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Tower Talk June 2012
Table of Contents
- Commencement 2012: President Seurkamp honored as president emerita, Sean McManus delivers keynote
- Two NDMU Fulbright scholars announced
- Countdown to Reunion 2012
- Mark your calendars - Holiday Bazaar – December 1
- Sr. Marie de Chantal Haigley '51 retires on June 30
- Check out the NEW alumnae association Facebook page and find us on LinkedIn
- Notable alum- Gail Donahue Ph.D. '12
- Have you always wanted to teach? Jump into a new career this summer at Notre Dame!
- Sr. Maura book now available at the campus book store
- Be an ambassador for NDMU – Help build the class of 2016!
- Last chance to be counted in 2012!
- Holiday Bazaar – seeking new committee members
- The Montrose Society: create your legacy
- In memoriam
- In the news
Commencement 2012: President Seurkamp honored as president emerita, Sean McManus delivers keynote Back to Top
Notre Dame of Maryland University celebrated a historic commencement on May 26—its first as a university and the final official event of Dr. Mary Pat Seurkamp's 15-year presidency. In recognition of her outstanding legacy of service to Notre Dame and to higher education, the Board of Trustees conferred upon Dr. Seurkamp the honor and distinction of president emerita.
We were honored to have as our commencement speaker CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus, son of Margaret Dempsey McManus '41 and famed sports announcer Jim McKay. Sean shared his words of wisdom in addressing the Class of 2012.
Two NDMU Fulbright scholars announced Back to Top
Join us in congratulating Lauren McCusker '12 and Brianna January '12 who have been awarded Fulbright English teaching assistantships.
Lauren is leaving for South Korea in early July. This is not her first international foray—she also taught in Mako, Hungary last fall with the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Brianna has been awarded a position in Mexico. She also received a Davis Project for Peace scholarship award for research in Guatemala— her second Project for Peace award. Brianna leaves for Guatemala this month and Mexico in early August.
Notre Dame has a remarkable track record with both of these prestigious programs. Over the years, 14 of our alumnae have received a Fulbright, and this is the fourth time two students received awards at the same time. Our students have earned Projects for Peace scholarships every year since the program's inception in 2007.
Countdown to Reunion 2012 Back to Top
Mark your calendar for Reunion 2012: September 21-23. We are celebrating with graduates from class years ending in two and seven. The reunion brochures will be mailed in early July.
New this year:
• Take advantage of Early Bird pricing for registrations received by August 24
• Saturday evening dancing and dessert will feature a live band. The New Monopoly will be performing and this fun event is open to ALL alums!
• Childcare is available for the Saturday luncheon for children ages 4-12.
If you have any questions, please contact the office of alumnae and alumni relations at 410-532-5201 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mark your calendars - Holiday Bazaar – December 1 Back to Top
Save the date for the yearly Holiday Bazaar on December 1, 2012, hosted by the Weekend College Chapter of the Alumnae and Alumni Association. This year's bazaar will be even bigger and better with more than 45 vendors participating.
Sr. Marie de Chantal Haigley '51 retires on June 30 Back to Top
The month of June marks the retirement of our beloved Sister Marie de Chantal Haigley, known to her colleagues in Noyes House and the Notre Dame community simply as Sister Marie. After 23 years of devoted service, Sister Marie is retiring from her duties at NDMU.
She is a well-known presence among the Continuing Education Chapter as well as the many that have had the pleasure of working with her on campus. Theresa Cannone, director of the English Language Institute at NDMU, met Sister Marie when she was the alumnae relations coordinator in Noyes House. "What I like about Sister Marie is she's funny", said Theresa. Remembering the time they worked together she commented, "Sr. Marie loved to bring people a rose – for someone who may need cheering up" – a kind and thoughtful tradition that she continued for years throughout her career.
We wish her the very best in her retirement and thank her for her loyal and loving service.
Check out the NEW alumnae association Facebook page and find us on LinkedIn Back to Top
Like us on Facebook to stay connected to your alma mater, to reminisce about your days on campus and stay up-to-date with classmates, events, Tower Talk, and all things alumnae and alumni related!
Networking with fellow alums can be a very effective way of making professional connections. Join our group on LinkedIn to connect with current and former Notre Dame students for job opportunities, career advice and connecting to fellow graduates.
Notable alum- Gail Donahue Ph.D. '12 Back to Top
Gail Donahue Ph.D. '12 was recently named the new principal of the Institute of Notre Dame. Gail is a national authority on curriculum design, faculty development and Catholic education. Her achievements include:
• Assistant principal of professional development and staff developer at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, a coeducational school sponsored by the Xaverian Brothers. The school enrolls 1,250 students, and is located in the Archdiocese of Washington in Olney, Md.
• The designer of four notable programs for distinct student populations: the International Baccalaureate; St. Mary's Scholar's, an enrichment program for high-achieving students; the Academic Intervention Program, which identifies and follows freshmen at risk of failing; and the Heritage Speakers' Spanish Class, which strengthens native speakers' reading and writing skills.
• An award-winning presenter at National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) events as well as those sponsored by the Center for Catholic School Effectiveness at Loyola University, Chicago.
• Ph.D. in educational leadership (May 2012)-Notre Dame of Maryland University; M.A.-Reading, Trinity University; B.S.-Elementary Education, Penn State University; administration and supervision certification, Notre Dame of Maryland University; National Staff Development Council academy certificate.
• A lifelong Catholic educator (34 years) and a SSND associate.
• An associate faculty member at Notre Dame of Maryland University.
Congratulations Dr. Donahue!
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Have you always wanted to teach? Jump into a new career this summer at Notre Dame! Back to Top
Notre Dame's Accelerated Certification in Teaching is a non-degree, graduate-level, state-approved program that lets you complete your coursework and get ready for your licensing exam in just three semesters. The program is ideal for professionals who are already teaching but wish to become certified, or bachelor's degree holders in a non-education field who want to change careers and become certified teachers.
We also offer a 10-month fast track Master's in Teaching program that provides aspiring teachers (including especially recent college graduates and career changers), the opportunity for a yearlong school-based internship while completing the requirements for a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree that leads to certification. Candidates have the option of pursuing an MAT with a concentration in early childhood education, elementary education, secondary education or special education/general education.
Change your career in less than a year! Learn more at our next First Thursdays Information Session or contact the College of Graduate Studies at email@example.com or 410-532-5317.
Sr. Maura book now available at the campus book store Back to Top
Sister Maura Eichner, former NDMU faculty member, taught creative writing and literature at NDMU from 1943 until 1992. In 2011, After Silence: Selected Poems of Sister Maura Eichner S.S.N.D., was posthumously published capturing a significant portion of her life's work.
Be sure to stop by the campus book store to purchase a copy of this powerful book. You may also purchase the book online and have it shipped to you.
Be an ambassador for NDMU – Help build the class of 2016! Back to Top
The Women's College office of admissions is looking for helping hands from our own community. Limited space, financial aid and scholarships are still available this fall for incoming freshmen and transfer students. As a graduate of Notre Dame, your recommendation to a high school graduate who hasn't yet selected a college—or a student who is thinking about transferring—carries a great deal of weight.
With your endorsement, we'll fast-track the admissions process, waive the application fee and provide the very best of Notre Dame's renowned personalized attention. Have a candidate in mind? Give us a call at 410-532-5300, email us at email@example.com or make sure the student mentions your name if she contacts us directly.
Last chance to be counted in 2012! Back to Top
Notre Dame of Maryland University depends on loyal donors each year to meet the greatest needs of students and faculty members. Your support raises our national profile, attracts new students and helps secure the future of Maryland's newest university.
YOU matter to NDMU!
Your past giving is greatly appreciated by the entire Notre Dame of Maryland University community. Please renew your gift by June 30 as a vote of support for the future of NDMU.
Make your donation today.
Holiday Bazaar – seeking new committee members Back to Top
The Weekend College chapter of the Alumnae and Alumni Association, host of the very successful annual December holiday bazaar, is seeking new volunteers and committee members. If you are interested in volunteering your time and talent to support this initiative, contact the office of alumnae and alumni relations at email@example.com. There will be a meeting on Tuesday, August 28 at 6 p.m. in Noyes House on the main campus to discuss ways you can be involved. Consider joining this fun committee with a time commitment that fits your busy life. Even if you only have a few hours to offer, your support will be welcomed. And you don't have to be a Weekend College graduate to join—all are welcome!
The Montrose Society: create your legacy Back to Top
Montrose is a name that has had special significance at Notre Dame of Maryland for more than 150 years. It was the name of the original building on our beautiful campus—a building that is still in active use today as Noyes Alumnae House. For the Notre Dame community, the word Montrose has come to symbolize permanence, commitment and enduring value.
These same qualities inspire many graduates, friends and their families to invest in Notre Dame's future through legacy giving. By doing so, they are invited to join the Montrose Society, an association that honors those whose foresight and generosity help strengthen and sustain the University. The Society recognizes the commitment of these donors both publicly and privately, and promotes the important role that legacy gifts play in the life of the institution. Read more about legacy giving. Before there was even a campus, there was the Montrose House - a fitting namesake for the Montrose Society for legacy giving.
In memoriam Back to Top
Loretta M. Schultz SSND '61
Anne Marie Dorff SSND '66
Helen Reed SSND '51
Gloria Bledsoe '49
Anne Hellman W'84
Mary Patricia Dukehart '49
In the news Back to Top
President Seurkamp stopped by WYPR to chat with "Maryland Morning" host Sheilah Kast about her 15 years at the helm of Maryland's remaining women's college.
A regular columnist for BMoreMedia, Paul Sturm, instructor in Notre Dame's nonprofit management program, writer about Business Volunteers Unlimited, which places board members for Northrop Grumman Corp., Constellation Energy Group, T. Rowe Price and other firms with local organizations.
"You might want to write these names down, Baltimore — we have a feeling they might be up to great things in the future," says Baltimore Fishbowl columnist Rachel Monroe about Notre Dame's two Fulbrights: Brianna January and Lauren McCusker. Look for more coverage coming up in the Catholic Review, Dundalk Eagle and Avenue.
Catholic Review blogger Robin Barberry celebrated her mother's graduation from Notre Dame, calling her a real-life Mary Poppins.


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No matter how you decide to answer the allowance question [3], the fact remains that you have to pay it somehow.
While paying with cash can be a good way to teach younger children [4] how to visualize their money, older kids are likely to want to use other methods of money management.
You probably don't buy things with cash very often; a cash-based allowance doesn't adequately teach your kids to manage their money in a society that's increasingly cashless. Here are 3 modern tools for paying your child's allowance:
1. Mobile Deposit
I recently started using mobile deposit to help my son keep his money in a high-yield savings account. I still pay his allowance in cash, but I feel bad about having him take the savings portion down to the local credit union for deposit, since the yield is so low. So we had an age appropriate discussion about interest and then I wrote him a check for the amount he had accumulated for savings. We used the iPhone to deposit the check in his Capital One 360 [5] kids savings account, and he loved it.
This is a good way to start getting kids used to mobile banking, as well as the concept of shopping around for the best place to keep their allowance money.
2. VirtualPiggy.com
This interesting web site allows you to create accounts for your children and then set spending limits. You can also create a list of approved stores for your kids to shop at. You can transfer some or all of your child's allowance to the site, and then your child can shop for what he or she wants.
Of course, the shopping portion only works when the kids are within the set spending limit and shopping at the approved stores. This makes it possible for you to help your child learn about online shopping, learning to manage money that they might not see or touch. Plus, you have a great deal of control. VirtualPiggy can also help you and your relatives figure out what to get as gifts, since it's possible for your kids to create wishlists.
3. Prepaid Debit
Another option is to give your child a prepaid debit card [6]. Usually, it's possible to load the card from your bank account, so you can arrange the transfer of the allowance to the card each month.
A prepaid debit card can be a good way to help your child learn how to manage credit card spending. It's training wheels for plastic. Encourage your child to track his or her spending, and make sure that you check in as well.
You do have to watch out for fees when you use prepaid debit, though. Many of these cards come with monthly fees and other fees. Shop around for cards with low (or even no) monthly fees. There are a number of prepaid debit cards out there that aren't as bad as some of the celebrity endorsed prepaid options.
If possible, though, a better idea might be to open a joint account with your child (if he or she is old enough) and get him or her a debit card. You don't have to worry about fees, and you can usually transfer the allowance into the account as needed.
What do you think? What are the best modern tools for helping your child manage his or her allowance?
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August 14, 2013
The online fish news world has been abuzz over the last several days with stories about a "testicle" eating fish that was captured off the coast of Denmark. The fish, a relative of the piranha known as a pacu (Colossoma macropomum), a vegetarian native to South America, was far from its native and warm waters of the Amazon River and its tributaries when it was captured in Oresund Sound, which separates Denmark from Sweden. Mainstream news sites from MSN Now to GQ.com apparently took a scientist's joking comments seriously and fanned a firestorm of fear into every ocean going male water enthusiast in the Scandinavian country.
The rumor was fueled by comments that one of the pacu's favorite foods were nuts, and that they possess teeth that are capable of cracking nuts.
Henrik Carl of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, told Sweden's The Local that the pacu's "mouth is not so big, so of course it normally eats nuts, fruit, and small fish, but human testicles are just a natural target. It's not normal to get your testicles bitten off, of course, but it can happen, especially now in Sweden."
Pacus for an Outdoor Pond?
Tropical Fish to Avoid
The news of the pacu captured off the coast of Denmark came with an unsubstantiated story that the mainstream news media ran with, of two men losing their lives in Papua New Guinea after having their testicles bitten off, supposedly by a pacu. The pacu is apparently also known as "the ball cutter" in that country.
Juvenile pacus can often be found for sale at local fish stores, but it is considered a tankbuster in that it grows too large for most, if not all home aquariums. The fish can grow to more than 60 pounds and can live more than 20 years.
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This hand dyed Batik cotton is individually hand dyed and wax stamped with Moira and Kathy's exclusive designs. Each piece of fabric is created by talented artisans reflecting the uniqueness of this time honored art.
This 100% cotton fabric is 43/44" wide and has been preshrunk.


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Eat, Play, Sleep
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | Category: Design Inspiration, Designers, Magazines
This month's Traditional Home featured three beautiful rooms from three different showhomes.
I like to call it the Eat, Play, Sleep article because the areas were each from three different parts of the house.
Here we have Eat:
Looking at this room, I am speechless! (which is rare) What is there not to love about this dining room from the Boston Design Center Showhouse? Gerald Pomeroy was the genius behind this looker.
It's all drama here- but in a good way! Gleaming hand painted plum blossom wallpaper, a graphic brown and white rug reminiscent of Billy Baldwin's style, and cream accents throughout, give this room a great deal of elegance and individuality. The accessories he used in here are extraordinary- especially those obelisks! Where can I apply for a pair of those?
On to Play:
There's just so much playfulness in this little girl's bedroom designed by Victoria Neale for the D.C. Design Center Showhouse. Pink and apple green is such a cute, happy color combination, creating a room one can grow into (I'd take that mirrored chest and gourd lamp at my age!)
The dark twin beds are flea market finds. They add some much needed "heaviness" to the room, among a sea of bright colored, whimsical prints.
And you can't forget Sleep:
Everyone needs a calming, gorgeous bedroom to unwind in at the end of the day.
The white lacquered headboard is just so fabulous, I can't get over it. Apparently it was purchased from Lorin Mash (thanks to the Readers Resource in the back of T.H.) The large scale ikat pattern on the fabric wall behind the headboard gives this room tons of personality and provides a nice focal point. Crisp white accents break up all of the dark colors. This is the perfect room for a couple that doesn't want to exude too much of a feminine nor a masculine look in their bedroom. It's a nice happy, luxurious medium!
Which is your favorite room- Eat, Play, or Sleep?
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Post your recipe reviews here, positive, negative or neutral! Happy eating and reviewing!
For those of you who are new to this thread, the recipes here have been tried and true. You will find HONEST REVIEWS here, so if someone posts that a recipe didn't work for them, or made alterations that worked out better than the recipe called for, or was just a big flop, you'll find that here too.
You'll find the link to last week's review thread below, and our new Recipe Box for our board recipes (which is always in progress of adding recipes).
Guest Chef this week is: kjay30 aka Kim
Last Week's Thread: HERE
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Weekly Meal Plans: HERE
~*~ Recipe Reviews~ 12/17- 12/23 ~*~
Hi everyone. I've been so busy with my new job that I don't have much internet time or much time to cook either. I did bake for the teachers' gifts again this year and this recipe was definitely a winner! I haven't been around enough to know if anyone else posted it so I won't put my name on it just in case. This is even better than Christmas Crack IMO!
Caramel Chocolate Pretzel Bark
Yield: 1 sheet of bark
2 sticks of unsalted butter
1 cup light brown sugar
1 pound bag of mini pretzels (I used about 1/2 the bag)
12 ounce bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips
sea salt, for sprinkling on top
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Cover an 11â€â€17 baking sheet with aluminum foil. Set aside.
Melt 2 sticks of butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. While the butter is melting, place enough pretzels on the prepared baking sheet to form a single, even layer.
Once the butter has melted, add the brown sugar and stir well to incorporate. Allow the brown sugar and butter to simmer and bubble, but do not let it boil. You may need to adjust the temperature to low. Stir the butter-sugar mixture occasionally. It should take about 3 minutes for the butter and sugar to caramelize, but keep a close eye on it because it will burn quickly.
When the sugar and butter have caramelized, pour the mixture evenly over the pretzels, strafing it back and forth down the length of the sheet. The caramel hardens quickly so it's important to pour it as evenly and quickly as possible. If there are any clumps, use an offset spatula to spread the caramel as best you can. Bake for 5-7 minutes. Allow to cool completely.
Use a microwave safe bowl to make the chocolate layer. Microwave chocolate chips in intervals of 30 seconds, stirring after each interval, until smooth. The chocolate should melt in only a couple of minutes.
By this time the pretzel-caramel mixture should be out of the oven. Pour the chocolate over the pretzel-caramel mixture, strafing it down the length of the baking sheet just as you did for with the caramel layer. Again, move evenly and quickly. Use an offset spatula to smooth out any clumps or thick spots. Sprinkle sea salt evenly over chocolate before it starts to harden. Allow the baking sheet to harden in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
When the bark has cooled and hardened, remove from the fridge and carefully pull the aluminum foil off the back. Break the bark into pieces and serve. Best stored in the refrigerator.
**Edited on 12/17/11: Some readers have mentioned the caramel being too soft to spread the chocolate over top. If you're experiencing the same problem you can put the caramel pretzel layer in the freezer to help the hardening process.
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I also made the christmas crack for the first time. Instead of the nuts I used toffee bits. It came out well.
I made this for christmas. It was good. I wouldn't really rave about it but it turned out well and everyone seemed to like it.
Oreo Ultimate Turtle Cheesecake (from allrecipes)
24 OREO Cookies, finely crushed
6 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
1 (14 ounce) package caramels
1/2 cup milk
1 cup chopped pecans
3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 eggs
2 ounces semi-sweet baking chocolate
- Heat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Mix cookie crumbs and butter; press onto bottom and 2 inches up side of 9-inch springform pan.
- Microwave caramels and milk in a microwaveable bowl on high for 3 minutes or until caramels are completely melted and mixture is well blended, stirring after each minute. Stir in nuts; pour half into crust. Refrigerate 10 minutes. Refrigerate remaining caramel mixture for later use.
- Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended. Pour over caramel layer in crust.
- Bake 1 hour 5 minutes to 1 hour 10 minutes or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim. Refrigerate 4 hours.
- Microwave reserved caramel mixture 1 minute; stir. Pour over cheesecake. Melt chocolate; drizzle over cheesecake.
Made this for christmas and was surprised it went over very well. I served it with chocolate dipped spoons and marshmallows. Not healthy by any means, it is VERY sweet. I like to use a tablespoon or two in my coffee.
Crockpot Hot Chocolate
- 1.5 cups whipping cream
- 1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
- 6 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups of chocolate chips (milk chocolate OR semi-sweet depending on how sweet you like it. I have a heck of a sweet tooth, and I love the milk chocolate, but others prefer the semi-sweet)
Stir together the whipping cream, milk, vanilla, and chocolate chips in a crockpot.
Cover and cook on low for 2 hours, stirring occasionally, until mixture is hot and chocolate chips are melted. Stir again before serving. Garnish as desired.
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Leading systems integrator partners with SevOne to help organisations detect and fix network performance problems
London, UK, March 11, 2014 - SevOne, the leader in providing scalable performance monitoring solutions to the world's most connected companies, today announced the appointment of Telonic, leading systems integrator in Germany, as a certified reseller. Telonic has been reselling SevOne performance management software since 2011 and was awarded the accolade at the SevOne European conference in Milan.
"We are proud to be associated with organisations like Telonic which have invested time and resources to train their team on how the SevOne solution can help customers to predict potential issues and troubleshoot problems with application and service delivery," said Sean O'Donnell, Managing Director EMEA, SevOne. "Through our all-in-one monitoring solution, we can proactively alert organisations on performance issues before they impact service delivery. We are very pleased to be working with Telonic and look forward to the continuation of our successful partnership."
"The performance monitoring solutions from SevOne are an important part of our service portfolio," said Andreas Schlechter, managing director at Telonic. "Since 2011, we have been distributing SevOne's network solutions and carrying out testing with our customers very successfully. The SevOne products analyse networks in seconds, illuminating any shortcomings and finding immediate solutions, whilst also alerting customers to any incidents or device fluctuations. We are very confident in SevOne solutions and we look forward to our partnership in 2014 and beyond."
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WBB Heads To Cleveland For MAC Tourney Second Round
MUNCIE, Ind. - The No. 5 seeded Ball State women's basketball team (15-15) advanced to the Mid-American Conference second round in Cleveland, Ohio, after its 73-38 defeat over 12th-seeded Kent State (7-23) Monday night in Worthen Arena.
The Cardinals will face Northern Illinois Wednesday at noon at Quicken Loans Arena in the second round game.
The Cardinals had one of their best shooting performances of the season after shooting 51.1 percent from the field and 60 percent from behind the arc for the game, while holding the Golden Flashes to 28.9 percent shooting.
Nathalie Fontaine led all scorers with 21 points and added eight rebounds. Jill Morrison chipped in 18 points, while Shelbie Justice ended the night with 12.
At the 18:19 mark of the second half Brandy Woody knocked down a three point basket to become the 22nd member of the 1,000-point club. With 12:15 on the clock the Cardinals had built one of their largest leads of the game, 50-19, after Jill Morrison knocked down her fifth three pointer of the contest. After that, the Cardinals held Kent State scoreless for 5:52, making it a 50-21 ball game with 8:23 remaining.
The Cardinals opened the game with a 16-5 run over the Golden Flashes and never looked back. Ball State had built a 20-point lead (31-11) by the 3:50 mark. The Cardinals ended the half up 35-15 over Kent State. Ball State shot 60 percent from behind the arc in the first half alone including two three point baskets from Nathalie Fontaine and three from Morrison.
Ball State won both meetings over the Huskies in the MAC regular season. For ticket information for the MAC Tournament games in Cleveland, Ohio, call 1.888.BSU.TICKET.


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One of Canada's most successful jazz pianists, Paul Tobey (born September 7, 1962) began performing early in the church where his father was minister. Tobey studied classical music from age eight, but it was not until he entered community college that he encountered straight-ahead jazz. It was after seeing legendary pianist Oscar Peterson perform that Tobey decided to study jazz, first earning his diploma at Mohawk College in Hamilton in 1981 and getting his BFA in 1984 from Montreal's Concordia University with a minor in computer studies. During his time in Montreal, Tobey made pilgrimages to study with pianist Kenny Barron in N.Y.C., a relationship he credits with developing his style and career path. He moved to Toronto in 1995 where his music flourished producing two albums, Orpheus in 1994 and A Little Rain Must Fall in 1997. The first Canadian to be signed to the Arkadia label, Tobey has also received sponsorship from such venerable Canadian institutions as the Department of Foreign Affairs, FACTOR (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Record), and the prestigious Ontario Arts Council. ~ Matt Collar, All Music Guide
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I liked this videos and i am a Floyd fan but they should have kept it to 2 or 3 and have it on his family/boxing..
No one cares about how he thinks the white man keeps blacks down still... Well maybe they do care.. but he comes off as an absolute fool
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Before you start questioning my "race" I'm an America of Filipino and African-American heritage aka "I'm half black/filipino so I know what racism is I just know that its a two way street.
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It most certainly is. I'm not debating whether or not there are other races that are racists. There are racists of all ages, races and genders.
I never once suggested that only white people (of which I am one) are racists (of which I'm not).
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Floyd is a fighter not a speaker you fuken idiots ,,, the problem is with the fighthype interviewer not controlling the interview , Floyds trying to tell a story as an analogy to how he feels and he cant get it out in words , doesnt mean anything other than he as trouble conversing what he is trying to say lots of people go like that when the camera is in your face , the interviewer should be asking relevant concise questions and then keep Floyd focused on each question as they come ,,,,,
fighthype dont realize the opportunity the are getting to go and have a dill holding a mike saying uhuh , I would love a chance to question Floyd or Pac like this ,,,, what a waste of the chance to pin him to answer some real questions .
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Floyd is the most racist person I've ever seen. He talks more about that than boxing.
This dude then says hes getting a check for 25 million this month yet he only eats popeyes and gives out $5 each to homeless people? And he owes the IRS over 3 million bucks. And don't forget that hes been known to hand out fake $100 bills all over town.
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They'd rather have that exclusive and all the web traffic it garners, than to risk losing that by asking questions. Also I think they view that as simply letting him tell his side of the story. This isn't an "interview" perse, as much as it is simply them turning the camera on and letting Floyd tell his side.
The site owner is firmly in his camp as far as believing that everything arum is saying is a lie, and that everything Floyd is saying is the truth. At least that's how it comes across. And that very well might be true.
But it comes off as a public service announcement by Floyd. Purely a rehab video for his damaged image, disguised as an interview.
Look, I get it. It's not always your job to pin someone down and hammering them with hard hitting questions. He's a boxer not a politician that's making serious impacts on people's lives. So in that regards, I don't know if they necessarily HAVE to do anything other than what they are doing.
I mean I've interviewed people on my website before, and I don't go after them with hard questions. But then again my interviews aren't with people who are that much in the public eye and are huge controversy magnets either so... *shrugs*
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The desert around Phoenix can be rigid and austere, but a closer look at the sand and cactus and scrub brush reveals more. It is with this far-from-bland environment that the renowned golf-architecture team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw fashioned the two superb golf courses at Talking Stick Golf Club.
Talking Stick's South Course
The two 18s, both opened in 1998, were Coore & Crenshaw's first design in the Arizona desert. Upon an initial inspection, it's difficult to see how the duo manipulated the 350 acres of open farmland east of Scottsdale into such a tour de force for all level of linksters.
Both courses blend with their surroundings to provide a serene yet challenging experience. The wide playing corridors are a sea of green. Not surprisingly, the courses are Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuaries.
Talking Stick is an amenity of Talking Stick Resort, which is located on and owned by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, and is managed by Troon Golf. The resort east of Phoenix and Scottsdale is named after the traditional Pima calendar, a wooden branch carved to mark significant events in the tribe's history.
The resort occupies land where the horizon seems to never end, broken only by occasional barbed-wire fences and creosote, mesquite and Palo Verde trees. One can almost imagine that Coore and Crenshaw created the courses with brushes rather than bulldozers, as there are virtually no changes of elevation on the site. Instead, the North course utilizes a links-style routing to lure golfers, while South is more of a park-land, tree-lined layout (more than 4,500 trees were imported to define fairways).
"We wanted to portray two different but traditional golf experiences at Talking Stick, as the courses quietly merge with their tranquil desert surroundings," said Coore, recently featured in a profile by Cybergolf's Tony Dear (http://www.cybergolf.com/golf_news/favorite_designers_bill_coore).
"The land was totally flat and treeless, so the beauty was for golf only and not a housing development. We were told to make the courses as opposite as we could, but make them user-friendly."
Following that dictum, there is nothing tricky about the courses at Talking Stick Golf Club. Everything is right in front of you, but what make these layouts challenging are its approaches and greens. More than 100 bunkers combined enter play on the two courses, and they are most punitive around the often-huge putting surfaces.
Deep Bunkers Abundant at Talking Stick's North Course
Don't Hesitate Using the Ground at North
The 7,133-yard, par-70 North course offers views of Camelback Mountain, the McDowell Mountains and Pinnacle Peak, from its flat landscape with no trees. North offers many options and features low-profile, slightly crowned putting surfaces and tightly-cropped approaches to encourage players to use the ground as well as the air.
Many of the holes require thoughtfulness as it can lull one to sleep, yet also be deceiving. North carries a rating of 72.7 and a slope of 125 from its back set of four tees.
Some of the fairways are as wide as runways, but things get interesting if the golfer isn't careful on the approach as they may end up in some very deep bunkers. Coore and Crenshaw took a page from the "Old World" on the 552-yard, par-5 second, which runs along the western boundary of the property and is nothing but green grass punctuated with mounds. There's not a bunker in sight until arriving at a pair of traps to the right of the round green.
Conversely, there are 14 bunkers to catch stray shots on the 450-yard, par-4 third, and 13 more on the 433-yard par-4 fourth, the biggest of which is right in the middle of the fairway, making one decide to play to either side of it or to take the aggressive route over them.
North Course at Talking Stick
The front side's two par-3s are tough. The 223-yard sixth plays across a desert wash to a putting surface ringed on three sides by deep bunkers, while the 153-yard eighth is fronted by two deep bunkers and has a three-tiered green.
After making the turn, the script is flipped on the 437-yard par-4 10th; here bunkers narrow the fairway and the designers use mounds - but no sand - to defend the green. A huge waste bunker and ravine dissect the risk-reward 392-yard, par-4 12th. There's a tiny target left of the waste area bordered by a barbed-wire fence that is OB, a route that significantly shortens the hole. But the smart play is to the huge fairway segment to the right, which appears as a dogleg-left on the card.
Muscle up for North's final four-hole stretch, which consists of the two longest two-shotters (the 461-yard 15th and the massive 471-yard closer), the longest hole (the side-winding 582-yard, par-5 17th), and the 194-yard 16th.
North keeps the player thinking, without beating him or her over the head with tricks or gimmicks. If one has good club control, can use imagination to get the ball on the greens and make a few putts, the course can be scored on. It's a cool test and a real treat.
South Course at Talking Stick
Variety Defines South
According to Coore, the South course is more straightforward than its counterpart. It features more trees and water while involving subtle elevation changes, fingered bunkers, tiered landscaping and native cottonwoods and hardwoods.
South has some of the characteristics of its sister course, such as generous fairways, but is different in that is has many more trees. The player will need to work his ball more on par-71 South, which plays shorter than its sibling at 6,833 yards from the tips.
The first two holes (par-4s of 405 and 419 yards) are played in the shadow of the resort's massive hotel tower and allow the player to get off to a relatively easy start. The 228-yard, par-3 third runs along the east border of the property and can play shorter than its yardage.
The drivable 327-yard, par-4 fourth has the widest fairway of any hole at Talking Stick, but the expanse is split by a huge bunker before ending at a narrow putting surface. Whatever breaks are found on the early holes are reversed on the 471-yard par-4 fifth, which ends at a green that will receive a run-up shot.
Hotel Tower at Talking Stick Resort
Golfers who can move the ball right to left have a chance to reach the green in two on the 516-yard, par-5 seventh, and that shot shape will be needed on the massive 476-yard par-4 eighth, which is the longest and toughest hole on South.
Water is in play along the left from tee to green on No. 11, a 392-yard par-4. The left side must again be avoided off the tee on the 541-yard, par-5 14th; this time it's not water but sand in the form of a deep waste area/ravine that puts a premium on accuracy.
Coore and Crenshaw built the 548-yard 16th with a "wee burn" (the hole's name) that starts about 100 yards out from the green and runs to the left past the putting surface. "Real sticks" can have a go on the 323-yard, par-4 closer, but they'll need to carry water most of the way to reach the promised land.
While North has perhaps the more memorable holes, South is wonderful for its collection as well.
The courses at Talking Stick Golf Club have received scads of kudos, including citations as one of the "Top 100 Modern Courses" and rankings of No. 1 (North) and No. 8 course (South) in Arizona by Golfweek and as part of Golf magazine's "Top 100 You Can Play." Both course have received a ranking of 4½ stars by Golf Digest and are must-plays when in the "Valley of the Sun."
Come & Stay Awhile
Golf is not the only attraction at Talking Stick Resort, which offers all the expected luxuries of a classy destination while providing guests with top-drawer service and an array of entertainment options.
While relaxing in one of the 497 rooms, guests can enjoy an open-air spa, eight restaurants, 10 entertainment lounges, a 750-seat showroom, a lively 240,000-square-foot gaming floor, pool and more than 100,000 square feet of conference space.
For more information, visit www.talkingstickresort.com.
Steve Habel is one of Cybergolf's world correspondents, contributing news stories, features, equipment and book reviews and personality profiles from his base in Central Texas. He is also works as a contributing editor for Horns Illustrated magazine, a publication focusing on University of Texas sports, covers the Longhorns for CBS Sports, is regional editor for Texas Golfer magazine and files stories for Golf Oklahoma magazine, Texas Links magazines and Golfers Guide. Habel's main blog (www.shotoverthegreen.blogspot.com) features news on golf and the Longhorns, and another (www.checkinginandplayingthrough.blogspot.com)chronicles his many travels, on which he has played more than 350 golf courses since 2009. Habel is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America and the Texas Golf Writers Association.
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Resource Allocation within Firms and Financial Market Dislocation: Evidence from Diversified Conglomerates
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Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 13-39
Fama-Miller Working Paper
When external capital markets are stressed they may not reallocate resources between firms. We show that resource allocation within firms' internal capital markets provides an important force countervailing financial market dislocation. Using data on U.S. conglomerates we empirically verify that firms shift resources between industries in response to shocks to the financial sector. We estimate a structural model of internal capital markets to separately identify and quantify the forces driving the reallocation decision and illustrate how these forces interact with external capital market stress. The frictions in internal capital markets drive a large wedge between productivity and investment: the weaker (stronger) division obtains too much (little) capital, as though it is 12 (9) percent more (less) productive than it really is. The cost of accessing external capital funds quadruples during extreme financial market dislocations, making resource allocation within firms significantly cheaper. The estimated model allows us to simulate the propagation of the 2007/2008 financial market dislocation. The counterfactual out of sample simulated data is remarkably consistent with the actual data and shows that improved resource allocation in internal capital markets offset financial market stress during the recent financial crisis by 16% to 30% relative to firms with no internal capital markets.
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Then again, Tomlin might want to blame himself for using the wrong runners.
The Packers stopped Najeh Davenport and Brian St. Pierre at the line on a pair of third-and-1 plays in the first half. The Steelers didn't have any more third-and-short situations in the game, but they had three second-and-shorts and Gary Russell converted every one of them.
In the Hall of Fame Game, the Steelers had two third-and-shorts: Russell gained 10 on third-and-4, and quarterback Bryan Randall gained two on third-and-one a play before taking a knee to end the game.
In goal-line scrimmages at camp, running from the one-and-a-half yard line, the Steelers' running backs were 3-for-9 scoring touchdowns. Willie Parker, Davenport and Russell scored the touchdowns; Russell is the only one of the three who was a perfect 1-for-1.
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The 5-foot-10 3/8, 220-pounder doesn't stop moving his feet after he's been hit. "It's from Little League, where they tell you to keep your feet chopping," Russell said. Has anyone else noticed Russell's second effort with the ball?
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Russell would appear to be in a fight for a roster spot with the Steelers, but if they were to break down how and why Russell is leading the team in rushing they'd certainly find him deserving of a job.
Russell, of course, went undrafted even though he'd rushed for 1,130 yards (6.1 avg.) in 2005. He flunked out of school the following season and tried to return via the junior-college route, but the Minnesota school president wouldn't allow him to carry over some necessary credits and Russell missed the year.
During his time off, Russell ballooned to 250 pounds before falling back to 229 in time for the combine. But it wasn't enough. Russell ran awful 40s (4.84, 4.87) and benched 225 pounds only nine times. Those stats and the fact he flunked out of school resulted in Russell falling completely out of the draft. He signed with the Steelers as a free agent, and in the spring explained that he's never been a weight-room guy and that he only has competitive speed.
"I was down in Miami training for the combine and I was running with 4.3 guys, right along with them," he said. "I just can't get that mental block out of me when I'm running by myself."
If the replay of his 61-yard run against Michigan – which set up the game-winning field goal with one second left – ever appears on TV, take note of Russell's competitive speed.
His former offensive coordinator at Minnesota, Mitch Browning, said the key for Russell is that he keep his weight at 215. That's where Russell was in the spring, but he's since moved back up to 220, where he feels most comfortable.
"He was a great football player for us," said Browning. "When we lost him, it really hurt."
But Minnesota's loss has been the Steelers' gain. Russell leads the team in rushing with 97 yards on 17 carries. He hasn't scored a touchdown, but he hasn't been given a chance yet, either.
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DETROIT – The A's had already struck once against Max Scherzer and appeared to have the Tigers' tall right-hander on the ropes again, trailing by one run but with the bases loaded and nobody out in the eighth inning Tuesday night. And then, A's catcher Stephen Vogt said, something about Scherzer seemed to change.
"You could see his demeanor, as soon as the bases were loaded, he just got better," Vogt said. "He gritted down and said, 'Nope.' "
With the potential tying run 90 feet from the plate and the A's one win from clinching this American League Division Series, Scherzer, the 21-game winner summoned in relief, retired the next three A's hitters in order to preserve what was then a 5-4 lead. The Tigers held on late for an 8-6 win to force a winner-take-all Game 5 Thursday at O.co Coliseum.
It dropped the A's to 1-11 in their last 12 potential postseason clinchers. Now, for the second year in a row, the A's will face Detroit's Justin Verlander at home in an elimination game for both teams, with Oakland's starter – either veteran Bartolo Colon or rookie Sonny Gray – yet to be determined.
"It's a lost opportunity to win today," center fielder Coco Crisp said.
"It's not a lost opportunity to win the entire series. We still have another game. We get to play in front of our fans. We'll try to make the most of it."
In a back-and-forth Game 4, the A's led 3-0 in the fifth inning and 4-3 in the seventh, and brought the potential tying run to the plate in the ninth despite beginning the inning down by four. Still, the enduring image will likely be Scherzer stalking off the mound after the last out in the top of the eighth, pumping his fists and shouting.
Brandon Moss led off the eighth with a walk, Yoenis Cespedes blooped a double to right, and the Tigers intentionally walked Seth Smith to load the bases. But Scherzer struck out Josh Reddick and Vogt, and then got pinch hitter Alberto Callaspo to line out to center to escape the jam.
Reddick went down swinging at a full-count changeup low and inside that would have been ball four. The seventh pitch of the at-bat, it followed six mid-90s fastballs. Scherzer said that, after throwing a fastball for the first 3-2 pitch, he thought "that if I executed a changeup that there was a chance I could get a swing and miss."
"He made a great pitch and I swung at a ball out of the zone," Reddick said. "All you can do is tip your cap at that point."
Said Moss of the pitch selection and location: "That is a (gutsy) pitch."
Vogt then struck out swinging at a 98-mph fastball for the second out.
Callaspo worked a 1-2 count full, but his sharp line drive to center hung up just long enough for the Tigers' Austin Jackson to make the catch.
"We got the bases-loaded, nobody-out situation, and we just didn't come through, myself included," Vogt said. "He got tough, and we didn't match it."
An inning earlier, Vogt had given the A's a 4-3 lead when he singled off Scherzer and scored on a single by Crisp, one of Crisp's four hits in the game. But the A's gave that lead back in the bottom of the seventh. Victor Martinez started the inning by homering off Sean Doolittle, and Jackson broke the tie with a broken-bat, two-out single. Before the at-bat, Jackson had been 1 for 14 in the series, with 10 strikeouts.
The Tigers, who didn't have a hit through the first four innings Tuesday against rookie starter Dan Straily, added three runs in the eighth off an A's bullpen that hadn't allowed a run in nine games coming in. That proved crucial when Cespedes' two-out, two-run single made it a two-run game in the ninth. Detroit closer Joaquin Benoit then struck out Smith to push the series to the brink.
"It was such a back-and-forth game, there were so many chances by both teams. I don't know if we can put that kind of pressure on ourselves going into Game 5 that we let one get away," Doolittle said.
"They're such a good team that you knew they were going to put up a hell of a fight here to force Game 5. And I don't really think we're going to take it that way, to be honest."
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In the February '09 issue of Racer X Illustrated, you can read about the many changes made to the Paris-Bercy Supercross, as well as James Stewart being chosen for RXI's Rider of the Year. Also, the infamous work station for factory teams, I15, is closely examined by Steve Matthes. Check out those features and the others listed below in our latest issue! If you are ready to read the issue right now, subscribe to the digital edition for immediate access.
Tourist, First Class
Twenty-five versions of the prestigious Paris-Bercy SX came and went before James Stewart committed to the race. Once he did, the promoters rolled out the red carpet for the fastest, most popular SX racer. Page 122.
The Office
Southern California residents might be sitting in Interstate 15 traffic on the way to the office, but for the factory motocross teams, it's the artery along which the hard work is done. Page 134.
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If you thought Tony Soprano was the most unlikely candidate for therapy, think again. In July comes the release of Some Kind of Monster, a documentary that goes inside the heavy metal band Metallica as the members went through group therapy together. We talked to the band at the recent ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Beverly Hills, where they were honored with the Creative Voice Award.
Tell us about the movie.
James Hetfield (vocals, guitar): The movie is a documentary. It's about our lives falling apart and coming back together within two years. Our careers, our home life, things like that. In kind of an insane career that we've chosen, us trying to be normal and human, our attempts at that. And regaining friendships again after going through lots of closing down and guardedness, just trying to become humans that run Metallica again.
Have you watched it together?
Hetfield: "Yeah, we've seen it a couple of times."
Kirk Hammett (guitar): "We didn't really have to watch it. We lived it."
Lars Ulrich (drums): "First we lived it, then we watched it, then we got embarrassed about it."
Hetfield: "We're very proud of the movie. We're very proud, but also very scared, because it's us opening up – our guts are spilled on there and it's the real us and a lot of our embarrassing and ugly times. We felt that it's time to show that part of being in the music industry."
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The planned initiative follows the success of India's own TKDL, which will be used as a model by other South Asian nations.India created its library after fighting a successful but costly legal battle in 1999 to revoke a US patent for the use of turmeric to heal wounds — a property well known in India for generations. The Indian library contains information on 36,000 formulations used in Ayurveda — India's 5,000-year-old system of traditional medicine. The information - presented in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese — was created in a format accessible by international patent offices to prevent the granting of inappropriate patents.
The database set international standards for registries of traditional knowledge, which were adopted by the intergovernmental committee of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2003. In 2001, Indiadeveloped a system for classifying resources used in traditional knowledge that is similar to that used by the International Patent Classification (IPC). The IPC has agreed to include the Indian system in its own classification, which will be expanded to include about 200 sub-groups of drugs derived from Indian medicinal plants.
According to delegates at the Delhi meeting, this is likely to significantly aid patent offices searching the databases to ensure that proposed patents are truly novel and have not been reported before. Documenting traditional knowledge has become important as most of it is in the public domain and is easy to misappropriate, says Raghunath Mashelkar, director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
India's National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) found that in 2000, almost 80 per cent of the 4,896 references to individual plant-based medicinal patents in the US Patents Office related to seven medicinal plants of Indian origin. In 2003, there were almost 15,000 patents on such medicines in the US, European and UKpatent offices' registries. However, according to the institute's director Virender Kumar Gupta, none of the 131 academic journals used by patent examiners when deciding whether to grant a patent is from developing countries such as Brazil, China or India.
South Asia possesses significant traditional knowledge that affects biotechnology, agriculture, pharmaceuticals and health care. More than 80 per cent of its 1.4 billion population have no access to modern health care services and medicine, and rely on traditional medicine, the Delhi meeting heard. The region shares a common heritage in traditional medicine —Bangladesh, India and Pakistan share the Unani system of medicine, whereas Ayurveda is used in India, the Maldives,Nepal and Sri Lanka. India's NISCAIR has prepared and circulated a practical guide for classification of traditional knowledge to other South Asian countries.
The Indian digital library of traditional knowledge has also attracted attention from other regions. Representatives fromSouth Africa, the Commonwealth West African Education Delegation, the African Regional Industrial Property Organization and International Property Office in Singaporehave discussed with India the possibility of creating similar databases.
The participants at the meeting, including staff of the SAARC Documentation Centre in Delhi, NISCAIR, and WIPO also discussed creating new laws to prevent misappropriation of traditional knowledge. Mikhail Makarov, deputy director at WIPO's technology retrieval systems service told SciDev.Net that WIPO is working towards a new legal instrument to protect traditional knowledge, using a combination of existing intellectual property laws and sui generis laws unique to individual circumstances of the countries developing them.Brazil, Costa Rica, India, Panama, Peru, the Philippines,Portugal, Thailand and the United States are among those that have adopted sui generis laws that protect some aspects of traditional knowledge. Regional organisations in the South Pacific and Africa are trying to define specific rights relating to traditional knowledge and strategies to protect them, said Shakeel Bhatti from WIPO's global intellectual property issues division.
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Forest lore and knowledge passed down over generations by indigenous peoples is open for exploitation by anyone, the United Nations University believes. It says a loophole in international law on intellectual property rights is an affront to traditional groups' culture. As it stands, the law says indigenous peoples keen to protect their secrets have to put them in the public domain.
The UN researchers say the law amounts to a catch-22 trap, which allows the unscrupulous to exploit the knowledge. They outline their concerns in a report, The Role Of Registers And Databases In The Protection Of Traditional Knowledge, which is being launched at a meeting in Malaysia of the countries which support the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
The knowledge the report covers includes commercially valuable understanding, developed over centuries of the medicinal and other uses of plants. The problem arises when regulators from national patent offices have to decide whether a new product which a company wants to patent really is new, or is based on traditional knowledge. To do this, they require free access to the knowledge itself. But in many indigenous cultures it is highly guarded. The knowledge is often passed down from one generation to the next through codes of conduct and customary law, frequently including initiation rights before the information is divulged.
The report, from the university's Institute of Advanced Studies, says: "Obliging indigenous people to offer public documentation of traditional knowledge for intellectual property protection purposes is insensitive to centuries-old cultural practice in many places and may lead to injustice." It cites the example of a legal challenge to a patent over ayahuasca, a rainforest plant used in spiritual and cultural ceremonies. US patent regulators refused to accept the oral evidence of an Amazon shaman about his people's traditional knowledge of the plant's healing properties.
The report's author, Brendan Tobin, said: "The challenge for the world community is to devise a process to prevent the piracy of traditional knowledge without jeopardizing the cultural integrity and ways of indigenous peoples." The UN says the example of the Inuit may be helpful: they maintain a very high level of secrecy, but let government officials have confidential access to their traditional knowledge if they need it. It says international law should be amended to allow indigenous people to provide oral evidence of traditional knowledge. They should be able to give this confidentially, and access to confidential databases should be restricted.
The report says registers and databases developed and held by indigenous groups, museums, botanical gardens and universities are essential for protecting traditional knowledge. But they all need a common code of conduct, for example making explicit acceptance of the rights of indigenous peoples over their knowledge a pre-condition of access to the information. It also says companies should have to demonstrate prior informed consent as a condition for scientific or commercial use of the knowledge.
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