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The Good Life, The Hard Life, And Days Gone By.
When I tell my grand children about my upbringing, they look at me like a calf looking at a new gate, as if they don't believe me. I tell them about a twelve-year-old boy in overalls, barefooted, plowing a mule and helping Daddy bring in a corn crop or grain crop. I tell them about us milking Pet twice a day who was our Guernsey cow. I helped my Mother with the milking, as she would do the milking most of the time. We had hogs, and a garden, and my Mother would "can" all sorts of goodies for the winter. We drew our water from a "hand dug" well and carried it to the house a bucket at a time. In short, we were poor in monetary terms, but nobody bothered to tell us so we thought we were rich. We were rich in the blessings of the Lord.
The fruit of our labors was the cream of life. I used to love it when Mother would open a jar of her homemade vegetable soup on a cold winter day. She made vegetable soup that had a taste that was out of this world. I have never tasted any soup that good since my childhood days. Some evenings after I finished my homework, one of my nightly chores would be to churn. We had a big churn that sat in the kitchen with cheesecloth tied over the top to keep the flies out while it clabbered. When the time was right we would put the dasher in, put the lid over the handle and begin to churn up and down…ker chunk, ker chunk, ker chunk over and over until the butter separated out of the milk and began to form into big lumps in the milk. When the butter was fully formed into lumps of raw butter, Mom would take a strainer and separate the butter from the buttermilk left behind. Both were good products in their own rights. The butter would be good for cooking and table fare and the buttermilk was for drinking or making homemade biscuits, yum!
Mother put the fresh raw butter onto a plate and begin to work it with a butter paddle to get those little pockets of trapped milk out. Then, when she was sure she had it all drained and separated, she would salt it a little and mix it well. Then, she either put the butter into a butter mold and made a cake of butter or she would take the paddle and make a round cake of butter. Then, just for a classy touch she would take the butter paddle and carve little flowers on the butter. After she was finished with making the butter she would put wax paper over it and put it into the refrigerator for cooling. Oh man, that butter would make a biscuit open it's mouth wide for a big pat. One of my favorite breakfasts was to take about three buttered biscuits, open them on my plate and pour some good syrup over them. Mother would always fry up some streak O lean or fatback and serve it with the butter biscuits. Oh, my mouth is watering right now just thinking about it.
Our mule that I mentioned earlier was named Kate. She was a good natured gal and a hard worker and I got along just fine with her except for the day she stepped on my bare foot. Kate could Gee and Haw with the best of them. I enjoyed following her barefooted behind a plow and in that fresh turned earth. It was warm but soft and my toughened bare feet stumped right through it at Kate's pace. I love the smell of fresh plowed earth.
Plowing was a pleasure to me but I hated working the crops with a hoe. Hoeing around the corn and chopping out the weeds was too much like work. My Granddaddy Hethcox taught me how to pull the soil to the young corn stalk so it would get a good root structure and plenty of earth and moisture. He knew a lot about farming since he farmed all his life too.
Milking Pet was an adventure in itself, especially on those freezing cold winter days. I would take the milk bucket out to the barn early in the morning before school and mix some cottonseed meal and hull for Pet to munch on while I milked her out. The milk bucket always had some warm water and a clean cloth in it to wash her teats off before the milking began. All went pretty well and I was pretty good at getting the milk out of her and into the bucket.
But, as any of you who have milked a cow will know that sometimes the cow will pick her foot up and plant it right down in the bucket of milk or either kick it over. Oh, that would make me so mad. And she knew what she was doing with that cockle berry laden tail that she used so well to swish me in the side of the head. She could have swung her tail and slapped herself but I think she knew it was a formidable weapon and she was good at slapping me in the cold ears with her prickly cockle berry whip. Ouch! That usually made me so mad that I would take my fist and pop her in the back leg, which in turn would cause her to kick the milk bucket over. So, I learned to make a truce with Pet. You slap me in the frozen ears all you want but I won't hit you with my fist. I just wore a sock cap over my ears and tucked my face beneath my shoulder and milked as fast as I could. As soon as I finished the milking, back to the house in a flash I went to get ready to catch the school bus. My Mother would take the foamy milk and first strain it through a screened funnel and then she strained it again through cheesecloth to get out any foreign particles before pouring it up into jars and putting it in the refrigerator.
Yep, we had electricity but not running water…well not the kind of running water you think. I tell folks that we had running water where we lived but it was not hot and cold but Jim and Steve. Mother would say, "Jimmy, run get me a bucket of fresh water" or "Steve, run get me a bucket of water from the well". That well was about 60 feet deep, and it was hand dug right into the limestone where the sweet water was. Oh and it was so cold in the summer time. When I worked up a sweat and big thirst I would draw a bucket of water from the well and just tip it over and drink right from the bucket letting much of it pour onto my neck and chest. Oh that water was the sweetest and coldest water in the whole world. I would almost founder on water, it was so good.
We had a big oval galvanized bath tub out near the well sitting on about a 10′ X 10′ linoleum rug so you wouldn't get your feet dirty when you stepped out. Here's how it worked: we would draw that cold water out of the well and take it over to the bath tub and pour it in so the sun could warm it during the day. You had to plan your bath in the early part of the day so your water would be warm by nighttime. It was always after nightfall that we would slip out with a towel, wash cloth, soap and clean undies and get our bath. Steve and I would take turns going first. One time I would go first and the next time he got to go first, but we both bathed in the same water. In the wintertime we bathed from a wash pan in the kitchen with water warmed on the stove. My Mother insisted that we be clean before bed and she always made sure we wore clean clothes to school. They might have been worn and a little ragged but they were clean.
I have to mention a little about washday here. Washday; what can I say? I hated it with a passion. There was a lot of water to be drawn from the well. Mother had an old wringer type washing machine on the back porch that she used to do our washing. But not having running water, except for the kind mentioned earlier, we had to draw it from the well and carry it up onto the back porch in a number 2 washtub and lift it up and pour it into the washing machine. Mother washed the whites first, and then the color clothes in the same water, run them through the wringer to remove most of the soapy water and stack them onto a counter or into pans. All the while she was doing that, Steve and I were drawing the rinse water. When we had enough rinse water we would once again carry it up on the porch and when needed pour it into the washing machine again. Then, the rinse cycle would begin with the whites first, then the colors. Then, it was off to the clothesline to hang them up to dry. Some items, like our blue jeans, would be soaked in starch water, wrung out in the wringer and then Mother would put what she called "pants stretchers" in them before hanging on the line. That insured a good stiff starching with good permanent creases. That cut down on some of the ironing. She worked hard to make us look and feel crisp and clean.
I would be remiss if I failed to mention washday during the winter months. North Georgia can be a cold place in the dead of winter, but the chores must go on. So, my dear Mother would work just as hard on the back porch washing, rinsing, starching, and hanging clothes on the line. I've seen her hands red, chapped and cracked from the cold North Georgia wind and weather.
Right after the war…the Big One…my Daddy came home, married my Mother, had a couple of little boys, my brother and me, and began to farm on the GI bill, as they called it. Life was hard back then, but the country was being rebuilt by those men who had fought so hard in far away lands. Now their attention turned to making a living and rebuilding their own country.
As far back as I can find, my Daddy's ancestors have always been farmers. Most of the time they were sharecroppers. That indicates poor people trying to make a living off the land but needed some monetary help with the seed and fertilizer for a share in the harvest to keep their families alive. There were enough wealthy landowners who were willing to buy seed and supplies for a share in the proceeds of the land. The labor was supplied by the sharecropper and his family.
When I look back at all the things I've experienced along the way I can truly say that I have done some things that people just don't do any more. I've picked cotton for 25 cents a day, plowed a mule, milked a cow, drawn water from a well, and used an outhouse until I was married and moved out. I've worked on a chicken farm, gathering eggs and feeding and watering thousands of chickens daily. I've built and swam in a "wash hole" as we called it. I've built and set rabbit boxes and caught and eaten fried rabbit with biscuits and gravy. I've driven a team of mules and wagon. I've pulled and bundled fodder and stored it in the crib. I've kissed a girl in the hayloft and also in a corncrib. Country girls are really friendly. In short, I've done it all. We were poor but we were rich. I miss those slower times even though they may have been hard times. Some things in life are worth working for. You get the best quality goods when you grow or build them yourself. We grew organic and didn't even call it that. We recycled and didn't call it that. We used solar energy and didn't even call it that. My Mother had a solar clothes dryer…you know, a clothesline and clothes pins.
Sometimes soon I think I'll write a few lines on some sayings and phrases we used to say when I was growing up but don't say any more, like "you boys help me get these clothes in off the line, it's coming up a cloud" or "Jimmy it's your turn to empty the pot." That is not a reference to marijuana. It has to do with the chamber pot, as they Yankees call it, and it was emptied out in the outhouse that I mentioned earlier. Another name we called it was the "slop jar". Then, after emptying it, you had to draw a bucket of well water and wash it out and leave it in the sun to dry and disinfect. I'm really glad of some things today. Indoor toilets and showers are on the top of my list. You know, you will have a hard time even finding a slop jar today. All those things are now considered antiques. I have another name for them that I can't mention here.
I see a lot of things in antique stores today that used to be commonplace around our farm and house when I was growing up. Things like the mule's collar, haynes, and single tree, the slop jar, the churn, the well bucket, and a thousand little things like the butter mold and granny's old foot pedaled Singer sewing machine. Oh, the things I've seen and done.
The next time you turn on a hot shower and stand there and enjoy the water running over your tired body while you relax, or the next time you go to the grocery store and pick up a gallon of milk or a dozen ears of corn, thank God for people who had to work to bring them to your reach and for your convenience. We have a lot to be thankful for today but we're not a thankful people. Maybe if we all had to turn the clock back a few decades and try to survive the way the old folks used to do, we'd appreciate how easy life is today. Still, I miss working in the field, milking Pet, plowing Kate and swimming in the wash hole after a hot day in the field. Ah, the good OLD days. But, they are gone forever and live only in my memories. Thank God for those memories of bygone days of the good times, the hard times and the home folks.
Jim Hethcox


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Must admit, I never anticipated needing to write this bit. But, with a breather week, it's time to address the Big Ten tiebreaker system and the routes by which Penn State can end up in the inaugural Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis.
Or you can look at it this way: If the Lions can beat Nebraska and then win in Columbus, they will clinch the division and render the Wisconsin game meaningless.
Anyway, the tiebreakers work this way:
Any 3-way tie for a division title first is broken by the trio's record in games amongst each other. So, if, say, Wisconsin, Ohio State and PSU all tie with 6-2 league records atop the Leaders Division, then only the games in which they played each other are tallied. If one team went 2-0 against the other two, that team wins the division and plays for the title in Indy and the conference's automatic BCS bowl bid (most likely the Rose Bowl).
If all three tied teams are 1-1 against each other, then the tiebreaker proceeds to record in division games only.
The Buckeyes (2-2 in the league) have the inside track in the 3-way-tie cases. They already beat Wisconsin and they have Penn State at home. And their two losses both came against Legends Division competition (Nebraska and Michigan State). But they can probably ill-afford another loss. And they have a challenging remaining schedule with road trips to Purdue and Michigan sandwiched around PSU.
Should only two teams tie, it'll be a much simpler method. The head-to-head winner goes to Indy. Which, of course, makes the Nittany Lions' finishing road trips to Columbus and Madison huge. In fact, if the Lions simply find a way to win at Camp Randall in the regular-season finale, they probably could lose to both Nebraska and Ohio State and still end up in Indianapolis playing the Legends Division winner for the league's automatic BCS bowl berth.
That's because Ohio State already has lost twice and a third loss – either at Purdue or at Michigan – would eliminate the Buckeyes.
The Badgers (also 2-2 in the league) have it easier but must get their heads on straight quickly and avoid any slip-ups, especially on Saturday at home against Purdue, then on road trips to Minnesota and Illinois.
Purdue (the third team tied at 2-2) is an extreme darkhorse but still in it, especially if it can pull the upset against dispirited Bucky in Madison. Even if they manage to win out – at Wisconsin, vs. OSU, vs. Iowa and at Indiana – the Boilermakers still must hope for PSU to lose out because the Lions own the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Which leaves the Lions (5-0), sitting pretty – for now.
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CLIMATE-L.ORG Bulletin Issue 9 Released
6 January 2009: IISD Reporting Services is pleased to announce that the newest issue of CLIMATE-L.ORG Bulletin is now available.
To access the ninth issue directly, click here. To read past issues of the Bulletin, click here. The ninth issue of CLIMATE-L.ORG Bulletin highlights stories about the UN's 2008 climate-related activities, and includes two articles:
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Before my husband and I married we discussed children and we both agreed that when the time came that I would be a SAHM. I want to be a SAHM. I want to be the one that teaches my baby and gets to see my baby develop and grow, but I am worried about not working. I worry about money. If I dont work our yearly income will go from $72,000 a year to approximatly $40,000 a year. We have an emergancy fund of $31,000 and we plan on NOT touching that money to have the baby. We will have the money to pay off the pregnancy and hospital bills before I go on maternity leave. I just worry if we will be able to make it. We have no debt and my husband makes enough to support us, but it would be tight. I am pretty good at budgeting, but I am stressed.
What would you ladies do?
....There is one more thing I am worried about...
I think a lot of stress I am feeling is coming from me having to call in on Monday because of abdominal pain. I got to work and just didn't feel good so I left ...so I guess if wasnt a call in, but a leave really early situation I have never called and I always try to soldier through morning sickness. I used to feel so important at work, but now I don't. I feel like I am doing less than I used to and I feel like people think I am a wuss cause the smells at work make me sick. I just feel like some of my coworkers think I am getting a lot of special treatment. All of it is stressing me out!
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Instinctive computing is a computational simulation of biological and cognitive instincts. Instincts profoundly influence how we see, feel, appear, think, and act. If we want a computer to be genuinely secure, intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, and even to have primitive instincts. In this workshop, we will explore transformational developments in this area, including the building blocks for instinctive computing systems and potential applications such as security, privacy, human-computer interaction, next generation networks, and product design.
This two-day workshop includes topics in four main tracks: Instinctive Architectures, Instinctive Cognition, Intelligent Systems, and Demos and Posters.
The post-proceedings will be published by Springer as a book of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).
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June 15-16, 2009: Workshop days
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Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, UK: "Robots with Biological Brains and Humans with Part Machine Brains" [Abstract + Bio]
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David Farber, Carnegie Mellon, USA: "The Real Next Generation Internet and It's Impacts" [Abstract + Bio]
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Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences was founded in 1995 and has campuses in 3 locations: Sankt Augustin, Rheinbach and Hennef. Professors and research associates are involved in both teaching and research, and they also have lecturers from the fields of business, industry and academia. Bonn-Rhein-Sieg's constantly expanding range of courses includes degree courses in the fields of Business Administration, Computer Science, Technical Journalism/PR, Engineering, Applied Natural Sciences and Social Insurance Management. The headquarters and administrative offices of the University are located in Sankt Augustin.
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The Allegheny's women's golf team is in 10th place in a field of 19 teams after the first round of the NCAA Division III championships at Angola, Ind.
The Gators finished the day 32 strokes over par with a score of 320. Liz Blyth and Sarah Vorder Breugge are tied for 25th individually with 7-over 79s.
Abby Sorensen is tied for 32nd with a score of 80, Miranda Santucci is tied for 52nd with a score of 82 and Lauren Hammell is tied for 64th with an 83.
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Darth Vader Does Disney [Video]Buzz Bishop
Two things have been the talk of the internet this week: Hurricane Sandy and Disney buying Lucasfilm Ltd.
While the former was a sobering look at what is truly important in life, the latter had the web whipped into a frenzy at the thought of further sequels in the iconic Star Wars franchise. More Ewoks? A return of Jar Jar Binks? Who knows?
I already have 2015 circled on my calendar, I can tell you that. Episode VII is already on the calendar and I can't wait. I wrote this past summer of sharing the Star Wars Moment with my oldest son. It's an adventure story that transcends time and I love sharing it with my boys.
Disney has wasted no time in capitalizing on the announcement. Already a video has been released opening with "Darth Vader… Now that you're part of the Disney family.. What will you do next?"
The 68 second clip features Darth Vader taking a tour of his new digs. Flanked by two Stormtroopers, Lord Vader rides the merry go round, the teacups, takes a flight on Dumbo, grabs popcorn, and sits front rown on Space Mountain – of course. He raises King Arthur's Sword in the Stone, checks out the princesses, and whips out his light saber in the Haunted House. A busy day wraps up on Main Street soaking up the fireworks.
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While that is a good example, what ties any of these bundles together is their publisher. I could be wrong, but I think both Lego LotR and WitN are WB games, so it's possible for those two.
They are. I did my homework before I made a wish upon a Tony.
There were multiple posts in this thread (apart from mine). Hand wringing (apart from just mine). Talk of how Hell expanded to add a new level just for Sims DLC. It has hit this price a few times.
Speaking of, I held off (it looks like so much fun) on Sims 3, from Amazon and Steam, simply because of the whopping amount of DLC and the Origin/Steam split. I'm holding off for a bundle with all the DLC that's just on one platform.
A Sims 3 bundle with all the DLC....
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The wheels of regionalization justice move too slowly among New Jersey's 600-plus public school districts. So, its encouraging to see those wheels turning faster in parts of Gloucester County.
The impending retirement of South Harrison Township Chief School Administrator David Datz has spurred talk about some or all of the separate elementary school districts within the Kingsway Regional sphere sharing more administrative functions — or perhaps renewing discussion of full consolidation. South Harrison (with just one school), East Greenwich and a joint Swedesboro-Woolwich district all send their elementary students to Kingsway Regional High School, which Logan Township students also attend on a tuition basis.
There are lots of possibilities. But anything that keeps the fast-growing schools in this region from burning up revenue on duplicated services and personnel is worth considering.
Elsewhere, the Franklin Township Board of Education voted last week to send to the state commissioner of education a consolidation plan encompassing its own elementary district, the (one-school) Elk Township elementary district and the Delsea Regional district, which receives secondary students from both towns. Franklin wants the commissioner to OK a voter referendum on its plans, perhaps in December.
The proposed unification scenarios do raise some questions: Why, for example, under one option, would Franklin, rather than Delsea, become the governing entity? Also, a recent analysis from Gloucester County Executive Superintendent Robert Bumpus recommends that Delsea be dissolved and that Franklin and Elk start a new regional K-12 district.
Regional districts like Delsea (and Kingsway) seem to have in place the needed infrastructure to deal with multiple towns. So why start over?
Finally, the Greenwich Township school board's decision not to renew Interim Superintendent Vincent Tarantino's contract brings up a possibility of sharing top administrators with other districts.
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Royal Australian Air Force support the Malaysian-coordinated search for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370
BEIJING: Desperate relatives of Chinese passengers aboard flight MH370 threatened to go on hunger strike yesterday as they demanded answers about the missing aircraft from Malaysian officials.
"Now we have no news, and everyone is understandably worried. The relatives say they will go to the (Malaysian) embassy to find the ambassador," said Wen Wancheng, whose son was aboard the missing flight.
"The Malaysian ambassador should be presenting himself here. But he's not," Wen said, updating reporters after a regular meeting between Malaysia Airlines officials and family members at a hotel in Beijing.
"Relatives are very unsatisfied. So you hear them saying 'hunger strike'," added the 63-year-old from the eastern province of Shandong, speaking as the search entered its 11th day. Two-thirds of the passengers on the flight, which had 239 people on board, were Chinese.
Outside the meeting room, a woman clutching a placard reading "Respect life. Give us back our families" told reporters that the relatives were going on hunger strike. She declined to say how many were doing so, or give her name.
"Since they haven't given us the truth about those people's lives, all of us are protesting," the woman said furiously. "All the relatives are facing mental breakdowns," she added.
Wen also said some of the relatives had stopped going to the meetings, given how long they had been waiting for information.
"It doesn't mean giving up," he added. "It's normal to return home. Like me, I have been out for a long time." A poem was hung on a wall directly outside the relatives briefing room, credited to "Xue Song", although it was not clear whether it was put up by a family member.
"On Malaysia Airlines our relatives have ridden, we don't know where the plane is hidden," said the poem. "The Malaysian spokesman statements make us guess, and turn the search into a great big mess. Let down, accusing and deep frustration, our families are left in desolation. We just long to meet one more time, counting seconds flowing like tears in a line."
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A variety of nursing home-related records are being sought by a federal grand jury subpoena served April 27 to the state Health Department.
The subpoena seeks records on a number of nursing homes and individuals associated with the industry.
Jim Smart and John Smart of Wewoka are among individuals whose records are being sought. The pair has an interest in eight nursing homes. Those include Colonial Park and Pioneer nursing homes in Okemah; Meeker Nursing Center; Harrah Nursing Center; Lake Drive Home in Henryetta; McLoud Nursing Center; Wewoka Nursing Home; and Seminole Estates Inc.
They had previous interests in Parkview and Colonial Estates nursing homes in Shawnee and Seminole's Pioneer Nursing Home.
The records of E.W. "Dub" Jiles of Oklahoma City, president of Jico Inc., are being sought. The E.W. Jiles Trust has an interest in Shawn Manor Nursing Home in Ponca City; Coweta Manor Nursing Home; and Sherwood Manor Nursing Home in Tulsa. The trust formerly had an interest in Frances Streitel Villa in Collinsville; Choctaw Living Center; and Frederick Nursing Center.
Records involving Charlotte Venable, listed as the secretary for Jico, are also included in the subpoena.
Also on the list is Deanna Beavers, of Oklahoma City, listed in Health Department records as having an interest in Oak Hill Living Center in Jones.
Beavers' Oklahoma City office address is the same as the address of Medical Management Group Inc., a company for which the subpoena seeks records.
The subpoena also seeks records related to three officers of Medical Management Group Inc.: Christopher Wakeley, Ed Lee and Nancy Hyde.
Wakeley was listed as president of Medical Management Inc., according to 1999 Oklahoma Tax Commission records. Lee and Hyde were listed as vice president and secretary.
The subpoena also seeks documents related to all temporary managers. An Oklahoma City attorney who is approved to serve as a temporary manager has sued the department, claiming favoritism in the selection process for the positions. The attorney, Floyd Propps, said he and other more-qualified people on the list were not chosen to take over homes, while less-qualified people were chosen.
Records involving Rosewood Nursing Home and Cyril Nursing Home are also being sought. Both homes were under the temporary management of Medical Management Group Inc., until May 5 when the Health Department appointed another manager.
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Carlos Condit. Photo property of World Extreme Cagefighting.
Las Vegas, NV (USA) – World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) today announced that WEC will add a flyweight division to the WEC championship divisions. The organization will no longer actively promote the welterweight division, continuing its focus on the lighter weight classes including lightweight (155 pounds), featherweight (145 pounds), bantamweight (135 pounds) and flyweight (125 pounds).
Carlos Condit, reigning champion of the WEC welterweight division, and Brock Larson, as well as other top 170 pound WEC fighters will transition to the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization to continue their athletic careers as UFC welterweight fighters.
"With the addition of the flyweight division, the WEC has cemented its status as the home of the greatest lighter weight fighters in the world," said Peter Dropick, WEC Vice President of Operations and Production. "We are excited to launch the 125 pound championship division, and look forward to giving our fans the best and most action-packed flyweight fights in the sport."
More information about the WEC flyweight division will be announced at a later date.
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Fresh off of his first-round stoppage of Rolando Perez at WEC 38 on January 25, fast-rising featherweight contender will reportedly take on WEC newcomer Chris Mickle in a bout that will likely be added to WEC 39, which takes place on March 1 in Corpus Christi, Texas.
According to MMA Junkie, the fight will partially take the place of the canceled WEC welterweight title fight between Carlos Condit and Brock Larson, who are both now headed to the UFC due to the rumored demise of the WEC's 170 lb. division.
Aldo has won his first three fights in the WEC and another win under his belt could vault him to the top half of the featherweight division. Mickle, who has spent the majority of his career fighting in small shows in the midwest, will come into the bout with a two-fight winning streak.
Continue reading "Fight Announcements: Aldo Added to WEC 39, Saunders Injured & More"
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If you thought that the war between Georges St. Pierre and B.J. Penn was over, think again. Penn's camp has informed Sherdog.com that they intend to file a formal complaint with the Nevada State Athletic Commission after officials spotted one of St. Pierre's cornermen allegedly rubbed Vaseline on his back in between the first and second and then the second and third rounds.
"We are not trying to make excuses, but the NSAC needs to protect the fighters," Penn told Sherdog.com via text message. "They never notified us or completely wiped his back with water and towels."
Various reports are circulating that following the conclusion of the first round, Phil Nurse, who has been working St. Pierre's corner for a number of years, was caught by someone sitting at ringside rubbing Vaseline on St. Pierre's back and shoulders. It has yet to be confirmed that this person was former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell, but "The Iceman" was the first to inform UFC President Dana White of the incident after the conclusion of the fight, which St. Pierre won via fourth-round doctor's stoppage.
Continue reading "UFC 94 Notes: Penn Set to File Complaint With NSAC Over GSP Greasing"
Carlos Condit. Photo property of World Extreme Cagefighting.
- It appears that WEC welterweight champion Carlos Condit could be headed to the UFC after all. Days after a Five Ounces of Pain report suggested that the WEC was attempting to match Condit up against Martin Kampmann at UFC Fight Night 18 in April after Condit was forced out of his March 1 title defense against Brock Larson due to injury, MMA Junkie is reporting that has been signed for the event, essentially signaling the end for the WEC's 170 lb. division. In semi-related news, Dann Stupp and company are also saying that "Ultimate Fighter 8" runner-up Philippe Nover will likely return to action against Kyle Bradley at UFC 98.
Continue reading "Evening News and Notes: Condit Headed to UFC; Nover-Bradley at UFC 98 & More"
Urijah Faber and Jens Pulver. Photo property of World Extreme Cagefighting.
Unfortunately for World Extreme Cagefighting, their latest event was squished in between UFC 93, Affliction Entertainment's "Day of Reckoning" show, and this weekend's UFC 94, yet they still managed to pull off the second best rating for a live event in the promotion's history.
From the Wrestling Observer Newsletter via MMA Payout:
The show did a 0.65 rating and 700,000 viewers, which, while only half of what their first match (Faber vs. Pulver) on 6/1 did, was still the second highest amount of viewers in the history of the promotion.
The advertising on Versus and other cable channels was relatively non-existent this time around compared to the last few shows that the WEC put on, which makes it seem as if fans are spreading news about the show via word of mouth these days. WEC 39 nearly had a great lead-in with the NHL All-Star Game running a tad late, but Versus ruined the potential by running a full episode of Sports Soup and delaying the live start of the main card by 45 minutes. Still, this is a great sign for Zuffa, who has continually been planning to eventually have some WEC events move to pay-per-view in the near future.
We will be going live at 7:00 PM ET with live results of WEC 38: Varner vs. Cerrone, which takes place at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego, California. The show will be televised live on Versus in the United States and on TSN in Canada.
The event is headlined by Jamie Varner defending his WEC lightweight title against Donald Cerrone. A rematch between former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber and former UFC lightweight champion Jens Pulver will take place as well.
Feel free to leave your thoughts and comments throughout the afternoon and evening. Detailed live results are after the jump.
Continue reading "WEC 38: Varner vs. Cerrone Live Results"
Jens Pulver. Photo property of World Extreme Cagefighting.
"The opponent, I was more than happy. I'm like great. With my son, and with my friend being murdered – when I say friend, Justin and I go way back when we were 16. He moved out to Iowa and lived with me. It was real hard to lose him. He was somebody I was real, real close to. More than anything, I was hoping to have the holidays and everything, because I knew I wasn't going to have a full-on six days a week to train. I would have loved to have it in March. I love the opponent. Can I do it in March? They said no and that they needed it in January, so that was the only hesitation was just the timing. You got to do what you got to do. No complaining, no excuses."
- Former UFC lightweight champion Jens Pulver tells MMA Weekly that despite the birth of his son and death of close friend Justin Eilers, WEC officials refused to allow him to fight Urijah Faber in March instead of this coming weekend, leaving Pulver with the inability to train at the highest possible level for this fight.
In the above video, reigning WEC lightweight champion Jamie Varner discusses his upcoming title defense against Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone at WEC 38 this Sunday night in San Diego, California.
Jeff Curran. Photo property of World Extreme Cagefighting.
The past few days following the completion of Saturday's UFC 93 event in Ireland have brought forth a slew of potential fight announcements involving upcoming events being put on by the UFC and WEC. Let's get right to them:
— One-time WEC featherweight title challenger and longtime veteran Jeff Curran will reportedly make his bantamweight debut against Urijah Faber-protege Joseph Benavidez at WEC 40 on April 5 according to MMA Weekly. The event, which will likely take place in Chicago, will be headlined by WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres defending his title against Brian Bowles.
— Former International Fight League standout Bart Palaszewski will reportedly take on Richard Crunkilton in a lightweight bout at WEC 39 on March 1 according to MMA Junkie, which is also stating that the winner of the bout could receive a title shot against the winner of this weekend's upcoming lightweight title fight between current champion Jamie Varner and top contender Donald Cerrone.
Continue reading "Fight Announcements: Griffin, Curran, Stann & More"
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Ed Ratcliff has reportedly been forced out of his scheduled bout against WEC newcomer Anthony Njokuani at next week's WEC 38 event after suffering an undisclosed injury during a recent training session.
According to MMA Weekly, Maximum Fighting Championship veteran Benson Henderson will be replacing Ratcliff on the card. Henderson will come into his fight against Njokuani on a six-fight winning streak. The WEC's official website also lists Jose Aldo with a new opponent, Rolando Perez. No word as to why Fredson Paixao was removed from the card.
In other WEC news, MMA Junkie is reporting that Mike Budnik will be facing former International Fight League competitor John Franchi in a lightweight bout at WEC 39, which is slated to take place on March 1 in Corpus Christi, Texas.


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Parenteral feedings containing more than 4 to 5 µg/kg/d of aluminum have been shown to result in neurodevelopmental delay in preterm infants.1 However, an infant at the 2-month checkup receives multiple aluminum-containing vaccines that in combination may have as high as 1225 µg of intramuscular aluminum; this is a much higher intramuscular aluminum dose than the safely recommended intravenous aluminum dose.2 Our first objective was to measure prevaccine and postvaccine levels of aluminum in preterm infants, a population at higher risk of aluminum neurotoxic effects. Our second objective was to measure prevaccine and postvaccine levels of essential elements (EE). Inflammation from trauma can cause declines in serum levels of specific EE such as zinc and selenium3- 5; there may be similar EE perturbations secondary to vaccination-induced inflammation.
After institutional review board approval and parental consent, 15 preterm infants scheduled for routine 2-month vaccinations while still hospitalized were recruited in the Sparrow Hospital neonatal intensive care unit in East Lansing, Michigan. One day prior to scheduled vaccination, 0.25-mL blood and 12-hour urine collections were obtained. Prevnar 13, PedvaxHIB, and Pediarix vaccines were administered, in total containing 1200 µg of aluminum, as determined by company literature and confirmed by testing a set of these vaccines in our laboratory. One day postvaccination, 0.25-mL blood and 12-hour urine collections were obtained. Aluminum and EE concentrations were quantified by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in serum and urine. Urine data were normalized using creatinine concentration. Two-tailed P values <.05 on paired t tests (SAS software; SAS Institute Inc) were considered significant.
No significant change in levels of urinary or serum aluminum were seen after vaccination (Table). Significant declines were noted postvaccination in serum iron (58.1%), manganese (25.9%), selenium (9.5%), and zinc (36.4%) levels, as was a significant increase in serum copper level (8.0%). A rise in selenium level was the only significant urine change. No significant postvaccine urinary or serum level changes were noted for phosphorus, sulfur, potassium, cobalt, nickel, molybdenum, nickel, or sodium. All participants had normal serum creatinine levels.
We were reassured to find no significant postvaccine rise in serum aluminum level after vaccination of preterm infants with vaccines containing a total of 1200 µg of aluminum. The average study infant weighed 2200 g at vaccination and thus received about 545 µg/kg of intramuscular aluminum. Thus far, infant aluminum-adjuvant dosage safety has relied on animal-to-human extrapolations6 and modeling of infant pharmacokinetics based on extrapolation from adult pharmacokinetic data to infant glomerular filtration rates.7 We know of no study prior assessing actual aluminum blood level responses to vaccination in human infants.
Our study is small (N = 15), but one of the key studies for examining the postvaccine rise in aluminum blood levels is a study of only 6 rabbits.6 That study showed that postvaccination serum aluminum levels rose 1%, peaking within 24 hours of vaccination. We thus chose 24 hours as our postvaccine measurement point.6
We observed a significant decline of serum levels of iron, manganese, zinc, and selenium and a significant increase in copper level (a marker of inflammation) on the day after vaccination. These same EE have been described as declining after inflammation from trauma or burns.3- 5 Of the EE that are not known to be associated with inflammation-induced perturbations (ie, sodium and potassium), we found stability of these levels after vaccination.
None of our participants had changes in nutrition type, medications, and/or blood transfusions during the course of the study. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the EE changes were a result of vaccination. Because of the aforementioned stability of aluminum-influencing factors (ie, nutrition and medications), postvaccine aluminum changes, if they were to have occurred, could have been attributed to vaccination dosage.
Sequestration of certain EE into tissues with a subsequent reduction of serum levels of corresponding EE is an important component of the innate immune system.8 This immune response has likely evolved as a host defense mechanism to deprive microbial organisms of their nutrients.8 While this vaccine-induced homeostatic shift in EE levels has not previously been described in humans, it has been documented in horses. After vaccination of horses, iron and other EE become temporarily sequestered within hepatocytes and other cell types.9,10 As has also been found in other studies of EE after inflammation,3- 5 we found a significant rise in postvaccine urinary selenium levels, suggesting that selenium is at least partially excreted, rather than completely sequestered like other micronutrients for which there was no postvaccination urinary rise.
Limitations of our study include its small sample size and single postvaccine measurement, as well as the absence of markers of inflammation to help quantify the inflammatory response. However, because trace elements play important roles in neurodevelopment and the immune system, the effect of vaccination on EE should be investigated in more detail.
Corresponding Author: Tammy Z. Movsas, MD, MPH, Midland County Department of Public Health, 220 W Ellsworth, Midland, MI 48640 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Published Online: July 15, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.108.
Author Contributions: All authors have seen and approved the submission of this manuscript and take full responsibility for it.
Study concept and design: Movsas, Paneth, Gewolb.
Acquisition of data: Rumbeiha, Zyskowski, Gewolb.
Analysis and interpretation of data: Movsas, Paneth, Gewolb.
Drafting of the manuscript: Movsas, Paneth, Zyskowski.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Movsas, Paneth, Rumbeiha, Gewolb.
Statistical analysis: Movsas, Paneth, Gewolb.
Administrative, technical, and material support: Movsas, Paneth, Zyskowski, Gewolb.
Study supervision: Movsas, Paneth, Gewolb.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
Funding/Support: This project was undertaken by Dr Movsas while she was a postdoctoral fellow in the National Institutes of Health T32 Training Program in Perinatal Epidemiology at Michigan State University, grant 2T32HD046377.
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Taking a single blood sample from the vaccinated infants just one day after they received their 2-month vaccinations containing aluminum adjuvant, did not allow enough time to see if the alum particles would end up in their bloodstream. A team of French scientists studied the movement through mouse bodies of nano-particles resembling aluminum adjuvant particles in infant vaccines (Slow CCL2-dependent translocation of biopersistent particles from muscle to brain" (http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1741-7015-11-99.pdf), published in "BMC Medicine" in April 2013. The French researchers injected fluorescent particles that mimic the action of alum nano-particles into the tibialis anterior (lower leg) muscle of mice. One strain of mice they injected had a leaky blood/brain barrier (BBB), modeling human infants' porous BBB. Injected particles quickly traveled from the mice's muscle to draining lymph nodes (DLNs), getting gobbled up in the process by macrophages and dendritic cells. On day 4, nano-particles — still mostly engulfed by white cells — appeared in the mice's blood, increasing to a peak blood concentration at day 21. By that time, particles had appeared in the mice's brains, beneath the pia mater; mostly freed from their original white-cell hosts, the particles had now moved inside or onto the surface of brain cells. They continued accumulating in the brains — mainly in grey matter — for up to 90 days in one strain of mice, and up to 180 days in another. Here's a possible travel route for alum particles injected into an infant along with a vaccine: Alum particles — complexed with vaccine antigens — get injected into the infant's vastus lateralis (outer thigh) muscle. Seeping through the fluid between muscle cells, the particles enter lymphatic capillaries, then flow into superficial inguinal lymph nodes. Exiting those lymph nodes, they continue their journey in lymphatic vessels upward through the abdomen. Moving through the thoracic duct up towards the collar bone, they enter the left subclavian vein to merge with the bloodstream. From there they empty into the superior vena cava, which carries them into the heart for pumping to the lungs, and then throughout the body. If it took four days for particles injected into mice's leg muscles (in the French study) to work their way into the bloodstream. Should we reasonably expect alum particles injected into the thigh muscles of infants to appear in their blood in a single day?
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$59.6M High School Stadium Price Not Too Big in Texas
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Jo Hudson's son Chris is a varsity linebacker for Allen (Texas) High School. To see her son play, she waits in line every Monday for tickets.
"Last year and this year, I could hardly get a seat in the stands," Hudson said. "After you get done with the band (670 members), the cheerleaders, the extra groups, the student body (5,049 enrollment in grades 9-12, according to the state association), there's not a lot of seats left."
A price of $59.6 million might sound like a lot of money for Allen's new stadium, set to open in 2012. But this is Texas, and Allen won the state 5A-I title in 2008. Construction costs were approved Monday by the Allen school board. The stadium will seat 18,000, including 5,000 reserved seats. That ties it for the fifth-largest high school stadium in the state. Allen's current stadium, built in 1976, has 7,000 seats. In recent years, temporary bleachers for 7,000 additional seats have been rented at a cost of $225,000 a year.
"That's Texas for you," said Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington, D.C., education think tank. "This is, of course, ridiculous in a period of tight money, and the explanation will be that this is dedicated money and can't be spent on other things. … But I'm not a bit surprised. If it were Indiana, it would be a basketball arena.
"I don't think it's the arms race exactly. I think it's more of satisfying the community, almost an amenity like a community center. It's not a bad thing to do, but it's a very, very weird time to do it."
While the cost may seem high outside the state, Allen football coach Tom Westerberg said it was in line with other stadiums of its size.
"It's 18,000 seats and we looked at a couple of others that were being built, with the price per seat and it's pretty close to that," Westerberg said, adding that the current stadium's parking, consessions and other amenties weren't built for its current traffic.
"We have 25 to 30 port-a-potties outside to accomodate all the restroom facilities," Westerberg said. "It's not a very good stadium to watch a game in. It's fun to play in, but not to watch a game in."
"It's out of necessity more than anything else," added Hudson. "They had to build a stadium and if they're going to do it, they wanted to do it right."
Mike Colbrese, the executive director of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association says a structure that costly wouldn't fly in this economy in his state.
"That sounds like Texas football from everything we hear about it," Colbrese said. "It must be a state-of-the-art facility, but we certainly wouldn't be building anything like that in the state of Washington. You worry that this comes at a time when secondary education is facing so many challenges."
Allen's success on the field made it easier to push for a new stadium. The Eagles have lost only six games the past four years
Though the $119 million bond that included the stadium — passed just five months after Allen won its first state title — will raise property taxes in Allen by an average of $40 a year for a $200,000 home, the stadium will eventually pay for itself, said school district spokeman Tim Carroll, adding, "We'll be able to use it for playoffs and other events besides football."
"My only sad thing about the stadium is my son won't get to play on it because he'll graduate next year," Hudson said. "I think he was joking, when he said, 'Maybe I'll flunk one grade.' "
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Blasted (1995) is a one-act play, composed of five scenes. In it, Ian, a fat, racist middle-aged journalist with lung cancer, takes twenty-something Cate, a family friend who's shy and good-natured, to a Leeds hotel room. She apparently was once his girlfriend and is prone to epileptic fits; he wears a gun and once worked for the secret services. Lonely and afraid, he tries to seduce Cate, then rapes her during the night. In the morning, she tries to leave, while he wants her to stay. She goes to the bathroom, and a nameless Soldier suddenly bursts into the room, demanding food. The room is hit by a mortar bomb. As both men recover, the Soldier tells Ian about the agonies of fighting a civil war, and about the death of his …
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Boss Coffee
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Boss (ボス Bosu?) is a brand name of canned and plastic bottled coffee and coffee-flavored beverages sold by Suntory in Japan. It was released in 1992 and is one of many brands of Japanese canned coffee.
Boss is known for its aggressive campaigns using a jacket nicknamed Boss Jan (BOSSジャン?) as a promotional item. The brand's logo features a mustachioed, pipe-smoking man. Although most often you see the Boss logo smoking a pipe, the logo has been altered to show the man reading a newspaper or playing the saxophone. Its slogan is "SUNTORY BOSS is the boss of them all since 1992".
Japanese singers Eikichi Yazawa and Ayumi Hamasaki endorsed in the product in the 1990s and early 2000s respectively. Hamasaki appeared in commercials singing the Boss jingle, a cover of Nat King Cole's song "Love". In April 2006, Tommy Lee Jones became the spokesman for Boss. He was seen in various Boss TV commercials in Japan.
Tommy Lee Jones has been the most recognizable face of Boss since 2006, and he has appeared in print, display and television ads for Boss across Japan. Boss has released 38 commercials featuring Jones as "Alien Jones", an alien who has come to Earth, in a human form, to learn about human culture. In the commercials, "Alien Jones" goes from one everyday job to the next, from a karaoke bar waiter to a doctor. In one of the last commercials "Alien Jones" leaves Earth, but quickly returns due to his love for Boss canned coffee.
Boss has teamed up with the creators of James Bond and Super Mario offering collectible figurines when you purchase one to two cans of boss coffee. There are a total of fifteen collectibles from the James Bond/007 campaign. Eight of the fifteen collectibles are on top of two Boss coffee cans, the other seven collectibles are on top single cans. After purchasing a total of twenty three cans, you have collected the entire 007 set. The Mario collection campaign started on September 18, 2012. A total of ten pull back Mario figures can be collected after purchasing ten cans of Boss coffee.
Product lists[edit]
As of November 2004[edit]
- Bossccino
- Bosspresso
- Boss 微糖・深煎り (Bito Fukairi)
- Boss Café Au Lait
- Boss Calorie Off
- Boss デミタス (Demitasu)
- Boss デミタス (Demitasu) Latte
- Boss Double Black
- Boss 深煎り (Fukairi) Super
- Boss 休憩中 (Kyukeichu)
- Boss 無糖 (Muto) Black
- Boss Rainbow Mountain Blend
- Boss 仕事中 (Shigotochu)
- Boss Super Blend
- Boss +1 Plus One
- Boss Sekido Blend
- Boss Mezamashi Caffeine Shiki
- Boss SORA Bito Milk-iri
- Boss SORA Muto Black
- Boss Latte Latte
- Boss Latte Latte Café Mocha
- Boss Dark Black
- Boss Mocha Brazil
- Boss Fine Roast
- Boss Fine Beans
- Boss Neo Seven
- Boss Double Roast
- Boss Intermission
- Boss Refreshment
- Boss 250
- Boss HG (High Grown Beans)
Additional as of January 2007[edit]
- Boss Americano
- Boss Begin!
- Boss W.E.B. (World Executive Blend)
- Boss Café au Lait
As of 2008[edit]
- Boss Silky Black
- Boss 木陰 (Kokage)
- Boss Legend
- The Espresso
- Boss 冬のくつろぎ (Fuyunokutsurogi)
- Boss 贅沢微糖 (Zeitakubitou)
- Boss Gold City Blend (Hokkaido limited-edition Boss)
- Boss Midnight Aroma
As of 2012[edit]
- Boss Iced Coffee
- Boss Drive Shot
- Ultra Boss ボス 超
- Boss White Presso
- Boss Gold Presso
- Boss Silky Drip
- Luxury Boss ボス 贅沢微糖
- Boss Black
- Boss Super Blend
- Boss Mediterranean Blend ボス 地中海ブレンド
- Zero Boss ボス ゼロの頂点
- Boss Friendly Boss ボス やさしいボス
- Boss Silky Black Hot Blend
- Boss of the Morning ボス 朝のオレ
- Boss Luxury Double Café Au Lait ボス 贅沢ミルクと生クリームのコクダブルカフェオレ
- Boss Aqua Au Lait ボス とろけるカフェオレ
- Boss Luxury Made Espresso ボス 贅沢エスプレッソ仕立て
- Boss Good Start Blend
- Boss Short Break Blend
- Boss First Class
- Boss Brazil Special
- Boss Brazil Original
- Boss Brazil Caffe Latte
- Boss Select Café
- Boss Simple Style
- Boss Half and Half
- Smart Boss
- Boss Rich on Rich
As of 2013[edit]
- Boss Gran Aroma
As of 2014[edit]
- Boss Premium[1]
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I'm at a session presented by Chris Pipkins and Rob Scott titled "Is It Time for a Re-Think of the Conventional Comprehensive Camoaign?" originally designed by Darrow Zeidenstein, who could not be at the presentation. This is a topic of great fascination to me, and I'm really excited about it.
The 80-20 rule became the 95-5 rule. Chris says, "We celebrated that arms race…Life in a campaign tends to be a bit sexier." It's true — in a campaign, you have more funding, you can hire people, it's exciting, there are big gift "glamour moments."
Now we are in a constant campaign mode. New Presidents feel they must be in a campaign within two years of arriving, and we now have only a year or two between campaigns. Dollar goals and possibilities may conflict with institutional priorities, and may drive the campaign. Annual giving and alumni relations are in decline. Chris notes that alumni relations has an opportunity to be reinvigorated through promoting engagement.
Darrow asked VPs, is it time to call a time out on campaigns? Their message was overwhelmingly "no." Campaigns are still a great way to align constituents with university goals, drive investment in advancement, coalesce the university community around high-level themes, and compel donors to their largest philanthropic commitments. Disturbingly, driving investment was the top pick of VPs, and compelling donors to their largest commitments was the lowest pick.
There are some concerns related to campaigns: pressure to accept unacceptable gifts, obsession with campaign trappings, donor fatigue.
The question to ask: "Is it an efficient and effective way to achieve our broader institutional strategies?"
Institutional strategies (vision/mission/positioning and competitive pressures) and operational readiness (maturity and capacity of advancement operation, breadth and depth of prospect pool, and leadership buy in of operation) must be assessed prior to developing the campaign model.
Chris is quite funny. He got the audience to moo in response to discussing the "herd mentality" with which many institutions approach campaigns.
Somewhere between the comprehensive campaign and the marketing campaign is what Darrow has identified as an "area of innovation." This involves "strategic micro campaigns" and "income growth strategy." The micro campaign is targeted and short, and the income growth strategy focuses on growing your base.
This presentation is dense, and I know I'm leaving a lot out. One fascinating concept: what if we evaluated our campaigns based on funding completion rate (initiatives achieved) rather than dollars raised.
There's a great data visualization showing how all the pieces of development come together ("A Steampunk View of Development"), which may be the exact view I was trying to think of when Tufte challenged his audience to come up with the one big idea graphic. I'll ask Rob and Chris if I can get a copy of this to post here.
Apparently the new CASE standards are now referring to an eight-year campaign period. Holy cow!
Now Rob is talking. MIT has run three mini-campaigns since their last comprehensive campaign ended in 2004. That said, their mini-campaigns were $500 million campaigns. But they were very targeted around specific initiatives, with the last being for student support. In some ways, this is like returning to the classic capital campaign model, because some people (donors, program/academic staff) will be left out. This was especially true for MIT's energy and cancer research campaigns.
This has definitely got me thinking about how we might implement a series of "phased initiatives" rather than doing a traditional campaign. Susan Hayes-McQueen from University of Washington just asked what I was thinking about: how does this model look different from distinct pieces of a comprehensive campaign? Per Rob, it could look very similar, but did not require the same kind of campaign superstructure that a true comprehensive campaign did, e.g. volunteer leadership, campaign collateral, etc.
Someone just asked how to measure the impact of changing the logo and brand. Rob: "I have no idea." A discussion ensued as to the efficacy of doing this kind of work, and the amount of time often spent on logo design, vs. actually getting out the door and raising money.
Use a micro-campaign to create a buzz around areas of excellence for the institution, your institution's "big hairy audacious goals." This can be a great way to ask people we would ask anyway, but to give them the opportunity to join something big and great.
This can also be a great way to make sure the institution's priorities drive the gifts you raise, rather than having the gifts you raise drive the priorities.
There's an interesting conversation about whether this kind of campaign should include a "dual ask," for the annual fund and a major gift. This campaign model involves a smaller number of donors, so may not include an annual fund ask. This is interesting, as in general, campaigns have been conceived of as a way to elevate annual giving in perpetuity. That doesn't seem so much to be a feature of the micro-campaign, which is largely driven by principal gifts.
Marijana Radijc from Oregon Health Sciences University is talking about their experience following the mini-campaign formula. One challenge they've faced is constant planning for mini-campaigns, as well as continuing to fundraise for "core/evergreen" needs. Rob recommends maintaining core staffing for core needs, while adding incremental staffing for the campaign. There's also some question as to whether academic leadership has the patience and tenacity to a) hold off on their priorities; b) be in continuous planning mode. One political advantage of the comprehensive campaign is that a lot of planning can be done all at once, and everyone gets a seat at the table.
I asked Rob about the old saw that a comprehensive campaign elevates the baseline level of annual giving, and asked how this plays into that. Rob responded that this has more to do with increased investment in advancement, a revenue generator, rather than the magic of campaigns. In fact, he has seen institutions cut their staffing after campaign, followed by a concomitant drop in annual giving.
Rob now proposes a radical difference ("The folks on FUNDSVCS will probably skewer me"): do a total resources campaign, which looks at private philanthropy, sponsored research, and institutional investment ("Our skin's in this game; come and join us.")
Rob is a big believer in using campaigns to illustrate the efficacy of investing in advancement. "Give us a dime, and we'll return a dollar."