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Many Conglomerate readers know that before I entered law teaching, I worked at a big firm in New York. What may surprise some of you is that I was also a death penalty lawyer, sort of. The very first court paper I signed as a lawyer was a motion for a stay of execution. I once wrote a little article for law.com urging big-firm associates to do death penalty work, even if they happen to be in the tax or corporate department, as I was. You can read the article here.
The good news I received yesterday was that the sentence and conviction were just overturned. Details below the fold.
I began working on the case in 1999, shortly after arriving at Davis Polk. Our client, Larry Jenkins, was about as sympathetic a client as you could imagine for this kind of case -- 17 years old (and in 9th grade) at the time of the crime, mentally retarded, African-American, in small-town Georgia ... basically a sweet kid who got dragged into trouble by a violent, older drug dealer with a rap sheet a mile long. The crime itself was horribly tragic -- a mother and son kidnapped from the family business and shot to death by some railroad tracks. But the criminal justice system made things worse, not better, by pinning the blame on Larry Jenkins instead of actually finding out what happened.
And so we began the habeas case in state court in Georgia.
I'd planned to work on the case at least until we got through the first stage of state court habeas. I'm glad I didn't stick to that plan -- a friend just sent me a copy of the order, dated yesterday afternoon, about four years after I left DPW.
The death sentence had come off the table last year with Roper v. Simmons, which held that juvenile offenders cannot be executed. The judge's order yesterday overturned the conviction, finding ineffective assistance of counsel (including a conflict of interest) and significant Brady violations (i.e. failure by the prosecution to turn over important exculpatory evidence). Now the state will appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court, after which the case will likely be sent back for retrial, eleven-plus years after the crime took place.
I found the judge's comments concluding her opinion especially noteworthy. She wrote:
The Court is cognizant of the impact its decision will have upon the family of the victims who have suffered a grievous and searing loss and who have endured many years of pain, confusion, anger, sadness, frustration and lack of closure. The family will now be subjected to further uncertainty and lack of conclusion for an indeterminate period of time. In the Court's judgment the deceased Ralston victims and their family have been ill served by the criminal justice system upon which they must necessarily depend for redress of the brutal crimes committed against them. The Court sincerely regrets the pain inflicted upon them by the failure of the system to operate correctly and lawfully. Their outrage at the process is clearly understandable.
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So my unsolicited advice to big firm associates out there --- don't be afraid of a little (or a lot of) pro bono work. There will always be more time to work on another financing or merger. The opportunity to work for someone like Larry Jenkins ... that's rare.
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1. Posted by Pam on February 15, 2010 @ 15:24 | Permalink
I sat through a trial where Larry Jenkins with the following evidence: he was driving Terry's van, had Michael's driver's license, threw the murder weapon out of the window during the police chase, took police to the location that he threw Terry's purse, had the money bag with the change he stole from the laundry and was the only person seen in the van with Terry and Michael before they were murdered. I also read his confession that was not allowed in the trial because of another loophole. Unless you have a video showing someone else committing this crime, I KNOW Larry Jenkins murdered Terry and Michael Ralston. I dont care that he is not on death row. I want him to sit in jail and think about the lives he took for no reason other than meaness. I dont want him to have the freedom to pursue happiness, life or joy because he took that not only from Terry and Michael but from their family and friends as well. May God have mercy on you for trying to put this person back on the streets with normal people.
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4. Posted by Josh on December 28, 2012 @ 15:28 | Permalink
This guy is in no way sympathetic he took the lives of two very innocent people, why you might ask. Well I'll tell you. It was because they had something he wanted and possibly he was mad over a small dispute they had at school. Does that sound sympathetic, no I don't think so. Also he was in no way a nice kid, he was involved in a home invasion just days before the murder of these two very sweet and sympathetic people, where he obtained the murder weapon he used. Does that sound like a nice kid, again I say no it does not. It does however sound like a person who should never be allowed freedom to hone his craft. Don't we as a nation have enough violent crimes going on what with people shooting up schools full of children and setting fires only to lie in wait to kill our first responders. I personally don't think we can afford to release people like him. Please people show a little bit of responsibility. And keep our garbage where it belongs.
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Pepperstone Financial Pty Ltd.–Australia's largest foreign exchange broker–has hired New York-based boutique investment bank Berkshire Capital to advise the company on strategic options, including a sale or initial public offering.
"We weren't sure if the Australian market would welcome technology-based financial services players but given OzForex Group successful listing, we'll evaluate the Australian Securities Exchange an option, along with NYSE, Nasdaq and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange," Pepperstone's Chief Executive Owen Kerr told MoneyBeat in an interview Wednesday.
Australian online foreign exchange specialist OzForex has rallied 34.5% since it joined the ASX earlier this month. In July, Pepperstone's smaller rival KVB Kunlun Financial Group went public in Hong Kong while Plus500 was listed on London's Alternative Investment Market, or AIM.
Mr. Kerr said last month that Pepperstone had received multiple takeover offers, all of which had been rejected. Other investment banks may be mandated if Pepperstone chooses to pursue an IPO, Mr.Kerr said Wednesday.
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Every aspiring celebrity has to start somewhere, and for certain stars that somewhere was the world of fake eyelashes, makeup and spray tans known as beauty pageants. Take a look at which stars were beauty queens first.
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Setting The Stage For Theatre of the Mind
By Stephanie Ciccarelli
December 29, 2010
If you could record your voice from anywhere in the world, whether a private venue or a public space, where would your ideal "studio" be and why?
This question was posed to our Voices.com community on Facebook and some of their answers were very creative.
Discover some interesting ideas and learn more about how you can recreate the environment you're voicing about and set the stage for theatre of the mind in today's VOX Daily.
Big Dreams
New technologies and the Internet have removed many practical obstacles that used to thwart the paths of professionals in any number of fields.
We have more advanced tools and processes now than ever before. Equipment has become more affordable and millions of people around the world enjoy the benefits of working from home. Most who read this article are in many ways living a dream because they are able to work from home while doing what they love.
Time, geography and technologies have been bridged in the realm of business worldwide, but what about resources and the ambiance of your own home recording studio?
When I asked our Voices.com fans on Facebook about their ideal recording studio environment, many cited that they preferred the amenities and comfort of home while others dared to dream a bit bigger.
Speaking of Which
Have you ever considered recording in places of historical importance that you wouldn't necessarily relate to voice overs?
For instance, can you imagine recording a voice over at the actual site of what you were narrating about? There might need to be an isolation booth to block out the noise but what if you could record a documentary about a war or a pivotal moment in history where it actually happened! You could narrate amidst the beauty of nature, in castles and more.
Wouldn't it be neat to voice something about the German composer Beethoven while planted in one of his apartments at the foot of one of his piano fortes? The possibilities are endless when you think about it.
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Since most talent are not able to be at an actual location related to what they are reading about, the talent bears the responsibility of recreating that environment through their voice and use of tone, inflection, fluctuation, phrasing, breath and cadence. This can be where research, breathing skills and acting techniques come in handy.
Much of this recreation vocally starts mentally through research and visualization.
One voice over talent, Larry Murphy, has demo pertaining to life in prehistoric times and the dinosaurs. He wrote, "One of my demos is on Dinosaurs.. now that would be a tough one to duplicate actual location, but I get your point. To feel, smell, and taste, so to speak, the place you're narrating about would definitely put you in a very creative mindset, and the feeling needed to make the narration come to life."
Morgan Barnhart's ideal location to record from was on her boat as she floated along the big blue sea. Giving this some thought, I asked her if she'd need to securely lock down the recording equipment lest the billowing waves wreak havoc on her studio setup. After a little more chatting, I realized that when I asked my question, physical movement, weather and the like hadn't crossed my mind. I was thinking more of stable buildings and enclosed spaces that might be more immune to the elements or external man made sounds.
Bringing those into the picture does add some interesting variables to the mix! Depending on your preference, or whatever the environmental or structural characteristics were of the place you were reading about, you could encounter different challenges that you wouldn't otherwise face!
While Melba Sibrel might enjoy recording at Mont St. Michel, a stone abbey with amazing acoustics (not to mention the natural reverb), Peggy Tisone might find her recording session at the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado to be a bit more challenging with sweeping high winds coursing through the air.
But what if you could have a state-of-the-art recording studio with access to any instrument you might desire for producing music beds to lay your voice over? Thomas Buxton shared that his ideal recording venue would be, "At a huge and luxurious music store, that way I could use whatever instrument I want to enhance my VO. Plus on breaks I'd play some awesome guitars!"
Who wouldn't want to play on some instruments on your break? Maybe I need a piano in my office :)
Along a similar musical vein, Dana Detrick added, "...I wouldn't pass up a chance at one of the classic studios! Abbey Road would be a must...but since I've become a VO artist, some of the Hollywood Studios would be a thrill, too!"
Some of you have had the pleasure of recording in such places and have felt the very history of the room in your bones. Imagine recording in the same studio that greats like Mel Blanc, Don LaFontaine, Thurl Ravenscroft, June Foray and others have graced over the years. That would indeed be something.
Home (and your studio) is Ultimately Where the Heart Is
One of the most wonderful things about having your own home recording studio is that you are closest to those who matter most to you. Similarly, one of the most wonderful things about being a voice actor is that you can create the illusion of being somewhere else through your voice.
Even if you aren't sitting on the throne at Buckingham Palace, you could still narrate a great piece on the British monarchy by preparing yourself for the read. You don't need to be in the secret annex in Amsterdam to perform a convincing and emotional rendition of The Diary of Anne Frank. Being swallowed up by a giant whale isn't a prerequisite to narrating the biblical account of how Jonah managed to get to Nineveh... I think you get the picture.
Tips For Setting The Stage
๠Know your character
๠Know your audience
๠Research the location and its environment
๠Be sensitive to context
๠Visualize the location, your surroundings and your character
๠Listen to music of the time period
๠Identify your character's contemporaries, whether real or imagined
๠Practice speaking in character when talking to other people
๠Know how the story ends before you get there
How Do You Set The Stage?
I'd love to learn more about the ways you prepare for any number of reads and how your preparation strategies may differ based upon content, context and the intended audience.
Comments in general about your ideal recording studio location are also welcome :)
Add your comment below or respond to your VOX Daily email to share your ideas!
Best wishes,
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Excellent viewpoint. I'll often take a bit to get into the proper mindset for my sessions. I do mostly commercials and imaging, so I don't always need to picture a location or "get into character", but mindset is very important. When I'm producing a spot for a big nightclub for New Year's Eve, I'll be there! (... in my head, at least)
And Happy New Year to all!Posted by:
For that relaxed, laid back, warm and resonant sound... a wallow in the bath. Recommendations for a waterproof mike?Posted by:
I would prefer home because I could take care of everything from the same place.Posted by:
I completely agree (with Steven)!Posted by:
Add another one to that line of thought. I would LOVE to be able to do VO full-time from home!Posted by:
My home.Posted by:
I agree, from home is perfect but to have a room as a studio fully equipped and ready to record at the drop of a proverbial hat!Posted by:
From home IF it was a log cabin in the mountains overlooking a beautiful lake... or a beach house on the ocean.Posted by:
I agree on the having a separate room at home with a sound proof studio and really good equipment. I would love nothing more than that to do voice over. Plus it would make it easier for those not able to commute. Not saying I wouldn't mind going and doing one with a cast for a voice over project but the ability to do it from home is something I'd like as well.Posted by:
At home because I'm most comfortable there.Posted by:
Some dirty studio in California.Posted by:
Working from a Home Studio is Great, (the commute sure is good) although going to a Large Studio in NY, Philadelphia or Los Angeles on occasion is great experience and I do not hesitate to do it if and when required for a larger project.
I am very fortunate to have a sound-proofed, fully equipped, dedicated studio in my home where I can produce great quality voice overs.....And Yes, I did it all myself.Posted by:
On a tropical beach...the booth made of glass on all sides so I can enjoy the view while VOing!Posted by:
A private in-home studio in some tropical locale.Posted by:
For me, location doesn't make much of a difference. Just give me a quiet, private location where I won't be interrupted by family or phone calls. I went online and purchased a large roll of 2" thick acoustical foam. It was really inexpensive. I took part of our laundry room (opposite washer and dryer) and hung up the acoustical foam panels on two walls and cut out square panels for the ceiling. When I record I hang blankets on washer and dryer to prevent my voice from bouncing off the metal. It works well, however, if I had the money I would rent space away from the house to record. Downtown Boston would be nice because it puts you in a creative mindset.Posted by:
I have an Art Studio here at home. If I had the equipment and the capabilities, I would do my Art and whatever VO Job from Home.Posted by:
Chris, it isn't expensive or difficult to set a VO recording studio. I am using my laundry room.Posted by:
I too have a sound-proofed, fully equipped, dedicated studio in my home....I also did it all myself.Posted by:
My home with my own private studio with good equipment and my Sennheiser MKH 416 Shotgun Microphone! Why? Because I'd feel more comfortable in my own home and just send the audio emails. This way, I can still be with my family.Posted by:
I have been a corporate trainer for roughly 14 years now and a Voice over / Narrator for around 6 (3yrs part-time+currently full-time)...
I am a self trained Voice over ('coz we didn't have appropriate VO workshops or training in India until... about 2 yrs ago) ... I have also been trained and certified in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)....One of the skills that I was taught to help myself to overcome fear/anxiety/stress/anger/hatred or any NEGATIVE emotion was to associate and dissociate myself from the situation...hence, consider yourself in a movie/cinema hall, watching yourself on screen dealing with the stressful or negative situation. Now dissociate yourself from the negative scenario and associate yourself with the thought of a very positive and happy instance in your life, something that brought you great joy and as you do this anchor this thought well deep within your brain.So, the next time you are faced with a situation that would normally get you negative, you automatically start visualising the POSITIVE memory you saw the last time. It sounds easy, and it is. Just takes a bit of practice and consistency. Once you master it, you get the emotions sorted automatically.:-)
I use this technique when I voice as well. I ask the producer or who ever is in charge to narrate the scenario to me as I listen with my eyes closed, visualising the whole narration that he/she provides to me. Eventually, I actually feel like I am IN that place of importance. I feel like I am in the animation that I am voicing. I visualise myself to be an actual e-learning guide or the actual character of the story that I am a part of.
So there you go, that's my little secret technique. ;-)
Hope this helps you great voices out there.. and I wish you all a very happy New year..:-DPosted by:
Inside Marabar Caves in India. I would hear the echo. Saying that my intellect is not enough to understand the universe.Posted by:
@Larry: In another life, I worked in radio in Downtown Boston, had a great time and learned a lot. Truthfully, I love being able to work from home, to be available for the family, though the kids are old enough now to allow me my own private space and time...Posted by:
I would have to agree along the lines of Tamara. Mine would be a cave. A BIG cave, like Mammoth Cave in Tennessee, and all of its various tunnels and off shoots. Parts of that area are so acoustically dead, that you are the only thing making sound. That would be neat.Posted by:
Attic of a beautiful, huge old rustic house in Prague, with French windows and a balcony from which I can look across the rooftops of the city.Posted by:
My own studio in my house where it is now.Posted by:
I like recording from home. The time I spend recording with my daughters Elizabeth and Katherine is precious time well spent. I wouldn't mind if home was on the side of a mountian near a lake. That would make it easy to teach my three Grand children how to fish :)Posted by:
My walk-in, carpeted closet at home is my recording space.Posted by:
Wow so many wonderful and different views, I have enjoyed reading them all. I'm just getting started, but I would love to work from a home studio and plan to do just so when the time comes. I live in L.A. and there are so many studios to choose from.Posted by:
I have the great privilege of remaking my studio from scratch with an upcoming move. Considering the needs and possibilities.Posted by:
Mine would be in a big room at the top of a house located in Point Grey, Vancouver. It would have a HUGE window and views of the sea, the city and the mountains. *drifts off into happy little dream studio-land*Posted by:
Astoria on the Thames. If I remember, David Gilmour bought the house boat back in the mid 1980s. He had spent much of his career recording in closed spaces. The concept of recording close to nature was truly inspiring.Posted by:
My "dream location"? Probably just off a beach in the Caribbean, where I could record, produce, deliver, and tan in immediate succession! ... then again, we had almost 3 feet of snow this past weekend, so I'm a little grumpy. ;o)Posted by:
I love working from my family home place in rural north Alabama. There's no place like home. As a side note, this post caught my eye because I used the same curtain artwork for a magazine I just finished for one of my clients. Great minds think alike.Posted by:
Keep 'em coming... you all do such a great job at such Concepts... can't tell you how much I, for one appreciate all you do!Posted by:
I don't really care where. As long as the voice comes through strong and clear that's all that matters to me.Posted by:


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4th of July 2012, this is the day the Higgs Boson was discovered by the human race. After 45 years of searching, Peter Higgs can now announce to the world how he has seen the culmination of his life's work finally blossom into a tangible result, a result which has brought an all too human emotion to this triumph. Francois Englert, Carl Hagen and Gerald Guralnik are also present in this announcement, who created the theory along with the late Robert Brout. For this reason it could also be referred to as the HEB-Boson. The Higgs field and resulting Higgs boson are a vital part of the Electroweak Interaction and the Standard Model of Particle Physics. In the absence of the Higgs field, when a Local Gauge is applied to the Lagrangian of the Electroweak Interaction we are left with force-carrying bosons that are massive, the W and Z Bosons with masses of ~80GeV and ~90GeV respectively. This would be okay for the Photon as it has no mass, but why are the W and Z Bosons massive? The Higgs mechanism was the most favoured explanation for solving this problem. In brief, the Higgs field is introduced to 'break' the symmetry of the Electroweak theory, which allows particles to have mass. This Higgs mechanism is important as it not only explains how the heavy bosons become massive but also provides an explanation as to how the fermions come to have mass. The Mechanism of the interaction is simple to understand. Where the Electroweak Interaction couples to electric and weak (or flavour) charges and the Strong Interaction couples to colour charge, the Higgs interaction couples to mass. The process by which the Higgs gives fermions mass is via the Yukawa potential. This potential gives the coupling strength of the Higgs to all types of fermions, the stronger the coupling, the more mass the particle will have. Hence the Higgs Boson couples more strongly to more massive particles, hence the energies of the LHC were necessary to create the most massive particles for the Higgs to couple with. Why we needed this boson is a bit more complicated, which corresponds to Peter Higgs, Yoichiro Nambu and Jeffrey Goldstone's theoretical research. In the Electroweak interaction you can examine the Lagrangian in a similar way to those for Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) and also Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Starting with the Dirac Lagrangian, when a Local Gauge is applied the resulting Lagrangrian is not invariant under the transformation. The local gauge transformation applied to the Langrangian is dependent on the symmetry, for example for the weak force we use SU(2) symmetry as we want physics invariant under swapping up-like and down-like fermions. When a Local Gauge Symmetry is applied to the Electroweak Lagrangian it does not remain invariant under the gauge transformation. This can be rectified by the introduction of appropriate fields, which have associated mass-less bosons W1, W2, W3 and B. The SU(2)xU(1) symmetry of the electroweak theory is non-abelian which means that the bosons interact with each other as well as with fermions. The Electroweak theory needs to end up with three massive bosons (2 charged and 1 neutral) and also a mass-less boson. The Goldstone Theorem provides a mechanism by which the 4 mass-less bosons from the original symmetry can become the four Electroweak bosons described above. The Goldstone theorem states "that for any continuous symmetry broken, there exists a mass-less particle, the Goldstone boson." The result is that for each broken generator, there is a resulting mass-less scalar boson. The Higgs mechanism is the process applied to Electroweak theory. A complex doublet Higgs field can be included in the theory and this Higgs field breaks the symmetry of the problem while retaining local gauge invariance. This Higgs field (two complex scalar fields which transform under the SU(2) symmetry) will, via the Goldstone Theorem, result in a scalar Higgs boson and 3 Goldstone bosons which will provide mass. ...


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ART REVIEW; Images That Burn Into the Mind
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published: September 27, 2002
I HAVE heard Richard Avedon refer to himself as his own widow. In his later years, he has become the tender of his fame, cultivating his reputation, pruning and re-presenting his past, organizing retrospectives and publishing books that recycle more or less the same pictures.
All this enterprise keeps his name before the public, as if it wouldn't, or couldn't, be there otherwise. At 79 he is the world's most famous photographer. I can't think of any living artist who has had more shows in New York art museums in the last 30 years.
Years ago Mr. Avedon worried that people didn't consider him an artist at all. In the 1960's and 70's, photography still wasn't taken seriously by many people, and fashion photography wasn't taken seriously at all. Now the situation has changed so radically that he is the one who seems to fail to take his fashion pictures seriously enough, and everybody -- in the art world, anyway -- takes for granted that a commercial photographer can be an artist too. The question is what kind of an artist Mr. Avedon is.
His last show, at the Whitney in 1994, was unfortunate: badly edited, badly designed, a sprawling retrospective that had hardly any of his fashion pictures. Now just eight years later, there's another show, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his second there: a survey of portraits, partly prompted by a gift to the museum. Mr. Avedon has given 128 works, the contents of his show at the Marlborough Gallery in 1975, which includes his 31-foot-long mural of Andy Warhol and several members of the Factory. The mural with its soigné ensemble of naked young men, like the Three Graces, is hung for some reason opposite his picture of William Casby, a former slave, who stares goggle-eyed at them as if across a vast unfathomable gulf of human experience.
Otherwise, the show is gorgeous: a pitch-perfect mix of modest-size, big and unbelievably big prints, each an exquisitely made object. Despite the near uniformity of the images (standing figures or head shots against the signature white backdrop), the installation has variety and vitality, a sense of theater, Mr. Avedon's forte.
The fashion analogy is obvious: the repackaged product, a clever campaign to market the same old goods. This is a cruel way of describing the work, but the pictures invite exaggerated reactions. Most photographers try to make images catchy enough to cause you to pause. Mr. Avedon goes further. He assaults you. His works flaunt their outsize rhetoric and phenomenal virtuosity.
As a result, whatever else they might be, they are unforgettable. You can't avoid them.
I don't mean this merely in the sense that Mr. Avedon is being shown to us repeatedly in museums and books. I mean his images stick in your mind, whether you want them to or not: Bert Lahr as Estragon; Isak Dinesen, freakish and emaciated; Marian Anderson with her hair blowing in the wind, enraptured, forming a perfect O with her mouth; Truman Capote sneering; Oscar Levant as a kind of Rasputin; Ronald Fischer, Buddha-like, covered with bees; Marilyn Monroe, forlorn; Clarence Lippard, the freckled drifter from Interstate 80 with a face lined like a road map; the Chicago Seven, earnest revolutionaries wearing deadpan expressions, rope belts and their pants hemmed too high.
And the generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution, with their cat-eye glasses, sashes and gowns, Mr. Avedon's dry, pitiless echo of Irving Penn's classic group shot of famous models. I wandered through the exhibition wondering how many photographs in the last 50 years have become part of our mental furniture. Mr. Avedon has produced so many of them.
Celebrity partly accounts for their status. Somebody once described Mr. Avedon's portraits as the mutual attraction of the well connected. The portraits, more than ordinary celebrity pictures, give the illusion of special proximity to famous people because of the photographer's social status. The illusion is also heightened by an impression of honesty: the stark white backdrop, the head-on view. It is like glimpsing a famous person walking down the street: you think you see Mr. Avedon's subjects caught with their masks down.
The photograph of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is an example. They look ravaged and sad. Mr. Avedon said that when he started to photograph them, they put on their royal faces, beaming and cooing. He was desperate. So he told them a lie. He said his taxi had just run over a dog. Their faces fell. ''Because they loved dogs -- a lot more than they loved Jews,'' Mr. Avedon added.
What do we see, then? Is it a revelation of their true character or ordinary fleeting sympathy about a dead pet? Both or neither. We read into this photograph what we want as we do into all portraits, painted, sculptured or snapped by a camera. We appreciate its formal virtues while projecting ourselves and what we may know about who we are seeing. If we didn't recognize the Windsors and were told they were the parents of a 9/11 victim, say, we would read these same faces differently.


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Bishops' Advisory Commission on Doctrine
Parish Development Working Group
Added on 03/11/2012
Saturday 3 November 2012
Awareness Sunday
The third Sunday in November has been designated as Disability Awareness Sunday – now an annual event in the Church of Ireland. This year it falls on Sunday 18 November and the Standing Committee's Working Group on Disability is encouraging parishes to mark and participate in the day as creatively as possible.
This has been a remarkable year in raising the profile and increasing public awareness of people with disabilities as sportsmen and women competed with total passion and commitment at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. There is, therefore, no better time than this to raise awareness at the local level of disability within the life of the Church: to celebrate participation and to encourage greater involvement of people with disabilities of every kind.
The Revd Canon Will Murphy, Chairman of the Working Group, sees the purpose of Disability Awareness Sunday as helping churches focus on disability not just for one day but for that day to lead to ongoing inclusion of people with disabilities in the life of the Church. The day will provide churches with an opportunity for people with disabilities to take part in the services and through this and other ways to raise the awareness of disability among the church community in general.
There are various helpful resources for parishes to use such as those produced by 'Through the Roof', which offers advice and guidance through its website (www.throughtheroof.org) as well as its publications. Grove Booklets are also very helpful. Of these, Mark Bredin's True Beauty: Finding Grace in Disabilities explains the importance of every church being inclusive in relation to people with many different disabilities.
Today (Saturday) the Bishop of Derry continues his visit to the Holy Land while in Dublin the Church of Ireland Historical Society will meet at 10.30 am in Christ Chruch cathedral. A lunchtime organ and poetry recital will be held in St Peter's Church, Bandon. Organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, Eric Sweeney, and poet, Mark Roper, will give a joint recital lasting about fifty minutes. Mark will read from his recent poetry book The River Book: A Celebration of the Suir while Eric will play some of his own compositions as well as improvising to Mark's poetry. This concert is part of a nationwide series and will be repeated in St Mary's cathedral, Limerick, on Wednesday at lunchtime. This evening (Saturday) at 5.15pm Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise will host a Reflective Service in the Errigal Hotel, Letterkenny, as part of the Oireachtas.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Revd Celia Grace Kennedy from the Church of Scotland will be the speaker in the 'Soul Sister' series at the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin . In the evening at 7.30pm there will be a joint concert by the internationally renowned Fron Male Voice Choir, from the Vale of Llangollen in Wales, and the Dublin Welsh Male Voice Choir in St Patrick's Church, Harbour Road, Dalkey –details at www.dalkey.dublin.anglican.org .
The worldwide launch of 'Land of Promise? An Anglican exploration of Christian attitudes to the Holy Land, with special reference to Christian Zionism' will take place tomorrow, Thursday November 1, at 2pm in the Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines. It will be presented to the Anglican Consultative Council in New Zealand on Friday. The document will be launched and introduced by the Archbishop of Dublin, chairperson of the Network for Interfaith Concerns of the Anglican Consultative Council.
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'


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EUREKA — Chris Heppe climbed the trail at Headwaters Forest as sunlight streamed through the towering redwood trees.
Moisture glistened off a carpet of ferns. The only sound was the bubbling of a nearby stream.
"See that?'' he said, pointing to blue paint on an immense redwood 20 feet around and 1,000 years old. "That means it was going to be harvested. Cut down. But they never got to it."
Ten years ago this week, the state and federal government spent $480 million to buy 7,472 acres from Pacific Lumber and other landowners to create the Headwaters Forest Reserve six miles south of Eureka. The deal ended one of the most bitter environmental conflicts in California history, pitting blue-collar loggers against tree-sitters in dreadlocks, and establishing Pacific Lumber owner Charles Hurwitz as the greatest eco-villain for U.S. environmental groups since the Exxon Valdez's Capt. Joseph Hazelwood.
Today, the misty forest is a national preserve. Some of its trees are more than 320 feet tall — higher than the Statue of Liberty — and were growing during the Roman empire. But because of concerns over endangered species, the federal government has sharply limited public access, with only one year-round public trail into the forest. There is no visitor center and last year just 10,300 pilgrims came to this wooden cathedral, a fraction of the amount who visit Bay Area beaches on a single sunny weekend.
Still, many believe all the battles and the costs went to a worthy cause.
"It was an intense fight, such a divisive era,'' said Heppe, manager of Headwaters Forest Reserve for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. "The deal was a key point. It allowed us to move on.''
Now the immense forest, 250 miles north of the Bay Area, is beginning a rebirth of sorts. The BLM has been dutifully restoring Headwaters, roughly half of which is composed of untouched virgin timber. The other half was logged at one point or another as far back as the 1880s. BLM crews have eliminated 10 miles of old logging roads. They've conducted regular wildlife surveys for endangered spotted owls, salmon and other species (although it's too soon to see much change in animal numbers, they report).
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"The people of the United States and the people have California have 7,500 acres of the most glorious pristine ancient redwoods protected for all time,'' said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who brokered the deal with Hurwitz. "I would dare anybody to go up the trail and say it wasn't worth it.''
Pacific Lumber, shouldered with more than $700 million in debt, declared bankruptcy in 2007. Parent company Maxxam's stock, $57 a decade ago, is now about $5 a share.
During the bankruptcy trial last year, a new company formed by Donald and Doris Fisher, the billionaire San Francisco founders of retailer Gap, acquired all 211,000 acres of Pacific Lumber's land and its historic sawmill in the town of Scotia.
Their new company, Humboldt Redwood, won't cut redwoods larger than 48 inches in diameter that the company estimates date from 1800 or before, said Chairman Sandy Dean. They have banned clear cuts. And their logging level will be about one-fifth of Hurwitz's. Humboldt is an operation with about 220 employees, compared with the 1,600 Pacific Lumber had at its peak. Maxxam did not return calls for this story.
"Our mission is to be good stewards of the land and to run a successful business. We think we have found a good balance,'' said Dean, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker.
The 1999 Headwaters Agreement was remembered Wednesday with a small ceremony at the forest's edge.
The tenor was relaxed — a far cry from the atmosphere along California's North Coast before the deal. The battle for the last giant redwoods in the 1990s deeply divided Humboldt County, California's leading timber county. Contentious images made national headlines for years. Angry protest marches started not long after 1986, when Houston-based Maxxam, chaired by Hurwitz, took over the family-owned Pacific Lumber with junk bonds from Michael Milken and tripled logging rates to pay off the debt.
Two leaders of the radical environment group Earth First, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, were the targets of numerous death threats. Then, in 1990 while the pair drove from Oakland to Santa Cruz looking for recruits to their cause, a pipe bomb explosion ripped apart the car, badly injuring Bari.
Humboldt County sheriff's deputies pepper-sprayed the eyes of screaming young activists who chained themselves together in 1997. And most famous of all was Julia "Butterfly" Hill, who climbed a 180-foot redwood, named it "Luna" and sat there for two years in driving rain and windstorms to stop it from being cut down.
"I dealt with her," said Dan Collings, a former Pacific Lumber logger whose job was to climb up and haul environmental protesters out.
"Julia believed the trees had souls, and maybe personalities. I said, 'Get real, it's a beautiful tree, but you probably have an interesting conversation with your broccoli at dinner, too.' "
Such was the cultural chasm of the time.
"I said to this one Earth First girl in the woods: 'You know, you're an attractive girl, why don't you take a bath?' " Collings, now 51, recalled this week with a chuckle.
"And she said, 'You'll get used to it. People wash off too much of their natural body oils.' And I was like, that's why God gave us soap!"
Longtime residents remember the redwood battles well.
"We had all these cars with New York license plates, that looked like they were about to break down, with dreadlocks and hippies," said Katherine Harvey, a retired school cafeteria supervisor who has lived in Humboldt County since 1950.
"They would camp here and there. It was a little terrifying for some of the older people. They wanted the mill to stop cutting trees. But my husband built our three-bedroom house with lumber from that mill."
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While Birkenstock vegans and cork-booted loggers aren't exactly carpooling together yet, a decade later, a truce has settled over redwood country.
"I think people are glad that the protests are over and everything is more peaceful," Harvey said. "It split the community. But now people are more concerned with the economy and keeping their jobs."
Motorists driving along Highway 101 here now could easily miss the small brown sign that notes the exit for Headwaters Forest Reserve. There hasn't been much built at Headwaters. The BLM has opened only two public trails. None go to the back country where the biggest trees are. One, from the south, is available only by guided tour from May to September. The other entrance, in the north, has a parking lot, a bathroom and a few signs. Visitors must walk five miles to see a small grove of old-growth redwoods.
BLM officials and environmental groups say endangered wildlife, such as coho salmon, the northern spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, a diminutive seabird that nests in old-growth redwoods, would be disturbed if new trails were cut and hikers, horse riders or mountain bikers poured in.
"If you were looking for a place that's a reference point for what a stream in an undisturbed redwood forest should be, that's it," said Paul Mason, deputy director of the California Sierra Club.
"If you start mucking around, carving trails into unstable hillsides that get lots of rain, it is going to have an impact. You have to ask how high a priority is it? I haven't heard people arguing for more access."
A few have. During the process to draw up a management plan in 2003, numerous groups advocated for more access, including the International Mountain Bicycling Association, Back Country Horsemen of California and the California Equestrian Trail & Lands Coalition.
Don Amador, a spokesman for the Blue Ribbon Coalition, a group that advocates for increased motorized access to public lands, said the restrictions were unfair, and "a misuse of over half a billion dollars of taxpayer funds." Those debates linger today, but pale in comparison to the massive shift in the community now under way. Without much left to fight over, the loggers and environmentalists are starting a new era.
In addition to preserving Headwaters Forest, the 1999 deal also gave 50-year protections to 11 "lesser cathedrals" of old-growth redwood nearby and set limits on how Pacific Lumber's remaining lands could be logged.
This past summer, a few months after Humboldt Redwood took the keys to the mill, Dean, the company's chairman, and its president, Mike Jani, went into the woods and told the last few tree-sitters they wouldn't cut old-growth trees or order clear cuts.
In September, the last two, both 22, came down.
"All the environmentalists I know really want to see this company succeed," said the Sierra Club's Mason. "This is tree-growing country. Humboldt Redwood Co. is making a good-faith effort to do it well. We all use wood products. Let's figure out how we can produce them in a sustainable manner.''
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Where are they now?
Charles Hurwitz: Now 68, Hurwitz remains chief executive of Maxxam, the Houston parent company of Pacific Lumber. Maxxam is a shell of its former self, however. Pacific Lumber filed for bankruptcy in 2007 and Maxxam"s other major holding, Kaiser Aluminum, went bankrupt in 2002. Maxxam stock, trading at $57 a share 10 years ago, is now at about $5. Maxxam owns a greyhound racing track and a horse track in Texas and some residential and commercial property in Puerto Rico, Arizona, Texas and California. Its sales fell 96 percent over the past decade, from $2.3 billion in 1999 to $91 million in 2007.
Julia "Butterfly" Hill: The Arkansas native lived in a 180-foot-tall redwood tree she called "Luna" for 738 days to protest Pacific Lumber"s old-growth logging. After coming down, she formed a small nonprofit group, Circle of Life, that hosted speaking tours and educational events until closing in 2007. She was the subject of "Butterfly," a documentary film, in 2000, and that same year, the city of Berkeley designated April 2 as "Julia Butterfly Hill Day." A new film about Hill, "Luna," is set to be released next year. Now 35, she lives in Ashland, Ore., and continues to travel and give speeches.
Byron Sher: A former state senator from Palo Alto, Sher, now 81, was instrumental in negotiating the Headwaters Agreement. In February, he was appointed to the governing board of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, the main government agency that regulates development around Lake Tahoe. He lives near Placerville.
Dianne Feinstein: California"s senior U.S. senator spent dozens of hours negotiating the deal with Hurwitz and teams of lawyers. Now in her 17th year in the Senate, she chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and was master of ceremonies for Barack Obama"s inauguration. Feinstein, 75, says she may be interested in talks to enlarge Headwaters, particularly in purchasing a 1,500-acre property known as "Hole in the Headwaters."


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I've been grilling outdoors on a somewhat regular basis lately. You have to understand how unusual this is. Most winters, we've lost sight of our grill due to the deep snow in our backyard. But this season in Minnesota and the world it seems, nothing is "normal" anymore. When I go outdoors birds are chirping loudly -- something else that seems odd during the winter months.
This past week, I grilled wild salmon fillets and served them with Quinoa & Lentil Pilaf, a recipe featured in the recent issue of Food & Wine Magazine. I had French green lentils on hand, I love cauliflower, and I was intrigued by the coconut oil in the recipe. I've never before used coconut oil. When I located the oil at Trader Joe's, I was approached by several of the employees who saw me reading the info on the label (I must have have had that usual puzzled look on my face). When I told them I was thinking of substituting olive oil for coconut oil in the pilaf recipe, they urged me to try coconut oil instead... for the taste (one of Trader Joe's employees puts a spoonful in her morning coffee)... for the health benefits (it reverses the effects of Alzheimer's??? boosts metabolism? fights viral and bacterial infections? according to coconutoil.com. We'll see... It would be beyond great if this were all true. Check out the website to read more about it). And, I was told, if I didn't like it as an ingredient in my cooking, I could massage it into my hair, or rub it into my dry skin!
Coconut oil is a solid that must be heated before using.
Quinoa and Lentil Pilaf
a recipe by Akasha Richmond | Food & Wine, March 2012
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 thyme sprig
• 1 garlic clove
• 1/4 onion
• 2 tablespoons coconut oil
• 1 shallot, minced
• 1 celery rib, finely diced
• 1 carrot, finely diced
• 1/2 cup red quinoa, rinsed ( I used tri-color quinoa)
• 1 cup vegetable stock
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 pound cauliflower, coarsely grated
• 1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
• 1/3 cup chopped Marcona almonds
1. Put the lentils in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. Add the bay leaf, thyme, garlic and onion and bring to a boil. Simmer over moderately low heat until the lentils are tender, about 18 minutes. Drain and discard the bay leaf, thyme, garlic and onion. Wipe out the pot.
2. Add 1 tablespoon of the coconut oil to the saucepan. Add the shallot, celery and carrot and cook over low heat until softened, about 8 minutes. Add the quinoa and cook, stirring, for about 2 minutes. Add the stock, season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil. Cover and cook over low heat until the grains are tender and plump and the liquid is absorbed, about 18 minutes. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes.
3. In a large nonstick skillet, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of coconut oil. Add the cauliflower and cook over moderately high heat until lightly browned in spots, about 5 minutes +. In a large bowl, toss the lentils with the quinoa, cauliflower, parsley, and almonds. Season with salt and pepper and serve hot of at room temperature.
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Dear everyone,
I've just joined the WSN, and am currently trying to promote my first web series, "Revenge of The Sock," the story of a sentient sock puppet bent on world domination, who goes through a bit of an existential crisis. I would love any feedback anyone could and would give me. Thus far, most comments have come from family and friends, who of course all say the show is wonderful, but these are the same people who told me my grade school macaroni art was wonderful, and I've seen that crap and it sucked. So some unbiased feedback would be lovely. All episodes can be viewed at www.domainofthesock.com, and I'm slowly uploading them all to my WSN profile.
Also, as I'm new to this web series game, I'm struggling to think of ways to promote the show. Thanks to the production costs, I'm pretty broke, so I'm trying to find sponsors and/or methods of free advertising. Anyone have any suggestions?
I'd also love to watch and give feedback for your shows. There are so darn many though, I don't know where to begin. So if anyone would care for my sock puppet-loving feedback, let me know.
Micah Delhauer
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Watched the first episode. Unique and entertaining. You should be targeting parents/kids with this project. I like the grumpy Sock character and good job with the audio/VO delivery and directing. Effective marketing isn't free and you don't seem to have money set aside for marketing/advertising. I would recommend joining the production and marketing partners group on WSN and see if you could partner with other members for cross-marketing initiatives. Overall, good work on this series. :)
Thanks for the advise, Rich. I agree there's not much in way of free advertising--I'm currently trying to raise promotional funds, and will definitely check out the marketing partners group.
One question: our little friend The Sock commits are attempts to commit a murder in every episode (albeit in comical fashion) and uses the occasional obscenity. Should I still be targeting kids and parents?
Hmmm... if the character is using obscenities and committing or attempting to commit murders then maybe not kids. Did you plan out this series long-term before launching... as in did you know your target audience? Who is your target audience?
I have always felt that the show would appeal to people in their teens, twenties and thirties most specifically, though not exclusively. There's nothing "adult only" about the show in my opinion--that is, I wouldn't consider it an R rated show--but there is enough adult material that I feel that trying to sell it as a kid's show would be inappropriate.
I guess I would compare it to something like "The Simpsons," a show that kids like watching, but that is made for an older audience.
You know your audience better than I do. At first glance (seeing the puppet) the first thing that came to mind are kids. I think you could get away with targeting both children and adults with this series if you tweak the dialog. I only watched the first episode... I'll watch the full season when I have more time and get back to you with more feedback. Is there specific feedback you want?
Anything that comes to mind as you watch it: technical, narrative, marketing, etc. I'm just trying to gauge what works and what doesn't, where I succeeded and where I need to improve in the future, as right now my viewing audience is small and I'm not getting a lot of feedback at all.
Speaking in general terms (not at you, Micah), unless I'm being hired, I just don't have the time to watch the complete season and do full episode to episode analysis that could help the creator improve. If it interests you, I'm available for personal consulting to do full analysis of web series (concept to marketing and everything in between). Gotta be honest, I've only seen the first episode of your show and from what I saw I enjoyed it. The characters are intriguing and the dialog is sharp, witty and to the point. And like I said, to do full analysis and provide the required feedback, I would need to watch the full season.
Understandable. I appreciate what you've given me. Thanks.
Pleasure. Talk to your core audience. Ask them for feedback. How's your social media presence?
re: How's your social media presence?
The show has a Facebook page and a Twitter page, neither of which have a great deal of followers. We're trying to get a forum up on our website, but it's slow going.
It's not about having a Facebook.Twitter/Facebook page. Anyone can launch those pages. But you're not building your own fans, followers and subscribers. Pages don't build themselves and getting a forum going on WSN won't build your pages either. To build your Fan page you would need to take out paid Facebook advertising. You gotta advertise and invest in your own product, Micah. Tweeting and Facebooking won't do it.
I completely agree with you. As I said before, I'm currently trying to find businesses that are interested in sponsoring the show, so I can afford to advertise.


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Juvenal A. Silva Jr.
> I'm having problems setting up a PPP connection from Linux (Fedora
> Core 2 - kernel 2.6.7) to my ISP. Can someone help me discover what's
> happening???
> My modem is a softmodem (ICH4/AC97 - Smart Link modem slmodem-2.9.9)
> and works fine on Linux/WinXP.
"Softmodem": not a good sign.
> I started the connection using MINICOM and everything goes fine until
> the LCP negotiation... Following are the PPP logs. It seems to be a
> silly mistake here, but I'm unable to find it...:-(
Using minicom is really not a good way to start a PPP connection.
> I tried the following with no good results, besides the effects of the
> requested options: "noauth", "novjcomp", "novj", "noccp", "asyncmap
> 000a0000" and "defaultroute".
> [root@laptop root]# /usr/sbin/pppd -detach /dev/ttySL0 460800 debug
> crtscts lock;
> using channel 16
> Using interface ppp0
> Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttySL0
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1
> rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1
> rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3
> 0xf5c793d3> ]
> sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3
> 0xf5c793d3> ]
Up to this point pppd is talking to itself. Note that the magic numbers
in the requests and the replies are the same.
> sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1
> sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1
> rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x1]
> LCP terminated by peer
The peer terminates PPP negotiation here. That could be simply because
it never received any of pppd's LCP requests.
> sent [LCP TermAck id=0x1]
> rcvd [LCP ProtRef id=0x1 80 fd 01 01 00 0c 1a 04 78 00 18 04 78 00]
> Connection terminated
> I'm going desperate with this... Please HELP...
Not guaranteed to help since you aren't using a real modem.
Clifford Kite Email: "echo firstname.lastname@example.com|rot13"
PPP-Q&A links, downloads: http://ckite.no-ip.net/
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oh, jenelle, that is just horrible. :( I'm in Florida and it seems like every other week another horrid cruelty to pets story comes up in the news. Not very long ago, there was someone going around and shooting cats with a bow and arrow. I remember one of them, I think they named her "Lucky" had an arrow clear through her abdomen and survived and was later adopted by a loving family. The level of cruelty and disregard for living things that humans are capable of is an abomination.
Rant over. I had a cat, Elijah, several years ago who I rescued from a parking lot at work. He was full grown, so I was not able to "domesticate" him into a house cat, although he mastered getting big and fat quite quickly. One night I was paged at work by my room-mate to find out that Elijah had come in the house and started seizing. By the time I got home, it was entirely too late, he had passed in a matter of minutes. Necropsy revealed he was poisoned, and not by a plant.
While I was still living there, I set up an invisible fence for my other cat along the perimeter of our place, which was of decent size, to keep her safe. It worked very well, yet she was still able to "sow her wild oats" a bit and get outdoors. Not sure what your living arrangement is like, but that could be something to consider to keep your babies within a safe distance. It's a shame we even have to worry about such things. :(
I'm so glad to hear she is going to be okay and she has you to nurse her back to health.
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Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Minutes
March 12, 2002
Members Present: Schoen, Reithel, Socha, Williams, Odulana, Finnegan, Kenmitz, Loh, Matchett, Scheuermann, Y. Johnson
Member Absent: Nelson (exc), Wainscott (exc), Klindworth
Consultants: Dittman, Burkhardt, Martin-Stanley, Anderson, Schumacher, Jax
Guests: D. Riley, J. Hanson, Stone, T. Holder
1. John Jax, Collections and Acquisitions librarian, was introduced as a committee consultant.
2. Minutes of February 26, 2002 meeting were approved.
3. Second Reading, Proposal #16, FLG/MLG 203, Spanish for United State Hispanics, 3 credits, course deletion
MLG 204, Heritage Language: Intermediate_______, 4 credits, new course effective Fall 2002
MLG 304, Heritage Language: Advanced_________, 4 credits, new course effective Fall 2002
Dept modeled these courses after similar courses at other campuses. Although the instructor might be ad hoc, the dept. would try to maintain continuity if it is satisfied with the quality of instruction. Provisions will be made to give consent to enroll in the absence of an on-campus instructor.
M/S/P to approve the proposal as recorded in the 2/26/02 minutes.
4. First Reading, Proposal #19, C-S Minors, change in credits, required courses and electives, effective Fall 2002 retroactive to all catalogs
(All colleges excluding teacher certification programs) 19 credits, including C-S 120, 220, 340 and MTH 225. The 19 credits must include no less than 6 credits of elective Computer Science courses at the 300/400 level. PHY 335, MTH 317, and /or MTH 371 may be used as alternatives to Computer Science electives.
(Teacher certification programs) 19 credits, including C-S 120, 220, 340, C-I 420, and MTH 225. The 19 credits must include 3 credits of elective Computer Science courses at the 300/400 level. PHY 335, MTH 317 and/or MTH 371 may be used as alternatives to Computer Science electives.
Elective credits were changed to be senior level to comply with the guidelines for minors.
C-S 102, Web Development and the Internet, 3 credits, new course effective Fall 2002
?n introduction to the Internet and the fundamentals of Web page design: including history and technical structure of the Internet, markup languages and web page programming. Technical issues include client/server interfaces and network protocols. Other topics include societal issues: privacy, security, accessibility, intellectual property, and censorship. Prerequisite: C-S 101 or 120. Credits not applicable to the C-S major or minor.?/p>
Intended to be a service class, no plans for Gen Ed at this time. It will be lecture and some demonstration, but not a ?ab?course. Very little coverage of the artistic aspect of Web design. Committee wanted Information Systems Dept. to be informed of class.
This was a first reading.
4. Consent Agenda: Add FRE 430, Advanced French Syntax and Stylistics, 3 credits, to the French minor as an elective, effective Spring 2002
Change was approved.
5. Committee discussed the draft memo about reviewing/approving condensed format courses. The major point was to clarify what level of control was to be recommended and how to state that. It was decided that UCC would not review existing courses that were originally approved as full-semester courses and subsequently offered in a condensed format, but that the review should be done at the college level (college committee and/or dean). Information on the condensed format courses, including assessment data would be part of the Academic Program Review process.
Chair Schoen will prepare draft #2 for review at the next meeting.
6. New Business: None
7. Meeting adjourned 5:05 p.m. The next meeting will be Tuesday, March 26th at 3:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane L. Schumacher
Recording Secretary


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The Korean War
Politics in The Korean War
A Strange Kind of Salvation in Korea
When North Korea's army suddenly launched a full-scale invasion of the South in June 1950, throwing an already tense international situation into outright crisis, American policymakers reacted with understandable alarm, scrambling to organize an immediate military response. At the same time, however, several top figures in the Truman administration saw the Korean crisis not only as a threat but also as an opportunity—or perhaps even an unlikely kind of salvation. Looking back on the frenzied events of June 1950 with several years' hindsight, Secretary of State Dean Acheson—the most powerful figure in President Truman's foreign policy brain trust—offered an unexpected analysis. "Korea," he said, "came along and saved us."20
How could Acheson possibly have seen the Korean War—a vicious struggle, fought in brutal conditions, in which the United States and its allies found themselves pushed to the brink of defeat on more than one occasion—as some kind of rescue?
The answer lies in the difficult situation in which the Truman administration found itself, both at home and abroad, by the summer of 1950. If the outbreak of open warfare in Korea somehow seemed like a kind of lifeline, it was only because President Truman and his advisers were already on the verge of drowning. The Korean War gave them something to hold onto... if only temporarily.
1949: A Bad Year
Harry Truman became president in 1945 when Franklin D. Roosevelt suddenly and unexpectedly died in office, elevating Truman to the White House only 82 days into his term as vice president. Truman did his best to fill Roosevelt's shoes, but he struggled (as anyone would have) to deal with the overwhelming array of difficult challenges—military, political, diplomatic, economic, and social—that confronted the nation as World War II ended and an uncertain postwar era began. Over the next three years, Truman's public approval ratings steadily fell, and it came as something of a shock when Truman managed to eke out a narrow victory over three challengers—Republican Thomas Dewey, Progressive Henry Wallace, and segregationist "Dixiecrat" Strom Thurmond—in the 1948 elections to win another full term in the White House. (No one was more surprised by Truman's victory than the Chicago Tribune, which infamously published an incorrect election-day story under the banner headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman.") Buoyed by his electoral success, Truman sought to push forward with an agenda calling for far-reaching liberal programs at home and muscular opposition to Communism abroad.
But the first year of Truman's second term proved to be a disaster. In August 1949, the Soviet Union successfully detonated its first atomic bomb, years earlier than American scientists had estimated they would be able to accomplish the feat. The end of America's nuclear monopoly shocked and terrified the American people, forcing them to face the threat of nuclear annihilation for the first time. Little more than a month later, Communist leader Mao Zedong declared victory in China's long-running civil war, forcing American ally Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalist government to flee to the island of Taiwan. Americans—especially Republicans critical of Truman—blamed the administration for failing to prevent this "loss of China." The political damage of these serious Cold War setbacks abroad was only heightened by a growing hysteria over Communist espionage at home. Shocking allegations that Soviet spies had penetrated the top-secret American atomic research program and the highest ranks of the State Department led many to conclude that the Truman administration was "soft on Communism," both inside and outside the United States.
Truman and his advisers resolved to develop a tougher American policy against international Communism. Early in 1950, Truman's National Security Council began working on a top-secret strategy document known as NSC-68. (The document was so top-secret, in fact, that its contents would not be declassified until 1975.) In NSC-68, Truman's advisers defined the Cold War in the starkest possible terms, as an unavoidable fight between good and evil. "What is new," the document read, "what makes the continuing crisis, is the polarization of power which inescapably confronts the slave society with the free.... [T]he Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose its absolute authority over the rest of the world. Conflict has, therefore, become endemic..." The only way to prevail in this struggle, the document suggested, was to pursue "the rapid building up of the political, economic, and military strength of the free world." To this end, NSC-68 called for a huge (and hugely expensive) buildup in American military capability, dramatically increasing troop levels and pouring money into development of new hydrogen superbombs—nuclear weapons 1000 times more powerful than the original atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. To implement fully the recommendations of NSC-68 would require tripling or quadrupling the national defense budget—something unprecedented in American history outside times of war.
The trouble with NSC-68—and probably the reason why it remained secret for so long—was that the American people wouldn't support it. Although by 1950, many Americans were deeply alarmed by recent Communist advances all around the world, they still had little interest in fighting an atomic World War III against the Soviet Union. They also had little interest in a total militarization of American society, and even less in paying higher taxes to pay for it. It was difficult to see how the already-unpopular Truman could ever convince his countrymen to back the aggressive new foreign policy called for by NSC-68.
Until, that is—in the words of Dean Acheson—"Korea came along and saved us."
The Politics of War
As dire as the situation may have been for Syngman Rhee's South Korean regime following the Communist North's successful invasion of his country, the outbreak of war in Korea presented Harry Truman with an immediate political opportunity at home. The North Korean invasion—which was perceived in the West as an act of unprovoked Communist aggression, ordered directly by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, even though we now know the actual situation was somewhat more complicated—seemed to prove correct NSC-68's thesis that international Communism was an inherently aggressive movement that could only be checked by forceful resistance. Truman's decisiveness in committing American forces to battle earned him renewed support from the public, and the string of victories won by General MacArthur through the autumn of 1950 helped Truman's approval ratings rise above 40 percent for the last time in his presidency. And once tens of thousands of American soldiers were fighting on the ground in Korea, most members of congress felt it would be unpatriotic to oppose Truman's requests for additional military spending. The huge increases to the defense budget called for by NSC-68—increases that would have been all but impossible to obtain in peacetime—occurred almost as a matter of course during the Korean War. Military spending shot from $13 billion in 1950 to $55 billion in 1952—and then it never really dropped back down. The Korean War thus provided an unstoppable rationale for putting NSC-68 into practice, largely setting the course for the next 40 years of American Cold War military strategy.
The early political advantages offered to Truman by the Korean War vanished, however, shortly after China entered the conflict in November 1950. Both General MacArthur and President Truman had convinced themselves, by that time, that there was little or no chance of large-scale Chinese intervention in the conflict, and that total victory over North Korea was near. Both were thus caught completely off-guard when hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers suddenly appeared in the rugged mountains of North Korea, throwing overstretched and unprepared American units into disorganized retreat. A war that had seemingly offered the prospect of an epic triumph now threatened to devolve into disastrous defeat—and neither Truman nor MacArthur wanted to take the blame.
MacArthur responded to the crisis by calling for the United States to redouble its efforts in Korea, pushing on to victory even if it meant risking a wider war. On 9 November, just as it became obvious how serious the Chinese threat had become, MacArthur sent an impassioned cable to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, begging "with all the earnestness that I possess that there be no weakening at this crucial moment and that we press on to complete victory which I believe can be achieved if our determination and indomitable will do not desert us."21 Truman acquiesced to the general's request for permission to bomb the bridges crossing the Yalu River, which formed the border between North Korea and the Chinese province of Manchuria. When this proved unsuccessful—some of the bridges survived, and more importantly, more than 300,000 Chinese troops had already entered Korea before the bombings even began—MacArthur began drawing up plans for a broader bombing campaign against major cities and military targets within China itself. Later, when some 30,000 retreating American troops nearly found themselves encircled by four times as many Chinese near the frozen Chosin Reservoir, MacArthur even contemplated the use of nuclear weapons to secure their escape.
Such aggressive measures might have allowed the United States to regain the upper hand in Korea. But they also would have almost certainly started World War III.
By December 1950, when American forces—including those who narrowly escaped from the Chosin Reservoir—were forced into a desperate retreat from their recently captured positions in North Korea, it became clear to top officials in the Truman administration that the goal of liberating all of Korea and reunifying the country under anticommunist leadership had become an impossibility. The United States would need to recalibrate its strategy to fight a limited war for limited aims.
But "limited war" and "limited aims" were not in General Douglas MacArthur's vocabulary. A strategic dispute between MacArthur and Truman over Korea policy would soon escalate into an unmanageable personal conflict pitting the country's top civilian and military leaders against each other in a political fight to the finish. In the end, both lost.
Truman vs. MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur, the most old-school of military leaders, had graduated from West Point in 1903, when the doctrines of "total war" developed during the Civil War by Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman still formed the center of the curriculum. MacArthur was also enormously self-confident—his critics would say arrogant—and monumentally egotistical. A triumphant victory in Korea would have provided the perfect capstone to the general's glorious 50-year military career and cemented his reputation as one of the greatest military leaders in American history. MacArthur he had no interest in battling a bunch of North Korean Communists to a draw. MacArthur simply could not comprehend any military strategy that did not involve taking any and every measure necessary to achieve total victory.
But in a world in which the Soviet Union possessed atomic bombs, such pursuit of total victory might come at an unbearable cost—nuclear war. Following China's intervention in Korea late in 1950, President Truman struggled to ensure that the fighting there didn't escalate uncontrollably into World War III—even if it meant he was forced to settle for something less than total victory in Korea. When MacArthur sought to bomb strategic targets inside China, Truman countermanded his orders. When MacArthur began drawing up contingency plans for the tactical use of atomic bombs against North Korean forces, Truman reassured nervous allies that the Americans had no plans to use nuclear weapons.
The fundamental difference in strategic outlook between MacArthur and Truman soon escalated into a bitter personality conflict. To MacArthur, Truman was a contemptibly weak civilian leader who lacked both a clear understanding of warfare and the determination of will needed to overcome adversity on the battlefield. To Truman, MacArthur was a dangerously uncontrollable militarist who could not be trusted not to force the country into a disastrous general war. The two men's respect for each other soon evaporated into mutual contempt.
Whether Truman or MacArthur was correct in their dispute is a matter of much historical controversy. In the American system of constitutional government, however, the military is always supposed to be subordinate to the nation's civilian leadership; the president, not the general, is commander-in-chief. Thus MacArthur's ongoing refusal to accept wholeheartedly Truman's restrictions on his conduct became more and more problematic.
In March 1951, MacArthur issued a statement—without authorization from Washington—threatening China with destruction if it did not withdraw its forces from Korea immediately. Truman, who opposed any plan that contemplated expanding the war into China, was aghast. A month later, another belligerent and unapproved statement from MacArthur—this time calling for "maximum counterforce" against China and insisting that there was "no substitute for victory"—appeared in the form of a letter to Congressman Joe Martin, a leading Republican in the House of Representatives. Martin read MacArthur's letter into the Congressional Record on 5 April; less than a week later, the general lost his job. For President Truman, MacArthur's open flirtation with the opposition party, coming after months of insubordinate public comments, was simply too much to take.
MacArthur Relieved of Command
On 11 April 1951, Truman relieved Douglas MacArthur of his command over American forces in Korea. In a statement broadcast on national television and radio, Truman announced, "With deep regret I have concluded that General of the Army Douglas MacArthur is unable to give his wholehearted support to the policies of the United States Government... Full and vigorous debate on matters of national policy is a vital element in the constitutional system of our free democracy. It is fundamental, however, that military commanders be governed by the policies and directives issued to them in the manner provided by our laws and Constitution. In time of crisis, this consideration is particularly compelling." Truman thus cast MacArthur's removal as a matter of grave constitutional principle; the preservation of democracy itself was at stake when a military commander challenged the authority of his president.
MacArthur, of course, saw things differently. And, at least at first, the bulk of the American people seemed more inclined to support the five-star general than the unpopular president. MacArthur returned to the United States six days after his firing, receiving a hero's welcome in San Francisco. Later 7.5 million people turned out to cheer him in a New York parade, and a bipartisan majority of both houses of Congress showered him with applause, interrupting his 30-minute speech with 34 separate standing ovations. Truman called the whole spectacle a "bunch of d--n bulls--t," but public opinion seemed to be tilting hard toward MacArthur's point of view. Truman's popularity plummeted to the lowest levels ever recorded in modern presidential public-opinion surveys.
With the passage of time, however, Truman's stance on the issue became more and more compelling. Over the course of more than a month of Senate hearings investigating MacArthur's firing, the general offered up a string of testimony that made it clear to the American people just how extreme his views were. He insisted that any restriction at all on the use of force—even a ban on the use of nuclear weapons in battle—amounted to "appeasement." He argued that the loss of any territory, anywhere in the world, to Communists amounted to defeat in the Cold War. And he suggested that the traditional American rule of civilian control over the military was no different than the "system that the Soviets once employed of the political commissar." Most Americans, who supported the president's constitutional status as commander-in-chief and wanted no part of a nuclear World War III, were appalled. Now it was MacArthur's turn to endure a steep decline in popular support. The general, who had momentarily seemed almost a lock to receive the Republican nomination for president in 1952, soon found that he had little or no political backing.
In the end, then, the Korean War undermined the popularity and tarnished the reputation of both Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur. And while both men spent a great deal of effort in trying to fix blame on each other for the catastrophic turn of events in Korea after November 1950, the truth is that neither was completely innocent. Both men agreed, enthusiastically, in making the most disastrous strategic decision of the war—the decision to push far beyond the 38th parallel, all the way to the Chinese border, in hopes of destroying the North Korean regime. Both men convinced themselves, incorrectly, that there was little or no real risk of Chinese intervention. Both men were thus complicit in leading American forces into an ambush in the rugged mountains of North Korea.
Ike to the Rescue
The debacle in Korea destroyed the political viability of both President Truman and General MacArthur, opening the door for new political candidates from both parties in the 1952 elections. The primary beneficiary was Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, who crushed Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the general election to become the 34th President of the United States. Like MacArthur, Eisenhower had been a five-star general in World War II, becoming a national hero by organizing the successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France in 1944. But as military officers, Eisenhower and MacArthur could not have been more different. Where MacArthur was brash, "Ike" was humble; where MacArthur was bold, "Ike" was cautious. Eisenhower's calm and steady persona served him well in the 1952 campaign, when Korea still loomed as a major—perhaps the major—issue. Without offering any specifics, Eisenhower simply promised "I shall go to Korea" to arrange a speedy and honorable end to the war. Voters elected him in a landslide.
Thus a war that began as a potential source of salvation for Democratic President Harry S. Truman ended with the sweeping electoral victory of the first Republican president since 1928.


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Here are some frequently asked questions by residents along the Texas coastline. Any questions please contact our Structural Engineers in San Antonio or Structural Engineers in Austin: (updated June 2011)
No. Most insurance policies for homes within the counties listed above do not cover hail damage or damage due to high winds. This is why the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association offers a policy to cover area where commercial insurance companies will not insure.
No. The policy does have a premium and you must pay to get your house inspected by a structural engineer that is appointed by the state.
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Technically no. However, we highly recommend an inspection by a structural engineer to check if the connections, roof, framing, walls and foundation are not damaged to a point that would give the State reason to deny a claim for future damage. Keep in mind that the state does send out insurance adjusters to investigate each claim and if they determine that the construction did not meet the minimum design and construction standard (even if you have a certificate of insurance) they can deny your claim.
We think so. To have a house inspected by a structural engineer to ensure it still meets the Texas Department of Insurance specifications is invaluable. Consider that if the building has connections (die-down straps, roof tie-down downs) or elements that are damaged the State may deny a claim and ultimately leaving you with bill for repairs. Any repairs to the property to bring the house up to the State specification may help you in negotiating the price of the house.
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Keep in mind that there are two methods of inspection. The first method allows the structural engineer to inspect your house using the prescriptive construction outlined in the linked code. We highly recommend that your builder or person performing the repairs follow the prescriptive details for construction that are shown in the code. Simply putting together a building using construction "habits" may leave you building un-insurable if it does not meet the code requirements. For this reason, we recommend that you contact A-1 Engineering to help guide your contractor in the design stage.
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