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"I couldn't even look out there on the field, I was stunned, totally stunned," John Bettis said. "I couldn't believe it was going to end that way."
Certainly, Jerome feels the same today.
John Bettis died earlier today, the Bettis family confirmed, of an apparent heart attack while driving home from the gym. He was 61.
Police said Bettis was found slumped over the wheel of his car near his home in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Bettis received CPR from a motorist who'd stopped. A nurse and physician were also at the scene.
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John Bettis retired last year after a 31-year career as chief electrical inspector for the city of Detroit. He attended nearly every Steelers game Jerome played.
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Baseline Buy-In Level – you can start out by assuming that no one outside of the ethics and compliance department gives much thought to ethics. And there are admittedly many people in organizations whose ethics are never tested due to the nature of their jobs. Unfortunately, their apathy can have a contaminating affect on those in ethically vulnerable positions. Compounding this is a basic human flaw – seeking comfort, people intellectually and emotionally remove themselves from the fray because 'it will never happen to me.' Like the person who consistently drives too fast and ends up sliding off the road and into a ditch because the roads are a little icy on that day. These kinds of events can occur because people feel invulnerable or safely insulated due to success with prior, similar experiences. 'I drive down that highway every day at 65 mph and nothing bad ever happened before. How could this have happened to me?' Why? Because conditions can change. Speeding along at 65 mph might be OK on dry pavement, but icy pavement is slippery and maintaining the same speed on an icy surface means losing control and having a bad experience. The same kind of risk-taking/insular dynamics find their way into domestic and international business dealings. For instance, speeding along a business deal in China by taking care of the right people means you could very well end up in the FCPA ditch, and this is no cheap towing job. And, as if this isn't challenging enough, you have a small percentage of your employee population, in corollary with the general population, that is predisposed to cheating as a way of "getting ahead." "It's tied in with self-esteem," says University of Massachusetts psychologist Robert Feldman in an article entitled: "Understanding the 10 Most Destructive Human Behaviors. He adds: "We find that as soon as people feel that their self-esteem is threatened, they immediately begin to lie at higher levels." Feldman has conducted studies in which people lie frequently with 60% lying at least once during a 10-minute conversation. And lying is not easy. One study concluded that lying takes 30% longer than telling the truth. (Interestingly, recent studies have found that people lie in workplace email more than they did with old-fashioned writing.)
When people with these traits are in ethically vulnerable positions as far as money- or deal-handling, the potential for disaster is enormous. This isn't to suggest that a process redesign or some kind of cultural transformation will eradicate every possible reason why people in companies bring their self-esteem issues into the workplace and do corrupt things. But even if complete eradication is not a reachable goal, working toward it lowers the odds of getting caught up in a government enforcement action. There are currently 89 companies under investigation for alleged violation of FCPA; this is troubling – first, because it suggests a certain overzealousness as far as enforcement action, and second, because it largely penalizes US companies and US individuals (there are other countries' companies on the list, but it's about 95% US) for conducting business in foreign countries in accordance with local customs. Overseas enforcement has been spotty so it has bred kind of a loose and fast business environment. For example, China is stepping up enforcement of its anti-bribery laws throughout China. In the meantime, huge sums of money are getting spent on lawyers by US taxpayers to prosecute violators, and those being investigated, both corporations and individuals, are spending millions in legal fees to defend themselves. So besides being an absolute boon for the legal profession, companies and individuals are getting financially battered because lawyers insist on getting paid. For most of the companies on the list of FCPA violations, it all could have been avoided. For example, for some companies on the FCPA list, it could have been as simple as having an exhaustive due diligence process that would have insisted on more detailed financials to prevent acquisition of a company that was loaded with red flags. For others, it could have meant abandoning the idea of doing business in a country where there is virtually no separation between government officials and commercial contacts. And then for others, it could have meant clamping down on aggressive sales organizations that were entertaining and gifting to the hilt. These things are very complex and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Given the financial stakes, however, it deserves attention. Your baseline buy-in level is truly about awareness, perspective and information-sharing. It's about preparing yourself for the task at hand, and lining up the resources to do it.
Cultural aspects of anti-corruption – every language used today has subtle nuances. Certain key English-speaking ethics and compliance terms, like truth, trust, bribe, whistle-blow, etc. don't necessarily translate accurately into other foreign languages, like Russian, Cantonese and Mandarin. Therefore, material has to be developed in the native languages of international hotspots, like Russia, former USSR satellite countries, Korea, China, and Angola. It's not as simple as drafting a code of conduct in English and then sending it off to the foreign translators. There has to be quite a bit of give and take between the organization preparing the material, and the translators hired to put it into foreign languages. Every language used reflects the cultural aspects of the groups speaking it. If bribery is considered a standard business practice in certain countries, then the word "bribery" when translated directly may or may not have the same connotations and stigmas as the underlying translated word, which is tied to the cultural thinking and beliefs of the culture (English-speaking western countries) that created it. For the purposes of anti-corruption, what you are really doing is superimposing a cultural norm onto a completely different culture in kind of a segmented (i.e., you are asking them to rethink one small slice of their overall culture), foreign way. This is no small task and relies on using a combination of substitute native language words that somehow link the Western application and understanding of the word "bribery" with native words that have the same connotations and moral weight.
CIT Application – Successfully managing critical incidents, such as employee behavior that has led to corruption allegations, is critical to organizational vitality. By definition, a critical incident is an occurrence or condition that interrupts normal business procedure. The incident or incidents should be significant enough to present opportunities for updated organizational preparation and learning. Many organizations have addressed this by using the "Critical Incidence Technique." The "CIT" is a way to directly observe human behavior that directly and indirectly touches the issue or issues at hand. This gathered information is subsequently used to change behaviors, perceptions and business procedures so that the cycle is broken. The profound thinking is as simple as this, "if you don't learn from your mistakes, you'll continue to make the same mistakes." This is not to suggest that organizations don't respond to incidents in various ways, and do whatever they can to comply with remedial actions in the wake of an unpleasant and costly event. But it appears that opportunities for permanent change have not been realized in many organizations due to a lack of appreciation of the long-term benefits to an organization that come through permanent organizational change, not one that just tips one way or the other depending upon prevailing winds. This had led to a lack of funding and commitment to organizational development, organizational effectiveness, organizational change and other vestiges of the '80s since many of these early attempts at such were marginalized, ultimately shunted off to the HR wing. However, since many of the ideas presented for organizational change are sound, and since many organizations are suffering at the hands of US Justice because of alleged and confirmed FCPA allegations, it might be worth moving past the stigma and implementing a plan to figure out what the workforce story is and then coming up with a way to change it. This plan will require organizational change, through new learning and new outlooks. You start by gathering information from employees and other key stakeholders. Information about critical incidents can be gotten in various ways, but in order to get to the behaviors and perceptions of stakeholders, which is a considerable basis for ethical and non-ethical action, we recommend the Gibbs Reflective Cycle. Here it is put to use to draw critical information out from people directly involved in an investigation or some ethics violation. It is important to ask questions such as these within 60 days of the alleged event so the information recorded more accurately depicts true behaviors and perceptions among direct and indirect participants.
|Sample Questions (which would need to be tailored):
|Description of Event
|Describe in detail the event. Where were you? Who else was there? Why were you there? What were you doing? What were other people doing? What was the context of the event? What was your part in this? What parts did other people play? What was the result?
|Feelings and Thoughts
|Try to explore and describe feelings inside your head when you heard about the event? How were you feeling when the event started? What were you thinking about at the time? How did it make you feel? How did other people make you feel? How did you feel about the outcome of the event? What do you think about it now?
|Try to evaluate or make a judgment about what has happened. Consider what is good about the experience. Consider what was bad about the experience. What went well? What didn't go so well?
|Break the event down into its component parts so they can be explored separately. (You may need to ask more detailed questions at this point.)
|What else could you have done? Reflect on all the previous questions.
|Action Plan
|During this stage, if the event happened again, what would you do? What lessons have you learned? What kinds of learning and training are needed to prepare this organization better?
The aggregated information gathered by way of the above questions will show your organization's current state (in terms of behaviors and perceptions) in Stages 1-5 and a glimpse of the future state in Stage 6.
Using Gibbs as shown above is an inductive way to gather information. It can be time-consuming, but it will, in fact, yield extremely valuable information. Or, if you want a broader cultural perspective working on a more deductive basis, you can identify aspects of your organization that represent its key values and assumptions and then give individuals an opportunity to respond to those cues. For example, an instrument called the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) was developed to identify an organization's culture profile. It has now been used in almost 10,000 organizations worldwide. However, you should be aware that the outputs – "Clan," "Hierarchy," "Adhocracy," "Market" make for interesting conference room discussions, but if you are a "Clan" organization instead of a "Hierarchy," how does this information get you closer to figuring out what steps you need to take to create a corruption-free workplace and avoid another FCPA allegation? In much the same way as FIRO B, Myers-Brigg and Belbin team-member profiling, how valuable is it for us to know that 4/5 team member are "Analysts" or "Autocrats" when we could barely scrape together five people to sit on the team in the first place? Creating categories like these are helpful, but not really practical. The days of bloated corporate staffs looking to fill up days with team-building exercises and reviews of generic, category driven, culture studies are long gone. The development of custom instruments that work in your environment, targeting a specific topic (i.e., anti-corruption) and generating specific output that ties directly to the change management plan are generally preferable. Your output won't be sweeping, but it will be specific, meaningful and useable.
Regardless of whether you use custom or generic instruments, or a combination thereof, information can be gathered through a combination of face-to-face individual interviews, focus groups and e- and print surveys.
Change Readiness Assessment – it's important to gather both factual and emotional information to figure out your organization's current state; in other words, taking a snapshot of your organization during a compressed period of time and then studying the photo. A key item in determining the current state is determining how much individual and organizational resistance there is to change. Researchers in this area have come up with four primary categories of resistance:
|Reason for resistance
|Bearing on Anti-Corruption
|It threatens their self-interest
|People inherently calculate the cost of any change and the benefits or penalties that could ensue as a consequence. This could mean losing something they value (e.g., money, power, prestige, control, or even their job). If the cost-benefit calculation doesn't at least break even, there will be resistance.
|Indirect stakeholders (non-vulnerable): non-event – there is no threat either way.Direct stakeholders (vulnerable): this is a big one, definitely applies; if you head up sales in the Far East and you have to make your number, there is definitely some hard thinking going on about how much the rules might need to be bent in order to maintain current income/lifestyle levels.
|They don't understand it and they don't trust it.
|Individuals commonly resist things that they do not understand. Thus, change resistance results from not grasping the nature of or need for change. The most challenging trust-based resistance issues relate to situations in which individuals have disdain for the organization itself.
|Indirect stakeholders: most are not even going to take the time to understand it or mistrust it; the online training sessions are for many just an annoyance because they can't relate most of it to their own jobs and priorities. Any knowledge spread could be helpful as far as creating potential advocates who could conceivably influence those in vulnerable positions, but this depends on frequency of any interaction between vulnerables and non-vulnerables, timing of observation, ethics and compliance knowledge retention, vigilance and courage — not a likely mix of circumstances and personal characteristics.Direct stakeholders: any multinational that doesn't take the time to help these people understand it, and exactly what the stakes are, is setting itself up for a nasty FCPA violation. Whether or not employees and other concerned stakeholders trust what they are being told is less important than the tension that exists between local customs and corporate edicts. The greater the tension, the more the vulnerable person will struggle with each and every major business decision; the key for the multinational is to raise consciousness to a level where it is virtually impossible for the vulnerable employee to go ahead with an unethical business deal, be negligent in a due diligence review or do something else unethical without being aware of potentially severe financial consequences. "Trust" doesn't play much of a factor here; whether you trust management or not, if you pick up a newspaper and the business section is splattered with stories about financial scandals, it is pretty black and white; there is no grey area, or organization-specific interpretation clouding anything up. The only way trust can be used on the organization's side is if there is an environment created where the employee or other stakeholder feels comfortable enough, or has enough trust in the organization to come forward with information that might be detrimental to revenue opportunities or political powerhouses without worrying about being penalized for whistle blowing
|They have different thoughts about the need, direction, tempo and scope of change.
|Some people may not see the need for the change in the first place. Others agree that there is a need for change, they just disagree with the chosen route. Some believe that the change will do more harm than good. Finally some people are skeptical that the organization has the resources and/or fortitude to see the change through successfully.
|Indirect stakeholders: non-event – they don't have much of a stake in any of this beyond hoping that whatever is put in place stops vulnerables from ruining things for everyone else; need, direction, tempo and scope are mere minutia to these people.Direct stakeholders: it seems like most corporations do nothing until something happens, and then when it does, they bombard people with meetings, booklets, intranet copy, mandatory training and other 'remedial' deliverables. In many cases, this is merely window-dressing to mollify the DOJ or other government enforcement agency. This typically bears no relationship to a proactive, long-term change management plan that rolls out timely information in a more civilized manner and actually increases awareness and ensures information retention in vulnerable positions. The latter would be the ideal because it really underscores the corporate commitment to the change rather than one part of a government enforcement settlement. (A flurry of one-size-fits-all deliverables within a compressed time period generally demonstrates otherwise.)
|They fear and/or have low tolerance for change.
|Sometimes people resist change because they lack confidence in their ability to perform any required new actions. Other individuals resist change for attitudinal reasons. They may not like being pushed out of their comfort zone, or they may have a pessimistic or skeptical disposition. This source of resistance is onerous because it is difficult to change attitudes and dispositions.
|Indirect stakeholders – for this group, this wouldn't apply; if anything, they support the changes (therefore there is no fear or loss of confidence) because if they are made, they won't have to suffer at the hands of coworkers in vulnerable positions who do corrupt things and cause others (them) to lose stock values, revenue opportunities and employment opportunities.Direct stakeholders: this is a big one, definitely applies; the key thing is the competitive environment; if, for example, a salesperson's competitors are trading wrist watches with local government officials, how much confidence would this individual have in a new organization that plays by the rules while his or her competitors continue to break all the rules and take all the business? In other words, an organization's change management strategy has to be realistic, it has to be something that can actually be applied within that organization, and within that particular geographic region. In some cases, this might mean not doing business in certain un-policed geographic regions rather than superimposing unattainable standards on the players in that particular market. The key thing is, attitudes and perceptions can be altered, and changed for the better. Organizations have to demonstrate the necessary sensitivity to local environments, and then make some tough calls about the viability of doing business there. Either way, a strong executive-led advocacy team, working within the schematic shown in the "Define" section, is an absolutely necessity to deal with attitude and perception creep.
Once a change agent analyzes the individual and organizational inhibitors of change, the change management plan must cite each barrier and then identify viable strategies (both general and stakeholder-specific) for jumping over each barrier.
This information is important because it tells you where you are now, not only in terms of barriers, but in terms of potential acceptance and day-to-day incorporation. Without knowing this, you would have no way to determine, through subsequent assessment (either qualitative or quantitative) what kind of progress you've subsequently made against the current state baseline. A key part of any change management exercise, fueled by 6-Sigma methodologies, is sitting down and coming up with the ideal future state. Within the context of anti-corruption, this would mean an organization that is free of any corruption allegations. This would be the ideal output. And in order to make this ideal a reality, you have to remove the individual (learned through the Critical Incidence Technique) and institutional change inhibitors (learned through the Change Readiness Assessment) before you make any changes. Actual changes could include anything from disseminating multi-lingual codes of conduct to updating recruiting and hiring practices to instituting new performance management systems.
Generally, most organizations just plow ahead and make the changes and then hope for the best in terms of utilization and acceptance of new ideas, standards and approaches. Other, more prudent organizations take a step back conduct a bonafide change readiness assessment to get a feel for what kind of response will come from key stakeholders – before going ahead with any kind of change implementation. The idea is to get input from stakeholders (e.g., Board members, senior executives, 3rd parties [vendors; distributors], employees, investors, etc.) and then use this information to help refine the plan to get from the current state to the future state. This information is best gathered through either face-to-face and/or phone interviews using a questionnaire.
Here are sample change readiness assessment questions that look at barriers and acceptance from a broader standpoint:
|1. What are the major goals and objectives that you/your unit are expected to meet?
|2. How is the effectiveness of your unit or department measured or evaluated? Is your unit structured effectively to achieve a high level of performance?
|3. Are there formal written or documented processes or procedures within your area, unit or department? To what extent are these processes and procedures well organized/effective? Do people in your unit/department use standardized processes to do their work?
|4. List in order of priority the areas within the company that are most in need of improvement? What steps could be taken to improve these areas? Which areas should be considered targets for anti-corruption?
|5. Please indicate which areas of the organization are managed and structured most effectively in terms of anti-corruption?
|6. What areas of the company need to significantly improve the quality of anti-corruption?
|7. How effective is the leadership within your unit or department?
|8. In terms of anti-corruption effectiveness, what are the three most critical things that need to change within your unit/department and within other units and departments that you work with?
|9. To what extent do you and/or your colleagues in your unit/department understand the company's strategic goals and direction?
|10. Do you understand the goals and objectives of the anti-corruption project? Do you understand your potential roles and/or responsibilities on this initiative? What information do you need to improve your understanding of this initiative?
|11. What can you or others in your unit do to support/contribute to this effort? Are you willing to take additional training in order to have a more active role on this project?
The answers to these questions can be used to refine your ultimate plan because you are getting more information and diverse insights. And by incorporating this kind of feedback from interviewed stakeholders, you are gaining their buy-in. They see themselves as being part of the actual solution, which is extremely empowering. It's also very useful because you're going to need their support/resources as you move fully into implementing organizational changes. Involved, empowered stakeholders will ultimately drive the program forward. Stakeholders who are dictated to, whose input is ignored, are, by default, put in a passive role. Stakeholders play the role that they are cast in, just like actors.
All this data – from both the Critical Incident Technique, and the Change Readiness Assessment — needs to be pulled together into a meaningful report presenting the facts and recommended action, with data sliced and diced to the needs of key stakeholders.
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David Fitzsimons, Principal of Just Got Word LLC, leads this New York City-based change management firm, which helps organizations improve the way they perform through meaningful, positive change. David has over 25 years' experience consulting to companies like Lockheed Martin, Exxon-Mobil, Pfizer, ITT, Con Edison and Public Service Enterprise Group. David has won numerous industry awards for his work as writer and producer. A frequent public speaker and published author, he is a 6-Sigma Black Belt with deep experience in organizational change, ethics and compliance, leadership development, sales/marketing, HR strategy, benefits and compensation, outsourcing and other key corporate initiatives.


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Assemblymember Adam Gray (D-Merced) and the Independent Voter Project (IVP) announced a new state constitution amendment that would eliminate separate balloting for California voters and instead create a single nonpartisan ballot.
The State Senate recognized the contributions of California's Portuguese-American community by adopting Senate Concurrent Resolution 130 by Senator Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), declaring June 10 as "Portugal Day" in California.
The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors will consider a Proposed Budget for 2016-17 that includes a $21.7 million increase in spending over last year. While appropriations are expected to increase, so is revenue at $28.6 million over the 2015-16 Adopted Final Budget.
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Two Turlock farmers will likely once again vie to represent the residents of U.S. Congressional District 10 on the November ballot, according to early Tuesday election results.
A former Turlock mayor and two former City Council members are taking local campaign finance reform into their own hands with a petition to adopt a legislative policy that would provide limits on participation by members of the City Council on matters effecting large campaign contributors.
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"I want them to be free. I want them to be able to understand the world, rather than just be swept along by the river of time with no real comprehension of what is happening to them."
These are the words of James R. Flynn, an emeritus professor of politics at the University of Otago and fellow of the Royal Society in New Zealand. He is perhaps most widely recognized for a phenomenon that bears his name. This is the Flynn effect: the widely observed rise in IQ scores across the past several decades. Flynn's work is wide-ranging, and I learned of him through his work on intelligence. However, he is not just a researcher, but also a poet. A love of words can often bring life to the way ideas are expressed. Flynn's writing exemplifies this.
His most recent book, The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books, is really a journey through the realm of literature that Flynn has found magical. He writes that "I am now seventy-six and the magic realm of literature captivates me as much as it did when I was four." The Torchlight List is filled with his brief summaries of the books that make up his journey. Flynn's summaries are like tantalizing movie trailers-short bursts of images-that literally teleport your mind from one side of the earth to the other. Perhaps this book is also an example of travel writing through great historical literature.
I had the pleasure of talking with James Flynn about his new book. And after our conversation, I couldn't agree more with Thomas W. Pogge, who said that "Flynn is one of the most interesting and independent thinkers of his generation." I encourage you to read on if you want to learn more about the value of literature in one's education and how you might be able to inspire a love of reading, perhaps not only in yourself, but also in your children.
WAI: I was intrigued by the image you provided in your title: great works of literature lighting the way for anyone with the ability to read to travel through historical time and experience the world. Could you tell me more about where the idea for this book and where this image came from?
FLYNN: I have long lamented the fact that reading serious literature has declined over the years even among my best students. When they graduate, some of them ask me for lists of books to read. I took the chance to publish a definitive list with comments that would convince young people (and those who already love reading) that these books would give them pleasure and inform them. The "torchlight" image comes from the tale of my Uncle Ed related in the introduction. Although his formal education terminated at 11 (not unusual for Irish-American working class children at that time), he read at night by torchlight on ship when he was a seaman in World War I.
WAI: You give us your thoughts on works that provide a guide to the past. How important do you think an understanding of the past is for an appreciation of the present? And how did you decide which works to include?
FLYNN: Anyone who is a-historical lacks autonomy. They live in the bubble of the present that is defined for them by their government and the media. They have no accumulated knowledge that allows them to criticize what they are told.
If more Americans had been aware that their government and compliant media have habitually lied to get them into wars, they might have been more skeptical about Iraq. I refer to the sinking of the battleship Maine in 1898 (it was not sunk by the Spanish), the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 (it was not an innocent passenger vessel but loaded with arms), and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1965 (as if it were remotely plausible that a few little boats had attacked the US 7th Fleet). If they had known anything about Saddam Hussein, they would have known that he and Osama bin laden were bitter enemies and that he had nothing to do with 9/11.
The books were chosen out of those I had read (naturally), thought were outstanding literature (with a few exceptions), shed light on a place and time (mainly since 1850), and were accessible to new readers as well as veteran readers. This ruled out masterpieces by Joyce, Kafka, Cervantes, and Thucydides, for example. Only 125 of the selections are novels, the rest are wonderful histories, biographies, introductions to science or mathematics, plays, films, and poems. You would be surprised at the hard choices (omitted Jane Austen) you have to make to keep within the limit of 125 novels.
WAI: You mentioned in an interview that some of your students did not know who Hitler was, and in a sense it was like you were talking to a "medieval peasant." What kinds of reactions have you received from your students or from the youth? Do they disagree or agree with you?
FLYNN: Naturally the feedback you get is positive because the people who bother to get in touch are those with whom you strike a chord. But I have been pleased at the response. Former students have emailed me to say that they have tried the five novels I particularly recommend and liked them and intend to read. Others have said that they liked reading already but had no guidance on what to read. Four high schools are using the book to guide their senior reading classes. Parents are ordering the books I list for their children. The faith of a few in the list is touching. At least two people have ordered the whole 250, and others have asked if it is all right not to read the books in the order listed!
WAI: You discuss how you are not only targeting students who go to university but to those who will not. What are your thoughts about the usefulness of a college degree? Charles Murray in his book Real Education also makes the case that a college degree may not be the appropriate path for many people. Do you agree with Murray?
FLYNN: Murray is thinking of those who do not have an inclination towards an academic education and could earn a good living by becoming an electrician or plumber. I cast a broad net for two reasons. There are plenty of bright people who do not go to university and if they are willing to read and learn, they need not give up on understanding the modern world. And the universities do not actually educate students to read widely and think critically, so non-students are at much less of a disadvantage than they might think.
WAI: The way I see it, this book is essentially your journey through the "magical realm" of great literature as you call it, with your praises and critiques of the major historical landmarks. Do you think that the magic realm contains an essential core of culture that matters? Take the work of E. D. Hirsch, Jr. and his emphasis on cultural literacy. [For interested readers, see the article I wrote on cultural literacy here]. What are your thoughts on where The Torchlight List and the idea of cultural literacy are related? And do you think that each person should find their own way through the magical realm?
FLYNN: Each person should indeed find his or her own way through both literature and history. I merely want to get them started. There is a central core of culture that matters. I should have emphasized the role of literature not only in developing awareness of history and the modern world but also in realizing the potential of one's humanity. A nation whose people have learned to empathize with tragedy and joy universally is a very different from a nation whose people only know these things in so far as they affect them personally.
WAI: The likelihood that the majority of children will "discover" the magic realm of great literature is highly unlikely considering your observations of youths today including your students. You mention that perhaps parents should "lead" their children into the magic realm. What are your thoughts on the idea that perhaps youths should be "tossed" into the magic realm against their will such that a greater majority of them might then grow to appreciate it and perhaps begin to call it home?
FLYNN: I do not think that a child can be "tossed" into literature by rhetoric or bribes - they must see their parents (or a teacher or a friend) reading and discussing literature with enjoyment. My book is of course not aimed at children but adults, readers or non-readers, from every age from 14 to death.
WAI: You mention that "fewer and fewer students read great works of literature." Do you think this is because there are so many distractions today such that everyone is spread so thin trying to pursue a narrow avenue of expertise to make a living? Why do you think fewer and fewer students read great works of literature? Is this a symptom of our times? Newton famously remarked that "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." Are more recent generations failing to value that which has come before them?
FLYNN: The present is so noisy and visually attractive that any interest in the past or the future, beyond the immediate personal future, becomes an esoteric interest.
WAI: About the works that you recommend, you state that "They will help you to liberate yourself. You can know enough accounting to help a corporation evade their taxes, own a large house and drive an expensive car, and yet be no freer than a medieval serf, buffeted about by social forces he could not comprehend." Could you expand more on this comment, in particular what you mean when you say these great works of literature might help people liberate themselves from the chains of their everyday lives?
FLYNN: Well I have done that above. An a-historical person who lives only in the present is at the mercy of those who have the power to define the present. Orwell (in 1984) thought that governments would have to rewrite history. They do of course but it is largely unnecessary. They have at their feet a people who simply never think to explore history because, to them, it is unreal. Think about how a bit of history would have made people more autonomous rather than accepting of the "reality" defined for them by their rulers about Iraq. If every one had read Robert Fisk's The great war for civilization they would have known the limits of "nation-building" that European armies can effect in the Middle East. If they had any empathy they would have wondered what Europe would have thought of Islamic armies rampaging about to set its house in order. An Army in Britain to make them nicer to the Irish, one in France to help Huguenots, one in Spain to promote the independent of the Basques.
WAI: In your final chapter, "Leading your Children Into The Magical Realm," you remark that because you are an intelligence expert parents often ask you how they can increase their children's intelligence or IQ. You counter that no parent should "aim at anything so trivial." You go on to say that "What they should want to give their children is a lively mind that has reached its full potential for enjoyment and understanding. Unfortunately, no one can give that to another person: the person must do it for themselves by reading and thinking. And there is no technique and trick that parents can use to make their child love reading." So what do you think parents can do to encourage a love of reading in their children?
FLYNN: Keep TV and the internet in the living room where they can be rationed, don't set an example of someone who is dependant on them (or uses them as a baby sitter), read, have your child hear you both talking about what you read, try to keep them away from aimless peer groups (very hard).
WAI: You say that "I am now seventy-six and the magic realm of literature captivates me as much as it did when I was four." Does this mean you were able to read works of literature at age 4? Do you remember how you first learned to read? Could you tell me more about your early childhood and how a love for reading first ignited within you?
FLYNN: You missed the passage where I mentioned my "uneducated" father reading me all of Dickens when I was 4. I cannot remember when I learned to read but know that when I was 8, we had to list all the books we had ever read for school (would that happen now?) and I had read over a hundred. I had also begun to "write a history" of the Byzantine Empire, which had caught my interest as the successor to Rome.
WAI: You mention that "Readers have to give something of themselves to a book, rather than just passively observe it." Do you think that today in the age of internet reading where everyone appears to be looking for a quick bit of insight or trick to solve a problem that they are simply unwilling to give of themselves but only wish to get something? Have we forgotten that learning is not always easy but often takes blood, sweat, and tears? I ask this because you conclude your book with: "These books will set your feet on the way to the kind of education no university offers. And just think: no fees, no classes to attend, no exams to take." But the reader, in order to gain, will have to be prepared to give much of themselves, isn't that correct? Will the magical insights come only after one has immersed themselves so deeply that they then slowly begin to see?
FLYNN: They will find it easier and easier to give something of themselves to books as their reading accumulates. It will take awhile. All the media condition us to expect a "fix" every few minutes, a car chase, a rape, a murder. In Crime and punishment, there is only one murder and it takes a lot of pages to get to. You have to fall in love with the development of characters and atmosphere.
WAI: You write of the current youth culture that "It is an audio culture with a constant surround of popular music. It is a visual culture with leisure spent on the web and watching TV and films. Computer games are mesmerizing. Recently a sixteen-year-old killed his eighteen-year-old brother over access to PlayStation." I value your goal of inspiring a love of reading in the youth today. However, considering that this is our current culture, don't you think it will be quite difficult to inspire students to disentangle themselves from their present culture and then immerse themselves in the great culture of the past?
FLYNN: Yes it will be difficult. But we have one ally: how boring it is as you age to immerse yourself in this junk.
WAI: Is there anything else you'd like to share about The Torchlight List that my questions did not cover?
FLYNN: No-these were good questions.
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These days, rental apartments in certain hip Brooklyn neighborhoods are getting so expensive that young professionals and the like are being forced to move... into cheaper Manhattan! Let's just let that sink in for a minute, shall we? It's now less expensive (in terms of "median price") to move into a West Village studio apartment than a similar rental in DUMBO. Or Williamsburg!
In fact, the median price of a Manhattan studio rental in such prime, coveted neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village, the FiDi, Murray Hill, the Upper West Side, the East Village, on and on, can be hundreds of dollars LESS than you'd find in DUMBO and Williamsburg. Ten years ago--heck five years ago--you'd have called me nuts if I had predicted such a thing. Remarkable.
Anyway, this relatively sudden shift has prompted real estate writers and the like to seek out the next hip Brooklyn neighborhood, and though Bushwick and Bed-Stuy come up often in such conversations, it's really been Red Hook to the south, and Greenpoint to the north that have captured the imagination of the press, the developers and, of course, those seeking out Brooklyn rental apartments.
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Soon (?) the Greenpoint waterfront will be home to a residential waterfront quay that, according to Benjamin R. Bernstein of RedSky Capital, who has invested heavily in the neighborhood, is "going to be bigger than Williamsburg, it's going to dwarf DUMBO, and be twice the size of the Long Island City waterfront, like a massive version of the West Village waterfront."
We'll see about all that--lack of direct subway access to Manhattan will always be a deal-breaker to some (though the East River Ferry seems to be an increasingly viable commuting option for those more well-heeled Greenpoint residents)--but one thing about moving into a Greenpoint rental apartment is certain, though: right now the neighborhood does have the best doughnuts in the city, at Peter Pan, and possibly the town's best cookies at well, at the great Ovenly, below. And check out this Gothamist post for a nice roundup of all the best Greenpoint eats and drinks.
Meanwhile, the Times, the Post, and the Wall Street Journal have all been hyping up Brooklyn's historically industrial waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook as a strong candidate for development and increased valuation.
Families, artists and creative types have already "discovered" Red Hook's inexpensive housing, and many find the area's isolation to be invigorating--which is how most hip Brooklyn neighborhoods start out. But even as Red Hook becomes a retail and culinary destination (IKEA, Fairway, the Good Fork, Red Hook Winery, Baked, Brooklyn Crab), the closest subway stop is still a long bus ride away, making a daily commute into Manhattan via public, non-ferry transportation almost too painful to contemplate.


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The Yankees are down two games to none against the Cleveland Indians going into today's Game Three in the Bronx.
Alex Rodriguez is hitless in the series.
I thought I'd break that story, since the rest of the media has only given it massive attention already.
It's the same old theme for the Bombers: Once again A-Rod gets all the blame...and the rest of the Yankees get a pass for their poor play.
Alex Rodriguez isn't the only reason the Yankees are on the brink of another playoff letdown. The Yankees as a club are hitting .121. The defense and pitching haven't exactly been up to snuff either—from Bobby Abreu missing cutoff men to pitchers not hitting their spots.
But I guess that's A-Rod's fault too.
Rodriguez will be the focus of blame no matter how badly the rest of the team plays—it goes with the territory when you're the highest-paid athlete in your sport. But I say if we fry A-Rod, we've got to fry everyone who's contributed to the disaster.
If Joba Chamberlain had held the lead Saturday night, we wouldn't be talking about a collapse. If Joe Torre had kept a lefty reliever on the playoff roster, Luis Vizcaino wouldn't have had to face lefty slugger Travis Hafner with the game on the line.
As a lifelong Yankee fan who never wanted A-Rod in the first place and has bashed him in the past, I have to stand up here and say there's plenty of blame to go around. From the front office to the last man in the bullpen, this TEAM has to right the ship sooner rather than later.
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I had an upper blepharoplasty with Dr. Becker last year and it was the best decision I have ever made. Because my eyelids were so heavy, I was having to lift my forehead in order to see which caused me to have terrible tension headaches. Since my surgery I have no had a single headache and I can see! He was so kind and professional throughout the entire process. HIGHLY recommend Dr. Becker to anyone who is considering this procedure!
Before going in I was super nervous! I will admit I find myself watching the show "Real Housewives" and some of those women on there really need to take a break from the cosmetic procedures. My first thought was "What happens if I turn out looking like that?". I brushed the thought to the side for two reasonsâ¦.one I had heard such amazing things about Dr. Becker and two once I was in the office I was greeted by sweet and amazing women and Dr. Becker's bedside manner was perfect. He immediately eased my nerves by explaining everything to me and taking the time to answer all of my questions. He made me feel like I was his first priority. I decided that I would use filler on my cheeks (Radiesse) and my lips (Restylane). At first the swelling was noticeable. I took a few Ibuprofen to ease some of the throbbing which helped out a lot. I was at a wedding the next day feeling great. Now with the lips I did have some bruising but to be honest they didn't hurt and they were able to be covered easily with lipstick so really no problems there at all. So I am about a week out now and I feel AMAZING! My confidence has went from a 4 to an 15 and I am SO excited to go back and get the filler that lasts for two years!! If you are considering botox or filler you HAVE to check out Dr. Adam Becker. You will not regret it and you will also find yourself wondering why the HECK did I not do this sooner.
Dr. Becker is an incredible facial plastic surgeon. I've had Botox and filler several times for the past year. He is kind and genuine. I highly recommend Dr. Becker!
I had Botox and Juvederm with Dr. Becker and I had an excellent experience. It was my first time ever having anything done of this sort and he made me feel very comfortable and it did not hurt one bit. He was extremely professional and I cannot wait to go back! A
Having plastic surgery was a difficult decision for me to make to substantiate the cost and the time of recovery. I met Dr. Becker at the Lifestyle Lift office in Cary, NC and immediately felt comfortable with his knowledge and bedside manner. I didn't feel pressured to do anything more than what I felt comfortable with. He gave me all the time I needed to answer my question, think of more questions and basically held my hand throughout the meet&greet office visit as well as the actual procedure day. He has a very kind and pleasant staff working there and I especially fell in love with Donata. I would give Dr. Becker a definite recommendation and a big !0 our of 10.
dr becker is excellent. wish he was still at duke.


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As the game begins, Duke has been abducted by the Zorgonites and locked up in a prison cell on a distant planet. He's got to bust out and fight his way back to and prevent the Zorgonites from taking over the universe along the way.
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The best way for Duke to bring down the Zorgonites is to take out their Emperor, and that won't be easy. Thousands of bloodthirsty Zorgonites have sworn to protect their Emperor at any cost. Oh, and the Emperor is on another planet. Well, minor setbacks like those never stopped Duke before, right? Anyway, once the Emperor is out of the picture, Duke can return to Earth and look forward to a life free of alien threat. Hopefully.
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