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Construction and demolition (C&D) debris consists of waste that is generated during new construction, renovation, and demolition of buildings, roads, and bridges. C&D debris often contains bulky, heavy materials that include:
- Concrete, wood, and asphalt (from roads and roofing shingles)
- Gypsum (the main component of drywall)
- Metals, bricks, glass, and plastics
- Salvaged building components, such as doors, windows, and plumbing fixtures
Significant volumes of C&D debris are generated in New England. C&D debris ends up in municipal solid waste landfills or incinerators, or in special C&D landfills. EPA New England is continuing to work with many state and local governments in New England to divert this waste away from land disposal by promoting the reuse and recycling of C&D debris and reducing its generation through green building. Reducing C&D debris conserves landfill space, reduces the environmental impact of producing new materials, and can reduce overall building project expenses through avoided purchase/disposal costs. In 2002, C&D debris accounted for 36 percent of all residential and commercial solid waste generated in Massachusetts, and nearly 50 percent of the state's total commercial solid waste stream. (For more information about C&D debris in Massachusetts, visit the Massachusetts ).
In June 2009, the report Construction and Demolition Waste Management in the Northeast in 2006 (PDF) (65 pp, 536 K) was published by the Northeast Waste Management Officials Association (NEWMOA) under a cooperative agreement with EPA New England. According to this report, the total C&D waste generation in the Northeast (the six New England States, New York and New Jersey) in 2006 was approximately 12,065,582 tons. The reported per-capita generation of C&D waste varies widely among states for various reasons, including limitations on data availability, from roughly 0.19 to 0.42 tons per person per year. C&D waste is mainly disposed in landfills – either landfills permitted to accept only C&D waste, or landfills that receive primarily municipal solid waste (MSW). The report has four primary findings:
- The availability and quality of data regarding C&D waste management is not consistent among the Northeast states, making aggregation and comparisons challenging.
- Most C&D waste ends up in a landfill – in 2006, approximately 10 percent of estimated generation was recovered for an end use outside a landfill.
- There is significant potential to increase recovery of C&D wastes - metal was the only C&D material recovered at a significant percentage of estimated generation in 2006.
- Some changes have occurred in C&D waste management since 2006, although their effects on C&D waste disposal, processing, and materials recovery have not been analyzed.
Some state and local regulations are also limiting C&D debris disposal options by prohibiting disposal in municipal landfills or incinerators, or requiring a minimum percentage of C&D debris recycling. In Massachusetts, the Department of Environmental Protection (MA DEP), in its Beyond 2000 Solid Waste Master Plan, committed Massachusetts to an 88 percent reduction in C&D waste by 2010. To help achieve that goal, in July 2006 MA DEP placed a disposal and transfer ban on asphalt paving, brick, concrete, metal and wood.
Use this site to access a range of resources from New England and beyond to help you reduce, reuse, and recycle waste during construction, renovation, deconstruction, and demolition, and to help you understand some of the environmental issues associated with C&D debris.
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15 Stunning Christmas Cakes To Make This Season
Brown sugar complements tangy cranberries and apricots in this super-addictive cereal mix.
Recipe: Golden Honey Granola
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This study will evaluate the effectiveness of trauma-focused group therapy for reducing HIV-risk behavior and revictimization among adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA).
Child Abuse, Sexual
Sexual Abuse
Sexual Behavior
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Behavioral: Trauma-focused group therapy
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Group Interventions to Prevent HIV in High Risk Women
- Rates of using of drugs or alcohol
- Sexual revictimization rates
- Rates of engaging in risky sex
- Trauma symptoms
|Study Start Date:
|September 1999
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2004
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of trauma-focused group therapy for reducing HIV risk behavior and revictimization among adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Research indicates that childhood sexual abuse is a major risk factor for becoming HIV-infected. Individuals with CSA may be less able to benefit from HIV/AIDS prevention intervention if they are continuing to be traumatized by their earlier CSA experiences that interfere with their learning safer patterns of interpersonal and personal functioning. This study will examine whether or not it is helpful to focus on survivors' memories of CSA in order to reduce HIV risk behavior, revictimization, and distress. It will also examine potential mediators of treatment effectiveness for CSA survivors. This randomized clinical intervention trial will compare trauma-focused group therapy against a present-focused group therapy comparison condition and a case-management only control condition. All three groups will be provided with case management. We will recruit a total of 192 adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse through newspaper advertisements and through local community organizations (e.g., community health clinics, rape crisis centers). All 192 research participants will meet criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for CSA as well as have engaged in HIV risk behavior and/or experienced sexual revictimization within the past 3 months. These research participants will be recruited for a randomized clinical intervention trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the trauma-focused and present-focused treatment conditions and to identify mediators of treatment effects. Women for the randomized clinical intervention trial will be recruited in eight cohorts of 24 subjects each for randomization to treatment condition (trauma-focused or present-focused or case management only). Intervention subjects will be assessed on behavioral and other psychosocial measures at baseline and at 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-month follow-up assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of trauma-focused treatment against the present-focused treatment and the case management only control condition in reducing HIV risk behavior, sexual revictimization, and trauma symptoms, and improving interpersonal functioning. We will examine three mediators of treatment effectiveness, including: 1) trauma reactive and resilient beliefs about self and the world; 2) differentiation and integration of self; and 3) interpersonal relations.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Female. 2. 18 years of age or older. 3. English-speaking. 4. Has at least two explicit memories of sexual abuse that involved genital contact.
5. At least two sexual abuse events occurred when the survivor was between 4 and15 years of age.
6. The perpetrator was at least 5 years older than the survivor. 7. The survivor knew the perpetrator prior to the sexual abuse. 8. The survivor has discussed or attempted to discuss details of the sexual abuse previously with another person (e.g., family member, friend, or therapist) at least 6 months prior to being interviewed for the study.
9. Meets DSM-IV criteria for current PTSD. 10. Provides informed consent.
And at least one of the following:
11. Has been sexually revictimized within the previous year. 12. Has engaged in risky sexual behavior within the previous year. 13. Meets DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse
Exclusion Criteria:
Criteria for exclusion includes any of the following:
- Diagnosed as meeting one of the following diagnostic categories: schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; dementia and delirium and amnestic or other cognitive disorders.
- Reports ritual abuse.
- Is currently receiving psychotherapy (including individual or group psychotherapy).
- Individuals who are alcohol or drug dependent as defined by the DSM-IV.
- Individuals who are currently suicidal (i.e. within the last month)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00220597
|United States, California
|Dept. of Psychiatry, Stanford University
|Stanford, California, United States, 94305
|Principal Investigator:
|David Spiegel, M.D.
|Stanford University
|Study Director:
|Catherine C. Classen, Ph.D.
|Stanford University
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|David Spiegel, Jack, Lulu & Sam Willson Professor, Stanford University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00220597 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 15, 2005
|Last Updated:
|December 2, 2013
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by Stanford University:
group therapy
sexual revictimization
risky sex
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Virus Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Diseases, Male
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What Happened to Kirill Kabanov's Arm
This is a few days old, but it's worth a note anyway. Back on October 26th, Kirill Kabanov was injured when he received a cut from an opponent's skate on his arm. Usually, it's not something we get to see unless it's somewhere easily visible, like on the athlete's face. But Kabanov went ahead and tweeted a picture of his stitches after surgery.
If you want to see, the picture is after the jump. So, if you're squeamish, don't click that 'read more' link. But honestly, it's nothing particularly gruesome.
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Wpa-supplicant is solely used with wireless networks which use WPA keys. Does your Uni's network support that?
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Home of John Dickinson, one of the founding fathers of the United States and "Penman of the Revolution."
Built in 1791, the Old State House served as Delaware's capitol during the United States' critical early years as a nation. With additions and modifications, the building continued to serve as the state capitol until 1933.
The museum highlights the life and achievements of Delaware's native son, Eldridge Reeves Johnson, founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company and a pioneer in the development of the sound-recording industry.
The museum commemorates Delaware's first European colony, Swanendael, established by the Dutch in 1631. It serves as a showcase for Lewes-area maritime, military, and social history.
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The Cub Scout Badminton belt loop and pin are a part of the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program. Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts may earn this award in a Family, Den, Pack, school, or community setting. Tiger Cubs must be always accompanied by their Adult partner.
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approximately 18 road miles south of Price, Utah. The permit area,
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Township 15 South, Range 7 East, SLM
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conferences should be directed to the Utah Division of Oil Gas, &
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28 U.S. Code § 1875 - Protection of jurors' employment
(a) No employer shall discharge, threaten to discharge, intimidate, or coerce any permanent employee by reason of such employee's jury service, or the attendance or scheduled attendance in connection with such service, in any court of the United States.
(b) Any employer who violates the provisions of this section—
(1) shall be liable for damages for any loss of wages or other benefits suffered by an employee by reason of such violation;
(2) may be enjoined from further violations of this section and ordered to provide other appropriate relief, including but not limited to the reinstatement of any employee discharged by reason of his jury service; and
(c) Any individual who is reinstated to a position of employment in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be considered as having been on furlough or leave of absence during his period of jury service, shall be reinstated to his position of employment without loss of seniority, and shall be entitled to participate in insurance or other benefits offered by the employer pursuant to established rules and practices relating to employees on furlough or leave of absence in effect with the employer at the time such individual entered upon jury service.
(1) An individual claiming that his employer has violated the provisions of this section may make application to the district court for the district in which such employer maintains a place of business and the court shall, upon finding probable merit in such claim, appoint counsel to represent such individual in any action in the district court necessary to the resolution of such claim. Such counsel shall be compensated and necessary expenses repaid to the extent provided by section 3006A of title 18, United States Code.
(2) In any action or proceeding under this section, the court may award a prevailing employee who brings such action by retained counsel a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs. The court may tax a defendant employer, as costs payable to the court, the attorney fees and expenses incurred on behalf of a prevailing employee, where such costs were expended by the court pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection. The court may award a prevailing employer a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs only if the court finds that the action is frivolous, vexatious, or brought in bad faith.
Source(Added Pub. L. 95–572, § 6(a)(1),Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2456; amended Pub. L. 97–463, § 1,Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2531; Pub. L. 110–406, § 19,Oct. 13, 2008, 122 Stat. 4295.)
2008—Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 110–406substituted "$5,000 for each violation as to each employee, and may be ordered to perform community service." for "$1,000 for each violation as to each employee."
1983—Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 97–463, § 1(1), substituted designation "(d)(1)" for "(d)" before "An individual claiming".
Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 97–463, § 1(2), inserted provision empowering the court to tax a defendant employer, as costs payable to the court, the attorney fees and expenses incurred on behalf of a prevailing employee, where such costs were expended by the court pursuant to par. (1) of this subsection and, in existing provisions, substituted "only if the court finds that the action is frivolous" for "if the court determines that the action is frivolous".
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|Xu Leads Field After Opening Round
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Senior Yue Xu fired a 1-over 73 to tie for the lowest score of the opening round of the Mimosa Hills Intercollegiate at Mimosa Hills Country Club on Monday, as Appalachian State University women's golf
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Xu, who was unable to play in last season's Intercollegiate, tied Radford's Alexandra Austin and Gardner-Webb's Lauren Smith for the individual leader. Sophomore Haley Zagoria also finished in the top-5 as she sits in fourth, carding a 2-over, 74, as her and Xu pace the top of the Mountaineer lineup.
Senior Lauren Smith and Rumbidzai Masamvu closely followed, finishing with a 78 (+6) and 81 (+9), respectively. Freshman Lily Yatawara rounded out the Appalachian lineup with an 86 (+14), tying for 52nd place. Individually, senior Mimi Burke tied for ninth-place, turning in a 76 (+4) for her opening round.
As a team, the Mountaineers paced the field with a 306 (+18), a shot ahead of Winthrop who placed two scores in the top-10. The top-two stand alone, as Winthrop is seven strokes ahead of Western Carolina and Wofford who tied for third.
The final round is set for Tuesday at Mimosa Hills, as the Mountaineers seek its first team championship since the fall season's Winthrop Intercollegiate where the Apps fended off both GWU (second) and Winthrop (third).
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there is no god... besides the FSM
there is no heaven... only the beervana (i belive i invented that word Beer+nirvana) with the beer volcano (could be beercano) and the chocolate factory (or could be chocalate factory)
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By default I know that you are Pastafarian.
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Tickle wrote:Anazasi wrote:i'm an intolerant atheist
Tolereance is a virtue. There is plenty of room in the world for alternatives to coexist.
Anazasi wrote:ehm... may be i didn`t chose the right words (English is not my natural language)...
what i meant was that i find unbelievable thing that most of people belive, and that i'm not willing to accept they to impose me their rules/dogmas. Also i'm not willing to accept paying taxes so the state give millons $$ to the catholic church, this things happen in my country (Argentina).
Those are the things that i'm not tolerant about.
"Tolereance is a virtue" yes... but there is a limit, otherwise people will take advantage of you tolerance.
i hope i make thing clear
PS: You'r not being tolerants with intolerants... just a joking, i have no use for new enemies
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It only show 'Ask a Teacher' forum and its 10 newest threads at the moment. Is there further update coming?
The app contains all of the forums and posts that you normally have access to. You are looking at the home screen. Use the Menu key to navigate between forums, messages, notifications, your profile and more.
I'm not a teacher, so please consider any advice I give in that context.
I couldn't find out 'like' button in each response. Did I overlook something?
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I've only just found out about the Android app today.
It was a tremendous struggle, having downloaded the app, to login, with problems over passwords and email addresses.
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"Essentially, there will be an information session that will tell parents and students upfront. They'll sign an agreement, that in order to participate they'll agree to the test. Sometime during the fall season, we'll have our first test and the agency we contract with will pull randomly a certain
percentage based on a random number from a computer program. And we'll test—anybody that comes back positive Marshal Gasperson, principal of Watauga High School, sharing the reasons he presented a policy proposing the random drug testing of Watauga High Student Athletes beginning with the fall sports season. The policy was presented for its first reading to the Board of Education during Monday evening's monthly meeting. It will be on the Board's agenda again, to be voted upon, during their August meeting. In the interim members of the Board of Education anticipate hearing from parents and community members who will want to share their thoughts about the policy. Mr. Gasperson shared more details of the policy, that parents would be responsible for costs of any re-testing, and he indicated that the policy calls for randomly testing 5% of the student athletes per year. He also shared that the results of the testing will be confidential and that referral to law enforcement agencies was not part of the policy. During Board discussion Delora Hodges asked if other counties had policies calling for random drug testing of student athletes. The Board's attorney shared that a large number of western North Carolina counties had similar policies that were working well. A copy of the policy can be reviewed by contacting the Watauga County Board of Education's administrative offices.
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ALBANY - Some local governments plan to borrow to pay their pension bills this year as a way to stave off growing retiree costs.
Local governments, including for the first time the city of Elmira and Westchester County, said the amortization of pensions costs may not be the most prudent course, but it's their only remedy to balance their books. Monroe County also plans to amortize some pension expenses.
"This pension system in New York is just out of control," said Dave Vandermark, Elmira's financial officer.
According to the state's Comptroller Office, 87 public employers indicated last month that they will borrow $185 million from the state's pension fund to pay for a portion of their annual pension tab.
The records also show restraint by the majority of local governments, who have long railed against the growing cost of retiree benefits. The state has about 3,400 local taxing entities, and most are paying their pension costs in full each year.
"I think it's interesting the number that has resisted doing it," said E.J. McMahon, senior fellow at the fiscally conservative Empire Center for New York State Policy. "A lot of credit goes to those governments that have resisted for as long as they could."
Some local governments said they would rather cut services or raise taxes than have to borrow to pay for their pension expenses.
In Western New York, at least six public employers have chosen to amortize portions of their pension obligations, according to the Comptroller.
The NFTA confirms it currently has $3 million in pension obligations amortized. Spokesman C. Douglas Hartmayer says the alternative would have been to lay off workers, cut service, or raise fares; all options which the NFTA found less palatable than borrowing.
The City of North Tonawanda has amortized $1.2 million of its $3.7 million pension obligation for 2013.
Accordeing to mayor Robert Ortt, it was the only way to balance the budget without seeking to raise property taxes beyond the state imposed cap of 2%.
"I don't want to exceed that cap,...the people of this community are taxed enough," Ortt told WGRZ-TV.
The City of Niagara Falls, The Niagara Falls School District, the Town of Niagara, and the Buffalo Urban renewal Agency have also deferred paying a portion of their current pension obligations through the amortization program.
A review by Gannett's Albany Bureau last March found that pension costs will skyrocket 59 percent this year compared to 2011, to a total of $3.5 billion for local governments. That's $224 per person in the state.
"All you are doing by amortizing it is pushing those costs out for future years. I'm not sure you are solving your problem long term," said Marie Kalka, the budget director in Broome County.
The county hasn't amortized its pension costs.
In 2010, the state Legislature approved at the urging of Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to let local governments and the state essentially borrow from the state's roughly $150 billion pension fund to pay for a portion of the annual cost, called amortization.
Governments are charged interest - this year it is 3 percent - and have to pay back the fund over 10 years.
The goal, advocates said, is to prevent major spikes in pension costs. As pension bills have grown, more municipalities have entered the program.
Fifty-seven did so in 2011 at a cost of $53 million. About $216 million was borrowed in 2012 when about 170 employers entered the program.
For state government, $782 million was borrowed this year, in addition to $813 million in the prior two years, according to a report last month from former Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch and former Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker.
The report warned that the "reliance on 'amortization' is a slippery slope from the perspective of the governments involved."
The list last month of 87 employers for 2013 is only a partial one. Governments can also enter the program in February, but they will lose about a 1 percent discount they would have gotten if they had paid their pension expenses in December.
Monroe County plans in February to amortize as much as $17.3 million of its total $49.4 million pension tab, which pays for the pensions of retired local workers and police and fire officials. Without the program, the county would have struggled to have a balanced budget, officials said.
"We're committed to maintaining a flat property-tax rate here in Monroe County and this is one of the vehicles that allow us to do that," said Scott Adair, the county's chief financial officer.
Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino has railed against the amortization program, saying it's fiscally imprudent to borrow for annual expenses.
But as pension costs grew nearly 15 percent over the past two years, from $69 million to $79 million, the county agreed last year to borrow for about one-third of the expense.
Otherwise, the county would have had to cut additional staff and services; it's already cutting 161 positions.
"It's an untenable situation," Astorino said. "The state has basically made it where there's no way out, except through their trap door, and that is to amortize."
What also irks Astorino is that he said the interest rate from the Comptroller's Office is higher than what municipalities could get on the open market. If the county went out to the bond market, they could probably get an interest rate at about half the state's 3 percent rate, he said.
"Money is cheap -- except through the state," he said.
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The tax rate will remain at $2.90 per $1,000 of assessed value for those with property within the village and at $3.50 per $1,000 on property outside the village.
The preliminary budget includes approximately 2 percent raises for all employees and an increase of $1,500 up to $53,500 for the Gouverneur Fire Department. Sewer and water district rates will remain the same.
The town was able to keep the increase in the tax levy at a minimum because of an anticipated increase in the sales tax revenues of $15,000. St. Lawrence County is raising the local sales tax from 3 percent to 4 percent starting Dec. 1, and the towns will receive 10 percent of the additional amount.
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mmhome,now i know your response was not directed especially at me, but i will respond with my story since i started this thread.in high school i wasnt given anything and nothing was expected of me. i got a 4.0 because i was a proud and competetive bastard, but my parents never pushed me. i never got a prize for good grades. i got a pat on the back.likewise i had to get a job so i could rent a clarinet and pay for lessons myself, which i did. my folks didnt have the extra $$.by my senior year i was the top ranked high school clarinetist in california, and no one not a single person asked me to do it or pushed me to do it or helped me do it but me. i was on my own.so i went to a state school, got some $$$, but mostly had to take alot of the loans myself. my parents took what they could, but it wasnt like they bought my education for me.and i decided to go to law school on my own. no one expected it of me, suggested it to me, or hoped i would. i called my parents and told them i wanted to and they said "are you sure? you have to pay for it by yourself!"i dont even think my story is special. just cause a person is white doesnt mean they were born with a silver spoon in thier mouth...
As soon as all the rich kids stop benefitting from the contacts and help they get from THEIR fathers, I'll stop taking advantage of the almost non-existent help I might get because MY father is a URM.
I just want to interject that, well... life is not always fair. The goal of a just society is that the slights and frustrations are randomly distributed and balanced out by little bits of opportunity, also randomly distributed. Clearly, there are patterns of systematic oppression in the US so that challenges & opportunities are not randomly distributed. This needs to be addressed.But I don't think having to pay for your own college education or only getting a pat on the back when you get good grades is in the same category as systematic oppression. This, to me, is a challenge TBone had to overcome (as he did by finding other motivation for good grades & suceeding in music). It makes him a stronger person in the end. Some other kid might have had clarinet lessons and college paid for but had a father who abused him. Both situations show that life throws you random challenges, and strong people find ways to overcome those challenges. Both situations would make great personal statements. But I don't think either situation should be elevated to the level of systematic oppression and therefore neither situation should, in and of itself, give the applicant an edge in ls applications. What would make the person a stronger applicant is how s/he dealt with the challenge. If you can link your particular challenge to a pattern of systematic oppression which has lead to an underrepresentation of similarly challenged people in law school, well then, I think you have a case for receiving AA. If not, no dice. Just my $0.02.
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As an industry, marketing has always been in love with the bright, shiny object. From new channels (radio, TV, online, mobile…) to new strategies (celebrity endorsements, couponing, line extensions…) to new job titles (planners, interactive media buyer, creative culturalists…), the search for the new, for an edge, has always been around. Of course, another time honored industry tradition is to watch from the sidelines and provide withering commentary on the latest innovation. Industry thought leaders love to rubberneck the Gartner Hype Cycle as the latest trend makes its way from the Peak of Inflated Expectations to the Trough of Disillusionment. At that point most move on to the next trend and the process begins anew, with little thought given to the final stages: The Slope of Enlightenment and the Plateau of Productivity. And yet that's where the real learnings can usually be found. So today I ask you to travel back with me to a time before 2nd Screen, Big Data and Gamification roamed the Earth. Yes, all the way back to 2009 when Crowdsourcing was the hottest GMOOT (Give Me One Of Those) on the block.
Back then it seemed everyone was dying to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. Super Bowl spots, new ice cream flavors, brand logos, you name it and companies were looking to the amateurs to solve the problem. Some understood how to harness this power, most did not, and as a result a lot of the output was forgettable at best, embarrassing and harmful to the brand at worst. I catalogued much of this with my e-book, Everyone is Illuminated, in early 2010. It includes several of my essays on the topic along with insights and POVs from a whole host of very smart industry pros. Give it a quick read if you have a minute and want to catch up on what was happening back then.
But the question today is, where is crowdsourcing now? Was it a gimmick that was fun for a while, but ultimately discarded in favor of A) the old reliables and/or B) even shinier, newer objects? The short answer is yes, crowdsourcing is worth your time. Why? Because consumers want to hav a deeper involvement with the brands they love and development in analytics and other marketing strategies such as gamification make crowdsourcing even more attractive… if you take the time to do it right.
I won't speak to the wisdom of crowds, but it's clear that there is economic power in crowds. Crowdfunding, a subspecies of crowdsourcing, has exploded in the last few years, with sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo playing significant roles in the launch of Generation Start-Up. Others, such as Mutopo, Victors & Spoils and Zooppa have taken on the roles of harnessing the crowds in the service of brands, acting as consultants/agencies/wranglers.
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David Bratvold, founder of The Daily Crowdsource echoes my sentiments: "The world's largest brands are adopting crowdsourcing. It's not a tactic where they're relinquishing their traditional agency model, but rather looking for agencies that can handle both methods."
And what is the compelling reason why brands (and agencies) should be embracing crowdsourcing? According to Bratvold, "Consumers have long been clamoring for more bi-directional engagement with their favorite brands & crowdsourcing is the perfect way for them to get it."
I tend to agree with him here. All marketing trends point away from a messaging push and towards a more collaborative, two-way engagement with consumers. And again, to be clear, these messages, this new way of communicating with brands, will still be lead by agencies. More from Bratvold: "Agencies have no reason to fear crowdsourcing as long as they find a way to add it to their set of tools. The brands that embrace crowdsourcing properly will succeed in the next decade. The brands that don't will fall behind. Microsoft knows this. So do Doritos, GE, Kimberly-Clark, Pepsi, & Coca-Cola – they all know how powerful crowdsourcing is, and it's slowly becoming more widely used within these organizations."
I think crowdsourcing can also be enhanced when you look at something like gamification. Smart game design accounts for how all members of a tribe will react to behavioral incentives and keeps all members of the tribe engaged. In some ways, all gamification is crowdsourcing, but not all crowdsourcing uses gamification. Both tactics can be powerful, especially when used in conjunction, but can easily be misused as well. Again, this is where a trusted agency partner plays a key role.
On February 27 & 28, Bratvold and The Daily Crowdsource will be hosting Crowdopolis, a conference showcasing Fortune 500 Corporations using crowdsourcing to out-innovate, out-process, & out-engage their competition. Companies like GE, Microsoft, Walmart, eBay, SAP, NASA & many others are scheduled to be on-hand to lead the discussion. As a special offer to Ignition readers, Bratvold is offering us a 2-for-1 discount for the event. You can register here, be sure to use the promotional code: AgencyYR to receive your discount. The 2-for-1 promotion ends Jan 28 so book now. The event will be held at:
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everythingby Christopher Hitchens
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One of the most informed journalists in the country (he seems to have been everywhere, met everyone, and read everything), he is also one of the most entertaining. His command of the language is legendary; his wit ferocious. His skill in marshalling facts in service to an argument is a wonder to behold. Readers won't pick up this book just to find out what Christopher Hitchens thinks about religion. They'll read it because, whether or not he persuades, he always makes it worth your while to hear him out.
"Test your faith severely or find a champion for your feelings, but read Hitchens. It's a tendentious delight, a caustic and even brilliant book. And with the title alone, he takes his life in his hands, which right there has got to be some proof of his thesis." Mark Warren, Esquire (read the entire Esquire review)
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Christopher Hitchens, hailed as "one of the most brilliant journalists of our time" (London Observer), takes on his biggest subject yet — the dangerous role of religion in the world.
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.
"Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos. The same contrarian spirit that makes him delightful reading as a political commentator, even (or especially) when he's completely wrong, makes him an entertaining huckster prosecutor once he has God placed in the dock. And can he turn a phrase!: 'monotheistic religion is a plagiarism of a plagiarism of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion, extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few nonevents.' Hitchens's one-liners bear the marks of considerable sparring practice with believers. Yet few believers will recognize themselves as Hitchens associates all of them for all time with the worst of history's theocratic and inquisitional moments. All the same, this is salutary reading as a means of culling believers' weaker arguments: that faith offers comfort (false comfort is none at all), or has provided a historical hedge against fascism (it mostly hasn't), or that 'Eastern' religions are better (nope). The book's real strength is Hitchens's on-the-ground glimpses of religion's worst face in various war zones and isolated despotic regimes. But its weakness is its almost fanatical insistence that religion poisons 'everything,' which tips over into barely disguised misanthropy." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"A century and a half ago Pope Pius IX published the Syllabus of Errors, a rhetorical tour de force against the high crimes and misdemeanors of the modern world. 'God Is Not Great,' by the British journalist and professional provocateur Christopher Hitchens, is the atheists' equivalent: an unrelenting enumeration of religion's sins and wickedness, written with much of the rhetorical pomp and all of... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) the imperial condescension of a Vatican encyclical. Hitchens, who once described Mother Teresa as 'a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud,' is notorious for making mincemeat out of sacred cows, but in this book it is the sacred itself that is skewered. Religion, Hitchens writes, is 'violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children.' Channeling the anti-supernatural spirits of other acolytes of the 'new atheism,' Hitchens argues that religion is 'man-made' and murderous, originating in fear and sustained by brute force. Like Richard Dawkins, he denounces the religious education of young people as child abuse. Like Sam Harris, he fires away at the Koran as well as the Bible. And like Daniel Dennett, he views faith as wish-fulfillment. Historian George Marsden once described fundamentalism as evangelicalism that is mad about something. If so, these evangelistic atheists have something in common with their fundamentalist foes, and Hitchens is the maddest of the lot. Protestant theologian John Calvin was 'a sadist and torturer and killer,' Hitchens writes, and the Bible 'contain(s) a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre.' As should be obvious to any reasonable person — unlike Hitchens I do not exclude believers from this category — horrors and good deeds are performed by believers and nonbelievers alike. But in Hitchens' Manichaean world, religion does little good and secularism hardly any evil. INDEED, Hitchens arrives at the conclusion that the secular murderousness of Stalin's purges wasn't really secular at all, since, as he quotes George Orwell, 'a totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy.' And in North Korea today, what has gone awry is not communism but Confucianism. Hitchens is not so forgiving when it comes to religion's transgressions. He aims his poison pen at the Dalai Lama, St. Francis and Gandhi. Among religious leaders only the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. comes off well. But in the gospel according to Hitchens whatever good King did accrues to his humanism rather than his Christianity. In fact, King was not actually a Christian at all, argues Hitchens, since he rejected the sadism that characterizes the teachings of Jesus. 'No supernatural force was required to make the case against racism' in postwar America, writes Hitchens. But he's wrong. It was the prophetic faith of black believers that gave them the strength to stand up to the indignities of fire hoses and police dogs. As for those white liberals inspired by Paine, Mencken and Hitchens' other secular heroes, well, they stood down. Hitchens says a lot of true things in this wrongheaded book. He is right that you can be moral without being religious. He is right to track contemporary sexism and sexual repression to ancient religious beliefs. And his attack on 'intelligent design' is not only convincing but comical, coursing as it does through the crude architecture of the appendix and our inconvenient 'urinogenital arrangements.' What Hitchens gets wrong is religion itself. Hitchens claims that some of his best friends are believers. If so, he doesn't know much about his best friends. He writes about religious people the way northern racists used to talk about 'Negroes' — with feigned knowing, and a sneer. 'God Is Not Great' assumes a childish definition of religion and then criticizes religious people for believing such foolery. But it is Hitchens who is the naif. To read this oddly innocent book as gospel is to believe that ordinary Catholics are proud of the Inquisition, that ordinary Hindus view masturbation as an offense against Krishna, and that ordinary Jews cheer when a renegade Orthodox rebbe sucks the blood off a freshly circumcised penis. It is to believe that faith is always blind and rituals always empty — that there is no difference between taking communion and drinking the Kool-Aid (a beverage Hitchens feels compelled to mention no fewer than three times). If this is religion, then by all means we should have less of it. But the only people who believe that religion is about believing blindly in a God who blesses and curses on demand and sees science and reason as spawns of Satan are unlettered fundamentalists and their atheistic doppelgangers. Hitchens describes the religious mind as 'literal and limited' and the atheistic mind as 'ironic and inquiring.' Readers with any sense of irony — and here I do not exclude believers — will be surprised to see how little inquiring Hitchens has done and how limited and literal is his own ill-prepared reduction of religion. Christopher Hitchens is a brilliant man, and there is no living journalist I more enjoy reading. But I have never encountered a book whose author is so fundamentally unacquainted with its subject. In the end, this maddeningly dogmatic book does little more than illustrate one of Hitchens' pet themes — the ability of dogma to put reason to sleep. Stephen Prothero is the chair of Boston University's religion department and the author of 'Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know — and Doesn't.'" Reviewed by Michael DirdaRon CharlesIlan StavansGraham JoyceStephen Prothero, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"Hitchens intends to provoke, but he is not mean-spirited and humorless. Indeed, he is effortlessly witty and entertaining as well as utterly rational. Believers will be disturbed and may even charge him with blasphemy...and he may not change many minds, but he offers the open-minded plenty to think about." Booklist (Starred Review)
"[A] provocative, challenging, and passionate work — a religious believer's and apologist's nightmare." Librbary Journal
"It's clear from page to page that Hitchens...is having a grand time twitting the folks in the white collars and purple dresses, in the turbans and beehives. Like-minded readers will enjoy his arguments, too." Kirkus Reviews
"The strength of this book is the undeniable eloquence of its indignation....Its weakness is that the thinking in it has indeed oft been thought." Los Angeles Times
"[Hitchens's] indictments are trenchant and witty, and the book is a treasure house of zingers worthy of Mark Twain or H. L. Mencken." Boston Globe
"Hitchens has outfoxed the Hitchens watchers by writing a serious and deeply felt book, totally consistent with his beliefs of a lifetime. And God should be flattered: unlike most of those clamoring for his attention, Hitchens treats him like an adult." New York Times
"God Is Not Great is somewhat of a disappointment t1; not so much for those who disagree, who will simply be irritated, but for those of us who think that it has an important case to make and were hoping that this might be the book to carry that message to the people." San Francisco Chronicle
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When Hitchens (contributing editor, Vanity Fair) asserts, as he does in the subtitle, that "religion poisons everything," he's not kidding. He believes that the argument with faith "is the foundation and origin of all arguments, because it is the beginning--but not the end--of all arguments about philosophy, science, history, and human nature." His polemical attack on religion portrays it as prone to violence, destructive of valuable human knowledge, sexually repressive, socially regressive, and just plain irrational. Those readers wondering if the title of the book, alluding to the standard Muslim invocation "God is great" ("Allahu Akbar"), means that this volume is aimed primarily at supporting Hitchens's well-known antipathy towards "Islamo-fascism" and support for the "War on Terror" should be assured that he tosses his polemical barbs at other religious targets here as well, including Christianity and Buddhism. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time "takes on his biggest subject yet--the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world.
With his unique brand of erudition and wit, Hitchens describes the ways in which religion is man-made. "God did not make us," he says. "We made God." He explains the ways in which religion is immoral: We damage our children by indoctrinating them. It is a cause of sexual repression, violence, and ignorance. It is a distortion of our origins and the cosmos. In the place of religion, Hitchens offers the promise of a new enlightenment through science and reason, a realm in which hope and wonder can be found through a strand of DNA or a gaze through the Hubble Telescope. As Hitchens sees it, you needn't get the blues once you discover the heavens are empty.
Hitchens takes on his biggest subject yet--the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. With insight and wit, he describes the ways in which religion is man-made, immoral, and repressive and argues for a new enlightenment through science and reason.
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Christopher Hitchens is the author of Letters to a Young Contrarian, and the bestseller No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family. A regular contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic Monthly and Slate, Hitchens also writes for The Weekly Standard, The National Review, and The Independent, and has appeared on The Daily Show, Charlie Rose, The Chris Matthew's Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and C-Span's Washington Journal. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect. Christopher Hitchens lives in Washington, D.C.
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Neighbors Executive Director Gary C. Beasley said the housing redevelopment organization plans to begin renovating the 3,000-square-foot space as soon as it can. It housed the Frank A. Empsall Co. Department Store until it closed in 1993.
It puts it back into the hands of a responsible owner, Mayor Jeffrey E. Graham said.
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The building actually is broken up into four parts. It consists of two sections of what was Velocity, the Brighton Apartments and a back part facing the J.B. Wise parking lot.
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