House at a Time."