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Amram Mitzna's election campaign among immigrants from the former Soviet Union is being waged in uncharted and decidedly hostile territory
If one of the Israeli television channels had done a live broadcast of Amram Mitzna's campaign appearance before new immigrants at a Hadera absorption center, Justice Mishael Cheshin would not have found any reason to yank the proceedings off the air. The conscientious chairman of the Central Elections Committee would have been hard-pressed to find even a trace of election propaganda at the Labor Party chairman's campaign event. Mitzna's speech, so objective that it was more like a civics lesson than a campaign address, would even have earned Education Minister Limor Livnat's seal of approval.
Speaking slowly in simple Hebrew, Mitzna told the Russian- and Spanish-speaking olim who haven't been in the country long that there will soon be an election in Israel and that there are a lot of parties to choose from. He talked about the Likud and its past leaders, and, in the course of his remarks, gave Begin and Netanyahu as much emphasis as he did Ben-Gurion and Rabin. He explained a little bit about the differences between the philosophies of the two major parties. The fairness of the speech was beyond reproach, but with the election around the corner, it certainly wasn't the type to pay immediate dividends.
Maybe this approach will pay off some time in the future, when the olim recall that nice man who came to teach them about the political system in Israel and posed for pictures with some of them. Actually, at this point, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. Not all of the 300 olim at the absorption center, some of whom are students who made aliyah from the former Soviet Union without their parents, have the right to vote in this election (a right that takes effect after three months in the country). Even those who have been here a bit longer haven't the slightest idea what's going on. Talking with them about politics makes one wonder about the wisdom of immediately granting olim the right to vote.
"How many Arabs are there in Israel?" one woman from Kazakhstan asked in a whisper during Mitzna's speech. She wasn't satisfied with the answer that she was given - "about a million." As it turned out, she makes no distinction between Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians in the territories, "because it's all the same thing." Then she asked how many Jews there are in Israel and passed the information on to a friend who'd recently come from Kirghizstan. Four days from now, they'll be exercising their right to vote.
Surprisingly, at the end of the gathering with Mitzna, all the people sitting near the two women said they planned to vote for Labor. But credit for this apparent little victory isn't really due to Mitzna. Evidently, they all thought that the question was being posed to them by "the party" and thus required the "correct" answer. Only Josh Keidan, a young immigrant from Boston, gave a different reply. He knew Mitzna from a previous solidarity visit to Haifa, Boston's sister city. "This isn't the same person at all," he commented at the end of the meeting at the absorption center. "It looks like they replaced him with someone else. This time, I'm going to vote for Sharon."
Keidan isn't the only one. Most of the olim will vote Likud. The polls are predicting that the Russian-speaking community will give the party about six seats, making it the party with the largest amount of support from immigrants. The same polls show Labor receiving 4.5 percent of the Russian vote, or about 1.5 seats. This is a significant increase from the 2.8 percent with which Labor began this election campaign, but not enough to overcome all the years when Labor completely ignored and neglected this community.
Labor's election campaign among the million Russian-speaking immigrants is a journey into uncharted territory in which the candidates are completely unfamiliar with the public they're trying to reach. They find this public alien and intimidating. Only 2.5 percent of the party's election budget was allotted to the effort to gain the votes of about 17 percent of the electorate. "Labor is still trapped by the trauma of the past," says a party official. "It's been trying to woo Makhlouf from Dimona for 40 years now. It's invested millions in him and he still votes Likud. And his grandson will vote Likud, too. They just don't know how to talk to the olim."
"Labor should be able to speak to both Makhlouf and to Boris," Labor party secretary Ophir Pines-Paz said this week. "It's failing to internalize the changes in Israeli society because it's not an open party. It was hard for me, too, to enter the party as a young man. Now we're operating in a hostile environment. Our local authority heads, who are used to working with the olim's representatives on the municipal level on a daily basis, are calling to tell me what they're saying about us now. They're saying that we're traitors, that Ben-Gurion was from the Likud."
Given the anti-left atmosphere among the olim, putting Shimon Peres in charge of the campaign in this sector would seem an odd move, to say the least. But it's actually not as strange as it seems. Peres may not be Mr. Popularity among the Russian-speaking public - who are fed a lot of talk about the "Oslo criminals" by the Russian media here - but at least he's someone they know, and they feel a certain amount of respect for him. In this community, the rest of the Labor candidates are complete unknowns.
Peres' campaign team prepared a list of six messages for their boss to convey at meetings with olim. The first was: "Mitzna projects integrity, because he is an honest man." The others briefly outlined the party's profile and positioned it as the antithesis of the Likud. This approach was certainly very neat and to the point. At the few campaign events for olim that Peres managed to attend, it even seemed to work. But with his endless travels during the height of the election campaign, Peres was hardly here. And when he was around for a couple of days, he suddenly became a virtual prime ministerial candidate, which only confused the olim even more.
Meanwhile, a power struggle is taking place between Sofa Landver, who is 22nd on Labor's Knesset list and fighting for her political future, and Neda Tchozoi, the representative of the "Perestroika" group (composed of olim from the major wave of Russian immigration in the 1990s) in the party. A lot of the party's energy is being squandered on resolving the overt and covert battles between these two, energy that could have been better invested elsewhere. It's one way in which the little things that take on big significance in an election campaign are being forgotten.
Mitzna's next stop after the gathering at the Hadera absorption center was at an election convention at the Armon David banquet hall in the city, where a terrorist shot and killed six people at the bat mitzvah of a girl from the Russian community about a year ago. Almost the entire Labor faction was there to put on a strained display of unity. The convention was supposed to be a mixture of olim and vatikim (old-timers), but the olim were vastly outnumbered, and the few who were there felt they didn't really belong. No one made any attempt to address them in their language and not a single piece of written material in Russian was prepared for them.
"I like Labor, but other new immigrants don't know the party," Yevgenia Aristadov, who made aliyah three years ago, says in broken Hebrew. "The party isn't doing anything. Even the little Moledet party has a newspaper in Russian. We have nothing. I brought my two sisters here tonight. They don't speak Hebrew and there's no information for them. The Likud has information in Russian. And Sharansky and Lieberman do, of course. But Labor has nothing. You'll see - Everything here is going to be in Hebrew and we won't understand it."
And so it was. In fact, the atmosphere of the entire event was off. While some young party members shouted out enthusiastic chants, most of the people congregated there were quietly talking about the looming disaster, trying to outdo each other in their predictions of how few seats the party would win in the next Knesset. It was testimony to another characteristic of this peculiar election campaign: While politicians at the height of an election campaign naturally act as if victory is imminent, this time their public is discarding that pretense the moment the politicians are out of earshot.
At the event, the Mitzna campaign ad in which he called Sharon "the Godfather" was shown, even though Mitzna has already acknowledged that this was a mistake. "What can I tell you?" sighs Shoshana Hadad, a long-time Labor supporter from Hadera. Her parents used to wage ideological battles on the party's behalf in their predominantly right-wing neighborhood. She says she'll vote Labor again this time, mostly out of habit, but admits that a lot of her friends in town are abandoning the party. "The thing that bothered them most is when Mitzna said, `It's either them or us,'" says Hadad, referring to the way that Mitzna ruled out the possibility of joining a unity government. "He sounds very arrogant."
It's a little hard to fathom: At the absorption center, Mitzna was almost ludicrously modest, and here he is perceived as arrogant. That's how it is when you have a basically unknown candidate. Or maybe the voters are looking for an excuse to leave the party that's become fashionable to abandon.
Among the olim, Mitzna's newness as a candidate presents a special stumbling block. If he's not very familiar to the public at large, he's a complete stranger to these new immigrants. For reasons that aren't very clear, Labor shelved its original plan in which Mitzna was going to be promoted to the olim with the slogan "Haifa as a model." The Russian-speaking public knows Haifa as a model of successful absorption in a mixed city where olim, Arabs and veteran Israelis live side by side. The municipal absorption authority's exemplary success was supposed to have given Mitzna a platform for reaching out to the olim.
Instead, the party decided to tout Mitzna as a "strong leader" in Russian (rather than as a "trustworthy leader" as in the Hebrew slogan, in the belief that "the olim like force"). But Sharon is also identified with force, so Mitzna sacrificed his only relative advantage in this race.
A pro-Mitzna telemarketing campaign directed at about 50,000 immigrant households in 40 locations around the country is the only place where this aspect of his resume has been mentioned. The callers describe Mitzna as "an expert at conflict resolution" and cite Haifa as a model.
A visit to the telemarketing headquarters in Givatayim offers a neat glimpse of the modern Israeli experience. The callers are an object lesson in the country's socio-economic situation. There are doctors, engineers, actors, writers and others who have come to work hard for NIS 18 an hour because they have no other income. The conversations they have with olim all over the country are also a microcosm of the overall reality and how it's reflected in this election campaign in particular. The three toughest hurdles the telemarketers have encountered: the evening of the suicide bombings at the old Tel Aviv bus station, when upset olim refused to talk politics "on such a night"; when Mitzna compared Sharon to the Godfather, which dismayed many olim - even some who aren't Likud voters - who felt that Mitzna wasn't showing the prime minister proper respect; and the couple of days when Peres was making headlines as a possible replacement for Mitzna. The olim couldn't figure out why people were calling to talk to them about Mitzna when they'd heard what his own party was saying about him and when the papers were reporting that Peres might well be Labor's candidate for prime minister.
The callers were instructed not to recite their spiel to anyone who declared his intention to vote for Sharon or Avigdor Lieberman, but to focus on supporters of Shinui and Yisrael b'Aliya and undecided voters. About 30 percent of immigrants, an especially high rate, fall into the latter category. This is also the first election campaign in which 10 percent of olim are saying that they don't plan to vote at all. Some are unaware that the single-ballot voting system has been reinstated, and others are even unaware that an election is going to take place.
When the person on the other end of the line is willing to talk, the telemarketer presents Mitzna as "a person who knows how to solve crises" and finishes the conversation by saying: "Personally, I'd rather that my prime minister be someone who knows how to resolve crises instead of creating them."
"It's a Russian interpretation of the situation," says the woman managing the telemarketing campaign. "The olim don't want internal rifts and conflicts, they want to unite against the external threat. They certainly don't want to attack the Haredim (which is something the callers emphasize when talking to potential Shinui voters - L. G.). They've experienced the persecution of the Jews in the Soviet Union and they don't want to become persecutors of Jews in Israel."
Meretz voters are told that they'll be wasting their vote. Yisrael b'Aliya voters are told that the time has come to vote for an Israeli party rather than an immigrant party, which isn't doing very much for them anyway. The most effective part of the pitch is supposed to be the emotional appeal at the end. Someone with kids or grandkids is told: "Where would you like your son or grandson to do his army service? In Jenin, Ramallah or Nablus, or inside the State of Israel?"
But obvious as the answer may be, it still isn't pushing the olim into the Labor Party. They're not moving to the right solely because of their ideology; it's also because the left has utterly failed to make itself relevant to them. No wonder, then, that one of the olim reached by Mitzna's telemarketers was convinced that the call was really for phone sex. That he was more than willing to talk about.
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Runners took to the streets Sunday to conquer the LA Marathon, but days later, the controversy continues.
It concerns the gender challenge, which pits the women against the men to see who crosses the finish line first. The winner receives a $50,000 bonus in addition to the $25,000 they are awarded for being the first to finish in their gender.
This year, the women got an 18-minute, 35-second head start. It's sort of like a handicap in golf. That means men have to run 42 seconds per mile faster than the women to win.
Aleksandra Duliba of Belarus ended up victorious with a time of 2:26:08, outrunning Kenyan Erick Mose, but only with the help of the time differential. He clocked in at 2:09:43.
Now people are questioning whether this head start is fair. Carson and Producer Angie weighed in on the debate this morning:
"At first I was thinking, women don't need that extra 18 minutes," Producer Angie said. "But the more I was reading about this, I was wondering why men were faster than women and there are scientific reasons that they are."
"Women's bodies are built differently," she explained. "They have bigger hips, so they run slower. Men have bigger hearts and lungs, so they process oxygen faster. They are faster, just in general, than women are."
Carson, on the other hand, felt the whole concept of the gender challenge and its lucrative prize seemed to overshadow the event.
"I see what you're saying on the leveling [of] the playing field for the sake of sport, for the sake of competition…It seems fair how they got the time of 18 minutes. I just, in watching it and being excited about the LA Marathon, it just seemed weird."
"And maybe it's the money thing because there's so much money at stake," he added. "There's this golden carrot being dangled over the gender part of this as opposed to just who won the LA Marathon."
Carson also worries about the message this sends to men and women who work together in competitive environments.
"Are we supposed to be handicapping everything though? Where does this stop?"
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West Hollywood couple Lucas and David moved thousands of people last week when they shared a heartwarming video of their marriage proposal online — including a former high school bully, reports The Gaily Grind.
After seeing the video, the former bully, identified as B, sent Lucas a Facebook message congratulating him on his engagement and apologizing for the way he mistreated Lucas in the past.
Lucas responded letting B know "all is forgiven, and it's clear… you're a pretty kickass guy now."
With B's permission, Lucas shared their exchange on his Facebook wall, underscoring the inspiring message of his engagement video and providing a wonderful example of people's evolving attitudes on equality.
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Luis Suarez is a member of Uruguay's national soccer team, and in the dying moments of the World Cup quarterfinals against Ghana on Friday he extended his arms, reaching, reaching, reaching as the ball flew toward the roof of the net.
The ball glanced off Suarez's hand and bounced to safety.
"The best save of the World Cup," Suarez said.
And here's the thing: Suarez is not a goalkeeper.
What he is, is a hero of epic proportions in Uruguay today — the author of one of the most outrageous, most improbable, most gut-wrenching finishes in World Cup history. Argentina and Diego Maradona had the infamous "Hand of God" goal in the 1986 World Cup against England. Uruguay now has, as No. 9 wryly put it, "the hand of Suarez."
It came in the 120th and final minute of a grueling overtime game that was deadlocked at 1-1, and it ultimately denied Ghana the distinction of becoming the first African nation to reach the semifinal. Instead, Uruguay won the ensuing penalty shootout 4-2 to reach soccer's Final Four for the first time in 40 years, facing the Netherlands on Tuesday in Cape Town.
A nation of 3.5 million wedged between Brazil and Argentina celebrates.
An entire continent mourns.
"A very difficult moment," Kwesi Nyantakyi, president of the Ghana Football Association, said at a Soccer City Stadium that had been filled with South Africans passionately rooting for their African brethren. "A terrible moment for the entire continent, not just for our nation."
Ghana had won a free kick in the final minute of overtime, as the ball pinballed in the goal mouth Dominic Adiyiah snapped a header toward the roof of the net.
Suarez, normally a forward, found himself on the goal line while goalkeeper Fernando Muslera had charged out in a futile attempt to punch the ball away. With literally seconds left in the game, Suarez figured he had no choice. What was he going to do — let it go in?
So he reached up and batted the Jabulani ball away, like a middle blocker in volleyball, like a defensive lineman rushing the quarterback.
That he got a straight red card and Ghana was awarded a penalty kick was a small price for a sliver of hope. It was still 1-1. Ghana still had to convert the penalty kick to win.
"It was worth it," Suarez said.
Ghana forward Asamoah Gyan, who already had scored twice on PKs in this World Cup, grabbed the ball, placed it on the chalk spot and backed away, waiting for the whistle from Portuguese referee Olegario Benquerenca while Soccer City pulsated with anticipation, the 84,017 on their feet, vuvuzelas wailing.
Gyan's shot slammed off the crossbar.
Benquerenca blew his whistle again, signaling the end of overtime. They'd go to penalty shootout.
To Gyan's credit, his teammates convinced him to take the first PK in the shootout, and he buried it into the upper right corner. But courage didn't beget glory, and John Mensah and Adiyiah had weak shots saved by Muslera to set up Sebastian Abreu's cheeky clincher for Uruguay.
In soccer circles, it's known as a Panenka, after the Czech player who popularized it in the 1970s. Abreu charged toward the ball and, instead of slamming it to one corner, delicately chipped it into the center of the net — with sprawled Ghana goalkeeper Roger Kingson powerless to stop it.
Salt, poured into a wound.
Someone asked Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez if Suarez, who watched the shootout on TV in the locker room, cheated to win.
"Do you blame Suarez for Ghana missing the penalty?" Tabarez replied. "I don't like the word 'cheating.' I don't think the word is fair."
Gyan didn't blame Suarez, either.
"He's the hero now in his country," said Gyan, who was so distraught that he couldn't stand for several minutes, "because the ball was going in and he hit it with his hand and unfortunately I missed the penalty, and they came back and won … But soccer is like that."
And like this: Entering yesterday, in 27 attempts, no team had lost when leading at halftime. Then it happened twice in the space of four hours Friday — first Brazil in its quarterfinal against the Netherlands, then Ghana after Sulley Muntari had given the Black Stars a 1-0 lead late in the first half on a searing 35-yard blast.
Diego Forlan tied it in the second half, and Ghana squandered several excellent chances in the overtime before "the hand of Suarez" squatted away a sure goal.
"We had a historic opportunity," said Milovan Rajevac, Ghana's Serbian coach. "It would have been a fairytale."Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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That was a prompt update. :)
Another interesting chapter, I'd say. Not as creepy or chilling as the first one, but that's to be expected. Now that you've got the reader hooked, you're toning things down a bit and turning Touko's attention towards escaping instead of just despairing. I found the little bits of humor funny, like when Touko is wondering just what could be under the bedsheets (you silly, insane girl; of course it's a pokemon! xD ). A bit of humor is a good thing to have in an otherwise dark story as long it's not so overboard that it clashes, and I think you've done fine in that regard. Though I still have no idea what the deal with the sausage octopus is. Is that a Gen 5 joke or something?
At any rate, I'm glad to see that the plot is starting to move; first with Touko grasping at straws for possible escape routes, and then with the news of the dance, which I can just tell is going to be creepy-N-underage-romance-tastic. I kid; in fact, I think I'm starting to warm up to N. Like Touko seems to be doing. Maybe I'm going crazy, too.
Anyway, being willfully ignorant of just about everything in Black and White, I'm also interested in learning more about that carving in the ceiling.
One thing though that rubbed me the wrong way a bit was how Touko apparently eats in the dining room, after she had explicitly said at the beginning that she never leaves the room. She could have been using hyperbole, but the knowledge still jarred me away from the story for a bit once it was time for breakfast.
Writing-wise this chapter felt cleaner to me than the last one, but there were some conspicuous cases of tense confusion.
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a sudden movement to my left, and I jumped in surprise. It was so quick, so small that I immediately
that I really saw it. It's just my paranoia again… I stare, with serious vigor, to where I could have sworn I saw something moving under the sheets of N's bed. Nothing moves, everything is still, and I swear I've gone insane.
Other than the "is was," It looks like you were changing your mind about which tense the paragraph was in partway through. I would change it all to be in past-tense like the rest of the story is.
With no movement following the one I could have sworn I'd seen, I
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over to the mirror where a small counter lay.
Same problem again. Make a note to be extra careful about that when you proofread.
tl;dr: I'm continuing to enjoy this story, and I can't wait to see the dance and perhaps meet Ghetsis for the first time out of dream.
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Valley school celebrates Random Acts of Kindness Day
GLENDALE, Ariz. (KSAZ) - Principal Justin Dye knows that when he asks a student to help, they always answer in kind.
Heritage Elementary, a charter school in Glendale, follows six pillars, which are responsibility, respect, trust, worthiness, fairness, caring and citizenship. Recently, the school has been adding random acts of kindness.
"We wanted the kids to take it outside of the school and kid of almost pay it forward in a way and bring it back," he said.
The 750 students at the school spent the week being nice by writing two acts of kindness on paper and linking them together.
"We want it to continue, so it's a chain reaction telling the kids that being kind is a chain reaction and it continues into the community to their schools, to their family," Vice Principal Sonia Camilli said.
The chain, which will hang in the cafeteria for the rest of the year, is a literal reminder of how far a random act of kindness can go.


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Pendle's first parkrun sets off on Saturday, May 10th – are you joining in the run?
The weekly, free, timed 5km runs will start at Holt House, Colne, and take runners around the playing fields and through Alkincoats Park.
"parkrun" is an international movement organising free, weekly runs worldwide at 9am every Saturday. It is for people of all abilities – from those taking their first steps in running to budding Olympians.
Pendle Council has been working with Lancashire County Council and local volunteers to bring parkrun to Pendle.
Kieron Roberts, of Pendle Council, said: "The response from local people has been fantastic. We've been lucky to have experienced volunteers come forward to help run and manage parkrun events in Pendle. Our trial run in April went well. Now everyone's excited about bringing parkrun to Pendle."
Jamie McIlvenny, run director, said: "I started running at the parkrun in Burnley, where the atmosphere is fantastic. It's a great way to start the weekend and I was amazed how simple it was to take part - just register online and turn up. I hope Pendle parkrun can add to the Burnley event by offering runners and joggers of Pendle - young and old - a local and friendly run."
Runners should arrive to Holt House by 8-45am. To join in, register on www.parkrun.org.uk/register. Registered runners will then receive barcode which they must take to each event to be scanned.


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In Letter to Likud Colleagues, Reuven Rivlin Blasts Shimon Peres Over Iran Remarks
Knesset Speaker MK Reuven Rivlin yesterday lambasted President Shimon Peres for suggesting that Israel shouldn't strike Iran's nuclear facilities without the support of the United States.
In a letter to all Likud party members Rivlin wrote, "It is inappropriate for any state institution, however lofty, to clash with the government or appear to be speaking on its behalf."
Rivlin wrote that while no one disputes the right of anyone to express an opinion on current affairs, the duty to govern, decide and navigate Israel safely to the shore belongs first and foremost to the government.
"The Knesset is the only state institution that authorizes the government to rule and exercise its powers. Only the Knesset may appoint the government or challenge its actions through a no-confidence motion," Rivlin wrote in the letter.
The letter was a response to remarks by Peres in an interview to Channel 2 television last week criticizing a possible Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear installations that was not coordinated with the United States.
"It's clear to us that we can't do it alone," Peres said in the interview. "We can only delay [Iran's progress]. Thus it's clear to us that we need to go together with America. There are questions of cooperation and of timetables, but as severe as the danger is at least this time we're not alone."
In an interview to Channel 10 the same day Peres indirectly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has said in the past that Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, would have gone ahead with an attack even if Washington opposed it.
Peres, who was Ben-Gurion's aide, said Ben-Gurion "prevented war and withdrew from Sinai. He wanted to open the Straits of Tiran by force in 1955, but the cabinet decided against it."
Peres' statements evoked unprecedentedly harsh criticism from Netanyahu's aides.
"Peres forgot the role of a president in the State of Israel," one aide was quoted as saying. The aide said Peres erred in believing the 1993 Oslo Accords would usher in a new Middle East.
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Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C. is seeking an Assistant Dean to oversee its dynamic First-Year Experience in Trinity's historic women's college, the College of Arts and Sciences, beginning in Fall 2012. As Trinity's enrollments continue to rise in support of its mission and in light of developing programs, the Assistant Dean for FYE will join a team committed to student success in multiple arenas. The Assistant Dean for FYE is responsible for carrying out a wide range of duties requiring both overall and specialized knowledge of academic curricula, student advising, student services, event planning, and outcomes assessment, with the objective of supporting enrollment and retention in the College by providing students with a well-balanced curricular and co-curricular program as the foundation for the four-year degree. The successful candidate will be imaginative, collaborative, technologically adept, detail-oriented, and committed to Trinity's mission of social justice and service.
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I couchsurfed a bit way back in the day. Now that I've gotten a real job, and have to act like an adult now, I do the next best thing by hosting surfers to relive through them my hobo days. I love travelling, meeting new people, eating, grabbing drinks with random strangers, and people watching(:
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Director of Grants Programs, Mississippi Arts Commission, Jackson, MS
Graduated: 1997
Where do you currently work?
I am the Director of Grants Programs at the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state arts agency. I'm primarily an administrator, overseeing the agency's grants programs, including updating forms, managing an online application system, and keeping up with our federal grants. I also manage a grant program that supports capital improvements at arts facilities, which has introduced me to the world of architectural drawings, contractor invoices, and new roof repair technologies.
I still have some creative work where I utilize my Folk Studies training, including serving as a host of my agency's arts interview radio show, conducting interviews for oral history projects around Mississippi, and writing profiles on musicians for the local weekly newspaper.
Tell me a bit about your career?
I've worked at the Arts Commission for nearly all the time since graduating from Western. I started at the agency in 1998 as the Heritage Program Director (Folk Arts) following a short period of juggling multiple small contract jobs. The position allowed me to take on several different projects that related directly to my graduate work, including documenting traditional artists and assisting them with the grant process, creating exhibits and radio programs on Mississippi folk culture, and developing ongoing professional development workshops for documentary workers and festival coordinators. I held this position until 2008, when I moved into my present job.
How did folklore prepare you for your career?
WKU's Folk Studies program was a perfect fit for me. I got very rigorous academic training in the discipline as well as real-life experience working on projects in different aspects of public folklore work, such as completing a National Register nomination, working on the state folklife festival, and interning at the Country Music Foundation. The program's ongoing connections to cultural agencies in the state (and region) are highly valuable resources for students who are pursuing a career in the public sector.
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'Doctor Who' Season 8 Adds Samuel Anderson in Mysterious Role
Most of the hype surrounding 'Doctor Who' season 8 centers on its newfound leading man Peter Capaldi in the title role, but it seems the eighth cycle of the long-running sci-fi drama has even more new blood on its hands. Meet 'The History Boys' star Samuel Anderson, who will play a vital recurring role in 'Doctor Who' season 8 when it debuts later on this year!
As tends to be the case with BBC series, there isn't yet much information available on Anderson's part in the new 'Doctor Who' series, though we at least know surface details that Anderson will play Danny Pink, a teacher at Coal Hill School where companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) also teaches. Showrunner Steven Moffat offered his own explanation, in the typically cryptic manner:
For the fourth time in 'Doctor Who' history, Coal Hill School is coming to the aid of the TARDIS. In 1963 teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright accompanied the First Doctor. These days it's the turn of Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald. And very soon now, Sam Anderson as Danny Pink will be entering the world of the Doctor. But how and why? Answers are coming later this year in Peter Capaldi's first series of 'Doctor Who'!
Elsewhere, we've also seen Peter Capaldi's new costume and heard rumblings that Matt Smith could make a special appearance in the as-yet-undated premiere, but what say you? Is the new 'Doctor Who' season shaping up to be the best yet? Relive the regeneration below, and give us your thoughts in the comments!
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Mr. Taylor is a Counselor of Real Estate, Certified Property Manager, Certified Shopping Center Manager with thirty years experience in acquisition and management of residential, office, commercial and industrial property. He holds an M.B.A. and B.A. in Business Administration and Economics from California State University at Fullerton. He has been awarded the Real Estate Certificate Institute designation from the California Association of Realtors and is past President of the Executive Council of the School of Business Administration and Economics, California State University at Fullerton.
Prior to founding The REMM Group, from 1971 through 1978 Mr. Taylor was Vice President of the Robert A. McNeil Corporation, managing a portfolio of residential and commercial properties in the Western United States.
Mr. Taylor is an active member of the Institute of Real Estate Management and has been a delegate to the Property Management division of the California Association of Realtors. He is a current committee member of Accredited Management Organization (AMO) and International Affairs - IREM National. Mr. Taylor is also a member of FIABCI International Real Estate Federation and holds the designations of Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) and FIABCI International Property Consultant (FIPC).
Mr. Taylor is Chairman of the Board and President of the Robert M. Taylor Corporation, dba The REMM Group. The REMM Group provides real estate management services to approximately 35 clients, 125 properties inclusive of retail, office, industrial and multi-family housing located in California and is the developer of a 728-acre residential resort community at Lake Oroville, California. In addition, Mr. Taylor provides real estate consulting in the United States and to several major firms in The People's Republic of China and the China Real Estate Association.


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Congressman Al Green's Statement on Hispanic Heritage Month
(Washington, DC)--Today, Congressman Al Green (TX-09) released the following statement in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month:
"In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, I would like to acknowledge the extraordinary contributions of Hispanic Americans to our great nation. As one of the fastest growing ethnic groups, the Hispanic community has contributed to the strength and prosperity of our nation. I will continue to work with my colleagues, from both sides of the aisle, to ensure that all Americans have access to jobs that pay a living wage, comprehensive healthcare, and essential entitlements, like Medicare and Social Security. America's diversity is what makes it great, and the vibrancy of the Hispanic community has increased America's greatness."


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Running LEDs off Flight Battery
I've done two flights now with LED lights on my glider and I love it. I'm hooked!
I've been using a 2200mah 3 cell for my flight battery and smaller 800mah 3 cell to power my LEDs. I would now like to get rid of the smaller battery and power everything off my flight battery through the balance charger.
Where do I get those connectors so I can connect my LEDs to the battery balance connector? Is there anything I should now about wiring everything up?
Here you go they start at the bottom of the page http://www.rc-connectors.com/index.p...ort=20a&page=2
As for wiring them I'm in the same boat as you. been using a separate lipo but would like to run my heli frame lights off of 2 cells of my 3s main battery. Hopefully someone will chime in .
It's dead-simple if the LEDs are already set up to run off a 3S lipo. Just replace the normal connector with the balance one; the outer two pins will connect to all the cells in series so it's just like a regular battery.
The only thing to note is that if this is a powered glider, the voltage will fluctuate a bit depending on motor current draw (~2-2.5V down from a full charge for an average 3S setup), so the LEDs will change in brightness slightly,
Hey thanks butanol, that is probably a better idea for me to just use a resistor if they are too bright at 12V. Just wondering though if I did want to use 2 of the 3 cells for anything would it be the red balance wire for + and then the 3rd black wire over from that for - ? Thanks again, Tim
PS One more thought, would a resistor(s) restricting around 4 volts waste that energy has heat or would it just restrict the electricity from ever getting to the LEDs and still be able to be used by the rest of the electronics (motor, servos, gyro) running off the main battery?
Last edited by Timtreo; Sep 29, 2012 at 02:56 PM.
What voltage are they set up to run off now? If they're only set up to run off two cells, then going to three directly will cause more than just additional brightness- it'll most likely cook them. Their current draw spikes up sharply when you go a bit past their normal running voltage (usually like 3-4V for most of the ones we use).
To run them off two of the three cells, just connect them to pin #1 and pin #3, or pin #2 and pin #4. They'll obviously only let current flow if you get the polarity right. The red balance tap wire is usually connected directly to the positive pack lead, and the black is usually connected directly to the negative lead, and then each adjacent pair of wires (1+2, 2+3, 3+4) will connect to one cell. (Thinks): "I wish I had a picture to explain it better"... Ah, wait: Google to the rescue:
Thanks again, awesome explaination and pic! And thanks to the OP for starting this thread. My LED strips can handle 12V, they have resistors every 3 LEDs or so. I was running them off a 2 cell battery because they were too bright because I use heli night blades also, (these - https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=433840) and with too much frame LED light the whole heli can become a blur. But I am going to add some RGB strips and controller (got from fellow member Bombay https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=207250) so I'll see how 12volts total works out with all of them. Thanks again!
Anyone care to tackle this question?
Last edited by Timtreo; Sep 30, 2012 at 12:26 AM.
Resistor... Current equals voltage divided by resistance. Increasing voltage and adding resistance lets you keep the same current flowing. Running the higher voltage with an inline resistor means you have more potential ahead of the resistor, but (for a given LED brightness factor) the circuit will still be using the same amount of current as it did on the old power source. Going up to the full 12V will mean more current draw and brightness, but the light strips can handle it.
At ~12.4V, I measured one of those light strips (36-LED type, blue) drawing something like 0.4A, which could run off a 1000mAh pack for two hours before you needed to charge, so you won't see much of an impact on flight time either way.
The balance tap is great place to tie in lights. I have bags of the connectors, I got from DigiKey. Long lead time but if you pay for them up front you will eventually get them. PM if anyone wants one for $1.
The resistor question: You stated 4 volts across the resistor but did not specify the current, so we need to set some parameters. 1 meter of LED strip draws 200ma @ 12V. If the current is limited to 70ma the strip is still plenty bright. So P=I*E or 4*.070=.28W So our answer is just over a quarter watt, you will need a half watt resistor. (This refers to the size of the resistor body.
Now E=I*R so we have 4E and .070I. Solve for R, R=E/I or 4/.070=.057
57 is a 5% R value, so you need a 57 ohm, half watt resistor to give you a voltage drop of 4 volts and 70ma.
You can also make my dimmer switch.
Along with ordering some leds that change color and flash from Hobbyking, I also ordered a connector cable that hooks up the battery balance connector to six or seven JST (I think they are called JST) connectors. This will really help me with my electric glider. It has way too many cables with my solder connections running inside. I need to downsize a little. Hopefully the connector will help.
Running leds off of flight battery
I have been flying with LEDs for several years and all you have got to do is get a two prong micro plug and wire it to your LEDs and plug it into the ground and the first battery balance port and the lights will be bright and will not drain the cell anymore than if you flew the plane during the daytime in normal flight.
Here is my experience without getting scientific or complicated. When not using hundreds of LEDs, you can use one pack. My ship's LEDs burn approximately 500 mAh of 3s battery every 4:30 minutes, so it is not smart for me to power them off of my 2200 mAh flight battery because of the excessive draw.
As mentioned above, also avoid using one battery when flying high powered setups. As you put the throttle to the coals, LEDs will fade- very bad thing to happen when you have several hundred dollars in the air... so for good measure it would be best to run separate batteries for LEDs on something like a warm or hot liner. When pushing the flight battery hard and running LED's off of the same battery, one can easily LVC without much warning.
My rule of thumb is any park flyer with under 250 or less LEDs needs no separate LED battery. In larger planes, redundancy is highly important and I highly recommend separate batteries.
If you need any custom activity on LEDs. You can program your own patterns etc easily with Arduino. Check out jD-IOBoard, it's a small Arduino board made just for this type needs. There are 6 high voltage outputs that can drive about 500mAh each. Analog inputs and so on so you can check your battery voltages etc while flying and if voltage drops too low you can have warning lights.
One way to save some mAh's is to make strips/LEDs to blink fast and you can basically save 50% on current and still it looks like lights are always on.
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Recommendations for the Comm. Department
The following is the text of the letter I'm sending to the Communications Department Friday, Oct. 12.
If you have any further suggestions, please list them at the bottom and let me know what you think about this letter. A text copy can be found here.
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Dr. David Cheshier,
Per our conversation last week, I've gathered a list of recommendations for the Communications Department, taking into account the perspectives of students, alumni, faculty and those in the local media while compiling this list of prelimiary proposals.
These recommendations are targeted towards goals that we view as both necessary and achievable over the course of the next couple years, and we believe that these goals reflect a reasonable evolution of Georgia State University as a center for innovative education in the field of mass communication.
However, these recomendations should not be taken as a substitute for our desire to see an expanded academic role of the Journalism Program at Georgia State as either its own department or separate college. Rather, we see the following suggestions as a means to put the program on the right track toward this overlying objective:
- Expand study abroad opportunities focused towards the journalism and public relations concentrations, perhaps beginning in the university's stated strategic countries of interest: Brazil, China, South Africa, South Korea, and Turkey.
- Extend availability of upper level courses, especially ones required ones to graduate, to avoid conflicting time schedules.
- Create an issue-focused academic center to raise the international profile of the department compared to other universities.
- Industry focused career fairs sponsored by the department.
- Formalize partnerships with local media outlets for greater internship and job placement services.
- Create a department sponsored "Speaker Series" featuring locally and nationally renowned industry professionals.
- Offer new course sections focusing on how to use the web as a platform for modern journalism and mass communications, including how to effectively manage social media accounts, write for the web, design web pages and set up a blog.
- Change the the current curriculum for the photojournalism course so that it focuses more so on actual phototaking versus theory or history.
- Offer a new course focusing on international media comparing the similarities and differences between domestic and global media sources.
- Expand single semester course offerings so that they're offered year round a la the department's sports journalism course, which has been only offered during the spring in the past.
- Create a signature experience course credit system for working with student media pending an agreement of the details between student media leaders and the Communications Department.
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Game, net and match
By BBC News Online technology correspondent Mark Ward
At first glance tennis, as it is played at Wimbledon, appears to be a straight-forward, uncomplicated affair.
Two players face each other across a grass tennis court 23.8 by 8.2 metres (78 feet by 27) in size, that is divided equally by a net that is 91.4cm (3 feet) high at its centre.
Across this they serve or strike a ball (no bigger than 6.4 cm in diameter) with a wooden or metal racket (no wider than 31.75 cm) in an attempt to force their opponent to play a shot that ends with the ball landing outside the bounds of the court.
Except that it is not that simple anymore, and it never will be again.
The technology of tennis
Technology is adding almost undreamt, and unseen, levels of complexity to the game to ensure the tension and drama created by the simple elements of player, racket and ball can be conveyed to a waiting world.
Consider a single serve, made by a top seeded player, during the second set of a match being played in the second week of the Wimbledon tournament on one of the show courts.
As soon as the ball is struck radar guns watch its flight, work out its speed, flash the information up on court-side screens and pass the nugget of information to IBM's central tournament database.
In the audience on the seven show courts are two-man teams who use a laptop and specially adapted keypad to tap in whether it was a first or second serve, where the ball landed, if it was an ace, if there was a fault or it landed on the line.
They work in pairs because so much data has to be recorded. One person calls out what happened and the other enters the information.
"The data entry teams have to be county level tennis players or better" said John Taylor, IBM project director at Wimbledon, "they need to understand everything about the game."
He said they need to know such details as which players are right and left-handed so they can work out what is a forehand or a backhand. Details of every shot are fed into the main database, which in turn passes the statistics on the scoreboards dotted around the site.
Broadcast buddy
This feeds the facts and statistics system that TV and radio commentators use.
But even while the data is passed on to the commentary box, another set of IBM tennis experts have combed through it highlighting significant statistics.
They might flag up the fact that at this juncture in many other matches the player has lost the point, or always struggles when they have to make a second serve.
TV commentators can request graphics, generated in real time by shelves full of IBM laptops, that pop up on your screen to illustrate whatever statistic caught their eye that puts the tense situation on court in context.
IBM has reciprocal agreement with the BBC, the official broadcaster for the tournament, to stream video of matches on to the web.
When necessary the relevant results of a game, set or match are packaged in an SMS and sent on to mobile phones of those following particular players or matches.
Much of it is translated into a language that Wap phones can understand.
The statistics for games taking place on the Centre and Number 1 court are also used to prepare a 32-page report and video for the players, so the winner can see how they did it and the loser can see what went wrong.
Mr Taylor said it is interesting to see how people use all this information.
He said: "Over 80% of people come to the website to look at scores and results but we are finding that it is changing as people become more comfortable with the rich media that is available."
Rather than driving people away from television, he said, it seems to be engaging them more. Many people use both web and TV together to get a more rounded sense of what they are seeing.
He said the sheer wealth of information means people have a much better sense that what they are seeing is not just one booming serve against another, but is the tenth time this pair have played on grass, that one has won the last three times they met, but this game is going to five sets and one of them usually crumbles during marathon matches.
This is one time when IBM can never take its eye off the ball.
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