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Training - The Kingpin of Better Use of Technology
By CJ Rhoads with forward and afterward by Andy Klee
As the President of Klee Associates, Inc., and a former JD Edwards employee, I've been heavily involved in JD Edwards training for 18 years, and SAP training for 4 years. I've always gravitated towards training-there's something very appealing to me about the entire process of learning and then sharing the knowledge. It is a compliment to be acknowledged as a guru, and a challenge to figure out how to take that mastery-level knowledge and help others get to the same level. Of course, teaching others is a great way to learn more, and it teaches humility-one has to keep learning to keep ahead of the students you teach.
CJ Rhodes came to my attention in 2005 via the web, as a very strong business strategy and marketing advisor for IT-related firms. Since then, she's become a trusted advisor to my firm, and has written several "CIO Corner" articles for the JDEtips and SAPtips Journals.
At the end of this article, you'll see some comments from me.
Andy Klee, President
Klee Associates, Inc.
Editor's Note: This article was originally published by MC Showcase on March 8, 2007. We publish it here with their permission.
Research on ERP System Return On Investment
I've been doing a lot of research lately on why some companies seem to get tremendous return on their investment in ERP systems and why some companies get no return at all, or even worse - negative return.
One of the problems with the research is that much of it was done in the early days of ERP systems - when lessons were still being learned and implementations were fraught with problems. I'm not saying lessons are no longer being learned and we've eliminated all the problems - we haven't - but most research prior to the mid-nineties did not find ERP systems to be a good investment, while, by contrast, most research after the mid-nineties DOES find ERP systems to be a good investment - depending.
It's that depending that's the kicker. Depending on what? With two different ERP installations - very similar systems, in similar industries - why would one be an unmitigated success and the other be a complete failure?
In preparation for doing my own base research in this topic, I've read a recent doctoral dissertation that shed a lot of light on this subject. Erik Brynjolfsson, now a doctoral graduate from MIT Sloan School of Management, did a study on Intangible Assets: How the Interaction of Computers and Organizational Structure Affects Stock Market Valuations. A paper based on his dissertation was published in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity by Brynjolfsson, Laura Hitt from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Shinkyu Yang from Stern School at New York University.
One of his most interesting findings was that the organizations that invested in ERP systems, but did not invest in training, did not do as well as organizations that invested in ERP systems AND the training for them.
You may think that this is common sense - I certainly do - but I've been surprised, again and again, by decisions by senior leaders to cut the training budget, or to plan only for initial and not on-going training, for their system implementations.
Why Cut the Training Budget?
Why do corporations make the decision to cut the training budget so often? Why is the training budget one of the first to go when money gets tight? For one thing, it is rather hard to trace specific financial returns to training. Brynjolfsson found that "training" paid off, but he did not take the added step of identifying exactly what kind of training was necessary, nor how much was needed to be spent. His focus was on the percent of the staff involved in the training. He found that companies that involved higher percentages of their staff in training had higher returns from their information technology investment.
For another thing, training quality can vary widely. If one company purchases a training tutorial for 5000
employees at a cost of $100,000, and another company custom-designs and implements live training for five different levels of employees with an experienced trainer at a cost of $100,000, are they both equivalently "training"? My experience says "no", but there are lots of vendors of on-line tutorials who will disagree with me. (In my experience, there is no substitute for live training with an experienced and talented teacher. I have found many tutorials to be a complete waste of money.)
The third issue is the high cost of quality training. In another doctoral dissertation (this one by Douglass Nay from the Lubin School of Business), Nay notes that "world-class IT projects spend roughly 20% of funds on training, while most projects (which often fail) allocate a mere 4% to 6% to training".
I can just imagine the response from the CEO (about to commit five million dollars to an ERP implementation) to the Project Manager (who is about to launch the project and includes 20% budget for training): "What do you mean we need to budget one million dollars for training. Are you crazy?"
Getting the Needed Training Dollars
Anyone who has actually implemented an ERP system knows the importance of training - not just the first time, but more and more advanced training as the years go on. And the research supports the view. The best option, of course, is to convince the senior leaders making the decision how valuable that 20% training allocation in the budget actually is. Think of it this way: implementing an ERP system without paying a significant amount for training is like buying a car and then refusing to purchase any gasoline for it.
But alas, I'm also very familiar with the willingness of senior leaders to change their minds on what they feel is an "adequate" amount to be spent on training (hence the fact that most projects allocate a mere 4-6% on training). So what can be done by those who are trying to be successful despite the short-sightedness of some senior managers? Well, I've seen a number of effective strategies by project managers and department managers.
One way is to hide those training dollars in "maintenance kits", "documentation costs", and "upgrade costs". This is why so many vendors are willing and able to bundle training dollars into the software and hardware costs - they know that they wouldn't get those training dollars any other way.
Of course, getting training from the vendor of the hardware and software may work fine - but it also may have problems. For one thing, because of the difficulty of getting those who sign on the dotted line to accept the importance of training, hardware and software vendors know that they have a "captured" training market. That means that - often but not always - their training simply isn't very good. Vendors don't have to pay top dollar for really great trainers or care about the quality of their training in order to attract trainees. They don't have to try so hard because they can fill up their classes with trainees who are getting the training, in their minds, "for free".
Unfortunately, when the quality of the training goes down, the value of the training goes down as well. It's like trying to run that car on a mixture of gas and water. The magical effect that training has on making ERP systems pay off disappears when the training is not of a high enough quality.
Real Stories in Vendor Training Quality
To give you one example, years ago I ran an official SynOptics Training Center in Reading, PA, for Hi-Tech Connections, a SynOptics Equipment reseller. SynOptics was a relatively small company, and they felt that good training was an important part of the implementation for their customers. We were paid well for doing the training and the quality was very high. Customers paid for it - but it was mandatory to get the training with the equipment (kind of like mandatory maintenance costs), so our volume was pretty good. Then SynOptics merged with Wellfleet and became Bay Networks, which was then acquired by Nortel Networks. Needless to say, the whole idea of training being part of the cost of buying the equipment fell by the wayside. First they cut the subsidy they paid us for running the training center. Then they decided that they could hire trainers for half the cost that we were paying by eliminating the strict "training certification process" that they'd previously put into place. Then they eliminated the mandatory hands-on user test that previous attendees were expected to take (because with the lesser qualified trainers, too many attendees weren't able to pass the tests!).
In the end, customers who went with the official "vendor" training received much lower quality of training than previously for the same price. We stopped being an official (by then) Bay Networks Training Center and instead just sold our training directly - but we had to raise our prices significantly because we didn't have the previous volume and had to purchase the equipment necessary to do high quality training. Luckily, our reputation spread and within a year we were bringing in the dollars that we had before - albeit for many fewer trainees. But you can bet that our trainees were implementing the equipment much more effectively than those who were settling for the vendor training. For them, it was worth the extra dollars to find the better training.
Keep in mind - I'm not saying all vendors have poor training. Some actually do care. But you can't always count on that - so it makes sense to check out the quality before you accept the training as part of the package.
How to Tell the Quality of the Training
So how can we tell if the training we are considering is high quality? Firstly, it relies on live trainers - and trainers who do both training and consulting for a living. Trainers who do nothing but training rarely have the real-life experience that is the essential secret ingredient to high quality live training.
Secondly, the training is flexible enough to accommodate the needs of the people taking the training. When a training group is relatively large, it's impossible to meet all the needs of everyone. But sometimes, even if the training group is small, the "curriculum requirements" restrict the ability of the trainer to answer questions and get into the kind of details that will really help the trainees. So too many "courses" with too strict of a "curriculum" is actually detrimental to high quality training.
You might think that I would add "high quality materials" to this list, but in practice I've found that although materials can add to the quality of training, they are not essential for high quality training. The experience and talents of the trainer is really the deciding factor between an okay training and a great training. A great trainer can add great value just by sharing experiences. A poor trainer can have the best materials in the world and it won't help the quality.
So my advice - make sure that you are putting gasoline (training) in your car, and make sure that the gas is premium. The return on investment can be phenomenal.
Dr. CJ Rhoads is a well-known guru, speaker, and author on how to make better decisions about business strategy and technology. Rhoads is the founder of ETM Associates, Inc., a Douglassville-based enterprise technology management consulting firm (ETMAssociates.com). She's also an Associate Professor in the College of Business at Kutztown University, as well as author of over a hundred published articles, dozens of manuals and whitepapers, and two forthcoming books. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Andy's comments: CJ, I can't disagree with you-training provided by the software vendors is often not high quality, and independent firms with an emphasis on training (and consulting) can often do a much better job.
Allow me to add a few additional observations, based on many years of implementing ERP JD Edwards solutions. packages…
1. If you are implementing a new complex software package JD Edwards for the first time, do not send your project team to week -after mind numbing -week of training. Most companies will follow the vendor's suggestions to send their team to public classes for 4-8 weeks of training before the project really gets underway. This is a huge waste of time and money because most of the knowledge gained is too generic (bicycles anyone?), and is mostly forgotten due to the lack of application to real world issues in a timely fashion. Here's what I would suggest instead:
A tightly-focused, custom, onsite class for a week that the entire project team goes to. In my ERP world, this would be a 20,000 foot overview of the entire Manufacturing/Distribution/Financials suite, with emphasis on following a few simple scenarios all the way through the system.
Follow up this training, with "just-in-time" training as the project progresses. You'll soon be setting up a Pilot with detailed scenarios to test. As you begin to cover issues relevant to your implementation, spend plenty of time in training sessions, but make sure they are integrated with the implementation work. That will solve the "I learned it, but forgot it" syndrome, because you'll be trained on a topic just before you need to make preliminary implementation decisions.
2. If you have been live for several years, especially with an ERP package, on JD Edwards you may notice some deterioration in the level of happiness with the solution. After all, you slammed in basic functionality at the beginning, with vague promises to department heads about how you'd be addressing their wish-list items soon, right?
For example:
Are incorrect transactions causing a lot of rework?
Is your reporting no longer as useful as it was at the beginning?
Is your setup out of control-to the point where major surgery is required every time a new requirement shows up?
Do you have a nagging feeling that you've done modifications that might not have been necessary?
If some of your key business users were run over by a bus, would you be in a serious world of hurt?
If the above statements ring true for you, then it's probably time to get some additional training and consulting services. For the post go-live crowd, you have two main options:
Attend public classes at the software vendor's location or find an independent firm that offers public classes.
Bring an expert consultant/trainer on site to address both your consulting and training needs.
3. Know the difference between implementation/configuration training, and end-user training.
Few firms specialize in both types of services. At Klee Associates, we specialize in implementation/configuration level training.
Here's an example of what I mean by implementation/configuration level training. At a class on JD Edwards Advanced Pricing, for example, students will revisit the basics of how the module should be set up, and learn dozens of advanced techniques that they are now (after some live experience with the software) able to understand and implement. They will also learn the "gotchas" to avoid, and learn what their current version of the software is missing that is included with later versions.
The types of students that attend these classes are Pricing Administrators, Pricing Managers, Customer Service Managers, IT Business Analysts, etc.- in other words, anyone with a need to know all the nitty-gritty details of what the module is capable of doing.
End User training, on the other hand, is focused on helping end users perform their daily work-and takes the form of classroom training, online helps, and "cheat" sheets. In the example above, Tthe people who enter new prices, enter price changes, and run pricing reports on a daily basis would need this type of training.
As I mentioned above, my company does not specialize in this end user type of training, but we do refer clients to our partners that do this extremely well.
4. Think about custom on-site training vs. public training.
If you have three or four people (or more) needing implementation/configuration level training, the cost of sending them to a public class, especially if it involves overnight travel, might be more than the cost of bringing in a trainer to your site.
Custom training has some big advantages and one disadvantage.
The advantages are:
The training can be customized to your list of issues and concerns. Spend time on the phone with the instructor discussing the course agenda, prior to her coming onsite. She will then be able to do some research, if needed, before the class starts.
You can spend more time familiarizing the instructor with your way of doing business, and get more useful feedback from the instructor based on his experience level with your industry.
The disadvantage of custom classes is:
You lose the interaction with students from other companies, and it's possible you won't pick up as many good ideas from outside your four walls.
5. Ask to see one or two a copy of a representative chapters from a training manual.
I know CJ says the quality of the training manuals is less important than finding a high quality trainer with implementation experience.
I put hundreds of hours into writing our first few manuals. I know they are much better than the software vendor's. They have hundreds of step-by-step screen shots illustrating dozens of different business scenarios.
They are truly a reference book when back at the office after class.
However, I can't disagree with CJ. The instructor's implementation experience, ability to impart real knowledge, deal with questions, and enthusiasm for training are much more important factors.
If the vendor is worried about your taking advantage of a free copy of one of their manuals, ask to see one or two representative chapters.
6. Ask if Continuing Education credits are available. Approximately 25% of your staff need credits every few years anyway to maintain their professional certifications. If your training vendor's classes qualify for CPE, APICS, CPP and other types of credits, you will kill the proverbial two birds with the proverbial one stone.
Andy Klee has been involved in JD Edwards training and consulting for 18 years. Andy's passion is sharing advanced knowledge and it led him to establishing the JDEtips Journal, starting in 2000. In 2003, SAPtips was born and to date, over 8,000 pages of content have been published. Klee Associates, is a leading player in the ERP training market, giving nearly 200 custom and public classes every year. www.JDEtips.com
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. Andy and his team of expert ERP educators provide training and professional publications for the JD Edwards software package.
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I couldn't agree more with the importance of budgeting for end-user IT training and the necessary follow-through- even years down the line, that is often necessary to keep productivity high and encourage the full use of features and capabilities of ERP systems.
At Panviva, we've found with large, complex ERP systems, its' often a necessary to support end-users after implementation with the details and up-to-date changes with performance support tools like EPSS's (like SupportPoint software, or software from RWD or Tata Interactive Systems), that can provide job-specific and task specific support within the workflow. The issues of post-implementation ERP training and learning is just as important as the system matures, processes change, and upgrades occur - not to mention new people coming into the company. With the return on investment at stake as well as productivity, it is too important not to plan out ERP and process training and support on an on-going basis. Electronic performance support systems can play a role in this post-implementation phase and as part of the on-demand or informal learning that fits well with employees at this stage and management's need to stretch training dollars.
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Seven years ago, Inco Ltd. told Thompson, Man., that it was going to close all of its operations there by 2013.
Then the price of nickel soared, plans to shutter its business in the city that Inco founded in 1956 were shelved and, along the way, Vale SA bought Inco for almost $20-billion.
Now Vale is the villain in Thompson, with 13,450 residents the province's third-largest city, located 765 kilometres north of Winnipeg. While the Brazilian company is set to spend more than $1-billion on mining operations in Thompson, it also plans to shut down an old smelting and refining facility by 2015. That means a loss of 500 jobs - more than a third of the work force.
In a fiery union meeting on Wednesday night, Thompson Mayor Tim Johnston, responding to a question, flatly expressed his feelings about Vale management in Rio de Janeiro: "I don't trust them and I don't like them."
Vale, however, said its moves reflect a recommitment to Thompson, rather than a withdrawal.
"This issue of Thompson and its future certainly predates Vale," said Cory McPhee, a vice-president at Vale Canada in Toronto and Inco veteran. "The old Inco looked at being out by 2013 - that means out, processing, mining, out of everything. This is certainly a much more palatable situation."
Mr. McPhee noted that Vale has 160 job openings in Thompson - positions that have been difficult to fill because of the city's remote, northern location.
Vale's strategy in Thompson, announced Wednesday, is part of a broader $10-billion investment plan in Canada (a third of which had been previously announced).
Thompson's loss of its smelting-refining plants has to do with Newfoundland's gain at Voisey's Bay, where $2.8-billion is being spent by Vale on new "state-of-the-art processing facilities" in Long Harbour - with 500 new jobs once it opens in 2013.
Right now, ore mined at Voisey's Bay is shipped to Thompson for processing. When that stops, the Thompson facilities will be operating at roughly half-capacity. The company says it would need to spend a further $1-billion to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions to adhere to new federal rules in 2015, an expenditure for which Vale said there is no business case.
Vale expects to mine 75 million pounds of nickel in Thompson in 2011, compared with 198 million pounds at its flagship operations in Sudbury. The Thompson 1-D mine expansion, currently at the prefeasibility study stage, could produce 33 million pounds annually; output at a longer-term project called Pipe-Kipper - where the ore is low grade but there's a lot of it - hasn't been determined.
Both expansions would extend mining in Thompson, which would otherwise end around 2030, Vale has said.
"They're very serious about the expansions," said analyst John Hughes at Desjardins Securities.
Nickel prices continue to support the industry. While more than 50 per cent below the bubble peak of 2007, they are well above historical levels and have risen about 25 per cent in the past year. Mr. Hughes said current prices appear to be sustainable.
The announcement presents the governing Manitoba New Democrats with a major loss of jobs in the province's keystone northern community. Premier Greg Selinger on Wednesday told The Globe that the smelting-refining shutdown was "unacceptable."
Innovation, Energy and Mines Minister Dave Chomiak on Thursday said he feared what job losses will do to what is "basically a one-industry town." There is already talk of the elementary school closing its doors and Mr. Chomiak said there is worry about the end of smelting and refining "destroying" Thompson.
The province thinks it "might" have legal leverage under the original 1956 agreement signed between Manitoba and Inco. (Thompson is named after Inco's chairman at the time.) But Mr. Chomiak, most of all, believes a different outcome can be had through negotiation with Vale.
"We've got to get to the table with them and we have to have a chance to negotiate," Mr. Chomiak said. "We think we can work with them creatively. We have a shot at persuading them to alter their decision."Report Typo/Error
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Is it possible to add a third party plugin (SMImage) to the TinyMCE in SS?
The plugin I have is designed for TinyMCE, http://www.synasys.de/index.php?id=46.
I found this superb tutorial site http://www.ssbits.com/customising-the-wysywig-editor-in-v2-3-2-tinymce/ but the instructions here doesn't work for me with this plugin.
It's saying to add this line to the _config.php file:
Then add this line which should add the button for the new plugin in the TinyMCE editor:
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I've placed the plugin in jsparty\tiny_mce2\plugins\smimage
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Is this the correct way of doing it? Am I doing something wrong or maybe third party plugins won't work with SS?
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MIAMI — After revamping their roster this offseason, the Nets expect to be a team that can contend with the likes of the Miami Heat.
They still have a long way to go.
The Nets hung around for a half before Miami outscored them 29-15 in the third quarter — capped off by a LeBron James step-back 3-pointer — and cruised to a 103-73 victory last night in front of a sellout crowd of 19,627 at AmericanAirlines Arena.
"Nobody said we were on Miami's level," Nets coach Avery Johnson said. "Never said it. We aspire to get there. We're not there, [and] we're definitely not there with three games of the regular season.
"We're not there yet, but we're going to get there one day, and it's going to take an enormous amount of work. We have to go through some struggles together, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how our team bounces back against Orlando."
After the Nets defense was the culprit in Monday's second-half collapse and loss to the Timberwolves, it was the offense that kept the Nets from making their matchup with the defending champions more competitive. Despite getting plenty of open looks at the basket — particularly from 3-point range — they never found a way to get going.
The Nets finished the game shooting 37.5 percent (30-for-80) from the floor, including going 3-for-21 from 3-point range, and were 10-for-17 from the foul line.
"Well, give them credit," Johnson said. "You've got to always give your opponents credit. They did a good job defensively. But in reviewing here quickly after the postgame, even some of our 3's that we shot, we were [wide] open and they just didn't go down.
"We took probably three bad 3's, but the other 18 or so were pretty good looks for our team, and we need to make those shots. … If they force you into taking those shots, if you don't make them, you're in trouble."
Then, when you combine the poor-shooting performance from the Nets with 19 turnovers — which led to 31 Miami points — and a game that was competitive for a half quickly slipped out of reach.
"I thought we did a pretty good job in the first half," said Kris Humprhies, who finished with 11 points and 11 rebounds. "[But] the second half, with great teams, when you come out in the third quarter that's make or break … and they broke us right there."
As usual, James was brilliant. With the Nets missing starting small forward Gerald Wallace, who sat for the second straight game with a sprained left ankle, James wound up with 20 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists in just under 30 minutes, and without stepping on the floor in the fourth quarter.
Neither did the Nets starters, who were pulled by Avery Johnson after James' 3-pointer to end the third put the Heat up 79-56 and who, outside of Humphries, all struggled.
Deron Williams finished with 14 points, but went 0-for-4 from 3-point range and had seven turnovers, while Brook Lopez never got going, attempting three shots in the first half and finishing with eight points and seven rebounds.
Meanwhile, Joe Johnson finished 4-for-14 from the field, and had nine points.
"I'm just trying to figure things out," Joe Johnson said. "Obviously I had a lot of wide-open looks that I normally make that didn't fall tonight, but I'm sure I'll bounce back big against Orlando [tomorrow]."
But in their first crack at the defending champs, the Nets saw they still have plenty of work to do.
"We know that they've been together for years," Williams said. "It didn't happen for them overnight, either, so it's not going happen for us overnight."


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Last week, Wes Welker was in the headlines because he didn't get the snaps he's used to, he didn't get the targets he's used to, and he didn't get the catches he's used to.
In Week 2, he got more targets and receptions, but he didn't start the game. Welker says he's healthy, and it's pretty safe to say he's more skilled than Julien Edelman, the guy who replaced him in the starting lineup.
So, what gives? We collected all the "Welker talk" from our guys at CSNNE after the game. Take a look and let us know what you think the deal is in the comments section.


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Restless spring had come at last to Europe, and last week Europe's peoples were on the move. The tall fighting people of Germany marched into Denmark and Norway and some of the peaceful people of those countriesrefugees, frightened liberals, Jewsfled to Sweden. From Malmö in Sweden, a short ferry ride from German-held Copenhagen, Swedes who had not seen war in their lifetimes moved inland. Well-fed Dutch burghers in cities near the German frontier packed up and went to Amsterdam; from Eindhoven a thousand women and children took the broad, flat road to Utrecht. Refugees from once-German Eupen and Malmédy...
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The ghost of Hamlet returns to Denmark, again, in TR Warszawa's stage adaptation of 'Festen'
In the second half of the twentieth century, the figure of Hamlet came to hold a powerful grip over the European imagination.
Against the backdrop of a time coming ever more out of joint—in which Communist dreams had disintegrated into a totalitarian nightmare in the East and "mutually assured destruction" had become a potential endgame to the Cold War—Shakespeare's tragedy was seen as an allegory of historical catastrophe. In East Berlin in 1977, Heiner Müller's play Hamletmachine opened with the words: "I was Hamlet. I stood at the shore and talked with the surf BLABLA, the ruins of Europe in back of me." In Poland, the Hamlet resonance was felt with particular acuity by postwar artists and authors Zbigniew Herbert, Andrzej Wajda, and Jan Kott, among others.
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Grzegorz Jarzyna's stage adaptation of the 1998 Danish film Festen (The Celebration)—currently playing at St. Ann's Warehouse in DUMBO—suggessts that the Hamlet myth continues to occupy a central place in the Polish imagination.
The 1998 film—which was directed and co-written by Thomas Vinterberg according to the rules of the Dogme 95 collective—follows a modern-day Danish family that comes apart at the seams when its eldest son publicly accuses his father of horrific crimes during a family banquet in honor of the patriarch's sixtieth birthday.
Jarzyna's adaptation was originally staged in Warsaw's TR Warszawa theater in 2001. Yale theater professor and critic Tom Sellar described it as "a cri de coeur from the generation struggling to liberate itself from Communism and obliged to distinguish between venerable legacies and oppressive ones." Appearing eleven years later in Brooklyn, in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse and Occupy Wall Street's appearance on the American political scene, this iteration of the production resonates with its New York audience by casting its generational aspersions upon the forces of capitalism as much as anywhere else.
The drama centers upon the Hamlet-like figure of Christian, played here by Andrzej Chyra, son of the wealthy hotelier and businessman Helge, played by Jan Peszek. Christian has come home to his father's estate for a birthday celebration that follows hard upon the recent funeral for his twin sister Linda, who committed suicide before the play's beginning but whose presence haunts the old home. When called upon to toast his father during dinner, Christian rises and almost nonchalantly tells the assembled guests that Helge regularly raped him and his sister Linda as children.
From there, the façade of bourgeois respectability starts to unravel, but not immediately. In his staging, Jarzyna preserves one of the film's most unsettling aspects: the matter-of-factness with which Christian reports upon the family's buried secrets, and the astonishing degree to which these exposures meet with almost no response, at least initially, from his loved ones. Jarszyna, like Vinterberg before him, is concerned with the question of what we are willing to ignore, deny, misunderstand, rationalize, or conveniently forget so that the workings of a community may continue to proceed uninterruptedly—in short, with the question of how ideology functions.
In this respect, the production has something to say to the current political-economic moment in Europe and the United States. If, in 2001, the production staged a generational revolt against the legacy of Communism in Eastern Europe, in its present context it resonates more directly with an age coming to awareness of the excesses and exploitations of its own wealthy capitalist patriarchs. Here, the question of what we willingly excuse so the party can continue unimpeded once again comes to the fore. When Helge's forced, public confession is followed almost immediately by a scene of the party guests dancing, we have the sense that something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark. As Jan Kott wrote in Shakespeare Our Contemporary: "Hamlet is like a sponge. Unless it is produced in a stylized or antiquarian fashion, it immediately absorbs all the problems of our time." The same holds true for adaptations of the Hamlet myth, Festen included.
Jarszyna's production remains mostly faithful to Vinterberg's screenplay, notwithstanding a few cut scenes that help streamline the plot for performance in a theatrical setting. His approach differs most sharply from Vinterberg's in the respective moods evoked by each.
Vinterberg's film plays out in pale and dreamy tones that blur the line between fantasy and reality, leaving the audience negotiating and renegotiating the question of what actually happened, almost until the very end. By comparison, most of Jarsyna's production is overcast with a sense of looming threat, melancholy thunder-clouds, and the sounds of rain and Schubert's Ständchen playing intermittently in the background. These are complemented by original music by Paweł Mykietyn and Piotr Domiński that seems as if it were being played underwater. (In both the film and the production, the suggestion is that Linda's bathtub suicide was an act of self-drowning, Ophelia-style.)
The production finds creative solutions for adapting its material to the stage. Małgorzata Szczęśniak's scenic design sets the action in a single large room—lined on stage right by a row of hotel suite doors—allowing transitions between scenes to take place simply and elegantly, while also permitting simultaneous actions to replace events that occur via montage in different locations in the film. Jarsyna frequently avoids Vinterberg's gritty, Dogme-inflected naturalism of character and situation in favor of a more physically explicit, less psychological touch (as, for example, when Christian and his love interest Pia begin behaving like dogs at the end of act one), but the effect is far from inelegant.
TR Warszawa's 'Festen' (The Celebration) is playing at St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water Street, Brooklyn. Tickets are $40 to $55 and are available at 718.254.8779 or here.


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Utah Jazz schedule, 2012-13 season begins with a trick-or-treat special
Little Andy Tremonton, UTSept. 15, 2012 9:32 a.m.
The trick will be the Jazz will trade a fan favorite. The treat will be Bell will go along also.
WhatsInItForMe Orem, UtahJuly 27, 2012 9:58 a.m.
Looks like the Jazz could (not will) start the season 0-6, but then have a chance to finish the month 8-3 for a starting record of 8-9.
Then, they could surprise most pundits and go 12-5 or better.
Guess that's what makes watching the games so fun. You never know.
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Belfast Brexit debate: Big-hitters Owen Paterson, Kate Hoey, Vernon Coaker and John Stevens sharpen their arguments ahead of debate on EU membership
Some of the biggest political names in the increasingly heated EU debate will air their opposing views at a major business event in Belfast next week.
The former Conservative Secretary of State Owen Paterson will line up alongside Northern Ireland-born Labour MP Kate Hoey to put the case for a Brexit, while Labour's Vernon Coaker, currently Shadow Secretary of State, and former Tory MEP John Stevens will argue that Britain should remain a member of the European Union.
Around 150 people, including business leaders in manufacturing and service companies, entrepreneurs and farmers have signed up for the Big EU Business Debate at the Northern Ireland Science Park on Monday evening. It will be live-streamed online throughout the UK and the Belfast Telegraph will host a live pre-debate discussion with key speakers and guests.
Ms Hoey, Labour's most prominent Eurosceptic, is co-chair of Labour Leave. She is a harsh critic of the EU and has challenged those in the remain camp over what she sees as "scare tactics". Writing in the Daily Telegraph recently she said: "Familiar voices try to scare us into believing that leaving the EU would ruin the UK, but these are the same people who told us that we had to join the euro or face disaster.
"We stayed out of the euro and have therefore been spared much of the chaos of that unsustainable currency - but we still give £7.3bn net a year of our money to the EU."
At the event in Belfast on Monday night, she'll be going head to head with her party colleague Vernon Coaker who's a firm supporter of the argument for Britain's continued membership of the EU. He said: "The EU has delivered investment and jobs to the UK whilst also securing important protections for workers, consumers and the environment."
Mr Coaker will be supported in his pro-EU argument by former Conservative MEP John Stevens, a senior research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute, while the Leave camp's case will be championed by Owen Paterson, the former Tory Environment Minister who was previously Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Along with the current NIO Secretary Teresa Villiers, Mr Paterson has become a key figure in the Brexit camp, branding the Prime Minister's concessions gained from the recent EU summit as "very disappointing". The Big EU Business Debate will be co-chaired by Angela McGowan, chief economist at Danske Bank, and Jeffrey Peel, managing director of the consultancy firm, Quadriga.
Mr Peel, a former vice-chair of the Conservative Party in Northern Ireland and a declared "Brexiteer", said he hoped the event would highlight the key economic issues at stake in the EU referendum vote.
"We have to think rationally about what is best for the UK," said Mr Peel. "There are good arguments on both sides of the EU debate and it's important that people hear the facts and make their decision based on economic grounds. There's a unique opportunity for voters in Northern Ireland to focus on issues that are not sectarian in any way."
The event's sponsors are Equiniti Group, Danske Bank and the Federation of Small Businesses.
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Kussmaul Gallery was established in 1989, as a small boutique, in the former Granville Times building. The space boasted exposed brick walls, hand hewn timber beams, and a cathedral ceiling. Known for expressive gallery openings, the locale afforded unique display opportunities for advancing artists, but soon growth of the picture framing business, and the increase in the hand-made American Crafts, became the focus of the gallery.
1995 brought the end of an era when The Granville Times Book Cellar closed their doors, and the beginning of an era for Kussmaul Gallery, relocating to occupy the entire Granville Times building. An extensive remodel transformed the edifice into the distinctive place that became Kussmaul Gallery. Since that opening day, the gallery has continually grown and taken different directions, becoming Granville's premier retail destination. Kussmaul Gallery is the longest standing retail business in Granville with original proprietor, and this concept of longevity carries over to our artists, and their quality conscious creations.
With a background in administration and social services, Jenifer joined Kussmaul Gallery in 1996. As a young girl, the influence from a professional artist and family friend helped guide her to a fashion merchandising major in college, and eventually to co-ownership of the Kussmaul Gallery. Her talents in merchandising design create the signature visual motifs that identify Kussmaul Gallery. Relationships with artists and representatives from around the world help Jenifer continue to offer an unrivaled selection of sterling silver jewelry and hand-made objects.
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Since 1995, his focus has been on his professional career as a landscape, and barn painter. Working from studios located on their farm, and in the gallery building, he creates his signature paintings in oil. His work is currently represented exclusively by Kussmaul Gallery. His work is also featured in several retail stores nationwide. Paintings can be viewed online at www.jamesyoungartist.com.
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The Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people in the world was released on 21 April 2011. India's cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni who led India to win the World Cup after 28 years was named in the list along with four other Indians. The other Indians in the list include Mukesh Ambani, VS Ramachandran, Azim Premji and Aruna Roy.
Dhoni ranked 52nd in the Time list surpassed the other Indians. He outranked Mukesh Ambani who was placed 61st in the list. According to the Time, Dhoni not only got India the cup but also taught India how to play.
Brain Mapper VS Ramchandran is 79th in the list, philanthropist Azim Premji is on number 88 and change agent Aruna Roy is 89th most influential person in the world.
The list is topped by Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who became the spokesman for a revolution" in Egypt. The other influential people in the list are US President Barack Obama, ranked 86, trails far behind his secretary of state Hillary Clinton (43), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (6), WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (9) and Pakistani ISI spy master Ahmed Shuja Pasha (17).
The top 10 most influential people listed by TIME are as follows:
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Mark Zuckerberg
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Angela Merkel
Julian Assange
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That Dhoni has been ranked 52 in the TIME MAGAZINE is numerologically significant.Number 52 adds up to 7.I have been writing in my blogs since Dhoni was appointed Indian captain that he is strongly influenced by his lucky numbers 2/7.It was on this basis that I predicted through my blogs-even before the WC 2011 began-that Dhoni will lift the wc for India as the 2nd captain,as the final was on April 2.India won the 1st cup in the 3rd wc.This was the 10th WC.So,I also mentioned that it will be the 7th from the 3rd.On April 1st the ASIAN TRIBUNE published my prediction on India-Lanka final.The prediction was summed up thus:?INDIA WILL MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPE FROM THE LANKAN TSUNAMI AND DHONI WILL LIFT THE WC FOR INDIA AS THE 2ND CAPTAIN?.


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Delicious custard and fresh strawberry combination that makes for a refreshing and comforting dessert.
- 1 lb fresh strawberries
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 pint custard, prepared according to your favourite recipe
1Remove the stalks from the fresh strawberries.
2Place the strawberries in a glass dish and scatter over the sugar.
3Prepare the custard and while still hot, pour carefully over the fruit.
4Set aside to cool, and just before serving (which must not be until the custard has become quite cold), garnish the top with a few fine strawberries.
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- Saucepan to make custard
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The Economic Impact of the Arts, Film, History and Tourism Industries in Connecticut
This report contains four ecnomic impact studies corresponding to the four divisions (arts, film, historic preservation, and tourism) of the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism that commissioned them. There is an Executive Summar, the four industry studies, and a methodological overview that includes a discussion of the overall approach, economic impact multipliers, data sources, and an explanation of the conservative nature of the studies.
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'The rise of the robot' explored in BBC Business News / Business Daily on 31 Dec 2012.
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Austin, Texas, is rightfully known as a mecca for music, thanks largely to the city's annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals. And the latest band to bubble up to receive the prestigious Austin Music Award for Best New Band is the Austin-based band The Wheeler Brothers, consisting of brothers Tyler (bass guitar), Patrick (drums) and Nolan (guitar, piano and vocals), plus friends A.J. Molyneaux (lapsteel, guitar, vocals) and Danny Matthews (guitar, vocals).
The Wheeler Brothers' "rock 'n' roll with a bit of twang" on their debut album Portraits has been well received in Texas and beyond, and their eagerly anticipated second album is in progress. The Wheeler Brothers will be performing Aug. 18 at the Lobero Theatre, as part of the Sings Like Hell series.
Nolan Wheeler answered the following questions by email, with answers received on July 31.
Jeff Moehlis: What can we look forward to at your upcoming concert in Santa Barbara?
Nolan Wheeler: We pride ourselves in presenting well-rehearsed, highly energetic shows that are fun for audiences of any age. Santa Barbara, and most theater shows for that matter, deserve a little bit of extra treatment. We are a rock 'n' roll band, and it will be loud, but we also like to play more intimate songs to cater to those more intimate environments.
JM: When you're on tour, what's the thing that you miss most about Austin?
NW: I really miss watching my favorite local bands grow. I have lots of friends in very talented bands, and wish I could be there to support them as often as they are there to support me.
JM: Who are some of your favorite bands from Austin that aren't so well known elsewhere?
NW: TOO MANY ... Take an hour and check these bands out: SORNE, Wild Child, Crooks, Holiday, Shakey Graves, The Eastern Sea, Mother Falcon, The Bellmen, Quiet Company, The Bright Light Social Hour.
(JM: Take Nolan's advice — you can easily find most of these bands on YouTube. Let's bring some of these bands to Santa Barbara! I suggest we start with The Eastern Sea ...)
JM: Being from Austin, I'm guessing that you attended the SXSW music festival before you played at it. Is it more fun being an attendee or a performer at SXSW?
NW: Playing there and being there are totally different. While both are amazing for different reasons, I would much rather attend as a performer.
JM: Can you give an idea of what we can look forward to from your second album?
NW: Well, you never really know how an album is going to shape up until it gets going. This one is coming out pretty rock 'n' roll, thus far. A distinctive step toward more traditional '70s and even some
'90s-influenced rock 'n' roll. Still, a large variety of instrumentation, and still a lot of twang.
JM: Who are your primary musical influences?
NW: Some of my personal favorites: Wilco, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, The Band, Dr. Dog, Modest Mouse, Dirty Projectors.
JM: How do the band's songs typically come together, or is there a typical?
NW: There is no real format. We all write collectively and listen intently to each other. We are a collective songwriting unit.
JM: What advice would you give to an aspiring musician?
NW: If someone comes along who believes in your project and wants to help it grow, get out of their way and let them help! I hear a lot of bands along the road that are so proud to have done every little thing themselves, which is cool, but there is a time and place for publicity work, management, booking and such. The real advice: Surround yourselves ONLY with people you know and care about, and who believe whole-heartedly in your project.
JM: What are your plans, musical or otherwise, for the near future?
NW: Writing and touring. Hopefully catching some fun shows at festival gigs.
JM: Where are you responding from?
NW: Once Over Coffee Bar in Austin.
— Noozhawk contributing writer Jeff Moehlis is a professor of mechanical engineering at UCSB. Upcoming show recommendations, advice from musicians, interviews and more are available on his Web site, music-illuminati.com.


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The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a heavy scolding to President Barack Obama for executive overreach on appointments. The House plans to sue the president for executive overreach on a variety of topics. Meanwhile, a flood of illegal immigrant children are pouring across the U.S. border.
So timing might seem off for House Democrats to demand Obama take executive action on immigration.
But on the anniversary of the Senate-passed comprehensive immigration reform bill — which included a path to citizenship with increased border security — some Democrats are arguing it's the only solution, because the Republican-controlled House won't take up the bill.
"As we mark one year since the Senate passed bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform, we must face the fact that this Republican led House has no intention of following suit," Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said in a statement Friday issued by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. "It's time for President Obama to step up and do everything within his power to ease the plight of the men, women and children suffering from our broken immigration system."
"Executive action will fall short of what could have been achieved by Congress and, as we work towards a permanent solution, we should be clear-eyed about where fault lies," Grijalva said. "Republicans have failed the American people by refusing to fix a dysfunctional system."
Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), the chairman of the immigration task force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, blamed House Republicans for obstruction.
"But we need a dance partner to work in a bipartisan manner and so far, Republicans have refused to take any action and are threatening to sue the president if he does," Gutiérrez said. "We have got to refocus our resources on deporting criminals and keeping out threats, but Republicans are standing in the way."
Obama talked about both the lawsuit announced this week by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the immigration crisis at the border in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"The suit is a stunt, but what I've told Speaker Boehner directly is, 'if you're really concerned about me taking too many executive actions, why don't you try getting something done through congress?'" Obama told ABC. "The majority of the American people want to see immigration reform done. We had a bipartisan bill through the Senate. If I try to fix some parts of it administratively that are within my authority, why you are not doing anything?"
The president was referring to the 2012 deferred action policy of not deporting children who were brought to the country illegally by their parents. He didn't talk about taking further executive action on immigration.
Some critics have blamed the deferred action policy on causing confusion that prompted the unaccompanied minors to cross the border.
"Our message is absolutely don't send your children, unaccompanied, on trains or through a bunch of smugglers," Obama said on "Good Morning America." "That's our direct message to families in Central America. Don't send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they'll get sent back. More importantly, they may not make it."
But there is more the president can do, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said, according to The Hill.
"We're deporting too many people; we're breaking up families; and he ought to do whatever's in his executive power to change what is a bad policy," Nadler said. "It's the right thing to do."
The Obama administration has asserted that it has increased deportations, but what it's actually done is increased the number of removal orders given to illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the number of illegals returned to their home countries has really declined under Obama, according to the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics published by the Department of Homeland Security (see table 39).
Not all Democrats are demanding executive action; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told The Hill she believes Boehner "is of good faith on this" and would find a way to act.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) also told The Hill: "Maybe Speaker Boehner would come to his senses."
But Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-Texas), the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, still insisted this week that executive action from Obama is overdue.
"I told him that we'd give him time, so we should be going to the White House soon," Hinojosa said Wednesday.
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Cross Listed as DANC201, AFR201
Students will learn dance and music traditions from the African continent. To more fully understand the art form, students will also study the culture and history of the African regions in which selected dance and music evolved. This course can be taken for academic and /or PE credit
Class Format: studio/seminar
Requirements/Evaluation: students enrolled for academic credit must attend wkly lecture/discussion sessions & write final 5 pg research paper that is related to his/her final performance project;all students must participate in a performance project of course material
Additional Info: students enrolled PE credit have no final paper & do not attend the wkly lectures.
Additional Info2: this course may be taken for academic and/or PE credit; see description for more details
Prerequisites: Dance 100 or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preference: students who have taken Dance 100 or advanced placement
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Distribution Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under DANC and MUS; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AFR
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I hate baby shower games. *Hate* them. Chas? Chas *loves* them. So when I started planning her shower I decided to find modern baby shower games. I didn't want to play the dirty diaper game or the baby food game or any other annoying standard game. I wanted modern baby shower games that would be fun and not bug the crud out of me. I wanted to make Chas happy, but I want to make me happy too. Of course my search took me to Mr. Google, my old friend, and my search for modern baby shower games was successful (and my other goal as well of cheap baby shower games). When I sent Chas my list of ideas I got very excited responses back from her. The games are new and fresh and silly.
Our first game will be nipple bobbing. Yup, we're bobbing for nipples. Which cracks me up. Have you ever searched ebay for nipples lots? That is completely terrifying, but it worked out. Everyone will get a chance to bob for nipples and win a prize. Since you can't just eat the nipple, like when bobbing for apples, there will be numbers on the nipples to win prizes. Mostly generic ones but one nipple will have a grand prize number.
The next game will be binky spitting. Going for distance is the goal of course. At first I thought this wouldn't really fit in with my goal of cheap baby shower games. Binkies are not cheap and I really didn't think that I could make people reuse the binky the previous person just spit across the yard. Gross. But I went back to ebay and found some toy binkies that were cheap. Very cheap. Suddenly binky spitting was my cheapest game of them all. Score. Nothing like a bunch of ladies spitting binkies as far as they could across the lawn. Classy.
Our other games aren't for winners, they are more just fun activities for baby sprinkles. We will be decorating bibs and guessing the candy in a bottle and doing door prizes for everyone that self addresses and envelope. You know, so Chas doesn't have to when she send her thank you notes. Baby sprinkles can be a lot of fun and you can make them just as fresh and fun as you want. I am definitely looking forward to this party, baby shower games and everything.
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Today's Reading: "Daybreak" by Galway Kinnell from MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. (1980).
The NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL gets underway today in Newport, Rhode Island, and runs through Sunday. The ILLINOIS STATE FAIR also starts today and goes through the 23rd of the month.
It's the birthday in Tacoma, Washington, 1950, of GARY LARSON, the cartoonist-creator of The Far Side. He first sold six cartoons to a regional magazine, then sold another batch to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1979 who began syndicating The Far Side to over 900 papers.
It's the birthday in Rome, 1928, of director and screenwriter LINA WERTMÜLLER, best known for the 1974 film Swept Away, and The Seven Beauties, which came out two years later, the story of an Italian prisoner who has to give up all his morals in a WWII concentration camp.
It's RUSSELL BAKER's birthday, born in 1925, in Loudon County, Virginia. He went to work as a journalist at the Baltimore Sun, writing a weekly column called "From a Window on Fleet Street." The New York Times hired him in 1954, and he went to Washington to cover the White House and Congress during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. He also started writing the "Observer" column on the editorial page and by 1979 won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He won another Pulitzer four years later, this time for his autobiography, Growing Up.
It's the birthday in Alderson, West Virginia, 1894, of Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louis Virginia Smith better known in the years between the wars as BRICKTOP, the queen of the nightclubs. She ran the café society clubs in Paris, Mexico City and Rome, and it was the place where anybody who was anybody came for drinks and a show. Cole Porter, Ernest Hemingway, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck frequented her clubs, which were named Bricktop, and just about everybody called her "Brick," or "Brickie."
The famous COLOGNE CATHEDRAL with the towering, twin black steeples, was finally completed on this day in 1880, 632 years in the works. There's been a church in Cologne on that site, right on the Rhine River, since the year 873, but a fire in 1248 destroyed much of it. Rebuilding stopped in 1560 during the Plagues, starting again nearly 300 years later in the 1840s. One hundred years later, in WWII, Allied bombers flattened about 80% of the city of Cologne, but left the Cathedral standing.
It's the birthday in Surrey, 1864, of the British novelist JOHN GALSWORTHY, who wrote The Forsyte Saga, a series of novels about three generations of the Forsytes, an upper-middle-class family in turn-of-the-century-England headed by the manipulative lawyer Soames Forsyte. In 1921 he founded PEN, the international organization for writers, and in 1932 won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
It's the birthday in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1863, of ERNEST L. THAYER, who is remembered today for one piece, "Casey at the Bat." He was 24 years old and got $5 for it when it ran anonymously in the June 3, 1888, Sunday edition of the San Francisco Examiner. And by the turn of the century it was said that there was hardly an American alive who hadn't heard or read it; which annoyed Thayer, since his other books and poems were completely overshadowed by it.
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"Improving the education and life chances of our children and young people is the defining mission of this Government."
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