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Pamela Heald, the youngest of 12 children and president and CEO of Reliant Community Credit Union, has incorporated her childhood experiences into her professional life.
"It's a big part of my background," she says. "It's a big part of my work ethic and everything else."
Heald, 47, was born and raised in Williamson, some 10 miles west of the credit union's headquarters in Sodus, Wayne County. She was named president and CEO in January 2007 and oversees 163 employees in a credit union with 37,700 members.
"The opportunity I had growing up with 12 children, nobody else gets that," she says. "You don't even realize until you're about 40 years old what kind of life lesson that is.
"We worked from a very young age. We joke that my parents had that many children so we could work."
Chester and Pearl Peters worked the family's fruit farm. He also worked construction and was the caretaker of a cemetery where Heald and her siblings worked at digging graves and other tasks.
"I, at a young age, was clipping around gravestones, working on our family farm, baby-sitting," Heald says. "I went to Europe when I was 15; I baby-sat for an entire year and had my siblings not pay me until it was time to go to Europe.
"Working for what you have, when that's instilled in you as a kid, that doesn't go away. That's there your entire life—which is a great life lesson, because I've never looked for anything to be given to me."
Heald is two years younger than the second-youngest child and 20 years younger than the eldest.
"The other 11 would say I'm spoiled, and I would say I'm not," Heald says. "It was a lot of fun. I wouldn't change a thing. You had to work hard to get attention.
"Part of how I think it shaped me is you typically didn't get anything you wanted, so when you got something, you were happy with it. Sharing was part of what you did. Teamwork was part of what you did. That's why I feel that background really helps me out as an adult."
Kathy Cooper, one of Heald's best friends since kindergarten, agrees.
"It's made her assertive," Cooper says. "It's made her a hard worker. I wouldn't dispute that at all."
Cooper, a Rochester-based underwriting officer with the Travelers Cos. Inc. insurance firm, grew up with Heald in Williamson and considers herself part of the family.
"I'm kind of like the 13th child," Cooper says. "We're the same age. I know her entire family really well. Her siblings are like my siblings.
"Pamela is a really trustworthy person. She always sees the positive in any situation. You can count on her for anything. You can trust her in confidence. I can't think of anybody better."
Key player
Reliant had total assets of nearly $235.8 million as of Dec. 31. It is the fourth-largest credit union in the Rochester market.
It has nine branches, four of which have been added since Heald became CEO in 2007. Three opened in the last 24 months, the most recent in May at the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. location in Henrietta.
"Our vision is to be the premier financial institution, our members' choice, in every community we serve, which today is three counties," Heald says. "That could be different in the future. I can't share where our next branch location will be, but there will be additional branch locations."
Reliant serves the counties of Monroe, Ontario and Wayne.
It works cooperatively with other credit unions in the Rochester area, Heald says.
"I have a lot of respect for her," says Michael Vadala, president and CEO of the Summit Federal Credit Union, the third-largest in the local market. "I think she does a tremendous job. I like the way she thinks. I like the way she approaches the credit union industry and its issues."
Vadala works with Heald on community, legislative and industry-specific issues related to credit unions.
"We're very close friends," Vadala says. "I've known her since before she was CEO," he says. "I think she has a great understanding of what a credit union is supposed to be. She understands that the members own it, that she's there to serve them.
"A lot of people try to do things too much like the for-profit financial institutions. Pamela doesn't. She runs her shop in what we think—because we think we do this, too—is the right way."
Career path
Heald entered the banking industry in 1984 because an aunt who worked at Citibank N.A. said it was hiring. She took a job as a temporary worker at bank subsidiary Student Loan Corp. and stayed with Citibank for eight years.
"I had a great career going at Citibank," she says. "I had promotions every six months. It's a large company. A lot of people work there. If you had a good work ethic and could do your job well, you stood out and it was easy to get promoted.
"But I was driving an hour each way every day. I thought there had to be someplace that I can share my talents and be closer to home. My husband said, 'Why don't you apply at my credit union?' I applied at his credit union. The rest is history."
Heald joined Reliant in 1992 as supervisor of its collections department. Eighteen months later, the manager at the Reliant branch in Newark left. Its other branches were in Sodus and Canandaigua.
"I said to my boss's boss at the time, 'What does a branch manager do?'" she recalls. "He was, like, come on in and sit down. I was, like, oh-oh, he wants me to do this job. I applied and was accepted.
"I had never worked in a branch environment. I had banking, and I had management and supervision of people, but I had not actually managed a branch. But the credit union gave me that opportunity because they had worked with me and knew that I would learn it and figure it out."
Heald managed the branch for six years, then was assigned the Sodus and Canandaigua locations. Reliant opened a branch in Macedon in 2000 and one in Webster in 2003. Heald managed all five branches.
She eventually assumed management responsibilities for the credit union's lending department, in addition to her branch duties.
In 2007, Heald became president and CEO, succeeding Gail Bedell, who retired.
"First of all, what a compliment that was," she says. "It was a dream come true. I did not come to the credit union in 1992 to say I'm going to be CEO. But I did, after eight years, see a lot of opportunity here."
Later in 2007, the name of the credit union—formed in 1970 for Wayne County teachers—was changed to Reliant from WCTA Federal Credit Union.
"Part of that was to let people know that they were eligible for the credit union," Heald says. "We serve three counties. With our former name being WCTA, people thought they had to have some connection to Wayne County schools to be eligible. We changed our name to help us grow."
However, some 21 months after Heald became CEO, the recession hit.
"Boom, everything changed," Heald says. "The value in that to me is when you can lead and manage in difficult times, you can get through anything."
Reliant largely has weathered the recession, caused in part by recklessness in the banking community. Membership in credit unions nationwide has increased as customers have switched from traditional banks.
Growth period
Reliant membership was at 37,734 at the end of June, up 18.7 percent from 31,812 in December 2007.
Its assets were at $69 million when Heald joined 20 years ago. They have climbed 372 percent since then, and 44 percent since she became CEO.
"That shows that people are coming to credit unions," Heald says. "We need new members to grow our credit union, and we need to do well so we can offer the products and services we need to our loyal members.
"I think any leader brings a different style to a role. But we were growing, obviously. We've always been growing. That philosophy has not changed."
Reliant is among only a few credit unions involved in business lending.
"We have done commercial lending for a long time," she says. "But it was in 2003 where we decided to have more of a dedicated focus to commercial lending. And we've done very well. We are conservative in our approach at growing the business and understanding the business."
Loan requests range from $50,000 to $750,000, Heald says.
"We have a niche in the business lending arena," she says. "We're not known for the big deals. We do a lot of business that the banks are not interested in, meaning the dollar amount of the loan. We do a ton of business based on referrals from banks."
Reliant has two full-time business lenders. Its loans are fairly balanced among the three counties it serves.
"Our roots are in Wayne County, so we're very successful there," she says. "Our business lenders are located out of our Macedon branch, so it's right on the Monroe County edge. It's also right on the Ontario County line."
History buff
Heald's passion outside of work is antique cars. She and her husband, Steven, own five cars made prior to 1916, during the horseless carriage era. Three are stored in a museum in Norwich, Chenango County.
"One of the things that's very important to me—because, let's face it, we need me to be good—is balance," Heald says. "I enjoy life, and I love my job. I need to play in order to enjoy life."
Steven, whose father was a town historian in Williamson, bought their first antique car in 1993. It is a 1912 model made by Maxwell-Briscoe Co. of Tarrytown.
"We were both into history independently before we knew each other," Heald says. "And I was into costumes: hats, goofy clothes, that kind of stuff.
"I was, like, we can get that done and then we can dress up. The car part of it wasn't me, but what kind of leads you to anything historical is the preservation of history, which is important to both of us."
The 1912 Maxwell is the legacy of a close friend of the Healds who was restoring it when he died.
"His wife was selling all of his cars," Heald says. "I think Steve was driven by kind of an honor and tribute to our friend, buying his car and doing what he was going to do. That started it all."
Their second purchase was a 1912 EMF, made in Sodus and delivered from Arizona. Steven discovered it in a magazine advertisement.
"We drive that around and on local car tours," Heald says. "It's a forerunner of the Studebaker. I think we've had that one since 2003."
Two of their cars were made in Newark in 1908. One is a small model made for children but registered for the road. The other was made at the Mora Motor Car Co.
"It was a high-dollar car in its day," Heald says. "It's larger than life for a 1908 car. I can't touch the top of it."
The Newark-made cars are with the Maxwell in the Norwich museum.
"We have gone all over the country with our cars," Heald says. "We don't restore them ourselves. We get help with things like painting and that kind of stuff. We have some show cars and we have some tour cars. It just depends on what we're doing.
"What a great hobby that has been for us. We're involved in it together, which is nice. We coordinate our clothing. We dress up a lot of the time in period clothing."
Heald, who turns 48 in November, has taken to golf and running in recent years.
"I have walked two miles every weekday with my neighbor since 17 years ago," she says. "About four years ago, I started running. As you start to get a little older, you just kick it up a notch.
"I'm not a fast runner, but I run. I sometimes do 5Ks. I like to hike. I like the outdoors."
Reliant sponsors the annual Moore Than a Race 5K event, this year scheduled for Oct. 21. It is named for the late Richard Moore, who served as chairman of the credit union's board from 1986 until his death in 2009.
The event is a fundraiser for the credit union's scholarship program, which has distributed $110,000 since its inception.
"When he passed three years ago, we started this," Heald says. "Dick ran eight miles a day from age 42 until 73, literally until the year he passed."
Heald has been part of a ladies golf league for two years.
"I think it's very important, being a leader in the organization, to show that you can have a life, too," Heald says. "We all know people that work all the time and can't easily enjoy leisure time. And we know people that are very (leisure-oriented), who have challenges working. I think you're better at both when you're a well-rounded person.
"That's something I've learned as I've aged, specifically since I've become CEO. It is important to be able to do that. You have to be able to release, which is a part of helping you cope and being better at what you do."
Heald and her husband also spend time restoring their 1820s home in Sodus. They have no children but a large extended family.
"And then, with a large family, there's always a birthday party, a wedding or something," Heald says. "With the 12 children, I have 23 nieces and nephews, and now I've exceeded that in great-nieces and nephews."
Nine of her 12 siblings live in Williamson.
"In a small town like Williamson, you do kind of get famous for that," Heald says of her large family. "But I was active in a variety of things. I skied. I played the flute. I was in musicals, band, choir.
"I wasn't an athlete, but I was active in attending sporting functions at the school. I think when you're from a small town, you're involved in everything, and everybody knows everybody, which is something that still is very attractive to me today."
Pamela Heald
Title: President and CEO, Reliant Community Credit Union
Age: 47
Home: Sodus
Education: AAS, retail business management, Monroe Community College, 1984
Family: Husband, Steven
Hobbies: antique cars, golf, running, hiking
Quote: "I definitely did not know that I was going to end up in banking, but I wanted to do something that was business-oriented and with people. At least I knew that that's where my comfort zone was."
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But it could just as equally have been applied to people asking questions about lots of other things that are going on in the world right now.
All of the Conspiraloons™ I have encountered in the context of 7/7 issues share one thing in common. A fundamental mistrust of government and other power structures.
That's all that it takes to join the club
And most of us can go toe to toe with anyone who disagrees with that mistrust and we can cite a whole litany of well-documented reasons why we believe that our mistrust is well-founded
Which is presumably why people who disagree with our point of view prefer to confuse the issue by behaving like children and chucking names around
Which is why a couple of us have started to refer to ourselves as Conspiraloons™. It is our way of saying…
"OK, now we've got the insults out of the way, do you actually have anything else to back up your position or challenge mine?"
This is most certainly not about trivialising serious issues that very often involve unpleasant things happening to ordinary people.
Nor am I denying that there are legions of people peddling conspiratorial nonsense via the Internet – some are misinformed, some are disinformed and others know full well what they are doing. However, most of them are easy to spot - tosh about UFOs is normally a dead give-away for starters, people claiming to have definitive answers from shadowy sources another. Besides, why should the Internet be different to any other form of communication? Books, newspapers, movies and TV shows were peddling crap long before the Net existed and those people gifted with more than half a brain cell learn soon enough to develop the critical faculties to distinguish between sense and nonsense.
The practice of labeling anyone who has a counter point of view to mainstream accounts of events as a 'conspiracy theorist' in lieu of debate or reason is becoming increasingly over-used and tired.
The most recent example I can think of is yesterday's press conference in Moscow, when a man accused of poisoning a Russian exile in London declared that MI6 was involved. The mainstream media in the UK has been scornful and described the claim, initially anyway, as being, yes, a 'conspiracy theory' and as 'stretching credibility'.
MI6 is the UK's external intelligence agency and Russia is an increasingly important supplier of energy to the UK. Now, call me old fashioned, but if MI6 isn't recruiting Russians to be intelligence agents what the hell is it doing?
Asking that question is not the same thing as asserting that MI6 was involved in the poisoning in some way, but to deny the possibility on the basis that some people with a stake in the system have labelled it a 'conspiracy theory' is both ridiculous and insulting.
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A few weeks later, ILMS learned it had been redesignated as a National School to Watch, an honor given to high-performing middle schools.
So the school has had a lot to celebrate lately and it begins 2013 glowing with deserved pride.
It's hard to believe 2012 is nearly over. It's been a busy year, much of it focused on local, state and national elections and the still-struggling economy. But the election is finally over and while the county's unemployment rate is still in the double digits this year – 10.8 percent in October, that is an improvement on the 12.6 posted at the same time last year.
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text: Soybean Trade Struggles to Resolve Supply Issue August 17, 2012 10:21 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Scott Harms, Archer Financial Services Email In what was one of the quietest trading weeks of the year, November soybeans were able to scratch out a $.02 higher close for the week, while corn and wheat finished the week slightly lower. The week began with a continued hangover from the USDA report a week ago that saw corn values surge to new all-time highs only to close lower for the day. Follow-through weakness on Monday as well as solid rain activity in the first half of the week led to additional profit taking. Some of the best rains of the year fell in some locations this week. It will be debated as to how many bushels have been added to the soybean crop as a result, but the cooler temperatures and rain activity certainly did stabilize the crop and offered some the reason to exit long positions. The soybean market caught a solid mid-week bid on a strong crush report as well as strengthening basis in many locations. The U.S. Gulf basis spiked on Wednesday as at least one exporter was scrambling for supplies in a depleted pipeline. The bid for near-term delivery of soybeans at the Gulf were bid at $1.60 over the November contract on Wednesday, sparking chatter of immediate demand and firming soybean trade at the Chicago Board of Trade. Some analysts have begun describing the soybean trade as being in a pennant formation, with the trade bracing for a breakout one way or the other before too long. From a fundamental standpoint, the soybean market has a supply issue to resolve and I suspect will solve that with higher prices over the next few months. Although not ruled out, a sharply higher soybean trade is not necessary next week or the week after. The current choppy price action may in fact be the norm for the next few weeks. However, unless something else develops that can help to ration the current pace of soybean usage relative to supply, then sometime in the next few months it will be solved by sharply higher soybean values. The longer this market waits to solve its rationing issue, the more acute and sharp the rally must be to accomplish the task. Click to view larger image. Back to news


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We rounded up livestreams of the EVO fighting championships for you before it began this past weekend, but if you weren't around to watch and want a peek at the last battles and winners of the individual tournaments, you're in luck. I've rounded them up for you down below. Enjoy! Oh, and don't blame my reuse of the adorable Chun-Li. I just couldn't help myself.
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Version 2012 - Infiltration
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Filipino Champ
Mortal Kombat - KN.EMP|Perfect Legend
King of Fighters XIII - Mad KOF
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown - Fuudo
Street Fighter x Tekken - Infiltration & Laugh
Soul Calibur V - Shining Decopon


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So here goes. The basics of how to publish a book.
Please note that this post is about mainstream or traditional publishing and not self-publishing, which is something else entirely. For more information on self-publishing, check out this post:
But most of the books you see in bookstores and libraries happened this way.
How to publish a book
For a first time author, a book generally starts with a completely finished and polished manuscript for fiction and memoirs, and a proposal and sample pages for nonfiction. Yes, novelists: you have to write the whole thing. Published authors can sometimes sell novels on proposal. Lucky them!
It's then generally advisable for an unpublished author to find a literary agent, who helps shepherd an author through the publishing process in exchange for 15% of the proceeds from the book for domestic sales and 20% for foreign sales. If the book doesn't sell to a publisher, the agent doesn't receive any money from the author other than recouping incidental fees like photocopying.
Very few publishers accept submissions from un-agented authors, so this is a nearly essential step to be published by one of the major publishers. Plus, a good agent can give a project a better chance at succeeding and will usually be able to negotiate a better deal than the author would be able to achieve on their own.
(For a complete overview of what agents do, see this post).
Submission to publishers
Once an agent has taken on a project they then send it to one or more editors at different publishing houses. The agent will specifically target the submission to the editors that they feel are most appropriate for the book.
The editors take a look at the project, and if it's something they are interested in they will share it with their colleagues and boss(es) to gauge the enthusiasm. Once the editor has the go-ahead to move forward with the project they will send the agent an offer.
The submission process can take anywhere from a week to a year or more depending on when/if the agent finds a match for the project.
Offer and negotiations
The terms of the offer usually include an advance, royalties, which countries the publisher can sell into, and other specific terms (please see my publishing glossary for definitions).
An advance is a payment to the author, usually divided into installments, which is theirs to keep regardless of how many copies the book sells, assuming the author fulfills all the terms of the agreement.
Royalties are a percentage of every copy sold, either on the list price of the book or on a publisher's net profits. These go first toward paying down the advance (but again, the author doesn't have to pay back the advance if they don't sell enough copies). After the advance is covered by royalties, which is called "earning out," the royalties go to the author.
For example, if an author receives a $50,000 advance with hardcover royalties of 10% of list price on a $25 book, they need to sell 20,000 copies to "earn out" ($2.50 per copy x 20,000 copies = $50,000 advance). Afterward, the author receives $2.50 per additional copy sold. The agent receives 15% of the $50,000 advance as well as 15% of the royalties if the book earns out.
Sometimes the offer will be for one book or sometimes it will be for multiple books. If more than one editor is interested in the project an agent may ask all the editors for their best offers, or the agent may hold an auction to determine which publisher will bid the highest.
When the deal points have been agreed upon and the author accepts an offer the publisher will send a contract, which the agent or the agency's contracts director will negotiate.
Editing and production
After the contract has been signed, if the project was sold on proposal it's then time for the author to write the book.
Once the manuscript is completed (nonfiction) or after the contract is signed (fiction) the editor will usually send an editorial letter suggesting content changes that the author will then make. These changes are somewhat negotiable, but for the most part authors will follow their editor's suggestions.
When the changes have been made and the manuscript is deemed editorially acceptable it moves to copyediting, where typos and other errors are corrected, and designed as it will look on the page. The author has to review the different versions of the completed manuscript to catch typos. The publisher is also working during this time on the design of the book, including the cover, trim size, paper type, and other design-y considerations.
Meanwhile, the editor is coordinating with their marketing and sales teams to write copy for the publisher's seasonal catalog, write the jacket copy, to (hopefully) generate enthusiasm among the sales team for the project, and to help shape marketing plans.
Several months before the book's publication the sales team will be coordinating with bookstore buyers and other "accounts" as they place their orders, which helps determine how many copies of the book the publisher prints. The agent usually keeps tabs on this process to make sure everything is happening according to plan.
The publication process from finished manuscript to in-bookstore books usually takes a year or more. It can occasionally be compressed if it is an especially timely project, but the process usually requires quite a bit of lead time.
When publication date arrives the book goes on sale and the author is rich and famous behind their wildest dreams. Sometimes. Not usually.
The author then gets cracking on their next book (or rather, they should already have been cracking), and the process repeats.
For a light-hearted take on this process, check out the Publishing Process in GIF Form.
The end!
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- In our recent review of his book, Topologies (review here), we suggested that his series of images of airport runways would make a fine book on its own. Well, according to the folks at the Moth House in the UK (here), this is actually happening. The book will supposedly be entitled When Light Casts No Shadow and will be published in September by Dewi Lewis. Exhibitions to follow.
- In this past weekend's NY Times Magazine, Martins was commissioned to take images of the real estate collapse in the US. A slide show/photo essay of the work he produced can be seen here. I particularly like the one of the unfinished brown and yellow house, with the overturned recliners and trash in front.
UPDATE: As is noted/linked by an anonymous reader in the comments below, the Edgar Martins essay referenced above has been removed from the NY Times website due to questions about whether the images had been manipulated (follow the link above to the now empty placeholder). The article had gone out of its way to say that the images had not been Photoshopped, so if they were altered, it would indeed be an embarassing problem. While artistically we are all used to manipulated and staged images at this point, when they are called out as "documentary" and turn out to be edited, this is where the line gets crossed. We'll add more to this story as the information gets clearer.
UPDATE: A Photo Editor gathers backup to the manipulation speculations (here). Look for the links to the before/after mirrored images.
UPDATE: Whistleblower from Minnesota describes the process of figuring out if the images were manipulated (here).
UPDATE: Yesterday, I received an announcement for the opening on July 18th of Martins' upcoming exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery (here) in West Hollywood, CA. Works from The Accidental Theorist (the night beach scenes) will be on view. The blurb goes out of its way to remind us that there has been no manipulation of the images.


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California Scholars' Response to UC Campus Climate Reports
by: Shani Chabansky on August 24th, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Two months ago, UC President Marc Yudof's Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion released a report on the experiences of Jewish students on UC campuses. Co-authored by Rick Barton, a council member of the Anti-Defamation League, and Alice Huffman of the California NAACP, the report marks the culmination of what many have come to see as an attack on free speech and academic freedom under the disguise of protecting Jewish students from criticism of Israel.The following letter is a response to the report from an organization of UC professors and other academics who are focused on maintaining free and open academic debate.
Please sign this petition if you would like to urge President Yudof to disregard the report.
Dear President Yudof,
We, the California Scholars for Academic Freedom** write to urge you not to adopt the recommendations of the Jewish Student Campus Climate Report. We find the report's recommendations pose a clear threat to academic freedom at the University of California. First, the report is based on sloppy methodology and clear bias. A comparison with the Muslim and Arab Student Campus Climate Report is instructive. The latter explains exactly how many people they spoke with, how they were put in touch with them, and lists their names and affiliations. The Jewish Student Campus Climate Report merely implies that they spoke with a range of people but never specifies with whom and how they were chosen. In fact, the two people who conducted the Jewish Student Campus Climate Report appear to have spoken almost exclusively with those who would like to silence criticism of Israel on UC campuses.
Second, the Muslim and Arab Student Campus Climate Report explains in great detail the exact nature of the discrimination that Muslim and Arab students experience on UC campuses, while the Jewish Student Campus Climate Report quotes unnamed people as feeling upset about criticisms of Israel. In fact, the report focuses almost exclusively on criticism of Israel as a supposedly objective measure of anti-Semitism while giving short shrift to the broad range of Jewish student experiences on UC campuses. The Jewish Student Campus Climate Report, despite a brief one-sentence disclaimer, essentially equates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, despite having to acknowledge that much of this criticism comes from Jewish faculty and students.
Indeed, one key piece of harassment is missing in this report: the harassment conducted by those who do not want to hear any criticism of Israel voiced at all on UC campuses. The harassment by these individuals has been intense, both against Muslim and Arab American students and faculty and against other Jewish students and faculty who criticize Israel. This harassment has occurred on all the UC campuses. Case in point: the UC Santa Cruz campus. Two individuals at UCSC mobilized thousands of emails to criticize faculty who exercised their academic freedom of speech to criticize Israel. These harassers are the ones who equate Jewish students and faculty who criticize Israel with Nazis.
They also claim bias in these events and lack of "balance," despite the fact that they have organized numerous events that are propaganda for the state of Israel. More recently, individuals who try to suppress academic freedom of speech in relation to Israel have tried numerous campus avenues and legal means to try to suppress this speech.
Finally, the Muslim and Arab Student Climate Report has a range of sensible recommendations, including a streamlined reporting system for reports of discrimination, multicultural centers for dialogue across cultural and religious differences, more accommodations for religious observance, and enhanced educational opportunities about the Middle East and Islam. In contrast, the Jewish Student Campus Climate Report basically recommends censorship: developing a policy against "hate speech" and banning campus sponsorship of offensive activities. Given that this recommendation comes in the context of a report that focuses almost exclusively on debates about Palestine/Israel, this recommendation is certainly too one-sided.
Indeed, we are concerned that the Jewish Student Campus Climate Report, given its almost exclusive focus on Israel, will yet again make Muslim and Arab students feel unheard and unwelcome at the University of California.
The fact that you appointed Richard D. Barton, National Education Chair of the Anti-Defamation League, to carry out the "research" for the Jewish Student Campus Climate Report ensured a one-sided, biased report not based at all on objective research. The Anti-Defamation League is famous for its activism in the United States to suppress criticism of Israel. Barton's leadership on this report meant from its inception that its sole goal would be to try to suppress criticism of Israel on the UC campuses. Otherwise, you would have appointed a neutral person with a history of conducting objective research.
The conflation of criticism of Israel with anti-semitism has become a common tactic by those who want to silence any criticism of Israel. We would never dream of equating criticism of the authoritarian government in China or the Free Tibet movement with anti-Chinese racism, despite the fact that many of our Chinese students identify strongly with mainland China and Chinese culture. We would never dream of equating criticism of authoritarian governments in Africa with racism against African Americans. More recently, we have not worried that criticisms of Egypt's government or of Syria is a form of anti-Arab racism. The only way to counter speech we do not agree with is to encourage more speech.
Public universities have a special responsibility to protect academic freedom and freedom of speech. Academic freedom includes the freedom of professors to conduct and disseminate scholarly research, to design courses and teach students in the areas of their expertise, and to enjoy First Amendment protections for extramural speech. (The latter is a right enjoyed by everyone within the jurisdiction of the U.S. constitution, but is the third leg of the principles of academic freedom because professors should not be professionally penalized for non-academic speech that they engage in beyond the academy.)
The Jewish Student Campus Climate report points toward a dangerous trend of attempts to criminalize any speech discussing boycott, divestment or sanctions against Israel or settlements in the occupied territories, echoing a new law in Israel that punishes any public discussion of these activities. We do not want this abrogation of freedom of speech to be applied in California or by extension in the United States.
The courts have signaled that universities have a special responsibility to harbor even extreme speech. We urge you to affirm that the University of California strives to be a leader with regard to academic freedom and freedom of speech.
California Scholars for Academic Freedom
Contact Persons:
Professor Lisa Rofel
Department of Anthropology
UC, Santa Cruz
Professor Nancy Gallagher
Department of History
UC, Santa Barbara
805- 893-3467
Professor David Klein
Professor of Mathematics
California State University, Northridge
cc: Board of Regents
Chancellors, Vice Chancellors, presidents of Academic Senates and chairs of Committee on Academic Freedom on all UC campuses
President, UC Systemwide Academic Senate
Chair, UC Systemwide Committee on Academic Freedom
**CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM is a four-year-old group of more than 134 academics who teach in over 20 California institutions of higher education. The group formed as a response to a rash of violations of academic freedom that were arising from both the post-9/11/2001 climate of civil rights violations and to the increasing attacks on progressive educators by neo-conservatives. Many attacks were aimed at scholars of Arab, Muslim or Middle Eastern descent or at scholars researching and teaching about the Middle East, Arab and Muslim communities. Our goal of protecting California Scholars and students based mainly in institutions of higher education has grown broader in scope. We recognize that violations of academic freedom anywhere are threats to academic freedom everywhere.
To learn more on this issue, click on the links below:
Jewish Daily Forward


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Invite your team
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- Click on the Admin Console in the left sidebar.
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Farazin company was established in 1992 with the field of interior design and after many years of experience, started to study and design the office partition system in 2005, and continues to develop with its innovative and exclusive design until today.
The villa No.12 is one of four villas that client had ordered our design group team (Noir studio). In this township and none of them were in their vicinity. At the first level of designing procedure, we had to find a common concept for these villas. preserving the integrity and following the leading ideas in these villas with different spaces and behaviors was our principles
The new urban development of Tehran in the recent decades has imposed alterations to the ratio of open and semi-open spaces to the closed spaces in residential units. These changes has enormously affected the lifestyle of the people of Tehran in the recent years to such and extend that smaller apartment units have minimum access to open or semi-open spaces. The research focus of this project was to explore the urgent need for new residential models in Tehran.
The refractory façade brick was our choice as the main material considering that it was the commonest material in that neighborhood since long time ago and it is practically appropriate for the climate of the region.
- The undeliverable installations led us to the conclusion that our design should be fully flexible.
Laid on hillsides of Sadra new town, Green Land complex is a multi-functional convention center facility with about 46,178.7 m2 area offering entertainment, clubs, lounges, shops, indoor and outdoor activities. Sadra new town is a city located 18 km to North West of Shiraz which has been established on 1990s. This complex has been a pioneer attraction of this new born city.
To start a project, creativity and innovation are taken into account both in the designing of the plans and in the application of the materials and the technology related to –albeit with considering economic and executive constraints. The influential factors involved in the design of this project, including the dominant sunshine and disturbing rain and street noise pollution, have shaped the form of this statue, along with the beautiful landscape of Nahar-khoran forests and municipal regulations and requests of the employer.
Monir Museum
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Crimson Sequence
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n many cases there are not few information about the buildings details such as name of Architect and any other technical information. so this is an approach to find out Iranian modern Architecture around of Iran by volunteering free photography.
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معماری و گردشگری
امروزه با گسترش صنعت گردشگری در سراسر جهان،دیدگاههای جدیدی از این موضوع مورد مطالعه قرار گرفت است. گستردگی صنعت توریستی و ارتباط معماری و گردشگری با هم امروزه جوابگوی بسیاری از نیازها و احتیاجات بشری شده است. معماری از دید گردشگری دو نقش لازمه و جاذبه را بر عهده دارد. لازمه حیطه زیرساخت های مبحث گردشگری را در برمیگیرد اما جاذبه بخشی از جاذبه های فرهنگی است که در آن گروه بندی های متفاوتی به جهت جاذبه های معماری در نظر گرفته میشود.


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Victorian beachgoers at the Cruden Bay beach
When I first played Cruden Bay early in my golf travels I experienced what the French call coup de foundre, which literally translates into a thunderbolt, or more accurately, love at first sight. Without having had broad exposure to the world's great courses, I found it difficult to immediately articulate exactly what it was about Cruden Bay that I liked so much and that made it so unique. Now that I have seen most of the world's great courses I now understand what makes Cruden Bay so great.
The antithesis of this experience is Cruden Bay. Driving into the car park for the first time is simply stunning. Below you, in a valley, is set a collection of massive sand dunes. Among the dunes weaves a golf course bordering on the North Sea. What makes Cruden Bay different from other links courses is that the parking lot and clubhouse are situated up on a hill, giving you an amazing view of the entire golf course and the over-sized dunes. This panoramic view gives a perspective that the other courses don't have. Arriving at almost all other links courses you are at sea level, depriving you of a birds eye perspective. At Turnberry, you certainly have some perspective from near from the hotel, but the geography at Cruden Bay is more dramatic. It's a compact little valley and the drop in terrain from the top of the hill to the sea nearby is more eye-catching.
Cruden Bay was originally designed by Old Tom Morris in 1899 and then re-designed by Tom Simpson and Herbert Fowler in 1926. Cruden Bay is located along the Aberdeen coast of Scotland about two hours north of Carnoustie. If there was ever an apt description of the term 'hidden gem,' then Cruden Bay is it. The golf writer James Finegan says of Cruden Bay: "Out sized, non conformist, unpredictable and flamboyant." These same words also describe course re-designer Tom Simpson to a tee, and the combination of Morris' original holes combined with Simpson's flair for the dramatic make this a special place.
The first two holes are par fours that are similar in style and play from elevated tee boxes, down into a valley, to greens set on a plateau. You are playing alongside the town of Cruden Bay with O.B. along the left side.
The first sign that the course is not going to be traditional starts at the third hole. It is a 285 par four with a big chocolate drop mound in the middle of the fairway 80 yards from the green, making it potentially a driveable green; however, the mound is so large that it is a blind shot if you go for it. The green sits down in a hollow with several hills and hammocks around it and in front.
The fourth is a world-class par three that plays along the village of Port Erroll. Driver is often in order on this ~200 yard hole, depending upon the wind.
The par five sixth requires three shots, even for long hitters, due to its dog-leg and well-protected green sited within a mound of sand hills. You have to make sure you hit over the devilish Bluidy Burn with its dramatic falloff into the water, reminiscent of the Eli Burn on the seventh hole at North Berwick and the Wee Burn running through the 16th hole at Turnberry. Scotland has the most wicked burns in the world, a geographic feature we really don't have in the U.S. We have streams that don't look and feel like these burns do. The burns remind me of Dick Cheney: small, narrow, tricky and truly hazardous.
The 6th green with 'Bluidy Burn' surrounding
The seventh hole ("Whaupshank") is a par four with an elevated green situated between two dunes. Like all holes at Cruden Bay, it is a whimsical hole that snakes and twists through the dunes with a sharp dog-leg left. There is very little that is conventional on this course.
It is because of holes like the eighth that make Cruden Bay a course that has developed a cult following. It is a 248 yard par four that plays to an elevated green enclosed by dunes. English golf writer Dell Leigh, writing in his 1925 book Golf at its best on the LMS, describes the eighth as sitting "in a valley between stately hills; the hole which produces in the long hitter a frenzy of self-adulation." Leigh was writing about the original Old Tom Morris hole; Simpson had the foresight not to change it so the golfer can experience the same excitement today.
The exhilarating 8th hole looking back from the green, a 258 yard up-hill par four
The world of golf has much sterner tests than Cruden Bay: courses such as Carnoustie, Oakmont and Olympic. Muirfield, Merion and Shinnecock are more historic. Turnberry, Pebble Beach and Kingsbarns are more scenic. But for pure fun, Cruden Bay cannot be beaten. The course defies being pigeonholed because it doesn't fit neatly into any category. It is a one-of-a-kind golf course. Golf at its simplest is a game. I think we sometimes lose sight of that fact. The point of golf after all is to have fun and enjoy yourself. Cruden Bay would be ranked #1 in the world if having fun was the only criteria utilized. There is something about Cruden Bay that lightens your spirits and brightens your mood. It makes me see golf through the eyes of a five year old: everything is exciting; there is a sense of discovery around every corner; life is good and full of promise; curiosity abounds.
Slains Castle as seen from Cruden Bay
The ninth and tenth holes play on top of the dunes with dramatic views and shots played down a large hill. There are many times when the Cruden Bay landscape almost seems lunar and surreal. The ninth and tenth tee boxes are two of those places. If you look north over the beach and ocean you can see the ruins of Slains Castle, which provided the inspiration to Bram Stoker when he wrote Dracula.
The fourteenth and fifteenth holes are two of my two favorites on the course. Like Cruden Bay generally, they are full of quirks, but I found them exhilarating. Fourteen has a blind second shot to a bathtub green. What's a bathtub green you ask? One that quite literally is shaped like a bath tub and is sunken down into the ground. Just like the Punchbowl sixteenth green at National Golf Links of America, when you are on the green the outside world is muted. You are totally detached from civilization.
Why don't you see more bathtub style greens? From a practical standpoint, the green most assuredly doesn't work, since it doesn't get the proper amount of air and light, is difficult to maintain and playing shots into it doesn't always distinguish between shots hit well and shots played poorly. Ok, so it's not practical to have holes like these, but it misses the entire point of Cruden Bay. The R & A isn't going to hold a championship here, and it is not a proving ground for your manhood. It's a fun golf course. Personally, I like an occasional hole that has these unique element of playfulness, which has more similarities to billiards or pinball with shots banked off the sides of hills and hollows and crazy kicks of the golf ball.
Look to the right of the bathtub green in the picture and you can see a tee box. This is the tee box for the 200 yard blind par three fifteenth hole. The huge sand dune you see on the left is your target. When you are done playing the hole you ring a bell to let the group behind you know you're done.
I can hear the skeptics now. Blind shots? Ringing bells? Multiple par fours under 290 yards? A bathtub green? Back-to-back par threes? Only two par fives on the whole course? Par is only 70, 6395 yards from the back. Horrors. I understand those that prefer golf courses in the conventional and traditional sense might not like Cruden Bay. Sounds like trickery you say. Well, many of the world's great courses have characteristics just like the ones I describe above. Cypress Point has back-to-back par threes; coincidentally, they both happen to be on the 15th and 16th holes. Quaker Ridge and Chicago Golf Club only have two par fives. Lahinch has its brilliant blind par three Dell hole. Pine Valley and Royal County Down have several blind shots, and you ring bells at Prestwick and the National Golf Links of America.
So these quirky elements in and of themselves are not unique to Cruden Bay and are clear evidence that having quixotic features on a golf course alone don't make it bad. What makes Cruden Bay unique is that it crams all these features into one course. It doesn't have one or two quirky holes like many of the world's best courses mentioned above. The distinction at Cruden Bay is that virtually every hole is quirky or has some kind of unconventional feature. It is this cumulative effect of the design that makes it such a fanciful place to play golf.
Admittedly, Cruden Bay has a weak finish. Sixteen is a downhill par three with a green that slopes away from you, so you must play it short and run it up. Seventeen and eighteen are decidedly weak holes that play back to the clubhouse and are uninteresting.
I've spoken to a lot of well-traveled golfers, and it's no surprise to me that almost all of them rank Cruden Bay among their personal favorite courses. The first time I saw Cruden Bay was on a golf trip with eight men touring Scotland. This was prior to my now obsessive quest to play the top 100. We were so enamored of the place that on the spot we changed our plans to stay an extra day so we could play the course over and over again. On every trip to Scotland I try to play Cruden Bay.
Bernard Darwin wrote of this great course, "I think it is typical of Cruden Bay, which is a place extraordinarily difficult to keep away from for those who have once come under its spell." I'm often asked what I'm going to do when I'm done playing the top 100 golf courses in the world. Well, I'm going to go back to Cruden Bay to play it over and over again!
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The course is located in a rather isolated location away from any real population center and as a result the members serve as caddies for visitors. They are a very welcoming and friendly group who are happy to share their wonder of the golfing world with visitors. As an added bonus I recommend staying at the Udny Arms Hotel located in nearby Newburgh. A family owned B & B, it is cozy and inviting. Being isolated you might assume they would serve basic meat and potatoes fare. In fact, the food there is world-class. The bar areas are cigar friendly and the wait staff makes you feel at home. Don't expect American size rooms or 200 channels of cable television. As is typical in Britain the amenities are basic, the showers are tiny but there is a facility to make a cup of tea in each room. It is one of my favorite places to stay in the world. Have the sticky toffee pudding while there and watch one of the three BBC channels provided.
Cruden Bay is also a special remembrance for me because it was the first time I experienced first-hand Sheldon in action. The forthright manner this good looking gentleman asked the Amazon barmaid what time she got off was worth its weight in gold.
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HARRISBURG — Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania withstood a spending spree by coal-industry millionaire Republican Tom Smith to win a second term Tuesday in a race in which the political scion had been heavily favored.
Casey's victory also cements a seat that Democrats had counted on in the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate.
Casey, 52, of Scranton, an ally of organized labor, had been a heavy, early favorite and was way ahead in polls through August. But Smith, a tea party favorite who made a fortune in western Pennsylvania's coal-mining industry, invested more than $16 million of his own money in the race, hammering Casey for three months on TV and radio and forcing Casey to mount a strong response in the final weeks.
Smith called Casey to concede, Casey's campaign manager Larry Smar said.
Although Casey had strong name recognition because he is the son of the late former Gov. Robert P. Casey, many voters were still learning the identities of the candidates in the final days before the election as the men campaigned in the shadow of the presidential race.
Counting spending by outside groups, Smith was on course to outspend Casey, $18 million to less than $9 million after July 1.
Casey first won the office in 2006 after soundly beating arch-conservative Sen. Rick Santorum. Based on preliminary results of an exit poll, independent voters split their votes about evenly between Casey and Smith, representing a huge drop in support for Casey compared with 2006.
The former state treasurer and auditor general ran as a moderate who put the interests of this diverse state ahead of party leaders. Casey had supported President Barack Obama's signature policies, including his sweeping health care law, economic stimulus bill and overhaul of financial-sector regulations.
Casey had attacked Smith as too extreme for Pennsylvania, and won nearly every endorsement from the state's newspaper editorial pages.
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