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Union College's annual Minorities Day next week will feature Anne Nurse, Ph.D., from the College of Wooster in Ohio, who will focus on racial bias in today's courts.
Nurse, who is an associate professor of sociology, will be speaking on the topic of race in the juvenile justice system. Her lecture will be held in Conway Boatman Chapel on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 9:30 a.m.
Linda Silber, Ph.D., organizer of Minorities Day, said she asked Nurse to speak because her message targets a broad audience.
"I thought that this subject (race in the juvenile justice system) would be of wide interest across the campus," Silber said. I would encourage students, faculty and staff, as well as the wider public, to attend the talk since anyone can benefit from learning more about how and why our criminal justice seems to perpetuate racial bias," Silber said.
Additionally, Silber's juvenile delinquency class focuses on a lot of the same issues that Nurse will address. Silber uses Nurse's book, "Locked Up, Locked Out," in her classes.
The annual Minorities Day event is, "a time to think about, and attend to, issues related to race and ethnicity," Silber said. She added that a lot of the problems dealt with during the Minorities Day lectures are more relevant to today's society than most people would believe.
"While some argue that we are living in a post racial society in which race and ethnicity no longer matter, most sociologists argue that this is far from the case, since race and ethnicity continue to have real consequences in people's lives, regardless of where they live in the United States," Silber said.


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December 22, 2008 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: Attention HANDS Agencies
SUBJECT 2: Attention Agencies Who Have Not Yet Received All Their Measuring Equipment
SUBJECT 3: Breastfeeding Coordinator Training
SUBJECT 4: Blood Work for Infants Effective Immediately
SUBJECT 5: Back Order until December 29, 2008 (Bright Beginnings Soy Pediatric Drink)
SUBJECT 6: Corrected Food Package Codes for Bright Beginnings Soy Pediatric Drink
SUBJECT 7: New to WIC Works - Breastfeeding a Magical Bond of Love
SUBJECT 8: "Growing" Stickers for WIC children
- Attention HANDS Agencies: Many of you have called the WIC Help Desk recently with questions regarding procedures to follow when a WIC participant transfers to your agency from a MOWINS clinic. You will find four scenarios attached that will help you with these questions. If you have additional questions please call the WIC help desk at 800-554-2544.
- Attention Agencies Who Have Not Yet Received All Their Measuring Equipment: Seasons Greetings from Jeff. City! We hope you have benefitted from the measuring equipment sent to your agency. The remainder of your order will soon ship from Perspective Enterprises with an expected delivery date of Dec. 19.
We must receive verification that you received this equipment by December 24th in order to pay the invoice. Please either fax the packing slip to 573/526-1470 or e-mail email@example.com verification of receipt as soon as possible!! It is VERY VERY important that we confirm that your agency received this equipment before the invoice can be paid.
- Breastfeeding Coordinator Training: A Breastfeeding Coordinator training is scheduled for April 1st and 2nd, 2009 in Jefferson City. The two-day session will cover the role of the Breastfeeding Coordinator, basic breastfeeding information, 3-Step Counseling, and guidelines for loaning breast pumps, including information on assembly, use and cleaning.
Training Dates: April 1 & 2, 2009
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (first day) and 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. (second day)
Location: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, 930 Wildwood, Jefferson City
The training is mandatory for all new Breastfeeding Coordinators, unless they have attended the BFPC Regional training "Loving Support through Peer Counseling". Any other staff member who would like additional information on breastfeeding is welcome to attend. Email or fax the attached registration form to the State WIC office by March 18th, 2009. If you have any questions, please contact Kathy Mertzlufft by email at email@example.com or by phone at 573-526-4792.
- Blood Work for Infants Effective Immediately: The state office has received questions from local WIC providers regarding when a blood work is required for infants. All infants shall have a blood work collected between 9 through 11 months of age. One blood test for children is required between 12 – 23 months of age (recommended at 15-18 months of age, ideally to be done 6 months after the infant screening). For example, the infant's blood work was taken at 9 months then the child's blood work would be taken at 15 months.
Blood work documentation: HANDS agencies will document the results on paper (HWPR printout, H208 screen or progress note) and not in the system. MOWINS agencies will enter the results in the Height/Weight/Blood tab in the participant's folder. Attached is a one-page reference sheet clarifying this information. Please contact the district nutritionist assigned for your county if you have further questions.
- Back Order Until December 29, 2008 (Bright Beginnings Soy Pediatric Drink): PBM Products, LLC has notified the State WIC office that Bright Beginnings Soy Pediatric Drink is on back order until December 29, 2008. Please contact State WIC office if you have questions.
- Corrected Food Package Codes for Bright Beginnings Soy Pediatric Drink: The food package codes for Bright Beginnings Soy Pediatric Drinks in the Formula and Food Reference Sheet dated November 1, 2008 were incorrect. Attached is the corrected Page 12 in which food package codes for Bright Beginnings Soy Pediatric Drink are listed. Please share the attached sheet with your staff and use food package codes if Bright Beginning Soy Pediatric Drink is available in your area. Currently, Hy-Vee, Gerbes and Kroger grocery stores carry this product in Missouri. However, local WIC providers must call WIC vendors for its availability before issuing checks. Direct shipment is available through the WIC State office. If you have any questions, please contact Takako Tagami at email@example.com.
- New to WIC Works - Breastfeeding a Magical Bond of Love: (WIC Hispanic Breastfeeding and Promotion Project) provides research-based, culturally-sensitive breastfeeding resources that address perceived barriers to breastfeeding among Hispanic participants.
Visit http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/Learning_Center/support_bond.html to find pamphlets, posters, a video, project summary and discussion guide - all available to download and use with WIC clients. Questions can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. (Note: WIC Works has a new email address)
- Growing Stickers for WIC Children: The State WIC office has shipped the "Growing" stickers to local WIC providers who responded to the State office by December 4, 2008. If your agency is interested in using the stickers and has not yet requested them, please e-mail the following information to Sheila Dessieux at email@example.com by January 9, 2008:
- Name of Contact Person
- Name of Agency
- Agency Number
The stickers are limited in number at this time; therefore, we will ship the stickers to local WIC providers who requested them. If you have any suggestions and/or questions, please contact Takako Tagami at email@example.com.
Participant Transfers
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Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, ca. 1665. Oil on canvas, 17 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (44.5 x 39 cm). Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, Bequest of Arnoldus des Tombe, 1903 (inv. no. 670)
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Mr. Thiha Saw sits at a table in the Washington Post boardroom, listening attentively about the role of the newspaper as part of the free and independent press in the United States. As Editor in Chief of Burmese news outlet, Open News, this is another sign of Burma's rapid transformation. Mr. Saw is one of four Burmese journalists and government officials on a Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) sponsored program designed to provide U.S. support towards fostering a vibrant media culture in Burma.
I met Mr. Saw and his colleagues last Monday, and he highlighted his longstanding connections with U.S. public diplomacy initiatives and people-to-people exchanges. As a journalist he had frequent contacts with our embassy in Rangoon, traveled to the United States on an International Visitor Leadership Program in the early 1990s, and now was here as part of an effort to open up the press environment in Burma.
While in the United States, the Burmese delegation learned from the U.S. Department of Justice about best practices for creating a new media law and participated in a dialogue with their U.S. counterparts at Hearst News Bureau, the Washington Post, NPR, CBS, the New York Times, and Columbia University School of Journalism. By hearing about U.S. journalistic practices, and creating new professional networks with fellow media professionals, they gained deeper understanding of journalism in the United States and the role of a free and independent media in a democracy.
I am thrilled to support these trailblazing media professionals who are promoting democratization in Burma. By contributing to the formation of a new media law, these Burmese journalists are strengthening the backbone of a democracy: a free and independent media.


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The trainees in the room studiously took notes, as Sergeant Danielle Reynolds demonstrated the pat search procedures that the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women (NCCW) uses on inmate visitors. When Sergeant Reynolds finished her demonstration, the trainees peppered her with questions and shared stories of their own searches. One had a particularly hair-raising tale:
"In my facility, we decided to start searching children who were visiting. We patted down an infant and found two hand grenades in his diaper!"
Sergeant Reynolds' audience was not a typical class of cadets. Nine women corrections professionals from prisons across Afghanistan traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska, from October 8-22, to participate in a training program at the NCCW. They came to observe a U.S. women's prison, to study the practices of the NCCW staff, and to receive instruction in areas of particular need such as classification, cell searches, prison industries, education and reintegration programs, and nursery care. In the process, the Afghan and Nebraska officers engaged in countless conversations like the one above, swapping stories about inmates and learning from each others' experiences.
I, along with my Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) colleague, Andrea King-Wessels, had the honor of helping to plan the training and coordinating the Afghans' stay in Lincoln. Our job was made easier by a fantastic demonstration of good-will from an unexpected source. While dining at an airport McDonald' en route to Lincoln, the group accidentally overpaid for their meal. The diligent cashier, realizing the mistake when she cashed out her register an hour later, walked through the terminal until she found the groups' interpreter to return the money. It was a truly remarkable display of honesty, and the Afghan trainees were shocked that the cashier would make the effort to return their money.
Throughout the training, we were impressed by the adventurous spirit and sense of humor of this group of women as they navigated lost luggage, strange food, and the bewildering array of items on sale at superstores. Most importantly, though, we appreciated their obvious eagerness to grow professionally and bring the lessons of their training home to Afghanistan.
Women corrections professionals play a vital role in providing security and humane care for inmates in Afghanistan. They search female visitors at provincial prisons, help run the women's prisons in Herat and Kabul, and work in the women's wing of prisons in Afghanistan's other provinces. Many prisons in Afghanistan suffer from overcrowding, and crumbling infrastructure makes providing sophisticated programming for inmates difficult. The Nebraska training was part of INL's larger commitment to support the Afghan government's efforts to improve conditions at women's prisons.
The program was the product of collaboration between INL and the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDOCS). INL has developed partnerships with state departments of correction as a way to provide hands-on, cost effective training for its corrections support programs. In Nebraska, NCCW Warden John Dahm and Staff Training Specialist Habib Olomi worked closely with INL representatives to develop a curriculum, identify mosques and dining options in the area, and prepare staff to host the training.
At a graduation ceremony on October 20, Warden Dahm and NDOCS Director Robert Houston presented the Afghans with diplomas certifying their completion of the training program. NCCW staff and the Afghans shook hands, embraced, and thanked each other for lessons learned and friendships made in the previous two weeks.
Maureen in Massachusetts writes:
Afghan Women/Joseph Bertini --
Hats off to the INL and NDOCS for collaborating with the Afghan Women Corrections Professionals. It is nonetheless a surprising and ingenious idea for those (not in the know) to hear of such a peace building initiative between Afghanistan and the US.
The women who exchanged ideas and trained with the Nebraska Correctional Center will hopefully be trailblazers for security concerns in their facilities but also in the role at home as primary caregivers where mindsets of the young are formed.
The training, swapping of stories and new sense of understanding may help build the future in ways that will serve the security of both countries. Thank you for the post.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (459 votes).
In short: What a lovely run (bar the hills that is.......)In full: This was such a lovey event the scenery was stunning (probably helped by the great weather). The organisation was brill and everything worked well. However the hills were just brutal...The first hill is quite bad for starters but then knowing you have to do it again at 7km is quite hard. For that reason Im not sure I would do it again next (I always say that though).Date of review: February 4, 2007
In short: great race in a great settingIn full: Found the hills tough going but not impossible by any means. Wonderful venue and the final sweep down to the finish really was something quite special. In terms of location it was second only to Westonbirt arboretum. Excellent organisation and a really nice atmosphere. Overall I would have to highly recommend this.Date of review: February 4, 2007
In short: Great race, well organised & lovely views across the Longleat estate.Date of review: February 4, 2007
In short: challenging run; beautiful sceneryIn full: Glorious weather today to showcase the glorious settings. Even a deer joined us for part of the race, darting left right and centre probably scared of the crowds! Managed to do a PB by 1 minute despite the 3 hills (and yes, the last hill was tough, coming after 7K and on legs burning from the effort!)Date of review: February 4, 2007
In short: never bored with this one,Great everything.Sorry to see Dorothy house get a smaller cut of the proceeds though. Date of review: February 4, 2007
In short: HILLY!!!In full: Obviously a race set in the grounds of longleat is going to tick all the scenery boxes but there is more to consider. This, in my opinion, is a seriously hilly run; don't go to Longleat if you're looking for a personal best. The course is a figure 8 around the estate which incorporates 3 long climbs and 3 long gradual down hills with the odd spot of flat in between; the final Kilometer back down the main drive to the house is awesome and inspires you when you're at your lowest. Competitors consist largely of people running the Bath 1/2 in march and using this as an early test; as such there are all sorts there but in all this is one of the slower packs i've run in. The organisation was ok, although there could have been a few more portaloo's (isn't this the same at every event though), access is easy and parking is free and close to start. The Bling is pretty cheap but you can get it engraved for £3 and I would have been a happier customer of 209 events if I had had a goody bag; i'm shallow like that but thanks to SIS for the much needed drink at the finish. All said i will be going back next year for another lung bursting slog up those hills because it's a damn testy 10k.Date of review: February 4, 2007
In short: Well organised, tough incline (twice!), spectators a bit quiet - well worth the effortDate of review: February 4, 2007
In short: lovely day great weather conditions if a little coldIn full: I thought the race had three tough hills and was set in lovely estate of Longleat.Parking on the side of the exit road did cause exit problems and I left before 1200.Lack of toliets the usual at these large events.I will be back to hopefully to beat my time in 2008.Date of review: February 4, 2007
In short: Hilly, yes, beautiful, yes, great finish, yes, do it again? Yes.In full: Third time of running this now and today's weather made it glorious. Beautiful scenery in the frost, well supported at the finish (which you pass 3 times) and although it is hilly there are nice downhill stretches to make up the time if not the energy. Do it next year if you haven't done it yet.Date of review: February 4, 2007
In short: For the entry fee they could afford more toilets! In full: When I and my friend arrived we oculd hear te liions roaring and then later the wolves were at it as well. Very atmospheric! I haven't run a "race" for ages and I'd forgotten how enjoyable it is to join a thousand others to go for a gentle jog around the English country side. The hill are proper hills and your thoughts going up the first seem to concentrate on knowing you have to do it again. And by that time you won't be as fresh! So perhaps a couple of minutes walking too. But it isn't a crime to catch your breath. I was pleased with my time but this was not an easy run at all.Expensive at £17 and they really should provide more toilets for the entry fee. However, if it hadn't been for the queue we woudln't have got talking to some nice runners. What a friendly bunch we can be!!!!Date of review: February 4, 2007
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Abstract: Davis & Hibbitts, Inc. (DHI) is pleased to present a summary of key points based on focus group research conducted for a consortium of organizations working on a regional industrial lands strategy. The purpose of the research was to solicit opinions about industrial land availability and industry location considerations from six perspectives â geographic, warehousing/ distribution, business park/flex space, manufacturing, large campus industrial, and land use/environment/agriculture. This focus group research is part of a larger, broader effort to reach consensus on an industrial lands strategy for the region. The Port of Portland is leading this planning effort, along with the Oregon Economic Development Department, Portland Development Commission, Columbia River Economic Development Council, Commercial Real Estate Economic Coalition, Metro, and Portland General Electric. The full report presents in much more detail the key ideas and themes that emerged from the discussions which may be useful in deciding what additional research and planning needs to be done. Because this was a qualitative study, the information describes, rather than quantifies, the variety of views among focus group participants. [From the document] Description: 87 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Tables, appendices. Published July 15, 1998. Captured January 13, 2008. URI: http://www.portofportland.com/PDFPOP/Trade_Trans_Studies_Indrl_Lnds_Fcs_Grps.pdf
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DSU President Harry L. Williams spends a lot of time meeting with DSU stakeholders, which includes the primary constituent of the University – its students.
Dr. Williams often meets with student groups in the comfortable confines of his office, such as this recent meeting with the Senior Class officers.
While Dr. Williams meets monthly with the DSU Student Government Association executive officers, he also carves out time for a variety of other student groups. In these gatherings, Dr. Williams talks to the students about their academic journey and campus life at DSU and gets a sense from them what is working on campus and what can be improved upon.
"I would be remiss if I didn't take time out to sit down often with the students and listen to them talk about their experiences on campus and their thoughts on how we might do things better," Dr. Williams said. "Our efforts to be the number one HBCU in the country have to have the input of our students."
Over the last academic year, Dr. Williams has met with various class officers and SGA elected officials, ethnic student organizations, spiritual and religious student groups, Inspire Scholars, and other organizations and clubs on campus.
Gianna Harris, Senior Class vice president, said she greatly appreciated her group's meeting with the DSU president. She noted that most students at other universities do not get that opportunity.
I admire that he sat down with us and that he valued what we said. He listened to us and he was engaged in the conversation," Ms. Harris said. "I believe that President Williams is in the process of making changes to the University for the better!"


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The task of
"learning to rank" has emerged as an active and growing area
of research both in information retrieval and machine
learning. The goal is to design and apply methods to
automatically learn a function from training data, such that
the function can sort objects (e.g., documents) according to
their degrees of relevance, preference, or importance as
defined in a specific application.
The relevance of this task for IR is without question, because many IR problems are by nature ranking problems. Improved algorithms for learning ranking functions promise improved retrieval quality and less of a need for manual parameter adaptation. In this way, many IR technologies can be potentially enhanced by using learning to rank techniques.
A workshop entitled Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval will be organized at SIGIR 2008, following a very successful workshop on the same topic at SIGIR 2007 (website: http://research.microsoft.com/users/LR4IR-2007/ report: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1330000/1328974/p58-joachims.pdf?key1=1328974&key2=3383457021&coll=GUIDE&dl=&CFID=62683274&CFTOKEN=33141712 ). The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together IR researchers and ML researchers working on or interested in the technologies, and let them to share their latest research results, to express their opinions on the related issues, and to discuss future directions.
We solicit submissions on any aspect of learning to rank for information retrieval. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
l Models, features, and algorithms of learning to rank
l Evaluation methods for learning to rank
l Data creation methods for learning to rank
l Applications of learning to rank methods to information retrieval
l Comparison between traditional approaches and learning approaches to ranking
l Theoretical analyses on learning to rank
l Empirical comparison between learning to rank methods
Shared Benchmark Data
Several shared data sets have been released from Microsoft Research Asia (http://research.microsoft.com/users/LETOR/). The data sets, created based on OHSUMED and TREC data, contain features and relevance judgments for training and evaluation of learning to rank methods. It is encouraged to use the data sets to conduct experiments in the submissions to the workshop.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission site (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/LR4IR2008/). Submitted papers should be in the ACM Conference style, see the ACM template page, and may not exceed 8 pages. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The review is double-blind; authors should conceal their identity where it is practical to do so. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the workshop. The proceedings will be printed and made available at the workshop. At least one author should register and attend the workshop.
9:00~10:00 Keynote I: On the Optimisation of Evaluation Metrics (by Stephen Robertson)
10:00~10:30 Coffee break
10:30~12:30 Session 1: Learning to Rank Algorithms - I
1) SortNet: Learning To Rank By a Neural-Based Sorting Algorithm (Leonardo Rigutini, Tiziano Papini, Marco Maggini, Franco Scarselli)
2) Query-Level Learning to Rank Using Isotonic Regression (Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Gordon Sun)
Meta-Learning Approach for Robust Rank Learning (Vitor R.
Carvalho, Jonathan L. Elsas, William W. Cohen, Jaime G.
4) A Decision Theoretic Framework for Ranking using Implicit Feedback (Onno Zoeter, Michael Taylor, Ed Snelson, John Guiver, Nick Craswell, Martin Szummer)
12:30~13:30 Lunch
13:30~14:30 Keynote II: A Structured Learning Framework for Learning to Rank in Web Search (by Hongyuan Zha)
14:30~15:30 Session 2: Learning to Rank Algorithms - II
1) A Framework for Unsupervised Rank Aggregation (Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth, Kevin Small)
2) Machine Learned Sentence Selection Strategies for Query-Biased Summarization (Donald Metzler, Tapas Kanungo)
15:30~16:00 Coffee break
16:00~17:00 Session 3: Benchmark Dataset for Learning to Rank
1) Selection Bias in the LETOR Datasets (Tom Minka, Stephen Robertson)
2) How to Make LETOR More Useful and Reliable (Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Jun Xu, Hang Li)
17:00~18:00 Session 4: Opinions on Learning to Rank
Workshop proceedings can be downloaded here.
Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia
Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia
ChengXiang Zhai, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alekh Agarwal, University of
California at Berkeley
Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
Donald Metzler, University Massachusetts
Einat Minkov, Carnegie Mellon University
Filip Radlinski, Cornell University
Guirong Xue, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University
Guy Lebanon, Prudue University
Hongyuan Zha, Georgia Tech
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National University of Taiwan
Irina Matveeva, University of Chicago
Javed Aslam, Northeastern University
John Guiver, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Jun Xu, Microsoft Research Asia
Kai Yu, NEC Research Institute
Michael Taylor, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Olivier Chapelle, Yahoo Research
Ping Li, Cornell University
Quoc Le, Australian National University
Ralph Herbrich, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Ravi Kumar, Yahoo Research
Tao Qin, Tsinghua University
Yisong Yue, Cornell university
Zhaohui Zheng, Yahoo Research
Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology
Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia
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St. Norbert College to hold tours during Wisconsin Private College Week
July 14-19, 2008
From St. Norbert College, June 3, 2008
by Mike Counter, email@example.com, (920) 403-3089
Students and families are invited to tour St. Norbert College and visit classrooms, residence halls, and other facilities with knowledgeable guides. Individual tours, including a meeting with an admission representative, can be scheduled each weekday during Private College Week and on a limited basis on Saturday, July 19.
If you would like to visit St. Norbert College during Wisconsin Private College Week you are encouraged to make an appointment. For more information call (800) 236-4878.
The Office of Admission is also open throughout the summer and offers campus visits, as well as application fee waivers, on a daily basis to all prospective students considering St. Norbert College.


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The major in art offers three tracks:
The Department also offers minors in Studio Art and Art History.
Studio art courses focus upon the creation of works of art: drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramic pieces and digital works. The studio art program emphasizes the concepts, materials, methods, and forms most commonly found in contemporary art. Students are guided toward mastery of technique and expression of ideas, which can be further pursued in graduate school, and lead to professional careers in fine arts, design, fashion, architecture, gallery and museum work, and teaching.
Introductory Classes
This component consists of three basic classes: 2-dimensional design, 3-dimensional design, drawing, and a survey class in art history - relevant to any pursuits in studio art.
Intermediate Classes
In this segment of the major students take a more advanced array of generally required classes - painting, digital art, sculpture, contemporary art (an art history class), and a seminar that introduces students to contemporary topics and practices in making art.
Advanced Classes
The advanced classes are ones in which students achieve increased focus and greater sophistication in their artwork. The classes in this strata include two advanced classes in a single vein of art making (painting, drawing, sculpture or digital art) an advanced seminar in art and the senior project.
This is a developmental program designed to bring students along from an early level of advancement as an artist to a highly developed conclusion. An important feature of this small and intimate program is that it is well suited to respond to individual goals and abilities. Those needing a lot of structure and guidance receive it, and more ambitious and independent individuals are given enthusiastic support in their endeavors.
Art history is the study of art objects and their relationship to culture. Courses in art history strive to utilize local art collections, including those at the Getty Center and Villa, the Norton Simon Museum, the Huntington Library, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. With additional study at the graduate level, art history can lead to professional careers in college teaching, museum curatorship, fine arts librarianship, and publishing.
Introductory Classes
Introductory classes are defined as courses broad in scope, such as Art 206 Western Art, 1400-present or Art 211 Expressive Arts of Africa (cross listed with Anthropology 321). These courses need not be taken sequentially. Students are required to take three courses from this category of four, which includes Art 206, Art 211, Art 205 Western Art, Prehistoric-1400, and Art 207, a historical survey of women artists in the west from 1550 to the present.
Intermediate Classes
Intermediate classes are defined as courses with a more narrow focus in time or space, such as Art 367 Art of the Eighteenth Century or Art 381 Art of Mexico. Readings in intermediate art history courses can be challenging, and students taking these courses will have writing assignments asking them to connect primary sources to the images they are studying in class. Five courses at this level must be taken. Typically students take Art 381 Art of Mexico, Art 370 Contemporary Art, Art 369 Age of Dada and Surrealism, Art 368 Age of Impressionism, and Art 382 Art of Colonial Spanish America.
Advanced Course
In their junior or senior year, students take Art 392, the advanced seminar in art history. In this course, students produce original work in art history. Under normal circumstances, the student's public presentation, which takes place at the Colloquy in December, develops out of assignments created for this course. The studio elective (any course in studio art) required by students on the art history track may be taken at any time. Students often fulfill it by a three-week January Term course.
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The main hall of this historic building is filled. Expectations are high. My friends, the reason is clear. It is the well-being of our planet and all living beings. It is the security of future generations. It is the integrity of the chain of life.
This week, you can make a difference for future generations. You can make enormous progress towards reaching agreement on reducing and eliminating the so-called "dirty dozen". We know why we must act. These are toxic substances that last a long time in the air, water, and land. They travel across regions and the world, far from the source of release. They build up in the food chain, and become more concentrated in human beings and whales. They are passed on to the next generation in the womb and breastmilk. Truly travellers without passports.
We know too that the problems are complex. Dioxins from combustion are virtually everywhere in the world. Equipment with polychlorinated biphenyls is aging, and could leak. Stockpiles of unwanted and obsolete stocks of pesticides are piled up and poorly controlled.
Complex problems require coordinated and cooperative action. No one country acting alone can solve this problem. It is a global threat, and it requires a global commitment.
But that is why we are here. The time is ripe for resolution. The Governing Council recognised the urgency by setting a deadline for agreement of this year, the first of the new millennium. Only one more negotiating session remains after this week. It is essential that you work together now to reach agreement and meet this deadline. This is what the people of the world expect. I am confident you will make excellent progress this week and succeed in your goals because I have seen your work at negotiations in Montreal, Nairobi, and Geneva, and urge you to keep up your hard work out in the same constructive spirit.
One of your most important tasks will be to draft provisions that will enable developing countries and countries with economies in transition to be active partners under the Convention. These provisions will cover both technical assistance and a financial mechanism for providing resources. There are many options and ideas. I have looked at the excellent work of the Implementation Aspects Group and its bureau. There is a solid basis on which to build consensus.
I want to emphasize my concern that countries need to come together on the funding issues. We all understand that the convention will be asking developing countries to shoulder new responsibilities. Where they lack the means to accomplish its goals, we must find a way to work with them.
But we cannot wait for the treaty to be in place. Direct support to these countries has to start in earnest now. This will help ensure that countries can get the tools and build the base for reducing or eliminating releases of persistent organic pollutants. Through the generosity of several donors, UNEP, working closely with the other UN agencies like UNECE, FAO and WHO, has been able to make a start in strengthening capacities. I note too the valuable expertise and experience being freely exchanged between countries. But this is an area that must be greatly strengthened leading up to the Conventionþs entry into force. Our efforts now will help build programmes for POPs reduction or elimination, and the environmentally sound management of chemicals for the long run.
There is an additional advantage -- and wisdom -- to taking direct action now. The period before the convention enters into force is the ideal time to apply creative programmes to meet the needs of developing countries. This approach will generate knowledge and experience. Once the convention enters into force, the Conference of the Parties can draw on this experience to refine the approach taken. I believe your discussions on these issues will be -- and must be -- fruitful. It is a very good sign that all the regional groups spent most of Sunday afternoon meeting to work toward a positive outcome. This spirit of consensus building and compromise is the way forward.
In Geneva, you addressed a number of major issues. You developed a proposed schedule for measures to reduce or eliminate releases of the intentionally produced persistent organic pollutants. You reached consensus on an approach to eliminating production of all 10 intentionally produced POPs, while providing an exemption for DDT to protect public health from vector-borne diseases like malaria.
In addition, you accepted the report on establishing scientific criteria and a procedure for identifying additional pollutants for future action. This part of the treaty will help ensure the flexibility and means for addressing toxic pollutants in the future.
Now you need to continue this progress. Your chair, Dr. John Buccini, has given you a scenario note with a very good set of expectations for outcomes. One core objective is to complete work on Article D, addressing all aspects of the control decisions for the 12 substances: the intentionally produced ones, the unintentionally produced by-products, and managing and disposing of POPs-containing wastes. Here, you need to establish elimination of production as the ultimate goal of the convention for the intentionally produced POPs, with certain limited exemptions. These exemptions could be reviewed at a later date to see if they are still necessary. You also need to determine the most appropriate approaches for dealing with dioxins and furans effectively as well as POPs-containing wastes.
Another of your objectives is to review in depth and make proposals on such matters as national implementation plans; information exchange; public information; awareness and education; and research, development, and monitoring. Finally, there needs to be firm proposals on all of the other remaining aspects of the convention.
The Chairman's goal, which I share, is to make the draft of this treaty as complete and final as possible to enable you to take home a nearly finished convention for consultation in your capitals. Of course, not every issue will be resolved, but this 4th INC meeting should enable you to focus on the key handful of issues to be resolved by you at the next session. With this strategy, I believe there can be a final agreement at INC-5 in South Africa this year, and countries can go to Stockholm in May of 2001 prepared to adopt and sign the treaty.
The world is waiting for a global treaty on persistent organic pollutants, and it is watching what you do here this week. The momentum is here. The time for action is now. I am confident you will come together and give the world and generations to come strong and effective safeguards against these poisons.
Your Excellencies, Distinguished Colleagues, Dear Friends:
* May I say how pleased I am to address and participate in this twelfth meeting of the Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean region in Barbados today. This meeting is a symbol of the continuing determination on the part of the governments of this region to address themselves to a fundamental - the fundamental - element of this region's future development.
* For me, personally, there could be no more appropriate place than here, on this continent, before this gathering of friends, to make my formal remarks to this august ministerial gathering. This Ministerial Forum has been built on the basis of friendship and collaboration amongst its members - who share the same goals, commitments and ideals. I recognize many friends in this distinguished audience and I also see some new faces. I extend a warm welcome to all of you.
* I know that this is an important meeting of the Ministers of the Environment of this region. The importance of the Caribbean region to the global environment cannot be underestimated. We all know of its great influence - social, cultural, economic and environmental on the development of the entire region.
* We in the United Nations Environment Programme eagerly look forward to the results of your deliberations. I am confident that your deliberations will touch on some vital issues of the day. I refer in particular to the strengthening of institutional cooperation, exchange of information and identification of priorities for action. Your decisions will not only have impact on the policies of your region. They will also form a valuable input to the deliberations in other international fora as well.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
* The Latin American and the Caribbean region possesses a rich and varied natural resource base. The need to protect its rich biodiversity, numerous scenic sites, ecosystems, habitats and diverse social and cultural groups are only one side of the picture.
* On the other side is an equally important challenge that all of you face daily. And this is the promotion of economic growth, the satisfaction of basic social needs such as health, employment, education, housing of your people along with the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources of the region.
* A regional body like this Forum of the Ministers of the Environment is, thus, not an end in itself. It is an institutional means of reaffirming and reinforcing shared values as well as common interests. It is also an outward expression of inward unity.
* Those who see strong regional cooperation as a rejection of broader global cooperation miss the point that a strong regional architecture is central to our ability to manage and advance a larger global agenda. The new international landscape with the diffusion of economic power, emergence of global environmental problems and the advent of great regional blocs is a manifestation of a global system in which we have become more and more interdependent.
* The danger that we have to guard against is the unravelling of the systems of international cooperation where narrow self- interest and isolationism become the order of the day.
* The importance of strengthening regional cooperation can be seen in the light of the recent environmental disasters that have occurred in this region. I refer in particular to the hurricane Mitch, the loss of large wooded areas from forest fires in Mexico, Central and South America, the extreme flooding in Venezuela and some Caribbean countries and the extreme drought caused by the El Ni¤o phenomenon.
* These events have magnified the environmental fragility of the countries in the region. Beyond the loss of human life, the damage to the physical and productive infrastructure, these natural disasters have setback the economic development of the region.
* The last Meeting of Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean held in Lima, Peru, identified some priorities for action. These priorities are included in the Environmental Action Plan. The priorities are environmental management, participation of the citizens, making trade and environment mutually supportive, environmental education and training, integrated environmental management of coastal zones, oceans and watersheds, biological diversity and protected areas and climate change.
* To develop activities in order to implement these priorities, the Forum of Ministers decided to establish an Inter- agency Technical Committee which included UNEP, UNDP and the Inter-American Development Bank, ECLAC and the World Bank.
* The establishment of this Inter-agency Technical Committee is a landmark achievement of this Forum. And, it could serve as an example of coherent and efficient institutional collaboration which leads to the sharing of human, financial and institutional capacities.
* I would like to express my deep gratitude to all the members of the Technical Committee. Their dedication and commitment have made this instrument a successful reality.
* Under the umbrella of this Committee, several actions have been jointly implemented in support of the Environmental Action Plan. For example, the technical report on territorial bio- regional basis for planning; the assistance to countries affected by Hurricane Mitch, Georges and flooding in Venezuela; the establishment of an Environmental Unit for Regional Coordination in Central America; the establishment of the Regional Coordinating Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification; the study on policy, law and the management of biosafety in the region.
* We have before us a great opportunity to strengthen a new strategy. This strategy is based on the formulation and implementation of an environmental programme of action in which one of the central points is international cooperation.
* The advantage of this approach, from our point of view, will be:
- Greater capacity of our institutions to address the environmental priorities of the region;
- Consistent coordination among governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations and international institutions;
- Greater cost effectiveness and more responsibility and transparency in response aimed at solving the environmental problems of the region; and
- More flexible access to respond to requests on a timely and effective basis.
* I am very happy that the countries of this region are participating actively in the efforts to protect the ozone layer. 32 of the 33 countries have ratified the Montreal Protocol with Haiti being the only exception. The countries are implementing vigorously the projects to phase-out the CFCs with the help of the Multilateral Fund. We recognise the excellent work of the national ozone focal points. I urge you, the Ministers and high officials here to support and encourage the work of your Ozone Officers in phasing out the CFCs. You should also expedite the ratification of the different Amendments to the Protocol by your countries. Your formal ratification of these Amendments will add strength to your efforts to protect the ozone layer. While the Multilateral Fund has been enormously successful in giving the resources, I would like to emphasize the importance of regulations and policy measures to reduce and phase-out the CFCs in your industries. I urge you to expedite the introduction of the necessary policies in your countries.
* On behalf of UNEP, I would like to assure you that our full institutional capacity will be employed to work towards achieving the objectives that bring us together here today, and particularly the implementation of the environmental programme of action for the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources of the region.


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Rochester ranked No. 39 in its trade with NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada in a study that highlights metropolitan areas critical to North American competitiveness.
A Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program report released Thursday said the Rochester area did nearly $3.7 billion in trade with North America partners, with Canada making up $2.3 billion of the total in 2010. Total trade with Mexico was $1.4 billion. Machinery and tools were found to be the top exported commodities to both countries.
The report, "Metro North America: Cities and Metros as Hubs of Advanced Industries and Integrated Good Trade," offers the first analysis of production and trade among North America's metropolitan areas and identifies the top metropolitan trading relationships across the three countries, Brookings Institution officials said.
Twenty years after the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, advanced
manufacturing sectors today extend their supply chains across the United States, Mexico, and Canada, anchored by productive metropolitan hubs in all three countries, authors of the report said. The report is part of the Global Cities Initiative.
"The world is emerging as a network of cities that link together through trade and learn from each other about how best to urbanize," said Bruce Katz, Brookings vice president, co-director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, and co-director of the Global Cities Initiative, in a statement. "Nowhere is that more clear than in North America, given the integrated nature of the U.S., Mexican, and Canadian economies."
Among other findings "Metro North America" noted:
The North American share of world exports has dropped steadily over the past two decades, the report states. "Metro North America" offers recommendations for how the United States, Mexico, and Canada can reverse this decline and reposition themselves together on the global stage, officials said.
Brookings Institution is releasing the report in advance of the Global Cities Initiative's forum in Mexico City on Nov. 14. The forum, "GCI Mexico: Boosting North American Competitiveness," is expected to bring together leaders from the United States, Mexico, and Canada, who will have participated in a series of tours, workshops, and networking events in Querétaro and Mexico City.
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Present to the meeting: Nix (facilitator), Jessy, Alasdair, Julie, and apologies from Mike.
Studios: Nix promised the artists that studios would be up by 4/9 but they'll be cleared by tomorrow instead (Any help appreciated). Lots of stuff to be moved in the hall or somewhere (not the Action room). Nix will endeavour to have the studios cleared because studio n°1 (magda) and 3 (sara) are required for urgent use. N° 2 (Jamima), 4 (Nix) and 5 (Carmen) will be up for rent soon. Nix has a waiting list of 3 people which will be contacted soon. The price increase that was decided but not implemented is going to affect them.
Sound team: Jessy - we are missing mics. We have 5 out of 9 - Noe's using one. Nix - proposal: a&f wg to try and buy 2 new ones (45£ each). Ideally we need 9 mics.
Mysterious humming sound from the PA. AP for Jessy to get rid of dust in the amps by next month. 1 tweeter is busted - AP: ask Owen to look at it. Proposal: replace monitors. Might get new ones for free.
Cave: both marshall guitar amps might be broken from before the festival. AP for Jessy: speak to Owen. We have a new black curtain to dampen the sound thanks to amazing vollies. Drum kits: the festival has mashed the drums. Tom Drum is going to fix them next week. AP for Nix to make sure he does.
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Darkroom: will hopefully be ventilated and open from tuesday. Just waiting for the fan. More to follow. Brittonie+Lara cleaned it all and set it up. Brittonie will start doing workshops in it soon.
Tools/workshop: ok state. Work has been done on it recently. Will be sorted by the end of next week.
Pianos: baby grand piano in the hall needs legs fixed nicely. Could be tuned and repaired by the man who fixed the one in the foyer for 50£. We might then hire it to people for 10£/h and use it for jazz/classical music nights and it will pay for itself. Piano in the cave: we should get rid of it, it's not economic to repair.


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Writing in The Guardian, historian Peter Frankopan looks at how the Byzantine Empire, which had "the distinction of being one of the very few realms to survive for more than a millennium," might offer clues to a way out of the current Eurozone crisis.
Frankopan, author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, notes that "like the EU, the Byzantine empire was a multilingual, multi-ethnic commonwealth that spread across different climates and varied local economies, ranging from bustling cities to market towns, from thriving ports to small rural settlements. Not only that, but it also had a single currency – one, furthermore, that did not fluctuate in value for centuries."
More on the history of the Byzantine gold coin known as the solidus or, in Greek the nomisma, here.
Frankopan asserts that government in Byzantium was "lean, simple and efficient."
If Eurocrats could learn from the structure of the empire, then so too could they benefit from looking at how it dealt with a chronic recession, brought on by the same deadly combination that has crippled western economies today. In the 1070s, government revenues collapsed, while expenditure continued to rise on essential services (such as the military); these were made worse by a chronic liquidity crisis. So bad did the situation become that the doors of the treasury were flung open: there was no point locking them, wrote one contemporary, because there was nothing there to steal. (more…)


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Good Morning!
We have some Easter Cards to share with you from our Design Team today! These will definitely get you inspired to create some festive projects this week while you wait for the Easter Bunny to arrive.
First up we have a super cute card from Design Team Member Cari Locken. Cari used Core Essentials, Gemstones and Whitewash Cardstocks and some Queen & Co. pearls along with the Cricut Expressions & Spring Holiday Cards Cartridge.
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Wilbur H. Friedman Professor of Tax Law, Co-Chair, Charles E. Gerber Transactional Studies Center, 2010 Willis L.M. Reese Award for Excellence in Teaching. Joined Columbia faculty in 2004. Current areas of teaching and research interest are federal income taxation, taxation of financial instruments, tax policy, tax administration, economic analysis of deterrence, and social norms.
B.S., M.S. Electrochemistry, highest honors, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, 1988. J.D. Yale, 1998. Editor-in-Chief, Yale Journal on Regulation; Editor, Yale Law Journal. Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, 1998-2004, specialization in taxation of financial instruments. Member, American Bar Association, American Law and Economics Association, National Tax Association, and the Tax Club.
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"Irredeemably Inefficient Acts: A Threat to Markets, Firms, and the Fisc," Georgetown Law Journal (2014)
"Accepting the Limits of Tax Law and Economics," Cornell Law Review (2013)
"Relational Tax Planning Under Risk-Based Rules," University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2008)
"The Cost of Norms: Tax Effects of Tacit Understandings," University of Chicago Law Review (2007)
"Crime and Punishment in Taxation: Deceit, Deterrence, and the Self-Adjusting Penalty," Columbia Law Review (2006)
"Contextual Analysis of Tax Ownership," Boston University Law Review (2005).
Congressional Testimony
Taxation of Financial Products: Options for Fundamental Reform, Testimony at the Joint Hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means and the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, December 6, 2011
Tax Treatment of Derivatives, Testimony at the Hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, March 5, 2008
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Rachilde 1860-1953
(Born Marguerite Eymery) French novelist, short story writer, dramatist, biographer, autobiographer, and critic.
Rachilde is considered an important figure in the fin-de-siècle French Decadent movement. Characterized in public life by her male dress, and habit of calling herself a "man of letters," Rachilde tittilated readers with frequent depictions of unconventional sexuality, including gender inversion, androgyny, and homoeroticism. Her most well-known novel, Monsieur Vénus (1884), is a meditation on the nature of sexual desire from the female perspective.
Biographical Information
Rachilde was born near Périgueux in southwestern France. Her mother was the daughter of a successful publisher, while her father was the illegitimate son of an aristocrat and a colonel in the French army. As a child Rachilde's relationship with her mother was strained, and she often felt the harsh disappointment of her father, who made it clear that he would have rather had a son. Informally educated in her parent's home, she was allowed to peruse the works of her grandfather's library, where she discovered the works of the Marquis de Sade. In her youth she turned to writing as a form of imaginative escapism, producing her first novel at the age of sixteen. She moved to Paris in 1878 to begin her career as a writer. Once there she adopted the name Rachilde and applied for permission from the French authorities to dress as a man in public. She published her first novel Madame de sans-Dieu that same year. In 1884 she won immediate notoriety with the publication of her fifth book Monsieur Vénus. The work, because of its frank and iconoclastic depiction of sexuality, was almost immediately banned in neighboring Belgium under charges of pornography, quickly earning her the appellation "Mademoiselle Baudelaire." By the late 1890s, Rachilde's weekly salons in Paris had become well known, and in 1889 she married Alfred Vallette. The following year, the couple began publication of Mercure de France, a journal devoted to promoting the literary works of the Symbolists and Decadents. Rachilde contributed short stories to the periodical (later collected and published separately under the title Le démon de l'absurde in 1894), and wrote regular reviews for it until 1914. After World War I she continued to produce novels as well as a handful of nonfiction works, most notably her biography Alfred Jarry; ou, le Surmâle de lettres (1928). By this time, however, she was experiencing somewhat failing health and had taken to collaborating with other authors on many of her novels. In 1935 her husband died, leaving her with little money. She continued to write well into her eighties, producing her final work, the autobiographical Quand j'étais jeune, in 1947. She died at the age of 93 in 1953.
Major Works
The vast majority of Rachilde's writings were novels in the Decadent style. Among her early novels, Monsieur Vénus is typical in its emphasis on passion and sexuality from a female point of view. In this work Rachilde inverts the gender roles of master and mistress by allowing its heroine, Raoule de Vénérande, to take a working-class man as her lover. After his violent death in a duel, however, she withdraws from society and succumbs to a pathological depression. Several works that followed dramatized similar themes. La Marquise de Sade (1887) is a psychological study of Mary Barbe and her burgeoning sadism. Androgyny and gender ambiguity are the motifs of Madame Adonis (1888), in which the recently married Louise Bartau falls in love with a enigmatic woman whom she believes to be a man. The heroine of Le Jongleuse (1900) forsakes all men, choosing instead a Greek vase as the object of her amorous desires. The varied manifestations of sexual deviance are evident in a host of Rachilde's later novels, including studies of incest L(es hors nature, 1897), erotic obsession (L'heure sexuelle, 1898), and pedophilia (La souris japonaise, 1921). In her dramatic works Rachilde often employed symbolism to explore deeply hidden emotions or to develop a social critique. In Madame la Mort, first performed in 1891, a young man's thoughts of suicide are personified as Madame Death, who vies with his living girlfriend for his love. Le vendeur de soleil, originally staged in 1894, criticizes the inability of the bourgeoisie to appreciate natural beauty, as its protagonist attempts to sell indifferent passers-by a glimpse at the setting sun. Of her nonfictional works, Rachilde's essay Pourquoi je ne suis pas fé ministe (1928), is among the most telling. Semi-autobiographical in format, it describes her thoughts on relations between the sexes and explains the sources of her often misogynistic writings.
Critical Reception
Rachilde achieved considerable celebrity in her lifetime, in large part due to the publication of Monsieur Vénus and the charges of immorality it elicited. Her fame grew with the production of several plays in the 1890s and her many contributions to the Mercure de France into the early twentieth century. After the First World War, how however, her popularity declined as her Decadent novels—no longer in vogue—began to take on a bleaker and more cynical tone, and her strong female protagonists were replaced by mysterious and brooding male figures. Rachilde is little known outside of France and Belgium; only a few of her novels, including Monsieur Vénus and Le jongleuse (The Juggler), have been translated into English. Nevertheless, Rachilde, although typically appreciated for the role she played in the French Decadent movement, has most recently attracted the attention of critics for her nascent Modernism, as well as for her exploration of sexual politics and changing gender roles.
Principal Works
Madame de sans-Dieu (novel) 1878
Monsieur de la nouveauté (novel) 1880
La Femme du 199e régiment (novel) 1881
Histoires bêtes pour amuser les petits enfants d'espirit (short stories) 1884
Monsieur Vénus (novel) 1884
Nono (novel) 1885
Queue de poisson (novel) 1885
A mort (novel) 1886
La virginité de Diane (novel) 1886
La Marquise de Sade (novel) 1887
Le tiroir de Mimi-Corail (novel) 1887
Madame Adonis (novel) 1888
Minette (novel) 1889
Le mordu (novel) 1889
Les oubliés: L'homme roux, filles de neige (novel) 1889
La sanglante ironie (novel) 1891
Théâtre: Madame la mort. Le vendeur de soleil. La voix du sang (dramas) 1891
L'animale (novel) 1893
Le dé mon de l'absurde (short stories) 1894
La princesse des té nè bres (novel) 1896
Les hors nature (novel) 1897
L'heure sexuelle (novel) 1898
La tour d'amour (novel) 1899
Contes et nouvelles, suivis du Théâtre (short stories, novellas, and dramas) 1900
La jongleuse [The Juggler] (novel) 1900
L'imitation de la mort (novel) 1903
Le dessous (novel) 1904
Le meneur de louves (novel) 1905
Son printemps (novel) 1912
La délivrance (novel) 1915
La terre qui rit (novel) 1917
La découverte de l'Amérique (novel) 1919
La maison vierge (novel) 1920
La souris japonaise (novel) 1921
Le grand Soigneur (novel) 1922
L'Hôtel du grand veneur (novel) 1922
Le château des deux amants (novel) 1923
Le parc du mystére [with Homen-Christo] (novel) 1923
La haine amoureuse (novel) 1924
Le Théâtres des bêtes (short stories) 1926
Refaire l'amour (novel) 1927
Alfred Jarry; ou, Le surmâle de lettres (biography) 1928
Madame de Lydone, assassin (novel) 1928
Pourquoi je ne suis pas féministe (essay) 1928
Le prisonnier [with André David] (novel) 1928
La femme aux mains d'ivoire (novel) 1929
Portraits d'hommes (biography) 1929
L'homme aux bras de féu (novel) 1930
Notre-Dame des Rats (novel) 1931
Les voluptés imprévues (novel) 1931
L'amazone rouge (novel) 1932
Jeux d'artifices (novel) 1932
La femme Dieu (novel) 1934
Mon étrange plaisir (novel) 1934
Les accords perdus (novel) 1937
L'autre Crime (novel) 1937
La fille inconnue (novel) 1938
Pour la lumière (novel) 1938
L'anneau de Saturne (novel) 1939
Face à la peur (novel) 1942
Duvet d'ange (novel) 1943
Quand j'étais jeune (autobiography) 1947
Daniel Gerould (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "Madame Rachilde: 'Man' of Letters," in Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1983, pp. 117-22.
[In the following essay, Gerould presents an overview of Rachilde's literary works, including several of her best-known plays.]
One of the most colorful and appealing figures in Parisian artistic and literary circles at the turn of the century—a period rich in flamboyant characters—was Marguerite àEymery, wife of Alfred Vallette (founder of the magazine Mercure de France) but known to her readers and fellow writers by her pen name Rachilde. Author of dozens of novels with provocative titles (The Marquise de Sade, The Sexual Hour) that...
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Jennifer Birkett (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "'La Marquise de Sade': Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) 1860-1953," in The Sins of the Fathers: Decadence in France 1870-1914, Quartet Books, 1986, pp. 159-89.
[In the following essay, Birkett provides a psychological interpretation of Rachilde's works.]
Woman's place, for the writers and artists of the decadence, was inside the work of art, as an image to fix the male imagination. If Rachilde, almost alone of women writers of her period, was accepted into the Club des Hydropathes and Le Chat Noir, patronized by Victor Hugo and Barbey d'Aurevilly, approved by the misogynists Huysmans and Léon Bloy, and befriended by Verlaine, Jean Lorrain, Catulle Mendès,...
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Melante C. Hawthorne (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Monsieur Venus: A Critique of Gender Roles," in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. XVI, Nos. 1 & 2, Fall, 1987 & Winter, 1988, pp. 162-79.
[In the following essay, Hawthorne argues that Rachilde 's literary portrayal of gender roles lends her works a greater interest and relevance than they are usually accorded.]
A review of recent Modern Language Association Bibliographies reveals that most nineteenth-century French women prose fiction writers have received little critical attention. (The exceptions are, of course, Madame de Staël and George Sand.) Those who have been considered (Hortense Allait and Louise Colet, for example) have not been...
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Robert E. Ziegler (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "The Suicide of 'La Comedienne' in Rachilde's La Jongleuse," in Continental, Latin-American and Francophone Women Writers, edited by Eunice Myers and Ginette Adamson, University Press of America, 1987, pp. 55-61.
[In the following essay, Ziegler analyzes the implications of the sadistic behavior of Rachilde's female protagonists, focusing on the novel The Juggler.]
Swords and daggers, bayonets and scalpels: all the pointed instruments men use for invading others' bodies are appropriated by the women characters in the novels of Rachilde. In the evolution of "l'amour compliqué" [Maurice Barrès, Preface, Monsieur Vénus] that Barrès sees emerging...
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Melanie C. Hawthorne (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: "The Social Construction of Sexuality in Three Novels by Rachilde," in Michigan Romance Studies, Vol. 9, 1989, pp. 49-59.
[In the following essay, Hawthorne regards Rachilde as a novelist whose works presented a view of human sexuality that was in opposition to the dominant psychological and medical theories of the late nineteenth century.]
In his multi-volume work on the history of sexuality, Michel Foucault explains how, with the rise of capitalism, sexuality passes from action to discourse: the energy previously invested in action is transformed into discourse about action. One of the resulting intersections of power, sexuality, and knowledge...
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Melanie C. Hawthorne (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Introduction to The Juggler by Rachilde, translated by Melanie C. Hawthorne, Rutgers University Press, 1990, pp. xi-xxix.
[In the following essay, Hawthorne focuses on Rachilde's thematic and technical innovations in her novel The Juggler.]
The novelist Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery Vallette) became an instant success in French literary circles when, at the age of twenty-four, she published her fourth novel, Monsieur Vénus (1884). Her celebrity stemmed in large part from the public condemnation of the book: it was published by Brancart in Brussels, where it was immediately declared pornographic. Copies of the book were seized, and Rachilde was...
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Ben Fisher (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "The Companion and the Dream: Delirium in Rachilde and Jarry," in Romance Studies, No. 18, Summer, 1991, pp. 33-41.
[In the following essay, Fisher examines depictions of delirium in Rachilde's La princesse des ténèbres and Alfred Jarry's Les jours et les nuits, claiming that these works illustrate a view of dream-states differing from the theories advanced by Sigmund Freud in his Interpretation of Dreams.]
It is inevitable that discussion of the dream in literature, and particularly over the last hundred years, tends to focus on Freud and the relevance of Freudian interpretation. The mark of Freud upon twentieth-century thought is in fact so...
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Melanie C. Hawthorne (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "To the Lighthouse: Fictions of Masculine Identity in Rachilde's La Tour d'Amour," in L'Esprit Createur, Vol. 32, No. 4, Winter, 1992, pp. 41-51.
[In the following essay, Hawthorne interprets Rachilde's novel La tour d'amour as an allegory of the author's place as a woman writing in a literary world dominated by men.]
"Is a pen a metaphorical penis?" asked Gilbert and Gubar in their study of women writers, [The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination] encapsulating the question of the role of gender in women's writing in the nineteenth century. The cultural assumption of a link between writing...
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Renee A. Kingcaid (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "The Epithalamic Horror: Displacement in Rachilde," in Neurosis and Narrative: The Decadent Short Fiction of Proust, Lorrain, and Rachilde, Southern Illinois University Press, 1992, pp. 111-44.
[In the following essay, Kingcaid argues that the world of Rachilde's literary works is symbolic of the functions of women's bodies, especially the female reproductive system.]
To be a woman writer at the turn of the century, Rachilde maintained, was to assume an unenviable personality. Rachilde's preface to her 1888 Madame Adonis assures that the "woman of letters" commits herself to "a god-awful career, the most god-awful career possible." Engaged in by...
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Will L. McLendon (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Rachilde: Fin de siècle Perspective on Perversities," in Modernity and Revolution in Late Nineteenth-Century France, edited by Barbara T. Cooper and Mary Donaldson-Evans, University of Delaware Press, 1992, pp. 52-64.
[In the following essay, McLendon perceives what is usually considered perverted behavior in Rachilde's fictional works as an indirect means used by the author to protest oppressive social conventions and institutions of her time.]
So far from constituting a threat to "good" moral values of the belle époque, the offbeat French novel of the 1880s and 1890s, often subtitled "Parisian Manners" or even "Foreign Manners" and regularly kept...
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Margaret Bruzelius (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: '"En el Profundo Espejo del Deseo': Delmira Agustini, Rachilde, and the Vampire," in Revista Hispánica Moderna: Columbia University Hispanic Studies, Vol. XLVI, No. 1, 1993, pp. 51-63.
[In the following essay, Bruzelius examines the figure of the vampiric female as portrayed in the works of Rachilde and Uruguayan author Delmira Augustini.]
I have been faithful to thee,
Cynara, in my fashion.
The nineteenth century fascination with the femme fatale may have reached its apogee in the figure of the Vampire—that marble white, silent woman with luxuriant hair, heavy...
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Elaine Showalter (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Decadent Queen," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4813, June 30, 1995, pp. 5-6.
[In the following essay, Showalter discusses the dominant themes in Rachilde's works.]
In "Grape-Gatherers of Sodom", a remarkable story about the genesis of homosexuality published in 1894, the French writer Rachilde displayed the perverse tastes and sensuous prose style that had won her the nickname "Mademoiselle Baudelaire". Out of the walled town of Sodom comes a procession of male grape-pickers led by a stern patriarch. As they rest in the vineyard, the men are approached by a naked girl, her breasts burned black by the sun, who seductively twines about their sleeping...
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Further Reading
Lukacher, Maryline. "'Mademoiselle Baudelaire': Rachilde and the Sexual Difference." In Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille, pp. 109-69. Durham, N. C: Duke University Press, 1994.
Feminist, psychoanalytic readings of Rachilde's Monsieur Vénus, La Marquise de Sade, and Le meneur de louves.
Waelti-Walters, Jennifer. "Perversion and Social Criticism." In Feminist Novelists of the Belle Epoque: Love as a Lifestyle, pp. 156-73. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Discusses Rachilde's presentation of sexual deviance in her novels as a critique of nineteenth-century bourgeois morality.
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I like sriracha salt (I make mine with garlic sriracha) on some pizzas, but not sure I understand why you'd put it in the dough. Why not just sprinkle some on the dough before or after baking or mix into one of the toppings?
Bill,I dont think I have seen garlic sriracha sauce in my area, but will have to look more. The garlic siracha sauce even sounds better.
I don't know why they would add the intermediate step. If you want the flavor in the dough, why not add sriracha directly to the dough?
IIRC, the brand I use is "Shark"
Thanks Bill. I have looked at the Green Store near me and they don't carry that brand. I will have to look in some Asian stores.Norma
Norma, I do recommend trying out Shark brand, you may find it suits your taste buds better than Rooster. Don't know until you try. I tried both awhile back in a comparison test for baked Sriracha chicken wings and myself and my taste testers liked both, but the Rooster sauce better, but I didn't change amounts in the sauces and Rooster is the stronger of the two. Don
Norma,I used the last of my Shark supply for some salt so I can't tell you the exact product. I'll shoot a photo of the label once I buy more. The Asian store I frequent has dozens of different brands and varieties, many with sketchy English descriptions or ingredient lists.
Craig,Would you ever consider trying to add Sriracha Salt to a Neapolitan dough?
Norma, Interesting taste off of different brands. The label for Shark brand is the one with the chili on the lable. Also notice the obvious rip off with the double chicken. Funny.http://www.vietworldkitchen.com/blog/2009/07/sriracha-chile-hot-sauce-taste-off.html
No. I don't like flavored crusts. I put a lot of time and effort into getting the culture flavors I want in my dough. I can't imagine adding an overpowering flavor to it.
Bill, Thanks for saying you will post a picture of the Shark label once you purchase some more. Norma
Norma,Here is what I usually buy; I like it, but I'm no expert.
Norma, Was the store out of century eggs? Kidding, it's a acquired taste, or smell perhaps.Don
I have one word for you, Norma: balut. There are two types of people in the world: those who will fearlessly try anything once and would happily try this Philippine fertilized duck egg. And then there those sane people who take one look at this gross monstrosity and run as fast and far as they can. For all I know, it is the most delicious food on the planet, but my brain has prohibited my mouth from going near one.