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Ramping it up at the festival
Love them or hate them – for there's rarely an opinion in between – ramps were the dish of the day at the fifth annual Ramps and Rail Festival Saturday in downtown Elkins.
And Brian Rollins and his fiancee, Becky Dyer, had driven 300 miles to the Town Square near the Elkins Depot Welcome Center to dig in.
Residents of Bellefontaine, Ohio, the couple explained that the Buckeye State's lower elevation doesn't easily lend itself to cultivating the renowned wild onions.
"You can't get 'em in Ohio," Rollins said amidst that unmistakable aroma that makes some people's mouths water in anticipation and other people's noses crinkle in disgust.
"We lived right here in Elkins until my eighth grade year, which was the last time I had them, and we've been trying to get back ever since," he added.
The two had arrived early to sample the sweeping selection of delicacies, which ranged from classics like deep-fried ramps, ramp-laden Philly cheesesteak sandwiches and ramp chili to the more daring, experimental dishes such as ramp and shrimp wontons and spostani, which is ramp hummus and pesto ingredients rolled into a soft tortilla shell and deep-fried.
The two even talked one local vendor into allowing them to bring a ramp plant back to their Bellefontaine backyard, where'll secure it in the soil and hope for the best.
"We're going to try to plant it behind our house in Ohio," Rollins said. "It's like taking another little piece of home back with us."
And should the plant not sprout, Dyer said the two will make the trip again in 2014.
"We'll be back next year," she said. "It seems like (the festival) is only getting bigger and cooler."
Ed Griesel, who heads up the Elkins Depot Welcome Center, didn't disagree.
"I'm amazed at the amount of people came early this morning and stayed all day," he said. "I don't know if the number of people here has doubled, but there's definitely been a big increase in attendance over last year."
This year's festival featured two train rides, 19 food vendors and 23 arts and crafts entrants. Musical acts Wish Awake, Appalachian Spirit and Mark Hamrick supplied the day's entertainment.
And while some festivalgoers who came out to sample the fare were sure of their favorites – fried potatoes with ramps topped the list of many – other attendees, like Tucker County Circuit Clerk Donna Bava, were still undecided as they continued to sample condiments such as ramp salt, ramp butter and ramp salsa.
"So far, I like the (ramp) cheeseball," Bava said, "but I haven't been all the way around yet."
The Ramps & Rail Festival, which wrapped up at 5 p.m., was sponsored by the Elkins Depot Welcome Center, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Randolph County Development Authority, Randolph County Commission and the City of Elkins.
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"Learning to Prevent Pollution: The Chemical Industry in Britain and the United States"
Working Paper
Author: Alastair Iles, Former Research Fellow, Global Environment Assessment Project/Environment and Natural Resources Program, 1997-2000
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Learning to Prevent Pollution: The Chemical Industry
in Britain and the United States
Alastair Iles
Chapter 1 introduces the research problem. First, I observe that the rise of pollution prevention (broadly, the ideas and practices associated with stopping pollution from being generated in the first place) reflects broader trends in environmental regulation in industrial countries. Previously, pollution was thought to be largely an issue of emissions into environmental media, and the governments of industrial nations, such as Britain or the US, relied on regulation as a means to push polluters, including industry, towards reducing releases of pollution as a way of attaining greater environmental protection. They had overseen pollution management through setting standards, regulating factories, analyzing pollution, and making decisions about what goals to aim at. By the 1990s, however, many people had begun to lose their confidence in the ability of governments to control pollution through such means.
The seemingly secure bearings of regulation are being gradually replaced by active questioning by governments, industry, and citizens about what the causes of pollution are, who is responsible for what, where to aim one's efforts, and how to gauge success. In the past 30 years, three major changes have occurred that affect the philosophy and practice of environmental regulation: a growing shift of knowledge production from governments to non-governmental actors like environmentalists and companies; the increasing importance of decentralized activities as sources of knowledge; and greater attention to targeting the decisions of polluters regarding process design and operation, rather than emission controls.
Consequently, industry, environmental groups, and regulators have started to regard preventing pollution at source as potentially a more effective strategy than controlling emissions alone. In doing so, they have tested a range of innovative tools and activities. They have done so through many decentralized activities, notably in the United States. As a result of these moves, the British and US governments no longer function as all-seeing producers of knowledge, claiming control over the process of learning to solve pollution problems. Non-government actors have increasingly become primary managers of pollution, with governments playing a lesser but perhaps no less crucial role: that of persuading and enlisting industry, technical experts, and communities to use their capabilities and knowledge in problem-solving instead of simply complying with regulatory prescriptions.
There also appear to be divergences among industrial countries in how they embody these developments in their regulation and policy, flowing from their regulatory traditions and political cultures. Because of the major differences in their regulatory and political features, Britain and the US provide valuable comparative case studies of how pollution prevention may emerge differently between countries. Britain has had a regulatory tradition of site-by-site regulation in which inspectors negotiate standards with companies, and its political culture has discouraged the involvement of citizens in regulation as well as promoting secrecy in making regulatory decisions. In the 1990s, Britain has undergone some major changes, namely acquiring a more formal regulatory system and making pollution information more available. Britain has also encountered intensifying regulatory pressure from the European Union's environmental policy-making. In contrast, the US has relied on a nationwide, standard-based approach to regulating pollution, and its political culture obliges regulators to make their activities highly transparent. In the 1990s, however, the US has experimented with a variety of voluntary activities undertaken by industry, while moving towards enlisting environmental groups as persuaders alongside industry and government.
In observing these various developments, I ask the following questions:
· Why have many environmental protection developments (in this case, pollution prevention) begun to take hold, despite not being directly mandated by regulation?
· Why have many practices and tools (e.g., the notion of prevention; the Toxics Release Inventory; green chemistry; employee teams; and process diagrams) come into existence and come to be part of the regulatory order, even though they were not regulated from the top down, or have been taken up into regulation from the activities of many actors at many places?
· Why do there seem to be variations - or uneven evolution - between different parts of the pollution prevention issue, firms, localities, governments, and countries in the "taking hold" of such developments?
· Why are there continuing difficulties for governments in trying to regulate industrial pollution at the local level, when it might be expected that making regulation work locally will be more effective for prevention - as a site-specific phenomenon - than centrally directed regulation?
My hypothesis is that a social learning model based on the interpretive, often site-specific work of decentralized actors engaging in activities that test and develop environmental protection ideas and practices can explain these observations.
In Chapter 2, I review two theories of learning, advocacy coalitions and adaptive management, and show how their presuppositions about the nature of learning reinforce what may be characterized as the "positivist" features of conventional learning approaches. These approaches take learning actors and pathways for granted, do not look at how everyday conditions may give rise to learning, and do not acknowledge that learning may occur in multiple, messy, highly contingent ways. Similarly, regulation is treated as if it was something that could be imposed on many local places and actors from the top down, and thereby, inevitably, work. In response to these limitations, I build a model of social learning that combines Deweyean pragmatic philosophy, science studies, and comparative politics.
Social learning is interpretive work by actors through their activities, demonstrations, persuasive efforts, and tool-makings in connection with environmental protection. These actors, furthermore, reflect on the consequences of all these actions and discourses, evaluating whether or not certain things appear to work, deciding whether and how to adapt things in further work. I argue that the interpretive work by actors can involve often site-specific, but sometimes wide-ranging or multi-sited, "experiments" in the form of inventing, testing, and using "things" like institutions, tools (such as pollution numbers}, or practices. Part of the interpretive work by actors is to give these "things" an existence, a persuasive power, or the ability to travel between sites or be part of a nationally applying regulation. Actors can do so through engaging in demonstrations that are more or less persuasive, in locally contingent ways. Yet, such patterns are not infinitely variable and contingent: they may embody the regulatory traditions and political culture prevailing in a particular country. If this is so, social learning may vary between countries with differing regulatory traditions and political cultures, even though the chemical industry is one of the most internationalized.
Chapter 3 investigates how pollution prevention emerged, as a new norm that combined environmental protection with economic advantage, in Britain and the United States. Despite its seeming advantages, "non-waste technology" faltered in the 1970s. Rather, prevention first emerged and then took hold more much rapidly in the US, even though site-specific knowledge was not valued in regulation. In contrast, prevention only arose later in Britain, whose regulatory system was much more congenial to site-specific knowledge. To explain this divergence, I look at how prevention emerges from culturally and politically specific crises. For instance, whereas pollution came to be viewed in the US as contamination and as very difficult to control out in the environment, British actors continued to see pollution as something that did harm to the environment. Prevention, then, was seen as a response to the uncertainties of pollution in the early 1980s in America. Concomitantly, political culture in the US requires that industry, government, and citizens should make their actions "seeable" and "believable". Thus, the US chemical industry (but not their British counterparts) realized that prevention could be turned into a new norm that could help make their voluntary activities more seeable and credible.
Chapter 3 then looks at the different ways in which prevention entered official policy in each country. It takes a comparative look at how, in the US, prevention came to be defined in regulation as "source reduction", while prevention was introduced in the 1990s by the UK government in response to economic - not regulatory - crises. In the US, the discourses of technical experts and some chemical firms, using definitions of prevention, played a central role in moving prevention from activities into a new norm that could be enshrined in policy. The technical experts assumed that asserting prevention as a new norm or definition would be efficacious. They thought that relying on demonstrations of the effectiveness of prevention (in both health and economic terms) would be enough for the chemical industry to take up prevention. But in the UK, it was the government that sought to use practical demonstrations (rather than definitions), in the form of "waste minimization clubs", to persuade the chemical industry to do prevention. Subsequently, pollution prevention has acquired different meanings in Britain (almost exclusively economic) and the US (more of an environmental and health orientation), even though the techniques might be expected to be similar across their chemical industries. The chapter concludes that prevention is not a concept that can be given form in itself. It needs to be connected to other things and made tractable. It has to be demonstrated, linked to numbers, made accessible. Relying on definitions (in the US) or on projects that are very difficult to see, to bring pollution prevention into a workable form has not been very effective. Thus, the other case study chapters help show how actors went on to try to test ways of making prevention tractable and "real" through making tools, institutions, and other artifacts.
Chapter 4 reviews chemical industry perspectives to prevention since the early 1970s. It examines the ways in which prevention has come to be understood in the form of the decentralized activities occurring at plants in Britain and the United States. Source reduction has been enshrined as the regulatory definition of prevention in the US, yet chemical firms in both countries continue to use a broader definition that emphasizes the site-specific, activity-based character of prevention. In both countries, it continues to be difficult to "see" what happens inside plants and in the form of activities whose details are not necessarily reported outside. Therefore, I investigate the varying interpretive conventions used by firms, regulators, and environmentalists to define the "sources" at which pollution should be prevented. I also examine the efforts of some actors, respectively, to use different definitions of "source" to persuade each other to adopt specific preventive activities, or to make activities more "seeable" and "believable". Definitions are political in their uses and in the ways that they can open up social and spatial spaces for some actors. Some environmentalists are trying to change what "site" means by their acts, whereas others rely on changing ideas about "expertise" (see below). Such efforts predominantly occur in the US, reflecting its political culture.
In parallel, I look at the industry's own moves from emissions to plant operations, then to process design, and most recently to chemical reactions. Even through industrial chemistry and process engineering seem to be highly "material", or very difficult to change technically, the evidence is that considerable interpretive work happens, and has happened, in how processes and reactions are thought about. The interesting question, then, is what is driving these new kinds of interpretive work. In part, I attribute this work to tests of new ways of people working together inside plants; the recognition by firms of site-specific knowledge; the emergence of computer modeling as a tool for interpretive play; and new interpretive procedures for studying processes. These are examples of experiments with tools and practices on the industry's part. Then I analyze the emergence of green chemistry, whose proponents argue that, rather than perceiving processes as sources, it is the underlying chemical reactions and their products that should be the target of attention. Interestingly, in the US, it has been regulators who have sought to promote green chemistry, whereas in Britain the ideas of green chemistry took much longer to emerge and were principally supported by academic chemists. I therefore explore green chemistry as an effort by various actors to shape actively what prevention at "source" is understood to mean. Nonetheless, I note that regulators, environmentalists, and citizens are little aware of many of these developments - which presents difficulties for "seeing" and "believing" now and in the future. The chapter concludes that interpretive work can, and does, happen in the chemical industry, thus allowing the kinds of activities seen in the remaining chapters.
Chapter 5 considers the role of regulatory expertise and authority in gaining access to plants and influencing company decision-making. Because prevention is not mandated, regulators are faced with the problems of persuading the chemical industry to undertake preventive activities viewed as site-specific. Whereas British regulators have long recognized - and derived authority from - site-specific expertise and persuasion as central to regulating pollution, their American counterparts have favored a command-and-control practice in which they check the compliance of sites against, and acquire authority from, regulatory requirements. Thus, British regulators should logically be better able to bring about prevention in the chemical industry, if regulatory tradition is thought to be determinative. But in the 1990s, there have been repeated, perplexing failures by regulators in both countries to intervene effectively in plants, irrespective of whether "inductive" (looking at specific settings) or "prescriptive" (making rules regardless of settings) methods are employed. Both countries have tried inductive methods, but these have not worked for different reasons.
I review these failures in detail, as well as various experiments by regulators in each country to try to fashion new ways of regulating in such unpromising circumstances. They have sought to develop new forms and configurations of regulatory expertise, in order to be able to gain entry to plants. Frequently, they have borrowed from the decentralized experiences of private actors. What is striking is that, in Britain, the experiments still remain within the site-specific regulatory tradition, without attention to either their "seeability" or to the involvement of actors other than firms and regulators. In contrast, US regulators are taking more interest in building the capacity to see and believe. For instance, I look at the US EPA's Project XL framework and find it instructive that the majority of chemical plants seeking to participate withdrew their applications. Only one plant so far has proceeded - but that plant's experience is very recent and suggests that the EPA is working to enlist environmental groups and citizens as persuaders alongside regulators (in great contrast to their British counterparts). The chapter concludes that the perplexing puzzle of why regulation has not been effective so far reveals much about the character of pollution prevention. Prevention cannot simply be brought into existence through definitions or regulatory mandates that are really voluntary. Prevention, with its highly particular, site-specific features, challenges the capacity of governments to impose their regulatory templates onto decentralized activities. Rather, a culture of seeing and believing needs to be built to support preventive activities.
Chapter 6 looks at whether and how citizens and environmental groups seek to gain entry to plants, and to participate in preventing pollution. A contentious issue in pollution prevention is whether or not environmental groups and citizens are able to act as "experts" in their own right and to deal with the technical aspects of prevention (as outlined in Chapter 4). I explore the ways in which citizens and environmental groups have invoked and interpreted "expertness" with regard to politics and overseeing industry activities, the health effects of pollutants, or varying local conditions. I explore how prevention in the US has tended to reflect the economic and technical priorities of firms, whereas environmental groups and local activists stress human health concerns in seeking to gain entry to plants. In Britain, health concerns have only just begun to appear, reflecting the contingent nature and different timing of the political and regulatory crises that each country faced (seen in Chapter 3).
I argue that, in the US, there is some growing experimentation in defining expertness and with ways of entering plants. A number of private groups have tried to enlist industry and government experts in the work of examining plants and processes. They have used different routes and institutions to do so. Sometimes, they rely on experts (notably, retired engineers who volunteer to help); at other times, they claim the authority and credibility of expertise in their own right. I examine how these various activities - ranging from good neighbor agreements, citizen campaigns, to collaborative teams of activists and company staff - have begun to shift the boundaries between plants and communities, between experts and lay people. These activities show that plants are unlikely to be fully accessible without access to technical expertise, and that no negotiation process will fit every situation. In contrast, British environmental groups do not seek entry to plants, but to illuminate the pollution that chemical firms generate. In part, this reflects the political culture prevailing in Britain: not only are there considerably fewer environmental groups that target industrial pollution, there is also a lower level of local activist intervention. There is far less experience in seeking to enter plants in Britain. The chapter concludes that extensive, ongoing interpretive work underlies the making of "expertise" in preventing pollution. Expertise is intertwined with efforts to make institutions for entering plants.
Chapter 7 appraises the ways in which quantifying pollution and waste in plants and processes have come to be important for performing prevention. Prior to the mid-1980s, firms focused on the emissions exiting their plants, yet they began to locate preventive opportunities inside processes. I examine the experiments in which chemical engineers and process operators used quantification through waste audits and process surveys (or "mapping") as means to demonstrate to their fellow employees and their companies that pollution should be regarded as part of processes. In this way, some actors inside firms created new "tools" that could be used to interpret the existence of pollution. These tools helped move many firms towards understanding that previously "immutable" processes could be changed to reduce pollution. This occurred first in the US chemical industry, with some firms testing methodologies of mapping processes. In contrast, British firms were initially less inclined to engage in such tests. As a result, "mapping" activities have helped transform pollution and preventive activities into visual terms imbued with great persuasive value. These activities have also helped create new "witnesses," or actors who can testify to pollution prevention's occurrence and possibilities.
Next, I investigate how governments in Britain and the US have respectively made regulatory requirements (or not) for the chemical industry to survey its processes and plants. They have taken divergent routes in taking up the experiences generated by the industry's decentralized activities into regulatory form. Seeing the results of "mapping" in the US chemical industry, British regulators have sought to enforce mapping activities as compatible with valued site-specific knowledge. Their American counterparts have left it to the chemical industry to decide on whether and what to look for. In this regard, the British regulatory approach enforces pollution prevention more than the American voluntary approach. Significant, yet incomplete, advances have been made in the British chemical industry in visualizing processes. Finally, I explore the ways in which mapping activities are nonetheless aimed at specific kinds of witnesses in both countries: those working within plants or companies, rather than regulators and environmental groups. This reflects, and reinforces, the confidentiality of the industry with regard to the interior of plants.
Chapter 8 analyzes the development of pollutant inventories as indicators, or means for "outsiders" to plants to witness progress in preventing pollution. Inventories, such as the Toxics Release Inventory, have rapidly become accepted as evidence of progress by the chemical industry. Yet many actors have come to view numbers as in need of further elaboration if these are to establish that prevention has taken place. In their view, pollution needs to be connected to prevention at specific places. First, I compare the appearance of the Toxics Release Inventory in the US and the Pollutant Inventory in Britain. In the US, pollution numbers have come to be widely used as means for demonstrations by regulators, firms, and environmentalists to prove that prevention needs to be undertaken, and that progress is, or is not, being made. I explore how these numbers were imbued with persuasive value through the creation of new interpretive conventions, such as those associated with emission reductions. To explain the initial failure of pollution numbers to acquire persuasive force in Britain in the early 1990s, I invoke the differences in political cultures between the US and Britain. This illustrates how a culture of seeing and believing needs to be built if there are to be witnesses capable of using pollutant inventory numbers.
Despite the considerably greater visibility of emission releases in the US, activists are paradoxically calling for numbers to be embedded in the context of specific plants and their prevention measures. Environmental groups and local activists in the US increasingly demand that they should be able to observe preventive activities occurring inside plants, not just the reductions in emissions that firms point to as proof of prevention. They have realized that emission reductions do not necessarily equate to pollution prevention. In contrast, in Britain, environmental groups are still trying to establish a culture of seeing and believing in order to be able to say that their numbers reveal the pollution of companies. Many actors in both countries view pollution numbers as most persuasive when these are related to specific sites. Yet both Britain and the US have neglected the possibilities of the most specific kind of quantitative information, namely process level data, in helping establish what firms are doing inside their plants. There have been very few experiments with regulators and local activists in using process level information to work with companies. This is partly because of the confidentiality that is assumed by the industry to surround the practicalities of prevention.
In Chapter 9, I draw conclusions about how the interpretive model of learning can illuminate the emergence of pollution prevention in Britain and the United States. These conclusions include:
· Pollution prevention emerged as a new regulatory possibility, not through conventional learning about environmental problems, but out of culturally and politically specific crises and contingencies in Britain and the US respectively. Prevention, then, shows how new regulatory possibilities result from seeing and responding to the political challenges of how to shore up regulatory authority, not necessarily from identifying environmental problems.
· Pollution prevention did not appear by itself, but needed extensive interpretive work by a wide range of actors to be embedded in institutions and practices. Such work involves persuasion, demonstration, and other activities. This happened in different ways in different places and over different periods. Simply regulating, or at least proclaiming a regulatory preference for prevention, does not lead to pollution prevention taking hold. Rather, social and spatial spaces need to be created for experiments in interpretive work.
· To enable particular institutions and practices to take hold, both nationally and at many local sites, a culture of "seeing and believing" has had to be created and built up through often site-specific, decentralized experiments with "tools" (like pollution numbers) and practices (like ways of bringing community activists inside chemical plants). These experiments help make pollution prevention highly variable within and between countries.
· This experimentation, in turn, has generated many further difficulties for regulators and other actors that are still being realized, let alone responded to. While experimentation can produce valuable experience and innovation, it can weaken regulatory efforts to bring about environmental protection, without looking at how the social and spatial spaces where experiments happen are shaped. Regulation continues to play a central role, but in terms of helping create, enforce, and make public these spaces. "Seeing and believing" need to be attached to these spaces; and we can do this through policy innovations.
Finally, I make some practical recommendations as to creating a "seeing and believing" culture, and attaching this culture to the social and spatial spaces where prevention may take place. They pertain to institutional and regulatory means to empower citizens to make locally contingent, yet enforceable, agreements with industry and regulators; to provide expert and financial resources to activist groups; and to make inductive regulatory processes more easily seen and tracked by regulators.
My bottom line conclusion is that regulation by government is central to the continuing emergence of pollution prevention. It is very difficult to assure that cooperative, voluntary approaches will "work" without careful attention to institutionalizing their visibility and openness to participation by actors outside plants. This insight is based on my extensive evidence of how regulation has facilitated and enforced the invention of tools, institutions, and practices. Many actors in the US, for example, increasingly realized that definitions were insufficient and started to develop tools, such as pollution numbers and waste audits, to "see" prevention more readily. Despite all the experiments with voluntary activities, regulation continues to be a site where many contests over interpretive conventions and access to experiments are fought out. This will shape the chemical industry's development in the next few decades as a transition to green chemistry occurs.
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The more unpredictability, entertainment, and fan appeal a storyline has, the better off the writer, company, and wrestlers are.
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Children's Book Review: Welcome to Monster Isle
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If you are a fan of the Magic: The Gathering artist Jeff Miracola, or even if you're not and just want a colorful children's book, you might want to pick up Welcome to Monster Isle which is going to be released in September 2008. Written by Oliver Chin, it follows the adventures of the Summers family after being shipwrecked while on vacation. I think most people have a bizzare fascination and would probably enjoy being stranded on an island, myself included--at least for a short while. This book will take you and your children on that adventure, and given the beautiful illustrations, your imagination and your children's imagination will be completely immersed in that netherworld known as--well, Monster Isle.
The island itself is divided up into colors with each area having a monster of its own modeled after a number of cryptids that your children might read about in the school library, or that your children might want to read about after this book. They meet Yowie (Bigfoot), Quetzalcoatl the winged serpent, Catoblepas the enormous red buffalo, the Abominable Snowman, Ogopogo (Canadian Loch Ness Monster), the Gryphon, the Zillard (Godzilla-like giant lizard), and finally (and less monstrously perhaps) a living volcano. All monsters on Monster Isle are afraid of each other until the Summers family inadvertently end up bringing them all together, at which point they have a party and help the family back to civilization.
Many children's books seem to operate in stealth-mode when it comes to any type of moral you might derive from it. After reading it, I sat back and couldn't really think of one other than a lesson stating that working together in an otherwise scary world will keep you safe, there is nothing to fear when you stick together, and you might even inspire that scary world around you to be less scary as well. But the moral of the story is pretty second-nature and really doesn't matter in this case. I'm rolling my own eyes by my mere attempt to find one.
The book serves more as an introduction for your kids to things they might hear in history class and in popular culture than as an encyclopedic tombstone of dead facts. Teachers generally teach history and mythology as if they are reading from a recipe as opposed to letting kids taste the food, so any help in increasing their enjoyment in learning about such things is appreciated. The creatures are pulled both from cryptozoology as well as mythologies from various cultures, so the blending of the two will more than likely make history just a bit more fantastic and entertaining. Monster Isle is eye-catching like a child's imagination should be, so it will feel right at home while you're reading it to them before they go to sleep at night.
And Mr. Miracola, on an unrelated sidenote, I'd appreciate it if you send me one of your Black Lotus cards.
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Tayer admits to worrying, however, that there is some threat to the brand Boulder has built around being an innovation hotspot. Being innovative might soon not be enough to stand out as Denver in particular markets itself as a startup community.
"I see it as an opportunity for us to continue to step up," Tayer said. "We need to continue to step up and be the strongest hub of innovation in a network of innovation communities around the state."
Tayer was speaking Oct. 1 at the Boulder County Business Report's CEO Roundtable on Innovation held at the offices of event co-sponsor Berg Hill Greenleaf and Ruscitti LLP in downtown Boulder.
Tayer said he's had mostly good relations with other area communities' leaders, who recognize the role Boulder has played in helping create the surging startup scene in Colorado.
"We generate all sorts of business growth and new business activity, and we can't possibly accommodate it all," Tayer said. "It eventually radiates out and benefits the entire region."
Taylor McLemore, chief executive at Denver-based Prediculous Inc., said the rising tide of innovation in Denver need not be viewed as a threat. McLemore is a Boulder native with plenty of pride for his hometown. But he said one need look only to Boulder startups such as Rally Software Development Corp. and SendGrid Inc. that have made it big in part by straddling the divide between the two communities to leverage the strengths of each.
"Embrace the differences and look at how you can build those together," McLemore said.
McLemore advocated building more of a Colorado brand of innovation rather than a bunch of different community brands. In doing so, he said, "We're going to make it harder for (companies and entrepreneurs) to not choose Colorado."
Everyone at the roundtable agreed that Boulder has plenty of strengths working for it, in particular the support the community shows in rallying around early-stage ideas and supporting them.
Prediculous and Denver-based Brandfolder Inc. went through the TechStars Boulder startup accelerator program over the summer. The access startups have to venture capitalists and experienced entrepreneurs to lean on for funding and mentorship is strong.
However, Boulder also has some limitations, particularly in terms of space and facilities. Scott Rodwin – whose Boulder-based Rodwin Architecture Inc. has spun off the Agora Foundation, a company developing solar-powered and wireless connected gathering places for developing communities around the world – said the architectural stock in Denver provides more diversity for companies that are growing rapidly and have changing space needs over time.
For startups in Boulder that get their start near the Pearl Street Mall, there often comes a point when they have to look elsewhere to find the space they need – but other areas of Boulder where they can go might not convey the same entrepreneurial energy for which central Boulder is known. Much of that, Rodwin said, is an issue of zoning that is too narrow in some parts of town.
Tayer agrees and said Boulder and the business community need to work on developing "more Pearl Streets" around the community to provide the types of urban mixed-use amenities that attract startups and entrepreneurs as an attractive place to live and work.
"We can create those kind of vibrant sites for our innovation office sites to support entrepreneurs," Tayer said. "We just can't always focus on one spot."
Scott Brown, CEO of Bounce.io, officially Swift Labs Inc., said his company did just that in locating in downtown Louisville, an area Brown believes can turn into a Pearl Street type of environment as it relates to fostering innovation.
"We think that area is really emerging for us," Brown said.
Rodwin said Boulder can continue to keep its own strong identity in part by playing host to more events such as those hosted by the Unreasonable Institute to connect entrepreneurs with mentors and investors.
Brian Parks, CEO of Brandfolder Inc., said the biggest advantage of going through something such as TechStars in Boulder was the community and network of experienced CEOs, sales and marketing professionals and investors who can teach startups much more than just how to create a great product.
"There's a lesson there in how you message the power of what you're creating," Parks said. "You have to get your story right, which is difficult."
Getting the story right often is half the battle, if not more, in the innovation realm, Tayer said, so one of the Boulder Chamber's big pushes is to encourage more connection between business and the research and development going on at the area's universities.
That's where Eric Gricus and the Innovation Center of the Rockies come into play, helping bridge that gap between the two sectors. Gricus said university faculty inventors' main focus often isn't the commercial angle of how their discoveries could be marketed to solve consumer problems. Often, those faculty members are innovating simply to push the bounds of science. With secure tenured positions, they are risk-averse when it comes to putting their careers or life savings on the line to try to take an invention to market.
"That's really the key piece in the whole thing," Gricus said of matching the discoveries from academia to business-minded entrepreneurs. "Innovation occurs when we can actually match that to a need in the market that people are willing to pay for."
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Country: LITHUANIA, GERMANY, POLAND
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He missed the bus, and nothing was ever the same. Vladas went to say goodbye to a friend in 1944, as the Soviets were approaching and he and his family were fleeing Lithuania for America. He was late; they were gone, and he wouldn't see his daughter Ruta for 17 years. Flash forward to 1961: Ruta is studying in West Germany, and intrigue is building as East and West Germany are about to divide. Vladas, now forlorn and middle-aged, arrives in East Berlin, hoping to meet up with his long-lost daughter. His Soviet handlers try to lure her from the western part of the city to the East, playing on her desire to reunite with her beloved father. But Ruta hesitates: she's seen people being shoved into black cars and disappearing over the still-porous border. BACK TO YOUR ARMS is an affecting Cold War drama that depicts regular people whose lives were changed by happenstance. It features stylish period settings and original footage of 1961 Berlin. (In English, German, Lithuanian, and Russian with subtitles) B.B.
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Misting works by forcing water through a brass and stainless steel mist nozzle producing a micro-fine mist. The water droplets that create the mist are so small, about one-half the diameter of a strand of hair, that they instantly flash evaporate. This flash evaporation can reduce the surrounding air as much as 35 degrees in just seconds. The mist is so fine that it quickly evaporates to create the cooling effect. The idea is to keep the nozzles at an appropriate distance.
For patio systems, it is ideal to mount the mist line approximately 8 to 10 feet above the ground for optimum cooling. The pressurized nozzles should be spaced approximately 24 inches apart for most misting systems and angling the nozzles 45 degrees away from the targeted area typically provides the best comfort level with the least amount of residual moisture.
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There are 133 peaceful rooms at Hotel Torre Azul Llucmajor, each offering all the essentials to ensure a comfortable stay.
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How did Two-Buck Chuck happen? Millions of cases a year are carted away from Trader Joe's, but where is the winery? For two bucks, we don't get to know. Fred Franzia, the controversial mind behind Charles Shaw wines (aka Two-Buck Chuck), is putting a big American spin on the Old World tradition of wine négociants: merchant-vintners who buy up small lots of grapes or wine from growers and blend, bottle, and sell it under their own label.
Many people in this country who don't own a crush pad or barrel room have jumped into the business ― fermenting and aging at custom or co-op facilities. "Virtual wines," they're sometimes called.
Two-Buck Chuck represents the low end of the spectrum, Charles Creek Vineyard in Sonoma County the high end. Gerry and Bill Brinton, who launched the label, don't even consider themselves négociants ― people who, in their mind, snap up bulk wine at the end of the season and would have a hard time repeating quality. The Brintons ― each with an MBA ― have a business model they believe delivers great wine for a fairer price than traditional wineries can. "There's a lot of overhead in a bottle of wine," Bill says. "Land, bricks and mortar, salaries … " Without the layers, they can price a bottle directly on the cost of what goes into it. And they can control the quality. Not limited to estate grapes, the Brintons buy from many great sources and take an active role in the vineyard.
Location, location, location
Richard de los Reyes of Row Eleven Wine Company takes tradition-breaking further. In the 1980s, he saw a big shift in this country from drinking wine by brand name (Gallo, Beringer) to drinking by variety and region (Napa Cab). At the same time, a lot of planting was going on. When the bottom dropped out of the economy a few years ago, and sales of high-end wine tanked, there was a glut of great grapes to be had.
With connections from both winemaking and brokering, de los Reyes began buying grapes from particular vineyards ― even specific rows ― that he considered perfect sources for the varieties he wanted to make (the 11th row of Solomon Hills Vineyard in Santa Maria, California, being the source of his first Pinot Noir grapes). "The beauty of this thing is that you're not stuck with any property," he says. "You can go anywhere in the world. Where would you go for Pinot Gris? Oregon's Rogue River Valley." He means to sell top-notch wines for about half the going market rate, since he doesn't have to "charge for the château," as he puts it.
Between Two-Buck Chuck and the Brintons and de los Reyes, there are "virtual winemakers" of all stripes. Some of them unload shoddy stuff on us; others offer exciting deals. Here's the rub: It's almost more important to taste these elusive brands than brick-and-mortar products, but it's harder; there's no there ― no tasting room in which to give them a whirl (although Charles Creek has one now, in downtown Sonoma).


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Former Medford Resident to Premiere Movie Sunday
Two stubborn, Italian-American cousins walk into a restaurant…insert the Red Sox, Yankees, and a sexy, hot-tempered waitress… and you've got a recipe for disaster. Boston native vies for laughs with his debut comedy short.
Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the miraculous 2004 Red Sox comeback, North End native Dino Brogna will debut his comedic short film, "27", on June 22 from 5pm to 9 pm at the Irish American Club (177 West Street, Malden).
While filming in Boston, Brogna sat for an interview with Red Sox Hall of Famer and President of Red Sox Nation, Jerry Remy. He had nothing but praise for the film, saying, "I love the passion! New York has won its share, but this one goes to Boston!" Remy continued, "Red Sox Nation will eat 27 up."
"27", set in the North End, is an upbeat comedy about two Italian-American cousins who grew up 250 miles apart, sharing a love for baseball. One a Yankees fan, the other a Red Sox fan, they reluctantly meet for a "friend- ly" dinner. What could possibly go wrong, right?
Brogna has written, directed, edited and produced television and web promos for some of the largest non-profit organizations in the world. He spent five years at TV Guide as a Senior Writer and producer and won national awards for his writing and directing promos for red carpet coverage for the Emmy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards. In 2011, following critical acclaim for his national campaign promoting the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens and the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Brogna decided to pursue his dream to write and produce "27".
"When I started writing the script, I knew there wasn't another story I wanted to tell more than coming from a passionate Italian family, being a proud Bostonian and loving the Red Sox".
Brogna spent $8,000 of his own money to get "27" as far into the production process as he could, then reached out to friends and family through the crowd funding website indiegogo.com and successfully raised the $15,000 needed to get the 25 minute movie filmed. "27" exceeded expectations and averaged $119 per donor.
The premier promises to be a true, Hollywood red carpet experience with a North End flair. The evening will include entertainment, an Italian feast, wine and dancing. Tickets and sponsorship opportunities are available on the "27" movie website, 27themovie.com, which is chock-full of Brogna's humor. As the Bleacher Report's Jeffrey Brown says, "Very funny and on point. The Nation will revel in it!"
Tickets to Sunday's premiere are available at http://27themovie.com/tickets/.
Pictured, left to right: Dino Brogna (writer/director), Candice Barley "Angela", Damon Pampolina "Tony" and Dave Maldonado "Carmine".


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Housing at Muir
Most first-year resident students at Muir live in either Tioga or Tenaya residence halls, and upperclass students live in either the Tamarack or Tuolumne apartments. If space availability is limited at Muir College, and overflow housing assignments at another College are required, these assignments will be based on your housing application date. Housing applications were due with your Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) on May 1.
Housing at Muir is divided into small communities called houses, each consisting of approximately 90 residents in the residence halls, and 150 students in the apartment buildings. There are a total of thirteen lettered houses at Muir: four in Tenaya (A-D), five in Tioga (E-H & J),and two in each in the apartment buildings, Tuolumne (O & P), and Tamarack (S & T).
Houses in Tioga and Tenaya are further divided into suites composed of a group of single, double, triple, and "mini" double rooms. Housing rates are different for each of these types of rooms. Each house has two House Advisors (HAs) who are upperclass students and are committed to developing each house into a fun and productive community.
We encourage every resident to be an integral part of his or her community, and we offer a wide variety of ways to become involved in residential life and college programs, activities and organizations.
Theme Houses
Three of our houses are theme houses -- Cultural, Wellness and Wilderness Houses. Wellness House is in Tenaya Hall, and Cultural and Wilderness Houses are in Tioga Hall. While residents in these houses participate in the same activities as residents of the other houses, each one of these houses attracts students specifically interested in its particular theme. First year students apply to live in these specific houses during June Orientation. Experience is not necessary, and there is no additional, other than what any student would pay to attend an off-campus event, to live in a theme house. Enthusiasm and a desire to be involved are mandatory requirements!
Cultural House at Muir College celebrates the rich diversity Muir students bring to the residential community. In Cultural House, students of different cultures, ethnicities, races, and sexual identities learn from each other and increase their personal awareness of diversity. Muir's LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) and Allies Program, and the OASIS Learning Community are located in Cultural House. Residents participate in programs and activities that may include group discussions, presentations by campus resources, music and dance performances, museum visits, outdoor experiences, study breaks, movie nights, and other student events. Experiencing foods from different cultures are very popular programs!
Wellness House is geared toward active people who are interested in exploring the areas of physical, mental, and spiritual wellness. Activities may include attending sporting events, learning time management, relaxation and meditation techniques, participating in intramurals and spiritual exploration, and learning to live a healthy lifestyle.
Living in Wilderness House is an excellent opportunity to express the individual's relationship with the environment. Students embark on new adventures such as backpacking trips, day hikes, car/beach camping, tide pooling, and rock climbing. Topics of discussion may center around environmental issues and causes, implications affecting our physical environment, and sustainability issues.
Gender Inclusive Housing
Gender inclusive housing is available as a housing option for groups of continuing students. Students eligible for this program must be Muir registered students, guaranteed students, and currently living on campus. Gender inclusive housing allows continuing residents of all genders to live together in a limited number of Muir Apartments. Residency for this housing program will be available with Room Selection information in Spring Quarter.
Important Housing Info Regarding Move-In
- Room assignments will become available on the Housing Room Assignment web page by the end of August.
- Please contact your roommates as soon as possible to discuss living styles in order to avoid "Roommate Ruin".
- Please note your assigned check-in time, as you will not be allowed to check in prior to that time. Your room assignment also gives you a bed assignment which you must honor out of respect for your roommates.
- Residents MUST print out their Qwik-Pass. This must be presented with your picture ID in order to check in. You must check in yourself! There are no exceptions to this policy
- If you are under 18 years of age at check-in, you must have this form completed and signed by your parents or guardians in order to check in.
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ROSEMONT, IL – MB Financial Park at Rosemont is heating things up this summer by partnering with the EVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour to bring a professional volleyball tournament to Rosemont Friday, July 18 and Saturday, July 19. Games will occur in the center of MB Financial Park from 10 a.m. – 11 p.m. each day. 300 tons of white silica sand will be delivered to the Park to create the massive sports beach for the tour.
All-American professional men's and women's beach volleyball teams from across the nation have competed in 20 cities across the country in order to qualify to participate in the EVP Rocks Rosemont championship tournament at MB Financial Park. The winning men's' and women's' teams will compete to receive $10,000 worth of cash prizes Friday, July 18 and the championship title Saturday, July 19. The final pro championship teams that have been qualified to participate thus far include:
EVP Pro Beach Men's Teams
1. Ed Ratledge/Matt Olson – Huntington Beach, CA
2. Ryan Wrublik/Richie Thomas – Glendale, AZ
3. Justin Phipps/James Fellows – Fort Myers, FL
4. Will Robbins/Lloy Ball (Olympic Gold Medalist 08) – Fort Wayne, IN
5. Nate Davis/Kibbee Jelks – Jacksonville, FL
6. Sergio Rios/Martin Cuban – Miami, FL
7. Trevor Grabb/Steve VanderWerp – Detroit, MI
8. Justin Phipps/Jeff Samuels – Panama City, FL
9. Dan Buering/Matt McCarthy – Chicago, IL
10. David Palm Team – Fort Lauderdale, FL
11. Alex Kammermeier/Taylor Hughes – Houston, TX
EVP Pro Beach Women's Teams
1. Irene Hester/Emily Haas – Glendale, AZ
2. Sara Hughes/Kirby Burnum – Hermosa Beach, CA
3. Carolina Sowal/Helene Rancourt – Deerfield Beach, FL
4. Jen Drouin/Heather Martin – Jacksonville Beach, FL
5. Mallory Kiley/Monyka Paul – Palm Harbor, FL
6. Erin Grey/Brianna Hinga – Rosemont, IL
7. Kelly Schumacher/Brooke Niles – Miami, FL
8. Emily Haas/Kelli Dallman – Phoenix, AZ
9. Tarin Keith/Aurora S.Gallagher – Hermosa Beach, CA
10. Priscilla Piantaeosi Lima – St. Pete's Beach
11. Kyra Lancon/Lindsey Shepard – Houston, TX
"The EVP Tour has been traveling the United States for 20 years and we are so excited to come to MB Financial Park in Rosemont for the first time," says EVP Tour Commissioner Ross Balling. "The Village has opened their arms to our staff, athletes and fans to make this event special. I am excited to have 32 pro teams representing 20 states compete this summer. This will be a major event for our staff and the beach sports fans across the US."
Spectators of all ages are invited to watch the volleyball matches free of charge and participate in action-packed activities including meet and greets with professional players and interactive games with chances to win EVP prizes.
This championship event will be filmed for TV broadcast on several networks including Comcast, Attitude, Timewarner and MAVTV.
Leading up to the professional beach volleyball tournament, MB Financial Park and EVP Beach Volleyball Tour will host youth and adult free public clinics on Monday, July 14 and Tuesday, July 15 from 9 – 10 a.m. The clinics will be taught by EVP coaches Shak Jones and Mindy Marx. Advance registration is recommended. To register, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Volleyball fans can also enjoy free public meet and greets with EVP staff and participating athletes:
• Thursday, July 17, 5 p.m.: EVP Staff
• Friday, July 18, 12 p.m. and 5 p.m.: EVP Rocks Rosemont athletes including 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist Lloy Ball and WNBA's Kelly Schumacher
• Saturday, July 19, 12 p.m. and 5 p.m.: EVP Rocks Rosemont athletes including 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist Lloy Ball and WNBA's Kelly Schumacher
About The Village of Rosemont, Illinois: Rosemont, Illinois, Chicagoland's business and entertainment suburb, is conveniently located five minutes from O'Hare Airport and twenty minutes from Chicago's downtown. Rosemont is home to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, a wide variety of hotel and dining options, the Allstate Arena, the Rosemont Theatre and a host of entertainment and retail venues including MB Financial Park at Rosemont and the Fashion Outlets of Chicago. Rosemont continues to grow and evolve based on the new vision of Mayor Bradley A. Stephens. For more information, visit www.rosemont.com.
About The MB Financial Park at Rosemont: MB Financial Park at Rosemont is a 200,000 square-foot entertainment and dining complex whose 10 venues offer upscale international cuisine, live music and comedy, state-of-the-art film, bowling and more. Conveniently located near O'Hare International Airport, MB Financial Park at Rosemont is easily accessible from Chicago as well as the suburbs. The address is 5501 Park Place, a new looping street situated west of River Road between Bryn Mawr and Balmoral Avenues. A 20-minute drive from Chicago's Loop, MB Financial Park at Rosemont is walking distance from the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, the CTA Blue Line Rosemont station and Rosemont Theatre. Convenient parking is available. For more information visit www.mbparkatrosemont.com.
About the EVP Beach Volleyball Tour: The EVP Tour has established itself as the largest national pro-am volleyball attraction in America. The tour travels to 20 key markets across the country hosting qualifying events from March through October with a final tournament bringing together the top volleyball teams from the across the nation. The EVP Beach Volleyball Tour's primary goal is to support beach volleyball events that engage families, fans, athletes, students, communities and sponsors in a great day at the beach. At each event, spectators will not only see elite athletes compete on the sand for top honors, but also have the chance to interact with the pros by participating in contests and promotions at hosting venues. EVP Tour events channel local resources and draw all participants together, benefiting the entire community. For more information please visit www.evptour.com.
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ICCM was founded to serve as a resource for global organizations facing the challenges of operating in a global environment. We provide answers to difficult cross-cultural issues through innovative, rigorous research. We then translate and transfer those findings into well-designed solutions for the real world needs of global organizations. Our management team has more than fifty years of experience leading international teams, working with executives to improve their organizations, and conducting research.
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- 10 years of experience in executive coaching focusing on international communication
- Led culture-related research contracts for the Department of Defense
- Editor of The Age of Internationalization and Leading Global Teams
- Work featured in Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal
- Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Akron
Dr. Griffith is the Executive Director of The Institute for Cross Cultural Management at the Florida Institute of Technology. He is the author of over 75 publications and presentations in the area of personnel selection and is the editor and author of several books, chapters, and journals on the topic. He has conducted funded research for the Department of Defense examining the measurement and training of cross-cultural competence and the development of region specific cultural databases. Dr. Griffith provides coaching in global leadership and executive presentations, specializing in presentations conducted abroad. He is the Associate Editor of the European Journal of Psychological Assessment and the co-editor of "The Age of Internationalization" and the upcoming book "Leading Global Teams: Translating the Multidisciplinary Science to Practice". His work has been featured in Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal. He received his doctoral degree in I/O Psychology from The University of Akron in 1997.
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- 20 years of experience in corporate talent management across multiple sectors
- International executive experience in Fortune 100 company
- Led strategic change, restructures, & merger and acquisitions in over 150 countries
- Designed and implemented global people strategies in several distinct cultural regions
- More than 30 awards for change management processes including Best UK Company
Agnes Flett is the Business Director for Institute for Cross Cultural Management. She is also Managing Director of Interims for HR Ltd., in the UK, providing HR consulting and Interim HR solutions for medium and large sized businesses with international operations. Ms. Flett has over 20 years extensive experience in I/O psychology/HR working in multiple industry sectors; oil and gas, manufacturing, not for profit, retail, travel, corporate communications, recruitment services and professional services, in senior national, regional and global leadership roles and has worked at board level. She has traveled extensively and lived and worked in the Middle East as well as the UK. Prior to founding her own Company, she worked for KPMG, one of the largest professional services companies in the world and one of the Big Four. She held 3 senior HR leadership roles with them over a 10 year period, all with a focus on change transformation. As Global Head of Talent/Performance Management with a reach of over 110,000 employees in over 150 countries, she was accountable for leading global strategic change. She has a MSc in Occupational Psychology from the University of London and is currently a PhD student in I/O Psychology with an international concentration at Florida Institute of Technology in the USA. She is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel of Development, a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists and a member of the Society for Human Resources Management.
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- 10 years of experience in funded research environment
- Led international team for a multidisciplinary university research initiative (MURI)
- More than fifty scholarly works on culture, trust, and teams in the workplace
- Editor of Leading Global Teams: Translating the Multidisciplinary Science to Practice
- Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Central Florida
Jessica L. Wildman, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Organizational Psychology program and the Research Director of the Institute for Cross Cultural Management at the Florida Institute of Technology. She earned her PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Central Florida in 2011. She has co-authored eleven book chapters and ten refereed journal articles and has personally presented over twenty times at professional conferences on topics including cultural competence, trust development and repair, global virtual teams, team cognition, and team effectiveness. Dr. Wildman has experience designing and managing international research as a part of a federally funded multidisciplinary university research initiative (MURI) and developing training for the calibration of trust in military swift starting action teams for a small business innovative research (SBIR) project. She was awarded the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) doctoral scholarship in 2010 and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) best conference poster award in 2009 for her work on measuring trust and distrust as separate attitudes. Dr. Wildman is currently co-editing a book entitled "Leading Global Teams: Translating the Multidisciplinary Science to Practice." Her current research interests include interpersonal trust dynamics across cultures, multicultural work performance, and global virtual team processes and performance.
Michael Wargo
Marketing Analysis Director, ICCM
- 25 years of experience in international advertising and public relations
- Rebranded more than 160 companies worldwide
- Established track record of success in over 40 business sectors
- Expert in advertising and marketing strategy specializing in branding and image development
- Author of "Marketing Strategy. No Shortcuts."
Michael Wargo has been President and Creative Director of Southeast Media Group, a national full-service advertising/PR firm, for more than 22 years. His unique research-based methodology resulted in a highly respected track record of successes in more than 40 industries. He has specialized in branding and image development, and has launched or rebranded more than 160 companies worldwide. Mr. Wargo has recently authored the book "Marketing Strategy. No Shortcuts." which is soon to be published, and is a comprehensive guide to the methodology and hard-work philosophy earning him his status as an expert in advertising and marketing strategy. Mr. Wargo was engaged to play a pivotal role in the development of the ICCM marketing and branding. His savvy and experience and performance made him the perfect choice to head our intercultural branding and marketing analysis division.
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Dr. Adis Vila
ICCM Senior Fellow
Dr. Adis Maria Vila is a professor of international law and international business, corporate executive, government official, academic administrator, practicing attorney, and Certified Diversity Executive. Dr. Vila brings broad general management experience in higher education administration, government, telecommunications, agriculture, and international business. She is multicultural and fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Dr. Vila lectures widely before business and professional groups on foreign direct investments, US-Latin American relations, regulatory policy, corporate governance, leadership development, diversity and inclusion, and ethics. She is published in the field of foreign direct investments in The International Lawyer and the Law and Business Review of the Americas. In April 2012, the National Civic Review published her article titled, "Building a Culture of Inclusion at the U.S. Air Force Academy." The winter issue 2013 of INSIGHT Into Diversity includes Vila's recent article titled, "Next Steps for Building a Culture of Inclusion at the U.S. Air Force Academy." Dr. Vila was recently recognized at the 2014 ICCM Summit for her role as a Senior Fellow.
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Beth Gitlin, MBA/MA
ICCM Fellow
Ms. Gitlin serves as co-chair of the Institute for Cross Cultural Management (ICCM) steering committee. She is President/Owner of Global Passages in Melbourne, Fl. Her company provides international trade consulting for medium and large-sized businesses. Ms. Gitlin has 20 years of experience in retailing, manufacturing and importing/exporting consumer packaged goods in a global environment. Prior to owning Global Passages, she was VP of Imports and Product Development for General Foam Plastics Corporation, a manufacturer and importer/exporter of seasonal products. Additionally, she served 9 years with Wal-Mart in various merchandising and international positions with responsibilities involving trade with over 26 different countries. Previously, she served 4 years as a Lieutenant in the US Army. Ms. Gitlin teaches Cross Cultural Management, Global Business Perspectives and Essentials of Business Development courses at Florida Institute of Technology's College of Business. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Florida Institute of Technology with an International Concentration. She is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists and Rotary International.
Curtis Curry, MBA/MA
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Mr. Curry has trained over 20,000 leaders and individual contributors from companies around the world including Roche, Kraft, Disney, Ford Visteon, and the largest NASA contractor, United Space Alliance, among others. Currently President of Quality Learning International, he has facilitated scores of leadership programs in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Curtis served as Director of Training, Center for Business & Industry, Miami-Dade College; Director, World Trade Institute of the Americas; and Director, Peace Corps Training Center for Honduras and Nicaragua (Entrena/CHP). He has spearheaded the development of over 100 courses and workshops, is certified in a number of DDI, Covey, CCL, CPP, Center for Conflict Dynamics, Herrmann International, and Zenger-Miller products, and is a qualified administrator for Kozai Group's Global Competencies Inventory and Intercultural Effectiveness Scale. He speaks fluent Spanish, French and conversational Portuguese. He is a member of the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches, the International Association of Coaches, the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), and the Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research.


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Anna Kendrick Gets Her 'Twilight' And 'Lord Of The Rings' Knowledge Put To The Test!
Anna Kendrick is not new to dealing with passionate fans. She has worked in all the "The Twilight Saga" films (albeit as a human instead of a supernatural creature), has a small role in the upcoming "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" and has been a long time fan of "Lord of the Rings."
Fortunately, we at MTV don't allow such self-proclaimed passionate fandom to go untested, so while Anna was promoting "Scott Pilgrim," MTV News' Josh Horowitz decided to give her a little quiz to see how well she knows "Twilight" and "Lord of the Rings."
It shouldn't be a big surprise that Anna did better with the "Twilight" questions than with the "Lord of the Rings" questions, considering working on a project for three years and being a fan are two completely different things. Still, we think the "Twilight" questions were a bit easier than the "LotR" ones, so we'll give her that.
The first "Twilight" question gave Anna no issues: What classroom do Edward and Bella meet in? "Biology," she answered quickly, then yelled, "Oh my god!" when she got it right. The first "LotR" question tripped her up a bit though, when Josh asked Anna how many years had passed between "The Hobbit" and "LotR." He gave her a pass because she wasn't a self-avowed "Hobbit" fan, and hadn't read the book.
Anna quickly answered the second "Twilight" question as well: What make of car does Edward drive? The answer, of course, is Volvo, which we know from all those crazy Volvo promotions whenever a "Twilight Saga" film is about to be released.
But we were definitely disappointed in Anna when she didn't get the second "LotR" question: Which beloved character from the books did not make it into the films? As we found ourselves mouthing "Tom Bombadil," Anna was frantically answering, "I don't know. I don't know!" Maybe she's more a fan of the books than the movies?
The next "Twilight" question tripped her up a bit too, when Josh asked her what city Jessica and Bella went prom dress shopping in. He needed to give her a little hint — "It rhymes with Mort Vangeles" — before she answered quickly, "Port Angeles!"
Fortunately Anna had a comeback with the next "LotR" question, quickly answering "Howard Shore" when asked who composed the music for the trilogy. She didn't have any problems with the next "Twilight" question (mine!) either, knowing that it was Lauren and Jessica from the books who, combined, are her character Jessica in the films.
Last but not least, Anna was able to name all nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring without any hints from Josh (though she did slip out a bleep-worthy word while trying to figure then out). Apparently Anna's not the biggest fan of pop quizzes, though, because she looked a bit shaky by the end of the interview. Sorry Anna, but you did do a great job!


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Since the realities of life can be a little heavy at times, I tend to find myself more often than not reading some strange, absurd work of fiction for a nice escape. For example, I just finished reading a debut novel written by Darynda Jones called First Grave on the Right which can be best described as Stephanie Plum meets Grim Reaper. Overall, it was a very odd story that I highly enjoyed but it left me puzzling over how I would categorize it. You must remember that humans have a driving need to put their world in order… librarians especially. But books similar to this one that don't fit nicely into one particular genre freak me out. Therefore, I group them all into a made-up group I collectively call Quirky Reads to keep calm. So check out my top 5 quirky reads and click on the links to place a reserve on a title. If you think my choices are not the best, I'll forgive you… but please add your favorite quirky reads to my list so I can maybe find something new to read.
1. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore (basically anything by him fits)
2. Monster by A. Lee Martinez
3. Gone With the Windsors by Laurie Graham
4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
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Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo Names Russell T. Ippolito, Jr. To Lead
April 20, 2007 – Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the appointment of Russell T. Ippolito, Jr., as Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Buffalo Regional Office.
Russ Ippolito has served as an Assistant Attorney General assigned to the Criminal Prosecutions Bureau for the past seven years. During that time, Ippolito prosecuted white collar crimes and was one of four prosecutors statewide to prosecute environmental crimes.
Prior to joining the Office of the Attorney General, Ippolito served as Second Assistant County Attorney at the Erie County Attorney's Office, where he led the county's civil litigation bureau. In that capacity, Ippolito represented the Erie County in the historic nationwide tobacco settlement securing $548 million in tobacco funds for the county. Ippolito was appointed to the position in 1997 by then-County Executive Dennis Gorski.
Ippolito began his career in 1990 at the Erie County District Attorney's Office where he served with distinction for almost eight years under former District Attorney Kevin M. Dillon, and current District Attorney Frank J. Clark.
"I am pleased to appoint a veteran prosecutor like Russ to this important post," said Attorney General Cuomo. "He brings a wealth of experience and professionalism and I am happy to have him in a leadership role. Russ is one of the many high-caliber individuals at the Attorney General's Office, and he will serve the Western New York community well."
"I want to thank Attorney General Cuomo for this opportunity," Ippolito said. "The Attorney General has announced a very ambitious agenda and has set clear priorities for the office. I look forward to working on these priorities, which include the ongoing investigation of the student loan industry and the effort to assist the Erie County District Attorney's Office with a backlog of unsolved homicides."
Ippolito will manage the Attorney General's largest regional office, which consists of more than twenty attorneys and a support staff of more than sixty individuals.


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This was kind of unexpected. There was some speculation that Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man's Chest would beat out M. Night Shamalyan's The Lady In The Water, but no one would have guessed that Lady would also fall to Monster House, a new animated feature about a scary house.
The worst part is that Lady only made $18 million in the opening weekend, which really sets it up for failure. In the meantime, Pirates has scooped up over $300 million, and it rapidly on its way to becoming Disney's highest grossing film of all time.
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The Hotel is situated opposite Christchurch Cathedral. To park, turn right onto Werburgh Street and there is a public multi-storey car park, Christchurch Car Park (fee applies). Access to the rear of the hotel is situated on level 4 of the car park.