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Chez Panisse Restaurant
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Chez Panisse is world famous, so it hardly needs yet another endorsement. The food and service were truly exceptional. I had been waiting years to go here and I was not disappointed. They recently had a kitchen fire that will put them out of commission for renovations for awhile, but I'm sure that they will return to their normal excellence soon.
ずっとあこがれていたレストランへ行くことができました。 当日緊張していったのですが、フレンドリーであたたく、やさしいサービスに、 すっかりリラックスして食事を楽しむ事ができました。 リオープンの翌々営業日ということもあってか、 アリスさん、そして娘さんのファニーさんも当日お店にいらっしゃったようで 日本からもっていった、ファニーさんの絵本にもサインをしてもらうことができました。 隣の席には、常連のカップルがいらっしゃって、 お話しを楽しむことができました。 お料理も、素材を生かしたシンプルな調理法で、お野菜の甘みや香り、新鮮なお魚などを楽しむことができました。 次回も絶対行きたいと思っています よろしくお願いいたします。
Welcome back! The rebuilt space is as serene and welcoming as ever, and the food sublime!
I dined for the first time at Chez Panisse on June 27, 2013, about a week after their reopening. The service, food, wine and atmosphere were fantastic. Each course exceeded the prior course. We started with salmon carpaccio with cucumber relish and moved on to ravioli with an intensely flavored confit of tomatoes and basil. The main course was grilled beef tenderloin with morels served with a terrific gratin of corn, fava beans and kale(?). Finally, dessert was a meyer lemon tart. It was as perfect a meal as I have ever had.
Everyone was very understanding and accommodating. Food was all delicious.
I felt we had to go to Chez Panisse and was dismayed by some very bad reviews, but it was a must experience in my opinion. I am so glad we got in! The restaurant feels so nice. The new porch was beautiful. Our server was outstanding and the food was delicious.
We eagerly anticipated our dinner at Chez Panisse which had just reopened after the March fire. Everything about dinner last Saturday exceeded our expectations. The service was gracious without being cloying, the food better than ever (the set menu was perfectly balanced--courses echoed the flavors), and the decor celebrated the easy California version of Craftsman style. We visit the restaurant each time we are in California and are so pleased that the restaurant once again is one of the highlights of our annual trip to Berkeley.
Everything was perfect - the food, wine, service, etc. Couldn't have asked for a nicer evening.
What a treat. The food was so delicious and the wine pairing was great as well. Alice was onsite and came over to have a small chat with us, she is lovely as we have seen her on TV. We had roasted garlic souffle, seafood soup and the to-die-for lamb rack and loin stuffed with herbs and garlic, and for dessert we had the torte glacee. We did not mind the garlic at all. We loved Chez Panisse.
We went on a Wednesday for the 6-6:30p seating. Gianni and his assistant server were very good, nearby only when needed. They sat us in the newly rebuilt front room at a cozy table for 2; the front room (with only 4 tables) is bright and just right for couples. Appetizer (halibut) and beef tenderloin were both very good. The apricot souffle was ordinary yet the cream, with apricot kernel extract, was wonderful. A slight flub on the dessert wine recommendation although it may have been the wrong time for wine for me due to the intensity of the cream for the souffle. A nice yet pricey meal with near-perfect atmosphere.
The Dinner is a special 2 Hour event. The appetizer was served shortly after we were seated. Our drinks and bread basket were promptly replenished throughout the meal. Each course was brought quickly when we were ready for them. And we had plenty of time to savor and enjoy each one. The service was impeccable. Any questions we had were answered thoroughly and cheerfully. Chez Panisse lived up to its reputation as a top tier world class restaurant.
We had a great dining experience here with 2 other couples. We were greeted right away at the table with an apertif made with cava and herbs. Chilled and just enough to wake up our taste buds. The appetizer was an onion tart served with green beans and cherry tomatoes...and the crust was incredibly flaky. I was trying to pace myself for a long dinner but I still had to eat that entire tart. Next was a cod dish made with pesto and little potatoes. The best cod I have ever tasted. The beef was a thinly sliced rib eye and mouth wateringly good. Our server was the best-polished, seeming to appear just when needed but not hovering. She guided me through the extensive french wine list and everyone loved her selections. Fantastic!
I had squab for the first time in my life. It was tasty but I have to say, I found a few of the dishes a tad on the salty side. I also feel the black eyed peas were slightly undercooked. The pasta with the Tomales Bay clams was simply devine and I really enjoyed the starter salad with the wild greens. I felt the portion size of the starter salad was bit small and maybe two shrimp could have been provided instead of just one that was about 1.5 inches long. All in all, it was a lovely experience...just hold back on the salt a bit. :)
Local food treasures, extravagant and delicious, Cold fruit soup, Goat with peppers, Catalan creme, and deliciously sweet sauce. Flavors and freshness, without obscure exoticism. Wine pairings fun, easy. Prairie style columns window closely surrounding diners in "porch" area in the front of the house, downstairs floor, much quieter than upstairs. Cozy, intimate. The wait staff changed between courses, seemed like the particular cook or maitre d', along with our main waitress reappearing, with a nice conversational attitude. I loved peaking around the corner at the famous kitchen, in the middle, A lot more authentic than some of the other restaurants I have been to that try to emulate the farm to table or updated gourmet cuisine.
I have wanted to dine at Chez Panisse for as long as I can remember, and managed to secure a reservation during a recent trip to the Bay Area. Although the food was excellent and wine pairing sublime, the atmosphere was hectic and the service harried. I expected a more relaxing and elegant experience. There was a much more convivial scene happening in the café upstairs where we awaited our seating in the dining room. Although busy, the Maitre d' and staff there were efficient, attentive and friendly. If you've not had the table d'hôte experience at CP, by all means give it a try. However, if you want to experience excellent food and wine, great service in a casual, bistro-like setting... head upstairs instead. You won't be disappointed.
Everything was great except the room temperature was too high; it was quite warm and a bit uncomfortable, even though it was a cool and foggy Berkeley night.
The food was outstanding in all respects! The first course- a potato salad was so good I wanted to lick the plate! Of course that was not acceptable for fine dining. Excellent service and for a four course meal, the pace between courses could not have been better!
We enjoyed our aniversary dinner at Chez Panisse. The dinner was awesome, and their services are also very friendly and make the customer's feeling better. Also guests around our seat were celebrating their birthday. We could celebrate our aniversary and their birthday.
Chez panisse uses a fixed menu which varies every day. Usually the menu includes a number of meat dishes, and a number of yelp and other reviews complain about the lack of vegetarian options. However, upon arrival we informed our server that we are vegetarian and he supplied us with a separate menu that proved to be very delicious and certainly not just the traditional menu less the meat. I would definitely go here again.
I brought my wife to Chez Panisse for her birthday and we had a wonderful evening that kept getting better and better. The food was delicious and we appreciated how attentive our service was. Each dish we ate had a very balanced design between vegetables, meat and fish. My wife is Japanese and the portions were just right for her and I. We felt great afterwards and continued to talk about the experience even a couple days later. We can't wait to come back! Thank you.
I realize my dream, to visit Chez Panisse, and your great, very special - and simple - food. The service was great, just in time and attent.
Chez Panisse was an unexpected combination of elegant and friendly. Impeccable service, sublime food and simply delightful! I will try to go every time I'm in the area.
I am so happy, they really take my hypersensitive to the black pepper in the more professional way. I have the same menu that my husband, but prepared without Black pepper, was awesome!!!!
Absolutely amazing! The service, food quality, food selection was perfect. Ask for Veronica to be your waitress. She's fantastic!
Chez Panisse is heaven. It is not about snob or foodie appeal, or being "better" than other restaurants. It is about the experience of food, from farm to table, in a reverent and spiritually nourishing way. Everything is done with thoughtfulness, care, and artistry, in a way that is not ostentatious but instead straightforward and proud. And that meyer lemon soufflé...
Fixed menu is nice. Not too little or too much food is served. Just the right portions and no decisions have to be made other than what wine you want.
Over all was excellent. Only not impressed with the ice cream dessert. Sincerely,
It was a perfect evening! The food was as marvelous as ever, service perfect and the room really beautifully restored after the fire.
We wanted a perfect evening, and we got it: perfect food, perfect service, perfect wine pairings. There is nowhere else like Chez Panisse.
Chez Panisse maintains the highest quality dining experience year in and year out. Their daily menu is intriguing without being pretentious. Their meticulous food preparation yields simply delicious results. Their staff are knowledgable, helpful, friendly, and attentive. Chez Panisse is my favorite restaurant by far.
Once again this intimate space surpassing all that has gone before-perfect friendly service and each course absolutely divine. I don't know how they do it-the freshness and execution of each dish is astonishingly good. I envy diners who have yet to Immerse themselves here. Merci!
I live in Chicago, but if I ever get the chance to be on the West Coast, I always make it an absolute to dine at Chez Panisse. The food and service are always fabulous! I have long been a fan of Alice Waters and what she brought to the dining table. Always a pleasure!
Hands down one of my favorite restaurants. The wine pairing was awesome. Four stars because second course was luke warm, not hot enough.
The food was the best I have ever had at any restaurant. The service was amazing. The overall experience was the most memorable and best dining experience I have ever had.
It's no surprise that I am giving this restaurant a great review....plenty have before me. The service was fantastic and the food was truly inspired. The group I was with really enjoyed everything that touché their palate. We also were able to meet our wine importing idol and as we are all viticulturists and winemakers, it was a true delight. All in all, I'd say it was money well spent.
I have eaten in Chez Panisse's upstairs restaurant several times. Try to make it there any time I'm in the Bay Area. But this was my first dinner in their prix fixe restaurant. Price was a bit steep, but the service, ambiance, and of course. the food was worth every penny. It was a special dinner with my brother and husband and we all enjoyed it. THANK YOU!
We had a delicious four course meal which included a chickory & pickled lettuce salad, grilled sea bass, lamb chops and a lemon meringue tart. Service was excellent and the ambiance was warm and cozy. However somehow I just didn't feel that it was such a fabulous, unforgettable experience. Perhaps I had set my expectations too high but I wanted to see what all the hype about Chez Pannise was about and just didn't feel like I found it. The food was good but not much better than say, Wood Tavern. I feel like Chez Pannise is worth trying but isn't so wonderful that I'm anxiously looking forward to a return visit. Perhaps the air conditioning vent blowing at my feet during my entire meal lessened the experience and hastened my exit.
Very happy to put ourselves in the hands of the chefs at Chez Panisse. Love Alice Waters and her whole philosophy. Our company had a very important dinner here, and we brought our favourite client. Dishes were wonderful, and our whole team and our guest had a wonderful time. Thank you Chez Panisse!
Totally a great experience. Would suggest one improvement - when the customer adds another tip to the bill along with built in tip, we suggest that the server reconfirm with the customer if that was their intention. This would avoid over tipping and creating a negative experience in an otherwise excellent experience.
Great food. Great service. Always a special treat to dine at this restaurant. Only complaint is that I felt some of the portions on some entrees were rather small and I wished that I could have had more.
The frisee salad with lardons and poached egg was a great start. Then the duck breast was the best I have ever had. The third course , the dessert finished a wonderful meal. The meal was so much better than the description in the menu because the chefs manage to make even foods we don't normally like taste delicious. The service was professional and friendly. The beautifully restored room we sat in towards the front of the house absolutley glowed, making our experience even more enjoyable. All of this wonderfulness comes at a price, of course, and $24 for a glass of champagne seemed to be a bit too much.
The last time we dined at Chez Panisse was over 20 years ago and 20 years later it is still the best restaurant we ever dined at. From the curly endive and chanterelle salad, the Dungeness crab and smoked black cod chowder followed by the Zinfandel marinated duck breast and ending with the black walnut ice cream crepe it was truly an epicurean delight! Alice Waters and her staff are commended for delivering an outstanding meal...it was the perfect ending to a delightful epicurean vacation in the Bay Area.
Chez Panisse is not just a restaurant, its an experience. Its where the chef(s) will show you what they mean when there is a connection between food and art and they will skillfully connect the two....


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Charles Everett Johnson
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Height: 6-0 Weight: 200 lbs.
Born: January 3, 1972 in San Bernardino, CA
College: Colorado (school history)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1st round (17th overall) of the 1994 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 38 (2494th overall since 1950)
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Learning Outcomes and Assessment
City College strives to create a culture where outcomes assessment continually improves the quality of student learning and institutional effectiveness. Members of each department and program engage each other in the development and assessment of outcomes. Dialogue within and amongst departments and programs moves the college forward to meet the evolving needs of our students through instruction, curricula, programs, and services.
Outcomes are developed and assessments take place for the following areas:
- Student Learning Outcomes (for courses, instructional programs, counseling, and workshops)
- Student Service Outcomes (for additional services provided to students, such as transcript procurement, registration, and financial aid)
- Admininstrative Unit Outcomes (for services provided to faculty, staff, vendors, external organizations, etc. to produce an environment of learning for our students)
December 11
Results and recommendations are available for the coordinated GE-Area C Spring 2013 assessment. Please review the report and contribute to the ongoing discussions of the SLO Committee, Planning Committee, Assessment Planning Team, and Academic Senate Executive Council.
Congratulations! We are ALL getting used to the process of completing SLO progress reports at the end of each semester. Based on the reports already in, it's clear that people know where to find the forms, how to complete them, and how to see the results. Thank you all! Results are available through department/unit assessment web pages. For those who haven't yet completed the forms, please remember to do so before the end of this semester! (Click here to get to the reports.) Report only on what's been done for Fall 2013.
Based on feedback about departmental and unit workflow, in early January, when the spring semester starts, we will close the Fall 2013 reports and make the Spring 2014 reports available at the same time. With access to end-of-the-semester forms at the beginning of the semster, departments and units can easily keep track of progress made during the first month of the semester, at FLEX events and department meetings, and incorporate activity into Spring progress reports.
Kristina Whalen and Katryn Wiese
SLO Coordinators
December 4
Important Reminder: Make sure that you have located, reset (if needed), or requested your CCSF google mail username and password for the Fall 2013 progress reports.
SLO Coordinator help and tech support is not available over the holiday. Last help lab is Monday, December 9, 1-2 pm in S 37.
Lots of professional development activities related to assessment are approaching. If you'd like some fresh ideas, a chance to dialogue with colleagues, or some clarity about assessment techniques, data collection, analysis, mapping, and assessment scheduling, please check out these opportunities:
December 9th from 2-3 pm in MU 398. Learn more about how to use the grading options in the upgraded version of Insight. Specifically, how to set up advanced grading for assignments by using rubrics and marking guides. Examples of each will be demonstrated.
Presenters: Diana Markham & Cynthia Dewar
Jan 9, FLEX Workshops
Using CATs (Course Assessment Techniques) in the Classroom.This session will explain CATs and share techniques. Attendees will leave with knowledge of how to implement several CAT practices that will allow meaningful adjustments to classroom instruction so as to better ensure students are meeting outcomes.
Presenter: Geisce Ly, Dean of Downtown Center
Mapping Assessments: In this hands-on workshop you will map your current assessments to SLOs in one of your courses. From there we will discuss strategies for documenting assessment of SLOs once every three years. Resources for mapping and rubrics for documentation/easy data collection will be provided. Time permitting, we will dialogue about making connections between SLO documentation and student achievement data. **Bring one syllabus listing your course SLOs and the assessments/assignments you use in class.
Presenter: Tracy Burt, Faculty CDEV; MIP Coordinator
Program-Level Assessment Strategies. This session will demystify program-level assessment by describing several data collection techniques, approaches, as well as data analysis at the program level.
Presenter Nick Akinkuoye, AVC of Academic Affairs--School Deans
Collegewide Dialogue Continued. This session will explain the two kinds of institutional level assessments used at CCSF (ILOs and GELOs) and provide participants with an overview of recently collected college-wide data, a chance to shape thinking about action plans related to learning trends across the college, and how members of the college community may participate in a "deep" assessment.
Presenters: Kristina Whalen and Katryn Wiese
As always, thanks for your incredible commitment to student learning.
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The Irish Catholic Bishops have come out with a major statement on the death of Savita Halappanavar.
The statement reads:
"The death of Mrs Savita Halappanavar and her unborn child in University Hospital Galway on the 28 October last was a devastating personal tragedy for her husband and family. It has stunned our country.
"We share the anguish and sorrow expressed by so many at the tragic loss of a mother and her baby in these circumstances and we express our sympathy to the family of Mrs Halappanavar and all those affected by these events.
"In light of the widespread discussion following the tragic death of Mrs Halappanavar and her unborn baby, we wish to reaffirm some aspects of Catholic moral teaching. These were set out in our recently published Day for Life message on 7 October last, available on www.chooselife2012.ie."
Read more news on Savita Halappanavar's case here
* The Catholic Church has never taught that the life of a child in the womb should be preferred to that of a mother. By virtue of their common humanity a mother and her unborn baby are both sacred with an equal right to life.
* Where a seriously ill pregnant woman needs medical treatment which may put the life of her baby at risk, such treatments are ethically permissible provided every effort has been made to save the life of both the mother and her baby.
* Whereas abortion is the direct and intentional destruction of an unborn baby and is gravely immoral in all circumstances, this is different from medical treatments which do not directly and intentionally seek to end the life of the unborn baby. Current law and medical guidelines in Ireland allow nurses and doctors in Irish hospitals to apply this vital distinction in practice while upholding the equal right to life of both a mother and her unborn baby.
* Some would claim that the unborn baby is less human or less deserving of life. Advances in genetics and technology make it clear that at fertilisation a new, unique and genetically complete human being comes into existence. From that moment onwards each of us did not grow and develop into a human being, but grew and developed as a human being.
With many other religious and ethical traditions we believe in upholding the equal and inalienable right to life of a mother and her unborn child in our laws and medical practice.
Read more news on Savita Halappanavar's case here
This helps to ensure that women and babies receive the highest standard of care and protection during pregnancy. Indeed, international statistics confirm that Ireland, without abortion, remains one of the safest countries in the world in which to be pregnant and to give birth.
This is a position that should continue to be cherished and strengthened in the interests of mothers and unborn children in Ireland."
The bishops also mince words about fertilization: "Advances in genetics ... make it clear that at fertilisation a new, unique and genetically complete human being comes into existence." IF they read any ordinary account of the biology of reproduction, they will learn that an estimated half to 70 percent of all fertilized human eggs never implant in a woman's uterus but wash away without her knowing. In other words, they never have any possibility of developing into complete human beings. Thus it makes little sense to think of a single-cell fertilized egg or zygote, the union of sperm and ovum, as having a human soul demanding "the highest standard of care and protection." "Genetically complete"? No, the zygote's genes have not yet done any work, not yet produced any organism even remotely resembling a human being, and if implantation doesn't occur, they never will produce any organism. The bishops' magical thinking-- that at fertilization some kind of miniature human being is already present-- belongs to the realm of fantasy or wishful thinking, and not to medical science, and it ought not to replace science.
With carefully chosen words, the bishops have implicated themselves in the death of this unfortunate woman. They say, "we believe in upholding the equal and inalienable right to life of a mother and her unborn child in our laws and medical practice." The bishops know that as long as the woman's right to life does not take precedence over the fetus' right to continue gestating in her uterus, there can be no abortion. An *equal* right to life is not enough when the woman's survival depends-- as it most likely did in Savita's case-- on quick termination of the pregnancy. This is the kind of thinking that allowed Savita to die rather than saving her, and some have said it killed her, along with the fetus that had no hope of survival.
Irish Catholic bishops deny they value life of baby over that of mother....deny all they want, we grew up with this teaching.In fact my Dad made sure we were all born in a Protestant hospital for that very reason. Of course the real reason is the money and soul of the child. Roman church has already cashed in on the mother- through her birth cert, so a new birth cert for the child, born through her waters means lots of money and a bond/birth cert to trade daily for profit.Always follow the money. BAR Gold, etc
Did either of you ever take a Cathoic Medical Ethics class? I have and even though you're 65, you are incorrect. BTW I'm 66.
My, what short memories these old men have. I'm 65 and I was taught that the fetus came first! Please don't insult the intelligence of the Catholic faithful with your lies (although you are being very consistent).
Do these bishops wake up every morning and take BS pills. If they have concern for the mother then why are they against abortion? Hypocrits.


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MCT Regional News
With her hands curled around a cup of Chai tea, the politician who wrote the Kansas ban against same-sex marriage glances around the Metropolitan Coffee shop."I have friends who have told me they worry that I'll be another Gabby Giffords, literally," says Rep. Jan Pauls, referring to the Arizona congresswoman now recovering after a man shot her.
Pauls' 2012 political campaign has been unsettling. The 59-year-old Democrat has served more than two decades, again and again casting her lot against the GLBT community. She's always run unopposed at election time - until now.
A challenge in August nearly ended her reign. A re-count showed she came within 8 votes of losing her 102nd District seat to a minimum-wage city maintenance worker named Erich Bishop, a 28-year-old political neophyte.
A gay man.
She's also facing an opponent in the general election. But her complaints about the campaign rhetoric indicate an odd lack of familiarity of how elections are waged these days. Her opponents, she says, have been calling people up, asking that lawn signs be removed. Fliers sent to voters used a photo-shopped trick that showed her seated and smiling next to Gov. Sam Brownback, as if the two were BFFs.
"The fliers against me were nasty." Her supporters feel it, too. "People have been scared to speak out because of what the gay community is doing."
Another aspect of the unsettling year for Pauls is the redrawing of district lines. It placed her home in the Republican-dominated 104th. To stay in her old, safe district, she had to move into an empty church building that she and her husband own. Many of her opponents say her living arrangements are a sham, and that the Paulses really still live in their house.
But few Kansas homes can boast about a nine-foot Jesus in stained glass.
Her husband, Ron, arrives at the shop and orders coffee, black. He's often protectively near. She motions him over. They first met on a hayride. Both blush as they tell it, but they are still deeply in love after 22 years of wedlock.
"He's the first guy I've ever met who was smarter than me," says the former district court judge, touching his shoulder.
"I like to stay close," says the retired train engineer. Especially when his wife is out politicking. Because even as many gays are afraid of being outed or shunned, Pauls is afraid of them .
She shares a story from 2006, after she drafted the Kansas constitutional amendment banning gay marriage civil unions. She was at a political event called Washington Days, the annual meeting of Democrats at the Topeka Ramada Inn. Standing near a stairwell, Pauls had a view of the atrium -- and was next to the meeting room of the party's gay/lesbian caucus. "A fat guy with a red face," she recalls, came running out, yelling, fists high in the air. She demonstrates with her own fist in the air.
"I backed up and yelled: 'Security! Call security!' I think he was hoping he could throw me over the stairs." There were throngs of people in the hallway. But husband, Ron, was not at her elbow. He heard her yell and was pushing to get to her.
"I yelled at Ron not to touch him because I knew that could lead to trouble. It was scary."
She looks at her husband now. Both seem like they'd rather not remember this. No arrests were made, because the man's friends calmed him down, she says. In her telling of the tale, she thinks she knows who the man was: the same one now orchestrating the campaigns against her, Tom Witt of Wichita, the executive director of the Kansas Equality Commission.
"I am stunned!" exclaimed Witt, when this story is related. "That is just the lowest kind of accusation she could make!"
He was there, he agreed, but only as a witness.
"She came and stood right outside the door of the LGBT caucus. A guy named Larry Hurlbert went out into the hallway to confront her about the horrible things she said about gays. I heard him say, 'I'm gonna give her a piece of my mind!'"
Witt said Hurlbert hardly got past the room's doorway, the yelling lasted maybe 30 seconds. Several caucus members dragged him back in, and no balcony was closer than 10 yards.
Among her critics in the LGBT community, Pauls also is notorious for keeping the law against sodomy on the books, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that renders all such statutes moot. Only two other states still retain them: Oklahoma and Texas.
The house-cleaning measure to excise several outdated or inconsistent statutes from the books, she explains, "had too many other controversial items in it. Besides, I knew there was a bill coming from the Senate that dealt with the sodomy repeal. But then the Senate dropped it. So the bill never came to the House."
Again, Witt challenges her version. Pauls' ploy was to retain the sodomy law, he insists, because she really believes that being gay or lesbian should be a crime.
"What this law says," Witt says, "is that every gay and lesbian person in the state of Kansas belongs in jail. It really doesn't get more offensive than that."
Paul's chief ally in much of this is Rep. Lance Kinzer, an Olathe Republican, who was quoted in 2011 as saying the unenforceable statute made no difference. He called the anger of the gay community "a tempest in a teapot."
He, like Pauls, believes gays are immoral and choose to be.
Pauls said, "A lot of the things the homosexuals complain about me - well, I didn't introduce those bills," pointing out she had nothing to with the anti-discrimination ordinance in Hutchison. "It'll never fly in Kansas anyway. They're trying to intimidate and bully people who don't agree with them. Ironic, because, you know, they shouldn't be bullying at all."
For the November election, another newcomer is facing Pauls, this one straight but even younger than Bishop. Dakota Bass, 20, is a former Democrat who switched parties to oppose her as a socially liberal Republican.
Bass moved into his grandmother's house in order to live in the district but admitted that he also sleeps at his fiancee's house sometimes. As the candidate on the GOP side of the ballot, he stands to pick up many moderate GOP voters as well as the progressives from the Democratic Party.
Pauls is a Democrat who has survived in a deepening red state by being more anti-abortion and anti-gay than most lawmakers in Topeka. Conservative is what the voters in her district want her to be. Twenty-one years of serving, she says. And she isn't bothered by how her anti-gay stance grinds against her own party's platforms.
"The Democratic national platforms have never been that important in local or state politics. We're a little different here."
She watched Michele Obama at the National Democratic Convention call for the freedom of people "to love whomever we choose." But before she can comment, her husband leans forward and interrupts.
"Homosexuals don't love," Ron says. "Homosexuals are all about the sex. The ordinance is about sex. Not love."
His wife pokes her husband in the ribs.
"I would have phrased that a little differently," she said, shooting him a look. "I think most Kansans' concerns are not that the homosexuals want equal rights but superior rights. That's what makes this issue so difficult," she says. "Homophobia here in Hutchinson? I don't think so. We would have heard about it by now if we were. Tom Witt would never let himself be a victim."
But her husband wasn't finished talking.
How would you feel, he asks, if your daughter's male gym teacher wanted to go into the locker room as the girls were undressing? What about a female gym teacher? "What if that female gym teacher was a homosexual? She'd want those girls."
And he leans back, sipping more coffee.
"Look, this issue has been ginned up by people outside our community. It failed in Wichita. They took it off the table in Manhattan. The homosexuals are going around the state of Kansas because they know it wouldn't pass at the state or federal level."
His wife takes his hand, squeezes it hard. But he's on a roll.
"People are afraid there won't be freedom of speech anymore. Pretty soon you won't be able to quote Bible verses from the pulpit if they're against homosexuality."
And at this, the lawmaker stands up, pulling her husband with her out of the shop.
"You've said enough, honey," she says, still smiling.


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Below is the text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks at the University of Georgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Kennesaw State University, on a trip organized by the Partnership for a Secure America and the Stanley Foundation. Former National Nuclear Security Administration Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation's William Tobey also participated in these discussions, offering remarks on nuclear materials security and the prevention of nuclear terrorism.
November 14, 2011
by Christopher Ford
Hello, everyone. It's a pleasure to have the chance to chat with you today, and I'm grateful to the Partnership for a Secure America and the Stanley Foundation, as well as our gracious hosts here at the university, for making this outreach program possible.
As I was thinking about what to say to you today, I decided it might be useful to go back to "first principles" in order to lay the groundwork for our discussions. Before one can think too usefully about where nuclear weaponry is going as the 21st century progresses, I think one needs to understand something about the role they play today – and about how we got to where we are now.
It is, for instance, commonly said today that the only role for nuclear weaponry is to deter the use of other nuclear weaponry. To be able to grapple seriously with present-day nuclear weapons policy issues, however, I think one needs to understand how much that isn't true. And the same could probably be said about other supposed simple verities that might be invoked to guide policy choices about what deters whom, how countries behave (or don't behave) with nuclear weaponry, and so forth.
Nuclear weapons play complex roles in today's world, and roles that differ, to some extent, from one possessor or aspirant to the next. In whichever direction one might want to take nuclear policy, one has to start by first getting one's mind around this varied and sometimes confusing landscape.
I. An American Perspective, Then and Now
So let's begin with the United States, since it's our own country and it was both the first to get into the nuclear weapons business and the first – and only – country so far to actually use them in war. America's motives for developing atomic weaponry were not simple, but they aren't too hard to understand. We began the Manhattan Project in desperate years of a desperate war against enemy empires that seemed bent upon world conquest. To some extent, it was important that we "get there first," because there was some reason to believe at the time that both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan knew such weapons to be possible and were exploring the possibility.
To a great extent, however, the U.S. motive didn't revolve around the possibility of others getting nuclear weapons. We were in a terrible and costly war, and we wanted every advantage we could get. Ultimately, after it had presumably become pretty clear that neither Germany nor Japan had much (or any) chance of beating us to the nuclear punch – the former having already surrendered and the latter having been reduced to a battered and beleaguered state – the program continued nonetheless as a way to close out history's most bloody conflict as rapidly and advantageously as possible.
There was, during the period of American monopoly after the war, a fascinating U.S. flirtation with abolition – or rather, more specifically, with the idea of relinquishing atomic weaponry to an international organization that would take over all weapons-facilitating nuclear technology and research in order to ensure that no nation could have bombs of its own. This effort, spelled out in the U.S. "Baruch Plan" and actually endorsed by majorities in the newborn United Nations, collapsed in the face of Soviet Bloc opposition. Moscow wanted to break the American monopoly not by setting up an international control system but by building its own nuclear weapons, and after 1949, the Cold War arms race was on.
But that arms race, of course, is now over. Why are these devices still around? To some extent, it may be that existing possessors retain them because they cannot figure out how to eliminate them without making the world a worse place and their own security interests more precarious.
From a specifically U.S. perspective, I'd imagine there would be much to applaud in a sudden and successful abolition of nuclear weaponry. The preeminent conventional military power on the planet might indeed be tempted to accept the elimination of what many regard as the only tools that can convincingly deter an opponent possessing just such overwhelming conventional force. After all, that was why we ourselves placed such emphasis upon nuclear weaponry during much of the Cold War: we regarded it as being critical to our deterrence of aggression by numerically-superior Warsaw Pact forces in Central Europe. Today, we enjoy conventional superiority vis-à-vis any imaginable adversary. So why not support abolition?
This is perhaps the reasoning behind at least some prominent Americans' support for disarmament – though of course you won't be surprised to hear that just such U.S. alacrity probably makes some other players resolutely opposed to the idea of "zero." Either way, however, such an analysis oversimplifies unhelpfully. One cannot, of course, use a magic spell to make nuclear weapons disappear instantaneously, and if abolition is ever to occur, it certainly won't do so quickly. But how certain are Americans that we would be as happy with the balance of conventional forces in a nuclear-weapons-free world in the late 21st Century as we imagine that we would be if it happened tomorrow?
Another challenge is that even if such devices could be eliminated, it might be very difficult even for a wealthy, conventionally-dominant hyperpower to ensure stability in the resulting international security environment. Unless you believe that nuclear weapons have played no role in precluding general war between the great powers for the last several decades, and unless you believe that they have played no role in preventing nuclear proliferation, it stands to reason that the difficulty of maintaining stability and security in a world of "nuclear zero" – using only conventional tools – might be rather higher than today. Are we confident that we, or others, would be able or willing to do all that might be necessary in this regard, especially if disarmament itself increased other countries' interest in developing nuclear weapons by holding out the prospect that "breakout" from a "zero" regime could give them at least a temporary nuclear monopoly?
II. Extended Deterrence: "Nukes to Prevent Nukes"
You may have noticed that I snuck an important concept into those last comments: I spoke of the potential role of nuclear weapons in preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. This is a byproduct of the fact that nuclear weapons are commonly regarded as having at least some role in providing "extended deterrence" to the allies of a possessor state. It leads to the arguably paradoxical conclusion that under some circumstances, the existence of nuclear weapons is an important tool with which to help ensure against the development of more such weapons.
During the Cold War, a number of countries started down the road to nuclear weapons development, but were persuaded to change course in large part on the strength of implicit or explicit U.S. commitments to the security of their countries or their region in the face of the presumed predatory intentions of the Soviet Bloc or other Communist powers. This dissuasion came as a result of security commitments that, while not revolving exclusively around specifically nuclear deterrence, were nonetheless underpinned in the last resort by the continued existence and "usability" of a U.S. nuclear arsenal. This was important for nonproliferation, and for stability more generally, in both Europe and in East Asia. These dynamics may even be seen in the role that NATO planning for wartime nuclear weapons sharing played in keeping Germany – and perhaps other NATO allies – from going down the road of independent weapons development.
While nuclear weaponry certainly has less salience in American strategic planning today than it did during the Cold War, this "extended deterrence" dynamic remains alive and well. We have friends and allies around the world, especially in East Asia, who face what they consider to be at least potentially serious long-term military threats, threats they might be unable to deter on their own using purely conventional tools. America's security relationships with them, which are still underpinned at the last resort by our nuclear weapons, still play a role in reassuring these allies – who otherwise might be tempted to "go nuclear" in order to safeguard their security interests independently.
Not for nothing, for instance, did U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice fly immediately to Tokyo to reassured Japanese leaders of our continued commitment to their security after North Korea conducted its first nuclear weapons test in 2006. And not for nothing did the Japanese thereafter publicly re-disavow any interest in nuclear weaponry, explicitly citing as the basis for their disinterest the fact that Japan's strong American alliance made this unnecessary. Japan, and to a lesser extent South Korea, could quite easily "go nuclear" if they felt this necessary in the face of regional threats. That they do not today want nuclear weapons has at least something to do with the fact that we keep ours.
I'm not saying that the existence of U.S. nuclear weapons and our provision of "extended" nuclear deterrence is the only thing that has kept such allies from going down the nuclear road themselves. In fact, I'd imagine that the strength of our conventional military power – and the perceived weight of Washington's political will and moral courage in remaining committed to our alliance relationships and to protecting the security and political autonomy of democratic regional allies – is a more important factor. Nevertheless, our general security guarantees are indeed built in part upon a nuclear foundation.
This may have important implications as we ponder the future of nuclear weaponry. Could we achieve the necessary degree of adversary deterrence and ally reassurance without such tools? Maybe. But it's very hard to be sure of that, and few leaders in Washington have a stomach for gambling on such important matters. Nor, of course, is it guaranteed that we would have the money and willpower to do this successfully even if we were willing to try. What would it take to do what is necessary to meet such requirements with purely conventional arms? Can we afford it? Would we be willing to?
If nuclear weapons presently contribute anything to our alliance relationships, Washington would presumably need to make up for its loss with more robust conventional deployments and more credible reassurances of alliance fortitude and long-term political staying power. It is not entirely clear that present-day America is well positioned to step up such overseas expenses and commitments in proportion to some possible future nuclear draw-down. (At the moment, we seem to be worried enough about ensuring the adequacy of our commitments in the Asia-Pacific region even with a nuclear "backstop." How much more effort and expense would disarmament require us to contemplate?)
III. Deterring Conventional Conflict
Because America's Cold War allies feared not only nuclear but also conventional attack – which it was similarly the job of our deterrent policy to prevent – the phenomenon of "extended [nuclear] deterrence" also provides an analytical window into another dynamic, to which I've already alluded: the fact that nuclear weapons have historically had important roles in deterring conventional attack. This notion may not resonate much in the United States today, for we have the good fortune to be uniquely powerful in non-nuclear terms. History suggests, however, that deterring non-nuclear power has long been a very important "driver" for interest in nuclear capabilities.
From a U.S., British, and French perspective, for instance, great emphasis on nuclear weaponry (and the possibility of nuclear first use) was felt necessary during the Cold War in order to deter numerically-superior Warsaw Pact forces. It is widely believed – surely accurately – that nuclear weapons played an important role after 1945 in stabilizing Europe after centuries of conflict, and in making general war between the great powers seem hideously unattractive. This is not to say that modern Europe would necessarily again collapse into conflict if nuclear weapons disappeared, of course, but it points to the potentially crucial role such devices can have in forestalling large-scale conventional conflict between possessors.
And Europe is hardly the only example of states viewing nuclear capabilities as a potential deterrent to conventional attack. The state of Israel, which has long been said to have nuclear weaponry, has for decades needed to deter the numerically-superior forces of the surrounding (and usually hostile) Arab states. Pakistan aims to deter numerically-superior Indian forces, while India itself focused more intently upon nuclear weapons development in the wake of China's invasion in 1962. Apartheid-era South Africa, moreover, developed its program not out of fear of anyone else's nuclear weaponry, but in response to what it felt was a "total onslaught" of Communist-led black nationalist insurgency sweeping south across Africa.
Today, Russia seems still to feel itself weak and dysfunctional in conventional arms, potentially overmatched by NATO technology and Chinese numbers, and it prizes nuclear weaponry as a counterbalancing factor. North Korea cites U.S. military deployments in South Korea and Japan as one of the reasons it says it cannot give up its nuclear weapons. And the aspiring proliferators in Tehran frequently invoke the specter of U.S. and Israeli attack – with conventional, not nuclear weapons – in their all-but-explicit justifications for nuclear weapons development.
Life might be simpler if nuclear weapons only deterred other nuclear weapons, in other words, but countries in the real world don't often seem to see things that way. Even the International Court of Justice, when providing a non-binding advisory opinion in 1996 on the legality of nuclear weapons use, felt compelled explicitly to hold open a role for nuclear weapons in response to an overwhelming assault that threatened the existence of a state.
IV. Nuclear "Cross-Deterrence" of Other WMD
To complicate things further, there is also at least some possibility that nuclear weapons can help deter the use of other, but non-nuclear, forms of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) – a phenomenon I call "cross-deterrence." Such cross-deterrence between different forms of WMD isn't talked about too much today, but historically it has had at least some importance.
When the United States, for instance, abandoned its biological weapons (BW) work under the Nixon Administration, it was confidently proclaimed that one of the reasons we could do this safely – even in the face of fears of continuing BW work by the Soviets and others – was that our nuclear arsenal could still be used to deter BW use against us. In fact, this idea is apparently still a part of U.S. strategic planning, as one can see from the Obama Administration's 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, which still explicitly reserved the option to make "any adjustment [in U.S. declaratory policy regarding nuclear weapons use] … that may be warranted" by biological weapons threats from non-nuclear weapons states compliant with their nonproliferation obligations. It also explicitly declared that nuclear weapons remained available as a potential response to either conventional or chemical or biological weapons attack by "states that possess nuclear weapons and states not in compliance with their nuclear non-proliferation obligations."
Nor is "cross-deterrence" just an American idea. Syria, for instance, has long been thought to maintain a CW stockpile as at least a partial "cross-deterrent" answer to Israeli nuclear capabilities. The Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program, moreover, is felt to have begun in the mid-1980s not as a response to U.S. or presumed Israeli nuclear weaponry (or even these countries' conventional military power), but rather in reaction to Iraq's use of chemical weaponry against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War. Cross-deterrence may be a comparatively minor component of countries' thinking about nuclear strategy, but it isn't a trivial issue.
V. Nuclear Weapons and National Identity
So far, I've been talking of nuclear weapons' role in the world through a relatively "realist" game-theoretical perspective of force posture and deterrent calculations. But there's another angle that also must be understood if we are to comprehend nuclear weaponry's entanglement with the international environment: the ways in which weapons possession can become wrapped up – for better or worse – with countries' and governments' sense of identity, role, and mission in the world.
There has been some very interesting scholarship on the complicated ways in which nuclear weaponry has played into national identity politics in South Asia, both in Pakistan and in India. George Perkovich's seminal book on India's nuclear weapons program, for instance, stresses this factor, seeing intriguing identity dynamics – factors such as post-colonialist insecurity, a sense of developing-world and disarmament leadership, or even Brahminical self-assertion against white scientific elites in the former imperial core – as having powerfully shaped how India's program developed in the sometimes idiosyncratic ways that it did. But Perkovich is today not alone, and a number of other scholars have written interesting things on the "identity politics" angle of nuclear proliferation and the South Asian nuclear balance.
Russia is another interesting example, for my impression is that powerful issues of identity – and not just steely-eyed realpolitik calculations of conventional military weakness – are involved in Moscow's continuing infatuation with nuclear weaponry. Modern Russia in the era of Vladimir Putin seems to feel quite insecure in today's world, nostalgic about its "lost" days of presumed Soviet glory and importance, in addition to being nervous about the still weak state of Russia's conventional armed forces, its unbalanced, undiversified, and corrupt economy, its brittle political order, and its grim demographic prospects.
One of the few things about which Moscow seems able to feel proud is its formidable nuclear arsenal – which has become, for many Russians, the symbolic coinage of their country's continued status and worth as a great power in a world in which both the United States and China utterly outclass Russia in essentially every other meaningful respect. The resulting "identity function" of nuclear weaponry in Russia's sense of position and role in the world is, I suspect, a powerful factor that one cannot dismiss if one wants really to understand the place of nuclear weapons in today's world – let alone to approach future strategic arms control questions with an informed eye.
And these are hardly the only cases. France has, of course, for years seized upon its nuclear force de frappe as one of the few remaining symbols of that country's great power status and role. Iran seems to have a growing fixation upon nuclear technology – and, implicitly, weapons capabilities – as a litmus test of its self-conceived role as an emergent great power with ambiguously neo-Safavid regional ambitions. Moreover, North Korea today constantly seeks to parlay its nuclear weaponry into status and political acceptance not just as a legitimate state but as one in some sense "equal" to the nuclear-possessing great powers.
These dynamics certainly don't make the challenges of global nuclear strategy or nonproliferation any easier to handle, but we dismiss such "identity" factors at our peril. At least in some instances, they are likely to be very important to nonproliferation, arms control, and nuclear weapons strategy, by helping shape such things as: (1) whether and how countries seek nuclear weaponry; (2) what proliferators might be expected to do once acquiring it; (3) how existing possessors will approach the question of arms reductions; and (4) how the requirements of "deterrence" might differ from one possessor to the next.
VI. Conclusion
I'd be happy to discuss more specific questions in our discussion period, but as I wrap up, let me flag a couple of points here at a very high level of generality. Because of the deep ways in which nuclear weapons are entangled with national policies and behavior in a very complex international security environment, one should be suspicious of anyone who purports to offer simple answers with respect to what we should do in order to handle the challenges of nuclear weapons policymaking. Any serious attempt at such policymaking needs to be able to stand up to serious questioning about how it proposes to manage – much less to cut through – the security and policy challenges presented by these nuclear entanglements.
One can perhaps be really certain of few things in this environment, but among these is the likelihood that simple approaches – whether they aim for a rapid "nuclear zero," a crudely muscular pax Americana, or a supposedly peaceful environment of universal deterrence through universal proliferation – are inadequate ones. Whether we like it or not, actual or potential nuclear weapons capabilities are likely to be important factors in global politics and strategy for the foreseeable future. Decades after the end of the Cold War, it may not be very fashionable to study the arcane arts of nuclear weapons strategy and try to adapt them to 21st-century conditions, but it is essential nonetheless.
Thank you. I look forward to your questions.
Christopher A. Ford was formerly Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Technology and Global Security at Hudson Institute.
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American Art Armchair Made in New York, United States, North and Central America1795-1805 Artist/maker unknown, American Mahogany * Gallery 104, American Art, first floor (Sherrerd Gallery) 1979-109-3 Gift of Edward C. Robbins in memory of his wife, Gertrude Louise Johnson, 1979 |
LabelThe urn shape of the back splat and the carved decoration of this chair is characteristic of New York craftsmanship of the late eighteenth century.* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit. |


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In this urban jungle of unhealthy foods, new math is required if we're going to lose weight and get healthier. Like those butt-naked survival show participants, we on the Social Diet have to calculate which food is actually worth our effort, and we have to demand a lot more from the food we do choose.
Vegetarians say farewell to fowl and skip the turkey on Thanksgiving. It's usually no big deal because a holiday plate can be truly satisfying with the bounty of meat-free sides. However, when you say bye-bye birdie, your plate is also low in protein, since turkey is a high-protein food. Don't worry. Help is here.
When it comes to holidays, Thanksgiving has the best menu, in my very humble and completely unscientific opinion. We're talking all of my favorites: mashed potatoes, apple pie, dinner rolls, turkey gravy, stuffing... Notice a trend here? Gluten. Wheat. Dairy. Gluten and wheat and dairy in (almost) everything.
Like me, most nutrition pros serve traditional foods for Thanksgiving -- albeit with a healthier twist because we tweak recipes to eliminate empty calories. The good news is that many holiday favorites like turkey, sweet potatoes, squash, nuts and cranberries are inherently healthy, so it's fairly easy to keep them that way.
Thanksgivukkah is one of the rarest events we'll ever experience. So get creative, dig deep and turn your celebration into eight days of gratitude and compassion. Honor the future -- of all peoples, animals and our Mother Earth -- by making your holiday food and activities vegan-inspired.
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If you're stuck in the yo-yo dieting cycle, consider giving intuitive eating a try. You just might be surprised at how much of your life opens up when you start trusting your body -- and yourself.
Have fun and be creative! Kids love to help "build" their own healthy snacks. Use produce with different textures, shapes and colors and let your child create healthy treats that will excite her/his imagination and appetite.
I basically felt shamed into sharing my diary. But, of course, a food diary is like any other diary that you know will be read by others: You can always lie to it. So far, the UP band does not contain a lie-detector algorithm... but I'm sure that's coming.
While it's definitely harder to resist giving in to cravings while you're on the road and out of your comfort zone, it's certainly not impossible to eat healthy while you're on the go. All it takes is a little bit of planning and a lot of mindfulness!
And after years of studying, I've discovered the fundamental mentalities of "normal" eaters that are keeping you from freedom with food. Buckle up.
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The best way to ensure you are eating the highest quality, most nutritious food possible is to prepare your own food in your own kitchen. We are all chefs. You don't have to be trained at Le Cordon Bleu to know your way around a kitchen.
It's easy to eat fresh, locally grown food when fruits and vegetables are as abundant and available as they are during the summer months. And when food is more available, it's more affordable, too.
If you've ever said, "I'm completely addicted to sugar," you may actually be correct. A recent study showed that those who had genetic changes in a hormone called ghrelin consumed more sugar (and alcohol) than those that had no gene variation.
Hot summer days beg for cool, refreshing drinks. Typically, people reach for beverages like juices, sodas, or lattes that are highly sugared, empty-calorie drinks. Now if after reading this, you are still thinking "but water is boring," then it's time for you to get a hold of just a few simple ingredients to make your own homemade summer refreshments that you can sip on with a smile.
It makes sense that if you are hungry, you may pile higher calorie foods and less healthy choices into your grocery cart. And if you eat something before heading out to the market, you may make healthier selections.
Summertime is when the livin' is easy... and the pounds just peel off, right? Wrong! That's not the case for many who take a summer "vacation" from healthy eating and wind up heavier on Labor Day than they were on Memorial Day.
Eating a plant-centric diet rich in fruits and vegetables is considered the best way to reduce risk for chronic diseases, achieve and maintain a healthy weight and live a longer, healthier life. With juicy, sweet fruit in season, here are seven perfect picks that taste as great as they are for your health.
Although these suggestions can never replace the benefits that come with cooking and eating at home, at least we can do something that can make eating healthier at fast food establishments easier for all consumers.


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Most often cited as an important influence on the young Miles Davis, the lyrically inclined Freddy Webster was also a favorite of Dizzy Gillespie, who called his trumpet sound "the best I ever heard." Webster led his own band while still in his teens. He played with Earl Hines and Erskine Hawkins in the late '30s then moved to New York, where he played under many top bandleaders during the '40s -- Benny Carter, Eddie Durham, Lucky Millinder, Jimmie Lunceford, Cab Calloway, John Kirby, Sonny Stitt, and Gillespie -- among them. In the year prior to his death, Webster also worked with impresario Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic. Webster's reputation as one of modern jazz's unsung heroes is given support by his very few recordings, notably on "You're Not the Kind" backing vocalist Sarah Vaughan. Other significant Webster recordings are two versions of his own tune, "Reverse the Charges," one with Sonny Boy Williams, and the other with Frank Socolow. Webster died at age 30 in Stitt's hotel room in Chicago. The official cause of death was a heart attack, but a heroin overdose has long been suspected. ~ Chris Kelsey, Rovi
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Director and Secretary Finance, Administration and Information Technology -- Preston L. Doerflinger Mr. Doerflinger has had to utilize all his organizational skills and business experience since Gov. Mary Fallin appointed him director of the Office of Management and Enterprise (OMES) and Secretary of Finance and Revenue on Jan. 19, 2011. Doerflinger's responsibilities on the governor's Cabinet were expanded in July 2013 when his position was reconfigured as the Secretary of Finance, Administration and Information Technology. The OMES director is appointed to the post by the Governor with the advice and consent of the State Senate. The director plays an important role in developing, communicating and implementing executive branch fiscal policies and oversees preparation of the Governor's Executive Budget for submission to the Legislature. Other key responsibilities include:
As OMES director, Mr. Doerflinger leads an agency that helps develop the governor's annual budget and performs a myriad of accounting, monitoring and budgeting functions that are essential to keeping state government's fiscal house in order. The OMES director is the official designated in statute to trigger agency budget cuts to comply with the Oklahoma Constitution's Budget-Balancing Amendment. In 2011, the administrative responsibilities of OMES were greatly expanded by a new law consolidating four other important agencies into the then Office of State Finance (OSF). They are the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Central Services, the Oklahoma State and Education Employee Group Insurance Board and the Employee's Benefit Council. A separate law consolidated most information technology services into the OMES' Information Services Division, where they are under the control of Alex Pettit, the state's chief information officer. Mr. Doerflinger, came to state government after 2 years as the elected city auditor of Tulsa, where he oversaw the city's Management Review Office and implemented a series of government modernization initiatives. Prior to that, he founded several health care and supply companies and was chief executive officer of PLD Management, a business consulting and investment firm. Mr. Doerflinger has a bachelor's degree in organizational leadership from Southern Nazarene University. He and his wife, Jill, have a son, Kros. |
Chief Information Officer -- Alex Pettit Other key responsibilities include:
Mr. Pettit has global industry, government and Big 4 consulting experience, and is a recognized leader in Enterprise Architecture. He has directed both industry and consulting organizations in diverse roles as a chief technology officer, vice president and BCP service line leader, senior manager and regional director of technology and telecommunications. Mr. Pettit has received the Best of Texas Award for IT Leadership, the Public Technology Institute IT Leadership Award and the Society for Information Management IT Executive of the Year Award for his leadership. In addition, Mr. Pettit is a published author on IT Leadership in Studies in E-Government, Government Technology Magazine, Texas Technology Magazine, the Journal for Enterprise Architecture and most recently, the SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture (2009). He is certified by the Disaster Recovery Institute International as a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP). In addition, he holds certifications with Novell, Filenet, Sun Systems and IBM. |
Deputy Director of Budget, Policy, and Communications -- Brandy Manek The Director of Budget, Policy, and Communications assists the Director of OMES in developing policy on fiscal issues to ensure consistency with the Governor's platforms and goals. To that end, the Director of Budget and Policy also monitors and provides input regarding legislation that affects the State of Oklahoma Budget and helps to manage the implementation of that legislation. Additionally, the Director oversees a shared service Communications Department that produces agency publications and graphics, markets non-IT statewide contracts, ensures IT accessibility compliance for OMES electronic content, and manages nearly a dozen online properties. Ms. Manek is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, with a bachelor's degree in business administration and major in accounting. She has served in the OMES Budget Division under 3 Governors and 6 OMES directors. Her past experience includes the roles of budget analyst for the subject areas of commerce, human services and general government, as well as budget coordinator and state budget director. |
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Ms. Bajema was appointed state comptroller in April 2012. She previously served as the chief financial officer for the Oklahoma State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board (OSEEGIB) for 2 years after serving as director of finance for the previous decade. Prior to joining OSEEGIB in 1996, she was in public accounting with the Oklahoma City firm of Wilsey, Meyer and Company. Ms. Bajema is a certified public accountant (CPA) and a past president of the Oklahoma City Chapter of the Oklahoma Society of CPAs. She is currently serving as secretary of the Oklahoma City Chapter of the Association of Governmental Accountants. Ms. Bajema graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Central Oklahoma. |
HCM Administrator -- Lucinda Meltabarger The HR Director for the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) is responsible for the direction, coordination, and management of all phases of a diverse multi-functional human resources management program. Key responsibilities include:
Ms. Meltabarger received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Business Administration from Oklahoma City University. For more than 10 years she has worked in the public sector human resources field for the State of Oklahoma. Ms. Meltabarger has worked extensively in personnel development and presents training to all levels of employees in a variety of workplace topics. |
EGID Administrator -- Frank Wilson, Jr. The Administrator is responsible for oversight of the OMES Employees Group Insurance Division (formerly the Oklahoma State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board), a self-funded health plan that serves approximately 1,000 public employers and retiree groups with over 165,000 members. Mr. Wilson began his career with the agency in 1991 and has served in numerous capacities including deputy administrator and chief financial officer for 10 years. He has been a frequent speaker to legislators and membership groups across the state on all aspects of employee group health insurance and the operations of the agency. Mr. Wilson is a member of the Oklahoma State Society of Certified Public Accountants and received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from East Central University in 1988. |
DCAM Administrator -- Michelle R. Day The Administrator of the OMES Division of Capital Assets Management (formerly the Department of Central Services) oversees 6 business departments and 2 administrative units positioned to expediently deliver the highest quality services to its customers throughout Oklahoma state government. Among the enterprise business departments are the Office of Facilities Management, Construction and Properties, Fleet Management, Risk Management, Property Reutilization, and Central Printing-Interagency Mail. Administrative units include Audit Services and Board and Commission Support (OCIA, PERB and CMZIC). Prior to serving as the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) DCAM administrator, Ms. Day served as the assistant Secretary of State under Gov. Mary Fallin. She has more than 22 years of public service with the State of Oklahoma, including time as the general counsel with the former Department of Central Services. |