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Prior to joining Foundation Source, Mary Ann served as a Program Officer in the Venture Fund of The Pew Charitable Trusts, then one of the country's top foundations, where she planned and managed innovative granting projects, including negotiating budget development, brokering funding partnerships, and overseeing project start-up and performance. Mary Ann managed a portfolio of 26 projects totaling more than $30 million.
Mary Ann later served as the Chief Officer for Program Administration in the Trusts' Executive Office. In this role, she supported the President with management, planning, administration, budgeting and communications for seven departments making grants totaling up to $200 million a year. Mary Ann staffed the President on complex, cross-functional grantmaking projects, including the high profile effort to relocate the art collection of the Barnes Foundation. She also prepared special reports and grantmaking-related communications to facilitate decision making by the Board of Directors.
In addition, Mary Ann has served as an assistant dean at Temple University, interim grants manager at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and a senior consultant at Booz-Allen and Hamilton.
Mary Ann holds a Masters of Law and Social Policy as well as a Masters in Social Services (with a concentration in advocacy, planning and programs) from Bryn Mawr College's Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She completed an executive education course on strategic planning and decision making from Wharton Business School.Download vCard
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Hugh Asher serves as Managing Director for the Southeast Region, based in Atlanta. He works with private wealth managers, financial advisors, attorneys, and directly with donors regarding the benefits of a private foundation. He has nearly 20 years of experience across multiple aspects of the financial services industry, focused on investment advising and portfolio management services.
Prior to joining Foundation Source, Hugh was Managing Director at boutique investment management firm, Cedar Capital, where he had business development responsibilities across the Southeast. Prior to that, he was Regional Director for Morgan Stanley's Consulting Group where he was responsible for the firm's advisory sales in the Southeast Region collaborating successfully with the private wealth advisors. He spent six years with Smith Barney and Citigroup Global Markets as Divisional and Regional Director for the firm's different investment and product platforms and has held financial advisor positions at Capital Guardian Trust Company and Salomon Smith Barney.
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Ken Ward serves as Managing Director for the South Central Region, based in Dallas. He is responsible for building the brand and growing the firm's business with responsibility for Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Ken has extensive experience is working with asset management firms in building awareness and demonstrating value to regional broker dealers, bank trust officers, and the RIA community.
Ken's background includes over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, spanning multiple aspects. Prior to joining Foundation Source, he was Senior Regional Vice President with Deutsche Asset Management and held similar roles at a number of firms, such as Gabelli and Co, Hatteras Alternative Investments, Oppenheimer Funds and Lord Abbett & Co.
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Scott Rose serves as Managing Director for the Midwest Region, based in Minneapolis MN. He works with private wealth managers, financial advisors, attorneys, and directly with donors regarding the benefits of a private foundation. He has over 25 years of experience across multiple aspects of the financial services industry.
Prior to joining Foundation Source, Mr. Rose was Vice President / Client Advisor at JP Morgan Asset Management, where he was responsible for wholesale distribution of JP Morgan mutual funds, SMAs, and ETFs to wirehouses (Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wells Fargo Advisors) in MN, WI, IA, ND, and SD. Before that, he was a Director at Allianz Global Investors Distributors, LLC (and its predecessor firm PIMCO Funds), where he was responsible for wholesale distribution of AllianzGI investment capabilities within the wirehouse and independent channels; Registered Investment Advisors, and financial institutions throughout the upper Midwest, and Mountain States regions. In addition, he held senior positions at DWS/Scudder Kemper Investments and Prudential Securities.
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Prior to Foundation Source, Josh was the Western Regional Sales Director with Workiva, formerly WebFilings, where he successfully on-boarded and developed client partnerships with some of the nation's largest banks, insurance companies, and mutual and hedge fund organizations. Josh helped lead the company's entry into the financial services market on the West Coast, providing expertise in compliance, risk management, regulation, and business development. Earlier in his career, he was Strategic Sales Manager at Maxwell Systems, Inc., the largest privately held construction software company in North America, and also held executive business development roles at DHL USA and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
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Justin Murphy serves as Managing Director for Northern California, working with private wealth managers, financial advisors, attorneys, and directly with donors regarding the benefits of a private foundation. He has a strong background in professional services and business development.
Before joining Foundation Source, Justin worked in San Francisco as a Sales Consultant with LexisNexis, a global provider of workflow solutions for the professional services sector, partnering with AmLaw 200 firms and corporate clients. Prior to that, Justin was a sales consultant with Thomson Reuters West, an international publisher of industry intelligence for businesses and professionals.
Justin also practiced as an attorney in the state of Pennsylvania at the Harrisburg, PA firm Marshall Dennehey; the Philadelphia, PA firm Swartz Campbell; and the Public Defender's Office of Lancaster County. He also served as counsel for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
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Sometimes I think it would be a blessing to get rid of half my stuff and other times I have no idea how I would let it all go... I love stuff. my stuff. more stuff. but have too much stuff! Love where you are going with this and I love to see a downsize... hope you will show lots more!! good stuff :)ReplyDelete
That dessert looks yummy. Whatever you start out with (before or after) I think it's an excellent idea to end with something delicious!
The changes you made by lightening up Lisa's furnishings make such an impact. I love how that boat painting really pops on the white wall! It's also really interesting to see how you are able to incorporate a dark and traditional rug in with the lighter pieces, and it all works so well together. Thank for sharing your expertise!
It all is looking fabulous! Looking forward to you revealing the rest of the new changes. Living near a beach would be heavenly to me.ReplyDelete
Mary Ann, this is so pretty. I am sure it was hard for her to let go of some stuff, but oh, I would too in order to down size and live close to the water. Can't wait for more.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful home and special location! Your advice and good eye will make this a wonderful and updated home. Look forward to seeing more!ReplyDelete
I have downsized to move close to the ocean before too and it is HARD, from 3500 sq. feet to 1200 sq. feet. We just took all of our furniture and decided when we got into the new house which pieces would work. The room looks beautiful and I love the pillows on the couch too. I really like the Restoration Hardware chairs with the pretty pillows.
Thanks for sharing.
Reading this makes me want to purge and I need to get rid of half my stuff!! Especially in the garage! YIKES. You are doing a beautiful job for your client. Love all of the choices and the touches of black, so pretty!
I would totally trade half of my stuff for the beach! You did a great job, looking forward to seeing more!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous space! Makes me want to move to the beach!ReplyDelete
Beautiful work! I always love your pillows your lightening touch, but for some reason my favorite pieces are the lamps. Now I'm going to have to try that recipe! Maybe for our next cooking club. ;-)
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Fantastic MaryAnne! Love the fabric on those dining chairs, too. Love. She has got to be ecstatic over your helpful and wonderfully good taste! bravo, AGAIN!!!!!
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You have such a great eye for culling through her stuff and transforming it in her new house. Absolutely beautiful rooms. She must be in love you with and your talent--and loving her new abode!ReplyDelete
Looks great! She must be so happy with the changes....and that you were able to include some of her existing pieces. That isn't always easy! Can't wait to see the living room. That dessert looks delicious. Yum!ReplyDelete
Love it, as I always do :) I agree with Abby that I was really digging the floor lamps, and of course the pillows. I have to say I would down size for that view, too!!ReplyDelete
I totally agree that Lisa needed to lighten up and you did that even with the rug...I really love that. And I like how the pillows stand out in the room (I love pillows, too). I can't wait to see the living room! Blues are always pretty in a beach home.
The dessert looks fantastic! Mares, that's cute!
Your right...it looks great with a lighter feel...and the black and white pillows look fantastic...ReplyDelete
Gorgeous...love the lighter airier feel...well done AGAIN!ReplyDelete
Very pretty and love the RH chairs! Great fabric choices.ReplyDelete
Oh yes, indeed, I CAN imagine getting rid of half your stuff...well a third for sure! We did that three years ago and oh, it felt so good! The house isn't that much smaller, but very different configuration (no dining room) and no attic or basement. This looks so great Mary Ann, and yes, so much lighter and brighter.
Love seeing your angel food recipe: I am making one for a dinner party Friday night. But I'm going to actually make the cake (yikes!!) and was going to have David Leibowitz's chocolate sauce, but now I am rethinking with raspberries! Going to farmer's market this afternoon so we will see what they have!
So pretty Mary Ann, Love the entry and the all of the new pillows so fresh, light and pretty!
beautiful update!!! i bet they love it.what an improvement!!!!!!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful place! You do such great work. It would be really hard to let so much go, but living that close to the water has to make up for it. :)
Have a great day.
A great call on your part about going lighter. It's beautiful and feels spacious, love it.ReplyDelete
I'm so excited for your friend. How wonderful to purge oneself of heavy, dark 'stuff' and go live near the ocean. We are contemplating this same idea...I look forward to seeing how the decorating goes in her new place. Looks like the house didn't need much work and that makes it easy to focus on the fun stuff.
Great job Maryanne and I love those Jamie Young lamps! Nice to see them in person!ReplyDelete
Very beautiful update. Love the blue colour, and the fabrics. Very good job!!! Evelyne.
Very pretty. I love that it feels much lighter and very fresh feeling.ReplyDelete
Love the lightening and brightening, you really are the queen of coastal décor! I am hoping that you will comment on my latest blog post - wanting some ideas of what to do in Paris and I know you lived there for a while...it would be great to hear from a "local" x SharonReplyDelete
Hi Mary Ann! You know I'm swamped when I don't get to comment on my favorite blog for several days! Has someone been cutting hours from the days lately? I just love how you've brought such life into this clients new home by brightening it up with my fav colors.....blue and white! It just feel so right for that wonderful Corona del Mar neighborhood! I would gladly give up half my "stuff" to live in a house 2 blocks from that beach....or any beach for that matter! She had some wonderful items for you to work with and some great art work too. I love the painting in the dining area. They are so lucky to have you helping them with a clean, beachy, relaxed design for their home. I can't wait to see their living room.
Don't you just love angel food cake? The idea of toasting it and garnishing it with raspberries and whipped cream it is genius!
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Oh baby....you brought that room together so nicely! I can't wait to see what you do with that rug...I love the colors in it...so fresh and different! I know you will rock it!ReplyDelete


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Iran's news agency FARS (FNA) claimed CNN 'fabricated' some parts of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's interview with host Christine Amanpour on Tuesday.
The self-proclaimed 'leading' news outlet accused the channel of manipulating Rouhani's answer's English translation when Amanpour asked him about the Holocaust. FNA produced its own interpretation of the interview and concluded that Rouhani's original reply was altered in the subtitles.
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This is how CNN translated Rouhani's reply:
"I have said before that I am not a historian personally and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust as such, it is the historians that should reflect on it."
According to the FNA, Rouhani didn't really use the word 'Holocaust' while speaking in Persian language. He used the term 'historical events' instead.
Here is FNA's translation:
"I have said before that I am not a historian and historians should specify, state and explain the aspects of historical events."
Read More: Iran & The Dice Roll Principle: Why Obama &Rouhani Should Shake Hands
The Wall Street Journal also posted a story on Thursday over Hassan Rouhani's Holocaust remarks and reaffirmed FNA's conclusion through its own investigation that the Iranian President had not used the word 'Holocaust' in any of his interview.
The debate seems pointless since Rouhani's acknowledgment of the Holocaust was implicit. While being cautious not to use the word 'Holocaust,' Rouhani did condemn the killing of Jews at the hands of Nazis.
Moreover, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif On September 5 tweeted that Iran no longer denied the Holocaust.
Zarif pointed to the fact that Rohani's predecessor Mahmoud Ahmedi nejad, who was widely criticized for his anti-Semitic rhetoric as well as his denial of the Holocaust, was no longer in power.
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JA: There's been a lot of talk lately about Hikvision – the first issue relates to ownership of the company. It's alleged Hikvision is owned - and presumably controlled – by the Chinese Government. Could you explain Hikvision's ownership structure for SEN readers?
For end users and installers, the secret to taking advantage of the changing situation is going to be about being open to the left field when meeting operational needs, about being prepared to insist on open platforms offering the most lateral integrations. For installers and integrators, it's about being entirely immersed in the spaces between technology.
SECTECH Camera Shootout was enthralling and challenging in multiple ways. Despite a day of pre-commissioning in Sydney there was still plenty of work required in every city to stay on top of things – in fact wrangling the big group of engineers and technicians was the biggest operational challenge of the event and organisers didn't get on top of that until Brisbane – this meant a few management related hiccups along the way. Next year's pre-commissioning is slated to go for days – we'll start the tour with an operational system that is locked in place with only minor tweaks allowed.
THERE'S a common belief in the security industry that remote access, internet connection, and external connections are bad; and in the wake of the Mirai bot net and near daily IoT security warnings, it's not all that surprising that we want to keep security systems air-gapped.
While unarguably well intentioned, this line of thinking will have physical and electronic security providers relegated to the realm of tin foil hat wearers as businesses and users continue to demand more and more efficiency from their systems. Does that mean that we should plug everything in, open everything up, and embrace a fully connected ecosystem – certainly not. It's all about benefit and risk.
Given what we saw at SecTech, access control is becoming the electronic security industry's golden child, with lovely new product coming from all directions and the established players releasing excellent new solutions and upgrades in their own right. From the point of view of installers and integrators, the key with access control is to balance maximum performance with ease of installation and competitive price. The best systems offer access control, intrusion detection, automation and CCTV integration, with local and remote mobile management.
But there's a growing trend in which sees end users and integrators squeezing more out of CCTV systems using IVA – some of these lateral applications are not security or safety related but increasingly, many are. It's not surprising at one level. The underlying technology that generates stock reports for marketing teams is just as capable of delivering reports to security managers informing them in real time of large crowds or heavy vehicles driving where they should not be.
JA: How old were you when you first started on the factory floor at Gallagher, Sir William?
SWG: SCUBA diving was my thing when I was young – I was still at school and was running a little business making SCUBA regulators. I was about 22 when I joined Gallagher – it was a 10-man band back then and now we have 950 staff on the direct payroll and about 1100 staff in total. We've certainly grown a bit.
JA: What do you put the growth of the Gallagher business down to?
Last month we talked about the growing prevalence of biometrics but the changeful feel in the marketplace is bigger than biometrics. It's deeper and it's likely to change things in every way. Something that's notable in big systems is the U.S. Army's decision to turn to cloud services, with a $US62 billion contract awarded to IBM.
Alongside this liberation of technology runs a hunger for cost reduction among end users, as well as an increased threat profile that applies to population centres as much as to commercial and government organisations. Ordinary citizens globally feel connected to concepts of security surrounding empirically proven threats.
MAKING calls about the best products over a 12-month period is tough. You're pretty much guaranteed to get plenty wrong. There are products you overlook and products you never saw. But there's no doubt it <I>is<I> possible to get a strong sense of the market as well as a feel for the direction the best solutions are likely to take into the future.
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New Delhi, Nov. 7: The Supreme Court today decided to hear arguments to reconsider its August 6 order banning strikes by government employees.
The petition has been filed by P. Nageshwar Rao, general secretary of the Andhra Pradesh unit of the All India Trade Union Congress.
In August, the Supreme Court had said government employees and trade unions in general did not have the legal, fundamental and moral or justifiable right to strike.
The verdict, aimed at toning up Indias moribund work culture, came as the court pronounced judgment in a case relating to the dismissal of over two lakh Tamil Nadu government employees. Chief minister Jayalalithaa had sacked the employees for going on strike in July.
The matter reached the Supreme Court when some unions and individuals challenged Jayalalithaas action of invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act and applying it in the state with retrospective effect to sack the employees.
The August judgment had sparked a big controversy, with attorney-general Soli Sorabjee saying the decision was bad in law. The countrys top law officer said there may not be a constitutional right to strike but certainly there is a legal right. He added that all labour laws like the Industrial Disputes Act and Trade Union Act allow employees the right to strike, which he termed a Parliament-guaranteed right.
The Chief Justice of India today asked Sorabjee if the court should review its order banning strikes. The attorney-general responded that there were unwarranted and unnecessary observations in the August order passed by a division bench headed by Justice M.B. Shah, who has since retired. The observations had to be looked into, he added.
Rao, who filed the petition through counsel Ramakrishna Reddi and Bharati Reddi, has argued that courts cannot take away the statutory and legal right given by various parliamentary rulings.
He argued that a ban on strikes would be a sure road to totalitarian governments. The petitioner said although strikes had been recognised separately as a right, strikes are internationally accepted as a part of workers right of collective bargaining.
Sorabjee had criticised the court order when it was passed in August. He had said: A court of law is concerned with legal and constitutional issues. The observation that the employees have no moral or equitable right to strike was really uncalled for and is beyond comprehension.
Today, the attorney-general told the court that resorting to strike indiscriminately might be wrong and illegal, but strike as the last resort and as a weapon for the workforce could not be eliminated. He even quoted Mahatma Gandhi in this regard to support his argument.
Sorabjee said Raos petition had presented a good opportunity to discuss the matter threadbare. At this, the court bench asked former Union minister Ram Jethmalani and Kapil Sibal their views. Both agreed that the right to strike could not be eliminated.


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The city comptroller said yesterday that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg should scale back his commuter tax proposal because Albany will probably not approve his plan to tax commuters at the same rate as city residents.
''I don't think there are any of us who think that that's going to happen,'' the comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr., said at a City Council hearing, speaking of the mayor's tax plan.
The comptroller made his dour assessment of Mr. Bloomberg's prospects for winning approval of his commuter tax as the Council began a series of hearings on the mayor's preliminary budget plan. The commuter tax is the biggest component of the mayor's plan to close a $3.4 billion deficit in the fiscal year beginning July 1.
There was little encouraging news. The mayor's budget director, Mark Page, said that the city's tax collections could drop further because Wall Street profits were even lower last year than expected. In addition, the debate between the Bloomberg administration and the Council over the mayor's plans to close eight firehouses erupted again. And city officials said that since the state budget would probably be late again, they might have to pass the city budget without knowing what aid they could expect from the state.
Mayor Bloomberg has proposed reducing the city's income tax rate and then charging commuters the same rate as city residents, a plan that would yield nearly a billion dollars to help the city balance its budget in the next fiscal year. But his idea has encountered stiff opposition from Gov. George E. Pataki and Republicans in the State Senate. The new tax would be up to six times as high as the old commuter tax, which was repealed in 1999.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Thompson told reporters after the hearing that the time for the Bloomberg administration to give up on that plan and move to a smaller backup plan was ''yesterday.''
''I thought that that proposal was dead on arrival,'' Mr. Thompson, a Democrat, said. ''I think it is hard to make a case with legislators from outside of New York City that says, you know, give us four or five or six times what we got before in some ways.''
Mr. Thompson said that he thought the mayor should switch gears and ask for either the old commuter tax, which he said cost most commuters $1.10 to $1.25 a day, or a slightly higher tax. The old tax netted the city $400 million to $500 million a year.
Mr. Page, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said that the city was still pushing the mayor's tax plan in Albany. ''At this moment I think we're in the mode of not taking 'no' for an answer,'' he said.
He said that the city had done what it could, raising the property tax rate by 18.5 percent, and reducing spending by roughly $2.6 billion, and that it was now up to others, like the state government and the city's unions, to help the city.
''We're not exactly lying back as a city waiting for others to help us,'' he said.
An analysis issued yesterday by the Citizens Budget Commission, a business-backed watchdog group, determined that 60 percent of the savings the city had found was not from actual cuts, but rather from the shifting of costs to the state and federal governments, increases in fees and revenues, or revisions to earlier cost estimates. The report identified about $600 million in actual service cuts.
Council members peppered Mr. Page with questions about the city's backup plans in the event that the commuter tax is rejected and Governor Pataki's cuts to city aid go through.
''You're asking when, as a practical matter, even if you're still not taking 'no' for an answer, are you going to have to figure out how you are going to survive otherwise,'' said Mr. Page, who spoke slowly, choosing each word carefully. ''And I think that's an extremely difficult question, which is becoming more and more difficult as time passes.''
On top of everything, Mr. Page said that Wall Street continued to do worse than the city predicted in January when the mayor released his preliminary budget plan.
In January, he said, the city assumed that Wall Street profits were $7 billion in 2002, and that the industry would have to set aside $1 billion of that to pay settlements related to its recent accounting scandals. Now, he said, it appeared that Wall Street profits had reached only $4.8 billion, with $2.2 billion of that set aside for settlements.
After the hearing, Mr. Page said that the lower profits could throw off city tax collections this year by around $100 million.
The debate over shutting firehouses began anew when Mr. Page said again that he expected a recent commission formed by the City Council, the Fire Department and the mayor to recommend closing firehouses. His statement drew angry responses from Council Speaker Gifford Miller and Councilman Bill de Blasio of Brooklyn, who said that they expected the commission to find alternative cuts.Continue reading the main story


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text: Trebbe has been leading vision quests, workshops, and ceremonies worldwide since 1994. She is the founder of Radical Joy for Hard Times, a non-profit organization devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places, and the author of The World Is a Waiting Lover. A passionate explorer of outer as well as inner frontiers, Trebbe has camped alone in the Arctic, traveled in the Sahara Desert, and worked as a model, street-sweeper, and award-winning multimedia producer. She lives in rural northeastern Pennsylvania. www.radicaljoyforhardtimes.org and www.visionarrow.com


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Civil Rights Timeline
1954 - Brown vs Board of Education
The Brown vs Board of Education is a case named after an African American girl named Linda Brown, who was denied to be admitted in an all-white school and instead is attending schools more than a few blocks away from her home. The NAACP filed against the school board for the racial segregation violation to the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. This event was significant in the Civil Right's movement because it opened doors for other nations to have schools for all students to be admitted into.
1957 - Integration of Central High School
Integration of Central High School is about nine African American students who attended a white school in which they were ridiculed and hated in Little Rock, Arkansas. On Sept. 3rd 1957, Governor Orval Faubus order the Arkansas National Guard to protect these nine students while they were in school and escorted them everywhere they went in the school. This was significant to the Civil Right's movement because it showed how nine students broke through racial barriers within education.
1960 - First Lunch-Counter Sit-In
A story about four young African Americans who sat down at a lunch table in Greensboro, North Carolina and politely asked for service but were refused. They remained in their seats even after being asked to leave. This was significant because it was a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality.
1961 - Black students and Civil Rights workers sit in white section of bus station (Freedom Riders)
Freedom riders were African American students and Civil rights workers in the South who refused to move from their seats, in which were designated seats for the whites. The purpose of the act was to protest against segregation in interstate bus terminals.
1962 - Integration of the University of Mississippi
An African American man named James Meredith attempted to get into the University of Mississippi. His attempt to be enrolled brought chaos to Ole Miss Campus, leaving two dead, hundred wounded and many arrested. James Meredith's enrollment was significant to the Civil Right's movement because like the Brown vs Education, it opened doors for more colleges to accept and enroll African American students.
1963 - Murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was an African American man who volunteered to fight in the Battle of Normandy. Although he fought for the whites, he found out later that his skin color gave him freedom nor rights. Coming home from the war, he joined hands with the NAACP and protested against racial segregation. Leading up to his death, his had received many threats and on June 12, 1963 he was struck in the back in his driveway. This incident was significant because it showed how even though he was a colored man, he was honored by over 30,000 at his funeral along with soldiers.
1963 - Campaign to desegregate city; 4 killed in bombing of church
On Sunday, Sept. 15 1963 in Birmingham Alabama, a bomb exploded before morning services began. The church that had the bomb explosion was the place where many Civil Rights leaders had their meetings. Many were injured and 4 girls were dead. This was a significant incident because it brought national attention to how dangerous of a struggle civil rights leaders have to fight for.
1963 - March on Washington "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
Over 200,000 American marched and gathered in Washington D.C. for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The event was meant for to shine a light to the struggles of African Americans and the beginning of "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr. This was significant because it was the key moment on the struggle of civil rights in the U.S.
1964 - Murder of three Civil Rights leaders
Three Civil Rights leaders, a 21-year-old black Mississippian, James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman-20, and Michael Schwerner-24, were murdered near Philadelphia. The three men were working on registering black voters in Mississippi. This is significant because it enlarged the number of black voters in Mississippi.
1964 - Marching for voting rights in Montgomery
Also known as Bloody Sunday, is the day that African Americans marched across a highway from Selma to Montgomery to show their desire for African American to practice their rights to vote and freedom. When they reached the end of the highway, many people were trampled and killed. This is significant in the way that it gave equal rights to African American as to white mens.
1968 - Murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was the prominent leader of the African American Civil Right's movement. He was shot and killed by a man by the name of James Earl Ray on his second floor balcony. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death caused many riots between the whites and blacks. With the his death, it sped up the process of Equal Housing bill.
1954-1956 Boycott of Segregated bus system
Famously known for not giving up her seat for a white man, Rosa Parks story was one of the defining events in the civil rights movement. Many blacks aimed for to desegregate bus stations and finally had the chance to with Rosa Parks. This is significant because the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system.


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Holloway, Jonathan. AFAM 162, African American History: From Emancipation to the Present, Spring 2010. Open Yale Courses, http://oyc.yale.edu/african-american-studies/afam-162/lecture-5 Accessed 09/09/2014 License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. As Professor Holloway explains in this lecture, the oppressive realities of black life did not silence the most dedicated black activists. During this time, a new generation of black political and intellectual leaders, including Alexander Crummell, Anna Julia Cooper, and W. E. B. Du Bois, dedicated themselves to "uplifting" blacks politically, economically, and morally. Professor Holloway reveals what uplift means.
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As a failed philosophy student, I can't help but notice how people don't use words like existence and existential in popular English-speaking culture the way they used to. When I was a student in 1980s North America, those words were usually associated with French existentialism, popularised as much by Jean-Paul Sartre as by Woody Allen. Now, people worry about deadlier matters like 'existential threats'.
Not many people had read Sartre's Being and Nothingness then - or now - but everyone in college remembered Allen's skit about sexually frustrated intellectuals who hired brainy prostitutes with advanced degrees to discuss existentialism and the meaninglessness of life. The girls charged extra if the discussions got too technical.
I was reminded of this when a furore broke out in the US in November over a school's invitation to Sasha Grey, a retired porn actress, to read to first-graders. To defend herself as an intellectual, she posted a photo on her blog of her holding up a copy of Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, one of her favourite books, but thankfully not one she read to the children. But existentialism is pass?. If Grey wants to sell her brain like many think tank intellectuals in the US, she needs to brush up on global terrorism, the sovereign debt crisis and Iran. Pundits have often described the debt crisis as 'an existential threat' to the European Union, and Iran's nuclear programme as such to Israel.
Larry David of Curb Your Enthusiasm fame, who is Jewish and heir to Allen's self-obsessive comedy, does not joke about existentialism, but annihilation. In a recent episode, he is smitten by a buxom fast-food proprietress, who is also a Palestinian radical. 'You know how you are always attracted to people who reject you,' he says. 'But this woman doesn't just reject you - she denies your right to EXIST! Is that a turn-on or what?' Is peaceful co-existence not sexy enough?


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Incidence and Treatment of Developmental Hip Dysplasia in Mongolia: A Prospective Cohort Study
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Background In Mongolia, adequate early diagnosis and treatment of developmental hip dysplasia (DDH) have been unavailable and its incidence was unknown. We determined the incidence of ultrasonographic DDH in newborns and established adequate procedures for diagnosis and treatment of DDH at the largest maternity hospital in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Methodology/Principal Findings During one year (Sept 2010 – Aug 2011) we assessed the hips newborns using ultrasound and Graf's classification of DDH. 8,356 newborns were screened; median age at screening was 1 day. We identified 14,873 Type 1 (89.0%), 1715 Type 2a (10.3%), 36 Type 2c (0.2%), 70 Type D (0.4%), 14 Type 3 (0.08%), and 4 Type 4 hips (0.02%). Children with Type 1 hips (normal) were discharged. Children with Type 2a hips (physiologically immature) received follow-up ultrasounds at monthly intervals. Children with Type 2c to 4 (DDH; deformed or misaligned hip joint) hips were treated with a Tubingen hip flexion splint and also followed up. The hip abnormalities resolved to mature hips in all children who were followed up. There was no evidence for severe treatment related complications. Conclusion/Significance This study suggests that the incidence of DDH in Mongolian neonates is comparable to that in neonates in Europe. Early ultrasound-based assessment and splinting treatment of DDH led to mature hips in all children followed up. Procedures are feasible and will be continued.


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The land at Il Palagio has always been farmed. Purchased by the Martelli family in the late 1700s the estate grew as the family's wealth did. 1819 saw the sale of the estate to Countess Carlotta Barbolani of Mantauto, the widow of the Duke of San Clemente, and remained in this family's hands for around 150 years.
Duke Simone Vincenzo Velluti Zati di San Clemente commissioned a number of new buildings at the start of the 20th Century, including an oil mill, grain store and wine production area. However, when its current owners, Sting and Trudie, first found the estate in 1999 it had fallen into a state of disrepair.
Sting and Trudie set themselves the task or restoring the house, its outbuildings and the land to their former glory. The Villa Il Palagio overlooks the distant Tuscan hills and countryside from its perch at the top of a long and steep driveway. The estate is approximately 250 hectares in size, much of which belongs to forest and a number of stunning lakes.
Paolo Caciorgna is winemaker at Il Palagio. Tuscan born and bred, he comes from a wine producing family and his experience within the industry as an oenologist has taken him across to California and France, but has always felt that Italy is where his heart belongs. He consults for over thirty of the finest wine producers in his native country, including over twenty in Tuscany alone.


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15th April 2017
From Rome and Florence to the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces in China, UNESCO World Heritage sites are marvels of human achievement and natural wonders. Which 5 countries can boast the most?
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To be included in the UNESCO World Heritage list, sites must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of 10 selection criteria. These include representing a "masterpiece of human creative genius" and exhibiting "an important interchange of human values".
Of the 1,052 UNESCO World Heritage sites, 814 fall into the Cultural category. A further 203 are Natural, such as national parks or barrier reefs. The remaining 35 are both Cultural and Natural. Mont Perdu in the Pyrenees, for example, is both an "outstanding mountain landscape" and "a pastoral landscape reflecting an agricultural way of life that now survives only in this part of the Pyrenees."
Landscape in Piedmont, Italy (Dreamstime)
Italy is a beautiful country, from the language and landscape to the people and the food. It hardly seems fair that they should hog all the UNESCO World Heritage sites as well. But Italy holds 51 of the world's 1,052 UNESCO-listed sites, the most of any country.
With the likes of the Piazza del Duomo in Florence and the historic centres of Rome and Venice, Italy's UNESCO-listed sites are among the most visited in the world.
The Dolomites mountain range is UNESCO-protected, as well as the city of Verona, the birthplace of two very famous star-crossed lovers. The active stratovolcano of Mount Etna is also a World Heritage site.
The UNESCO-protected landscape of Piedmont, producing wines such as Barolo and Barbaresco, is an excellent spot for cycling. Its vineyard-carpeted hills, rustic food and unspoiled villages make it the perfect setting for a Sideways-style retreat.
Other World Heritage sites worth visiting in Italy include the limestone dwellings of Alberobello and the prehistoric rock drawings of Valcamonica.
Fujian Tulou, China (Dreamstime)
Everyone knows about The Great Wall of China. Mercenary warrior Matt Damon was once imprisoned there.
Some of China's 50 UNESCO-listed sites are less well-known, but equally worth visiting.
Honghe Hani Rice Terraces in Southern Yunnan, for example, span a mindblowing 16,603-hectares. Over 1,300 years, the Hani people have developed an intricate system of channels to bring water from the mountaintops to the terraces. The mist rising over these layered pools is an astonishing sight to behold.
Elsewhere, there's the 5,000km stretch of the Silk Roads network, spanning back almost two millennia, and the temple, cemetery and family mansion of Confucius in the city of Qufu.
Fujian Tulou, built over 120km in the south-west of the Fujian province, is a cluster of 46 multi-storeyed amphitheatre-like buildings, containing earthen houses (tulous) set around a square or circular courtyard. Housing up to 800 people, the buildings were constructed for defensive purposes, with only one entrance for each tulou. The tulous' plain façades are balanced with intricately decorated interiors. The relationship between the colossal buildings and the landscape of fertile mountain valleys embodies Feng Shui principles.
The landscape of Las Médulas, Spain (Dreamstime)
The unique and strange work of Antoni Gaudí is likely to be a part of any visit to Barcelona. His work is UNESCO-listed because of his "exceptional and outstanding creative contribution to the architectural heritage of modern times".
Spain has 45 World Heritage sites in total, including the famous pilgrimage site of Santiago de Compostela and the canyon-rich landscape of Mont Perdu in the Pyrénées.
The desecrated mountaintops of Las Médulas, once pillaged for gold by the Roman Imperial authorities, are one of the country's lesser-known gems.
Ibiza has also been granted UNESCO status, for the interaction between the marine and coastal ecosystems, rather than the famous club scene. The thick prairies of oceanic seagrass, a species unique to the Mediterranean basin, support a diversity of marine life.
Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris (Dreamstime)
Cultural giants, as well as leading lights in the international foodie scene, the French also fare pretty well when it comes to UNESCO World Heritage sites, with a score of 42.
There are the obvious choices, such as Notre-Dame Cathedral and the banks of The Seine, but straying from Paris you'll find the Gothic-style Benedictine abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, as well as the famed hillsides of Champagne.
The Gulf of Porto nature reserve, part of the Regional Natural Park of Corsica, is also considered an outstanding example of scrubland. Its clear waters, brimming with marine life, attract seagulls, cormorants and sea eagles.
Bauhaus building in Dessau (Dreamstime)
Germany has 41 UNESCO-listed sites in total. Bauhaus was one of the 20th century's most progressive and influential art and design movements, with the Bauhaus School's sites in Weimar and Dessau both UNESCO-listed.
Other World Heritage sites in Germany include Cologne Cathedral, a Gothic masterpiece that was 632 years in the making, as well as the Hercules monument and water features of the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe landscape park in Kassel.
The Wadden Sea also made UNESCO's list. Stretching across the Dutch, German and Danish North Sea, it is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. The area is home to marine mammals such as the grey seal and harbour porpoises.
The UNESCO-protected Messel Pit fossil site is also worth visiting. The site provides unique information about the early stages of the evolution of mammals.
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