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Gas prices rise
The cost of gas in Jersey is going up next week.
The 5% rise will add around £70 to the annual cost of heating a house.
Prices will be increased by 0.58p a unit with effect from 10 May.
Gas boss John Davies says the rise follows a further global increases in wholesale energy prices and he has warned that propane prices will remain high for the foreseeable future.
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Posted By: Robert St Saviour on 03-May-2012
Why didn't the states support a natural gas pipeline like Jersey Gas sister company in the Isle of man, 7p per unit for gas? Oh.... I will tell you why, the States owns the majority share in the JEC. Once Jersey Gas have been put out of business, watch the electric price rise! You have been warned !!
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Posted By: Robert St Saviour on 03-May-2012
Be careful what you wish for! Jersey Electricity is majority owned by the states. Jersey Gas are a private company, who don't have the states to support them. Look around the world at global energy prices, crude oil has been over 100 dollars for over a year, and it doesn't look like its coming down soon. Sure as 'eggs are eggs' once the JEC have a captive market and Jersey Gas are no more, watch the price of electric then!! Heat pumps sound good, however do your research and look at the problems worldwide with them. Even the Energy Savings Trust have problems recommending them. We need multi fuels on this island, just remember the French have the switch to turn off our lights. It would be madness to rely on one fuel. Also, remember what one of the oil companies said about Guernsey, "the island uses as much fuel as a M1 service station", they could pull the plug tomorrow and it wouldn't bother them!!
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Posted By: Richard St Helier on 03-May-2012
medical officer of health. Please read this article for one reason people like a drink.
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Posted By: Bridge on 03-May-2012
@ChrisThe prices are going up everywhere, not just in Jersey. The problem in Jersey is that nobody thinks about the future and isn't educated when it comes to insulation, heating etc. I lived in Jersey and was shocked when it came to housing standards. Electric heating will just get more expensive over the years too, unless you use heat pumps.I don't know how long you're planning to stay in Jersey, or have the space, but heat pumps or solar energy are the long term solution. The most effective way is proper insulation and quality windows. When it comes to insulation, Germany is a great example where you get quality for money and encourage more solar energy. I don't know how it is in Jersey but in Ireland we get grants for insulation
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Posted By: Chris - St Peter on 03-May-2012
We recently bought a house and have never had gas before. Never Again! The gas heating was switched off as soon as we received our first invoice in February/March, as the charges were over 5 times more expensive than electric charges were in our old house (and the gas doesn't include the hot water, just central heating which only came on twice a day). It's been far cheaper to buy electric heaters to plug in the wall and use them instead! As soon as we can afford it we will definitely be switching to electric heating. Until then the 3 children (5, 2 and 10 weeks) will be wearing lots of jumpers when cold! Shame on you Jersey Gas and shame on you John Davies, you are employed to make money, and that's exactly what you are doing!! Don't insult us by using the "global increases" excuse!
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Posted By: Matt - St Helier on 03-May-2012
Well, last autumn we toyed with the idea of switching from gas heating to infra-red electric and having just had an eye watering heating bill over the winter I think it's a given that we will switch. Additionally their customer service is beyond appaling so sorry - they can count on me not lining their pockets any more.
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Posted By: peter price on 03-May-2012
This is outrageous! This company is bleeding us all dry of money. There is a huge recession going on and this is the very last thing we need. Thanks a bunch! And as usual no help whatsoever from the States of Jersey!
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Posted By: s on 03-May-2012
I currently have Gas central heating and a gas hob. The boiler needs replacing and I,m going to do all I can to ensure its a conversion to another form, electric or whatever. Our gas bills are astronomoical and when prices dropped in the UK they stayed the same in Jersey. Does anyone actually know what Jersey Gas profits are? (not Blue Diamond Group, jsy. gas as a standalone company)
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Dr Fritjof Capra world renowned physicist and systems theorist will give the final lecture of this year's distinguished lecture series here at the Department on Wednesday 26th April.
Dr Capra is the author of four international bestsellers, The Tao of Physics (1975), The Turning Point (1982), Uncommon Wisdom (1988), and The Web of Life (1996). He coauthored Green Politics (1984), Belonging to the Universe (1991), and EcoManagement (1993), and coedited Steering Business Toward Sustainability (1995). His most recent book, The Hidden Connections, was published in 2002.
He is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, which promotes ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education.
Dr Capra is on the faculty of Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in England, and frequently gives management seminars for top executives. Capra also cowrote the screenplay for Mindwalk (1990), a film based on his books that starred Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, and John Heard, and was created and directed by his brother, Bernt Capra.
After receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966, Capra did research in particle physics at the University of Paris (1966-68), the University of California at Santa Cruz (1968-70), the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1970), Imperial College, University of London (1971-74), and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California (1975-88). He also taught at U.C. Santa Cruz, U.C. Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.
In addition to his research in physics and systems theory, Capra has been engaged in a systematic examination of the philosophical and social implications of contemporary science for the past 30 years. His books on this subject have been acclaimed internationally, and he has lectured widely to lay and professional audiences in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.
Capra has been the focus of over 50 television interviews, documentaries, and talk shows in Europe, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and Japan, and has been featured in major newspapers and magazines internationally. He was the first subject of the BBC's documentary series "Beautiful Minds" (2002).
The lecture 'A science for sustainable living' by Dr Fritjof Capra will be given here on Wednesday 26th April at 5:30 for 6:00 p.m Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.
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Prof. Henry Louis Gates Whitewashes Enslavement History
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Colorlines has a good critique of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s recent oped piece ("Ending the Slavery Blame-Game") in the New York Times by historian Barbara Ransby, Director of Gender and Women's Studies Program at U. Illinois-Chicago. In his oped Gates makes a whitewashed argument about U.S. slavery and the slave trade being substantially the responsibility of both African elite leaders and North American whites, about this reality changing the black reparations debate, and about President Obama being uniquely able to deal with this reality. The part about the African elites is similar to arguments often made by conservative whites against reparations for black enslavement. Gates concludes his oped thus:
In President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide. He is uniquely placed to publicly attribute responsibility and culpability where they truly belong, to white people and black people, on both sides of the Atlantic, complicit alike in one of the greatest evils in the history of civilization. And reaching that understanding is a vital precursor to any just and lasting agreement on the divisive issue of slavery reparations.
Professor Ransby, however, strongly takes issue with this. She summarizes and critiques Gates:
Black and white people in the United States should now "get over" slavery because as we all know, this was not a racial thing but an economic thing. Since both Blacks and whites were culpable, the call for reparations is indeed meaningless and bereft of any moral weight. If we take Gates' argument to its full conclusion, we might claim that it is not America or Europe, but the long suffering, impoverished, and debt-ridden nations of Africa, that should really pay reparations to Black Americans.
She then nail the central culprits:
Even though African monarchs did collaborate in the selling of Blacks bodies into slavery, what happened after that was the establishment of a heinous and brutal system that rested squarely on the dual pillars of White supremacy and ruthless capitalist greed. There was nothing African-inspired about it.
This is of course the main point, which Gates slights in his piece. The 246 years of African Americans' North America enslavement was totally under white control, principally elite white control. The Atlantic slave trade supplying the Americas was set up and controlled entirely by Europeans. No African elites sailed boats to the Americas, nor did they profit from the 246 years of slavery-extracted labor within North America. Most from whom labor was stolen had never seen Africa, for they were born in North America. Reparations are due to African Americans mainly from this extorted and stolen labor within North America.
In addition, in my view, the place to start in making reparations to African Americans is with the nearly 100 years of Jim Crow segregation. The reason: there are a great many living African Americans who were directly harmed by the extensive, totalitarian type of Jim Crow oppression so central to the U.S. economy and polity for so many decades. In the South and some of the North.
Many of these African Americans can name who their oppressors were, and indeed give some idea of the costs, personal and monetary, that they suffered. They can name the exploitative white employers, brutal white police officers, whites in lynch mobs, and white rapists who were central to this extreme oppression. Gates does not mention reparations for Jim Crow, which is an odd and major oversight. After we calculate reasonable reparations for the damage done to many African Americans under Jim Crow, and their children and grandchildren, then we can move back to calculate the trillions in dollars and other reparations that are due to the descendants of those so extremely oppressed by the whites who ran the slavery system in North America.
Ransby minces no words at the end of her indictment of Professor Gates:
The lessons are about the self-serving role of certain Black elites, who in slavery times and now, will sell (or sell out) other Black bodies for their own gain and advancement. African royalty did it in the 1600s and 1700s. Comprador elites did it in colonial and postcolonial settings through the Global South. And certain public figures, in political, cultural and academic circles, do so today, with a kind of moral blindness and impunity that rivals the slave sellers of old. As we know, ideas have consequences.
Racism, Sexism and the 'Beer Summit' (SECOND UPDATE)
Posted by: | CommentsIt looks like Lucia Whalen won't be joining the guys for a beer tonight. The White House beer party seems to be a "guy thing." Why wasn't Whalen invited? If you've been following the news about the arrest of Prof. Gates, you know that Whalen is the woman who set the incident in motion with a 911 call to Cambridge police. There are still a few questions and puzzles about this highly racialized incident.
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Whalen had mostly been silent until her press conference yesterday. At that conference she again said that she never said anything racist in her 911 call and that she had been taught by her Portuguese American parents to treat everyone the same. The transcript of her call backs her up on this point, as it clearly indicates she did not suggest black men were breaking in, which means there are very serious problems with the police reports that she told them those breaking in were black. Black men are not mentioned in her call, but she does mention that one of the men possibly looks Hispanic, so she did use that racial identifier, but one not mentioned by anyone else including the police reports.
According to a Boston.com report:
The Gates quagmire began shortly after lunch on July 16 when Whalen, a 40-year-old fund-raiser for Harvard magazine, saw from her office window what appeared to be two suspicious men trying to break in to Gates' house. According to the police report, Whalen said she "observed what appeared to be two black males with backpacks on the porch" about 12:45 p.m. "She told me that her suspicions were aroused when she observed one of the men wedging his shoulder into the door as if he was trying to force entry," Sgt. James Crowley wrote in the police report.
Whalen's attorney, Wendy Murphy, corrected what she and Whalen view as major errors in the police and media reports this way:
She did not know the race of the men when she called 911 because of her distance and that their bodies were turned away from her vantage point. Criticism was exacerbated when Mr. Gates challenged police to explain why they would believe "a white woman over a black man." This statement is issued solely to correct the record and to emphasize that the woman is not racist and was acting as a responsible citizen, with appropriate concern for the safety of the community. She has worked in Cambridge for more than fifteen years, about a hundred yards from where Mr. Gates resides, and was aware of several recent break-ins in the area.
Whalen also says in her call and statements that an older woman called her attention to the Gates house, and Whalen then assisted with the 911 phone call, but had only a brief conversation with Officer Crowley. One question here is exactly how a neighbor and university colleague who made the initial 911 call failed to recognize prominent Harvard Prof. Gates in broad daylight at his Harvard house?
At the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson asked some tough questions about that police report:
So why, then, does Crowley's official report say that Whalen told him she had seen "what appeared to be two black males with backpacks" on the porch of the Gates house? Is it Crowley's position that Whalen is lying? Is Crowley lying? Or did the sergeant, or perhaps his dispatcher, just assume that if a break-in was taking place, the perpetrators had to be black?
Tenured radical makes an important point about how whites, including callers and police officers, often do not think about what they are doing. Whites in such settings are usually thinking out of a version of the white racial frame, and do not think about the dangers they have created and can create for black people. Indeed, white people
put black people in danger every day, an insight that was crucial to southern women's activism against lynching as early as the 1930s. I have learned that while many of us believe racially integrated neighborhoods are desirable, and some of us actively seek them out, no one talks to white people about their responsibilities for reigning in the racism that inevitably follows when white and black people come into proximity with each other. There is no doubt in my mind that white people put black people into danger all the time as a result of their good intentions, and that being aware of this is a full time job. I worry, for example, every time a close friend of mine I have known since college — a major property owner in the neighborhood, with an Ivy degree, wealthy, and a football celebrity — borrows my lawn equipment, because to your average cop he is just another _________ (fill in the blank) walking down the driveway and up the street with someone else's electric mower.
One national poll found that white respondents were much more likely to fault Gates than Crowley for the incident, but black respondents responded strongly in the opposite direction. Why is this? Retired Seattle police chief, Norm Stamper, notes why whites, who mostly have good experiences with the police, generally view them in a different way from black residents:
But if you're a struggling black mom, for example, whose husband is serving a long prison term for simple possession of pot (when, under identical circumstances, more affluent offenders, disproportionately white, walk), and whose well-behaved male teens have been stopped and frisked repeatedly, called names and/or had guns drawn on them, you're not so likely to have warm and fuzzy feelings toward the local PD.
Stamper then summarizes his experienced view of what may have happened, and how it could have been otherwise:
I did offer my opinion that had Gates been white he would not have been arrested. This belief was reinforced when Sgt. Leon Lasher, the imposing black officer pictured standing with Crowley and the small handcuffed prisoner on the porch of that cheery yellow home, answered a reporter's question. Yes, he said, the outcome likely would have been different had he handled the contact with Gates. This from a man who supports his white colleague's actions "100 percent." The second thing we must do is strengthen police competence, and come up with a better definition of what it means to play "by the book." See, Crowley may in fact have "followed protocol," as Lasher maintains. But I take issue with the all-too-common practice of police officers baiting a citizen into committing an act of disorderly conduct so that he or she can arrest that citizen for… disorderly conduct. However offended Crowley may have been by Gates's conduct inside his own home, that behavior was not a crime.
Given this veteran police view, and the issues noted above, it is more than odd that Officer Crowley is being treated as an "equal" in this little beer party (which he reportedly suggested) and not as a possible perpetrator of police racial profiling or worse. President Obama's and others' "let's play nice" beer routine ignores the national black anger over chronic police malpratice such as profiling, which police malpractice is extremely widespread in all areas of the country.
Instead of focusing on the substantial data on racial profiling by the police, the mainstream media and most other public commentators are making this into a melodrama story of conflict and polarization. How about looking at the large amount of data on racist police profiling here and here and here and here, just to mention a few sources. One sign of continuing decline in the mainstream media is its failure to bother looking at social science and other important research data on the topics being debated.
CNN has this report on another white Boston police officer:
A Boston police officer who sent a mass e-mail referring to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a "banana-eating jungle monkey" has apologized, saying he's not a racist. .. Officer Justin Barrett told a Boston television station on Wednesday night that he was sorry for the e-mail. "I regret that I used such words," Barrett told CNN affiliate WCVB-TV. "I have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name. I am not a racist."
The ape imagery straight out of the Thomas Jefferson's racist frame. His lawyer says this was not meant to describe Prof. Gates himself, and his client is not racist. But of course no one is racist anymore just for operating out of that old white frame.
UPDATE 2 (August 3, 2009):
Here is an excellent article by African American author, Darryl Pinckney, who knows Gates and has experienced much racist profiling himself. He makes this point among many other good ones:
The thing about racial incidents these days is that the perpetrator usually denies that race supplied a motive for his actions, because everyone knows that racism is socially frowned upon, like smoking. Yet racism is still around; maybe more covert in some situations. It is not uncommon for a black person to be told that he or she is taking something that happened or was said the wrong way. Often the black person has no way of knowing if he or she has been, say, treated impolitely in a store or an office because of race. Maybe a clerk was just having a bad day. Think how hard it is to prove that one has been denied professional advancement because of race (or gender). Many black people have a conversation with themselves daily, about letting this or that go, about not being paranoid over every little thing. But sometimes you do know and are not in the mood to let the injustice go, even in the age of Obama. I was appalled by an article supposedly sympathetic to Gates that said he had been unwise to get angry with someone in uniform or that a professor with his skills should have calmed the situation down. Are we not frightened members of society if we recommend appeasing the police or showing respect for authority when it is undeserved?
Racism and Implicit Bias in Cambridge
Posted by: | CommentsIf you wish to gaze upon the depth and breadth of America's racial divide–particularly the canyon-like gulf between white folks and black folks–you need look no further than the recent incident involving Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cambridge police officer James Crowley, and now, President Obama who weighed in on the matter a few nights ago, when asked for his reaction to Gates's arrest on charges (since dismissed) of disorderly conduct. In this case, as with so many other news stories that have touched on race–the O.J. Simpson trial and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as just two of the more obvious examples–whites and blacks, generally speaking, and with obvious exceptions on both sides, see the story and the racial component of the story in fundamentally different (often diametrically opposed) ways.
To hear most white folks tell it, Gates was to blame. Yes, he was only trying to enter his own home when a white woman saw him (as well as his driver), assumed they were burglars and then convinced another woman to call the cops on her behalf. And yes, he produced identification for the officer when asked, indicating that he was indeed the resident of the house to which the officer had come to investigate the initial call. But because he became belligerent to Sgt. Crowley, and because he unfairly called Crowley a racist, he is guilty of escalating the situation, and thus, is the bad guy in the scenario. Meanwhile Crowley, according to the dominant white narrative, spread by media far and wide, is a wonderful and thoughtful cop, who is hardly a racist–after all he teaches a diversity training class and once gave mouth-to-mouth-resuscitation to a dying black athlete–and who was inappropriately smeared: first by Gates who accused the officer of asking him for proof of residency only because he was black, and then by Obama, who said the police had acted "stupidly" in arresting the esteemed professor in his own home.
CNN Panel About Racial Profiling
Posted by: | CommentsCNN's Don Lemon speaks with a panel about racial profiling in America. The panel includes Prof. Andra Gillespie (Emory University), Tim Wise (antiracist writer and activist) and James Andrews (social media entrepreneur). The conversation is only available in two clips from CNN, I'll post them both. The first one here is about (4:45).
And, here's the second part from CNN (7:36) which is where Prof. Gillespie and Tim Wise discuss the difference between 'having a racist moment' and working on one's own individual issues of prejudice and racism:
We're often critical of mainstream news coverage of racial matters, but I thought that this was a step in the right direction, even if it was all too brief and necessarily superficial. The panel seems to agree that the Gates' arrest represents a 'teachable moment' in American culture. What are your thoughts?
Prof. Gates' Arrest, Cambridge Police and Racism
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News about the arrest of Harvard Professor Gates seems to be flowing out of the news-machine-spigot at full force these days. At least part of the story seems to be shifting toward Crowley, the Cambridge cop who was centrally involved in Gates' arrest. Here, I'll go through a few of the main links to various parts of the story, and then – as we do here – draw on some social science research to see if that can illuminate what's going on here.
Several people are defending Crowley. Some of these defenders are not surprising, such as this blogger who sees Crowley – a racial profiling expert for the Cambridge police – as being treated unfairly because he is white. Other Crowley defenders are somewhat more surprising, such as Dr. Boyce Watkins, an African American professor at Syracuse University and often ardent critic of the racial status quo, who writes:
After my battles with Bill O'Reilly made me the most hated professor on the Syracuse University campus last year, I always thought I was the radical guy in the room. But in this case, I must encourage temperance and fairness. Whether it has killed slaves in the past or destroyed careers in the present, the mob mentality has never been good for America.
From a centrist perspective, the Christian Science Monitor has a piece called, "Gates Arrest: Racial Profiling or 'Tempest in a Teapot,'" and the staid CSM comes down decidedly on the 'tempest in a teapot' side of this. The CSM emphasizes "bad behavior on both sides," as in this quote from a representative of the Cambridge Police:
"It wasn't Professor Gates's best moment, and it was not the Cambridge Police Department's best moment."
Then, the CSM includes this line which is the heart of their argument in this article:
Law enforcement analysts are inclined to agree, suggesting that the incident may have been only a "tempest in a teapot."
Unfortunately, the evidence from the 'law enforcement analysts' – one crim professor a radio talk show how and a legal blogger – is pretty thin. The evidence they glean from quote by the crim professor tend to be critical of Crowley's actions, as in:
"The best motto for a police officer is that sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me," says George Kirkham, a former police officer and now a professor of criminology at Florida State University. "People wind up venting, and you have to let them vent." "We are a country founded on Jeffersonian ideals, and people don't like government in their lives," says Professor Kirkham. "[Police] need to be aware of that."
So, here, Kirkham is basically saying that Crowley should not have arrested Gates no matter how "tumultuous" his behavior. The key phrase here is the use of "Jeffersonian ideals." Now, I'm assuming the ideals to which Kirkham is referring here are the ones about government not interfering in people's lives, and not the ones that Jefferson wrotes about in Notes on the State of Virginia in which he argued for the inherent inferiority of blacks, including (presumably) Sally Hemmings, the woman he enslaved, raped, and her children by Jefferson. Still, I think Kirkham is right here, it would be a good idea to keep these latter Jeffersonian values in mind when dealing with anyone and particularly with African Americans. My point here is that even the *expert* in this case is so completely steeped in the white racial frame that he doesn't even realize the multiple connotations of what he's saying to this CSM reporter. And, for their part, the CSM reporters and editors never step outside the white racial frame to evaluate this case even though this is supposedly an "analysis" piece.
A better source for "law enforcement analyst" might be Lowry Heussler, who has worked on police-misconduct cases in Massachusetts, the state where the Gates arrest happened. In a post for the blog The Reality-Based Community, Heussler provides a meticulous analysis of Crowley's actions based on Crowley's own words (the report he wrote about the arrest):
Read Crowley's report and stop on page two when he admits seeing Gates's Harvard photo ID. I don't care what Gates had said to him up until then, Crowley was obligated to leave. He had identified Gates. Any further investigation of Gates' right to be present in the house could have been done elsewhere. His decision to call HUPD seems disproportionate, but we could give him points for thoroughness if he had made that call from his car while keeping an eye on the house. Had a citizen refused to leave Gates' home after being told to, the cops could have made an arrest for trespass.
Heussler goes on from there, offering a thoroughly devastating critique of Crowley's actions as police – apart from the racial context – and based on Crowley's on words. Basically, what he finds is that Crowley gets pissed off that Gates has accused him of racism, then works to escalate the situation by "inviting" Gates out onto the porch where he is arrested.
Now, to the social science. Henry Ferrell at Crooked Timber has a nice post called "Discretion and Arrest Power," in which he discusses the relevance of Peter Moskos' book, Cop in the Hood. Moskos, a sociologist and a CUNY professor at John Jay College, spent a year as a beat officer in Baltimore. In his book, Moskos discusses the "zone of discretion" that cops have and the ways that they try to expand their authority beyond that which they are legally authorized to do (Moskos, p. 117-118). In Moskos' account of being Baltimore police officer (as Farrell recounts it) he both (a) uses a verbal invitation to induce the targeted individual to leave the building, and (b) then uses the attention of bystanders to generate a charge of disorderly conduct.
Crowley, for his part, maintains that he is "not a racist" and refuses to apologize. And, I think it's quite possible that Crowley did not have any intention to racially discriminate against anyone when he showed up at the house on Ware Street responding to a call. I do, however, think that the confluence of events and factors shaped his response to the situation so that it played out in ways that are consistent with centuries of racial discrimination in this country. First, there's the white racial frame that shaped Crowley's view of what was happening and what kind of a "danger" Professor Gates posed. Second, there's the "cop in the hood" mentality in which police are often forced to use their discretion to decide what to do in a situation that may seem unclear. Third, there is Crowley's "reputation" as a "racial profiling expert" and Gates charge of "racism." This, according to one experts' speculation, pissed off Crowley and that's where the escalation occurred. Now, Crowley – and his defenders – seem entrenched in the effort to shore up Crowley's "racial innocence" and thus redeem him as a 'good' (read: not racist) white person.
This will, I predict, continue to be a huge news story. And, much of the coverage will be focused on Crowley and his supposed "racial innocence." I find this a disappointing focus on this story because by making it a story about Crowley, it completely individualizes – and ultimately trivializes – the problem here. I hope that others – possibly Professor Gates leading the way – will use this incident to rerfocus our attention on efforts to change the racial inequality at the heart of our criminal justice system, and indeed, at the heart of our society.
President Obama on the Arrest of Prof. Gates
Posted by: | CommentsLast night, President Barack Obama answered a question about the arrest of Professor Gates during a press conference about health care. The President said that police acted "stupidly" and despite racial progress blacks and Hispanics are still singled out unfairly for arrest. Here's the short clip (2:10) in case you missed it:
While it's hard to imagine any of the previous presidents speaking out in this way about a "police matter," the fact that President Obama would speak out should not, in fact, be that surprising. For Obama, racial profiling was a major issue for him as legislator in Illinois. He was the chief sponsor of a bill, which became law, that requires police to record the race, age and gender of all drivers they stop for traffic violations and for those records to be analyzed for evidence of racial profiling.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell provides an excellent analysis in The Nation both about Gates' place among black intellectuals in the U.S. prior to this and about the significance of Gates' arrest for what she calls "the post-racial project."
Yet, for all this outrage (I believe I referred to it as a 'tsunami of outrage' originally, and it is certainly turning into that), James Crowley, the cop who arrested Gates, says he won't apologize. And, lots of other white folks are lining up to defend him (starting with comment #8 at that link). This could get even more interesting.
Racism in Cambridge: Harvard Prof. Gates Arrested (UPDATED)
Posted by: | CommentsArriving home after a recent trip to China and struggling to get into his own home in Cambridge because of a jammed door, esteemed scholar of African American Studies and Harvard Professor, Henry Louis ("Skip") Gates, Jr., was arrested by police. According to one report (h/t @BlackInformant for a couple of these links), this incident began when someone alerted police:
A witness, 40-year-old Lucia Whalen of Malden, had alerted the cops that a man was "wedging his shoulder into the front door" at Gates' house "as to pry the door open," police reported.
None of the reports I've read online describe Ms. Whalen's race, or why someone from Malden was doing calling the cops about a man entering his own home in Cambridge, but apparently it was her call that began this series of events. Here's what happened next, according to several reports, this one from HuffingtonPost:
By the time police arrived, Gates was already inside. Police say he refused to come outside to speak with an officer, who told him he was investigating a report of a break-in.
"Why, because I'm a black man in America?" Gates said, according to a police report written by Sgt. James Crowley. The Cambridge police refused to comment on the arrest Monday.
Gates continued to yell at me, accusing me of racial bias and continued to tell me that I had not heard the last of him," the officer wrote.
Gates said he turned over his driver's license and Harvard ID – both with his photos – and repeatedly asked for the name and badge number of the officer, who refused. He said he then followed the officer as he left his house onto his front porch, where he was handcuffed in front of other officers, Gates said in a statement released by his attorney, fellow Harvard scholar Charles Ogletree, on a Web site Gates oversees, TheRoot.com.
As this story has begun to get out on the web in the last 12-24 hours, it seems to be touching off a tsunami of outrage at the persistence of racial inequality in the U.S., even for one of the most well-known and accomplished scholars. If this could happen to Skip Gates, at his home in Cambridge, Mass., it does not speak well for the state of racial progress in the country as a whole. As Rev. Al Sharpton said, "If this can happen at Harvard, what does it say about the rest of the country?"
But, make no mistake, this outrage is not universally shared. Almost as soon as this story broke, the undertow of white backlash to the reality of racism began to counter the outrage. For example, Bruce Maiman, writing at The Examiner, contends that the Cambridge police were just doing their job, responding to a call about a break-in to a home, and that Prof. Gates escalated the situation. Here's Maiman:
So I ask you: Who's the person who caused this encounter? Professor Gates is now being represented by another distinguished law professor from Harvard, Charles Ogletree, and they're going to claim that this cop was racist and mishandled this situation because the fact that a black male was involved.
I don't see any racism, do you? Tell me where? No names were called. Nobody was hassled or pushed around. Legitimate requests were made and cooperation was not forthcoming from a man, Henry Louis Gates, who know better than most people on this planet what happens when you escalate a confrontation with the police. But he does it anyway.
Is there racial profiling in America? Sure there is. But if you justify the behavior of Henry Louis Gates because other black men have been hassled by other police officers unfairly and thus you assume every black man has a right to a chip on his shoulder every time he meets a cop, you are asking for trouble.This doesn't appear to be racism. It sounds to me like a colossal case of extraordinarily bad judgment on the part of a distinguished African American historian who happens to teach at Harvard, and who certainly should've known better.
Here, Maiman's interpretation of these events is completely steeped in the white racial frame. He says, "I don't see any racism" and, of course, he can't from the WRF. He only sees a black man "with a chip on his shoulder," not the racist behavior of the cop. Maiman further diminishes Gates by referring to him as someone "who happens to teach at Harvard" and questions his judgment because he "certainly should've known better." Known better than to what, try and enter his own home? Maiman is simply wrong on the facts here, and wrong on his interpretation of the events. Maiman is like other whites, as philosopher Charles W. Mills writes, "unable to see the world he has created," unable to see how his not-seeing-racism contributes to the problem of racial inequality.
The research on the racial inequality in policing, arrest, and incarceration in the U.S. is starkly clear (as we've recounted on this blog hundreds of times): those who are black or brown, particularly men, are much more likely to be stopped, frisked, harrassed, arrested and convicted than whites. And, this inequality in criminal 'justice' is part of a larger pattern of racial inequality that operates systematically throughout U.S. institutions. The irony, for those that have followed Gates' scholarship closely, is that he has tended to downplay the significance of institutional racism in the contemporary U.S. Reports are that Gates' is "shaken" by this experience, as anyone would be. This is a horrifying, and yet all too common, experience for black men in this country. Perhaps Gates' next volume will be called "Harvard Professor, Still a Suspect."
More good sociological analysis on this case (and others) from City College Prof. Dumi Lewis, here.
Update 12:07pmET: Charges Against Prof. Gates Dropped, according to one report. Do click the link to check out 1) the photo of Gates on his own front porch in hand-cuffs and 2) the racist comments that follow.


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Jim Moran's son, Pat, the field director for his campaign is the subject of the latest O'Keefe sting operation on voter fraud. This one proves once and for all, that voter fraud is real - Democrats know it's real - and Democrats are happy to help it along, whenever possible. Pat was caught on tape giving the reporter ideas on how to get away with voting 100 times in northern Virginia, and was 100% supportive of the effort.
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The Universal Law of Correspondence states that "as above so below". The observance of this Law has been prevalent throughout indigenous tribes observance of the forces of nature (weather) to govern their growing, harvesting, hunting and other cultural activities. This Law was also observed by the Ancient Kemetians (so-called Egyptians) in the architectural layout of our Nile Valley Civilizations. You can even observe how the insects and even plants naturally observe The Law of Correspondence!
Astrology is based upon The Law of Correspondence. Since Planets are defined as Celestial Bodies that inhabit the Heavenly Realm, Humans are defined as Terrestrial Bodies that inhabit the Earthly Realm. In the same way that our Planets each have a distinct atmosphere, Humans have distinct emotional atmospheres, and as Planets grow, change and evolve seasonal, Humans also grow, change and evolve psycho-physiologically. As we observe the Planets orbiting in the their path in a Universal Order, we can also observe our family and acquaintances orbiting in their path relative to our Social Order.
The Concept of assigning "Sun Signs" or "Birth Signs" to a person is based upon the idea that at the time of birth, the Planetary and Stellar Alignments were arranged in a such a way that a specific Planet and Constellation had a specific influence upon the Planet Earth during this time. I myself am said to be a Capricorn because the Planet Saturn and the Constellation of Capricorn had a major influence on the Earth when I was born. A good illustration of this is to envision yourself standing in the center of a clock with the Sun being the big hand and the Moon being the small hand. The 12 numbers are the 12 Zodiac Signs and as the big hand (Sun) passes from one number (Sign) to the next, it also changes Planetary influence. The little hand (Moon) moves through the Signs and Planets more rapidly and this creates subtle nuances between a person that is born at 1:33pm compared to a person who is born at 1:38pm. That's just a basic idea of what Astrology is. It's a very interesting Science and I encourage all of you to study it.
Mythology, Paganism, Religion, the Neters of Ancient Kemet, the Pantheon of the Gods of Greece and other Civilizations that conceptualize the forces of nature in the form of beings represent the psycho-dramatic illustration of Astrology. Essentially, these tales, stories, parables and etc.. . are used as symbolic methods to enlighten man to The Law of Correspondence. Most Christians blindly overlook what "On Earth as it is in Heaven" truly means. When knowing this it's easy to decode what the 12 Tribes of Israel represented, the 12 Disciples, Judah being a Lion (Leo) and many other symbols.
Now when you look at the Ancient Kemetians, you begin to see the Planets and the Constellations become personified in human form and engaged in the governance of human activities! For example, the Planet Mercury translates into the Deity Tehuti, translates into the Zoomorphic form of an Ibis Bird, translates into form Imhotep and the way through the ages (and other Civilizations) until you get to a Wally West character affectionately known as "The Flash". I know that most people are unaware that this Astrological Genius became most notable during our Nile Valley Era of Civilization so I'll deal with the Roman names and concepts that you may be more familiar with. Keep in mind that these concepts are somewhat watered down versions of what the Greeks grafted from the Ancient Kemetians (Egyptians).
After laying that foundation, now lets look at the 2nd Lesson in our Solar Facts which states Venus is 67,000,000 miles from the Sun and see how it can be practically applied to our lives. First lets analyze Venus and she what "she's" all about. I say "she" because all Planets are feminine both in nature and function. They all orbit the Sun according to the Receptive magnetism of the Sunlight, they all have seasonal/weather changes which is indicative to the emotional atmosphere of the female gender (Mother Nature, Mother Earth), and they also experience cataclysmic cycles which is indicative of a woman's menstrual cycle. So now let's analyze Venus;
1. The Planet Venus is named after the Roman Deity Venus who symbolizes "Love, Beauty, Sex and Sensuality".
2. The symbol for Venus is a stylized representation of her hand mirror: a circle with a small cross underneath (♀).
3. The true adjective for Venus coming from Latin, "Venereal", is avoided because of its modern association with disease.
4. Venus is sometimes called Earth's "Sister Planet", because they are similar in size and bulk composition.
5. Venus can usually only be seen a few hours before sunrise or a few hours after sunset. However, when at its brightest, Venus may be seen during the daytime, making it one of only two heavenly bodies that can be seen both day and night (the other being the Moon).
8. The enormously CO2-rich atmosphere raises Venus's surface temperature to over 400°C.
9. Venus was "believed" to contain a lush, Earth-like jungle environment with oceans. This was due to the Planet's size and orbital radius, which suggested a fairly Earthlike situation as well as to the thick layer of clouds which prevented the surface from being seen.
10. Venus has slow "Retrograde Rotation", meaning it rotates from east to west, instead of west to east as most of the other major Planets do.
11. Venus's intrinsic magnetic field has been found very weak compared to other Planets in the Solar System.
So for all practical purposes Venus is is something else! As a matter of fact I alway visualize Little Kim as an Archetype for Venus! As you can see, she is heavely marketed for her "Love Songs, Beauty, Sexuality and Sensuality". The symbolism of her hand mirror represents self adornment, insecurity and overcompensation. The Circle (o) is a Cipher and the cross (+) is a "t" for Truth (in our Supreme Alphabet). Whenever you engage this type of woman's Cipher be aware that she is oversensitive to the truth. The "mirror" she carries is an indication of how she systematically uses self adornment, insecurity and overcompensation as "defensive mechanisms" to survive in a male dominant society. More than not, these "defensive mechanisms" take on the form of the true adjective for Venus coming from Latin, which "Venereal". Venereal in the diseased sense of literal oversexual activity and in the symbolic sense of pathology of her psycho-social interactions. The fact that Venus is usually only seen "a few hours before sunrise" or "a few hours after sunset" gives you insight into her lifestyle (orbit). A woman like this is a booty call! Shit, she's hot (Venus's surface temperature to rises to over 400°C.) so what do you expect! Add the fact that she is referred to as the "Morning or Evening Star" and you know she's nice with hers! Celebrity status with the opposite sex (and oftentimes the same sex) because its' more than simply sex, she's dealing with sensuality which is the higher art of pleasure! Also add the fact that her atmosphere (tactics) consists mainly of carbon dioxide and you see how she's able to lure men (and even women) to sleep. And we all know that carbon dioxide poisoning is hard to ditect because it's both ordorless and tasteless. A person effected by CO2 poisoning either suffers from narcholeptic symptoms or simply falls asleep and never wakes up! Venus is something else!
Now lets look at some of the tactics Venus uses. Venus is said to be called Earth's "Sister Planet", because they are similar in size and bulk composition. Since Earth produces and maintains life, she can be considered any woman of importance to you such as your woman, a female relative or even a friend. If the Earth is your woman and Venus is considered her "Sister Planet" then Venus is closer than you think! She's either the bitch that be hanging tight with ya' woman, ya woman's sister who always's flirting with you or just some female that's trying to get to know your woman so she can eventually get closer to you (Venus is 26 Million miles closer to the Sun than the Earth!)! Since Venus has an atmosphere (attitude, character, disposition) that consists of mostly CO2 , she can't produce or maintain life, so I call her "bitch" for a good reason! She got a fucked up attitude cause she wants what you have and she goes through extreme measures to make you believe she has a lush, jungle-like habitable environment with oceans just as vast as the Earth (see Single White Female, and Fatal Attraction)! When she's really on some bad shit she tries to be seen at high noon; "when at its brightest, Venus may be seen during the daytime, making it one of only two heavenly bodies that can be seen both day and night (the other being the Moon). This is critical to understand because she only appears this way because "the thick layer of clouds which prevents the surface from being seen". But beneath all that bullshit (self adornment, insecurity and overcompensation) the fact is, the bitch is really weak, remember "Venus's intrinsic magnetic field has been found very weak compared to other Planets in the Solar System". This means that when it comes down to it she can't even keep a relationship if she tried!
In analyzing Venus one of the most important factors about her is that she "has slow "Retrograde Rotation", meaning she "rotates from east to west, instead of west to east as most of the other major Planets do. It's common sense that all travelers or seekers of knowledge travel East (from the West) in search of light/knowledge. To travel in the opposite direction is symbolically saying that you are going backwards! From a historical perspective this symbolizes that Venus women are highly assilimated (psychologically) into the Westernized Idealogies of Individualism and Capitalism. As Little Kim serves as my Archetype for Venus, you can see how the ideas of Individualism and Capitalism play an influential role in forging her idenity as the self proclaimed "Black Marilyn Monroe".
To summarize the ideas that I put forth, again Venus is 67,000,000 miles from the Sun. In our Supreme Mathematics "6" represents Equality, Femininity and also Sexuality. If you look at the number six it appears to be pregnant. "7" on the other hand represents God, Perfection and Completion. When 6+7 is combined it equals "13" which symbolizes the letter "M" or MASTER in our Supreme Alphabet. This can simply be interpretated to mean that Venus functions in a way to use her nature (Femininity and also Sexuality) to deify herself in order to become a God beside God. With an ultimate intent of bringing forth (6=pregnancy) and MASTERING life like the Earth. Ironically, the "6" letter in our Supreme Alphabet is "F" which represents Father, further reinforces her "Freudian" Psychology (penis envy) in relationship to the Father (Fat-her/pregnancy/bearing life) and indifference towards of the fertility Mother Earth.
Now what am I saying by all this? Am I telling you that women born under the Zodiac Signs of Libra and Scorpio that's ruled by Venus are destined to be on some freak shit? Am I saying that there aren't any positive qualities in Venus? No, I'm just giving you a brief illustration of what can be learned from "the study" of our Lessons, especially from something as unassuming as our Solar Facts. When I speak to my youth I use this "study" in my slanguage to show them the science of how everything functionally relates to their lives! When I see a young wiz (young girl) that my man is peepin' out, if she is a budding "Venus" I let it be known and I explain her experimental tactics to him so he can begin to properly order his universe, and consequently put her in her proper place! I don't want him to make the same mistake as me when I allowed her CO2 to lure my ass to sleep! I also let the young wiz's know how to descern who their true "sister's" are, because some of these bitches that say they ya' "sister" get on some real grimy shit when they envious of you! By being able to teach the youth to see the relativity of things, we empower them with the ability to "name" it's functional definition in their life and simultaneously gain dominion over what will be! And oh yeah, the fact that Venus is 67,000,000 miles "from" the Sun let's us know that whatever her dilemma may be, all the above is caused by the Sun (light & influence) on Man experimenting (playing) with high explosives (her emotions!), which is usually how Venus was "made or grown from the beginning" (in the first place!).


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Workouts For Women
Workouts For Women are Important
Women realize they need to exercise, but time is often against them. When you have to balance family, a career or school, and everything else life throws at you, a woman's personal needs often get put aside. So, free time to exercise becomes virtually nonexistent. That takes its toll on your overall physical health, especially your midsection. So what are the best workouts for women that you can successfully fit into a busy schedule?
For a woman, regularly doing workouts for women and their specific biological needs, is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle
First, let's look at why workouts for women are so important to add to your daily routine. The first benefit is obvious – a slimmer, sexier body and the self confidence that comes along with that. But did you know that this regular physical activity is proven to strengthen your immune system, alleviate depression and helps prevent many types of cancer? It also helps relieve premenstrual symptoms and painful periods. For older women, it helps prevent osteoporosis by strengthening bones and can help reduce pre- and post-menopausal symptoms.
Regular workouts for women contribute to a woman's overall fitness level. If you are physically fit before and throughout a pregnancy, you have a much lower chance of severe back pain and labor pain. You are also much more likely to experience a smoother delivery than a woman who is not physically fit. Further, mothers who are in good shape are less likely to become overweight during pregnancy and are therefore at a much lower risk for gestational diabetes (which can be life threatening for the mother and fetus). On top of all that, fit mothers find it substantially easier and faster to return to their pre-pregnancy figures.
You can see that workouts for women have some pretty fantastic and life-improving benefits. But most women in the real world don't have the time to spend an hour everyday on their workouts. So what's the answer? Working smarter, not harder.
Manual exercises like crunches, general aerobics and using free weights are time consuming and not much fun. Not to mention they are high impact and therefore increase your risk of injury if you're not careful. Certain exercise machines that are made for workouts for women are an excellent solution.
This equipment is generally low cost compared to a gym membership, more fun than crunches or cardio and comes with instructions (often on DVD) so you can use it properly. The instructional DVDs showcase workouts for women to target specific common problem areas like the stomach, hips (love handles), thighs, and butt.
But one of the best things about this fitness equipment is that the workouts for women don't take hours per day to do! Since you are targeting one area at a time, your daily workouts can take as little as 15 minutes. They can be done in the privacy and comfort of your own home whenever it's convenient for you.
Let's face it, fit is the new skinny. Looking through the workouts for women and finding one that fits your needs can have enormous benefits to your health, your mind and your self-esteem. Imagine setting aside 15 minutes per day on the perfect exercise machine – and after a handful of weeks doing realistic workouts for women, you could look in the mirror and clearly see the difference.
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LINGUIST List 22.5087
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Full Title: Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies
Date: 27-Mar-2012 - 28-Mar-2012
Location: Laval, France
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Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics
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Within the framework of the CNRS project named EpistHOMME+, we are pleased to host Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies at VRIC Laval Virtual.
A Workshop sponsored by Arts et Métiers ParisTech and organised under the aegis of The Virtual Reality International Conference 2012
Supported by the French National Scientific Research Centre's Communication Sciences Institute, France
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Young and old alike believe that the human experience could gain something if better informed about up-coming technologies. Learning about them at an early stage helps in making key decisions about one's personal future. Although the approach is somewhat individual and devoted to those concerned, collectively oriented health and entertainment will gain from observing individual practices in the matter. Government policy incorporating emergent technology progress through monitoring will renew itself in a relevant way. However, in the name of progress people are increasingly willing to accept risk; the possible downfall of this movement is its ability to promote taking risks. But then again, could we or would we want to stop it? If we are to enhance the human experience, the pros and cons of each situation must be considered. Modifying or augmenting humans surely raises a certain number of issues. What are they? What aspect of life should one proceed to enhance? Which sectors or issues should become priority elements? Which academic disciplines are involved and why? What limits technological change? Does one have an acceptance threshold? If so, how would one express it? What are the long term implications of enhancement? Establishing a typology of possible applications and their contexts would be desirable for this symposium on enhancing members of our society.
This conference is seeking contributions from linguists to address philosophical, biological, social, and computational issues in language as they relate to the advancement of technology. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- The cognitive model of language and the mental lexicon
- Computational modeling of language
- Diachronic projections of language
- Alternative speech behaviors and their impact on emerging technologies
- 'Social' machines and their acceptance in society
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The following non-exhaustive list may be used to provoke thought on this topic:
Keywords and Topics:
- Definitions of enhancement
- Robot companions for citizens
- Juggling multiple identities
- Advanced interfaces for increasing social presence
- Augmented health
- Epistemology of technological innovation
- Care-giving robots
- Psychological analysis of acceptance
- Augmented Well-being
- Ubiquitous internet or computing
- Social roles in emerging tech. contexts
- Holistic, pragmatic and systemic approaches to resolving well-being difficulties
- Augmented Context-Awareness
- Communication enabling and enhancing technology
- Incommunicability
- Human factors psychology and needs assessment
- Mind/body problem
- New worlds and belief revision
- Moral and ethical dimensions of enhancement
- Hybrid engineering
- Progress and technological obsolescence
- Co-constructed experiences
- Interventionism or Science policy issues
- The notions of Self or Identity in human experience
- Public information points and communication devices
- Technological Singularity success or failure
- Roles of otherhood in one's experiences
- Cognitive enhancement
- Theoretical controversies
- Emergent intentional states
- The intersection of the arts, design and technology
- Transhumanistic stances
- Augmented emotion
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Chair: Colin T. Schmidt, Le Mans University & Arts et Metiers ParisTech Lab, Laval France
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Jean-Claude Andre, Scientific Advisor to the CNRS (Risk Assessment and Nanotechnologies) & Institute of Engineering and Systems Sciences for forecasting, Socially Responsible Research (FR)
Jean-Michel Besnier, CNRS Research Director in Philosophy, Centre for Applied Epistemology (CREA) Ecole Polytechnique & University of Paris 4 (FR)
Paul Bourgine, CNRS Research Director in Complex Systems, Centre for Applied Epistemology (CREA) Ecole Polytechnique Paris (FR)
Nicole d'Almeida, Professor of Communication, CELSA University of Paris 4 (FR)
Marcelo Dascal, Emeritus Professor Dept. of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University & President of the International Association for the Study of Controveries; Founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal of Pragmatics and Cognition; Humbolt Prize 2002 and ISSA Prize 2006 (IL)
Jérôme Goffette, Philosophy of Science, University Lyon 1 - Claude Bernard & ENS, currently authoring 'Human Enhancement - An Interdisciplinary Inquiry' (Palgrave) (FR)
Aubrey de Grey, Biomedical Gerontologist and Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation & Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, advisor to Humanity+, Maximum Life, Alcor and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (USA, UK)
Edouard Kleinpeter, iscc-CNRS Scientific Officer, Specialist of Utopias, Human Enhancement and Communication, Paris (FR)
Lorenzo Magnani, Professor and Director, Computational Philosophy Lab, Pavia University & Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (P.R.China, IT)
James Moor, Professor of Ethics, Dartmouth College NH USA, Barwise Prize 2006, Former Editor-in-chief of Minds and Machines, (USA)
Vincent Muller, Professor of Philosophy, American College of Thessaloniki &
Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), University of Oxford (GR, UK)
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Serge Proulx, Professor of Social Informatics, UQAM Montréal & Télécom ParisTech (CA, FR)
Marc Roux, President of the French Society for Transhumanism ('L'Association Française Transhumaniste : Technoprog)
Natasha Vita-More, University of Plymouth & Chair Humanity+ (UK)
Shunji Yamanaka, Industrial Designer, President of Leading Edge Design corporation, Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan (JP)
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Sandra Hannon-Engel, Ph.D., RN, CNS, PMHNP-BC
assistant professor
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- Ph.D. - Boston College
- M.S. - Rivier College
- B.S. - University of Massachusetts, Boston
Research Interests
Eating disorders; neurobiology; pharmacogenomics; life threatening behaviors
Dr. Sandra Hannon-Engel joined the Connell School faculty in the fall of 2012 as an assistant professor. She received her master of science degree from Rivier College in Nashua, NH and he Ph.D. from Boston College. Her clinical experience includes many years as an advanced practice nurse in the inpatient and outpatient mental health settings as well as a clinical instructor in Psychiatric/ Mental Health Nursing at Boston College. Her program of research focuses on the physiological mechanisms that may perpetuate or maintain eating disorders.
Selected Publications
- Hannon-Engel, S. L. In Nan Challender Price (Ed.), Self-Injury: Cutting through the tension (ed.). Nursing Spectrum. ce.nurse.com/ce608/self-injury/
- Wolfe, B. E., Hannon Engel, S. L., & Mitchell, J. E. (2012). Bulimia in DSM-5. Psychiatric Annals, 42(11), 406-409.
- Hannon-Engel, S. L. (2012). Regulating satiety in bulimia nervosa: the role of cholecystokinin. Perspectives Psychiatric Care, 48(1), 34-40. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22188045
- Hannon-Engel, S., & Fantasia, H. C. (2011). Are You Survey Ready? Online Evaluation of a Multidrug-Resistant Organisms Educational Program in a Behavioral Health Hospital. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 47(3), 138-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6163.2010.00286.x
- Hannon-Engel, S. (2011). Regulatory oversight: do psychiatric patients have the right to refuse active treatment? Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 25(1), 21-23 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2010.07.002


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A controversial textbook will remain in Frederick County Public School classrooms for the time being. The Board of Education has upheld a decision by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Theresa Alban not to commit to replacing "Social Studies Alive: Our Community And Beyond."
Some parents complained that the book was too progressive, and promoted socialist ideals. It's used in 3rd grade social studies classes.
The school system first approved the book in 2004, and it's due for an eight-year review. Following parent complaints, a reconsideration committee was formed, which recommended to the Board that book be fast-tracked for replacement immediately.
Dr. Alban balked at replacing the book before it was time. In an online video, she noted that the state is working on changing the social studies curriculum, and its decision will affect every student and every teacher. She said it would not be a good idea to replace "Social Studies Alive" before the state completes its work. "Does it make strategic sense to invest in a new curriculum before state standards have been finalized and shared," she asked. "Should we declare now that our budget in 2015 will allow us to replace our books? Or does it make sense to carefully plan future budgets, and think through all the factors that could impact our fiscal outlook."
Dr. Alban say the Board of Ed adhered to the process by listening to all sides before taking a vote. "The process works. It's clear. It's transparent and it's fair," she said.
"It would certainly be easier, and sometimes less controversial, to make decisions for the sake of expediency, to look no further than satisfying the needs of the moment," she says in the online video. "But that's not what an objective leader does, and that's not how we work at FCPS."


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September 13-15, 2013
Various locations around Rochester & Monroe County
Greentopia | MUSIC, taking place on Friday, September 13th, Saturday, September 14th and Sunday, September 15th, 2013, is a celebration of our love for music and how it sustains our souls. Whether it's americana, country, bluegrass, jazz, vocals or classical, there will be something for everyone. Greentopia | MUSIC features local and national artists who share Greentopia's vision and mission to motivate, educate, and inspire sustainable practices. It's an event too good to be missed!
At Greentopia | MUSIC 2012, we were especially fortunate to showcase and work with the world-renowned YING QUARTET, and Grammy Award winning composer and arranger Jeff Tyzik, as well as a wide array of local and national bands spanning many different genres and styles.
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This year, in 2013, we look forward to expanding upon the successes of our Classical, and Americana series' with exciting new artists and even more creative and inspiring venues. We are also now actively seeking and accepting submissions to participate in next year's Greentopia | MUSIC series. Submit your websites, videos and music to firstname.lastname@example.com for your opportunity to play with acts from all over the state and country. Apply now to make our 3rd annual Greentopia Festival one of the best yet!
Showcasing at Greentopia means performing at one of Upstate New York's most innovative, new festivals for socially engaged and active community members, including media members and thousands of music fans in attendance. All told, last year over 23,000 people attended our ECOFEST and city-wide events.
The Rochester Plaza and Strathallan – a DoubleTree by Hilton hotel are the Festivals Hotel's this year.
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The Islamic Bank of Britain (IBB) is a trailblazer, offering its customers the first wholly Sharia compliant, FSA-authorised retail financial services in the UK. It delivers friendly, inclusive and personal services to its customers in areas such as savings, current accounts and property finance.
Seeking to seize new opportunities, IBB works with Experian Marketing Services to better identify, understand, attract, retain and provide value to its customers and prospective customers — and achieve significant returns on marketing investment.
Founded in 2004, IBB is well into its start-up phase and pursuing enhanced profitability and continual growth. Following a series of reviews aimed at achieving these goals, the bank undertook a transformation programme to make it ever-more focused on its customers and their needs.
IBB identified gaps in its marketing strategy: one of the fundamental challenges was to identify their audience and, consequently, understand them. The bank had yet to define its market beyond the basic core 'UK adult Muslim' category. With such a broad target, marketing activity was similarly unfocused.
This lack of customer insight wasn't the result of a lack of data, but rather a failure to capture and analyse information effectively. IBB needed to set data at the heart of its marketing strategy, to: define its market; identify and quantify the groups and individuals within it; and gain greater insight into the social, economic and demographic characteristics of these groups.
IBB launched a competitive tender to source a partner who could best leverage their data. IBB's Tim Sinclair said, "From a list of the leading providers, Experian emerged as the clear winner. Their reputation was an obvious differentiator, but so too was their empathy and understanding of where we were, what we wanted to achieve and their vision of what success could bring us."
Working closely with Tim and the marketing team, Experian identified Financial Strategy Segments (FSS) as the platform that would deliver on objectives. Analysing the UK adult population, FSS brings a wealth of insight, with data on age, marital status, household income, home ownership status, creditworthiness and online financial behaviour.
With IBB's unique and highly specialised target audience, the Experian team understood that purely financial aspects of their customer base wouldn't deliver the precise targeting needed. Consequently, FSS was combined with Experian Mosaic Origins, which profiles areas and communities by name origin, ethnicity and language. It classifies first and last names according to the part of the world from which their forebears are most likely to have originated, and each name is placed into one of 200 Origins types.
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- Sales in home finance products jumped by 63 per cent.
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Tim Sinclair said, "Experian has helped us to embed data into our marketing strategies and it has rapidly repaid our commitment and investment. We have achieved a huge amount in just one year, but with Experian's ongoing support we know that we can tap the full potential of our specialist core target market."
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- Miles:
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I was praying throughout this entire run - and while I know it was slow, and I know it was only 5 miles - I am more thankful to God for this one, than the many runs that I've had in previous weeks. When I started, I had some pulling in the calf - but just kept the pace slow in order to not irritate it more. It seemed that the more I ran, the less it pulled - which is the opposite of my Saturday run, which had me limping at the end :( All I know is that I RAN today!! What a blessing!! Again - Thank You Lord!!
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Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition - Sends Birthday/Season's Greetings Automatically
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Never Forget Birthday Greetings Ever AgainIt's happened again, hasn't it? Despite all of the mental conditioning, the sticky note reminders, the marked up calendars and whatnot, you've still managed to completely forget an important birthday, and now you're in trouble! Well, short of inventing a time machine, there's nothing to help you out of this year's mess, but with a copy of Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition, you'll never have to experience this kind of grief ever again!
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Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition is a sub product of Auto Mail Sender™ and was designed to enable you to send birthdays greetings automatically. Just tweak a little the settings, you can get a convenient tool for sending automatic greetings.
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A reliable and efficient software solution for sending birthday and festival greetings automatically, saving you valuable time and effort.Auto Mail Sender Birthday Edition is a subproduct of Auto Mail Sender and was designed to enable you to send birthdays greetings automatically.
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§ 57. Mr. Sidney Marshallasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the absence of the necessary training manuals is holding up specialised sectional training courses in many civil defence centres; and when these manuals are likely to be available.
§ Mr. de FreitasA provisional syllabus and notes on section training were issued last November. Detailed pamphlets are being completed as quickly as possible. The ambulance section pamphlet has already been issued, and those on the welfare and warden sections will be available soon.
§ Mr. MarshallCan the Minister say what he means by "soon"?
§ Mr. de FreitasI should not like to say precisely. I hope this will be out within the next month.


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It's hard to believe that it's already been three weeks since the 2012 APMP Bid & Proposal Con wrapped up. It's the one time each year that I'm surrounded by people who know exactly what I do every day as a proposal professional. My people…..your people. I call it, My Promised Land. We talk about fonts, punctuation, point out all the misspellings on speaker slides (you know you do), and give tips on how to deal with SMEs and sales reps. This is exciting stuff, people!
This year, the whole vibe was different. It felt more exciting (must have been the bright lights and music at the opening of every day), energetic, more relaxed, and more inclusive of the commercial proposal professionals which included our very own session track! Yes! And there was a new "Awards Dinner" that included food, drinks and dancing. And let me tell you, Charlie Divine (Director of Accreditation) can cut a rug! More importantly, I got to know fellow members on a more personal level. Building these relationships is invaluable! We played a little game at our table where people tell three things about themselves – two true, one false – and everybody else tries to guess which one is false. It was after a couple drinks, so, you can just imagine the things I now know about these people!
There were close to 600 attendees, with about 200 of those being first timers. I talked to old-timers and first-timers and got a consistent message – "I'm meeting so many people and learning so much!" This might sound like an advertisement for the conference, and that's ok. I cannot express to you how important , impactful and inspiring this has been for me AND my career over the years. If you're a proposal professional, you need to find a way to go. And if you're not a member of APMP yet, you need to sign up here www.apmp.org – right now, today!
So, now it's back to the real world and the five proposals I'm working on. The good news is that my batteries have been recharged and I'm desperately holding on to that ethereal feeling I get when I'm amongst my people. This is what I do and this is what I love.
Carry on, warriors. And remember, "people reach out, to people who reach out(1)."
(1) Keynote speaker, Vicki Hitzges (www.vickihitzges.com).


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