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I've got a bit of a fetish for old wooden tool handles and have fun finding ways to use & display them.Some of the small ones end up in potted plants.A green plant makes a nice contrast to the wood handles. I love this ice pick with advertising from an old, local ice company. This tool has a curved blade on it and was froma fruit and produce company. The most unusual handles in my home are 2 that came {Read More}
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I still get really giddy (just ask my family – I'm constantly calling them over to my computer to see) whenever one of my posts has been featured on another blog, so I was downright tickled pink when Brenda @ Cozy Little House wrote an absolutely glowing post about my blog and home for her Blogger Spotlight series. If you haven't visited her blog before, you are in for a treat. (click on image to visit) I'm always doing a {Read More}
Antique Graphic Pillows
Every week I share antique images and graphics with you, but I rarely get around to actually doing anything with them myself, so I asked my mom if she would sew some pillow covers that I could add some images to. (Thanks, Mom!) It was fun looking through the images I've posted and selecting a few of my favorites. I don't recommend using regular iron-on transfer paper like you get at craft stores. I experimented with it before putting any {Read More}
Antique Graphics Wednesday – 12 Fruits and Vegetables
These 12 fruit and vegetable images all come from a 1940's Field Book of Natural History. I think there are a lot of fun projects you could use these on. At the bottom of this post, you'll see how Bliss @ Bliss Ranch used a garden-related image I previously posted on a wonderful wooden tote. I hope you enjoy them! Bliss @ Bliss Ranch saw her name on an antique advertisement I posted HERE and used it on a wonderful wooden tote. Be {Read More}
Antique Graphics Wednesday – 1908 School Song {Don't Talk When You've Nothing to Say}
I've been looking through a 1908 school songbook and there are so many wonderful songs in this book that I plan to share throughout the year with you. It had a variety of types of songs, but some of my favorites are "wisdom" songs, intended to impart wise words. I thought this was a great one for kids who tend to chatter too much. I was one of those kids and still tend to be a chatterbox, so it's a little wisdom {Read More}
Knick of Time Tuesday #49
Welcome back to the 49thLet's look at some of the wonderful links shared last week. Suzan @ Simply Vintageous brought a huge smile to my face and heart with this "Anne (with an e)of Green Gables dresser she created. So charming!!! Audrey @ Timeless Treasures gave an old wooden tool box a feminine face lift. Lovely! I've got 2 rooms in my house wallpapered in antique books, so this accent wall done byAngela @ Number Fifty-Three grabbed my attention.Didn't it turn out {Read More}
Buying Time
Thanks so much for letting me cry on your shoulders yesterday, about my oldest son moving into the dorm at college. During another of my teary-eyed spells before he left, he gave me a hug and said, "Why do I get the feeling I'm the only adult in this room?" He knows how to humor me. It seems fitting in my struggle against how quickly time is passing, that I won a box full of old, non-working travel clocks at {Read More}
Sunday – Son Day
Today is a day that I've never really looked forward to. My son is moving into the dorm at college. I know, it's part of the progression that comes with having children, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. I've been blessed to be a stay-at-home mom his whole life. I was blessed to homeschool him from kindergarten through graduation. It seems like just yesterday I was teaching him to read. I've been blessed that he choose to live at {Read More}
I'm Diggin' It – Garden Spade Decor
If you really dig old tools, this little project might be right up your alley. It didn't cost any money to create – I had the few supplies needed already on hand. Chances are good you have everything too, or something similar that would work just as well. When I saw this Garden Spade Door Knocker sold by Terrain, I had one of those, "that gives me an idea" moments. I don't really want a door knocker because we have a doorbell that {Read More}
Sittin' Pretty
I finished painting the kitchen chairs yesterday. The two on the each end are the youngest ones, which were part of the set from our previous kitchen table. The rest of the chairs all came from auctions, thrift stores, or yard sales. All the chairs were painted and distressed for a timeworn look, except one. Can you guess which one – [my shift key isn't working, so pretend there's a question mark there.] I wish I could carry this pretty {Read More}

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Hello everyone. David Damico here. I have signed up to this site to learn and share about sandblasting for creative purposes. I am just building my system with a Husky, 60lb air compressor from HD, a 40 gal pressure pot from HF and, a small blasting cabinet from Tractor Supply. I also own a Titan vinyl cutter for masking purposes.
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Prophunt gather on Sunday at 8PM uk time
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Posted 17 September 2015 - 21:02
Prophunt gather on Sunday at 8PM uk time
No need to apply just come on ts
Inaat : urban ddpat
Inaat : u serios
Posted 18 September 2015 - 15:36
Cool, I'm happy to see a gather happen this week.
Is it on CSS or GMod?
Posted 18 September 2015 - 16:20
Its my and psy's new Garrysmod version.
Inaat : urban ddpat
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Posted 18 September 2015 - 17:09
I wish I didn't work in a bar at nights, would have come, have fun anyway though
My YouTube: https://www.youtube..../TheGameGateway
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Posted 18 September 2015 - 21:47
Applied under a no-agreement condition. I'd love to spend a few gathers with you guys before I go, but I'm busy af, so let me off If I don't turn up aha
my response to vaping being "cool" tbh fam
"stimulates the same circuitry that was simulated when u sucked on ur mommas titty
Posted 20 September 2015 - 19:55
Don't forget about this gather people, it's about to start!
Posted 20 September 2015 - 21:18
Some nice progress guys!
Game is fun
[BUG] Hunter waiting phase
It kind of just freezes and fucks the frame or something.
As you can see even my Steam overlay got into it.
(Just to be clear the image was static like this until the phase ended, unless I opened my overlay)
- Some form of deathnotice, or a "You killed ..." and "You were killed by ..." message at least would be nice.
- I feel like the hunter waiting phase could be a bit longer, to give the props the chance to set up clever ruses and create suspicious scenes
- Announce to the props that the Hunters have been released
- Perhaps just make "gmod_undo" (default "z") the button for TauntChanger
- I feel like big props are still hardly ever worth it; the higher HP doesn't even make up for the easy-of-hitting, let alone the ease-of-spotting. Maybe jjust give them a score multiplier as well?
- A free spectate as a dead prop would be nice
- Make the "score" you get just the "frags" or "score" that the gameserver reports and that standard scoreboards show as kills, and show it on the scoreboard. The points don't have to matter as long as you can brag.
Hunter/Prop Balance thoughts:
Hunters a wee bit slower to make running more viable.
What's the Hunter/Prop ratio? Like 1:4? Make it 1:5 or something I'd say.
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Posted 20 September 2015 - 22:21
Also, last time I suggested that it'd be really nice to see who your teammates are sitting in the room there with you.
I'm glad to have seen this feature in the gather, but I'd propose *kek* to alter it slightly.
It only appears when you look at a person directly and it disappears quickly after.
I wouldn't mind it if the name tags were permanent, perhaps slightly more transparency.
If not, at least consider increasing the linger time drastically.
While we're on the subject. It'd be nice to see nearby props in general.
Would there be anything to say against a permanent friendly x-ray silhouette?
If so, perhaps make it a toggle with a button, or hold-to-activate with Ctrl or something.
Also this was kek:
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Dr Gregory Borne
Director - Plymouth Sustainability and Surfing Research Centre
November 2013
Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Performance (PGCAP)
October 2011
Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
Novermber 2006
PhD, 'Sustainable Development: The Reflexive Governance of Risk', University of Plymouth.
September 2001
MSc Social Research, School of Law and Social Sciences, University of Plymouth
December 2000
BSc (Hons) Sustainable Development (Upper Second), Open University
Professional membership
Fellow, LEAD International ( www.lead.org )
Society for the Environment Registered Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv)
Member, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (FRGS)
Member, Insititute of Environmental Science (MIEnvSc)
Member, British Sociological Association
Member, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
Editorial Board, Sociological Research Online
Roles on external bodies
Reviewer for Journal of Environmental Science and Policy
Reviewer Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Reviewer for Journal of Mixed Methods Research
Editorial Board, Sociological Research Online
Author for the Encyclopedia of the Earth
Author Huffingtonpost http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/gregory-borne/
Senior Research Fellow, Earth System Governance http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/
Visiting Fellow, Center for Surf Research
Strategic Advisor, sustainablesurf.org
Teaching interests
My teaching is directly related to my research with a strong emphasis on not only research informed teaching but also research led teaching. All aspects of my teaching integrate aspects of sustainability in order to enhance the student experience. I emphasise the central tenets of Education for Sustainable development with a particular focus on transformative as opposed to transmissive learning.
I also believe strongly that wherever possible practitioner engagement is vital for an enhanced student experience as well as employability. To this end I have created an innovative scheme for the BSc (Hons) Public Management and Business called the Programme Friendship Scheme The scheme connects students with leaders on a cross sectoral basis.
I have developed lead and delivery a number of modules
GPS5003: Managing Change and Performance in Public Organisations
GPS 3009: Ethical Decision Making
GPS 3004: Organisational Change in the Public Sector
PSM 200 : Sustainability and Commissioning
PSM 102: Introduction to Research Methods
PSM 300: Public Services Management Dissertation
PSM301: Public Leadership and Governance
PSM307 Transitions in Public and Private Management: Sustainability in the Surfing World'
Research interests
I am an interdisciplinary researcher with a core focus on discourses of sustainable development on a cross sectoral basis. My work continually aims to push the boundries of sustainable development research synthesising innovative theoretical approaches, advancing methodological debates and applying this to appropriate empirical studies. There is an emphasis on understanding sustainable development in the context of a risk society and second/ reflexive modern interpretations of the concept. Moreover my work has expanded to engage with theoretical discussions around complexity and systems thinking as well as socio technical transitions in different contexts.
As well as bridging the gap between theoretical discussions and empirical study my work also aims to explore the relationship between the global and local scales of analysis. To date three substantive areas have been investigated. These should be viewed as running in parallel and interconnected
1. The United Nations
I have explored discursive representations of sustainable development within the United Nations. The role of supranational organisations and global governance remains a consistent thread throughout my work. For this study I worked for the United Nations Environment Programme directly following the World Summit on Sustainable Development. This provided unique insights into both international and national discourses and how these impacted on, policy and legislation.
2. Town and parish councils
Making connections between the supranational and the local I explored discourses of sustainable development and the impact this has on local governance structures. The focus here was on all town and parish councils throughout Devon and Cornwall. TPCs are the closest level of government to the community as well as being an integral part of the community. They are embedded in multiple community groups as well as being the platform for the community's connection to local government and vice versa. There are over 8,500 councils in England, that provide employment for over 25,000 staff with an annual expenditure of around £400 million. My research will characterise TPCs as a nexus where multiple global and local issues converge. The role of TPC's is set to become increasingly important with London seeing its first in over 50 years.
3. Surfing
Current work is exploring the role of sustainable development within the surfing world. This work has accessed discourses on a multsecoral basis from leading Industry figure to NGOs to local communities. This has resulted in the establishment of an international cross sectoral research group. Please click on the link for additional information
Sustainable development, risk, science and society, governance, , climate change, reflexive modernity, globalisation, democracy, socio-technical transitions
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Dr Arzoo Syeddah ' The Shifting Discourse on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Context of Small Medium Enterprises in Pakistan' 20/05/17
Dr Erdem Erciyes 'The impact of Culture, Leadership and Power on Staff Motivation in the Context of International Organisations' 05/2017
Dr Paula Holbrook ' Social Housing: Saftey Net, Ambulance Service or Just Home? Exploring the Potential Impact of Fixed Term Tenancies 06/2015
Dr Emma Whiltlesea ' An Investigation into the Opportunities and Challenges for a Low -Carbon Tourism economy in the South West of England'
Ongoing supervision
Director of Studies
· Kosmos Akande-Alasoka - Communication and Governance: The Case of Nigeria 12/2015
· Corinne Tomta-Heinrich - Understanding implications of change in ethnic eating habits on the economic development: An analytical approach with special focus on Western Africa 09/2018
Second Supervisor
· Saud Alsaati - Determine the Role and Relevance of Commercial Diplomats & Trade Promotion Organizations within the Small and Medium Enterprise Industry 31/12/2015
· Erdem Erciyes - Motivational strategies of managers for improving employee's performance. A cross-cultural analysis of managers approach from high-context cultures and low-context cultures 30/09/2017
· Reynato Mounkaila Noma The Globalisation of Health Care 31/07/2017
· Zhanna Sagyndykova Monitoring and Evaluation of Reforms in Kazakhstan 31/12/2016
Grants & contracts
Plymouth Marine Institute, Surfers Against Sewage Global Wave Conference, £5000 May 2015
Magna Solutions, Development of LEAN training for pedagogic innovation £5000 April 2015
Centre for Sustainability Leadership and Policy Plymouth University, 'Sustainability and Surfing' £6000 2012-2014
Lead International, 'Leadership for Sustainable Development Programme', £2000, 07/10-10/10
Promoting Sustainable Communities in Devon and Cornwall' South West Life Long Learning Network £73000 08/07-08/08
'Promoting Sustainable Communities in Devon and Cornwall' South West Life Long Learning Network, £120000. 20-01-10
Dissemination of project results to United Nations Environment Programme', South West LIfeLong Learning Network, £2500. 07-07-10
Dissemination of project result United Nations Environment Programme, New York. South West LIfeLong Leaning Network £3000, 01,11,09
Departmental Studentship Doctoral Studies, Pymouth Universtity £36000
Research groups
- Cultural Industries
- Plymouth International Studies Centre
- Plymouth Sustainability and Surfing Research Group (PSSRG)
Borne, G., (2018) Surfing and Sustainability, London , Routledge ISBN -13: 978-1138856745
Borne, G and Ponting, J., (2017) (Eds) Sustainable Surfing, London, Routledge ISBN -13: 978-1138930759
Borne, G. and Ponting, J. (2017) Sustainable Stoke: Introducing Sustainability to the Surfing World, Plymouth, University of Plymouth Press
Borne, G. and Ponting, J. (2017) Sustainable Stoke: Umbrella Organisations in the Surfing World , Plymouth, University of Plymouth Press
Borne, G. and Ponting, J. (2017) Sustainable Stoke: Industry Dynamics, Plymouth, University of Plymouth Press
Borne, G. and Ponting, J. (2017) , Sustainable Stoke: A Critical Exploration of Sustainability Within Surfing Plymouth, University of Plymouth Press
Borne, G. and Ponting, J. (2017) Sustainable Stoke: Opening up the Governance Process, NGOs and Surfing, Plymouth, University of Plymouth Press
Borne, G. and Ponting, J. (2017) Sustainable Stoke: New Knowledge and Solutions, Plymouth, University of Plymouth Press
Borne, G. and Ponting, J. (2017) Sustainable Stoke: The Power of Politics , Plymouth, University of Plymouth Press
Borne, G. and Ponting, J., (Eds) (2015) Sustainable Stoke: Transitions to Sustainability in the Surfing World, Plymouth University Press ISBN 13: 978-1841023410
Borne G. (2010) A Framework for Global Sustainable Development and the Effective Governance of Risk. Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press ISBN 13: 978-0773437425
Chapters in Books
Borne, G and Clarke, D. (2017) (Forthcoming) Communicating the Emancipatory Catastrophism of Climate Change, In C. Heidkamp and J. Morrissey Coastal Transitions: Towards Sustainability and Resilience in the Coastal Zone, London, Routledge
Borne, G. (2017) Sustainability and Surfing in a Risk Society In J. Borne. and J. Ponting Sustainable Surfing, London Routledge
Borne, G. (2017) (forthcoming) Sustainable Surfing Future Directions In J. Borne. and J. Ponting Sustainable Surfing, London Routledge
Borne, G. and Ponting, J., (2015) Introduction, In Borne, G and Ponting, J., (Eds) Sustainable Stoke: Transitions to Sustainability in the Surfing World Plymouth University Press
Borne, G. (2015) Sustainable Development and Surfing, in Sustainable Stoke: Transitions to Sustainability in the Surfing World, Borne, G and Ponting, J., (Eds) Plymouth University Press
Borne, G (2011) Agenda 21 in Green Politics (Volume 2) (Geoffrey, Paul and Dustin Eds.) Sage
Borne, G (2011) Uncertainty in Green Politics (Volume 2) (Geoffrey, Paul and Dustin Eds.) Sage
Borne, G (2011) Risk Society in Green Politics (Volume 2) (Geoffrey, Paul and Dustin Eds.) Sage
Borne, G (2011) Globalisation in Green Politics (Volume 2) (Geoffrey, Paul and Dustin Eds.) Sage
Borne, G (2011) Sustainable Development in Green Politics (Volume 2) (Geoffrey, Paul and Dustin Eds.) Sage
Borne, G., (2014) Sustainable Development: A Developing a Sophisticated Theoretical Framework, Social and Public Policy Review
Borne, G., (2013) Book Review - Foresight in Action: Developing Policy -orientated Scenarios edited by Marjolein BA van Asselt, Susan van 't Klooster, Phillip van Notten and Livia A. Smits (2010) Routledge, Earthscan Risk in Society, In Health, Risk and Society
Borne, G., (2013) Sustainable Development and the Olympics, Sociological Research Online 18(3)18 http://www.socresonline.org.uk/18/3/18.html
Borne, G., (2013) Exploring Discourses of Sustainable Development: A Flexable Framework, Methodological Innovations Online 8(2) 90-106
Borne, G., (2012) Power to the Parish, Public Services Review: Local Government and the Regions 20
Liu, Z., Scrieciu, S., Srivastava, García-Montero, L. G., Borne, G., Deng, X., et al. (2010). Should sustainable consumption and production be a policy priority for developing countries and if so, what areas should they focus on? Natural Resources Forum, 34(1), 85-88
Borne,G., (2010) Sustainable Development Representing a Reflexive Modernity Inside the United Nations, Journa of Global Analysis 1(1): 28-50
Borne,G., (2010) Promoting Sustainable Communities: Education and Training Final Report, Promoting Sustainable Communities 2(1)
Borne,G., (2009) Widening Participation in the British Public Sector, responding to the Sustainable Development Agenda, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning , August 2009
Borne,G., (2009) Sustainable Development and the Olympic Games, Environmental Scientist 18(3)
Borne,G. (2009) Achieving Sustainable Lifestyles or encouraging a Counter Reflexivity: Exploring Motivations for Sustainability in a Mediated Risk Society Local Environment 14(1):93-107
Borne,G. (2009) Understanding Town and Parish Needs for a Sustainable Cornwall, Promoting Sustainable Communities 1(2) http://uplace.org.uk:8080/dspace/handle/10293/100
Borne, G. (2009) Promoting sustainable Communities in Devon and Cornwall: A Reflexive Review of Practice.
Borne,G. (2008) Understanding Town and Parish Needs for a Sustainable Devon, Promoting Sustainable Communities 1(1)
Borne, G. (2012) Developing Parish Councils in an Age of Localism, Policy Brief, Departmernt of Communities and Local Government
Borne, G., (2012) Sustainable development and Surfing The Inertia http://www.theinertia.com/environment/sustainable-development-and-surfing/
Borne, G., (2009) Promoting Sustainable Communities: Education and Training. Report for Cornwall Council
Gregory Borne (Lead Author). (2009). "Precautionary principle." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of Earth February 7, 2009; Retrieved February 7, 2009]. <
Borne, G., (2009) Understanding Town and Parish Needs for a Sustainable Cornwall, South West Life Long Learning Network
Borne, G., (2008) Understanding Town and Parish Needs for a Sustainable Devon, South West Life Long Learning Network
Borne, G., (2008) Overcoming challenges countries face in integrating the goals of economic growth, social development and environmental protection., Achieving Sustainable Development. Invited Contribution to the 2008 United Nations Annual Ministerial Review; www.un.org/ecosoc/newfunct/Summary_of_eDiscussion_Final.pdf
Borne, G., (2007) Public Sector Employment Engagement Project, Stage Two Report,University of Plymouth
Borne, G., (2007) Public Sector Employment Engagement Project, Stage One Closure Report
University of Plymouth
Reports & invited lectures
Borne, G (2015) Governing the surf Industry, Surfers Against Sewage Global Wave Conference
Borne, G., (2015) Sustainable Stoke: Transitions to Sustainability in the Surfing World -Key Note Speech - Centre for Surf Research, San Diego State University
Borne, G (2014) Sustainability and Organsiaional Change, Presentation to Netwrok Rail Property Directorate
Borne, G., (2010) Promoting Sustainable communities in Devon and Cornwal - Presentation of final research project, UNEP
Borne, G. (2009) Understanding Training and Education Needs for a Sustainable Devon and Cornwall, Life Long Learning Network National Forum http://www.lifelonglearningnetworks.org.uk/key-documents/newsletters/
Borne, G. (2009) Accredited Prior Experiential Learning, Responding to the Sustainable Development Agenda, Life Long Learning Network National Forum http://www.lifelonglearningnetworks.org.uk/key-documents/newsletters/
Borne, G. (2009) Promoting Sustainable Communities in Devon and Cornwall, paper presented to the United Nations Environment Programme, 04/03/09, New York
Borne, G. (2009) Understanding Town and Parish Needs for a Sustainable Cornwall, South West Life Long Learning Network http://www.swlln.ac.uk/246-welcome-swlln.php
Borne G. (2009) Developments for Sustainable Cornwall Research, Strand Bulletin, South West Lifelong Learning Network http://cms.swlln.ac.uk/asset/docs/1261-strand-bulletin-jan09-final.pdf
Borne, G. (2008) Update for Sustainable Parish Reserearch, Learning Power, South West Life Long Learning Network http://cms.swlln.ac.uk/asset/docs/1118-learning-power-issue-8-small.pdf
Borne, G. (2008) Understanding Town and Parish Needs for a Sustainable Devon, South West Life Long Learning Network http://cms.swlln.ac.uk/asset/docs/933-preliminaryresultsdevonfinal.doc
Borne, G. (2008) Employer Engagement and Competancy Lexicon/APEL Development, Paper presented Bournmeouth and Poole College Annual Research Conference
Borne, G. (2007) Sustainable Development: Relating Global Ideals to Local Action. Discussion paper prepared for South Somerset District Council
Borne, G. (2007) Exploring Competencies for a Sustainable Public Sector. Report prepared for South West Life Long Leaning Network
Dixon, J, Borne, G (2006) Enhancing Devon's Local Strategic Partnership's for a Sustainable Future. Report on research conducted for Devon County Council/ Devon Improvement group
Dixon J, Borne, G. (2006) 'Competencies in the Public Sector for a Sustainable Future'. New Horizons for Public Services, Exeter University, UK, November 2006, 8th November
Borne, G. (2006) 'Unpacking the Ambiguity: Sustainable Development inside the United Nations'. Presented at the Governance for Sustainable Development Workshop: Steering in Contexts of Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Control' Conference, Institute for Applied Ecology, Berlin, Germany.
Borne, G. (2003) 'Sustainable Development: The Reflexive Governance of Risk', Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Risk and Society Conference, Plymouth University, September.
Borne, G. (2002) 'Sustainable Development in a Networked Risk Society'. Poster and Oral Presentation at the 'Promoting Action for Sustainability through Indicators at the Local Level in Europe' Conference, (PASTILLE), London School of Economics, September.
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Decades of good done by the Catholic Church in Ireland are being "almost obliterated by a revised and narrow narrative that religious ethos cannot be good for democracy," the Archbishop of Armagh has said.
Speaking at the University of East Anglia on Monday night, the archbishop said Irish society was being "hugely impacted by secularisation and is evidenced by a steady decline in church attendance and in vocations to the priesthood and religious life."
"What began as a gradual drift of people away from Mass and the sacraments became a stronger current," Archbishop Martin said. "Like other parts of Europe and the western world, more people in Ireland are living their lives without reference to God or to religious belief."
I am stunned every time I hear a bishop complain about the demonic activity around us and act like he had nothing to do with it.
There is nobody to blame but Bishop Martin.
Bishop Martin and the see of sissified episcopal wizards with bird-brained ideas about accompanying us to mortal sin. They abandoned the power in the Sacraments and turned the Church into a social service agency with religious entertainment.
With an elected pope contorting the priesthood into teaching virtues of fornication and sodomy, you would think they would be a see of giddy little schoolgirls, but the fruit of their own hands seems to be scaring some of them.
Yesterday, they fiddled with Nero.
Today, they stand in the public square to profess their innocence while duly noting the effects of mortal sin.
It's all so disingenuous.


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As a country of Central Africa with countless diverse aspects, the 475,442 square kilometers of Cameroon stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to Chad Lake and from the equatorial part of Africa to the borders of the Sahara region. With coastal planes, low plateaus a volcanoes in the south, with the Adamaoua plateaux reaching an elevation between 800 and 1500 meters in the central region of the country, with arid Savannah's and moonlike mountains (Mandara) in the north, Cameroon reflects the myriad of geographies found in this continent. As the highest point in the country, located in the southwest, Mount Cameroon is always active. It overlooks the sea from its 4070 meter high elevation and provides at its foothills a beach with fine and grey sand that is famous with tourists. With dense jungles that are the living habitat to a diverse collection of flora and animal species, the south and the east of the country are true to the images dreamt about the lush central part of Africa which is crossed by major rivers. In northern Cameroon, it is where one finds Savannah's with landscapes made up of large grassy plains and the noon-like region of Kapsikis.
Cameroon is located in Central Africa, in the heart of the continent. Bordered in the north by Chad, the country spans in the south to the Atlantic coast. Is shares borders with Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo to the south and with Central-African Republic, Chad toe the east and with Nigeria toe the west. There is no time difference in the winter but one hour difference in the summer.
In the 15th Center, in 1472, Fernando Po'O from Portugal reached for the first time the coasts of Cameroon . Up until the 18th Century, numerous merchants and missionaries traveled through the country. From 1844 to the end of First World War, Cameroon was a German protectorate. From 1919 to 1960, Cameroon was under a double protectorate governed by France and Great Britain before gaining its independence. Since 1982, Paul By is the president of the country.
The main resources of the country are oil, mining, bauxite production, farming and of course tourism.
YAOUNDE, the capital, is located at an elevation of 700 meters and 200 kilometers from the coast. Being the largest harbor of the country and of the Guif of Guinea, DOUALA is the financial capital.
With 400 kilometers of coasts, Cameroon's shoreline is the perfect setting for beach resorts. The most famous resorts are KIRIBI and LIMBE with their fine sand beaches. Another interesting destination is the estuary of the Lobe River where it meets the Atlantic Ocean with waterfalls.
The 9 national parks are the living habitats of one of the most numerous and most diverse fauna of Africa. You can visit these large parks and observe countless animals living in complete freedom in their natural habitat. Lions, elephants, hippos, giraffes, birds and many other species are awaiting your visit.
Humid and tropical in the south and dry in the north. Southern Cameroon, Dry season from November to February, light rainy season from March to June, heavy rainy season from August to the end of September. Average temperature: 26'C
Best time to visit, form November to June, which is the dry season, all regions of Cameroon can be visited.
Around 15 millions of inhabitants, with more than 200 different ethnic groups.
French for 70% of the population, English for 30% of the population, mostly in the western region close to Nigeria.
CFA Franc 1euro = 656 F CFA
To call to Cameroon from an international location, dial 237


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VERGENNES — Gov. Peter Shumlin on Monday called on lawmakers to help him contain what he called one of the state's top cost-drivers — education— in an effort to make Vermont more fiscally solvent and attractive to job creators. He also made a pitch for efforts to slow the growth of spending on health care (see related story).
Shumlin made his remarks before a crowd at the Vergennes American Legion hall during a legislative luncheon sponsored by the Bridport Grange and Addison County Farm Bureau.


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Estimates and Influence
This classic exposition of estimative intelligence, which treats both its epistemology and its importance to the policymaker, was classified Confidential and published in the Summer 1968 number of Studies of Intelligence.
There are a number of things about policymaking which the professional intelligence officer will not want to hear. For example, not all policymakers can be guaranteed to be free of policy predilections prior to the time they begin to be exposed to the product of the intelligence calling. Indeed, there will be some policymakers who could not pass a rudimentary test on the "facts of the matter" but who have the strongest views on what the policy should be and how to put it into effect. We do not need to inquire as to how these men got that way or why they stay that way, we need only realize that this kind of person is a fact of life.
Nor should we be surprised to realize that in any policy decision there are a number of issues which we who devote ourselves solely to foreign positive intelligence may almost by definition be innocent of. The bulk of them, are, of course, purely domestic ones: domestic political issues, domestic economic issues, popular attitudes, public opinion, the orientation of the congressional leadership, and so on. Even if we know in our bones of the great weight which such issues have carried in many a foreign policy decision, we do not readily and consciously acknowledge it. Our wish, is, of course, to have our knowledge and wisdom about the foreign trouble spot show itself so deep and so complete that it will perforce determine the decision. The nature of our calling requires that we pretend as hard as we are able that the wish is indeed the fact and that the policymaker will invariably defer to our findings as opposed to the cries of some domestic lobby.
But consider for a moment how people other than ourselves and our consumers view these phenomena which I have just dismissed with a mild pejorative. Look, for example, at the table of contents of any of the recent books devoted to "How Foreign Policy Is Made." Or look at the lineup of lectures and discussions in the syllabus of any of our senior service schools; look particularly at the section devoted to national security policy formulation. You will find that intelligence and what it contributes to the task, far from enjoying the overpowering importance with which we--quite understandably--like to endow it, is casually ticked off as one of a score of forces at work.
The Credibility of Intelligence
Thus a certain amount of all this worrying we do about our influence upon policy is off the mark. For in many cases, no matter what we tell the policymaker, and no matter how right we are and how convincing, he will upon occasion disregard the thrust of our findings for reasons beyond our ken. If influence cannot be our goal, what should it be? Two things. It should be relevant within the area of our competence, and above all it should be to be credible. Let things be such that if our policymaking master is to disregard our knowledge and wisdom, he will never do so because our work was inaccurate, incomplete, or patently biased. Let him disregard us only when he must pay greater heed to someone else. And let him be uncomfortable--thoroughly uncomfortable--about his decision to heed this other.
Being uncomfortable is surely his second choice. Before he becomes uncomfortable he is going to ask himself if it is strictly necessary. This is of course the equivalent of asking himself if he really thinks that the information he has received from his intelligence colleagues is relevant to his problem and if he has to believe it. When we in intelligence look at the matter in this light we might consider ourselves fortunate that our policymaking consumers find so much of our product relevant, credible, and hence useful. Is there any way of categorizing that which is most happily, gratefully, and attentively read and that which is least? Perhaps a start can be made by having a quick critical look at three classical families of intelligence utterances.
First, basic intelligence. No question but that credibility is highest in this area of intelligence. Time and time again our consumer has need of something comparable to the perfect World Almanac or the perfect reference service. We come close to giving him just that, and nine times out of ten he is warmly appreciative of the breadth and depth of our knowledge and the speed with which we can handle his requests.
Second, how about current intelligence? There is probably less enthusiasm among consumers for this than for basic. They have a tendency to compare it--and unfavorably--to the daily press or the weekly news magazines; or they gripe because they often find it a gloss upon something they have just read in a cable.
Lastly, in the formal estimate credibility is lowest. It was more than a decade ago that Roger Hilsman, after interrogating scores of policymaking consumers of intelligence, concluded thus.(2) He discovered that the people with whom he talked were extremely grateful to intelligence when it came up with the facts that they felt they had to know before they went further with their policymaking and operating tasks. They seem to have gone out of their way to praise intelligence in its fact-finding role, but to be anything but grateful for intelligence utterances in the estimate category.
Why was this so? Although Hilsman does not make the point, one may safely infer from his findings: The policymaker distinguished in his own mind between things which he thought of as factual and those which he thought of as speculative. For the first he was grateful, for the second not at all.
This puts a number of questions before the house. Why should Hilsman's respondents (implicitly, at least) have questioned the credibility of intelligence estimates? Was it because the respondents had caught intelligence out in self-serving errors? Was it because they were fearful of being misled by intelligence? Had intelligence on its part ever done anything to merit this want of confidence on the part of its customers? If not, how did it come about that the very officer who besought the help of intelligence in one area eschewed intelligence in another?
The Nature of the Estimate
Let me begin with a look at estimates and the business of making them.
Let me first be quite clear as to the general and the particular meaning of the word "estimate" in the present context. In intelligence, as in other callings, estimating is what you do when you do not know. This is the general meaning. In this broad sense, scarcely an intelligence document of any sort goes out to its consuming public that does not carry some sort of estimate. Field reports are circulated only when someone has estimated that the source is sufficiently reliable and content sufficiently credible to be worthy of attention. Current intelligence items as often as not carry one of those words of likelihood--"probable," "doubtful," "highly unlikely," etc. and so forth--that indicate that someone has pondered and decided that the report should be read with something less than perfect assurance as to its accuracy. An endless number of important sentences in even the basic intelligence category carry the same evidence of this kind of speculative evaluation, i.e, estimating.
But what I have in mind in particular when I use the word "estimates" here are the formal intelligence documents which begin to examine a subject from the point of view of what is known about it, and then move on beyond the world of knowing and well into the world of speculating. When you reflect upon a whole large subject matter--the future of Greece or the armed strength of Communist China, for example--and realize that you cannot begin to know about either with the degree of certainty you know your own name, you reach for the next best thing to "knowing." You strive for some sort of useful approximation. In pursuit of this you evoke a group of techniques and ways of thinking, and with their help you endeavor logically and rationally (you hope) to unravel the unknown or at least roughly define some area of possibility by excluding a vast amount of the impossible. You know that the resultant, while still a lot better than nothing at all, will be in essence a mix of fact and judgment. Upon occasion it turns out to be almost exactly correct, but at the time you wrote it you expressed yourself with appropriate reservation.
To the extent that your judgment and the many quite subjective things which influence it are now involved, the man who reads this estimate will by no means accept it in the attitude of relaxed belief with which he reads, for example, that "not counting West Berlin, there are ten Länder in the FRG." It is this form of intelligence document that Hilsman's respondents were cool about. What follows is an attempt to explain the chill.
Let me ask you to think of one of these estimates in terms of the geometrical form called a pyramid. Think of the perfect estimate as a complete pyramid. At its base is a coagulation of all-but-indisputable fact. With an absolute minimum of manipulation on our part, the facts have arranged themselves to form what is quite clearly the base of a pyramid. They have spread out in the horizontal dimensions to the degree that we pretty well perceive its base area, and piled up in the vertical dimension generally to indicate the slope of its sides.
Knowing the nature of the base of the pyramid, to take an illustrative case, is like saying that we now have enough solid information to know that a photo image we have been wondering about is of an aircraft--not, say, a dairy ranch; more importantly, it is a bomber aircraft, not a transport. As to the other things we want to know about it--its performance characteristics--we are not at all certain. We are, however, in a good position to speculate about them.
Raising the Pyramid
Now back to the pyramid. Let us assume that when we know the general locus in space where the sides will converge to form the apex, we will have most of what we want. Let us assume that the exact point of the apex is exactly what we want, that if we know this with certainty we will have what we are after. For the bomber, constructing the apex would be reasoned speculations about how it will perform: How far it can fly, how high, how fast, and with what bomb load. Just as classical induction revealed the base of the pyramid, so now we call upon the other classical methodologies of deduction, and with their help we reason our way up the pyramid toward the top.
The factual stuff of the base of the pyramid is likely to be largely the fruit of our own intelligence-gathering efforts and so constitute a body of material about which we are better informed than our consumers. But we enjoy no such primacy with respect to the matter above. In fact, the talent to deduce rigorously is one which we share with any other educated and intellectually disciplined human. Furthermore, the advantage we enjoy with respect to base material can be and usually is dissipated by our habit of making it available to quite an array of non-intelligence types. The point is that the studious consumer can approach our mastery at the base and match us higher up. He can be his own estimator whenever he wishes to invest the time.
Let me not even seem to pretend that all conceptual pyramids in our area of work are constructed as described. The procedure which moves from the known to the unknown with a certain amount of tentative foraying as new hypotheses are advanced, tested, and rejected is merely the most respectable way. Its very opposite is sometimes employed, though usually with a certain amount of clandestinity.
The follower of this reverse method first decides what answer he desires to get. Once he has made this decision, he knows the exact locus of the apex of his pyramid but nothing else. There it floats, a simple assertion screaming for a rationale. This, then, is worked out from the top down. The difficulty of the maneuver comes to a climax when the last stage in the perverse downward deduction must be joined up smoothly and naturally with the reality of the base. This operation requires a very considerable skill, particularly where there is a rich supply of factual base-material. Without an artfully contrived joint, the whole structure can be made to proclaim its bastardy, to the chagrin of its progenitor.
The Peak
But even under the respectable method the intelligence estimator at some moment in the construction process reaches the place where he has used his last legitimate deductive crutch and must choose one of three possible courses.
The first is to let himself be propelled by the momentum of his reasoning into a final and fairly direct extrapolation. The effect of this is to put a sharpish top on the pyramid--a measure which, in turn, has the effect of telling his audience that he is pretty sure that he has discerned the outlines of what must be the truth. For the bomber it would be like saying: "Thus we conclude that the bomber in question is almost certainly a supersonic aircraft of medium range. See Table II for our estimate of its performance characteristics."
The second is not to make this final extrapolation but to leave the pyramid truncated near its apex. This has the effect of telling the reader that you have narrowed the range of possibilities down to only a few. The further down you truncate, the wider their range. Thus the most unsatisfactory kind of intelligence construction is often that which perforce has to stop where the factual stuff of the base runs out. Often it is the equivalent of issuing the most general kind of news and asking the reader to suspend judgment pending the appearance of new evidence. For example: "Thus, we are unable at this time to be more precise regarding the performance characteristics of this bomber. It is possible that it is a new supersonic medium."
The third is what I will call "the look before the leap" or the "clandestine peep ahead." It is, one may hope, less often used by the intelligence professional than by the policy officer doing his own estimating. What you do is look hard at the final extrapolation and take full stock of where you will be if you go for it. Then, having taken stock, you ask yourself if you really wish to subscribe to this conclusion.
In the case I have in mind, you recoil. It may be that by making it yours you will be depicting yourself a non-patriot, or someone soft on Communism. It may be that by implication you can be made to seem a harsh critic of a higher authority or a scoffer at one of his policies. It may be that you will be doing the budget claims of your department or agency a grave disfavor. Or most important of all you realize that your findings may be advanced to support a policy which you oppose or that they do not support with sufficient vigor a policy which you favor.
If you have taken the peep ahead and find the prospect not to your taste, you can settle for the second course and simply not complete the estimate. Or you can back down on your argument, tearing it up as you go. Then when you have found a salubrious ground for another start, you can reargue your case upwards--perhaps using a few facts which you had dismissed as irrelevant the first time through, perhaps giving more weight to this analogy and forgetting about that, etc., etc. Thus, with a small amount of tinkering you can create a somewhat different conceptual pyramid whose base is still the same, but whose apex will lie in a zone much less dangerous to your job security or much more appropriate to the requirements of your policy preconceptions.
The Policy Welcome
Irrespective of which of the three ways of handling the problem you choose and irrespective of the substantive conclusion--or lack of it--the completed estimate will be bad news to one if not more of its important readers: it may undercut a long-held position or destroy a line of painfully developed argument; it may indicate the unwisdom of a plan or the malallocation of large sums of money. Another thing you may be sure of is that he will react as any recipient of bad news reacts--the reflex is one of "I don't believe you." Need I emphasize again that estimates are far more vulnerable to the criticism which is bound to accompany incredulity than are propositions which are stated, at least, as if they were fact.
The disappointed consumer may begin with a hard look at our pyramid's factual base. He may find some loose masonry which can be jimmied apart, and then jimmy. He may find some quite substantial building stones left off to one side, stones, which, although of the same material and cut to fit some sort of geometrical form, were not incorporated into the base structure. He will speedily perceive that if these are chiseled a bit here and there they can be made to fit into this structure, with the result that they change some important aspects of its configuration. You may be sure he will soon focus on the upper zones of our pyramid.
One thing he will be most alert to is any evidence that intelligence, having taken the "peep ahead" and found the pyramid about to peak at an unwanted place, went on to take the corrective action I have indicated. If he can find evidence of this sort of disingenuous case-making, he will attack with very weighty weaponry. Before he is done he may be able to prove to himself and a number of others that the so-called intelligence contribution is a fraud--nothing more nor less than a policy brief brazenly masquerading as an intelligence estimate.
In these terms we may readily understand why a good many of Hilsman's respondents felt as they did about the value of intelligence estimates. For purposes of fuller explanation, let us suppose that an intelligence estimate on the Banana Republics had been prepared; let us suppose that our policymaking reader Mr. "A" is his department's authority on these Republics. A tour of his psyche as he reads the paper may be illuminating.
First, let us assume that the estimate accords in very high degree with his own estimate of the present and probable future situation in Banania. His psyche will begin to purr in contentment; "What a remarkably perceptive document," it will whisper. But this may be as far as the word of praise gets. When the moment comes to articulate his comment on the estimate, he is less likely to praise it than to proclaim, "This is exactly what I have been saying all along. Why in the world do we have to have someone who knows less of the matter than I say so before anyone pays attention?" In short, as far as he is concerned, the intelligence effort that went into the study was unnecessary. "A" may not always feel this way, particularly if during the policy debate he realizes that he can make points against his opponents by citing the estimate as a dispassionate outside opinion.
Alternatively, let us assume that the estimate accords not at all with the views of Mr. "B." He will be unhappy, for he will realize that if the conclusions of the estimate are believed by his peers and superiors, the policy which he has been championing will have to be modified--perhaps drastically. If he wishes to stay in the fight, then, he must be prepared to attack the intelligence estimate as misleading and erect one of his own to replace it.
Lastly, let us assume that the policy issue is one of those which is going to be settled almost entirely on the basis of some purely domestic matter: The cotton lobby, the gold flow, the budget, and so on. Our policymaking consumer does not have to attack the substance of the irrelevant estimate. He will chuckle patronizingly to himself while his psyche warms in the feeling of superiority to those poor boobs in intelligence who have thought that what they called the "Situation and Prospects in X" could have any bearing on the way US policy towards X is being shaped today. Out loud he wonders how such naivetè can persist; he has no comment on the substance of the estimate.
These views of an estimate as unnecessary, misleading, or irrelevant may coincide with those of some of the people whom Hilsman polled and explain why they were less grateful for estimates than for what they considered factual intelligence issuances.
The Defense
How seriously should we in intelligence take the indictment which damns our estimating work as unnecessary, or misleading, or irrelevant? Take the misleading charge first. If it is made, and if it is true because the document was designed that way, then it must be taken very, very seriously indeed. For this accusation implied that the peep ahead had been taken and the necessary retracing of steps and reconstruction had followed so that the conclusion of the estimate suited the policy predispositions of the estimators. They have been caught out in their stupidity, and their credibility, at least for this estimate, is dead. It is dead not merely for the reader who found the conclusions abhorrent, but for all the others who found out by themselves or were told.
If the same group of estimators are caught out a second or third time, their credibility will probably be dead for good. Thereafter almost any intelligence pronouncement they or their associates make will be slightingly referred to as propaganda, and perhaps not even read. They have not only lost all hope of directly influencing policy, they have lost what is even more important because more attainable than direct influence. This is the indirect influence which they might have exercised through an honest contribution to the debate which ought to precede every substantial policy decision.
Suppose the charge of misleading is made simply as a function of a committed reader's general disbelief or annoyance, and suppose that, try as he may, he cannot show a trace of bad faith on the part of the estimators. The estimators are confronted with nothing more sinister than a human disagreement, perhaps from a reader whose nose is out of joint. This is just life.
What of the charge, unnecessary? The question here is--unnecessary to whom? To everyone involved in the policy decision? Already I have dealt with Mr. "A" to whom it was unnecessary because it accorded exactly with his views, and Mr. "B" to whom it was unnecessary and many times worse because he found it misleading. But are these the only two officers or two kinds of officers involved? Is there perhaps not a Mr. "C" or Messrs. "C" who have no more than a layman's knowledge of the subject but who must participate in the policy debate and decision? Of course there are the Messrs. "C," and important men they are. The President, upon many an occasion, is a Mr. "C," and so are members of his staff and his Security Council. They have found the estimate anything but unnecessary.
It does not follow, however, that the impact which the estimate may make upon the Mr. "C"s will in itself cause the defeat of the dissenting Mr. "B"s. What it will do is to force the Mr. "B"s to put forth a better effort. This will stimulate the Mr. "A"s themselves to better effort. At a minimum, the intelligence estimate will have made its contribution in the way it promoted a more thorough and enlightened debate and a higher level of discourse within the high policymaking echelon. At a maximum it may have denied a wrong-headed Mr. "B" an easy triumph.
Lastly, the charge of irrelevant. This rested upon the fact that the foreign policy decision was going to have to be made on the basis of a domestic consideration, something about which the estimate is wholly--and properly--mute. But it is just possible that the domestic consideration is not all that important and that the national interest is not really being served by this sort of deference to it. It may be that the estimate helped the policy people to reach this new appreciation of the national interest. Hence, even if the decision I am talking about gets made in conformity with the wish of the domestic pressure group, maybe the next such decision will not.
Truth Before Power
I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy. But absent the Good Fairy, we sometimes get the order of our unarticulated wishes mixed. Often we feel the desire to influence policy and perhaps just stop wishing here. This is too bad, because to wish simply for influence can, and upon occasion does, get intelligence to the place where it can have no influence whatever. By striving too hard in this direction, intelligence may come to seem just another policy voice, and an unwanted one at that.
On the other hand, if intelligence strives for omniscience and strives to be believed, giving a third place to influence, serendipity may take over. Unselfconscious intelligence work, even in the speculative and highly competitive area of estimates, may prove (in fact, has proved many times) a key determinant in policy decision.
(1) Adapted by the author from his presentation before the September 1966 Intelligence Methods Conference in London.
(2) [Editor's Note: Hilsman was then Chief of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).]


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Here's Five Million Bucks to Help Juilliard Grads Actually Make Some Money/
You'd think that teaching students to aggressively sell themselves and their talents would be standard at a prestigious arts school like Juilliard, which has graduated the likes of Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams, and Viola Davis. Apparently not, but thanks to a recent $5 million gift by Michael E. Marks and his wife Carole, that's all about to change.
The gift will establish the Alan D. Marks Center for Career Services and Entrepreneurship, which will "incorporate business skills into the Juilliard Colloquium course; offer intensive sessions on business, marketing and arts management; provide career advancement grants to some graduating students; and give students help with public speaking and networking."
Those toting around arts degrees, even prestigious ones, can be burdened with the worry that it won't ever pay off (I should know; I have one). After all, a brilliant artist in the making might just as well get his or her big break on a New York City subway platform, without forking over huge sums of money to work on their craft in the hallowed halls of some art school. And even if that pricey MFA does take someone to the next level, being good at hustling and networking—or what the real world might call "sales and marketing"—is a very different matter.
So giving arts students more business skills to actually make some money strikes me as incredibly useful. A great many people trying to build careers in the arts are, in effect, entrepreneurs. And yet a total cluelessness about the alien world of business is often the norm among these folks. Something is definitely wrong with that picture, and kudos to the Marks family and Julliard for coming up with this much-needed addition to the school.
I could go on about how smart this gift is, but what's actually really intriguing here is that Michael Marks doesn't have an arts background. Well, he does have two liberal arts degrees from Oberlin, but after that, he went to Harvard Business School, and has been entrenched in the business world ever since, serving as partner at KKR, and as chairman and CEO of a company called Flextronics. Marks currently helms a hedge fund he started called Riverwood Capital, which has offices in Menlo Park, New York City, and Sao Paulo.
Marks is also a director at the SanDisk Corporation and GoPro, to name a couple more companies. Oh, and he has taught and lectured at Stanford Business School since at least 2007.
Nice resume, but what does any of that have to do with Julliard?
Well, Marks' brother Alan, who passed away in the 1995 from cancer, went to Juilliard, where he got a bachelors in piano. Alan made his debut at Carnegie Recital Hall while still at Juilliard, and went on to perform as a soloist in orchestras around the country, as well as in Europe, Japan, and Israel. (Don't you hate those families in which one son becomes a concert virtuoso and the other a business mogul? Is there some other Marks kid out there who's a neuroscientist?)
So this gift, like many others we write about all the time, has an intensely personal connection: Marks is honoring his musician brother. In past years, Marks and Carole, through their family foundation, have supported Juilliard with modest sums. Just under $80,000 from the couple went to Juilliard in 2012. Marks also sits on the board of trustees at Juilliard.
In addition to the $5 million, Marks and Carole also donated $150,000 to equip two Juilliard recital halls with new video recording equipment.
One last thought: Are we worried that this gift is could be interpreted as encouraging Julliard students to sell out? Nope, since everyone in the arts faces plenty of temptation to do that anyway, just to keep their heads above water. And, in fact, if you're savvyier about how to monetize your purest creative self, you're less likely to find yourself living in a studio at 50 begging for work writing commercial jingles.


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For the deep-woods hikers, winter-sled enthusiasts and nature lovers.
In brief: Looking to get away from campus for a couple of hours? Looking for that nature fix but don't want to travel far? This park is the perfect solution.
If you're a student at Kent State main campus, chances are you've been to this park. Hidden in plain sight in downtown Kent, Franklin Mills Riveredge Park hugs the banks of the Cuyahoga River as it cuts through the city, creating a peaceful space for walking, biking, picnicking and relaxing.
Known for its beautiful waterfall and the Main Street Bridge, this park is the perfect place for anyone looking to get away for a few minutes (or hours) for some peace and quiet. Being directly in downtown Kent, you would not expect such a picturesque, natural setting; however, this park combines many historic aspects of the city with a landscape sculpted by nature.
The most accessible spot in this park is directly under the bridge downtown. From downtown, you'll want to cross the Main Street Bridge. Just walking over the bridge will earn you views overlooking the Cuyahoga River and the old dam structure, recently reshaped into viewing platforms and a grassy knoll. Access to the stairs is across the bridge near the public library, and elevated wood walkways will take you in either of two directions: down a trail following the river or down to the waterfall.
I'd recommend heading down the trail first. There are some pretty cool spots hidden along the path, including views of an old silk mill with art sculpted into the back wall and the remains of old canal walls near Summit Street. If you are looking for some time in the river, watch for the paths along the riverbanks: One of them leads to an outcropping of stone practically in the middle of the river. This spot has great views looking upstream toward the waterfall.
At the end of this path is Summit Street and John Brown Tannery Park, which I won't describe in this blog. Feel free to check it out, though. There is some great history with the site. Instead, I recommend taking the little-known path under the Route 59 underpass. Just to the left after you cross under the bridge is a path leading down to the riverbank. There, you will find the remains of the old canal walls. This is a nice quiet spot if you'd like to read, plus it's far enough off the path to remain hidden from view.
Head back toward the waterfall and take the stairs to the right, leading down toward the waterfall. After walking all the way down the path, take a break and sit down on a bench or old quarry stone. This area has gone through a transformation recently and is now a beautiful spot to relax. Placards line the waterfall arch with unique tidbits of Kent history. Climb the stairs to a viewing platform overlooking the lagoon, explore the rocks along the riverbank, or just sprawl out on the grassy area in the sun.
If you take the trail under the bridge archway, you will end up following a fantastic bike path. This section of the park is filled with stunning views of the river as it rushes along, train tracks above and smooth stones below. The current mill dominates your views, looming above the city and the park from across the banks. When you get near Lake Street, the park becomes Brady's Leap Park, named for a natural outcropping along the river. Read the placards along the path to learn about Kent's history. If you'd like, take a bike and continue on along the Portage Hike and Bike Trail to Towner's Woods Park.
Recommended Equipment:
- Tennis shoes
- Water
- Bicycle
Directions from Kent:
- Take Route 59 (Main Street) to the West
Estimated travel time: 5 minutes (by car) / 10 to 15 minutes (on foot)


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]As I'm waiting for my new Road Race oil pan to arrive I'll give another story on the Cobra as the site seems a little too quiet. (am I the only one that has a Cobra wanting attention..lol)
After Daytona I had the balancer issue that I wrote about, but I also noticed on the last run that the oil pressure was lower than normal. So I cut the oil filter open hopping not to find little shinny stuff.
No shinny stuff but a lot of large (for an oil filter) blue stuff. There were a lot more pieces than what is shown in this photo..I didn't think to take a picture.
I knew that it had to be the oil pan gasket so after removing the Circle track pan I took a look. It seems that the longer stroke on the crank shaft was hitting the gasket. This also explained the oil leak that developed after the miles were adding up.
The gasket is a Fel-Pro and it is the good one. However I had ordered it from Summit just via the motor needs as in Small block Chevy Gen1...when I got it I noticed that it had provisions for the dip stick to be on either side. While that did not seem to be a problem the shape of the gasket was.
For the replacement gasket I got one with only one dip stick hole and I was prepared to trim the gasket to fit the new crankshaft. BUT to my surprise when I put them side by side the new gasket is shaped so that the crank shaft can not reach the gasket...
I did pull a rod cap off and the bearings look good so I don't think any damage was done. There is no doubt that the Accusump saved the motor. Both from the lack of oiling from right hand turns with the circle track pan and helping the plugged oil filter oil the motor. I'm also glad I went with the Accusump adapter that allowed me to feed the Accusump with filtered oil (kept all those blue chunks out of the Accusump. The other aftermarket adapters were for an oil cooler setup and were fed before the filter.
I hope to have the new pan in a few more days...I already have a new balancer that is SFI 18.1 rated.
So that and another $100 of Royal Purple oil and I should be ready for the Reptile Round Up Saturday cruise later in the month...If it don't rain
New surprises in the motor
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Swingin' a big crank often leads to trouble.
It is nice to see that the filter did its job as well as the accusump.
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Moville win in Castlefin
Moville clinched their place in the last eight of the Junior A Championship with a nine point victory over Robert Emmett's in Castlefin on Saturday night.
Robert Emmett's . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-6
Moville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12
The Division Four pacesetters were much the better side and dominated most of the 60 plus minutes in what was at times a feisty encounter.
Both teams ended the game with 14 after Eunan Hegarty and Gary McNulty were shown red cards ten minutes from time
Moville led by four points, 1-4 to 0-3, at half-time having played with a strong breeze in their backs. Christy Hegarty scored the goal and also kicked a point from a free while Ciaran Diver (2) and Paul Gillen also raised first half white flags.
John Hunter and Johnny McLaughlin hit the first half points for the locals.
Moville kicked on in the second with points from Diver, Gillen, Hegarty, Nigel McMonagle and Danny Murphy.
McLaughlin and Hunter responded for Emmett's who were disappointing in the second half and never really into the game after the break.
Robert Emmett's: Simon McMenamin; Jordan Tourish, Dean McBrearty, Kyle McConnell; Steven Dooher, Paddy Dooher, Marcus Curran; Adam McConnell, Peter Bryson; Chris Bryson, Johnny McLaughlin (0-4, 3f), Brian Dooher; Gary McNulty, John Hunter (0-2,1f), Dillon McNamee. Subs: Ryan McGirr for K.McConnell; Gary McGrory for D McNamee; Ronan Tourish for S.Dooher; Dominic McGlinchey for P.Dooher .
Moville: Dylan Doherty; Pierce Parkinson, Enda Faulkner, Jack Keys; Kyle Dougall, Tony McClenaghan, Eunan Hegarty; Ciaran Diver (0-3, 1f), John McGeady; Danny Murphy (0-1), Seamus Hegarty (0-1), Nigel McMonagle (0-1); Joe McBride, Christy Hegarty (1-4), Josh Lafferty. Subs: Pauric Gillen (0-2) for J Lafferty (black), Declan McDermott for P Parkinson; Declan Diver for K Dougall.
Referee: Michael Mulhern (St Eunan's).