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New York: May 3, 2002
A Panel Discussion to Open the Photography Display for Child Rights
Olara Otunnu, UN Special Representative, Children and Armed Conflict
Dr. Nafis Sadik, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General
Zama Coursen-Neff, Counsel, Children Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
Hari Acharya, Bhutanese youth refugee
Introduction by Nicholas Platt
President, Asia Society
Nicholas Platt
Good evening. I'm Nick Platt. I'm President of the Asia Society, and I'm delighted to welcome all of you here. I'm also delighted to welcome our panelists and distinguished speakers who will speak on the critical issue of universal child rights, and the challenges and opportunities for implementation and enforcement of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, that was created in 1989. This evening's panel event, and the opening night for the photo display which is in the adjoining room, is timed to coincide with the United Nation's Special Session on Children, which is scheduled to start on May 8th. Through the panel discussion and the exhibit, we hope to raise awareness among the general public of the real and urgent needs of children in poverty and without basic rights, and above all, of placing the principles of the Convention into meaningful practice. We have a distinguished set of panelists tonight. Olara Otunnu, UN Special Representative, Children and Armed Conflict, will deliver the keynote address. And this will be followed by the presentations by Dr. Nafis Sadik, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General, former head of the UN Population Fund and currently, to our great pleasure and honor, an Asia Society Trustee. She will be followed by Hari Acharya, a Bhutanese youth refugee, as well as a representative of Global Youth Connect. We also are delighted to have with us Zama Coursen-Neff from Human Rights Watch. And finally we have two visitors from Vietnam, Duc and Tranh, who happen to be the children who took some of the photos on display. They will say a few words about their photographs. Before I turn to Mr. Olara Otunnu, I want to invite all the people standing in the back to come up; there are seats in the front. Don't be shy.
I'd also like to introduce Anna Blackman, who is the Executive Director of PhotoVoice, which is a London-based, non-profit photography organization. Asia Society is grateful to them for providing the photos on display and also for bringing the children from Vietnam. She will also say a few words about the making of the exhibit and about her organization. So without further adieu, let me present Anna Blackman.
Anna Blackman
Good evening and thank you all very much for coming. It's wonderful to see so many people here. Before we move over to the panel, I'd just like to say a few words about PhotoVoice and the philosophy of our work. PhotoVoice is a small non-profit organization based in the UK. We work worldwide to train marginalized and disadvantaged groups of people in photography and documentary skills, working very much in the belief that it is they themselves who can best record and document their lives, and bring it to the attention of the local communities and the international community. Today, PhotoVoice is set up for long-term projects around the world in Nepal, Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and also in London. Next door you can see work from the two founding projects of PhotoVoice, the Rose Class, which is a project working in Bhutanese Refugees Camps in the eastern lowlands of Nepal, and also work from Street Vision, working to train young and working children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in photographic skills. And we're very lucky tonight to have two of the young photographers here to tell us a bit about their work, and also the project manager who works for Ho Chi Minh Child Welfare Foundation in Vietnam.
Before taking up too much of your time, I'd just like to extend my huge thanks to the Asia Society for making this event possible, in particular Shyama Venkateswar, who I first met two years ago, in the vague hope that at some point she might assist us in bringing the work to New York. And she's done a huge amount to make this show possible. I'd also like to thank the two individuals who have worked in the States in a purely voluntary capacity to bring this work together and of course, Marjorie Victor, who is the US representative, and also works with a huge amount of energy to bring the work from these groups overseas. And now I'd like to pass over to Marjorie.
Marjorie Victor
Well as Anna said, I'm the US Representative for PhotoVoice, and I'm really delighted to see all of you here. This exhibition is a culmination of several years of hard work, and in the wake of 911 we were forced to postpone this event, so we are doubly grateful and delighted to have all of you here tonight. My comments will be brief. I just first want to acknowledge the people who were behind this exhibition and give you a little background on why we put this together. First, I would like to say enormous thanks to our honored guests, Olara Otunnu, Dr. Sadik, Zama Coursen-Neff, and also Hari Acharya, and we're also very happy to have Duc and Tranh here. And then I would also like to extend my thanks to the Asia Society. Again, Shyama Venkateswar has been the powerhouse behind this exhibition. She believed in us and gave us the chance. Doris Bacalzo has been tremendous in coordinating logistics and putting out fires; Grace Norman, who helped us design a curriculum that will be available later, and the curriculum is going to be circulated in American and other high schools to teach children about their own rights; Josh Harris, who helped put the exhibit together; and then Sunita Mukhi who put our Saturday program together, and I cordially invite you to that as well. I'd like to recognize American Airlines and Vietnam Airlines who sponsored the trip of our Vietnamese delegation, and in particular David Cush and Amanda Jong at American Airlines. And Bill and Anne Wernau who are here from Connecticut, they provided major financial support for this. I'd like to thank them for that. And then also our core team: Thi Linh Wernau, Director of Exhibitions; Veero Der-Karabetian who is our wonderful wonderful troubleshooter; Christine Yu...I don't know if she's here yet...she's our intern; Susan Thomas, who was tremendous in putting things together; and Dick Hughes, who without whom, we wouldn't know half the people we do. So thank you.
And then now I'll say a little bit about why we put this show together. This exhibition we wanted to launch in honor of the UN Special Session on Children, which commences next week. This is a special session. It's very special in that it doesn't happen very often; the last time was about a decade ago. And at the center of this special session is a document called the Convention of the Rights of the Child. Now this is a special human rights instrument. It is not just a lofty document. It is the most universally accepted human rights instrument ever created. Today 191 countries have ratified it. Unfortunately, the United States and Somalia have not, and that might be something we go into here. This document is a landmark. Even though it seems like a lot of the things that are mentioned in the standards that are set out in the CRC seem unattainable, I would argue that they're not. If you look at the advances in child rights over the last century, it's been quite remarkable. Only in late 1800, there was actually a landmark case where children were deemed by American courts to be protected from abuse under the Protection from Cruelty to Animals. And we've gone very far in recognizing children, not only as passive recipients and passive subjects, but actually as active agents in their own future. And so, child rights, I would like to argue is like...the advances are like, the earth turning. It might seem quite gradual and imperceptible, but we're steadily making advances forward. So we have put this show together to help make the convention real. One of the main principles in the CRC is the principle of participation, which means that children have the right to have their own voices and be active agents in their own futures. We have brought the voices of a lot of disadvantaged children. It is our hope that you will, not only hear their voices, but actually listen to them. I really want to make this distinction. If you listen to them, we really feel that you will want to act. And you can act in your own way, whatever personally make sense...by writing a letter campaign to urge a speedy resolution to the Bhutanese refugee situation...from contributing funds to street children, shelters, and urging Congress to ratify the CRC...so that's all I will say and I really want to thank everyone for coming.


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Josh Hamilton showed his back was not an issue a night after suffering spasms.
Now the Texas Rangers just want their offense back. And if a lineup shuffle is what it takes, so be it.
Nelson Cruz, hitting in the No. 5 spot instead of his usual No. 6, went 3 for 5 with two doubles and two RBI, including one that scored Adrian Beltre from first base with the winning run in the 10th to lead Texas to a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday night, snapping their five-game losing streak.
Beltre also was 3 for 5 with a home run that tied the game in the sixth as the Rangers improved to 41-5 in games in which the All-Star third baseman hits a home run.
''Cruz swung the bat well,'' manager Ron Washington said. ''We were due to finally put together something offensively. We kept swinging and kept getting runners out there. We just weren't able to get as many in as we would have liked, but we got the one in that was important.''
Hamilton had a home run, walk and a run scored as the designated hitter one night after leaving in the fifth inning with back spasms.
Joe Nathan (1-2) pitched scoreless ninth and 10th innings for the Rangers, his longest outing in almost three years after ligament replacement surgery, in relief of Derek Holland, who returned from a stint on the disabled list with left shoulder fatigue.
Holland gave up three runs on six hits, two walks and four strikeouts over six innings.
Kyle Waldrop (0-1) failed to get an out in the 10th to take the loss for the Twins, who used six pitchers, including Samuel Deduno in his major league starting debut, to again keep the Rangers' offense subdued.
During the losing streak, the majors' best offensive team scored nine runs.
The Rangers had a few chances to go ahead late, but couldn't capitalize. They loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh, but Beltre grounded out to end the inning.
In the eighth, David Murphy walked and stole second with two outs, followed by a walk to Mike Napoli. But Craig Gentry popped out to short center field handled by Twins shortstop Brian Dozier. The Rangers are 3 for 17 with runners in scoring position in the series, including 2 for 9 on Saturday.
''We kept swinging and kept getting runners out there,'' Washington said. ''We just weren't able to get as many in as we would have liked, but we got the one in that was important.''
Washington told reporters before the game that nothing should be read into moving Cruz up to No. 5 and Michael Young down to sixth. The move, he said, was the result of moving Young out of the No. 3 spot of Hamilton, who wasn't expected to play.
Washington said he just decided to leave Cruz, who has struggled all season, at No. 5.
''I'm not going to pat myself on the back,'' Washington said. ''It just came off my pen that way.''
Said Cruz: ''I don't see any difference. When the games starts, everybody's first and third (in the order). There's no other way to see it.''
Trevor Plouffe, Ryan Doumit and Josh Willingham each drove in runs for the Twins, who took a one-run lead on Willingham's solo homer in the sixth.
The Twins had their chances, including putting runners on first and second in the seventh after one-out walks to Joe Mauer and Willingham, but Robbie Ross induced Justin Morneau to bounce into an inning-ending double play.
Willingham gave the Twins the lead a second time on a home run to center field until Beltre's blast tied the game again.
Deduno, the Twins' 11th pitcher to start a game this season, gave up three runs including two home runs, on six hits and three strikeouts. He walked three. His biggest mistake was a slider up in the zone that Beltre smacked into the left-field seats that tied the game at 3-3 in the sixth.
''I thought he threw some really nice breaking balls,'' Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. ''He hung the slider to Beltre, and against these guys if you throw too many strikes they will absolutely kill you.''
Notes: Hamilton became the first Rangers player to record at least 27 home runs and 75 RBIs before the All-Star break and first major leaguer to do so since Albert Pujols in 2009. Alex Rodriguez was the last American League player to reach those marks in 2007. ... The Rangers optioned right-handed pitcher Justin Grimm to Double-A Frisco to make room for Holland. Grimm went 1-1 with a 10.80 ERA in three games with the team, including two starts. ... Home plate umpire Marty Foster left the game in the top of the seventh after apparently becoming sick. Second base umpire Jeff Kellogg took over behind the plate for the short crew. ... Ross extended his scoreless innings streak to 22 1/3 after recording an out in the seventh and pitching the eighth. Ross is in position to post the lowest ERA (0.96) through the All-Star break since 1933, eclipsing Bob Gibson's 1.06 in 1968. The lowest rookie figure is 1.78, recorded by Detroit's Mark Fidrych in 1976.

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Imperial Teen sheds its skin (again) to reveal fresh genius on 'Feel the Sound'
RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer
Spring comes early this year — at least it feels that way with Feel the Sound, the new CD from Imperial Teen. The disc dwells in a happy pop universe that is wonderfully tough to escape from. By the 11th track, Imperial Teen succeeds in conjuring up an aural place of magic that doesn't skimp on deep lyrics.
Sound plays with the refreshing splash of a debut album, though it's the band's fifth. Optimism mixes with confidence and fun beats so brightly, it made me want to take the CD to everyone I knew to ask if they had heard of "this new band" … although the San Francisco quartet has been around for 15 years. But with each album, they seem to strip away a layer that brings up a newness that demands attention.
Imperial Teen's 2007 album The Hair, The TV, The Baby and The Band had more hints of rocker attitude with a stronger emphasis on heavy guitars and acoustic ones amid a mod-pop landscape. Here, they haven't lost their instrumentation, but the music shines without reliance on one over the other. They do love a stabbing beat, but the melodies rise up like a quilted blanket surrounding each member (all of whom sing vocals).
The opener "Runaway" plays like Mates of State with a rapid beat and falsetto-like harmonies. Nostalgia rings from the sound as if it might play over a Time/Life informercial for some '70s AM radio collection, but production is solid and it keeps a modern feel.
With two gay members (Roddy Bottum and Will Schwartz), there is a strong queer sensibility to the album without becoming distractingly Pride-crazy. Maybe it's an unfair generalization, but really, who but a gay guy would write lyrics like Pumped up pecs and sticky skin / Floors unswept and walls are thin in the ridiculously enjoyable third track "Last to Know."
Where the songs may sound simple and upbeat, the lyrics never falter in their hooks and every single track is a delightful listen. But the hand that feeds the bark / Affidavit after dark may not make sense in "Over His Head," but they are interesting enough to keep you listening — that's half the battle in any pop album.
For a band with strong alt-rock roots (Faith No More, The Dicks), Sound is a beautiful surprise. Their delivery goes from gentle in "All the Same" to sexy in "Out From Inside" surrounded by rich, up-tempo textures.
Imperial Teen somehow manages never to annoy, either. Usually, an album where song after song bleeds into each other seamlessly, the repetition can drown you. Here, the band tempers the breathing of its creation. Tracks ebb and flow with rapid-fire backdrops and easygoing grooves with variations on the same beat. They didn't strive for the "album ballad" or "the dance song CD." Rather, Feel the Sound succeeds magnificently as a strong idea that never veers from its intentions.
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First Stage presents: Anatole
Stage presents World Premiere Musical
February 21 through March 16, 2014
Todd Wehr Theater, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts
Book and Lyrics by John Maclay and Lee Becker
Music by James Valcq
Arrangements and Orchestrations by Timothy Splain
Based on the Books Anatole and Anatole and the Cat® Written by Eve Titus, Illustrations by Paul Galdone
Text Copyright © 1984 by Eve Titus
Illustrations Copyright © 1984 by Paul Galdone
Performed by Arrangement with Writers House LLC
Directed by Molly Rhode
This musical is for everyone ages 3 and up.
Celebrating one small mouse's heroic musical adventure, First Stage presents ANATOLE from February 21 – March 16, 2014 at the Todd Wehr Theater in the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water Street, Milwaukee. This world premiere musical by First Stage Associate Artistic Director John Maclay and Lee Becker, is inspired by the books Anatole and Anatole the Cat by Eve Titus. Tickets can be purchased in person the Marcus Center box office at 929 N. Water Street, by phone at (414) 273-7206 or online at www.firststage.org.
Performance dates: ANATOLE opens Friday, February 21 at 7:00 p.m. Other performances are held: Saturday, February 22 at 1:00 & 3:30 p.m.; Sunday, February 23 at 1:00 & 3:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 1 at 1:00 & 3:30 p.m.; Sunday, March 2 at 1:00 & 3:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 8 at 3:30 & 7:00 p.m.; Sunday, March 9 at 1:00 & 3:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 15 at 1:00 & 3:30 p.m.; Sunday, March 16 at 1:00 & 3:30 p.m.


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The Canton Museum of Art (CMA) will host the Midwest premiere of a provocative new exhibit about art fraud and deception. "Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World" will open to the public on Aug. 28 at the museum, and the exhibit will be on view through Oct. 26.
A special ticketed opening night preview celebration will be hosted on Aug. 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. at CMA, with tickets available by calling 330-453-7666.
"Intent to Deceive" features works by some of the world's most notorious art forgers, illuminates their dubious legacies, and examines how their skills beguiled the art world for much of the 20th century. Art fraud and forgery have characterized the dark side of the art landscape for centuries, and counterfeiting of fine art has proven to be a lucrative pursuit throughout history.
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For as well as Hill played on the offensive end, he played just as poorly on defense. I don't think we should be excusing a **** poor defensive effort.
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For as well as Hill played on the offensive end, he played just as poorly on defense. I don't think we should be excusing a **** poor defensive effort.
Assists mean nothing to me when evaluating a player's performance. The Pacers' system is not conducive to point guards putting up big assist numbers. Hill has always been clutch as a Pacer, and when he's actually aggressive, he really gives the Pacers a spark. However, his aggression is hit or miss, and he continues to get torched by opposing point guards. His offense was huge for us considering Paul George is in a phase where he thinks he's Reggie when in reality he's been Jalen. But Hill's continual lackluster play on the defensive end, can't be excused.
Then you can say the same about Isaiah, Dragic, Livingston, Curry, Dragic again, and then Marshall and Lawson with their playmaking in recent games.. George Hill was just unfortunate they all happened to be hitting garbage shots.
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It's 82games, players are going to have good games sometimes--ESPECIALLY at the PG position nowadays. But there have been plenty of times pgs haven't scored/**** well against Hill. It actually happens more often than not
We've got the best defense and the best record in the league. That doesn't happen with a complete defensive liability at the point guard position these days.
Players torching Hill has been overstated greatly.
This is true. But in this bad stretch we've had on the defensive end of late, opposing point guards have been having their way with us, whether by scoring or playmaking or both. Everybody needs to clean it up on the defensive end, and much of this is due to the Pacers trying to run with Western Conference teams and taking too many outside jumpers ourselves. Hill's defense, or lack thereof, has really stood out to me during this poor defensive stretch. And yes, I've been even more frustrated with Paul than I have been with George.
EDIT: Lawson and Marshall's PLAYMAKING is what destroyed Hill. Both scored in the low double digits, but both could have put up 20 assists as well if their teammates had hit some open jumpers. On defense, it's necessary to defend the pass just as well as you defend the shot.
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I didn't realize Hill was that close to a triple double.
I'm great with that. I'd be fine if PG averaged 18ppg this year... we clearly have the offensive firepower to win plenty of games without him putting up gaudy numbers. He just has to be efficient about it.
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George Hill's defense wasn't the problem tonight.
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As an aside... have we had two players on the same team go off for 30 in a game yet this year? That's impressive.
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Where are all the George Hill haters at? Hill is the perfect PG for the Pacers style of offense
Injured Hill and healthy Hill are two totally different players on defense.
"George's athleticism is bananas!" - Marc J. Spears
The pick and roll requires help defense. Roy is simply not quick enough to get out there. None of this is Hill's fault.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Roy is sad because no one tried to come to the rim. I think that's the best way to try to beat Pacers.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Yup. Our defense gives long 2-pointers. To beat the Pacers, you have to get ridiculously hot on those long 2s. Portland was, but it wasn't enough.
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We can look at the totality of player influence on the game and say that Hill had a great game. He is excused. And your constant attention to the Kings game as Hill playing bad shows that you are not looking at the total game. Thomas was inefficient. Livingston wasn't guarded by Hill. He had Williams.
Dragic is torching everyone. Marshall did not have a great game. Lawson didn't have a great game.
Wall was bothered by Hill. The pick and roll defense isn't the best. And Hill has to step up. And so does the whole team. But Hill isn't the worst defender at his position. He is one of the best.
Paul George needs to learn when he is having an off night and play within the flow of the game. I love PG and what he brings to this team overall, but recently he's turning me off with the complaining to the refs and just flat out not getting back on defense is becoming a theme with him.
This team has lots of options, no reason for anyone player to force the issue.
*removed* Just keep politics and religion completely out of it, please.
Good stats. West has just really been on a roll lately and I think that he has been the best player on the team over the last couple of weeks. Stats aside, the eye test just tells you that he's playing well. He's backing guys down with a ton of muscle, he's quick to turn around on the fluid fadeaways, and he's scrapping on the defensive side of the ball. I thought he looked a little bit old at times to start the season, but he's been on fire lately and it's great to see. This is the West that was such a monster for us last season. He should be getting like 15 shots a game right now.
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meh. PG/Roy has had some bad games....happens to all good players. The important thing is that our TEAM won. Stats do not matter...wins do. With all of the accolades that PG has received lately, I am not surprised that he whines to the Refs. The TOP players whine all the time, so PG is right in line with his perceived greatness. I, too, wish he wouldn't do it; but it isn't really that detrimental to this team, considering our record.


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Bethancourt successful staying true to approach
CHICAGO -- When starting catcher Evan Gattis was injured late in June, the Braves called up Christian Bethancourt, hoping the rookie could provide steady defense behind the dish and sprinkle in a hit now and then.
Bethancourt has done more than that. Heading into Saturday's game against the Cubs at Wrigley Field, the 22-year-old had gone 11-for-40 for a .275 average and had reached base in nine of his 10 starts.
He also has delivered a couple of clutch hits, the latest being a two-out single in the top of the ninth on Friday to tie the score at 4. That hit was overshadowed by the Cubs' rally in the bottom of the inning, but the Braves certainly took notice.
"He sure does look composed at the plate," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "He had the tying run up there in the ninth inning and he delivered. I'm happy for him, and I'm happy with the way he called the game."
Bethancourt said his approach in the ninth on Friday was just to buckle down.
"In that situation, you have to do whatever you can to try and bring that run in," he said. "That's what I was trying to do. I was trying to make good contact with the ball."
Even though making the Major Leagues is a big deal for him -- as it would be for any young player -- Bethancourt said he's tried to not focus on the big picture too much.
"These are the things I've been doing my whole career, calling the pitches, controlling the game and getting a hit whenever I can," he said. "Just keep it simple, don't get too much under pressure and just do your job."
John Jackson is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Educate A Child is a global programme that aims to significantly reduce the number of children worldwide denied their fundamental right to education; an extension of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar's mandate as a UNESCO Special Envoy on Basic and Higher Education, a United Nations Millennium Development Goal Advocate and a Steering Committee member of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Global Education First initiative.
Qatar Airways pledged its support to Educate A Child through signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the programme to bring quality primary education to millions of out of school children at a Plenary Session. The airline aims to provide support through its comprehensive suite of communication platforms beneficial in reaching a wide global passenger base to inform and showcase the initiative, including in-flight entertainment systems, in-flight magazines, web site and social media channels as well as financial donations collected on board and monetary contributions from the airline.
For further information about Educate A Child, please visit educateachild.org
The Children's Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF) is an organisation that was established in 1988 to improve the treatment, quality of life and the long term outlook for children with brain and spinal cord tumours through research, support, education, and advocacy to families and survivors.
The diagnosis of brain tumour in a child is the start of a lifelong process that requires daily attention and support from family and friends. CBTF is one of the few organizations that work with both the survivor and their family to support them through a continuum of care--during treatment and well beyond. Although no parent should suffer the loss of a child, the organisation provides bereavement support programs for families as well. The Children's Brain Tumor Foundation's mission is to make sure that these families never feel alone and to fund research to ensure that this devastating disease is eradicated.
Qatar Airways supports the foundation by contributing to the annual benefit organized to raise funds for the foundation.
For further information about the Children's Brain Tumor Foundation, please visit www.cbtf.org
Qatar Airways has been named the Official Airline of Orbis UK, a global blindness prevention charity, for a period of two years starting September 2015.
Orbis is an international NGO that transforms lives by working to eliminate avoidable blindness and visual impairment. There are 285 million people in the world who are blind or visually impaired, yet a staggering 80 per cent of eye conditions can be prevented or cured.
As the Official Airline of Orbis UK, Qatar Airways flies medical volunteers on duty to the airline's worldwide destinations.
Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker said: "Qatar Airways believes that global aviation acts as a bridge between communities and people and we are delighted to be able to support causes that affect individuals across every continent. We are proud to offer our support to Orbis UK to help ensure that it can continue to make a significant difference in maintaining and restoring sight to even more people around the world."
For further information about Orbis UK, please visit www.orbis.org
Qatar Airways is a proud supporter of the Save the Dream (International Center for Sports Security).
The ICSS is an independent non-profit organization that is a globally-renowned and respected leader in sport safety, security and integrity. It plays an increasingly integral role in addressing critical issues in sport, such as corruption, betting fraud and transparency, as well as issues relevant to event safety and venue security.
Qatar Airways has partnered with Save the Dream in various international activations, including the ICSS Save the Dream event in New York and the Save the Dream Week brought to you by Qatar Airways in Italy. Those events addressed important topics related to sports safety and showcased commitment to the growth of underprivileged children through sports.
For further information about the Save the Dream, please visit www.theicss.org/en/page/save-the-dream/en/about
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Urge Your Members of Congress to Stand Up for Victims!
Friday, December 3, 2010 - Today, the Senate passed S. 3817, a bill to reauthorize the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) as part of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). Now, the U.S. House of Representatives must pass S. 3817 so that it can be signed by the President!
FVPSA is the only federal funding source dedicated to domestic violence services and shelters and CAPTA is an essential component in the federal government's response to child abuse and neglect. However, FVPSA and CAPTA expired in 2008. It is essential that Congress reauthorizes these programs NOW to ensure that victims can continue to access lifesaving services when they face abuse.


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Alumnus Endowment to Create New Collection at AU Museum
Mitchell Berliner, BSBA '70, and his wife, Debra Moser, share a passion for American craft—artwork created from wood, glass, metal, and textiles. Over the last 40 years, the couple has amassed a noteworthy collection, including works by Dale Chihuly and John Cederquist.
They recently made provisions in their charitable estate plans to leave the collection and an endowment for its care, to the Katzen Arts Center's American University Museum.
"The Katzen is a beautiful arts center and, given our ties to AU and the community, the perfect home for our collection," says Moser.
Their gift will establish the Mitchell Berliner and Debra Moser Collection of American Crafts as part of the AU Museum's permanent collection.
Founders of the Central Farm Markets and MeatCrafters in Montgomery County, Maryland, Berliner, a successful food distributor, and Moser, founding executive of the Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts in Rockville and former adjunct professor at Kogod, have always been active in the Washington community.
The couple hopes their gift will inspire others to think about how their passions, coupled with careful philanthropic planning, can create a legacy at AU.
This story was originally published in the August 2013 issue of American Magazine.


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Two graduates recognized by Ohio Foreign Language Association
Two Muskingum College graduates have been recognized for excellence in and service to the study of foreign languages by the Ohio State Language Association.
Brian Rippel '08 graduated with majors in French, international business and international affairs, was a resident of the French House at Muskingum, a student assistant in the international student services office and was manager of the Morehead language lab. He also is a past president of the French Club and spent his junior year at the Universite du Sud Toulon-Var in France.
He presented his senior research paper, written in French, titled "Facing Globalization: What is the Role of the French Language?" at the Heidelberg College Undergraduate Research Conference in 2007.
Katie Ballard '08 graduated with majors in Spanish and Christian education and a minor in teaching English as a second language. While a student at Muskingum, she held an internship with the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program at the college. In 2007, she won first prize in Muskingum's annual Global Symposium for her presentation on her semester at Universidad Blas Pascal in Cordoba, Argentina. She also presented her senior seminar research "Hispanic Ministry in the U.S." at the Heidelberg College Undergraduate Research Conference.
The Ohio Foreign Language Association is an organization of foreign language educators in the state of Ohio. It is committed to making foreign languages an essential part of every school's core curriculum, beginning in the primary grades, so that every student who graduates from high school is proficient in a second language.
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SPENDING ON A $6 million project to improve Sir Francis Drake Boulevard through Samuel P. Taylor State Park continues to leapfrog amid a web of wildlife restrictions.
The spotted owl and red-legged frog were cited as a primary reason a $2 million contract with BKF Engineers Inc. of Redwood City must increase $25,000 in light of rehabilitation work.
The complicated project involves resurfacing 5.5 miles of roadway, repair of an unstable slope, replacing drainage culverts and installing rip rap to control erosion, and closing 23 existing roadside pullout areas while improving five pullouts with paved areas.
The project will maintain the same road width while improving vehicle turnouts without cutting a single redwood tree. An initial plan that called for chopping 17 redwoods to maximize safety was dumped amid public furor.
The engineering contract, initially set at $1.6 million, must be boosted again primarily due to "extended construction periods" and related conditions imposed by regulatory agencies concerned about endangered wildlife.
The project is limited to "environmental windows that dictate when work can take place ... due to regulatory agency restrictions to protect certain endangered species including the Northern Spotted Owl and red-legged frog," county principal engineer Ernest Klock advised in a report. "Spotted owl restrictions are imposed only before Aug. 1 due to growth patterns of the fledgling owls. Biologists were required to survey the construction zone daily."
In a bow to critters on the land, in the creek and in the air, "work in this corridor is generally permitted between Aug. 1 and Nov. 30," Klock noted. A landslide triggered by December rains further complicated matters, he added.
Repair of another landslide, and rehabilitation of 1.2 miles of roadway, already has been completed. A second phase of the project is scheduled to begin next Aug. 1. It involves an area stretching from Shafter Bridge to Platform Bridge Road and includes resurfacing the road, repair or replacement of 72 drainage culverts, and related work.
County supervisors approved increasing the contract $25,000, extending the pact now totaling $2,046,597 to June 30, 2014. The BKF Engineers environmental report alone cost $880,000.
The move follows a fifth "addendum" to a related contract for John Roberto Associates, providing the firm with another $25,000 to bring its total cost to date to $265,000. That contract extends work to February 2014. The firm, initially hired for about $110,000 to coordinate various agency meetings on the road project and provide data to respond to public commentary, is monitoring compliance with agency permits and related regulations.
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Not too long ago, I found myself smoking a Cohiba Lancero atop a beautiful hotel in Quito, Ecuador, wondering if it was the thin air at 10,000 feet that was making the smoke so difficult. Anyway, the next day I found myself racing down the Andes through the rain forest and into the Amazon river basin in a four-wheel drive on my way to an assignment. I was not familiar with the area, but I figured that my "good looks" and my perfect Español would get me through any situation that may arise in the jungle. Little did I know how wrong I was about to be.
The poor roads were not safe at night, so I stopped at a small oil town near the Colombian border. After settling in and having a good dinner, I found my way to the local watering hole. As I walked into the bar, I noticed that, one, it was also a bordello, and two, the local security force was armed and did not necessarily agree with the government in Quito; nor did they appreciate strange gringos on their turf.
I decided to follow Sun-tzu's advice to know my enemy, so I walked over to them with a couple of beers and started to make small talk. My first surprise came when I learned that they didn't speak a lick of Spanish, and my trying to communicate with these native Indians in a tongue other than their Cechuan made me an even bigger threat/target, depending on how you look at it. The long silence seemed interminable as I reverted back to instinct and did the only thing I could think of to fill the void--I took out a Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur No. 1.
The large cigar took all the attention away from me as the men now focused in on the smoke. I really screwed up by not bringing more than one, but I recovered by pulling out my knife and cutting the cigar in half (sorry, desperate times require desperate measures). I gave the end to one of the men, making sure that they understood not to inhale. The one who took the cigar seemed to understand and relayed it to the rest of his group. As we lit up, things really got mellow and I no longer felt as uncomfortable as in the beginning. He took a couple of long hits and passed it to the next guy, who proceeded to take one long drag straight into his lungs. Now, I know that Hondurans are mild, but try inhaling, as this poor gent did, and you can understand the sight of this unfortunate fellow as he dropped to the ground and practically coughed up his lungs. Needless to say, the rest of the group wanted nothing to do with the cigar, so that left me and the first smoker to enjoy the rest of the Excalibur. After a few minutes, he confessed in perfect Spanish that he failed to tell them not to inhale because he had always wanted to try a cigar and didn't feel that his buddies would appreciate the experience as much as he (bad form, but a great plan).
We continued to talk about nothing and enjoy the smoke, and that's when I got my second real surprise. He wanted to know how much an Excalibur costs in the States. I told him that you can find them for about four bucks. His jaw dropped as he exclaimed, "How can one cigar cost as much as a 'poke' at the bordello?" My jaw dropped as I exclaimed, "You can get 'poked' for four bucks?" Anyway, I kept to the cigar and the cold beers, 'cause we all know that we get what we pay for.
Roy D. Garcia
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Dear Marvin,
I have a great story to pass on. I happen to be an inmate at a Federal prison facility that is a minimum security institution. Having been here a few months, I have been given a job working outside the fence with civilian personnel. Through talking with fellow inmates here, I've come to learn of the many possibilities of bringing contraband merchandise into the institution. Through these conversations I was successfully able to have my wife deliver a package to a courier which was subsequently given to me, for a small fee.
I had instructed my wife to send a few contraband necessities: my clip-on sunglass lenses, some prescription facial cream, and I had also requested her to go into my humidor and include a few cigars in the package. Even though I've been smoking cigars for over 25 years, my wife is not a connoisseur, but my stash is all top-shelf. Anyhow, I successfully smuggled two well-packaged cigars into the prison and preserved them in an empty protein powder container to keep them as fresh as possible. Because of their excellent packaging, I didn't bother to look at what brands of cigars were sent.
Shortly after my successful smuggling operation, our room was "shaken down" (searched for contraband). When I returned to my room from work that day, I realized some items in my locker were askew and was told by my roommate our room was involved in a shakedown. My first thoughts centered on the precious tobacco sticks I had stored, then I figured, "Oh well, if they took them it was only two cigars." I then opened my locker drawer containing my booty, and to my surprise, found that the wrapping to my package was partially removed, but the cigars were not confiscated.
Cheap machine-made cigars are sold in our commissary, I rationalized. Being curious for aficionado's sake, I slid out the first cigar and saw a Macanudo label and thought, "Oh, that's pretty cool," even though I usually prefer a stronger smoke. As I delicately slid the next chocolate stick out of the wrapping to view the label, my heart began to flutter and I broke out into a cold sweat. As fate would have it, my wife just happened to pick my one remaining Cohiba Robusto as the second cigar! Now though I'm not a proponent of prison contraband, certainly the intrigue of this entire episode was duly climaxed in one of the finest smokes I've had in a long time.
D.O.C.Name and address withheld for obvious reasons
Dear Marvin,
Since I started receiving your magazine a year ago, you've managed to squeeze into every issue an article or photo spread dealing with women and cigars. It would seem, if one were to believe all the hype that has arisen around women who (supposedly) enjoy cigars, that my opinion is in the minority, but I have an awful lot of trouble believing that modern American women are and have been enjoying cigars since long before all of us men caught on. If it is indeed true that women smoke and enjoy cigars, why take such an in-your-face approach to publicizing it?
It is true that the sight of a woman smoking a cigar nowadays scarcely warrants a second glance, but I invite anyone to take a closer look at that woman smoker next time you see her. Take some time to study her face. Does she really appear to be savoring the subtle array of flavors that a fine cigar can offer? Is she engaged in informed discussion with her companions about her favorite smokes and what she likes about them, or is she holding back coughs and tears and nervously glancing about to see who in the room has noticed that she is smoking a cigar?
I realize that I am making a broad generalization. I am reasonably sure there are a few women out there who truly do enjoy the pleasures of a good cigar on a regular basis. Perhaps there are women who have their own carefully maintained and well-appointed humidors at home or in the office. I have yet, however, to meet, read or hear about them. Call me a pig, and I'm sure some of you will, but I openly question the motives of any contemporary American woman who claims to be a true cigar aficionado...excuse me ...aficionada.
Jim Gordon
Morris Plains, New Jersey
Dear Marvin,
Gay Talese's comment on the cigar as a peace offering in the Winter 1995/96 issue reminded me of an experience I had last year, when I was managing a humanitarian relief project in Kabul, Afghanistan.
I should explain that there is not much peace in Kabul. A civil war continues there, and the city was under siege and cut off by a blockade for most of my nine-month stay. And while life in Kabul was rich in adventure, it was deprived of the finer things you celebrate in your magazine. No fine wines or Ports, only cheap Russian vodka and Bulgarian beer left over from the Soviet occupation. No cigars; only dry Dutch cigarillos and bad Japanese cigarettes.
One day, some French doctors I knew told me they had found a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label on the black market. I went to their house that evening to savor it. A French TV journalist had arrived from Paris that day and was staying with my doctor friends. The whiskey was poured and a general discussion began on the state of the world and its wars. The journalist had traveled the world's hot spots. Everywhere, behind every tragedy, he saw U.S. expansionism and the dastardly hand of the CIA. I told him that I found his view to be a bit simplistic, and I tried to explain the complexities of U.S. foreign policy to him (nothing inspires me to patriotism like the company of a Frenchman). The discussion outlasted the Scotch and then grew quite heated. Hours later we reached a tense impasse where we knew we would never agree, nor would we ever convince the other. Voices had been raised and insults had been exchanged. Everyone was a bit uncomfortable. Then the journalist reached into his pocket.
"Do you smoke cigars?" he asked me.
"Yes," I said, surprised.
"Here." And he passed me a Romeo y Julieta he had brought from Paris. I smoked it the next day, and while smoking it the following poem wrote itself:
The other night I found myself
Mired in a deep debate
Defending firm with whiskey talk
A Frenchman's attack upon my state.
You know how the Frenchman argues:
Red-faced, spitting bile and bluster
"Hiroshima! Vietnam!
Poor Indians; that Hitler: Custer!"
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Just sad
Just sad
No rhyme nor reason to these fines and suspension. The standard is .... absent. Uncredible NFL.
I don't know why you said it was sad; was it sad he was ever penalized so much or sad that it got reduced? I don't think the hit was that bad. At most a penalty flag, but not worth suspending or fining. He was trying to make a hit so ES dropped the ball. That is just football in my opinion.
Black N' Gold Til' I'm Dead N' Cold...
We don't have any cheerleaders but we do have a few of these \m/...
The reversal has me a little bit skeptical, but no way that's a suspendable hit. He shouldn't have been flagged either IMO. It's just a judgement call nowadays in the lightning quick passing NFL.. These plays should be reviewable.
I get so tired of the term, helmet to helmet hit. Players hit that way on every play. How can a player not lead with his head? With his arse? What needs to happen is to make smaller more compact helmets. Or go back to the old small leather ones? These things are monstrosities and difficult not to be involved in FOOTBALL!.
Its sad that the league is not consistent at all with their suspensions. If that was Harrison it would be an automatic suspension and they would laugh if he appealed it. Double standard I think so.
If that was Clark they would of tacked a game on for fighting it. The commish office realized he hit a Steeler so dropped the suspension.
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Franklin Money In Seattle Win Over Twins Sunday
Seattle rookie second baseman Nick Franklin slugged a pair of home runs in the Mariners' 6-4 win over the Twins Sunday at Safeco Field. The teams split a four game series.
Chris Colabello's two run home run in the top of the second inning gave Minnesota a 2-0 lead. The Mariners got a run back in the bottom of the third inning, and took the lead in the bottom of the fourth.
Seattle got four runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 5-2 lead. Franklin's first home run of the game, a three-run shot to right field off of Kyle Gibson, punctuated the scoring.
Aaron Hicks and Clete Thomas had RBI for the Twins in the top of the sixth inning to cut the Mariners lead to 5-4, but Franklin struck again in the bottom of the seventh to give the M's a 6-4 advantage.
The Twins are now 45-57 on the season and have Monday off before beginning a three game series with the Kansas City Royals at Target Field.


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Ecotheological Ethics: Bios, Anthropos, Theos
Meadville Lombard Theological School
MLTS E455: Autumn 2006
Thursdays 1:30-4:30
Professor Michael Hogue
I. Overview: Object and Method
For various reasons, this time in the history of life is one of unparalleled promise and peril. Our increasing human capacity to intervene within and to alter the larger world of life presents us with grave practical challenges. Where in previous historical times the natural world was interpreted as a relatively stable backdrop to human behavior, contemporary human efficacy is now capable not only of radically altering but of possibly destroying the conditions necessary to sustain life. Further, new possibilities in genetic science and technology mean that human life has crossed a moral threshold from being not only an agent but also an object of technological change. Life, human and other-than-human, is more vulnerable than ever before. A multitude of theological and ethical implications attend these radical shifts in the scope and power of human action. The primary aim of this course is to bring the gravity of these implications to visibility in order better to respond to them.
In addition, this course seeks to engage the challenges to life in our time through a deep hermeneutical dialectic. Hermeneutical depth is demanded by the degree of interpenetration among our ideas about animal, human and divine life. For example, how one considers the issue of biological diversity in any concrete situation, for example, is shaped by one's construal of the human relation to other forms of life. For religious thinkers and practitioners, this construal is in turn shaped by understandings of the character and action of the divine within the ordering of life. Once the gravity of life's vulnerability in our time is registered, adequate moral response needs to flow from an engagement with the deep connections binding descriptive and normative theories of the interrelation of life's forms.
The moral gravity of life's vulnerability and the deep hermeneutical structure of this course also require us to be concerned with broad theoretical issues. Responsible religious and moral life in a time of life's endangerment requires that we engage the methodological problem of how critically to think through the divergent ways that life itself is theorized, explored, explained, and understood. As our descriptive and normative accounts of the different forms of life are not hermetically isolated from one another, and thus demand deep critical interpretation, so our response to the various challenges to life cannot be filtered through a single disciplinary framework, and therefore require theoretical breadth. For too long the divisions between "the two-cultures" of scientific and humanistic inquiry, as C.P. Snow put it, have inhibited the development of complex theories that can trace the contact points, intersections, or multidimensional interactions among forms of thought and inquiry. Given the pressing nature of endangerments to life and the fact that this concern cuts across virtually every form of inquiry, one of the pervasive themes of this course concerns how we conceive of knowledge and critical inquiry itself.
In sum:
This course is motivated to treat the subject of life's endangerment as a pressing theoretical and practical issue to which religious scholars have something to offer and to which religious leaders have a public responsibility to attend. Under the colossal challenges to life in our time, the densely interwoven meanings and values of natural, human, and divine life are highly contested. Deep religious, ethical, and political convictions condition both the public framing of the issues we face and our individual and social responses to them. This situation demands a rigorous application of thought in both our public and private lives. Religious scholars and practitioners, whose work spans so many fields of knowledge and contemporary life, are uniquely situated to undertake this work. This course is an invitation to life's most pressing work.
II. Structure and Evaluation
This course will be conducted as a seminar. I will lead the first half of each of our sessions with a lecture providing context for our discussion and raising important issues. The second half of each session will be dialogical. These dialogues will only be as rich as our individual and collective preparations. Thus each student is responsible to him- or herself as well as to the other students to come to class having read and reflected on the assigned texts as carefully as possible.
Our reading program reflects the sequencing of concepts in the title of this course and the dialectical hermeneutic discussed above. We will begin by reading selections from Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas, who provides an especially rich account of life's vulnerability in a time of radical technology and then develops an ethical response through an existential reading of biological theory. From Jonas, who charts particularly interesting connections between human and non-human organismic life, we will move to Donna Haraway. Of particular interest for us in Haraway's work will be her account of the human, or her anthropology. We will work through the points of contact and difference between Jonas and Haraway in order to prepare the way for James Gustafson's much more self-consciously theological construal of the connections between bios, anthropos and theos. From each of these authors we will attempt to surface and critically assess the deep metaphors for life that organize their projects. And finally, we will look to the work of Albert Borgmann, a philosopher of technology who presents us with some generative concepts for thinking through the religious life in a time of technological saturation. All together, these thinkers and texts will provide us a fecund site for thinking and discussion and germinate our own constructive theological and philosophical work.
Reflection papers (1-3 pp.) will be assigned for each reading and should be electronically circulated among the students no later than Wednesday evening before class. Organizing questions for these papers will be isolated during class. A final project, a constructive paper or a creative offering, will be due no later than the end of eleventh week. The details of my expectations for these projects will be offered later in the course. Examples of creative projects include but are not limited to the construction of an RE curriculum, a workshop or retreat design, a sermon and liturgy, a series of poems, a dramatic or musical piece. Whether you choose the constructive paper or the creative option, you will be expected to demonstrate understanding of the issues and concepts in the course and critical thinking about them. The eleventh week due date keeps student interests primarily in mind. Mainly for your benefit, MLTS strongly discourages late submissions of papers and requests for extensions.
Student evaluation will be based on your in-class participation, your brief reflection papers, and the final project. Ten percent of your grade will be based on attendance and in-class work, forty percent will be granted to your reflection papers (five percent for each, a total of eight reflections), and fifty percent to your final.
NOTE: You are responsible for reading H. G. Wells's short novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, prior to the first session. This will allow us to move more quickly together into our work, will provide a framing story to which we will refer periodically through the course, and will serve as an illustration of how creatively to present and provoke thinking about the complex issues in our course.
III. Bibliography
*HG Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
*Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life (selections), The Imperative of Responsibility (selections)
*Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
*James Gustafson, Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, 2 vols., (selections)
*Albert Borgmann, Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology
IV. Course Calendar
Week One (September 28): Introduction; Wells; and The Forms of Life (synopses of Jonas, Haraway, Gustafson, and Borgmann)
Week Two (October 5): Jonas: Problem and Method: An Existential Interpretation of Bios
*Read: Jonas, The Imperative of Responsibility, Ch. 1 (pp. 1-24); The Phenomenon of Life, Foreword (pp. xi-xxiv), Introduction (pp. 1-6), Second Essay (pp. 38-58), Third Essay (pp. 64-92), Fourth Essay (pp. 99-107).
Week Three (October 12): Jonas's Organic Metaphysics of Responsibility (from Bios to Anthropos), and the Question of Theological Myth (Theos)
Read: Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life, Ninth Essay (pp. 211-234), Eleventh Essay (pp. 262-281), Epilogue (pp. 282-284); The Imperative of Responsibility, Chs. 4 and 5 (pp. 79-135).
Week Four (October 19): Haraway: Problem and Method (The Artefactual Character of Bios and Anthropos)
Read: Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, Introduction (pp. 1-4), Ch. 1 (pp. 7-20), Ch. 3 (pp. 43-68), Ch. 4 (pp. 71-80)
Week Five (October 26): Haraway's Manifesto: The Politics of Being Hybrid
Read: Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, Chs. 7-10 (pp. 127-230).
Week Six (November 2): Gustafson: Problem and Method
Read: Gustafson, Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Vol. I, Chs. 1-3 (pp. 1-156)
Week Seven (November 9): Gustafson's Fundamental Ideas and Imperative
Read: Gustafson, ETP, Vol. I, Chs. 5-7 (pp. 195-342) ; Vol. II, Ch. 1 (pp. 1-24), Ch. 9 (pp. 279-322)
Week Eight (November 16): Borgmann: Problem, Method and Concepts: On Technos, Bios, Anthropos
Read: Borgmann, Power Failure, Introduction (pp. 7-10), Part I (pp. 11-62).
Week Nine (November 23): Thanksgiving Recess
Week Ten (November 30): Borgmann's Constructive Vision: Focal Concerns and Practices
Read: Borgmann, PF, Part II (pp. 65-128).
Week Eleven: Summaries of Papers and Student Projects (an informal extended class session).


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Gavin Becker, a 14-year-old Villanova resident without a single recording to his name, is going to be a headliner at World Café Live on Dec. 17.
Being the headliner at World Café Live is really nothing new for Gavin Becker; he was the star of the show there just two years ago. Of course, that was because the celebrated live music venue in Philadelphia was the site of his Bar Mitzvah reception. The circumstances are a bit different now. Becker will literally be taking center stage on Dec. 17, when he headlines his first solo gig at the World Café's upstairs concert space.
The 14-year-old Villanova resident may be familiar to anyone who has seen a musical produced by companies like Walnut Street Theatre, Plays and Players and Town and Country Players — he has been a fixture on the region's musical theater landscape since he was a young child.
But how does a teenager without a single recording to his name wind up playing one of Philadelphia's prime spaces?
According to the disarmingly charming Shipley School freshman and member of Beth David Reform Congregation, his success is a result of the age-old formula of hard work, perseverance and social media acumen.
A quick perusal of his original songs and covers on YouTube, Soundcloud and iTunes reveals that the singer/songwriter/guitarist/pianist has the presence, chops and voice to warrant attention. And judging by some of his viewcounts — his spare, heartfelt rendition of Rihanna's hit, "Stay," has garnered 57,000 views on YouTube, and his original song, "Falling Slowly," has 59,000 views — he is getting it.
"Nowadays, social media has changed the whole game," Becker explained in a recent telephone interview. Showing an impressive grasp of the music industry sausage-making process, he talked about how things have changed for aspiring artists since the days of pay-for play. Whereas before the rise of social media, radio play was the crucial determinant in career trajectory, his research into how current pop stars like Justin Bieber achieved sucess showed him that visibility, likes and followers are what make the difference between dreaming and doing today.
"I'm not trying to copy Justin Bieber's style," Becker emphasized. "I just tried to get my name out as much as possible. I post as many things as possible to increase my chances of being found. The more covers you do, for example, the more chance that someone will see it," which explains the preponderance of covers of hit songs on his YouTube channel.
While those view numbers are impressive, they pale in comparison to Becker's Twitter following. There are currently over 71,000 "Gavinators" following his every tweet — more fans than could fit in Lincoln Financial Field, and certainly more than enough to make hosting a performance a viable risk for World Café Live, according to its assistant general manager and director of booking, Laura Wilson.
She says that like so many other unsigned artists, Becker first contacted her through the site's general email, submitting videos and recordings of his work. Unlike so many others, he persisted — for almost two years — and he had that fan base. "When I have available dates, I like to go through the submissions and find new artists" to fill them, she explained. "But we are a business, so we like to have bands that will bring people out. Gavin had a nice pitch where he said, 'Hey, I have x amount of followers on YouTube, so many Twitter followers …' He had a really earnest, thoughtful pitch, especially for someone of a pretty young age."
Becker still sounds pleasantly overwhelmed by his upcoming concert — which he is using as a benefit for Kids Helping Schools, a nonprofit founded by his friend, Kate Aschkenasy — as well as his exploding Twitterverse.
"It's really amazing," he enthused. "And it happened in just the last couple months. I had maybe 66 followers about seven months ago. It's pretty crazy — teenage girls are tweeting me pictures they have edited, pictures of them with my name written on their arms!" In addition to the Twitpics, he also gets fan posts and emails, which impresses him even more. "I'm just pretty shocked that people would take time out of their day to write paragraphs to me," he said with an appreciative laugh. "My friends at school are pretty shocked by it, too. They love to retweet some of them, just to laugh at me sometimes."
Still, in the era of SnapChat, sexting and TMZ, this sudden exponential leap in popularity — and the attendant attention from tens of thousands of teenage girls — has to be potentially concerning to his parents, right?
Yes and no, according to Becker's mother, Kari Souders. "I was shocked, especially when he started showing me some of his followers from around the world," she said. "These young girls are … something! They really admire young boy singers, I guess. Luckily, it all seems very appropriate."
Of course, without hiring a full-time social media consultant, there is no way for her to observe everything — "he has so many, I couldn't keep track of them even if I wanted to," she said. Coming across as the exact opposite of a stage mother, she insisted that "if he continues in this direction, that's fabulous. If he doesn't, then he's learned a tremendous amount along the way. The only thing I'm involved with is making sure he writes appropriate things, and I've never had to take anything down."
She is also involved in making sure that Becker keeps his priorities in order, although he seems to be doing just fine with that on his own. "School always comes first," he said. "Whenever I'm not doing school-related stuff, then I'm working on my music."
Gavin Becker
Dec. 17 at 8 p.m.,
World Café Live
3025 Walnut St., Philadelphia


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Please log any bugs that you are noticing since the upgrade in this thread. Please make sure you read the thread first to ensure that your bug hasn't already been logged here.
The following are bugs that were noted in the Forum Upgrade thread.
We are in the process of writing a plugin to rectify this. In the mean time, you can manually use the BBCode tag `somelanguage
Yup, the OT formatting is logged as a low priority change.
The "Featured Posts" plugin needs to be rewritten and is high on the priority list.
The left menu tree was a plugin that needs to be rewritten and is top of the priority list.
Really? I can see it. Can you confirm that after a hard refresh you still don't have it?
Yeah, that is a weird one and is logged to be fixed.
The jury is still out on the underlines, "Mark Forum Read" seems to be working and yes to the last one, it is logged.
Agreed. I'm not sure that 100% is the answer, but we do need to do something about this.
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In the past hour I've seen two 500 errors, six 502's and a 503.
Unless you're doing something funky on the servers right now, as I suspected the problem is NOT the version of forum software, but somewhere between your servers and the pipe into the data center!
ESPECIALLY the 502's. Bad Gateway is pretty self explanatory and has jack to do with what version of a forums you are running.
Max-width in EM maybe?
I'm probably adding that to the user.css I made, along with putting underlines back in.
This might sound like a stupid question, but does vBull still offer multiple skins? Could have one skin for people who want underlines and one for those who don't.
the thin line separating the signature is way, way too faint to see
Sig line looks OK to me. What OS/browser are you using Rudy?
windows 2000, opera 11.51
I would like to have the subscribed email work as before. With the new forum, my Outlook 2007 does not receive clickable links. I have noticed in the past, that Outlook seems to want a space or new-line at the end of a link.
^ 1px solid #ddd isn't very dark, for sure.
Prolly should be added to Crusty's user.css. Which Crusty should prolly link to again here. It can fix a lot of problems people are having today until the SP devs get time to fix them.
Are the links in the subscribed thread emails clickable for yourself when you view the emails via a webmail interface? When I view my subscribed threads (via yahoo's site) the links are clickable. Possibly something about them is triggering some security setting in Outlook 2007
SP: the other thread, AussieJohn answered the reason links get wrapped now. Which breaks them and makes them unclickable.
The links do work in a web interface.
The links (so far) have been single line and unbroken.
We haven't changed any of the settings for our campus MS Outlook, so I still think there is something in the new forum that has changed from the old email notification.
Hawk, it's great that you guys are working hard. I didn't realize this was just a basic template install and that you guys are working on it still. Just wondering about a few things:
1) Salathe's quote above about the clear differentiation of read threads and unread threads. Visually, I really liked the old version with the text BIG and bold for the unread. Made it so I didn't have to squint or look at an image. Any plans to bring that back? If so, I hope it's not too subtle.
2) Right now on several posts, especially those with one line, there is considerable white space below the sentence/paragraph, which makes for difficult readability. I can upload an image if you want to show what I mean. I actually uploaded one in Deathshadow's user.css thread.
3) Wondering if you can style the Submit Reply and Preview Post buttons to make them either bigger or more noticeable in some other way. I keep scrolling past them looking for them.
BTW, not sure if #1 or #3 qualify as bugs, but enhancements. I just thought they would be appropriate here.
All bugs in the thread so far have been logged. Any enhancements will be considered once we've ironed out the bugs.
Previously read threads weren't in bold. Now all threads are in bold whether they've been read or not. I don't know if this is a conscious design choice or a bug, but I'd prefer if only unread posts where in bold.
Yes, it makes things a little harder, but there is a way of telling what's what. Each post title has an envelope icon to the left. A red one means there's at least one post there you haven't read, while a gray one means there are no new posts in there.
This is not as good (usability-wise) as the bold and non-bold titles, but at least there is some indication of what you are asking about.
Oh, if only! Am I alone in finding threads marked unread when in fact I read the most recent post several hours ago? I used to have a double-check for this - the wee message telling me when I last visited, so at least then I could judge which posts had come in since my last visit. Unfortunately, that seems to have got lost in transit.
Here's a giant bug I'm surprised nobody's mentioned...
If you have more than one CODE block in a post now, they're completely screwed up.... Everything before the last quote is deleted, and the content of that last CODE section is shown once not formatted, then once formatted...
Hah, had to make the example in a separate post, because it was deleting the content in this one...
Take this for example:
There should be four code blocks, with the text "take this for example" before it. (if you "reply with quote" you can see it's in there!) -- it's not even outputting the markup... Something is horribly screwy with whatever regex (I'm assuming it's a regex) is being used to build code blocks!
At first I thought it was my user.css screwing up; but no... the markup isn't even there!
Don't know if this helps, but that came through in my e-mail notification as

Test4

Code :

Test4

There should be four code blocks, with the text "take this for example" before it...which also seems to be missing part of the message.
I've made a post with two code blocks, both of which show OK, but that was the start of a thread. Perhaps it's in the reply where things go awry?


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SAN JOSE — Walmart launched a fresh push into San Jose Wednesday by opening its first Neighborhood Market at Westgate mall in the southwest section of the city.
The 38,000-square-foot store is part of an ongoing expansion by the retailer and a challenge to Safeway, Whole Foods, Lucky and other grocery chains in the Bay Area.
"We are happy to be giving the community fresh and affordable groceries," said Walmart spokeswoman Delia Garcia.
Walmart opened its first Bay Area Neighborhood Market a few weeks ago with a store in San Ramon. It also is planning to open one next year in southeast San Jose's Evergreen district.
With the new stores come new jobs. The San Ramon store has 85 employees and the new West San Jose store has 90 workers, Walmart estimated.
The retailer's Neighborhood Markets feature a full line of groceries, bakery, self-service deli, meat and dairy products, fresh local produce, frozen foods, a tortilla factory and organic items, Walmart said.
The stores threaten the market share of Northern California's dominant retailer, Pleasanton-based Safeway.
"Walmart is pretty competitive with these supermarkets," said Patricia Edwards, chief investment officer with Washington state-based Trutina Financial. "You have the buying power of Walmart, their low pricing, and customers can find some things in Walmart that they can't find anywhere else."
With the new openings, Walmart now has 14 Neighborhood Markets in California and 220 nationwide.
"You will find the same variety of grocery products that you find in one of our Walmart Supercenters," Garcia said. "But these stores are smaller and are set up for quick and convenient grocery shopping."
The new store in Westgate mall will be open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week.
"Walmart will be able to customize the stores if they want," Edwards said. "If they are in a Hispanic neighborhood, you will find more tortillas and less Chinese food. They have a price advantage. And they are nonunion, which helps with costs."
In the West San Jose location, Walmart is operating inside a former Safeway store. In San Ramon, the company took over a retail space that had been vacant for years. Similarly, the Evergreen-area store in San Jose is a once-empty retail building.
"We are reusing existing retail space and we hope to revitalize these buildings that had been vacant," Garcia said. "We want to make these empty spaces economically vibrant again and to help other merchants in the area."
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MasterCard Gains On Strong Q2 As Consumers Splurge With Cards
MasterCard (MA) was up 3.3% in early trading Wednesday, following the payments company's better-than-expected second quarter.
MasterCard reported a profit of $848 million, or $6.96 a share, up from $700 million, or $5.55 a share in the year-ago period. Revenue climbed 15.2% to $2.1 billion.
Both top- and bottom-line results beat analysts' expectations for $6.30 a share on revenue of $2 billion.
MasterCard cardholders logged $734 billion in purchases in the quarter, an 11.7% year-over-year increase on a local-currency basis, ahead of the first quarter's 10.7% gain. Main rival Visa (V) and other large banks have also reported increases in consumer spending in recent months. Although a wobbly economy remains an obstacle, credit card companies are benefiting from a global shift from cash toward plastic.
Janney Montgomery Scott analyst Thomas McCrohan reiterated his Neutral rating on the stock following the report, noting that the positive quarter reflected tight expense control and share repurchases., "Over the past two years, the company's ability to sustain ~20% EPS growth in spite of the current economic circumstances has been impressive, although the factors that contributed to this quarter's outperformance were much more top-line revenue driven as opposed to management pulling expenses levers."
The shares are up 40% in the past year, easily outpacing the broader market but lagging Visa's 50% gain.


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The new Xbox will be revealed for the first time in a one-off event in April, it is being claimed.
CVG says it has word from "a growing number of developers and other industry professionals, some of which are Sony employees".
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By Jim Offner
Special to The Packer
It's been too dry in Colorado for too long, fruit and vegetable growers say.
Grower estimates of how long the dry conditions have persisted vary. However, they all share the same concerns about lack of moisture.
"We're basically in a 10-year drought. We've had two years of normal snowpack in the last 10 years," said Jim Ehrlich, executive director of the Monte Vista-based Colorado Potato Administrative Committee.
The association is currently working to cull acreage in order to "get the aquifer in balance," Ehrlich said. "It's going to be a long, drawn-out process until we get that done, I'm afraid."
Parts of Colorado, particularly the southeastern part of the state, have been languishing in exceptional drought conditions for several years, according to the National Weather Service.
From July 16, 2012, through, July 17, 2013, Pueblo had received only 4.35 inches of precipitation, or 8.22 inches below normal, according to unofficial NWS figures.
"We've been a drought for quite a while, and especially the eastern plains have been in extreme to exceptional drought," said Treste Huse, hydrologist with the Denver/Boulder office of the NWS.
She said some areas in the southeastern region had been getting as little as 25% of normal rainfall.
"Much of the western quarter and all the southwest is running pretty much the same," she said.
Parts of north-central Colorado have fared a bit better, she said. Greeley, for example, had totaled 12.04 inches of precipitation, or about 2.65 inches below average, from July 2012 to this July, the NWS reported.
According to the weather bureau, precipitation in southeastern Colorado is about 10-20 inches below the norm.
"It's a very big challenge," said Bob Sakata, owner of Brighton, Colo.-based Sakata Farms, which has cut back acreage in recent years because of state-imposed water restrictions that have reduced well usage to 35% of capacity.
"It should be 100%. It's a free country and we found the water and the water is there," he said.
Acreage cutbacks are not uncommon under the ongoing drought conditions, said Chuck Bird, owner/manager of Greeley-based Martin Produce Co.
Bird said the drought has affected his operation since about 2002.
"We've lost probably about half of the acres we used to market," he said.
Bird said Martin grows on or represents about 500 acres of potatoes and onions, compared to 1,000 in years past.
Restrictions on pumping out of the South Platte River likely won't change for the better, Bird said.
"It's been to the Supreme Court of Colorado, and the restrictions will remain in place," he said.
Everyone using well water has to have an "augmentation plan" on file with the Colorado Division of Water Resources. Such a plan is designed to protect existing water rights by replacing water used in a new project, the department said.
The bureau notes that 91% of Coloradans get their domestic water from surface supplies, while the other 9% rely on groundwater tapped by wells.
Avondale, Colo.-based Rusler Produce, which had more than 110 acres of onions in 2012, opted out of the deal this year, said Tommy Rusler, manager.
It was all due to lack of water.
"We knew the situation we were coming into when it was time to plant, and we didn't have enough water to plant an onion crop," he said.
The company, instead, will rely on its long-running pinto bean program, which is more amenable to dry conditions, Rusler said.
"We keep that going strong, so that will stay the same," he said, adding that the current drought is "as bad as anybody can remember."
Rusler said his company hopes the drought breaks by next April, when it's time to decide whether to plant another onion crop.