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When thousands of commuters descend into the subway in Midtown and the Upper West Side on Thursday afternoon, they will be able to do something that once was impossible: use cellphones.
State officials announced the completion of work to outfit 30 more subway stations with antennas for Wi-Fi and cellular service, bringing to 36 the number of stations that have been wired.
All of the subway stops with cellphone service so far are located in Manhattan, and it won't be extended to the remaining 241 underground stations until 2016. But New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the next wave of 40 stations to come online, in the first quarter of 2014, will be heavily used stops in Midtown East and Queens.
The $200 million wiring of the subway is coming at no cost to the MTA, officials said. Transit Wireless, the company installing antennas inside stations, is shouldering the capital cost and will sign contracts with cellular carriers who want space on the antennas.
On Thursday, Cuomo announced progress on that front: Both Verizon and Sprint are "finalizing agreements to participate in the network," the governor's office said. Joining the carriers already on the network AT&T and T-Mobile, all four major wireless carriers will soon be able to connect their customers at 36 stations below ground.
Boingo Wireless service is operating Wi-Fi service in the stations, and currently offering access for free, with a sponsorship from HTC One.
Along with space for cell phones and Wi-Fi, the new system will expand the communications network for police and emergency responders, and will allow dispatchers to pinpoint the location of 911 calls made from underground.
"This goes beyond providing cell service underground," Cuomo said in a written statement. "It brings our customers a new level of security — with the ability to dial 911 in an emergency. Customers now know that when they see something, they can now say something using their device to call 911. And now with all the major carriers on board, the vast majority of MTA customers will have the ability to do so."
Progress has been slow-going. To wire stations, Transit Wireless employees have to contend with obstructions above and below ground, the company has said, and must work around the daily rush of commuters.
Thursday's opening of the network to 30 stations was originally slated to occur in 2012, but was pushed back, in part because of delays related to superstorm Sandy, the company said.
But signs of the network have been popping up all spring, including newly installed — and not yet dusty — white antenna pods attached to the ceilings of stations around Midtown.


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The A3 is the baby of the Audi range, and it's closer in both concept and execution to a conventional family hatchback than its BMW 1-Series rival here. Even so, with the manufacturer's trademark grille, it still has plenty of understated style.
The overall sense of solidity is just as apparent on this eco model as it is on more expensive variants. Visually,the A3 is starting to look a little dated, but once inside, the model's quality shines through and there is little to fault.
Video: watch CarBuyer's video review of the Audi A3
The finish and detailing are first rate and the layout is as user-friendly as the BMW's. But our test car's driver information screen, armrest, climate control and multifunction wheel are all optional. The TDIe lacks luxuries, then, but there's still a premium feel to the cabin. And with a decent range of seat and wheel adjustment, the driving position is good, too.
There's more elbow room than in the BMW and a greater impression of all-round space. This is most obvious in the back, thanks to Audi's smaller and flatter transmission tunnel. With a boot that's 20 litres larger, the A3 is the more practical choice. But faced with a challenger such as the 1-Series, the biggest question is whether the TDIe offers enough driver appeal.
Choosing the green model in the range doesn't leave you short-changed compared to other A3s. It shares their safe handling and composed ride, and is both easy to drive and well mannered. But while it won't disappoint in most day-to-day situations, the A3 feels a little inert and ordinary after driving the BMW.
The steering is slower and there's more body roll, and with relatively small and skinny 16-inch wheels, grip is surrendered far sooner than in the rear-driven 1-Series.
As a result, the Audi will scrub its front tyres at cornering speeds that the sharper and tauter BMW manages without any fuss. However, the biggest disappointment lies under the bonnet, because the 1.9-litre TDI is an old engine – and it shows.
There's noticeable clatter at start-up and idle, plus it isn't as refined as the BMW low in the rev range. Once up to speed things improve, but with 12bhp and 10Nm less than the 116d, the Audi can't match the all-round performance of its rival.
What's more, the TDI isn't as smooth under load or as keen to rev. It has only a five-speed gearbox, too, which means it lacks flexibility in the higher gears.
Despite missing out on the stop/start technology of the BMW, the TDIe emits only 119g/km and has combined fuel economy of 62.8mpg, which are impressive figures. But it's the car which provides green motoring with the fewest sacrifices that will come out on top in this test.
So the key question is, does the A3 TDIe offer enough in the way of all-round appeal to take victory here?
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WHY: As Audi's greenest model, TDIe provides low emissions from its 1.9-litre diesel engine.
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Now that Saurav Ganguly has decided to challenge the six-match ban on him, it is time for all Indians to rally behind him.
He hasn't asked us to make out a case before the ICC. But that must be because of the exhaustion of sitting in the pavilion watching his team-mates bat.


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This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the E-Government Act of 2002, a landmark initiative that helped usher in a new era of connected government. The act focused on making the federal government more transparent, accountable, accessible and efficient by exploiting technology, specifically the Internet. Like all major pieces of legislation, it has had an ample supply of critics and cheerleaders.
Politics aside, however, nearly everyone can agree that the legislation, which was approved unanimously by the House and Senate, has transformed the way in which Americans interact with the federal government. For example, today:
Our journey, however, is far from over. Indeed, the foundation that e-government built has created a platform for many important current and future initiatives. The focus today and for the foreseeable future is on doing more with less while continuing to improve transparency, expand access and provide federal employees with the technology needed to conduct the nation's business. Mobility — whether through teleworking or bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives — will factor heavily into operations for the next 10 years.
"Not Holding Their Own: BYOD in the Federal Work Place" survey of 262 Federal Managers, Government Business Council, February 2012
Telework Boosts Productivity, Decreases Carbon Footprint, Federal Times, October 31, 2010.
United States Office of Personnel 2012 Status of Telework in the Federal Government Report, June 2012.
There is much work to be done given that only 3 percent of federal employees are using agency-issued tablet PCs at work and only 13 percent of agencies have a device-agnostic, flexible work environment, according to a survey of federal managers by the Government Business Council in February.
The General Services Administration said telework stands to deliver a 200 to 1,500 percent return on the initial IT investment as a result of increased productivity, reduced absenteeism, lower real estate costs, and reduced recruitment and retention needs. We are making progress, yet despite the federal mandate, only 32 percent of federal employees are deemed eligible to telework, according to the Office of Personnel Management's 2012 report to Congress on the status of telework.
In addition, we continue to encounter management fear, uncertainty and doubt, and significant cultural barriers to telework. The government must showcase its telework success stories, share best practices to achieve success and address related issues, and support an overarching movement to a more mobile work environment.
Each holiday season brings a plethora of shiny new devices and expanded opportunities for the federal government to seize the BYOD opportunity as a way to make the most of its increasingly precious IT dollars. We've seen some forward-thinking agencies implement BYOD pilot programs, but wide-scale adoption lags as agencies wait for others to take the plunge in earnest. Earlier this year, for example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dealt with a 15 percent budget cut in its IT spending base by implementing a BYOD pilot program. The agency reduced costs by allowing employees the option of substituting personal devices for agency-owned ones and has benefited greatly as a result.
The Obama administration has acknowledged the benefits of BYOD programs and earlier this year launched a BYOD toolkit and issued a memorandum on advancing mobility. The toolkit outlines key considerations, highlights successful case studies and includes examples of agency mobile device policies that others can use as a model. The key to adoption will be to move beyond the mobile device management mind-set to adoption of an enterprise mobility management strategy. The latter approach focuses on protecting the underlying government applications and confidential data regardless of device ownership, while enabling access to existing Web- and Windows-based applications from any device.
The E-Government Act was a great starting point for transforming citizen/government interaction and boosting efficiency and productivity in the federal sector. It's critical that we continue the momentum as we prepare to tackle the mobility challenge. For the federal government, it is not a matter of if but when we will change where and how we work, widely enable the use of various types of devices to securely access agency infrastructures, and support the use of personal and professional devices in the workplace.
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Steve Kelman contends that a recent report on agencies' prize challenges tells only half the success story.
OMB's Data Center Optimization Initiative gives agencies new metrics and goals for fiscal 2018.
NSA and the CIA have revamped themselves in the past year. FCW asked officials how well Fort Meade and Langley are collaborating in cyberspace in pursuit of their separate missions.
The latest version of the Defense Department-wide Enterprise Service Management Framework places more emphasis on managing IT risk.
Despite GSA's efforts to accelerate the FedRAMP approval process, the lack of agency reciprocity puts the program's central goals at risk.
Got some early-career colleagues who are doing great things in federal IT? Nominate them for FCW's 2016 Rising Star awards.
The agency software inventories required under the draft category management policy will be treasure maps that lead to efficient, effective, streamlined buying and unprecedented savings.
As experts warned of the "dire" threats posed by outdated federal technology, lawmakers grilled top feds, debated workforce issues and inched closer to backing a $3.1 billion fix-it fund.
The agency is making strides in developing and deploying border technologies but still has some weaknesses.
I the comment "despite the federal mandate, only 32 percent of federal employees are deemed eligible to telework" is an indication of someone out of touch with the real world. Most people do not live in virtual reality land. Many of us oversee physical projects that construct, move, or modify physical items and, as such, require a physical presence. At 32% being able to telework tells me we have a lot of people who do nothing but paperwork - or in this case "virtual paperwork". You might as well hire people in India to do your work. I am not saying that it is not necessary, but to consider 32% a very low number tells me that some people need to get out from behind their computer more often and see how most of the world operates - and learn that you cannot operate without the physcial operations that require a physical presence.
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A bill making it easier to get a mortgage will be signed, a gas line extension to the Sanofi vaccine plant in Swiftwater will be dedicated and a newly rebuilt Stroudsburg bridge will be renamed when Gov. Tom Corbett comes to Monroe County on Monday.
Corbett will arrive at the Pocono Township Municipal Building in Tannersville at about 1:15 p.m. to sign two bills. One will enable home sellers to offer their own financing — a mortgage — to up to three home buyers per year. This will create more opportunities for home sales since banks and other lenders are less likely to approve mortgages than in the past, said state Rep. Mario Scavello, R-176.
Corbett also will sign documents while in Pocono Township redesignating Stroudsburg's Seventh Street Bridge as the "Martin and Sebring Bridge."
The bridge — newly rebuilt and dedicated last fall — is being named after two Monroe County sheriffs. They are incumbent Todd Martin and the late Forrest Sebring, the latter who served in the position for 27 years.
The governor will be at Sanofi at 1:45 p.m. for the gas line extension dedication, Scavello said.
An approximate eight-mile extension of the UGI gas line has been completed from the Johnson & Johnson distribution center, just north of Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport on Route 611, to the Sanofi plant on 611 in Swiftwater. About $8 million in state funds — including funding from the Redevelopment Assistance Program in the governor's budget — was used to extend the line.
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (WOMENSENEWS)--It doesn't bother Sheila Clogg that she's the only woman on a Great Lakes freighter with 25 other male crew members. She's just happy to be doing something she loves.
"I like the hands-on aspect, I like working with the machinery, I like getting dirty," says Clogg, an engineer aboard the Buckeye, a 698-foot freighter in the Oglebay Norton Company fleet.
It doesn't hurt that starting pay for skilled mariners is $45,000. Or that they work just 180 days a year, receive full benefits and can retire after 20 years. Not bad, if--like Clogg--you don't mind being in the extreme minority.
Job Definitions for Women Have Expanded in Recent Years
Despite the troubled economic waters of late, employment in the shipping industry is wide open. More women are getting on board, but times have changed. Whereas women were relegated to cooking and cleaning on the big vessels until as recently as the mid-twentieth century, now they're more likely to be found swabbing decks or servicing the mammoth steam turbines below, just like their male counterparts.
More women started taking jobs aboard ships in the 1980s, according to Glen Nekvasil, a spokesman for the Lake Carriers' Association, a group of 12 American companies operating 57 boats on the Great Lakes. "It's a very unusual lifestyle and you've got to be kind of an adventure-seeker to do it," he says.
Clogg, 25, began her career in 1998 at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy, a division of Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City. The academy is one of seven maritime schools in the United States that trains women and men to become officers, who work on deck as captains, first mates, second mates or in engineering. They supervise non-officer employees--such as deck hands, oilers and wheelmen, positions that do not require formal training.
Clogg admits she got a few looks at first, but that didn't last long.
"In the first few weeks, I rowed a lifeboat at 5 a.m., threaded pipe, cut a gasket, and donned a survival suit," Clogg remembers. "The guys realized that I was working as hard as they were and picking it up just as fast."
Clogg took classes in steam and diesel engineering, hydraulics and pneumatics, refrigeration, drafting, machining and welding. A highlight of her three-year training included 138 days aboard the M/V Oglebay Norton, a coal freighter running between Superior, Wis., and St. Clair, Mich. As an engineering cadet, Clogg was responsible for fixing "anything that broke down," she says. "One day, we went from working on the main engines to fixing the coffee pot in the galley," she quips.
The fact that she was a female on a ship with 30 male crew members was not an issue, she says. "Obviously, they realized I was a girl cadet, but when I was down in the engine room doing the work, I was just 'the cadet,'" she says. "They were very fair. They didn't treat me differently because of it."
Clogg adds that having the right attitude is a big part of making it as a woman mariner. "You've got to be pretty sure of yourself to not let negative people get to you," she says. "And you've got to learn how not to step on toes. The guy who's been on the boat for three months without a vacation is a little easier to tick off than other people. It's all in interpersonal relationships: You've got to know how to deal with people."
Ample Job Opportunities for Skilled Mariners
According to Rear Admiral John Tanner, superintendent of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy, skilled mariners are in demand like never before. "Anybody who graduates from the academy can be working aboard a ship within a week or two," he says. "Even with all the bad news about the economy right now, our placement is very good."
Many graduates find jobs through the Cleveland-based Lake Carriers' Association, which includes 12 American companies operating 57 boats on the Great Lakes. Carrying cargoes of iron ore, coal, limestone, cement, salt or grain, the freighters--some up to 1,000 feet long--crisscross the Great Lakes from early spring to December and are staffed by crews of 25 to 30 people.
Other graduates work aboard tugs, ocean vessels, or the government's merchant fleet servicing naval ships worldwide. Starting salary for deck and engineering personnel is about $45,000, while chief engineers and captains earn upwards of $100,000.
Crew members generally work 60 days, are home for 30, and have winters off. But that schedule can be challenging, especially for women with families. "All of the women I know who've started a family have come ashore," Tanner says. "But depending on where they live, some have found shore-side maritime positions."
Seven women are enrolled now in the Maritime Academy. They don't need to go through the academy to work in the shipping industry, but to become officers, they must either go through the program at the academy or work their way up through the ranks.
While the women make up a small percentage of the academy's 100 students, the number of female students--mainly in the engineering program--has been growing over the past decade. It's not clear what percentage of the industry's workers are women.
"I think it takes a certain amount of guts to be in this industry in the first place, but the girls do tremendously," notes Judy Rokos, the academy's office manager. "When they set foot on a vessel, they know they're going to be in the minority and they're pushing the whole way. Most of the females hit the deck running and move up the ladder very quickly."
Third-year student Rebecca Hancock will soon graduate with a "Third Mate Near Coastal of Any Tonnage" license, which will allow her to supervise deck hands and handle administrative paperwork. Like Clogg, she isn't deterred by the fact that she's in the minority.
"I certainly think about it, because I can't change the fact that I'm female," Hancock says. "But I don't expect to be treated differently just because I'm a woman."
Then again, she doesn't walk around looking for problems either. "If you prove yourself as a person, it shouldn't matter," she says. "If you go out there and make people feel like you're there to learn something, they're going to respond to you in a positive way."
In fact, Hancock advises women interested in a career like hers to "go for it," she says. "It's an absolutely obtainable goal."
Jane Louise Boursaw is a writer in Traverse City, Mich.
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The Goal That Wasn't a Goal
Monday, 03.26.2012 / 8:19 AM PT
Twelve hours later and around here we're still thinking about the goal that was taken away.
The word "frustrating" has been used in this space and elsewhere on a number of occasions to describe Anaheim's 2011-12 season, but frustration reached a whole new level last night.
In a hard-fought battle with the defending champion Bruins, the Ducks appeared to get the tying score with 12:38 left in the third, when Matt Beleskey one-timed a shot from the circle through an Andrew Cogliano screen and past goalie Marty Turco. And although it was immediately ruled a goal on the ice by referee Brad Watson right behind the net, the four officials conferenced afterward and overturned the call. It should be noted that there was not replay review, only the officials discussion, since goaltender interference is not a reviewable offense under NHL rules. Still, it left the Ducks, their fans (among the 17,395 in attendance) and especially Bruce Boudreau absolutely incensed.
Here's the whole thing:
The announcement from PA announcer Phil Hulett was, "No goal. Player in the crease." But being in the crease is only an infraction if a player "maintains a significant position in the crease impairing the goalkeeper's ability to defend his goal." Although Cogliano never made contact with Turco, officials decided he interfered with Turco's ability to make the save.
Cogliano: "At the end of the day, I didn't touch him whatsoever. "I didn't know it was goalie interference. I asked the linesman and he said he thought maybe I was impending him from making a save. I thought he was kind of set before the puck went in. The puck was already going in before he was trying to make a save. That is just how it goes."
Boudreau: "There was no explanation given to me. None ... Sure, they got another goal. We would have played completely different if there was a 2-2 tie with 10 minutes to go. We would have tried to take into overtime because one point to us is really important right now."
Indeed, the call hurt even worse when Brian Rolston scored on the rush six minutes later to put the Bruins in front 3-1. And even though the Ducks crawled back on a Lubomir Visnovsky goal with 2:29 left, that was as close as they would get.
The loss left the Ducks on the brink of official elimination, but not quite there, as games from around the league could seal it over the next two nights. But a victory would have been a third straight gratifying one for Anaheim, which slowed the rival Sharks' playoff climb last Monday night, then knocked off the NHL-best Blues on Wednesday. Now the Ducks look at these final six games, starting back here Wednesday night against those same Sharks, this way:
"We'll continue doing what we we're doing, which is playing hard," Boudreau said. "We get a chance to stop San Jose. Let's prevent them from making it. Let's do whatever we can to win."There's a lot of character in that room. So let's show the world (why) we had one of the better records in the NHL from the beginning of January."


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Judge Barefoot Sanders: little known volunteer
I knew the late federal Judge Barefoot Sanders was a big bear of a man with a soft heart because years ago his family recalled how he checked the weather report each day to make sure thunderstorms weren't on the way. If the weather looked bad, Judge Sanders made sure his dog Fred, a former stray, got a sedative to make it through the day.
Still, I was surprised to read in the Visiting Nurse Association newsletter that Judge Sanders volunteered with Meals on Wheels, after he retired. He made deliveries until a few days before his death in September. Only one client knew the delivery man was a former judge.
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Grapes of Wrath
A Supreme Court defeat can leave a terrible hangover, especially when distilled through the bitter battle of two high-profile jurists fighting over fees. By a 5-4 vote last year, the Justices ruled in Granholm v. Heald that state bans on direct sales by out-of-state wineries violated the commerce clause — a triumph that capped a six-year battle waged by small wine makers and their elite legal team, as Legal Times notes this morning. But a fee dispute broke out among the lawyers this year over how much Kirkland & Ellis's Kenneth Starr and former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan, should receive from the state of Michigan, which lost the case. At stake: more than $1.5 million.
Part of the squabble was settled last month, and talks are under way to settle the rest of it. But papers filed in the dispute in federal court in the Eastern District of Michigan and reported by Legal Times shed a rare behind-the-scenes light on how war is waged in high-stakes Supreme Court litigation — complete with lobbying of the Bush administration, intense justice-by-justice prognostication, turf battles among lawyers, and political calculation in the choice of oral advocates.
One example: time sheets submitted in the case indicate that Starr, billing at the rate of $750 an hour, devoted 58 hours (a total fee of $43,500) to urging White House officials to support the wineries. His aim was to secure an amicus curiae brief from then-acting Solicitor General Paul Clement, or at least to keep him from supporting the many states on the other side. In the end the administration stayed out of the case and remained neutral — a significant strategic win for the wineries.


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Operator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. Earnings Conference Call. My name is Kasiv, and I will be your operator for today. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. We will conduct a question-and-answer session towards the end of the conference.
I would like to turn the call over to Michael Tropiano, Chief Financial Officer. Please proceed, sir.
Michael A. Tropiano - EVP and CFO: Good morning, and welcome to Par Pharmaceutical's review of our full year 2012 financial results. I'm Mike Tropiano, CFO of Par and today I'm joined by Paul Campanelli, Par's Chief Executive Officer, Tom Haughey, our President and Barry Gilman, Par's General Counsel. After a few comments, we will open it up to questions.
I need to remind you that certain comments made during this call may constitute forward looking statements. Such forward looking statements are subject to both known and unknown risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. Those risk and uncertainties are described in Item 1A Risk Factor of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 and in the reporting packages for the third quarter 2012 and the year ended December 31, 2012 posted on the secured portion of our website as well as other SEC filings and postings we have made or may make in the future. We do not undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Also during the call today we may be discussing adjusted EBITDA which is a non-GAAP financial measure, please see our reporting package for reconciliation to net income to most directly comparable GAAP measure.
The acquisition of Par by investment funds affiliated with TPG was completed on September 28, 2012 and the third quarter financials we posted subsequently did not include purchase accounting adjustments or give effect to the transactions relating to the closing of the acquisition. These events are now recorded in the 2012 annual report we released last evening.
Our 2012 results show a GAAP determined net loss of $11.4 million on revenues of $1.1 billion after taking the DOJ settlement transaction costs we incurred during the course of the year and took business development into account our 2012 net income adjust to positive $67 million.
The adjusted gross margin generated by our product portfolio for 2012 reached $460.9 million a strong increase of 15.3% as compared to 2011.
Moving over to our cash flow statement you will see that our cash generated from operations was $153.8 million for the predecessor period, which covers the beginning of 2012 through the TPG Par transaction closing. This metric then turns to negative $28.6 million for the period of September through December 31, 2012.
It is important to note that this successor period contains a number of one-time items including $36 million in transaction related cost $10 million business development transaction as well as yearend compensation cost. After giving effect to these items, operational cash flow for this period was positive $29 million.


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NBA Finals Photo Exhibit In Its Final Weeks On Display At Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
SPRINGFIELD, MASS – As the 2010 NBA Finals tip-off with the Boston Celtics facing the Los Angeles Lakers in what promises to be a very memorable series, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, boasts a timely exhibit of original portrait and action sports photography depicting memorable match-ups and moments in the recent history of the NBA Finals, shot by Andrew D. Bernstein, Senior Director, NBA Photos.
The solo exhibition, previously showcased in Los Angeles during the 2009 NBA Finals, covers images of the NBA Finals captured by the lens of Bernstein from 1983 through 2009. The exhibit is in its final weeks on display at the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Bernstein studied communications at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California before beginning his long association with the NBA as a founding member of the league's photo division. For almost 30 years he has played a major role in chronicling the NBA's history photographically. His work frequently appears in national publications such as Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, The Sporting News, Time, and Newsweek. Bernstein's work regularly greets visitors to NBA.com and other worldwide Internet sites and publications. Bernstein has photographed nearly 150 NBA Finals games, the most by any photographer in the league history, and has captured some of the greatest moments in basketball history, both on and off the court.
The exhibit consists of 30 photographs carefully selected by the photographer. "A lot of time and reminiscing went into choosing these photos," said Bernstein. "Twenty-seven years of NBA Finals supplied me with an amazing collection of memorable moments.
The exhibit has been on display since last August. "I've enjoyed having my work displayed at the Hall of Fame, right in Western Massachusetts where my dream started," added Bernstein. "The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is the pinnacle of the sport. The recognition doesn't get any better than this."


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Blinded by Vision: Lamenting Leadership
By Paul Porteous BEc '85 LLB '88
Are children behind razor wire, growing inequality and crumbling infrastructure really part of someone's vision? I would hope not but, like a bad day at the beach, we seem to be caught in a rip that draws us towards these inevitable outcomes. In the wash-up of federal and state elections, many people lament that our politicians lack vision and leadership.
However, elections are rarely about vision or leadership; the "vision" is to get elected. To do that, politicians promise to fulfil expectations, and offer reassurance in an uncertain world. They simply reflect our desire for quick solutions – preferably ones that inconvenience us the least. This is not vision, it is just politics.
Real vision is the journey of working out how we get things right. I have a vision that Australians have the capacity to take on the harder issues such as indigenous inequality, poverty, climate change, abuse and violence. Vision is the point from where we start; it is the beginning of the engagement, not the destination.
Exercising "social leadership" in a changing environment is like being an early explorer: tracking through terrain for which there are no maps, or journeying across the oceans or deserts, uncertain of the destination. On one hand, preparation is everything – exploring the extremes of the Antarctic obviously requires a very different set of skills and equipment than traversing the Sahara. However, that preparation may lead to assumptions that limit our flexibility to deal with new situations.
In 1844, Charles Sturt's vision convinced him that an inland sea and rich grazing lands existed in the centre of Australia. His expedition set off from Adelaide with 300 sheep and a whaling boat. A year later, Sturt was understandably despondent as his team found only desert after carrying the boat more than 1000 kilometres. Sturt's "vision" led to disaster for his expedition, with many succumbing to scurvy, sickness and death. Suffering failing eyesight, Sturt himself was literally blinded by his vision.
Sturt could easily have been a modern manager. His approach was rational and evidence-based – after all, the rivers flowed inland and the migratory geese flew inland. He employed best practice in exploration, and Sturt and his team were also on performance bonuses, if successful.
Ironically, even as the hopelessness of their quest loomed, his companions kept reassuring Sturt that his vision was sound. They continued to seek his favour by claiming to have heard water birds or seen signs of water on the horizon. They told him what he wanted to hear and dutifully marched on, despite their diaries revealing that they had long given up hope. Sturt considered the boat one of the most important assets of his expedition but, in the end, it was a burden when faced with the reality of the desert. His conviction that an inland sea existed, and the "yes" men surrounding him, meant he became blind to evidence that contradicted his vision. Many CEOs or Minister's office has operated along the same dynamics as Sturt's party, their vision blinding them to reality and ending in disaster.
Through learning and discovery, we now know that there is no inland sea. Satellites and advanced mapping have provided us with new ways of seeing the land and understanding climate. However, on difficult issues we are still like Sturt wandering in the desert.
We have conquered our geographical borders but not our social ones. We are still social explorers – with all the dangers and opportunities that this brings. As we contemplate critical issues around climate change, poverty and inequality, we must do better than end up with our heads in our hands in the middle of the desert as reality catches up. Unlike Sturt's companions, we need to draw attention to failing policies, regardless of political origin or convenience. Social leadership requires more than dutifully marching on, despite having long given up hope. It also requires more than our national pastime of just waiting for a hero, a new government or a magical breakthrough to emerge.
Unfortunately, much of the leadership practice in Australia avoids tackling difficult underlying problems. On social issues, far from being a nation of innovators, Australians are proactively apathetic.
Confronting these issues through exercising social leadership is an opportunity to bring a fresh perspective to messy issues from which others are fleeing. The trauma of people currently facing conflict, poverty and inequality is passed on from generation to generation. The values which initially helped build a nation might actually retard its progress, as the environment changes and new threats and opportunities emerge. Simply allowing systems to replicate themselves will not provide an answer. Rather, leadership requires that we intervene in systems, to make them more resilient and at the same time more responsive, not only to the challenges we currently face but also for those yet to arise.
The full article was published in the Public Administration Today journal. It can be found at http://www.social-leadership.org/Publications.html
Paul Porteous is Executive Director of the Centre for Social Leadership


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It was a weekend of long goodbyes in the Bundesliga last weekend, some emotional, others - here's looking at you, Aaron Hunt - not quite so.
The most significant, of course, was that of Robert Lewandowski bidding farewell to the Gelbe Wand of the Südtribüne in Dortmund. What a contrast with the departure of Mario Götze a year earlier. While Götze, a Dortmund youth academy product who brought his parent club millions, was reviled as a money-grabbing opportunist, Lewandowski - who leaves on a free, remember - was hailed as a conquering hero poised to set off on even greater adventures. "What happened in the stadium today was simply unbelieveable," said the overwhelmed Pole, who had tears welling in his eyes as he bowed to the crowd. "It was madness!"
Not that the Pole didn't deserve the accolades. "He came to us as a super striker. He leaves as a world-class striker," stated Jürgen Klopp, succinctly and appropriately enough. The full potential of the man who had just finished the Ekstraklasa top scorer in Lech Poznan's title win was not immediately clear when Lewandowski arrived in 2010. He initially failed to dislodge Lucas Barrios, and was used more or (frequently) less effectively as a support striker. However, when the Paraguayan opted to move to China - did I hear someone shout 'Money-grabbing opportunist!'? - Lewandowski proved better still than his predecessor.
His goals, but also his excellent link-up play and dogged 'first line of defence' harrying in Klopp's pressing game have been central to Dortmund's success and their development as genuine challengers to Bayern. Given how much of a loss he'll be to Dortmund, and consequently a boon to Bayern, how quickly will Pep Guardiola's men win next season's Bundesliga?
A goal, preferably the matchwinner, would have been the fairytale end for Lewandowski. Instead, that destiny was reserved for Aaron Hunt, who was presented with a huge bunch of flowers for his final home game with Werder Bremen after 13 years at the club. Why flowers? It's as baffling as people's sudden penchant for tomato juice on an aeroplane. That is another debate, though. More importantly, Hunt's 45th and 46th goals for Bremen, in his 214th game for them, gave them victory over Hertha Berlin, but also those very stats show why his departure could have been more bitterly mourned.
Perhaps unreasonably, Hunt was tipped to take on the mantle left by Mesut Özil's departure, but never really did so, leaving a sense of underachievement that at 27 is now not likely to ever be wholly forgotten. Despite having spent nearly half his life in Bremen colours, Hunt eschewed adding the 'emotional' adjective to his farewell. "I'm not the kind of guy to cry," he said manfully.
Marc-André ter Stegen clearly is though. He joined Borussia Mönchengladbach when his grandfather Erich enrolled him as a 4-year-old, and waving 'Auf Wiedersehen' to the Borussia Park crowd ahead of the weekend's win over Mainz was too much for him. Or perhaps it was the thought of what he would do with the framed pair of his own gloves he had been given. Perhaps flowers would have been better. There will no doubt be a sense of pride, but also a few tears shed at the thought of what might have been by 'Gladbach fans when Ter Stegen becomes one of the game's great 'keepers at his next destination, Barcelona.
Armin Veh got the whole works. Standing ovations, glowing tributes, the almost inevitable flowers, presents and even a feather from Attila, the Eintracht eagle. He could perhaps put it in his cap after gallantly restoring the reputation so gloriously built at Stuttgart and so ingloriously sullied at Wolfsburg and Hamburg. Europa League qualification last season was the pinnacle of his three-year reign, which has seen Eintracht establish themselves back in the Bundesliga. While the Frankfurt club seek a successor, kicker are reporting Veh will ignore Virgil's advice and accept the gifts the Greek Football Federation are reportedly bearing in his general direction. After seeing one German tactician, Otto Rehhagel, enjoy outrageous success with their national team, no doubt the Greek FA are hoping appointing Veh will prove similarly fruitful.
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I have recently come across the website of the Kyoto Costume Institute, an establishment whose mission seems to be researching the place of clothing, design and textiles in our lives across time and the world, with a particular eye to the relationship between Japanese designs and their counterparts in different contexts. Clothing, the president of the Institute argues, changes as we do, and its changes are reflective (or constructive) of other changes at different levels in a society: the goal of the Institute is thus to archive pieces it deems of interest, which are available to view (and sometimes exhibited thematically) as well as both producing and keeping abreast of scholarship on topics relating to the development or role of clothing in different social contexts. As he puts it, "the distinctive characteristics of each age, the way that [each] society worked, and the changes in fashions and tastes are all thrown into clear relief by clothing. Clothing symbolizes the state of humankind at a particular juncture in time, thereby also throwing light on our own existence."
Since I have not (yet?) visited the Institute, I thought I might (very briefly) write on its biannual publication, Dresstudy, and in particular one of the articles free to download from the website, Through Western Eyes: Japanese Fashion in the 1980s (published in Dresstudy, vol. 57, april 2010). Dresstudy aims to support fashion research through publication, and encourages academics from different countries and fields to submit articles on fashion movements and garments, which lends a broader perspective to its publication than one might at first imagine it has. To illustrate, Dorinne Kondo, author of Through Western Eyes, is a professor of Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California: thus the article gives an extremely brief description of the state of economics in Japan over the twentieth century, and in particular its economic relations with the USA, before attempting to slot in the emergence of the popular avant-garde Japanese designers of the seventies and eighties in Europe.
The argument that Kondo pursues is two-fold. On one hand, the designers discussed produced clothes which had a profound influence on fashion at the time: the shaping, colour and fabric choices were all said (by Kondo) to bring about a change in the way designers and buyers thought about and wore clothes in the USA and Europe. On the other hand, the grouping together of these designers and the similarities in their individual aesthetics under the category of 'Japanese Designers' worked to reduce what was unique about their collections to factors exclusively race-related: Kondo maintains that this was an embodiment of 'Japan-bashing', and that the treatment they received as a group was well below the standard which European designers of the same calibre received. Even respectful remarks had superiority undertones, as Kondo illustrates when describing a compliment paid to the work of those Japanese designers discussed regarding their understanding of the French aesthetic. She finishes by writing that "when we analyze the fashion industry in a global frame, it is crucial to remember that these interactions and encounters occur within sedimented geopolitical and economic histories. The Western reception of Japanese fashion in the 1980s cannot be understood outside these sedimented histories, and it provides an exemplary case of the contradictory, ambivalent complexity of Japan's relationship with 'the West'."
The Institute is interesting, I think, because of the archival approach it takes to clothing and its related historical-cultural artifacts, which most of us nowadays understand to be cheaply produced and easily disposable. The subset of fashion which it archives is generally inaccessible to many on an average wage, and the Institute serves as an access point to pieces whose primary design focus is not mass production for mass consumption. As well, the understanding of each piece becomes fuller thanks to the encouragement of broad research, at conceptual, constructive, and contextual levels. The website is in Japanese, but is mostly translated into English as well, and some of the articles from older Dresstudy volumes are in English too. For anybody interested in browsing the website, here is a link to its About page; here you can see their available articles online; and here is an access point for their digital archives. Happy Wednesday, all!
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Hi Grace,
Thanks for the article...
I hope you do have time to visit the Kyoto Costume Institute, and perhaps also the Kobe Fashion Museum down on the coast, if you can navigate through the unarchived street fashions of Osaka. It should all be possible in one day, by foot and train.
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SF State moves toward climate neutrality
December 6, 2007 9:43 AM
SF State President Robert Corrigan joined hundreds of college and university officals this fall in committing to reduce SF State's greenhouse gas emissions and eventually make it "climate neutral," though the university may not take its first steps until next semester.
A 10-person sustainability action committee was proposed to the Academic Senate in November, but it has not yet been officially considered, said Carlos Davidson, director and associate professor of environmental studies.
The senate may vote on a resolution to create the committee on Dec. 11, its final meeting this semester, or it may want more time to mull it over and discuss it next semester, he said.
The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment has more than 400 signatories from around the country, including the entire University of California system and five California State Universities.
By signing this commitment, a chancellor or president pledges to gradually neutralize their campus' impact on global warming through a multi-step process. The ultimate goal is achieving climate neutrality by reducing the campus' greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible and countering remains with carbon offsets and similar alternatives, according to the ACUPCC's Web site.
The steps include creating a "committee or institutional structure" of students, faculty and staff within two months of signing, completing an inventory of campus emissions within a year and drafting an actionable plan within two years. Corrigan signed the document by Sept. 15, the date considered the benchmark from which SF State would measure progress toward each step.
Even if the committee must wait until the spring, Davidson commended Corrigan for signing the commitment.
"It's wonderful to work for an institution that recognizes climate change at the highest level," he said.
Davidson said he will teach a new environmental studies class in the spring designed to help meet the commitment's challenge. Called Campus Sustainability (ENVS 570 in the class schedule), he and Robert Hutson, associate vice president of facilities and SF State's liaison for the commitment, will teach students how to measure the university's greenhouse gas emissions. The results of the class will effectively create a campus inventory of emissions in time to satisfy the ACUPCC's deadline, Davidson said.
Neither Corrigan nor Hutson answered requests for comment. A two-month progress report completed by Hutson and available on the ACUPCC's Web site, however, states that "a Campus Sustainability Committee was formed in FY 07/08 to develop a university-wide culture of stainability [sic] and to advance sustainability initiatives with a cohesive focus."
The report also claims SF State completed four "tangible actions," of which the ACUPCC asked the university to accomplish at least two by Nov. 15. All four actions cited, however, reflect policy that existed before signing the commitment.
The university—along with all other CSUs—already requires that all new campus construction be in accordance with the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Silver standard or equivalent. It also already purchases at least 15 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources (SF State's contract with energy supplier Arizona Power Services requires the minimum be 20 percent), encourages and provides access to public transportation (mainly by connecting the campus to Bay Area Rapid Transit via the daily shuttle) and diverts a relatively high percentage of campus waste (65 percent during the last fiscal year), the report states.
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It wasn't the huge record-setting binge that I predicted; I'd thought that 19 of 30 Far East High School Track and Field Meet records were either possible, on life support or dead on arrival. But we did have 12 meet records and one Pacific record fall.
Leading the way was Nile C. Kinnick's girls 1,600-meter relay, a record that seems to fall like a domino every year. Led by senior Val James and accompanied by sophomores Rhyssa Hizon and Shakita Samuels and freshman Aya Stewart, the Red Devils clocked 4 minutes, 3.38 seconds, beating the old record by more than three seconds.
One thing I did notice in the two-day Far East meet was folks kind of took the attitude that if they set meet or Pacific records, that's OK, but getting points for the team was the top priority. That's not to say people held anything back or in reserve; everybody went all out. But especially if that athlete had an event later that day and held a huge lead in his or her event, they would ensure that the team points came first.
Another thing to note. As the meet gets older and older, as is the case with the Mike Petty Memorial meet (10th year), Kanto Plain finals (40th year) and Okinawa district finals (24th year), you'll see fewer records broken as a rule. The Okinawa district meet was an exception to that; 13 records fell, including one Pacific record. But that was partly because this was a special group of athletes; we won't see anything close to that next year. And as the Far East meet sees its fifth year next year, the fewer records we'll see.
A modest proposal: Keep the Far East meet at Yokota for the foreseeable future. It's a great facility and you have locals, Beau Veazey of Yokota Middle School and Bruce Carrick of Christian Academy Japan, doing the fully automated timing.
Few softball teams have come to the Far East Divisions I and II Tournaments that could hit for average from top to bottom of the order like Daegu High, which won its first D-II tournament title with a 15-10 finals win over E.J. King on May 22. Most teams have anywhere from three to five batters who hit consistently.
But Daegu's Rachel and Rheagan Wyche, Reyna and Ella Labarrete, Aaliyha Scott, Christina Henry, Kaitlyn Nott, Cynthya Walker and Kristen Clippinger combined to go 61-for-110, .555, with 27 walks and 66 runs scored. Of that group, only Walker, at 5-for-12, batted below .500.
All spring long, I'd kept hearing how good a job she was doing and what a great addition she was to the Nile C. Kinnick softball team.
Having seen her pitch, I can say with conviction: Junior right-hander Kelly Osterbrink is the real deal. During the Red Devils' 2-1 come-from-behind victory over defending champion Kadena in the May 22 Division I finals, I stood behind the backstop watching her pitch. In three innings, I saw a girl who could put every last pitch exactly where she wanted to, as her coach Katrina Kemper told me prior to the tournament.
Osterbrink made just one mistake, leaving a pitch up over the plate and it got crushed for a hit. The rest of the time, it was about location, location and location as well as velocity. And she'll be back next season. Bad news for the rest of the Far East.
Tenley Getschman wasn't even supposed to play softball. The Kinnick freshman was earmarked to play soccer but at the last minute changed her mind and became the Red Devils' starting third baseman. It was Getschman's hit that plated Sierra Lee with the game-winning run in the seventh in Kinnick's comeback win over Kadena.
Talk about bearing immediate fruit. A Kadena boys soccer team that had played just two games a month into the season brought former head coach Michael Callahan back from the sidelines as a volunteer coach under team sponsor Nelson Youngblood midway through April. Callahan had won a Far East D-I tournament title in 2006, the last year he coached the Panthers, and he ended his first season back the same way he finished 2006, as Kadena blanked defending champion Christian Academy Japan 1-0.
They were teammates at Robertson High School in Tampa, Fla., but coaching against each other in the Far East D-II boys soccer final on May 23, Sung Plourde coaching Osan American and Mark Lange Matthew C. Perry. And their sons, Daniel Plourde and Gaku Lange, were dueling it out on the pitch. The Langes prevailed, as the Samurai won their third D-II Tournament title 3-1 over the Cougars. That third star featured six clean sheets and only one goal allowed by Perry, which entered the season minus three players, Yuta Fleming, Alex Barker and Tyelor Apple, who'd scored 64 goals last season.
It's rare that a player will share a Far East tournament's Golden Boot award once, but American School In Japan striker Katey Helwick, who had eight goals in the Girls D-I Tournament to match Guam High's Kayla Kinney, is believed to be the first since Far East tournaments began in 1998 to share the Golden Boot twice in consecutive Far Easts.
Could you just imagine what Yokota's girls would have done with an offense that could match the stinginess of the Panthers' defense and goalkeeping? Sarah Cronin, Katelyn Sult and the Panthers pitched what seemed to be 100 shutouts at opponents this season, keeping them in every match they played. But they scored 43 goals in 23 matches, less than two goals per match; by comparison, their Kanto Plain rival Nile C. Kinnick scored 82 goals in 26 matches, more than three per match. ASIJ, which won the tournament, scored 56 goals in 19 matches, almost three per match. Put Kaile Johnson or Katey Helwick in Yokota's front row? It might have meant a championship for the Panthers.
More bad news for the rest of the Far East: Johnson and her Kinnick teammate Athena Peerson will return next season. It should be another Red Devil of a season.
Gotta love the fan support that Kubasaki's girls had in their 2-0 finals loss to ASIJ. While Mustang Nation had a bunch of parents and other supporters, the Dragons were pretty much on the fan equivalent of a desert island … until the Camp Hansen Wolfpack team from the U.S. Forces Japan-American Football League ended its practice nearby and moved over to Yokosuka's Berkey Field to cheer for their Okinawa-based high school team.
The cheers and chants! Especially when Dragons goalkeeper Harleigh Lewis would drop kick goal kicks, which the Wolfpack met with a loud: "Awwwww, boom!" Though Kubasaki didn't win, I'm sure the Dragons appreciated the attention.
Did the stars align for Osan American's girls soccer team or what?
We all thought (except maybe the Cougars themselves) that they were in full-blown rebuild mode, given that most of the veteran leadership responsible for three straight Far East D-II titles and a finals appearance last year was gone, via graduation and transfers.
So who comes along but some young but skilled talent in Andrea Carandang, Janel Fagaragan, Evie Garrido and the team's scoring machine, freshman Ebony Madrid, who not only helped pace the Cougars to their fourth Far East title in five years and Pacific-record eighth overall, but overtook Kinnick's Johnson on the final day of Far Easts for the Pacific's goal-scoring lead, 40-39.
It will be Madrid's only season in teal and black (she transfers to Ramstein) and coach David Hamilton will resume the helm of the boys team next year. But what a fun season it was for them.
Great to have ASIJ and St. Mary's International back in the Far East D-I Baseball Tournament.
That Kubasaki-ASIJ D-I baseball semifinal on May 24 was as good as it gets. Two great pitchers, Mustangs junior right-hander Justin Novak and Dragons sophomore righty Renton Poole. A combined five hits and three walks (none by Poole) by the two teams. Kubasaki wins it 1-0, after ASIJ had beaten the Dragons by the same score on the same field March 15, in what in effect became a preview of the Far East final. Well, semifinal. OK, so the final was pretty much decided in that game, given Kubasaki's 19-1 curb-stomping of the Titans in the championship game the next day.
Much was said in this space in the aftermath of the D-II baseball semifinal, when Zama American beat Osan American 6-3 in a game in which Trojans freshman Keiyl Sasano was ejected when he lowered a shoulder into the Cougars catcher in a play at the plate.
What did Sasano have to say on the subject? I communicated with him via Facebook, where he told me he felt he let his teammates down, but plans to come back next year 100 percent and more.
Stand-up guy, taking responsibility for his actions. And resolving to return with a belly full of motivational fire. Then again, I expect nothing less from a very competitive family with a great deal of Far East tournament pedigree; mother and and sister, each named Keily, are former All-Far East tournament volleyball players. Keiyl has been playing youth baseball, on post and off, for years. I can't wait to see him play next year.
As to the handling of the ejection's aftermath by the tournament's director, Glenn Preston, and DODDS Pacific athletics coordinator Don Hobbs, it was handled absolutely, totally, 100-percent correctly. By DODDS Pacific's PIAIP Manual, Page 7, Paragraph 2, Section C, a player who is ejected must sit out the rest of that game plus the next one. There is no such thing as a "disqualification," nor can the umpire rule that an ejected player is eligible to return for the next game, as was ruled on the field. The PIAIP Manual makes that call, not the umpire.
Just so happens the next one was the championship game, which Sasano was supposed to pitch and Robert D. Edgren won 4-3 to claim its second straight D-II title. The ruling on the field was that Sasano was "disqualified" from the Osan game but eligible to return for the final. By strict definition, that is not the umpire's call to make. Hobbs and Preston get an A on this one.
Once again, demonstrates that rules, bylaws, the NFHS rulebook and the PIAIP Manual must be required reading for all officials associations. They must be completely understood by school athletics directors at their bi-monthly video conferences with Hobbs, communicated to the coaches so they completely understand the rules, and communicated to the umpires associations and written into the respective association's bylaws.
The more thought I give to it, the more I believe that Okinawa should not host Far East spring sports tournaments. The main reason: Weather. The annual rainy season, which can trigger rains of biblical proportion at a second's notice, can force even soccer tournaments to be suspended, as was the case with the D-I boys soccer. And it forced tournament organizers to scramble to reschedule matches, even on the turf field of Ryukyu Middle School, where vast puddles of standing water made playing out of the conversation. The closing ceremony occurred at 10 p.m. May 23. Give Okinawa more events in the fall and winter to make up the shortfall. But understand, if you schedule a Far East on Okinawa in May, you're rolling the dice. And more times than none, snake-eyes will be the outcome.
Things learned, observed in Far East high school spring sports tournament week
It wasn't the huge record-setting binge that I predicted; I'd thought that 19 of 30 Far East High School Track and Field Meet records were either possible, on life support or dead on arrival. But we did have 12 meet records and one Pacific record fall.
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3BDR Williamsburg Apartment with Private Deck
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Our building is located in the center of Williamsburg, in the very heart of the Northside-- which is the most desirable section of Williamsburg, where all the stores, bars and most of the restaurants are located.
We are on a quiet street, away from the subway crowd, but we're extremely close to the subway. The best of both worlds.
Location is one of the best in the Country for entertainment and Finest to good, cheap Restaurants and an endless list of Famous Bars and clubs. If it's happening, it's happening in this neighborhood!
Excellent breakfast shops with sidewalk cafes.
Best Bagels. Best falaffel and Best Steakhouse (Peter Luger's and more). The restaurants are endless and we'll be happy to recommend the best so you'll have no wasted time with bad meals.
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Brooklyn Flea, a fantastic Antiques handmade goods and gourmet Food flea market on the waterfront a short walk from our building.
Huge, beautiful Park with Running Track only blocks away. We go every day. Bicycle path along Kent Avenue on the waterfront.
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Appartment is close to Times Square, Tube is nearby, easy access to sites in Midtown. Area around 13 th Str. is very busy and loud at all times. Only one room has closets, Bath is very small. Since we were hardly there it worked out well for 6 people but would not want to be there a second time.
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Appartement conforme à l'annonce. Il est idéalement situé près de grosses stations de métro et de Times Square. Appartement propre, cuisine bien équipée.il est idéal pour 5-6 personnes. Seul petit défaut les chambres donnent sur la rue qui est très bruyante.
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What is One Sitting Degree?
A "single sitting" degree is a program in India that allows students to condense a three-year bachelor's/Post Graduate degree program into one year/6 months of study. At the end of the course of study, the student completes exit exams in a single sitting – hence the term single sitting degree. While at one time single sitting degrees were a recognized educational offering in India, the single sitting degree has since been discontinued. Unfortunately, students looking for a quick and easy way to earn a bachelor's degree.
Why Have Single Sitting Degrees Been Discontinued?
In India, a three-year bachelor's degree/PG has become the recognized standard. In order to complete a three-year bachelor's degree/PG program, students must study at least 15-20 different subjects and pass a comprehensive exam in each subject. A thesis project in the student's major area of study must be completed by the end of the third year of study. In contrast, a single sitting degree must either make an attempt at a program curriculum that includes each of these 12 subjects in just a year, or must compromise degree requirements by teaching fewer subjects or watering down the exit exams. Neither of these options is considered an acceptable alternative, leading to the discontinuation of single sitting degree programs.
Alternatives to a Single Sitting Degree
There are a variety of distance learning options that students can utilize in lieu of a single sitting degree. Accredited colleges and universities offer classes during evenings, weekends, online, and by mail that a student can plan and complete around an existing work schedule or other commitments. Distance learning programs are offered in a wide variety of disciplines in the liberal arts and the sciences. Distance learning requires that a student be highly motivated and able to study independently while maintaining a self-designed study regimen. Students who take distance learning classes must discipline themselves, since there is no daily interaction with students and teachers, nor any requirement to attend classes. For students who are able to self- direct their studies, distance learning is a good option.
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If the student had earlier been a student of the first year or second year or third year of a programme in a recognized college or School of distance education or directorate or institute of correspondence courses of a recognized university and had discontinued for whatever reason, he/she is eligible for One sitting admission to the second year or third year of the name programme respectively.
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The British anti-war left and Mali
Since Friday, when white people started fighting there, it seems anyone who's anyone in the mainstream media is an expert on Mali. Funny that.
I'm no expert, but back in April 2012, I wrote:
Meanwhile in Africa, a nascent democracy has fallen, a large part of the country is in the hands of a different number of armed groups with differing levels of affiliation to Al Qaeida, trouble is spilling over into neighbouring countries and refugees are on the move. All this is happening as a direct result of the UK's last major military intervention.
I speak, of course, of Mali, and the vast desert area referred to as Azawad by those Tourags who seek its independence. Over the weekend the major town Timbuktu and Gao have fallen to Touareg rebels, taking strategic advantage of the recent coup d'etat. This coup d'etat was itself undertaken by a section of the army supposedly as a reaction to the civilian government's inability to deal with armed rebellion in the North, and that armed rebellion was fuelled by the massive overspill of weaponry from Libya via Niger into the desert regions of Mali.
In the mix are various groups, with confused and confusing allegiance, and including the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), the (Islamist) Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA) , the (Islamist) Ansar al-Din and of course Al Qaeida Middle East (AQIM), present in one form or another (from bases in Southern Algeria).
More details are here, courtesy of the very excellent Kal at The Moor Next Door. There's a handy map here. I don't pretend to out-analyse Kal on the specifics of what are and what will be in the region, but simply ask the questions: do Cameron and Hague now accept that what seemed like a nice Boys' Own Adventure is turning out to have very nasty consequences not just for the millions now directly affected (Mali's population is 16 million to Libya's 6 million) but potentially for the much of the Sahel and into the West African states?
Nine months on, we know a few more details of those "nasty consequences". There is open war in Mali. Ansaru in Nigeria are explicitly linking their activities to Mali. Senegal is scared of what may be coming. Mauritania, in its fragile state, is unable to restrict the movements of jihadists through its territories and prey to attack on its own towns, and Niger – already beset by major ecnonomic and environmental problems, will only suffer more from the growing regional instability.
Now if I, from a backroom in Lancashire, armed with nothing more than an internet connection and a keen sense of the unintended consequence, was able nine months ago to predict pretty well how things would pan out, then it must all have been pretty damn predictable. You'd have thought, in such circumstances, the anti-war left would have had something to say in the way of prevention.
Yet by and large, none of the people or organisations now so desperate to comment on what are, by any yardstick, serious, bloody events with huge consequences for the people of the Sahel region and beyond, had anything to say as, little by little over the summer months, the groups who had been fighting for territorial independence ceded ground and towns to those with more Jihadi aims, and it became clearer that the assault on human freedoms in Northern Malian desert towns would soon be in assaults in Central Mali.
In the end, I can't help feeling that while what is happening now in Mali is actually quite welcome news for some on the left, who are happy to use it to reinforce their anti-imperial narrative or whatever, the energies and resources now devoted to commenting on the war, might have been better used more proactively few months ago.
Of course it's a big 'if', but if leftie commentators, journos and politicos had been demanding answers from the government back in the summer about how it intended to deal with what was unfolding in Mali, then it might just have hit the Cabinet agenda, and it might just have kickstarted an international process of support for regional intervention. As it was, it was December by the time ECOWAS came to a tentative agreement on use of its regional forces to support the Malian government, and by that time it was too late; French military intelligence clearly saw both that the route South was open to the jihadists, and that the jihadists had the capability and desire to take that road, and that if it didn't strike now Bamako itself would be under threat (of course it may still be, but in a different way).
Of course the anti-war left is not responsible for what's going on now – Cameron and co must bear some responsibility for that given that we now know how well briefed they were, or at least should have been, on the likely consequences for its southern neighbours of a changed regime in Libya.
But if the anti-war left is going to get serious about anti-imperialism/promoting the long-term advisability of stopping these continued interventions – we can be sure enough there'll be another one along in the non-too-distant future – it had better start by getting serious about its analysis.
January 16, 2013 at 1:01 pm
All politics being local, in the UK all foreign politics must be about how one's UK opponents have got it wrong. I have no expertise in Mali, but I found the following article rich in historical detail on the conflict. It strongly suggests that UK and French intervention in Lybia is not to blame for what's happening.
January 20, 2013 at 9:46 pm
What a load of complete garbage, ruling class acts in Mali after pressure from left! WTF?
"a large part of the country is in the hands of a different number of armed groups with differing levels of affiliation to Al Qaeida"
And as I wrote back in April, a bit like Libya then! And come to think of it, Syria also!
Surely it is the pro war (as long as it involves the West) left, such as you, who should taking a look in the mirror?
Incidentally Mali was being discussed before your 2012 article, and your article was written on the back of a debate already taking place. A debate which sprang directly from imperialist intervention in Libya and it's consequences.
The pro war left – the colonial powers carve Africa up for their own interests, leave it devastated and the answer is, more intervention from the colonialists.
January 23, 2013 at 11:44 am
Mali or Syria?
We have seen the intellectual and physical inaction over 60,000+ killed in Syria.
Why do we suppose Mali would be different?
It is an orientalist mindset that drives this politics, the slaughter of people in "far away lands" is not really a concern of the "anti-imperialist" Left.
Sadly, internationalism a mainstay of the traditional Left is largely a relic of the past and an isolationist bickering mentality has superseded it.


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Introduction to Poetry
by Billy Collins
Stanza 5 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Line 9
I want them to waterski
- Now we're talking. Finally, a teacher wants us to do something fun. Show us to the lake!
- The line is a little surprising too. With our teacher-speaker, we might expect something more along the lines of: I want them to study five hours each night. Not this guy, he's all about the kicks.
- Basically, this line gives the poem a sense of exhilarating fun and surprise—things you might not be used to experiencing in poems, but senses Collins wants us to be aware of when we read poetry.
Line 10
across the surface of a poem
- This line changes things a bit. Line 9 probably had you picturing a sunny lake scene. Now we realize the speaker wants us to waterski "across the surface of a poem." Um, okay. Will we need a life vest?
- Actually, if we consider that before we were walking inside a poem, it doesn't seem soooo strange to be waterskiing across one now. The distinction between surface and interior is key here.
- In the previous stanzas, the speaker wanted the readers to explore the sound and the content of the poem. Now he just wants them to kind of skim over it and enjoy what they see.
- The speaker wants the readers to have fun, to enjoy what they are reading.
- Don't get too deep; he doesn't want us to go scuba diving. He wants us skimming along the surface with the sun and the spray, not trapped in some deep, dark, underwater cave.
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waving at the author's name on the shore.
- This line assumes that we are stable enough on our waterskis that we can look up and wave to someone on the shore. The speaker wants us to wave to the author of the poem— to acknowledge the author, to know who wrote the poem.
- What's important here is that the author seems kind of like an afterthought. The primary thing is that we are waterskiing. We are not asked to study the author on the shore, or write 500 words about the author on the shore. We are simply asked to acknowledge the author. Give him the hi-sign and ski on down the road (read: lake).
- Also noteworthy is the fact that the author is far away, on the shore, not in the water (in the poem). In fact, we aren't even really waving at the author, we are waving "at the author's name." This is placing even more distance between the poet and the readers.
- Sometimes the speaker of a poem is the poet, and sometimes the speaker is someone (or something) other than the poet, as in the case of a persona poem. The poet is a factor, but the poet is not the poem. The distance that Collins creates between the readers out on the water and the author's name on the shore emphasizes this fact—or maybe he's just saying poets aren't that fun to hang out with, so be cordial but keep your distance.


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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Still Doesn't Get It
Being Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg means never having to say you're sorry.
Today, after the firestorm caused by her comments in three – three – recent interviews in which she speculated about how some justices would vote, breached the confidentiality of the Supreme Court conference, and even telegraphed how she would vote in future cases, Ginsburg issued the most tepid of apologies today: "On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them. Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect."
It's too little too late from a justice who politicized her job at the Supreme Court long before she launched her career in punditry last week. Letting the New York Times editorial page dictate the substance of her apology may satisfy left-wing groups, but it can't undo the damage to the Supreme Court's reputation for impartiality.