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American Council on Education (ACE) - ACE has issued a request urging colleges and universities to provide relief for students called to active duty. In support of our students and to help the nation in its response to terrorism, Lincoln University will show maximum flexibility to ensure that no service member suffers a loss of funds or educational opportunity because he or she was called to serve.
State universities plan to increase tuition- Local newspapers reported on October 3, 2001, that "Officials will raise tuition at state universities by at least 4 percent - or more if the General Assembly does not increase funding to the schools The State System, the governing body for the 14 state-owned universities, could hold a tuition increase to 4 percent if state lawmakers agree to give the system $29.4 million (5.5%) more in state support for the 2002-03 school year."
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Development and External Relations
The drive to encourage 100 percent faculty and staff giving to the University will begin immediately. An appeal will be made to faculty at the October 9th faculty meeting.
Student Affairs and Enrollment Management (SAEM)
A small number of resident and commuter students have not been financially cleared and, therefore, will be withdrawn from the University.
As of October 5, 2001:
Total FTE 1851
The FTE for the Fall 2001 semester will change downward once those who
have failed to clear have been removed from the campus and their records
purged from the system.
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Review 2014 Never Summer Cobra
About me
I mostly ride in Nagano although I make trips to various spots around Japan throughout the winter.
I am 6ft tall and weigh 175lbs (78kilos) in my birthday suit. I wear size 11 boots. I consider myself an advanced rider and this year I started doing some professional guide work, mostly just learning from and helping the experienced guide who I am working with.
I spend most of my time free riding in powder and trees and this is where I am most comfortable. I ride with a strong freestyle element and look to get little spins and grabs off natural hits. Since last year I have started getting into the park a little more.
This is where I ride the most, Nozawa Onsen in Nagano.
2014 Never Summer Cobra
The Cobra used in this review was given to me by Never Summer for product testing and improvement as well as for the review itself.
I rode the 158 with 2011 Burton Cartels in a wide range of conditions, but mostly powder days.
My first run on this board took me down a 40 degree spine with dense trees and no tracks (one of my secret spots).
Oh Yes! This is what this board was made to do. The float is excellent for an all mountain freestyle board. I really liked the shape of the tail, the way it beds down and allows you to blast huge clouds of powder. The board is super manoeuvrable and perfect for dense tree runs.
White room anyone?
The Cobra carves well and long and short carves were easy and fun. As with all NS boards you need to get it up on edge to access the camber and rail the turn. With the right technique it is rewarding to carve with and I would say its a little better than the Proto HD in this area.
Its a little damper than the previous Cobra, but not by that much.
The flex is right in the middle leaning towards the stiffer side, just past mid flex.
Not quite as much pop as the Proto HD, but its got plenty of snap for ollies and nollies. It's not hard to press the tip or tail, but its certainly not ideal for this.
Switch is definitely doable, but you will need to adjust your riding a little to make it work. With some adjustments you can ride switch well.
I don't see most riders spending lots of time switch on this deck and as such I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who spends a lot of time on the park. It jumps well and can negotiate boxes, but anyone who rides a lot of park will want something closer to a twin IMO.
I found myself enjoying getting airs and grabs in natural terrain on the Cobra. This is a board I would ride when I want powder performance whilst keeping a strong freestyle element in my riding. That is the area where this board shines and I would recommend it to riders for whom freestyle in powder is a top priority.
Its also superbly nibble in tight trees. Powder, trees and natural hits are to me what this board is made to do. It can do a lot more than that, but that is where it excels.
I lent this board to my buddy on a powder day (an intermediate rider) and he loved it. He raved about the powder performance and how easy it was to turn in the powder and on piste.
The powder performance is superb for an all mountain freestyle deck, but its not as good as a full on powder deck in this area. It does require a slight bit of weight over the back foot to keep the nose up in very deep snow at low speeds, but this effort is really minimal.
A full on powder deck will out float the Cobra, but no full on powder deck will be as versatile and fun all over the mountain.
Things I would change on this board
I think the low speed, low angle powder performance would benefit from a low profile tip (in the nose only) as found on the Proto HD. I would also like to see the upturn of the nose smoothed out over a longer area as this helps float by reducing friction with the snow. I would personally like to see this board made a little stiffer and damper. That would make it slightly less playful, but better for carving hardpack, technical terrain and side country which is what I spent most of my time doing on this deck.
This board is best suited for someone who loves to ride lots of powder, but wants to freestyle all the way. Its great for getting air and grabs of natural hits as you shred the steep and deep. Its also a good board for carving on hardpack. It will handle everything on the mountain and you can take it through the park and off kickers with confidence, but riding switch requires some adjustments. This could be a superb quiver of 1 for someone who gets to ride powder regularly and is not spending a lot of time in the park. If I were running a 1 board quiver this would be a strong contender as its well suited to what I ride here in Japan. In many ways this board combines the playfulness of the Proto HD with the float of the Summit although it doesn't do either as quite as well as they can. Still it gets pretty close and one board costs a lot less than 2 boards.
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I have the exact set-up except in 155. I'm 5'6" 150ish lbs... was debating on taking this board to Niseko with me next month. Will the size float fine for me or should I stick to my larger 160 powdersnake?
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Enjoy Niseko and remember you are in another country respect the locals and the local customs and watch out for the Aussies!
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I'm living in South Korea right now and there's nothing to ride here but man made, icy death slopes and it handles great. While everyone is washing out, it holds it's edge like a charm
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I recommend this board for someone who gets to ride smaller quantities of fresh snow (not huge dumps of Japanese snow) fairly regularly and groomers. Its ideal for going between the two regularly, i.e resort pow. Also to someone who is not that interested in riding switch, it just doesn't feel planted switch to me.
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- B.S., Stanford University
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Research Interests
- Mechanical behavior
- Experimental measurements of avalanche behavior in solids
- Bulk metallic glasses
- Nanoindentation
- Science of Materials (ENGR 240)
- Mechanics I (ENGR 220)
Selected Honors and Awards
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2010)
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2005)
- Stanford University's Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching (2003)
- American Association of University Women Educational Foundation Selected Professions Fellowship (2002 - 2003)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1998 - 2001)
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S.K. Slaughter, F. Kertis, E. Deda, X.J. Gu, W.J. Wright, and T.C. Hufnagel, "Shear bands in metallic glasses are not necessarily hot." APL Materials, 2, 096110, 2014.
J. Antonaglia, W.J. Wright, X.J. Gu, R.R. Byer, T.C. Hufnagel, M. LeBlanc, J.T. Uhl, and K.A. Dahmen, "Bulk Metallic Glasses Deform Via Slip Avalanches." Physical Review Letters, 112, 155501, 2014.
W.J. Wright, R.R. Byer, and X.J. Gu. "High-speed Imaging of a Bulk Metallic Glass During Uniaxial Compression." Applied Physics Letters, Volume 102, 241920, 2013.
D.R. Askeland and W.J. Wright, Essential of Materials Science and Engineering, Third Edition, Cengage Learning, 2012.
A. Bharathula, S-W. Lee, W.J. Wright, and K.M. Flores. "Compression Testing of Metallic Glass at Small Length Scales: Effects on Deformation Mode and Stability." Acta Materialia, Volume 58, pp. 5789-5796, 2010.
D.R. Askeland, P.P. Fulay, and W.J. Wright, The Science and Engineering of Materials, Sixth Edition, Cengage Learning, 2010.
W.J. Wright, M.W. Samale, T.C. Hufnagel, M.M. LeBlanc, and J.N. Florando. "Determination of Shear Band Velocity Using Spatially and Temporally Resolved Measurements of Strain During Quasistatic Compression of a Bulk Metallic Glass." Acta Materialia, Volume 57, pp. 4639-4648, 2009.
W.J. Wright and W.D. Nix, "Storage and Loss Stiffnesses and Moduli as Determined by Dynamic Nanoindentation." Journal of Materials Research, Volume 24, Number 3, pp. 863-871, 2009.
W.J. Wright, A.R. Maloney, and W.D. Nix. "An Improved Analysis for Viscoelastic Damping in Dynamic Nanoindentation." International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering, Volume 1, Numbers 2/3, pp. 274-292, 2007.
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H. Mahfuz, A. Adnan, V.K. Rangari, M.M. Hasan, S. Jeelani, W.J. Wright, and S.J. DeTeresa. "Enhancement of Strength and Stiffness of Nylon 6 Filaments through Carbon Nanotube Reinforcement." Applied Physics Letters, Volume 88, 083119, 2006.
W.J. Wright, T.C. Hufnagel, and W.D. Nix. "Free Volume Coalescence and Void Formation in Shear Bands in Metallic Glass." Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 93, Number 3, pp. 1432-1437, 2003.
W.J. Wright, R. Saha, and W.D. Nix. "Deformation Mechanisms of the Zr40Ti14Ni10Cu12Be24 Bulk Metallic Glass." Materials Transactions, JIM, Volume 42, Number 4, pp. 642-649, 2001.
W.J. Wright, R.B. Schwarz, and W.D. Nix. "Localized Heating During Serrated Plastic Flow in Bulk Metallic Glasses." Materials Science and Engineering A, Volume 319-321, pp. 229-232, 2001.


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Is ruining me
I try to get away
It works sometimes
Then it comes back
The urge
The need
To bleed
To watch the blood come to surface
To feel the sting
To feel the numbness
Let it take me away
Make me forget
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Clear my head
Let me think
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We've written a lot about the ways in which new technologies and approaches, from mapping and modeling to video games, smart places and mobile communications are both exploding in number and increasingly informing one other. Indeed, the virtual, the mobile, the spatial and the physical are interbreeding, and no one is quite sure what new possibilities are about to be born.
That doesn't mean that a whole bunch of people aren't placing their bets. One of the more interesting efforts is the Metaverse Roadmap Project, which is trying to chart those possibilities this weekend:
"Today's advancing 3-D virtual worlds, massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), 3-D and video plug-ins, geospatial browsers, and social networking platforms are just five of a broad range of technology, economic, and social trends converging to transform today's internet into tomorrow's 3-D 'metaverse,' a transparently connected encapsulation of and progression beyond the current possibilities of the offline world."
Leaving aside for now the problematic decision to term the intersection of these tools a "metaverse" (a choice of terminology which it seems to me obscures more than it illuminates, and puts the resulting research into a framework of jargon and subcultural reference, when we really need is plain talk about new tools), this is an exciting effort, involving a bunch of Worldchanging allies and contributors (including Ethan and Jamais).
The new converging tools are bound to be powerful, transforming the ways we see and work in the physical world just as much as the mutate the ways we interact online.
They're also much needed. As global pressures mount, and we begin to have to take more seriously the work of managing the planet, being able to imagine the implications of both the challenges we face and the better futures we're working towards creating will prove vital.
But in order for them to do that work, or any other worthy work in the world, these tools must not be thought of as the special sanctum of those of us geeky enough to understand their implications now. The world needs these tools, and it's our obligation to see that they are made readily available, useful, democratic, transparent and open. And all of that starts with what we name them and how we talk about them, because, to my mind, what we're talking about is less a conceptual framework cribbed from a fifteen year-old science fiction novel and more a matter of giving birth to a smart planet, a planet on which humanity can see itself in new ways, and make new choices.
The link to Jamais' article is broken (missing the lead 'ht': you'd think these overgrown adding machines would be able to figure that out after 15 years or so!;-)
Thanks Tony
Should be fixed now.
"The world needs these tools, and it's our obligation to see that they are made readily available, useful, democratic, transparent and open. And all of that starts with what we name them and how we talk about them..."
Interesting that you should say this given my current situation in this regard. Perhaps the conversation should start with who is allowed to name these new concepts. I'm finding the "democratized" internet has it's own strict hierarchy that most certainly revolves around an elite (who themselves are not always especially qualified as far as far as I'm concerned).
Perhaps if I'd not put forth a concept on one of the most democratic of mediums: a blog. Or maybe if I had something published in the respectable, always reliable MSM (ha). Or if I had post-graduation credentials and made claims in some always-beyond-reproach research paper (Link).
For all the talk of democratization, from where I stand we seem to have a ways to go.
How could we avoid shaping a "metaverse" as a scale-free network, with several gigantic "winners" and millions of less-significant "losers"?
Csven's complaint is about more than him. The world wide web has shaped up to be a scale free network. Is it truly democratic?
By the way, this isn't a rhetorical question - I'd really like to know.
I've been asked to clarify my comment. For that I can simply post a couple of links:
The concept:
Current developments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkyan (I did not submit this, btw)
Perhaps I need to get a post-graduate degree in "transreality" studies. Can someone point one out?
as i see it, the major point is, that the service is free of cost
wheter it is a forum, an emaillist or a mmop / virtual world plattform
and then does it depend on the person, the words, the concept, the language used wether it will
attract this or that crowd or just some, but strongly interested persons
who can say, what has greater impact on the mind of the user/observer ... a simple text written in a forum ... or hours and hours spent in a beautifull created virtual reality
and there is no concurrence needed, all tools are appreciated and will be willingly used and serve for the greater evolution of mankind
( this is not to make any kind of advertisement, just to point precisly to a very great possibility for everyone to participate in the development of 3d web 2.0 at NO COST:
There are no upfront costs. We only make money when you make money, and if you never charge a cent, you never have to pay us anything.
it needs to say that the no cost version requires hosting your 3d world developped with multiverse.net tools on your own server
hello csven
i was trying to find an online study in transreality ... but either failed or had not enough endurance ... when the idea came to me ... inspired also by the phrase: Transreality: Living What you write
that a study in transreality should be person/student centered, not school or teacher centered
as the person and its own perception, wishes, motivations, morals etc.
are in the middle of transreality concept ...
so ... how about founding a group at google groups called transreality studies ... and openly share our very own experiences in life
share lecture tips and our very "own" thinkings and theories ?
i am not at all very disciplined and do not know how much or how long i would stay in such a group, but as allways, the idea itself counts, not how many people give power to it
mmmh... i first thought to send you this in an email, but it could be interesting for others too to read this
Transrealist writing treats "immediate perceptions in a fantastic way," according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the fantastic from the standpoint of richly personalized experience.
Thoughts are interesting phenomena. They are personal in the sense that we generate them, but they often remind us that they retain an air of independence -- a dream in which we have no control or, perhaps the solution to a difficult problem magically suggesting itself long after we have ceased thinking about it. Thoughts instill us with the confidence that we know and understand reality on one level, and yet remind us that they are, themselves, no more than the thought-assisted translations of stimuli past. Ultimately, our knowledge and perception of reality exist as intimate threads within that same metaphysical fabric.
This realization suggests that transreal technology represents more than a new development in simulation or entertainment; it suggests an extension of our already active role in the construction of reality. Presently, the "objective" stimuli perceived by our senses impose a syntax on our translations of what reality means. Transreal technology, however, permits the construction of environments in which the stimuli are, in principle, completely controllable by the perceiver -- as in the pre-Copernican universe, reality, once again, revolves around the person. The epistemological and ontological questions of old re-emerge: what is reality? what can we know of it? what is our place in it? Questions argued in the abstract for thousands of years become the object of controlled, empirical enquiry. Transreal technology, as result, will represent the first, true empirical medium for studying the fundamental epistemological and ontological questions of reality and our roles within it.
"reality, once again, revolves around the person"
My thought as well: http://www.openthefuture.com/2006/04/everyware_blogjects_and_the_pa.html#comment-6
And apologies that the sarcasm was lost. I'm not actually looking for a university. I'm pointing out that there likely isn't any, and thus expecting credentials for some things doesn't make sense. It would be like asking the Wright brothers for a pilot's license before their flight at Kittyhawk.
Technology is opening doors to different ways of working and thinking and interacting. We should all be flexible. And most of all, we should all be willing to give new ideas a fair chance, evaluate them on their merits, and not casually dismiss them without sufficient investigation and review. In my case, I know from the lack of traffic to the primary post explaining the concept, that some apparently self-appointed internet elite didn't give the idea due consideration.
When I think of the internet as a democratizing medium, I think of the Salon des Refusés. However, it appears that an internet "good ol' boys club" is forming; our very own Académie. I consider that an unfortunate development.
how to come together, how to exchange ? might it perhaps be enough that people think simultanously about the same topics without knowing each other or knowing how much other people investigate the same thought clouds
an old eastern wisdom:
the chi goes where the attention goes
and there is a strong behaviour model of exercising the mental and emotional which can leed to a deep knowing, that all is one
thinker and thought, observer and observed, actor and audience
if i get the self esteem in what i am thinking, how i am able to understand concepts and even to formulate them in thoughts or even in words, then it does not sooo much matter if ten or tentousand people read my post
the vibrations of the thinking or the writing or the speaking are sent out or once more strengthened and can be used trough all the time, not bound to past,present,future
if some individuals form a "future executive", it may happen only as kind of representation of the millions of thinkers which choose to contribute to the whole future forming in a more back-stage way
today, i found this comic at
of which i think is in a way contributing to strengthen the focus on how is it possible to use the life force with our most available machine, the mind-emotion-flesh-circuit
imagine, if our selfcounciousness coupled with enjoying the freedom of being non-representive, the fun of creating unique ways ... could lead to a connection to the source of all energy, a state of existing, where no machine, no intermediate nanofactory or materia-forming device is needed, because the materia, the mother will be pleased to
fullfill our well intended designs ... a state of harmony between the individual human and the individual planet earth ... a tune without friction, a frequency which releases the materia of hard processes, a soft melody which is well known by the very core kernel of all what is
cseven, I don't think the elite's conspired to ignore your thinking... experience tells me that new thinking can emerge in many places at once, and not everyone sees every instance. C'est la vie.
Unfortunate that you closed comments...
"if i get the self esteem in what i am thinking, how i am able to understand concepts and even to formulate them in thoughts or even in words, then it does not sooo much matter if ten or tentousand people read my post"
That isn't at issue. The problem is this: Imagine some brilliant mathematician comes up with a radical idea. S/he has no traditional credentials. No formal training. They post their idea and without due consideration the idea is rejected. The Académie, which is now put in place by the netizens themselves, passes judgement and a brilliant voice is silenced (and btw, please don't think I'm suggesting that my idea aspires to any level beyond "interesting"). This person might then simply decide to no longer try to be heard; averse to unfair criticism and content with their own level of self esteem.
Now isn't that exactly what the internet is supposed to prevent? What happened to Democratization? Equality? Parity? Leveling the world?
What we have instead is a net-based power law distribution to which people thoughtlessly contribute, the same way they mindlessly fill their gas tanks to drive half a mile instead of riding a bicycle.
I consider this a problem. Not for my sake, but for the sake of what is supposed to be best for everyone.
"I don't think the elite's conspired to ignore your thinking"
I agree. I don't believe they "conspired". They do, however, appear to have passed their belittling judgements rather mindlessly. And that is the real problem afaic, because as I've stated elsewhere, this is no personal crises. But it is part of a larger social injustice that should alarm anyone who takes the issues discussed on this site seriously.
If we're all serious about changing the world, then it needs to start with how we treat each other. No technology is going to lift us up if we're incapable of civility.
exactly because the established forces may not be willing to openly applaude to some innovative thinking ... or the time for its public appearance is not yet here ... it is important for visionairies, great thinkers to continue ... even when the recognition is not openly given
or not given by im bodi ed humans living now
it is not even so much needed to publish, altough it is good to do it ... the vibrations of the idea will pass anyway, if thought, written or spoken
thanks to the growing intelligence of searchmachines and the efforts of directory maintainers, boomark listers, blog writers, podcasters, net magazines and so on ...
a content previously not so much regarded can be transported quickly into the attention sphere of
much more possibly interested individuals
Japanese 'device art' brings technology to life
Well, the Academie has won.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkyan - deleted
Even though the director of a simulation company, Stirling Reid Limited, endorsed the concept both on Wikipedia and his blog.
I'd say we're well on our way to a decidedly unlevel metaverse.
mmmh...perhaps one gets more freedom to think on his own when publishing at a User page at wikipedia
this place might welcome kirkyan idea:
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"The connections people made here I'm sure will lead to people doing interesting things in collaboration," said Dyson, who writes Release 1.0 for CNET, the publisher of News.com. "But we're not coming together to promulgate a standard. We're trying to get a common vocabulary, a common understanding."
And in the end, that's what the event's organizers were really after.
"I feel that people came and engaged, and that part of it was extremeley successful," said Bridget Agabra, the Metaverse Roadmap's project manager. "Now the hard work begins again. But this is fun because it's content and ideas...When you see the magic (participants) were doing, the magic they were making with their minds, that was brain food for me."
Google is encouraging developers to use SketchUp to build 3-D layers on top of Google Earth. There's even a website Google provides called 3-D Warehouse, where you can demonstrate what you've built in Sketch Up.
Enter the metaverse
The notion that you can create objects and buildings and place them in a virtual world makes Google Earth sounds less like a mapping tool and more like a metaverse. What's a metaverse? Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson introduced the term in his seminal 1992 novel, Snow Crash. The metaverse was Stephenson's name for a virtual world where his characters play and do business. It was a black ball 1.6 times the size of Earth, with a giant street running around its equator.
In Stephenson's novel, millions of users uploaded customized "avatars," or virtual personalities, and strolled the street, entering shops and exclusive nightclubs, conversing and trading with the metaverse's other denizens. It was, in effect, a 3-D version of the web.


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Wednesdays storm pulled no punches as it dumped up to a foot of snow on most of Indiana.
Cars were turned over. Stores were shut down.
But even if this years storm is one of the worst Indianapolis has seen in recent years, it wont be enough to dethrone the veritable King of All Snowstorms: the Blizzard of 1978.
Al Shipe, hydrologist for the National Weather Services Indianapolis office, started his career in the region just two years before that storm engulfed the Midwest.
The snow, he said, started falling at about 4:37 p.m. on Jan. 25 a Wednesday that year.
And it didnt stop.
I thought Id be (stuck at) home for one day, but the city didnt get dug out until that weekend, Shipe said. In northeast Indiana, they were still dropping supplies from helicopters because they couldnt dig those people out.
The blizzard made a ghost town out of the city. One Indianapolis Star headline wondered, Whered Everybody Go? It opened with a blunt, three-word sentence: Indianapolis closed yesterday.
Shipe said one of the biggest culprits were the massive 55-mph gusts that pushed snow around the city, blanketing the streets with at least 15 inches worth and a whopping near-30 inches in places such as South Bend.
On Wednesday, the winds were barely enough to qualify this years storm for blizzard status.
To reach blizzard level, a storm needs to have winds of at least 35 miles per hour and visibility at a quarter of a mile or less, said John Kwiatkowski, meteorologist for the National Weather Services Indianapolis office.
Those conditions need to be reached frequently though not continuously over a three-hour period.
On Wednesday, the strongest winds hitting the city clocked in at 39 mph. The full set of criteria was met from about 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., Kwiatkowski said.
That would be the absolute bottom-level blizzard, if you want to look at it that way, he said. For a winter storm, it would be a heck of one. As far as blizzards go, its definitely your introductory level.
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Should your business support a charity? According to an article on the National Federation of Independent Business' website, supporting a charitable organization is a great way to show your company's gratitude. But how do you determine which cause is right for you?
We had the chance to speak with Terri O'Shaughnessy, co-owner of local business Soul & Spirit, about why she and business partner John Kenney decided to support men's health for Movember. In case you don't know, Movember is "responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men's faces, in the U.S. and around the world. With their mo's, these men raise vital awareness and funds for men's health issues, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives."
Check out Terri's story about charitable giving below!
Business: Soul & Spirit
Business owners: Terri O'Shaughnessy and John Kenney Business focus: Clothing that symbolizes love, life, and style Business type: Single location Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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Scott's Local Business Corner: Why is Movember important to your business?
Terri O'Shaughnessy: The main reason John and I decided to support men's health during the month of November is because my mom died of cancer. I think any way you can bring awareness to this disease, whether for men or women, it's a great thing. Since Soul & Spirit has a fairly captive audience on Facebook full of fans and friends of our brand, we felt why not utilize them for a good cause. Plus, we're not only asking people to donate; they get something great in return!
SLBC: What do they get?
Terri: We have designed a T-shirt in support of Movember that has our logo turned into a handlebar mustache. We will be selling the shirts for $25 and from each shirt, $5 will go to men's health research.
SLBC: That's great! Can you tell us a little bit about Soul & Spirit?
Terri: Our tagline is "Where living life is your style." Our brand as a whole, our message, our culture, is just to enjoy life and live life to the fullest. The things that are important to John and I; music, art, travel… you can see a lot of that in our designs. The way we envision living life to the fullest is by traveling around the world, going to shows, appreciating culture, music, and art, and we've embodied that in our brand. We also felt that there was a gap in the clothing industry for adults who have outgrown the younger brands but still don't want to wear Tommy Bahama or anything like that.
SLBC: In addition to supporting men's health this month, do you also support other local businesses?
Terri: Yes, as a local business ourselves, it's very important to John and I to never outsource anything. That's why we use a local T-shirt supplier, a local printer, and we have our labels sewn here locally. Everything we do is here in Arizona; we never outsource! We're a member of Local First and have an office here in Phoenix. We've really started to become a member of the local business community and I think that, in combination with giving back, is an integral part of being a local business owner.
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FT. GAINES, GEORGIA -- Douglas Michael (Mick) Anderson, a resident of Ft. Gaines, Georgia, died early Thursday morning, September 20, 2012, at his home. He was 60.
Memorial services will be held at 11:00 A.M. (EDT), Saturday, September 22, 2012, in the Ft. Gaines Woman's Club with Reverend Randy Stokes officiating. Holman-Abbeville Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Clay County Library, P.O. Box 275, Ft. Gaines, Georgia, 39851.
Mr. Anderson was a native of Owensboro, Kentucky and moved to Ft. Gaines with his family in 1958. He was retired as a Vice President of Anderson Construction Company of Ft. Gaines. Mr. Anderson was preceded in death by his father, Gerald Von Anderson, his mother, Merry Cargal Anderson, and his step-mother, Muriel (Mo) Mobley Anderson.
Surviving relatives include two daughters, Amy Anderson Mulkey and her husband, Dan Mulkey, Blakely, GA; and Allyson Anderson, Quincy, FL; a son, Matthew Anderson, Ft. Gaines, GA; a grandson, Lucas Anderson Mulkey, three sisters, Gay Anderson Wright and her husband, Frank Wright, Birmingham; Kevin Anderson Baxley and her husband, Tom Baxley, Blakely, GA; and Dr. Joy Anderson Brown and her husband, Dr. David Brown, Watkinsville, GA; two brothers, Jerry Anderson and his wife, Sally Anderson, Eufaula; and Chuck Anderson, Atlanta.
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My vote for NL MVP
Over the last couple of weeks, I've heard a lot of talk on the radio and seen a lot of talk online about the seasonal baseball awards. As a Met fan, it's disappointing that nobody from the team will really be in the running...but in a way, that just goes to show how truly valuable guys like Wright, Beltran, Reyes and Delgado are. When they were putting runs up on the board, the team was winning--and when they weren't, the team was losing. Of course, that's exactly WHY they won't be in the conversation. It was, once again, a brutal last few weeks of the season. MVPs don't end seasons like that foursome did. If I had to choose a Mets MVP, it would probably be Beltran. Consistently underrated because he's not flashy and doesn't overwhelm in any one category, he's simply the best player on the team and among the top 5 in baseball. If you don't believe me, go ahead and look at his stats. Then realize that he also plays an incredible center field, rarely strikes out, and runs the bases almost flawlessly. He doesn't have high steal totals because he steals intelligently, when he has a read and has an advantage. Anyhow, I disgress...
When the votes are tallied, I won't be surprised if Howard walks away with the hardware. Actually, I expect it to work out that way. He has the gaudy numbers, and Philly made the push to end the season due, in large part, to him coming up big. He LOOKS like an MVP and hits in the middle of a potent lineup. However, he's not the most valuable player on his team.
Manny is probably the true NL MVP--he took a team that was pretty good and made them a solid NL playoff team. He's seemingly changed the attitude of the clubhouse from a quiet one to one where suddenly the personality of players has come out. Andre Ethier? James Loney? Matt Kemp? Chad Billingsley? For some reason before the trade deadline they seemed faceless. Solid players, yes...but somehow the electricity that flowed through the team after the acquisition of Manny imbued them with individual identities. I know, there will be fans from LA that argue that they were always exciting individuals and this is east coast bias--but I'm just telling you how it seems from the outside. The young Dodger players just seemed...solid I guess, without being anything particularly special.
Still, Manny can't really be named MVP, just like Sabathia can't really win the Cy Young. Yes, if the award was TRULY given to the player who was most valuable to their respective teams, they'd both be right up there. They're both probably the catalyst that got their respective teams into the playoffs...but numbers being what they are, it's hard to give the award for only a couple months of service.
Aramis Ramirez? Derrek Lee? Geovanny Soto? Yes, they were the heart of a team that lit up the best all-around team in the NL (and possibly baseball) this year. None of them, however, feel like MVPs. Nobody jumps out (and Soto would have to be truly outstanding to win it as a rookie). Nobody really carried the Cubs on their back. The stars of that team are Pinella and Zambrano, with a tip of the cap to Wood.
Then we come down to who I would vote as my #2: Albert Pujols. This isn't exactly shocking, I know...but you just can't argue with how insane his numbers were this year. .357, 37 HR, 116 RBI, 100 R. He walked 104 TIMES and struck out 54 TIMES. Look at that again. It's a 2:1 WALK TO STRIKEOUT RATIO for a power hitter. Are you kidding me? Talk about efficient. Contrast that with Howard, who walked 81 times and struck out 199 times. That's a 2.5:1 STRIKEOUT TO WALK RATIO. Yes, that's what power hitters do most of the time (though not as ridiculously as Howard). That's what makes Pujols' year that much more incredible. Those are Ted Williams-type numbers. OK, maybe not quite Ted Williams, who used to do it at a 3:1 walk to strikeout clip regularly. Actually, it's more along the lines of a guy named Ruth who had a 1.5:1 ratio throughout his career.
Ready for another stat? Howard's OBP was .339--lower than Pujols' AVERAGE. Pujols, on the other hand, had an OBP of .462.
While Howard would be a good candidate, Pujols is simply a better one. Yes, the Cards didn't get into the playoffs...but the only reason they were even in the hunt for most of the year was due to Pujols. The Phillies might not have won the NL East without Howard, but the Cardinals would've been out of it in June without the presence of #5.
So it sounds like I'm running out of MVP options...but I've got one more guy. In the vaunted tradition of Willie "Guillermo" Hernandez, Dennis Eckersley and Rollie Fingers, my MVP would be none other than Brad Lidge.
The incredibly painful part of this is that really the Phillies' MVP for the year was probably the Mets' bullpen, who as a collective unit found new and interesting ways to blow games on a dishearteningly regular basis. Still though, look at what Lidge did for the team from the City of Brotherly Love:
1) Converted 41/41 saves. This has been well-documented, but really is startling. This is a guy, remember, who was basically done in Houston. It's not like he was driven out of town, but his welcome mat was clearly frayed. He was on his way down to the land of the short-lived dominant closers. He also had a 1.95 ERA and struck out 92 while walking 35. Not exactly Eck-esque (which is hard to say), but still pretty good.
2) Did something that goes beyond the numbers. Going into this year, I saw plenty of "you're kidding, Brad Lidge?"-type commentary from Philly fans. I'd feel the same way. However, by the end of April it was clear that he was a different pitcher. Although I don't exactly follow Phillie post-game commentary and locker room talk, that HAD to give the rest of the team a boost. It went from a shaky bullpen situation in 2007 to a sure thing this year. He shortened every game to eight innings. The feeling went from waiting for the other shoe to drop in the first half to him just being formidable in the second half.
3) He gave confidence to a cobbled-togehter (for the most part) pen. Clay Condrey was 5-0 last year, sure. 5-0 with a 5.04 ERA and a 1.54 WHIP. It was unclear how much Romero had left in the tank after a bunch of up-and-down seasons. Over nine seasons, Chad Durbin had a 5.30 ERA and a 1.53 WHIP. In 2007 for Cleveland he was mainly a starter, and a very average one at that. He was injured in 2005. Rudy Seanez is 40...and was last truly "great" in a setup role in about 1994. Scott Eyre is, well, Scott Eyre. He's the definition of average reliever with lifetime numbers of a 4.36 ERA, 1.53 WHIP, 515 strikeouts and 316 walks. Even Madson has been unreliable. Yes, he was good in 2004...and he was living off of that.
Was it a coincidence that the Philly pen came together once Lidge came aboard? In that bandbox, any team can put up 7-10 runs a game...but that bullpen shut lots of teams down. Brad Lidge was the catalyst. For his own stats and what he did for a team that needed every win, he would be my NL MVP if I had a ballot.
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Posted on: October 2, 2008 5:54 pm
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The riskiest way to spend $15 million
After the debacle that was the bullpen last year, Mets management will be quick to overspend for bullpen help going into 2009. Building a great bullpen is a tricky business--it's not only about talent but also timing, psychology, and the kind of value evaluation that is usually reserved for the financial markets (before last week). The obvious splashy choice to shore up a bullpen is to hire a big-time lights-out closer. Unless something crazy happens, the Mets will make a move for the biggest-time, lights-outest closer out there, K-Rod.
On the surface, it sure looks like a no-brainer. He's been amazing since his promotion from setup man to closer going into the 2002 post-season, where he was on the minds of all sports fans as the next best thing. He has gone on to deliver, setting the saves record and leading the Angels into the playoffs again this year. As Mets fans, we can see the parallel here: K-Rod has been a huge factor in the Anaheim of Los Angeles Orange County Angels' consistent success over the last 6 years, in a way that mirrors the performance of a closer on a team around the corner that has meant just as much to their success.
How much of a sure thing is a closer--even at the top of his game--anyhow? They're unusual players, like a place kicker in football, it's hard to tell when they'll just lose their edge. The major difference between the two though is that the closer has his psyche AND his physical well-being to hold onto. Kickers--unless they get a little over-excited (see: Grammatica, Martin) don't run the same risk.
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Rivera, Hoffman, Fingers and Lee Smith have been/were very consistent for an extended period of time. When you look at the exceptions, it really proves how powerful the rule is.
1988: 2.35, 0.87
1988: 1.72, 0.91
1977: 1.62, 0.95
1977: 1.34, 0.86
There's definitely a minor trend here, but nothing that can be extrapolated yet. The history of great closers shows that some last 4-5 years, some last 6-8. Very, very few are able to keep it up past that point. The road to long-time dominance is littered with guys that looked unbeatable for 4-5 years: Gagne, Nen, Percival, Henke, Montgomery, Dave Smith, Tekulve (who we always imitated on the wiffle ball field), Charlton, Howe and so on. It has guys like Thigpen and Davis, who set saves records and then dropped off the face of the earth. Will K-Rod be sitting with Rivera, Smith, Fingers and Hoffman? Will he be this generation's Gossage, who fell in the middle? Will all of the innings and the violent motion put him on that cliff-bound bus that has claimed so many others that seemed untouchable for 4-5 years and then...disappeared?
There's no way to tell, but one thing's for sure. Spending money on a sure-fire closer is never the easy bet that it seems to be on paper.
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Chamber of Commerce weather turned weekend Veterans Day events in Mesquite all the way to the Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza on I-15 into memorable and enjoyable experiences.
Although Nov. 11 is officially Veterans Day, established to recognize the end of World War I "on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918," it was celebrated locally over the weekend to avoid conflicting festivities with 1,000 Flags of Mesquite and in Las Vegas next weekend.
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Marti Pellow plays Che in Evita at The Regent Theatre – Monday, 21 October – Saturday, 26 October
Posted: October 22, 2013|
MARTI Pellow, one of music's most respected artists, is undertaking one of musical theatre's most coveted roles as he plays Che in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, at The Regent Theatre from Monday, 21 October to Saturday, 26 October.
Telling the story of Eva Peron, wife of former Argentine dictator Juan Peron, Evita follows Eva's journey from humble beginnings through to extraordinary wealth, power and iconic status which ultimately lead her to be heralded as the 'spiritual leader of the nation' by the Argentine people.
With more than 20 major awards to its credit, including the Oscar winning film version starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas, Evita features some of the most iconic songs in musical theatre, including Don't Cry For Me Argentina, On This Night of a Thousand Stars, You Must Love Me, and Another Suitcase in Another Hall.
Reporter Abbey Buxton attended the opening night performance of Evita at The Regent on Monday, October 21, and here she writes what she thought about it:
As one of my all time must-see musicals, I was delighted to have been given the chance to see Evita, especially so close to home.
The Regent has really outdone itself this year with its incredible line-up of performances, and this was no exception.
Right from the start you know that Evita is not going to pull any punches, as the curtain rises and you are immediately hit with thunderous music and vocals as the set descends to create a cathedral-like scene with Eva's coffin and portrait at the centre.
It is here we meet Che, a character who reflects the voice of the Argentine people; linked to Eva by destiny he brings conflict to the story of Eva's rise to fame.
Marti Pellow plays the character very well, as he narrates throughout the performance, in his own cynical and bitter way.
Having seen Marti as the devil in The Witches of Eastwick, also at The Regent, I'm familiar with his extraordinary vocal talents, but it was great to see how he has further developed into his acting persona and his voice in this demanding role was outstanding.
As a solo-singer, recording artist, and at the beginning of his career with Wet Wet Wet, Marti Pellow has enjoyed virtually un-rivalled chart success, with over 25 hits and three of the UK's biggest number one singles, including the seminal Love Is All Around.
He has performed all over the world, and his West End and Musical Theatre appearances include The Witches of Eastwick, Chess, Jekyll and Hyde, Chicago and Blood Brothers.
Madalena Alberto played the role of Eva to perfection and was mesmerising and enthralling as the inspirational, yet ruthlessly ambitious, tragic heroin of the performance.
Her vocals were phenomenal and so powerful they made the hairs of my neck stand on end, especially throughout the show's signature song "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".
Her most recent musical theatre credits include the role of Piaf at the Curve Theatre, Leicester, Fantine in the 25th Anniversary production of Les Misérables.
Other roles include Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde (Union Theatre, London), Carmen Diaz in Fame (UK Tour), Sam in Over the Threshold (Edinburgh and London) and Sonia in Godspell (Union Theatre, London).
The Portuguese singer-songwriter also released her album Heart Condition in 2012.
Completing the cast are Mark Heenehan, Nic Gibney, Sarah McNicholas, Hannah Grover, Natalie Day, Emily Goodenough, Verity Burgess, Laura Emmitt, Lizzie Ottley, Perry O'Dea, Joe Maxwell, Joel Elferink, Stuart MacIver, Joseph Connor, Ryan Pidgen, Anthony Ray, Anthony Hewitt and David Burilin.
You will need plenty of tissues for this show, but once you've see it you'll want to watch it again; it truly is one of the great musicals of all time and is not to be missed.
Tickets are now on sale and are available in person from The Regent Theatre Box Office, by calling 0844 871 7649 or visiting www.atgtickets.com/stoke.


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Stanic: I'll save Karabatic's shots, too
In only the 120 minutes he has spent as Serbia national handball team's first-choice goalkeeper, Darko Stanic has become the hero of the home fans. His every save, and there were dozens of those against Poland and Denmark, he shared with the crowd, throwing three fingers into the air or kissing the ball.
Spreading himself like an octopod and growing into one of Serbia's biggest assets at the ongoing European Championship, Stanic contributed hugely to his team's win over Denmark – the reigning vice-champions of the world and Serbia's second in as many Group A games. The home nation have thus booked their place in the second phase of the tournament played in the Serbian cities of Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis and Vrsac.
- I don't even know what the final score is, I just know we won and that I want to share this moment with the fans. We needed this, and the time has come for handball to be Serbia's sporting pride once more, Stanic was ecstatic after the game against Denmark.
As one of the best goalkeepers in the world, he embraces the fact Serbia are once again on the trail of glory after 11 years.
- We are a team and I am just one cog at the goal – my teammates are those suffering the beatings and pulling the team. All I know this is a big deal.
As much as he is reliable and assured on the court, Stanic is unpredictable and unorthodox off it.
- Do you know what the ideal thing is for any athlete? Games without training sessions in-between. It takes me a while to persuade coaches this is how I best function.
Stanic made tremendous saves against Denmark, frustrating the spine of the opposition's team – the Hansen quartet. Serbia will now be heavily relying on the goalkeeping revelation in the second stage played at the Belgrade Arena.
- I'll save Nikola Karabatic's shots if it's necessary, I'll give my all so we can go on and win a medal now that we have a big chance to do that here at home, said Stanic.
Serbia coach Veselin Vukovic has announced he will be fielding a second-string team in the final round-robin game against Slovakia on Thursday in order to rest a number of key players.
- I was planning to give minutes to fringe players who have not had plenty of chances to play so far, but also to rest those who have carried the most weight over the past two games. Although the final game against Slovakia has no competitive edge, we will have to win in order not to dent our confidence ahead of the second phase and to do it for the fans as well, said Vukovic.
The coach once again reflected on the 24-22 win over Denmark.
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Multi-platinum recording artists Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith are about to embark on a multi-city U.S. tour that will reunite these two iconic singer/songwriters for the first time on the road together (for a non-holiday tour) in more than two decades.
The "2 Friends" tour is slated to appear across the country beginning in early February, including the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts on Feb. 18. Undoubtedly a landmark experience for music fans, the tour showcases two of Christian music's most recognized and beloved artists who have, together, won nine Grammy Awards and sold more than 47 million albums.
The two first toured together in 1982 on Grant's "Age to Age Tour." Her "Age to Age" album was exploding up the Christian music charts, thanks to hits like "El Shaddai" and "Sing Your Praise To The Lord." Smith toured as Grant's keyboard player and opening act, supporting his debut release, "Project," which generated instant classics like "Great Is The Lord" and "Friends." They toured together on and off through the rest of that decade, culminating in the record-setting "Lead Me On" tour.
They have continued to collaborate together musically over the years. "I've always said I wouldn't be where I am without Amy Grant," Smith says. "When Amy hired me to play keyboards for her, I never could have anticipated where it would take me."
"That first decade we toured together was really pretty amazing," Grant adds. "There's a nostalgia element that comes with having worked with someone solidly for so long and I'm ecstatic about hitting the road with Michael again." Both artists will perform music from their vast catalog of fan favorites, along with selections from their current chart-topping albums: Grant's "Somewhere Down The Road" (March 2010), and Smith's brand new project, "Wonder" (Sept. 2010).
Both Smith and Grant have had stellar careers on their own. Grant's career spans more than 30 years, from her roots in gospel into an iconic pop star, songwriter, television personality and philanthropist. Grant has sold more than 30 million albums and won six Grammy Awards in multiple categories, beginning with the platinum selling Age to Age in 1982. She also has six #1 hits, including "Baby, Baby," and "Every Heartbeat" and is one of only two Christian artists to be awarded a star on the legendary Walk of Fame in Hollywood.
Throughout his 28-year career as a recording artist, Smith has amassed an impressive catalog of achievements. His prior 21 albums have garnered multiple honors including an American Music Award, three Grammy Awards with 13 nominations; 44 GMA Dove Awards and 33 No. 1 radio hits. In addition, he holds 16 Gold, seven Platinum and two Double-Platinum albums for career sales approaching 17 million. Inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2009, Smith has also scored several film projects, written 11 books and has been featured by media outlets including "Hannity," NBC's "Today Show," ABC's "Good Morning America," "NBC Nightly News," "Larry King Live," "FOX & Friends" and more.
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New York Law Journal Spotlights Leitner Center Efforts on Behalf of Missing Chinese AttorneyMartin Flaherty in New York Law Journal, May 21, 2009
by Jeff Storey
A group of New York-based lawyers and legal scholars has joined other alarmed observers of China in attempting to intercede for Gao Zhisheng, a well-known Chinese human rights lawyer who disappeared after he reportedly was forcibly removed from his home by police on Feb. 4.
The Committee to Support Lawyers in China wrote to Minister of Justice Wu Aiying last month to "respectfully ask that you take all necessary steps to investigate Mr. Gao's disappearance and ensure his personal safety and other rights as a citizen of the People's Republic of China. As Mr. Gao appears to have been detained outside of formal legal proceedings and without legal cause, we also urge you to release him without delay."
The expression of support by American lawyers for a beleaguered colleague overseas is reminiscent of the New York lawyers' protests on behalf of Pakistan's chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was removed from office and placed under house arrest by former President Pervez Musharraf (Read the article in NYLJ, July 2, 2008, subscription may be required).
The New York committee to support Chinese lawyers is a relatively new organization housed at Fordham University School of Law's Leitner Center for International Law and Justice. It is an offshoot of the center's Rules of Law in Asia Program.
Mr. Gao, 44, known for speaking out about official corruption and police abuse, raised the ire of Chinese authorities with his efforts to defend religious freedom and other causes. Once lauded by the justice ministry as one of the country's 10 best lawyers, his license to practice was taken away and his law firm closed down in 2005 because of his condemnation through letters, essays and interviews of police treatment of Falun Gong members, Christians and others.
In 2006, he was detained and received a three-year prison sentence, which was suspended for five years, for "inciting subversion." After a two-month detention in 2007, he described treatment amounting to torture. His family fled China in January due to what they said was constant police surveillance and harassment.
In light of Mr. Gao's assertions that he had been abused, the New York committee wrote the Chinese justice minister that "we fear for [Mr. Gao's] personal safety."
It argued that the detention and harassment of Mr. Gao were inconsistent with United Nations standards on the rule of lawyers, which obligate governments to ensure that lawyers are free to perform their professional functions without "intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference" and that lawyers should not be penalized "for any actions taken in accordance with recognized professional duties, standards and ethics."
Moreover, it suggested that Mr. Gao's predicament is contrary to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, to which China is a party.
Although China has made "enormous strides" toward building a rule of law, its treatment of Mr. Gao is "by no means an isolated incident," Martin S. Flaherty, a Fordham professor who is a vice chair of the committee, said in an interview. The group estimates that more than 500 attorneys in China have been detained in recent years in connection with sensitive criminal, political, religious, property and environmental cases.
"What is surprising and troubling [about Mr. Gao's case] is that he has been held so long without information," said Mr. Flaherty.
In fact, Jerome A. Cohen, a professor at New York University School of Law and a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said that what has happened to Mr. Gao represents "a relatively new tack" - the use of "thugs" sanctioned by Chinese authorities but operating outside official channels to clamp down on dissidents.
According to the latest U.S. State Department report on human rights in China, released Feb. 25, the government's record "has remained poor and worsened in some areas."
"The government continued to monitor, harass, detain, arrest, and imprison journalists, writers, activists, and defense lawyers and their families, many of whom were seeking to exercised their rights under the law," the report says.
So far, China has not released any information about Mr. Gao in response to the New York committee's letter or any of the other expressions of concern from U.N. agencies, other governments and nongovernmental organizations.
Mr. Flaherty said that "one of the greatest challenges in human rights advocacy is dealing with China," which sometimes bridles at what it regards as interference in its sovereignty. "One has to be very careful."
Here, however, given the unusual nature of the case, the committee made the decision to publicize Mr. Gao's disappearance.
The letter "can't hurt," said Mr. Cohen, a senior adviser to the committee. "We are at rock bottom."
Mr. Cohen said it is unlikely the Chinese would pay any attention to a letter from U.S. lawyers. "But they might pay attention to [Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton," he said.
The committee also wrote to Ms. Clinton (See Letter), requesting her "to ask the Chinese government to immediately verify Mr. Gao's whereabouts and personal safety and, hopefully, reassure those of us concerned about his well being that he is unharmed."
A spokesman for the State Department in an e-mail Friday said the United States is, indeed, "deeply concerned" about the well being of Mr. Gao.
He added that the United States has communicated those concerns "repeatedly, both in Washington and Beijing." In particular, he said that a "senior representative" at the U.S. Embassy raised Mr. Gao's case with "high-level counterparts" at China's Foreign Affairs Ministry on March 23.
He said the U.S. government has called on the Chinese "to ensure that Mr. Gao's treatment while in custody meets international standards."
Ms. Clinton was criticized by some human rights advocates when, after a recent trip to China, she told reporters that she had broached the general issue of human rights, but observed that those issues "cannot interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change conference, and the security crisis."
"There are a lot of other considerations going on here," Mr. Flaherty acknowledged.
Nevertheless, he said that U.S. lawyers have an obligation to speak out when lawyers in other countries "are persecuted for doing their job." And he said the Pakistani case shows that their efforts can be effective in publicizing actions against lawyers.
On a personal level, Mr. Cohen said he feels compelled to do whatever he can to help Mr. Gao, whom he has met and regards as a man of tremendous courage.
"I admire the guy," he said.
The Committee to Support Lawyers in China has a 10-member steering committee and is in the process of building a board of advisors. Its chairman is Robert Hornick, a professor at the University of Arizona Law School. The other vice chair is R. Scott Greathead, a litigation partner in the New York office of Wiggin and Dana.


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Earlier in the week we reported that Dover Street Market in Aoyama Tokyo would be completely renovated and dedicated to the Comme des Garcons x Louis Vuitton collaboration as a pop up store. The aesthetic of the store suits much of the Comme des Garcons feel we know so well with the concrete floor and white walls, while the addition of LV holograph boxes complete the project. Take a closer look inside the store below.
Check out more info on WWD and Yoshikage Kajiwara's blog.


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Hi dear, sammayy
can you give me informations how can Iapply for a job as a doctor in Indonesia? from salahedinhezo
I can bring a moslem maid but from Egypt, if you like? I am a doctor of paediatric need a job in Indonesia or MALAYSIA, can u help? dr_salahedin[at]hotmail.com
ya, please if you can help me find a house to buy and how I can apply for a job
salahedin hezo
Hi. I am a doctor of paediatric diseases live in USA
I am fluent in English, Kurdesh and Arabic languages.I want live and have a job as a doctor there, I,ll need a Bahasa language teacher and a person to help me buy a house/
cairo? Egypt? ok me from Alex. to baghdad to bieurot suadi Arabia libya canada .......at last Charlotte USA but only Alex. and Egypt are living in my heart
Hi Christine,
I am Egyptian AMERICAN doctor live in USA,interrested to live in Indonesia,I have good experience in teaching Arabic and Englis what else?? thank you
Hi DWSA
try to help me find a job as a doctor ,we can share a business in a clinic and a language school if U like
I am a child mental health doctor live in USA how can I buy a house and apply for a job?
Is it easy to find a job in Indonesia for a doctor? even if it is available in a small town or a village.